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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1901
Page
13
In Missoula a veteran call boy laments longer trains and fewer workers as new V-2 engines and longer freights reshape operations. He notes freight priorities, depot costs, and shifts in staffing while others listen, and a store ad for ladies’ shoes appears at the end.
Missoula court adjourned without business to honor the memory of the president. Monday will hear Freeman and Frick versus Northern Pacific Express for alleged illegal confinement. A witness in the Fox alias Smith and Cody case is in Ravalli county custody after suspected burglary links.
Assistant Attorney General Harry D. Moore visits Missoula to discuss orchards with County Attorney Hall and Sheriff Prescott. He says the trip is personal, not official, and notes letters alleging gambling opium use in Missoula. The article suggests a possible lack of concrete evidence and urges citizens to file complaints if they wish action.
Testimony was taken in the Kemp water company condemnation case over laying a main across Kemp ranch on Rattlesnake creek. The commission, George F. Brooks C. F. Peppard and John Rankin, will study the evidence for several days before reporting to the court. Head Nurse Sweeney left for Detroit to accompany John Bergvale seeking eastern aid for his broken back.
Sept 14 reports show the University Orchestra in Missoula held its first post vacation meeting at Mrs. Walter Waitaker’s home. The group, organized last spring, prepares to resume activities as students return to campus. Other Missoula items note local sales at Globe Store and Reilly & Co. grocers, plus community notices and events.
Crowds linger at news centers as Missoula learns of President McKinley’s death. City hall bells toll and public mourning spreads to half mast flags and draped buildings. Memorial services planned with Senator Carter invited to speak.
Missoula notes report births a daughter born to Mrs George Graham and a son to Mr Louis Fabert. Several residents are ill including Mrs Skinner and Miss Elizabeth Riley. Arthur Eckhardt and Eddy Ellington Moe are fever patients at Parsons hospital. An operation occurred on Mrs Marr of Hamilton at the Sisters hospital.
Miss Helen Mc Crackin resigns as Hamilton public school teacher and with brother Wallace departs for Chicago to enter the University of Chicago. Maud Lockwood leaves for Faribault Minnesota to enter the academy. brother Frank joins to Missoula. Mrs McGrath travels with Helen to Chicago then to Peterboro Ontario to visit relatives for months. Under Sheriff D A Bishop prep to attend Knights of Pythias grand lodge at Great Falls. Representative elect from Rayalli lodge will start Sunday. Mrs W W McCrackin hosts brother C M Junkin editor of Fairfield Ledger and postmaster of Fairfield, Iowa for several weeks. Mrs M B Corcoran hired for Victor primary department. County commissioners grant George T Baggs right to build an electric road between Stevensville and depot with conditions. W A McLeod and family arrive from Vancouver, BC. takes Bitter Root stock farm post. may live in Mossom cottage. new road planned from depot. H F E Sargent Jr of Chicago and James K Clarke of Philadelphia hunting in Clearwater country. Hon J B Clayberg of Helena visits. Judge and Mrs De Witt and son Rumley linger near Nowe Mrs Daly residence on stock farm.
Read through for local marriages and engagements of Miss Margaret Lowney, Mr Rice, Miss Nora Petree, and George Metcalf with Myra Fuller, plus a big water right suit filed in district court. Also covers travel, schooling plans, train schedules, visitors, and civic events with comments on local institutes and entertainment venues.
Remarkable remedy offered with a free trial limited to men who write the institute. Mailings promise sample packages to interested readers.
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