The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-05-11
GOLDEN JUBILEE
a. MONTANA PAPER
: BAnY MuSSOULIAN e OBSERVES
IT'S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY; :,
SOME HISTORY fs3oi N
Frank III. Woody, Who Was One of
the First White Men in the Terri
tory, First Editor; Men Who Help
ed to Make It. - yji9 ii

Tory rusS fstutOrs oncu w ~ r1AfOrAl
ed to Make 1t. w. win
4. TIME golden jubilee of the Daily
MissouIian was celebrated a few
Il days ago with much eclat.c Its
ferbear, through several journal
fstic generations, was the MissQula
and Cedar Greek Pioneer, founded
in 1870, and under the late Frank
H. Woody, who came to the state
when there were but three or four
white men I'M what is now Mon
tana, changed its name to the Mis-
souIian and was its first editor.
Martin I'll. Hutchens, who lived in
Montana in the old days, and in
the interim spent many years on
newspapers in Chicago and New
York, is the present editor and
~ publisher. --A 500 ~.
IL The Missoulian's jubilee edition
I contains much historical matter. A
6Glusketch by Frank Woody is of special
interest and is as follows:
''It was year or so before the
paper. was named The Missoulian-
lDId athay called it the pioneer when I
AoM first came in touch with it. 4 We ].
{. /" Mccormick one of Missoulhs weliz
% known pioneers, Aownedi tha paper
c ~ then!!j When he was calledato Wash
ingten on a business trip, along about
49, 10 November or DecembeDs 1882, he
yaa came tonne and asked me to take
,I0Iacharge. during his absence. I did so
s4iB3, and before Mccormick got home a
& printer named Chisholm and I decid-
i ;. ed we would like to- purchase the
q paper and run it ourselves. We
made the deal, but Chisholm didn't
stay long with me. He went to
- Butte and think he afterwards
nm Worked on the MiHer. He died there.
Then took in Warren r.. Turk, a
. Aipractfcal printer, who came here from
IaAhh iowa for his health, later dying here
He was the father of George, Frank
y 49,. and Emil Turk. We disposed of the
paper while Turk was my partner,
IA ~ ~ Print Paper Expensive
~ 4 ATT eostAsomething to print a paper
in those days. continued Judge
Woody's account. "I remember thar
10 our print paper cost US 70 u Gents a
pound. We had to ship it from Hell
ena by stage. We were always shya
u.of, cash and ]. can tell you that the
Shipments of paper came over on the'I
stage in very small bundles, When
ever we expected shipment 1T made |
j." us Hustle like blazes tor raise the ne5]
cessary cash. There was never anyI
! money in the newspaper businessI
then and everybody who had any
thing to do with The Missoulian lost |
money. There we're only 400s or 5Q0l
residents here then and our subscrfpa
.tion list was not very big. ISremem-
= Ebers however, that we Sent "a good |
S1NS many papers up the Bitter Root var
ley,sas there were no papers in-that
section then IS - -
i. ~ tScribner Territorial Secretary d Al
~ TT think often of w. s. Scribner,
who TasyW il. McCormick's partner
when they first took the paper. They
u Ibpurchased it when it's name was the
Missoula and Cedar Greek PioneeT.I
siIScfibherl came to- Montana as terri 4
-torial secretary. He served out his
time and then was trader on the
Ffathead Indian reservation. After
leaving Missoulassnes Teent saBxn4ssto
~ Chicago, and was r0unty sc1efK ssoS
sC66kA cUahty He wasSa bright and
capable fellow. Hes diad in9C hica go
some years ago. ss.ss.Is,
- q The First Den as
Frank klein and r. AZ PERKY wefegI |,
7''~ Sthe first printers devils in The Mis-
soulianA pT1rti shop n Mr.. Keim is stilA k,
a well-known resident, Xwhilei 0M1.
Pelky. lived here for "a good many :
years Ind laferswwAen IT. to Butte L. Jh dgb kt
W oody said that both of these boys :
H.. were bad and mischievous, especially
~A2-dM Mr.. lPe1ky, who was known to tffrowf
away type to save himself the trouble
"a Of distributing it in theieases Fran4ad
- Keim soon settled down to business e
:, however and an early tissue OF, the !.
paper speaks Of him as 'fol1owss
master Frank Il ein,sa boy-of nj 4
Il years, commenced, work on The Mis- b
soulian office about six weeks ago. r
He can now set column of this
SHaperPer daygRyt, what is nH0gEes heN
often coming from the proofreader
itheHt "a scratchs . If aHyso thersofffcef sn
in the territory has a boy of that age L.
~. and, experience who can. size. up. to
/! THAI give us his aarpA HI IllllIllIlI3il
William Sturgeon was the first
man in the world to receive a copy
IuoflThe MissouAan. HE rama. tbla1k- n
Smith Shop at the tirfle the Hill ut Issue III
was printed. There had been some
trouble with the press and he had
been sent for to repair itaa He gotAths II
press fixed and waited for the forms
to be placed. Then, when the first
scopy of the new paper"appeaneag he
! sgabbed 1T and went ACROSS bS htAiye
sAT4sSN a Fahloouss Extra 9sg u|C
On July rs, 1871 word reached
Missoula that the Me- iPercesl,J tftf{d9p
Chief Joseph, were on the warpath
and were coming toward Montana
evidently by way of the Lolo Pass.