Butte Celebrates Waterworks Upgrade at Big Hole Dam
A long celebration in Butte honored the new Big Hole Reservoir plant and water system improvements. Speakers praised engineers Carroll, Payne, and Val for building a reliable supply, with Mayor Davy and County Commissioner Haggerty lauding the project. Residents enjoyed a river trip, dam tours, bear encounter, and entertainment concluding with a rowing of prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haggerty
Butte
Montana Power Company
Doull
Notable Delegation On Month-Long Westward Trip
A large group including Mayor Davey and numerous city officials visited western sites. Attendees listed include Aldermen Manchester Cohen Bachelor Siebenaler Day Gleeson Kelly Bowman Bryant Heaney Doull City Treasurer Kal kins City Physician Sullivan Fire Chief Sanger Building Inspector Law Street Commissioner McLaughlin City Engineer Dickenbach City Attorney Lamb Police Judge Boyle County Physician Donnelly Public Administrator Colling County Auditor Crossman County Clerk Weston County Commissioner Haggerty William Sellton president of Anaconda company Supt C W Goodale Constructing Engineer D W Brunton Superintendent of Mines John Gillie John F Forbis Dr 7 J Murray Dr Freund W W Cheeley and Ida Ramsdell of the Inter Mountain M Semple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bachelor
Manchester
Kelly
Sanger
Bowman
Cohen
John Forbes
J. P. Collins
Alderman Bryant
Bryant
Will Semple
Ramadell
John Weston
Calkins
Butte
Carroll
Davey
Siebenaler
Day
Gleeson
Heaney
Doull
Sullivan
Law
McLaughlin
Dickenbach
Lamb
Boyle
Donnelly
Colling
Crossman
Weston
Haggerty
William Sealton
Anaconda
Fancy Grocery Ad Promises Low Prices On Staples
A fragmented old ad lists items and prices at a grocery store on North Main Street. It features flour, meal, ammonia, soaps, laundry supplies, starch, clothes lines, and a liquor department offering Burgundy wine and whiskey with a confident invitation to buy and old-fashioned service.
Local officials and engineers oversee water pump setup
A report lists J Thomas afiner and Eugene Carroll among Standard men andGeorge Lyman Frank Young and Miller Bergium of the water company with Edwin Lloyd as pump engineer in charge. Charles Wood J P Young and other engineers run the pump while H Wilson of the Short Line leads an excursion. Also noted are the families of Hichart H Raymond Hungate and the Burford and Lane sisters, members of Tiinole Knights of Seal lodge No 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afiner
J. Thomas
the Tribune
Eugene Carroll
George Lyman
Frank Young
Miller Bergium
Edwin Lloyd
Charles Wood
J. P. Young
P. On
H. ©. Wilson
Short Line
Hichart H. Raymond Hungate
D. Burford
John Lane
Dontana Ft
Knights of 1 of
Seal Lodge No.4
Tive of Tiinole
Paris Demonstration Splits Clericals and Anti clericals
In Paris on July 27 a large crowd gathered to support Premier Combes order closing congrationist schools, with about 15 000 in Place de la Concorde and many more on the Champs Elysées. Clashes were limited though several fights occurred as anti clerical and clerical factions clashed, police intervened, and the city resumed normalcy by evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Aly
Plice Beauveau
Elysee Palace
Ministry of the Interior
Ine
Mesdames de' Mun
Cibiel
Depom
Carria
of the Interior
Premier Combes
Place de la Concordie
Elysees
Dr Eugene Wissom Suicide Ends Noted Neurologist Career
Washington reports Dr Eugene Wissom formerly of Denver a famed alienist and neurologist killed himself at his son’s home by shooting through the brain. A Civil War veteran and former head of the North Carolina Insane Asylum Raleigh he had lectured on insanity and wrote True and False Experts. He chaired the Medical Society and led asylum superintendent groups and was 71 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eugene Wissom
Denver
Grissom
Granville
North Carolina
Raleigh
American Medical Society
Border Land
Medical Society
Neighbors Save House From Fire in Meaderville
At about 2 a.m. in the McQueen addition Meaderville neighbors formed a bucket brigade to control a blaze threatening Ralph Sokalich’s home. The couple praised the quick, heroic work of residents who kept the house from destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Sokalich
McQueen Addition
Meaderville
New Rifles for Company MONG Ready Soon
July 37 report: Captain G H Preston notified that Company MONG Io will be issued Krag Jorgensen rifles. Springfield muskets to be turned in at Helena, new uniforms due around August. Also notes alfalfa harvest progress, average yields over two tons per acre, and favorable grain growth of barley and oats amid recent rains boosting hay cure. Ranchers optimistic for a large overall yield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GH Preston
Lee McCullough
Helena
Mixed Dispatches from the Territory and Manila
Special Dispatches from Billings and Manila report a government thermometer at five o'clock registering an even degree for the third time this year in Billings. In Manila Commissioner Moss proposes shifting child instruction to Filipino teachers in the morning and Americans in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Manila
Ssernard Moses
Inter
Moss
Austro Hungarian leaders meet in Vienna council
A crown council chaired by Emperor Francis Joseph met in Vienna at the Hofburg with Austro Hungarian premier De Szet and foreign minister Golichowaski. They discussed a compromise on the Ausgerich question to be considered by imperial legislative bodies. In Martinsburg West Virginia James Grimes, 14, collapsed in a drug store and died within minutes from fatty degeneration of the heart.
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Vienna
Bymperor Francis Josepa
Tsohol
Upper
Austria
Baturday
Ie von Koerger
de Szet
Ttungary
Golichowaski
Martinsburg
W. Va
James Grimes
Franklin Grimes
Southern hotel wallops Braund house 15 to 2 in Butte
About 500 fans watched Southern hotel humiliate Braund house at Athletic park in Butte with a 15 to 2 victory. Skelly dominated on the mound as Braund house struggled to connect, Perham tallied the two Braund runs, Merkle starred at short and third, and three double plays plus a Braund triple highlight the lop sided contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Hotel
Athletic Park
Butte
Braund House
Skelly
Brand House
Perham
Braund House Boys
H. Merkle
Gam
A. Merkle
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Butte News
Racers
Tanglefoot
Ster Pete, ‘Spec
Aithon
Pound
Henry Jonas
Montana's
Big Hole Reservoir
Tory
W. Payne
Payne
Basin Creek
Springfield
Mass
Val
Vail
Democratic Party
Carsroll
Capplatee
Cruciae
Valee’ Gashaie
Brussels
Pritchard-Harrison Carpet CO
Cor
Park and
Main Sts
Butte, Mont
John G. Holland
Grocar
North Main Street
Knights and Ladies of Security
Colorado Street
Tom Hight
Lady Hungate
W. A. Conta
RH Hungate
Tealdence
California Avenue
Uly
Northern Pacific Hal'ng
Northern Pacific
Burington
Strott
J. Willams & Co
Tims
Great Northern Railway
JB Austin
Lackawanna Steel Company
Tiesa
Ausgetten
Our
Lander Furniture and Carpet Co
F. Broadway
Pufahl's
Pufahl’s
West Park
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
K of Southern Hotel Team
Big Blackfoot Milling Company
Arizona and Aluminum
Bonner, Mont
Butte, Anaconda and
Missoula
Jasper
Riley - Dwyer Liquor CO
West Broadway
Wyoming
Montana
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