Butte Parade Showcases Elaborate Elk Pageant
A lengthy parade in Butte features Elks lodges from Missoula Anaconda and Great Falls with 200 marching, a water wagon dry states demonstration, and a panorama of floats from Burns to Walkerville. The procession includes police, Egyptian and Roman tableaux, historic fire apparatus, and numerous decorated autos, bands, and charity groups highlighting year’s community pageant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elks
Missoula Lodge
Herman D. Gillis
Anaconda Band
Anaconda Lodge
Great Falls Fife and Drum Corps
Great Falls Lodge
Bert Poore
Big Bill
Moreland
Colorado Springs
Harry Gallwey
Butterodge
McKinnon
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma
Spokane
Woman’s Democratic Club
Attridge
Democratic Woman's Club
Robert Metcalf
Anaconda
Dominick Bertoglio
Parade of floats caps Montana celebration with Governor Stewart
A long parade through Montana featured numerous floats from local businesses such as Much Admired Drug Company Riddell Paint U S Bakery and Harmony lodge plus civic groups. Governor Stewart attended rode in an automobile and accepted thanks as the crowd watched the Declaration of Independence read by Gov Stewart on the courthouse steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gomer's Shoe Store
Montana Hardware Company
Shriner-Kelly
Capitol Commission Company
Independent Milk and Cream Company
Khorassan
Montana Mattress Company
Young Men's Club
Meaderville
Hennessy Company
Montana Dairy Company
Butte Floral Company
Newbro Company
M. O
Elk Spring
Miners’ Dairy
Virden and Currie
Calkins Company
McNamara
Wulf-Alley Company
A. C. M. Hardware Company
Riddell Paint Company
U.S
Unique Cleaners
Butte Potato and Produce Company
Fairmont Creamery
Davidson Grocery Company
Butte Macaroni Factory
Landers’ Furniture
Reliable Dairy and
Albers
Brownfield-Canty Company
Harmony Lodge
Fraternal Brotherhood
Gallagher Grocery Company
Bertoglio Mercantile Company
Symons
Excelsior
J Street
Broadway
Wyoming
Granite
Courthouse
Granite Street
Park Street
Anaconda Copper Mines Band
Stewart
Mike Sheehan
Harry Gallowey
Sam
Sam Stewart
Montana
Also Mentioned on This Page
Butte
Elks—Piano Department
Norfolk
Klothes Beach
Kayser
Frolaset
Bien Jolie
LA Caresse
Connell
Leeland
Basteve
Skagway
Bungling Brothers
Bob Metcalf
Villa
Malcolm Gillis
Joe Jackson
Fire Department
Bungling Town
Neal Ward
Orphans
Butte City
Butte Municipal Band
Butte Fire Department
Newbro Drug Company
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Valentine Blatz Brewing Company
Silver Bow County
Good Roads
Knights of Columbus
Columbus
Casey Candy Company
New Method Laundry
Hennessy
Centerville
Baltimore Cigar, Cohn & Co
Hill Grocery
Degree of Honor
Park
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