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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
5
A bustling page features Buick car pitches urging immediate orders and advertisements for office supplies. Miners Savings Bank and Trust Co promotes higher interest on deposits through the 15th, while piano rentals and miscellaneous odds and ends fill the classifieds.
Silver Bow county census work faces a delay as tally materials and instructions are awaited. District Supervisor James W. Faulds had promised the Montana enumeration would begin, but non arrival of supplies may push the start to this afternoon if deliveries arrive in time.
Enrollment surges for night school programs offered by the institution. Courses listed include public speaking writing salesmanship English and arithmetic with plans for a special income tax lecture series. A small fee covers expenses while scholarships are provided to former service members to complete their education.
Butte ministers reflected on 1920 offering great opportunities for service and spiritual development during reconstruction. Pastors in several churches urged unity, moral renewal, and practical Christian action amid postwar unrest, with varied calls to heartened faith and community reform.
Religious revival gains momentum as Dr. Ragan delivers a spirited sermon at Mountain View church. Catholic Paulist Fathers Quinan and Doner Kan lead missions at St Patrick's as three local churches join a week of prayer. Pastors voice belief 1920 will bring church reconstruction amid war’s end. Overall attendance dips on first Sunday of the year.
The Rev Father Guinan preached at St Patrick's during the opening service of five weeks of missionary effort. He urged penance and submission to God's will as the congregation listened intently to the sermon inspired by the John the Baptist example and the call to prepare for the coming of Christ.
Fire swept through Danville's core last night and into today, destroying a half-dozen structures including the Masonic building and Johnson company department store. Estimated loss reaches $800,000 with substantial insurance coverage. The blaze origin remains undetermined as professionals and offices across affected buildings suffer damage.
A church sermon opening a mission urges penance and inner reform. It emphasizes aligning life with God, subduing lower passions, and sincere prayer to gain grace. It warns against complacency and urges earnest effort toward salvation for all parishioners and their souls.
Tonight opens a week of interchurch activities conducted by First Presbyterian First Baptist and Christian churches. pastors spoke to congregations on the first of the topics under the general theme Awakened Church. All services this week will be held at First Presbyterian Church.
Revival in Louisville at the Methodist church draws about 600 attendees nightly except Saturdays, as Rev. Ragan preaches from Kings 1868 18. He stresses personal responsibility amid world turmoil, compares modern trials to Elijah's era, and notes city church cooperation in a nationwide constructive evangelism program running January through early February.
On January 1 Lord Jellicoe visits Washington as a private citizen and meets Vice President Marshall and Secretaries Lansing and Daniels. He plans a stop at Annapolis to inspect the naval academy before boarding the New Zealand for Havana and the return to Kingland.
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