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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1916
Page
5
Community news lists new staff in the forest office Wiese Seattle, town marshal ill, Simms ball team to play on Decoration Day, Glenloyd changes hands to G W and C F Kramm of White Sulphur Springs. Miss Jennie Bauma dies of tuberculosis in Denver and is mourned locally. Neihart mining activity expands with Anaconda Copper securing options and dumps valued at around two million dollars.
Mrs KE E Crawford entertained Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Nina Clark who will soon leave Chateau to make her home in Wyoming. Annie Knowlton arrived from Blackleaf for the commencement exercises and was once a local high school student before illness caused her withdrawal.
Mrs. Nellie R. Brown lies in a Great Falls hospital and may travel to Rochester Minnesota for an operation. Geo F Miller and wife attended commencement and the baccalaureate. their daughter Miss Ida graduates this year. Dr and Mrs Jones of Bole visited for county high school exercises. their daughter Miss Irene also graduates.
A notice reports several missing horses including a black mare and colt with two white front feet branded U and a black colt with four white feet. Also missing are a hay horse branded on the right shoulder a pinto with wire on the front feet and a hay two year old mare colt. Notify B C Bowers for reward.
Chateau Hardware Co announces garden tools and seeds. Howard Burrell traveled to Great Falls on business. A daughter was born Thursday to Mr and Mrs John G Jackson. Ed Batley and wife move into the Carl Burbank home north of town since selling their ranch. Frank Boland, brother of Mrs Ray Halladay, visits. his home is Bayard Iowa. Mrs Ed Stonehouse and her sons return to the ranch today after wintering here where the boys attended high school. Mr and Mrs Jay Jameson welcomed a son born May 3 in Portland Oregon. F M Webster Milwaukee railroad rights of way agent spent time in town about laying steel through Choteau. O M Holmes, ex secretary of the Great Falls Commercial club, has lost sight in one eye and may go blind. he is now secretary of the Livingston Commercial club.
Miss Alice Leech and Miss Essie Dutscher plan travel to California with Leech attending a Berkley summer school and Dutscher visiting relatives. At Montana State College Bozeman annual election Ruby Hodgskiss of Choteau was chosen vice president of next year's junior class.
North Dakota lake region suffers three days of 50 mile winds destroying hundreds of acres of wheat and blocking planting. Sand storms topple grain stands and halt seeding as conditions unseen in 25 years prevail. Orion Cunningham, son of Rev. and Mrs. C E Cunningham, ex Chateau residents, wins the Shevlin fellowship at the University of Minnesota for postgraduate chemistry work.
The tenth division of the Ladies' Industrial organization met Wednesday afternoon in the Methodist church parlors. Members present included Mesdames Houck Cleland Halladay Crary Carlin Mellon and Miss Thompson. Rain increased attendance and the meeting was enjoyable and profitable.
An invitation from O Hansen promoting a cash sales system. The store claims no expenses and promises to explain how it can sell goods below others. It offers new and second hand items, asks customers to request any desired item, and emphasizes shoes.
A. H. Eislein, a Boulder newspaper man, was in town Monday on business.
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