The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23
MIssOULA NOTES.
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While there is an active demand for
city real estate, lots in the Valley
cemetery are not selling very fast this
year
1t is estimated that 800 bicycles will
be sold in Missoula This year And
still the livery stable men are not
happy.
4 remember in the spring Of" and
he never got any further. Late spring
stories are sufficient cause for lynch
ing now.
Mlssoula merchant who have tried
the Standards advertising columns are
all enthusiastic over the results. Stand
ard ads are good Investments.
At the present rate of progress.
spring VIII not get to the top of Lolo
pass in time for the railway surveyors
to do much work before winter comes.
Missoula Odd Fellows will enjoy a
pleasant birthday party next Wednes-
day. the occasion being the S0th ami
versary of the founding of their or
der.
There must be considerable business
coming to Missoula. The solicitors for
the rival railway lines have been keep
ing things lively in town for two or
three days.
Don't waste time dsputing with your
friend about the relative merits of your
respective bicycles. Ride out with him
and enjoy your wheels. That is what
they are for.
Missoula will celebrate the birthday
anniversary of Shakespeare, April "a,
by week of Shakespearan plays at
the Union opera house. John Mcguire
is always in line.
No reasonable man will dispute the
fact that it pays 10 keep the city
streets and alleys clean. In that way
the citys appearance and health can
be best promoted.
Horsemen and wheelmen will have
at least one common cause this season.
All of them will indOrse the plan of
County Surveyor Hughes to give the
rural districts better roads.
That Senator Carter is well named
"Oily Tom was amply demonstrated
Saturday. The very mention of his
coming smoothed the troubled waters
of the local republican puddle.
The name of Ed Edgerton of Helena
appeared on an instrument filed with
the county clerk the other day. All
of the clerks in the office put their
hands on their pockets when they
saw it.
1t is a standoff between the smallpox
and some of the preventatives that are
used in Missoula. At the theater or at
the revival meetings there is a preva-
lent odor of personalities that would
make the boldest germ flee.
The good results of the work that the
street department is doing are appre-
ciated by the public and are the occa-.
sion for much favorable comment And
still there are some who think that
there was no need of cleaning the
streets-or who say that they think
so.
When you see a man carrying his
arm at an angle of A degrees from his
body, it does not signify these days
that he is a. dude 1t simply means
that he has been successfully vacci-
mated and that he has that pleasant
lump under his arm. Do not chide him.
Sympathize with him.
If you see doctor stop at your
neighbours house, do not noise abroad
the statement that your neighbor has
the smallpox. Wait and find out
whether he has or not. In this way,
many of the scare stories that have
been circulated in town for a week.
might have been stonped or never
started. 1t may be that your neighbor
has the stomach ache,