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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1916
Page
5
Josiah Rodda aged 34 of 912 East Park Street died hours after sustaining injuries at the Mountain View mine. He was timbering a stope on the Ngovetoot level when ground caved. He survived by a brother and sister and had mined in the Butte district for 19 months.
A long list of visitors and residents stops excerpted about Butte, Dillon, Wisdom, Helena and other Montana towns. Names include Roy Romans, Erwin, Thompson, Mrs Lavelle, Mrs J W Scott, D H Connor, P Best, L W Davis, J Aldine Smith, F M Taylor, Carruthers, D P Lake, Mrs B F White, Irene Marcotte, J Billings, Mrs R R McDonald, Miss Mabel French, George Metlen, Eugene Girard, Henry Jonas, Archie Wells, and Conway of the Popular store. Also mentions storage space at Sherman & Reed garage and various hotel guests.
Selim Da Hood of Butte marries a Lawrence Massachusetts girl and travels toward home when their train tickets go missing between Massachusetts and New York. A Syracuse pawnbroker loans $50 on the bride’s bracelets to buy replacements as the couple seeks funds and solace amid their improvised marriage journey.
Henry Wolffs of Butte and Miss Mary Joiner of Butte were married yesterday afternoon. Rev Mo Studtio performed the ceremony at his home. Christ Wolffs and Miss Irene Joiner witnessed. The couple will reside in Butte after a brief trip and are at 1112 South Wyoming Street.
Deputies raided the Bungalow and O Neill’s bars as a large crowd celebrated a Saturday payday. Patrons fled into autos amid a police rush, with Henry Obers and Jack Drew charged for after hours liquor sales. Bathhouses also cited for after midnight service.
The report notes Austro Hungarian forces retreating toward the Carpathians and Russians withdrawing from Kiev and Galicia while counterattacks fail in Verdun. Vienna claims success north of the Lipa river with 900 prisoners and advances, Berlin cites 2445 Russians captured along the Styr sector, and Petrograd reports Russian repulses despite German and Austro victories cited by Vienna and Berlin.
A party of eastern men arrived in Butte yesterday to take over the Ophir mine and its prospects. In the group are J. F. Austin of Detroit, president of the Butte Detroit Mining Company. Wright of Brockton Mass, a director. F. Pisin of Chicago. Freeman Davison of Boston. James Shinnan of Lawrence, Mass. and H. Urideman of Lawrence, accompanied by their wives.
John Oxley of 1260 Talbot Avenue was struck by a heavily loaded street car returning from Columbia Gardena and Ogley. He was walking on the track near a crossing by the East Butte property and failed to heed the motorman's warning. He died from a fractured skull after being taken to St James Hospital.
Witnesses describe a miraculous escape for Foster Neil and Arthur Backlund in an all night crash at Florence and A streets when an Ang lewood streetcar struck Neil's paneled delivery car at speed. The auto was hurled 30 feet and wrecked. fire broke out but was extinguished. Neil and Backlund survived with injuries.
A private advices report that the Southern Pacific system in Mexico has been seized and that Gut ail telegraph wires were cut at the border near Tucson, Ariz, with details dated June. The tale references disruptions along the border and military involvement.
Thomas Olson a longshoremen s union picket was shot and killed outside the American-Hawaiian piers as three strike breakers fired revolver volleys. Two other pickets fled then hid aboard a barge. Police chased the attackers but did not identify them by race hour.
A new device around the central tube of a telephone mouthpiece includes a container of disinfectants that release fumes to kill germs entering the handset.
A 38 year old miner from High Ore collapsed after drinking ice water while mucking on a lower level. He was brought to the surface and died at Peters on hospital. Peterson is survived by a cousin in Butte with relatives in the East. The body was taken to Walsh's undertaking.
At South Side Methodist Church the Woman's Peace Party presented a pleasing program advocating world peace under wartime stress. James Floyd Denison urged women's power to prevent war, noting women first demanded peace. The event featured high quality music, including duets by Mrs Hickey and Miss Hickey, and solos by Mr McNeal, Mrs Riley, and Miss Hickey, concluding with One Sweetly Solemn Thought.
William Cutts, president of the Silver Bow Land and Improvement Company and longtime labor organizer, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination as congressman. A Butte resident for about 25 years, Cutts has been active in labor circles and previously led the Deer Lodge Trades and Labor Assembly. He ran theaters statewide as Montana Amusement Company executive before entering real estate and developing Nilson Park with Silver Bow Land and Improvement. He vows active campaigning, claiming strong support from Silver Bow and a track record as a labor champion.
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