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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1937
Page
5
Local brief items note a May 22 hardware sale and lunch by the Ladies Guild at the gas company office. Other notes include a gas pump installed by Wayne self computing, piano students examined for high school credit, a Deaconess hospital entry, and various Choteau visitors and job changes.
Dr Boyd Davis of C E Davis and Sons will fit glasses in Choteau on Saturday May 29 at the Choteau Hotel.
Births marriages and relocations appear as the Chateau region notes. A daughter born Tuesday at Deaconesa hospital in Great Falls to Mr and Mrs J Burr Huffman. J Cheetham and R R Petch visit county seat. Marion Lewis joins Pollock Beauty Shop. Richerd Stephens moves to Holland Furnace Co. Bleecker family mourns death. Beckers celebrate 53rd wedding anniversary. rattlesnake counts jump at Fairfield. Dunc McDonald visits Santa Anna and later Wilsall. Mrs G C Core sells Deer Lodge Gift Shop and visits Chateau before joining husband in Helena.
Mrs. Mike Purdy returns from Columbus hospital in Great Falls as families travel to Hartington Nebraska for graduation and visiting relatives. Scouts plan a summer camp starting July 4 with Choteau troop attending. hospital addition progresses with a two story front expansion and living space. Local sports see Chateau and Dutton split baseball games 12-10 and 14-3. A new waltz Summertime Sweetheart by Choteau authors debuts on radio and at Fairfield dance. A road dispute near Dupuyer involves county records on abandonment and maintenance. officials indicate the road remains open for stock driving.
Mrs. Cora Cohoe reports granddaughter Miss Alice Ledgerwood has valedictorian honors at Cathlamet Washington high school and will receive a scholarship to Washington State College for commercial art. Ledgerwood attended local Chateau public school for several years.
District Judge R M Hattersley presided as the May term concluded with a decree quieting title for P Kampnar as administrator of M Emaar estate. Foreclosure and sale ordered in Spratt and Smullen versus Anderson case. Brady Irrigation Co hearings on demurrers. 15 days given to file briefs. Ruth C Magee granted divorce from Harold F Magee. Multiple probate actions heard. court adjourned to May 27. Earlier, April term dismissed three First State Bank of Bynum actions for lack of prosecution or summons not issued.
Hazel Bleecker, daughter of H H Bleecker, admitted to the Chateau hospital last week for medical treatment, is improving. Mrs Rose Broere of Farmington en route to visit.
Patients including Dave Cooper of Dupuyer Halvor Hanson Dell Green Mrs Griffith and James Goff were treated or discharged at Choteau Maynard and Great Falls hospitals over the past week. Discharges include Mrs Swenby of Fairfield. Medical care details remain per local hospital reports.
Across the state the fishing season starts Friday May 21 for most streams and waters in Teton county. Pishkun reservoir and Chateau slough remain closed until July 1, Split Rock lake stays closed until October 1 and will allow ice fishing through March 15. Glacier Park begins June 1 per park guidelines.
Mr and Mrs J R Pollock and daughter in law and son in law Mr and Mrs John Weaver left for Missoula to seek a new business location. They first came to Choteau in 1914 from Oklahoma and returned there in 1919 before moving back to Teton county in 1924. They lived on a ranch near Farmington and in Choteau. Mrs Pollock and her daughter ran a beauty shop in Choteau. Marian Lewis, licensed operator, has joined the Pollock shop which will continue operating.
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