Women Wail as Italian Nationals Start Long Trek to Native Land A wild scene took place at the Northern Pacific station Thursday afternoon, when 23 Italian nationals from this area were placed on the eastbound train that will carry them and several hundred other former Fort Missoula internees to Ellis Read More
Life at Bella Vista Not the Life of Riley By Nick Mariana. ”Si mangia, si beve e si dorme – e questo e la vita a Bella Vista.” “We eat, we drink and we sleep and this is the life at Bella Vista.” “That’s what 800-odd Italian seamen interned at Read More
Old Fort Missoula By Clarence Bernard Propes Fort Missoula, three miles west of Missoula, Mont., is a lonely, beautiful military reservation with much the same status as an old soldier: Half expecting to be called into service at any time and utterly convinced he does not belong in modern warfare. Read More
Soldiers Chased Ditch Officials Guns Backed Up Orders to Get Away From Maclay Laterals, Malone Says. Five soldiers from Fort Missoula on the evening of Saturday, July 28, ordered officials of the Missoula Irrigation district and guards employed by the district to patrol its big Orchard Homes ditch, away from Read More
100 Acres at Fort Becoming ‘Farm’ It’s fun to talk to Sentinel High Vocational-Agricultural teacher Dave Mellin and hear him describe plans to turn 100 acres of spotted knapweed, sage and other weeds into a blooming farm. “Most of the people call it Mellin’s folly,” he admits, but he has Read More
Fair Grounds Purchased By Board Fine Tract Of 80 Acres Selected In South Missoula By Commissioners. An Admirable Location County Dads Unanimous in Decision to Re-Establish Annual County Exhibit and the Choice of Site Meets Approval – Plans for Modern Buildings Now Under Consideration. The county commissioners at a regular Read More
Target Range For Fort Missoula Provided Washington, Feb. 22. – (Special.) – The senate today adopted an amendment to the army bill, appropriating $26,000 for purchase of McCauley ranch, adjoining Fort Missoula, Mont., for a target range. The article above appeared in The Missoulian on February 23, 1915. https://www.newspapers.com/image/348982305
Richard Rout One of the 25th. Stationed in Arizona He Longs to be Back in Missoula. Private Richard Rout of company H of the 25th infantry, which is now stationed in the south-western part of the country, writes the following letter to Ed H. Boos showing how disappointed the boys Read More
George Marshall of “Marshall Plan” Here 1938 (Nobel Peace Prize 1953) All-Night Mock Battle Staged By Fort Troops Tactical Inspection Carried On by Brigade Commander Ends Today. Fort Missoula troops are being put through a strenuous tactical inspection by Brigadier General George C. Marshall, commander of the Fifth infantry brigade, Read More