Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
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Sue (Penner) Baker, 93, died Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, of natural causes at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, Mont. She was born on her grandfather's homestead in Waterloo Township, North Dakota, on Aug. 17, 1920, to Peter and Mary (Harder) Penner. She was married to Cameron W. Carswell on Sept. 19, 1944. Later she married John Alfred Baker on Oct. 14, 1946. They lived in California, many places in Montana, and Williston, N.D. She was a "nanny" and did sewing for families. She worked on the...
Ready to stroll? The annual Christmas Stroll to celebrate the holiday season arrives in downtown Glasgow at noon this Saturday, Nov. 30, and last until 5 p.m. Those participating in the stroll with local merchants get a chance to win $100 in Chamber Big Bucks. Receipts for any purchases made that day can be turned in to the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture office by Thursday, Dec. 5, for a chance to be reimbursed for up to $100 of that person's purchases for the day. The winner will...
Adeline J. L. Estenson, 80, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at the Valley View Nursing Home in Glasgow, Mont. She was born April 28, 1933, in Scobey, Mont., the daughter of Bert and Mabel (Nortstrom) Estenson. The family moved to Fort Peck in 1934 and then to Peerless where she began her first year of schooling. Then the family moved to North Hinsdale where she finished her schooling. She worked at the Marette Rest Home in Helena for years till she had a carnival accident that left her with a bad...
The Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture will once again be hosting the Saskatoon Police Pipe Band during the 2013 Glasgow Scottie Homecoming Festival weekend. The band will be a part of the Scottie Homecoming Parade on Friday, Sept. 20, at 2:30 p.m., the Scottie Booster Club tailgate party at GHS at 6 p.m., and halftime of the Scottie vs. Shelby football game. On Saturday morning the band will perform at the Kiwanis Club Pancake Breakfast at 9 a.m. They will also play at the start of...
Hjalmar Arnold Tweten, 91, died Thursday, July 18, 2013, of natural causes at the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Mont. Although our hearts are broken, we celebrate his joyous return to the arms of our Heavenly Father. He was born in a little log house in Nashua to the late Jacob and Jensina (Hartvikson) Tweten on March 17, 1922. He went to grade school at a country school and then went to Nashua for high school where he graduated in 1941. In the fall of 1941, he went to sheet...
Ann Louise (Nass) Chouinard, 90, affectionately known as “Gramma Ann,” passed away peacefully July 2, 2013, in the arms of her daughter, Jean. She was born Oct. 20, 1922, in Libby, Mont., the youngest of five children born to Joseph and Theresa Mahler Nass. She moved to Glasgow in 1929, graduating from Glasgow High School in 1940. She attended Columbus School of Nursing in 1942 and worked for Dr. CB Larson and Dr. Nils Agneburg. In 1946, she married Warren Joseph Chouinard, and raised five chi...
Everybody at Nemont Manor enjoyed the comfortable wooden bench at the end of the sidewalk, but it was getting weathered. People were afraid it would fall apart, and that was a shame, since it was a memorial to a resident, Martha Luck. Gordon Olson, a Nemont Manor resident since 2007, decided to rescue the bench. Olson disassembled the wooden slats from the iron sides. The Manor’s maintenance man, Jeff Roberton, cut oak for the new slats, which Olson sanded, stained and mounted back onto the i...
The Courier welcomes Kitty Lou Rusher to the Opinion page. She'll be writing a monthly column on treasures at the Valley County Pioneer Museum. A most interesting slender volume has been added to the archival collection of the Valley County Pioneer Museum. “The Gerspacher Brothers” chronicles the brothers' (Joe, Matt, Ed) arrivals to America (from Germany) up to the time each married. Wonderful photographs and postcard replications abound. A fascinating excerpt from a 1916 Glasgow Courier recounts that 34 of 51 applicants – including Matt...
