The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1943-10-07

People OF MOllIdila' VIC ooiuee yOu
and hand you the first issue OF th'
Glasgow Herald" This is the open
ing paragraph in the Leading edl'
toriai of the Herald, Glasgow's frs
newspaper. A copy OF the first issue
published July 20, 1889, is now
priced possession OF Inc Courier
presented by r. M. Lewis, retired
Glasgow banker and pioneer resi-
dent.
The masthead shows that Moore
81 Geer were publishers OF the Her
aid. who announced in the same
editorial. I'VE will oppose, d~eprecate,
denounce and expose anything which
we NAV think will prove INJURIOUS
or detrimental to the interests OF
Montana
The Herald was without competi-
tion in a vast domain. A map pro-
vided by MI. Lewis shows it was the
first newspaper north of a line
drawn through Glendive, Miles City,
LeWistoWn. Fort Benton, Great Falls
and Missoula.
Not Dawson's First
1T was not, however, the flrSt
newspaper published in old Dawson
county. as our late fellow townsman,
w w. Mabee, issued the Glendive
Times on Aug. IL, 1884," MI. Lewis
comments.
With the paper, Mr.. Lewis has
loaned for exhibition purposes, a
photograph of Glasgow made the
same year in which the Herald made
its journalistic debut, published on
an old Washington hand lever press.
A local item in the Herald an
nounceS a census has been taken
which shows Glasgow with a popu-
lation of 400. An official directory
reveals that this section was still
a part of Dawson county. One so
ciety" is listed, the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. Glas-
COWS one religious institution was
the Union Methodist Episcopal
church. Charles E. Hall was chair
man of its board of trustees; he was
also postmaster and had established
the toWnsite here in September, 1887.
"The Gate City"
The Glasgow Townsite company,
of which Mr. Hall vas president, in
an advertisement in the same issue,
proclaims Glasgow as The gate city
and commercial centre of the fertile
Milk river valley, and terminal point
on the st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba railway with round houses,
machine shops, etc. One year old,
population 400, will be 1000 n year
hence. The largest and only pros
porous town between Minot, Oak,
and Benton, a distance of 400 miles"
A Glasgow chronology tells how
Mr.. Hall built "a shack on Milk
at a point known as the mouth
of Cherry creek, on the Assiniboine
reservation" in September, 1887,
being the only settler within a "a
dius of IA miles"
Railroad Christens
In October the same year, "the
railroad company christened the
place Glasgow, put in sidetracks,
built a round house and other build
necessary to a division point,
and commenced running what was
Known as mixed trains, carrying
passengers and freight; and in No
Iember, 1888, the first regular pas
;enger trains were running"
During the winter of 1878, I'M
May, 1888, the only place where
meal could be obtained was at the
house, the proprietor of
which also sold tobacco, socks,
Ills and a Few other frontier ne
,essities. AS to a bed, the prairie
vas broad, and the man without his
,wn blanket was playing in hard
uck.
May 1, 1883, Glasgow was feed
ng about 300 men who were work.
ng on construction.
MAY 2, 1888, President Cleveland
igned the bill opening up for set
49, 0 900 acres of Indian
eservation, including therein the
ertile Milk river valley.
Four Saloons, One Restaurant
May 9, 1888, the town of Glas-
low was commenced by the cree
ion of four tent saloons and one
estaurant.
I'm June, 1898, Mr.. R. A. Richie
a store in an Is by 20 log
In July, 1888, the first
rame house was built and occupied
S a restaurant. At this time the
own consisted of eight saloons,
hree restaurants and one store; all
n tents except two.
August 20. 1888, a postoffice was
established with Charles E. Hall as
In October, 1888, Mr..
/. w. Rowell built the Waldo House,
O by 70, containing 20 bedrooms.
the opening of this house its