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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1951
Page
2
The Acantha reflects on the life of Joseph Kinsey Howard noting a career marked by public service, dispute, respect, and broad personal friendship. Editors mourn a man described as perceptive and kind whose friendship enriched many.
A portrait of Choteau’s long standing cottonwoods praised by locals and visitors. The Missouri River cottonwoods, planted by Hamilton and Hazlett, anchor the townscape while other trees struggle without irrigation. A visiting professor lauds the trees as the town’s defining feature.
Community events list morning worship and picnics at Greenfield and Pendroy churches led by Harold L. Engdahl with choir rehearsals and the high school fellowship. A Montana crop report shows winter and spring wheat production rising above 1950 levels while oats and flaxseed trend lower. Local stockmen face market pressures amid drought and large hay outputs forecast across counties.
Local families host visits and birthday gatherings in Yakima Great Falls Kellogg and Polson areas. Farmington schools reopened with new teachers Mrs Irvin and Mrs Oberfoel. students Judy Ann Tangen Ann Chalmers Andrea Lindseth and Jacqueline Slanger Dickie Arensmeyer enter new levels.
The USDA in Helena reports Montana crop production on Aug 1 will drop from the 1950 harvest for all crops except winter wheat and hay. Yields mostly trail the 10-year average, with drought and moisture shortages hitting northeast counties and the southwest. Winter wheat harvest underway in eastern Montana. spring wheat harvest began in limited areas. Combines active mid month. ranges and pastures provide good feed but are thinning.
Mr and Mrs Bud Schrock are in Minnesota for the Ford school in Fargo while Esther visits her parents at St Cloud. Mrs Reno Hawthorne travels to Billings to bring home her youngest daughter Charlotte. They join Mr and Mrs Edwin Archey of Great Falls en route from Yellowstone Park. Charlotte had stayed with her sister Mrs Alice Peterson during the vacation.
Sept 11 7:00 election of officers at Trinity Lutheran Church Choteau with 9:45 Sunday School Rally and Promotion Day. Morning Worship 11:00 with special choral music and Baptism. Nursery provided. Lutheran Brotherhood at 8:00 with Dr Gene Fopp FBI speaker. Senior Choir 8:00, Youth Picnic and Rally at park, 7:00 service with Mark Gravdal speaker. Weekly Bible study and confirmations listed. A Bernard Gravdal pastor.
ST JOSEPH'S PARISH announces Masses at Bynum 8 00 and Chateau 10 00 am on Sunday September 9. Religion classes Saturday after noon Grades 1 to 4 at 1 00 and Grades 5 to 8 at 2 30. CYYO Tuesday at 1 00 pm. Rev Thomas J Gannon Pastor.
St John s Parish Fairfield offers Holy Mass at 11 00 a m Friday with devotions after Mass Weekday Mass at 8 00 am Power church holds 9 00 am Mass Rev Albert N Kaparich pastor Choteau Methodist Church schedules Promotion Day at 9 45 am Sunday school led by William Olsen
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