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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1919
Page
11
The Fourth of July committee calls a meeting in the city council chamber tonight to finalize plans for a big day with parades floats field sports and a night dance weather permitting. Organizers pledge no alcohol with ample ice cream and soft drinks and expect strong attendance from state towns and visitors. Two top baseball teams will play a hammer and whizzer game Friday as part of the festivities.
Hot conditions limited entrants as 15 golfers qualified for the three day Fourth of July tournament. Laist medal winner B S Morrow posted 74 net. Notables include Wm E Mobray 69 and C I Emerson 72. match play pairings and byes listed for first round as July 3 approaches.
The Goodfriends ball team traveled to Deer Lodge yesterday and lost to the Valley Boys 5 to 1. A sensational one handed catch by Domitrovich stood out amid a featureless, small crowd as a rain shower arrived and spectators welcomed the rain more than the game.
Miss Briggs, a Daly bank staff member, plans to move east and establish residence there. The notice mentions a social event at the Attic tonight and a concert by Ladders' orchestra led by Mr and Mrs John D DuMont and their family, who are departing for the Pacific coast by auto route for about a month. Tom Riley of Great Walls appears with a smelter delegation aiming to travel to Butte today.
A dense page of city briefs notes a concert and dance at the Attic with Ladders orchestra, plus social updates on residents, businesses, and outings. Readers are urged to assemble for Liberty float representatives and to visit local shops like Peckovers and Wahlstedt optician as various notices and ads flow through the town.
The post office lists uncalled letters for the week ending June 23 1919. Among men are Mr Hugh Dougherty, Jesse Jones, William Johnson, Marcel Marius, W H Nichols, Charles St Jermaine. Women include Ona Frazier, Helen Hart, Mary Hughes, Carl Loberg, Mrs Mabel Murry, Mary Orr. Foreign names list Walfred Barman, Marko Bozonich, Edward Burke as postmaster.
AT THE MONTANA attendees include K. H. Chamberlain of San Francisco Rk M. Hales of Seattle Ora L. Short of Texarkana Ark R. R. Feurka of Missoula Mrs F E Carleton of Havre Hugh McGuire of Portland W F Renich of Minneapolis H Jackson of Chicago F Ford of Portland H H Conner of Butte Harry Swartz of New York R H Brothers of Chicago B W Wigert of Seattle.
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