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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1924
Page
9
Anaconda faced a brutal cold snap as temperatures plunged from Monday afternoon through yesterday. The city recorded 28 below zero early yesterday, then 2 above at warmest, with readings slipping to 24 last night. Frost damage to pipes and heating systems was widespread as residents awaited relief.
A cluttered Anaconda News in Brief lists local business promos and social notices. Highlights include Carl Martin Bros. Taxi, laundry, Christmas trees at 105 Main, neckwear and jewelry ads, a Skating and hot drinks note, and a Joseph A. Holmes Society gathering in city hall. Also mentions a marriage license for John Sajcich and Anna Fink and St Pauls Aid Society event with whist and program.
Early morning repairs tackle storm damage as plumbers thaw frozen pipes and fix breaks. Garages haul in frozen cargo while the smelter concentrates shut due to water shortages from freezing creeks. Streetcars slow, deliveries stall, and mails are delayed as harsh weather grips Anaconda and surrounding areas with up to four and a half inches of snowfall. veteran driver Ole Dahl notes light snow beyond Five Mile House but severe cold dominates local description.
At the Bluebird tonight the Maurice Tourneur film The White Moth features a sensational fight between Barbara La Marr and Josie Sedgwick as Ninon. The duel between two women starstruck by Charles de Roche draws the crowd as they tear at each other in a climactic quarrel that ends with both entering their dressing rooms exhausted.
Minas Josephine Munn daughter of Mr and Mrs Rod Munn of Anaconda married Daniel St Briggs of Everett Washington in Seattle on November 24. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Father Green. The bride, well known locally, trained at Murray hospital in Butte and in an Everett hospital before marriage. The groom is a well known Everett resident and the couple will reside there.
Lauri Saari and Martha V Pelto of Butte were married yesterday afternoon by Justice of the Peace J. J. Henroid. Attendants were Mr and Mrs Jeane Hautten of the mining city. The couple had obtained a marriage license in the city on Aug 5 but waited to wed.
Attention. Smelter City camp 825 W.O.W announces the third annual Christmas dance for Woodmen’s children. The event will be held Thursday evening December 18 at 1 Sec. C. F. hall. W. PRICE, C. C. Ww. M. HAYES. Clerk. Adv.
Anaconda bowlers finalized plans for the Inter City Bowling tournament to be held in January with Deer Lodge expected to enter. Anaconda currently holds the trophy from previous meets and will present a 35 inch silver loving cup. A committee including Warl Tucker Steve Mickick and Elmer Swanson will draw up rules and arrange details for the event.
Merchants in Anaconda announce department and grocery stores will open evenings for one week starting tomorrow night to handle holiday trade. Busy buying season peaks last week before Christmas, with stores set to stay open until 9 o clock to accommodate shoppers unable to visit by day.
International banker is targeted by a man who opens fire at Glen Cave Long Island. William Farnum stars in Wolves of the Night a William Fox production at the Imperial tonight and tomorrow. Farnum defeats plotters to reclaim his wife and fortune.
The funeral for Matthew Gergurich will be from the family home at 421 Chestnut Street Thursday morning at 8 30. A solemn mass at St Peter's Church follows at 9. Interment is in the family plot at Mount Carmel Cemetery.
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