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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1938
Page
8
Mrs Nanita B Sherlock state land commissioner opened Toole county oil lands for leasing this week Glacier Production Company and Big West Oil Company leased several tracts at 4.45 dollars per acre for five years The state receives a 1234 percent royalty on oil found and recovered from the lands
Agricultural statistician Jay G. Diamond reports Montana suffered minimal storm losses. Not more than 100 head of livestock were lost amid heavy snows and cold. Ample moisture favors early growth and winter wheat losses are nominal across the state with many areas at 100 percent normal in spring.
Auditor John J. Holmes issued a formal statement this week to counter propaganda aimed at Western Life Insurance Company formerly Montana Life. Holmes said competitors circulated reports to lure policy holders away and praised Western Life’s strong financial rating and ample surplus to meet obligations.
Six men were arrested by Deputy Game Warden Carl Benson in Jefferson County for fishing out of season on a closed stream without licenses. They were brought before a Boulder justice of the peace and each fined $25. The offenders named were Robert Emerich James Hutchinson Carl Sims Clifford Fisher Donald Wehrle and George Stepan.
Mrs. M. S. Bullerdick, local piano teacher, announced two free recitals at the county high school auditorium. The beginner recital will be Friday May 13 and the advanced pupils recital will be Monday May 16. Public invited, no admission charge.
I M Brandford announces that 475 boys were enrolled for six month CCC camp terms last week. Applicants were selected by welfare board agents at Glasgow Butte Miles City Great Falls Billings Bozeman and Missoula.
Herbert Moon of Pendroy opened a roller skating rink at the city park pavilion under a cooperative plan with the Chateau Lions club swimming pool committee. Skating will be every evening except Monday with afternoon sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Moon previously ran a rink in Stockett last winter.
A writer condemns feuds as a moral failing in an enlightened community. He highlights President Burns of Burns College in Burns Hill, Kentucky who, lacking funds, built a stone schoolhouse himself with basic tools to educate poor local youth.
A narrative recalls a community of men and boys who tilled land, fished, and learned lessons, facing a crisis when funds arrived from a distant woman to support the boys. Burns, cautious and faithful, refused to involve the donor in the Lord’s business. The tale also notes a rural Kentucky anecdote about a feathery mess and a yearling tom cat caring for kittens.
Want ads announce a tiny modern upright piano for sale by repossession with easy terms and unpaid balance. Also offers a Rawleighs sales position in Minneapolis Minnesota with a strong yearly sales opportunity and prompt start. Credit Manager box 1944 Great Falls and department MTD35 K Minneapolis are listed.
Item details a missing piano and an idler wheel for a trailer between Great Falls and Lewistown. Reward offered for return to Anaconda. Includes unrelated street and condition remarks, mixed with partial address fragments.
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