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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1921
Page
5
Two news films will distribute moving pictures of the dances at Columbia Gardens across the United States. The final dress rehearsal yesterday featured hundreds of youngsters under the direction of Miss Helen Greenough and M A Clevert, with public exhibition set for Thursday.
Special dispatch reports severe weather hitting Farmers and counties. A dark storm swept toward Manhattan and Boxeman causing substantial damage to crops laid on the ground while roads were briefly blocked. Local fields suffered from hail and wind as rain disrupted harvest efforts.
Mr and Mrs Harlow Pease 1816 nue welcomed a daughter Aug 25 Mrs Frank Lohman 1347 enue greeted a son Aug 26 Mrs Roy Stiles Norris delivered a daughter at Deaconess hospital Aug 28 Mr and Mrs Chin Yeo Fons West Mercury street welcomed a son Aug 26
Mrs Mary Stranahan state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union arrived in Butte for a three day convention urging youth work after national prohibition. She stressed department activities including scientific temperance instruction in schools, legislative measures, moral education, and reform efforts to build better citizens.
City Clerk Brimacombe received a letter from George Daigie of Westbrook Maine seeking the address of Gaspar Daigle who was said to be about 75 years old and last heard from living in Butte. He asks anyone with information to write to the provided address. Dr J G O'Brien opens medical and surgical offices in 616 B18 Phoenix block with phone 2258.
A long list of visitors and locals in Butte is noted with names including Mr and Mrs J R Lacoff Florence Mrs W C Dawes Bozeman and W Scott Dillon registering at local hotels Finlen Leggat and Norris figures and many accompanying remarks. Several residents dine visit or travel through Butte to Helena Libby Dillon Lima Norris Livingston and elsewhere.
The list of women in charge of Catholic field day arrangements at Columbia Gardens this Saturday unintentionally omitted Mrs. J. McHugh of 1012 Lewisohn Street. Mrs. McHugh and Mrs. P. W. O'Flynn share supervision of the fish pond for the event.
The Butte telephone directory will go to press on April 31. Prospective subscribers wishing their names listed and current subscribers seeking service or address changes should see the manager before the date to ensure proper listing. Ray Etcher paid a 10 dollar fine in police court for speeding on Montana Street at 26 miles per hour. Officer Sage testified he was going 18 miles an hour.
The Montana 1921 narcotics law requires physicians to report within 48 hours any prescriptions for drugs to habitual users or addicts and to register patients prescribed drugs for more than 30 days. Police officials must also report drug cases to the county attorney, with safeguards on release or bail pending such reports.
The Rialto opens William A. Brady's Life adaptation based on Thompson Buchanan with Billy Reid as a private secretary wrongfully implicated in his broker employer's murder. Travers Vale directs a tale of jealousy, forgery, and a wife’s ruse to save him amid thrilling scenes. Also showing a Christie comedy and Pathe weekly.
A new Montana booklet from the state Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry, Chester Davis and Charlee Greensfield Jr. as authors, showcases scenic attractions and major routes. It includes Yellowstone and Glacier park access details, town descriptions, business location guidance, and the state’s best road map with highways in red and rural roads in purple for travelers and potential settlers.
The state university at Missoula forecasts its biggest enrollment as of yet with over 400 applications for freshman entrance, compared to about 100 at this date last year. Captain Steve Sullivan of Butte will lead the varsity football team, with several other mining city students prominent on campus this year. Mile de Calvo and her mother of New York are visiting Butte guests at the Leggat, Mile de Calvo a noted violinist on the Pantages circuit.
Charles P. Craig will speak at the Silver Bow club in Butte on September 2 about a Duluth to St Lawrence mouth sea waterway. The plan, backed by W J Coughlin of Anaconda Copper, would bring Montana 2000 miles closer to Europe by creating dams and locks for seagoing ships with power for industry. If approved, Duluth becomes a seaport and rail shipments shift, with savings in freight and wider eastern markets for Montana products.
On charges of violating the Morri gan narcotic iam, Tom Hum was a feigned before LM. Van Bitten United States commissioner yenter Gay, and held Unger $500 bonds for appearance in the federal court. James Peenings Mike Murray and chartes Erdman took the pauper s oath before the commissioner in default of paying Sido Anes assessed against them in addition to jail sentences for prohibition Tawe violation.
The Emanuel Lutheran Church Sunday school will hold its annual picnic at Lake Avoca next Saturday with a sports program starting at 1 o clock. In St Paul negotiations are under way to sell RJ Thomson Oakdale Farms at Blooming Prairie and Le Roy to cover creditor demands, with Jay C Hormel appointed receiver. Thomson, once controller of the packing company, was arrested after a $1,187,000 shortage was found in his accounts.
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