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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
1
Drs Long and Bateman circulate letters to gauge support for a new hospital serving the surrounding area. Subscriptions are credits for medical services, transferable after one year, and all slips should be returned. The first subscribers are J F Lafrance, J E Webb, and A Warner.
Notice to Woodman Social club stockholders of a special meeting at Woodman hall on Saturday May 22 1909 at 8 oclock p m. to elect a board of directors repeal and adopt by laws address indebtedness and other lawful business. Dated Chateau Mont May 6 1909 Byron Corson secretary.
The eighth grade examination will be held at the court house in Choteau Montana on Thursday and Friday May 20 and 21 1909. It will also be conducted at Cuthank on the same days. Teachers must certify passing grades before examination. The passing grade is an average of seven percent with no grade below six percent. Frances M Anderson County Superintendent of Schools.
The World at Large reports a former U S president has bagged three lions while his son secured one. A violent storm across the southern states affected over a hundred people. Holland celebrates a birth of a daughter to Queen Wilhelmina. Beech Hargis awaits life imprisonment for patricide in Kentucky. The second national peace congress began in Chicago with Robert Treat Payne presiding. Currency stats show rising money in circulation. Weather records note freezing in Iowa and Kangas during May Day. Boston plans 1920 Pilgrim exposition to mark 1620 landing. Armenians suffer amid Turkish violence. San Francisco welcomes a visiting Japanese squadron headed by Admiral Tichi aboard Aso and Soya.
The Montana Farmers' Institute promotes dry land farming as viable with proper methods. A featured speaker will discuss dry land farming and the Montana Farmers' Bulletin No.1 will be distributed. F.S. Cooley, Superintendent, notes water storage, deep plowing, harrowing, and weed control as key practices.
Greek laborers in Brady staged a freight train holdup and damaged track after a wage strike. Under Sheriff Ganong and Deputy Moran deputized 25 men to arrest the group. The railroad provided about 350 dollars in revolvers. 50 to 60 Greeks were reportedly brought to Conrad as tensions rose.
Notable births listed for May include John James Audubon born May 4 1780 Horace Mann born May 4 1796 William Henry Seward born May 16 1801 Ralph Waldo Emerson born May 25 1803 Jean Louis Agassiz born May 28 1807 and Patrick Henry born May 29 1736. The list mixes dates and names with OCR errors but identifies several prominent figures in American history.
Secretary Ballinger designated about 157 176 800 acres in western states for homestead entry under the 320 acre law. States listed include Oregon Washington Utah Wyoming New Mexico New Mexico appears twice Arizona Montana and Colors. Many Montana lands earned through color of title and similar in Washington Oregon. Lands lack irrigation from known water sources. Regulations approved diagrams to be sent to local land offices and entry applications will be accepted thereafter.
Fairfield J. Jellen Thorson of Great Falls files on a homestead. J. B. Maurer loses a valuable horse. Will Harris moves with family from Raymond. Special Inspector Richards reports on homestead inspections. August Langwald files on a claim near Power and prepares a residence. Alfred Hanson plans thirteen new houses for settlers as spring builds. John Zimmerman taps abundant water from a well on the bench after seven years.
Elizabeth Jerry Sinclair visited Chateau on the 28th of last month for business and returned on May 1. Fred brought home a sunlit sack full of fine trout. Sun River runs low for this time of year and May 2nd reports slow river conditions.
Jifey for May term andudge H H Ewing announces a drawn jury set to appear May 25 at Chateau James Drinkwine C F Green flarry Haymes J G Hopkinson H A Riegins K J Hirshberg B A Lawson John Lyons L J Otness Hugh O Neal A O Parker 3 B Rogers Thomas J Wadt Farrington Theodore Bollorud Wm Chalmers Peter Kyrand John Jackson Q GO Lindseth Levert Otness Chas M Pierce Ole Thompson Sweet Grass P Y Buckley A Goeddertz Jr Horky Jacobson Contact Thos Callaghan Peter DeBoer J Ferguson August Kropp L Nash Babb M D Cassidy Dupuyer John Chase Nate Howe W D Jones Winn Mohney Mike Pfeifer Richard Shields Paul Slezak Anton Tedsen Shelby N Edmonston Joseph Hilger John Shinnick Collins Ben Kest Bynam L ARey Gee Therrien C G Monkman Dan Sharp Lowry Rod MacLeod Belleview E B J Osgood Jas Peebles Cutbank A i Rasmussen
Mrs J S Collins traveled to Chateau Triday returning Sunday. Miss Muriel Ingleman attended Raymond over the weekend. A schoolhouse dance is planned Wednesday in honor of Miss Malone and the Misses Campbell. Mrs Donell visits sister Miss Mulote this week. Charles Hoy has returned home from Boze with Boze NE attending school last year. Mr Boucher visited Raymond last Sunday. Joe Gillard was a business visitor in Choteau and Burton bench this week. Miss Beulah Hoy spends a week in Choteau.
Mrs I Collins and son Frank visited Mrs Bean on Sunday. Miss Malone closed a successful ferry of school last Wednesday and went to Chateau Sunday morning for exams. Rev Hutt of Duyyver held services at the school house Saturday evening. A few neighbors held a dance at the school house Friday evening.
The State of Montana Bureau of Agriculture Labor and Industry asks readers to contact Mr Hall the commissioner with facts about desirable business locations and inducements for manufacturing mercantile and professional pursuits. The office invites communities needing or offering such opportunities to advise for state assistance.
Ora Armstrong, a third year student, won the sixth Teton County High School declamatory contest held Friday April 30 in the high school auditorium. Judges were J A Dneley, J F Webb, and Walter L Verge. Alden Connor and Harold Luther tied for second. The event featured eight contestants and included school musical numbers by Miss McNitt and Mrs Cohoe. The contest advances two former winners to state level, with Kyle Jones and John Burrell previously reaching Missoula.
The eighth monthly contest in punctuality and attendance at the public school was won by the seventh and eighth grades. Record shows high attendance with few tardies. list of most punctual students includes Roger Burrell, Lester Cowgill, Corgon Geyer Cowgill, Jesse Gleason, Bula Christian, Ursula Wedgskiss, Joy Graves, and others. Principal C. Thompson notes the year’s results and honors the top performers.
Mrs J W Ward is sick with neuralgia but improving at writing time. Miss Alberta M Berube travelled to Chateau on the stage Friday. Matrons and Maids postponed their meeting due to weather and president’s illness. Ward traveled to the metropolis Friday with Joseph H Twiggs of Boulder. A furious early week wind storm caused fences and hay stacks to fall, property losses in hundreds. Fred Ward fished Sunday for the first time this season catching thirty fish. Red notes 23 creek is too high for large baskets.
Seven applicants sought teaching certificates at a two day county board examination held in the county superintendent’s office. Three sought third grade and four second grade certificates. Names include Frances Berube Augusta Rose Jefferson Saypo Mayme Larkin Subec for third grade and Ada Wilcox Conrad Orule Wess Dupuyer Mabel Malone Raymond for second grade. Three of the seven passed the required averages. Arithmetic grammar and spelling were the hardest tests.
The Fourth Dry Farming Congress will meet in Billings Montana October 26 27 and 28 1909. An International Exposition of Dry Farm Products will be held during congress week with exhibits from 13 western states and territories two Canadian provinces Mexico and Russia. Delegates from 17 states and 10 foreign countries are expected. The event aims to showcase irrigation alternatives and better farming in arid regions and promote western land values through dry farming education and moisture conservation. John T Burns secretary treasurer.
News notes a Chouteau county rancher John Kirshwing killed his wife and two children then died by suicide. Elmer Kivinen aged 21 killed his father near Spion Kop after a quarrel over a dance. Havre Harlem seek to move county seat, while 14 000 woolgrowers and 5 000 000 sheep defined Montana’s sheep industry with 1907 gains. James A Murray buys Boulder Hot Springs property, consolidating ownership with A C Quaintance.
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