10 yrs ago
Mayor Shyla Jones presented John Demarais with a plaque honoring him for his 30 years with the City. He punched his last timecard on Wednesday, just in time for the party.
Pierre and Susan Bibbs welcomed a son, Pierre James on June 18 in Glasgow, MT.
Gene (Eugenia) Taylor, with the Sr. Spotlight glowing on her, shared that her favorite meal is “good old-fashioned oatmeal”; her favorite book is “A Girl of the Limberlost.” The former WWII nurse loves horses and visiting with people.
On the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary, friends and family will gather at the IOOF Hall in Saco, to wish Will and Diane Eklund many more happy years together.
Members of the Burlington Assembly of God flocked to Malta and gave the home of Pr. Hal and Henrietta DeBoer a facelift and remodel. The volunteers came from North Carolina and did their work in less than four days.
The family of George and Ethel Green were planning a family reunion, the first in about 25 years. Of the family of George, Sr., Margaret, Mildred, Donald, Carl, Dale, Roger and Robert, only three are still living. The eight children became orphans when their parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1945.
Seventy-two racers took on a fair weathered and mosquito-less weekend at the Hi-Line Drag Strip, which started Saturday and ended Sunday.
At the Villa
Fri-Sun
BLENDED
Starring Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore
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25 yrs ago
Dwight Score, Malta, joined the Montana National Guard on May 25. He will report to Fort Jack, SC, where he will attend basic training.
A total of 4,527 passengers used the Amtrak passenger tracks at the Malta depot in 1998. Congressman Rick Hill announced recently that the House voted on a transportation appropriations bill that will allocate $571 million to keep the Amtrak rail program rolling.
Competing members of the Milk River All-Stars who will compete in the State Bambino Tournament are Jeremy Azure, Jarin Stiles, Clay Jesson, Nathan Hellyer, Trenten Moran, Kevin Amestoy Caleb Young, Jeff Handley, Chris Ebey, Marshall Harms, Allen Young, Gordon Webb and Richard Miller.
Trey Howard was born in Glasgow to Doug and Ronda Simanton, on May 30, weighing 7 lbs. 2 oz.; he joins a brother, Nolan. and stepbrother Guy of the family home, and a sister, Gal of Havre.
Frank and Amy Benson announce the arrival of Jazzamyn Rose Benson on June 9, at the Havre hospital, weighing 8 lbs. 5 oz.
Mr. and Mrs. John McGlothlin of Kalispell are pleased to announce the wedding of their daughter, Jennifer, to Thomas Tremblay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Tremblay of Malta. A wedding is planned for July 17 in Kalispell.
A son, Ceaton Vincent was born to Charles and Crystal Mears on June 18. He weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz.; he joins a brother Clayton and a sister Cyra.
At the Villa
Fri-Tues
AUSTIN POWERS - THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME
Starring Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Verne Troyer & Rob Lowe
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50 yrs ago
June 26, 1974
The bones of John “Liver Eating” Johnson, a colorful Montana pioneer, almost came home to rest, but they didn’t quite make it. Johnson, who gained his reputation fighting Indians in the Montana Territory, died in 1900 in a California Veterans Hospital. A seventh-grade history class in Lancaster, Calif., was studying various mountain men when their teacher told them about “Liver Eating” Johnson and they resolved he should be buried in the area in which he gained fame. Accordingly, they contacted the Veterans Administration for permission and wrote to the mountain states to see where the body should go. The first and keenest interest came from Cody, Wyo., and Montana got into the affair only belatedly, after the VA had given its consent and named the seventh-grade class as “next of kin.” Congressmen and Senators from both Montana and Wyoming got into the fray, but Wyoming was victorious, and the burial was carried out in Cody on Saturday, with movie stars who had taken part in a motion picture of Johnson’s life called, “Jeremiah Johnson” taking part and the Lancaster school students as special guests.
Bob Jacobs announced this week that he has sold the Jacobs OK Hardware store to Joe Goulet and Jack Krusick of Glasgow. They will take over the business on July 1. Jacobs says he will continue to operate the plumbing and heating business which he has conducted along with the store but will be moving to a new location.
At your local Buttery’s: 2-lb Velveeta cheese, on sale for $1.49.
The parents of Barbara Jean Austin and Jean Richard Green invited family and friends to their wedding on June 28th at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Parents are Harry and Sally Austin and Dale and Fern Green.
Ten young people from the county have been attending the 4-H Citizenship Short Course in Washington, D.C., these past two weeks. Donna Plouffe and Susan Stahl of Saco took part last week, and Marianne Emond, of Malta, Coleen Pankratz of Regina, Kathleen DePuydt of Saco, Janice Austin, John DePuydt, Eileen Hellie, Dorene Brown and Mary Ann Mavencamp, of Whitewater, have been in Washington this week.
Twenty-five planes flew in for breakfast at the Harold Sorenson cabin at Nelson Reservoir. Some people drove out also so there were about 150 taking part. Hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Russ Cebulski, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Pancake and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sorenson. Stan Boothe won the landing contest and Ken Cebulski won the flour bombing contest and donated his winnings back to the Malta Pilots Association.
Dannette Johnson, the five-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Johnson of Malta, was named the winner in the Father’s Day baby contest. The baby girl will receive a $25 savings bond.
At the Villa
Thur-Sat
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges & George Kennedy
Sun-Mon
A Touch Of Class
Starring George Segal & Glenda Jackson
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75 YRS AGO
June 16, 1949
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Phillips of Landusky brought Mrs. Joe Appelhans home Monday evening for a few day’s rest. Mrs. Appelhans had an accident. Her left hand caught in the wringer of an electric washing machine last Friday. Dr. Setzer of Malta is caring for it.
Final rites for Fred Gabriel, Phillips County attorney and long-time resident of the community, were held at the Malta Community Church Tuesday with Rev. P. F. Waller officiating. Masonic rites were conducted at the graveside in the Malta cemetery.
Funeral services for Rosalee Stevens, daughter of Mrs. Rosalee Stevens of Dodson will be held this Thursday at the Dodson Catholic Church with Rev. Fr. Joseph Crowley officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Dodson cemetery. She is survived by her mother, a brother, Bryan Stevens of Dodson and five sisters.
Sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Grayson and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Southwick; daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Ramsey and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Utter.
Melvin Johnson of Saco was seriously burned Monday afternoon at the Montana-Dakota Utilities booster station at Beaverton. He is a patient at the Glasgow hospital.
William Gerhard Loney, five-month-old son of Mr. and Gerhard Loney of Dodson, was buried in the Dodson cemetery Monday afternoon following funeral services at the Community Church at which Rev. I. C. Gronneberg of Malta officiated. The baby died at a Great Falls hospital where it had been ill since birth.
At the Palace
Tues-Thurs
3 GODFATHERS
Starring John Wayne, Pedro Armendariz & Harry Carey, Jr.
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100 yrs ago
Sheriff Charles Wolfe and Deputy Jim Sammons had destroyed a 150-gallon still discovered in the rough breaks of Frenchman’s Creek near the Canadian line. About 1,000 gallons of mash was dumped but the moonshiners were not caught.
Kenneth Murray, who had graduated from Montana State University School of Pharmacy, was the youngest registered druggist in the state.
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118 yrs ago
The excessive rainfall had caused the sod roof on the Paul Schroeder home, a few miles west of Malta, to cave in as the family slept. Schroeder, pinned beneath the ridge pile, managed to free himself as the house caught on fire from the kitchen stove. He freed his wife and several children, but the baby had been killed.
Four inches of rain had fallen in four days. The Milk River valley from Havre to Glasgow was a huge lake and Saco was completely underwater. Ranchers were reporting heavy stock losses. A Glasgow sheepman had lost 5,000 newly shorn withers and J. B. Long, who completed shearing 9,000 head of sheep estimated his loss at 50 percent. One band of unshorn sheep had drowned in Alkali Creek.
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