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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1916
Page
1
The Great Western Sugar Company plans an experiment crop next year and urges farmers to clean and properly prepare ground. A Henderson letter stresses fall plowing, seed bed prep, avoiding dead furrows, and irrigation to boost beet yields for a regional factory.
Report from the Sun River Oil Co. camp shows strong faith in commercial oil and gas flow as drillers McKnight and Zeigler persist through cold, floods, and accidents. They expect to reach the Kootenai shale and potential big oil news soon near Augusta, Montana.
The Milwaukee Choteau-Agawam branch track is about two miles east of Flume. Fill work through Priest Butte lake is half completed and progress is rapid. Trains are expected to run through Choteau in November.
A business meeting and officer election is set at Willow Coulee club on Sunday September 10 at 2 p.m. All members are urged to attend. W J DeCOURSEY is listed as president. Wheat is praised as a useful cereal in a closing line.
Voters cast 2652 ballots in Ton county, 52 percent of registered, as for Democratic and Republican tickets for U S senator governor and other offices The official county totals show party candidates and vote counts across state and local races.
The new high school in Chateau opened Tuesday with higher enrollment and a bright outlook for the year. An upgraded auditorium assembly room, fresh desks, and ample space encourage study. Miss Smith arrives to lead music and art, coming from Webster City and previously teaching in Glendive Montana. Decorations by Parent-Teachers' association use large golden red bouquets. Domestic science students begin in the new home economics room, though some schedule conflicts may push that course to next year.
A brief note outlines limits on duck shooting set for sportsmen. The article speculates on postwar prices for British titles for American girls, suggesting only daughters of munition makers could afford them.
The Parent-Teachers Association held a meeting at the high school auditorium with Mrs. E. N. Haugen presiding. She urged heartful parent teacher cooperation, service as a motto, and constructive school support, followed by a program and refreshments.
Carl Stanley Johnson age 20 of Company F seventh infantry El Paso Texas was struck by lightning and killed at 7 10 pm Thursday August 17 Funeral services held at the Methodist church on Tuesday August 27 Reverend W S Hall officiating Interment Chateau cemetery He had seven months in the regular army with three promotions most recent mounted orderly for Captain French He earned expert rifleman honors in July His brother C L Johnson of El Paso accompanied the body Neighbors and friends thanked for kindnesses to the family
Justice Hughes links Americanism to quiet men while T. R. and the other vice presidential candidate project calm restraint. The text questions whether Theodore Roosevelt can deliver a campaign speech without overshadowing the leading candidate and whether strikes can settle without public hardship.
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