admin | August 25, 2009
I don’t know a lot of details about Missoula’s Victory Gardens that rose out of World War I, but an article that appeared in the Missoulian on Tuesday, July 1, 1919, seems to indicate they resulted in the town’s early farmers markets — or maybe the first. The headline: “Missoula Public Market To Try ‘Comeback’ [...]
admin | August 23, 2009
Anybody know whatever happened to Cantonment Stevens? I can’t remember where I first heard of the place, but I thereafter assumed it became the town of Stevensville. Wrong. It seems Cantonment Stevens (cantonment being a military term for a temporary post) was located up the river from Fort Owen, near what became Stevensville. Isaac I. [...]
admin | August 17, 2009
Just throwing this out here because someone asked. Where did the name “Moose Can Gully” come from? Here’s how the City of Missoula describes the gully’s location: Moose Can Gully runs out of Moose Canyon, below Mt. Dean Stone. It passes Chief Charlo School and ends at Garland Park on 23rd Avenue. Someone asked the [...]
admin | August 11, 2009
They called them “vags,” the homeless and the drifters on the streets of Missoula in the summer after World War I. And, yes, they were a problem in the city’s eyes. Chief of Police Moore and Officer Bishop rounded up three “vags” on Aug. 12 and threw them in jail. Moore said the men would [...]
admin | August 11, 2009
If you’re reading this, you probably know about the mystery that still surrounds Meriwether Lewis’ death on Oct. 11, 1809. Now Lewis and Clark writer/researcher Kira Gale of Omaha reports on her website: “Almost 200 collateral descendants of Meriwether Lewis have signed a petition asking for exhumation to determine the cause of his death–whether it [...]
admin | August 10, 2009
It’s fair week in Missoula, held at the Missoula County Fairgrounds. But since its inception at the current fairgrounds 95 years ago, the Western Montana Fair has been geared toward, well, all of western Montana. Fair secretary F.M. Lawrence asked the Missoulian to explain that — again — to readers in September of 1915, in [...]
admin | August 6, 2009
Johnny Dwyer left his family and homeland of Ireland in 1910 to come work in the Butte mines – and by 1918 he was dead at the age of 40. He died like so many of silicosis after breathing in tainted air while underground. Johnny’s grandson, 62-year-old Mike Dwyer of Boston, in Butte for the [...]
admin | August 6, 2009
Asarco is planning to demolish the three historic smoke stacks at East Helena, and the Independent Record is soliciting stories and recollections from people who’ve lived in the shadows of the stacks. Click on this link to find out how.
admin | August 6, 2009
Just ran across this one from the Aug. 14, 1953, Missoulian: Walter Bodak, Missoula’s parking meter attendant, says people aren’t always plugging the city’s 822 meters with real cash. On his way in to repair a meter head which had been stuffed with chewing gum, he poured out a collection of other “slugs”: – 5 [...]
admin | August 3, 2009
This was the day in 1921 that the Montana Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs first met in Butte. According to a Montana Historical Societey on-line exhibit, there were at least nine active black women’s clubs in the state at the time, and representatives of seven of them attended. Mary B. Chappell called the meeting and [...]
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