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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1924
Page
8
The post office debuts a three denomination stamp series 1 2 and 3 cents commemorating the 300th anniversary of Dutch settlement in New Netherlands now New York. Milo Sabins and family from Byunam visited county offices this week for business with the commissioners.
The Royal theater shows My Wild Irish Rose on Monday and Tuesday telling life in early Victoria era Ireland. The Ladies Community Club of Bole hosts a June 7 social with Davis orchestra and free lunch at midnight. A picnic by the Ladies Industrial is set for June 4 in Spring Creek grove opposite Guthrie residence. Grace Riding of Roze arrives for a two week visit with her parents on the Burton Bench.
John Standish reported the death of Olin Porter, known as Fiddie Niel, in Everett Washington hospital. Physicians cited a cerebral hemorrhage from injuries sustained in a bout with Dixie LaHood in Butte two weeks earlier. Porter and Standish were longtime friends from a Cascade Mountains hunting trip.
The Rexall Drug Store will relocate this week to the building previously occupied by the Choteau Mercantile Company, marking a street corner shift in the town’s retail layout.
A Detroit experiment mounts a grocery and meat market on a motor truck to cut rent and upkeep. The serve yourself cash and carry model serves about four hundred families daily with one driver and cashier. The truck measures twenty two by seven and a half feet and turns stock over rapidly, forecasting lower prices for consumers if successful.
Two sides of public ownership are shown. Seattle bought the Puget Sound Electric railroad for 15 million dollars and later faced immense outlays. The city agreed to pay a share of 1919 taxes totaling 690000, with debts to be paid from street railroad earnings, which had none.
The King County treasurer threatens seizure of the Puget Sound Power plant after the city did not acquire the street railway system. The move aims to cut power to the network until bills are paid, underscoring a public ownership debate.
A column of wry quips and zany lines includes jokes about marriage, money, and odd captions. It blends playful wordplay with spoof headlines and quirky signboards observed around a rural or urban setting.
The Registration Books of Teton County Montana for the primary nominating election to be held on August 26 1924 will close Saturday July 12 1924 at 5 pm Electors may register with the County Clerk at Chateau or before a Deputy Registrar or notary public or justice of the peace Changes of registration required for those who did not vote at the last General Election or who moved precinct. W H Webb County Clerk and Ex Officio Registrar First publication June 6 Last publication July 12
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