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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1944
Page
4
The Amer ican Legion Auxiliary will hold a regular meeting Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the Methodist church parlors. The program includes refreshments and the usual business. The group continues its fat collection drive for Chateau, urging members to donate fats to support the war effort and the boys overseas.
Mr and Mrs Al Nelson hosted guests including J Primus Lucille and Irene Primus Frank Timmerman Bill Berndt and families. Tonyed visits continued at several homes with Dirkes Toe nyes Burgmier Paulus and Gamradt households among others during the holiday period.
Twelve H D club women surprised Mrs. J G Johnson with a lunch and the Gold Star service Pin for a charter member. Frieda Schroeder visited Mrs. Robinson. Henry Weist hosted a New Year dinner. Malone found his car stolen in Chateau. Otto Schaefer and the Breding children recover from illness.
Pursuant to state office instructions, all parties with reserved lots in Chean cemetery must pay by March 1 1944 or the lots will be opened for sale to the public by order of the City Council. J G Tarkson Clerk. First pub Jan 6 last Jan 13. Our phone number is 3.
Pendroy residents share New Year gatherings and travels with G D Porter Fuller family and many neighbors. News details visits to Choteau and Conrad hospital frame a busy week with card parties and holiday meals.
The annual New Year's Eve ball sponsored by the Choteau Volunteer Firemen's Association, chaired by George O'Hare, is projected to net at least $100. A large Masonic hall crowd enjoyed the event with extended dancing past 2 AM and after parties around the city.
The British East India Company first gained a possession in India in 1640, establishing the city seaport at Madras as its initial foothold in the subcontinent.
Among the casualties returning to the United States from the Solomons are men who have lost their hearing not from injury or shock but from insect attacks on men without mosquito bar protection. We may never know how many lives the mosquito bar saved, yet regular and increasing War Bond purchases are necessary. U.S. Treasury Department
The Acantha reports district court business for 1943. Criminal actions totaled 1 with the Swayze case. Civil actions reached 17. Marriage licenses issued numbered 15. Other court work consisted mainly of routine probate actions.
Mrs Cora Cohoe of 1214 North Pear Street Olympia Washington reports the birth of a baby boy to Mr and Mrs Glen Boettcher in Olympia on December 15 naming him Donald Glen Boettcher. Mrs Boettcher is former Helen Cohoe and the husband is son of Jack Boettcher a veteran Great Northern agent at Bynum. The couple, graduates of Teton County High School, have lived on the west coast for years. Bale Years greetings are sent.
County Agent Glen Baird calls a meeting of the Teton County Planning Committeemen at the courthouse in Chateau on Tuesday January 11 at 1 30. Literature stresses the real importance of this meeting in view of war time and postwar conditions.
Washable slip covers can be laundered at home. Remove covers shake out dust then wash in lukewarm sudsy water. For hand washing use a plunger to agitate and rinse three times then wring and hang to dry. For a firmer look some starch after final rinse may help.
Quartermaster corps repair shops worldwide fix clothing and equipment for the army. Nearly three million items are repaired monthly in the United States and overseas bases supplement fixed shops. Excess items return to the U.S. for salvage and are processed at new sub-depots on both coasts.
Eighteen conductors have led the Marine Band since its founding. The band's first concert occurred in 1800.
The Farmington Ladies Aid plans a pot luck meeting at Mrs. Clarence Carlson’s home on Wednesday January 12 at 1 pm with men invited. The Farmington H D club hosts a Community Night at the Hall Friday January 14 at 7 pm with potluck, pie, a 15 cent charge, and a program led by Mrs. G I Tansen and Mrs. Howard Hanson.
The report details visits by the Slanger family to Mr and Mrs Batourski in Simms on Thursday. It notes Mr and Mrs Joe Le Desaky visiting the Wm Van Sletten home on Friday evening. Also mentioned are the Lambert Thoren family with son and the Tom De Boer household visiting others.
Local residents and families spent New Year's with relatives in Cho eau and surrounding areas. Guests included Adolph Atensmeyer and son with Dave Anderson. G Christman. Louis and Gottlieb Depner families. Howard Hanson and Peters household. G I Tangen John Oberfoell and others at Cal Binford home. Edna Otness returned to Shelby after holidays with Otness parents. Mrs Chalmers hospital stay noted. John Oberfoell hauled hogs to Great Falls. Pfc S W Lindseth’s New Year visit occurred before returning to camp.
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