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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1917
Page
9
City health tests show most milk dealers comply with the ordinance on butterfat and milk solids. Only two dealers exceeded bacteria allowances. weekly counts will continue to track cleanliness. Inspector J P Riordan calls for consistent cooling and cleanliness to deliver wholesome milk to consumers.
Mooney at the family residence in Hornet Street December 1815 mourns Mary Ann Mooney aged 8 years. Gunara funeral at Mount Moriah cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Newman remains removed from Sherman Reed’s parlors to Swedish Finnish church for service tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock and interment at Mountain View Cemetery.
Remains of Mrs Mary Sims aged 28 will be removed Tuesday afternoon from Richards parlors to 708 South Dakota street for funeral tomorrow at 2 o clock conducted by Rev George D Wolfe of Jelatine Mount Moriah Interment to follow Funeral notices will appear in later papers Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy during illness of beloved boss Charles Beley and others signed Borden Beley and family
The obituary notices announce the funeral of Farrel aged about 45 to be at Duggan's undertaking parlors then proceed to St Patrick's church for mass at 8:30 with interment at Holy Cross cemetery. Also listed are notices for T H Riley aged 32 and James Driscoll with funeral details at St Lawrence's church and Holy Cross cemetery. Duggan's Undertaking Parlors and contact info appear in Centerville.
A historical note discusses milk contamination, noting that up to 90 percent of filth may be dissolved and less than 10 percent visible. It cites bacteria counts, claiming raw milk with 76 000 bacteria per square centimeter can be clean, and warns that improper cooling may render milk unsafe.
The Hall is elaborately decorated as about 200 members of the Hutte Stationary Engineers Union No. 83 host friends at the twenty fifth annual ball at Palimont hall South Montana street tonight. The committees report hard work completing dance details. The Slelaff orchestra will play.
A cremory frame house just west of the Agate and Main corner was almost totally destroyed by fire last night. Coals in ashes in a shed adjoining the house fed the blaze. The house lies outside city limits but the city department responded. The residents were absent and Fire Chief Martin could not learn their names.
Butte city fire department answered 245 alarms in the past 12 months, with total fire loss of 28934 dollars and an average under 100 dollars per fire. Most losses occurred outside city limits, led by a $6422 fire in November from 52 alarms. Chief Fred Martin urges a public warning campaign to reduce future fires and loss.
John Wilkes Booth died at 68 and was buried in LeadvilleColo on December 31. The last of the Booth acting family, he was grandson of Junius Brutus Booth and nephew of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. A longtime actor, he had lived in Leadville for 30 years.
Police arrest four men in connection with a Park and Gaylord streets shooting that killed Don Buckley after a Harris Bros. saloon holdup earlier. Tom Stagg confesses complicity in the robbery and implicates Rhys and Stage, while Prime and others identify or question possible suspects as investigators seek the killer.
Newly elected officers of the Spanish American War Veterans will be installed Tuesday night in the chamber of commerce. Camp members from Deer Lodge Helena and Anaconda invited. Post Commander Oren Grant leads installation followed by a smoker in the old county jail rooms. Officers include Commander-captain Andrew Jensen senior vice commander Joe Corby junior vice Charles Hendrickson officer of the Mike Mullin guard Oren Grant and trustee Ed Morrissey who will serve three years.
After a brief illness Joseph Driscoll aged 39 died at his sister Mrs. Peter Cronin’s home 75 Bennett Street Centerville He had lived in Butte 17 years He is survived by a brother Quinn and two sisters Mia and Mary Driscoll in Ireland The funeral will be at Mrs Cronin’s residence at 9 o’clock Wednesday then 3 30 at St Lawrence church Interment at Holy Cross cemetery
Five of eight army aviators who flew from Hempstead to Philadelphia in a government pilot license test returned after enduring severe cold. In a 130-horsepower plane they covered the distance in 72 minutes at altitudes of 6000 to 8000 feet. Flight instructor W. H. Blakely and passenger C. H. Reynolds were aboard. DR MABLE IS DEAD Summit N Y Dr Hamilton Wright Mable associate editor of the Outlook died at 70 born Cold Springs NY survived by widow and one daughter.
Helena Dec 21 Figures from the authentic school census show Montana’s September population at 648,246 with 143,374 school ages. An year rise of 1,809 school children yields 85,040 population increase. Leading counties include Silver Bow Cascade Fergus Yellow Stone Missoula Flathead Sheridan Hill Lowell.
Deer Lodge December 31 The new year will bring many changes among foremen at Milwaukee shops. Foreman R B Koehler has resigned after long service starting as a machinist in the 1880s. L Peterson becomes roundhouse foreman and John Coey succeeds Peterson as shop foreman. The Coey vacancy may be filled by one of the hopeful mechanics. A Stoddard departs the middle division time department for a better post in Anaconda. Edward Ward fills the vacancy with Byran Matheson taking Ward’s desk. Five Rocky Mountain division freight conductors are promoted to passenger service: W Hurst J O’Brien Frank Tatton William Cosgrove and J O’Fallon.
In Lewistown on December 31 judge Ayers ordered the release of a man from county jail after a habeas corpus petition. A 600 day sentence for peace bond failure was overturned. Sheriff Firmin Tullock heads to Walla Walla to return Thomas K. Isitt, jailed after marrying Sybil Apple and accused of embezzling funds from Morgan & Carver. Deputy appointments were announced, and Lewistown Masons installed officers with Francis Hagstrom receiving a jewel.
Helena Dec 31 The Democrats in the Montana House caucus nominated O Connor of Livingston for speaker. Four Democrats did not attend the caucus and are not bound by it leaving the result in doubt. Republicans plan a separate caucus. Two Republicans absent due to illness. The house is expected to organize.
Davis Irvine, a Deer Lodge pioneer born in Richmond Kentucky in 1844, died aged 72. He came to Montana in 1864, helped locate Track Creek, lived in Deer Lodge Valley since 1865, and left a son Thomas C Irvine and a sister Mrs C Bohannon among relatives. Funeral at Deer Lodge Christian church Tuesday. A separate fire destroyed Le W Pratt’s chicken house on Clark Street killing about 35 chickens. In Helena, December 21, Edwards and O shows Senate leadership details and Daniel G. O Shea named Democratic candidate for president pro tem. Ravalli County figures cited.
Helena Dec 21 The senate Republicans held a lengthy caucus finishing near midnight listing nominees for numerous positions from president pro tem J B E Ward s Forsyth to clerks and guards. In Texas Laredo border reports say six motor mounted machine guns and a motor velo squad reinforced but officials gave no reason for the unusual precautions amid gun running rumors.
A Massachusetts inventor has patented a sand box for automobiles, similar to those used on locomotives, designed to prevent skidding by distributing sand onto the road during slippery conditions.
Deer Lodge reports a busy week with Masonic lodge joint installation and a Knights of Columbus event in Milwaukee hall. Local residents attend, travel, and visit relatives across Missoula, Spokane, Seattle, and Los Angeles while church and hospital services mark notable changes.
Bozeman newspaper notes a meeting of county farmers at the grain chamber discussing farm extension work and the role of a temporary agricultural agent. Speakers include B W Whitlock and W E Harmon, with plans for a week of activities led by Prof FS Cooley. Also reports a franchise sale and a new store project in Roundup with ground broken in spring.
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