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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1919
Page
9
Local notes report Cutter for sale and taxi services in Anaconda with calls to 75 and 86. Community items mention visits by Joseph Gaston of Kalispell and J. G. Petersen of Havre. Choir rehearsal, dances at Moose hall, and Rotarian events spotlight social and civic life amid cold weather disruptions and travel plans.
Special to day offers in Toyland include Copper City Sleds at $1.50, children story books 35c, Pendleton wool blankets $19.75, cotton fleeced blankets $2.65, auto robes $10.00, large all wool blankets $10.00, and bed comforts $3.25 with several items marked down from regular prices.
Reports from Anaconda and nearby areas describe family travels and illnesses. Mrs Herrick heads east to care for her ill mother while relatives attend to business in Divide and other towns. Local comments note Big Hole basin hay abundance and cattle prospects amid cold weather. Court cases in Anaconda proceed with dismissals and a trial date set for December 30.
The damage action of Jeanne Peterson against J. P. Stage ended abruptly when the plaintiff could not be located. Attorneys sought a continuance and dismissal, both denied, with the court ruling the plaintiff's counsel had the right to proceed or move for dismissal.
The Hed Cross Christmas seal booths are staffed today by a group of women. Copper City Commercial company handles the booths with Miss Florence Heimbach and Mrs. C. El Avery directing at Strain's. Montana Hotel hosts Mrs. F. W. Bellinger and Miss Edith Demond. Sylvester's features Mrs. H. Garrity and Mrs. D. G. Kelly. MacCallum & Cloutier's booth is run by Mrs. Owens and Mrs. Wilbur Jurden.
All driveways leading to coal bins must be shoveled clear and gates left open. If drivers cannot access bins coal or wood will be delivered on the sidewalk or as near the bin as possible. I W Peckover Co Anaconda Coal Co Rk B Abbott Coo Washoe Coal Co.
At St. Paul’s church Portland Rev. Guy F. Quinan preached on the Christian home. He praised marriage holiness and parental duties in race propagation and training of offspring. He denounced current race death by own action and family limitation philosophies.
Mrs. Laura W. Mathiesen of Butte will lecture on The Necessity of Beauty at 8 15 tomorrow evening in Theosophical Society rooms. The talk is part of free educational series for art and theosophical topics and Mathiesen is a noted landscape painter who exhibited in Anaconda last spring.
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