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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1905
Page
5
Listings report births and illnesses, sales and transport, visits and moves among families and ranchers, and local officials in Great Falls, Chateau, Cut Bank, Byoom, Naismith, and surrounding areas. Grain sales, property dealings, and school activities accompany clerical and social notes from May 1905.
Public notice states no spousal debt responsibility for Jessie Mitchell of Hogan Mont. J I Darlington sues Swift Current Boulder Oil Co for 1425 dollars in wages as foreman and laborer. Hon D F Smith attorney. Josephine Mining and Smelting Co annual meeting set for June 6 1905 at 2 PM in Altyn Montana. ArtHour Peerey secretary.
R. D. Redmond disposed of two more thoroughbred Kentucky jacks to L. J. Otness of Farmington and George Miller of Belleview, joining five jacks sold in the vicinity this spring. Dr. Beaupre left Tuesday for the Sweet Grass country ranches with Joe Devlin to survey ditch work by ONeal and Beaupre for summer. An M E church benefit will be held May 30 at the Dov puyer school house with the Cha teaun glee club high school recitations music and a supper from 5 to 8 pm.
Justice Federden of Dupuyer issues arrest warrant for Sampson Bird and John Wren on grand larceny charges after allegedly stealing two horses from John B. Pepton of Piegan. The men vanished from the county. sheriff’s office hopes to locate them. Also notice of a fall fair planned in the city for breeders and ranchers with details to follow.
At a meeting last Friday evening Miss Jennie Ralston was re employed as teacher in the primary department and Mrs Nellie R Brown was chosen again for the intermediate department. The hiring of a principal and a second intermediate department teacher was postponed.
R. D. Redman left yesterday for Chateau to supervise farm sales and mule breeding prospects in the county. He reports selling several pouc jacks to farmers and stockmen at prices up to 800 dollars each and delivered a Berkshire boar to J. E. Burke of Choteau for Kilraven ranch.
Wool buyers Davidson Parker Roscoe Evans Berthelote Kollemberger Wareham Perkins announce sales totals for the week in Northern Montana. The report lists pounds sold and prices per pound ranging from 23 cents to 22.87 cents across multiple firms including Davidson Parker and Wareham Perkins.
A San Francisco telegram reports the circuit court of appeals has affirmed Judge Knowles in United States versus W A Clark over title to timber land worth about half a million dollars in western Montana. Judge DeHaven dissented. The case is pivotal and likely to be appealed to the U S Supreme Court.
White Sulphur Springs reports nearly all wool sold with prices ranging from 22 to 24 cents per pound. Giltman and Jenkins sold a crop to a Philadelphia firm for 24 cents. Miles City notes 26 cents for 100000 pounds to Silverman Bros. Chicago as the top Montana price in 25 years. The rest of the report covers a fatal accident at Belt, forest reserves near Elkhorn, water works plans at Glasgow, and legal cases in several counties.
D. J. Chadwick head of the Great Falls land office and special agent of the general land office died suddenly last Friday night in his Boland residence room on Second Avenue north. His death was discovered next morning when his daughter Miss Chadwick found him cold in death.
The Acantha is praised as the best advertising medium in Teton county and urged for readers to try it to be convinced by its effectiveness.
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