Plans for Picnic Well Under Way
Plans for the big annual picnic are progressing with efforts to secure a speaker of national reputation for the event. Organizing committee is coordinating dates and arrangements to ensure a successful gathering.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1918
Page
10
Plans for the big annual picnic are progressing with efforts to secure a speaker of national reputation for the event. Organizing committee is coordinating dates and arrangements to ensure a successful gathering.
A meeting of the executive committee at the Tewey ranch on Race Track creek outlined the big Pipientes event for three counties Deer Lodge Silver Bow and Towell. A national speaker will be sought for the address to promote patriotism. Proceeds from the dance hall will aid the Farmers' Pile association to cover debts and repairs. A promenade will encircle the pavilion to enlarge floor space. Committees were named for arrangements music and other tasks with several local officials from Deer Lodge Powell and Silver Bow counties serving.
The Condors beat Anaconda Brown 9 to 4 at Washoe Park yesterday in a likely final game for the season. Several players joined the camp at Lewis. details are incomplete but the score and venue are clear.
A correspondent in France describes wartime food shortages and price shifts, meat rationing, and the daily struggle for provisions. He notes meat and bread tickets, limited shop sales, and the impact on farmers, cattle stock, and dairy operations. He discusses postwar farming, munition factories, and potential export trade with the United States, while acknowledging uncertainty about future policies.
The theater announced a Pickford photoplay based on His Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It recalls the Saturday Evening Post serial and features Louise Huff with young Pick in Seventeen. The Varmint and other Paramount pictures also noted.
The engaging young daughter of a millionaire boss marries in a witty production directed by William D. Taylor. The film is a riot of laughter from start to finish with a playful premise of reincarnation and comic misunderstandings.
A Methodist church audience heard Chaplain Lacklen condemn Germany as an outlaw nation in a sermon on international law. He argued nations must honor treaties and Hague norms, citing gas use, sinking ships, bombardment of noncombatants, and occupation abuses as violations. The speaker warned without universal enforcement there is no peace.
A wartime broadcast extols Allied resolve against Germany, calling the foe an arrogant outlaw and asserting the nations will not surrender. It urges every citizen to support the war effort, proclaiming that liberty and justice must prevail and that the world will be made safe for right living.
The weekly list shows numerous names of letters remaining uncalled for at the host office led by Walter Anson and Viktor Aranson. A special meeting of 1.8 and OB is set for Tuesday July 20 1918 at 5 p.m. in hall 1y O. 0. with important business announced by Edward Burke postmaster and E D Hamilton president.
Thousands of union workers marched through the city and gathered for a mass meeting to protest the death sentence of Thomas J. Mooney, condemned in the San Francisco case. The rally reflected wide support for the disputed conviction and sparked active demonstrations across the region.
Francisco news notes a preparedness parade bomb and P Walsh, chair of the national war labor board, says Mooney conviction stems from conspiratorial resolutions at a Chicago Federation of Labor meeting calling on President Wilson to prevent the “judicial murder” of Thorax I Mooney. Walsh predicts a parole by Governor Stephens may lead to a pardon and urges presidential troops if needed. Also mentions floating safes for seagoing vessels to recover contents after sinking.
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