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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1920
Page
10
A grocery department advertisement lists rendered lard options with prices and weights: two pound can at 69 cents, five pound can at 1.44 dollars, and ten pound can at 2.80 dollars, highlighting purity and weight. The note emphasizes substantial savings.
Mrs Jane Ridgeley Peckover, mother of Fred W Peckover of Anaconda, died in Eau Gallie Florida after paralysis struck May 20. Born in Nicholasville Kentucky she was 80 and linked to revolutionary stock. Survived by son Fred and son Richard Peckover of New York and daughter Elizabeth Wells of Cincinnati. Interment planned in Cynthiana Kentucky. funeral absent for her son due to travel.
A meeting of the high school athletic council will install the new council in the assembly room Tuesday evening. New members are Gil Mayes Ed Conroy J Kane Murphy Earl Tucker J M Minor and Dr W L Beal. The council aims to strengthen scholastic athletics with alumni business support and school board backing.
Mystery surrounds the destruction yesterday afternoon of the large A on the hill behind the cemetery. Reports tie the act to high school tensions between seniors and freshmen who had whitewashed the letter earlier. The feud allegedly involved paint battles and a switch to the numerals 21 then F before the latest damage, with blame also linked to youths who sparked a grass fire near Sheep Gulch.
A Maurice Tourneur production adapted from Penelope Knapp’s Mar ecene shows Lewis J. Cody in a dramatic, emotionally charged role. Pauline Starke and May Alden provide strong support in sumptuous settings with superb photography.
Monroe, an Edmonton Western Canada league out fielder, reported for a tryout with the Spokane club of the Pacific International league. Genin, a Tacoma Pacific International league catcher, would report to Spokane today or tomorrow.
Chicago May 18 Elmer Mc Deavitt former Yale football star is appointed football coach at Northwestern University succeeding Charles J Bachman formerly of Notre Dame.
A series of brief social and travel notes from Anaconda and surrounding areas. Residents and visitors including Mr. and Mrs. John N. Edy of Helena, Ed Schow of Livingston, Dr. P. B. Bowden of Billings, A. D. Sperry of Missoula, Mrs. Fred Foster and Mrs. Myron Kurn of Deer Lodge, and others are listed as seeing friends, visiting, or transacting business in Anaconda yesterday.
The Thomas Francis Meagher branch of Friends of Irish Freedom staged a Thursday evening event that combined a card party with a dance to raise funds. A large crowd attended, using both A. O. Hi halls. Dan Gallagher won the 100 pound hog prize as entertainment concluded with jazz for younger attendees and quadrilles for older participants.
The Rev. L Vroman Schermerhorn of Central Presbyterian Church accepts the graduating class invitation to preach the baccalaureate sermon at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening May 30 and again in the morning.
Mikich led entrants in last evening’s individual bowling tournament finishing with 1119. Davidson 1068 Coleman 1067 Stanich 1066 Lattimer 1063 Martin 1062 Ugrin 1032 Fulmer 1003 Sehmidt 999 followed in sequence. Only Mikich reached the prized 1100 circle.
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