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I r- . J ’¿Si / V \ \ \ * • • • • # I t i t u l é » ■ y -’ ! VOLUME. X CHOTEAU, TETON COUNTY, MONTANA, FEBRUARY 23, 1923 NUMBER 33 District Court' Hais ' . Session This Week [ OF IS. L J Sons and Daughters Hold Annual Affair District court opened Tuesday Morning, February 20th, with the full quota of jurors on hand for duty. A s is usual in such cases, the court excused various ones for good and sufficient' reasons, and the regular routine of business was taken up. B. E. Jackson, who was charged with ,the sale of intoxicating, liquor while at the Bole Inn, plead guilty ns charged and sentence was pro nounced by Judge Greene Wednesday morning. When asked if the.defend ant • had anything to say before the sentence was given, affidavits were produced from the attending physic ian and nurse of the defendant’s mother, stating that she was very ill in California. A stay of sentence asked allowing for time to visit the sick mother. The judge sentenced the defendant to 30 days in the county jail and. to pay a fine of $150. with a stay of execution on the jail sentence of 60 days. Bert I. Packer, attorney for Lewis Thompson, who is charged with the sale of \moon appeared before the cohrt Wednesday morning and stated that the defendant was ill with pneu monia and unable to appear in court but was ready to enter a plea of guilty to the charge. Mr. Thompson will appear for sentence Saturday morning at 9:30. T. G. McGlenn, charged with the sale of intoxicating liquor was ar raigned Wednesday morning and en tered a plea of not guilty. The de-1 fendant informed the court that he had no funds to employ counsel and. Bert I. Packer was. appointed by Judge Greene. MeGlenn’s case was set for Saturday. The case of Victor Jourdonnais, another prohibition case,, arising from the sale' of intoxicating liquor- at thè Bole Inn, was next heard. Thè’ \ defendant entered a plea of not not qiiilty. The case was sent to the jury and after a two hour delib eration, it returned a ’ verdict of guilty, and sentence was left to the court. At this writing the judge has not given out the sentence. The case of the State of Montana và. Carl Matz, a farmer near Dutton, charged with stealing grain, was dis missed for lack of evidence. Quite a number of criminal cases as well as several civil cases are yet to be heard before court is dismissed for the term. A. T. Brekke of Fairfield, who is charged with thq sale of intoxicating liquor was represented by his attor ney in court this morning and a plea of guilty was entered to one of the two counts filed against him, the other being dismissed by Judge Greene upon motion of the county attorney. A stay of sentence was asked until the first of April as Mr. Brekke was a, married man with a family. The judge sentenced the. de fendant to 60 days in jail and a fine of $200.00 with the stay of execution as asked for. DRY LID TRAIN A GREAT SUCCESS 1 The Dry Land Success train, which has been planned, equipped and man ned by the Montana State College Extension Service for a 30-day tour of “the triangle” of north central Montana, arrived in Choteau early Wednesday morning and was greeted by nearly 500 Teton county farmers. The train is piloted by M. L. Wil son, farm management director of the extension service. The first stop of the train was at Pendroy and the second at Choteau. This train will stop at practically every town of im portance in the triangle. Mr. Wilson had his various exhibits' attractively arranged on the cars and throughout the day interested farm ers inspected them. An illustrated lecture was given at the Royal Theate after lunch and the speaker's topics covered summer tillage, flood irrigation and shelter belts and at the same time outlined the results of various experiments made at the col lege. Diversification \was - also an issue. The matter of making the farm produce the living for the family is essential, leaving the production of wheat for the cash crop. Consider able stress was put on proper sum m er\ fallow and tillage as well the conservation of moisture by systems of snow, flood waters and dykes. STANDARD PURCHASES 2900 , ACRES ADJOINING HOLDINGS x ¿“ »v. : ......... 1 . J ... Oil and. gaqpTights were 'purchased by the. Standard Oil of California on a block of land comprising‘over 2900 acres today at 2:00 at the court house. These holdings were parf of the holdings of the Alexander Tru- chot-estate and are located adjoining the Standard’s well near Agawam. The consideration was $2.00 per acre for eigthty-seven and one-half per cent of the oil. With this land as part of the Cali fornia’s holdings, greater develop ment is expected. A. M. Walley, charged with the sale of intoxicating liquor on two counts, appeared in court' Friday and withdrew his plea of not guilty to that of guilty and sentence will be pronounced Saturday. Clias 'LePage, charged with the sale of and having intoxicating liquor in his possession, was arraigned this morning and entered a plea of not guilty. His case has\“ been set for Tuesday, February 27th. Mr. LePage is represented by Attorney George W. Magee. 1 Court was then adjourned until Saturday morning. Statement of Condition of F I R S T N A T f f l N A l R A 1 W T m o l I M l i U l M L Dm OF CHOTEAU i l l -T at close of business Dec. 29, 1922 RESOURCES ' LIABILITIES Cash in vault and D e p o s i t s ______________ in other banks --------- $174,802.65 Undivided profits ______ County warrants, real Capital and surplus ___ estate, etc --------------- 27,443.45 Loans and discounts ___ 204,059.61 .$339,387.88. 6,917.83 ‘ 60,000.00 $406,305.71 $406,305.71 <rFEDERAI, RESEHVETp* / / . - , . a • « Mr. Williamson has been absent from 'school with the ' “flu.” The 'tournament staked Thursday and Teton expects to) receive first place. School was dismissed Thurs day noon. Quite a feW pupils are mediating on going to the tournament which will be held at I Great Falls. The boys' expect to see a large croWd of rooters from Teton to see them1 show Great ‘ Falls that they aren’t the only people on the map. The pupils in chemistry have been' making alcohol the last few daySt We hope they will not have a. “s.tew. party” after it is made. The typing class have begun the contest work, put out by the Art1 arid Credential department of the Gregg Publishing Company, Chicago. During January the following people qualified and received certif icates in the Junior Order of Artistic. Typing: Maybellc Anderson, Marcus Duffey, Margie Haugen and Emes-f tine Maynard. . . . / ■]. Ethel Haugen and Lucille Sturgeon received certificates as Competent Typists. ' 'v> Jim '■ Pridham, Ernestine Maynard and Harriett Radcliffe received their Initial Certificates on the UnderWood. Typewriter. Lucille Storgeon attain? ed a net speed of 45 words per min ute and received a bronze medal awarded by the Underwood company; Ernestine Maynard received the initial certificate on tire Remington this past month. Since school will be dismissed Friday for the tournament at Great Falls, he normal training department has decided to continue the kinder garten for at least another week. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES . Harry T. Stong,' pastor , Morning worship at 10:30.' Sermon by the pastor. In this’ day of agnos ticism, doubt and criticism, you need to have your faith strengthened in those things which are fundamental. Come to our service and have your mind cleared as to the Divinity of Christ. “Don’t try to be neutral’ toward Christ; it’s impossible.” Come to church and let the world know where you stand concerning your belief in Jesus Christ. And remember the words of Matthew: “Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny befor my Father which is in heaven.”—Matt. 10:32, 33. Sunday school at 11:30. Attend ance last Sunday was 305. Song service and evening devotions at 7:30. Choral rehersal, led by R. A. Keyes Tuesday evening. Boy Scouts will meet Wednesday evening. Mid-week prayer service Thursday evening. It is earnestly hoped that many will feel disposed to attend the prayer services during this ■ Lenten period. We want to accomplish some definite things for the Lord, between now and Easter,, and no individual or‘ chruch can do without prayer. Re member the time, Thursday evening t 8 o ’clock. WANTED:—50 subscribers to the Messenger. If we- can have a club of fifty the subscription price for one year will be 20c. COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING At a meeting of the Choteau Com mercial club held at the Glenioyd dining rooms Wednesday evening the towns of Fairfield, Power and Pendroy were represented by dele gations. An extensive advertising campaign was discussed and figures were given in the report of the committee on advertising for a series' of pamplets and circulars, together with the cost of distribution. These circulars to advertise the resources of Teton county in general, and of Choteau in particular. M. A. Wilson of the state agricul tural college gave a very interesting; talk on his experiences in diversified farming in the . part of the state known as the triange; 'of which this county is a part.' Short* talks along this line being given by T. O. Larson James Eckford, P. I.' Cole and J. A. Baart. At one o’clock Tuesday afternoon, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. ;B. Guthrie, occured the death of Mrs. ;N. J. .Thomas, after an illness of ten jdays duration of lagrippe. ; The- deceased was born at Fort- •ville, Indiana, and- spent her early life there, until the time of her mar riage,, when she removed to Muncie, Indiana, where she rested until about six years ago. Since that time she has divided her time between her children, having lived with Mrs. A. B. Guthrie since last August. Funeral services were held Thurs day from the Guthrie home. Rev. Harry T. Stong of the Methodist churcs officiating. Burial will be made at Muncie, Indiana, the old homq. During her stay in Choteau Mrs. Thomas had endeared hersely to the citizens of this city, and they feel very keenly the loss tBey have sus tained. Alf Wagnild and Pete Laconette of Pendroy were in town Saturday aqd Sunday visiting with friends. Quite a number from here attend ed the dance at Choteau last Friday. Wm. Simons and Son, Orville, un loaded a car of lumber for the Mon arch Lumber Company last week. Mrs. H. Nelson and son were guests at the Geo. Wright home on Tuesday afternoon. A. M. Rongstad made a business trio to Choteau Monday. Ralph Wright, who has been home the past week on account of sick ness, returned to .Great Falls Tues day ¡to resume his studies at the high s t f b Q O L '- '- t ........... . „ ..J . Mrjfe Wm. Doyle left for Great Falls Wednesday to spend a few days with friends. > F. A. Davis,, geologist for the Cal ifornia company, arrived from Bil lings Wednesday to spend a few days here looking after interests of his company. • Nick Garich and daughter, Mary, were passengers on Wednesday’s train for Great Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Barnes were pleasantly surprised at their home last Saturday evening by a number of their friends. A' very delicious lunch was served at midnight and an enjoyable time was had by all. Mrs. Otto Wagnild entertained in formally at tea to several of her friends last Thursday afternoon. Mesdames P. J. Reed, J. Barnes, O. F. Schaefer and F. R. Ramsey visited the afternoon session of the Agawam school on Friday. There will be a dance at {he La- vem Hotel Saturday, the 24th, given by the management. Everyone Is cordially invited. SOCIALISTIC EXPERIMENT COSTLY Losses sustained by the govern ment from wartime operation of railroads and its aftermath of earn ings, guarantees and damage settle ments will total approximately $1,- 800,000,000, according to data now made available for the first time in a report by James C. Davis, director general of railroads, sent to congress by Pesident Harding. And so ends the story of govern ment control and operation of the railroads during the war.. The taxpayers will settle the bill the same as they will foot other war debts. But with such a costly object les son to go by, will they sanction fur ther experiments in government own ership and operation of railroads in this nation. Already prominent politicians ate trying to . make the public believe that government ownership of rail roads is a sure cure for all transpor tation problems. Let the people think. j'-Miss Sophia Dennison gave a card and dancing party Saturday evening. Those present were Gladys Askew, Ruth Rogera, Wardella Redmond, Bessie Dennison, Mary Cunningham, Irene deary, Clifford Saterlie, Morris Ward, John Lane, Robert Taylor and Hiram Johnson. PUBLIC SCHOOL n s NOTES Program for the Eighth Grade Cit izens League, Friday, February 16. The seventh and eighth grades had a joint progras as follows: Extemporaneous Talk, Ruth Haugen Reading, Darwin Crane.\ Extemperaneous talk, Glen Wiprtid. Reading, Eva Hirshberg. Reading, Jessie Edgar. Extemperarieuos talk. Hazel Upman Reading, J. C. \Salmond. Debate, Resolve: That Employers Should Abandon the Principle of the Open Shop. Affirmative Earle Han- soif, Lucille Morgan and Katherine McDonald; negative, Gweenyn Burch, Henry Crossen and Giles Trescott. Judges, Mrs. Green, Mrs. Hanson and Mrs. Ray. The affirmative won. Debate: Resolve That The Princi ples of the Closed Shop Should be Adopted in American Industry. Af firmative, Miss Edwards, Bud Moore and Kenneth Pike; negative, Helen Arnett, Howard Jourdonn'aig and Glen Archibald. Judges: Mrs. Green, Mrs. Ray and Miss Alberts. The negative won. The defenders of states’ rights have rushed forward to oppose President Harding's constitutional amendment designed to end the issuance of tax- free securities. It was to be expect ed that the proposal would antagonize spokesmen of the local governmental bodies which now enjoy the privilege of tax exemption. It is not even certain that the administration can mobilize enough, strength «in.¿congress to assure the passage ot- the- resolu tion. A strong case against the issuance of tax-exempt bonds' was made by Secretary Mellon. In his annual re port he asserted that “the most out standing avenue of escape from the surtax exists in the form of tax-ex empt securities . . .the effect of the exemption is to provide a perfect means of escape from federal surtax, which is naturally most valuable to the wealthiest investor, and especi ally to one who is not engaged in business and is, therefore, free to convert his investments into tax-ex empt securities and thus avoid pay ing the income tax.” As the chief fiscal officer of the nation, Secretary Mellon, has profes sional interest in the losa of taxes. In the debate in congress, estimates were quoted indicating that the na tional loss in taxes may be some where between $120,000,000 and $300,- 000,000 a year. From the treasury standpoint this is serious enough to warrant a constitutional amendment. There are furthermore, still other considerations not less weighty. The Sons and Daughters of Teton’s Oldest Settlers met-~at the Woodman, hall Friday, February 16th, for their annual meeting and banquet The ’ rules of the order had been suspended by the president ana each member allowed to invite a couple, thus the crowd was one that taxed the large hall to capacity. Very fine music for the occasion was furnished by the Choteau orchestra. The commit tee in charge vied with each other in seeing that every on present was ' enjoying themselves to the fullest extent. Not to be 'outdone by the committee*' the members and guests did all in their power to make the affair a success, and seemed to enjoy being a little crowded. H. J. Loomis acted as general floor manager, much to the satisfac tion of all present. At 12 o’clock a fine lunch was served in the dining room, directly below the dance hall, by Mrs. Lewis Thompson, of the New Choteau House. The hunger of 226 people being taken care of at this time. After supper, when the guests had. all resumed their dancing, the busi ness meeting of the organization, held in the dining room. Mrs. H. J. Loomis, the president, calling the meeting to order. The minutes of the previous meeting being read by the secretary, Mrs E. J. Jourdonnais. Th election of the officers for the next year was then taken up and the following elected: Victor Steele, president. Cora Bitting, vice president Mrs Lee Brown, secretary. Geo. Coffey, treasurer. Lelia Ashworth, chairman of the advisory board. Mrs. Ashworth was given time to select two other members to a c t 1 with her on the board. • j - The treasurer’s . report was read, and, after paying the cun\en,t expen ses, it was found a balance of nearly $79 dollars was on hand. The meeting waB then adjourned, and the members resuming their places on the dance floor, where they remained until 5 o’clock, when the dance ended and all wended their weary, yet happy, way homeward, a tired and sleepy crowd. Mrs. C. H. Connor was hostess at a delightful 500 party in honor of Mr. Connor’s 71st birthday. Mrs. H. T. Rhoads won the ladies first prize and Mrs. Fred Smith the consolation. Fred Smith won the gentlemens first and Chas. McDonald the consolation. The guests included besides the host- oss and the honored guest, Mr. and Mrs. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Mc Donald, Mr. and Mrs. Burbank, Mr. and Mrs. Cleland, Mr. and Mrs. W- E. Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dr. and Mrs. II. T. Rhoads, Mrs. Gregory, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Monkman, Wm. Hodgskiss, Chas. LePage and Wm. Bruce. G. M. Coffey j: ; P. H. Crossen George F. Miller Wm. Hodgskiss . James Eckford We specialize in all departments o f Commer cial Banking and offer service consistant with safe banking. . '\ K ,” * * J *\ ^ 0 \ . •)
