One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
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In 1909 - 101 years ago this past September 4th — on the windswept plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, two children of homesteaders had reached adulthood amid the raging blizzards, searing summers, and other challenges of trying to tame the wilds of the North American west. However, ever the optimists, they displayed their faith in conquering all by being married. The families of Henry Stimson Compton and Leafy Genevieve Emmerson had traveled parallel histories. Immigrating from Europe during the earliest years of settlement on this continent, t...
Twenty-five years is a long time – a quarter of a century! But last fall marked the 25th annual Mike and Ed’s Missouri Breaks Hunting and Fishing Extravaganza. It all started in the fall of 1995 – the year I retired from the U. S. Air Force. Brother-in-law Mike Hughes lived in Glasgow and prevailed upon me to come up from Helena for a hunting expedition that would cover the Breaks and northern Phillips and Valley Counties – plus a stop at several fishing holes along the way. Our non-hunting equi...
March 5th in 1920, 100 years ago, a baby girl was born in the Malta, Montana hospital. She came from strong stock. On New Year's Day, her parents decided that she should not be born in the homestead sod house as her brother, Duane, was. Her older brother, Ward, was born in the Homestead House her Great Grand Parents had built near Eyebrow, Saskatchewan, Canada. So, they packed up a seven-month pregnant Leafy onto the seat of a buckboard wagon, bundled in blankets and with rocks from the oven to...
This January marks the 100th anniversary of two Phillips County pioneers. On January 4th, 1919, Vern Mangis was born the third child of John and Linna Mangis – the first of their children born in a Malta Hospital. His older sister, Dorethea, was born on the homestead in the Bennet Lake Community some 12 miles South of Malta. On March 5th, 1920 Fern Compton was born in the Malta Hospital as the third child of Henry and Leafy Compton. This was after her mother suffered through a three-day wagon r...