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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1926
Page
2
Camp Erickson hosts 800 infantrymen of the 163rd in a tested cost plan using 50 cents per day per man. Mess sergeants Ashton and Fitzsimmons show varied hotel style meals, breakfast to supper, with fresh fruit, fish, beef, and desserts while staying within budget and maintaining sanitary kitchen conditions.
Del Monte pineapple jam 35c, 3 cans 1.00. Skinner's egg noodles 8 pkgs 25c. Gold Medal Cake Flour 0.85 per pkg. Prize De Luxe plums 35c, 3 cans 0.00. White King washing powder 0.48 per pkg. Sunday dinner items include spring lamb Belgian hare spring broilers hens young veal young pork prime steer beet choice wether mutton.
Butte barber owners met to form the Master Barbers' Association after a wage demand from barbers. Large shops reported current pay of 30 dollars weekly plus a share of receipts above 45 dollars, while the new demand seeks 65 percent of all receipts over 42 dollars. Executives say raises could be passed to customers, but shops must stay open.
Mrs. William Fash and children visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Murray. Edgar Tyack of Butte brings his wife and son home from a visit with Mrs. Shepard. Mrs. Shepard and son Fleury accompany them back. Westminster Guild met at the Hale ranch for a social afternoon. Bozeman visitors Mrs. Chas. Bell Mrs. R. B. Lof dell and Mrs. Inez Powers called on friends. Helen Sheriff of Willow Creek visits. Rati Briggs travels to Yellowstone Park for work. Mrs. Robert Dewing hosts a bridge luncheon for Miss Hazel Schwank, with four tables. Schwank wins the honor prize.
Erickson's address marks the half century since Custers last stand at Little Bighorn. He praises Custers bravery, laments frontier violence, and argues civilized progress comes through sacrifice and conflict. The speech frames the battle as pivotal, uniting national memory and memorials to the Seventh Cavalry.
H C Miller named field secretary in Helena office succeeding J H Harker resignation. Rose Shaw to assist from Butte. Examiners report of the association marked by satisfactory conditions, approved by the board. Livingston secretary-manager F J Hobein attended and spoke of improved state business conditions during a recent tour.
Cowboys camped north of Basin staged a Wild West show with old time flair. A leader attempted to ride into saloons, provoking a melee until deputies Knight and Nelligan arrived to disperse the crowd. One puncher was subdued after guns and a chair were used. he quit after deputy intervention.
Shrine Temple announces next Tuesday evening will feature Bob Larson’s Hollywood Orchestra, a top Northwest act recently touring Hollywood San Diego and Los Angeles. Larson, a Helena favorite from early jazz days, brings ten musicians, multiple instruments, singing and entertainment for a major local dancing treat.
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