Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013

In Tuesday's municipal elections, voters in Glasgow and Nashua decided to change the names at the top. Glasgow Mayor Dan Carney, looking for his third term, lost to Becky Erickson, an 18-year veteran of the Glasgow City Council. In Nashua, Mayor Pat Hallett was defeated by Allan Bunk, who has been Nashua mayor before.

The Valley County Airport Commission has considered its options and recommended that the county assume management and services at Glasgow International Airport / Wokal Field with county employees, following the announcement by Choice Aviation that the company would terminate management and fixed base operator services on Dec. 22.

An ambitious $250,000 plan would transform Flag Pole Park at Fort Peck into a place of honor and remembrance for service men and women as Northeast Montana Veterans Memorial Park. Groundbreaking is planed for Memorial Day and fundraising has began.

At its regular meeting on Nov. 4, the Glasgow City Council accepted the resignation of Judge Dave Riggin, effective Jan. 1. Riggin was appointed city judge in April 2007.

The Glasgow High School Speech and Drama team competed in the first meet of its season on Saturday in Sidney and came home with a first place Class B drama trophy. Thirteen schools participated in this meet with Glasgow edging out Huntley Project and Baker to take first. The GHS Speech team placed third.

Earning the title of conference champions was a goal the Scottie volleyball team had been striving to achieve all season. With just one loss on the season, the girls were indeed crowned champions and headed to the District 2-B Tournament with a first place seed. Their first opponent was Wolf Point, a tough team that always puts the Scotties to the test in a long, touch contest.

It was a chilly and windy day at Scottie Field. Hopes and expectations were high among both teams hoping to continue their playoff run. The Huntley Project Red Devils traveled to town to take on the Glasgow Scotties. The Scotties won 30-7. "The win was terrific in keeping our goal alive of winning a state championship," coach Greg Liebelt said.

Hinsdale/Saco Wildfire Extinguished At District: The Wildfire played hard and fought hard for every point in the district tournament, but they just weren't in sync and had peaked a month early. It was devastating for the four seniors to not make it on to Divisionals and it was equally bad for the Wildfire fans.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Nov. 5, 1998

Richard Wessler won the Valley County sheriff race by a narrow margin, defeating Russell Copenhaver by 96 votes. David Reinhardt is the new county commissioner, gaining 66 percent of the votes over Doug Omvig. Linda Mogan will move into the judge's chair in Justice Court. She beat Kelvin Morehouse 2,049 to 1,397. Voters supported the $1.115 million high school bond issue passing it by a vote of approximately 60 to 40 percent.

Alexa Barnes and Sienna Dailey, members of Glasgow Daisy Girl Scouts, participated in the "Trick-or-Treat-So-Someone-Can-Eat" food drive Oct. 25. The two kindergarten students collected 129 pounds of food. The food drive, run by the Valley County Girl Scouts, netted nearly 2,600 pounds of food for the Valley County Food Bank.

The Valley County Treasurer's office had to seal and send 6,500 real estate tax statement envelopes last week and the new postage and sealing machine failed. Anita Steiner, the deputy Valley County treasurer, took an antique Reynolds Envelope Sealer out of a display cabinet in the courthouse lobby. The hand-cranked chain driven model worked just fine.

Chris Barstad, of Hinsdale High School, will represent Montana in the final selection for the 1998 Wendy's High School Heisman Award, said Greg McDonald of Wendy's of Montana. Barstad is one of 102 state (and the District of Columbia) winners selected from thousands of entries and will move on to a national section process that narrows the field to 12 regional winners.

Glasgow hosted the Chinook Sugarbeeters on the 30th. It was an interesting game going into overtime. The score for the first half was 6-5 and 14-13. Although Chinook wasn't that far behind, the Scotties were determined to beat them. The second half was 22-21, when the fourth quarter was over and it was a tied game. With a few seconds to go, Jennie Strommen gave it her all and shot up a great one to win the game, 43-41.

Norm Braaten, Nashua's elementary physical education instructor, recently conducted the 1998-99 local Elks Free Throw Hoop Contest. The contest is open to students who are eight to 13 years old. These winners are: Brianna Tatafu, Marisa Braaten, Justin Stein, Jacob McMurry, Katie Cole, Sara Johnson, Brian Tatafu, Trenton Stein, Brittany Black Eagle, Tarin Ball, Vance Dostert and Brett Finkbiner.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Nov. 8, 1948

Valley County's new courthouse-jail complex is now "occupied." Shortly after the County Commissioners signed the papers officially accepting the new courthouse building last week, the first Kjelstrup's Storage and Transfer truck backed up to the temporary courthouse in St. Raphael's parochial school and began to load up.

Halloween came and went rather quietly in Glasgow last week, with the only serious problem resulting from a break-in at the temporary County's Courthouse in St. Raphael's parochial school, which will result in some delay in issuing 20-30 car titles to motorists. Sheriff Dan Taylor reported an unknown number of burglars – probably juveniles – broke into the temporary courthouse Halloween night, forced entry into locked desks in the County Clerk & Recorder, County Treasurer and Assessor's offices. The only items reported missing were the car title applications with the cash for the transaction stabled to them taken from the locked desk of Mrs. Marion Goulet, county treasurer.

In their first official act of business since moving into the County Courthouse-Jail complex, the Valley County Commissioners Tuesday authorized the issuance of $800,000 in Industrial Revenue Funds for financing a 30-bed addition to the Valley County Nursing Home in Glasgow. Using the Bonds to refinance existing debt against Valley View as well as fund the new addition was made possible by a law passed in 1965 by the Montana legislature that makes financing possible at a lower interest rate because the interest on the bonds is tax exempt to the bond holders.

Jane Icenhower, Courier circulation manager, sweeps off the walk in front of the Courier office as the first snowflakes of the season fall last Thursday. One-half inch of snow fell between Thursday and Saturday with two inches reported by Tuesday evening. The Weather Man predicts periods of snow with temperatures below seasonal normals for this weekend.

The Hinsdale Raiders, girl's basketball squad and the Junior Raiders defeated Whitewater's Penguins and Junior Penguins in games played on Hinsdale's floor Saturday night. Final score in the varsity game was 41-5. Susan Court with nine points was the Raider's high scorer.

Walter Burt was named president of the Valley County Senior Citizens at a meeting in IOOF Hall last week. Other officers are Elva Crowder, vice president, and Agnes Hopstad, secretary-treasurer.

Glasgow Senior High School chorus students, under direction of Steven Hansen practice for the invitational music festival and clinic for district 12 schools starting here. Climax of the event will be a public concert Nov. 10, in the Junior High School auditorium with the spotlight focusing on the 100-voice chorus and 100-member band, composed of students in the district.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Nov. 4, 1948

Saturday night's Glasgow-Miles City contest marked the close of their high school football careers for seven Scotties. Coach Hal Meyer said the seniors playing in the game were Robert Thielke, Merlin Hovland, Mickey Luckman, George Olson, Dave Clowes, Marvin Kubler and Sever Enkerud. The Glasgow coach also reported that one man was injured in the game, half back John Dick.

Richard Lamphier, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lamphier of Glasgow, was winner of the state 4-H dairy record contest, has been awarded an all-expense trip to the National 4-H Club congress, which will be held in Chicago early in December.

Two Hinsdale men who reportedly bet and won about $4,000 on the election of Harry S. Truman were Glasgow visitors Wednesday after the election. Among the few who backed the president, reputedly with hard cash, it was reported that their money was quickly taken when they offered it at even odds on election day.

Ivy Knight was elected commander of the Military Order of Cooties organization affiliated with the Veterans of Foreign Wars at a meeting in the Veterans' hall here last week. He succeeds R.C. Fargo. Other officers elected and installed at the same meeting were Ingvald Vegge senior vice commander; Paul Timm junior vice commander; Ralph Bates, quartermaster; Faxton Castleberry, chaplain; Arnold Stene judge advocate; Curtis Beede and Orville Stagg, trustees and Dr. D.C. Bundy, surgeon.

Custer Cowboys of Miles City knocked over Glasgow 33 to 7 in the Scotties' final football contest on the field here Saturday night but the game was much better than the score indicated. Scotties went into the fourth trailing 12-7 after dominating play the third period to see the Cowboys county three times from their deceptively-handled T formation.

Glasgow seventh and eighth grade six-man football players fought to a 6-6 tie in an exhibition contest preceeding that Glasgow-Miles Cty game on the high school field Saturday night. Playing on Captain Duane Johnson's squad were Andrew Anderson, Robert Cook, Warren Eatinger, Eric Jager, Arnold Robbins, Gordon Teske, Lalon Trang and Paige William. Gene McNeil captained a squard composed of Percy Anderson, Jerre Bashinksi, Bruce, Jack Dix, Danny Gorman, Richard Mullen Arthur Swanson, Wesley Scott and Ed Storkson.