Amusing Experiences of a Glacier Park Guide
Mrs M B Plassmann recalls the early days when the Great Northern crossed the Rockies near Glacier National Park The region was a largely unknown wilderness much of it Piegan Reservation land The railroad sought to advertise the area to farmers and stockmen and promote a national playground Hunting grounds were rapidly converted to private farms and primitive nature lingered only in private game preserves The hunter’s paradise described reveals a frontier era in flux and expansion into settlement.
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M. BH. Plassmann
Great Northern First
Rockies
Puget Sound
Glacier National Park
Hitle
Piegan Reservation
Plassman
Midvale
Lacier Park
Alan Ber
Old-Timers Society in Butte Preserves Pioneer Spirit
The Butte Old-Timers club held a regular meeting electing officers headed by Mrs. Delia Peets and adopting a preamble, constitution and by-laws. The piece contrasts old frontier life and the modern melting pot while recounting anecdotal hunting trips and guides handling adventurous travelers in Midvale Park and surrounding mountains.
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Butte
America
Queen City
The
Rockies
Patronage Reform Faces Resistance in State Assembly
A debate over patronage reform reveals factional tensions as lawmakers push for ethical standards while opponents resist changes. The discussion highlights the political cost of curbing appointments and the difficulty of enforcing new rules across agencies.
Pupil Entries Grow as Kalispell Concert Pianist Hums In
In Kalispell next April the Montana interscholastic music meet will host concert pianist Faye Ferguson of Cincinnati as part of the fifth annual event. Helena plans 55 entries, Great Falls 46, and Butte likely to enter many. Anaconda about 26 entries. Whitefish 30. Browning 20. Scobey two. the competition draws near 300 entries across Montana high schools.
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Kalispell
Montana
Helena
Faye Ferguson
Cincinnati
Ohio
Whitefish
Browning
Scobey
State to House U. S. Prisoners in Deer Lodge
Montana to care for 100 federal inmates at the Deer Lodge state penitentiary under a contract with the Department of Justice. Costs are $1 per day per prisoner, with Montana supplying cells food medical care and guards while the federal government provides bedding clothing and gratuities.
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Montana
Deer Lodge
Leavenworth
Austin Middleton
State Board of Examiners
United States
Sargent
Washington, D. C
State of
Department of Justice
Montana State Prison
Department ‘of Justice
Department For Justice
Music contest entries announced for six Montana towns
Wolf Point six Poplar three Libby and Columbia Falls enter cornet solo violin solo and string quartet Dillon enters string quartet and piano solo Lima Montana provides twelve contestants Flathead entries include 22 band members cornet and trombone solos clarinet saxophone violin piano solos piano duet two girls' and boys' vocal solos and girls' and boys' glee clubs
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Wolf Point
Poplar
Libby
Columbia Falls
Dillon
Lima
Montana
Flathead
Miss Jessie Dell Joins Civil Service Commission
Miss Jessie Dell, a new member of the United States civil service commission, began her career in public service 25 years ago as a clerk in the War Department office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Dell
United States Civil Service Commission
The
Public Service
War Department
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Glacier Park
Midvale Station
Millonaires
Dames
Continental Divide
Lake McDonald Country
Ture
U. S
Montana Life
A.C. Johnson
H. R. Cunningham
O. M. Lanstram
C. E. Herfurth
Sec’y. & Actuary
C. B. Brooke
Fpca Howard
T. B. Miller
Louis Heltman
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