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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
12
Senate J. M. Kennedy reports a healthy revival of the timber sector after wartime shutdowns. Embargoes eased, mills in Northwestern Montana look to a strong season with readjusted conditions and potential employment for over a thousand men in camps as demand rises.
Mr. Kennedy reports a strong push to expand lumber work as war restrictions ease. About 600 new positions opened in Flathead and Lincoln counties with wages from 4 to 5 dollars a day plus board. He notes unprecedented worker goodwill and favorable conditions in Montana mills and camps.
James M Reynolds, known as the Barney Oldfield of Montana, commands a 100 horsepower Hudson racer. He has driven at 90 to 100 mph on dangerous speedways between Butte and Helena and survived many crashes, the worst a rollover with a train where only a broken finger marred his record. Reynolds began as a footracer, then rollers champion, and at fifty won a 25 mile race from Butte to Gregson Springs.
Herbert A. Templeton, head of Rogers-Templeton Lumber Co., was chosen for the American Y M C A in Europe executive committee. He organized evacuation plans for Paris when German threats rose, leasing hotels and securing trains to move headquarters and staff, earning praise from Ambassador Henry Sharpe before returning to Montana.
State hail insurance board reports funds deficit will prevent paying more than about 40 to 45 percent of all farmers hail claims. About $325,000 or 40 percent already paid pro rata and another $25,000 may follow. Higher premium this year failed to cover claims and expenses, unlike last year when 40 cents per acre sufficed. The law lacks a reserve fund and raises robbery concerns amid years of maximum losses.
Edwin C Wilcox a Fort Benton and Virginia City pioneer died at his stock ranch near Maple Creek Saskatchewan after a life spanning Montana freight and ranching in Gallatin City Dupuyer Creek and later Canada He arrived in 1868 on the Missouri river witnessing Plummers men hanged by vigilantes and later built a notable ranching and freighting career and became a long time Canadian rancher remembered as a true pioneer.
Phillips county claims the youngest oldest and tallest soldiers in the U S Army. John Schempp age 15 last June serves in France as a bugler with the Twentieth engineers after forged parental consent. Walter Day, six feet eight inches, joins the medical corps for height related reasons. R B Morris, 66, appears decades younger and dodges recruitment questions.
William Fluhr and Charles Greenfield Jr return to Helena after officer training camps. Greenfield travels from Waco to Helena with little money, surviving through day coaches and meals. Fluhr sells his overcoat before heading to Camp Pike, Arkansas, then arrives back in Helena seeking warmth and a reunion with his family.
Plan proposals announced at District No. 1 headquarters in Missoula aim to build West Gallatin Glacier Park Summit and a Bitter Root east fork highway awaiting secretary of agriculture approval. The Yellowstone north entrance to Bozeman route spans 40 miles costing 140000 dollars while Glacier Park to Belton would join the transcontinental corridor requested by Teton County officials.
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