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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
13
Anaconda residents and school children joined a coal saving drive. Students and teachers attached official shovel tags to coal beds and shovels, distributing the tags citywide from Helena official supplies. The effort mobilized Young America to support Uncle Sam.
The article describes a government campaign to reduce coal use by tagging and encouraging domestic and business savings. It notes a 50,000,000 ton coal shortage despite full wartime efforts and coal plants, urging nationwide cooperation to conserve fuel during the next two months.
Anaconda residents are asked to practice economy after the Rotary club passed a resolution urging all citizens to cut out luxuries and live simply until the war ends. The move emphasizes frugality and shared sacrifice during wartime.
The organization calls on all citizens to cut personal expenses to essentials during wartime. It urges abstaining from nonessential goods, luxuries, and social entertainments, and asks government bodies to halt public improvements to free funds for war financing.
Judge Winston moves and the Rotary club unanimously adopts a series of resolutions. The judge cites federal reserve guidance and English authorities while Sig Goodfriend endorses and cites wartime warnings from wool industry figures. George C. Jackson notes thrift stamp sales in Anaconda. Copies of the resolutions will be sent to Rotary HQ and the Alliance of Labor and Democracy. Absent members may be dropped. smileage book sales progress with Anaconda’s allotment likely this week. Vice President Tanner presided in President Montgomery’s absence.
PH Callahan chairman of the National War Work Council endorses Smileage under the War Activities Commission. He urges using the service to support the campaign and notes the plan to charge small admission fees for entertainments organized under the training camp activities commission. The statement clarifies it does not duplicate existing work and is provided for free.
A local note outlines support for a Liberty theater entertainment program using military, YMCA, and Coburn buildings for diverse educational and diversional activities. It clarifies that not all events are via the YMCA and stresses broad community use coordinated by the military entertainment council and associate secretary TICHSENOR.
Anaconda items report Trakid thrift stamps bringing in 14269 dollars as of 5 30 am. Local notices mention routine sales at Silhas and Devines, housing and real estate ads, visits by residents Ralph Lewis from Minneapolis and Stuart Reid of Butte, and various travel and social notes. Nearby events include a new piano sale, newspaper notices of births, legal items, and service updates from Peckover Company and other local firms.
President Wilson urged that all school teachers donate spare time to assist exemption boards with clerical work caused by the selective draft. The remark suggests he aimed to mobilize educators for wartime administration.
County superintendent Miss May Bissettl reports Deer Lodge teachers have volunteered to index information from questionnaires. The effort aims to organize data collected on the patriotic spirit program under school supervision.
W H Dunnigan, chairman of the national food administration for Deer Lodge county, calls a meeting for this evening at 8 in the Turf cafe main dining room. All hotel restaurant lunch counter and boarding house proprietors and private boarding operators are urged to attend to discuss the late federal regulations and best compliance methods.
Preparations underway as Anaconda conducts a thrift stamp drive with a station booth planned at the Butte Anaconda & Pacific rail station. Ladies to be stationed to enlist travelers’ two bit donations in the coming days.
Police Magistrate Daniels fined General Stokes $1090 for city vagrancy after he pleaded guilty. He may pay $20 down and $10 monthly for eight months to raise the sum. His companion Mrs George Mc Carter was fined $25.
One lot 50 by 79 on the corner with sewer in stalled. Only a few left and none at this price. Price listed as $425. Contact R. B. Lewis at 308 East Park Avenue.
The funeral of Frank Joslin will be held this Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock in the Mahoney undertaking rooms. Services will be conducted by I. B. Catlin.
The body of Axel Suppi lies at the Tuttle company's undertaking rooms. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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