Butte News Notes and Local Notices
Rent planes from Orton Bros stationery and office supplies at the P O News Stand. Births announced for March include a son to Mr and Mrs Harry Marin s on West Mercury street and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Leonard Fallon on Bennetts street and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Hollis McDonald on 625 South Wyoming. Floral Park Ladies Aid meets at 3200 Floral boulevard Wednesday 2 30 PM. Butte Cat Creek Oil Co filed articles of incorporation with $300 000 capitalization naming Dave Kehoe Louis Kaufman and Walter A Kyle as directors. Retired officer Don J Kelly sues for reinstatement. Christian Science lecture Friday at Butte High School auditorium free to the public by Judge S W Greene. State health board ban on sale of ripe olives in glass containers. tin packed olives exempt. Jacob Olson, longtime Virginia City resident, celebrated his 82nd birthday with daughter Mrs L Hampton in Butte. pioneer friend of Helena’s Martin Holter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orton Bros
P. O
Dodge Brothers
Silver Bow Motor Car Co
T. Carroll Lumber
Pany
Harry Marins
West
Mercury Street
Leonard Fallon
Bennetts Street
Hollis McDonald
Wyoming Street
Ladies’ Aid Society
Floral Park
Don J. Kelly
Butte
District Court
8. W. Greene
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Mass
Butte High School
Butte Police Officers Casey Cusick Dismissed
The Butte police commission filed findings with Mayor Stodden on March 15 1920 that James L Casey and James Cusick were guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and should be removed from the city police. The report states the trial board heard testimony and found the charges proven after objections were overruled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Stodden
James L. Casey
James Cusick
Police Department
Ethel Lane
Stodden
Jamon Custek
Butte
James T. Casey
Mont
Jackman
Siohn
Wulf
John M'Mullen
Missing Seattle man returns after eastern trip
Seattle reports Edward Logston, one of the citys missing men, came home yesterday. He said he traveled east and to the Cascades and asked why his wife had not answered his letters. Authorities had conducted a search across the Pacific Northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jome
Seattle
Edward Logston
Pacific Northwest
Cascades
Geophone Aids Diamond Drill Work Without Stoppage
American engineers propose using war developed seismic instruments to monitor diamond drilling. Geophones measure sounds in three directions every 100 feet, allowing real time plotting of the bore path through rock without halting progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics
Dismissal of Griffiths Affirmed by High Court
The Montana Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling sustaining the Butte city council decision to discharge Morgan Griffiths, chief of the Butte fire department, for five months in 1915. Griffiths, appointed in 1918, had challenged the council's findings regarding alleged firing infractions and negligence at Caledonia Street stations. The ruling leaves in place the discharge dating back to 1915 and confirms prior district court findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Supreme Court of Mortana
Morgan Griffiths
Butte Fire Department
City
Caledonia
Randie
Ambrose
McGowan
West
Diamond
Sions
Lynch
Dintelet
Kevon
Dintriet
Nierday
Fred Martin
Charles Lane
Discharge From Office Affirmed In Fire Chief Case
Special Dispatch from Helena reports the Montana Supreme Court affirmed the district court ruling removing Jim Som from the Butte fire department. The case against Morgan Griffiths, former chief, charged improper handling of a 10 to 20 minute response, lax command, and failures in inspection and fire protection. The court found no substantial error in the record and upheld the judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Morgan Griffiths
Bute
Supreme Court
District Court of
Liver Bow Counsty
City” Council
Butte
Jim Som
Cats
Griffiths
Counseil
Gure
Preme ‘Court
Ragethe
MeGow
Owsley Block
Bircot
Hremen
Eltigen
Fes
Brother of Hansen Found in Minnesota
Funeral arrangements for Hans Hansen the aged rancher who fell from the moat of his wagon while returning to his homestead near Buxton and was found dead on the road last Saturday afternoon. Undertaker Sam White notified relatives, reporting Hansen died after a long period of hardship and hunger. He had faced starvation with his horse at Buxton four miles from the foothills, and a Chinook brought relief only after days of waiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Hansen
Bux Fons
Jona Fe Stansen
Doran
Minn
Sam White
John Hane Ben
Hansen
Buxtan
Han
Silver ‘Row
Spiritual Science churches hold public basket social
The First and Second Spiritual Science churches plan a basket social on March 16 at 8 o’clock in Socialist Hall on Harrison Avenue. Admission is free of charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spiritual Science
Socialist Hall
Harrison Avenue
County bids on road contract amid bond sale issues
Fabian cites county board duties closed as Mate highway commissioners await bond sale completion. Medin & Co. bid deemed satisfactory and slated for letting once bonds sold. Conney Cooney voices concern over a $7,000 shortfall and urges public spirit to absorb bonds, hoping no road readvertising. County attorney Rotoring notes process held.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fabian
Board of County Commissioners
Mate Highway Commissioners
Medin & Co
Connie
Cooney
N. A. Rotoring
Rockefeller retires from Colorado Fuel board in Denver
John D. Rockefeller Jr. steps down after 17 years on the Colorado Fuel and Iron board as stockholders elect John C. Denver banter to succeed him. An official noted the move aligns with Rockefeller’s desire to shed board duties. In Paris, Maurice Pa Policy? reports the French government will appoint a chargé d affaires at Stuttgart to oversee relations with Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col. Mareh
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Colorado Fuel and Tron Company
John C. Denver Banter
Rockefeller
Ebert
Paris
Maurice Paleologue
Foreign Office
von Mayer
Stutt- Bart
Germany
M. Bruyere
Relief for Europe Passes House to Sell Flour to Poland and Allies
The House approved food relief for Europe by authorizing the United States Grain Corporation to sell 5 000 barrels of soft wheat flour on credit terms to Poland Austria Armenia and other allied nations, easing wartime shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Washington
March
United States Grain Corporation
Poland
Austria
Armenia
Body of Rod Leggat to be shipped east
The body of Rod Leggat will be shipped to the East amid services at Richards chapel and train departure. Leggat, a prominent Montana Pioneer, founded the Leggat fund to aid indigent pioneers, with administrators Charles Power Norman Holter and Clinton Moore overseeing disbursements for those in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rod Leggat
L. 8. Wild
James A. Sanders
Montana’ Society of Pioneers
R. HA. Mallet
W. B. Orem
Society of Sons and ‘Daughters of Pioneers
W. McC. White
A. Christie
J. Groeneveld
First ' Presbyterian Church
Richards’ Chapel
Legent
Montana Society of Pioneers
Montana
Col
W. “K. Thompson
New York
Loskat
Charles Power
Norman J. Holter
Clinton H.moore
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N. Main St
Hallmark
E.R. Grigg
City Health
Cer
State Board of Health
Jacob Olson
Virginia City
L. Hampton
West Iron Street
Mr. Olson
Virina City
Martin Holter
San Diego
North Main
Wood's Cross
Dan McArthy
Prop
Paint Specialists
West Park St
Board
Executive
AIDS
Hanhifin
Loren Butte Optical CO
Park St
Calkins Company
B. E. Calkins CO
Caleb
N. Chules
East Park Street
Oechsli
West Broadway
HIGH
Minnesota
Colorado Fuel
Spirit OF
Elkdom and
Peoples Theater “Reel
White House
Lyon
D.C
John J. M’carthy
ED Rose
Jewels
Main St. Butte, Mont
Madison County
James M. Page
John W. Blair
Powsil County
George W. Moree
Granite County
Frank D. Brown
C. W. Hoffman
Gallatin County
Pat J
Ohnton As
Loggat
Rochester
Fat Jack
Sawtelle
Cal
Rod
Moore
Mr. Moore
Loggat Fund
Ballard
Easities
Carthy’s Ory & Meat Store
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