Tntcrraountain Ilcws- ' BUTTc, MONT. Miss Mairy Philomena O'Brien, the 8-year-olcl daughter T. O'Brien, residing -at 806 West (TTiute street, entertained en-tertained a party of her girl friends at a Hallowe'en party. All kinds of games were played and an excellent musical programme was rendered for the benefit ben-efit of the little ones. A feature of the party was the Virginia Vir-ginia reel, which was danced with glee and vigor, little Miss O'Brien's father having secured the services of a "fiddler" "fid-dler" especially for reel purposes. Mrs. John F- Hogaji and Miss AVhaley acted as chaperons for the .little ones, ai;d Mr. John T. Fogarty. a. friend from out of town, entertained the children with stories. Light refreshments were served. Those present were: Misses Mary Deeney, Stella Reeber, Frances Saville. Catherine Xaughton, Molly and Sadie O'Meara, Florence and Helena Coen. Bernice and Zetta Gilligan, Oro May Hogan, Marie Richards, Margaret and Mary Harrington, Mary and Florence McDonald and Doris Fraser. f John Downey, aged 43 years, died at the family residence. 137 Missoula avenue. The funeral took place Wednesday Wed-nesday morning at 9:30 o'clock, proceeding pro-ceeding to St.. Lawrence's church, where high mass was celebrated. - Mrs. Marcus O'Farrel and, children have gone to Xotre Dame, Ind., to visit relatives. Pat O'Neil. a well known miner, wno left Butte last year an account of poor health, died in Seattle Sunday. His brothers, Dan and Dennis O'Neil, and cousins. Con Murphy and Con O'Xeil, have left for Seattle tc attend the funeral. fu-neral. A wife and family are left in Seattle. - f The funeral of John Avare took place Wednesday, Xov. l. ,;fom the Sacred Heart church, and the remains were escorted es-corted to the cemetery br a large num-1 num-1 ber of friends. Ilev, Father Callaghan officiated at the church and at the cemetery. cem-etery. The floral offenrgs ,were beautiful beauti-ful and numerous. t-- Mr. Avare was a brother, of Deputy State Game Warden7 Avarel and was-well was-well and favorably known in this city. He has been a resident -of Montana for the past twenty-three years, and in the early days met with varied success as a prospector. Recently, he . has been ivorking in the mines of this city, and was laat employed at the Pennsylvania. ' The deceased was a native of Montreal. Mon-treal. Canada, and died at the age of 43 years. Death , was due to pleurisy, following a brief il.lnesky The pfillbear-ers pfillbear-ers . were miners who have worked with tho deceased. ,,- 11 - - anacondaVJviont. ' Miss Nellie Sheehan went over to Butte Tuesday morning.- - County Superintendent of . Schools Miss Mae McHugh went over to visit the schools of the Big Hole basin. . Mrs. M. Huff of Elko. Xev., is visiting visit-ing her brother, John Tucker, 514 Cherry Cher-ry street. They had not met for eleven elev-en years and the visit-In an unusually pleasant one. 4 Helen Aurline, the 13-year-old daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard McCarthy, died Xov. 1. She had only been ill two days. The funeral was from St. Peter's church, with requiem high mass. Mrs. J. J. McGuiness and family left ror h'anoauit, -Aiinn., where they will spend the winter. , .''- HELENA, MONT. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff O'Connell and family fam-ily left on Wednesday for California. . 4 . John G. Moroney. of Great Falls, was a Helenta visitor during the past week. - Miss Cruse spent a few days of last week in. Butte, and during her short, stay was the guest of honor at a largo dinner given by F. Augustus Heinze on Thursday evening, and on Friday a large dancing party -was given in her honor. GREAT FALLS, MONT. Elaborate preparations are being made for the exercises incident to the j blessing of the new- Hag recently received re-ceived by the Croatian societies of I Great Falls. On Xov. 11 members of these well known organizations will attend at-tend special services at St. Ann's cathe- I dial in a body, following, which the day will be spent in various ways. At 9 o'clock in the morning they will gather at Elks' lia.ll on Central avenue and march to the cathedral, headed by the Black Eazle. band. Rev., Father D. Krompotic.of Kansas City has accepted an invitation' to come here and deliver an address, in connection connec-tion with the blessing of the flag. He is said' to be one of the ablest priests in- the country, and members of the Croatian societies consider themselves fortunate in bringing him here at this time. . a. grana oau win ue given at liUt.ner hall in the evening, at which the Black Eagle band will furnish the music. , The two organizations, the Zvonimir and the Sons of Croatia have. a joint committee w orking on the arrangement, the committee being composed .of I Thomas Fancieh. Stephen Kaliman, Johit' Antonlch,' George Veljacich, Anton? An-ton? Strizick and Joseph Trinastick. The flag which was received about (wo weeks ago from Allegheny. Pa., is . beautiful piece of work and of the finest s4!k texture. New Northwest. ' - ' ' .''. The members of SL Ann's cathedral parish will hold a grand fair and festival fes-tival in the Kingsbury block the early part of December for the ' purpose of raising funds to help build the new cathedral. ca-thedral. Several valuable prizes have been promised : and the ladies of the congregation are at work preparing for the fair. It is many years since a series se-ries of entertainments have been given for the benefit of the Catholic church in . . ' i Great Falls, and it is expected that fill persons, regardless of class or dencm-ination, dencm-ination, will lend a helping hand at the forthcoming fair and festival. I Pat O'Brien met a horrible death at. Kortman, a mining camp in the little .Rockies. He drilled into a missed hole and the explosion literally tore the lower low-er part of his body away, while his side md chest were tilled with small stones and dirt. Despite bis fearful injuries. .the man lived four hours and was conscious con-scious up to the last minute. O'Brien had worked only a few shifts. .