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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1917
Page
4
The paper reports a Montana hotel red room meeting about war thrift and certificate stamp sales to start next Monday. Leaders urge business, labor, and fraternal groups to attend and explain a plan where a 25 cent saving card can grow to a $5 stamp value, with no obligation to donate.
The fragment lists individuals including E Loughrin of Butte and F Chicago with affiliations in Spokane Helena New York and Spokane. Names include Mrs Millican J Brock Ira Berman George Erwin J M Kelly J P Walsh F Eston and J C
A terse note appears directed to Eths in Anaconda referencing a parcel or instruction with signatures BLAKE and B. R. CLINTON as secretary. The text implies a deadline by tonight and a postal or office action.
A wartime food conservation book based on federal guidelines will be sold at a bazaar to raise funds for the Junior Red Cross. Mrs. Pierce Barker oversees collecting proven recipes. the event opens next week at 207 Main Street with tea and other booths. Receipts fund hospital supply materials.
Aerie No. 18 Fraternal Order of Eagles elected officers for the ensuing year at evening session led by president John Rasmussen and secretary Max Siegel. Harry A. Warrens as treasurer and inner guard Thomas Collins, A. S. Riviere, and M. P. Mahoney named trustees. Meeting adjourned to a social session.
Members of aerle No. 18 convened for an hour of leisure and discussed plans for a dance in the coming period. The group intends to hold several smokers and dances to make the winter months more enjoyable.
The Red Cross War Council and local American Federation of Musicians arrange a benefit dance in Anaconda on Friday December 7. J N Weber advised national president to enlist musicians services for the event. A large hall is donated by Mr Shield with all local musicians offering performances. Admission is 50 cents.
Mrs. Anna Myers of Seattle arrived in the city and will stay a few days to call the local college extension chapter. educators and professors will run a nine month weekly study course. Anaconda ladies show interest in the movement.
The Roe family thanks friends and neighbors for support during their bereavement and for floral offerings after the death of their son Patrick Emmett. The message expresses gratitude from Mr and Mrs Thomas Roe and Farally.
Mr and Mrs Leo La Salle hosted a dinner at 316 West Park Street Monday for Miss Louise Ehret who leaves for Long Beach California to spend the winter. Attending were Sergeants Dill McQuentin Ronedetti Private Clemmons John Baglin and Mr and Mrs J L Kelly. Rabbinical convention in New York on December 4 gathered Jewish rabbis from across the country.
The article notes a Zionist convention to push a Jewish homeland in Palestine backed by Great Britain. Mass meetings in many synagogues will be held tonight under the Jewish Ministers' Association and the improvisional executive committee for general Zionist affairs.
An indictment filed in New York alleges a conspiracy by William B. Thom John J Slatery Joseph Ives Edward Slatery and others linked to Thom Bailey Peekskill Hat Manufacturing and H D Parmlee Co to defraud the United States on more than 1 000 800 service hat contracts A separate Montana notice from Deer Lodge sets court terms for 1918 including January April July and October beginnings by Judge George B Winston.
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