Harvest Prep To Prevent Grain Insect Infestation
County Agent advises farmers to clean and inspect grain bins before harvest. Remove old grain, wash floors, and use oil or 50 percent DDT spray. Eliminate waste and damaged kernels, fix leaky roofs, and monitor monthly. Also notes sighting of a large dark nocturnal animal near Dutton and requests reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
Vernon Laubach
Dutton
Harry Laubach
Flathead Lake
Teton County
Romy McCullum
Fairfield 4-H Beef Show Sells Calves at 35 Cents
Fourteen baby beef steers sold for an average of 35 cents a pound at the Fairfield 4-H baby beef show and sale on July 23. Top price per pound 40 cents paid by Meyer Dit cher Company for a Hereford steer. Buyers included Safeway Chateau Great Falls Meat Co First National Bank Fairfield and others. Showmanship winner was Hugh Haxwell. prizes funded by Montana Flour Mills Co and local groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Meyer Ditcher Company
Stewart Schwartz
Safeway
Chateau
Great Falls Meat Company
First National Bank of Fairfield
Fairfield Building Supply
Fairfield Servicemen’s Club
Fairfield Feed and Seed
Mills Motor Company
B. F. Sparrow
Great Falls
H. W. Hodgskiss
Hugh Haxwell
General Mills
Mary Liggett
Lloyd DeBruycker
Lois Liggett
Montana Flour Mills Co
Fairfield Lions Club
Graham and
Ross
Lois and
Dutton
Early Telephone Man Visits Choteau’s First Lines
The article recalls the arrival of Choteau’s first telephone circuit linking Dupuyer and Sun River with only ten customers. Built in the Hodgskiss building, the system passed through buyers Bryan Carson Claire Drake Rocky Mountain Telephone and Mountain States Telephone Co. Dunlap, who led expansion, later managed Rocky Mountain operations and retired 26 years ago to work in insurance and electrical sales. He visited to seek his father J H Dunlap’s grave in Choteau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choteau
Dupuyer
Sun River
Hodgskiss
North Main
Bryan Carson
Claire Drake
Rocky Mountain Telephone and Telegraph Co
Mountain States Telephone Co
Dunlay
Rocky Mountain Telephone Co
Laramie
Wyo
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Northwest
Tye
Pla
Dunlap
J H. Dunlap
Cho
Pioneering Choteau Telephone Man Honored in Cemetery Visit
The article notes a Kansas born pioneer, 1870, who moved to Choteau in 1884 and worked at a local store before cattle work. He studied at a Helena Methodist college, started in telephony in its infancy, married Della Evans in 1898, and witnessed the church building move to join the new church. He recalled old friends and the faithful horse of Billy Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Choteau
Silverman and Cohen
Helena
Della Evans
John Evans
Et Ee Chateau Methodist Church
Logan
Dunlap
GC. S. McDonald
Billy Miller
Yale Dames Yearbook Reveals Married Students Profiles
A Yale Dames Yearbook survey of 200 plus Yale couples shows wives average 25 with one child, husbands 27. most are home makers from Connecticut or New York. Findings cover ages, children counts, and the prevalence of veteran couples among about 1,000 Yale wives in New Haven area.
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Yale
Connecticut
New York State
Yale Dames
The
New Haven
Local Want Ads Highlight Job and Sale Offers in Choteau Area
Classified notices show a county sales job opportunity with travel and training for a feed company plus numerous for sale listings. Items include a grain loader, tractors, rakes, a three room furnished house, a wood boat with motor, a washing machine, and appliance deals.
Lack of Cheap Extraction Holds up Tar Sands Oil
Athabasca tar sands in Alberta contain vast oil potential with estimates ranging from 250 billion barrels by the U S Bureau of Mines to more conservative figures from Canadian scientists. Experts say development hinges on cheaper extraction methods or depletion of current reserves. Athabasca remains a strategic ace in the hole.
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Athabasca
Alberta
Canada
Arctic Circle
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Flameproof cotton insulation broadens industrial use
Since its 1940 development, flameproof cotton insulation has gained widespread acceptance in over twenty industries. A West coast heater maker uses it to retain heat, others build cold storage like beverage boxes and refrigerators with it, and many churches employ it for heat, cold, and acoustical insulation to reduce outside noise.
Rapid Growth of Softball in United States
The passage notes softball’s rapid national growth, tracing its origins to indoor baseball ideas from players seeking winter action. It mentions the first softball tournament held in Chicago in 1933 and explains how the sport evolved from indoor play to a larger game to allow longer hits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Chicago
Local ads list lumber, tires, tractors and housing for sale
Multiple notices advertise lumber, roads open, and phone orders. Items include tires from Hanson Bros. Garage, a 1947 tractor with cab, a 16 ft metal boat, a 16 ft self propelled Cockshutt combine, a new two bedroom house with basement, a 1939 Ford 1 ton truck with grain box, and various small goods. Also listed is a planing mill, and rental wanted for furnished or unfurnished housing.
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Gleaner
Baldwin
Hughes Implement Co
Phone
Fairfield
Mont
Hughes Sample Co
Oldsmobile
Mary E. Smith
Choteau
Brown
Billford
Minneapolis
Tesch Sales and Service
P. M. Anslinger
Dutton
Gleaner-Baldwin
John Deere
Goodmundson’s
Minneapolis-Moline
Minneapoli - Moline
Mac’s
Phillips 66 Station
Chateau
Child’s Log Play
Beverly Monkman
Mrs. Duncan
Jackson
Floyd McFarlane
Joe H. Ramaker
Henry Kaptein
Conrad
Montana
Hanson Bros
H. P
C. D. Trexler
Bynum
Moline R. T. U
Walter Lyon
Moral B. Johnson
Route 1
Jack Harris
Texaco Bulk
Teton Canyon
Ramaker
Tfc
al Verzuh
Marshall Wells
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Misses’ & Children’s
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Teau Cemetery
J. G. Jackson
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Paris
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Fai
Wesley L. Reedy
Mac
Phillips 66
Allis Chalmers
McCormick
Ben Gebhart
Pendray
Chick’s
Chick
Penevar
Mountaineware
Leese
Fairfield Mortana
Acantha
Oliver Tractors and Implements
Graham Hoeme
Snogo Grain Loaders
Hanson Bros. Garage
Main
RKO
Radio Powell- Greer
Dpe
Agnes Moorehead
Burl Ives
Tom Powers
Gordon Oliver
Steve Brodie
Dore Schary
Robert Sparks
Sidney Lanfield
Frank Fenton
Wineton Miller
Jimmy Lydon
Lois Collier
Richard Bane
Barbara Brown
Sol M. Wortzel
Glenn Tryon
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20Th Century-Fox
Mink
Warner Bros
Raoul Walsh
Robert L. Rickards
James Hagan
Leroyv Prinz
Ray Heindorf
Asmes
AWEW
Les
Robert Taylor
Ava Gardner
MGM
Charles Laughton
Vincent Price
John Hodiak
Jerry Wald
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