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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
9
Local Montana State Nurses Association members met last Monday to select three delegates for the state convention at Glacier National Park on July 27 and 28. They are Miss Mary Trihey, Miss Winnie Kenney, and Miss Martha Crystal.
Butte Rotary club held its fourth annual meeting at the Butte Grill. New officers include President Dr J A Donovan Vice President Tom Davis secretary treasurer Charles Austin and several directors. New members Fred D Ward John F Davies R M Hobbs Gus A Meyers and A R Currie were elected. The retiring president Malcolm Gillis praised fellowship and service while highlighting club efforts in government, roads, worthy causes, and support for soldiers and the community.
New York June 7 Col T H Good, top medical officer of the Balfour commission, urged the American Medical Association to send 200 doctors and 200 nurses to the western front each month. He warned that wounded can overwhelm hospitals in hours and called for immediate action to reinforce medical staff as Entente forces suffer continuous strain. Dr RW Corwin of Pueblo and Dr Arthur D Bevan of Chicago spoke. Bevan elected AMA president for 1918 1919.
Civil war era practice of paying large bounties to recruit and using substitutes to dodge drafts is halted by the new conscription law. The present law forbids bounties and foresees no substitutes to fulfill quotas.
Police Judge Whitty fined Hugh Stevenson $100 and lectured him for vagrancy after he and K. J. McCusker were arrested at 4 AM with two young women, Delan and Emma Borell, while McCusker a married tailor supported his family. Each girl paid $50. Dolan, father of Miss Dolan, criticized the incident as the judge urged deterrence of such behavior.
Othon Cacharelis, a Greek businessman in Butte, reports 105 Greek names in two hours of conscription registration and estimates about 300 Greeks registered citywide. He refutes claims that Greeks in Milwaukee section crews failed to register, noting only three of 80 residents there were Greeks and all over age. He emphasizes Greek willingness to serve and defend the United States in this war.
Nels Nelson filed a district court complaint seeking custody of their 6-year-old son Carl. He alleges Carrie Nelson removed the boy from their home and denies him access. He charges she uses obscene language in the child’s presence, abuses liquor, stays out late, attends dance halls, and neglects the home and child. Former Judge Michael Donlan is his attorney.
In Walkerville a man pulled an American flag from Edward Doyle's buttonhole and insulted the emblem. About six witnesses forced him to kneel and kiss the flag on the street before he was jailed on a flag desecration charge. Deputy TA O Connell filed the complaint. trial set in justice court. Witnesses include Roy Leonard Jerry Doyle Ed Matthews former Walkerville mayor Joe Tipple George Pierce George Doyle John Downey and Elmer Duhame.
The Woman's Relief corps will entertain tonight at the Grand Army hall in honor of Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Veterans. Members of the Grand Army and Sons of Veterans with their wives are invited. There will be a program and refreshments.
Dan Lynch was jailed for 30 days by Police Judge Whitty after his arrest on a wife beating charge. He had just been released from the county jail on a disturbance charge and had prior police court appearances on the same offense.
Peter M. Rowe of East Woolman Street was fined $50 yesterday afternoon by Police Judge Whitty after coming home angry and striking his wife over the head with a broom in a domestic dispute.
United States District Attorney B K Wheeler and U S Marshal T L Asbridge hurried to Billings to oversee the arrest of four men for failing to register. Prisoners were moved to Billings as Red Lodge conditions grew tense. Officials planned visits to Red Lodge before returning to Butte. The district attorney vowed to prosecute the nonregistrants without leniency, noting many detainees were foreigners unable to speak English.
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