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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1903
Page
3
Prominent business leaders and property owners favor forming a Municipal Improvement league to plant trees and flowers, tidy yards and sidewalks, and install paper boxes for waste. The plan, likely to be called this week, aims to beautify Anaconda as street cleanup and curbside recycling begin.
Judge Napton overruled a motion to quash the writ in a case by Sheriff Storrar. Harvey L Mathews and Frances M Mathews obtained an order of adoption for four month old James Bradley with the mother’s consent and unknown father. The child will be known as James Mathews with inheritance rights. Wanted second hand goods Stage's.
Anaconda sees a new poolroom opening as W S P Hawk of Postal Telegraph wires plans between Anaconda and Butte gear up and a Western Union ban on Butte messages takes effect. The closure disrupts Butte business while races from St Louis and Oakland are baled. touts and pony players are expected to visit for the races.
In Helena on April 28 Assistant Superintendent J. M. Lewis received a letter from K. A. Berry superintendent of Quannah Texas asking about John B. Leach. The note says Leach was last heard from in Helena and was ill then and his mother is alarmed by the long silence.
County Superintendent Miss Alice Mahoney reports exam certificates issued for first second and third grades to W H Wightman Miss Mary Burke Miss Alice Sager Miss Anna Kinerk F A Myers Mrs Belle Pinquard and Miss Mary Russell. Board plans May 22 selections with most teachers retained and notes Mill Creek school to open May 4 despite limited funds. Remaining 3000 bond issue funds to be sold. claims against district to be turned in promptly.
A complaint was filed in United States court against Antonine Nenema a Flathead Indian for bringing and giving away whiskey on the reservation. The affidavit was sworn by Indian Agent W H Smead before United States commissioner W P Smith at Missoula.
The Stockholm brewery, existing since Great Falls’ founding, will relocate to Butte. After a city edict barred women from saloons, the establishment closed, and proprietors Johnson & Shaver now plan the transfer.
An advertisement claims Newbro's Herpicide destroys the dandruff germ at the scalp root, preventing hair loss. It describes the germ as causing dandruff and baldness and promises permanent relief if the cause is eliminated. Sample available by mail and sold by druggists nationwide.
Mrs Pat Campbell and her London company will present The Joy of Living by Hermann Sudermann at the Margaret Theatre on Friday night. The five act drama, set among German nobility, centers on Countess Beata and a moral crisis amid political and social pressures. Campbell’s performance as Beata is described as dominating, with lavish staging and careful detail.
A local shop presents four summer suits by Hart Schaffner & Marys described as stylish, well cut, and fit for all summer wear. The tailored finish is praised as comparable to custom work and the store claims a superior assortment not found elsewhere in town.
Five men were severely burned at the Vesta furnace in Marietta during cupola preparations for a cast. David Appley suffered full-body burns and likely death, while Thomas T. Kissellen endured burns to back and face with doubtful recovery. A wet projectile caused the molten metal shower that injure the crew.
A historical banking advertisement lists John R. Toole as president, M. B. Greenwood as vice president, Louis V. Bennett as cashier, and F. C. Norbeck as assistant cashier. The notice presents the bank's leadership and title of a beauty-related feature.
General A. E. Woodson, hospitalized in Great Falls after a stroke while traveling from Assinniboine, shows gradual improvement though no recovery of strength on the paralyed side yet. In Helena, Carrie Burns Norton, wife of Alfred B. Norton, electric ian at East Helena smelter, dies leaving an infant son and two other sons. Burial at Forestvale after funeral in East Helena church.
Bids will be received at the county clerk's office in Deer Lodge County Montana until May 4 1908 for grading a new road up Mill creek and crossing the B A P B railroad per specifications on file in this office. Phil Greenan County Clerk dated April 27 1903.
Dee County Montana invites bids until May 4 for grading a new road east of The Mile House and crossing the Moana Union railroad. Specs are on file with County Clerk Phil Grarana dated April 27, 1903.
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