Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013

Wednesday evening, Sept. 25, brought in over 250 community members to celebrate Frazer School's adequate yearly progress (AYP) accomplishment for the 2012-13 school year. The school made a 20 percent gain in reading and math and also was above the AYP attendance threshold of 80 percent, with the elementary at 87 percent and the junior high and high school at 81 percent.

There's no one answering the phone at the Glasgow Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management. A recording at the USDA office intones, "This office is currently closed due to the lapse in federal government funding." The budget stalemate in Washington has had immediate impacts, even in the hinterlands. The funding for "non-essential" federal employees came to an abrupt halt Monday night. After midnight, most workers were furloughed for an indefinite time while Congress works out its internal power struggle.

Longtime employees in the law enforcement dispatch center will be getting a raise as a result for their long service, effective Sept. 7. The Valley County Commissioners voted Tuesday to pay an extra 25 cents an hour to employees with 10 years service and 50 cents after 20 years. Also, those on the 11 to 7 night shift will receive a 25 cents boost.

Following the big homecoming win against Shelby, the Scotties traveled to Harlem and took on the Harlem Wildcats. They were victorious, 35-0 and the Scotties are now 3-1 and ranked No. 6 in the Montana Class B football poll. They couldn't have succeeded without their standouts, All-State player Johnathon Koessl, quarterback Jason Thibault, linebacker Tanner Roness, and defensive end Jared Smith.

The Nashua Lady Porcupines traveled to Bainville on Saturday to play in a triangular against Richey/Lambert and Bainville. Their first opponent was the Richey/Lambert Fusion, where they started out slow and then fought to keep playing. They rallied together and only lost by four points in the third game. The second opponent was the Bainville Bulldogs, where they were hoping for a better match, but the Bulldogs brought their A-game.

The Glasgow Scotties girls cross country team took first with a score of 29 points in their host meet, the Glasgow Invitational at Fort Peck. The boys cross country team was lead by Bridger Sanders and Matthew Pillips, who reached the finish line in 15th and 16th respectively.

25 Years Ago

Oct. 1, 1998

At its regular meeting on Sept. 21 the Glasgow City Council passed on the first reading an ordinance amending the junk vehicle rules in town. City Attorney Dave Gorton said the proposed ordinance eliminates two loopholes, one in a city ordinance and one in a state statue. The junk vehicle ordinance will be given its second reading on Oct. 5.

Mac and Bonnie Macioroski, Fort Peck, thought last week was a bad week, until they realized they had matched all five numbers drawn on the Sept. 23, Montana Cash drawing. "Things were't going very well. We were trying to close on the sale of our trailer park and nothing was going very well. I told the guy at the title company it was the worst week of my life," said Mac. "We heard on the radio that someone in Forsyth won Montana Cash. I told Mac we needed to check our tickets. Mac bought a ticket at Kum & Go in Forsyth when we were there visiting our granddaughter." They claimed $50,000 in their winnings.

Local business people sharply criticized the Valley County Commissioners for purchasing a new sheriff's department pickup in Roosevelt County. Last week the commissioners paid $23,995 for a Dodge from Camrud Motors in Wolf Point. On Sept. 23, Mark Swanson, of Hi-Line Ford and Terry Newton, of Newton Motors, protested the action in the commissioners' chambers. They closely questioned Commissioner Marlene Erickson, the only commissioner present and Valley County Sheriff Dick Britzman about the decision to purchase outside the county.

Homecoming was a welcome setting for our Glasgow gridiron heroes last Friday night as they thoroughly thrashed the Poplar Indians. The first conference win of the year also come as a relief to a somewhat struggling young team for Chuck Severson, their first-year coach. The Scotties blasted into the winners' column with a 61-0 victory over Poplar.

Heidi Wall, of Frazer, and Dusty Karlstrom, of Glasgow, are candidates for the 1998 Dickinson State Homecoming queen and king. The coronation ceremony was Sept. 30. Wall has been active in track and field and cross country and was honored with the Lorraine C. Schumacher Award for DSU Female Athlete of the Year in 1997-98. Karlstrom has been a resident assistant in Selke Hall for the past three years. Among his activities are service as a student representative to the Presidential Selection Committee, as well as Computer Club (founding member), College Republicans, Selke Hall Council. He has also been active in intramurals and has been a Homecoming volunteer and a member of the Selke hall's float decorating committee.

Tisa Seiler, of Glasgow, earned a national championship o-mok-see high point title during the week of July 13-17, 1998, at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds in Helena. Seiler and her horse "Little Bit" rode their way to fifth place overall in the under eight division. This was Seiler's first visit to the national championship o-mok-see.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Sept. 27, 1973

Major James Christinson and the police commission are reviewing applications this week to fill five vacancies in the eight-man police department. The force dwindled to three men last week following the resignation of Chief Robert Damm, and three patrolmen, Robert West, William Derringer and Charles Kjelsrud. Another patrolman, Terry Johnson, turned in his resignation earlier this month.

A record number of entries and a new face in the winner's circle highlight last week's Courier Football contest. A total of 78 contest entries were recorded before the Friday deadline and three contestants entered the finals deadlocked with 16 correct guesses and four wrong answers. The contest field was cut to 20 games when the Idaho State – Cal Poly score was unavailable. Of the three finalists, only Francis Dahl, of Fort Peck, picked Glasgow to win the tie-breaker game with Plentywood and thus won the $10 first place check.

The Opheim Vikings ended an eight-year Homecoming drought when they defeated the invading Nashua Porkies, 36-24 in the annual game honoring Viking alumni, Saturday afternoon. Homecoming festivities kicked off on Friday night with a snake dance and bonfire rally with Coach Clyde Knudsen acting as emcee. Nancy St. John and Rick Muse were chosen Homecoming King and Queen.

Glasgow archer and Courier editor Richard E. Isaacson, won a flight championship last week in the 2nd Annual Hawaiian Open Invitational tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii. One of four annual major tournaments in national archery competition, the Hawaiian Open drew afield of 96 top archers from nearly all the 50 states. Isaacson and his wife, Joyce, combined the tournament and a one-week island holiday in a premature 25th anniversary celebration.

The Glasgow Scotties play host Saturday to the largest field of cross country runners of the season as the annual Glasgow Invitational Cross Country meet opens on the 2 ½ mile course behind the Senior High. Runners from the seventh grade to the High School from Havre, Lewistwon, Malta, Wolf Point, Sidney, Glendive, Miles City, Culbertson, raze Lustre, Flaxville, Froid, Plentywood and Baker will attend. All runners will run together without classification in the 14-school field.

With the current shortage of meat and soaring prices, Montana Fish & Game officials at the Glasgow headquarters of Region 6 have anticipated an increase in illeagal poaching of game animals. Four deer, including two tiny fawns still in their spotted coats, were confiscated from two parties of hunters caught near the reservation east of Glasgow. Two other hunters were caught with a deer, an antelope and parts of a second antelope last week near Malta. F&G officials issued a warning this week that patrols are being increased to prevent such illegal action.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Sept. 30, 1948

Lightening that apparently hit lines somewhere in Glasgow caused disruption of power here about 3 Monday morning, according to H.K. Near, Glasgow district manager of the Montana Power company. The lightening blew out a fuse in the company's main substation here. As soon as the storm subsided, the fuse was replaced.

The Opheim high school Vikings will open their 1948 six-man football season when they tangle with the Nashua Porcupines Friday in Nashua. The remaining out-of-town games are Oct. 15 at Frazer, and a game with Peerless, the date to be determined later, Coach J.J. Barnell said. The Opheim Pep club is sponsoring the sale of tickets for the home games.

Hinsdale high school's six-man football team lost by a score of 15-31 to the Nashua Porcupines in the opening game of the season played on the local field Friday afternoon. Coach Leo Pitts' Raiders led Nashua 8-6 at the quarter, trailed four points, 8-12 at the half, and held a three-point lead, 15-12 at the end of the third quarter. The final period, however was all Nashua's with the visitors scoring three touchdowns and one extra point to win the game, 31-15.