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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1919
Page
5
The article promotes silverware as an ideal wedding present and highlights Leys as the best source due to its variety and long experience. It notes price ranges from 5 to 238 dollars for various pieces and sets, emphasizing usefulness and home appeal.
Local notes record visitors from Dillon, Wisdom, Boise, Kalispell and Philipsburg stopping at the Finlen and Leggat hotels in Butte. A June 29 birth is announced for Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Williamson of 710 South Main, a daughter at St. James Hospital.
H Richardson, about 18, held in the ests jail on vagrancy charges, attempted suicide by slashing his left wrist with a safety razor last night. Inmates restrained him, the wound was dressed, and police noted his morphine addiction and uncertain background.
Mrs Magill defeated Mrs Sales to win the women’s golf tournament at Putte Country Club after the semi-final victory over Mrs Kremer. The flag tournament follows next week with a handicap add on twelve holes. Public installation set for July 2 at K of P hall with dancing and refreshments.
The Kappa Nu fraternity at Montana State College Bozeman has been granted a petition for a chapter by Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Ernest Stanley traveled to Buffalo for the national convention to represent the petitioning group. The decision was by unanimous approval of all SAE national chapters.
Butte is among the cities where a civil service examination for railway mail clerks will be held on August 23. Vacancies will be filled from the eligible list created by the exam. Entrance salary is 1100 dollars. Applicants must be between eighteen and thirty four years old. The position is not open to women.
Mexico City reports under the constitution only 964 square kilometers of the 158000 in Lower California can be owned directly by foreigners. Because of the geography and constitutional provisions, foreigners are barred from land within 100 kilometers of the frontier and 50 kilometers of the seashore, leaving only a few interior parcels for non Mexicans.
Dublin reports Irish woollen mills have received applications from German miners for cloth to be supplied promptly. The move signals urgent wartime demand affecting Irish industry and export trade.
Two young girls narrowly escaped injury as a 30 car freight derailed near Madison and Watson streets after children on a shared right of way opened a switch. The engine and tender were damaged, the cab smashed, and track debris cleared by wrecking crews by Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
Burt Rodda, a well known Butte youth, returns home from a year with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He was in the First Division signal corps and served in the expedi tionary efforts with souvenirs of his overseas service.
Weather bureau reports 48 hours of showers in several sections including Missoula, Blackfoot valley, Polson, Helena, and Butte. Additional showers expected in the Rocky Mountain region with temperatures remaining sultry. Officials hope the rain will ease drought in western portions.
A $300 reward for capturing David Guerra, the Mexican killer of Frank Murphy at Silver Bow, was paid to BR. A. Sutherlin, Northern Pacific officer at Laurel. Sutherlin arrested Guerra in railroad yards as the armed man emerged seeking food. Sheriff John K. O'Rourke had offered $200, with a $50 purse from the murdered section hand’s associates.
More than twenty volunteers from the carpenters union worked on two large stands along East Granite street at Wyoming for the Fourth with about 60 expected but not all turned up. The human flag stand for children near 1,500 capacity was finished before dark and rehearsal planned for the afternoon. Mayor Stodden helped briefly before being reminded of union rules.
The 1919 McClure Syndicate horoscope warns of war talk and public criticism as Uranus and Mars align. It foresees deception and graft, with intrigue and embezzlement possible. It notes weddings for British nobility, a royal marriage, and emotional children born under Cancer.
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