Yesterday's Memories

10 Years Ago

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015

Peggy Aakre and Jasmine Frueh, of Glasgow Flower & Gift, have completed a program at the Floral Design Institute of Portland, Ore., and now are certified in advanced floral design. To achieve this honor, Aakre and Frueh have participated in an intensive program, studying trends, design influences and business practices in the floral industry. Certification requires an advanced understanding of 11 design elements and principles: form, space, texture, line, color, accent, scale, harmony, rhythm, unity and balance.

The Glasgow High School speech & drama team keeps speaking up, getting all dramatic and racking up first place performances this season. Last Saturday's invitational at Malta brought another opportunity for success. On the drama side, versatile Rachel Overby's double duty impressed coach Matt Bacon. "Rachel Overby continued to demonstrate her fantastic comedic talent as both an actress and as a writer by taking the first-place finish in humorous solo with her self-written piece, 'Social Medias,'" Bacon told The Courier. He said Scottie mime star Mariah Holter also "delivered another strong performance" with a first. And in speech, several Scotties finished on top. "Our kids did really well with very strong performances from Andrea Hansen in first place in extemporaneous speaking, Ethan Jamba first in serious oral interpretation and Amy Nelson first in original oratory," Bacon said. "We also had strong finishes from Andy Brandt, Amber O'Mara and Rachel Sigmundstad helping to deliver the team a first-place finish in speech."

As a rebuilding program dem­onstrating growth, Scottie wrestling makes the cut. Last week it happened at Cut Bank. The Scotties placed seventh among 29 teams last weekend at the CB In­vitational. Cody King made it to the championship match at 138, losing an 8-4 decision to Choteau's JJ Werdal. Heavyweight Joe Doney decisioned Choteau's Denver Krone, 7-2, in a third-place match. The Scotsmen also advanced from eighth to seventh someplace else last week – in the Montana Class B/C Wrestling Rankings. Six Scotties occupy individual state rankings: Kasey Seyfert fourth at 120, Mick Reyling sixth at 126, King fifth at 138, Jake Hentges sixth at 145, Tanner Roness sixth at 182 and heavyweight Joe Doney fourth at 285.

The Hinsdale Raider boys hosted the Poplar Indians last Friday and came away with another win They then beat Dodson, 71-33, to improve to 4-0 and 8-1 in District 3C. They are tied with Frazer for first in the conference and slotted at No. 6 in the MaxPreps Class C state rankings. Lukas Johnson got his first assist of the game when he hit Wyatt Pattison in the paint for the games' first score and it was off to the candy store for the Raid­ers from that point on. The half-time score was Hinsdale 35 and Poplar 7.

Glasgow is coming off a 49-23 win at Harlem (1-2, 2-6) last Friday and 65-17 tune-up against young, visiting Plentywood (0-3, 1-8) on Saturday. Jake Kolstad led the balanced Scot­ties with 11 points. Others scoring: Jason Thibault and Chase Fossum with 9 each, Jake Page 8, Keil Krumwiede 5, Zach Miller 4, Gage Legare 2 and Ethan Etchart 1.

For the Scottie girls, it was a weekend of two comeback wins and the first winning streak for rookie coach Jon Kolstad. The team its in fourth place in 2B. Glasgow roared back to beat Harlem. Scoring for GHS were Abbi Kolstad with 18 points, Leinie Hughes 10, Amanda Wolff 9, Tyra Johnson 6, Jordan Kulczyk 4, Khloe Krumwiede 2 and Lexie Nixdorf 1.

25 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 13, 2000

The burned-out rear wing of guest rooms at the Rustic Lodge on U.S. Highway 2 was demolished and removed Tuesday. The Glasgow motel burned on July 14, 1998, in a spectacular nine-hour fire that originated in a storage area on the first floor. Steve Fossum bought the structure in July 1999 from Gaven Clifton. Plans are undecided for the land and the manager's quarters which remain.

Five mayors of Nashua, current and former officials recently honored David J. Rexhausen for his 18 years of service to the town. Rexhausen served under all of them including former mayor Eugene (Bud) Thieven, the present mayor, Duane (Squeak) Tihista, former mayors John Egosque, Allen Bunk and Barbara Boner.

Glasgow High School Drama Takes Second, Speech Takes Third. Eleven people went to Plentywood and six people made it to finals. Erik Ochsner placed ninth and Nick Grobel placed sixth in Impromptu, Mary Wilson and Andy Fahlgren placed second in humorous duo, Kevin Hadley placed sixth in humorous solo and Jason Lee placed second in expository.

The towns of Glasgow, Malta and Havre now have the full-time services of Glasgow resident Sharlene Downey Schmidt, Audiology-CFY. Schmidt is a licensed audiologist and is now in her clinical fellowship year. She provides hearing evaluations, counseling, and hearing aid services. She also provides services to schools along the Hi-Line from Havre to the North Dakota border. Schmidt is associated with Cascade Audiology of Great Falls.

Glasgow Scottie Wrestlers Take Out The Glendive Red Devils 35 to 34: Glasgow had three open weight classes at last night's competition. The Scotties trailed Glendive by one after the three open matches. With only one wrestler left the Scotties needed six to win. Seth Morehouse wrestling Hwt provided those six points, pining Tyler Hostetler in one minute.

Things are starting to look better for the Scotties boys' basketball team. With two conference wins over Chinook and Poplar this weekend, the Scotties now have a 3-4 record. Friday night, the Chinook Beeters came to town, only to fall to the Scotties, 60-49. The Scotties had four players score in double digits. Michael Falcon led all scorers with 15 points, DJ Elletson with 12, Ben Radakovich with 10 and Jon Wiens came off the bench to put on 11 points. Wiens also grabbed 10 rebounds giving him a double-double for the game. Also scoring for the Scotties were Todd Archambeault with 8 and Ryan Rogenes with 4. Saturday, the Scotties traveled to Poplar. The Scotties played an excellent defensive game and earned another victory, 68-32. Nathan Molstad had a big game for the Scotties putting in 21 points.

50 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 9, 1975

Would you believe...nearly halfway through January and Glasgow hasn't had enough cold weather to freeze water in an unheated building? Here we are at the peak of the skating season, the ground is bare, and the hardest thing to find in town is enough ice for a youngster to try out his new Christmas skates. The shortage of skating ice is so critical in Glasgow it has even forced the City Council into action. Monday night they decided Glasgow's Hockey League will have to share their ice with the non-competitive general public and opened the hockey rink to public use for the first time since the rink bordering the Junior High School was built.

Hockey returns to Glasgow when the new spectator's viewing stand open its doors this weekend for the season opener against visiting teams from Assiniboia and Yellowgrass, Saskatchewan. This year the Glasgow Hockey League will field four traveling teams for the first time in the city's hockey history. The local hockey league has already launched a fund drive to finance the additional protective gear needed by fielding four full squads this season. A concession stand has been added to the services available at the hockey rink and a heated glass-covered viewing stand and additional bleacher seating have been added in preparation for the start of the new season.

The Nashua Porkies now 4-0 in conference action, move on to a rematch with equally-unbeaten Frazer on Saturday night. Nashua used a sticky defense to pull off both of its wins last weekend. The Porkies played the best team ball of the season in defeating Hinsdale, 69-50 and Saco, 65-47. Rick Viste, Scott Schrimsher, Mike Johnson, Bennie Calhoun, Jay Allen and Mike Heikens helped the Porkies pull down 91 rebounds in two games which was also an important factor in Nashua's wins.

Ken Hanson, outgoing president of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, passed the gavel to Glenn Miller, 1975 president, at the January meeting of the board of directors. Jerry Wiltfong will be first vice president; J.N. "Bud" Nass, second vice president; and Carolee Wallem, treasurer. New directors are Bud Nass, vice president and director; Ed Carman, Wayne Dale, Tom Markle and Terry Newton, directors. Norris Forum, the executive vice president, announced coming events at the meeting.

Gordon E. Bollinger, the former state senator from Glasgow, who introduced the legislation creating the new expanded Montana Public Service Commission, has been unanimously elected to serve as its chairman for the next four years. As chairman of the powerful PSC, Bollinger, who drew the only four-year seat on the board when his name was pulled from a waste basket on Monday, will be the spokesman for the commission and supervise employees who are not under specific divisions such as utility of transportation regulation. Each of the five-member commission, however will be the spokesman for his own district.

The 21-point shooting and rebounding of 6-6 junior John Nesbitt was the key to the Opheim Vikings' 70-47 win over the Penguins of Whitewater in District 3-C cage action last weekend. In addition to matching the 21-points pumped in by Whitewater's Murdock, Nesbitt picked off 16 rebounds in three-quarters of action on the court and got strong support from Blake Anderson with 18 points on the scoreboard.

75 Years Ago

Thursday, Jan. 12, 1950

A large group of Glasgow people attended the open house – reception in St. Raphael's parochial school Sunday afternoon. The visitors were shown through by men of the parish and light refreshments were served by women of the parish. The tea table was decorated with bouquets of yellow pom-poms and lighted yellow tapers. Mrs. Mary E. Dignan, chairman of the committee in charge, expressed her appreciation for the cooperation she had received from members of her committee and of the response of the public to the general invitation that had been issued.

First steps in the organization of a Key Club in Glasgow High School were completed at a meeting Tuesday noon when the group of charter members to the club elected officers. The first officers are Gary Boyles, president; Jim Hines and Glenn Dix, vice presidents; Bob Gilluly, secretary; Charles Sternhagen, treasurer; Bruce Ellis, senior class representative; Arnie Rohrer, junior class representative; and Roy Wells, sophomore class representative. The new club is sponsored by the Glasgow Kiwanis Club through its Key Club Committee, of which R.L. Irle is chairman. High School Key clubs are created for the purpose of acting as service clubs within the school. Mr. Irle explained as Kiwanis clubs are service clubs in communities. About 20 boys of the three high school classes have signed the application for a charter from Key Club International. The Glasgow club will be the 10th Key Club to be organized in Montana high schools.

Thirteen baskets were distributed by Valley post of the American Legion to needy families on Christmas, it was reported at a Post meeting in the Legion Hall Thursday night. Vice Commander Kenneth Newton presided. The post officers announced that the 'toys for tots' project for European children is still open. They asked that each Glasgow child give one toy for some child overseas who did not have a gift for Christmas. Each toy should have the name and address of the sender.

The week saw two more basketball victories for the Nashua Porcupines. They defeated Frazer 38-25 in a game on the Nashua floor Saturday night. A contest at the Glasgow Civic Center that was a thriller all the way, saw Nashua defeat the strong Wolf Point Club, 33-30 Monday night. While Nashua and the Wolves now play in separate conferences, the game Monday night drew its usual record crowd of supporters for both teams. Nashua drew first blood when Traver converted a free throw. The Wolves retaliated from the field. Just before the end of the first quarter, the count was tied at 6-6. But Egosque's free throw gave the Porkies an edge as the period ended.

A new basketball electric scoreboard will go into use in Opheim High School gym for the first time at the Hinsdale-Opheim game Friday night. The scoreboard was shipped here during the holidays. The student body is paying for this addition to school equipment with each class donating. The classes of 1947 and 1948 also left funds for this purpose.

A major business transaction of the past week put on record here was the purchase of the Sutter Garage building at Second Avenue South and Fifth Street by Joseph Catelle from Claude Sutter. According to a warranty deed filed, the purchase price was $44,000. Mr. Catelle announced that the Sutter Motor company will continue to occupy its space in the building for a time. Mr. Sutter stated that he plans to dispose of his parts and equipment. Mr. Catelle said that definite plans concerning the building will be announced later.