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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1923
Page
11
A county bounty program for three coyotes totaling 7.50 was paid to Arthur J. Cooley at the county clerk and recorder office. The law passed at the last legislative session ends bounty after May 6 with claims limited to those killed before March 6 and within 60 days prior.
Crowds gathered at 729 Cherry Street for the funeral of Mrs. Mary Boycott Hill. The service at St. Mark's Episcopal Church featured a choir led by Mrs. George Le Blanc and organist Mrs. FE Watson. Interment followed at the Hill family cemetery. out of town relatives attended.
Local brief items note sales at O K Store and Stage’s rug sale, business visits by Anaconda residents to Butte and Helena, upcoming events at Washoe park including a carnival dance, and various notices from professionals. A marriage license is issued for F J Kelsey and Katharine Bergman.
Police activities for April show 28 arrests with 12 for drunkenness and 19 for vagrancy. The figures compare with 31 arrests in March, which had a broader range of charges.
Music critics hailed the Montana Wesleyan Glee Club concert at the First Methodist church as one of the city’s best in months. The program featured classical operatic pieces and light college songs, with encores from a large, packed audience and a solo by Richard Smith. The roster included Ford Baller Wren Morris Fred Barthemus Walter La Bonte Edgar Bowers Morris Sanford Charlies Bur dick Thomas BumGarner Charles Novy Norman Korn Emmet Coles Anssie Potter Laurence Dean Giles Russell Gerald Welch Alvin F. Taylor and pianist Elbert Chadwick under director Fred Kelser.
The Montana Wesleyan College Glee Club entertained Rotary members at a lunch meeting. Enthusiastic back and forth singing drew strong applause and several encores. Rev. E C Bartlett spoke on the university. Benjamin Gray urged support for a life saving station at Silver Lake and the new diving apparatus. Birthday bouquets were presented to Lew Bender and H G Coy and J W Jackson thanked the group.
Funeral services for Miles Finnegan will be held Friday morning at 8 30 from his brother Patrick Finnegan’s home at 516 Cherry Street. A requiem high mass follows at St Paul’s church at 9. Interment is at Mount Carmel cemetery. Mrs Herman F Nelson of Alliance Nebraska arrives to attend. two daughters Mrs Mary Williams and Mrs F M Clark of Stockton California slated to arrive.
Students of Anaconda high school were entertained yesterday by the Montana Wesleyan Glee club and by an address by R. E. Bell, world famed hiker. A number of musical selections, mostly humorous, were sung by the glee club, while Bell described his hiking trips on foot across the country.
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