21 Feb 1917
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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1917
Page
1
The article urges residents of Chateau to beautify yards with flower gardens and trees, citing Mrs Christiansen as a model of neatness. It promotes pride, neighborly pleasure, and higher property values, and suggests contests and a future public park with depot-area lawns to lift the town’s appearance.
The community resumes school duties after eleven days off. Measly club members are listed and Agnes Higgins joins. Adelphia meeting postponed again. basketball games versus Cutbank reported with a 48 to 14 win. Freshmen dance follows the match. An extemporaneous essay contest will send top writers to Bozeman for grand prizes including a gold medal and four years’ tuition. Emphasis on civic improvement and the need for recreation and reading rooms.
The Montana legislature nears the constitutional limit with 441 house bills and 200 senate bills. both houses push to finish. The House proposed conferees to press Senate action, but the upper chamber delayed. Many important measures passed and sent to the governor, with several signed or awaiting signatures.
Lent begins February 21 with Ash Wednesday service and the first Lenten Sunday on February 25. Morning prayer and Litany at 10 45 with Sunday school at 11 45. All Sunday school children should attend next Sunday. Girls hold candy sales every other Saturday in Lent the first sale on March 3 to raise funds for the missionary assessment.
The court issued licenses this past week to Earl E. Mooney and Mary Almira Sands of Manson Wilbert Fee and Alice Garner of Cut Bank Forest Barrow and Vera Stewart of Browning.
The fragment notes Diogenes as unconcerned with expenses and not a fool, hinting at his austere philosophy and practical cleverness in daily life. The line pairs philosophical stance with a traits assessment, suggesting a concise biographical or didactic remark.
Quotations extol George Washington as the ideal leader. Lincoln Adams Kossuth Marshall and others celebrate his selflessness bravery wisdom and lasting influence on American freedom and nationhood. The excerpts urge honoring him by following his precepts and example.
Three Teton county flockmasters sold their 1917 wool clips at 40 cents per pound. Cole Brothers and C S McDonald of Chateau and Coffey and Wellenstein closed deals on Saturday for delivery to Eismann Brothers of Boston and Joseph Farquahar of a Boston house. Cole Brothers exported about 16 000 pounds while McDonald and Coffey Wellenstein total about 36 000 pounds.
The Great Western Sugar Company announces withdrawal from the Great Falls area for 1917 due to insufficient arable land and high grain prices. Assistant GM W L Lawson notes farmers would incur losses growing beets on shallow soil and urges deeper plowing and leguminous crops before reentry.
J A Baart outlines a calculation of yearly time usage across sleep recreation lunch Sundays lay-off Saturdays holidays vacation and sick leave to argue for a new labor union law. The piece notes Lawson information has hit a verification hurdle.
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