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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
12
Missoula marks a grand Fourth of July with crowds from Bitter Root Stevensville Hamilton and Wallace. Major Maginnis delivers a patriotic oration as parades drills and races thrill 5000 visitors. Fireworks concerts and a busy midway cap a day praised for planning and city spirit.
J D Lynch a sawmill engineer at Lolo married Lulu Fuller of Seymour Wisconsin at the home of Mr and Mrs A W Pixon in Missoula. Rev J W Bennett officiated under a floral arch with three bridesmaids and Bert Lewis as best man. The couple will stay briefly in Missoula before moving to the mill for their home.
B. A. Mitchell, manager of the Oregon Nursery Company, announces expert bicycle repairs available at Bishop and Kern in Missoula offices.
Messrs. Schilling and Siegel announce plans to build a large brick hotel near the new depot at Higgins avenue head. Bids will be sought after plans are finished. Otto Siegel, known as a host, partners with K. W. Schilling in this long contemplated project.
Mr Evans leaves Missoula for Chicago to attend the Knights of Pythias meeting on July 9 and may visit Cripple Creek for a mining congress meeting as a governor appointed delegate. Also notes July 4 church ice cream sale at courthouse and a Missoula marriage of Nelson H. Morgan and Maud Pearl Jones with Rev. C H Linley officiating.
The Episcopal ceremony united a Missoula bride, noted as one of the town’s charming young ladies, and a groom known in the city. The couple’s few intimate friends witnessed the wedding. The groom will leave for Browning, Northern Montana, this week for a new position.
Bishop Brewer arrived in Missoula on the westbound train and will travel through Western Montana for several days. He will conduct tent meetings in Darby on Sunday and in Victor on Tuesday, with two sessions in each town at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. He also plans tent meetings in Hamilton the following Sunday, and was hosted in Missoula by Rev. C. H. Linley and Archdeacon Webber.
J Tyler visits from Carlaw on business. W R Gibford stays in Missoula from Darby to visit friends. Lynn Baker promoted to bookkeeper at Fair store replacing C E Eyclesheimer. BE Burt of Drummond buys more buggies for his livery stable. reports junction town business improving. P M Reilly & Co grocers promotes New Turkish bathrooms and welcomes expert attendants. Rankin hotel and J M Belisle proprietor noted.
W H Smith of Missoula Mercantile received a pocketknife with multiple blades and tools from an East friend. He is puzzled by the device and wonders how to operate it as skilled machinist work is needed to select the correct blade. The note mentions a July 4 scene and a sale at Globe, with premiums for a yearly Standard subscription.
F W Traphagen of the Bozeman agricultural college is in Missoula to examine the sugar beet industry and may stay a few days before returning home. He may spend a day or two in the Bitter Root valley. Split bamboo rods nickel trimming, $1 at McBride's.
Dan J. Courtney of Missoula offers to meet any contestant today for a 15 minute drilling contest with one man and a turner for any amount of money. The match will occur in Missoula with Freethy and Davey excepted.
The son of Mel Stairs is again in trouble for taking other people's horses. In Missoula on July 3 filings with the county clerk include quartz location toil found in Thompson river district by Hodgman et al. Occupancy declaration covers 160 acres on Four Mile Creek near St. Regis by Gustafson. A frame building in Superior is noted. Deed records show Nettie McClung and husband selling 40 acres on the Rattlesnake to Peter Fedderson for 859 dollars.
A Hamilton column reports on Simon Kughn and wife planning a Sept start for Bitter Root valley return from Iowa. Updates note farmer dry weather in Dows, typhoid illness of Maitland in Missoula, new Episcopal minister Rev. Fogarty in Hamilton, Sparr named manager at Billings, and a $1500 note suit by James Luby against Brice & Collins. Mentions local moves and visits by Milton Hammond, John McGrath, William Repson and wives seeking pleasure in the area.
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