Drummond High School - Drummonda Yearbook (Drummond, MT)

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FRESHMEN Mickey McGuire Loretta Clawson Phyllis Mulkey Arthur Bowls Leo Jones George Hollibaugh Darrell Bradshaw

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GAY 90’§ The people of the 90's were characterized by enterprise, relentless activity, and contempt for danger or privation. Hospitality was general and unaffected. There was a rough, though genuine, courtesy much in vogue among the pi- oneers. In spite of the endless toil, they found time for gaiety and laughter. Barn dances, turkey shoots, sewing bees and wedding parties were always well attended festive occasions. The harshness of the frontier had faded. The state underwent many changes. With the coming of the railroads, the usefulness of the steamboat was at an end. The last commercial boat left Fort Benton in 1890. In 1893, the Montana State Agricultural College at Boze- man was opened, and in 1895, the Montana State University. The silver crash came in 1897. Granite, one of the greatest silver mining towns in Montana, became a ghost town overnight. This town once had a population of 3,000 people. Drummond was gaining its stride and had become a sizeable town. The pioneers were passing on; the frontier was gone; but the imprint of this era could never be erased.

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Rose Duwe Alpha Weaver Denny McCall John Buchanan Curtis Hughes Alfred Ahlin Clyde Holland James Tutwiler