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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
24
A continuation notes proceedings of the Conference of Methodists with additional reports and statements from delegates. Details on sessions and agenda items are summarized for readers.
Edward Laird Mills submits a year end report detailing 19 000 miles traveled 18 000 of it within the district and 6 000 to Topeka and New York for general committee meetings. He preached 124 sermons 27 to small congregations and administered communion 30 times to 700 people. He presided at 82 quarterly conferences and oversaw finances pastor salaries were raised in eleven cases by 840 dollars. He notes editorial duties for the Montana Methodist Messenger and service on trustees at the Deaconess School and Montana Wesleyan University while expressing gratitude for courteous treatment from clergy and laity.
A five inning tie game ended without a winner between Carmen and the Postoffice. Carmen had five hits and five errors while Postoffice posted seven hits and five errors. The text also mentions Electric vapor baths and massage at 355 Phoenix block, Ind. phone 6,940.
In Seattle on August 25 the West beat the East in the inter State trap shoot second day. Amateurs C C Adelman of Boise Idaho and E E Ellis of Seattle both broke 93, with J L McLaughlin of Seattle on 92. Adelman won shoot off with 17 of 20 after a miss. Ellis hit 16.
The concluding event of the shoot, the Pacific coast handicap, is scheduled for tomorrow.
An inquest was held in Great Falls over Mary Brotton who died suddenly in Deaconess hospital Sunday evening. The physician refused to sign a death certificate due to suspicious circumstances.
Montgomery August 25 The complete prohibition code passed by the legislature at its adjourned session was signed by the governor including the Fuller bill. The laws ban liquor use in clubs forbid foreign corporations from violating temperance laws empower impeachment of noncompliant sheriffs require municipalities to enforce prohibition and bar soft drink stands from storing or displaying liquors and prevent gambling.
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