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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
4
Local notes cover election registration totals with 6262 names split 4078 male and 2184 female. Items include political visits by Hon. J W Coburn and attorney W J Shannon, a cholera epidemic hospital staff, shipping news from Grangeville and Fairfield, property sales and rents, farm and livestock movements, Apple carload shipment by the Women’s club, and a long extract from the President’s October 14 1918 message on war aims and armistice terms.
A fragment notes the Salvation Army adding pie to its coffee and donut lineup near the front lines. It is described as an American institution serving American soldiers and the broader community.
The ticket features Oscar M. Lanstrum for United States Senator Charles H. Cooper for Associate Justice George P. Porter for State Auditor Lee Dennis for Railroad and Public Service Commissioner Carl W. Riddick for Congress second district T. O. Larson for State Senator John W. Coburn Harmon T. Rhoads Charles Crane for County Commissioner E C Garrett for County Clerk W H Webb for County Auditor S Marten for Sheriff A B Guthris for County Treasurer Harry W Timothy for County Assessor Geo W Magee for County Attorney John H Barnett for County Superintendent Grace M Thompson for County Coroner Charles H Connor for Public Administrator Byron Corson paid for by the Teton County Republican Central Committee
Rupert Ward's dispatch from Minneapolis notes severe influenza among navy sailors and more at the Great Lakes with many nurses reassigned. In Belleview, Mrs Vanish plans to move and release Mrs Stevens for winter while threshing nears completion at Allum schoolhouse. Ida Miller and pupils stage a program, a Fourth Liberty Loan celebration dinner occurs, and Red Cross auxiliary meets at Mrs Stanfield with local ladies invited.
An Episcopal church notice urges continued prayer as churches close due to epidemic. It compares plagues with war, cites Camp Custer illness and Don Martin in Paris, defends faith, and condemns nonbelievers as unpatriotic.
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