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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1919
Page
7
Hallmark Jewelry promotes dainty pins and brooches to enhance outfits. The store offers fine jewelry designed to charm and satisfy demand for quality, featuring filled and solid gold pieces crafted with careful finishing.
A flurry of visitors and arrivals fills Butte hotels from the Thornton to the Finlen and Vinton. Names include Goddard of Billings, McKenzie of Livingston, Dee of Missoula, and many others visiting friends or on business. The Cento-Butte Products Company seeks district court leave to disincorporate. The Mount St Charles basketball team from Helena arrives for a Central High game with a roster led by McDonald and Carroll.
New York City readies to greet relatives of returning service members with a parade and honors. Mayor Maloney asked relief officials to supply names of visitors and arrange seating for the welcome.
The Army and Navy Association of Butte declares support for a Montana boxing bill. Officials sign resolutions thanking legislators for consideration and pledging cooperation if enacted to ensure clean entertainment for the state's young men. The reply from Republican contestants to an earlier apology resolution is acknowledged as closed.
State compensation board notified by Clerk Treacy that police officers injured on duty are not covered under the compensation law. The Attorney General holds public officials are excluded and the board cannot rule otherwise for workers in craft or labor roles.
Alexander Gasaloft of South Wyoming Street was arrested after police searched his store basement and found several cases of beer and whiskey. The bottled goods were turned over to the county attorney and stored in the courthouse. Gasaloft faces bootlegging charges. A quantity of intoxicating liquor was also confiscated at a bar on Montana Street by the city squad.
St. Josephs court of the Catholic Order of Foresters merged with St. Peters court after 18 years of effort. The merger was approved by a vote held earlier, and new officers were elected on Thursday night led by James Combs as chief ranger and John as vice chief ranger with Dan Crowley deputy high chief ranger and William Murphy treasurer. Father Michael McCormack was named chaplain.
Mayor Maloney stated there is no rift with County Attorney Joseph R Jackson over enforcing state dry laws and morality measures in Butte. He ordered plainclothes officers to intensify a city cleanup targeting immoral women, gamblers, and undesirables, and instructed detectives to clear the city of violations while cooperating with other officials within the law.
William F Mathews dies at 22 in Walkerville after a week illness from pneumonia. He recently completed army service and married Miss Nonie Murphy. Survived by parents Francis and Mrs Edward Mathews, sister Pearl, brother Edward, and his wife. Funeral Monday at 101 Dunn Avenue and St Lawrence’s Church high mass.
Gene Carroll, manager of the Butte Water Company, returns from a three week trip. He says New York City focuses on welcoming soldiers from France and ensuring they have a good time while in the city. Business interests anticipate strong activity once the current repression period ends.
The Butte city government will reconvene the committee of the whole tonight in Mayor Maloney s office to discuss bids for garbage and ashes handling. Three proposed contracts were received and reviewed last week, with hopes to finish talks and report action at the rest council meeting.
The remains of Frank Schmack who died from injuries in a mine accident were sent to Lewistown last night. The funeral will be held in Lewistown. He is survived by his wife and daughter who reside at Suffolis.
Butte High meets Anaconda High in the opening game of the season. The Butte lineup features Rockefeller Meaulite Enni center Zundell and Dahlberg as starters. The report notes recent improvements and preparation for the matchup at Smelter field.
Report from yesterday states a municipal committee was elected by Maloney to represent municipalities. It forms a committee of municipal officers including leaders from Butte and nearby areas to manage general fund and civic duties.
Trio of Butte Bulletin editorial staff including Daley and R B Smith face sedition charges in Lewis and Clark county. They are expected to be set on the jury term calendar of the district when called by Judge R Lee Word on February 17.
In response to a telegram from Somewhere in Dakota, local Red Cross canteen workers provided lunches fruit cigarettes candy and hot coffee to thirty hungry soldiers and sailors last night. The telegram had promised convalescents but the group turned out to be a lively crowd of healthy troops. The report notes Red Cross groups meet every transcontinental trip.
John Landers 56 former miner at various properties died last night after a long career in Hutte. Survived by wife Mamie Landers of Butte a brother and sister in Bellows Falls Vermont. Remains at Walsh's undertaking rooms with funeral arrangements to be announced later.
Prices across groceries drop as butter eggs and meat decline. Butter wholesale 46 to 61 cents per pound eggs 33 to 44 cents per dozen pork 30 to 22 cents veal and lamb down 4 cents per pound. Retailers face potential federal action over marked up prices.
Thirty states up to noon today had certified to the State Department the ratification of the federal prohibition amendment. Among the certificates is one from California where the governor’s office has not acted. Formal notice to Washington was signed by Speaker Henry W. Wright and himself, but a prior injunction in Bath, Maine restrained actions.
Special Dispatch to the Standard Washington Jan 24 General Pere shing haw conferred the distinguished service Private Twan Talley First battalion intelligence service aaist infantry whose home is at Fort Shaw Mont This honor was conferred for heroism in action near Gesnes France Oct 19 While on Tatason patrol Private Bailey and Corporal Carl C Theobald of Utah attacked and captured a hostile machine gun nest and its entire crew Private Bailey then took the prisoners across No Man's Land to the American lines under machine gun fire Pensions of 25 a month today were granted Sophia Swain of Butte and Josephine F Fitch of Billings GREAT FALLS WINNER Great Falls Jan 24 Great Falls high school basketball team won for night from the Teton county high school in a snappy game 30 to 10
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