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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1918
Page
10
Busy local scene with dances at the park and Silver Lake picnic details. Notices promote coal from Peckover Co and Wahlstedt optician, and several residents travel to Missoula, Seattle, and Montana coastal cities. Community events include church gatherings, charity fairs, and a Catholic societies picnic. Rose Bresnahan ads urge county assessor vote.
The United States treasury department will be represented at the Montana state fair in Helena, with a county contest for two ladies from each county. Top sellers win a free trip to Helena with expenses paid, and state fair prizes of war savings stamps mature values up to $50. Winners in the county teams earn $200 for first, $180 for second, and $10 for third and fourth, to be divided between the two representatives of the winning counties. Chaperones will accompany the ladies in Helena.
Elution reports Mirector and Sounty team plan a large canvas pavilion at the fair grounds as the headquarters for the lady war stamp sellers. Each county will have a booth while a lake taping and a national chorus will perform patriotic songs during the event bounds.
A letter from Archie Cornelius in France to Ernest Cornelius recalls frontline hell with Company D of the 6th Infantry. He mentions Eddie Flynn and Lieut W T Masten, sends greetings to Anaconda friends, notes Archie is the only local in his company, and mentions conversations about past years in Anaconda. The fragment also includes local notices about business dissolutions, bank holiday closures, and AOH state board meeting details with a banquet.
A large community celebration is planned at Silver Lake with the Butchers union of Butte joining the Clerks and Butchers unions in a daylong program. Judge John A. Matthews presides over the fourteenth judicial district as the event features band concerts, a special train excursion, free coffee and cream, athletic contests for youths and women, and prizes in yard and dash events. Frank Wroble and Miss Tha Wi wed quietly in Anaconda after returning from San Diego.
Attendees from Modern Woodmen Royal Neighbors and families are invited to the Woodmen hall for the dedication of the roice Mag. A musical program refreshments and dancing follow the ceremony as part of the community celebration in Ife.
A Montana candidate at Pine Street seeks the county attorney post. The bio notes nearly 30 years in state university and law practice, admitted in all state courts, and U S courts. He is the son of a Union Civil War veteran, claiming 100 percent American heritage. Deer Lodge area.
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