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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
13
City organizations meet tonight including K of C and Odd Fellows. Social events and visits dominate the day with coal ads and buy/sell notices. Local residents and out-of-town guests arrive or pass through for business, travel, or wartime recruitment, while various auctions, sales, and notices populate the column.
Notice to electors announces August 27 1918 primary election registry closing July 27 1918 at 5 pm with registration at county offices. Also probate notice for Anders G Backlund estate sets July 24 1918 at 9 30 am to prove will and hear petition for letters testamentary to Selma L Backlund in Deer Lodge County Montana.
Walter D. Sweeney, son of J. M. Sweeney, enlisted in the navy and departed for Mare Island California last evening to be assigned there. A reception was tendered by intimate friends and a wrist watch was presented, with We G. Pagan presenting the gift.
Sheriff notes in the West Valley district report two geldings and a mule missing from grazing pasture. Louis Launderville describes the theft amid sightings of two suspects nearby shortly before the livestock vanished. The animals weighed about 1,300 pounds in total and included a two-toned mare.
An art picnic committee of the Butchers union and the Clerks union plan a big event at Silver Lake on Wednesday August 21 with amusements and sports awarding cash prizes. A large afternoon and evening program features a big orchestra, music, and serving cream and sugar. Special trains run from Butte to Silver Lake with departures around 8 9 a.m. from Anaconda and 8 p.m. return. The event is billed as the biggest picnic of the season and all are invited.
An advertisement explains a NYT Chicago Tribune partnership for Standard war cable news, costing 25 cents per word and running thousands of words nightly. It promotes subscriptions 5 cents per copy, 30 cents monthly, or $9 yearly, with delivery every day regardless of weather.
A special meeting of the war chest trustees chaired by President Laist discussed a $10,000 request from the local Red Cross branch. The funds would support Red Cross and war relief activities in Deer Lodge, with trustees cautioning against personal fundraising tied to the war chest. A machinists union event that funded Red Cross refreshments was deemed outside the war chest’s purpose.
The local board announces a five day call for colored volunteers to entrain for Camp Fremont on April 1. Selections include General Stokes Vonnell Jesse Stokes Touls Percy Harney Wyatt Jones and Bernice Dorsey with alternates Phelps Holmes James Crawford Albert Frial. A medical board examined 22 men and will continue today. Andrew Glenn volunteered for service and the board seeks more volunteers as authorized to induct. An error in yesterday's Standard about Joseph Orrino attending his father's funeral is corrected. he left with the contingent for Camp Dodge.
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