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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1960
Page
1
The Northern Class B tournament opens at Choteau High with Sunburst and Browning in the first session. Chateau faces Conrad at 7 30 p m with Fairfield versus Valier in the late game.
Wildlife photographer Jim Bond visits Choteau March 4 and 5 with an all Montana color show. The program features The Sun River Elk with stereo sound and scenes from the Bob Marshall Wilderness plus two kodachrome shorts The Montana Fisherman and Trapping and Transplanting Mountain Goats. Tickets are selling fast through Glen's Radion TV and N and H Implement.
Winter brings back rugged weather to the Chateau area after a warm spell. Temperatures dipped below freezing most days last week, with a mix of snow and wind. Daily highs and lows for February 17 through 23 are listed, showing steady cold and occasional light precipitation.
Jim Dellwo won Chateau Toastmasters Club 1960 speech contest during Ladies Night. Finalists included Gibson Monkman and Bill Olsen. speeches titled A Bit of Local Color and Lets Keep the Government Out of Business. Judge panel included George Henderson Leo Murphy and Dominick Reed. Dellwo advances to district meet in Shelby on March 12.
Donovan Lee Stott three month old son of Mr and Mrs Leslie Stott died Monday at home 11 miles north of Choteau. Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Choteau Elders Andrew Jenson and Lester George officiated. Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens Great Falls. Survivors include parents two brothers Darrell and David two sisters Marcia and Beverly and grandparents Mr and Mrs Roy Stott of Bynum and ee Hamer of Stevensville. The Episcopal Guild pancake and sausage supper is planned for next Tuesday March 1 at the church basement.
About 30 farm and ranch representatives from across Teton county met last Thursday at the Lutheran Church in Choteau for a planning session. Extension agents and local residents reviewed long standing activities and set a new focus on reorganizing the county planning committee to identify problems and solutions. A temporary chair was elected, and members agreed to act as a provisional board with a second meeting planned for late March to elect officers and form committees.
Oliver Mauseth 70 of Choteau died at Teton Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church with burial in Choteau cemetery. He was born August 15, 1889 in Richland County North Dakota and lived on a farm near Choteau before retiring to town in 1955. He married Emily Carlson in 1918 and was active in local fraternal orders. Surviving are six sons, one daughter, 11 grandchildren, six brothers and three sisters. Numerous Mauseth relatives attend the service from Optstia Arlington Great Falls Simon and Choteau areas.
Toio Taskila, formerly of Nei hart, has taken over Bond's Repair Shop and has been there two weeks. The business now offers welding, repair, and wrecker service. Taskila has a family with two children.
Residents near Dutton will join a John Deere Day event sponsored by Cheet ham on Saturday. A free lunch at noon precedes a film showing with entertainment and farm life discussion. The program includes What's New, Od dities in Farming, The Gordon Family, and a tour of the John Deere Plow Works showing precision and automatic production.
The Daughters of the Nile sewing club shows many articles in the Howard's Department Store window. These items will be sent to three hospitals: Spokane Hospital for Crippled Children, Salt Lake Hospital, and Shreveport Louisiana Hospital.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Daniels and family and Mr and Mrs John Budd of Miles City visit Mrs Daniels parents Mr and Mrs Gus Kade. The men return home Monday while the women stay this week. Daniela and Budd will return this weekend to take the family home.
Shelby Bowling Center captured the team event with 1 784 at A and E Lanes Chateau in a three member format. Individual leaders included M Youngdale of Great Falls with 1 303 and Kay Zier of Choteau 1 251 with multiple other winners from Great Falls Shelby Conrad and Choteau across events. The two weekend tournament spanned back to back weekends.
A total of $83.90 was collected during red pin week at A and E Lanes for the heart fund. Bowlers in league play who missed knocking over the single red pin on their first ball contributed 10 cents to the fund in boxes near the scorekeepers tables.
Cascade Chouteau and Teton counties held a supervisor training conference in Great Falls. Attendees included William Vance of Choteau, work unit conservationist for Teton SCD, with Truman C. Anderson and Rex Campbell leading sessions. Lowell Holtz chaired the meeting for Cascade SCD with Sun River SCD as host. County extension agents also attended.
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Mason of Conrad stayed a couple of days this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Sprinkle.
Mrs. Olive Marie Duits 71 of Choteau died after a week long illness. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Choteau Methodist Church, Rev. Grant C. Moore officiating. Burial followed at Choteau cemetery with pallbearers O. G. Meadows John Van Setten Robert Miller Bill Van Setten J. I. Burch and George Sabo. Born December 14 1888 in Long Grove Iowa she moved to the area in 1917 and married Hie Duits December 19 1923. She was a housewife and member of the Rebeccas American Legion Auxiliary and W S C S. Surviving are her husband a daughter Lois Mae Clough three sisters George Carroll Helena Marshall King Great Falls Mae Oddenwald Seattle and two grandchildren. Relatives attended from Helena Kirkland Seattle and other towns. Pfc John Dombrowski U S Marine Corps Hawthorne Nevada attended from duty.
N and H Implement Co. will host an all day Pancake Day on Friday March 4 as the local International Harvester dealer. The event features door prizes a movie demonstrations and new equipment displays with free coffee and pancakes served all day.
Dr. J.R. Crabtree returned on Wednesday from Seattle where he attended the Northwest Contact Lens Conference for Optometry. Optometrists from the region studied new techniques in contact lens fitting and developments in the field, including applications for subnormal vision crossed eyes and progressive near sightedness in children and bifocal lenses.
The Teton County Republican Club will hold its annual meeting March 7 at 8 p.m. in the lower Legion hall in Chateau. Officers will be elected and an organizational plan for the coming year discussed along with other business.
Women interested in playing volleyball are urged to gather at the home of Mrs Gradon Green on Monday February 29 at 8 00 p m or call IN 6 2837 for details
Power Pirates crown champions of the District 12 Class C tournament at Chateau after beating Cascade Centerville and Simms Tigers. Simms takes second and advances with Power to Lewistown for the Class C divisional tourney March 3 4 5. Power led 23 20 at halftime then pulled away in the second half with balanced scoring led by Anderson Olson Williams. Augusta Elks win third place 45 40 over Best Huskies in a hard fought consolation.
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