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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1919
Page
7
Joe Kubat writes to Open Air Smile about pupils needing glasses. The letter says new eyewear helps children see the blackboard clearly, aiding learning. Leys offers properly fitted glasses at reasonable prices for students to keep up in class.
Butte notes list visitors and residents from Livingston Helena Dillon Philipsburg Great Falls Bitter Root and other towns. Included are arrivals at Thorntons Leggat Acoma Finlen and other hotels, births, registrants, and a court judgment for Thomas Laughery against Haulty Co operative.
Lieut Arthur Weirick, thought dead after a 200 mph crash in Europe, walked off a train in Butte and reunites with friends before heading to Lewistown. The 25 year old former First National Bank employee recounts his air combat experiences, including a bombing mission behind German lines on Oct 1 during the Argonne battle.
The narrator describes a midair attack in which tracer fire hit his engine, a leader spotting enemy planes, and the squadron being driven down. He details being disabled, ejecting from a burning craft, and receiving aid from artillerymen and doctors. He reaches Belgian lines on December 2 after hospitalization and return.
Hex Beach’s four day photoplay The Crimson Gardenia ends its run in Butte at the Ansonia theater today. The film, drawing crowds, is paired with Billie Parsons comedy New Breakfast Food and Eddie Polo in Cyclone Smith series, offering a vivid Mardi Gras themed production and reflections on urban life and wartime era, in a film praised by theatergoers.
York date June 3 reports elevators and storage increase. Receipts from farms show 2,505,000 bushels for the week, contrasted with reductions in flour production and barrels produced. The text notes a rise of 8,789,000 bushels from the previous week and compares storage to 112,144,000 barrels for 1918 May 23 versus 108,700,000 barrels previously.
Salt Lake June 3 reports Pleas voiced for forming a single national organization of U S farmers. Speakers A A Elmore Spokane Milo Camobell Michigan Dr W J Spillman former agriculture official John A McSparren Penn State Grange and Charles Barrett Farmers Union of Georgia spoke at Inter Mountain Farmers association sessions.
The dispute in Butte centers on coal deliveries to the courthouse. County Auditor Nelson Sullivan states the feud with commissioners began in February over who could order coal, contradicting claims the car trouble started the conflict. She says she advised coal deliveries during business hours for inspection, upsetting some commissioners and prompting questions about officials’ purchasing roles.
M. J. Murphy, a well known old timer in Butte, departs for an extended visit to Denver Colorado. His absence from Butte is uncertain. Murphy was active in political circles and the engineers union and was widely known in many towns across the state as a Woodmen camp member.
Judge W C and Mrs Speer returned to Butte after fifteen days of rain spent mainly in San Francisco. They stepped from the train to a perfect day, greeted by old friends and acquaintances. The couple, fond of San Francisco, enjoyed a six week visit with many reunions before returning home.
Regular erection of officers will be held on Wednesday June 4th. Polls open from 10 a m. EL Whitney president ED Lawlor treasurer see.
Fifteen active patrols enroll all of Butte's Boy Scouts prepared for a week of celebration June 14 by special proclamation of President Wilbert. Business and professional men join in, aiming a large observance of Hoy Scout week with enthusiasm for war work and liberty.
An incoherent artifact from a historic page mentions coal operators in Utah and Manitoba, with notes of a planned announcement on a purchase, a June 3 meeting, and a police commission ultimatum about sympathetic strikes. The fragment includes references to coal interests, labor unions, and negotiations, but lacks coherent details or outcomes.
A fragmented satirical line from Cartoons Magazine imagines a dispute over bills owed to Hill Grocery, invoking Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George in a quip about payment urgencies and caustic political banter.
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