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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
2
Congress rejects Townsend plan 3 to 1 but the administration pushes liberalized old age benefits next year with widows and orphans included. Payroll tax rises are delayed to 1943 while a moderate reserve fund is favored and pay as you go is emphasized with rising outlays projected through 1955 and beyond.
The 1937 Montana per capita revenue stood at 41.67 dollars while costs were 20.59. Total receipts reached 22,291,809. expenditures 20,096,331. Net debt was 9,850,125 with 18.41 per capita for general departments and 1,267,000 or 2.37 per capita for the water conservation board.
The Collins Booster Club met June 21 at the home of Eugene and Robert Quenemoen. Lila Reiquam demonstrated flour sack uses and Doris Reiquam spoke on dental care. A July 5 meeting at A. O. Reiquam’s home will feature games for a picnic, hair care talk by Kathryn Reiquam, and demonstrations by Eldon and Billy Reiquam.
Mrs Leonard Hart hosted the Just-a-Mere club meeting with Mrs Leslie Ortel as a guest. High score winners were Mrs Rollie Vaughn and Mrs Eva Graham. Pinochle games were played and refreshments were served.
A Montana rancher reports 24 of 68 hogs died after eating gophers poisoned with strychnine. The state livestock sanitary board notes this is among the first such cases nationwide and the state veterinarian says there is no danger to other hogs or to humans.
The state banking department issued a 10 percent dividend totaling 3003 to Brady Farmers' State Bank creditors, the fourth such payout bringing the total to 12014. Claims against the bank at closure stood at 30036. A 20 percent dividend totaling 15619 was paid to creditors of the Great Western Building and Loan Association of Kalispell, first since its closure with claims of 78094 approved by a district court May 12.
A poetic sermon on the Mount and nature as a sanctuary. It frames God as a living presence in the outdoors, urging man to seek the outdoors for worship and to embrace the idea that humans are the salt of the earth with responsibility and potential for the future. It contrasts modern roofs with timeless nature as divine meeting places.
Nine Montana counties plan to issue bonds to cover welfare arrears owed to the state welfare board if a Supreme Court ruling upholds a funding bond law. The board says $189,533 is due from counties in welfare payments through February. The counties Carbon Carter Daniels Fallon Jefferson Lincoln McCone Powder River and Richland are named in the suit filed in Carbon County.
In cooperation with the U S forest service the state fish and game commission will survey beaver across Montana this summer to relocate those causing damage in settled areas. Damaging highways irrigation ditches and summer homes will be trapped and released in forest districts where their dams conserve water. Trapping and transplantation will be done by M M Atwater of Essex employed by the state commission.
July 3, 1919 report notes Phil I. Cole J. C. Morgan Robert Clarkson Freeman Daley and J. J. Cain appointed to consolidate water rights ensuring equal access. Also highlights Judge Streeter and Paul Jacobson's sleepless Glacier Park vigil against bears. shoe repair shop opening. Salvation Army drive chairman appointment. two marriages in Chateau. Corporal Streeter's return. tennis club formed. a lengthy eastern motor trip. Cole Bros. circus coming. two Idaho weddings amid local social activity.
W. H. Fluhr of Belt was chosen president of the Montana branch of the National League of District Postmasters at the 17th annual meeting in Helena. A. T. James of Cascade is first vice president, Mrs. Hmma Schultz of Inverness is second vice president, and Mrs. Olga Dahl of Stockett is secretary-treasurer. Helena was selected as the 1940 convention city.
In the Ninth Judicial District of Montana Teton County a probate notice announces the will of Charles S. McDonald, deceased. The court schedules July 7, 1989 at 10:00 AM in Chateau for proving the will and for hearing C D McDonald’s request for Letters of Administration with the Will Annexed.
Notices to creditors in the estate of Adolph Martin request claims with vouchers within four months of first publication. The second item is an alias summons in Teton County Montana, to Randi Erickson Elmer Thompson and others for a quiet title action over land described in Section 19 and 29, Township 27 North Range 6 and 7 West, seeking declaration of plaintiff's fee simple title and injunction against claims.
Montana’s 12,200 aged recipients will receive $18 monthly for July August and September, up from $17 and $20.55 earlier. I M Bradford, administrator of the state welfare board, cites legislative underfunding and rising beneficiary numbers as reasons for the adjusted payments.
The state's income from agricultural products and federal farm benefits totaled 11,579,000 in the first quarter, up 550,000 from 1938. Livestock yielded 7,045,000, crops 3,163,000, and government payments 1,371,000. Returns surpassed early 1938, while benefit payments fell. In 1937 the first quarter earned 14,014,000.
The Office of the County Treasurer of Teton County Montana publishes a delinquent tax list for 1938 with names and property descriptions. Taxes costs and percentages must be paid to avoid sale of the liened property at public auction July 17 1939 in front of the county treasurer’s office Chateau Montana.
Public notice from Teton County Montana states Julius Hirshberg deceased. The First National Bank of Great Falls applies for letters testamentary and a hearing is set for July 7 1939 at 10 a m in Chateau Court Room. Any interested party may appear and contest. Court seal. Dated June 15 1939. Clerk H M Daley. Three publications June 22 29 and July 6.
Governor Roy E. Ayers appoints Billings attorney Howard Gullickson to the state board of education to fill the unexpired term of the late Reyn Leedom of Billings who died April 22 and would have served until February 1, 1943.
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