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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
5
Helena district trustees changed the 1925 26 school calendar to reopen on Wednesday Sept 9 with an initial principals supervisors and teachers meeting. Following day a half day session and Friday a full day followed to align with the State fair.
George W. Egan, longtime attorney and political candidate, abandons his five year fight to avoid a penitentiary sentence and says he will begin a two year term early in July. He was arrested in March 1920 on charges of making false insurance claims after his country home burned.
Thirty six graduates from Mount St. Charles High School and College set to receive diplomas certificates and degrees at the 13th annual commencement in the college gymnasium at 8 o clock this evening. Bishop John P. Carroll will preside and John G. Brown will deliver the commencement address. The program includes an overture Alma Mater Montana the Star Spangled Banner and prize awards for scholastic contests.
Pupils at Deaconess in Helena valley held an annual declamation contest. Winners announced include Benton Garlow and Elizabeth Williams in top grades with gold prizes, while many others shared awards for various grade level speeches and readings. Judges were Mesdames George Middlemas, George Petchett, and Miss Maud Cram.
Sol Hepner spoke at the Kiwanis club about his WWI district exemption board chair role. He mixed humor with memories of relatives seeking exemptions for draftees and related several amusing incidents. Fred Kelser bid farewell for the summer, saying he would visit his father in the east and return in the fall.
Members of the Montana State Press Association plan a three day Yellowstone Park tour after their August 27 annual meeting in Livingston. Over 150 members and guests will travel by rail to Mammoth for lunch and Old Faithful dinner then visit Upper Basin West Thumb Lake Outlet Grand Canyon Buffalo Ranch and Mammoth station before returning home.
The Helena A. C. A. will hold its annual meeting for director elections at dinner on Wednesday evening at 6 15 in the association dining room. Plate reservations should be made in advance by telephone or in person at the association office. A meeting of the current board is at 5 p.m. Wednesday, with the new board to meet immediately after the annual gathering.
Corvallis Oregon June 8 Dr M A Brannon chancellor of the University of Montana delivered the annual commencement address to Oregon Agricultural College graduates. He declared higher education is the incarnation of readership and the Pilgrim fathers moving toward greater freedom.
Minneapolis Mayor candidate George M. Leach held a 500 vote edge over challenger James Elwes as partial returns from the city election came in. The Associated Press report notes the count a moment after polls closed with early tallies showing Leach ahead by five hundred. Elwes trailed in the initial figures from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Under the Woman's division of the Commercial club a fashion show will be held tonight with dinner in the Placer Grill. Mrs. Marshall E. Gates chairs arrangements. Mesdames Garlow and Vollmer lead the event emphasizing sports attire with models Masses Holter, Kester, D Autremont, Kessler, Hoffman, Gaw, Palmer, and Haley.
Washington reports postal revenues fell in May despite higher rates. May receipts at 50 key post offices totaled 27,434,861 down from 29,083,201 in April and 22,085,090 in March. Offices handling over half of national post receipts showed declines exceeding 20,000 per business day versus March pre rate change.
Dorothy Perkins, 17, accused of murdering her suitor Thomas A Templeton at a Greenwich Village Valentine party, faces state evidence next day. Her father Rudolph Perkins and stepmother Mrs Magot Perkins may testify for the prosecution. She says Templeton was killed in a struggle with her drunken father over a pistol.
Birch and Sons won the city council bid to pave Eleventh Avenue from Main to Montana with Warrenite bitulithic on a bitulithic concrete base at 859,282.30 dollars. Other bids ranged from 59,560 to 367,524 for various pavement types. Building permits were issued for several garages and a sleeping porch in Helena.
El Paso Texas June Frank Kell aged 53 willed property valued at 25 000 to 30 000 to Mrs Victora Montero two days before dying from acute alcoholism in Juarez He owned 350 cattle 50 horses and three sections of land in Worland Wyoming His will and death raise questions as Juarez officials detain Mrs Montero before releasing her brief report notes high infant mortality in the United States with over 187 000 babies dying before their first birthday and 8 000 in the first month
Luther College band from Decorah Iowa may tour Helena after performing at the Norse American Centennial in Minneapolis. Organizer A T Reeves hopes to book a Shrine Temple Auditorium concert at popular prices, with Carlo Speratt as director noted as a leading bandman.
Mrs and Mr s Rader left Sunday night for Cincinnati. George Blinn visits Helena from Butte, Mrs Qrima leaves for North Bend. A stream of visitors arrives from Butte Great Falls Billings and other towns including Frank Bird Montana Power and Leonard Dekalb. Local officials and relatives frequent the Placer hotel with many from Missoula Lewistown and Glasgow. A hospital report notes Mrs Porter recovering and a baby birth timing remark ends the column.
The trial of William D Shepherd charged with murdering his millionaire foster son Wit o N McChineck entered its fourth week as a second jury panel was completed with Bert Blaucrt Jr a hoisting engineer accepted by both sides.
Bozeman Montana June 8 setting a new record for high averages graduates with honors 29 members of the class of 1925 will be graduated Wednesday morning. The list includes Edward Bell Bozeman in agronomy Winton Weydemeyer Libby in agriculture Paul Carnes Rupert Idaho in dairying Glenn Cottier Great Falls in architectural engineering Victor Thayer Helena in chemical engineering Herman Almauist Helena in industrial chemistry Barbour Harrington Bozeman in industrial chemistry Glenn Boyer Missoula in electrical engineering William Boyer Bozeman in electrical engineering John Barto Thompson Falls in mechanical engineering Verle McCoy Miles City Lysle Wood Terry in mechanical engineering Harold Gray Lethbridge Canada entomology zoology Winnifred Robinson Bozeman applied art Olga Weydemeyer Libby applied art Laura Asbury Crow Agency in home economics Octavia Marquis Bozeman in home economics Virginia Schneider Helena Ethel Spargo Helena in home economics.
The death of O A Tibbetts formerly a minister here occurred last Sunday in Portland Oregon from intestinal trouble. Surviving relatives include his widow and daughter Ella Tibbetts and son Joseph Tibbetts in Portland and sons Charles K Tibbetts in Helena Tracy and Leslie Tibbetts in Alameda California two sisters Mrs Ella McKinnex of Cottage Grove and Mrs Binger Herrmann of Rosebud. In the eighties and nineties he was involved with the H H mine at Winston and the Metallic mine in the Philipsburg district.
The Paris edition says an American wearing the Legion of Honor rosette and papers showing Brigadier General William Chamberlaine was killed last night when a tram car collided with Instaxi cah. He also carried papers bearing the name Captain William Charleton Watts, United States Navy.
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