The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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the billings news.
NO. 27
VOL. VII.
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CLOTHING, ETC.
Let us tit vou up with your Spring Clothing, Hats
and Furnishings. Our line of clothing is us good «us
you can find anywhere and our prices are much
lower. We have bought the prettiest designs in the
latest fabrics and know we can suit you.
Our prices for Men’s
Suits run from
Boys Suits range
in price from
Pants ranging in
price from
Our stock of Hats is bigger than ever and we'havo
the latest shapes in stiff and soft, straw and Mexican
Men’s Dress Shirts from
Men’s Underwear from
Ties of the latest shapes from
Hosiery of the best brands from
$2.50 to $16.50
1.25 to 5.00
1.00 to 6.00
35c to $1.50
15c to $1.09
10c to 50c
5c to 50c
Millinery!
Our stock of Ladies Ready Trimmed
Hats has just arrived and?we are
pleased to announce to the Ladies of
Billings and vicinity that we are mow
able to sell you a hat cheaper than you
ever bought one for anywhere. The
variety is big and we can no doubt suit
you. Our prices range from
$1 to $7.00
Girls Hats as low as 50c. See them.
A. S. Cades,
DRY GOODS. ETC.
In Dry Goods we can offer you some of the best
values you ever hoard of
Percale, Calico, Lawns and Dimities * I-2C
worth from (> to 10c per yard, at ■
Better qualities worth from 10 to 20c J-2C
caivbe had for "
The best grades of summer dress « ^ I-2C
goods, lawns, worth Id to 20c at __
groceries
Best Quality of Coal Oil, per gallon, 15c
Best 1 iitrd, per pound, Eg?
Best Laundry Soaps, 8 bars ,or g®
Soda Crackers, per pound, g*
Sweet Com, Opal brand, per can,
Best Axle Grease, per can,
(}ood Brooms, o&cli,
Oranges, per dozen,
Bulk Seeds, a full line, at very low prices
Seed Potatoes of different varieties
Billings
RATTLESNAKE KILLED BY ANTS.
Sauntering out with hie ehoi-gun
eometime ago, John Hark espied a rat-
tlesnake about three feet long in the
grass, which on his approach started to
crawl away in the laxily Bcornful man-
ner peculiar to this venomous reptile.
He was on the point of turning loose a
load of shot at the creature when he
noticed it was making its way toward an
ant hill and he concluded to hold fire
and watch proceedings, figuring that the
pismires would attend to the snake’s
case with neatness and dispatch. Nor
did he figure wide of the mark. The
rattler had barely dragged his sinuous
length half way across the ant mound
when a husky ted chap half an inch
long, full of fury and fight at this impu-
dent invasion of their dominion, jumped
onto the body of the gigantic intruder,
sunk in his nippers and yelled for help.
Tne whole outfit instantly responded to
the war cry and in two minutes, as Mr.
Parks stales it, that erolalus was almost
literally covered with ants, each one rip-
ping away at his hide with its scissor*
bladed nippers.
The instant the snake felt the ants be-
gin to bite he begun to coil and knot
and squirm and thrash the ground to rid
himself of his pigmy assailants, but
each ant hung on like a bull dog and re-
lief there was none. The Bnake seem-
ingly grew desperate after a brief strug-
gle and realized the fatal, final, finish
mistake of his life, for after biting him-
| self several times he straightened out j Local NeWS.
in smrwSjrsu i. *—~ * - -
and expired within ten minutes after the **'
1 first ant mounted his body. This is the Choice alfalfa seed for sale at Davis
first instance on record where ants have and Kern’s.
, killed a rattlesnake. The spectacle was p L Barne„ w(19 in Saturday trans-
a thrillingly interesting one and it was a ^ ' bugjne98 wilh lhe News.
nninue emerience lor the single faaci- ... . .....nm
90 YEARS OLD. Some people are opposed to smoking
Grandpa Gilpin celebrated his 90th anJ go|ne are nQt To tho3e who are not,
birthday March 9th, at the home of his ^ wigh fo recom(nend our cigars, “THE
; son Frank, near Garber. At breakfast j a^tON GOODS.”
he expressed a wish that his son James j 9
I might visit him that day, and to his de-1 We are sorry to learn of the serious
lighted surprise Jimmy »nd family roll- j illness the past week of Rev^C. L.
: cd in from Garber, Mrs. L. Gilpin and his Green, popular pastor of Fre^om Bap^
grandson William from Billings, Henry i list church, but he was better las
— . j,——a u..,« Rhoades ; port.
| Gilpin and family and Henry
! and wife from Garber, and Bo
A KATJIH OF HEALTH
POWDER
Absolutely Pur*
HAS HO SUBSTnm
A Cream sf Tartar Powder,
free from alum or phoo*
phatle acid
ROYAL RAKINO SOWOtA 00., HRW VORR.
, and wife from uaroer, anu Bob Rhoades The new millinery goods are now on
and wife from near White Rock, all ar- di9p)ay at Mrs. Edgerly’s store, where
l riving before noon. Beside the relatives 8be wj|l be pleased to meet and serve all
i a number of other friends were present, bef ol(j CU8tomers and the public gener-
and to all it was indeed a happy event.; a||y duringthe spring season.
OUR LIVESTOCK LETTER. Mrs. Walter Buzard and her three
week the market closed 15 to 25c higher | with hia parents. 1 hey will take pos-
on killing cattle than at close of prevt- , 9e99jon of the house now occupied by
ous week. Some heifer sales prench Thomas, in a few days,
even greater advance, stockers and fee- .
ders slacking up a little after first of the , Mrs. T. W. Anderson wiahes to an-
week, account of absence of buyers. , t0 htr friends and patrons that
dearancMhVs^pplv wal Mghtand they she will he in Billings during 'Un-
reduced prices 16 to 85c from the high ; mer months, teaching Voice, Hano and
time of the week. Bad country roads Qn_ Terms, ten dollars ($10) per
and muddy feed lots and soft fields are twenty-four lessons. Relercn-
given as reason buyers Btald at home. | term oi twenty ium
Cattle run today 12,000, with a good cea furnished.
lower 0 SeVTunab^o fill mderysl?a‘«t | J- W. Myers moved out of his house
week and packing houses killing up in Billings on Fuday last, leaving » r
clean, but orders for meat as urgent as his ranch in the reservation near Blisr,
weeks ago. Supply today 3000 to 4000: an(, on Mondav B. F. Estill look pos-
dayV^ut'run^ast week oMy°3M°A, j session with h.s household Roods, y.icat-
a reduction of 10,000 from previous week. ; ing the Earhart mansion, where he has
Top steers sold at $6 90 last week, today pa.ged the winter.
$5 46 bulk at $4 76 to $6 30. These pri- r L ..... ..
ces 25 to 40c higher than this time last; About thirty of the neighbor friends
year, on the eve of boom prices paid in of Wm Frailey gathered in on him and
April. Heifers and steers mixed sold at .(g tt0od wife Saturday night, to cele-
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of she stuff $3 26 to $4 40, hulls *3 to *4, launching bn the ’troublous' sea of mat-
canners. stock cows and heifers $2 26 to ‘ rjmony. A highly enjoyable event it
r-'-s <* -.——A
to $4 60, some low grade stuff $2 H6 to j Monl Howe bought 115 head of year-
13.25. , , . ling Hereford calves out in Woodward
of*10,000*from the week before’, and the county, and shipped them in over the
smallest run this year. Prices advanced Santa Fe from Oage to Tonkuwa. He
5 tn 15c during the week Run today td |14 u head for them, and Iheir av-
7000, market weak to 6 lower, tops W 25, wetght was about 400 pounds, or
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....... iio.ii uhle tn accumulate any eruoe domestic yearling. Mr. Howe in-
up to $6.15. At no lime tnis winter nave
packers been able to accumulate any . erage domestic yearling. Mr. Howe in
stocks of pork products, and it is b«- i tends to keep them until they are threes,
lieved prices will continue strong, even : anJ |( to n re wh9t he w||l do
I^Sia’i^^rsSlffSS ,o ili.m with hi. .Half, „d ........
$1 25 higher than a year ago. wheat pasture, etc.
A . Small . Business
well seen after soon grows
into huge proportions.
We were strangers to you but a short time ago and by
always being ready to accommodate and look after the
needs and wants of the consumer we are beginning to
see the fruits of our labor. We have more than
doubled the original size of our stock since locating
here, and if the future is to be judged by the past we
will soon be compelled to seek
Bigger - Quarters.
Nothing stands on our shelves and turns black with
age. The goods are sold out so fast that competition
must take to the woods when the true worth of our
goods become known to all within our boundary lines.
Father Time has lost track of us and we have but got
started on our goal to success, so all slumberers must
keep out of our way for we’re riding on to success,
and no one but those who follow the principles we
we have taken up need try to keep up.
Redfearn - (EX - Stone
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