1889 Dearborn conflagration remembered by Philip Bean
The 1889 Dearborn Falls Creek fire ravaged the N F Dearborn and Falls Creek drainages near Bean Lake. Philip Bean, then 17, recalls backfiring to protect a sawmill below a raging holocaust driven by high winds and dry grass. A late summer storm halted the blaze, saving winter ranges.
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Philip Bean
Falls Creek
North Fork
Dearborn
Mr. Bean
Missoula
Blackfoot River
Landers Fork
Blackfoot
Continental Divide
Philip
N. F. Dearborn
Dear
Steamboat Mountain
Dearborn Mountain
Bean Lake
Bean Boys
Augusta
Montana
Teton County
Choteau
Great Northern Railroad
South Fork
Two Medicine Creek
Elbow Creek
Goat Mountain
Birch Creek
Francis Pambrun
Francois Truchot
Flying U Ranch
Prairie Showman Dr Arvold to Appear at Chautauqua
The February Country Home Magazine features Dr Alfred Arvold of North Dakota Apsibultars College described as a drummer of rural dramatics who sparked a country theater movement. Chautauqua planning notes his captivating life work, including the White Leghorn Dance presented at the Chicago World’s Fair with costumes of white leghorn feathers.
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Ross L. Robbins
Country Home Magazine
Alfred Arvold
North Dakota Apsibultars College
Feton
C. M. Swenson
Farmington
America
chautauqua +management
Maine
Texas
Oregon
Gulf
Hunter Depredations Endanger Lives and Wreck Public Camps
Missoula Montana September 28 Every autumn a small group of backwoods burglars posing as hunters rob isolated national forest guard stations of bedding cooking equipment and rations crucial for winter patrols. Regional Forester Evan W Kelly notes locks doors and windows are smashed and even telephone batteries stolen leaving patrolmen stranded in severe winters.
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Missoula
Montana
National Forest Guard
Evan W. Kelly
State Buys Meat For Custodial Institutions
State purchasing agent I. S. McQuitty placed an order for 241000 pounds of meat to Hansen Packing Co of Butte at a low bid of 25866.30 dollars. The contract covers fresh and frozen meats to be delivered as needed during the year to state custodial institutions.
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I. S. McQuitty
Hansen Packing Co
Butte
Hansen Company
Conlin Announces Out of Business Sale at Choteau Implement Co
Will J B Conlin, returning from Corvallis Oregon with his daughter Marie to enter Oregon State College, announces an out of business sale at Choteau Implement Co He plans to open a similar business in Corvallis Chateau Implement Co started in 1902 and was an International Harvester dealer also ran a local flour mill for two seasons
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J. B. Conlin
Corvallis
Oregon
Marie
Oregon State College
Young Republicans elect Missoula leader at Lewistown convention
The Montana Young Republicans elected Winfield E. B. Page of Missoula as chairman at their annual Lewistown convention. Gaughan of Billings becomes national committeeman. Other officers include Mrs. Floyd Hageman of Jordan as vice chairman Neil Helly of Columbus as second vice chairman Fred YY Hill of Great Falls as secretary George Maxwell of Anaconda as treasurer Ruth Symmes Thorwaldson of Lewistown as national committeewoman.
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Montana
Young ‘Republican Organization
Winfield EB
Page
Missoula
Lewistown
Larry Gaughan
Billings
Floyd Hageman
Jordan
Neil Helly
Columbus
Fred. YY. Hill
Great Falls
George Maxwell
Anaconda
Ruth Symmes Thorwldson
Gaugan
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Rocky Mountain Division
N. F. Deabron River
J. L. Howard
R. E. Nelson
Nelson Insurance Agency
Chateau
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Nelson
Larson
B. A. Roll
Roll
R. E. Nelson, Nelson Insurance Agency
Itn Ak Marten
Monarch
Ysa Byes
Choteau Hardware Co
Arvold
Chautauqua
Exide
Willard
Batteries
Seiberling and
Goodyear
Chick’s Shell Station
Fuller
Knudtzon Lumber Co
Thes
Caany
Cord
Magnesia
Nyal Castoria
NYAL
Needee
Bellevue
U.S.P
Nyseptos
Choteau Drug Co
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