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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1903
Page
7
Butte street life shows a flurry of local visits and small business notes. McCurdy and Sullivan travel, a birth announced, and many residents, such as Denny and Huddoff, move between cities, with social events, railroad business, and upcoming entertainment at Gregson Springs outlined.
Butte observed Independence Day with no grand street parade or costly band music yet remained noisy with personal patriotism. Fireworks and displays were down in amount but decorations and town enthusiasm persisted through ball games, prize fights, coursing, and other events.
Butte residents will use discounted railroad rates for the Epworth league convention in Detroit next week. Northern Pacific announces round trip tickets on July 12 and 13 priced at 542.50 dollars.
The Hotel and Restaurant Employes' union No. 2 elected officers for the ensuing year. William Palmer was re elected as president with W P Brooks as vice president and Al Cooper as recording secretary. Fred Wilson is financial secretary with Jess Bromley as judge and Harry Weyrman as judge advocate. Harry Harris was chosen treasurer. F W Cronin and W P Brooks named sick committee. trustees are James Watson P J Galovin and W Poot. delegates to 5 35 T and L A FF Cronin W P Brooks and Jess Bromley. alternates S Symons Harry Holliday P J Galovin. Harry Taylor Recording Secretary Pro Tem.
At the regular meeting last Tuesday night the Canadienne Institute elected officers including Chaplain Rev Father Allaeys president J Meunier vice president A J Violette recording secretary R E Lemire corresponding secretary B Meunier treasurer J Chauvin assistant treasurer S S D Marcaux conductor H W Chevrier.
Inner guard F. X. Giard and outer guard O. Chevrier named. Trustees listed P. Vadnais and C. Gagnon, librarian D. J. Giard.
Sheriff Griffith of Shoshone county Idaho brought to Butte last night G. B. Cook alias Boyce arrested at Silver Bow on Thursday by Sergeant McGrath and Detective Murphy. Cook is wanted in Pocatello on forgery charges and the arrest followed a telegram from Pocatello’s marshal. A Studebaker Wagon company representative filed the complaint. Settlement is expected and no prosecution is planned.
Joseph Bush was arrested after being accused of ex pectorating on a Columbia Gardens line street car. He paid a $5 fine at the city jail following police action by Policeman Schmidt on a complaint from Conductor O D Holmes of car No 32. Holmes reported a spit pool on the car floor. The railroad company vowed to make examples of all offenders.
A Grand Army firing squad fired the big cannon at Columbia Gardens yesterday morning and afternoon for the day’s observance. O L Farnham led the squad. The gun operated well and the salute was audible for miles around.
The Northern Pacific offers round trip tickets from Montana common points to Denver for 32 dollars during July 7 and 8 for the Christian Endeavor convention in Denver. Final return by August 31 with stopovers allowed. Inquiries addressed to W. H. Merriman, General Agent.
The Northern Pacific offers a round trip from Butte to Mammoth Hot Springs with board and lodging at Livingston for 15 dollars starting June 12. Tickets for train No. 14 go on sale each Friday and may be returned on No. 13 the following Monday. For details contact W. H. Merriman, General Agent.
Beginning Saturday May 23 and every Saturday thereafter the B A P railway will offer round trip fares to Gregson Springs from Anaconda to Gregson and return and from Butte to Gregson and return. Tickets valid on all trains from noon Saturdays to noon Mondays.
Brooklyn Eagle reports the surge of green immature fruit in New York markets blamed for cholera, stomach cancer, and other illnesses. City death rate stands high with Newark at 18.77 per 1000. July children under one show elevated deaths linked to green fruit consumption. Physician cites about 20 percent of child deaths tied to maternal or child green fruit intake.
Dr R G Freeman founder of a Manhattan lecture links open air fruit stands to disease. He shows lantern slides of fruit markets and warns that green fruit causes summer sickness in children and chronic illness in adults. He cites vast New York wholesale volumes and daily values.
The piece recalls the instant impact of the Fort Sumter firing as newsmen chose to publish early instead of rushing an extra. It laments a nation awakened to war and notes the four years of carnage that followed, contrasting earlier complacency with a grim call to responsibility.
The Bohemian artist Paris Ziem recalls Chopin in his study with a skeleton draped in cloth. He describes Chopin guiding the skeleton’s hands on the piano to play a funeral march, the moment culminating as the music grew louder and the bones cracked with each movement.
A frightened narrator recalls darkness and a candle lit room after a phantasmal concert. Chopin lies unconscious under a skeletal ruin, yet he proclaims the music remains in his head as the stranger Jasper-Gayboy and his wife face hardship and fading fortunes.
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