The following notes were made from microfilm of the earliest Browning, Montana, newspapers. The film strips belonged to the Montana Historical Society who loaned them to the Conrad library, the closest library with a reader machine, so that I didn’t have to drive all the way to Helena.
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BROWNING REVIEW
This is what was happening around June 23, 1922
Drilling oil
Shearing sheep
Accepting petitions for rural schools
Virginia Barnes and LaVerne Barlow to Lewistown for summer school.
Willie Lucien Ewing to Missoula
Fred Gerard for sheriff
Mrs. J. D. Gold visiting at Camp McDonald where Doug Gold was supervising.
Louie Monroe busted Owen Williams’ still by Glacier Park.
Telegrapher school to be established.
Rev. James D Gold (Doug Gold’s father) preached on “The Expulsive Power of the Indwelling Christ”
Mayor Richard Croff
Aldermen: WE Hagerty, HC Willets, Edward Gobert, HO Phelps
Clerk: AM Shannon
Treas. TJ Kronan
Atty: TW Rorke
Police Magistrate: HW Main
Marshall: LW (Lomie) Goss
Fire Chief: HC Franklin
Peter DesRosier is running the Browning drugstore and the Orpheum Theatre.
Sherburne Merc advertises ladies silk hose, window drapes, men’s dress shirts
Notice of the estate of Malcolm Clarke. [This would be Horace Malcolm] Ella Clarke is the administrator. [This would include the property behind the Big Hotel in East Glacier.]
Notice of the estate of Margaret Carberry. [The mother, not the daughter. The two women ran a little museum of artifacts in East Glacier. Part of that collection is in the Museum of the Plains Indian and part is in the Field Museum in Chicago.]
Claims for Stockman’s state bank -- DJ Hilger receiver. [This is the bank that T.E. Scriver and a couple of Blackfeet partners ran in Blackfoot. The cashier left in the night with the entire contents of the safe. T.E. had to sell his three wheat ranches in order to pay the depositors. He never recovered financially.]
Stockman’s Trading Co. is successor to Broadwater-Pepin.
JJ Smith (paroled prisoner) shot to death with Porky Sellars and Deputy Sheriff Joe Donens present.
June 30
Gold preaching on “The Spiritual Teaching of Nature.
Albert Racine, George Kipp & Gale Anderson came home from Haskell.
Measles serum available.
July 7, 1922
3-day 4th of July at East Glacier. GP Stampede Association, Glacier County and the Boxing Commission (Joe Upham) sponsors.
Charlie Russell came through town.
Aubert Bros back from Belton where they constructed cabins for Doug Gold, Miss Shepherd, ST Scotland, Miss Lured (Red Cross)
Gold sermon: “The Fundamentals of Religion.” [The Methodists had a banjo trio that week!]
FW Wendt finished the upgrades in Government Square, Boarding School, the Indian Health Service, then called “Blackfoot Sanitarium”. Campbell is pleased.
Great interest in Eskimoes.
July 14
Doug Gold managing hotel at Camp McDonald.
James Welch and son Boyd at Homestake Oil Well.
Hail & Rain -- a flood.
Kappa Kappa Gamma convention at the big hotel.
July 21
Gold sermon: “Come and go.”
“The Cowboy” by Philip Ashton Rollins described.
Lawsuit of Security State Bank of Polson against Nora Thomas Spanish and WJ Spanish & H.L. Lambert. $105 in promissory notes.
John Croff now running for sheriff.
Jas Perrine for the State Rep from Glacier Co.
July 28
Cross-rez highway planned, might miss Browning. [This would break all tourist businesses.] committee: JL Sherburne, TE Scriver, ER Gobert, Dr. Geo Martin, Mr. Campbell, Superintendent.
Gold sermon: “The Use of the Tongue”
Lomie Goss is the city marshall.
Writer E.B. White stopped in on July 28!
Where’s the Chief Crow Colony? Blacktail, Chimney Butte chapters.
New England Cafe advertises: “Nothing but white help employed.”
Gold sermon: “Dividends.”
Campbell’s big industrial pageant.
Heart Butte flour mill.
Pocahontas statue in bronze by William Ordway Porbridge (Partridge). [Partridge is the sculptor of the statue of Paris Gibson in Great Falls and also the “Pieta” in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.]
Aug 11
Charlie Buck drove 800 head of cows down from Canada.
News from Chile interesting because of copper.
Gold sermon: “A Well that Never Goes Dry”
Aug 18
Gold sermon: “Thy Kingdom Come”
New Principal is AB Tootell of Great Falls, Dartmouth, U of Chicago grad
Gold sermon: “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection”
Sept 8
On Indian Days (Sept. 8 because of harvest and haying) “many white women dressed up “as Pocahontas” and danced.
McFatridge representing Colt Carbide Lighting, Cooking and Ironing Plant.
“Microbe mincing machine” in article.
Gold sermon: “High Thinking”
Renewal of subscription brings 6 CMR Indian paintings free.
Gold: “Momentum” and “The Perfect Man”
Sept. 22
Frank Sherburne succeeds Malcolm Clarke as the postmaster.
The phone company announces continuous service from 8 AM to 8:30 PM every day except Sunday.
Article: “How Charlie Russell Came to MT 42 years ago”
Oct 13
Countess List Ciprioain of Italy-- talk on Italian life since the war -- showed crayon sketches of residents.
Ag classes in livestock and poultry
JC Aubert tearing down Kipp Hotel.
BHS masquerade party: clowns, vaqueros, chicks, kings, queens, brigands, flappers, cross-dressers.
Band: Douglas Gold, MN Nelstad, Greeley Billedeaux, Eddie Butler, Monroe Arnoux
Whitegrass chapter: Cut Bank Creek. Just finished threshing wheat and oats. Got 15-16 bushels to the acre. 26 members, lots of veggies,
Special Blackfeet display at the State Fair.
Oct 27
Road from Belton to Nyack open.
Story on Marquis de Mores, who founded Medora, North Dakota, and was burned out because he challenged the big meat packers by developing refrigerated railroad cars.
Browning Merc Ad
“Confidence has made our business all that it is, or that it ever hopes to be. This story is fully awake -- thoroughly aroused to the incomparable worth of having and holding the confidence of our customers. There is no cash on hand, no goods in stock that compare with the importance of a store holding the confidence of its customers. This has taken fifteen years of patient trying, a good deal of advertising and a large number of individuals all interested in gaining confidence to build this business up to where it is, and we would ask you one question: Do you think for one minute that we can afford to misrepresent -- to lose your confidence? Come in and see if our prices are not in strict keeping with the prevailing conditions.”
Nov. 3
There are 68 high school students and 156 grade school kids. The 4 country schools have a total of 63 students.
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