Local notes from Dupuyer to Chateau and beyond
C B Perkins and Henry Arnott of Dupuyer visit the city. Ed Hirshberg travels to Helena and possibly Missoula. Jos Hirshberg Co sells Clipper fanning mills. Father Phelan to hold services at Shelby and Coutts. Woodmen hall hosts a reading and social event. Lost spectacles in leather case. Ebb Rose of Green Lake sends a Seattle Times. J N Booth, Great Falls lawyer, recovering. Wheat deliveries top 5 000 bushels to Chateau Milling. Freight from Collins reaches its destination after delays. Mayfield Kentucky wedding James Pigg and Emma Stye noted. Women of Woodcraft party at Woodmen hall with games and lunch. Local weather predictor may join weather bureau. Jos Hanen returns to Chateau after Blackfeet trip. Drill sale offers no interest until April 1 1907. Everybody's friend comedy at local theater. County Commissioner George Miller ill with grip. family affected. Mint pool players challenge Beaupre and Mint for championship games. Otto C Miller of Bynum passes through on way home from Pipestone Springs for rheumatism treatment. Health improvement but not fully recovered. may return to springs.
Rose Returns to City After Ten Years in the West
Hugh A. Rose of Chateau, visiting the city this morning, says he has since traveled widely along the western coast, mainly through Oregon and California. He now works for the F cattle company and plans a return to the coast this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh A. Rose
Chateau
Mr. Rose
Oregon
California
F. Cattle Company
Subscription Appeal Urges Readers to Remit Dues
Acantha pleads for quick remittance of overdue subscriptions noting over $2,000 in bills sent last week. The appeal states the money funds postal costs and ongoing operations and stresses the need for readers to settle accounts promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acantha
Conrad to Get New Branch and Telephone Exchange
C H Draks of City Drug Store plans a May opening for a Conrad branch in a building to be erected for a bank run by Hon W G Conrad. Montana Telephone Co also to establish a local exchange in Conrad in early spring. A bill of sale records F G Johnson selling Maverick saloon and adjoining living house at Cut Bank to O A Cowley for 1400 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Draks
City Drug Store
Conrad
The
Acantha
W. G. Conrad
Montana Telephone Company
F. G. Johnson
Montana Brewing Company
Great Falls
O. A. Cowley
Cut Bank
Local cattle losses on Blackfeet Reservation disputed
John W. Kerr, spending winter on the Blackfeet reservation, visits the county seat and says reports of livestock losses due to recent cold weather are greatly exaggerated. He estimates overall losses at 15 to 20 percent, well below 50 percent, with some cows and calves dying but no dire prospect of larger declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Kerr
Blackfeet
Kerr
Cecil Yeager Seeks Free Mention and Buys Four Pigs
Cecil Yeager complained that the Acantha never mentions him unless paid. He bought four pigs and plans to raise his own meat, noting he has a good home furniture and a fine driving team. He has not found a wife to share his joys and sorrows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Yeager
Acantha
Cecil
Amended Act On Isolated Land Tracts For Sale
Prospective settlers learn of a new rule that isolates tracts become purchasable once surrounding land is entered. Minimum price is $1.25 per acre and parcels not exceeding a quarter section may be bought. District land officers must give at least 30 days notice before sale.
Knights of Pythias Anniversary Celebrated by Lodge No 12
Chevalier Lodge No 12 marked the forty third anniversary of the Knights of Pythias with about thirty members in their city lodge rooms last Tuesday. The evening featured card games ending near midnight and a luncheon. In whist, prizes went to Mrs. Geo Adlam and D L Doolittle while Mrs. J W Shields and Wm Hodgskiss earned the booby prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of the Knights of Pythias
Chevalier Lodge No. 12
Geo. Adlam
D. L. Doolittle
J. W. Shields
Wm. Hodgskiss
Saintmaking Triumvirate: Pulpit Press Gravestone
A preacher accuses editors of falsehood while the editor counters that any minister who reveals all truth about members, living or dead, could not preach beyond one Sunday. He argues the press and pulpit cooperate with whitewash, joining the gravestone in a saint-making trio.
For Sale Seven Pigs Four Months Old At Five Dollars Each
Five dollars per head. Enquire of Ed Dennis Chateau. Also society event: Everybody's Friend to be held February 22 at Woodmen Hall under the ladies industrial society auspices. Jos Dwyer improving after grip in Beaupre house. March first opens millinery store and dressmaking parlors in Dr F A Long building with stock to view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed. Dennis
Chateau
Ladies’ Industrial Society
Woodmen Hall
Stock stockmen report heavier snow in Sweet Grass region
Dr. H. Beaupre returned last Saturday from Sweet Grass where he has been for several days tending stock interests. He says more snow there than in Chateau but few losses in rock this winter as most stockmen are prepared to feed. He was accompanied by partner Hugh O’Neal who will visit here briefly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Beaupre
Sweet Grass
Chateau
Hugh O'Neal
Gamble Cleared of Malicious Canal Damage Charge
In Justice of the Peace DeHaas court last Saturday a jury found A. H. Gamble not guilty of injuring a portion of the Teton Co-Operative Company's canal. Gamble admitted filling the canal but argued it was to protect his own property, a claim the jury appeared to accept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice of the Peace DeHaas
A. H. Gamble
Teton Co-Operative Company
Frenchy Kealinger Faces Trial After Local Assault
Jacob Kealinger known as Frenchy, a Hotel McKenzie starboarder, is jailed on a warrant after a recent wife beating. He faces a February 28 hearing in Justice DeHaas court. A Farmington Co Operative Telephone company forms with $6000 capital and 400 shares to expand lines to Chateau Collins and Conrad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Kealinger
Frenchy
Farmington Co-Operative Telephone Company
H. R. Thompson
R. H. Wright
Ben Bollerud
Farmington
Chateau
Collins and
Conrad
Railroad Commission Bill Is Passed
Helena Feb. 19 The senate approved the Shaw Tudor railroad and warehouse commission bill by 26 to It faced strong Democrat opposition earlier but the measure passed in the senate and moved to the house for concurrence before being sent to the governor.
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Helena
Senate
Shaw-Tudor Railroad and Warehouse Commission
White
House
Public sale at Thompson Brothers ranch near Arming ton
The undersigned will sell at public auction four miles northwest of Arming ton on Saturday March 9 1907. Six head of horses one milch cow two yearling heifers two wagons one spring wagon two mowing machines two hay rakes one sulky plow two walking plows one disk one harrow set of blacksmith tools household furniture and other articles. Terms cash under ten dollars otherwise six month credit on approved notes at 10 percent interest. No removal before settlement. Pau Jaconsoy Auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armington
Insurance Rate Cut Confirmed After San Francisco Fire
State Auditor Cunningham received a telegram last week announcing withdrawal of the 25 percent insurance rate increase effective January 1. A circular from the local Pacific Underwriters manager confirms the cut and warns all Montana fire insurance agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunningham
Board of Pacific Underwriters
San Francisco
Montana
Everybody's Friend at Woodmen Hall February 1907
Cast list for the three act comedy drama Everybody's Friend by the Ladies' Industrial at Woodmen Hall. Notable roles include Mr Featherly Dr O A Kencek Major Wellington DeBoots Mrs Swandown maid Ethel Johnson and John Burrell with scenes set in Clapham Maida Hill and a room in Mrs Featherley's house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Industrial
Woodmen Hall
A. B. Guthrie
DeBoots
Fanny
John Burrell
Everybody’s Friend
Mr. Featherley
Clapham
A. J. O. Longmuir
Words to Live By Embrace Kindness and Ignore Faults
A motivational passage urges forgetting neighbors faults and slander, focusing on friends good points. It advises avoiding quarrel memories and starting each day with a clean sheet to write only lovely things, promoting happiness and community uplift.
Farmington Notes On Town Hodgepodge Of Local Happenings
Weekend social visits fill Farmington pages as Miss Crittenden Miss Anderson and others travel to the county metropolis. I R Snedegar shows improvement, expecting to return in about ten days after a foot injury. The Warmers Co operative Canal company holds its annual meeting in District No 7 schoolhouse for officer elections.
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Miss Crittenden
Miss Anderson
I. R. Snedegar
Selma
Sella Peterson
Farmington
George Twedt
Halvor Hanson
Great Falls
Warmers’ Co-operative Canal Company
End of the Large Outfits in Northern Montana Foretold
The winter will hasten the closing of big cattle outfits in northern Montana as farmers and small stock raisers take their place. Cowboys with woolly chaps and big spurs give way to milking cows and plowing, ending cowpunching as a lost art and pushing riders to other life pursuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Valley County News
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. B. Perkins
Henry Arnott
Dupuyer
City
Ed. Hirshberg
Missoula
Jos. Hirshberg & Co
Phelan
Shelby
Coutts
Woodmen ‘Hall
John Hawley
Ebb Rose
Green Lake,Wash
Teton County
Seattle Times
J. N. Booth
Columbus Hospital
Chateau Milling and Power Company
Burton Beach
Collins
Hoteau Merchants
Dakotas
Mayfield
Kentucky
James Pigg
Emma Stye
Woodcraft
Teton
Weather Bureau
Jos, Hanen
Blackfeet Reservation
George Miller
Mint
Beaupre House
Otto C. Miller
Bynum
Pipestone Springs
Mr. Miller
Tillman
Washington
Jos. Dwyer
Pondera Bar
MONAHAN @ EFRANKLIN
Conrad, Montana
Railroad Commission
Thompson Brothers
Pau Jaconsoy
Mr. Featherly
Dr. O. A. Kencek
Myr
Harris
Wellington DeBoots
Drill
H. H.cole
W. B. Butchart
Setae
K. G. McLean
Chas, Parker
the Mint
Gay Franklin
Phil I. Cole
Choteau
John E. Burke
John B. Burke
J.G. Barr
Malin Street
Deton County
Jouan E. Dehaas
J.G. Bath
Lrst
Jolius Bjornstad
Juius Bjornstad
Phil. S. Cute
Storwald Biornstad
Julius Bjornstad
Put. I. Cone
W. W. Cone
First Pub
Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
GreatttFfalls, Montana
Timothy Buckley
Wm. Geo. Davis
U. 5
John Hall
Henry Jacobson
Patrick Tl. Buckley
Olaf Field
J. M. Burlingame
Register
Louis Peterson
Tillie Twedt
Colling
Miss Twedt
Minnesota
Minot
North Dakota
Choteau -Collins
Montana & Great Nor
Thern Railway
Passen
Gers and Express
James Pexbles
William Hodgskiss, Propr
St. Clair
Mont
Chothau
Airshaberg
Choteau, Montana
Safe Banking
Ben. Feist
OF Collins
Mr. Feist
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