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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1915
Page
7
Tommy Raleigh nine years old was caught under a pile of lumber tumbling over in East Park street rear yard. His left toe broke above the ankle and surgeons at the emergency hospital set the fracture before he was sent home. He is the son of Mrs Raleigh, a janitress at the Yogen block.
Butte notes list visitors from Great Falls to Helena and Missoula, local births, engagements, club dances, and social calls. Names include Roy Wells, R H McCall, Miss Anna Smith, L M McLeod, A J Mahon, Pat Heaney, Ruth King, Alfred Tregoning, and Emil Burdreck. Also mentions St Lawrence social club dance, girls club concert plans, and elected officers of the Blaine circle of the Butte Parent-Teacher Association.
A county jail scene features Thomas Stages serving four months of a six month term after pleading guilty to carrying concealed weapons before Justice Doran. Also jailed are Dunstan with 60 days and Jann Okootte and Wood with 69 and 30 days respectively for petty theft and related charges as defendants in the same proceeding.
A lively Mountain View church parlor entertainment featured the Ladies Aid presenting the show themselves. Highlights included a song by Mrs Bowden, a modern education article by Mrs Paul, and recitations and dialogues by multiple members, praised as the best in years.
Joe Fandery, 47, German-born Butte resident for 26 years, died after being crushed between a mining motor and a cart in the Tramway mine drift at 5 pm Friday. Coroner to hold inquest. survivor listed as wife, five children, and brother Lee of Boston.
Police rounded up alleged beggars on vagrancy charges and sent them to jail, while county officials pressed the city of Butte to cover disputed election costs from 1914 and related printing expenses. Ralph Pingree and Rome Barrett received six days on vagrancy, and another man, Giron, got ten days for third vagrancy appearance.
Edna Wells a popular waiter shows improvement after an appendicitis operation last Monday at St Sree Hospital. Relatives Mrs Winnie Wells Paul Edward and sister Mrs W T Reed and other friends attend. Cornering care and religious friends provide support.
Health officials in Butte unite government club and city health department to start a citywide plan to eradicate disease spreading flies. Dr. T V Moore says publicity education and prizes for children will aid the effort with cooperation from Good Government club ladies and local newspapers. Citizens are urged to participate to maintain a clean and healthy city.
John Teonara died at a local hospital yesterday after a three year illness. He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Patrick Peeard two sisters and a brother Peenarend a Michael of Chicago and cousin Pat Avene of Ann eka. The body will lie at Sherman & Facts Undertaking Establishment with arrangements pending on arrival from Chicago.
Reports of experts show the Brooklyn mine in Granite county to attract high values with a Minneapolis St Paul and Toronto syndicate poised to take over. W Beckley leads the deal with a new Toronto chaired company planning a concentrator and tunnel work beginning mid June and aimed to operate by August 18, with zinc copper and silver ore potential and plans for improvements.
Mayor Lane reaffirmed the drive to limit city spending and keep all expenditures within appropriation. Department heads sought more funds, while the treasurer’s office considered staff cuts. police court, attorney services, clerk, auditor, health, and street departments faced restructuring to reduce debt and control costs. The plan aims to conserve money for debt service, street, and general fund needs.
County commissioners approved relief for two mothers of dependent children under a new state law. Aid will be paid monthly to keep children at home, with one case receiving 85 dollars and the other 20 dollars. The measure aims to reduce state costs while supporting families where fathers are in state institutions.
The crowded Emerson Merten school hosted the final Parent Teacher Circle meeting of the year. Pupils displayed sewing, drawing, painting, writing, manual training, weaving, and composition work in classroom samples that interested visitors including parents and teachers.
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