The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-18
SALOONS WILL CLOSE.
RETAIL LIQUOR HOUSES DARK
ENED DURING THURSDAY.
BUSINESS HOUSES DRAPED
The City Is Sea of Flags Floating at
Half Mast-Everywhere Evidences
," of Mourning Are Seen-Post
Office Hours Tomorrow.

Thursday the day set apart by Presi-
throughout the country OF memorial SER
vices over the passing away OF the late
President Mckinley, will in Butte be
marked by the closing of all business
and government offices.
Since the day on which the president
died Butte's leading business men have
We'd with one another il their express
sions of deep mourning. Along Main
street, over Broadway, and on Park ana
Granite streets, hundreds OF business
houses loom UP before the gaze of the
passer-by covered with evidence OF the
SORROW of those who are within. And
it is SO all over Butte; IT is so all over
the United States today.
From the hillstdes of the city the tlut-
tar of flags at half mast meets the gaze
wherever the eyes may rest; other ex-
pressions of mourning are equally in evil
dence. The thought that were 1t over
the bier Of any other than that of Presi-
dent Mckinley that the nation Wept
the gloom would be as marked does not
hold; an are sincere in their EXPIRE ssions
Of deep sorrow over the nations loss,
which is as personal aft1iction TO all.
Most excellent portraits of the mar
tyred president are to be seen. All are
handsomely 6raped with the colors. in
termingled with black, and are perched
in every conceivable place that offers
ledge large enough to hold them.
Over a bar in one of Bu,te's bis
Bullets a stuffed eagle, with wings
spread full six feet, grasps in its talons
the Stars and Stripes, while on either
side the bar is massively draped in
black. The whole is enhanced by very
fine portrait in oil of the dead executive
At a special meeting of the officers
of the Silver Bow County Retail Liquor
Dealers Protective association IT was
unanimously recommended that the off1-
GERS of the association request all retail
liquor dealers of Butte and Silver Bow
county to keep their respective places Of
business closed tomorrow. Thursday,
September 10, A. D. 1901, in observance
of the memory of our martyred presi-
dent, and to that end the association
has issued and distributed the following
notice:
Whereas, By a recent proclamation
the president Of the United States has
set aside tomorrow, Thursday, Septem-
mourning; and
Whereas, The governor of the state
of Montana, as we'll as the mayor of the
city of Butte, have requested all good
citizens to keep their places of business
closed on that day in memory of our
martyred president; therefore
We, the officers OF the Silver Bow
County Retail Liquor Dealers Protective
as2Ggiation hereby request all retail
liquor dealers of the city of Butte and
the county of Silver Bow to keep closed
their respective places OF business on
that day between the hours of 6 a. m.
and p. M.
In the name of the officers, P. H
O'Toole president and Gustave Nissen'
secretary. Endorsed by w. E. Deeney
president OF the state association"
The postoffice here will open at $50
the usual hour. In all depa rtments car
riers will make but one trip. The de-
Pertinent will close at 10 O'Clock in thu
morning.