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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1941
Page
5
Twenty events listed for Miners union day activities at Columbia Gardens Friday afternoon start at 1 pm. Organizers David Reese and Al Grecek arrange events with cash prizes for top three. winners cannot compete in multiple contests.
Thomas D Arcy Brophy former Butte resident addressed MIT graduates in Cambridge as Class Day speaker for the 25th anniversary move from Boston to Cambridge. He is class of 1916 and son of Mrs P J Brophy Sr of 305 West Granite Street. Brophy leads Kenyon and Eckhardt Inc New York and chairs the USO national advertising committee.
Dr and Mrs H H James and their son Herbert Jr return from Cleveland where Dr James attended the American Radium Society and American Medical Association conventions. He reports the Radium Society noted marked progress in cancer treatment when patients seek timely medical care.
Charles D. Stratton, inducted into the Army June 2, has been assigned to the 79th school squadron at Moffett Field California. He is the son of Mrs. Maude C. Stratton who lives near the Highland Mine south of Butte.
The Silver Bow Park division of the Rocky Mountain Garden club met Tuesday afternoon at 1219 West Porphyry Street Mrs. P G Hardy hosted a luncheon with lilac and honeysuckle centerpiece Covers included Mrs. Alex Cuthill Mrs. James Nixon Mrs. A C Stevens and others The business session was led by Mrs Cuthill followed by a social hour discussing gardening A Unit No 2 United Congregational guild picnic was postponed to June 25 at Columbia Gardens.
Walter A. Jenson of the National Retail Creditmen's Association praised service clubs and civic groups. He showed a color film on the Narrows bridge near Tacoma, noting its construction, two and a half year span, collapse on Nov 7 1940, and a $6 400 000 WPA funded cost. The event at Finlen hotel featured I. J. Knievel as program chairman.
Serbian Club of Butte plans a Thursday night party at the Serbian church auditorium to honor draftee and former president John Sorich who leaves Monday with the draft contingent. All Young American Serbs members are urged to attend as the club recognizes his two years of leadership. A second note mentions a belief that Halley’s comet tracked as the sword of fire seen over Jerusalem before its destruction.
About 25 Butte residents and board members of the Butte Anti Tuberculosis Society will depart this afternoon for a tour of the state tuberculosis hospital at Galen. They will inspect the facility dine with Dr. and Mrs. Frank I Terrill and hold their June meeting before returning tonight.
June 16 draft list to stand deferment of miners deemed essential to national defense. Deferrals will be employer supported and judged on individual merits after insufficient time to replace miners on the list. AP reports 248 Montana men to be summoned in the 18th call.
A man named Fred Siegling was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Police Officers Tex Nixon and Alex Cuthill. Acting chief Jack Duggan said Siegling is wanted in Great Falls on a charge of passing a worthless check. The Great Falls sheriff’s office will travel to Butte to return the suspect.
Probate matters heard in state district court Tuesday afternoon included appraisers for the estate of Fred W. Streibich with Cliff Morton Francis Dow and Henry Burr appointed. Bertha Friend posted $2300 bond as administratrix. For Agnes Kalcso estate Douglas Sullivan Henry Ludendorff and Richard ONeil named as appraisers. An interlocutory certificate from the state board of equalization said no inheritance tax due on the Celestine Giovanetti estate which had a gross value of 7920.65.
Mr and Mrs Abe Delovage of Los Angeles, former Butte mining city residents, are visiting the city for several days and stay at the New Finlen hotel. He praises Butte’s people and recalls a jewelry business once run in the American Theater building before moving to California.
A luncheon for the National Council of Catholic Women of the Butte deanery will be held Sunday, June 15, at the Immaculate Conception parish center. Sacred Heart parish women are invited. reservations due today with Miss Helen Beush, president, by calling 2-1440.
Funeral services for pioneer Montana mining man John Gillie will be held Friday morning. The procession will start from the family residence at 27 North Excelsior Avenue to Immaculate Conception church for high mass. The hour will be announced later.
Silver Bow county officials prepare budget estimates for the next fiscal year, as commissioners' clerk James Duggan notes. Estimates must be presented by July 10 before commissioners begin drafting the preliminary budget due for release on July 25.
John L. Sullivan of Newport Kentucky was accepted as an Army recruit via the Butte office and assigned to the medical department at Vancouver Barracks Washington after selection at Fort Missoula. Sergeant Patrick Monahan of the Army recruiting staff reported the enlistment.
A soldier named Sullivan claimed he was related to a former heavyweight boxing champion, a belief noted in reports of his personal history and family ties.
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