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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
20
Montana counties seek state designation to direct highway work within borders. Helena, Jefferson, Granite and Sanders counties discuss measures to fund surveys and builds for major routes. Plan aims include Helena to Butte and Missoula to Spokane connections, with private and agency support.
The third annual spring reunion of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Helena at Masoni temple concludes with the conferring of the thirtyfirst and thirtysecond degrees by Helena c on sistory officers under Day master of Kadosh. The event drew many Masons from outside Helena and ends with a formal banquet after final rites in the evening.
Bozeman reports the Gallatin Auto club will hold its first club tour on June 8 meeting on Main street at 9 a.m. The group will travel 25 miles to Livingston then follow the Yellowstone river north to the road camp where state pen convicts are working on roads under Park County supervision. The club urges county commissioners to take on similar work locally. A separate item notes Charles Grant escaped injury when lightning struck his four horse team near Dillon during a wood haul. three horses were killed and the fourth knocked down, Grant was stunned but not seriously hurt.
Missoula officials and businessmen push for consolidation of the two local telephone companies under the anti monopoly act. President Sid Coffee says the chamber will confer with the state public utility commission in Helena to seek suspension and merger, aimed at ending competition nuisance. The chamber’s executive board backs laying Missoula’s demand before authorities.
Missoula reports flood fears rise as Clark's Fork river swells near the wagon bridge. Workers battle driftwood and prepare to blow river drifts with dynamite while anchors move to higher ground to protect against rising water.
The Interstate Commerce Commission said a further hearing will be granted in the Sheridan coal rate case. Montana coal producers seek relief against alleged discrimination, with involvement of Chicago Omaha Montana St Paul interests, likely to be held in St Paul soon. Public improvement plans in Helena include sewer and water extensions, parking, grading, and cement sidewalks costing about 238,000, last year’s expenditures noted.
Branch agencies of the Standard will receive identical service and rates as the main office in Butte or Anaconda. Ads are charged 1 cent per word and will be telephoned to the Standard office. Listings include Runzler Drug Co 601 West Park, Butte East Side O Leary's Drug Store 1017 Talbot Ave, South Butte South Butte Pharma Minum and Utah Family Drug Store 549 South Main, Ison's Drug Store 1660 QM Ave, C E Rage 303 West Aluminum St WALKERVILLE Walkerville Daly St Centerville Centerville Drug Co 938 North Main Street 1 West.
A jumble of classified notices lists vacancies and requests in Montana towns. Drilling and tunneling work seek a manager, first class job seekers are advertised, plus households seek maids, a nurse, and a girl for general housework. Positions call for kitchen and hospital training, while others seek tailoring, press repairs, and a restaurant cook. Local addresses include Bozeman Spokane Butte Anaconda and Missoula area listings.
A patchwork of classified lines seeks loans sales and help in Butte Montana. Offers include quick profit schemes from Prudential Properties and various employment and sale notices. Also mentions miners from England and local public works plans in Vancouver British Columbia.
Auction or sale listing for poultry stock including White Leghorn, White Orpingtons, Anconas, White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Red, and Cypher incubators and brooders. Prices per dozen or unit quoted, seller listed as Lawrence Jackson and Cypher Incubators, contact details partially legible with city references Waukesha and Butte.
A collage of real estate and rental notices from Butte sections includes multiroom frame houses for sale or rent, lodging houses with hot water heat, corner properties near parks, and vacant lots with potential for stock raising. Also present are employment notices for bookkeeping and nursing, a dog breed listing, a lost items notice, and miscellaneous classifieds. Local realty firms Reyna McDowell Co and De. F. A. Lrovalde feature, with addresses on Broadway and Main Street, plus references to Bailey Loan and Realty Co and several street corners.
A dense OCR page lists varied Montana classified notices and ads including real estate rentals, autos for sale, groceries, stock shares, clothing, plant sales, and room rentals. Entries name businesses and locations in Dillon Butte Helena and surrounding areas with offers, prices, and contact hints.
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