Butte City Water Company Assessed In Board Hearing
The county board of equalization heard evidence on the water company's business and assessments. Manager Carroll testified the company showed $3840 gross earnings but faced $2625.10 in indebtedness and $230 monthly charges per customer. The board discussed cutting taxes and leaving the assessment as returned by the water company.
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County Board of Equalization Yessterday
Butte City Water Company
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Carroll
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Taney
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Ronald
Butte Boy Flees Reform School Escape in Montana Weed Patch
Special dispatch reports August Hill and Tige Harrington fled from a reform school work detail near a weed patch at about 2 PM on Wednesday. Hill was briefly captured half a mile away. Harrington remained at large. Hill had two months left to serve and may have been influenced by prior attempts to escape from the industrial school at Butte. The piece also includes an abrupt unrelated advertisement for a jewelry sale from Itkin's Diamond on North Main Street.
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Miles City
Reform School
Hill
Tige
Harrington
Butte
United States
Hale
Elgin
Waltham
Itkin
North Main Street
Acquittal and Guilty Verdicts Reported in Local Court
In Justice Doran's court yesterday R Mathews faced suit in the third district. He was acquitted after the testimony showed the complainant entered Mathews' house intoxicated and was asked to leave. Margaret Kinkovich was tried in the afternoon for abuse. Denver Rio Grande lines are noted as the Fraternal Order of Eagles meeting route with tickets on sale August 11 and 12. Montana Eagles delegation plans a trip from Butte to Salt Lake City and then to Denver with a through special train and Pullman cars.
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R. Mathews
Doran
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Warner
Mathews
Margaret Kinkovich
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Order of Eagles
Grand Aerle
Denver
Montana
Eagles
Butte
Salt Lake Aerie
Salt Lake
Denver & Rio Grande
Glenwood
Springs
Canyon of the Grand
Eagle River Canyon
Tenennee
Colorado Springs
East Broadway
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Montana girls in wreck on Short Line train to Portland
Montana girls from Montana Largey and May Du an with a maid rode the Short Line toward Portland and Vancouver. They escaped injury after a wreck that smashed six freight cars and delayed their journey. A bereavement note thanks friends and colleagues of John J. Harrington. Public notices mention a grand entertainment at Gregson with refreshments and a fifty cent round trip for dancing and amusements.
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Fromtana Largey
May Duan
Portland
Vancouver
John’ J. Hare Fington
Cambers
St. Mary's L. C. B. Q
Gregson
Stylish Suits at Stunted Prices for Saturday Picnic
A local sale advertises 200 tailor made suits in black and gray by Stein-Bloch Co and others. Prices include $30 suits offered for $7.75 and similar discounts on $14.75 and $9.75 lines. The copy invites readers to attend the Saturday event, claiming unprecedented value in menswear.
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Stein-Bloch Co
August sale offers men’s suits at bargain prices
A catalog style notice advertises suits regularly selling from 12.50 to 20 dollars, with many light and dark four button sack models and single or double breasted styles. Prices shown include 7.75 for select line and 9.75 to 14.75 for other lots, touting English worsteds and newest colors.
Hennessy’s Daddy of All Clothing Sales in Butte
In Butte a sales pitch promotes Carhar brand men’s rain coats and working clothes at regular values from twenty to twenty five dollars. The copy boasts unmatched quality and positions Hennessy’s as the leading clothing sale, with other sales noted as inferior by comparison.
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Butte
Bargains in Shirts and Underwear At Hennessys Butte
A sale ad lists bargains on shirts, half hose, negligees, and underwear. Manhattan and silk shirts priced from $1.50 to $3.50, plus two pairs of cotton half hose for 25 cents. Also offers madras and cheviot fabrics, silk neckwear, and picnic wear with sizes and colors noted.
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Madras
Manhattan
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Butte Cry Waren Company
Piaures
Reform
John J. Harrington
Plente
Alennessus
Nice
Tien
Lavendeight
Meen
Hennessy’s
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