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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1914
Page
8
Greenfield Grange No 52 held an officer installation Saturday night with a post event program lunch and a dance attended by about 70 people. State Master Young attended. Local residents including Oscar Young and wife and niece Mrs Seliers of Great Falls visited the beach. Other townfolk traveled to Limington Chateau and Choteau for trains and visits.
A large crowd attended the Friday night dances at Simms and at Mr. O Neill s. The events ended with all reporting a fine time as the community notes progress with local improvements and visits. Florence Crittenden returned from Chateau Friday while Mrs Chas Frey visited Limington. The glorious weather continued on the beach and Geo Harris began a new large barn project improving the area.
Elevators at Bynum completed and crews have left town. Grain receipts at both elevators. Vinson builds a cozy home on First Ave North and will move his family after completion. Drayman Stuart finishes a well on First Ave North with three feet of water in a fifteen foot well. Depot nearing final interior work and is a town asset. Skating party at the lake north of town with 15 to 20 attendees reports a good time. Johnson of Cascade plans a new hotel and will run a saloon there until hotel is ready. hotel to open by June first. Mrs. Bellany returns to North Dakota after visiting her sister Mrs. Porter. Bruswen hotel building leased and will open about February 1.
The town of Collins approves the new school building as School Master Mr. Moulton and pupils settle in. Special services are planned for Thursday night January 29 in the school house. Ira A. Thompson returns from Great Falls with his ill daughter Laure who has pneumonia but is improved and hopes for a speedy return.
E J Steves and A Noreen made a business trip to Chateau Thursday last. Mr Smith began work digging a large well for Earl VanHorn. Porter Johnson plans a public sale of personal property Thursday Jan 22. Miss Williams arrived from her school south of Collins and attended Sunday school and services. Mr Betcher spent two days last week with his wife and baby near Collins on the way to Bynum.
A Quebec monastery at Okun demonstrates agricultural progress through science and hard work. In thirty years a thousand acres of barren rocky land became productive, tracing back to 1881 when the Okamonke first landed in Canada after displacement from La Vendee.
A board of trade may be formed in any community where trading interests justify it. Its aim is to unite traders and others for local development or protection with a proper constitution and membership fees. Every town should consider forming one and seek advice from the nearest secretary for constitution and bylaws.
Belgian geologist M Putot estimates ancient Belgium populations across periods. Lower Aurignacian caves housed 50 60 people. Magdalenean time about 60. post ice retreat up to 100 150 near lakes. Forests of Ceryides may reach 1,000 rising to 4,000 5,000 at the start of the polished stone age.
George B. Luks tells a critic in his New York studio the remark is original and amusing. He compares the critic to a colored laundress in the Uffizi Gallery who, viewing Correggio’s angels, laments that saints are the last to tolerate bad laundry work.
Cape Times defends ostrich farming in a leading article noting the bird’s pampered life and the commercial value of its feathers. It argues feathers are harvested without cruelty, comparing the process to shearing and highlighting the animals’ long life.
Two Austrian makers create a clock whose motive power comes from air blowing on a turbine wheel. A kitchen stove air current can run it, with a pipe feeding air to the clock. A clever regulator slows the speed, and the device also acts as a ventilator in a restaurant at Ungmarkt.
Two women with a baby entered a well known carpet seller last summer and asked to view rolls. The salesman showed one roll after another as the heat rose and the pair delayed, planning to catch a train after the baby watched the rolls unfold.
The account recalls Gov. Locke Craig at a dining event where he jokes about John Henry and a cafe date. A playful anecdote centers on a lover’s claim of having “all that I want” after a mistaken still hungry moment. The punchline: the waiter handed him the dill.
An American Hebrew account details Warsaw police constable Dovich Yablonsky’s fifty years of service. Appointed in 1863 by Grand Duke Constantine for Crimea War valor, he served 42 years as a constable, later moving to the clerical department. Now 88, he holds decorations and receives praise, rubles, a watch, and a message from his guard regiment. He remains Orthodox and has permission to attend synagogue on Saturdays and festivals.
A landlady plans to print the story to attract renters. In reply to a prior ad, a recently humbled couple and their daughter arrive as paying guests. The mother longs for lost grandeur while the child prays for a return to better days in a well furnished room.
The article recalls the close rivalry and camaraderie of pitchers Mathewson and McGinnity on the New York team. When one faltered the other would urge him on then swap places, trading taunts and support as they faced hitters together. McGraw praised their combined wisdom as the reason for the team’s success.
Tom McNeal relates stories about Colonel Johnson landlord of the City hotel in Holton. In this tale a traveling man asks for a cigar. Johnson offers five and ten cent brands but calls him a fool after the drummer seeks a better smoke.
F. J. Haskins of North Adams Massachusetts preserves a collection of hand made Halls from an old house. The steel nails are nearly as durable as newly driven ones though crude in shape and many with heads on only one side. They remained in the building for forty years.
The Acantha lists blanks for water rights affidavits mortgage assignments and releases, real estate quitclaim deeds, attachments and chattel mortgages, school warrants and report cards, township plats, and pamphlet booklets. It advertises prompt fulfillment and high quality printing in Montana.
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