Lieutenant Gunniss Ready to Go to France From Montana on Leave
First Lieutenant William H. Gunniss a Montana native and former Anaconda Copper Mining Company brick department manager spoke at the Great Falls Rotary Club, urging aborting Training of Our New Army. He trained at Presidio and Camp Fremont and expects to join the Eighth Division bound for France next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
France
Great Falls
William H. Gunniss
New
National Army
Gunniss
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Presidio
San Francisco
Eighth
Camp Fremont
California
Montana Grads Join U S Army War Service
Two Montana State College graduates depart for war work in the medical corps. Estelle Milner of Kalispell goes to Camp Cody New Mexico as a laboratory technician while Gladys Ritz of Conrad joins Camp Dodge Iowa in the sanitary chemistry lab. Milner is the second recipient of the MT Federation of Women's Clubs scholarship and has worked as water analyst for the state board of health. Ritz is the daughter of Rev Henry Ritz of Conrad and has been in the chemistry program at Montana State College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State College
United States Army
Estelle Milner
Kalispell
Gladys Ritz
Conrad
Milner
Camp Cody
N. M
Miss Riz
Camp Dodge
Eatelle Milner
Club
Women of Montana
Montana Federation of Women's Clubs
Flathead County High School
W. M. Cobleigh
State Board of Health
Miss Ritz
Henry Ritz
Anaconda High School
Deer Lodge
Bozeman
Montana, State College
Short Arm to Jaw Settles Butte Bandit
A Butte bandit tries to rob Matt De Pauli but is struck when De Pauli jams him with a punch. A star shell over Columbia Gardens blinds the robber as he flees, injuring Talkari who later gives his name as Talkari Talkari. The bandit faces years in Deer Lodge after recovery.
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Butte
Matt de Pauli
Columbia Gardens
Chicago
John Taikari
de Pauli
Talkari
Deer Lodge
Butte Miner Over War Rejected For Deafness
Walter Carlysle, a Butte miner, was rejected by the marine recruiting officer for partial deafness. He boasted of a sharp sense of smell, world travel in Alaska and Goldfield, and the trench experience, insisting trading mining for fighting and wanting to join to fight the Huns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Carlysle
Butte
Valdez
Alaska
Carlysle
Russell Helps Win The War With Posters To Uncle Sam
The color reproduction by the national food administration features a painting by Charles M. Russell, the cowboy artist. Thousands of copies will be distributed nationwide to promote wartime messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell
Uncle Sam
Ahan
Charles M. Russell
National Food Administration
Pioneer Oscar Brackett recalls frontier life in Southeast Montana
Oscar Brackett recounts 40 years in Montana after arriving in 1872 during gold rush days. He describes fights with hostiles near Deadwood and the Black Hills, wolfing on Yellowstone and Tongue river frontiers, buffalo hunts, early Miles City, and later cattle and sheep prosperity before the 1886 87 winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Brackett
Montana
Black Hills
Ismay
Pine Hills
Ismay Way
Brackett
Henry Dion
Glendive
Dion
Isadore
Henry
Joseph Penwell
Fort Keogh
Fort Union
Missouri
Keogh
Terry
Yellowstone Valley
Tongue River
Miles City
Archie McMurray
Billi Hook
Sunday Creek
Yellowstone
Jack Johnson
Custer County
George Johnson
Johnson
McMurray
Hook
Pete Jackson
Miles
Buford
Seventh Cavalry
George McCone
Dawson County
Hart Creek
Northern Pacific
George
A. C. Gifford
Fallon
Billings
Livingston
Fourth of July on the border a cross border celebration
The article details a border Fourth of July observance at Sweet Grass Montana and Coutts Alberta to honor shared war effort. It envisions an international monument on neutral ground and forming a cross border monument association. It notes 50 000 western volunteers from Montana and Alberta, with Alberta veterans and Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry prominently represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Wilson
Coutts
Our Lady of the Snows
Sweet Grass
Bunker Hill
Chateauguay
North America
Alberta
France
Far West
Continental Army
Princess Patricias
Ypres
Montana District Tops Western Marine Recruiting
The Montana district leads all western division districts in marine recruiting for June with about 225 recruits. Helena Putte Billings Miles City Lewistown stations exceeded quotas, and officers including Sergeant Bert Martin and Second Lieutenant Gorkum were commended for strong results.
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Montana
Bert Martin
Helena
Gorkum
Missoula
Montana A
Putte
Billings
Miles City
Lewistown
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lieut
A. C. M. Brick
Lieut. W. H. Gunniss
Northern
Penwell
Oscar Ward
Bismarck
Collins
Wolfer
Forte
Swift
Kreidl & Prauser
Mont
Son Mones Nelson
Centers Avenue
Great Falla
Great Falls Brick & Tile
Creat Falls
Bette Dea
Tat Sational Bank
Batid
Crimmins & Peirce CO
Summer Street
Boston
Mass
First National Bank
Great, Falls, Mont. Co
BE. Martin
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