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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1932
Page
3
The Teton county Republican convention held in Dupuyer elected temporary officers and nominated candidates for sheriff assessor treasurer clerk and recorder district clerk public administrator coroner county surveyor state senator and representatives. G. W. Magee J. Zimmerman C. Green J. Mitchell J. H. Dunlap Olaf Field O. G. Cooper J. A. Kennedy and several county commissioners received ballots for top posts.
The F. A. Buttrey branch in Choteau closed Saturday night with the last stock and fixtures removed Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George O’Hare, who ran the store, will soon leave Choteau for an undecided location. Local friends regret the departure as neighbors recall their three years of service.
Ellis was picked up Saturday night by City Marshall A H McGinnis and the court imposed a suspended fine of 25 dollars.
At Deep Creek Harry Odenwald grows a remarkable patch of high bred mule corn reaching about 10 feet. He planted nine rows of 600 feet after June 15 using five pounds of seed from an eastern firm. Odenwald notes earlier planting might yield better ears and plans to use the fodder seed for future planting. He lacks a silo and accepts silage yields uncertainly, guessing 40 to 80 tons per acre if cut. He brought a sample to the Acantha office last Friday.
C A Shawver justice of the peace in Pendray township visited Choteau last Friday and spoke of his son Earl arriving by airplane from Los Angeles for a brief stay. The trip used a sequence of flights from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City to Great Falls and a private plane to Pendroy, totaling fourteen hours. Shawver Jr. returned to Great Falls and then flew back to Los Angeles after a week.
A four pound tooth from a prehistoric monster was unearthed near Evansville Indiana beneath the bed of the Ohio River. It was buried under a crust of earth.
Mrs John Parkins shopped in Brady Monday morning. Jas Coghill and family shopped in Great Falls Saturday. Mrs Jean Baquet made a business trip to Conrad Friday, returning with her daughter Mildred. Miss Lucile Fitzgerald and Marion Lockhart urged achievement day at the community hall with 4 H club demos.
Notice states Friday September 30 1932 at 1 o'clock p m in the court room of the court house in Chateau Montana for proving the will of Mary W Connor deceased and for the hearing of Chas H Connor for issuance of letters testamentary. Blanche M Jacobson clerk notes first publication September 15 last September 29.
An advertisement touts Allenu as a non narcotic remedy for rheumatism neuritis lumbago and sciatica. It claims rapid pain relief within 24 hours and removal of excess uric acid with a scientific formula. The Chateau Drug Co and leading druggists offer Alleniu at one eight ounce bottle for 35 cents with a money back guarantee.
Montana 4H baby beeves sold well at the Chicago market. An average of 8.22 per 100 pounds was paid for 26 beeves bought by a Helena dealer during the Montana state fair. The lot weighed about 964 pounds each and brought prices from 6.75 to 9.25 with 209 beeves in the sale.
Fairfield residents share a busy span with guests and travels. Bynum and Lewis Pearson spend weeks at the old place. Reil Swenson and Dell Green work in the hills gathering winter wood. M. I. A. officers host a well attended social with new games supervised by Louna Green and Lula Swenson, midnight lunch served.
Kalispell laborer Godfrey Shower dropped a ten dollar bill while paying a Rex case bill Saturday evening. Bert Taylor picked up the money and intended to keep it, but others witnessed the act and Shower confronted Taylor demanding restitution.
The text describes a sequence where J. L. Billings and Sheriff Shower attend to an arrest of Taylor at Chateau. Taylor hands the bill to Shower and covers Billings’ travel expenses, after which the matter is dropped.
Sun River rancher Fender travels from Ford Creek to oppose a proposed forest road from his ranch to Spencher that would cut into a primitive green forest area and harm fish and game. He met with Congressman Leavitt with William Moers to urge diverting federal forest funds from the Bench mark road to an eight mile Beaver Creek Sun River route. Fender argues it would create a motorist loop and threaten forest fire protection, while W B Wiley defends supporting Benchmark forest administration and protection.
T. J. Larson of Havre has been appointed warehouse inspector by the state department of agriculture to check grain stores against storage tickets. He will visit all licensed elevators, inspect holdings and shipments, and enforce the state warehouse act. Larson is an experienced grain elevator man, formerly manager of the Farmers' Elevator Co. at Outlook and secretary of the North Dakota Montana Grain Dealers association, with prior work as a Montana warehouse inspector for the Farmers' National Warehouse Corp.
Chapter 101 presents an act to submit to qualified electors of Montana a constitutional amendment to Section 2 of Article IX. It concerns qualifications required for persons to vote in general elections and on questions to be decided by the people or electors.
State recordizes a 1932 act to submit to Montana electors a constitutional amendment widening voting eligibility. It details criteria for general elections and for levy or debt questions, including age citizenship residency and tax status, with provisions on felons and five year limits. Official certification by Secretary of State W E Harmon accompanies the notice.
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