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| PREFACE History is a story of people. As such, it is usually thought of as a record of the activities of people. The story of[...]y known as history. We have attempted to write a book of memories. Nostalgia? Well,it might seem s[...]yesterday and the days before that, it really is a form of reminiscing. Some people say, "You are ol[...]k at old things, talk to those who remember more, or how would one fare? "The dear dead days beyond recall; are precious to us all." This book has attempted to present a view of Daniels County area from its earliest beg[...]nt time. We have attempted to gather and preserve a segment of its earliest memories before the histo[...]have become legend. Their unwritten saga will be a proud heritage treasured by their descendents. Co[...]rested in some, bored with others, surprised with a few. In compiling this book we have tried to think of all generations. Some names and important even[...]omitted, but not intentionally. In general it is a record of the past, written by the pioneers themselves or their descendents. The gathering of material for this history has been a pleasure and a privilege. With the best of intentions, there wil[...]which should have been included. Should there be a slip up please remember that it was made in spite[...]terdays and the progress made. It makes us sad to think that progress cannot be made without it be[...] |
| DEDICATION To ·the hardy pioneers with a great variety of backgrounds and experience, all with a yen to go West, who came to this area to live whe[...]t which time Claire Hillstrom agreed to spearhead a history book for Daniels County. Eleanor T[...] |
| [...]terial, along with the information they served as a guide in time and events. We are deeply appreci[...]and constructive criticism offered. Without it we would have faltered many times in our task. Thanks to a[...]e who came in and said, "Hi, how you doin'?" with a smile on their faces.[...] |
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| [...]Soum._,.,, tip of Chou•au County wa •nnex«I to Big H[...]Cu.-r County) / / .I Big Horn ,,,..--- - II I I FOLL[...]original terri tory save for i ts outer boundaries. In 1893 Valley county[...]was created out of Dawson, and i ts residence swing their local gover-[...] |
| [...]ifl/1 county MS created reducing Valley county to i~ prn11nt lize of 5064 ,quiff miltll.[...] |
| [...]to the Woody mountains in Canada was used for be a "bold and beautiful stream", which is now known b[...]the The northeastern Montana prairies were a paradise for 1920's.[...]unded" the party according to Captain Lewis. The a high sense of personal responsibility and initiat[...]ization could well note. would scarcely make way for the party to pass. The elk[...]asured 5'3" from the tip of the hoof to the form a travois. In this way belongings could be dragged[...]d THE FUR TRADE sometimes a bullet. These shields, which were thought to giv[...]preceded the cattleman and by calJi ng them into a trap where they could be surrounded the farmer. and kj !led. or by stampeding them over a cliff. After horses In 1829 the American Fur Co[...]as to leadership of John Jacob Astor, established a trading post, charge into a herd and ride alongside the stampeding Fort Union[...]arrows. This required Yellowstone River. This was a stockaded post with considerable skill.[...]the company had listed on its payroll at Fort Or<ler was maintained in the Assiniboine camp by a Union twelve clerks and 129 men. Here the trades[...]niboine Indians. being placed in the branches of a tree or on a scaffold. Each year the company sent out its Indian trade goods, When the bodies would decay and fall the relatives would stocking the stores with from fifteen to t[...] |
| [...]key, ·although never authorized by law, was also a principal and lucrative THE[...]principal currency at the fort was buffalo robes. A The existence of Fort Union, and later Fo[...]r dollars. The price of coffee was created ,a need for horses. And the coming of settlers to $1 a pound, brown sugar was the same. Calico was $1 a northeastern Montana added to the need[...]ut the ranching, and also horse rustling, a lucrative business. business expenses and hazards[...]le turned to horse rustling. When, ceremony. When a trading party approached the flag was i[...]remonies trade began. When trading began only six or north of unemployed cowhands sprang the[...]tting out of hand. gangs. Halle, a stock inspector during this period, reported .[...]ontana is the most- " conducted at the army posts or by the authorized traders at lawless and cro[...]Early in his career he rode for a man named Dad Williams. DAYS OF THE OPEN RANGE It is said that he would get a bill of sale from Williams for[...]25 head of horses, then run off with a bunch more into the The beef industry of Montana did not get going until Dakotas or Canada and sell them. Finally Williams went about[...]killed off (the and brought back to Montana or the Dakotas to be resold. last record of a buffalo being killed in old Valley County[...]n to look other sources that he was a Saxon German. His name was attractive to atockmen who needed a summer range. Henry Yeuch, Jauch or Jeuch. He had two brothers. One of Stockmen fro[...]d from as far south them, Chns3 , was a respectable rancher who would have as Texas began trailing cattle by the thousa[...]o be "finished" before shipping. other, a member of the wild bunch, was known as Coyote Cattlemen began to put preasure on Washington t[...]me time after he quit the wild bunch, wes selling or leasing the land. It was to be used, but not owned, dragged to death by a horse), Kid Trailer, Frank Carlyle, by the ranche[...]ople had no trouble with the outlaws , County was a blank space on the map, bearing only the[...]b~ck horses they had stolen. Sometime they would " rustl where the four buttes rise above the surr[...]at to present to homesteaders who had fed them. A few adventurous ranchers and land-seekers began t[...]Henry and Ole sought shelter and food at a homestead shack while the Shipstead, Manternach family, the Joe Bonnes family, owner was a way they left things as they found them. Charles[...]colorful Plentywood. According to a story he and some of the wild "Hominy" Thompson.[...]bunch were camping on a little creek. The cook was trying They settled[...]River and its unsuccessfully to start a fire with damp buffalo chips. branches. Mo[...] |
| [...]and when the town Back in his chair, a hand clawing for his gun, he went in was established it took the name. a fast roll. Fast, yes, but not fast enough. Long[...]other member of the gang had prices on A soft-nosed slug from the .30-.30 in the hands of[...]d go to town to buy supplies for the others. A second bullet, from the sixgun in the hands of th[...]y is still not certain, as deputy, scored a flaming groove across his head. there are several[...]he too late. The swiftly moving foot of a deputy kicked the was killed in Canada--on two separate occasions. John A. pistol out of the outlaw's hand and acros[...]l Tande went to the fallen man. At his request he a murdered man found in a brush heap in Minnesota as carried him outside. "Air, I want air!" the gunman gasped. Dutch Henry. He is[...]d that he "The s, to do this, after I slept with them. By the married and lived peaceably until 1928 or 1929 when he eternal, I'll get well! I'll get them!" died in Stillwater, Minnesota of a gunshot wound. The following is an interesting[...]northeastern Montana, killer remember Dutch Henry or Henry Ieuch who in 1902, 1903 and rightfully entitled to his more commonly known or 1904 made periodic visits to Culbertson to spend[...]ses near the Canadian line in was dead a few hours later. And, with his death came the bot[...]now appears that words, still is alive and a resident of Scobey.I Well he they were right. But if the report is tru[...]story degree, and now serving the fourth year of a life sentence in of outlawry in that part of Mo[...]son bars has commenced and it is expected that in a few days at the latest McKenzie will walk out of the penitentiary a free man to join his old father and mother who ha[...]ernors bushy beard and hair, and he had a price on his head and a Johnson and Eberhart of Minnesota, Governor D.A. public record when Jones arrived.[...]charges but, instead, on a charge of helping a prisoner by Harry M. Lund, from Daniels Count[...]cember, 1940 purchased a ranch on the Muddy in Saskatchewan. In[...]ression. Only his hands, moving as he reached for a knife and fork to use on the pile of flapjacks[...]activities. little table in the ranch shack. For a moment that must 4[...]Kid Trailer's name was Jack Winnefield. A short article have been eternity for the t[...] |
| At that time a pal of Nelson's, named Trotter, had been[...]99 and put in jail on general suspicion of being a hard citizen. probably was a mutual need. Jones had become more and With him was a young man named Seffick, held for[...]set out to get him. Eader heard that Jones was at a In Valley County, which then comprised what no[...]door, stole the deputy's Valley, he was known as a rustler and killer. · horses, l[...], was formed to Trotter free. He arranged to get a key which fitted the jail continue the depredations. door and then, accompanied by a man known as "Smitty" and leading two saddled br[...]as good but it didn't work. Jones, constantly A noisy (nosy) cattle buyer sought to interfere and was shot in a fleshy spot for his impertinence. Otherwise the[...]up to Thompson's abode jailbreak proceeded with a minimum of discomfort. The and had fol[...]y word. result was that Nelson gained Seffick as a new member of his gang and authorities were more[...]these efforts to capture Nelson. That took place a year after the jailbreak when King was t[...]turned loose near the Seffick were holed up near a little town in South Dakota. Carl Gilberts[...]owever the big rewards remained in force and many a[...]unsuccessfully and finally Jim Moore, a barber and finally rewards were put on the heads[...]nd lawmen Redstone and there was a price of$800 on the man's head. combined to clean[...]Moore made his capture, finding Trailer at a dance and A group consisting of Tom A. Davis 10 , Billy Andersby5, disarming him without trouble. He placed his captive in a Elmer (Hominy) Thompson6 , Frank King and George sleigh, hitched up a team and started for Glasgow to turn LaPorte agr[...]riff Harry Cosner. , and round up or kill the outlaws. However word got to Jones that Trailer was a captive. He When the time was ripe, King rode[...]ut Trailer on one deputized ranchers were to make a circle in their part of the of the horses, ta[...]and leaving Moore afoot. He country, while King would ride to Canada and-enlist the also took[...]f. aid of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police who would He took the coat, known throughou[...]the incident. He did not recognize Jones but, rather, CAPTURE TRY FA[...]sed efforts to capture him and break up the gang. A escape.[...]ed the picture. Thought to be from Nevada, he was a was cold with heavy snow on the ground and the outlaw lone wolf at first but soon found a kindred soul in Nelson ran off the horses o[...]ey stubbornly continued following · had moved to a ranch on Whitetail Creek from western[...]it was January 14, 19047 when they 10 Tom A. Davis: Should this be John A. Davis who lived called on the Andrew Tan[...]capacity of son Albert were caring for a herd of 250 steers a n d deputy lawman? John A. Davis, a Civil War veteran and batching it. the father of Bill Davis, a partner with Shook at one time in The[...] |
| [...]Jones and the On the evening of the second day a stranger rode up to $1500 paid. Tande's shack. He explained that he had ridden 35 miles A short time later Bird and Moran with others set o[...]t. that they would lead them to the outlaw's hideout, but a Bird and Moran were in the cabin when the man[...]ng the big, black cowhide coat without a leader broke up in the spring. once belonging to[...]realized they had come upon one of Nearly a year later a big, redheaded man rode up to the the outlaws. Ho[...]g. He Early that evening young Al Tande made up a batch of disappeared again as thoroughl[...]Jones lay down beside them. As he did so he took a new automatic out of a shoulder holster and laid it on his chest.[...]ailer, came into the The deputies did not sleep a wink that night, they territory with cattle herds being driven in. He was a testified later. And neither did Jones, they beli[...]kes with along with Sam Hall and Tom Reid, a herdsman for horses enthusiasm. Bird, watching him, laid down the p_a ncake stolen by the outlaw band of Nelson and Jones. 1 turner and started to roll a cigarette, a perfectly natural Trailer was an accompl[...]after there action. As he did it, he moved toward a comer where his was a reward on his head, he was in constant demand to[...]Jim Moore, a Culbertson constable, desirous of[...]STARTS Trailer at a dance at the Ed Sherman2 place. Moore With a swift movement he picked it up, leveled it at Jon[...];! him without trouble and started for Glasgow in a with the command, "Put 'em up, Carlyle."[...]r, robber and horsethief, who Then as Moran drew a pistol and also covered him he must[...], freed Trailer, took the horses and realized in a flash what had happened.[...]Moore did get back to Culbertson .a nd report.ed the beginning of this story, made h[...]entually led to Jones' sudden and violent ·chose a "shoot-out" rather than capture, and failed. death a short time Iater.3 Jones was alive when taken[...]shack after the The following is from a st.ory told by Mrs. Marie Ness blast of gunfire[...]Halverson': · and the outlaw was wrapped in a big canvas, then placed "Kid Trailer was a handsome young man, of average in a sleigh and with a fresh t.eam the two deputies, build, in his early twenties. When I first talked to him it accompanied by Andrew Tan[...]Poplar with was in the spring of 1907 or 1908 as closely as I can recall. I their wounded prisoner. Before leaving, Tande ha[...]and was living on my homeetead near them to sign a note making the county responsible for the[...]rge of the then One morning after daybreak, I heard an unusual noise. I 21 year old Albert. ·[...]single shot .22 rifle and went outside to see if I The journey was along the old Wood Mountain tr[...]9 George Robinson, lat.er a Scobey •resident, but at that[...]d mistakenly assumed. Ellen Scobey, until about 2 A.M. the next day. From there they daughter of Major C.R.A. Scobey after whom the town was summoned Sheriff[...]named. insisted that the Indian police provide a clean[...] |
| a grouse. I raised my rifle, aimed and shot the bird in the head, it fell on the other side of the building from where I was. I walked around to pick it up and to my surprise an[...]is buckskin horse. He said to me, 'Ma'am, you are a good shot, and I hope you and I stay on good terms. I don't want to face you on any other than good terms, but I have ridden all night and need a drink of water.' I gave him the water, hooked the door and he rode a way. Trailer headquartered with Joe Knapp who had a spread in a deep brush filled valley not far north of where t[...]was not enough for Knapp. Knowing that there was a reward for Trailer, he informed the sheriff at Cr[...]the Culbertson sheriff called out, 'Up with ,em, or you are a dead man!' horseman, came to a close Tuesday evening and result.eel in Trailer looked at his guns on the saddle horn and back to a verdict of guilty. The evidence against Sherman w[...]with a bunch of horse thieves that have been operating i[...]man's conviction will have the effect of stated, 'I have one request-take good care of my buckskin sc[...]rable class of rounders who have been horse until I get out, and when I do Joe will be a dead man!' · harassing the stockmen in other por[...]case.• The only reward received by Knapp was a .44 handgun *See Kid Trailer history, this book.[...]ss. J.A. Davis, a rancher who lives way up on the river.* It[...] |
| given a preliminary hearing before Justice Friedl. This He gave a motherless colt to the Desonias for their leaves[...]rvivor of the gang unborn child who he felt would be a girl. Mildred, the child up north as it is though[...]aybreak states that the last time Tom Ryan * John A. Davis, "up on the river" refers to the Muddy, ne[...]ch was caused by "his gun going The editor paid a visit to the county jail Wednesday off w[...]him. He claimed to have been wrangling horses for a PIGEON-TOED KID Canad[...]st two years and has never heard of Dutch Henry or any of the rest of the gang that he[...]Kid Trailer is putting most of his time mastering a fiddle, into the country in search of unbranded h[...]ted Malcome Bruce is taking his medicine like a man and his business by himself. He was despised[...], he was with any of Tom Evans' booze it will be a lesson for him quarrelsome and cruel. He insisted[...]he was received the Kid. Learning that there was a reward for the horse with open arms by the peopl[...]d thief, he told the sheriff that there was to be a birthday to rejoice over his deliverance. Reid c[...]got away, for ifit were not for the fact that · would ride ahead up to the house. If the Kid was there he County Attorney Kerr had been in poor health and would lead his horse to the post and tie it. If he was not physi_cally unable to get around he would have had a hard there he would tie the horse in the barn. time of it before the[...]He died a few minutes later. Another outlaw remembered by a few old-timers was Another account[...]es and Tom Ryan, who traveled about the area with a partner by shooting, told to Clara Reeser by Cami[...]day sheep rancher, and published in a diamond jubilee Tom Ryan, according to Ellis H[...]Courier, October 9, 1962, is as who knew him, was a man who hated petty larceny. Empty follows: mail[...]ade no effort to "Pigeon Toe The Kid", or more commonly called "Pigeon hide them. Toe", was a young man about 22 years old. He was in When s[...]y, the police were going to find me hiding behind a'. bed or in the cellar." taking him to jail but when[...]e he Afterward it was learned that the injury was a gunshot fell in with a bunch of horse thieves who were rustling wound received in a bank robbery. horse[...]aid that the money from this robbery was given to a "One April morning, the Kid rode in and asked me for a homesteader who returned it to its rightful owners. hammer," said Bonnabel. "I wondered what he wanted a Mrs. Lon Desonia, whose home was a stopping place for hammer for. He wanted to shoe a horse. (This horse most travelers in the Daleview[...]he most gentlemanly man she ever knew. had stolen a few days before). He had a pair of shoes on his One time she was trying t[...]e chickens "Another fellow, the Kid, and I had just finished eating she wanted. She pointed out two, and he drew a six-gun dinner when there came a loud pounding on the door. We with each ha[...] |
| [...]TUESDAY AFTERNOON knew him because he had had a fight with him before. The Kid got up and started[...]d gone clear Tuesday afternoon of this week and a few minutes later through the Kid and into the sh[...]e street where one who was eating dinner with us. I took my razor blade and man had been left t[...]emoved the bullet. The officers loaded the Kid in a wagon $4,500 of the bank's money and leaving[...]When the bandits went to the bank president, A.P. Bonnabel's at Richland in 1908 by Deputy Hugh[...], bookkeeper were all working this book, lives in a rest home in Harlem, Montana. behind t[...]·of the robbers to make a deposit, and Joe Fugere, a farmer, ,, had just received cash for a check. Nobody knows where the Norse Brothers "[...]its did not notice Kingsley at first but when but it's no secret where they went. Where they went anu th[...]During the early days when Scobey was known as a him and Fugere to get behind the fixtures and kee[...]another busied himself gathering all the money in a sack. has ever proved this one, but the first bur[...]who were ere ordered to get up one at a time and march into the around the town at the ti[...]lt. Mr. Smerud was commanded to lead the short A man met his death in 1916 on main street from a bullet }. ,.rade. The bandits then locked the vau[...]Another man, John Shipman of Wolf Point, and a child Boyd's and Kahle's Pool Hall. The gunplay d[...]to the bank just then and they were ordered into a in just the manner that the gunsmoke television w[...]et, after which the robbers ran out to their car, a big shows like to portray. No show-down in the mi[...]x, and they sped away. dusty street. In this case a shot rang out from between two rr·. i> se imprisoned in the vault soon released themsel[...]ble. They also took other However, he did not own a ranch, and later drifted out of valuable papers w[...]ence, who happened to be in Flaxville when killed a man. This one they pinned on him, and he wound th[...]ce, was notified and he and Deputy up his days as a "lifer" in the North Dakota state Tousley were so[...]'s where the first Norse went. The Kid's story is a one fast enough to keep pace. little different. H[...]p, Lawrence gained on the bandits. were those who would testify to his fairness and courtesy They had about a ten mile start and when the Chrysler in under most circumstances. He was a chap of twenty-one which Lawrence Tousley and Mur[...]of oil and overheated he was within a mile of them. The One day the sheriff from Gla[...]other. Schnitzler said that judging from above he would say it He expected to find the Kid and bring him in. was about a mile, but darkness had set in. He found and ar[...]first stop, when his hands were freed, he slipped a hills southeast of Homestead when he was forced t[...]daylight this morning, feeling that he had a reasonable[...]held up and robbed in the same fashion by handed a hand gun to the bartender and asked him to put it[...]000 and $8,000 at Froid and apparently overlooked a was charged with murder in the death of Ch[...] |
| [...]oday about the illegal stills, rum- meant to kill or get the money to resist arrest at all costs. running, bootleggers or hijacking during the fourteen The Leader is inf[...]the "noble experiment" was taking place. carried a machine gun, as well as rifle and shotgun. This[...]er south with their It was then mandatory to have a regular man to carry the expensive loads. mail. F[...]ing and selling liquor was drove an outfit called a buckboard. It was a sort of cross "bread and butter" during the rainless years at the between a wagon and a buggy, having no vehicle springs beginning of the[...]The passenger trains on the Great Northern did a and a platform behind with a metal rim around it a place booming business hauling captured persons,[...]few passengers as people found guilty were given a fine, told not to do it again, and did not come h[...]charged with this offense. tracks. Sometimes they would get three to four feet high. The whiskey patrols were kept busy and many a novice When a blizzard was on and visibility was po.o r the horses in that patrol went on to bigger and better jobs in law would often get off the track, but could find it again[...]was In winter he drove an open jumper and wore a fur coat drunkeness; another fearing the advent o[...]pen trail. Many days in patrol buried his beer on a hot day in a plowed field and winter it was questionable. if he would get through since then went to town feeling secur[...]Mr. Merrill (Fatty) intended to make two trips a week if during the day and to the owner, each exp[...]le. Those who rode with him were teachers loud as a rifle shot; the boxcar load of grapes fermenting[...]in Scobey-- Scobey in this manner. He hauled many a schoolmarm to one operated by Smith and Boyd, the[...]and Griffith. In Flaxville there was a saloon run by After about two years Timmons and[...]y" period some speakeasies were run from employed a different" driver, Andrew Upsall, brother of priv[...]ty Shame Mrs. Bonnes. This vefiicle was driven in a parade in located within the business district of[...]tion of the 18th amendment county following a period of wet and cloudy'weather. The to t[...] |
| [...]prairies in response to a little scratching and a handful of[...]America. One realizes today that it was quite a task for a[...]and team and a few tractor outfits. In those days a horse outfit had a large haul over prairie trails for a long[...]When they got to town, there invariably was a jam in[...]time to have wheat unloaded. A single farmer likely had[...]seven 120-bushel wagons tied up, with a shortage of[...]recalled. "If a trainload of empties came in, whether day or night, they would be loaded within eight hours -and sent[...]in 1922 and 1923, due to a machinist's and boilermaker's[...]strike the first year and a switchmen's strike in 1923.[...]Distance was also a problem. The Opheim Railroad[...]eerless,. Richland and even Opheim had pointed in a different direction; the last shows the tornado a long way to haul by team or tractor. The west prairie trail ascending[...] |
| [...]better the additional seven miles to Richland, or 23 to sold as low as 18 cents per bushel on[...]at 45 miles from to 28 cents for quite a while. John England brought two Opheim was a long way to haul wheat with horses and[...]n and could only exchange it for cost of hauling a single bushel from Opheim to Scobey was four loaves of bread. more than the price of a bushel of wheat ·at the local 1937- Crop[...]from Opheim could not make the 1938- We had a fine crop, but because of the black rust it enti[...]t wasn't worth cutting. Peerless, where a "half-way house" was located which 1939-[...]45-46- and 1947- In these last years the enjoyed a rushing business in the boom days.[...]ring the summer whenever farmers had time to get a way from other work. As a consequence, the Great Northern ran two trains e[...]ese three years had bumper crops. There was also a comparable crop in 1928 but there was no jam in[...]re compiled by Mrs. Steven Watts and published in a 1947 issue of the Methodist Parish Visitor: 1910-[...]op because we hadn't broken any sod. 1911- We had a medium crop. 1912- We called it a bumper crop. It was a yield of 10 to 32 bushels per acre. Raw sod gave[...]on wheat, and 40 bushels on barley. 1915-This was a very unusual year. A fine crop was frozen A McCormick horse pushed header with owner, Pete to the ground but returned after a good rain to make 30 Johnson, in foregroun[...]HHS- Wheat went about 15 bushels per acre. 1919- A failure, not much threshed at all. 1920- About 20 bushels per acre, I think. 1921- A fine prospect failed again. We cut part of ours o[...]27-28- These years yielded average to good crops. I'd say the average was about 25 bushels. 1929- Failure again. 1930- We pretty near made taxes and seed. I think we had about 10 bushels per - maybe. 1931-[...] |
| CuttinR the heads from the Rrain stalks using a horse ''pushed" header. A rotating canvass behind the cutting bar carried t[...]elevator which took them up and dumped them into a header barge. The bargeman kept the severed grain heads away from the elevator, and when the barge was full, would stack it in stacks for threshing later. The driver would ride on a seat fixed to the long balance pole behind the he[...]Hauling Grain to Scobey Cutting with a header at the O.E. Susag farm , 1929. From left t[...]Ralph Susag. Threshing at Tande, Montana with a steam engine. Notice |
| [...]The ranch consists of 640 acres. Mr. Carney took a 320-acre homestead about ten years ago and has since purchased a half-section. He has been very success{ul infarmi[...]ces wheat of high protein test which often brings a premium of 10% or more above the normal market price. Picture taken[...]awn combine; Coal Creek, 1926. Cutting oats with a binder, 1913; photo unidentified.[...] |
| [...]d to grain wagon. He has hat at back of his head, a dark handkerch_ief knotted at neck.[...] |
| Rumley Oil Pull breaking on the J.A. Norgaard homestead at Orvile. Note the device in[...]Ben Bollerstuen breaking sod with a Case gasoline tractor and what appears to be a P&O plow at Orville in 1925.[...] |
| [...]die Hance hauling coal from the Kravik coal mine, a[...]. George E. Grubbs mining and hauling coal 1930's or late 1920's. Silver Star coal mine and a busy day.[...]community, died in the shaft from black damp, a non-[...]The North mine, also a shaft mine, was located[...]931, Leon Parent and Frank Fordyce were killed in a |
| [...]ap fuel oil and plentiful supplies. No more coal or. ashes to haul; no clinkers to dig out of the grates; no more coal dust or banking of fires at night. One by one the mines closed and the shafts and tunnels either caved in or were filled in. Today there is not an ope[...] |
| [...]at Fort Pierre, South Dakota. They were wild and would Alfred next. Others are not identified. bre[...]as five feet. marbles? How the colored collection would pour out of the sack-"glassies, commies, crackies[...]REMEMBER WHEN? little,cratked. Marble playing was a sure harbinger of The pioneers were pla[...]e first m~l~d \jcilled barn full of poultry in a night. Coyotes carried off snow revealed a black spot of earth as was th, first chickens a~d turkeys in the evening and sometimes in meadowlark singing from the top of a fence post or tlw bif broad day l\ght. Gophers tunnel[...] |
| [...]d record players supplied modern children do. a background of sacred and popular Christmas music[...]family had been snowbound at an aunt's evergreen (or aluminum) Christmas trees, families and place on Christmas Eve during a storm. Her mother told friends gathered together[...]elebrate an "old the children that Santa would leave their presents at their fashioned Christmas[...]y weren't under the tree at all! any homesteader, or child of a homesteader. Christmas in Many famili[...]s. Louise Davis recalls that Blanche Timmons made a Some Scandanavians from the "Old Country" Christmas tree by covering a chokecherry tree with a vine remembered the day as something akin[...]looked like when tricks were to be played. a real Christmas tree and was the central decoration at a Cranberries also made their debut here[...]ristmas party in old Scobey before 1913, at which a Julian Erickson remembers that Henry and[...]ed to celebrate . Shipstead · froze a quantity of cranberries in a special Christmas Eve with singing and dancing.[...]they were living. Mrs. Carrie Fossen , who was a homestead child, recalls This "home freeze[...]e in 1909. The family traveled to who w·a s working for them, with a supply of cranberries all Hoke Smith's place in a bobsled. It was only four miles but winter[...]of the children were cranberries were a treat that Mr. Erickson remembers with numb when they arrived . Johnny Smith had received a pleasure even today. pop gun for Christmas and declared happily that "I shot Many of the Christmas customs o[...]e Norwegian tradition. which brings a renewed time of fellowship, wonder, and The Sc[...]s, and the lumber Ice skating on the river was a favorite holiday pastime in companies that we[...]ny years before the settlers had to buy trees. A Sunday-school Christmas program was held a[...] |
| [...]story to new generations who will have a most challenging Tande, Chris Tande and Al Tande[...]old John JACK BENNETT A. Davis, probably one of the earliest of them all.[...]Richard Burmester answered what appeared to be a picture of the old west. They were all a great and wonderful routine request to come t[...]in the most trying times of the 30's against a Negro laborer who had been disturbing the peace r[...]e danced with them, did Jack Bennett, a brother of Scobey' s first mayor Sid business with them and made them a part of our lives. Soi t Bennett, filled out[...]ellow farmers who should be very to possess a team of horses on a foreclosure. Smith, who proud to have been "Rugge[...]ight well depend on hauled freight with a three-wheeled steam engine, also had one's strength of character and merits. a bad temper. Sure, and all these noble characte[...]arrived at the farm Smith was hauling applied on a basis of occupation or time they were hay with his wife and her sister helping. Smith would not evidenced and widely dispersed among the whole people of let the team go and a fight began. The women were hitting the Daniels C[...]but the latter bit off the end of one remembered. I want now, therefore, to add to the list those[...]vicinity in the early 1930's. He purchased a half section of field, Joe Walker among them. Yes, I wish they were all land from the state, left, and returned two or three years still alive and in Scobey to accept t[...]the lead of the early migration of He was a "loner" and therefore there was much "Sod Busters[...]was found that he, at the time of his death, had a .32 in a neighbors and friends until it was too late; so i[...]his person as well as another check of a large amount. He Here is a short account of the H.C. Nelson family since[...]placed his farm for sale. Northern as a telegrapher until he died in 1963; Ly le died in[...]ive at Longmont, Colorado and their son Philip is a clinical psychologist practicing in California. Sister, Mrs. Lola Cooke with her husband, a retired shop foreman for[...]in Fargo, North Dakota. Their son, Lon Cooke, is a plant manager for Corning An early[...]g the coming Deschutes River in Oregon in summer. I am beginning to summer. enjoy good health again after a long period of Robert Bruce w[...]hospitalization and sincerely hope to pay Scobey a visit in to parents of Scottish and Chippewa[...]l at Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he Birthday U.S.A. 1976; may it leave a true and encouraging played footbal[...] |
| Prior to the first World War, he was a featured cornet soloist with the Harvey, North Da[...]n this country and overseas, remained together as a band. It became known as Bachman's "Million Dolla[...]g the war he was with the Million Dollar Band for a while; for a time he was with the Lehigh Valley Symphony orche[...]he directorship of the Scobey band that year, but would appear with the John Philip Sousa band in 1928. Last reports stated that Robert Bruce was a patient in the Fort Meade VA Hospital in South Da[...]by Canadian authorities, was received a common school education and worked at the capture[...]uties carpenter trade. Later he worked in a drygoods store and Ray Hunter and Marvin Cupp on[...]Rossler, traveling under many aliases throughout a · was united in marriage to Adele Timm[...]led. Canadian authorities Mrs. Daniels passed a way. were notified.[...]o The arrested man was wanted-for the murder of a RCMP grow restless under the influence of civilization and ease, constable during a bank holdup in Montreal earlier in the Mr.[...]oss Canada to Moose Jaw where he making a new empire. He became identified there with the w[...]made good his escape. The wanted man, some way or another, got to the border, and when first notice[...]hursday, May 27, 1920 BRIEF HISTORY OF MANSFIELD A. DANIELS, |
| [...]ng and ranching business and also of establishing a small country store. The reader is asked at this[...]ime. That was nineteen years ago and we call this a pioneer country today. The writer[...]whom we all know or have read of, and who were eternally[...]ready to do, give or lend to those who needed. And believe[...]priest and in a large measure he was that too.[...]ent Citizens State Bank of Scobey, and that time, or who they were, but it is a well known fact that later married a niece of Mr. Timmons. they were extremely few, ·[...]In 1912, Mr. Daniels began the erection of a beautiful stock ranchers who lived many miles apart. It was the day home on a cozy little hill overlooking the west bank of the of cayuse and lariat, bachelors and flapjacks--a time when Poplar river, and which cost hini in the neighborhood of the worst and best traditions of a type of westerner, now $20,000.00. This home was[...]f material had to be freighted 60 miles overian.d a second time to Mabel E. Brooks, who was then a nurse in from Poplar. Those were the days when Mr[...]In that year Mr. and Mrs. himself out physically. A man of great physical stature Daniels moved to Scobey and settled on a ranch, and there and strength, he never thought of a breakdown and he Mrs. Daniels still resides. Scob[...]store, Mrs. Woodley resigned by all here, that he would end his life. After an operation and Mrs. Daniels[...]eld the office under the name Mabel B. A bitter disappointment to Mr. Daniels in that year[...]his more intimate planned, nurtured and built--to a new location, the location associates in t[...] |
| [...]y on April 15, 1919, while seated event, the town would have remained where he established in a chair. His funeral was conducted by the Masonic i[...]rom Plentywood was fraternity, of which he was a member, and was attended by because the Soo was b[...]The writer has always believed, more or less, in the paralleled their road to keep the b[...]n great esteem and veneration Mr. Daniels was a staunch Republican in politics, but the deed[...]men who repeatedly refused to enter the arena as a contestant. He pioneer and blaze the trails into a new and unknown always said that he thoroughly believed all a man gained country, in order that we, who come later may work and by entering politics was a host of enemies. In regard to live in compar[...]lly said he had very few. Mansfield A. Daniels. He came, he hewed and he won. Now In the winter of 1919, Mr. Daniels suffered a paralytic he has passed on to a reward that humanity does not give , stroke from[...]all him back, but first move for the creation of a county bearing his nam e we have done a fitting thing in his honor--we have placed a was started at this time and he showed unmistaka[...]all, Clate Hall, on a hunting trip in the early 1900 's . Note t[...] |
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| [...]cobey Freight Train 1901-1913. Steve Robinson has a[...]me odd 75 years ago on the prairies of Montana in a region where the foot of man had scarcely trod and where a few years before roamed the Indians and the buffalo a struggling infant town was born. The reason for this birth was Mansfield Daniels making a trip from Poplar, Montana in 1901 to the site of[...]adow larks were singing everywhere! The river was a home for muskrats and beaver, and trees lined its banks in places. What a site for a future town![...]de open to the idea as he followed the Thus a town took shape on the banks of the Poplar River.[...]Jacob Timmons, to come from the state of Iowa as a Among business places in Old Scob[...]enterprise. Hardware Store, a livery barn, J.B. Fleming's Bakery,[...] |
| [...]the only by Clarence Penn and Mansfield Daniels, a post office, the community center for sixty[...]age business of R.J. Coughlin and Charlie Grimes, a It was a big disappointment t o .his big hearted man general merchandise store (Daniels & Timmons), a saloon, when he learned that the rai road construct10n engineers a warehouse, an undertaking parlor, a real estate office, a wouldn't consider running the line any furth[...]1913. He had hoped th e railroad would come as far as the Timmons saw the need for ater[...]h, storing the Great Northern 's rails would extend across the Poplar enough water to flood ma[...]t to right: Martin Smith and Jake Timmons out for a[...]July 4, 1913-Scobey, Montana A 1911 picture of the old Scobey postoffice, Mansfi[...]cially changed from East Scobey to Scobey In 1912, Mr. Daniels built a beautiful home on the west |
| [...]gration of business places There wasn't a jail in Scobey but there was a constable and homes to "east Scobey". Like a flock of prairie named Roy Corneveau. He rode a big bay horse and was chickens the settlement rai[...]flew to the the only person who carried a gun around town. One night east and settled there[...]oved the boys in the saloon were getting a little wild as some of by John Lee of Froid, Mont[...]biggest sellers the store had. He would load several in a AMOS BLEGEN[...]worked at every kind of job and community. He was a handyman and hardware clerk in known all kinds of people. When I asked him ifhe had ever the Daniels & Timmons gen[...]married he replied, "Nope,---the girls I wanted I couldn't hardware and implements as well as food, harness, etc. He have and the girls I could have, I didn't want!" also had some land several miles we[...]r the new owners for many years too . He remained a bachelor. He Louis D. Boyd, who star[...]Scobey he lived at Jamestown , North Amos Blegen, a pioneer resident of these parts asked these Dakota, where he became a life member of the Elks Lodge questions of the lo[...]s located? Amos and Ira Martin Smith went i:qto the saloon business in 1910, Nelson put in th[...]sewer was installed). Oregon where he was a member of the Hinson Baptist Do you know where th[...]hurch. He passed away in Portland. Amos said that a gasoline flame light was the first street light.[...]with pioneer Amos Blegen, April, 1973 when he was a resident at the Daniels County Nursing Horne, by[...]hree places along the way. Mr. Blegen worked at a blacksmith shop and livery barn in Old Scobey and earned three dollars a day plus room and board. This was consider[...] |
| [...]Mr. Bonnes was part owner of a lumber yard in Madoc[...]was from there that he hauled 1umber for an elev a tor In 1901 the Joe Bonnes and John Manternach[...]horses, plus household goods which is still a landmark. As soon as the floor was in, all and sh[...]find homes the neighbors were invited to a dance before the bins were on land that had been[...]in. Joe, himself, furnished the music, as he was a great Scobey area.Joe Bonnes found the perfect pl[...]olin lessons in town. miles south of Old Scobey - a river and a bayou winding However, that elevator was the scene of a tragedy which through grassland, ideal for his sh[...]ry so the procession of wagons, Bonnes' house was a two-story, five bedroom house with buggi[...]erent five miles to the cemetery. Louis Boyd, a saloon keeper, from the usual frontier home. It was also unique because it furnished a Cadillac for the pallbearers who were Frank had running water in the kitchen and a bathroom in the Hughes, Oliver Bystrom, Cecil Marlenee , Alvah basement with a toilet where you pulled the chain. This Parkhurst, Alfred Evenskaas and Wesley Lasiter. A was possible because of a spring in the hillside above the sidelight o[...]n active member in the Anti-Saloon League planted a grove of beautiful trees.[...]t set of twins, That winter Joe thought a change of scene might help Edith, Luella who's tw[...]nsin to spend the twins Alma and Alvin. One thing I remember about Luella winter with his rel[...]daring" than the rest. Face powder was a way with Locomotor-a taxis. In the spring a sad Mrs. just coming "in" but of course on[...] |
| [...]tcher, etc. , so they could run the butcher shop. I Mrs. Bonnes always came out in the summer with[...]she had growing so which was then five cents a pound. So plentiful was meat abundantly . They us[...]While they were here Olive married Perry Blevins, a prize fighter. The family left here abo ut 192[...]EDA BUER by Frieda Buer I was born t o Andrew and Christina Deering at Wino[...]katchewan where he |
| [...]where he wa s needed, especially in the kickoff, I've remained in town, put in a large garden every year when in almost ev[...]s the fir Jt man to down the with Beverly's help. I had a stroke in February, 1975 which runner." slowed me down considerably, but I'm better now. I ha ve F ollowing gra d uation, Ingrid we[...]a count ry store. There were two sisters and three[...]cle who was an architect. She had hoped A PATCHWORK OF MEMORIES[...]ing wa s sent to St. Olafs in Northfield. I ngrid was to be a class of Fargo High School in 1904. Ingrid was bo[...]her . 12, 1883 in Cummings, North Dakota. She was a shy, pretty blue eyed girl with dark hair and an[...]rney Taylor Crum, in Fargo. He really didn't car, a Ford touris t model. The top came up and it had side want to be a la wyer, but he was the last of fo ur s ns, and t[...](attachable). older boys h a d chosen other careers. Paul thought he r eally[...]wan ted a chicken ranch. But he apprenticed with his father[...]and in 1906, a fter being admitted to the Bar, ope ed a law[...]lawyer named Halvorson. During that time he made a trip expressions a re in F ilipino and are unintelligible. Qu[...] |
| and retained Helen as a middle name. When we were little I called her Honeen , as I could not pronounce Helen. Later this was shorted to Honey, and it became a family name. For my middle name I chose Bixby, my paternal grandmother's name, and[...]re of Scotch and Irish . Honey thinks she recalls a bit of French, but I c~n't remember reading of it. In the genealogy there 1s a reproduction of President Lincoln's letter to Mrs[...]he Grand Forks Military Academy, was possessed by a wild desire to do soldier duty in the Phillipines[...]for Santa Cruz , remaining with his grandparents a few days. Simon Bixby refused permission to enlis[...]ndmother feared. Timmons. He filed on a quarter section five miles north of Death was[...]ere obscured by deaths from building , and a well. disease. But the pine coffins led to Major[...]cobey in 1913 when she was three months old , and I was rations to the Pure Food and Drug laws. two years. Stephen was three and a half. How long we lived Nevertheless, Paul forever after believed he would die there I do not remember, before moving to the homestead . young. He often said he would like to be wrapped in an old But the years[...]r most army blanket and buried on the prairie in a pine box. precious and lasting memorie[...]at Wolf Point. Father had the farm home built in a special bills passed by Congress in recognition[...]y Medal and the Silver to me. There was a running stream for fishing. My first job Star for Gallantry in Action , and a ribbon for service in the was to pick up cow chips for cook stove fuel. I remember our Phillipine Insurrection - 1899.[...]in Montana. Nails between the studdings would overnight be covered[...] |
| with glistening frost. The pantry was always stocked a have had to cross the river to get where he was. He was month ahead for storms, and I helped put a lamp in the perfectly dry, and no one e[...]from Collinson's Drug Store where we enjoyed ice a good view of the valley and Stoney Point. cream sundaes at little round tables. I liked visiting the Dad planted a Caragana hedge around our cluster of office , a pleasant two room bulding with a rather stale odor little buildings, placing a bone at the bottom of each hole. of ink, dust[...], woodshed, barn National Geographic. and a chicken coop with willows nearby. Mom had[...]re were blizzards and snow too deep for there was a clump of wild Juneberries. travel on the trails, Dad would stay in town with Selmer Into this same valley, Honey and I would go early in the Oie, the banker. Out of toba[...]prairie to Biard Pittingers and came back with a small plug In the evening, Steve, Honey and I would be at the top of of chewing tobacco! the bluf[...]e and buggy from his We kept warm with a wood burning range in the kitchen , office in tow[...]where Mother was usually baking bread , lemon or apple pie, or oatmeal cookies. The cakes she baked would[...]ariably be chocolate with butter cream frosting , or a butter layer cake with fudge frosting. A crock of beans,[...]kitchen, was a base burner with isinglass doors, a ro und oak table and chairs. There was a leather chair and davenport which served as a bed for Uncle Roy and Aunt[...]One Christmas, I wakened Honey to tell her there were[...]Spring was a long drawn out time - watching the rain[...]dresses, or with lace insertion and tiny tucks. There was a[...]tone, hill and in the shape of spiders or butterflies. And a lovely soft red gully. We picked flowers for Mom,[...]After the first few winters we lived in town in a little sometimes to wade, other times to stare in[...]house next to the "Sears Roebuck" house , a big red house the patterns of sunlight on the peb[...]ugh the weaving with the children. I tasted Jello with cream there for the moss. Steve would probably be fishing, or sailing boats. first time, and there was a party with a peanut hunt. Velma Taylor was born on the farm[...]and we made them for years afterwards. We would go out to Honey and me. Steve was the first and l[...]and pick buttercups, bluebells and Indian born in a hospital because Mother feared they might[...]ong baby by mistake. However, Dr. of which I've forgotten the names. These were arranged in Co[...]doorknobs of our friends homes. Then we would knock on the river with the rest of us, and he pr[...]When summer came again, back we would go to the walking, he wandered away one morning. They found him farm. I remember the men who brought our things in the that afternoon over by Stoney Point. Dad said he would dray, looking around at all the[...] |
| [...]and Sunday school somehow it wasn 't, and we were a1ways :, apn , · · J,~ ,._h 0[...]0 ~r the Odd Fellows Hall, the Rex Theatre , a nd then for The first thing we would do, after a tom of our 1o.vo11te s '··[...]· first vestry behind us. As soon as we awoke we would be out in the sun member[...]came we had attended either the Lutheran or Methodist away from them.[...]churches. And I remember tornados or cyclones. Whenever Mother We all missed the farm, and I suppose, Mother especially. would see one of the dark funnel clouds, she would hurry us She came to the o[...]house one lovely autumn down the cellar, where we would huddle until th e danger afternoon and the four of us excused a bit early, and drove was over. I can still recall the mixed odors of earth ,[...]house, where a hired man was now living, seemed We used to m[...]ooms Dad had installed a diving board there, and the with stones and pebbles. There was a long deserted cellar tow[...]often in the years to come. Dad would often bring an old ends to represent th e content[...]. From this crony and they would re-live the old days, and the Spanish same farm ,[...]American War. buckets. It h ad a rich , sv eet flavor nequaJled m la er One morning Honey, Taylor and I emptied our banks experience, except of course fo[...]'s Store. It was unlike any other store in town, a shack earthen floor of the original sod kitchen o[...]inside we found nickel Hershey th e south of us. I remember Mrs. Pittinger's delicious bars on a table between heaps of denim overalls priced at h[...]ely careful with where Janel and Ida and the boys would sing old songs like his[...]elected to buy. When "The Red River Valley" . And I remember the horseback[...]three of us . What the later outcome of this was I do not round farmers and as in most cases, those who gave their remember. I often think back to this example of the lives to the farm were well rewarded. I remember theirs as a dedication and dogged persistence of those who are lovely place to visit, and many a happy time we spent there. committed to Socialism or Communism as compared to the They would have a crowd in for a day and the table would easy going and sometim[...]ttitude of many of us be h eaped with good food . I ate rabbit there, and thought it[...]young, ..... __ _:: ~1.. e I W W came to be understood as " I Won 't h omestead only part of the tirn , usually[...]er u g the oundation for the a s the cla im w [ s proved up. 1 hen 1;';- - .•'[...]{.,, -- . :~ • , r p :-. 'ed B"' d harvested by a Elizabeth Grace, (Betty) the only one of us with blue eyes neig hbor for s hares , which a t least helpe · pay rn e taxes.[...]ell on September 2, 1921 My husband's fami ly had a similar experience in Havre, while we lived there for a year. We returned to Scobey by but still own the farm, always hoping for a bumper crop, to train , a[...]t the time Steve was ready for school, Dad bought a the eastern edge of town.[...]me an account at the Egland for th to town . When I was seven we moved into town for Lumber Company, and I was allowed to add another room good, and I began school in the first grade with Miss[...]rum children, was born August 23, 1923. Steve had a most vivid memories is the day the entire Scobey[...]school, before that even, Dad would often receive a bag of to carry the flag, I had a great desire to be the one who rutabagas or cabbages in ret urn for legal services. When I would have that privilege, and I never once took my eyes was sixteen, I was given a horse by a good farmer friend of away from her face. When she chose me I was happy Dad's, Mr. Kostanick, at a time when having my own horse beyond belief, and I marched in the parade carrying the[...]was my heart's desire. All that summer and fall I rode over American flag. The rest of the day and[...]s and prairies to my heart's content. Even though I my memory with the flag and the children chantin[...]he sadness "Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at France .... " at having to give "Bobby" back was forgotten, and I have "Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at France ... " always[...]e grades she caught up to me as she was promoted, a nd The pioneer days we[...]rough college to become Dad and Mother bought a little white house on First[...] |
| [...]Didi. He was with S H A P E in France and Fort Bliss in[...]of communism. Perhaps a final irony in Taylor's life,[...]After leaving Scobey Mother lived either with, or near[...]Paul Crum Sr. spent his retirement years in a simple log[...]Montana. He read, fished and gardened a bit. His friends Top row, left to right: Elizabeth, Taylor, Stephen, Paul, Jr. would come to visit him , and he enjoyed helping his Bo[...]It was in Stryker during a visit to his Dad, that young[...]ident in September, University and studying to be a Traffic Engineer. Honey 1955. was working[...]s Angeles. There are three Phillipines as a boy, and which determined the entire children. Mary, a sociology teacher; Tom, with a degree in course of his life. He wrote to me as follows: English literature, now studying law; and Bob, a student "I left here on September second with the body, and[...]al rector read the service in the funeral home I went to Northern Montana College in Havre, and me[...]The flag was given to your mother .... Christian A. Lange. We were married the following "San Francisco looked strange to me. I first went to sea October in 1934. Our first majo[...]and coal back to San Francisco. On my Command as a refrigeration engineer during WWII. Both return from the Phillipines in 1899 I was in camp with my Betty and Paul came there bri[...]regiment at the Presidio in early fall. It was a windy, sandy Marines. We bought our present home[...]ervice Medal, Machine Company in Cleveland. After a company merger American Campaign Medal[...]was buried with military and Through the years I have enjoyed art museums, Masonic[...]the In 1969 Honey and Morris Wold attended a 50th arts. We both love to read, and Chris loves[...]Crum as First Commander and co-founder. Chris is a commander in the U.S. Navy, at present on a tour In this journey into the past, one cen[...]ee at afraid to strike out alone. First, as a youth, across the vast Rutgers. She is married to[...]Vancouver, honor of his country. Then, as a young man with a family, British Columbia.[...] |
| limitless sky one sees on the ocean , to begin a n ew life . And ALFRED GIMMESTAD Ingrid Crum was a tru e pioneer's wife, ever ready to help her neighbors whenever there was sickness or need. Alfred was an early pione[...]Alfred passed away in Scobey in August 1954. I was one of th e first women in the New Scobey in 191 3. A Mrs. Fleming and a pool room man 's wife were the first two , then I was third and Mrs. Ole Buer and her sister, Mrs. Tom McClelland were next. Mr. Lu Discher and I had the first restaurant, in the[...]the restaurant, as Mr. Discher They had a hardware store which they sold in 1920 to Art needed the building for a blacksmith shop. And Ed Burton Strom an[...]ence in Scobey was their home. They also farmed I started a power laundry in th e back half of the building[...]hat later became the Joe McKiernan and ran it for a couple of years; sold it to a Hockam, and Mr. place. He also had a brother, Hale Nelson who was another Discher had[...]urned to Scobey to visit several times We built a house, right west of the hall and shop and ran after they left here. a hospital for some time there. The train did not[...]Lu Discher , Tom McClelland and Ole Buer drove a four horse team and belongings from Radville, Saskatchewan, Canada and landed in Old Scobey, I think the early part of THE DAVID N. N[...]ober. Then three weeks later my four children and I drove over with two horses and balance of our bel[...]at the age of three. He was Street near the depot I closed my hospital and nursed many from a family of 11 children near Cokato, Minnesota. He[...]nds and opportunity, young Dave came to built for a rooming house. And I guess it ran until the new Montana in 1912[...]took up a homestead in Opheim area on which he resided Excerpts from a letter to Dorothy Rustbakke in 1963. until our country entered World War I. He was mustered[...]the major offensives of the A.E.F., being discharged in[...]g Store for 13 years, Scobey and establish a law practice in Milaca, Minnesota. selling out in[...]et in what later have three children: Charolette, a graduate of the was known as the Downs apartments. University of Montana with a degree in Business David wa[...]ree consecutive terms-In 1943 in Helena; Gregory, a Senior in high school, and Scott, an[...] |
| [...]hem. Lottie was born October 5, 1893 at Poplar to a full-blooded Assiniboine woman and a Frenchman named Parshall, whom Lottie never knew;[...]n into the home of Mansfield and Addie Daniels as a child, and began her schooling at Poplar. In 1904[...]Great Falls. She recalls the trip there involved a train trip to Great Falls and from there by wagon[...]family - the trip from Poplar was made by wagon , a two-day trip. (One of the wagon drivers was Jake Davis, a squatter in Scobey area since 1904.) The Timmons' operated a store in the new town, Lottie helped look after t[...]Daniels and Timmons Store as a clerk and machine[...]Clarence was a veteran of World War I serving with 31st[...]He was Post Master of Scobey Lodge No. 109. A.E. and A.M. also member of Scobey V.F.W.[...]By C.H. railroad came, putting a new townsite in the offing- one on higher ground, about a mile or so northeast of old Scobey. Lottie got her fir[...]Bennett became postmaste,_ Lottie worked there as a postal clerk Jake Timmons of Iowa broug[...]lling some each year and Jake Timmons was a man who was not looking for credit quietly observing the passage of years. (She celebrated her or political gains from his achievements. He[...] |
| [...]of building up the Scobey community. If there was a chance of getting something that would benefit Scobey, then Jake would do all he could to get it. He was a greatlover of stories f and jokes. He was a firm Democrat and served as chairman of the Board[...]and his brother-in-law Mansfield Daniels started a general store in 1901 . These two gentlemen owned and operated a blacksmith shop, rooming and boarding house, impl[...]the Timmons-Daniels Hotel. The following day they would be taken over the country looking for a location. Daniels and Timmons saw the ne[...] |
| [...]e political boundaries of eastern Montana were in a constant state of change.[...]lection was coupled with one for the selection of a county seat. Madoc and Scobey were the contenders[...]this event Scobey had installed electric lights, a water and sewage system, and other improve- ments to make it a logical contender. Scobey won the coveted county seat by a vote of 964 to 358. On August 30 of that same yea[...]claimed that Daniels County "be attached and made a part of the Twentieth Judicial District for the S[...]rge Springer, early postmaster at Madoc and later a Scobey attorney, was an enthusiastic supporter fo[...]oad ditch The thriving town of Scobey stands With a county seat within its hands. For on this day the[...]m the new county. They were Frank Hughes , Sr., G.A. Esval and Eugene LaRoche. A slate of county officials was also voted in prepa[...]e installed to house the county records. In 1934, a concrete addition was added to the back, and in 1954, a new vault was built on the south side to enlarge[...]e of the Centering the refreshment table wa s a " box cake" Clerk and Recorders office.[...]Mrs . Hanson called the courthouse replica a " box cake" Daniels County's fiftieth anniversa[...]in because the base of the cake was indeed a cardboard box June of 1970 with an open house at[...]the decorative and it was hoped that it would keep well enough county had its beginning.[...]sting documents and displays were on A resolution declaring the county of Daniels to hav[...]tax record been duly formed and created as a county of the state of books and hotel registry b[...]05 p.m. with C.T . county courthouse building was a busy hotel. Some of the Stewart, se[...] |
| [...]k and speculation as to the possibility of making a new county and the choice of Scobe[...]REPRESENTATIVE county seat. They worked with a vim and vigor that could H. Amelius Ch[...]784 evident that their work was as a whole, that of wisdom and sound judgment, emphati[...]G.A. Esual[...]n 598 a most determined fight to the last minute, but at that, made no beneficial impression or additional recruits to her[...]580 personal influence or where her supporters were to be most Mrs[...]07 The contest, as desired by Scobey, has been a friendly, good natured one. One where Scobey has[...]553 should be. No personal grievance or uu.lgar attacks have been made by that town. Her[...]ice of their supporters has not been Harry A. Gibbs[...]COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT of every man, woman or child within its borders. Let it now Mabe[...]993 and always, be a credit to the great State of Montana, free[...] |
| [...]el building, which had been built and operated by a woman from Kansas City known as "one-eyed Molly"[...]Eugene LaRoche, G.A. Esval Office of Daniels County A[...]946; Kenneth J. Larson - 1947 thru 1954; Clifford I. County Attorney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry A. Gibbs Clifford Hanson , Assessor Public Admini[...]COUNTY OFFICIALS County Agents: 1922 - A.W. Warden; 1927 - F .H. Smith; 1934 - H.L.[...] |
| [...]he Commissioners: Frank Hughes - 1920-1920; G.A. first of July 1973 it has been with the Departme[...]W. Guy Stalder - 1931- between 1957 and 1963 when a classifier was hired. Since 1936; J.B. Bourassa - 1933-1938; M.A. LaMotte - 1935- going with the Department of Rev[...]0; George Olson - 1937-1942; Roy Day - 1939-1944; a pprai ser hired to take care of land and building[...]Jordan A. Fosland; M.J . Traynor. Catherine Darchuk, C[...]Mr. Lumpkin was in the Marine Corps and was a veteran[...]sion courses in English from 1962 to 1974. He was a[...] |
| [...]Zelpha, not a Robin but an ambitious Martin[...]And the office a man made not the same.[...]A true scholar comes to mind.[...]Claire A. Hillstrom[...]ppointed in 1920 to 1922, one term. First William A. Lumpkin elected Sheriff was A.V. Lawrence 1923 to 1928 with Under[...]58; Alma Shipstead - 1946-1953, 1959-1962; Claire A. Hillstrom - 1963 to date. C.A. Hillstrom, County Superintendent of Schools.[...]elected 1954, passed away approximately a month before[...] |
| [...]TREASURER 1920-1924 - Al Fowler ; 1925-1926 - J a m es A. Mead · 1927-1930 - George R. Case; 1931-1 932 - H .J . Kjos; 1933- 1936 - H .J . Hi ts m a n ; 1937-1942 - Wyvil Bjerke; 1943-1946 - H.J. Sc[...]47-1950 - Melfo rd E id e; 195 1-1954 - Cliffo rd I. Hanson ; 1955-195 - O. K. McDo well ; 1959-1962[...]D A NI E LS COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE[...]i n D. Grove The fo ur year term began in 1939 a nd Wyvi l Bjerke Dale Hanrahan served on e two-year ter m a n d one fo ur-yea r t erm . A lan Linder Begi n ning with th e term of March 1975 was th e fi rst year a[...]co uld ucceed th emselves after h avi n g ser ved a Richard Grove fo ur year term and Mil[...] |
| [...]mith , Senator A.E. Lund, State Representative[...] |
| [...]y are: Mrs. Marie Brudie, Mrs. Ben Dahl, Mrs. for a discussion on organizatipn of a public library. A Marvin Sorte, Mrs. Flossie Nelson, and M[...]. Cromwell, Jr. , Mrs. Charles Carl Lindquist. As a result the two clubs met with the Motsc[...]mbers donated their services building of a new multi-purpose building on Timmons to cleaning[...]soliciting help for soliciting books and money in a door-to-door campaign . Doors of the new library were opened on May 4, 1946 with a Silver Tea which brought in $100 in cash. Adding it to the library treasury made a balance of $249. The name of the library was " Ci[...]Victor Hillstrom was appointed to A County Fair Board, appointed by the County superv[...]anizations met to make plans for the formation of a In November 1959 the library was moved to its[...]cided that the Fair Association should In 1967 a Library Board of Trustees was appointed by[...]ough his efforts the Daniels rodeo , a night show, and a carnival added to the festivities. County Free Library was built up to an updated library by A quonset, previously erected by the Fair Board, ho[...]ls, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Phillips and A 36 x 100 frame building to house exhibits at the[...]fman of Helena for the purpose In 1961, a livestock scale was purchased, and a new of discussing the possibilities of organizing a library stage, mounted on wheels, was built in 1962. federation . A library federation is the organization of The fair has been a popular and successful venture, several county libraries with one of the libraries acting as a attended by large crowds. Afternoon shows, at v[...]times, have included a rodeo, automobile daredevils, home- On July 1,[...]Phillips gave their contests) and a talent show. Evening shows have featured approvals for a bookmobile to service rural areas . It is a variety of acrobatic acts and typical vaudeville acts. A 4- called the Golden Plains Library Federa[...] |
| [...]--rr ·(1• ~1 / I/) (j. ,; ~ _!!..-1 --=s- -- A SAGA OF SCHOOLS It would take years of research with what records are[...]ould gather about |
| [...]The role of the rural schools played a very important part Prairie Dell Distric[...]of school picnic was a traditional affair attended by young a nd old from miles around. District No. 6 D[...]hel with lunch in syrup and lard pails or in a fancy empty[...]ct No. 14 school yard a nd trees planted. Flaxville Middle[...]and a ye n to attend a larger school in town , saw the passing of a tradition, " the little white school house" went[...]eographic features. Others were identifiable with a name in the community of people who lived there,[...]rger, more logically existing districts. Occasion a ll y som e of the schools were ph ysically m oved from yea r to year to better acco mm odate the ch a n ges in population. The Carbert School bu[...] |
| [...]e, Mae La Combe , Arthur Wilkes, Wilfred LaCombe, A rthur Bureau, Alfred Bureau. go. It meant the end of an era and the feeling was A firm foundation was built in knowledge. And the |
| [...]lass rooms to enter war work and service, leaving a teacher shortage. The salaries fluctuated over[...]e if not especially attractive. By 1931, however, a trend downward began. World War II in the 40's br[...]es continued to rise. The early day teacher was a capable, resourceful person, ready to cope with e[...]to giving first aid and diagnosis , varying from a scratch to a ruptured appendix. They served as counselors and[...]time to prepare lesson plans by daylight. In a number of Many of the teachers welcomed an opportunity to teach schools a kerosene stove was provided to warm up soup or a few months or weeks while " proving up" their homestead cocoa for the noon lunch (a forerunner of our hot lunch claims. Books were ga[...]education began program) so the teacher would peel some vegetables, wash for the children of th[...]only an unbroken trail to next thing, with a look at the darkening sky and clock, was follow) without even a fence for a guide when snow piled to gather her books[...]and start high and the wind blew. They arrived at a cold schoolhouse home. She nearly always walked. In winter she enjoyed a early in order to build the fire , do the janitor[...]dazzling surface of the whitest snow, although a blizzard supervise playground and instill a love of learning in their could come up unexp[...]ly day rural teachers held degrees she saw a vast expanse of green grass and pink wild roses from a college but this bit of sheepskin does not always or a field of plowed rich black soil. In the autumn, she saw make a " good " teacher. They were courageous , dedicated, ripening grain fields, golden rod and occasionally a prairie hard workers, sincere, resourceful and deeply interested in chicken or rabbit. the welfare of their pupils. A covered crock (water cooler) succeeded a water pail and The duties of the teacher in th[...]light because by the pupils and teacher. A patron or neighbor usually brought time school closed at 4[...]n were the water. In later days quite often a well was dug on the overshoed , scarved and mitte[...]loiter In the early years frugality was a necessary order of the on the way to pick ripe rose berries, chase gophers or day; only very necessary items were pro[...]cational needs of the children. Every teacher was a the teacher could begin her chores. She carried c[...]o the floor , checked to see if any stray mittens or sweaters or dinner First school bus - Ouila Gou[...] |
| [...]enuity to no reports, recommended whether or not they be re-hired , end.[...]bility of the local boards of child's grandmother or aunt from the east came to visit trustees[...]wed the floor. Now and then there was to be found a Schools were rated regular and superior[...]eived immediately from the teacher. The A word about our secondary schools. At one time in[...]he was the person the teacher students would stay in town during the school months. reported t[...]Some stayed with relatives or friends , some " batched" . A In later years the County Health Nurse paid reg[...]rs and mouths. country. Peerless provided a dormitory, Flaxville and They al ways feared she would ask them to remove their Whitetail provi[...]The high schools all had a good curriculum and teachers. The school curric[...]ool had their own band and athletic team provided a guideline - the course of study - where[...]Claire A. Hillstrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]Claire A. Hillstrom[...]of these teachers, extension courses began with a four[...]Claire A. Hillstrom[...] |
| [...]Near a BASS or WHITEFISH SCHOOL -written by Lois Fladager, 1967 In the shadow of a WHITE PINE,[...]ride the toughest broncs from a BASIN wash your gold, Or rope the wildest steer, Or with Iron ROD AND BIG FORK And when the day is ov[...]some bottled cheer. The saddle horse still plays a part You will find no long[...]Are the BLACKFOOT and the CROW, The truest friend a cowboy has BELT and M[...]Beaded souvenir you know. You think the old time west is gone? Come to Scobey and cel[...]Where there's SWEETGRASS for your pony Or the Wolf Point rodeo , There it is the RANCHER KEEPS It's simply great.[...]just the same. Take a CHANCE in a WHITEHALL, That old saying goes, Catch a FISHTAIL in a FISHTRAP, And it has no flaws, See the ROUNDUP in the fall. It's better to be a has-been Than to be a never-was. Her[...]PEERLESS HELEN A the queen. THE WIND SWEPT PRAIRIES[...]And you'll see more by a DAM SITE I have lived in the land of palm and pine,[...]n the ocean moan and whine, There's a HOMESTEAD on a HILLSIDE But the wind swept prairies, they are mine. If 'tis here you would abide; I have list to the call of the mocking bird, Build a STONE SHACK on the PRAIRIE And the song of the nightingale I've heard, Where the PLAINS sw[...] |
| [...]Then banked the fire and swept the flo or . From MONTANA far to go, Her subjects were not just two or three, Don 't forget our TREASURE package She taught them all from A to Z. Fas tened with a SILVER BOW . And then[...]Seated two in a seat our faces red[...]Lunch was a homemade sandwich or two[...]The long walk home was plenty long. I saw your prairies on an autumn day, I'm told kids are learning more today Vast rolling[...]uttes, by wind quite worn away, But I remember that one room school Mute symbols of the[...]wn grassland graduates to purple hills, That meet a sky, so big, so blue and bright! These boundless[...]THE LEADERS Against a back-drop of such awesome size, Small, unimportan[...]selfish cries, In this O' so great a land, While God's great, silent music fills the e[...]Took so strong a stand. by Thelma Ralsto[...]A brave man named Columbus[...]George Washington fought . Like a fiery sheet of gold. Breezes blow! As the sun sin[...]es of heat, Came a man called Honest Abe , Pouring the fresh and cri[...]That you shouldn 't own a slave . The Prairie Sunset is a scene In the many yea[...]Patriotism means just the same c: n a tion a li s m. It has a few different letters , I remember when I went to school Probably for the better. Some of us walked , some rode a mule Patriotism means love, To that one room house upon a hill And is kinda like a dov e Went Mary and I and Fred and Bill.[...] |
| [...]n hear the roar of the coming train I cannot separate Come racing over the wagon trails[...]fast across the plain or those of others , Traveling with the golden grain And with Tennyson I Haunting the land of the golden grain. accept that I am[...]trod of the settler's step that I have met. And hear his voice crying out for rain[...]he crop begin my mother A desperate cry for needed rain I live with Traveling over the barren plain[...]N FLOWER my father, I[...]ye, in my soul... Brazen a s the noonday sun , Mus[...]defiant, undismayed , in a tenor voice, As staunch as s tubborn pioneers[...]by Dorothy Rustebakke He tapped a jig[...]oh, I believed Age and Time are part of[...]ory and echo I hear are relative to comes from a need most points of view.[...]to right what becomes a[...] |
| [...]Hail to this man, that Pioneer I have tried to infuse[...]By Rose Prestage, Scobey, Montana In a phase of retrospect.[...]lags, With a gentle smile, she was always there when the dark looms With a tender hand and a pleading prayer. deeper than day--- Maybe then t[...]ands were near to the household deeds. Maybe then I will know She[...]By the noon-day sun or by candle light. MY FIRST DOG I could calm my fears and I'd still my hurts When I hid my face in my mother's skirts. I'll never forget The first dog I got She offered her life that I might know Jumped up from his basket,[...]That my heart might thrill to a starry night,[...]That my feet might walk on the mountain height. I got so excited, As did he; I brought her grief and I brought her pain. I held him on my lap,[...]g tears. And we grew together This little dog and I She has given much , she has paid a price; Always there when I needed him - She had pla[...]tears, Now I can't repay all the debt I owe When I would cry. Sinc[...]... To my mother We are both young yet, He and I, Yet one fear nags me still, When he's gone,[...]SO DEAR Who'll lick the tears And comfort me when I cry? Come, pass th[...]l show the hardships Land for the taking to build a home of the lives which they had. Sunshine and breezes all so airy A man wanted to settle and cease to roam.[...]irie fires sunset. It more or less seemed.[...] |
| [...]uld have Christmas is a time of joy their own little land.[...]Christmas is a time of love The years have come and gone[...]too fast, Christmas is a time of hope And families are large and strong[...]will always last. Christmas is a time of snow And trying to get the car to go. It's been 200 years since Christmas is a time of trimming the tree our nation's birth, And Jesus lying in a manger, how much better could it be? And our fore[...]Christmas is a time of fun So remember dear neighbors[...]Ferguson Budding, leaf-baby Peer out and see. As a butterfly sheds |
| [...]fJ JJ !t 7 V I ,Mi, j_ J J f[...]J I Cow · poke. plains-man.[...]Thru MOOSl' Jaw a11d the lme. From lend a hand to that lus - ty[...]day 111 -sto-ry beck-ons once a-gain To the best[...]means a[...]hem -1 ~pherr: a-bout that r oad for the fne[...]t 's go all out for a great old route. Aa·a.nd do 1t now- right[...] |
| [...]n 1883 and engaged in the cattle business. He was a member of the 15th territorial legislature and in[...]ey family moved to Morris, Minnesota. Major C.R.A. Scobey died at Morris, Minnesota in 1923. He was[...]Jersey. His wife was born at Fort Still, Oklahoma a nd was the first whi te child born on that post.[...]ota. Their son, Cha rles Scobey, had two boys and a girl and two grandchildren.[...] |
| [...]rolling hills and wheat fields , all are part of a Culbertson or Poplar by rail and headed from there to the fasc[...]new country to pick out land. For a small fee "locators" Tucked neatly into this beautiful setting is Scobey, the would go out with the prospective homesteaders to help[...]they had. Families of these unfortunates would never the region.[...]d hideouts in this wild area Company established a trading post at Fort Union about durin[...]Henry gang, the Pigeon Toed Kid, It was just a few miles across the Canadian border north Norse Brothers, Tom Ryan and a fellow known simply as of Scobey at John Louis L[...]ll in 1885 following an Jones, who had a big reward on is head, was shot and agreement ma[...]e meeting killed at the Tande Ranch, in a house which still stands arranging for Sitting B[...], In 1912 Mansfield Daniels built a $20,000 mansion at most probably in the breaks o[...]eoples of the plains- rooms, including a ballroom were featured in the home. It teepee ri[...]s and arrowheads-can still be came as a bitter disappointment to the owner to learn later[...]in the year that the Great N orthem Rail way would not The site of Scobey, near the Poplar River, is on the old come to his townsite, but would start a new town across the Woody Mountain Trail, used by Sioux Chiefs Gaul and river, about a mile and a half east on the slopes. Sitting Bull as they mo[...]on Thanksgiving Day of that year there was a town The beginning of the town of Scobey, loca[...]y, and in the words of those who Timmons started a large ranch at what is now known as r[...]The Smith and Boyd Saloon (only one in town) did a New settlers and travelers stopped at the Timm[...]ver from the old town. Mansfield Daniels asked a personal friend, Major It is still[...]in on the Indian Reservation, to aid in obtaining a post office for the ceiling and walls which w[...]obably the deciding opened their doors, including a bank which in 1916 became factor when, in[...]luded the John Mantemachs (with A former frame construction hotel, most recently ca[...]ads, the One-Eyed Molly's and known as a house of pleasure, was Marlenees, and the Timmonses and the Danielses. more or less vacant when cobey became county seat and The area was just a blank spot on the map at that time. It[...] |
| [...]were a bit out of shape and did too much partying, but w[...]rtedly were bet on two many cases had their truck or team and wagon games between S[...]th one-bottom plows pulled by horses flying a pitcher in from Missouri just in time for one game or oxen. Later much sod was turned with "gang plows" and then immediately flying him back again in a private pulled by big steam engines. It has been[...]ries. the team barnstorming around a large area, as far east as Scobey's prosperity[...]winning almost every game. In order to rains came or failed to come for the farmers' crops and as[...]cattle fluctuated . Scobey would sometimes agree to pitch a different man Population of Scobey and Daniels[...]explosion" of the early During the 1950's a new ba ll park was built, complete 1900's) until[...]ow also Some of these people just left their land or business to be has a new scoreboard . taken for taxes, as real estate[...]time again in the late '50's a nd early '60's with teams that With the coming[...]place war, through the '50's and '60's there was a slow but steady nationally, winning three and[...]obey in 1930, and rural area. There evidently was a desire for many to seek followed with sever[...]an areas. This was aided by larger having a number of district titles, Scobey finally won the[...]Scobey has recently been a regular host of the state Legion In spite of t[...]and attended in Scobey than in the various stores a nd stock in good s hape. Nearly every Main Street[...]ring this period. Golf also has a long history in Scobey, with the 49th Perhaps[...]same location all the town's future by approving a city-wide paving bond through the years,[...]f paved streets everyone has Curling, a sport for many years unique to Scobey among taken[...]end has reversed. The each years sponsors a tournament during the Christmas 1970 census showe[...]ewhat during the '50's Sports have always been a n important part of Scobey's and early '60'[...]colorful past, hosted annually by Scobey. A recent upswing of interest beginning with teams a[...]s prompted the repairing of the lighted arena and a big young men around a nd hitting national sports magazines 68x2[...]g sports around northeast Montana. decided to put a team together that could beat powerful[...]t their Scobey. They hired some players, included a noted black kicks from national televisio[...]of people who take an active part, participating or down, hired some former big leaguers, incl[...] |
| [...]the more than 50 buildings include a completely stocked Strong political differences between the editor of a general store and an a uthentic homestead shack. Scobey newspaper, the Daniels County leader, and a group Pioneer town growth h as been g ui[...]g set to the Co unty Museum Assoc iatio n a nd buildings a nd Leader plant in the early morning hours ofa day in 1926. A machinery have been brought in from around th[...]hreshing Bee alleged culprits. Those named filed a lawsuit against the and Antique Show ... July 3 a nd 4 in this bicentennial newspaper. This was so[...]What of the future? escaped hanging in a Scobey saloon late one night in 1919. Agriculture still is big in Scobey Country, a lthoug h there The rope was around his neck and the other end thrown a re large amounts of oil (not yet developed becaus[...]and elk are gone. One easily can find watching a big lignite coal powered electrical generating deer, coyotes, fox , beaver, rabbits, duck, partridge a nd plant under construction (including a dam on the Poplar grouse, to mention a few. Raccoons, mink, wolves, antelope River) just a few miles away in Saskatchewan. They will and ly[...]e stacks are in another country. wildlife. Within a half hour's drive from Scobey one can H[...]ater streams will do to and some real "badlands." A number of small dams have the Scobey area water s uppl y a nd a lso what the big smoke added to the Poplar River[...]l do to the air The biggest celebration in the a rea's history came in qua lity and crop gro[...]growth, called the Homesteaders' Golden Jubilee, a five day event to avoid any "boom and bust"[...]ing on, but with emphasis on just area a good place to live, while taking sensible advanta[...]ow grown to be the major states and a lthough many things have undergone great t[...] |
| Northern Town a nd Land Co. platted out the town of Scobey July 2, 1913 a nd sold lots to: Paul Babcock[...]r & Rugg Roger D. Burke A.O. Leach R.J . C[...].R. McCurdy W.R. J a rvis & W.T. Stephens Christina Larson[...]Charles W. Smith A.N. Ta nde Bert Mason John A Davis Ely Tod H.H. Am[...]C. Amundson Jennie E. Fate A.A. de Lorimiu Thomas Mc[...]lbert 1.0. Bakken A.W. Chapin Christian T[...]J .F. Whetstone Helena A. Gilmer Norman Scharf Alida Cluchey Mrs. Robert Ch a rboneau Mathilda Hemp[...]Nellie Nichols et con 8-28-17 A. Anderson Dusbek[...]Herbert E. Montgomery William A. Olson Dakota-Western Tel. Co.[...]Bonnes Ole Buer et a l Anna Phelan Lutheran Chu[...]unde J.W. Bogart Carl A. Kahle George N. Ro[...]lan Ollye E. Jackson G.A. Anderson E.F. Schreiner[...]R.J. Coughlin A.S. Needles Peter Melin Joseph Kerstein David A. Johnson George Cudhie[...]oolly Emil Pomarleau A.W. Chapin Willi a m Lasater Ira R. Nelson Wilda E. Lindsay Nels A. Nelsen Sam Burgess[...]L. Flint J.O. Jacobson N.A. Healy E.A. Amundson Willard Brown J.A. Fulton Jo[...] |
| [...]orth wind , it had several odds aga inst it, for a ll the beauty of the prairies. The piom~e r businessmen and women were n ot to be denied at least a ch a nce to impregnate th e a rea with ideas and methods that would help develop the new community. The foundation of[...]no stranger. Peril , hardship, loneliness develop a comradeship nothing else co uld. The twig was so bent a nd undertaken by a group of the firsi business people. Scobey soo[...]ctivity because it was located ! 1; the center of a large farming a nd ranching territory. The soil was good a nd the grass a mong the finest anywhere, with good water from small strea ms and wells. The cattlemen h ad to find a special location , tho, with shelter and if possible a spring that would not freeze during the winter.[...]in order that the sod buster and the rancher had a place to deliver their products. The merchants go[...]nd horses plodded their wea ry way , the tractors a nd auto mobiles a re now seen, spinning along ove r the fields and good roads. Where in the early years a ll the eye co uld see was the waving prairie dotted with claim sh acks, a good many of which were made of sod, now there ar[...]of Scobey, Sheridan Cou nty, Monta na Pursuant to a call issued by the Mayor, Gustav Oie, the Town Co[...]n the town of Scobey, on the 13th day of November A.O. 191 5, at ten thirty o'clock A.M. Present: Mayor Oie[...]The late Sid Bennett was Mayor and The Mayo r a nd each of the Aldermen took and[...]c kson, Notary Public. a bond issue for a new school - which was later The Mayo r appointed[...]e was taken. The Gorham wasn 't Coughlin that the a ppointment be ap proved. All Alderm en comp[...]oil station now stands. M.O. Hervig, Gus Oie, A. W. On motion the meeting adjo urned to November[...]lunde vall, A.E. Amundson (located in the present leader[...] |
| [...]oreground is the corner of the building William A. Olson 13 3 housing[...]y Sentinel, absorbed by the Leader in William A. Olson (bought /927. The remodeled building is no[...]1 4 Automobile dealers apparently did a good business then, Joe Thomas, Sr.[...]4 as evidenced by the parked cars, although two or three feed Hansen & Swenson 3 4 barns did a thriving business. Ole Buer (E 115 ft.) 4 4 It would be interesting to kno w who the little fellow is[...]Mercantile Co. 6 6 John A. Fulton 16 2[...]Co ......... . 5 3 E.A. Amundson . 16 6 Cit[...]cCurd y Lumber Co ... 19 6 A .A. Delorimer .. 8 3[...]y Lumber Co. 21 6 Carl A. Ka h le .. 10 3 Johnson Hardware Co .. I 7 W.T. Stephens ..... .[...] |
| [...]J. Voight & Emma Savage 5 7 I.A. Kloss .................. . 10 H.W. Olson ..[...]7 Peter Gritz ................. . 16 A.D. Delorimer ............. . 12 7[...]llows Hall .......... . 16 7 John A. Davis ............. . 3 Odd Fellows Hal[...]Theo. Colby ................ . 4 Edon A. Amundson ........ . 18 7 Thoma[...]7 Sid Bennett ................ . 8 G.A. Dahlquist ............. . 1 8 Ir[...]Ira Nelson . ................ . 10 Floren A. Bakken .......... . 3 8 J.R. Mc[...]therine Conboy ......... . 8 8 A.L. Lindsay .............. . 5 Anna ue ...[...]ol Dist. 1 ........ .. ... . . 11 9 W.A. Lannon ......... .. ... . 8 School Dist. 1 .............. . 12 9 W.A. Lannon .............. . 9 T.M. Facey ..[...]Martha Bonnes ............ . 11 Phoebe A. Brockway ....... . 3 Martha[...]Milo J. Smith ............. .. 15 A.L. Grant . ................ . 7[...]11 Gustav Oie 10 G.A. Dahlquist ............. . 2 11 G .A. Anderson ............. . 11 Mrs. Ole Buer .............. . 3 G.A. Anderson ........ ..... . 12 Olye Jackson[...]s Peterson ............. . 8 C.I. Grimes ................ . 17[...] |
| [...]Lot Islk. C.I. Grimes .... . .... . . . ... .. 18[...] |
| [...]and Peerless, and to haul grain to the main line, a thing of the past. T:,e old townsite of Sc[...] |
| [...]conjecture that the Citizens State is a continuation , under a different name, of the Bank of T. Anderson-Die an[...]he world's greatest primary wheat market. This is a[...]by 1922 had deposits totalling $275,000 with a capital of[...]A complete reorganization took place in February of[...]In I 09 7__ the Citizens State Bank was moved from the[...]The roaring twenties were drawing to a close and at the Ay lak to taking ride, wit mey G[...]In 1931 P.R. Gorham became a member of the board and Ven you're riding on dis[...]ne ev'ry day,ju ban hearing farmers say, 1935, a position he held until his death in 1957. A.B. "Ve gat bumper crop naxt jear, ay know ve gats[...]'44 , the Citizens State reached a milestone at the end of Ju can hear trav'ling bun[...]e, 1942 and retired in 1964. She had a total of over 50 years En yog along from Madoc a hundra mile or so. working in banks.[...] |
| year succeeded H.P. Larsen as a director. Larsen was re- DANIELS COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION elected to the board a short time later replacing Scarseth. The next cha[...]n Mrs. MC. Robert Ferguson of Scobey had a dream back in the 30's. Kloster replaced Mrs. Murphy. It was a desire to establish a credit union that would make[...]. Veis In the fall of 1957 Marvin Veis became a director and in |
| [...]zation; he had seen it grow from its inception to a strong and useful financial force in the area filling a need for them who had special need of its services. If any one needed a lasting recognition to his memory, then this credit union would serve~as a reminder of Robert's unfailing efforts toward his[...]Company was also on the property. A Ford garage came[...]In 1933 T.O. Erickstein, E.W. Battleson, and A.R. Hanson formed a corporation, and the garage became[...]Norman Brekke joined the firm, became a stockholder[...]ng interests of the other two partners and formed a up of the by-laws in 1914, when a handful of young pioneer corporation which presen[...]es and one of the early fixtures is still used as a display Dave Nyquist, Howard Schaefer, Carl Faa[...]was sold at $50 a share and is now worth many times that[...]we have since added two annexes giving us a capacity of Record of the land where Erickstein[...]n the Town and Land Company of Minnesota operated a world, marketing over 2[...] |
| [...]Eichhorn, Mons Tonjum, Gus Benson, Halbert Ames, A.B. Benson, Ragnhild Von Kuster, Mrs. Lena K. Wang[...]company -- a position he held until his death in 1951. A[...]became a member of the progressive party in 1912, while in[...]16 he supported Hughes for the presidency and was a (Dick) Johnson, who came to Glasgow, Montana the[...]arines in 1918 and was discharged in 1919. He was a Store at Glasgow. He returned to Minnesota where[...]d and managed the Montana remained a bachelor all of his life. Abstract Company at Sco[...], as Plentywood and later moved to Scobey. a lad of 19, became identified with the life and in[...]rest in These three men over the years acquired a number of the business a short time later and upon the death of Mr. other[...]business. He continued the operation for a period of almost[...] |
| [...]organization would possibly serve better than several NOR[...]small groups, so a combined meeting was held. Out of this[...]ricity has paid to the rural area of our country, I feel it in Medicine Lake and the Northern Electric Cooperative in is most worthy to at least write a short summary of its Opheim. Daniels C[...]group from Sheridan County. In October, 1941 a group of fellows with foresight and Organizing a cooperative was determined as the only possibly imagination held a meeting in the Farmers Union practical[...]ber 16, 1950. The next After many meetings and a great deal of time and late two years w[...]d with membership drives . . . hours we got to be a going concern. However, about this exp[...]every type due To qualify for an R.E.A. loan, the cooperative had to be to World War Two. This set the project back several years in a position to provide area coverage and put up a and the costs rose many many times.[...]nson, The Northern Electric, along with the RE.A. program Francis Tarum, Wyman Feltis,[...]lephones, and bring this co-op through infancy to a very successful enterprise. new service to[...]and the Ambrose Exchange of North Dakota. would never accept defeat which is one of the reasons f[...]953 annual meeting it is interesting to note that a Northern Electric' s existence today.[...]y commonplace today and to many young people, do a good job of carrying it on in future years.[...]of the Lalon Jones - a charter member Northeastern Montan[...] |
| [...]rnard Building in 1955. The post office is now in a new[...]r first vibrating cable plow in exchange or when the first telephones were used in Scobey May[...]information indicates that Four December of 1972 a total of five exchanges had been cut Vall[...]According to a resume published in 1959 the first Consistent w[...]as Mrs. Alvin Olafson, who served Nemont has been a pioneer in rural telephony in Montana fro[...]later operated a restaurant in Scobey, the Jones Cafe.[...]rted to dial operatin in 1953 Mrs. Whipple became a postmaster. After Mr. Bennett died in September, 1933 business office clerk. In 1964 she was made a service Albert W. Schammel became postmaster and[...]ll Jr., S. Robinson, up to the she deserved a medal from sports fans just for that!" establishment of the post office in the new town. James A. Paul Loendorf, who is now Mountain Bell a[...]oint, began his phone company career in Scobey as a the Custom Office. combination man. "When I went to Scobey in 1946," During his many years[...]e handle on automobiles. In the early days he had a small stove in his the side of the phone, ri[...]walked all day to keep warm, and the horse's bits would The current Mountain Bell office, Loendorf noted, is the sometimes be frozen to their mouths. In a blizzard in 1929 same building at the same l[...]needs, of course," Loendorf said, "but when I first worked In addition to handling the mail Mr. Wolfe, like other in Scobey the living quarters, a kind of housekeeping room rural mail carri[...] |
| [...]d as president of the Scobey FM station on a Sunday by special permission. Athletic Club.[...]Mary Lavey succeeded her and continues to work as a expensive experiences and episodes alo[...]bey business office. The station began a month of testing from midnight to 6 Gene Marley, Mountain Bell sub-foreman, has been A.M. in May, 1971, with the operators and engineers working Scobey since 1963 serving as a combinationman manning the station, play[...]an improved environment. A better transmitter was obtained, the site rebuilt[...]n resumed operation on July 1, 1973. records show a total of 1,207 phones, including extensions,[...]From the beginning KCGM has endeavored to be a began in April, 1968 when Larry C. Bowler engaged a firm station meeting the needs of northeastern Montana, of attorneys and a consulting engineer in Washington, south[...]rts, with emphasis Commission. On August 16, 1968 a petition was filed with directed toward cov[...]radio station originated through the foresight of a 1969.[...]Robert Schneekloth, Roy Killenbeck, Milton a place for the development of local talent and loc[...]eis. The personalities, as well as a place oflearning for area youth. application for a construction permit and its attendant D[...]ration the Board has taken no data took more than a year's time. fees of[...]f its duties. Its aim always Building began on a transmitter site three miles east of has been[...]needs of communications facility for Seo bey, and a 400 foot tower was erected on the land leased r[...]o is located above the Leader eventually on a sound economic basis. on the comer of Main and 1s[...]r, 1970. For the next seven months Chief Engineer A. Erwin Nelson conducted classes for[...]ned that for the present time it was only to have a representative come to Scobey and conduct a plowed up ground. Sid Bennett con[...] |
| [...]Otto Brandt was a brick layer and stonemason. He died[...]Roger Burke was a tailor. His wife Verna played piano at[...]Dora Bush had a cafe where the postoffice is now, formerly[...]H.J. Christensen - bank employee; Coyla was a daughter.[...]1917, and also in 1920 and operated a barber shop here for many cared for the cemetery[...]r. ready it for planting. Then shrubs , trees and a row ofrose The family moved to Renton, Wa[...]'s soon died out and were never replaced. In 1919 a Bar now is. bandstand was bui[...]pital, one time the Olive Hotel, closed and the A wading pool was constructed in 1952. In August, 1[...]building was purchased by Edmund Doucette for a a $50,000 swimming pool, the first steel tank type[...]of the country, was opened . The water is kept at a Norman and Vera Juel. pleasant temperature by a heating system. Gus A. Dahlquist - meat market. Pla yground equipment[...]icago, grass and trees also help to make the park a popular place Illinois and grew up in W[...]he became a salesman, and for twenty years was a[...]his wife came to Scobey with his Hanson , had a millinery shop, sold it to Mrs. Leo[...]land and last Nidia Spear. DeWilde had a novelty shop next to the Rex. Lloyd and Marian Al[...]WW2; married Alfhild Elgestad. Gilbert Bakke was a night cop. O.B.[...]in Scobey enroute to Alaska" from Ogden, Utah on a[...]younger than when he left Scobey. He was a former resident of Scobey. Was a government veterinarian with a long strip of border for his territory. He is now[...]Montana where he had a gold mine.[...] |
| [...]and Jeannette. Charles passed away from a heart J.B. Fleming - came to old Scobey in 1912 a[...]t Scobey and left Scobey in 1932 when he accepted a field position with the Regional Service of t[...]both are now deceased. They had two sons and a daughter. Chester Ford owned the now Service Drug[...]gher - worked for Battleson's. Mrs. Gallagher was a seamstress. They lived in the present Roger S[...]Hershberger had a tire shop.[...](Sherman) was a nursery school supervisor. They had[...] |
| [...]Billings in the late 40's where Ben passed away a few Johnsons, later Paus-Strom. years later while fishing. Marie is nursing in a Billings Ertes Nash - barber, wife Hazel Weaver[...]Christ Nielsen h a d the Case Implement Agency across the Cliff Humbert opened a barber shop here in 1916 and was a tracks. He and wife Auget and son James[...]rl, Hans, . Kalvin, Beverly and Bob Jensen drove a delivery truck and ice wagon. Ice house[...]; passed away in Baker, Montana. Sam Kerstein had a pool hall. Jer[...]as Keogen - Attorney, came in the early 20's. Had a hand store proprietor. Loved horses and had a son George who was a noted basketball coach at Notre beauti[...]Rex. Einer Lund - early day Scobeyite, World War I Navy veteran. He died in Wolf Point in 1973 where he had lived many years. Sam Luras was a drayman. He and his wife Amelia (Kramer) and[...]ned by J.F. Whetstone. At one time it housed a drug store. He sold it to Elmer Erickson, th[...]War veterans in this community. He was a lovable old Madsen. Later Mike Skadron moved in and he later fellow with a remarkable stamina when it came to sold to A[...]ande, who later rented the Erling Sand is a partsman at the Noland Implement. His proper[...]is the former Bernice Waller. They have two James A.' Meade - Clerk, farmer, died March 16, 1935;[...]children Mildred moved to Havre. He died of a heart attack in were young. Mrs. Sarah[...]the second Mrs. Schammel Theresa Mulcare operated a beauty parlor for 15 years, passed[...]e United States organizing for the Ira Nelson was a hardware merchant in old Scobey who IWW. He died in a fire in Scobey year later. Worked for[...] |
| [...]and while there a few letters were received from him.[...]In later years she opened a gift shop next to the Rex[...]Theatre. She was also a homesteader. Married Henry[...]from Vermont. The Frank Wakeland was a carpenter, moved to Washington in family move[...]and was educated. He was married in 1891 and a year Henry (Shorty) Sickles worked at Davi[...]Shorty drifted west to Later operated a cafe. Moved to Plains Montana Carrington and[...]former Helen Colby, pa~sed away. employed in a bank. Until his death in the early 1940's,[...]otel for livestock and farming and was always a source of nearl_y 20 years. Child[...]d the hotel and moved to one time he operated a car loader in Scobey and served Billings in the early 70's. She was a niece of P.R. as a messenger for Depot Agent Fred Haun. Shorty[...]for many people in Scobey, Mike Skadron had a grocery store on Main Street. Mr. and on the[...]Hoke Smith operated a cafe and later farmed north of[...]Harry South had a variety store. Wife Elsie, daughter[...]Walt Williams was a barber.[...] |
| [...]business. The elder Joe is remembered here as a[...]nd vice president, Ruth likeable fellow, with a spirited temper and when his Chelgren; sec[...]is native Olsen. Germanic grammar would be more pronounced, as The Americ[...]gest woman's was the case one day when during a particularly organization in Scobey a[...]st active. It has heated argument he roared, "I'll throw you from this grown from 39 chart[...]127 members in 1974. office out!" and Joe was a man of action. Its activities a[...]clude veterans affairs, Joseph Fred Woodley - was a homesteader and sign community ser[...]entered national competition William Woodward was a Civil War veteran, wife at three[...]ects Redmond Harris, their daughter, operated a hospital. the Auxiliary participate in.[...]Cassidy Must have been dangerous too for here a board, there a board, could flip up and leave a dangerous opening. The charter fo[...] |
| [...]rship of the local Legion and VFW Posts. Programs A. Greenwood, Harry Kerstein, Gem·ge W. Johnson,[...]ols. Music was furnished by the school and Olson, A.H. Dasinger, Harry Thompson, Walter Bulpitt,[...]n of music director Joe Hylland. George Clements, A.L. Brunet, Oscar Manternach, E.A. In 1940 the Montana State Legion[...]as held Lund, Orlo C. Woodward, Arthur N. Nelson. A.H. Dasinger in Glasgow. Since this was t[...]the charter had ever been to Scobey, a large delegation from this area application. Noti[...]cobey High School Band marched in the name of Dr. A.S. Needles, who was elected Commander of[...]registrars at the Legion hall. World War I--who lived in the area. Different indigent[...]king drew straws to determine who would go. Alvin Rustebakke promoters frequently appeare[...]under the new Act. Meetings were h eld in the I.O.O.F. Hall, courthouse, No men were o[...]lowing thirteen men to thirties and early forties a mammoth Fourth of July report for in[...]The weekend prior to their departure a dinner was served Reciprocal meetings between[...]nductees at the Legion Hall. This was followed by a Legionnaires were held on both sides of the 49th[...]National Americanism Director for the Scobey Nine a berth in the state tournament at Billings.[...]lroads, public On July 4, 1931 Bob Schaefer, in a game with Poplar, utilities, the Red Cross and the Daniels County Defense pitched a "no hit-no run", twenty strike out game; Scobey[...]donated for the use won 10-0. Following this, in a playoff game with Poplar, of anything tha[...]The local Legion sponsored a huge Fourth of July During the Great Depression[...]e regalia and the early-morning firing of a cannon. The and in early 1934 the Post contacted Senators Wheeler and expenses came to $870. A flag was purchased for the draft Erickson urging them to support a federal bonus for ex- board office and[...]1943 the Post went on record "that the National A piano, donated to the Post by W.T. Stephens in 19[...]the Post purchased the old laundry A "last man's club" was set up in January, 1943. Ra[...]m the county for $135. Greengard donated a bottle of twenty-five year old brandy Terms of th[...]hich to the club. Specified was that a member must be a World the six man building committee paid from their own War I veteran and that his membership in Post 56 be poc[...]uld use for $15 to that bottle and drink it as a toast. The bottle has long since be paid whenever[...]disappeared, but there are still many World War I The first meeting in the new Post home w[...] |
| [...]l speakers. completely renovate the existing hall or to build a new one. Approximately 150 persons were registe[...]ervice Officer became heavier, filling program. A heavy rain fell, soaking the parade out applicati[...]ers and Today the Post still maintains a lending service for answering letters and questio[...]Jones certificates were torn up by the purchasers or donated back Floyd Baldry to the Post. It can[...]ed who purchased certificates Everett Pittenger or who are still holding them became of the unavaila[...]been a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for Si[...]e problems and the call of duty" in a pitched battle with the German forces vicissitud[...]. The observance leaving Henry Schauer, a member of Post 56 now residing consists of a memorial service, speeches by visiting i[...]Adjutant Chet Shore settled, often was a spontaneous affair. Teams were of a represented the Montana American Legion. Colonel temporary arrangement, put together for a local Campbell Larson, official envoy of the United States Air celebration or picnic. During the ball season players would Force, delivered the main address. Earl Fa[...] |
| Scobey baseball team, about 1923 or 1924. From left to right: Manager Tom Conboy, Por[...]ntywood had again. That year also saw the rise of a ball team in the new engaged John Donaldson, no[...]ville's 1914 team was managed by Ed Molden , also a A group of Chicago White Sox, who had been barred f[...]in 1916. Throughout the years of play team a month plus expenses. Happy Felsch, center fielder, members pooled money to buy gasoline for a Model T truck Honey Guyer, Johnny My[...] |
| [...]ged at Plentywood last Sunday (June 14, 1925), in a ten inning game resulting in a score of 4-1 in Scobey's favor. It was a little tough for the boys to play on a back yard lot but, nevertheless, they came out on[...]("Nigger Joe ") fought hard for ten innings with a score of 1-1 until the first of the tenth when th[...]oked bad for Scobey. One man down and bases bull, a short liner to second then a completed sensational doubleplay stopp ed them fr[...]This venture wa costing Scobey b usinessmen '4300 a Reiner, c. Standing: Elmer Gilchrist, c[...]three years of high-priced ba eba ll and glamorou a it wa it was not worth the price. One intere ting not is that on th day after Chri stmas in 192 , a ba eball game wa8 played at Whitetail by t[...] |
| . '. ·':. ·.'·?':i...•·.. :, single brouglu Myers home. Eastman w[...]infield grounder. Dallas walked and both advanced a base on a wild pitch. Swede clouts out a single bringing in two scores. Plentywood failed to score in the last of the tenth and the game ended with a final score of 4-1 for Scobey. One of the longest[...]hat day. Had it not rained, there might have been a few more dollars taken in ai the gate, but the ra[...]again went down to defeat ai tht' Scobey park by a score of 7-2. Taken from the Scobey Sentinel, Fri[...]. 1960 Plainsmen were Montana cha111µwtt :-. i1,;J u :,. ut' 1 S1[...]n. Middle row: Dick Wilson, B.1.zz J 'u1 0 ,c1 '":i -lll- . .4 .. ,. i , '- .. . H ·, ... , •.\_•!i . JI.Jdlt ,-ow: Jack Reiner, Ken complete with grarn..i::;La111.J , lights ~ind utl,,N~l . ..... 1 ,[...]ague, Babe Ruth. Legiun. ::;oft ba11 ~::; "½t:11 a~ l"U11n,.[...] |
| Scobey Plainsmen, Montana A A U Champions in 1958. Standing left to right: Fred[...]Quilling. Front row: Gordon Scurvin, Ken Lekvold, A llan Lowes, Wally Sinner, Andy Stolen. (Se[...] |
| [...]veteran first baseman Lee Cook. It would be a good bet that[...]at least one or two of the above mentioned fellows were Mississip[...]eball somewhere around the county area! - second, a stunning upset, they knocked off the third place[...]ma Chiefs 5-2. They were then defeated by the No. I seeded and eventual champions, Grand Rapids, Mich[...], Georgia, 8-6. Their next game There is a brief history of the Scobey Legion baseball was l[...]t, but they pictures appear here. had made a mark in being the first Montana team to have[...]g this book it will be noticed that some ever won a game at the National.[...]ere they were originally hastily put together for a special event. placed.[...] |
| [...]team and has been run by them ever since. The S.I.T. has expanded from strictly a trophy tournament to where prize monies , team tr[...]n expanded to include however many teams enter in a given year. From the relatively humble beginning as a local talent tournament, it has grown to include[...]vin French. the All Star team. Cavin Anderson , a native of Watford City, North Dakota, played for the Scobey Plainsment in the 1973 tourney. Cavin was a two-time NAIA All-American history[...]later on the roster of valuable information as a basis for subsequent histories. the Chicago Bulls[...]nson, Vernon Three former participants in the S.I.T. played in the Vanderpan, Robert Brunet,[...]rrison* played in . In less than four and a half years, under Mr. Walker's Austria and Hollan[...]n, Ormand Paus Jr., and Robert Lee Trower donated a parcel of land to square off the above rec[...]received a Gold Medal and a $500.00 scholarship. Lyle Gustitus, a Life Scout, was chosen to represent[...]trom, and Lloyd The following members served as a Troop Committee; Battleson. Elmer Skeie[...]n, accompanied by Gains, Clarence Glans, Clifford I. Hanson, Gordon Scouts Harold Girard[...]Erwin outstanding accomplishments and membership. A Scobey Nelson, Ellsworth Skeie,[...] |
| [...]Before that time, when there were no doctors or Lund, Larry Grayson, Paul Hartgrove, Michael Fitz[...]noe Base at the size of the cemetery, and a cemetery association was Ely, Minnesota in 1971,[...]break through the clouds as a lone passenger scrambled[...]hat he was William own church, offers the Marian, or God and Country Van Orsdel, a Methodist preacher, and that because it was Award[...]the Sabbath Day, he was looking for a place to hold The following scouts--and possibl[...]William Wesley Van Orsdel was born on a farm near[...]1914, His parents died while he was still a boy, leaving is said to have been the result of a shooting on Main Street. William, his two brothers and four sisters orphans. A It seems that several men were playing cards and kindly aunt took them in. gambling; one made a misplay and was shot by another His[...]In 1863 the battle Gettysburg raged over a large part of they had to shoot a man to start a cemetery! the Van Orsde[...] |
| [...]congregation would be singing. He preached appealing[...]preceded him and a crowd would be gathered to receive[...]Each saloonkeeper donated one hundred dollars--a large[...]many a sod house and homestead shack; he was equally at[...]others had returned ease with governors or struggling homesteaders; he home safely, William, his brother, Fletcher, and a friend · enjoyed "good" eating, but ofte[...]ombing what About this t;me he decided that he would go West to carry hair he had over the hair[...]e went he was welcomed with open arms, and For a time he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania[...]ernoon of his resolve to go on to the frontier by a former Union Army Decem her 24th. chaplai[...]ne, for passage to Fort Benton, Montana Territory would be And no more gems be gathered, so let us all press on; paid. When it was, a few months later, the captain returned Wh[...]Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face when they, with a large number of ALL SAINT[...]T.W. Collinson, organized the Fort Benton was a rough and wild frontier town, but Van Epis[...]the leadership of Bishop H.H. Fox of he was given a horse. It was also about this time that the[...]ir childhood in faraway and Susan Crum made a lovely wooden cross in memory of homes, an[...] |
| [...]y, Montana, built 1923. First missionary was Rev. A.M. Frost.[...]R.J. Westfall, Rev. D.E.L. Wells, Captain A.F. Gowing,[...]A.L.M. The first baptism, by S.D. Hooker, took[...]harge of the |
| [...]were conducted in the old Legion pastor. It was a long and arduous trip by buggy. The great Hall.[...]black horses Kate and Spike finally gave out and a call About a year after Rev. Miller came he was instrumental went out for an "Auto for presten i Plentywood." Once a in purchasing a rural school house, which was moved into mon[...]obile brought the shepherd to his town for use as a church. new flock. Once Sunday because of a severe rain storm the In the fall of 1947 a full basement was constructed for pastor arri[...]he congregation moved to Scobey. The new moved to a corner location. Later an addition was[...]and Carrie were held here regularly, and there is a ladies' Missionary Colby. Marian and Herman are still living. Their father Council and a Young People's group associated with the C.K. Hanson, who died in 1955, was a pioneer deacon. church.[...]N CHURCH Gronneberg, A.H. Amundson, Stanley G.Knudson,[...]States of David Simonson (son of Rev. R.L.) a missionary in America, a few pioneer families in the area near the middle[...]f the Poplar River in northeast Montana organized a Catherine Miller Darch uk was church secret[...]aughter Diane married one of our Lutheran Church. A partial list of the early members of former[...]first parsonage was purchased from W.J. Wohlers, a[...]south of the church. A new parsonage was built in 1959.[...]our congregation became a part of the newly merged First Pastor, Scobey Lut[...]ight to see men soliciting funds on the alternate A.N. Tande, Bertha Egelson, F.G. Gregerson, C.K.[...]hnson , L.J. Conlan, Ole Ten members had a bazaar and dinner on November 13, Helland, Hale Nelson, Andrew Flatney, A.H. Twedt and 1913 and took in $137.70. A great sum sixty-five years ago! H.P. Larson.[...]first two year's work in dollars and cents, it would not roundabout. S.J. Fretheim from 1911 to[...] |
| [...]ere are other values greater than money. L.A. Gunerud, U.S. immigration officer, T. Lundevall[...]Dr. Wm. Olson, A.F. Bein and Casper Brenden comprised "Firsts an[...]me, Mrs. The Senior Choir has usually been a healthy and Casper Brenden, and still atit. Mrs.[...]lights of our Sunday anniversary in 1961 a booklet was published. Much credit School for man[...]This church had its beginning in the year 1910 in a little schoolhouse two and a half miles north and west of the[...]Frank Hughes, Sr. homestead. A Sunday School had been[...]Union Sunday School. It had a membership of about 50, an[...]pastors, and especially by a Methodist minister, a[...]pring of 1912 the District Superintendent, Rev. O.A. Rev. Gronneberg, Rev. Knudson, Russell Halaas, Rev. White, organized the church with a membership of twenty. Benson, Rev. Simonso[...] |
| [...]ortation. He must have Father Hennessy, who drove a team of horses from wondered why he and his wife[...]ers, had In 1911 Father Alphonse Peche, a Benedictine priest accepted this pioneer country[...]eople stationed at Culbertson, held services once a month during very responsive. They opened their[...]Lyceum Theater. Confessions He was furnished a saddle horse on which he rode were heard behind a piano or behind a cheesecloth hung hundreds of miles , establishing preaching points and across a corner of the room. giving spiritual comfort to many . He borrowed a team and From 1915 to 1918, Scobey was ser[...]on Thanksgiving Day, parishioners, together with a gift of $200 from the November 25th , 1913.[...]The community Thanksgiving dinner was enjoyed by a The main altar was donated by Louis LaPierre, car[...]Montana" . In that same year the church received a memorial gift of $250.00 from Mr. and Mrs. Georg[...]emory of their daughter, Mae K. Fox. In addition a loan of $550.00 was allowed by the Methodist Boa[...]tions by members and other interested people and a great amount of donated labor the church was comp[...]ut 1923 the Methodist Church decided to construct a resident priest. He also attended to the outlying missions hall adjoining the church . This became a reality in 1924. of Glentana, Peerless, Whitetail[...]of its The P.E. Burke home was purchased as a rectory. dedication . In 1941 an extensive renov[...]was built. This give the church was enlarged and a parish hall built in the basement. today a commodious parsonage, sanctuary, and an[...]n 1942 the mission of Peerless was Cookingham , D.A. Kroft, Alexander Muirden, Ernest attached to Gle[...]in , The parish mortgage was burned at a parish dinner on (Ass't. ), Fred Anstice, Frank S. Hollett, A.E. Plummer, February 5, 1942, highlighted[...] |
| [...]f 14 to the young in spirit pushing 70. Last year a member and remodeled. The Knights of Columbus wer[...]of the Coronach team visiting Scobey played a few ends ... under the Plentywood Council.[...]ed the first Solemn Hoot, mon, but it is a grand old game! Mass and High Mass of Reverend Ra[...]sportsmen. St. Philip's Parish Center, built at a cost of The first officers were Cl[...]nd from Larry Fjeld Curling, a game played on ice, was originated by kilted |
| [...]Hillstrom and Carl Linquist at trap later as a member of the National Degree's Welfare Board. sh[...]s entering college. In 1962 Alice Trower received a Mrs. Fem Trower was presented with a corsage from the grant after entering Concordi[...]DEGREE OF HONOR Over a period of time the Degree of Honor has donated to[...]hting of the flag pole. Association Lodge No. 61, a National Fraternal life[...] |
| r------------------7 I. .i I First Season I CLIFFORD KKAPP, Director and Sec[...]L . Y. I IA ·so ', 'rrcasure1· I I |
| [...]they decided to have a reunion. By popular demand,[...]Fairy, played by Phyllis Johnson, paddling a golden canoe and singing a song introducing Fairyland. A vision ofrare[...]In Scene I, Robin Red, the Prince's Herald , beautifully[...]Bowler. She is then sad to think she cannot go, but is[...]does so and emerges changed from a drab brown to a LIITLE FOLKS' OPERETTA WAS beautiful golden blossom. A lovely chariot then appears REAL[...]cause for appreciation The third scene was a triumph of beauty and grace. It and enjoyment but when there is combined with it a represents the May Day ball and the shower. It begins with delicate imaginative touch and a finesse and dash rarely the dance of the[...]followed by the seen in children's plays you have a delightful combination. triumphal entrance o[...]lls witness " Cinderella in Flowerland" witnessed a in this scene are delightful. Es[...]o the foot of the princess- shortly turned into a rainbow by the reappearance of the to-be e[...] |
| [...]lla, was charming. Her several solos were sung in a[...]honors among the boys. Both read their lines with a clear enunciation that was a pleasure to hear and acted their different parts[...]The Johnson Orchestra and dash. Lee made a charming and gracious Prince, while[...]Formerly of Hendrum, Minn. Bee added a comedy touch which was most appreciated. Especial[...]eceived. Little Joyce Cole took premier honors in a group of songs , while Charles Smith and Rex Linderman each entertained with a cornet solo.[...]The Scobey V The operetta was presented for a Methodist benefit and --- will give a --- was supervised throughout by Mrs. Swenson , w[...]complishment of so difficult an undertaking. Mrs. A.L. Brunet was responsible for the beautiful costu[...]f work necessary is obtainable from the fact that a large committee worked six nights until past[...]I wish to express thanks to all who helped and esp[...]he Scobey V , July 14, 1918, Hendrum, |
| [...]~J' ......... 11 .A,i; j.) Stare ~pan 6 led Ba.a.aer •••••• 11[...]terial in |
| bid to supply a Ford truck Superior fire equipment 1000 g[...]at Rapid City, the gold mine at gallon pumper on a Ford tilt cab to arrive in September of Lead[...]Summer of 1956 they enjoyed a three-day Primitive[...]During these years they operated as a Lone Troop. After[...]anning from 1954 the Treasure State Girl It was a noble and earnest group of women who served[...]e continued to carry the torch. They were and are a relinquishing our funds we were successf[...]and did it. These women equipped canoe from a portion of it. are an eloquent tribute to the abi[...]l The Brownie Tea, preceding Mother's Day, is a hi-lite of of those working with Girls Scouts. Mr[...]made quilt blocks, Many records have been lost or mislaid and no doubt which Mrs. Vic Luft and Mrs. E. Richardson completed. there are a number of girls who have earned awards but the[...]ayle Brenden, Judy The Girl Scouts had a part in the Historical Pageant at Paus, Mary Ann[...]y through the efforts of Ginger Fosland our girls a freight car to be converted into a club house and "Hands Across the Border" relations began. Various Daniels County gave a lot. This was the first Girl Scout troops[...]ny musical events there. Golf Club to be used for a warehouse and the lot sold to The Girl Gui[...]been entertained by our Girl Cory Vink who built a house. Scouts.[...]lander, Miss Margaret Kochansky, a Canadian girl presented the Sword Dance Barnhart, Mrs. A. Fonk and Mrs. V. Hillstrom chartered a and the Highland Fling. bus and went to Be[...]and Mrs. J. Fosland leased 20 acres from enjoyed a week at the Homestake Girl Scout Camp. The[...]ith the river close by sidelight of this trip was a trip to Mount Rushmore canoeing and s[...]erite Lawrence. Middle Nancy Fitz was a member of the Mountaineering and row: Gwen[...] |
| [...]The county agents over the years were: A.W. Warden;[...]and some filled in for just a few months.[...]The Silver Star club was organized in 1921 with A.W. Canada.[...]e until July In July 1972 Karen Tymofichuk made a trip to the 15, 1926. They held the fir[...]orld Friendship Fund. At the Court of Here is a list of some of the projects we had in this club.[...]Fitz were awarded the seems there wasn 't a thing about homemaking that we First Class patch.[...]'t learn to do! Home canning of meats - beef and a Girl Scout horseback event in Wyoming.[...]urniture, Lannon took part in Colonial Ca ravan , a summer camp at making footstools, colo[...] |
| [...]Dr. many longtime residents of the community. I ts beginnings C.A. Atkinson, better known as "Doc" Atkinson. He was[...]patients. His $275,000. The hospital became a reality in 1952, after wife was called Pazuta Win[...]l trips group endeavors were supplemented by a government across the Missouri River during the t[...]ometimes surprisingly effective. One of these was a tea made of pumpkin seeds boiled in water. No records exist to name these often-heroic women, but a few whose names have been mentioned by con[...] |
| Today it boasts the facilities of a fully-equipped operating room with surgical and anesthesia equipment, a complete emergency room, modern delivery room, X[...]d fully equipped laundry and kitchen. This is a far cry from the not so modern early hospitals in[...]ris, with room for eight patients. Mrs. Harris , a registered nurse, had the aid of such fine doctor[...]was managed by Mrs. Aasness and run primarily as a maternity home. Another maternity home was run by[...]n came in 1933 and managed it until it closed as a home for the aged in 1957, the year Dr.[...]April of 1952. Dr. In April, 1935 I was asked by Doctor L.M. Morrow to Benson of Plentywood served here and Dr. Knapp of Wolf start a maternity home. I rented the Oie home on Main' Point aided in surgi[...]me to help me as it Today the new hospital has a full staff of nurses, a was hard to find trained help at that[...]The Olson hospital was the scene of a birthday party[...] |
| [...]"I still don't know where we put them all."[...]babies, including a set of twins, were born at the hospital-[...]bassinets sat in the kitchen or in the combination[...]and were never troubled by rashes or other contagious[...]nected with the Olson hospital "I don't believe in letting babies cry too long," sh[...]hen it served the community as "And I have always felt that babies should be held while[...]g fed." It is doubtful if Mrs. Olson ever enjoyed a whole Hundreds of babies were born at Mrs. Ols[...]n that time and Dr. Morrow begged Esther to start a of Culbertson, Mrs. Helen Peter[...]Anderson, Mrs. Esther Lyhene, all maternity cases a't a time." of[...]grandchildren. conveniently locate a short distance south of the business Af[...]the Olson hospital continued to operate as a home for agreed to begin this new enterprise, an[...]wasn't long until they realized that the idea of a Christmas baskets sent out by the American Auxiliary maternity hospital with a capacity of four patients was not every y[...]p her years with the hospital, Mrs. Olson was not a maternity case at all, but an elderly farmer from says, "We worked hard but I think we did a lot of good, too. Flaxville who was suffering from a bad case of blood I still miss the mothers and the babies." poisoning[...]ELS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL GUILD that the patient made a rapid recovery. We had no equipment at all at[...]to manage the new hospital. They felt the need of a for ten full days. Other patients were charged $3 a day." guild to render assistance to the[...]anuary 11, 1952. The guild was created and became a never even thought of chargin~ for those t[...] |
| [...]ck in, spin the crank for there were no starters. I always meeting for election of officers and appo[...]suing year. The first slate of officers the trail would be washed out and there would be an abrupt were: Mrs. J .N. Robertson, president; Mrs. Alvah Shaw, stop, breaking a spring. One had to be an amateur vice president;[...]Mrs. mechanic to replace them. Sometimes the drop would be so R.M. Ferguson, treasurer. Since the hospital was to open in severe that it would break the frame. Sometimes the lights the spring[...]ent out so someone had to ride on the fender with a were through. A staff of Guild members put in over 200 lantern to[...]took care of all our flats on the spot. One trip I will place ready for occupancy, in the week before the hospital remember was when I had to go sixty miles and had opened.[...]teen flats, the tire kept pinching the innertube. I In March of 1952 the formal opening of the ho[...]y walking the last twelve miles. place with over a thousand visitors attending the tea On another occasion a man came for me to go north of served by the Guild mem hers for this event. Many Peerless to see a member of his family. It was late evening moneta[...]the bottom the Guild which assessed its members a dollar a year. of a coulee and buried the car to the hub. Fortunately[...]ance to the hospital by the Guild was were within a mile of the patient's house so we walked the setting aside one afternoon a month for sewing and rest of the way. I stayed all night and he took me back to mending[...]th his team. On his way home he took the battery a meaningful and helpful assistance that has been out of my car and kept it until spring when I came for the regularly carried on. The Guild bou[...]In the spring of the year and the ice gave way, I had In 1957 a nurse's scholarship was set up to provide many adventurous trips. I will describe a few. A husband assistance to worthy young graduates int[...]taking whose wife was very ill came after me with a team and a nurse's training. Twenty graduates have been ass[...]ur arrival at the West Fork Creek there Each May a Hospital Tea is sponsored by the Guild--its were a number of wagons camped waiting for the ice flow[...]hips. In to subside so we could cross. We went to a farm house and October there is a food ingathering for the hospital. spent[...]next morning we returned to the The Guild has a Sunshine Chairman for each year and a creek. The wagons were still there. On the[...]Another courtesy is painful. My driver unhitched a horse and rode across to a Cheer Box filled with small gifts to be used for[...]wagon and we made a successful crossing. The next wagon The hospital and the Guild have both filled a real need in wasn't so lucky as it was hit by a big block of ice. We then the Scobey area. Since the building of the main unit, a wing came to what had been an ankle-deep strea[...]One spring I was substituting for a doctor at Wolf Point.[...]iveryman drove me to the banks of the river where a Mrs. J .N. Robertson man had a boat. I entered the wooden boat, took off my fur[...]The patient was suffering a severe hemorrhage. When I returned, the liveryman remarked, "I see you got back HOSPITALS, GUILDS, and DOCTORS safely." I asked him ifhe didn't expect us to return. He sai[...]"When you stepped in that boat I had my doubts for I have DR. CLIFFORD TUCKER[...]lived by this river thirty years and never have I seen it any worse." Shortly after this trip a man was digging lignite In 1913 the Fort Peck[...]numbers. organs. The family sent for a priest and me to come. The Both my brother Forest and I drew low numbers, so the day priest took one look[...]ing up and refused before the drawing Forest took a spade and went out to to go. I stepped into the boat and said to him, "You shoul[...]he reservation and be better prepared to die than I am." He stepped into the tested the soil. We then[...]oat and we crossed safely. Our return was made in a steel acres. Later our father, Dr. W.S. Tucker, filed on a claim boat. I found the patient in very severe condition. His n[...]y on the train. by four horse hitches, hitched to a gang plow. One trip into Canada I will never forget. A patient's In the spring of 1915 I opened my office in Scobey to husband from across[...]iced medicine, using the going to his home we saw a blizzard coming and got to his ranch as his headq[...]t the following morning which were rugged so when I was called out to make a he had to follow the clothes line to get to the barn. They country trip I drove my car. In cold weather we had to drain lived in a small sod house which consisted to two small the[...]as the unknown . To start the car in cold weather I had to unscrew mother had given birth to a child which had been dead a spark plug, put in a little gasoline, and screw the plug twenty-four hours or more. She and the other children had[...] |
| badly infected eyes. I was compelled to stay overnight When Scobey became a county seat I was the first person because of the storm and slept on a couch in my overcoat. to receive a permit to carry a gun. I had lots of enjoyment in One winter evening during a fierce blizzard, Frenchie practicing to be a good shot by putting my horse in a run and I started out with a team of yellow broncs hitchd to a and shooting at fence posts as I passed them. home-made sled. We couldn't see the road, so took to the I entered World War I, in the fall of 1917, and spent three railroad t[...]cross months in Kansas City in uniform before I was called in pastures and became lost in the storm. Fin?i.lly we saw a training during which I had a wonderful time for officers light in a window. We spent the night there and next were quite popular. I was attached to the cavalry unit morning we went[...]born. On our return trip we were driving through a pasture 1918 flu epidemic another lieutenant was sent to the along a wire fence. The horses heels were throwing snow in hospital. I was so ill I crawled on my hands and knees to my face, so I had my mittens covering my face. Suddenly I inspect the kitchen, came down with pneumo[...]- whoa". The whipple developed into T.B. I spent a year and half in Fitzsimmons tree broke dragging[...]ines the team started running and were I returned to Scobey and went into practice with Dr[...]nson for one year. three miles before we came to a farm house. The farmer I went to California where I had a recurrence of T.B. hitched a team to his rig, a wagon box on runners. He took After the disease became arrested I formed a partnership us to Flaxville, where we got on a freight train for Scobey. with Dr. Groff at N[...]they found the team, the harness some and I wanted to specialize in proctology. I spent time all torn to pieces.[...]at Mayo Clinic and in Chicago. In 1928-29 I went to When I first went to Scobey there were two saloons, five[...]g girls. May had me check her specialists a~ heads of the staffs of the hospital. girls for[...]After returning from Europe I looked at several fast In the fall of the year wheat was being freighted in from growing cities. I located in Wichita, Kansas in 1929 and Canada, Op[...]ve practiced my speciality until I retired in 1958. horses hitched to three sleds wi[...]ear following the first rodeo at Wolf Point which I keep warm. . recall was in 1920, Burley Bowler and I decided we would One day when it was 58 degrees below zero Fre[...]n rodeo business by putting on the first one for I were making a trip to Opheim. We spent the night in Old Scobey. Mr. Bowler did the publicity and I planned the Peerless. The hotel had big potbelli[...]then covered with straw which kept the I spent two weeks getting things ready. Slim Jensen[...]fence. These we used to build corrals to putting a good blanket of snow on the straw. There was a hold the horses. A few days before the rodeo Slim Jensen narrow opening for the entrance. The horses furnished the and a couple of cowboys rode all the horses to select the heat from their bodies so it was as snug as a bug in a rug. I best buckers. For the finals we used ten outstanding forgot to mention I stayed at the hotel and slept in all my tra[...]-fed bucking horses weighing twelve clothes with a charcoal warmer. Frenchie slept in the barn. hundred pounds or over. We were gone three days on this trip.[...]r for sunfishers, hitting the ground with a lot of force. The range two days. I made a sixty mile round trip in my cutter alone, ho[...]ller so did not have near as much but the minute I arrived at my destination two men quickly[...]overed them with blankets and got except a few who sunfished. them in the barn to prevent t[...]our riding chute in the center of the The trail I followed was well packed with snow and about[...]obey at that time. Contestants The saloons did a thriving business. There was shooting mou[...]that he came out of the and one victim died while I was removing the bullet from chute with[...]houlders for the were beaten up while intoxicated would need a change of first five jumps with his ha[...]and and the underclothes and be cleaned up before I would attend their halter rope in the left hand. If he touched leather, or[...]qualified. wounds. One night the marshall brought a drunk who had[...]the usual mess, and while we were cleaning him up I remarked I was tired of out on the town and were[...]wn. The marshall said, "This one is going to pay. I have his watch and I'll have the liveryman hold his team until[...]were several successful riders. A half-breed Indian wore a because he had to stay until the bank opened to g[...]he rode a bucking horse. One horse he rode, the surcingle[...]his spur in the horse's flank, earlier purchased a pint of liquor were sitting directly and rode him out. I understood that this cowboy was killed under a hotel window. They were making so much noise a riding a bronc. lady occupying a room on the second floor dumped the I do not remember any of the rider's names but Slim contents of a chamber pot on them.[...] |
| [...]ondido, California. Mrs. Ingrid (Jestin) Needles, a son William of Yelm, by Florence Sheron Bennett Washington, and a brother, Dr. J.W. Needles of Glendale, California[...]ity. Membership is limited to wives of been about a year. the Jaycees. Mrs. Ingrid Needles, a sister of Mrs. C.T. Swenson, made The firs[...]tallation banquet was Scobey and Mrs. Needles was a high school teacher here. held jointly w[...]Lake Oswego Lake in 1962, and they also had a booth at the Daniels to be near the daughter and son of the Swensons. They now County Fair. Ii ve in a retirement home not far from Portland, Oregon. They sponsored the Heart Fund, contributing toward a[...]a Jubilee Cookbook with recipes from the Daniels Co[...]- Spokette and Sparkler A ward::; were established in 1971,[...]babies at the hospital in 1974, and they also had a booth for -[...]In 1975 the Jaycees families had a toboggan party at DR. LORANCE. T. KROGS[...]McCartys, and the Jayceens served a sack lunch at the[...]having been in poor health for several months. A native of North Dakota, Dr. Krogstad, received hi[...]dent; Elmer years, (1944-1945), when he served as a medical officer in Skeie, second vice-[...] |
| [...]Olsen, T. Lundevall, H.E. Nustad, E.W. Battleson, A.W. Schammel, George L. Hart, O.W. Paus, W.P. McDa[...]on, and R.H. Greengard, A.R. Hanson.[...]is country, farmers, SCOBEY LODGE NO. 109 A.F.&A.M. ranchers, merchants[...]ife. On Thursday evening May 30, 1916 more than a score of This organization is incorporated as a state chartered, Master Masons origjna ting from[...]her and petitioned the Grand Lodge of Montana for a charter to open a lodge at Scobey "having a propriety of the craft at heart, and desirous of[...]rship Master; Sid Bennett, First Senior Warden; D.A. Bostick, First Junior Warden; G.S. Dahlquist, John A. Lawson, A.S. Needles, H.J. Hansen, Paul Crum, Ernest Woodward, Al Lindsey, Ambrose C. Delange, H.W. Olsen, A.W. Chapin, H.O. Nelson, Harry G. Shipppam, D.C. K[...]Geo. N. Robinson, C.O. Humbert, E.E. A street scene in Pioneer Town Nichols, A.J. Lawson. · Only one of these original signer, D.A. Bostick, is on the lodge rolls today. During t[...]ve been Masons for over 50 years: J. Fred Haun, D.A. Bostick, George Crandell, Earl Fairbanks, Jacob F. Goehring, Ben A. Harvik, Carl Lindquist, W.A. McDaniel, George F. Springer, W.H. Storms. The first meeting of the Lodge was held in a building on lot 6, block 1 of Scobey, situated in[...]recently been demolished. At that time there was a cafe downstairs and the Lodge held its meetings upstairs for a year, after which it moved to its present site on[...]The exhibits at the museum may be outright gifts or In carrying out its avowed purpose as above sta[...]an agreement set up by the Museum application for a charter the Lodge, in addition to its[...] |
| [...]there and was ranchers and homesteaders has been a complete used for a summer theater for a couple seasons. It houses community effort from i[...]called the "Dirty Shame Saloon" in honor of a place of that comprise the town were donated. Pio[...]lish this community attraction. poured on many a gay young blades face before he went The board[...]he scent of the forth to charm the fair sex on a Saturday night. A tiny packed-away memories greet you as you enter[...]long hobble skirts and mutton schoolhouse, church or general store. You may be wearing sleeved wa[...]Company so the old Westland gas station holds a place on horses tied to hitching posts and old cars moving along. the street. A general store building is stocked with a supply The buildings that now comprise Pioneer To[...]goods in the store were purchased new by parents or[...]and grinding a whole hog for sausage to feed the[...]Threshing Bee and Antique Show. It is a two day event[...]the second served as a general work area and a third,[...]The community of Scobey has a thriving project under[...]Town will become a major attraction for the ear.[...]the house in its early idea of organizing a chapter of the Order of the Eastern years had been a stopping off place for farmers hauling Star[...]bey. This home of Steve Watts was built in a very good choice because of the fitting descripti[...]l 3, 1917 the meetings were held in the can visit a variety of oldtime establishments. Dr.[...]d floor which other commodities instead of cash), a dentist's office, is the present Chapter ro[...]y on the jail, blacksmith shop, land site office, a fire hall where part of the owner, the[...] |
| [...]Estelle Bennett, Laura Dodd, D.A. Bostic, L.D. Tucker,[...]membership to date. Death has taken a heavy toll. Many[...]have moved to other places to live and a number have[...]Karlsrud serve as Grand Chaplain, and Edna I. Waller as Lile (sister-in-law of Mrs. M.B. Lile[...]. Julia (Frank) All history is a story, and the story of Prairie Chapter .. .is Jo[...]lice D. Knapp, Mrs. Thuston, Mrs. Verna a story in volumes three ...The past, the present a[...]a colorful and useful existence. The members have[...]· some left over. A luncheon was served to 20 ladies at $.35[...]urs around the stove was filled with good things. A testing of the .SADDLE[...]izations in the area in sponsoring and supporting a slip for two pounds of sugar and one pound of cof[...]in. Remember this poem? The End of a Hoover Day Scobey Saddl[...]ent; Ed Tong; Red Olson; Gordon Marlenee; Francis I've come to the end of a meatless day, Brasen; Ha[...]Austinson, Head Carpetner. My thoughts revert in a musing way To the foods which today I've been fed. I think of the cheese and the beans and fish And the oysters I've had to eat. I've no regrets for the good old days I really didn't miss the meat. I've come to the end of a wheatless day |
| [...]Bantz and Otto Otten. In the middle forties a number of interested horsemen |
| [...]ral schools. Minutes of South was added, also a debate team which won the the meetings in 1914 an[...]District Eight championship and Ray Clark, a member of will open April 1 and close the last week in November, or the debate team, won the state title in[...]the Rex Theatre for practice and games. It was a little Superintendents and Board of Trustees were[...]d off the floor for all rural schools in District I. In early years the Clerk of before and back ag[...]nspector of There were no dressing rooms or showers. " schools for the purpose oflooking afte[...]er (Collins), Myrtle With attendance increasing a one story structure was Jevnager (Zuc[...]de for an annex to the · Mrs. A.S. Needles was school principal 1920-21. building. In 1919 a second story was added for Jr. High and Clerks of District I from 1914 to 1976 are as follows: R.H. High Schoo[...]set up behind the school house for W.A. Lanstot, B.M. Pierce, T. Lundevall, T.S. Herreid[...]d for the past twenty-three years. Following is a list of Scobey's Superintendents: 1914-15[...]- were inadequate, so bonds were sold and a two-story brick 19, Miss Olive Nelson; 1919-20 J.[...]ttle can be remembered about the early 1926-32, W.A. MacDougall; 1932-38, Elmer Skeie; 1938-45,[...]fered the 32 rural schools in Scobey 1970-, James A. Webster.[...]as Scobey the building of the new school. I also believe he was School Superintendent in 1919[...]instrumental in Scobey having a golf course. He attended "My father John Q. Zuc[...]Columbia University in New York working toward a M.A. District's Superintendent for one year, 1919-20[...]throughout the state as he was a talented speaker. " Superint~ndent of Schools at[...]"After leaving Scobey he accepted a teaching position at Michigan. The family was com[...]was put in book form and "The school house was a three-story square wooden sold to many universities as a reference book--"The frame building, the first floor of which was a semi- Technique of Teacher Self Pla[...]Red Cross. He continued his writing and had a book[...]Aging" when he died from a heart attack. His name is in[...]system in the fall of 1931, succeeding W.A. MacDougall as superintendent. He was a graduate of St. Olafs College at[...] |
| [...]have a price, a price often paid for with the blood of our[...]money was difficult to come by. A steak dinner could be purchased in a local restaurant fo:r seventy cents.[...]Admission to a movie was only thirty-five cents. During[...]National Youth Administration (N.Y.A.) allotments in[...]cents per hour. I remember, too, that when I left[...]Underwood, North Dakota to come to Scobey I brought one[...]Underwood she would have received eighty-five dollars per[...]enjoyment and satisfaction. We had a staff of very[...]and many top-notch scholars. My family and I also[...]s his account of the years spent in Scobey: " I arrived in Scobey with my family in August 1938,[...]e to purchase the lights, poles, and fixtures for a very nominal price. The transportation of the equ[...]y through volunteer help. In order to provide for a standard size football field and some parking spa[...]shouted to us, "You are wasting your time because I definitely am not going to sell." Marvin responded by asking if we could come in for a cup of coffee. She said: " Coffee I will give you, but absolutely no land." Anyhow af[...]dently learned his politics well while serving as a member of the state legislature. My tenure in Scobey coincided to a great extent with the years of the Second World W[...]1961 LeRoy Bystrom, Wyman Jones, and Don Collins. I In 1945, when I came to Scobey from Culbertson, as remember the a[...]ed by the superintendent of schools, I was impressed with the fine families concerned, a[...]ody, and two story brick building which was a great improvement the community. Through it all w[...]reat country grades one through 12. However, a place for the[...] |
| [...]lem-- new roof from the main buildipg just a few days after it had nothing was available so th[...]talled. You remember the seven inches of rain buy a house for the superintendent. There was no legal[...]he Board might be of the schoolhouse. I remember the hail storm which struck held liable-[...]from the northwest, one enormous stone hitting a window Schammel house. That was probably a first in Montana pane in the science room and a piece of glass cutting a gash school finance. in my hand and I was standing ten feet a way from the From that beginning we soon found[...]t as scarce and we started to bring in the I remember the keen rivalry of Scobey and Plentywoo[...]y and make them into in athletics and I remember what a thrill it was to have a apartments for teachers and as I remember we ended up championship football and basketball team and how with about 15 units and I really believe those apartments proud we[...]of the Scobey Schools in the years after. With a faculty intact, our next problem was in getting I remember one old-timer who came into my office after the country students to school. I remember the old we had initiated a girls physical education program which homemade b[...]involved showers and he said to me, "Now George, I ain 't much too heavy for the chassis and I al ways wondered here to complain but I ain't sending my girls to this here why the front[...]he most school to be sprinkled." Yes, I can remember Al unique thing about it however, wa[...]rdwood benches, from three years?" I also remember one of our candidates for freezing[...]months. Tough kids, graduation who lacked a credit in meeting the I guess. A revolution then took place in the Scobey School[...]ht in from the exercises but was given a dummy diploma and country and converted to a bus garage and the district immediatel[...]anic. college and became a school administrator! Such was Our next rather[...]At this time Scobey Schools needed a good remember, school lunches were served from th[...]calling my tenure with the Scobey School District I, under constant pressure from state sources to s[...]local pressure to improve devise and enforce a new set of disciplinary codes. the music program[...]o upgrade the curriculum. of Education initiated a bond issue, for (I believe) $180,000, German was added as a foreign language course. The with which we built[...]o be solved except for the old heating plant. And I tremble whenever I think about that. It was a masterpiece of engineering! How it ever kept the school buildings warm year after year is still a mystery. The coal bin, 16 feet down with a cement cap, caught on fire two times and we had to tear a big hole in the top and use a back hoe to dig out the burning coal and pile it[...]al we burned we took out two cubic feet of ashes! I think the first major improvement we made was to instal[...]ght: Kedrick Flint, Gordon, Patti, Kay, Carol and I used to have nightmares over those big high light poles Dorothy. which stood on the east playground. I was advised that a high wind might topple one of them over and what a tragedy that would be. Anyway the new grade school solved that problem. As I look back on those 16 years spent in Scobey, and they were great years for me and my family, I think of math and science courses were beefe[...]students. An elementary classroom was donated by or another.You may remember the blizzard at tournament the Board to the Women's Club who initiated a time and most out of town spectators had t[...] |
| A complete student handbook was written as well as the including a new furnace and furnace room. (The end of the boa[...]en to that: twice the original size, added a brand new dishwasher, a "Perhaps the most significant contribution pr[...]building and facilities. This review began when I thought all the baked goods.[...]music. Also concern was registered over the where a bond issue did not have to be passed. The old bus[...]of the foundation was deteriorating. was moved to a new location across from the grade school Because our objective was to correct these needs over a playground, enhancing the landscape and giving mo[...]ng some It is with pride and satisfaction that I recall my five priorities. While the overall pl[...]upport and loyalty of the school ambitious, I believe it helped people to understand the board,[...]ed to the them." town of Scobey. Since 1966 I have been District Superintendent of the Cut Bank[...]·-, . I[...]James A. Webster is the present Superintendent. He and[...]his administration called for action in providing a[...]would be given the opportunity to reach their greatest[...]incorporated in 1971 encompassing a resource room R. Gene Busch[...]needs of the educationally handicapped as well as a speech[...]student a senior from Yugoslavia. Other countries 1. Established a full time Elementary Principal position. represented by students have been Venezuela, Germany 2. A new heating-ventilation system for the mai[...] |
| [...]rriculum offerings to students were stressed with a full time art program becoming a reality in the 1970-?1 school year. Additional co[...]traae and mdustry along with re-establishment of a vocational agriculture program.[...]es Elementary School District officially becoming a part of Note postmark "East Scobey" an[...]917. From left to right: well equipped buildings, a faculty of 41 teachers and tutors, plus two principals, a superintendent, and an[...]Johnson, Supt. Earl Burget, Edna Grant, unknown, a long way.[...]ay, 1971 and Duane W. Bowler in May, 1973. Lee is a professor at the University of Montana and Duane[...]otte, B. Collinson. Front ro w seated: D. Mahler, A.[...] |
| [...]early in the season at the hands of Wolf Clifford I. Hanson, participants in the dashes at state. In[...]inson, Nor ve n Langager, Jacob hown wa Clifford I. Hanson who took the picture. Picture Fishe[...]t the next four. Captain of the team was Clifford I. The first track team to participate in the Sta[...]eam took 3rd in the half mile relay, after having a Hartvig Lanager, Ed Carney and Charles Danie[...]In those years there wasn 't any money to send a team to losses and three wins . tate, o the[...]tions. The Spartans also in the early days , made a name for himself at the defeated Plentywood, and had a season record of two wins Univer ity of Montana a[...]team would have slow starts and when the score looked o[...]st four. lo t two, and tied Plentywood twice with a score 0-0. The Scobey Spartans[...] |
| [...]ason . Bill The Scobey grid season opened with a turnout of twenty Hilton was head coach ,[...]the conference. in 1944. The season ended without a single victory for the In 1966 the Spart[...]championship under the coaching of M.G. Butters. A 1968 with Mr. Hallock the assistant[...]the division. In 1970 the Spartans had a record of three wins and five the team won four g[...]the Spartans. Assistant Scobey on November 12, on a snow covered field. In the Coach was Jim[...]Although the Scobey Spartans compiled only a three win 2-0. Coach Butters was assisted by Wayne Casman and five record in 1971 it was a year of pride and and Bill Cullen.[...]ve with the Spartans, under Coach Butters, having a three Levad. and one record. Because of a tie in conference standings, In 1972 the Spartans had a record of two wins and six Scobey and Plentywood[...]In 1973 Coach Levad led the Spartans to a four and four had a season ending with one win, and three losses.[...]the Spartans. The Scobey Spartans amassed a five and three record in No record is availabl[...]Broadus and Medicine Lake , and championship with a team that gave Scobey the most al together had a record of six wins and two losses. Coach successf[...]as assisted by George Rider, Joe Sullivan and Cal a warded the second place trophy in the football[...]Great Falls where they ranked fifth . At the a nnuals . football banquet Mr. Rex Dailey, secretary treasurer of the Montana Athletic Association, awarded a trophy to the school and silver footballs to the[...]ed the 1955 team. had never seen a basketball before this year. They started[...] |
| lo ing to Medicine Lake at home on January 15 by a much Scobey 10. Vies (Veis) went in the[...]them down to one basket and finishing with a score of: January Outlook played at Scobey and[...]ake played at Scobey. well but could not overcome a big lead made in the first This was proba[...]with the We lost to Outlook, on a square court, with none foot Williston girl at co[...]ith their enthusiasm winning, 33 to 11; a four day tour of eastern Montana with and one yea[...]layed - Scobey defeated Sidney, lost to should be a remarkable one.[...]sness. from "Coyote", 1921[...]from "Coyote", 1921 SCOBEY BASKETBALL BEGINNINGS[...]econd in the divisional |
| [...]tead, Doro thy Freberg, Milton be named a "Presidential Scholar", the most prestigio[...] |
| [...]th Schuler, Ludvig Tande, Vernon Nelson, Clifford I. Hanson. Second row: Director .Mary Storey, Jim H[...]SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Scobey High School A Capella Choir in 1942, directed by A. Hertoghe, K. Ferestad, B. Wagar, J. Severt, J.[...]ndentified in the annual: Clarence Rovold, Jordan A. Tkachyk, D. Flickinger, P. Darchuk, H. Sat[...]ud, Bobby Lee, Wayne Sorsdahl, G. Giles, A. Fosland, R. Fisher, E. Nelson, A. Gilbertson, L. |
| [...]I 1 I 7[...]April 29th, 1937 a birthday party was held at the[...]older ladies were present and among them a dear old[...]never did have a birthday party, nor a birthday cake. The[...]e both living at your next birthday, we will have a[...]on's birthday December 28th so we decided to have a[...]of the group and each lady was presented with a picture.[...]Mrs. Koster's daughter, had prepared a real banquet for[...]endent; Ruth Hanrahan, Teacher; Joe A.D. 1948. Lohr, Pupil.[...]Note: Scobey still has a Sunshine Club. A 1948 HISTORY OF THE SUNSHINE CLUB Someone sugg[...]e Club in Wagon Training has become a very popular summer |
| [...]with a year's experience. Very rough country was covered[...]and we borrowed a pack horse from the Kent Drury pack[...]1973 was a big year with our tour from Scobey to Wolf[...]alverson. We joined with theThoeny- promote rodeo or summer activities. Bob Tande originated Wood Mountain Train at Scotty's Corral to complete a the idea in 1970 and everyone who was contacted w[...]g hands of Kidd enthusiastic. Plans were made for a 1971 wagon train. The Nygaard of Wolf Point. A very special attraction of this wagon train was p[...]an was decided they, the Saddle Club, should have a unit claim to be the only participant who traveled to the first participating. A delegation was organized and they Wild Horse Stampede by horse and wagon in 1923 and purchased a team of black horses, Lady and Lad. This[...]y covered and road map publication. The wagon was a creation due wagon. She also contribute[...]Montana. Tom Even though the wagoneers came from a large area, we are Halverson and Kent Dru[...]called the North East Montana Train. After about a year's one. We had 15 wagons making this t[...]ain many preparation of restoring wagons r buying or breaking outriders. Also several wago[...]obey and Peerless. members. Each year we have had a different wagon One of the outfits had a runaway the first morning out master but for the[...]training, somewhat like starting the day with a cool Peerless and his helpers. The water wagon an[...]ecoming. There were 12 wagons we had a caravan of 33 units leaving Scobey and again and a score of outriders. The most colorful entries of[...]ombined with the Poplar and Whitewater trains for a trip, driving ponies on a rubber-tired wagon, an exception tot[...] |
| [...]o have In the sixties the club sponsored a kindergarten course let us enjoy our travel all o[...]MEMORIAL SUNDAY AND DECORATION DAY A group ofladies met on January 14, 1946 for the purpose TO BE OBSERVED AT SCOBEY of organizing a unit of the Federated Womens Club. The first offi[...]. at the Rex Theater on Sunday, May 30, at 11 A.M., Rev. Brenden, second vice president; Mrs. P.T[...]de. Prof. John Zuck Larry Bowler. The club became a member of the General will deliver the[...]o'clock p.m. after which there will be a parade to the The first project was to start a library, later named the cemetery where the g[...]honor of the dead. The officers courthouse, after a committee had met with the Lion's Club of th[...]V. Corneveau, Fred I. Davis "First Adjutant", Hjalmer[...]alen Chapel Walter Bulpitt, John A. Greenwood, William Manternach,[...]rge M. Pierce, Brown 0. were the T.B. X-ray unit, a $1,000 gift and $2,500 toward Friske, Frank[...]rk on August Little League baseball team; funding a lifeguard and 6, 1880. Of his e[...] |
| [...]participated in every battle of this unit--as a civilian: When[...]obtained a pass to Manila and walked to Marilso where'the[...]899. During the fore part of 1919 Paui' Crum then a~ attorney in Scobey and a member of A.R. Patters'on Post 7, V.F.W., worked to form a Post in this area. It was decided[...]when the Post was formed that it would be named after Selver Oie, a soldier from Scobey who had lost his life in Paul[...]France. Chief of Staff Taylor wrote to Crum: I wish to[...]in Montana, for I think it will be the nucleus for more from Infantry. Ho[...]cer knew that he was the state." too young and would not swear him into the service. Crum Forty-[...]lunteer Infantry and veterans of Scobey, John A. Davis and William H. the Tenth Pennsylvania were[...]n attempt to enlist, but was turned down Oie, a brother of Sel ver Oie, was also made an honorary[...]keep the Post active, but due to the endeavors of a few Manila, where he stated that he would attempt to enlist digging into their p[...] |
| [...]France by Christmas of the same year. He was a member of[...]in the campaigns of 1918 and died in a base hospital in[...]ies and in giving ca used the Post to become more a ctive, and late in 1944 gifts and donation[...]uxiliary has supplied flags Smith , quartermaster a nd veter an of the Spanish and stan[...]ns, patriotic materials to American War, went out a nd signed up man y new schools,[...]he members, hitting the parents of m en over seas or catching Auxiliary has sponsored local Brow[...]d equipment to the City Park, furnished post into a strong Post again. a public address system to the ball park, run a refreshment Ormand W. Paus Jr., nineteen years old , killed in a ction stand during the active years of soft b[...]donations the first Pitch Tournament in Mon tana. A VFW Club was to veteran 's hospitals an[...]al formed , purchasing what is now Bill & Betty's a nd the Home and purchasing of the nation[...]r known by the old timers as Rei ner Bakery. a bicentennial project. This venture didn't last lo[...]sponsored all Americanism, Veterans A history of Daniels County that is to be worthy ca[...]Post 173 great depression of the 1930's. As i~ always the case, time send3 one junior boy from[...]these high emotions unless we realize The Post would like to pay homage to P a st that really the history of[...]inly: Joh n Smith who was blossomed into a bloodless but bitter revolution of the the man wh[...]must always let time membership in the post, and a worked in the post up t o the temporize befo[...]as the liberals then who brought the innovations. A liberal of course was recognized in 1776 as a revolutionary SE LMER OI E:[...]master of his government and his destiny. He was a man the years before 1913 and worked for his brother Gustav, who looked upon limited government as a necessity, but an who was involved in the[...] |
| [...]wrote there. To convince anyone that I am not presently this: "The history of man has been, over the ages, a story of propagandizing or editorializing let anyone pile up the peoples in[...]a of good much time making each house of congress a limit upon the feeling" between them. So have our economic and political power of the other, making a system of checks and problems bee[...]e liberals. May I ask why government has made little or no use of Yes, these liberals of the great dep[...]olitical conglomerate corporations? May I ask why no politician innovators. They had a point. They pointed out a very bad does even propose to legislate r[...]ced union They were right. Like the repetition of a broken record they leaders? Why too, have lo[...]performance says that the people now how a union of liberty. For an old dyed-in-the-wool con[...]ides the campaign "pledge allegiance to the Flag" or to sing the Star funds and Big Labo[...]e. And two hundred Spangled Banner in school. No, I will not say they were million people t[...]ue in which they so Birthday of U.S.A. 2076. If the next generation does not profoundly[...]perceptive than we were in Daniels found no fault or mistrust for government but gave it their C[...]e that the liberals of 1976 are beginning to take a Washington, including control of almost every det[...]n. Were they embrace limited government and a healthy mistrust of the justified in trusting big goverment? The recent would-be masters. Senator Jackson of Washington and pr[...]in big government and to see the conservatives. I was one of lthem. We did not believe that[...]for organization. We believed that these reforms would any future quarrel between all these good people who I am continue without upsetting the cart. We belie[...]ure are dedicated to liberty and to the future of a status quo. We believed that chastising corporat[...]ul country. Those who curse America, who file on would, in due time, seriously reduce our world-renowned[...]ully wrong as these persist in "Yes, but it's better in Russia," need little last years have p[...]1969 has been heading up the supported big labor. A quiet hour in any library will refresh[...] |
| [...]state in the through irrigation projects of a size practical to individual course of his work.[...]ed with SCS and soil and water districts, passed a law which allows the State Land Department to[...]partnerships," Mr. Carney toward improving and/ or preserving state owned land. emphasizes,[...]and a pumping site for border site irrigation system on[...],~, i '[...]in progress or have been completed thus far in other parts[...]► ) of the state," Mr. Carney advises. "A prime aim of the[...]Skogmo Family Clothing During his days as a state senator from Daniels, Mr. The Fabri[...]served on the senate committee on state lands. As a Bev's Sewing Center consequence that, along with being a successful farmer, The Thrift Shop and the son of homesteaders, plus having headed up a Wolfe's World of Fashions veteran's fa[...]Pioneer Lounge State Land Department also is a northeastern Montanan, 109 Club .[...]Silver Slipper (Supper Club) " I thought it would be a good idea," Mr. Carney said, "to Montana Liquor Store have a visit with Dave Drumm. He was the originator and[...]d logical to Montana Dakota Utilities me that I should know the spirit of the law, as Mr. Drumm Mountain Bell Telephone had in mind. It was a valuable guide, at the outset." Nemont[...]said Mr. Drumm had encountered the need for such a law in state lands administration when he was[...]and Implement, Inc. with headquarters in Montana, a brainchild brought into Rasmus Nelson, In[...]Erickstein Motor Co., INc. Although this was a rather unique basis to set up a law Hillstrom Motors for programs long overd[...]Citizens State Bank & Murphy Agency federal and s a te agencies in each county.[...] |
| [...]Paulson Body Shop A.J. Fosland Wheat[...]M.J. Traynor J & A Welding & Blacksmith Shop[...] |
| [...]SUPPLIES for quite a while yet. Prompt Attention - Price[...]Realty company, to be replaced in a few years by the big |
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| [...]or 16 years to the life of your frame[...]or in the country. Free Estimates professi[...]Scobey, Mont. SATURDAY, NOV. 5 |
| [...]Justices Frank I. Haswell and John W. Bonner. A former Scobey and Flaxville lady, Mrs. Mabel Haswell presented Sorte with a black judicial robe. Savageau, now of Hubbard , Oregon was the subject of a Spectators included the governor's wife[...]Point, seat of Roosevelt County. the flags had a number assigned to each batch of ten.[...]ecame immortalized in Sorte is a native of Scobey, seat of Daniels County. He stat[...]stamps, Mrs. Savageau was notified holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University[...]the flags that she had made. Montana and is a 1960 graduate of the University of The years passed - then in June, 1973 she was presented a Montana Law School. framed photo of the epic event on I wo Jima by an official Sorte served as an[...]served on Iwo Jima either lost their lives during or minutes a short time as a deputy county attorney in Great Falls. afterward.[...]Sorte was a deputy counsel to the Oregon Legislature in The[...]a area during the 20's and 30's. Mr. Savageau was a later that year. blacksmith and Ma[...]TIME IN 53 YEARS It could have been a scene from a slapstick comedy, but it wasn't and it really hap[...]to the fire hall and climbed 1910, is having a wonderful reunion with his brother John , aboard the fire engine (a reconversion job performed ages 76, and the son, Andrew, this week. Since about 1937 Dick ago on a Model T of about 1920 vintage).[...]ther dead. John was heard from in Everyone got a good hold preparatory to the speedy drive Pi[...]ncient vehicle perking. All to no avail. Then a visitor came to this community a couple of weeks Finally someone decided they w[...]years. the street. They were rescued eventally by a truck which In their visiting together an[...]Mike Yarmey said he knew a John Ktytor, a neighbor, at When they reached the Hackman home the fire, which Port Arthur. Would he be any relation? The conversation was luckily a minor blaze in the chimney, had been put out[...]and descriptions were compared. by neighbors with a fire extinguisher. So the kind Dick[...]PONDENT WRITES post Friday morning and said Sorte would assume his new "KRAUT-AN-HOUR-SC[...]udge has been one of Anderson's assistants and is a former assistant attorney (Editor'[...] |
| [...]awarded behind the chimney on the roof of a house 150 yards ahead the Congressional Medal of[...]aimed, and his burst of fire Leader also received a large picture showing Gen. Patch tumbled[...]r, who two minutes! offered himself as a target to German snipers in order that The[...]road. This time it was temporarily halted by a heavy them, was witnessed by hundreds of other Am[...]rollers climbed out of the ditch into the France-"A-Kraut-an-Hour-Schauer" is the name given[...]r again. This time he knelt to fire by the men of a Third Infantry Division Battle Patrol to the a[...]he nearest German gun were beachhead and piled up a score that is hard to beat in any killed. Ju[...]the nation's highest military award by them a burst. Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, Commanding General of the Moving target or stationary, no matter what the range, it Seventh[...]clean the without let-up. Carefully inserting a new magazine into his enemy out of a large area , protect its regiment's flank in[...]r- the advance, cross abroad flat wheat field and a road, man German crew. All four were killed. move through a woods, and cover more open terrain before[...]the next morning, May 24, 1944, it had passed for a group the size of the Battle Patrol.[...]the road it was to cross. The enemy was throwing a lot of small arms fire at the men from the front[...]atrol from the rear. One of the men armed with a BAR (automatic rifle), climbed out of the ditch a[...]e snipers. Two of the Germans were at the base of a house 200 yards to the rear, one lay on the road near the house, and the fourth was concealed in a wheat field to the left of the house. The BAR man[...]of Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Brown, " the best Bar man I have ever seen." All four of the snipers shift[...]ow close they came to him-enemy sniper bullets at a range of oqly 200 yards and less either shave you or part your hair. But Schauer seemed to have nerves[...]ulder, and went to work. The snipers 170 yards a way alongside the house were low to the ground, b[...]tly. The sniper lying on the shaded road was only a deeper shadow. One burst from the BAR finished hi[...]One burst was alongside the highway when a German machine gun enough. opened up on it from a point of 100 yards to the front. In[...] |
| addition, a German Mark VI tank, 600 yards to the left, fired a number of rounds in rapid succession. For the[...]~ -.I forward a few yards and stood upright, facing the machine g[...]ne killed all four of the machine gun crew. In a period of 17 hours Pfc. Schauer had killed 17 Ger[...]e man from eastern and northern Montana who rates a salute from all army officers including five star[...]Doug Hillstrom, were fishing embroidered. A matching purse is hooked to the belt. The down by[...]s of the Hadelands Laget, felt like he had hooked a bridge timber. a lodge made up of natives of Hadeland and their[...]Norwegians the big fish, he gave us that kind of a look he can give and into the organization and[...]en members for 20 What are you going to do with a guy like that! years. Some bard i[...]fishing; and we wonder if perhaps on the big ones a fella son, Magne, was also born there. In 19[...]iles west of the measure and the great days along a stream or in a boat on a usual course to avoid German U boats. lake.[...]and side curtains with isinglass windows, is just a during a trip she and her husband took to Norway in 1949. memory. It took a year to complete because of the large quantity of[...]he ever owned- and he still uses it. He also has a 34-year- own special costume. These are worn to w[...]d tractor to keep it company. state celebrations. A ready made costume can be[...] |
| [...]snow got too deep he put the truck a way and resorted to[...]enabled a person to poke an arm through to open the door,[...]When Mr. Miller bought a new truck in 1943 the old truck[...]until 1926, when he purchased a second hand Model T Ford for $150 during a trip to Minnesota. He drove it west as far[...]as Redstone in December without side curtains or tire[...]used it when he was courting a young school teacher,[...]arson in 1936. As he recalls, it cost either $700 or[...]nd was considered high priced at that time. It is a "I thought I was sitting on top of the world when I four plow tractor rated at 40 horse p[...]recalls. "It was my pride and his World War I Veterans bonus for the down payment, joy for a long time." \ and it took him a long time to finish pay for it because of Befo[...]tead ranch, where he was working at the time, was a though he used an old car cushion to rai[...]never tempted to travel when he bought a rubber tired tractor, but still uses it for an fa[...]"I have always believed in making things last as lon[...]he recalls , bought auxiliary I could," he says. transmissions for their trucks with the result that they A native of Indiana, Fred Miller has lived in the c[...]1914, when he came to Scobey with an them out in a short time.[...]d been working powerful enough to carry more than a standard load of 60 at Sarles, N.D. He r[...]Once here, he took up a homestead on "the strip" about The front[...] |
| [...]is place on the tractor during spring work. At a Scobey firemen's meeting Monday evening it was di[...]ct to apply this sum on the hoped-for purchase of a INTERESTING PAST new, lig[...]the Daniels County Fair this week, we feel it was a wise thing to dispose ofit; and fortunately visiting the Scobey area was something of a homecoming. this was done profitably.[...]of Scobey Mr. Willoughby, who As mentioned in a previous issue, the old Model Twas cam[...]onday this week that he used to make it a point to stop at the George Kirn ranch, on the tr[...]ll the hills on where he was always sure of a good meal. high.[...]r. Willoughby's fondest memory of Scobey concerns a When Luverne Hansen was proudly recounting how[...]made all the hills on high, we could not help but think back adventure involving 67 ho13es. to the days, many years ago, when he was a young school At the time Willoughby was buying horses for the army kid, running a delivery truck for his dad, who then had a under a sub-contract from Gilmore and Love of Miles City.[...]n the location now occupied He attended a Thanksgiving dance here where it seemed to by the[...]sen real estate. He won a turkey, and also obtained another one from a In those days Luverne knew the city like the p[...]ow who had won one. The two turkeys were used for a hand, and the maximum speed at which any corner[...]ranches, in every direction. the sidewalk run in a car at a fairly good speed without Horses and[...]hills on high, we road toward Plentywood. A woman with an automobile knew full well that if[...]Willoughby squatted on a claim there, and later proved it Jeweler Says O[...]tkinson bunch. He preferred other day. He was all a-flutter. With him he had his watch. workin[...]e time it has been lost almost entirely A shooting affray at the homestead claim of[...] |
| [...]s brother was George Hatfield, one of 1949 - A few feet to the left from Jimmy Hillstrom's back[...]essee (and kin to the door there is a spot in the ground that keeps sinking-no Hatfield[...]matter how much dirt. junk and other debris Jimmy a disagreement with an Indian visitor. The Indian used the throws into it. Kind of a provoking proposition. He did kitchen table as a shield when Hatfield shot from behind som[...]ago when that sinking spot was the source of a supply of ·' Carrie's stove and stovepipes and s[...]n relay racing at Poplar in 1915. barrel or gallon to those not connected with the city water[...]6 he took his horses to Great Falls and there won a system. $400 relay race.[...]derground stream of water flowing He worked as a trainer and double for the movies , and th[...]aminos and pintos. Those were the days of a way dirt from the bottom of the old well hole. To[...]d an electric range installed in Willoughby, were a palamino stallion ridden by Hoot her home this week , the first of its kind to be placed in a Gibson in the " Wild Horse Picture" and 12 horses[...]August 18, 1927 start. One of these, a red roan , was trained to drag a supposedly drowning man out of the river by his clothing. Willoughby also worked as a trick rider, and one of his favorite stunts was a Roman ride between a horse and car at 35 miles per hour. In 1955 Wi[...]" with. He is ANECDOTES - JOKES a black and white spotted horse 16 hands high. The[...]ian, and is the name According to Sam (A.M.) Dunn, in the early days of of a river in southern Washington.[...]ucated to dance before he and horses out. If a cow persistently got into a man's crop, was trained to dance with his front feet , or even to be that cow usually ended up on his dinner table. Cy Merrill, a ridden . Willoughby learned his technique of teaching from rancher, was having dinner with a neighbor, Hoak Smith. a famous trainer, Mark Smith.[...]year, a horse that he had bought from Bill Cook got the[...]question, and Bill said he'd given the length of a goose 's neck and are the wiser for it. Halvor[...]d his horse the " Goose" Olson , who contemplates a trip back to the old same way and it died[...]d, country soon , brought 20 live geese to Scobey a few days "Say, Bill, I gave kerosene to my horse. and he died." Bill ago. They were raffled off in a dice game at Sam's Place. said , " Yup, so[...]Fred Haun writes that he and some friends went to a fowl. Hachman looked around to see what was going[...]in Flaxville one night. Afterwards they came back a nd as did the goose snapped its clamper on the en[...]They planned to Hachman 's proboscis causing him a certain amount of go to a dance at the Silver Star Hall, but as they came o[...]pain. His friends helped him around when holding a live goose tail-end-to. up to[...]in and Dr. Collinson treated Fred for a kidney stone. Jake three in the g oose raffle was[...]uring the night some woman was brought in and had a the goose . When h e got within range the snake-l[...]baby girl. When Jake came in they told Jake they would see da rted out and bit " Tuffy" near the Red Owl Store. if I was able to see visitors. They brought the[...] |
| [...]ba b y started t o cr y . Jake was taken back for a minute, asked how Fred was , and Fred said, " O.K. now." Just then but then said, " I knew that was the trouble all the time. "[...]EARLY DAY BREAD First, mix a lukewarm quart, Now grease well a bowl and put my daughter,[...]would be a sin ; To this please add two cakes of[...]it's going to rise, Or the liquid kind if preferred[...]'Till you will declare that it's in the least.[...]Brush the dough with melted Next stir in a teaspoonful of[...]Cover with a bread towel , set in If this bread isn 't good ,[...]a warm place to stay be our fault ,[...]Two hours or more , to rise until Now add the sugar, tablespoo[...]know it's all right. they must be.[...]As soon as it's light, place again Pour the whole mixture into an[...]Knead it well this time. Here is A pan 's just as good, if it hasn't[...], knowledge to hoard. a hole.[...]Now back in the bowl once It's the cook and the flour , not[...]more it must go. the bowl or the pan,[...]\'·. hour or so. makes the man."[...]the dough gently into Now let the mixture stand a loaves when light, minute or two.[...]n. "GOLD MEDAL" the brand. Some people like a little short-[...]don 't set near a door. Two tablespoonfuls of lard, and[...]Now put in the oven; it's ready ture that's stood[...]By bread that is worth y " A more like a brick.[...] |
| [...]step he felt a squish underfoot. One more step and he was One[...]ight through the open door of the furnace room on a grave they heard a four-horse team coming with a load revealed a dark, shiny surface instead of the customary of g[...]dusty concrete floor. Then he heard the throb of a asleep, plodding along slowly.[...]d his loads regularly. Pete retreated. be wearing a white shirt, was bent over digging. He[...]into a small opening in the furnace front, an opening fo[...]N pump in town that would handle it. But prompt action[...]n recollects how the late Frank more than a half million dollars as a railroad worker, Beeks used to haul water around Scobey for fifty-cents a homesteader and small store owner at Sunbu[...]oil fields of the 20's. Mr. Haun also recalls how a steam engine used for He hooked a hoseline to a steam outlet of the furnace. threshing was Scobey[...]but steadily on its way to the city cesspool a mile away a generator off the steam engine, later exchanged for a gas near the bank of the Poplar river. This h[...]t to Aasness, The river was frozen over and a good share of the oil who in the mid-twenties sol[...]e Montana- remained in the big septic tank or made its way slowly to Dakota Utilities. Co.[...]944. formed a syndicate and began securing oil leases. The tr[...]later sold at the night bell at the desk. It was a minute or two before a a good profit for cash and a one-per-cent royalty basis.) sleepy voice from an[...]tests, spudded in a well north of Poplar and struck a 150 " I don 't want a room ; I want to know where you want barrel per day[...]$1,000 to have its septic tanks cleaned that find a metal covering over the intake."[...]hind the three-story concrete structure. He found a metal covering. Pretty big, he thought. But it THE OFF COLORED SCOBEY SOX was dark at 3 a.m. He shoved his hose into the opening ar.. d swi[...]It was springtime, 1925, and prospects for a good ball the trucker headed down the street to f[...]. team at Scobey were looking up. Plentywood, a traditional[...] |
| rival, also had the makings of a club considerably better The fact that the[...]t Scobey and fans the umpire ruled it was a two-base hit, so Swede went to noted a number of new faces on both line-ups. Scobey[...]t the "Black Sox" pair showed the "bush leaguers" a McGraw of the New York Giants is reported to have said, new angle. "if he could be whitewashed I would give a million dollars Before Swede went to the[...]on base even if he had to take a Donaldson curve in the Donaldson was getting a[...]plate wielding his mighty willow, Donaldson waved a all agreed he was a pitcher who could still do a good job in pitchout to his catcher. Just as[...]r attempt to get Hap. To be brief, Happy, who was a shortstop who, with Cicotte, Felsch, Jackson and[...]y Dallas, an ·Indian boy by the name of Eastman, a high pitched voice heard by everyone bu[...]that ball, throw it here, please more later), and a ski-jumping Finn from St. Paul, Hinden give me that ball." by name, all of whom had at some time or other played in The game ended 4 to 2.[...]ood for the game. It was by far the biggest crowd a a position to estimate fairly accurately, said that[...]money. Plentywood was then headquarters for a group of "play ball" order. On the mound, beaming[...]at Plentywood, Havre, Moose Jaw, Regina, Minot or what once diverted his gaze from Risberg to the b[...]ck. have you. And on more than one occasion a majority of the The crowd was tense and then abov[...]lts when they went Donaldson's voice was heard in a rather surprising tone, on the diamond th[...]easure State. That announcement was as much of a surprise to the The initial game at[...]me as it was to attention so that a federal in tern al revenue man was at the Plentyw[...]e and money. The teams were playing on a percentage basis, 60- driven by car to Plentywood, arriving only a few minutes 40, and the gate was reported[...]t didn't matter before the game. He changed in to a Scobey uniform in the that a Scobey checker said there were enough paid dugout[...]admissions to mean a gross of at least50<fo more. The gross Undaunted, Donaldson began pitching. Swede got a still set a record for those days in eastern Montana. With a single and stopped at first. Happy, who hadn't swung at a similar crowd at a return game in Scobey the gate was ball in two ye[...]er's box. reported at $850. Neither pitcher or batter had ever faced each other before.[...]nto cars at first pitch Swede swung and there was a ringing smack. Scobey for shipment. The ball was a little above Donaldson's head as it began its[...]h Scobey customs officer, who later became a plainclothes surrounded the outfield--on, on to[...]cre. Then the rhubarb began. Ground rules said a ball hit At any rate Scobey mad[...] |
| [...]E There are perhaps a score of these fellows about the yard in a few minutes. Some are still pulling the harness from Life is a collection of memories. The more you have to their horses or carrying huge forks full of hay and remember, th[...]who is dumping it at the side of the rack or wheel where the rich in memories. animals are tied. Three or more others are tossing the You have made quite a journey through the years if you bedding up into the barn loft where at the hay door a tall, can remember when:[...]deftly and pitches them back 1. You had to crank a telephone on the wall to get the in to t[...]wered , you said, "hello central" stomachs on a grass spot, smoking and talking in low and you told her who you wanted. If you were on a party tones. line you rang one short and[...]visited During this time the appearance of a heavy streak of with your neighbors. Whether or not it was your ring that blue-black smoke[...]t the front of the fire box and the hot coals by a local piano player for fifty cents a night. Bertha falling from the grates ash[...]for the current picture from side to side, as a duck carries his head when walking. showing was[...]going up and down The outfit comes to a halt at the foot of the lane; the clank of main[...]though we were beside the engine instead of a quarter of a For which the hollerer was admitted free. They ho[...]well. reached in your vest pocket for your watch or if a lady to the The cook car is in the house yar[...]your shirt waist. a square of ruddy lamplight shows. Within, heavy cheap 4. Boys wore long black stockings with a hole in the right china, pots, and tin ware[...]e iron stove pipe on the roof, and the by pushing a homemade scooter up and down the streets.[...]place hangs heavily on the night 5. Nobody was on a diet. If you didn 't take a second air. helping of everything or of every dish set before you you This cook car is a wonderful place-a kitchen mounted were ill or the cook would take it as a personal insult to her high on wheels and reached by a half-dozen steps that can cooking ability.[...]ng wall and the local doctor - and didn 't charge a consultation fee. benches before them-a large capable looking stove 7. Only city people g[...]clock. The rural flanked by cupboards and a large work table. The moist ones were awakened by[...]hands resting ·on her hips as she pauses for a moment's[...]o'clock in the morning the stillness is broken by a MEMORIES OF THRESHING DAYS[...]north field an hour or so earlier-engineer and separator Tractors Cough[...]men sleep when there is time for such a luxury. And now[...]the blower thrust up at an angle like a great gun barrel, the[...]ractors cough over steel separator rolling a long line of lazy black smoke from its threshing[...]belt swinging between them days as they were when I was a little fellow come to mind . indicates compl[...]has become deadly scientific while In a short time the men climb somewhat stiffly down the in years past each was surrounded by a rustic glamour. ladder at the loft door[...]ree About sundown of 'an August evening we hear a clatter natures among thpm are giving vent to their feelings by a and clapping of boards that grows louder and loud[...]always melodious whistling as they dash basins in a cloud of dust the bundle wagons bump up the lane.[...]ver their faces. Within 10 minutes they never saw a bundle team move at an easy walk; if a have all crowded into the warmth of the cook car to threshing hand must drive a slow team, he makes them breakfast. f[...]6 o'clock shouting drivers pull their teams up to a sudden halt. when the machine is already in motion. The cylinder These threshing hands are a wonderful lot to a boy. They drones, the shakers rock with a swinging motion that are familiar with cities and[...]d they have of stacker roars with a gale in its throat. We have come to the language[...]start, and now stand at our horses heads for a few minutes[...] |
| [...]we clamber up on the wheels of the tanks to catch a snowy owl, a much smaller bird, about the size of a handful of the first half bushel of wheat as it p[...]stern snow bird , the English sparrow, "dumps" in a battered measure to make sure that the[...]eagle feeder toss the bundles head first, one at a time, so that the and the bald eagle ($5,000 fe[...]tural grace the bodies swing with each tossing of a the American magpie and the starling. There[...]onzed necks show like red copper in the and a variety of hawks, and some ducks. Magpies , crows[...]starlings are considered pests, but they all have a Soon the first tank is full, for the mechanica[...]t. We swing the grain Ducks, Unlimited, a voluntary organization of sportsmen spout hastily[...]nk that stands in wait, who have made quite a bit of progress in establishing wet and after see[...]large 2-handled scoops. The hard they see a lot. There are deer, antelope, some elk (who will[...]cally. now and there a wolf, and there have been occasional As the da[...]by the weights heavily upon the nostrils. At noon a deafening unpracticed eye. blast of the[...]One MYSTERY MONUMENT o'clock, a warning toot from the whistle; the work proceeds steadily through the afternoon head with only a short by Dorothy Rus[...]make their way slowly homeward, and the men are a little bit too tired to sing or joke much. Again the threshing hands lay spraw[...]ats from the cook car door. Things have changed, or I have changed; but still the threshing hand is a singing, care-free fellow from nowhere in partic[...]station K-C-G-M, conducted by Ric Sampsen, he had a visit with Larry Fjeld, member of the National Au[...]ing number of Scobey High on a lonely butte overlooking the va ~t shelterbelts,[...]Peerless in northeastern Montana stands a weatherbeaten increase.[...] |
| [...]hat made the prairies sparkle. The story is a likely one, as .the area once was a favorite "Tighten. up the bellybands and loosen u[...]de four, promenade round "It was there when I came and that's all I know about it," Keep that calico off the ground."[...]Many of them believe it was put there merely as a marker from sticking, and pitch in. Fudge parties[...]he area. Others say that '.' piling up rocks" was a favorite captain's first pick, second, or even third? You had to take pastime of lonely[...]ber once common. But they agree that the top of a steep cactus- the breathless suspense as the last[...]led with seizure, pneumonia, surcingle, pyorrhea, or fun.[...]nstructed by Indians, and Were you ever in a ciphering match? You did long . one early settler says that children used to find Indian division on a blackboard out in plain view of your friends, ~[...]stening for the ohs and ahs that meant you'd cast a . ndians did build cairns long before white me[...]cairn, it has been there for at the better wife, a good housekeeper or a good cook? ieast six years, and perhaps much lo[...]tractor- And those stirring "literaries" or "rhetoricals", with driving farmers who work th[...]pieces out of our readers: "Barbara Frietchie" --or the noble ·the travelers who whiz down the near-by road in their words of Patrick Henry--or others we had heard so often streamlined cars, it is a silent reminder of a bygone day that we knew them by heart. And if sta[...]touched by we were prompted by the moving lips of a sympathetic dvilization. audience. We'd close with a chapter from the Bible, and in[...]the acrobats, maybe a trained bear who could drink from a pop bottle and ride a bicycle? Chautauqua began just three[...]reached 20,000 towns in a summer. "AN AVERAGE DAY IN GRANDMOTH_E R's HOMESTEAD DAYS" Grandmother, on a winter's day, milked the cows, slopped the hogs,[...], washed the windows, and did some chores; Cooked a dish of home-dried fruit, pressed her husband's Sunday suit, Swept the parlor, made the bed, baked a dozen loaves of bread; Split some firewood and lu[...]ps and put in oil, stewed some apples she thought would spoil, Churned the butter, baked a cake, then exclaimed, "For goodness' sake! The ca[...]boxes prepared by girls who were "good lookers or good Cooked a supper that was delicious, and afterward washed cookers". Many a girl landed a good husband by her up. all the dishes;[...]ht. Fed the cat and sprinkled the clothes, mended a basketfull Remember what fun we had match[...]ticks, turned arms, lifted the Come To The End Of a Perfect Day". rear[...]Daisy LaMotte had a corner dedicated to baseball.[...] |
| [...]nts we'll live with Early that morning some of us would rush outside and yell: till we die. When he read aloud, two or three smaller ones on " Hurrah for the Fourth of[...]the eggs and cream that went into Mom's mix were a when he roared like Papa Bear, were[...]ueaked like Baby Bear. away. Along about 3:30 Mom would say, "Oh, I nearly We know this secret"- we l[...]folks have had fun "clean the dasher"! (And have a dish besides, of course!) over the last 75[...]o help. The men "git up and gumption". would save a few of the calves till last for the young kids to Every single solitary day can be fun right at home to a rope.[...]he wonders of the back pasture; we Maybe it's just eating supper in the backyard, with the hunt[...]mane to the gate, and climb on - two and three at a time - and love. and gallop across the past[...]Ruth A. Hanrahan would have made a T-V producer shudder. We loved those animals , an[...]more. We kids lived in constant fear that Father would let the reins hang limp .o n Lady's rump, where h[...]FIRE, COLD, PAIN swinging tail would clamp them tight. At the first kick we kids piled out like rats from a burning barn, and I'd swing 'round to catch the youngest as Mother would toss him to me. After pawing the air, Lady would take off as if the 6-INCH[...]a duck. As a result, there were many people who found[...]way to the field. He and a farm helper were marooned in his[...]truck south of town about a half mile off the highway . The[...]end of the truck and stood in a half foot of water in the truck box with a washtub over their heads. Roger LaPierre ,[...]a six by six . He bogged down. Hack to town and out[...]uddenly realized they could go no further without a boat.[...]lso the waters raged . They got into Scobey As a matchmaker through the years, a horse would beat Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. a hammock any day. With. a good horse, you could tie the The twister, which took the gra ndstand , gran a ries a nd lines together, drop them over the dashboard,[...]Marqui s and The treat of winter was when Dad would hook up to the other Scobey elevators are still busy pumping out water bobsled and haul a dozen shrieking, laughing children five fr[...]ud Goodman spread of buildings, fa rm mac hinery, a long. As simple as that![...] |
| [...]he community had Wednesday forenoon and reported a scene of total witnessedviest rain[...]destruction. The house was far down on its site, a mass of area-6.09 inches. All over the community householders, twisted lumber. Among items lost was a new combine and farmers and businessmen checked their own damage and a new grand piano, still crated.[...]'s sign , torn down by the wind , crashed through a sodden furnishings. The wind that afternoon b[...]in street flooded under the door into the store. A window in the lobby, and the glass of one[...]The basement was a wading pool. At Brayko Rooms it was necessary[...]e southern edge of and lost their bed. In Scobey, a power and light cut-off, town by the highw[...]residence just north was in a similar condition. Three Between here and Wolf[...]ern part highway kept the bus in Scobey. There is a serious washout of the city were smashed to[...]gale. Dale Wrona, who had recently moved in a little house reports from district engineer, Bob[...]fts to re-open park, the grandstand, long a landmark of Scobey, is no the highways. Meanwhile he advises use of the old R-Y more than a pile of smashed wood stacked against the big trai[...]e in four places with the splinters. Jake A treacherous lull Sunday in a freezing, blinding 5-day Veis lost a granary. Julius Lekvold had one wall of his[...]unity became directed that cattle were trapped in a corner of the fence as the water rose evening t[...]day matinee. Attempts Vic Hillstrom came out with a boat to help. Sherman to locate them[...]might have been able In the Peerless community a rain of more than an inch to take shelter[...]y. during the year of 1936. Flaxville had as much or more. Wait for Dea[...]1944 More than a mile west of the Alfred Goulet place west of[...]h to get to the Goulet place, their themselves as a prevailing north wind gathered intensity.[...] |
| [...]ry LaPierre, 16, sophomore, and Gary Lekvold, 17, a Mrs. Cavanaugh froze her legs, hands and face.[...]h others had boarded icebergs at the At 6:30 a.m. Monday, with the blizzard still raging, John[...]:30 that worried about his 11-year old girl and a baby boy alone on afternoon. The four boys[...]4 1/ ~ miles into iceberg that was "as big as a house," as one put it later. Flaxville, where h[...]of the impending danger to those who were left. would abate to some extent. Cavanaugh felt he could not[...]Highway 13 is about three quarters of a mile from the Marooned Minis[...]ces at Flaxville, started Louis Lekvold and a brother of Gary's. They were on their out for Scobey. About a half mile west of Flaxville he was way home[...]hen they heard the p.m. Sunday. It was then 10 a.m. Monday and first word whistle they kn[...]Gary Lekvold was stranded on a slab on the west side of The marooned survi[...]by rubbing each the river where there is a gravel pit. He stayed there until other and sh[...]rphy place on the evening had been outside for a while trying to check on west side of th[...]. blankets, coats, scarfs, ov~rcoats and caps. A few minutes Murphy threw the rope to Gary w[...]necessary care. Murphys put him in a tub of cold water to[...]t of Scobey. Lekvold waded in and threw a rope to Larry who tied it Larry LaPierre and[...]the terrain there walked about a mile along the creek to a concentrated help of the Fire Department and other shallow spot where he waded in and got a hold of ice volunteers their spring exh[...] |
| Riding the ice cakes has long been a brief, popular sport MIDDLE FORK IN[...]unday, however, the watery song of spring carried a grim note that nearly hit a For at least three generations it has seeme[...]"fording" by raft, wagon on ice cakes, horseback or by PRAIRIE FIRE SWEEPS OVER[...]On April 1st, 1943, after a long and snowy winter, spring[...]broke forth with a gush. Two or three days of very warm Strong West Wind D[...]weather had made the creeks rise in a hurry, raising the Roads and Highw[...]e, forming jams, which in turn made the water A grass blaze that started along the G.N. right of way |
| the truck was hauled out with a tractor. The men removed Those events and the capturing or shooting of horse the crabs, weeds and mud, drain[...]· unemployment taxes, and giving .their readers a better Mrs. Hill's fresh pork 85 lbs. . . . . . .[...]9 - Newspaper Somewhat offbeat after more than a dozen years away from the news and editorial des[...]AMES FAMILY Bowler who, with Mrs. B. is enjoying a brief vacation with Scobey friends in San Franci[...]ten years before that, island helping his father, a fisherman. His formal however, we had been engag[...]is schooling was obtained there. His father owned a fishing area. ~ schooner and they would spend up to three months on the Looking back o[...]ng for cod, coming back when their realize we had a little more zip and zest than at the present. hol[...]sh. In 1864 the family Northeast Montana was then a sort of testing ground moved to Northf[...]Flag" Charles Taylor and those employment in a flour mill owned by Adelbert Ames. who believed t[...]Milling Company as a stone dresser, sharpening the large Since then a number of newspapers have passed from mi[...]at time for grinding the wheat. In the scene. Two or three were born and died at Scobey. The 1880 he moved to Hutchinson, Minnesota and built a flour Pioneer Press, Sheridan County News and Pro[...]rder, Flaxville Hustler, Flaxville Dakota driving a span of mules from Hutchinson. There Democrat and[...]ook railroad was building to Overly. They started a bank and Promoter, Westby News, Homestead Broadax[...]they paid off their Call and the Dagmar something or other. depositors and clos[...]In 1913 they came to The Leader, which carries a "36th Year" label is actually . Scobey and bought[...]n 1927 the Leader absorbed the Scobey and started a flour mill. The mill was in operation in 1914 Sen[...]oe Hocking, who sold his Glasgow nephew, was also a partner. They built the elevator at Courier last[...]olumns 1927 while supervising the installation of a diesel engine in on the ballot at one time or another in this corner of the the plant. H[...] |
| [...]b and Winn and son his sister Floren ce fil ed on a homestead six miles south of Paul moved in. At that time there was no basement or Vida a nd h e spent two s ummers there with his sister. He furnace in the house, only a heating stove in the Ii ving atten ded college in orthfield, Minneapolis. Halbert and room and a cook stove in the kitchen. Many buckets of Winnif[...]wstone Park. He worked in the elevator at Oswego, a lso in t he grain exchange in Minneapolis for a year getting experien ce in the grain business. In 1926 he came to'" Scobey a s man a ger of the mill and elevator which was then named[...]Coyote pelts - 1938, Hub Ames and Ole Fjeld[...]926 the mill was paying $100 per month to support a[...]Minneapolis and helped organize a golf club with Dick[...]Hub were appointed as a committee to select a site for the[...]Richard Ames was born in Minne a polis on June 1 7, 1929,[...]who was three and a half years old, went to Rochester to the[...]Clinic. They took a plane at Rochester to fly back to Ca rl Helmbr[...]Ames at the "mill". Minneapolis, a tri-motored Ford. After landing in St. Paul[...]the St. Paul airport, but the plane cra~hed in a street on[...]ark bluff. The pilot was killed and Paul suffered a[...]rnia for the winter to recuperate. Everett Moyer, a[...]Hub obtained his pilot license he bought a low wing Kinner[...]followed with the boys in a car. In the year 1934 there were a lot of grasshoppers so Hub[...]bought an old J5 Travelaire, a biplane with a 225 hp Wright[...]nd driven power to feed the grasshopper bait from a[...]grasshopper bait at that time was a mixture of bran ,[...]spread the poison as they thought that would attract[...]grasshoppers. As hoppers have no taste or smell they would eat the poison bait only for the moisture[...] |
| [...]wound up as Chief Flight Supervisor in 1938 was a rust year for wheat and 1939 another[...]a to manage the mill and elevator. Carl was later a board. Some money had been raised, but mor[...]ain government money, be with his son Vernon in a photo studio. and finally t[...]to work with them. In 1951 Hub bought a Cub airplane for spraying crops Hub had acquired a 1933 Custom Waco airplane, a four and for three summers did this un[...]ting too old for that low flying. In 1953 he took a job with there was quite a lot of charter work and some student Aer[...]g over the editing aerial photographs under a contract with the Fort Peck Dam was a big attraction. In the winter of 1936 Army.[...]classifying roads as to being dirt, gravel or paved, etc., etc. Hub Ames had acquired the[...]Wolf Point airplanes about 1935 and sold quite a few in eastern were associated in a charter and ambulance company Montana and weste[...]and Ole went back to Lock Haven, to a friend of Lyman's in Wolf Point in 1972 and retir[...]flying. Company had been selling flour through a broker in New The Ames sons, Paul and[...]he property was sold to Nash Cub was powered by a 40 H.P. engine and did not have any Brothe[...]flight instruments except an altimeter. Without a compass The mill is one of the first busi[...]e State Building, landing on Long Island beside a blimp community. It has always supported from five to seven hangar. After a couple of days in New York, armed with a families, all interested in the building o[...]bey. The Cub cruised at county. about 65 or 70 mph and one time through North Dakota we[...]l joined Halbert in Scobey were flying at about a thousand feet above the ground and and the[...]"Mill House". The Mill House had been used as a rooming Ole learned to fly a plane on the way home. We used that and bo[...]boarded there. - shot I have ever seen. About 1938 Hub acquired the Winnifred became active in a number of organizations. franchise for Rearwin[...]es for expenses and Hub furnished the airplane, a Rearwin[...]Y Galveston. We were 1500 feet over the bay and a mile and half from shore the propeller disinteg[...]1913. They had left Williston, North Dakota for a tragic landed cross wind in the middle of the g[...]ellerless airplane landing in Galveston. Ed hired a and killed on the main street of that tow[...]ything. While we were they had to start a new life elsewhere. They chose Scobey, waiting for a new prop we spent a few days fishing and the newest boom town, making the latter part of their caught a 42 pound Redfish. We had it packed in ice and[...]king miserably from her cage on the running had a fish feed for us. board. Biddy, by the way, lived for eight years. A few In 1942 Hub enlisted in the Air Force joi[...]months after the family's arrival in Scobey I was born, the Command at Long Beach, California[...]ft from single engine My father, Edon A. Amundson, was a native of Iowa. trainers, twin engine fighters a[...]engine When he first came to Scobey he was a salesman for the bombers and transports.[...] |
| after his arrival, he saw the need for a hotel and so built the Tallman House, the name being an allusion to his height which was six feet two, a rather unusual height in those days. Later he sol[...]rved as Justice of the Peace. He had an office on a side street and I used to visit him there, afternoons, imprinting on my brain the sight of a massive black safe standing in the corner of the room. Years later, when I was teaching at the E'adness School north of town, I came into town one weekend and caught sight of th[...]he office of an automobile agency. The name, Edon A. Amundson, was still emblazoned on it, and I stared at it in a surge of memories. Next door to the Tallman House stood the town's second hotel, an establishment run by a woman known as One- Eyed Mollie who with her four[...]Her boys kept, staked out between the two hotels, a number of pit bull dogs for fighting. When my brother Ellsworth , then about five or six, used to call on One-Eyed Mollie for his daily ration of pie or cake, he had to dodge the dogs. Mollie and her so[...]ubtful reputations, they may have participated in a murder or two, gambling, certainly, but they were very kind[...]s maiden name was Nora Caroline Erickson; she was a native of Moorhead, Minnesota. There were five ch[...]Carroll John Amundson who One day I came home and told my mother that Phyllis became[...]Amundson Chair for Visiting Lecturers I had been chosen to sing with her and two other an[...]ral for the minister's baby. All of his students, a member of the Mellon family. Alice the singers were to wear white. I was delighted and did not Amundson Leed became a microbiologist with the City of tell her that I was practically tone deaf. When I told my San Diego Board of Health, holding that p[...]death in 1970. Ellsworth Amundson, whose a white dress in the dead of winter. (She intended[...]to this article, makes She supposed she would have to go down to Lear's and buy his home with his wife, Emma, in Carmichael, California; a dress which, by the time summer rolled around, would be he is retiring this year as a printer on the Sacramento Bee. outgrown. It was a terrible waste, she said, but the dress I have been a teacher and social worker, am married to was not a waste. Sadly enough, there were a number of James G. Davis, a stockbroker now retired, and have lived funerals that winter, and at each I stood at the coffin in my in Philadelphia all my[...]white dress, droning away, looking angelic, a small female writing short stories, some of which[...]ing Post. The Speaking of stores, I believe that we used to buy our youngest child of[...]Tande's. One day my father came storming has been a teacher and is now a secretary for the local home: "Our bill[...]this has got to stop. Are we eating gold or what?" That was There are ten grandchildren, their careers embracing in 1920. Now in 1976 I spend forty dollars a week for two almost all the professions: the cler[...]t to return to the schools of Scobey. The teacher I They are scattered all over the United States, an[...]earance. fourth grade. She had a commanding presence, patience During our stay of ten years in Scobey, 1913 to 1923, we and a talent for making us want to do our best. I have never lived for the most part on twelve acre[...]s Miss Manley. He the site being distinguished by a windmill that could be writes: "She was a rough one, but probably the best teacher seen for quite a distance. My brother Ellsworth tells me I had. When she wasn't raising hell with the class,[...]er able to use the water it pumped because would read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn and God help it was tainted with oil. We children went to school in a blue the kid who made any noise while she rea[...]and six weeks of Normal School. been tom down; as I remember, the interests of my family Education or not, she could teach. Later on, they raised the c[...]ldren in school. teaching requirements to a high school diploma and three Carroll was a member of the high school debating team months of the Normal School at Dillon." and won a gold medal. Years later, down and out in Paris,[...]them down by the depot. Wonder what they did and I became a professional mourner at the age of nine.[...] |
| We moved a way from Scobey in 1923, and we moved for a rather unusual reason: my father was determin[...]d the cheapest way to get them was to move to a town where a university was located. We went to Missoula, and[...]lace. He had an obsession about education. At a time when only a handful of men in town had any higher educati[...]dren, girls, too, to have it. So we left, but I remember Scobey still; I remember the children we played with, the Pittenger girls and the Crum children; I remember the wide skies and the prairies, they are a part of me today. The memores may be hazy, but I have the conviction that it was a wonderful place in which to be born and to gr[...]by Joe Anderson I started working for the Occident Elevator Company in |
| [...]man". Ed Battleson did, and made a tour that led him as Ronald Audet and Patricia[...]d far west as Great Falls, Montana. He found a job in Mrs. in marriage on September 4, 1954 in S[...]. To our union were born long before he was a partner and then had his own store at three sons,[...]ana College in Billings and the girls attend a homestead, acquired more land, built a hardware store, Scobey elementary school.[...]end of a new branch line from Williston, North Dakota.[...]During this time Ed's oldest brother Ben, a "locator" was[...]ng Scobey country. He and his sister Isabel filed or[...]now "Battleson and Co." garage. After a year living in a[...]partner in the new venture. Young Art Hanson, a cousin of[...]4 1917 - a summer of dust and mud contingent on the whim[...]of the elements. We lived for a year in "Uncle Ed's house".[...]Gladys, came a year later.) I missed the trees and flowers of Ron and Patti have lived all their lives in Daniels Minnesota. A lonesome nine year old, my chief pleasure County[...]ho spent all of Ole and Cal, always good for a couple of nickels! And we their married lives here also. Ron and Patti are both would get ice cream cones from the Thomas Confectionery[...](now the Wolfe Insurance Agency). That summer had a sons. Highlights of our family were our Jaycee ye[...]the Man in the Moon ". lawn still brings a glow to my heart. Twenty-five years Patti also en[...]lar activities outside our home tend years. A few of the wilfflowers still bloom around the edg[...]DEN "OUTFIT or NEVER SAY NEVER by Mil[...]other of |
| [...]len, Cousin Art and my Dad. No electricity except a naked light Gayle and John. bulb in each room, no running water. We drank water from a barrel by the kitchen door. Mr. Beeks, the dray m[...]ce east-New York. Benches were never too hard or weather for our newly acquired ice box. How we lo[...]f the present cold chips as the iceman hacked off a chunk to fit the box. Vic Hillstrom residence. A capacity house always, with The sawdust gave it a special flavor. young and old alike. A season ticket for $2.50 was a real November 24, 1917 my youngest brother Clar[...]asn't any money for luxury, but It took the folks a year to decide on a name, th us the Mother considered a Chautauqua ticket to be a necessity. nickname "Babe" still sticks at times.[...]Because of her tutoring, Scobey people served on a destroyer and later was stationed at Butte,[...]s and Judith Clare. By 1920 Daddy had made or rather saved $5000--what a "Bill" and Myrtle are grandparents to five.[...]et there and Dad's brothers wanted him as a partner in a Sarazin of Nyssa, Oregon. ·T hey have four child[...]er identical twins Sue and Mae, Ernie Clare (also a doctor), and I said "Never again, and especially not Scobey". Ne[...]d Clare were golf In November, 1920, a telegram came from Ed Battleson, enthusiasts and[...]shrubs and bushes Store." In less than a year we were where we never wanted turned into tr[...]to be again. In the middle of the winter I had a horrible became a reality. Mother started a garden club and there is attack (one of many)[...]by Mother was "On the Square On The tree man, did a thriving business. Every bride got a free Corner". This place was home for 20 ye[...]Casper Brenden and I were married). Sundays were different; we went[...]The store was often open almost twenty-four hours a day. School and church. It was a plain spartan type of building The merchandi[...]ndly blue eyes and farmers stocked up twice a year. Scobey was then the long black preacher's coat came at least once a year. We largest primary wheat shipping center in the world--or at children loved him. How he could sing! He was a jolly saint least in the United States. Grain wagons made 100 to 150 and I thought he might look something like God. Mrs. Bi[...]les were wagons and camped on the way. I remember the folks three beloved teachers.[...] |
| [...]y of ice, cut from the Poplar River and in a mouse-infested rented house. We exterminated, st[...]basement of the store. Lula (Norman) Groseth and I 1929 Uncle Ben Haagenson sold out his share in the drank a whole case of pop, 24 bottles at one time. We wer[...]Williston, North Dakota. Mother 15 years old and I have never liked pop since, and never did and D[...]place and now owned by my brothers. Casper and I moved "Muddy" and Glen ran the Jones Cafe (now S[...]f the windows. The The city park was no longer a fenced-in potato patch. store building was of orange-crate construction. Many a Young trees, small lilac bushes, and bravely blo[...]hin kalsomine. Casper bushes were growing there. A white bandstand graced the remodeled, pain[...]wholesale. One day after work Casper asked a young and Methodist ladies. (Homemade freezer ice cream and a fellow, Carmon Bush, if he would like to help him paper our wedge of Mrs. Ed Lee'[...]the side" during early mornings, late worked for a while at Battleson Company and Peoples[...]se known as Peterson Battleson Haagenson a car or a real vacation. I worked in the store for almost Company. Ben Haag[...]ned the force my aunt. They raised Willis Brown, a nephew, and had a then. We had a beauty shop in the store operated by Olivia daug[...]cal school, internship, etc. Mother, Dad, Casper, I, years. Cliff Peterson (a cousin), and Myrtle Hanson, whom he Battleson[...]ly Woods, Ed Lee and Tom Shelby and Malta and was a silent partner in Erickstein Sloan farms.[...]es. we had a yen to go back to Main Street. We bought a lot Where was I all this time? Going to school, graduating where Dr. McDaniel had his old dental office, built a brick from Scobey High School in 1925, with one y[...]f Williston three Casper Brenden of Flaxville and I were married in years later. After[...]entinel and shocking our elders. Casper had built a Wheatland Tire, in the building. baker[...]ad graduated from Concordia College in Casper and I, started for California to seek 1949, married Rev. Russell Halaas, a Lutheran pastor. our forture. (We had a very few dollars, but we privately Their ho[...]get homesick for Montana. Curtis Bummer, a cybernetic engineer for Honeywell in Milton got a job with Bank of Italy (now Bank of[...]children, Kristi, Paul America). Nobody nee,d ed a baker and jobs were scarce. We and Philip. J[...]. The Company which held business. We lived there a year. No houses were available the record o[...]edding presents, agency in the United States. a second-hand cook stove and cupboard and called it our The year 197 4 witnessed a new building to replace the old "Blue Heaven". "M[...]Company building is rented to the state as a liquor store. entertainment came from a new Atwater Kent radio that Carol teaches voice and piano to a large number of was on far into the night.[...] |
| "Never again Main Street," I said. Here I am on the opposite end in the new apartment build[...]efore Casper's death in 1962. The old days form a foundation and basis for the building of the new.[...]ities and varied experiences to "carry the ball". I thank God I'm here to see and be a small part of it. Remembering the motto of my children's alma mater, Concordia College, I too repeat, "Soli Deo Gloria" (To God alone the G[...]SID BENNETT from a newspaper clipping Sid Bennett has been likene[...]l, England, on November 30, |
| [...]He is a Scout and has earned his Eagle Badge. In the[...]returned again in 1913 to take up a homestead south of the[...]Montana. He died there in April, 1957. Cyrus was a brother-[...]n-law of Gus Whipple of the Peerless area. He was a[...]Burley Bowler was born August 26, 1890 on a farm near[...]KCGM Radio in Scobey became a journeyman watch maker and jeweler, and[...]sed not many miles apart, but who never met until a chance occasion at Lang, Saskatchewan, at a Valentine[...]Their first child, a daughter, Gwendolyn, was born at[...]owned by P.A. Paulson who had bought it from Joe Dolan.[...]ntelope from John Grayson who had to foreclose on a[...]August 24, 1946 in Vancouver, A series of business house fires in Antelope and Washington. I am a native Nebraskan and Rex is from incr[...]ls County) prompted Joe Dolan to buy out Burley I began teaching in 1936 in rural schools in Nebraska. Bowler on the condition that he would come to work for him This fall , 1975, I will begin my eighth full term in Montana on th[...]later worked on the Producers News, and a crisis on an Ned, our second son, is a senior in Scobey High School. associ[...] |
| [...]Her love is like a candle----[...]Ah---I'm as rich as Croesus[...]much of a church-going fellow, was given a birthday party[...]forty-seven years as a member of the women 's aid society[...]for that church was recognized as being the Maude a~d Burley Bowler observe their Golden Wedding longest here. She was given a pin in commemoration. She Anniversary. 1911-1961 also has been a longtime member of the church board.[...]Christian Service, here join with her in a party, complete with birthday cake, following a fulsome birthday program. TRIBUTE TO MRS. BU[...]across the fence two years old, and a former home of the then defunct and s[...]) in the early 40's. An era She always has a cookie jar---- ended of lusty, no-holds barred newspapering that reached A kettle on for tea back to p[...]ver the years was active in Methodist A body ever ate--- Church w[...]d many times she's brought me some was a longtime member of the Eastern Star, and active in Upon a flowered plate. other[...] |
| [...]mmer has been getting in nine holes several times a and married Miss Maud Cryderman, also[...]was visiting a sister at Radville. Mr. and Mrs. Bowler lived[...]The deceased is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. except for the years 1950-52 when[...]oler's how it operates; something he learned when a graduate drug store in Flaxville. journeyman watchmaker as a late teen-ager in Port Altho he[...]Scobey printing and publishing business as a hobbyist in is the first one he had built since t[...]pportunity presented itself more fully. He became a 1974. Gwendolyn (Wells) passed away in 1972 in[...]short-lived Madoc Recorder. He also filled quite a Leader. Duane lives in Billings and is editor of[...]1919 to the late Joe Dolan, after a series of fires had[...]agreement he would help Joe at the Plentywood Pioneer[...]the Scobey Sentinel had undergone a number of ownership[...]manager on a temporary basis. The Sentinel then was[...]owned by the Farmers Publishing Company with a board[...]. L constitution and by-laws, later adopted. A brilliant to be Montana's first and only Pulitzer[...]In a bull session in a hotel room during that convention,[...]New York and after World War II he became a special Monday evening this week about five-thi[...]ices will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. A. C. Townley, earlier organizers of the Nonpartisa[...]had witnesed first hand. Born Aug. 26, 1890 on a farm near Dundalk, Ontario, In 1924, in a mutual disagreement over policy, he left the ther[...]d grade and graduated Sentinel and on a shoe string bought the two year old from high sch[...]nield County Leader. apprenticed and later bacame a journeyman watchmaker It marked se[...], all Plentywood, Charles "Red Flag" Taylor, a fascinating of whom preceded him in death, except[...]personality, was using the Producers News like a Alberta. whiplash. He also established a liaison between there and[...] |
| [...]forward to weekly by the general public, but with I've been in worse spots than this before in my lif[...]those who were the targets. think I planned to be a hundred and fifty years old?" In 1926, a combination of political thugs came up from[...]nning to destroy itself, altho it lingered on for a few Charles Francis Bradford Senior was bo[...]er 9, more years, as the Roaring Twenties drew to a close. 1910 at Stewartville, Minnesot[...]and of all the efforts both sincere and worked as a young man. insincere, it was in the sobering '30s[...]g these years also that Mr. Bowler became work as a motor boat operator on the Fort Peck Dam until kn[...]Debs in earlier years. , During more than half a century of newspapering he had occasion to meet a[...]f both parties at all levels. Burley Bowler was a member of the National Press Club at Washington,[...]rs on the staff of the late Senator Ecton. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention at[...]roduce the main speaker, with whom he had visited a great deal at the 1948 GOP convention, and whom,[...]n Scobey, president of Lions Club of which he was a charter member, and in 1951 was special fund driv[...]helped organize the Scobey Golf Club in 1927, was a Dorothy Catherine Magdalene Bachmann, June charter member, played a tough game on the course and at 6, 19[...]ed the course in even par, no birdies, no bogies, a record that still stands. In 1953 he spent the en[...]work on the dam site where he was a motor boat operator. His "Publisher's Column,"[...]ved to Four Buttes where Charlie worked for the A man of many faults and certain virtues and[...] |
| [...]a son of Ole and Malina Oyness Brekke. The[...]was three. He attended a rural country school south of Blaisdell, a year of high school in Blaisdell, and graduated[...]sales work. On January 1, 1949 he became a stockholder in[...]Clarice Brekke was born in the Navajo community, a[...]eighteenth Moving to Scobey in 1949 they built a home in the Oie birthday, she began teac[...]d Norman set up after visiting him, was killed in a one-vehicle accident in housekeeping in the[...]e on On April 25, 1965 Charlie lost his life in a house fire in the corner of Second Street and[...]rs. Boy Scouting has taken much of their time. As a Linda is living in Scobey also, and is married[...]U.S. Army for three For Clarice being a Den Mother for five years was much years, one of them in Germany. He is residing in Richland fun and a r~warding experience. She has been in Girl where[...]A former Jaycee, Norman h as b een 1n . L.10n[...]n the Ford Dealer Council. Scobey in 1917. He was a master plasterer and found a lot After all the children started schoo[...]sy at his trade in the new towns on work as a teacher's aide in 1967. This reawakened her the northeastern Montana prairies. He was a craftsman of interest in teaching and she was a substitute Junior High the old school (learning his trade in Sweden) and his vork English teacher for a semester. She taught remedial met the highest sta[...]ays made his headquarters Havre, receiving a degree in Elementary Education in in Scobey and s[...]in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from From a newspaper clipping Pacific Lutheran[...] |
| [...]ted the same year.) She is currently men, or waiting hours in depots, I finally arrived in Scobey, employed in an Int[...]necticut. I was met by a group of teachers who came from many Richard a 1970 Scobey grad, earned a Bachelor of Arts in states; Mississippi, Wis[...]University of Montana, Dakota and others I don't remember. Our superintendent and has pa[...]ive Nelson and after our introductions she said, "I'm 1 examination. He is a student at the University of Montana sorry[...]Robert graduated from Scobey High in 1973. He was a We all decided to stay and do what w[...]y of Montana in where there was death or where whole families were Missoula.[...]high school Her interests center them. We made a pact- in case any one of us became ill, on mu[...]. we would care for each other. Strange as it may seem, not[...]received a letter from the Scobey School Board enclosing a month's salary and a notice of appreciation because we[...]loons were In was in the fall of 1918 that I, Fay Richardson, arrived doing a good business and we never walked on that side of in Scobey to teach the third grade. Scobey was five or Main Street. We were thrilled every time we saw a real, live six years old at that time. I had been teaching in South cowboy. There was a friendliness that was contagious and Dakota,[...]men for they were at war. I had never heard of Scobey but received a notice of a I remember well November 11th, when the word reached vacancy in the school there through a teacher's agency. Scobey the Armistice ha[...]e Scobey offered the highest salary of any notice I had superintendent, Olive Nelson, came to my[...]d received and was "Way out west in Montana", I applied me the good news. With tears streaming down my face, I and was offered a contract. tol[...]as over. The school children Fae Wickwire, a member of the school board, told me that gathered boxes and what they could find to build a big bon- when they read one of my qualifications stating I had fire in the middle of the street and snake danced around it taken a course in Human Behavior, they said immediately[...]It was a long time from N ovem her 11th until the boys[...]t wasn't on his roommate Ruth Ellsworth and I were eating our noon maps, but he started me[...]cally welcomed home. They called the soldiers would you please send me a card and tell me how I should Fred Brunet and Ferd Wienicke. A few weeks later we met have routed you?" Afte[...]of riding freight trains, the soldier boys at a dance in the Eastern Star Hall. Fred mixed tr[...]One early spring day Ruth and I decided to take a walk to Left to right: Barr_y, Fay, Fred and[...]Kuster was a marvelous cook and several of the fellows[...]were Oscar Fryslie, D.A. Bostick, Fred Brunet, Bobby[...]breaking in the river, Ruth pointed to a large cake some[...]tance away; "Doesn't that look like the figure of a man?" she said. We observed it for a few minutes as the ice[...]a man. "We'll hurry back for dinner and tell the fe[...]horities at once. They found it to be the body of a[...]I taught the third grade two years as Miss Richards[...]and the third year I taught it as Mrs. Brunet, for Fred and I[...]County had been a part of Sheridan County and was in the[...] |
| Fred went to get a marriage license from Mr. Shippam, no blanks had[...]and drew up the first license for Daniels County. I still have the clipping from the Scobey Citizen[...]s born in 1921. When he was about three years old I was asked to teach the second grade, when a teacher resigned just two weeks before school was to open. We were fortunate in getting Edna Due, a neighbor girl , to care for Bob during the day while I finished my fourth year of teaching in Scobey. Later I did substitute teaching. Our second son , Barrie,[...]1925. When our boys were of kindergarten age, I started the first private kindergarten which I continued for several years and also did private[...]re he makes use of his music by playing the organ or piano for church, weddings, supper clubs and danc[...]rt for Monmouth County. He and his wife Tove have a daughter. Barrie was graduated from University of[...]les. They have twin sons, Dennis and Douglas, and a son Craig all in college. During the years we[...]ir hand at farming 25 years, and longer for Fred. A position with the U.S.[...]I remember when my mother came home with Gordon, he[...]cried so much she said "Some day I'm going to throw him to Seattle to work as a Cost Accountant for the U.S. Air out." I said, "If you do I'll pick him up, make him a bed in Force at the Boeing Company where he remai[...]23 By Mrs. A.L. Brunet[...]e given pretty pink juice to drink afterwards and I had PATRICK BURKE[...]hicken soup. At night everyone was sent home, but I had to stay in the hospital overnight. I was very unhappy. My dad, Patrick Burke, was born in Scranton, I often think about the fights Gladys got into and how Pennsylvania on April 7, 1885. He was one of 13 children. A Lloyd always bailed her out. She had fiery[...]f anyone over during the famine in Ireland. After a stay in called her carrot top, the[...]was one of write home for money, he hopped a freight near Great seven children. Her family left Illinois and settled for a Falls. It derailed and he was decapitated.[...]dren were Edward, Lloyd, where he worked as a supervisor at the sugar refinery. and Gertrude.[...]After graduating in 1933 I applied for work at the court In August of 1914 they left Wibaux by covered wagon for house. I got the job but they asked for Gladys and[...] |
| Our dad was also working there. Lloyd worked only a few first and only time anyone had ever seen Eddie Burton in a months when a cable broke loose. The hook hit him on the fight. back of the head, ca using a brain concussion. He died two days later at the D[...]dad moved back to Sidney where he met and married a widow with three children. In the late 1940's he[...]& there until he had a massive heart attack, was taken to[...]emigrated to Canada in June, 1911. Jeanne (as I have many things to be thankful for, for the best[...]es in December, 1912 to meet Fred who had secured a al ways someone worse off. I am thankful for a wonderful job in Canada. Upon arrival she[...]nly 25¢ in his pocket. They were and Gordon whom I see often. mar[...]another baby. Good word came that a job was waiting in[...]urant with its famed horseshoe counter. Eddie, a talented musician of the 20's, could play anything. In a dance hall once at Havre he was featured as a star trombonist- and he delivered the goods, even[...]te. This was dispelled one evening, however, when a gravel-crew tough walked into a Scobey restaurant and challenged everyone, including a number of "fighting men". None answered his[...]still and Else in 1941. unopposed, he hit a friend of Eddie's, knocking him down. Eddie let out a whoop and waded into the gravel-crew bruiser. Less than a minute later the tough was bleeding,[...] |
| [...]ections for worthy causes--he just seemed to have a way transferred to Boston University. She received a degree of painlessly getting contributions from t[...]work in the Graduate School of Social Work for a year. She appreciation for the finer things in li[...]red by returned to Scobey to marry Charles A. Dapiels on June 2, most who knew him. Although not noted as a church-goer 1943. Charles was born in S[...]ter was also the story that he in some way became a candidate for Armament Officer in the Air[...]ly candidate who has Else worked for a while as medical social worker at New ever active[...]niversity affectionately for her knitting, having a big start with the in the fall of 1946, graduating in 1947 with a degree in Red Cross knitting for which she furnis[...]iness, forming his own Daniel's Agency. including a number of trips back to her native Holland,[...]he agency for about 20 trips to Africa , and even a round-the-world trip in 1970. She years until t[...]Wolfe as the loves the United States and has seen a great portion of it. Wolfe Daniels Agency. B[...]llege in Havre, majoring in education. She became a part of the country school system-- teaching at t[...]rned to Missoula for Bob to finish his schooling. A daughter, Virginia, wa~ born there. Then they made a number of moves as Bob followed the wildlife prof[...]married. Wietsk P (Vee to all her friends) was a graduate in the Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daniels, Bill and Jean - 1966 1935 class and proceeded to a degree in Home Economics in 1939 at Montana State University in Bozeman. After teaching in Townsend for a couple years, she accepted a position as Home Demonstration Agent in Hill Coun[...]a". Burlington Northern Railroad. Their son Fred, a Charles served as commander of b[...]th his wife the American Legion, worked as a Boy's State chairman at Mercer Island, Washington[...]sman's Club, and as Secretary of Ardis (Pinky) is a school teacher in Concord, California.[...] |
| [...]Wadena and to southern Minnesota. University and a commission, and then into the Air Force Sev[...]were born: Charles, Mary (died in where he became a pilot instructor and has just recently infanc[...]e three sons, after finishing high her diploma as a beautician. She has been employed in the schoo[...]AND CORA CASE Ray, a commercial artist in Minneapolis , was married in[...]Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and a member of the Episcopal Church. Cora died in 1926[...]Both Paul and I were born and raised in Daniels County-[...]for the remainder of his schooling. I attended all twelve[...]a in the early 1870's. worked as a welder for Eaton Metals and became an The part[...]with Paul's brother Le Verne as a two year partner. In 1961 Charles M. Cassidy was born to Michael Cassidy and Paul and I purchased land in Coronach, Saskatchewan Mary McC[...]d in to the army from Livingston during World War I. In 1972 we added another member to o[...] |
| and is now employed with a cable laying crew in the Scobey Carl for a time was in partnership with Clarence Penn in are[...].C. Nelson who sold it to Roundup, Montana and as a family project built a new box Solberg and Melena in 1943. The li[...]by Lois Chabot daughters. They lived for a time in Rolla, North Dakota but[...]Christine along with their three spent a number of years in Newtown and Garrison, North ch[...]m Sweden Dakota. Walter died in 1955. to a small dairy and garden farm which they owned and[...]assumed the name lived west of Scobey on a farm. Their son Dale lived on this of Chelgren when they became citizens a few years later. place until 1971. Esther[...]r was Division in France during World War I. He also served one born in 1893.[...]levator in addition they established and operated a livery barn in Scobey and Four Buttes. He[...]by the newly elected Sheriff, Arthur Nelson, a position he was too young to file a homestead he pursuaded an older which he hel[...]publican Central Committee from 1948-1950 and was a[...]and has been a football coach and teacher since 1954. He[...]have a daughter and three sons.[...] |
| [...]uch in the United States. However husband, Robert A. Scott, have a son and seven daughters, her services were[...]eight children. Twi::i sons died at birth.[...]d in Crookston, Minnesota in arrived in a Model T Ford and lived in the Chapman house. 1915[...]e was in Sentinal Butte, North It was a small white house west of the home Mark built for[...]er Yard for area. Mark was drafted, but World War I ended before he many years. He served as[...]s at the Aasmus home which served as a hospital in Scobey. Dr. Crookston Normal School.[...]In 1935 Mark and Forest Ford decided to open a Ford Fadness would promise to build a school house there, and agency: They moved[...]Chalmers agency where he from Norway when he was a boy. His father was a remained until his retirement. The family lived in Grand minister, and his mother a doctor in Norway. She was not Forks, North[...]Dakota where they bought a new home. Anna's mother 50th Anniversary, June 30[...]Mark did not care for retirement and worked at a lumber[...]Stanley P. V oak, a mechanical engineer. They lived in[...]World War II. He was a Lieutenant Colonel. They have two[...]a brain hemorrhage when their youngest son was in t[...]hird grade. Ben later married Beverly Manternach, a[...] |
| [...]contributed Mr. Clifford, a longtime lawyer and real estate agent, |
| [...]- wear business in British Columbia. Lawrence was a captain in Wor1d War II, then Superintendent of S[...]l came from Ireland when he was 19 and Minnie was a pioneer from Indiana. By Claribel ([...]k, then came to North l.Jc1kota where he operated a drug store at Eckman. Thl re he married Mattie Li[...]d more new lives into this world and graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He came to than any[...]Northern and he also became a director in the Citizen's THE DR. T.W. C[...]h pharmacists and grew up in Durham, Ontario, was a good student and was a chiropractors. Joe died in 1943 and Alick in 1961. much better than average lacrosse player - a game which He became an active member of th[...]ate Bank glamor of professional sports which came a couple of in 1935 and remained so until his death[...]West Clinic Hospital. Over the year he delivered a major portion beckoned ,and so he moved to Max Ba[...]ng that period he met and married Miss Lily Dale, a Dr. T. W. Collinson school teacher[...]was born there. Dr. took post graduate work from a New York School of Optometry and received his dip[...]rail line in 1913, Doc and his brother Alick got a business lot in Scobey an~ by 1914 had established the Scobey Drug Company as a going concern - (still in business under that nam[...]the Collinson family moved to Scobey to establish a practice which was to last until Dr. Colli nson's death in 1957. Dr. Collinson passed the state board as a pharmacist in 1917. By 1921 Scobey had bec[...] |
| [...]ional services and he conducted his profession on a Scobey. She passed away January 12, 1968. Son[...].C. Leader work though slower and with the aid of a cane. The last five ALICK COLLINSON was a resident of Scobey from years of his life he was[...]. He married Martha Hf)ath in 1135. He was Idaho, a former Scobeyite who happened to be visiting here[...]during the dam boom and for all of his youth was a patient of Dr. Collinson. days and later on[...]and a daughter, Jane.[...]o employ the use of an airplane--one of which was a Ryan[...]He is survived by his widow Gertrude and a daughter[...]from a newspaper clipping[...]the early years when he first came to Scobey. A native of Lilly Dale Collins[...]received his training as a baker at Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. -A fter being discharged from the service he[...]also born in Ontario, Canada, locations as a cook and baker. While employed in Marshall, later[...]out to the Burton Cafe. she was appointed to take a school census. She hired a livery rig to take her to the v~rious ;homesteads[...]There, coiled above the door sunning itself, was a large Wakeland, Glen Chenoweth, unknown, Gloria J[...]ble Buer and Peggy Noble. homesteaders. She was a member of a girl's basketball team at Michigan University and was also a drama student. When she taught in Culbertson she[...]anized all-high school dramatic productions twice a year and in between also found time to file on a homestead. After her marriage she sold her homest[...]ested it in the new drug store in Scobey. She was a very active mem her of the Order of the Eastern Star - she received a 50-year pin and was honored by the local chapter[...]first prominent singing role before the public at a PTA program.[...] |
| [...]n 1943 he married 25¢ and 35¢. Good steaks were a specialty of the house Catherine Miller.[...]nd lived there the rest of his life. He worked as a mechanic and food supplies, the Crawford's sold t[...]es and moved to Billings where he was employed as a by Catherine Darchuk meat cutter and later a cook until his retirement. Lucille and her two so[...]feeding in Missouri and immediately found a job with the Topmost in the memories of the famil[...]ll, Ross Daniels and In 1914 he chose a homestead three and a half miles other early residents of Daniels Count[...]land which later belonged to Earl family has been a way from Scobey for more than 30 years, Norman. He also helped locate homesteaders. After they still think of Scobey as their "hometown" and have leaving the newspaper he worked as a clerk at the Tallman many fond memories of the cafe, the school and the many Hotel for a while. In 1914 he began to work at the Ford celeb[...]with Co. A, 362nd Inf., 91st Division. He lost the sight of[...]right eye in France in an accidental explosion of a PETER DARCHUK grenade in the hand of a soldier standing next to him. His[...]962 he became Peter Darchuk was born in 1912 on a farm north of blind. Scobey, son of Ge[...]Darchuk. His parents came In 1914 he was a member of Scobey's first baseball team to Montana[...]ing coyotes with stag hounds, which he carried in a (deceased), Peter (deceased), John (deceased), He[...]special box in the back of his Model T Ford, was a favorite[...] |
| [...]rly days. During the 20's he and his companions would take as many as 80 coyotes during a season. In 1930 he was hired by the government as a killer of coyotes and predatory animals. During the middle 30's he worked as a saleman in Kansas for three years but returned to Scobey. In 1952 he began to work as a nursery salesman for a company from North Dakota and sold many shrubs a[...]trees at the hospital grounds. Irving died at a Veteran's rest home in Fargo, North Dakota in Ja[...]e town, Sweet Springs, Missouri called me Jumbo - I weighed ten pounds when I was born', and grew fast, and was fat. My mother[...]eller. "Mother, who lived to be ninety-one and a half remembered the Civil War Battle of Lexington. Her folk; had a horse that was taken by the soldiers at the begin[...]n Great Falls. Their children are: when they saw a horse coming down the road. M[...]y. It went right to the band and stood there. "I loved baseball and horse-racing, but had some of the best times in Montana hunting coyotes with dogs. I had a Model T Ford with a box on back with a door that was released by a rope from the front seat. I had ·three, sometimes four, stag hounds, and car[...]om the dogs before the fur was torn, and the year I worked for the government we had to hold an autopsy on each coyote and report what it had been ea ting. "A coyote is a smart animal. It will seldom do the same thing twice. After we killed one or two the others recognized the car and would hide. "We could see a coyote a mile a way go over a hill and hide and listen for the car. The dogs, wise to this, were released and we would drive the car on to one side to throw the coyote off guard. One hound, Sam, was a tall and slender dog. If the mud and snow was deep he could outrun a coyote and get his teeth into a leg and throw it. Other dogs would be there by then to take care of the coyote." RAYMOND DEMING[...]LIES |
| [...]d to Bakersfield, California where he established a business with his partner, Rudy Leer (who also lived in Scobey). They had one son, Otto, Jr. and they raised a niece, Mae. Both the children received most of th[...]ft here in 1932. Mrs. Egland died first, and Otto a few years later, in 1963. The son was continuing[...]th J.R. Leer at the time of his father's death. A news item, from a 1927 paper reads: "O.B. Egland, Scobey lumberman,[...]nd Glentana, adding to his extensive interests as a lumber dealer in N.E. Montana which now includes[...]n of Norwegian homesteaders. The family moved to a farm at Volga, South Dakota. When an older brother came home from serving in the army Melfred went to a barber school in Montivideo, Minnesota where he s[...]. Mel/red Eide Solberg's folks. In 1923 he drove a truck for Solberg's to their ranch near Opheim an[...]Ralph Hively. The railroads were being built and a great deal of grain was grown and Loraine a[...]o Kildeer and things looked good; O.B. Egland had a lumber yard in Scobey and one in Rockglen along t[...]ith bath, water works and lights, and later added a room for a billiard table. He was an avid baseball fan and played on town teams or as an umpire when he was too tired to play the game. Rockglen was a town of young people and haircuts were 50¢ and a shave 25¢. The shop was open until all had been[...]o there were many long hours. He met and married a young school teacher, Marion M. Bowden, who was teaching in the Bordervale school. I was born in Alameda, Saskatchewan in 1906 to English homesteaders. My older sister and I drove five miles with horse and buggy to grade sc[...]to Kootenay, British Columbia for fruit growing. I went back to Saskatchewan to attend college in Moosejaw and Regina where I received my teaching certificate. I had heard that the railroads were opening new school opportunities south of the border so I applied for a position in the Bordervale school and was hired.[...]n in Heagg's station wagon, straddling the rails. I stayed there until the McKee boys came to town with a sleigh for me and supplies for all the community, plus stove pipes for a one-room school and an addition for me. I taught all eight grades and was there for two terms. With a lumber yard and elevators starting, there were many young people. Melfred and I were married in 1928 at Assiniboi&. We[...] |
| rented a two-bedroom house in Rockglen where Loraine[...]t on the dear familiar ground of her back With a barber shop opening at the new Gorham Hotel in yard flower garden. Here she achieved a seasonal array of Scobey we moved back to the Uni[...]elfred worked with P.E. (Blondie) Teigen, renting a home surely from indifferent clods. for se[...]Pines and band members to They raised a nephew Clare Erickson to manhood only festivals i[...]s and built better roads. Erickson was a member of the Degree of Honor, the All There were[...]after a short illness of a heart attack in 1952. Mr. Erickson Melfred took a Watkins Route for outdoor work during p[...]Mrs. Harriet Erickson was outstanding as a business Treasurer in 1946. He was active in church, city and lodge woman and any worthy civic or benevolent enterprise activities. In 1950 when Ge[...]fice until his death on March 28, 1955. He served a total of20 years in the Daniels County Courthouse[...]de American Legion Citizenship Award. When he was a junior he attended the first Montana Boys State i[...]ame into Mrs. Erickson's hands in 1943. She was a versatile lady who kept her mind open and[...] |
| A Tribute to J. Harriet Erickson da[...]h Falls, has one daughter; and Kelly, a star softball and And rear its blue spikes[...]Newtown; Daryl, Williston; and Tara, a fourth grader, Will bloom for her, as they[...]and A.Repair Shop in Scobey and .operated it UJ:}til hi[...]Kerry Halverson, has one child; and Gordon, a student, The children of John and Birdie Ethier a[...]s in the Opheim school system. They have two a son of Andrew and Ragnhild Faanes. He rece[...] |
| [...]school. The school bus in the early years was a covered wagon or sleigh, horse-drawn with a coal-burning stove in[...]in crossing a swollen creek, the bus tipped, spilling the[...]dents and the burning coals from the stove all in a heap,[...]feet of those "good old days". After graduating, I[...]Larry and I were married in 1939. In 1945, with our son[...]le waiting departure, two things happened; he had a[...]nd Carl. Larry and I have two sons, Gerald, born in 1942,[...]in the army, going from Fort Knox, Kentucky to a base in education in Minnesota, having attended b[...]tudies in Scobey. He married the former were born a daughter; Verlaine, and two sons, Len and Kim Hanson, also a native of Scobey. She is employed at Lonnie.[...]hter and sons. He was of the Lutheran faith and a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge.[...]MING contributed by Claire A. Hillstrom[...]g to this the sale of ice cream which she made in a[...]y and Bakery, in which J.B. and Mrs. Larry and I are natives of Daniels County. Larry was F[...]on the farm north of Madoc. He Mae, became a money-maker. It attracted the attention of attended a country school for a short time, then for several M.L. Hoff (he work[...]miles distant. concern in 1925 and sold it a short time later to Reiner's. They rode two on ea[...]unty Sportsmen's Club, now disbanded. He has been a member of the Scobey Fire Department since[...]lie Johnson, founder and namesake of the house as a deputy for John Smith in the Assessor's office, present dray line in Scobey had a Model T truck that-he also in the Treasurer's office for Wyvil BjerJrn and Howard wanted fitted ~th a longer than the standard size box. He[...] |
| [...]was two years old. He received a.JI his public school[...]armed forces and was a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne[...]sergeant in a rifle company. He received his honorable[...]practice. He is a member of the State Bar of Montana,[...]Scobey for a number of years. He is a past Commander of[...]eral Charles S. Warren, of Butte mining fame, and a[...]out here from Minneapolis. He stayed to a Girl Scout camp located next to the river on the old Tande marry, raise a family and become foreman. pl[...]s parents to The couple are the parents of a son, Jordan A. (Chip), Jr. America. They settled south of Minneapolis. in Wabasha, a graduate of Montana State University, Bozeman, where he grew to manhood. He was a veteran of the first Montana, an avid flyer[...]erican in farming in Daniels County; and a daughter, Jane Ann, a Legion. He came to Scobey in 1925 to work as a mechanic language major at Whitman College,[...]urope. Selma Anderson and to this couple was born a son, Vernon. The Foslands reside in Scobey. A replica of an old Civil There was also a stepson, Gerald Anderson, and a War cannon, mounted on old wagon wheel[...]ings who peacefully on their front lawn. were a part of the Fonk family here. Adolph Fonk was l[...]FRANK-WALKER FAMILIES MR. AND MRS. JORDAN A. FOSLAND[...]urthouse. He shared the office space with Charles A. Ontario in 1880. When he was a young boy, he left home |
| [...],· would buy half a beef at·a time.[...]meat was sold as a novelty. Hamburger and stew meat 75 cents a pound, roasts $1 per pound and steaks $1.50 per[...]ed with her children to Fortuna, North Dakota for a short time and then to Outlook, Montana in[...]s born in Omemee, North 1913. There she worked as a saleslady in the Nelson Dakota. She ca[...]years they rented homes in Scobey and later built a Nurses Training School in Minot, North Dakota.[...]arry Bummer. She died graduation she was a registered nurse in the Plentywood, at her home i[...]ontana, Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California I will always remember the many kind things done by[...]McDermott in 1936 and they the Franks. Mrs. Frank would often go to the store on have a son, Robert. They now live in Sacramento. I will Saturday evening and fix boxes of fresh fruits, vegetables always think of Vivian as "that red-headed nurse with a and a chicken or roast and candy for the children and have smi[...]They moved to their home, they never left without a cup of tea. Scobey that year[...] |
| [...]I owned by his step-father. Joe loved baseball and[...]former Levon Ah tone of Billings, also a teacher. They have baseball team of 1925. He also played several seasons with a boy and a girl. Canadian teams. He was a quiet man but had a great sense Clive graduated from Scobey[...]nd Greenland working in communications. He is now a known by her friends as "Maggie" worked in the Th[...]rmer Donna Sramek of Palm Bay, Florida. They have a Scobey Drug Store for many years. It was a rare day when boy and a girl. you did not find Maggie in the store. She d[...]nd two years at Helena, graduating in 1968. He is a junior Raymond Vernon Walker, or "Irish" as he preferred to be high teacher[...]llon Normal School and the University of Montana. I Northern Montana College at Havre for t[...]ried at Rugby, North the army and spent a year in combat in Vietnam. He now Dakota in 1929. We have a daughter, Patricia, now Mrs. works at Bu[...]ce graduated from Scobey High School, went one as a meat cutter for his stepfather. He quit teaching[...]s over is employed as fireman. They have a boy and a girl. the years, and in 1963 was president of the[...]ried to Jim Donahue of Scottsburg, Indiana. He is a n Local history was one of his many interests a[...]accountant with the American Can Company. They h a ve an active part in contributing pictures and in[...]k. He was keenly devoted to his Rozlyn is a graduate of Scobey High School and is community and a great booster of Scobey. He used to say, e[...]troop and John, born 1956, died in a car accident in 1970. under his direction thirtee[...]came Eagle Kevin, still at home, is a senior in high school. Scouts. He was past president of the Great Plains Area Boy Melissa is a freshman at home. Scout Council, and in 1947 he w[...]shed Service to Boyhood. He school. was a charter member of the Scobey Lions Club and activ[...]spent the best days of our Ii ves on the A colorful character of the old west was Gene Froma[...]He had come to this area from England and he took a faTIU[...]had to use a high wheeled drill, so tne horse would follow ALVIDA AND GERTRUDE FRENCH[...]ity home in the back of his wagon with a horse tied behind that were married in October 19[...]ne philosophically said, "It didn't do working as a mechanic for Vic Hillstrom Motors; taking[...]and fall to farm his land. He later went For a time after moving to town Gene slept in an old to[...]car near the railroad tracks in town and later in a works. In 1940 they bought one of the oldest hous[...]dogs. He loved to hunt rabbits with the Scobey - a house which was once an old people's home, a dogs and since he couldn't see he took friends along to see hospital, and a day nursery. how they were doing. During the next 20 years they had a family of four girls He often remar[...] |
| [...]Later when berated about it they said, "Yes, but I couldn't even beat him then." After Gene moved[...]-of- doors. When he allowed himself the luxury of a shack to live in he shared it with his dogs, and[...]er and movie actress Jane Froman. Gene died as a result of an accident, having fallen on the concr[...]m Havre, Montana where he had homesteaded and run a grocery store and post office. After seven years[...]s County looked green and prosperous. They rented a farm north of Scobey which is[...]continued to run the business as a family. In 1956 they sold[...]take over. fast growing f'amily. So he worked as a clerk for $100.00 a month. He \\ ould take time out each spring and f[...]ore. In 1938 the building was sold, and he rented a small store. That Harry Gibbs w[...] |
| [...]summer of 1912 and purchased a pool hall, with rooms[...]s. John left Minnesota at his doctor's advice, to a[...]out and bought a farm north of Scobey. With the drouth, Harry[...]osition until the early thirties |
| [...]Gorham was obliged to sleep in a granary for lack of hotel[...]commodations. This prompted his decision to build a Harold (Frenchy) Girard was born February 28,[...]axville to Gus and Mary Girard, the fourth son in a opened its doors on December 29, 1929. T[...]ood in Madoc rooms, an excellent restaurant, a confectionery shop and and attended school there,[...]barber and beauty shops, and was equipped t.o do a rushing Scobey where he finished high school. Aft[...]rs in the Marine Corps and then returned to a walk, then a stand-still. "P.R." terminated his Scobey to help[...]ne of 1958 and their that time. He became a stockholder in the Citizen's State family consist[...]which was quite a fortune in those days, but he did succeed[...]engaged in a hotly contested race for mayor of Scobey with[...]out and she came from Velva, North Dakota to take a lawsuits. Long on pets, at various[...]e months of the year she spent 1945 to manage a taxi company he had purchased. in Velva, North Da[...]ownership of the cab company from Mt. Ayr, Iowa. A few years previous he had proved up when P.R. retired. Pat married Bud Hill and they operated a homestead in South Dakota. His parents had left I[...]950 when they moved to Great Falls. Henry take up a homestead near Vida, Montana south of the[...]urchased the Gorham about 1953 Missouri River and a brother, Harry, had taken a job and operated it until 1973, when it was purchased by the working in a general store in Poplar, Montana. It was[...]ham died in Billings in 1965 at the age of needed a clerk in their store at Scobey. He rode from Popl[...]gton in 1967. Bud is three teams of horses, using a jerk-line. in Billings and Pat, widowed in 1965, works for a Billings The ride was not without hazard. In crossing a frozen travel agency. · stream the l[...]inued birthday, regardless of his age, he would receive telegrams with their jobs at the new town[...]e of whom lives Jackson, Seattle), two grandsons, a granddaughter, and in Scobey - Mrs. James[...]iting. They farmed for Mr. Gratton was also a Scobey businessman for some time, a number of years south of Scobey until 1942[...] |
| [...]the Gallantry Cross with Palm, and was a holder of the[...]serving as a Green Beret and had received his diplom a as[...]Ralph was raised in a family of five brothers and one[...]sister in Williston, where his father was a merchant and[...]d Jr., Reid, Edith, Muriel. Seated: established a store in Scob.ey (at the present location) and La[...]h Dakota American Legion Post 56, and as a student of government in 1947 and moved to Opheim[...]the store. There were no Month Award and is also a member of the Veterans children.[...]r 23 years. time of his passing; he was a longtime precinct He received the Silver Beaver A[...]ive in Legion baseball and Babe Ruth baseball for a number of years. He also has been active in independent basketball as a player and coach and has supported the Scobey Invitational Christmas basketball tournament by having a team in this tourney. Reid and Edith had four c[...]who lost his life in Vietnam in December 1968 had a daughter, Wendi Jo. Reid Jr. was inducte[...] |
| [...]One Sunday afternoon a gentleman from Canada was in[...]he wanted a pair of shoes - a certain kind, no other. Ralph[...]came down and opened the store. "I want a french toe, size 7-A, in maroon," the man requested. "We'll take a look,"[...]if he had a pair like that in black, too. He got them.[...]someone should ask a clerk in the store for an item and be[...]A crony of Mr. Greengard's salad days, the late Jac[...]crowded store: "We'll have to rip-rap the aisles, or[...]Mr. Greengard had a great variety of interests, and he kept[...]recognition and he was slated to be a Montana delegate to[...]uaintances and the Greengard hospitality was kept a growing list of bird varieties he observed in the[...]s who had opportunity to baths and bird house, in a setting which attracted many enjoy it. He was a gourmet of food and drink. A favorite varieties of feathered friends. phrase o[...]poor enough." Every day was a full and interesting one for Ralph His personal filing system was a mystery of ordered Greengard. His garden was alwa[...]ard was active in Eastern Star, where she sought, or information needed on almost any subject, served as the pianist for many years; was a member of the particularly in regard to the Scobe[...]up with and musical events. valuable information or evidence. "See Ralph" was a Following the passing of Ralph the[...]bothered to seek him out out and sold; and after a few years Mrs. Greengard sold her in his little crow's nest in the back of the store, or at home. home in Scobey and moved to Los Angeles[...]STORE The Greengard store in Scobey always had a reputation PAUL AND MYRNA GR[...]Written by Paul Gribble a few days |
| [...]College of Great Falls for three years and was a teacher one year before her , marriage. She has a two and a half year old daughter and resides at Jordan, M[...]In recent years Mrs. Gribble was employed for a while at Ware's Style Shop, the State Liquor St[...]1970. George survived him by a few months, August, 1972.[...]family Minnesota and came to Montana in 1900 as a railroader. are a brother Harry and sister Alice of Great Falls,[...], Street. California. Pete operated a n auto garage fro m 1917 to 1927. It is now the[...]Chief of Police for ten years and then operated a tavern for another twelve years. He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Williston, and[...]Catholic Church. He died at the age of 69 of a stroke on April 28, 1949. Ernest L. Halvor[...]Scobey Scobey where Ernie worked for a time at Smith's Conoco, community for a few years. Following the death of his t[...]ded the carpentry field. In 1958 he formed a partnership with here until his death.[...]and in the Triangle area out of Fort in a lumber yard accident, and is currently disa bled.[...]with his Gina , and Kirby. Glen is a medical student at University of[...] |
| [...]was no use looking anywhere in eastern Montana or[...]a town that was just being built while homesteaders[...]sponsibilities when the founder Oregon. They have a daughter, Kristin. moved[...]an University, Tacoma, filled 30's-a nine-year drought, and the years of World Washington. Kirby, a junior high school student, is at War II[...]on married the former Janet Erickson of Peerless, a graduate nurse from Trinity Hospital in Minot. Eldon went to Jordan, Mon tan a to teach. He spent some time in the army and is n[...]spending considerable time in army hospitals with a service-connected disability he now lives in Havr[...]from him , and later bought the building. In 1968 a fire part ially destroyed the building with a great deal of damage being done by fire and water. Since its remodeling it is no w a n apartment building. Jean ha s been active in[...]by Jean Halverson A.R. Hanson and his son, Gordon[...]d especially the 50 golden years In 1917 it was a well-known fact around Scobey that if in Scobey where, as he puts it, "he came up from a flunky to one couldn 't find what he wante[...] |
| part-time in California and at a summer place near Glacier In 1944 I was shipped overseas with my Inf. Div., and Natio[...]north in Italy. On October 14th I was hit by artillery The long-time dealer has h[...]d Buick in amputate my leg beneath the knee. I was shipped home on his half-century in Scobey. M[...]Oakland and Pontiac, Oldsmobile and even I returned to Scobey and went back to work for Batt[...]membered. & Co. until 1950. I became County Treasurer in 1950 and His years i[...]sition until 1954, and have been County business. A.R. Hanson was active in the Commercial Club,[...]ral years, chairman of Romaine Kittock and I were married in 194 7. She was the the Daniels Me[...]Committee. Melvin Holter. We have a daughter, Connie, now Mrs. He married Mable Gra[...]ordon Myron Anderson of Peerless and a son, Thomas, who has a Hanson, continued in the business. In 1972 the Go[...]Romaine died in 1973 after a lingering illness. In 1975 I married Bernice (Lien) Machart, the daughter[...]ertha Lien, formerly of Peerless. CLIFFORD I. HANSON AND FAMILY My[...]ations, the American Legion and the Veterans of I was born in 1917 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota and we Foreign Wars. I am treasurer of the local Legion Baseball moved t[...]. came to Scobey with my father, Henry L. Hanson (a I think Daniels County and Scobey is the only place on brother of A.R. Hanson), also coming at this same time was[...]by Clifford I. Hanson Gladys and Mayme. Gladys later married Eddy Burton, son of a pioneer Scobey family. In 1931 my father Henry[...]CLIFFORD AND LORRAINE HANSEN own. I was taken by my Uncle Art and Aunt Josephine, bet[...]l of my twelve years of schooling were ih Scobey. I Gertrude Hansen. He spent his entire life[...]the service in 1942. He graduated football team. I was a member of the first track team to go from Scob[...]ama. After attending Kinman Business University I returned After he was discharged in Novemb[...]Recorder's office for a year and taught the Butte Creek School for a year before her marriage. Clifford Hanson family[...]Point where Leonard, Kathryn, Henrietta, Clifford I., Gladys, Mayme their son Glenn was born.[...]Cliff worked as a heavy duty mechanic for Cummins[...]At the time of his retirement in 1937, because of a[...]Lorraine was a medical secretary at the Billings Clinic[...]for ten years and is currently working for a degree in[...]West High where Kris will be a sophomore next year. Glenn[...]he has worked since his discharge. He is also a student at[...]Eastern Montana College. Paul will receive a degree in[...] |
| Northern Testing Laboratories as a geologist. Sandi is a receptionist at the Billings Clinic.[...]n the Navajo and Ma doc comm uni ties. She passed a way in February of 1967. HARRY J. AND L[...]of Scobey in 1913, into partnership in a venture at the inland village of West |
| [...]Dad, Donna, Del. Back: Jim. There he operated a grocery and meat business in part of Warner, Donna and Lori Harrison |
| [...]Intergovernmental Relations, Local move closer to a railroad town and Scobey was the choice. Se[...]ck in the Butte Creek community and took over the A.V. Lawrence ranch. There we farmed for eighteen y[...]e should retire in the fall of 1945 and we bought a home in Scobey and lived in it for five years. In[...]anch to clean and repair the buildings. But after a big snow storm Fred Haun was depot agent[...]rved before that at Chester, Montana where bought a new home. Mrs. Haun was a telegrapher. When he retired to move to[...]California a news item carried this statement:[...]LE AND BETTY JO HAUGO A.O.U.W. for five years, Masonic lodge secretary fi[...]wrote these memories: eight months old he rode in a Model T Ford with his parents I was born in Osborne, Kansas, a small town about 200 all the way to Montana from[...]daughterof Mr. and Shawno, Wisconsin when I was about five years old, then Mrs. H.J. Chilson[...]o Shelby, Michigan, to Montana where he worked as a pharmacist for one year. Philadelphia,[...]days a week on a commuter train. One day he bought a[...]ticket for one dollar and won $1500.00. He bought a[...]I worked on the farm until March in 1898, when I enlisted[...]Spanish American War. After my discharge in 1901 I[...]City, Minnesota. Later I served at Aberdeen, South[...]ors and agents - no jobs. The Santa Fe sent me to a[...]Cecil Marsh had generously promised that he would hold a position open for Orville until he graduated from the University, a promise he kept and also waited until Orville was[...]ship at Three Forks, Montana. Cecil also bought a house for Orville to rent reasonably, due to a house shortage. Orvile with his wife Betty Jo[...]e went to work for Cecil Marsh. After ten years or so Cecil sold a half interest of the Service Drug Store bu[...] |
| [...]homestead about a mile from the Chester depot in 1907,[...]Angeles in 1914 and bought a moving-picture house. This was a bad move, and I sold out at a loss. I went back to Havre and worked as a relief agent at Shelby, Devon,[...]Gildford, Malta, Bainville, and Plentywood. I was sent to Scobey in 1915, where I was cashier and operator, then agent. I remained there until 1948, when I resigned, took[...]by Montana State College. Carl married Ruth Dick, a first grade teacher in Scobey. They live on a small screage about[...]Winifred Mae Randolph and I were married in Aberdeen[...]in August of 1902. She had a heart attack and passed away[...]in October of 1971. In March of1972 I moved to Lewistown,[...]Some memories: During prohibition a deputy sheriff was driving north of Scobey in a Ford coupe; it was 30 or 40 below zero and the Ford quit. A rum-runner came along in a Cadillac with a load of whiskey, picked him up, and[...]brought him to about a mile north of Scobey -- then let him[...]One night as I was going to bed- rather late -the custom[...]just north of the depot was all lit up. Curious, I went and looked into a window; several prohibition officers were[...]in there having a party. They had plenty ofliquor; they had[...]confiscated a truckload of beer and wine. The truck was[...]standing outside with no one around, so I climbed up, took a case of beer and a gallon jug of wine and went home to bed. I had refreshments for several weeks. At a dance at Silver Star many years ago, the sheriff[...]Haun attempted to arrest a bootlegger, but the bootlegger was too[...]witness (Eddie Burton, then just a kid) was told to state[...]the sheriff was doing, a:rd he said, "He was hollering for[...]I recall some old businesses: Sam Burgess operated a[...]y good meat market for many years; W.R. Dodds was a[...]Dakota and bought a lumber yard. Hellickson lived in[...]Minneapolis and made several visits a year; after Ben left[...]Louis Discher operated a blacksmith shop from 1910 into[...]the 30's. He shod horses and oxen. They put a band under the ox - had a pulley and raised the ox a foot or so off the[...]g but Mexicans at the sawmill and on the section. I brother Clarence. They came by train to Scobey[...]in the Line Coulee community. Land sold for just a few Vienna, North Dakota; Norwich, North Dakota; Upham, dollars an acre. The children would run barefooted but North Dakota; and Chester, Montana. I filed on a cactus grew all over and created quite a problem. The[...] |
| [...]coal, usually quite close to home. Cow chips were a going off to North -Africa. Mildred marri[...]Sunday. married Delores Ash, a school teacher from North Dakota. When grown J[...]nesota to teach in the Line Coulee School. He had a served two terms as mayor, and was also active in the repair shop on the farm and each fall would go out with his Lion's Club and the Methodist[...]photograph studio, and he and Kate enjoyed a happy Minneapolis) and James who works with his f[...]Studio in Havre; Mary Ann (Mrs. Jim Buchanan, a lab technician who Florence is secretar[...]c for United Airlines; Mildred and Jim Joe was a mechanic for Vic Hillstrom from 1936-1937. In[...]since 1940 and was Fire Chief from 1955-1960. I have been active in church youth work for many ye[...]Call it Spring Valley or Vinegar Flat, no matter the name or where it was at CARL HELMBRECHT FAMILY[...]Homesteading days all were neighbors and friends, a down to earth group with no airs or pretence. The Helmbrecht family arrived in Scob[...]Wilbur the brother. the " Mill House", and it was a good thing that it was large Mongst this closely knit group came a stranger one day, enough! However, all that room[...]one and all made him welcome and hoped he would stay. because Vernon, following his Dad 's hobby, became a From the north country he came and ever[...]t the old Kloss Studio. Florence he was a son of a Homesteader too.[...]Not one ever dreamed this Bill Helton would steal the love[...] |
| [...]employed as a carpenter, and he, Mrs. Heppner, and Gloria[...]er thought of him then, and when the War ended would he see her again? I was born December 5, 1887 in Carver County, In th[...]the girl with dark hair. Hillstrom. I was the eldest of four boys. I attended school at At last the War ended, the Axi[...]and Bill came Belle Plaine, Minnesota, a town on the Minnesota River back home, his Arm[...]thirty miles south of Minnepolis. I worked in Minneapolis Again a Civilian his problems were real, win a job and a promise from lovely Lucille. One evening while parking high on a hill, a young nephew Vic Hillstrom on Frank.[...]laughter and banter the courtship soon ended, in a Wolf Point parsonage, with Nellie and Wilbur attendants. Then on a Glacier Park Honeymoon, went the Bride and Gro[...]in the style they were used to. Their first home, a trailer, into construction Bill went, then soon they were expecting a Blessed Event. A boy or a girl, two or three or just one? Bill hoped for a girl with brown eyes like her mom. A Memorial Day child, Bill's wish had come true! an[...]ve sped on. Their girl finished College and began a career of teaching, and now she's been married a year. Tho' she's flown from the nest as al[...] |
| [...]om Claire A. Hillstrom The Vic Hillstrom family . L[...] |
| for fifteen years as a mechanic at the John P. Snider Company. The urge to come west in 1917 overtook me, planning to stay a couple years only. A friend told me about Poplar and it sounded like a good place to try. I brought my wife, the former Mabel Rose Kaiser o[...]ctoria and son Howard Frank, to ' Poplar in 1917. I rented a garage building and had the agency for cars and machinery. In 1917 a fire destroyed the building and I rebuilt. This building is the Farm Supply now. In early 1921 I headed for the then up and coming town of Scobey and I moved froll) Poplar to Scobey. I rented the Peter Gritz garage building and established a farm machinery and automobile sales and service business. I later bought the building and continued in busi[...]ave worked with me over the years. In 1928 I sold over 83 Hart-Parr tractors. I received Florence Hitsman, Eva J. Hitsm[...]rict that Harold L. Hitsman year. I am an avid sportsman and I love pets, especially horses, dogs and cats. I retired in 1972 and enjoy hunting and fishing here, in Canada and Alaska, the Yukon and I have one son Charles;heisin the army in Germany.[...], 1926 in Scobey. On June 11, next year. 1929 I married Claire Weber of Crosby, North Dakota, at[...]THE JOSEPH HOLYK FAMILY August 1967. I have thirteen grandchildren and fifteen great-g[...]nd Mary were married February 7, 1899 in Austria. A By Victor Fremon[...]N He started in a shoe factory at a very young age in[...]Our family, Harold Hitsman, Eva J. Hitsman and I, an making shoes by hand. only child, F[...]e rest of the children were born: John, Laura, to a homestead on the Fort Peck reservation.[...]e next fall my father went to work in Plentywood. A homesteaded about 14 miles north east of Scobey. Joe did year later we moved to Whitetail where I started school. When I was in the second grade we moved to Scobey where[...]Joe and Mary Holyk and grandson Jimmy We had a pleasant life. The radio was invented and my . uu. dad and I really enjoyed the programs. When I was in the eighth grade daddy went to work for the O.B. Egland lumber yard and a year later we built our new home (now the Waller Funeral Home). This seems so odd as I remember all the good times we had there. We we[...]ng. There were lots of picnics at Stony Point and a small lake in Canada. In the summer there was Girl Scout camp and 4-H camps. Soon after I graduated from high school in 1931, my father wen[...]d my parents left Scobey. They lived in Havre for a time and then moved to Helena were Daddy was in the main office. My father died while on vacation in 1951. I married and worked for Farmers Union for 2[...] |
| [...]y horse and wagon and the round trip took almost a week. Mr. Holyk established himself on the wes[...]t house, where the new post office is now. About a year later he bought a building occupied by the bowling alley at that t[...]ocated now. There he converted his purchase into a hotel and harness shop. During the years the H[...]ld his business building to John Brayko in 1945. A house was brought in from the homestead farm and[...]Battle Ground, Washington where they lived about a year before Mr. Holyk passed away in 1950. Joe d[...]Scobey. He used teams of horses and wagons for A son, John, went into the army during peace time a[...]n the late 20's. age of 15 and remained for five a half years. Babe entered He purchased the former[...]ed in 1938. Grace lived with son Wayde Mel and I and our family moved to Montana from[...]ichland, Charlie Johnson served as a city councilman and was a Montana for ten years where Mel managed the McCa[...]ethodist Church and the Old Fellows Elevator, and I was postmaster for five years. Bonnie was Lo[...]ry were two His son Wayde also served as a city councilman and was and a half years old when we arrived there. When the a member of the volunteer fire department for many[...]nd they reside in moved to Flaxville, Montana for a year and then Scobey Great Falls, Montana[...]ary to the Superintendent of Schools. retirement. I went to work in the Daniels County[...]had its own two-wheel cart for luggage which and a draftsman in Billings, Montana. Linda lives with[...]the busiest place in town, with all and works as a dental assistant there. Although not born[...]inception. They arrived by horse and wagon, after a short stay on an unsuccessful homestead west of O[...]efrace from Illinois and Virginia. They lived in a tarpaper shack on the corner of the proper[...] |
| [...]in 1915 and was in a field a long way from town. Actually it[...]taught us children music and all the other things a[...]days for three years to help prove it up. She was a[...]ound our shack had been turned upside down during a[...]weekend wind storm. Our nearest neighbor was a school[...]in a barrel on a stoneboat, with a team of horses belonging[...]play piano in a trio with my sisters; that did some doing![...]We started school in Scobey in a one room school house in[...]We started proving up a homestead in 1918, southwest of[...]Westfork, where Dad and Harry Hansen had a store. We also had a store in Avondale in partnership with Roy Paus.[...]Johnson I remember one trip we made to Yellowstone Park in[...]in a 1914 Buick touring car. The roads were pretty bad[...]the park we drove behind a four-horse stage coach, and could only go a few miles each day. In 1919 we made a trip[...]homesteaded many years before; having ridden a bicycle[...]Phyllis became a teacher in Daniels County, and one of her[...]I taught school at the Killenbeck school north of F[...]nts were small and often no good. During the time I[...]I married Hilma Brenna. We have two daughters, Donn[...]Earl Norman and I bought the store in Four Buttes[...]which included the post office. I bought Earl's share in 1949. Hilma and I still have the store and post office; also[...] |
| [...]o homestead close to Peerless. He left Scobey for a period of time to serve in the United States Navy[...]aughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mahler, worked in a confectionery store where she met George, and in[...]wn constable of Scobey. Those were busy times for a policeman at night in Scobey. Numerous speakeasie[...]Jones Family early 20's peace disturbances were a few of the professional baseball players, like Sw[...]equent street brawls were the rule; street lights would get knocked out.[...]rr Burgett In 1930 George left Scobey to accept a temporary position was one of our early day[...]n moved to Havre, Montana where George worked for a short Ofstedal house is now located. It was later moved to a more time as undersheriff and then was appointed[...]central part of the school district. It was quite a thrill to see position of Probation Office, which[...]and chokecherries, that is if Harry. George Jr., a long time employee of the Burlington someon[...]his .wife Two incidents come to mind while I was still young. One and five children. John Franklin is a member of the was a large prairie fire, that threatened to consume Wa[...]erything in its path. My mother, older sister and I were as Director of the Municipal Court Probation Ofnce in home alone. We hitched a team to the wagon and were Seattle. (It is intere[...]es in Havre with his wife and three had to tie a rope to the door knob to be sure you could find c[...]had After the children were grown Rose accepted a job with come to visit. It was three days[...]now ~esides in the We later moved to a neighboring farm and soon after Eagles Manor in H[...]GE JONES FAMILY make a living at it. They moved to Louisiana where she[...]still live in the Lake Charles area and as far as I prairies of Canada about 100 miles from here in 1[...]arrived three years Hilda worked as a secretary in Scobey until she married later. They[...]oris, Hilda, and myself, Stanley. They settled on a piece of Air Force, juke box and coin machine repairman, and a few land about nine miles northwest of SL .bey. T[...]business ventures of our own, my wife Gladys and I of farming were done with oxen.[...]d did some of the been in the Air Force as a Radar Tech for almost 15 years. field work. We all took our turn at it as we grew up. Bryan has a grocery store in Denver, and Sherry works[...] |
| [...]to Scobey in 1913. He and Floyd Working operated a pool[...]a to homestead. They came via rail in 1910. After a rather unsuccessful attempt at farming near Culbe[...]hone office from 1914 to 1919. My father was with a mercantile company at that time. From 1920 unto[...]re they joined their daughter Marjorie (Mrs. Carl A. Brookhauser). Kathryn, the older daughter, res[...]operated a cleaning and tailoring shop until his retirement[...]He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Williston, Nor[...] |
| [...]married to a talented musician and they have three Peter T. Karlsrud was a Norwegian by birth and came to daughters. Quentin had a successful career in public school this country around the turn of the century. He had music and now manages a music store in Boulder, homesteaded near Willisto[...]olorado. The Quentin Karlsruds have two children, a girl in Scobey in 1916. He also had worked on the building of and a boy. the Great Northern Railroad into Montana. He was Peter Karlsrud was a leader in his community all associated with the F[...]ning as well as farming near Scobey many years on a president, lay leader of the Lutheran Church, a Mason and homestead. active in a number of civic charitable undertakings.[...]Church. She had early proved up on a homestead near[...]Dakota in 1947 where Peter bought and ran a grain[...]e age of 80. Mrs. Karlsrud survives him and is in a[...]by C.A.H.[...]of W.A. Wangren, principal of the Scobey High School.[...]took the where she now lives. Mrs. Kessler is a very helpful person, picture).[...]eds help never finds her wanting. She is enjoying a well-[...]A. Claudine Kessler Edmond Karlsruds Mrs. Karlsrud came to the Scobey area as a teacher and |
| [...]e Pomerleau, my brother. It was at this time that I met him. In 1915 Carl came to Scobey and worked as a bartender in the Smith' and Boyd Saloon, the buil[...]e saloon business. It was during this period that I came to realize the dangerous position my husband[...]y lived one step ahead of the law. In 1915, about a year before we were married, a trouble-maker came into the saloon and began quar[...]The buildings still stand as they did then, with a space of four or five feet between them. (Maxine and Arlee's and t[...]There was little or no paper money used at this time.[...]special celebrations the Smi~h and Boyd Saloon would[...]work as a bonus. I, Adeline Pomerleau, was born in Hamel, Minnesota,[...]Medicine Lake which at that time was "just a wide place in the road". We traveled in a two-seated buggy with no top.[...]My father always had a beautiful team of horses of which[...]hard, so the trip of a little over one hundred miles took two and a half or three days. I was young, .and as I recall,[...]cat population of Medicine Lake, I recall, was soon to[...]My father had established a business in Medicine Lake, and for two or three years we lived in a building which later served as a barn for the horses. The door was wide so[...] |
| [...]I recall an incident that proved amusing to everyon[...]except myself. Girls always had a "hope chest" consisting[...]my personal things, clothing, etc. I had gotten a large wooden crate from P.E. Johnson, a storekeeper in Medicine[...]had a good laugh but me. During World War I when our men were drafted much of[...]train leaving here at 5 A.M.[...]signed. Everybody turned out with an old dishpan or pail and a stick or something to celebrate by making noise. It[...]a partner with Lou Boyd. About this time the prohib[...]into a pool-hall and ice cream parlor, also selling cand[...]um, etc. Later Boyd sold his share to Tom Conboy. A high[...]In those times John Reiner had a bakery and I think bread was 6¢ a loaf--delicious bread, too. Eggs were 6¢ a Doug Kilgore dozen, butter 15¢ a pound, and I remember paying 20¢ a[...]Carl purchased a liquor license and operated Carl's Tavern It w[...]until he sold the business to Doug. Doug sold it a few years "Joe Poof'' because of his way of expr[...]ained essentially unchanged. The other saloon he would say, "It went poof-poof and stopped." The name[...]m, even to receiving mail addressed to "Joe I recall the years past when the townspeople were n[...]octor McDaniel well rushed and organized--a time when there were several remembered many yea[...]e year: July 4th On November 22, 1916 Carl and I were married in celebrations, the Cath[...]'s annual chicken dinner, Plentywood, Montana by a pioneer priest, Father John the Lutheran[...]aster Monday dances held in the Rex traveling in a Model T Ford on prairie trails. He came to The[...]ass in the Rex Theatre. Catholic Church added a basement hall and recreation The present Catholi[...]akke, Our first home was the same one in which I now live. It Scobey's first police officer, fr[...]kitchen. Also in the years. kitchen stood a large water barrel, where water was M[...]in 1916 and built the house just delivered once a week by the drayman with his horse- north of us. He and his brother-in-law, Chapin, had a drawn wagon in summer and horse-drawn sleigh in winter. general store. I once bought a large mixing bowl there for This was 50¢ a barrel. Drinking water was delivered daily 15¢. I have it yet. for 5¢ a pail.[...]Other neighbors were the Savageaus. He was a After the smoked-up glass chimney was washed and[...]other old friend, Tom Smith. we polished it with a page from a Sears-Roebuck catalog. They each h~<! one son[...]sweeter than the sound of the Also a neighbor was Walt Williams, an early-day barber t[...]Water with ab, dutiful voice, who contributed a lot of his talent for barrel, teakettle, and all[...]edding, by friends and neighbors who had had a boarding-house known as The Mill House, wh[...] |
| They had a second-hand store; also had a hotel where the Monte attended school in[...]raduated from court house now stands. He was also a painter. business college in Rapid City, South Dakota. He gained I can remember two livery barns in Scobey, one wher[...]apid City the Eco no Lumberyard is now. There was a fire there once as assistant manager. Monte married Karen Purrington of and four horses perished. I think the other one, Scharf and Rapid City. They now li[...]nd Karen with Anthony's. Nearby, O.B. Eglund, had a lumberyard. Mitchell at[...]Eastern in Billings and his second since Carl and I came. People have come and gone, year, just compl[...]ness places have changed, and the town has grown. I Missoula. His major is in drama. He is presently employed have many memories, some happy, some sad; but I feel at a newly opened restaurant in Missoula, learning the[...]On June 11, 1973 Donna Mae died as a result of a car Carl Kilgore reminiscences in a 1963 Spartan Shopper: accident at Polson[...]Carl recalls an amusing episode that stemmed from a · sophomore year of high school. long evening of[...]nd swimming. His hobby is building saddle, little or no food, sleeping on the ground, and rockets, whi[...]ll be in the fifth grade this coming year. She is a a prominent rancher of the area by the name of Tom[...]cowboys and feeling that Team. he had fallen into a bonanza of skill and knowledge, Tom On N[...]moved rousted everyone out the next morning at 5 A.M. and back to their home at Scobey where they ha[...]56 head of horses he had available and ready for a local roundup. Unable to escape this witness of t[...], Carl and the others were soon mounted and spent a most miserable OTTO R. AND OLGA B. KING day (until 8 P.M.) solving the problems of a loose cinch, snakey horse, long stirrup, lack of[...]he Mon~ 'na to look into the prospects of running a "bronc busters" limped back into the Smith and B[...]ta, "This will be limited if there happened to be a stranger in the bar. another Chicago." Ol[...]there because I am on my way." Much to the consternation[...]teaching school, a position for which she had the college On Novem[...]ent's farm home at Stanley, North Dakota to begin a occasioned a move by the young couple to Navajo, where new life in Scobey. Don began work as a partsman and Otto built the general store and als[...]mechanic with the Erickstein Motor Company. After a Years later Olga would report in horror that they charged short stay in Scobey Don made the acquaintance of a as much as a dollar a pound for coffee. Little did she know young Fraul[...]ned forces in setting up the Farmers Oil Stanley, a baby who died shortly after birth, and Lisa.[...]ut Daniels and northern Don and Irene purchased a home in Sidney and Valley Counties. The headquart[...]make it their family home for the years to least a decade longer than minim um safety standards come[...]y" were given the dubious but time- Don worked as a shop fore man for Stedje Brothers Ford consuming responsibility of "checking barrels", a task Tractor New Holland at Ronan and Irene worke[...]st dad to serve as president of the Scobey and as a contract painter in Colorado and Florida and P.T.A., was a very enthusiastic Mason and Shriner, rarely presently is employed as a carpenter in Scobey. missed a Lions Club meeting, golfed regularly (an[...] |
| [...]e when civic duty called. Because the city needed a mortician, Waller and King were formed, which ser[...]girls, preparing some of the best food served in a vast area, playing cards when she had the opportunity--be it bridge, cribbage, rummy or whatever. She and Mrs. Burley Bowler, Sr. took a walk daily out to the Mason Hill south of Scobey. The two of them in the summer also managed a daily golf game--sometimes carrying a single club rather than burdening themselves with[...]ng machine with the proper attitude. Olga was not a joiner, and in the organizations she could not escape, her enthusiasm did not run rampant. As a mother and wife she (Mrs. Cliff Hanson) d[...]Babe was unexcelled. Olga died on July 25, 1949, a blow from Holyk), Scobey. Charles, (Bill[...]om Arizona. Joe took over and retired as a Lt. Colonel. the farming operations, and Kathryn took over the - Tom was a quiet man and a hard worker. supervision of Otto King's only joy[...]ATHNIEL KLOSS AND FAMILY and Joe a little time with their children, Barbara and Otto[...]g to return and find that 1917, when World War I was still raging in Europe. the grandchildren had[...]one that came In May, 1958, Otto King suffered a severe stroke, leaving with her parents to Scobey. Irene was married and was him without his speech or the use of his right side. It was living in[...]IN KITTOCK FAMILY was a very versatile man. He at one time, along with a[...]me from Delano, After being in Scobey a while he eventually opened Minne::;ota to Poplar,[...]he war years were hard on everyone They needed a section foreman in Scobey in 1912 so a[...]foreman and remained so out of sight. I can remember so clearly the rice flour and until[...]ting things Tom did while section bread would have made the best of ammunition, but it was fore[...]ldren in the Tom Kittock family-- planted a huge garden, bought two Jersey cows (he adored Fl[...]tables and milk and Alfred (Great Falls, Montana. A short note about Al who sometimes a pound of butter or so. Kloss being of sturdy h as continued with the[...]with his Dad in Scobey on the section. He is now a down. Mrs. Kloss made and sold delici[...] |
| [...]Washington on a little two by four place where we have a few chickens, six sheep and raise a beautiful garden. We[...]Many a family picture and other pictures of yesteryear[...]bear the name A. Kloss, Photographer.[...]was a grain buyer, owning and operating elevators in[...]pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kloss Mr. Kloss and a brother once manufactured and sold a |
| [...]boys attended school. The need for a school in Scobey was apparent and a $14,000 school was constructed in 1914.[...]miles northwest of Scobey a group of men had "squatted"[...]arbert and Bess Peters Ford. In those days people or dered their community. Later, D.C. purchased a ranch two and a half groceries at the counter and the cler ks fou[...]nd raised Groceries were delivered several tim es a day with a horse- Hereford cattle. This was always[...] |
| family loved this ranch as Coal Creek ran a few steps from After 19 years of teachin[...]and living in Scobey. She was married to Charles A. little stream; the grass was abundant and beauti[...]Lake, Montana. Charlie was the victim of a car accident in Opportunities were always avai[...]e was duly filled with humble pride and a deep appreciation of her elected that fall, anoth[...]pioneer parents. Although Mrs. Knapp was a Republican, she strongly[...]aught school several years before and I came to Scobey by train with my sister Anna who had a after her marriage in 1900. There were 36 one-tea[...]xth grade and third grade My sister and I crossed the river by boat as the bridge music in[...]ol System. She also taught was impassable. A Mr. John Engstrom operated the boat several rural[...]Timmons energetic for over 85 years, she suffered a stroke in 1958. In who took us the rest of the[...]tead and doctor, Robert D. Knapp. Here she passed a way on May 29, incidently to help scare th[...]y sister Anna later married Henry Stoven, who had a The early day home of the Knapps was a three room farm nine miles north of S[...]Hereford Ranch. located at the airport. In 1916 a larger home was built and My second home was with a family living south of Four is presently where Mr[...]Buttes named William Riek's and son Hilmer. Also a D.C. Knapp was a charter member of Scobey Lodge No. nephew Arthur Scarseth of Wisconsin. Mrs. Riek (Alma) 109, A.F.A.M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Knapp were charter liked to go to dancing, but Mr. Riek, a large man weighing members of Prairie Chapter No.[...]ildren in the Knapp family. us in a Democrat buggy drawn by two lively bay horses. So[...]ouise M. Hansen. Four that was how I got to go to my first prairie dance in the childr[...]n as the Kerstein School on the creek California, a retired navy veteran; Dorothy passed a way in bottom east of Whiskey Buttes as it w[...]er, Colorado; and Alanna Copeland of time. I met Emil, Alexina and Delia Audet also Anna, Ethe[...]many others. We had so much fun that night. A bunch ofus teaching, the last 19 of which were spent in Gallatin took a stroll in the moonlight and took out time from Co[...]e have from teaching. In 1973 he passed away from a severe heart been my good friends ever sin[...]While I was on the Riek farm I was asked to go to a Robert D. Knapp married Muriel Duplanty in Chi[...]neighbor's to buy some butter. Mrs. Riek put a fifty cent Illinois where he was attending medical school. Muriel, piece in a gallon syrup pail to pay for the butter. I rode affectionately known as "Dupe"is a registered nurse. They horseback. We start[...]in the pail Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bob has been a practicing started rattling around; it made a noise like a "chivarri". medical doctor in Wolf Point, Montana[...]in 1972 as Citizen of the Year, and in 1973 I could not control him so I thought the best thing I could do for his 40 years of service to the Wolf[...]off. Mrs. Riek was provoked at served 27 years as a school trustee, and as a member of the not having any butter but Mr.[...]pp live in Nampa, Hilmer Riek and I went choke-cherry picking to Whiskey Idaho. They[...]Buttes (now Four Buttes). Hilmer rode the pony I had Armstrong and Don live in Pocatello, Nadine Pew lives in ridden and I rode a Pinto. Mrs. Riek gave us each a 100 Boise, Robert Jay lives in Payette and Delno[...]e were so many choke-cherries we Caldwell. Fay is a retired fireman of the Union Pacific soo[...]as happy. for Fay and Cleo, among them are farms, a motel and an I married Jack McIntyre in Scobey in 1925. He was a Econo-Wash. They are now enjoying a well-earned veteran of World War I~Jack came from Castleton, North retirement. They have 18 grandchildren and six great- Dakota. A brother James was a jeweler here, also Fire grandchildren. Chief for quite a few years.[...] |
| [...]married Harold Richland. He also worked in a bank at Fife Lake, Olson, a World War II veteran. They have four children.[...]": I The year of 1927 I worked for my sister Vera and husband , Wyvil, who had a threshing rig and a cook car. I was cook and Vera was flunky (in other words ran the errands). There were a lot of men from Minnesota, most of them Finlander[...]w they did not get too much threshing done, but I was happy to collect the most wages of the whole crew. I almost forgot to mention that I was jack of all trades at[...]~i~. .i Burton's Cafe in the 1920's. My oldest brother[...]Robinson (parents of Howard and Grace Holter). I went into the hotel business in 1950 and at the present time am still in the business. I married Avery Knight in 1956. He was a very fine Max Kriuosha person and we had a good life together. My family and I loved and respected him. I have many fond memories of him and have many wonderful in-laws and outlaws as A very used to say.[...]nson Max Krivosha - who has operated a shoe repair business (dead). Their son Don Harmon[...]ks, North At time for confirmation, Bryce said he would not be Dakota when he was eight years[...]im. "The Czar were confirmed together. Rachel and I have continued controlled everything,[...]were able to get away." He Last but not least I have to mention the " dirty thirties". recalls the trip across Europe with his family enroute to the Quite a few men including Jack worked on W.P.A. building new land. In England he saw a colored man for the first dams and Chick Sales houses (outdoor toilets). On a cold time in his life, and he thought tha[...]er there to read Sears & were black. " I didn't care what color they were," he said. "I Roebuck catalog. thought that anything would be better than the life we left I do not think any of the dams are used anymore. lt was behind." The ocean trip,took five or six weeks in those days. not too pleasant for the men to be out, with a chill factor His father had relatives in Gra[...]usiness, which has followed him for 4 7 years. I liked Montana from the first time I saw it and have " We celebrated Christmas[...]Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient for some[...] |
| [...]Paradis who was a native of this community for many[...]ain which took ten days. The Audet family took up a[...]d by the one boy in the family, Emil, who married a[...]married Fred, Alice married Edward who died a few years[...]ierre war as bomber pilots on B-l 7's. Ray as a lieutenant was ' right. wounded in action on a bomb run over Germany,[...]Roger completed 36 missions as a bomber pilot receiving[...]since has worked for the navy as a civilian. Eugene and[...]In closing I guess you can say the LaPierre family are[...]moved to Scobey from Arizona in the fall of 1963. I Seraphine and Delia LaPierres Fiftieth Anniversary. Rita, had accepted a contract to teach biology in Scobey High Roger an[...]Anna Marie, a high school senior; Eugene "Tip", a sophomore; Mary Margaret, a fifth grader. Saskatchewan in 1910 and lived on w[...]anch. Louis was the first in the community to run a business office - as a Service Representative - in 1968. At large custom[...]ey was moved to its In 1971 we purchased a house on Robinson Street and present site.[...]decided to make SGobey our home. In 1974 Mary and I went He was followed in 1912-13 by his brothers[...]into the Honey-Bee business and in 1975 formed a Edward, Tom and Seraphin and a sister, Emma Chabot. company named Seo-Bee Honey Company. We had a nice The boys in that family married int[...] |
| [...]sons, Paul, Vincent 'and Alton, a:nd a brother, Axel, of[...]Ed had filed a homestead claim in the Pleasant Prairie[...]a job with Chapin Grocery, and he began erecting a two-[...], Malta and Livingston, Montana. At each location I taught school. I was born and raised in North Dakota. My father ca[...]pring and summer of 1917 Ed managed to Dakota. As a young man he came to Outlook, Montana "fix up" (with the help of neighbors) a one-room shack on where he farmed and was[...] |
| [...]stock Ed bought, sold, traded, and shipped to a variety of shack on the prairie homestead while E[...]n his Model T. Undoubtedly many In 1927 a third child, Robert, joined the family. Present a[...]1927 further marked a change for Lees when Ed went to[...]both town and country cronies. Back here in a strictly[...]record ... all for the price of a cup of coffee which then cost[...]jailhouse a listener might hear the voice of Ed Lee saying,[...]"Dod gast it! I knew I should have played my jack!"[...]Often called on any hour of day or night, Ed had ample[...]arbitrator opportunity to practice what seemed a natural[...]he was well-known and respected as a trusted friend , Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lee[...]hout his life. One of his favorite philosophies A few sparsely located neighbors visited occasional[...]as by then too old to begin to play the many been a member of a large family on a well-settled farm, games of compromise that are of necessity a part of state· Gerda was often depressed, lonely[...]8-1964. He was fortunate, for early in the 1920's a passing cyclone ripped widely known for his f[...]cattering kindling across the performed as a soloist at various local functions and prairie. For many years a kitchen table and chair and a performances. In fact, more than one old[...]only visible friend left word in his will or with his family that Ed Lee remnants to mark th.e[...]was to sing the old Norwegian hymn "Behold a Host plowed and sown to wheat. In the late 19.3 0[...]also spent a few years in the 1950's working with a niece, In addition to grocery store work[...] |
| [...]egun to fail, and in December of 1964 Ed suffered a fatal stroke and died on January 6, 1965. At his funeral a choir representing all churches sang "Behold a Host Arrayed in White". Gerda Lee continued to be[...]rol, mainly in the state of Washington, and spent a year in the navy (1944-45). They returned to Scob[...]ildren: three boys, Jackie, Dick and Kenneth; and a daughter, Bonnie. Jackie died at the age of two a[...]wenty-one of spinal meningitis while serving with a reserve unit of the U.S. Army in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The surviving son, Kenneth, is a Scobey veterinarian living on the home ranch.[...]er local activities, and spent several years· in a fabric Earl Leibrand family - Christmas 1974.[...]rking in Salt Walter Hollis and has two children: a son, Charles, a Lake City; Margie, married to Michael Gardner and living Washington teacher and musician; a daughter, Marnee, a in Newport Beach, California; and Nancy,[...]High School in 1944. He attended college prior to a of Scobey. three-year stint in the U.S. Navy[...]hwest National Life Insurance Company. He married a Glasgow girl, Dorothy JOHN W[...]John worked as a fireman on the railroad until 1911 when[...]the family migrated to Verwood, Saskatchewan. A cousin[...]ily, John took all of the family's possessions in a Earl Leibrand and Anna K. Jenson were married[...]in Scobey that he, too, might register for a claim at homestead land. since their marriage.[...]nd the children followed, also by train, arriving a Earl was born in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada day sooner than planned. She hired a team and wagon to where his parents homesteaded.[...]two of his brothers heavily bearded and living in a sod schooling in Scobey. He worked on the west coast during a shack with a dirt floor. Going behind the shack Maude period o[...]II and at that time joined the navy and shed a few tears, and then returned to face her new and[...]Washington. Earl and Ann met in Mesa, Arizona at a built of sod; John and Maude's was a frame home insulated Montana Picnic in 1946. Afte[...]were later pounds. One time when John took a load of wheat to joined by Ed's sons, Gary and Richard. Edward died in market he returned with a camera for Maude who made 1970 and Earl and Ed's[...]d's good use of the gift. She became a homespun photographer, Service.[...] |
| [...]John told of being involved in finishing a digging[...]not be seen from the road. Hearing a team of horses coming[...]humor as he said, "Well, no. It's those so and so's walking[...]In spite of his dry sense of humor and liking for a joke,[...]whether for himself or others. In fact he instilled in his[...]person deserved a good, honest day's work. Having given[...]out for a day, and Maude was heard to remark to those John[...]edding around her, "Goodbye folks. I'm going out among THEM Anniversary.[...]ints which she her Dutchman, John. sold for a $1.00 a dozen. Edward, a young man when the family arrived in When Edwa[...]ey, went to work for Johnson Hardware. He married a could not accommodate him, and he was taken to Mo[...]he Canadian location: Pearl and Earl. John caused a In 1959 Edward married Esther (Knapp)[...]Scobey as do his children; both car in the area, a Model T Ford, for the huge sum of $300. sons[...]ed, also, and live with to Scobey where there was a high school. In the summer of their familie[...]r back taxes, and the family finally settled into a School in 1925, and will be remembered for hi[...]is place the Scobey Rex Theatre. He married a Scobey girl, Janet is still referred to by old ti[...]Helena, Montana where he owned and operated a theatre here some mighty fine potatoes were raise[...]awl, his usually half-smoked Company. cigar, or a chunk of chewing tobacco undergoing slow,[...]Scobey High School in 1927. She married a local man, reinstate himself as a staunch Republican, and this Howard S[...]n the Ed Lee history. blank Republican had stolen a part from his irrigation The youngest[...]erved in the United States him how he knew it was a Republican thief, John replied, Naval SeaB[...]turned to Scobey "Well, if the so and so had been a Democrat, he would have and went to work for his brother[...] |
| [...]iver Valley in Manitoba Earl continues to work as a partner in the Leibrand where Dad foun[...]1968. Ameilia Leibrand in 1892 at McGregor, Iowa, a brother of Florence lives in Scobey. They h[...]lda Wahl, daughter of Hilmar and where he took up a homestead at Verwood. He met and Gabri[...]children and five grandchildren. Jim is a building Jim was born at Verwood. They then mov[...]d on the Gorham Hotel which was under I, Anne, married Douglas McCulloch of Grandview, construction. I, Anne, was born at Scobey. Ma[...]rilyn, and In 1929 we returned to Canada taking a farm at three grandchildren. Corona[...]ence in Scobey in 1955 and received our across in a tin tank to take fresh doughnuts to the butcher[...]Lander, Wyoming where Audie is in the clothes to a stick and passed them out to him and he[...]ar Shirley Lei brand married Anton Dighans, a son of Peter paper siding of our shack at Coronach. I have memories of and Magdelena Dighans, pion[...]d apples Montana. shoveled from box-cars. I also remember the officials from John was b[...]Williamburg, Iowa, and Linda was a cytologist and[...] |
| [...]M radio since its beginning. The Levads bought a home in Scobey. SUMMARY OF BETH AND CARL LIND[...]from |
| [...], 1902 to William G. Lile of Gallatin, with a team and hay rake in the field a sudden storm came Missouri at McMurry, Missouri,[...]netha. horses ran away, suffering a back injury which in her declining years was a major cause of her debilitation. It[...]operation of a linotype.[...]were a number of things at the Leader she did would not be[...]resist and Torjus Lundevall, a young accountant, boarded Maude B. Lile a ship at Oslo, Norway.[...]Minnesota to open a bank in a very new pioneer[...]community. Mother was pleased but hoped there was a railroad to the town. There was -- a freight train so -during[...]the last part of the journey, we had a three-hour ride in the[...]decided to open a bank in Old Scobey. It was first called the[...]State Bank. When the railroad placed the station a[...]Mother was happy to learn that this town had a railroad Starting at left: Elizabeth Fowler, Gwynetha Lile, Signa and that it didn't require a caboose ride either. But she Stai, Helen Price, M[...]had already arrived, rented a house, and placed some of our Only surviving close relative is a half-sister, Blondina, belongings in it. During those last five hours from living in Portland. A half-brother, Patton Moss, an early Willis[...]r more than the average share owned, with a hot, dusty June wind coming through the of numero[...]and soot. We three, tired Mrs. Lile was known to a wide circle of people in this area and hungry, sat thinking of all the unpacking and as a lady of steadfast courage and dependability. A very cleaning ahead of us. To Dagmar and[...]young daily routine. Once when missing a spring housecleaning, folks at graduation times a[...]Dagmar wrote that it was all over and I could return now to Typical of her determined energy, was the time when she a house from which they had even taken out all the[...]o miles into Scobey and back each day, to work at a job in it seemed to her. Scobey. I[...] |
| [...]ect to us. To our surprise we didn't even stop at a restaurant but blew right up the street to a one-story green house next to the Dana Knapp resi[...]box, water barrels filled and soon we were eating a delicious cold lunch. Knut Knutson, at that time a bachelor, had been the genie that had transformed this house to a home. His "batching days" on his homestead had taught him many housekeeping skills. In appreciation Knut was a frequent dinner guest at our house. Some years[...]ed that that section of Montana was fast becoming a hopeful "next year" area. Those years taught that the man with the most shares can accept or reject advice as he chooses and the same is true with a large depositor in a position of authority. Eventually my father was a[...]most gratifying years of his life for he saw many a hard working farmer save his farm. It wasn't easy for a loan applicant to request his creditors to accept one-fourth of the value of that debt as a complete payment. But those pioneer farmers humbl[...]a claim in western North Dakota. In 1910 they settl[...]Alfred still had . a love for this western country and in[...]About this time there was a great oil boom in central[...]Alfred and Edward operated a grocery store. After two[...]killed in a hunting accident. Hertha Marti died in 195[...] |
| [...]orse drawn wagons on their way to and from the I was born in Winona, Minnesota to Andrew and reservation were a common sight from the McIntyre house. Christine D[...]ily moved The jewelry store closed within a couple- of years when to Radville, Saskatchewan i[...]isappeared one night with all of the assets of I met Tom McClelland there. He was in partnership w[...]him on his Tom farmed and dealt in horses and I, as a nurse's aid, country calls. This association l[...]Harris Hospital former trade and he operated a watch repair and jewelry owned by Estelle Redfiel[...]Dr. Collinson's drug store, the Scobey Drug away, I took maternity patients in my home. Fifty-four[...]ncession babies were delivered from 1924 to 1930. I didn't have until his death in 1947. indoor plumbing nor conveniences. We hauled water in a Jim served as Chief of the Scobey Volunteer Fire little wagon from a well a block away. Department for[...]ly two pregnant to the early 1940's. Many a night in the cold winter months mothers survived, and I was one. There were 32 deaths in the family'[...]n in Kalispell and in the 1920's. This was a very successful period due to the is married to R[...]Plentywood. Many a dollar changed hands on the outcome[...]organized baseball as a result of the Chicago Black Sox[...]ess with both Old and East transported in a large cage on the back of a Model T Ford. Scobey with McCurdy Lumber and Coal[...]in October, 1959 at Clearwater, Florida where would cruise the prairies until they spotted a coyote, then he had been owner of the McCurdy Lumber Company at release the dogs by a spring door on the cage when they got Tampa and D[...]etirement. At the time within range. The dogs would soon overtake the coyote. of his passing he was survived by his daughter, Mrs. Jean Belle, or "Mrs. Mac" as she was more often called, was McCu[...]and Jean, were growing up Belle was active in a great HISTORY OF THE JAMES R. MCINTYRE FAMILY[...]being called "Grandma Mac" by her Jim operated a jewelry store in Valley City for several three granddaughters. years after completing a course in watch making at the Belle was[...]Ill health forced her to retire Scobey. He opened a jewelry store in partnership with in 1952[...]at she the time of their m arriage Alfred was a clerk in the Scobey would just love the house as it was fin1shed in tan, her post office but a few months later transferred to the Postal favori[...]arters in Washington, D.C. Retiring in 1970 after a they lived in Scobey. The "tan" walls were soon f[...]County coal burning stoves and root cellars were a necessity. Superintendent of Schools, Leo Lattin, until marrying Water was a precious commodity and was carried from the[...]electrical engineer, was with nearby Smith well, a never ending chore (the Smith well, Montana-Dakota Utilities Company for a few years before[...] |
| entering the research field. In 1952 he accepted a position Chicago. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as a Senior Staff Officer with Johns Hopkins University's two years. Applied Science Laboratory; a position he still holds. Jean In 1946 he marr[...]illings, then moved to Plentywood where he set up a[...]DR. W.P. MCDANIEL Dr. W.P. McDaniel, a Virginian, graduated from Louisville, University[...]they He worked for Solberg Implement as a salesman from prevailed upon him to open an offic[...]ded to build In 1923 he married Olive McGrath, a school teacher in the drive-in cafe south of[...]rated it for three years, then decided to go into a fifty-five hears we have spent there. business where we would have more time to spend with our Note: Since writ[...]IES then served in the Swedish navy, later he was a masseur on by Betty Knud[...] |
| I am the oldest of ten children. My parents, Mr. an[...]ores and from there entered the service as a medical officer and around the house, and we made it a pleasure instead of went to France.[...]there to Scobey in 1922 to enter partnershi~ and I went after the cows we took Kool-aid type drinks[...]ith Dr. Collinson. This partnership was dissolved a few cookies with us, we spent all afternoon befor[...]Krogstad. wood and Mother always was afraid we would get hurt. Ironing clothes was an everyday thing w[...]ce cream. Being the oldest girl in the family put a lot of responsibility WINNIE AND ANNA MOULDS on me. I worred along with my mother if one of the children needed a doctor. I often sat up with the younger children[...]sed home remedies like onion plasters, sugar with a little kerosene in a spoon for a bad Winfield E. (Winnie) and Anna Moulds came to Daniels cold, and steaming the little ones with a hot bath towel County in 1926 at the urging of Bill and Carrie Lind of covering their heads over a big kettle of water. Madoc, An[...]et ranch south of Flaxville for two years. It was a Sunday. We didn't always have a pastor. We usually had grand ranch t[...]families Winnie, having always been a farmer, decided he needed to then--so there were always a lot of children to play ball or move on to a farm of his own. He bought some land just horse s[...]ecided to rent another piece of land and we spent a lot of time together with them.[...]lived in The dirt storms in 1937 frightened me a lot. We had to that part of Daniels Co[...]dressed for six in the morning until 10 or 11 at night. During this time school in front of[...]there to work for the city of Scobey as a meter reader with later years, we children had to[...]years he and George Beeks were the of the time so I was the one to take over the responsil;lilities only two employees until Winnie became Chief of Police, a of the household duties. In those days children n[...]ted whatever came along and always seemed to have a good time just working. During my high school yea[...]Moulds more pleasures. We got to go more places, a show in Scobey or a dance. We all liked to dance so the whole family went, even babies in buggies. There are two bad memories I recall. One was when I was in eighth grade and Mr. F.R. Puckett (our pri[...]ed to us that we were at war and some of our boys would be going to fight. The other time was when Mr. Pu[...]nd sang the song, "In the Garden". We all thought a lot of him. We didn't have electricity yet when I left home at the age of nineteen , so I never got to use the luxury of electric lights in[...]is week by car for Wisconsin where they purchased a home in Oconomowac, where Mrs. Morrow was[...] |
| [...]is death in 1974. In the meantime Mrs. Moulds was a very busy lady with their wide acquaintance of fr[...]nd dinners and card game~ at the house, and never a day the Moulds family livei\ alone--there were always nieces and nephews or sisters and brother-in-law sharing their home. She was a life long member of the Lutheran Church and the L[...]Scobey and its people. It was their They opened a land office until they were granted a life. To me, Scobey is still "home". cha[...]In the wooded valley of the Minnesota River, a short these years.[...] |
| [...]outstanding record. The traders would extend no further credit to the native In 19[...]d 1944 when Art and Edgar Chelgren purchased a hardware when hunting parties came in empty-hande[...]ed over into action. Art was repairing a granary on his farm northwest of The Indians attacked the different posts, Scobey, a ladder slid with him and he fell on his head and[...]18; Andrew Myrick was killed, shoulders to a pile of lumber and rocks about fifteen feet and when found, had a mouth filled with grass. below - h[...]d, faithful undersheriff and active Lower Agency, a week after the uprising began. bus[...]ath, many of the Indians were tried for murder by a hastily put together court that was convened at t[...]SON FAMILY 38 who were hanged at the same time on a square gallows in Mankato the day after Christmas[...]r they, at first rented and later purchased a two-room house by the marauding Indians; others had been taken into the on the south side of Scobey. A daughter Ruth Katheryn, camps of "friendlies" for[...]Hale worked with his brother in the store, was a deputy Myricks.[...]91. His father had been They bought a larger house on Main Street, whfoh the kidnapped[...]ania and is pictured with the great Jim Thorpe on a photo of that school's football team. The photo appeared in a leading magazine some years ago.[...]man from Flaxville to Froid. The race ordinarily would not have been unusual; but this one was because F[...]horseback. However Fred won the race and the bet--a bottle of whiskey. He told of a time when he and Vern Tyler coiled lariat ropes a[...]for various ranchers around . Scobey--always with a horse if possible. He never related why or how his last name became changed from Myrick to Merrick. He was found dead, apparently of a heart attack, on the sidewalk near Leibrand's Ser[...]e liked to box, enjoying all athletic contests as a young man. In 1922 he was appointed Dave M[...] |
| [...]by Ruth Nelson Cawley A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE |
| H.C. established a farm machinery business which he great unkown lay beyond. It must have been a very lonely operated until 1912. That year the extra large county of spectacle--a load oflumber, rolls of tar paper and household[...]and the new county was named goods on a covered wagon, two horses and a cow, a young Divide with the county seat at Crosby. Mr.[...]f the army of"sod busters" sheriff for two terms or four years. As the state laws of to follow--i[...]mpire of the Cattle Barons" North Dakota allowed a sheriff to serve only two terms, he from the L[...]t must have entered the real estate business for a while. During this then been little more than a cluster of bunk houses around period at Crosby a daughter Lola and a son Vernon was a corral in the Crosby country and thence west anot[...]amily moved to Outlook where hundred miles or more into Montana's northeast part, Mr. Nelson established a farm machinery business. The dominated al[...]ty Implement in Scobey from Mr. Clarence would know nothing of these distant neighbors to the we[...]rosby and Daniels Corrals. In the summer of 1902, I great effort but the business managed to service[...]Development did proceed on the Nelson homestead. A Daniels County Implement Company was sold to Mr. Chet hip-roofed barn was built and painted a bright red. It had Solberg. Mr. Nelson died in Sc[...]ine. two stalls for cows and two for horses and a hay mow. A Amanda Nelson kept the home in Scobey until about[...]reater numbers. The Montana. Mrs. Nelson lived in or near Polson until 1965. place was the earli[...]ve with her daughter Lola Cooke. horses, get a meal and sleep in the hay mow on your way to In 1[...]the My father really enjoyed paying a great compliment to military services. The Daniel[...]in the August 19, 1943 issue, the Nelson 1945. I quote from him: "In spite of hard times, fear, bo[...]r action on the when they got the money; I just can't think of anyone of fighting fronts. When discharged the[...]them who failed to do the right." It was a great satisfaction Scobey, later entering the Uni[...]to see all these people prove their Melvin earned a degree in teaching, Lyle in law, and co[...]d fidelity. Vernon two years of law. He then took a position with the And now on America's Birthday 1976, it is with great Great Northern Railroad as a dispatcher. After many satisfaction that I recall thaf~y family was first to place years of[...]e America, no matter how with her husband William A. Cooke, a retired member of caustically critical we[...]he production staff of the Fargo Forum. They have a believe will not deny her a great and free future. daughter and a son and six grandchildren. George and his wife[...]nd bookkeeping service and in 1953 he established a MR. AND MRS. RASMUS NELSON cre[...]in Soring, Denmark February employed part time as a salesman for travel trailers, motor 2, 1888. W[...]nson, Minnesota with his family. Later they moved a doctorate degree in Psychology and is presently[...]kota. His father died when Rasmus associated with a San Francisco firm as Corporation was a very young man and he took over the farm. Personn[...]never regretted, for he felt it equipped him with a good background for a business of his own. He next California. They also have a seven year old daughter. attended a business college in Valparaiso, Indiana where[...]00.00 from the owner of the Norma bank and bought a My father and mother tied their two horses on[...]that bright and promising morning in June, 1900. I McCormick, and Deering machinery. He had a cot in his say promising because it was a year of tall grass. The office, so he bot[...]Dakota. There were no tracks to the west. To them a the Ford, Durant, Star and Plymouth.[...] |
| [...]There were two children in our family, a son Harold and I. He died after living only two months. I graduated from[...]hairs, and may even have lost a few in trying to keep the bank going. For a few years red ink was more common in[...]barley, or whatever the farmers had to give him to apply on[...]kota where her father, Andrew Anderson, had owned a hardware store. The town of Orville was a flourishing spot on the map until the J[...]rth and most of the businesses moved to Flaxville or Madoc. The Anderson family came with all their possession in a hay rack, and my grandfather homesteaded on the f[...]married in the Orville church. Stina Mollerstuen (a cousin married 1st Lt. John Harmon from Libby. A pilot and of Mother's) and Bill Vendsel, t[...] |
| [...]Barry, graduated with Jeanette Rankin as a speaker at Dagmar. She was our from Scobey High S[...]me known as Rasmus Nelson, Inc. being made a county and John was aked to run for County Rasm[...], the Nyquists moved to Milaca, Minnesota, bought a generation to live in Daniels County. home, and John opened a law office. They have four boys[...]and one girl. Two sons are lawyers, one a minister, and one by Eleanor Nelson Harmon a counselor in public school system. The daughter is a[...]they bought a new home in Milaca. They spent a number of winters in Texas and Florida . THE[...]him and gone to Dassel, Minnesota. . Per bought a farm near Dassel and John attended school intermi[...]ory my only regret is About this time there was a general exodus of his that he isn't he[...]his uncles. They all filed claims near Homestead. A in 1880. The family had a store in this community. His relative of John's relinquished his claim which John mother was a remarkable lady and instilled in her eight bought[...]children the value of a college education, a goal which they After a year at Macalester College, Minnesota John[...]ted from law school he married Agnes Walstom, and a few days later they left for Culbertson, M[...] |
| [...]pioneers a generation ago. The bride at least has pioneer[...]blood in her veins and will make a fitting helpmate to her[...]twins! They sent her sister Elsie to Scobey, and a nurse to[...]n the flu epidemic struck Scobey during World War I, started Peaceful Valley Ranch at Medora in the b[...]ctims. Ira of North Dakota. Uncle Carl introduced a bill in the North and Ethel Nelson who had the ha[...]State Legislature to have this area preserved as a friends of our parents. Ethel and Mother had an a[...]ther of them fell victim of the flu, the survivor would National Park. take care of the children. We have a wooden toy box Dad In 1900 Dad met Alma Marti f[...]atonna, handles". Minnesota where Mother also was a student. Through his I recall the time Elsie and I cut off our blonde curls and sister Norma he kept in contact with her over a period of tossed them over the fence where Dad fo[...]- in a big tumble weed! Dad tells of the time his mother and Dad arrived in Scobey in 1914. He established a general Ira Nelson's mother were visiting their r[...]Topeka, .admonished the men on the evils of such a place. A tree Kansas, and in schools in Sioux Falls, South[...]ches president of Schell's Brewery which is still a flourishing would have no room to expand--but alas--no trees grew a[...]ow our family had two more additions: mid-winter. I quote from a preserved clipping from the local SkidmJre and Ge[...]ur young "The groom is one of the live wires of a hustling town in children and fear of what the future might have for Scobey Montana. He is a merchant having established a store in prompted Mother and Father to make the difficult decison that new town. Two sisters and a brother are located in the to return to Ne[...] |
| [...]ood was working at the Richland Oil Skidmore is a lawyer in Labor Relations in Honeywell in Co[...]Oil Company - at the time Minneapolis. George is a political science teacher in a Roland arrived in Scobey. I believe we met at a dance the Minneapolis high school. Elsie lives in[...]he was there. It wasn't any "love at first sight" a part-time speech clinician in the Minneapolis sch[...]d off and on and were married at My hujband and I lived in Honolulu for 20 years. I Williston. returned with my daughter after my husband's death, and We bought a little house at the end of Scobey's main am a speech clinician in the New Ulm schools.[...]chose a musical career - and "Buzz" D.R. Olsen, an[...]nd Seattle. Just before he died he went back into a ROLAND AND VICTORIA OLSEN[...]Roland Olsen was born in Albert Lee, Minnesota, a son of T.K. and Ella Olsen, originally from Norwa[...]DR. WILLIAM OLSON during World War I. Immediately after graduation he enlisted in the[...]by Signa~J ohnson Minneapolis. Having a musical background he was placed in the band and[...]some land near his brother's farm near a small village called Julian. There he built a one-room shack, began his[...]first dental practice and did a hangup business! In 1912 he[...]moved to Scobey, bought a five-room house, had the two[...]were occupied by a Dr. Hanley for some time.[...]E. Johnson, who was a dentist in Chicago, died in 1912.[...]m. He started work at the First National Bank, a rewarding line of work for Roland. He had a natural aptitude for meeting people, and w[...] |
| [...]a had started teaching perhaps) when one day four or five horsemen came to their home and asked if the[...]in for dinner. When they left they gave Mr. Olson a twenty dollar bill. He did not want it, but they[...]field, Minnesota bank. They were like Robin Hood, I think. They robbed the rich to give to the poor. At lea[...]but just scared them to death! "Uncle Bill", as I called him, was quite a guy. I remember one night I woke up with a terrible toothache. I did not want to awaken him to pull the tooth because it was after midnight. He had put some medication on it a few days before hoping it would improve, but the darn thing just kept on aching so, therefore, I had to awaken him. I don't know which was worse - the toothache or his anger to be awakened at that ungodly (as he c[...]ee, Father of Lucy Parks One time he took me to a country dance. Those days by the time the dance w[...]s sister Emma (my foster mother) for keeping just a 16 year old girl out so late! In those days, at 1[...]the swirly dust storms we had in Scobey. Then he would say, "Such God-forsaken country!" On bad days when he'd go up town he would put on his goggles (as he called them), turn the[...]1915. Her father, James Marlenee, owned 160 acres a few miles south of Scobey. He died in 1935. Lucy and Clarence were married in 1917. He filed on a quarter acre of hilly landjusteastofthe William P[...]farms until 1926. By that time Skip had developed a spinal ailment which ruled out hard work, so they[...]h Fred Miller of Velva, North Dakota, he operated a service station and tire vulcanizing shop. This w[...]rsity-Hayward. Her first teaching position was in a degree and teaching credential from California State rural school near Circle. It was during a weekend visit at[...] |
| [...]ildren, Clarence Daddy until Ray soloed as a pilot. Ray and Nellie were (Skippy), Lynne and Parks. Skippy, with a birth defect, married in California. While on his sixth mission as a died at the age of 24. Lynne, an L.P.N., lives in[...]ierre land. They have two sons: Kenneth, who owns a live in Oakland, California with their daughters,[...]and has been active in all community Zelda was a worker too. She worked for Mrs. Erickson in[...]grew worse, Montana College. She was teaching in a Peerless country and while on his way to[...]He had just completed the eighth grade. Donnie is a vice-president in the Citizens' State Bank. He married Sheila McCarthy and they have a[...]on a freight lumber wagon driven by Jim Johnson. When[...]- homestead was with a horse and buggy. If Mrs. Paus had[...]built of sod in a side hill. Two sons, Roy and Ormond, and a daughter, Viola, soon joined them. Roy is a merchant in Opheim, Montana; Viola[...]as a hardware merchant with Johnson Hardware. In the[...]Hardware. The store hours were from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Front row: Clarence, Nellie[...]ila are both active in the Jaycees, |
| [...]many years ago. I was born in Mississippi, lived many[...]We arrived late in the afternoon of a two-day flight from[...]The first thing I saw was a very large coal-cooking range.[...]Being city-bred I had always thought that food not cooked[...]with gas or electricity wasn't worth cooking. My[...]a wonderful cook, the stove worked like a charm, and the food was wonderful. In fact I promptly put on about 20[...]dressed and spoke differently than I was accustomed to;[...]lacked the social polish of my city-friends, and I had[...]County are of the people I met while there. Airplanes were still quite a novelty in those days, and[...]ust about everywhere as landings were no problem. A[...]Mr. Ames had relatives in Oswego;· we would land on the[...]town square. We would land in a meadow near Eureka where he had a summer place on a nearby lake; one tim~[...]into bad weather and landed at a railroad junction, and[...]but, we got it out. While with Mr. Ames, he owned a hardware business. The business is now owned by G[...]day going to Great Falls alone, I had been keeping my Ormond married Claire Horvick, a teacher,.in 1922 and direction by reference[...]en: Shirley Case, Mission Hills, at about a 45 degree angle. Out near the Bear Paws the sky C[...], North Dakota; and Ormond, Jr., sight. So I descended to very close to the ground to try to who was a victim of World War II in Europe. He was, at find an elevator or railroad station with a name on it. One that time, one of the youngest Ea[...]ally showed up; it turned out to be Lewistown and I was his senior year of high school he helped save a young boy about 90 degrees off-course. In Great Falls I bought a small from drowning and received meritorious reco[...]rt of Honor. have a clock either; and, neither did I have a watch. So, In 1928 the Ormond Paus family bought the Sara enroute to Minneapolis one time I brought along my alarm Griffith home, which had been a club for "visitors" during clock. The airport p[...]evident to the new owners who warmed up so I decided to land and take off the heavy promptly replaced them with closets or covered them up. flying suit needed when leaving Scobey. So I picked an Claire was chosen Daniels County Queen in 1964 when open spot and landed. A man drove up in a car and we Daniels County celebrated its 50th anniversary. Ormond chatted for a minute or two and finally he asked me why I passed away in 1968, but Claire still lives in Sc[...]'t landed on the airport; WPA had just built them a[...]ew airport, nobody had yet landed on it, and here I was[...]wrong side of the fence. I hadn't expected to find an airport[...]had not bothered to look for one the prairie was a BURLEIGH PUTNAM[...]-unforgettable time I was demonstrating one of the I was the first of my immediate family to arrive in airplane's stability to a potential buyer, and it began Daniels County in April, 1934. I am distantly related to coming apart and uncontrollable. After a series of wild[...] |
| [...]t of the bakery business and go west too fast for a normal landing. I was able to get the wheels to a more suitable climate. In 1920 they moved to Scobey onto the ground and then let it roll to a stop; it was too close and worked in the Burton Cafe. In 1925 they bought a for comfort.[...]nt and bakery from the Hoffs. For 20 years they I had no family in Daniels County. In 1937 I was operated the business as the[...]Aeronautics Authority, and retired early in 1970. I now live towns in four counties. They sold bread for ten cents a loaf in Fallbrook, California.[...]Burleigh Putnam any child would want to visit and very patient girls to sell[...]John acquired a farm north and west of the airport. Due[...]working with his father-in-law, Gus Waller, as a mortician.[...]trapped for many years as a hobby.[...]Jack and Carmen have five children: Mark, a grad[...]student at the University of Wyoming; Tracy is a mortician, currently is a student at P.L.U. in Tacoma - he[...]A SUNDAY CALLER REMINISCES[...]from a clipping in Leader The Jack Reiner Family. Standi[...]y. Clint Richardson of Scobey had a caller last Sunday that[...]when he and three other fellows had a bachelor's shack in Poor crops and a growing debt drove them back to the[...] |
| [...]wheel, enroute through to Seattle where they have a daughter to plus Jacques and Richardson's[...]nation was off in measurement only thirty feet to a Roy Chisholm came to this community in 1915 and took half section. up a homestead in the Coal Creek country on land now o[...]rson. He also went into the jewelry business with a man named Hoyt. The firm name of Hoyt & Chisholm[...]ead. Two years later he was drafted for World War I and upon his discharge furthered his education in business, then upon a career of service with the federal government, far from here. But a bright spot of his career appeared to be those few years in the Scobey country when it was a very young town on the prairies. He and Clint, an[...]through the walls hard enough to blow the light (a kerosene lamp) out, and floor off the ground enough to a void puddles inside from rains. Well into the '20s a tar-paper shack was fairly standard living accomodations; cedar siding definitely a luxury item ... in any of the prairie towns, Scob[...]g now occupied by Clint and Charlie's, which only a few weeks ago underwent a substantial remodeling, one of several it has[...]r d'Alene, Idaho. Clint said to us, "You know, I guess I've spent most of my Howard, being an avid golf[...]Getting back to the homesteading, we asked Clint a two children, Patti and Larry Sam, after Patty Berg and question that somehow or other we've never before got Slammin'[...]golf figures of that era. Larry around to asking a homesteader before: Unless someone ser[...]1963. Howard has professionally located you, how would you know been employed by Grain[...]nt Nemont Telephone Co-op and Jacques did it with a team and wagon and a walking plow maintained that position for eleven years. Schaefer's Tax snubbed behind; and a red flag tied to the rear wheel in Service was created during the time of his M.D.U. such a way that the number of times the flag came up could employment as a sideline, but proceeded to grow until it be count[...]Grandma Schaefer's in Madoc. The elder Driving a wagon and team with plow behind that Schaefers owned the General Store in Madoc and had a straight must have called for some real de[...] |
| [...]of Scobey, Montana. Herentedasmallhouse,anddid as a family. Howard was no slouch at the game himself and some freight hauling for a few weeks, then went to work for it was to him th[...]worn-out occupants of a second-hand Model T, which Nell[...]to Scobey in 1914 from Gernin, In 1924 a fire of unknown origin leveled their house in the[...]or the City of Scobey for several remodeled it as a hotel in the 1920's. Mr. Scharf passed year[...]and mid-wife abilities._Dan Scott was a well-read, well- In 1927 Laura Scharf married C[...]his youth, but his roommate'.s experience with a went into construction and trucking. When they mo[...]cadaver dulled Daniel's keenness for the Saco for a few years doing construction work, the hotel was[...]ng life of leased to Dr. Collinson who used it as a hospital. Oscar Von cowboy-laborer. Daniel Norr[...]cemetery. from Dr. Collinson and ran it as a hotel until 1965, when they sold out to Victor De[...]rous other and his brother David opened a store on Main Street. They buildings. He passed a[...]merchandise. Our family did not join him for a couple of[...]Around 1925 they purchased a general store previously[...]e to Wyoming where he worked for Heleri Due, also a native of Michigan who was born June the railroad and there homesteaded on a small farm. They 23, 1870 in Manistee, Michigan.[...]ved to Omaha, Nebraska where my brother David and I Dunseith the couple returned to their home in Wil[...]thereafter they moved to originally a barn which had been moved there by a Minnesota where, it is said, Dan wrangled horses[...]Greenwood family, one member of whom was Electa, I notorious Frank James. Their stay was brief since[...]illow City, where Nellie operated father added a glassed in porch, the windows of which he a restaurant and Dan had a livery stable, the advent of the bought when a school house was being wrecked. He added automobi[...]seek new beginnings. The two more rooms and a garage. We were the first, or among family had by this time increased to four, Irene having the first, to have indoor plumbing and a furnace and were been born in 1902. Thus it was t[...]ud possessors of an Atwater Kent radio. Attending a Dan left Willow City with a wagon and team of horses, and class reunion in 1958 I was impressed to see how much the after two or three week's travel, happened into the new[...] |
| [...]Two sons and a daughter were born to this union.[...]Mr. Smith worked for a time in the Scobey Drug Store.[...]Frank served a term as mayor of Scobey, 1927-28. He and[...]From a clipping[...]Smith, the fourth in a family of ten children. He was named My sister Eva and I left Scobey in 1933 after graduation. Thomas to[...]er. My father died in early childhood. bought a store here in Minneapolis and two of us worked[...]Civil Service jobs. Canada, as a journeyman blacksmith. He moved to Dad and Moth[...]d northeast of Scobey in 1913 where Tom set up a blacksmith Back row: Dale Smith, Wes ([...] |
| shop. A son, Sidn ey (who died May 18, 1941) was born to[...]pp blacksmith shop from Faye is a Concordia graduate. She taught music in Norman Sc[...]on Washington and married Bill Bartley, a professor in a Ft. until about a year before his d eath in March of 1947.[...]y have two children, Erin and Tom Smith became a n a t uralized citizen of this country Timothy. on April 16, 1937. He was a long-time member of the Scobey David is also a Concordia graduate. He spent three years fire dep[...]Brian. They live in Lawrence, Kansas where he is a K-Mart[...]orie Solberg Loren is a Concordia graduate and served in the[...]the machin ery best. He worked at Ft. Peck in '34 a n d '35.[...]in back row. Front row: Marjorie, Now a brief resume of Chet's business ventures in Loren[...]Marjorie Ellen Miner was born in the prairie home a t the business was sold to Ken Noland. Gerald Melena was a Ossette, Montana, went to coun tr y school and gr[...]64. Extensive remodeling from Opheim High School. I a ttended Havre college one has been done through the years; a new brick and tile year and was among the la st g[...]certifica tion after only one year of t raining. I then taught in 1954. Later the old building w[...]en We Ii ved in Richland the first winter. Chet h a uled coa l from with us for more than 20 years.[...]here our five children place). We built a big display area there for new and used gr[...] |
| was mayor of Scobey. I have enjoyed working with the school and church functions, as well as the Scouts and 4-H groups; currently I am involved in our ALCW work in the local and dis[...]FAMILY Shortly after World War I Marvin Sorte came to Montana and homesteaded in t[...]d by Harold Hanson. He had just been mustered out a Sgt. from the 30th Infantry Division which was called the Old Hickory 30th, a Tennessee Infantry Division made up of either National Guards or volunteers. Some of the old timers recall that Ma[...]n Fossen walked from Flaxville out south to stake a claim. In 1926 he married a local Smoke Creek girl, Bernice Lawrence, daughte[...]Miles City and Dillon. They lived in Richland for a couple years where Left to[...]nal Democratic party officials and leaders, being a state representative in the 1937 and '39 legislat[...]inuous member of the Scobey VFW post, having been a member for 41 years .[...].~ I .,,,- ,-. r .,. )'A, t ·. :::.·"'[...]I -::: -[...]cidents family consists of four sons: Dr. Curtis, a dentist at Albany, in the earl[...]m out on calls. One time they had to start out in a howling have six children: James, now District Judge at Wolf Point, blizzard to a family in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan. With Montan[...]Brown of Kalispell. a team of horses across country--this family had se[...]om pneumonia which he treated with Washington, is a Deputy Director of Budget and Planning[...] |
| [...]obey Auto Parts). In later years, Mr. Sorte was a trusted assistant and employee at the old H.P. La[...]enry T. Stagg near the weigh station in 29, 1903, a daughter of George and Dora Lawrence. She Scobey. came to Medicine Lake with her family as a young girl and later moved to Plentywood where sh[...]lace. This was about five miles from town and had a small County Superintendent Mrs. Claire Hillstr[...]which we children really liked--it had a creek, or rather it following tribute to her: was a creek part of the year and a succession of small pools "To know a person like Bernice Mary Lawrence Sorte as[...]ainder of the time. People came from Whitetail to a friend, a neighbor, an official, a helper is an experience swim in the pools. That was during World War I and we her friends may well call a privilege and inspiration. The found we could not survive attempting to operate a ranch. work of all people eventually comes to an[...]to proportionate size, spirits lifted and a job tending the county scales. This led to buying cream good fortune became a thing to be shared with others. and e[...]en up, and Having worked with her has indeed been a real pleasure everyone helped with the cream and egg business. and a great privilege.[...]By Claire A. Hillstrom was still in school in Scobey.[...]After finishing college Irwin taught school for a year in[...]Walla, Washington, Roma in Scobey and Orville is a (Mary) Stagg, Ed Weaver, Asa Dunn and Henry Stagg (he bookkeeper for a construction company, so he moves every had come out earlier to find a place to live). Mr. Stagg had year or so, at present he is in Peveley, Missouri, south of St. succeeded in finding a place to live on the Asa Dunn ranch. Louis.[...]children: Irwin, Erma, Roma and Orville, who was a baby three years in the Faith Lutheran[...]nd remained in Montana. Minnesota. A number of people then living in Whitetail had gon[...]ssured that he must have gotten his days mixed up or had looked at the[...]w if he was not careful. Flicker-tail, picket pin or just plain Guy and Blanche Stalder were[...]Guy had come by car and the two little girls and I[...] |
| [...]His father fought in both the Mexican and What a lovely day when we arrived! But the next day was[...]o, California in 1947. He has taught and has been a counsellor in the high schools there for many yea[...]reside in Anaheim, California. They have a son and a[...]Althouse, now a retired Air Force Colonel. They live in[...]taking Dr. T.W. Collinson as a partner. In later years Bill[...]Citizens State Bank and was a partner with Otto King in[...]The theatre business was sold in 1945, a year before Bill[...]family has lived th re; today a grandson, Jim Tande and[...] |
| [...]innesota. He had graduated from high school there a week previously and determined to find his fortune in the west. He came to Culbertson to work as a clerk in the hardware store of S.S. Moen which was also a general store. In October of the following year a young lady named Mary Helen Hupman disembarked fr[...]keep books in the general store owned and run by a man named Brooks. In the course of time these two married at Williston, North Dakota in the home of a friend and business associate by the name of Gilbert Johnson who was a hardw.are salesman for the firm of Marshall Wells[...]Oscar Fryslie pictured. partnership in a hardware and general store in Antelope, Montana.[...]son in Scobey and the Strom family--now including a young daughter--moved to Scobey to own and manage the business. Later a third partner, Ormond W. Paus, entered the busine[...]ge of this business opportunity which was to have a proposed life of five years. The Stroms looked fo[...]lomquist, the present owner. FLOYD A. SUNDERHAUF |
| [...]enson. In 1941 he married Miss Olive Hanisch, a school teacher |
| [...]home. Ruth Alice was born in a house that served as the[...]A Tande reunion was held at the Tande home in the[...]It was a big day when Borre purchased his first[...]enjoyed a successful business and Marie kept busy with[...]household duties. Borre would often bring someone home from the store for a meal during the week.[...]came a long distance and invited them to have Sunday[...]rm which he had purchased. In the summer of 1936 _a[...]After a short time on the farm the children began to find[...]rented out the land and kept only a few head of livestock.[...]Borre and Marie were a devoted couple and Borre felt a[...]ghter Luella run the store. later they moved into a two room d welling--9'x15' in size-- Borre was blessed with a keen mind and was so adept at Tande next to the s[...]lways referred to it as their " shack". They of a grocery list in his head. ' had another shack on land th ey were h omesteading, with a He was a joy to be with and made each one feel very few pi[...]nt post master . The postal perpetuating a custom from Norway by serving them boxes were rig[...]en mind remained had the store and the homestead, a nd h e often talked about with him until his[...]d times together", Borre said, and "we helped one a nother because at that B[...]LY: time. everyone was in the same 'boa t'." They would travel Rachel died c1t age seven in 1924[...]1975. He was an executive pilot to see the doctor or go to church. for Peoples Gas Company in Chicago and a major in the Rachel, their first born, died of[...]unning and eight grandchildren. water and a bathroom.[...]eapolis, Minnesota and is married Borre bought a nice building that had been a drug store to Woodrow Lang ha ug , president of Lutheran and opened a general store. He operated a successful Broth erhood Insurance. Th[...]many years, and had many business gr a ndchildren. interests.[...]Ellendale, Minnesota and is married He opened a second store in Peerless, which he opera ted to Pastor Maurice Dronen. They have a son and daughter. with help, going there from Scobey twice a week to check on His children are grateful for a rich heritage.[...] |
| [...]July 4, 1825 marked the beginning of a mass migration of[...]Olaf, his five brothers and two sisters were a part of that[...]for a year for a young farmer near Aneta, North Dakota,[...]understanding that the money would be repaid in this way. Bob and Lil Tande[...]him. He said it would seem they had just gone to bed when[...]Chris enrolled at Concordia College as a full-time[...]college made available at that time a course of study[...]growing family lived on the homestead in a two-room cabin[...]wed sufficient money the following year to put in a second crop which was a good one.[...]The seventeen-mile trip into Scobey was a long one, and[...]guide him. He said, "I followed the stars across the Lona Rae Tande[...]losion of glass. She subsequently He has been a Scobey volunteer fireman since 1940 and for[...]l and in the cabin wall that had been a window. Old Nellie, for announced and emceed[...]threshing bees, with hammer and nails, put up a quilt to serve as a banquets, race meets and rodeos. Bob a[...] |
| [...]with him the trip was a two-day journey. He and Julia[...]bedded the four children down on quilts in a lumber wagon, Julia Lien Tande (Mrs. Chris 0 .)[...]sleep - and Chris and Julia sat up front on a hard wooden Chrts 0. Tande[...]The winter blizzards were of a violent nature, and it was[...]routine procedure for the homesteader to burn a light in the[...]just such a light. The young couple were caught on the open prairie in a blizzard, saw the light in the window of the cabi[...]headed for it. Had there not been a light they would have peri[...]worked for his brother, Borre, who owned a general m[...]Plentywood, Montana was shot and killed in a courtoflaw by the defendant. This was in July of 1966. Ludvig left a wi[...] |
| [...]t for nine Climax, Minnesota where her husband is a pastor. They years, teaching second and[...]aks, program. California, also married a pastor who is in charge of The Teigen[...]from California, where he had operated a dairy farm south of Scobey. To them were born liv[...]en, Judy, Patty, Linda, Mike and Mary. In 1958 as a barber for Ertes Nash in a shop back of the, then, First they moved to Troy, Montana where they bought a hotel. National Bank. He recalls that there had b[...]in Scobey in 1938. He worked around on farms for a short waiting benches full until early Sunday mor[...]Fred Tollefson was a resident of Scobey from 1926 when[...]racing and was a great favorite of all Saddle Club[...]His son Paul was a star athlete as well as a great weight[...]D TONG In 1929 the shop burned and they opened a shop in the Edward came to Daniels Coun[...]p and went to the Tong school and Scobey |
| [...]In the fall of 1926 Don and I drove to St. Paul, Minnesota in a Ford Coupe and lived there nine months while Don[...]Homme, had a jewelry store and watch repair business[...]a half. Edward and Thealyn Lund[...]has served on the city council, church board, is a |
| [...]ank account we had there, but it was great enough a[...]Mr. Chester Ford had come to Scobey a few years prior to[...]the time that we came and had opened a drug store in the[...]rented a house in southeast Scobey from Ferd Morrison a t[...]Frank Beeks, who brought it in a large tank drawn by two[...]horses. He came twice a week and filled two barrels. It was a problem to keep the water cool until we bought a second[...]ice box. The iceman brought ice every other day, I[...]We burned coal in our kitchen range and in a heater in[...]Later we bought an oil-burning heater. I was happy to have a house to live in rather than those dreadfully hot It was in 1929 that we began to look for a location for a rooms behind the store. I really loved that little shack. jewelry business of our own. A jewelry salesman told us Harvey Killian now has a modern home on that location. that Watford City,[...]on, Montana To supplement our income I worked at the Clerk and and Scobey were towns that could use a jeweler and watch Recorder's office during[...]ur and seed liens. There were 50 to 100 or more of those filed possessions, a bed, a table and four chairs, a three burner every day. Carl Faanes was Clerk[...]Deputy Clerk and Recorder, Ardean Tjomsland, and a few dishes. S.H. Clausin and Company, the[...]artin Homme did business with, gave us credit for a The recreation we liked best was a trip on weekends to beginning stock of jewelry. D[...]hmaking tools while at school and my father built a after its completion. We liked it very much to spend a work bench for him before we left Outlook.[...]ated just north of This house was owned by W.A. MacDougal, former Mrs. Martin Erickson's Woman's[...]as known as the MacDougal later on and I still own and live in it. While " Clothes Closet"[...]Hospital. the first time in over fifty years or more that that building Don died from a heart attach on February 16, 1954 at the has been[...]nd the building adjacent to it on About a year after his death I began work as bookkeeper the north were torn down[...]years retiring Ma y 31, 1971. Gampp building for a store. This we had to do at our own Sco[...]gen us. My father had given us two show cases and a wall case reactivated the gun club.[...] |
| a Steel Behlen building for a club house, dedicating it to the Silver Slipper[...]nty and Saskatchewan, KCGM after a disastrous fire. Canada.[...]ey is the Annual Spring Our daughter Alice has a B.A. degree in English from Institute, a program conducted each spring, featuring Willamet[...]nesota. She was four years of age Ramon Trower, a native of Scobey, started farming at wh[...]family. Donald Trower's land south of Scobey. In a few years time After she was grown Mari[...]lived for a few years in Minnesota. Then, persuaded by[...]father owned a cattle ranch. The Turner's home on this[...]ranch was a sod house, devoid of any modern[...]hours to establish a home for the family. Ramon Trower[...]Back row left to right: William, a cousin, Elizabeth. Second |
| [...]the They made their home in Scobey and a daughter Rhea Ames family. He worked there for many years, then a short was born to bless their home. time at[...]or the county one year '51-'52. Then he and after a year's illness he died in December, 1942.[...]services there. In 1969 his wife Lin was given a position in Bill, Gladys and Earl were in the ser[...]y. Mrs. Turner makes her home still in Scobey--a good Their daughter Rhea attended sch[...]ighbor to family and friends. She has always been a Minneapolis. She married Monte Larson o[...]re works of art and many are manager of a jewelry store and she is legal secretary to a proud to own examples of her work wrought by her[...]came to the United States in 1930. Because he had a and graduated from Outlook High School.[...]at the store until just before her death in 1970--a worked for Ed Spear and Claude Tande a year each; then period of forty-two year[...]-a _·:_::[...]line rails from Scobey to Opheim, Leenhert made a trip home to Holland in 1947. He Mag[...]he United States. It was on this trip that he met a was to leave for Opheim to establish a drug store. Alec and young lady from Holla[...] |
| and Maggie was their apprentice. She continued under a number of pharmacists over the years, as well as[...]n 1917 and for about twenty years was employed as a meat cutter at Frank's Meat Market. During his yo[...]"Joe" Walker played semi- professiona ha eball as a catcher and centerfielder on teams in North Dakot[...]Ordean and Ronald Butch) came t Scobey in 1949 in a snow storm from Oph i where Al had been employed as Lena a[...]Al's Cafe He came to Scobey as an R.E.A. construction contractor. employed as vice-p[...]k the job of manager for the Grain Bank. Donna, a medical secretary, is not working at |
| GEORGE WELDELE MEMORIES I came in 1913 to seek a homestead and employment, and had a claim about eight miles northeast. I went from Medicine Lake to Opheim via Scobey and Old Scobey to squat on a homestead with a friend who had a wagon pulled by a team of broomtails which played out south of Flaxville. We took the broomtails to a stopping place, then returned to the wagon to protect the groceries from swifts; slept a little in the wagon box until the kerosene burned[...]miles northwest of Opheim; found homestead, hired a man by the name of Mule Nelson to haul me l um her for a shack. On the way into Scobey I changed my mind; I decided to go back to Medicine Lake. The first tr[...]ut of Scobey as we came over Old Scobey hill, but I walked to Flaxville to catch a ride to Medicine Lake. I got there Christmas Eve (after nearly freezing again), riding in a well-filled Model T rear seat with my feet hanging outside ..... some trip. But I came back to Flaxville after Christmas and have b[...]itor and maintenance work. In 1969 we established a greenhouse business and began restoring horse-dra[...]and helped in the business. There is also a daughter, Helen[...]California. Scobey in about 1927 from Oregon as a tobacco and sundry Wally also owned an interest in a sawmill and mining ' salesman. Deciding to stay i[...]he liked the operation at Twin Bridges for a number of years prior to country and the people,[...]ork for Club Billiards, Wally also Carol A., married to Russell E. Malone of Kansas. She is[...]y Clerk and Recorder for Daniels County and he is a Scobey and also in the Line Coulee area.[...]l Home with the county and Cliff is a School Board Trustee for School transportation fo[...]ct Number One. They have three children: Douglas, a A son, Dean L. Wolfard, by a previous marriage, student at Mont[...]and deceased in March, 1968, lived in Scobey for a short time Donald and Lori, both st[...] |
| [...]where she is a registered nurse and he is a doctois[...]after a short illness.[...] |
| [...]me here in 1915. He and his father, Lyle Working, a Running the dray in Old Scobey before 1915 was[...]carpenter, built the mill here. They also built a good home Ohlmann. Later his mother and st[...] |
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| [...]passenger train. We migrated from Scobey to a point 23 miles northwest of there, later to be known as Butte Valley or Butte Creek. I might add the name "Butte Valley" was a name my mother suggested and was adopted when th[...]ttoms; the others followed with disc and harrows or drag outfits. This road ran angling across We would gather these in sacks and lay in a supply during country at times and on section li[...]ry to go to and brought them back. I've often thought they most likely Glasgow to hire a teacher. It was a four day trip with team entered the U.S. illegally. Quite a lot of our homestead was and buggy or wagon. We had three months of school in-the[...]the teacher had nothing more than an I remember a fellow by the name of Bill Gibson who later eight[...]lived in Scobey and ran a shoe shop. He drove his milk cow It amuses me[...]e kids as far for his transportation. He had a son named Lawrence and as four miles. The Charles Danelson kids and the Peter a daughter named Dorothy. Kleeman kids walked this distance. I remember that when There were many community socials held at the Butte we got a lane from our farm to school, our folks thought w[...]ebrations had it made, as we couldn't get lost in a blizzard in the and so forth. At almost[...]young men and ladies would put on a horse quadrille, One very stormy winter day our teacher let school out at which was sort of a square dance on horses. Very 11 A.M. and we were fortunate enough to catch a ride home fascinating to watch if everything went well. with a good lookingfellownamedJoeLough. He had anew One of the first threshing machines I ever saw in action 30-30 rifle in the sleigh box and a coyote he had shot that was owned and operated by[...]Thanksgiving Day. Had to help the tractor (a Case) went on to Scobey that day and proceeded to[...]ll girlfriend and her daughter that night, and as I recall he of the grain had been cut and st[...]s were very scarce at this time. Later In 1915 a fellow by the name of Fatty Wilson set a prairie Ernie Peterson and Ed Battleson had a[...]eek near Scobey. All Feltis also bought a Case steam threshing outfit in of the farmers and[...]the way down. horses, comparable to what we call a hide race now. This It was fired with coal, straw or hay. was a terrible fire, as the grass was near knee deep and a lot Another incident I recall was told by George Monahan, of hay stacks were in the path of it. I believe there were "the Jolly Irishman", and a great storyteller. He said he livestock losses, b[...]went up to visit the late Frank Miller and a guy we called A few years later in the early 20's we had another[...]orge, whom they didn't realize was there, up when a hay stack caught on fire.[...]in our area, as we had lignite house with a shovel and at almost the same time the stove coal[...]heir cooking supper came through the door setting a summer fuel was horse berries (inedible) a[...] |
| [...]uss as it scared the horses to death as it passed or met[...]Another oddity was a man who brought a load of hired[...]ceeded to take the bus body from its chassis, put a[...]n box on it and really went commercial. He sat in a[...]the time I started to school we had Mrs. Woodly for our Kill[...]teacher. They lived up on Coal Creek, a distance of about Killenbeck, Madge Morris (teacher), June Johnson, Shirley seven miles. She would walk home about twice a week and Johnson, George Blanc, Verna Gebhardt, K[...]ebhardt, and Kathleen Blanc. kids would go to school and have a good time until we saw her coming, then we would all go home and tell our folks the[...]ever came. Many of the old timers will remember I can well remember A.A. Hames who moved down from Mr. Woodly. He was a very good sign painter. Most of the Canada and settled on a farm about two miles from our old bus[...]rner he had his trademark, head of cattle and six or eight horses) as well as his drink- "Woodly did it". The last one of these I remember to go was ing and house water. This was a daily chore winter and the one full le[...]orth wall on the Ponderosa Bar. summer, certainly a most unpleasant job in winter during It[...]supper. These games were played with I remember an incident which seems rather humorous blood in your eyes. It was very important to win. As I recall now. This happened to my mother at the[...]e elected to cook the oyster stew. Somehow he got a box of them discovered about half were r[...]tten eggs and with it. This mistake nearly caused a riot, as the stew was we sells rotten eggs.[...]nd the winners of that round settled for crackers I In about 1915 or 16 I remember going to probably the first guess.[...]of July and it was In the mid 20's, about 1925 or 26 the Truax ranch bought hot and dry. The only name I can recall in connection with five or six buffalo. These were hauled past our school the rodeo was a fellow by the name of "Rees tow". I believe locked in a crate, one per truck. Truax's two new GMC he was later convicted or at least tried for horse or cattle trucks. were about the only ones in the co[...]ll remind me of that long ago the herd grew to 40 or more head, but the Truax brothers 4th of July. I also recall as a kid each 4th of July some of the were .interested[...]mining business at Noonan, city fathers would set off dynamite. It made a terrible noise North Dakota and they eventually s[...]farm which is still Another amusing story I remember was told by George called the "buffalo pasture". It is growing grain now. As I Monahan regarding Gus Jenson. Gus farmed in[...], Sr. was Truax's foreman. Creek area for a number of years and he also dug many of He was Ho[...]the water wells around the country and had a threshing There was a lot of grain hauled by tractor as trucks were[...]Gus got ready to not very plentiful. The farmers would haul about four start threshing. He said it was a very quiet day if Gus d~dn't wagons and grain tanks behind a 30-60 Altman Taylor have at least three teams h ave a runaway at one time or tractor at a top speed of four miles per hour. Some people[...]the Butte Creek hauled from the Opheim area. This would be at least a four Club. He had one of the best windups I believe I have ever day trip if all went well. These wagons hauled 125 bushels witnessed and was a horrible pitcher. I shall always each-500 bushels to the trip. It is[...]gons with our modern method of truck- I'm sure. ing from 300 to 500 bushels at one load a[...]untry working here and At about this same time a fellow by the name of Thorson, there, a saddle tramp I guess they call them nowadays in who owned the ol[...]ey,converted the story books. He was a familiar figure in this area. There his car to what we call truck tractor now and pulled a two- was also Wilmar Davis and Meldon Jones[...]the fact good bucking horse riders. Another I might mention along that the trailer had large wooden wheels with iron tires. I these lines was the late Leo Kleeman. He was one of the think he probably hauled from 70 to 100 bushels of grain in best saddle bronc riders I ever saw. He could have ably this outfit. It might be added it caused many a horseman to competed at Madison Square Garden I believe. He didn't[...] |
| [...]at times cost him the 1st place money because he would lose Scobey belonged for one year. This club has continued a stirrup or some other small detail and get disqualified. steadily until the present time of 1976 but took on a new Leo was also a tremendous trick rider as good or better than name as the Coal Creek youngster[...]bers, seve~ of the Milton an old stock saddle and a horse he broke himself. Too bad Fladager[...]mbers and now in the new area are G.M. Chapman, O.A. Wyman, Mrs. Frank Fouhy, generation[...]kee, among others. Leaders have been, some people I have inadvertently left out. I was quite young to name a few, Lawrence and Florence Larson, Anna Belle whe[...]dersen, Bob Fouhy, Milton never feel they will be a part of the history of the county and and Lois[...]ase excuse me as it wasn't intentional. There are a number of the second generation still in the area[...]s, some of the Kleeman 's, Lowthians, Erstad's, O.A. Wyman's and FRANK AND EDITH FOUHY FAMILY 1904 to 1975 Drummonds. I am the only second generation Jones left here.[...]brother) that this club began in about 1924 with A.W. Worden as the followed us to the Corona[...]ard of land in Montana.at Butte Creek project and a brood sow for the next year. Tony Kleeman, in[...]along with boys from other clubs. He also recalls a county In July 1913, Charley and Fred J[...]ettle in Butte Creek. So home canned foods , even a baby contest, was the airplane Frank and Bob bought a plow and team of horses and ran a which came up from Williston and gave rides to al[...]s and Charles on running board. into the 40's was a girls' club known as the Happy Hearth and Home He[...]In about 1935 Willie Fladager was the leader of a group ot Peerless area boys. Some of the early me[...]beef breeding. In about 1948 Milton Fladager was a leader of a boys' club with some of its members being[...] |
| [...]had a feed barn and hotel. Luke Murphy had a feed bar, surveyed at the time and the state pick[...]Albert Lavang a blacksmith shop, Efler a store, McCarthy but where people were living left[...]a cafe and Art Olson loan office. The town was move[...]). We brought down seven head of oxen and hired a settler,[...]1925-with great excitement. Battlesons had a hardware from early spring till last of June. In[...]a hotel, Pauline Brockway the Post Office and store[...]alley As they had school age children we needed a school, so[...]ormed in 1913 asked the board at Oswego to_put up a school and they[...]the county seat over Madoc by teacher if we built a school, which we did. All the[...]esteading. We got our mail at Coal Creek at first or at[...]where the railroad had come in 1913. Later we had a post office in Battlesons' home, then at the Hamm[...]e lived at Glasgow. In 1916 we decided to build a house, getting the lumber from J.R. McCurdy Lumber Co. in Scobey. We had a spring of water at the foot of a hill and piped the water into the house and on to[...]rrals. We farmed with horses with eight head on a gang plow. In winter the young horses were kept i[...]many as 100 head of horses at one time. We traded a truckload of yearling colts to Mr. Mallee of Dodson, for a Model A truck. Ted Bales with our outfit-1917. Fr[...] |
| [...]We planted wild plum trees and I picked and sold to[...]We bought a Delco light plant in 1926 and put in a pressure pump and I had an iron, washing machine and[...]In 1950 Frank and I visited our daughter, Lillian who[...]the country so decided to retire there. We bought a[...]ived there five years when Frank passed away from a cerebral hemmorage. I continued to live there until I sold the place and bought a house in town. In 1969, I decided to[...]by the Catholic Church, where I sill reside. I celebrated my 80th birthday last June with a surprise party given by my[...]raise a few flowers. I have lots of friends and good[...]neighbors, for which I am very thankful. I have almost completed a genealogy of the Fouhy family[...]irst celebration in Scobey in 1914 and camped in a tent for three days with our Canadian friends Mr[...]he walls. Christina M. Fouhy, was one of a set ·of twins born at Walter Warden was our e[...]his garage and He grew up in Butte Creek on a homestead that his Earl Vanee was on hand with a light plane to give rides at parents had filed on[...]00 each. We put insulators on fence posts and had a 1912 from Iowa by way of Canada. telephone line. We had a radio and left the receiver off the His schooling through the grades was in a one room hook at times so the neighbors could li[...]was inducted into the service where he served as a machine Mary, who married Ray Kragness and lives[...]a, who 1s eastern France by mortar fire and after a brief stay in the Mrs. Richard Schipman and lives on a ranch near Glen- hospital he rejoined his outfit;[...]Peerless; David, who was November 1945. killed in a car accident in June 1950 west of Four Buttes.[...]hool, which was in Walter Truax place and started a farming ranching continuous use from 1915 to June[...]ed this partnership by buying We always raised a large garden, chickens, and geese. out their brot[...]their farming and ranching and operate We planted a grove of trees and some years had corn ripen unde[...]In 1918, the war years when labor was hard to get I daughter of Mary Rose and the late Earl C. Trotte[...]was born at Jordan, Montana). plow disc and drag. I also acted as a mid-wife for many of Four children were born to them: Mary Kay, a registered my neighbors in the community, one especially, a French nurse, worked in Scobey for Dr. Fitz for two years and at lady who could not speak English. I could not understand this time has returned to co[...]o picnics Uncle Charles on the farm; Laura Mae is a senior and play ball and pitch horse shoe.[...] |
| [...]Laurence and Nellie bought a home in Scobey in 1960,[...]hillsides about a mile apart overlooking a big valley of knee[...]grass. This is what became known as Butte Valley or[...](Trotter) Fouhy wedding picture - and wagon or hayrack. Saddlehorses were used to drive the Nove[...]g the years Laurence has been an active member on a number of boards and committees. He served on the[...]Committee for over ten years, part of the time as a member and part of the time as chairman. Before this he was a community committeeman for a number of years. He is on the board of directors[...]ors of the Scobey radio station, K.C.G.M., and is a director on the board ofNolanr Implement,[...] |
| [...]over by a train.[...]Richland until Albert took a job at Fort Peck and worked to[...]from Nashua. This situation was changed when a new[...]rles has never married. He farms and ranches with a[...]d Donald. She succeeded Reese as Postmaster in A homestead shack and a sod barn were ready for the 1973. They[...]material for the sides Jeanne married Lloyd A. Fossum and farmed several of the barn. The lumbe[...]north of Richland . They also owned and operated a hauled by team and wagon from Poplar, a three or fo ur day bar at Richland before moving to Pacific, Washington to trip. In 1926 Bob built a big new home which sfll stands work in re[...]ried. He has The h illside spring proved to be a very valuable asset. It worked with his brother[...]using only gravity flow. since receiving a degree in welding there. Eleven children were bor[...]ina then came back to the home place to Ii ve for a few Fort Peck when the project there began. Clare[...]Clarence's death Julia worked for seven years as a draftsman at Fort Peck and Garrison Dam in North Dakota. She met and married Edward Bittner, a Wisconsin dairy farmer and has lived in Dorcheste[...]ALFRED A. HAMES Lavina became a school teacher, and after a few years married Homer Powell. Six children were[...]r., Maxine, Jerry, Gordon and Alfred A. Hames came to the Peerless area in 1913. He Lynn[...]Alfred met them with a team and wagon and brought them[...]Luella. He operated a blacksmith shop at Battleson,[...]Alfred was talented in music and would often entertain[...]in Daniels County, he would have been 92 the following[...] |
| [...]vacation and Roy was trying to repair a .22 rifle when it[...]the doctor. Roads were blocked with snow a-nd the nearest[...]to Peerless and then on a railroad hand car "behind a[...]to be cared for as an invalid in a wheel chair. Roy was an[...]inspiration to the community, he always had a smile and[...]would always remember him with a birthday party and would make many visits to cheer him up but would always[...]Fred is a pastor in Powell, Wyoming. He and Ida Bess[...]two boys, Ross and Robin. Carol is working in a bank in[...]has a son, Todd. Lorna is married to Jim Woodridge of[...]reational Director. Winifred lives at home and is a sophomore in the Peerless high school.[...] |
| [...], younger brother, Fredrick, and me, Lalon. As I said the year was 1912, when Dad and Uncle Charlie first came to what would later become Daniels County. They went ahead of t[...]d homesteads. They staked their claims below what would later come to be known as "the Jones Hill" and plowed a furrow around them-Fred on the East side of the h[...]each family taking five huad. Oxen far out pull a horse and breaking the remainder of our Peerless. He married a local girl, Winifred Himli, and they farm was con[...]eventually settled in Spokane where he operates a Pooling manpower and lumber, Butte Creek schoo[...]bile home business (Northwest Mobil built in 1917 or 1918. Through the course of the years it was_ H[...]d card parties in winter. It seems In 1934, I was married to Verna Gebhardt. My dad rented as I look back on early days in the area we had a lot of fun. his land on Butte Creek to me and in 1936 I also became Up until 1920 there was no Daniels[...]ger of the Farmers Union Oil Company in Peerless, a of Valley with · Glasgow as the county seat. The trip of position I held for 36 years until 1972. Currently I am Glasgow was a three to four day affair by team and buggy[...]'s bookkeeping. During my years of hire teachers or pay taxes. In 1920 Daniels County was m[...]out to see who the state. The station has a modern plant, handling would become the county seat. Scobey won.[...]No crops; no machinery. We never missed a year of paying patronage money. I guess our cattle were the only thing that kept us[...]s picked up and we patrons as they retired. I am very proud of our record I left had some good crops, but 1930 saw us drop into the dust the company as manager. I have also expanded my bowl area where ·we remain[...]and pushed out of the limited amount I rent, as of 1974 the remainder of my land country. During this period I graduated from Scobey High plus a cattle expansion is operated by my son, Ronnie, and School (1931). When I was a Junior, I lived at the Holyk son-in-law, Roger Kasuske. Verna and I have three Hotel and batched. My father gave me $[...]d which bought my food and was my spending money. I lived to Roger Kasuske, and Garnet marri[...]once in We also have nine granchildren. I have served several awhile. During those bad time[...]t, the Commun- very well for himself. He built up a good dirt contracting ity Club, T.V. transl[...]ion) with lots of hard work and have been a charter member helping to organize and get sleepl[...]other moved to Minot where Fredrick make a better place for our generation and the future fi[...]generations to live. The Lord should find a place for all Fredrick came back and gradu[...] |
| [...]te, Saskatchewan, when they decided to venture to a new land to homestead in the Butte Creek area. Their belongings were loaded in an immigrant car, a covered wagon, and a buggy. The immigrant car came as far as Whitetail and from there the cows were trailed home. A relative had come earlier to build a homestead shack for the family. The two- room shack was 16' by 32' and this was to be the home of a Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kleeman family of seven chi[...]ew had families to celebrate with so they made it a with us. Later they moved into the Carbert area.[...]homestead to the Horse Shoe Basin area. A tornado struck Mother helped many of the neighb[...]ey had to In the fall of the year Dad would run a threshing rig attend Confirmation services in Sco[...]using his steam engines. Sometimes the weather would not there on time, they had to leave home at 2 o'clock in the agree and they would be held up in places for a long time. morning with the wagon and team of hor[...]a (Mrs. Ted Rustebakke), Tony, Dad was a cattle buyer and made many trips by rail with an[...]k to St. Paul and other market points. He covered a[...]youngest girl, passed a way very suddenly in 1936. She was only a sophomore in high school.[...]they moved to Peerless. Dad stilJ would go to the farm[...]town as a pastime.[...]In 1959 Mother fulfilled one of her many dreams, a trip to[...]she left in 1897. It was a wonderful reunion as many of her cousins and a sister were still living.[...] |
| [...]so coming to Daniels County to farm was a new adventure Pete Kleeman's memories:[...]Don Chapman, Guy Miller and R. wintertime. As a barefoot boy he used to herd cattle and- H[...]he Butte When he was old enough to work for a living he took Creek Community. They set up a tent in which they lived various jobs. He can[...]oveling corn to feed 300 while they built a tar paper sha ck. The shack was la ter steers, for $17 a month. He picked corn for two cents a moved to the land east of Richland , pur[...]uling manure about two miles he received 10 cents a while the men were asleep, some range horses came a nd load.[...]rubbed on the window sill until one broke a window. Don He was expected to start his wo[...]ile the stars jumped out of bed and grabbed a meat fork , gave the horse were still shining in the morning, and it was 9 or 10 o'clock a jab, and the horse took off, fork and all. They also built a in the evening before he could quit for supper. 28 x 60 ft. sod barn and a sod shop. Anticipating the arrival "I was 6' 3" tall, and I would get so hungry after a day of his wife in June when her term of school was out (she was walking behind a plow that I could hardly navigate," he a school teacher), Phil built a two-room house a fourth of a says. "One day I said to myself: 'When milking-time comes m[...]inal building site. Mail arrived only tonight I am going to help myself to the first cow I milk.'" when someone made the thirty mile tre[...]cobey and made "One day," he says, "the man I worked for came into the her way to the hotel of One-Eyed Molly , where sh e slept barn while I was helping myself to the milk. He said, 'Look[...]the door and the town seemed quite uncivilized to a "Fortunately the boss was understanding and had a sense young lady who had never ventured[...]Scobey. He caught a team off the prairie and with a buggy[...]made the trip to Scobey. He found Georgetta a t the depot[...]e Larson of set forth for home eating a picnic lunch on the open prairie Butte Creek[...]te amazed that there were no shady spots to eat a picnic. They Creek school and then moved buil[...]ssed on to G.M. school board for 21 years, a school which was attended by Chapman, now Joy[...]ed by daughter 1922 the Lowthians had a son, Archie, who now resides in Peggy Ann two[...]Gregerson place, (once Noblett, and has a son, Leonard. In 1925 another son , Offetts a[...]ner of Peerless and moved in most they have a home of their own on the farm where Phil first[...]rried Milton Flad ager and they have six sons and a Both children liked the farm and 4-H.[...]married Donna Slaughter. Georgetta lived a full life which saw hard times and good. They[...]er Daughter, Peggy Ann is now Sr. Paula OSB a nursing sister, she had a Masters Degree. She moves around, but her hom[...]The good smell of creeping cedar when burned was a[...]ur entire community, adults and children, enjoyed a real[...]turkeys and kept them hot until serving time . A long table[...] |
| [...]Peerless and in 1926 to Opheim, I bought a model T truck in 1925 and a second hand 18-36 Hart-Par in 1929-by the[...]b and wooden box, from By O.A. Wyman Davis and Sh[...]run something like this years-'15 and '16 were I don 't know when the Indians left this country. I[...]t if we'd had spray we opened for settling quite a few settlers were here before it would have had a crop in '35. I had a little crop, but '36, '37 was surveyed.[...]we had rust, but from then on things have been I came out here in March 1916 and filed on the home[...]an the office. My filing went then has made a big difference. to Glasgow the 18th of April. I couldn't pay my taxes for seven years, also seed[...]ots of snow. ahead and got things the way I wanted till in the 1950's. WintP.r lasted from N[...]went Scobey was all mud no walks only boards. I met Alfred through, there were some good times as I look back, but Kiser, Fred Jones , and a man bythenameofSmith, hewas there were[...]of the first ones that were on saloons. These men I met were in to get two four loads of Butt[...]n Arizona, lumber for the Butte Creek school , so I got a chance to ride Oscar Olsen, somewhere in the west, Edith Fouhy now at out. I wanted to get to Carl Hammerbys. I knew him and Scobey, and myself living[...]t. Smith had an extra horse along somewhere near Coyote Coulee he wanted to get him hitched up, he got hi[...]shot him. We stayed at Fred Jone's that night and I walked to Carl's next Jess Myro Slaughter was born in Independence, Iowa. morning. I don't know how I got over Butte Creek, as that He came to[...]mesteaded near whole flat was covered with water, I stayed with the boys Outlook, Montana. He married Beulah Motschenbacher in about a week. There had been a fire in the fall ofl915 so the 1917 at Plenty[...]ed 7-1/2 miles northwest of Peerless in the Butte I never shot so many gophers in my life, big husky[...]ased state lands, adding deeded lands to this. I was going to go to Scobey with Luke Murphy, but when They built a new home there in 1929. Mrs. Slaughter taught we[...]Due to Jesse's ill health, they purchased a home in Scobey and said the road was closed, so L[...]s in 1950. After his death in 1954, Beulah bought a and I walked to Scobey.[...]cobey and lived there until her death in 1958. I never met anybody nor did anybody come my way un-[...]on the hill west of Scobey, then Dick Coughlin in a mod- el T and I rode with him , boy was I tired! The water had Jesse and Beulah Slaughter gone down , but they had a snat team on each end of the bridge, the road fro[...]milk cows. They had every- thing to start with , I saw several crates of chickens, several of the ro[...]be happy. Somewhere around 1916 the state took a lot of this land for school purposes, they took t[...]e, to induce it to get settled. Spring of 1916 I went back to North Dakota and worked on a well drilling outfit, came back in the fall (Octo[...]foot hitch roof, one roll ofroof- ing got lost so I didn't have any on the south side-the level got broken so I got the sills level by using my water bottle. Summer of 1917 I got Alex Mallard and Tom Larson to break 20 acres , I went back to North Dakota and enlisted in the Arm[...]n the fall of 1919 and have been here ever since. I bought my first team of horses in 1922 and put in[...]hen 19 days with Harold Edlund, wages were $7 .00 a day for team and man and that was good mon[...] |
| [...]Carol and family at Richland until he passed a way in 1964.[...] |
| [...]Tom Holyk and Thorpe had a trap line. They didn't catch By Randall Thorpe and B. Christianson Family _ much. He had a 22 rifle they got someplace and they found[...]put powder in a bowl and then put some paper wads in and[...]tapped the end of the bolt with a pair of pliers. They tried Carbert store and post office got it's name from Bert tapping the gun in the mi[...]out hard and it went off. It sounded like a shot went off and it of it. He started the store[...]combination. He made his mother scream and a couple of women across the had a son.[...]and gave the sheriff the one that born at Carbert or Scobey; Chris, Owen, Eileen and twins wa[...]nto Scobey in belonged to Tom Holyk, so I gave him a bill of sale for the 1926 and tried a radio shop near Burton's restaurant, in 22. Tom got the gun, I got the traps and the sheriff got back of some gu[...]t and that way they got it all radios but let out a lot of credit and didn't get a crop enough settled and calmed down and we were[...]winter. Thorpe remembers going to Humbert's with a team of horses and wagon and buying a wagon load of old bones for $2.00 a load. The bones were all blanched and white becau[...]5.00 each. Mr. Thorpe also remembers and said "I don't know how Dan Henderson found out." But we were out of coal and in a blizzard he went out in his coal mine and delivered a load of coal to us. We had chopped some of the fl[...]we had to keep warm and we didn't know there was a storm coming. I'll never forget him for that. Here in Scobey d[...]an was supposed to have killed his wife so nobody would live in that house and they called it the Haunted[...]explored it and found out it had no basement just a cellar. They decided to use it for a hideout to smoke and while they were down[...] |
| [...]These years were the ones in which there was a at the age of 37 with vast enthusiasm for the fut[...]what is now Daniels possible was accented by a walkout of20 harvest hands (all County and northe[...]im break and sow several conditions after a 30 day wait for a dry up which included hundred acres of virgin lan[...]free meals for all of the crew. provided him with a partial financial cushion for the Mec[...]and techniques and practice using machinery year or two.[...]Bennett's primary "Ranch", and sold, a "Gopher Gun". This was a long tube interest. He and his partner, J.P. Devaney, a Minneapolis attached to a sack of gopher poison. At the top of the tube, at[...]e and directly beneath the sack, there was a spring loaded Court of Minnesota, continued to bu[...]ions in the area until they, at their releasing a measured amount of the poison. This was used peak[...]se, controlled around 8,000 acres oflands by a rider on horseback to accurately drop poisoned oa[...]of Scobey to Opheim. He the edge of a gopher hole. By this method, many acres of contin[...]gopher-infested ground could be covered in a day. There are lands the partnership had obtained, and in addition did still a few of these gopher guns around in the community.[...]married at Deer Lodge, Montana. They established a across the line in Canada.[...]In the late teens and early twenties he built a farmstead born in those early years: Peyton in[...]ty miles northwest of Scobey, the "Home Ranch" as a Bennett, Jr. in 1921 , and Gordon in 1922.[...]id active youngsters clean enough to recognize, Isetta helped considerable blacksmithing[...] |
| [...]ett and John rains but the crop rusted out--- a summary of 1938 and the P. Devaney spent conside[...]ntry 31, 1938: Townsite and Land Co., a coi ""\Oration formed by Messrs. "Person[...]ive right to own , Planted and grew a great stand of grain, the kind we have subdivide[...]extinct), Wheat is selling for about 45¢ a bushel ifitis good, as low Peerless, Richland, G[...]nd nothing to feed it to. We tried the FSA for a loan but expect completed in 1926.[...]good year in the eleven past, and the county did a very brisk business selling lots in these new tow[...]wing up in the healthy debts were figured would be about $9,000. So figure it out atmosphere of a small town, everyone was healthy and for yourself. My head aches and I have a pain I can't happy, and a new member came along; Judith, who was[...]iversity of Townsite and Land Co. appeared to be a sleeping financial Oregon for the impending[...]The expense of the move was paid for by a slight-of-hand Then came the infamous thirtie[...]d good friend, Ed Battleson wherein Ed gave Jim a current up and produced nothing but deficits; as a result of the dated check in return for a postdated check with the drouth, the real estate[...]the North Country understanding that Ed would not cash Jim's check until Townsite and Land Co.[...]t as possible during these years, Jim company to a limbo status.[...]ry in J.V. Bennett's diary for December 31, 1931 would more graphically describe the change from the[...]rnment the land which became the " The end of a disastrous year. About everything but Fed[...]for the State of Montana we look back we can see a few things we sbf uld be grateful Unemploymen[...]od Distribution Board under the Montana Trade A " Wonderful" year has just elapsed. Between seede[...]the return of moisture to the plains far, except a few lots. Very little ground summer fallowed and an increase in the price of grain, provided a swift for next year. The average decline in stock[...]and visions of 1915 started to become a reality for Jim unemployment and with labor saving machinery. Think Bennett. there always will be; that or a six hour day. The old year is The family re[...]ldren were able to really could not look for such a complete washout in complete their ed[...]raveled considerably during the winters and built a home 1935 crop which was fair and for whic[...] |
| During these later years, J.V. Bennett devoted a lot of children. The Carney family later move[...]1 and worked out of Plentywood as techniques that would avoid such bitter disasters in the a salesman for the Rumley Oil Pull Company, and fut[...]lands grew too great and he filed on a homestead in the[...]"locater" was S.E. Richardson, a pionee in the Coal Creek[...]Bench", a vision these hardy pioneers had for the land, was[...]d to pool the limited assets together to purchase a[...]left, Gordon; right, The equipment ran 24 hours a day with each shift working James V. Bennett, Jr.[...]12 hours. The flax produced up to 18 or 14 bushels per acre at a price of $2.50 per bushel to give each member of[...]Golden Bench Land Company a start in the farming[...]ennis has three children. J.V. Bennett,Jr. became a hotel executive and has served as assistapt manag[...]necke of Helena and they have two children. He is a district judge at Helena. Judith married Edwin[...]was Arvilla, North,Dakota, the eighth child from a family of12 not work in this community[...] |
| [...]Ed, a former state senator, is director of the Departme[...]"See this hole in this straw hat of dad's? I am going to[...]ce, the heritage. John Edward Carney formed a baseball team that played other teams on both |
| [...]John and Anne Conboy began their married life on a Ukraine, later moving with his parents to Austria[...]and Thomas. When then to Manitoba and in 1923 to a farm north of Scobey. Thomas the youngest w[...]ing The sons are Andrew of Keene, North Dakota, I van of to North Dakota, so Mrs. Conboy dec[...]and Nellie Chornuk of They settled on a farm at Bowbells, North Dakota. Bismarck, Mrs. To[...]ry) of Paulson, Montana Kathryn taught at a country school in this community. and Mrs. Nick H[...]way January 5, 1962, in North World War I began. Thomas enlisted in the Army in the Dakota[...]ch 1918. After serving one year overseas, he with a heart condition, but had been visiting in Scobey just received his honorable discharge at Glasgow, in April a few days before his last illness. Mr. and Mrs. Chornuk 1919. last year had moved from Scobey to a farm he purchased Jack enlisted also but[...]Jack continued to live on the homestead for a time. Then[...]tinued to Probably the only thatch roof barn with a steep pitch roof, live in Scobey and through the[...]his structure 32 miles northwest of Scobey is not a relic of stores, The Knapp and Crandell Mercantil[...]she lived until her death in Richardson. Although a common sight in Europe and 1962. Asia, a steep pitch roof in Western U.S. is a rarity. In the years between 1923 and 1[...]About 1925, Scobey had a professional baseball club.[...] |
| [...]rd, Mary Ann, and Robert. In 1931, Tom operated a Bowling Alley in the basement of the Gorham Hotel[...]THIS I REMEMBER JIM AND PHOEBE COLLINS[...]In the fall of 1912, D.C. Knapp, Jack Conboy, A.W.[...]g church from Plentywood and that Scobey would be a good location |
| [...]We now return to the time spent at the A.N. Tande ranch.[...]reek where he had located and said that there was a nice[...]hunk ofland up west of him. He told us to go take a look at[...]we did and it looked pretty good to us. D.C. and I decided to take a chance and locate even though we knew[...]In the spring of 1916, we formed a company of ten and bought a. 30-60 Oil Pull Rumley tractor, an eight bottom[...]tting his breaking done at the same time. It made a three[...]to fill the seeder box when we were running as in a full line of groceries and other supplies, and soon had a we carried flax seed in bags on the platform an[...]acked and seeded 1025 acres of flax. taking about a week to make the round trip to and from[...]vested about 15 bushels of flax per acre, Poplar, a sixty mile trip each way. We had been in business which we hauled to Scobey. I think we got about two there about three months, when we heard that the "Soo" dollars a bushel for it. The years 1917 and 1918 were line[...], North failures. In 1919 there was a short crop. I think that I had Dakota. The Soo Line was the rival railroad,[...]crop on the bench that year due to the fact that I they started to build that, this sparked the Grea[...]w fields. At that time there were-no fences or herd laws, and country .that would be opening up to new settlers. The the[...]the time we were ready to start threshing we had a the townsite where Scobey now stands. A lot sale was held heavy snow storm and the[...]er we sale. Now that the townsite was settled and a lot was got a big chinook and most of the snow melted. We got b[...]cold again. Crandell store and other businessmen. A man named John Trying to thresh was som[...]as hired to do the moving. The first burned a mixture of kerosene and water. The water had to b[...]he Smith & Boyd Saloon were threshing a neighbor came by and asked us if we were and tbe[...]ur store was crazy to be out threshing on a day like that. Did we know the south half of the[...]how cold it was. It was 40 below that morning. I think that Minneapolis Store, later named the Knapp and Crandell was stretched a bit, but after hearing that we all about froze Mercantile Company. I well remember the first time I saw stiff, which proves that the mind does have a control over Ed Burton. He was going up the street behind a dray loaded the body. with his pots and pans, and a large restaurant stove. He One of the first things that a homesteader tried to do was soon set up in busine[...]ne after he has built his shack is to dig a well or get a well dug. steaks which were his specialty. He had[...]d not reach Scobey found an ant hill, water would be found close by. Jack until Thanksgiving Day, 1913, Scobey was a busy place, Con boy found a large ant hill close to his shack and having - ha[...]upplies still had to be freighted from Plentywood or the know that ants are very proper people and resented this main line. It was almost a year after the "steel" reached vile[...] |
| [...]n to haul and winter supplies to put in. This was a digging doing double quick time and with each st[...]the mill and had it ground. Dried birthday suit. I doubt very much if he ever tried digging in[...]ght. Prunes and apricots were Some time later a well was started at the D.C. Knapp bou[...]their grocery orders to Montgomery Ward- or the M.W. feet wide and down about forty feet. It was a Sunday Savage companies who at that[...]al mines close got busy and dug in that well she would bake some pies and by. Most of the people[...]winter socializing good pies and the promise of a home cooked meal was very began with ca[...]ere the order of the day. Everyone seemed to have a good dig in that well on a Sunday morning. We had other plans time[...]erally be depended In the spring for a while everyone was busy, but after the upon to c[...]hey did not have to spend all summer thought that would be fine but they had better test the well[...]now. in case blackdamp had formed. Blackdamp was a deadly Picnics, ball games, barn d[...]mostly for Mrs. Knapps benefit, as she I had quit the store business sometime before this[...]re changing. We had come to the end conversation. A lantern was got and carefully lit, and as[...]actors. The carefully put out, so that Mrs. Knapp would not see this days of horse farming was ending. My brother Gordon was happen. Mrs. Knapp was a very nervous and emotional out of[...]ost went into hysterics. She said she a few days in town, and Gordon decided to go back o[...]She told them she door open, and four or five of a neighbors pigs on the floor didn't want any of th[...]me cooked meal, and In the spring I bought my first tractor and the needed that was t[...]k supplies to go with it, including a barrel oflubricating oil. "earned" a good home cooked meal. To make it nice and handy I built a nice stand and put a While we are on well stories, another story co[...]low, so when we came in from the fields at night, I would Wyman Feltis had a well boring outfit and was looking for put a five gallon pail under the faucet and open it abo[...]to bed asked ifhe knew of anyone that might want a well dug, and I would go out an shut the faucet off. But one night, I forgot Jack told him, "Yes there is a fellow over there that wanted this little job, never thinking about it till I opened my eyes a well dug. But when you ask him, talk loud. He is[...]in the morning. You can well imagine the rest. I had a full hearing." Jack told him he would go over with him. The pail all right[...]on the ground. The man in question was Frank Nye, a very prim and proper tough part of t[...]y to replace it was Wyman walked up to him and in a loud voice said, "I hear scarce also. you want a well dug." Frank just looked at him and said[...]im, repeated batched together. Jim was a good cook and liked doing itso the question louder, looking just a bit disgusted. Frank still he was our chief cook and dishwasher. He was a marvelous just looked at him then Wyman really boomed out "I hear story teller too. I wish he were here now to write this up. He you want a well dug." Then Frank said "What in hell is the could paint a picture with words. We had been having real matter with you, do you think I'm deaf?" This was just the good crops on the Bench for quite awhile and that fall I reaction that Jack had expected. Stories like this could go bought a threshing machine. Brother Jim had had lots of on[...]experience running threshing outfits for a number of years, had been named after the first r[...]den Flax, so he was the separator man and a good one. that had first been raised there.[...]ace. In In the early years before everyone had a car or truck, the fall of 1927, I bought a Case combine, one of the three going to Scobey wa[...]obey. Ifl'd waited until out and jump in your car or truck and go to town and be the next year, I'd have got a better combine, as the later back home in a few hours. It was a two or three day job from models had roller bearin[...]ers where we lived and whoever went generally had a list a and threshing machines for me. mile l[...]veryone wanting In February 1928, I ended my bachelor days and married something. If it was in the spring there would be plow lays Enid Skeen. We spent our hone[...]letters to mail and mail to bring out. In the a good one and the last one that that part of the country fall, too, these were busy trips, if you had a crop there woulci was to have. What has[...] |
| [...]tic condition and Dr. Morrow advised that we seek a change of climate. I had a sister living in Washington so I came out to look around and bought a place near Rochester. We moved out here in 1937. I still continued to go back and forth to Montana each spring and fall to put in my crop and harvest. I lost two more crops, after we moved out to Washington, due to rust. I guess that I stayed too long with Marquis wheat. So all in all I lost eleven crops in Montana, straight end ways. I continued to farm there until 1956 when I retired. Our son Jim then took over the farm. I guess that after all these years it is still home to us. I will add this that I am the only one of the ten that homesteaded on the "Golden Bench" still living and I believe the only man that was in business in both Old Scobey and Scobey that is still alive. I am 87 years old now, June 27, 1975. I often wonder how I would live my life if I could live it over again. I guess this is something all of us think about. We only pass this way once, this is how I remember my years in Montana.[...]andell THE GORDON CRANDELL FAMILY I was born at Port Perry, Ontario, Canada near Toro[...]In 1904 we moved to Portal, North Dakota. In |
| [...]he family moved to the Scobey area. School was a problem in those days, and Nora attended school i[...]oodley was the teacher. Later the Woodley's built a two-story house and they used the upstairs as a school and lived downstairs. This school was atte[...]rode horseback to school. Another school was in a granery by the Hughes' place. Later the Hughes' s[...]J.M. "Mac" Drummond remembers that her father had a hired man in North Dakota, known as "Kid" Trailor[...]me true, for soon afterwards "Kid" Trailor became a well-known member of the Dutch Henry gang.[...]w ranch, the parents had to leave the children at a cattle camp while they returned to Williston on b[...]· The airplane, which was little more than a bunch of While the children were waiting, a group of outlaws bamboo sticks with a motor, belonged to a man known as stopped at the camp to corral their horses. The girls cooked "Lucky Bob". It flew for about a quarter of a mile, about 100 dinner for them and received high[...]retirement in 1960. Nora had lost her arm when A trip to Medicine Lake on July 4, 1911, to see their first a young teenager due to an injury but never let tha[...]Mrs. Drummond. The Mose at any task or doing the work of a pioneer woman. Tingleys, the Marlenees and others[...]lding up the ranch and home were Mac's main goals a wagon reach, and camping along the way.[...]in life. However never losing his sense of humor or love of[...]butcher a pig. He talked Claude into pouring gasoline on[...]resulted in a pre-cooked pork. As Claude turned around[...] |
| In his final years one could see Mac with a yard full of and Kathleen. Walter Sr. served[...]y in 1943, children, either teaching them to rope or doing magic tricks on a floating dry dock for two years in the Pacific Oc[...]Melvin Haug farm. A good friend and neighbor Rick Handy wrote this po[...]uth of Four Buttes and farm in the Peerless area. would like to be remembered in this book.[...]and Agnes lived on their original homestead until I'm sure Baldy or 01' Buck was saddled for that ride, they[...]sh up his fiddle and rosin up his bow. He'll play a little tune and do a step or two To liven up old comrades. We'll miss him here below. He'll make the grade up there, If its not all a myth: He was a man we always liked to ride the river with.[...]living in a sod shanty, driving oxen behind a walking plow, OTTO AND AGNES ERSTAD and receiving 40 cents a day for a dawn-to-dusk working[...]y were born and raised. They Ii ved in Scobey for a where he settled in 1917. Poor roads and a lack of winter- short time, from there they moved[...]ced him to spend his recent winters north west to a homestead in the Coal Creek or Carbert in Scobey, but he doesn't like it. Community, where they built a one room house and went "I couldn't live in town," he says. "I've been living on into farming. They encountered[...]orn in Huston County, Minnesota, on Kate Lohan, a sister of Agnes Erstad, came to Montana a February 15, 1873. When he was eight years o[...]ved the family to North Dakota, where he took out a community. The schoolhouse at that time was made[...]was by horse and The family lived in a sod house in North Dakota. It was wagon. Farming[...]y have two children. Walter Jr. oxen, it was a long trip. Even with horses the trip took two[...]horses the trip could be made in just a few hours. As a boy Mr. Grythe spent his time working around[...]home. There were no schools, and he never had a chance to[...]had to get up at five a.m. to study before he began his daily[...] |
| [...]"I didn't like Montana very well when I first came," he[...]says, "But after a couple of years I began to like it better.[...]Now I don't think I would care to go back to Minnesota.[...]ed to him, but admits to being hit in the head by a[...]falling tree and being knocked cold for six ora young man. It came close to preventing him[...]and make a home of their own. They homesteaded in the ::::::[...]ilroad ended. From Poplar to Old Scobey they took a stage, which was a Big Case car, that carried six or seven[...]ails and shallow creek crossings. During the trip a spring[...]e car, but with pioneer spirit, the men broke off a[...]ed to Scobey. It was a bumpy ride, but they got there. From Old go home[...]Scobey to Coal Creek, Oscar and Amanda caught a ride them." with a rancher who had a buckboard and team of wild "It wasn't in olden[...]d creeks and springs had clear blue When he was a little older there were also dances and[...]Oscar and Amanda Halvorson's first home here was a As far as work goes, Mr. Grythe likes the prese[...]sodded up for warmth. Because of its size, says, "I think we enjoyed ourselves much better in those[...]s. We didn't have money in our pockets but we had a also in demand to pla[...]ears. Supper in his younger days was invariably a mush, Oscar[...]grew up there. She married James cream, and maybe a little cinnamon, it was delicious Kasseth and they own and live on a neighboring farm - according to Mr. Grythe. "I would still take that before I ranch. They have one granddaughter, Laura Kasseth , would take anything else," he says. "It was good." living in Helena. A treat the youngsters enjoyed at special occasions[...]over fifty years of farming and as Christmas, was a weak beer made of wild hops, sugar[...]moved to Scobey where they purchased a home. They the basketful.[...]on Johnson at Roseau, Minnesota. He had taken out a homestead about 12 miles[...] |
| [...]Southern Illinois and married a school chum, Oletha[...]year was a year of some kind of epidemic. One of those[...]Dad and Mom decided to get a way from the congestion of[...]as a constructor and helped build the railroad into Ca[...]down as a section foreman and had as a hobby picture[...]ime, Dad's brother, Edward, came west and took up a[...]about 1915. The first homes were made of a little bit of lumber and a lot of sod.[...]dle and played for dances across th_e making a total of eight children, seven of which were line[...]nce-post holes. living. You might say this is a story by a 60 year old baby. He walked four miles to work and got $10 a day digging Life in Daniels County was a bit rugged. Dad told me with a spade in gumbo.[...]world. When Mom's time Once while walking down a hill with a pail of eggs he got was near, he hired a neighbor cowboy to ride into town to caught in a hailstorm. A hailstone tore through the brim of get the[...]March day, he and dashed on down the hill. He had a pail of scrambled first went to a saloon to warm his-innards. He promptly eggs when[...]eaking up his first land Dan after I made my appearance, the doctor came. Everything Henderson loaned him four oxen. "I took those oxen and a turned out OK as Ed's wife had a lot of experience as a breaking plow. Everything was fine when I started out. I midwife. was surprised, when I looked back, to find that I was My recollection of schools in those days indicate there plowing in a perfectly straight line. But I stopped and went was a sad lack of them. For a while, Dad would rent a house back to the house for a drink. When I came back one of the in Scobey during the school year for the older children. oxen was lying down. I said "Giddap." Nothing doing. I Later, he moved a granary out on the road in about 1921, hollered. Nothing doing. I got a leather strap to hit the ox. which was the f[...]school in that area. The He just shook his head. I pulled his ear. I gave him another Heninger kids, the Jim Col[...]. "Why year Jim Collins sponsored a building near his place and aren't you plowing?" he asked. "Got a whip?" I showed him · we hired a teacher, a Mrs. Lockren, for two more years. A the strap. "That's no whip. Get a barbed wire three or four formal district was then formed and a school was built, feet long." Henderson made a whip from the wire and gave called The Shennum School. The families involved in this the ox a good wallop. The ox took right off and there was[...]s, and Collins. Their house was very large for a homestead shack-14 x This was the first[...]adians came the weather was very bad and I do recall some Montana down in a big wagon drawn by four horses and danced all[...]needed, Dad bought a house in Scobey and we would move In the middle of the room was an enormous[...]Dad stayed on the farm to "Jumbo". It was set in a box of dirt so that it would not burn take care of the livestock. the hous[...]To explain about the livestock. I should mention that Often, instead of dancing, the people would march around Dad had befriended a tribe of indians shortly after taking the stove.[...]best days of our life." country, they would camp at our place for a while. Dad[...]ed them to eat from the garden and even gave them a beef once in a while. In turn , they brought him wild horses • The Henderson family moved a way from Coal Creek from the Miles City area and sold them to him for 10¢ a many years ago. Dan Henderson's father was the ex[...]There were several cowboys in the area that would gather wan after the abortive Riel Rebellion in 1885. at our place on Sundays for a rodeo. We also provided some[...] |
| [...]Wayne (that's me) finished school in Oregon. I then Fatty ran sheep from Poplar to Canada during the moved with my folks to Clarkston. I worked for a while in a summer. He then sat around the fire and told stor[...]r. He was probably the world's best story teller. I'm 30 years, I have worked for a Caterpillar dealership. I sure because he rehearsed his story all day and talked half married Josephine Peterson, a registered nurse, in 1940. I the night. have been a volunteer fireman for 35 years and looking Another frontier character I should mention was forward to retirement. We have a son and a daughter both Charley McKuen. Charley traveled with a stud horse thru living in Clarkston. many[...]erald Melena, and Beryle's son, Ronald up. He met a violent end, however. His stud turned on him[...]s the "good old days", my first to cobey. She ran a boarding house for some time. Later, thought is I'm glad they are gone. No more disasterous she mar[...]mics; no more 16 - 18 hour days, no more battling a Richland area . After Emil's death , she moved to[...]she and her husband, Cliff all a very strong sense of values. Richardson , still l[...]1925 and moved to Clarkston where she worked for a utility company for 40 years. She is retired and[...]n. Rex worked in the post office in Scobey for a time. Then WALLACE CLAYTON HODGES[...]n of the railroad to Ophiem. He then worked for J.I. Case Company and finally went into the insurance[...]1903. He went to Helena in 1903 and took work in a grocery Clarkston. He also worked for a utility company for over 20 store. His family[...]y, have in 1305. He moved his family to a farm near Montana City retired and live in Clarkston . for a time and he took a job as State Land Appraiser during Bery[...] |
| [...]she remained in North Dakota and worked in a restaurant Glasgow and she came to Helena to keep[...]Army October 31, 1909. during World War I and died of the flu in an Army camp in They farmed near Bottineau and then moved to a the east.) At first they lived in the Jack Fuller[...]mile south of the border. Governor Ford (who was a personal friend) took office, It was[...]-law Clint and Neill. The land even though he was a strong Democrat and Ford was a had not been surveyed so they squatt[...]eir own survey) in 1913. That Clayt always had a ready story and was the first one to same y[...]or and then he returned to Canada it took to grow a pig's tail to maturity so on the spur of the to[...]d Herby containing oats for the livestock, a crate of chickens docked a lamb's tail. In the morning his pig was dead. He and a sow that farrowed on the trip; another driven by Joe always ended by saying he "did save quite a bit of feed." Jacques, containing furniture; and a covered wagon driven When Clayt and Anna moved[...]by Byrl and the children containing a bed and other 1930 they had to haul every drop of[...]household goods. Tied behind the last wagon was a pony livestock. Anna was an artist at making a pan of water pulling a cart, and trailing behind, was a neighbor boy on a tend to several chores. They did this for several[...]hey crossed the Canadian line at before they got a well dug, for in the dry 30's money was Ray[...]er was still high and the wagon with the oats hit a hole at Scobey. and tipped. The little pigs were in a box to keep them Wallace C. Hodges, Jr. marrie[...]l and the children were taken across the creek on a Ruth married Robert Hodges (now deceased) and[...]The sod shack was lived in until a tar-papered shack was Robert married Helen Jac[...]Herbert built in the late fall. Also a barn was buiit, and they were Jacques. Robert pas[...]south of the soddy. They had not been able to dig a[...]water for quite some time until they could get a well-digger[...]come in. Several hand dug wells were tried but at a HERBERT JACQUES[...]would go out and that meant gas, so the well would have to[...]ith her father and her brother and sister seeking a new location. As Byrl had been advised to live in a drier climate[...] |
| [...]1886, a son of Adelme and Lumina Jacques. When he was[...]States and took a homestead that touched corners with[...]necessary to become a citizen of the United States in order[...]it was necessary to become a citizen if you moved from[...]progressed to a tractor. He had all he wanted in motors Herby and Byrl Jacques and children in I914 with his two model T 's-a truck and touring car. Neither[...]did he keep cattle after the first year or two. He much[...]preferred to be free to go out working as a cook or choreboy[...]years he hired his crop put in. Herby bo ught a Rumley tractor in 1915 and did his own[...]f being an and some of the neighbors breaking. He a nd Clint especially clean bachelor and a very good cook. He baked Richardson ran it night[...]ok. front at night. This tractor was unloaded off a fl at car in He often cooked for crews durin[...]in cook cars, and anyplace where there was a crew of men. Rumley separator and ran a threshing rig around t h e Joe was[...]In later years he sold his farm and bought a house in In a rented pasture close to the home place was a dugout town. When he could no longer walk up town to play cards in a hill , marked by a broken laundry stove. It was very wit h h[...]ved into the Knight Hotel close to Coal Creek and a bank where coal jutted out. It and did l[...]is grand-niece Mary Jacques, who tended caught in a snowstorm. They had been traveling through[...]ver country when one of their horses stepped into a hole and broke its leg. They had dug back into th[...]d sheltered their one horse in with them and hung a canvas over the opening. When they were able to[...]ay in February, 1928 at Coal C'rBek. Herby passed a way in July, 1954 at P lentywood, where he[...] |
| RICHARD AND .J._EANNE JACQUES In 1914, as a young boy of six years, Richard arrived in |
| [...]and family; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey October of 1914, I spent about two weeks looking over Wa[...]d family; Mr. and Mrs. Bill one was then living, or upon which no one had "staked" the Bernar[...]Shennum and family; Mr. Herman homestead rights. I finally staked a 320 acre tract located Shennum-single; Mr.[...]ily; Mr. The first winter on the homestead is a period in time I will Washington Heninger-single; Mr. and Mrs. J[...]rmation of those who were not living in the area, or not single-the father a widower; Mr. and Mrs. Seraphin living in Montana I want to report: That was a winter of LaPierre-homesteaded on Coal C[...]9th, and 10th, of John was single-father a widower; Mr. Tom Hughes, 1916. At 8:00 A.M. on January 9, 1916 the temperature was[...]lifornia the tar- paper lined shack. Fortunately I had provided not in about 1923 to 1925-nev[...]z only sufficient lignite coal for my needs, but I had also and wife- (latter was my mother's sister); Mrs. Anna M. arranged to purchase a half-ton of a "better type" coal in Kemp, my mother. My[...]hments to half sections near my spells, and when I saw the thermometer outside my door I homestead. John B. Kemp, filed on homest[...]e Mr. and Mrs. George Skerritt and family. I believe Mr. " correct time" to make use of coal[...]ut 12 miles farther heat in every pound of coal. I remember the date of the west of Old Ca[...]s land. Every one of the be my birthday, the day I became 24 years of age, and also above named was a "good neighbor". The attitude of smart enough no[...]to help when help was nearest neighbor that day-a distance of almost two miles. needed ceme[...]ve we had at any homesteader was "like a brother"; between women, every time afterwards.[...]wife of another homesteader was like a long-lost sister. For a single young man to locate on a homestead in a Very few of the original homesteaders a[...]st neighbor nearly two miles (June 1975). I believe there are only three left-two others a way from your homestead shack took considerable and I. courage. In recalling some of the difficulties I faced I do not There was an occasion in my life when I demonstrated understand (now) how I managed enough willpower to do that I was a good neighbor. One evening in January of 1917 it. I was born on a farm in North Central Missouri, but the my mother and I were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. entire area had been settled for over 40 years before I was Neil Richardson when a very young brother of Mr. born in 1892, was no lo[...]ura, had been severely burned when the sister and a and four miles. Only 11 miles away was a city of 3500 younger brother attempted to fill a gasoline lantern which population even in the early 1890's, a very excellent had just "gone dry". Immediately Neil Richardson and I shopping center. My mother, and my aunt and her[...]son then said: "John, if you will go for of 1916. I encouraged my mother, and my aunt and her the doctor I will give you my very best team to make the hu ba[...]relinquishments and then file trip. I want you to travel by way of the winter road-and[...]u get to Scobey call Dr. Tucker and have him hire a The fact that I did not have a horse, nor a car, really made team with a light sleigh and get out here as quickly as my first year on the homestead difficult and a lonesome possible. Give him the road instructions I will give you". period. After some of my relatives located near me I had Mr. Richardson then harnessed his b[...]after my aunt and her husband gave them a full measure of grain. I was enroute to Scobey settled on their homestead they purchased a car and after within 30 minutes; at 6:00 A.M. I called Dr. Tucker. Shortly that my mother, my aunt and her husband worked in before 6:30 A.M. Dr. Tucker and his driver left Scobey for Scob[...]The neighbors history of early homestead days would be At about 8:00 P.M. of that same evening I saw Dr. Tucker incomplete without reference to th[...]g cannot live longer that about six or seven days". He said will be better before[...] |
| either the sixth or seventh day following the burning consi[...]ricts evidently were "broke" and had no funds I found living alone on the homestead a very lonesome for construction of new school buildings. I happened to live life. While I was employed in Chicago in 1914 I met a young in an area where there were several fam[...]Her mother died in 1913 and late that have a schoolhouse five familie~ planned to build a autumn she decided to move to Chicago where the[...]ing was completed card parties, mother's sister. I influenced my mother to invite Margaret danc[...]strict school board had agreed to Margaret and I were married in Williston, North Dakota provide pay for a teacher, but at a very low wage. In fact, on August 16, 1917 before she returned to Chicago, to keep a during one or two school terms the teacher was paid "a promise she had made to her superior,-that she would small wage, plus free board and room[...]reak in school children's parents". At one time I was told the another girl on the position she the[...]teacher's monthly wages were less than $100.00 a month in Williston, North Dakota on February 11th, 1973. The city the early 1920's. I never learned for certain whether that of Wi,lliston, North Dakota has had a tremendous impact report was correct or was idle gossip. We kept a school on ·my life-married there in 1917; my wif[...]school term, during one school term. It was a matter of We Ii ved on the homestead from the time of our marriage "either helping to that extent or perhaps have school for until October 1, 1932. By then we had two children in high only five or six months during the school year." school, a boy and a girl. I was appointed Relief Clerk on The plan o[...]ty Commissioners charge" for about 115th or I / 6th of the school term worked of Daniels County. Various changes in programs were a hardship on the teacher, as well as on the housewife in made by State Headquarters from time to time but I whose home the teacher was given fr[...]f the school term. But the plan did Welfare until I retired effective with March 15, 1962. At the[...]fare Departrrient policy that employees get a full school term of nine months of school and tha[...]Roosevelt years of school attendance. As a matter of fact-and a County Juvenile and Probation Officer from which I matter of record also, at least thr[...]Shennum School, and those same three Whenever I give serious thought to Margaret and my life[...]the 1920's than during the last Canada) there was a wonderful swimming hole. Residents half[...]m "down" and wheat was down also. the Cana~a side, gathered at the swimming hole almost On October 1, 1932 I began work in Daniels County Court every Sunday a[...]House at Scobey which was to last "for about two or three Canadians and they enjoyed visiting with th[...]ll that during and to another-and another-and I worked for 37 years the 1920's it was not possibl[...]he Canadians were able to offers you a "short-time" job, take it-it may turn into a job purchase good beer in their stores, and the Canadians for the remainder of your lifetime. would get the beer on their side. We-the Americans would John B. Kemp passed away in February 19[...]John B. Kemp United States and Canada) we would drink our beer on the Canada side of the line, a[...]of the line. To my knowledge, no one ever brought a bottle of beer into the United States at any time[...]Ben Larson first came to the Scobey area in 1912 or 13 not in Canada- they were on that 50 or 60 foot wide bringing out some homest[...]nada border in that area where He had a Buick passenger car. Later he settled in the our[...]community of Coal Creek. He dug wells with a high derrick the Mid-Poplar River was really made-to-order. The boring machine, powered by a team of horses. He later sold natural flow of th[...]he the machine to George Skerrit; and bought a powers low area made good use of it.[...] |
| [...]at odd jobs and was unloading coal from a railroad car, standing: Roy, Robert (Bob)[...]July 26, 1920 and died very suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51 years. He left a widow and eight children.[...]the Elks' tree in the them to Davis and Shook on a Fordson tractor. We farmed middle of Main[...], Bob and Marie received In the late 20's a new religious sect came to town.and.the their edu[...]to town (Peerless) every fall and back to the a very loud kind of religion with a lot of action, called in farm in the spring. By the time I had two of the most needed those days, "The Hol[...]to bad that something had to be done. A cross was erected in Deputy Field Agent for the State Land Department. A the road next to the church, wrapped i[...]December 11, 1959 at the and was set on fire, a warning no doubt, and we saw men age of 74.[...]'s brother Axel Linquist had come to Scobey about a year before and was part owner in the first Ford[...]quist from Velva, North Dakota came to help build a new large frame house on the land. While the buil[...]in an old cook-car. The house that was built was a large one, two stories. In the 30's it was moved[...]k bottom, the family moved into Scobey and rented a house from Orr Burgett in 1919. Alfred wor[...] |
| [...]They uncovered the coal with a scraper and two horses;[...]By Evelyn Anderson In 1914 they built a six room house, (it is still being lived[...]bought 150 tons of hay at $6.00 a ton. There was plenty of THOMAS LOVE[...]Our place was a stopping place for the driver and teams[...]about four days to make the trip. was eight and I was four when we came to Montana. We I tried to get as much schooling as I could by going back lived on a sheep ranch 40 miles northeast of Wibaux. We[...]the other by my brother Russell and the other by a and crops were poor. fellow' by the name of Cassidy. They had to be ferried I Frances was married to Noel Richardson in July 19[...]married to Jerry Bjarko. They have two Creek and a lignite coal mine, where we would have water children, Joanne and Jeffrey. an[...]That first summer we lived in tents. We spaded up a 1921 and Bud in October 1924. Peggy is m[...]on the old home place. along fine. We put them in a dugout in the hill, they tasted Russell took up a homestead adjacent to his father and in mighty go[...]the Coal Creek Store. Noel and I had the Carbert Post[...]Bob or Charles Humbert getting the mail for the[...]place. We came by horseback to get the mail-a happy[...]until my father's death in May 1932. A few years later my[...] |
| In 1950 Noel and I moved to this farm nor.t h of Scobey. later o[...]9, 1974. This is written in memory of Noel passed a way in Decem her 195 7. I have lived here ever two fine pioneers of the C[...]E McCANN FAMILY From a clipping. L.K. McCann came to what is now Dani[...]Hennepin County in young to homestead. He located a plot of land in the Coal Minnesota. He was r[...]are, North Dakota, and Creek Community and plowed a furrow around the area he came to Medicin[...]In 1914 Emil Pomerleau was a candidate for sheriff on After reaching the ag[...]was not always perfectly ascertained. As a consequence about a year later on November 24, 1919, they were married a nother fellow in this area had people coming up t[...]going to get my vote for On November 24, 1921 a son, Donald, was born to thi sheriff.... " That fellow was Burley Bowler and it was not union during a raging blizzard. A lady from across the until at least sever[...]he two men first Canadian border by the only name I can recall as N urs~ met and became pleasa[...]ssociated during the early years with Frank mile~ a way in Scobey. It took M9ther many years to get[...]ter years she came including the ownership of a cafe, the Shamrock, during to prefer the open spa[...]38, in which he and Florence On August 3, 1931 a daughter, Diane, was born, again enjoyed substantial success and sold profitably to a with Nurse Lace in attendance.[...]farming. Thenewrestaurantownerwent bankrupt in a few things that hold the best memories were the g[...]he dirty 30's families from Canada and the States would gather at the old swimming hole. Everyone brought a picnic lunch. The men would play baseball and horseshoe, the women visited and watched the kids swim and play games. There was a togetherness in those days of hard times that will never be enjoyed agaii:i. Donald and Diane went to the Carbert School f[...]ry, Lori Jo and Kevin. Gregory is married and has a son. Lori Jo is also married. Don and Joyce are p[...]w living in Blackfoot, Idaho and own and o ~n1 le a Bowling Lane. Ida McCann passed away May 25, 1974 after a !en gthy illness. Leland passed away four[...] |
| months. Emil and Florence were good managers, had a a tent. We had a two-burner gasoline camp-stove to cook on, clean place, and served good food in a pleasant heat water to wash clothes on a washboard and keep warm atomosphere-an assurance[...]had wonderful doughnuts. It turned very cold the would have been a fine "maitre d' "anywhere. He was the last of Sep[...]also Well-mannered, he was also deliberate and a realist. worked several years on WP A. Once when he was tending bar a fellow came in, laid down We moved 2-1/2 miles south west of the sod house in the a five-dollar bill, it was larger in more ways than[...]ved to Scobey and continued farming through 1944. a likely pigeon to bully, Emil without saying anyth[...]he bar to · Conboy's Bar. In 1944 Charlie bought a partnership in where the other fellow was standing. He laid down a five- Conboy's Bar with his brother Clint, and la[...]walked back behind the bar, Charlie suffered a severe stroke in the fall of 1955 and and put his[...]nd Charlie is survived by his widow, Cecelia, a son , Edgar pleasant, and particularly neat; that was Emil. and family living in Scobey and a daughter Mrs. Charles A member of St. Philip's Catholic parish, Emil was also a (Lillian) Kittock and family live in Billings, Montana. member of the Knights of Columbus, Scobey, and a life. There are five grandchildren. member of Elks Lodge, Williston. He was also a member of the Scobey Saddle Club. His wife, Flore[...]agons. Dakota. In 1913 they arrived at Coal Creek or Carbert (12 When they arrived here they l[...]miles north of Peerless). His father constructed a sod house They they built a sod house south of what is now the home on their[...]place. It was right along Coal Creek, so they would be able followed in the footsteps of his father, who was a self made veterinarian. Charlie never liked his nickname as he found everyone iri the country had a horse named "Charlie". Neill and Thurza[...]e, so he brought the engine with him. He was also a locksmith, a farrier, a blacksmith, and a good mechanic. He went to farming on the homestea[...]les and Cecelia were first married, they lived in a sod house 2-1/2 miles south of the border with Ch[...]the land of trees and brush. He stayed less than a year and came home to stay. In 1934 Cha[...] |
| [...]RDSON FAMILY they changed it to Carbert, Montana. A.B. Carter had the store and it was located on the[...]e Coal Creek community, in this community. Thurza would carry it in the summer northwest of Sco[...]Samuel and Amy Richardson. His parents took up a horses and buggy, and in the winter time a sleigh, going homestead and he also took a homestead adjoining theirs. into Scobey one day a[...]ore and worked there until 1926. He They built a home on the home place in 1920. This home[...]s sister Florence Carney were not at home. It was a Sunday afternoon and they were was left a widow, he moved back to Coal Creek to live with visiting at the Joe Jacques home. A lot of the relatives were her. there, as they[...]d for many years at the Woodward's store, and was a till they moved a home out from town that they owned. graduate of Scobey High with the class of 1936. Liz was a When Neill first started to break land he used a walking very talented gal that could sew and make most anything plow, later using a sulky plow with four horses. from a yard of cloth. Clint and Elizabeth bought the Sco[...]y went to Cleaners from Mike Kahn and ran a very successful the sod school south of the Carbert school, walking about business for a number of years. Clint died in March of1969 four and a half miles. Their first teacher was Kate Murphy. and two years later Elizabeth passed on at a young age of A favorite spot in the summertime was just north of[...]friends, walking over to visit as they lived only a years, and Honey is living in Helena, Montana with Ed little over a mile from the border. In fact, Clayton married a Carney's. Canadian girl, Theresa Choquer, in Ma[...]Jim now farms the home place and Clayton lives on a ranch two miles west of the home place. (n[...] |
| [...]After supper it was to put up beds and as I remember we FAMILY[...]eady to get to bed after that long ride by wagon. I[...]Frank, and Ellsworth rode in a covered wagon we called Samuel Ellsworth Richa[...]la to There were many hardships proving up a homestead, as the farm Dad had rented, and where[...]od fun if you made it yourself. Traveling made in a big wagon through slush a foot deep. Something was done by horseback, wagon and horses, and a lot of I had never seen before was all the snow that was s[...]g places. Also the ground. 1906 and 1907 had been a very hard winter. poisoning gophers.[...]ars. In 1912, The first summer there, a cyclone took the wet roof off the Dad heard there[...]en sod house of my parents and blew down a few squatters' as squatters' right. He took our m[...]d decided Richardson and Herby Jacques took a team and wagon to move to Montana. tied a red rag to the rear wagon wheel with a plow snubbed The following spring, March 10, 1913, we had a sale and behind. The number of times the fl[...]plow marked the land boundary and the flag about a month while the men drove the cattle through by[...], chickens, machinery, household goods (including a Richardson, a two room soddy, and Neill Richardson also very large tent, which had room for three beds and a big had a two room sod house. Clint Richardson and Herby ta[...]. It took us all day to make Jacques each built a one-room sod house. These sod houses it from Plen[...]bed bugs nearly ate us up. Next day we made it to a lived in the sod house as long as they l[...]and The men in the neighborhood built a sod school in the fall Esther. She asked us for dinner, and I've always said it was of 1914. Sam Richardson was the constructor. There were the best mea:l I ever ate. (George Crandell and D.C. Knapp 14 or 15 children ready for school at Coal Creek. Dad had to had a small store at the Tande ranch. George was the[...]drove to where Dad had picked and wagon. How I remember how he hated those trips! Our out a homestead. We got to Coal Creek that evening abou[...]until the county sunset. After arriving there was a tent to pitch, unloading was divided in 1920[...]forth every day from where Tom Handy now lives to a half[...]mile east of Jacques building. (Wonder who would do that[...]In the teens there was a road built up of snow, just as[...]hard and as high as a graded road, down Coal Creek to[...]hardly pass with a load on a sleigh.[...]were very fortunate to have had the lignite coal or no[...]stored out in the snow or in a cellar. Wet lignite was hard to burn, (I preferred it with oil on it!).[...]In June, 1918 I married Albert Daniels. We lived on my[...] |
| [...]Minnesota with honors; he, a man of extremely high talent[...]"The Panatorium", a tailorshop in the then leading[...]hter: Jennifer Jean. Charles died April 28, 1975. I now West. Northeastern Montana was eligible for c[...]griculturally educated John Shennum it called for a bit Grace A. Daniels of research. National weather reports an[...]nd groceries which the men bought. We put in four or five plowing with replanting the following year of the entire hundred-pound sack of flour for a years supply, and sugar acreage could average out greater yield - (over a period of and taple su pplies, that lasted a long time; or we lived on time) by planting half the acreage but using a year's extra what we had , which wa n't much exce[...]Country farmer-to-be as he kneelecl the mare into a lope, and meat from acros the line, as there wa n[...], and re triction at that ti m e. Tea was 0 cents a pound. Beans walked up the street to the little h[...]y in Scobey." eries of dry year . We paid $3.00 a bushel for seed wheat, By 1916 much of the choice homestead land had been 6.50 for flax eed. I hired 126 acre , broke, and it took all claimed.[...]t my hare of the crop to pay for the breaking, so I had to go they be rather close in their operation[...]mpanionship. Much When my son Charle was small I used to take him in a search, little success, but the lady fortune smiled. And so borrowed Ii ttle wagon with a sack and spend a great deal of the stage was set for a lifetime of farming and ranching my time hunting cow chips. I mean hunt, as we had only which lasted 50 years. As he had predicted to wife Della two cows. I baked bread for a couple of bachelors. They their Golden Wedding wa[...]in Scobey ... but back to furnished the flour and I baked the bread for them for $2.50 the early days .... a hundred pounds. Sold eggs for eight cents a dozen and Erection of "Shacks" was firs[...]th shiplap, tar made butter and sold for 15 cents a pound . And some paper siding, composition dry wa[...]ng, six groceries were high . Coffee was 60 cents a pound , tomatoes inch flooring the task was on. While brother Joe made the 35 cents a can, oranges we only looked at (80 and 90[...] |
| [...]had the machines from Vic Hillstrom and a Twin City purchased shack completed and this was[...]ther when fire destroyed the little structure and a new house acreages farmed for Ed Battleso[...]eir cattle herds and so neighbor Bill Bernard dug a well. Lighting was by when "J.V." got[...]d in arranging kerosene lamp, cooking and heat by a Monarch malleable that the state land w[...]seed grain cleaning So, the John Shennums had a shack for themselves and operations in t[...]tomobiles and trucks appeared their two children, a well for water, a downwind side of the commonly upon the scene and even an airplane (A Ryan shack to shelter mare Topsy and colt Billy. They had a monoplane built in San Diego along with the Lindbergh Bible, a faith, and a future. They had good health, endless "Spiri[...]at point of their seen in Scobey skies. youth a future immeasurable.[...]to Opheim) with it". Henry "Hank" Siggelkow owned a huge steamer all western growers of Daniels County and some of North- tractor and a twelve bottom sod breaking plow. John[...]n. Although he was to break all Shennum place. A huge strawshed type of barn was erected except th[...]ime arrived. Men had to eat in shifts at the with a sulky or single bottom plow. The young couple[...]ty to work for Homer Snyder and it is a pleasant era to recall. Andrew Fossum, Dave Breen, there made a few dollars to construct a small barn to fur- Ben Solberg are among the names that come to mind nish a stall for the two horses and another for a cow. Large during that time. sandstones were skidded from a hillside natural quarry to In the early years of the settlement there were many erect a spacious chicken coop. They worked in the town-[...]of the material for the erection of a one-room school which the varjous Shennum enterpr[...]were not so kind: The progress for the first four or five years the " Roaring Great American[...]y, it never crossed the Daniels County cene. High a m ong the reasons for the mind of John[...]or were they anxious to learn. Scobey Country and a ll of Montana, for that matter) was What may have been mentioned earlier was World War I. the arrival of the powered - should say self-pow[...]ease and purchase . . The Shennums first acquired a and by strange happenstance the Armistice was signed F ordson tractor which could pull a two-bottom plow. They five days before he[...]s College , was the t h e farming endeavo r (this would include bi nder first to volunteer,[...]s Eyesight tests prevented assignment to a combat unit but own threshing outfit, an Advance[...]ll" 12- 20 his written tests produced such a high degree of tractor and a 24" Rumely threshing machine and while the computational ability that he was at once assigned to a outfit was no match in output for such giants as[...]le where he worked on the Shenn um crew made many a 60 day run ranging all the military impos[...]hn and Della had two daughters and five sons. All a nd Publisher of the "Daniels County Leader") was,[...]s of the crew. Shennum rural schoolhouse and/ or the Scobey Schools. Larger tractors moved into[...]e experienced successful business careers as well a[...] |
| homemakers. Daughter Pearl raised a family of four and is The first winter we lived in a shack on the Acheson farm, employed with a business firm in Portland, Oregon. Ruth, then George was located on a piece of land 33 miles in and out of Radio, TV, a[...]rst crop was in 1917, followed by Shennum Jr. has a career as supervisor with the telephone three poor years. This came as a shock to those who had company and also owns a housing complex in Havre, been for[...]bits were plentiful and hard on gardens, but were a was educated in and taught in the welding school[...]s in the spring. There were no food stamps or relief checks Anchorage, Alaska. Joe is retired from a career with the during those dry years wh[...]their seed back in harvest, and when a pig was butchered, and resides in Federal Way, Wa[...]The first year our shack was on the homestead a huge Hospital brought to an end 50 years of energ[...]d their except our shack which stood on a gravel hill. Luckily we Golden Wedding in Scobey[...], 1961. Della were at the Achesons or I'm sure we would not have Shennum moved shortly after his passing[...]e completed ten most Sam Acheson had a well drilling machine so George and active Christ[...]Joe L. Shenn um for a few years: Almost everyone needed a well, but it was For John A. Shennum and Della Shennum sometimes hard to collect the money. I recall one man[...]collect, my father put on a little extra pressure as we were in[...]need of food supplies, whereupon the man found a tin full of[...]in 1920's. On one occasion Dad went to get a cow he had cities as a clerk in department stores. The first four years bought from Humberts and got caught in such a storm. The were served as apprentice with little or no pay. While he sleigh tipped over with t[...]hed the horses and tried distinction. He married, a city girl, Margaret Walshe, in to walk for[...]haystack, but at last got to the dwelling of a fellow named Gwendolyn (Mrs. Arnold Wahl) and Har[...]d her husband Sam Acheson and two children lived. A year later Achesons decided to move to a farm eight miles northwest of Scobey, Montana. Th[...], cows, horses and chickens. The owner was issued a pass to ride on the train. As money was almost non-existant, George rode as a stow-away in the car. Before arriving in Scobey t[...]After George Skerritt was in America for one and a half years he was able to borrow money to send fo[...]had lived in London. Imagine the shock it was for a woman to come from the then world's largest city to a prairie country and a one-room tar paper shack. The family arrived in S[...]overed with blankets in the bottom of the sleigh. I'm sure we looked queer to all that saw us,[...] |
| On one occasion when George and his hired man, a little fifteen. The man and wife had the only bed and the rest a fellow by the name of Jim Johnson, were drilling a well at row of straw along one side of the[...]nter nights it was almost impossible Northern ran a mixed train on the branch line to Scobey. to keep warm. The ice on the water pail would be quite thick On Saturday, George and Jimmie wer[...]dwellings kept from burning, as the stove-pipes would their families, when the train whistle blew. Both[...]to serve the heating and cook stove. It was quite a chore to shorter legs missed it. It was his last[...]et home to carry in the coal and almost as big a job to take out ashes his new wife for Easter, wh[...]case between There were many people that would come and go past our his knees, but he must not h[...]ed "characters". One of these was "Fatty" Wilson, a a stick over his shoulder, and caught the train before it left well known sheep man. I recall one time the Jack Fullers Plentywood. Ofte[...]but when Fatty sat go on to the next place. Quite a change from the speed of down he stuck his[...]. One morning when Bill Hounock was a tall slim cowboy that hung out at our the men wer[...], eating place some. He seemed to have a lot of solutions to the way breakfast at 4:30 A.M. Bill Wright said, "This is the best to become rich, but for his life's work he owned only a horse place I ever worked." "How's that, Bill?" asked Mr. Knapp and saddle. with a tingle of pride in his voice. :'Two suppers in the one We had a neighbor, Bill Wriston, that helped out at times[...]with chores when Dad was away. Bill was a mysterious At that time they were threshing until 10 P.M. when one fellow with a secret past. One day my sister and I walked car had lights beamed on the separator and[...]lowers on the find the grain shocks. This came to a ha ult when the IWW way to iive to him. He[...]something in return and the best thing he could think of farmers preferred to say it stood for "I won't work." was a drink out of his whiskey bottle that he kept for[...]some of those hard- In 1923 Dad had a chance to rent a better farm from Bill working farmers to accept a ten-hour day when most Alderdice so[...]per cow and calf and worked about eighteen hours a day seven days a week. moved. In 1927 he bought the Charley Heninger place Threshing became a long drawn out affair when there were whe[...]poor crops and poor threshing weather prevailed. I to retire. They bought a home in Scobey where they spent remember my Dad h[...]e day was used to get the engine In 1933 I married Elma Peterson in Plentywood. It was start[...]in 1928-29. Teachers were then getting $125 a month. livelihood. In the early days we had no cr[...]to forfeit 10% in order to get warrants the milk would have to be kept in a cool place for 24 hours cashed, as the county did not have enough money. and the cream skimmed off with a saucer, and stored in the We started our[...]on the former Wash Heninger cellar until churned. I imagine all children remember the place and in 1940 bought a farm five miles east of Scobey tiresome old dashe[...]hen the chance us quite short of money and I was glad to get20¢ an hour to came. Butter and eggs were traded for groceries. Eggs help a neighbor stack thresh. With the aid of a few milk would be packed in a pail of oats until 12 or 24 dozen egg cows, somehow we got by. crate[...]six children. Patricia's twin brother, Paul, died would have to go through the experience of putting your[...]The five are all married. Darold and his hand in a pail of oats and come up with a broken egg in wife Anne have two boys an[...]ana. Patricia and husband , Lee Nixon , separator or forget the awful job of washing it.[...]nd Don Boyer, two sons and one daughter along for a drink of water helped himself with the old Ii ve in Seo bey. dipper to get a drink out of the pail or crock always kept ready to quench our thirst.[...]we can't help but wish the oldtimers had it a little easier. own bedroom, I think of the days when the whole family What a great difference electricity and telephones make. shared one or two rooms, or the time my Dad and his hired Who would ever think of such a thing happening to rural man , Alex McArthur, were digging a well in the winter America. It seemed as remote as putting a man on the time and the one bedroom was shared with the family of moon , but both became a reality .[...] |
| I hope the younger generation will be patient with[...]athcona, Minnesota. He raises beef cattle we seem a little bewildered when we hear the expression and is a beekeeper. They have two boys. "There is nothing to do", when we found so much fun in pus~ing a hoop with a stick or getting a one dollar toy for[...]hat we'd get if we had the money, and then father would say "Well there's I came to Redstone, Montana during February of 1912. I next year. I'm sure things will get better." 'so it ~as with[...]present location of the hope and perseverance and a lot of hard work we would[...]12 miles north of Richland) during April of 1917. I keep _goi~g, helping one another over the rough s[...]came to Montana on the advice of a friend of mine who shanng JOY and sorrow. God was[...]preceded me by~ year or two. I came from Oklahoma. I had and as always if we would realize how much better off w~[...]at was deeded are than some unfortunate people we would give thanks for One incident that comes to mind that I guess would b~ the blessings we have. ·[...]enough voters for a quorum so we were advised to go to an The followi[...]adjoining precinct to vote. For some reason I was almost[...]to Scobey on Election Day. Mother, Harold and I sailed for Montana in January I stopped at the Coal Creek sod schoolhouse and voted 1914, the year of World War I. All our lights in the ship had[...]County. There would have no doubt been a few more votes enemy to see us. The ship's main l[...]had it not been such a stormy day, as it snowed heavy. course. Our ship[...]as the torpedo hit the end of it. It shook us up a little but I was There wasn't a school within ten miles and there were[...]ours. I rigged a small house and moved it halfway between We ca[...]n't believe in being our homes, and hired a private teacher for a three month[...]of years, the vacci_nated, so they told her she would have to go back; so[...]county paid the teacher. It wasn't long until a school was she finally consented to have it done.[...]my children got ten months of school- mother she would have to go back to Ireland as she had a[...]She explained to them her husband had come across a year ago and we were on our A ~isal;>pointing recollection is that when I secured my[...]locat10n m the fall of 1916 there was a Soo Line survey way to join him, so they let us[...]stakes Whitetail to Opheim, and a Great Northern from We were dressed in summer[...]the We never knew what winter was before. We had a lot of west. I felt sure of having a town close by, but while we were things to learn. We didn't know what to think of the bare[...]World War I, and that stopped the railroads and left me were[...]iles from the nearest market until J.V. Bennet I wanted to learn to milk cows and I did a lot ofit in the[...]got ~he road e·x tended further west. I married my wife years to follow. My cousins put me on a cow and she threw[...]in Minot, North Dakota. Our children me off into a duck pond. I learned to ride horseback and that was the joy of my life. In later years I rode in the horse are Donald of Richland, Cly[...]~ears went on she adjusted to it and we were all a happy family.[...]O.E. Spear and Family My dad got a job as a welldigger. No one had money so he h~d to trade cows or whatever he could get in exchange for his work. T[...]ok care of things on the farm. Arnold Wahl and I got married and we lived in Montana a few years but drought hit so it was hard to make a living. We decided to move to Minnesota and that'[...]ne boy. Mrs. Bud Newquist (Juanita) is married to a printer a~d they Ii vein Alamogordo, New Mexico. They have[...]a Minnesota. They farm , raise turkeys, and he is a salesma~ for Rupp Snowmobiles. They have three gi[...]a) lives at Strathcona, Minnesota. Her husband is a beekeeper and trapper. They have two boys and one girl. Our only son, Oswald Wahl lives on a[...] |
| [...]res . Consequently in 1909 the law was changed so a Reminiscence of Homesteading and Subsequent Events person would get 320 acres as a homestead. We filed on our (Harvey Wa[...](Coal Creek drainage) which was a part of Valley County Family Origin - The paren[...]Part of the Jack Murray land on the with a 16 gallon keg of beer for the men and a box of apples Fort Peck Indian Reservation west o[...]the plumbing we had kerosene lamps. A silver dollar would go as far as business. Howard and his wife, Peg, have one son, Kenneth eight or ten paper dollars will today. Travel and Tillison[...]Without lignite coal homesteading this that time a person 21 years of age or older could squat on part of the country would have been more difficult. The 160 acres ofland. Since the land was not surveyed, a furrow first winter on the homestead, 1916-1917, we had to haul made with a plow and horses roughly marked the hay for our livestock a distance of eight miles. Upon boundary of the 160[...]ed their nearing the hay stacks one morning, a howling blizzard homestead. When the land was sur[...]engulfed the area. Shelter was found at a farmstead on the Montana found sections 16 and 36, to which the State was Canadian side of the border. I returned to the homestead on entitled for school purposes, were taken or squatted on in the third day. My wife had bee[...]many cases. Thus the State made up for this loss or during the three:day blizzard but fort[...]ten reason the western part of Daniels County has a higher married , and came from different[...]s. Soon the babies started to was finally evident a family could not make a living on 160 arrive and we started thinking about a school in our[...] |
| [...]surer, and C.T. Swenson , Erstad , John Shenn um, a nd Bill Bern a rd wen t to O.B. Scobey banker at the tim[...]hist players won Egland, lumber dealer in Scobey, a n d he let us have enough so Scobey paid for the suppers. On many Friday or lumber on our individ ual 12910 in terest n otes[...]t h e sch ool. Pat Occasionally Mac Drummond would attend and play the Murphy, Scobey banker, came out a nd boug h t t wo bas ket s violin. Many July[...]t the for $15.00 to help out as it was goi n g to a good cause. Som e Carl Hammerberg ranch and the[...]the teachers who ta ught at th e Shennum Sch ool a nd still many years picnics and ball games, in[...]ian live in Daniels County are Mrs . Frances Rich a rdson , Mrs . families joined , were held on[...]. P h yllis N orma n , Poplar River providing a swimming pool where it crosses Mrs. Laura K. Kers[...]about $75.00 to $105.00 per month. Ch ildren wh o a ttended Politics - In 1930 Albert Estens[...]strict of Shennum Harvey Wagar, Jo hn Ke mp , C h a rl ey Daniels County. I was elected in November 1930 and Henninger , Pat Shea, Euge n e T h ei ve n , a nd N ei l served better than 22 years en[...]ighbors included Jim Commissioners I worked with were Bill Ferguson, John Collins, J .V. Bennett Clint Skillin gberg, a nd Wilmer Gunderson , Guy Stalder, J .B[...]a ccessible, have all tended to make the country an[...]fa rming a nd ranching operations, improved crop varieties[...]in creased s ubstantially due to a higher standard ofliving[...] |
| modernizing rural areas to a degree where they can JACO[...]onveniences found in urban areas. Homestead days, or horse and buggy days, Jacob and Eliza[...]any times referred to as the "good old" days, but I 1914 from Red Wing, Minnesota, settling in the Coal Creek doubt very seriously if given a choice anyone would prefer area, next to Harvey Wagar. the "good[...]economic My mother, two sisters, and I moved to Wisconsin in period and until fuel self-[...]five children. Her eldest, Arthur, is a Chemist at ·Park[...]She is a housewife and a part time school teacher. Ronald is a school teacher in Jefferson. Robert lives in Jeff[...]is employed at a malting company. The youngest daughter[...]is Kathy. She will be a junior in high school.[...]I, Raymond, live in Jefferson , Wisconsin. My wife,[...]Esther and I work for a furniture factory in Jefferson. I Paul Wolfe was born June 29, 1898 in Austria, a[...]bought Clint Richardson's homestead at Coal Creek or Carbert, 12 miles north of Peerless, and was farming. He also was a good carpenter. Minnie passed away in 19[...] |
| [...]came from have the postoffice and a grocery store. They have two Sweden. They came to[...]daughters, Donna of Scobey and Norma of Billings. I, worked on the Staples and Richards farms and she also Lloyd, farmed for a few years, and have been employed at worked at Co[...]the Nelson Implement for many years. I married the school to learn the English language[...]children, Duane :.•i -l Clarice of Scobey. Duane served in Mother a[...]artillery brarn___ .f the Army from 1963 to 1967. A part in 1904, and soon after came to the Wild Wes[...]. He is now employed at Culbertson, where Dad had a harness and saddle shop. the Tande gr[...]e. They have two daughters, Sue and the trip with a team and wagon which took several days.[...]24, neighbors, go on picnics in the summer time, or to enjoy a 1880 and when he was four years old he came[...]arents, where he outside world came to us through a weekly newspaper, the grew to manhood. Th[...]Flaxville Dad had one of the first motor cars, a 1917 Model T community where he took up a homestead about nine miles touring, in the area.[...]d went to Williston, North postoffice, as well as a general store, grain elevator, hotel, Dakota wh[...]ay of traveling. Henry's homeste_a d south of Flaxville and raised three There was a country school at Eagle Creek about two[...]s from our farm home where Syrus, Hilma, John and I went to school until 1928. Our family went to chu[...]after the chores were done in the evenings, there would be a few good card games. Many hardships were endure[...]d to be taken back again and we raised cattle for a few years. The long drought and depression[...] |
| [...]in Flaxville and received 1906 and worked with a survey crew on the Fort Peck her schooling. In 19[...]in Flaxville for 22 years where he took a claim south of Flaxville. Glyn Bjerke lives on th[...]emorial Nursing Home where she teaching a few years and had also homesteaded in is currentl[...]In 1942 they moved to Plentywood. Hugh was a member He served in the armed forces from 1942 to[...]they have made their home ever since. Kenneth is a driver for Ryan's Trucking Service. In 1943, h[...]Cooperstown, North Dakota in 1887. When he was a young man the family moved to the Eagle Creek com[...]ortland, Oregon. During World War II he worked as a welding instructor for War Production Training.[...]Glenn and Winnie and their two children moved on a farm in Daniels County. This farm was originally owned by "Mac" McAllister. . Glenn and Winnie have a son Richard (Dick) and a daughter Judy. Dick is married to Diana Polikowsk[...]Carl remained at he came to Montana and filed on a claim near Bainville, home with h[...] |
| [...]nsen became known for accomplishing the He was a member of Orville Lutheran Church, and repatriation of 500,000 World War I prisoners from 26 entertained the Young People's[...]than two years. He was awarded the Carl drove a Model T touring car back to St. James,[...], with top down all the way. Nansen was a frequent visitor at the Lammers Carl never married. The last 22 years or so he lived and household, and Mrs. Halverson remembers him well. The worked with H.A. Christensen, Adler Fjones, Ben[...]st to keep the conversation she assisted at a formal ball at the Nansen mansion. lively. The la[...]tic critic described his voice as being "equal to a saw, but it was too late to homestead, so he boug[...]"Living in the Lammers house was like having a concert hard work of early day farming. He rented[...]for music lessons. I did get tired of listening to the scales Emil n[...]es, who still own it. Walter Linder though I had a good voice in those days." now farms part of it.[...]ll in love with Fridtjof (Fred) Halverson, son of a[...]ridtjof decided to go to SHE TRADED A MANSION America to[...]s there was no room for him in FOR A PRAIRIE SHACK his f[...]1906, and a year and a half later Anna joined him. From an arti[...]recalls. "Mr. Lammers told me I was foolish to go to such a Flaxville: place. But I went anyway." Sixty years ago Mrs. Anna Halv[...]for such guests as Fridtjof States. It was a rough crossing. Nansen, the explorer, and Bjorns[...]insisted on learning to speak English She was a housekeeper in the home of Thorvald and[...]ous Norwegian opera singers. It was "I didn't want to find myself sitting alone in a little a pleasant life, and she still smiles as she recall[...]prairie. She found work at a ranch in the Bainville area where Born on a farm in Sweden, and one of 14 children, Mrs. she cooked for about a dozen men. Two of the men were Halverson followe[...]found employment in the wives. One owned a cow and the other one had a horse. The Lammers household.[...]the wife survived. "So they used to treat me like a daughter. They always took Anna and Fred[...]North Dakota in 1908, and they filed on a homestead near in Oslo. And their friends were wo[...]ad. Their 12x14. tarpaper never referred to me as a 'hired girl'." shack was a drastic change from the mansion in Oslo. Mrs.[...]ister was the wife of Fridtjof Nansen, "I thought it was romantic," she says·cheerfully. "But I world famous explorer, scientist, artist, statesman, and did miss the trees we had in Norway. I thought the prairie humanitarian. One of Nansen's best known looked so naked I hated to go outside. But I got used to it." accomplishments was the designing of a special ship, the She rem em hers how[...]ehind their shack "Fram", which was built in such a manner that it would be to keep it from blowing away. Their bar[...]all around. Siberia, predicting that the currents would carry the ice Her husband went to Kalis[...]his crew were married and she took a job as cook in a Bainville continued their explorations by[...] |
| [...]omebody was way to the reservation and would camp on the Tom Lee going to jump our claim," she recalls. "I took the train to farm but were no trouble. Culbertson, and then rode 22 miles on top of a load of poles A son, Alfred, died in 1922 and a daughter, Guden, died. in a lumberwagon to reach our place.Nobody was there, so Fred passed away from a heart attack at home in Flaxville I cleaned the shack and went back to my job." in 1957. Anna passed away as a result of a stroke in the The first of her seven children[...]r children, he was born without the assistance of a doctor. An elderly woman came to help. Five weeks[...]FRED AND EVELYN HANSON Halverson rigged up a wagon, hitched up four horses, and they started o[...]s County, south of Flaxville. To help pay the "I was scared to death," Mrs. Halverson remembers, expenses of homesteading he took a job of freighting from "sitting in the middle of[...]y baby in my Culbertson to Redstone with a team of horses and wagon. arms."[...]rine Corps when the United They were caught in a March snowstorm and after dark States entered World War I. He spent most of his military they could not see[...]e. "FinaJly we drove into service in France. a clothesline and we heard a baby crying," she recalls. "It He played on[...]the early years in and was the most welcome sound I have ever heard." They had around Flaxvil[...]Halverson was alone with her baby She was a "schoolmarm" from Minot, North Dakota. She a prairie fire threatened their place. She could he[...]so played for dances in the early years the river would stop the fire. Fortunately it did. i[...]lessons for several years. The Halversons lost a four-month-old baby girl and a Fred worked as a mechanic in Flaxville before and after boy of ten as a result of the flu epidemic after World War I. their marriage. Other children are Henry and S[...]left the original homestead in 1926 and moved to a farm near Eagles Nest. In 1953 they moved to Fla[...]ville and keeps house for her son Sigurd. She has a rich store of memories and some treasured old mag[...]d anyone who has ever sampled her expert cooking or baking can understand why her employers were so[...]Hanson Fred Halverson came from Oslo, Norway on a ship. He married Anna Swanson, who was Swedish. T[...]children. Grace, now married 1906 and worked for a man named Paulson. They had to Jose[...]to They came to Homestead in March of 1910 with a month John Vanlandingham, lives in Billi[...]n Silver Star community. They have four house was a frame house. The barn and chicken coop were[...]midwives for the children and Dr. After a stroke in 1949 Fred Sr. took up the hobby of Heal[...]ng, renewing and rebuilding rifles. This involved a They all helped build the first church which was the old great deal of meticulous work - all done by a man with a Orville church. Church activities and Ladies Aid[...]ies and Fred played the concertina. Horse, wagon, or on his rifle collection until shortly before his death in buggy were the main travel means. A new Model T Ford March of 1967. Evelyn[...]y in January of 1971. was bought in 1926. Indians would go through on their[...] |
| [...]cated eight miles south of Navajo, which was then a part I[...]them cattle, horses, a steam engine and a threshing rig.[...]their new home. Sparks from the engine started a fire in the[...]ngine around the fire and |
| [...]We lived with our aunt Mary, and grandmother for a while. Dad was in ailing health and passed away i[...]verson) and Bennie, both of Flaxville. Paul was a happy and congenial person who was liked and resp[...]rt and his home to anyone who might be in need of a helping hand. Henry farmed on the Indian reser[...]Valier staying with a family by name of Norsky. He had a[...]tle cabin in Valier. Above the door he had put up a large THOMAS LEE[...]n". He came back to Navajo to visit Thomas Lee, a brother of Mrs. John Severson, was born several times and then he stayed a few weeks. When they November 13, 1876 in Norway[...]easy to get along for two winters. He homesteaded a quarter, later sold it and with and mild and wa[...]912, being over 74 years old. Tom lived there for a number of years. During the winter the neighbors would play a lot of cards. With another fellow he went to west[...]ANTON LINDER FAMILY and cut logs for a few winters. In later years he lost his farm to a loan company which happened to so many[...]and family came to Daniels farmers that borrowed a little money to buy machinery. County fro[...]spent with Frank and Ceilia. In spring they built a[...]rocks and other work connected with establishing a home.[...]neighbors. On one occasion there was a gathering at[...]it would be fun to "tin can" a dog and with all the yelping[...]to search. After a time the outfit was located at the Herman[...] |
| [...]Bill Konchur and also hauled and dug coal. For a time Anton and Frank owned a threshing outfit, powered by a steam engine. In 1915 Rob Hall, a carpenter from Wisconsin, built a Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Linder, Marvin and Delano[...]arn on the place. All work was done by horses, so a barn was a necessity. He built several others in the[...] |
| [...]"Carla" Vertasselt of Sidney, Montana; and Bruce, a senior, of Sidney. Marvin is shop foreman at Larson Motors in Sidney and Marion is a teller at Richland National Bank. They enjoy bo[...]service, on June 19, day back. It was really a blessing when a store was started Delano married Diane Frethiem of Plentywood, Montana. at Navajo. He worked as a mechanic in Havre, Montana for four[...]butchered 12 pigs and a beef, and sometimes some turkeys Delano now has a wheel lining shop of his own in too. Cecelia would spend a whole week making Linder partnership with Gus & Jack, and a home in Great Falls.[...]barn dances, or school dances. Square dancing was their[...]main sport, and Frank would blow up a tune on the mouth organ at least once or twice a week.[...]and Slim Carlson of Flaxville paid them a visit. Slim and Frank Linder, the son of Mr. an[...]degree weather while Frank was shivering with a heavy Frank worked as a logger in Wisconsin and on August rain co[...]r. They remained said "Frank weathered many a blizzard in Montana but in Wisconsin until 1909 a[...]inder Jr. lived there at the Their first home was a sod shack until they could get time and t[...]inders . _ enough lumber from Culbertson to build a larger and better while Monnie and Frank Linde[...]farm. children homesteaded the trip for groceries would always Frank and Cecelia had seven[...] |
| [...]We enjoy farming and I'm sure Daniels County will Walter and Blanche ([...]"dirty al ways be our home. thirties", truly a challenging time for newlyweds. We farmed and lived with his parents, the Anton Linders, for a few years until they retired and moved to Flaxvil[...]at Glasgow, Montana for a year. At this point Ronald[...]survived a very destructive typhoon. They also lived on the[...]college at Bozeman and Havre, where he earned a degree Mr. and Mrs. Walter Linder[...]required three' weeks or more to complete. The oxen[...]their new homestead. Their first necessity was a home, but[...]lived in a small 8x10 snack, which was already on the land,[...]and a tent. After several weeks of such living, a home was a welcome sight. Walter worked on W.P.A. one winter, earning $44 per Although o[...]ars old at the time Freedia month. It seemed like a fortune then. We milked cows and (Log[...] |
| [...]MARCUS LONG sewing doll clothes for a favorite handmade rag doll. Daily she toiled, and made quite a sizeable wardrobe for the doll. Marcus James[...]back of the wagon during the day--all of her A. Long and Jessie Simpson Long. His mother came ov[...]he was interested in animals, he brought with him a pair of pigeons with clipped wings to make them "[...]first pair that made the trip west! Don was also a chicken man. He recalls the runways built over th[...]s home for the two dozen hens that made the trip. A good dog, Sport, given to him by a relative, proved his worth in rounding up the cattle every day. There was also a sow with a good sense of timing as he remembers she presente[...]to open their homes to let the young people have a good time. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Long[...]eland 1933 when he married Rose Greff. They made a home in the and Mrs. Marilyn Rustad. There[...]father's death. She lives in California and has a son Jeremy. Arlene married Conrad Olson a[...] |
| [...]ing, Clara Redlacqyk of Fall Creek, Corps, a horrible experience he says. Upon discharge he Wi[...]in to Flaxville and stayed with the started a painting and paper hanging business in Wausau, Ea[...]wns and operates. He married Flaxville and put in a crop. Lucille S[...]seven and a half miles southeast of Flaxville in the fall of[...]From there they came to Daniels County and built a sod Ed.[...]The first thing they did was to build a fireguard around[...]es in the furrow I J while the older chil[...]4 years with the usual ups and there. As a result there were three sets of burnt feet. downs[...]thought the 320 acres ofland offered was a lot ofland. The:y graduated from Flaxville School[...]liked the country very much but there was a lot of work. In 1948 they sold the farm and lived in Flaxville a few They had to build a home, dig a well, dig up rocks, etc. years. Later they moved[...]There were four boys born in Wisconsin: Joseph a place where they raised raspberries. After ten and a half Edward, Walter and Ludwig. In 1913 a daughter, Barbara years they sold the property an[...]Joseph married Marie Knorr of Poplar, Montana. He i~ and she Ii ves in Tennessee.[...]Edward was a deaf mute and never married. He lived Verona C.[...]Dickinson, North 1940. Verona married Sgt. Henry A. Ewaniec who died in Dakota. :rhey lived in Pendleton, Oregon. His wife and a 1950. Their children were Roger and Cynthia. Vero[...]widow of the late William Murr, and they lived on a Joseph Murr so there were 20 people living t[...]Joseph had to walk or ride five miles to school and had to In a year or so they moved to Flaxville where Clarence p[...]is mouth he bit them hard. Marathon and worked as a painter. He served in the Army In 1914[...]nt with hot water from in World War II and became a sergeant in the Medical a washing machine. The only thing they could[...] |
| [...]ed child. the older brother Peter. Frank operated a saloon in Flaxville and ran it until the late 20's or early 30's. He passed away in the 40's. Peter worked around Flaxville and married a widow, Martha Wade, who had two children. He live[...]south of Navajo and worked on a W.P.A. project. In the William Murr, born in Pennsylv[...]ir four children. They brought some belongings in a railroad immigrant car. Their first home was a sod house, which they shared with two other famil[...]n the techers just to make life miserable for her or him. Mrs. Murr was good with sick people, so s[...]neth William Murr passed away in the late 20's or early 30's. came back from the Army where[...]In October, 1944 Linden and Emma bought a home in ~ashington. She passed away there January[...]ild, Ii ves in North Bismarck, and he is a pilot for the State Highway Dakota.[...] |
| [...]est grass and picked that spot for his homestead. A team of oxen was used to break the land the first[...]HENRY AND BERTHA (TEREN) ROUFS A year later he married Louise Mehls, who came here Bertha Teren, a niece of Mrs. John Severson, came to |
| [...]Bergen, North Dakota where he and Joy worked in a REA Benjamin F. Schlag was born on June 14, 188[...]h. In 1914 he returned to Wisconsin and married a school teacher, Maude Smith. That summer they returned and made a home on the Pfeiffer place close to Albert. They had JOHN H. SCHLAG a daughter, Florence, who is now Mrs. Max Rasmussen[...]roundup he came to Bozeman and worked on a sheep ranch for four cattle and horses off the re[...]were Jack Wagner and Bill Endersby. John operated a wheat farm near Madoc. In 1930 they had worked on a cattle ranch at Culbertson during the summer move[...]med the George and in the fall started a homestead southwest of Redstone Stringer farm sou[...]in the Eagle's Nest area. His first home was a log cabin the place will be remembered for Mrs. S[...]which was lived in until 1912 when he built a house. The garden despite the wind and drought of[...]umber used was hauled from Medicine Lake. In 1911 a 1934 a severe windstorm took the roof off the barn. Luck[...]Kansas and has a son, Harvey, who now lives at Bergen, During th[...]rs for the Leet County school, two miles distant. A After John no longer farmed he worked on t[...]remaining years were necessary to take them with a team of horses and sled. For spent in Redstone. a few years Mrs. Schlag was clerk of the school boa[...]by Mrs. Max Rasmussen a home in Plentywood. Mr. Schlag was custodian at t[...]county was divided. A nine month term started then.[...]building was the usual one room school, heated by a coal burning stove. There was a small barn and some of the[...]born in Wisconsin and Myrtle in Kansas. They had a log cabin where they lived and then later[...] |
| [...]they lived for about a year. Then his father took up a[...]homestead south of Navajo in 1910. There were a few years Eagle Creek School - 1918. Bertha P[...]ster children rode horses to school. A cook car was bought from |
| [...]ntil 1935 when the bundles ran out. George bought a used As each year goes by they are thank[...]ealth for them and their families. Flaxville. A Ford run-about was another purchase in 1924 and George and Vern Tyler made a trip to Yellowstone Park, drove to the top of Mt.[...]e, who settled in Miner, county allotment. George would push the mea s urin g wheel Wisconsin. John and his wife Lena had four children born and Ruth would set up the transit sticks --s o they could[...]by train on July 30 and stayed overnight at a hotel and made much easier and George worked wit[...]hey moved to the and their homestead was a short distance from Tom's. farm where they now li[...]non, Eileen, Ronald and Marvin. School was always a problem in the country because of bad weather and roads. The boys especially had a lot of fun with their Shetland ponies and Eileen[...]es. Those were busy days with all the activity of a growing family and larger farming operations. In 1944 George bought a Jacobs Wind Charger light plant for $1252 and on[...]1948 the plumbing for the bathroom was finished. A Servel kerosene refrigerator was The win[...]here was not much traveling, but in 1949 they had a small doctor, so Mrs. Paulson acted as midw[...]e was much moisture in the air. Fair; and in 1952 a trip to the Yellowstone Park was great, In[...]to the Navajo area with team and wagon to locate a stove made for a well loaded car. There was not much homestead and finally chose a spot on Eagle Creek, mainly trouble finding a spot for the tent in the park in those days. be[...]r tent campers. Another trip trying to locate a place where three neighbors could when all the fa[...]Homestead they had a load of lumber , which was hauled George and Ruth have been fortunate enough to do a from Culbertson and left there until M[...]al group tours. George is John came to build a one-room shack , 14x16. Part of their[...] |
| [...]I was born in Scobey July 5, 1944. My parents are G[...]and Ruth. I was raised in the Eagle Creek area and[...]rest of my school years I went to Plentywood and[...]I met my wife, Linda Tryan, in 1959. She was born i[...]Lonnie and Monte. I worked for my dad and we lived on his[...]farm in a trailer house for nine years.[...]ra. and was so well built that we built a basement under it and[...]E.E. Sheridan place in Sheridan County a few miles from[...]One of the things we do during the summer for a week is had only a dirt floor. On a bright sunny day on March 19, to take a wagon train trip. We have gone on them for the 1[...]in the morning and came last five years. I restored a two-seated buggy and we took across the reservat[...]ayrack almost floated off the wagon. They passed a load of lumber that was stuck in the mud down to[...]ut nine in the evening the family arrived and had a fire in the corner of the shack to keep warm. I was born in Scobey in 1935 to George and Ruth John had three horses, a plow, a disc and drill, and Tom Severson. I went to Eagle Creek School for eight years, we L[...]med together. They began walked the two and a half miles to school when the weather to dig rock[...]ads were plenty tough broke before the horses ran a way in a big snow storm. They for the small bus pulled[...]stead. John and George walked to study a little at home that time. We didn't get our mail[...]ed it to flax. The first crop froze so it yielded a total of six bushels. That summer they built a sod barn for the horses and four cows, and one mo[...]l was hauled from Eagles Nest which they dug with a pick and shovel. The groceries were bought in Med[...]s. The next two years more land was broke up with a walking plow pulled by two oxen. He traded a horse for two oxen. Then a team of horses and a team of oxen were used to pull a sulky plow. Later another daughter, Dora, was born. In 1914 a new two story frame house was built. This house i[...]Overland car, 1918 model, was bought in 1920. A tragic event in the Severson family in later year[...]f 1952. After graduation I attended the State School of Science at John w[...]d was 81 years of Wahpeton, North,Dakota where I took up car mechanics. I age at the time of his death on February 14, 1937. His wife was in the army for two years after which I returned to my Lena also lived a good life until the age of 80, and died former job of selling vacuum cleaners. I now work for Hart August 18, 1960.[...]Motor Express in Williston. I also have saddle horses and[...] |
| RONNIE AND CHERYL SEVERSON I was born in Scobey and went to Eagle Creek School, where I was the only one in my grade--what a difference when we moved to Plentywood and I was in a room of over forty! I graduated from Plentywood High School, worked on my dad's farm, then joined the Army in 1962. I married Cheryl Johnson, daughter of Melvin and Do[...]on the farm, helping my dad, for two years. Then I wanted to see if I could make a living in town, so we moved to Great Falls where I was employed at the Farmers Union Central Exchange for nine months, and then worked as a Walco insurance salesman.[...]1966 when I went into the insurance business. I am now a[...]We both still think of Daniels and Sheridan Counties as[...]1910 on the north side of Eagle Creek. They built a nice[...]Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After she died he lived in a trailer[...]his family, live in Minneapolis. He was In 1970 I beg~n selling mobile homes, transferring to a street car conductor for many years and later drove city Bozeman when I became manager. I sold them for four buses. years, and am[...]Adam Vaubel was born near Marathon, Wisconsin. As a young man he worked as a lumberjack. Wages were poor My parents are George and Ruth Severson. I was born at and as the timber became scarce h[...]s' himself. He worked in the Dakotas for a couple of years, farm and ranch, where I spent 21 years. I attended Eagle and when he heard land was ope[...]nderson , duty in 1956-1957. My wife Lorraine and I met during our who had homesteaded it, but wa[...]. mother and brothers. There was a 9x12 shack on the place, Lorraine, a daughter of Anker and Dora Jensen, was so[...]The first year he broke 40 acres and seeded a crop. Wheat in Plentywood and graduated from Plentywood High. was hauled to Medicine Lake with a four horse outfit, a We now have six children: Michael, Kelly, Matth[...]ll, Mark, and Karlene. We lived on the farm where I the shack, so when a blizzard came up he fed his horses worked with my dad until 1959; then I attended a carpenter enough hay to last a couple of days, made a big kettle of trade school in Minnesota for two y[...]cken was the main source of In the fall of 1962 I moved my wife and family to Great meat. He didn't like venison. In a few years he built a larger Falls and worked in construction there until November of house and used the homestead shack for a chicken coop.[...] |
| [...]UBEL Lehner of Minneapolis. By that time he owned a car and they traveled a bit, but still farmed with horses. His horses[...]ught catch them any place without trouble. It was a sad day land on the reservation and also[...]o when he had to sell them. Adam said he received a $100 bill Flaxville. from the last team he sold. He decided to keep it as a souvenir and put it in his bank box in the Reserv[...]d could remember the names of many as a result was in poor health. In the mid thirties he[...]o stayed briefly and went on to other to a warmer climate, living in Albuquerque, New Mexico[...]he went "broke" three times, each time for a few years. Later he bought property in Segiun, Te[...]where he passed away in 1949. He is buried in a military He passed away in 1971 at the a[...] |
| [...]we learned it was a stray horse or two rubbing on the I, Elsie Phelps Wilberg, was born in Frazee, Minnes[...]il the spring of 1906. One morning we found a herd of horses had surrounded Our family moved[...]o our rescue and he and his dog managed three and a half miles north west of Froid. ' to disperse the herd. I had been teaching in North Dakota and continued I was the first teacher in the Redstone school, whi[...]her had built. Teaching the 1914-1915 term. There I met Phelps, had written that he had taken squatte[...]stead at the beginning of the depression. Vic was a[...]with a heart attack on March 4, 1942. I continued living on the original homestead and ta[...]retirement I have spent the winters with my son Vernon[...]family in Helena. I have six grandchildren and six great[...]grandchildren. Up to this year (1975) I have always spent[...]and I hope to spend at least a short while there each year. How excited we were; a whole new world opening up for From the[...]LKE FAMILY close to one another, so my sister and I could be together. A number of years later, as Sheridan County was[...]Eileen and James, and they rented a farm from Peter The present house on my homestead was built in 1911. At Kurtz. I recall that my first impression was that there wa[...]my parents sold their farm near Froid and joined a lot of work to be done before winter! us. Farmers[...]s, she now Ii ves in meals and lodging, as it was a four day haul to get a load of Boulder, Colorado, she has three sons; James is a rancher grain to Medicine Lake, usually in the wi[...]ersal City, Texas, she has four children; John is a ~eds were 35¢ per night. Meals were 25¢ each. M[...]d in ~-E. Phelps and my brother Rollin Phelps ran a threshing the National Guard Reserve and Georg was in the Navy. ng and were one of the first to farm with a tractor. Clarence retired from far[...]n Poplar where we live. l~ter at Allie Pfeiffers, a five mile ride to either place. Some[...]ivery there now. Our excitement of the west and a new life proved only too true many times with the[...]e fire swept from Smoke Creek to the Muddy River. A homesteader had thrown out a pan of live The Tyler family a[...] |
| [...]Plentywood; Harvey and Jack of Sidney; Pearl had a son and two daughters , one of whom was[...]ut fourth-class the lumber to build his home with a team of oxen from wood butchers, but it took us three full days to build a 12x14 Culbertson. Through the years he became one of the shed with two windows, a door and a car roof." He traveled largest farm and ranch ope[...]on the 40's one harvest filled the granaries and a wheat pile of his farm south of Flaxvill[...] |
| [...]IN REVERIE The tall grass whispers 'neath a gnarled dead tree. A lonely house stands deserted, its windows gone, t[...]. prime, a young man and his bride set forth to accept the |
| A scene in the Ed Molden Saloon. Left to 'right: Sl[...]village prospered and grew through the A theatre was built in the early years which later[...]infancy into the drought stricken years of the A new one was built with shares in it being sold to[...]f nearly every business was more red public on a co-operative basis. Elmer Jackson was an early- t[...]f the early day thrills many will remember was on a Mrs. Louis Peltier, taken in 1914. ' Sunday afternoon when Dewey Lowers, a local man who[...]owned an airplane, gave rides to people for a dollar. There was a young lady with him who jumped from the plane[...]with a parachute, and it is safe to surmise that seeing[...]daring feat was far more of a thrill than to watch the outer[...] |
| [...], town were also great occasions, when the family would go Adolph Hexom, Ump Bill Notholfer, Bill[...]of police. local lumber yard. He was a pitcher and played some Businesses have change[...]Stan Milford, Layton Galloway, the Giles Variety, a beauty shop, two bars, the post office, one brothers, and Jim Dorwin-a very good athlete (still active elevator, the dep[...]Baseball League-this was a very competitive group of[...]me new and younger faces Flaxville was known as a good baseball town through were on the[...]Don Higgins, Bob the years-even before there was a town team there were Kurtz, Todd Tryan,[...]Tony Swenson, Mention should be made of a few of Flaxville's most Fred Hanson . Second row:[...]who still enjoy a good ball game and a visit about the good[...] |
| [...]composed of Joe Murr, A.J. Wood, Eugene LaRoche, Peter[...]Cemetery, and for a time also served the Scobey mission.[...]In 1931 the church was enlarged and a parish hall was[...]bad, until today it is still actively busy in the a slow start, was won by Flaxville 68-61.[...]The ladies later held a dance in the Goulet barn with the[...]f late years the ladies of the Al tar Society had a project[...]ch altar, such as candles, priest's traveled with a team of horses from Plentywood. In 1910 he[...]d serve lunches for next five years Flaxville was a mission of Culbertson, receptions, etc. served by Father Alphonse Pache, a Benedictine priest. In The Society is divided into three Circles: St. Mary, St. 1915 it became a mission of Plentywood, and since 1919, it Bernadette, and St. Catharine. has been a mission of Scobey. The first Masses said in the[...]coming of the railroad On May 20, 1925, a meeting was held in the hall over Peter in 1913,[...]xom's general store for the purpose of organizing a was said once a month in the hall over the general store.[...] |
| [...]1925, plans were made, Rachel Nelson. and a basement and the church proper were begun.[...]il 1928 when the the church basement at a cost of $242.00. furnace was installed and the fl[...]d was organized also at this time. Eight pews and a piano were purchased. O[...]Though they were few in number, the ladies earned a District President A.M. Skindlov officiating. sizea[...]oined the Orville and the town church merged into a new Zion of Orville or Flaxville groups. congregation in November, 1942.[...]Mollerstuen, secretary; Mrs. Gilbert established a new one, with Rev. R. Johnson as our new[...]resight to build the large structure. It has been a home for Carl Tange, George Lane, A.P. Smervd, Frank Hewitt, Leo Cossette and[...] |
| home is at present. It was apparently planned to build a When asked what gave him the most troubl[...]capacity all the years of its standard tools, a pair of pliers, screwdriver, and the usage.[...]traditional Ford wrench, Dr. Healy said a chain was also Mr. and Mrs. Irving Bunse were c[...]ganized by Brother Van Orsdal in mud, or when the cranking arm gave out. 1914. Their daugh[...]hart, Hewitt long standing, and it is a safe guess that he wrote many of families, as wel[...]them off as paid. His office was always in a state of many years later.[...]n It was recalled that Reverend Barber lived in a small vacation, some well-meaning ladies[...]didn't know where anything was. The doctor was a happy, the members joined the Scobey or Redstone congregations. jovial man and his[...]joking remarks. His soft eastern accent was a lifetime way years of the church's existence.[...]patient from going to the hospital in Scobey, and a[...]as the last baby Taken in part from a clipping of hundreds that he[...]t the University of Kentucky at there was a hospital and five doctors in Outlook, Montana. Lo[...]ts, and then Massachusetts, where he had a brother, 81, and two sisters. went to Sioux City,[...]as one of her teachers in Northhampton, a lady who later Flaxville since his coming in 1914[...]retirement in married Calvin Coolidge. 1957, a period of more than 43 years.[...]eelwright, lassachusetts, person. His formula for a healthy life was a sensible diet, at the age of 78. He was of the Catholic fa ith and was a sleep when it was needed, a busy mind with a measure of nephew of the late Bishop O'Ha[...]red the most important factors. His background as a longtime country doctor with vast years of calls[...]arly years in Flaxville, Dr. Healy said he bought a new Model T Ford in 1914. It was a runabout coupe with ising-glass side FLAXVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 7 curtains, a fold-back top and "presto lights" (carbide). This[...]by Dorothy Kanning the roads. At those times a bob-sled or cutter and horses were -used.[...]the schoolyard was a familiar sight in the town of Flaxville Dr. Healy[...]was decided to add more rooms and a gymnasium to the[...]uilding. With the new gym, they were able to have a basketball team as a part of the school program.[...]and received a salary of $96.00 per month. He was followe[...] |
| [...]longer adequate, so the new schoolhouse was built a short[...]addition of a dining room and stage area was added in[...]Peterson-Battleson-Haagensen was a name associated The old Flaxville school house.[...]Harry was a brother of Ed Battleson, prominent Scobey Mrs. Jordan took over the duties as principal (with a cut businessman. Ruth Linthicum (later Mrs. Ellis Guy), who of about $100.00 in wages) for a short period, and in 1924 had also worked in[...]the store. 1925 until 1932, when he was killed in a car accident.[...]Harry was married to the former Glenna Hensrud, a William A. Collins was then the principal for the next few[...]tons of coal, chemicals William and Lloyd, a member of the Air Force, who was for the toilets,[...]killed in a plane crash on May 6, 1945. water) draying bills for hauling supplies (the dray was a[...]for the furnace, kalsomining the walls - this was a powdery substance mixed with water and applied in[...]s in the community of Flaxville, where we came as a Lucille Mehls (Krusemark), Alice Brenden (Schae[...]sed) were members of the first high there , I also taught at the school for five years. school[...]house we were to live in was being made ready. A water Part of the new school house at Flaxville.[...]our house, so we had a limited supply of running water[...]thought the town, with its wide-open spaces, was a good[...]Watford City, North Dakota. I have been secretary at the[...]or an oil company. Elaine, Mrs. Brooks Hanna, is :i~--1$.::?: "'.1_ - :;,_..,._ a nurse in Williston, North Dakota.[...] |
| [...]now Daniels County in the early 1900's. He lived a very colorful young life as a cowboy, taking part in cattle drives from Texas t[...]prairie, she could Montana homesteaders in a part of Sheridan County hear the coyotes howling[...]to her sister Early in 1913, Dad and a friend, Ernie Waite came from Margaret.[...]r was sure that he was the son of and loaded a wagon with the necessary supplies, and a '_'Vealthy cattleman. They said they both got foo[...]rned to establish their homestead claims. neither would have exchanged their lives for any other[...]rseback to visit her and quite often bringing her a box of and Violet. Traveling in a two-seated buggy and team of chocolates. She would remark to her brothers that it would horses, it took them five days to make the trip to their new have been better if he had brought her a sack of sugar or a home. Their first cup of coffee in the new sta[...]es, and most of the people was brewed over a fire using "buffalo chips" for fuel. All of could[...]there. This was his Our family lived in a small eight by ten foot shanty until trade during[...]laxville also. Dad was able to add on a twelve by twelve foot room the My parents had[...]north, was our Whitetail. He spent many years as a mail clerk on the train closest town and post[...]Dad six children and were foster parents to over a hundred arranged to drive the school bus[...]1918 so that we children would be able to attend school Hugh, the second son, is a bachelor and lives in Helena. there. The George Bunse and George Strand children also He is involved in a program for the handicapped. He is the rode i[...]Pansy and Dean. In 1919 the family moved into I am the oldest daughter and after going to college at Flaxville, and here a third daughter, Iris, was born in 1921. Havre for two years, I taught school until I met and Dad owned the Ii very stable[...]tal Oil near Conrad, Montana for many years until a serious accident caused Carl to give up the farm[...]Healy on his rounds. six children were all grown, I went back to teaching school. We sold our ranch and built a new home in the same neighborhood. Next in the[...]Kelley after she graduated from college. Pat was a Border Patrolman and later an inspector at the Ca[...]im from England. In the spring of 1975, they took a trip to England. It was the first time back there for Rose in over thirty years. They had three girls and a boy. A daughter passed away in 1971.[...] |
| [...]months. He used an enclosed heated sleigh, called a cutter, in making these house calls with the doct[...]they were gone for two days awaiting the birth of a baby. Many times they would be caught in a blinding snowstorm. Knowing the horses would find their way better than he could, Dad would secure the reins and let them return to the barn[...]tincts. Mother often accompanied the doctor as a practical nurse, and at one time she could list o[...]religious Th.:/oldest son, Clayton, worked for a sign company in classes plus all his other jobs and raising a family. Jackie Sale;: until his retirement in March of 1975. He and his was a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts, is busy with churc[...]Flaxville, are and school work and raising a family. She belonged to the looking forward to th[...]usband, Ray Heckart, are also retired and live on a The children have all attended Flaxville[...]athleen works in Scobey. Michael served three and a half is the postmaster. Her husband, Bernard "Pat" Menge, a years in the army and is living in Ancho[...]46 in St. Philips Church in Scobey. They lived in a one room teacherage at the Joy Both Mr[...]heir marriage, they lived there for he worked for a time in Scobey for Greengard's Men's s[...]ail carrier from Flaxville for thirty- Frederick, a licensed pilot, to fly him over his route. They two years, with a good share of the miles being made with a would buzz the farm and drop the mail. That same spring[...]ed Wilfred French to take him around his route in a severe winter months, patrons remember, the[...]as lots of mud and roads several days at a time when he was unable to travel due to weren't[...]bad weather and deep snow, so it was a great day of Jim became clerk of the school dis[...]Catholic Church in Spokane. He was survived by a sister 1953. They have been busy raising a family of eight and brother in North Dakota. Mrs. Cossette was a cousin of children--Kathleen, Michael, Gre[...] |
| [...]several years as a carpenter, and at the Flaxville and[...]n elevators. He now farms full time. Donald and I, Zelda Johansen, were married on April 10,[...]ontana. to me. I began teaching in the Whitetail school in 1963 to[...]omertown where Don managed the fill out a term, and taught there for seven years. I now teach elevator. All three of our children wer[...]e Don Claude Frederick. They have a daughter, Jessica. Philip managed the GT A elevator and I was employed at the John and Mark are stil[...]and Larry Legare, former Flaxville residents) as a bookkeeper. On June 20, 1969 we moved to Flaxvi[...]GTA elevator, previously managed by John Vaagne. I was employed as MR. AND MRS.[...]by Corinne French Our oldest son, Mike, was a 1972 graduate from Flaxville High School and was co-valedictorian of his class. Jeanette Lloyd and I were both born in Daniels County, and have and th[...]most of the time since we were married. received a superior rating at the State Music Festival in Lloyd farms and does a great deal of carpenter work 1971 and 1973. Jim, our youngest, will be a junior in high whenever he has the time. I do many odd jobs, but my school this fall, (1975)[...]ldren, two of whom died in infancy. The Don and I enjoyed a one week trip to Hawaii in January four ol[...]Steven is employed at the of this year as part of a group of GT A employees who Nemont Telephone Co-op. H[...]ildren. Stanley works with Don, our family, and I are proud to be a part of the the Soil Conservation Progra[...]former Julie Nelson of Scobey. Marcella is a beautician and[...]THE JOHN GUNN FAMILY at the farm a short distance west of Flaxville. He attended sch[...]others who still owns it. Gene and Billy and I completed our grade and high school We[...]he pleasantness of the work. Russell, Carl, and I continued my education at Eastern Montana College[...]th four horses, and Lee brought up the Bert and I were married in 1953 and Ii ved in Flaxville for rear driving our cattle on horseback. Dad, Mother, and us a while. I began m'y second term in the Westby school,[...]project was to enlarge the basement into a family kitchen. school. Using a team of horses and a scoop, they cemented the We have four children:[...]le, Philip, and ceiling and walls, laid a floor, and made a walk-in cellar for Mark.[...]storage of canned goods and vegetables. It made a very We lived in Scobey for a few years and moved back to nice,[...] |
| [...]the harvest and threshing season he usually got a cookcar to MR. AND MRS. ELLIS[...]Mother. One of the granaries was converted into a bunk house for the hired b[...]illiam and man, whose first name was Bill became a good friend of Sarah Guy, to their homestead site a few miles south of Harry's and they broke horses[...]a time at the Sparling Hardware store in Flaxville, for In 1920 another daughter, Leona, was born, making a neighboring farmers, and for several ye[...]ouse known as the Mike Dorwin house. He worked as a In 1917-1918 the influenza epidemic[...]out six weeks. Dad was Mother had been running a boarding house during this unable to enter military service in World War I because of time, so after Dad was no longer janitor, he opened a little his prolonged and almost fatal illness. ea[...]t he called "The Beanery" on the west side A very lovely and capable young lady, by the name o[...]e store George Mollerstuen, who remodeled it into a barber shop. in Scobey during that town's[...]ving up here and after that managed to make quite a few trips to on a tract of land sixteen miles south of Flaxville. I[...]Battleson store. The company he sold the farm to a Mr. Frederick, keeping the house eventually opened a store in Flaxville and put Mother in which he lat[...]e, and attaching it to the charge of it. She took a year off from her store duties to little white house north of the schoolgrounds which he had attend a business college in Fargo, North Dakota. It was b[...]ried and had families of their own. They moved to a community near Ronan, Montana, where Dad w[...] |
| [...]These were tall three-legged towers with a generator and[...]whence came the electrical power. I can still hear my aunt Ruth say, "I can't finish the ironing today because the[...]the kerosene or gasoline lamps had to be put to use again.[...]refrigerator which meant quite a change from the old methods of cooking on a gas range and cooling the milk in[...]milkman, would deliver the milk by the back door early in[...]the milk would be frozen, pushing itself out of the top of the[...]Bill Nothelfer, who had a grocery store, sold fish that[...]ame in wooden barrels. In the wintertime the fish would[...]days at a time, the fish would become quite smelly.[...]Hexom's store across the street was a bright spot for the[...]were on display. They spent a great deal of time looking[...]which made good coal mines a necessity. Dynamite was[...]stored in a tin building about a half mile from town. The[...]building was situated on a hill in a field, and this hill was[...]time we saw the new snow plow with a rotary blade, which[...]many a car owner cursed the black, shiny, sticky tar as[...]two children Michel and Bill Nothelfer, and I remember his saying that joined the family circle: I was born on July 22, 1929, and he could not compete with Scobey merchants. Ronald on July 3, 1931. I contracted a severe cold when less Dad was also in busin[...]er in Seiler's than two years old, which affected a gland in my neck. My Pool Hall, and he lat[...]Many parents took me to Minot, North Dakota where I received salemen and tourists mentioned to him that they thought treatments for six weeks. As a result of this illness I lost a Flaxville was a neat and well-kept town. certain degree of equili[...]y as Wolf Point, we both took piano lessons, with a lot of help from our very Plentywood, and tow[...]usy nights for this cafe and Clara Bakely, who I have many memories of the early years in Flaxville. I also had a cafe south of the drug store. On these nights remember asking Mother where Ron and I were born and after the movie was ove[...]she said "at the Dahlquist Hospital", adding that I was theater. The streets were lined with[...]ngth of born on the hottest day of the year. When I was about five the town. years old, electricity made its appearance, and what a thrill Bill Sidora worked for Dad in his poo[...]ight bulb hanging from sold in 1944. Bill was a native of Poland and had come to its cord making a very bright light from such a small ball of America as a young man who eventually located in glass. The co[...]any years more for Flaxville. His home was a room in the Tasa Hotel and he[...] |
| [...]nge ownership many times. Dad's pool hall became a well known business througho.ut a large territory. On many summer afternoons, musi[...]eet. Many men came into Dad's place, madder than a hornet and said, "I mighty near ran over that stupid dog of yours! He won't move for a car, and acts as if he owns the road! " Jackie d[...]ny others. Dad kept his place open up to 18 hours a day to bring in the needed to North Dakota[...]irst location was in the town of now that the W.P.A. program came into existence, giving Orv[...]Jake and John Goerhing Rafshol in a grocery store. In 1913 the railroad was transferr[...]m' s General store for the next thirty Ronald and I spent many summer evenings counting the[...]ew After selling the pool hall, Dad worked for a short time in Anderson, was born October 24, 18[...]family he owned until about 1950. He also bought a farm east of moved to Columbus, North Dak[...]ted the land to to the Orville settlement in a covered wagon. Todd Tryan.[...]Flaxville. Harold died in several friends went to a spot north of Regina, infancy. T[...]ve in community, school and church He also had a hobby of coin collecting which in later a[...]rs. The store business had its years proved to be a profitable one. He enjoyed meeting many[...]nd the will to carry on overcame the drives, P .T.A., church activities, Red Cross work, and[...]til 1943, when he decided functions, to name only a few. to sell out. Mother becaI}\e ill with a very seriou~ blood condition Our mother died after an illness of only a few hours on and passed away in the Culbertson Ho[...]September 2, 1940. Her death was caused by a cerebral 1951 . Dad spent two years checking g[...]for the Department of Agriculture. He then spent a to right, back row: Philip, Allan, Peter a[...]ry. After graduating from high school in 1947, I attended college in Bozeman. I later ta ught school near Peerless and at Madoc. I married my college sweetheart in the Catho[...] |
| [...]hile we lived there, Yvonne and Victor. agent for a time and in 1948 he moved to Roseville, On May 26, 1960, Yvonne underwent surgery a t St. California where he opened a men's clothing store with his Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota to close a hole son Adolph. He retired in 1958 and died July[...]e Mother at the Orville operation was a total success and she has since lived a cemetery.[...]active life. She was in the hospital only ten I am the oldest of the children and live in Citrus[...]her five days of convalescence in the California. I am employed at Hexom's Men's Wear. Adolph[...]homestead from Elmer Johnson of Antelope in 1948 a nd in during World War II and was stationed in Au[...]e. Gary, was born there. From 1945 to 1950 he was a teacher Our daughter Judy is married t[...]Their three children are Market grocery store for a time. Ilo is married to George Teresa, Mic[...]from high school in 1975. employed at the Triple A at Modesto, California, and Allan lives at Creswe[...]Alfred was born at Antelope, Montana in 1922 and I was Ben was born at Karlsruhe, North Da[...]ana in 1922. We were married on last in a family of six children: Fred, Emma, Adolph, Decem[...]ht his family to Westby, Montana and he worked on a farm near there for a Redstone, Montana. They lived for a few years with Ben's year. Our daughter Judy was[...]e was to Dagmar, where Alfred was the a bachelor, took the six orphans into his home wher[...]Adolph Kollmann) often went out to drive a span of four Kurtz.[...]ce La underama for the hungry crew, and then would spend the afternoon in Scobey, and sold it in 196[...]chores, since he was too During this year he was a member of the Scobey small to d[...]under a discarded wash boiler that the wind had blown out[...]I was born in the homestead home of my parents, Mr.[...]pastures or to the neighbors, or relaxing with a book or[...]Gophers were a real hazard to the tender shoots of wheat[...]daydreaming as I walked the length and bread th of the[...]pastures dropping a spoonful of poison~d oats into each[...] |
| [...]I worked for a year at the Workentine Cafe and then went[...]Hexom store. I clerked there for fourteen years, the last[...]daughter, Loretta, was killed in a car accident in Billings[...]e 27, 1969. She was married and was the mother of a[...]Back row: Delores, Loretta, to serve a hitch in the army and is stationed in Germany. Be[...]keel once more. We count our many blessings of a faithful Dolly and I made many miles as we brought the wond[...]in the spring and fall best of all we are a part of this beautiful country which we made the four mile trip to the Smoke Creek School where I shall treasure until the end of our days.[...]ars. Going to Flaxville from our farm home was a slow process via the horse and buggy way of trave[...]e the very few trips we made to Scobey each year. I would spend most of the time on the MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH KLOS road deciding what I would buy for the nickel or dime I had to spend. Plentywood, less than fifty miles a[...]by Helen (Tong) Klos as remote as Chicago or New York, and I was quite old before I ever went there. In the late twenties my father[...]as born on September 1, 1907 atScherville, bought a 1914 Baby Grand Chevrolet and we might go to Indiana. He was the sixth child in a family of eight Plentywood five or six times a year! I remember how the car children. When he was seven his parents, Michael and would not always make it up the Redstone Hill and my[...]vajo My sister Della is eight years older than I and in our School and helped his father a[...]with the growing up years she used those years as a leverage to get farming. me to do things that I didn't think I should have to do, as Their father passed[...]the farm going through the hard times of on her, I would go into the granary or haystack and find a the late 20's and 30's. Joe went to a CCC camp, a program nest of baby mice, pick them up by their[...]ith them. She still work and earn money. has a mortal fear of mice. After she was married she an[...]e southeastern part of the state. She always took a stick with Helen and Joe Klos her when she w[...]nake that she might see along the way. Ben and I were married in 1937, which was one of the worst[...]methods were not planned to deter the blowing to a slight degree, at least. The dust sifted i[...] |
| In 1932 he hopped a freight train and rode to Chicago free Fra[...]we moved from Fort Peck. I was born April 14, 1914 at Underwood, North Dakot[...]hat year and we were able to pay the the sixth in a family of nine children. When I was quite money back to Joe's mother and pay off the balance of the young, my family moved to a farm seventeen miles farm loan.[...]rt of money again so we both southeast of Scobey. I attended a country school near our went to work. Joe[...]ers Union Oil Station. Because of the war When I was twelve, my parents, Charles and Ida Tong, there was a shortage of teachers, so I went back to teaching died within three weeks of[...]obs, and everything looked rosy. In July day when I was home alone. I saw one of the cows lying on we were sadd[...]ick from eating the wrong kind of August a hail storm wiped out our crop. We were more than feed. Looking closer, I saw that she was bloated, and knew thankfu[...]Shortly before Christmas, Frances was struck by a car in skin and release the air. I didn't know just where to stick the street, and I decided then that I was more needed at the knife blade, so, with the knife poised in the air, I took a home than at school, so I quit teaching in the middle of the deep breath, uttered these words, "Live or die!", and term. I was also pregnant, which helped to make my plunge[...]Our daughter Edith was born in 1944. I supplemented One summer I gathered up the bleached bones of dead[...]oard to two school girls, horses and cattle. When I had a wagon box full of bones, Ardith Goerhring and Anne Gunderson. my girl friend and I took them to Scobey where we sold Th[...]day before school was to start in each one of us a dress. The bones were shipped out-by the[...]poses. Nothing was saved but a few clothes and some bedding I graduated from high school in 1931, and went to c[...]d by smoke that it could not be at Havre in 1933. I do not know if I have ever been able to used. Our friends an[...]ame to our rescue with convince my daughters that I had only one dress to wear contribution[...]n During my first teaching position at Navajo, I met Joe, as the Cossette home from P ete J[...]34. We lived at Fort Peck, also had a household shower for us, proving again the Montan[...]born in 1936 truth of the old saying, "a friend in need is a friend indeed". and daughter Frances in 1938. In[...]es, many things that we Point where Joe worked on a farm and I worked at the needed could not be bo[...]le, and lived furniture for our new home. I cooked on a two burner with Joe's brother Frank. While there,[...]utes before closing post-war slump, with a great deal of unemployment. Joe time, on the day[...]lost his job at the oil station, so I went back to teaching, this[...]Sunday, February 2, 1947, began as a nice sunny day,[...]afternoon movie in Scobey. A blizzard came up while they[...]In the spring of 1947 a dance orchestra, The Four Aces,[...]and played at a dance every weekend. Joe was also[...]income was indeed a windfall, for the farm program cut[...]make a living from that alone.[...] |
| [...]horses in, and the next day they started out with a business there in 1955, where the upkeep was che[...]oom to stock our groceries. After as Sheep Creek, a half mile from the town which is now struggling[...]After competition, and two children in college, I went back to unloading their wagons, they built a barn for their horses, teaching, this time in Whitetail where I taught for two and a livery barn, after which they erected a large tent they years.[...]ome and business, Helen and Henry Goulet who had a cafe there for two years. Bill and Sam cared for[...]uilding to the Postal lathing and shingling work. A part of their work was also Department for a postoffice. After making a loan through to find land for people to squat on[...]file on their Frank to remodel the building into a postoffice, and it is land until after January 31[...]he and Pete then came Nevada was good to us. I taught school for eleven years, to the Flaxville community to look for a piece of land on and Joe worked with the State H[...]fter graduation Bruce Medicine Lake bringing back a load of lumber for the was appointed to both the[...]atter, and majored in nuclear In 1914 Pete opened a hotel in Flaxville which he sold three engineeri[...]ve six grandchildren. 1899. When she was a young girl her family moved to Joe and I moved back to Flaxville in November, 1973, Harris[...]Jacqueline, passed away when a small girl of leukemia. as told[...]r Kurtz was born in Delano, Minnesota in 1889. As a (Pomerleau) of Miles City, Montana; Robert and Ly[...], California; Leo of and into Canada, working as a carpenter, and doing Cohasset, Massachusetts; Aqu[...]ifornia; In 1909 he heard about the land which would be opened Darrel of Jeffrey City, Wyoming; Joan ([...]Kurtz and family, taken on their 50th children would not have so far to go to school. Pete was still w[...]Nelson, a position he held for thirty four years. He was al[...]a cattle inspector and chief of police in Flaxville[...]those years. He became a familiar sight as he walked about[...]head, a cigar in the corner of his mouth, and a six-cell[...]who never has owned a car. He is known to have made the[...]years and all he could ever afford was a wheelbarrow.[...] |
| [...]umpired the old-timers ball game. 1922. Pete is a lifetime member of the Montana-Dakota We pause to pay our tribute |
| [...]returned to Georgia, where he has Bozeman. I was born at Culbertson, Montana, where my since w[...]n the Department of Public parents live. I attended the Miles City College of Beauty Safety.[...]e two children. and worked for a time at the Beauty Clinic in Plentywood. Darnel[...]r families, the Army Reserve in March of 1963 for a short time. He we are quite familiar wit[...]ased Diane graduated from high school and took a business from one to four children: Shawn[...]Colorado, where she works for Frontier Airlines. A We purchased the former Elizabeth Hammer home a few part of their work is to formulate fiscal req[...]shops, and major maintenance. Joanne worked for a year ata bank in Seattle, later going to Denver w[...]there very much. We had been in Flaxville nearly a year worked in the Aslakson grocery store[...]esumably the fire was George barbered for a time in the Greenberg barber shop started when th[...]ng with We were married in 1926, bought a house from George's a daughter in Cutbank. The next two years were busy[...]started on the new building. The contractors had a part of George and Alice Mollerstuen. the new building up when a severe windstorm in the area blew the wall down a[...]ed into the routine of business once more. It was a much appreciated change from the makeshift[...] |
| [...]years for Flaxville, with bumper crops to enable a lot of business transactions to take place. We en[...]e in town coming to them. Mrs. Gilbert Hammer and I were in charge of the Sunday School in our church[...]h our sons served in the armed forces. Gerald was a Corporal in the army and was in Germany for three[...]ation Development Company. They have two sons and a daughter. Larry has been an aviation machinist[...]d and lives in Oak Harbor, Washington. They have a daughter and two sons. He is presently attached to the U.A. 145 and will go aboard the USSR Ranger in Novemb[...]John's University for two years. Ben worked as a mail sorter on the Great Northern Railway between Williston, North Dakota and Havre, Montana for a brief period of time and then went to Great Falls, Montana. In 1914 he came to Flaxville and opened a harness and shoe repair shop. During World War I he served as a German interpreter in France. While he was gone a Mr. Calin kept his shop going. After the war wa[...]uring the thirties, the American Legion sponsored a sold the most I.H.C. tractors of any dealer in the United "M[...]Night". Ben was master of ceremonies and States ·a nd was presented an award for this[...]s born September 18, always ready to give a helping hand to someone less 1889 at St. Cloud, and was a graduate of the Commercial fortunate. Busi[...]felt its impact strongly town. Regina always had a large garden, raised chickens, for he had p[...]'s society and Knights of and to try to keep a good community spirit going. In the late Columbus[...]He developed a heart condition and on March 6, 1942 Ben belonged to the Whitetail-Flaxville Ancel Fasset died of a heart attack in St. Cloud enroute home from a trip Post No. 121 '>f the American Legion, and served for a time to New Orleans. He is buried at St. Cloud. as First State Vice Commander. Regina was a member of Regina carried on th e busin[...]sold it to Arnie Rasm ussen in 1946. She bought a home in local, district and state levels.[...] |
| [...]ville with his parents in 1913 to their homestead a mile east of town. He grew up on the farm with hi[...]sen, and at the Builders Centre Hardware Store. I was born on April 12, 1914 at Somerset, Wisconsin. My mother died when I was three years old. II was seven. I then went to live with my mother's only sister, E[...]e next spring. amazement at the wide open spaces. I was accustomed to In 1926 my cousin Jene w[...]ose as the many trees that grew in Wisconsin, and I could hardly any sisters. believe that there could be a place with so few trees. In 1933 we move[...]the train with postmaster. After my graduation I worked in the post office a team of horses and sleigh. After refreshments at[...]he ten-mile ride to the farm. Before Gus and I were married in 1939. We have a daughter, leaving we put large overcoats o[...] |
| [...]ing at St. Francis. She met AW orld War I veteran, Jimmy was one of the servicemen John Has[...]ts and businesses are still in the process of ing a sewer ditch dug over 100 ft. long would contact some- being hooked in ... as fast as a couple of backhoes can do one with a backhoe. Not so with Jimmy Dorwin of[...]. SPARLING up the garden. "Besides", he added, "I didn't have much else to do."[...]Sanitary Science, and received his certificate as a licensed years for Jim Sparling in the lumber yar[...]rs. He first Jim Sparling came to the area as a homesteader in 1913. 81 year old Flaxvill[...] |
| [...]Agriculture, Labor a nd Industry in 1936 where he served[...]u ed a little-traveled road n orth of the main highway.[...]When they came to the steep hill about a mile west of town, t h ey used a Rumley Oil P ull tractor to pull the building and[...]t he hill too fast. It i quite sa fe to surmise that there were[...]ma n y road ide engineers a lon g the way giving their advice[...]I live in Seattle where I have a con ulting electrical[...]engineering firm . My wife, Dorothy , and I have three sons and a daughter , all married.[...]Ardys (Anderson) Peter so n , a niece of my mother, who[...]freq uently stayed with us in Flaxville, married a college[...]time. They n ow live in Mercer Isla nd a suburb of Seattle.[...]half a continent apart. Carrie Wold was born in Aber-[...]until she and her sisters opened a dressmaking and[...]a " m a n " on his own in spite of his youth. He worked t[...]ere and with no knowledge of America when she was a young girl. th e E n[...]ha ve seemed very far away, but and proved up on a homestead north of there. They later des pite the[...]ess. s ·sters. I a~i also assembled Model ''T' Ford cars. They came to[...]es. Aft r the car was Augus t 5, 1901. They began a blacksmith shop. Five aHs mbled and there was a pro pective buyer for it, Da d children were born h ere: John , Gladys, a son who died at would show him what the pedals and controls were fo r ,[...]e store, telling family and venture forth seeking a new home. He came to the buye1 he wa8 on hi own from there on . F laxville, then a new community and town badly in need of When the rail line was built to Scobey, Dad a nd Harry a blacksmith . After he had established living quarters, he op ned a branch tore in Flaxville, with Dad la ter buying[...]o made the trip by train. out Harry' intere t. He a dded furn it ure a nd la ter, lumber. When Dr. Healy arrived , he[...]arting out Tie wa the fir t Daniels ounty Coroner a lon g with hi and never forg ot that Dad[...]My fo lks lived above the hardware store until I wa a few repaid this favor many times in the years fol[...]r newl buil h use wh ich th Elaine wer e a ll born in the home at Flaxville. In later[...] |
| [...]A coal stove provided the heat for all of the cooki[...]house and shop in a good state of repair. He made nearly[...]and polishing plow shares was the work of a blacksmith in[...]e early days, and in this way our father answered a[...]skill in his trade brought him customers form a wide range.[...]sparks was a fascinating sight to the children, so it was not[...]the blacksmith shop on one side of the house and a garage[...]being shod, or from the hot metal from the forge. Runaway[...]Attending church and Sunday School was a highlight[...]we acquired a radio, Dad preferred to stay home and listen[...]each, and the rest were the average weight of ten or eleven pounds. The many hardships our parents e[...]saw them through the difficult tim es of raising a large, though healthy, family. After we ch ildren had been put to bed at night, Mother spent m a n y h ours sewing all of our clothes by lamplight[...]for her family. Glad to be able to help them out, a nd also grateful for the extra money, Mother would simply get busy and start in baking for ~ti~;t~:111:~?l~!~t~}alf~i-~{J:ti ~[...] |
| by a wife and three children. The children and their[...]to Portland, Oregon. They now live at Salem town, a Mother and Dad celebrated their golden wedding[...]1951, with many friends and relatives I (Mrs. Richard Knights) graduated from Flaxville H[...]re Mother's death in Great Falls. 1943. I am employed as a secretary in a C.P.A. firm in Mother and Dad continued to live in F[...]Our three children are Richard Lee, a graduate from independence in being able to care[...]his Master's Degree from the University of later. A son Floyd passed away in 1972 in Los Angeles,[...]hn Swenson and his brother Emil came to Scobey in a living in Washington, D.C., after having lived in[...]d Africa. Arthur, having followed in bought a garage in Scobey and after two years sold it to Ed Dad's footsteps as a blacksmith, is employed in Jamaica, Battleson and bought a garage in Flaxville. building and repairing farm[...]r's homestead claim. Hospital. Jerry (Bowman) and I have two children. My folks' first[...]ey were here, and they found it difficult to make a attended the one in Whitetail, and either walked or rode good living for a while. horseback the seven miles. During the cold[...]hey celebrated their fiftieth wedding Mildred was a member of the first graduating class in Flax-[...]honey, whiskey and as often as three times a week, and, after they had a family, hot water before retiring, kept us from getting the flu. a favorite activity was to go on picnics in Eagles Nest, a The most serious illness in our family occured[...]lks lived in Flaxville until 1945. After spending a[...]passed away in 1960. My husband and I both tea n in the[...]m and Emil Swenson arrived in Scobey in 1913 in a 1912 Ford Lori, in high school. Keith is a[...]e. His wife teaches school and Flaxville to begin a new business in a garage and repair their two daughters, Kall[...]Minnesota in the early part of 1900, and Mother, a native of[...] |
| [...]My father later served in World War I and was discharged a Corporal. He and Mother were married in[...]Scobey on October 22, 1919. He had a homestead seven[...]Glasgow, Montana, but was unsuccessful in getting a[...]proving up her claim, Dad worked in a garage in Great[...]Both Harold and I were born in Great Falls. I arrived in[...]1922 and Harold in May, 1924. In the fall of 1924 I[...]shack, a one-room affair with apple boxes stacked up for[...]cupboards and a shelf with a curtain in front of it for a[...]who owned the lumber yard; A.P. Smerud, the second[...]couldn't see where they were going, they ran into a barbed wire fence along the way. To make sure thi[...]od hut and he went with them to the town, holding a kerosene lantern along side of the car so Peter c[...]e prairie trails. Peter and Andrew Raffshol had a store at Orville, and hauled their supplies from[...]ana where another partner, Tony Kirkeby, operated a store also. Mother and Peter stayed at Orville[...]was the first housekeeper in Flaxville, living in a 14 x 16 shack which later became a part of the house occupied by the Rasmus Nelson f[...]y Raffshol had arrived in Flaxville, Jerry Masek, a banker, moved his house and bank buildings from Orville to Flaxville, to be followed by a blacksmith shop, hall and several other bu[...] |
| [...]he Ladies Aid and Sunday School affairs . Dad was a deacon in th e Lutheran church. Mother clerked at[...]office. After various office and writing jobs, I wa s, for ten years, editor of the Albany (Califo[...]Children's Hospital Medical Center in Oakland. I am married to John Larimer and have fo ur daughters: Judi, Mrs. Eric Lund of Napa, California; Nancy, a graduate of Albany High School; Susan, who will be a senior in 1976; and Lisa, who will be a freshm an. There are two grandchildren, David and[...]t of the Raymond Wittak family retarded or disabled veterans. While there, he was president[...]I was born in Scobey and attended my eight years of I have always loved Flaxville and have been proud of the grade school in the Eagle Creek school, a few miles south of education I received there. Sometimes at night wh en I have Na vajo . I graduated from Plentywood High School and diffi ulty falling asleep I recite the names of all the attended o[...]cordia College and one residents of the town when I was a child. I wish m y own year at Eastern Montana College, graduating with a two children ould have had the opportunity to be[...]During the next three years I taught at the Phelps school GEORGE AND EMMA[...]66 we bought the Mike Imig house in Flaxville and I Peltier family: Florence Viles, Eva Hamre, Henrie[...]people who became dear friends. We also had a wide[...]nd worked for farmers in the Flaxville- I finished my four year requirements for a degree at Redstone communities.[...]for the Pepsi-Cola There is n ever a dull moment at our house and that is the Companv in Plent wood and later was fo rtun a te in way we wa n t it t o[...] |
| [...]ed the Standard Oil Company. where Swede had been a lumber jack in the forests of They hav[...]Since Swede was looking for work, A fire broke out in one of the apartments over the[...]t her cafe open all night, keeping Williamson for a short tirrte, after which he was hired by ho[...]ere he worked until worked. There was a great deal of smoke and water damage March of 195[...]re always playing practical jokes on at a minimum. anyone they could, and Joe Bourassa, who was a welder in Jake had been injured in an a[...]s the unfortunate victim of one of their a construction company in Grand Forks in 1947. He fell jokes. In the summer of 1955 Matt Dickman, who owned a several feet from a scaffold, and his injuries caused blood local bar, threw away a skunk which had been stuffed and clots in his legs. These bothered him a great deal through mounted on a board. The skunk's tail was curved in the the years. He was a veteran of World War I , and in 1956 he position to make use of the odor[...]mpelled was Joe, who did not notice the skunk for a while, but when to go back to the hospital to[...]d special controls were up his trousers, "There's a skunk in there!" Seeing instal[...] |
| Harold and Thelma Rubin later opened a cafe in time for us to decide that we would like to live there, so we conjunction with their bar and hotel business and Sara bought a home in Salem where we still live. We returned to[...]67. At Christmas time in 1962 Sara's family had a family Sara's three sons served in the A[...]the Army Tank Corps; and Garry served as an also. I was living alone at that time in Cucamonga, artilleryman. He later became a member of the Oregon California. Later, when we h[...]rds at Portland. In 1973 he and his son, Sara and I began to correspond, and we became engaged[...]telephone. We were married in 1963 at Las Vegas. I of the Air Force brought 20 prisoners of war f[...]nned, POW's home from Hanoi in 1973. and as a result, we were still there at Christmas time when I enlisted in the Army Signal Corps in 1920, and in the the great Oregon flood took place. This was a long enough U .S. Navy in 1924. I retired as Chief Petty Officer in 1945.[...] |
| [...]I mapped out 280 acres of land to home~tead, built a one[...]vals. Shirley married Frank Edwards; they live on a farm near Whitetail. They have two boys, Grant and Craig. Gary is a draftsman and estimator for the Reber Company of[...]la Marie and Michelle married Bill Hanisch, a linotype operator for the Lee. Ken works for Butt[...]manager of a Coronet Store. They have three children.[...]orporation and Charles is Assistant Supervisor of a Heat[...] |
| [...]by Ruth Fisher Ralph and I and our three children, Gene, Pat and Ralph, |
| [...]Rasmus Nelson in 1928 and in 1934 he worked as a heavy OMER lives on the home place.[...]g on the road between jobs, served in the Army as a Construction Engineer, he Westby and Plenty[...]since. Omer has operated a grain farm, raised hogs and ALVIDA of Scobey (see[...]ion for family story). cattle, and operated a gravel business for a number of WILFRED (Jumbo) of Flaxville, he served[...]e planted many trees, along with berries and with a genetic disease. Kay died in 1963, Marlene has be[...]rs. girls, Tammy and Sue. Jumbo farms and is also a carpen- They have five children. LeRoy and Roberta now are in a ter. He and Louise are very active in all communi[...]These three, because of a genetic disease - PKU - are FEBULAH (Feb) Miller[...]y. Kimberly. Ken is in the Air Force as a career, Sherry works LLOYD of Flaxville (family s[...]ir family is operation as he chose to retire a year ago. They have three Jack, Tully and[...] |
| A. French 's moved the old Madoc Hotel, remodelled[...]ities. They believe that each generation is given a place in time to make things a little better - to build formed a wagon train with Alfred Parent (Nellie's dad), on the past toward a peaceful future. Much of this was Wilf[...]tion. We all lived within not easy - but they had a set of values to give to all who two or three miles of each other - three miles west of k[...]e Flaxville. They did their shopping at a small inland village same![...]there was much progress. Joe built a home in Flaxville Bernadette Tessier who was born[...]for the winter months, he acquired more land, a section and North Dakota. They came to Daniels Co[...]acres. He had the first car in the neighborhood -a Model of 1922 where they made their home on a farm three miles T - which he bought in[...]nd other brother, Napoleon, for many years. He is a bachelor. He neighborhood gatherings. M[...]n at our house, too, in the years Dona Fugere, a brother of Paul, Joe, and Art, first lived before a Catholic church was built in Flaxville. on the Si[...]ad southwest of Flaxville, They had a family of thirteen children - two died in later o[...]r the Orville church. infancy-so ours was a very busy home. I remember clans While living there his wife died ([...]They were quite harmless; all they wanted was a handout lives in Fargo, North Dakota.[...]s. In the fall Joe Art Legare farm and on the Zeb a Jay place (now the would be gone for some time with several of the neighbo[...]warm over the winter months. I also remember Mother[...]des to use in the sled in the winter time. We had a milk THE JOE GOULET FAMILY HISTORY[...]the first school bus-by that time he had a bus load of his In the fall of 1909 Joe Goulet[...]e summertime pastime was snaring Dakota and filed a homestead claim. He built a two room gophers or drowning them out. house, and in the spring of 19[...]Joe and Nellie retired in 1945. They bought a home and wife, Nellie (Parent) and four ch[...] |
| [...]Wilfred entered the army in 1917 a,nd was discharged in[...]m, Aurora was driving the wagon with the kids and a and the farm was bought' by a son-in-law, George Safty load of possessions when[...]estead has remained in the them and bring them to a stop. family ever since its origin in 1909. Joe planted many They had a mean turkey that always chased Aurora. The beauti[...]every time Aurora went out to gather the eggs, it would home since he has lived there.[...]her. On one occasion she hit it on the head with a Joe and Nellie Goulet celebrated their 50th wed[...]ndchildren. Joe· One year they raised a small crop of tobacco by the house passed away April 21, 1959 at the age of 85. Nellie passed in a hot bed that provided smoking pleasure for Wilfre[...]and Darlene lives on a farm near Scobey. By Darlene Go[...]ded in the same area three miles west and one and a half miles south of Flaxville.[...]r to marry in the United States. He They met at a party at the Gene LaRoche's and were ca[...]they were on their Dakota where he took up a homestead. Dora Becker, the[...] |
| [...]in America she went to Iowa where she worked for a short time and then moved to North Dakota. She li[...]tana. They farmed in the Ante- lope community for a short time before coming to the Navajo community. A son and daughter was born after they came to Mont[...]d east and north of Flaxville. Mr. Hachmann built a dugout to be used during storms and it is still there or at least it was until a few years ago. It was while the family lived on the homestead that a most unusual thing happened. Down in the basement they had a gasoline can with some gas in it. It had a saucer on it. One night there was a storm and lightning struck a window near where their son Ted was sleeping and[...]the can or starting a fire.[...]she ca.m e to America by boat. One time there was a[...]pilot in the area and he was giving rides for a small fee.[...]The Hachmann children received their schooling in a[...]the school children of today they didn't have a hot lunch[...]school which consisted of a sandwich or two with a pickle. Once in a while the kids at school would trade lunches.[...]Albert, Dorothy and Max. Henry grew up and worke<i in the Flaxville area and lived there for a number of years. He[...]worked for various neighbors as a young lady and then[...] |
| [...]ey where Max works Navajo and Flaxville area for a number of years before for the City Sani[...]y years and then retired and until 1962. A sister of Dora's had a letter from her with just moved to Plentywood in[...]st own but he helped raise her three children by a previous living sister of Dora's. Emma had[...]later of .another sister of Dora's if she would give one last married Elizabeth Roos. They worke[...]ey could find some relatives. Lena agreed to for a number of years on his farm near Peerless and then write a letter but felt it would be a long chance as there on a farm north of Wolf Point. They had no children. wasn't a complete address. She wrote a letter and mailed it Edward worked like his brot[...]to Redstone to the postmaster. It was somewhat of a jobs. He had a bad tooth pulled while he was a young man miracle as the letter went to Red[...]notified William Hachmann who got in touch with a friend Dam and on the Great Northern Railroad. N[...]family. She came out for several summers. After a period of with his brother Ted in Scobey. Alfred[...]nce again. they retired to Plentywood. They have a family often child- As the Hachmann childre[...]away in 1963, Anna in 1969, Herman he farmed for a while on the Frank Gross place. They lost a in. 1970, William in 1973 and John in[...] |
| [...]le. (Mrs. Ruth Fisher lives there now). Frank was a bachelor. He lived on several places near town an[...]teaded north of the Ben Mollerstuen place. He was a bachelor. He is buried at the Zion cemetery at Orville; and Andrew Rudeen was a homesteader north of the Weber place.[...]I recall that Bertha was a wonderful seamstress. Every- Torger (Tom) was[...]nesota. Homestead line- later he bought a large ranch north of Whitetail. Re records indicate that Torger homesteaded in Grand Forks ma;ried a teacher, Betty, and the last years they lived in[...]ndrickson were twins. Louis had ten was struck by a train and killed in Williston. Some of the·[...]mile south of Flax- Ralph, Roger, Lewis (a highway patrolman in Great Fa~ls), ville. She liv[...]many years with Bertha Dewey, and Charlie, a mechanic there. Tim homesteaded two miles Rose an[...]3; Henry, died in Martin's homestead was a mile south of Flaxville. He 1941 · Olive and Ti[...]3; Lewis and Timothy, twins, both raising. I recall the old threshing days when Aunt Julia dec[...]r. in 1954; Rose in 1928; Julius in meringue-I've never seen pies like that since I spent those infancy; He;man in 1975; Sophine in 1[...]now live on this place. I remember many interesting incidents of the family. I Henry homesteaded north of Redstone where he had a spent one year with Aunt Bertha who was Mrs. Henr[...]lliam Piester, and Plentywood. later had a cafe in Flaxville. Her last years were spent in Harold and · I Ii ved south of Flaxville for many years, Helena.[...]where Harold is employed at the F.U. station and I work at Tyler:[...]Francie, who weighed less than one and a half p_o unds at[...]family now live in Redstone. I remember riding horseback[...]ng ice cream and goodies and taking the folks for a[...]. All of them seemed to be hard working pioneers. I[...] |
| [...]started housekeeping. He was barbering and I worked in a[...]where Arthur had a barbershop of his own. Our first child,[...]Alice was born there in 1907; a son, William Howard Taft[...]Mr. Boyer and my sister had a homestead two miles out[...]Culbertson, then rode a stagecoach to Medicine Lake and[...]ing for a townsite-they camped in a tent at the Boyers.[...]Mrs. Boyer was busy cooking for them so I came in handy[...]which would require a three day trip by horses and wagon.[...]My sister had a horse and I had a buggy, we would load up[...]By this time we were getting a one room shack put up on[...]Boyers. We were busy once again cooking for them. I Tom Hendrickson, Jr.-1910 remember one Sunday-I had just dressed the boys. It had[...]rained and there was a large crock full of water out by the[...]house. All of a sudden I heard a lot oflaughing-it was the MARTIN H[...]n get into the crock and was jumping up and down. I was so 1910 took up a homestead just south of Flaxville. Martin angry-b[...]were the cause of it! In 1913 the rail- He was a bachelor and never married. Martin, Tim and road[...]nch and livery Art bought four horses and a sulky plow and was busy stables in Culbertson.[...]did some freighting between Williston Sundays he would ride his horse to Redstone to barber so and Brock[...]d to leave the River County prairie to get there. I was scared to stay on the farm alone and come to[...]of what is now Daniels County. He with the kids, I put knives in the door besides locking it at took up a homestead about one and a half miles south of night. Flaxville.[...]rs settled nearby; then in 1913 the mother of got a school going in one room in Flaxville with Helen[...]r them. take her in or she would walk while it was nice weather. She On his home[...]Gowan as the cattle. He gradually became known as a fellow who passed up no opportunities. He liked a large operation and also the equipment necessary[...]STORY By Mrs. Sena Hilling I came to Grand Forks, North Dakota from McIntosh, |
| [...]meat or can it to keep it from spoiling too. Then the dro[...]Montana in 1924. Here Arthur bought a barber shop and[...]families would gather at each other's homes. The[...]Hatfield's would play and everybody would square dance[...]care to dance would play cards; others would just sit and[...]visit. And then, there was always a big lunch served. The only place to get a "square"-Henry .Joyer's home. We l[...]to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where my husband got a carpenter[...]lived on an acreage in Dalton Gardens, a suburb of Coeur teacher. She would walk across the coulees to Nim Gaines' d'[...]meat, potatoes Arthur passed away from a heart attack in Billings. Two and vegetables. I remember carrying many buckets of sons have since passed away too: William, a Methodist water on the garden when it didn't rain[...]minister, died in Mason, Illinois, and Everett, a heavy summer I went into the coulees to pick June berries, equipment operator in Williston, North Dakota. I still live currants, gooseberries, pin cherries a[...]oung.) that time. In the fall after harvest we would take a load of wheat to Medicine Lake and bring back a supply of flour for the Arthur and Sena Hilling winter. This was a three day trip with horses. In thP. f 11y summer we would go to Eagle's Nest and dig our coal for the winter. We would load up the kids and lunch and work all day. We would bring home a couple of tons each time ' until we had[...]t the job of d·:-iving the school bus. He bought a light wagon with a canvas top on it and a little hP-ater to keep them warm. He hauled the neighbor's children. It was quite a worry as it got so stormy at times that he could[...]nd cattle from eating them. We were now getting a lot of neighbors - Frank Hardy, Bill Cook, Henry[...]ehls, Ed Wrona and Archie .Lorenz. Nick Weber had a threshing outfit and in the fall I cooked in his cookcar for his crew. I would take Henry with me and leave the older children a[...]went to Whitetail to barber while that barber was a way in the army; we lived over the barber shop. I cooked at Ted White's restaurant in the hotel. I was chairman of the Red Cross in 1918; we did a lot of knitting (mostly socks) for the soldiers. My baby girl, Hazel, was born while we lived there. I was my own doctor at the time. My mother had been a mid-wife and she had told us things to do in case[...]ing in the winter at Flaxville and Plentywood. I spent a lot of my time washing clothes on the rubbing board. Later on I did get a washing machine. In the summer we had to l[...] |
| [...]winter of 1974 we built a new home on the farm.[...]ried in the Flaxville Catholic Church. They built a[...]Eugene bought his first car in 1920. He needed a car after he became a county commissioner, a job he had for six[...]a cattle ranch in Broadus, Montana; Phoebe of Santa[...]by Eleanor Legare February 21, 1889, a son of Mikal Husbyn and Ingeborg Anna Husbyn. He[...]from Riverside, Montana (with the help of a brother-in-law, In 1909 he came to Minnesota to[...]gons-Arthur, age 12, was went to Montana and took a homestead near Flaxville in one teamster[...]of cattle, crossing the Missouri River by bought a team of horses. One winter they drifted for home[...]re again and when Anders found them in the spring a farmer and the other one they roped and th[...]Meeting Art in the fourth grade - who would ever have Rollofson, of Fortuna, North Dakota. Andrew (as he was thought we would some day begin married life together! known here)[...]andy with the violin at house Arthur and I (Eleanor Parent) were married January 31, parties[...]he age of 1932. We started our life together on a farm southeast of 69 in 1958 from a heart attack. His farm was about two Nava[...]is place. coulees. The first months, Arthur would walk four miles[...]also had a few cows and chickens and we planted a large THE ANDERS JENSEN FAMILY garden to help make a living. Afterwehadahorsehecould by[...]to catch a ride with the other men in a car and go to work Anders V. Jensen was born in[...]on of Jens and towards Scobey, Four Buttes or wherever jobs were avail- Helga Jensen, coming to[...]1949. He worked on able. They worked on WP A projects, bridges, dams, water- farms in the Plea[...]Our first daughter, Monica, was born in 1933 in a two room 1960, then he went to work for Nemont Te[...]when he taken from us on October 5, 1972 in a tragic car accident quit to start farming.[...]ere to make their home. Anders married Meredith A. Tryan in 1966. Meredith She left behind a family of three daughters and her was born[...] |
| [...]la xville. Art still drove the school bus for $65 a month[...]been $44 a month and we were happy to make that much to[...]In February, 1941 we moved out to the A.R. Hanson farm[...]on shares. We also farmed for Ernest Tjomsland a few[...]In 1974 we moved two and a half miles south of the A.R.[...]later they came to Montana locating at Riverside, a small In 1935 we m oved to the Horace Bourassa[...]ome-where they raised their family of eleven buy a one room cook car from Emil Otto which we fixed u[...]Virgil and Helen (Potter), have since Next we had a complete crop failure so we moved to[...] |
| [...]orporal Walter, now the dirt was stripped a three foot vein ofrather good quality of Pasadena[...]o take coal for the grocery bills. Mrs. Mehls did a several months in Germany; Seaman 2nd Class Leo,[...]nt, Donald were born so there was quite a family to support. served with thearmyin the Kore[...]He always carried a hunting knife.[...]One of the people who helped dig the mine had a very[...]Mehls home for help. Walter hooked up a team of horses to from Saco, Montana in 1921. They purchased a farm that his stoneboat, took some blan[...]d Theodore Lucht, Bowling took him a long time to recover, but he made it. Green, Ohio[...]n 1929. Henry married Meta Dancing was a popular pastime, especially during the Wrona in 1[...]e: winter. Tony Linders usually had a barn dance before Ronald of Salt Lake City, Utah;[...]and Henry Luchts. On Walter's birthday they would all gather for a party - Gordon McLaughlin would play his[...]if one was available and Otto Stromstad was also a pretty by Lucille Mehls Krusemark[...]ake care of the rest. She did remarkably well for a young Montana and the Dakotas wanted settlers[...]d the many other tasks that offered to anyone who would draw up a claim and promise had to be done. On March 20, 1929 Bernadine died of a to live there. Many little shacks and homes began[...]Florence went to Wisconsin, Lorena worked as a maid and and cattle that far. He drove the horses[...]ter, Selma (Mrs. Roy Miller) who lived in Knutson a dollar an acre for his 320 acres. A sod house was Worthington, Minnesota offered to help Lucille with a built as a temporary home. This later became the chicken[...]p. By this time Florence and Bernadine were born. A Walter went to work for MDU Power Comp[...]e barn burned after our family left. a long time because of his back. He returned to Wis[...]live alone - he then drove the school bus to earn a little 'extra money. About entered a nursing home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He died 19[...]in 1973 and was buried in Fall Creek cemetery. a coal mine on his farm. He had dug test holes so h[...]d Robert Henry, Wisconsin congressman, and a wealthy fresnos began moving the dirt from the hi[...]. This turned out cancer in 1961. to be a rather successful venture while the coal l[...] |
| [...]aduated from high school in Fall Creek, worked as a maid for several wealthy families - married Dalla[...]into the Army. His health failed and he has spent a lot of time in the veteran's hospitals. He marrie[...]OE Peder, Jr., is a lawyer in Billings and daughter Karen was a by Sig Moe and Ida Erickson[...]e in 1915-16. He came from the Red River I, (brother Sig) recall that Peder did most of his[...]pondence - while attending the area. He came from a family of ten boys and two girls. University of Montana as a special student to get his B.A. Nearly all worked on Moe Hillatonetimeoranother.[...]egree in economics - then went out and made quite a 1913 through 1917 the Moe Brothers baseball team[...]degrees and went into education - teaching. I worked outfit around Flaxville.[...]1925 he moved to north of Brockton and developed a threshing, 12 hours a day on the pitchfork handle. The farming operatio[...]is now farmed by his wages ranged from $3.50 a day - 30¢ an hour to $6.50 - spike son, Skuli Moe. Peder was also a successful businessman in pitcher about 54¢[...]the years until 1942 - he was also a partner in the farming[...]operation near Brockton. He now operates a hotel in Big[...]Peder Moe-1917 I also recall that I heard my first World Series baseball[...]fall of 1924. I played baseball on the Flaxville team in 1924 -[...]I especially remember pitching against Scobey that[...]I stayed in education work for 40 years - I taught and[...]moved to Toppenish and Auburn, Washington where I live. My wife, Adeline and I had 72 years of teaching between[...]us. My sister, Mrs. Ida (A.C.) Erickson, who now lives in[...]Daktoa where he settled on a homestead near Abercrom-[...]Dakotas and Montana, he joined a supply train and[...]He was a witness to the battle of the Little Big Ho[...] |
| [...]first year and I broke 40 acres for myself in 1912. In order to[...]a thousand.[...]Then all crops were freighted to Plentywood or Medicine[...]ed back. Groceries and clothing were ordered from a salesman who toured the community with a horse and[...]year at a time. Many, many anecdotoes are told about the[...]horse back or horse and buggy and Indian trails, which[...]in 1913 or 1914 David LaBlanc would meet a rider from[...]to the Orville Lockrem Store. Late in 1914 we got a[...]as acquainted with the lay of the land. There was a rumor that there was Indian land to be had in the[...]his return from the Custer Battle and was raising a large family when he decid- ed that he had to go to a new area in order to acquire land for his .growin[...]destined to take up homestead, we were caught in a prairie fire on the reservation. Alfred Parent, h[...]he fire hit the buffalo chips in the prairie they would literally explode. Continuing on our way we settl[...]ts which housed the animals and humans until such a time as homestead shacks could be erected. Land a[...]yed, so starting from their stopping point, using a wagon, team, flags and compass, we surveye[...] |
| that if someone was very ill we had to take a horse and buggy, drive to Plentywood to get the[...]nt we had to return him to his office, which was a fair drive for team and buggy. During the flu epidemic of 1918 the doctor had a driver taking him from place to place. He someti[...]d was two miles west of Flaxville. My father had a section which I purchased from him in later years. I sold my homestead to Amada French in 1917 and bo[...]h Dakota with his family. On January 2, 1919 I was united in marriage to Georgianna Rheault of[...]illiston, North Dakota and helps her husband run a machine shop. Buck lives in Lewiston, Idaho, working as a construction fore- man on a large dam in New Mexico. Of the 18 children b[...]ones were made in seclud- ed garden areas until a cemetery was established. Coffins for the burial[...]often hand made, packed with straw and lined with a white sheet or something suitable. Children who died were usual- ly readied for burial by a friend or neighbor of the family, · with ~akes for the aduits until time of burial. When a cemetery was established these graves were exhum[...]were barn dances, horseshoe pitching, rodeos and a giant roundup. We got to most of those events by[...]by Wilfred Parent they could see farther a way, as the grass was so tall. In late[...]summer a cyclone wind tore the tent down. It was torn to[...]They farmed near They made trips to Poplar to buy a year's supply of Oakwood, but getting crowdec.i for land, they thought of groceries, coal and ker[...]s what is now many times. The gypsies were always a problem. Their Flaxville, and decided they would move here as they liked camping grounds were in t[...]n spaces and tall grass. They went back to always a.sked for garden produce, milk, soap, and oats for[...]Alma, one month old, came to northeast Montana in a West Fargo to work in the meat packing plant. But farming covered wagon in a long caravan with many relatives, all was what he[...]homestead for many years. Later they and it took a good week to get to their destination. They had m[...]milk cows, geese, chickens and It was there that a son Leo, age 21, died in a coal mine. Leo turkeys. They set up a big tent large enough for all the and Frank Fordyce, Alvin Swenson and a brother Louis families to live in until they could build a house. The tent were undermining coal under a 30 foot bank. It caved was set up on a hill about two miles west of Flaxville, so[...] |
| [...]up a homestead two miles west of Flaxville. In 1915 he[...]Company and Margaret works in a nursing home.[...]active in American Legion work, Vera is a member of the Scobey Big Sky Singers of the A.L.A., they took part in[...]arol still lives in Helena. Art Legare and,bought a home in Scobey. They lived there PATRICIA[...]place was sold to Joe Lantz. Joe and Emilia lived a full life with many ups and downs[...]ugh the early years of homestead days, and raised a large family of ten children, six daughters and four sons. One son died in infancy, the other in a coal mine accident. They had 21 grandchildren and[...]are Marcel, Leo, Loran, Joyce, Dora. LEO died in a coal mine accident, age 21. DAVE Parent, born in 1913. He and his wife, Evelyn have one boy, Mark and a daughter, Carolyn, Dave lives in Miles Cit[...] |
| [...]ater Patti married Eugene Dad bought a farm from Wilfred Goulet about six miles Marley,[...]in many civic organizations, as is Patti. She is a hard years of drought (we remember the blow[...]egare (Mrs. Legare was Big Sky Singers. Pattie is a LPN at the local hospital. Mother's siste[...]es, Michael and Terrie Scobey. This lasted a few years, then we moved back to Jean, all at hom[...]right top row: The name of Roos is a derivative of Rose. The Berniece, Margaret, Elean[...]s. grandfather of August Roos, Sr. was a soldier in the Bottom: Patricia, (father) Bill wi[...]Carol. He developed a black rose, and in honor of this[...]ne when they lost their home by fire, saving only a[...] |
| [...]ile the rights to his homestead one mile I was born on June 16, 1928. My parents were Mr. an[...]We were married on January 29, 1947. We bought a small spring of 1912, the family came by train to[...]ents. Their household goods and livestock came in a rented When Mr. Roos passed away in 1[...]his house boxcar. They came to their new home in a horse drawn where we have since lived[...]enlarged it a few years ago. Fritz was born in this house. It[...]passed away at the for August and Lenora to raise a family of twelve children: age of three mont[...]ivery, however. Fritz is as (Seiler), employed in a nursing home in Glasgow, yet a bachelor. He teaches in the Brockton, Montana hig[...]on; Raymond, They live in rural Scobey. a veteran's hospital employee at Miles City, Montan[...]and we then decided to apply for the adoption of a baby. In Agnes (Beeks) of Chicago, Illinois.[...]hours of hard work, but there were keep a young girl busy, and this fills our days with als[...]Fritz still farms the parental homestead, and I keep busy and Mehls families and bachelors Andrew Husbyn and with being a homemaker. We also enjoy camping, fishing, Peter[...]oined their friends many and gardening. I am also an avid bowler, while Fritz is an times i[...]avid conversationalist. acquired their first car, a 1926 Chevrolet. The Roos' continued to farm unt[...]army in 1946, and Mr. Roos retired from farming. A few years later, in 1953, Mrs. Roos passed away t[...]JOHN ROOS Fritz, the eleventh child in a family of twelve, was born to Mrs. and Mrs. Augus[...]and brother Raymond. iµ 1900.[...] |
| [...]4. We started our married life at Whitetail in a trailer house on the George Safty farm, living th[...]holding baby Ruth (Page), Jack Whitetail; Rodney, a freshman in college; David, Linda, Sempl[...]trip across the continent at this early date was a very · also own the former Bekkerus place a few miles to the east, tedious one. It was m[...]boat they traveled on was stuck on a sand bar for many[...]Minnesota in 1885 and for some time lived in a one-room[...]was a member of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellow[...]ndas County, Canada November 7, 1859. He moved as a small child with his parents to Ogdensburg[...] |
| [...]'s folks. This farm has been our home ever since. a tenth grader and Harry, a ninth grader, came to live in We have one son and a daughter. Leslie, now of Billings, Flaxville. The[...]banjo. He and the late Winnie Moulds were a popular Harry Semple was born in 1917 in Flaxvi[...]armed the One of my treasured souvenirs is a registered letter, Semple land in addition to the[...]stamped November 26, 1942. The letter contained a five Harry married Jean Baker of Norwalk, Ohio[...]ationed in the Aleutians with the Coast certified A&P aircraft mechanic and commercial pilot.[...]ver the Gary attends Helena Vo-Tech School in the A&P aircraft Pacific Ocean and we thought the mail was lost forever. mechanic's course and is a commercial pilot. John and The Postal De[...]lane was Mary attends Montana State University as a sophomore. recovered, and the mail was delivered, musty, but intact Gregory is a senior in high school at Flaxville. Thomas[...]the bottom of the ocean. Harry died in 1972 as a result of an accident on an oil drilling job.[...]. and Mrs. Nick Weber. After his father had spent a year Edward Wrona came to Flaxville in 1918. He was among south of Flaxville proving a homestead claim, Mrs. Weber the early settl[...]Meta Buethe of Velva, North Dakota. We had six I was born at Riverside, Montana in 1914 (a daughter of children. They are: Mrs. Margaret Darvak, Klamath Falls, the Joseph Legare's). This was a little town about five Oregon, George Wron[...]Arabian race horses. Dale has been a city bus driver in[...] |
| [...]r 16, 1921. Portland for nine years. Clarence is a carpenter foreman. |
| [...]d map-makers as Whiskey Buttes. They since passed a way. are to be found by that name in old geograph[...]t the buttes received this name because they were a rendezvous r· >i - .t. There fur traders exchanged "fire water" fo[...]y Shrank, Hans Kjos, Iver Ferestad and others. A~ the railroad was being built west from Scobey to[...]ld them. The town of Four Buttes began in 1926, a few months after the railroad extended west from[...]6. It was receiving grain by August, 1926 and had a capacity of 35,000 bushels. Another elevator was built by a line company and was purchased by the farmers in[...]Farmers Elevator burned in November that year. E.A. Enochson was the first manager of the Far[...] |
| I foods, meats,[...]isement I .Notes from Mar-garrne; Th[...]nt of spices and canned ; M RCANTILE i E goo·d s you've ever seen in your I H::'e -this, i[...]Inventory on ' DEAR FOLKS· I this stuff is r_eially a headache! ·• I iM11I Goods You can buy anything here Feeds, seeds. Garden and field ; from a stamp to a bottled gas ! varities. Don 't let th is snowy '[...]e wha,t you ! weather bother you. There'll still ,a re looking for when you come \ be plenty of plant[...]_ . for it together. It's bound to be i Drug Sundries , here ·somewhere: J A wide variety of items from : Some Hot[...]rse liniment. Cos- Norman Mere. offers . you a metic items. Paper tissues of var- 5 % d iscount\[...]unting to findings (that mea:is la_ces, pol- $10 or more. This is effective im- ish , s'hoe taps etc.[...]es are pat.terned ! we list the foll~wing-by no a•:'ter. : means a complete list: Miscellaneous I 'Dry G:>ods Ga[...]s is also the ,· ets'. double blankets, Bates n:a- home cl the Four 1Buttes post- ·tena·l (thr[...]xchange and j things, you know), sheets and first a :d station for man or >V .•>·· -<-/ •[...]east. IA ful.l : Four Buttes, Mont. stoc·k[...]_tc. Household appliances and elecitrical su,pp.J.i•es. Don't Thursday, April 8, 1948[...]imes and at present the bar find wh::it you want. It's probably under something else.[...]y has been held together by Staple food items; ,a-Jso frozen[...]organize a club to further community enterprise.[...]im Becker of Billings and Ii ves there. They have a who was killed in an auto[...]family lived in Four Buttes for a few years and he ran the The Four Buttes school[...]eing the school was as a dry hole in 1953. Otto moved his house and family[...]Although Four Buttes is a small town it has fared better vicinity, Mrs. Alf[...]was extended to Four school. Mrs. Ostby had been a teacher before coming to the Buttes, replacing the old lamp. Water i!ystems were put in Four Buttes area. Some[...] |
| [...]ades, from 1943to 1955, when she retired. She was a[...]farm until their retirement. They raised a nephew, Roger[...]three children and live in Scobey. Bud is a respected[...]making a new dining and dancing area. Had a dance[...]Westerners, Mossing's Canadians or The Missouri Valley[...]mes. Before that there was one telephone in town, a went to work as manager of the F.U. Carriers and we lived crank on a box on the wall at the store. When anyone was[...]in Miles City. Bud is an called to the telephone a messenger service charge of insurance[...]hree children Willie, Michel and times of the day or night. Since 1949 the mail is deliver~d by Mel[...]ett, the mail carrier for 26 years. It used to be a having moved here in 1947 to be near their farm[...]rd is the son of the late Pete the branch and for a means of transportation when the Vand[...]in Scobey and enlisted During the time there was a depot there were several_depot in the army[...]the Fort Monmouth New Jersey, then spent a year at the Red spring when school was over there was a school picmc at Stone Arsenal i~ Alabama, and also spent two years in the buttes,[...]in 1962. In an all-day affair. In the early 50's a very much nee~ed November 1966 he marri[...]nd Although Four Buttes does not have too -~any I?eople living in the townsite the businesses are t[...]turkeys. needed. At mail time you will often find a gathenng at the store and the coffee pot never ru[...]r get-togethers, keeps everyone around the county a big happy family. With electricity and telephon[...]ce and as modern as town homes, and every one has a repair shop. There are more an~ more young people[...]o settle on farms after bemg out in the world for a few years. High ways an~ roads are goo_d a[...] |
| [...]natives of the farming and cattle. Gary also has a sports equipment Williston, North Dak[...]in various parts of the grandchildren. Eddie was a good and helpful neighbor and country, bu[...]en employed at the elevator for twenty A Home Demontration Club was organized in 1936 in years. He is our favorite "gas man" and can give you a good Four Buttes with Mrs. Art Scarseth, pre[...]heir meetings were from May to Pennsylvania. Also a daughter Lorraine Chapman and Octob[...]Buttes and in Daniels County. They farm and have a gun Mrs. Norman Johnson, Mrs. Alfred Kau[...]vy meets every second Tuesday at the homes or at the school. and now lives in Washington. Ellen[...]rd worked in an meetings there. elev a tor in Richland for some years and he and Lorna ran the bar and cafe for a time. Howard is the son of the late Ben Dahl and[...]to the Montana prairie, in 1910. Sid never missed a day to come to the store to get known as "th[...]s was the first teacher in this area, teaching in a small came for the mail. He married Laura Levang from the tar papered shack about a mile or two from the permanent Medicine Lake area. Their[...]site of the school. at the age of two and a half; Janet and Richard got their Harri[...]at Four Buttes, graduated from build a permanent school, known as the Gilchrist school.[...]ildren, oustanding country school with a full cement basement Rhonda, Rachelle and Ryan. They are engaged in farming which contained a coal furnace and also a pump and well. and a repair business. Richard married Dianne Sharp of[...]ivingston and now lives in Miles City. Richard is a south it had a large cloak room and a library room counselor for the mental health program. Dianne is a (probably used more for a dressing room for the many public school teacher.[...]s performed in the early years at least), than as a Laura continues to live on the family farm.[...]y Ann side of the school room had a row of large windows across Shipstead. Steve is t[...]Point. Lulu (Manley) Audet remembers what a great set of maps Steve has worked for the elevator for several years and is the school had and a large world globe remains prominent now farming w[...]two little girls, in ones memory. Also a school clock which never had the Jennifer and Bra[...]members took great pride in maintaining a "Superior" Lothair, Montana to manage the[...] |
| [...]drove a horse and buggy to the present Albert Bernar.d[...]farm, which was a rather long drive even though she did[...]alls, as the first clerk, it was his job to take a census for the District. He got paid ten cents per head and got a list of about 90, ages ranging from a very young age up to twenty-one, so about broke[...]illiam Reik. In 1920 John Robbin became Clerk for a number of years and Melvin Evenson was Clerk for[...]s many years serving on this and we must have had a head start in womans lib as Mrs. William Meredith[...], Gilchrist School - 1926 served on the board for a time. There were many others in the years to foll[...], but to get on with the teachers, and this being a summer school, the terms were rather In 1928 a teacherage was built on to the school. This irreg[...]transportation of their own. Mrs. Hilda Yarlett, a from September 25 to November 4, 1916; the[...] |
| taught a number of years. In later years Ruth Shiell, and a banana. This lady informed me that she lived acro[...]the school was in operation. was a Mrs. Grimes. Her husband worked for the Westland[...]rse barn and school At the Scobey depot, I was met by the School District Clerk, ground equipment, consisting of slides, swings and giant a very kind and obliging gentleman who offered to t[...]the only reminder of this site of learning now is a the County Superintendent. The courthouse did not scrub tree or two which though planted many years ago impress me one way or the other but after climbing two never seemed to[...]flights of stairs we entered a very small office at the front of[...]garet Chicoine Sundby the stairs. Behind a desk sat a lovely lady who Mr. Evenson[...]long friend. A very charming, efficient and helpful person.[...]I recall she wore a dark red dress. She explained a number RISE AND SHINE[...]laws, etc. She also told me I was going to an exceptionally I first viewed Daniels County on March 28, 1927. Having nice school building in a nice neighborhood and was graduated from Minot Te[...]day before, fortunate to board and room at a home like Evenson's. How I had sought a summer school to teach. North Dakota did[...]have summer terms, but Montana did at that time. A Mr. Evenson told me he would call for me in an hour, so I , friend and former teacher of mine told me Danie[...]ad schools of this nature and gave me the name of a paste. Mrs. Joe Walker was the clerk. Afterwards I went to school that a friend had taught atone time. This friend was the post office where I informed Mr. _ Sid Bennett,. Iva Nettleton (Mrs. Nels Oksendahl, whom I later met). postmaster, of my mail route address. I was most anxious She told me it was a desirable school so I had applied to the to be certain I would get my mail. He told me I had no County Superintendent and was given a contract for nine cause for worry on that[...]mail carriers and their route mail always When I left Minot via Great Northern train, the weather[...]of was sunny with water running down the streets. I decked the nicest, obliging people anyone could find anywhere. I myself out in my Sunday best, a flowery hat, suit, etc. The then hurried back[...]house to meet Mr. Evenson ride was long and slow. I think we changed trains at whose thoughtful wife, Olga, had provided a warm winter Bainville. I did not pack a lunch, but a lady seated near me coat, boots, mittens, and scarf for me to wear. I was very had one and when she discovered I was feasting on a box of glad to exchange my flowery hat, etc.[...]chocolates, she felt sorry for me and offered me a sandwich wraps. So in a sleigh over the snow banks on a cut-across[...]anxious to meet their new teacher greeted me and I partook of a very good supper, a sample of all the good meals and hospitality I was to enjoy that year in their[...]well and furnace in the basement. There was a good supply[...]of books, etc. and playground equipment and a barn for the[...]nit( a /.art of this school because this schoolhouse had a goM ... ull sized basement with a well in it.[...]were a little shorter for the first and second graders.[...]front with a tap bell. There was a recitation bench in front, a dictionary (large) on a stand, a wall map of the world, a[...]the teacher. In the summer, Junior Robbin drove a white horse hitched to a green cart. The horse was named Pinto.[...]Maurice Murphy rode a Shetland pony; the Chicoine[...]by car. I think Roman Suchy walked or rode sometimes.[...] |
| [...]e months. We decorated the schoolroom to create a homey, children hoped she would accompany her often. She pleasant place to be.[...]ith her interest in them and her their mothers, I don't know) house plants, beautiful ones to conge[...]An event of memorable importance was a trip to the Each evening at four o'clock, after saying "good-nite, Peerless Fair. On a windy day in October Mrs. Evenson, good-nite, we will meet in the morning light, may angels the girls and I went to Peerless to attend their first fair. gu[...]and Peerless was booming with many businesses and a new girls. Good-nite teacher," I began my janitor service. I school. The fair displays were in the school building, I swept the floor which I had sprinkled with sweeping think, and the place was filled. Three ladies from Scobey compound (oily sawdust and a red color), I dusted the were judges. One stood out to me by he[...]to see that the was dressed to perfection and had a sparkling personality. toilet doors and barn door were closed and the gate shut. I I learned she was Mrs. Art Strom of Scobey. saw that the flag monitor had the flag down and then I sat After viewing the exhibits, we walked aro[...]y and it was soon time to go home. were sure, was a "tin-horn gambler" moved in for the day. The[...]very wrong of course. So much for the me unless I had a lot of work to do and then they went on Peerless Fair of 1927! instead. It was a lovely time to walk with the meadow larks The[...]In the fall the golden wheat was harvested spend a night in the schoolhouse, if necessary, by bringing and there was a busy time of activity. blankets, a kerosene lamp, extra sandwiches in the lunch On Saturday Mrs. Evenson, the girls and I made a pails from home. The school trustees had a good supply of weekly trek to Scobey. Evelyn too[...]. coal. We never had to stay overnight but it was a hopeful L. V. Hanson and we shopped. wish to see what it would be like. By four o'clock everyone The neighbo[...]the neighbors and to The school received a superior rating from the State church. They invited me to their homes for dinner and Department and a name plate was placed on the door. coffee very o[...]s time to say good-bye to the Mr. Evenson was a lover of flowers and kept a beautiful pupils, to Roman Suchy who was helpful[...]In April the gracious County Superintendent held a Play and Catherine Christensen who came so far wi[...]ng to up. Before noon "the rains came", and what a rain. It be a nurse, Morraine the spokesman and reporter for th[...]Mrs. Chicoine girls, Phyllis who could embroider a story with all the ran off the road on the Timmo[...]atient and willing, Maurice Murphy, studious was a grand occasion despite the rain.[...]trude Gilmore whose mother spoke Since school would be closed before Christmas, no French and whose Irish father couldn't understand very Christmas program would be given , therefore, a Halloween much French. program was settled upon in place of a Christmas one. The The books were checked o[...]ouse plants usual preliminaries were planned and a playette was distributed and I locked the door -- another key had been decided upon. For this play a wardrobe of clothes was provided. needed. The te[...]was still raining on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon a where I took the train to Scobey to continue on my way to[...]morning when the Buttes. Mrs. Robbins was taking a suitcase of butter to sell teacher arrived to unl[...]ed cabinets, leaving them open. Her desk had been A very happy year. rifled, the scissors and cosmeti[...]ad brought were missing, along with an odd jacket or two forgotten on Friday night. the dishes which w[...]sement, cups, etc. were taken. To all appearances a man, woman and child had spent the weekend there[...]cher and pupils. On one visitation, Mrs. claim on a homestead one mile west of the Four Buttes[...] |
| Later a town was named after these hills. Then he went in[...]he time of his death in Plentywood, August, 1961. I Martin, who died of a kidney ailment in the early winter of returned to Scobey in 1970. 1915. This was a sad event to take place so soon after[...]our farm in 1924 to Albert Bernard he settling in a new way of life.[...]of the trees and shrubs and Bill hauled water on a stone boat from a spring a mile in the city park and cemetery were planted by my dad. He away. My mother and I were caught at home alone during a died in 1950 in Plentywood while visiting[...]light as he could not get home and home. She was a faithful and active member of the through the sto[...]olic church. She had many friends who enjoyed her a quick, hot fire for biscuits, we would go out and gather fresh bread and tea in the afternoons. She was hit by a car "buffalo chips". My dad was a blacksmith and had a little while crossing the street on the east end[...]s the first fatal accident in Scobey's One day a prairie fire started from a spark from the forge. history. The neighbors saw[...]or Olson and Aime Carrier came with plows to make a fire guard. In the early days in Scobey my dad was a blacksmith DONALD AND LEONIE AUDET with Tom Smith. Then during harvest he would go out as a separator man on threshing crews. Young Bill went[...]to Four Buttes in 1920 from Forgey, him to drive a bundle te~m.[...]Leonie came in 1912 with her Muriel taught in a number of country schools in those parents, Claud[...]in an first years. She walked sometimes and drove a horse and open wagon and homesteaded where the Em[...]orked. Later she came back to Scobey and attended a stove and unloaded it to cook their meals. It was a hard secretarial course being given for adults in the local school. long trip. They had to live in a tent for a long time before She started to work in the court[...]d in September 1926. He ran the cream station for a while and then he and Art Elvude had the City Dra[...]rom 1943 to 1954. During that time Pat brought in a man wanted for murder in Montreal. In the fall of[...]did not live to be sworn into office. He suffered a fatal heart attack a few days before the swearing in. When Gladys was in Spokane she met and married Avon Powell, a mail man up to the time of his retirement in 1945[...]y had one son, Delno. Bill had one son Gerald and a daughter Denise by a previous marriage to Selma Javenager. He worked a[...]tana and made their home in Billings after having a pool hall in Bridger. Bill was a clothing salesman in Billings until his health fa[...]Donald and Lionie Audet After I, Ella Mae, graduated from high school I worked at Mike Skadron's Grocery for four years. I worked at the Rex Theatre three summers and for a short time for Wyvil The Audet famil[...]c, Canada and had Bjerke in the seed loan office. I married Bennett Evenskaas eight girls and[...] |
| [...]il Audet, Delhia LaPierre, Alexina had a nights lodging, for which we never had a set price, Butler, Alice LaPierre, Amie LaBarge,[...]et Hawbaker, farms south of was building or improving their homesteads or ranches. In Sco~ey; Ronnie Audet has a wheel alignment and tune-up this way we met many interesting people, all working for a shop in Scobey; Richard Audet, Gardner, Massachus[...]was warm, as an from the farm in 1949 and bought a house in Seo bey. Leonie unmarked sleigh road with a few landmarks in the then passed away August 7, 1[...]sparsely populated area was not a healthy place to be in The original house stil[...]others, but all productive. And every year or two there Neighbors came from miles around and th[...]make room for dancing. There could have even been a little moonshine there. JOHN AND ELIZA[...]. Plentywood was |
| Mae operate a treating plant and post mill at Lincoln,[...]1915 he operated a general store in the same locality. Wes Baldry[...]tion while serving with the 82nd Air moved to a homestead five miles northeast of what is now Bor[...]7. They have one son and two daughters. They have a cattle and sheep ranch at Wendell, Idaho. Doug[...]e Naval Base at Hawthorne, Nevada. This s,tory would not be complete without a tribute to our pioneer folks. Mother, Elizabeth A[...]er's blind faith in people that right and honesty would win out in the end, and her patience to no end in[...]the infantry on February 15, 1941 , and sacks and a gentle saddle horse or wheel barrow, we boys a few months later was with the American Forces und[...]surrender of Corregidor, May 7, 1942. to lend a hand. He was always glad when new people came, as[...]ds. Although he loved to trade horses, he was not a greedy man, and al ways Leo Bernard, 35, son[...]there was plenty of land for overcome with a heart attack on the train en route to Fort everyo[...]e train at Lima and died in that city on bad from a sheep and if you stay home and care for them[...]e freight teams and Ii vestock. Someone asked him a short time before he passed away, how long he had[...]rmaine. From 1905 until 1910 Mr. Bernard operated a[...] |
| [...]ADRIAN AND ANNIE BLANC died in 1942 while a prisoner of the Japanese, and Leo who by Kath[...]2. In 1945 the Bernards moved from the farm to a home in Adrian Blanc was born in southern[...]community and trip, he worked his way over as a fireman on a freighter to financial endeavors.[...]othes on hi~ back and ten dollars May 21, 1967 in a Seattle, Washington hospital following two and on[...]arsen, died May 2, 1971 in the Scobey hospital of a brain tumor. They have two children, Leon and Wan[...]d Morey. (One son, Curtis, died August 3, 1962 in a bicycle-car accident). She owns and manage[...] |
| [...]hen went into North Dakota where he found work on a farm near Bottineau. Finding his lack of knowledge of the English language a handicap, he attended a local grade school off and on for two years, and as a result learned to speak excellen t English. In 19[...]worked on the Peter Marron ranch and applied for a homestead. Since she didn't spend the required th[...]John Zabe and Delina Chartier Falxa ranch a few miles from the Marron ranch. These two young[...]y 15, 1915. They moved to Bainville, where he had a homestead. After about four years they Zabe was a kind, beloved "Uncle" who always walked bought a farm west of Four Buttes, living in that area until with a cane as long as we could remember because he had[...]rheumatism. Aunt Chartier was sickly and lived on a very California where they bought a peach orchard. restricted diet f[...]visiting his children and taking in Scobey for a number of years before moving back to their occas[...]"Aunt" only a few years later. They would surely have The Blancs had three children: Geor[...]n area passed away in July 1966. She has one son, a student at called the "Flat" was prime hom[...]age ofit. in July 1940; her husband was killed in a plane accident in Around the year 1907 or '08 a middle-aged couple, Zabe and March 1969. They had[...]James, Diane and Delina Chartier set up a homestead a few miles southwest Eileen.[...]they train. There, he paid $15.00 fare aboard a lumber wagon came in 1908 and settled southwest o[...]from their native land. Zabe In 1911, using a sulky-walking plow, my dad broke up his had trave[...]oine. who settled to make a go of it. They came from Quebec to Kalispell, M[...]earl Gilchrist from Montecello, finally taking up a homestead in our county. They were Minnes[...]proved their pioneering spirit by living in a little tar[...] |
| papered shack, heated only by a laundry stove. Grandpa mortifying momen[...]his school board membership my mother's place for a few years. at the G[...]member for Daniels daughters was born, h e became a naturalized citizen, he County. I do not know -if farmers at the time were proved u[...]0.00 purchased mechanically minded but as I recall our dad kept mother his first car, a Model T Ford. and us girls in a state of suspense a lot with mechanics, as In the next few years we[...]ng about like this created many car would be back in running condition. neighbors. There wa[...]ighbors were the Mother was a good homemaker and tried to teach her[...]to sew and "she took a great deal of ribbing" from dad as to Left to[...]bey school system. |
| to milk a cow. She always said "When you marry if you homesteaded together in 1914, spending a winter alone in a want to milk, then fine". But there always were some homestead shack, heated only by a laundry stove, which chores that required doing f[...]town for the homesteaders, on security, when dad would be gone and didn't arrive home request, and leave them in the large sack hung from a post before dark. Mother would then gather us around it that was used for a mail box. Mrs. Chicoine often left a note (someone luckily getting the best seat in th[...]y for oven door), and with coals glowing red, she would sing and the supplies in the bag. When spring came and the snow tell stories to her audience. I might add that years later we thawed she discovered to her dismay that there was a hole discovered mother was a very poor singer and dad was the in th[...]bag had slipped into a snowbank. All winter, Jim had been In those ye[...]ol programs, dances were held often at the school or In 1910 there was a regular rodeo on Fourth of July at-Old some neigh[...]People· on benches of in the loft, the grown-ups would dance, often raised their own meat and chickens and had milk cows and 'til dawn. A big source of fun was card playing where often managed to make a Ii ving. The large ranchers were real the games of pitch or whist lasted until the lamps were friendly. Whenever a homesteader needed a job he would blown out at first light. Christmases were memorable. go to work for Henry Shipstead, who would give a Dolls, books and clothing were the main gifts. Mother homesteader a job in preference to a drifter. In the early never outgrew her love of d[...]sheep on the flat. Chartier asked if he received a doll from her every year until they outgrew them. would keep the sheep off his hayland. Shipstead obliged[...]g, busy days. When There were a lot of horses running loose belonging to relatives from out-of-state visited, it required a trip to the Shipstead, Taylor Green, Mose Tingley, Butler, Fadness, Truax Ranch for a look at the buffalo, or a picnic at the Oscar Shipstead on Police Creek, Bonnes, Timmons, and Four Buttes or Rocky Buttes. On other Sundays the[...]to garden and Tingley showed him the flat. "I'll show you to the place but help mother with her beautiful flower garden. I won't bring you back. I'll keep right on agoing. I'm going After retiring, dad and mother spent t[...]ates of Washington and There was a lot of bootlegging on the flat during California.[...]ng their eleven prohibition. One time a fellow came here and offered us grandchildren gro[...]naged by were plowing land and found a five-gallon barrel of Karnes Sundby and owned by[...]moonshine. One day Henry Hartman and I (Art) ters, Margaret Sundby, Peerless, Montana; Alyce Carlson, discovered a barrel in a basement hole that had blown half- Spokane; Marra[...]rm with buildings. Charles Chicoine, who had come a year before to pick out the homesteads had a shack. Emma (LaBlanc) and Chas. C[...]g to drive them around. One time; after helping a neighbor named Amos Presnel dig a well, Art started riding home by horseback in a snowstorm. The storm soon became a full-fledged blizzard and Art, who had worked up a sweat while digging the well, was so close to fre[...]and took him in. Another event Art rem em hers is a fire in the fall of 1910, believed set by[...] |
| [...]met and married Emma LaBlanc of Chicago. Emma was a friend of Charles' sister Bernadette. They return[...]Leo, who played a violin at many of the dances, was the[...]rtistic dreamer of the family and not meant to be a tiller of THE LEO CHICOINE FAMILY[...]coine family moved to the dam site where they had a to homestead near the Henry Blattners, acquaintan[...]bel recalls one time while in her homestead shack a shipyards, finally returning to Montana, s[...]d spent many hours being only about one-fourth of a mile away, Mabel decided doing some fine wood carvings. to go there. She took her cat and a bag with some clothing Leo passed away in 1958. Mabel and their only child with her. She ended up in a straw stack but remembering Geraldine stil[...]_J.W. CONROY-----JAMES H~ CONROY There was also a Home Demonstration Club where the[...] |
| [...]In August 1926 - Carl, Donna (three months) and I left[...]k us three days to make the trip. We were driving a[...]without any car trouble. Sometimes we had a little trouble[...]at a hotel, and then drove to Four Buttes.[...]construction, and a store not yet completed. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Conroy As a small child, and over the years, I remember my |
| [...]ties". and Gus Dahlquist. Carl made a success of the elevator during both the good[...]In the spring they returned to The children and I moved back to Wahpeton, North Scobey[...]amily live neighbors for years; he also had a grain threshing rig. at Medicine Lake, Montana; J[...]friends there and altho we also went A & J Blacksmith Shop in Scobey and died in 1968. They through a period of sorrow - it was and always will have a have five children and eight grandchildren. s[...]grandchildren. miles southwest of Scobey. He was a butcher by trade and Bernard was married[...]He is a salesman for Kea ting's Furniture Store in Willis[...]that he was determined to go to Scobey, he said, "I will[...]homestead was to plant a grove of trees, which grew well.[...]By this time he had built a two-story house which was[...]Gilchrist School, which was about a mile from their home.[...] |
| [...]in a plane crash as a test pilot; Hazen, Jr. is head of the[...]highway department at Havre, is married and has a[...]they have seven children; and Charles with a family of[...]Bryan, a twin brother of Hazen's, lived in the Four[...] |
| [...]Ford truck. We lived the first summer a mile north of Four[...], Bryan's father-in-law. Front row Plains. I believe that he was fortunate in having Mrs. Lulu[...]t as one of his teachers here. He went on to earn a Mary Anne (Flickenger) Omuig, Bryan's daughter'[...]Doctorate in engineering. Six of the sons served a total of Bryan's wife Marjorie, Bryan's daughter.[...]Myself (Clarence) and Jim of Daniels County; W.P.A. days and dust storms. The Hazen Flickingers now[...]ta. country from Pierce County, North Dakota with a family March 16, 1862, married Margaret Becker a childhood of nine children. Three more children w[...]nce, who came to the United· States from dad and I came first, bringing two immigrant cars loaded[...]He went back for the family, bringing them out in a canvas covered Model T Mr. and[...] |
| [...]which is illustrated in "Big Teams in Montana", a 1925 Harriet, Effie, and Pearl came to Daniels Co[...]over thirty head of cows. In spite of the aid of a Rochester, Washington in the fall of 1937 to seek a warmer huge dog which they had trained to run a treadmill to pump winter climate. There E.D. passed away February 11, 1938 water and operate a separator, it was hard work. Possibly, just[...]r in the spring. She spent some time They came on a special immigrant train to Poplar, thence on the farm, then built a home in Scobey (doing much of the to Scobey via wagon with livestock, including a team of oxen, and household possessions. They hom[...]lats". Margaret hated it at first. She had left a spacious, Clay Gilchrist beautiful brick home for a homesteader's shack on the barren prairies. Few p[...]e beads out of wild roses by the hour! They built a large two-story home, which she painted herself. A few years later it burned to the ground, with nothing salvaged but a drawer full of pictures. They then bought land and a house a few miles distant from C.H. Wilbur, originally Bi[...]wanted to make movies of them, but the Gilchrists would have none of it. Elmer invented a hitch called the Gilchrist equalizer,[...] |
| [...]the founders and a past president of the Scobey Saddle[...]school, three and a half miles from their farm home, most[...]of the time on horseback, or by buggy or sled, keeping[...]inside; at times with a small coal stove inside.[...]e resided until her death 1938. They lived for a time in Poplar and Frazer. Lorraine in 1951.[...]o daughters Melinda and Krista at home. World War I. After his discharge they made their home in[...]; Mrs. Orville (Cheryl) 21, so could not take out a homestead. Two years later, he Novak, Robert, Phil, and Delroy, Roseau, Minnesota; Mrs. bought a relinquishment. He married Martha Hendrickson[...]A "shivaree" as mentioned in the above story was a loud[...]kettles, buckets and sticks and would go around the house[...]CLAY A. GILCHRIST FAMILY Clay A. Gilchrist came to Montana with his family in[...]as responsible for the Horse Quadrille which made a big[...]In 1924 he leased land and started to build a futur.e for[...]Gilchrist lives in Glasgow, Montana and is a railroad man.[...]and works for Lockheed. Clay A. Gilchrist is in Spokane,[...] |
| Washington. He is a plant foreman for Calkins Implement Company. Fae Ann Gilchrist lives in Seattle, Washington and is a banker. Beatrice Gilchrist, retired, lives in Sea[...]t: Harold Dean Nehring, Four Buttes via Poplar by a team of horses and wagon. Danny Feres[...]estad and Gary Wahl. Front Their first home was a two-room structure which served row: Ran[...]Ferestad. adequately as a protection from the elements but soon became too[...]in number. Five children were born here with only a midwife's assistance, Volga, Irene, Healy, LouElla and Kermit. In 1924 a new eight-room house was built.[...]ot luck suppers among the The children attended a rural school located one-half neighbors[...]Robert (Bobby). Both Irene living on the "Flat", a term associated with this area. and Pet[...]l and other home. catastrophies, one would think there was nothing but Kermit marri[...]Most people remember Mrs. Ferestad as a happy, gentle; such as picnics on Police C[...] |
| [...]isolated life. However, if given her choice, she would not have exchanged her role as a farmer's wife and mother. Many have sampled her l[...]dates and accounts on the "Old Timers". He spends a great deal of time reminiscing about his old frie[...]of the past. He feels so fortunate to have played a part in molding some of Daniels County history.[...]rson Dora met was Mildred Lekvold Poyner. Dora is a sister of Carl Berger of Whitetail.[...]Janice and Mark. Janice was killed in a car accident[...]Kermit, the youngest son of I var and Ingeliev Ferestad, Ferestad family[...] |
| [...]children, Leah Rae and Lance. Kermit is a member of the Scobey Saddle Club, the They live i[...]merican Legion, and all the connected with the LG.A. grocery store. Dan serves as a family are members of the Catholic church.[...]I came to Scobey in the spring of 1914 with my moth[...]spring' of 1912. They both took up homesteads a few miles[...]Gilmore of Colton, California; and I , Gertrude Gilmore[...]ntana. He is presently employed in Billings I was raised on a farm twenty miles south of Flaxville, and serving in the National Guard as a medic. His wife attended Westby School through the eighth grade, and Bonnie is a registered nurse and is also employed. graduated from Scobey High School. I worked as secretary Dean graduated from Dawson[...]ey. He is presently engaged in there (two and a half years) our first child, Alayne Lynell, farmi[...]. the Madoc Farmers Elevator. Myrna, his wife, is a In the spring of 1966 we moved into[...]ool and is Rapid City South Dakota. She worked as a secretary m currently employed with the Montana Highway Patrol. Great Fall~ for two and a half years. She married Trent His first sta[...]0 we moved to Glendive. Our son, Arlin Lee, was A number of neighbors will recall the hard w[...] |
| decided the big city was not the place to raise a large Wheat, oats and flax was seeded[...]threshing machine. He had what he called a cook car. He for homesteads, he sent his two oldest sons to look at the would hire a man to cook but most often my sister would country. From their reports this seemed the ideal[...]earched for. He then moved his family to Montana. A than a few days, I supposed he was threatened with a lynch young Englishman, Harry Lewis, who was work[...]rly prepared food. As time passed on there him as a hired hand also came with them. All that were[...]n. I look back with nostalgia and think how fortunate we Much of the land has changed h[...]M. A. LAMOTTE M.A. LaMotte of St. Marie, Illinois came to Scobey on[...]John Heier and Gery Lermon. I married Daisy McDevitt |
| [...]Candace (Mrs. Gary Linder) of Flaxville; and a son,[...]and took a homestead by Stony Butte west of Four Buttes.[...]and built the barn. There he had a lot of horses and cattle. Marion and Daisy's 50th[...]Mildred, Marion, Daisy, Tony and Evelyn. where I now live. The LaMotte's took active part in publi[...]affairs. Daisy died in 1969 and DAN MURPHY FAMILY |
| [...]was also one of the first farmers to use a crawler-type[...]ractor in dirt moving. He owned and operated such a[...]World War I. In his Model T Ford he drove the doctor Selmer[...]use of was working part time for Ole Shipstead as a farm hand. rural electric services on the[...]ials to continuously by him for 60 years. In 1916 a partnership rebuild the elevator which was destroyed by fire at a time was formed with John A. Davis and one and a half more when there was a tremendous shortage of construction sections of l[...]is partnership lasted materials. Nelson was a member of the Williston Elks until 1922. Besides[...]when she was fifteen years old. Norman Nelson, a brother of Selmer, came to Scobey in Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, homesteaded 1922 and a new partnership was formed which lasted until[...]Point Norman's death in 1969. When cattle became a part of their communities will long remember[...]azy B". One of the most colorful and wife ran a hamburger stand on Fourth of July's, innov[...] |
| [...]rried. "Brownie" Nelson has been very active as a member of the St. Philip's Catholic Church. She a[...]orn to their marriage. Sister Claudia (Ilamae) is a music teacher in Fargo, North Dakota. Richard mar[...]g social work in Jellico, Tennessee. Father John, a Jesuit priest, teaches at Seattle University in S[...]w lives in Spokane, Washington where Mr. Davin is a certified public accountant. Pat died in an auto[...]de and the teacher wasn't able to teach her the I was only nine months old when I came to the Four required subjects. Tha[...]y knowledge my Dad had come country and I went to school at the Gilchrist School by the year before and filed on a homestead where we lived horse and buggy or horseback, and when it got cold my and spent our[...]me. Lula lives in where dad was born. He filed on a homestead and all of us Dubuc, Saskatchewan. Earl passed away in 1972. I, children were born at Dubuc, Saskatchewan. My mo[...]Additional note by Hilda Norman: I can remember that my folks welcomed the farmers from I was born in Lyusdal Helsingland, Sweden. My famil[...]July, 1904, by way of Krirtanstad, place. We had a large barn and they stayed all night on the No[...]hauled rough as usual. grain in wagons or sleds, whatever the weather. Thr[...]d in England. We went across My first memory of a Christmas was that my folks didn't to Liverp[...]-drawn carriage and bus. We spent get to town for a Christmas tree - which I believe they gave five days in Liverpool, then boarded a liner for Canada. We away in those days from a lumber yard or grocery store- so saw many icebergs and passed two other ocean liners. my mother got a big Russian thistle and we children cut We arrived in Canada on a Sunday morning. Then we decorations for it. I remember I got a tooth brush that said went by bus and train to[...]toba. It was very "Little Brown Eyes", and we got a sled that we all shared. hard to come to a country where you didn't understand the My first bit of schooling came from a school a couple language, but we survived. Later my[...]s my first teacher. All of us children went I worked for a farmer before I met and married Elmer. there in a horse and cart.[...] |
| [...]few years have lived in Wolf living and borrowed a team and wagon. From Froid, Alfred Point, Mont[...]returned to their farm home and enjoyed following a trail to Scobey. There they purchased lumber t[...]their grandchildren and great grandchildren in a building the shack (which is now at Pioneer Town) and a reception at the Lutheran Church in Scobey and a dinner barn. They stayed until October, co[...] |
| [...]William J. and Alma Schumann Riek arrived in 1909 or 1910. My mother and I came for a visit in 1911, and to stay in 1912. My birthpl[...]ather shipped out in an immigrant car. He brought a cow and calf, farm machinery and some household g[...]ad to be bought from an Indian. It seemed like a very long way from Poplar to our farm when we were on a wagonload of lumber behind a team of horses. We used to stop at a halfway house run by some people named Custer. Ou[...]est of the original townsite of Scobey. We had a few chickens and they were forever being attacked by chicken hawks. One day during an attack by a pair of hawks my father shot one, and then was at[...]ke - wedding picture - 1916 Some of the things I remember most were the country dances and the Christmas parties during the holidays.· These would start early in the afternoon and last til past midnight. My mother and father are both deceased. I married Virginia Gilbert in December, 1927. We have two sons. H. Gilbert Riek is a veterinarian and lives in Sidney, Montana. William J. Riek is a Presbyterian minister and lives in Eldon, Missouri. I finished eighth grade at the Gilchrist School. Harriet' Gilchrist was the first teacher. I graduated from Montana State College in Bozeman in 1926 with a major in Agriculture. - I taught school at Browning, Montana from 1927-1936[...]August 20, 1892. Both Martin and Annie In 1936 I went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the Soil Conservation Service. I retired Martin and Annie Rustebakke from t[...]home in Billings, where we met them with a cutter and took them out to his place. They have[...]born at Cylinder, Iowa on Alvin, a veteran of World War II, farms the home place Dec[...]from Thief River Falls on the first of October in a Model T loaded with packages, blankets and the th[...]gs, daughter of Wilson and Edith children. It was a bad winter with lots of snow but they got[...] |
| [...]Truesdell-Dierks and felt fortunate to have a job as the[...]depression was setting in. There wasn't a crop to cut in the[...]Saco area, and at Four Buttes there was still a mar.k et. A[...]ow), but at that time there wasn't electricity so a reversal[...]accustomed to a rural life, of raising a large garden and[...]t daughter Alpha was working in Kellogg, Idaho as a[...]was a Mason and Amelia was a member of Order of[...]Nebraska in 1884. She came first winter in a dugout west of Four Buttes on Spring with her par[...]e following year he and his brother Henry brought a educated and taught in rural schools there.[...]aho; Delanor, Mrs. Roy Killen},< (deceased 1964); a son Carl, deceased in infancy; ➔ Florence, Mrs.[...]ittle town of Y ·:, With one clap of thunder and a flash of lightning elevator was hit and burned to[...]t car. The fa r drove by car, an open type sedan, or side curtains whe: top was up. There were[...] |
| [...]October 3, 1878, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick[...]wo sons, Arthur of Four Buttes and Clifford of in a blizzard while returning to the ranch from Wolf P[...]he load was too heavy to pull through the snow on a wagon. Sleighs were used from then till the middl[...]Mrs. Ole Shipstead), running low on food. Ole and a young man from Canada and Millie. crossed the one and a half mile wide river in a water tank to They took up homesteads and sta[...]ed herders. brothers had a big steam tractor and a threshing outfit. In 1912 Ole sold his ranching[...]interests Henry, moved up on the bench, took out a homestead and and moved a way. started farming.[...]ed and In 1915 he married Minnie Smith who had a homestead left two children, Gerald and[...]ve Ernest's homestead is still farmed by a uephew , James children, Gladys, Marie, Eu[...] |
| [...]d Sophia by boat to Canada. They settled there in a town Peck, Montana; and Robert Theilke of Li[...]the family, achievements in the area was a large collage of the Fort Joseph, Christina and R[...]to Wolf Point Garrison Dams. She married a Wisconsin dairy farmer, then by wagon and horse t[...]ing land. After that was done Kate was a sister of Margaret Becker Gilchrist. She Ii ved people had time for a few gatherings. Most of the fun things on the[...]ol. We had one of moved to Glasgow only about a month before her death at the nicest and biggest[...]ict, the Gilchrist the age of 59. She truly had a hard life on this Montana school.[...]his brother Jonas had come a few years ahead of him. He Mary and Fred Merks[...]also di<;l mostly farm work here and took out a homestead in Manitoba, Canada.[...]Roosevelt County, proved it up, built a shack, as most of John's first wife Gertrude p[...]spent more than a year overseas, coming back in the fall of[...]HIELKE spent only a little time here, and then went to Casper,[...]Wyoming, where he spent a few years. While there he sent[...]United States. I came to Casper and we were married in Kate Thielke, a widow and professional dressmaker 1923. I was the former Anna Sophia Hougaard. Finding came[...]ith their aunt, uncle and Texas, which was a long journey then. After arriving in cousins, the[...]takes more as the Lystads had to move to a different climate for health than a short apprenticeship to learn the business of reasons. A few years later we bought the farm, had two farmi[...]for health reasons. We moved to town and I have lived were born three children: Lieth[...] |
| [...], Anna, Kenneth. \ Kenneth married a Poplar girl, Vera Johnson, and they Herman[...]ost of their married life in Poplar, having spent a |
| [...]ring her teen years she our own coal a mile and a half from home. With the coal embarked upon a stage career which she sutcessfully[...]rence Wilbur in Boston and came to I had never been out of the state of Iowa, so those[...]lived southwest of Four Buttes and years I got lonesome for my parents and the rest of the l[...]re he managed the filling family; also I missed the trees I'd been accustomed to station. They belonged to th[...]We had no doctor in the country and I enjoyed helping Mrs. Wilbur was a very talented artist and her home held the sick. I delivered about twenty babies before I was many of her paintings. Her death marked the end of a long married. I delivered the babies of some of our and active li[...]with her husband Ray Pyle, had where he lived for a few years and later passed a way in that homesteaded in the hills above Wes[...]were born without a doctor, Ross in 1918 and Eugene in[...]We started a band of sheep by getting bum lambs from I was born in Iowa, was educated and taught school[...]band up to for five years. In the spring of 1914 I came to Montana; my about 1200 head; our catt[...]her, Vane Ross and his wife, had already filed on a some of the homesteaders began leaving the country we homestead twelve miles north of Scobey. When I arrived I bought up their claims for grazing and farming land. went to work for the Mansfield Daniels as a housekeeper. In 1940 Sherd ran for state senator on the Republican The Daniels had a beautiful home and a general store in ticket. His campaign was[...]a nd the winter of 1943 in Helena during the legislative After working for the Daniels for two years I filed on a se sions. In 1944 Sherd ran again, unsuccessf[...]that winter in Helena. Sherd passed a way of a heart attack Sherd was born in West Virginia. His family moved to in June, 1949. After his death I bought a home in Scobey Iowa when he was a young man. Sherd came to this area in where I lived for a number of years. I have now sold my an emigrant car in the spring of 1914. He worked as a home and spend the summer months in Sco[...]onte, California with my sister Mrs. Sherd and I were married at Glasgow on May 4, 1916 and[...]d three nine children were grown. Ray passed a way three and one horses, ten heifers, a milk cow, a few chickens and a pig half years ago. which my brother had given us for a wedding present. The Our son Ross marri[...]r we planted thirteen acres of oats which yielded a had three children, James, Diane and Eileen. R[...]ts along with prairie grass that killed in a plane accident March, 1969.[...] |
| [...]er Johnny Ross served in Germany during World War I. After the war he lived in Iowa where he was marr[...]st of Four Buttes. John, the eldest son, took out a homestead since his father Gerald had had a homestead in Dakota so was not eligible for anoth[...]obbin family went to Volt, Montana where they had a grocery store. In 1929 they moved to Great Falls and had a neighborhood grocery store for many years.[...]lived for a time. Robbins lived in Scobey a few years, where[...]young. Lydia still "helps out" making candy for a local John remained on his homestead and in 191[...]ad no trees MR. AND MRS. THORBJORN GROTTE or streams, the usual site for picnics. John and L[...]an their nephew Gerald Smith from the time he was a fifth or sixth grader.[...]ooling at the Gilchrist his brother Carl was a cashier at the Oie and Anderson school, then atte[...]chool when Robbins Bank. Thorbjorn found a homestead southeast of Scobey moved to the farm now owned by John Ween ts , where they with a good spring on it and went back to Aneta,[...] |
| [...]bought land near Four Buttes, where they built up a[...]these growing things for a home in Scobey. A son Boyd[...]farm) , Montana "crocus" windflowers, Gumbo lily (a[...]JAMES A. SHIPSTEAD FAMILY Dakota to bring his wife, the f[...]with four horses, cows, chickens, James A. Shipstead, son of Ole and Minnie Shipstea[...] |
| [...]Lewistown. She has served as a missionary in Alaska. Onalee is married to Lyle Davison of Kildeer, North Kristi is married to a young Glasgow rancher, Alan Dakota. They live in[...]Bible and Montana State University. A community picnic at the Four Buttes in 191[...] |
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| [...]LIAN OF YESTERYEAR The only sign now of Julian, a pioneer town still remembered by older settlers h[...]once housed the postoffice, and an old cellarhole or two about one quarter of a mile east of it. Once Tom Smith operated a blacksmith shop in Julian, Cora Anderson - a dance hall, Lucille Vahl -a grocery store, Sam McKackney - a beer parlor, Barney Miller - a lumber yard, and Julian Erickson operated the postoffice. But Julian never had a railroad. Mail was first hauled on a stoneboat from Poplar or Old Scobey by Frank (Fatty) Merrill, brother of S[...]Theodore, single, built a good farm home for his parents[...]among them ar~ the Ray Arnesons, Dennis McDowell, I.A. Whitetail Courier for 1918 has an ad for gopher[...], perhaps near that store, was Tom Smith, who had a blacksmith shop there. His wife, Martha, died her[...]ned to homesteaders. Only ranchers who had cattle or sheep lived in that part of the state. When homes[...]". Said Hoke Smith to one homesteader: "We've got a new law in Montana; the nesters have got t[...] |
| [...]Much of this material is taken from memory, so I can't[...]rs, the time their house burned the second winter or fall they were here, and sliding parties with nei[...]with machinery and household goods, and brought I grew up on the farm, went to Prairie School, and[...]days; they had their own hotel accommodations - a tent. home for a year to help with farm work. In the fall of 1930 I Ed's first claim joined the Fadness ranch. T[...]ring. In the fall of1931 wheat was eighteen cents a there, and then moved to the claim north and east of bushel in Whitetail, so I did not return to college. Instead I Scobey about 15½ miles, the place he still own[...]nd his older brother Harry were located in that I went to Los Angeles to look for work in 1934 as t[...]ad were really tough on the farm in the thirties. I worked as a been surveyed, but was not open for filing until 1913. chauffeur for a while, then worked in garages, and later for[...]in this area, Hollywood Delivery Service, then as a city mail carrier in and many people had to walk. A person was considered Los Angeles for almost seven months, then went to work as very lucky if he had a horse to ride. Horses were selling for a rail way mail clerk. $400 to $500 a team, and that was a lot of money in those On May 1, 1940 I was transferred to the San Francisco day[...]cause Bay area and on May 2nd Elsie Lindstrom and I were they were much cheaper and would do almost as much married. In the spring of 1944 I was sent back to Montana work on a plow. Ed started with four horses and a walking under orders of the War Manpower Commissi[...]December of 1945 we returned to the Bay Area and I There were no commercial coal min[...]sell the farm. Taking vacation from mail service, I Ed has been spending his winters in sunny C[...]ice, renting the farm to Lyle. We had just bought a home in San Leandro, California and were paying $40 a month on that. Feeding and clothing a family of five didn't leave us much money to HARRY P. AND JEANNETTE A. ENGBERG squander on luxuries or recreation. When our Betty was three or four years old, she looked up at me one day and[...]4, grew up around Litchfield, Minnesota and moved a lot of fun, don't we?" That was another of the mo[...]o Saskatchewan, Canada. There he met my life that I shall never forget. Jeannette A. Sorsdahl, and on March 14, 1907 they were In November of1950 I obtained a transfer to Turtle Lake, married at Weyburn, Saskatchewan. They had five North Dakota, where I worked as railway mail clerk until childr[...]the home farm. We have lived here summer or early fall of 1912. They settled a few miles south ever since.[...]nty. They lived with Harry's sister, Lillian, for a time. Phyllis, our oldest daughter, was killed in an auto Later a neighbor, Oscar Bilstad, permitted them to use his accident a week before Easter in 1967, near Billings.[...]in Bozeman. She and her building a house and ham on their homestead. The husband, Wi[...]ers, Karen Engbergs came to Montana in a covered wagon, so didn't and Vera, live in Gillet[...]farming in the great state of Montana. Harry had a and is now teaching at Dickinson College in Carlisle, few head of horses and cattle, a few pigs and chickens, and Pennsylvania. He, his[...]s about thirty head of relief, seed loans, or any other form of charity. At times it sheep. was a struggle that seemed impossible.[...] |
| [...]ildren were small and had to walk to school. onto a new cellar he had just dug, when an automobile Later, when we could ride horseback, or drive a horse on a salesman named Joe Ka von, stopped in to try to sell him a sleigh, we had nine months of school during the fall, winter car. Dad told him that if he would help him get the house and spring. We attended a small, one-room country school moved onto the cellar he would buy a car. Joe helped him for our elementary e[...]til almost midnight, so Dad bought his first car- a Model Whitetail. My oldest sister, Harriet, was a member of the T Ford. He had to go to Plentywood[...]Whitetail High School, and my home he stopped at a stretch of open prairie to learn a little youngest sister, Lucile, was a member of the last class. more about the fundamentals of driving a car. He would In the late teens or early 1920's Dad and Claude start, stop, back up[...]turn left and right and start Hanrahan bought a 22 "Red River Special" grain all over again. Whe[...]home, he could do separator, commonly called a threshing machine. Chet a much better job of handling the car. When he got home Hall, another neighbor, had a 10-20 Titan tractor, so they the family had to admire the new acquisition. It was a made a deal with him to furnish the power for the job of[...]st bit of rain you were stuck. But it was a Fordson tractor, and that was used to power the t[...]in 1924 that Dad bought our first tractor. It was a in the wind, and your eyes watering as though you were slow-moving growling thing, but I thought it was the most crying. It wasn't everyone who experienced such a thrill. wonderful piece of equipment in the world. I spent many My mother wasn't so enthusiastic about all that speed, but happy hours on it. I don't think it did too much for my sense Dad loved it. In a few years the "non-skid" tires (tires with of hearing, but it was so much nicer than driving horses, a rough tread) came on the market, and things were[...]re "looking up" for the automobile crowd. By 1917 or 1918 hungry. They could almost drive h[...]In the fall of 1929 Dad's brother, Ed, bought a new . Overland, and "Bick" Edwards had a Buick. Gus Vahl of Rumley pull-type combined harvester and thresher, later Whitetail had a Crow-Elkhart, a big cumbersome thing commonly called a "combine". Dad bought a second-hand with big yellow wheels. Dad had a number of tools for John Deere tracto[...]was not the fixing those early day cars, so quite a few of the neighbors easiest-pulling combine in the world, and we had to hitch a would come over to have the valves ground, new piston[...]of the tractor to get up some of rings installed, or some other minor repair job done. Dad the steep hills. Ed was quite disgusted. It was a lot of was always a willing helper, and Mom always had a hot trouble, but so much nicer than t[...]and so much faster. It also required a much smaller labor fellowship enjoyed over (and under) those old Model T's. I force, which decreased the harvesting expense was four years old when I had the unmatched privilege of considera[...]farms and a 40-acre tract, which brought his holdings to an During the summer of 1917 Dad had a new house built. even 1000 acres. At that time it seemed like a lot ofland, but He designed it himself and made h[...]ts. He it was none too much to support a family of seven. Rearing hired one of the neighbo[...]the building. The house was back-plastered, with a Dad contracted pneumonia and died in[...]e layers of plaster to act as 1936-37. I had gone to Los Angeles, California in 1934, so i[...]e knew nothing of his illness until I received the telegram furniture was moved in when[...]Dad was my favorite relative. Earlier in winter I had sent appendectomy. It was quite a thrill to move into a brand my parents some money to come out[...]the proud man that he was, sent the living room, a cistern with a handy little pump right there money back, saying that if th~y wanted to come to in the washroom, and a real stairway to the upstairs Califo[...]airs rooms in have their kids pay their way. I returned home and found a the "old house". The plaster was not completely c[...]ome money for when we moved in, so when Dad built a roaring fire in the operating expenses, as Dad hadn't left a will. I had to old heating stove, the sudden drastic change in return to the Railway Mail Service or lose my seniority. temperature caused the plaster to crack in several places. A Mom continued to rent the farm, or hire someone to farm it man named Pearl Green did[...]s an until 1947. expert at it - gave it a very smooth trowel finish. However, Upon[...]Montana Normal School at Dillon and acquired a life the excess heat. The lumber for the house wa[...]mpany of Whitetail. The Walter, also a teacher, and they moved to Tacoma, house was built over a full basement and a concrete Washington after Mother so[...]Mom was struck by a pickup and killed early one morning By this time I had started school, but I wasn't too thrilled while walking to their children's home. Harriet has retired. about it. I was much more interested in the "three A's" Her husband still teaches. (animals,[...]e place. T's", (teams, trucks and tractors), than I was in the ''three Lyle was born on[...] |
| [...]ented the home place until 1954, when he moved to a ranch he bought near Big Timber, Montana. He late[...]d business college there. She did office work for a number of years, and met and married Fred Youmans[...]aren. The Youmans live in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Lucile, the youngest, af[...], Annie and Christine, traveled to the Dakotas in a sister of Julian Erickson covered wagon. Theodore was born in a sod house in South[...]Dakota and Julian and the rest of us were born in a log My father, Erick Erickson, was born in Norw[...]cabin in Velva, North Dakota. Later we had a nice home and came to the United States at the ag[...]e. parents. His father served in the Civil War in a regiment My brother Theodore was the fir[...]Montana, and then my brother Jim, who worked for a in the service.[...]his girl, later to marry Erick Erickson, lived in a sod My parents, Eva, Roy andI(Clare),camein the spring of house, lived in a log cabin, traveled by covered wagon, and 191[...]th Dakota to Poplar and the first postmistress in a pioneer town, lived a long and from there by wagon. In 1912 Julian[...]My mother was the first postmistress in Julian. I think she became so in 1911. Then in 1914 I took the Civil Service[...]examination and became the second postmistress. I was Theodore Erickson then about 21 years of age. A couple of years later[...]annehills took it over and had it in their store. I[...]My dad and Theodore passed a way in the house that is[...]Julian Erickson was a lad of about 16 when he came[...]rode to the top of a hill and saw, on the flat below them, 15 or 20 Indian police from Poplar riding around[...] |
| [...]mounted inside the box. Mrs. Julian Erickson and a friend in 1911 In 1912 Ju[...]nding that they had the outlaws passed a way April 10, 1971 and Ellen is now in the Daniels surrounded at a place called Stony Point. Not finding Mem[...]children have had college In the fall of 1903 a steam threshing machine set fire to educations.[...]the prairie grass and the resulting blaze burned a large farms. He also works at the bank in Scobey. area of rangeland. It burned 100 tons of hay and a barn at his brother's farm, and jumped across cre[...]can recall the late "Whoop" Manternach sitting on a cowhide that was being THE ERNE[...]ame to Montana in 1915 from Anthon, (1903-04) was a tough one. The shortage of feed was Io[...]die Rhodes that same year and their disastrous to a band of 3,000 sheep being wintered there by so[...]anuary, 1924 he married Shipstead, then living in a dugout on the West Fork. The Rose Rainowski who had a daughter Margaret. Ernest Shipstead brothers had frozen a quantity of cranberries in then went to Iowa and brought Leonard home. a small dugout behind the one in which they lived,[...]nd lived in they enjoyed cranberries and cream as a special treat all Greenbush, Minnesota, leav[...]n the Fleming Bakery and later owned and operated a brought over from Old Scobey to the point which l[...]fire station. She purchased a building on Main Street from Julian Erickson r[...]ter businesses over the years, the last being a variety store was to become Julian postoffice. It was a two cylinder operated by the late[...] |
| [...]Ernest was a member of the Police Creek ball team,[...]playing third base, and also a member of the Knights of[...]In 1937 Ernest was severely burned in a fire and spent[...]in that city in 1943 to Erner A. Taylor, who died in 1962. She[...]. He later sold his squatter's rights to R. Huso, a[...]piece of land two miles or so further west. He proved up on this. He built a homestead shack on this with lumber[...] |
| [...]ta. and Emily Anderson and took up land. They had a house After taking a trip out west to see how his crop was in built there and moved in. They even had a piano there after Montana he returned to Iowa. There just wasn't any crop a while. that year and seed wheat had been $5 a bushel. Andrew worked hard on his land, hauling rocks and Andrew worked for a while at a house-moving job by breaking up sod. He also work[...]l house and others. this time to be a guest at the George Salberg home where One day[...]doctor The couple went south after about a week of visiting said she couldn't be moved, so the operation would have to around. We went by Minneapolis, wher[...]e operation plumbing and other work, and there a son, Orville, was took place. The kitchen table b[...]born to us. In the latter part of May we began a trip to The doctor brought a nurse along and Andrew decided he Monta[...]t rained while we were home to his shack with two or three and cleaned and fried there, and the[...]patient fine and all were hungry, so they all had a eight months old, rode in a Model T Ford car with his good meal, except the p[...]It was the first week in June, 1923 that I first came to[...]was out in the threshing Orville and I were alone and we[...]some buildings. He bought two houses and a community[...]hall which became the barn; one house became a shop for[...]remodeling the hall into a barn _and fixing up the others. Richard and Helen[...]year before in 1923 he had bought six horses, a milk cow,[...]summer There were many hardships in those days. A woman put up some hay. He changed work with a neighbor in who was in a pregnant condition and in need of something[...]d and also some flax that he urgently, walked for a long distance for help. It was in the hired put in. That year we had a good crop and in the fall winter and the snow was[...]also pretty good, though not as good as 1924. A granary frozen and dead.[...]Dodd died, and also Mrs. Oscar Bilstad. She left a neighbors and taking in programs and soc[...]yill with flu and pneumonia that he couldn't a playmate about Orville's age. There were some older ones be told about his wife's death. He would undoubtedly have also in the neighborhood a[...]ed to gotten up and gone to help and the children would have attend when he was seven in 1929. H[...]up some more land, and after hauling I was interested in art and liked to draw a lot. But after more rocks, he worked around for a while and then decided coming out to[...] |
| [...]In 1954 he had a house built in Scobey, finishing just[...]been in ailing health for a while and he passed away[...]man at our wedding. Richard and I were married at the[...]and cousins for a long time. We took supp lies along and we[...]both painted there. We also had a trip to Stockholm,[...]ILY During the dry years there was less to do and I would sometimes do some small watercolor scenes for relaxation. The H usos came from farms near a small town in About that time, too, my mother[...]rt (who went by the name of Reinert, Minneapolis. I started to read my new Testament and bu[...]und much comfort and inspiration in it. It became a the family of S.S. Huso and his wife Anne. A cousin named reality to me and I accepted Christ as my Savior. The.re Edwin a[...]her's name was Torbjorn (Tom). Edwin's we started a Sunday School. Ruth Hanrahan donated the[...]1937. Orville had been in an home and make a livelihood on so small a farm, so the accident, which happened when a boy unused to guns exodus began. The oldest son, Swen, proved up a accidently shot him in the arm and chest. He reco[...]ty of Montana and he graduated in 1949. He is now a pharmacist in Scobey. Theodore attended the University of Montana at Missoula for a couple of winters and then came back and farmed f[...]me time. He taught school for seven years. He was a math teacher but also taught various other subjec[...]n 1971 he was married to Patricia Lewis Demoulin, a Oscar Huso at Ketchikan, Alaska - 1910 rela[...]the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Ted and Pat have a souvenir and confectionery shop in Woods Bay, sou[...]d son, was more adventurous. At age Andrew and I moved into Scobey for the winters of 1952 eig[...]the summers we went back and forth to the a homestead land in Saskatchewan, half way between[...]Saskatoon and Regina. His first home there was a sod[...] |
| shanty near a pond. It seems he must have had a teepee in summer. But Oscar didn't farm in Canada[...]y planned on farming later - maybe after he found a helpmate to share the home with him. He proved up[...]from Crosby, must have filed either in late 1911 or early in 1912. Lillian Engberg writes in November, 1911 from Crosby: " I hope my shack is finished, for I shipped my goods today to Plentywood, and expect[...]ing here. When you got to Plentywood will you get a roll of felt paper and my kerosene can filled? I will pay you when I get there."[...]They had farm machinery and a team of horses with them[...]by. It was on a cold May 10th, 1912 - so cold it froze the[...]on the apple trees, blooming at the time. It was a[...]stayed on his land, trying to make it a permanent home. He had a ham, granary, well and windmill. He raised some[...]pigs and chickens, and by 1919 had a fine grove started.[...]I, Dena, Oscar's sister, had spent one summer with[...]14, as cook and housekeeper. Reinert was going so I A snapshot taken in 1912 shows Oscar, Reinert, Joram, thought I should go out and help Oscar. By that time he and Eugene Both um with a group of visitors from Crosby was farming with a tractor. I left Reinert at Crosby and in front of Oscar's sh[...]can tell by the clothes - and must have Line. I spent the night at Birch's rooming house, and had a gotten unexpected company while working at someth[...]eir and fresh-smelling from the new lumber. How I got to land joined; not so lonesome that way. Reinert and Joram Oscar's place I don't remember, but I got there and enjoyed had been back on the home f[...]was again divided into sleeping space. After I had gotten "emigrant car" - a railroad boxcar fixed up for emigrants.[...] |
| wallpaper cleaner, we had a very satisfying place to live. CHARLES MARLENEE FAMILY He had a big tank, or drum, outside which caught the rain water, and it lasted a good while. The water from the well Char[...]aggie was not even good for drinking. For washing I had to Marlenee at their ranch home s[...]ls. 16, 1908. He was the youngest child in a family of six Our drinking water was brought from a shallow well in the children and the only[...]He attended field. This had to be cleaned once in a while as it, too, had school at the Parkl}urst[...]his older sister, Late in the summer, in August, a stranger came over the Ethel, who was a long time employee of Westland Oil hill from the south, and \after a few words of introduction Company. announced[...]e up some land near his folks' Europe." World War I ~ad started in the Balkans. News place[...]of Scobey. He married Miss came by word-of-mouth or letter. I can remember no Margaret Darchuk, d[...]. newspaper out there, although it was there that I.J. Doerr and Mrs. George Darchuk in the are[...]ed in the Julian community. had no telephone, and I can't remember anyone else To th[...]Lanny. They also had a daughter, Susan Ethel, who died[...]er Town. Soon afterward Whitetail started running a[...]and graduated with a degree in Vocational Agriculture, He[...]Mark. They live in Plentywood where Bob Others I met out there were: the Dodds, the Robertsons,[...]hie Birch, Shoppe. and the Scharnattas. I was out there again in the summer Lan[...]daughter of Mr. and of 1919. After so many years I am not sure just when I met Mrs. Mel Southland of Whitetail, and they have two them all. By then World War I was over, and Reinert, children, Bro[...]re they now reside. army and navy, were back home or coming home. In the Ronald designed and built a new home in Scobey where early fall of that year[...]d they were married there. has filed as a candidate for United States Congress from She acc[...]tern District on the Republican ticket. Joram was a lieutenant by then, and they had officer's[...]nt more expense, and it came out of the paycheck. I had just come out of the Army School of Nursing before I went to Whitetail the second time. I couldn't continue training on fifteen dollars a month. After we had worn out the clothes we broug[...]THE DALE MARLENEE FAMILY that fifteen dollars. I couldn't finance it, and neither could Dad, so I resigned. We had that privilege.[...]ying farms, improving them, and reselling them at a profit. He Dal H. Marlenee was born at t[...]uy Robertsons of Whitetail. JoAnn had grown up on a sister, Amanda (Huso) Tjernagel. Much of it is from farm a few miles east of Dale's -going her first four ye[...]light errors appear in it, please bear with a country school, five years at Whitetail, a[...] |
| [...]Lucile remembers attending a big celebration in Scobey[...]outhwest of Many times in the winter they would all pile in a bobsled Scobey; Connie, Mrs. David Hanrahan, with[...]obey. To keep warm they used Angela and Cathi, on a farm west of Whitetail; Donald robes and footwarmers, which were made of metal with a who married Linda Schilling of Sidney, lives on t[...]ed to Great working in Bozeman and Scobey; Holly, a graduate of Falls where she lived for[...]hauling their Montana. She was visiting a sister - Mabel States - in belongings (by wagon)[...]came through Crosby with his family in a covered wagon In 1903 George homesteaded land o[...]em, and together north of Scobey, living first in a homestead shack and later they proceeded on to[...]1913 with Huso brothers. Later she bought a place farther south and her family. They farmed 1[...]ss community. Oakley McDowell built a home for her at a later date. This George and Lucile lived on the[...]she married Barney C. Miller in crops and making a living. Lucile remembers that in 1928 Havre, Montana. Mr. Miller gave up his job as station they had a bumper crop that was completely hailed out.[...]ing their stay in Julian the Miller's home became a home.[...]ith races, parades and bronc busting. would stop overnight with the Millers, then cont[...] |
| [...]ability was great, but the Timmons place. I heard a story about Jake Timmons: The profit was poor, as no charge was made for meals or summer before, Jake got up early one[...]d, so he had up. One of the men always had a rifle and liked to use it, but the Millers take care of his son, Sidney, for a time. Sidney he couldn't see very well. Jake called, "Charlie, Charlie, was only a few years old. On one occasion, Tom went to bring your rifle - there's a pelican flying over." Scobey for supplies, and while there bought a new suit, The men all rushed out. Actually there was no pelican, hat, and a pair ofrubber boots for Sidney. He brought them[...]ut them on the boy, and sent him outside to play. A Charlie. Right over there!" pointing to the[...]the window and saw Charlie shouted, "I see it!" and fired at the blank sky. To Sidney lying on the ground, rolling in a big puddle of everyone's amazement a pelican fell. Nobody had seen a muddy water. When Tom asked him why he was doing that thing. Sidney replied, "That's the only way I can get water in my The next spring I took up my homestead, where I lived boots." most of the time until 1925, when I married Mabel Thayer From Great Falls they move[...]ifornia where they who are now grown. I farmed in the area and was at one operated a Candy Kitchen for a time. From there they time County Trea[...]Berlin and Heidelberg. There were very few raises a nice garden and, being a perfectionist, keeps women attending tho[...]the only everything spic and span. She has lived a very active and one in her class, sometimes[...]She remembers a late-night snowball fight in Berlin MR. AND MRS. O.K. MCDOWELL with a group of students of all nationalities. She had t[...]girl friends and a boy friend from Poland who were part I was born at Long Point, Illinois on June 2, 1889,[...]em until suddenly their letters lived there until I was about three years old. We moved to cease[...]all of her time in Europe she never stayed at a hotel, but in My brother Dennis homesteaded ea[...]n at her father's suggestion came west to take up a[...]~~ Mr. and Mrs. O.K. McDowell In 1911 I went to Kansas to work in the wheat harvest. I |
| [...]well in 1925 and lived in the Julian area. They h_a d, two foster children, brothers. Mabel developed[...]able to get around to do housework only by using a wheel chair. She had no pain and remained cheerfu[...]Juy married Hilda Stensgard, a teacher in 1923, and[...]Caldwell, Idaho where M.M. had a butcher shop. The[...]with a covered wagon and extra horses. Their intent was[...]hundreds of cattle and horses and much land if he would[...]by wagons drawn by multi-team hitches of Joe, on a large scale. Later he operated a general store. He horses. Early day farming wa[...]in Philadelphia, then to neighbors with a 44£ Rumley separator and was vocal Delaware Coun[...]M. about its attributes. After completing a fall's threshing and Elizabeth: Juy Nathaniel 188[...]without plugging the machine he was challenged by a 1975; and La Vivian 1891.[...] |
| not want to plug it. A season's wages were bet as to[...]ne and the contest was on with Vane and I (Carrie L. Ross) were married 61 years ago the re[...]inland postoffice of Julian, Montana. We built a house, During the early years in the Julian community Juy barn and granary, dug a 60 foot well, struck solid coal, played third bas[...]f the local good soft water. We put up a windmill, and plowed the baseball teams. This was[...]sod for growing wheat, flax, oats, potatoes, and a emphasis on baseball in northeast Montana with so[...]bles on the new sod.Vane walked Juy always had a few cattle but he expanded his cattle many[...]the brother John mined lignite coal a few miles east of our depression and worst of the[...]g until the Ross living in Prescott, Arizona. A third son was born at herd moved on. Juy operated[...]parts he thrilled at the tall 1915 was a good year with plenty of moisture from snow waving grass and envisioned a perfect cattle country. That and good rainfall. There were good crops. We made a Ii ving first fall a prairie fire swept through and exposed myriad[...]crops we had to leave which was a great disappointment to Gradually the rocks were[...]ing in Minnesota and Iowa we came to Arizona not a damn thing to stop her". Coal was dug from strip where I am living alone. Vane passed away June 28, 1965 mines around the country, a poor grade of lignite. after havj_ng a stroke 21 months before. Grandpa raised a huge garden every year and didn't allow a weed to go to seed. In the fall he traded produce[...]lost his big gold pocket watch. From then on he would look for it as he knew just about where he had l[...]rs later while riding, he saw something shiny on a pocket gopher mound. Dismounting he picked up hi[...],-s: 4 •. ,- years was walking or riding over to our place, three- -~ :· :i" quarters of a mile, to visit with our children. |
| [...]he Kahle Post Office was named after Carl Kahle - a In these early years the Silver Star c[...]er in Scobey at that time. The mayor of a larger area than it does now. People came for mil[...]fairs and most of their entertainment. which would be chosen as the name of the new post office in[...]ving dinners, F.U. meetings, decided they needed a hall for their various activities. baseball[...]the old Norwegian for which they paid $200.00. In a short time, three hundred custom of celebrati[...]b Wakeland, but much of the work was for a big bonfire in the evening. They had a picnic which done by local help; each one doing w[...]all picnic was held on June 24, 1926, followed by a Theodore Imbs acted as chairman and O.E. Susag as[...]1927, Jake Jacobsen was hired as janitor at $5.00 a and Mrs. William Ferguson. night. O.E. Susag or Knudt Christensen acted as[...] |
| [...]which Lekvold. was sewing, baking, cooking or something else of interest. The members met in the club member's homes once a week and dues were a nickel a meeting. The Silver Star 4-H Club members were[...]organized in 1921 with A.W. Warden as our first County Six delegates, E[...]h Susag as leader. seems there wasn't a thing about homemaking that we The Poplar Vall[...]leader and gave us several projects. Mrs. if she would be a leader for a club. With the help of Jesse C. Ben (Lura) Dahi, Alice Susag, and Laura Lekvold are Drury a club was organized.[...]oining as leaders in later years. Jesse Drury was a leader for twenty-two years. Since there wasn't a fair at this time, the projects were shown at you[...]Mrs. Allie The Fairview Cemetery is located on a hill just north of (Clara) Olson, Mrs. Hans[...]Susag. At one time there were plans to build a church on this ground which never materialized. There are quite a few people buried up there on the hill. No record[...]r Fairview Cemetery. The first one They were a lively bunch of young farmers in the area[...] |
| [...]operator. With a well machine motor and one horse he[...]pulled up one barrel at a time; it took seven barrels to make a ton. Later on they used a team and managed to get a half tone at a time.[...]aid of a motor and tipple (an apparatus that tipped the[...]o the truck), they could elevate three-fourths of a ton at a time. .[...]They also used a mule down in the mine, who stayed[...]their cooks. At this time they could elevate a ton at a time.[...]the front benches at the homestead about six and a half miles northwest of where Bray Show[...]Legree lashed away at poor old Uncle Tom with a long with Volt, Benrud, Mineral Beach, Scobey, Ossette, Butte rawhide whip. Many a youngster had to dash back and sit Creek , Pleasa[...]ty together. All the working together and playing a large barn on his homestead where they had Saturd[...]that way. players usually went with them and made a picnic day ofit.[...]Laura Lekvold The Police Creek Team had a 1948 reunion with all the[...]ice Stai, Marian Hanson, Ruth Nordgren, Sylvia in a dynamite blast and went over to B.J. Lekvolds for[...]an and Almina Lein. tried to pursuade him to wait a little longer, but he insisted The Liberty w[...]n on going. B.J. Lekvold again urged him to lower a lantern the old Lige Crawford place and the O.E. Susag place. Then into the shaft or to wear a miner's cap. They lowered the it was moved[...]was placed south of the Alfred Thorem they heard a " thud" ; he had toppled from the bucket to the[...]old Martin Nielsen place. bottom. With the aid of a mirror Laura reflected the The ear[...]Thomas Karlsrud, Joshua Williams, Nina McMonigal, a large hook on a rope they succeeded in hooking him by his Ce[...](Hanson), Vera Peters, and also called chokedamp, a non-explo8ive but suffocating Cl[...] |
| [...]ey did this so they could close the school due to a shortage of funds. At this time the eighth grad[...]chool in the area. It was in operation only three or four years. The teachers were Ellen Madsen, Mabel[...]1930 and then it was closed. It was also used as a voting place for a few years. CHURCH SERVICES Church services were held whenever they could get a A LOOK AT THE RURAL SCHOOLS |
| [...]er, Eliher Pepper and at end Alva Parkhurst. was a real punishment. Rural schools sometimes had |
| [...]had caught the "Montana Fever" and wanted to find a teaching job. They came to Choteau, Montana first[...]In 1912 they lived in Saco where Glen worked for a rancher. In 1913 they came to Scobey where he wor[...]ad one son, Harland, who grew up in Scobey and is a Harland Chenoweth served in the army f[...]rder's office. He married music department and is a member of "The Star Dusters" Marie Larson[...]of 1916 when we moved to Scobey, and filed ·on a homestead[...]their property to begin a new life on these dry and barren[...]World War I.[...]Dr. Kline, a dentist of Scobey gave each of the Scobey[...]boys $10 and a pair of dice as they left. Before Bennie left h e[...]France as Co. Mechanic of Co. A, 362nd Inf. of the 91st Div.[...] |
| [...]John reported back to his ship at the time that a funeral service was being conducted for the missing men. He was one of the sailors in charge of a landing barge carrying U.S. military personnel from a larger ship out in the bay to the landing area on the French beach. The barge hit a mine and all men were ordered "to hit the[...] |
| [...]919. The mail service was bad during World War I, so he didn't know what to expect at home, as the[...]l spring when we moved to the Sidney Matter farm. A daughter, Alene was born in 1921. We lived on[...]ns. As the community grew, so did the need for a larger recreation center for social activities. As a result the Silver Star Hall came in being in 1925[...]In 1950 we sold our farm and retired and bought a home in Scobey. We both worked at various jobs, m[...]tarted failing in health and passed away in 1970. I lived alone until I fell and had to go to the hospital , then I lived with my son Howard and famil y until 1974 when I entered the Daniels Memorial Home and sold my hom[...]LY came t o Montan a by passenger train.[...]It is said that Emma was so lonesome, that she would Hans Hanson was born in 1874 at Paynesville, Minnesota. wa lk to th e Susag's farm several times a week to visit Alice. Emma Israelson was born in Norway in 1880. They were With a good visit and cry it helped both to keep going.[...]O.E. that were broken walking behind a one bottom plow and Susag, who lived on an adjoining farm) decided , in 1916, to team of horses or oxen. go to Montana to look things over.[...]1930. Edna had come to Montana upon answering a Fort Peck Indian Agency.[...]own. to build their first ho~ses. Hans' house was a tall two story The following year[...] |
| [...]ly, met and married Gilbert Skaer while attending a beauty schcol in Kansas City operated by his mother. Gil has a barbershop in Great Falls. They have four childre[...]d at the farm until he joined the army. He was a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for consp[...]er and Edna). It truck driver. Jennie and I started to drive the trucks and should be mention[...]irley (daughter of Palmer and Edna) although from a also looking for a farm to buy. So in 1945 we purchased a different Hanson family , served in the Armed For[...]ed and worked in the machine shop. I came to Scobey in May of 1913 with my mother, Mrs[...]ther Peter, and M. Lekvold and owned and operated a fuel and fruit business. family[...]f Cripple Creek, so we moved to Colorado I was drafted into the army in September, 1917, goi[...]ailer house and equipment to and Germany. I was still there when the Armistice was Camp Hale[...]signed, remaining there until August, 1919. a large ki Camp on top of a mountain. I then came home to help at the homestead with farm[...]ado to care for our fruit farm. While time I rented and later bought the farm where we still t[...]Laura and I were married in 1922 in Scobey. Our family[...]ire attended the Lekvold school which was one and a[...]years in a run we had hail come and take the crop but the[...]grandsons and one granddaughter passed a way in infancy[...]I served on the Scobey school board for sixteen yea[...]Scobey Lutheran Church and I have served on the Council[...] |
| [...]Star. Their first dwelling place was a tent, then a[...]forget the very necessary livestock, two cows and a few[...]burdens. Beedie was a cripple. She died on April 6, 1948.[...]order to eat and have a roof over our heads. Before he died,[...]every day. The bachelors would buy it and carry it a way in grain sacks. Mother sent away for a rug loom, and we all[...]ied October 18, 1922 Mother and I went out to work in the cook cars. First for[...]After moving to town in 1927 we eked out a living the best and enjoyed being a part of the Silver Star community. we cou[...]Lekvold: One of his first memories of Montana is a trip three children, Vern now of Plentywood who[...]married Bill Henderson, who works for and set up a tent that night for camp. The next morning,[...]oula. utensils and marched around their wagons as a band. Larry teaches in Philipsburg, Montana. He and Anne have Peter Thoren climbed up on a load of lumber to make a two daughter, Jennifer and Heidi. speech which went, "Ten thousand years ago this was a h-owling wilderness. And it still is!"[...] |
| [...]man at the Jeffrey and Paula. In 1971 , I made the first of the wagon Daniels Memorial Hosp[...]other children were married Patricia Nason, a nurse. Jess is a medical x-ray John, George, Ollie, Clara and Elme[...]issa, Minnesota to continue living there . Grandm a Louis, my brother, started working fo[...]died in 1924 Company on May 17, 1935 as a mechanic making $50 per and Grandma Olson died in[...]ntil January, 1946. On October John Poyner and I were married about the time h e 31, 1[...]e children, Gary, Solberg's where he still works. I worked for Doctor Morrow Harley and Judy. G[...]e Air Force for ten years starting in either 1928 or 1929. I worked and then worked at the White Sand[...]Andrews. They have two girls, Cindy and Kimberly. a ctivities included Ladies Aid, church work, Woman[...]oration in radio, radar and Club and Girl Scouts. I also worked at the blood ban k for aerial photography. Harley has been in the Air Force for 11 two or three years when it first started. My Girl Scout stint and a half years, one year in Vietnam and four and a half la sted about thirty years. Mrs. Bydeley was[...]and Tammy. They now Ii vein La Mirada, years and I had never forgotten how good both Mr. a n d California which is only ten minutes[...]or Battleson Company Louis and Gordon John and I had four children, Donna, Lois, James (who[...] |
| [...]da and U.S. border for the federal government for a year and a half on the hoof and ~efore Lucy came to[...]midji, mouth break out. While doing that he built a large two car Minnesota. She also worked at[...]he still works there. hospital in Scobey as a cook. She sold homemade bread Louis has been a member of the Scobey Fire Department an[...]Lucy was from a family of six children. She has two To conclude my story, I would like to give special sisters, Mrs. Cha[...]Mrs. Jerry (Irene) Bevelhimer of Arizona. take up a homestead in Montana. They were Clara[...]o Mildren Brenden Montana. He was raised on a farm in the Silver Star area.[...]After school he worked on oil rigs or farms in Montana[...]91 to John and Anna Linderman. John Linderman wa~ a Lutheran minister.[...]by train to Foremost, Alberta where he filed for a homestead. He engaged in farming and ranching ope[...]is community for several years and in 1938 bought a farm in the Silver Star area. The farm is[...] |
| [...]t twenty years later her brother Dale worked with a crew that tore this airport runway out. Ruby attended the first grade in Plentywood. Her folks moved to a farm northeast of Dooley, Montana and Ruby attend[...]the He returned to Grand Forks, bought a Majestic range for farm. They have three daughter[...]nd Carla. $35 and had it shipped to Poplar. A freighter brought it to[...]to Old Scobey (in the fall of 1912) to stake out a claim for a Montana. homestead. At first sight he did not[...]prairies and because of the bleakness. He rented a room in a hotel in Old open range, in the "big sky count[...]t if such crops could be raised in the country he would were hard to endure and during the early twe[...]homesteaders gave up and moved on. He met a man who had squatted on some land but who[...]the depths of the was not old enough to file for a homestead. Eddie traded his depression, the wo[...]To supplement the family income, Eddie worked as a Star Hall now stands. steam engineer on threshing rigs. Anna would stay on the Gilman Lund family-Gilman, An[...] |
| [...]y and farmed Another story that was told: when a new home was being and ranched four miles no[...]have two children: Beverly Ann and Eddie way home a hail storm came up and broke all the windows.[...]ng of Scobey. They have one daughter - and it was a big event for the family. A radio was obtained Anna Marie _B arney. in 1926; a new house was built in 1927.[...]school at In August, 1931, Anna Lund died from a ruptured Scobey. He attended Concordia College and received a appendix. The length of time it took to travel to Plentywood M.A. degree from Montana University. He served in the[...]the rough roads U.S. Navy, WW 2, as a Radarman 2/ c. Art taught school for contributed to her death. a number of years and returned to farming an[...] |
| [...]e to Daniels County in 1923 from arrangements for a home before sending for the young Brookings, Sou[...]8, 1881 and he lost both his parents when he was a their 50th wedding anniversary.[...]ie could make and delicious. Marie celebra ted I have heard it told that there is a coulee north of Saco her 90th birthday on Novemb[...]The homestead was a very lonely place. There were no[...]except by foot or at times by horse or horse and wagon. The[...]Later at one time Clarence and Bessie had a restaurant, but the venture proved to be a failure.[...]February 20, 1931 Bessie died suddenly from a heart[...]Bessie had been gifted with a lovely natural singing[...]various community gatherings. She was a hard-working[...]unty November, 1916 small daughters by a previous marriage. Together they all from Bensler, Denmark. He lived wit h brothers Einar a n d left with her father and brother to Kalispell[...]harged family has been living at Plains, Montana. i n July, 1919 and began to farm south of Scobey. H[...]after he was of Elevator in Scobey for six years a nd then moved to school age. There was no school[...]obey High School. Due to bad health he retired a nd is still living in Wolf After being[...] |
| [...]And until the basement walls were finally set up a[...]right they would not be ousted. Time was what took to get[...]Eventually we got a car - first car for us since George[...]had been back from the service. I started to learn to drive[...]and on June 23, 1949 I took my first driver's exams and got a driver's license.[...]got a mechanic's job on the G.I. bill at Battleson's Garage . I kept working on the house to make it a decent living quarters. We put in a basement under the house. Later new[...]ded as the wages came in from his mechanic's job. I The other girl is a good friend of hers. The picture did m[...]It was very hard and time-consuming work, and I felt like I[...]ment at the O.L. Wolfard George was a mechanic at Battleson's Garage for some ranch far[...]years. Later he transferred to Erickstein Motors, a Ford He married Rose Severt in 1940.[...]the end continuing into 1967. of WW II. He was a Seaman First Class assigned to the I[...]n having trouble walking to and U.S.S. Barnstable,a troup transport ship. While on duty from work. He seemed to think that it was from his there were two near misses r[...]3, but quitting then One of these misses was only a hairs bread th a way from the could not turn back the clock whe[...]or us at home here to get transportation vehicles or any building material or even soap to do the family washings. The o[...] |
| Jim served in World War I. He homesteaded close to West Fork river. He died[...]is couple. Margaret passed away when the baby was a month old. He married Gertrude Burke and they had[...]live in Montana. He never homesteaded. He passed a way in 1968. OLIVE RHODES Olive Rhodes (mothe[...]h homesteaded on Police Creek. Jim Penrose passed a way around 1925. Olive died in 1948. HANS C. HANS[...]er Star community in 1912 and 1915. Hans remained a bachelor all his life. Jorgen married Eleanor Jen[...]n and then to the Judith Basin where he worked as a cowboy and engaged in various enterprises. In 190[...]Judith Basin the following year. There he bought a bunch of horses from a sheep rancher and brought them back to Henry and Ole. This time he decided to stay. Always a colorful personality, Oscar could remember the ti[...]ired his hair when he was an 18-year-old visiting a bar at Candle, north of Lewistown. He could also[...]se was born at Wolf Point in 1895. Her father was a Sioux and her mother, who died four days after he[...], Kittie and William Sibbits. William Sibbits was a sub Indian Agent under Major Scobey, and after co[...]se. He came to the Wolf Point vicinity in 1880 as a teamster with part of the government forces engaged in bringing Chief Sitting Bull was killed in a horse accident in 1939. Also deceased are a to Poplar from the Woody Mountains in Canada where the son David and a daughter Elsie (Mrs. Frances Chase). Chief had fl[...]n for Wallace and Helen, died in early childhood. A son, Odin, the Homesteader's Golden[...] |
| [...]In 1915 in November a blizzard came up while we were.at O'Shields, Elai[...]our sheep camp. I went out to help an elderly sheepherder. I four great-grandchildren.[...]snow with a buffalo robe wrapped around him. He She used to[...]Scobey, son of the Indian Agent Major Charles R. A. sheep, along with his dog. I told him he needed a rest and Scobey, after whom the town of Scobey is[...]gave him my horse to ride back to camp. I spent the night Scobey used to name many of the I[...]cause the clerks and teachers could not pronounce or spell the Indian names. A letter The next day the old sheepherde[...]ge Washington: Three of the been out with a band of sheep and should have returned. Indians w[...]tribal business. They Concerned we made up a searching party and went hailed a taxicab and the driver was curious about them, as looking. We searched all day in a ground blizzard without all eastern people are. To the first one out he said, "What's success. We came to a butte where there were the carcasses[...]·removed a carcass. There was a plac~ where there were two the driver said, "I suppose your name is George roads near a butte, with possibility "that the herder may Wash[...]made camp for the night in a tent they had brought along Oscar Shipstead's memories, as told during Jubilee days: on a sled. The next spring it was found that the missing I was always after adventure and finding something[...]taken that road. He was found, still sitting new. I left Minnesota in February, 1895 with Ole. I was a beside the road where he had been all wint[...]t what is now Havre - it was then called Bull a dirty spring, and hard to find a place to drink. A horse Hook. We went to Fort Benton, and I drifted on down to named Blink, in attempting to drink there, became stuck in Judith Basin. I got to breaking horses and I loved it. the mud.[...] |
| [...]he homestead, she was in constant fear that Ralph or Pearl would get lost in the tall waving grass. Ralph would be seen kicking the toe of his shoe into the grou[...]urchased the Lige Crawford farm. In 1970 they had a In addition to dry farming, the Susags[...]r to see young "city kids" like Dickie Lannon or Ramon married life on the Charlie Tong place on the east fork of Trower and their friends getting a free ride around town the Poplar River which Ralp[...]ord , Richard Utter, Charles and Ray is a Manufacturing Engineer with Sundstrand Ekblad , K[...]berty School in the fall of 1917 and For a number of years Pearl Susag taught school in the[...]ll and O.E. served as its first secretary and was a member of the Board of Directors for many, many y[...]e held at the various farm homes during World War I and later Alice organized in 1921 by Count[...] |
| [...]all over 1963. In 1966 she married Harold Craft, a supervisor in the the country. They ranched an[...]ay January 28, 1971 at the age of eighty-five and a half years. In nine months he and Alice wouldor not, the sight of Scobey, when she returns each s[...]depression went to work at Fort Peck Dam. After a few years he bought a farm in the Silver Star community. Tom was[...] |
| [...]rlson) lives in Hamilton, Montana where Marvin is a real estate broker. Art and Richard are both dece[...]nd Dorothy were married in October, 1942 and have a son Gary and a daughter Carolyn. Gary lives in Spokane, Washington and is a graduate of Kinman Business University and is off[...]adopted three until the family decided to take up a homestead in children of Or Lynn's previous marriage and they were the Montan[...]ey had two "immigrant train" - bringing with them a few simple farm children - Lee and Lola. Roger died in a tragic accident in implements and a limited number of livestock. Their Ari[...]m, as they began to cultivate the native sod, for a Andrew married Christina Suchy. They have two[...]tinue to live The family of Soren and An ton in a Veis consisted of five in Scobey. sons and two[...]Soren Veis died in 1961 and Antonina is now a resident, were born on the family farm.[...] |
| [...]O.K. McDowell taught there for three years. Quite a[...]ficial name, teacher. much to the relief of a few students that disliked being[...]races. Sometimes tempers flared and being called a "Jaybird" was not to be tolerated.[...]I came to teach in the Line Coulee School in August[...]delivered once a week. Much of the land around the school[...]had gone back to sod, and I could count up to 125 range[...]s in the area. There were many area bachelors and a[...]The children either walked many miles to school or rode[...]horseback and carried their lunches in tin pails. A pail on a Joy School. 1. Ralph Kestin, 2. Bernice Gile,[...]d in 1936. The |
| [...]being built. Floyd worked on this for a time driving a team of mules on a scraper.[...]school house or at Redstone. Box socials were held in the[...]They often rode horseback to get to these places or[...]called upon to play the part of a mid-wife and to help when a neighbor was sick. During the flu epidemic of 191[...]Floyd and Marie Chase (a young school teacher from[...]Garfield Wilson for a few years. During the depression he[...]worked on the W.P.A. to provide for a growing family.[...]of Scobey and operated a dairy for a few years along with[...]The first thing that had to be done was to build a house Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Drury and[...]. The first school the children attended was in a homesteaders shack where they sat side by side on benches. Later a school was built near Roy's homestead. The first teacher was a lady homesteader, Miss Amelia Malcolm. Later th[...]tem. The building was moved into town and used as a teacherage. Dances, social gatherings an[...] |
| [...]where he owns a garage. In the spring of 1940 we moved from Fre[...]Scobey where we have resided Minnesota. He is a chemical engineer and works for since.[...]Dorothy Dacus was a small child. They came with horses[...]north of the track in Scobey. They had a house and big red[...]barn over there and later ran a livery barn near where[...]was purchased through the Federal Land Bank with a payment of $150 cash. After arriving and finding[...]in below zero weather through heavy snow to get a ride several more miles to work on W.P.A. for $40 a month. When we started farming here we had a 10-20 I . International tractor, p[...]machinery, mower, rake and wagon. We milked quite a few cows. We gradually added more farming acres by acquiring the Lindsey place and a couple of 40's we bought with her parents and wen[...]urch is still here that we had our We also own a modest home in Scobey, where we have programs in.[...]e to health reasons. hall in Scobey. We did a lot of horseback riding and driving Of our fiv[...]is employed at the school during the school I remember basket social, dances, and shadow socials. I term. They have two boys. think we had more fun then than they do now beca[...] |
| [...]d to play the violin and we all had fun. Ed and I were married in 1924 in the Methodist Church in S[...]Lucille. All are living except Walter and Irene I remember coming to town three times a year and Dad would give us a quarter. We went home with everything we[...]hers in the year 1908 and took up a homestead between Froid selling their tails at the courthouse for a penny apiece. and Homestead, Montana. A sister and her husband, Rosa[...]Dorothy Dacus and Jim Trower, and a brother and his wife, Jake Gazell[...]Gazell was a sister of Mrs. Ferd Morrison.[...]rn Trower and Howard Smith A few years later, about 1913, Mrs. Fordyce, Bernet[...]oved to Wayne County, lived on her claim. I think Mrs. Fordyce and Frank lived on Iowa. There she g[...]Froid to Ferd Morrison in exchanged for a piece of his land[...]ommunity, near Bernetha and Frank's claims. Frank a nd Sunday.[...]Frank Fordyce was killed in a strip-mine accident on[...]They traded their homestead for a cow to Martin[...]They were all born at Flaxville, or in that community, and[...] |
| [...]Dave Johnson (a former homesteader and neighbor) made a trip by team and wagon towards the south Flaxvill[...]taking soil samples as they went, and looking for a likely[...]built a sod shack, and lived in it the first year or so. The[...]a shack, shop, granary, and barn. Mabel and Ray[...]a bride in 1916. Ragna Fostervoll Furuli was also b[...]Kristiansund, Norway. A new house was built at that time.[...]The first farming was done with horses. In 1922 a |
| [...]Galassi), Wendy (Mrs. Frank Hawkins), and Terri, a School Board, and was a member of Zion Lutheran Church student[...]Ingeborg Area of California, where Carol managed a Safeway store. Gaustad in Korsvegen , Nor[...]1893. They too, like many in 1953. Ragna was born i11 Kristiansund, Norway others, wa[...]as already States the family revisited Norway for a time. That was the there. last personal cont[...]en came to Daniels County and homesteaded in when a brother Kaare Fostervoll, visited. He was on a Line Coulee in 1911. For transportatio[...]ied in 1925 to Selma Swenson, daughter of Ida was a member of Zion Lutheran Church of Orville, and[...]w Richard Gaustad (known as Egil Furuli is now a carpenter in Oakland, California. Richard or Bud). Selma died in 1928 and the Swenson He has f[...]and grandparents kept the children for a while. Then Martin Rose.[...]kken in 1946. They are raised them and a foster daughter, Rose Andrusen Brenna, now farmin[...]d now has Martin's original children. Sandra, now a teacher and housewife, in homestead. Tacoma, Washington, and Mark, a student at Scobey High Martin had come to America as a young man of 21 in School.[...] |
| [...]will be a junior; and Lance will be a fourth grader. Our[...]join and Richard takes part as a leader. This year we have[...]other or whatever is near. We are members of Scobey[...]Lutheran Church and Doris teaches a Sunday School[...]ouse is moved but is still on the original place. A new house was built in 1928. Martin made several trips back to Norway but Nels never went back. A younger brother, Odin, came to[...]but went back to care for their parents in 1926. A sister, Ingeborg, remained in Norway but her son,[...]ey Gilbert, and Harlan and Virginia Barclay (by a former and worked part-time for several people in[...]Geraldine. Dale, Louise, Harlan and Paul attended a and Richard of Flaxville, who still farms Martin'[...]ool, had several barn dances at the Fred It was a great experience and challenge to all. There was[...]ey had others played for the dances. We had a lot of ball games, their good times too: Ga th erings such a s barn dances, swimming and picnics on the[...]hool doings and F ourth of July picnics; everyone would Taylor's Beach. Our first home was sod, and later a house come for miles around. They were all concerned for one was built. another and were a lways ready t o help and welcomed Fred Gilbert farmed for a number of years and later sold everyone. Farms ar[...]and the farm to Paul. He drove school bus for a number of years horses grew larger too. Th e farm[...]California where Howard Church. Nels passed away a t age 85 a nd Martin nearly 80. is a pilot for T.W.A. Airlines; and Bernie Gilbert who He'd just had a nice trip to Norway the summer before. ma[...]ren: Larry is married to Doris Gill and is in the I.B.M.[...]business. Jeff i's at home, a junior in high school.[...] |
| [...]1913 from Roseau County, Minnesota and worked for a company farm owned by Lundevall and Oie, and filed on a homestead two miles east of Scobey. In the fall[...]lla and Hazel to stay on the homestead, as it was a requirement to live there a certain number of months of the year. They lived in a cabin with bare 2x4's and single walls which were[...]In 1922 Ludvig moved a two-story house over the hills[...]horses, and a couple of years later put on aa[...]All the children except Belmer reside in or near Scobey.[...]A need to expand made the folks come to Montana. A growing family of six children made a small farm in[...]Minnesota quite inadequate, although I am sure Ma often[...]landed in Scobey. A hurry-up trip was made by some kind Mr. and Mrs.[...]that was to be the home They hauled water from a spring about a mile and a half of my parents for the rest of their liv[...]udvig returned with his livestock and clothe a family that soon grew to nine. Thank the Lord for[...]omforting to know they could al ways rely Hanson, a friend and neighbor from Minnesota, arrived.[...]udvig and Sam went into partnership and purchased a There was very little time for enter[...]little entertainment to be had. Sometimes on a Sunday for their own field crops as well as doing[...]ternoon we all walked across the pasture to visit a their neighbors. Later they bought a threshing rig and ran neighbor. About once a year we all piled in a wagon and a custom threshing crew for a number of years. drove across the[...]tfit around , pitching died at the age of 13 from a heart condition. bundles as all the farmers did. A neighbor girl came in to As soon as the children were old enough to ride a horse help and I remember my older sister riding as fast as she th[...]could go to tell her, "They're coming". It was a busy time no fences.[...] |
| besides the cooking. We kids caught a ride with Pa in the Montana. They have one child, Karen, and a foster girl, grain wagon to bring them coffee and a big lunch in the Raeleen. forenoon and afternoon[...]Alma, the youngest, married John Leib of Eure~a, The few relaxing moments Ma had were spent s[...]. My husband, Knute Himli, and I arrived in Flaxville · The oldest son, Joe, st[...]here he and his June, 1917. Mr. Himli established a homestead in 1916, 18 son , Jim , (and now grandsons) operate a welding and miles southwest of Flaxville where he built a 16 by 18 repair shop. In 1927 he married La Verne Hol~berg who "shack" which was to be our home. Being a new bride and came from Cambridge, Minnesota to[...]oulee seeing the wild west for the first time was a scary School. They have four children, Irma who married Dale experience and shortly after getting settled I found it to be Danielson and lives in Minneapolis. They have three sons, a very lonesome life. My closest neighbors were Nyh[...]dren: about two miles from our place, soon became a very dear Robert, Robin , Mark, Michelle, Barbar[...]Brenda. Mary Ann married Jim Buchanan I remember my first three months in Montana as bein[...]wo sons, Bobby so lonesome for family and friends I had left in Peterson, and Joe. Wayne , who drowned in the Poplar River at the Minnesota that I returned to Peterson for six weeks while age of[...]ond child, Julia, married Carl Danelson of there. I returned to Montana in late fall and we moved to[...]bey to spend the winter months. This proved to be a children , Carmen who is single and lives in Che[...]married Irvin Odegaard of Whitetail and lives on a family. Three girls - Winifred, Lucille and Hazel[...]y in 1931. had come west from Minnesota to teach a country school in I was remarried in 1932 to Elmer Storle. I remember the Oregon. They are now retired and li[...], summer following our marriage as Mr. Storle and I enjoyed Montana. They have five children; Neil,[...]e ball games and social events at Taylor's Beach. I Kathy Page (a teacher from Scobey School), is a principal participated on the Women's Soft Ball t[...]ntana. They have three chil~ren, Debbie, received a black eye for not using the bat properly. Some of[...]ara Mae , who lost her first husband the families I can remember attending these events were Gene To[...], Tongs, Gustads, Furulis, Bummers, and lives on a ranch at Helena. They have three children, Giles,[...]. married Jean Reiner and lives on a farm with their son Times were not easy[...]942, but we continued our farming operations. is a college student majoring in psychology.[...]Storlepassed away in October of 1967. Marlene and I The fourth child (me, Ella) married Dale Gilb[...]until October of Scobey. He passed away in 1966. I still live on the farm and 1974 when we moved to Glasgow, Montana. raise a few cattle. I have two children: Iris who married Marlene and I live at 328 6th Ave. So., Glasgow. We Howard Corey, a commercial pilot with TWA. They liv~ in welcome a[...]ives in Spokane, Washington. Fred and Winnie have a Scobey and they have three boys, Trent, B[...] |
| [...]still continues to farm, he has two daughters and a[...]and she has a daughter.[...]Enroute they stopped in Firth or Forth, Alberta as that[...]isolated area with only a little wooden station house. Here[...]around a little pot-belly stove, as it was still quite col[...]ehind the cover of their trunk. It must have been a[...]how ill-suited their attire would be for the land they found[...]sioned with three loaves of bread, bacon and tea; a little lard pail, a 22 rifle and a couple of blankets.[...]e worst hail storms - laid everything flat.) Ewen a couple falls to work on a threshing rig, owned by William Wakelam, who beca[...]ried Octeva Wakelam. In January, 1914 then loaded a freight car with all their belongings, horse, cow[...]freight from Poplar to Old Scobey, and were paid a Ii ttle to keep them going in groceries, etc. Tim[...]l their grain to Medicine Lake to sell. He bought a team of broncs and was paying twelve per cent int[...]got them paid for one died, so he was paying for a dead horse like they say, but this was real. In[...]eir daughter Lucille was born and in August, 1916 a son, Wilbur. They continued farming,[...] |
| [...]as marbles with the fire going full blast. Gustad or O'Lander (he left soon after settling and Because Mason got lost for three days in a blinding returned to the old country). The grass[...]na. In the spring she broke the land herself with a two- flames, they fanned them and the fire spread[...]ey. Any extra help she received she paid for with a provisions on their backs they began walking and[...]good meal to the donor. Her homestead life was a happy eventually came to a town named Boyer in Montana (later one;[...]own night and, if it broke down, she'd get on a horse, go in to consisted of a large house which was said to offer room and[...]ready to go in the morning. She said, "I cooked, branded, . As immigrants they each had $1,000 so they were a good plowed, raked, made hay, took care of[...]nd stock targ et for bunco artists. These fellows would hire and had a real good judgment about it - best hand on the themselves, team and buckboard, out for $50 a day and place". She would work on a roundup and would bake as would drive the greenhorns around supposedly aiding many as 50 loaves of bread and boil a half bushel of them in finding a place to homestead. Henry Heinsman, potatoes in a day. She had a good black kitchen range. She an old timer (his f[...]metimes forty below zero. She used two horses and a area seeking a place to homestead. They always had a soft triple box wagon and filled it with grain herself with a half spot in their hearts for the bluff, out-spok[...]. Although she had her own bedroll and settled on a section of land, each homesteading a half little tent, she usually stopped off at a half-way house run section. This section was located 14 miles south of by a half-breed Indian. She ran and broke her own hors[...]Old Pet was her horse; she'd drive her with a mare that[...]would use up her profits by getting drunk, leaving the[...]her bidding. She was such a good cook, so good looking,[...]in a half-way house. This house was located near the[...]she attended school and received her training as a[...]and was raised as a southern belle used to the better things[...]in life. She was an accomplished horsewoman, a pianist Kestin brothers and sisters. Left to righ[...]in, Maryllyn (Kestin) subjects, to be a good hostess and to oversee the duties of a Spencer, Jeanne (Kestin) Coram, Maxine (Kestin) G[...]Ethel and Cooper lived in a five room homestead house[...]and raised turkeys, poultry, livestock, and a garden. She Outa M. Osborne (who was ultimately[...]aryllyn. Cooper became ill was born and raised on a southern plantation. Her father, with canc[...]orable discharge. Outa was an ambitious, a series of years. Cooper passed away in his native driving, capable woman. She was a beautiful woman, five England in 1930. T[...]ral Land Bank. Ethel which she wore long. She had a good sense of humor and remarried and t[...]ved to Scobey in 1933-34. homestead was jumped by a banker while she was working Here the c[...]yn, Jeanne, Ralph, and Lloyd winter in Montana in a tar-papered shack belonging to received their early schooling at Joy School, a school that Will Downing (he married a Manternach girl). She said it Coop[...] |
| [...]farm with the six horses we have, we got a pretty big bunch plowed last fall so I guess I can put in a fairly big crop anyway, and I guess we will have a hard enough job to pay[...]for those cattle without any horses to pay for. I am keeping up our horses this winter; I put them in at night and feed them a little so as they will be able to do some hard wo[...]the spring ... We don't work on Sundays. I am longing for[...]Spring, this sitting around is irksome though I have all[...]Cooper's letter of April 11, 1915: "I am just up to my eyes[...]le Bre, Geo. Side, Ed on borrowed crackers. I have just got crop on the brain; I am thinking crop, dreaming crop in fact I can't hardly Benson, Elmer Gile, Ben Gaustad. 2nd[...]anyone going to town to post a letter as everybody round[...]Pete's (Furuli) got a new buggy and Gile has ordered an Himili's. Ethel[...]e parents and the good times that were I was going to write last night but Nels (Gustad) a[...]with his machine. The following is a compilation of excerpts from Cooper Nel[...]lace to the Oil outfit at Scobey and They give us a good idea of the life of the early got a big auto in on the deal so Tom and old Dunk are g[...]the pace. Cooper wrote October 18, 1914: "I have been battling the Dunk's livery barn at Boyer burnt down when I was up elements, we started threshing down in here three weeks there last week, I suppose you have read all about the ago. I was hauling grain for Dave (Johnson) and Pete[...]Outa Dowdy. Her father was the captain of a 100 foot and oats for two weeks and potatoes for[...]North Carolina. Ethel used to sail with him as a child and the West, Opino country, no crop, had t[...]arents were divorced and she went to live with I never had such a big family in my house before, the a wealthy family on a southern plantation. Here she crew said they were sorry to leave but I cannot say I quite received her training to be a lady, a pianist and a hostess, endorsed their sentiments.[...]the typical southern belle. We had a cook car here two weeks and that was the only[...]rth to Chicago redeeming feature in the business, a young married couple and Ethel joined her[...]... We finished threshing Friday taken up a homestead near Scobey in December, 1914, and morning at 9 o'clock and I took 3 loads to town with they moved to Montana. Sheldon and one of Dave's kids or rather Mrs. J.'s kids. We Ethel was then s[...]aid her way by working for there to McCarthy's to a show and speech given by her room[...]ough the eighth grade. She had met and was caught a few hours sleep ... Dave's brother is up here from corresponding with a neighboring homesteader, Ralph C. Minnesota and D[...]inging made her ill-suited to the here. Tom Cowan I hear has brought a Bull tractor, hard life of a homesteader's wife. Pullsome plow, too, and Duncan McDonald is building a She kept house in a new five-room house built for her by hotel in Boy[...]xine and Thelma, at Sheldon) figuring on shipping a carload of cattle from St. home; there was no school at this time near enough for Paul next month so I may go down again to pick them out. I them to attend. The Kestins and neighbors united to start a guess Sheldon will chore and herd those dogies and I will new school--the first school w[...] |
| [...]and education was available for all. Ethel was a hard worker but always managed to find time to sing, read, laugh and have a good time. She enjoyed entertaining and being involved in community efforts such as the P.T.A. and the Episcopal (All Saints) Church where she was a Sunday School teacher. She raised a large garden as well as poultry and livestock, an[...]ellar was full. Winter brought fresh meat when it would keep in the colder temperatures. She sewed her ·children's clothing, often in the evenings alongside a kerosene lamp, after the outdoor work was finishe[...]g, and so forth. The children remember when she would hike over to the Furuli's in the wintertime to listen to the "Amos 'n Andy" radio show. The weather would be too bad for them all to Mr. and Mrs. Ma[...]o; the Furili' s were about the only ones who had a radio in their home at that time. Ethel would listen to the program and then go home and re-ena[...]Havre, later taught school at the Navajo and Joy would be hitched up for a dance somewhere, all would go, Schools. She is now Mrs. Owen Montgome[...]ive and sometimes spend the night with neighbors, or the children all living in Milwaukee,[...]hey each have four children. When Cooper passed a way in 1930, Ethel was left to raise Reba is[...]ping her family together by working long hours as a cook in the hospital. Were she alive today, she would see her family carrying on the traditions she pas[...]family to Estevan as a small child. She grew up there and[...]VIG FAMILY moved to a ranch 24 miles northeast of Wolf Point in 1925,[...]to trail the horses up November, 1974. She was a member of the First here. Martin built a house with a shallow water well in the Presbyterian Church[...]Benton, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Tope of Fort Benton, Over th[...]us great-grandchildren. and Bredette schools. She would drive horse and buggy six and seven miles. Even t[...]ville. They had three children. Their son A single man, he was employed by various farmers in the Byran was killed in a plane crash in 1967. Mable died in[...] |
| [...]ll Kraft, Fred Gilbert, Drurys--and from there he would Anna and Willis Ocher ride to town with one of them to get groceries. He did a great deal of trapping. Art died enroute to the[...]1948 at the age of eighty-two. He was survived by a sister in California and a brother in Nebraska. Montana and bought a barber shop. Our oldest daughter,[...]for a while we moved back to Scobey and stayed with the[...]had electric lights of Saskatchewan and purchased a store. some kind, plus a homemade refrigerator and later an Herman was m[...]son of electric iron. These were for a thirty-two volt electric light Sisseton, South Da[...], which were all homemade. Willis also made where a relative lived to do the housework. She later wen[...]light plants and sold to many to Flaxville where a girl friend lived. farmers around the country. We also had a meat grinder Since the death of Herman Nyhus in[...]that was attached to the wringer gears in a washing been operated by Mrs. Nyhus and Dean with the help of machine. For a while we considered sending in a patent for Reber, Bennie and Julie, all children[...]hus has moved to Whitefish, Montana where she has a home. Bonnie and her family and Robert reside at[...]was another brother N.els. His homestead land was a few miles south of Flaxville, but he rented out h[...]to Roseau, Minnesota. Another brother Willie and a sister Mary were in the county briefly, but did n[...]went to Fargo, North Dakota where Willis went to a barber college. In April we moved to Moore[...] |
| [...]n in 1936 we bought the Elmer Gile farm south and a Martin died September 7, 1959 at the[...]etty Lou and Calvin started high school we bought a home in Scobey. After living there for a couple of CLARENCE W. ROSSING[...]and Pleasant Prairie school farming with a 30-60 Hart Par tractor. The first crop was before[...]x 600 acres of oats and flax. Getting a snowstorm in early children. Her husband has been[...]artment for two years. Before his marriage he was a Marine. Wilma has five children, Charles, Vale[...]tern Montana College in Billings. Gary married a Danish girl from Dagmar, Montana. They have three children. Gary is a natural born salesman. After selling insurance he[...], Sunset Memorial Gardens, he finally fo i his own insurance company, called Ocker Insurance[...]sitting on right side. Dr. Donald E. Engstrom, a psychiatrist. After living in Seattle for fourtee[...]Montana. From memories and a clipping The family far[...]ere two bachelors who lived bought a small acreage and home out of Columbia Falls, sou[...]have many more. Martin lived in a small tar-papered house, and never owned a car. Theodore was a little more modern. He had a two-story white house and drove a Model T Ford car. He ALBERT W. SCHAMMEL later owned a pickup. Both brothers farmed with ho:-ses, until[...]ut in. From a 1962 letter They were good kind neighbors. The[...]to go there, as Theodore always had I came to Scobey in August of 1915. My parents were[...]lin at Rose Creek, Minnesota. plum season. He was a very quiet and reserved man, but He wa[...]After my parents retired from the farm I was free to when it came through the country in t[...]ast engage in something else. My dad and I met Dennis[...] |
| [...]Bill" to the chagrin of into Scobey with him, and I have lived here since. the sheriff. I was postmaster in Scobey for many years.[...]W. Schammel MELVIN JOHN SCHOW |
| [...]following year when Mr. Snyder took up a homestead near Scobey and built a house so he could move the family up[...]prairie with a team of horses and wagon. Early day Bernetha Smit[...]s County. Here his father , Samuel R. Smith , had a homestead in the Line Coulee area. Bernetha For[...]and later they all came to this area and lived on a farm in the Line Coulee community. In 1914 Bernetha filed on a homestead and was granted a patent. John Smith and Bernetha Fordyce were ma[...]age of 75 on June 23, 1954 when he was taken with a stroke. Homer F.[...] |
| [...]a certified welder for Palmer Construction. Velma a[...]families live in Alaska. Mavis's husband is a sheet metal[...]shore three years. In 1964 we bought a house in Lincoln.[...]Henry passed away on March 20, 1971. In 1973 I sold the[...]there and came west to North Dakota and worked as a farm hand; then he came to Culbertson, Montana in[...]n when he was ten years old. Ida Swenson was that a few years and sold it to L.V. Hansen at the bank[...]933 he married Clara Swenson and to them was born a from Prairie Farm, Wisconsin to Scobey[...]and lived there until we moved to town and built a house here and lived here ever since.[...]here were no schools in their area, neither roads or railroads. When Henry was 18 he moved to Montan[...]Ii ved near Flaxville and ih the fall they bought a relinquishment on a 160 acre homestead and 320 Selma Swe[...]ere. Selma married Nels Henry also worked on WP A in these dry years of the Gustad and[...]n Swenson married Mary Barnes. They lived here in a cannery in Alaska, that winter he worked on the F[...]was where Jessie Drury is now. They had that for a everything green. Henry also worked on WP A. In the few years and rente[...] |
| [...]ack to Sackett's camp. In this fence corner where I held FOR HIS RANCH IN WILLOW COULEE the fillies there was a gate across a lane which lead east SOUTHEASTOFSCOBEY,MONTAN[...]there was a farm. There was a barn and a windmill and a I could not find this Appaloosa bunch. They should have few outbuildings and a little brown painted house trimmed been up here[...]head of Give-Out in white. There was a clothes line and a lot of clothes on it Morgan. I had ridden across from Smoke Creek, west, so I knew this farmer had himself a cook. toward the Poplar. I covered the country as well as I could Well, I looked at the sun which was pretty far down, and and checked every bunch of broncs I saw, but I could not looked at Hornet who was also, and glanced at me; then I find this Appaloosa bunch.[...]llies into the lane, shut the gate and rode up I had a little string of saddle horses with me, with my b[...]The man's name was Himli and he was a good farmer. ·horse. I worked on across the open country west to the Everything was neat; a cement horse trough full of water breaks of the Poplar. I hadn't worked the country at the windmill, a clean stall and feed in the barn for thoroughly but it was getting late so I rode on down to Hornet, and, as I soon discovered, Mrs. Himli was a good Sackett's horse camp and stayed all night. Next morning I housekeeper and a good cook. There was furniture in the left the r[...]pasture, saddled Bald house, even an organ and a bookcase with a glass front. It Horner and rode back up to the east bench. I covered the was kind of a shock, but a very pleasant one for me, a country pretty fairly, combed out the coulees an[...]dsvig's ranch. And the supper was a shock -to my capacity. After tin can Martin had gone east with a shipment of cattle but his and frying pan grub for a few years - I ate too much, and brother, Goodman, was hatching there and doing chores. I then ate dessert, home canned plums, abou[...]and upon my inquiry he said, them in a big cut glass bowl, and home made cake with "Well, now. I have not been here but a few days. But I have thick chocolate icing! not seen nor he[...]ak We visited, getting acquainted, and I told them I had of." I rode back up the creek checking the springs and been working in Canada for a couple of years but would water holes in the side coulees and on north to the flat clear now like to fine! a place which I could rent and get started to the farmer's fences[...]ranching for myself. And, feeling friendly-like, I even told settlement, then swung west again towards the Poplar and them a bout the Canadian schoolmom who acted as if she when I got around the farmer's fences swung north into[...]ided to quit Willow Coulee. Here in Willow Coulee I scared up two farming and go to New[...]deer and high-tailed it up the He had made a ten ta ti ve deal with a young farmer down on coulee as soon as I came in sight. I ran them down and Hay Creek to rent the place on what I thought wa~ very turned them when we got to the fences. I got them into a attractive terms. By lucky coincidence t[...]ext morning, while we both two year olds, one was a blue roan Appaloosa and the were doing chores. Mr. Himli hitched a team to the buggy other a sorrel, both wearing my dad 's brand. I recognized and they set out for town fourteen miles a way to sign the them both as colts from the Appaloosa bunch for which I contract. I had volunteered to finish the barn chores, had been searching, although I had not seen them since which I did, and carried a supply of water from the they were branded. In fact I had not ridden this range for windmill to the house for Mrs. Himli. I thanked her for the two years.[...]accommodations, told her I was sorry the place had been Dad had bought a bunch of horses, something over a rented as I liked it very much. I saddled Hornet and rode hundred head, from Albert Kirn on Poplar Creek. Albert's out making a circle down Poplar Creek and back to father , Henry Kirn , had been a scout for Miles, had Sackett's horse camp where I spent the night. acquired an Appaloosa stud, just[...]ave details and their deal blew up. I rented the place equipped been in all probability[...]s little bunch of cattle through an My dad had a homestead on the reservation up near the arrangement with his bank .... I wintered there that head of the Cotton wood, but, like nearly everyone else on winter. I put in a crop that spring, and after the horse the prairie during World War I, he got bit by the farming roundup in June, went to Saskatoon and got that bug and rented a big wheat farm over at Dewar Lake,[...]fall since that blue Saskatchewan. We had shipped a lot of horses over there to roan Appaloosa[...]given up the We later bought this land a mile west of the Himli place farm and had come ba[...]by the spring where sell the stock. When you make a living with horses you Hornet and I scared up these two fillies that day. The make it[...]r stock in county has taken my land for taxes a time or two and we Canada at that time, just after the war, so I spent two years have had to sell horses to the cannery once or twice. We grading roads in summer and freighting[...]these old Montana bronces earn their living until I could to raise a lot of Hereford cattle and two daughters to help us get them sold. When I got back to the ranch in the fall of '22 make a living, but we still have a few good Appaloosas. horses were so cheap that th[...]he writing of this little chronicle gives rise to a up to brand colts the year before. I had started out on my rather disturbing th[...]hat one-man roundup to corral and brand any colts I could he is master of his own destiny. One would hardly like to find.[...]his life had been set by the flight of · When I got these fillies quieted down in the fence corner I a wild mare. Sounds like a rather aimless, driftying, sat there on Hornet, l[...]and thought cowboy way of doing. However, I was at that time looking the situation over. This Hornet was a good filly chaser but for a ranch and I found one. I must give the Appaloosa he had a lot of miles on him that day and it was te[...] |
| much. Any colts we did not find that fall, we would probably have gotten in the spring roundup. I am sure I would not have gone back to spend that extra day searching for any other bunch. I did then, and do now, have a yen for Appaloosa horses. I just could not risk the possibility of letting so[...]s ranch was decided that October day in 1922 when I rode across from Smoke Creek to the head of Give-[...]il I /, Taylor's good Appaloosa stud, Many Chips[...]- , / . ~ '! . harem, 14 or 15 mares. Neil says he has six Chip's colts on th[...]\ Mountain Maid, mother of Many Chips, has a top[...]-~ Bozeman last year, but Taylors will have a few late colts by[...]s Denver Taylor and Essie Louise Schooler Taylor. A few years later they moved to Unionville, Missour[...]chool. A sketch ol Neil drawn by Jim Haughey of Billings,[...]a when Neil was chairman of the resolved to build a ranch. He worked for his father until Appropriati[...]ndian Reservation. for ten years. Neil thought it would help pay the taxes and Neil and I were married June 26, 1923 in Saskatoon, and that the oil companies might do some exploration work or we came to Daniels County. I had been a teacher and a ·some drilling if they could get enough leases.[...]ich helped to bolster our morale. It produced for a land, and so we started toward his goal of building a ranch few months and then went to salt water. How[...]Indians and Then in the forties we got a Jacobs Windcharger and had ranchers on the Reserv[...]ne got electricity. registered Hereford cows from a rancher friend south of the Electricity helped to[...]ally through the years the country roads were had a mild winter we could manage. However, while impro[...]farmers donated their trailing them home, we had a three day blizzard near the time and labor, equip[...]our cows and had to butcher one of them Then a crossing was built on the Poplar River and a to pay the grocery bill. However, we had three go[...]en came the drouth in the thirties, and the built a few years earlier. This was a great help. grasshoppers, and army worms, and whe[...]School which was again we got hail also for three or four years. But Neil about five miles from home.[...]faith. programs once a month during the winter. A program[...] |
| [...]o colts in the Scobey parade. Neil on Rocket with a safety rope anchored to the tongue of the wagon.[...]prizes for the various events. We put in a 24 hour day that such as the husbands being lined up against the wives in a day. Neil was invited to be head judge at the County Fair in contest putting a pillow case on a pillow - simple, but fun. Spencer, Iowa. At o[...], the Line Coulee School and the Silver home with a truck and a trailer. Star Hal[...]s from the mountains One day the boys came coyote hunting. They found a den to build it. The girls and Neil always took p[...]sports events. In the early the sounds of coyote pups, and early in the morning they days the spor[...]almost every race. An interesting exhibition was a Horse hurried back - but all was quiet in the den, no more coyote Quadrille made up of three sets. Both girls took[...]d broke colts two months old, and hitched them to a wagon assured them no one would be there. About fifteen minutes and put them in t[...]made the harness and after they left a number of cars came from the east; we just wagon.[...]knew they were headed for the swimming hole! - a big had a "pack string" of four Appaloosa colts. He had som[...]were to take the ladies and girls for a promenade down the interesting "exhibits". We als[...]he girls in the races. clothes. It was as much a surprise to us as it was to the One year we took[...]Montana State hard times and we had a good life. Rodeo Queen.[...] |
| [...]K. Phillips of Lewistown, Montana. They Ii ve on a ranch near Lewistown and have three children, Jim[...]ears in the State Legislature. He considered this a great honor from the people of Daniels County and he did his best to represent them well. He was a staun ch Republican. During his terms in Helena,[...]rish banker, Pat Murphy, told Neil he wished Neil would handle his own affairs as well as he did those of[...]eft; J.H. Cavanaugh, Neil died May 2, 1964 from a massive heart attack. I center; Mrs. J.H. Cavanaugh and William[...]ar, then in right in cart. January, 1965 I rented an apartment in Roundup, Montana to be nea[...]aughters and their families. They-hav-e- all been a source of joy and comfort to me.[...]r and brother-in-law, Walter Wilkinson, went to I have found Roundup a very nice place to live and have Montana to homestead, and John decided that he would made many good friends here now. However, I will never "prove up" on a piece of land then return to Minneapolis to forge[...]ps back to the Twin Cities, Daniels County, where I lived for over 41 years. the appe[...]at area who were It was after twelve o'clock on a chill, dark night in late John's neighbors we[...]Burke, John Haroldson, Ray homesteaders to start a new life in what was to become Frederic[...]To young John, not yet twenty-one, this seemed a and Cooper Kestin. It was known in[...]Com.munity, the name given the school. to a nearby house with a light in the window to inquire the John a[...]he livery barn for there were no street a Mogul one cylinder tractor. They were not very li[...]successful machines and were soon parked in a fence The man answering the knock was Harry Bat[...]corner while the horses did most of the work for a few directed John to the livery barn, and helped later to locate a years. homestead and they became lifelong friends. I,n 1924 John bought his first Model T and used it[...]wheat to Flaxville. He could make two trips a day where it moved from LaBolt, South Dakota with[...]Returning from town one evening, he ran over a diamond[...]illow fence post that had fallen on the road from a[...]off it. A few minor repairs and he putted on home.[...]Minneapolis where she had a brother. She was working in[...]John and Bridie lived on his homestead which a[...] |
| [...]devote to helping others. Such a man was Ted Krongard[...]Ted and his brother Ed ward were born on a farm near[...]died when Ed was born and their father remarried a few[...]not at romance. When he built a beautiful new farm house[...]1928 for the object of his affections, the lady (or maybe M rs. John Cavan aug h Ted) had a change of heart and she moved on. Ted and Ed[...]continued their bachelor existence for a few years more - earning a reputation for being very fussy housekeepers.[...]ct of the whole family together with th e help of a succession of community. housekee[...]orked with where he and Ed were members. a W.P.A. crew. The drouth ended in 1939 and life became a During the drouth/ depression years of[...]on Oil Agricultural Adjustment Act, or triple A, a forerunner of Company and later became a r ural mail carrier. They have the present A.S.C.S. The committee held its meetings and eight[...]Scobey in 1949 E mmett stayed on even a typewriter - a far cry from the office of today. the farm and ha[...]nce with the exception of Ted still is a firm believer in farm cooperatives and in the two[...]mers Union, being active in forming and promoting a States Army in Korea. He married Alene Ferestad .[...]He was an active Democrat, but failed in a bid for the children , Jon, Kenneth, Carol, Mary[...]n . In 1934 the daughter of a boyhood friend came out to Betty attended Northern Montana College and was Montana with a young couple who were going to help Ted married t[...]m for eight years. Ed continued John purchased a home in Scobey in 1949 and lived there to[...]ere. the last twenty-three years of his life. For a man who had In 1944 they bought a farm near New Richmond , once thought that city l[...]not far from their original homes in for Mon tan a and the rolling fields of Daniels County had[...]ired. J a mes Ca vanaugh In Wisconsin Ted promptly[...]affairs and developed a large and successful farm. He is[...]retired and they have a rural home near New Richmond . MR. AN D MRS.[...]respected. Daniels County is a better place for his having[...] |
| I A bird 's-eye-view of the bustling little "H[...] |
| [...]me of the carpenters in town were T. Primeau, A few years before there were any towns in the area[...]ips. The livery barn was owned b y C. Aldrich and a on the rich virgin soil. The prairies were wide, with wild Mr. Jackson owned a laundry. The first barber in the town animals ro[...]was Walter Zimmerman who also had a homestead . His impressions were that this was a God-forsaken country shop was south of the Hotel McDonald but it was la ter and that a person would have to be crazy to stay here, but moved to[...]corder office when Ed Green had the crazy, brave or whatever, they came and they stayed. shop. A Mr. Anderson also barbered in the pool hall. Mado[...]about 1909 to 1912 brought the also had a cement jail, built in 1917, a town hall , following people: Forbregds, Gabe an[...]constructed in 1915, which was later moved , and a Justice Morrisons, Hendersons, Gordons, Bourassa[...]e were many office when Chris married a couple, both strangers. George others; some stay[...]town were getting under way for as early as 1912 a strange man came riding up to Grandma[...]home and informed her that there was going to be a town a short distance from their homestead. The[...]r was built by John Hunter in 1914 which was also a office from Orville was moved to the townsite an[...]ype of boarding house. Harry Batterton ran it for a while continued to be called Orville. With the c[...]Hans and Lena Hole and her sister, Miss railroad a name for the station had to be chosen, and until[...]of the Hotel McDonald. 1914 it was called Boyer, or Boyer's Siding. There are many Another cafe[...]istrant, located between the two saloons on main a pioneer of those days, Horrace Bourassa: street. A sister of Mrs. Cale Aldrich , Mrs. Capistrant was[...]rthern from St. Paul and stayed only a short time. Both of the Townsite Company was for[...]flax growing along the bench. The had a catering service, apparently in the saloon. town[...]had applied for the name of Boyer, the name of a homesteader southeast of the townsite. Somehow[...]so they had to start over in trying to agree on a new name. The State Bank of Madoc opene[...]out $20,000. forty businesses there, and it was a busy little town until a It went broke in 1923 and the building was purc[...]se to set back its progress. Due to Englund for a grocery store. He and his wife furnished . a period of dry years, many homesteaders sold out a[...]in the area. The building was moved away, so as a result, many of the businesses went purch[...]lumber yard. bypassed Madoc which caused a further decline. In the election of 1920, af[...]Scobey for the county seat. Madoc received only a third as many votes as Scobey, and this was the fatal blow for a brave HOTELS li[...]otel was built by Duncan McDonald. Ole and with a few residences as well as many vivid memories of a Carrie Sund and Hans and Lena Hole were the[...]1914 and 1915 respectively. McDonald also built a feed and Following is a brief summary of many ot the business liv[...]nd son Jack came from Grant and Sutton in 1915. A second one opened in 1916 by Crystal, Nort[...]There it to his farm near Flaxville to use as a house. It burned in was a harness shop east of · the bank under the[...]ted by Al Woods. Lauzon became proprietor a fter Brunelle a nd operated it It was later moved from t[...] |
| [...]GE The garage was built in 1915 by Lote Curtis. A short time later Sam Montgomery ran the business[...]corder: "On Tuesday afternoon at the hour of 4:15 a bright light shot across the Hub City in spite of[...]publisher and he is standing holding a copy of it. He also MADOC DRAY LINES had a real estate office. In the days when practically everything was shipped by rail, the dray delivery was a very necessary business. It consisted of a flatbed on a horsedrawn wagon or sleigh and was used to deliver goods from the tra[...]ler and Joe LaCount. Theophile Primeau also owned a dray[...]iginal hard ware store was opened by Lote Curtis, a MADOC,MONTANA champi[...]9 :00 a. m.-Open Air Concert by Redstone Concert Band. Fl[...]eld and their Rumley tractors. 10 :00 a. m.-Pande Thru ll&in Street. It burned soon after it was moved. 11 :00 a. m.-Orand Allembly &t Public Square.[...]Invocation by Rev. A·. R. Stone.[...]Declaration of Ind_ependence by Attorney A. 8. Hemphill.[...]Man '■ Race-Prise : Box of Oigan, donated by J. I . Robblnl. known as the Farmers Lumber Com[...] |
| [...]Robbins started the first saloon and the and a half years of existence. second was owned by LaRo[...]r owned by Mark M. Hanson, who, in the 1940's was a wealthy theatre owner in Hollywood. He was shot by a taxi dancer and was in serious condition for some[...]I began service with the Great Northern in May 1913[...]after receiving a Master's degree in business at Dartmouth[...]RAL STORES college. I spent a year and a half in the general offices in St.[...]irst one Great Northern, sent me to Havre for a physical and being started by E. Renwall in 1913 or 1914. The second instructions. Some time later I spent several days with the was operated by H.E.[...]hird was originally agent at Flaxville where I watched my Madoc depot go by built on the Horace Bourassa farm and moved into Madoc on a flat car. The foundations of concrete posts had b[...]turn sold poured the fall before. The next day I rode the train to it to Herman Schaefer in 1917.[...]from the train to keep me supplied for a few days. The[...]for me and the balance was used as a waiting and freight room. I slept on a cot at the end of the building. Although there[...]were held in the schoolhouse. Traveling ministers or priests made regular stops to hold the services. Anona Fagan Whipple recalled a Methodist circuit minister who used to go into th[...]as manager at the time it burned. In 1917 the W-T-A elevator was managed by Herman Slarie, The standa[...]rd, Having come to Montana from Vermont, I felt that at In 1960 Ramon Trower opened the D.C. Farmers elevator long last I was in the Wild West, where shoot-outs in the and[...]saloons, shaving and bathing only once a week, and knowing a man who had been in the KlondiJ:,:~ gold rush[...]were all a part of the common way of life.[...]During my stay in Madoc, I played third base on the POST OFFICE baseball team and I did help to win a few games. I left Madoc in the fall of 1915 to become a traveling Madoc inherited the Orville post office when the railroad freight agent. I cherish the memories of my stay there and came th[...]It was housed in the Lockrem my one "mixed-train" a day that came down from Scobey Cash Store with He[...]the morning and back from Minot in the aftermoon. I wife, Mary, was next. In March of 1915 its[...] |
| [...]A picture of the Madoc School in its original state[...]e. William Middlebrook died February 16, 1974, a short time after he wrote the article from which[...]president of the University of Minnesota and was a chief architect of the institution's rapid expansion from 1924 to 1959. A residence hall on the University of Minnesota is[...]area (then known as the Big Bench Community) was a one-room building southwest of Madoc in Angus Morrison 's pasture. A one-armed teacher, Mr. Madoc t[...]s Alice (LaRoche) Lapke coming to school carrying a whole loaf of bread every day, from which she would prepare lunch for all her brothers[...]916 Madochadits own school district and had built a new schoolhouse and had an enrollment of 80 students. Madoc 's very first high school had a class of four: Evelyn Sund, Eunice Noland[...] |
| Carl Fjeld moving the old Lauzon School in 1918. Still a landmark on the Madoc roadside. Moses Morin, L[...]Spence, Gibbs, |
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| [...]g of 1910 four families, including the Aldriches, A.M. Morrisons, Shorty Robbins, James Kopsky, left[...]ild the homes which · were one-story, with three or four rooms. Some of the early settlers lived in s[...]small town of Madoc sprang up, our parents owned a livery stable and drayline for several years. Our[...]Back row: Gladys, Vivian, the Peace in Madoc for a number of years. The one-room Bessie. Front row:[...]and was later moved to town and then replaced by a new school.[...]getting our first automobile. It was a Reo touring car and[...]where they worked in a lumber company. Mrs. George[...]ssie) Fox lives in Missoula where her husband was a[...]moved with the family to Canada, became a citizen there,[...](Arnold) settled twelve miles north of Scobey on a Holum[...]Kamrud and Hilmar Wahl. We lived in a cook car with[...]grew colder I went back to our first home to get additional[...]and I mined coal one half mile north west of the Zeidle[...]land. We cut down a forty foot dirt bank to get to the coal.[...]We sold it for $1.50 a ton. Some of our early day memories[...]out in the 30's, coyote hunting with greyhounds and a[...] |
| [...]y. Taken on Henry and N ora 's year lease. I returned again in 1925, this time with my wife g[...]farm I had purchased from my cousin. We had six children[...]tles as cattle feed and The place where I now live was bought from Gulik selling our best c[...]uddenly in 1948 while years we continued farming. I did carpen ter jobs va rying recovering fr[...]t Peck Da m, Saddle Club, to cabinets 56. I remarried in 1956 to Margit Garber fr m Fortuna,[...]North Dakota, whom I had known from Norway. In 1973 I Our son Dale was born in 1940. In 1941 we moved[...]now rent my land to my son , John. W< Madoc where I still live. Nora passed awa y in 1974. Dale[...]ug h ters, Della farm every spring. Ra e a nd Debbie. They farm in the s urroun ding a rea. My children are scattered far a[...]place near Madoc and has a family of ten. Haldis (Mrs .[...]ving retired from the armed forces and has two I was born in a mountain valley in Telem ark, Norway on ch[...]. Wayne) Fugere lives in Scobey and May 26, 1890. I attended school th ere and wor ked on th e[...]ad to set fire on the rocks un til th ey crac ked a nd then the men could use a pick to break up th e rocks . I had many uncles in the States a n d in 1909 I decided JOHN V. BARSTAD- t o g o[...]ERCE BARSTAD too k abo ut ten days. The next fall I returned to Norway wh ere I worked as a lumberjack for my father. It was hard J[...]rstad, eldest son of Mikkel and Ingeborg work but I thought it was fun at the time . I returned to the Barstad,· was born and raised on the -Madoc Bench. He Sta tes in 1912 as I had heard about the hom esteads in atte[...]Jean Pierce of Plentywood were married in 191 ;3 I came from Wisconsin to Plentywood the day before[...]he election dividing Sheridan and Valley Counties a n d (Mrs . Terry Edwards), Susan (Mrs. Gordon Cornwell), I worked on various farms in the Plentywood a r ea, m y fi rst Paul, Mary, Dale and Daniel , who are twins, Mark , job being digging rocks. In 1914-15 I worked for Ed and Matthew and Julia. Th[...]oc Fred Lee near Archer. Then in the fall of 1915 I bo ught th e area while living on the Templem[...]e relinquishment of my cousin 's land near Madoc. I s tayed J.B. Bourassa farm. The older chi[...]Madoc and farmed for seven years until 1922 when I returned to g rade school and Flaxville[...]hildren are in the Scobey schools. While in orway I married Ingeborg Arneson and we J ohn continues to farm in the Madoc area as well a s returned in 1923 with intentions of selling out a nd being involved in the construction business. He has been returning to buy a farm in Norwa y. H owever I could n ot a ctive in th e Farmer 's Union , has served on the Madoc get the price I wanted so I returned to Norway once again School Boar[...]s after having rented rriy land to Hilmar Wahl on a three ser ved in the Un ited S t[...] |
| [...]not of draft age at the time he signed up for it. I asked him if business establishments.[...]ty Social Services age. He thought a moment and replied, "If you can find a Agency, is secretary of the Daniels County Aging[...]dan County homesteader to whom Barton told his is a member of the Daniels Memorial Hospital Guild, a age when he first came to Montana, I'll accept the charter member of the Madoc Home De[...]ub homesteader's affidavit." and is a member of Flaxville Lutheran Church where she Fortunately for Billie there was a homesteader who could has served as church organi[...]ack room of the law office of Billie Barton was a farmer east of Madoc who also the l[...]Barton worked for Pete Voight. He was truly quite a character and was heard to say, "Ya can't[...]by Mary (Batterton) Weeks redhead. I knew him well on and off the baseball field. Fun[...]omwell was born December 11, 1847. Her father was a In 1917, the United States was at war with Germ[...]direct descendant of Richard Cromwell who was a brother Under the Selective Service Act single me[...]m Stevens college in Columbia, Missouri and On a day off, Billie and a pal went to Scobey and made was a teacher, pianist, seamstress, and painter. the rounds of the local bars. In their cups a wave of Grandfather was born in Colum[...]ived notice to appear in Grandpa was a Civil War veteran, a Knight Templar Plentywood for a physical examination. Upon receipt[...]hereof he informed Voight what he had done during a they lived. binge in Scobey. Voight[...]to have to positive that he was not of draft age. I told him to send wait for hours for herds of buffalo to cross the river. Billie in to see me. I lost no time getting on my horse (figuratively) and headed for Plentywood. There I interviewed Jack Bennett, Sheriff of Sheridan Cou[...]cy and David Batterton - H.O. County Draft Board. I outlined the circumstances which[...]at his appearance and general demeanor belied it. I asked Bennett for deferment for a reasonable length of time to enable me to get pro[...]My request was granted. Billie came to see mt. I led with my chin when I asked him why he signed up for the draft. Flashin[...]e were no living relatives that he knew ofto whom I could turn for verification of the date of his birth. I wrote the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Ithaca, to ascertail\ if his birth was on record. It was not. I could find no chun:h record, no voting record, no[...]source to establish his age, my back was to wall. I took my file to Plentywood and went over it with Jack Bennett. He was satisfied that I made a diligent search for evidence to support Ba[...] |
| [...]away November 7, 1914 and was buried on a small hill east[...]now is just a wheat field. Grandpa was the only person ever[...]I also remember that Grandma and I spent one summer on a homestead west of Scobey. The small shack was[...]bounced around when we had a storm. Grandma was[...]deathly afraid of cyclones so I guess that is why the[...]after a storm we would wander over the prairie looking for[...]erton Weeks at the age of wind. We would also gather up "chips" in a child's wagon six, taken in 1914.[...]and a half years before she passed away at the ripe old[...]l years. Then they moved Dad al ways had a keen interest in anything going on in north again[...]ol board, was school janitor, and deputy sheriff. I married and was living out on the prairies in a tarpaper stillhave.thestarbadgeandthekeytotheinne[...]ail. Dad owned the first restaurant in Madoc, ran a work so they loaded up and joined Dad in Montana.[...]erton, was born in St. Louis, · burned down, ran a pool hall of which Grandma greatly Missouri on Ma[...]pproved, besides his farming interests. He bought a an accident and the other went his own way, and o[...]ad went to Medicine Lake in 1906 and trees, built a small house and fixed a nice home there. He married Minnie A. Allen and I, Mary, was born there. My was also president of t[...]nts joined us in 1910 and then in 1912 Mother was a "champ" caller for the square dances which were p[...]s Michigan where Dad worked at General Motors for a year. and had hoped to set a record of sorts by making it 50 years Bui Dad dis[...]in but he passed away on September 17, 1964, just a couple 1913 he left for Montana and came t[...] |
| [...]old humor, his keen interest in politics (He was a Democrat!), Lauzon school near Fjelds' and a[...]chool. and automobiles. One time he got caught in a power take- Alex Bonneau died in 1928 at t[...]ned when he was hit by an automobile while riding a personal disaster and was able to laugh about it[...]north of Madoc. Fred died as a young boy in about 1915[...]from injuries resulting from a horse kicking him in the[...]d in Malta he brought Dakota. The family lived in a tent until that fall when their the boys up to[...]The boys homestead shack was built. They only had a team so they attended school in Madoc. Gene died in 1969 and Roger and only broke a little land the first year. Later some one was[...]Dad, Mary, Anna and I, Horace J. Bourassa, first came[...]entywood about March 20, 1912, Dad having shipped a[...]cow, as once in a while the cow decided she'd gone far[...]enough and would lie down and the Rumely didn't have[...]erome and Emily dragging the cow till I'd run ahead and flag down the Bonneau in 1948.[...]ere the town of Whitetail now stands, arriving in a[...] |
| [...]also shipped out a Case 36-inch Threshing machine, and[...]880's. Two brothers going to South Dakota and F.X.A. and brother Joseph settling east of the Turtle M[...]In the summer of 1913 Dad and I broke the west 240 acres[...]bought a lot of oats from Dad for their mules and some[...]beginning of November, J.B. and I hauled in the first load[...]of flax over the dump grade and into a car for Bert[...]After harvest in 1913, Dad, J.B. and I laid the cook car on[...]king the whole thing partway up the walls. We had a[...]was sometimes covered with snow about hip high to a tall Swede, rather tough walking for a short Frenchman carrying a bucket of coal. We managed to pass the winter[...]fairly warm; we had a lot of blankets; but sometimes in the[...] |
| morning there would be a skiff of snow on the pillows.None piano, Bob Temp[...]d Lord must have played drums for awhile with us. I later started playing the been looking out for us, I guess. ·violin also[...]Before leaving St. John, North Dakota, Dad was a started building in the late fall of 1913-the Win[...]nally troubled and winter (1913-1914). Dad put up a small store out on the him, so he gave up blacksm[...]credit and poor collections he on to the back of a lot at Madoc and used it afterwards as finally de[...]e came by train to living quarters after building a larger store in front. This Plentywood. was orig[...]ounding plains and are all covered to Schaeffers a little later yet. But in the winter of 1914- with[...]e lived in Madoc. Most of us, Blanche, Irene, and I crabapple, raspberry, chokecherry, strawberries,[...]ere nine children in our family. The oldest child a one and only celebration, baseball, rodeo and da[...]times snowflakes and stayed on there. She passed a way about fourteen years were flying around, but[...]r her husband. Joseph, the next child, has built a small home on the farm and after Dad sold the store married at Whitetail to Ida McArthur. He passed away a we lived on the farm. That winter of 1915-1916 w[...]ago at 81 years of age. Regina is still living in a extremely cold and a lot of snow. The Great Northern home at Spokane,[...]married to August passenger train was stalled in a snowbank on Mike Bureau. Mary, who was married to[...]d shovel crew came up and got them out. J.B. and I walked to away in July, 1974. John Baptist (J.B.)[...]in Scobey in the nursing home; she broke her hip a couple asked it we knew how cold it was (which we[...]Parent, who passed a way many years ago. Irene, who was 1916-1917.[...]e at Havre, on the farm, partly medical; hernia. I wasn't registered Montana. Blanche, who is just o[...]ar on the farm; very poor crops; help Although I've not mentioned the girls too much, they was sc[...]f cooking, milking the but never had it. Dad and I had it at the same time, each of cows, and garden work after it was plowed, until they were us in a room at each end of the house. We were told marri[...]t, but we all pulled out of it. Dad was left with a heart supplies to the outfit until the girls were[...]operated as Bourassa Brothers, Mother always had a lovely lot of flowers along with farming and threshing commercially from then on until usually a good garden. God surely has rewarded this Dad pa[...]bachelor, yours truly, Horace J. Bourassa. I've often been In looking over my reminiscing it looks like a life of all asked why I never married. I always answer that nobody work and no play, but[...]and visits between different families. Both I live at Flaxville, after many years of staying in the old J.B. and I played pool, and I played baseball and town hotel, I bought the house built by Jake Loman on basketball with the Madoc town team from 1915 on. I did Main Street across from Mike's Place. I am now seventy- some amateur wrestling from 1914[...]ing, playing my mostly around the threshing rig. I'd had some training hobby, the violin. I am in fair health considering the age when Loth[...]ood Lord to allow me too many more Madoc. He was a pro wrestler (Charles Curtis's brother). years. I hope when I get to the pearly gates, He will have Two of D[...]St. John, and one moved to enter, that I'd tried to play the game the best I knew how. Lafleche, Saskachewan shortly after we[...]he years Dominion Day, July first (we had gone up a few days between and including 1912 t[...]ness races, baseball, and rodeo. My dad's brother A.N. Bourassa had seven boys[...]in the band, led byT.H. Bourassa, the oldest boy. I satin the bandstand with my cousins listening to the band and I Notes concerning the coming of the first Bourassa to got the musical bug from that. Later I started playing Canada the fifth of April[...] |
| [...]lley. He was 35 years old. In 1676, he contracted a second marriage with Catherine Poitvin. He was th[...]was the ancestor of the great Henri Bourassa. A genealogy and history of the Bourassa's was publi[...]Alem Bourassa, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. A complete genealogy of the Bourassa family can be[...]won confrontations with large corporations and on a farm four miles north west of Flaxville.[...]ad established their home in Helena and had built a cabin Difficult times lay ahead and everyone h[...]as other parts of the country. J.B. died of a massive heart he was called, would have to haul wheat to the mills in atta[...]ood for flour and other staples needed. There was a Aurora. She spent the night with him as the car was stuck very large garden and canning was a slow process but that in snow and mud. Th[...]erything. Registered cattle were sold for $20 .00 a head as and called Lyle who was then working[...]company and gave him the sad news. It was a great shock keep the minimum livestock fed. to all but a blessing in disguise as he was an energetic In[...]years. he been partially crippled, he would have been a very There were many problems to cope with. The W[...]ittle man and did not cater (Schagunn) lives on a farm about 30 miles south of to company policies.[...]Flaxville. Omer lives in Palm Desert, managing a kind of people.[...]Airlines. purpose was the same as it was while a Representative. In In 1967 Aurora marri[...]tor for the who had lost his wife a few years previously in an auto Montana State Liq[...]ved from thefarm,leasingitout purchased a home in Palm Springs. They spend the on share cro[...]of Montana until 1954. From then on he worked as a Lobbyist at the State Capitol in the interest of[...]Compiles by Lyle A. Bourassa[...] |
| [...]by Larry Wahl I was born in 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bourassa. When I There were several members of the Brunelle family who |
| [...]ll 1888 and moved to Bein Fait, Saskatchewan as a little girl. have two boys, both graduate[...]County was Point to Louis Smith, a piano tuner. She travelled with him formed, and[...]they hauled freight back to Old Scobey, all with a team and wagon. Agnes and Mrs. Cliff Jones kept[...]oc, Montana in the middle house. Otto Ristow and a buddy used to stop regularly to 20's and settled on a farm there. Like everyone else during eat. They[...]'s, they went through hard, trying but were more or less of the Robinhood variety, as they[...]the flu epidemic of hills, the times we would take our father's lunch to him in 1918. The Garfield Wilson home was set up as a make-shift the fields, running like bl[...]die Mae can distinctly remember being working as a door-to-door salesman. He died of pneumonia so terrified of the horses that she would have to be caught in Rochester, Minnesota in 193[...]lowed the lead of numerous local men and married a teacher, Gertrude McColly of Hinsdale. At that t[...]intendent, Jake Danielson, came to Gertrude about a week before her marriage to ask her to wait unti[...]ve three children. Vaughn, now Mrs. Bob Dann, is a graduate of Hamline University and is presently[...]unties and lives in Harlowton, Montana. Roger is a senior at Hamiline University in St. Paul, Minne[...]ve years at Los Alamos, New Mexico, then moved to a G.I. homestead at Riverton, Wyoming for about[...] |
| [...]ing Alvin Ellingson getting his head cut open by a baseball bat; and wanting to kill Bill Henderson[...]in the summer of 1940, when Betty was less than a year old. He continued in the greenhouse work he[...]rt time for Walt Vanderpan in the lumber yard for a few years, Daniel also worked several summers fo[...]eral years working in the coal mine. Life was a little easier for Olive after moving to Scobey.[...]n her own yard and pick chokecherries, thanks to a tree Scotty and Betty planted by throwing seeds into a hole. Otherwise, it was still touch and go for[...]he was two, and watching· Lois turn yellow with a bad case of jaundice. Lyle served in the Army[...]I came to Montana in 1918 with my five year old son[...]Ivan. In 1920 I began to keep house for O.E. Dunn who was[...]Dunn was a painter and paper h anger by trade, and also[...]1922. Our children attended Madoc brother and a _sister. When he w_as just a teenager the school where I taught in the early t wenties and again in the ·[...]nts late forties. We left the farm in 1943 a nd moved into Scobey homesteaded and farmed th[...]n 1945. All of his girls married and Following a cyclone and hailstorm which destroyed their had families . A daughter, Mary died in 1968 and Myrtle in home[...]before coming here. They came here in about 1913 or '14 I live with my son who married Dorothy Morrison,[...]Community. owned by Andy Hertoghe, a nephew. The Constants had four girls and on[...]vada: Mauricette (Mrs. Joe Klabunde) of Havre, a n d Elaine GUSTAV ELGESTAD FA[...]d~ stops in Minneapolis and South Dakota where a nd his wife died in Reno; Agnes in 1956 an[...] |
| [...]the Morrison place about three quarters of a mile west of 1915-16. Another daughter, Borghild,[...]earby. were Ernie Hendersons and Herman Forbregd. A trip by Albert 0. Ellingson was bo[...]ived his were born, Oscar and Carl. Oscar died as a child of two education in North Dakota.[...]move was made to Number 315. He was a charter member of Post 121 of the the Emma Crone[...]erican Legion at Turtle Lake in 1919 and has been a and worked for several years. Signe and Klara wer[...]for 57 years. during these years. The first car, a Model T Ford was He married Mattie[...]fe came to bought in 1924. In 1926 they purchased a farm one and a McLean County with her parents in 1906.[...]sions, delivered with the help of neighbor ladies or a mid-wife. machinery, and Ii vestock in tw[...]cific railroad at Lindsay, Montana and which took a long time to get to with horses.[...]y all the incidents husband, Allen Ackers is a Chemical Engineer there. Ella from the so-called[...]wagons across country 100 miles as by rail it was a Snorre Eriksen arrived in Madoc by train from long round about way. It took six days as a rain delayed Minnesota in 1922. the first man he met was Alex Bonneau. traveling about one and a half days. He was the cook on the Snorre wo[...]Years ago it was a custom to shi varee the newly married.[...]Anyway, George Valdely was a bachelor Ii ving north of[...]smoked out. They promised a big dance for all of Ma doc the[...]next Saturday, a promise which they kept. Snorre married[...]1911 John Fagan came to Daniels County to file on a[...]from there by hayrack to Madoc. There was a blizzard on[...] |
| [...]916 the way up to Madoc and the kids were under a tarp on the |
| [...]in Kasota, Minnesota Ma·y 28, 1885. brother and I attended school at Whatcam High. After Mary An[...]unice Rae Taylor of Sedro- their possessions to a homestead five miles north of Madoc, Woolley, Was[...]g there at that time as everything had In 1936 I moved to Vallejo, California where I worked to be built and fences put up. They had 160 acres on which until 1938. I then returned to Montana as my brother had they[...]become.ill. We lived in Glasgow and I worked in a cafe there Two other couples moved there abou[...]d lived on the farm east of us Gibbs family had a homestead n orth from us and the and some of the Gibbs. My brother, his wife and I returned Herman Schaefer family had the only st[...]C. Field was born. They traveled by . In 1939 I returned to Vallejo to work, where in 1940 I met horse and wagon to Plentywood as that was t[...]ston again My brother Albert's only child, a daughter, Betty, was where I (Marion) was born.[...]9, 1941. Albert not having As my brother and I were growing up, we both had our good health for a number of years passed away of cancer in chores to do before and after school. I milked the cows and Portland, Oregon in October o[...]daughter Betty remained in Oregon. They lived for a time I can remember shocking wheat when the shocks were[...]gene. weeded every summer. We earned five cents a row hoeing ·She married a school mate, Dennis Buffington and they •ipotao[...]was very limited. Picnics in the In 1942, I went to work under Civil Service at the Naval s[...]ing. Ammunition Depot at Mare Island, California. I worked At Christmas always a Christmas tree and party at the there until 1946 when my husband and I moved to Reno, school. Nevada where I still reside. My brother and I both went to the Gibbs school My f[...]r went t.o school in Madoc. In the my brother and I moved away. He worked in the city hall as spring and early fall we drove a two wheel cart and horse, a draftsman- and spent a few summers in Alaska during then in the winter we had a closed in sleigh. Often when a fishing season. During World War II he worked as a steel blizzard came we all spent the night at s[...]Bellingham. He parents could not get to school. I can remember going to passed away there at the ag[...]s below ze-ro. Our teacher When my husband and I' moved to Reno, he was a shift - thawed us .out in the morning and my mother did it when supervisor in the Palace Club. I eventually went to work as we got home after school. They had a tub of snow to put on a dealer in the Clubs. In October 1961 my husband p[...]ds, feet, nose and ears, as they were froze twice a away in Reno from cancer. I remained in Reno and worked day.[...]until October 1974 when after two eye surgeries I retired as Life on the farm at that time was not easy. Everything I lost all vision in one eye and have only partial[...]harvest time every one · It is only fitting I end this with my last visit to Montana helped ha[...]ever fields were ready. in 1971. I spent my vacation there visiting my old friend[...]as sold, we all Caroline Fjeld Davis. While there I saw another girlhood looked forward to making ou[...]r's brother Paul - to the west of us on the farm. I also visited with Mrs. J . owned a grocery store. We ordered sugar, flour, rice, bea[...]ney, chocolate, cocoanut and other LaRoche. Sorry I didn't see more but every minute I was things we needed to last the year. My mother al ways there I was busy. · managed to make it last. We butchered a ste~r every fall and canned everything we could[...]About the same time my father also worked there a s draftsman and surveyor.[...] |
| [...]arch 1910, Carl struck out to Montana to look for a homestead. He went to Baker and Terry, Montana bu[...]dry, so he came home and in the mean time we had a letter from his school chum, Albert Jallo, also f[...]rtson, Montana. He wanted us to come there and he would locate some land for us and him- self. So without even going out there to see how it was, Carl ordered a railroad car and loaded up everything we had which was not much, except one team of horses and a one year colt, and one team of oxen. Two cows, two calves, a few chickens, and a cat. As Carl was loading the carload and was ready to leave, Tom, Carl's brother brought a young cow with calf; Carl bought it for a sum of fifteen dollars. This was the fi!'st week in April 1910. There was a couple of stow aways in that freight car heading[...]ton, North Dakota and on April ninth, George. and I said good-bye to our friends and relations. We go[...]ailroad station and heading for Montana too. When I got to Williston Carl was still there; about30-40 carloads of immigrants were held up there for a three day snow storm and cattle inspection. Carl[...]e that fifteen dollar cow and calf which was only a trick on all the immigrants. Chickens and clothing were missing from all immigrant cars. On April tenth I came to Culbertson and in a couple of days Carl got there and unloaded all our stuff. Horses and cattle were tied up in a sod stable, close to where we all stayed with Mr. and Mr. Albert Jallo, a couple of blocks from Culbertson main street. Then in a few days, the men folk loaded up the wagon with l[...]ld ~ Scobey doors from home, and left to look for a homestead for us all. Mrs. J allo and I stayed back in Culbertson to take care of the cat[...]re, but no one complained. But we were scared. In a few days the men folks came back and told us they[...]12x14, slanted Carl Fjeld roof, and a sod shack for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jallo. Albert d[...]. Severson from south of Flaxville; they borrowed a wagon from him to bring all our stuff from Culbertson and on this trip back to Culbertson a little colt was born. We sent to Sears and Roebuck for a cook stove, as soon as we got lined up with groce[...]ed all over the prairie for three days; Laura and I were into every building even in- to the Livery barns where we thought he would be. But no trace of the ox and we had to get out[...]. Culbertson hills. We camped out in the open one or two nights. We enjoyed it-nice weather all[...] |
| [...]Carl and I put up many tons of hay and since Laura was[...]In the fall, Carl went to Froid or Homestead in threshing[...]but he wouldn't sell. A bunch of Indians claimed all the[...]a bluff to scare the homesteaders. Only thing we co[...]coming on. First thing was to dig a well. We got good water[...]d all the hay had to be hauled again and Carl and I made a big sod stable (barn) and fixed up our house for[...]Lauzons, four or five miles to the west. Mr. and Mrs. A.[...]back in the spring of 1911. Fall of 1911, we had a wonderful[...]eld and family taken 1917. 1/4 of a mile away. On March 12, 1912 Clarence (Ole) was[...]the main road. First thing was to dig a well all by hand-got[...]good water 49 feet down in the bottom. We struck a 4x6 flat[...]Next thing we built a big barn and moved our house. In[...]went to Roseau for a carload of cows and fence posts. Then[...]my dad came along and he wanted to sneak a ride free in[...]away. My husband started out one direction and I the other. I walked a long way and came upon an Indian camp[...]suddenly. I was a little scared but the Indians were friendly[...]and offered me a horse to ride. I was glad to take up their offer and I asked them how I would get the horse back to[...]and would pick up the horse on the way. I rode on and ran into a shepherd's shack and they offered me dinner. I[...]a coulee and he was home.[...]In the evening of January 10, 1911 a young man came to Carl Fjeld, Bozeman - 1[...]r sod barn and took our horse, Polly, but he left a note in[...]a young colt left! He said in his letter that we would get our go back. We got to our shack the 19 of Ma[...], someway. To move to his shack at of June we had a foot of snow. The cattle didn't know what once if we could make it before somebody else would move to do. I raked snow with the garden rake, but before the day in and that meant we would get close to where we were the was over the snow[...]away. It was nice and warm first time-only a mile away. Nice flat land and 50 acres and[...] |
| [...]ng and baby George and the cat, and some wood and a ker;sene lamp~ Carl and I worked all day on that stable, with pails and some old hay laying around there. There was a small laundry stove in the shack so it was nice a[...]l day. So Carl went back to our shack three miles or more. George and I stayed all alone till next morning or forenoon then Carl came with the cows and calves[...]the team and cows never broke through at all. Was I ever scared to sleep in that strange shack all al[...]rned Polly loose and he waited for the mail stage or bus and got a ride down the main line and has never been heard of ever since. A Gilbert Forbregd and Carl Kveseth m[...]o Cuskers Ranch and Carl went to get her back and a month later she had a colt; were we ever happy to get our horse back![...]1885 and they lived on a farm. They became the parents of In 1916, Carol[...]ive daughters. His wife died in 1917, we all took a trip to Fox, Minnesota. My first vacation 1906.[...]left in 1910. In the spring of 1917, Carl ordered a homesteaded. He died in 1928. threshing rig bu[...]was going to school at the Lauzon school-one and a half miles away. That fall Carl moved the school[...]GILBERT FORBREGD with the Rumley tractor, one and a fourth miles closer to our place. Clarence started school that fall, 1918. Nine or Gilbert Forbregd, son of Anton Lauris and J[...]1917. They traveled by train to Scobey, In 1922 or 23, October 9, our big barn burned down. That[...]ded. Their oldest fall we moved our big house and a small barn from a place child, Myrtle, was born in Montana on[...]in 1918, they lived in British Columbia, down was a pure breed bull, three hundred chickens, lots of[...]ere all during World War II and then for a steel company until his the children went to scho[...]by Evelyn Forbregd Eikeland I have eight grandchildren and nine great- grandchi[...]worked on the Spurgeon Ranch as a ranch hand. While Anton Lauris Forbregd was bor[...]t was great land and beautiful Peder Forbregd was a sea captain on a fishing vessel country, but two reason[...]Helmer also came from around the recalls a story often told by his father about this undecided Lofoten Islands, a place called Norland. They emmigrated time[...]g out of Culbertson, when they were asked to haul a Dakota on a farm. Anton married Jonetta Gunderson in safe to a small community established north of Culbe[...] |
| [...]a nd had a mad badger on his hands. Sigurd said that was[...]the last time he saw Herman for a couple of hours, as he and a badger were being dictated by a run ·away bronc."[...]a waitress in a small cafe in Terry, Montana. She was one[...]Herman met on a blind date set up by Clara. Three months[...]and Joseph, and a sister, Helen died. The other three[...]hroughout their years together," states Stan. Not a year[...]businessman that always enjoyed receiving a portion of[...]this product once made this statement "It's fun to serve at a They found that they could not unload it. So, they offered to social party, because it's so mild to drink and tasty, even buy a keg of beer if the men standing around would help the most sophisticated drink and tal[...]nce of her daughter, Shirley, anyone see Herman a nd Sigurd leave a town so fast. preparing cakes, homema[...]hs of and coffee. The whole family would attend this festive freighting and hauling dyna[...]c was usually provided was always sure to carry a couple jugs of homemade booze by Mrs. Leut[...]for the crew's cook. In return Herman received a warm Jacoby. place to sleep, two meals, and possibly a ham or something "The barn was Dad's pride and j[...]designed and built by Herman's for saying, "If I can supply the cook with a jug. I know I'll father, John Forbregd, and remains on the same plot where have a place to sleep, lots to eat, and extra grub on th[...]was new. It holds memories for all. worked as a logger. Later, he came back, and squatted near[...]together was fishing. Each year they took a trip to Green walked from his squatting place t[...]it came to fishing. Though she might never get a nibble, she brother Sigurd, hauled lumber from[...]her life to its fullest. states Harold, "bought a bronc, and hoped to use it for She did not care about fancy houses, nice clothes, or other roping. One afternoon, while practicing,[...]ded aged" women. She found her greatest , rope at a badger, not expecting to catch it. He did catch it, happiness in the middle of the vegetable garden or[...] |
| ·standing amongst the hogs or chickens. Selma did the work of a man when it was required of her. She mended fenc[...]ed. Herman served as County Representative for a term and belonged to several organizations. He p[...]by Grace Foss My father, Henry G. Foss, was a World War I veteran. He |
| [...]I guess it was kind of lonesome for my mother with[...]Lockrem was also a midwife and she came from the Orville[...]ical; my oldest sister was born in Valley county, I was[...]alk to the old country school known as the Lauzon or Field school located on Fjeld's property. Emma C[...]er. Joseph broke the sod for the first crops with a walking plow and Alfred was born in North[...]side came from Poplar. Joseph Alfred and I, Ethel Morvick of the Whitetail community, and Lo[...]pen heart surgery. J.B. Bourassa for 75¢ a day, shocking grain. The total fall Adlard died a[...]mes Buer and they income was $75.00 with a long winter ahead! Alfred worked had six children; Ada, James, Pattie, Joan (Vatnsdal), on the WP A projects, as did many other men, so things Quenti[...]ceased). were going a little better. He later drove the school bus and[...]During these years a baby was born into our family every Gustav mar[...]t one time Alfred had three bus routes and we had a (Cox), Elaine (G ass-deceased), Robert, Shirley newly overhauled bus ready to go. I drove it to Alfred's (McDermott), Norman, Norma ([...]vegetables. His life's ambition was to be a coach, and he did The homesteads are still own[...]Alfred worked for Jim Leibrand as a carpenter and[...]his health began to fail, I went to work at the Cozy Cafe ARTHUR AND[...]her passed away in 1958. After Alfred passed away I afterwards to the present Gordon place southwest[...]in, who came to Billings and works at a Safeway store; David, married to Culbertson in 19[...]then was good sized. After getting and owns a share of Tour Ice; Jean, Mrs. Burnell Rhodes, married it took some time to get a load of supplies and has five children, lives in Missoula where they own a stock lumber loaded up so they could go to their homestead, car racing track and she works at a bottling company; which had been located i[...] |
| [...]one sons and daughters, eighteen were present for a reunion last Sunday in Scobey, with their parents[...]ar, Keith, Emil and Dwain. Colorado where he is a geologist; Doreen Ashpole has three Raymond and G[...]ontana mines; children were born. Raymond Wesley, a Staff Sergeant |
| [...]I worked for E .J. Ren wald in his store in Froid and I lived[...]asked me to go up there which I did, in her place. I boarded[...]got too deep I lived at one of the hotels. It happened that[...]South Dakota and as we were planning a June wedding, he stopped to pay me a visit on his way through on February[...]15, 1915. He felt it would be foolish for us to put off our[...]I will always cherish the fond memories of all thos[...]ca to Earl and Jennie Hardison - Jennie was a clerk at the E.J. Superior, Wisconsin, l[...] |
| [...]Recreation Center. They built a new home on the farm in[...]the winter this was mostly a team and a sleigh with a bus[...]arrangements for her to stay with a family in Scobey---'[...]chool she attended Northern turned out to give us a send off". Taken in front of the Hotel Montana College at Havre. She was a news correspondent McDonald. Man at far left is A[...]e Morrison and Church in Scobey. He was a heavy equipment operator at the second woman from[...]~onstruction work in a different capacity until his death in[...]worked in the Scobey A.S.C. office and at the U.S. Alex Henderson bou[...]homestead about two and one half miles north and a little west of what later became Madoc. They buil[...]North Dakota in 1912. They filed their claim for a homestead and built a homestead shack. Margaret worked as a clerk at the Kirkeby-Rafshol store at Old[...] |
| [...]e out of older boys on the bus used to shovel a lot of snow and put on Spokane for a time. Later she attended Spokane Beauty ch[...]equently. His brother, Adam School and worked as a beautician until her marriage to lived with them and would take the team and sleigh with a Charles "Sandy" Sanborn in Spokane. They lived i[...]rstiy in school bus route on Friday they would take the bus off the Spokane and worked at Larson[...]any truck and put the truck box on with a cattle rack. They·<l (Studebaker Sales) until sh[...]ived in Scobey and come back on Sunday with a load of ground feed and hay to Flaxville where Ji[...]d Robert. Ernie worked on W.P.A. road crew in 1939. He served on William serve[...]ristensen. Later he work. They used to hold a week of school in the summer and Tom bought their[...]held at the Madoc school. The family was operated a motel for several years. Now he sells active in Farmers Union work for many years. Ernie would investments and securities. They have five children- drive his bus with a load of boys and girls to Havre to old Kenneth, D[...]Gary. Fort Assinaboine for a week's summer camp. Margaret Thomas farmed with his Dad and married Darlene would go as a leader and they would take Bill and Tom Tryan in St. Louis Church in Flaxville. In 1956 they moved along. It was a long days drive to Havre in those days. to Scobey[...]nd with the Cooperative, becoming manager in 1964-a position he Democrat party. She was Vic[...]r awhile with Bill and his chickens. Margaret had a garden. Ernie would haul a family. Then he moved to Scobey and liv[...]t Place that Ernie and in the evenings the family would all help weed the had purchased from his b[...]place. Like good old days with a family living there again.[...]containing six horses, two sulky plows, a wagon, utensils,[...]$285.00 and John Hunter was shuttled onto a siding at a Three Madoc oldtimers - Dave Henderson, Jim Morrison, town called Madoc. It was a thriving town with a Ernie Henderson in 1912. population of around a hundred. There were four saloons, a store, postoffice, and a combination land and newspaper[...]he family-mostly from old clothes son". she would rip apart and turn the material whenever[...]aret was glad impression of the storm John would sometimes answer when she didn't have to sew anymore. "Son, I thought hell had froze over!" Other times he would In 1937 Ernie bought a new Chevrolet truck and had a shift his quid from one cheek to th[...] |
| [...]er describe the beauty of this wonderful land. As I sit writing this letter to you I can look over the many acres of[...]blooming. It is a carpet of blue stretched from horizon to[...]ross the prairie, her first words were "Where can I buy a[...]hur, and John M. in 1915. next two or three days and they will drop you within a[...]couple miles of the place. Shouldn't be much of a hike."[...]was grateful to learn that he was joking, for in a short while a wagon was loaded with the family's[...]Hunter place. That was a memorable ride through the tall[...]Grandma LaRoche, a very capable midwife. Dr. Healy[...]In August of 1924 a son, John, passed away. Mr. Hunter[...]plains of Daniels County were as varied a lot as could well[...]to build a home but most came for the "fast buck", do a[...]he Northern Lights danced across the survive a second bout with pneumonia and her doctor had sky[...]warned-"If you want to keep her-get her to a dry The temperature still registered 30 below when John climate." ventured forth into town. A kind Fate guided him into a They purchased a "relinquishment" from Edna's Aunt, saloon where,[...]ho lived in Glasgow, Montana, the county seat, to a half squatter's rights with all improvements on 3[...]rl, Edna 40 above by nine o'clock in the morning, a change of 85 and infant son, Harry.) There they found a freighter, who degrees within 32 hours. A day later the snow had for the sum of[...]to take them and their completely disappeared and a month later John began to belonging[...] |
| at their new home, a 12 x 16 foot homestead shack with crops, for those homesteaders who had managed t_o put a their clothes, some groceries, and not much money[...]l 1913, found them in Poplar · Carl soon found a job, working for Pete Hardenberg, an aga[...]ree and one half miles complete with a team of horses, a wagon, machinery and west-on present Robert Ferguson farm) while Edna and even a milk cow. This time the trip to the homestead too[...]. Carl wanted to go to his claim, Pete loaned him a saddle From then on they farmed-that[...]en broke up and as far as is known, he never rode a horse again. From more land during the summer_ as time and moisture then on he walked the three and a half miles home every permitted. There[...]unsuccessfully) a sod barn and chicken coop to construct.[...]along, Carl would add another room to the house, so that[...]original 12 x 16 foot shack became the center of a five[...]ur months of summer school. Fortunately, Edna was a hou~e.[...]money. High school meant board in town or ride[...]and Edna loaded up a_ll the kids in the Model T touring car ._[...]nd sun; the rest and solitude of the has a jewelry shop in Plentywood. Cherry (Mrs. Holis ho[...]croft) helps her husband and boys run their ranch a 40 day threshing run that Fall. 1912 was a year of bumper west of J orda:Q.[...] |
| [...]ived on the Jacobson farmstead until we purchased a farm south of Madoc (Elgestad farm), and moved th[...]Mrs. Louise Morrison's. Barney was a member of the Madoc School Board and[...]rried in 1955 to active in the community. Ida was a charter member of the Gladys Taulbee who w[...]inter where she Barney passed away in 1970 and I remained on the farm works taking care of the elderly in their homes. until 1973 when I moved into Scobey. Ch[...]by. His mother died Madoc area and found a homestead. Fjelds homesteaded[...]l and Emma Fjeld were friends of when Charlie was a baby and the family was put in an[...]Girard. Shortly thereafter Charlie homesteaded on a quarter section west of Lebels. Gulik an[...]c where place south of Madoc. In 1927 or '28 Gulik bought the Charlie has lived ever since. In 1945 Charlie bought a 160- "Three-Wheel" Smith homestead from Gjert[...]owned. Thea and Gulik lived in Madoc for a copple years[...] |
| [...]custom combining Carl Kveseth apparently in a very happy mood. with Henry Austinson in the 30's[...]his mother died while he was quite young. He had a brother, Olaf. Jennie Amanda Forbregd was[...] |
| [...]Dean William Lapke was born in 1920 to John A. and as a musician. They had two sons, Douglas, and Kenneth[...]Army Air Corps. He became a B-25 pilot and was ready to[...]fter his discharge and their marriage, they built a home uncle, T.J. Primeau, was there and had also taken a on the "home place" north of Madoc, a[...]the ever since. Washington Hotel. Joe ran a dray line for a while 'til he sold it to Sid Miller in 1917. Joe[...]tion. Joe recalls the first building in Madoc was a shack put up by T.J. Primeau for Mrs. LaRoche to start a restaurant. It was put up in one day. Joe also recalled that there was a little store north of Madoc that was moved into town with a Rumley tractor. Joe and Amelia live in Mt. Vern[...]Madoc garage and light plant. Joe LaCount who had a dray line.[...]raised a "city girl". Over the years she has been active i[...]Scobey; a Girl Scout and Brownie leader; a member and[...]officer of the Daniels Memorial Hospital Guild; a County[...]·held several terms as an officer; and she was a charter[...] |
| [...]n the St. Philip's Church and its projects and as a member of the Knights of Columbus. He has been an[...]the Daniels County Farmers Union as well as being a member of the Madoc Farmers Union Local for 35 years. He is a charter member of the Daniels County Federal Cred[...]ved on its Board of Directors for 25 years. He is a Board member of the Flaxville Farmers Union Oil Company and was a clerk of the Madoc School Board for many years. Dean is also a member of the Daniels County National Farmers Org[...]rving as County Grain Chairman. He also serves as a board member of the Oswego CD&D grain facility at[...]rew Lapke was born in 1894 near Westphalia, Iowa, a son of Andrew and Catherine (Diricksweiler). His[...]Germany. At the age of eight, his family moved to a farm near Redfield, South Dakota. In the fall of[...]hurch. Both were active in the Farmers Union take a homestead, went back to South Dakota. In the organization at Madoc. Elveda was a charter member of spring of 1915 he returned by r[...]s in Colorado; Edna, (Mrs. Westphalia, Iowa, a son of Andrew and Catherin Harold Rickman)[...] |
| [...]looking for a place where land would be available for all his[...]on 320 acres, building a house that fall, plowing some Back row: Hazel, He[...]ed many years on the Madoc School Board. Alice is a charter member of the Madoc Extension Homemakers, and has had a busy life with her bountiful vegetable and flower gardens and her chickens. Bill passed a way in 1951. JOSEPH PAUL LAPKE FERDINAN[...]ta in 1878 stopping briefly in Chicago to work in a also, they staked out their 320 ac[...] |
| [...]a number of years.[...]In 1911 he filed on a homestead, part of which later[...]He operated a bar with his brother-in-law John[...]64 years old, they retired from farming, building a house in Madoc- this house is now on the John Lap[...]27. Many of their children stayed in the area and a summary of their lives follows: Clara married The[...]Cecelia married John LaFrance-homesteaded and ran a business in Madoc area-moved to Kalispell in 1919[...]While spending time at Yakima, Washington, a son Fred married Marie Bourassa-homesteaded in[...]in 1929. Died 1974. A girl, Jeanne Marie, was adopted in about 1939. Sh[...]Alberta in the spring of 1929, settling on a farm there. Lucien lived in this area all his[...]th Maria dying in 1941, he was put at loose ends. I and in World War II-traveled extensively-lives in[...]pke-farmed in Madoc area- He obtained a lease on an area 60 by 40 miles, near Fort she an[...]ouie still on farm. Fred was a friend of all who ever met him. He was best Lou[...]remembered by his wit and humor, and he was a master Malta-retired to Colorado.[...] |
| [...]and a son Earle. Earle and his wife Virginia and their[...]LUCIEN A. LaROCHE Lucien A. LaRoche, seventh child of Ferdinand and[...]army in World War I in 1917. He served at Camp Kearney,[...]California in the Veterinary Corps and then as a cook. He[...]farmed his parent's farm and worked at a variety of jobs[...]work hard and his reputation for being a sober man. Marie Foss LaRoche, taken on her 85th[...]ow: Dick Texas and Fort Riley, Kansas as a cook. In 1943 he received LaRoche, Marie and Jim[...]Teles Lauzon and his family lived on a farm near[...]Redvers, Saskatchewan. In 1909 there was a[...]packed the few things that we had and Dad drove a covered[...]only seven months old. We slept in a tent but lots of nice people would invite us in. They were mostly ranchers. The[...]own of Madoc. Besides farm- ing he also worked as a carpenter, building many of the houses and barns[...]ta until 1911 when she was old enough to file for a homestead north of Madoc. The children of[...] |
| [...]adjoining land. They farmed five or six years and had three Aurora. Seated are Teles[...]Louise died a few years later.[...]was coal on his land. They developed a strip coal mine for a They _would milk the cow and put the cream in a pail tied to few years and also had cattle[...]ned to the side of the wagon, and by evening they would have[...]his folks in 1921. butter. With the extra milk we would feed the chickens . Dad Adeline-married[...]1911 where they still reside. There was a total of nine We came through Plentywood and s[...]still living in various parts of where there was a very small store in a home. We bought a Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Adeline[...]e few things that we needed. Along the way we met a wa gon[...]Ve_ril~a-married Alderich Lauzon, a very distant their place for dinner and to spend the night. Then we cousm, m 1918, farmed for a short while in Daniels County drove to Scobey trying to find a place to homestead. We[...]re back to went to Come Grattons and stayed there a few days until Canada. Alderich passed a way in 194 7 and Verilda is we fo~nd a place to settle. Joe Goulet and his parents lived[...]remarried Oscar Redahlin of money but we did have a big garden and a big barrel of salt[...]Whitefish. He died in 1973 and she is living in a pork so we made out fine. We lived in a sod house which was[...]me in Whitefish. so tight that when the neighbors would come over and Aurora-married Joh[...]Bourassa in 1921 in dance the night away the lamp would almost go out from Scobey and moved to a farm four miles northwest of the lack of oxygen, so the door had to be opened once in a Flaxville. J.B. died in Helena and Aurora[...]ated on farms in that area except There had to be a plentiful supply as the winters were long[...]40's and married and h_arsh. Wood was scarce and a long way off. Spring and settled in R[...]auled to Plentywood and exchanged A little daughter, Eva, died at the age of two whil[...]family lived in Madoc. About 1911 I, Adeline, the oldest girl, went to a school near Scobey st~ying with Pete Harden berg. I was thirteen years old, workmg for my room and board which included washing clothes on a wash board. Then th~ schoolhouse was built about[...]and MARY LOCKREM Madoc. Then five of us children would drive to school. In spring the snow was so deep and soft the horse would have by Orville Lockrem to jump to keep going. Later a school was built near our home.[...]In ~913 when the railroad came through, Madoc was a from th e Orville settlement. They built a store in Madoc mce httle town but by 1915 it was[...]nto selling my farm . It wa s sold by auction and I hauled[...] |
| all my grain to Medicine Lake and sold it. I loaded up with as midwife for many of the birth[...]e area. She also groceries for the store and when I got to Madoc I taught parochial school. After leavin[...]rug store in Flaxville and were there for six and a half Son" above the door and that's where I worked for my years. The Lockrem Cash Store in Madoc was sold to Gust father. We had a doctor come into Madoc and he wanted Vahl of Whitetail. some one to start a drug store so the customers wouldn't have to go t[...]ave their prescriptions filled. So Father started a drug store in the old E.J. Renwald store and had a druggist come in from Park River, North Dakota[...]Madoc and Scobey area throug_!i the y~ars; Tom - his[...]f Tom and Mary McGovern - 1914 Father had one and I the other. Father had surgery in Minot and contracted pneumonia and died. We then sold the store and I worked for Libby Yards Company for about three years. In 1915 I bought a 1914 Model T Ford from THE TOM McGOVERN FAMILY Shook and Davis Garage in Scobey. I paid $483.50 cash for it. I was one of the only ones in Madoc who had a car, so Tom was born in Menominee, Michigan[...]McGovern-he came to the Culbertson area in place. I would get paid $3.00 for a trip to Scobey or 1907 and to the Ma doc vicinity in 1910.[...]14-she had arrived early that in only four months I had earned my money back. With year to k[...]r her brother, John Killian. (The next that money I went to Fargo to business school where I met year another marriage occured which meant a sister and and fell in love with a young lady, Gina Bardalen, from brother-of the McGovern family married a sister and Dalton, Minnesota. We graduated in December 1915 and I brother of the Killian family - Tom[...] |
| [...]John met and married a young neighbor lady, Helen[...]McGovern in 1915. Her parents had a homestead one and a fourth miles north of his place. Helen was born i[...]Harvey-now of Scobey-married Shirley Hendricks, a died in 1956. His surviving children are:[...]section) Nellie Carriere of Los Angeles-who is a registered nurse John passed away in 1925[...]arik and their two daughters and son- Dave was a pioneer bachelor. He lived on his farm many[...]Anton had a cousin , James Kopsky, who had previously A neighbor family of the McGovern's were the[...] |
| [...]started a light plant in 1917. There were crop failures for[...]businesses started closing. I was married to Florence[...]Madoc started declining. I remember that in 1912 we organized a baseball team and Herman Forbregd was our[...]Florence died in 1972 and I live in Seattle.[...]efer and Christensen on George Shipman's place in a one-room house. They brothers: Ed, Ken,[...]their present home west of Four Buttes. They have a daughter Arletta and one son, Gary, who runs the family farm. Eddie passed a way in 1974. r Helen-a[...]ONTGOMERY by Sam Montgomery I came to the Madoc area in 1911 and homesteaded south |
| [...]bina County North Dakota in 1903. They located on a homestead one mile west of what became[...]farmed in Madoc. There was also a daughter, Mae, whose[...]farmed for a while. In 1912 Jim and Louise joined his[...]parents in Montana. A friend, Ernie Henderson, had been[...]ound. He also operated the Occident Madoc. He was a firm believer in the fertile soil of Montana elevator in World War II which was later sold to a syndi- and was a great booster for Madoc and its community. Mr.[...]k over the post office with Louise as postmaster, a known familiarly as "Dad" Morrison and he was eve[...]of Scobey in the Silver Star Community. He Place, a aloon. Angu "Toot" died in Bremerton,[...] |
| [...]dances and if we could get a priest, mass was held in it. The[...]priest came from Plentywood or Bainville. Emil Paradis started a pool hall in Madoc. Lawrrnce[...]Saskatchewan for a couple years before moving to Yakima[...]they both died out in Tacoma. Rasmus Ostrup was a newcomer from Denmark when he Victor Paradis passed a way in Madoc in 1922 and his homesteaded his 160[...]kane every year. Asa Peterson rented his land for a year or two. Hilmar Wahl bought his homestead in 1926. Ra[...]s near Scobey, so they packed their belongings in a wagon and buggy with two boys and a girl, Joe, Lawrence, and Louise. After crossing into Montana they came across a farmer and inquired about directions to Scobey. The farmer's name was Gibbs. He said there was -a family living out on the Adlard and Lucy Leb[...]Lauzons they had known back in Quebec. They took a homestead near the Lauzons. Joe and Louise Girard[...]w there were enough children in the area to start a school. Several of the Asa and Hannah Pe[...]Asa had previously homesteaded together and built a school on the Lauzon farm. Emma four mil[...]to ride homestead until 1941 when they bough a place six miles horseback almost two miles. Her greatest task as a teacher south of Scobey. was attempting to con[...]But in Iowa in 1 98. She died in 1961. A a died in the mi , i accomplish it, she did! This building was[...] |
| [...]on the old Steiner place where he and Lillie had a very nice[...]owned by the Brendens. Elmore's brother, Les, and a[...]und Madoc. Les' son, James, farmed for Elmore for a[...]venture as a result of recommendations made by traveling[...]the school janitorship, etc. and still had a small stock of[...]Scobey. I live in Miles City, Montana.[...]Lillian Hanson on February 27 , 1922. Lillian was a daughter of Chri s and Ida Hanson , and wa[...] |
| [...]On June 27, 1917 I was appointed postmaster and[...]steel automatic keyless lockboxes. I held the office til George T. Springer was one[...]ng adva~cement of Madoc during its early history. A quote the military service. from the Plen[...]ge T. Springer of the Scobey Sentinel and I became its editor 'til I left Madoc. Madoc returned home yesterday after several days visit in It was a position thoroughly enjoyed by me as I had a fbir Plentywood. When he is home George is a mighty busy for journalism dating back to high school days when I man. Besides being a wide awake attorney, he is covered[...]Michigan. From August 1, 1919 to July 20, 1920 I was about him doing his damnedest to keep Madoc o[...]Scobey. During this time I supported enthusiastically the George T. Spring[...]aduated from high territory circulating a petition for its formation. There was school, spent two years in the S.L. and A. College of the some opposition in the West[...]ed an election and there were 1079 Lodge No. 109, A.F.&A.M. He also belongs to the Delta votes for a new county of Daniels and 260 against it. In the[...]own Minneapolis on business. Carl Grotte and I composed the words: E.J.Renwald had a mercantile store at Froid, and following p[...]y stands, adjuster to work on his maturing paper. I was With a county seat within its hands, recommended, and ar[...]s ruled that we can now elect. December 15, 1916, I became well acquainted with the The Judge thought he was very stout, people in the area and I decided to remain and practice law. But he t[...]estate man and publisher of the In 1920 I became house attorney for Griggs. Cooper and the[...]retirement in 1953. On February 19, 1917, I was admitted to practice law in June 30,1926 I was married to Miss Elizabeth W. Trine Montana. M[...](deceased 1967) at Marshalltown, Iowa. There is a son. for the Madoc Town Hall Association. Soon thereafter I Theodore G., account executive for advertising in Batton, drew and circulated a petition addressed to the Montana Barton,[...]ion setting forth all Jeanne Springer Kern, a daughter, who is a student the reasons I could think of why Madoc should have a counselor at Indian Hill High School, C[...]marriage, residence was Railroad complied without a hearing of the petition. I was taken up in Minneapolis where I have resided ever sincE:>. well rewarded by the c[...]"A banker in Scobey, Montana, had a young[...]his various duties was the milking of a cow. One morning[...]with a pail of milk and the hanker said: "How's the milk[...]In 1941 I became President of the International Log[...]Rolling Association which office I held from 1941 through[...] |
| Britannica I wrote the hi tory of birling whi h is in the boys would hear us. There were no lights, just windo 1947 ed[...]s of the tar-papered home. The ince retirement I have been engaged in freelance boy s[...]s to writing and pur uing the many interest I have had meet us - no roads on the prairies. through the year . I am making my home at Heritage We[...]c about 1910, and was very During World War I, he trained in the Signal Corps at mu h involved[...]Bobby. Other intere ts took him had taken a Pharmacy Course. On completion he returned to Min[...]this union was born one daughter. He was a pharmacist in[...]1 5 . While living in Milan Minnesota he managed a department tore and was very active in home talen[...]was born in Willmar Minnesota in 1870. he took up a dre -making and hat-making course in t. Paul , Minne ota before her marriage. Halvor S. Thomp on a nd Anna C. Bystrom were married in Milan , Minne[...]nevieve, Hazel, 8dna Hulda and Ruth. Hal vor a nd hi on , Harry arrived in Scobey in February of[...]Even kaas . In April 1914 another son , James and a cousin, Helmer Flan from a uk Center, Minnesota arrived 1917 - 25th wedding[...]to work on the farm . There we were strangers in a strange place-now what to They studied by corresp[...]Blanche Snarr from Havre, Montana. He passed away a water-j ug in his hand. He didn 't know when we were to January, 1970. arrive o this meeting was ju t a coincidence. He told Albert married The[...]ashington the re cent Hotel. oon Alfred Evenskaas a rrived with a and Texas. She taught in various schools in Monta[...]in 1959-1960. home teasing us with the traw. What a pest! They took us Genevieve took her teac[...]orado and North Dakota. She taught in Montana and a ll the next day but Dad and the boys did not come[...]s did not fit very well , so married and lives on a farm near Opheim. She has three we decided to sing and make a lot of noise so Dad and the children. Loya[...] |
| [...]r liked the land on the Madoc Bench so h~ took up a Minneapolis, Minnesota. She passed away in 1930. homestead there . He farmed for a few years after proving Hulda took teacher's training in Montana and up on the land a nd then rented it out, fi rst to Clarence Washi[...]in various schools in Montana. Rossing for a year and then to Bill La pke. Bill farmed it Sh[...]until 1941. Ruth took a beauty course in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[...]e mar ried in 1936. They lived in Leavenworth for a few Halvor S. Thompson farmed northeast of Sc[...]to the Scobey area in 1912 and Peter is a supervisor at the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, ·[...]iting her sister and brother-in- Phillip is a diesel mechanic at Cummin 's Diesel at law, Cur[...]bors. Later the lake was made at Harry is a mechanic for United Air Lines at San Eagles Nest and a picnic in the summer was great fun for · Francis[...]ee have two daughters. the families. We went in a truck driven by one of our They live at Saff Rafa[...]as held in the country school Melody is a key punch operator. She and her husband , house[...]ad great sing-alongs. Hyla is a data entry operator for I.B.M . in Kansas City , Henry was always inter[...]ve two sons. homesteaded there and also worked on a state They live in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.[...]signed. There he served only a few months before his[...]Emma Crone . east side of Main Street. He built a building in 1914 and Their first six[...] |
| [...]of a hillside after removing over twenty feet of earth[...]Threshing was always a busy time. Hilmar along with[...]the old horse-drawn bus or sleigh driven by Jim Hanrahan.[...]homeplace. Anna (Mrs. Fred Sherer) is a registered nurse[...]ran the elevator in Madoc for a couple years about 1960.[...]I:Ie served for a year in Vietnam while in the army. Carol[...]She worked as a cashier for several years. Randy is[...]married to Peggie Sporleder and is a bookkeeper in the[...]ilmar M. Wahl served in the infantry in World War I. Buttes for many years and are now living[...]from a clipping[...]1927 he moved into Scobey where he was a contract[...]Hilmar M . Wahl Family - 1973. Back row: Lillian, I ver, Hilmar Jr. , Kaare, Randy, Larry, and Carol[...]were born after moving his life except for a few years that they lived in the Carbert into Mad[...]there was a s urvey stake in the area of Old Scobey.[...] |
| Garfield and Cliff Jones surveyed by tying a rag on a wagon wheel and counting the turns of the wheel.[...]Garfield met and married his second wife, Levin a Hogman, when she came to visit her sisters, Mrs.[...]d Mrs. Curtis (Agnes) Bush. They both lived about a half of mile from Garfield. They were married in[...]neighbors fixed the little shop in the yard iJ!to a very livable home, one Ad and Louise Y[...]to the valley about the same time as Garfield was a brother, Gordon and a sister, Mrs. Pearl Livingston, (Meekma).[...]nough snow for sleighs. Gordon lost one arm in a threshing machine accident. Cliff That ol[...]the newly laid tracks. He later lost his life in a freak tractor accident in 1915 or 1916. Early day activities included dances in[...]e same section as Garfield. Jim froze to death in a spring Mother often played. Everyone alw[...]from all over to the Yuill ranch. Baseball was a great sport school and he then attended Bible sch[...], Iowa; they have two he worked as a guard for Boeing. Ad passed away in 1961. childre[...]l farmed way up north near the A.B. YUILL FAMILY[...]a wrestler and was called "The Big Miller". He was a Ad and Louise Yuill and their two daughters, Gr[...]ls County in 1912 with intentions A family by the name of Mitchell lived in Madoc for a to farm and raise horses. The women took the train to short time in the teens. They had a son, Harvey. Plentywood while the men drove 150 h[...]Fritz and Laura Martinson were in Madoc for a while in country from Williston to what later was Madoc. A horse the early twenties. He was in[...]heir belongings from They had a son who attended school in Madoc. He later Plenty[...]an insurance man. He was in camp where there was a white man married to an Indian Ri[...]mas the first year we Melvin Schow was a daughter. were in Montana. We got up at two in the morning because Emma Savage was a relative of Peter Voight and she we had to go by[...]train at kept house for him. She had a daughter, Irene. eight. It was the coldest I've ever been when we got in at the[...] |
| Skoglund family, a son, Clarence. (no information) Ronald.[...]cated south of Mike Barstad's. twenties. They had a daughter, Florence. They moved to Mr. Bu[...]ied. The daughter lives George Bush was a hired man of O .E. Dunn and he drove near Antelo[...]on the place. Old timers recall Tom as having had a high, squeaky Bill Lind place or near there. Bertha was a sister of voice. They both died and had no family. Clarence Rossing. A son, Lloyd, owns the Carlson Hoke Smith (no in[...]Drilling in Medicine Lake. George Smith was a brother of the well-known "Three- Virg[...]ived. George died here Northern Railway. Had a daughter Marion. in the early days. · Roy Cluster was a bachelor sheepherder who also did a Walter "Three-Wheel" Smith came from St. John,[...]leaving this now lives. He has been described as "a feared character country, he worked on th[...]Dam m the who had brushes with the law." He owned a three wheel 30's. The farm is now owned[...]pasture. Victor St. Arnold played the violin for a dance when John and Bill Lapke were married to El[...]Todd homesteaded the Horace Bourassa land. Had a son, Harry . Paul Valette lived on the George[...]MADOC PIONEERS Following is a list of people of whom there was little orno |
| [...]steaders on the Madoc Bench. He words "A Pioneer". He had no family. His farm is located h[...]d in the Oscar (?) Gould (no information) Also a son Richard. 30's. Charlie Grant was a cattleman who farmed and ranched Asten[...]of Madoc. There were three north of Madoc. He was a bachelor and later moved · to children;[...]h of John Lapke farm. Ole's dad was also here for a while. They Madoc on the Berg place. Fjelds[...]20's during the dry years. was a sister of Mrs. Elmer Crabtree. Anton Jorgensen[...]and in several years in the .thirties. Lydia was a Severt girl. They the thirties moved to Idaho.[...]t persons in the state of Nevada, Mrs. Larson was a music teacher[...] |
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Daniels County Bi-Centennial Commission, Daniels County History Part A (Pages 1-548) (1977). Montana History Portal, accessed 18/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78576
