Beck News Miss Billie Williams of Chateau
Miss Billie Williams of Chateau spent the week at the Joe Homberg residence as a social visit report notes.
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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
8
Miss Billie Williams of Chateau spent the week at the Joe Homberg residence as a social visit report notes.
Mr and Mrs Geo Brown and others from Richardton ND spent a week at the Joe Dirkes home. Visitors from Shelby and Conrad dropped by. The Farmers Union met with whist and bridge prizes awarded to Mrs Jack Thompson Lyle Schaefer Nic Paulus and Lena Tackes. Uncle Sam’s Helpers club formed at Beck School with Louis Asmus Lois Gamradt and Gladys Gamradt elected to lead.
The Farmers Union plans an egg grading demo by Miss Eileen Sequiam after a regular meeting at Bole hall on Friday November 1. The H D club meets November 7 with hostesses Mrs Olaf Field and Mrs Gerald Ditto. County nurse Miss Lindberg speaks, roll call on housework. Community notes report moved buildings around Bole and trips to Great Falls and Augusta, plus hospital returns and a bazaar crowd.
The annual Christmas seal sale drive by the Montana Tuberculosis Association will begin November 25. Executive secretary Mrs. Henrietta Crockett announced the effort to combat tuberculosis and said the drive will close on Christmas.
Jack W. Carney chief deputy game warden announces the heavy fall planting from the Miles City hatchery is under way and should be completed soon. The operation includes several warm water fish species for release.
The state board of examiners will renovate an old restaurant building on the capitol grounds to provide additional facilities for the industrial hygiene division of the state board of health, a unit created by the 1939 legislative assembly.
Montana's board of examiners approved a resolution for additional bed space for veterans at Fort Harrison hospital and sent the measure to federal authorities. Gov. Roy E. Ayers announced the action as board chairman.
Lieut Col George F Bloomquist of the regular army is assigned temporarily in command of the 163rd infantry Adjutant General John W Mahan announced last week Col Bloomquist takes the place of Col E M Birely of Billings who was disqualified for failing to pass his physical examination
The Montana Supreme Court affirmed Cascade County District Court and the State Industrial Accident Board in denying compensation to Marion Griffin widow of Daniel Griffin a former Great Falls firefighter. The ruling upholds previous denials of benefits.
Highway engineer D A McKinnon receives nomination for vice president of the western district of the American Road Builders Association. He also serves as vice president of the American Association of State Highway Officials.
A correction notes that in last week’s public school column the champion named for flash card men pen ten was misreported as Robert Underwood and should read Robert Wood.
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