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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1902
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 East Broadway, Butts. Telephone 422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Do you realize what it means to have manufacturing opticians in a town the size of Butte This facility parallels large cities in capability It duplicates broken lenses and fills prescriptions without East delays Our uncut lens stock covers simple spherical to complex prisms Latest equipment handles cutting drilling grinding under a graduate optician with extensive experience Examinations offered free.
Butte notes list visitors from Helena Chicago and Missoula with hotel stays and business in town. Births announced include a girl to Mrs Dwyer and a boy to Mrs Sanfeld. Also mentions local firms, hotels, and services such as piano sales, a smelter man, and a telephone company executive.
The Pooley murder trial in which he killed his son in law Thomas Littlejohn and his daughter nears conclusion as two more attorneys prepare to address the jury. New rebuttal witnesses testified about threats and dynamite episodes while defense and state argued constitutional questions and prior verdicts.
A Norfolk dispatch reports Booth Mills North Carolina nearly wiped out by a fire that began in a negro shanty. The town has no fire department and about four hundred families are homeless. Loss estimated at $120000 as flames threatened the nearby swamp.
Ella Murray, not living with William Murray for two years, is assaulted by him near West Park Street after he accused her of infidelity and visiting a lodging house. He faces a third degree assault charge as the county attorney files the complaint.
Jennie Rose, known to police, paid a fine for drunkenness after jail time. She pledged seven weeks of abstinence, refusing Judge Boyle's six month term, vowing to avoid alcohol until Easter Sunday. Other cases include Mike Maguire’s noise charge and J Spiegel's snow removal dispute.
County Auditor Dan Bweeny traveled to Twin Bridges with James Edmund Perit known as Weddy a 15 year old charged with stealing seven fifty from his mother. Judge Clements refused reform school and rebuked parents for streetwise children. Mrs Perit relented after court proceedings and signed papers transferring the boy to the orphans home. Manager Mountjoy agreed to receive him.
Special dispatch from Fort Benton reports H. H. Nelson and attorney Stevenson of Great Falls in town for the Martin Monroe case set for tomorrow. The dispute centers on a band of sheep driven to Monroe’s ranch last year by Nelson, with Martin claiming a half share or full payment for feed and herding. Monroe offered small sums, but Martin refused and now seeks his due.
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