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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1920
Page
7
Best quality triple and quadruple plated silverware offered for daily use. A range of patterns promises lasting appeal and wearability. With rising coinage demand, its value should rise. buy now. Knife and fork sets priced from 7.00 to 25.00.
A condensed advertising column explains how merchants describe merchandise, highlighting the convenience of learning through ads. It argues ads save time, reveal product uses, and offer money-saving opportunities. The piece promises continued discussions on advertising’s value.
Rent pianos from Orton Bros for any Dodge Brothers car. Silver Bow Motor Car Co offers Alhambra hot springs and meals at $3 daily American plan. New magazines and papers at P. O. News Stand. Legal cases and local injuries at mines, fire at Symons store, motion for new trial by Elisa Sesliga. Central Parent-Teacher meeting Friday. Sheriff McLean returns with forger Thomas De Witt.
Gus Gustaferson, formerly of Butte, escaped a fatal saw accident Tuesday by throwing off a belt as his trousers and leg were pulled into a circular saw at Joe Kountz’s ranch near Whitehall. He suffered a torn trousers, cut, and a broken ankle, with no facial injuries. He works for Mrs. George Hoey and once worked for Bardsen Contracting in Butte.
Police credit Robert Taintor with a spree of liquor thefts from Butte residences including Elmer Holt’s home on South Crystal street. He allegedly supplied liquors to soft drink joints and clubs, netting about $2,500, and admits burglaries across several addresses including Gamer residence and near Columbia hospital. He is held for county attorney action.
James Joseph Leahy was buried from his home at 2 East Summit Street yesterday morning. Mass was celebrated at 9:30 o'clock at St Marys church. The funeral, under the American Legion, included military honors with final volleys fired over the grave at Holy Cross cemetery. Pallbearers were Frank Johnson Fred W Bogatz F J Sullivan J Kampen C Kinsella and J F Lewis.
Tickets for the father and son banquet for Boy Scout week have arrived at scout headquarters. Members of the various scout troops may obtain them. The banquet opens the tenth anniversary celebration of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America.
Notice of a Republican city central committee meeting to select judges and clerks of election. The meeting is Friday January 30 1920 at 8 pm at Wall and Jackman 21 Harbour Building. The list will be presented to the city council on February 4 1920. F W Rabacorn chairman Shelby Irvine secretary.
City health department officials report a further drop in influenza cases with mild illness described as little more than bad colds. Sanitary Inspector Pedlar and Quarantine Officer Josiah James investigate every report while denying epidemic danger and curbing alarmist rumors. 55 cases noted in Whitehall area with no deaths reported.
Mrs. Jesse O Neill, separated from her husband since last Saturday following a quarrel, drank chloroform at the Kavyn hotel. She was found unconscious at 3 30 pm and was treated at the emergency hospital. Two hours later she regained consciousness and asked for her husband. The couple, recent arrivals from Deer Lodge, were reconciled before leaving the hospital.
A seven passenger automobile caught fire on the road west of the Centennial brewery southwest of Butte and was destroyed. It is believed to belong to F. W. von Falkenstein who reported a similar model stolen from a garage Tuesday evening. Police think the stolen car and the wreck are the same machine.
A compiled notice lists Helena residents and Dillon Great Falls Townsend Livingston and other towns as visiting or registered in Butte hotels. It notes births at local addresses and names several business visitors and residents from Helena Townsend Dillon Gardiner Wisdom Salmon Deer Lodge and other places with hotel registrations at Finlen Leggat and Thorn ton.
Buckley and Officer Har toen stopped an early morning robbery at Cronin's saloon on East Granite near Covert street. Quirk attempted to force patrons to give up money but Buckley’s weapon misfired twice, allowing Quirk to flee to the Eagle house basement where he was captured. Quirk faces vagrancy charges. proprietors dispute the holdup claim and police continue investigations.
J. J. McDonald of Spokane, Northwest representative for the Main Belting company, reports very favorable mining conditions across the Northwest. Development work rises as metal prices stay high, and preparations ramp up for the Northwest mining convention in Spokane on February 16 to 21 with strong turnout expected from Montana Utah and Idaho.
At a Butte Advertising club luncheon a resolution praised the Standard for its Yellowstone trail edition issued Tuesday. C Colton of the Y M C A urged support for the drive to recruit members starting Feb 2. Members discussed good roads after attending a Yellowstone trail meeting at Deer Lodge.
The funeral for Daniel O'Brien who died Monday was held at his home at 719 South Dakota Street. Mass followed at St. Joseph's Church and interment occurred at Holy Cross Cemetery. Pallbearers included F. J. Coburn John C. Sullivan J. Muir John Mc Grath Frank Lambrecht and J. Ellis.
A letter from State Representative Leavitt Corning of St Paul calls for the resignation of Gustaf Lindquist as chairman of the Republican state central committee. The letter will be read at a committee meeting that will set the date for the state convention, likely February 24 in St Paul.
Market Manager Legare announced that all displays have been ordered off the sidewalks to prevent disputes over space. He said a reported meeting to fix minimum prices would go against the market's spirit and that competition is the aim. Curb stalls are filled and dealers favor them for higher foot traffic.
Department of justice agents raided meeting places of five branches of the Communist Labor Party and the homes of six secretaries in San Francisco. Literature and rolls were seized to aid deportation proceedings against officials and radicals. The German branch secretary Max Redbucht, home searched, has been indicted in Chicago for radicalism.
Secretary Baker protests delay in action on bids for 30 seized German liners. He urges presenting the issue to President Wilson and has raised the matter with the senate commerce committee, which is seeking a permanent policy for the American merchant marine.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley told the National Canners Association that inflated currency fuels the high cost of living and that restoring food as the value standard, not gold, is the remedy. He predicts the prewar standard will not return.
Faculty welfare board hears a memorial for increased salaries from UC instructors. Subpenas issued for nine attorneys to testify before grand jury on alleged corrupt practices in San Francisco police court and superior court.
Commissioner Roper announced that tentative income tax returns will be abolished. Taxpayers cannot estimate incomes or taxes for 1919. The correct tax amounts must reach revenue collectors by March 15.
Three thousand Chinese laborers bound for home from France are detained aboard the steamer Minnekahda in Halifax while military authorities and port health officers dispute whether an illness among them is influenza or colds.
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