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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1902
Page
13
Missoula electric light company reports successful experiments thawing frozen service lines with electricity. Tests across several small pipes show rapid water flow, with a two inch main at the flour mill thawing in about one hour and other pipes opening in two to two and a half minutes.
Miss Kate Shelly county superintendent of schools forms district Noe west of Thompson to serve about 40 children. Corsiers mill hosts the school with Ada Smith as teacher. Trustees are Frederick Cormier Frank Lebert and Alexander Lanouse. Shelly heads to Evaro to arrange schooling for about 40 children living 20 miles from any school.
Mrs William Cahill and her children depart Missoula for Mullan home after funeral week thank friends and the Rebekahs for kindness. Several friends bid them farewell at the station as they settle comfortably. Motion for new trial proposed in Schilling v Curran case. Frank Woody prepares the lengthy submission.
Ham Fun Hi a well known local Chinaman plans a China visit to see old friends and retrieve his son Hamm See. He expects to sail within a week and be away several months. Meanwhile the Missoula Mercantile offers one third off all fancy decorated Haviland china in its crockery department for one week.
J D Garber appointed roadmaster of the main line between Jacko Montana and Hope Idaho with quarters at Plains to succeed Frank Hartman who resigned. M P Stopple is appointed acting roadmaster of the Coeur d Alene line and Burke branch with headquarters at Wellace.
The funeral is set for Monday afternoon at the family home on East Main Street. Rev. Walter Hays will conduct the service and burial will follow in Missoula cemetery. Mrs. Lulu Lewis Minshall, born August 10, 1869 in St Louis, married to Dr. S W Minshall, moved to Montana in 1887.
Idaho appoints a new successor to J. D. Garbo after his departure. The move aims to maintain leadership and continuity within the organization as the transition proceeds.
Miss Jenkns and Joe Misses Marshall host a euchre party for Mrs. Frederick Perkins at their West Spruce street home with red and green decor. Various clubs held sales, teas, and dances as communities socialize in February, including the Congregational sale, Presbyterian missionary tea, and Valentine parties at several homes and halls.
A fragment notes a Send Free to Men event linked to Robeson and Mt Me with limited readable context. The item mentions freedom or aid effort directed at men but lacks clear dates or organizations. Further readable details are needed to specify scope or outcome.
City council must decide soon how to handle the on island detention hospital after recent repairs. The cramped floor and small space raise concerns about placing more than one or two persons, prompting calls for a better facility ready for the next case. Fumigation has not eased fears about entering the room.
Beekman presides over a gathering in Missoula on February 15 as Victor H Beckman attends a Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo meeting and serves as editor with evident pleasure.
Mr Beckman editor of the Pacific Lumber Trade Journal in Seattle was taken in charge by local friends and shown sights of the city. He holds positions with societies to keep him busy and out of mischief and serves as vice regent of the order in Washington. He visited the Standard office today. Turkish Russian vapor and plain baths at Rankin barber shop.
The King’s Daughters group in Missoula has grown to 55 members in two years, aiding the needy regardless of denomination. Officers were elected for the coming year, with Mrs A P Tietgin as leader and Mrs D R Beck as vice leader, as the non sectarian charity continues its work under the watchword In His Name.
Knights of Pythias in Missoula announce a Gentleman’s Smoker at their hall next Wednesday to mark an anniversary. Members are known for hospitality and expect visitors from outside the city for what organizers promise will be an enjoyable lodge event. Visitors are urged to contact Higgins Avenue city store or Missoula Nursery greenhouses for details.
In Great Falls on February 15, Fred Maimore and his wife failed to prove Carl C. Weyner insane. The lunacy commission found him sane and he remains in sheriff custody awaiting trial for forgery. Weyner, once a furrier worker in Butte, was identified by William Schultz as a former employee and as the person who planned to deliver fur garments before Christmas including astrakhan and seal coats.
Schultz traced three mink collarettes and other furs to a suspect, Wegner, who paid $40 by check that proved fake. The $150 loss remained. furs later surfaced at a local pawn shop after searches and a jail visit where Wegner admitted his identity but denied possession of all items.
Detroit February 15 Frank C Andrews former police commissioner arraigned in police court on a warrant accusing him of misapplying over 200000 dollars of City Savings bank funds while vice president Bond set at 15000 with two sureties one bondsman secured late tonight efforts ongoing to obtain second warrant stems from bank wreck due to overdrafts and over certified checks second warrant issued after first bond failed efforts to postpone or combine examinations expected to require two to three weeks
Christiania reports Henrik Ibsen has recovered enough to resume work. His physicians sanction returning to writing and the dramatist has begun a new play after a year of complete rest.
Dr Beardsley of Champaign and Dr Fugate of Urbana endorse Newbro’s Herpicide as the solution that kills the dandruff germ. They report using it for dandruff and falling hair with satisfactory to excellent results. Physicians and public alike cite its effectiveness.
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