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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1931
Page
7
Fort Owen was built in fall of 1850 by Owen and later rebuilt as a grist and saw mill. The trading post gained wide renown for its early industrial and commercial role in the region.
The piece lauds Butte as a premier mining camp with the Montana School of Mines and Chamber of Commerce notes. It details Montana scenery and vacation spots from Great Falls to Glacier National Park, Fort Owen history, and early Montana settlement led by Major John Owen and Cantonment Stevens.
The account tells how Louis Arlee, a long haired Native American firefighter, fled a timber fire near Arlee by swimming across a lake. He wandered through smoke with L. R. Mallet and Henry Brooks, reaching camp two days later after losing food and clothes.
The Security Building and Loan association based in Billings Montana, organized in 1919, reports over 5 million dollars in resources and more than 10 000 members. It notes six percent dividends every six months, conservative management, and a prompt withdrawals history. It invites inquiries by letter or card to its Billings home office.
The Cooke City end of the Red Lodge to Cooke City road project is ready to start within days. McNutt & Pyle of Eugene Oregon won the contract and will move equipment onto site. work slated for late next week. An award for the Red Lodge end to Knudsen McDonald Kahn of Boise Idaho was reportedly not yet confirmed.
M O Schreyer and Robert Ridgman, solicitors for the National Automobile Association of Denver, were fined 100 dollars each in Billings for operating without a Montana license. The case marks the first conviction under the new act requiring licensing and a 25 000 bond for motor club service firms. Prosecutions will continue.
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