HIBERNIANS WILL GIVE DANCE FRIDAY EVENING

The Butte Miner, Butte, 1923-04-28, p.6

Summary

Announcement that the Ancient Order of Hibernians will hold a **May Day ball on Friday evening, May 4 [1923], at the Winter Garden hall on South Montana street**. The announcement was made Thursday night (26 Apr 1923) at **Hibernia hall in Centerville** when the organisation entertained the ladies' auxiliary. Speakers at the Centerville evening included **Rev. Fathers M. McCormack, D. P. Meade and T. Murnane; Judge J. J. Lynch; T. J. McCarthy; Charles H. Gallagher; Walter Sewell; and Mrs. Mamie Lenahan**. **J. M. Brown** presided. Music by Agnes Harrington, Mary Burke and John McNamara, with Father Murnane and Maurice McDonough singing. Captures four of the CLAUDE.md top-5 JJM peers in one event: **Charles H. Gallagher, Judge J. J. Lynch, T. J. McCarthy, and Walter Sewell** at the Centerville AOH hall in spring 1923 — same year as Gallagher's December marriage. The Centerville setting is the same hall where JJM was Hennessy's Centerville branch manager and the JJM-Murphy household was based.

In its time

Prohibition1920–1933

Key terms in this sourceAll key terms →

Ancient Order of Hiberniansin America from 1836: The largest Irish Catholic fraternal order in America: sick and death benefits for members, St. Patrick’s Day parades, and steady support for Irish nationalism.
Hibernia Hall: The meeting hall of Butte’s Hibernians and a venue for other Irish societies; meeting notices name it again and again.
Centerville: The hillside neighbourhood between uptown Butte and Walkerville, built among the mine yards and home to many Irish and Cornish mining families.
Daughters of Erin / Ladies’ Auxiliaryfrom 1894: The women’s side of Hibernian life. The AOH’s national women’s body was organised in 1894 as the Daughters of Erin and later took the name Ladies’ Auxiliary.

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Narrative

The Ancient Order of Hibernians announce a May Day ball for Friday evening, May 4, at the Winter Garden hall on South Montana street, with committees at work to make it the biggest feature of the year's social program. The announcement came Thursday night at Hibernia hall in Centerville, where the order entertained the ladies' auxiliary with talks by the Rev. Fathers M. McCormack, D. P. Meade and T. Murnane, Judge J. J. Lynch, T. J. McCarthy, Charles H. Gallagher, Walter Sewell and Mrs. Mamie Lenahan. J. M. Brown presided; Agnes Harrington, Mary Burke and John McNamara gave instrumental numbers, and Father Murnane and Maurice McDonough sang.

“Committees are working hard to make the affair the biggest feature of the Hibernians' social program this year.”

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People

Charles H. Gallagher (b. c.1875 Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland; d. 28 Aug 1964 Butte, age 89; founder of Wiz-Way Stores; AOH state president)(as printed: Charles H. Gallagher)
role: speaker · family confidence: 0 not family
Judge J. J. Lynch (Silver Bow / Butte AOH)(as printed: Judge J. J. Lynch)
role: speaker · family confidence: 0 not family
T. J. McCarthy (Silver Bow AOH)(as printed: T. J. McCarthy)
role: speaker · family confidence: 0 not family
W. J. Sewell / Walter J. Sewell (Butte AOH)(as printed: Walter Sewell)
role: speaker · family confidence: 0 not family
James M. Brown (Butte AOH Division 2 officer; pallbearer for Ellen Murphy, 1935)(as printed: J. M. Brown)
role: presiding officer · family confidence: 0 not family
Maurice J. McDonough (secretary of Butte's 1914 St. Patrick's Day celebration; AOH 1914-1923)(as printed: Maurice McDonough)
role: singer · family confidence: 0 not family
Rev. Michael M. McCormick (McCormack), AOH county chaplain and state chairman of Irish history(as printed: Rev. Father M. McCormack)
role: speaker · family confidence: 0 not family
Mrs. Mamie Lenahan (Lenihan), Ladies' Auxiliary AOH, Butte Division 1; state secretary(as printed: Mrs. Mamie Lenahan)
role: speaker · family confidence: 0 not family

Also mentioned

Rev. Father D. P. Meade · speaker
AOH-event speaker; Butte priest.
Rev. Father T. Murnane · speaker_and_singer
Spoke and sang at the Centerville AOH evening; Butte priest.
Agnes Harrington · musician
Instrumental performer.
Mary Burke · musician
Instrumental performer.
John McNamara · musician
Instrumental performer.

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)
Centerville (district of Butte) (primary)

Themes

Story threads

Butte Irish-American organisational life — Hibernians, Gaelic League, Erin's Daughters, RELA

Source type

news_item

Related sources

Transcription

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# HIBERNIANS WILL GIVE DANCE FRIDAY EVENING A May Day ball will be given by the Ancient Order of HiberniansIrish societiesAncient Order of Hiberniansin America from 1836The largest Irish Catholic fraternal order in America: sick and death benefits for members, St. Patrick’s Day parades, and steady support for Irish nationalism.More in Key terms →, next Friday evening, May 4, at the Winter Garden hall on South Montana street. The announcement of the ball was made Thursday night at Hibernia hallIrish societiesHibernia HallThe meeting hall of Butte’s Hibernians and a venue for other Irish societies; meeting notices name it again and again.More in Key terms → in CentervilleButte: companies, unions & placesCentervilleThe hillside neighbourhood between uptown Butte and Walkerville, built among the mine yards and home to many Irish and Cornish mining families.More in Key terms → when the organization entertained the ladies' auxiliaryIrish societiesDaughters of Erin / Ladies’ Auxiliaryfrom 1894The women’s side of Hibernian life. The AOH’s national women’s body was organised in 1894 as the Daughters of Erin and later took the name Ladies’ Auxiliary.More in Key terms →. Committees are working hard to make the affair the biggest feature of the Hibernians' social program this year. At the party in Centerville Thursday night, talks were made by the Rev. Fathers M. McCormack, D. P. Meade and T. Murnane, Judge J. J. Lynch. Messrs T. J. McCarthy, Charles H. Gallagher, Walter Sewell and Mrs. Mamie Lenahan. J. M. Brown presided and instrumental numbers were given by Agnes Harrington, Mary Burke and John McNamara, and Father Murnane and Maurice McDonough sang. ## Correction from the dossier pass (26 Sept 2026, Opus agent clips-c2, read from the image) The market-week item on this page (in `archive/pages/`, not this clipping) has James J. Murphy on the executive committee and as chairman of the finance subcommittee, not "entertainments" as the machine transcription says; most other names in that transcription are garbled. The Hibernians' dance item names no Murphy, and its venue is the Winter Garden hall, not Columbia Gardens.

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