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Consideration is also taken of the state and school portions and the attorney general failed to state whether the taxpayers would recover money paid to the school and state funds. Members of the board assert they will not make any refunds until a court order to do so is served upon them, as they do not wish to assume the responsibil ity until a test suit, which will ultimately end in the supreme court of the state, will settle the present status. According to the attorney general, as the taxes were not paid under protest, no action may be instituted to recover pame and thè quéstión-is wheth er or noli \they must be refunded as-provided by séêtiôn 2222 of the revised codes òf 1921. This section stipulates that taxes paid more than once or erron eously or illegally collected, may by order of the board of county commissioners, b‘e refunded. In Teton county, Treasurer 0. G. Meadows informs us that * two or three refunds were or dered paid by th commissioners previous to the attorney gener al’s opinion of March 15th. For this year the lands under the Sun River project, title to which is still with the govern ment, will, as last year, not be -assessed. Considerable interest has been aroused in the refunding of tax es under this ruling, as a great number included in this area paid their 1922 taxes under protest and inquiries are fre- qunt as to the attitude that the JV1ETHODIST CHURCH NOTES .Harry T. Stong, pastor Morning worship at TO :30 This is Palm Sunday. The ser vices will be conducted under the auspices of the Ladies In dustrial. Th aim is to have fathers, mothers and children all present to commemorate the triumphal entry of our Lord in. to the city of Jerusalem. Among other special features will be the baptizing o f children. Sunday school at 11:30. We are pleased to note the lasting good results of the contest con- Le returned, as collections for ^ ucted by the “ Reds” and the Blues” o f the adult Bible class. Through the efforts of Mrs. 0. Hansen, captain of the “ Blues” oyer $14.00 has been turned in to the church treasurer to be used in. helping to defray the expenses of repairing the build ing. Evening worship at 7:30. Subject ,of sermon, The King- ship of Jesus. There will be special evange listic services in the church each evening from now until Easter. Except Saturday even ings. The Ladies Industrial wlii conduct an apron and food sale at the Choteau Mercantile Co.’s store this Saturday, March .24. • Worship steadies the stoim- tossed ship o f ’the Soul/ Como to church. ’ * (By Gwennln Burch) The second gride is studying the germination \f seedt which\ .they have planted on their “ farm” on the said table. . James Meaghjr, Lawrenty Taylor, Francis Truchot and/ Elsie Hirshberg lave just rei, turned to the second grade afi ter an absence of several days on account of the fit. Evelyn Willis haabeen trans-; ferred from the fifm grade' to: One of the many ‘new businesses which, has been keeping pace or pos sibly a jump ahead of the activity in Shelby, is the Choteau Lumber com? pany.‘ From a very modest beginning little more than a year ago and under the able management of A. J. Flynn, it has forged rapidly to the front un til at this time the company boasts of carrying the largest stock of lum ber to be found in the entire county. The business has outgrown the abil ity of Mr. Flynn to. properly take care of it and recently he added George B. Banta of Chinook to the force. Mr. Banta has charge of the office. It is now among the plans of the company to move the yard to another part of the city, as the pres ent has become too valuable for such purposes. Plans are already made for the erection of business buildings on the site and in the event of this the company plans on removing the yard to the east side of the city, where it has a large plot of ground. —Shelby Promoter. the fourth grade. Marjorie Gamble has been tr« isferred to/ Farmington. / Harold and Helen irons have been absent from the fifth grade: for two weeks on acclunt o f the flu. I For language work pie seven, th grade is writing and telling reports of books read \his year. There has been more/ children absent from the eighth grade this month than any two| months this-year.- - ; / Darwin Crane, William Route ston, Violet Dow, Eva H^irsh- berg, Mildred Thompson,'Kath erine McDonald, Janies Sul- groye and Clarence\ Stephens have won their improvement er.tificates for good Palmer method writing, in ‘ the eighth grade. ' Patsey Pridham, Lucile Mor gan, Kathryn Dunn, Hazel Up- man, Ruth Haugen and Lillian Mozer have won their final certificates for - better-, palmer niethod writing in the eighth grade. •VS . O Of Statement o f Condition,of OF CHOTEAU at close of business Dec. 29, 1922 RESOURCES Cash in vault and in 'other banks ..$174,802.65 County warrants, real estate, etc ------------- Loans and discounts ... 27,443.45 204,059.61 LIABILITIES Deposits Undivided profits — Capital and surplus $339,387.88 6,917.83 60,000.00 $406,305.71 $406,305.71 : ST.. STEPHEN'S CHURCH (Protestant Episcopal) Rev. H. E. Bush, Minister Sunday Services: Palm Sunday 11:00 a. m. Holy Communion 12:00 m. Church School. 7:30 p. m. Evening Prayer. Good Friday.: 12:00m.—3:00 p. m. Service the cross. ■ ■ Next Sunday introduces Holy Week and is known as Palm Sunday because it is the day on which Jesus of Naz areth rode into Jerusalem upon the back of a donkey and the crowd hailed him as King and spread ,their clothes and palm branches in the road. The theme of the morning sermon will be “The Triumphant Christ.” The coronation of the King of men took place on the following Friday. This king was not- crowned with gold and diadems but with thorns and a cross. His grip upon the human race is because His coronation was with thorns and His throne was a cross. Good Friday is the greatest day in history and it is fitting that the day should be recognized in every way. St. Stephen’s will do as last year and observe three hours of darkness from noon to three o’clock with a continuous service in. the church. Every citizen is invited to lay aside his usual duties and come to the church ‘ for those three hours. Rem ember the service begins at noon and lasts until three o’clock. GOOD FRIDAY It is with the greatest appreciation of the good spirit shown, that the Efforts to save the forests of the country from . fire will be .commemorated during the week óf ^pril. 22-28, in accordance ydth a proclamation issued by President Harding on March 5. The’ proclamation calls atten- tipji|to importance o f forest pre servation. to the industrial \Sand coitììnercial life of the nation Mud to individual welfare, and points out that fires which are thè result., of carelessness or thoughtlessness do great dam age,, even’threatening the tim ber supply and.endangring tlie /cover o f ‘ the watersheds of the /Streams that are used for nav- V •* igation and irrigation. -, President Harding urges the .governors o f the various states to set the .week apart and bring about its., proper observance in the schools, through civic and other associations,- by means of ■thepress, and in all proper ways. ’ This is the third year that forest protection week has béè^ fixed by presidential proc lamation, and its observance has been very, general in the forested regions. HIES o u s e The automotive trade train ing class has just received a new Ford to begin overhauling. They have just finished .over hauling Mr. Howard’s Chevro let. If any one wishes to have his car overhauled the automo tive. class will be glad to do it free of charge, under the super vision of Mr. Sweat. The agriculture class is set ting out cabbagé and tomato plants. When grown these will be distributed am'ong the mem bers of the class, i1 i The Commercial club held its (regular meeting at the Choteau House last Monday evening, Ed. Logan presiding in the absence of J. C. Morgan, chairman. The attendance was quite large and several subjects o f lo cal interest were discussed. Ir rigation was one of the points taken up and a motion was, car ried to extend an invitation to Scott Leavitt o f Great Falls to be present at the next meeting which w ill'be held April 15th. A committee was appointed to try to get either Dempsey or Gibbons to make their training quarters here providing Shelby gets the big bout on July 4th. Miss Hekel is considering having a rest room established for some of the sophomore Eng lish students. (See' Ick.) The seniors have receivd their Djmce at Lavern Hotel, Mar. 24. Johnson Bros. Orchestra. Everybody cordially invited. Mrs. Boutilier is reported to be on the .sick .list this week w ith in attack of the flu. • Ottq Wagnild, Jimmy Barnes and A. M. Rongstad were busi ness callers in Choteau Friday. Mrs. John Wilson is able to be up again after being confined to her room the past week with a severe cold. Miss Kathrine Derksen re turned home Monday after spending several months in Great Falls with friends. W. D. Jones of the Bynum country was in town Tuesday. Geo. Wright transacted busi ness in Choteau Wednesday. Maurice Mancoronal, one of Porter bench’s most thrifty farmers, spent several hours in town on business Tuesday. O. F. Schaefer attended the auto show-last Friday. A pleasant time was had by a number of Agawam folks at the St. Patrick’s dance at By num Saturday night.. Geo. Porter of the famous Porter bench was in town shaking hands with friends on Tuesday. Peter Gemar of Agnoe was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gemar the first part o f the week. Jim Connole and family re turned home from Butte after spending several months visit ing relatives and friends. The California company re class rings and pins and have started wearing ‘them. They have also started work on their class play. The glee club boys have start ed work on the songs for the lyceum course which will be held in the neighboring towns in the near future. Th sophomore colors have been selected and the orange and white flag has been made. The'play, “Miss, jjiherryblos- soih” was given last'Friday to a crowd of over four1 hundred. The basketball girls had their pictures taken last Wednesday. ■ The shorthand and typing classes have recently received several awards. The following people received their initial certificates on the Underwood: Celia.Hutcheson, Esther White, Margie Haugen and Edythe Mc- Neal. Edythe and Margie also received bronze mdals for net ting 40 or more words per min ute. Phyllis Pridham and Ethel Haugen received an additional 10-word bar for the bronze medal, received before, having netted 50 or more words per minute. The following pupils received memborship certificates in the order of Gregg artists: Esther White, Margie Haugen, Mary Elizabeth Forrest, Maynard T. Oliver, Wallace Klockler, Eliza- YUM YUM The Ladies Industrial met Wednesday afternoon, after the business meeting a very pleas ant social hour followed. Temp ting refreshments were served by the committee, Mesdames Forrest, Emerick, Logan and Malcolm. Plans were completed for the Easter apron sale and luncheon to be held Saturday, March 24th, library building. Mrs. Looney, chairman of the luncheon committee, announces the following : 11:30 a. m. to 2 p. m. Chicken Sandwiches, Salad Hot Baked Beans, Cake, Coffee / Oh, yes, the price, Just 35c. •' After 2’ p. m. we will be glad to serve light refreshments in our usual manner at usual prices, and you wouldn’t miss the apron display. Aprons made by Industrial ladies with goods purchased at local stores, attractive in style and price. You will find us just around the corner, in the library build ing, Saturday, March 24. Good eats, good aprons, more eats. beth Gamble, Edythe McNeal and Ethel Haugen. In addi tion to the membership certifi cate Ernestine Maynard receiv ed a gold O. G. A. pin for hon orable mention, and Phyllis Pridham was awarded a bronze O. G. A. pin as the prize winner of our club. ■’ Marcus Duffy was awarded a bronze O. A. T. pin as prize winner for the Artistic Typing club. ministers of Choteau announce the . „ „ , cooperation of the business men and j ceived their eleventh car of fuel the sch'ools in an official recognition of Good Friday, by declaring a half holiday, as done last year. Each citizen is urged not only to recog nize the day by ceasing from his usual work from noon on but also at tend one of the three churches. Each congregation will observe the day with' some service: ' At the Episcopal church: from noon ’till three o’clock. At the Catholic church: evening. At the Methodist church: evening. Mary Elizabeth infant daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Manix, of the nupuyer country, died at their home last Sunday and was buried in the Dupuyer cemetery on Tuesday last. oil Monday. Nick Garich transacted busi. ness in Choteau the first of the week. Geo. Wright has purchased a Ford touring car from Pete Ge mar of Aznoe. The high wind of Monday did very little damage here outside of blowing over several small buildings. Cl K. Malone is busy this week dipping cattle. Harry Collins of the Dry Forks country attended busi ness- matters in this city last Tuesday. Citizens State Bank CHOTEAU, MONTANA OUR DIRECTORS: ' G. M. Coffey ' P. H. Crossen ’ “ f * George F. Miller Wm. Hodgskiss James E ckford We specialize in all departments o f Commer- cial Banking and offer service consistant with safe banking.
