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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1902
Page
14
With Lent beginning, a broad assortment of fish products is offered including dried, smoked, whippered and canned options. Finnen haddies, smoked salmon, kippered salmon, codfish, mackerel, herring, sardines, anchovies and other delicacies are available in various forms and sauces to meet seasonal demand.
The ad touts the largest statewide cereal selection to please housewives seeking a dainty breakfast with variety. It lists Grano Wheatler Wheat Mannan Creamy of Wheat Raiston Yeuwich Treakfast Fond and Health Oats, plus Grape Nuts and many others, including Acme Minute Pancake Flour.
A local grocery offers a wide stock of state grade canned goods and top brand products. The store touts its largest selection and emphasizes a perfected mail order department with careful handling of out of town orders.
Missoula hosts the fifth annual Montana Horticultural Society session with unanimous re election of leaders. The group endorses the Oregon apple packing box and names The Mountain Fruit Grower as official paper. discussions cover apple varieties, marketing unions, and fruit production lessons from Montana growers.
Farmers discussed promising apple varieties including Rome Beauty Bethel and Canada Baldwin while emphasizing clean cultivation six inch deep cultivation and weed control. Inspectors reported orchard visits and packing requirements, with officers re-elected and thanks extended to contributors and institutions.
Members including Messia, Latimer, Perry McClain, Pierce of Plains and Peter Scheffer of Huson discussed grazing lands and endorsed a petition to Congress. Samuel Dinsmore was named to work with railway officials on apple shipment rates. Debate over responsibility for the elder sparked lengthy discussion. The group adjourned until next year with the next meeting at Stevensville.
After a two day session the state board of horticulture in Missoula completed its annual meeting. President Emery M. Allen was absent. A. Taylor of Park City and other members reviewed 1916 orchard work, inspected 461,499 trees in 391 orchards, and 248,086 packages of fruit with 9 percent apples. A campaign against orchard pests was planned and a resolution to promote school gardens was introduced.
Missoula church notices list Sunday services across multiple denominations. Churches include Methodist with services at 11 a.m. and 7:39 p.m., German Lutheran, Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist with both morning and evening services, Episcopal, Scandinavian, First Church of Christ Scientist, and Christian Church. Sunday schools and various society meetings are scheduled alongside sermons and special music.
G A Bennett held on two indictments. he waived reading of the complaint and pleaded not guilty. The court refiled the finding of fact and conclusion of law in the Schilling Curran et al case. The judge issued a decision in the water rights case of W R Young versus Ellen Pendergrass et al to adjust the rights of claimants.
Authorities arrest Cyr and a Miss Smith on charges of trying to extort $25 from William Graham a lumber camp driver near Bonita. Cyr contends Graham assaulted Miss Smith. Graham and friends claim the plot is an extortion attempt. Trial likely tomorrow with Graham as principal actor in the incident.
Missoula speech group Hawthorne Literary Society held its annual meeting in the university hall with strong attendance. Members praised the young performers for polished recitations and scenes, listing program items and participants including Leslie Sheridan Fred Jazz Cassius Harold M. Blake and George Barnes accompanied by Miss Della Harding George Greenwood and George McAllister. The event concluded successfully with a note on available services at Rankin barber shop.
Missoula February 21 The second annual ball by Ponanza lodge No 194 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen at Union Opera House drew high praise. The hall dazzled with colorful lanterns and decorations as members enjoyed the festive event.
The hall gleamed with two large headlights and colorful danger signals while an arch decorated the ceiling. An elegant programme featured a locomotive image and space for twenty dances. Committees, a first rate orchestra, and a well attended event by firemen marked a successful annual dance, with hope for similar turnout next year.
Arthur Mahon an orphan about 12 years old disappeared from his aunt's home in Missoula on February 21. Neighbors and authorities fear he may be hiding in the city and a search will be conducted tomorrow to locate him.
Dr Parsons returned from Rich and Harris camp near Baarmonth to study smallpox. He found no illness among the men and observed about 28 individuals in the camp.
In Missoula district court on February 21 Judge Cements of Lewis and Clark County presided a session. The proceedings reflected local legal actions involving Bishop and Kern and matters at the Union block on Main Street.
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