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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1925
Page
7
Miscellaneous items include a laundry mix up at 46 Electrig apartments and requests to return name to Shelton's for home made ice cream. Numerous business ads feature car parts, tires, fur nishing, cleaning, storage, and packing. Community notices invite Odd Fellows and Eagle members to Memorial Day parade preparations led by John C Barerd, secretary.
The Helena Country Club dinner and dance last evening formally opened the social season. Visitors from Great Falls, Butte and other localities were guests of the club.
On motion by Owen Byrnes, J D Conrad administrator of James Coffey estate is ordered to show cause next Wednesday at 10 am why the sale of land in section 17 township 10 range 4 should not be set aside. Byrnes bids $80 and later states he is ready to pay $800, with Spaulding and McConnell as Byrnes counsel.
Notice calls G A R members to assemble at the G A R hall at 10 on Saturday morning to participate in the Memorial Day parade. Commander C Hoepfner signs the notice.
The First Presbyterian and St Pauls M E churches unite at St Pauls church tomorrow at 11 for Intermountain Union college Baccalaureate with Rev H C Klemme of Bozeman preaching. The choir directed by Fred Kelser will perform. Evening services return to First Presbyterian with Rev H K Holtzinger of the Butte Methodist district delivering the college address and special music.
The 163rd Montana National Guard is called to Fort Harrison near Helena for a two week summer encampment June 13 to 27 with about 1,000 guardsmen and nineteen companies. The camp features war problem style training, fewer formations, occasional demonstrations, and no sham battle. Staff officers include Col Erastus Williams and Lieut Col Sheridan. company commanders and lieutenants are listed among Montana towns including Helena, Bozeman, Culbertson, Whitehall, Glasgow, Polson, Polson and Harlem.
Sunday school exercises promote the graduating class from the primary department with memory work and rewards. The Whit Sunday service marks the close of this Sunday school year at St Peter's Episcopal Church tomorrow morning at 11. The notice also includes memorial day parade announcements from Knights of Columbus and F Q E Menthers with assembly times and leaders.
Wanted man for agency in Lews and Clark county to sell autos on the wet market. Apply at R F McLaren 831 Broadway Helena Montana.
Eugene S. French Camp U. S. W. V. calls all Spanish American War Veterans to assemble at Main and Broadway at 10:15 March. Members and non members are urged to attend the Memorial Day parade.
The Prickly Pear Home Demonstration club will meet next Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Pete McHugh’s Helena Valley home. President Mrs RK A Shumate says the program is Housework for Health and Beauty. Miss Gertrude Hoffman will speak as kitchen improvement work progresses across the state. Hoffman will judge county kitchen scores to determine prize recipients. Meetings are also planned for Gilman and Augusta on Tuesday.
Two youths taken off a Northern Pacific tram by Sheriff Jim Barnes are ordered not to spend funds on transportation, yet wire home to send $50 as a condition. They await return toward Chicago riding the cushions for rail fare, while a $30 dispute lingers. The pair, jailed at county lockup, show downhearted resolve despite homesickness and hope for funds from home.
The committee on repairs and grounds reported the property is in excellent condition. Repairs during vacation will not be extensive, with the biggest work on one floor of the High School building. Committee members are C A Bermer I P Wood and D A Thetge.
Paris unveils a bridal costume by Lucien Lelong featuring a short skirt high neck and long sleeves forming a unique modern silhouette for the season. The design emphasizes elegance and contemporary styling in a single striking ensemble.
The 11th annual Montana State Association of Registered Nurses convention will be held June 4-6 at Placer. The program includes receptions, welcome addresses by ex-governor S V Stewart and Dr Frances Sage Bradley, various section meetings on institutional and public health nursing, educational talks by Mary E Gladwin and Dr James Flinn, amply hosted by Sisters of St Johns hospital, with diverse demonstrations in X ray, tuberculosis care, and dental hygiene.
The Montana state board of equalization certified a gross mineral tax of about 40 million dollars on ore produced in the state. The tax, based on ore metal content before processing, funds public schools and the state general fund. Principal metals reported include gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, and iron with totals near the 1924 values.
Announcement stated that the Disabled American Veterans Weld War chapter contract with Montana Amusement Company for a Tuller Avenue carnival entry ended with last night's show. The carnival will open today but Memorial Day activities will not be under their auspices. The closing cost to the chapter was about $100, a loss accepted to avoid carnival operations on Memorial Day.
Cheely, head of the Montana Newspaper Association, traveled home from Denver after attending the funeral of his brother Allison in Denver Colorado. Allison Cheely was a prominent local farmer, aged years. Cheely's brother's death marks the second in six weeks, the first being I & Cheels, a noted Colorado Springs newspaper man.
The annual Junior Prom of St Vincent Academy was held last evening in St Helena Hall. Relatives and friends of the pupils attended, making it one of the week’s pleasant serial events.
May 29 social roundups list the Blunteys Ross Lopkins and Coy families, Ed Boyer Hamp Buchen and Daniells at Missoula events, and several visitors returning from coast trips. Attendees include Pearl Seckeroth Irving Wright Gladys Noble May O Hare, plus Miss Alexander and Mrs Lara bie.
A stream of visitors from Butte Great Falls Wolf Creek Roundup Townsend and Dillon filled Helena hotels as COP Brewer’s lectures on psychology salesmanship and personal efficiency wrapped up at the university assembly room. Notables like Marcus O Farrell Walter Hansen and Mies Florence Reed were among arrivals, with planned trips to St Paul Chicago and Whitefish and several staying at the Placer and Harvey hotels.
Los Angeles February 20 The 106000 Shriners prepare for the Imperial session of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine They will learn that more than 5000 crippled children have been treated in the Shriner hospitals at no cost to families Seven large hospitals costing over 3 million dollars operate with 500 beds in smaller facilities Open to all crippled children whose cases show improvement and whose families cannot pay Census shows nearly 400000 crippled children in poor families Hospitals in many cities including San Francisco St Louis Portland and Montreal operate under local Shrine temples Additional hospitals are planned to bring treatment within reach of every poor crippled child in the United States and Canada Funds come from two dollar annual assessments by Shrine members totaling over a million dollars a year
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