The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-17
ANACONDA News.
POSTOFFCE WILL CLOSE
Holiday Hours to Be Observed
the Day the Soldiers Return.
UNCLE SANS PERMISSION
1t Was Contained in a Telegram Received
by Postmaster Devine Yesterday.
A War Relic Museum Is
Suggested.
UNCLE SANS PERMISSION

Anaconda and Butte postofflce en-
ployes will take holiday next Mon
day, the day the soldiers come home.
Here is a telegram Postmaster Alexan-
der Devine of the Anaconda office re-
ceived yesterday:
Washington, D. c., Oct 16-Post-
master, Anaconda: You are authorized
to observe holiday hours Oct 49, George
NJ. Allen, Acting Assistant Postmaster
General"
Under this authority the Anaconda
postof1ice will be open only from 1880
to 1890 p. m. Monday, and after that
it is pretty safe gamble that most
OF the postoffice employees will be in
Butte helping to whoop things up for
the volunteers.
Postmaster Irwin of Butte has re-
ce1ved similar authority to close his
office on Monday and it is his intention
to head line of "a of the Butte post
office employees in the parade. He has
extended an invitation to Postmaster
Devine to bring over his employees and
join with the Butte force in the process
sion. Mr.. Devine and number of the
employees doubtless will accept. All Of
the postoffice employees from the two
cities will wear new caps bearing the
initials ~ S. P. o.
A war museum is the latest enter
prise to be suggested in connection
with the return of the volunteers. Rod"
Williams is the suggestor in this in
stance
1t is considered to be an absolute GER
tainty that every Anaconda volunteer
has brought back some relics from the
damp and dirty island of Luzon. Some
of these relics may be no more than
dissatisfaction with army life. which it
would be hard to reproduce in a
museum, but most of the relics consist
of bolo knives, Mauser rifles, articles of
native attire quaint little carvings and
all the thousand and one curiosities
soldier would pick up.
Mr.. Williams idea is to have vacant
store room rented and fitted up as
museum, all of the volunteers who have
relics loaning them for exhibition pur-
poses.
THE volunteers" said Mr.. Williams
yesterday. should have one of their
number as manager ana others as lee
turers.. Everybody in town would be
glad to pay Is cents Ito see the exhibit
ton, and in that manner considerable
fund could be realized. The boys could
use the money for their own benefit as
they see fit.
THE idea Is not entirely a new one.
1t has been used elsewhere with Sue
cess. In Portland, Ore, on the return
of the I'd Oregon, the plan was tried
with success and the money realized
turned into fund from which monu-
ment to the dead of the regiment is to
be purchased. The boys might decide
upon a similar use of the money here.
The final arrangements for the re-
ception that is to be given the Ana
conda volunteers on their return home
will be made tonight, when meeting
of the returning volunteers reception
committee and the ladies' refreshment
committee will be held in the city
clerks office and in the paylors of the
Montana hotel respectively. AT the
meeting of the general committee re-
port from the secretary will be read, In
which the amount of money on hand
will be made known. In this way the
committee will know how much it will
have to spend and the final arrange
ments will then be made.
At the meeting of the refreshment
committee the menu for the lunch will
the ladies that the lunch will be served
at the Turner hall during the dance.
Every volunteer will be permitted to
invite one guest to lunch. The dance
promises to be a very brilliant affair,
and all Anaconda will want to attend.
All persons, with the exception of the
volunteers, will have to pay an adnis-
sion fee and these receipts will be ap-
piled to the soldiers fund.
The Margaret theater orchestra nave
very generously rendered their services
for the evening, as have also Richard
Lindsay and A. A. Richards, the two
well-known callers.