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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1902
Page
14
The Western Montana office of the Standards is at 110 West Main Street Mis soula. Advertising rates furnished on application.
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Delegates and visitors arrive for the State Horticultural society gathering in Missoula at Bennett opera house. The week promises an unusually strong programme with papers on all horticultural topics and skilled readers. plans include two Wednesday sessions and a Plains band performance directed by Professor Barnicoat.
The local committee outlines a three day Missoula programme for the State Horticultural Society meeting February 18 to 21. Activities include band music lectures on apples and roses, questions, readings by Montana figures, and a banquet. Key speakers include Governor Joseph Toole, Professor R A Cooley, and Professor Fortier with a focus on fruit growing, irrigation, marketing, and horticultural education.
In Missoula February 17 two divorce suits were filed in district court. W. Heidman vs Eda Heidman cites desertion after 22 years of marriage and four children. Alta Reynolds vs R. Reynolds cites desertion in January 1906. Judge Webster also denied a temporary injunction in the Gleim Houtchens Prescott case and Mrs Gleim promised to appeal.
Funeral services for Mrs Lulu Lewis Minshall were held this afternoon at her East Front Street home with Rev. Walter Haye of the Presbyterian church officiating. The house was crowded with friends gathering to pay their last respects.
The Christian church choir rendered music as R. Blinn Owen presided at the piano. Flowers from other towns filled the rooms. The remains were buried in the Missoula cemetery. Pallbearers were Bid J. Coffee, Mr. B. Thompson, T. C. Marshall, J. M. Keith, M. R. Rutherford and Tylar Worden.
The Missoula Method church held Preaching services and installed Epworth and Intermediate League officers. Frank C. McCarter reelected president spoke on growth. Miss Kella Likes discussed the Intermediate division for ages five to fourteen. Rev J W Bennett praised league progress and officers installed include Frank McCarter and Rolla Likes with multiple vice presidents secretaries and treasurers.
Missoula Mercantile Crockery Department offers one third off the entire stock of fancy decorated Haviland china for one week. The sale targets collectors and home decorators looking for affordable fine dinnerware.
At Missoula on February 17 the bank vault opened from within after the offices force lost the combination and had a large opening made from a brick wall into the vault. The effort succeeded with the door yielding from the inside.
A marriage license was issued today to Tughey Raymond Walbridge of Saltese and Miss Ellen Collins. The ceremony occurred this evening in Justice William Hayes court with his honor presiding. Also note Missoula Nursery's greenhouses at Wail city store on Higgins Avenue.
Missoula, Feb 17. Warm weather swells rivers delaying Northern Pacific eastbound trains and washing out sections near Hall and Deer Lodge. In town streets turn to lakes with water two feet deep around North Second and three blocks on Railroad Street. temporary bridges span tracks while crews address washouts and rising waters.
Officer assignments shift on Higgins avenue and depot beats while Front street remains unchanged. Amos Upton appropriates 500 inches of Bear creek and 300 inches of Upham gulch for domestic and milling use near Tron mountain. Paul Whitaker heads to Manila via Hong Kong for about two months with a stop in other places. A pony seized by a West Front street resident is sold for 50 cents. Merchants clean cutters to prevent cellar flooding as melting snow fills cellars including John Doll’s. J T Mitchell sells mining interests in Wee Maco district for 1. Foreman J S Grant visits Missoula from Regis with crew moved to St Reels for future work. Mail orders to Golden Rule, Missoula.
Interest rises in Missoula as news spreads of Harold Cole shooting his wife and then taking his own life in Helena yesterday. Mrs. Cole, once Miss Lillie Maine of Vic e, is remembered by locals as a former Vicer girl. Readers seek details at the Standard office as word of the tragedy spreads.
Missoula reports Charles Stinson and a crew with pile driving equipment proceeding to Cabinet forenoon to repair or fill in a bridge at that point as work is expected to start immediately.
Virginia City reports renewed mining activity in Alder Gulch led by the Alder Gulch Mining and Milling company. Prof. George Metz conducts thorough testing, with samples sent to Butte and Brooklyn for analysis. Locals hope for resumed operations and shared settlement on long-standing accounts. Railroad completion to Alder boosts copper prospects at Hindh Canyon on the Ruby.
A London Telegraph inspired discussion lists the living women voted as the first immortals for a hypothetical French academy for women. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland tops the tally with 5212 votes, followed by Mme Adam among authors, while the roster includes royals, authoresses, actresses, artists, philanthropists, and composers.
An English admirer of the Omar Khayyam fad has had Fitzgeralds quatrain engraved on his wifes gravestone. The stanza reads A book of verses underneath the bough A jug of wine a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness Oh wilderness were paradise enow.
A report describes the California condor as twice the size of the Andean condor with a five foot body length a 25 pound weight and a 12 foot wingspan. An egg is valued at 2000 by collectors but none have been found in 17 years. Golden saute eggs fetch 33 in San Francisco.
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