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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1913
Page
3
A funeral notice records the funeral of Tate to be held Wednesday with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery. Additional inconveniences noted, service details appear abbreviated in this fragment of the notice.
The funeral for James Lawrence will be held this afternoon at 1:30 at the family residence 2219 Silver Bow Street and proceed to Mountain View M E for services led by Rev George D Wolfe. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery. Card of thanks expresses gratitude to friends G A R and Women's Relief Corps and those who sent flowers. Signed by Mrs John J Walrath, All Walworth, Joseph Richards.
The funeral for the late William Melaan will be held at Teak Hence, brother Thomas McLean of Wyoming Street arranging. It proceeds to Sacred Heart Church for the service before interment at Holy Cross Cemetery. The Kokko family funeral follows this afternoon with interment at Mountain View.
The remains of George H. Sewell aged TL years who died yesterday lie at Dugnan's Undertaking Parlors. The body will be moved Wednesday at 1 AM to the Masonic Temple for a Wednesday afternoon funeral at Po'ctock. Interment will be in Mount Aorian cemetery.
Larry Duggan and Ambatm are listed with 22 in the sequence. Ben Phone 770 and Ind. Phone 1 appear as contact details. The fragmentary line hints at a directory or listing format with names and phone references.
Grace Pope a 14 year old daughter of John D. Pope, general manager of the ord Butte company, risked her life to save five horses from a burning three story dry house and barn. She untied and led horses to safety as flames roared and smoke enveloped the building, while miners fought the blaze and kept debris cool. Her bravery became known only after miners alerted others.
Albert J. Galen former Montana attorney general befriended a destitute youth and after the boy’s parole led to a request to prosecute William Fitzgeraid a paroled convict who was later arrested for passing worthless checks. The tale includes Galen’s nephew involved and Sheriff Smith handling the case. T. H. Foster 20 faces two years for theft. Deputy Sheriff Lacy brings William McDonald 28 to Rosebud county for petty larceny from Forsyth to Rosebud.
Travel from Butte signals broader prosperity with a surge in passenger business. Railroads offer special Christmas rates and steamship traffic rises. Montana residents plan to spend Christmas at home, while eastbound trains may approach capacity. In Washington, a cabinet pick for the Interstate Commerce Commission is expected. Texas sulphur deposits poised for development akin to Louisiana’s.
Patrick J. Moore of Silver Bow county, a Twelfth general assembly member, was advised of his appointment as foreman miner in the bureau of mines in Washington. He will be stationed in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, with duty to begin immediately, a nomination supported by United States Senator Walsh. Moore is a well known Butte figure with extensive mining experience.
A New York report explains that air waves form only at high bullet speeds and that photographs at speeds below 1,200 feet per second show no air disturbance. The observation notes the faster an object travels the more air waves it creates, with a lawyer Devere Hall of Bay City, Michigan, dying after falling from the Hotel Marie Antoinette.
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