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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1905
Page
4
Baseball fever grips Anaconda as two matches unfold this week. Today at 2 15 p m the Butchers meet the Printers at Old Park in a full nine inning game continuing a dispute from three weeks ago. A second match pits G A R veterans against Old Timers on the common next Thursday evening with boasting from both sides over athletic prowess.
Various names visit the city including Miss Ella Bryant from Butte and Miss Madge Riter from Butte. Local business: Verberckmoes leading optician, Graduate optician at Greig's, Hammerslough's optical room, and Stage's refrigerators. Notices include marriage licenses to Rapsch Leiskto and Freberg Carlson, a lost dog, stage line inquiry to Echo Jake, and debt collection for the Ehret estate. Baseball score Stars 11 Snow Flakes 1.
A city event features a picked team of young ladies against a picked team of married ladies in a charity game. It draws local supporters and showcases community talent in a lighthearted competition.
A shotgun contest starts at 1 30 pm at the Anaconda Rod and Gun club with Prosser of Helena defending the Brownlee medal against Drumgoole of this city. Shooters from Butte Missoula Livingston Idaho Falls Great Falls Billings are expected along with many others and wives. Street cars run from Main and Third every 20 minutes starting at 1.
Henry Friborg and Annie Carlson were married early yesterday at 618 Birch Street by Rev. Carl Berntson of the Swedish Baptist church. The couple, longtime Anaconda residents, left on the first train for Portland and will reside on Ash Street upon return. friends wish them happiness.
Cures dizzy spells tired feeling stomach kidney and liver troubles and keeps you well. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea offers tea or tablets for 35 cents. Smith Drug Co.
A detailed atlas issued jointly by the Northern Pacific railway with the Burlington route and the Great Northern railway covers northwestern western and middle western states. It includes maps of island possessions Japan China United States and the world plus boundaries history population statistics school population state institutions families farms manufactures railway mileage post offices minerals and state governments of commonwealths along the railways. It sells for $1 through A M Cleland general passenger agent Northern Pacific railway St Paul Minn.
Jacobson advertises for sale sawed wood at 5 dollars per cord containing 128 cubic feet. Half cord priced at 2.75 dollars and a quarter cord at 50 cents. Unsawed wood offered at 4.5 dollars per cord. Located at 2 East Third Street.
Tim G. Sullivan and William Johnson, traveling picture sellers, were fined 20 dollars or 10 days for fighting in a saloon. Judge O Boyle mocked the pair for staging a dramatic rehearsal, noting the scene looked too real and advising them to stop rehearsals at 2 a m. Patrolman Keenan testified to a knockout count.
County Attorney Tolan arrived in the city from St. Peters Minnesota where he had been for several weeks to attend his father's funeral. He traveled via the Northern Pacific. His mother and two sisters will join him soon on the Great Northern. They visited friends in a North Dakota town. Most of Mr. Tolans district court cases have been continued for the term by Judge Winston and opposing counsel.
Dr Jackson, arrested by Policeman Haffey for disturbing the peace, paid a $10 fine after a hearing before Police Magistrate O Boyle. W Christian fined $10 for carrying a revolver. Albert Westbrooke jailed 30 days for vagrancy, sentence suspended 20 minutes. B A P railroad sells round trip tickets Anaconda to Butte for $1 for Pompeii show, depart 6 50 p m Anaconda return 10 50 p m Butte Aug 1 1905.
Matt Ward great sachem of Montana will make an official visit to Tendale tribe No 2 Thursday August 8 1905 Refreshments C A MACCALLUM Attest Sachem H W Harrity C of R
Two Sisters of Charity visit the city from the St. Joseph's orphans home in Helena. They are in town in the interests of the institution.
A local home reports housing more than 226 children with many arriving from Anaconda. Nearly all residents rely entirely on charity for support and care.
James Albert Poore was admitted to practice in Montana by the supreme court on motion of John B. Clayberg after presenting a Virginia diploma. He studied at the University of Virginia completing three years in two, ranked in the top 10 of a 150 class, and has tied to Forbis Mattison in Butte. Poore, a Boulder native, will join Mattison’s office.
Special Dispatch to the Standard Helena July 29. Lawyer RB Thresher, fined for contempt in Butte, is wanted in Helena on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. In October he allegedly received $25 from Union Bank and Trust with a bad draft. the bank did not press it, but a justice court warrant was issued for his arrest.
Special Dispatch to the Standard Lewistown July 29 Architect J H Kent of Helena has been commissioned to prepare rough sketches for the new $75,000 hotel. Plans will be refined after Kent’s suggestions and the promoters’ ideas are incorporated. Before leaving for Helena, Kent was also commissioned by State Senator Waite to draw plans for a handsome new residence this summer.
A Texas picnic report states an unknown black man who tried to assault two white women last Thursday was lynched by a mob of several hundred men near Avery, Dallas. The incident underscores racial violence in the area during July.
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