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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
5
The passage extols giving a diamond ring to a daughter on commencement day. It highlights Leys' fine 14 carat yellow and white gold Tiffany mountings and asserts the enduring beauty and value of such a gift.
Multiple short notices list visitors and locals in Butte from Missoula Wisdom Helena Dillon and others. Names include Orton Bros H St Miller Woodall Kramer Hirschy Whitstone Truax Hefling Jewell Ostergrin Shobe Fitzgerald Nutting Weenink Majerus Martin Hopkins Bickler Ballard Butler and others visiting hotels or stopping for short stays.
A large majority at a teamsters meeting voted to accept a 50 cent per day wage increase offered by employers. The new scale takes effect June 1 and applies to all members of the teamsters union. Separate items note Butterodge No. 240 meeting notices, funeral arrangements for Charles Schmidt, a philosophical lecture by H. George Duss, and a recent arrest of Andrew Erick on a concealed weapon charge.
Two hundred women seek enlistment at Puget Sound Navy Yard as recruiting offices roll out stenography and shore duty roles. Miss Vera M. Elder and Miss Ming Helen Sherry pass tests for two stenographer slots and will report to the Puget Sound yard. hundreds more women already serve in naval reserves, with a push to broaden ratings including aviation, machinists, carpenters, and instructors for naval air training.
The notice instructs Alea residents to register all 21 year olds between June 1896 and June 186, inclusively, except officers and enlisted regular forces, with details on when where and how to register. It urges in person or by deputy if absent, and includes mailing instructions and penalties for failing to register.
Sergeant majors captains and two generals, all young girls, staged a playful enlistment at the courthouse during Memorial Day events. They claimed an army bank and produced commission papers, receiving slips and ranks before choosing to become Red Cross nurses.
Plans for the opening sweepstakes tournament of the season are under way at the Butte Country club. Preliminary contests will probably be played Sunday. About 20 enthusiasts have entered their names. The links are in splendid condition after much work. Many women players are turning to the links for recreation after war relief duties. Daylight saving is expected to boost evening attendance.
Reports from a high school memorial day service describe formal exercises in the auditorium with hymns, invocations, and multiple ministers giving addresses. The piece lists the program order and notes the audience observed solemnity and respect for the day.
In Butte the drafted men from the city and county left for Camp Lewis wearing ribbons that signified Greek and American flags, with a Greek motto and a sword inscription. Dorothy Haas, Dorothy Raith Hamilton, Ora Greer Canterbury were among those chosen by Principal B.K. Milliken to distribute the tokens. Committee members included John Eliopoulous, editor of the Greek News, William Lecos, George Rutter, John Rabbis, and Charles Carabentas.
Harry Jacobs was arrested and placed in the city jail last night charged with wife beating after a woman showed numerous bruises. She said her husband Jacobs had given them and the injured woman was treated at the emergency hospital as a son recently returned from Camp Lewis.
Excerpt from an annual report stresses that continued efficiency of public utility corporations is vital for wartime success. It warns a breakdown would harm banks and investors, and urges state commissions to show forbearance while utilities raise charges to preserve solvency and credit, preventing a national calamity.
The Tutte lodge of Elks held a tribute to past exalted ruler John H M McLernan with Elks officers and choir participating. A eulogic address praised his justice and character, noting his gentle courage and lifelong service. The body would depart Ellis Street for St Patrick's Church for services.
Spokane banker Frank G Paine reports nothing but good news from Montana. He cites Prosperous mining around Butte Great Falls and state farming while noting bond issues for lighting systems in Great Falls Conrad and associated construction projects. A stray watch disappears during butchering then reappears in the bull’s neck wound. Freeman Chilton, ex-Portland resident aboard the ill fated Tuscan a, writes of a lovely spot in Ireland linked to a popular song and his first landfall after the transport sinking.
Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung reports that the Assessor's court of central Berlin held pianos not essential goods. A dealer bought a used piano from a locomotive engineer for 700 marks, overhauled it, and resold for 2000 marks. The war anti extortion bureau charged profiteering in articles of necessity. The article mentions Antarctic waters being colder than Arctic seas.
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