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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1915
Page
11
The text lists Stand rd pricing at 28 Hast Broadway in Butte with telephone numbers for the business and editorial departments and advertising rates available on request.
Use it to the best advantage and buy something of intrinsic worth that will last forever. A prosperity gift from Britte's foremost jeweler, a coin of lasting reminder of this pleasant Christmas.
Butte notes list Miss M Stevens visiting from Finn Powell county, M Wildman from Billings guest at the Butte hotel, J P Corcoran Boise businessman stopping in Butte, and W C Lappe with Erval McDowell arriving from Bozeman. Also mentions Mrs Fite interior decorator, Dr W H Haviland’s slow recovery, and a card party by Temple B nai Israel Auxiliary on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the temple rest rooms. Local shops offer reading material and photography services. taxicab service advertised.
The St George Glee Club extends its Christmas carol singings through today and this evening serenading residents in Centerville area. The annual Sunday concert at Sons of St George hall includes a dance afterward starting at 8 pm, with Mist Start Ivey unable to perform due to her grandmother’s death. Interment for Mrs J Calloway at Mount Moriah follows.
Foggy message notes opening at 9:30 with all-day access until midnight. Mentions pricing or entry by Firass bond and invites people to attend morning afternoon and evening sessions.
Christmas in Butte was the most successful the oldest resident recalls. Mines closed, stores open, streets busy with families at home. Theaters, churches, and outdoor rinks drew crowds while the poor were remembered and cared for. Santa Claus, festivities, and a white Christmas with ample snow marked a spirited day across the camp. Arrests reported in the courthouses and a funeral notice closes the record.
Idaho residents, especially Boise citizens, wonder how the new stringent prohibition law will work. James Reilly reports from Butte that Idaho aims to be the driest state, with the law criminalizing possession for personal use and forbidding alcohol manufacture except for medicinal, mechanical, and fundamental needs. Governor Alex J. Sehaw vows enforcement, even threats to remove county officials. Wet counties Ada and Shoshone remain few, with Wallace set for a dramatic night as miners vow action. Nearby states Washington and Oregon go dry, while Montana borders dry to the east and Wyoming lies to the south and west.
Patrolman Peter McDonald stood near the Afro American club on South Main when a man fired point blank at a dusky pedestrian. McDonald knocked up the revolver as a second shot rang out, enabling Ledwig to flee. Ledwig, 58, later charged with attempted murder, claimed the negro attacked him on Main Street earlier. The incident sparked a tense pursuit and a clashing account of threats and self defense.
A H Hellbronner received official notice of promotion to district freight and passenger agent for the San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake Railroad. The shift, from Butte, Montana, includes higher authority and salary. He has served five years as traveling freight and passenger agent with headquarters in Butte. The promotion keeps him based in Butte at 201 State Savings Bank Building.
Patrolman Mike Clifford, appointed under a socialist administration, spent last night in a cell after a disturbance at the Butte station. Captain William Yorath said Clifford entered intoxicated and cursed department members, needing three officers to subdue him. Yorath will file charges. Clifford has a reported good record, including recent arrests of several armed suspects.
Montague Flagg a portrait painter died of pneumonia in a New York hospital on Friday aged about seventy he was born in Hartford Connecticut. His father was the late Rev Jared B Flagg. His Portrait of My Wife was shown at the National Academy of Design in December 198 and won the Thomas Te Proster prize for best portrait in the exhibition.
Georg B. Sypher Ate Cartie M. Keith wed in a simple Christmas morning ceremony, witnessed by close friends and relatives. The couple, long romantically linked, plan a short wedding trip to Kane before settling in a South Bend bungalow. Sypher, a builder and realty man with Townolds Sypher Rochester, Keith, daughter of the late A. Keith, is a longtime Anaconda Copper Mine employee. Congratulatory wishes pour in as they begin married life.
Dec 25 report says Deputy Sheriff Alone D Trimble barricaded in a cabin as mountain men siege him over a shooting involving Avery farmer. Avery likely fatally wounded after a Christmas dispute, triggering immediate resentment and prior trouble connected to Trimble.
Christiania Norway December 29 Herman Gate commissioner general to the Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco is named Norwegian consul at Chicago. In succession to CH Haugan director Nils Volt is named Norwegian consul at San Francisco.
Representatives from belligerent nations except Tracy gathered at The Hague last Wednesday to discuss possible steps toward a speedy peace, per Telegraaf. The Amsterdam London group included notable socialist figures seeking avenues to end the war swiftly.
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson were driven from the golf links in a sudden downpour, both drenched but none seriously affected beyond a light cold for the president. Secret Service guards served as caddies as the couple returned to the hotel. A private Christmas dinner followed and gifts and messages were acknowledged.
Habeas corpus hearings in Judge P J Price court led to Col Hippil Villa's release on a $5,000 bond after prior $20,000 bail for alleged stolen property. Villa denied fleeing the country and was later arrested in San Antonio amid postwar Juarez unrest.
A Christmas event in Kansas City drew 19 007 children to Convention Hall as guests of the Mayor's Christmas Tree association. Gifts came from two large trees after a program by Deville entertainment. Outdoor plans were scotched by rain.
Grants Pass Oregon producers of the Oregon and A Company discussed a plan to fund and subscribe 5000 acres of land for a sugar test factory in the Rogue River valley. After holidays the contract will be let to build the plant, signaling a push for local sugar production. Berlin reports Christmas under harsh winter, with morale mixed but festive in the German capital as the war drags on. Berlin and London dispatches note Christmas trading remains brisk and military morale fluctuates amid shortages and propfestivities. Sir Guy Laking, armorer to the British crown, possesses a rare African helmet valued at $19,000. another perfect-period helmet is known to exist.
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