Montana Editors Gather for State Press Association Meet
Butte and Anaconda welcome Montana editors and state press association members for Aug 23 to 25 events. Program includes tours, baseball, press dinner, and Montana Copper Mining talks. Officials Moss and Kelley featured. 223 newspapers statewide with 431,919 total circulation per issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Anaconda
Montana
THE
State Press Association
Butte Chamber of Commerce
West Broadway
Chamber of Commerce
Cole-Pitts
Angdes
Clark Park
Moss
Peterson
Silver Bow Club
G. M. Moss
Montana Hotel
Waehoe Smelter
Gregson Hot Springs
Montana Press
C. I F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Montana Press Association
Montana State Press Association
Association
Whitefish
Montana Press Association Formed and Early History Noted
The article recalls the Montana Press association’s origins in Helena on Feb 10 1885, naming founders and early officers. It lists extensive member signings including J D Matheson W H Sutherlin and J E Hendry, plus honorary members and early editor history from Virginia City to Helena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana Press Association
Helena
Court House
Jerry Collins
Fort Benton River Press
W. W. Alderson
Matt W. Alderson
The
Courier
Swallow
Howey
H. M. Mills
Independent
A. J. Fisk
Helena Herald
A. R. Yerkes
Bozeman Chronicle
J. D. Matheson
Billings Post
Alex Devine
Billings Herald
J. W. Kinsley
Billings Rustler
Lee Mantle
Butte Inter- Mountain
Bill Sutherlin
Rocky Mountain Husbandman
Will Kennedy
Missoulian
J. E. Hendry
Livingston Enterprise
Hiram Bundage
Dillion Tribune
George E. Boos
Stock and Mining Journal
Press Association
Butte
Walkerville
Will Sutherlin
R. N. Sutherlin
W. W. al
Prof. Swallow
H. T. Brown
J. B. Read
Butte Inter-Mountain
James H. Mills
New Northwest
Butte Miner
A. M. Willams
J. E. Stevens
Townsend
Tranchant
8. Hedges
F. E. Foote
Dillon Tribune
W. H. Hanks
D. B. Hall
Sun River Sun
S. A. Marney
Miles City Stock Journal
J. R. Hathaway
D. J. Armstrong
R. N. Butherlin
R. A. Pelkey
H. Crouse
L. L. Wood
Mr. Prout
G. W. Carleton
D. W. Tilton
A. B. Keyser
Thos. de Yarmon
H. R. Buck
W. H. Hunt
C. L. Spencer
W. Y. Pemberton
J. J. Garvin
Alex C. Botkin
E. W. Carpenter
Martin Maginnis
van H. Fisk
J. C. Kerley
W. Langhorne
Henry N. Blake
Wilkinson
W. ¥. Sanders
Robert
Kelly
Montanas Oldest Papers Tied to Frontier Press History
A historic Montana newspaper reminiscence traces early papers like the Missoulian and Great Falls Tribune, notes Sweet Grass Advocate's origins, mergers, and editors. It recounts E R Holderby’s tenure, county printing wins, and the Sunburst Sun consolidation, ending with praise for state papers and industry camaraderie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Utah
Montana
Great Plains
Stephen Kearney
Missoulian
Missoula
Cedar Creek
Great Falls
Sun River
R. S. Ford
Sun River Sun
State Press Association
Oae
Butte
Sweet Grass Advocate
Sunburst Sun
E. R. Holderby
E. R. Holderly
The
Advocate
Great Northern
Sweet Grass
Mont
R. Holderby
Holderby
WNU
United States
Kevin
Toole County
Shelby
Dempsey- Gibbons
Sun
Sweet Grass Arch
Roosevelt County Independent Editors Plans Nonpolitical Farmers Paper
Paul Paulson, editor and publisher, and a local company plan to publish the Roosevelt County Independent as a non political, non partisan paper aimed at improving conditions for tillers of the soil. Paulson has led the paper since last October and is a veteran printer from North Dakota who briefly ran a farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt County
Paul Paulson
Paulson
North Dakota
The
Independent
The Madison County Forum Editor Sketch
M S Bullerdick writes about the directing genius behind the Madison County Forum a lean long figure from college days a two mile runner who once jogged after a news story and even outdistanced a bill collector after leaving the University of Montana in 1911 the future editor pursued teaching in Washington state for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Montana
Sheridan Forum
Sheridan, Mont
Madison County Forum
M. S. Bullerdick
Forum
University of Montana
Evergreen State
Boulder Monitor Leader Ties To Miner Papers and Deaf Training
A. H. Eiselein, editor and owner since 1918, leads the Boulder Monitor descendant of the Boulder Sentinel. He began in Danube Minnesota, moved to Montana in 1907, and has long been in newspapers. The weekly conducts a linotype class for deaf and dumb printers at the state school for the deaf and blind in Boulder, begun in 1918 and ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder Monitor
Boulder Sentinel
S. A. Robertson
A. H. Eiselein
Monitor
Eiselein
Minnesota
Danube
Minn
Montana
United States
State School For Deaf and Blind
Boulder
Miles Romney Jr. Named Young Editor of The Western News
Miles Romney Jr., editor of The Western News in Hamilton, aged 22, born Dec 6, 1900, educated at West Point, George Washington, and the University of Montana, assumed editorship July 1, 1932. The paper, owned by Major Miles Romney, is an independent democratic, progressive weekly serving its constituency with loyal editorial and business success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles Romney, Jr
The
Western News
Hamilton
Miles Romney
United States Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
University of Montana
Missoula
University of Washington
Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Montana Press Association
American Legion
Sonic Lodge No. 38
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P. B. Snelson
Billings
J. D. Scanlan
Miles City
Joseph Gehrett
Laurel
Nigels Franzke
Lewistown
Leon Shaw
T. J. Hocking
Glasgow
Will A. Campbell
H. B. Brooks
Chinook
H. Stanley Thurston
Stanford
H. A. Johnson
Malta
O. M. Lanstrum
Butte Country Club
Columbia Gardens
E. Peterson
Montana Post
Virginia City
Thos. J. Dimsdale
Vigilantes
H. N. Maguire
H. N. Blake
Tilton and Dites
Harry C. Kessler
Butte Post
W. E. Hall
C. T. Meader
C. S. Warren
H. A. D’acheul
Chauncy Barbour
Fred Lockley
John B. Reed
Frontier Index
Fort Kearney
L. R. Freeman
Secretary of War
Missouri
St. Louis
Omaha
Plattemouth
Nebraska City
Leavenworth
Kan
Intermountain
Oae Heath
S-E. Peterson
M. Moss
Presiden
Billings Gazette
H-O-Woare
Secon
OS Warden
Tom Stout
Lewistown Democrat-Newa
the Western News
Billings Gasette
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