The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-27
Stories Of
the Town

A number of boys about town VINO
got too big a dose of Christmas punch
and there were lots of them-were re-
joicing yesterday because there was a
Sunday following Christmas. thus af-
fording good chance TO recover from
their excessive hiIariry before they had
to resume their customary duties
There was an abundance of good cheer
in town on Christmas eve and all day
Christmas and on Christmas night.
Had the boys been forced to go 10
work yesterday morning 1t is difficult
to imagine how on earth they could
have stood IL. The intervening sunday
was savior. and the boys are going
to write to Senator Mantle and Con-
gresham Hartman TO see II they can't
get an act through congress providing
that Christmas shall always come on
Saturday. It's better,
One of the gang went around with
new device which produced much mer-
riment. He had q card pinned to his
coat lapel and to the card was fasten-
ed real live chestnut. Above the
chestnut We're the worus, - Wisn Hou
the same Old
Il remember we'll when Fat Jack
used to shave me- said Judge Dixon
the other day, as he came into the
mas Standards. Il don't know that |
was the first one Jack shaved. but l
was one of them. He was the only
barber in all this part of Montana. As
a usual thing he would lose at faro on
Saturday night and Sunday what he
made during the week. and If the boys
wanted a shave Monday they often had
to redeem his shaving kit from the
faro bank before Jack could resume
business.
]. f. Saville says that the city could
once have had for nothing the Renshaw
alley which the city acquired last week
at u total cost Of more than $4,000
Joshua Wade owned one side and |
owned the other" said Mir. Sasille,
and when the townsite was laid out
in 1876 we offered land enough to put
an alley through there. But the offer
was refused"
The law of supply and demand does
not hold in Butte any more. At the
last regular meeting of the Grocers'
association committee from the
Butchers union waited on the associ-
alton and asked to have the prices set
on poultry FOR Christmas and New
Years, the markets having agreed to
maintain the same prices as the grocer
4 les A resolution was accordingly
/ passed that the price Cor turkeys,
t ducks anu geese dufffip int 0OliuaS >
! shall be Is cents per pound and chick
ems 12i2 cents per pounds for family
4 trade.
An attorney at Washington, ID. C..
I has written to the SilN er Bow county
clerk inquiring for Jules ID. t,uyaZ.
who made an entry on some govern
ment land in this county in 1882 or 1889
1 The attorney said he could recover
/ $500 for Mr.. Guyaz or his heirs The
/ county clerk could find no record OF
/ Guyaz or his land in his office, but
the name of jules Guyaz appears or
the list of the Standards subscribers
! at Red Rock in this state.
| The Billings Gazette says that z
| committee of Chattanooga ministers
| has written To Billings for press re-
| ports of the incidents connected Will
the Avis escapade. The letter states
that this expelled preacher Is still hold
| ing revival meeting Ill the United
! Brethren church. and is enaeavorine
| to convince the people that he Is limo
cent of the charge brought against hin
and is being prosecuted. He says he Il
martyr to the cause of Christ.