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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1935
Page
1
The city council sold 10 000 dollars in serial water bonds to Citizens State Bank to refinance 21 147.20 dollars of existing water bonds. Bonds at 4 percent will mature in five years, with interest semiannually on April 1 and October 1. The move trims interest and projects debt elimination by 1940.
A meeting in Dutton led to a temporary Lions club organization with Great Falls and Chateau clubs as sponsors. Twenty-six Dutton members signed to join, a charter petition will be sent, and a/next meeting will finalize the charter details.
Ernest Arensmeyer purchases Oscar Ericson's share of the A and BE garage in Chateau. The four year partnership remains under the same name for now. Ericson, a longtime auto mechanic, has no stated plans. Kale joins as Arensmeyer's new helper at the shop.
Mrs. Anne Lefingwell of the Montana Tuberculosis Association outlines a TB focused plan for Teton county. The program drops widespread school health clinics for case finding in high schools Chateau Power and Dutton with tuberculin skin tests and chest X rays for positives.
Announcement by John Contin manager of the Chateau Implement Co Inc that a branch store will open in Fairfield around October first. The Kurzab building across from the post office will house the new location with Ross Roberts in charge. The line mirrors the Choteau store including International Harvester farm implements and parts and Marshall Wells hardware. The firm, a member of the Associated Hardware Dealers, counts J W Speer among its Great Falls incorporators.
The Sun River Tehon Masonic Welfare association holds its third quarterly meeting Friday September 27 at Augusta lodge No 54. Dinner and program follow with Geo C Craven and John Lord in attendance. Mt Moriah lodge quartet to perform. about 175 expected, with around 35 from Choteau.
The first Boy Scout meeting of the season will be held this Friday evening at the Legion pavilion. All Scouts are asked to attend so organization plans for the year can be worked out. Gordon Holmes is the new scoutmaster with Burr Huffman as assistant.
The Acantha dedicates this issue to 4-H club members, their leaders, council and sponsors. It wishes a successful Fair and Achievement Day and hopes the clubs’ good work continues for years.
Teton county 4-H club members and leaders plan a second annual fair and harvest festival in Chateau next Saturday. A free 3:30 matinee at the Royal theater will screen Broadway Bill with Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy.
The Chateau Country Club championship format shrank this year to two flights. In the championship flight R L Reickhoff faced C D McDonald while J B Conlin met Clint Core, with G C Core beating Clarence Looney 1 up and Clinton Core defeating John Conlin 1 up after 19 holes. The two Core entries advance to the semi finals.
About 35 Teton county high school graduates will depart next week to study at Montana institutions and out of state colleges. Names include Anne Eckford Jane Guthry Ejisie Hirshberg Virginia Hansen Johmay Pollock Pendroy Nella Gaare and others bound for Montana State University Missoula Montana State College and Northern Montana College Havre. Some will attend Montana State Normal College Billings Intermountain College and Great Falls institutions with nursing and teaching tracks listed.Mary Davis and Kathryn Davis plan to enroll at University of Minnesota as freshmen.
Extension horticulturist E. E. Isaacs will visit Bole Farmington Numay Power for a series of 2 pm sessions sponsored by H D clubs and Women’s clubs. He will discuss home yard beautification with flowers shrubs and trees and answer gardening questions. A son to Oscar Odegard and former Miss Inez Lindseth was born September 6 in Seattle.
Technical nursing course and Howard Gaare plan general studies registration. Helen Bateman a Missoula graduate will start Yale School of Nursing in Cambridge Massachusetts. Margaret Dough ty Chateau enters Pacific University in Forest Grove Oregon. Mabel Harris Bynum becomes a freshman at Walla Walla College in Walla Walla Washington. Paul Baillie Chateau enrolls in Kinman Business College in Spokane. Fred Saylor attends State College in Pullman Washington. Grayce Thompson will finish her senior year at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington.
Funeral services for Lurmine Byrne Prescott trusted wife of Allen C. Prescott and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Byrne were held in Helena with burial at Forestvale Cemetery. A Red Morrison tribute marked the ceremony as he saluted the dead. Prescott was the state's second licensed airplane pilot. She was born February 21, 1901, educated in White Sulphur Springs and Dillon, taught four years, married in Portland in 1922, and lived on the Prescott ranch north of Chester. Survived by husband, parents, a sister in Idaho, a brother in Oregon, and other relatives. The funeral drew many from Choteau. pallbearers listed from Helena, Cascade, Chester, White Sulphur Springs, and Chester.
Jerry Siccama 52 a well known Gap area farmer died two hours after drinking formaldehyde in a Chateau hospital. A coroner’s inquest found death by self administered poison. He had threatened earlier to end his life and his wife intervened seizing the bottle before he drank. Survivors include his widow and two daughters Trina and Betty. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church with interment in Chateau cemetery.
S V Ratty and Sylvia S Whan of Manhattan Kansas received license on September 12. Kenneth Tessie Neil of Dutton and Sylvia Margaret Lehnert of Power obtained a license on September 17.
Mrs E H Bowder spent the summer here with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Arnold C Hanusa. They drove her to Helena and she will travel by auto to Salt Lake City Denver and Kansas City on her way home to Ohio.
The Bole Woman's Club will stage a three act comedy I Like Your Nerve at the Bole community hall on Saturday September 28. Proceeds from ticket sales will fund improvements to the new club rooms. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children with specials between acts and a dance after the show.
Fourteen carloads of lambs grown by T. O. Larson shipped Monday from Sundance to Corwin Bros. Iowa feeders. On the same day J. E. Sullivan, Pendray grower, sent lambs from Browning. With favorable market trends and abundant corn-belt feed, feeding this year should yield unusually good returns.
The library transferred to general shelves this week the books America by Hendrick Van Loon All Men are Enemies by R Aldington Zest by Chas G Norris and Forgive Us Our Trespasses by Lloyd C Douglas A patron asked if public libraries are relatively new The answer notes Athens had a public library in 527 B C and Roman emperors kept libraries from spoils of war Spain in the 12th century had seventy public libraries Cordova’s held 250000 volumes Library hours are Wednesdays 730 to 9 and Saturdays 3 to 5.
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