Billi Jo and Johnathan have chosen the name Jacob Darren for their beautiful new boy born at Benefis Hospitals.

Jacob
Names Origin: English, Hebrew
Name's original meaning: Supplanter

Weight: 7 pounds, 5 ounces ounces
Length: 20 1/4 inches
Time: 10 00 p.m.
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009

Delivered by: Daren J. Braget, M.D.
Baby's doctor: J. Christine Burk, M.D.

Monday, October 12, 2009 A Day To Remember

Sunrise and sunset:

• 7:22 a.m. a.m.
• 6:34 p.m. p.m.

Local weather:

• Great Falls high: 31° F
• Great Falls low: 13° F

The nation's weather extremes:

• High: 94° F at Live Oak, Fla.
• Low: -13° F at Polebridge, Mont.

• 9,885.80

Your dollar's worth

• Loaf of bread: $2.49
• Gallon of milk: $3.85
• Gallon of gasoline: $2.51
• First-class stamp: $0.44
• New car: $21,750.00
• Average new home: $155,000.00

Other interesting people born on this date:

• 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor who did much to popularize operatic music during the latter part of the 20th Century.
• 1860 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Prolific American inventor and entrepreneur who received more than 400 patents and founded eight successful manufacturing companies during his life.
• 1803 - Alexander Stewart - American merchant who built the world's largest retail outlet in 1862 and developed the community of Garden City, Long Island.

Other notable events on this day in history:

• 1881 - The Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake, New York, set a new standard in luxury acomodations as it became the first hotel to install electric lights.
• 1802 - Joseph Swift and Simon Levy traded in their cadet stripes for second lieutenant bars as they became the first graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus recorded the first European sighting of the Western Hemisphere as the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria arrived in what is now the Bahamas.