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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
2
Brisk demand for hoses and state fair boxes drives MT Line fair office to reserve quantities. Five boxes set aside for the queen and court as sections fill. Reservations possible by telephone, urging prompt action to avoid loss of supplies.
May Seymour, returning to her hometown after a year away and selling her property, pursues wealthy marriage. In Atlantic City she meets Dan Sprague and Bert Waterbury, both wooing her while a divorcee, Carlotta Frothing, watches. May navigates love, money, and betrayal aboard a train to California, entertaining offers from a movie magnate and enduring entanglements with Dan, Goldie Gay, and Carlotta. She confronts Dan about his intentions and reflects on past choices, while planning a winter with Carlotta and confronting Waterbury’s schemes.
The Great Northern Railway asks the Montana Railroad Commission to abandon its Comanche agency in Yellowstone county. Comanche, once linked to Edwin S Booth, famed local figure, had an agency in a region tied to the drylander rush era. The railway says current and prospective business justifies closing the station, a prior application having been denied after a May hearing.
Four defendants faced ar raignment in district court on burglary larceny and a bad check charges. W M King and George Adams accused of burglarizing a hotel room, J Goodin charged with Ford rarity larceny, and M L Paterson accused of writing a worthless check to Teii Hurni for horses. Deputy County Attorney Heywood noted no attorneys yet and set a deadline for pleas. Cleveland Alexander Varals Draken ends 53 day fast with orange juice.
The piece laments casual behavior in dating, contrasting it with old practice where a man courted a woman and asked to marry after formal courting. It notes rapid kissing and premarital intimacy as signs of changing morals, contending that love is not the tender romantic ideal poets praised.
In Washington, Mexican and American leaders discussed immigration issues. Iowa recounts show Daniel F. Steck widening his lead. USDA cites slim chances for lower potato prices. Government pushes for early talks with small debtor nations. Anglo French settlement may complicate Franco American debt talks. Canton reportedly occupied by Whampoa cadets in retaliation for Lt. Chung Hoi’s assassination.
Dr. J. X N. Newman announces the Montana state conference on social work will meet in Butte in the last week of September. A single day symposium includes a nationally noted lecturer and topics covering the tax payer church judiciary industry medical sociology and institutions. Attendees include social workers across Montana plus members of state school faculties and church workers seeking to share methods and foster cooperation.
In New York two long serving newsstand operators have signed over their Woodkwerth building business to loyal employees after fifty years selling newspapers.
Mass Corporal John Coolidge led Camp Tevens citizen soldiers as a squad drilled under fire from 13 camermen on orders from superiors.
A collage of Q and A items, including the number of wins by the New York Giants through 1925, Wilsons veto wording on the Volstead Act, why smoke lightens with distance, calorie content of sweet and olive oil, Protestant missionaries worldwide, tides near St Andrews Bay Florida, and charcoal color. Names include Frederic J. Haskin and Washington. D.C.
A business meeting of the state association of Elks will be held in Kalispell tomorrow. Visitors will spend Sunday at their summer camp on Flathead Lake. Secretary Roy Gibbons of Helena lodge and family depart for Kalispell today. Txasted Ruler Fred Kaller cannot attend. W A Mawkins district deputy west is traveling elsewhere. Charles T Trott district deputy east and family were here yesterday en route from Billings to Kalispell. New York tourists returning from Europe aboard the Olympic discussed John McKeon’s winnings. Estimates put his hand at 6000 to 25000 dollars. he admitted Lady Lack sat on his lap during the crossing.
A Helena writer finds grocery prices in Helena comparable to or lower than Great Falls. The ad notes lower fruit prices mainly for overripe items and lists the lowest regularly posted Great Falls prices from Self Service Grocery. Further ads will expand the comparison, warning against charge and delivery store prices.
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