NAME COMMITTEE FOR ST. PATRICK'S HOLIDAY
The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1917-02-16, p.3
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Summary
Centre column on Butte Daily Post p.3, Friday 16 February 1917 — one month and one day before St. Patrick's Day. Brief news item announcing the committee named to organise Butte's St. Patrick's Day observance for 1917. At the regular weekly meeting of Division No. 1, A.O.H., on Wednesday evening (14 February), President Walter J. Sewell "announced the following committee of five to represent the division on the general committee for the St. Patrick's day celebration": James J. Murphy, Barry O'Leary, John P. Foley, T. D. McCarthy and James Downey. Pairs directly with the 1917-01-20 Irish Relief Fund clipping on the same paper (see [[crossrefs]]): both establish that Butte's Irish-American organisational leadership was active and visible in the local press in the first quarter of 1917, between the Easter Rising and US entry into WWI.
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Narrative
Under the headline "NAME COMMITTEE FOR ST. PATRICK'S HOLIDAY," a committee is named for Butte's St. Patrick's Day observance in 1917. The names of the members and any organisational attribution are not recoverable. [transcription partial course body text illegible at present scan resolution]
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People
- W. J. Sewell / Walter J. Sewell (Butte AOH)(as printed: Walter J. Sewell)role: division 1 president · family confidence: 0 not family
- Barry O'Leary (Butte Irish societies, 1916-1920)(as printed: Barry O'Leary)role: division 1 st patricks committee · family confidence: 0 not family
- James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA)(as printed: James J. Murphy)role: division 1 committee of five st patricks · family confidence: 95 certain
Places
- Butte, Montana (primary)
- Montana (context)
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news_item, list_of_officers
Related sources
- 1889-03-18 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.2 — GRAND BALL by the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the Miners' Union Hall on Monday, March 18, '89.
- 1889-03-20 — The Butte Weekly Miner, p.4 — ST. PATRICK HONORED. / Observance of the Saint's Natal Day in Butte. / Procession of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Emmet Guards and Parnell Rifles Witnessed by Crowds — The Ball at Miners' Union Hall a Financial and Social Success.
- 1900-03-22 — The Butte Daily Post, p.3 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. / Daly Faction Has a Working Majority. / HARRIS IS TURNED DOWN. / Beaten by McArthur For Temporary Chairman—The Platform is Harmless.
- 1917-01-20 — The Butte Daily Post, p.7 — BUTTE GAVE $2,540 FOR IRISH RELIEF
Transcription
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Open questions
- The article names only Division No. 1's five representatives on the "general committee for the St. Patrick's day celebration". Who else sat on that general committee, and which body convened it, is not in this item.