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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1913
Page
6
The Choteau Montana notice praises the existing commercial club as patriotic and effective while urging loyal backing from local business interests. It criticizes grafters and calls for public meetings to discuss vital town questions, noting past attendance issues and a desire to avoid new clubs.
Milwaukee Land company officials G W Morrow D W Kinnard and surveyor Alex Reper arrived to survey the Milwaukee addition south of town planned for about 100 residence lots with a central 10 acre park donated to the city. They will then plat 120 acres for Chateau addition with eight to ten acre public park. Grading and street improvements underway along multiple lines including Great Falls Lewis townships.
A Saturday meeting in Shelby considered creating Toole county after the previous defeat. Advocates claim current assessed values would yield a compact county. Another meeting is planned for Saturday the 20th.
The Montanan reports a signed challenge from the Valier baseball team dated by C. D. Powell. The Valier team issues a formal challenge to the Choteau club to arrange a game, indicating competitive intent and invoking local league spirit.
A homely call to unity urges residents to support municipal progress by harmony, shunning croakers and grousers, beautifying streets, patronizing local merchants, and keeping quiet if unsure what to say. The speaker insists every man must work together at the wheel to foster prosperity.
The Fort Benton River Press notes a proposal to form a new county by subdividing Cascade Lewis and Clark and Teton counties with Augusta as the county seat. The Montanan doubts residents of the Teton area favoring the plan.
A. C. Burbank came home last Tuesday from Kansas City where he had spent several weeks in treatment. He declares he is “as tit as a fiddle” and the public is inclined to believe him based on his appearance.
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