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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
4
Butte youngsters will be guests of Anaconda Copper Mining at the second Children's day outing of the season. Children under 14 ride free all day with buses from city lines to the Gardens and back. Free shuttle from 9:30 to 4:30 with instructors directing play activities.
Dillon superintendent Paul T. Anderson will speak on Fifth Columns at the Butte Rotary meeting today at the New Finlen with V V Van Leuven as program chairman. May attendance honors go to a long list of Butte Rotary members with 100 percent attendance noted by secretary Reuben Hobbs.
Butte’s golden-haired singer Donna Lee O’Leary has been invited by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to take a screen test in New York. Her mother, Mrs. John J. O’Leary, says she will accompany Donna to the test. The youngster gained national acclaim for her clear soprano on a recent radio broadcast received with high praise.
Minnie Nelson and many guests attend local social roundup. Mrs F F Matson and daughter Inis Matson plan Havre visit. Mr and Mrs William Hess welcome a son Jay Edmond at St James hospital. Good Will Home meets at Ed Mitchell home. Eagles auxiliary instalação and officer updates. Local residents return from Denise Trail trip with son Don. Miriam Rebekah lodge meets with initations and social time. Various notices on hospital patients births and club activities summarize community life.
A campaign committee for an $850,000 bond issue to build at Montana State College extended its petition drive through Silver Bow county to boost signatures. S. E. Avery said many petitions remain with workers and the drive will push past the week’s end. Prof. W. F. Brewer reported nearly 20,000 signatures likely before the deadline.
Butte Kiwanis at the New Finlen hosted a noonday program with songs by Donna Lee O Leary Dolores Shone and others, dances by Adele Crail Louise Shone Dolores Shone Margaret Preston and more, with Kathleen Harris O Keefe at the piano. Alex Blewett announced club delegates to the Minneapolis international convention next week with Harold Schilling. Wallace Orton led the singing with W H Johns at the piano.
Dr George Shue of the School of Mines reported quakes seismograph records yesterday morning from 4 06 28 to about 5 30. The quakes were described as quite severe and similar to those the previous afternoon suggesting activity in a distant ocean area about 1600 miles from Butte.
Miss Gladys Mann representative of the Dorothy Gray beauty salon in New York will be at the Colbert Drug company store today Friday and Saturday to demonstrate Dorothy Gray eye emollient and a special dry skin mixture. Timber has piled high in Alexander Basin Dublin as a result of strikes.
Mrs. John Noftsinger of Mount Vernon Washington visits the city en route home from Darian Wisconsin after eight weeks with her sister. She toured the growth of Butte and noted improvements to lawns and trees.
Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk as national federation president will attend as honor guest. Butte teachers and students including Margaret McHale Elizabeth Tretheway Gerald Tomas Willa Lavelle and others will join the event alongside leaders from Anaconda and a noted piano instructor Fisher Thompson possibly attending. The New York office profile paints Ober as vivacious and devoted to service with a supportive Norfolk physician husband.
Officers for the upcoming year will be chosen at a Moore hall meeting in Butte this evening. The session starts at 7 30 with Pansy Daniels presiding. an executive committee meeting is at 7. Visiting members and local residents appear in turn while others travel to Mayo Clinic and Long Beach for health and visits.
A London clergyman calculates that an average married woman with six children must kiss the entire family every day for two years to reach about 45 000 kisses, assuming one kiss per person daily.
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