Deer Lodge FFA Triumph Highlights Montana Youth
Deer Lodge FFA under W. E. Anderson surpassed goals in farming programs and won regional and national recognition. Dan K. Mizner named district star farmer of the west as 42 members conducted judging meets, radio broadcasts, community projects, and a busy sports and social calendar generating earnings and savings for members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Lodge
Future Farmers of America
United States
Montana
Pacific
West
Dan K. Mizner
W. E. Anderson
First Montana Public School Began At Bannack In Sixty Three
The Bannack settlement hosted Montana’s first school in October 1863 when Miss Darling started a subscription room with rent offered by Sidney Edgerton. A rough cabin served as the room and crude seats filled the winter term as settlers pressed to educate their children amid vigilante activity and frontier hardship.
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Montana
Bannack
Salt Lake Hill
States
Bangup
Lucia Darling
Territory
Idaho
Sidney Edgerton
Lewiston
Ohio
Yankee Flat
Hangman’s Gulch
Miss Darling
Plummer
Ecome
Senate
Ma Zoller
Emma Cutler
Susan Burchett
Mary Teeters
Charles van Camp
J. Edward Watson
Wright Prescott Edgerton
Edgerton
Legislative Council
Matilda French
Wiliam Jones
Hew French
Delia Cutler
George Burchett
George Tetters
Jennie Bennett
Eupremia van Camp
James A. Sanders
Mollie Dye
Mararet French
George French
Paulie Edgerton
Park
Berea College
Berea
Nevada
Virginia City
Joe Millard
Sam Ward
Captain Rodgers
George Smith
Sarah Herndon
Farley
Jennie Bell
Little Red
Helena Girl Reports French Sentiment Amid War
Miss Margaret Gordon of Helena recounts French reactions to the war from Paris to Mayenne and Bordeaux. She notes stoic resolve, government requisitioning of goods, and limited malice toward Germans, with leaders blamed for the conflict and mothers bidding goodbye to sons heading to the front.
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Montana
Margaret Gordon
Helena
Helena High School
Montana State College
Miss Gordon
New York School of Fine and Applied Arts
Italy
Budapest
Paris
Mayenne
Gordon
Germany
Poland
Bordeaux
Azores
France
Ple
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Coun
Montana Man Pays War Tax to Bring Nephew From Norway
In Sand Coulee Ed Ingman paid 45 to the U S government before his nephew Olaf Aksberg could be released from Norway. Olaf age 14 will join the Ingmans adopted from a widowed mother in Hammerfest and attends Sand Coulee Public School to learn English prior to high school enrollment.
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Montana
Norway
Europe
Sand Coulee
Ed Ingman
Olaf Aksberg
America
Ingman
Hammerfest
Wornae Ingman
Olaf
Indian Youths Shine in 4-H Clubs Across Montana
Nearly 500 Indians on seven Montana reservations participate in 4-H club work as part of more than 8,000 members statewide. Crow Reservation reports 13 clubs with 181 members, including 61 boys and 120 girls, pursuing crafts, beef feeding, gardening, clothing and foods.
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Montana
Treasure State
KR. E. Cameron
Montana State College
Clarence Runyan
Crow
Buffalo to Beef on Crow Reservation 1938 4-H Progress
The Crow Indian clubs show 78 percent completion of projects in 1938, besting the state record at 85 percent. Enrollment rose from 304 in 1935 to 481 in 1938, with calf feeding handcraft foods gardening and clothing as top projects. George Gustafson and two annual 4-H fairs mark ongoing cooperative work between Indian service and extension agents on the Big Horn Crow Agency reservation.
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Cameron
Big Horn County
George Gustafson
Crow Agency
Indian Service
Extension Service
Crow Reservation
Mark Real Bird
Real Bird
Floyd Real Bird
Lacey
Arthur Stewart
Clarence
Ray Powers
Wyola
Floyd
Indian Club
Senator Mulholland Sues to Block 1937 Law Over Mayoral Bid
Senator Mike Mulholland of Silver Bow county sues in district court to strike down a 1937 law that bars holding another office after seeking elective office. He seeks interpretation to avoid affecting incumbents and previously ran unsuccessfully for the Butte mayoralty last spring.
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Mike Mulholland
Silver Bow County
Mulholland
Butte
Montana Extension Chief Invited to Address Tennessee Meeting
J C Taylor director of the Montana extension service has been invited to speak before extension workers in Memphis Tennessee. He will outline the Montana method for county agricultural planning now in 36 counties to conserve water and soils and promote profitable returns for the counties.
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J.C. Taylor
J. C. Taylor
Montana Extension Service
Tennessee
Memphis
Tenn
Montana
International Livestock Exposition Faces Record Entries
Cancellation of Canadian fall shows as a war measure boosts expected Canadian participation at the 40th International Livestock Exposition December 2 to 9 at the Chicago stockyards. Early entries are heaviest on record with Nov. 1 and Nov. 25 deadlines for livestock classes and carlot contests. The 21st annual Grain and Hay show also lists entries until Nov. 20 with no entry fee. The National 4-H Club congress returns to rival with farm youths from all states. Railroads announce low round trip fares to Chicago during International week.
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Chicago
B. H. Heide
Heide
Canada
Dash the Famous Hunting Dog Dies at 16 in Butte
Dash owned by Fred Fairchild died after being run over by a car in Butte. The English import, popular with hunters nationwide, settled in 1925 and sired many pups, drawing high value and a $500 purchase price. Dash had retired from hunting due to rheumatism but remained a famed figure in Montana and England.
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Dash
Fred Fairchild
Butte
England
Montana
Pete O’brien
United States
Bes
Fairchild
Flathead Indian Reservation
California
Don
Utte
South Montana Street
Montana Standard
Montana Standard Printed A Front-Page Obituary of “Dash
Rock Garden
Nick Huber
Montana State Grain Judging Team Wins Again at Portland
In the Pacific International livestock exposition the Montana State college grain judging team earned first place for the 10th time in 17 years. The squad scored 7180 of 7800 possible points, with Enos Anderson 93 percent and Gordon Thompson 92.5 percent leading, while Bernard Toenyes averaged 90.6 percent. Utah placed second and Washington third with Idaho fourth.
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Montana State College
Portland
Ore
Montana
Utah
Washington
Idaho
Enos Anderson
Columbus
Gordon Thompson
Moccasin
Bernard Toenyes
Power
George Loomis
Simms
S. C. Litzenberger
Agronomy Department
Anderson
Thompson
Toenyes
Teenyes
Omaha Man Buys Butte Bus Lines
T. J. Manning of Omaha, president and principal owner of Manning Transportation Co., has purchased the Butte City Lines, operator of Butte’s city transport. Manning also runs bus lines at Great Falls and Everett, Washington. Butte City Lines has operated since September 22, 1937, after street cars were scrapped by the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
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T. J. Manning
Omaha
Manning Transportation Co
Butte City Lines
Butte
Manning
Great Falls
Everett
Wash
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
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Ocean County
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Trenton
Burlington
Asbury Pack
Monmouth County
Lakewood
Point Pleasant
Ermal
Indian Extension
Ice
4-H Club
The
State College
Omaha Man
Butte Bus Lines
Rima California Wires
Roma Wine Company, Inc
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Western Life
Western Insurance Com
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