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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1972
Page
5
Montana opens its fishing season Sunday May 21 running through November 30 with 24 hour angling in all lakes streams and rivers except posted areas. Residents over 14 pay 4 for the season while nonresidents face 15 for the season 6 for six days or 1 for one day. children under 15 may fish without a license with a licensed adult.
The second Moms and Moppets session is Thursday May 18 at 10 am at Chateau Public Library with games stories and coloring for children. Mrs Richard Crabtree will discuss the Indian tipi history construction and use with slides. Public invited and a coffee pot will be on. Artists ages 6 to 100 urged to display at the Art Galeria with current pieces by Charles Joslyn and Mrs Erickson’s first grade class.
Friends and relatives are invited to a miscellaneous bridal shower for Jill Isakson daughter of Mr and Mrs Gale Isakson at Trinity Lutheran Church on Friday May 26 at 8 p m.
The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars and their Auxiliaries will hold memorial services at Chateau Cemetery on May 29 at 10 45 a.m. If weather is bad, services move to the high school auditorium. Details will be published next week.
Mr and Mrs Ray Scott invite friends to the wedding of their daughter Sandra to Thomas Dory son of Mr and Mrs Keith Dory Brady. The ceremony is at the Chateau LDS Church on Friday June 2 at 7 pm with a reception afterward in the cultural hall.
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet Monday May 29 at 7 30 p m in the lower Legion hall. Mr and Mrs G I Tangen were guests of Mr and Mrs Leonard Ober and daughters of Helena on Saturday and Sunday.
The How ard E. Anderson Auxiliary Post 4605 met May 8 at the Country Club with 16 members present. Officers and appointed roles were installed by Virginia Nordhagen, plans laid for Memorial Day services, and donations were approved to Teton Memorial Hospital Association and Cancer Aid and Research Fund in honor of members and for achieving 100 percent membership.
The Civic Social Club hosts a food and bake sale with pie and coffee at the Lower Legion Hall on Saturday May 27 from 10 a.m. Proceeds fund a stereo and loud speaker for Teton County Nursing Home. Donations appreciated.
Sarah McKinley of Los Angeles representing Simplicity Pattern Company will lead a four hour 4-H Dress Review training at Shelby High School at 1 p.m. in Shelby. The Montana Extension Service sponsors the session for 4-H leaders and older members covering poise scripting fabric and pattern selection for garments. The workshop serves Teton Pondera Liberty Toole and Chouteau counties from June 5 to 9 as part of a statewide Simplicity Dress Revue training across 14 counties.
Wallace J. Towey of Conrad was hospitalized Saturday after a single vehicle crash 1144 miles east of Pendrey on Secondary Highway 219 at 7:30 p.m. The 1968 Ford Mustang veered off the road, damaged five guard posts and the bridge rail, ending upside down in a creek. The driver was alone and enforcement action is pending.
The ASC office announced a flaxseed price support of 2.14 per bushel for Teton County, one cent higher than 1971. Based on a 2.50 national average for No. 1 flaxseed, loans-run through April 30 1973 and purchases until May 31 1973, with a 1 cent premium for No. 1 or 2 grading at 9 percent moisture.
Rain showers last week replenished topsoil moisture across most of Montana while north central and southwestern districts remain short. Subsoil moisture is short in several regions and planting slowed by rain, with barley nearly finished, spring wheat 65 percent drilled, sugarbeet 85 percent seeded, corn 35 percent planted, and potatoes 20 percent seeded.
Montana forecasts its 1972 winter wheat crop at 45.5 million bushels, 17 percent below 1971’s 54.8 million. Harvest area about 1.8 million acres, down 4 percent, with projected yield 26.0 bushels per acre versus 30.0 in 1971. Dry fall and winter limited yields. topsoil moisture is short in northcentral areas but adequate elsewhere. The U S winter wheat crop is forecast at 1,149 million bushels, down 1 percent from 1971.
Rebekah Meeting Queen Rebekah Lodge No. 31 held its regular meeting May 17 at 8 instead of Past Noble Grands Night. The conflict of dates moved Past Noble Grands Night to June 7 to avoid overlap.
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