The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-26
OLD YEARS LAST week
It Will Be Made Notable by
Several Events.
JOHN MAGUIRE'S BENEFIT
The Meeting OF the State Press Club.
Business All Day; Social Sessions
All Night = The Senatorial
Fight.

OF The old year remarkable. First OF All
will be the benefit to be given the vet
eran actor. theatrical manager and es-
teemed citizen. John Mcguire. at Ana
conda this evening. a good many eo-
pie are going over from Butte to help
give John a good send-off. Not only Is
there sure to be a splendid entertain
ment. but there are plenty of people
here who want to show that they APP
preciate Mcguire and all he has done
for Montana. So they won't wait for
the Butte benefit. which is to be gwen
about a week later.
Next will be the annual meeting or
the Montana Press association. which is
to be held i'm Butte on Tuesday and
Wednesday. 1t is expected that there
will be a general attendance of news
paper men from all parts of the state.
Business sessions will be held all day
and social sessions all night. The busi-
ness sessions will be held in the council
chamber of the city hall beginning
Tuesday morning. The local entertain
ment committee has arranged for a
special eclipse of the moon to be held
at 4:S0 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for
the entertainment of the newspaper
guests. The press gang has been so
surfeited with different kinds OF enter
ANIME I'm the various cities or the
state that 1t was difficult to hit upon
anything new to amuse the boys. nut
Phil julien suggested that an eclipse
of the moon would be a novel and inter-
estyng thing. SO arrangements were
made for 1t at once, though at great ex-
pense. IL had been intended to have the
eclipse later at night. but as the news
paper boys from outside of Butte are
understood to be in the habit Of retir-
inD IN their nights rest soon after sum
down IL was necessary to have the
eclipse take place i'm the latter part OF
the afternoon. Glasses for the observa-
ton will be provided directly opposite
the city hall and at either side OF H..
The glasses will not have to be smoked.
as artificial smoke has been prepared
for the occasion.
For those who stay up evenings a
new game has been arranged by the en-
tertainment committee which is styled
''sprinting in the smoke. The visitors
who enter for the contest will be started
at Fred Kitchie's place in the bad lands
at a time to be determined by the
thickness of the smoke. All will be
turned around three times so as to lose
their bearings. They will not be blind
folded. and the game is to see which
can reach the city hall the quickest. A
prize will be given the first n who
reaches there, and another VIII be given
the one who arrives in the best condi-
ton. The use Of hacks is not allowable
or any other means of locomotion ex-
cept skates.
on Wednesday evening there will be
a splendid banquet at the McDermott
hotel. Manager Stetson will Guido him
self in providing all the delicacies for
the newspaper boys and their lady
friends. After the banquet the entire
party will be taken in carriages to the
new cycle-tire skating rink. where all
will be provided with skates who
haven't got them already.
Another event of the week will be the
Inauguration of the senatorial fight In
Helena. IL is understood hat the legis-
lators and the senatorial workers and
candidates will congregate i'm Helena
the latter part of this week and the
great contest will then begin. The Sill
yer Bow delegation will. most of IL. go
over on Wednesday and will take quar-
tiers at the Helena hotel for the season.
Messrs. y. w. Murray and Jere Clifford
will not be able to leave their business
so soon as that, but will join h other
Silver Bow representatives at Helena
on Sunday. Among the names likely TO
be presented in the democratic senator
ial caucus are w. @. Conrad. j. X.
Toole. T.. ID. Mats, w. W. Dixon. r. ID.
Leggat and J.. j. Mediation. Besides
the democratic candidates II Is probable
that votes will be cast in the contest for
Charles 9. Hartman. w. A. Clark, Lee
Mantle and Thomas G. Marshall.