Memories for Wednesday, January 31, 2024

10 yrs ago

Jan. 29, 2014

Proud of our local guy

Greg Kielb, the voice of the Malta Mustangs and M-ettes received a citation from the Montana High School Activities Association (MHSA) for his “significant contribution” to high school sports. Rough calculations indicate in his 40 year career, Kielb has announced over 250 regular season football games and over 1,200 games for Malta boys and girls basketball teams.

He has also called Class C games in the county, and 35 state championship games.

When the rhetoric had subsided, Big Fork claimed the school title in the Class B ranks at the Divisional meet held at Malta High school. Choteau was the top school in Drama.

Vanessa Mann and Kari Koss of Malta High placed sixth in Classical at the speech meet.

Mustang basketball Coach David Costin said, “We were moving well and I thought defensively that’s as good as we have ever looked Saturday against Plentywood.” Zach Handley led scorers in both games over the weekend, adding 23 points against Plentywood.

Chosen as Students of the Month for January at Malta Middle School were Kaycee Bond, Laney Cole, Kenzie Stolem and Adam Mummey.

A one-vehicle accident on the west outskirts of Dodson claimed the life of a passenger and resulted in negligent homicide charge being filed against a Livingston man. The driver, Kenneth VanHoesen, was examined at the local hospital and then taken to jail by the Montana Highway Patrol as a result of the accident.

The best individual performance for an athlete in basketball thus far may have been by Dodson Coyote Jessica Parker, who went in Beastmode in the team’s 86-46 beat-down of the Turner Lady Tornadoes. She put 34 points on the scoreboard for the Coyotes.

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25 yrs ago

Jan. 27, 1999

Lewis Baeth earned a civil engineering degree at MSU in Bozeman. He is employed by the Montana Department of Transportation.

The positions on the local school board held by Bruce Hould and Kevin Salsbery are up for election.

Winners in the local Knights of Columbus Free Throw contest were Dylon Caballero, D. J. Kovach, Clayton KillEagle, Kelly Pankratz, Mark Slade, Jeff Hasbrouck, Deserae KillEagle, Jolene Fuzesy, Katie Weber and Roshon Nordlund.

Blessed for generations

A summer visit to Bruce and Ovilla Kirkaldie of Lodge Pole brought together five generations. Visiting were Kirkaldie’s daughter, Myrna Green of Apache Junction, AZ., her son, grandson Wayde Green of Great Falls, great-grandson Jeff Green and his son and Kirkaldie’s great great-grandson, Josiah of Bozeman.

Local welder and craftsman, Randy Shores, landed a contract for 50 gas meter shacks for Samedan Oil Corporation. With a crew of four, he was cranking out a house a day.

May 11 is the date set for Kale Wilke by Judge Gary Day of Miles City, who will preside over the case. He is charged with the negligent homicide death of Jack Brogan on July 4, 1998.

Really? Steal eagles?

Two concrete eagle lawn ornaments were stolen over the night at a residence on 6th Street E. A reward of up to $1,000 may be available through Crimestoppers.

At the Villa

Fri-Tues

MIGHTY JOE YOUNG

Starring Charlize Theron, Terry Moore & Bill Paxton

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50 yrs ago

Jan. 24, 1974

On the fall semester honor roll at the College of Great Falls were Daniel Dyrdahl, Douglas Kaufman, Gerard Van Houdt and Bob Wiprud.

A German shepherd dog named Boots is reported to be doing well following a pretty horrible ordeal for a dog or any other creature. Last week, she was found by John Siebrecht caught in a bear trap along the Milk River. Siebrecht said she has been missing since before Christmas.

Cleo Hasquet of Buffalo and Richard Overberg of Billings were married in Billings. Attending from this area were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nicholson, Dana Kay and Debbie, Mrs. Dora Kirkaldie and Mrs. Jake Appelhans of Dodson.

Lester Wiebe is the new highway maintenance supervisor in this section, replacing Art Harris who recently retired.

Malta was without passenger service on Amtrak for four days as a result of the floods in northeast Montana.

A long, strong blood line…

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Henry received Golden Age passes numbers 100 and 101 from Supt. James Nordlund. The Henrys are probably more acquainted with the local schools than most couples. Their six children have all attended school there. All but eight of their 28 grandchildren are attending or have attended Malta school. And one of their six great-grandchildren will be ready for school this fall.

Three Boy Scouts of Troop 429 were promoted to the rank of Life Scout at a court held Monday evening. They are Karl Mavencamp, Bill Cox and Kary Mavencamp. Phil Sims conducted the ceremony.

At the Villa

Thur-Sat

LOST IN THE WILDERNESS!

Starring Michael Douglas & Will Geer

Sun-Mon

ROMEO & JULIET

Starring Leonard Whiting & Olivia Hussey

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75 yrs ago

Jan. 27, 1949

Yes, she was going to San Antone

Miss Lillian Grimsley leaves by train for San Antonio, Texas, where she will again model her sheer white wool evening dress and evening wrap in the “Make It Yourself With Wool” contest there.

The VFW hoopmen take on a travelling outfit Sunday night at the city hall when they encounter the Clark Twins of Huntington, Ind., a family aggregation composed of three sets of twins from the same family.

Two ancient county scholastic basketball feuds will be renewed on the Malta floor during the coming week as the Blue and White Mustangs tackle foes to the right and left of them. The Saco Panthers will attack the city hall auditorium Friday and Saturday the Dodson Coyotes will be on the prowl at the same place.

James O’Brien, held in the county jail for several weeks as the result of a shooting incident in which he seriously wounded Chief of Police A. W. Pray, pleaded not guilty to a first degree assault charge in district court before Judge James T. Shea on Tuesday and was ordered held for trial at the next term of court.

At the Palace

Fri-Sat

BLONDIE IN THE DOUGH

Starring Penny Singleton, Larry Simms & Arthur Lake

Sun-Mon

Gunfighters

Starring Randolph Scott, Dorothy Hart, Barbara Britton & Bruce Cabot

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100 yrs ago

Disgruntled depositors in the recently defunct First National Bank of Dodson were appealing to Judge Borton to call a grand jury investigation into the affair, with the idea of hanging a criminal charge on those responsible for the failure.

Just a little technicality…

Jake Meyers somewhat ruefully discovered that he had purchased a stolen car from a glib slicker who drove the vehicle into the county with altered engine numbers. Jake had to give up the car-with the statement that he would buy from dealers henceforth.

The Malta high school girls’ basketball team defeated the girls of Dodson high by a 20-4 score.

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118 yrs ago

Thieving is illegal

Chicken thieving on a relatively large scale was going on around the county. Current sufferer of the week was T. B. O’Reilly whose hencoop was raided for 27 nice fat birds.

Train No. 3 rolled into the ditch near Williston, the Enterprise reported, “and the whole outfit turned completely over.” No one was badly hurt. The mishap was caused by spreading rails.