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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1935
Page
3
Reported robberies occurred during the first Christmas era targeting freight trains and stage coaches at Bannack. Early settlers enjoyed the holiday despite dire shortages, with flour selling for 75 dollars per hundred.
Governor Elmer Holt, once a cowboy from southeastern Montana, rose through the Miles City area to become a state senator and Senate president. After the death of Frank Cooney, Holt became chief executive by line of succession, with a long record in the legislature and local public life, and broad support across the state.
Statistics show clerks are more prompt at paying their bills than people in any other occupation. It also notes pilots tend to approach landing fields at right angles to the wind direction for safer landings.
The state game commission prohibits ice fishing in Rayalli Deer Lodge Granite Powell and Silver Bow and Beaverhead counties with five specific lake and river exceptions Jones Opasta Browns Coopers lakes and the Jefferson river remain open under permit rules.
The Montana statute taxing freight line companies is held valid for the current year and prior years, in an opinion by the attorney general for the state board of equalization.
A new Argentine law requires seats with backs for all workers in shops factories and on public transit vehicles. The pink carnation is dethroned as Indiana’s state flower by the tulip tree blossom replacing it.
In a brutal 1893-94 Montana cold spell a Lewistown trio faced 60 below and a frozen Spring Creek. Mayor John P. Barnes relit a lone lucifer stub to start a fire, keeping the party warm overnight while the driver dozed. They reached Sagé Creek ranch for a warm oyster stew and relief.
Discovery announces a cobaltite ore body 30 feet wide about 18 miles northwest of Butte in Deer Lodge valley. Samples show 5 percent cobalt content. First Montana cobalt ore find, with tests suggesting 25 to 30 percent concentrate possible after roasting. potential value per ton $150 to $250 gross.
A reminiscence describes a first Bannack Christmas in 1863 during Idaho frontier mining days. The family endures arctic cold, ice on logs, stagecoach robberies, and scarce supplies while sharing a modest dinner and stockings that mislead a young narrator to disappointment and resilience.
The late Gov Frank H Cooney rose from a grocery delivery boy to Montana’s chief executive through persistent work in wholesale groceries mining agriculture and stockraising He entered politics in 192 after failing twice to win lieutenant governor later becoming acting governor after Senator Walsh died and appointed Walshs successor to fill the term His vigor and devotion to duties were noted as factors in his death
State Treasurer James J. Brett announces nearly two million dollars in state bonds will be paid on January 1 1936. He notes a reduction in bonds retired during his term from educational and highway issues, with detailed amounts for series D E and F bonds and funding bonds.
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