Free Farm and Ranchers Show at the Roxy Theatre
The town invites farmers and ranchers to a free stage and screen show at the Roxy Theatre this Friday afternoon February 20 featuring magic music and entertainment.
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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1948
Page
5
The town invites farmers and ranchers to a free stage and screen show at the Roxy Theatre this Friday afternoon February 20 featuring magic music and entertainment.
A crowded Chateau social round includes stork shower honors for Lois Clough, multiple bridge dinners and visits by local residents to Great Falls Bozeman and Kalispell. Events cover marriages licenses, birthdays and anniversaries, and community business calls with names such as Nelson Erickson Murphy Krueger Glass. Local officials and veterans are mentioned along with travel to Long Beach and Mardi Gras trips.
Citizens debated reducing districts to widen the tax base and avoid repeated spring levies. They urged a sound income for schools via state property, federal, luxury or sales taxes and planned a state wide initiative with delegates from all Montana counties. Jesse K. Peckenham chaired as the Montana PTA drives the reform effort.
The first written constitution in history was drafted in Hartford Connecticut in 1639. It was called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and established colonial governance principles.
C D Trexler of Bynum was appointed inspector for the Western Quarter Horse Association of California. He notes rising popularity of the quarter horse in the East and West for stock work, racing, rodeo events, and show rings. He cites strong demand for well broke horses and explains racing quarter horses descend from thoroughbreds.
Young men of Bynum hosted an oyster supper drawing about 100 attendees and netting 60 dollars for the local baseball team. Tables shone with decoration while married men served desserts and the main course.
The Zeigler family celebrated G B Zeigler s 85th birthday with a pat luck supper last Friday at Chateau. Present were relatives including Glen Wiseman and family, Ernest Carlson and others. He received a 50 year IOOF medal and has long ties to Masonic lodge. Zeigler moved from Illinois to Montana in 1917 and now resides east of Spring Creek.
The senior class of Chateau High School presents a three act comedy mystery around April 9. The play titled The High School Mystery is by Robert St. Clair and directed by Annabelle Cruikshank. Presented under special arrangement with Northwest Press of Minneapolis Minnesota. Further details will follow.
Warden Opie of Rock Springs Wyoming and Mrs H Wiggs of Nampa Idaho, children of the late Rev and Mrs James Opie of Augusta, attended Wednesday visits at St Stephens rectory in Augusta for their mother’s funeral. The mother was preceded in death by her husband three months earlier.
The Rev Theodore Burleson is removed from charge of St Stephen's Episcopal Church Choteau and forbidden to lead any services in the Diocese of Montana. Bishop Henry H Daniels disclaims responsibility for debts incurred since his resignation February 1.
The first commercial telephone exchange in the world opened in New Haven Connecticut on January 2 1878 with 40 subscribers. A directory listing 50 names followed the next month.
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