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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1940
Page
1
A resident recounts finding a gray cat emaciated and dead from poison, joining two other similar cases in twenty seven years. The piece links the cat deaths to a broader mystery of violence, noting a prior Chateau Fairfield road tragedy involving two children and a fatal car collision.
The author muses on humanity’s greed and the terror of war and nature, noting life becomes bleak when greed dominates. He contrasts belief in hell with restraint, suggests death is unknowable, and ends with a seasonal note: forty above at ten a.m. indicating spring’s near.
A senior chamber of commerce was launched last Thursday in the Chateau grade school auditorium with about 40 attendees. President Carl Wedum led the session and officers were elected, with over 50 already signed up and dues paid. membership aims for about 75.
A fire at the CCC camp mess hall in Augusta early Tuesday destroyed the wooden building. Losses totaled 3700 in the structure and 1300 in supplies mostly food. Capt. Joseph S. Harbison called Fort Missoula CCC HQ for four trucks with shelters, kitchen gear, and food to ration enrollees until new quarters are built.
A Monday morning hearing at the courthouse before Clerk H. M. Daley examined the U.S. government's contest of Iver Lestrud's homestead entry on land beside Joe White's dude ranch along the north fork of the Te ton. Government witness Freeman Page and wife plus investigator Al B. Kimble testified, with Ivor Lestrud, Joe White, and Dr. E. J. Crary for the defense. B. A. Heron led for the government and Geo. Coffey for the defense. testimony will be transcribed and sent to the Great Falls land office for study and decision.
As a child, it seems a matter of a check rein. for collegians, a rain of checks to them. The line shifts from parental guidance to campus fundraising dynamics affecting student finances.
To those who know Montana such a day is apt to be one of nature's treacherous death lures. Only too often has, each a day ended in a death-dealing blizzard.
The Chateau Racketeers host Great Falls DeMolay alumni on their home floor next Wednesday February 14 at 8 15 pm. Great Falls led by Jimmie Young and Fred Cole are rated the locals' stiffest foe, having only one defeat this season. The week’s results include a 59 36 win over Dutton and a 56 47 setback to the Great Falls Valet Cleaners with eighth graders beating the high school freshmen in a prelim.
City council, during a Monday session, tabled a petition to limit liquor dispensing venues and ban cocktail lounges with dancing until a thorough sentiment analysis is completed. The meeting granted remodeling permits to Ben Chalmers for Main street work and gas water heater/plumbing permits to Ray Fleming and Bill Schnug. The Cut Bank Refining Co. applied to run a service station and bulk plant south of the jail, but the action was tabled.
Warm Springs hospital representatives chased Johnny Yeager who fled toward the Teton river after leaving the facility a day early. Abbott was recaptured at Maynard's hospital as Yeager and deputies pursued him. Parole papers for Yeager are being mailed while authorities drop the chase.
State supreme court fixed February 26 for a hearing on the suit appealed by a Missoula moving picture house manager after District Judge Albert Besancon ruled that theater bank night schemes are lotteries. The final outcome awaits as bank night programs continue in many communities.
Henry Ritzschke, 80, died at his home two miles south of Baker school last Sunday night. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p m at the Lutheran church in Dutton with Rev. Mc Kane officiating. Born in Germany on March 10 1860 he came to America as a youth and lived in Teton county 25 years before homesteading near his death site. He never married and his body was taken to Dutton earlier today by Banks Funeral Home ambulance.
Lions club members plan to hear A. G. Hay a noted trapper and explorer at the regular meeting next Tuesday night. Hay a former Great Falls resident has trapped and explored Northern Alaska and the Arctic Circle and he will display furs and share life in the far north.
Six occupants of a Dutton bound car from Chateau to Dutton in heavy fog last Tuesday suffered cuts and bruises when the vehicle skidded on ice at a sharp turn. Driver Rafter did not see the bend in time. the car turned on its side. Mrs Olson, the most seriously injured, was taken to Great Falls hospital for X rays.
The Teton Bulldogs beat Power high school 53 to 25 in a double header opener on home court. Reserve players Vick Haschke and LeDesky showed promising rebounding and hustle while Schmitz sat injured. The team heads to Browning Friday and Dutton Saturday with band and pep squads joining.
A court of honor and pot-luck dinner for Boy Scout Troop 51 kicks off the 30th anniversary observance of the Boy Scouts of America. The event on Feb 15 at the Masonic hall features merit badge and rank advancements, with a White House broadcast featuring President Roosevelt.
Pendroy National Farm Loan Association held its annual meeting in Pendroy on Tuesday February 6 electing two new directors and listing the board for the year as Nick Wellenstein W J Earls Garnet MacDonald H J Moon and Harry Wellenstein The group finances loans for the Federal Land Bank of Spokane on wheat farms and stock ranches at 4 percent interest amortized over twenty years The 1939 operations report showed a large year over year increase with total loans of 567000 and assets around 30000 with no capital impairment The talks covered changes in Farm Credit Administration crop insurance soil and range conservation and their impact on farm credit The association serves Pendroy Chateau and operates in Teton and Pondera counties.
The organizers of the annual Lincoln Day Republican dinner postponed the event planned for Monday night February 12. They cited conflicts including many local Republicans attending a Helena banquet honoring Thomas B. Dewey, making a second dinner soon after impractical, along with other scheduling pressures.
Relatives here learned of the death Sunday in Canisteo New York of Mrs Charles A ante a sister of Mrs C S McDonald. Mrs McDonald had visited her sister in New York last fall. Her passing was not unexpected as she had been in poor health for some time.
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