The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16
Moving Along With the Pro-
gress of the City.
HAS A GOOD MEMBERSHIP
Delightful Entertainment Given by
the Club-The Reception Grand
Success-An Educational
Meeting.

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OF Livingston is the ne plus ultra of
social or fraternal organizations of the
Gateway City, and to it the cream de la
creme of Livingston society yield the
palm for tactful and sumptuous enter
tainment. With the rise and fall of the
commercial tide in Livingston the for
tunes of the Rocky Mountain club has
was in the ascendancy among the
! towns of the state the Rocky Mountain
| club was in its glory, and when dark
| days came the club reflected the bust
I ness depression and financial gloom by
| the sober mien that marked the public
| functions held within it's walls. Lately
that is to say, since times got better
| the Rocky Mountain club has begun to
move forward on the lines of progress
| along which Livingston affairs have APP
| peared to trend. When the city's pop
| ulatlon picked up, new members were
| added to the club; when improvements
| We're made by new officers in municipal
ailalfs, the business of the club received
| direction from officers newly elected
| VINO shook off the conservat ism of other
! years and brought the organization up
| 10 us present standard. 1t has good
! membership, newly furnished rooms a
! fine piano, billiard ables and tables for
| other games, as we'll as the most con-
! Venient and desirable site for club
| rooms in the city, where business men
may go and spend their leisure time as
| suits them best or improve the oppor-
| tunity by the perusal of the well
| Stocked library the club contains.
Thursday evening the organization cell
ebrated its unprecedented prosperity by
brilliant reception About 200 invited
was an event long to be rememb ered
A programme, short, but excellent, was
rendered. A violin solo by Mr.. West
was the first number. and when that
gentleman had responded to an enthu-
siastic encore Miss F. Levy delivered a
splendid recitation, speaking with grace
and spirit and earning a deserved en-
core. A vocal solo by Miss Herzig fol-
lowed, and that talented lady acquitted
herself with her usual good success
Ihen came piano solo by Miss Ian
don, who always finds favor with her
auditors, after which Mrs. Franc Has
kell, late of Tacoma. Wash. delivered
two very excellent recitations, the sec
ond being pleasing response to a very
enthusiastic encore The programme
was closed by a song by Mrs. w. A.
Btnnie, whose well chosen solo suggest
| cd that those who arranged the pro-
| gramme, keeping in mind an historic
| scene, had kept the best till the last
| and IL hearty applause is evidence OF
| appreciation, Mrs Bennie's singing was
| received with every mark of approval
An intermission for refreshments fol-
| lowed the programme. after which
| dancing was INDUCED in and the even
ing's pleasure finished by a grand cake
walk around the spacious club rooms.
The reception was a grand success. like
all the functions of this model organiza-
ton. and a repetition of this hospitality
ln lyAl al,
saturday afternoon an educational
meeting was held at Pine Creek on the
upper Yellowstone, The meeting was
held out of doors, the same spacious
platform being used which afforded
speaking room for the Fourth of July
orators. The exercises opened by sing
ing the national hymn at 1:30, nearly
every teacher in the upper Yellowstone
being present and the friends of edu-
cation attending in large numbers Rev
NJ. Rumohr of the Pine Creek NJ Il.
church gave the invocation and then
Prof l.. d. Glenn of Chimney Rock dis
Cussed THE Teacher. His Field and His
Limitations" This production was fol-
lowed by Factors in the Formation of
Character. the Home. the School, Com
panionship." by P. F. Blake Miss
Montana Hathorn then delivered an
excellent recitation and Mrs Herman
Wolcott and Mrs. Galbraith rendered
some splendid music. Miss Flora Sher-
man read paper on Parents Duty to
the School," and Miss Elfreda Koehler
and l.. D. Glenn performed an instru-
mental duet NJ. w. Woodward spoke
on Reading and Spelling in the Public
Schools and Ebert Allen delivered an
Grafton on THE Mission of Silence"
Following some instrumental music by
Leah De Groat, Miss Jessie e. Shaw
Miss Elfreda Koehler spoke in favor
Of aboiishinG the school recess, and she
was followed by Percy Scott, who spoke
against the proposed innovation Mrs
Haynes pleased the audience with some
excellent music and then p. II. Gaffney
took up the subject of school Disci-
pline." A recitation by Miss Flora
Sherman. followed by music by Miss
Mile Strickland and exercises by the
pupils of the schools in attendance.
concluded the programme and an ex-
cellent picnic dinner was partaken Of.
Considerable credit is due Miss Alma
Evans, Park county's capa Bile county
superintendent, for the arrangement
which brought about the meeting. This
lady seems particularly adapted for the
office to which she was elected, and
every teacher in the county is working
in perfect accord and harmony under
her leadership.
Mrs. Harriet Geer. state chaplain of
the Woman's Relief Corps, has pre-
pared and forwarded to the grand lodge
of that body a statement of what was
done on Memorial day by the order in
Montana. Mrs, Geer reports that there
are nine corps in the state. These
comprise 236 members, who this year
decorated $50 graves. Children to the
number of ESQ took part in the Me-
mortal day exercises and the cost of
the state organization in observing the
day was $125. Mrs. Geer is a capable
and energetic worker and is indefatiga-
BILE in the cause of the corps. She told