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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
5
Local items note land purchases, lots for sale, hospital construction, and upcoming county fair. J E Webb and J Hirshberg of Helena visit. Miss Maud Ostrom from Augusta visits. high school starts Sept 10 1906. Notices include sales of workhorses and farms, and appointments from a church conference in Billings.
Attorney George I. Danks of Great Falls visited Choteau on Friday and Lawrence Davis left for Great Falls to handle business. An eighth grade exam is set for August 24 and 25 1906 at the courthouse in Chateau. Fidelity Chapter 18 plans an official visit by Grand Patron John G. Bair on September 8 1906. Celia J. Drake Worthy Matron notes attendance. Paul Jacobson wife and baby returned from Edmonds Washington with Grace Kennedy moving in for the winter. John P. Schmit state land office registrar conducted a successful land sale with renewed leases and spirited bidding for nearby tracts.
Rev W W Van Orsdel directs the first quarterly conference of the year in Choteau on Saturday evening September 1 1906 with Rev George Logan the appointed pastor. They plan quarterly meetings Sunday September 2 and Van Orsdel will visit Dupuyer September 3 and 4.
Trustees decide the Chateau school will not open before September 10 aligning with the High school term. They say out of district pupils may enroll if space remains in the three departments without paying tuition. The notice also advertises J F La France’s shoe shop offering workmanlike horse shoes racing plates and pads with a satisfaction guarantee and Buckley Derby pads, with contact by phone 33.
Peter F. St Denis a well known blacksmith and wheelwright from Dupu yer was in town last Monday on his way home from the Sun River hot springs where he has stayed for some time. He has suffered diabetes for months but is greatly improved and hopes to be back to his robust health soon.
The section has seen persistent rainfall for three days, totaling about an inch and a half by six o clock yesterday with continued rain today. The wet weather disrupts haying and grain harvests, marking an unusually wet period for the region.
Hugh Crossen, back from Placerville Idaho, says the mine shows exceptional values with ore on the dump. He plans to stay a few weeks in the area before returning to Idaho. The Teton County Fair premium list is printed and ready for distribution, produced by the Acantha under Secretary Julian F. Burd.
Monday S. M. Carson installed one Rider-Ericsson hot air pumping engine at J. G. Bair's residence and will place another at Beaupre house for G. L. Muzzy. Next week a unit goes to F. Truchot's Muddy ranch for watering, stack and household use. Carson has five plants in use and will exhibit at the county fair showing pumping water with a hot air engine.
Dupuyer residents note good crops and cool weather. Grandpa England returns from Canada while immigrants increase there. John Malone renovates his hotel. A lady becomes grammar school principal and Geo Marchand gains higher pay from Shelby trustees. Julio Dailey teaches at Raymond again as Forester Dean and others fight fires nearby. Henry Jennen buys a new buggy and a fishing party heads to fresh waters on Dupuyer and Sheep creeks.
The list shows uncalled letters Miss Mane Alli McDonald Otis When requesting please say advertised and pay one cent C H Drake P M
Notice of intention to make proof on desert land claim No. 75 by George Talifson of Bynum Montana before U S Commissioner A C Warner at Chateau Montana on September 20 1900. Witnesses listed include Halvor O Thompson Charles F Suiste Nicholas O Tutte and Alfred Vigen all of Montana.
Notice is given that a named settler has filed notice of intention to make final proof for his homestead claim in Montana and will prove residence and cultivation before U S Commissioner Geo W Magee in Dupuyer on a stated date in 1906. Witnesses named include William Miller Joseph McQualg George Coffey and William Jones all from Dentans.
W A Shenstone in Cornhill Magazine outlines Professor Os borne Reynolds theory that ether is the dense, substantive universe while matter becomes mere waves. He likens the medium to countless tightly packed billiard balls and explains density and pressure far exceeding earthly matter.
The London Chronicle reports a rumor about the ex empress Eugenie implying a claim of grave significance. It notes she was born in 1826 making her nearly eighty and discusses resilience after the fall of her empire and family tragedies. It mentions a Kirkpatrick grandfather tied to Malaga and wine trade.
The Nevada Transcript 1880 records a tribal company visit to Red Dog mining town led by Mc Kean Buchanan Virginia Buchanan Frank Mayo Charlies Wheatleigh and Elizabeth TM Saunders. They performed Camille The Robbers and The Octoroon for three nights averaging 1200 dollars per night. Today no trace remains of Red Dog nine miles from Nevada City.
The medical superintendent of Montrose asylum cites motoring as a new predisposing cause of insanity. He reports two victims of the so called motor mania but offers no details on the form or scope of the craze. The hospital warns the trend is a disquieting menace to mental stability.
Governor Hoch tells Boston audiences that Kansas has among the lowest illiteracy rates, second only to Iowa. He notes President Roosevelt’s recent tour showed the West and Southwest are most active in promoting school education, with colleges and universities pressed to advance learning.
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