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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
5
Sam Bennett visits Chateau hardware trade and P P McGinn half price sale. Dutton citizen P McGinn visits county seat. Beulah Sprinkle sails to Great Falls. numerous locals and visitors, including Dane Stewart, Chas Carlin, and Oshie Devine, transact business. Theater by American Legion June 1. Captain Verge departs for Alabama mining interests. hopes to return to Montana for state judicial race.
Choteau Meat Co advertises dressed pork options. Mrs Chester Hole visits Great Falls for a short stay. Cauliflower and late cabbage available at the Flower Shop with early cabbage to come next week. Mr and Mrs Walter St Myers travel to Great Falls for a brief visit. Mrs P Joanis returns home after surgery at McGregor hospital. Mr and Mrs Hannum of Porter bench visit county seat for business.
Unclear text fragment references SB Savoy and Ledegie seeking savings in a plan labeled 1 Bee. Details are garbled, but hints at cost reductions or budget measures affecting a local entity or program. No clear persons, organizations, or places deduced.
The Episcopal Guild will meet with Mrs. Sturgeon on Thursday, June 3, 1920. The notice notes a social gathering at Woodman hall with cards or dancing, refreshments served, under Episcopal Guild auspices, admission 50 cents.
Services at 11:00 am and 8:00 pm Sunday school at 12:00. Born at the Chateau Hospital on Monday May 24 1920 to the wife of Peter Hogan of Lade Basin school a daughter.
Dr. H J McGregor was called to Dutton this week for consultation on a scarlet fever case. Mrs E J Hirshberg plans to leave early next week to visit her former home at Missoula. Arthur Hirshberg and family visited Fairfield last Sunday to spend the day with the Hirshberg families there.
Fourteen five acres of pasture available for rent four miles east of Choteau in section 23 two 24 range 4 along the Teton river. Make offer to C. F. Bailey Seattle Washington. R P Reckards of Great Falls visited Choteau last Saturday with financial ties to Stockmens State Bank.
Miss Agnes Schlect a Hirshberg store clerk left Wednesday for Fort Benton to visit her brother for ten days, according to local social notes.
Mrs Johnn J Greene and her daughter returned last Saturday evening from a visit with her parents in Michigan where she has spent the past month.
Julius Hirshberg his wife and baby daughter are expected to arrive in Chateau next Monday to establish residence in the city once more.
The Hirshberg store in the city received a patriotic window display this week showcasing Ernest Friedlander's artistic taste in window dressing.
James Eckford of Citizens State Bank will depart tomorrow for Harlowton to attend a state bankers meeting in the fifth district of Montana, where he serves as president.
For sale one Thomas drill six foot sowed but 80 acres. Dr Maynard Chateau Montana. A bicycle picked up by the sheriff early last Sunday morning and taken to the courthouse for safekeeping. owner may recover by proving property and paying 50 cents for publication. In district court yesterday testimony of Mrs Mable Buchanan and Maud Rheans in the divorce action of Cora Mable Buchanan against Percy Buchanan, case taken under advisement. For rent one third crop 68 acres eight miles southwest from Chateau. fenced 200 acres broken seed to flax. seed available. George I Smith Greenacres Washington.
Flour merchant E. J. Hirshberg of Choteau was appointed administrator of James Peebles estate in Teton county district court. He posted $5,000 bond for faithful management. Stewart Cohoe, son of K. B. Cohoe, leaves for Detroit to live with an uncle and seek work, with a farewell gathering held Tuesday night.
Hon W W McDowell of Missoula county candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor visited Choteau on Wednesday. The trip marked his first in the town where he has many friends, though Republicans in the precinct may doubt his impact.
P H Crossen returned from a trip to eastern Montana where he checked his horses and visited oil wells. He reports activity there and predicts Chateau Montana will develop with local oil wells. He says the area has first class oil lands and hopes companies will bring in plentiful gushers.
Mrs. Wm. Gordon of Dupuyer is visiting at Mrs. Maynard’s home in town. Senator T. O. Larson Geo. M. Coffey Jr. and Joe Liberty were passengers Tuesday afternoon to Great Falls.
After the first of June Miss Alspaugh will have rooms and accommodations at the Bowling Inn where she will be pleased to see her customers.
Teachers will take first second and professional grade exams at the Courthouse Chateau on June 3 4 and 5 1920. Eighth grade exams are now in progress. Twin boys born last Friday to Dr R C Bellingham’s wife of Cascade. Maud Hawley remembered by Choteau as daughter of John Hawley. Birth announced for May 26 1920 to Mrs Jos Von Balcum a son. Mrs Lou Dagget visited Choteau earlier in the week. The Jolly Matrons club met yesterday at Mrs F E Moore’s home. Col J C Ferris of Collins, Civil War veteran and local notable, attended county seat early this week.
A local ad announces 10 pounds of sugar for 1.60 dollars at Hirshbergs. The offer emphasizes a bulk price and limited quantity.
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