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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
7
Busy note column records patrons and places around Butte. Mentions beer brands, pianos for rent, coal firms, shoes, clothing, and a man visiting from Dillon. Dentists, saloons, dress goods, banking houses, real estate ads, births, travels, and social visits populate the day’s fragmentary list. Several residents from Helena, Idaho Falls, and Missoula travel through or stay.
Salvation Army plans a Tuesday afternoon event at the East Broadway Auditorium for city children. Major and Mrs. Jordan, Adjutant Sloat, Stevens Glee Club, and the Army band will oversee a program with toy and candy treats for about 70 attendees. Public safety demonstrations by children and a swearing in ceremony climax a week of poverty relief efforts. A county jail visit and prayers were part of prior activities, with $40.10 collected for the sick and needy.
A dense listing of Christmas and New Year services across Butte churches. It covers Welsh, Mount Bethel, First Presbyterian, Immanuel Swedish Lutheran, Ammanuel Presbyterian, St. Mark's Lutheran, Silver Row Park M E, Swedish Mission, Central Presbyterian, Scandinavian Methodist, First Church of Christ Scientist, naval lecture at Washington spiritual church, Saint Paul's M E, Trinity M E, Mountain View M E, First Baptist, Unitarian, St. John's and St. Andrew's Episcopal, Unity M E, and Wesley Chapel. Includes service times, Sunday schools, special programs, communion, watch-night, choir, and officers meetings.
A. E. Wheeler, former superintendent of the Boston & Montana smelter at Great Falls, arrived in Butte for a few days on business before heading to Arizona and New Mexico. He plans to sail from New York January 8 for London, then Brussels and the Congo, to assume a leadership role at a major plant in Elizabethville, Katanga. He will spend six months annually alternating between Elizabethville and Brussels, with regrets at leaving his current post.
The Silver Bow Carol Club performs in Anaconda tonight after charming audiences in Butte and Walkerville on Christmas Eve and Day. The group resumes a brief rest before a new engagement, continuing to delight listeners with their holiday repertoire.
Hanna B. Blackburn won her suit to remove her stepson Charles A. Blackburn from the administrator role of her deceased husband's estate. The case, pending in Silver Bow County, saw Judge Lynch's district court decision reversed by the supreme court, which denies a rehearing and confirms Blackburn in charge of about $95,000 in residue.
Word arrived last night of the death at the National Soldiers' Home in Dayton, Ohio, of Capt. William F. Robita, who served as an orderly to General U. S. Grant and George G. Soade during the Civil War era.
Naellle Sager filed a district court action to quiet title to lots in Legent Foster’s addition, Butte, naming C H Gallagher and First National Bank of Butte as defendants. The bank had judgment against Sager, assigned to Gallagher, with sheriff sale to Gallagher. Sager claims ownership by a January 1913 deed and seeks a declaration of title and permanent injunction against the defendants.
Aliss Mary Catherine Stevens daughter of Harry H Stevens an Elm Orla engineer earned a medal in extemporaneous speaking and represented Butte high in the state contest at Bozeman She attends Dillon state normal school and was elected editor of the Chinook Miss Mary Ellis Stevens daughter of Charles L Stevens formerly a Butte high student won the declaration contest at the College of Montana Deer Lodge and was elected editor of the Collegian
Lieutenant Governor Barratt O Hara said some lawyers fees amount to legalized holdups at a Psi Delta Phi convention in Chicago. He cited a $100000 fee in a famous case and another $47000 fee, arguing the legal profession must reflect public duty or face public sentiment.
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