From the Archives

10 yrs ago

Dec. 24, 2014

Hitting the highlight as the Senior Spotlight is Mark Neibur, who has a passion for building boats and was a rancher. Among his favorites are lobster with lots of butter, and his favorite holiday is Veterans Day, which just happens to be his birthday! He enjoys the movie “On Golden Pond” and the song “Ave Maria.”

Though it wasn’t quite what she planned when she dreamed of owning a Victorian home, she got her wish ~ in a doll house. It was passed on to her daughter, Sue Poulton, and now sits in her home. Built on a scale of 1-inch to 1-foot scale. It is wired and has lights, a chandelier (from Germany), hardwood flooring and hand crocheted rugs.

The Malta M-ettes basketball team have destroyed every team that they have faced and they didn’t slow down against Glasgow, who they defeated 58-15 or Poplar who they blew out 82-17.

The Malta Mustangs basketball team had a lukewarm week, seeing both sides of the 2B spectrum as they lost 65-60 to the Glasgow Scotties. They came home to take on the Poplar Indians, dominated, winning the game 60-29.

The showdown between the Dodson Lady Coyotes and Saco-Whitewater Lady Panthers wasn’t much of a show, and the Lady Panthers destroyed the Lady Coyotes 64-19 in Dodson’s first game of the season. The Panther’s boy squad did not take it easy on the younger Coyotes, defeating them 72-26 in Dodson’s season/home opener.

At the Villa

Sat-Sun

Big Hero 6

Staring Starring Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Maya Rudolph & Jennifer Rodriguez

25 yrs ago

Dec. 22, 1999

Forty-three years ago in 1956 while working for the city of Malta, Bud Hasler had the misfortune of losing most of the sight in his right eye while using a pick on frozen ground to dig up a water line. A rock flew up and hit Hasler in the right eye, slicing it and he has relied totally on the vision in his left eye since. Doctors would shake their head and say “what a mess”. After a surgery on the other eye, a rare condition left him nearly blind. Following a second surgery he regained sight in the right eye. He is a firm believer in miracles.

Don’t look now, but the Dodson Coyotes are off to a 4-1 start and have a share of the early conference lead. Coach John Hunt singled out 5-10 sophomore Eddie Hawley who “had a big weekend for the Coyotes scoring 25 points (in two games), grabbing 9 rebounds and stealing the ball 13 times.

The Saco City Council presented certificates of appreciation to Walt Scoles for 34 years of service as a council member and then mayor, and to Jim Hanson for 20 years as a councilman. The certificates were presented by Mayor David Dopp.

Winning matches over the weekend for the Malta Matmen were Lance Haser, Travis Rhoads, Wayne French, Jake Murray, Eric Barthelmess, Derek Davis, Kris LaBrie, Adam Johnson, Scott Ost, Luke Spencer, Tye Salsbery, Matt Sims, Lance Spencer and Jesse Brown.

Undersheriff Tom Miller was formally appointed sheriff by Phillips County Commissioners, he will assume the post on January 1. He replaces Gene Peigneux who resigned while he is away training for a new job.

Basketball Coach Bernie Wasser wasn’t particularly pleased with a team defense that gave up 77 points in the Fergus Eagles game. He said the team didn’t do a great job at the foul line, hitting only 44% on 8 of 18 tries. The turnovers displeased Wasser, “we’re not taking care of the ball very well.”

MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED: Steven Waters, 32, and Alecia Kunze, 26, both of Malta.

At the Villa

Fri.-Tues.

Toy Story 2

Starring Tom Hanks & Tim Allen

50 yrs ago

Dec. 26, 1974

A good crowd of widowers and bachelors of the community enjoyed Christmas dinner with all the trimmings at Smith’s Café last Thursday afternoon. Hosts for the annual affair were Elmer Mayhew, Niecy Siebrecht,

Jack Smith, K.P. Murray, Martin Matovitch, Dan Nicholson. O.W. Christensen and Perry Wilson

The Malta City Council held a short meeting Friday evening. A Christmas party followed the meeting for council members and city employees.

In the mens series of bowling: Jim Zanto 537, Mark Niebur 517, Jerry Kolczak 508. Mens game: Jim Zanto 197, Mark Niebur 189, Les Newton 188. Womens series: Claude Kielb 550, Sweetie Kolczak 467, Juanita Kolczak 447. Womens game: Claude Kielb 222, Sweetie Kolczak 185, Lois Goodheart 180.

Among out 600 series bowlers were Dan Perry with a 649 and Jim Mans with a 606.

Santa Claus himself was on the scene to direct the Malta High School concert band last Tuesday evening. Some of the audience sat at tables lighted by candlelight. Hot wassail was served during the program. Santa Claus was a surprise to everyone including the band members, as he ran through the gymnasium distributing treats to the youngsters before taking over the duties as band director.

The high school concert choir is composed for the most part by students of the freshman and sophomore classes. A parachute backdrop is to help keep the singers’ voices from wafting away in the beams of the gymnasium. Gyms are not the ideal places for musical productions, but do accommodate the large crowd that annually attends the Christmas program.

75 yrs ago

Dec. 15, 1949

The Malta Lutheran Church was the scene of a lively candlelight wedding which united Miss Elizabeth Melvin and Donald Green on Monday evening. Rev. Gronneberg performed the ceremony. Attendants were Julia Hervol and Carl Green.

Louie Perry’s flashy Bucket Brigade swamped the Strater “Not-So-Hot” Shots in the first matches of the winter season snooze contests. Playing last week beneath the bright lights and on the green felt of their home tables, the Brigade showed considerable promise of a successful season. Skillfully captained by R. G. Monroe, the Brigadeers led the Shots all the way, through Strater pasteboard manipulators showed flashes of neady playing.

Death came to one of Malta’s best known citizens Tuesday afternoon when Grover Wait collapsed at his home about 5 o’clock. His death was a shock to his many friends. He had been about town that afternoon and spent part of the afternoon visiting with his friends in the News office where he was a frequent caller.

The Wolf Point Wolves last weekend gathered the honors at the invitational tournament held on their home court. The hard-driving, close-checking Wolves downed the Malta Mustangs with a score of 52-27.

There will be a wedding dance on Wednesday, Dec. 28th for Mr. and Mrs. Milton J. Olsen at the Forks Hall.

At the Palace

Fri-Sat

THE RETURN OF WILDFIRE

Starring Richard Arlen, Patricia Morison & Mary Beth Hughes

100 yrs ago

The county Red Cross reorganized, electing T.F. Rucker chairman; Josef Sklower, vice chairman; Herbert Kibler, executive secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. E. Sklower, recording secretary. Later, Rucker and Sklower exchanged positions.

Ben H. Koke announced his readiness to run off his annual dog races in Malta, whenever the boys thought they had their dogs sufficiently trained. There was snow enough – all that was needed was dogs enough.

Kenneth Murray, Wilfred Fehlhaber and Kenneth Liskum had come home from the state university at Missoula to spend the holidays.

118 yrs ago

Sheriff Griffith and family had moved to California and Puck Powell was acting as the law hereabouts.

Chinook winds had bared the country from the Phillips ranch to the Little Rockies, while there was considerable snow between Phillips and Malta. The Zortman stage went to the hog ranch on runners and then changed to a wheeled vehicle to Zortman.

A new school district, Cottonwood No. 12, had been organized and Mrs. Lear E. Slattery, county superintendent, had appointed H.G. Cowan, W.E. Waltman, and W.H. Garland as trustees.