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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
4
The page recalls the approaching end of the school year with reflections by Jere Coffey and Arnold Neiswender. Students reminisce about weeks left until graduation and tease upcoming events as the term winds down.
Rain reduced turnout to 18 at the wool growers gathering in the county courthouse last Friday. A new meeting is set for Friday after noon May 27 at 2 o clock at the courthouse to discuss the 1928 clip marketing and Commodity Credit Corporation loans with a Pacific Wool Growers representative expected to attend. All county wool growers are invited.
A year ends with thanks to Walter Hentges for help during a low period and praise for teachers and students who supported the Hi-Lites. Readers bid farewell to Principal Guthrie and look forward to a larger edition next year.
The Choteau Bulldogs defeat Fairfield Juniors 13 to 12 in a tense ninth inning finish Sunday at the park diamond. Roy Lee pitched for Fairfield with Dick Dale relief. Hatfield Rosengren went the distance for Choteau as the hosts and visitors traded runs through eight innings before Choteau seized the win in the bottom of the ninth. A rematch is set for Fairfield on June 5 with a junior Great Falls visit on June 19.
Sunday school at 9 45 a m invites 100 percent attendance for the outgoing superintendent Mrs Duis next Sunday Memorial day sermon by the pastor We Are Debtors Epworth League Leaders Doris Stearns and Joyce Kropp 6 30 pm Evening service 7 45 pm Junior membership class Monday 4 pm Official board meeting before the Billings June 21 conference Billings area church notes Richard F Vick minister
Notice by the Teton County Montana Boards of School Trustees and Te ton County High School Trustees that they will meet in regular session on June 18, 1938 to prepare and adopt a preliminary budget for the 1938 39 school year. Taxpayers may appear and be heard. Inez Eckford county superintendent and clerk of budget supervisors appointed.
Of 495 Montana youths selected by county welfare for the April CCC enrollment 475 were accepted by army medical officers. Five from Teton county joined, including Philip A. Dutro Fred Smith Frederick Zier Wayne Harris and Clarence Rotvold. An additional group will enroll in July.
Ory Armstrong known as Dutch grew up in Choteau. He graduated in 1911 from Teton County High School and 1913 became a charter member of Company M Montana National Guard. He served on the Mexican border in 1916 and later guard duty at Butte before WWI. He died at Browning and was buried beside his wife in Choteau cemetery.
The article recounts Armstrongs WWI service from Fort Harrison to Camp Mills and overseas duty with the 26th division then 32nd division, ending in Coblenz. It notes his 235 months in the war, three brothers commissioned, and his role in founding and leading American Legion posts in Cut Bank and Kalispell, then District No. 4 and Lewistown conventions.
A Kalispell figure was elected state commander and is active in local business. He works in insurance and serves as secretary of the Montana Retail Merchants Association. He is married with a family.
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