{"id":1498,"date":"2014-09-19T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2014-11-13T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:45:51","slug":"september-1944-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garyglynn.com\/wordpress\/september-1944-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"September 1944 in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 3 \u2013 The Dillon rodeo began.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 4 \u2013 Labor Day (which was not widely celebrated due to the war).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 5 \u2013 The schoolhouse in Richey was damaged by hail, forcing classes to be held in the jail.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 11 \u2013 Joseph T. McGeever, former Bobcat football star, was killed in action in France at age 26.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 14 \u2013 Six hundred state firemen met in Polson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 20 \u2013 The William Clark Chalet in Butte, built in 1885 as the copper king&#8217;s summer home, was destroyed by an electrical fire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">\u2022 <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">September 22 \u2013 One airman died when his light plane crashed on Mt. 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