Memories for October 18, 2017

100 years ago

October 18, 1917

The new Malta National Bank will open its doors Saturday morning for business. This gives Malta three banks with capitalization over $150,000. The new bank is capitalized at $50,000 with Phillips County men as stockholders. J.F. Kilduff is president; R.M. Trafton, vice president, and M.T. Weikle, cashier. The directors are E. Sklower, H.L. Dorr, R.M. Trafton, J.F. Kilduff and J.F. Murray.

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Beginning Nov. 2, the three cent postage is authorized by the recently enacted federal revenue bill. From that day on all outgoing mail will require three cents instead of two.

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The first snow storm of the season set in Tuesday night and continued for a short time yesterday. The snow melted almost as fast as it fell, but it delayed the harvest of some of the late flax.

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C.C. Stine and Nellie Lynch were married Tuesday evening by the Rev. Stine, brother of the bridegroom. Mrs. Stine has been a resident of Phillips County for some time. Mrs. Stine was a teacher in the junior high school at Crawfordsville, Ind.

75 years ago

October 15, 1942

Dodson boy now with Air Corps at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Floyd G. Kodalen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lars E. Kodalen of Dodson, is now at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Colonel Allen Kimberly commanding. This historic military post, on the Mississippi River a few miles south of St. Louis, is a replacement training center for the Army Air Force's technical training command.

County pioneer passes away at home in Iowa

Word has been received in Malta of the death of William Shook, at St. Ansgar, Iowa. Shook lived a few miles north of Malta from 1915 to 1932 when he went to St. Ansgar to make his home near his son, Elza. He was 85 years old at the time of his death.

Jap marriage with white not valid in Montana

The state supreme court, upholding the decision of the 11th District Court of Flathead County, denied the validity in Montana of a marriage in the state of Washington between a white woman and a Japanese alien.

The woman, Mrs. Vivian Takahashi of Havre, contested the appointment of James Jorgensen Jr., public administrator of Flathead County, as administrator of the estate of Shun T. Takahashi, who died July 23, 1941.

The majority opinion of the high court held that, in view of Takahashi' long residence in Montana, both before and after the marriage in Spokane May 18, 1915, the fact that the wedding was solemnized there was an attempt to circumvent the Montana law prohibiting such marriages. The law prohibiting white persons and Japanese was passed in 1919 and held that such marriages contracted elsewhere by residents of the state are not valid in Montana.

County Jap pleads not guilty to escape charge

Tito U. Okomoto, young Jap who escaped from Phillips County beet fields, pleaded not guilty before James H. Baldwin in the United States District Court last Thursday.

Okomoto was charged with violating the civilian restrictive order. He had been evacuated from the assembly center at Fresno, Calif. The date of the trial has not been set.

50 years ago

October 19, 1967

Mustangs stopped Ft. Benton win with 40-26 victory over Longhorns

The Malta Mustangs and the Fort Benton Longhorns matched offensive powers Friday night on the home field. Fort Benton was trying to keep their win streak of 23 going, but the Mustangs took their fire away as they danced by the Longhorns 40-26.

E.M.C. tackles

Two natives of Malta, Jeff Jacobson and Dale Slade, and almost 450 pounds of tackles for the Eastern Montana College football team this fall, and they helped the Yellowjackets swamp over Montana Tech 59-0 in Butte last weekend.

Jacobson, a junior at EMC, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hazel Mae Jacobson.

Slade is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Slade.

25 years ago

October 28, 1992

Street Talk

Question: Regardless of who you personally plan to vote for, who do you think will win the presidential election?

Bill Zier: I have a feeling it will be Bill Clinton.

Roy Waters: I think Bush will win.

Joyce Simser: I don't care for any of them, but it will probably be Bush.

Bev Lotton: I think Perot is running and the vote will split, Bush will win.

Olson leads Penguins in scoring

Mandy Olson is leading the undefeated Whitewater Penguins in scoring through 14 games this season with 15.5 points per game average, according to statistics released by the team this week.

Sarina Green isn't far behind with 14.7 points per game average and Kerry Simonson is also averaging in double figures with 11.7 points per game.

New fence at football field

Pipe for the new crowd control fence at the Malta football field was donated by Freeport-McMoRan. The energy firm, represented by Dale Slade, presented the district with a donation of $2,000. Principal Kelly Taylor expressed appreciation for the company's generosity.

10 years ago

October 24, 2007

Mustangs in playoffs again - 19th straight

When the Malta Mustangs host the Cut Bank Wolves Saturday at home in Malta, it will mark the 19th straight year in a row they've made the first round of the playoffs under Coach Scott King and crew.

It's a record that many of the other teams in the first round of the Class B football playoffs should well envy.

Only three times in that run have a Mustangs team failed to move on and times they've advanced to the semifinal game.

And they've gone further than that. Five of King's teams has reached the state finals and three times they've brought home the top prize. The last one came just a year ago against Loyola Missoula.