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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
6
Butte post office and substations push about 100000 letters and cards daily, a new peak about 25000 above prior records. The canceling machine runs hot, and staff work around the clock through tonight to handle Christmas mail. Postal Inspector Walshrom helps assist clerks to keep mail moving.
Joint installation of Butte’s six Masonic lodges set for December 26 with Most Worshipful Grand Master Dr Edward W Bootte wood of Missoula as installing officer. Highland Lodge No 142 to host. Geo R Good retires as director and guides officers before gavelling to the state grand master. Banquet to follow. list of newly elected Blue Lodge officers across Silver Bow county includes Butte No 22 Mount Moriah 24 Silver Bow 48 Summit Valley 123 Highland 142.
Bozeman lodge No. 18 A F and A M elected Bernal H. Alexander master for 1926, succeeding Dexter B. Moser. Other officers named include Sam Scott senior warden E J Bell Jr junior warden A E Grantham and T M Perrin deacons Hugh Stallings and W Friend Days trustees E J Poetter Fred M. Brown and M Langohr. Installation was led by Sam Allen past master of Belgrade lodge No 68 with help from Carlisle S Kenyon past master of Bozeman lodge No 18.
Barclay Craig head, son of the late E B Craighead, will lead the labor and publicity division in the Montana department of agriculture starting January 1. He comes from newspaper work with the New Northwest in Missoula and the Times in Billings and has spent time in Superior. The department had no publicity officer since last spring.
B. J. Kirby a longtime Butte resident and Idaho representative for the Sweet Candy Company of San Jose is in Butte for the holidays. He will attend the firm’s annual sales convention in Salt Lake City before returning to Boise headquarters.
M. E. Stebbins, Valley county agent since 1917, resigns to become secretary of the Montana Wool Growers association, effective February 15. His replacement is not yet chosen. Stebbins led crop improvement and pure seed drives, helped form the Northern Montana Alfalfa Growers, and boosted sheep numbers from 35,000 in 1920 to about 60,000 by 1924, with alfalfa seed output near 400,000 pounds this year.
Special Dispatch reports Gallatin county and Bozeman city schools adjourn for Christmas from Dec 18 to Jan 4. Several teachers head home or visit relatives across Montana and neighboring states, including Ruth Anderson to Lake Benton Minnesota and Edna Chadwick to Missoula, with others bound for Butte, Seymour Indiana, Lansford North Carolina, Columbus Missouri, Seattle, Spokane and more. Some remain in Bozeman, others plan brief trips. one couple will marry and settle in Rockford Illinois.
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