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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Thomas Mulligan and Mr and Mrs Joseph Melloy thank runners and friends for kindness after the death of their darling baby in this bereavement notice.
Baptist Presbyterian and Chris Han congregations join First Methodist Episcopal tonight for an informal watch party in church parlors. Refreshments served, no formal program. Public invited to drop in. young people's societies organized. choir participation expected.
City notices announce a Hermann appearance at Reel today and a New Year dinner at the Montana hotel. Verberck shows and special watches sale. Taylor's orchestra plays at a society ball. skates and wine ads. Local visitors from Butte, Ennis, and Dillon are noted along with a birth, a death, and a New Year’s Eve dance in Anaconda.
The passage notes long friendship among Mr Zanne Mr Clifford and another from St Marys College. It mentions Sister Mary Raphael at St Ann hospital and transfers of Sister Perpetua to St Ann Denver. Rev S A Oliver of Butte visited Anaconda with Mr Tait and wives. two ministers from the 1870s Montana conference remain in ministry.
The Anaconda band will give a weekly concert in the city park during winter, announced by Mr. Mathewson. The first concert is scheduled for New Year’s Day at 7:30 PM, with weekly Tuesday night performances thereafter weather permitting. Band members will use the stand after each performance, and concessions will keep benches nearby clear for skaters when needed. The musicians’ union agreed on the same concert price as in summer, funded by leftover Christmastime money and local business subscriptions.
The Anaconda hockey team must leave on the 8 o clock morning train for Butte to face the picked team from that city on New Year’s day. The game is set for 11 a m. The traveling group likely includes Smith McKay Bowman Butler Clucas Flanigan La Londe and Clark.
A miner, back from Philipsburg to Anaconda, describes a rich silver strike in the Pete Coll tunnel in Masmark near Philipsburg. The vein reportedly carries several ounces, prompting much discussion among mining men in Granite County and the district.
Beginning January 1, 1914 the bank will pay interest on time certificates of deposit at 3 percent per year for six months and 4 percent per year for twelve months. Depositors must exchange for time certificates to avail themselves of this offer.
The body of Alex Cowan, a miner, was found in Boulder Creek near Maxville ten miles north of Philipsburg. He had been missing since last night after leaving his cabin with a partner. Searchers traced tracks through fresh snow to a planked footbridge, where the ice gave way and swept him under. Coroner Sayers was summoned and the body brought to Philipsburg. Cowan has relatives in North Dakota who will likely take charge of the burial.
The Daughters of the Thistle, auxiliary to Clan Stewart, will entertain the Scots and their families at the Hogmanay social in Dewey Hall this evening. The event revives old Scottish customs for New Year’s Eve celebrations and marks a Dig festival of the year.
The body arrived yesterday at the ranch home on Willow Creek from Low Anadis. A requiem high mass will be held at St. Pauls Church at 11 o clock after the train arrives at 10. Interment follows in Mt Carmel cemetery. Mrs John Furst, mother of the deceased, is seriously ill at her home.
New Year s Eve services will begin tonight at the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church with a prepared program and refreshments by the Ladies Aid society. Divine services are set for Thursday evening at 7 30 o clock per Rev C E Franzen s announcement.
Gaby Deslys, famed and highly paid, travels with a private car and large staff to guard her jewels. She headlines The Little Parisienne at Margaret on January 17 with partner Harry Pileur. The note also thanks neighbors and groups for kindness during illness and death of Sarah A. Stark.
The B A P Ry posts a 31 round trip rate from Anaconda to Butte with sales on December 31 and January 1 and return by January 2. Special trains depart Butte at 7:43 p.m. and Anaconda at 9 p.m. Gregson at 10 45 p.m.
Diamonds valued at 10000 dollars stolen weeks earlier from Dr B B McKensie’s home were found by police today in a wad of chewing gum under porch steps of a vacant house. Three boys under years old were arrested and charged, guiding officers to another ant house where hundreds of dollars in jewelry hidden under flooring from prior home thefts was located.
England imports chinchillas from Chile for breeding on a farm. The fur bearing animals, native to high Chilean mountains, are to be bred on English soil under new experimental husbandry. A new batch of knit skating caps has also arrived.
The Wood Orchestra trio, part of Anaconda Lyceum Association, will appear January 5 as the third number in the Lyceum course. The group features Margaret Wood on piano and reader, Lale Wood cello, and Margareta Lewis violin with a newly added cello. The performance aims for a varied program of chamber music and readings, starting promptly at 8 o'clock with 80 cent admission.
Henry Gallagher to stand before Justice Pringle today charged with breaking Peter Anderson's jaw during a Georgetown street fight. Gallagher is jailed in default of a $690 bond.
M C Smith was yesterday fined $190 in Justice of the Peace Pringle's court for a third degree assault on Mike Mc Carthy. Smith could not pay the fine and was jailed in the county jail.
Des Moines reports Senator Albert B. Cummins urged adherence to the party reorganization plan adopted by the Republican National Committee in Washington. He supported an extraordinary convention to adjust rules and representation but framed it as a means to an end, saying the substantial changes were the real goal. Cummins supported restoration of the party to its old strength and dismissed the need for a separate Progressive party, expressing optimism about Republican fortune in the near future.
Fragmentary OCR shows timetables and notices from the B. & A. P. Ry. with missing entries. Readers glimpse potential train listings and schedule cues but several lines are unreadable.
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