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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1902
Page
14
The Western Montana office of the Standard is at 119 West Main Street Missoula. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
Five pieces of all wool fancy striped waistings in handsome colorings and fine styles. Price now two patterns in Horn's imported cheviot waistings no two alike and just enough for a waist in each.
Seven pieces of our regular fe quality wash silk are offered at 35 cents per yard. Limited stock available for immediate purchase.
Ladies of the Cemetery association and directors plant trees and plan paths at the city cemetery. Locust avenue and new shrubbery designs bring a gardenlike setting. a Grand Army monument may be erected at the main crossing. A joint Arbor Day meeting with trustees and the city council will decide April 29 activities.
Commissioner Eva Booth leads a Salvation Army contingent through Missoula en route to Rossland. She will inspect Indian work at Fort Simpson, then continue to Briag way and Dawson before returning via New Westminster, Vancouver and other cities, joining the Manitoba meeting in Winnipeg at month’s end. Booth, daughter of founder William Booth, is coordinating limited stops for health reasons.
Deeds filed include J R Latimer to Theodore Bedard Jr for land near Grass Valley valued at 4000 dollars and Hiram Knowles to Alice Tracy for two lots in Knowles addition valued at 800 dollars. Bonds for road trustees filed by D C C O Keefe and George R F Duncan. Otto Bergel appropriates 12 inches of Rattlesnake water for his pond and winter ice making front Street east end.
Christian Science lecturer Edward A. Kimball arrives in Missoula and will address a large audience tomorrow. He travels west on this trip with limited stops and stays with Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Beck. Mrs. Howland of Spokane is also a guest in Missoula as preparations rise. Bend mail orders to the COLDER Rule, Missoula.
Missoula hosts the annual meeting of the Missoula Orchard and Improvement Company in the morning. The company property is at Florence in the Bitter Root valley. President M McDonald of Salem Oregon and director Mr Brown of Great Falls are in town for the gathering.
Workingmen began moving the telegraph department supply house in Missoula yesterday as part of a Northern Pacific project. The work continues as crews relocate equipment and prepare the site for ongoing operations.
A small building at the east end of the platform, used as an office by Roadmaster Mayne, will be moved to make space for new tracks connecting with the new station and main line. The building will serve temporarily as an office for the boss car repairer near the repair tracks.
In Missoula on April 16 the wife of a station agent learns the gown for a Northern Pacific club reception was left behind due to her husband forgetting to load the valise. She refuses to go to the reception and stays as a guest of a local family rather than return to the station.
Twenty dollars reward for information that will lead to the detection of the party who broke the leg of my horse on Sunday evening April 6. Troy Steam Laundry Missoula.
Sheriff Prescott processed 39 men from the county jail this morning in one of the largest jail gatherings. Officers moved many unemployed men from saloons and depots after a busy night, with some given a chance to resume their brakebeam rides to the West after appearances before Justice Hayes.
J D Wolfe advance agent for Way Down East is in Missoula arranging a show on Saturday April 23. Manager Hartley has another play booked for May at Union theater called Way Out West. Rumor suggests Way Down East may be touring with Way Out West. The Barlow minstrels appear in Missoula Saturday night with a large street parade claims.
In Missoula on April 16 a large crew of workers laid new track to connect the old line with the new station. Japanese laborers pressed rails from the yard while cement blocks for the platform and surrounding walk were set. The project aims for a fine platform and scenic green plots. offices are moving to new quarters and the lunch room will be shifted to allow rail work.
Missoula reports the state convention of the Christian Endeavor society will be held in Hamilton on June 10 with about a hundred visitors expected. The Bitter Root valley scenery and local preparations are noted as favorable, and Hamilton is praised as a western state town. A separate note announces the State Sunday School convention in Helena on May 27 with attendance from eastern states and national officials.
The Missoula Water company versus CC I Williams et al resumed in district court after a three day recess. Defendants’ proofs are being heard and 14 defendants were defaulted for failing to answer on time. Fees of 58 dollars were paid under protest. Proofs were taken on the Williams Quasi Ambrose ditch with witnesses Jesse Williams William Teston Theodore Meinengner Sebastian Effinger John Edgerton Mills Hanson Otto Quast Oliver Chase and C E Wil.
Special Texam iner Hermes of the pension bureau in Washington visits Missoula to locate the biological father of children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ek. W. Kline. The couple wed in 1884 under Judge Sloane. Both spouses have died. Kline rests in Rathdrum Idaho cemetery.
In Missoula on April 14 a woman driving a tight buggy with a pet woolly dog inside cried out after the dog either jumped or fell from the vehicle. Wheels passed over the dog but the furry animal escaped unharmed and ran ahead of the horse.
The Northern Pacific warns conductors about a fraudulent skeleton ticket circulating, printed on Baltimore & Ohio style colored paper. The fake ticket claims Alameda or related routes and misleadingly resembles legitimate B and O documents.
William Dyson of Missoula learned of his brother J F Dyson an express messenger aboard the Great Northern train wrecked several miles west of Spokane. Telegram from the injured brother said he was not seriously hurt.
A. O. U. W. head officers conduct a state tour. Deputy grand master F. P. Smith visits Missoula from Helena and heads toward Bitter Root valley. Grand Master F. L. Grandy of Butte travels from Deer Lodge to meet Hamilton members and attend Stevensville and Missoula meetings through Monday.
In Missoula on April 16 the government will repeat the weighing of mail for another 30 days due to delays from washouts snow and cold in Dakota and Eastern Montana. Mail was diverted from the Northern Pacific necessitating a new estimate.
Missoula residents are invited to attend an April 17 lecture by Edward A. Kimball of the International board of lectureship Boston at Union Opera House with free admission. Also at Gem theater this week Carroll the impersonator and male soprano draws crowded houses with fine makeup and rich costumes.
Missoula residents are invited to tour the Missoula Nursery greenhouses or contact the city store on Higgins Avenue for details about plants, hours, and services offered.
A letter reports Joseph Willette and Mrs Willette arrived safely at Ogden Utah where they plan to set up their future home. They found the weather there similar to Missoula.
J W Ward of Victor visited Missoula today and holds a claim on the east side of the river in a large district under special land entry laws. The area spans several thousand acres and a government petition seeks water via a canal from the Bitter Root or Lake Como.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Nason in Missoula swallowed the glass eye from a doll. Dr Parsons treated the child and removed the eye without further harm.
Prof J Hamilton of the state university faculty read a paper on Montana and Its Resources at convocation this morning. The paper contained useful information and was well received by students.
Misegula April 16 The condition of John Pulliam is much improved today. He was unconscious briefly last evening but felt better this morning than since the accident. Doctors report a severe head shock and fear of brain fever subsides as improvement is expected.
A large salt plume west of Missoula drew attention as a possible house fire. A courier investigated about three miles out and returned saying the blaze appeared to be a haystack burning several miles farther west.
Thomas Phillips aged 54 years died at a hospital in Missoula on April 16. He was a stationary engine worker and had lived in the area for many years. Burial plans will be announced by the family.
A Logan man died last evening at Northern Pacific hospital after a several week illness of chronic nature. He leaves a wife and family. The remains will be shipped to Livingston tomorrow evening.
MISSOULA NOTES recounts illnesses and visits in Missoula including John Berry of Stevensville at Sisters' hospital, J R Faulds from Stevensville, and Mrs H G Houghton from Spokane. It notes civic changes, train delays, a lecture planned for April 21, and local job transfers and visitors from nearby towns.
The logging train for the Anaconda Copper Mining company has arrived in Missoula and will depart for Hamilton in the morning. The 30 to 40 car train will haul logs to the mill and operate daily until the fall shutdown.
A Chicago Chronicle article recalls Congressman William Alden Smith of Michigan recounting a court story. TJ tried a case and a witness talked of the prosecuting witness's bad reputation while admitting a vow to shoot him but not acting, because the cowbell was later returned.
Philadelphia Record recounts George Fail of the city hall detective force riding uptown when a colored acquaintance sits beside him. Fail teases about superstition, noting a cross eyed woman and a hunch back, then checks the car number 313 and street Thirteenth. The man leaves after a tense exchange.
The London Globe compares British undergraduates with German university culture noting Oxford and Cambridge students treat university life less as a lyrical phase. It argues academic rigor and athletic bias create distance from serious musical culture and limit the appeal of musical devotion among British youth.
The text argues that efforts to imitate German student song books in England fail due to limited demand and supply. It notes Germany has a long tradition of student songs, while England has few songs tailored to university life, making any generic selection arbitrary and of little impact for the intended audience.
A matron recalls feeding four newsboys on a bitterly cold night near a city station. They dined at a bright restaurant, ordered ice cream despite the winter chill, and joked about hot ice cream not being available in winter while they hurried to catch a train.
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts Senator Joseph Foraker of Ohio describing his Civil War enlistment trick. At 16 he forged age by chalking 18 on his shoe soles to pass for 18, gaining enrollment. He notes his field record is fine but his official record could threaten pension eligibility.
A conversation reveals summer plans with a matron mentioning a trip to Europe while the young woman worries about publishing society notes. The narrator notes fear of social notices and mentions a farm visit in Northern New York with relatives.
The piece playfully catalogs the present tense conjugation of the verb to ping pong. It notes ping-pong as a tiny game with big appeal and claims the Sun offers a humorous table sanscrit with forms such as I ping and Thou pongest while warning dialects may vary.
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