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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1928
Page
3
In Kansas City on May 22 the quadrennial Methodist Episcopal conference voted 541 to 268 to declare limited tenure of bishops unconstitutional. A 440 to 373 vote upheld the minority report asserting such election for a period of years was unconstitutional.
The Methodist Episcopal Church general conference in Kansas City spent hours debating whether bishops should have limited terms. Currently bishops are elected for life or until retirement at 72, with proposals for four or eight year limits. A decision was promised before May 29 after three daily sessions and closing arguments.
Mrs. Oran Dallinger of 363 East Mercury Street captured Eino Koski during an alleged fish basket theft. Koski is jailed for investigation, while his faster accomplice remains at large. A separate note directs Patrick Noonan to call at the police station.
Oscar Ingersoll and S J Perry were arrested by Butte police yesterday and booked on a speeding charge at the police station.
A reader suggests treating blackheads with two ounces of Calonite powder applied to a hot wet cloth. Rub over the blemishes and the powder dissolves them away in minutes.
A reader asks for a profession nationality and notable figures including the postmaster general and Jack Dempsey's wife. The inquiry references a Bible verse about living by every word from God and notes the answers lie on Page 4 of the source.
A letter to John Taylor supervisor of Deer Lodge National Forest from ranger Marshall G Ram sey at the battle ground station north of Wisdom states Wisdom Road to Hamilton is open this year several weeks earlier than usual thanks to better weather. Motorists can travel Wisdom without chains this season.
The campaign tea of the Butte Women's Christian Temperance Union at Mrs. Joseph Collins home 1125 West Woolman Street is postponed due to Mrs. Collins illness.
W A Clark III, a millionaire apprentice at Montana Hardware in Butte, dressed a window using a pilot ray lamp attached to a Buick. The lamp, driven by a worm gear, tracks the steering wheel, keeping a beam aligned as the car turns. Clark, in overalls, drew praise from clerks and the public for his industrious display.
The Rotana club held its regular bimonthly meeting in the Gamer tea room with a post dinner program directed by Miss Dora Drowatsky. Elizabeth Hopkins read "Marco Polo" followed by Madame Leipheimer on music and a talk by Teresa Trucano. The Montana products dinner date was set for Monday June 11.
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