Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014

The people of the small town of Nashua have once again proven that small town characteristics are some of the most valuable assets we can possess. Robert Buck, a junior at Belt High School, was injured during a football game and was in the ICU in Great Falls. Nashua Athletic Director Jessica Nagy explained that after students and faculty read the story, they saw the GoFundMe account and a fundraising drive went underway. All efforts combined allowed the students of Nashua to send a check for $1,169 from the athletic department to the Buck family to aid in medical expenses. Nagy said

$500 was raised from community donations alone during the game Saturday night. Nashua won their Homecoming game against Opheim and several Opheim community members also donated to the cause.

It's been a three year effort that has grown and started to turn heads around the state. The efforts of Hinsdale Ag Teacher Patty Armbrister and Hinsdale students have created something special, a possible model for other schools and teachers to follow. This spring the school was awarded for the second year the EcoStar Award, which was recognized in September during the celebration of Pollution Prevention Week. Montana State University gives commercial enterprises and nonprofit organizations statewide recognition for their effort each year. This year 24 groups were recognized, including Hinsdale School.

Opheim has enough girls to field a volleyball team for the first time since the 2009-10, and they had only girls basketball that year. Currently they have 11 kids in high school, two boys and nine girls, three of whom are exchange students. They'll play girls basketball this year as well. So nice to have them back in the district rotation. Delaney Beil set the tone of this match in the very first volley of the very first game against Saco/Hinsdale Wildfire when she took a pass from Alana Malmend and made a perfect set to Jada Sudbrack who hammered a nail to the far right corner for the score. That's not to say these Opheim girls weren't tough. They proved they were in the next game when they took the Wildfire to OT, finally losing 27-29 in an extremely hard fought game on both sides of the barrier.

Fishin' for the Cure, a Montana-based organization that builds public awareness of childhood cancer and raises funds to support childhood cancer research, hosted it's seventh annual Montana fishing derby. The event on Aug. 16 at Rock Creek Marina on Fort Peck Lake was attended and supported by nearly 200 gracious people – with 38 fishing teams and 107 fishermen – helping raise money for childhood cancer research. Second place went to Kirk Boyer and Adam Morehouse, of Glasgow, with 20.98 pounds.

Cool. The Scottie Invitational at Kiwanis Park in Fort Peck was cool. The temperatures cooled down into the 50s on Invite Saturday, helping the Glasgow XC runners do what they set out to do. Cut times.

Cool. "This year was perfect weather," junior Alex Simensen of the Glasgow girls. The defending state champion girls placed first in the team standings with 43 points, six ahead of Glendive on the fast, flat course. Leading them with some season-best times were overall girls winner Josie Braaten in 18:43, Amanda Wolff at 19:32 in second and Simensen in 11th at 20:04. For the boys, it was Glendive first and Glasgow second. Gabe Hallock led the Glasgow boys in 17:10, ninth overall and within 11 seconds of getting into the 16s that he's shooting for.

The Nashua Lady Porcupines enjoyed a three-game match victory last Saturday over the visiting Opheim Vikings. The scores were 25-17, 25-9 and 25-12. Leading the Lady Porcupines were Tasha Chamberlain with three of Nashua's five aces, Faith Keys and Chamberlain with three kills each among Nashua's total of 11, Chloe Koessl with seven of nine team assists, and Koessl with one dig.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999

It's been a long run, but Roy Ellsworth has finally decided to cut it off. Any customers who need Roy's special kind of trim has better make plans to drop in there soon because the oldest barbershop in Glasgow will close on Oct. 30, after 45 years in business. Ellsworth practiced in four downtown Glasgow locations for 38 years. Eight years ago he moved the business to its present location next ot his house on the Fort Peck Highway on the edge of town.

A new bank holding company, Milk River Banquo, Inc. has been organized by Jim Carney, Cheri Doll, Gary Howell, Dean Kienenberger, Richard Kingsley and Art Lundstrom. Milk River Banquo has purchased the Malta Banquo, Inc. shares of Milton J. "Swede" Olsen and Roger L. Simonson, both of Whitewater and G. Ross Robinson of Saco. Malta Banquo, Inc. is a bank holding company that owns First Security Bank of Malta and Valley Bank of Glasgow. Robinson and Simonson have resigned as directors of Malta Banquo, Inc., First Security Bank and Valley Bank. Cheri Doll has been appointed as a director to the First Security Bank and Valley Bank Board of Directors.

The Nashua-Frazer-Lustre (NFL) football team fought hard against the Lambert-Savage Furies this past weekend at Nashua's Homecoming. The NFL was defeated by the Furies in a close 12 to six game. The fourth saw the NFL on the board for the first time thanks to a three-year run by Mark Toews. The NFL rushed for 113 yards led by Jason Tatafu with 48 yards and Mark Toews with 65 yards. The NFL passed for 18 yards, all of which were received by Jason Tatafu.

Lisa Toews is The Glasgow Courier Athlete Of The Week. Toews is a 17-year-old 5'3" senior at Lustre Christian High School. Toews believes that sportsmanship is "giving everything you've got in a game, but when other people are down you help them up. When you play hard people will get knocked down but you help them up." Toews is also active in her youth group, student council, National Honor Society and is present of her Senior Class.

The Scottie Cross Country team was in East Glacier this past weekend. Four inches of snow and 45 degree weather did not slow the Scotties down at all. Mary Beth Wilson led the ladies the whole way through, placing fifth with a time of 22:03. Leading the way for the boys team was Mike Heikins taking 13th place with a time of 18:29.

The Hinsdale Raiders took on the Dodson Coyotes in Dodson this last week. The fourth saw the Raiders outscore the Coyotes nine to eight for a final score of 44 to 41 Raiders. Both teams were in foul trouble throughout the game and it was fouls that nearly lost the game for the Raiders as Dodson was able to sink 14 of their 26 attempts from the line. Scoring for the Raiders were Sheena Olson with 27, followed by Becky Tollefson and Desi Osen with seven a piece. Jennifer Dull with two and Tami Barnard contributed one to the Raider's victory.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 3, 1974

Appearing during the half-time program at the Glasgow Scotties and the Plentywood Wildcats Friday night are King Steve Sukut and Queen Denise Etchart with attendance Amy Newton and Dirk Monson.

Glasgow's distance runners totally dominated their own Glasgow Cross-Country Invitational fielding the winning teams in all seven events, scoring one perfect tally, setting three meet records and then caping the day with Doris Mahugh's stunning upset win in the Girls Varsity event. Lloyd Knudsen, Jeff Secor, Rick Larkin and Aaron Fogelman finished 4-8-10-16 behind the leaders to complete the 41-point total necessary for the Glasgow team victory. The 31 girls took off in a pack. Most of the crowd was caught by surprise about nine minutes later when Mahugh broke over the hill above the finish line all alone.

Jeff Icenhower, a senior at Glasgow High School, received a letter of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, according to Francis Loomer, principal. Icenhower was the only youth among the 168 seniors at GHS to be named a merit program commended student. He is among the 38.000 commended students named on the basis of their high performance on the 1973 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).

When Mrs. Sam (Gretchen) Ohlson Sr. prepares a meal in her large, comfortable country kitchen on the Ohlson farm south of Nashua, it's mostly home grown and made from scratch. She's an experienced hand at milking cows and making cheeses and butter. With their fanning mill, she cleans wheat, than grinds it into flour for breads, cakes, pies and cookies. And her green thumb talents come into play in the garden that yields bushels of vegetables for canning, freezing and drying.

Scotty Mike Edwards works each football practice session like it was a conference game and last Friday it paid off with his receiving the Norm Thompson memorial Award for his efforts in Glasgow's 44-8 win over Plentywood at Homecoming.

Opheim - At half-time Mike Morey and Brenda Parcel, juniors, were crowned king and queen. Other candidates were Donita Padgett and Sam Feezell, seniors; Roxi Beck and Norman Sillerud, sophomores; Carol Urick and Mike Walstad, freshmen. Miss Parcel was presented a bouquet of roses. The princesses were each given a single rose.

1974 Nashua Girls Basketball Squad – Nashua girls basketball squad returns to action this weekend in the Saco Invitational Tournament, after opening their 1074 sesion with a narrow loss to Miles Cit's Jayvees. The '74 squad includes Coach Cathy Stevens, Vickie Nickels, Cindy Nickels, Lisa Ferguson, Val McDonald, Cynthia Weinmeister, Heather Amestoy, Connie Helgeson, Laurie Ottmar, Kathy Irwin, Charlene Hill, Loretta Doucette, manager Connie Murch, Karyn Stover, Jeanne Heikens, shelly Erickson, Alice Stover, Lori Ferguson, Cindy Hagen, Betty Jo Heikens, Liza LaRoche, Kelly Reimche and Sherry Erickson.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 6, 1949

Three phases in the development of the First Baptist church of Glasgow are shown. The Rev. J. Maurice Hupp, first pastor of the church, first served here in 1915 and is credited with "building" the local church. The present pastor, the Rev. Joseph Baird Gleason, preaching to the congregation before remodeling was done. The lower view shows part of the auditorium after a recent extensive reconstruction project was completed. Baptists had their first church services here in a tent, then met in the Odd Fellows Hall. The cornerstone of the present structure was laid April 9, 1915. A parsonage was built in 1937. This week, Glasgow Baptists are observing their 35th anniversary and rededication of the church.

Possibility that the movement for an east-west airline along the northern route through North Dakota and Montana may be revived was expressed by Paul J. Campbell in a talk at the Chamber of Commerce dinner in the high school. Mr. Campbell announced that a meeting of highline airline boosters will be held Oct. 15, to discuss possibilities of renewing the campaign. Movement for the route began about six years ago, followed by organization of the Northern Air Route Development association, with membership from Grand Forks, N.D., to western Montana. Subsequently, Northwest Airlines filed application to operate route through this year, then an application was filed for service between Spokane and the Twin Cities by the Great Northern Airlines.

Glasgow Scotties, after two contests away, open a series of home games here Saturday night meeting the Laurel Locomotives for the first time in the history of the two schools. The Scot Squad are bob Baker, Bob Gilluly, Sanfred Ekola, John Dalby, Max Russell, Bunky Sullivan, Gary Boyles, Glenn Dix, Eldon Trubell, Dennis Jackson, Chuck Worley, Chuck Eayrs, Manual miller, Martin Nelson, Jim Kaneski, Lawrence Trubell, Roy Wetzel, Howard Christenson, John Dick, Darrell Cole, Coach Hal Meyer, Jim Sullivan, Gene McNeil, Jerry Edwards, Marvin Jackson, Bob Jackson, Bob Keagy, Ruben Kuzmaul, Bill Molzien, Ramon Delay, Chuck Sternhagen, Larry Loney, Assistant Coach Norm Dahl and Manager Dan McLaughlin.

A between-halves feature at the Glasgow-Laurel football game Saturday night will be a twirling exhibition by Glasgow High School majorettes and drum major, Director Roy Snyder announced. Each girl will present a short solo drill, along with unisonal twirling. The school-city band will also play during the game. Members of the group are Pat Seibert, drum major; Lael Baker, Rita Trubell, Charlotte Dahl, Myrna Wright and Charlotte Storkson. The band will also furnish music for the twirlers. Mr. Snyder said school band enrollment is now 105. More beginners will be started as soon as lesson schedules can be arranged.

"It Pays To Be 90 Years Old" These were the words of Mrs. Marlene Shaw last week after scores of friends had called on her over a period of several days at "open house" held for her by Mrs. Sara Fey at 841 Third Avenue South, where Mrs. Shaw makes her home. Mrs. Shaw is surrounded by some of the many flowers brought for her. "I don't know how they knew my birthday date," Mrs. Shaw commented. "I quit having birthdays about 10 years ago." Mrs. Shaw was born in Norway, Sept. 26, 1859. She was only six when she came to the United States with her parents and they settled in Ames, Iowa. As Mrs. Shaw puts it, "in our old age we moved to Montana." That was in 1912 when they homesteaded near Opheim. They made their home on the farm until 1921.