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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1923
Page
4
A frontier weekly in Choteau Montana discusses community spirit and free speech as foundations for local welfare. It muses on advertising ethics, road repair taxes, speed enforcement, and cultural observations from Eskimos to English travelers, ending with a seed shipment note from Washington.
The editorial urges readers to back their local press with real business support beyond subscriptions. It argues community papers reflect local events, sustain town welfare, and encourage residents to send in news and patronize ads. It notes postwar price pressures and calls for steady, practical backing from citizens and merchants.
An editor explains he cannot publish every event and urges readers to send in items of general interest to improve coverage. He notes the daily limit of space and the impossibility of foreknowledge, asking for reader participation before criticizing the paper.
A reader recounts a lecture criticizing pollution along the Atlantic coast and notes that civic effort and capital must support civilization. The piece questions competition and American drive, quoting two English observers who say Americans chase time and rush to catch a car.
The passage collection offers quips on private use penalties, Rockefeller income, streetcar damages, a Washington police censure, quarantine pay, marrying costs, fat man taxes, second hand autos, an Ontario beer fine, and a Missouri lecture ticket. It echoes light satire and social commentary in a metropolitan column.
Local Items Representative Bohling of Dutton visited Chateau in recent days attending programs at the high school. Mr and Mrs W E Howard drove to Great Falls on Wednesday. Howard’s half-brother John Hoefelt of Great Falls left for Vancouver on Thursday. L T Hager a prominent stockman from Dupuyer visited Cho teau on Tuesday.
C B Horrall who oversees Spokane Land and Cattle Company interests spent the past week around Chateau and departed for home on Tuesday.
In the District Court of the United States for the District of Montana Heckman Bros a partnership of Charley Heckman and Rolly A Heckman of Gilman Montana have been adjudged bankrupts upon their own petition The first meeting of creditors to file and prove claims and appoint trustees will be held before A H Gray referee in bankruptcy in room 1 Dunnblock Great Falls Montana on the first day.
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