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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
17
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard in Butte at 28 East Broadway lists telephone 422 while Independent Telephone operates at 1 422. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
Factory offers lens cutting grinding and drilling. Replace broken lenses the same day. Fill prescriptions and repair adjust frames. Optical parlor in charge of all.
An optician of long experience is described as qualified to perform a scientific eye examination and determine remedies for defects correctable by glasses.
Butte residents and visitors are noted nationwide visits from Anaconda Missoula Hamilton and Helena. Birth announcements include Alfred Rogers son January 15 Vance L Butler son January 15 Walkerville John Williams son January 14. Dr Alfred Karsted now offices Phoenix building Telephones listed. Leon Sperry Lydia Wenger among those seen in town.
Superintendent Young of Yellowstone National Park opposes extending the Gallatin valley road to Mammoth hot springs. An executive document to Speaker Cannon notes a prior $1,000 appropriation secured by Senator Dixon. Young estimates full construction would cost at least $100,000, making the project unjustified.
Salt Lake City newspaper owner and editor John Hughes died from pneumonia after a brief illness. The Belfast native aged 51 had been in Salt Lake City journalism for 17 years, previously working on the Omaha Bee and leading Truth, a weekly in the inter-mountain region.
The Nebraska state Democratic committee set a march 5 convention in Omaha and planned a state Bryan organization with clubs in every county.
The council discusses adding about two and a half miles of land south of Butte to the wards, with readjusted boundaries to balance the Eighth ward. Reports on the Milwaukee road offer and water contracts prompt further talks, while street signs, tax refunds, and bids for a city hall addition fill the agenda as sessions adjourn to Wednesday.
An elderly man named Cole White was arrested for writing threatening letters to Justice Dowling about the Thaw case. He was sent to Bellevue hospital psychopathic ward for observation after imprinting his handwriting with ink. The letters appeared more amusing than threatening.
Royverstown Pa January 15 coroner Strasser reports seventy or more perished in the Rhoades opera house fire Monday night. The list includes a fireman killed in the line of duty and Jacob Johnson who died today from injuries. Three charred bodies were recovered and 14 bodies are identified thus far by relatives.
Frankfort Kentucky January 15 the senatorial race stands 66 for Beckham 64 for Bradley and five scattering with anti Beckham Democrats growing more solidly against him Senator Wheeler Campbell of Paducah told the joint session Beckham placed personal ambition before his party and was misled by bad counsel.
A joint conference of Nevada Senate and Assembly committees framed a resolution asking the U.S. president to retain troops in Golefield until Nevada can establish a police force or other means to maintain order at the camp.
Senator Gore introduced a bill in Washington on January 15 that would end the interstate character of liquor shipments once they reach the state destination and would subject the shipment to local laws from that point onward.
Deputies nab Dan Lucey and George Bray in Meaderville for grand larceny after a 300 pound church bell vanished from First Baptist as trustees weighed buying a new one. The bell, valued around 60 dollars at 20 cents a pound, was recovered by a junk dealer who alerted police. Prosecutors plan to press charges.
The Women’s Protective Union held a well attended dance at the Coliseum on Montana Street with 200 to 200 couples. The event ended at midnight after 20 dances with the Sielaff orchestra. Despite unemployment among members, the dance was financially successful and attendees left satisfied.
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