Fergus County Democrat., 1913-06-10

w. F. Sheehan returned last week
from Roundup, where he went on legal
business.
Ernest AttiX, a student at the Uni.
verslty OF California at Berkeley, is
lslting his brother, Dr.. Fred F.. Attix.
Children's day was observed at the
churches Sunday with exercises of a
very interesting nature, in which the
children took part
A "bo' giving the name of G. Baker
was arrested Sunday for stealing a
watch from man at saloon Baker
Is now in the county jail
Harry Hunter, formerly with the
Cook-Reynolds company and now with
| the immigration department of the
Milwaukee, is in the city.
The funeral of little Jimmy Griffith,
the three-year-Old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Fred M. Griffith, was held Friday from
Creels undertaking parlOrs, Rev. e.
w. Wright conducting the service.
The little boy fell victim to spinal
meningitis.
E. l.. Shepard, district manager for
the Montana Livestock Insurance
company, returned Saturday from
Billings, where he went on business.
Mr.. Shepard reports that big crowd
will come over from Billings to spend
the Fourth in Lewistown.
Arthur Smurr, who has been suffer-
ing for some time with stomach
trouble, left last week for Rochester,
Minnesota, where he will undergo an
examination at the Mayo hospital and
perhaps submit to an operation. Mrs.
J. l.. Bright, his aunt, accompanied
him
Mrs Helena McBreatty, wife of the
telegraph operator at the Milwaukee
depot, died last Friday evening. Two
sisters came on from Minnesota and
the body was taken east by them Sun
day for burial at Albert Lea, Mime
sofa. Mr.. McBreatty is himself quite
Ill. The decedent was twenty-eight
years Of age and besides the husband,
leaves three children.
The first holdup reported in this
city in many months occurred late
Sunday evening, when Joe Pippinich
was stopped near the corner of Pine
street and Fifth avenue and robbed
of about SIS. Pippinich resisted and
was nit under the eye, but not hurt
much. The robbery was Immediately
reported and within few minutes
three policemen were on the ground,
but no trace of the thugs could be
found.
Great Falls Tribune: With total
OF approximately $4,000 in sales, Gen.
eral ToWnsite Agent George w. Nor
row of the Milwaukee Land & Town
site company yesterday conducted at
the Grand opera house one of the
most successful auctions of town lots
ever held in Montana when he dis
posed of 175 lots, of which 1873 were
sold in the townsite of Highwood and
AZ in the townsite of Shonkin. The
sale was attended by some 400 or 500
persons, many of whom were women,
and the Black Eagle band provided a
musical program that added pleasure
for all
Charley Smith, the Lewistown boy,
who is attending Michigan University,
astonished the thousands of spec
tators at the intercollegiate meet at
Harvard stadium held few days ago.
The twO-mile event was supposed by
the critics to be between Speiden of
Cornell and the mighty McCurdy of
the University of Pennsylvania The
Lewistown runner easily defeated
Speiden, Boyd of Harvard, Keyser of
Pennsylvania and other noted men
and gave McCurdy a great race for
first place, coming in second. Smith
of Michigan" is now attracting a lot
of attention and some of the critics
believe he will be Americas greatest
two-miler in another year. Charley
is graduate of the local high school
and made fine showing some two
years ago when he competed in the
distance run at the Missoula meet.
Miss Mae Wright, of Snohomish,
Washington, has arrived in the city
and will make her home here in fu-
ture. Miss Wright is a sister of Mrs.
G. L. Scott