The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-08-04

Gordon Steele and family were Bill
lings visitors Minday.
A. NJ. Markuson made a business
trip to Billings Saturday.
F. H. Guth of Silesia was a bust
ness visitor in Edgar Monday.
E. f. Hansen was business visitor
to Billings Saturday morning.
7. ". Larimore left last week for
the Dakotas to join in the harvest
work there.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Gable is quite i'll with an attack of
pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Holstein spent
Saturday evening and Sunday on
Pryor Creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Newton and fam
lily, Vim. Schumm and family spent
Wednesday in Billings.
Mrs. Ada Thomas spent the first
part of the week visiting with rela-
tlves and friends at Billings.
Anthony 0berbauer and son Carl
left Monday for a short visit with
relatives and friends at Ballantine.
F. H. Suddith, field foreman for the
Great Western Sugar company, of
Laurel, was visitor at Edgar Mon
day.
R. NJ. Bunnell returned Thursday
from Bozeman after visit with rel
atives and friends in the Gallatin
valley.
Mrs. Arley Hart and two youngest
children of Thermopolis, Wyo., are
visiting with relatives and friends in
Edgar.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. MeClurg and
daughter, Glennes Lee and Mrs. Irene
Burgess were visitors at Billings on
Wednesday.
Dir. and Mrs. F. 0. Wilson left Mon
day for their home in Waynesville,
H., after visit at the home of the
W. D. Wilson family.
Carl Oberbauer returned home Mon
day from st. Vincents hospital at
Billings where he underwent an oper-
alton for appendicitis four weeks ago.
Warren Patterson arrived home
Wednesday afternoon from Forest
Lake, Mimi, after a two months visit
with his grandmother and other rel
atives.
Mrs. E. I. Frates returned home
from St. Vincents hospi-
tai at Billings where she underwent
an operation for appendicitis two
weeks ago.
A. NJ. Markuson, accompanied by
Miss Katherine McQuaid and Miss
Myrtle Kane, left Sunday for a tour
IF Yellowstone Park. They plan a
side trip to the Jackson Hole country
before returning.
Shorty Stapelton of the Billings
Ias company of Laurel was in Edgar
Thursday making some added con-
lections to their gas mains. Prac-
ically every home in Edgar is now
equipped with natural gas.
Mrs. H. A. Haddox and son Ken
leth arrived last week from Ashland,
Kansas, and will make their home in
his community. Mr.. Haddox arrived !
.arly this summer and has been en-
,loyed by the Northern Pacific rail
Dad since his arrival.
Practically every night of the
Sweet Stock company's
tay at Bridger found a great number
f Edgar folks under the big tent. All
he local people who have attended
he shows returned with very good
word for the company.
7. G. Humphrey and H. F. Kennard
we're business visitors to Billings on
Friday. Mr.. Kennard returned with
me of the latest model Chevrolet
ruck. Mr.. Humphrey stayed for the
vening taking in the Atwater Kent
sponsored by the North
western Auto Supply company, who
ire distributors for Montana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Estey of Rye
rate and Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Stokes
# Edgar motored to Lander, Wyo.,
for a visit with relatives
md friends, returning home Sunday
afternoon. They reported that the
torn had not extended as far south
Is Bridger. Mr.. and Mrs. Estey will
pend few days at the Stokes home
,efore returning to Ryegate.
Another steam shovel has arrived
It the Grant Smith Construction camp
asst of Edgar. This shovel is five
ubic yard shovel and will be used on
tit run gravel. 1t is reported that the
\. P. will ballast the track from
laurel to Bridger with straight pit
.un and not crushed and washed
gravel as they are using on other
POINTS of the road. From reports given
It this time the camp will be in opera
ion for at least two months yet, this
icing the longest run they have had
yet. An average days run at the pit
If crushed and washed gravel is about
IA cars, aside from double washed
sand that is shipped to different
points in Montana and Wyoming to