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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1906
Page
15
Butte readers learn advertising rates for the Principal Branch Office of the Btandard located at 2 East Broadway. Contact telephone 422 for current pricing and options.
Advertises a Montana shop with a large stock and attractive assortment. Claims the store offers gold silver glass china silver plate and novelties in brass beadwork leather optical goods combs copper and bric a brac across many lines making choice easy.
A roundup of residents and visitors in Butte includes S. L. Gould from Kalispell, Martin Mitchell from Helena, John H. Gray from Bozeman, and other arrivals at Finlen and Thornton hotels. Births noted at Dec 9 and 9, and local business ads promote Barney's restaurant, Golde Coal Co deliveries, and F. S. Gray skirts.
In Butte city two infants died yesterday. Lyonell D. Peterson, son of Carl and [illegible] Peterson, lived at 1041 Nevada avenue. The second child, Annie Stanich, 17 months, of Stephen and [illegible] Stanich, resided at 30 Plum street East Butte. Funeral arrangements set for later with services at Holy Savior Church.
Coliseum dancing pavilion announces social nights from December 8 to New Year's Eve with a drawing for a $25 hat at M J Connell Co. store. Ladies attend on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday nights and earn chances. drawing on New Year's Eve. Carter's orchestra accompanies. The ad also promotes Orton Bros. organs and Las Palmas cigars.
The Park and Main site for the new State Savings Bank shows a 16 foot deep foundation of concrete and steel girders. Engineers say the reinforced base, using twisted bars and cantilever girders, could support 300 000 pounds per foot and has no superior footing in the United States.
Vernon Edward Matlack directs St John s Episcopal choir in a grand concert at the Broadway on Wednesday evening. The program features the Butte Orchestral club about 25 musicians, plus members of the Boston Montana band and Silver Bow Glee club. Highlights include Elgar Pomp and Circumstance and Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture with intermission, Rubenstein and Grieg selections. The event aims to be a top musical occasion of the season.
Montana cattlemen report favorable prices with cattle selling at home rather than shipping to eastern markets. Fat cows bring 23 to 46 dollars per head and fat steers 24 to 46 dollars, with shipments costly and shrinkage high. Beaverhead residents protest the Big Hole forest reserve, warning it endangers ranches, cattle and sheep, and urge repeal of grazing fee rules to avoid business failure.
Civil engineer George R. Metlen hails from Dillon and reports Madison county has the cheapest land in Montana with strong investment potential. He notes the Madison River irrigates fertile lands with growing irrigable areas while warning electrical projects may threaten future irrigation, though power development is seen as a major path to prosperity.
Hugh Wright becomes manager of the Holland roller skating rink in Butte after arranging with owner Mr. Byrnes. A band stand will be overhead, heating added, and the floor and skates upgraded. Admission remains free unless attractions are on, skates 25 cents for men and boys and 10 cents for ladies. Grand opening to be announced later.
O K Bower attempted to grab nine dollars from a restaurant till at SuMy East Front Street South Butte and was nabbed by a policeman. He carried forty four dollars and fifteen cents at arrest and posted a fifty dollar bond for petty larceny. The incident centered on a failed change for a ten dollar gold piece during a seventy cent meal. The Standard announces new premiums for subscribers paying a year in advance.
All members of Buttenerie No. 1 F. O. E. are called to meet at Miners' Union hall on Monday December 10 1906 at 9 oclock in the morning to attend the funeral of our late brother John Buckley. A B Cohen Fres L Miller Sec
All members of the carpenters union are requested to attend the funeral of late brother Alexander Findlay this Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at White and Krebs undertaking parlors. President John Melvane y and Secretary William Cutts sign. Lyonell Dennison, 3 weeks old, son of Mr and Mrs Carl Peterson, died yesterday at 1041 Nevada Avenue. Remains taken to Walsh's and will be sent to Anaconda today at noon. Interment will be this afternoon.
Perry Steffe, long a leader in Western Montana lumbering, is in the city to attend business. He resides in St Paul with headquarters there for over a year. He has spent six months overseeing interests in the Coeur d Alene area of Missoula county and plans to return to Montana in early spring. Steffe says mining and lumbering in Coeur d Alene are improving and that the Milwaukee’s arrival enhances the region’s permanence.
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