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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1900
Page
12
Missoula residents donated generously to relief efforts for the Galveston flood victims. Local groups organized drives and matched donations to support affected families and rebuilding.
Missoula reports receipts of 93.80 from a social and 50 net from subscriptions totaling 148.30 to be sent to Galveston via mayor Webster. Treasurers REN Stewart and local groups record gifts from the Christian Helpers and King's Daughters, with further telegraphed sums from the Eagles.
A skilled tailor displays a grand array of woolens at the Golden Rule event on Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22nd, drawing shoppers with vibrant fabrics and tailored samples.
Missoula Sept 24 foundation laid this fall for a two story frame home for Conductor Joseph Bradley. Foundation and cellar to be finished soon with the house due next year. Heating by hot air. Bradley’s lots lie in Bonner residence area and the completed home will grace the district. John Deffebach’s south side home foundation under way with rock hauled in. Bricklayers busy on the Marotz Cedar street building to finish for winter use. Charles Baird to have a new home after Colby White’s corner property at North Third street and Wolf avenue is vacated. White’s house sold today to J R Dell for 1400.
Fresh sausage at Union market Missoula Sept 24. Instruments filed with county clerk include Annual statement Montana & Denver Reduction company capital 75000 issued and paid 4900 debts 14597.62. M H H Wood president S C Miller J L Sloane directors. Quartz location Mammoth May quartz lode mining claim Wallace district Copper Bell Mill Mining Co W P Ketcham superintendent locator. Deed Colby White to J R Cell house and lot corner North Third street Wolf Avenue 1400. Quartz locations Copper Queen and Brown Bear quartz lode mining claims about 200 yards from Lookout station Coeur d Alene branch Northern Pacific. Edward C Young James D Young James Shanowon all of Mullan locators.
Spokane officers attended the company annual meeting and were reelected to develop mines in Wallace. A lone highwayman roped a train, stole over 500 dollars, wounded no one, and escaped after masking his identity and threatening passengers. The robber, Mr Williams, boarded at Hope and carried a lantern a knife and a revolver hidden on his person.
Missoula notes record visitors Walter Mackay of Spokane and Samuel Read from the Rankin house, a surge in transient trade, three upcoming weddings from Bonner and Missoula, a 25 percent rain crop rise in Western Montana over 1899, and a Wise Guy company planned for Missoula. Also mention sidewalk tax lists, Rev J C Barnes sermons, civil service exam day, John Valentine’s recovery, Hickey furniture shipment to Fort Sheridan, Dr. Fitzgerald’s illness, ongoing duck hunting, estate of George B Ives petition, and future meetings in Hamilton led by Sun day school workers. Owen's orchestra to play, tailors offer cheap suits, Golden Rule ads.
Building paper priced at 85 cents a roll and tar felt at 1.55 dollars are advertised for sale at McBride's.
Members recounted a week’s incidents at a club meeting in Dr Putney’s office. A young caddie failed to protect six purchased balls causing a loss of about two dollars, prompting talk on caddie duties and ball security. The group also reviewed link conditions including wind blown sand and unfinished greens and estimated a large fund needed to restore first class condition.
Hamilton notes detail visits by Madison county horseman HM Raymond and party to Ravalli county stock ranches and the Daly farm. They praise Revalli hotel and anticipate his return in nine years. Also covered are arrivals of P Cullity and sister, Mrs Cushew’s Chicago Detroit trip, two marriage licenses issued to Reed with Blake and Anderson with Craddock, political figures George T. Rages and Aaron Connor, actor John Meguire, Ravalli court house brick work, jail foundation, and local business updates.
Construction advances on the Page hotel foundation completed with brick and lumber being laid for occupancy planned December first. Dr Grain from Missoula and family visit, while the Hamilton Silver Cornet band rehearses patriotic airs for county Republican meetings. Dominick McGuire recovers then relapses from typhoid, friends hopeful for improvement. Frank J. Morris to attend Knights of Pythias grand lodge representing the local lodge. New cottages and two story residences rise on South Fourth street as the Hamilton Book Store prepares plastered brick for its upcoming display stock.
P. M. Reilly Co reports continued heavy shipments from Bitter Root valley with freight trains full of apples and wagons arriving daily. There is no frost damage. tomato and vegetable plants remain in good condition and the apple harvest is large and shipable.
Wallace notes report Mam moth Mining company builds a 20 by 70 foot annex for a vanner room to hold 146 foot Frue Vanners, with three new units moved in and four more added later. A Huntington mill and additional tanks will occupy freed space as more equipment arrives, plus a new 12 by 24 inch rolls pair to process middlings, boosting capacity from about 300 tons daily.
Mrs. Young advertises sewing machine supplies at Lister's and house plants for sale on South First Street.
Justice Houtchena issues warrants for Pad dy Quinn and Erastus Barber two inmates at the Missoula poor farm both described as insane yet recoverable with proper care. They will be examined by Judge Woody and a commission in a day or two and if found insane will be sent to the asylum. Also Globe store advertises new jackets and millinery styles.
The notice invites customers to see a large woolen display and take their measurement for a suit. It encourages visiting the Golden Rule store on Friday or Saturday, listing dates as the 21st or 224.
Missoula September 25 contractors Stinger and Campbell will start to fit up the croquet and lawn tennis grounds at the University. Overgrown grass and weeds will be cleared once a grader and iron roller arrive. Driveways will be completed this week and foot and baseball grounds will receive attention.
Missoula Sept 25 Threshing is almost finished in the Clearwater country. Crops there are the largest ever seen with a very large hay crop and heavy grain yields. Farmers report favorable summer weather and expect machines to finish in a week or two.
W M Williams general superintendent of the Copper Mill and Mining company has returned. Sept 25 witnesses report lone worm incidents in Missoula with authority seeking further details.
President McKinley and Mrs. McKinley made a forenoon drive to Osyaburg five miles east of Canton. A long list of callers visited at the White House. Reverend B. J. Hamilton of Los Angeles stopped en route to a church meeting in Pittsburg to confer with the president on several matters.
Moscow Idaho September 25 James Mc Lean a history and political science professor at Colorado was chosen as president of the University of Idaho succeeding Joseph P Blanton.
Ravalli County's Emporium offers Dry Goods and Notions for men youths and boys with cloaks suits skirts waists and ladies goods. It features millinery carpets draperies lace curtains and elegant furniture plus a large stock of groceries harness goods farm tools and feed.
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