The Beautiful Queen Voting Contest Is Fairly On
A voting contest titled The Beautiful Queen is underway with fair procedures. Organizers urge participation and emphasize square play.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1901
Page
12
A voting contest titled The Beautiful Queen is underway with fair procedures. Organizers urge participation and emphasize square play.
The city plans a July carnival from the 16th to 27th and voters selected a carnival queen candidate. Lena Leford led with 131 votes, followed by Leona Fine 120 and Nan McCarthy 118 as ballots closed.
John W. King announces completion of a novel saucer track in Butte. Races begin next Saturday and run every evening, with the Boston & Montana band providing music and a nightly classical concert from 8 to 8 45. The program alternates between races and popular music. Also listed are varied rail fare offers for several associations and destinations, plus sleeping car reservations via the North Coast Limited.
Orton Bros at 219 North Main street Butte Montana offers new and slightly used pianos and organs from brands like Kimball Weber and Hinze with modern improvements. Prices run 125 to 300 dollars below state and national averages plus free stool and stand with instruments and trade‑in options.
Tom Reed reports a Honolulu group photograph of the new Honolulu Elks lodge instituted April 15 after annexation. Included are well known KRutte Elks Horace J. Craft and Francis Brooks. The Honolulu baby lodge number is 614.
Deer Lodge valley ranchman John Norton, long in the country, was in Butte yesterday visiting old friends. He recalled past days herding sheep where Anaconda's streets now lie and spoke of his long connection to the region.
Mamie Winters sues Jack Owen Winters for divorce on desertion after a Spokane marriage on March 27, 1900, and disappearance. John Roberts seeks divorce from Catherine Roberts, alleging desertion after a Giacomo marriage on May 1, 1885. Lavena McKenna claims cruelty by Frank McKenna in a Missoula marriage from 1887 and seeks custody of a 12 year old daughter. Lucile Powers sues W. H. Powers in Cleveland for desertion from a March 1897 marriage, with a June 1900 desertion and the husband described as dissolute and habitually drunk.
Carrie Bailey petitions the district court to modify the 1895 divorce decree granting custody of 13 year old Albert Tregear to William Tregear. She and her husband Howard Bailey seek the boy’s custody alleging cruel and inhuman treatment by Tregear and his wife. Judge Harney set a hearing for Monday.
Butte committees report strong support for a big Fourth of July celebration with funds secured in wards two and three and anticipated in ward six. An illuminated parade features 10 000 Roman candles, balloon ascension, fireworks from the balloon, and a parachute jump as three bands perform during the day and in the evening.
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