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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1912
Page
12
Sunday school children present a Christmas festival featuring a cantata "Santa Claus and Mother Goose" with a decorated tree and a spirit of peace and goodwill inviting all to attend.
The remains of Miss Anna Hale of Butte were interred here yesterday with Rev. Father Coopman officiating. Many Butte residents attended the services. Pallbearers included Joe Brady Tom Prendergast W. P. McCarthy Fred Owens John Owens and Emmet Hale.
Pastor C. E. Franzen invites all to Christmas morning service at 5 30 and Sunday school festival at 7 PM. The note offers a cordial invitation to the community.
Four area denominations plan a linked four week sequence of nightly services starting the first Monday in January. Each week rotates church venues from Presbyterian to Methodist to Christian then Baptist with choirs uniting and each church supplying its organist. Each pastor selects preaching nights by lot and may invite visiting ministers. Offerings on Monday Wednesday and Friday will be shared to cover coal costs.
Christmas will be celebrated with great solemnity at St. Pauls church in Anaconda with a rehearsed choir. Father Weibel S J from Gonzaga University Spokane will preach. Services include high mass at 4 30 am and 10 30 am, low masses at 7 8 and 9 30, and vespers with benediction at 7 30 pm.
The Butte Anaconda and Pacific railway offers a $1 round trip between Anaconda and Butte for the Christmas holidays. Tickets go on sale December 24 and 25 and are valid for return through December 26.
The Anaconda post office notes remaining uncalled letters for the week ending December 21 1912. Names include John Byron P W Gibbons Anton Held Joseph Hunt Merdock Matheson Ben Morgan FE D Mitch E T Rue T C Rea and others at Locust Street addresses.
A catalog of items including silk hosiery in various colors from 76c to 3.50, novelty box paper, women's handkerchiefs from 10c to 1, pretty opera scarfs priced 3 to 19, silver shaving mugs from 3.50 to 6, and gifts suitable for occasions.
The snippet lists individuals such as John T. Shea W. J. Ferron C. L. Wix L. G. Young and several women including Nellie Bourke Josie Courtney Sarah Kinney Gunnar Petterson Rose Rogers plus foreign names like Hren Albertsen J. W. Erikson William Kitto and Susie Mitchell. A quoted remark about a room being too small for large patterns appears, attributed to a speaker likely referencing domestic decor.
A busy sale table offers counters of gifts including comb sets manicure and toilet sets leather cases writing boxes glove boxes and trays. China wares plates bowls and hand painted pieces go one-quarter off with doll sales and linens also heavily discounted. A grand assortment of games books and various house articles closes out today with items up to 75 cents and many clothing and accessory bargains including neckties mufflers and gloves.
Business leaders, express company representatives and post office officials report a record Christmas season in Anaconda with a 40 percent rise in stamp sales since mid month. Higher inbound and outbound parcels, brisk merchant trade, and generous gifts show the Copper City’s strong holiday economy.
The speaker declares loyalty to the administration and, citing the popular movement toward the regency, states that nothing should be done about the inheritance bequeathed by his father for the present.
Coroner A F Walters in Zanesville Ohio holds officers of the Pennsylvania railroad responsible for the Dresden collision on December 3. He cites trains running too closely, defective engine equipment on the Cleveland Akron Columbus line, and late sighting of danger signals as factors in the loss of 11 lives on the two divisions Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley.
Solicitor General Bullitt filed with the Supreme Court the government's brief seeking reversal of a Massachusetts federal court ruling that dismissed five counts of indictments under the Sherman and trust laws against the United Shoe Machinery Company. The filing marks the start of the legal battle over the alleged trust plan. arguments are set for January 6.
A London Times dispatch from Pekin reports the Chinese government has asked the powers to allow a postponement of payment on the Boxer indemnity for another year.
The Swedish Mission church at Fifth and Alder streets announces a Wednesday morning service at 6 with the sermon The Precious Christmas Gift and a grand Christmas hymn by the choir. The Sunday school entertainment is set for Wednesday evening at 7:30, with all Scandinavians invited. Pastor O N Lind signs the notice.
Chicago on December 23 the federal trial board closed an inquiry into Postmaster D A Campbell s political activity. The investigation found no evidence linking Campbell to the offense charged and he was exonerated.
Prince Ludwig, newly named prince regent of Bavaria, sent an autograph letter to the Bavarian premier today vetoing the movement to place him on the throne as king. The development signals a political setback for monarchist forces amid ongoing court talks in Munich.
United States district attorney’s office moves to submit to the federal grand jury evidence linking Nino Sacco to trafficking in women between New York and Chicago. Authorities aim to show Sacco’s indirect role in the death of Jennie Cavalieri near Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 22, and note his arrest on a Mann Act conspiracy charge with Demetrio Marino of New York. Sacco owns a south side resort where Cavalieri was an inmate, a site raided Oct. 2. witnesses Jen nie Bruno Rosie Rosa and Jennie Cavalieri were taken to New York for government testimony. Cavalieri and Rosa were later murdered amid theories they turned informers.
Silas Christoffensen piloted a hydro-aeroplane carrying four automobile searchlights over San Francisco last night. He stayed aloft for about 30 minutes, his night-illuminated craft barely seen by spectators. He lifted off from Harborview and landed back there.
A. W. Knapp spoke to the Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society on The Earths Record in the Rocks. He described life in fossil form across geological ages and showed how rock composition maps the worlds changing geography, noting limestone indicating England once lay under the sea and pondering future remains.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Byrne died yesterday at 413 Pine Street. The remains will be private inurnment this morning.
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