Montana Man Dies Jumping From Precipice at Yellowstone Lake
Louis Boatsman age 21 of Morrill Nebraska was killed at Yellowstone Lake Yellowstone Park when he dove from a high precipice. He is believed to have broken his neck dying instantly. He had visited Wonderland last year and previously jumped from a high rock over the lake. His remains will be shipped to Morrill Nebraska.
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Livingston
Aug
Louis Boatsman
Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Park
Boatsman
Morrill
Neb
Wonderland
Citied Soldier Home Decorated by Petain
Aug 22 roundup reports Stephen Fuller of Darrel returning from service as sergeant with Company B after earning the croix de guerre and a citation from General Petain for valor at Mont Blanc. Fuller, in five major engagements with Twenty-third Infantry, saw 265 men in his company go down to 26 with all officers killed or wounded. Carlie Popoluski and Anton Johnson, also in the same division, accompanied him home having been discharged together and sharing the same engagements with no serious wounds.
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Stephen Fuller
Darrel
Roundup
General Petain
Mont Blanc
Fuller
Twenty-third Infantry
Carlie Popoluski
Anton Johnson
Plans for Extensive Road Building Across County
Aug 22 roundup: after a Helena conference, the county prepares major road work. The Roundup Farrel town gravel road, a federal aid project, will widen to 36 feet. The Roundup Billings road will also be improved toward the county line by grading. Lavina Emory road work is advanced from the 1920 program. Unbid roads to be funded by force account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Helena
Roundup
Farreltown
Billings
Catholic Educators Helena Aue
A garbled Helena dispatch reports on Catholic educators with incomplete lines mentioning a bishop and local church figures. The readable fragments reference Helena and a bishop named Carrell among educators, but many words are distorted, leaving uncertainty about the precise event or date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic Educators
Helena
Aue
the Thiraenth
Amet Tata Tan Cota
Pete Emeesee
Er “Tae” Tists Bees
Creas Thas Sean Ee
Cee
Aliaeneee
I Weick
Carrell Delena
Altae
Schilling Tea Ad Promises Real Tea Flavor
An old Schilling Tea advertisement touts cost efficiency by more cups per pound and higher quality taste, urging customers to pay for real tea flavor. The copy emphasizes the tea’s tannin-free taste, practical value, and availability in moisture proof packages at grocers nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schilling
Schilling & Co
San Francisco
Conference Reports Highlight Centenary Session
Special Dispatch from Glendive Aug 23 details the conference as Dr George Mecklenberg presides and addresses on can the womper save the world. Lincoln A Schulte follows with stewardship remarks while Bishop Cooke opens the Thursday session. Superintendent Bovard reports district apportionment and progress toward full quotas. Helena area leads national centenary efforts with Montana Wesleyan college and Deaconess hospital showing gains. Mecklenberg guides the centenary drive toward 100 percent subscribed, with Miss Ida His deaconess hospital under Miss Beck and Rev John Chire Win aiding field work. Rev Edward Smith notes influenza and postwar returns of pastors. Visitors include Dr Wo Van Orsdell and Rev J Martin. Afternoon focuses on Woman’s Home Missionary Society and Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society. Chaplain Kelley delivers a trench-ward address on allied Dattien.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glendive
Chay
George Mecklenberg
Lincoln A. Schulte
Cooke
C. L. Bovard
Butte
Helena
Montana Wesleyan College
Montana Deaconess School
Dea
Miss Beck
John Chire’ Win
Centenary
A.O. Lemon
Butte Deaconess Hospital
Miss Ida
Edward Smith
Yellowstone
Browth
Wo W"van Orsdell
J. Martin
North
Montana
Woman's Home’ Mission’ Society
Woman's Foreign Missionary
Chaplain Kelley
Italy
Rave
Dattien
Montana Masons Elect Officers in Great Falls
In Great Falls on August 22 the grand lodge of A F and A M elected officers led by Grand Master W L Parmele of Butte and Deputy Grand Master R E Hathaway of Glendive. Other officers named include Henry C. Smith Miles City and Gr McAllister Kalispell with Richards Lockey Helena and Cornelius Hedges Helena as senior and junior grand officers. The lodge set a 1920 Missoula meeting plan, plus grand chapter and Eastern Star schedules. The gathering drew 300 delegates the largest state turnout. The grand chapter of the Eastern Star opened with Worthy Grand Matron Cynthia Plummer presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Grand Lodge
W. L. Parmele
Butte
R. E. Hathaway
Glendive
Henry C. Smith
Miles City
Gr. McAllister
Kalispell
Richard Lockey
Helena
Cornelius Hedges
Helen
Missoula
Royal Arch
Grand Chapter
The
Eastern Star
Blue Lodges
Grand Chapter of the
Masonic Temple
Cynthia Plummer
Smoke hides sun as Roundup timber burn spreads
A smoke pall over Roundup obscures the sun with hills invisible, likely carried from Helena and Missoula forest fires. Small blazes are reported in the Bull mountains, while a fire across the river burned over several hundred acres on land owned by the Republic Coal company.
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Helena
Missoula
Bull Mountains
Republic Coal Company
Hand Section Worker Kills Partner Near Troy
Great Falls August 22. A section laborer named Sam Medgere, Armenian, is jailed in Lincoln county at Libby after allegedly shooting fellow worker Medgere near Troy on the Great Northern track. The coroner and sheriff proceed to Troy to investigate as workers subdued the suspect.
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Great Falls
Sam Medgere
County Oil
Lincoln County
Libby
Troy
Great Northern
Medre
Medgere
Sherif Hav
Fire Situation Report From Granite County Philipsburg
Philipsburg reports widespread forest fires with crews battling several blazes across Willow Creek Rock Creek Swartz Creek and Copper Creek regions. fires threaten timbered areas near Ri fey and Granite and require rapid line building trenching and back firing as winds drive flare ups. authorities urge calm while mobilizing hundreds of firefighters and equipment.
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Rock Creek
Willow Creek
Love Acres
Tinkle
Pough
Fran- Healy
Swartz Creek
Sena
Sena South “Ot ‘Moone
Horrigan
Philipsburg
Ri Fey
Copper Creek
Princeton
Pioneer Dies in California City Genealogy Ties to Barnes-King Firm
A telegram from Culver City California announces the death of state pioneer Mr Barnes after an illness of over a year. He helped found the Barnes-King property, selling out with his father and others to a development company. He left Lewistown for Boise eleven years ago then moved to California. He was raised in Helena and Clancy and came to this area with his father the late J P Barnes in 1882.
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Culver City
Los Angeles
Cal
Mr. Barnes
Barnes-King
Lewistown
Boise
Idaho
California
Helena
Clancy
J. P. Barnes
Lewis town News Highlights Bank Director Leaves for Los Angeles
Edward B Stack a director of the First National Bank and notable financier departed with wife for Los Angeles to reside there. Included are brief notes on a hospital elevator accident, a grain buying head appointed for Montana Flour Mills, and gambling sentences after a raid with fines ranging from 100 to 400 and three months jail for two owners. several received shorter sentences.
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Lewistown
Edward B. “Stack
First ‘Onal Bank
Wright
Paul R. Trigg
Western Lumber and Grain Company
Montana Flour Mills Company
Bozeman
Briscoe
Jack Willis
Matt Feld
A.D. Johnson
Livingston News Bridegrooms and visitors tied to city
Miss Mulda Wolff formerly of Livingston married Ralph Sherwood son of Mr and Mrs William Sherwood of this city. Miss Juanita hosted a shower yesterday in Chicago. Percy Frank, premier, was mentioned as striving acre today from Spokane. Evan Scott of Butte recently returned from France with the osth infantry and plans to reside in Paris soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny Mccall
Logan
Evan Scott
Butte
Osth Infantry
Scott
Paria
Surveying a New Red Lodge Beartooth Road
Billings Missoula forestry official F Kins will arrive to conduct a reconnaissance survey for a future 25 mile road from Red Lodge to the head of the west fork of Rock creek in the Beartooth forest The project aims to tap a rich timber country and proceed when funds are available.
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Billings
F. Kins
Missoula
Red Lodge
Rock Creek
Beartooth Forest
Special Board 10 Hear Tax Appeals in Helena
County assessors H S Neal of Deer Lodge and W T Beaumont of Powell confer with the state board of equalization. A special committee including Senator C A Whipple Maj J B Minnieath and John T Lundgren will hear appeals from land valuations. W F Parker to conduct hearings in Butte on city lots and improvements. 55 complaints to be heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
H. S. Neal
Deer Lodge
W. T. Beaumont
Powell County
State Board of Equalization
Boards of County Commissioners
C. A Whipple
Minnieath
John T. Lundgren
Pondera County
W. F. Parker
The
Star of the Board
Butte
Protest Enlargement of Gallatin Reserve Sparks Mounted Fight
Park County Farmers Protective Association formed in Livingston to oppose enlarging the Gallatin game reserve and Yellowstone park into Park County. They urge Montana’s senators and congressmen in Washington to block the additions and warn the plan would halt Cooke City Jardine Crevasse and Electric mining development and remove a tenth of Park County’s taxable property.
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Livingston
Park County
Farmers’ Protective Association
Gallatin Game Reserve
Yellowstone Park
Montana
Washington
Cooke City
Jardine, Crevasse
Bootleg Whiskey Seized and Dumped in Missouri River
Officers, judges, and county officials witnessed the disposal of nearly 500 quarts plus more than $4,000 in bootleg whiskey into the Missouri River at Eat Falls. The contraband liquor, hauled from Wyoming by car in fourteen cases handled by "Tex" Hunter, was seized as part of Cascade County’s bootlegger crackdown.
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Eat Falls
Missouri River
Wyoming
Cascade County
Feed steers for Midland fair shows varied gains
Billings Montana Aug 22 results from 24 steers in the Billings stock yards as they prepare for the Midland Empire fair. Sixteen have been on scientific rations since May 13 and June 14. Gains range from 295 pounds to 50 pounds with the best weight gain among the group.
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Billings
Wesleyan Open to Soldier Boys in Helena
Helena August 22 Soldiers and sailors who served in the United States war will have a chance at education. Montana Wesleyan College at Helena, via Dean A C Isaacs announces that the Methodist board of home missions and church extension has offered scholarships to all worthy youths who cannot otherwise meet the costs of college training.
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Helena
United States
Montana
Wesleyan College
Dean A. C. 1
Methodist’ Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
Lewistown Pastor Accepts Spokane Church Post
Stevenson, director of the Lewistown Presbyterian church for four years, will leave next week for Spokane to assume the United Presbyterian church pastorate. Lewistown Presbytery adopted resolutions praising his work. No successor chosen. A union service is planned, followed by a reception for Dr and Mrs Stevenson. Janus Jo vanovich, former coal mine operator, returns from overseas with four machine gun bullets taken from his leg after service in Chateau Thierry St Mihiel and Argonne battles.
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Lewistown
Stevenson
Presbyterian Church
Spokane
United Presbyterian Church
Oundup
Janus Jovanovich
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Blaze Bozeman destroys Machemer mill fire damages Don Taylor home
Blaze Bozeman destroyed the Machemer Bros planning mill today causing about 7000 dollars in losses. The Don Taylor residence and family home north of the mill were damaged in the blaze.
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Blazebozeman
Prisoner Archibald Constable Sentenced in Deer Lodge Escape
Word from Deer Lodge reports Archibald Constable, recently sentenced on a highway escape charge, held up an old man in Anaconda and received a two to four year term. While being moved to Deer Lodge, Constable attempted to escape aboard a Northern Pacific train at Durant but was halted by a deputy sheriff before reaching an open window.
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Deer Lodge
Archibald Constable
Durant
Local visitors mingle in Anaconda and Billings
Anaconda and nearby cities see a stream of visitors and brief oneday trips. J B. from Three Forks, Mrs F Foster of Deer Lodge, Miss Blanche Conley, Add Jones, Mrs Irma East of Great Falls, R C De Baer of Jerome Arizona, Mr and Mrs Carl Shenka of Georgetown, Ruth Price, Alice Nagel, J A Axelson, A N Jette and son Norman, Mrs J Shepherd and her grandson, Miss Katherine Bishop from Washington Iowa, and others travel for visits. Yellowstone welcomes governors entering the park while Utah hosts an official entertainment program. Bozeman hires Rev. E R Curry as pastor of First Baptist.
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J.B. On
Three Forks
Fred Foster
Deer Lodge
Blanche Conley
Billings
Add Jones
West Valley
Irma
Great Falls
R. C. de Baer
Jerome, Ariz
Carl Shenka
Georgetown
Ruth Price
Alice Nagel
Butte
J. A. Axelson
Bitter Root Valley
A. N. Jette
Norman
Ing
Bpokane
J. Shepherd
Orday
Frank Pant
Twin Bridges
Katherine Bihop
Washington, Iowa
J. A. Bi
Reverend Morton Accepts Arizona Call to Important Post
Rev H Morton has signed to accept a key position in Arizona and Rev Mr Curry is highly recommended for the work. Morton is Acadia University and University of Ohio divinity school graduate and serves on Northern Baptist convention executive committee and convention board of education. He will come to Bozeman to assume duties Sept 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. ©. Morton
Arizona
Curry
Acadia University
Nova Scotia
Divinity School
University of Ohio
Northern Baptist Convention
Convention
Bozeman
John Aasen Dies After Lumber Wagon Accident
Aug 22 Malta report states John Aasen died from a broken back after a wagon loaded with lumber rolled over him near Sower's hill about 40 miles north of Malta. He attempted to jump clear as the team ran away but was entangled and thrown. Aasen, a returned soldier, died shortly after reaching the hospital.
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John Aasen
Malta
Aasen
Sower's Hill
Bitter Root liquor raid nets county seizure
Aug 22 report states a raid at a county residence led to the seizure of over 430 quarts and pint bottles of whiskey. The haul, hidden in a turkey house and cellar, involved John Le Jones, George Jones, Ora Dishmon, and others who allegedly financed and moved the liquor between August and November 1918.
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Mamilton
Snerite
Ishmon
Florence
Jonnie
Ora ‘Dishman
Turkey House
John le Jones
George
Ora Dishmon
Ora 'Dishmon
Cows and Punchers Bring Back Old Days
Lavina August 22 2000 residents recall the old days as 200 cars of range cattle shipped by Jhott to eastern markets. Cowpunchers grub wagons and other paraphernalia accompanied the stock from the ranch to the shipping point. Over 400 head were included in the shipment.
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Lavina
Jhott
Stewart Appointed to Probe Committee
Helena Aug 22 Gov Sam V Stewart named as one of seven to travel to Washington for talks with the federal government on state cooperation to fight the high cost of living He will depart next Monday for the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Sam V. Stewart
Conference of Governors
Salt Lake
Washington
Devil-Dog Pete Leads Knights to 10 2 Victory
Pete Curley recently released from the devil dog Kennel impressed as the Knights of Columbus routed Goodfriends 10 to 2. The game featured early offense, five-run bursts, and a Turning point in the fifth as Nev and O'S went out and Darich mounted Mount Kelly amid a flurry of hits and errors.
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Pete Curley
Hele
Kyle
Predarich
Kelly
Fred
Thenadettes Aise Sha Yeon
Tony
Bachan
Meike
Nis
Knights OF Columbus
W. Po
A. McKachran
Wogan
Sean
Ina
Dudack
Ick
Robom
Toad Curley
M. Dom'eh
Ab Beaudette
Barich
Swanson
Dadi
Roderick
Khalis
Fette
Bruck
Ty Curley
Miteote
Barton
Beaudette
Curley
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Petain
Hamilton Yee
United States Mail
Drummond
Helmville
Ovando
Masons
Teamsters’ Union
Federal
Montana Association of Architects
Chandler Cohagen
Glacier Naonal Park
Granite County
California City
Lewistown News
Livingston News
Special Board
Equalization Board
Gallatin Reserve
Midland Fair
Wesleyan
Accraaoe
Bill Hart
Chester
Harold Lloyd
Bluebird
Anaconda News
A. H. Constable
E. R. Curry
Boulder, Col
First Baptist Church
Stewart
St. Vincent's Hospital
Billinne
Mus. Sea
Charles A. Borum
Ini Petia
Devil-Dog
Pete
Anaconda
William Appleoft
Dorothy Appleoft
Anacon
Baghiehman
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