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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
24
The 1918 land revenue report shows total receipts of 1 828 712 43 up from 1917s 1 42 812 29. Major sources include land sales and contract payments 967 571 49 interest on contracts and mortgages 376 999 33 leases 439 169 24 timber sales 22 476 11 coal royalty 14 355 53 gravel sale 160 11 and other fees 7 980 62.
An advertisement touts a warmth generating remedy for lumbago sprains strains and bruises. It claims quick relief without rubbing and recommends asking a druggist for the product with a large bottle offering economy.
The roundup of Montana stories reports Ronan-Amos Reno suing the city of Ronan for 10000 damages after an open sewer ditch incident. Chinook farmer harvests 65 tons of hay from 24 acres in three cuttings. Yellowstone County reports 134 tuberculosis cages as health boards hire a graduate nurse. Helena reports 33557 attendance at the state fair with receipts of 32198. Roundup notes a spring building boom after wartime restrictions. Cascade residents petition for a deputy to enforce prohibition. Butte marks retirement of Judge Wines after 52 years. Bozeman cites state farm bureaus saving farmers over two million dollars. Butte reports Miss Jewett Leclaire’s escape attempts while masquerading as Red Cross worker. Helena calls for better school terms and pay to keep teachers. Great Falls recalls a snow glare mask incident mistaken for a bandit. Lewistown recounts Ernest D. Free’s jail escape and recapture. Butte notes Silver Bow undertakers forming a bid trust. Helena reports John Jones Ross continues work despite finger paralysis. Fort Benton sues Britt for 11393 damages over a wrongful arrest claim. Roundup covers McAdoo named in a $40000 suit over a coal car accident causing death.
Montana postmasters receive a bulletin announcing six cent airplane postage stamps for mail to be flown rather than rail. A sixteen cent stamp remains for special delivery at journey’s end while air routes expand from Chicago to New York and other districts.
A collage of brief items from Washington Rome Paris and New York notes on labor shortages postwar reforestation plans US debt and taxation projections purchase of Toboga island for military use a pole survey by air and diplomatic recalls plus a dramatic bank reserves high.
A draft bill outlines construction of a state owned storage elevator at Great Falls costing 250 000 dollars with bonds approved by voters. It covers management by a three person board two from Great Falls and one elsewhere, a grain expert, per diem pay, storage limits, and operations to begin next fall.
The plan proposes delivering mail between two points in nine hours a third of current time. Telegraph letters would largely move to air routes, starting with Chicago to New York and other routes soon after year’s start. New 16 cent and 24 cent airplane stamps cover special delivery and heavy letters. Economic savings are expected to boost air mail use. about 50 million night letters currently cost a dollar each, could drop to 16 cents per delivery.
The state industrial accident board refused compensation for George Carvel who broke his artificial leg and was unable to work for weeks. The Grant Smith company is urged to pay the $28 repair bill, with the board noting possible prior compensation and the limits of the law. A Teutonic contractor’s wart treatments add a humorous note to the inquiry.
Classified notices list local services including dyeing and cleaning for garments in Butte and Great Falls, Kodak finishing and printing, blue prints and drafting supplies, assayers and chemists, accounting and auditing services, and a Great Falls typewriter exchange. It notes mail orders and box addresses across Montana towns.
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