Butte Autoists Invite Parade For Anaconda Good Roads Day
The Butte Chamber of Commerce prints free stickers for autoists and invites a 1000 car parade at 1 p.m. to celebrate the first concrete road segment from Anaconda to Butte. Speeches follow at 3 p.m. in the theater. A Warm Springs trip is planned between 10 and 10 45 a.m.
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Anaconda
Butte
Silver Bay County
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Anaconda Good Roads Association
Chamber
Rotarians
George N. Short
P. N. Wills
Warm Springs
Stole Paper and Sowed at Owner in Police Court
A single drunk answered roll call in police court. Two traffic violators including Bill Smith and Joe Ranier forfeited bonds of 10 dollars each. Mrs Meyer, ex-inmate of the poor farm, faced a disturbance charge with prior notoriety for alleged mistreatment and theft of a neighbor’s paper. Jack Kane and Walter Williams continued. Williams faced disturbance charges with witnesses Bond posted. No afternoon session occurred.
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Bill Smith
Joe Ranier
Meyer
Jack Kane
Walter Williams
Butte News Notes and Local Briefs
Rent pianos from Orton Bros and Harry Hunter while a piano tuner is listed. Care Fair Drug and Lisa Cash Grocery expand meat department in connection with the store. Weekend papers at P O News Stand. Good Roads rate $1.08 for Butte to Anaconda on Oct 1. Joe Bowlby heads to Buffalo for salesmanship study, plans return early next year. Mrs McCarthy’s daughter Genevieve undergoes appendicitis operation in Salt Lake City. recovering well. Patrolman Steinborne returns with ducks from a hunt shared with colleagues. Judge Jackson hears Ellen Dougherty versus Thomas Lowney suit, case under advisement. Carrie King seeks divorce from Kenneth King for failure to provide. married Feb 10, 1917 in Great Falls. Stanley Griffith and Pill Nelson leave for Missoula to attend university.
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Orton Bros
Harry Hunter
Care Fair Drug
Lisa Cash Grocery Company
Meat Department
Saturday Evening Post
Argosy
Cosmopolitan
Ladies’ Home Journal
P. O
Butte
Anaconda
Joe Bowlby
Montana Automobile Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Genevieve
Ogden
Patrick McCarthy
West Aluminum Street
Salt Lake City
Miss McCarthy
Henry Steinborne
Joseph R. Jackson
Ellen Dougherty
Thomas Lowney
Carrie King
Kenneth King
Great Falls
Stanley D. Griffith
Pill” Nelson
Missoula
Volunteer Wheat Worth Millions in Kansas Fields
Fer dinand Powell of Wichita cites nature’s generosity as volunteer wheat across Kansas prompts a $160 million crop worth about 400 million bushels. Last year’s overabundant harvest left idle land, but wet fall and ideal spring conditions caused kernels to germinate. The state now profits greatly, Powell says, with Kansas declared a great state.
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Kansas
Ferdinand Powell
Wichita
Kan
Thornton
Wheat Cars Disappear on Route to Montana
Great Falls visitors report a mystery as a special Minneapolis train carrying 82 empty wheat cars loses many en route to Great Falls. Only 30 empties remain, with officials unable to explain the disappearance. Similar thefts were noted between Minneapolis and Havre, where wheat cars were swapped for coal and rock cars.
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Montana
Great Falls
Minneapolis
John Kohler
Butte
Havre
Montana &Rain
Hundreds of Schools Vacant Over Teacher Pay Shortage
The article reports that hundreds of school rooms are vacant this fall due to low teacher salaries. It notes 12 children at Homestake cannot attend, and mentions Butte High principal B. Be. Millikin’s remark. F Ju Cummings of Lewistown states Montana ranks fifteenth among states paying the highest salaries to teachers.
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Uble
B. BE. Millikin
Butte High School
F. Ju. Cummings
Lewistown
Jailer Lavell Reports Police Court Fines Drop From August Peak
The city jailer’s report shows Barney Lavell collected 2022 dollars in fines and forfeitures, far below August’s 5191 dollars, the largest monthly total in police court history.
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Barney Lavell
Rotarians View Second Exhibition Of New Education
Rotarians at the Silver Bow club luncheon observed a demonstration of modern educational methods. First graders read the Three Little Pigs, described the wolf in their own words, and solved addition and subtraction tasks with blocks and sticks. Riley defined service as intelligent generosity and urged a broader, communal view to overcome occupational provincialism. J H Branscomb’s resignation, due to transfer to Salt Lake, was accepted.
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Rotarians
Silver Bow Club
W. E. Maddock
Ruth Neal
Frank W. Haskins
A. M. Riley
Mr. Riley
Rotary
J. H. Branscomb
Salt Lake
Butte
Brotherhood entertains at Pythian hall card party
The Fraternal Brotherhood a California fraternal society with many lodges in the state will hold a card party Saturday evening at Pythian hall for members and friends. A committee of Mesdames Mulcahy Westling and Craig says the society has a large city membership and a large crowd is expected.
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The
Fraternal Brotherhood
California
Pythian Hall
Mesdames Mulcahy
Westling
Craig
Six N J men nominated for congress in primary race
In Trenton on September 30 six men were nominated for Congress with five secure and one doubtful. The notable defeat came when Rep Joseph E. Ramsey lost in the Sixth district to Randolph Perkins in the Republican race.
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New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Congress
Joseph KE. Ramsey
Randolph Perkins
Dry
Tuggenburg goats sold to Butte dealer in California move
Manhattan merchant George Verhoff sold a full blooded Toggenburg herd to W. H. Pierce of Butte as he closes out stock before relocating to California. The transaction adds Toggenburg stock to Pierce’s Nubian herd, strengthening Butte’s position among Rocky Mountain dairies.
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George Verhoff
Manhattan
Butte
Pierce
England
Baroness Burdette-Coutts
Dairies
Verhoff
Rocky Mountain
Husband charged with disturbance by father in law
Mike Bedick married last Saturday by Judge Lamb faced a disturbance charge filed by his father in law John Webster after a visit to the Webster home. Webster reported the incident to deputy county attorney Harry Meyer. Bedick was released on $500 bond in justice court.
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Mike Bedick
Lamb
John Webster
Webster
Harry Meyer
Justice Court
Bedick
John Doe Kamer
C. L. Dah
Henry Clemens
Lillian Gates
Montana Street
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Butte News
Lavell
Riley
Brotherhood
Park St
Tuggenburg
Louise Speers
M’carthy
Bryant & CO
East Park
White House
Hills Bros
Idaho
John J. M’carthy
Jensen’s
S. Montana St
Gibson
Cechill's
Strot
McCarthy’s Sanitary Grocery & Meat Store
East Breoadway
Lipton
Lyon
Electric Light
Russell- Miller Co
North Dakota
McCarthy's Sanitary
East Broadway
West Park
J. L. Hannifin
Bruau
Pates
the Gumps
Andy and
Min
Pathe Review
Garment Store
East Park Street
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