Fine spuds and town notices clutter Choteau pages
Local notes report price for fine spuds at 3c and eggs at 25 cents per dozen from Choteau Mercantile Co. Various residents and visitors are listed with travel, services, and community events. Officials and visitors from Helena and Great Falls are noted along with church services next Sunday and a Lambing season prep at a ranch. A Burke ranch death and diphtheria scarlet fever link are mentioned, plus a forestry funds distribution to Teton County schools and roads.
Man dies of pneumonia while operative at Cargill-Withee shovel
Chase Morse, about 26, employed on a steam shovel for Cargill-Withee Co., died of pneumonia after being summoned home from Conrad. The body was shipped to Gladstone, Illinois. C. H. Connor returned Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Connor
Conrad
Chase Morse
Cargill-Withee Co
Gladstone
Judge Ewing and his stenographer depart Great Falls
Judge Ewing and his stenographer Mr Silkestae traveled from Great Falls Sunday. The judge has been in court this week handling probate matters and preparing to clean up long standing stain cases. A jury has been chosen for many Mey 25377 cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewing
Silkestae
Great Falls
Local Briefs From Bynum To Cutbank And Beyond
Stonehouse and N O Satetlie visit from Bynum. Patsey Duffy in town from Shelby. Cowgill traveled to Conrad on business. Clara Lestrud assists in Conrad exchange. Hodgskiss cattle sprayed. Cros sen ranch work. Julius Hirshberg returns from months away, ailing briefly in Helena. Paul Jacobson named deputy game warden for Choteau. Shelby line telegraph functioning when wires ok. Basket social at Ralston Gap school clears 53.50 for a new organ. Peter Eyraud contracts for irrigation ditch near Muddy. details of the ditch and pumping. School eighth grade exams set for May 20-21 at Cutbank. grades require 75% average, no below 65% in any subject. Wreck on Shelby line between Collins and Brady delays mail. eight gravel cars wrecked. no loss of life. wrecking crew dispatched from Great Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anderson
Cutbank
Shelby
Collins
Brady
Chateau
Great Walls
Lost fox hound recovered after escape on beach trip
A fox hound shipped from Kentucky for A B Jones escaped from a crate and fled the stage on the beach three miles from town. It reappeared at John Gleason’s ranch days later and was handed to the express company. Jones imported the hound to track wolves and coyotes. Frank E Moore also received a similar breed dog from the same kennels this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
A. B. Jones
John Gleason
Express Company
Mr.Jones
Frank E. Moore
Diphtheria Outbreak Quelled with No New Cases
The diphtheria outbreak seems halted as no new cases appear. Chateau has none, Burton bench patients are nearly well, and no further exposure is expected. At Burke ranch thirty miles northwest, scarlet fever exists in one or two cases, and a man died there yesterday from a diphtheria scarlet fever combination. Preventive precautions are in place to limit exposure from that source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burke Ranch
Steepsma
Burton Bench
Chateau
Town
Reward Offered For Altered Brand On Horses In Montana
A reward of $50 is posted by Ben Williams of Chateau Montana for the arrest and conviction of anyone altering brand or driving horses off the range. The notice lists dairy equipment including a 200 gallon self heating cheese vat, presses, churns, grinders, strainers, and a 2 horsepower vertical engine. Goods are described as in excellent condition and will be sold cheap. Viewing at Mrs Kirkaldie’s ranch north fork Sun River seven miles from Augusta. Inquiries to Mrs B F Kirkaldie Great Falls or Mrs Chas Gray Belleview Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Williams
Chateau
Montana
Kirkaldie
North Fork
Sun River
Augusta
B. F. Kirkaldie
Sixth Ave. N
Great Palls
Chas. W. Gray
Belleview
Mont
Wallace Coburn completes 2020 acre Bingham ranch purchase
Wallace Coburn of Co burn Investment Helena has bought 2020 acres on Upper Hound Creek near Adel including several hundred head of cattle. The sale adds fertile grazing land and follows his recent Cowell Kinney ranch deal. Montana Staats Zeitung editor L ee Baurschmidt promotes German settlement in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Coburn
Coburn Investment Company
Helena
Bingham
Hound Creek
Adel
Great Falls
Mr. Coburn
Shoteau
Cowell & Kinney
Sam H Wood Named Editor of National Democrat in Minneapolis
Sam H Wood a former Republican now edits the National Democrat monthly in Minneapolis. The magazine aims to reform the Democratic party from within and to sell stock limited to Democrats in each state. Wood has promoted a failed sheep company and the Manchester woolen mills, and once faced a postal fraud order against his company. He is author of How I Lost My Home Under the Stars and Stripes. Chateau Democrats express misgivings at his switch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam H. Wood
Teton County
National Democrat
Minneapolis
Wood
Manchester
Chateau
Acanotha
Desert land contest affirmed against McLeod Shannon entries
Helena report notes the General Land Office affirms local officials ruling in the lowerree desert land contest. Government objections that the filings were not bona fide in favor of the Lowerree Sheep and Horse company were rejected. The decision upholds entry patents for tracts in the northern part of the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Great Falls
Wlowerree Sheep and Horse Company
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Dr. Stephens
Choteau
Choteau Merc. Co
Jos
Hirshberg & ‘Co
Bodel
Chas. P. Crane
Collins Country
Teton
A. C. Furman
W. A. Krazier
Chateau ‘Uesday
Harry Orr
Collins Mercantile Co
Mondaly
van Orsdel
Methodist Church
Irs
Bateman
Wu. Cowgill
Dupuyer
Prachi
Kilroy
Great Falls Tribune
Choteau Merc, Co
J. W. Frizzell
Wim
Hodgskiss
Sd. Morris
Ketcham
G. M. Goffey
Nellie R. Brown
Hazel
Halliday
N. D
Gorham
J. S. Brokaw
C. Perkins
Edwin Fisher
Greatalls
Electric Light Plant
E. H. Cooney
The
Leader
J. M. Burlingame
A.J. Cowell
Nevada
California
Idaho
Washington
Charles Cowell
W.H. Davgs
Miscoupe
Division
Bureau
National Forest Bureau
Bail x
Iota Bai Piley
Issaned
Chotéau Mercantile Co
Stonehouse
N. O. Satetlie
Bynum
Opatsy Duffy
Ww. Cowgill
Clara Lestrud
P. H. Crossen
C. H. Drake
Julius Hirshberg
Paul Jacobson
Ralston Gap
Ornce
Peter Eyraud
Fle Hag
Martin Anderson
Tom N. Austad
Mr. Sigraud
Chasstris
Good
Chateau Mercantile Co
Fresh Ranch
Elaine
Ee B. Baurschmidt
Montana Staats Zeitung
Baurschmidt
Acantha
Harrows
Fred
My Place
Sam Bateman
Choteasi
A. B. Hardin
Brooks’ Ottlee
Hirshberg
Choteau, Montana
Safe Banking
J. McGowan
Poower
A. H. Barr
Department of the Interior
United States Land Office
John Hanson
Fairfield
Trapper W
Meridian
A. C. Warner
Peter Nasse
George E. Frey
Fred C. Ue
John Gronberg
Wakfield
Monina
Register
H. R. Thampaoa
T. A. Smith
Vereree
Glee City Meat Market
Jacob Qdenwald
A.F
U. W. Wymer
W. M. J. S. Innes
Sec'y
Lou Coy
House Furnishing Co
First Ave
Fourth Street
Great Falls, Mont
U.S
Uhoteau House
Qhoteau
J. EK
Webb
Justice of the Peace
Notary Public
Pires Insuranor
F. A.long, M. D
Main Street
Choteau, Mont
St. Clair
Ohoteau
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