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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
7
The principal branch office of the Standard is at 119 North Main Street, Butte. Telephones listed for business and editorial departments. Advertising rates furnished on application.
A dainty design on Hawkes glass with table accessories offered as handsome yet inexpensive wedding gifts. For a more elaborate present, combinations of two or more pieces in the Clermont pattern are suggested, highlighting Jawkes Celeste Blues and Royal Purple glassware.
Bozeman guest R. B. Oliver, Logan guest J. B. Linford, Helena guests H. A. Warner and Maurice Nelligan, and many others are listed as visitors or residents in Butte. Frank I. Casey and William Nash among those in city. G. A. R. reunion aids and local business notices appear amid varied society items.
A Chinese wife, Celestial Ling Fong, filed for divorce from So Ba Fong in Forsyth two years after their June wedding. She alleges cruelty, dissipation, and insults including a loaded revolver incident in Livingston. The suit marks the first Chinese divorce action in local courts amid other accusations of marital infidelity by her husband. Lawsuit notes Paul Mahkovic claims his wife is untrue and cites co respondent Pete Mehelć and unnamed men.
Alderman Charles Swanson called a ward meeting for Friday at Bennett's hall at 8 o clock to decide which candidate the Seventh ward voters want to represent them on the city council in place of former Alderman Foltz.
The new police commission will hear charges filed against Patrolman George W. Carlson by Police Chief Murphy this afternoon. The charges allege Carlson spent more time than allowed by law at the time of his appointment to the force.
Women in Butte organize at the Women’s Patriote association headquarters in the courthouse Third Floor to sew bandages and compresses for Allied troops in France. Attendees include Mrs. Ormond Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Frantzmen with British and French flags displayed. a tag day is planned Saturday to raise coin funding and a linen drive seeks old cotton linen from hotels and residents. Volunteers will knit items for sailors and troops and yarn will soon arrive for care packages, with supervisors named at several local sites.
Yesterday's luncheon drew a large delegation from the advertising club and local workers in the campaign for a new Deaconess hospital in Butte. Reports showed steady progress toward the needed funds with a grand total of 9 89 and 3 296 raised yesterday.
A Bismarck saloon crowd on We Street fought with patrons and police reserves arrived to quell the disturbance. Reports describe officers sustaining minor injuries and several men ending with bruises or black eyes as witnesses named Pat Murphy testified.
City council, now reorganized, demanded radical changes to the new bank building at Galena and Arizona streets. Building inspector MacPherson reported many required alterations after a fire and safety inspection. A committee was named to draft a new building ordinance.
Funeral services for Angus McKay were held yesterday afternoon at the undertaking parlors. Members of the Butte bricklayers union attended the service. Burial followed in Mount Moriah cemetery. In other brief items, the daughter of Mr and Mrs at 831 Virginia Street wed Leo Works of Harlowton.
The former czar's private treasury reportedly funded the Russo-Japanese war with a lump sum of £20,000,000 and is estimated to generate over £10,000,000 annually from all sources.
Miss Ruth Roland the motion picture actress and 38 year old Mrs Lionel J. Kent plan a secret wedding with Lieutenant Godfrey La Mothie of His Britannic Majesty's forces stationed at Wilberforce Barracks Sierra Leone. Kent, an automobile salesman from Los Angeles, wed May 46 at Patchogue, Long Island.
Architect George Nelson reports changes ordered by the building commission. Several new buildings were stated to be under modification and are now being implemented, with Empress cited among the projects.
Phillip Prija reports 100 motorists arrested in May first 24 days in Butte. Convictions issued in police court totaling $870. charges include speeding, running red lights, passing streetcars, no license numbers, muffler neglect, reckless driving. A city record for early May arrests and fines.
Sheriff O Rourke announced a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest of Fudge Barry, the youth accused of robbing the Finlen hotel in brit, who escaped from Bt Jaies hospital last Monday night despite gun wounds. Charges against another man, Robert Newman, were dismissed with the witness taxed for trial costs. New York street cleaning workers protest compulsory service, while the Tribune suggests pacifists seek safety as white wings.
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