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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1914
Page
5
Rev. L. F. Haley extends welcome to all at morning services 10.20 to 11.30 and 11.30 to 12.15 Sunday school. Evening service 7.45 to 8.45 invites parishioners to join the church and its ministries.
The First Methodist Episcopal church under Rev. Percy Reid McMahon lists services: Morning 10 30, Sunday School 11 30, Epworth League 7 00 p m, Evening 7 45 p m. Visitors are welcomed.
The OES group holds meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Members are advised to attend for updates, planning, and community activities.
Queen Rebekah lodge meets on the first and third nights of each month following the subordinate lodge.
Local notices advertise first class potatoes at 1.75 per hundred and registered O I C pigs at 10 dollars for full bloods 3.50 for grades. H W Yeager of Choteau invites hog buyers to Chateau Meat Co for cash. N O Tuttle of Bynum travels to California. Mrs Nellie R Brown and Hazel visit Great Falls. New ads include Er N Haugen Gold Leaf Bar J M Weaver Jos H Meyer and Jos Hirshberg Co. Emmett Ryan returns to Birch Creek teaching duties after visit in town.
Mrs J E Webb departed Tuesday for her former home in Lake City Michigan where she plans to spend at least the rest of winter and perhaps reside there permanently though no final decision was made before leaving Choteau Montana. Her Montana friends hope she returns next spring.
Scoop prepares to misstate circulation while noting railway mail service on the Chateau Bynum branch. Peru Indiana reports a fine eight pound daughter for A B Guthrie. Robertson store at Farmington receives stock and Hawley plans to open service. Innes and Smith form Smith and Innes to run insurance and real estate in the city.
Governor Stewart commuted or reduced sentences for 23 penitentiary convicts, praising faithful road work this year. Warden Conley recommended the action, including Charles Johnson who was convicted in Teton County on October 4, 1910, with a sentence cut from ten to eight years.
S R Jensen of Great Falls Montana Brewing Co completes a purchase of the hotel and saloon business in Bynum from Steve and John Luke. The new owners plan rapid hotel completion pending weather. Della Humble and Dave Humble, visiting Fairfield, journeyed to Bynum after a stay at Zimmerman home.
D. E. Stansbury of the Black Leaf country arrived in the city last Tuesday with H. L. Halladay to seek medical care. He has suffered weeks of illness and a serious kidney trouble, with daily attention from Dr. H. T. Rhodes who reports improvement as expected.
Company M of the Montana National Guard at Cheteau plans a Friday January 16 1914 dance at Woodmen hall with first class music. The militia boys promise an extra good time for all attendees.
Moran, who owns a homestead a few miles south of town, left Thursday for Seattle. He intends to stay briefly and return in the spring with his family to reside here permanently.
Chas. Bynum left town for his Butte home after a two week stay here on business linked to the quitclaim suit over land near Bynum that was recently sold by Morehouse and Tuttle. His brother Ed. Bynum also came for the matter and returned to Butte Tuesday.
Dr. W. F. Cogswell of Helena investigated the arrest of O. Hanson owner of the Peerless lodging house for neglecting to connect his restaurant to a new deep well. Hanson promised to connect soon and prosecution may be dropped. Huangan was arrested on a complaint by Dr. McGregor, the local health officer.
In Northern Montana communities small towns lack local hospitals though larger towns offer full medical care. Chateau should start a hospital project with community ownership, not tied to a church or single group, to ensure proper, economical administration. W G Levy joins Robertson Co as bookkeeper for Chateau and Farmington stores.
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