Memories for the Week of March 23, 2016

100 years ago

March 23, 1916

Big Meeting Today

Everyone in Malta and vicinity should attend the big irrigation and beet sugar convention at the court house this afternoon. It is of vital importance to each and every resident of this locality. Be there and show by your attendance, at least, that you are interested in the movement to secure a beet sugar factory for the valley. The address of Mr. I.D. O'Donnell will be well worth it and attend to this meeting and then keep right on boosting.

Phillips County Library

Phillips County will soon have a fine county library if the efforts of a number of public spirited citizens and the Malta Woman's Club turn out well. A number of petitions have been circulated in Malta and several other portions of the county, and have been enthusiastically signed wherever received.

The arrangement will be under the control of the county commissioners and the library maintained by county funds. It will take very little to keep it up and is merely nominal cost. The Malta Woman's Club, which founded and has maintained for years past the present town library, will donate nearly 900 volumes.

Local Gleanings

George Forgey, who has been wanted by the Blaine County authorities for some time for the alleged stealing of a number of horses in the vicinity of Coburn, has been captured at Browning. Sheriff Buckley went at once to secure the fugitive, as the Browning authorities reported their jail was not safe enough to hold such a desperate character.

75 years ago

March 20, 1941

Legion Post Plans completion of City Hall

Plans of the local American Legion post to provide permanent quarters for the organization advanced a step or two further Monday night when the post agreed unanimously to accept proffered permission of the city council to complete the upstairs portion of the City Hall provided the necessary financing can be arranged without plunging the post too deeply into debt.

Clowns beat Davids 43-37 in exhibition

Broadway Clowns, colored satellites of court, were extended to win from a determined band of hirsute Davids as the two traveling squads gave an exhibition of fast, clever basketball in the City Hall last Thursday night, the Clowns winning by a score of 43-37.

Notice

It has been brought to my attention that I had said "the county attorney was going to allow gambling to start Saturday in this county." The county attorney, to my knowledge, nor myself have ever consented to gambling in any way, and if complaint is put through the county attorney's office and passed on to me in the proper way, arrests will be made and abatement proceedings started. Slot machines and pin ball games ARE OUT as far as we are concerned.

R.L. CAMPBELL, Sheriff

50 years ago

March 24, 1966

Dodson woman wins Contract with Met. Opera

Karan Armstrong, a striking 23-year-old brunette from Brentwood Calif., won a Metropolitan Opera contract and a $2,500 award Sunday in the finals of the annual Met Auditions. The young soprano, a native of Dodson, and a graduate of Concordia College at Moorehead, Minn., has been studying voice in Los Angeles for two years. She has sung with the Los Angeles Opera Guild.

She is from a musical family. Her father, Matthew Armstrong, had a career as a lyric tenor in England and the United States before being killed in World War II. Her mother, a violinist, teaches in public schools at Santa Monica, Calif.

Karan's aria for the final round was "noble Seigneur, Salut" from Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots."

Mrs. Armstrong was a former student of Mrs. Ralph Winkler, former Majorie McCollom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix McCollom of Malta, who was a voice and piano instructor here several years ago.

25 years ago

March 27, 1991

Malta man passes boards to become registered nurse

Duane Murray of Malta received word this week that he successfully passed his State Boards and is now a Registered Nurse. He was employed at the Phillips County Hospital as a graduate nurse, but will now be able to assume his full duties of an RN.

Mr. Murray has a wife, Sonia, and they have a daughter, Charisma, who is a sixth grade student at Malta Elementary.

Mr. Murray was a participant of the Phillips County Hospital student nurse loan program which is available to nursing students who have completed their sophomore year of training.

Trainers Name 'hand'

Bud Hasler was among the group of folks who were instrumental in getting the first Milk River Wagon Train rolling in 1970.

Bud was the first chairman of the association. Louie Perry later took over that position and Bud was Wagon Boss for the first trek leaving Zortman on Sept. 3, 1970. He put in eight years, intermittently on that job.

On Saturday night, March 9, 1991, Bud was awarded the Top Hand RED Bandana awarded by his peers, the members of the Milk River Wagon Train at the annual feed.

10 years ago

March 22, 2006

Veteran teacher gets board's nod as new elementary principal

Tad Schye, a 17-year veteran teacher in the Malta School District, will move from the classroom to the principal's office in June.

"I'm really looking forward to it," Schye told the PCN. "I'm excited about the opportunities. I think it's an exciting time in my career."