2. What town does this describe?
Posted by: Don Gilder On: January 13, 2017
You could say this town was founded by a jack-ass. What town was it? Answer is Kellogg, Idaho.
End of the “line” (On Front Street) in Missoula – 1917
Posted by: Don Gilder On: November 14, 2016
The article below appeared in The Missoulian – Jan. 5th, 1917 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025316/1917-01-05/ed-1/seq-1/ Missoula’s “Line” Ordered Closed February 1 City and County Authorities Give Notice to Restricted District To Enforce Laws at End of Month Missoula Officials Take Action Without Compulsion From Ford Read More
Entertaining Indians – 1901
Posted by: Don Gilder On: October 25, 2016
Entertaining Indians – Jan. 4, 1901 Edwards Fruit Grower and Farmer Members of the Treaty Commission at St. Ignatius Mission Yesterday at St. Ignatius mission on the Flathead reservation a dinner was given to the Indians by members of a government commission, whose aim it is to Read More
Accidental Shooting of Rod Oelke – article by Steve Smith
Posted by: Don Gilder On: September 24, 2016
Accidental Shooting of Rod Oelke Rod Oelke of Missoula recently passed away. He was born in Missoula in 1942, the son of Bennie and Martha Heinle Oelke. He attended Franklin grade school in Missoula and graduated from Missoula County High School in 1960. He owned and operated Culbertson Steel Manufacturing Read More
A Horsewhipping Sensation in Sleepy Old Missoula – 1900
Posted by: Don Gilder On: August 30, 2016
She Swung a Horsewhip Mrs. Thibedeau Created a Sensation in Old Missoula Mrs. Thibedeau, a woman who is said to have been living in Spokane for some weeks past, created a sensation in the sleepy old town of Missoula last Friday. The Democrat-Messenger says: The truthfulness of the old saying, Read More
Quick Action Saves 2 Girls – 1937 [Missoula’s dangerous ditches]
Posted by: Don Gilder On: July 12, 2016
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
Big Orchard Homes Apple Ranch 7,000 trees – 1901
Posted by: Don Gilder On: July 9, 2016
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
Missoula “Wild and Wooley” – 1901
Posted by: Don Gilder On: June 27, 2016
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
Boy’s Life Story – Smoke Elser & Willard School’s Troop 7 Visit the Bob Marshall 1966
Posted by: Don Gilder On: June 4, 2016
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
Mrs. Foley’s Clock – Oldest in State
Posted by: Don Gilder On: June 2, 2016
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