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P a g e 7 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r again called to service as deputy sheriff under George T. Young. January 1, 1899, he was promoted to under sheriff, but resigned this position Janu’ry 1, 1900, to accept the deputyship at Jardine. Mr. Beller has been a fearless officer, and has yet to meet with his first accusation of partiality. He likes a good story, and is always ready to do his share toward relating stories from his inexhaustible supply of narratives of the frontier during its lawful and lawless periods. He is a member of the K. of P. Lodge and Woodmen of the World. CHAS. ANGUS—Clerk and Recorder. Presenting, as he does, a combination of the scholar in a degree that is unusual in this country, Charles Angus, clerk of Park county, has both a military and civil record. He was born in England in 1844 and came to the United States in 1864, enlisting at once in the First Delaware Veteran volunteers, serving in Company I of that regiment until it was mustered out of service in July, 1865. While in the civil war he bore his share of the sweets and sour, coming out with an honorable discharge. He now worked for several years at railroading in Colorado and Wyoming, coming to Montana in 1877, when he again enlisted in the regular army, where he served with the second cavalry until 1882. After receiving his honorable discharge he came to Livingston, Montana, in December of that year and was engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1892, when he was elected to the office of county clerk, and reelected to that office in 1894. On going out of office in 1896 he was appointed deputy postmaster, continuing in that capacity until 1898, when he was again Court House Charles Angus called to fill the office of county clerk. As a public servant Mr. Angus has proven his fitness by the number of different times that he has been called to this chair, giving additional satisfaction at each succeeding term of office. -Read More in Next Month’s Issue! Accessed via: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Main Street- Meaderville, Montana, 1939. Meaderville, a suburb of Butte, Montana was named after Charles T. Meader in 1880. Meaderville is known Photo Courtesy Library of Congress for its Italian heritage, its yearly Christmas displays, and its volunteer fire department. The excavation of the Berkeley Pit destroyed the neighborhood in the late 1960s, early 1970s.

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