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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1919
Page
8
Deer Lodge prepares a three day Grand Army encampment starting June 12 with the A C M band of Butte set for daily concerts. The pageant parade will feature a large contingent of World War I veterans with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Spanish War veterans, promising a memorable statewide spectacle.
Glasgow May 30. Due to irregularities in calling the grand jury to inquire into alleged election frauds of Valley county, Judge John Hurry discharged the panel after Attorney General C Ford challenged it. Names came from a 310 name box, far fewer than required, and selection by the jury commission was used. The court deemed swearing inadvisable and did not question the commission’s good faith. Whether another will be called was not decided.
Kalispell May 30 Reinhold Krause and his wife were declared insane after court proceedings. He spoke on socialistic and religious beliefs citing world peace terms government ownership of railroads and utilities Bolshevism and the high cost of living as issues he addressed.
Memorial services for veterans were held with addresses and a late afternoon parade. Shriners led a citywide pageant while crowds from Butte and other towns joined thousands of visitors for the Helena Memorial Day events. Montana shrines, including units from Livingston Havre and Helena, took part in the grand parade and Shrine degree ceremonies marking the holiday thrill.
In Great Falls on May 30 a Big Sandy business committee urged support for the Marias reclamation project. The group, including V F Blankenbaker and L S Flint, sought government action to resume irrigation of a large land tract, noting a reservoir site was selected and held by the government though some land is already settled.
Havre Montana May 30 Havre will press to obtain state funds for equipment and maintenance of the Northern Montana agricultural and industrial School at Fort Assinniboine. Despite prior appropriations the money was not released. With Fort Assinniboine cut from the list due to overappropriations Havre businessmen form a committee led by Senator Morris Dr McKenzie James Holland St and Mrs Haskins to travel to Helena to seek reinstatement of the appropriation.
Winnett May 30. Fright at drowning of Clare Byford a Mussel shell 14-year-old boy during a picnic and raft dare near town led companions to hide the incident. Three hours later a younger boy confessed, and the body was recovered. The Byford youth jumped into deep water hoping to reach land. none could swim.
Tom Larson of Garrison presented his final homestead proof before the District Court clerk today in Deer Lodge. J. A. Smith and Carl Shar witnessed. Joseph Coleman hosted a dinner party Tuesday evening for a number of friends. Members were urged to prepare for a march via Stay and Heley. Mrs. Mary Bieslinger moved to Deer Lodge and will occupy the Fourth Street residence recently purchased.
Ed Murphy was arraigned yesterday in the district court on a bootlegging charge. Early notes claim Fourth of July Canyon lacks snow, and a separate report mentions a robbery at Al Drafter of Kultcase on Milwaukee May 24. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 4.
Hamilton May 30. A heavy shower drenched the Bitter Root, most rainfall occurring early morning. In Hamilton and nearby, about an inch fell, following months with scant rain. Sheriff Clarence Hogue and deputies conducted a liquor raid, discovering three bottles in O'Brien block, Louis Peterson residence, and Pete Burgoyne's car. About $5,000 worth seized, two wagon loads transported to the depot for safekeeping. no statement on warrants or further developments.
The Commercial Bulletin notes a softer seaboard wool market this week with prices holding steady. Demand improves modestly on best half blood and fine wools while foreign markets stay firm. Mills stay well sold ahead and cautious on new business amid shipping delays to Buenos Aires.
Rain fell across a wide region from Helena through Cut Bank and Great Falls, lifting cool weather and frost risk. Weather reports show heavy showers with amounts reaching .78 inches at Cut Bank and 1. inch in other locations while Helena recorded .24 inches. Temperature trends remain cool with a likely rise after the wet spell continuing into the week.
Philipsburg May 30 Arrangements completed to hold smoker on Friday June 6 1908. Boosters from town and country will attend to discuss the wood fol las question and road improvements in Granite county. The event aims to unite residents in supporting better roads and local conditions.
At a meet held at Mrs. D M Durfees home the Woman's club named offices for the year with Mrs D S M Durfee as president, Mrs K A Hannah as secretary, Mrs RE McHugh as treasurer, and others. The session closed with a tribute to H A Featherman for three years as president, presented with a keepsake.
Esther Miller Vancalvert Anderson of Moore renor Frederick Scheuch University of Montana cron statherine Hauck y Harp and violin duet Miles Springer and Mr Freudenheim presented diplomas Principal Charles Bruner Benediction Rev D P Meade The class of 191s included Ellen Linnea Anderson Nora Este butty Catherine Dorothy Hauck Louines Victoria Donald Agnes Esther Florence Venary Moore Alice Ann Det Margaret Muriel Pritchard Dewey Malcolm Price motto Only a Commences
Dillon May 20 report notes closing stores and county offices closures. Judge Joseph C. Smith signed a court order to cede the Dillon Dairy home to the Rife Ranch company. Road crews sand the grade near Lovers Leap to remove a dangerous section. Beaverhead County Board of Commissioners to meet next Monday in regular session. Rotary clubs from Great Falls to attend the Denver convention with expected turnout around fifty delegates.
The club committee has 32 applicants for the trip, with 14 accompanied by wives making 46 total. The group will depart June 15 and join the Montana special at Butte.
In Lewistown the Elks welcomed Lieut James Kreigh home from France while Phi MacGowan, a local soldier, returned after surviving heavy fighting. George Hirst will host a special program for graduates as eighty two boys and girls received diplomas at the Lewistown high school gymnasium. Judge I L De Kalb spoke to the midyear graduates, bringing total year graduates to 121.
Miss Annie H Price who ran the King Nich department in Granite county left Saturday for Evanston to spend the summer. Durste, a training instructor at the high school, goes to Spokane for home visit and may return to open a business suite. Bare Steelman English instructor visits friends in Se, while the feeder for the lower region had his injuries badly smashed at balls preventing play for some time. The Schreiber Orchestra has been engaged for the junior prom dance.
A meeting was held at the Commercial Club Assembly rooms on Thursday to organize a Boy Scouts flute group. The session adjourned on Saturday evening of the same week with work planned to continue.
Memorial day exercises in Livingston featured the first postwar procession in years. Principal speaker Muler addressed the crowd as about 500 schoolchildren provided entertainment and a spectacular war pageant capped the afternoon program.
The Toledo Blade notes that even with claimed efficiency the use of poison gas yields nothing to ease the bitterness of defeat. The remark frames the war’s grim reality and the hollowness of strategic rhetoric amid hardship.
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