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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
8
Mrs. Moore and her 10 year old son were swept to death at a swollen West Fork river crossing. With five younger children, youngest 18 months, left in an open wagon in continual rain for 48 hours without food before neighbors found them. The family planned to join the husband on Bannabel ranch near Opheim.
Deputies recovered a mother’s body in Daniels county after a flood left five children aged one and a half to seven hungry and exposed. Only one child wore shoes. rain soaked blankets protected them while the mother’s body remained missing until a sheriff’s search from Scobey began. The youngsters were taken to Richland for care.
A regional veteran affairs official urges eligible veterans to complete insurance reinstatements or conversions before the July deadline. Disabled veterans may reinstate by charging back premiums to the policy face value, or opt for a five year policy at similar net cost.
President Coolidge selects the Black Hills of South Dakota for a summer residence and plans to depart for the area in mid June. He will establish executive offices at Rapid City and travel there frequently, with Secret Service surveyor Cole W. Starling already sent to confirm arrangements.
Teton county cattle showing bone chewing behavior are the subject of an ongoing county extension study. A sample labeled Teton Soi was sent to Bozeman for phosphorus testing to assess mineral deficiency as a possible cause.
The M E Church invites all to Sunday school at 10 30 a m and morning worship at 11 30 a m with a sermon titled The Blessing of a Curse Special choir music and an Epworth League combined service at 3 00 p m followed by an evening service at 8 00 p m. Robert B Culbertson is the minister.
Tom Hardie, about 67, a sheep herder in the Augusta area employed by J. H. Carmichael, died at Chateau hospital from a complication of diseases after five weeks confinement. He was buried at Chateau cemetery at 2 PM yesterday, under direction of Mr. Carmichael. Hardie had lived in Augusta for about five years with unknown previous home or relatives.
Fairfield residents follow the Deaconess hospital graduation at Great Falls where Miriam Udin, daughter of Al Udin, joins the three year training class as a skilled young nurse. Her peers in the Fairfield community credit her care for local patients and hope for her continued service.
Historians are urged to study War Department files in Washington which include muster rolls from the Revolution onward, original accounts and orderly books, Revolutionary letters, Indian campaigns records, Confederate papers, Lincoln telegraphs from 1864 65, Johnson telegrams, and notes by Grant Lee Meade Hooker Pope Burnside McClellan Halleck and other generals.
The archive preserves surrender documents from Appomattox amnesty papers from the Civil War the Valley Forge oath of office 1778 including Lafayette De Kalb and other foreign volunteers and a facsimile seal of the Confederate states. Also kept are British brigade records Revolutionary war commissions Hancock signed orders quartermaster returns draft records and War Secretary letters from notable Americans.
A Kentucky youth leaves after church as he unties his horse. A minister corrects his use of a oath and the youth calmly explains he spoke his mind after thinking. The incident is reported as a brief anecdote from the Indianapolis News.
Gilbert Seldes writes in the Saturday Evening Post that John Alden Carpenter praises contemporary popular music as the most spontaneous personal and important American musical expression and predicts the year 2000 historian may mark Irving Berlin’s birthday as equal to American music’s birth.
Lost Sunday night near the Royal Theatre a gold setting cameo pin. Suitable reward offered for return to the Acantha office. Please contact Acantha.
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