Montana maps show seven new counties after 16th assembly
A remapped Montana map outlines seven new counties created by the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly, expanding the tally from 43 to 50. It lists Glacier, Pondera, Roosevelt, McCone, Garfield, Treasure, and Powder River counties with seats at Cutbank, Red Lodge, Malta, Circle, Jordan, Hysham, and Broadus, noting the map is not official but accurate for visualization.
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Montana
Sixteenth Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly
Sixteenth
Glacier County
Old Teton County
Toole
Glacier National Park
Cutbank
Pondera County
Chouteat County
Flathead County
Red
Roosevelt County
Sheridan County
North Dakota
Valley County
Mondak
McCone County
Richland
Old Dawson
Valley and
Roosevelt
Dawson and
New Garfield County
Circle
George McCone
Dawson County
Garfield County
Old Dason County
New McCone
Fergus
Rosebud
Jordan
Treasure County
Hae Bud
Big Horn
Yellowstone County
Hysham
Powder River
Custer County
Carter
Rosébud
Broadus
New Judge Named by Governor Comer Hon C Be Comer Montana
Hon C B Comer of Medicine Lake is named as judge of the Twentieth District created by the Sixteenth legislative Assembly. The article traces Montana territorial history noting the creation of counties Jefferson Madison Beaverhead Missoula Deer Lodge Chouteau and the early territorial elections under Governor Sidney Edgerton. It mentions Dawson county and the first legislatures creating Jefferson Edgerton and Meagher counties.
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Missoula
Deer Lodge
Jefferson
C. BE. Comer
Medicine Lake
Sixteenth Legislative Assembly
Sidney D. Ederton
Beaverhead
Madison
Chouteau
Idaho
Dawson County
Montana
Montana Territorial Assembly
Edgerton
Legislative Assembly
Meagher
Knippenberg's Montana Years and Glendale Mining Impact
Henry Knippenberg, once a leading Montanan and captain of industry, built Glendale into a mining hub in Beaverhead county and helped shape the state constitution. After years of activity he now rests in Indianapolis, having spent a dozen busy years in Montana building wealth and a smelting operation.
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Ing
Beaverhead County
Knippenberg
Hecla Consolidated Mining Company
Henry Elling
Virginia City
Indianapolis
Balbach Smelting & Refining Company
New Jersey
George B. Conway
Samuel A. Barbour
George T. Earle
Glendale
Montana
Society of the Framers of the
Helena State Automobile Show to Display Record Cars
Helena automobile dealers plan the Montana Victory Automobile Show at the state capital in the last week of April. It promises the biggest display of motor cars ever seen in the state and may feature one or two models of airplanes currently on the market.
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Helena
Montana
Spring Shorthorn Sale Set for April 24 in Great Falls
Montana Short Horn Breeders plan their second annual spring sale in Great Falls on April 24. About 60 head of pure bred Shorthorn cattle will be shown. The event is announced by Wayne W Wheeler secretary of the association, and last year’s sale was held with the Stockgrowers association gathering.
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Montana Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Great
Wayne W. Wheeler
Stockgrowers’ Association
Montana county name changes through territorial map era
The text chronicles name changes and county creations in Montana from Edgerton becoming Lewis and Clark under opposition to Gov orton, Dawson county formed in 1869, Farmington renamed Bozeman, Custer renamed after General Custer in 1877, Big Horn renamed Custer, and later creation of Silver Bow Yellowstone Fergus Cascade counties between 1881 and 1887 marking the final territorial map changes before statehood.
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Edgerton
Lewis and Clark
Governorton
Dawson County
Farmington
Gallatin
Bozeman
Custer
Big Horn
Silver Bow
Yellowstone
Fergus
Cascade
Montana
Lieutenant McBride Promoted in Battle
First Lieutenant Robert McBride of Great Falls is promoted after brave front line service with the 130th machine gun battalion, 35th division, in the Argonne. He enlisted from the Second Montana, served May 1918 to war end, with officers killed or wounded nearby.
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Montana
Robert McBride
Great Falls
John McBride
Montana-Warrenton Development Company
McBride
Fighting Thirty-fifth Division
Army of Occupation
Germany
United States
Second Montana Regiment
Argonne Forest
Orville Anderson
Kaliapell
Harold Joyce
Helena
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Department of Agriculture and Publicity
State of Montana
Charles D. Groenfinid
Hetens Mews
Henry Knippenberg
Lieutenant Robert McBride
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