Quick Action Saves 2 Girls Missoula, Mont., Aug 19. (1937) Virginia Mahan 6, and Betty Jean Mahan, 9, were rescued from drowning in an irrigation canal in south side Missoula today by Harlan Shea and W. J. Reuter. The girls had fallen into the ditch while playing along the bank. Read More
A Big Orchard J. E. Patterson’s New Venture in the Missoula Valley Missoula, May 17 – Missoula has a large orchard near it which few of the residents know anything about, and parties will not have to travel many miles to show their friends what a big orchard looks like. Read More
1901 – Wild and Woolly Missoula – One day’s Report Someone was quoted early in the last century saying that Missoula at one time had a rather unsavory reputation. The statement was that Missoula once was pretty “wild and woolly,” which has a ring to it, but doesn’t really provide Read More
Many of my friends, a few relatives, and fellow scouts made this fabulous trip to the Bob Marshall. Troop 7 was a great outfit. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ptf8oZS3iNAC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=troop+7+bob+marshall+wilderness+boys+life&source=bl&ots=hxcG1yi8Ah&sig=UoFjOBLOVUtI4LN1EiXbn0bhIP4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFtZzR-Y7NAhUO92MKHciYC-0Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=troop%207%20bob%20marshall%20wilderness%20boys%20life&f=false
The Foley’s Clock http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025294/1901-12-04/ed-1/seq-8.pdf Story from the Butte Inter Mountain, Wednesday, Dec. 4th, 1901 Oldest in State Mrs. Foley’s Clock Has Ticked For Forty Years STILL IN GOOD CONDITION Brought to Missoula in Pioneer Days With Three Others Now Things of the Past – Timepiece Delighted Indians (Special to Inter-Mountain) Read More
First Cars Appear On Streets After what was described as “long and anxious expectation,” Missoula’s first automobile arrived in the city April 17, 1901. The “modern conveyance” arrived from an eastern factory for the Missoula Mercantile Co. and “speedy work” was started immediately to put the machine in condition for Read More
Brief from Hamilton paper – The Western News on July 4, 1900 “A deed has been filed at Missoula transferring from R. M. Cobban and wife to W. A. Clark, for $62,500.50, several thousand acres of timberland in the Blackfoot country and in the Bitter Root valley.” No Read More
A script for the motion picture “The Story of Montana” by Peter Wade appears in The Motion Picture Story Magazine (August of 1912) linked below on p. 81. Check it out! Missoula hasn’t been the same since. https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturesto04moti#page/n89/mode/2up
Hell Gate Pageant Opens in Missoula Missoulians of the last century were fond of pageants. A Spokesman Review article on August 3, 1960 takes note of a Missoula pageant, Hell Gate Holidays, which involved 850 actors at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. In celebration of Missoula’s first century, the pageant began Read More
STORY OF “JEFF” WILLSEY FIT TO MAKE ANGELS WEEP Deer Lodge, July 5 – (Special.) – If some reporter, who writes the heart throb stories for the Sunday papers is looking for the makings of a good story, one so full of pathos that it is bound to Read More