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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1937
Page
5
Butte Girl Scouts begin registration for Camp Castlerock this summer. Registration runs Tuesday morning through Saturday from 9 to 12, with director Miss Lucile Skewes noting a record turnout expected as of now. The camp opens July 7 and runs to July 28 on 97 acres ten miles south of Butte along Little Basin Creek road.
In Nogales Sonora Mexico officials surrender key of the Catholic church to Rev Father Salvador Sandoval as campaign prayer leads to first mass in more than three years. Thousands expected to attend the ceremony tomorrow marking a revival of church services.
Three new members will be initiated at a Butte Pioneer Club meeting tonight in the Legion hall. The initiation begins at 7 15 with the annual Memorial day program to follow at 8 15.
A delegation of one hundred African teachers travels across Europe in a coordinated tour highlighting education exchange and cultural ties. Officials from regional education ministries accompany the group, visiting multiple cities and meeting with school leaders and administrators along the itinerary.
Thomas Trainor a Yakima area bartender, 38, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 125 pounds, disappeared after stepping from a Northern Pacific train at Yakima on the night of May 26 while returning prisoners from McNeil Island. He was reported missing from 27 West Quartz Street with no trace found.
Mrs. Catherine Geraghty wife of P J Geraghty of Butte will receive last rites tomorrow. The body was moved to the family home at 1137 West Woolman Street from Daly Shea mortuary. A solemn requiem high mass is planned for 9 30 tomorrow at Immaculate Conception Church with burial at Holy Cross cemetery.
Over the holiday a Dillon visit by Martin Gros took place at 48 Main Street Meaderville. Unit No. 2 meeting moved to Mrs. Joe H. Peck’s home with a pot-luck lunch. Butte Miners auxiliary to meet at 8 pm tonight. Hiawatha club No. 4 card party at Mrs. Elizabeth Overand’s home with Mrs. Alice Pauly as hostess. Esther Rosenberg recovering at St James hospital. Roy A Nelson visiting parents in Butte. Four babies born yesterday at St James hospital to Sullivan, McGivern, Marble, and Kenare?d families. Murray hospital admits Sophia Klepick and E Pings. returns include James Glass, Harriet Johnson, Frank Jakela, A G Smyth and infant. St James hospital departures include Mrs William Peck, Mrs Roy Wilkinson and others.
Members of the Women's Foreign Missionary society of Mountain View M. E. Church will gather at 2 o clock this afternoon for a dessert luncheon at the home of Mrs. William C Rae 1122 West Silver Street Mrs John Zurfluh to lead devotions and Mrs Lewis Prater to lead the program
Mrs. Silvia M. Wright died Friday night after a long illness at 677 South Idaho street. Last rites were conducted yesterday at Duggan's Merrill chapel by Rev. John F. Como. The body will be sent to Great Falls for burial. Wright was born in Park City Utah and moved to Butte in 1897. She was 46 years old.
Two vehicles were reported stolen to local officers yesterday with Henry Byrnes alleging his car was taken from West Broadway and Main Street. One of the stolen cars was later recovered in Anaconda.
Henry Nankivell longtime Centerville resident died after a brief illness at his home 845 North Main Street He was 82 and had lived in the city 53 years The couple observed their 60th wedding anniversary in March 1947 Born in Tavistock Devonshire England they came to Centerville in 1884 They ran a candy and tobacco shop at their home for years A cave-in at Parrot mine cost him his right leg in 1894 He is survived by his wife Mary a son and daughter in law Harry and Mrs Mary Nankivell of San Francisco a sister Mrs Fred Southcombe of Butte and several nephews and nieces Funeral services to be announced.
Mrs Marcus Balkovatz and her children Mary Rose Christine Joseph and William of Anaconda will sail from New York on June 2 aboard the Normandie for a European tour visiting Yugoslavia Switzerland France Italy Germany and England.
The remains of James Cunningham lie at the family home 826 East Park Street with a funeral set for Wednesday at 9 o a m proceeding to Sacred Heart church for a high mass at 9 30 a m Interment will follow at St Patrick's cemetery The remains of Benjamin Bockatay may be viewed in Dugans Merrill mortuary State room awaiting funeral arrangements
Auditory notice lists PAT R. GAGNER as manager at Duggan's Merrill Mortuaries and provides phone contact 3239 for inquiries.
The body of Mrs Gurvie Exe was shipped from White's Funeral Home over the Northern Pacific to Hayfield Minnesota for funeral services and interment.
The remains of Charles W. Chaney will be driven from White's Funeral Home this Tuesday morning to Twin Bridges for interment this afternoon.
The list announces funeral arrangements for Catherine Geraghty Frank J Pipinich Lewis Percivalli and Lewis Horner. Services include Requiem high masses at Immaculate Conception Sacred Heart and St Patrick's churches with interment at Holy Cross cemetery and a Veterans of Foreign Wars funeral for Horner.
Bob Burns of Van Buren Arkansas married his secretary Harriet Madelia Foster in a private ceremony in Las Vegas after months of romance rumors in Hollywood. The couple’s union follows Burns rising fame as a film personality with Las Vegas as the wedding backdrop.
Sunday service read a lesson sermon denouncing necromancy and mesmerism as mortal beliefs. Golden text affirmed God’s saving deliverance, citing scripture from Jeremiah and Leviticus and the Christian Science text stating that God controls man and other spirit’s attraction is a mortal belief.
In Phoenix on May 31, 1951 a five per cent wage decrease will take effect for about 5,600 workers at Phelps-Dodge mines in Douglas Bisbee Ajo Clarkdale and Jerome and for roughly 3,600 workers of Inspiration Consolidated Copper Miami and International Smelting in Globe and Miami. The cut reverses a five per cent rise granted May 3 when copper price rose to 17 cents a pound. Despite the cut officials say miners will still earn about 25 per cent more than nine months ago after six prior five per cent raises.
New York reports 4 percent wage reductions declared in Phoenix by Phelps Dodge Corp and other Arizona copper producers as automatic market adjustments. Major producers with miner contracts tie wage revisions to copper prices, and the 5 percent Arizona cut aligns with a market downtrend from 17 cents to 14 cents per pound.
A conference of Montana public health service nurses will be held in Great Falls tomorrow and Wednesday under the auspices of the state board of health.
Many suffer rheumatic pains from draughts or weather changes with sharp attacks in shoulder neck back or leg. Apply Tysmol over the hurt area for quick relief without narcotics, and buy a supply at drug stores or Owsleys Paxson Rockefeller Co.
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