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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1920
Page
9
Anaconda items include taxi services and optician ads, sales and rentals, and upcoming dances at Moose hall and Washoe park. Local travels mention Helena visitors, mining talks, and lake campers while city council orders fire hose delivery and notes court and divorce actions, births, and alumni meetings.
J H Duffy returned from a professional trip to Roundup and says Musselshell valley looks promising for a bumper wheat crop. He notes ranchers have planted every available acre and lament they have no more land to add to plant.
County Attorney D H Morgan and family returned yesterday from a week's visit with friends in Plains. They traveled by car, joined by L R Blaisdell and family of Deer Lodge, a over 200 miles one day journey. The Lowry Bible class meets tonight at Opportunity for an outdoor picnic weather permitting with Mesdames Ashlock and Vissel entertaining. attendees urged to take the 5 25 car.
Co. A. Tuttle and Pr. Oliver Leiser came back yesterday from Spokane. J. H. Duffy confirms the townsmen spoke about shotgun loads and methods to dispose of ducks and prairie chickens. An automobile party from Thorn ton Wash. visited the smelter and Washoe park tourist camp. Roy Clark and family from Nelson BC toured with Mr. and Mrs. Tescher and planned to stay longer. EE Boyle and W L Booth of Great Northern praised Anaconda as clean and possibly home for the summer.
Word reached Anaconda friends that Harry Waassman left Portland for San Francisco to attend the Democratic National Convention. He believed the next president would be a Democrat and planned to use his influence in Frisco to back McAdoo for the nomination.
City Attorney and Mrs W H Trippet returned yesterday after several weeks in Fargo. They say barring a grasshopper plague the Dakota wheat crop should be bumper this year, though ranchers fear grasshoppers beginning to appear in considerable numbers.
Anaconda relatives report Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tolan and their daughter Celeste now reside in Dakar Senegal West Africa. They left Anaconda after a year in Tampa and traveled through Europe before arriving in West Africa. They miss Anaconda and request the Standard be sent to keep news of the old town alive while they are away.
Virgil Street, a visitor from Livingston, pulled a hotel fire alarm lever at the Standard corner in Anaconda. Firefighters arrived to find no blaze, and he was lectured on etiquette before returning with his father Horace Street to the Country Club activity.
Anaconda Elks No 229 members will travel to Deer Lodge by car at 6:30 PM to inspect prime grazing pastures. The gathering will host 25 candidates for initiation into antler mysteries, followed by a social session. Local members from the valley center will join the Deer Lodge group for the event.
Gas English returned yesterday from Vera Cruz mine in the Lump Gulch district near Helena after several days inspecting development work. He reports a four foot lead rich in mineral values, with ore samples exhibited at William Dunnigan's office. The strike is welcomed by Anaconda stockholders.
The naval appropriation bill authorizes two six week summer schools for boys 16 to 20 at Great Lakes and Staunton. Each site seats 1000, opens July 15, and covers physical development discipline character education naval traditions recreation and religious instruction. Enrollment requires parental consent forms, three months reserve service, and passing exams. transportation to training is paid by the applicant while the government provides subsistence and uniforms.
Raleigh N C June 24 The North Carolina legislature will be called to meet in special session between July 20 and Aug 10 to receive the revaluation report of the tax commission and to consider ratification of the Susan B Anthony federal amendment as stated at Governor Bicketts office
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