Johnson Recalls China's Far Reaches On Lions Club Visit
Raymond Johnson Montana Extension service range management specialist shared a vivid travelogue of China and Tibet never seen by a white man. He spoke to about 120 farmers at the Chateau Lions Club detailing soil practices, land use, and lessons for U S conservation drawn from a 1944 government advisory trip to Chiang Kai-shek's China.
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China
Tibet
Raymond Johnson
Range m
Montana Extension Service
Chateau Lions Club
Teton County
Johnson
Lions Club Hall
Asia
United States
Main
U S
Chiang Kai-shek
No Opposition On City Slate Next Monday
Incumbents seek reelection in Chateau ret city election on April 2. Mayor K E Sarys and Robert W Gronberg enter races for mayor and treasurer respectively, replacing Fred Barribal who did not run. Ward 1 councilmen Obert Peterson and Kk R O'Neil seek reelection. Ward 2 incumbents Joe Knudtzon and A J Barton also run. Polls open 8 am to 6 pm at Legion hall and ward 2 hall.
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Chateau Ret
Legion Hall
C., Hall
Fred Barribal
K. E. Sarys
Robert W. Gronberg
State President of Church Women To Visit Here
Ms Lowell Johnson of Butte, state president of the United Council of Church Women, will visit the Local Council of Church Women next Wednesday afternoon April 4 at the Chateau Methodist church. She will speak on the biennial assembly ecumenical register and the national council. The Women’s Society of Christian Service will serve a no host luncheon at 1 15 pm with the meeting starting at 2 pm. Women from Chateau Pulfleki Dutton and nearby areas are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell Johnson
Butte
United Council of Church Women
Jocal Council of Church Women
Chateau Methodist Church
Council
Ecumenical Register
National Council
Winnan
Society of Christian Service
Chateau
Pulfleki
Dutton
Eugene Manuel Services Held In Great Falls
Funeral services were held in Great Falls for Forrest Eugene Manuel 29 of Fairfield who died of a heart attack at a Great Falls hospital. Burial followed at Highland cemetery after services conducted by Rev. Robert Livingston. He was born January 2 1922 in Winnett moved to Fairfield with his parents in 1934 and lived there 17 years working as a farmer and at Mark's Texaco. He is survived by his wife Nellie two daughters Linda Lou Kathy Jean his parents Mr and Mrs Archie Manuel and brothers James and Rex Manuel all of Fairfield.
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Great Falls
Forrest Eugene Manuel
Fairfield
Highland Cemetery
Robert Livingston
Croxford Chapel
Manuel
Winnett
Fairfield Bench
Teton County High School
Chateau
Mark
Texaco
Nellie
Linda Lou
Kathy Jean
Archie Manuel
James
Rex Manuel
VFW Seeks Rifle Gear for Funeral Services
Veterans of Foreign Wars post appeals to owners to surrender rifles or VFW funeral equipment to Bud Arensmeyer in Choteau immediately.
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Bud Arensmeyer, Choteau
Funeral Service For J H Rafter Held Monday
Funeral services for Richard Henry Rafter 77 Agawam were held Monday at the W H George chapel with Rev H Alfred Rogers and the Chateau lodge 44 AF AM officiating Interment followed in Highland cemetery Great Falls The body lay in state at Banks Funeral home Chateau until Sunday afternoon Rafter longtime manager of the Montana elevator at Agawam died Thursday He was born June 15 1873 in Arthur Ontario moved to the area in 1945 He married Ethel Garrison January 15 1910 Survivors include his widow two daughters a son and 17 grandchildren plus lodge and shrine memberships Pallbearers were members of the Chateau Blue lodge
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H. Alfred Rogers
Chateau Lodge
AF & AM
Highland Cemetery
Great Falls
Banks
Chateau
Rafter
Montana
Agawam
Arthur
Ont
Towner
N. Dak
Ethel Garrison
Ed Lynch
Stanford Skelton
W. G. Rafter
Three Forks
Teton
RAM
Bethany Commandery
Algeria Shrine
Helena
Scottish Rite Masons of
Great Falla
Jess Malone
Chet Paarne
Art Tesch
Chick Sulgrove
C. R. Poore
Marion Averill
Choteau Blue Lodge
State Income Tax Returns Due in April
State income tax returns are being filed with the state board of equalization in Helena at a similar rate to last year. Archie BE. Simon chairs the board with Sam D. Goza and C. A. Robinson as members. About 158000 returns were filed last year and about 160000 are expected this year. April 15 is the deadline and all 1950 returns are due now. Early filing helps auditors correct errors. late returns create backlogs. Blank forms and instruction sheets are available from the board.
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State Board of Equalization
Helena
Archie BE. Simon
Sam D. Goza
C. A. Robinson
Audit Board
Rabies Alarm Eases as Vaccinations Undertaken
In Chateau and Pendroy residents rushed to vaccinate two dozen dogs after a Pendroy dog bit by a porcupine acted oddly. Dr. Fisher, deputy state veterinarian, said rabies is unlikely unless proven by analysis, with results expected from Billings soon.
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Chi Mi
B’’O. Fisher
Great Falls
K. £. Sturgis
Harry Swahson
Cests
Billings
Swanson
Chateau and Pendroy
150 Youths Compete For Top Awards At FFA Convention
About 150 youths from seven Glacier district FFA chapters attended the Fairfield convention last Friday and Saturday. Competitions covered meats, ag test, live stock judging, rifle, farm shop, grain and forage, public speaking, talents, FLP.A test, and horseshoe contests with winners listed for each event and a district banquet following.
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Adele Bueling
Glacier District
F.F.A
Fairfield
Walier
Browning
Choteau
Conrad
Cascade Simms
Cascade
Simms
Valier
Chateau
Future Homemakers of America
City Weighs 2 Percent Punchboard Tax
The March city council instructed the city attorney to draft an ordinance taxing punch boards at two percent in line with state legislation. The council approved continuing bid notice advertising for a sewer improvement in district No 23 with bids opening April 2 and a 10 percent bid deposit. A permit was granted to Steve Strong to relocate his residence from Jackson's first addition to Hazlett's addition.
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Steve Strong
Jackson
Hazlett
Dog Tags Urged for Chateau Pets in City Notice
Chateau residents are urged to buy 1951 dog licenses for their dogs. The city council warns that unlicensed dogs will be picked up, and owners must purchase tags immediately to avoid seizure.
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Chateau
Legion Auxiliary Meeting Set With Scout Program
The American Legion auxiliary will hold its next regular meeting on April 2 at 8 o'clock. Local girl scouts will present the program and officers urge good attendance.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Frank Stearns Suffers Rib Injury After Fall
Frank Stearns fell from a ladder, breaking a rib but sustaining non life threatening injuries. He received first aid and is expected to recover fully.
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Frank Stearns
Young Timers Affair Planned at American Legion Hall
Preparations finished for the annual Young Timers event this Saturday night March 31 at the American Legion hall in Chateau. Tickets total about 200 for the dinner and dance with a six piece orchestra and Trinity Lutheran ladies aid serving. Tickets available from listed local organizers in Chateau Fairfield Dutton Agawam Parmland and surrounding towns.
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American Legion Hall
Chateau Ase
Trinity Lutheran Ladies Aid
Credit Loans Now Available To Farmers
Emergency credit is available to Teton county farmers who had substantial losses last year due to production loss. Kenneth W. Christian, county supervisor of the Farmers Home Administration, notes the 1950 weather damage led to disaster area designation under Public Law 98. Disaster loans may finance feed, seed, fuel, or other farm needs and additional funds support regular adjustment loans. information is available through the Farmers Home Administration office.
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Teton County
Kenneth W. Christian
Farmers Home Administration
Hall
Fairfield
Wedding of Morsnaay Heal and Joseph George Dusalt
At Centerville home on March 17 a 1 p.m. ceremony joined Morsnaay Heal daughter of Mr and Mrs George Heal to Joseph George Dusalt of Cheat Falls. Wesley and Florence Higgins attended with Elmer Baker and Mrs Higgins. A turkey dinner followed for the wedding party and a reception was held in the evening.
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Elmer Baker
George Higgins
George Jr
Wesley
Florence Higgins
Nice
Morsnaay’ Heal
Centerville
Joseph George, Dusalt
Cheat Falls
George Heal
Indian Bishop to Speak at Chateau Methodist Friday Night
Bishop Clement D. Rockey head of the Lucknow area Methodist church in India will address Chateau Methodist church Friday at 7 30 pm. He tours Montana towns sharing a mission message and will visit Glacier National Park on Saturday. He was born in Cywnpore to missionary parents and earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1913 before leading Sareilly Theological Seminary.
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Clement D. Rockey
Methodist
Lucknow
India
Chateau Methodist Church
Bishop Rockey
Montana
Glacier National Park
Rocky Mountain
Cywnpore
United States
University of Chicago
Sareilly Theological Seminary
Indi
Rockey
Girl Scout Banquet Celebrates Birthday With 225 Attendees
More than 200 join the Green and White banquet at Legion hall on March 15 to honor the girl scout birthday. Mrs. Joe Briscoe presides as council president and Reverend A Bernard Grandal delivers the invocation. Leaders and officers are named. 83 active scouts are listed with multiple leaders. Candles on green and white cakes mark the date March 12, 1912, the first troop formation.
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Legion Hall
Joe Briscoe
Scout Council
A. Bernard Grandal
Jaumette
Rolliees
Olga Monkman
Marge Hanusa
Dorothy Boussard
Speaker to Address Group at Great Falls
Russell Wright, world affairs commentator, speaks at the Civic Center theater in Great Falls next Thursday night April 5 at 8 15 p m under Our Saviors Lutheran brotherhood. Tickets on sale in Chateau from Rev A Bernard Gravdal. Wright, a photographer and reporter, discusses Eyes on Scandinavia and shows an all color motion picture of Sweden Norway Denmark and Finland. Program lasts two hours.
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Russell Wright
Civic Center
Great Falls
Our Saviour’s
Lutheran Brotherhood
Chateau
Bernard Gravdal
Wright
Scandinavia
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Finland
Square Dance Planned at Sunny Slope Hall
4 H square dance scheduled for Friday 8 p.m. at Sunny Slope community hall. Miss Helen Hansen to teach the evening for teenagers. Admission 50 cents for boys over 10, club reporter Mary Jean Kind states.
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Sunny Slope
Helen
Hansen
Mary Jean Kind
Music and Literature group postpones meeting to April 4
Officials of the Music and Literature group today announced the club meeting is postponed until Wednesday April 4.
Boy Scout Clothing Drive Slated For March 31
A one day Boy Scout drive aims to collect wearable clothing for urgent needs abroad. Chateau residents should place clean items at their door by 9 am for pickup and sorting by VFW auxiliary members.
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Chateau
VFW
Don McGinnis Weds Connie Manley in Billings Rites
Connie Manley daughter of Montague residents and Don McGinnis son of Chateau couple wed at the First Methodist parsonage in Billings. Attendants were Edith Manley and Fred Katzenberger. The bride taught in Beachland and plans to resume teaching. McGinnis, Navy veteran and Benton funeral director, will report to Seattle for naval duty.
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Don McGinnis
Connie Manley
Billings
John Manley
Montague
Connie
A. H. McGinnis
Chateau
A. C. Caton
Edith Manley
Fred Katzenberger
Miss Manley
McGinnis
Chateau High School
St. Louis College of Mortuary Science
South Pacific
Benton Funeral Home
Fort Benton
Mexico
Signup Days Set Next Week All Over County
Teton county ACP hand books were mailed to coopera tors this week. Jake Luinstra, Teton County PMA chairman, announced. Community signup days have been scheduled as listed. Local PMA community committeemen will have charge of the meetings and will be assisted by county office personnel. Meeting will begin at 9 o'clock and will close at 4 o'clock.
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Teton County
ACP
Jake Luinstra
PMA
Luinstra
Dutton and
Diamond Valley
Dutton Farmers Machinery
Fairfield
Aragon Hall
Greenfield
Power
Power High School
Bynum
Perkin’s School
Pendroy
J. A. Swanson
Bole
Legion Hall
Choteau
Chotesi
Farmington
Beck
Beck School
Collins
Collins Community Hall
Agawam
Girls Group Wins First in Radio Contest
The first radio contest program of Chateau talent on station KMON March 18 drew strong crowds. Four groups auditioned at Moose hall and performed at 7 30 p m Sunday night. The Sunshine Gals won overall with June Baumgartner Sandra Hanusa Diana Swenson Barbare Johnson Joan Schneider forming the sextette.
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KMON
Moose Lodge
Moose Hall
Patsy Edwards
Joan Richem
Fern Cherry
Mary Lynn Olsen
Laura Ann Olsen
Joe Bowers
The
Sunshine Gals
June Baumgartner
Sandra Hanusa
Diana Swenson
Barbare Johnson
Joan Schneider
Mattex Employed As New Teacher At Choteau School
Edward Mattex of Missoula a senior student at Western Montana College of Education in Dillon is named the new seventh grade teacher at Choteau public school He succeeds H H Hartley who resigned due to ill health Mattex a World War II veteran served two years in the army chiefly in Korea His wife and three year old daughter Joyce are visiting in Lewistown.
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Edward Mattex
Missoula
Western Montana College of Education
Dillon
Choteau
H. H. Hartley
Mattix
Korea
Joyce
Lewistown
Choteau Hosts Four School Debate Teams Saturday
Four debate teams from Catholic Central Co. Bank Conrad and Choteau will compete at Choteau high school auditorium this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Two Choteau teams feature Dick Swartzel with Lyle Crary and Jean Van Auken with Joan Knowlton. Swartzel recently debuted in the American Legion oratorical zone contest at Fort Benton on the Constitution as a barrier to tyranny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choteau High School
Catholic Central
Co. Bank
Conrad
Choteau
Dick Swartzel
Lyle Crary
Jean van Auken
Joan Knowlton
American Legion
Fort Benton
VFW Auxiliary Initiates New Members at Legion Hall
The VFW Auxiliary 4605 at Chateau held an initiation on March 20 attended by Lulu Miller Patricia Otness May Perry Louise Mozer Irene Van De Reit Helen Sabo and Anna Lee Erickson. Refreshments followed the ceremony. Five members were reinstated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Hall
VFW
Chateau
Lulu Miller
Patricia Otness
May Perry
Louise Mozer
Irene van de Reit
Helen Sabo
Anna Lee Erickson
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Vorse
Church Women
Eugene Manuel
VEFW
Jack Henneford
Western Montana
Henneford
Chateau Bulldogs
Abe Peffenroth
Eastern Washington Savages
J.H. Rafter
Richard Henry Rafter
Agawani
W. H. George Chapel
Great
Jane
Jirmie' Lelbesky
Chilteau
Mir
Mik
Wayne le- Desky
Chateau Ene
Jimmie
G Monkman
FFA
Legion Aux To
Eddie Howard
Bud Taylor
Bob Gronberg
Lynn Baker
Blarrnet Mongan
Ernie Thorn
Bert Dale
Morris Smith
Bill Gibler
Ernest Weist
Bob Davidsons
Parmington
Art Lindseth
Chuptyer
Ike Dennison
Glen Inbody
Square Dance
Mattex
Choteau School
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