Honyocker Days in Montana Recall Harsh Frontier Homes
The piece recalls Montana homesteaders and the honyocker era with reminiscences of Rube Riley and Jim Sipes, describing crude shacks, tarpaper walls, improvised roofs, and the clash between newcomers and ranchers, including colorful neighbors and makeshift carpentry.
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BIG Timber Pioneer
Montana
Treasure State
Fred J. Ward
Rube Riley
Jim Sipes
Yellowstone
Redwater
Old West
Bret Harte
Old Fort Keough
The Honyocker Era Ends in Redwater Homesteading Tale
The narrator recalls Fort Peck bridge construction days and frontier life in Redwater, where diverse settlers built a school, hosted a lively teacher Miss Nellie Braun, and held festive events. As decades pass, original members fade, adventures end, and honyocker culture gives way to prairie peace.
G P Durham Dies A Noted Montana Civic Figure
George Post Durham former state senator for Granite county and long time laundry industry figure in Great Falls and Seattle died at his Great Falls home aged about 76. Born in New Haven Connecticut in 1857 he moved to Montana in 1890 and held posts with Missoula’s First National Bank before starting Granite Electric Light at Philipsburg. He later partnered with James H. King in Seattle and founded National Laundry in Great Falls in 1911. He served as a civic leader and was a former president of the Great Falls Rotary Club. His widow and son Dr Willard Durham of Berkeley California survive.
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Eastern University
Minneapolis
Jesse James
Arkansas
Johnathan DeBatt
Kickapoo
Mott Brothers
Honyocker
Johnathan
Pestalozzi
George Post Durham
Granite County
Great Falls
Seattle
New Haven
Conn
Montana
First National Bank of
Missoula
Granite Electric Light Company
Philipsburg
James H. King
National Laundry
Rotary Club
Willard Durham
Berkeley
Calif
Workmen Busy at Tree Nursery in Montana
Fifty civilian conservation corps boys join 15 regular workers at the Savenac nursery to support an enlarged northern Rocky Mountain tree program. New seed beds will grow 5,000,000 trees and 4,000,000 transplants will fill nursery rows. Eight million trees are planned for planting in northern Idaho and western Montana this fall, plus 1,500,000 trees on 2,200 acres in spring. The 1933-34 season totals will nearly double the 25 year average, per the regional forester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civilian Conservation Corps
Forest Service
Savenac Nursery
Montana
Rocky Mountain
Idaho
Lads Jailed for Stealing Rides
Three youths identified as Jack Regan Joe Laughlin and George Smalls were jailed for 30 days each by Justice of the Peace Ralph L Starr for stealing train rides. They entered a Northern Pacific merchandise car at Helena and were apprehended at Missoula as beer from the car was opened and some beer taken. Australia marks the centenary of Capt John MacArthur who introduced sheep to the country and now has 100000000 head with wool output over 900000000 pounds annually. Tasmania reports renewed mining activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Regan
Joe Laughlin
George Smalls
Justice of the Peace
Ralph L. Starr
Northern Pacific
Helena
Missoula
Australia
John MacArthur
Western Prose and Poetry by Rufus A. Coleman
Rufus A. Coleman proposes a 502 page book shaped into 19 chronological divisions to evoke western atmosphere. He covers Indian legends life and customs explorers trappers settlers miners outlaws gamblers missionaries neighbors Chinese freighters stagecoach days soldiers sheriffs railway longhorns and lumberjacks homesteaders and modern scenes with notes and bibliographies.
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Rufus A. Coleman
the State University
Missoula
Coleman
Lewis and Clark
Washington Irving
Mark Twain
Robert Louis Stevenson
Charles Russell
Frank B. Linderman
Stanley Vestal
James Marshall
H. G. Merriman
Charles M. Russell
Frederick Remington
Edgar S. Paxson
Culbertson Bridge Nears Completion Over Missouri River
The Culbertson Bridge over the Missouri near Culbertson nears completion with one small span left to erect and about a month of painting remaining. It will provide the only river crossing within a 100 mile radius.
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Culbertson
Missouri River
Highway contracts let at Helena Montana program grows
The Montana highway commission announced a supplemental May 24 setting as $7000000 in projects progress under the recovery plan. Bids show wide differences on gravel and wearing surface costs for streets in Butte and road widenings from Butte to Great Falls and to Park county, with NRA funded street repairs in Butte and several county routes.
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Montana
State Highway Commission
J. H. Rowe
Butte
Rowe
O. S. Warden
Washington
Contractors’ Sand and Gravel Code Committee
J. C. Maguire
NRA
Livingston- Wilsal Road
Park County
Wilsall
Clyde Park
Standard Construction Company
Bozeman
Brown’s Gulch
Butte-Anaconda
Excelsior Avenue
Charles Shannon
Central Avenue
Great Falls
First Avenue
S. Birch and Sons Construction Company
Main Street
Ekalaka
Baker-Ekalaka
Baker
Inland Construction Company
Omaha
Park Street
Arizona Street
Utah Avenue
Gaylord Street
Pondera County
Valier
Frank J. Haas
Harrison
Mont
Dupuyer Creek
W. K. Trippet
Whitefish
Armelis Creek
Rosebud
Prahl and Sawtelle, Inc
Miles City
Billings
Leach Brothers
Gallatin Camyon
Yellowstone Park
Gallatin County
Gallatin Gateway
Park
Taggart Construction Company
Cody
Wyo
Kalispell- Belton
Flathead County
Beeming
Kalispell
Lake McDonald
Poston Brothers
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Fort Peck
Mose Austin
Caleb Musbale
Mr. Wilson
Caleb Musdale
Nellie Braun
Northwestern University
Miss Braun
Charley Mead
Blade
Miles
Char
Ley Mead
West
Eastern College
South America
Great Falls Tribune
Massman Construction Company
Kansas City
G. P. Durham Dies
Tasmania
Raymond T. Nagle
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