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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
20
Helena June 10 The state fair executive committee adjourned after finalizing September exhibition details. Plans include duplicating the current layout, expanding the sheep barn, relay races with $1000 prizes, wild West stunts, fancy roping, trick riding, and a county baby contest judged on physical polish.
Washington June 10 A sale of 210 town lots in the town of Huntley is set to begin July 1 at the government Irrigation site. Secretary of the Interior Lane appointed appraisers M Smith Hy Ballantine W J Pall. Lots are mainly in the business section. Auction to highest bidders with one fifth down and the rest in up to four annual installments at interest.
The city of Lewistown sold a 19000 bond issue to purchase an auto fre truck and fund city hall addition with First National Bank of Lewistown receiving a $10 premium. The State Bank of Grass Range was incorporated with 30000 capital. directors include H O W Belden and G by Prof. W. M. Snyder. A plan to establish a university in Lewistown was presented.
In Billings a loose plank in a timber load caused a wagon wreck today. Dorothy Dickey, aged nine, was crushed under the front wheel and died without regaining consciousness. Her older sister, who drove the team, and two other girls escaped injury.
Mrs Bertha Cooper and her daughter Miss Gladys arrived from Australia to tour Yellowstone National Park. The party registered early as the season opens Sunday, and two cars of young women from Minneapolis began work in the transportation hotels and companies.
Washington June 10. Two fourth class postmasters were appointed in Montana today. Lucy Laird named at Laird Hillo replacing J Laird deceased. R C Leahy appointed at Pietding in Flathead county as office re established.
Helena June 10 at a state tax commission meeting guidance was issued to county assessors. Taxable property should be assessed consistently by class and location with the state overseeing uniform methods. Banks will be assessed by capital plus surplus minus loan deductions, with remaining value distributed to individual stockholders by shares.
Helena June 19 A complaint filed in district court charges Frank and Joseph Mares proprietors of the Helena Meat company with violating the nine hour law for women Miss Daly worked from 8 a m to 3 p m with an hour for lunch in the butcher shop where she was employed as chief fallow.
Washington reports a broad backing for an Erdman Act amendment to enlarge the arbitration board to six members. A mediation and conciliation commissioner would join two government appointees, forming a triad to select neutral arbitrators and promote voluntary arbitration across interstate railroads and their trainmen.
Springfield June 10 The state senate approved a bill appropriating funds for an Illinois exhibit at the Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The measure is expected to pass the house without opposition.
A Los Angeles man, Frederick Loring, has surgery involving a bone graft from his left leg to repair a diseased portion of his spine. He is reported to be on the road to complete recovery.
A fragmented classified column offers stock in the Mt Carmel Land Co with colonizers of Kootenai for sale. Also listed is an upscale restaurant in good business and cheap, a general merchandise store, an office room with a typewriter for stenographer work, and several job ads seeking domestic help, experienced workers, and a coop gin project.
A jumble of classified help wanted notices across multiple trades in Helena and nearby towns. Entries seek drillers, auto repair trainees, young sales staff, drivers, and skilled tradesmen with varying wages and hours in Montana and surrounding areas.
Miscellaneous classified items list autos and livestock for sale. Buick and cylinder Buick cars offered in first class condition. Also sales include mares and colts and various farm supplies with easy payments and location details such as 126 Walnutsts and 19 N Wyoming.
Four room frame homes with electric lights in Kilver How Park, six room frame and seven room brick veneer modern houses for sale. Ten room brick veneer with hot water heat, rentals listed at ten dollars yearly. Includes chicken houses, barn, land, and prime locations in East side. Bailey Loan and Realty Co at 1 Hast Granite St, Hutte.
A fragmented ad promotes opening of 4080 acres of land and water ready for delivery at 9.0 per acre with 25 cash and balance on first deterred payment. Descriptive booklet available from Carey Land Co at Leads Ho, Lewisohn Building room 293.
Classified snippets show help wanted for a stenographer position in Butte with numerous ads. Includes references to experience, address 18 Colorado St, daily readings, and local job listings. Also notes on sale and rental properties, livestock, and real estate being offered nearby in Stevensville and Anaconda.
Classified notes describe branch drugstores in Butte and surrounding towns. Included are West Side Pharmacy at Granite and Alabama, Runzler Drug Co. at 601 West Park, OLeary’s Drug Store at 1017 Talbot, South Butte Pharmacy at 549 South Drug Store, Aluminum and Utah locations, Family Drug Store at 1660 enc, B. Rago at 308 West Alley, Walkerville Drug Co. at 1 West Daly, Centerville Drug Co. at 938 North Main.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions per word per inch rates and vague classified column references with missing details about items dates or prices. No identifiable persons organizations places or concrete facts available to summarize a coherent news item.
My Offices Silver Bow Employment wants teamsters and construction laborers for Lewistown at 2.75 per day with free fare. Also carpenters irrigators and cooks at various rates. Postoffice box 149 Butte. Parsons Employment Office advertises for a cook and a house with stage notes on a patient needing vertebrae transplant surgery.
Washington June 10 Representative Aswell of Louisiana introduced a bill to segregate white government clerks and employees from Negro clerks. The measure would bar white clerks from serving under Negro superiors except in emergencies, and in the railway mail service white clerks would not be required to ride in the same mail car as Negro clerks. New York June 10 The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation stands at 31,248,892 tons, a monthly drop of 6,544,40 tons, the largest decline since early 1912.
A dilapidated ferry sank on the Tehepten river on Ascension day in Russia, drowning fifty people. Delayed Vyatka dispatches report a riot erupted among locals in response to police laxity.
Notes show multiple rental offers including two large sheds and sunny rooms for housekeeping. Locations cited include 2a W Park, ARae and 317 West Silver in Butte. Details are fragmented but indicate available space for rent and housekeeping needs.
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