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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1913
Page
17
In place of the regular prayer meeting at the Christian church this evening men are urged to attend a church meeting. All men of the church are invited and urged to be present for important business and the largest possible attendance is desired.
Open season for game birds and deer starts today October 1 with hunters in Anaconda aiming to be first afield. Birds legal include prairie chicken grouse sage hen foot hen pheasant and partridge with a daily bag limit of five. Deer limit is three per hunter with one doe allowed. elk hunting restricted to Deer Lodge and certain eastern Heaverhead Bowell Swan river areas. elk and other large game restrictions apply.
Local brief notices show meetings and events at A O H hall and other venues. Ads mention plan talks, hotel menus, watches, liquor store hours, and a mix of personal notices including travel plans and visitors. Several names and places appear: Montana hotel, Miss Kennedy millinery, Elgin watches, A. Hale in Williston, O K store closure Thursday, and Dr. M Kramer in Helena. A mix of sale notices, rent ads, and social updates follow from various residents and businesses.
A sale advertisement lists Devonshire cloth in plain shades checks and stripes at 25 cents per yard, heavier Galatea cloth at 20 cents, and suiting like ratine at 15 cents to 12 yards per dollar. Also promotes American wash fabrics at 10 cents, with a large assortment of patterns.
Officials tour the Washoe smelter and local electric railroad system. A special train carried visitors from Anaconda to the mine area, showing electric locomotives hauling ore cars and the seamless shift between electric and steam power. The return trip to Butte took about 40 minutes with a dinner aboard.
Readable items include flour sacks 49 pounds 81.8 percent Pillsbury’s Best 42 pounds, Durkee’s salad dressing regular, butter at 40 cents per pound, cocoa brands, extra fine potatoes and cabbage by weight or 100 pounds, peppers, Tokay grapes, mustard jars, raisins currants, matches, skinned hams and laying or stewing hens. Also mentions gasoline in five gallon containers.
Torrential rains sweep Spain causing major crop and property damage and cutting rail and telegraph lines. In Barcelona a carriage with two children was swept away and perished. Travelers report crops along the Valencia route destroyed. A village was burned and flooded as water rose ten feet in two hours. The rivers Nova and Liebretgat reach twenty five feet while residents cling to trees and rooftops awaiting rescue boats.
Interior department favors granting 260000 acres of public lands to eight western states Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado Utah Arizona New Mexico and Nevada for sale or lease to fund public road construction. Minimum price four dollars per acre or lease at six percent of value. If successful more grants could follow up to a million acres per state. Separately immense steam shovels ordered in Chicago for Halifax harbor work in Nova Scotia.
Anaconda will pause operations as dust and repairs fill the shutdown period. The majority of workers move to cleanup tasks with regular pay, while a core crew conducts overhaul to ready machinery for a long future run.
Wet goal posts may greet Friday city football games as Moran and two other teams prepare on the common. Commissioner Pat Dalton arranged the posts and crosses with the fire department set to sprinkle the grounds before layout. Teams train nightly. Fitzpatrick's squad looks light but speedy, Moran fields veterans from Anaconda Independents, and Brent adds new players led by H W Auten and H Hinek, Dakota alumnus.
In Anaconda a college of Montana football team faced a rough crowd from the high school last Saturday. The teams clashed with noisy, odd signals as the quarter teased a "Steam roller formation" and a high school player shouted a joking warning about the penitentiary.
Admiral Peary, fresh from a European triumph, talks about conquering Mount McKinley. He jokes that Cook will be pleased and will never marry. A chorus of summer girls responds with playful lines about proposals. Washington Star reports.
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