Community happenings and visits in Chateau area
A local Chateau community notes numerous visits and social events. Mrs. Grace Black and family hosted guests, and Mrs. Pat Granger gave a pink and blue shower for Mrs. Doughty of Augusta. Several residents travel for family events, business trips, and hospital visits, including Earl Armstrong’s son Gregg Martin and D. P. Fabrick returning from Portland. The Episcopal guild meets November 8 at 1 30 p m. Captain Jack Van De Riet and Mr. and Mrs. Swanson visit Chateau, with Moose social night at the Moose hall on November 8. Hannah Whaley visits from Cody with grandson Stanley Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Armstrong
Gregg Martin
Air Base
Wt Falls
Hans Nelson
Daugh Ruth
Great Falls
Jimmy Krietzberg
Vrs
Josie Weir
William Moser
Pat Granger
Fr . Doughty
Augusta
Floyd McFarlane
Jim Arensmeyer
Jim
Edna
Belle Fouche
S. Dak
A. Parker
Spearfish
Dorothy
Ruth
Cpl
Melvin Manseth
P. M
San Francisco
Calif
D. P. Fabrick
Portland
Ore
Jack Bretacs
Earl Terry
Jack Acoril
Pbagts
LF Cowtas
sRoy
Y Payne
Charlotte
M. Car
Dairy ‘Queen
Idaho Falls
Aerat
North Carolina
Salem
Payne
Episcopal Guild of St. Stephens Church
CW. Burns
Jack van de Riet
George O’hare
Harry Swanson
Pendroy
Chateau
Crescent Motel
Moose
Moose Hall
Ernie Bond
Wesley Cherry
Wes George
Charles Bowers
Elmer Baker
Everett DeRusha
Duke Blakely
Hannah Whaley
Cody
Wyo
Ruoy Clark
Peters and Hamilton Ranch
Tax Levy Increases Affect Civil Service and Postage Rates
The civil service raises 10 percent with a $300 to $800 cap for about 1.1 million workers. The Civil Service Commission cites an average salary of 3,504 dollars annually. Postal salaries rise 250 million dollars yearly, while the reforms aim to trim a department deficit by about 117 million. The penny postcard increases to 2 cents on January 1, with second class postage up 30 percent over three years and third class mail rising to 10 cents on July 1, 1952. 3 cent letters and 6 cent airmail stay unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Service Commission
the River Press
Lesson From a Grade Four Class At Chateau School
The third grade class at Chateau School lists fourteen boys and seven girls with varied eye colors and left handedness. Students report science projects on shimmer autumn and winter trees, seeds, a moth cocoon and butterfly chrysalis, and view a wildlife film. The class organized a Good Citizens Club with officers Dennis Knaff Terry Morton and Patricia Perry, and committees for blackboards dusting plants and library work. Rhoda Yarick is the teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Bachmeir
Jimmy
Crane
Connole
Dickie Hanson
Robert Hanson
Jon
Gap” Edwards
Dennis Knuff
Terry Morton
Robert Hamilton
Stanley Shelmerdine
Richard Wilson
John Nesbit
Charles Scott
Harold Wood
Marion Bateman
Vance Baumgartner
Joanna Fellers
Ricia Perry
Rita Ramaker
Joanne
Dick Mauseth
Lee Nordahl
Donald McClue
Mr. Morton
Janice Baumgartner
W’s
Joanne Meadows
Norway
Rhoda Yarick
Card of Thanks and Notices of Move to Phoenix
The family expresses heartfelt thanks for neighbors and friends kindness during sorrow and for comforting acts. Joe Fallon Agnes Embody. Mr and Mrs Joe Briscoe and family relocated to Phoenix Arizona last Friday to establish residence there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Fallon
Agnes
Joe Briscoe
Phoenix
Ariz
Cadet James E Underwood Promoted at West Point
Cadet James E Underwood of Great Falls and formerly Chateau rises to lieutenant in Company L, 1st Regiment at the United States Military Academy West Point. He previously served 33 months as a lieutenant in the 97th Bomb Group and earned American Theater European Theater and Victory Air Medals. He plans to rejoin the Air Force after graduation in June 1862.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oss
Corps of Cadets
West Point
Underwood
Teton County High School
Chateau
Montana State College
United States Military Academy Preparatory School
97Th
We Air Force
United States Air Force
Armistice Day Program Planned by Local Groups
The Choteau American Legion VFW and four churches schedule a Armistice Day program on November 11 at the high school auditorium. Committees are forming to arrange the program and four ministers, students, and a principal speaker will be sought for the Sunday event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Choteau American Legion
VFW
Choteau High School
al Hensley
Card Tables Arrive for Public Use at Chateau Chamber
Twenty four card tables were received by the Chateau Chamber of Commerce and are available for public use. Tables bear advertising from forty two Choteau merchants on the covers. Use is free and tables can be borrowed for social functions. Pickup is from Raymond Kelly at the county extension agent office in the courthouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chateau Chamber of Commerce
Choteau
Bob Crocker
Chamber
Raymond Kelly
Montana Population Shifts Highlight Rural Edge in 1950
The October Montana Business study notes urban Montana grew 50 percent from 1920 to 1950 while farm populations rose 30 percent yet rural residents still outnumbered urban dwellers at 23 percent on farms. Median age rose to 29.8 in 1950 with 109.9 males per 100 females.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motitana
Montana Business
Bureau of Business
Montana State University
Montana
United States
Planting of Fish Should be Planned
Sportsmen and landowners are warned in Montana against stocking fish without authorization. C. K. Phenicie of the fisheries division urges contacting the Fish and Game department in Helena for guidance, pond licenses, and species recommendations to protect waters and native game fish from unwanted species. He cites carp as a damaging example of indiscriminate planting. Wildlife managers report cases of fish introductions into unsuitable waters where they cannot survive or harm native fish populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Montana Fish and Game Department
C. K. Phenicie
Fisheries Division
Fish and Game Department
Helena
Phenicie
Billings Service Conducted In A Montana Sheriff Career
Burke, former commissioner of Indian affairs, served four years in that role before returning to Teton county in 1925 as undersheriff under J. L. Collins for eight years. He was elected sheriff in 1932 and served three terms until 1938. In 1937 he was unanimously elected president of the Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers association at a Helena meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teton County
Billings
Montana
Montana Peace Officers Association Magazine
Shell
Wich
McCleod
Alberta
Glacier County
Bourquin
Great Falls
Sheriffs Association
Shell Billings
Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association
Chateau Billings
George Hoffman
George Burrell
Julius B. Olson
Dutton
Glen Livingston
Luther Moses
Albert O. Peterson
Peterson
District Court
Supreme Court
Montana Supreme Court
Annetta Johnson
Lewistown
Rassmusson
St. Luke’s Hospital
Spokane
Frank Linderman
D. P. Fabrick
C. K. Malone
George Coffey
Clarence Looney
John
Also Mentioned on This Page
Helena Rubinstein
Teton Pharmacy
Malone’s
Ritta Beats
General Electric
Choteau Electric
CHEEZ
Sunshine — Box
Tomato Soup Campbells
James
Choteau Bulldogs
Ve Berd
Motitania
Gilles
Brady
Brady Preirie Taxi Co
Timothy Moroney
Conrad
Shell Billings Service
Arnold C. Hanusa
John L. Dunckel
Choteau, Montana
Ksee
Hanson Bros
PPR
State Farm Mutual
Jim Dellno
Choteau, Mont
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