Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014

Sometimes a namesake can have more sentimental value and meaning, other times it's about carrying history. The Glasgow School Board discussed a possible decision on naming the new elementary school building at the school board meeting that took place on Wednesday, Oct. 8. What would seem like a simple decision, turned out to be more complicated. A survey was open to the public for about a week. The survey asked if the new school would remain Irle Elementary, be named Glasgow Elementary, or become West Side Elementary. The results surprised a few school board members. About 64 percent voted for Irle, 27 percent voted for Glasgow and 8 percent voted for West Side, virtually eliminating the third option.

School board members and a few school employees took a tour of the new elementary school construction before the school board meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 8. While there was obviously a long way to go in construction, the new building is taking shape and the vision is becoming a reality. Project Manager for Sletten Cliff Garness walked along the construction site with school board members, as well as Glasgow's School District Owner's Representative Eric Hulteng and Superintendent Bob Connors, and pointed out various points of the building and helped those on the tour visualize the progress.

And the winner is ...The Glasgow Scotties girls fall sports teams. None of the girls were injured in Monday night's annual Powder Puff football game before a decent crowd at Scottie Field. "Lots of current fall athletes were on the field for both teams," GHS activities director Brenner Flaten, who walked the sidelines overseeing play, told The Courier. Doing battle with plenty of emotion and some hard hitting were two teams not on the Scottie fall sports schedule: the Booty and the Beast in black and The Gats in green. B&B ended up edging Gang Green, 16-12. Alex Simensen, who knows a bit about running with Glasgow XC, scored both touchdowns and 2-point conversions for the Booties. Scoring TDs for The Gats were volleyball player Dana Hughes and Auguste Salyards.

A turnover, bad break or penalty could end this amazing possibility in a flash, but here it is: If MaxPreps' top-ranked Montana Class B Scotties shut out visiting Plentywood on Friday, they'll have shut out all of Northern 2B for the season. First came Harlem. Then Malta and Wolf Point. None scored against the Big Dawg D. Now Plentywood, 0-5, gets its shot at 7-0 Glasgow.

The Glasgow junior high cross country team concluded its official season on Saturday, Oct. 11, at the Sidney Invitational. While the boys wrapped up the season with an undefeated record, the girls have steadily improved over the past seven weeks as well, ending with double crowns by winning in Havre (Oct. 4) and Sidney. No Glasgow junior high boys team has ever won in Havre until this year. Coach Tim Phillips, finishing his 14th year as the junior high XC coach, presented awards to each athlete after the meet. Eighth-grader Alaina Sallee earned the Most Valuable Runner. She has competed at every meet and consistently placed in top 10.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999

Glasgow City Councilman Ed Tipton was elected president of the Montana League of Cities and Towns at the state municipal association's recent conference in Bozeman. He was elected by a unanimous vote of delegates representing almost all of the incorporated municipal governments across the state. Tipton has been an officer of the League of Cities and Towns for the past three years and has also served as a member of the Board of Directors.

A field of bright orange paper pumpkins is growing at Gordon's Warehouse grocery store. Every tone is a Great Pumpkin, a contribution to help save the lives of children suffering from cancer, pediatric AIDS and other catastrophic illnesses. Gordon's is one of the many businesses from Glasgow to Poplar and Scobey to Opheim participating in the Coors Halloween Pumpkin Pin-Up Promotion, in cooperation with Blue Rock Beverages to benefit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Last year 40 to 50 businesses helped sell pumpkin pin-ups. Northeastern Montana is a top fundraising area of the state and Glasgow has always outperformed the rest of the area, according to Rick Robbins, area manager of Blue Rock.

Valley County 4-H was represented by four leaders, two ambassadors and a county agent at the Montana 4-H Leadership Forum at Chinook on Oct. 8-9. The Forum is held annually in different locations around the state. Inspirational speakers and workshops were arranged to provide 4-H leaders, parents and junior leaders with new ideas, practical experiences and innovative programs to help them influence over 10,000 Montana 4-H members this coming year. Dana Donovan, Valley County Ambassador and State Officer conducted a workshop with the other state ambassadors on what the team has to offer this year for youth leadership. Katie Krause, Valley County's Junior Ambassador also attended the forum. She was chaperoned by her mother, Patsy Krause, Valley County 4-H Council president, Alice Redfield and council officers, Jamie Lauckner and Sandy Swenson.

Mary Beth Wilson flew this weekend at the Cross Country meet in Harlem. She took a high third place with her time of 21:00. Amanda Leonard came in behind Wilson placing as 12th place in 22:28. Following Leonard was Lindsey Erickson placing 14th in 22:42, Josie Daggett placing 15th in 22:48, Marcie Fahlgren placing 16th in 22:49.

Two local athletes have been chosen as finalists for the High School Heisman Award. Tanya Bergren, of Glasgow, and Ellen DeCoteau, of Frazer, were nominated for the award by their principals. The nominations were made by high school principals all across the country. The Award recognizes high school students who have shown themselves to be good athletes, students and citizens. They must be active in their communities and school. Bergren and DeCoteau have demonstrated these qualities.

The Opheim Vikings took the floor against the Saco Panthers in Class C basketball action this past weekend. The first quarter was all Vikings outscoring the Panthers 11 to two. Leading the Vikings in scoring during the first was #15 Tawny Solberg with five, putting in a three pointer and two free throws. Also scoring for the Vikings in the first were Jody Fossum with four and Alana Smith with two. At the end, the Vikings pulled off a 48 to 34 victory over the Panthers. The high scorer for Opheim was #14 Alana Smith with 13 followed by Jody Fossum with 10, Tawny Solberg, eight, Brianna Marchion seven, Amber Anderson six, Becky Sather and Jamie Fossum with two a piece.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 17, 1974

Glasgow dentist Dr. Richard Weber went fishing last week, caught just one and came home. That one was enough for the big Walleye taken from the Milk River weighed in at 10-pounds, 12 ½ ounces. "I've waited all season long for that fish...and when I landed him, I just came home," the happy dentist said. Weber caught the fish on a minnow.

Nashua's 1974 Homecoming Queen Vicki Nickels and King Rick Viste preside over the Porkies' Homecoming festivities last weekend. The celebration included a pre-game barbecue for the football team that went on to defeat Bainville, 26-14; a parade and a homecoming dance at which time the 1974 King and Queen and their court were presented to the student body. Attendants were Daryl Waarvik, Steve Nickels, Bennie Calhoun, Maridine Tippets, Stacy Lund and Diane Garwood.

It was designated that the Valley County local government study commission should consist of five members and will be faced with the task of reviewing the structure and power of each unit of local government represented on the commission and submit one alternative form of government by the qualified electors by the end of 1976. The county study commission will take a long, close look at the three-member Valley County Board of Commissioners and the units of government under their control. Governing the affairs of Valley County include farmer-rancher Earl Daley, Chairman Howard "Tiny" Cornwell and Farmer-rancher John Maxness.

At the meet in Billings, the Glasgow Lassies scored without question the most impressive victory of the tournament, winning the girls' event easily over runner up, Billings Central and had the two fastest girls in the field, Doris Mahugh and Pam Fuhrman. While the Varsity Scotties failed to upset Billing West's successful defense of their title, they finished a very respectable sixth. Particularly outstanding was Jeff Greig's sixth-place finish in this running of the cream of AA and A cross-country squads. Less than two weeks away from the 1974 State Class A Cross-Country Championships at Helena, Glasgow has a better-than-even chance of coming home with the "king and queen" among Montana long-distance runners.

Hinsdale's Cross Country team won over Malta's Saturday at a dual meet at the Sleeping Buffalo Recreation Area. Hinsdale made 71 points, to Malta's 67. Seventeen high school boys from the two school participated. Terry Johnson was top man for Hinsdale, placing third. Other Hinsdale runners were Marlin Mogan, fifth; Mark Hendrickson, sixth; Steve Barnard, eighth; Morris Carlson, ninth; David Carlson, 11th; Wade Nelson, 12th; Dale Schultz, 15th and Paul Dull, 16th.

Everything in the Eastern 1-C football conference now hinges on Opheim and arch-rival Nashua fans will be cheering as loud for a Vikings victory come Saturday as they will for their own Porkies. The reason is quite simple. Opheim is the seventh and final opponent standing between the Culbertson Cowboys and an undefeated sweep of the '74 East 2-C loop. An Opheim upset-coupled with a simultaneous Nashua win over Brockton – would give the Porkies a second shot at the only team to beat them this year. Actually the win would benefit Nashua more than it would Opheim, who would have to have Westby also lose to Bainville in order for the Vikings to claim undisputed third place in the standings.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Oct. 20, 1949

The new $6,000,000 diversion dam, headworks in the gigantic Missouri-Souris irrigation project, will be built across the Missouri River immediately south of Nashua starting next year. Initial appropriations for the dam have been approved by Congress and construction work is expected to start in 1950. Nashua has been tentatively designed as the location of the bureau's engineering headquarters for the dam while the contractor is expected to build a camp at the site. The dam is not intended to store water, but will impound only enough to provide for diversion. Diversion will be into a canal that ultimately will have a capacity of 7,500 second feet, more than the normal flow of the Missouri River.

The first snowstorm of the season brought three-fourths of an inch of moisture to the Hinsdale area, according to the gauge at the Hopwood weather station. A steady rain most of the night Monday was followed by approximately six inches of wet snow Tuesday. The heavy blanket of snow brought sugar beet harvesting and other farming operations to a standstill. The highway and other roads became hazardous for travel with snow, slush and water inches deep and a number of cars slid into the ditch west of Hinsdale.

Dawson High of Glendive will be the favored squad when it clashes with Glasgow High on the Glasgow athletic field Friday night at 8. Coach Hal Meyer of the Scotties put his squad through stiff scrimmages in the snow Wednesday night. He said the club is in good shape, with the exception of Bunky Sullivan, who still is troubled by a sprained ankle.

Postmaster Clarence Tichenor pointed out this week that new mail schedules are in effect. The Great Northern branch train no longer carries mail. All mail comes by truck from Glasgow with the driver going on to Glentana and returning immediately. All mail to points between Glentana and Scobey goes by way of Glasgow.

Otto Rawe was elected president of the Farmers Union Grain company here at its annual stockholders meeting Friday in the Legion Hall. Others elected are Harold Torgerson, vice president; George Fisher, secretary and Marvin Garsjo and Leonard Tweeten, directors.

The 30th anniversary of the organization of the Larslan Ladies Aid was celebrated at Our Savior's Lutheran church in Larlsan last Wednesday. The society had been organized at the old Larslan School by the Rev. T.L. Rosholt, Oct. 12, 1919. The anniversary program included Scripture reading by the Rev. L. M. Hanson, songs by the women's chorous, a reading by Mrs. am Smith, a playlet, "Planning the History," a piano solo by Mrs. Pete James and a reading of the history of the society by Mrs. John Rogenes. Forty women from Glasgow, Osette, Opheim and Larlsan attended the celebration.