The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-02
SILESIA
Especial Correspondence

Margaret and Crystal Spaeth
returned home Wednesday from
| Conrad where they have spent the
past two weeks renewing acquain-
tances.
Mrs. William Johnson has been
quite i'll the past week and unable
to leave cher bed. Mrs. Johnson
was one of a group who went to
Luther last Sunday, visiting fri
ends. The high altitude so affect
ed her that a physician had to at
tend her. She was brought home
late Sunday evening in very
weakened condition, but is now
improving.
John Woods called at the A. L..
Spaeth ranch Thursday evening.
He has been employed at Clark,
Wyoming, for some time.
Roy Reams was in Billings this
week serving on the jury.
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Ed. Baker and Mrs. Mary Baker
We're visiting at the John Murray
ranch on Wednesday.
George E. Twonsend of Billings
had dinner at the R. H. Hughes
ranch Wednesday evening. Mr..
Townsend represents the McNess
company.
S. c. Weber, H. M. Worth and
Charley Oliver were transacting
business i'll Red Lodge Monday.
Mr.. Oliver was appointed water
commissioner for this end of Rock
Creek.
Mrs. Roy Reams, Mrs. Clarence
Wight, Mrs. A. W. Orr and Lor-
ena Orr called on Mrs. William
Johnson Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. I. Walker and
son Billie motored to the Haddox
chicken farm near Joliet Monday
evening.
Pauline and Edna Johnson and
Alice Nipple of Billings all spent
Tuesday night at the William
Johnson ranch.
The drag line that is charging
the White Horse ditch is about
two miles south of Silesia at
present. in the S. C. Weber prop
erty. Mr.. Lyle, contractor, says
that the machine will make very
slow progress from now until the
end of the job, due to trees and
rocks and many other obstacles.
The ditch is being made into
canal 10 feet wide at the bottom
and will carry considerably more
water.
Miss Lois Weber and a group
of young people from Fromberg
attended the baseball boys dance
III Boyd Saturday.
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Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Hughes and
son Gordon and Helen Worth were
among the Billings shoppers Sat
urday.
Saturday evening an unemploy-
ed traveller stopped at the Grover
Reams ranch and asked for food.
Mrs. Reams complied with his
wishes after he had chopped some
wood. The man then went to the
Roy Reams ranch where he enter
ed the hired hands bunk house.
Here he found a pair of trousers
containing $40 in cash and a gold
watch. About that time John
Mikesell arrived, and asked the
man to hand over the articles,
which he did, much to Johns sur
prise. The man was described as
a large fellow and was travelling
west.
Miss Agnes Clawson, employed |
at the E. T. Walker home, spent |
Sunday at Frank McClintock's |
ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Weber and |
daughter Lois were Joliet visitors
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Convery
made business trip to Spokane
last week. They expect to ar
rive home this week. Mae Schultz
of Billings and Miss Jean Con- |
very are tending the store.
Miss Gail Mendelssohn arrived
Thursday to spend the summer
with her mother, Mrs. John Claw
son. Miss Mendelssohn is a stu
dent in the state college at Fresno,
California.
Mrs. E. D. Cooper entertained
the Community Club on Thursday.
The afternoon was spent in con-
versation and ended with lunch
con. About thirty people were
present. Mrs. Putnam will enter
tain in two weeks.
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