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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1930
Page
2
E. L. Jourdonnais is named owner and publisher. The paper is published every Thursday in Choteau Montana and entered as second class matter. Subscriptions are $2.00 per year in advance, $2.50 for foreign countries except Canada.
Congressman Scott Leavitt argues for a protective tariff benefiting the agricultural West at a Philadelphia banquet. He cites wool, sugar, and raw materials as needs and criticizes eastern-senate stance on tariffs. The piece then shifts to critique of mass legislation and crime, urging swift justice and fewer laws, followed by warnings about chain letters and their social impact.
A fragmented remark discusses serving the Lord without chain lottery recourse. It suggests discarding unwanted items will benefit someone daily and reduce worry for individuals.
In Sam Roberts Montana enforcement files a new bootlegging device dubbed Volstead Step-Ins and Prohibition Panties attracts field agent interest. Twin copper gallon containers fit the limbs and are hidden under skirts, with Oregon officers credited for the discovery and the liquor slosh likened to silk petticoat rustle.
The National Wool Marketing Corporation in Chicago approves 90 percent cash advances to sheepmen based on market value at shipping time. Montana director Murray E. Stebbins notes no further demand on growers if wool fails to sell to cover advances plus interest. Twelve state associations are qualified. District No. 1 includes Montana Wyoming Colorado Arizona. About 60,000,000 pounds are under contract and 2,000,000 have shipped from Arizona with 90 percent advances. Meetings in Sherman Hotel with President Palmer presiding.
Mass times set for Choteau Bynum and Augusta next Sunday with services at 11 9 and 8:30 and 10 o'clock. After masses classes in Christian doctrine and Bible history. Lenten devotion planned in Choteau Sunday and Friday evenings at 7 30 p m.
Evelyn Johnson Bynum and Sarah Burke traveled Monday to Great Falls for work. Mr and Mrs Pete Hickman of By num visited Agawam Friday. Mrs Thed Caufield and three daughters visited Chateau Friday with Mrs Eddie Powers who is hospitalized after giving birth. Agnes Caufield was her name before marriage.
List of locals visiting Chateau on Friday and Agawam on Thursday includes Mrs. C. V. Linquist, Bert Lish and wife, James and Leroy Lords, and Leo Howell family. Smoot Rowley and John E. Lee from Agawam visited Thursday. Mrs J G Packer of Fort Shaw visits Leo Howell. Harry Young and wife travel, Smoot Rowley returns Sunday night due to impassable roads. Bynum to Agawam road conditions hamper bus service. Mr and Mrs Eddie Hansen relocate to ranch house and install gas system.
W G Brown motored to Chateau with Bassett Wilson and drove home a Ford bought from L E Taylor garage. Mr and Mrs Tom Patelyic arrived in Bynum visiting the George Martensons and plan to settle on a Byrum project farm. A letter says Rulson Moss and family expect to return soon after a year in Minnesota. C K Malone was an Agawam visitor. Harry Young bought a new model A Ford and praises it for current roads.
A business visitor travels southeast of Aga gse toward Derk to retrieve a cow tied to a sale in Agawam last Saturday. Mrs Joseph Moss of Bynum plans to leave for Salt Lake City for the L D church centennial, joined by kin in Idaho. Derkson family of Brady visited William Breding’s Sunday, former Agawam residents. Mr Billings of Choteau was a Malone ranch guest Sunday.
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