The Flathead Valley a Beauty Spot and Its Early Patrons
The Flathead valley south of Flathead Lake is praised for its beauty and rich history. It recalls Konkeded Indian tribes and early white missionaries like De Smet and Ravalli, with bands of Iroquois settling in Bitter Root and embassy visits to St. Louis in 1831. The region now thrives in diversified agriculture with farms orchards dairies and livestock, centered by Polson on the lake's south shore.
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Henry Villard
Pacific
N. P
Montana
Mr. Evarts
General Grant
Henry M. Teller
Colorado
Interior
Arthur
Northern Pacific Company
Northern Pacific
Utah & Northern
Montana Union
Pipestone Pass
Butte
Mountain
Mullan
Deer Lodge Valley
Silver Bow
Flathead Lake
Kalispells
Kutenais
Pend d’Oreilles
Indiana
St. Louis
William Clark
Lewis
Pacific Coast
Flatheady
Polson
Montana Man's World War II? Royal Cigar Mooched
John Ritch a Lewistown native and Myrt le motion picture house owner famed for never buying a cigarette recounts his tale of mooching from King Albert of Belgium in 1917 during a World War I sojourn. He bet he could steal a royal cigarette and won with ease amid the voyage and battlefield crossings.
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Belgium
John Ritch
Myrtle Motion Picture House
Lewistown
Ritch
Montana
John
Commonwealth
Washington
United States
State Department
Europe
General Pershing
Pershing
Foch
Haig
Henry W. Patton
Hoquiam
Wash
Ross Hammond
Freemont
Nebraska
Tom Stout
Hintein
Verdun
King Albert
Furnes
Stout
Albert
Sovereign
State fair movie contest winners announced
Helena Mrs Alec C Johnson Jr won first honor in the state fair movie contest with Miss Eric McLaren second and Mrs Laura Vessey third. Three medals were awarded to the winners.
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Helena
Alec C. Johnson, Jr
Eric McLaren
Laura Vessey
Fortune comes to Anaconda woman after decades
Mrs. Helen Heale of Anaconda discovers 2,500 shares of Goldfield Consolidated Mining and Milling co stock dating to 1907. A broker finds uncollected dividends between 16 000 and 20 000 dollars from the same holding and other stocks, awaiting appraisal and possible further value. Heale has worked as a waitress at the Turf cafe where the broker learned of the fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Heale
Anaconda
W. H. Warrigan
Turf Cafe
Heale
Harrigan
Cleveland Hall Youngest Judge Named In Montana
Judge Cleveland Hall, 27, native of Montana, takes the Seventeenth district bench after Judge Hurry's elevation to the Supreme Court. A Havre lawyer and Helena preparatory student, Hall served in coast artillery and studed law at Ann Arbor. He married recently and will move to Glasgow to begin his duties.
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H. Cleveland Hall
Seventeenth Judicial District of
Montana
Stewart
John Hurry
United States
Judge Hall
Judge Hurry
Cleve” Hall
The
Coast Artillery
Max Kuhr
Havre
Glasgow
Skull clues link Billings rustler war victims
Old timers say a bullet pierced skull and bones found 14 miles northwest of Billings this month belong to a rustler gang exterminated 30 years ago during the 1889 1890 rustler war. The skeleton lay beneath a boulder broken from a rimrock and was found by four boys. coroner's inquest not needed due to age.
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Billings
Smith
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Gold Creek Station
Hellgate Canyon
Northern Pacific Railroad
Montana Territory
Flathead Valley
America
Ieft
Charles Bielenberg
Deer Lodge
George H. Taylor
Adjutant General of
Simon Hauswirth
Columbia Falls
G. A
Portland
Goldfield
Anaconda Restaurant
Cleveland Hall
Seventeenth Judicial District
Hurley
Supreme Court
J. H. Wall
Judge H. Cleveland Hair
Postum Cereal Company
Battle Creek
Michigan
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