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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1917
Page
5
Butte notes list numerous visitors and residents from Helena Dillon Missoula and Great Falls visiting or staying in Butte. Births funerals travel and social uses include Dr Sievers returning from vacation and a Catholic field day meeting at St Patrick's hall with officers named.
J W Gerard arrives by automobile and plans a speech at Columbia Gardens in Butte. Secretary Charles Austin coordinates crowd control with 10 platform members and 12 on the rostrum. Anaconda Copper Mines band will play from 6 to 7, with Clark introducing Gerard and a soldiers’ ball to follow.
The funeral for John W. Vacchieri will be held at his mother’s home, 25 Lexington Terrace, Wales, tomorrow at 2 PM with interment at Mount Moriah Cemetery. William H. Orr’s arrangements are incomplete and Daniels & Bithos undertakers handle remains. a later funeral announcement will follow.
Funeral services are planned for Andrew Frederick Held two year old son of Mr and Mrs Mike Held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at their Corra Terrace home with interment in Catholic cemetery. P D Quinn age 65 will have mass at St Josephs Church and burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Henry Curran requests thanks for support and floral gifts following the illness and death of their son.
Aurea James Pird 36 died last evening at the Total Hospital. The remains were removed to Richards Undertaking Parlors. Time and place of the funeral will appear in later papers.
The funeral of Mrs Anna W Owsley will be held Wednesday morning at 10 30 at White's funeral chapel with the Rev Mr Jordan officiating. Interment follows in the family plot at Mount Moriah cemetery.
Police probe a dawn dynamite blast at the Buckley boarding house on North Wyoming Street. About six people were involved, with Peter Powers reporting a fear on Friday and a suspect unnamed but linked to yesterday's explosion. Chief Murphy assigns top detectives to solve the case within 24 hours.
Salt Lake City September 3 news from the Utah Federation of Gay announces a plan based on the Manufacturers Association of Utah proposal to import Asiatic labor. Labor officials say they would instead assign workers to productive labor and seek to deprive the rich of chauffeurs and servants. They argue this could reduce labor shortages.
Bandits attacked Lachute with a police and citizen posse, during which Joseph Leduc alias Handfield, linked to dynamiting the home of Lord Athelstan, Publisher of the Montreal Star, killed himself with a gunshot. Henry Monette alias Girard and J A Tremblay, also dynamiters, were being chased toward the La Fentian mountains.
Delegates led by John Mil of the boilermakers and shipbuilders unions open the forty ninth annual trades union press meeting. The president says more than resolutions are needed and warns that reforms require strong actions against ministers, invoking images of axes and bows in the England of the Plantagenets.
Company F of the Ninth Illinois Infantry charged with fixed bayonets to break up a mob of more than 1,000 street car strike sympathizers who wrecked four cars and attacked railway and electric company offices. Six guards held, bricks flew, windows shattered. reinforcements arrived as rioters fled. One man was bayoneted in the arm. no shots fired.
Portland Ore Sept 3 no developments today amid a planned strike by workers affiliated with the Metal Trades Council in five steel shipyards next Friday authorities report the union officiality insists demands granted in full and ready to bring the strike to halt Seattle shipyards preparing for possible similar action observers warn the conflict could spread to more facilities and affect wartime production.
Government rangers report last week s forest fires in the Bitter Root valley killed missouri mee and many fish in Burnt Fork creek. Heat cooked hundreds of trout in the stream while fires raged in western mont hills. Burnt Fork creek has long been a popular fishing spot for Missoula visitors.
Seattle reports a cool damp spell across western Washington has aided in subduing most forest fires in the district. Only a blaze near Matlock in Mason county remains beyond control, burning in tough terrain where firefighting is challenging.
Washington Sept 2 the food administration urged reduced sugar consumption by Americans to avert a possible shortage in allied countries. Officials cited ship shortages blocking Cuban and Hawaiian crops and said the U S must share its sugar with Europe. Spokane Sept 3 E C Paterson Spokane Dry Goods general manager killed in auto crash near Rathdrum Idaho. His wife and six children were injured but survived.
In the district, Pat Buehler has been instructed by the department of justice to intern. The individual is a German detainee held for several weeks on charges related to an alleged act at Aven.
Washington September 3 Rain or shine tomorrow President Wilson will lead a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House in honor of the district so called first era of men for the new national army Thousands of drafted men soldiers and sailors will march to the White House where their review will take place The Senate and House will adjourn early to participate Some older men may ride in carriages but at least two veterans Speaker Clark and former Speaker Cannon will walk with the volunteers as they head to war.
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