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Show Ttmrmoutuattt news. BUTTE, MONT. Thursday, Dec. 3, was a gala day at Saint Lawrence's school, the occasion being the feast of the great Saint Francis Fran-cis Xavier, the., patron; of - Reverend Father F. X. Batens, the beloved ancl esteemed pastor of Saint Lawrence's parish, Walkerville. As the morning sun's rays greeted the western horizion bright and eager faces were seen, and hurried footsteps heard as the children assembled at the school to march in a body to the church to assist at high mass, which was celebrated at 9 a. m. by Reverend Father Batens. Wuerth's mass in C was sung by the children of the school. Miss Mary Murphy Mur-phy being organist. As each little child lent its voice in God's praise one could measure the depth of love born bv the heart of each for their pastor and friend. After mass the children returned re-turned to the school where they rendered ren-dered a programme worthy of the day. Among those present were: Reverend Father Aken of Saint Joseph's parish; Reverend F. Ryan, mother Mary Peter, superior of Saint Patrick's school; Sister Sis-ter Irene, superior of Sain-t James" hospital, hos-pital, and Sister Mary Crescentia. j Programme: Song, "There's Always a Welcome for Thee," school; address, CharlesO'Brien:' dialogue, "Deaf Grandma." Francis ! Dwyer, Agnes Kelly. Tessie Davis, James Lynch; song. "Go to Sleep. Ma Honey." Thomas Normandy: recitation, recita-tion, "The Baron's Last Banquet," William Kennedy; pantomine, "Beauti ful Angel," Minims: song, "The Shaker Maidens and Dude," fourteen girls, dude. Emmet Quilty recitation,- "The Inventor's Wife," Anna Crunican; song1, "Doris' Sleigh Hide," Margie McDer-mott, McDer-mott, Julia . Burke, Chlorius Cronin; lialogue, "Going to a New Home." Michael Kelly, F. Lohmah, M. Cuffe, C. O'Brien, A. Milville and C. O'Don-neil; O'Don-neil; institute duet, "Ben-Hur Chariot Race." Mary Murphy and Susie Mc-Dermott; Mc-Dermott; song, "Tell Mother Not to Worry," David Quilty, Michael Kelly. James O'Donnell; recitation,' "Independence "Indepen-dence Bell." Thomas Rodgers; song, "Doctor Sequah." Donald Cronin; recitation, reci-tation, "A Mortifying. Mistake." Julius Kennedy: dialogue. "The Census Ta':er." Martin Byrne and Julia Lynch: recitation, "What the Little Girl Said." Loretto O'Leary; song, "The German Musician." sixteen boys; recitation, "Intensely Utter," John O'Brien; song, "Scenes of Childhood." Katie Cuffe, Mary Burke, Susie McDermott. Pat D. Quinn, who is employed at the Anaconda mine, met with an accident about 10 o'clock Saturday morning while at work in the mine which resulted result-ed in the fracture of his left leg. He was placing timbers in- a section of tne mine when he was struck by a car and I thrown against one of the walls of the I tunnel. He was taken for treatment to the St. James' hospital. J. M. Patton, forman in the office of the Great Falls Tribune for 10 years or more, is visiting in Butte. It is the first " visit in several years and he Is Impressed Im-pressed with the metropolitan appearance appear-ance of the place generally designated as a mining camp. Mr. Tatton has been spending a few days at the Boulder Boul-der Hot Springs. ; . t Reverend Father McCourt. who was the guest of his pister, Mrs. George McDonald, 529 West-Quartz stret, left for the east on. Wednesday evening of last week, where he has several leciure engagements . At. an informal dinner given in his honor on Tuesday evenin, he read extracts from his new lecture, "The Day of Chivalry." Father McCourt Mc-Court has a full and clear knowledge of the Bubject. The language and arrangement ar-rangement are periect, am n..is ui c--i livery and gesture, the strength and beauty of the speaker's voice are well known here. It is to be regretted he will not publicly pub-licly deliver the lecture here. ANACONDA, MONT. A large number of Anaconda ladies met at St. Ann's hospital last week and put in the afternoon sewing and making mak-ing garments for children who have no friends to provide clothes for them. I Many entire suit and dresses were made up or cut out, so that they could be readily made up at Helena. The clothing will be sent to the Orphans' Home in that city. Quite a number of inmates of the Helena Orphans' Home are-from Deer Lodge county, and the residents of each community try to see that the little ones from their locality do not want for clothes. The bundle will be sent forward at once and will be highly appreciated at the Helena Home. ' - Patrick McGee. a prominent Anaconda Anacon-da citizen, returned last week from Helena. He stated that there was a large attendance at each session of the legislature. Mr. McGee went to Helena to visit with friends. The patent of Dedrick Johnson of Anaconda, designed to take the place of the single piece platforms now used on vestibuled cars, promises to be generally gen-erally adopted by the railroads and to make its inventor rich. He has received re-ceived some flattering offers for the device. de-vice. BOULDER, MONT. St. Anthony's society was pleasantly entertained recently by Mrs. B. Wahle. The last meeting was on Dec. 8, at Mrs. F. Wahle's. ' -- John Flaherty, jr., with wife and baby, of Columbus, Mont., is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Flaherty Flaher-ty in the valley. Miss Jamie Concannon entertained a company recently, and thoce who took part in the whist games were Mrs. Con-cannon, Con-cannon, Mrs. Taylor, the Mieees Ellen Petts, Maude Filcher, May Park, Mary. Edna and Louise Taylor, Mary Sweet, Eula Woodman, Messrs. Fleming, Flaherty, Fla-herty, Ripley, Murphy, Park and Fox. Prizes were distributed and other games followed whist. LIVINGSTON, MONT. Among the recent notable weddings of Livingston was that which occurred a few days ago at St. Mary's church, when John McDonough, a popular employe em-ploye of the Northern Pacific, and Miss Fannie L. Mitchell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell, were married mar-ried by Rev. Father Bleare. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nash attended the couple, while the wedding march was rendered by Mlsw Nellie Nolan. A wedding breakfast at the Merchants' hotel followed fol-lowed the ceremony. A dance in the evening at the city hall was given in honor of the couple. Conductor John Lenihan of the Great Northern came over from Great Falls for a few days' viit in tn:s city. For many years Mr. Lenihan was a resident resi-dent of Livingston, but for several years had a freight run on the Great Northern. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. According to all rumors this town will soon have its electric railroad. It will start from Goshen and extend as far as Heiss' Hot Springs. Should this be true it will make the suburbs better known to the traveling public. The project is being well financed by those interested in the sugar factory. During this week the church will get an interior renovation so as to be ready for Xmas. It will be entirely calci-mined calci-mined In a dark rich color, which will make it look more comfortable. Mass will be held next Sunday at Blackfoot at 11:30 a. m. A discourse upon the Immaculate Conception was given last Sunday. The mass attend-arce attend-arce is on the increase of late, so that one is astonished at the number of the Catholics in town. Mr. and Mrs. Reno of Dubois were pleasant visitors in town last week. t Miss Dora Wiedmann returned from Heiss' Hot Springs last Saturday, much improved in health. j Mr. J. Dlneenwill leave in two weeks to spend his holidays at his maternal home in Chicago. . - -4- Aunt Busy may expect soon from this town a few additions to her Sunbeam club? Mr. B. J. Savery of Salem. Ida., was a welcome visitor to town last Thursday. Thurs-day. ! The heartfelt sympathy of the community com-munity was deeply extended to Attor- i ney Briggs when the Angel of Death er.etred his home claiming his daughter. daugh-ter. Ethel, who was a general favorite with all. f Assistant Agent Travis is once again at the Oregon Short Line at Blackfoot. He surprised the people there by introducing intro-ducing to them his life agent, whom he brought from Baker City, Ore. Mrs. John Niederkem was in Poca-tello Poca-tello last Wednesday attending the Forester's For-ester's lodge. It was gratifying to loarn that the Catholic ladies there are becoming more enthusiastic than ever over the steady increase of members. It will soon be time for our Catholic ladies here to get a move on them and organize their own lodge. POCATELLO, IDA. At the home of Mrs. Igna Traynor j in Pocatello on Tuesday evening, Dec. j 1, Judge Masonheimer united in mar-j. mar-j. riage Mr. Gus Rademacher and Mrs. ! Igna Traynor. The ceremony was per-I per-I formed in the presence of a number of friends of the contracting parties. Fol-i Fol-i lowing congratulations, the guests par-j par-j took of an elegant wedding supper. Mr. land Mrs. Rademacher were the recip-I recip-I ients of a large number of useful and valuable presents. The many friends I of the worthy couple extend heartiest congratulations. |
