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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1920
Page
5
Mrs. Morris of 659 Cherry street repelled a would be burglar at 3 30 Sunday morning with a 30 30 Winchester rifle after a ladder was placed against the house. The intruder fled before she could fire though deputies found no trace of him when they arrived soon after.
Butte notes advertise renting planes from Orton Bros for office use and feature fine stationery at the Post Office News Stand. It also promotes Calkins Company book department with popular titles and a Ronalds Business books series awaiting selection.
The wedding of Mrs. Mary Hannal Myers and C. H. Truitt occurred at 214 East Platinum street with Rev. M. D. Hudtloff officiating. The bride and groom plan to reside in Butte. The Travelers to Meet on June 13 feature delegates and a street parade, with E. N. Mulkey presiding as president. Sessions extend through Friday.
Mrs. W. E. Cummings of Billings heads the captaincy for the women’s hundred-dollar league supporting the Interchurch World Movement campaign ending July 15. The effort, organized at Cleveland, aims to raise 100 dollars per community to fund the general fund for ongoing work through 1921.
Specially announced examinations for government posts will be held by the United States Civil Service Commission in July. Positions range from junior topographer to examiner of arms in the ordnance department. Both men and women are eligible and applications may be filed at 303 Post Office building, Seattle. The timetable lists several July dates for posts including junior physiologist, assistant mechanical engineer, examiner of claims, ordnance department, and coast and geodetic survey computer, with salaries and specific July days.
In a thrilling Giants game at the A.C. M. rounds yesterday, Leonard won 6 to 4 before hundreds. Davis slid into third for a silver shower as Kearney and O'Leary played flawless infield, with Perri and Davis as Meaderville battery and Keppler and Towers delivering the heavy work for the mine team.
The Tone bandit robbed a South Side bank in September 1918, forcing four employees into the vault and escaping with 5000 in cash and coins. He fled in a Dodge toward Nine Mile, a dragnet failed to capture him, and his whereabouts remain a mystery after detailed police searches and a prior stop at the Bennett store.
Angela O Neill an eight year old girl who vanished from her home Friday afternoon was returned to her parents early Sunday morning. She was found by strangers who cared for her until learning from the Standard that she resided at 525 North Montana Street.
The Lambros defeated Big Four 4 to 2 at Timber Butte grounds yesterday in one of the season’s fastest amateur games. Batteries were Lambros Humphries and Sandigo for Lambros and Dowling and Beaky for Big Four. Only two walks were issued, one to each pitcher.
A. B. Whittredge boy s work secretary of the Butte Y M C A has returned from a visit to Boston and attended the second conference of workers with boys at Blue Ridge North Carolina. Delegates from Europe Asia and Australia joined discussions led by speakers from Minneapolis Wisconsin and New York. Five commissions on the Doys work presented reports guiding talks and recommendations. The joint Boy Scouts of America Y M C A commission is urged to boost cooperation and a small fee from the boys is proposed. The group plans to raise 20000 through Y M C A boys memberships to aid education and recreation for boys in other nations.
In a midnight Saturday robbery at 841 North Main Street the bar operated by Mike Casey, two masked men entered, fired through the front, and ordered four patrons to the wall. They took $203, a revolver, a hat, and other items in under ten minutes, while a third man acted as lookout. Six bullet holes were found in the ceiling. Witnesses saw a third man on Main Street and deputies have a description of both robbers. one lost a hat with a bullet hole.
Evan Davis aged longtime resident of Butte was honored at a funeral yesterday afternoon from his sister Mrs Catherine Allen’s home at 811 East First Street. The Welsh church pastor Rev Thomas led the service with the family choir, as pallbearers Hopkins Morgan Richards Price Reese and Mathews bore the casket at the family plot.
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