Cliff Rustad has been taking bids for nearly 50 years

Regardless of the event you attending, when you hear his voice, you know what is about to happen.

"Ten, ten, twenty, twenty, twenty, thirty five and five and forty dollars here," Cliff Rustad's voice booms through the offices of the Phillips County News on Friday, giving a short example of his auctioneering pipes. Whether it be an fundraiser or farm sale, when Cliff Rustad calls out, he gets your attention.

For the past 47 years, Rustad has hosted auctions across the state of Montana, throughout the United States and on into Canada. When Rustad was younger, his stepfather decided that he wante...