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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1916
Page
11
Attendees from Dillon visited War Bonnet Roundup at Idaho Falls and invited to join a Powwow planned for the 14th to 16th of the month. The event will feature agricultural, domestic, and mechanical exhibits, livestock entries, a baby contest, and nightly carnivals on main streets with nationwide buyers expected.
Representatives of foreign governments have arrived in this city to attend the fall horse sale, which starts here tomorrow.
Logan notes rail crews completing riprapping on bridges between Manhattan Logan and Townsend and Hast Helena. Boxcar shipments reach Chestnut for sheep ranching as Northern Pacific builds deep pen for new shipments with foreman Bradford in charge. Local visitors include Mr and Mrs J McCarthy, Miss Prynn, Miss Wells, Miss Hevner, and Tos Carleton preparing for Billings high school. Laurel yardmaster Bevans promoted. road foreman post created as Beant resigns. Logan, Sept. 6. Foreman Bglund
San Jose aviator Sam Purcell left Sunnyvale at 3 18 p m for a two hour flight to Sacramento covering about 100 miles. He planned to surprise state fair crowds upon arrival and join the event.
Special Dispatch from Washington reports Secretary Lane still tied up with Mexican mediation duties in Portmouth New Hampshire. Director Manning has returned but no action toward selecting a Northwest mining station is planned. Edwards' senatorial race expenses totaled 1112.82 with 719.67 to Gazette Printing and 8.15 paid to John T. Devine for a list of Hunt County electors.
Labor Day in Deer Lodge brought a quiet afternoon with a baseball game between Montana Dairy nine of Butte and Deer Lodge at the city diamond. Deer Lodge won after a strong seventh inning, with five runs added. Also noted are personnel changes at the post office and local visits, including Robert Harris resigning from Bonner Mercantile, Ted Beaumont moving to groceries, Alice Olson succeeding as assistant postmaster, and Mr and Mrs F E Pierce visiting Deer Lodge. Warren hunted ducks during Labor Day week.
Mr and Mrs Tom C Sweeney of Helena spent a brief stop in White Sulphur Springs on their way to Neihart driving the new parketo park road. Mr Sweeney formerly lived here and many friends greeted him and his wife C A Linn county attorney was also in town for the short visit.
Local residents and visitors are reported returning home from trips while church and lodge activities continue. Episcopal services were held, and plans for a new church are underway. A series of visits to relatives and summers spent in various states are noted, with several names and locations. The Luce funeral in Bozeman featured a large procession, Masonic burial, and widespread citywide observances with merchants and city offices closing for the hour.
Missoula report shows the state bar association conference facing last minute speaker withdrawals due to railroad strike fears and congressional adjournment. H S Parsons received telegrams from promised speakers asking to be excused, prompting new invites. Senator Henry Myers and Senator Borah could not attend, while former President Taft had already declined. Justice Theodore Brantly arrived as a principal speaker to fill gaps.
Bozeman news reports the Gallatin Valley club will reorganize this month under a new plan that divides activities into several bureaus each with its own board of directors. Members will be assigned to bureaus by interest, with J A Harader crafting the plan and receiving approval from current directors. A Chalmers auto with Montana license 16788 was found abandoned in front of the Electric hotel in Belorado and taken by the Gallatin county sheriff. P M Parker, ex head miller at Belgrade, becomes head miller at Bozeman Milling Co replacing W R Sutherland. Parker will relocate his family to Bozeman soon.
Dann, who has served as resident representative for the American Sunday School in the district for the last year and a half, has accepted the position of physical director at the College of Arontana in Deer Lodge. He leaves this morning to begin his duties. Dunn’s work focused on starting and visiting Sunday schools in the area.
The piece lists campaign expenditures of several candidates for statewide and congressional offices. It notes totals for J B Edwards United States senator and others like E J John railroad commissioner FE C Hicks secretary of state P M Abbott lieutenant governor John E Patterson chief justice Theodore Brintly Frank B Linderman and John McLaughlin with amounts ranging from a few dollars to over eleven hundred dollars. It mentions a candidate William Keating who spent nothing. The narrative context is a Bozeman visit and remarks on rural schools and the candidate’s background.
San Francisco reports government education officials pressing civic groups and school superintendents to establish night classes for alien-born adults who cannot speak English. Dr. Farrington tours the coast to discuss the issue as 8 million immigrants lack English skills and few gain access to public schools.
Scores generally below the average were recorded by civilian bluejackets of California Utah and Arizona on board the armored cruiser South Dakota in their first day’s experience at the 200 yard rifle range at the North Island range. The men were at the range for two hours with drills on board ships conducted for several hours in the afternoon.
Wheat prices surged on projected weaker 1916 spring yields with December near 1.82 and May about 1.53, corn up modestly, oats improved on export demand, and wheat futures showing mixed ranges. Livestock markets remained steady as receipts neared 1,000 cattle and 1,009 hogs. prices varied by class. A druggist, Joseph Ferris of Bellevue Hospital, reputedly dispensed over 500,000 prescriptions and advised patients on life matters. Cuba’s president signs decree on national roads.
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