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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1925
Page
5
A cluttered Montanat page reports partly cloudy conditions Tuesday and a warm spell midweek with hourly forecasts. It lists local business ads and notices, health service items, meeting plans, and court actions including civil demurrers and note judgments, reflecting a typical small-town newspaper page mix.
Members of the Masonic fraternity and the Order of the Eastern Star are invited to a reception at Red Cross auditorium Fort Harrison Friday from 7 to 9 30 p m in honor of Mr and Mrs William Pippy A program will be rendered and refreshments served Mr Pippy will serve as the Masonic welfare worker at Fort Harrison next year. Masonic Welfare Committee.
Lew A. Cohen of the Sands Brothers Dry Goods company departed for New York City last night to buy additional merchandise for the upcoming fall and winter seasons. He plans to return to Helena before the end of the current season.
The north end of the county was struck by a severe storm yesterday causing a sharp temperature drop. Temperatures further declined last night but no storm alert had been issued by midnight.
Florence Sanden examines why October becomes move month. She cites statisticians on 40 percent on the move, argues reasons include furnaces, rent, and change seeking, noting Missoula and Helena examples. The piece contrasts past fixed homes with modern apartments and praises careful moving practices.
The council placed on final passage a plan to create a special improvement district for Rodney Street paving from Sixth to Broadway with a protest hearing set for October 26. It also moved final passage for funding Eleventh Avenue paving expenses from the general fund and for refinancing Bond Series II. A resolution fixing assessments in the Elevendly Avenue paving district was opened for five days of examination, with a hearing scheduled for October 1 before adjournment. Officer Spurzem reported September arrests at 49 for city violations and state infractions, $33 in tax collections, $4.60 in telephone charges, and pound related receipts of $7.80.
Miss Marty Graskamp arrived from Minnesota to take a part time school nurse position under a cooperation scheme with the Helena independent school district and Shepard-Towner funded agencies. She is a Luther hospital graduate from La Crosse and did post graduate work at Columbia University.
A lively chapel program at Thimmyuntats featured faculty and students in a pep rally. Dorrothy Houston led a Senior class pep roll and students showed enthusiasm for supporting the football team with planned events. Prof. Waller and Prof. Welner spoke, inspiring school spirit.
Herbert Goodrich, manager of the Helena Kranch store in Buck Mercantile Co., Butts, East Sixth Avenue, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff John Gough on a company complaint charging a shortage in store accounts. Bond set at $1,000, not furnished by late yesterday. Audit of books not yet completed.
Home Missions council of Montana meets today at First Baptist church with morning afternoon and evening sessions. Officers to be elected for the next year as Rev Charles F. Vermilya from New York City and Rev F E Curry of Helena speak on unity in Protestantism and council work.
A regular business meeting of Laut, Marold Joyce post, Veterans of Forelan wars, will be held this evening at 7 at the Fort hospital. Delegates to the recent national convention at Tulsa will make reports. A post quarter master is to be elected and several new members initiated.
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs promotes public safety through fire protection as a community service. State chairmen, including Kalispell, Montana’s Mrs. A. N. Tobie, urge club women to give five minute school talks. Superintendents cooperate to spread general knowledge. Some clubs request posters and stickers. fire marshals and police chiefs seek assistance.
Interstate Commerce Commission experts urged disapproval of a proposed New York Chicago Pittsburgh cross Pennsylvania route. They found the plan insufficient to justify its economic impact and delays.
Interschool elections for officers saw Sophemerec Claan and Jenkman Clans electing presidents and officers. Alber Wilkins and Grace Thompson named as vice presidents, Marcia Jen and Virginia Cowan as secretaries, and others chosen for treasurer yell leader and senate representative. The freshman group plans to fund a part of this leadership by buying green cups and painting the "I" as weather allows.
Miss Margarete Anne Walsh became bride of Raymond T. Nagle in the Cathedral of St Helena with sisters Mrs. George Nagle as matron of honor and Miss Helen Walsh as maid of honor. Best man was George Nagle. ushers included James Murphy and James Flynn. After a wedding breakfast at the Country Club the couple planned a California honeymoon before returning to Missoula.
Under the Masonic Welfare committee a reception will be held for Rev. and Mrs. William Pippy in the Red Cross building at Fort hospital Friday evening from 7:30 to 9:30. The Masonic fraternity and Easter Star women are invited. A program will be given with refreshments. Rev. Mr. Pippy serves as Masonic welfare worker at the Veterans' hospital and recently arrived with her family.
Missoula and Helena items show a range of arrivals and departures including Thomas W. Wehl a business visitor, Wm. Renee a cockman registered at the Macey hotel, and W. Spattawond among arrivals from Missoula. Also mentions Mrs Z M Boardman leaving for New York, Carl A Wirth at home after a visit, and Irene Sullivan visiting in Missoula. Weather notes report a chilly day in Gallatin with a 30 degree low and overcast skies.
Baton Rouge reports timid hope for muskrat pelts as a potential new industry. The agriculture department hires a naturalist to study feasibility and permanence, citing Gulf coast residents catching about 1,000,900 pelts yearly at roughly one dollar each.
In Fergus Falls Minnesota on October 27 the World Service Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church Northern Minnesota conference, led by Rev J T Brabner Smith, urged stronger church news cooperation with daily papers. Bishop Charles Westley Burna presided as Smith called editors and pastors to share news, stressing honesty, regular reports, and joint efforts to advertise Christianity through the press. He argued newspapers need usable church news and pastors should supply clear, concise items, not preachy digests.
A New York rural life conference explores needed agricultural advances and rural life reforms. Discussion covers farm relations to big business, tax burdens, rural education, country medicine, church buildings, and minister education with speakers from U S and international institutions. A related report notes an elderly panhandler’s room found with oil bills and property deeds after death.
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