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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
7
Brein-Bloch clothes and Walker cafe ad items appear amid a parade of local notices. Lisa, George Nelson, and Jack Thomas return from Yellowstone by rail. U G Life of Western Union visits Butte. Mrs Reed’s party expected from Yellowstone. Local residents travel, study, and plan events as merchants advertise services and tours.
Martin H. Carmody deputy supreme knight based in Grand Rapids Michigan visited the Butte lodge in Elke hall last night and spoke about the Knights of Columbus efforts to provide entertainment and recreation for soldiers stationed near the Mexican border.
After a preliminary hearing Van Etten ordered Morris Stahlbaum known as Youky the Mexican to Great Falls for removal to the California federal court. Stahlbaum faces charges tied to transporting for immoral purposes alongside Ethel Mendelsohn alias Gould alias Day. Charles M Smith was deemed not insane after a mental exam. doctors cite intoxication and low spirits as factors in alleged bribery of recruiting officers for Canada-bound British service. Lead production in the year reached 195,634 tons.
The Butte city council enacted an emergency measure requiring all automobiles to shut off mufflers and dim headlights within city limits to reduce noise and glare. Penalties start at 10 dollars up to 800 dollars. Other ordinances discussed include bread sale restrictions, traveling merchant licenses, and annual fees based on horse ownership. Bids for city warehouse site on Harrison avenue favoured Robert Metcalf at 1800 dollars. Contracts awarded for plumbing at Quarts street station and for lighting district work. General John W. Stibbs, last surviving member of the Civil War era court that tried Jacob Wirtz, died at 74. German subscriptions to the 11th war loan reported strong. details continued in London.
Lavinia Williams aged 1 sears wife of Thamar I Wits Hama died yesterday. Funeral tomorrow Friday at 2 PM at the family residence 307 William street North Walkerville, then to Mount Rethel Methodist Episcopal Church for service by Rev G J Stephens. John C Karlen funeral Sunday afternoon at ? o'clock at 422 East Granite residence. body to be moved to the home Sunday morning.
The funeral for Edward Holes age six months, beloved son of Mr and Mrs Michael Holes, will be held tomorrow Friday from the family residence 322 South Ohio street. Interment will be at Holy Cross cemetery. Card of Thanks from J Choquet and Family gratitude to friends, neighbors, electrotypers, and Lutey's store workers.
Berlin to Amsterdam via the Exchange Telegraph reports weak results for the first two days of the loan issue. The initial returns are far below the totals raised in comparable earlier wartime loans, signaling a potential shortfall in public appetite.
Special Dispatch from Helena reports a major ore strike in Grass Valley at the Looby group. Copper bearing ore at 60 feet depth under lease to Crise Consolidated Mining. native copper, cobaltite ore also found. Earlier assay valued ore at 59.25 dollars per ton in lead and silver.
Dilton Sept 6 Frank Hazebaker state fair commissioner announces Montana won multiple awards at San Diego agriculture show including grand prizes for agriculture and potatoes, grand prize and gold for vegetables, nine silver medals for peas, six gold medals for wheat, barley six gold, rye two gold, oats four gold, one gold and one silver for grasses and forage, and one bronze for corn.
Hibbing Minnesota September 6 Threats to expand the coal strike by summoning a general 200000 strong action of Industrial Workers of the World across industries from coast to coast were approved at organizational hubs in New York and Chicago Fellow workers now held Duluth under murder indictments say they did not receive a fair trial messages reach local leaders. Colorado Springs September 6 Albert A Nostrum of Colorado City died from injuries after bleachers collapsed at the Welsh White fight Monday at local hospitals the remaining injured are expected to recover
London reports William Bow a shipbuilder sent £500 to Lt William Robinson who shot down one of the Zeppelins attempting the London raid. The payment acknowledges the pilot’s role in the Saturday attack disruption.
In a large variety of kinds and prices guaranteed 14 karat diamond pointed fountain pen. .1.00 Students going away to school we have choice sets of forks and spoons and many other articles which will be useful to you.
Ottawa reports 36 298 Canadians under arms as of September with August enlistments 7 246, down from 8 675 in July, 10 796 in June, and 15 080 in May in the latest figures released.
Deer Lodge residents Mona Beaumont and Dr. Marquette wed at Rock Creek by Rev. W J Atwood in a rustic ceremony. The couple, joined after a two year courtship, will reside in the city. Immediate family attended as the bungalow lakeside garden provided a seasonal backdrop of evergreens and autumn florals.
Deer Lodge fields a bustling week with visitors from Butte Wisdom and Helmville. A hunting party pursued ducks in Ovando while locals welcomed travelers from Anaconda Townsend and Tacoma. Knights of Columbus sent a delegation to Butte for an address by Supreme Knight Carmody.
In Dillon on Sept 6, travelers include A J Ramet Dewey Fisher and P H Paulson of St Paul touring the North by automobile. Billings visitor F G Connelly and Butte businessmen F W Nevin and W W Wilson are in town. An auto party led by HP Greenough and Miss Ruth Greenough of Missoula with Miss Mary Patterson of Dayton Ohio toured parks and points of interest before returning home. Ward Swath son of Dr H J Swain of Helena, president of the Normal College, visits Dillon this week then departs for Indiana to teach German and French at Wabash College after extended studies in Europe and Paris. Ward plans to return from Paris, having studied at the University of Paris until last September. He stays with E J Callaway. G B Nelson of Minneapolis is also in town.
Citizens Ralph J. Mather H C Ragen of Tutte W D Husted of Helena J E Shaw Hugh Morrow John T Ross of Argenta retire to attend affairs in the city High Hole basin ranchers Oncar Swanson and Guat Swanson visit seeking business in the city today
Lewistown September 6 plans for a proposed high school dormitory by local capitalists were approved by the school board and a citizens committee will also approve them with construction likely to begin before long. Funds for the site and building have mostly been secured. Edith Waggatt won Labor Day cash prize for prettiest girl on the street. The Roy Lewistown telephone line is now complete, and the county high school opens under Principal Cummings who arrives from Kalispell. The celebration marks the largest in the county’s school history.
Towns end police report that a Turk who fled Butte during a manhunt is in custody in Townsend. He gave the name Tennison and faces identification as Mustafa, a murder suspect sought by Cleveland authorities from three years ago.
In Enah Wisconsin last night the sheriff arrested D A Edith of Butte on a warrant charging embezzlement of 1838 dollars. The warrant had been issued August 94 and the arrest follows an extended manhunt.
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