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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1939
Page
3
A historical perspective on how European war may impact households workers and society. It discusses price pressures from early panic buying, surplus commodities, export subsidies, and government controls. It weighs potential boosts in munitions and allied demand against uncertain effects on nonmilitary businesses.
The excerpt warns that wartime demand creates artificial booms for some regions while others suffer. It notes that grain remains essential, with cotton and tobacco vulnerable to surpluses and shrinking markets. It adds that postwar deflation looms unless policies curb excess.
The article recalls how frontier families used native plants for illnesses. Sassafras tea, blood root preparations, jack in the pulpit root uses, lungwort leaves, turtlehead as tonic and vermifuge, and home poultices were common remedies. It notes these practices predated modern science and honors grandma's craft.
Rose Calamari of Dutton wins two firsts and a second in sewing at the state fair. Elmer Weaver returns from France with his war bride. Allan Dalby and Bertram Guthrie head to Seattle for University of Washington. Ruth and Bernice Andrews host high school class. A trainload of livestock ships to Chicago.
Attorney General H. J. Freebourn ruled that when a student must enroll in a school outside their district due to a closed school, the home district must cover tuition transportation costs and board or rent. He stressed districts owe educational facilities to children within their bounds, even in isolated areas.
Samuel V. Stewart former governor and longtime public official of Montana died last Friday after intestinal illness surgery. He served as attorney for Madison county, chaired the state Democratic central committee, was governor during wartime, a state representative, and later a supreme court justice. The state mourns a prominent lawyer and war time governor, with honors at the Capitol and funeral rites by Knights Templar.
Masses will be celebrated in the Catholic church at Chateau next Sunday at 11 o clock and in Bynum at 9 o clock. Confessions precede Mass from 8 o clock. All day adoration follows Mass. Reposition to be held at 7:30 o clock Sunday evening.
Directors meet September 18 1939 levy of 25 per share on capital stock due October 18 1939 payable to Cal Binford secretary treasurer at Farmington Montana unpaid stock becomes delinquent and will be advertised for sale at public auction on November 7 1939 at 2 PM at the front door of the post office Farmington Montana to pay delinquent assessment and advertising costs.
Directors of Farmers Cooperative Canal Co in Farmington Montana levy an assessment of 25 per share on all capital stock due by October 20 1939 payable to G E Monkman secretary treasurer. Unpaid shares by October 20 will be delinquent and sold at public auction November 11 1939 at 2 PM at the Farmington post office front door to cover the delinquent assessment and sale costs. Dated Farmington Montana September 13 1939. Farmers Cooperative Canal Co G E Monkman Sec and Treas. First pub Sept 31 last Oct 12
Jefferson county farmer Guy D. George demonstrated blasting dynamite to drain swampy pasture land. Under F L Niven supervision the ditch 6 feet wide 3.5 feet deep measured about 800 feet at a cost under six and a half cents per running foot. Plans called for 2,000 more feet next spring to improve pasture usability. One and a half pound sticks were placed 8 to 12 inches underground at two foot intervals with a single fuse and cap detonating several hundred feet of dynamite.
District Judge George W. Padbury Jr. of Helena directs President George Finlay Simmons to appear September 25 to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt for not reinstating Phillip O. Keeney, former librarian at the state university. Keeney won reinstatement suits in 1937 and on appeal to the supreme court. The state board of education has since voted to seek Keeney's resignation for inefficiency and to bring charges if he does not resign.
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