P a g e 5 Ghost Towns & History of MT Newsletter hand and threw him out of the hotel. This determined the union upon other tactics and they proceeded to reason with him along other lines, after which, for a consideration, Lehman agreed to leave the place. DID CONTRACT WORK- During the Civil war Lehman engaged in contract work in St. Louis until he and a partner joined a wagon train for the west, intending to go to Denver to open a store. Attacked by Indians most of the party deserted the enterprise and Lehman and his partner were compelled to return. However, they organized another wagon train and proceeded to Denver where they engaged in business and where Lehman at one time owned the land upon which the Colorado capitol now stands. He then went to Leadville and later to California where he worked for a time in the placer mines. From California he moved on to Portland, Ore., then to Boise, Idaho, and then to Walla Walla, and for two years operated a pack train in the Blue mountains. Coming to Montana he first entered the placer diggings in Alder gulch but soon moved to Helena where he engaged in the mercantile business. While still located there he established stores at Cottonwood and Utica in the Judith Basin, and in 1895, after the opening of his store in Lewistown, he removed to that city where he remained until his death. His widow, who was a Miss Bach and to whom he was married in 1869, is still living in Lewistown, although several of his seven sons have since located in California.- Courtesy of the Big Timber Pioneer, Accessed via: http://montananewspapers.org THE PRIORITY OF EDUCATION After the silver crash, believing there was a great loss of students, Granite decided to keep only Miss M.I. Wolfe, as principal and Miss S.K. Coonan, as Assistant and to open the school October 2. The two teachers were retained at a lesser salary of $110 and $75 a month. Then the Granite News column, October 5, 1893, published this article: “When school opened Monday it was found that two teachers could not control the large number of pupils in attendance, and the services of Mrs. J.E. Trumbell were brought into service. Miss Sligh was employed temporarily, awaiting the arrival of Miss Wolfe from Anaconda…over 100 pupils were enrolled and the attendance is swelling daily." The only change noticeable was the large attendance of children who had appeared for the first time in the Philipsburg School. Demonstrating examples of the mettle that kept the community of Philipsburg alive was the issue of education and was discussed with many different means explored to raise the needed money for a permanent building. As early as May 4, 1893 The Mail stated “The whole (school) Board is a unit on the question of increasing the school facilities, but the manner of doing it is where the difference of opinion comes in. A committee has been appointed…Trustee Pizer, of the committee, reported at the meeting that Angus McDonald wanted $2,000 per acre or $6,000 for three acres out where the baseball grounds are. Mrs. H. Schnepel, wanted $8,000 for five acres nearer to town. The Board was unanimous…that these figures were too much for the district to stand…Trustee Chris Jacky thought that the present site could be made to answer every purpose and suggested that steps could be taken to have the town board of Aldermen condemn
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