Sheriff’s Posse Will Deliver Missoula Paper to Governor
Sheriff’s Posse Will Deliver Missoula Paper to Governor
MISSOULA (AP) – The Missoula County Sheriff’s Posse Sunday will stage a pony express ride from Missoula to Helena to deliver the first huge Missoulian-Sentinel centennial edition to Montana’s Gov. J. Hugo Aronson.
The ride will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the pony express and the 100th birthday of Hell Gate-Missoula.
Aaronson will receive the first copy of the first four sections of the 178-page centennial edition.
The complete edition will be distributed July 27, but Aronson will be absent from the state at that time, attending the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
The anniversary ride will start at 5 a.m. Lyle Bagnell, posse drillmaster, will receive the edition at the Missoulian plant and will gallop off down Highway 10.
All the 40 active, uniformed rides of the posse will participate.
They will travel in pairs. The alternate rider, traveling by car and pulling the horse trailer, will journey ahead of his mate to the next station to be ready to take over the ensuing leg of the trip.
Tom O’Neil, posse major, will ride the last lap and present the edition to Aronson in front of the Montana Capitol.
Officers of the Montana Highway Patrol will escort riders along the trail and through the streets of Helena.
O’Neil should reach the Capitol about 3 p.m.
The above article appeared in the July 9, 1960, Montana Standard-Post from Butte-Anaconda, Montana – p. 13