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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1901
Page
6
The court in Judge McClerman's department remains suspended through holidays as bids for additional money are pursued. Pending hearings and adjournments reflect financial strain and scheduling delays impacting cases and court operations.
Judge McClernan’s court adjourned department three after a busy probate day. Letters of administration were granted for Grabenstein and Anderson estates, with bonds set, and assets including real estate, stocks, and a bank deed detailed. Inheritance tax fixed at 170 dollars. guardian investments approved for Grace Nankivell’s minor children.
The ways and means committee will meet this afternoon to re arrange funds across departments until spring appropriations. Health, police, fire, and public improvement funds are depleted. general fund can cover all. Police shortfall stems from salaries and new hires. City hall remodeling adds expense. transfer from general fund planned. Committee report due January 3.
Chief Reynolds received 500 cigars as a Christmas gift from G. B. Simpson, superintendent of Wells Fargo Express Chicago district. He shared them with officers and took some home after dinner. Simpson, linked to Stein and Westrum cases on express money orders, enjoyed his Montana visit and hoped to return. The notice ends with hotel ad copy for Thorntom Hotel.
The postoffice reports a ten percent higher monthly volume than December last year. Outgoing registered mail averaged about one thousand pounds per day, money orders around $2,500 daily, and receipts for those paid at the office between $1,200 and $1,860 daily. Public rush remains, yet no long waits. distribution is rapid and carriers deliver mails promptly. The city carrier service has improved, with rare complaints.
A seventeen year old, Percy Edwin Bennett, living in Denver, sent his father, A. G. Bennett, a painting titled Our Cow. The oil on canvas about 12 by 16 inches depicts the family Jersey and shows notable talent, with a Denver artist prepared to guide the boy. Also notes a circular urging boycotted cigars and promotes home brands, and a local ad for Electric Bitters as a grip remedy with pricing and store details.
Sherman the undertaker relocates to 117 and 119 East Broadway in an elegant new shop while Loya the jeweler continues operations. A Montana Music Co offer advertises a quality organ at 17 cents per day with usage until full payment at 119 North Main Street.
Butte notices list a variety of local services from pianists and dentists to loan offices and a news depot. It notes marriage licenses for John Donegan and Inez Marsh and several other couples, including John W. Alexander with Ella C. Rundell and Peter H. Edlefson with Theresa Skalicky, all residents of Butte or nearby areas.
Twelve year old Tiarry Pink Casey known locally as Pink Casey is to be examined on incorrigibility charges before Judge MecAlern. He was arrested with others last Saturday for assaulting Quong Wing, a Chinaman, who was struck in the eye with a snowball causing a severe injury. James Casey, the boy’s father, requests prosecution to send him to the resort school as the lad reportedly refuses school and has lately stayed out with dissolute companions near boilers and engine houses during cold nights.
Basin youth Robert Osborne toured Butte after selling 110 copies of the Christmas Miner in Basin last Sunday. He hopes to spend his earnings on Christmas gifts, proving notable sales proportional to Basin's small population. Mayer the Jeweler offers a 25 percent discount today only on watches, diamonds, clocks, and jewelry at 65 West Park Street.
Nickel Plate Railway offers round trips at one and a third fare for December 24 25 31 1901 and January 1 1902 to points in Central Passenger Association territory with return by January 2 1902 All trains in service dine in meals priced 35 cents to 1 00 Contact John Y Calahan General Agent 111 Adams Chicago for details Depot Van Buren St and Pacific Ave on the Elevated loop Also sheet music at Montana Music Co 119 North Main Street
A winter holiday display highlights silk mittens and Kid gloves with varied prices from 25c to 2.50 a pair. Itemized women wool mittens and fancy crochet backs, pure silk and double mittens, and several glove brands including Reynier and Fownes. Boxes offered with $3 stove purchases.
An advertisement lists women and children's hosiery with full fashioned and cashmere varieties. Prices range from 25 cents to 1.25 dollars per pair, detailing styles such as double heels, spliced heels, French feet, and ribbed cotton for children along with infant silk hose options.
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