Registration for 1920 Primary Election Drops Nationwide
Registration for the 1920 primary election totals 211,450 voters across 1,533 precincts in 55 counties, down from 230,221 in the prior cycle by nearly 19,000. Beaverhead Big Horn Glacier Granite Park Prairie Rosebud Roosevelt Toole and Yellowstone show small gains. other counties fall below the 1920 level.
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Charles T. Stewart
Beaverhead
Big Horn
Glacier
Granite
Park, Prairie
Rosebud
Roosevelt, Toole
Yellowstone
Prec
Voters County
Blaine
Jana Peeene
WSOD
Deer Lodge
Fallon
Flathead
Gallatin
Garfield
Meagher
Missoula
Powder River
Powell
Prairia Ettameyreemmeresensaeioenieteed
Richland
Roosevelt
Sanders
Sheridan
Silver Bow
Stillwater
Sweet Grass
Teton
Toole
Treasure
Valley
Wheatland
Wibaux
Ake
Fort Ellis ruins recall Montana frontier clashes and garrison life
The article recalls Fort Ellis in the Gallatin valley near Bozeman, its 1867 construction, later cavalry expeditions against invading Indians, and battles such as Baker’s 1871 engagement. It notes dwindling structures, 640 acres remaining as state land, and the post’s decline amid a transforming landscape.
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Fort EllIs
Gallatin Valley
Bozeman
Northern Pacific Railway
State of
Montana
13Th Infantry
Lamont
Yellowstone
Ellis
Sixth
Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Infantry
Second Cavalry
Fort Russell
Wyoming
Department of the Platte
Seventh Infantry
Third Infantry
Patriotism as School Subject Urged by Legion in Montana
Newt Gilliland Montana commander announced at Miles City Post that patriotism will be a taught subject under the American Legion Americanization plan. A Helena meeting set up a committee to press state authorities. Gilliland said teachers can shape good citizens, and John Fitzgerald was named field marshal to coordinate posts across Treasure, Rosebud, Custer, Powder River and Garfield counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
American Legion
Girl of the Rockies Keeps Lions as Pets
Cornelia Bakker daughter of Bob Bakker famed Rocky Mountains hunter shelters cub mountain lions on Glacier National Park’s western edge. He ropes and trears the lions then sells them to circuses as Cornelia mourns parting when they mature.
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Cornelia Bakker
Bob Bakker
Rocky Mountains
Glacier National Park
Bakker
Uncle Sam's
Bureau of National Parks
Washington
Cornelia
Dad
Retail Merchants Elect Montana Leader in Great Falls
Ray R. Porter of Nethart was elected president of the Retail Merchants' Association of Montana at a directors meeting in Great Falls. The gathering aimed to select a successor to QO. F. Tate of Car.
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Ray R. Porter
Nethart
Retail Merchants’ Association of Montana
Great Falls
QO. F. Tate
Car
Montana
Daily Leader
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Bayer
Polytechnic
Institute
Lewis T. Eaton
Pelztechnic
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Old Fort Ellis
Musselshell
Missouri River
Baker
Marias River
Helena
Fort Shaw
Piegans
Pacific
Baker’s Battlefield
Billings
Legion
Huseth
Quxar
Walla
Rana Opteandrict
Amd Optician
Nature
Boulder Hot Springs
Boulder
State
Rockies
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Portland
Oregon
Montana Life
Helena, Montana
United States
A. C. Johnson
H.R. Cunningham
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