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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1920
Page
6
The Margaret theater presents Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline as a motion picture tonight and Tuesday night March 29 and 30. Prominent educators praise the epic as a perfect portrayal of Arcadians and American pioneers and a landmark in educational cinema.
Large paddies of oil form around the Frantz well and two oil streams feed into Musselshell River. The oil covers miles of water and forms ponds and swamps as workers rush to complete casing and test the well expected in a few days. Officials say the well may be stronger than first thought.
Lewistown reports a fatal railroad accident as a boy named Killed by a train. From a window Mrs Milton Notters witnessed the incident on Fourth avenue near the Milwaukee line. The boy ran onto the track ahead of his father who arrived too late. The locomotive struck the child, killing him instantly.
Albert J. Smith was granted a divorce from Laura B. Smith by Judge Briscoe on incompatibility. They married in Lewistown in 1918. Susie McKeever sues Joseph McKeever for desertion failure to provide and cruelty and asks to restore her maiden name Susie Chestnut. they wed in 1910. County commissioners awarded two road contracts totaling about 13 miles with Lee Hilliard and Bert elbhert winning larger and smaller bids.
Frank I. Jones a taxicab driver enraged by being locked out and denied money smashed a rear door, shot his wife in the bedroom, then killed himself. Both deaths were instantaneous. The couple wed in Wyoming last summer and had lived in Billings after Jones moved from Sweet Grass County. Jones served as a sergeant in the signal corps with the American expeditionary forces.
The Orpheum theater hosts a free educational film for Deer Lodge residents, focusing on the youth of Thomas Jefferson Morgan. The Parent-Teacher Association brings the program, with showings Monday and Tuesday at 3 p.m. for public and student audiences.
In Deer Lodge on March 28 a district court suit by Bonner Lumber Co. against Dorset & Barnes for furnished lumber. Charles H. Williams sues Frank Smelser to recover a 1913 note. Nels Nelson of Dillon visited Peer Lodge and considers Powell county real estate. R Beeuwkes, Milwaukee electrical engineer, registered at Hotel Deer Lodge. Mrs. John Fordyce of Butte arrives for a valley visit.
In Deer Lodge March 28, ranchers seek readjudication of stream waters. J A Morrow and Wilson and Mannix Livestock petition to readjudicate Gold Creek waters, previously decreed in 1915 in Pioneer Placer Mining vs Kohrs. Louise Zozel files suit against Kohrs Land and Livestock for at least 60 inches from Baggs Creek tributary of Cottonwood. she owns 840 irrigated acres.
Libby March 28. Treasure Mountain Mining company formed with 2,000,000 shares at 10 cents to develop three adjacent claims near Lu Kens Hazel nine miles south of Libby. A 250 ton concentrator nears completion and ore indicators show lead silver veins. depth development expected to yield a producing mine. P. Rose of Libby is president PD B Heile of Spokane secretary. Libby stockholders include H Brink Arthur Lounsbury J W Warner and Leonard McKay.
The Montana State College regimental band will begin its fourteenth annual state tour on April 15. Concerts are set for Townsend April 15 Helena April 16 Great Falls April 17 Lewistown April 19 Harlowton April 20 Miles City April 21 Forsyth April 22 and Billings April 25.
In Dillon area and surrounding districts oil firms resume operations as warm weather returns. A Muddy district company reports entering oil sands with a good crude show. Another firm eight miles west plans to resume and reach sands by mid May.
Lewistown March 28 Workmen removed the cap at the Frantz discovery well to allow setting new casing for continued drilling through cap rock and sands to gauge flow. Oil came in as strongly as when first brought in. Tankage will finish early this week with a few more casing lengths, then a test. Two wells will soon begin in Winnett 29 15 30 by F F McCarthy of Thermopolis who has five cars of machinery en route. McCarthy recently celebrated July 4 by bringing in a discovery well on the Hamilton dome in Thermopolis district. seven wells now producing there. Grass Range and Valentine districts figure in oil news before summer as L B Butler of Grass Range, investor in Button Butte Oil Co, reports a contract for a well near Battrick and Fergus Oil and Gas Co.
Deer Lodge is promised a great treat on Saturday evening April 3 as the Glee club from the state university arrives under the direction of De Loss Smith. Smith, dean of music at the school, is regarded as one of the West’s top musical directors.
A long OCR fragment lists donor names and addresses for an Irish Bond Drive committee. Entries include multiple Sullivan, John and James entries with varied street addresses such as 638 Utah Ave and 605 S. Washington, plus hospital mentions and a St. James affiliation. The amount column shows small payments interspersed with larger sums, e.g. 5.060 and 19,500, though digits are garbled. The block preserves names, streets, and affiliations but lacks clear totals or dates.
Easter greetings via telegrams are rising, with Western Union offering special Easter blanks and booklets of message ideas. Telegrams can be filed anytime and will be delivered on Easter Sunday morning.
All churches of Anaconda and Deer Lodge county are asked to send delegates to a 1:30 PM meeting at the Montana hotel this afternoon. Special representatives of the interchurch world movement will attend and have items of interest to impart.
The week ending Saturday March 27 1920 shows remaining uncalled letters for men and women. Names include Anaconda Merk Co A L Failor Dr D D Jones C L Kelly Mrs F E Collins Edward Burke P M.
A doughboy recalls military drills and jokes about delaying the next war. He hopes the conflict holds off long enough to bid farewell and send others forward while he stays behind with family. The tone mixes humor and wartime reflection on service and age.
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