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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
7
Beginning today a window exhibit showcases the Colonial Maid Sterling silverware collection. The display offers a chance to view designs suitable for a June wedding gift or personal selection, inviting a special trip to see the entire selection.
A flurry of visitors and relocations fills Butte as locals and guests arrive from Dillon, Helena, Missoula, Sheridan, and beyond. Notables include J C Benson from Great Falls, E Shoemaker from Lewistown, and W J Barnett heading to Rochester.
Butte school trustees approve the concept of folk dancing but ban two step and ballroom moves at Emerson and similar classes. They cite lax supervision and pledge to tighten regulation, with the superintendent to oversee policy and notify principals.
Fragmentary notice notes an elderly individual aged 57 in a dim parlor scene. The text mentions a body removal and refers to time and place of a tuner in an adjacent paving. The readable details are sparse and lack clear names or locations.
Remains of James H Barry shipped to Missoula for interment. Marie Cain funeral set at 100 Roberts Avenue Foss Cemetery. Robinson funeral details unclear with times. Thomas Brady, 48, died at local hospital. remains at Walsh's undertaking parlors.
The Woman's Club Fine Arts department hosts a dancing program next Saturday with many attending girls. Dances include the Mom ents Musical group dance, Semper Gavotte, Italian character dances, Spanish dances, and a barefoot number. Art exhibits by city artists, solos, piano pieces, and ukulele performances are planned. Afternoon start at 3 and evening at 8:30 with committees reporting strong progress.
London reports that British casualties in May were heavier than the two previous months. The published lists tally 1,767 officers and 9,470 men. March casualties were 2,442 officers and men, April 2,061, with ages and other details obscured by text from a foreign scientist and ultraviolet photographs.
City council defeated the South Main Street Boulevard plan 11 to 5 amid debate over legality and district boundaries. The judiciary committee rejected Mayor Lane's request to appoint a policewoman at dances, with mixed votes and opposition from Aldermen Swanson Cunningham Sullivan and others.
A fragmented snippet discusses Montana map dimensions and a card auction scenario. It mentions bids by A B C D and D as trump with numbers like 50 60 100 150 and 180. It asks how many tricks D must take to win and notes meld counts and required makes. The text is garbled and lacks coherent events.
Mrs A J McKay of Whitehall visits Butte while Mr and Mrs Alfred Pope and two children plan to sail Milwaukee today for New York and then Cornwall to make their home. Mrs B E Calkins improves after a serious operation. Mr and Mrs William Morton of California stay at the Williams home 1947 Nevada avenue for the summer during Mrs Williams' absence. Governor and Mrs V Stewart and Chancellor and Mrs Edwin Elliott arrived from Dillon with Attorney General J B Poindexter after the Dillon normal school commencement. William Frazer, Colorado mine foreman, has been at Boulder Hot Springs two weeks and leaves today for a month’s trip to Seattle and California coast, noting recent health issues.
In New York tonight the Seattle Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at the Hotel Washington featured C. Depew. The audience used telephone receivers to hear cross country calls as Seattle linked with Omaha Chicago and New York. Frank Vanderlip and John A. Sleicher sent messages over 2000 miles of wire. Penrose elected national committeeman for Pennsylvania by unanimous vote. New Zealand death rate noted as under 1 percent.
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