The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-07

New Years dinners, dancing parties
and the election and installation Of
officers in the lodges and clubs OF the
city. have distinguished the week just
brought to a close in Missoula society.
Replete with the elaborate menus that
were served in home, hotel and cafe
to do honor to 1917. Missonla society
adjourned to ball room or skating rink
to make merry with rhythmic motion.
One hundred men and women varying
in age from the teens to the sixties,
danced at tho Elks' temple; four hum
bred danced at Elite hall, members and
friends Of the Lima lodge Of the Daugh-
tors Of Hermann. A happy party
danced at the clubhouse in Orchard
Homes. while home dancing parties
Kinks. Officers were elected and in
stalled with formal ceremony by the
North Side Progressive league, by
Mount Jumbo Civic league. by the
Women's Relief corps, the Scandina-
Wan brotherhood, the Order of Eastern
Star the Ancient Order of Hibernians
and it's ladies auxiliary. the Eagles,
the Ministerial association and the
swedish Congregational church, by
the Catholic Lady F'oresters. by the
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, by
the Orchard Homes Country Life club
and by the Spanish War Veterans.
A, Golden Wedding.
Fifty years ago today, January /.
1866, near Springfield, Missouri. J. J..
Humble and Matilda Caroline Wilkin
son were united in marriage. In the
spring of 1870, the young couple left
Missouri and turned their faces toward
the far distant Territory of Montana.
The Union Pacific railroad had just
been completed as far west as Cor
rine. Utah, thus relieving the western
traveller of the long, dangerous wagon
journey across the plains. In the
later part of April of that year, the
Young couple alighted from the Union
Pacific train at Corrne and after ne
gotiating for a mule team set out on
a 60O-mile wagon trip for Henderson
Gulch. near Philipsburg, Montana.
Henderson ,Gulch was then at the &c
NTH Of lis glory rs a placer mining
camp and the young Missourian and
his wife made that the point of their
destination. on account of the fact that
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was then running a butcher shop at
that place. where he distributed fresh
meats to the hungry miners, cut from
fat steers raised in the Bitter Root
valley. After few weeks sojourn in
the placer camp, in July of the same
year. Mr.. and Mrs. Humble resumed
their xjo,lfney to their final destina-
ton. the Bitter Root valley. Settlers
were few and good land was abundant.
The Chariot band of Flathead Indians
still occupied a good portion of the
valley, living on terms of peace and
amity with their white neighbors.
After looking over the situation Mr..
Humble finally pitched his permanent
Wallis, on the same land that has since
been their home. Through industry
and thrift, the original homestead
steadily grew in acres, until today, the
Humble ranch numbers more than $500
acres of the most fertile soil of the
famous Bitter Root valley. AS they
grew older in years and waxed fattel
in purse, they begun to take life easy
and it became custom to spend q
few months each year in seeing some
thing of the larger world. Mr.. and
Mrs. Humble have made several trips
to Europe, one around the world an6
each winter when the snow begins tt
Eile deep in the valley and the colo
winds foretell the approach of rea
winter, they start on their annual pill.
grimage to the SUMMER fields of Cali.
fornia. This day, in Los Angeles, Mr.
and Mrs. Humble are celebrating theil
golden wedding ganniyersary~ From
January Z, 1867 to January I, 1917, i.
a goodly stretch of life's calendar
The couple whose photos appear abov'
are passing down the western slope
with cheerful hearts and the kindl.
wishes of their multitude of friends.