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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1920
Page
2
Local residents report travel, health recoveries, and social events across Walkerville. Families like Stewart Cameron and John Conway share news from Idaho and Minnesota while the community gathers for church socials, sewing circles, and school events at Mount Bethel, St. Lawrence, and Grace churches.
Centerville L A A Division No 1 celebrates its twenty sixth anniversary at Hibernian hall tonight with a prepared program and banquet by the Indies. Members of division IV LA AO HL AC H and RB LA invited. Guests include Youngstown relatives of Mr and Mrs John O’Leary of 39 Missoula. Agent Mr and Mrs Vahey travel home after a two months Canada western states trip. Mr Walsh acts for Mr Bherlee at Blaine school due to Mr Kerloe's illness. Mrs Margaret O’Brien substituted at Blaine last week. Miss Harrington leaves for Billings to attend the State Teachers Association. Trinity Junior League meets to recruit new members with Else Daniels leading Whistle for Blue and Gladys Trevenna Whistle for Red, Florence Hocking lieutenant. Annual bazaar planned for December 10. Tom O’Brien recovers from blood poisoning. John Trevithick returns from hunting with a fine deer. Miss M M McDonald, Blaine principal, travels to Billings for friends and State Teachers Association. Miss Finn Belle Sullivan returns home from hospital after appendectomy.
The Unity Methodist Episcopal adult choir held a social evening in the church parlors featuring games and music. Stephen Donald led the choir, with organist Bir k Walker in charge. refreshments were served.
Mrs J Larson of Harrison avenue has returned from Idaho where she spent the summer visiting friends. Mrs F C Amerman hosted the Ladies Aid society of the Central Presbyterian church at her home 103 Nevada avenue on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Phillips hosted beverages. The afternoon was spent socially. Pon Barnes of Harrison avenue returned from Seattle last week after a four month period.
Weekly high mass schedule for St Patrick’s and St Marys with multiple services for anniversaries and special intentions. Parish activities include sodalities, altar society meetings, Forty hours devotion, upcoming school painting work, Knights of Columbus free school, and calls for youth participation. Also St Joseph’s and Central High School items noted with masses, elections, and events. Local masses span Monday to Saturday with numerous intentions and anniversaries.
President E. D. Davis announced major improvements at Dillon's normal college including a dormitory kitchen and a new heating plant with later additions of a gymnasium and a fireproof library. He noted the college's growing enrollment and credited the recently passed bond issue and mill tax for enabling a stronger teaching staff. The college plans a student-edited paper called the Normal School Index to cover school news.
The article discusses methods of teaching that may benefit elementary teachers in the state. It highlights practical approaches, classroom strategies, and training opportunities aimed at improving early education practices and student outcomes.
In Billings on November 21, an epidemic of guilty pleas followed recent Tet court jury convictions. Mrs Josie Schle nofer was found guilty of selling liquor the third woman convicted in a week. Others include Della Cloud and Lydia Paxman, with sentences due Tuesday. Seventeen have pleaded guilty since the convictions. Residents of an improvement district face no storm sewer payment due to a tax roll error, as the city council waived collection of the $1,000 still due.
More than 30 Boy Scout officials from Washington Oregon Idaho and Montana met in Spokane with Dr. George J. Fisher deputy chief scout executive of New York City to discuss a program for the Pacific Northwest. Fisher was entertained at dinner tonight by local Scout executives.
The Silver Bow American Legion post appoints ten committees for the coming year. Leaders include Emmet O'Brien as Employment chair, Horace Casey as Entertainment chair, John Kelly as Publicity chair, and John Troup as Sick and Funeral chair, with a slate of additional members across each panel. Drummond notes and local town news follow in the same column.
Belgium forms national committees of employers and workers to hear and settle labor controversies. The postwar plan aims to extend success across industrial communities, part of broader postwar organization efforts. A medical ad promotes Grove's Laxative BromQuinine tablets claiming a sure cure in one day.
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