Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014

Ties to Hollywood brought an actor and a director to the Glasgow area last week. Sightings of the famous actor were reported at several businesses, the airport and at a local hotel. The trip to Glasgow was short planned but got a lot of creative juices flowing for the actor Jon Voight and writer/director John Harrison. Harrison explained that about a month ago Voight gave him a call about a project idea that perhaps they might want to work on together. Doug Stebleton, a Glasgow graduate, happened to have a mutual friend that referred Voight and Harrison to ask him about Montana. Stebleton called his brother, Steve Stebleton, who helped put the trip together. The actor and director hung out with a few ranch families in the area after reading some of the history about the Etcharts and the Cornwells.

Former Opheim music teacher and Lutheran minister, Alvina Olstead stated that she had her hair cut - all 10 inches - and donated it to "The Locks of Love" in honor of Emily See, who fought a battle with cancer while Alvina was in Opheim.

If you asked anyone who has recently moved to Glasgow there would be no question or hesitation that housing is a problem in Glasgow. Nearly a dozen people attended a meeting in the city chambers at the Glasgow Civic Center to discuss the development of a housing plan, part of a $10,000 grant given to the city to help assess the need. The bid for the housing plan was given to the Greater Norther Development Corporation, a company that helps with grants, loans and community development in six different counties in Northeast Montana, including Valley County. Executive Director Martin DeWitt explained that they were working on gauging the public interest and input to help propose a housing plan.

It was a calm and beautiful sunny morning in Fort Peck. Yet, many adults and youth arrived with doubt. When it was over, they left as confident and inspired triathletes. The first annual Under The Dam Triathlon took place at 8 a.m. sharp on Sunday, Sept. 7. Twenty-five adults and nine youth participants gathered at the first Dredge Cut. Air temperature was about 50 degrees, and the water looked cold. Trepidation was visible on many faces. There was Marj Markle with bum knees and a body that she says doesn't float, but she thought, "Why not?" Wendy Glaser has a fear of putting her face under water, but swam for her team. Taylor Johnson brought his little Huffy bike.

Despite the mass amounts of rain that delayed the 16th annual FMDH Foundation Open Golf Tournament, the weather cooperated on Sunday, Sept. 7 – and it was game on. The 24 teams came out to support a great cause and great community. Placing first was the Fast Farms team of Doug Nistler, Tim Dees, Steve Bell and Dave Wilkowski. Rounding out the top four were Markle's Inc. (Lee Nelson, Kris Simensen, Marc Breigenzer, Carson Buffington) in second. Independence Bank (Sam Mudlin, Pete Helland, Chris Helland and Buck Archambeault) in third, the fourth-place entry of Lafon Copenhaver, Mike Boulds, Morris Tattoo, Noel Sansaver.

The Glasgow Scotties XC runners are cutting their times with passion. Coach K loves it. "We've just had a really good practice," coach Rod Karst told The Courier on Tuesday. "They're practicing with as much intensity as I've had with a team." At the Billings Invitational last Friday, six of eight Scottie boys ran faster over the 3 miles than they did at the Poplar invite the week earlier. Gabe Hallock was the big-time cruncher, dropping 65 seconds from 19:00 to 17:55 to clock fastest for GHS. Morgan Guttenberg improved most among girls, dropping from 27:35 to 25:50 – a mighty 1 minute and 45 seconds – to seven teammates ranked ahead of her.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999

The Homecoming King and Queen candidates show school spirit Monday by dressing up for Camouflage Day. The candidates are Billie Hughes, Ryan Truscott, Ashley Hallock, Scott Copenhaver, Nathan Molstad and Tanya Bergren. Spirit Week class competitions continue with Halloween Costume Day, Hippie Punk Rock, Semi-formal Dress-Up Day and Red & White Day.

The acrimonious atmosphere in the North Valley County Water and Sewer District has spawned a second round of petitions and the scheduling of another recall election for board president Jack Sigman. This time another board member Earl Porter is also up for a vote in the recall to be held at the general election on Nov. 2. Sigman was the subject of a recall scheduled for a vote in September 1998, but an injunction was obtained to block that election. The recall petition filed on Aug. 20 alleges that Sigman committed two violations of the Constitution of Montana in 1998.

A photograph of Faith Keys, daughter of Daryl and Carol Keys, of Fort Peck, taken by Clay Berger of Image Photography of Glasgow, was honorable mention in Herff Jones Photography Divisions' nationwide Children's Portrait Contest. The portrait of 17-month-old Faith was selected from more than 1,200 photos submitted by 40 studies for her unique posing, personality and charm as displayed in the photograph.

The Scotties had a tough weekend, suffering several losses to Havre. This was not the case with the Scottie freshmen. They came out hard and never let up. The Scotties found themselves down by two at the end of the fourth quarter. With just a few seconds remaining on the clock Glasgow's #44, Heather Hodges, fought through a triple town and to score two points on a lay up, sending the game into overtime. This close to victory the girls were not willing to let the game slip through their fings. They took the lead and never looked back, handing Havre their only defeat of the day. The final score was Glasgow 57, Havre 53.

The Lustre Lions traveled to Opheim to take on the Vikings. The Vikings held a one point lead at the end of the first. The second went the Vikings way, outscoring the Lions 27 to 25. The fourth quarter came down to the wire. The score tied at 49, six seconds left and Opheim's Tawny Solberg steals the ball, takes it down the court and shoots a lay-up to win the game for Opheim. The final score, Opheim 51, Lustre 49. Tawny Solberg led the Vikings with 21, also scoring for the Vikings were Amber Anderson nine, Jody Fossum, six, Becky Sather, five, Alanna Smith and Dawn Honrud, four and Jamie Fossum with two.

The Frazer Bear Cubs met the Hinsdale Raiders on the court this past Saturday in Frazer. Coming into the third quarter after a successful first half the Frazer Bear Cubs continued to lead the ball game. The Raiders fought to come back in the final quarter, narrowing the gap to eight points. With victory close at hand the Bear Cubs refused to give up the lead. At the end of this hard fought game, it was Frazer over Hinsdale, 50 to 42. The high scorer for Frazer was Philisha Four Star with 23. Also scoring for the Frazer Bear Cubs were Ellen Decoteau with five, Jamie Klambitt four, Ellen Four Star three, Theresa Red Dog 11 and Paulene Smoker with four. Jennifer Dull led the Raiders with 15, followed by Sheena Olson with 12, Becky Tollefson eight, Brittany Jensen, four and Desi Osen scoring three.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Sept. 12, 1974

Scotty quarterback Dale Vegge hoists his hands in the traditional touchdown symbol to the capacity crowd in fairgrounds stadium last Friday night, as Tom Johnson bucks into the Malta end zone for the clincher in Glasgow's 22-6 win over the Mustangs. Glasgow used a stubborn defense and a strong ground attack to win their home opener against non-conference Malta. Opening the door for Johnson's TD plunge were Scotties Mark Scott, Steve Sukut, and Paul Friese.

Glasgow is now the safest city for pedestrians in Montana. The City of Glasgow was presented with a pedestrian safety achievement award Monday night during the regular City Council session, representing 11 consecutive years without a pedestrian traffic fatality. Les Hanson, a director of the Montana Automobile Association for this district presented the award, a suitably engraved plaque, to city officials. The plaque commends the city for its exceptional record of leading all state cities and towns by having the longest consecutive death-free pedestrian safety record in Montana.

Glasgow's distance runners opened the 1974 cross country season on their home course last weekend, sweeping both halves of the variety-junior varsity for boys and girls by commanding margin over the Dawson County Red Devils of Glendive. Fuhrman, Glasgow's reigning State Class A Girls Cross-Country champion, romped home an easy win in 9.04, 22 seconds ahead of her nearest all-Glasgow competition. Behind Pam across the finish line were Terry Schutey at 9.26; Janine Brandt at 10.25; Louise de Montigny in 10.33 and Dara Breigenzer wrapped it up for the Lassies with a sixth-place finish in 10.41.

Carol Wesen and Jeff Sorensen have been awarded the annual traveling sportsmanship trophies by the members of the Elks Swim Club. The trophies, sponsored by Penny's of Glasgow, are given annually to the boy and girl on the swim team who displays most merit, participation and sportsmanship, determined by a vote among their team members.

Glasgow bowhunter Butch Gallagher scored his second strike on the Missouri Breaks elk herd with the six-point bull bagged opening weekend near Etchart's Stone House. Gallagher, who took a five-point bull from the herd two years ago, got a successful stick at close range and found his animal down about a mile and a half from where he stalked the herd of approximately 50 animals. The bull, dressed, skinner and quartered, tipped the scales at 440 pounds.

Valley County's first snowfall of the season began about 7 a.m., Wednesday in the northern portion of the county and is likely to continue until evening, according to the Environmental Science Services here. Rollin Shocklee, custom combiner in the Opheim area said the snow was still falling at press time Wednesday and the wind was starting to blow. Most of the snow was meting however and he reported muddy roads between Scobey and Opheim.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Sept. 15, 1949

Mrs. Adolph Westby was elected president of the Women's missionary federation for the coming year with Mrs. Anard Biem as vice president. Mrs. James Farstad became the new secretary and Mrs. Charlie Bergtoll was elected the treasurer at the meeting of the WMF in the church parlors Thursday afternoon.

In a see-saw contest that was also something of a pitcher's battle, Ossette, champion of the Northern league, downed Hinsdale 13 to 12, in 11 innings at the fairgrounds here Saturday night. It was the first contest under lights for the north country lads. Jake Trang, winning pitcher, had 13 strikeouts to his credit, while Al Combs of the losers whiffed 11 in the 3 ½ hour game, played as the first chill winds of an Alaskan storm hit northern Montana.

Monday was a "big fish" day at the C.W. Conatser farm home a few miles east of Glasgow. Mrs. Conatser set out a line baited with frogs and left it for a short time. When she returned, she pulled in a catfish that was later weighed at 12.5 pounds. The line was re-baited. Leaving it for a short time, Mrs. Conatser again returned. Her catch the second time was an 11-pound "cat."

Smoke was the principal cause of damage in a blaze originating in the stove of Dunn's Coffee shop about Sunday noon. The fire burned up a flue and started a small fire in wallboard in attic space. However, flames were extinguished by volunteer fire department members with chemicals and a small amount of water. The kitchen was damaged by smoke and the heat and the coffee shop has been closed for repairs.

The Tampico school has opened with an enrollment of 24. Mrs. Madge Martin is upper grade teacher and Mrs. Dorothy Billingsley, lower grade teacher. Pupils are Stanley Byrd, grade 8; Shirley Cornwell, Larry Martin, Ronald Martin and Robert Molvig, grade 7; James Cole and Richard Ekola, grade 6; Rose Marie Boomer, Donald Gallagher, Ray Schneider and Gary Martin; grade 5; Paul Cornwell, Gene Gallagher, Alyce Mae Movig and Lloyd Miller, grade 4; Alona Hemmert, DuAnn Miller, Allen Ekola and Gerald Boomer, grade 3; and Jackie Billingsley, Jackie Gallagher, Paul Ellefson, Charles Molvig and Mike Hemmert, grade 1.

The Nashua schools had an opening enrollment of 324, with 217 in the grades and 107 in high school, Supt C.R. Cahill reports. He expects additional enrollment before final figures are announced. He also announced an addition in the high school faculty, with Mrs. Riley Peterson as home economics teacher. She taught in Billings for 10 years. Mrs. Carl Bollinger, assisted by Mrs. Earl Snyder is in charge of the hot lunch program.