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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1920
Page
8
Local social and personal items from Meaderville Centerville Walkerville and South Side feature club meetings dances births visitors and other notes addressed to Suburban Notes care of the Standard Butte. Readers are reminded to send items by Thursday night.
The South Side reports many club meetings and social visits. Mrs. Louis Kipp returns from a ranch trip near Garrison while Mrs. J D Wallace hosts a South Side Current Topic gathering. Several families plan travels to Denmark Helena and Missoula with parties at homes on Wall and Granite streets.
Centerville residents share health recoveries from illnesses, travels to Anaconda and Basin, and visits by relatives. Scouts meet for first aid training at Blaine School gym. Mrs. D Mulcahy and Ed Casey host visitors from Tacoma and Scotland. Hibernian ball planned with MacNamara orchestra.
Numerous Meaderville residents are noted as recovering from illnesses and attending gatherings. Miss Thelma Peters hosts the H. M. club with members including Mrs. Marie Knighter and Miss Bessie Bowden. Other items mention dances, travel, and a funeral in Portland.
In Walkerville the Maccabees women prepare for an April 10 dance at St George's hall Centerville with a special program preceding it led by Mrs. Hardy's dancing class. Residents Mrs Louie Levi and Mrs Mamie Crossman improve from illness while others like J Denie and Miss Blanche Nelson visit relatives or stay in town. The Merry Workers gathered at Miss Elsie Williams home for sewing and games with refreshments served.
Miss Bernice Hodge Miss Violet Cloake and the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. William Burrows and family recently arrived from Moose Jaw Canada will stay in the city as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fitze. Walkerville Card club members entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hardie with cards and dancing and a late luncheon. Other partygoers included Mr. and Mrs. William Scott and several couples. Easter services at Mount Bethel Church featured a special choir program. Card clubs hosted by Mrs. Thomas H. Eslick and others transacted social hours with lunches. Sidney Odgers of Transit street is confined at home with a slight illness. Former Walkerville residents Mr. and Mrs. Duhame visited then returned to Philipsburg. Mrs. Louis Levi of North Main street has returned home from hospital and is improving.
Bishop Mathew Simpson Hughes of Portland Oregon died in a Cleveland hotel from pneumonia after an illness starting Friday. Aged 57, he had toured on a lecture trip since October and served as a Methodist bishop since 1916 after pastorates in Grinnell Portland Minneapolis Kansas City and Pasadena. A memorial service led by Bishop William F. Anderson will be held tomorrow with funeral plans awaiting family advice in Portland.
A 1920 McClure Syndicate horoscope forecasts political clashes as women engage in public work, with opposition from men and party schisms. It warns of fraud in women’s用品 and a court case tied to spiritualism. It advises caution against litigation and notes rapid intellect in Aries children.
Mexico City April 4 Gen. Juan Barragan chief of the presidential staff is authorized by President Carranza to deny the statement that a military dictator would be placed at the head of the Sonora government.
A petition urging adoption of an education plank in the national Republican platform was presented to Will Hays by Judson F. Wright and Olive M. Jeffes, with William T. McCoy and New York teachers associations. It cites low teacher wages, 1919 average $634, and 30,000 rural schools without teachers, linking illiteracy to schooling gaps and farm population shifts.
Ida Mae Innes, released from Bibb county jail on a 3000 dollar bond posted by Isador and Harry Holzman of Portland, Ore, went to a hotel and plans to travel to Portland when able. She was last jailed seven years ago in the Nelms sisters disappearance case in Texas and faces an indictment for mail fraud related to the same matter.
Sacred cattle from the Pierce ranches in Wharton County received blue ribbons at the Fort Worth fat stock show, marking a new era in the Southwest. The tick-proof, breath-resisting Brahmas retain the hump and wild nature after crossbreeding with Texas stock.
Master John the gorilla, five years old and noted for intelligence, will visit America. His owner Mme Alyse says hotels will welcome him there and he may hold receptions. John demonstrates problem solving by using a newspaper to comfort himself after an accidental fall.
In Mexico City on April 4 the American embassy did not comment on a reported ambush by Mexican bandits on a train. Passengers included Maj. Edward Burr, assistant military attaché, his wife Mrs. Burr, and other Americans aboard the train.
Illustrated by Neva Harrison a mother hen guards nine chicks in a yard when two chicks steal tail feathers from a rooster to appear grown. Public embarrassment by Miss White Hen and Mr Rooster prompts the chicks to abandon their illusion and wait for real growth.
Winnipeg has long been noted as a bicycle center due to extensive paving. The city’s 225,000 population spread over 24 square miles benefits from about 500 miles of paved streets aiding long-distance biking.
New York report from April 4 says foreign war widows and other non producers, mainly women, form at least 60 percent of recent arrivals. Emigration data show men returning home with savings while women surge in numbers. A national council on emigration will meet in New York to discuss selective immigration policy for Congress.
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