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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1921
Page
6
Miss Annice G English was appointed assistant postmaster of Anaconda. She has 19 years in the post office and has worked at all desks including money order. Postmaster Burke notified her of the appointment after word from Washington.
Mayor J B McCavitt and party joined Butte officials including Mayor Stodden and Alderman Ernest Hardcastle for a grand barn dance and banquet. The visiting group, including Miss Mary Harris, enjoyed late festivities at the Butte Grill after the dance celebrating retiring and incoming officials. Mayor McCavitt called the occasion highly enjoyable in his official life.
The funeral for Mrs. Eliza Johnson was held yesterday at the Norwegian Lutheran church with Rev. J Mithun presiding. Many boiler makers and Security Benefit Association members attended, and Mrs Johnson's son belonged to the bell makers union. Garrett Oyler sang and Kathleen Larson accompanied on the organ among abundant floral tributes.
Anaconda promotes annual clean up with tips on waste disposal and fire safety. Citizens urged to clear trash from homes, yards, and outbuildings, monitor rubbish fires, and maintain clean, safe premises. Civic groups and students to assist. daily cleanliness encouraged beyond Clean-Up Week.
The old Anaconda city council meets tonight for the last time at the usual hour. Mayor McCavitt will close the current fiscal year, then inaugurate the new council by dropping the gavel and calling the body to order. He is re-elected for another two-year term. A full membership is expected and reports will be read as preparations begin for the new administration.
Frances Ne Moyer stars as the Vamp in David G Fischer's The Law of Nature at the Imperial theater tonight and tomorrow. Critics praise her performance as an artistic vampire par excellence moving through a hazy atmosphere of lust and sin. Funeral services for Ruth C Peterson, a railway accident victim, were held at the Latter Day Saints church with eulogies and hymns.
A fragment discusses how the British Parliament opens with the king's speech and a preceding dummy bill read for first reading. It notes the tradition signals parliamentary independence and avoids premature focus on the monarch's words.
Anaconda 1 theaters show BLUEBIRD with Message From Mars starring Bert Lytell at Imperial and Margaret Dark in The Law of Nature at Nature.
Rebekahs musicians and K of P groups meet tonight in Anaconda. Listings note Troy Laundry and 106 Leta taxi, May Victor records, Fourth Degree K of C, and various local services. Mentions of residents Alonzo Early and Kinney at St. Ann’s, plus a family visit from Mrs. Grover of Bellingham.
In Montana the annual spring mixed foursome at Anaconda Country Club drew 96 players, a record entry. The event produced three flights and included many nonresidents, with G A Dean and Miss Emily Emmerson posting the lowest qualifying score of 61. Drawings set first round matches to be played by Sunday, May, with pairings listed for First, Second, and Third Flights and several notable couples.
A windy May shoot at the Anaconda Gun Club drew 17 shooters for five events of 20 targets each and produced limited scores. Out of town guests included C B Larabie Lee Williams and K C Coy of Deer Lodge and Dr A H Cole A Henningsen M A Van House G E Perier Dr H A Maillet J A Poore and W S Thompson of Butte.
Census Bureau figures show Montana hosts 67,677 farms. Of these 50,271 are owner operated, 599 managed, and 6,607 worked by tenants.
A bottomry bond is a legal instrument used by shipowners and lenders, pledging the vessel or its cargo as security. The term derives from the word bottom, referring to the entire ship.
In a Washington postwar scene General Sherman stood with President Johnson and General Grant. When presented to Secretary Edwin M. Stanton he declined to shake hands, remarking he had never begun the habit of greeting messenger boys.
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