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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1917
Page
7
The principal branch of the Standard is at 119 North Main Street in Butte. Telephones for the business and editorial departments are 422 and 423 respectively. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
New goods are arriving too fast for space so a great number will be sold at decidedly bargain prices. Watch our window for dandy gifts or personal use items. Beautiful decorative pieces offered.
Butte notes list visitors from Missoula, Lewiston, Dillon and Helena, local arrivals, a grand opening at Pipestone Springs, and a series of social and civic mentions. The piece covers road, business, and society items plus church and club notices, with a brief birth report and plans for picnics and outings.
plans for a mass meeting of Southern Slavs led by J Mikhaljevic in Butte to show American support for the war against Germany. The event likely at Carpenters Union hall and involves Slav enlistment efforts. Acting Mayor Hanratty denied parade permits.
Soldiers encamped in Butte will host a public dance tonight at the miners’ advisor’s hall. Officials promise a pleasant social event to ease tensions and provide orderly recreation for the community. The dance is planned for later next week with Kowske, the tailor, providing attire at 202 N Main.
The Butte city exemption board held examinations this morn and will announce tomorrow the number of physically fit men retained. The list shows many rejected including Campbell Eisenhauer Dunstan and Har tes while several were accepted such as Kerrigan Depuyda Vandusheach and Clark. A final call lists dozens must appear at 9:30 for examination or be placed on the accepted list.
Members from five cities gather as Anaconda Helena Missoula and others compete in the state golf tournament at Butte Country Club. Qualifying rounds were held yesterday with men at 9 am and women at 1 pm. The first eight qualify for match play and medal prizes go to top scorers while Red Cross funds rise from the event.
Carl Zamloch, a durable baseball figure, ends his pro career after fracturing his right leg in the Spokane-Butte series. He previously starred with Missoula in 1912, pitched for Detroit, and played in the International and Western leagues before joining Oakland and Spokane.
Washington police served formal notice to leaders of the woman's party that picketing the White House would not be tolerated. Officers arrested six banner bearers at the mansion gates after a warning period, and one individual posted bond to appear tomorrow on obstructing traffic charges.
Notes show Main street from Quartz to Galena and Wyoming street slated for repaving with granite blocks and broader improvements. County will cover half hospital costs for six weeks, city to pay its share. operation planned for Mr. Lattimer, with more improvement details at upcoming meeting. Also mentions jail population figures and five murderers among inmates at Row County Jail.
Local board adviser George D. Toole announces that friendly aliens of draft age may be accepted for military service within the United States or their own countries. Detectives and government agents will verify exemptions, and registrants will be informed of grounds for exemption or discharge.
A chaotic night at the Butta ety council meeting ends with a fight at the hal entrance. A man named James Bailey, allegedly charged with wife beating, clashes with Detective Frager before being subdued. Police report miners beaten on Hopkins street as a staged gang uses a fake miner costume to disperse crowds.
Yesterday the Woman’s FDR Wang led fifty women in a noon gathering to hear Sergeant E Doc Wells recount frontier wartime duties. He described a Belgian cottage threatened by shells, an elderly woman’s refusal to abandon her home, and a resolve to aid soldiers even at personal risk. He urged redoubled Red Cross work and lamented scarce bandages from battlefield injuries.
Hugo Weder faced arrest after declaring himself German on registration day. He allegedly feared internment by German enemies and gave a false nationality. A preliminary hearing followed, with Weder bound over to federal court. The case touches on wartime internment fears and cross national allegiance during 1918. Count von Bernstorff’s post in Constantinople was forecast amid Berlin talks with Chancellor Michaelis.
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