Chambers Readies Second Membership Drive Teams
Butte Chamber of Commerce announces second membership drive to raise from 1600 to 2000 or 2500. The effort begins Tuesday morning with a luncheon, followed by a final report Wednesday noon.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1920
Page
2
Butte Chamber of Commerce announces second membership drive to raise from 1600 to 2000 or 2500. The effort begins Tuesday morning with a luncheon, followed by a final report Wednesday noon.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian church schedules an all day rally next Tuesday in the church parlors with lunch at 12 30 and a program at 2 30 including devotionals reports and business songs and readings and a discussion led by Mrs Ames and others inviting all friends to attend.
A. H. Hogland chief engineer of the Great Northern railroad from St. Paul is touring the western states in a private car. He is accompanied by O. S. Bowen Seattle assistant chief engineer and T. G. Hastie district engineer. No word has come to the Butte office on a return stop.
The service for 27 year old Marie Moss wife of Jennings B. Moss insurance man of Miles City was held at her mother's home on 2111 Yew street before a requiem high mass at Holy Savior church. Interment followed at Holy Cross cemetery with pallbearers Hugh Messner Peter D. Gibbons R. H. Manning Arthur Burkhardt W. L. Davis and Thomas Gates.
Four drunks two vagrants and one traffic violator were arrested in a 24 hour period ending last night bringing total to seven. Three drunks forfeited bonds in police court plus the auto offender. One drunk stood trial and was fined a vag also paid. Two cases were tried and total collections reached fifty dollars.
Frank Ralph of Ralph's repair shop at 491 South Wyoming street announced plans to handle the Rayfield carburetor in the local field. The Rayfield is noted as especially adapted to Ford cars.
G H Edmund business manager of the Conrey Placer Mining company at Ruby passed through Butte yesterday on his way to Whitehall before continuing to Boston for a planned visit. He is en route to Boston from Ruby via Whitehall.
Co. L. Nichols, assistant general manager of the Northern Pacific railroad in St. Paul, is expected to arrive in Butte for a visit next Thursday. W. H. Merriman, division freight and passenger agent in Butte, joined the party at Missoula yesterday and accompanied him to Wallace, Idaho. After touring Montana, Idaho and other states, Nichols will return to St. Paul.
An invitation to the Butte Chamber of Commerce members invites attendance at the good roads celebration in Anaconda next Friday Oct. 1 to mark the first concrete road section between Butte and Anaconda. Butte is expected to send a large delegation to the festivities. A Venice superstition about hotel deaths and room numbers is noted in the report.
Import and export rates on the Northern Pacific Great Northern and Western Pacific railroads are being received by the tariff committee. The reduction, however, has no local application. The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the reduction after finding the recent general eastern increase of 33 percent fixed the import and export tariffs too high.
Mrs J Charles Sullivan arrives in Butte with her daughters Margaret Katherine and Mae Jean after traveling from California to join her husband. A renowned organist and soloist, she is active in Northwest women’s clubs in Seattle and San Francisco. The family will live at 822 West Broadway in the Kemper home.
The Butte health department reported 23 new contagious cases in the week ending Friday. Of these 23, 22 were measles and one was diphtheria, bringing total measles in quarantine to 31, with four whooping cough, one diphtheria, and one scarlet fever. Ten cases were released from quarantine.
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