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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1924
Page
9
Local items note miscellaneous advertisements, including taxi services, laundry, and hat sales. Community updates cover visitors, trips, funerals, divorce actions, lodge meetings, and upcoming socials. Several residents’ travels and happenings are listed along with safety and service notices from Daly Bank and Trust Co.
The funeral of Mrs Sophia St Jean pioneer matron of Anaconda was held at St Pauls church yesterday. The Rt Rev Mer Day celebrated a high mass with Fathers Crowley Schulte deacons. Floral tributes reflected community esteem. Pallbearers included Robert Stevens B B Motigue J C Harrington Frank Provost James D Arcy and Leo La Salle. Interment followed in Mount Carmel cemetery.
Billy Oakley, a former Anaconda resident, drew attention in the movie For Sale shown at the Blue Bird Theater last night. Oakley, once with the Keith vaudeville circuit, gained fame in the films and ballroom scenes. Community notices urge Mountain View lodge No. 29 J A M to attend Mrs Edwin Nordquist funeral and Peter and Paul Society members to join Matt Pinjur funeral events, with times stated.
Paramount's Sinners In Heaven arrives at the Bluebird featuring Barbara Stockley and Richard Dix in a tale of two shipwreck survivors on a tropical African island. The drama follows their forced companionship then unexpected marriage and its aftermath with a notable supporting cast including Bebe Daniels Holmes Herbert and Florence Billings.
A joint Rotary and Kiwanis committee in Anaconda invites Montana high school students to submit essays on The Possibilities of Montana up to 800 words. Prizes of 10, 5, and 1 will be awarded, with judging by K Dwyer and G C Jackson. Essays due December 22.
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