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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
5
Large delegations to arrive at the railway station at eleven o clock. They will be accompanied by the Boston and Montana Band. A business session is planned this afternoon. City decorated and cheerful welcomes extended. Local leaders plan after next convention in Billings.
Montana Elks convention opens in Butte at 2 PM in the Margaret theater. Delegations from Billings Missoula Helena Great Falls and other cities arrive to attend and assist in the event. Local committees prepare entertainment decorations and hospitality for visiting members and guests.
An evocative Montana hotel basement room hosts the Billings Elks as the Yellowstone herd eyes the next grand lodge meeting in Denver. Judge FitzPatrick jokes about water for the big elk as the convention preparations unfold with a ladies reception at the Montana hotel this afternoon.
A chaotic mix of shop ads and society notes mentions Verberckmoes and Schlappi, hotel help wanted, theater and ball plans, church meetings, police raid on an opium joint, heavy sale items at Wein's, family births, a court action against B A P railway, and two boys burned by flashlight powder.
Health officers in London destroyed 1 556 tons of meat as unfit for food last year. Total meat consumption reached 410 500 tons with 23 percent country killed 3 6 percent town killed and 78 4 percent American or colonial meat frozen.
The clerk and recorder have begun work on the tax roll and will complete it within legal time. Board of equalization changes are minor and the roll should be as accurate as possible. Roads and French Gulch project discussions continue with August 19 site visits and September reports planned. Deputy Treasurer Johnson praised for diligent tax collection efforts.
W J Allen flour and feed team backed into an abandoned well behind the Dunn building on Commercial Avenue yesterday morning. The ground sank dropping two horses about 25 feet. one died at the top, the other is expected to recover in days. Firemen used block and tackle to lift the animals in about ninety minutes.
Miss Muriel Iola Bliss of 25 Chestnut Street Anaconda has published My Father's Crime a 214 page memoir sold by subscription. The author a girl under 14 portrays her desertion by her father and the struggles with her step mother including illustrations of principal city figures. The closing chapter describes her lone pursuit of vengeance and final interview with her father.
The Anaconda Bartenders Union holds its second annual picnic next Sunday at Mill Creek east of Anaconda. Invitations go to International union members in Butte and local friends. Events include tug of war, foot race, broncho busting, drilling, endurance waltz, song, and mixing contests with humorous prizes.
In Butte a high jump event pits Pete Callon Gus Busman and James McDonald for a prize box of sardines and a rope ladder. A four round bout features Kid Gallagher, Butte champion, against Tom Cadle Quebec stakes lightweight winner with referee Tony Heimes.
The pond of Mrs. C. A. Parker east of the city was emptied by unknown parties who scooped and removed the fish. It was easy to drain the pond and capture the government hatchery stock, moved to Butte and Anaconda. Mrs. Parker suspects the culprits and prosecutions are expected.
County Attorney Tolan ordered Loreng Wildner released from the county jail after an inquest into his wife’s death last Saturday at 10 West Fifth Street found the coroner’s jury could not prove his involvement. No evidence ties him to the shooting, and officials released him. Tickets to Europe available at Thurson’s.
A baseball game is scheduled this afternoon on the common between the St. Paul Altar Boys and the Broadway Juniors of Butte. It marks the third meeting of these teams and is expected to be a hammer of a contest. Thurson's Red Front offers tuxedo supplies.
In Oil City a laborer nicknamed a character was sent to dig a ditch from the curb to a yard point with only a two foot rule for measurement. At day’s end he reports he dug the ditch, naming lengths of the rule the pick two bricks and a stick as his measure. He confirms possession of the stick.
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