Memories for the Week of April 20, 2016

100 years ago

April 20, 1916

Local

The large mirror in the Cooper & Stine Barber Shop fell to the floor without warning one day the past week and was pretty badly smashed up. Mr. Cooper was endeavoring to adjust one of the lights when the crash came but escaped without any great injury.

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In police court the last of the week, Judge Wilson fined a fellow called "Silver" ten dollars for reckless driving and destroying the fence at the Ole Veseth residence.

Alder Gulch in Limelight.

Word has just reached Malta from the Little Rockies that a big strike has been made at that point. The new find is in old Alder Gulch, two miles up the hill from Zortman, where considerable placer mining has been going for some time. The names of the lucky ones who were fortunate in discovering the hidden fortune are W. H. Pennington and Ed Meyers. This gives evidence that there is untold riches in the hills in the Little Rockies mining territory.

For sale or rent

Three room house, with closet and clothes press, two coal sheds, well with soft water, 4 acres of land, three are broken. $1,500 or $15 per month rent. Mrs. T.M. Facey, East Scobey, Montana.

75 years ago

April 17, 1941

Four students lead local school honor roll with straight A's

Four Malta High School students received straight A's in the fifth, six-week period, it was announced. The students are Clarice Habedank, senior; Jean Westman and Fallie Williams, sophomores and Robert Murray, freshman.

Sweet Potato King

Dave Sollenberger is known in and around Malta as a successful well driller, pump expert and farmer. During the 1940 growing season he was also engaged in the culture of sweet potatoes. His success was so remarkable that he has been dubbed the "sweet potato king" of this district. The production of big, fine-flavored tubers of extra quality marketed so quickly and profitably as to leave no doubt in his mind that this palatable vegetable, if given proper care, could not be generally grown here.

50 years ago

April 21, 1966

This week at the Villa

This week at Villa, Girl Happy, staring Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares will be shown in Metro Color Thursday through Saturday. Saturday Matinee starts at 2 p.m. Children under 12 – 25-cents.

County Schools name Top Honor Students

Dodson

Andrea A. Wilke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilke, is valedictorian of Dodson and Steven R. Henry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Henry, is the salutatorian.

Saco

Gwayne Hanson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hanson, is Saco School's valedictorian and Cheryl Erickson, daughter of Mrs. Emma Erickson, is salutatorian.

Whitewater

Linda Mae Wasson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wasson has been named Whitewater School's valedictorian and Larry David Ochsner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Oshsner, is the salutatorian.

25 years ago

April 17, 1991

Hellies in Whitewater keep an eye on the weather

The National Weather Services recently honored Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hellie of Whitewater, for 40 years of volunteer service as weather observers in the Weather Service's Cooperative Weather Program.

Since 1951, the Hellies have been keeping track of precipitation reading at their home in Whitewater. Now, the yshare the duties with their son Vernon.

Two injured in wagon accident

Dale Freitag and Donnie Watson suffered injuries when a four-horse team they were working, hooked up to a chuck wagon, began running in a circle.

Freitag slipped from the small, narrow seat of the chuck wagon and broke his hip. The harness lines were lost forcing Watson to jump from the wagon. He suffered a broken arm.

10 years ago

April 19, 2006

Dutch's gun – Who has it?

The Bureau of Land Management and the Phillips County Sheriff's Office are renewing their efforts to recover a piece of history stolen from the Philips County Museum.

Special Agent Tom Madeson of the BLM said Tuesday that thousands of posters are being sent out to "all the major gun shows and gun collection houses across the nation" offering a reward for return of a .45 caliber Colt Bisley revolver which once belonged to the infamous outlaw Dutch Henry.

"Somebody out there knows where that gun went. People have seen it," he said.

The revolver was reported stolen from a glass-enclosed display case at the Philips County Museum on October 23, 2004. It was on long-term loan from the Montana Historical Society and had been donated by the Jim Watkins family.

Malta teen, Expression of Silence, to perform Sunday with famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir

When the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir and equally famous Oak Ridge Boys perform this Saturday at the National Association of Music Educators Conference in Salt Lake City, a Malta teenager will also be there.

Robert Kindle, 15, son of Tom and Millie Kindle of Malta, is part of a 29-member Expressions of Silence from Montana School for the Deaf and Blind.

Kindle, who has attended the resident school for the last five years, and members of silent choir composed of sixth through twelfth grade students, will perform several numbers with the 360-member choir.