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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1928
Page
14
Two highwaymen robbed Joe Wills, motorman of a Montana street car near the B Nai Brith cemetery at 3 45 am. They took 32 dollars plus 5 60 from company funds and tokens, fleeing east. The crime echoes a prior Terpin’s place heist nearby hours earlier.
Several hundred Butte youths have entered the summer pageant at Columbia Gardens directed by Miss Marian Fitzpatrick with assistants Miss Frances Nash and Miss Kinga Gayeski. A long entrant list shows many names from Rosemary Riley to Doris McQuarrie, with classes I and II noting numerous participants and families preparing every Thursday for the crowning community event.
Population in Greater London has grown from 6,581,402 in 1901 to more than 8,000,000 today, signaling sustained urban expansion and demographic change across the metropolitan area.
Dr. Mary Atwater returned to Helena from Portland reporting Montana earned high praise for its progressive public health work and anti tuberculosis efforts. She noted the state built the Galen sanitarium and organized tuberculosis work with limited resources. Delegates highlighted prevention, child health camps, and early treatment as key outcomes. Dr. Bishop, former Butte boy and editor in Portland, attended as a noted tuberculosis bibliographic expert.
Inquest into the death of eight year old John Riley, injured by an exploding cartridge on July 1, to be held this afternoon by Coroner Holland.
Warren Toole, a Montana native born July 5, 1893, son of Joseph K. Toole the first governor, graduated from Yale and Stanford, and was admitted to the bar in 1916. He served in field artillery in 1918, then resumed law practice. In 1926 he became Associate Justice of Montana's Supreme Court, filling the late W. L. Holloway's term, and later returned to law in Great Falls where he has lived since 1917. He is married with two children.
Anglers in streams feeding the Oregon Short Line face generally fair fishing this week as rivers run low and clear or mildly muddy. Divide, Quinn, Melrose, Armstead, Bedrock and Lima report fair fishing. Glen and Dillon are poor due to high or muddy waters. Dell reports good fishing. others vary with river conditions.
The Butte Chamber of Commerce held its regular weekly board meeting yesterday at the Silver Bow club. President Willard Thompson presided as directors spent most of the session discussing the chamber's operations.
Special meeting of Butteridge No 22 scheduled for Tuesday July 10 at 8 p m. Per order of W M W F Noyes secretary Adv
Alf Whitworth of Deer Lodge was named grand commander of the Knights Templar of Montana at Melita Island. Helena was chosen as next year’s grand conclave site. Officers elected include Joseph Monroe of Dillon as deputy grand commander and Percy Doles of Havre as grand generalissimo.
Frank A. Lindlief formerly a student in Butte earned a B S in pharmacy chemistry from the University of Montana at Missoula and received the Lehn and Fink medal after placing seventh in the Samuel W. Fairchild scholarship contest. He now resides in Missoula.
Butte Chamber of Commerce reports most main highways generally good with some sections under repair. Drivers advised to use chains on unimproved stretches in wet weather. Routes noted include Billings to Bozeman, Spokane area, Lakes Trail, Salt Lake City corridor, Great Falls region, Vigilante Trail, Big Hole and Skalkaho roads with varying rough or unimproved segments.
Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, argues that humble workers can outthink elites when given chance. He says time and place test merit and that many miss opportunities due to fear or influence. He also notes India pursuing modern railway expansion.
Miss Alice Hall daughter of Mrs Edna Hall of 1030 Antimony street has been chosen by the district No 2 Montana Federation of Women's Clubs for the scholarship offered by the federation. A five member committee from the federated clubs chaired by Mrs H L Winchester selected Hall as the outstanding high school student in Butte with a record a one average in all subjects over four years.
Ted Buttrey of Havre loses to Clarence Berryman of Oklahoma at Grand Rapids Michigan ending his Olympic wrestling hopes. Mrs Emaline Creel of Salt Lake City injured in auto crash south of Livingston but can take nourishment. Governor Erickson proclaims a dry initiative on fall ballots. Lewistown hearing set July 31 on transport permits for several Lewistown area firms and Great Falls Yellow Stone Cab. Brannon notes rapid progress at Eastern Montana Normal School Billings. AG Foot to attend Seattle meetings July 23 24. Cologne dressers adopt American felt hats.
Three couples celebrated a joint golden wedding in April at Glenwild Ohio. A month later one husband died in Rapid City North Carolina and Mrs Wilson, en route through Yellowstone Park, fell ill with pneumonia and lies critically ill in a Livingston hospital. President Coolidge sent congratulations during the April anniversary.
The Montana Automobile Association report received in Butte notes good road conditions overall. Sections vary from fair to good with a five mile detour on the Yellowstone trail near Butte and rough spots between Melrose and Gien on the Sunshine trail from Dillon to Butte.
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