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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
3
A young man finds a bundle left by a passenger in a moving car and chases after to return it. The owner claims the bag belongs to a sleeping big colored man and the woman suggests surrender to police with a lawyer, prompting the man to consider the course of action.
A contemplative verse honors the unseen worker who toils daily and whose quiet labor outlasts grand deeds and public praise in the memory of a people. The poem contrasts ostentatious fame with steady, humble effort remembered through time.
In a lively ballroom scene two men discuss a sharp nosed woman until a reveal shows the speaker is the husband who married her, highlighting a comic, fateful coincidence of matching judgments and fate.
A book agent pressed Joseph G. Cannon for payment after delivering an elaborate edition Uncle Joe believed overvalued. He wrote a $73 check with a back inscription praising the agent for the ease with which he “put it over” him, deeming the edition not worth the price but worth twice for the bargain.
The Punch editor Owen Seaman headlined a London Authors' club dinner and led a discussion on humor. A three-character tale followed with two Scotsmen and a bluebottle fly, as whisky flowed and the bluebottle buzzed.
Until further notice deliveries will be made each Tuesday and Saturday forenoon. Customers are asked to place orders accordingly with J. Odenwald & Sons.
Sunday visits in Great Falls and Banff Canada. Notes show Mr C W Wymer, Eleanor Daley, J G Bair, Leavitt family, A M Walley and children, Miss Josephine Harrisson, CV G Monk map, M A Wilcox, Julius Hirshberg in Banff, Fred Bergold from Conrad, Oscar Gjermundson, Frank Mc Cabe from Sun River hot springs, E J Hirshberg and daughter in Missoula, Ernest Moore from Vaughn, Prof Toan to Aug 10 from Berkeley, H D Robison in Elva Iowa, HL Hughes appointment as administrator, Nat Collins to Browning, M R Cowell to Dupuyer then Bellingham and California, W H Garland of Malta visiting J Eckford, and family ties.
The Acantha corrects last week by stating Mrs O R Nelson did not return home yet. She plans to be back in a week or ten days after stopping in Omaha for the anniversary observance of her parents marriage.
Mr J H Meyer new owner of the A L Halladay ranch north of town will occupy the pulpit at the Methodist church next Sunday morning at 10 30. Meyer formerly served in the ministry but health compelled a change of occupation. Mrs S H Drake returned from Bennie BC with two grandchildren Blarry and Helen Drake and will spend part of the summer with Mrs McLean and daughter Ruth who accompanied her home.
Saturday featured two runaway episodes. Early, Oscar Odenwald's black team dashed from the lane beside Spring Creek. In the afternoon Clem Bowers lost control of a spring wagon, leaping free with only a hard tumble and no injuries, as the team finally came to rest at the ranch.
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