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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1914
Page
6
Bradstreet's notes retail trade grows with favorable weather and job demand but wholesale trade stalls. Discretion and cautious financing persist amid weak roads and uneven industrial output. Din's Review cites uneven progress in trade, a backward spring delaying merchandise distribution, and a strong winter wheat and cotton outlook for the year.
Mrs Wate O'Hare, Socialist and suffragist, urged equal suffrage at six city library meetings. She argued women would use political power to lower health and police costs and influence food production, clothing manufacture, and home sanitation if they could vote.
Miss Eleano Wilson daughter of the president spends hours shopping in New York with cousin Mrs John Wilson of Philadelphia. She buys items for her trousseau and walks Fifth Avenue at dawn with a secret service agent as escort. She calls this a preliminary trip before heavier shopping next month.
Washington March 30 President Wilson won the opening skirmish in the legislative battle to repeal the Panama canal tolls exemption. The House adopted the special rule 200 to 172 with leaders Clark Underwood Mann and Murdock opposing. Support grew for prompt consideration and final passage expected by week’s end.
London reports pressure to settle the cabinet crisis and the Ulster movement fallout. Resignations by Field Marshal Sir John French and General John Spencer Ewart hinge on General Gough surrendering a written Ulster pledge. If he refuses, chiefs may retire. an early election looms. Paget remains external to the dispute as orders rebuke his officers.
President Ken Pendleton announces that after the fire destroying College Hall, arrangements will allow Wellesley College to resume sessions on April 1. A temporary administration building and many recitation rooms are to be completed by May.
Washington notes that the senate committee on interstate commerce has again reviewed trust legislation. Regulators of holding companies remain the sole unresolved feature amid general agreement on other aspects.
The steamer La Touraine arrived in New York more than four days late from Havre due to boiler trouble. Repair crews worked nonstop to keep enough boilers operating for steam while Captain Caussin reported heavy seas and slow progress amid partially deranged machinery.
Chicago researchers at the University of Chicago report the earth’s core is rigid like steel and cannot be annihilated by internal fire. The team led by Professor Albert A. Michelson will publish results in the Astrophysical Journal and the Journal of Geology.
Lydie Beecher a 21 year old school teacher was found murdered on a road near Pohind Little Falls N Y March 30 She left her boarding place to mail a letter and was found with head wounds Her home was in Sennett near Auburn A young man named Graamm who was seen talking with Beecher before the tragedy is in custody
Several hundreds were marooned in Malinots by flood waters seven feet deep in a low town section. Lack of boats slowed relief but rafts ferried food and carried out the sick as relief teams moved in. Located 26 miles south of Chicago, Lack of boats hindered assistance efforts.
Fire of unknown origin totally destroyed the main building of the Superior State Normal School in Superior Wisconsin on March 6. The structure plus its two additions cost about 220000 dollars. The equipment and other contents valued at 50000 dollars or more were also consumed.
Arrangements completed for a meeting of the coal miners of Iowa and Northern Missouri and District No. 13 of the United Mine Workers on Thursday in Des Moines Iowa.
Nine passengers rode an aeroplane one mile above Chartres marking a new world altitude record for passenger carrying aircraft. Gar aix, the aviator, achieved the feat on March 30, as reported from Chartres France.
Reports from Missoula, Gallatin, Dawson, Meagher, Madison, and several counties show a bright farming outlook. Winter conditions, growing acreage, higher livestock demand, and rising dairy profits signal a strong season ahead with new farmers entering the state and land values easing.
St Paul Louis Newman of Great Falls ex mayor Havre Montana met rail officials in St Paul to coordinate an August 11 celebration for Montana territory anniversary and statehood twenty fifth milestone. Citizens have raised sixty thousand dollars. A Great Northern special train will carry a Twin City business men's delegation. James J Hill will be invited to speak. Louis W Will Av Erling of the St Paul road and other railroad men will attend. State good roads convention opens the first two days with an exhibit of implements.
Fred Sumner, prize wheat grower of Montana and president of the Montana Seed Growers Association, predicts a record crop for Park County this year as wheat looks excellent in the Shields River Valley.
The Montana state railroad commission filed a protest by wire with the Interstate Commerce Commission against proposed freight rate hikes from Montana points to Chicago and eastern markets. Milwaukee tariffs were to start April 1 and Northern Pacific on April 20, with sheep and cattle rates rising per car.
Mayor Lewis J. Duncan threatens to abolish Butte's tenderloin district after a damage suit by Harry Adams owner of a saloon over police raids that seized liquor worth a thousand dollars. The district has faced repeated raids and prohibition of liquor and music.
Judge Roy J. Ayres sustains the state health board law and dissolves the temporary restraining order on vaccinating students and teachers. He denies A. A. Stapleton’s injunction request, rejecting claims of unconstitutionality. The case was filed some time ago and delayed by bench duties.
The New York General Electric Company must pay a $10 322 fee to transact business in the state after a Supreme Court ruling. General Micetrie sought a writ to stop recording papers without the fee, arguing the fee tax exceeded state authority by taxing property outside the state. The court ruled the fee is not a property tax.
Hobson of the Great Falls and Yeton County Railway announces a capital stock rise to 1,006,000 from 500,000 authorized in the original charter. The increase aims to meet debts from extending the line from Choteau to Dynum after completing Power to Choteau, with Choteau serving as county seat of Teton county.
Mayor KK Purcell accuses Standard Oil of price gouging Helena and Montana residents by charging 30 to 30 cents per gallon while the same gasoline costs 16 cents in other states. He launches an agitation to pressure American Gasoline Co to enter the Montana market to increase competition.
Two thousand five hundred Mormons in Montana with 210 in Butte plan a church building in the spring. The semiannual LDS conference in town notes church growth, appointments, state redistricting, and plans to expand influence.
In Butte the Socialist candidate tally at the aldermanic primaries fell to less than half of the Democratic vote, signaling a drop in Socialist support while the city already has a Socialist mayor.
Butter Samuel Davis a prominent Montana livestock man and longtime shipper to the coast and South St. Paul markets has died. He was widely known in state cattle circles for his extensive trading and shipping operations.
A new plat of the town site Sumatra has been filed with the Rosebud county clerk. Miles City and Butte business men support the growing town on the Milwaukee road about eighty miles west of this city.
In Washington a sharp senate clash followed a bill to sell Montana coal rights on about 2000 acres to Republic Coal, a unit of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad. Norris and Fall attacked the measure as special legislation while favoring broader coal opening. Walsh urged the bill’s passage.
In Jersey City juror Leopold Wauters begged to be relieved due to hunger and inability to focus. Judge Campbell adjourned as Wauters ate a meal funded by a $12 advance to his family. The family, living in a cold single room, received aid from a constable who purchased food and gave remaining funds to Mrs Wauters. Wauters, jobless with five children, resumes juror duties with the daily $2 stipend. The juror had been serving on a contract dispute case ongoing since last Monday.
Miss Mary Hazen a former stenographer to Woodrow Wilson when he governed New Jersey is jailed for grand larceny in New York City. Mrs Lora Studebaker says Hazen took a $1500 diamond ring during a social visit from the dressing room bureau.
Margaret Duke aged 20 and Mrs Violet Geffene aged 27 pleaded guilty to shoplifting after a raid on Geffene's apartments uncovered hats gowns and lingerie valued at 4000 dollars stolen from Kansas City department stores. Duke got three and a half years in the penitentiary Geffene four years.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Minnesota multimillionaire, was ill at his winter home near Pasadena with a severe cold and signs of pneumonia. His physician reports he is much improved, easing anxiety over his advanced age after the attending physician’s reassuring update.
The Minneapolis city council officially acknowledges an outbreak of scarlet fever and diphtheria. It orders the health commissioner to consult with the board of charities and correction on adding hospital capacity for contagious disease patients as the city hospital ward remains crowded with a long waiting list.
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