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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1925
Page
9
An old advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a quick way to gain weight and build strength. It promises 60 tablets for 60 cents, with a money-back guarantee if no five pound gain in 30 days. City Drug Store and Fuller Drug Co are cited as sellers.
A dab of liquid argon rubbed into the scalp at night dissolves dandruff, with effects by morning and after subsequent applications. It claims total elimination of flakes and itching, leaving hair fluffy and glossy, with four ounces enough to start. Liquid arvon is available at drug stores.
Advertisement text promising a ten cent bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and hoarseness with free samples of Foley Pills Foley Cathartic Tablets and a kidney simulator, urging readers to mail to Foley Co in Chicago for the samples. Includes a sales pitch and claim of millions helped.
Deer Lodge Nov 23 City Treasurer Edward Sharnikow issues a Dec 1 call for city warrants across funds including General and road funds with specific numbers. library and sprinkling funds listed. several special improvement districts 58 through 73 also called with individual warrant counts.
Active work in the Red Cross drive will cease Tuesday, November 24, with teams reporting to Powell county chairman Arthur J. Lochrie. Membership totals exceed last year’s except for outlying districts. Helmville Ovando and other small towns will boost numbers when reports are turned in. Those still wishing to join may call Mr Lochrie. drive closes officially on Thanksgiving Day.
Deer Lodge officials and local ranchers and sportsmen urged the state game board to permit an elk open season at a special meeting in Anaconda but the board returned the request for consideration. The delegation cited losses from elk herds.
The first meeting since organizing the men’s chorus will be held Wednesday evening in the G A R rooms at the courthouse. Attendees will vote on a permanent chorus name select musical numbers and hear committee reports. About 30 men attended the initial meeting expressing intent to join. Rev F C Phelps and Russell March expect larger turnout.
In Deer Lodge on Tuesday evening the Terpichorean club will host its first dancing party at the Woman's clubhouse on Missouri avenue. Nearly all of last season’s members are expected to attend, and the hall will feature special decorations for the event.
Deer Lodge Montana reports notice of Mr and Mrs William O Rourke and children leaving for Spokane to establish a home. Pattie Geary Helmville visits for business and shopping. Numerous residents including R W Ross A H Jones and J D Wolfer travel for business in Butte Anaconda Virginia City and Billings. Mr and Mrs W B Keeley enjoy coast Canada and Alaska trip. Mayor Frank Conley and A B Whitcomb of Butte also noted for Monday business.
Sweden reports 17 177 women in state employment last year, about one sixth of government officials. The civil service list shows the share of female workers has nearly doubled since 1923, reflecting broader changes in public employment.
Dillon Nov 23 Mrs Jesse Ditty had a narrow escape when a bullet fired by youths practicing near her home south of the city went through her hair just grazing her scalp Sheriff Dan Mooney warns boys near the city limits Barrett hospital area and says all youngsters using firearms near the city will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law
Dillon Nov 23 Smith McKnight rancher of Dell was injured yesterday when a broncho threw him to the ground and trampled him. While leading the horse through a gate it suddenly lunged forward striking his back and crushing a hand. He drove to Dillon for care and is a patient at Barrett hospital.
Dillon reports W H Stinson long time resident dies in a local rooming house from pneumonia after only two days illness. Born in Missouri 45 years ago he moved to Montana 20 years ago, ran saloons in Armstead and Dillon, later lived on a ranch near Armstead. Survived by mother and relatives in Missouri and a brother in Salt Lake City. No funeral plans yet pending relatives arrival.
U Jennings was brought from Butte by Sheriff Mooney after a Dillon warrant. He appeared before Judge Philips in justice court and pled not guilty, bound over for preliminary hearing under $200 bond. Hearing set for November 27. Accused of stealing two engines belonging to Vipond Mining near Dewey.
Dillon November 23 Roy Forrester and W B Hartwig delegates from the Beaverhead Sportsmen's association to the state convention at Helena last week returned to Dillon yesterday. They report two local proposed changes were acted on favorably the convention recommended a game preserve in Beaverhead county within the Beaverhead association boundaries and a change in prairie chicken open season making August 15 the opening date. Deputy Game Warden Charles Price also attended the convention.
Dillon residents return from Salt Lake City excursion with Oregon Short Line. Local Elks attend Butte opening of new lodge home, hailed as wonderful. Marriage of William C. Brown and Jennie R. Love follows recent divorce. various locals noted in Dillon.
A Peking dispatch reports that Feng Yu-Hsiang plots with bolshevists to attack Chang Tso-Lin and then Wu Pei Fu to establish a bolshevik regime. Chang reacts by concentrating troops inside the Great Wall to uphold the current regime, amid foreign powers’ concern.
The Flathead Lake steamer Klondike, once a daily sightseer boat, is being dismantled at Polson docks. Workers raised the sunken vessel to remove boilers bought by Dewey Lumber. Captain Gene Hodge directs the operation as the crew plans to sell lumber and fittings from the boat.
Buyers from Fergus county and Central Montana Commerce visit Lake County herds to evaluate dairy stock for shipment. W McConnell A H Winter and Gus Norris inspect breeders' stock, with several Lake County farmers offering surplus herds and a full herd sale possible. They praise quality and herd sizes, noting Guernsey cattle arrived in 1921.
Mrs. Jonnie Smith wife of Oral Smith died at home after a brief illness in Lewis addition Polson. Funeral held at First Baptist church conducted by Rev H A Brown with Lake View Cemetery burial. Pallbearers named W L Holding R R Davis R Redeker John Wood John Sila Godfrey Johnson. A pioneer resident since 1910 born St James Missouri 43. Survived by husband two daughters Elna 17 Wilma 12 a mother and other Missouri relatives.
Turkeys from Polson area fetch 10 cents more per pound than last year as the Polson Creamery ships to Idaho Washington and Montana. About 5 000 pounds are planned for Thanksgiving trade with birds weighing 10 to 30 pounds. Notable producers include Isaac Pauline J N Jones William Irvine Hoyt Mrs George Sharp Mrs Nate Hart Roy Styles and others.
Polson November 23. At a city council meeting this week the proposal to build a municipal skating rink east of the Lincoln School was discussed but no action was taken. The city has been asked to furnish the water supply.
Eight persons were injured when an airplane carrying residents from Kansas City and Excelsior Springs Mo struck a tree and crashed during a forced landing in St Joseph on November 23. One person sustained a serious injury as the others escaped with lesser hurts.
In the Third Judicial District of Montana Deer Lodge County a guardian seeks sale of real property for Ruth and Robert Muller minors. The court orders kin and interested parties to appear December 28 1925 at 9 30 am to show cause why the sale should not be granted and directs publication in the Anaconda Standard for three weeks. Judge George B. Winston dated November 71 1924.
Alok life to save her Patsy a wire haired Irish terrier died after a boy shot her while attempting to protect the pet named Patsy. Hugh Scott a younger boy tried to shield the dog from a .22 rifle held by an older boy near Locust Street. The shooting occurred during a hike near the flume west of the city as Richard and Hugh Scott sought to keep Patsy from danger. Police have not pursued charges. Patsy was under a year old and had no 1926 license.
The New York World reports William Z Foster, former head of the American Communist Party and its last presidential nominee, has been deposed by order of the Soviet government. The new leader is P Green, a Soviet agent, with Foster and Charles Ruthenberg traveling to Russia to present their cases to Zinoviev. A leading Communist says the Foster faction was denounced as mechanistic and ultra factional by Moscow.
In Birmingham a speaker at Selborne before the National Council of Women argued that a shilling a day for liquor is a moderate allowance for a man while drunkenness is the evil, and that moderate consumption is a gift from God for our benefit.
The Wohelos will meet this evening at 212 East Fourth Street the home of Mrs E 8 Jaeckel. Hostesses include Miss Shepard Miss Eura Kester Miss Mary Cary and Mrs Jaeckel.
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