admin | March 21, 2011
A reader thought others might be interested to hear the story about the bodies that were found when the city was digging to lay the foundation for Rattlesnake School. On Oct. 14, 1992, a story written by Donna Syvertson appeared in the Missoulian. It was about a memorial at Rattlesnake School dedicated to the dead [...]
admin | January 24, 2011
This was in the Jan. 24, 1924, Missoulian, under the headline “1,000 At Missoula’s First Ice Carnival: Exceptional Weather Brings Out Large Crowd to Initial Rink Event” Missoula’s first skating carnival was a success. Any doubt in the matter will be settled affirmatively by the crowd of nearly one thousand that lined the circumference of [...]
admin | October 8, 2010
Oct. 8, 1921 Whiskey, moonshine, gin, wines, sherry and home brew are among the booty displayed in the automobile of Lloyd Wallace, assistant county attorney of Missoula. A truck is called in later to haul several other cases of liquors to county attorney Campbell’s cache in the courthouse during raids on illicit bootlegging operations in [...]
admin | May 8, 2010
This was a week in 1910 that saw, among other things, the creation of a national park and the first electric street car run in Missoula (see previous post and, I’m told, a column in the Sunday, May 9, Missoulian.). It was also the week that John Schaffer tried out his biplane outside of Missoula. [...]
admin | May 6, 2010
There may have been a week of more impact in Montana history than the one that began on Sunday, May 8, 1910. I’m not aware of it. President Taft signed Glacier National Park into being on May 12, and what stories that act has wrought. In Missoula, the electric streetcars, powered by the new hydroelectric [...]
admin | April 5, 2010
Kris Crawford of Target Range sends along a photo of the old Kelley family house (as in Kelley Island) which she says was known as the “Pepperpot.” It was a speakeasy during prohibition. I’m trying to download the photo here, but I’m being told the file is too big, so I’ll have to get help. [...]
admin | March 23, 2010
Think horse racing was on the minds of Missoulians in 1891? Here are two separate blurbs, posted on the same day (Feb. 16, 1891) in the Missoula Gazette: “Cashier Keith of the First National Bank is the possessor of a new horse which promises to make its mark on the Missoula track next season. He [...]
admin | March 17, 2010
It’ll be several weeks before demolition of the old Florence Laundry building on East Front and Pattee is Missoula is complete. Jim Howard of Frenchtown sends these thoughts: “I have many good memories of the old Florence Laundry as my granddad and, later, dad ran the business. “One very important historical point, though, that wasn’t [...]
admin | March 10, 2010
A couple of posts ago we discussed what little we found out about George Briggs and Briggsville, a “suburb” of Missoula in the early 1890s just east of Fort Missoula, where by 1893 paper mills were apparently employing hundreds of women. Here’s George’s death story in the Missoulian, Dec. 16, 1927:
admin | March 8, 2010
My previous post about Briggsville and George Briggs was based on the following article from the Missoulian, Feb. 15, 1893. It seems like this is a pretty important piece of Missoula’s history, and there are still plenty of unsolved mysteries within. One is the reference to Prof. J. M. Hamilton, the president of “the university” [...]
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