Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013

Cape Air, the nation's largest commuter airline will begin serving eastern Montana with Essential Air Service beginning Tuesday, Dec. 10. From its hub in Billings, Cape Air will operate daily, year-round flights to five regional communities, Glasgow, Wolf Point, Sidney, Havre and Glendive. Each community will have two daily round-trip flights except Sidney, which will have five daily round-trips.

Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital has recently trained "Navigators" Terry Reddy and Arleen Archambeault to answer questions on the Affordable Care Act and help uninsured community members sign up for new insurance plans.

A Glasgow boy has had a couple of great experiences with the Bobcat football team of Montana State University. Kolt Cornwell, 10, was taken to watch the team practice in August. Kolt is the son of Kirk and Britney Cornwell. He uses a wheelchair and this was noticed by the players. The linemen came over and introduced themselves and the quarterbacks made a visit. After practice he was invited on the field and the players gave him some gloves and a ball signed by the whole team. Last Saturday, Kolt went to the Bobcat home game in Bozeman with his cousins, where MSU beat UC-Davis. The team members remembered him and stopped to talk.

The Glasgow Scottie girls cross country team won its fourth consecutive state title with a commanding performance Saturday, minus their top runner all season, Josie Braaten. Rachael Zeiger crossed the finish line first for the Scotties with a time of 20:06, followed by Amanda Wolff in 10th place with a time of 20:13. Both girls qualified for All-State with those finishing times.

The Scottie volleyball teams wrapped up its final two matches of the regular season with big wins form all three teams. Megan Dailey led in kills and digs, JoLynn Reyling racked up all but one of the team's 21 assists and Sadie Sukut piled up five blocks on the night against Glendive. Harlem came to town on Saturday afternoon and it was more of the same good fortune for the Scotties. Playing through the emotion of their final regular season match and honoring their seniors, all three teams were victorious once again.

Playoff Bound Scotties crush the Cowboys. Next Up: Huntley Project in Glasgow's first home playoff game in five years. It was a beautiful Friday night in Conrad for the Glasgow Scotties' final regular season game. With anticipation in the air, the Scotties took the field ready to play hard and finish out the regular season strong. Although this game was non-conference and the Scotties' playoff position was already secured the players were still anxious to perform well and they did, winning 35-22.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 22, 1998

The clubhouse at Sunnyside Golf Club was torn down on Wednesday, to be replaced by a building moved here from Scobey. The concrete block kitchen wing was not destroyed. The 60-year-old building was built as a barracks during the dam days at Fort Peck. It was moved to its present location and became the Skylark Club, then the golf clubhouse.

Glasgow D.A.R.E. Car won the 1998 Outstanding Vehicle award from the Montana DARE officers in convention in Billings. Glasgow Police Officer Brien Gault and Valley County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Tymofichuk talk to student about Drug Abuse Resistance Education and give the car exposure whenever they can.

Several projects have been done recently at Fort Peck Lake, according to Lake Manage Roy Snyder. At Flat Lake, the boat ramp road has been widened. More riprap was put on Markle's Point across from the breakwater to protect it. A two-mile nature trail from Kiwanis Park to the fishing ponds and trout stream has been blacktopped, at a cost of about $164,000. The trail is now suitable for walking, biking and rollerblading.

In a summary of recent seventh and eighth grade basketball games, Nashua as been on the winning side in hmost of them. On Sept. 30, Nashua won over Frazer, 47-9. Oct. 2, Jordan came to Nashua and Jordan ended upon the top side of the scoreboard, 22-19.

Jessica Reinhardt and Cody Palm were chosen to wear the crowns as Queen and King of Hinsdale's Homecoming last week.

Free delivery of groceries to residents of Hinsdale has once again become a reality since Scott and Lorene Jaynes took over the grocery store. The young couple offers more than free delivery in their new business, JayCo Foods. "We have added a selection of over 200 movies, available to rent," said Lorene. "We also have added five-gallon containers of spring water to our inventory and we are in the process of applying to become a WIC retailer."

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 25, 1973

The Glasgow Lions celebrated its 15th anniversary at special Charter Night ceremonies at Sunnyside Golf Club. Attending were H.R. Helland, charter member of the local club; Bob Baker, president; and Wallace Blue, Lions Zone, Chairman from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.

The police department is back to a seven-man force this week with the new chief, Tom Grewe to begin his duties on a full-time basis Nov. 1. Officers hired last week were Craig Luse and Tom Green. Lt. Bill Archambeault, a 19-veteran of the local police department, Russell Glaeske, Keith Sorenson and Bruce Larsen, who was hired a few weeks ago, complete the seven-man force.

The Glasgow Scotties parlayed four Cowboy errors and a lot of hard-nose football into a 14-0 victory over previously unbeaten Miles City, under the fairground stadium lights here Saturday night, in a game that would have to rank high in the Glasgow record book of football thrillers.

Glasgow's Frosh football squad broke a defensive contest wide open in the final chapter last Saturday, and scored the deciding touchdown in the final 20 seconds to defeat the Poplar Jayvees, 12-6. After three quarters of pure defense and a 0-0 tally, Poplar hit the scoreboard first, but Glasgow struck back with a 10-yard pass from Dennis Sulser to Ken Parker that carried them to the Poplar 1-foot line where Kent Schlinder plunged in for the score.

A capacity crowd of spectators lined the streets of Nashua Saturday for the Nashua Porkies homecoming event which started with a parade of several floats from the high school down Main Street. Highlights of the evening was the crowning of the king and queen, Lana O'tremba and Joe Phillippi. Nick Brown, Pep Club president conducted the crowning ceremonies assisted by Diane Loh. Princes and princesses were Paul Tihista, Mike Heikens, Randy Weinmeister, Wanda Daley, Gayna Reimche and Susan Ihnat. Servers were Cynthia Weinmeister, Cindy Nickels and Tami O'tremba.

Paula Pehlke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Pehlke, of Glasgow, spoke at various club meetings as well as assemblies in the Glasgow Junior and Senior High Schools recently on her experiences in France this summer under the American Field services student exchange program.

Making cuddly teddy bears, Christmas stockings and other items for the Nov. 17 bazaar sponsored by the Association of University Women in St. Raphael's Center are members of AAUW Flora Coghlan, Roberta Barstad and Sharon Orednick. Proceeds will go into the scholarship/fellowship fund.

75 Years Ago,

Thursday, Oct. 21, 1948

Recent 4-H baby beef sale at the Glasgow livestock sales yards not only brought an enthusiastic response from buyers but will aid in promoting both the 4-H and livestock feeding programs in the county. Money received by Valley County 4-H club members at the recent baby beef sale here will, in every case go at least in part with more high grade or registered animals. County Agent W.R. Aldworth asked each clubber who had animals at the sale to write him a note telling of plans for use of the money.

The Glasgow High School Scotties lost a 34-7 game to a superior Dawson County High School team Saturday night in Glendive. Although the game was never in doubt, there were several outstanding features in an otherwise lackluster game. One of these was the weather, which hovered near zero throughout the whole game. Another was the smooth running attach of the host Red Devils.

Steve Urs, president of the Valley Sportsman's association, may win his own award rather than one offered by the association in its currently fish derby that closes Nov. 1. The president caught a nine-point pike at Vandalia Dam Saturday afternoon. It is the largest entry up to the time in the derby.

Mr. and Mrs. Burton Davenport have sold their farm and machinery near Nashua to Ingvar Barstad of Glasgow, and will move to a farm near Missoula, Nov. 1. Francis Rusher has purchased their herd of 20 Holstein cows.

Elmer Cotton was elected president of the Tampico Farmers Union local at its meeting in Tampico hall Saturday night. He will succeed E.O. Wagner. Other officers are C.J. Maalerud, vice president; Roberta Cotton, secretary-treasurer and Chris Molvig, Ben Kolstad and Erwin Wagner, executive board members.

Mrs. Henry Rongstad was instilled as president of the Nashua Parent-Teacher dissociation at a meeting in the Nashua high school auditorium Thursday night. Mrs. H.E. Hill conducted the installation.