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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1900
Page
12
Police hunt a suspected professional thief who posed as a lodger at 463 Watson avenue and robbed W. A. Riggs of clothing jewelry linens and neckties. Neighbors saw the suspect depart with a large bundle. officers say they know him and will catch him.
B., A. & P. railway will offer a $1.00 round trip between Anaconda and Butte for New Year’s Day.
A local sale offers sheet music numbers 1 through 3 at Orton Bros on 219 North Main Street. Sale runs over the next 30 days with available items and terms posted.
Crowded performances feature Katie Emmett in New Waifs of New York with strong support from Willie Rufus and Ed Kerr. Harry Cowley as hero cashier and Lorin L. Howard as a German character earn applause. The play runs all week with a near first-class musical comedy segment.
At Hennessy’s a twenty century clearance sale offers bargains in women’s and children’s shoes with a focus on discounted footwear for families.
Algee traveled from Nine Mile to pay a debt in Fitchen's saloon on South Main. He was robbed of 8 shillings four pence after meeting Al Smith, also known as Clark. Smith traced to a saloon on East Park Street. he was captured by Officer Ferns after attempting to flee and claimed ignorance of Algee.
Five styles of birth month rings for every month priced from $1.75 at Hight and Pairfield's. Jewelry display highlights affordable options for shoppers seeking personalized gifts.
The Grand shows Brown’s in Town again with Miss Maud Knowlton and Jessie Mac Heil but patrons grow indifferent after a prior visit. Review notes the show is refined and clean with some suggestive bases, yet essentially same as last season and has limited appeal in Butte.
Ben Hill from Missoula, George Ducharme of Melrose, Miss T. Owen of Anaconda, A. O. Newton and wife from Livingston, J. Robins and wife of Melrose, John A. Todd and Harry Neil from Helena, were in Butte. Born to the wife of James Meade at 708 North Wyoming a girl. The mercury moved downward.
Last night and at midnight on Broadway it was 10 below as Rev J L Albritton will preach at Union mission 107 East Broadway this evening before watch night services at Mountain View church. Fireman J B O Leary received a fine baby boy. mother and child are doing well. Hennessy offers sumptuously fine garments for women at clearance sale prices.
A new amateur dramatic club, the Royal Rangers, forms in Livingston to stage winter entertainments. The first show, a farce about initiatory ceremonies of modern secret societies, will be at the opera house around January 26. Proceeds benefit the Congregational church.
The Washington Post details Treasury improvements including a new vestibule and strong doors for the silver storage vault, a modernized register's room for canceled notes, and enlarged bond vaults. It notes vast silver holdings and large gold stock moved to New York and Philadelphia facilities.
Chief Justice McFarland consoles a failed exam candidate with a wry parable about the supreme court twice ruling against the same man. The hopeful student remains confident that a second attempt will succeed despite the setback.
A satirical exchange features Judge and Colonel Peppah arguing for or against early voting. Colonel Redeye dismisses early voting as troublesome and wastes time, preferring to cast a large bundle of ballots at once to finish the duty.
The note blames millinery demand for scarce goldfinches in England where prices have almost doubled. The writer suggests milliners may bear blame for the crisis, casting the birds as a British institution jeopardized by fashion.
The Northern Montana Office of the Standard is located in the Bach Cory Block in Great Falls opposite the Park Hotel. Advertising rates furnished on application.
C W Goodale superintendent of the Boston Montana smelters donated a valuable ore and mineral collection to the state school of mines in Great Falls. The items cover nearly every world producing region, with many rare specimens from non producing periods, plus volumes for the library. The gift, dating to his tenure as a trustee in 1898, signals the school’s strengthened equipment and research resources.
Ada Zachary filed for divorce from Bax ter Zachary in Great Falls district court claiming cruel and inhuman treatment. She says he beat her around August 15 and threatened her life after their May 1 18% marriage in Red Lodge Montana, and seeks dissolution of the marriage and appropriate relief.
Cascade resident Thomas Nordahl is in Great Falls. Mrs. George Perry returns from Anaconda. Mrs. Mary Strain travels to the coast for an extended visit. B. L. Barker of Neihart visits the city. A son is born to Dr A F Longeway’s wife on Saturday. Alex Taylor, contractor on the Anaconda smelter, spent Christmas here. D P Barnes injured after a fall from a telephone pole shows improvement but remains in danger. Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Co sells 14 block 148 third addition to Nora Logan for 50 dollars. Louis Jacques and Adeline R Schoultzy wed at Bourton Heights with Judge Safford officiating.
Early this morning a blaze on the west side partially destroyed the Montana Central Railway paint shop and contents. Firefighters faced a hard fight due to lack of nearby water plugs, but the loss was about 2000 dollars covered by insurance.
Charles H H Putnam, longtime superintendent of the Montana Central railway shops in Great Falls, returns from St Paul and announces transfer to Spokane to run the Great Northern shops and roundhouse. He will depart Tuesday morning. successor not named.
Italian journalists Charles Reiter and Mimo Galvani, noted members of Florence aristocratic clubs, visited Chicago last week to discuss their wager driven world circumnavigation on a tandem bicycle. They aim to return to their start point in three years and a half while living without charity.
Reiter and Galvani, two cyclists from Florence, began a world circumnavigation on bicycles after a 500 franc wager. They traveled through Italy France Belgium Holland England and much of North America, funding their trip via lectures and souvenir sales while facing delays and difficult terrain. They plan to continue to San Francisco South America Africa Asia Siberia Russia Sweden Norway and Switzerland before returning to Florence.
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