Sharpless Walker Leaves Montana for California
Sharpless Walker a longtime Miles City resident and noted lawyer leaves for Santa Ana California for health reasons and warmer weather. He came from Kansas City and was admitted to the Montana bar in 1903 later serving as city attorney from 1905 to 1916. He practiced with Frank Hunter Edgar Merri and W T Packer and four years ago formed a partnership with Rudolph Nelstead.
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Chouteau Board Cuts Bonded Indebtedness
Fort Benton December 18 Chouteau county commissioners authorized the county treasurer to purchase funding bonds maturing in 1921. Bonds to be taken up include those issued for the original courthouse built in 1883. Another $100 bonds were ordered taken up early in the year. The $51000 to be handled reduces the county’s bonded indebtedness to under one million dollars.
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Wheat Thief Given Suspended Sentence in Court
Clarence Penland pleaded guilty to stealing wheat in Fort Berton and received a suspended sentence after a petition from local business leaders. Judge Tattan ordered 14 months at hard labor suspended on good behavior, with a strict admonition to reform. The ruling followed debate over the impact on his wife and two children.
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Pupil Builds Simple Phonograph From Paper and Pine
Kalispets December 2 172 Harold Putty, son of Rasymond Nutty of Wuselty, demonstrated a homemade phonograph to classmates. Mounted on an apple box with a crank, a waxed paper strip formed the sounding arm for a pine box disc device. Superintendent Swetland praised the invention calling it ingenious and effective.
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Canton and Vicinity News Roundup
Local resident movements include Mrs Josephine Langley of Denver leaving for California after visiting daughters in Canton. Several residents, including Mr and Mrs Plemale, Mr and Mrs Ragen, and Miss Susan Mc Govern, travel for business or visit relatives in Helena and Felena. Road improvements near Cook Stock farm are noted with public appreciation. In London, Haley Morriss, a wealthy merchant, and his wife are sentenced for offenses against young servants, three years and nine months respectively.
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