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Montana rifle clubs form home guard network in war effort
Nearly two thousand Montana riflemen unite under Captain D. Gay Stivers with the Rocky Mountain Rifle club leading a statewide push to establish a home guard regiment. The list of clubs includes Helena, Butte, Billings, Great Falls, Missoula and others with hundreds of members, reflecting broad support for organized rifle practice allied with national associations.
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War Department
Montana
Stivers
D. Gay Stivers
Rocky Mountain Rifle Club
Butte
America
National Rifle Association of America
National Board For the Promotion of
Congress
National Association
Helena
Stewart
Anaconda Rifle Club
Fred Fisher
Care Copper City Commercial Company
Anaconda
Big Timber Military Rifle Club
Ray Y. Willman
Big Timber
Billings Rifle and Gun Club
A. H. McArthur
Billings
Blackfoot Rifle Club
Daniel Kelleher
Blackfoot
Browning Rifle Club
W. D. Funk
Browning
Butte Rifle Club
al Burton
Choteau Rifle Club
W. H. Webb
Choteau
Corvallis
Carl E. Magni
Crow Rifle Club
C. D. Munro
Crow Agency
Cushmann-Slayton
E. M. Welliver
Hamilton
Harlem Rifle Club
H. E. Konshok
Harlem
Harlowton
Rifle Club
C. C. Jones
Henderson Rifle Club
B. I. Danner
Henderson
Kalispell Rifle Club
H. A. Gayhart
Kalispell
Lakeside Rifle Club
R. H. Schroeder
Somers
Lewistown
Lothrop Rifle Club
A. B. Crow
Lothrop
Malta Rifle Club
W. E. Orrison
Malta
Miles City
A. T. Gilhus
White Sulphur Springs
Stanford Rifle Club
Chas. Ottenwiller
Stanford
Stevensville
ITN
Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls