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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
4
Proprietor details for the Choteau Acantha weekly edition in Montana. The paper is entered as second class matter at the post office. Subscriptions are two dollars per year or one dollar seventy six cents if paid in advance.
Local notices report residents visiting Great Falls from Miles City and Blackleaf, soldiers arriving in France, and various trips. Several civic items include election registration reminders, a Ladies Industrial meeting, and a coroner's inquest at Cut Bank.
Junior Red Cross in public school has funds to buy one Liberty Bond and aims to raise enough for a second. Second graders gave 50 cents by turning flax to support the band. First grade totals reach 6.10. many students earn money in various ways. Influenza causes absences, with Miss Destrud’s room hit hardest. Several staff and students suffer mild ailments. some injuries occur from playground incidents. Upper grades repair basketball and prepare for another game. College training students from Miss Pepple's class observe and will visit regularly. Eighth graders host the first social of the year, chaperoned by Miss Jones and Miss Cudd.
Last week C A Cowell received a mounted tarpon caught off Florida by Wm P Rieckhoff of Orange City Iowa. The 150144 pound specimen measures 5 feet 11 inches and is on display at the Chateau Meat Co. Tarpon fishing here uses a gasoline launch a 32 pound test line 16 pound lead and bait weighing 3 to 4 1/2 pounds. Landing a tarpon can take 4 to 8 hours the fish often jumps multiple times and the sport yields an average $500 per catch.
The Birth of a Nation opens at Covent Garden London on July 5 1916 and at Grand Opera Paris August 1, with European capitals Vienna and Berlin soon listed. Readers ponder reconstruction sentiments and Ku Klux Klan implications while noting the film's American origin and broad human lessons. Royal theater presents the production on October 5 with two shows at 7:00 and 9:30. adults pay 50c and children 26c.
Beginning October 1 the Choteau Meat Co will limit deliveries to two daily slots at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Orders placed before 9 o'clock will be delivered by 9 a.m. or 1 p.m. for the day, while orders after 9 o'clock will be delivered at 1 p.m. on the same day.
A service flag with about 35 stars will be dedicated at the Episcopal church on Sunday October 20 with Scott Leavitt delivering the address. Mr Haley will attend, and friends and relatives of the honored boys are urged to remember them in prayer. Leavitt will travel to Chateau Sunday morning with Mr and Mrs Crawford.
Fragmentary weather note appears among unrelated lines about Americans and the United States secret service. No clear forecast or regional data is present to summarize.
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