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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1921
Page
5
Butte notes list numerous visitors and residents at local hotels including EB Ricketts from Livingston and Jean Roe from Forsyth. Mentions Calanthe Sisters card party, Florence Norris visiting from Bozeman, and many businessmen registered at the Thornton and Leger hotels. Also notes harvest festival rehearsals, church events, and movements of residents between cities.
A postmaster general campaign urges all dwellings and businesses to install proper mail receptacles. Carriers will report ten houses or places without door slots within a week. City officials and civic groups are asked to cooperate to ensure every home and office has a numbered mail receptacle.
Gregson Springs hosts a gala Columbus Day with a ladies free-for-all swimming race and a capacious pool. Manager George Forsythe promises summer-like weather will draw crowds, with dancing and other novel entertainments both afternoon and evening.
A long list of hotel arrivals includes Mrs. F. West and Mrs. Ann Johnson in Helena, plus guests from Dillon, Missoula, Kalispell, Denver, Portland, Spokane, Seattle, Billings, Whitehall, Great Falls, Butte, Laurel, Deer Lodge, Havre, and many others. Entries mention Maj. W. J. Smead, Dr. Frank Snowden, W. V. Hall, and Rev. C. E. Cunningham among the travelers, with destinations spanning across Montana, Idaho, Washington, Utah, and beyond. The roster reads like a cross-section of regional cities and notable individuals checked into hotels.
Bere cnapman of Missoula is in Buite on a business visit. Mr. and Mrs. M Canford of Laurel are visiting in Butte with Misses Agnes and Edna Galahan of Twin Bridges. Paul Smith, rancher of Norris, is a guest at the Butte while in the city for a few days.
Correspondent with the Vanguard of Civilization J S Daveler travels across frontier outposts from Siberia to Nome to Tonopah and Garfald. His experiences as a news writer and editor illuminate the lives of trail breakers and adventurers who roam the world in search of new frontiers and stories.
A revolution seeks to dethrone Oyama the buffalo herd leader at Columbia Gardens. An unnamed rebel challenged Oyama Sunday night and in the ensuing battle Oyama was killed, his body found gored in the pen early yesterday. The 14 year resident was described as a splendid bison. his head will be mounted.
Three actions in the district court involve Robert J. Setzer as administrator of Edna Gorham's estate seeking $1,000 from Donald G Ross and May Ross, $500 from W A Welle, and $400 from John J Nicholson and wife, each case tied to mortgages on Silver Bow realty. Separately Montana Realty Company sues Gans & Klein Realty, Leonora Forbis, Hattie B Marks, and others to quiet surface title of the Empire lode claim, asserting undisputed surface ownership since 1899 and listing mineral interests: plaintiff twenty five forty seconds, Forbis one fourth, Gans & Klein one sixth, Marks one sixteenth. Citations also note proceedings in the estate of Alekision and a William Harington minor settlement in a damage suit against W H Short after a riding accident.
The Knights of Columbus in Butte cancel other Columbus day plans to host a benefit performance at Butte High School auditorium for St Joseph’s Orphans’ Home Helena. “The Millionaire” is a three act comedy by St Helena’s drama group, with Montana talent, to fund winter care for 189 orphans. Miss Kathryn Meagher and George Mason from Helena perform vocals. Townsend audience praised the play. Tickets on sale at K of C hall and Butte High School for one evening only with seeked seats and busy advance sales.
The Knights of Columbus in Kansas City has organized seven women’s basketball teams under instructor Miss Julia Riley. The squads are the Snaps, Yanks, Reds, White Sox, Jolly Five, Checkers and Central Juniors, with more teams in development. Women interested in gym work can join by seeing Riley at the K of C gym on Wednesdays. The swimming classes continue briskly with about 0 women currently attending our Wednesdays sessions.
The second day of the chess tournament held in the offless of H. Lowndes Maury drew a growing field. Entries include Hamill Wehrbein Barry Gage Blodgett Maury Rowe O Malley Radivooff Wright Ward Kilroy and others. Sixteen games have been played and the event will continue until each entrant has faced all others twice. H W Turner donated a unique second prize a carved Japanese work set with a tiny moving men box admired by players.
Sol Genzberger and others sue the county commissioners to block creating a sewer district in the eastern city area. The petition requires 60 percent of property owners to sign. Signers later withdrew, raising questions about bona fide ownership and withdrawal timing as the court recessed to seek agreement on non owners.
W H Merriman division freight and passenger agent reports Northern Pacific shops in Montana at Livingston Missoula and Helena have shifted from five to six days as business rises. Butte repair shops kept a six day week, with no substantial drop in work. In Helena Missoula and Livingston, workers previously on five days when state conditions were quiet.
Indig Foley Cathartic Tablets advertised as wholesome and cleansing with no sniping nausea or inconvenience. They banish headache, biliousness, bloating, gas, bad breath, and coated tongue. Testimonial from Mrs Hyde Marchard of Salem Massachusetts says she keeps them in the house and uses them with good results. Sold everywhere.
Idaho commercial men representing ranchers and grain interests arrived in Butte en route to Helena to confer with the governor on lifting the Montana hay quarantine. The party included P. Jensen, W. Katendobe, and James Dunning, aiming for a prompt quarantine removal. A Garfield county Finger Butte post office was established with Edna M. McCants as postmaster, and Joseph Gerhard Ellason named postmaster at Phipps Hill county.
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