01 Mar 1918
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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1918
Page
1
At Cheteau school district trustees meeting Ned Wilcox was unanimously chosen superintendent of the Cheteau public school for the coming year. Wilcox, already superintendent of both public and high schools of Verrand Mion, is a Teton county native and a graduate of the local high school.
The note urges all readers to share what they enjoyed and donate books to the public library. It invites mechanics, mothers, teachers, and the public to express reading needs and promises to obtain requested works if not on the shelves.
Forty three registrants from Teton county were inducted into service and trained for mobilization camps on Wednesday the 27th. Inductees include Edmond M. Bammell Jens A Holmboe Harry H Peterson and others from Montana Wyoming and Florida. Call numbers for land division signal corps and engineer corps were canceled. Medical and infantry camps remain open for induction.
Mrs J F Babcock visited Great Falls last week while Francis Suiste spent Sunday at home. Several residents visited Conrad on Monday including Mrs B E Pierce and Mrs I V Yule with Franklin Pierce. The Moser children returned to school after scarlet fever quarantine. Red Cross meeting attendees included Mesdames Truchot Babcock Reed Schaefer Angel Doyle and Miss Krebs Myra Pierce.
Northern Division outlines hours for service stripes on aprons and caps, credits for knitters, and notes for sewing and gauze work. Readers urged to donate telescopes and binoculars to the Navy and to write soldiers. Includes reports from auxiliary units, attendance figures, and mentions legislators from Montana in Helena.
Registrants in Teton county urged to contact the Local Board at Chateau for service in multiple branches. Calls specify Medical Department at Fort Riley Kansas and Infantry at Camp Greene North Carolina, with other units including Spruce Production aviation section at Vancouver Barracks Washington and Coast Artillery at Fort Logan Colorado. Only white men may be sent under these calls.
Allison Garrett, a long-time Bynum resident, died of heart failure at the home of John A. Gist in Gansman coulee south of Dugover on Saturday afternoon last week. He was about 56, born in Lebanon Pennsylvania. Funeral services were held in Bynum Tuesday afternoon conducted by Rev. Kelley of the M. Sk. church, with interment in Bynum cemetery.
The report lists numbers by grade for gun wipe counts during the Washington's Birthday drive. Margaret Jacobson made the largest number of gun wipes among fourth graders.
A wartime appeal urges organized worker bands to back the front with a united nation. Leaders condemn indifference and scams as Pershing reports American casualties and a Lent sermon calls for immediate action and prayer. Episcopal services scheduled for 11 o clock Sunday November 3.
At a court house meeting last Monday the Commercial Club elected new officers for the year led by President B S Merritt. New vice president T O Larson secretary G M Coffey Jr treasurer James Eckford and directors Phil I Cole R M Farrington R J Bonin S T Wiprad M Bishop. A committee including Cole Farrington Coffey Oulton Malone was formed to discuss bridges over Birch and Badger creeks on the Blackfeet Indian reservation.
Trade offer for a high grade piano in exchange for milch cows. Enquire at Mon tanun office.
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