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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
21
The Principal Branch Office of the Etandard is located at 2 East Broadway Butte with telephone numbers 422 and 1 422. Advertising rates are available on application.
Iona Cafe on East Park street and various ads for rentals, coal, and piano services fill a page of Butte notes. Mentions include Dr. Ashlock osteopath, Klaffids lunch with Michelob and Budweiser, a Pipestone dance, and travel items from Helena to Dillon.
Latest novelties in all linen waists from 2.50 with embroidered collars and cuffs. Taffeta waists in all colors, exclusive and elegant at low prices. Weinberg's fashion shop at 67 West Park. Summer suits at less than half prices at Clerke's this Saturday.
A Chinese run lottery operates in Butte with tickets sold for 50 cents nightly at 5 and 11 o'clock. Chinamen promoters admit involvement while May Stewart, a known troublemaker, provides key tip. Officers plan county action under Montana statutes with penalties up to one year jail or $2000 fine. Stewart faces robbery and vagrancy charges. she fought arrest and is under bonds awaiting trial.
Justice Henry presided over civil business in which Mrs. Christan Scholomit sued Olympia Brewery and others for seventy eight dollars in itemized claims including umbrella coat hat baby clothes and a baby quilt. The court awarded thirty five dollars to the plaintiff after testimony about a paint accident caused by a painter overseen by Forman Bros during work at the brewery.
Charles Beley a Walkerville grocer, broke his left ankle Wednesday night when he and a friend shifted upper boards to reach lower ones in a lumber pile. He was taken home for surgical care and rested easily last night.
George Donohue will take the Donohue Players on a state tour starting in late August. The all new company, with two exceptions, opens in Lewistown Aug 30 during the fair and plays Helena Sept 26, with Billings booked in October for the dry farming congress.
Montana’s leading Catholic bishops Bishop John F. Carroll of Helena and Bishop Lenihan of Great Falls visited Butte en route to Salt Lake City for the cathedral dedication. Father Stephen J. Sullivan joined them. The event will draw bishops from about a dozen states and feature a pontifical high mass led by Cardinal Gibbons with Archbishop Glenner delivering the sermon.
Rod Waggoner press agent and two aides arrived to arrange for The Time the Place and the Girl at the Broadway on Friday and Saturday August 20 and 21. The 60 member company led by Robert Pitkins and Jessie Huston leaves a favorable impression from prior Butte visit. The production is new with couture gowns and millinery. Dor’s suit sale offered summer suits at 15 dollars, values up to 49 dollars.
The official Commercial Day program at Columbia Gardens on Wednesday lists Baseball Merchants vs Clerks at 10 20 am and numerous races for merchants clerks delegates and union members. Events include tug of war, sack races, egg and watermelon contests with prizes and a grand baseball match to close.
In an Everybody's Magazine excerpt a defense witness admits to assault with intent to kill. The prosecutor shames him as an ex convict and fugitive, but the witness recalls being captured at Fort Harris on Sept. 9, 1864 and escaping Libby prison during transfer to Salisbury.
Ned, bold fireman and marshal of Battalion C, is credited with a record run. The verse praises his Yankee Doodle rig and notes illustrated cards free at the Standard office. Independent phone promises prompt long distance service with no 25-cent time charge. Daly & Boyle advertise Schlitz beer and straight whiskeys at 106 North Main.
Oliver Bowen, accused of kidnapping his five year old daughter Serelda, is sought by Sheriff O Rourke after Bowen lured the girl from Mrs. Connell’s home at 206 South Montana and vanished. Bowen had been awarded visitation but the decree allowed only Sunday visits. speculation points to Bowen leaving the state with the child. Earlier, a separate child abduction near Warren and Galatin avenues ended with the child returned shortly after.
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