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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1913
Page
15
Anne Geiser sobbed as Judge Donlan granted a divorce from George F. Geiser in a South Main Street grocer and butcher home. She claimed lack of necessaries, constant insults, and separation within their Kan AML marriage. Custody of two minor children, Bryan and Ralph, awarded. seven older children no longer under parental control.
Topeka October 29 a resolution calls for raising 1 million dollars for missions by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. Ella M. Watson reports year’s receipts totaling 911,332 an increase of 74107 over last year. Memorial service held for Mrs. William Butler founder of the organization. appointments for the will be announced tomorrow.
A patient declared cured after six months at the state tuberculosis hospital. He weighed 158 pounds on admission and 184 on discharge. The attending physicians Dr. T. Witherspoon and Dr. J. D. Freund affirmed no remaining signs of tuberculosis.
In St Louis this October the will of Adolphus Busch directs charitable bequests totaling 17 000 dollars to multiple local institutions. The bulk of the estate is placed in trust with Mrs Lilly Busch Charl Nagel and August A Busch named as trustees.
An untrained Minneapolis policeman shot Charles G. Gates's horse in the nose amid a crowd near the Caprice block after a delivery mishap with a coal wagon. The horse fell, breaking a leg, and the officer fired to end the suffering, prompting debate over target practice in the force. Gates, a son of John W. Gates, died in Cody Wyoming and his funeral plans were set for New York, with services to be held at Madison Episcopal Church.
The marriage of Mrs. Mary Dowd and D. J. Hilger occurred at the Catholic church in Verelock with Rev Vandenbromck officiating. The bride, from a prominent Butte family, was attended by her sister Kittle Dowd, best man Herbert Sadler. They will live in Hilger after a brief wedding trip.
The court plans to open trials in federal court next week with fifty cases set. Defendants in jail will be tried in the cited jails. those on bonds will be tried in the cities where complaints were filed. The grand jury will be 16 to 20 men, and 12 votes needed for an indictment. A notable item is an injunction request by the Mineral Separation Company of London against the Butte-Superior company over concentration processes.
Chicago Oct 2 Mrs Josephine Henning is expected to resume her witness stint tomorrow in the Donahue Stiefel trial over defaming Clarence Funk former Harvester general manager. Henning collapsed after two days on the stand saying her husband John Henning’s suit against Funk for alienating affections was unfounded. The session read into the record parts of testimony from the Funk suit. In Indiana Oct 2 Methodist Episcopal Church boards discussed extending and funding missions with Dr S Earl Taylor urging systematic case collections as remedy.
Local shop at 207 Hast Park Street advertises to order suits and complete gents furnishings including Boss of the Road overalls and digging shoes. Hats priced for swell dressers with Union label haberdas.
Giant butcher HL C. Pletge at Larke Mer Ink store on Yew street in McQueen addition threatened to cut the heads off two strangers to force them out. The men fled toward Meaderville in a waiting surrey after an attempted robbery, leaving a $10 bill. No guns were seen.
Washington Oct 29 important changes in the administration currency bill followed executive work by the senate committee The board’s size shifts from seven to nine and ex officio members including the secretary of agriculture and the comptroller of the currency may be dropped The Treasury secretary and other ex officio members face removal A plan to stagger terms aims at continuity and the committee drops the house proposed organization panel Decision on central or regional bank plan remains pending.
Washington October 29 Invitations for the White House wedding of Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson to Mr Francis Bowes Sayre on November 25 1913 at 4 30 p m were being addressed today The invitations are engraved and read The president and Mrs Wilson request the pleasure of the presence of the wedding of their daughter at the White House The number of invitations is not yet decided and plans are not ready for announcement.
Kansas City October 29 The National Council of Congregational Churches urged President Wilson and Congress to call a halt in swelling war expenditures. The resolution passed after some opposition pledges the church to oppose competitive militarism and to condemn racial prejudice.
Special Dispatch reports Allen resigns as superintendent of the Butte division of the Great Northern and will retire November 1. He will be succeeded by F. D. Kelsey, current Breckenridge division superintendent, with headquarters at Breckenridge Minnesota.
Boston reports four of seven candidates for governor were active across Massachusetts six days before the election. Gov. Eugene Foss issued a statement claiming a 3000 vote total. Democrat David Walsh remained a local betting favorite as campaigns intensified amid statewide issues including forest recovery after the Idaho fires of 1910.
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