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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
7
A garbled OCR fragment notes a maritime or seafood themed item, mentioning diverse meat or catch in seas. The readable bits point to a sensational teaser about varieties of seafood or meat traded or sold. No clear entities or events are identifiable from the fragment.
A column on community reporting stresses the hard work of gathering local news for a small town paper. It urges readers to share personal updates and visiting friends news to aid coverage and notes citizenship applications for Wilhelmena Lange of Kevin and Sorens Sorensen.
Interest grows as harvests proceed across the state with Montana leading per acre yields. At the Montana State Fair in Helena from September 2 to 27, 5470 in farm products awards include 658 for wheat and 532 for oats, plus special prizes such as gasoline engines for top sheaves of winter wheat and oats, with premiums funded by Louis W. Hill and the International Harvester Company.
Ranchers from Valier and local merchants visit town. News items include a Great Falls appendectomy survivor at home, new water system work in Fort Benton with standpipe plans, and upcoming B M Great Falls baseball against Choteau. Also notes on cattle shipments from Larkin and Christian to Seattle, and reminiscences of P H Knowles in Choteau.
The district court clerk lists two civil cases filed since the last report: J.T. Moser versus W.G.C. McDowall on appeal and Jans Oldenkamp versus Edwin A. Pettigrew on a debt claim.
Since our last report marriage licenses have been issued by James Gibson, clerk of the district court to Julius Miller and Margaret Monroe, both of Valier.
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