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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1908
Page
21
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is located at East Broadway, Butte. Telephone 422. Independent telephone 1,422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Local notes include coal bids at Grady's, rental planes from Orton Bros, and medical professionals Cole and Tait. Water at Pipestone Hot Springs, guests at the Finlen, births in McClelland and Murphy families, and quartz location sales at Standard office. Travel and visits by Melrose and Sheridan residents, magazine availability at the P. O. stand, and Indian trader trip to Camas. Community meetings, job moves, rail fare notices, Regal shoe promotions, and profiles of Con Coughlin in Bitter Root vicinity.
Grace Feighan's funeral will be held at Sherman & Reed's funeral chapel this afternoon at 3 o clock. The service will be strictly private.
Duluth reports a quiet day as clouds and calm wind halt active fires on the Mesaba range. No rain has fallen yet moisture is needed to end the smoldering threat while Grand Marais remains safe due to backfires. Fires threaten nearly 100 miles north shore with millions of feet of timber at risk.
Little Rock Ark September 13 At the general election in this state tomorrow state congressional and township officers will be elected and the question determined as to whether liquor licenses shall be continued in the present wet counties Great interest is felt in the vote as to prohibition At present 65 counties are dry and both the prohibition and anti prohibition forces claim they will be victorious tomorrow The campaign has been the most spirited in the history of the state
Stella Dubois was throttled in her 4742 Pleasant Alley apartment when a passerby officer arrived. Frank Hill, arrested, claims he intended only to frighten her. bond set at $4, he faces assault charges in police court. Authorities reference a similar case involving Gabrielle Meunier.
Helena September 13 Judge Hunt held court on short notice over an ancillary bankruptcy petition against E S Sherman of Butte. Chicago lawyer M A Mambrough seeks a receiver for Sherman’s Montana property amid claims of 39000 and 1000. Sherman’s counsel knew little of the case as papers arrived minutes before departure. A temporary restraint was issued to stop disposal of property, with a hearing on a receiver set for Friday.
The item labeled “Sure Shot” corn cure priced at 25 cents fuels brisk business at Fosselman's located at 43 East Park, known locally as “the doctors' store.”
Seven typhoid cases reported in two days, concentrated in a single neighborhood served by one milkman. Health officials say no epidemic and no likelihood of one, though cases span three city hospitals. Patients include Mrs Jeremiah Holland, Michael Holland, William Bradley, Abina Harrington, Mrs John J Doner, with several treated at General hospital. A case at Murray s hospital was also noted. Authorities expect action today.
Miss Margaret Mitchell won the diamond ring and queen of the carnival at the Eagles Carnival voting. Votes were Mitchell 996, Freudenstein 627, Walmer 308, Holliday 205. crowd applauded as she was crowned and rode the camel amid celebration.
The Montana conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South adjourned in St Pauls to meet in Bozeman next year. Bishop Atkins announced ministerial appointments across towns including Helena Grand Street, Butte St Pauls, Deer Lodge, Bozeman, Missoula, and more with several posts to be supplied. Curtis transfers to Alabama and Davis to Helena, while Price becomes presiding elder. J. W. Kemper named lay reader. G. W. Moore as assistant.
New musical comedy A Knight for a Day appeared at the Broadway in Butte to a small crowd. The show features two long familiar numbers Life Is a See-saw and The Little Girl in Blue with Miss Hutchison delivering pleasing solos and a fair chorus. Bobby Barry delivers limited comedy while Elsie Herbert provides the only real laugh as servant lady. The performance tonight will be repeated after a freight wreck delayed the troupe from Anaconda, forcing them to stay in Butte.
In a clean up of the slums by Butte police 13 alleged vagrants were taken into custody. Mr and Mrs Burt Right colored faced suspicions as Right stood in a shadow on South Wyoming street with a 10 inch drill bit in his coat pocket. Other detainees named include W W D Temple Ed May Frank Meyers Frank Wilson George Harris John Casey John Lambert Thomas Collopy J J Hayden Sam Grant and Red McCann.
George Sullivan, former secretary of the Butte Miners' union, died yesterday in Los Angeles where he had gone for a climate change. No details from Butte. Two brothers and a sister live there. body to be brought back for burial.
Acting under orders from Prosecutor Goldsborough, detectives from Newark raided several black gambling houses in Atlantic City and captured 60 inmates. City authorities claimed to be unaware of the operation, which used detectives from Sheriff Somers’ Essex county force. The move was framed as enforcing access to the large gambling venues frequented by whites.
Eugene W. Chafin, propagandist candidate for the presidency, lectured in Pasadena, Highland Park, and Los Angeles today and tonight and spoke tonight in San Francisco after delivering four speeches in and about Los Angeles.
Yesterday's matinee at the Orpheum drew a full house with standing room only, and several hundred were turned away. Last night's show also played to a capacity audience, underscoring the theater's popularity.
A brief local notice invites patrons to visit John Milch at the Lodge saloon in West Park to enjoy good cold beer and socializing.
The funeral for Mrs Thomas Bosanko 38 will be held tomorrow at 2 p m at the family residence 207 Missoula avenue. Services will be conducted at Mountain View M E church by Rev A P Morrison.
The author endorses Mayer at 22 West Park, claiming best mainspring repairs for $1, a 1.50 cleaning with a one year guarantee, and cheaper repairs than competitors. They cite lower costs than union wages, mention Mayer’s $1.50 Ansonia watches, and a 1.50 repeater alarm clock, all at Mayer's the People's Store.
The only graduate optician in Butte offers free fitting and furnishes glasses as low as 1 dollar with gold options from 2.50 to 4.50 dollars, undercutting competitors. Located at 22 West Park in Mayer's store at Montana Optical Co.
Fred MacDonald born near London England died at 12 East Gold Street Butte after a brief illness. He led Butte Masonic lodges for 24 years and was a renowned pioneer figure with deep ties to Montana's early history and the Union flag’s first Montana display.
Funeral services for Sister Emilda of St James hospital will be held tomorrow at 9 am from the hospital to St Patrick's church for requiem high mass. Sisters from Montana towns attend. she led as sister superior aiding patients and nurses. Also noted are services for Hannah Holland at 9 am from 315 East Summit to St Mary's church and George Sullivan, once secretary of the Butte Miners' union, whose body is being brought from Los Angeles with funeral notice to follow.
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