OLE AND MARIAN DAHL FAMILY, Bio, Granite Co., MT

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	OLE AND MARIAN DAHL FAMILY
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Occupation: Mr. Dahl was a saloon keeper in Garnet, Montana.
Married: he married Marian ?
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Children:
	1)  Raymond Dahl
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	2)  Marjorie Dahl (Wilson)
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		Married:  She married ? Wilson

	3)  Jay Dahl
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The Dahl family moved to Garnet in 1938.  Marian and Ole Dahl 
moved into a new (1920's) log house that had been built as a 
"speakeasy" on main street, and installed an electric light plant, 
the first in Garnet, Montana.

Mr. Dahl ran a little white saloon called "the joint" or "Shortys" 
in Garnet, Montana during prohibition.  The Dahls made their own 
home brew beer and had a man cap the bottles.  One day it was too 
warm and the bottle tops popped off.  They had to drink all the 
beer before it went bad.  About 1938 he opened the new saloon at 
the same site as Charlie Davis' old saloon.  When drinks became 
legal again the new saloon became popular.

Mrs. Dahl, who kept a watchful eye on the town in the summers, 
also stopped vandalism and stealing.  One day Mrs. Dahl caught a 
California man tying on one of the ornamental Hotel doors on the 
top of his car.  She swore and threatened to shoot him, but he 
drove away in a cloud of dust with the door.  Police only laughed 
when she wanted them to trace the license number.  Marian Dahl 
lived in Garnet as late as the 1960's.

Bibliography:

Hammond, Helen 1983.  Garnet-Montana's Last Gold Camp, Acme Press, 
Missoula, Montana.  

Kohr, Darian, 1997.  Telephone interview concerning the history of 
the John Kohr family at Garnet, Montana, February 18.