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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
1
County Agent Robert Clarkson reviews the second annual Teton County Outlook issued this week. It covers banking, county finances, livestock, beef cattle, sheep, wool, dairy, hogs, grains, freight, and the world market, noting improving bank deposits, reduced county debt, and cautious optimism for 1929 in cattle, wheat, and grass resources.
Conrad high school girls basketball, winner of the Augusta tournament, lost 85 to 21 at Choteau. Ethel Morgan scored 33 for Teton, with Mary Core and Margaret Geldrich among substitutes. Conrad’s V Newman 9, M Staaf 8, L Newman 4 led scoring. second-string boys also lost to Teton Bull Dogs 30 to 23.
Great Falls chamber official O I DeSchon outlined a $500 publicity push for the Lewis and Clark National Forest highlighting Sun River canyon. The plan includes illustrated folders, air mail distribution, road signs, and supervised auto tours from Great Falls to Te ton canyon Sun River canyon and Blackleaf canyon with forest staff along. An accompanying forest service folder with maps is expected this spring.
A public sale was held Wednesday at the Sam Bozlee ranch near Farmington with J H Byler acting as auctioneer. A large crowd attended and reported a good sale. Mr Bozlee, a Farmington resident for several years, plans to move to Florence in the Bitter Root valley.
At the recent county commissioners meeting Sheriff J L Collings was told to stop leniency for drivers without licenses. Violators will be sent to court promptly to explain to the judge after the April first deadline.
The H S Light Opera presented The Crimson Suitor to a capacity audience in the Teton county high school auditorium. Miss Marguerite Vaughn directed her first year in the program from Leesburg Ohio and Earlham College. Florence Trescott led as soprano with Tommy Winner Gordon Holmes and Mary Sulgrove in supporting roles. The 16 member high school orchestra provided music before between acts and accompaniment for the Pickaninny choruses.
Three or four Joe De Young paintings will be shown at Great Falls annual art show. Works include The Point Rider and McDermott Falls in Glacier National Park and Jake McDonald Head, all owned by Chateau people. Fireat, painted in 1917, owned by James Eckford, once refused $300. Eckford also plans to include a De Young image owned by George M Coffey Jr.
Local foresters A. D. Moir and B. P. Martin attended an Augusta advisory board meeting where two full-time herders replace three part-time workers. An assessment of 62 cents per head will fund salting and herding for the coming season. The same day northern Lewis and Clark stockmen formed a protective association to combat cattle rustling with rewards.
John Mamuzick and John Frasco flew Sunday from Great Falls in Mamuzick's Wa co biplane. They landed near Trachot field north of town and took off again at dusk. Mamuzick, son of Rade Mamuzick, recently completed a flying course in Chicago and once piloted for Dr. Offerman of Great Falls. he holds a commercial pilots license.
L. E. Taylor, longtime local garage owner, announced a $15,000 brick and tile garage to be built on Main and Division in Chateau. Kind & Sons of Great Falls awarded the contract. work to begin soon with completion aimed for early June. A rear building will house extra storage and auto stock.
The Choteau all stars narrowly trail the state college Bobcats 97 23 at Great Falls last Saturday night. George Loomis and Dinty Moore each scored one field goal for the Choteau contingent among 23 points as 20 players saw action. Local spectators included several Chateau residents and students with transportation funded by local merchants.
Mrs. John Ruff, a Burton bench homesteader who filed in 1905 or 1906 and left for Elgin in 1920, died Monday at her daughter’s home in Elgin Illinois. She would have turned 80 next November. Her husband died about three years ago. She is survived by a son George of South Elgin a daughter Mrs Chas Petschew and two brothers B B Rogers of this city and Lewis Rogers of Portland Oregon.
J J Gergen sues Henry Dale in a foreclosure on a battle mortgage with a $326.33 judgment plus interest and fees. Farmers State Bank of Le Sueur sues Preston I Watson and others for several items: $2,000 $135.84 and $300 in attorney fees. An attachment case of W J Bradley against H R Bumgarner was dismissed last Thursday.
The city will test the fire siren at 1 o’clock Saturday March 23. Citizens are advised this is not a fire alarm. J. G. Jackson, Fire Chief.
Mrs. Bertha Hart grand worthy matron of the Eastern Star in Montana was guest of honor at a Saturday banquet in the Masonic temple banquet hall. The room featured Ireland’s patron saint colors with green carnations shamrock designs and green candles. About 100 covers were set. Afterward the lodge met and Mrs Hart received a handsome dish presented by Kyle Jones on behalf of the chapter.
E A Seekins of Gallup City visited Chateau on business. He raises mink as a sideline to oil drilling and reported a check for 167.20 for nine mink pelts averaging over 19.00 per pelt. Last fall he placed Nova Scotia Quebec mink with Teton Fur Farm Inc on a fifty fifty basis.
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