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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
3
A real old-fashioned birthday party is the attraction at Gregson Springs next Saturday evening. Ol Man Shae, Pose of the ancestor, will give the old fellow a party. The invited guests are fundovers of Butea and Alaconda. There will be dancing, music by a jazziest orchestra, cash prizes for singers and entertainers, and plans to raise rent for the springs.
Columbia Gardens announces a William Tell apple-on-the-head dance as the Saturday novelty event. Proficient waltzers compete to keep the apple balanced. the last dancer with the apple in place wins a cash prize.
At a western tourist camp M A and Fred Young of Vancouver and Frank Hedden of Jersey City pitched tents near the pavilions. Hedden, a garage man seeking a West Pioneer Stock site, travels with his family toward London Ontario while Silas Hedden, his uncle, in Oregon once led an ill fated 1846 expedition through the Rockies.
A melodrama titled Whats a Wife Worth plays today at the Rialto. Casson Ferguson Ruth Renick and Virginia Caldwell star in a tale of marriage trouble caused by gossip social climbers and a substituted baby. The program also features The Skippers Filtration Toonerville Trolley color short and an Educational Weekly tie.
The Eleventh district civil service commission in Butte announces openings for multiple positions with exam dates. See the civil service examiner in the federal building or write the commission secretary in Room 303, Post Office Building, Butte, Montana, for details. Exams listed include assistant observer, weather bureau. bacteriologists. junior and associate entgenologists. railway mail clerk. production and highway economists. and various clerical, engineering, and technical roles with dates from August to December.
Local officials report that over 3000 dollars has been spent on Brown's Gulch road this year. The committee does not dispute the expenditure but notes that the work has not continued on the ranch. Ranchers now call for proper allowances for labor already performed.
The church building at Idaho and Galena streets will be sold Friday afternoon by Coroner James F. Carey to satisfy a judgment held by the Methodist church extension board against Sheriff Duggan and the Metal Mine Workers union. The sheriff’s involvement made the coroner the selling agent under the foreclosure decree.
The county board of commissioners issued a forty thousand dollar check to the state highway commission as its share of the Pipestone pass road project. The letter accompanying the payment states no extra or contingency payments will be made without county engineer approval, and notes a intended savings of over four thousand dollars on the state highway demand.
Arthur Bodine foreman of the James Hill ranches near Livingston, over 21 000 acres, toured Butte yesterday. He said the alfalfa crop in the area shows promise of a record breaker and that cattle are thriving as ranges have not dried up. He expects to feed stock from the ranges until late fall.
A fragmented plea from two women in Columbus asking ranchers in Montana to hire them for work or domestic duties. They describe Eve and Bonnie Wigner aged 68 and 33, seeking a home and income, hoping a wealthy ranch owner will read their letter and offer employment or a place to stay.
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