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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1925
Page
8
Hundreds of visitors arrive by train for Deer Lodge frontier day events to start Friday July 3. Hotels report full bookings for three days as corrals and chutes at the fair grounds are prepared and a new arena awaits top riders ropers and the 49 show entertainment.
Deer Lodge Kiwanis Rotary clubs outline July 3 4 5 rodeo events to raise funds for municipal swimming pool construction and equipment. Pat Keeley presented attractions. Geologist William Anderson discussed earthquakes and earth formations. Other members touted financial viability and entertainment value.
Mr and Mrs H H Brown returned from Yellowstone park trip. R J Dee of Helena visited on business. Guy Sweet and family went home to Butte after visiting. Steven Thrasher returned home in Gold Creek after city business. Deer Lodge visitors include Helmville and Butte residents. Agnes Richardson heads Yellowstone park for summer. Magette and son visit Three Forks. Miss Irene Eldred arrives to visit parents I and Eldred, home in New York. Others from Elliston Avon Biliston Three Forks attend to business and visit. J T Butler of Three Forks visits. L J Lenning of Biliston attends to business.
Internal revenue officials consider a public access plan for this year’s income tax returns after the Supreme Court ruling. A duplicate set of records may be provided for easy study during government office hours. Release to the public is not expected before August 1, with simultaneous publication in all collector offices.
Undersheriff Kellum raided a house on East Glendale street in Dillon and arrested Chris Miller. 250 bottles of beer were seized, Miller charged with unlawful manufacture of beer. He faces a plea in justice court today. Over the past month, three alleged beer manufacturers have been arrested and more than 3,000 bottles seized.
A large Dillon delegation travelled to Wisdom on June 29 to honor Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine. They praised the secretary and reception, with many local residents named among attendees.
Miss Ruth Gaiser left for Dayton Ohio to enter nurses training. Several local residents and visitors from Lima Butte and St Louis were in Dillon for business and social visits. Ed Edmunds departed for West Yellowstone to join the railroad, vacancy filled by C R Price.
At Dillon the summer session opens with 10 am assemblies and a picnic drive. Attendance is high, though seating remains tight as 703 students register in Dillon and about 270 in Miles City Billings and Lewistown each, totaling roughly 1400 across four Norman college sites. Students receive spring quarter grades mailed to parents and high school principals.
Four units show a healthy increase over 1924 figures as Nortmal college hosts about 700 students this summer. Around 240 stay in residence halls while 460 secure shelter in local homes. With rooms in surplus, Dillon can accommodate 1,000 students soon, though future growth depends on various unknown factors.
Sheridan terms June 30 reports show Marybelle Grose and Mary Gropp enrolled in Murray hospital training school in Butte. Elmer Glasser learns of brother Jesse’s death in Helena while planning Montana University return. Floyd Caraway and wife honeymooning from Portland visit relatives, plan Yellowstone trip. Strawberry crop praised as early and fine. American Legion drive fundraiser July 4 with booth in park led by veteran Gerald Busby. Mont Normal college student Charles Murray Jr home for summer. essay contest awards go to Ross Hutchins with five dollar prize. Virginia City visitors Susan Clark and Sonny Houghton, Stanford students, join longtime residents. O O Duncan returns from Seattle. roads described as passable to Montana. Virginia City Woman’s Club hosts card party.
Community room gathering at St Pauls church draws full attendance as locals praise the sponsoring ladies for strengthening social ties. The piece also notes regional farm activity and upcoming Madison county youth camps at Tom Stephens ranch near Waterloo with staff from Whitehall and Bozeman.
Anaconda news reports Thomas McMahon was charged with third degree assault by Daly after an alleged iber rifle incident. Justice E J Henrold set a stove matter, with McMahon released on $50 bond as trial date July 6 was set.
Joe Leycompte a meat cutter at the Central market suffered severe cuts to his right leg when he fell from a ladder and crashed through a plate glass showcase while adjusting a transom. Dr. George McGrath treated him and he could be around again today.
Mrs James Lowney of Hamilton reports a spotted skunk visited her chicken pens on two consecutive nights last week and killed 119 Rhode Island Red broilers the first night and 40 more the second, wiping out her 150 spring chicks. Neighbors plan to defend the area with rifles and shotguns.
Mr and Mrs Dey Inslee of Los Angeles arrive to spend the summer as guests of the Brooke hotel. The couple recently began a honeymoon trip. Other locals visit Missoula and Dakotian points, with long auto trips totaling 1142 miles east and 1239 miles west. Standards available Sundays at St. John's drug store after the afternoon stage.
A William Fox production stars Buck Jones and a skilled cast in At the Imperial. Edmund Mortimer directs as Buck Jones plays a daring insurance detective sent to Chance to halt bandit attacks on a remote gold wagon. The action is fast paced and promises excitement.
Nine persons were killed and 30 injured when the Chita Moscow express derailed at Taiga about 100 miles east of Novo Nikolayevsk on the trans Siberian line. The incident was reported by the Associated Press from Moscow on June 30. A movement by the Scottish National Theater Society to recognize "Scots Wha Hae" as the Scottish national anthem was noted as well.
Classified lines list Maternity Home offerings for Gertrude Pitkanen and Montana Maternity Home in Butte with contact phones, plus local services including auto painting carpentry detergent cleaning and a barber college ad. Contains multiple business names and addresses in a compact classified fragment.
The Missouri National Forest in Granite County Montana invites sealed proposals for 5.3 miles of road work on the Cop Creek Forest Development Road, with bids due July 15 1925 at 10 am. Plans and specs available in Portland Missoula and Spokane offices. bid deposit five percent. contract to be awarded to responsible bidders.
Notice to creditors and all persons with claims against the estate of Theodore C Brown deceased. The Administrator D W Morgan requests claims with vouchers be presented within four months after first publication to the administrator at Durston block Anaconda Deer Lodge County Montana.
Notice announces a public auction of delinquent county taxes at 2 p m on Friday July 10 1925 in the county treasurer's office at the county courthouse. A list of taxpayers and properties is available for public inspection. W G Dougherty County Treasurer Anaconda Mont June 17 1926. Also Silver Queen Mining and Development Company annual stockholders meeting July 17 1925 at 7 30 p m in Anaconda Mont for director election and other business. F J Smith Secretary.
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