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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1922
Page
2
An incomplete speech fragment shows Ramsey Milfioll addressing the honorable membership. The text repeats phrases about making his first appearance, indicating a formal introductory address to the group.
Ramsey faces a brutally public freshman debate in the Lumen Society with Dora Yocum as the opponent. He stumbles through a halting, overlong opening on Belgium Germany and invasion while Dora argues all war is morally wrong and Germany erred legally.
In a small town Ramsey Milhollands watches a Decoration Day parade with his Civil War veteran grandfather. Years later in school he lags in academics while Dora Yocum and Milla Rust shape his youth culminating in a first love, flight, and university transition.
The quote notes that many men are so occupied with status and importance that they have no time left to complete meaningful work, highlighting a critique of preoccupation with rank over productivity.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company develops a method to smother subterranean mine fires in the Butte district. Tailings and water are pumped 1200 to 2200 feet underground to form a soup-like slime that fills tunnels and stops fires. Since 1917, 200 men on continuous shifts have fought the blazes, with two million tons of ore expected by 1922.
Ralph Ness a 31 year old World War I veteran from Hettinger North Dakota disappeared after leaping from a westbound train about a mile east of Ismay while en route to a government hospital in Helena. Trainmen trackmen and local groups including the American Legion searched Fallon Creek nearby where floodwaters ran by the tracks.
N B Matthews secretary of Stanford and local committee J H Jones Ray Funk and W C Searles organize a district bankers gathering in Great Falls on June 3 at the Hotel Rainbow Palm Room. About 150 bankers from Fergus Lewis and Clark Cascade Wheatland Musselshell Meagher Judith Basin Broadwater Teton Pondera and Glacier counties attend with an evening dancing party.
Foreman Whitefish Paul Reichenberg and camp employee George Sharp are dead in Radnor 23 miles northwest of Whitefish. Reichenberg was murdered by Sharp who then killed himself. Sharp’s wife was the camp cook and Reichenberg had ordered Sharp from the camp for abusing her. Sharp left, took Reichенberg’s rifle, and shot him at dawn in the camp barn.
Lincoln county reports the dedication of the Idaho Montana Interstate bridge at Leonia. Funds from Montana and Idaho plus federal money paid for the steel structure spanning the river and linking Leonia with the north side farming mining and timbering district.
Community notices report Glasgow hosting a mothers camp July 5 to 8 under farm bureau auspices. The Staten saw mill near Columbia Falls burned. Rosebud county fair to be held in Forsyth September 11 12 18 and 14. A Glasgow American Legion building fund campaign launched. Billings Salvation Army aims to raise 5000 for home service work. Frank B. Reynolds dies at home in Helena. University of Montana chancellor Dr E B Elliott resigns to become Purdue president. Glendive forms milk cow association for farmers. Montana Shorthorn Breeders sale at Great Falls totals 54 animals average 150. Petroleum county petition hearing begins at Helena commissioners. Governor Dixon appoints Hilger and Sanders to state historical society board. Baptist missionaries reassigned by church extension board. Dawson county reports second spotted fever case at Greendive hospital John Roth patient. Savennac nursery Missoula largest government plant, 8 000 000 seedlings annually. Yorsyth barred from track field for one year for ineligible player. Hiram B. Adams dies near Lolo Hot Springs first Montana spotted fever death this year. Two tourist camping grounds planned at Livingston one free park by Chamber of Commerce. An Anaconda chapter of the Order of DeMolay formed. Ku Klux Klan makes first appearance in Glasgow with donation envelope at Deaconess hospital. Great Falls interscholastic track meet winners with Stevensville strong. meet decided on final event. Montana supreme court calendar altered to fast track May June sitting with four added cases. Game animals birds exhibit planned for Montana State Fair Helena and Midland Empire Billings. New vanadium steel drill head tested by A C M of Butte drills 22 inches in two minutes.
Indiana University baseball nine sails toward Japan joining Ward Gilbert and Emmons Clay, ex servicemen, in a goodwill tour backed by Tokyo and Nagoya merchants. The group will play Japan college teams at Waseda University after Seattle origins, with $15 000 guaranteed for expenses and Legion support guiding an Orient tour.
Mrs. Madge King Johnston of Aberdeen South Dakota national vice president of the American Legion auxiliary has given up a music career to focus on aid for sick and wounded ex service men. She heads stores in eight states selling articles made by disabled veterans and leads citizenship clubs and children of ex service men groups. Her husband Dr M Johnston is noted as a big game hunter with mounts from the Rockies and Canada.
At Governor's Island New York harbor the YMCA operates inside Fort Jay serving 200 to 300 soldiers held for minor offenses. Weekly sing songs draw about 175 inmates while 200 participate in Sunday services. Volunteers teach Spanish French reading writing and arithmetic reflecting strong inmate interest in learning during confinement.
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