Montana Hats Brings New Styles to All Hats
A local hat retailer highlights its popular Montana Hats as leading for style and quality. The ad promotes the brand as the best mid priced hat and urges customers to visit now for the newest styles.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
16
A local hat retailer highlights its popular Montana Hats as leading for style and quality. The ad promotes the brand as the best mid priced hat and urges customers to visit now for the newest styles.
In Missoula on March 18 a Republican gathering in Joe Dixon's office set April 1 as the primaries date and the following day for the city convention. Andy Logan pressed for the date despite dissent, while Deacon Logan organized a campaign fund for four ward inspectors. Local candidate speculation includes J W Greenough and Willis Broadbent with Democrats backing Hulliam Keim and Herzog Nyberg.
Missoula plan calls for a four room brick addition to the central school to relieve crowding. If approved, the rear frame building may move to Spruce street, and a Park addition school may be built on county ground near the poor farm to ease crowded conditions.
Missoula reports both men in the county jail are improving under county physician William Calder. Calder, brought from the Blackfoot, faces an insanity examination after a sworn complaint but will rest a few more days before testing. Pontus Brostrom, formerly a Swedish soldier and South African mounted policeman, also shows improvement after days without food in cold conditions.
Missoula reports Chief Master at Arms Fred Josephson leaving for Helena to supervise two day hearings on navy places. Recruiting officers Lieut J P Morgan and Dr Page arrive from Wallace to set up offices in city hall. Apprentices aged 15 to 17 may apply with guardian consent. enlistment four years with pay nine dollars monthly and clothes valued at fourty five pounds.
The Missoula post office lists four unclaimed letters for the week ending March 18 1902. Names include Grant Arnold Wandner Beauchene Sam Bailey Corporal Louis Beeker Mrs C C Chapman and many others with call dates upon advertisement.
P M Reidly and Co crocers announce continued popular attractions at the Union in Missoula with a March 18 note. Hartley’s management will host major road companies this season including Eleventh Hour on March 26 Ostler Joe on the 29th Rose Coghlan in Forget Me Not on April 5 Al G Fields Minstrels on April 9 Blanche Walsh on April 12 Way Down Fast on April 23 and Nathan Hale on April 29.
Articles filed in Missoula establish St Patrick Mining Company to own lease and operate mines mills and ore treatment apparatus. Principal office in Missoula with directors T H Elliott A O Bioett W L O Ranft J B Pector and Marshall. Capital stock $109,990 in 100000 shares.
Court Clerk Kemp filed or delivered a document today in Missoula marking a procedural step for G H Lane. The action appears tied to an outstanding case or filing in the local court records.
In Missoula on March 18 a social event took place at the Walling home on the north side. The gathering honored Mrs Chapman, aunt of Mrs Walling, who will return East on Wednesday. Clief Walling will accompany her as far as Bozeman or Livingston.
Elks lodges across the state plan a major gathering in Missoula with 250 members expected to feed and rest on the lawns. A class of 74 lawns will be initiated, a doubled degree team, special trains if needed, and a banquet at Union hall with Col. T. C. Marshall as toastmaster.
A new smallpox case was confirmed in Missoula with Fred A. Fril ill at the Brunswick hotel. The facility was sealed, Fril taken to the pesthouse, and fumigation planned. The Keim building bartender Mr Brown is suspected ill and his floor quarantined.
After years of illness Mrs. Bowen travels with friends to Seattle for several weeks. The journey aims to improve her health and bring a pleasant visit, with Missoula friends hoping for restoration of her former vitality.
Under Sheriff Thomas Evans arrested Eldredge after a scuffle with John T. Evans on Sunday morning. Evans later swore to a complaint for assault in the third degree over a bitten finger. Eldredge, from the Blackfoot, appeared tonight and is out on bonds.
Miss Higgins and the sheriff prevail before Justice Heany in a Plains trial over possession of rooms in the Hirgins building above the Lewelyn saloon. Donley Higgins and Prescott had sought to regain control after the spaces were forcibly taken.
County Clerk Wilkinson sustained a sore hand from refereeing a dog fight near his home in Missoula on March 18. Two dogs collided and one bit him, causing several abrasions as he tried to separate the animals.
Deputy U S Marshal C F Gage traveled the Bitter Root valley to Victor and continues summoning witnesses for timber cases before Judge Henry N Blake. Officials expect proceedings to conclude Saturday.
The diary narrates a sequence of reckless bicycle and motorized rides with near disasters. It recalls crashes on Thursday and Friday with stumbles, escapes from police, and flirtations with danger including a dog, a cow, and a horse. The rider boasts improving nerve but sustains injuries.
In Clyde New York the oldest US church organ rests in St Johns Episcopal Church chapel. It began as a gift to Trinity in New York City under Queen Anne favor then served Trinity Utica before moving in 1946 to Clyde. The 4 by 7 by 5 foot instrument has one keyboard and six stops.
Missoula reports Undertaker Lucy received word to ship a casket to Drummond for Adrian Pritchard aged 58. No other details were provided with the request. The casket is to be shipped in the morning.
Undertaker Lucy seeks J. G. Longfield’s relatives in Wisconsin as remains may be sent from Madison after a fatality in the Northern Pacific yards here. Shipment to Wisconsin could occur within days.
Joseph Hagan was taken to Parsons' hospital today with asthma. He was brought down from Bonner this morning in an alarming condition. He is resting much easier tonight.
E S Ordway visits from Stark. Charles Crawshaw ill with grippe. J S Marsellis, Baird postmaster, in town. Otto Seifel at Hunter's Hot Springs. Houston Parsons ill. Fred Cowan from Bonner. F J Davies from Helena to Van Buren street couple. County Attorney Hall ill. Fraley visits from Garrison for Hibernian ball. Wolf Manhein to California to see daughters. County clerk office in painters’ hands. Paper hangers to follow. J B Weber returns from Butte on court matters. 19 pound son born to J S Harker family. mother and child well. Thanks message from Missoula residents to Mr and Mrs Rogers and Sorg.
In Missoula on March 18 the United States land office recorded the Northern Pacific Railway company selecting 30930 acres in the Fish Creek district. Ada L. Hay filed a 160 acre pre-emption claim in Bitter Root valley while RE Logan filed another pre-emption claim there. Frank Reeder filed a homestead entry near Belknap and Mrs. M H Barrette filed a contest against Adam Bell’s homestead in French Town valley alleging abandonment and noncompliance with laws. The concert is set for April 28.
Missoula March 18 The Missoula Water Company faces a surge of job seekers at its Main Street office with placards restricting hires until April 1. Work has started on a large reservoir above the current one. Engineer Payne is retained to supervise the project.
The Bert Donley v C R Prescott case heard before Judge Meaney ended with the defendant Prescott prevailing after a lengthy debate. Plaintiff counsel was W T Hughes, defense John M Evans and W M Draffen, with a notice of appeal filed.
A head end collision occurred around 10 o'clock last night between two Northern Pacific freights near Evaro. Eastbound engineer Bradley on Engine No. 23 and westbound engineer Baty on Engine No. 3 led both trains but speed was low. Repairs were minor, only pilots damaged, investigation underway. westbound train delayed a few minutes.
Halleck Lynch of Four Mile district injured while cutting timber when a log fell on his leg. He crawled to get help, was taken to Parsons hospital, and doctors set a compound fracture this afternoon.
C. M. Allen from Lolo arrives between trains and notes prosperous surrounding country. He reports the weather is fine and trees are beginning to sprout with leaves soon to follow.
The district court Clerk Kemp issued a marriage license in Missoula on March 18 to Bryan L Cook aged 30 and Miss Sarah E Kennedy aged 11, residents of Plains.
Mr and Mrs Leroy S Bowen of Butte formerly of Missoula arrived in the city for a few hours today en route to the coast.
The article tracing guerrilla tactics notes Spain as a natural theater for such fighting. It highlights Sertorius resisting Rome for eight years, his harassing of Roman lines, and the eventual collapse after his assassination. It also mentions Pompeian heirs Sextus and Gnaeus as persistent opponents of Roman generals before their move to Sicily.
A four week account documents one Ambi driver in Cleveland testing nerve behind the wheel. The narrator recounts passing a motorman, startling a milkman, backing into a park, nearly colliding with a sparrow cop, and a close brush with a fire engine while wearing eye protectors and increasing speed.
A local seed catalog promotes Sterling Timothy and Clover varieties plus Northrup King seeds. It touts a full package offer with freight paid on all orders and notes careful mail order attention for customers seeking dependable garden providers.
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