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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1920
Page
10
Mrs A Vincent of Missoula Montana reports severe kidney pain backache and dizziness that kept her bedridden until using Dean's Kidney Pills. After two boxes she recovered completely and has not suffered kidney issues since. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY manufactures.
The department of agriculture warned Montana road building will suffer unless Congress funds the program. Montana received 1.505 million dollars in federal aid for 1920 21, but no provision exists for 1922 and plans could be dropped once spent. Congress does not meet until December and cannot provide funds for weeks or months.
Mathias W Wildschutz, a Fergus county homesteader on bar ren land, kept half his holdings and 40 acres more as oil activity grew. He sold half the acreage for 46000 dollars tied to Frantz and Mid-Northern wells and plans to keep the rest, betting on oil royalties. A year ago he lacked funds to fence his land and offered a neighbor half the tract. the deal failed when the neighbor asked Wildschutz to supply wire and posts. He recalls offering 40 acres for a horse and being turned down, while a local bank slogan states progress with conservatism.
A wide array of brief items spans Fresno fire destroying the Herald building with $100,000 loss. Irish envoy Duffy given 24 hours to leave France. divorce suit against Kid McCoy by his eighth wife Dagmar Dahlgren for cruelty and non support. Brazil credit freeze amid dire finances. Fort Leavenworth prison administration by inmates. women’s Republican speaking tour planned in Oklahoma. reward offered for Charles W Hayes. Japan to keep troops at Vladivostok. Sedan day protests concern Hamburg. Reno airmen forced to land safely after fuel loss. Venizelos proposes Swiss action to expel Constantine faction. Greek political instability. Bridgeport police uncover blackmail plot tied to dynamite. Chicago speed trap ends with shootings and injuries to two bystander suspects.
Mineral county shows rising activity in silver and lead prospects with new eastern syndicates developing placers near Superior and Saltese. Lumber remains key with mills at Henderson and St. Regis. Dairy farming expands as forests support grazing, hay, and silage. the county’s new courthouse and Yellowstone Trail improvements are under way as Superior and the county grow.
A compiled Montana round up reports incidents across cities. Drowned high school student Arthur McMillan. postmistress Scoby Mrs Burke resigns. burglaries in Libby. oil shipments from Winnett. a canning factory push in Hamilton. forestry wireless use in Missoula. and major crime ties to Flathead, Missoula, and Great Falls.
State Senator George W. Clay of Phillips County died of pneumonia in Malta after a short illness. A physician by trade, he rose briefly to attend a boy with a broken arm before declining. He was 62, renowned in northern Montana, noted for refusing to bill for his medical services. He served in the Montana Senate twice, from Valley and later Phillips county, and was recently renominated by Republicans to again represent Phillips. He never married and left no Montana relatives.
A masked hold up man interrupted a Malta card game with money at stake and took about 150 dollars in winnings. He fired a shot to speed the deal, narrowly missing a player, and escaped after the robbery. The identity of the robber remains unknown.
Damien Ledeaux, a Montana pioneer born February 4 1826 in Quebec, died at his daughter Sarah Longpre’s home ten miles northwest of Huson. He arrived in Missoula in the 1860s, freighted during the Indian wars, and later traveled the states during the era of the gold rush with ties to Captain Sutter. He had visited every state in the union.
A picturesque country features ranges of mountains and the rockribbed Missoula river. Two railroad lines the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and the Northern Pacific, along with the Yellowstone trail, trace the river through this land of beauty.
Sheriff Frank Baney of Lincoln County halted a group of Eureka four en route to Canada for liquor on a road near the international boundary. He blocked the road, flagged them, and was ignored as they hit his car. Baney chased the fleeing Ford and forced a stop with gunfire to the tires. The posse dumped 12 quarts of whisky, six bottles shattered, before Baney recovered the remainder.
In a remembered account from the Philadelphia North American, the Reds allegedly toppled the Russian government to withdraw Russia from the war, reflecting on a pivotal upheaval and its wartime impact.
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