What About Sugar Beets
The Great Western Sugar Co plans 20 acres of beets at Chateau Simms Valier and Conrad and has leased 20 acres of alfalfa land near Odenwald Brothers for beets in spring. The text urges local farmers to sign contracts to demonstrate profitability and lure a local sugar beet factory, noting profitable past experiments and urging support for the 1917 beet growing effort.
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Great Western Sugar Co
Chateau
Simms
Valier
Conrad
Odenwald Brothers
Great Western Sugar Company
Wilson Re-elected as California Count Still In Progress
Early returns show President Wilson leading Hughes in California by about four to five thousand votes though the official count began yesterday and may alter the result. National House expected to be nearly even with no clear majority for either party.
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Acantha
Wilson
California
Hughes
House of Representatives
Official County Count Delayed by Storm After Ballot Delays
Officials report counting lags due to storm hold up in receiving ballots from Birch Creek precincts. County commissioners cannot begin the official count until seven days after the session start and only a full return could alter results for a few state officers.
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Birch Creek
High Prices Through Civil War Era Day Books
Prices from H B Glover & Company sample 1857 and 1864 figures show flour and sugar costs, and items like ginseng and dressed pork varying widely. The note contrasts high current prices with historic levels, noting postwar peaks and long-term inflation expectations.
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H. B. Glover °& Company
Dubuque
Iowa
D. E. Peace
Richland Center
Wis
Merchant
Epworth League Social and League Meetings Announced
The Epworth League holds a Friday social and the Junior League meets next Sunday at 3 pm in the church. In fulfillment of a promise, the pastor will preach the funeral sermon of the liquor traffic next Sunday evening following the dry landslide votes on November 7.
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Epworth League
Archdeacon Hooker to Preach at Episcopal Service
Next Sunday November 19 the Rev S D Hooker Archdeacon of Montana will preach at 10 45 with Sunday school at 11 45 L Frank Haley pastor invites all to attend the Archdeacon's annual visit and services.
Farmers Short Course Dates Set in Chateau
Announcement in the Acantha lists December 11 12 and 13 for the Farmers Short Course at Chateau. Full program not yet prepared, but will be similar to last year with details in next week's issue. Remember the dates.
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Chateau
Steel Down In Ten Days Near Agawam Line
H R Earling vice president of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul says steel will reach Agawam within a week to ten days weather permitting. Freight including coal will be hauled this winter but no passenger service planned until early summer. A party accompanying him surveys progress before leaving for Lewistown and on to Butte.
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Milwaukee
Agawam
H. R. Earling
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Mr. Earling
W. B. Foster
E. H. Barrett
Er. O. Reeden
Charles L. Whiting
Montam
Emerick’s Christmas Puzzles Solved by 12 Photographs
A note urges quick action to order a dozen of Emerick’s choice photographs for Christmas puzzles. It emphasizes speed to avoid the rush. The message uses concise promotional language to prompt immediate ordering.
Professor Spaulding Praises Second Montana Border Regiment
Thomas C. Spaulding, first lieutenant and engineering officer, reports the Second Montana regiment performed excellently on four months border patrol near Douglas Arizona. He notes top ratings for efficiency physique camp conditions and officer personnel and says the volunteers hardened into a crack regiment under heat and testing conditions.
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Thomas C. Spaulding
Montana
Douglas
Arizona
Forest School of the State University
Helena
Sam
United States
Spaulding
Mexico
Sun River project land opened for entry in Montana
Announcement from the Department of the Interior opens the southwest quarter of section 2 township 22 north range 4 west to entry and settlement under public land laws starting December 23, 1916 at 9 am. It warns trespass penalties for premature settlement and directs inquiries at the Great Falls land office.
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Montana
Sun River
Department of the Interior
Great Falls
United States
United States Land Office
Grea Falls
District Court Opens as 50 Jurors Drawn for Murder Trial
Judge J B Leslie and Court Reporter R P Jackson arrived from Great Falls to convene the district court. The murder case State of Montana v W M Pyatt awaits a jury after exhausting the panel, requiring a new pool of 50 jurors from towns including Conrad, Valier, Dupuyer, Cut Bank, Brady, and Choteau. The term is expected to be lengthy with additional criminal and civil cases on the docket.
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J. B. Leslie
R. P. Jackson
Great Falls
State of
Montana
W. M. Pyatt
J. J. Greene
J. W. Freeman
Great Fals
J. W. Speer
T. H. Pridham
Finnis E. Baker
Conrad
Donald Graham
Thomas Lebens
W. C. Betts
Gilman
John Lyon
Chateau
Carl Harris
Dupuyer
Martin Teterud
Cut Bank
George Sollid
Dutton
Theodore van Kuiken
Choteau
Carl T. Dussell
Albert Lauffler
Valier
Henry Vermulm
Conrad John KE. Sparling
Gustav Blomgren
Bobe
Josef Thorud
Fairfield
James Hallet Bynum
Chauncey D. Hall
Sid Mowry
Wm. Crawford
C. F. Suiste
Agawam
Eleias Gjermundson
Brady
L. R. Dobyns
H. Freeland
Cut
L. Hunter
Walier
Emil Nelson
John Saterlie
Bynum
F. W. Connole
Thomas Johnson
J. F. Bauma
Power
W. E. Gust
Richard Doorenbos
Carl B. Hawkins
Bert Stahl
Fred G. Campbell
Blackleaf
Olaf Nelson
Jacob Luinstra
John E. Hilmo
John J. Daley
Timothy Connor
Earl L. Bliss
Walter
Giles Campbell
Christian Filtenberg
Amund Granners
School chorus and health talk anchor parent meeting
The playground committee reported an athletic slide purchased for the school and a larger slide ordered for 45 dollars. A program featured seven school girls, Dr Stephens on teeth care, Mr Longmuir singing, and Dr Cogswell urging passage of a law to hire school nurses funded by a 2.50 marriage license fee.
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Stephens
Longmuir
Annie Laurie
Cogswell
State Board of Health
Board of Health
Missionaries of Health
The Saleslady at Royal theater this weekend
Willard Mack drama starring Hazel Dawn as a country girl who goes to New York and faces a gang of villains. The film features a recreated New York department store and a cast including Hazel Dawn Irving Cummings Dorothy Rogers Arthur Morrison and Clarence Handysides. Presented Sunday and Monday November 19 and 20.
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Willard Mack
Kazel Dawn
Famous Players Film Company
New York
Paramount Picture
Hazel Dawn Bruce
Irving Cummings
Lizzie
Dorothy Rogers Bruce
Clarence Handysides
Burke
Arthur Morrison
Royal Theater
Thanking supporters after a loss in general election
W B Stalnaker thanks friends who voted for him in the general election, expresses appreciation for their support and notes that he valued their vote as much as if he had won.
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W.B. Stalnaker
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Joseph Hirshberg
Julius Hirshberg
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Teton County
Chateau, fMontana
Moth Ball League
Patrick
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Chateau-Agawam
Earling
Bearling
Big Party
Lewistown
Butte
Tribune
August Kropp
Charles A. Hines
Vater
Helen
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