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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1900
Page
12
Western Montana office of the Standard located at 110 West Main street Mis soula. Telephone number 1S. Advertising rates furnished on application.
The Southern Dinner club held its annual banquet at the Missoula hotel with 77 attendees. A Mandolin club opened with Dixie as guests enjoyed a diverse menu including roast possum and wild game dishes. Dan Cavanaugh and Dan Cavanaugh among the guests praised the event as Missouri led in representation.
At her home one morning a woman was stricken with paralysis and pronounced critical. She lingered until today when she died peacefully. Mrs Willette leaves two sons a daughter and a husband who is now in hospital with a broken leg from weeks ago. Funeral at the Catholic church Tuesday morning at 10 o clock.
Rosendorf's serves excellent bread inviting customers to enjoy a good smoke at the Glendan Club. The note highlights the bakery and club as local spots for quality fare and lounge activity.
Missoula December 16 R M Cobban reports Northern Pacific has issued a new map showing main and branch lines to be built into Idaho. The map confirms the Lolo cut off and routes from Missoula to Lolo pass Kooskia Idaho Elk City with branches west of Kooskia and a break toward North Lapwal. The plan favors Idaho and Montana regions and is welcomed in Missoula.
The Globe Store cuts prices on all holiday goods through Christmas. Lowest prices in town advertised with a big doll in the window.
Visitors report winter wheat near Plains standing six to ten inches high as seasonal weather bodes well for crop. The Plains valley gains as a fruit region with large orders, including three carloads of apples for an Eastern Montana firm. Community events include a well attended Methodist social raising funds for Rev Eastland and a successful oyster supper supporting a Plains parsonage.
Three new patients entered the county hospital in Missoula on December 16. George Bussford, ill and without means, was admitted though not seriously ill. W. Ray, a middle aged man with a bad cold, was admitted for care. John Wood, who injured a leg after a fall on the Rattlesnake trestle and had it amputated, has been moved from the city hospital to the county farm. Thomas Ryan and Sylvester Crowley were discharged. New picture mouldings at Blen's.
Judge Sloan urges Missoula residents to donate rugs or matting to the Soldiers' home at Columbia Falls to ease the bare floor condition of 65 inmates aged about 64. Christmas delivery is requested, with cash gifts also welcome, amid critiques of the small state appropriation and calls for better veteran care. A piano contest at the Golden Rule adds seasonal interest.
Missoula notes record visitors from Florence Plains Philipsburg and Superior, a big cake and bread sale, a postponed musical, a school term closing, real estate transfer in Helena, illness and recovery updates, and a successful Methodist bazaar in the Union block.
Christmas edition of the Standard offers wrapped gift options and engraved calling cards. Frames of all kinds available at Bien’s and Lister’s for fine books and stationery. Call and see new styles at the Standard office.
Missoula reports R W Brown resigns as treasurer of the Epworth League state cabinet. Brown will move to California and a vacancy will be filled at the estate cabinet meeting in Butte on Dee 2. President Charles F Avery has not yet accepted the resignation and will not appoint a successor until then.
In Missoula on December 16, the G A R held its regular monthly meeting at City Hall with large attendance. Pope Catlin was elected commander and Z Johnson senior vice commander, followed by Murrty junior vice commander Jackson chaplain Landsers quartermaster Raymer officer of the day Kane officer of the guard Bundy sergeant. The mustering of officers will occur at the next meeting on the second Friday in January.
W C Moorhead the Spokane fugitive wanted for passing bogus checks was known in Missoula and nearby. He lived near Helmsville and worked at Charles Winters ranch west of the city for a year, trusted locally, and may face a long sentence in Washington state penitentiary.
December 16 report from Missoula notes Dr. Parsons returned from Nine Mile to treat Lammy who is very ill with smallpox. Lammy’s tongue swelled preventing eating and he endures much pain. A vaccinated man sleeping with him in a cabin on camp outskirts remains well.
Missoula Mercantile announces evening hours all week to help customers shop after daytime. Music Monday evening and ongoing decorations highlight a sale with affordable bargains and a prize draw for a Glendan Club cigar and a W. Marsh toilet case giveaway to ticket holders.
Missoula reports hotels easing crowds as traveling men head east for Christmas. Merchants still benefit from outside visitors. A New Year masquerade ball at Union hall draws attendees with tickets for couples at one dollar. A Dec 17 cut price china sale is advertised at McBride's. Garden City B and IL distribute Glendan Club cigars.
Recital at the University School of Music in Missoula will be held Monday at 8 PM in the university auditorium. The program includes Schubert Who Is Sylvia, Raff Loreley, To Anthea, a Hye trio by Whitaker, and Weber Rondo Brilliant. Mrs Whitaker and Mr Greenwood perform. Free admission with an omnibus pickup at 7:45 from the First National Bank block.
Missoula December 16 Mrs Willette of Bonner who had been ill at Sisters hospital for several weeks died this morning at 1 o clock. Mrs Willette while doing her household duties.
Miss Myrtle Pelky died at her parents home on the Rattlesnake after a month of dropsy and a severe cold tied to the first blizzard. The funeral is set for Tuesday morning at 8 from the home, with burial in the Catholic cemetery.
A traveler recalls crossing a desert where every stretch offered shaded oases. Frequent rests for a refreshing drink became a notable pleasure of the journey.
The Hamilton notes report the Valley clothing store robbery solved with Jack Nelson and friends pulling down a money card using a long hook and handing Nelson $88 at O'Brien McCauley's saloon. Other items include W. O. Wayland's wagon accident risking amputation, election-law actions by Baggs and Conner, Christmas plans by M E F church, and local health notes denying widespread smallpox.
District court disposed cases this week with David Fisher acquitted of grand larceny and Harry J. McGowan sentenced for assault. Annie McPhail granted divorce to resume Porter name. Fire brigade and K of P lodge officers elected. Local travel, social events, and school notices accompany brief reports.
A brief Brooklyn Life snippet observes Mr Freeborn Jackson-Whad and Mrs Jackson-Anything, joking about names and noting boys with that name are often seen in police court. The text blends dialect humor with a streetwise caution about trouble.
16 acres offered in Bitter Root valley near Florence with details available from Stoddard and Ross of Missoula. Seek particulars from the listing agents for sale terms and property features.
Sid J. Coffee returns from Helena after joining a Missoula party in a Sahara crossing. Fred A. Hammond also came back, his first Sahara journey pleasing and different from expectations.
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