Milwaukee Readies a Grant Rate on Sugar Beets
Milwaukee Railway Co plans reduced sugar beet shipping rates to the Chinook factory to spur beet acreage in Teton county. County Agent Clarkson reports strong beet plots near Farmington and Agawam with yields up to 20 tons per acre. Minimum prices from the sugar company guarantee farmers profits, helping secure a local sugar factory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee Railway Co
Teton County
H. R. Wahoske
Great Falls
A. K. Dalbey
Chateau Commercial Club
Wahoske
Montana Railroad Commission
Utah-Idaho
Chinook
Milwaukee
Agawam
Commercial Club
Robert Clarkson
Fairfield
Farmington
Sugar Company
Clarkson
DeRusha
Depner
Malone Ranch
Farmington-Agawam
Fairfield Growers
O. DeRusha
August Depner
Stockmens State Bank
Chateau
Market Prices in Chateau Report by J. M. Baker Co
Prices paid in Chateau per Shirley Wallace of J. M. Baker Co. No. 1 hard spring $1.40 after a 7c premium. No. 1 dark northern $1.39 after a 7c premium. Dark hard winter $1.22. Flax $2.26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shirley Wallace
J. M. Baker Co
No Trace Yet of Dutton Safe Blowers
No definite crew has been found to lead to the arrest of the men who blew the safe at the T. J. Cheetham store in Dutton. The Cascade post office job followed, with officers linking the two incidents and tracing similar crimes through Montana from North Dakota as federal detectives pursue the gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Cheetham
Dutton
Yeggs
Cascade
Montana
North Dakota
John Holden
Butte
Chateau
Helena
S. T Ranch
Collings
Billings
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Holden
Joseph Blouin
Public School Notes and Enrollment Update
The public school opened September 8 with 212 pupils and now hosts 222 with more to enter. Grade counts: Primary 37 second 38 third 31 fourth 27 fifth 28 sixth 20 seventh 15 eighth 26. Gordon Holmes earned high school entrance after a county exam. Camp Fire Girls formed with Miss Miller as Guardian. meetings Thursdays at 3 45 at the grade school. 11 year olds may join with $1 dues earned by the girls. Absent due to illness: George Loomis Mary Crippen Neva Hood. Eighth grade agriculture peers are collecting seed corn. Return any missing school books promptly. Three rural schools opened Sept 8 with total enrollment 29. Mrs Bammel teaches Robinson, Miss Bessie Denison Harris, Miss Sofia Denison Lake Basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Holmes
County Board of Examiners
Gordon
Teton High
Camp Fire
Miss Miller
George Loomis
Mary Crippen
Neva Hood
Bammel
Robinson
Bessie Denison
Harris
Sofia Denison
Lake Basin
Farmington Notes and Local Happenings
Farmington reports Marjorie Gamble broke her arm turning a hand spring last Saturday. Passmore Bros. harvested wheat yielding 32 bushels per acre. T O Larson is building an 86 by 170 foot sheep shed on his Koyle area ranch. J B Conner motored to Collins via his ranch Monday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Gamble
Passmore Bros
T. O. Larson
Koyle
J. B. Conner
Collins
P. O. Klein
L. J. Otness
Teton Farmers Will Exhibit at Falls Corn Show
The North Central Montana Corn and Livestock Show at the Montana Livestock Pavilion in Great Falls runs October 8 9 10 with corn sugar beet and livestock displays. Agencies county agents and the Great Falls Commercial Club back premiums and exhibits while the Lions Club promotes the boys and girls division. Ben Gordon of Teton plans eight Brown Swiss cattle entries along with sugar beet and corn entries from the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
R. G. McChord
Animal Husbandry Department
State College
Alfred Atkinson
Montana State College
A. J. Ogaard
Extension Service
Great Falls
S. E. Peterson
Lions’ Club of
Teton County
Ben Gordon
Clarkson
First P T A Meeting Set for September 22
The Chateau Parent-Teacher Association will hold its first meeting of the 1925 1926 season next Tuesday evening September 22 at the high school. A short business session will elect a new president to replace Mrs Jennie Green and then a reception for teachers of both local schools. All members and friends are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Chateau Parent-Teacher Association
Jennie Green
County Board Approves Plans for Coal Shed and Storage
The county commissioners approved plans by County Clerk W H Webb to build a coal shed and storage at the rear of the jail to replace one destroyed by fire last winter. The estimated cost is 750 dollars. The board also granted Chairman W D Jones a 60 day leave of absence to visit his daughter in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
W. H. Webb
W. D. Jones
Jack Bentall
Great Northern Pendroy Branch Schedule Change Debated
A petition by Great Northern conductor Ed Shields seeks a morning train from Great Falls to Pendroy with a Chateau stop by 10 o'clock and return after 1 pm opposition forms in Chateau and Pendroy as local merchants and residents protest the altered timetable Some signatories reconsider and may withdraw in favor of the protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Great Northern
Pendroy
Ed. Shields
Teton County
Chateau
Shields
Clerks and Teachers Won Report Cards via County Office
County Superintendent Edythe Saylor announces the district clerks and teachers may obtain report cards directly from her office. She will keep a stock and fulfill all orders there, instructing to send orders to her rather than The Acantha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edythe Saylor
Wendell Petri Raises Big Wheat Crop at Agawam
Wendell Petri of Agawam reported a 160 acre spring wheat crop in Teton county averaging 20 bushels per acre. The lightest grain weighed 58 pounds per bushel while parts of the heaviest weighed 61 44 pounds. The wheat tested high in protein and some of the crop already sold brought a 10 cent premium. Petri credits proper farming methods and hard work for steady dryland yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Petri
Agawam
Teton County
Chateau
Mr. Petri
Fish Planted in Teton Streams From Federal Hatchery
Brook fingerlings from the Bozeman hatchery were released in a lake on Frank P. Goodwin’s ranch northeast of Chateau and in the north fork of the Teton River under E. H. Myrick. Rainbow fry from Bozeman were planted in the Teton and 25,000 more were packed in from Augusta to the Sun River north fork near Gates Park for distribution along the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Bozeman
Teton County
Frank P. Goodwin
Chateau
E. H. Myrick
Lewis & Clark Forest
North Fork
Teton River
Olney
Teton
Augusta
Gates Park
Sun River
M. E. Church Notes Highlight A Busy Year
Pastor Robert B. Culbertson reports a year of church activity with 244 Sunday school enrollment and 100 average attendance. 23 new members, 4 infant baptisms, 24 adult baptisms, 18 weddings, 12 funerals. 8 000 miles traveled for church work and five weeks aiding Neihart camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth
Epworth League
Ladies’ Industrial
Chateau
Pendroy
Bynum
Farmington
White School House
Neihart
Five Die As Flyer Carries Car At Shelby Crossing
Five people die and a sixth is fatally hurt when a fast mail train hits a car carrying a churchgoing group near Shelby. The Hasquets, Mrs. McIntyre and their daughters Virginia and Jean, plus Mrs. Lynch, are named. coroner's jury absolves engineer and crew. The Hasquets, noted ranchers in Teton county, were en route to church and stopped to pick up Mrs. Lynch before the collision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby
Michael Hasquet
O. V. McIntyre
Virginia
Jean
J. B. Lynch
Conrad
Hasquets
Hasquet
Teton County
Woman's Club Plans Business Meeting Next Tuesday
Mrs. E. J. Hirshberg president of the Woman's Club calls a business meeting for the afternoon of September 22 at the club rooms. All members are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
E. J. Hirshberg
Woman’s Club
Bynum Irrigation Bonds Signed Fast in Helena
County Treasurer Otto Waynild set a record by signing 1000 Bynum Irrigation District Bonds in three and a half hours in Helena. The $1 million issue sold for $900,000 with $610,000 sent to New York for remittance and $390,000 held in trust. Bonds bear 6 percent interest, mature in five to 30 years, with retirements scheduled from 1930 onward and funded by local tax levies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Waynild
Helena
Bynum Irrigation District
Waynild
State Board of Bond Commissioners
C. T. Stewart
Chateau
American National Bank
National City Bank of New York
Helena Bank
Call of Payne-Webber Co
Eastern Bond House
Farm Mortgage Corporation of Billings
Milwaukee Better Farming Meeting Set For Saturday
Milwaukee development and immigration department sets two better farming meetings in this county with E. E. Brewer leading. Local co operation by the county agent and Choteau Commercial Club part of a 26 town tour across North and South Dakota and Montana from Oct 15 to Nov 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teton County
E. E. Brewer
Milwaukee
Chateau
Fairfield
North
South Dakota
Montana
McLaughlin
St. Dakota
Miles City
Milwaukee Development and Immigration Department
Agricultural, Colleges of Montana
North and South Dakota
International Harvester’ Company
Choteau Commercial Club
Choteau
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Railroad Commission
Safe Blowers
Public
Tollis Hanson
O. Lindseth
Lindseth
F. K. Smith
Jess Perry
Emmet Williams
B. F. Proctor
H. R. Thompson
First National Bank
Liberty Loan
Falls
Butte Man
Teres
M. E
Robert B. Culbertson
FLYER
Shelby Crossing
Better Farming
Weshnife
Citizens State Bank
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