Parade Delivers Colorful Local Reunion With Old-Timers and Apples
The parade featured many local families from Big Hole Lima Dell Armstead and neighboring areas. Notable participants included Winant Immerman and a buckboard ride, a display by Dillon Furniture, and a Lovell Livestock apple showcase boasting forty year old trees. Apple baskets drew blue ribbons at the Sugar Bowl cafe with legions color bearers in uniform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovell Livestock Company
Phil Lovell
Sugar Bowl
Winant Immerman
Joe Rich
Dillon
Dillon Furniture Company
Dillon fair parade shines with prize entries and colorful displays
James Kelly Jr leads a spirited Dillon parade featuring ornate Rotary float blue and orange drapings. Judges note strong entries from Wholesale Meat Co and Wayne's Redheads, bustling exhibits, skilled traffic control, and a record 1930 fair praised for art, education, and merchant booths.
Seenee ao ry Ho 1B Merchants and Publicity Committee
A fragment notes actions involving Seenee ao ry Ho 1B SUI ers Cash Meat Market Montan Mercantile Company and Bergeson Motor Company. It mentions no showers or bouquets have been hurled at the publicity committee members while they know onions and strutted their stuff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seenee Aory& Ho
Suiers
Cash Meat Market
Montan
Mercantile Company
Bergeson Motor Company
Square Deal Collection reveals Nina Pip’s legacy items
A fragment lists Saddie the squaw Nina Pip as wife of Chief Tenday who lived over ten years. It notes a three pound four ounce weight, an oxen neck yolk, a gun from the first stage coach between Corinne and Dil, a Dutch oven, and a Nina Pipe blanket gifted to Mrs. Venora Metlen by Butte Milk Jim of the Lemhi Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nina
Tenday
Corinne
Dilon
Venora Metlen
Butte Milk Jim
CITY DRUG COLLECTION
This collection loaned to Warren Shepard, grandson of Pat Ward, includes a Ban nack pioneer BH H Carhart relics from Henry Plummer days. It features a miner era pipe of peace, gold scales, demijohn, money, Buck Stinson rifle keys, arrow heads, beadwork, handcuffs, bowie knives, sage brush baskets, a pioneer machine and other Indian artifacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Shepard
Pat Ward
BH. H. Carhart
Henry Plummer
Buck Stinson
Bannack History Displays at Suga Bowl Cafe
The Suga Bowl cafe showcases early Bannack scenes in two pen drawings under one glass loaned by Helena’s Bik lady. The exhibit also features a colored panel Bucking the Tiger, a Moose pool hall collection with guns and relics, a Bible gifted to Jack Kinns in 1806, Plummer’s gold dust rocker, the first Bannack baby’s shoe, and historic Bannack images including the first school and Masonic temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suga Bowl Cafe
Bannack
Helena
Moose Pool Hall
Jack Kinns
W. D. Holgerton
Plummer
Also Mentioned on This Page
W. Metlen
Joe Metlen
John Peterson
Elmer Selway
Emerson Hughes
George P.hughes
Big Hole
J E. Shaw
Warren Shaw
Jesse Tope
Herman Peterson
Dan Tovey
W. T. Armitage
Lima
Otto Gosman
Frank Gosman and Sons
Leo Truax
F. M. Merrill
Maxine Polk
Ed Gleed
Will Gleed
Walter Fagen
George Roe
Keller
E. W. Geary
Charles Calvert
Dell
Smith McKnight
Nellie McKnight
E. M. Martinell
Edwin Whitworth
George Whitworth
Bernard ‘Whitworth
Henry Thompson
R. E. Elliott
Pascal Bianat
James McKnight
Alva Garr
Paul Martinell
Armstead
Laura Tolman Scott
Parke Scott
Dellar Gordan
Elmer Gordon
W. N. Bichler
Sophia Guyaz
Lyone
Will Climer
Legion
First National
James Kelly, Jr
Rotary Club
Rotary Wheel of Blue
Wholesale Meat Company
Wayne's Redheads
Bernard Williams
High 1
Smitt-Hughes
Bud Galt
Bud
Fair Grounds
Happy Hawkins
G. W. Dart
Association
Livestock Pavilion
Exposition Hall
W. C. Jennings
Carl Price
Billings
George Lovell
George Baker
George Opp
T. H. Dubois
Fair Commission
Harris Opp
Henry
Gladys Garr
Frank Bassette
Foster & Melton
Sewell Meat Market
J. W. Walters Garage
Montana Hardware Company
Red Star Garage
Western Wholesale Grocery Co
Dillon Wholesale Meat Company
City Baking Company
Paddock & Tyro
Continental Ol Company
Beaverhead Lumber Company
Beaverhead Auto Sales Company
Standard Lumber & Coal Company
City Drug Company
General Food Products Company
Montana
U. S. Govt
RM. Barrett
J. E. Monroe
Sam Wilkinson
R.M. Stone
E.b.roe
Hartwig
Moran
Mack
al Jolson
Big Boy
Jolson
Claudia Dell
Lloyd Hughes
Lewis Stone
Dorothy Mackaill
Ramon Navarro
The
Ernest’ ‘Torrence
Harold Bell Wright
Una Merkel
John Holland
Nance Oneil
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!