Minnie Spurgin Hired Despite Curious Objection – 1900

Minnie Spurgin Selected as a Teacher 1900 School Board Meets Miss Minnie Spurgin Selected as a Teacher. The regular monthly meeting of the school board was held last evening at the office of John M. Evans. There were present Chairman Evans and Members Pulliam, Kemp and Mrs. Reinhard. The principal Read More

2 Young Story Tellers

Adventurous Trail; Charming Mr. Horn “Dot” Benson, “Bob” Wilson to Start Back Home When Money Comes. A telegram yesterday morning from “our families” in Denver ended the peregrinations of Dorothy Benson and Roberta Wilson, held for the past two days in the county jail for reasons of great uncertainty. But Read More

Margaret McCauley – 60 Year Resident – Shook Lincoln’s Hand

Mrs. Margaret McCauley, Resident of Missoula 60 Years – Shook Lincoln’s Hand Mrs. Margaret McCauley, age 91 years and a resident of Missoula for nearly 60 years, died at a local hospital Tuesday night following a short illness. Mrs. McCauley was born in Ireland in 1842 and came to the Read More

Betty Jane Randles and Joyce V. Rasmussen – 1st Ketcham Memorial Winners – 1949

Betty Jane Randles and Joyce V. Rasmussen First Winners of Ketcham Memorial First of the newly established G. A. Ketcham Memorial awards went to Betty Jane Randles and Joyce V. Rasmussen at the forty-ninth annual commencement exercises in the Missoula county high school auditorium Wednesday evening. The scholarships for $200 Read More

Poor Mae Durfee

Poor Mae Durfee The Story of Her Death in Missoula Revived Somewhat Exaggerated Yet in the Main Correct – A Pathetic Picture Pathetically Painted Readers of the Gazette will remember the sad fate which befell pretty Mae Durfee, the juvenile actress who died in this city last year under circumstances Read More

Gertrude Buckhous & Family – Pioneer Librarian

Gertrude Buckhous and Buckhouse Family – Missoula, Montana To Montana by Boat to Fort Benton – By Ox Team to Missoula Henry Buckhouse Sr. died 3/13/1891. The remains of Henry Buckhouse, the pioneer, took place this afternoon. The remains were followed to the grave by an imposing procession. The internment Read More

Mabel Rich – MCHS teacher and author

Miss Rich Leaves Missoula High After Teaching Here 23 Years By Margaret Dunstan “I came to Missoula in the fall of 1912 from Kalispell, where I was head of the English department, the position to which I was appointed at M. H. S. Previous to my teaching in Kalispell, I Read More

Janet Raff – Missoula’s “Most Beautiful Girl” In 1927

Janet Raff – A Most Beautiful Girl Western Montana’s Most Beautiful Girl Will Win a Prize of $50 Cash Prize Is Added To Reward For Girl Who Is Chosen Queen Of Missoula’s Great Carnival Will Be in Addition to Honor of Presiding Over the Festivities in Garden City For Three Read More

Twice a Widow – Mrs. Henry Langlois

Langlois Drowned At Riverside Mill Employe Falls into the Water, Is Stunned by Log and Fails to Come Up Henry Langlois of Riverside, an experienced riverman, was drowned in the mill pond near the Clark mill at Riverside yesterday afternoon, between 3 and 4 o’clock. His body has not yet Read More