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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1922
Page
1
Washington reports say officials see an April coal strike as almost inevitable. They expect to ensure sufficient national coal supplies for ten weeks and do not plan to force a conference between operators and miners. The government will rely on existing wage agreements and non union mine production to bridge the gap.
The article argues naval disarmament will bring temporary unemployment but long term benefits. It compares past shifts in industry to show progress creates adjustment, noting shipyards and textile mills faced job losses yet led to broader gains. Also covered are a church meeting of the Toadies at the M E church with plans for Go to Church Sunday and Charles Ross being committed to Warm Springs asylum after an insanity commission.
Reports from the school week note visitors in the first grade room and a seventh birthday party. Fifth graders craft raffia baskets while some ill students recover at home. A window in the fifth grade room was broken by seventh and eighth graders during play. Eighth graders planned trips to local ranches to judge cattle but weather delayed one trip. The eighth grade citizens league outlined a program including recitations, debates, and life of Booker T. Washington.
The Kevin oil discovery near Toole County signals a major Mos Montana field expansion as Gordon Campbell-Kevin syndicate bets on 2000 barrel flush production and plans a second well. The find, tied to the Rocky Ridge dome, boosts state crude supply and local refinery activity amid early spring drilling push.
Helena March 14 Attorney General Wellington Rankin urged a federal income tax exemption of at least 1000 for ex service men at a Lewis and Clark post American Legion meeting. Supporters argued it would aid thousands beginning to secure bonds and planned the issue be taken up with Washington lawmakers for a four to five year period.
The Great Impersonator, George Melford's Paramount production, opens next Sunday and Monday at the Royal Theatre. The film shifts from an Oxford college room to jungles in German East Africa and a Bohemian Vienna cafe, then to Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse war vaults and London diplomatic quarters. James Kirkwood and Ann Forrest star.
A roundup of local visits including the Lindseths seeing friends in Fairfield and families returning home after visits. Social events feature a ditch meeting at A. O. Longmuir's, choir practice at Nasset home, a beach concert directed by Prof. Salbacke, and a birthday gathering for Mr. Edwards with a midnight luncheon.
Pendroy residents share visits from Great Falls and Choteau. a girl born at Choteau hospital waits at home. Local trips include Wyomin g portland cattle interests and Seattle to Spokane. a school dismissal due to illness. Scout Troop 3 faces Chateau in a championship basketball game at the high school gym with 25 cents admission.
State of Montana v Frank Conley case likely set for April 15 in Lewis and Clark county district court. Judge A J Horsky to preside in his district court after relief from the state supreme court commission. Colonel Nolan coordinated with Attorney General Rankin and others to arrange the trial date.
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