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VOLUME I CHOTEAU, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA, AUGUST 22/1913 j ; NUMBER 8 •• r ' *1» 'i FARMINGTON LFrom our Regular Correspondent.] Miss Dena Broslma has gone to Spokane, where she will attenc high school the coming year. Mrs. J. C. Ferris has her moth er from the east visiting her. Mrs. Kingsmore of Fowler neice of Warren Kale, is visiting at the Kale home. Mrs. Henry Davidson and Mrs Austad are Fairfield visitors this week. Little Amy Judge of Great Falls is visiting her grand-parents, Mr. and Mis. Rickum. Holmer Bergland of Choteau.is at the\ Jay Peterson home for a short visit. Rev. Lunde and son of Great Falls, are spending a few days as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lar3 Nas- set. Halvor Hanson, who has been in North Dakota for the past year, . has returned to his home at Farm ington. Mr. and Mrs. Myers visited at the homes of George Slauger and John Carlson last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Oien of Brady were visitors at the Klette. horn e for a few days the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Christ Hanson entertained Mr. and Mrs. Pete Rustad and children at d i n n e r Sunday. Wm. Chalmers and family, Cal Binford and wife are on a fishing trip to the mountains. Lars Nassett, Rev. Lunde and TorreauJQuamme of Brady will spend a few days this week in the mountains, resting and fishing. We like to have-., people from a distance visit this community and see the beauties of this part of the state. A1 Powers, John and Roger Burrell were Bonnie View visitors last Tuesday. LarsNasset went to Choteaiuon business Friday. Last Saturday Christ Hanson hauled the first load of lumber to the new Farmington. He brought it for P. O. Rustad’s store. Suc cess to you Pete, may not only produce be brought in but a good ly number of dollars and dimes fill your till. Ed Bollerud was a county seat visitor Saturday. Miss Minnie Zuidema, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Cal Binford has returned to Billings. Miss Minnie has been stenographer forR . E. Shepherd for a number of years. Miss Bertha Davidson has been engaged to teach the school nea r the Savick and Larson farm. The Dan Lindseth family visited over Sunday with Horace Bleeker and family. Jake Otnass and wife visited friends near Collins the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Guthrie and sons, Bertram, Charles and John and Mrs. Guthrie’s mother, Mrs. Nancy Thomas, of Indiana, •spent Sunday with friends on the Bench. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. .Jones and daughter. Miss Wilma, Mrs. Dan Phelan and little daughter, Rose mary, and Mrs. Emily Truchot called on friends on the bench Sun day evening. Mr. Jones has been a resident o f Montana for thirty- six years. He talks very inter estingly of the four great indus tries o f the Treasure State. When first be came everybody talked mines and mining, next came the bide industry, buffaloes w e r e slaughtered by the thousands, then came the stockman with his cattle, sheep and horses but one by one ON GREAT NORTHERN DOING GOOD WORK The Line of the Great Northern Railway is Now Four Miles Nearer Choteau Than Ever Before===Work is • . ., * * Progressing Satisfactorily, although the Track Laying Crew is Short of Competent HeIp===More Men are Needed to Rush the Work to Complefcion«==Line Should be Finished in 30 Days. , ;'F * V £ As mentioned in the Montanan of last week, the work of laying the rails on the Power-Choteau line of the Great Northern rail way was commenced last Friday afternoon, and up to last (Thurs day) night Choteau was four miles nearer the railroad, or the railroad was four miles nearer Choteau, whichever way want to say it, than ever before. In view of the fact that the track laying machine requires at least 125 men to properly handle the work, and that-only 56 .men have been actually employed during the past week, satisfactory progress has been made to those who have the Jwork !in charge. A half mile a day has been the average thus far, but on Wednesday a full mile of track was laid down, the crew and those in charge being imbued with the idea that time is precious and that Choteau is very anxiously awaiting the ar rival of trains. The condition of the labor market is the only thing which could possibly materiallv interfere with the rapid comple tion of the work. Men are scarce and hard to get “ on the job,” and after once going to work it is dif ficult to keep them there, especial ly in this section where the fann ers and ranchers are so badly in need of help to harvest the crops and complete the fall work. It was Jearned yesterday,- tha130 or •10 men' had been secured from agencies at Helena and other places who will be shipped to Power at once. The grade between Power and Choteau is ready for the track lay ers with the exception of the bridges. These are all practically completed with the exception of the one across the Teton just south of town. The piling and bridge timbers for the Teton bridge is al ready on the ground, and one pile driver with its crew of men ar rived at that point Inst (Thursday) evening and is now ready for op- perations. A second pile driver will have completed all its work between Power and the Teton next Monday, when it will also be put to work at this point. It is not thought that it will require more than a week’s time to complete the pilfe driving on the bridge. A crew is immediately following up** the pile drivers, putting on the decks of the bridge«, which in cludes the caps, stringers, ties, etc. It is not thought that any de lay to the track laying outfit will 1 be caused on account of work on bridges. This work should bo well out of the way before the track 1 layers reach the Teton. Hero in Choteau the grading outfit has made excellent progress during the week. A large num ber of teams, hauling dirt from a grader similar to the one shown above, have practically completed the lino north from the flour mill. The picture shown herewith was taken a few weeks ago while the outfit was at work in the S. T. field, south of town, just north of the lake, and shows the number of men and horses required to prop erly run -it. North of Choteau the line is practically graded to Bynum, there being only one or two short stretches to complete. The mils will be pushed north from Choteau as rapidly as possible, it being practically certain that the line w i l l be built as far as that place l\v the first week in October, if not sooner. changes come, the frontier is no more, the mining remains but the other two industries had to give way to the farmer. Mr. Jones has had many ups and downs in this w e s t e r n life but lie has al w a y s risen above the diffi culties and is taking life easy and can drive his car to Gveat Falls and back in as quick time as the the best of them. He took his family to see Ringling’s circus when it was in the Electric City and in describing the stage on which Cleopatra was produced he said, “ Well, sir, if you’ll believe me, the stage was as big ns a sheep corral” , Mr. and Mrs. 01 a f Forseth chaperoned a party of young peo ple on a picnic to the Alkali reser voir Sunday. The merry crowd was composed .of the Misses Ag nes, Laura and Alice Sater, and Misses Clara and Olga Jacobson, David Sater, John and Donald Jacobson. Mrs. Lauris J. Otness enter tained the Ladies’ Aid society last Wednesday. There were forty men, women and children present who partook of the delicious re freshments served at four o ’clock. All reported a good time. On hear ing the comments of various ones, telling of the many pleasures en joyed in the way of Sunday gath erings of neighbors and friends, picnics, dances and many other ::orms of amusement, we are in clined to laugh a little about the Country Commission” that is so greatly interested in bettering the conditions of the poor farmer and mapping out his amusements. We are not acquainted with a great many fanners outside of our own locality, but we don’t know of one who would willingly exchange places with any member of the commission. Let me paint a pen picture of a typical farm home. We may have to draw two pictures, the first one w i l l be of spring, summer and autumn. Five o ’clock A. M., (Don’t yawn, you city people) fire staited, breakfast cooked, horses fed and hnrnessed, hogs fed and everybody ready fqr breakfast at six. While we are do ing these we have heard the con cert of the many little feathered warblers, hav.e.seen the dewdrops on the rose and have watched them glisten in the early morn. By eight the morning work is up, the men are in the fields and the wom en can usually find something to do until eight p. m,, then we have an hour before bed time for the Great Fails Daily Tribune, a good i magazine or our old friends, the books. The last of the week I brings our county paper, the Mon- I toman. Sundays we rest, visit, read or entertain our friends. Now for the winter scene. Rise at six, breakfast at seven, work up by eight. Our genial postman, Chas. Pierce, begins collecting and dis tributing the mail at eight so we have the day to sit by the cheer ful fire and read or call up some friend and have a friendly talk over the telephone. What if the snow does blow? It means more moisture and more grain. The colder the weather the more mel low the ground. Most every home contains a musical instrument and many of the daughters, a f t e r kneading bread or making butter can nlay selections from the popu lar operas or'a sacred piece equal ly as well as their city sifters. Now, the children. They are be ing educated in our rural school; hesides they Imve all Nature for a teacher and they arc healthy in mind and body. “ Nature’sclaims” and the holy influence of the home make sons and daughters that are the pride of a nation. Charles Dana said, “ All of us in a great measure, create our own happiness which is not half so much depend ent upon scenes and circumstances as most people are apt to imagine. ” If we look for pleasure we can find it wherever we are’ or what ever .our conditions, but it some times costs several efforts to rise above the clouds into the sunshine but remember that somewhere the sun is shining and no place on earth are there fewer clouds or more sunshine than on the fertile Bench aroune our little town of Farmington. Smile and a smile is returned, frown and a frown is returned. Now that we are exper iencing our first little bit of genu ine prosperity let us all smile, and if there is a “ grouch” in onr com munity he will soon smile too. Smile and boost and let the com mission do our worrying. Episcopal Church Services B. & M. Team Won The B. &. M. baseball team of Great Falls won the game with the Choteau nine last Sunday after noon, at the local high school diamond, the score standing 4 to 2 in favor of the Falls players. The opposing batteries were DeForrest and Moe for the B & M nine, and DeMnrs and Craw ford for Choteau. In the first inning DeMars had his knee thrown out of place while attempt ing to put a man out at the home plate, which materially interfered with his pitching during the balance of the game, but at that he fanned 14 men men, which was all that DeForrest was able to do. ' The B. &. M. pitcher was given considerably better support than that accorded DeMars, which ac- 1 counts for the score being against ns. Notwithstanding the fact that a local paper gives the Choteau team credit for 10 errors and the B. &. M. with 13, no such number was made by either side, but Choteau’s errors were costly and undoubtedly lost them the game. Not an earned run was made by either side. Sunday, Aug. 17,1913. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 o ’clock. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:45 o ’clock. Rev. L. F. Haley, missionary for Choteau, extends a cordial welcome to all attend these services. Naturalization Papers The following have made appli cation before Clerk of the Court .Gibson for citizenship papers: Ire Clement Flagg, b o r n in South Dakota, but later becoming a citizen of Canada, now residing at Conrad. Julins Florent Messelin, a native of Belgium, residing at Dupuyer. John Ieigen, a native of Norway, residing at Shelby. FAIRFIELD Harvesting is going on pretty lively. A few small showers have delaved cutting during the last few days; some have been stack ing and quite a few stacks can be seen. Soon will be heard the sound of tho threshing machine. Mr. Bruske, who was injured some time ago, is able to be about again. The dance given by Reuben Ehstwood in his new barn, was enjoved by quite a large attend ance. Mrs. G. A. Kuehn and daugh ters arc visiting relatives on the bench. They expect to leave for their home in LuCros.se, Wis., in a few days. William Harris is back on the bench with his steam plowing out fit. Bill expects to tear up a little sod near home. Halvor Tordal is putting up a new granery. The old one was completely wrecked by wind last fall. Henry Dale took a load of new potatoes to the county seat last week. C. G. Monkman Dead Word was received in Choteau last week of the death of Chas. G. Monkman. which o c c u r e d on Wednesday, August 13, 1913, at Brempton, Ontario. Mr. Monk- man had been seriously ill for sev eral months with Bright’s disease, and had gone east for treatment, but nothing could be done to pro long his life. Funeral services were held Friday at the home of his brother, E. C. Monkman, at Chinguacously. and interment was had in Laurel Hill cemetery, Bolt- on. \ ^ The deceased was born in Tor onto, Canada, and at the time of his death was in his 55th year. He came to Montana in 1886, settling near Bynum, this county, where by bard and conoientious work he has built up a comfortable farm home. He was married in 1890 to Miss Mary East, of Bolton, Ontario, and to this union four children were born, Miss Cora, Gordon, Aivie and Chas. Gibson, all of whom arc now living. Be sides the wife and children the de ceased is survived by an aged mother, two brothers and two sis- ters'residing in Canada, and two sisters who live in this country— Miss Saliie Monkman, a nurse at Chicago, and Mrs. Knighton, of Salt Lake City. The deceased was a member of Choteau lodge No. 11, I. O. O. F., and was well and favorably known by a large circle of friends who sincerely regret to learn of his untimely death. He was one of onr very best citizens, thoroughly honorable and upright in all of his dealings with his fellow man, and will be-great ly missed in this community. The bereaved wife and children have the heart felt sympathy of this neighborhood. Civil Cases The following civil cases hav been tiled in the office of the cler of the district court since our la< report: First National Bank of low City, a corporation, vs. H. Guth, suit on* note. 14. W. W. Jamieson Moody, suit on note. 14. G. W. Deardorf vs. Bert IS Smith and Mable T. Smith, for closure o f mortgage. Filed Au 16. _______________ “ A Rival by Request” andspe ialties, Aug. 26. Filed Auj vs. A. 1 Filed Au:
