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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1901
Page
10
The Western Montana office of the standard is at 110 West Main street. Mis s goule. Telephone No. 1s Advertising rates furnished on application.
Missoula reports Herr Bandmann now in Detroit where press tributes echo his Shakespearean past and praise his 25 minute David Garrick in vaudeville. Detroit Journal and Free Press laud his aged yet agile acting, with Belle Williams and Australian twins in the mixed program drawing mixed reactions.
Grass of Bonner married Eva Dildine Sunday afternoon at her parents home on Toole avenue. Rev. J A Barnes officiated with a few intimate friends present. Afterward the couple left for Bonner where a home awaits. The groom works for Big Blackfoot Milling company eight years. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs George Dildine of the city.
Missoula braces for a spring city election with a new council after the legislature adjourns. Candidates discussed include Andrew Logan, F C Stoddard, Joseph Dixon, Sid Coffee, P M Reilly, and Andy Merrick, with party lines blurred and crime and morality issues likely to shape the campaign.
The Standard office advertises premiums for a yearly subscription that outshine all others. Readers are urged to call the office to learn details and secure the deals.
March 10 dispatch reports deputy sheriff Frank Morse and a citizen catching a professional thief in Granite County. The suspect tried to steel axle grease from the Northern Pacific depot and sell it to liveryman Charles Burt before Morse intervened and jailed him within ten minutes.
Having settled with creditors to realize funds, Lemley the tailor announces special bargains on suits and pants for the next 60 days.
Official notice from Missoula reports immediate construction of a $40,000 Northern Pacific depot on Higgins Avenue. The three story main building with two wings will house waiting rooms, offices, and a railwaymen’s club. Yard reorganization and new shops will follow, with total costs near $100,000 and an advance hospital addition.
The Bohemian glass blowers display daily in Higgins block from 2 to 4 and 6 to 4 p.m. Admission is 10 cents. All articles manufactured are given away.
Butler and Hartley lawyers file for immediate discharge arguing the ordinance banning opium joints is void and infringes constitutional liberty. Judge Webster expected to rule on its validity tomorrow. Also notes A Orchard to lecture on Fraternalism at Empire theater with Mandolin club music.
Notice from Rh Manheim & Co stating no further purchase of old junk or iron after this date. The brief public notice sets a cutoff and calls for compliance.
A Missoula delegation will travel to Helena Monday morning to meet with the governor regarding the university bonding bill. The aim is to remove obstacles and secure passage if possible.
An assortment of Missoula notes covers a Sunday baseball meeting, medical visits, and social clubs. Frost injuries, pest house residents, and an amputation report frame local health occurrences. Legislative staff return to home, city registration opens, and several funerals are noted with Odd Fellows and G A R involvement.
Hamilton notes report Mr. and Mrs. W. P. O'Brien leaving for Omaha, a possible public reception for Senator Myers and Rep. Conner, Br. C. Black extending his pastorate, and various local activities. County officials reshaped road districts, a Bitter Root train brakeman injured fingers, postmaster Roberts to resume trips, and Frank Davis and Nellie Rice wed in Missoula. J. W. Jones named deputy assessor, Rufus Russell recovering from rheumatism, a Page hotel dance planned, and school funds of $4,291.30 allocated for 2,298 children. Local visitors arrive from Kansas and North Dakota, two youths charged in a shop break, one young man awaiting reform school, and Lee McCulloch praised as adjutant general.
Billings trustees voted to submit a bond proposition to district voters at the April 6 election. The plan allocates 10000 to finish the north side school building started last year and 25000 to construct a south side school house. The Billings high school is now on the accredited list and performing well.
The piece details a Yellowstone grown potato given to Judge Best after display in Washington. It traveled to Georgia for a Christmas dinner serving eight, with the valley's potato record credited to Charles King near Laurel, who reportedly raised 1,213 bushels on one acre.
Marysville Montana March 5 Marysville Miners union No 103 held its first semi annual election. John Wallace was chosen president John Nichols first vice president Thomas Eslick second vice president Jesse Wilson recording secretary Joe Harvey financial secretary Charles Longmaid treasurer William ie Dunn conductor Thomas Kerr warden Edward Grady James Henderson Fred John financial committee Thomas Eslick delegate to the Western Federation of Miners convention. The union organized August 7 1900 now lists 300 members.
New York March 9 The World reports August Belmont has acquired control of the Seaboard Air Line and arranged a close traffic pact with the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Belmont leads a Wall Street syndicate including the Rothschilds of England, with conferences held last week at his office and that of John S Williams of Richmond Va president of Seaboard Air Line.
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