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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
13
Helena July 30 The governor's match at Camp Stewart Fort Harrison range crowned Second Lieut Richard Doorenbos Kalispell with 17 points for the gold medal. Sergt Maryan Michels and Sergt S A Stansfield, both Kalispell, placed second and third with 200 and 193. Kalispell guardsmen dominate the competition as three matches complete and the Camp Ferry tryout will decide Montana's team for Camp Perry.
In Big Timber on July 30 the eight stenographers hired to transcribe Stillwater county records under county officials A. J. Mitchell and C. A. Prater completed the project and returned home. Miss Mayme Anderson remains to assist County Clerk Hickman. cost is about 13000 dollars to Stillwater. The workers averaged 17000 words per six and a half hour day, with Miss Lillian Kankola of Butte and Miss Helen Quade of Billings averaging 20000 words. Also, Wm. Willman leased the Home Telephone plant for five years, praised as competent and popular.
Kalispell council, after rejecting the Northern Idaho and Montana Power Co proposal to sell its plant for 165000, adopts a resolution for a Sept 3 special election on issuing 212000 in bonds to fund a city water plant on the Stillwater. City Engineer Marsh and consultants’ feasibility study received favorable council review.
One of the week’s city attractions is W. H. Land of Frankfort Kentucky a very tall man. He is one fourth Cherokee, from a giant family and claims to be the smallest in his family. He stands six feet seven and a half inches tall and weighs 262 pounds. A local liveryman tried to saddle him with stirrups stretched to the longest reach but found them six inches too short. Land is visiting old friends in the city.
Helena July 30 trains will begin using the Great Northern station August 1 with No 288 from Butte arriving at 10 50. The $70 000 building, costing more with site work, stands 106 by 40 feet two stories plus a 100 foot tower. A baggage wing adjoins the main structure on the west. No lunch counter is planned.
Sixty six delegates, including out of town attendees from Anaconda to Winnipeg, recorded for the Christian Endeavor convention in Bozeman on July 80. The list names delegations from Anaconda Ballantine Belgrade Billings Broadview Butte Conrad Culbertson Huston Smith Eureka Helena Kalispell Livingston Melrose Missoula Philipsburg Polson Springhill Stevensville Victor and visitors from Boston Minneapolis and Winnipeg, with several clergymen among the attendees.
Mrs. Augusta Sheridan returns from a Belt neighbors reunion hosted by Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Potter at their Yellowstone River ranch near Columbus. The Sheridans married in 1895. Mr. Sheridan once edited Belt Valley Times and served as Big Timber postmaster until his death in 1906.
Helena July 30 William Lindsay United States marshal and major Montana sheepman says Montana farmers received an average of four cents less per pound for wool this year. He notes the season saw 16 to 17 cent bids and predicts prices may rebound about two cents as buyers adjust. He has consigned wool and expects later consignments to fetch 18 to 20 cents.
Bozeman July 30 Charles S Hartman the new United States minister to Ecuador left Bozeman for Seattle to visit his daughter Mrs Roy Pinkerton and his new grandson He will return August 6 and on August 7 will be given a banquet by friends In Bozeman He leaves for Washington August 8 to receive instructions for his new work and will sail from New York for South America as soon as he receives his credentials.
Helena July 30 Under an agreement Montana Power company paid the county 16621 46 for damages from the Trout creek bridge destruction when the Hauser lake dam failed in 1908 The county sought 17290 The company faced legal questions but chose to settle to preserve good relations with the county and avoid further dispute
Professor J P Rowe of Montana State University toured local mine prospects with student Tom Busha and observed a dry land oats field waist high. Plans advance for the Lincoln Memorial Library dedication in Denysville Maine gifted by descendants of Gen Benjamin Lincoln who settled the town in 1786.
WANTED-MISCELLANEOUS WANTED-TO-BUY A general merchandise business to include groceries and meat market T. J. Me Standard Butte WANTED-GOOD BUTTE INCOME property no agents state price terms and details A. Co M Standard Butte FARMER WANTS A FURNISHED ranch on shares with stock references furnished Box 126 Winston Mont WANTED-TO BUY SMALL MODERN rooming house close in A B Stand
Advertisements at branch agencies in Butte Anaconda and Walkerville will be treated the same as at main office in Butte. Rate is 1 cent a word. Ads telephoned to the Standard office for prompt publication. Listings include Henry's Pharmacy Granite and Alabama Butte east side O Leary's drug store Talbot avenue South Butte and Walkerville Centerville drug firms with street addresses.
One of the finest propositions in the Shields valley offering 8 000 acres with 300 acres timber able to cut 1 000 000 feet of lumber 310 inches decreed water for irrigation 500 acres cultivable 120 acres currently in timothy Price 15 per acre Call or Write DAN HEALY Livingston or DAN SCHRODER N P Depot Butte
The Rombauer Assay Co and Wilson Smith Co advertise real estate loans at 8, 10 and 12 percent with short notice and easy terms. H Corkish lists office in Butte offering loans on real estate and chattels. A dye and cleaning establishment is for sale due to ill health with machinery run by electricity priced at 700 dollars. Also cyanide plant and assay outfit advertised by Fuller Drug Co in Anaconda.
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