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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1900
Page
15
The Western Montana office of the Standard is located at 110 West Main Street in Missoula. Telephone number 118. Advertising rates are available on application.
Missoula reports H L Braun shares detailed skinning and preservation methods for mounts. Instructions cover neck cuts to avoid seams, careful eye and tear-pit handling, salting the scalp, drying shaded flesh side up, and separating skull and legs for large heads. Birds require gentle feather care and avoiding neck ties.
A collector shares practical taxidermy guidance for handling birds. Instructions cover preparing plumage, gut removal, and preserving specimens in warm or cold weather while avoiding skin cuts on the neck and abdomen. Safe, careful preparation aimed at producing lasting trophies.
In Missoula Mercantile clothing department the McHaffie Bros neckwear display features a swell lot of scarfs. Many prize winners at the Paris exposition, others exact copies of ancient Persian Turkish Syrian and Egyptian designs. Priced at phenomenally low figures for such high grade artistic neckwear.
Garden City B and L serve as distributing agents for the Glendan Club cigar indicating local supply channels. The notice identifies their role in circulating the product through regional retailers.
Missoula members of the Order of Railway Conductors met at the Elks hall with a large turnout. William Dyson was chosen to represent division No. 2448 at the grand division meeting in St Paul in 1901, with Joseph Bradley as alternate. New officers include C. C. William Dyson A. C. Joseph Bradley secretary and treasurer, and other posts filled by A J Chamberlain S C Charles E Coleman J C Samuel Dawson inside sentinel John Quinn outside sentinel George S Hot rum. Also notice a china sale at McBride's on Dec 17.
In Missoula on Dec 17 S O Hermann lodge 4 met at Elke hall. Officers for the coming term were elected including Paul Gerber as president and Carl Hamer as vice president. Members also voted to stage a grand masquerade ball and carnival in mid January. A piano contest at the Golden Rule is heating up.
The Missoula Mercantile company reports a new shipment of Alaska seal jackets. The skins are first quality and the garments are first class in cut style and finish. An opportune time to buy at a remarkably reasonable price.
Missoula December 17. John Parks confined at the jail grows restless due to illness and demands to be allowed to depart for the depot. If his condition does not improve, authorities plan to send him to the asylum rather than keep him in the jail.
The Missoula ice famine extends into Idaho with Idaho businesses offering high prices for ice. Local efforts to obtain ice failed as no supply is available beyond Chicago. Railroads fear disruption if freezing weather delays arrive. Send drug orders to Missoula Drug Co.
The Christmas Edition of the Standard carries a postage rate of four cents to any part of the United States Mexico or Canada.
Engineer Tyner, of Missoula, will visit his Indiana home for the holidays. It is his first return in 10 years and he plans trips to New York Boston Washington Pittsburgh and Philadelphia afterward. His health has improved and the trip east is for pleasure. Fore sale 160 acres Bitter Root valley near Florence. Get particulars Stoddard Ross Missoula.
Missoula officials report Dr Buckley and Dr Spottswood of the Northern Pacific hospital will depart Wednesday for St Paul for a week long visit to attend the wedding of Miss Buckley and L E Menger. In their absence Dr C H Putney and a physician from another state will oversee hospital duties.
Miss Adaline Stephens formerly of Missoula and now in Seattle is featured as a soprano soloist in the University of Washington Musical club concert. Aubrey Levy, solo violinist, also receives high praise as the Seattle theater audiences fill the house. The Dec 5 program is hailed as a triumph with Stephens twice encored for her sweet soprano and wide range.
Go to Lister's for fine purses Free dolls at McBride's Xmas toys and candies at W Marsh's Wall pockets at Bien's Try the Glendan Club cigar It is high class and union made
Moody, a lumberman, suffered a severe left knee fracture and bruising after a falling tree while working in the upper Blackfoot. He rode nearly 90 miles by wagon to Sisters' hospital in Missoula and rests easily today.
Mr R Gray of Amenia Duchess county New York praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a reliable children's cure that prevents croup when used at the first hoarseness. The product is said to avert pneumonia in la grippe cases and is recommended by Thos Whitfield Co Chicago druggists. Also promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm as an effective plasters substitute and for rheumatic relief. Sold by Standard Drug Co Smith Drug Co Martin Drug Co.
The report notes he is not out of danger and is resting better than he had in several days, indicating gradual improvement in his condition.
The Standard announces its Christmas edition is wrapped and ready for mailing from all offices. Distribution details outline availability across multiple locations and the mailing timeline for holiday readers.
Missoula December 15 There is growing interest in the preliminary oratorical contest at the State university next week to select the university representative for the intercollegiate event after the holiday recess Hechler star quarterback of the football team won last year's contest with ease.
Belt residents hear of James Buchanan securing the Stockett coal agency and expect a move to Great Falls. Water scarcity worries miners as wells dip, the wash plant risks stoppage, and local officials plan enlargements. Community events include an orchestra, a large party at the Blair home with prizes and entertainment, and travel updates from Dempsey and Goodman. Chicago fraud arrests end with George Kisch, a Perth Amboy native, nabbed for forging checks and found with 36 others.
Northern Montana The Norther Montana Office of the Standard is located in the Bach Cory Block Great Falls opposite the Park Hotel. Advertising rates furnished in application.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union reports success in shutting down Sunday saloon entertainments and gambling in Great Falls. Stockholm and Milwaukee beer halls had no entertainment and all gambling rooms in saloons were closed. Reverend Charles F. Richardson aided the effort, noting progress in a short time. Further reforms of city vice ordinances may follow selectively.
E. R. Wolf T. E. Hassett Koops and Floyd Jackson faced Justice Race on first degree burglary charges for breaking into a Montana Central freight car at night and taking whiskey. Jackson pleaded guilty to second degree burglary claiming he took liquor during the day. The others pleaded not guilty and all were held for county attorney action.
Dr J L Weitman will host a New Year dinner for the Great Falls newsboys at the Park hotel. H H Nelson and family will winter in Great Falls, taking apartments in the Bach Cory block. Presbyterian church ladies plan a Tuesday stereopticon show with music. Mrs C O Jenks of West Superior and Miss Elizabeth Downing, daughters of attorney W G Downing, arrived to spend holidays. County officials McNair and Erickson with Matt Dunn tour Helena Butte and Anaconda to study public building needs for the Cascade county court house.
Five new diphtheria cases reported in three days with two fatalities. Mamie Lundberg aged six died. Vincent Wessala’s young daughter also died. West side school closed and fumigated after outbreaks. Three more cases strike 3 year old Brady and Taylor children, two houses quarantined.
Thomas Lake Harris and wife transfer their remaining interest in Fountain Grove, near Santa Rosa, to Kan Nagasawa and others for 40000. Grantees receive life tenure with final reversion to the longest living beneficiary and heirs. Fountain Grove, once Harris's mystic community, is a large Bonoma county property valued at about a quarter of a million dollars.
A cooperative farm colony is to be organized near Corvallis in the Bitter Root valley. Lands have been secured and the colony will be in full swing next spring. The details of the plan have not been made public.
County commissioners advertise a proposed bond issue and invite bids as county clerk Wilkinson reports strong inquiries. The county’s financial statements for recent years inspire confidence in the project.
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