Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014

The old neon sign is nostalgic for many in the Glasgow community. It's probably one of the few neon signs of its kind left in the area. The bright flash of red, with a touch of green, is familiar to locals and something people were excited to see turned back on after a short hiatus. Sam's Supper Club was sold to new owners not long after the tragic death of Barb Marsh, co-owner of the restaurant. Joe Younkin finalized the sale several weeks ago to the new owner, Scott Woodward. Woodward, a Glendive native, already owns a successful restaurant, the Yellowstone River Inn. He was looking to expand and knew the historical Sam's Supper Club was up for sale. After some time in the community, the new manager of the location, Brandylee Loran and Shawn Hooks, started to hear about the history of the place and learned about what people loved about the place of the past. While revamping the supper club, they ended up bringing back some things from the past, including the windows out the front and a wall that separated the bar from the dining room.

It's time to celebrate your homegrown vegetables this week. As it's National Farmers Market Week, salute to those hard workers that keep the local farmers markets open and running is deserved. The farmers market in Glasgow has been going on for at least 25 years and Tammi Dahl has hopes it will continue for years to come. While the local farmers market is small, it's also a favorite hangout spot for complimentary coffee, donuts and cookies. Neighbors can visit with neighbors at the Red Rock Plaza, once known as Magruder's.

It takes a few months for Student Resource Officer Robert Weber, of the Glasgow Police Department, to scout out the right students to apply for the job. The job is heading to the Junior Police Leadership Academy, a week long camp that's fully sponsored by the Montana Association of Chiefs of Police that takes place in Helena at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy. This year he recommended the camp to recent Glasgow High School graduate Lachlan Vaira.

Still cutting time going into the finals, the Glasgow Kiwanis Thunder Swim Team had a solid performance from 22 swimmers at the state meet in Conrad this past weekend. Out of the 22 state qualifiers, 13 swimmers qualified for the finals on Sunday and went on to bring home three champions, six second-place and six third-place finishes. That gives the Thunder a fourth place in the A Division with 232 points, or ninth overall out of 22 teams from throughout Montana that competed in the state meet. Bitteroot Swim Team was the state champion with 736.5 points, followed by Lewistown with 577 points – the best of the eastern division this season.

Valley View Home held its 45th annual barbecue on July 16. This year was extra special as VVH administrator Kandi Svenningson and board president Brian Fuhrman awarded plaques to the inaugural board members from 1969. Of the original nine board members, all but two either were located or their family members were located. The original board members were Gordon Bollinger, Leslie Hanson, Buell Hayward, Pauline Henningsen, Donald Lees, O.E. Markle, Theron Risa, Conrad Tvedt and Byrnece Urs. The families of Pauline Henningsen, Les Hanson and Buell Hayward came to the festivities and were able to receive their plaques in person.

The Nashua High School Class of 1974 met for its 40th reunion this summer at the Kiwanis Park in Fort Peck. Classmates in attendance were David Wallem, Joe French, Duane Weinmeister, Joe Phillippi, Paul Tihista, Rusty Nicol, Cathy (Garsjo) Doyan, Janice (Meland) Lawrence, Lori (Hill) Viste, Pearl (Daley) Wagner, Wanda (Daley) Dale, Beverly (Tweten) Eligie, Karen Waarvik and Gayle (Heikens) Bredling, and John Turner.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Aug. 12, 1999

The Fort Peck Dam Museum and Interpretive Center has its first two dinosaur exhibits, ready to delight the visitors when the Museum is built. They are the fulfillment of a promise that Notre Dame paleontologist Dr. Keith Rigby made to the Interpretive Center organizers that he would get them finished to start off the hoped-for herd of 60 great beasts. Rigby donated a complete stegosaurus and Brigham Young University donated a huge triceratops skull. They were on display Sunday at the open house held in the dinosaur field station in Fort Peck. They stand alongside Peck's rex, which is still a work in progress.

Fort Peck fish hatchery proponents are elated by news that the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has decided to lease land from the Corps of Engineers for constructing and operating a multi-species fish hatchery. "This is a huge step," said Chuck Lawson, of Glasgow, chairman of the grassroots committee, that has worked to establish the hatchery. "Fish and Game have made a commitment, the first they've made. I think this means they're going to build the hatchery."

Anna Fahlgren won reserve champion with her cow/calf pair. She also won the Doctor's Award and a check for her entry in the areas of health, nutrition safety. Walter Ozark, took tops in horse judging. Courtney Hanson and Miss Sonny Bar Leo (Maddie) won first in senior horse showmanship, colt to maturity, costume contest and showmanship, western pleasure and trail – 14 and up.

Glasgow Swim Team Places In State Meet with 233 points, coming in fifth place. Bantam Girls – Eight And Under saw Cassidy Erickson place eighth in the 100 I.M .; Emilee Morehouse place fourth, Loni Fogle, place seventh, Anna Breigenzer place 16th and Lindsey Nix place 18th. In the Midget Boys – Ages Nine-10 saw Mitch McIntyre place second in the 100 I.M. with 1:23.62, a new record. Midget Girls – Ages Nine-10 saw Sara Ann Wiens placed sixth and Brandy Morehouse place 15th.

The Overall Reserve Champion Market Swine owned by Loren Nelson, weighed in at 238 pounds and brough $2 a pound from Roy Siefert, of Siefert Construction. Norwest Bank, represented by Bruce Glennie, had the top bid of $1.50 a pound for the Nelson-Swanson Memorial Steer. The steer, donated by Robert Fossum, weighed 1,060 pounds.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Aug. 8, 1974

Jeanne Collins, a 15-year-old junior at Nashua High School, captured Montana's champion junior fiddling trophy following in the footsteps of her brother, the late Mike Collins, who had win fiddling honors in the United States and Canada. In addition to the trophy earned as top junior fiddler, Miss Collins holds the Mike Collins' Memorial Trophy for the next year. Sponsored by the Montana State Fiddlers Association, the memorial trophy carries Miss Collins' name on the third brass plate with nine winners to go before the trophy is retired to the Fiddlers Hall of Fame in Polson.

Cathy Tvedt, of Glasgow, who will appear at the Northeast Montana Fair this week, rides Traffic Note and chases a calf at the National College Rodeo championship finals at Montana State University in Bozeman in June. She was selected queen on the bases of horsemanship, poise, personality and appearance.

Workmen were busy Tuesday afternoon with the assembly of midway rides that will attract hundreds of Valley County young people to the 1974 Northeast Montana Fair in Glasgow. The carnival rides of the Inland Empire show are always among the first of the annual Fair highlights to arrive and signal the start of the biggest fun week of the year for Glasgow area youngsters.

Deaconess Hospital employees have pledged over $40,000 to the fund drive to modernize the Glasgow hospital facilities. The announcement that the hospital employees' campaign had pledged a total of $40,198.45, over $15,000 more than the $25,000 goal set for them by Operation Update – came Tuesday afternoon at the final report meeting. The dining room at Deaconess rang out with cheers of happy hospital employees when Pat Bondy and Dwight Bramble, co-chairmen of the Employees Division fund drive, announced the amount pledged to the Hospital modernization program.

Glasgow Distributors, runnerup in the city league and district playoff winners, open their bid Friday for the State Slow-Pitch Softball championship to be played this weekend on the Helena diamonds. The team includes George Fairclough, Ken Niekens, Dan Burns, Don Elletson, Darrell Synon, coach Ken Bondi, Kevi Roth, Ken Scott, Mark Pippin, Jim Schmidt, Lefty Fairclough, sponsor Bert Osen, of Glasgow Distributing and Travis Scott.

Fourth Yard Of The Week honors for the season go to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Whitman at 908 Fourth Avenue North. Judges were Mrs. Jane Crawford, chairman, and Mrs. Hope Gilbert and Mrs. Gertrude Waitschies, of the Glasgow Women's Club, co-sponsor of the annual project with the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Aug, 11, 1949

Vic's café, previously operated by Vernon Dostert and Carl Nelson, was purchased by Ruth Hill and Keneva Keil. They took possession Monday.

The Opheim community was aroused twice Sunday by fire alarms. About 10, an alarm was turned in on a prairie fire seven miles west of Baylor. It was thought to have been started during the night by lightning, when there were several dry thunderstorms. It was put out without much damage in spite of a strong wind. Another storm about 8, northwest of town, caused another alarm. It was near Didrick Johnson's farm. However, the rain that soon fell extinguished the blaze. A reported .2 of an inch of rain fell in the Roanwood area.

Electricity came to 14 more eastern Valley County farms Friday with the energizing of 23 miles of additional lines to the South Bench community by the Valley County Electric Co-Op. Construction of the lines were started in June and completed last week. Farmers in the South Bench area who had signed up for the REA electricity are Waino Klind, John Nurmi, Carlo Porteen, John Porteen, Claude Hatleberg, Albert Schultz, Enoch Kuki, Erick Kuki, John Bissila, Arvid Faraasen, William Porteen, Gust Honga, Ole Gisley and John Loberg. Most of them had finished wiring their houses and were able to "light up" Friday evening.

Pamela Ann, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Nichol, who returned from England Friday, isn't exactly a girl without a country. But she will be a citizen of two nations until she reaches her 21st birthday. Pamela Ann was born while the Glasgow residents were visiting Mr. Nichol's relatives overseas. Her parents are United States citizens. But inquiry at the nearest consulate in Britian brought the response that Pamela will have her own choice in the matter. "She's British by birth but American by nationality," her father commented. "There's no question what she'll be – an American."