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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1901
Page
12
The Western Montana office of the Standard is at 110 West Main street Mis soula. Telephone No lis. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Missoula preparations intensify as next week's Western Montana meeting looms. High grade harness horses from California and local trainers like Dingley and Ewing anticipate strong purses. The fairgrounds show prime stalls track water and exhibit space.
Contractor John Moody secures work on a new building on Higgins avenue Sim ons block. First floor remains, upper story to be offices and sleeping rooms costing about 5000 dollars. Dixon & Duncan second story work delayed by material arrival. Globe store to reopen Tuesday with continued sale and fresh seafood at Union Market.
Lee Kohn received a letter from Dr. M. Rockman in New York noting the patient is much improved and able to sit up. The doctor says he recently recovered from a severe illness and is gaining strength daily. Peaches 75 cents at P M Teillys. Mail orders to the Golden Rule in Missoula.
Jule M. Hartley returns from a stay at Hunter's Hot Springs in Montana. He praises the resort as one of the finest in the state and reports a splendid time.
Local merchants P. M. Reilly & Co grocers advertise guns and ammunition while Bishop & Kern also listed among town suppliers.
The Nordica quartet, famed for its previous season, prepares a series of concerts in Montana towns. The group is highly regarded, with no rival quartet matching its caliber in the same genre.
A quartet declines to a request or greeting, with doubt affecting reception. The scene centers on hesitation toward the greeting and the implied reaction of those present.
A flurry of city notes lists visitors staying at the Florence hotel including J H Alexander and wife from Anaconda and J Bowden from Corvallis. Doctors, lawyers, and merchants arrive or return, with repairs at the roundhouse and new machinery at several yards. Typhoid patients at Sisters' hospital are improving, and others resume work after illnesses or vacations.
Retail notes list airtight heaters at McBride's and books and school supplies at Mac Haflie's, indicating a small local shop assortment. The items reflect common household and educational needs of the period.
The company appoints the traveling salesman to fill the promotion vacancy created by his brother. Mr. Skinner, described as a thorough grocery man, will manage the big trade his brother built up and start the road stint this week. Also notes Missoula osteopath De Js Burton and Lemley Higgins latest suitings and overcoats at City Drug Store with wholesale drugs and paints.
Missoula reporting that Superintendent Russell expects line clearance by tomorrow night amid a massive slide on the Rocky Mountain division. Passengers and mail moved, two hours lost. engineer Blake and brakeman Lobdell injured. Coroner to hold inquest. coroner Hays arranged shipment for Lindgren.
Mrs. Carrie Cave withdraws the appeal in the station injunction suit against the Northern Pacific railway. J M Self states the case will be dropped after consultation with interested parties, allowing railway work to resume. In Missoula an investigation follows a mysterious birth at a local hospital with a young mother refusing contact with the child and clothing missing.
Missoula reports state road matters as commissioners opened bids for Saltese and Paradise projects, deferring awards. The railway surveyors prompted approved changes east of Bonita, with county oversight. Big Flat to O'Brien guich and Grass Valley to De Smet roads accepted. William Jones named Cedar township constable. Also notes crowded schools and a new smallpox case. quarantine in place. Plus Belt butcher Charles Stensel jailed for horse theft with $700 bond awaiting hearing.
Chicago markets show wheat easing on heavy receipts and Bradstreet visible supply rise with December slipping to 70 1 2 to 70 3 4 cents. Corn opens firmer on Liv erpool advance but closes easy and lower. Oats dull and pro visions quiet and lower on Hog prices, with January pork and ribs 24 cents lower and lard steady.
Cattle receipts 60 head, Texans and Westerns 1 500 and 1 400, steady to lower. Good to prime steers around 6 206.60, cows and heifers 2 5005, hog receipts 18 000 with mixed prices from 6.00 to 7.10, sheep receipts 8 000 with good to fair prices and slight declines.
Missoula Sept 24 W R Skinner longtime in the grocery department of the Missoula Mercantile company for the past two years his role and status are noted in city notices with the details remaining to be announced.
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