Montana Woolgrowers Plan Helena Meeting In October
The second annual Montana Woolgrowers association session will convene in Helena on October 2 for a three day meeting. Attendance is expected to exceed last year.
12 Sep 1907
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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
1
The second annual Montana Woolgrowers association session will convene in Helena on October 2 for a three day meeting. Attendance is expected to exceed last year.
Old Week in Buffalo features a new monument honoring President William McKinley who was assassinated during a Pan American Exposition reception six years ago. The article notes forest service plans to reseed summer ranges on national forests, and reports weak prospects for the telegraph strike settlement. It also covers the National Irrigation Congress adopting a resolution and the San Francisco Cliff House fire, owned by the Sutro estate, valued at fifty thousand dollars.
Otto Becker opens harness repair shop in the old telephone office and offers repair services. Charles Wilcox visits with Miss Maud Ostrom en route to Aman School near Raymond. C E Heisey of Great Falls arrives with two young ladies amid a misengagement misunderstanding. Alma Zimmerman to teach primary at Dupuyer. Grace Bulmer, from Ontario, takes teaching post at Sheep Creek school. A revived Don Quixote figure entertains town but fails. Alfred Harris plans to depart for Helena with family.
Summary of the regular and subsequent sessions of the Teton County Board of Commissioners in September 1907. Reports approved include salaries, officers fees, jail expenses, treasurer balances, and various fund tallies. Road views approved for Choteau Birch Creek and Conrad Oldenkamp routes with public highway declarations. Contracts authorized for iron fencing at the courthouse and bridge work on Muddy Creek. Military holiday adjournments noted.
The afternoon session reconvened at 2 p.m. with a full board awaiting claims and adjourned to 10 a.m. Sept 6. On Sept 6 the board approved the I Y H Pings contract for building Muddy bridges at 86.75 per linear foot with bond of 3500.00. They also contracted Chateau Milling & Power Co to install four electric light fixtures in the county jail for 10.50 total. J W Shields presented Willow Round cemetery plat and field notes. surveyor to copy for the State Board and a deed application to the state. Claims were audited and warrants authorized, including 2100.00 to H A Holm for grading and right of way for Bene and Mountains road. Clerk ordered to buy 20 tons Lethbridge coal for the jail and issue a warrant from the general fund. (To be continued next week.)
Work to ballast and widen the Montana and Great Northern line progresses with a 200 man crew and steam shovels at Vaughn gravel pit. Five months expected to complete the project enabling through Burlington trains Billings to Great Falls and on to Shelby for coast access.
The season's first snow fell Wednesday morning then turned to drizzling rain. Grain crops show little damage as snow was light and frost unlikely to harm maturity. If weather stays clear for ten days, the entire grain crop should be saved with no loss.
Marriage licenses issued this week to Chas F Summers and Freda Pauline Esther Wilcox of Shelby Thomas Hamby of Babb and Jessie La Brache of Browning.
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