The Anaconda standard., 1899-12-14
TWELVE PAGES.
Our Christmas Number.

~HE Christmas number Of the
Standard will be issued on Sun
day next 1t is the belief of the
Standard that the number will prove
to be one in which the people of Mon
tana will take both pleasure and pride.
There is nothing that can so effectually
advertise community as a good news
paper. Pamphlets and advertisements
descriptive Of Montana's resources and
industries may be spread broadcast
with little avail. But first-class news
paper Is the unerring sign of prosper
Gus and progressive community. A
people is often judged by the class Of
newspaper 1t supports.
The Standard Is progressing with
Montana and seeks sgnally to improve
with each year. Its Christmas number
to be issued next Sunday will be the
best number of the Standard that has
yet been issued, which means that it
will be the best newspaper which has
been published in the West. In fact
the Standard is not averse to a COM
parison Of it's Christmas edition with
the Christmas editions of the great
dailies of New York city.
That in which the Standard itself
takes most pride, and that in which it
is confident its Montana friends will
take most pride, is the fact that the
Christmas Standard will be solely a
Montana production. Large editions of
newspapers are sometimes published in
this state, the bulk of the work con-
nected with which is done in Denver,
ST. Paul, Chicago. New York or San
Francisco. The cuts are made outside
of the state. and often entire supple
rnents are prepared and printed in some
distant city. The Christmas Stand
ard will be purely and solely a Mon
tana production. The preparation Of
the matter, the drawing of the pictures.
the making of the cuts, the press
work, the color work, all is done in the
standards establishment.
The Christmas Standard will COM
prise about 60 pages, covering a great
variety of reading matter and abund-
antly illustrated by the Standards art
dst, Mr.. Trowbridge.
A colored cover Of four pages and a
colored supplement of eight pages, en-
tirely the work of the Standard, will be
main features of the edition.
Exceedingly appropriate to the
Christmas season is Mr.. Trowbridge's
impressive drawing for the first page
of the cover. It represents the raising
Of the cross Of Christ in the Bitter Root
valley Of Montana by Jesuit priests
sixty years ago.
-Four of the fairest daughters of Mon.
tana, residents respectively of Butte,
Anaconda. Helena and Missoula, are
the subjects of half-tone cuts.
Six of Montana's old and respected
citizens. Judge F. H. Woody, Granville
Stuart, Samuel Langhorne, Colonel w.
F. Sanders, William Thompson and
Paris Gibson relate the story of the
first Christmas they spent in the con-
fines of Montana
A lively page Of the cover pictures
scenes from the Flathead reservation.
Some Montana stars in the theatrical
world are portrayed on one OF the ex-
cellent pages of the supplement.
Eight of Butte's favorite musical
women are pictured on another page
of the Standards Christmas number.
Major F. J. Adams Of Great Falls
tells how the First Montana regiment
spent Christmas in the Philippines
year ago.
In short the pages of the Christmas
Standard will be replete with interest.
The Standards advice to the people
of Montana is on no account to miss
the Christmas number.