Our Town 100+ Years Ago: October, Part I

Our Town 100+ Years Ago, October Part I: By the fall of 1898, the Jefferson Valley Zephyr highlighted news of the upcoming election and the increase in property values in the 24 Montana counties. Silver Bow was on top with $11,401,665, and Jefferson was well down the list with $1,330,921 for all land, real estate, improvements, town sites, mining claims, telegraph and telephone lines, and railroad property.

Still making front page news was the horrible death toll of American soldiers from Typhoid and Yellow Fever. Those stationed in Porto Rico at Ponce who died from these diseases were buried...