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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1919
Page
10
Wiprud buys hides and furs at F EB Moore Chateau for top prices. Fairfield merchant Mort Hirshberg visited the county seat last Tuesday.
Dr Henry Beaupre a prominent banker and stockgrower from Sunburst Toole county arrived in Chateau on Wednesday evening to oversee his property interests for a short stay.
The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church will hold a cooked food sale at the post office store Saturday afternoon. Call on them at that time for good items to eat offered at very reasonable prices.
Judge John J. Greene has returned from Hill and Glacier counties where he assisted in holding courts after Judge Rhodes faced disqualification. The city faces coal shortages as dealers report sold stock and no new shipments for weeks, with relief likely weeks away despite a settlement of the miners strike.
Pondera county schedules a December 20 special election to decide bonds not exceeding 150000 dollars for relief during winter and spring crop planting. Walier county within the county has ample feed. likely only 100000 dollars of bonds will aid farmers outside Walier.
Mrs Ray Halladad of Fairfield visits relatives in Iowa. Miss Dena Brossma leaves for Agawam to teach at the Agawam school. Mrs Kesselring of Great Falls arrives in Chateau for a week with the Williams family.
County Attorney Geo W Magee has been on the sick list this week but is reported considerably improved at this writing.
Miss Ruth Reynolds a Carson school teacher returned Wednesday from Wisconsin where she went to care for her ailing mother.
The county superintendent of schools issued certificates of awards for three months of perfect attendance to 60 Chateau public school pupils during the past week. A for sale notice lists a three burner oil stove a small range and a Congolin rug with contact Logan and Howard.
Augusta High School meets Teton County High School in a Friday night basketball game at the city auditorium starting at 8 o clock. The first appearance in this city, the Chateau bayboys vow to give their best chance to trim them.
The city’s temperature recorder has failed since December 7, rendering the observer’s report unavailable. Reports from other thermometers show readings as low as 36 degrees below zero on December 10, marking the coldest spell in Cho teau in years.
The ad promotes Florsheim shoes at Hirshberg's with a savings offer from Stockmens State Bank. It guarantees 4 percent interest compounded semi annually on deposits of 1 dollar or more, pitched as a best Christmas gift for children.
Mrs J J Hannan departed from Chateau last Monday morning bound for Seattle Washington to spend a few weeks visiting her parents Mr and Mrs C Wallace Taylor longtime county residents.
Harry Boutilier and Leslie Bush secure permission to cut wood along the Teton river on the old ST ranch south of town. The timber will be hauled to Choteau for fuel as a response to a fuel famine. News in Choteau is slim this week due to the cold weather and limited material for the paper.
Henry Kind and a crew are erecting a new saw mill on the north fork of the Teton about five miles from the canyon mouth. They have cut roughly 2,000 feet of lumber for their own buildings and plan to offer lumber for sale to local settlers soon, weather permitting.
Examinations were held Thursday Friday and Saturday at the city high school by county superintendent Miss Ruth Sweat. Second grade certificates were pursued by Mrs Wolfe Miss Swanson Albert Hogan Roy Inbody Anna Klein Lucille Fitz gerald Ella Mollard Mary Moriarity Geraldine Chase Hilda Cunningham Best Humble Helen Spencer Gladys Ellingsen Mrs Burgett Lloyd Moes Hazel Brandenberg Halver Knudt son Dorothy Bryson Gertrude Moes Hazel Kilgore Olga Monkman Laura Mitchell. First grade certificates pursued by Albert Ellis Ruth Cleaver Irene Jones and Essie Wiprud for professionals.
Flour wholesalers quote $7.20 per 98 pound sack in carload lots in Minneapolis mills. As supply lasts, price reduces to $6.95 per sack or $3.50 for 49 pound equivalents Rex or Sapphire.
Gilbert Webb, who has been visiting with his sister Miss Lucina Webb and his brother W. H. Webb in the city since discharge, has gone to Los Angeles California where he has secured employment. Friends in Chateau will be pleased to learn of his success in the land of sun and flowers to the south.
Citizens meet under the Citizens State Bank to address the fuel shortage in Choteau. F A Oulton appointed to secure 25 car loads of wood from Glacier Park and arrange shipments to the fuel administrator. Miners and volunteers consider work at Sand Coulee mines, with 25 men expected to go if needed. Additionally a mortgage foreclosure case in Montana’s Ninth District Court involves Western Loan and Building Company versus Elmer and Mary Harper.
The text records B M Jacobson as Clerk of Court with a court seal. Foot and Foot of Chateau Mont provide legal representation for the Plaintiff.
The State of Montana sends greetings to Maud Armitage and Joseph Armitage defendants in a divorce action filed in the county clerk’s office. Defendants must answer within twenty days after service or face default judgment for extreme cruelty wilful desertion and wilful neglect endured over more than a year prior to filing. Witness dated October 28.
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