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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
19
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 28 East Broadway, Butte. Telephone 422. Independent telephone 1,422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Butte notes report J B Tighe of Helena in town and Orton Bros renting pianos. Several visitors and residents are listed including Ben Wilson, R L Bradley, P C Allison, W I Higgins, W H Melrose, and P F Morgan. Local business shifts include Whatley cafe relocation and new harness shop ownership.
The Butte city council meeting proceeded with harmony as seventeen doves sat on desks. The body approved standing committees, discussed refund petitions, park alley condemnation, and crossovers on Park Street, and awarded sidewalk contracts while advancing street grades and public notices.
The junior class at the School of Mines hosted a seniors’ prom at the Coliseum last evening attended by about 300 guests from the west side. Faculty chaperons included President and Mrs Bowman and professors Simons Kirk Lincoln Craven Hartzell. The hall featured copper and green bunting and apple blossoms with college pennants. Juniors served as hosts and organizers, led by Ira B. Peters and other officers. seniors named as guests of honor included Malcolm Bowden and several others.
Judge McGowan discharged P Regnier in a late session after testimony on a disturbance at the Northern Pacific station. Regnier, a Lavelle company transferman, was accused of soliciting business in the depot. no ordinance forbids it, though one officer ejected him and a possible trespass action was noted. The morning docket included a drunken Lombard to be sent to the poor farm, Dempsey paying a $5 fine for a tag, and Tim Sullivan jailed 30 days for vagrancy.
Judge Donlan signed an order authorizing payment of a claim against the estate of John Watson by Livingston Cushing of Boston on a $15,000 note dated May 13, 1897. $7,500 had been paid. settlement offered at $6,000. Administrator to pay if approved. Centennial Brewing offers a decorated serving trap with each Bohemian beer order. Alcazar.
Mayer promises a $1 mainspring and $1.50 watch cleaning with a one year guarantee. He claims higher priced mainsprings elsewhere fail to match his offer and wagers $100 to prove otherwise. Also promotes June wedding and graduation gifts plus white diamonds $25 to $75 at Mayer's 22 West Park.
Spanish War veterans will dedicate a plot between Catholic and Protestant cemeteries Friday evening at 7. Mayor Corby will speak on behalf of the Daughters of the American Revolution who funded the coping stone. a bronze tablet marks Lawton camp, while DAR had hoped to add a memorial fountain. Crowds attend despite rain and snow as extra streetcar cars run to the cemetery line.
Market copy offers glasses fitted free and furnished as low as one dollar with satisfaction or money refunded. Advertises savings of two fifty to four fifty on gold glasses purchased.
The Central Coal and Coke company sues Reiis Copper for 1778.80 with an attachment on Reiis property in Meaderville. The Butte Central and Boston company also faces an attachment suit by Montana Iron Works for 1118.00.
The Standard offers a 3x5 foot flag to any boy or girl who signs up one new subscriber for three months or longer. The first month is paid in advance and flags are sewn with fast colors.
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