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March 29, 2023
100 years ago taken from TCB 03/30/1923
THIRD ANNUAL SCHOOL ROUNDUP
Owing to the eight grader examination being held on April 26 and 27 and the teachers' examination on May 4 and 5, we find it necessary to hold our third annual Roundup for McCone County school children on Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21. The purpose of this Meet shall to foster the spirit of co-operation among the various rural and town schools of McCone County; to increase in the boys and girls a love and pride in the community to which they belong; to help them to have some definite purpose or calling in life and to inspire in them the ambition to continue their education so that they may attain to their purpose or calling, be it professional, business, trade or farming.
BROCKWAY NOTES
Many from Brockway attended the program and dance at Watkins school last Saturday. About one hundred tickets were sold.
Lenora Hammerbacker has been staying at Walter Bond's place, this past week, while Mr. Bond has attended court in Circle.
Book Reports were due Monday.
Mr. B.F. Bird of Snohomish, Wash., owner of the H.B. farm visited Brockway Friday and Saturday.
Mr. Lynne Ennis and MR Clarence Schneider, businessmen of Brockway were callers in Terry, Tuesday.
THE SCHOOL REPORTER
Floyd Bergland, Vera Lytle, Freda Mahlstedt and Gertrude Boyum have the chicken pox this week. Adorning the bulletin board this wee is a large picture of Mrs. Jacobs of Paxton "listeien' in" and ironing with an electric iron. This is the cover page of the Dakota Farmer published in Aberdeen , South Dakota. Below the picture the following explanation was made by Mr. Baldwin: This is MRs Jacobs of the Paxton Country. Her boys built not only the radio but also the generator that produces electricity for the iron, "We try to make things pleasant so that the boys will stay on the farm," Mrs. Jacobs said to me last summer , She could well have added, " And the boys stay on the farm and help make things pleasant." This picture clearly illustrates the correlation between science and comfort. A trip to the Jacobs farm is an education in itself.
75 Years ago taken from TCB 03/19/1948
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Frank Cusker, one of the real old-timers from Northern McCone was a visitor at the Cusker homes here forepart of the week. Louis Schnebly and Vic Reinemer arrived here Thursday morning from Missoula for a brief vacation between quarters at Montana U. John Collins returned Saturday from a ski trip to Red Lodge. Si Brown has purchased a new Mercury '48 automobile.
GROH FARM SOLD
Al Groh has sold three sections of land to Andrew Gackle of Watkins. Consideration is said to be $18.00 an ac
BROCKWAY NOTES
Mr. and Mrs. Knuet Guldborg and boys, Jr. Yarger and wife, helped MR Leon Yarger celebrate his birthday Sunday at the Dan Yarger home. Mr. and MRs Geo. Sept visited at the Gust Suko home Sunday. Dan Hinnaland purchased a John Deere tractor from the Implement Co. of Circle.
WELDON NEWS
Mrs. Drew entertained a house full of guests last Friday night in honor if Eddie Payne , whose birthday was that day. Mr. and MRs Jack Kountz made a business trip to Wolf Point Montana .
VIDA NEWS BRIEFS
Mr. and MRs Dick Nefzger and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Campbell left for a trip to California last week.
50 years ago, taken from TCB 03/22/1973
LIQUOR SALES UP
Liquor sales totaled $27,768.29 for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1972. The 3% city tax amounted to $833.05. The County share was $1,110.73 for the quarter.
WEEKEND OF VADALISM
Four Fairview juveniles were apprehended Friday and charged with illegal possession after they had allegedly caused an estimated $278.00 worth of damage to a pickup belonging to Scott Becker. The pickup had been parked along Mayberry Road near Becker's School bus stop. The vandalism was done during the afternoon of Friday. Saturday night a total of seven parked vehicle were side swiped or backed into various points in town. A 17-year-old Circle juvenile was charge with reckless driving. Vehicles belonging to Melvin Larson, Lynn Casterline, Dan Feist, Curt Keeler, Kenny Fleming and tow belonging to Inland Chevrolet were damaged, according to Town Policeman, Melvin Bahls. John Eklund, projectionist for the theater, was called early Monday morning when the unwound film was discovered outside the theater door. It was discovered at this time that a can of film was missing. The incident is under investigation.
FRIENDSHIP
Wesley and Janet Jensen are home for a week now as their schools are having spring break. Jenny, Kenny and Glen Idland were shoppers n Saturday in Glendive.
BROCKWAY NOTES
Phil and Beechy Haglund returned home from a trip which took them to Denver and Salt Lake City. Friends gathered at the Phil Haglund Jr. home Saturday evening for a surprise housewarming party.
25 years ago taken from the TCB 03/25/1998
DOGSBREATH DVEREAUX, THE DASTARDLY DOCTOR, PRESENTED BY CIRCLE HIGH STUDENTS
PANCAKE SUPPER BRINGS BIG CROWD
One hundred and four people came and enjoyed the pancake supper and have 1998 memberships to the museum. Bernice Bren and Verna Bjorlat organized supper and “Gubby” Schock, Glen Engen and Charlie Moline manned the griddles. Other helpers were Betty Schock, Darlene Moline, Ida Moos, Eris Vetjasa and Mary Pawlowski, Verna brought two quarts of Chokecherry syrup and Wendell brought some maple syrup. For our collectible table we had variety of things. The Schocks brought a The Schocks brought a well worn vinyl Skeezix doll that belonged to Betty as a child;a foot warmer and Montana Magazine with the story of Jacobs Brothers of Vida.
Vetjasas brought a coffee grinder and three spurs, which included an army spur.Laurine Schmidt brought two Charlie Russell prints and a spatula marked with Stith Hardware. With Stith name it had to be from Terry.
Verna Bjoralt brought a couple of lovely salt and pepper shakers from her large collection. She also brought salt dishes. Edwin and lda Moos brought an old photo album with pictures. Also a poster from Brockway Bank of 1918.They had a picture of Joe Sokoloski,Ole Rolandson,and couldn't identify a third person. It took us all quite a while to figure out it was Ensel Berg.
Bob McDonald brought an old spark plug from a Maytag washing machine. Jane Newman had an ashtray (bug) old box camera,cute metal bank and small bowl. Bessie Garoutte brought an old spoon with flat spoon shape on opposite end and Dobson printing on handle. Also a strange little box.
Charlie Moline brought his soy bean compound license plate of 1944.Many remember the animal chewed and even ate them. Wendell brought odd scale and metal hip replacements from the late Irene Pawlowski that she had changed. You can see why they se off an alarm at airports. You carry a little card to show x-ray for authorities .Also you don't have MRI.
Don Zahn brought the metal ruler to measure hog fat and a food chopper that someone thought w a pie divider, to divide pie even -so what ever! Nice of everyone to support the McCone County Museum.
OVER THE COFFEE CUP
By the calendar we should be enjoying spring--what happened? Mother nature has interrupted the mild conditions to bring snow/rain and mud over the weekend.
In Eastern Montana there are many contrasts to seasons and that is true now too. Cookie Wahl called to say she was looking out of her kitchen window Saturday and there in their yard was a robin. She was wondering if there had been any other sightings. Then Sunday in conversation with Ed and Olive Heide they said a bluebird had wintered on their farm. Olive said, "It must be a hardy bird and per-haps had a warm place to stay somewhere on the place." Ed said it came faithfully to eat food when they put it out.
Spending a few days with Ver-non and Cloey Scheer was her sis-ter, Viola Unruh from Billings. She rode down with her granddaughter, Cammie Johnson and her daughter, Cassie. Cassie,a star basketball player at West High, was invited to participate in a tournament in Wolf Point with other players from the area Another girl chosen on that joyed dinner at Schmidt's as a family time together. Donna said Monday morning that they had had more snow than Circle during the blizzard and still have three foot snowbanks by their corral. The main road is good, she went on to say, but the road to the ranch re-quires four-wheel drive vehicles.
Duane and Irene Gackle were happy to have their son, Derek,of Columbus stop for a short visit. He was enroute to Minot for the Class B Basketball tournament. Derek is a seventh/eighth grade English teacher.
Mildred Jensen has been staying home in this icy weather ,but Sun-day Bill and Marge Breitbach stopped by to take her to Schmidt's for dinner. They had recently re-turned from an extended trip through New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, on to Louisiana and Florida, where they left just before the tor-nadoes hit that area. According to Mildred, the Breitbachs said they hadn't found a place they liked better than good ol' Montana. Brandon Curtiss arrived home o Friday after being in the hospital i Bozeman. He was injured in an in Bozeman. He was injured in an auto accident there, but is recover-ing nicely.
The Evangelical Church hosted district rally on Saturday, March 21.A good crowd of church mem bers came from surrounding town to hear fine speakers, have fellow ship and a district meeting. A din ner was served to the gathering tl promoted visiting to result in a d of inspiration.
A family time was shared when little Njadle Thor Sikveland was baptized at the First Lutheran Church worship service on Sun officiated by Pastor Wes Dunba Sponsors were Heide and Reev Nelson and Rebel Nelson and members of the Sikveland and families were in attendance.
POLLY COLUMN
We opened the museum for many of the Amundson family who were here for the funeral of the last Amundson generation that was raised in the Weldon country. They really seemed to enjoy the place.I heard Gailen Kittleson telling some of the family, while showing them pictures of the Weldon store,that Uncle Theodore bought him a five cent candy bar there when he was a small boy. Always great to have those nice memories I've been hassling Lillian Stun-dahl to tell the story of her grandfather John Hendrickson,who was among the 1500 plus people who drowned when the Titanic sunk in 1912.The family was always try-ing to get more information.Her grandfather lived in Minnesota and had gone back to Finland to visit relatives. He was unfortunate to secure a ticket back to U.S. on the Titanic.Imagine Lillian will be first in line when the movie comes to our theater. Betsy(Whitmer)Jueschke of Elko,NV, is writing a recipe book and including some family history. She was looking for a record of their old phone number. They had the old crank phone and when Circle got the dial phone her dad hung the old phone on a post in the yard. This proved to be a great plaything for the Whitmer children, and the neighborhood children. I found the old one page directory which was published by Sullivan Agency.(Beverly Metts' par-ents). The directory must have beer published after 1948 for it listed Dr.Tenny ,who came that year. Whitmer's number was 26-3R(3 rings). When looking at some of old history ,the area residents got real interested in creating a telephone cooperative when telephone was added to original REA in 1949. Many people worked very hard t make Mid-Rivers a successful business over the years. Glen Cooley of Jordan won th contest to name this business in 1951.He suggested it because much of its operation would sta between Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. In 1916 the Farmers and Ranchers Telephone Co.was organized and it was purchased by Mid-Rivers in 1952. The early switch board is in the Museum.
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