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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
8
Anaconda news item discusses no resignations by legislators who seek multiple offices. Movement for shorter clerk hours gains support. McDonald and other council members face potential reelection dynamics as Helena delegation tensions unfold and party leaders weigh future municipal leadership.
Copper City Commercial employees celebrated the store's closing with a social gathering and a parade after voting to honor D J Hennessy the president who directed the store to close earlier enabling extended family and social time. They signed resolutions of thanks and paraded with banners sky rockets and red fire.
The display of enthusiasm in the town prompts proprietors of several businesses to consider an earlier closing time. Indications are that the 6 o'clock closing movement will become general as it ought to be. No store in Anaconda should remain open after 6 on ordinary weeks Maye.
Senator elect J M Kennedy says life has been a burden since last November with constant pressure from suitors and party rivals. Job-seekers flood his desk. a city hall stenographer handles dozens of letters daily as he contemplates the next legislature and guards his political cache.
A lively farce titled Brown's in Town opens at the Margaret theater on January 2. The plot stays brisk from curtain rise to final curtain with rapid action and witty, grotesque situations. An unusual feature is that there is no Arviyn, yet a familiar friend remains a key plot element.
J Dadduery of Butte is in the city to sell comb honey at Washington Market. Leona representing Missouri Pacific was in town yesterday. Converters at the lower millhouses closed for repairs last night. The finest line of new small buildings and pictures. call and examine them. Mahan Bros. The funeral of little Curtis C Murphy.
Afternoon events include a county school visit by Mary A. McLaughlin and P. R. Kilroy, plus a funeral notice for Curtis Clifford aged eighteen months. A county treasurer lists Deer Lodge tax delinquents totaling over 8000 dollars. Kitty Bracken’s drunken arrest prompts potential penitentiary time. Deputy Sheriff Joe Daly returns with Harry Fritz charged with grand larceny involving a stolen ring.
Frederick Jameson, Washington inventor, pursues a wireless telephone amid monopoly intrigue. After misfiled applications and an offer from a rival, a hidden ally, Mary Lincoln, exposes a 48 hour antedating. Jameson encounters betrayal, backs Mary, and earns fortune with a new patent and a life partner.
Merchants across Butte run ballots with every 250 cash purchase to name the church school lodge or society most popular by February 1, 1901. Participating firms include Hight Fairfield Jewelers Main Broadway Brownfield Canty Carpenters furniture Hub Clothing Co Smith Grocery Co Caprice Co Meats East Park Western Fuel Broteck Dore Studio Morris Confectionery Forsyth Foxs Candies Littey Bros Vienna Bakery Gillis Co Kowske Tailor Ford Walkerville Hendrix Macaulay California Cafe Broad Bros pianos Henault Franch mill Orton Brothers Music Store Youlien Grocery Co and more with a plane exhibition at Orton Brothers Music Store
Redding California details the life of Ben Jenkins a tavern keeper and former Ohio college student who courted Caroline Scott later wife of Benjamin Harrison. After a romance with Miss Scott failed he wandered westward living as a prospector and miner before settling in Redding where he ran a small tavern and died alone at age 72. His death reveals a life of generosity humor and self imposed isolation.
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