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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1902
Page
7
The passage touts in town opticians ready to duplicate broken lenses and fill prescriptions without eastward delays. It notes a stock of uncut lenses from simple spherical to complex prisms with cutting, drilling, and grinding by a veteran graduate optician. Free examinations offered.
Local notes from Butte cover rentals and sales of pianos and tuners, visits by visitors in Helena and Bozeman, hotel guests at Finlen and Thornton, a marriage license, local business moves, a brewing executive on business, a Unitarian meeting, and upcoming Colamarini-Repetto performances with English selections and notable Italian singers.
The Butte High School Alumni organization held its inaugural meeting in the high school gym with large attendance and strong enthusiasm. Officers were elected including President Frank E. Young and Vice President Orville Saville, with Miss Sue Baldwin as secretary and Miss Emmanistan as treasurer. The group adopts a constitution and plans frequent entertainments and banquets, meeting annually after spring commencement.
The House considers a constitutional amendment for direct popular Senate elections. Two major bills pass: Confederate claimants receive up to 50,000 and the Spanish claims commission gains contempt powers. Corliss argues for U S control of transoceanic cables, opposing private monopolies and stressing federal rights over Hawaii, the Philippines, and Pacific islands.
Rtobert Parker of Neiharts in Butte on business. J. W. Reed of New York stopping at the Finlen. RL. Shaw of Omaha registered at the Butte. Mr and Mrs W G Blair of Grant guests at the Butte. Joe Shineberger of Red Rock in the city on a short business trip. Frank Coombs mining man of Great Falls registered at the Butte. James J Rood of Philadelphia among late arrivals registered at the Butte. The cases of Joe Wilder alias Sullivan for assault in the first degree and J B Richards for burglary continued one week yesterday in Judge MecClernan's court. Judge Clements of Helena in the city. He visited the courts of Judges Clancy and McClernan yesterday and sat with Judge Clancy briefly.
Miss Katie Hynes, daughter of County Assessor Thomas Hynes, saved a runaway pair of bay horses near Philipsburg's N P depot by guiding them into a barn after the engine frightened them. Kenneth Wolly had left her with the rig and the team bolted, but a passerby aided in returning the horses while Mr Wolly thanked him.
Middlesboro Ky Feb 13 reports fix the death toll at five with 19 rumored. Names named include Charley Chil Middlesboro deputy sheriff and Lee Turner proprietor of the fortress saloon. Turner vows to rebuild and muster 300 mountain men to resist arrests while authorities brace for further action.
The Inter Lake article reports findings from a geological survey on Flathead lakes. Measurements show Lake Flathead narrows to about seven or eight miles at most points, with Big Arm near Dayton Creek as the widest section. Depth estimates also fall short of 1000 feet, with several hundred feet being a more accurate breeze. Lake McDonald is about nine miles long and not more than two miles wide, contradicting earlier claims of longer dimensions.
Hamilton volunteer fire department members must wear haadcome nickel badges. Proposal to furnish neat uniforms and award a uniform to each member with five years service. State law grants five years service exemption from poll tax and jury duty.
The Yellowstone Leader reports its shift from manual and horsepowered power to a first-class five horsepower gasoline plant after two and a half years of effort. The editor and the devil, previously sharing duties, are now on indefinite vacation.
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