Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014

New opportunity will come with new classes and new classrooms in the next school year. One local teacher has been spearheading the efforts to bring a program to Glasgow that will encour­age students to look at future careers in engineering, technology and design. Jim Stone, who has been teaching at the Glasgow High School, is get­ting ready to make his move into the middle school next year. He's been chipping away at boxes and gathering equipment and supplies that will be needed for the new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) lab. He's been knocking on doors and hitting pavement to get sponsorships from businesses and individuals to help support the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) program that will hopefully begin at the middle school.

FMDH Foundation, Inc. breakfast with Mrs. Claus event held Saturday, December 13. This exciting Christmas event held at Frances Mahon Deacon­ess Hospital gave area children the opportunity to learn that hospitals are not scary places and to create a positive memory for children to remember when they are in the facility. With supplemental funding from Thrivent Financial, Clay & Sherry Berger along with our local EMT's – Ethan Pedde, Samantha King, and Arron Fjeld, were able to serve breakfast to area children and parents. Mrs. Claus arrived during breakfast and was on hand to visit with the children and answer all of their many questions.

The Fort Peck Fine Arts Council has recently made several changes. They moved to a new location downtown at 533 2nd Ave. S, next to the Wheatgrass Arts & Gallery. A new executive director took the chair in September, Michelle Tade, who also works with Two Rivers Economic Growth. The council also broke ground in the summer to build a new rehearsal area that will also hold costumes and props. They recently applied for a Murdock grant and had a site visit that has them hopeful that they could receive the grant for $24,000. Pat Etchart, part of the council, explained that they won't know if they received the grant until the end of February, but the community support could help them receive that grant. "The regional support has brought in so much help," Etchart said. "This is the first time we've ever been able to look at expan­sion." Part of the support has come from their annual trip of the month winners. The tickets that sell for the raffle have helped raised $30,000 for the year, which is helping with their major project and will help cover matching funds for grants they may receive. The tickets sell for $200, and 300 tickets are already sold for the 2015 year. The council draws names on the first Wednesday of each month and they have seen success in the fundraiser.

Seven Scotties went unbeatable in the Glasgow Invitational last Saturday. The competition was Malta, Wolf Point and Poplar. Going undefeated were Kasey Seyfert (120) at 2-0, Mick Reyling (132) at 2-0, Jake Hentges at 2-0 (145), Cody King (145) at 2-0, Kevin Schindler (152) at 2-0, Tony Kaiser (170) at 1-0 and heavyweight Joe Doney at 4-0.

The Glasgow speech and drama team attended the Billings Central High School Invitational Meet to compete against excellent competition – nearly 300 competitors from 24 other teams – and did well, Glasgow coach Matt Bacon told The Courier. Bacon credited the following GHS students for turning in strong performances: Rachel Overby with a third place in humorous solo; Mariah Holter with a third place in mime; and Ethan Jamba with a fourth place in serious oral interpretation. Holter said she was nervous going into her performance and her strong third place finish was a surprise. However, she did enjoy a first-place finish in pantomime the previous week at the Wolf Point's first speech and drama meet in 15 years.

The boys basketball squad defeated Baker, 73-42, on Saturday and Roundup, 75-48, on Friday, leading start to finish in both games. They are now 4-0 on the season. The girls are 1-3. They earned their first victory of the season in the home opener against Roundup, 37-31, but let a game they were leading slip away the next day in a 46-44 loss at Baker. Chase Fossum led the Scotties with 18 points against Roundup. Also in double digits for the balanced attack were Jason Thibault and Keil Krumwiede with 11 points each and Jake Page with 10. Against Baker, it was Page pacing G-Town with 15 points. Thibault and Zach Miller had 12 points, Fossum and Krumwiede 11 each and Jake Kolstad 10. For the girls basketball squad, Abbi Kolstad led the Scotties against Roundup with 13 points in their first victory under new coach Jon Kolstad, her dad. Jordan Kulczyk and Leinie Hughes followed with 7 points each and Lexie Nixdorf added 6.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Dec. 23, 1999

Tom Stathos observed a milestone Saturday, the 25th year he has operated Valley Drug in Glasgow. He reminisced about the history of the drug store, originally called Tork's Drug, for the founder, "Tork" Torkelson. Stathos, a native of Sheridan, Wyo., had just moved to Lewistown to operate a drugstore when he was asked to be a partner with R.J. Losleben, either in Glasgow and Malta. A restaurant on the west side of Valley Drug, Highlander House, was part of the package Stathos bought into. At the time it was one of only three places to eat lunch downtown, The Johnny Café and Mary's Café were the others. The Highlander House was moved around the corner in 1980 to what is now the carousel space. Stathos closed the restaurant and expanded in other ways. He bought Marge Forum's Bible Bookstore in 1985 and moved it out of the Pratt Building to the restaurant space alongside the drug store, where she continued to manage it until 1998. In 1989, he bought out Combs Drug, which was next to Allie's Palace on Front Street. The drug store space is now Antiques Etc. and Allie's Palace is the Crossing.

The ballots are in for the Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture's Best Decorated Christmas House. The winner with 22 votes is Norm and Kim Girard's house at Parkview Place. Norm is so handy with his saw and paint brush that he not only decorates his house but he is the one who turns Heather Lane and Parkview Place into Snowman Lane. A drive through Heather Lane to the Girards' home should put the biggest Scrooge into the warm Christmas spirit. More than 40 houses were nominated this year.

Four Years In A Row – that's how long the Glasgow Scottie Volleyball team has won the Chinook Volleyball tournament. The girls are Renee Smrcka, Jessika Hinz, Amber Garten, Christen James, Tanya Bergren, Juli Rice, Kodi Malnaa, Erica Boyer, Margaret Bell, Krista Markle, and April Molstad. "The good thing about the Chinook Tournament is you get to look at all your players play a lot of volleyball, from that you know what needs to be worked on to make yourself better," said coach LaBonty on his team's success.

A chilly day leads to warm-hearted giving to the Block of Bucks, which provides winter clothing to needy children. The Montana Army National Guard collected a record amount - $13,375. The soldiers that helped are Staff Sgt. Ernie Sugg, Sgt. 1st Class Walter Bell, Sgt. 1st Class Gary Fast, Staff Sgt. Rick Seiler and Pvt. David McLean.

Mary Wilson and Andy Fahlgren placed first in Humorous Duo and Kevin Hadley placed fifth in Humorous Solo. These people made up our drama team that placed second. Larissa Leonard placed fourth in Humorous Oral Interpretation. She carried the speech team in finals.

The Nashua Porcupines took on the Opheim Vikings at home in Nashua. The Vikings fell to the Porcupines 63-46. Nashua took a six point lead in the first, outscoring Opheim 18 to 12. Evan Guenther and Jed Kirkland put in four two-pointers apiece to lead the Porcupines. Tyler Pittenger and John Pankratz each sunk a three to head up the Viking offense. Nashua increased it's lead by four in the second, this time outscoring the Vikings, 16 to 12. Jake Kirkland put in two two-pointers and went four for four from the line to lead the second quarter with eight. Tony Gundermann headed up Opheim's offense with a two-pointer and a three-pointers for five.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Dec. 19, 1974

Jean Schaale, last year's Valley County Junior Miss congratulates Cara Lee Shellerud, for earning this year's title at the annual pageant sponsored by the Jaycees at the high school Sunday. Gayle Ressmeyer is Miss Congeniality while Kathy Knusdon, first runner-up.

This is "Be Kind To Your Mailman Week." There is no official designation to this effort. President Gerald Ford has not asked the nation to be kind to postal employees between now and Christmas. Glasgow mayor Jim Christianson hasn't even signed a proclamation praising overworked postal clerks. But anyone who has seen the mountains of packages and the flood of holiday greeting cards that deluge the Glasgow Post Office daily, know this is not the time to irritate your friendly, neighborhood postman.

Earning the plaque for the best original decorations in the Jaycee sponsored home decorating contest are the Mark Etcharts of Sixth Ave. N. In addition to the Nativity scene, the windows are decorated like Christmas packages and the trees sparkle with special decorations. Runner-up in this category were the Charles Heaths at 10th Ave. N.

Approximately 300 students from 15 schools participated in the invitational speech and drama meet here Saturday. Glasgow students earned third place in drama sweepstakes and fourth in speech. Local students who scored points were David Taylor, second, and Doug Ost, finalist, memorized public address; Rhonda Gerguson and Connie Marks, second, serious duo acting; Debbie Walker, third and Marlene Kemmis, second, expository speaking; Dave Espeland, fourth, humorous solo; Joli Stroble, fourth, oral interpretation; Ron Shaffer, finalist, impromptu and Josina Peterson, finalist, serious solo acting.

The Valley Ridgerunners Saddle Club held their annual Christmas party and made annual awards for outstanding achievement during 1974, Sunday, at their Cheery Creek clubhouse. Faye Ann Fewer received the top horsemanship award in the age 12-15 bracket as well as high point winner in the O-Mok-See games. Rick Seiler was the high point man of the year as well as the winner of the top adult horsemanship award. Ron Fewer was the under-12 high point winner and young horsemanship winner and Marie Fewer was the high point winner for the women.

Glasgow's 6-1 sophomore forward Dennis Gay goes up high, sets and delivers a two-pointer for the Scotties, part of his 19-point second-half scoring spree, that combined with a full-court press by Glasgow, dumped a 61-49 defeat on the Fergus County Eagles of Lewistown, last Saturday night. The home debut for the 1974-75 Scotties proved to be a revenge route for the previous 60-50 loss hung on the Scotties by the same Eagles the week before.

Boxing ends a 20-year absence in Glasgow on Dec. 22, when the Glasgow Boxing Club will host fighters from Lewistown, Malta, Chinook, Harlem and Wolf Point at the Glasgow Invitational matches to be held at 2 p.m., in the Junior High School gymnasium. Dave Coday, manager of the local club, has boxed from 20-30 AAU-sanctioned matches in Glasgow's opening card. Headlining the boxing card will be 112-pounder Dutch Holtan in a rematch with Doug Simongton, of Malta, last year's AAU divisional champ and second in the state. Three other Glasgow boxers will be looking for wins No. 2 before a hometown crowd. Darrell Holtan, Glasgow's 90-pounder won his first start by unanimous decision as did 60-pounder Brian Baker. Another Scotty slugger who should be ready for any and all opposition is 95-pounder Bryon Hallock.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Dec. 22, 1949

City league basketball started with a bang Monday night with the favored Crystal lounge quintet falling to the National Guardsmen, 52-47. Wonder Krust ran over Markles-Coca Cola, 38-21, in the other game. Ronnie McPherson hooped 27 points in leading the Guards to their upset. Louis Larson added 13 points. Walt Russell sparked the Lounge with 18, while Earl Fairbanks dropped 8.

Captain Thorton, formerly of Lambert, recently became third track operator at the Great Northern depot in Hinsdale, succeeding Miss Patricia Raymond, who transferred back to her hometown of Glasgow. He completes the regular staff at the depot, which includes A.G. McCartney, agent; J.F. Holland, second trick; Harris Hofstad, swing shift; and Earl McCartney, relief man.

Valley County Commissioners have approved a poisoning campaign against rats that are now infesting northeastern Valley County but "must have the full and hearty cooperation of the people in the area to make the campaign effective," County Agent W.R. Aldworth said this week. The county will furnish poison bait and one man to supervise the program for one month, beginning the second week in January. He named the area from Opheim through Larslan and Larslan as having infestations in varying degrees.

"We have no way of knowing exactly how many children and adults were at the Civic Center Saturday afternoon for Santa Claus' visit, but everyone said the party was an unqualified success," reported Harold Bollinger, chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce committee, in charge this week. The Jaycees chairman said, however, that the organization's members, acting as Santa's helpers, distributed 1,000 bags of candy and novelties. Some estimated that almost as many more grown-ups were present at the center.

Jim Archer, of Glasgow, state boxing commissioner, has other interests. The local resident said he hopes to interest checker players of the area in plans for a tournament which will be held here some time in January. It will be a tourney for any man interested and only expense here for each player will be to chip in for hall rent. Archer said interested players of the indoor sport should see him at the Glasgow Hotel barber shop. He reported he already has some 30 entries lined up from Glasgow, Wolf Point, Culbertson, Saco, Opheim, Fort Peck and Malta.

The two strings of Christmas lights extending across the flagpole corner were turned on Friday to add a holiday touch to Hinsdale. The lights are sponsored by the Hinsdale Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, co-operation with the Montana Power Company. Christmas decorations have also gone up in the stores and homes of the community and the town is better lighted for the holidays than ever.