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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
5
Visitors and residents mingle in Choteau and nearby towns with reports of citizenship grants, medical visits, and social events. Officials discuss school staffing, carriages to a Guild meeting, upcoming high school construction, and a brass band fundraiser while oil drilling at Swift Current Boulder progresses after casing arrives.
The record covers a district court trial over a horse injury near Conrad and Chateau with a $7500 verdict, a water rights filing for 3500 second feet of Sun River N Fork by Interior Department agent, bounty payouts for coyotes and wolves burned by county officials, a Helena wedding of Julius Hirshberg and Dorothy Greenhood, and Peck reservation cattle checks noting no scabs found after inspecting 20 000 head, undermining cattle disease concerns.
One team of work horses weighing 1250 to 1800 pounds each, ages 4 and 8 years. Also a gentle milk cow. Contact Stephen Lindseth in Farmington.
J J Daley announces a June 24 1905 picnic in Acantha with R N Sutherland Rocky Mountain Husbandoaan delivering The Ideal Mountain Home and State Senator S F Ralston speaking on Alfalfa Culture. Chateau glee club provides music. All county residents invited to attend and bring lunch baskets.
At a board of county commissioners meeting the east half of block 18 and the west half of block 19 in Chateau were chosen as the courthouse site. Deeds are being secured and donated, with the building planned at the center of Main street between Lulu and Hazlett streets. Special session set for Friday to review plans and begin construction within six days.
Hamner the worthy grand matron of the state visited Fidel ity Chapter No 18 of the Order of Eastern Star. The meeting featured a decorated lodge room a color star centerpiece and a welcome address by Judge J E B Wrickson. A grand banquet followed at the Chateau house with thirty guests. Hamner left for Kalispell Tuesday morning.
C H Pearson and H L Pearson of Conrad sue the Great Northern Railway for 612.50 plus 8 percent interest from June 16, 1904 and costs claiming the line did not fence its right of way three quarters of a mile east of Cut Bank allowing a band of 175 sheep to be struck by a flyer. Plaintiffs allege the engine crew could have seen the flock for at least a mile but instead accelerated and drove through the herd. Legal demand for settlement has been refused. Attorneys Ren J Gair Choteau George H Stanton and J AG Mc Donough Great Falls.
Choteau citizens approved a Fourth of July celebration with a fundraising committee to cover expenses. Events planned include a $50 purse baseball game, horse and foot races, tug of war, a picnic, fireworks, and a dance, with a full program to follow next week. Also for sale two work horses two saddle horses a farm wagon at J B Degas harness shop.
Chicago cattle receipts reach 3,500 with prices from 1.40 to 6.50 for canners and calves. steers strong to 6.35 for good to prime. Sheep receipts 14,000 with lambs and ewes steady across the board. native lambs quoted up to 6.65, western sheep 4.50 to 6.50, lambs 4.60 to 5.25.
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