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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
7
Butte residents note rent pianos from Orton Bros and sales tips from Shermans. Several visitors and locals travel for mining, fisheries, and medical services while social events span dances and teas. A marriage license and sewer petition add to daily civic life as Brown's Lake guests recount a pleasant two weeks.
Mrs. T W Buzzo hosted Miss Jennie Gould of Los Angeles at a casual afternoon in a Kasington Inn. The day featured social visits, dinners, warding parties, and a string of local engagements including garden parties and a whirl of hostesses and guests from Butte and nearby towns.
Soloists include Sophia Naese tenor and Nora Jones with Dollie Sanger and Athol Laity. Ice cream and cake followed the program. Local humane society signs warn that injuring animals is a criminal offense with fines and imprisonment, police to arrest offenders, inspector hoped but not funded yet.
Sunday school children from St. John's Episcopal church enjoyed an annual outing to Columbia Gardens. Jumbo street cars donated by J. R. Wharton carried the merrymakers, 9:30 morning departure and 5:39 p.m. return. Free rides on the merry-go-round and ice cream were provided. Rev Blackiston led the group with several church members joining.
Six youths charged with breaking into a box car at Northern Pacific Railway yards and stealing flavoring extracts of value. Three arrested. two more suspected. Names listed include Kirk Schultz Frank Archie John Turk and Eddie Behultz with others Joe Gregg John Freize and Theodore Grump. Ages range up to 15. Case filed in Justice Doran's court. likely further questioning today.
Peter Cornelius, after a night of drinking, slept in a Galena alley and woke to find a pocketbook with 16 dollars and a new pair of shoes stolen. He told Police Barshaw he worked on a railroad and was jailed for the night. He blamed drink for his misfortune and laughed at the loss as a joke.
In Butte 5 000 women trust us with prescriptions and rely on Newbro's Witch Hazel Cream to cure and prevent wrinkles. The cream promises pliant skin and a healthy rosy glow, selling at 25 cents a bottle with two and a half times the content of the 2c size. Available at Butte druggists and Newbro Drug Co., 109 North Main Street.
The Ladies' Aid society of the German Lutheran church held an entertainment last night at Finlander hall to raise funds for the new church building. A large audience attended and the program included piano solos, recitations, violin and instrumental duets, and vocal performances led by Alma Scheffel, Lottie Matthis, H Recksick, Ethel and Frankie Dillon, Rose Frendenstein, Alma Scheffel, Hattie Seitz, and Louis Frendenstein.
John M. Dougherty of the Speculator Mining company arrived back in Butte yesterday after a business trip to Omaha.
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