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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1923
Page
1
District No 1 opens Monday morning at nine o'clock for the new term. Children must be six by November to enter first year. beginners urged in. Superintendent hours for concerns noted. visit teachers after hours. Rural schools also start the same day with Catherine Yeager at Carson School and others to follow.
The Choteau Creamery expanded from a small start in a village building to a modern plant handling about 25,000 pounds of cream monthly all from Teton county farmers. With 8,000 pounds weekly capacity and a 33 percent butter fat yield, it pays farmers about $10,000 monthly in cold cash and supports a $1,000 monthly payroll aiding local banks.
A district convention of delegates from womans clubs of five counties is set for Choteau on October 15 and 16. State president Mrs Sauders and state federation first vice president Mrs Page will attend along with other prominent speakers.
Frank McCabe files suit for claim and delivery in Justice Court of Charles H. Ferris alleging K B Cohoe possesses a stock saddle owned by McCabe. Papers saved and a September hearing date set.
C S Mac Donald announces Choteau will organize a golf club with fifteen members signed up. A course is being prepared east of the Hobson addition and Spring Creek, extending over the water tower hill. Greens have been scrapped and crews are leveling and clearing weed growth.
The RST Parent-Teacher Association schedules a teachers reception at the high school gym on Monday evening September 10 led by president Mrs. Dunc McDonald. The event was moved from the first Monday to avoid a clash with the Women's Club flower show and dance on Labor Day. Details will follow next week.
Mrs W F Smith visits Tr Goodell home. Ruth Sweat to teach in Cheyenne WY. mother travels to Great Falls. Children burned in picnic accident. School opens Sept 4. new teachers Plummer Waynild Hanusa. Janitor Lew Bohling reelected. bus drivers bids to county commissioners. Jim Wheeler to Great Falls hospital for toe injury. Laura Bohling to teach at Bole. D L Remple brings bride from Hankinson ND. Anna Remple hosts a reception.
The Woman's Club flower show at the Legion pavilion in Great Northern Park, Chateau, Labor Day will feature possibly record entries with many prizes. Prizes include a No. 2 Brownie Camera, prime rib roast, coffee, butter, silk hose, jardiniere, flower basket, lard, auto tool, and more from local sponsors. Judging standards emphasize culture perfection and overall artistic arrangement.
Proprietor R B Smith successor to Choteau Mercantile Co will close his store Saturday night for two weeks while he visits the Twin Cities to fill heavy merchandise for fall business. Stock to be complete on reopening. Sample lines of ladies coats at low prices. Hirshberg's.
Mrs Christina Oulton 69, a Choteau resident since 1915, died after five days of illness from acute dilation of the heart following appendicitis. Native of Moneton New Brunswick Canada she is survived by her son Frank A Oulton and daughter Mrs Edna BE Steves of Moncton. Private services were held in Chateau and burial followed in Great Falls Highwood cemetery.
Week end visitors include Mrs A C Burbank and Miss Lucille Sturgeon of Choteau at Ora Knowlton home. Mrs Malone visited her daughter Mrs E B Noble. Harvesting continues with good weather needed. Community notices list residents visiting, moving, and working in Choteau and Bynum, with several names and brief actions.
Elevators statewide will stop accepting and storage of grain for fall as Grain men reach agreement. George Bass of Great Falls says elevators will not issue storage tickets and will buy grain only for cash at delivery. Rankin and Davis to reconvene next week to seek a workable plan.
Belated notice reports the marriage on Tuesday August 14 at Conrad of Mrs. Mary Truchot and H. W. Smith of Bole. They wed at the Presbyterian parsonage in Pondera county seat and will reside at Mrs. Smith’s Muddy ranch near Agawam. Chateau friends joined a charivari visit to wish them happiness.
A rumor claimed Big Bear of Sun River canyon had died in an accident, but Chateau folks who visited the scene said the Indian survived. He was thrown from a wagon two weeks earlier when a frightened team hit a tree, suffering a broken rib and head injury, yet he was reported making progress toward recovery.
Local residents hosted and visited households across Farmington with guests at the Lindseth Forseth and Chalmers homes. O. S. Forseth did business in Great Falls. Teachers for the coming year include Miss Slanger Evenson Otness Chalmers and Miss Steen at Districts 42 and 6.
Civil actions filed last week include Miller National Life Insurance Co versus Charles Heckman et al for foreclosure of mortgage Julius Hirshberg versus Carly Anderson for foreclosure of mortgage and St Anthony and Dakota Elevator Co versus Alvin Holm et al for foreclosure of mortgage in the Clerk of Court B M Jacobson office.
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