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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
2
Bozeman notes frozen storage affects Montana home foods. Freshness and variety matter, with glass tin or waxed containers kept airtight. Zero Fahrenheit storage best, avoid temperatures above ten degrees, and prevent thawing and refreezing. Extension agents offer bulletins on preserving foods by frozen storage.
Montana State board of equalization reports June gas tax receipts at 5 cents per gallon totaling 703770 dollars. This marks a gain of 127634 dollars from the same month last year.
Mrs. John Randall aged 53 died at her daughter’s home in Fort Shaw on Tuesday. Born Elda Abbott in Wilton Wisconsin in 1886, she taught in Wisconsin and North Dakota before marrying John Randall in 1908. The Randalls later ran ranches in Montana including Choteau and Augusta. She is survived by two daughters and four sons, with seven grandchildren and a twin sister in Fairfield. Funeral services will be held with pallbearers listed.
Services listed for July 28 include 11 a.m. Morning prayer and sermon by Rev. W. Friend Day, missionary. The entry notes a church service schedule and the visiting speaker for the day.
Twenty five years ago this week a new road between Choteau and Augusta was chosen to avoid Augusta ill. A Chicago firm rep secured leases for drilling oil or gas and C A Ladenberger of Iowa moved here in loan land and insurance. Gordon Ferris fractured a leg when thrown from a horse.
The Montana districts will keep 31 CCC camps operating through September 30 with 1,200 Montana men 110 war veterans and 4,890 men from other states. Projects include forest improvement range rehabilitation and soil erosion control in parks and wildlife programs. Montana sugar beet harvest expected to top 1,050,000 tons a new state record as acreages rise to 86,000 seeded this spring and yields near 12.5 tons per acre.
Bozeman July 238 Farmers and gardeners are advised to use rotenone an insecticide harmful to insects but harmless to humans and plants Dr H B Mills head of entomology at Montana State College says it is useful on cabbage tomatoes and other edibles The dusts control cabbage worms potato beetles cherry and pear slugs with one or two applications during feeding In some cases rotenone can replace Paris green or calcium arsenate for potato beetle control Two dustings may be needed if all eggs have not hatched before the first application
Montana farmers and stockmen earned 105 398 000 in 1939 up from 85 648 000 in 1938 per Washington DC agricultural department. Benefit payments reached 12 271 000 versus 8 539 000. crops brought 41 341 000 and livestock 43 521 000, rising from the prior year totals.
City Council of Choteau Montana has completed its preliminary budget for the current year. The budget is on file for inspection with the City Clerk. A meeting to fix the final budget and make appropriations will be held August 7, 1940 at 8 o clock P.M. in the city hall. Any taxpayer may appear and be heard for or against the budget.
Notice to creditors and all persons with claims against the estate of Herman Huisenga deceased to exhibit claims with vouchers within four months after first publication. Claims to be sent to administrator Isabelle Huisenga at Bert I. Packer office in Chateau Montana. Date July 8 1940.
The Acantha shares a week’s best recipe for Spiced Whole Cherries using seven pounds of cherries, four pounds of sugar, vinegar, water, cinnamon and cloves with step by step directions. It also notes cautions on attachments for vacuum sweepers sewing machines and belts on baking tips for cakes and muffins plus using leftover canning syrup for flavoring roasts waffles and pancakes.
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