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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1921
Page
6
A Maryland reader reports weakness from menstrual irregularities and pain improved after using a tablet compound. She praises the medicine and recommends it to friends while noting her sister also benefited and began working again.
Alumni and former students of the University of Illinois in Anaconda receive invites to a three day Salt Sal City event August 26 to 28 honoring George A. Huff and R C Dad Zuppke as guests of honor. Over 400 Illini expected to attend with a dinner at Hotel Utah organized by Wesley E King and others. Funeral services for Mike Spoja held today at Tuttle chapel with mass at St Peters church.
The Anaconda city council passes a resolution levying and assessing all property in sprinkling districts 1 2 3 4 and 8 for the city of Anaconda Deer Lodge Montana. Objections to the final adoption may be heard at city hall during a specified period. Also notices funeral and obituary items for Mike Spoia Sophia Peterson and other local notices.
Deer Lodge American Legion announces a Labor Day dance at Washoe Park on Sept 5 with a large orchestra and decorated pavilion. The event is an annual Legion custom tied to Labor Day, with the central labor council not participating this year, leaving the Legion as the day’s entertainment. Women of the auxiliary handle ticket sales and refreshments and several special features will be added by the committee.
Five priests from Anaconda will depart Monday for the annual retreat at Mount Saint Charles College in Helena. The retreat runs through Friday with Rev Fathers Coopman Tracy Schulte Pirnat and Connell in the party. Rev Father Majors will head St Pauls parish during their absence.
The Sparrow Drugs of Anaconda will clash with the Western Union Slugge of Butte at Washoe Park Sunday afternoon, after official arrangements. Anaconda reports no defeats this season and promises a strong game. Likely Sparrows batteries are Sullivan and Strizich.
The Victory medals program has shifted. offices in Salt Lake City and Seattle were closed and the region now falls under the Victory Medal officer at 311 Pine Street Portland Oregon. Ex servicemen need only sign their name provide a correct address and attach a discharge extract to receive the medal with forms supplied.
Mrs. Sophia Peterson long time city resident died after a lingering illness at 401 East Third Street. Wife of the late Samuel Peterson who died in 1903, she leaves daughter Clara and son John Oscar Peterson. Born in Sweden she was a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church. Funeral services Sunday at 2:15 PM at the home 512 Alder Street and 2:30 PM at the Lutheran Church, Rev. Alfred Appell of Butte officiating. interment in Hill Cemetery.
Alumni and the last side will play off a postponed game tonight at 30 on the city common. Several games have been postponed this season due to rain or other reasons, and the teams will try to complete these games before the league season ends on September 6.
Anaconda brief items report city trips at 25 cents by taxi. Several residents and visitors are noted: Farnsworth to Butte, Callaghan from Helena, White's Camas Springs trip, Parago on business, Harris from New York, Carter from Missoula, and Mrs. Edwards from Ogden. Also sightings of confirmations, picnics, and motor tours amid local notices. The A. C. M. Juniors beat Anaconda Cubs 14 to 9 at the lumber yard.
George Probert, a noted stage actor, was chosen by Madame Nazimova to play the leading role in her Metro production Madame Peacock. The film, adapted from Rita Welman story, features Probert as the neglected husband of a pampered heiress and marks another Nazimova screen collaboration. The picture opens tomorrow at the Blue Bird theater.
Mrs. M. L. Auge of Spokane says eight to nine years of chronic dyspepsia and indigestion vanished after four bottles of Tanlac. She reports improved appetite, steady nerves, better sleep, and steady weight gain, crediting Tanlac for a return to health. Sold locally by Fuller Drug Co and other druggists.
The Beaverhead post No. 20 of the American Legion schedules a pow wow in Dillon on August 26 and 27. It aims to be among the nation s best roundups with riders expected from all regions. An invitation goes to the Deer Lodge post and friends to attend and enjoy Legion hospitality.
A fragment describes a clerical-looking diner murmuring roast tental servant. The odd wording hints at a rustic scene or misread OCR with unclear meaning and no identifiable people or organizations.
Lite notes that many New York streets began as cow paths and that time changes little. Today those routes serve as stamping grounds for the bull.
One of the tightest city league games last night on the city common ended with the Condors defeating the Goodfriends 3 to 2. Pfaff pitched six innings for the Condors before relief by Callan who fanned four of six batters. Swanson started for the Goodfriends. The Condors scored in the third and fifth before the Goodfriends tied it, then Callan struck out the last batter with two on base. In the seventh, Emmons reached on a hit by pitch and Gorman doubled, but the last out ended the threat. Plate had five strikeouts. Swanson five. Pfaff issued two walks, Swanson two. Callan, Emmons, and Gorman doubled for the Condors and Goodfriends respectively. Roney and Emmons were hit by pitches. The double play by Gorman to Thomas to Sugruc helped defuse a late rally.
State rehabilitation agent Lloyd A. Henry reports two Anaconda men benefited under a new law aiding physically handicapped workers. The law supports training and partial support to restore self sufficiency, with cases funded by state and federal rehabilitation funds and not affecting veterans compensation rights.
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