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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1917
Page
2
Gardens 10 outlines Labor Day events at Columbia Gardens with knitting contests for speed using No 5 needles, personal yarn required, and prizes for families with most children. Soldiers in uniform have two events, a large drawing for a 100 pound sack of flour, A C M band performances, and daytime dancing in the pavilion.
Gardens between oclock in the morning and 3 oclock in the afternoon will receive a ticket for a free ice cream cone. Extra car service has been arranged.
Justice Dorans court heard Olmstead known as The Bald-Faced Kid accuse Walter Ryan of a knife assault after a gambling altercation in front of the Finlen. Olmstead denied recognizing the assailant, and the case was dismissed. Maggie Hanratty found guilty of disturbing the peace and fined $25.
Heavy fighting rages on the Bainsizza and Carso Plateaus as Italian forces report advances on Monte San Gabrielle and the Brestovizza valley. The war office states 636 additional prisoners were captured.
A joint Rotary club and chamber of commerce delegation met James W. Gerard in Hamilton and secured his agreement to speak in Butte next Tuesday at 7 p.m. A public talk is planned perhaps at the Columbia Gardens ball park to accommodate a large crowd with a soldiers’ ball scheduled nearby at 9 p.m.
One of the best vaudeville shows ever seen in Butte will close with tonight's performances at the People's Hippodrome. Fannie Keeler and Billie Belmont are featured in a farcical episode titled Taking Chances. Five other acts, the latest Pathe News and a Universal comedy complete the program. A new show opens tomorrow.
Albert J. Andrews was arrested on a complaint by Chief Deputy County Attorney Rotering for obtaining 20.90 dollars from F. D. P. Darnell at 207 East Park Street by false pretenses. A warrant was issued for Tom Kilda for an assault on James Russell off Ridgeley Avenue.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Aleck Raska 21 and Miss Hanna Lassila 20 of Butte. William J. Black 31 of Butte and Miss Agnes L. Tillman 26 of Portland. Glenn Bedell 23 and Miss Elia Inga Johnson 18 of Butte.
Ivan Fisher wrote from somewhere in France about his comrade s death and the front trenches tragedies. He died Aug 16 on a French battlefield. Fisher enlisted from Alberta and grew up in Montana with relatives across the region.
William R Hearst will not seek the New York mayoral seat this year filing his declination with the board of elections on the last permissible day He had been urged to accept the Democratic nomination and his notice dated San Francisco Aug 23 attested by a notary leaves Judge John F Hylan as the sole Tammany choice in the primaries
London reports August casualty totals for Britain on all fronts at 59 811. Killed or died of wounds include 1 278 officers and 10 942 men. Wounded or missing add 4 122 officers and 43 469 men.
Berlin reports a German recapture of ground previously gained by the British south of Lecatelet. The war office statement confirms the shift in control as of August 31.
The police court heard John Truzzolino age unknown, son of a local merchant, after Chief Murphy notified the father to supervise the boy. The chief argued the open street car could admit a child at risk as it moves, yet the case was dismissed. Willis Lippincott was fined $10 for speeding on West Park street. Judge Whitty lectured both the boy and Lippincott and endorsed the chief’s action. Thomas Hogan, after midnight on Utah avenue, threw a rock through a lone sandwich wagon window and maltreated it, receiving a $10 fine.
Washington August 31 Meyer Brau barge a New York college student convicted of violating the draft law was given permission to appeal his case to the supreme court Braubarg was sentenced to one year in prison for refusing to register on June 5.
Official report from Petrograd on August 31 states German torpedo boats submarines and trawlers are seen near the Gulf of Riga and forty airplanes have raided islands in the gulf marking intensified operations in the Baltic theater.
In Montevideo the reform commission revising the federal constitution approves separating church and state and provides for confiscation of church property.
The Chicago Herald notes that price fixing led to a historic standard for treason penalties, reflecting on legal norms long established by statute.
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