Jeannette Rankin in Plains, Mt – 87 Years old – Says her father was a Hippie

Jeannette Rankin: Voice Against War By Don Coe – Publisher, The Plainsman Plains – It’s a woman’s privilege to change her mind, but concerning war and all its implications, Jeannette Rankin is not one to exercise that genetic right. Possessed of looks and sparkle that belie her 87 years, Miss 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

Leatitia Schillinger – Matron Enlists in Army Five Years To Day After Son – 1945

Matron Enlists in Army Five Years To Day After Son Five years from the day her son enlisted in the air forces, Mrs. Leatitia Schillinger signed for service in the Women’s Army corps, it has been announced at local recruiting headquarters. Mrs. Schillinger said that she feels enlistment in the Read More

Miss M. E. Tweedie Trained Nurse Is Dead – Maclean to Take Body to Manitoba

Miss M. E. Tweedie Trained Nurse Is Dead Heroine of Pioneer Days in Canada and Well Loved at N. P. Hospital Miss Margaret E. Tweedie passed away yesterday at noon, at the Northern Pacific railway hospital, where she had been for the last nine years in service as a trained Read More