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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1946
Page
4
Vic Pelletier announced Pelletier Chevrolet Co has reopened its body shop in Billings with Ken Hensley joining from Lou Chevrolet Co after 15 years. The firm now offers repainting fenderwork spot repairs and wrecks services.
Admits include Gary Pearson of Fairfield and several Choteau residents with medical cases. Discharges list Mrs. Albert Peterson Mrs. Frits Hansen and Richard Bachmeir. A newborn son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ancell died last Saturday before a game against Columbia Falls.
Community appeal for hospital aid references diverse donors and sponsors including Chateau Kindergarten led by Mrs. E Erickson and families such as Mr. and Mrs. Gleason William Hodgskiss W 4 H Wellenstein Mabel McTaggert and several others including Great Falls Brewing Co. and Hartley Wilson to support hospital needs.
The Coffey Hour letters urge local groups such as the American Legion and Chamber of Commerce to sponsor Saturday dances at local venues and press for extending the 12 o'clock closing hour to boost nightlife. They argue the curfew drives residents and visitors to nearby towns and cites Fourth of July crowds as an example, requesting reader opinions.
Bloom is elected president at a convention banquet on Monday evening. The event featured talks on food industry history and progress by Bloom, with remarks from Gerald Harrington of Butte and welcome from Mayor O'Leary. Paul R. McClure of Great Falls spoke at a luncheon, and Oakley E. Coffee of Missoula addressed food and drug legislation.
Classified items list several sales and requests including an 8-room movable house, red tag winter wheat, two-room house near Choteau, a small welsh terrier named Nipper, two rooms for rent, ducks for event, alfalfa hay, oats, two horses for sale, grain box and lumber, and requests for old Ford or Chevrolet, plus grain tanks advertised by Farmers' emergency units and Montana Trading Post. The notices show local buying selling and wanted items with location markers like Eastham Fairfield Choteau Great Falls Shelby Conrad and surrounding areas.
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