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Newspaper
Butte Miner
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1877
Page
3
A public gathering in Butte turned tense but brought joy to children as the event achieved its aim. Attendees, including several adults, expressed mixed feelings yet remained pleased by the children's happiness and look forward to future celebrations with St Nick.
A sober call to Butte residents to restore Sabbath observance and church presence, urging a unified move to close stores on Sundays for health and morality, with plans for a church edifice and permanent minister once spring arrives. Also notes postal officials efficiency and new Bowes furniture stock delivered for postholiday needs.
The item surveys varied topics from General Custer's widow receiving $3,000 life insurance to fashion woes and loaded hips. It notes Perigne tobacco production, royal tastes, a Brooklyn letter proposing water to cure drunkenness, and methods to curb swearing. It also covers Arctic expedition debates, lime juice shortages, a European exhibition, a Teheran palace museum, lightning splitting trees, and a comic tale of an English traveler seeking an American buffalo ride.
Fidelity Lodge No 8 meets every Thursday evening at the hall corner Browlway and Mary street Butte Brethren in good standing are earnestly invited to attend Noble G Herr N G J H G Foster G G Onag War ren Rec JonN M Bowes Treas
Local review extols Mrs. Young Miss McDaniel and Messrs Young Roudebush and Hauswirth for singing The College Bell and praising performances in Toodles and Stage Struck Yankee. Porter Meiklejohn and Lizzie Self receive commendations. Miss Mita Mondejolin and May impress in minor roles. Mr. Win. Poster earns credit for organizing efforts and thanks go to Good Templars and Jere Roach. Dancing Club invites new members to Lorber’s Opera House Friday at 7:30.
A grand Masonic ball at Locher's Opera House in Butte drew heavy snows yet guests arrived punctually and enjoyed a well managed evening. Young Hauswirth’s string band provided music, supper at Centennial Hotel pleased all, and the event was praised as the season’s greatest social success with orderly conduct and courteous hosts.
A Christmas tree event drew old and young as Mesdames Noyes Young and Scott oversaw gifts. The funds funded a lavish display with suitable presents, though some criticism arose over missing items and a few improprieties in gifts. Mr Porter appeared as St Nicholas to distribute, with ages 2 to 43 the only recipients.
Territorials report mills at six slamps increasing capacity to 18 slamps with improved appliances for saving gold. Broadway mine shows 500 tons of quartz at 15 to the ton from a shaft and tunnel. nearby shafts reveal free gold ore. Hudson and Sample extensions are being developed with shafts and levels. Edmont mine yields gold at 35 to 40 per ton with a double arastra. Blue Bird and Black Boar shafts show pay streaks and promising crevices with quartz rich in gold.
Personal item notes B T Porter Eny elected to the Montana Legislature and departing yesterday for Helena to serve in the upcoming session. The Rev A N Gilbert preached at Episcopal services in town on Sunday to large congregations. Wm Wilson of Deer Lodge plans to open a billiard hall and saloon at the corner of Main and Broadway. A C Knox of the Mining and Scientific Press visited the office, touring Montana to cover mining, praising paylium prospects and the Montana mining scene.
In the Territory report, Marias river parties observe Piegans Blackfeet and Bloods collecting near Fort McLeod as buffalo grow scarce. Tribes seek winter quarters and show interest in trading horned stock for robes and peltries, signaling a broader fur trade season shift. Clarence O Ewing of Helena wins appointment as Register in Bankruptcy for Montana Third Judicial District. He is connected to the Chadwick law firm and starts duties immediately. The U S law assigns duties to postmasters.
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