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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1902
Page
5
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 Feet Broadway. Butte Telephone 42%. Advertising rates furnished on application.
A roundup of visitors and locals in Butte with notes on business trips and arrivals from Helena, Missoula, Virginia City, Duluth, Spokane, and other places. Includements mention piano purchases, insurance, barber shop specialties, X ray services, and a timber case hearing resuming after a three day recess with Helena and local stenographers handling testimony.
Birth notices list several newborns at addresses on West Granite East Broadway West Quartz West Galena and Maryland avenue with parents named. A separate shopping notice from Mayer, Popular Priced Jeweler in Butte promotesSolid gold baby rings alarm clocks Sterling spoons watches bracelets and related items with prices and one year warranty.
J. T. Carroll Lumber company advertises the largest assortment of high grade vehicles ever shown in Butte at corner Arizona and Platinum streets. Prices are very low. Also notes rail tickets on sale to Anaconda and all stations beyond the Great Northern ticket office. Information on time cards and freight rates provided.
Butte Painters and Decorators Union No. 22 and master painters reach an amicable settlement. Idle workers return to eight hour shifts at four fifty per day for painters and five dollars for decorators. No journeyman to accept contract work. Negotiations led by H L Murchie and others. Agreement ratified at Pioneer hall after a special meeting.
Commissioner Booth leads three Salvation Army meetings at the Auditorium with Brigadier Pugmire in the morning. Miss Booth sings harp accompanied army songs with her adopted children Willie and Pearl assisting. Evening talks on Past Mother’s Grave draw strong reactions and a salvation meeting follows. The tour continues to Helena then coastal cities of British Columbia.
Montana city awakes to spring as residents enjoy hats gowns and outings to Columbia Gardens and greenhouses. Wheel activity rises with more cyclists on the streets while local funerals for George H. Tong and John S. Cowan are scheduled and Neil Gillis services held at nearby locations.
Lamont Iowa April 13 Today was given up entirely to devotional exercises by the Latter Day Saints. Seven sermons were listened to by large crowds in regular attendance. Speakers were Herman C. Smith A J Krek Elder Riley Joseph Smith R C Evans and G T Griffith the latter speaking twice to complete his lectures on priesthood.
All members of Butte Stationary Engineers union No. W. F. M. are asked to meet at 21 East Quartz street on Monday at 1 39 p m to attend the funeral of Brother Neil Gillis. By order of P A Stevens president Walter For BS secretary. Orton Bros 219 N Main street advertises best value pianos organs in Butte.
Miss Blanche Walsh, touring in Janice Meredith, fell through scenery at a Tacoma theater rear platform and plunged 12 feet into Puget Sound. She suffered bruises to hip and shoulder and will miss several performances, delaying travel to Everett and Seattle.
The Norwegian steamer Hero, driven ashore at the Panama Canal entrance in Colon Harbor by a norther, arrived in New York in tow of the wrecking tug Rescue. Her rudder frame is gone but the vessel is otherwise undamaged and will be repaired. The Rescue paused at Havana for coal en route from Colon. The Hero had been anchored off Stapleton, Long Island.
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