Evelyn King on the “Intriguing” Gibbons Family The Missoulian columnist, Evelyn King, wrote a series of columns in 1998 about the Gibbons family. Anyone from Missoula during that era surely remembers them. As always, Evelyn had an unfailing way of handling her topics in a graceful, sincere way. Gibbons remind Read More
Joseph ‘Joe’ Johnson – Resident Here For 50 Years Recalls Half Foot of Snow For Early Fourth of July Celebration. A well-known Missoula character, Joseph C. (Joe) Johnson, who is in his seventieth year, has spent 50 years of his life in Missoula, Mt. Johnson arrived here in October, 1889, Read More
Phil Sheridan Days We’re trying to keep this column contemporary, but it seems three letters out of four start out, “Remember the time . . . “ F’rinstance, one from Robert C. Hendon, vice president of Railway Express Agency. He’s a 1931 and 1934 graduate of the University of Montana Read More
Lon Brennan – Missoula’s 1st Airplane Owner of First Airplane Here, Lon Brennan, Is Dead at 69 Funeral services were conducted Thursday at the Bleitz Funeral Home in Seattle for Lon Brennan, 69, of Camano Island, Wash., who owned the first airplane in Missoula and operated a bakery here in Read More
Scotty Brown and daughter Agnes Brown, teacher. – “Youth has hope, faith and optimism” Scotty Brown Main Speaker Tonight at Father-Son Dinner (1939) “Scotty Brown, well-known local sheepman, tonight will deliver the principal talk at the annual father and son banquet for Missoula district Boy Scouts which is expected Read More
Rev. Luther Powell – 14 Children The article below appeared in the Missoulian-Sentinel on October 28, 1961. Rev. Powell Dies After Narrow Escape in River The Rev. Luther M. Powell, 70, who began his ministerial career in Missoula years ago by conducting his first services in a tent, was stricken Read More
Shoemaker First in Garage Field Veteran Automobile Man Recommends 1924 Franklin as “Last Word.” “Times have changed!” Nobody knows that better than Frank M. Shoemaker, who opened the first garage in the city of Missoula in 1901. Mr. Shoemaker came to Missoula from Nebraska in 1896, and opened a bicycle Read More
‘Don’t Mess with Pete Croci’ @ D’Orazi’s! First-degree Assault Charged Against Four in Holdup Try First-degree assault charges were filed Friday afternoon at the courthouse against four young men suspected of taking part in a shooting Thursday night at D’Orazi’s Bar, 540 Woody St. They had not been taken before Read More
Herder Humor – 1903 The editor of the 1903 Missoulian sometimes had a penchant for printing humorous things about Missoula and a few of its hapless residents. Below are 3 short articles that appeared near each other in the June 16, 1903 Semi-Weekly Missoulian. Predatory Equines. City Herder Gathers in Read More
Former Missoulian Explores Wilds Within Artic Circle New To White Man Forests Spreading to North Over Ground Barren Since Ice Cap Receded Many Centuries Ago. Returning from a 51-day trek through the Alaska wilderness north of the Artic circle, during which he traversed an almost unknown region, Robert Marshall, formerly Read More