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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1915
Page
5
ANACONDA NEWS reports a large senior class of 47 students at the hit School nearing graduation on June 18. Seniors are busy with final examinations and class play preparations as they strive for strong grades and a successful commencement.
Details of commencement week at the lab school include a June 14 performance, a June 18 seniors' close day with a program in the assembly room, and the formal opening of the new gym during commencement. Dred. F.s Spelman, board president, will likely attend. Exhibits in training and art departments, medals donated by Menara Hedgers, and plans inviting parents and friends are noted.
A jumble of items notes social meetings at the HL hall and various local activities. Mentions individuals such as Miss Eva La Morin, J. F. Notestine, H. A. Conyne, and Mra. CA. St. Clair, plus events like a Baptist home cooking sale and a matinee at the Reel theater. Also reports rainfall in Deer Lodge Valley totaling about 1.5 inches over four days.
Mrs. Johanna Sheehan, 72, died at home on 904 Haat Fifth Street after an illness. Funeral plans set for Monday morning at 11. The long obituary notesSheehan's Cork origin and time in Anasonia, with surviving relatives and community ties.
Bids for Anaconda paving and lighting improvements will be opened by the city council Monday evening as nine contractors arrive for the session. District 60 covers portions of Main and Park while 62 and 6h include Commercial Avenue area. Nine bid types exist for the project with a 24120 square yard paving estimate and a three light cluster street illumination plan likely. The telegraph and telephone lines and electric company poles are being removed to ready the streets, with work expected to start in June.
The article notes Tim's plan to remove several sharp curves by relocating a feature called the Piannes to the left side between the schoolhouse and Ten Mile house. It mentions a Seattle dated message and a tied money claim, plus police investigations failing to locate key people. It also advertises a New York Hippodrome film at the Margaret Theater tomorrow and Monday, promoted as a six reel feature reproducing a metropolitan revue.
The City Clerk announces a hearing by the city council of Anaconda Montana on May 31 1918 at 8 pm in the city hall to consider protests against Special Improvement District No 6 proposed for lighting and wiring along Commercial Avenue Hickory street area. The district would extend installations including posts wiring globes and connections at about 44000 funded by assessments at 100 per post with 31600 annual maintenance. notices require protests within 19 days after first publication May 21 1918.
Anacone June 1 1915 at 1 o clock. The meeting of the board of directors for the Railway company will discuss the bound of directors and the business to come before the meeting. Halloran is secretary.
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