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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
7
The principal branch office of the Standards is at 119 North Main Street, Butte. Telephones: Business department 422, editorial department 423. Advertising rates furnished on application.
A collage of short notes lists visitors and locals in Butte from Helena Dillon Missoula Billings Deer Lodge Anaconda Boulder and other places. Names include E W Savage D F Wright J Barnett Fred Murphy and many others traveling through or visiting the city. An auto party headed from San Francisco to Yellowstone Park is mentioned.
Funeral services for the late Mrs. Jennie D. Tucker will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from Sherman Reed undertaking parlors with the Rev. E J Groeneveld officiating. Burial follows in Mount Moriah Cemetery. She was active among women and admired by many friends.
M A Baldwin of Kalispell praised his town as highly patriotic while recounting two company enlistments. He noted minor draft grumbling and said the TIWW has caused little trouble, with only small issues in Eureka and Whitefish.
Sam Kinville won the canoe race at Lake Avoca with a large crowd watching. E H Clark took second and Carter was third. Kinville also won the canoe tipping contest with Clark aiding him, tipping the opposing canoe in two of three trials.
John J. Purcell aged 40 and a New York native died yesterday afternoon at 9% West Porphyry street. He leaves wife, two sons Francis and John, a sister Miss Mary Purcell, and brothers William and Frank. A longtime Anaconda mine employee, he was a well known Butte citizen. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
The Mamo, a beautiful Hawaiian bird, is now believed extinct after native robes of chiefs were decorated with its golden yellow feathers.
Ballard Dunn leads a wartime push urging suspension of nonessential rail projects to boost war transport. The railroad war board asks public authorities to cut passenger service kept for convenience and defer station builds and grade crossing eliminations to conserve rolling stock, labor, and funding for food, coal, munitions, and national safety during the emergency.
Among the Missoula visitors yesterday were Charles Johnson Elaf Pearson Shea Young and Beda Miller.
The speaker seeks more gentle verse and a wistful smile that finds humor and guile in life. They long for the glamor of ordinary things and the quiet glory of a barren scene transformed by verse.
The piece features patriotic verse by Stanley J. Quinn praising Freedom and Old Glory, plus Upton Sinclair's war song Canning the Kaiser set to Marching Through Georgia. It notes British amusement at American slang with a London note explaining the slogan can the Kaiser.
Sunday in Butte reached 94 degrees at 3 PM tying a heat record last seen July 31, 1908. A north breeze died by afternoon, leaving oppressive heat that drove residents to shade and porches. amusement parks and river roads reported heavy crowds. a few minor car accidents were logged.
The Anaconda Standard will publish a sensational six week serial starting August 5 about Germany and the Kaiser with tales of what they said and planned. British explosive production is reported at 66 times January 1915 levels.
Captain F. M. Kettle dies in France after joining the Irish fight against Prussian forces. The Irish scholar and orator, once a Commons wit and later a professor, left Ireland to die for his country four days before Quincy. He penned a farewell sonnet to his six year old daughter, promising a future time when she will understand his sacrifice.
After a week long strike, Butte hodcarriers reach an agreement with Silver Bow Employers' association. Wages set at four dollars daily for new work, with protections for old contracts at five fifty. A 50 cent raise is also proposed and to be voted on Friday.
William Le Sage, a Butte native, has joined the United States Navy and is stationed at Bremerton Washington. He trains aboard a receiving ship after leaving his job as a carpenter at Gray Rock. His parents a brother and three sisters in Lutte will follow his future moves with pride and concern.
A fragment notes the prophet Jeremiah confined in a pillory, described as a common punishment method of his era.
In Harrison Idaho on July 22 plans to rebuild after a Saturday fire began. The town aims for brick and concrete structures to be fireproof with 37 homes being rebuilt and 400 residents left homeless. Local aid comes from Spokane and nearby towns while governors consider a 5000 dollar grant to clear the lumberyard debris threat. The water supply from Coeur d Alene lake is at risk and incendiary origin is suspected but not proven.
Washington July 22. Garden ing campaign far exceeds normal in the United States with projected value of 350 million dollars. Charles Lathrop Pack, head of the national emergency food garden commission, cites large gains in several regions while Montana ranks among states not yet doubling garden numbers.
Houghton July 23 All copper country home guard companies have been called out for duty tomorrow in anticipation of trouble at the mines after an anonymous circular distributed last night demanded six dollars a day for six hours work.
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