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Taken from the book titled "Names on the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana Place Names," by Roberta Carkeek Cheney, first published in 1983:
COMANCHE (Yellowstone County) was a station on the Great Northern Railroad. It was named for the famous horse that was the only living thing found on the battlefield after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The post office was opened in 1909 with Lola Dell Helm as postmaster; it was discontinued in 1942. Only the station, a few houses and some deserted buildings remain.
POWDER RIVER (Powder River County) had a post office as POWDER 1879-1880 with Leopold Hohman as postmaster. A.L. Huffman, the famous pioneer photographer of eastern Montana, came to Montana Territory in 1878 to be post photographer at Fort Keogh. One of his pictures is entitled "Interior of An Old-Time Ranch House, Powder River, Montana." An old cemetery here contains crumbling markers for the men who came "up the trail" from Texas.
POWDER RIVER COUNTY is almost in the southeast corner of Montana. The river from which it takes its name traverses the county from the Wyoming border to the northeast corner. For years historians have supposed the Powder River took its name from the dark, gunpowder-colored soil and sand along its banks; but Capt. William Drannan, an early scout, says in his book of reminiscences that a group of soldiers were four hundred miles from [Fort Benton] when they were attacked by Indians; a Frenchman, Vierres Roubidoux, shouted "Cache la poudre!: or, "Hide the powder," and since then the often dry river has been called the Powder [Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains]. The river has also been aptely described as "a mile wide and an inch deep." Lewis and Clark first called it the Red Stone because of the red rocks near it. Some historians believe that the Verendryes, a family of French explorers, reached this river in 1743 while seeking a route to the Pacific. In 1805 Francois Larocque journeyed almost the entire length of the stream, presumably from Broadus to Terry, where it runs into the Yellowstone River. Indians were the only people living along the river until cattlemen came with their herds in the 1880s. Powder River County was organized in 1919 from a part of Custer County. Broadus is the county seat.
POWDERVILLE (Powder River County) is in the northeast corner of the county on the Powder River. It was once a stopping station for stagecoaches between Deadwood, South ?Dakota, and Miles City. There was a large stable, a dance hall, and a hotel: the town's largest building housed the bar downstairs and the hotel upstairs. Everything was torn down at the old townsite, and the post office was moved to its present locatation about a half mile from the original one. The town now consists of only one building, which houses the post office, the postmaster, and his family, but the office serves a vast area in southeastern Montana (Pat Cunningham).
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Birth certificates were not commonly issued in the early 1900s, I suppose because most births occured at home. Perhaps some people were able to register these births at their local county courthouses, or delayed certificates were issued much later when people needed documentation when applying for a marriage license, or applying to college, or applying for Social Security, or some other thing.
Your best bet to see if a birth certificate was issued for the person or persons you are looking for, would be to contact the Dept. of Vital Statistics located in Helena. It is part of the Department of Health & Human Services. Go to the following website for more information:
http://vhsp.dphhs.mt.gov/certificates/ordercertificates.shtml
I hope you have found the above information useful.
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