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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
23
Butte current notes present a mosaic of local notices and items. It references travels to Seattle and Glacier Park, social meetings at Methodist churches, sales at a local store, and a union pledge from the Butte Laundry Workers. The fragment hints at community events, club activities, and small ads.
A Butte secessionists committee denounces J C Lowney of the Western Federation of Miners. They accuse officials of allowing disreputable characters and misusing funds while vowing to keep the miners union intact through honesty and education. They claim 90 percent of members oppose tyranny and condemn attempts to fracture the union.
Suffragists conducted street meetings yesterday afternoon drawing crowds of 200 to 300, mostly men, in Galena Idaho streets and at the Northern Pacific station plaza. Speakers Mrs Maggie Smith Hathaway Steven ville Mrs Clinch Butte and Mrs Fuld addressed questions on votes for women and the high cost of living in a lively, orderly campaign.
A crowded audience attended the annual dramatic program at St Mark’s Lutheran Church, divided into three plays with extra numbers including a song by Miss Potter and a fan drill by 20 children. Notable attendees included Walter Nickel and Elizabeth Yeager. mayoral influence noted on city land matters. The report also covers a local marriage at the Mountain View Methodist parsonage, Edwin L Barboure wed Frances Lloyd, with a two week state tour planned after the ceremony.
Portland firm Guthrie Mesongat awarded contract to excavate tracks and build new Milwaukee station. Announcement came in Butte via assistant engineer C A W Musson. Work to start at an early date. prior project graded Silver Bow canyon at a $500,000 value.
The article discusses resolutions emphasizing modest dress and health, urging home economy services, a Smith-Lebur bill for a bureau, health funding, disease prevention, cooperation with children's bureaus, pamphlets for mothers, mandatory disease reporting, and laws to suppress immoral resorts.
Walter H Weed, mining expert, testified in Judge Lynch's court that the Pilot Butte vein is well defined and extends to the point where the 0 join hoof. He outlined vein signs on maps and faced long cross-examination from the defense in the Anaconda Copper case.
A circulating item claimed a mob attacked the Western Union Telegraph office in Butte on June 1 The report said glass windows were broken and lines torn up but Western Union manager Parker cites no truth to the allegation noting it is one of many fictitious notices being published in newspapers.
Emma Grossenbacher of the Swiss Home attempted suicide twice in one night. After a prior Lake Avoca plunge she was dragged from the water and taken to the emergency hospital. She asked police to shoot her and nurses for poison, and will be examined by a sanity commission.
In police court yesterday L Yeager and Eddie Smith messengers, with Mark Hoffman and Elsie Meyer, were fined 25 dollars each for vagrancy after being taken from the Curtis block at 6 am. Smith claimed to support his elderly mother, while others faced varying fines for related offenses as detectives testified.
The fire and water committee asks council permission to buy 2000 feet of inch hose at cents per foot and 00 feet of 3 inch hose at 1.20 per foot. The judiciary committee will offer recommendations, including a tax refund case for Ed Hickey and a bank stock assessment from 1912 and 1918. It weighs a substitute to form a commission to test all police members, with rules still under discussion amid concerns over handling flammable material.
Home Mission Society plans a large ice cream social at South Side Methodist Episcopal to raise money for a retaining wall. The event runs from noon to 10 PM in church parlors offering homemade desserts and other treats. Negroed by the church, proceeds will support the church’s building project.
Seward Alaska June 16 A light fall of sulphur dust and an unusually dark day prompted reports that Mount Katmal on the Alaska peninsula 300 miles west of Seward may be erupting again. Valdez reported a seismic shock overnight with no local disturbance noted Kodiak and nearby areas had no reports of activity. Two years ago Mount Katmai erupted violently spreading ash over Kodiak islands and the mainland within 160 miles.
Arthur Glott aged 30 a clerk at Morris Siegel Eagle loan office 18 East Park street Morris Siegel proprietor is alleged to have stolen 2000 worth of jewels Arrested yesterday in Chicago He waived extradition and a fugitive warrant will be issued Glott came to Butte from Spokane with recommendations Chicago business men Siegel had employed him a few days later the safe was rifled and the loss discovered Monday morning John J Halpin chief of Chicago detective force arrested him
Morris D. McMvenne appeared in Justice Kerrigan's court for a preliminary hearing on charges by his former wife arising from two rings, including a wedding ring given before her second marriage to McDougall. Testimony suggested he kept the rings after refusal to return them, with a $100 claim. The case was adjourned to next Saturday.
8. E. Nelson assistant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific passed through Butte from Portland to St. Paul last evening. He joined the Milwaukee merchants and manufacturers special and reported they remembered their visit in Butte and were greatly impressed by Montana’s natural resources.
Officials announce plans to mint 700 million silver coins soon, signaling a major expansion of the minting program as government reserves data indicate rising demand for metal currency.
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