One Nation, Under God
One Nation, Under God
All in a day's hunt – This crew of goose hunters showed up Monday afternoon with their second daily limit of geese. The hunters include (l to r) Larry Matthews of Malta, Joe Simpson of Lakeside, Larry Jennings, a student at the University of Montana, Maynard LaFond of Helena and Jon LaFond, a junior at the U of M. According to Matthews, the geese were bagged using about six-dozen decoys somewhere south of Malta. The location is a closely guarded secret. 1990.
Winners in the punt, pass, run and kick competition held recently received their plaques Friday night at the football game. Pictured are (l to r) front row: Raymond Scheffelmaer, Anthony Perry, Jason Nordlund, Levi Plouffe, Ryan Lankford and J.D. Weber; back row: Jonathon Green, Ryan Salsbery, Malta Athletic Club President Craig Ottinger, Kale Wilke, Kelly Kuszmaul, Luke Starr, Brock Olsen, Wes Kill Eagle and Kirk Stiles. Inset: Dallas Green. 1990
100 years ago
September 30, 1915
First Premium at State Fair
The Phillips County School exhibit at the State Fair last week was one of the best and in the raffia and reed section the basketry work of the Saco School won first prize. The daily papers of the state were loaded in their praise for our county school exhibit.
Big fire at Saco
Saco was visited last Sunday forenoon by a fire that caused many thousands of dollars in damage and left a portion of the town in ashes.
An explosion was given as the cause of the fire which resulted from a man trying to fill a gasoline sad iron while it was burning. The fellow trying to fill the iron was a mute and nothing has been heard or seen of him since the fire and it is not known whether he lost his life in the fire or not. Several people were badly burned in the fire and but for the hard work of the fire department and the citizens from our sister town there would be very little left of Saco today.
E.T. Reimer, store building and stock, loss about $3,500 with no insurance. The Commercial Hotel belonging to Stevens estate, $8,000 with no insurance. A restaurant, saloon building, and a building occupied by Mr. Orvis as a Fair Store, all belonging to the Stevens estate, were burned to the ground with no insurance.
W.B. Long was injured in a strange manner, supposed to be from a pistol shell being exploded by fire. The ball entered his knee and is giving him considerable trouble.
75 years ago
September 26, 1940
Malta News: License Plate
M.R. Nelson was showing us one of the automobile license plates for 1941. Style: Best grade of sheet metal; die stamped and painted in the "big house" at Deer Lodge. Color: White and blue numbers. When available: sometime in December. Ray Bentzin has had license number 11- since the county has started handling the tags. Eleven dash two has graced F. A. Elliot's automobile for several years and Roy Monroe has had 11-3 for his vehicle. Ben Schmitz of Dodson believes in ones. His license plate has five ones on it.
Company D leaves for Camp Murray; Large Crowd at Depot to say goodbye
Seventy-eight officers and men of "Malta's Own," Company D, 116th Quartermaster Regiment, in a scene reminiscent of days of 1918 entrained for Camp Murray, Washington, early Sunday afternoon to begin a year of active military duty.
The troop led by Capt. J. Russell Larcombe, company commander, marched from the armory in the City Hall to the depot where they boarded the troop train. A large crowd was on hand to wish the company "God-speed" and as the train pulled out the crowd cheered the guardsmen.
50 years ago
September 30, 1965
256 county youths are observing National 4-H Week
National 4-H Club Week is being observed by about 256 4-H Club members in Phillips County September 25 to October 2. The head-heart-health youth are among 2 million members of 94,000 clubs in rural, small town, urban and suburban areas throughout the 50 states and Puerto Rico. (Editor's note: 4-H currently has 6 million members around the globe as of 2014. Source: 4-h.org.)
25 years ago
October 3, 1990
Seatbelt usage reaches 40% mark in city of Malta
Seatbelt usage inside the city of Malta increased from an average of 12-precent to just over 40-percent at the conclusion of the Seat Belt Program conducted jointly by the Malta Area Chamber of Commerce and the Montana Department of Highway Safety.
Dennis Dawson, local project manager, said the program which concluded last week gave out 1,500 daily prizes to motorists who were found to be buckled up during random checks as part of the nine month program funded by a federal highway grant of $15,000.
10 years ago
September 28, 2005
Tobacco smoke...open containers
No sooner did smokers have to get over a $1 increase in taxes on each pack of cigarettes then they learned their favorite bar will probably be going smoke free.
As of October 1, 2005, bars will have a four year grace period to file for an exemption if they can prove alcohol sales make up 60-pecent or more of their business and if they immediately ban teens from their establishments.
The old tradition of cruising a Montana highway with an open can of beer, or other alcoholic beverage, in your hand is over.
Effective October 1, of this year, an open alcoholic beverage container will cost the violator at least $100.
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