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Show I Tntcrmouatain news BUTTE CITY. Great Sum Realized For Sacred Heart Church Fund. Butte Miner, Sunday: The fair for the benefit of Sacred Heart church came near closing last evening a blaze that would not have been one of glory, but rather of gloom. The attendance was immense, and in the midst of the greatest crush there was a cry of fire, accompanied by a blaze that for a moment mo-ment seemed alarming indeed. The fire started in the lemonade booth, and in an instant the light draperies of that booth and of the two adjoining booths, the art gallery and the rummage store, were in a blaze. A rush was started for the door, and if it had not been checked no doubt there would have been a wild panic and great loss, of life in the steep, narrow en- j trance stairwt.y. At the critical moment, mo-ment, with much presence of mind, Father Fa-ther Callahan grabbed , up a bell that was used by the auctioneer, and while ringing it loudly called upon the people to come up to where he stood, in the west end of the hall, and put up their money. PANIC WAS AVERTED. This call distracted the attention of the people who were in the rusn. It gave them a second to collect their thoughts, and in the meantime the fire was put out and the danger was over. John O'Neill, by pulling down some of the blazing bunting in the decorations of the lemonade booth burned his hands slightly. Thereby the fire was checked. The escape from a serious disaster in- the limited space that was packed with men, women and children was a narrow one, and there were many expressions of heartfelt congratulations con-gratulations on all sides that the startling start-ling incident ended so fortunately. The loss in draperies and some pictures that were burned was slight. The fair was a splendid success financially, more than realizing the expectations ex-pectations of the workers. Mrs. Thomas Thom-as Lavelle, the president of. the fair, was showered with congratulations upon the results of her efforts- and those of her able assistants. The assurance as-surance that a fund sufficient to complete com-plete the construction of Sacred Heart church had been laised was a source of great pleasure to Father Callahan, who expressed the warmest thanks to all who contributed to the success of the fair by their work and financial aid. HELEN BRENNAN A WINNER. The girls' contest for a four-year scholarship in St. Vincent's academy at Helena was won by Helen Brennan. The second prize of a gold watch, that was donated by Mrs. W. W. Dixon, was won by Mary Ward. The contest for a Shetland pony between be-tween two baby boys, Willie Lavelle and Tommy O'Neill, was also very exciting. ex-citing. Tommy O'Neill won with a vote of 25,398. At 10 cents a vote this contest realized $2,971.90 for the fair fund. At 25 cents a vote the girls' contest con-test brought $3,932.25 for the fund. The total realized by these two contests was $6,904.15. George Pender .won the fine saddle in the voting contest in the Sisters booth. In the Le C. of A. O. H. booth Mrs. Lynch won the gold watch. She received S00 more votes than any other vciinr.LuiL. ..nuss .iien t.:ooney. in a voting contest in the same booth, won a fine Fet of dishes. More than $500 was raised in the thanks to the aid of the premier con-tranks con-tranks to the aid of the premier confectioner. con-fectioner. Sol Levy. The fair will close with a grand ball to be given on Monday night in three hails. Miners' Union, Hibernia and Columbia. Co-lumbia. Fine music will be furnished in each hall and a fine supper served in Columbia JialL Tickets of admission will be $1, good for admission to any of the three halls." MUCH MONEY FROM CONTESTS. The most exciting events of the fair were the Shetland pony contest and the four-year scholarship contest and the drawing for the $500 Persian rug. This latter article, by a most strange coincidence, was won by the wife of Mr. Pufahl, the merchant who gave the rug to the fair. The lucky number was 520, and it was drawn out by a small boy. It is said that Mrs. Pufahl had but one chance on the rug. The coritest for. the scholarship was very exciting, and the result was in doubt to the end. The votes on this event amounted to 15,730, and the votes were 25 cents each, so that the contest realized for the four years' free scholarship given to St. Vincent's academy of Helena, the snug sum of $3.932.25.. , . . Those receiving more than 1,000 votes were asfoUmvs: Helen Brennan, 4,006; Mary Ward,. 3,829. (This young lady received a gold watch.) Alice Gore, 2.499; Mary Sullivan. 2.389; MaTie T-Murphy, T-Murphy, 1,792. Irene Tripp was the next hiffhesit with 301 votes. Some of the very, lucky ones and me prizes they received were as follows: Miss Mary Laughlin, a silver brock; the Sister Irene doll. Miss Puss Cullen of Spokane; Jerry Sullivan, No. 23, a pair of statuettes; Pat McDonald,' a picture; Alexander McDonald, a vase; Mary Moran, a $50 set of table linen; Airs. M. D. Sullivan, a $75 piece of statuary; stat-uary; Father De Siere, a jardiniere , and fern; Mrs. Bruce Kremer, a hand-; hand-; some statue of Othello; Mrs. A. P. Heinze, a coalport china set; Julia Sullivan, Sul-livan, a tailor made doll; Mrs. Rod Leg-gat, Leg-gat, Sevres vase; James Caming, No. 85, a clock; Mrs. Pat Conlon, a water color picture: Sister Monica, a violin; Miss Nettie Holland, a guitar; Sister Cecelia, a hammered brass jardiniere; Henry Mahoney, water color painting. Everything that was left was sold at auction. It was intended to raise $10,000 for the building fund of the Sacred Heart church by the fair, but the amount will exceed this sum considerably. The wind-up will be three balls to be given Monday night. National Hibernian: An organization of a new division of the Ladies' auxiliary auxili-ary took place at Engineers' hall, Butte, Sept. 8, to be known as the Sacred Heart division of the L. A., and auxiliary to division No. 3, of the same parish. The division starts out with a membership of thirty-seven members, organized by County President Mrs. J. H. Gillick, for which she received many compliments for the able manner in which she performed her duty. The division officers are: President, Mrs. Nora A. Rowan; vice president, Mrs. T. Minnie; recording secretary, Mrs. Agnes Altridge; financial secretary, Mrs. Margaret Wiley. One of the pleasantest features of our organization was the initiation into our division of Rev. Father Ahem as chaplain. At the regular September meeting of division No. 2 of Butte Mrs. B. Nugent was awarded a handsome gold medal in recognition of her services to the order. The medal is very appropriate and a beautiful piece of work, made in the form of a brooch, and has engraved on the face the letters L. A. A. O. H. After the meeting and the presentation a social so-cial session was held, with a musical programme and dancing until a late hour. The state officers of the L. A. recently re-cently elected were: President, Mrs. Nora Murray, Butte: vice president, Mrs. Rose McDermott Sealej', Butte; secretary. Miss Mary Brenuan. Ana-condaffi Ana-condaffi treasurer. Miss Mayne O'Don-nell. O'Don-nell. Helena. The report of the state secretary showed the order to be in a flourishing condition. There are in the state 751 members in good standing. Recent Deaths Mrs. Mary, beloved wife of Thomas F. Witty, died at the family residence, 318 West Porphyry street, Wednesday evening. James, the bright 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lyons, passed away at Missoula last Wednesday. |