July 17 – On this day in Montana history in 1920 The Butte Miner ran a story on rancher C.D. Harper and his quest to change his life. “Chicago’s the place to find a wife. The thing that is troubling me now is how to pick one from all these answers,” he told the paper. Dozens of letters had been sent in response to an ad he ran seeking a wife in the Windy City. “I’ve got a car and I keep five men employed all the year around. I’d get my wife a hired girl and she wouldn’t have to kill herself working,” he said.