Memories for Wednesday, July 17, 2024

10 yrs ago

July 16, 2014

President of the Walleyes Unlimited, Don Voegel, was pleased with the camp this year, held at Fourchette Bay. Orin Mackey caught the biggest fish of the day, a 26-inch walleye. Kia Wasson and Erica Smith each caught a 21-inch one for the girl’s division.

Celebrating 99 years, the Phillips County Fair would offer a night show starring Trevor Panczak and the Rough Stock Band; a rodeo, a truck and tractor pull, and AMX races in addition to the Funtime Carnival.

Martin “Marty” Johnson (local CPA) was appointed to fill the position of Carrol Ereaux, who had passed away, on the Board of Trustees of The First State Bank of Malta.

Young Malta actresses, Clara Waters and Devyn Salsbery, both landed acting roles at the Fort Peck Theatre production of “Cheaper by the Dozen.”

The Mustang Foundation Secretary, Melissa Dunbar, shared that the purpose of the foundation is to assist seniors graduating and has given out over $20,000 in the last year. Their 5th annual fund-raiser is set for August 16 at the Stockman Terrace.

Chamber Board members held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for two new businesses, Buechler Insurance and Lloyd’s NAPA.

Logan and Lindsey Lund are still roping together after meeting at the Roy Father’s Day Rodeo years ago and later marrying. Logan has been roping since he was 13, Lindsey is an eight-year veteran team roper, who took off two years for the birth of their seven-month-old daughter, Legacie. They competed in the Crossfire team roping over the weekend.

Deputies responded to two incidents, one resulting in the arrest of Brian Bell of Dodson; charged with two felonies; he was held on a $60,000 bond. At the same incident, Shelby Walker was arrested on a felony charge; she was held on a $5,000 bond. The following week, Henry Anderson of New York was arrested after entering a house and was “walking around.” He was charged with burglary and later bonded out.

Despite there only being five swimmers to be able to go to Glendive, all five qualified for the top 12 finals. The team was led by Shay Garfield, assisted by Collin Holman, Carly Garfield, Erika Nagy and Kylie Hunter.

25 yrs ago

July 21, 1999

Harvey Smith has restored a 1926 John Deere tractor that he will display in Missoula at the Two-Cylinder Club next week. He completely restored and rebuilt the tractor, including hand-painting it using a brush.

Jolene Calk of Dodson and Nate Hicks, a fellow student in biotechnology at MSU-Bozeman, accompanied an experiment package with a certain type of cells to Cape Canaveral.

The oldest known Eagle Scout from Troop 429, Joe Eskildsen, and the oldest known Scoutmaster, Phil Sims, gave speeches at the troop’s 70th anniversary.

Siblings, Jim Vennes, Mary Ann (Spencer), and LaRae (Blunt) were honored at a celebration of their 25th anniversaries with an open house at the Sr. Citizen Center.

Tyler Ness was pictured in a five-generation picture with the maternal side of the family including his mom, Kris Ness, grandmother Sherry Davison, great-grandmother Evelyn Starkey, and great-great-grandmother Anna Boos. His paternal grandfather, John Davidson, great-grandmother Joyce Davidson, and great-great-grandmother Grace Simser, were also shown.

Phillips County Sheriff Gene Peigneux told the PCN that he has been hired by the Motor Carrier Services of the Montana Department of Transportation and has begun three months of training. He said he did not plan to resign his position until completing his training in September. The County Commissioners said he would still be paid $3,893.67 a month including benefits.

At the Villa

Fri-Tues

TARZAN

Starring Tony Goldwyn, Alex Linz, Minnie Driver & Brian Blessed

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50 yrs ago

July 18, 1974

One-year-old daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Darrold Palmer, Kimberly Ann, died at the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, she had been ill since birth. Three siblings, brother Bret and Cleo, and a sister, Kathy, live in Malta. She is also survived by a sister in Denver and many grandparents.

Mr. And Mrs. Gary Wetzsteon of Red Lodge announces the engagement of their daughter, Diane, to Michael Lowney of Malta. An August 31 wedding is planned.

The Dodson High School All-Class Reunion, which had been rescheduled until next weekend, is shaping up with a good response from former graduates.

Mr. And Mrs. Orlin Gorder of Gillette, Wyo., announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Orlinda, to Benjamin Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson of Malta.

At the Villa

Thur-Sat

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

Starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Stella Stevens

& Shelley Winters

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75 yrs ago

July 14, 1949

Interment rites for Pvt. Norman E. Deo, the first Phillips County man to lose his life in WWII, were held at the Custer Battlefield Memorial cemetery near Hardin on Monday. Sixteen members of the local VFW post, Buster Deo Post 4067, named in his honor, participated in the military rites at the service. Pvt. Deo was stationed on the Corregidor Islands and was killed on April 30, 1942. He enlisted in January 1941; he had landed on the island on April 22. He was 20 years old at the time of his death.

Emil Lundstrom’s dirt-moving crew made the mistake of parking the dirt-moving equipment and camping outfit on the wrong side of the dam they were building to create a stock water reservoir on the Albert Lind place about 15 miles southwest of Landusky.

A cloudburst in the middle of the night sent a flash flood down a canyon and the dam worked. It worked so well that the big caterpillar tractor and all machinery were soon underwater. Two men sleeping in the trailer house were awakened by the water sloshing around the floor. They barely made it to safety ahead of the rapidly rising water. By morning the equipment was under 18 feet of water, the trailer house was partially afloat and a big truck, bouyed up an empty tank, was floating in the newly created lake.

Lundstrom is still figuring out a way to recover his machinery. He can’t fish it out because the water is too muddy. The dam may have to be cut, he says. In the meantime, he has the truck tied to a tree until it can be brought ashore.

One of Henry B. Jernigan’s white-faced range cows, not to be outdone by mothers of the human race or Glacier Park bears, presented her owner with quadruplet calves at the Andy Payne ranch south of Hinsdale Sunday. Jernigan, a Saco rancher, says it is the first time in 30 years he has known it to happen, and he thinks he’ll stay in the cattle business.

OLD TIME DANCE with music by Lee Grant & the Blunt Brothers on Saturday, July 16th at Kid Curry’s.

Chris Martin, 36, and Donald Knight, 20, both of the Saco community were given 18-months suspended sentences in district court by Judge James Shea Tuesday afternoon. The men pleaded guilty to the theft of several quarts of whiskey from the Pastime bar in Malta on July 3. Bond was fixed at $1,000 and they were placed on probation.

A terrible wind did considerable damage in the Regina country last week, taking houses, garages and chicken houses for Donald and Newton E. Cummings and Ivan Henderson. Newton said it even took big corral poles out of the ground at his place.

Forty-six members of the Waters family gathered at the community building at Four Corners for their first annual family reunion. Four generations were present, the oldest being Shelah Waters, 78, and the youngest being Lynn Denise Waters, 9 days old.

At the Palace

Fri-Sat

LITTLE IODINE

Starring Jo Anne Marlowe, Marc Cramer, Eve Whitney, Irene Ryan & Hobart Cavanaugh

EL DORADO PASS

Starring Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Elvena Verdugo & Steve Darrell

Sun-Mon

THE RETURN OF OCTOBER

Starring Glenn Ford, Terry Moore, May Whitty & James Gleason

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100 yrs ago

David Blais and Harry Anderson, two young farmers from near the Canadian line, were drowned while swimming in Beaver Creek near Saco.

William Waller, a farmer north of the Canadian line, surrendered to authorities at Regina, Sask., believing he had killed Jack Bostrom of Saco in an argument over a fence line.

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118 yrs ago

The big Fourth of July celebration was Malta’s best ever. Malta won a stirring baseball game from the Sheepshearers and also defeated the Shearers in a tug-of-war. The baby contest turned out as expected. There were seven babies competing for the title of “best,” Dr. Clay, the judge, was unable to decide the best and split the prize money between the entrants.

“A girl of the badlands decided to shuffle off but her associates sent out a hurry call for Dr. Clay and he managed to bring her back to terra firma.”