The Butte Miner, 1924-01-01, p.5

## Column 1 # Happy New Year *To our many friends and patrons, in Butte and vicinity, we take this happy occasion to extend our sincere good wishes for a prosperous New Year. Also to express our appreciation of the splendid patronage given this store during the year 1923.* **Ed. Marans** 41 N. MAIN PAY CASH — PAY LESS --- # INVITE SHIPPERS OF BUTTE ATTEND NATIONAL MEETING ## Transportation Conference Called for Washington by Chamber. A call for a national conference on transportation, to be held in Washington January 9, 10 and 11, has been issued by Julius H. Barnes, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, according to a report received by the Butte Chamber of Commerce. Two hundred leaders of recognized standing in agricultural, commercial, educational, financial and industrial fields have been invited to take part in its deliberations and in the discussion of problems involved in the development of an adequate national transportation system. An invitation has been issued to shippers and railroad men of Butte to attend. It is expected that every state will be represented at the conference. The personnel will include spokesmen for national farm and labor organizations, public officials, editors and publishers, heads of large commercial and industrial corporations, bankers and insurance company officials, and executives of railway systems, steamship and motor transport companies. ### Discuss Act. "Congress embarked upon a constructive policy for the development of transportation by the enactment of the transportation act of 1920," said Mr. Barnes in calling the conference, "but there is much more to be done if this policy is to be made effective. "The expanding transportation needs of America can be easily visualized and must be resolved so that national wealth and individual production may be marketed into consumption. All production, agricultural and industrial, is dependent on adequate and ready distribution. ### National Earnings. "National income, earned only through transportation and distribution, rises thus: 1890 .................. $12,000,000,000 1900 .................. 18,000,000,000 1910 .................. 32,000,000,000 1920 .................. 60,000,000,000 1923 .................. What? 1940 .................. What? "Representatives of all sections of our people are asked to this conference to express their sober judgment on questions raised by the past eight months' preliminary studies of the special committees working under the auspices of the national chamber." --- # TWO ASKING FREEDOM FROM MARITAL BONDS ## Four Hearts That Beat as Two Would Like to Beat Again as Four. Gertrude Lavelle started divorce proceedings yesterday against Emmet J. Lavelle, on the grounds of cruelty, abuse and threats. The parties were married in Whitehall on August 1, 1919. She wants $100 a month alimony and the right to resume her maiden name of McDermott. Marie Theresa Rogers is suing Hugh P. Rogers for divorce, the custody of their one child and $50 alimony per month. They were married in Butte on June 3, 1920. She alleges that he was cruel. He is temporarily restrained from disposing of his equity in their property. Judge Jackson gave Bertha Rockow a divorce from Fred H. Rockow. The grounds were cruelty. There are no children. The parties were married in Anaconda on October 18, 1906. --- ## *Remember the Maine* That Was a U. S. Battleship. —But remember the main attraction Wednesday Night, Jan. 2— # LEGION DANCE SCHUMACHER'S COLUMBIA HALL and COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA Gents, 50c Ladies, 10c --- ## Column 2 # BUTTE IN BRIEF **PEOPLE'S THEATER**—Sunday and Monday—Tom Mix in "The Fighting Streak." Comedy, "All at Sea." **SERVICES AT FINNISH CHURCH**—Services at the Finnish Lutheran church, 615 East Park street, will be held at 11 o'clock this morning, Rev. M. Sahinen will conduct the services. **SMALLPOX REPORTED**—Six new cases of smallpox were reported to the city health office yesterday. Three of the cases were on the east side outside of the city limits and have been sent to the county. **START THE NEW YEAR** with some new blank books, box files, desk pads, new stationery and office supplies, ink, paste, pens, pencils, scratch pads, blotters, anything in stationery at the P. O. News Stand. **TO THOSE WHOM** it has been our privilege to serve in the year now past, the P. O. News Stand gives thanks for generous patronage and hopes to merit a continuance of the same in 1924, and to everyone we wish a Happy New Year.—Adv. **NO LABOR ASSEMBLY TONIGHT**—Because of the New Year's holiday the regular weekly meeting of the Silver Bow Trades and Labor assembly will not be held this evening. The next session will be Tuesday, January 8, at which time nomination of officers will be held. **ATTEND SILVER BOW**—Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Brooks of Pocatello arrived in Butte yesterday in their private car on the Oregon Short Line to attend the New Year's celebration at the Silver Bow club. Mr. Brooks is superintendent of the Montana division on the road and has hosts of friends in the city. **"JOE" McCAFFERY HOME**—After a short business visit in southern California Joseph McCaffery, prominent lawyer has arrived home. Friends of Mr. McCaffery were afraid that he went south with the idea of settling and that Butte was to lose another good citizen. However, such ideas were rapidly dispelled when Mr. McCaffery returned to the city with the announcement that he is here to stay. **COLD DELAYS TRAINS**—Continental and local trains into Butte were delayed yesterday by snows and cold. The Great Northern from Great Falls and Helena was delayed 50 minutes last evening. Northern Pacific No. 7 ran three hours late; No. 41 and No. 3 westbound were also late; No. 2, eastbound. Snows at Sandpoint and Paradise delayed the eastbound trains, while the changing of power at terminals delayed the others. --- # PIPES 'BUST,' FIRE OUT, LOTTA TROUBLE ## Butte Homes Feel Nip of Winter When Cold Attacks Bath and Kitchen. "Wowie!" cried dad in thin carpet slippers as he sped across the floor and out into the bathroom and kitchen yesterday morning. Ice cold floors do not an even temper make, but frozen water pipes will make dad forget he's a gentleman. In several of the homes good citizens. However, such ideas were rapidly dispelled when Mr. McCaffery returned home after a visit yesterday pipes were found to be clogged up after the night and refused to bulge even to the music of several questionable words. ### Pipes Go Blooey. In many of the small private homes where there are no furnaces the kitchen range and front room heater proved inadequate weapons with which to fight old man chill and freeze on Sunday night. In several of the large apartment houses even the steam heat was a little cool, with the result that pipes again broke. One occupant of a well-known apartment house was forced out into the halls early yesterday morning scantily clad, when she discovered that through her fresh air habit the pipes in her room had broken and that the floor was a skating rink. Others experienced the same thrills. Plumbers were kept on the run from the opening hours of their shops and while it spelled golden dollars every minute, the way the harrassed householders looked at it, they nevertheless did not find it any manner by rushing outdoors every spare second. ### Joy for Coal Men. Coal dealers also felt the winter rush. Their offices had no sooner opened than telephones jangled violently, each caller wanting his and her coal sent out first. Wagons, with steaming horses and puffing drivers marched through and fro in the city all day. --- ## *PERSONAL NOTES* R. J. Dee, better known as "Dicky Dee" came up from Missoula yesterday to spend New Years day in Butte. Mr. Dee is travelling freight and passenger agent of the Northern Pacific in the Garden City, now one of the snowy cities. E. J. Koors, export and import agent of the Northern Pacific with headquarters in Seattle, passed through Butte yesterday returning home after a visit in the east. Mrs. George Harris of Anaconda spent yesterday visiting with friends in Butte. Miss Fannie Corey of Sheridan is the guest of friends over New Years. Miss Mildred Hustad and Miss Edithe Schowe are visiting from Browning. James A. Hanlon, prominent sheep man of the state, is a visitor from Billings. Tom LaJeunesse of Helena, a prominent resident of the state, will be taken to a Butte hospital today for a serious operation. Mr. LaJeunesse is at the Butte. Miss Miriam Nattass of Dillon is spending the holidays, with local friends. J. D. Brown of Dillon is a guest at the Thornton while in the city. Miss Nettie Hand of Melrose is in the city to spend the first day of the new year with friends. Miss Theresa Gay, worker with scout girls, is in the city from Dillon. Mrs. C. Carten of Great Falls spent yesterday as the guest of friends in Butte. Miss Catherine McDonnell of Harrison is a visitor in Butte. Miss Hazel Locke of Helena is visiting over the holidays with Butte friends. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lobie of Helena are visiting here. Mr. Lobie is a well known attorney of the capital. Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Fisher of Kellogg, Idaho, are among the visitors in Butte for New Years. --- ## Column 3 # SEVERS CONNECTION WITH APPAREL STORE ## E. W. Softley Will Devote His Time to Marketing New Invention. [photograph of man in suit and tie] *E. W. SOFTLEY.* E. W. Softley, who for the past several years has been connected with the firm of Murphy-Softley on West Park street, has severed his connection as an active member of the company. Mr. Softley came to Butte 21 years ago, and was with the Hennessy company for a period of 18 years. In 1920 Mr. Softley and others organized the firm of Murphy-Softley, taking over the interests up to that time known as Green's, a ladies' ready-to-wear establishment. Mr. Softley will probably be better known to his many friends as a creator of beautiful window displays, the many pretty windows at the Park street store, and before his removal from the D. J. Hennessy company, were always the center of interest for the ladies of Butte. Mr. Softley has lately perfected and placed on the market a furniture polish, under the trade name of Super-Shine. "The polish is the result of many years of research and experimentation," said Mr. Softley in speaking of the polish. "It is really a four-in-one polish, as it cleans, builds up, polishes and preserves the surface finish on any highly polished, varnished or enameled article, and imparts a hard, dry, lustrous finish to which dust will not cling." Before making any effort to place the product on the market, Mr. Softley spent many long hours in the past years in exhaustive tests experimenting with hundreds of formulas with the one big idea of perfecting a polish that would wipe perfectly dry with very little effort and leave a highly polished surface and not collect dust. The oil contained in most polishes gives to the surface an oily film which soon gathers dust and bloom. For automobiles Mr. Softley says it has no equal. It will put a transparent luster on a new car and keep it looking new all the time and it will do the same with an old car, providing the surface is perfectly clean from grease and dirt accumulations. --- # PAVLOWA TO BE AT BROADWAY TONIGHT Anna Pavlowa and her Ballet Russe had a vacation in Colorado Springs, from December 20 to 25 for rest and recreation before continuing to the Pacific Coast. This short vacation came after visits to thirty-seven cities, while covers less than half the number the Pavlowa organization will have passed when it returns to New York for two weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House in the spring. She will appear here tonight with her ballet and symphony orchestra. The orchestra is under the direction of Theodore Stier, nationally famous conductor. Mme. Pavlowa's tour thus far has been most auspicious in point of attendance, drawing dollars from the press, and the newspaper exchanges report a succession of large audiences all along the route. Her programs, in which Pavlowa's new ballets and divertissements evolved in the Orient last year are alternating with older favorites, have elicited a warmer response from the public than ever before. Arrangements are now underway for Mme. Pavlowa's tour of 1924 and 1925, which will take her to Mexico and to Australia. Mr. Davis manager of the Broadway theatre announces a splendid seat sale for this stellar attraction.—The curtain will rise at 8 p. m. --- ### *Great Sheep Firm Is Incorporated here* One of the biggest sheep deals of the year was culminated in Butte yesterday when William Brazier of Butte and George Selway of Dillon incorporated under the name of the McCarthy Mountain Sheep company. The articles of incorporation will be filed in Beaverhead county where the mountain is a prominent part of the scenery. The company will have some 50,-000 head of sheep grazing on the mountain, which Mr. Selway bought this year in exchange for a ranch in the Imperial valley of southern California. Mr. Brazier has been a prominent sheep owner of Melrose, while the Selways are known throughout the west for their activities in that line. --- ### UNDER GUARD OF HONOR. PALERMO, Sicely.—The body of Lieutenant Grenaden, commander of the lost ship Dixmude, was brought to Palermo today, accompanied by a guard of honor. It will be sent to France today. The coffin is covered with a French flag and will be guarded continuously by detachments of marines, regular troops and militia. --- ### GRAIN EXPORTS. WASHINGTON.—Grain exports from the United States last week amounted to 1,868,000 bushels, compared with 1,092,000 the week before. --- ## *Business, Professional or Working Men!* You can rest up, recuperate and recreate at magnificent # Boulder Hot Springs Our Winter Rate Is Only $15 a Week Fine pure mountain air, hot mineral water baths, the finest plunge in the West, warm, comfortable rooms and excellent meals; will send you home feeling like a two-year-old. --- ## Column 4 # MANY AT FUNERAL OF MRS. LAVINA FISHER ## Prominent South Butte Resident Victim of Heart Attack Saturday. Hundreds of friends turned out yesterday afternoon to attend the funeral services held for Mrs. Lavina Fisher at the family residence, 1231 East First street, at 2 o'clock. The services were conducted by Rev. C. F. Chapman. Interment was in Mount Moriah cemetery. Mrs. Fisher was 55 years of age. Her death was sudden. Shortly after leaving the home of some friends with whom she had been visiting last Saturday afternoon she suddenly dropped to the pavement on Harrison avenue when she was overcome by a sudden attack of heart failure. She was rushed to her home where she died a few minutes later after a physician had been summoned. Born in England, Mrs. Fisher had lived in Butte for 17 years. Besides her husband, Charles Fisher who is head blacksmith at the Leonard mine, Mrs. Fisher is survived by three children, Minette, George and Benjamin, and a sister in England. --- ### DOMINICK ROPOLO GIACOMA. The funeral of Dominick Ropolo Giacoma was held from the family residence, 120 Blue Wing avenue, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning. High requiem mass was celebrated at 9:30 o'clock at the St. Lawrence church. The pallbearers were Batt Tamietti, Tony Giacoma, Jim Valanzano, Joe Somatti, John Massa and John Pagliero. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery. --- ### ALBERT WILLIAM ALGIER. Funeral services for Albert W. Algier were held from the Sherman and Reed undertaking establishment at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Mountain View cemetery. --- ### LAZAR BADRICH. Funeral services for Lazar Badrich were held yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the family residence, 2306 Oregon avenue. The cortege proceeded to the Serbian church where Rev. Anovich conducted services. Interment was in Mountain View cemetery. --- ### SISTER JULIA CHRISTENSEN. The funeral of Sister Julia Christensen was held yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock from the Duggan undertaking establishment. Mass was celebrated at 10 o'clock at the St. Lawrence church. Burial was in St. Patrick's cemetery. --- ### JERRY STEFONICH. The funeral of Jerry Stefonich was held yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock from the family residence, 240 Elm street. Mass was celebrated at 9 o'clock at St. Ann's church. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery. Rev. Father Nolan was celebrant of the mass and also conducted the services at the grave. The pallbearers were Charles Prelsnik, A. Hoff, Frank Mehar, Joseph Brosovich, Peter Zalic and John Cadonich. --- ### MICHAEL LOWNEY. Funeral services for Michael Lowney were held at 9 o'clock yesterday morning from the residence of a sister, Mrs. Dennis O'Neill, 612 East Summit street. Mass was celebrated at 9:30 o'clock at St. Mary's church. Interment was in Holy Cross cemetery. --- # AMUSEMENTS ## AMERICAN Jackie Coogan has a rival. In the person of little Mickey Bennett, aged 6 and slightly freckled, the screen has a new child wonder. We have the picture public to make up its own decision in this matter after viewing "Big Brother," and Allan Dwan production of the Rex Beach story, opening at the American today. Mickey not only is the leader of a gang in this picture but he is fast becoming the leader of juvenile screen players. Ever since he essayed to be young Thomas Meighan in "Cappy Ricks" two and a half years ago he has been in great demand in kid parts. The good luck star that follows Meighan whom he emulated in his camera debut has been shining over Mickey ever since. In the short space of time that he has been on the screen he has played in more pictures than many of the recognized luminaries of the screen. Not long after he fell out of a tub into a lake near Boston for scenes in "Cappy Ricks" he played in "Marriage and Morals," with Tom Moore, whom he is now playing with in "Big Brother." Mickey also appeared in "The Empty Cradle," "Second Youth," "The Man Who Played God," "Reported Missing," "The Last Moment," and "Mighty Lak a Rose." Funeral services for the films, declared that the picture could never be made because no actress in films could successfully make up as a man. But it turned out that they were all wrong. There was an actress that could make up as a man and pass as such. This was Anna Q. Nilsson, who plays the leading feminine role in "Ponjola," the First National picture which opens at the Rialto today. In this First National picture Miss Nilsson enacts the part of a girl who masquerades as a man and lives for months among the "he-men" of the African veldt. In order to play the role Miss Nilsson had her hair closely cropped and underwent special treatment at the hands of an expert masseuse to obtain a form apparently masculine. In men's clothes the illusion is perfect and one watching that part of the picture in which she is "a man," will forget almost entirely that the character of "Desmond" is being portrayed by Miss Nilsson. One of the producers who said "it can't be done," has been a friend of Miss Nilsson's for years. He changed his mind after production had begun on the picture when one day Anna, in man's clothes, walked into a Hollywood restarant where he was eating. He failed to recognize the famous actress, asking a friend at his table who the new boy actor was. --- ### MRS. ARBUCKLE DIVORCED. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Minta E. Arbuckle, wife of Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, was granted a divorce in the superior court here today. The case was heard before Justice Chester W. Barrows on depositions and was granted on the grounds of neglect to provide and desertion. The divorce will become absolute six months from today. --- ### WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Public installation of officers-elect and entertainment and dance, January 2nd, 8 p. m., Carpenters' Union Hall, third floor. All neighbors with their families and friends cordially invited. H. G. SEYMOUR, Consul Commander; M. J. GEIGER, Clerk. --- ### SOMETHING NEW. Haymakers' masked ball, K. of P. hall. Tonight.—Adv. --- ## Column 5 ### *New Show Today* # CENTRAL THEATRES ## *Butte's Favorite Playhouses* ### *New Show Today* *That this glad New Year's day will find them unusually happy and that an early future will see the realization of their cherished hopes, is our sincere wish to the good people of this—our community.* # Here's Our New Year's Best Bet ## YES— ## *It's a Sensation!* this story of a woman who tore aside the sex barrier to become a man and live as a man until love tempted her to don her frills again. It'll amaze you—thrill you—it'll swoop you away in the maze of its sensational adventure. ### With # Anna Q. Nilsson ### James Kirkwood ### Tully Mashall ### and a Great Cast [illustration: head-and-shoulders drawing of a woman with bobbed hair] # "PONJOLA" Immediately takes its place among the great photoplays of the season. You will be spellbound by its strange, fascinating mystery, and you will revel in the wonderful romance which has its settings in Paris and the African veldt, where gather the bold adventurers from the ends of the earth—men and women. ### TO GAMBLE! TO FLIRT! ### TO DRINK! TO LIVE! # RIALTO --- ## RIALTO Several motion picture producers discussing "Ponjola," Cynthia Stockley's famous story, after it had been announced that Sam E. Rork had purchased the story for the films, declared [continues — see Column 4 continuation above] --- ### ANSONIA Mae Murray, the magnetic Metro star whose new production of "Fashion Row" will come to the Ansonia theater today for four days, has acquired a beautiful Russian wolf hound. His name is Stanislavsky, after the guiding genius of the Moscow Art theater, of whom Miss Murray is a tremendous admirer, but since the star and her director snapped Russian wolf hound of whom Miss Murray and Mr. Leonard were passing a between pictures visit in New York, they looked around for a Russian dog that would fit requirements. Long and hard they looked but nary a wolf hound did they find to fit their requirements. The Russian dogs were scarce. Then Miss Murray was introduced by Morris Gest, the impresario who brought the Moscow Art players to America, to Count Sergei Markstov, and Count Markstov, admiring Miss Murray's screen work as much as she admired his countrymen, presented her with "Stanislavsky." Only his name was "Stanislavsky" then—Miss Murray changed it in honor of the occasion. "Stan" makes his screen debut in "Fashion Row," and for a canine who never was an actor before, not tosay anything of his unfamiliarity with the American tongue, it must be said that "Stan" did remarkably well. Miss Murray says that "Stan" has the loveliest manners of any dog she ever met, and under her tutelage, she expects him soon to be able to say how-do-you-do and thank-you and repeat his dog prayers in American. Mickey not only is the leader of a gang in this picture but he is fast becoming the leader of juvenile screen players... --- ## Column 6 ### *New Show Today* THRILL CRASHING UPON THRILL IN THE MIGHTIEST CROOK STORY YET KNOWN TO THE SCREEN # "Big Brother" ### With ### TOM MOORE ### MICKEY BENNETT ### EDITH ROBERTS ### RAY HATTON [illustration: head-and-shoulders drawing of a young boy] "Promise me you'll bring him up decent," were the dying gangster's last words. And Jimmy Donovan, boss of New York's underworld, fought his greatest fight—to be a real "Big Brother" to a homeless kid. You'll simply have to see this film to know how good a picture can really be! ## *EVERY CLOCK TICK PACKED WITH ACTION!* ZIP! There's More Action Than Nick Carter—More Heart Appeal Than "Humoresques" # AMERICAN --- # *Greeting* Kindly and Cordially Do We Extend to You a Happy and Prosperous New Year and May All Your Budding Plans Come to Full Bloom. # *Columbia Floral Co.* 47 W. Broadway --- ## Peripheral items - Page header: "THE BUTTE MINER, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1924." with page number 8. - Ed. Marans store New Year's greeting display ad (Column 1, top), 41 N. Main, "PAY CASH PAY LESS". - "Remember the Maine" Legion Dance promotional ad, Schumacher's Columbia Hall, Wednesday Jan. 2 (Column 1, bottom). - Boulder Hot Springs winter rate ad ($15 a week) (Column 3, bottom). - Central Theatres masthead banner with "Butte's Favorite Playhouses" (Columns 5–6, top). - Rialto Theatre display ad for "Ponjola" with Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood, Tully Mashall (Column 5). - American Theatre display ad for "Big Brother" with Tom Moore, Mickey Bennett, Edith Roberts, Ray Hatton (Column 6). - Columbia Floral Co. New Year's greeting ad, 47 W. Broadway (Column 6, bottom). - News brief: "UNDER GUARD OF HONOR" (Palermo, Sicily — body of Lt. Grenaden of the Dixmude). - News brief: "GRAIN EXPORTS" (Washington wire). - News brief: "MRS. ARBUCKLE DIVORCED" (Providence wire). - Notice: "WOODMEN OF THE WORLD" — public installation Jan. 2 at Carpenters' Union Hall. - Notice: "SOMETHING NEW" — Haymakers' masked ball, K. of P. hall. - Photograph: portrait of E. W. Softley accompanying the "Severs Connection With Apparel Store" article (single subject, captioned "E. W. SOFTLEY."). - Illustration: drawing of a bobbed-haired woman (Anna Q. Nilsson) in the "Ponjola" / Rialto ad. - Illustration: drawing of a young boy (Mickey Bennett) in the "Big Brother" / American ad.