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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1931
Page
5
Local patchwork of shop sales at Hirshberg and Parlor Shoppe features silk dresses $4.95 and 75c bib overalls. Reports note weddings, hospital updates, Armistice Day plans, and community events from Chateau area including dances and porch gatherings.
Montana land owners damaged by beaver must apply for trapping permits by Nov 30 to allow proper inspections. In 1930, 526 permits were issued. by 1931 only seven had been granted. Beaver tags on 6,779 skins this year push totals toward 60,158 skins since 1921. at $20 each the wealth would be $1,203,160.
Elizabeth Weaver files a divorce action in district court through attorney George Coffey against Wallace R. Weaver alleging cruelty as the basis. The couple married in Great Falls on June 14, 1924. Plaintiff asks that her maiden name Elizabeth Kraher be restored and C. James Smith is named administrator.
The estate of Lake Keogh is plaintiff in a mortgage foreclosure suit in district court against Harold L. Stevenson and his wife. Attorney for the plaintiff is T H Pridham. Separately Emery Shull petitions to appoint C James Smith administrator of the Della Nelson Blaine estate with personal property valued at about 3000 and 450 acres of real property valued at 5000. Two marriage licenses issued: Cliff A Lortie and Ida M Leather of Helena. Charles N Talbott and Mildred H Enge of Great Falls. The Lortie Leather wedding was performed by Justice J G Jackson with witnesses Thomas A Richard of Helena. The Talbott Enge wedding was performed by Rev B R Kaemnier.
Mrs. Olive Van Arsdale aged 19 of Dutton died Tuesday in a Great Falls hospital. Born in Ontario on November 12, 1881 she came to the United States at age three. Survived by husband James Van Arsdale, who farms near Dutton and a son Allan G. Van Arsdale of Dutton.
The Shull family expresses gratitude for kindness and flowers at the death of sister Della Nelson. Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Roberts for their many acts of kindness. James E. Shull and Son honor the memory.
W F Henninger of Salt Lake City police arrived in Chateau last Thursday and left with Fred A Fisher the next morning. Fisher was arrested locally on embezzlement and bail jumping charges, had a prior Salt Lake sentence, and escaped with bondsmen. He was traced from Helena to Chateau and has a documented criminal record.
Great Northern Railway authorizes excursion rates from all Montana points to the Portland show on October 24 1931. The round trip fare is one and one third the one way fare. Effective October 20 with November 7 return limit.
The Great Falls Tribune features Harvey M Read former eight year city council representative and Montana Power street railway assistant superintendent recalling his first earnings at age nine. He worked as a chore boy and rider on a Teton county cow ranch earning one dollar a day and by eighteen was a famed broncho rider who won a Choteau contest.
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