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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
5
The state liquor control board last week declared a 100000 profit dividend to be distributed among state funds. Administrator L. M. A. Wass noted the dividend comes from liquor sales profits. This brings total dividends declared in the first seven months to 710000.
The Works Progress Administration will cut Montana zones from nine to six under the new WPA act. Zone headquarters at Helena Havre and Kalispell will be eliminated and offices moved to Wolf Point Great Falls Missoula Miles City Billings and Butte with Joseph E Parker of Butte stating the plan.
St Luke's Parish Catholic services list Mass at Chateau on Sunday August 13 at 11 am and Mass at Bynum at 9 am led by Pastor J F Schulte.
The Rainbow 4-H Breakfast club visited Great Falls on August 1. Members toured Eddy's Bakery and radio station KFPBB, ate lunch in a park, and attended a show at the Liberty Theater in the afternoon.
Max J. Kuney of Spokane was awarded the Bitter Root highway oiling contract 13.5 miles from Medicine Hot Springs to the Gibbons pass divide on the Montana Idaho line for 106 549 dollars. Bids opened by the Public Roads Administration. Kinney's bid came in under the engineer's estimate.
The state water conservation board has received a $60,000 federal check as the first PWA remittance toward Gallatin county's Middle Creek irrigation project. The plan stores 9,000 acre feet of water at a total cost of $400,000 with a 45 percent government grant and the remainder paid by water users.
The state railroad and public service commission approved substantial rate reductions by Mountain States Power for Baker Ismay Plevna Forsyth and Rosebud customers lowering electricity charges in these communities.
Prices of most agricultural products fell for the month ended July 15 per a federal Agriculture Department report. Wheat feed grain and flaxseed declined sharply, while potatoes hogs eggs and hay showed gains.
Farmington community notes report the Home Demonstration club will meet at the hall next Thursday at 2 p m where officers will be installed. The issue also covers travels of Lars and Johanna Nasset, 4-H group activities in Swenson's area, and a note on frost damage to gardens in Chateau and nearby regions.
State sportsmen groups and deputy wardens call for a closed season on native upland birds including sage hens and grouse. After surveys and field census showing rising populations, they urge protection for at least another year to bolster recovery. The fish and game commission will decide at its weekend meeting.
Dr. W. J. Butler announces two state meat inspectors will be stationed in Missoula starting September 1 at the request of local butchers and dealers. The inspectors will examine all meat offered for sale in the city to ensure sanitary standards.
Last week a case of spotted tick fever was reported from Grant in Beaverhead county bringing the year’s total to 19 cases and five deaths according to the state board of health.
Examinations will be held September 28 for positions in state and county welfare departments. Helena Kalispell Lewistown Miles City Missoula Havre Great Falls Glasgow Butte Bozeman Billings host the tests. Posts include junior and senior case workers, child welfare workers, junior and senior stenographers. Written tests also scheduled for orthopedic field supervisor and director of services to crippled children.
Senator James E. Murray to hold competitive exams for one U S Naval Academy and one U S Military Academy vacancy for July 1940 entrants. Tests conducted by the Civil Service Commission on October 7, 1939 in Montana cities. Open to bona fide Montana residents within specified age limits. Apply by September 11 for blanks. merit only, no endorsements.
State horticulturist George L. Knight says purple top disease, an insect spread growth stopper, is less widespread than in 1938 but will cut crops in two major potato regions. Billings, Carbon county, Miles City, and Rosebud areas face the heaviest losses, with eastern Montana regions seeing lighter damage.
Receipts Monday total 453 with grass steers to killers 7.25 to 8.00, grass cows 5.25 to 5.75, grass heifers 6.50 to 7.50, veal 8.00 to 8.75, stock calves 7.00 to 8.25, and stockers 6.50 to 7.75. Market outlook says higher medium grades and solid demand due to hay abundance and cheap grain. buyers include packers, butchers, feeders, with regular Monday sales and no extra Sunday feed charge. Wolf Langman Livestock Co., Great Falls, Montana.
The Montana State Board of Equalization sets five and one half mills in total for this year. The general fund levy is two mills, the university levy three mills, and a half mill finances retirement of Capitol bonds. Livestock levies total four mills, with sheep at one mill and other livestock at one and a half mills. Livestock commission, sanitary board, and bounty funds also receive specified millages.
Attorney General H. J. Freebourn rules the last legislature’s grass conservation act not unconstitutional and valid. Malta’s Fred C. Gabriel previously found a section unconstitutional allowing district lands to be fenced if owners refuse to join the act.
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