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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1902
Page
7
Butte readers are informed that the Principal Branch Office of the Standard is located at 21 East Broadway. Telephone contact is 422 and advertising rates are furnished on application.
Short notices from Butte covering piano rentals and sales, professional moves, visitors, travel improvements, and social happenings. Includes Dr. P H McCarthy and others, Brookers, X ray exams, a funeral, travel to St Louis, and a Salt Lake City marriage announcement with Palms and ferns.
Miss Damon will be at the Butte hotel Sunday September 28 for one week offering a complete line of art embroidery Battenberg and point lace materials with lessons given.
Captain Jack Crawford tells of Pony Bill the Cowboy Preacher invited to open a new church near Pecos. Bill joins the service, delivers a rousing, plainspoken gospel talk to cowboys, rejects stiff church formality, and vows to guide his kin toward the heavenly trail with humor and faith.
The piece notes business risks and urges life insurance as a safeguard. It asserts many businessmen fail, contrasts cash value of good policies, and cites The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York as having the largest assets in the industry.
A palm reader Madam Renna offers love marriage divorce and work readings at 1 dollar for a short time. Circles are held on Wednesday Friday and Sunday evenings at the Stephens block 144 West Park street Butte.
The Tivoli company closed its Butte engagement with The Idol's Eye at Broadway last Night. Ferris Hartman delivered his best performance keeping the audience laughing throughout. New singers Frances Gibson and Oscar Lee impressed, and a matinee with toy souvenirs for children drew a great crowd.
A pleasant surprise party for Miss Geneva Smith was hosted at her Talent block home last Wednesday evening. Attendees enjoyed decorations, dancing, games, and piano selections by local girls and guests, with flashlights kept as souvenirs. Later at 11:50, refreshments were served and guests departed praising Geneva as a fine hostess. Also reported, Thomas McLaughlin, longtime Butte miner born in County Antrim, Ireland, was killed in the Anaconda mine yesterday morning. His funeral is scheduled for 2 PM today at the A. O. H. hall Cen terville with services at Sacred Heart church.
The funeral for R. M. Whalen, electrocuted, will be held at Tachell's funeral chapel today at 2. A Catholic ladies matter in Butte. Catholic ladies urged to meet at I. O. G. T. hall Monday afternoon at 2:30 by committee.
W B Jenkins was released from county jail after 24 hours pending a preliminary hearing set for Oct 7 before Justice O Connor in Walkerville. He faces two charges bribery and assault in the second degree brought by Mrs Fannie Guyette and Mrs Edith Marvin.
Judge Clancy questioned about 30 voters as to their names and origins, correcting casual forms to formal names. He approved all applicants for papers, noting that regardless of whether they were Mike, Mat, or Matthew or whether they landed in Anaconda or Castle Garden, their papers were granted.
Christina Dini petitions the district court for a divorce from Pietro Dini and asks for ownership of the cabin where she resides the 75 chickens and 4 cows on the property and custody of their children. She alleges he deserted her about two years ago after a vow made in April 1885 in Italy to protect and comfort her until death.
The Butte Harness and Saddlery company announces relocation from 211 East Park Street to 106 East Park Street JUBINVILLE NANCE Props.
A letter to the editor accuses P A O Farrell of vilifying Marcus Daly in prior writings and cites a signed article blasting Daly for steering Montana copper policy to Standard Oil, claiming Daly’s power was crushed when he tried to place the copper industry under oil barons and that Daly’s name now stinks among Montana voters.
In Butte and Anaconda the speaker denounces Daly as a greedy villain who betrayed the people. Heinze claims Daly is incompetent to operate smelters or mines and would not lead a proper company. O’Farrell promotes Daly to defend Daly’s memory and influence among Marcus Daly’s friends. A child obituary notes Elizabeth M. Rapsen’s death at five months. Funeral set for Warren J. Peterson’s remains shipped to Deer Lodge.
Alb members of the R F L A are asked to gather at their hall at 1 30 p m today to attend the funeral of Thomas McLaughlin. By order president.
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