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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1901
Page
9
The store notes last minute Monday and Tuesday for holiday shopping. They warn of scarce fancy turkeys after Thanksgiving but expect adequate turkey supply for Monday and Tuesday. Offerings include geese ducks spring chickens hens fresh lobster and crabs. Fancy table apples navel oranges bananas lemons grapes cranberries and Catawba grapes are advertised with varied dozen prices.
Our display features lettuce from Columbia Garden hot houses, mint radishes green onions parsley from Denver California snow white cauliflower and New Beets. Celery described as extra fine crisp tender white and delicately flavored. Fruit Cake bakery stock offered plain and decorated with prices 3 for a shovel? 1.25 1.50 2.00 2.25 4.00 and 5.00. Special orders for White Cakes Layer Cakes or other varieties welcome.
This season showcases the choicest products from France, England, Virginia, New York, Michigan, Colorado, and California. A suggested change is Silver Kettle Currant Jelly with turkey, praised for its tart, fruity flavor.
In a vivid offer, dealers tout low prices on walnuts figs and dates with heavy holiday sales. Highlights include Fancy Mixed Nuts at low per pound prices and imported Smyrna figs Ford dates and stuffed dates, plus candy boxes priced from six dollars down to one dollar.
Twenty five cents buys a punch of candy at Lutey's with a pound box neatly packed and tied. The offer claims the candies are equal to or better than the usual thirty nine to forty cents. Special quantity prices are noted for Sunday schools and others.
A drunken man, Henry Smith, was found prostrate in a Montana alley as William Hamelman reported two men Brennan and Hope robbing him. Brennan, a known baseball figure, and Hope claimed Smith’s intoxicated state led to an accidental dispute over a whiskey bottle. Police arrested both men for robbery while Smith could not confirm loss of money.
Advertisement notes European plan at $1.50 per day and up and American plan from $8 per day and up. Claims finest table west of New York, implying quality dining facilities.
Funds for the Daly memorial have reached 21 782 50 with more to come as several Butte mines report liberal gifts. The Standard will publish full lists from Gagnon Silver Bow mines and Berkley mines. Additional donations include 25 from W W Wish and multiple donors giving amounts ranging up to 100 dollars.
The notice lists names for officer positions including vice regent Mrs R G Young state regent Mrs Walters Tallant secretary Mrs EK A Morely treasurer Mrs Frank Mitchell registrator Mrs Clinton HM Moore historian Mrs Elmer L Kern and notes a heavy sterling comb and brush set in a case priced at 6 50. It ends with a bar reference to the Southern offering a congenial parlor with friendly mixologists.
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt offered the treasury portfolio to Governor W Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Crane delays beyond Monday citing family and business ties notably his stake in the Dalton paper company. A friend confirms the offer and Crane’s need to resolve his interests before deciding.
In New York on December 21 the Democrats nominated Perry Belmont to succeed Congressman Nicholas Muller who resigned. Republicans named Montague Lester. A row broke out at the Democratic convention. police cleared the hall, Belmont was nominated in a separate hall, while the rest of the delegates stayed away.
Charles M Myers superintendent of the city park system was run down and killed by a trolley car in Upper Albina Portland today. His buggy horses bolted dragging him onto the track where he was struck and fatally injured.
The Daughters of the American Revolution held a Forefathers Day meeting at 398 East Broadway with Mrs. Clinton H. Moore presiding. New members Mrs. W B Webb and Mrs. L G Smith joined Silver Bow chapter. officers for the year were elected, including Chapter regent Mrs E H Ren.
William Collier brings Augustus Thomas's On the Quiet to Sutton’s theater with bright lines and a mild, continuous laugh. The plot follows Robert Ridgway and heiress Agnes Colt as they wed in secret amid family schemes and a yacht setting.
Readable fragments note children's knife fork spoon sets priced at $1.25 and a collection of artistic vases including Royal Vienna Cloisonne and Royal Bonn offered at Might A Fairfield's store.
N R McDonald of Garnet and S L Jameson from Bozeman arrive in Butte while W F Wilcox visits from the state capital. Eugene Ring of Sheridan and H J Toomey from Deer Lodge in town, Mrs A D Christiansen of Dillon visiting, W H Parker and T J Monaghan from Boulder registered at local hotels. Harriet Lees heads to London for winter visit. Howard Mansfield gets 20 days for petty larceny. Billy Maher fined five dollars for fast driving. Edwin Bray case postponed. James Borzick files bankruptcy petition in U S court listing $853.20 liabilities and $100 exemptions. Mettlach flags and spoons offered at local stores.
J. J. Hedley buys an interest in H. J. Blume’s hardware business, forming H. J. Blume & Co. He previously worked with Blume and has ranching ties in Centennial valley. Fort Monroe reports the death of Capt. Francis S. Brown, U. S. N., retired, from apoplexy at age 60 on Friday night.
The note lists various grocery items including New Washed Figs, Stuffed Figs, Extra large French Prunes, China Preserved Cumquot, and PrP items. It mentions jars and boxes with prices and several olives, peaches, jellies, pickles, mushrooms, and peas. Describes McCready's brand products and a range of preserved fruits and vegetables.
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