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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1917
Page
5
Choteau Montanan reports sales of two pairs of horses and early potatoes for seed, Dr O R Wilson and wife arriving to reside locally, W A Patterson visiting from Moscow, and Kansas visitors touring Montana. It also notes land auctions under the 320 acre homestead law and road conditions hindering travel and schooling in district No 5.
Professor Smith from the University of Missoula visited most classes, assigning a geometry proposition to Class I. A Red Cross meeting in the high school auditorium formed a Teton County chapter. Thirteen boys left school to work on farms with full credit for their current work, allowing continuation next year. Freshman class halves organized. Dorothy Longmuir missed days. Adelphi open meeting not held. Living Songs in Living Pictures presented at PTA meeting. Domestic science girls demonstrated cooking including cheese and muffins with parent and board invitees. Adelphi special meeting to elect next year’s officers. nominees listed for president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and sergeant roles.
Agawam residents report travel to Helena and Great Falls while others return from Wolf Creek and Minnesota. War impact halts the Interscholastic meet until 1918 and ends the senior play as students enlist or work on farms. The depot renovation nears completion and E D Pierce departs for Seattle.
Telegram from W G McAdoo secretary of the U S treasury to Citizens State Bank and First National Bank of Chateau announces June 15 deadline for two billion dollars of three and one half percent Liberty Loan subscriptions. It urges banks to cooperate with the Federal Reserve Banks and report rough estimates of expected subscriptions.
A. P. Reiding came home last Thursday from the Muddy where he aided I. N. Caskey with threshing Work. Theodore Groate visited Chateau Monday. A. P. Reiding escorted Mr. Groate to town Monday. The snow storm of last week.
The church will be consecrated during the morning service at 10 45 on Sunday May 6 led by Bishop Faber with special choir music. An evening confirmation service follows at 8 00. The event marks clearing of debt and dedication to worship.
The partnership hitherto existing under the firm name Spencer and McCullough in the drug business is dissolved. All accounts due the firm may be paid to the undersigned H. McCullough.
In Choteau Montana Harmony Rhoads undergoes vision testing and receives new eyeglasses as part of a local health outreach effort.
Guardian of Mary Howells insane will sell at private sale the dower in Montana real estate. The land in Cascade and Teton counties described in detail will be offered for cash upon court confirmation. Bids open until May 1917 at Cole & Shannon Chateau Montana with Greene & Cockrill as attorneys.
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