Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for July 1, 2020

100 years ago

June 29,1920

Miss Gertrude Tennant of Fergus Falls, Minn., had arrived to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Mrs. E. W. Runge as secretary of the Phillips County home service section of the Red Cross.

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William Jennings Bryan spoke to a large crowd of Malta residents while the train upon which he was a passenger stopped in Malta. Bryan was on his way to the Democrat National Convention in San Francisco. Bryan had many admirers in Malta, and many were able to shake hands with him when he was introduced by Reverend L. J. Christler of Havre.

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Ole Veseth, who had been ill for some time, was taken to Rochester, Minn., for treatment.

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Mrs. H. S. Whitcomb and children were visiting relatives in Fort Benton.

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Street commissioner Vert was busy with a tractor and grader on the city streets.

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75 years ago

June 28, 1945

County man home after prison experience

Sgt. Hubert Drabbles, who was reported missing in action over Germany last November 30th, and who had been a prisoner since that time until May 2nd, arrived home last Thursday morning to spend a 30-day furlough.

Following termination of his furlough he will spend two weeks at a Santa Monica rest camp before reporting for reassignment.

Sgt. Drabbles left LeHavre on May 30th, making the trip on a Liberty ship which carried 300 liberated prisoners. He has been awarded the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart, and three battle stars, one for each of the three major campaigns in which he took part. He has been in the service for two years and two months.

This week at the Palace Theatre

a Thursday and Friday double bill

First hit; "Ever Since Venus" - With Dina Rae Hutton and her orchestra and Hugh Herbert, Ann Savage, Billy Gilbert, Glenda Farrell, Ross Hunter, Alan Moby - it's this season's gayest film with the airwaves most generous bandleader leading the way in a Jamboree of rhythm -- a pageant of romance a carnival of uppers.

Second hit: "The Black Parachute" - Starring John Carradine, Osa Mason, with Larry Parks, Jeanne Bates ... yank correspondence 'chutes his way to a life and death scoop in the Balkans.

On Sale at Buttrey Food, Inc.

Be thrifty and patriotic too!

Salmon ...$0.24 a pound

Catsup, 14-oz. ...$0.16

Washing Powder ...$0.23

Pork and Beans ...2 for $0.27

Ivory Soap ... 6 for $0.25

50 years ago

July 2, 1970

Wagon Train plans almost complete

The route of the first annual Milk River Wagon Train, set for Labor Day weekend, has been laid out and plans to make it one of the biggest events ever staged in the area are well underway. The route will more or less follow the old freight and stage road from Malta to Zortman ... certainly one of the most traveled trails in northern Montana.

25 years ago

July 5, 1995

Employment rate 5.4% in Phillips County

The unemployment rate was 5.4% in Phillips County in may according to the research bureau of the Montana Department of Labor and industry.

Statewide, the Montana unemployment rate was 5.0, Up from 2.5% last year.

Editor's Note: The May 2020 unemployment rate in Montana is at 9% and 6% in Phillips County, (3.2% in May of 2019.)

Street Talk

Question: If you could go anywhere you wanted on vacation, where would you go?

Billie Waggoner: Well, if I could go anywhere I wanted, I'd pick Hawaii again. It's beautiful.

Mike Carlson: I'd go to Alaska because I've never been there.

Richard Trembly: I'd go to Alaska to hunt and fish.

Tyler Vander Mars: I'd go to Holland to see my grandfather.

10 years ago

July 7, 2010

Dodson Council honors yard contest winners

The Town Council of Dodson has announced the winners of the first annual Yard Contest.

The winners for most Improved Yard are Ryan and Lindsay Lankford. They received a check for $100 from the town.

Barbara Haubrich received 2nd place for the Most Improved Yard and a prize of $75.

The judges had a tie for Best Looking Yard between Teri and Wink Cole and Elmer and Dora Henry. They split it an award of $75.