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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
24
Women’s fine quality hose described in gauze lisle with drop stitched effects in black and tan. Extra grade lisle hose in black with all lace designs and fancy lisle in colors. Value 40c a pair, special 25c.
Trustees finalize the teacher corps for the 1908-09 school year to begin September 8. The committee recommends month-to-month engagements, existing salary schedule, and a teacher institute the week of September 7. A long list of retained teachers and substitutes is named. two new names join the corps.
The Young Men's Society of St Patrick's church schedules a private dance this Friday and an upcoming picnic weather permitting. Committee members Murray Brennan Ryan and Gilroy lead the picnic planning. E E Kenevik may lecture next meeting. A memo committee of Murray Kennedy and Rohan will draft resolutions on the death of J H Nolan, father of member Matthew Nolan.
A Butte rainfall reading by a local engineer yields an estimate that if Montana received rain as heavy as Butte in May, the state would have about 59.99 billion tons of water. The calculation was shared with a Standard reporter yesterday.
Damond lodge Knights of Pythias has elected officers for the ensuing term including Chancellor commander William Meyer vice chancellor Pascoe Hocking master of work Robert Murray prelate Rudolph G Lefleur.
The roster names key officers and delegates including master of exchequer Harry Portuguese, master of finance Ernest J. Muller, keeper of records Charles A. Daley, master at arms Phillip Trevithick, inner guard Norman Charles, outer guard R. D. Jones, and grand lodge delegate Ernest J. Muller with alternate Sig Schilling.
The Jewish feast of weeks or Shaboth will be celebrated by Adath Israel at their West Silver street synagogue. Rev. Alfred Kahn will lead the services. The festival commemorates the delivery of the ten commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Emma Goldman, famed anarchist lecturer, reached Drummond en route to Butte and was due on the first train with the Tacoma ball team. Her advance agent failed to rent the Auditorium, and the Broadway theater also declined. She plans multiple talks in Butte.
Students of the eighth grade of the various public schools of the city are undergoing examinations. The program covers reading, writing, arithmetic, and general coursework, with results to be reported to parents and school boards.
County Superintendent Mary Aret Hogan and high school Principal Downer conduct the test for students seeking admission in the fall. The process assesses readiness and fits for transition to secondary education.
R G Huston of Montana Grand Army of the Republic says the group did not slur General Grant by noting past drinking but opposed political buncombe linking it to events from fifty years ago. He recalls Lincoln's reaction to prohibitionists asking about Grant's whiskey.
George Ribich 29 of Austria died yesterday after six years in Butte where he worked as a smelterman. His body rests at cousin Mrs. Joseph Lubich’s home in the Park addition. Funeral services will be at the Church of the Holy Saviour in Meaderville this morning.
Mrs William McKeon died at her home 261 East Porphyry street after a two weeks illness of diabetes. She was 48, born in County Mayo Ireland, and had lived in Butte 12 years. Surviving are husband five children five sisters a brother and the husband. Funeral will be at Sacred Heart church with high mass. Burial in Catholic cemetery. The family includes Frank William James and Rose of Butte Mame of Seattle. Sisters reside in San Francisco. Brother Anthony Graham of San Francisco.
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