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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1901
Page
12
A compact column highlights notable figures and moments at the convention. It covers interactions, speeches, arrivals, and social ripple effects among attendees, noting key personalities and anticipated outcomes tied to the event.
Well known educators gather for the state teachers association in Missoula. Notables include Professor Wylie Bozeman, President Reid Bozeman, and City Superintendent Young Butte. Attendees praise the university and recount reminiscences of past Missoula gatherings.
Col. Coyote Bill from Hunters' Home ranch visits Missoula for a few days and finds trouble at his gates as someone leaves beer exposed or improperly secured. Local resident reports security concerns and warns neighbors about potential spoilage and animal risks.
Missoula listings show sermons, Sunday schools, and youth meetings across Presbyterian, Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Sandinavian, Christian, and First Church of Christ (Scientist). Times span morning and evening with varied choirs and special preludes noted.
A Steveneville dispatch refutes Helena and Missoula reports on a smallpox situation. It states no businesses or schools are closed and only three non severe cases exist in the area. the false coverage is said to lack factual basis. The note ends with an advertisement for Pure palm chocolates at Emeley's.
A prominent local figure urged action on the Van Houren Street railway crossing in Missoula. He noted the crossing is the main route for wood haulers from the Rattlesnake country and described loads stalling and horses slipping on the steep approaches, calling the situation dangerous for east side users.
The Missoula teachers association session discusses high school curriculums physiography and attendance, with speeches by Professors Hastings Rowe Aber and others, a Montana academy of science forming, and officers to be elected. Special arrivals list teachers and attendees in Missoula Florence Whitehall Helena and Dillon.
In Missoula a Montana academy of sciences is proposed with 18 members and a constitution outlining name and location as Montana Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters. It sets object to promote sciences arts and letters, publish investigations, form a library and survey the state.
Four cases from Missoula area involve right of entry around the Como drawn strip. The general land office commissioner sustains the local office in denying entries for George Sollander Maud Drinkenberg Gustavus Goertz and John A Jones. Final proofs filed by Cournoyer and Wiley, and heirs of Benson, with other homestead declarations by Isaacson Jensen Fletcher and Simons.
An advertisement from Dr. Bennett Electric Belt Co. lists ailments including rheumatism kidney liver bladder stomach and female complaints. It urges readers to write to 23 Union Building Denver and mentions accepting old belts as partial payment and offering free books.
In Missoua the Seventh Day Adventist Missionary Society holds weekly services at the church near the depot. Sunday evenings feature healthful living lessons and care for the sick, with recent instruction on bandaging and hemorrhage control. Twenty six members signed a lifelong temperance pledge, abstaining from tobacco tea coffee alcohol wines and spirits. Meetings run Sundays at 7:30 p.m.
In Missoula on December 27 a major wreck on the Rocky Mountain division involves heavy ore and coal cars from the Oregon Short Line. Workers remain at the scene a week after the collision, with several cars twisted beyond repair and the cleanup likely to last several days.
Visitors from the Bitter Root valley report unusually moderate temperatures this winter in Valley Missoula aiding fruit trees to bloom in spring. no severe weather expected later.
The body of Con ductor King was brought to Missoula tonight and placed on a train at the accident site. He will be held here until his parents in the East are informed. His remains lie at Lucy's undertakers.
Admiral Schley and ex Secretary of the Navy Herbert occupied a box at the New National theater in Washington on December 27 to see James E. Hackett perform. The visit marked the admiral’s first public appearance since the court of inquiry verdict and drew a lengthy ovation from the crowded house.
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