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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1932
Page
6
Great Falls Meat Company offers top market prices for fat cattle and hogs and invites visiting stockmen to tour the packing plant to see cattle and hog preparation for market.
Chicago Producers Com Assn members Ernie Beilfus and F H Kelley attend a convention to discuss market possibilities and the success of cooperative marketing.
Rosenbaum Bros. and Co of Chicago, pioneers in range cattle and sheep sales, will be represented by Harry Wertheimer at the upcoming livestock meeting. See him at the Rainbow hotel.
The notice promotes Weise Hotel in Great Falls with rooms from $1.00 and up and early reservations urged. It also advertises Murphy Maclay Hardware Co and the Great Falls Commercial College inviting stockmen attendees to visit, highlighting Montana stockman clientele and location at 509 Central Ave.
Convenient access to major hotels offers storage, accessories, gas, oil, and general repairing at Red's City Garage located on 409 1st Ave South.
A street page advertises The Club Cafeteria in Great Falls with Ravioli dinner and mentions Dan Mack Lida. It also promotes MOTOR INN car service on Second Avenue North and STRAIN BROTHERS as a shopping destination for convention ladies. Sabin’s gas station near the Rainbow hotel and pean opera house offers Continental products. John Clay of Chicago will attend to renew market contacts.
A compact recipe describes mixing mashed sweet potatoes turnips and carrots with ground rye bread crumbs peanut butter olives and pimento. The mixture is moistened with milk formed into a loaf and baked in a moderate oven for twenty to thirty minutes.
The Society of Montana Pioneers will hold its convention in Missoula on August 4 5 and 6 with J E Norris serving as secretary and Will Orton of Butte as president.
The Montana Stockgrowers association will hold its convention in Great Falls May 26 28 with cooperation from the Montana State College animal husbandry department. Six carloads of calves fattened for baby beef will be exhibited along with winter feeding trial data for irrigation stockmen. Calves used come from irrigated seeds except cottonseed cake and show rations cost gains and daily weight increases.
Butte school board rehired the current staff and cut salaries to save about $60,000 next year. For 1931-32 the nine month payroll totals $499,955, while the 1932-33 cost is projected at $440,285.42 after reductions. Higher earners faced 15 percent cuts, mid-range workers 4 4 percent, and under $1,749 a 10 percent reduction. Stanley Griffith named assistant principal of Butte High, succeeding Lloyd Pietsch, who stays on as teacher. Harry Dahlberg re-employed as head coach at $212.50 monthly.
The first car of gold ore from Garnet has been shipped to the Anaconda smelter. About 20 men work on three Garnet properties eight miles north of Bearmouth, with fifty or more placer miners along Bear creek. Names of working miners include the Courtney brothers of Philipsburg Arthur Taylor of Philipsburg and Tip Napton of Deer Lodge. Some veins show shipping value and ore pays day wages with grubstake for winter. Garnet, once prosperous in 1915 16 revived in 1925 but later dormant.
An United States Department of Agriculture request led Superintendent Frank H. Rose to capture a buffalo cow and calf to milk for testing. The process was costly and dangerous, with the cow resisting milking and ejecting a crowbar. Milk valued at about 50 dollars per quart. A second tale follows elk calf Billie, sheltered by Rose, who rode with the rider on horseback and caused a fencing complication with his antlers.
Agrarian advice covers keeping hens productive year round and pruning weeds by seed germination and cutting. It stresses clean seed, potato disease vigilance, rogueing weak plants, and weed control with chemical sprays. Dairy cows need gradual pasture after dew dries. Shelterbelts need weed control until trees shade ground. A Farm Board study explains Danish farmers stayed with cooperatives, now handling over 90 percent of farm products in Denmark.
A Helena meeting advanced plans for uniform grading of Montana farm products and trucking regulation. A.H. Stafford urged legislation to curb discrimination against Montana goods in state and distant markets while R. C. Bricker outlined goals and George L. Knight described regulatory needs to curb out of state trucking and peddling costs.
At Montana State College a record attendance of 591 high school students gathered for the annual high school week. Chancellor Brannon urged pursuing an ideal and livelihood along with vocational guidance. Dr Atkinson urged thoughtful planning, while Fr O Kennedys list of six qualities for success was cited. Eight finalists gave extemporaneous talks, and campus tours and events by Fangs and Spurs accompanied a Montana products dinner.
The first carload of 15 000 cherry trees from a Washington nursery arrives at Polson for local orchards along Flathead Lake. Roy Peterson leads distribution with another car due soon. Over 25 000 trees will be planted in Lake county this year. Those who guess the public sentiment are called born leaders.
Readable text notes a cheerful social sentiment about upcoming marriages. It frames happiness today in anticipation of weddings tomorrow among the group. No specific names, places, dates, or organizations are present in the fragment.
Favorable agricultural prospects and economic conditions have sparked a movement back to the Pacific Railway company. Mr. Scandrett with J. T. Gillick toured company territory and noted rainfall aiding farmers in Milwaukee area prospecting good crops this year. R. W. Reynolds will visit Montana mid May to discuss colonization work northwest of Great Falls as Milwaukee advances agricultural development.
A. C. Adams, assistant supervisor of the Bitter Root forest, is transferred to the Kootenai forest with headquarters at Sandpoint. He leaves with Mrs. Adams for their new home. Adams’ new role mirrors his Hamilton tenure. He joined Bitter Root in 1924 after coming from the Nez Perce forest. The couple are active in Hamilton service clubs and Presbyterian circles. Mrs Adams has led Ravalli county federation since January and has served as a substitute teacher.
The body of O. G. Poysen postmaster at Swan Lake was recovered from Swan Lake near the shore after his car plunged off a highway. A torn tire helped locate the car in 30 feet of water. He had stopped at neighbors near Big Fork and was last seen alive days earlier. He leaves a widow and adopted twin babies and a brother.
J Z Adams president of the International Fertilizer Co of San Pedro Calif will visit Martinsdale soon to arrange construction of plants at Twodot and Groveland. He previously contracted 200000 tons of sheep refuse in Martinsdale last fall. Plants to begin in January with 20 to 30 workers each.
Seventy Harlowton railroad men joined a Montana Transfer association protest petition seeking motor vehicle operation across the state. Signals show the action was signed by machinists boilermakers blacksmiths pipefitters electricians carmen and other Milwaukee employees. A parallel protest was filed by Harlowton trainmen.
After several rainy days delivering over an inch of moisture the temperature fell to 24 degrees at Plentywood. Gardens and flowers suffered damage as the cold snap persisted.
A gathering of wool growers with J. E. Howard National Park Service forester presenting a two reel film on range management. Max Legge spoke for the Montana Woolgrowers association about the state program and Phil Cole of Chateau and other industry figures attended.
Forty Cascade county taxpayers met on April 20 to study city county consolidation as a method to cut government costs. Similar proposals in Silver Bow and Ravalli counties failed in the past. Liberty and Sheridan counties plan consolidation elections on July 19 alongside the state primaries.
Dr J P Greaves of Great Falls visited Harlem to examine children who had eyes examined and tonsils removed at a clinic last fall. All cases showed physical improvement.
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