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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
6
County superintendent Inez Eckford reports state Ruth Reardon says transportation funds will be reimbursed after districts pay eligible families. Next disbursement is August. Reimbursement covers one half of district transportation costs for 1937 38. districts must budget for transportation to receive aid.
A National Geographic bulletin praises El Salvador as the Western hemisphere’s smallest mainland country and notes its dense rural population. It highlights its coffee export dominance at about 80 percent and explains the misnamed balsam of Peru, a resin from a tree native to El Salvador.
The eye is the most sensitive sense capable of distinguishing tiny differences. After adapting to darkness it is 300000 times more sensitive than the thermopile, the most sensitive instrument yet invented, with touch and hearing showing lesser discrimination.
The 1804 silver dollar is the rarest American coin with only seven or eight genuine examples known. Its scarcity stems from a sunk Cheiname vessel carrying the entire 1804 mintage intended as trade dollars for China. The best known specimen sits in the United States Mint cabinet. restrikes in 1858 and 1860s are also highly valuable.
Diamonds occur in seven states with one commercial mine near Murfreesboro Arkansas. Platinum is found in fourteen states and radium in fifteen states. Radium from carnatite ores in Colorado and Utah. platinum mainly in Alaska, California and Oregon. Cameos carved from onyx and other hard stones. agate amethyst jasper opal garnet found in various sections.
President Roosevelt proclaims May Day National Childs Health Day. The Great Falls Osteopathic Association hosts a free children clinic at Mrs Lister's Nursing Home 508 Second Avenue North from 9 am to noon and 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturday May 1. Children up to 12 receive a complete physical exam under Dr Wilda F Husted and Dr Blanche Drestler with other doctors present.
Mass will be held next Sunday May 2 at 9 00 a m in Choteau and at 11 00 a m in Bynum Confessions in Choteau Saturday evening at 8 00 pm Reverend J F Schulte pastor listed for the parish authority and location
Jack Sloven and Ed Fischer of the Northern Hide and Fur Co. of Bismark N D visited Chateau last week and engaged H B Swanson to obtain dry bones at ten dollars a ton or fifty cents per hundred. Swanson said he had nearly ten tons already and would begin loading a car Wednesday. A local boy who tried a theft earned four dollars and twenty cents on Sunday.
Pursuant to an order by the Fish and Game Commission at its Helena meeting April 15 16 1937 Split Rock lake is closed to all fishing from March 15 to September 30 inclusive and open to ice fishing from October 1 to March 14 inclusive The commission chair is B L Price and secretary J A Weaver.
About 400 Scouts from 20 troops attended the Conrad high school gymnasium for the fourth and last Montana Boy Scout circus. Chateau troop 51 and its drum and bugle corps headlined along with events like whip cracking, model planes and bridge building. Scouts Armstrong and Daley earned merit badges and ranks at a concurrent court of honor, as Edgar Maclay announced their selection for the scoutorama at Great Falls May 15.
Diamond Valley News reports Billy Briggs attended the Conrad Boy Scout circus where the champion bugler of the United States performed. About 500 boys were present. Others joined gatherings including Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Lemke in Great Falls, plus several families visiting Macks and Lemingson. A stork shower honored Mrs. Ernest McVicker at the Schultz home with many gifts. Sunday School attendance reached 45 and 4-H girls hosted a tree planting after services.
Nelson Donald Mack and Ed DeRu sha attended a Friday show in Dutton. The girls 4 H club met at the schoolhouse Saturday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Laubach and family visited Fred Schultz home Sunday. Martin Schultz and Happy Craver traveled to Helena on Sunday for trees and flowers. Edith Hazel Leroy Maxine Goodell Veda Thompson and Mervin Juelfs visited Martin Schultz home Sunday. Mrs Mack Clara Jeffers and Abe Sitts called at Goodell home Sunday. Laubach spent Monday at Martin Schultz home sewing band capes. Nelsons Hemstads and Carl Rosok visited Mrs Peterson Thursday evening. Davidsons visited Van Horn home Sunday afternoon. Mrs Peterson Carl Rosok and Hemstads visited Nelson home Sunday. George Schultz Ed DeRusha and Mabel Styve were dinner guests at Meshman home Sunday.
Mrs Helen Walcott of Cascade and Mrs Vera Alexander of Chateau visited Saturday evening at the Seekins home. Families gathered for dinner and games. Sunday school was organized at the hall under Rev Clingman with officers and teachers named.
The text notes teaching resumes next fall at East Farmington and Farming ton schools. The H. D. club will meet Thursday May 6 with roll call a Mother's day poem or quotation and tribute to the oldest mother present. A shower for the Montana Children's Home at Helena is hosted by Mrs. W. F. Arensmeyer, Mrs. Wm. Chalmers, and Mrs. Marie Lindseth.
There will be a special meeting of Choteau Lodge No. 11 I O O F at Choteau next Monday May 3 at 8 p m for an official visit by Grand Master Ole Flaten. Refreshments after the business meeting. Oscar Berndt Noble Grand. Geo E Thompson Secretary.
We express heartfelt thanks to friends who assisted during Helen's illness death and funeral. We acknowledge physicians nurses minister pall bearers funeral director musicians and all who sent flowers. MR AND MRS LEE BROWN FRANCES AND NORMAN BROWN.
E. H. Barrett, longtime tenant of the old Fairfield ranch owned by R. M. Armour, has leased the Gilchrist ranch seven miles north of Pendroy. The 2,000 acre property, with 1,700 acres to be cropped, is reportedly owned by a California bank and is being managed by a Lewistown man who arranged the lease.
In Fairfield a large amount of pea and beet seed was delivered to contracted farmers. The Associated Seed Co. of Bozeman supplied the pea seed while the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. handled the beet seed. G. G. Moore of Choteau, field man for Teton county, reports he is finishing the fifth carload of pea seed deliveries this season.
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