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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1918
Page
2
In 1879 a Montana trading post build faced a labor dispute with Blackfeet workers. Shine-in-the-Sun led a strike demanding higher pay for men and women. The employer hired women to fill roles, resolved by reinstating some workers, and the project finished with harmony.
Montana's winter wheat acreage is large and conditions have been ideal according to John H Rich of the Ninth federal reserve district. He notes Montana and North Dakota called extraordinary sessions to address seed shortages and details department of agriculture efforts to supply oats barley and wheat seed at cost.
Sam D. Goza announces the Montana campaign ships new kitchen cards and enforces meatless and wheatless days. Mondays and Wednesdays are wheatless, Tuesdays meatless, Saturdays porkless with one meatless meal and one wheatless meal daily. Goza praises housewives for observing rules and defends against libel asserting eighty percent of Montana women are not breaking food administration guidelines. He notes Montana has contributed more soldiers than any other state and that households save crucial rations for soldiers missing at war.
Federal Food Administrator Atkinson rebutted claims that voluntary food rule observance is failing in Butte. He said inspections of Butte stores and butcher shops are complete and that statewide checks on substitutes are underway with productive results.
The Montana legislature in a special session ratified the prohibition amendment becoming the sixth state to do so. It notes Mississippi Virginia Kentucky South Dakota and North Dakota before Montana and discusses timing concerns about ratification and upcoming elections. The piece concludes Montana will go dry at year end regardless of this action.
Montana towns report anti gopher campaigns oil land leasing for prospecting smallpox deaths in Anaconda and airman Eddie McEvoy’s blizzard landing. Local chapters fund Red Cross and thrift stamp drives while wartime draft policy and furloughs are debated by Helena officials and Congress.
Federal Judge George M. Bourquin in Great Falls Montana stated prohibition will soon end the liquor trade between white men and Indians. He presided over United States v Mike Brockway who confessed to providing cooking whiskey to Minnie Kicking Deer and others at a Harlem party. Brockway, a first offender, faced sixty days in jail and a $100 fine plus costs.
A vintage advisory claims weak nerves cause fatigue memory loss insomnia and low desire for work. It recommends daily 5 grain nitro phosphate tablets after meals as nerve food not stimulants and offers a money back guarantee with two week supply available from druggists.
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