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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
2
Mary Stewart former Dean of Women at the University of Montana is now a patient in a California sanitarium suffering a nervous breakdown. She was a leading educator and suffrage activist and sent a warm personal reply to a Good Government Organizations meeting wishing them success in their work for Montana.
A longtime paper reporter recently left the newsroom to assist her husband with a dry land farm. She commutes to town daily with Mr. Skillman the public land commissioner based in Big Timber.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs is divided into six districts to speed work and sociability. District Four, led by Mrs. Seidletz of Bozeman, will hold a Red Lodge meeting in October. Mrs. S. M. Souders of Red Lodge handles arrangements. These columns welcome reports from districts about meetings this year.
Mrs Julia Prescott of Big Timber, a club woman and general factor at the Big Timber Pioneer, took charge for several weeks while editor Jerry Williams was away on vacation. Mrs Skillman has been con-
The notes predict jam texture changes with glycerine to prevent crystallizing. Outer garments shift to high waisted black top coats with belted silhouettes and cameo fasteners. Velvet becomes the preferred fabric for coats and skirts, with sweaters rising in popularity.
Readable lines describe cream that cannot whip and an unbeaten egg white awaiting stiff peaks. The fragment hints at culinary trouble and the folklore of whipped cream and meringue progressing toward proper texture.
Apply glacial acetic acid to the fractured edges and press them together until the acid evaporates, forming a sealed join. The procedure relies on the adhesive effect of the acid as it dries to secure the pieces.
A description outlines soaking stained articles in water with two teaspoons of household ammonia to loosen grime. The procedure emphasizes immediate immersion and simple chemical aid to brighten fabrics or materials.
Broken crockery can be mended using white lead as a heat and water resistant cement. Apply a thin layer to the edges, press pieces together firmly, and set aside to dry for a durable bond.
Describes a method to remove scorch marks from fabric using peroxide dampening, pressing, and sun drying to restore the item.
London houses over 100000 girl clerks while Britain sees more women in trousers and serg eant Flora Sanders aids Serbia. Women conductors work same hours as men and wives take over sales rounds. Porto Rico canneries pay 2 1 2 cents hourly. Mrs Charles E Hughes collects old engravings and music. War fund support in Britain reaches 500 million dollars. Russia’s czarina dresses plainly. British government to award medals for bravery under fire. Russia debates appointing women as factory inspectors.
The latest fashion edict from Paris elevates the waist line high with slim satin skirts nearly sweeping the floor and features the influence of the Empress Josephine in design.
Governor Stewart forms a commission to consult with a national committee on standardizing child labor laws across states. Chairman is Senator Walsh. Members include Miss Belle Fligelman Mrs. Lester Noble E D Phelan Dr Maria Dean all of Helena with Mrs Margaret Rozza of Butte Mrs T B Story of Bozeman Mrs S M Saunders of Red Lodge and Mrs Q O L Edmunds of Absarokee.
Miss Mary A. Rust will be Bozeman city schools nurse on the payroll. A graduate of Washington State Normal School, she formerly taught in Tacoma and Boise and studied nursing in Chicago this summer. The nurse will follow medical inspection, address cases needing care, and work with parents to obtain treatment and improve home hygiene.
Rev. C F Chapman of Butte believes the general Episcopal convention meeting in St. Louis in October will adopt a canon prohibiting ministers from performing marriage ceremonies for divorced individuals. The canon has been favorably recommended by a commission of bishops and laymen.
In St Louis Mrs Edwin Brandan, once Miss Esther Court, says she was courted and wed Monday night then deserted during her supposed honeymoon. She, 18, seeks the bridegroom's home address after he left her. she incurred 20 cents fare and damage to her hat from the failed venture.
Princess Volonsky, 22, widow and sister of fallen relatives, cut hair and wore male uniform to enlist as a private on the southern front. Her sex was discovered and she was sent to Kiev for discharge, but escaped and returned to combat. She was later wounded and found in a Kavkoff hospital.
Berkeley citizens volunteered to aid the police in curbing speeding in the city. Chief August Vollmer granted Miss Flavel Woods and Miss Hallie Mannin authority to arrest speeders and use the title speed copette.
Chicago forms a beauty squad of female officers to lure sexual miscreants and make arrests. The program aims to deter mashers by appearances and direct policing in public spaces.
Arthur Brisbane, editor of the New York Journal, argues weekly country newspapers are the nation’s police and public forum. They mold public opinion, defend against bad legislation, and reach powerful advertisers through local readers, forming a national watchdog and sales force.
Six Great Falls youths traveled to the Pacific coast on a government civilian naval training cruise. They sailed from Seattle with 69 aboard, endured seasickness, but enjoyed meals and deck duties. They trained on the South Dakota, shot for rifle records, and several earned entry to the national rifle club. Cost about $30 each.
Jesse E. T. Moore head of Chinook was convicted in a U S district court of using the mails to defraud and ordered to pay 500 dollars in fines and 1951 dollars in costs. The jury found him guilty for unlawfully exploiting soldiers' homestead rights in his land locator operation.
Major Jesse B Roote of the 2nd Montana Infantry writes to Captain Ambrose Beckett praising the unit as the best National Guard on the Mexican border. He notes good quarters food baths hospital and training with one company always on outpost duty and asks for recruits.
Charles Henderson, sheriff of Silver Bow County and Republican gubernatorial candidate, and his father C H Henderson, long separated for 35 years, met in Butte after the elder Henderson located his sons via a telephone directory. The reunion follows years of wandering, mining, and a shared life in Butte with ongoing family ties to California and Idaho ventures.
Northern Pacific plans a lecture campaign in the east with films of scenic Montana spots. Two men in a gas speeder are traveling the company lines to shoot the footage.
In Billings Montana seven boys under twelve raided a watermelon patch and used the melons as bombs on nearby animals. One boy confessed under interrogation. the others were captured by a sheriff's posse and await county attorney action.
Spokane entrepreneur James McKee, a leading northwest printer, proposes forming a Montana based pulp mill using spruce from a western Montana site. He notes abundant timber and water, expects feasibility and profitability, and cites his $200,000 Spokane plant as evidence of capability.
Total carloads reaching 32 237 across Montana stations in June 1916 with ore leading at 10 573 loads. Other commodities include 5 484 coal 1 910 lumber products 1 699 concentrates 2 284 miscellaneous 444 stucco plaster cement 1 495 limerock 1 390 logs 86 potatoes 734 hogs and livestock 223 brick and clay 86 fruit and vegetables 329 hay 514 flour and mill stuffs 136 wood cord and slab 23 stone 55 sugar 1 361 grain 136 wood products 856 poles posts piling 434 sand and gravel 1 517 slag and tailings.
Officers search for Sergeant Rogers and Private Frank F. Mackey of the Second Montana Infantry after they left camp in civilian clothing with a Mexican to a placer mine near Ranchita twenty miles southwest of Douglas Arizona. Local belief holds they were taken as prisoners by Mexican soldiers.
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