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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1916
Page
7
Butte News lists office locations at 8 East Broadway for the Standards desk with a general business line 22 and editorial line 423. Advertising rates are available on request.
Boosters club runs a busy schedule promising a large crowd in Butte’s business district for a mask carnival. Events include outdoor dancing on Park Street, entertained by two bands, St George and Silver Bow Glee clubs, and a parade of masked participants with cash prizes for best costumes. Funeral notices for T W Pudas’s child.
Butte notes list visitors and travelers from Livingston Deer Lodge Whitehall and other towns. Names include F J Taylor, M D Hathaway, J D McCarthy, A Doble, H Pottger, George Whitworth, P G Schroeder, FP Thompson, Irene Connolly, Miss Barnes, and many others. Births reported at Meaderville and Mile City travelers head to San Francisco and California for health and business. Stationery and reading items offered at the P O news stand.
Sheriff Henderson reports Silver Bow county jail in 1915 held more prisoners than ever, with 308 in-mates. Of 1057 people locked up, 33188 days were served, average 12.64 days. Misdemeanors and felonies dominate, plus 83 for witnesses. 281 whites, 80 colored, 1 Indian, 4 Chinese, 1 Japanese among males. including to 115 women total confined.
Jess Westergard wowed Butte fans in a prior bout with Pat Connolly by forfeiting after a dislocated shoulder. Promoters report Spokane wired cancellation of a Washington bout with Jack Davis to allow a return trip for a possible finish match with Pat Connolly. If Connolly won’t wrestle Charley Cutler, Westergard will be put on as the main event next Monday at the Broadway Theater in Butte.
Miner John Cunningham reported a prize ham missing from his cabin on South Wyoming Street. Police later arrested him after fires were discovered at 209 South Wyoming and again at 1 am with shavings and a blanket found center room. Arthur Broseau filed the charge. Cunningham denies setting the fire.
Rose McDevitt aged 58 died yesterday at 514 North Wyoming Street after a general breakdown. Survived by sons Patrick Rodger and Joseph and daughter Magsie In Pascoe Washington. Mrs McDevitt lived in Butte 20 years and was active at St Marys church. Roger E Skelly claim agent for Anaconda company at Great Falls was in town yesterday.
A list of suspected gambling venues was given to detectives who will patrol nightly to halt games. The chief says this active approach is most effective. Past no designated times led to swift arrests when a buzzer sounded. Anonymous tips and wife reports have followed the new crackdown.
A nearly 90 year old mother secured her son Pat Hogan’s arrest for creating a disturbance. Hogan faced Judge Whitty and received a $109 fine after evidence showed windows were smashed at their E Street home. Witnesses described a chaotic New Year scene at the Pacific Nourse on East Park Street with armed threats and a court-ordered response.
Butte high school edged Centerville as miners claimed a 17 to 16 victory in the opening game of a twice weekly series under Butte Basketball League. Centerville beat Enderville 19 to 9 while Independents defeated a pickup squad 22 to 4 after East Side Athletic Club failed to appear. Lineups list several players for each squad and the pickup team featured Harp Sullivan Keeley Fisher Clinch and McGrath.
Mr and Mrs P M Merrit of Lima and B C Dell from Helena visit Butte. Rolla Butt of South Butte goes to Sliver Star. Miss Hazel Davis of Missoula stays with Mr and Mrs A H Cross White in Meaderville. Thomas Arthur, Billings Democrat, was at Thornton. Emerson school annex opens housing older pupils in new wing. Augusta Bukirk of San Francisco visits for business. J J Clifford of Miles City heads to California for winter after a south Butte visit. Mr and Mrs W C Riggs return to Helena. Miss Ella Uren and Loretta Moore of Meaterville travel to Feeley as guests. J L Grimes of Minnesota visits California to see a son after stay in South Butte.
Yuma Arizona residents were told flood dangers in Yuma and the Yuma valley had passed. The Colorado river receded to the 22 foot stage and was expected to return to normal by tomorrow. Northward, the river at Needles was rising and could reach Yuma but officials expected no threat to flood levels.
Alexander Henderson Hall of Douglas Arizona, aged forty nine, killed by Mexicans under General Pablo Lopez on January 10. He and eighteen other Americans traveling toward Chihuahua City to reopen the Cast Mexicana Mining Company property, owned by the Potter Palmer estate of Chicago, were involved fifty miles southwest of Chihuahua City.
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