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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1902
Page
16
Western Montana office of the Blancherd fest on West Main Street Mis soula offers advertising rates. Telephone number 118 provided for inquiries. Rates furnished on application.
Fragmentary line reports a Christmas network event at a large university featuring the Al-Mein group. Details are unreadable but imply a campus brief about a network presentation during the holiday season.
The Christmas issue of the Kaimin at the Montana university showcases the editorial staff and the work of editors and contributors. Holidays see students leaving for home as several names and towns are listed, and the Clarkin society receives praise for its holiday performances.
Corvallis reports Rev George Blair resigned his pastorate and departed for Butte. Citizens held a farewell at his home with music by a male choir and strings. Mr Hiatt received several gifts including a Winchester shotgun. Blair gave a gracious speech praising Bitter Root valley and its people.
The railroad boys will host a dance at the club hall in the new station this Monday evening. A large crowd is expected with music by Miss Tremblay and Mrs. T A Price in Missoula.
Missoula reports James H. Giles, a sawmill worker from Stevensville, has endured severe injuries from scalding as a child, a broken back from a runaway horse, a cannon explosion causing concussion, loss of a finger, repeated illnesses, frozen toes, falls, near drownings, and a fractured foot. Despite it all, he remains cheerful and sociable.
Mrs Robinson led a piano recital with selections from Liszt and encores by Varied performers including Mrs Lou Parker Smith Miss Victoria Cyr Miss Lorin Roberts Mrs Carl T Seeley Miss Hilda Dunstan Samuel Gannon and La Petite Sister Campbell The studio was crowded and guests praised the performance. Hand picked apples at Reillys.
Missoula hosts visitors from Polsen Hamilton Plains Bonner Helena and a Butt registered at the Florence hotel. The bowling alley offers free bowling for ladies from 1 to 4 pm every Monday until further notice. The Missoula school board meeting on Saturday night was not held and will reconvene Monday evening.
The county clerk records show several instruments filed for record including warranty deeds transferring Lots 5 and 48 in the Knowles addition to Missoula for 1 dollar and other parcels in School and McCormick additions. a warranty deed from First National Bank to George Lacasse. a deed from W J Stephens to FB Letterman. and mining claims transfers in Spring Gulch including Lade Star, Mascot, and Ohio lode claims in the St Regis and Hamilton areas.
Missoula sports report Wm F Kalb with one leg scored about 80 points in a single game drawing attention as a strong contender for a Missoula bowling team. If he continues his record he could join the state tournament lineup.
Missoula readers note that Garden City Commercial college students depart for homes across Montana for the Christmas holidays. Names include Orl Nottingham Fort Benton Harry Brazil Twin Bridges Joe Bird Twin Bridges George Ellinghouse Louis Milinghouse Sheridan Wallace Kalispell Florence Redmann Helena Mabel Naaslin Philipsburg.
Stevensville reports a petty larceny charge in justice court as Thomas Roach allegedly took a ten dollar note dropped by a companion and spent it. Social notices include Mr. and Mrs. George Kinneman hosting guests with dancing at their Alatahee town home and Masons electing officers to be installed publicly with an oyster supper. County Treasurer Buck returns from Hamilton. Prento confectionery store attached after creditors' claims.
James Naughton, formerly with the Missoula police and later a fire department driver, died at 10 30 PM in the Solomon block after an operation for appendicitis. A Spanish War veteran, he had lived in Missoula 15 years and was survived by an aged mother and siblings in Missouri. He was unmarried.
Missoula reports a decent Sunday with snow beginning the night before, prompting hopes for continued snowfall to support sleigh riding and general outdoor enjoyment in the Garden City.
Special dispatch from Billings reports the Rea Brothers loaded a night train of sheep at Big Timber bound for St. Paul. The flock will be fed on solid food for two weeks before sale. The brothers feed 250,000 sheep on alfalfa in the Yellowstone valley between Big Timber and Billings.
The funeral for Henry Graham of Lothrop was conducted at Odd Fellows hall in Missoula with large attendance. Members of the Odd Fellows order led the services and Red Men also participated, paying respects with numerous floral offerings.
The funeral for Mrs. Dwight Harding will be held at the family home at 2 oclock tomorrow. Rev. Mr. Stewart of the Kirkpatrick church will conduct the service. Pallbearers include Stoddard, John I. Ducted, F. C. Sloane, Andrew Logan, P. D. Rh. Feigner, and Osborne. Her death came as a shock to friends. children have received many condolences.
The Christmas issue of the Anaconda Standard sold rapidly in Missoula with newsboys earning quick returns. Readers praised the edition as the best printed in the northwest and many sent copies to friends in the east. The paper is mailed worldwide at a special price with no extra charge for the edition.
A Chicago record of a house invasion ends with a dead intruder found in a Taulby home. Janice Taulby awakens to see a man under her bed, and her brother Randal calls the police. A detective links the killer to Kent Howard, a debtor and college acquaintance, and a note hints at blackmail and a crime resolved by self defense.
English papers recount how Sir Hiram Maxim and Lady Maxim stayed at a southern resort. Facing a hotel bill, the landlord doubted the signer’s authority until Lady Maxim invited him to the pier to view a living picture. A penny slot showed Sir Hiram firing a Maxim gun before the Shah of Persia, sealing the claim.
The late professor John Fiske recounted a tale of three patriotic Americans toasting the nation. Each toast defined borders differently with references to British America Gulf of Mexico Atlantic and Pacific in one version. The others mention poles rising and setting sun aurora borealis primorval chaos and day of judgment.
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