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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
5
The senior class of Anaconda High School prepares for commencement week with the production Higbee of Harvard. Forty one students are eligible to graduate, likely all passing final exams in mid June. Last year’s class numbered 37, a school record likely to be surpassed. Commencement is set for June 18. Grace Armstrong is named class valedictorian and Enid Hayes earns honors.
The senior class salutes with a 92.85 average placing salutatorian while 11th grade students showcase work in art and manual training this year. A new gym will be formally dedicated during commencement week and athletes will have their team photos hung in the gym. Athletic records will be posted on wooden shields with the record holder’s name. Class emblems in gold arrive, and the junior prom is planned with seniors eyeing college after graduation.
City gossip lists visitors from Butte Helena and Silver Lake plus locals in town. Notables include John N Olson John Ryan Peter Swanson and Katherine Small among others with social events at First Presbyterian church and Irish Volunteers dance at the depot planned.
Lyman Howe returns with a show of life aboard a Super-dreadnoughts and other naval images. The program includes an industrial plant portrayal and Philippine ethnology photos, with effects and curtain accompaniment by assistants. Showings begin May 21.
The Bownie association completed plans for a banquet tonight at 9 in the Musicians Hall on Chestnut Street with a tight program. Captains must bring their men along. Walter H. Andrews and Miss Lane Pearce, both of Butte, were issued marriage licenses yesterday by the district court clerk.
Two Anaconda residents Mr. Edward Devine and Patrick McFall were laid to rest by sorrowing friends. The Ancient Order of Hibernians attended each funeral. Devine, a longtime businessman and prominent citizen, was honored at St Peter's Church with a high mass. McFall, a longtime resident with many friends, was honored at St Paul's Church. Pallbearers included Patrick Dougherty Dennis Bonner John J. Gibbons B Leonard Thomas Pagan and William Dougherty.
Popular Plays and Players finishes Robert W. Service classic The Shooting of Dan McGrew with Edmund Breese in the lead. The American Kipling is praised for gripping lines, storytelling, and a lyrical romance woven through the duel of fate and greed.
The screen version of The Shooting of Dan McGrew opens at the Reel Theater tomorrow with matinee and Monday night showings. The dramatic tale centers on dangerous Dan McGrew as the film builds to his demise in a snowbound setting.
An appreciative audience at St Mark's church last night enjoyed the second performance of The Holy City by Wythe Anaconda Music club under E K Picken. The solo numbers duets and trios were splendid and the ensemble pieces among the best heard in the city. Members include James Robinson Clark Shay Capps Meeke Misses Neil Matthewson Whitman Juul Bennett Gilchrist Sperry Romane King Saunders Quit flam Hebertsen Clark and Brolin Libby played organ. Plans announced for next season include one or more great oratorios and additional concerts.
Miss Billie Burke brings the American comedy Jerry to the Margaret theater next Wednesday. The play by Catherine Chisholm Cushing features Burke as a Chicago girl who impersonates a resident of a quiet Philadelphia suburb, delivering a light, popular stage piece with strong star appeal.
The Gregson Springs facility announces open dressing rooms for bathers and a Sunday toe plunge event. A baseball game followed with Silver Blades in a close matchup yesterday. Dergey and Erickson formed the winning battery while Domitrowich, Sladich, and Kraker played for the losing side.
The report lists a string of names linked to Butte and other cities and states, noting that electric traction has been applied on one of Spain's most important mineral carrying railroads. The fragmentary text mentions John N. Olson, L. J. Hadley, D. F. Poyer, and several others across Montana, Minneapolis, Portland, and more, with unclear context but highlighting the technological development.
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