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 | [...]This land on which we stand Was just a sea of rollin grass A home of the Indian Man. Then came herds of cattle Fifty years ago Bringin in the homesteader We salute[...] |
| 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 their hopes, aims, ambitions, failures, and success make up the written record of what is usually known as history. We have attempted to write a book of memories. Nostalgia? Well,it might seem so, but w[...]day and the days before that, it really is a form of reminiscing. Some people say, "You are old when you dwell in retrospect." But to recall as much as one can of the ways and days of the early years, one must live in the past. One m[...]all." This book has attempted to present a view of Daniels County area from its earliest beginnings[...]e have attempted to gather and preserve a segment of its earliest memories before the history of the pioneers of this area have become legend. Their unwritten sag[...]Countless stories that made up the warp and weave of the life of the first settlers have been lost and forgotten. This book was written in the hope of preserving echoes of the past and sounds of the present. One writes about the things along[...]hings old, things passing, things forgotten. Some of the items still persist in altered state.You'll b[...]ew. In compiling this book we have tried to think of all generations. Some names and important events[...]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 will be things left out which s[...]slip up please remember that it was made in spite of being as careful as possible. Care has been taken to be accurate, but[...]e altogether so. No history is. With each turn of the page it will bring to mind thoughts of yesterdays and the progress made. It makes us sad[...]ss cannot be made without it being at the expense of someting that can never be replaced. This[...] |
| [...]ON To ·the hardy pioneers with a great variety of backgrounds and experience, all with a yen to go[...]ied on, laboring so strenously, bearing the torch of expansion through the years, and whose vis[...] |
| [...]for her tireless service. To tarry Bowler, editor of the Daniels County Leader for access to newspaper records which were invaluable as source material, along with the information they served as a guide in time and events. We are deeply appreciative to Beth Miller Snodgrass for the loan of her father's (Fred H. Miller) newspaper copies wh[...]the help and cooperation received, for the words of reassurance and constructive criticism offered. W[...]ed many times in our task. Thanks to all who gave of their time, talents and energy to con tact the families of the early pioneers and people here today.[...] |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS- Title Page ............ ~ .....[...] |
| [...]hat is now Valley County belonged to the District of Louisiana, then to the Territory of Louisiana of which St. Louis was the capitol. Later subdivisions of this area to which the valley belonged, gradually[...]created out of /~ho Territory. Above are the nine original counties of Montana.[...]IN 1874 - ThtJ Soum._,.,, tip of Chou•au County wa •nnex«I[...]orn, but was 11C10n ,wa//ow«J up by an extention of MN- ;,er[...]was created out of Dawson, and i ts residence swing their loc[...] |
| [...]hillips County was formed out and note that south of the river Dawson has been further reduced to fo[...]eated reducing Valley county to i~ prn11nt lize of 5064 ,quiff miltll. MONTANA TODAY -3- |
| THE EARLIEST OF ALL The smallpox epidemic of 1780 and 1837 almost[...]once populated by reduction in numbers. one of the largest, boldest, most picturesque, most Because of their friendliness tow~rd the whites, the individualistic and iron-willed of all the northern Indian Assiniboine are probably not as well known to historians tribes--the Assiniboines (stone-boilers). The tribe received as some other tribes. No troops have ever been needed its name because of its practice of heating water by against them. They com[...]The Assiniboines, who were once lords and masters of homesteading periods than any other tribe.[...]number and holdings. earliest residents of all. Their once huge domain, extending from the M[...]has now shrunk to small reservations. The number of people in the tribe has fallen from an estimated[...]AN 4,000 today. In Daniels County the history of Indian activity is quite "The level, fertile,[...]ful recent. In many places the stone teepee rings of the plains" of northeastern Montana, to use the words of Assiniboines are plainly visible where the native sod has Captain Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition, were not been tur[...]heads, and first viewed by white men in the year of 1805, when the other relics are still found.[...]Yellowstone Captain Clark ascended several miles of what he termed to River to the Woody mountains i[...]or be a "bold and beautiful stream", which is now known by decades. The deep travois and wagon wheel ruts can still . the present name of Poplar River. This historic visit is be seen in parts of western Daniels County. entered on the official logged records of the expedition on The trail was much in use d[...]wild life, according to the journals of the Lewis and Clark In overcoming the difficulties of living and rearing their expedition. Vast herds of buffalo, elk, deer, antelope families in our rigo[...]rty according to Captain Lewis. The a high sense of personal responsibility and initiative that buffa[...]rgest grizzly continent the Assiniboine used dogs as beasts of burden. bear of which the expedition made record were found in th[...]poles to area. The elk measured 5'3" from the tip of the hoof to the form a travois. In this way belongings could be dragged top of the front shoulder. The grizzly weighed between five about as the tribe followed the buffalo herds.[...]contacts with other 8'7" from the nose to the tip of the tail. In addition to these tribes were sligh[...]acquired the animals the expedition made account of many bighorn Assini boine often engaged in pony[...]ux ducks, wolves, c_o yotes and prairie rodents. of the south. In addition to bows and arrows, the A[...]d clubs for close fighting. Most carried shields of painted buffalo hide, treated to become tough en[...]aves. principal business of this area. As elsewhere in the United Befoi·e they had hor[...]r the powerful were procured the favorite method of hunting was to leadership of John Jacob Astor, established a trading post, ch[...]ampeding Fort Union, on the Missouri at the mouth of the animals , killing them with arrows. This req[...]ed to withstand attacks by Th<' introd uction of firearms was stimulated when, in strong war parties of Indians. This was the first white 182~. Fort Uni[...]ntana and was located ·Company at the confluence of the Yellowstone and approximately 85 miles southeast of Scobey. Mi 8sou ri rivers.[...]Union twelve clerks and 129 men. Here the trades of tailor, military .society composed of warriors. The chief could gunsmith, blacksmith, t[...]At first most of the fur hunting and trapping was done The pri[...]egarded to be by white trappers. With the decline of prices for beaver manifestations of the Great Spirit, ruler of everything. pelts in the 1840's the white trapper[...]ssiniboine Indians. being placed in the branches of a tree or on a scaffold. Each year the com[...]dollars worth of goods. The most popular items indicated[...] |
| [...]Like later settlers, they braved the dangers of severe beads, hawk bells, blankets, combs, flannel shirts, winters and of prairie fires, and of outlaws. pantaloons, kettles, lead, powder, gun w[...]tive THE EARLY OUTLAWS item of trade. The principal currency at the fort was buffalo robes. A The existence of Fort Union, and later Fort Buford, robe was worth about four 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.[...]hazards were immense. Some of the men who had come to Montana with the The I[...]post was conducted with much large herds of Texas cattle turned to horse rustling. When, cere[...]ian guests were seated, help, released most of their cowhands. Jobless, homeless · ·.__ · fed[...]th, some to Wyoming and some to · by an exchange of oratory. After dispensing with the the Valley County area of Montana. Out of this migration ceremonies trade began. When trading began only six or north of unemployed cowhands sprang the "wild bunch", seve[...]to the largest, toughest and most colorful of western outlaw prevent the situation from getting out of hand. gangs. Halle, a stock insp[...]this period, reported . During the 1860's much of the Indian trade came to be in his files[...]ding posts. Fort Big Muddy is the worst part of it". 2 Union was abandoned in 1867, and with the extermination of the buffalo in the 1870's and 1880's the Indian f[...]Dutch Henry, who is still remembered by many of the old[...]de 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[...]rthern plains were first ignored by broke. As many ~s 400 head of horses were stolen in one the cattlemen because of the legendary bad winters. But drive, ha[...]Montana or the Dakotas to be resold. last record of a buffalo being killed in old Valley County[...]y Yeuch, Jauch or Jeuch. He had two brothers. One of Stockmen from weetem Montana and from as far south them, Chns3 , was a respectable rancher who would have as Texas began trailing cattle by the thousands to[...]ished" before shipping. other, a member of the wild bunch, was known as Coyote Cattlemen began to put preasure on Washi[...]declared an Among the other member of the gang were Duffy, Tom unreserved public domain[...]Knife, Pigeon Toed Kid , By 1895 there was talk of irrigation and smaller farms James McNab, and Birch. north of the Missouri. But the area of what is now Daniels Most of the local people had no trouble with the outlaws[...]n the horse thieves were persuaded to bring names of rivers and creeks, and the name Whiskey Buttes[...]began to Many can recall having members of the outlaw gang top come into the area to settle.[...]ily, owner was a way they left things as they found them. Charles Woodley, Frank Hughes Sr[...]Dutch Henry is credited with naming the town of Erickson, some of the Marlenees, and the colorful Plentywood. According to a story he and some of the wild "Hominy" Thompson.[...]rt a fire with damp buffalo chips. branches. Most of those on the Middle Fork of this river Dutch Henry suggested going tw[...]mber they needed to build their :2 Outlaws of the Big Muddy, page 16 homes.[...] |
| [...]ut not fast enough. Long after the other member of the gang had prices on A soft-nosed slug from the .30-.30 in the hands of one their heads Dutch Henry was able to roam abou[...]A second bullet, from the sixgun in the hands of the second What happened to Dutch Henry is still not certain, as deputy, scored a flaming groove across hi[...]are several "reliable", but conflicting accounts of As he hit the floor the outlaw got his gun out, but[...]hat 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 across the floor. Davis, who knew him well, positively identified the body of Young Al Tande went to the fallen man. At h[...]a murdered man found in a brush heap in Minnesota as carried him outside. "Air, I want air![...]ll! I'll get them!" died in Stillwater, Minnesota of a gunshot wound. The following is an interestin[...]he Culbertson Searchlight, January 21, 1910: "All of the old DEATH BROKE GANGS settlers of Valley County and many in Culbertson Frank Jones, outlaw of northeastern Montana, killer remember Dutch Henry[...]and rightfully entitled to his more commonly known or 1904 made periodic visits to Culbertson to spend the nickname of "Horse thief" Jones, never did get well. He money[...]a. Dutch Henry was reported breakup of the last of the outlaw gangs which once overran murdered abou[...]ex McKenzie, also the northeastern part of the state. known in Culbertson, was tried and convicted of the Albert Tande, the man who carri[...]rtson people have ever since declared out of the cabin and to whom the outlaw addressed his la[...]that words, still is alive and a resident of Scobey.I Well he they were right. But if the report is true the noted outlaw remembers that morning of the gunfight which took place was killed by the C[...]January 14, 1903,7 in the little ranch cabin of his father, The following dispatch from St. Paul[...]Andrew Tande, then located five miles north of Scobey. St. Paul , January 17: Alexander McKenz[...]nde, while the most Roseau County in August 1906, of murder in the first dramatic of all incidents, was only the climax of the story degree, and now serving the fourth year of a life sentence in of outlawry in that part of Montana at the turn of the the state penitentiary at Stillwater, may be an innocent century. man. The complete vindication of young McKenzie rests And it is not entirely the story of Frank Jones. It also upon the identification of Dutch Henry, one of the most involves men like Red Nelson 2 ,[...]ng and Northwest Mounted Police sixty miles south of Moose Jaw, robbery when Jones was still "s[...]for his depredations and joined prison. The work of unraveling the large skein of legal forces with Nelson.[...]n a few days at the latest McKenzie will walk out of the penitentiary a free man to join his old fathe[...]ARLY OUTLAW his innocence. McKenzie's case is one of the strangest in Before that time Nelson was the leader of the outlaws of the criminal annals of Minnesota and at different times in the dist[...]flaming, the past year has occupied the attention of Governors 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. McKinnon of Prince Edward Island and of the British Foreign Office."[...]2 Red Nelson, also known as Sam Kelly, gave himself up to DEATH OF "HORSE THIEF" JONES IN RANCH authorities at Plentywood. As most shootings were HOUSE GUN BATTLE NEAR SCOBEY[...]charges but, instead, on a charge of helping a prisoner by Harry M. Lund, from Dan[...]escape. He was found innocent of the charge. Nelson Free Press, December[...]man not change expression. Only his hands, moving as he reached for a knife and fork to use on the pile of flapjacks who gave up his job when his superio[...]ll, tense claws on the disordered on some of his activities. little table in the ranch shack.[...]covered, he sat without moving. Then, in the face of two Coroner's jury verdict stated[...] |
| At that time a pal of Nelson's, named Trotter, had been This un[...]early 1899 and put in jail on general suspicion of being a hard citizen. probably was a mutua[...]e front Sheridan, Roosevelt and Daniels counties as well as door Jones came out the back door, stole the deputy's Valley, he was known as a rustler and killer. · horses, left him without means of pursuit, and took off. It Nelson's most noted[...]Later Nelson dropped out of the picture and another Nelson did not know of Seffick but he wanted to set gang, known as the Jones-Carlyle group, was formed to Trotter f[...]epredations. door and then, accompanied by a man known as "Smitty" and leading two saddled broncs, he rode[...]mpson's abode jailbreak proceeded with a minimum of discomfort. The and had followed and climbed on the roof of the shack and[...]very word. result was that Nelson gained Seffick as a new member of his gang and authorities were more than ever eag[...]k him prisoner. Only one attempt was recorded of these efforts to capture Nelson. That took place[...]the fall He was sent by Sid Willis, th~n sheriff of Valley County of 1902. It ended efforts to capture the gang by organized and today owner of the Mint in Great Falls, to scout and see act[...]man was tempted to earn one of them. Several tried Activities of this group became so troublesome that[...]barber and finally rewards were put on the heads of all the outlaws constable living at Culb[...]n Redstone and there was a price of$800 on the man's head. combined to clean up the r[...]ding Trailer at a dance and A group consisting of Tom A. Davis 10 , Billy Andersby5, disarmin[...]railer and freed his near Whitetail and told him of the plan of action. The henchman. He unhitched the[...]ized ranchers were to make a circle in their part of the of the horses, taking the other and leaving Moore af[...]Moore's big, black cowhide coat for himself. aid of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police who would He took the coat, known throughout the countryside and, close in on the gang from the north and prevent any of in doing so, he unwittingly signed his[...]but, finding the thing, however, was known. One of the outlaws had the outlaws on foot, he tried to[...]a kindred soul in Nelson ran off the horses of the posse leaving them afoot. and they joined fo[...]capture. The rest of the posse quit but these two secured[...]down leads and finally heard that part of the gang at least Montana shortly before.[...]near Daleview and on occasion filled the 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 ti[...] |
| [...]man proven to be Jones and the On the evening of the second day a stranger rode up to $1500[...]the cabin when the man entered. fresh fall of snow made this effort useless. The bandit Both g[...]There was an aftermath to the killing of Jones. At once the deputies realized they had come upon one of Nearly a year later a big, redheaded man[...]Tande ranch and wanted to know the details of the Jones judged him to be Carlyle. Between thems[...]the issue just then. time partner of Jones, who had left the gang. He Early that evening young Al Tande made up a batch of disappeared again as thoroughly as before. (See footnote 2) sourdough. Bird voluntee[...]up and cook breakfast, Footnotes for story of "Horsethief Jones", added in 1976 claiming he was known as the "Pancake Kid" and that he was the best cook of any in those parts. The agreement was called fair[...](C.C.) and 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. Jack Winnefield, known as ·Kid Trailer, came into the The deputies did n[...]fied later. And neither did Jones, they believed, as they likeable youth who attached himself to different bands of heard him grunt at intervals.[...]the p_a ncake stolen by the outlaw band of Nelson and Jones. 1 turner and started to roll a[...]accomplished fiddler and even after there action. As he did it, he moved toward a comer where his[...]Jim Moore, a Culbertson constable, desirous of[...]alleged killer, robber and horsethief, who Then as Moran drew a pistol and also covered him he[...]left him af09t. In the next moment the outlaw, as related at the Moore did get back to Culbertson .a nd report.ed the beginning of this story, made his break for liberty. He[...]rt time Iater.3 Jones was alive when taken out of.the shack after the The following is from a st.ory told by Mrs. Marie Ness blast of gunfire had subsided. It was early in the morning[...]"Kid Trailer was a handsome young man, of average in a sleigh and with a fresh t.eam the t[...]ted for Poplar with was in the spring of 1907 or 1908 as closely asof the then One morning after daybreak, I hear[...]s now th~ Frank Cusker ranch8, 35 miles southeast of Scobey..[...]identified the body as that of Jones, inst.ead of Carlyle, as The men with the outlaw's body did not arrive i[...]ext day. From there they daughter of Major C.R.A. Scobey after whom the town was summo[...]lee & Daniels County Fair aSee Death of Horsethief Jones, this book history, 1963, stat.es that Jones died at Give-Out Morgan 4 Mother of Elner, Irvin and Rueben Halverson of Daniels Spring, twenty miles southeast of Scobey. County.[...] |
| [...]t the bird in the head, it fell on the other side of the building from where I was. I walked around to[...]rms, but I have ridden all night and need a drink of water.' I gave him the water, hooked the door and[...]pread in a deep brush filled valley not far north of where the writing rock stands. This man, who was[...]successful at making his own living, derived most of his income from Kid Trailer.[...]rd for Trailer, he informed the sheriff at Crosby of the outlaw's whereabouts. The sheriff and his dep[...]In an interview, the compiler of this article was told that[...]Glasgow, shed interesting light on some of the charact.ers wanted man rode in. After Trailer had dismount.ed and mentioned in this section of the book. walked away, leaving his guns on the saddle horn, the June 11, 1904: The trial of Ed Sherman, the Culbertson sheriff called out, 'U[...]his guns on the saddle horn and back to a verdict of guilty. The evidence against Sherman was the ones in the hands of the two lawmen and decided to strong and it was p[...]with a bunch of horse thieves that have been operating in He wa[...]that Jones had been at his place with the verdict of guilty, the judge asked him if he had on several[...]t name. Sherman's conviction will have the effect of stated, 'I have one request-take good care of my buckskin scattering an undesirable class of rounders who have been horse until I get out, and[...]man!' · harassing the stockmen in other portions of the county. •Trailer was sentenced to twenty y[...]years and fine of $55 is the extreme penalty in this case.• The[...]people had June 25, 1904: Tommy Reid, who was one of the very much seemingly well founded suspicions.[...]anted horse bandits who have been operating north of Joe Knapp sold out and left the country. He lef[...]es way up on the river.* It Kid Trailer was out of prison in thirteen to fifteen years." appe[...] |
| [...]o the Desonias for their leaves Dutch Henry alone as the sole survivor of the gang unborn child who he felt would be a girl. Mildred, the child up north as it is thought that Carlisle had long ago left the[...]Deputy Sheriff Pledge but not Like many of the outlaws of the early years he under arrest and interviewed several of the prisoners who disappeared, leaving no for[...]t in thunder the Valley County officials wanted of him. He claimed to have been wrangling horses for[...]ian outfit the past two years and has never heard of Dutch Henry or any of the rest of the gang that he (from Homesteader G[...]ill go scot free. singed the hides of countless heads of stock, men drifted Kid Trailer is putting most of his time mastering a fiddle, into the country in search of unbranded horses and cattle, and at times is extremely nervous. He wanted to know if and as second choice took those which had brands that t[...]nd to get off horse rustlers because, unlike most of them, he was with any of Tom Evans' booze it will be a lesson for him quar[...]henceforth he will confine himself to cold water of his victims. when he feels the desire to fill up[...]chlight seemed to take great "Sky" Small, sheriff of Valley County, took his two interest in represent[...]e the public. search of him. July 6, 1904: Owing to lack of evidence Tommy Reid was George Baker,[...]eward for the horse with open arms by the people of Culbertson who appeared thief, he told the sherif[...]d there he would tie the horse in the barn. time of it before the finish was in sight. The officers watched with the aid of field glasses. Baker tied his horse in front of the house. Sid and Sky went[...]Clara Reeser by Camille Bonnabel, early- the name of John Woodruff.[...]ording to Ellis Hurst, an Outlook rancher edition of the Glasgow Courier, October 9, 1962, is as who knew him, was a man who hated petty larceny.[...]yan came to the Hurst ranch to treat an injury he of the window, escaping through the brush. He finall[...]fell on him. worked his way across the line north of Opheim where 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[...]new. had stolen a few days before). He had a pair of shoes on his One time she was trying to catch[...]he door. We with each hand and shot the heads off of both of them at weren't used to that. About that t[...] |
| [...]ut remained FIVE MEN LOOT FLAXVILLE BANK OF $5000 standing by the door with his hands on his[...]ad. The bullet had gone clear Tuesday afternoon of this week and a few minutes later through the Kid and into the shoulder of the other fellow returned to their big Hudso[...]The officers loaded the Kid in a wagon $4,500 of the bank's money and leaving the four bank and to[...]rwood. Calderwood, 104 years old, at the printing of assistant, and O.J. Anderson, bookkeeper wer[...]hands and look down. Milo Kingsley, manager of the[...]THE NORSE BROTHERS ·of the robbers to make a deposit, and Joe Fugere, a[...]hey went anu they did they jerked the deposit out of his hands, pocketed why they went is the story.[...]ordering During the early days when Scobey was known as a him and Fugere to get behind the fixtures and k[...]idn't hands up. do much to improve the reputation of the booming and The victims were the[...]e the contrary. It is said that it the floor. Two of the gang stood guard over them while took Ed Nors[...]the vault. fired from between the business places of Smith and Another man, John Shipman of Wolf Point, and a child Boyd's and Kahle's Pool H[...]shows like to portray. No show-down in the middle of the Hudson Super Six, and they sped away. dusty s[...]imprisoned in the vault soon released themselves of the business places, and Scobey had the first can[...]e Scobey territory immediately, at>out $500 worth of liberty bonds, some of which are but pursued his trade of rounding up horses and cattle. registered and non[...]er, he did not own a ranch, and later drifted out of valuable papers with them. the area and went to N[...]piace, was notified and he and Deputy up his days as a "lifer" in the North Dakota state Tousley were[...]l in the territory according to Banker Schnitzler of Froid, who soon joined west of Scobey. Like so many of the old-time badmen, there the chase in his airsh[...]rysler in under most circumstances. He was a chap of twenty-one which Lawrence Tousley and Murr were f[...]at likeable in his own way. of oil and overheated he was within a mile of them. The One day the sheriff from Glasgow cam[...]He found and arrested him in the true tradition of early The bandit car went south from Flaxvil[...]is hands were freed, he slipped a hills southeast of Homestead when he was forced to secure cyanide pi[...]body knows where the Norse brothers hailed from ; of the men , he and Undersheriff Art Nelson left aga[...]----Ben Shenn um chance of returning with at least some of the gang. *Editor's note--Immediately following the murder of Frank Last Friday afternoon the Froid ban[...]overlooked a was charged with murder in the death of Chapin. The case parcel containing twice that muc[...]t might have been the same gang that "not guilty" of the charge.[...] |
| [...]eriment" was taking place. carried a machine gun, as well as rifle and shotgun. This The traffic in illi[...]this area was no different than any true, though, as booze runners out of Minot carry machine other. guns mounted in th[...]drove an outfit called a buckboard. It was a sort of cross "bread and butter" during the rainless year[...]and a buggy, having no vehicle springs beginning of the great depression. and only light ones under t[...]ming business hauling captured persons, suspected of to haul suitcases, boxes, etc. The passenger limi[...]people. In winter there were very few passengers as people found guilty were given a fine, told not t[...]lding up from snowdrifting into the defended many of those charged with this offense. tracks. Sometime[...]ibition--the farmers, The horses he drove were of western breed weighing who when the warning was b[...]roximately 1200 pounds. They were tough with lots of patrol was in the area, threw out the whiskey mas[...]a fur coat drunkeness; another fearing the advent of the revenue and cap to keep warm on the open trai[...]cure. On the return trip, roads were not built up as they are now and blizzards were passing the field[...]dence lay buried, he heard common the sixty miles of prairie. the bottles b[...]ring the day and to the owner, each explosion was as at all possible. Those who rode with him were teachers loud as a rifle shot; the boxcar load of grapes fermenting coming to teach school,- homest[...]hended by the law. Nelson Tande were among others known to have ridden to Prior to prohibition t[...]loyed a different" driver, Andrew Upsall, brother of private homes, but the most popular was the Dirty[...]a parade in located within the business district of Scobey. Scobey by Howard Hillstrom many years lat[...]was the best lathe man and liquor from the amount of sugar bought. mechanic in the c0Hntry through the many years of its With the repeal of the 18th Amendment, and because it growth.[...]was before the day of the home freezer, many of the charred The mail was handled in the latter[...]THE NOBLE EXPERIMENT The prohibition of intoxicating beverages became law in On J[...]ighted in the the United States upon ratification of the 18th amendment county following a period of wet and cloudy'weather. The to the Constitution a[...]ined in effect until its repeal in December, of the Silver Star area looking riorthwest _from the[...]homeplace. All four photos are of the saine tornado at[...] |
| [...]DAYS OF RECORD WHEAT HAULS[...]in response to a little scratching and a handful of seed, hauls of grain and records for loading were claimed[...]Scobey remembers banner hauls of the first half of the[...]town of less than 1,500 people to load more than 2,750,00[...]bushels of grain in one year.[...]seven 120-bushel wagons tied up, with a shortage of[...]recalled. "If a trainload of empties came in, whether day or[...]P.T. Karlsrud, then manager of the ·Farmers ·E levator[...]scending market for farmers in the west end of Daniels County was from the cloud; in the[...] |
| [...]onal seven miles to Richland, or 23 to sold as low as 18 cents per bushel one day and was only 27 Ophe[...]y to haul wheat with horses and bushels of wheat to town 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 didn't com[...]were as hard as the roads. Of course, those coming from Opheim could not make the 1938- We had a fine crop, but because of the black rust it entire trip in one day and by[...]r incomes from these yields. was from the middle of October to the middle of November and hauling continued until snow made t[...]armers had time to get a way from other work. As a consequence, the Great Northern ran two trains[...]ar round, with extras in the rush season. In one of the Scobey depot's busiest months, 300 cars were[...]d to Opheim in 1926. Then farmers in the west end of the county loaded at their own stations. Canadian trade, which amounted to thousands of bushels each year, was cut off by the building of the branch line parallel with lthe international[...]In 1929, with an unusually good crop in all parts of Daniels County, Scobey's big wheat loading days w[...]y Mrs. Steven Watts and published in a 1947 issue of the Methodist Parish Visitor: 1910- There were four inches of rain. We had no crop because we hadn't broken any[...]1912- We called it a bumper crop. It was a yield of 10 to 32 bushels per acre. Raw sod gave 10 bushel[...]Charles Lorentzen 1913- 11 to 12 bushels per acre of wheat. on Hart Parr tractor,[...]About 17 bushels per acre. 1917- Hail on the 17th of August took all of our crop, both what was standing and what was cut[...]. 1921- A fine prospect failed again. We cut part of ours one way and it made 8 bushels per acr[...] |
| [...]Pete Kleeman 's bumber crop of 1928, Peerless. Lower[...]photo, grain shocks northwest of Scobey, same year.[...] |
| [...]grown on the Carney ranch, about ten miles north of the new station Westfork. The ranch consists of 640 acres. Mr. Carney took a 320-acre homestead a[...]was about 25 bushels to the acre. The state land of similar quality in this locality is appraised at $10 to $12 an acre. The new land usually produces wheat of high protein test which often brings a premium of 10% or more above the normal market price. Pictur[...]Threshing at the Crandell farm, northwest of Scobey, late[...] |
| [...]y team hitched to grain wagon. He has hat at back of his head, a dark handkerch_ief knotted at[...] |
| [...]sod. Not lugs on rear wheels of engine. George Severson breaking sod with horses[...]Aime Carrier breaking sod northwest of Four Buttes. Axel and Pete Furuli diskin[...] |
| [...]ard homestead at Orvile. Note the device in front of the tractor to keep the wheel in the furrow; also[...]ngineer; 1912. ready for seeding, Spring of 1926. Mel Thunem plowing - 1921[...] |
| [...]things for heat. Fortunately, beneath the surface of the[...]n northeastern Montana lie millions upon millions of tons of lignite coal. In some places it rests just below[...]surface; in others, much deeper. Thin veins of it are often seen in the banks of rivers and creeks.[...]'. Sod house of Clint Richardson, Coal Creek. Sod shanty of Martin Froslan (seated), Leo Vandenberg |
| [...]distance of around fifteen miles. George E. Grubbs mining and[...]Near the Silver Star hall southwest of Scobey, Tom Jim Collins coal mine - 1931 Merrick, first operator of the mine bearing the name of the[...]northwest of Scobey. Much of the coal that was burned in[...]The Howe mine at Coal Creek employed as many as· twenty men in the fall of the year. The Lovell mine, with[...]There were mines located in almost every area of the county; many of the mines had names which are still[...]A spark caused a keg of powder to explode at the Wiley[...]"Tiny" Wiley, with fifty percent of his body burned, Lignite is inferior to the ant[...]tuminous coals survived. found in other regions of our country, but with patience it Without t[...]could not have been developed. During the days of scant It is only natural that numerous m[...] |
| Then came the years of cheap 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[...]t an operating coal mine in Daniels County: But, as these photos attest, it was not always so.[...]horses in 1914. Haying on Police Creek, south of Four Buttes, in the Filling haymow of barn with hay using slings. When the |
| Buffalo on the Walt Truax ranch west of Peerless in 1926. Grading roads in 1917-1918 n[...]1912 by Baxter Adams, early day aviation pioneer of the Road East of Archer where everyone got stuck in the W[...]g. Taken in 1913. On highway four miles north of Scobey, Montana. March |
| [...]t Orville, Montana in 1912. (Note crowd and modes of transportation) HOMESTEAD CHRISTMASES[...]or several |
| [...]JACK BENNETT A. Davis, probably one of the earliest of them all. He was the father of Billy Davis of Davis and Shook Ford Agency On April 4, 1913 Sheridan Tom Courtney and his deputy, and of George, the black sheep, who fitted exactly the[...]Burmester answered what appeared to be a picture of the old west. They were all a great and wonderful[...]people. Their fortitude in the most trying times of the 30's against a Negro laborer who had been disturbing the peace revealed the real quality of which they were made.No, here and who was known to be armed. In making the arrest there was no war with stockmen of the kind we often read both Courtney and[...]ith 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 the unexpired term of the murdered was thus that my father made our ear[...]to 1924. Now that we are speaking of Quality People, let us not On one occasi[...]"Three Wheel" Smith's farm forget those hundreds of fellow farmers who should be very to possess a team of horses on a foreclosure. Smith, who proud to have[...]ree-wheeled steam engine, also had one's strength of character and merits. a[...]at the farm Smith was hauling applied on a basis of occupation or time they were hay wi[...]enced and widely dispersed among the whole people of let the team go and a fight began. The wo[...]lly got Smith down but the latter bit off the end of one remembered. I want now, therefore, to add to the list those of the sheriffs thumbs. Jack was in bad shape, but h[...]rom Sheridan's Daybreak to help Scobey to become, as it boasted, the largest "Primary Wheat Market of the World". These were some of the people who took such active parts in bringing[...]ed by the old John Brown, farmer of the Peerless area, came to that timers. Nor were[...]in the early 1930's. He purchased a half section of field, Joe Walker among them. Yes, I wish they we[...]accept the honors for their long later. years of great effort, namely Knapp and Crandell, Davis[...]ic Hillstrom, Pat Murphy and H.C. Nelson who was, as records. earlier related, out in the lead of the early migration of He was a "loner" and therefore there was much "Sod Busters" leaving his mark as businessman and early speculation about[...]d dead in his shack in Peerless in February, some of the most trying and frustrating years of his life. 1959 at the age of 67. Too often most of us have been too reserved and even The[...]to our was found that he, at the time of his death, had a .32 in a neighbors and friends u[...]live. his person as well as another check of a large amount. He Here is a short account of the H.C. Nelson family since owned stock in[...]t placed his farm for sale. Northern as a telegrapher until he died in 1963; Ly le died i[...]ger for Corning An early 1927 issue of the Daniels County Leader stated Glass Co. at Big[...]mmer. enjoy good health again after a long period of Robert Bruce was born in 1887[...]ely hope to pay Scobey a visit in to parents of Scottish and Chippewa descent. the not too distan[...]couraging played football on the same team as Jim Thorpe.[...] |
| [...], North Dakota community band under the direction of Harold Bachman. Upon the outbreak of the war, the band enlisted en masse, and througho[...]h in this country and overseas, remained together as a band. It became known as Bachman's "Million Dollar Band". Following the[...]"between jobs" when he accepted the directorship of the Scobey band that year, but would appear with[...]age of ten, he moved west to Albion, Iowa, where he Th[...], Being of that sturdy American pioneer type who seem to The arrested man was wanted-for the murder of a RCMP grow restless under the influence of civilization and ease, constable during a bank ho[...]Thursday, May 27, 1920 BRIEF HISTORY OF MANSFIELD A. DANIELS, (By P.E. Burke, of Scobey, Montana May 27, 1920)[...]and Marjorie Daniels. |
| jobs around the Indian agency, including his old trade of carpentering. In 1901, Mr. Daniels made his first trip north to the present site of "Old Scobey", which is located on the west bank of the Poplar river about two miles southwest of the present town of Scobey. Here he conceived the idea of starting the farming and ranching business and also of establishing a small country store. The reader is asked at this point to.stop and consider what this part of the country must have been like at that time. Tha[...]and the strong man of the community. It should be explain-[...]Mr. Daniels was one of those big-hearted frontiersmen[...]whom we all know or have read of, and who were eternally[...]the Daniels. hardships of building up the community and who is today[...]Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of[...]re at established the present 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, ·and consisted almost entirely of In 1912, Mr. Daniels began the erection of a beautiful stock ranchers who lived many miles a[...]e on a cozy little hill overlooking the west bank of the of cayuse and lariat, bachelors and flapjacks--a tim[...]ar 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 modern t[...]were in full evidence the year 'round. of the best in this part of the state notwithstanding that On January 20, 1909, Mr. Daniels was united in marriage every bit of material had to be freighted 60 miles overian.d a[...]t year Mr. and Mrs. himself out physically. A man of great physical stature Daniels moved to Scobey an[...]a ranch, and there and strength, he never thought of a breakdown and he Mrs. Daniels still resides. Scobey postoffice had just been gave unreservedly of his body and mind to his manifold established at that time by Joseph Bonnes, another of the duties. early and most respected pioneers of this section, who has The writer of this sketch came to "Old Scobey" in July, since p[...]Mr. Daniels was then broken in health and it was of "old" Scobey. Mrs. Charles Woodley became postmas[...]upon his throat, he returned to Scobey in October of that until it was discontinued about three years[...]aniels in that year--and Daniels and received all of the publicity that goes with an that while he was believed to be in his last earthly days-~ office of this nature. was the moving of the town of Scobey--the town he had "Mannie" Daniels, as he was known to his more intimate planned, nurtured and built-[...]foundation it occupies today. The reason for this of course, was beca us~ of his future home, and be it said to his eve[...] |
| [...]ad being built from Plentywood was fraternity, of which he was a member, and was attended by becaus[...]border old acquaintances from near and far. of the state from North Dakota and the Great Norther[...]ublican in politics, but the deeds and lives of that class of God's noblemen who repeatedly refused to enter the arena as a contestant. He pioneer and blaze the trails[...]ter may work and by entering politics was a host of enemies. In regard to live in comparative comfort. Of this class of men was enemies, it is truthfully said he had ve[...]came, he hewed and he won. Now In the winter of 1919, Mr. Daniels suffered a paralytic he has[...]are left to mourn the presence and daily comfort of end h;d come and gave evidence of it in many ways. The one whom we learned t[...]t call him back, but first move for the creation of a county bearing his nam e we have done a fit[...]ed unmistakable signs new county upon the map of Montana , and named it in his oi deep feeling when informed of it. memory--DANIE[...] |
| [...]n Scobey's history. The first was the inland town of Scobey on the banks of the Poplar River; the second was the new town of East Scobey at its present site; and the third, Scobey as it is today.[...]string of horses pulling sleighs, which were used to haul[...]to make the round trip of 100 miles. The cost of hauling was[...]ver, Scobey, Montana Old Scobey on the Banks of the Poplar River Some odd 75 years ago on the prairies of Montana in a He kept his eyes wide open to the idea as he followed the Thus a town took shape on the banks of the Poplar River. |
| [...]y center for sixty mi es around . garage business of R.J. Coughlin and Charlie Grimes, a I[...]an the boarding and rooming house, and the office of Paul Crum, east edge of the Poplar fl at, which was accomplished in Legal[...]1913. He had hoped th e railroad would come as far as the Timmons saw the need for ater conservation an[...]cross the Poplar enough water to flood many acres of hay land. flat and on 60 miles[...]July 4, 1913-Scobey, Montana A 1911 picture of the old Scobey postoffice, Mansfield |
| Then came the time for the migration of business places There wasn't a jail in[...]onstable and homes to "east Scobey". Like a flock of prairie named Roy Corneveau. He rod[...]ound town. One night east and settled there. Many of the buildings were moved the boys in the saloon were getting a little wild as some of by John Lee of Froid, Montana Case tractor. The first[...]e fellow was in pretty house to be moved was that of Martin Smith, the residence bad shape. He[...]said that the De Laval cream separator was one of the[...]round. to Old Scobey in 1913, living out the rest of his life in this Mr. Blegen said he had 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 Daniel[...]girls I wanted I couldn't hardware and implements as well as food, harness, etc. He have and the girls[...]dn't want!" also had some land several miles west of the old townsite, southeast of Four Buttes. He moved up to the Scobey townsite i[...]cobey in passed away in Scobey in 1974 at the age of 82. He resided 1910 and lived here until 1[...]. How he Harland, Iowa. Lew was the last of the Boyd family. He left loved to visit about the Old Scobey and the pioneer days! no children of his own. The following article is from the Daniel[...]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 local citizenry - Do you know where the[...]moving to the present townsite with the arrival of the steel. located in the middle of the street between what is now the Martin d[...]located so teams could be driven part of the business to Thomas Conboy, now of East around and up to it for convenient watering[...]orated in For the last fifteen years of his life Lou lived in Portland, 1916 and before t[...]s installed). Oregon where he was a member of the Hinson Baptist Do you know where the first st[...]light. He assisted Ira Nelson in the installation of it, just west of the Johnson Transfer. It was installed to facilit[...]d one sister. When he was 21 years old he and one of his brothers came west to Poplar. He rode[...] |
| [...]Mr. Bonnes was part owner of a lumber yard in Madoc[...]s household goods which is still a landmark. As soon as the floor was in, all and shipped out from Velva,[...]put in. Joe, himself, furnished the music, as he was a great Scobey area.Joe Bonnes found the p[...]on Harry took violin 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[...]s. changed their whole lives. In the fall of 1916 Harry, then Bonnes' brother, John Opsahl and[...]ck houses, which from every direction, as Harry was well liked. He was were soon built and[...]buried in the Scobey cemetery so the procession of wagons, Bonnes' house was a two-story, five bedro[...]nskaas and Wesley Lasiter. A was possible because of a spring in the hillside above the sidelight of Louis Boyd furnishing the Cadillac, Joe house fro[...]member in the Anti-Saloon League planted a grove of beautiful trees. and[...]e the saloons. But in The Bonnes had three sets of twins plus two other times of tragedy, differences are soon forgotten. children. They were Olive and Harry, first set of twins, That winter Joe thought a change of scene might help Edith, Luella who's twin died at[...]is. In the spring a sad Mrs. just coming "in" but of course only "wicked" girls used it! Bonnes an[...]ved into what is now the with cornstarch (in lieu of powder) on her face! It seemed to Carmen Bush h[...]n the saying, "Spare the rod few years. Some of the renters were: J. Elmer Jones , who's a[...] |
| [...]ered the chickens , made sausages and hamburger - of her friends to pick the red currants she had grow[...]abundantly . They usually took home some buckets of that we had no market for the liver, h[...]eft here abo ut 1920 and it is believed that most of the children live on the west coast. My dad, C[...]n where he was buying and selling horses. A group of us decided to move t o Montana from Radville. Mak[...], hauled it to town and delivered it door-to-door as[...]and did a lot of sewing for the Wards. I cooked on a cook car[...]Collinson, Irving and I drove a team of horses to Erstads[...]Daniels, Oies , Knapps and Shippams were some of our[...]of Scobey and have farmed it ever since. Ole passed[...]Old Scobey in September, 191 3. When we as he had suffered with heart trouble for six[...] |
| [...]an architect. She had hoped A PATCHWORK OF MEMORIES to go on w[...]t. Olafs in Northfield. I ngrid was to be a class of Fargo High School in 1904. Ingrid was born May[...]er melancholy. Says she really loves every member of the class. One of those whom we hate to leave."[...]ide want to be a la wyer, but he was the last of fo ur s ns, and the flags for the cold weather (a[...]with another young Paul was nicknamed "Crum", "Soldier Boy" . His pet lawyer named Halvorson.[...]teach ing in from the annual, " He was president of the Athletic elementary school, to ask her to marry him. They were Association and the Board of Control, and the Athletic married Decemb[...]view. He was center on the football team, manager of Tacoma, Washington. Ingrid and Paul Crum Ii ved in football and basketball, and managing editor of Cynosure. E smon d until they moved to Amar[...]alvorson was again Paul's was knocked on the head as he was the lightest man on the partner in M[...]n, October 22, 1911 , team. However, he took care of the position in good shape, and Helen on Jan[...]ower quite grown up, my sister chose Susan as her first name,[...] |
| and retained Helen as a middle name. When we were little I called her Honeen , as I could not pronounce Helen. Later this was short[...]were originally from England , with an admixture 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. Bixby commendi[...]g given five sons to the Civil War. The Crum side of t~e family were Pennsylvania Dutch. Paul was born[...]ilitary Academy at Grand Forks, at the University of North Dakota. This - together with the mood of the times was probably the crucial influence in h[...]ng up San Juan Hill in " the most splendid moment of h is life". The men in blue , and " the moment[...]up the hill, up the hill. It was the best moment of anyone's life. " The year in the Phillipines w[...]st important event - and the dominating influence of his entire life. To make an often reprinted story short- "The Boy Hero of the Phillipines" as he was to be called, like most of the young men of the Grand Forks Military Academy, was possessed by a wild desire to do soldier duty in the Phillipines, but was refused because[...]l Crum-taken about 1902 San Francisco and shipped as an ordinary seaman on the boat Andrew Welch bound[...]re the Daniels and the perhaps with the "fever", as his grandmother feared. Timmons. He filed on a quarter section five miles north of Death was ever present in the Philippines. With poor the present site of Scobey, and made arrangements for sanitation, ca[...]being told that we arrived in Old identification of the yellow fever virus , and the poor camp Sc[...]But the years which followed gave us all some of our most army blanket and buried on the prairie[...]ials for our home authorized to wear the uniform of Uncle Sam. Later, were hauled sixty[...]special bills passed by Congress in recognition of Crum's limited size before we arrived by h[...]came exposed and there was the fragrance of the new wood. the first Commander of the first V F W Post in Montana.[...] |
| [...]Mother said our home was first built on the bank of the in the buggy with our horse Henry. Dad[...]e built Poplar river in the valley. Then, because of spring floods, it in the new site of Scobey in 1914. It was just around the was moved[...]son's Drug Store where we enjoyed ice a good view of the valley and Stoney Point.[...]Dad planted a Caragana hedge around our cluster of office , a pleasant two room bulding w[...]or little buildings, placing a bone at the bottom of each hole. of ink, dusty books and tobacco , and enjoyed lookin[...]nd Reds, and and there was the sound of hammering and sawing, and sold the eggs. Dad also planted Russian olive trees and the fragrance of new wood and sawdust. honeysuckle. In the valley he had an orchard of sorts. The In the winter, Mom used to go[...]ants, gooseberries and rhubarb did will. But best of all, with us. When there were blizzards and snow too deep for there was a clump of wild Juneberries. trave[...]I would go early in the Oie, the banker. Out of tobacco during one blizzard , he put mornings to[...]e evening, Steve, Honey and I would be at the top of of chewing tobacco! the bluff to meet Dad coming in[...]butter layer cake with fudge frosting. A crock of beans, baked all day in the oven , was one of our favorite meals.[...]davenport which served as a bed for Uncle Roy and Aunt[...]with us for part of one winter, while he wa s out of work in[...]angels at the foot of our bed. We soon found th ey were[...]phonograph. Many of Dad 's favorite records were marches[...]often let us use the con ten ts of her trunk to play " dress up". The Paul Crum Home[...]blue, watered silk drawstring case of engraved calling Summertime in Montana was love[...]new every stone, hill and in the shape of spiders or butterflies. And a lovely soft red gul[...]ars Roebuck" house , a big red house the patterns of sunlight on the pebbles beneath the rippling where the Dobbins lived, and where we had wonderful surface of the water and listen to the music as it babbled on, times. Mrs. Dobbin was always re[...]out to Honey and me. Steve was the first and last of us who was the hills and pick buttercups,[...]er the wrong baby by mistake. However, Dr. of which I've forgotten the names. These were arrang[...]ets over the candies before hanging them on the As soon as Taylor could toddle, Mom took him down to doorknobs of our friends homes. Then we would knock on the river with the rest of us, and he promptly sat down in the[...] |
| [...]for The first thing we would do, after a tom of our 1o.vo11te s '··- 1, Amenc..-- n f r, gw n Hall, whfr h as owned place, was to search for the toys and thing[...]ad at that time. Uad was of the· first vestry behind us. As soon as we awoke we would be out in the sun[...]rything in sight turn as Sunday School Superintendent and played the cover[...], and I suppose, Mother especially. would see one of the dark funnel clouds, she would hurry us[...]afternoon and the four of us excused a bit early, and drove was over. I can still recall the mixed odors of earth , once more the[...]melancholy and deserted . But we enjoyed the rest of the Biard Pittinger farm from Indiana for the sum[...]r townspeople enjoyed it as much as we did. We came back nearby where we found broken bits of pottery and odds and oft[...]ften bring an old ends to represent th e contents of our cupb oard. From this c[...]Taylor and I emptied our banks experience, except of course for Mrs. Watts ' ream and fifty[...]ety Store, and then to cen t - five po und crocks of butter, delivered by horse and[...]nd go to the Old Another childhood memory was of the pleasant cool M[...]ke any other store in town, a shack earthen floor of the original sod kitchen of the Pittingers to really. Amid the jumble 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 homemade candies - and t[...]his money still had all of his, so he was elected to buy. When "The Red Rive[...]the Old Man came back with the change, instead of rides .[...]ere gen uine, year 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 h[...]committed to Socialism or Communism as compared to the They would have a crowd in for a[...]easy going and sometimes apathetic attitude of many of us be h eaped with good food . I ate rabbit there[...]Workers of the World ". were ever present when we were M[...], ..... __ _:: ~1.. e I W W came to be understood as " I Won 't h omestead only part of the tirn , usually ga v ~, :- s soon[...]Elizabeth Grace, (Betty) the only one of us with blue eyes neig hbor for s hares , which a[...]s in Bainville. He had sold the white say nothing of the possibility of an oil strike.[...]bought a the eastern edge of town. Ford to uring car, and there were many more[...]s from time to time as the family grew." Paul Jr., the last of Cudhie as my teacher. The year was 1918 and one of my the Crum children[...]d at was to parade downtown to watch the burning of the building ship[...]Although the depression came along at the end of high and where we were to march, and trying to d[...], before that even, Dad would often receive a bag of to carry the flag, I had a great desire to be th[...]teen, I was given a horse by a good farmer friend of away from her face. When she chose me I was happ[...]mer and fall I rode over American flag. The rest of the day and the bonfire blur in[...]always had the happy memory of that time when we were Honey started school t[...]th all nature. in the grades she caught up to me as she was promoted, a nd[...]an electrical engineer. He went to work as head of design Street. Later, All Saints Chapel[...] |
| [...]where Didi died of cancer ten years ago.[...]Both Taylor and Didi warned repeatedly of the danger of communism. Perhaps a final irony in Taylor's life[...]disappearance of all his savings to try to save Didi's[...]Communists after the takeover of Rumania. When all[...]the sale of the farm north of Scobey, were exhausted the[...]Los Angeles. There are three Phillipines as a boy, and which determined the entire children.[...]iology teacher; Tom, with a degree in course of his life. He wrote to me as follows: English literature, now studying law; an[...]oma and coal back to San Francisco. On my Command as a refrigeration engineer during WWII. Both[...], and Chris loves to fish and Anniversary of the Selmer Oie American VFW in Scobey, garden, vi[...]andchildren. Our son honoring Paul Crum as First Commander and co-founder. Chris is a comman[...]urney into the past, one central truth stands out as safety officer on the Aircraft Carrier John F. Ke[...]egree at afraid to strike out alone. First, as a youth, across the vast Rutgers. She is married to Dr. Frederic Bass, and with their emptiness of the ocean, to defend what he believed to be the t[...]er and Benjamin, live in Vancouver, honor of his country. Then, as a young man with a family, British Columbi[...] |
| [...]Alfred was an early pioneer stockman and farmer of It is highly possible , that with the same spirit of early Scobey, coming to what is now D[...]courageous search - with the desires and fetters of earth 1909. He was born in Bellview, Min[...]he also homesteaded about ten miles southwest of Scobey.[...]daughter, Blanche. He kept intact the collection of curios[...]passed away in Scobey in August 1954. I was one of th e first women in the New Scobey in 191 3. A Mr[...]Back around 1913, the Nelsons were residents of Scobey. In March 1914 we closed the restaurant, as Mr. Discher They had a hardware store w[...]med I started a power laundry in th e back half of the building north of Scobey, on what later became the Joe McKiernan and ran it for a couple of years; sold it to a Hockam, and Mr. place. He[...]had bought th e building that now is right north of early day resident of Scobey. They both moved to the St. the Legion Hal[...]isit several times We built a house, right west of the hall and shop and ran after they left[...]and landed in Old Scobey, I think the early part of THE DAVID N. NYQUIST FAMILY Octo[...]dren and I drove over with two horses and balance of our belongings. David N. Nyquist was[...]n Sweden, coming to America 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 years for[...]nson leased the building Dr. Olson had of western lands and opportunity, young Dave came to[...]the major offensives of the A.E.F., being discharged in[...]of law and in 1922 received his degree from the Minn[...]College of Law. He married Miss Marie Howe in 1920, and[...]1920, and was to serve in that capacity the fall of 1950. The first year of their marriage was spent for several more t[...]tationed Shippam, early day clerk of court. He then moved his with the United States A[...]Ronald taught practice and also served as State Representative from school for five years.[...]ing into business. They the practice of his brother, John, who had decided to leave opera[...]later have three children: Charolette, a graduate of the was known as the Downs apartments. University of Montana with a degree in Business[...]he Repulbican Education now working in the office of Public Instruction ticket in 1936 and se[...]fulfill the duties of that office during the absence of Judge[...] |
| Vernon Hoven, who had taken leave of his duties to enter 80th birthday in 1973[...]and was the service. In 1948 he sought the office of district judge in interviewed by the Daniels Co[...]North Dakota July Lottie is at this time one of the longest continuous 11, 1888 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Penn. He moved with his residents of Scobey - in her blood is an equal mixture of parents to Velva , North Dakota in 1900 to[...]Montana in the early days homestead north of Velva . . . . and of those who met them. Lottie was born October 5, 18[...]om Lottie never knew; she was taken into the home of Mansfield and Addie Daniels as a child, and began her schooling at Poplar. In 19[...]m Poplar was made by wagon , a two-day trip. (One of the wagon drivers was Jake Davis, a squatter in S[...]r the daughter, Blanche, and quietly observed all of the goings on in the bustling new town. She remem[...]Daniels and Timmons Store as a clerk and machine[...]salesman. He homesteaded six miles south of Old Scobey.[...]moved. He became owner of the International Harvester Company of the new town. 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.[...]e passed away in Scobey on May 10, 1964. fortunes of Mansfield Daniels and Timmons when the[...]ne on higher ground, about a mile or so northeast of old Scobey. Lottie got her first job in the te[...]id Bennett became postmaste,_ Lottie worked there as a postal clerk Jake Timmons of Iowa brought his wife and daughter for more than[...]Old Scobey the (she recently sold her farm south of Madoc to Don Mohn same year. He managed[...]looking for credit quietly observing the passage of years. (She celebrated her or politic[...] |
| equally, with Mr. Daniels, in the trials and hardships 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 of County Commissioners in old Sheridan County.[...]d brush, storing enough water to flood many acres of hay land.[...] |
| [...]UNTY From Big Horn County, which covered most of the |
| [...]not least, let us strive to keep in mind THE WISH OF THE VOTERS OF THE NEW COUNTY in the making of Daniels county we have stood "all for OF DANIELS HAS BEEN VOICED AND WON[...]n every righteous DECISIVELY. WISDOM AND SANCTION OF THE sense of duty. MAJORITY DEMONSTRATED BY HEAVY VOTING FOR D[...]Vol. VIII NUMBER 20 SCOBEY AS LOGICAL COUNTY SEAT CITY.[...]ELECTION RETURNS OF The long desired county of Daniels is realized at last;[...]TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1920 progressive counties of the northeastern part of Montana. Scobey, the progressive city of enterprise added the longed[...]Vote for laurels to her crown when she was chosen as county seat of the new county.[...]SEAT There has been much talk and speculation as to the possibility of making a new county and the choice of Scobey[...]y seat, nevertheless there has been no real doubt as to Madoc 358 the ultimate outcome as all plans for the new county and county seat had[...]appointed to execute same. County of Daniels NO 260 From the returns of the election the results show that those in charg[...]be given those who were connected with the making of the new county and choice of Scobey for REPRESENTATIV[...]784 evident that their work was as a whole, that of wisdom and sound judgment, emphatically endorsed[...]COUNTY COMMISSIONERS the majority of those residing inside the limits of the Bick Edwards 575 county of Daniels.[...]619 Madoc, the only rival of Scobey for county seat honors, Frank Hug[...]738 consideration of the county seat, but to no avail. She made[...]nner - excepting perhaps, in her immediate sphere of H.J. Hole[...]be realized, and plainly speaking never will be, as G.P. Laughlin 334 far as her desire is concerned to be the county seat of David J. Martin[...]407 The contest, as desired by Scobey, has been a friendly, good natu[...]has expressed her CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT wish to retain Madoc 's good will in the future as in the past, John Shippam[...]free from humiliation and insinuations - this is as it Peter Tang[...]obey's reward can justly be claimed on the merits of Orville E. Lockrem[...]405 her contention - the desires and choice of the majority of the voters. Madoc can gracefully bow to her conqu[...]on is past, may it be left at rest. The selection of office rs have their duties to perform may the sacredness of COUNTY ASSESSOR their duty prove the choice of their supporters has not been Harry A. Gib[...]. May the opportunities presented by the creation of Hayden M. Thomas[...]Frank M. Robinson with power, to the advancement of all good, growth and progressive yet conservative[...]gain COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT of every man, woman or child within its borders. Let[...]993 and always, be a credit to the great State of Montana, free L. Madge Woodley[...] |
| 1963 Elected County Officials and Clerks (Year of the Jubilee). Back row: J. Edward Carney, Aruid C[...]en built and operated by a woman from Kansas City known as "one-eyed Molly" shortly after the town of Scobey moved to its present location, was purchased to serve as the county courthouse. This building is one of the few courthouses to be found in eastern Montana that still retains the facade of its early years , complete with balcony across th[...]nt is used by the staff to facilitate the keeping of records and to expedite county business.[...]Eugene LaRoche, G.A. Esval Office of Daniels County Assessor since its Clerk and Recor[...]duals held this position, namel y: Frank M. Clerk of the District Court . . . . . . . . . . . . John S[...]........... , . . . . . . Frank M. Robinson Supt. of Schools ..................... Mabel V. Tha[...] |
| [...]mmissioners: Frank Hughes - 1920-1920; G.A. first of July 1973 it has been with the Department of Esval - 1920-1924; Eugene P. LaRoche - 1920-1926; Revenue of the State and th e Assessor and all his h elp is[...]Wagner - 1923-1928; paid by the State Department of Revenue. The Assessor of W.K. Ferguson - 1925-1930; John L. Gunderson - 1927- Daniels Co unty had been doing all the appraising of 1932; Charles P. Jones - 1929-1930. prop[...]8; M.A. LaMotte - 1935- going with the Department of Revenue there has been an 1940; George Ols[...]y Day - 1939-1944; a pprai ser hired to take care of land and buildings. Wyvil Bjerke - 1943-1[...]land; M.J . Traynor. Catherine Darchuk, Clerk of Court Clerk of court: John Shippam -June 1920 to February |
| [...]HISTORY OF DANIELS COUNTY[...]8. He was Aftercare Counselor with the Department of Institutions from 1968 to 1971. He was appointed[...]1971. He was first elected Secretary-Treasurer of Montana Probation Officers' Association in May 19[...]ected every year since. County Superintendent of Schools: Mabel V. Thayer C.A. Hillstrom, County Superintendent of Schools. Ernest Sell, S[...]1943 to 1954 with Pat Horton as Under Sheriff. Pat Horton[...]taking office. Because of the death of Pat Horton, Russell[...]with L. Warner Harrison as Under Sheriff. The present[...] |
| [...]A lan Linder Begi n ning with th e term of March 1975 was th e fi rst year a[...] |
| Daniels County courthouse employees as heads appear: Patricia Baker, Patricia Cla[...] |
| HISTORY OF DANIELS COUNTY FREE LIBRARY[...]. Ben Dahl, Mrs. for a discussion on organizatipn of a public library. A Marvin Sorte, Mrs. Flossie Nelson, and Mrs. Oscar library committee of Scobey Women's Club members was Thomp[...]Mrs. Casper The present library board of trustees are: Mrs. Earl Brenden, finance chairman[...]Wm. Cromwell, Jr. , Mrs. Charles Carl Lindquist. As a result the two clubs met with the Mot[...]d Arnold county commissioners who offered the use of the old Anderson. welfare office in the basement of the Daniels County Court In the summer of 1975 Daniels County started the House. Ten Women's Cl uh members donated their services building of a new multi-purpose building on Timmons to cleani[...]t to house the new library. out letters to ladies of other towns and communities in[...]s and money in a door-to-door campaign . Doors of the new library were opened on May 4, 1946 with a[...]Adding it to the library treasury made a balance of $249. The name of the library was " City-County Library" and the ho[...]AIR p.m. on Wednesdays. Ladies donated their time as librarians. Mrs. Victor Hillstrom was appointed t[...]mbers met again with The board took care of the fairgrounds, and was in charge the county commissioners urging them to take over the of annual exhibits of 4-H projects and other items. These responsibilities and finances of the library. This could not exhibits were hel[...]rary high school gym . was the responsibility of the Daniels County, and it was Earlier,[...]ty Free Library" and is still some of these were large and well-attended celebrations.[...]organizations met to make plans for the formation of a In November 1959 the library was moved to it[...]air Association should In 1967 a Library Board of Trustees was appointed by consist of 21 trustees, elected to represent all parts of the the commissioners to manage the finances of the library county. In January 1955, the[...]displayed in the high school gym. counties of Daniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Phillips and[...]for the 1958 fair. State Librarian, David Hoffman 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 w[...]ration . 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[...]July 1, 1972, the commissioners from the counties of made fun (races, pie-eating contests, rolli[...]e to service rural areas . It is a variety of acrobatic acts and typical vaudeville acts. A 4-[...]nd the 4-H beef auction takes place following one of the Whitetail , and Scobey, and on April[...] |
| [...]A SAGA OF SCHOOLS It would take years of research with what records are Each area[...]hools. In 1920 what may have been the peak |
| [...]The role of the rural schools played a very important part P[...]10 in the development of the area. Parts of the county became Hance Gilch[...]Chicoi n e were community centers of activities and were known la ndmarks. However , as the years passed and depression District No. 4[...]to di stance, roads and weather the length of the school[...]of school picnic was a traditional affair attended b[...]District No. 13 District No. 20 As time went on, modern school houses were built. Ne[...]The co min g of better roads, rapid transportation , Orville[...]passing of a tradition, " the little white school house" wen[...]out of existen ce. It was with reluctance that many saw[...]ool Census showed 1,982 children between the ages of six and 21 years of age. The names of th e schools were selected for varied reasons . Som e such as Four Buttes, Eagle Creek, Li n e Coulee were base[...]rs were identifiable with a name in the community of people who lived there, s uch as Frederick, Duck and Michel. Several of the schools existed only briefly and eventua ll y[...]gically existing districts. Occasion a ll y som e of the schools were ph ysically m oved from y[...] |
| [...]hur Bureau, Alfred Bureau. go. It meant the end of an era and the feeling was A firm[...]parents will tell their child ren those schools of yesterday. Here's to the parents , the |
| [...]rom a scratch to a ruptured appendix. They served as counselors and encyclopedias, dictionaries and legal ad visors. The history of the early day teacher is one of many brave young people who ventured West to take advantage of free land offered to homesteaders. Many taught sc[...]The salaries were small, the classes often large as schools were not plentiful and many older childre[...]to prepare lesson plans by daylight. In a number of Many of the teachers welcomed an opportunity to teach[...]ead cocoa for the noon lunch (a forerunner of our hot lunch claims. Books were gathered and for[...]would peel some vegetables, wash for the children of the early arrivals. dish[...], do the janitor work (free), dazzling surface of the whitest snow, although a blizzard supervise playground and instill a love of learning in their could come up unexpectedly and suddenly. In the summer charges. Few of the early 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 ma[...]interested in chicken or rabbit. the welfare of their pupils.[...]cooler) succeeded a water pail and The duties of the teacher in the early days were endless. t[...]n the early years frugality was a necessary order of the on the way to pick ripe rose berries, chase g[...]to " go straight home", then educational needs of the children. Every teacher was a the teac[...] |
| each fall she was loaded down with boxes and bags of graders took county-wide examinations at the end of the equipment, because she carried her tools of her trade with term to determine if they qua[...]school; some technically the responsibility of the local boards of child's grandmother or aunt from the east came to visit trustees, it was the responsibility of the County school. She came to see what the child[...]dge the teacher. The pupils were operation as well as work on the budget for each fiscal year usually o[...]visitor working in conjunction with the Board of County was, some of the children were eager to recite and they were[...]rsonal attention, which Department of Public Instruction. sometimes he received immedia[...]ll and spring to check progress and the condition of operation. All were accredited. These were loca[...]Scobey, Flaxville, Peerless and Whitetail. Most of the helps to the teacher. She was the person the[...]few living fairly close by managed some sort of visits to the school. She was often held in terro[...]d athletic team provided a guideline - the course of study - where also. requirements in terms of math, reading, language and Since 19[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963- Bill Lapke as bus driver for Madoc School - 1930's Mabel V. Thayer teacher in 1919. Became first County |
| [...]You may love your land of palm and pine, Prairie Chapter had its birth;[...]dimmed its luster, Part of the infinite Master Plan , Only added to its wort[...]They challenge to effort the sons of man.[...]H uldah Lucile Winsted As we read the Chapter's history ,[...]d in each task. Many twinkling stars were added, |
| [...]s are learning more today Vast rolling ruggedness of brush and sage; From specialized t[...]But I remember that one room school Mute symbols of the ravages of age. Where we all were taug[...]THE LEADERS Against a back-drop of such awesome size, Small, unimportant thoughts ju[...]Was the first of all of these For he found the land of America[...]George Washington fought . Like a fiery sheet of gold. Breezes blow! As the sun sinks low, Four score and seven years later Gathering waves of heat, Came a man[...]And the evil Jesse James. Cattle and great flocks of sheep Graze in twilight's loom ,[...]Probably for the better. Some of us walked , some rode a mule[...] |
| HERITAGE OF THE PLAINS no doubt pr[...]voices and words You can hear the haunting sound of hooves that echo in Traveli[...]over the golden grain of language. Haunting the land of the golden grain. The spirit of these words[...]flows and welds If you listen close as well you might with mine until You can hear the roar of the coming train I cannot separate[...]ss the plain or those of others , Traveling with the golden grain And with Tennyson I Haunting the land of the golden grain. accept that[...]part of all You can hear the trod of the settler's step that I have[...]g out for rain From the echoes of After the seeding and the crop begin[...]stubborn courage; Haunting the land of the barren plain. " Try again[...]depth and she lived by Of the cattle, the train, the cry for rain[...]cross the plain years of love, of Traveling over the golden grain laughter, of Haunting the land of the golden grain . sorrow, of work Marian D[...]From the echoes of SUN FLOWER[...]ayed , in a tenor voice, As staunch as s tubborn pioneers cl[...]oh, I believed Age and Time are part of in him. God'[...]comes from a need most points of view. of his own; As we reach the age of When his spir[...]when effort lagged, of them glows[...]"This, too, will of the years[...] |
| Echoing voices return As he rode his horse o'er acres broad incessantly, and He dreamed of future great empires. the spirit of their flow[...]s there, Out of sod and grass to build his home. and music is t[...]By Rose Prestage, Scobey, Montana In a phase of retrospect.[...]She gave to me of the best she could; "This, too, will pass away."[...]basket, The light of day and the sunset glow; Eyes bleary and bloodsho[...]ht walk on the mountain height. I got so excited, As did he;[...]- She had placed herself as the sacrifice! To lick the tears,[...]Mark Miller of memories so dear,[...]wing first this mighty land of happiness which grew. Where until now the redman[...]while others seem sad, Miles upon miles of new prairie But they al[...]the taking to build a home of the lives which they had. Sunshine and breezes al[...]ease to roam. Those were the days of adventure[...] |
| [...]e Christmas is a time of joy their own little land.[...]Christmas is a time of love The years have come and gone[...]t, Christmas is a time of hope And families are large and strong[...]ways last. Christmas is a time of snow[...]Christmas is a time of trimming the tree our nation's birth,[...]Christmas is a time of fun So remember dear neighbors[...]Age 9 - 1972 Come, pass through these pages As a butterfly sheds |
| [...]Houtc of the hem -1 ~pherr:[...]here' Here is your copy of the " Powder River Trail Song " an original composition to help further the road fut11n• of eastern |
| [...]ON SCOBEY Major Scobey, after whom the town of Scobey was named, came to Glendive in 1883 and engaged in the cattle business. |
| [...]UNTRY knowledge of farming.[...]ky and the prairie The lands south of Scobey Country, along the Missouri, are at the height of their beauty. Badlands, river bottoms, wer[...]ns, rolling hills and wheat fields , all are part of a Culbertson or Poplar by rail and headed[...]the prospective homesteaders to help county seat of Daniels County.[...]still somewhat new in There are stories of outlaws, posing as locators, taking that some of the first white settlers are still living there,[...]prosperous looking homesteaders out into the one of the few places in the United States where this is[...]manent settlements in they had. Families of these unfortunates would never the region.[...]know what happened as they waited for word from the new White trapp[...]n about during those early years, most of whom were friendly to the 85 miles to the southe[...]plains belonged to the Assinniboine Some of the more famous outlaw names included Jones and[...]north Norse Brothers, Tom Ryan and a fellow known simply as of Scobey at John Louis Legare's trading post that t[...]near Scobey, by two posse men posing as cowpunchers. between where Scobey and Plentywood[...]a $20,000 mansion at most probably in the breaks of Big Muddy Creek. Old Scobey. Waterworks, gaslight fixtures and over 20 Much evidence of those first peoples of the plains- rooms, including a ballroo[...]ools and arrowheads-can still be came as a bitter disappointment to the owner to learn lat[...]the Great N orthem Rail way would not The site of Scobey, near the Poplar River, is on the old[...]mile and a half east on the slopes. Sitting Bull as they moved warriors back and forth aero s The town of Scobey began moving to the new townsite the Canadian border during their final years of resistance during the summer of 1913 and when the first train arrived to the whi[...]on Thanksgiving Day of that year there was a town The beginning of the town of Scobey, located 14 miles waiting for it. south of the Canadian border and 60 miles from North[...]storm Thanksgiving Day, and in the words of those who Timmons started a large ranch at what is now known as remembers, "all hell broke loose." "[...]the ceiling, dating from wilder named it in honor of his friend. Daniels' wife was first post time[...]ership owned several The installation of water, sewer and lights, pushed by the business p[...]ecame factor when, in 1920, the residents of newly formed Daniels the present Citizens State B[...]between Scobey and Madoc for county seat. Some of the first white families to settle in what is now[...]e Shipsteads, the One-Eyed Molly's and known as a house of pleasure, was Marlenees, and the Timmonses and th[...]d not been surveyed and these first settlers were known and now continues to be one of the more historic and as "squatters. " The lands could not actually be[...]try, with moonshiners and bootleggers matching Of the squatters and homesteaders arriving du[...] |
| the early 20's. The fact that Scobey was the end of the Swede Risberg, Happy Felsch, Honey[...]las, George Eastman and Wally Hinden large amount of grain. The rails pushed on west to Opheim w[...]were a bit out of shape and did too much partying, but were Also[...]re depressed in Canada and many still one of the best and certainly the most colorful group of laods of grain were smuggled in from the north. Smugglers[...]only lost the grain, but in Large amounts of money reportedly were bet on two many cases had t[...]games between Scobey and Plentywood as businessmen confiscated.[...]play ball. Scobey From the beginning, the town of Scobey has depended on cleaned up ... winning both games by narrow margins . .. grain and cattle as an economic base. The first sod was in spite of the extreme effort of Plentywood sportsmen of broken for seeding with one-bottom plows pulled b[...]plane. This was in 1925. few years that tractors as large as those early day steamers Scobey had three years of this high-priced baseball, with again have come i[...]the team barnstorming around a large area, as far east as Scobey's prosperity has had its ups and downs as the Minnesota , winning almost every game[...]came or failed to come for the farmers' crops and as encourage sportsmen from other towns to bet[...]imes agree to pitch a different man Population of Scobey and Daniels County continued to each inning. rise slowly (after the "population explosion" of the early During the 1950's a new ba ll park was built, complete 1900's) until the big depression of the 30's, when many with grandstand, unde[...]the Scobey Athletic Club. The park now also Some of these people just left their land or business to be has a new scoreboard . taken for taxes, as real estate values were near nil during Bas[...]nd early '60's with teams that With the coming of World War II, the depression's end were st[...]or many to seek followed with several years of winning teams. After their fortunes in urban areas. This was aided by larger having a number of district titles, Scobey finally won the machinery[...]Scobey has recently been a regular host of the state Legion In spite of the population decline, Scobey businessmen[...]with yearly improvements. issue. Since the coming of paved streets everyone has Curling, a[...]ns, has provided much winter enjoyment become one of the cleanest, neatest small towns to be since 1958 when the 44xl 72-foot rink was built. Most of the found , with many new buildings, both residential and out•of-town co mpetition comes from neighboring commerci[...]en, an independent basketball team, been rewarded as the population trend has reversed. The ea[...]s, and the holidays which draws some of the finest players in the population is now estimated at over 1,700. There have been northwest many of the same fellows who compete at the more than six[...]Western Invitational Tournament in Lewistown. of years. Many yo unger couples, former residents wh[...]o what have been an important part of sports history in Scobey permanent residents call[...]0's Sports have always been a n important part of Scobey's and early '60's with action only a[...]hosted annually by Scobey. A recent upswing of interest beginning with teams almost as soon as there were enough has prompted the repairing of the lighted arena and a big young men around a nd[...]arena is now under construction. with the hiring of some of the infamous "Chicago Black For the past few years the FM-Stereo radi o station in Sox" of 1919.[...]t could beat powerful Scobey has plenty of armchair sportsmen who get their Scobey. They hir[...]son. Scobey, not to take this lying share of people who take an active part, participating or[...]including members promoting local sports. of the "Black Sox" who had been banned from o[...] |
| [...]Strong political differences between the editor of a general store and an a uthentic homestea[...]eader, and a group Pioneer town growth h as been g uided by the Daniels from Sheridan County[...]estroyed and the following issue listed the names of the donated money. It is the site of an annua l Threshing Bee alleged culprits. Those[...]he Nonpartisan League narrowly What of the future? escaped hanging in a Scobey saloon l[...]the other end thrown a re large amounts of oil (not yet developed because of salt over roof braces before cooler heads prevai[...]nters and see, close-up, the effect of this type of development and will trappers are having increas[...]omic gains, while the actual strip The variety of habitat contributes to the many kinds of mining and smoke stacks are in another count[...]ams will do to and some real "badlands." A number of small dams have the Scobey area water s[...]lity and crop growth. 1963, the 50th anniversary of the coming of the rails. It was Most residents are hoping[...]er and visiting. of the things which can be gained from the Good Eart[...]most town on Highway 13, the lined the shady side of Main Street and became the most only prim[...]g Montana and popular meeting places for hundreds of former residents Saskatchewan, and with o[...]the seeds for Scobey Country is part of the " newest la nd" in the 48 Pioneer Town, which[...]xist in this prairie la nd where the western edge of Scobey, contains almos t everything[...] |
| [...]Northern Town a nd Land Co. platted out the town of Scobey July 2, 1913[...]& L.D. Boyd Emma Cudhie State Bank of Scobey Reuler & Rugg[...]John Ma nternach State Bank of Scobey Ila Nelson[...] |
| EAST SCOBEY, The Beginnings of Today's Town . Being located as it was on the wide open pra irie, subject |
| [...]Blk. showing in the left foreground is the corner of the building William A. Olson[...]rcantile. The Merchants Na tio nal Bank was then, as C.B. Aasness (N 40 ft.) .[...]oe Thomas, Sr. 2 4 as evidenced by the parked cars, although two[...] |
| [...]s train was Peter Gritz. Peter liked the new town of Scobey and made it his home and bought lots in town and this addition was named Gritz Addition. People of the Scobey area were very happy to have the Great[...]ded from Plentywood to Scobey. This made the days of having to use horse drawn wagons to haul supplies[...]less, and to haul grain to the main line, a thing of the past. T:,e old townsite of Scobey was southwest of Scobey and had to be moved to the G.[...]ite because the railroad could not get in and out of the Poplar Valley to serve the old townsite. Inc. has the most miles of track of any railroad in the[...]family to take over his duties as agent. At this time there[...]Grayson was appointed as clerk until the job was taken off[...]as the second trick operator on the old Northern Pac[...]In January, 1973 Reid Grayson was selected as the Employee of the Month for the Twin City region . This[...]Bird's Eye View of Scobey, Montana © 1914 W.H. Graham Fir[...] |
| [...]TIMES AND PERSONNEL CHANGE, AS FULL[...]The Citizens State Bank of Scobey wa• chartered August[...]0, 1916. Its first home was located on the corner of First[...]a different name, of the Bank of T. Anderson-Die and[...]However the new Citizens State Bank had several of the same principals as the T. Anderson-Die Bank which went out of business about the same time the Citizens State[...]First directors in 1916 were T. Anderson of Milan, Minnesota, president; Marie Prins of St. Paul; Addie Oie Fishback and Jarvis of the Glentana Territory used this and Gustav Oie, vice president, of Scobey; and L.J.[...]Connlan, also cashier. T. Lundevall of Greenbush, method of hauling their grain into Scobey when Scobey[...]growth and Hart Pa rr engine pulling seven wagons of grain. by 1922 had deposits totalling $275,000 with a capital of[...]A complete reorganization took place in February of award was received for being active in civic orga[...]nue to The next changes in the board of directors took place in serve northeastern Montana as the day (it looks like) is September of 1926 when W.T. Stephens became president coming w[...]National Bank. Wit rusty locomotive en vagons of Yim Hill's The roaring twent[...]ride, wit mey Gena by mey side, end of 1928 the bank had deposits totalling $345 ,000 an[...]prosperity. However the crash of '29 and the "dirty Ay skol remamber long ago det[...]o slow, thirties" which ended the operation of many banks, also Wit warnished cars behind, en fo[...]In 1931 P.R. Gorham became a member of the board and Ven you're riding on dis line you'r[...]ry. Other changes in the board of directors during the 30's[...]and liens, to pay for pork en beans, Gorham as directors during the 1930's. En tan par cent ban[...]the Citizens State reached a milestone at the end of Ju can hear trav'ling bunce, hen ets tickets gett[...]go rat tru mey ear, In the spring of 1949 Mrs. Magdalene Murphy was Caus' back come pe[...]s working for Wit leaky, rattlin' enyine, en cars of long ago, Citizens State was Miss Em[...]1942 and retired in 1964. She had a total of over 50 years En yog along from Madoc a hundra mi[...]by George T. Springer cashier of the bank in September of 1949 and later that[...] |
| year succeeded H.P. Larsen as a director. Larsen was re- DANIELS COUNTY FE[...]rt time later replacing Scarseth. The next change of directors came in 1952 when Mrs. MC. Robert Ferguson of Scobey had a dream back in the 30's. Kloster repl[...]to bank assistance. His enthusiasm and that of others[...]Otto Sorenson and Dean W. Lapke; and assets of $418.25. Robert was elected president of this organization and[...]til his retirement. M.E. Veis In the fall of 1957 Marvin Veis became a director and in |
| [...]erected on the site with ample room for expansion of business. Robert Ferguson had great pride in th[...]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 fellow man.[...]into being that was known as Davis and Shook in 1916.[...]known as Erickstein Motor Company. Eventually H.O.[...]known as Erickstein Motor Company. HISTORY OF SCOBEY DRUG COMPANY The Scobey Drug Store was[...]hed the present FARMERS ELEVATOR OF SCOBEY |
| [...]the fiscal year -1974-1975 -$132, 166.00. Some of the liquor vendors were: Paul Crum, Fay Wittmeyer[...]he Abstractman" followed throughout the formation of several similar offices in eastern Montana.[...]the shortage of competent office personnel during WWI[...]During this same period of time they also formed the[...]Johnson Farm Loan Company of Glasgow. This firm[...]The creation of Daniels County in 1920 saw the necessity of providing an abstract office in the new county seat of Scobey. Roy and Charles Johnson of Plentywood were[...]Company. Roy became the president of the newly formed[...]biographical sketch appearing in an early history of Montana states that "with the exception of always casting[...]ard E . Roy H. upbuilding of his community Roy H. Johnson was never[...]became a member of the progressive party in 1912, while in The principle organizer of these offices was Richard E. 1916 he suppor[...]to Minnesota where he charter member of the Plentywood Post of the American m&rried Marie C. Johnson, the sister of Roy H. Johnson , Legion, and also its post[...]he Montana remained a bachelor all of his life. Abstract Company at Scobey. Dick Johnso[...]1892, Glasgow in' 1909 and was appointed cashier of the Lewis but was reared and received his[...]nk) at Glasgow. Minnesota. Upon the creation of Sheridan County the Dick -J ohn on purchased th[...]unty Abstract Company which he later incorporated as the Valley Company in November of that year, 1913. Roy assumed County Abstract Company . In 1910 Charles C. Johnson the manager of the business and continued to transact its who, u[...]until enlisting in the Marines in 1918. Upon his of the Sheridan County Abstract Company, became[...]iated with Dick Johnson. In 1914 Roy H. Johnson , as Plentywood and later moved to Scobey. a lad of 19, became identified with the life and interests of Marvin E. Veis became associated with the Mon[...]These three men over the years acquired a number of the business a short time later and upon the death of Mr. other abstract offices. They compiled numerous sets of Johnson in 1951 acquired the remaining i[...]business. He continued the operation for a period of almost[...] |
| [...]o Carmel M. Morey in HISTORY OF THE NEMONT 1962.[...]COOPERATIVE, INC. Carmel M. Morey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William[...]ompany in 1962 and has How fitting, as we are in the Bicentennial Era, to be been sole o[...]observir.g the 25th anniversary of the Nemont Telephone[...]small groups, so a combined meeting was held. Out of this[...]idea that the area should comprise the Because of the very vital part and the important part service areas of the Sheridan County Electric Cooperative electricity has paid to the rural area of our country, I feel it in Medicine Lake and the[...]is most worthy to at least write a short summary of its Opheim. Daniels County decided to[...]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 t[...]practical way in pursuing their objective. Most of the Oil Company grease room at Richland, montana.[...]h Cooperatives and some were acting as board members of head office now at Opheim.[...]ors were Resner Blikken, H.O. valuable as organization progressed. Dohlen, Harvey Haugen, E[...]The next After many meetings and a great deal of time and late two years were occupied w[...]this explaining the scope and purpose of the project. time we were confronted with shortages of every type due To qualify for an R.E.[...]sufficient amount of local investment in the telephone In the winter of 1946 the first energy was put through the sy[...]s this was difficult. was the Jacobson farm, east of Opheim. This surely was day in the history of Daniels, Valley, and Roosevelt Counties, now bein[...]ctric.! At this time there are some 1000 miles of distribution line and about 1200 members. The co-[...]for junk. This was necessary to get the franchise of Opheim with the railroad and public service commission to be also consulted. From Opheim to small towns of Glentana, Richland, Peerless, Four Buttes and Frazer were energized, and then on to rural areas. Some of the very isolated places were left until later, but The original board of directors of Nemont Telephone generally the outer area has been electrified as well as local Cooperative pictured left to right: Wil[...]has been the greatest factor to the rural people of any one shown are Willie Larsen and Robert[...]an was approved June 27, 1952 and was for because of lack of education and experience, Virgil $[...]ompanies serving 487 subscribers, upgrade success of Northern Electric is due to Virgil's guidance of their service from manual to dial telephon[...]in this struggle from the beginning made of two telephone companies in the Lustre community until he retired in 1974 was Resner Blikken of Opheim. He and the Ambrose Exchange of North Dakota. would never accept defeat which is one of the reasons for At the 1953 annual meet[...]ce today and to many young people, do a good job of carrying it on in future years.[...]itted At the 1957 annual meeting the name of the Lalon Jone[...] |
| [...]An exact date of the opening of the Scobey telephone Nemont purchased their fir[...]when the first telephones were used in Scobey May of 1968. At this time the majority of the new lines is not shown in existing te[...]vailable information indicates that Four December of 1972 a total of five exchanges had been cut Valleys Telep[...]Telephone and Telegraph Company, predecessor of cable being installed.[...]board was installed in service in the rural areas as in the cities. Town people and 1921 and outsid[...]ities were completely rebuilt. businesses benefit as well as farmers by good telephone At that time th[...]from 1914 to 1916. Mrs. Glenn Jones served as chief and has been "first" in many aspects, and i[...]ey home. Scobey. She began her career as an operator in 1932, Pat Burke was the first postmaster in the new town of working in that capacity until her promotion to chief Scobey, originally known as East Scobey, in 1913. He held opertor in 19[...]ge line between Poplar remembered her years as an operator: "Remember before and Old Scobey at t[...]rill; giving the dope on all ball scores of out of town games ... Andrew Upsal, Martin Mitchell Jr.,[...]al from sports fans just for that!" establishment of the post office in the new town. James A.[...]ho is now Mountain Bell area manager Wolfe served as contract mail carrier for over 30 years out ·supervising Scobey's telephone operations from Wolf of Scobey to West Fork, Carbert, Line Coulee, and north to Point, began his phone company career in Scobey as a the Custom Office.[...]went to Scobey in 1946," During his many years as mail carrier Mr. Wolfe Loendorf sai[...]veled with horses, snowmobiles, and various types of phones. To make calls, customers cranked[...]ly days he had a small stove in his the side of the phone, ringing the central office. The sleigh[...]s. It was phone customers since the beginning of telephone service his custom to change teams at t[...]her mail carrier, among others. needs, of course," Loendorf said, "but when I first worked[...]ther in Scobey the living quarters, a kind of housekeeping room rural mail carriers of those days, was often asked to buy w[...] |
| [...]s Telephone operations. Delays in arrival of key equipment for the and later Mountain Bell in[...]station necessitated later sending two carloads of staff to Luft, who maintained the central office[...]operating the campus community affairs and served as president of the Scobey FM station on a Sunday by speci[...]en Mary Lavey succeeded her and continues to work as a expensive experiences and episodes a[...]ness office. The station began a month of testing from midnight to 6 Gene Marley, Mountai[...]s and engineers working Scobey since 1963 serving as a combinationman manning the station, pl[...]en routed to June 10, 1971. The first day of operation was June 26, 1971. Plentywood. In 1969,[...]ransmitter building suffered total The capacity of the system was recently increased by the destruction from fire of indeterminate cause on May 1, addition of micro-wave equipment in Scobey. Micro-wave 1972 after less than one year of operation. Insurance only additions allow the removal of some aerial wire and poles partially covered[...]d operation on July 1, 1973. records show a total of 1,207 phones, including extensions, The radi[...]esently operating with full and in use at the end of August, 1975. part ti[...]Chairman of the Board of Prairie Communications is[...]n Gunderson, secretary; Jack Reiner, HISTORY OF SCOBEY RADIO STATION director of music; Lawrence Fouhy, director of agriculture; KCGM FM[...]director of education; Randy Smith, personnel director. Th[...]er engaged a firm station meeting the needs of northeastern Montana, of attorneys and a consulting engineer in Washington[...]ion was filed with directed toward coverage of events never before broadcast the FCC to assign Channel 239 (95.7MH) to Scobey, in behalf of the many rural communities. Montana. Scobey was a[...]he radio station originated through the foresight of a 1969.[...]ted on July 15, determination and loyalty of the board of directors, 1969 with the following board members:[...]enbeck, Milton a place for the development of local talent and local Gunderson, Lawrence Fouhy, and Marvin Veis. The personalities, as well as a place oflearning for area youth. application fo[...]mit and its attendant During the course of its operation the Board has taken no data took more than a year's time. fees of any kinds in the course of its duties. Its aim always Building began on a transmitter site three miles east of has been to fill the needs of communications facility for Seo bey, and a 400 fo[...]ventually on a sound economic basis. on the comer of Main and 1st Avenue West. The first meeting of prospective personnel was held in November, 1970.[...]Roseland Park, located in the center of the west side of licensing of radio operators. Scobey, was started in 1914. It still wasn't much to speak of Linda Lev ad and Dennis Unsworth were the firs[...]he park, but finally found Mr. Scott's University of Montana Journalism and Radio TV school[...]area. He also was responsible for the water works of relative to equipment operating technique and general Scobey and the start of the fair grounds.[...] |
| [...]ested in potatoes were planted in the plowed area of the park to the cattle business with Jess Smith south of Poplar. ready it for planting. Then shrubs , tree[...]Residents living near the park recall the beauty of 1959. the pink and red roses in bloom.[...]ing house and barber shop. Now owned by this part of the country, was opened . The water is kept at a[...]Mrs . Andrews - Dress Shop. Mrs. Andrews, sister of Mark April 6, 1885. He and his wife c[...]children: remembered for many years as the "Sears and Everett, Willon , Clinton, Mar[...]Loretta. from the mail order firm of that name bv Dane White. Edon and Nora Amundson o[...]resident of Scobey. Was a government veterinarian[...]with a long strip of border for his territory. He is now[...]Superintendent of the stockyards in Ogden. "Doc is[...]Palmer Engh - Variety Store, relative of Henry Olsen,[...] |
| [...]site on the Poplar River to the present townsite of Indy Halverson - Grocery Store, H & M Market.[...]akota. They had two daughters, Grace (Fraser) of Eureka, Glen (Bubbles) Hanley - Fireman on the railroad and part- California and Mae (Rae) of Oregon City, Oregon. Mr. time bartender.[...]ed a field position with the Regional Service of the Federal Farm Loan Department. He d[...] |
| [...]location. Theo Imbs - Attorney, who farmed south of Silver Star Hans Oldenberg - Meat mark[...]and later to George Herman Ruth was the last of the surviving Civil B.O. Tande who bought th[...]and Indy Halvorson. In 1952 telling of the old days. Halvorson sold to Chris Tande,[...]hen children Mildred moved to Havre. He died of a heart attack in were young. M[...] |
| [...]Davis spreads much of the time. He joined the navy[...]Fred Tollefson was an employee of Pa us-Strom Hardware[...]ral store. May 27, 1870 at Carlyle, Illinois, of Quaker-Methodist Rikka Turney - Turney Hotel[...]d and continues to live at Plains. r~membered as one who was interested in crops, Henr[...]livestock and farming and was always a source of nearl_y 20 years. Children: Gary,[...]Billings in the early 70's. She was a niece of P.R. as a messenger for Depot Agent Fred Haun. Shorty[...]tore on Main Street. Mr. and on the afternoon of his death had been caring for Skadron[...]the shade They moved to California. of the trees where he passed quietly away. Heis buri[...]n Ralph (Oscar) Smith, Scobey man about town also known and John. Wife was Ruth. They moved to Bea~h, North as Mr. Fixit because of his ability to r~pair almost Dakota.[...]Hoke Smith operated a cafe and later farmed north of[...]Martin Smith-partner of Lou Boyd's in Smith and Boyd's[...] |
| [...]d from Scobey in 1924, living in Glasgow part of the time since. Joe, Jr. lives in Chicago and[...]nk business. The elder Joe is remembered here as a[...]r, Victoria temper flared the characteristics of his native Olsen. Germanic grammar would be more pronounced, as The American Legion Auxiliary is[...]ularly organization in Scobey and one of the most active. It has heated argument he ro[...]mbers in 1974. office out!" and Joe was a man of action. Its activities are vari[...]ree National Legion Conventions and placed at two of Elizabeth Jane Woodward. Children: Les[...] |
| [...]ists the following names: John sponsorship of the local Legion and VFW Posts. Programs A. Green[...]were written by Superintendent J.E. Danielson of the Christian Hanson, Ralph Greengard, Peter Faas[...]alter Bulpitt, was under the direction of music director Joe Hylland. George Clements, A.L.[...]this was the closest that this meeting publisher of the Scobey Citizen, signed the charter[...]. The Scobey High School Band marched in the name of Dr. A.S. Needles, who was elected Commander of parade. the new Post.[...]The Selective Service Act of 1940 set October 16th of that Few records remain concerning the formative years, but year as the date for the registration of all men of draft age. those show that the Post put on severa[...]Various places around the county were established as theater. Social meetings, complete with dinners,[...]ation sites. In Scobey fifteen Legionnaires acted as for veterans of the three wars--Civil, Spanish-American,[...]he call and the Board Bureau. During those years, as now, fast-talking drew straws to[...]induction under the various local offices, homes of members, at Four Buttes, second draft cal[...]en to thirties and early forties a mammoth Fourth of July report for induction: Vernon Ne[...]ollowed by a Legionnaires were held on both sides of the 49th Parallel dance at the Blue Room of the Gorham Hotel. as far back as 1927. Scouting was promoted and supported.[...]th either America Strong" was the theme of his address. arm, pitched the game against Billin[...]mber 7, 1941 the United States was again when one of its players rounded second base without[...]ervices toward the touching it, thus voiding runs of three other players who smooth function of city, county state and federal were on base at th[...]wing this, in a playoff game with Poplar, of anything that pertained to defense work; rifles a[...]partment In February, 1931 the Ladies Auxiliary of Post 56 was for the "duration". Two hundred copies of the book "Fall formed with 39 members. Since that[...]The local Legion sponsored a huge Fourth of July During the Great Depression the Post was i[...]orse regalia and the early-morning firing of a cannon. The and in early 1934 the Post contacte[...]t by W.T. Stephens in 1936, is Constitution of the American Legion be amended to enable still in[...]veterans of World War 2 to join the Legion". In December, 1[...]nty for $135. Greengard donated a bottle of twenty-five year old brandy Terms of the purchase agreement were $27 down, which[...]ckets, and five years in which to pay the balance of$108. continuous from that date until there[...]could use for $15 to that bottle and drink it as a toast. The bottle has long since be paid whenev[...]decision to begin renovation Fourth of July celebrations were not held during 194[...] |
| [...]jutant Membership increased dramatically. Fourth of July Stuart Hall represented the Mont[...]ed to participate in Memorial and Woods of the Royal Canadian Legion and Saskatchewan Vetera[...]150 persons were registered for the The work load of the Service Officer became heavier, filling pro[...]nding service for answering letters and questions of returning veterans. different types of convalescent equipment; American The Montana A[...]and Scobey schools; contributions are the campus of Western Montana College in Dillon during[...]VA hospitals in our area for veteran's the summer of each year. That year Hai.vey Eide and Don[...]for deceased veterans. State. Since the inception of the program in 1947 nearly Scobey Area Ser[...]n sent to Boy's State Service of Their Country from the Scobey area under the sponsorship of the -----"In memory of our departed comrades, may we American Legion, V[...]War II The Ferestad school building from south of Four Buttes Lawrence Bernard was purchased[...]To pay for the addition, redeemable certificates of Don Collins varying amounts were sold to the[...]tt Pittenger or who are still holding them became of the unavailability Ralend Rhodes of records.[...]d the title in 1973; 1975, Havre took first one of the "Lucky Thirteen" of the third draft call, had place honors.[...]been a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for Since 1930 the minutes of the Post are replete with "conspicuous ga[...]baseball--the problems and the call of duty" in a pitched battle with the German forces[...]near Cisterna di Littoria, Italy on May 23-24 of that year. coaches, but during those years the co[...]Ronan; and This program was begon by Legionnaires of this Legion Pfc. Donald Ruhl, Columbus,[...]gt. Henry Schauer, Scobey, and Pfc. Leo J. north of the international boundary in "hands across the Powers, Alder, returned to Montana upon completion of border for the continued promotion of good will and service. Leo Powers passe[...]ervance leaving Henry Schauer, a member of Post 56 now residing consists of a memorial service, speeches by visiting in Oregon, the only surviving Montana Medal of Honor dignataries, social gatherings and banquet. winner of the second World War.) The Scobey Post has be[...]ttled, often was a spontaneous affair. Teams were of a represented the Montana American Legion. Colone[...]ether for a local Campbell Larson, official envoy of the United States Air celebration or picnic[...]anks, switch from one team to another as the occasion Scobey, told the visiting delegates[...]Old-timers state that Smoke Creek, south of Flaxville, The 1964 Observance brought Governor Tim Babcock to had one of the first teams in the area and that, in 1911, th[...]re team played games in Old Scobey. One of the players, attended , representing the Montana[...]not seem to Past National President Robert Kohaly of the Canadian affect his ability. Legion[...]e banquet. There were During the summer of 1913 ball games were played at 135 delegat[...] |
| [...]tick, and Swede Risberg. In upper left hand side of photo at Ticket Taker Jack Conboy's Model T, stan[...]Smoke Creek team in the field Because of rumors, in 1925, that Plentywood had again. That year also saw the rise of a ball team in the new engaged John Donaldson, noted colored pitcher, and to town of (East) Scobey under the managership of Lou Boyd, provide some real competition, th[...]was managed by Ed Molden , also a A group of Chicago White Sox, who had been barred for saloon[...]ed to be The ball team from Police Creek, south of Four Buttes, available. Swede Risberg, shor[...]t$600 was organized in 1916. Throughout the years of play team a month plus expenses. Happy Fels[...]ral Bench, Benrud, The businessmen of Scobey subscribed over $3000 to Peerless and Lustre. One of the original players recalls start the team, the Giants. Home games grossed as high as that Lustre, Police Creek's toughest oppon[...] |
| The fastest game of baseball ever seen in the northwest was staged at[...]1925), in a ten inning game resulting in a score of 4-1 in Scobey's favor. It was a little tough for[...]r Joe ") fought hard for ten innings with a score of 1-1 until the first of the tenth when the Giants (Scobey) pushed three over the pan. The last half of the ninth looked bad for Scobey. One man down and[...]balls. Eastman's Scobey American Legion team of the late Forties , The Plainsmen were champions of the 8 team Northeast |
| [...]wo 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 two base hits and the largest crowd f[...]ent down to defeat ai tht' Scobey park by a score of 7-2. Taken from the Scobey Sentinel, Friday, June[...], . ~-kd u, Wkhita . Ka11-.;,l~ to The history of baseball in the county woulJ L'"'[...]complete with mention uf the Pla1n::;men te~n1::; of 1~57- The Pb ..[...] |
| [...]Wally Sinner, Andy Stolen. (See text for account of this tournament.)[...] |
| [...]s taken during action in the Scobey-Billings game as Hagfeldt. Bat boys: Kirby Halvorson, Kelly Norman[...]longtime east-county baseball fan who saw most of the[...]tournment action was Jess Wiley, grandfather of Scobey's[...]at least one or two of the above mentioned fellows were Mississippi stat[...]Their next game There is a brief history of the Scobey Legion baseball was lost to the Kansas[...]ational. photographs of baseball teams appear in area histories. Since the days of the Plainsmen teams, town baseball Since t[...]concerning these teams has reverted to the style of baseball in which teams are it was de[...] |
| [...]000. It has no set format in regard to the number of teams invited. It has been expanded to include ho[...]given year. From the relatively humble beginning as a local talent tournament, it has grown to includ[...]ional tryouts. Two have spent time on the rosters of ational Basketball Association teams.[...]Fietz, Donald Trower, James Marley, Brian roster of the Seattle Supersonics in 1971. He averaged 37.2[...]h. the All Star team. Cavin Anderson , a native of Watford City, North Dakota, played for the Scobey[...]for Valley City State and was later on the roster of valuable information as a basis for subsequent histories. the Chicago Bul[...]e 1973-73 season. Anderson Membership of the troop was at one time sixty-seven. was named MVP of the Scobey tournament after setting[...]o two new records. In March 1974 he was named MVP of the Scoutmaster of Troop 26 at the First National Boy Scout Western Invitationa l Tournament in Lewistown , one of Jamboree at Washington, D.C. in 1937. He[...]t receipts, has donated $3500 toward the purchase of land that time. for the Scobey school trac[...]Paus Jr., and Robert Lee Trower donated a parcel of land to square off the above received Merits of Recognition from the National Court of mentioned complex. ) Honor for saving the lives of others. Track equipment costing $1 300 has also[...]om Plainsmen funds . of the year in 1944 by the National Veterans of Foreign *John and Tom Morrison are natives of Daniels County. Wars, for saving Lowell[...]ganized in One hundred and ten members of the troop served in Scobey on March 23, 1936, spo[...]Bystrom, and Lloyd The following members served as a Troop Committee; Battleson. Elmer Ske[...]secretary; R.V. Walker, who served as vice president of the Great Oliver Bystrom, treasurer; David N. Nyq[...]pan, Kenneth Working, Eagle Scouts of Troop 298 are Ormand Paus, Jr., Vernon and Ronald[...]m, Arlie Veis, Gerald Anderson, This troop, one of the most outstanding in the country,[...] |
| [...]teaders had their own private burial places. Most of Richard LaRoche, and Jeffery Chabot.[...]established. During the flu epidemic of 1918 there were so Jamboree at Farragut State Par[...]ded the Wilderness Canoe Base at the size of the cemetery, and a cemetery association was Ely,[...]couts Alan Fitz, PALMS OF VICTORY Kirby Halvorson, Dana Juel and Steve Mett[...]Compiled by Charles Cassidy side of Glacier National Park.[...]break through the clouds as a lone passenger scrambled[...]down the gangplank of the newly docked riverboat, Far MARIAN AND GOD[...]Standing in the mire of the riverbank, he introduced The scouting progr[...]ettysburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1848 to parents of[...]ll a boy, leaving is said to have been the result of a shooting on Main Street. William, his two bro[...]863 the battle Gettysburg raged over a large part of they had to shoot a man to start a cemeter[...] |
| [...]was always requested to sing two of his favorite hymns:[...]egations were started in these places and in many of[...]He became the friend of everyone he met--frontiersman,[...]After his appointment as Supervisor of the Milk River[...]building of the Methodist church in Scobey, although there[...]was an earlier structure north of town.[...]The journeys of Brother Van carried him from the[...]mountain valleys of Idaho and Montana to the prairie country of our Northeast, founding churches, hospitals, an[...]uncommon "common" man. He had hunted to the front of the crowd and shook hands with Mr.[...]ith the Blackfoot; he had slept on the dirt floor of Lincoln.[...]ms, and For a time he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania wherever he went, he was a[...]1919 and was buried in Helena on the afternoon of his resolve to go on to the frontier by a former[...]Perhaps someone, somewhere, thinking of him on that Van 0rsdel arrived in Sioux City,[...]jobless, but managed to convince Captail Coulson of the so often to sing: river steamer, Far West, that in time the fare of fifty dollars "The day will soon be over when[...]comes to claim us, and says 'It is enough', most of it to the evangelist to carry on his labors in[...]d Rain-in-the-Face when they, with a large number of ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHUR[...]trouble arising. Later, and On the evening of November 1, All Saints Day, in 1919, farther up t[...]on, the boat was Rev. L.J. Christler, rector of the Episcopal Church of visited by William F. Cody.[...]wild frontier town, but Van Episcopalians of Scobey and vicinity into what is now 0rsdel held several well attended services the first week he known as All Saints Mission. was there.[...]d rented halls. In 1922, thanks to the generosity of the settlements, going out with wagon trains; after one service members and the leadership of Bishop H.H. Fox of he was given a horse. It was also about this time[...]an" was tied to the young preacher, and, of the furnishings of this rustic chapel were made and like all nicknam[...]donated by the members -the altar candlesticks of brass by of his life.[...]nd he The altar was given by the members of the Church School; scoured the prairies bringing[...]baptismal font by Mrs. M. Lile in memory of her daughter, had not heard since the years of their childhood in faraway and Susan Crum made a lovely wooden cross in memory of homes, and soon everyone in the hastily ga[...] |
| [...]ker, took place on February 11, 1921, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Davis. Those baptized at[...]ne King. The first confirmation class consisted of Enid Margaret Skeen, Helen Isabelle Skeen, Samuel[...]17, 1923, for Gwynetha Lee Lile, age 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lile. The first marriage,[...]avid Carpenter and Dorothy Susan Sunderland, both of Opheim, were united. All Saints Guild was organized in 1920 with Mrs. Jennie B. Davis as president; Mrs. Estelle Bennett, vice president;[...]RCH The following clergymen have been in charge of the mission: L.J. Christler, S.D. Hooker A.W. Frost, T. In 1923 Rev. D.R. Miller of Noonan, North Dakota came to Malcolm Jones, H.P.[...]h, Frank Scobey to begin what is now known as the Full Gospel[...] |
| [...]upmobile 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 past[...]church building was finished in the fall of1914. There were completed in the early 50's. This[...]first four in the first confirmation class of 1915, Nina Assembly of God church in the state of Montana. Services Thompson, Herman Hanson, M[...]dred Brenden Two "sons" of the congregation are the Rev. Leslie Vanderpan of Brookings, South Dakota and the Rev. Just 135 years after the birth of our United States of David Simonson (son of Rev. R.L.) a missionary in America, a few pioneer families in the area near the middle Tanzania. fork of the Poplar River in northeast Montana organized a[...]as church secretary for the Lutheran congregation known as the Middle Fork longest period. Her daughter Diane married one of our Lutheran Church. A partial list of the early members of former interns, now Pastor David Lerseth of Rosholt, September 9, 1911 included Theodore Colb[...]south of the church. A new parsonage was built in 1959.[...]our congregation became a part of the newly merged First Pastor, Scobey Luth[...] |
| [...]sper Brenden comprised "Firsts and longests" go as follows: to Julia Bystrom the first slate of officers for the newly formed Lutheran and Oscar[...]John Bystrom. First organists, Olive Bonnes of America. and Mrs. L.V. Hanson. Organist for the l[...]Brenden, and still atit. Mrs. John Poyner served as growing auxiliary of the congregation. We have had and president and vice president of the Aid longer than any still have Children[...]he golden Karlsrude were the great guiding lights of our Sunday anniversary in 1961 a booklet[...]fe-like canvas in 1916 was O.J. Mithun. The names of the other faithful are the far away twenties. too numerous to mention but their names are all known in the "Book of Life".[...]schoolhouse two and a half miles north and west of the present town of Scobey, on unsurveyed land near the[...]reorganized May 1, 1910 and known as the Middle Fork[...]Union Sunday School. It had a membership of about 50, an average attendance of 25 to 30 and more during the[...]Burgett as Superintendent and more and larger classes;[...]ministers of various denominations, mostly student[...]team and buggy for each service. who served there as heads appear: Rev. Boe, Rev. Foss, In the spring of 1912 the District Superintendent, Rev. O.A. Rev.[...]White, organized the church with a membership of twenty. Benson, Rev. Simonson, Leslie Vanderpen, Dwayne Shea. Among the names of the early members were the Hughes , 50t[...] |
| [...]v. Reginald H. Stone. He The spiritual needs of the Catholics of the Scobey arrived in 1913 with his wife and thr[...]vicinity twice in 1910, and by live and no means of transportation. He must have Father Hennessy, who drove a team of horses from wondered why he and his wife, who we[...]· ministers and both admitted to the bar as lawyers, had In 1911 Father Alphonse Pe[...]l the parsonage was Mass was offered at the homes of Joe Paradis and Louis completed.[...]nd 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[...]cobey was served by Father wagon and hauled most of the lumber from Poplar to build Hennessy from Ple[...]it ready ministration, and through the generosity of the Scobey for his family to move into on Thanksgiving Day, parishioners, together with a gift of $200 from the November 25th , 1913.[...]new town 's first little schoolhouse, while most of the people were celebrating, in frontier style, the arrival of the tracks of the Great Northern Railroad. The church was o[...]and named "The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Scobey, Montana" . In that same year the church received a memorial gift of $250.00 from Mr. and Mrs. George W. Betts in memory of their daughter, Mae K. Fox. In addition a loan of $550.00 was allowed by the Methodist Board of Home Missions. With this money and contributions by members and other interested people and a great amount of donated labor the church was completed and dedic[...]14 and 15, 1914, with special services; and now known as "The Mae K. Fox Memorial Methodist Episcopal Chu[...]was not until 1945, following the union in 1939 of the three major Methodist bodies , that the official name became "The First Methodist Church of Scobey, Montana. ) Interest and attendance in[...]917 the church was on bare floors , in all kinds of weather, praying in many dedicated to the patronage of St. Philip Bonitas, and the homestead shacks, wi[...]following year Father Gerald Dillon was appointed as first About 1923 the Methodist Church decided[...]ining the church . This became a reality in 1924. of Glentana, Peerless, Whitetail and Flaxville. In 193 the church observed the 25th anniversary of its The P.E. Burke home was purchased as a rectory. dedication . In 1941 an extensive ren[...]appointed begun , both inside and outside. Much of the work was pastor of St. Philip's Church, and served until his death in contributed by members of the church , aided by skilled 1937. During his service, in 1931, the Parish Councils of carpenters. During the 1950 decade more improvements Men and Women, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine were made, and the parsonage[...]nctuary, and an Rev. H.B. Altmann of Laurel came on August 26, 1937. educational buil[...]ogram. Rev. J.L. McCarthy served the parish as interim priest for Ministers who served after Rev. Stone were: R.J. about six months. In 1942 the mission of Peerless was Cookingham , D.A. Kroft, Alexander M[...], Leon Johnson , Bert Powell, The interior of the church was renovated in 1944. In 194 7 LeVant[...]r Heath , Fred Collins, and Michael and installed as St. Philip's new pastor, serving until tra[...] |
| [...]her Sorger's service the rectory was enlarged of 14 to the young in spirit pushing 70. Last year a member and remodeled. The Knights of Columbus were organized of the Coronach team visiting Scobey played a few en[...]l. in celebration of his 90th birthday. On May 23, 1954 the parish w[...]n, but it is a grand old game! Mass and High Mass of Reverend Raymond Lapke, at St. The Sco[...]. On May 1, 1956 Father Liborius Morgenschweiss of the DANIELS COUNTY SPORTSMAN'S CLUB Be[...]January, 1947, for the purpose of promoting Father Kenney died unexpectedly on Au[...]and sheltering game and fish, by destroying Dwyer of Stockett, was appointed pastor.[...]organizations in matters of interest to sportsmen. St. Philip's Parish Center, built at a cost of The first officers were Clarence F[...]An annual banquet is held, with programs of interest to Scobey.[...]SCOBEY CURLING CLUB From news articles of 1959-1961 and from Larry Fjeld[...]. By early November, 1959 the rink Clipping of the first annual Harry Hansen Memorial was ready,[...]l, with 23 four-man rinks entered, more than half of them Canadians. (This in spite of raging blizzards and sub-zero temperatures). News In 1948 the club affiliated with the Northeastern of the day informed sports-lovers:[...]Big Beaver Quartet Captures Two Events of Scobey (one mile west of present site) in the early 50's Crowd[...]boasts two modern looking forward to organization of clubs in neighboring traps and the new club[...]Devotees of the shotgun gathered at the trap of the Curling is an amateur sport. The only "professionals" in Scobey Gun Club from a wide range of surrounding areas curling are the experts hired by clubs as instructors. They for the first annual Harry Ha[...]s and Unlike golf, players must not wager so much as a dime and three trophies. Delegations attend[...]ates: Scobey, the only town in Opheim, as well as the immediate community. Harvey Montana to have a[...]s 16 local teams. Haugen was the winner of the first place trophy. Members include fa[...] |
| [...]knowledge, Rose Johnson is the only member living of this[...]as captain. By selling Degree of Honor insurance,[...]es lined with red silk. In 1928, with Edna Waller as[...]Mrs. Magdalene Murphy served as State President and Palmer Teigan, Vic Hillstrom and Carl Linquist at trap later as a member of the National Degree's Welfare Board. shoot - 1975[...]In 1961 the Degree of Honor Protective Association[...]decided to give grants of $150 to fifteen deserving student[...]Concordia College; later, Janet Scobey Gun Club, as the new clubhouse and improved Wolford at[...]d to $200 for facilities were dedicated in memory of her husband, the honor and deserving students.[...]ated the metal building to The first meetings of Scobey Lodge No. 61 were at the the Gun Club.[...]Methodist Hall. DEGREE OF HONOR Over a period of time the Degree of Honor has donated to[...]ic drives, and the Veteran's The Scobey Chapter of Degree of Honor Protective Hospital in Miles City for outside lighting of the flag pole. Association Lodge No. 61, a Nation[...]pany, received its charter on October 7, Degree of Honor Drill Team. Left to right first row:[...] |
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| [...]up as Sylvan and Dale also moved away. Four years ago,[...]beauty was the tableau presented as the curtain rose on the[...]to go. Nellie La Pierre and Virginia Miller - one of their first Scene II shows Daisy beauti[...]cheered by the approach of Godmother Nature, LaBerta[...]drawn by two butterflies of rare beauty, represented by[...]Audience the hearts of the audience. The bee was played by Larry[...]chariot Daisy starts for the ball. The creation of beauty is in itself cause for appreciation The third scene was a triumph of beauty and grace. It and enjoyment but when there[...]h and a finesse and dash rarely the dance of the Prince with Mignonette followed by the seen i[...]a delightful combination. triumphal entrance of Daisy in her chariot. The Prince The splendid cro[...]in this scene are delightful. Especially worthy of mention performance which in artistry and finish[...]t when the Prince's Herald appearance of the rollicking rain drops who, however, were kneeled to fit the golden slipper to the foot of the princess- shortly turned into a rainbow by the reappearance of the to-be every person in the audience leaned for[...]ight sunbeams. breathless, to witness the triumph of the humble Daisy. Scene IV, witnesses the triumph of humble Daisy, whom The story of Cinderella is familiar to everyone, which none of her sister flowers suspect her as the one who will be made all the more inte[...] |
| [...]e to mention all the characters who are deserving of praise, as everyone of the 36 characters took his part most acceptably. Little Helen Robinson as Daisy, Cinderella, was charming. Her several solo[...]was at all times above criticism, Lee Montgomery as the Prince, and Bonar Collinson as his Herald, divided honors among the boys. Both r[...]d courtesy necessary for the Herald. Larry Bowler as Bonnie Formerly of Hendrum, Minn. Bee added a comedy touch which was[...]wo butterfly characters , Known As Adeline Christianson and Dorothy Gibson. The sp[...]Little Joyce Cole took premier honors in a group of songs , while Charles Smith and Rex Linderman eac[...]BIG CONCERT deserving of much credit for the successful accomplishment of so difficult an undertaking. Mrs. A.L. Brunet was[...]e play. All the mothers helped in the preparation of the costumes. Some suggestion of the at the auditorium, Hendrum, Minn., on immense amount of work necessary is obtainable from the fact that a[...]s it. Admission, 25c and 50c management of the Rex theatre for their kind[...]consideration and liberality in allowing the use of the Concert by The Scobey V , July 14, 191[...]presentation was a distinct addition to the life of the community.[...] |
| [...]a Officer of the ~J' ......... 11[...]Bat -v le of the lh1.tion ••••••• Orche:.. tra[...]defined and restricted the use of inflammable material in In February, 1916 Mayor Oie appointed a committee on the construction and repair of buildings within city limits. matters pertaining[...]uild a new fire hall for $3546. Chief at a salary ofof the Pioneer Inn. A building on the site Swenson,[...]uilt the new City Hall In the early months of 1930 Scobey Fire Department on this site for $216[...]and Resolution No. 181 created a fund designated as fire horses. On October, 1917 a motor chemical en[...]ame Fire Chief in September, 1930 and for the sum of $1339. In 1919 an ordinance was passed his salary was set at $15 a month. regulating the construction of wooden buildings, Small truck was[...]n Motor Co. for providing for proper construction of chimneys and use of $550. stove pipe. In February, 1936 a fire fund of two mills was levied for In 1920 Ordinance 54 was passed creating the office of the City of Scobey. Fire Chief, his duties and his salary, an[...]h school days. The fire department bought 500 ft. of hose for $550. In 1926 the two department bought[...]960. Scobey Fire that year. Lot 1, Block 11, site of City Hall and Fire Department acquired a new truc[...], 1928 1000 gallon Darly Pumper. In 1975 the City of Scobey and fire hall moved to present site east h[...]Superior fire truck apparatus of Helena was granted the[...] |
| [...]pumper on a Ford tilt cab to arrive in September of Lead, and they attended the Passion Play at[...]Summer of 1956 they enjoyed a three-day Primitive[...]During these years they operated as a Lone Troop. After[...]ure State Girl It was a noble and earnest group of women who served Scout Council was forme[...]ollowers Lewistown. In 1926 we became part of this council. Before have continued to carry the[...]. These women equipped canoe from a portion of it. are an eloquent tribute to the ability, faith[...]Brownie Tea, preceding Mother's Day, is a hi-lite of of those working with Girls Scouts. Mrs. Fred Bydele[...]Mrs. E. Richardson completed. there are a number of girls who have earned awards but the The qui[...]gave the Chiefly through the efforts of Ginger Fosland our girls a freight car to be conv[...]bey accompanied the girls from The Court of Awards in April 1966 was an international Plentyw[...]m and their leaders, Miss Eunice event as several Girl Guides were in attendance. Cathy Shi[...]tart Camp Lund. With the river close by sidelight of this trip was a trip to Mount Rushmore[...]enjoyed. Memorial Park. Gutzon Borglund, sculptor of the heads of In 1969 Ginger Fosland and Wilma Trower[...]t that day. They toured the summer (widow of founder of Boy Scouts) was present. home of President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge near by. The[...]rence. Middle Nancy Fitz was a member of the Mountaineering and row: Gwendolyn Thomas, Wie[...]Shieck, Back Packing event on the slope of Mt. Hood in 1971, and Mae Egland, Dorothy[...] |
| [...]Saco Hot Wells, John Kemp homestead north of Peerless,[...]As you will note there were periods with no county a[...]Warden as our first county agent, who was here until July[...]Juliette Low World Friendship Fund. At the Court of Here is a list of some of the projects we had in this club. It Awards Mary[...]Straddle", didn 't learn to do! Home canning of meats - beef and a Girl Scout horseback event in[...]making yo ur will, choosing patterns, alteration of became Treasure Trails Girl Scout Council. patterns , caponizing of roosters, buying materials, lessons Events in 1[...]Dakota; The Pines, Stoney Point, cleaning of your sewing machine and many more.[...] |
| [...]HOSPITALS In the early days of this area the entire territory north of Daniels Memorial Hospital, located just off M[...]North Dakota in Scobey, is the culmination of the hopes and efforts of line, and west "as far as he was needed", was served by Dr. many longtime residents of the community. I ts beginnings C.A. Atkinson, better known as "Doc" Atkinson. He was back in 1944 were due to the endeavors of the Scobey Lions the agency doctor in Poplar, and[...]Club, which directed its efforts toward of goal of Wasicum (medicine white man) by his Indian patien[...]Personal donations and his calling, not the least of which were occasional trips group endeavors[...]the Missouri River during the treacherous period of grant. the spring break-up. During the ear[...]ives and other women skilled in the healing arts, as Memorial Hospital - 1963 well as trained nurses who had turned to homesteading, took care of the medical needs of the community when doctors were unobtainable. Most of them relied on simple home remedies, which were sometimes surprisingly effective. One of these was a tea made of pumpkin seeds boiled in water. No records exis[...]their patients, and also bore the additional risk of bringing these diseases home to their own families. During the flu epidemic of1918 many lives were saved by these women, who ass[...]ver-worked doctors in caring for the great number of patients.[...] |
| Today it boasts the facilities of a fully-equipped operating room with surgical an[...]not so modern early hospitals in the county. One of the first such hospitals was run by Mrs. Stella[...]s. Mrs. Harris , a registered nurse, had the aid of such fine doctors as Dr. Collinson of Scobey and Dr. De Wayne of Wolf Point, who was quite active during the flu epidemic of the first World War. The Harris hospital was located in the southeast part of town. The Dahlquist hospital located in the northeast part of Scobey, was run by Mrs. Dahlquist. Dr. Deifenbak[...]re. The Aasness Hospital , located just north of the Lutheran Church , was managed by Mrs. Aasness and run primarily as a maternity home. Another maternity home was run by Mrs. Humbert and known as the Humbert Hospital. In 1936 the Clinic, own[...]Dr. Collinson started his clinic with Miss White as first R.N. After she leit, his sister-in-law, Mr[...]lson came in 1933 and managed it until it closed as a home for the aged in 1957, the year Dr.[...]from Wolf P oint. Located on the Main Street of Scobey is the Olson Hospital , now an old folks h[...]d hospital. Serving here were doctors T.M. Morrow of Scobey, D.B. Healy from Flaxville, and in later y[...]nd managed by Mrs. Esther Olson Lynene from April of 1935 to 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[...]cases. Street of Scobey. That fall my mother came to help me as it Today the new hospital has a full staff of nurses, a was hard to find trained hel[...]e transferred elsewhere. Drs. T.M. Morrow benefit of hospitals included Dr. Needles and Dr. Tucker.[...]MOST OF THEM CARING FOR NEWBORN[...]The Olson hospital was the scene of a birthday party recently when members of the American Legion Auxiliary[...]dropped in to wish many happy returns to one of their long-[...]As is inevitable when people visit Mrs. Olson[...] |
| [...]rs. Olson and Esther were helped by other members of[...]of the hospital. The largest number of patients in the[...]hospital at one time was 18, but some of these were babies[...]corner of the house to accommodate so many. "We had[...]babies, including a set of twins, were born at the hospital-[...]n used to bathe the babies while sitting in front of the[...]uring the many years when it served the community as "And I have always felt that babies should be held while one of Scobey's two hospitals.[...]ul if Mrs. Olson ever enjoyed a whole Hundreds of babies were born at Mrs. Olson's home in night's sleep, unbroken by the demands of from one to five the years between 1935 and 1952,[...]he years the hospital was in full loved every one of them.[...]nt their last days in the She did most of the cooking for her patients, and she is pleasant home-like atmosphere of the hospital, and one of those cooks who believe that good old fashioned food patients with all manner of ills and injuries were nursed complete[...]ed her special training in the care of the sick, but after nursing her nurse's training[...]Her children include Sigurd Olson of Froid, Alvin Olson that time and Dr. Morrow begged Esther to start a of Culbertson, Mrs. Helen Peters of Billings; Norman and maternity hospital where she could "take care of up to four Art Olson, Mrs. Myrtle Anderso[...]t a time." of Scobey. There are also 16 grandchildren and 16 gr[...]dren. conveniently locate a short distance south of the business After the Daniels Memorial[...]the Olson hospital continued to operate as a home for agreed to begin this new enterprise,[...]daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Anderson. In spite of her busy purchased.[...]It 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 years. very r[...]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[...]oming back to Scobey where Esther could take care of him. His arm had to be amputated-the first operat[...]recalls. "Wecharged$25fora the request of Lutheran Homes and Hospital Society who baby case[...]re to manage the new hospital. They felt the need of a for ten full days. Other patients were charged[...]guild was created and became a never even thought of chargin~ for those things," Mrs. member of the Lutheran Homes and Hospital Society Ol[...] |
| Mrs. E.T. Peterson, as temporary chairman, opened the back in, spin the[...]were no starters. I always meeting for election of officers and appointment of carried an extra spring for the car, because occassionally committees for the ensuing year. The first slate of officers the trail would be washed out and there[...]ride on the fender with a were through. A staff of Guild members put in over 200 lantern to light our way. man hours of labor, scrubbing and cleaning to make the We took care of all our flats on the spot. One trip I will place[...]tire kept pinching the innertube. I In March of 1952 the formal opening of the hospital took finally finished tbe trip by wa[...]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 monetary contributions that day added to the treasury of and the prairie looked smooth. Suddenly we hit th[...]ch assessed its members a dollar a year. of a coulee and buried the car to the hub. Fortunate[...]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 t[...]aningful and helpful assistance that has been out of my car and kept it until spring when I came for t[...]its use. In the spring of the year and the ice gave way, I had In 1957[...]Tea is sponsored by the Guild--its were a number of wagons camped waiting for the ice flow proceeds[...]the opposite bank Program chairman to take care of each meeting's message. another patient's husband[...]upervisor at times addresses the meeting on cross as his wife had fluid in one lung which was quite m[...]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[...]y now has been added for the older guests in need of part time the water came up over the tops of the horse's tails and supervision. Another additi[...]mitted by The liveryman drove me to the banks of the river where a[...]guson coat and overshoes. Around us big cakes of ice were flating[...]im, "You should what was considered the best land of the reservation and be better prepared to die tha[...]tested the soil. We then filed an adjoining claim of 320 boat and we crossed safely. Our return was ma[...]sgow, but he passed guide. Next came the breaking of the sod, which was done away on the train. by fou[...]I will never forget. A patient's In the spring of 1915 I opened my office in Scobey to husband from across the line came for me. As we were practice medicine. My father practiced me[...]ome we saw a blizzard coming and got to his ranch as his headquarters. The roads were trails to follow place as it hit. It was so severe that the following morni[...]ms with dirt floors. The conditions were terrible as the unknown . To start the car in cold wea[...] |
| [...]came 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 fier[...]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 t[...]the I entered World War I, in the fall of 1917, and spent three railroad track, followed i[...]estination. The patient was composed of part of the seventh and third units. Later we having her[...]in Denver, and was discharged in 1920. he let go of the lines the team started running and were[...]bey and went into practice with Dr. Tom soon out of sight. We followed the fence in deep snow for[...]I went to California where I had a recurrence of T.B. hitched a team to his rig, a wagon box on r[...]She had entirely to proctology with two of the world's leading some very attractive-looking girls. May had me check her specialists a~ heads of the staffs of the hospital. girls for venereal diseases each m[...]om Europe I looked at several fast In the fall of the year wheat was being freighted in from g[...]n 1929 and Canada, Opheim and Glentana with teams of twelve practiced my speciality u[...]s which extended about two thirds charge of the gate receipts and paying prize money to the up to the ceiling. The stable consisted of upright poles with contestants. wire over th[...]used to build corrals to putting a good blanket of snow on the straw. There was a hold the[...]ce. 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 final[...]ere used. These horses were all In the winter of 1916 we had 60 below zero weather for sunfishers, hitting the ground with a lot of force. The range two days. I made a sixty mile r[...]horses were much smaller so did not have near as much but the minute I arrived at my destination[...]We built our riding chute in the center of the The trail I followed was well packed with sn[...]ounted and rules for riding were that he came out of the and one victim died while I was removing the[...]e beaten up while intoxicated would need a change of first five jumps with his hat in his r[...]le we were cleaning him up I remarked I was tired of out on the town and were well-polluted[...]pair of Angora chaps which he could make shimmey when[...]r in the horse's flank, earlier purchased a pint of liquor were sitting directly and rode hi[...]dumped the I do not remember any of the rider's names but Slim contents of a chamber pot on them.[...] |
| [...]Lima, Montana died leaving because of failing health. He had been residing in February[...]rnia. Mrs. Ingrid (Jestin) Needles, a son William of Yelm, by[...]nnett Washington, and a brother, Dr. J.W. Needles of Glendale, California. Dr. Needles was born Se[...]cobey during the early 20's and while here served as The Scobey J ayceens were organized on May 11, 1962 first commander of Scobey Post 56, American Legion. with 21 members. The organization is an auxiliary of the Upon leaving here he practiced in Illinois, the state of Jaycees and is devoted to assisting them in p[...]ter the community. Membership is limited to wives of been about a year.[...]the Jaycees. Mrs. Ingrid Needles, a sister of Mrs. C.T. Swenson, made The first officers[...]ome in later years in Scobey following the deaths of Ferguson, vice president; Dorothy Fjeld, s[...]J ayceens provided potluck lunches to the Jaycees as Methodist Church and Eastern Star.[...]th at the Daniels to be near the daughter and son of the Swensons. They now County Fair. Ii ve[...]ttle League baseball in 1963. They were in charge of[...]as well as the District Roadruuner award which creates[...]In 1972 Ginny Heaton assumed temporary duties as[...]dance for the 50th anniversary of the Silver Star Dr. L.T. Krogstad came to Scobey in 1950, taking over Community. the practice of Dr. T.M. Morrow, who was leaving, having been in poor health for several months. A native of North Dakota, Dr. Krogstad, received his degree f[...]Leer, continuing until 1948, with an interruption of about two president; Carl Lindquist, first vice-president; Elmer years, (1944-1945), when he served as a medical officer in Skeie, second vic[...] |
| [...]to R. King, lion tamer; and J.F. support of many Masonic organizations, charities, and Haun,[...]PIONEER TOWN Major projects of the Lions Club over the years have been helping w[...]The purpose of this association is to preserve antique[...]items, in memory of the pioneers of this country, farmers, SCOBEY LODGE NO. 1[...]n Thursday evening May 30, 1916 more than a score of This organization is incorporated as a state chartered, Master Masons origjna ting from as far west as Oregon non-profit museum association with active members and as far east as Indiana and now Ii ving in the new representing all parts of this area. thriving town of Scobey joined together 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 promoting and diffusing the genuine principles of Freemasonry, for the convenience of our respective dwellings and diverse other good r[...]9 received its charter. The following are signers of the charter: L.D. Tucker, First Worship Master; S[...]ichols, A.J. Lawson. · Only one of these original signer, D.A. Bostick, is on the lo[...]r meetings are held every first and third Tuesday of the month, except for July, August and part of September. At the present time there are 77 membe[...]rge 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 the Greengard apartments, whi[...]resent time, "The Fabric Shop". Among the renters of the lower part of the building have been the post office department[...]rvice Drug Store Scobey Museum sign incorrect as far as Legare and Sitting from 1936 to 1965. The Lodge b[...]ull. They went from Willow Bunch to Buford by way of and remodeled over the years with the addition of better Big Muddy. heating and plumbing fa[...]anges in the lower floor to accomoda te the needs of the various tenants.[...]ght gifts or In carrying out its avowed purpose as above stated in its placed there unde[...] |
| Pioneer Town has developed under the supervision of building from Madoc and the postoffice mai[...]at called the "Dirty Shame Saloon" in honor of a place of that comprise the town were donated. Pioneer Town[...]The board walkways under you:rfeet and the scent of the forth to charm the fair sex on a Saturday night. A tiny packed-away memories greet you as you enter the old dress shop displays t[...]h plumed hats, beaded purses, long mod sunglasses of the 70's to dim the bright Montana sun, kid g[...]come to Scobey used to be the headquarters of Westland Oil life on the streets of Pioneer Town of Scobey, as you see Company so the old Westland gas stati[...]s that now comprise Pioneer Town all came of antique items from telephones to tonics. Many of the from towns surrounding Scobey, as far as 60 miles away. goods in the store were purc[...]grandparents of people still living here.[...]thousands of visitors who come to Scobey for the annual[...]which draws out the full flavor of Pioneer Town as the[...]The building housing the autos is one of three steel[...]the second served as a general work area and a third,[...]nated by Ramon Trower, will be used in the summer of 1976. Another fireproof building contains some of the more[...]The community of Scobey has a thriving project under[...](portions of this article adopted from MondaKonia[...]magazine-1973) Buffalo rubbing rock in front of museum building.[...]ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR |
| [...]of Lewistown, Montana.[...]n by the E.T. Petersons. Strom serve as Grand Adah and as Grand Martha, E. Jean Standing left to right: Mrs. Josephine Fleming, Mrs. Olive Karlsrud serve as Grand Chaplain, and Edna I. Waller as Lile (sister-in-law of Mrs. M.B. Lile of Scobey), Mrs. Grand Esther and Adeline Lowthian as Grand Electa. Wini/red Haun, Mrs. Thora Chapin, M[...]All history is a story, and the story of Prairie Chapter .. .is Johnson, Mrs. Alice D. Kna[...]e present and the yet- Burke, Mrs. Nelson (mother of Hale and Ira), Mrs. Cora to-be. The pas[...]Over the period of fifty years the Prairie Chapter has had[...]endeavored to fulfill the purposes of the order - "Charity, banquet and washing of the dishes came to $6.00. This was Truth and Loving KindRess" by being mindful not only of before Scobey had electric lights, so kerosene lamps were Eastern Star members but also of the "stranger within our used and the kerosene co[...]the stove was filled with good things. A testing of the .SADDLE CLUB HISTORY "common things of life" was enjoyed by all.[...]The Scobey Saddle Club has been one of the leading the local Ration Board and was fortun[...]n sponsoring and supporting a slip for two pounds of sugar and one pound of coffee. The the various civic and community activities for nearly joy was shortlived, for by the time of the next meeting, the thirty years. The origi[...]Evanskaas, John Lee and Charles Wolfe as the members. It brought to mind 1917 again. Remember this poem? The End of a Hoover Day Scobey Sad[...]on; Gordon Marlenee; Francis I've come to the end of a meatless day, Brasen;[...]y To the foods which today I've been fed. I think of the cheese and the beans and fish And the oysters[...]eally didn't miss the meat. I've come to the end of a wheatless day |
| [...]d Otto Otten. In the middle forties a number of interested horsemen |
| [...]teachers were the Misses Thomas, was the teacher of that rural school. She also came to p[...]tin and physics. " In the early years the Board of Trustees of School "In 1920-21 an art class under direction of Mrs. District No. 1 were in charge of all rural schools. Minutes of South was added, also a debate team which won[...]strict Eight championship and Ray Clark, a member of will open April 1 and close the last week in Nove[...]east nine pupils to speaking." operate." As time went on small school distrists were[...]ement was made with Mr. Bill Stephens for the use of and educational responsibilities. Hrwever, the Sc[...]games. It was a little Superintendents and Board of Trustees were responsible inconvenient as the seats had to be moved off the floor for all rural schools in District I. In early years the Clerk of before and back again after practice, as well as for games. the District was also the truant officer and inspector of There were no dressing rooms or showers.[...]flooking after delinquent children Some of the ~achers who taught in the early 20 's were: a[...]story was added for Jr. High and Clerks of District I from 1914 to 1976 are as follows: R.H. High School. As country schools closed these buildings[...]he past twenty-three years. Following is a list of Scobey's Superintendents: 1914-15 By 1[...]rintendents. However, Mrs. Samuel Smith is living as J.E. Danielson; 1945-61, George H. _Hayes; February, '61- well as Mrs. MacDougal1. Mrs. MacDougall, now Mrs.Van Jun[...]Leo Zuck recalls this about his father's tenure as Scobey the building of the new school. I also believe he was School Supe[...]County throughout the state as he was a talented speaker. " Superint~ndent of Schools at Missaukee County,[...]ing position at Michigan. The family was composed of his wife Ruth and Grand Forks, North[...]e wooden sold to many universities as a reference book--"The frame building, the first floor of which was a semi- Technique of Teacher Self Placement'." basement and later conv[...]mpleted all but the last chapter, "On the Science of[...]"American Who's Who" from the University of Kansas[...]Elmer Skeie came to Scobey as head of the Scobey school system in the fall of 1931, succeeding W.A. MacDougall as superintendent. He was a graduate of St. Olafs College at[...]going to Hardin. He was in his eighth year as superintendent at the time of his death. J.E. Danielson serv1e d as Superintendent of Schools in[...]Washington. His last assignment was that of Director of[...] |
| [...]ve a price, a price often paid for with the blood of our[...]amounts of seven dollars each. There were so many[...]of my top-notch teachers with me. Had she remained i[...]All in all our years in Scobey were ones of much[...]enjoyment and satisfaction. We had a staff of very[...]outstanding members of the student body - musicians,[...]enjoyed the people of the community - good, sincere, Supt. J.E. Daniels[...]friendly folks, and very solid citizens - many of whom, we[...]home in Tacoma, Washington. Here is his account of the years spent in Scobey: " I arrived in Scobey with my family in August 1938, following six weeks of summer school work at the University of Montana. The school gymnasium was under construct[...]g hurried to have it in readiness for the opening of school. One of my early major projects was the lighted football[...]ures for a very nominal price. The transportation of the equipment and its installation were made poss[...]as needed. This included some lots on the far end of the field owned by an elderly lady, one who was v[...]te, board president, and me to make one last try. As we approached her home she shouted to us, "You ar[...]responded by asking if we could come in for a cup of coffee. She said: " Coffee I will give you, but a[...]evidently 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 War. Those were years when an[...]were fighting. They were years, too, when several of our recollections. fine high school young[...]In 1945, when I came to Scobey from Culbertson, as remember the anxiety and sorrow experienced by the superintendent of schools, I was impressed with the fine families c[...]he community. Through it all we were kept mindful of the over the buildings in Culbertson[...] |
| superintendent of schools to live in was another problem-- n[...]been installed. You remember the seven inches of rain buy a house for the superintendent. There was no legal which sent torrents of water surging through the basement precedent--so we were advised--and the Board might be of the schoolhouse. I remember the hail storm which[...]pane in the science room and a piece of glass cutting a gash school finance.[...]- , teachers were about as scarce and we started to bring in the I remember the keen rivalry of Scobey and Plentywood old school houses from the[...]rill it was to have a apartments for teachers and as I remember we ended up championship f[...]s proud we all were over the achievements of the music did more to solve the then critical teacher shortage more department and probably of more importance, the success than anything we could have done. of the graduates of the Scobey Schools in the years after. With a[...]three years?" I also remember one of our candidates for freezing during those long col[...]chools." lunches, music and vocational education. As many will At this time Scobey Schoo[...]KEDRIC FLINT 1961-1966 With the availability of surplus commodities we were In rec[...]sure to improve devise and enforce a new set of disciplinary codes. the music program and the voc[...]l measures were taken to 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 buil[...]ch room, the shop and the business education wing as well as new shower rooms at the end of the old gym. With that building program completed most of our problems seemed to be solved except for the o[...]whenever I think about that. It was a masterpiece of engineering! How it ever kept the school building[...]l and pile it out on the school yard. We put tons of water on the fire and the more water we added the hotter it got. Then, too, it seemed for every cubic foot of coal we burned we took out two cubic feet of ashes! I think the first major improvement we mad[...]with the increase in enrollment and the building of the new elementary school. Left to right:[...]. 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 beefed up to aid the college many things most of which affected the school in one way bou[...]he Women's Club who initiated a time and most out of town spectators had to remain all[...] |
| A complete student handbook was written as well as the including a new furnace and furnace room. (The end of the board policies outlining school rules, polici[...]curriculum changes for the students, eliminating of the driving of cars once the students had and come to school[...]the board for the school was an indepth review of the so that baking could be done at the school ra[...]ed by putting in an building and the type of program to be provided. Some underground automati[...]ootball concern was registered over the lack of space for certain field.[...]The largest building program was the building of the with respect to basketball, elementary p[...]d not have to be passed. The old bus stability of the high school building, as the northwest garage was sold and moved; and the teacherage next to it corner of the foundation was deteriorating. was moved to a[...]ing the landscape and giving more period of time, we asked the University of Montana to help area for the school.[...]been too years in Scobey. The support and loyalty of the school ambitious, I believe it helped p[...]ne that is to be commended to the them." town of Scobey. Since 1966 I have been District Superintendent of the Cut Bank school, Cut Bank, Montana.[...]and Master's degree from the University of Idaho. He[...]needs of the educationally handicapped as well as a speech[...]ols became involved in its first The major points of interest while he was Superintendent foreign student exchange program in 1972 with the first of Schools were:[...] |
| [...]and traae and mdustry along with re-establishment of a vocational agriculture program.[...]entary School District officially becoming a part of Note postmark "East Scobey" and one ce[...]New elementary school - Scobey This year of 1976 finds Scobey Schools with two modern,[...]left to right: |
| STATE FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS Eight tudent pupil s of Mr. Hylland and Mrs. Lathrop, took part in the state music festival at Missoula on April 13, in 1940 six of them receiving superior ratings and elegible to a[...]Glasgow with an approximate score of 106-0. The team pictured above, that of 1928; apparently learned some[...]became champions of what is now several districts . It did In the abo[...]ha ve one defeat early in the season at the hands of Wolf Clifford I. Hanson, participants in the dash[...]called "green" material , sqme of whom had never played IN MISSOUL[...]lost the next four. Captain of the team was Clifford I. The first track team t[...]s Glenn Hansen, and team members Meet wa the team of 1937. Members who were represented inclu[...]ger, Ed Carney and Charles Daniels. mishap on one of the turns but still able to pick up and get[...]al com petition they were untouchable four of the former team members and several new recruits.[...]In 1939 the athletes of Scobey High School welcomed[...]ntor, L.J. Reinhart. The Spartans HISTORY OF SCOBEY FOOTBALL didn[...]The second game of the 1940 season was played against[...]Glasgow, and the final score was 68 to 0 in favor of Football was started in Scobey in 1927 by Coach[...]owever the game was forfeited to Scobey Arm trong of Ames, Iowa. Lowell Dailey, Scobey fullback because of certain technical conditions. The Spartans also i[...]defeated Plentywood, and had a season record of two wins Univer ity of Montana and in the Pacific Coast and four losses. onference where he was known as " Sledgehammer The team played r[...]ompleted their most successful At the beginning of the 1936 football season the outlook season[...]by annexing the district was none too good . Much of the team was composed of so- championship and being runner-u[...] |
| [...]the team was coached by Gordon Stoddard , virtue of defeating Circle, Poplar, Plentywood, and Wolf[...]r. must be given to Coach Reinhart and his group of boys for Bill Hilton took over the coach[...]l The Scobey grid season opened with a turnout of twenty Hilton was head coach , assisted by Clay Dunlap and men in 1943, most of them inexperienced underclassmen. Roger S[...]x games . Mr. Munson as the head coach , and Mrs . Burton the The Spar[...]d the Spartans in championship under the coaching of M.G. Butters. A 1968 with Mr. Halloc[...]an his coaching duties in Scobey Walter T. Scott of Butte presented 25 silver footballs to in 19[...]There were forty -five out for football , one of the largest The Scobey Spartans completed anot[...]sion. In 1970 the Spartans had a record of three wins and five the team won four games and l[...]and five record in 1971 it was a year of pride and and Bill Cullen.[...]g 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 had to squ[...]played in conference championship in the history of their school by Great Falls in August, 1973[...]the Sizer. 1950 season. It was his last year as coach of the Spartans. The Scobey Spartans amassed[...]season. The Spartans 1974 under the coaching of Mr. Levad. Assistant coaches were coached by Mr.[...]ey the most al together had a record of six wins and two losses. Coach successful season[...]tball banquet Mr. Rex Dailey, secretary treasurer of the Montana Athletic Association, awarded a troph[...]The girls' basketball team was composed of players who Gordon and Bob Southada coached the 1[...]he Spartans were impressive in their first outing of in poor form, but toward the last of the season gave some of 1956 under coach Charles Van Gordon, lost[...] |
| [...]hem down to one basket and finishing with a score of: January Outlook played at Scobey and won, the[...]the first This was probably the best game of the season played here. half. January 29 the Fair[...]two in the lead. The best game of the season was played with the W[...]iasm winning, 33 to 11; a four day tour of eastern Montana with and one year ' experience in[...]held in Laurel. Scobey defeated Shelby 27-26 none of the team had ever played before .[...]had 41 and Red Lodge forced Scobey out of the tourney 50-39. through hard work managed to t[...]in the state although we did not win the majority of games played. tournament by winning se[...]Due to inexperience we lost the game with a score of Team: Richard Audet, Burnell Rhodes, Duane[...]lf at back guard. It being his first game score of 61-59; the Scobey team won over St. Ignatius 61-60 h e in isted on playing the forward end of the floor most of in its second game; Billings Central defeated the Spartans the time. Result at the end of the first half: Outlook 20 , 75-55 in the th[...]n Great Falls. Scobey High chool basketball team of 1926-27, from an |
| [...]Tournament in Glasgow. Don Nutter.(later governor of Montana) was one of the referees. They did not advance far in the state tourney as Laurel defeated them 68-39 and Chinook won[...] |
| [...]son play until me~ting Terry in championship game of divisional tourney). The Spartans played two hard[...]. E. Skeie, that they were in the top one-half of one per cent of all Supt. of Schools. Second row: Jimmy Shook, David Shaich,[...], Eileen Parks. Third row: Barbara five hundred of the three million graduating seniors in the King,[...]Skeie, Carl Fjeld, Jean McIntyre, Mark phase of the competition will not be known until May. layb urgh. Fifth row: Luella T[...] |
| [...]Severt, J. J.L. Hylland, included these members as well as some not McKiernon, D. Mahler, L. Dickinson, W[...]ave, Annette Delagrave, Lapke, Gloria 4th of July Parade - 1976. Back to camera: Joe Lohr, He[...]ome Economic:c, Club, class plays, Future Farmers of America, a Latin Club. and a tumbling class. A 1940 ann ,.1al of Scobey High School shows the Scobey Chapter of F'.F.A. Its officers were: president, Andy[...] |
| [...]of[...]Retirement in Bozeman University of North Dakota, Students Army Training Corps.[...]of the group and each lady was presented with a pict[...]We Are Going To School" walking float in the 4th of July Our Sunshine Club has been activ[...]Dated at Scobey, Montana this 6th day of September, Hillstrom, Superintendent; Ruth Hanrah[...]cobey still has a Sunshine Club. A 1948 HISTORY OF THE SUNSHINE CLUB Someone suggested at the par[...]cher and Mrs. K. |
| [...]Hellickson, Graden Michel, and Roy Connell of Glasgow.[...]boss man for this trek was Bill Tryan of Flaxville. The train consisted of 12 wagons, some new drivers and some[...]on the uphill side of some wagons to keep them from[...]the steeper climb. Lad of the Saddle Club team became ill[...]eryone who was contacted was very caravan of 50 units now under the guiding 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 promoted by the Scobey Saddl[...]e by horse and wagon in 1923 and purchased a team of black horses, Lady and Lad. This agai[...]ributed to the teamster work while to the efforts of members and the Scobey school. The en[...]gons making this trek with again many preparation of restoring wagons r buying or breaking[...]b Days later that year. for five years with hopes of many more. We traveled f[...]we have had a different wagon One of the outfits had a runaway the first morning out m[...]ail blazing job has been handled by Karnes Sundby of training, somewhat like starting the da[...]and operated 1975, another big year, as Monte Montana accompanied by Ron and Janet Ereth,[...]tana areas combirie<l Canada under the leadership of Bob Tande to help them in honor of Monte's 50th year in show business. All totaled o[...]here were 12 wagons we had a caravan of 33 units leaving Scobey and again and a score of outriders. The most colorful entries of the scores of outriders. The steady hand of Arlo Anderson train were two oldtimers, Ed Murphy of Scobey and Ray guiding us on our way. Upon arriving at Wolf Point we Babcock of Wolf Point. Ed, at 83 years, made the 75 mile[...]on a rubber-tired wagon, an exception total of 4 7 wagons in the parade. We were again to our ru[...]raveled to Flaxville for the 750 Club Days. chain of events. Also in 1971 several wagoneers, two[...]28th herded along by Don Anderson of Scobey. We will wagon and team, Arlee and[...] |
| n offi ial Wagon T rain flag . The colors of red, white and Our projects are financed by s[...]concessions. open prairies with the blessings of land owners who have In the sixties the[...]the purpose TO BE OBSERVED AT SCOBEY of organizing a unit of the Federated Womens Club. The first officers wer[...]and Scobey Post of American Legion will attend and the Charter me[...]the Grand Army Veterans. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ferguson, Gus Waller, Gerald Melena[...]is, M.J. Sorte, and Mrs. will take the place of honor in the parade. Prof. John Zuck Larry Bowler. The club became a member of the General will deliver the oration of the day at the Rex Theater at 2 Federation of Womens Clubs on March 25, 1946.[...]d and Community Library, situated in the basement of the appropriate services held in honor of the dead. The officers courthouse, after a committee had met with the Lion's Club of the Legion and Veterans request that their member[...]will march to the Theatre. with the help of the state librarian, catalogued the books. Business men are requested to decorate their places of The library was taken over in March of 1947 by the county business and close for t[...]from the Flaxville Democrat of May 21, 1920 HISTORY OF SELMER OIE POST 173, |
| [...]participated in every battle of this unit--as a civilian: When[...]down because of age. In his determination to enlist he[...]muster rolls of Company B, first North Dakota Volunteer[...]master rolls of Company E , First Nebraska Regiment,[...]1899. During the fore part of 1919 Paui' Crum then a~[...]attorney in Scobey and a member of A.R. Patters'on Post 7,[...]Selver Oie, a soldier from Scobey who had lost his life in Paul Crum -[...]France. Chief of Staff Taylor wrote to Crum: I wish to[...]congratulate you upon the formation of this, the first Post[...]to Santa Cruz, California, and shipped to of these members stretch from Minnesota to Helena Honolulu on the Andrew Welch, as an ordinary seaman. Montana and north into[...]the New York Volunteer Infantry and veterans of Scobey, John A. Davis and William H. the Tenth Pe[...]to enlist, but was turned down Oie, a brother of Sel ver Oie, was also made an honorary on account of age. mem[...]st him. However Captai~ During the hard days of the "Dirty 30's" it was difficult Killian did per[...]to keep the Post active, but due to the endeavors of a few Manila, where he stated that he would attem[...]digging into their pockets and paying the dues of others him.[...]they were able to retain the charter. Fourth of July parade about 1921. X points out Paul[...] |
| [...]France by Christmas of the same year. He was a member of[...]in the campaigns of 1918 and died in a base hospital in[...]VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AUXILIARY[...]The Auxiliary to Selmer Oie Post 173, Veterans of[...]es was again The Auxiliary works as an aid to the Post in helping the thrown into war[...]gifts and donations to veteran hospitals and old soldier's $400 was donated to the Depa rt m ent Relief Fu[...]upplied flags Smith , quartermaster a nd veter an of the Spanish and standards to organi[...]sts for schools. The members, hitting the parents of m en over seas or catching Auxiliary has sponsored local Brownies for twenty years, those as they came home fro m over seas, th us building th[...]lled in a ction stand during the active years of soft ball in Scobey, in Belgium on January 11, 1945, was the fi rst member of donated to the hospital , swimming pool a[...]Selmer Oie Post 173 to lose his life on the field of battle. scholarships. The VFW Auxiliaries hel[...]National Home in Michigan for widows and orphans of became involved in various financial enterprises,[...]l & Betty's a nd the Home and purchasing of the national flag and standard as Club 109, better known by the old timers as Rei ner Bakery. a bicentennial project. This[...]at the Fort Harrison VA hospital. Several members of the Post "with Post Colors" attended the funeral[...]all Americanism, Veterans A history of Daniels County that is to be worthy cannot Day an[...]ic programs. omit mention of the political, economic and social strife When[...]Home was b uilt that brought heights of frustration and bitterness in the the Post contri[...]e fund. Each year Post 173 great depression of the 1930's. As i~ always the case, time send3 one junior boy fro[...]. is no clarification of these high emotions unless we realize The Post[...]P a st that really the history of our county, as is the case with the Quartermasters "The Work Horses in the Post" who have rest of the country, started over 200 years ago; that it[...]blossomed into a bloodless but bitter revolution of the the man who got the World War II boys working in the 1930's , that the making of history ends but temporarily Post; George Presteg[...]before we put these current events into the time of his death. The Post is still here and will contin[...]. Now then it is time to record those awful times of 45 be so as long as those old faithfuls continue to put in th eir years ago. long hours of work.[...]liberal of course was recognized in 1776 as a revolutionary SE LMER OI E:[...]certain fundamental , Selver Oie, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Sven E. Oie, was inalienable rig[...]sota in 1887. He came to Scobey in master of his government and his destiny. He was a man the[...]ustav, who looked upon limited government as a necessity, but an who was involved in th[...] |
| forever monitor lest it make itself his master. Yes, as late as our memories on that. The 1930 to 1940 periodic[...]anyone that I am not presently this: "The history of man has been, over the ages, a story of propagandizing or editorializing let anyone p[...]Government. Believe me it does seem like the "Era 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 been solved,[...]sitive proof that big business, big labor and big of individuals should not be denied by government. Of government have found that peace is more in keeping with mistrust of government, there certainly was no doubt[...]ay I ask why government has made little or no use of Yes, these liberals of the great depression certainly did the Anti-[...]es even propose to legislate responsible handling of the omission by the founders of our republic. "There can be no huge multi-billion dollar pension funds of labor that have real political liberty without ec[...]uenced union They were right. Like the repetition of a broken record they leaders? Why too, have[...]performance says that the people now how a union of liberty. For an old dyed-in-the-wool conservative[...]icult to concede that they were right again! Many of Big government provides the protectio[...]merican per se. They were unwilling chains of political tyranny before the third Happy to let f[...]the issue in which they so Birthday of U.S.A. 2076. If the next generation does not prof[...]nment but gave it their County and the rest of the U.S. 45 years ago, then our whole loyal support as the only instrument they had to chance[...]right, in Poplar River project just north of the border. Citizens their means to solve the pro[...]uilt. The was the cause for the fury and contempt of the practices of big government are once again influencing the con[...]ls show enough insight to deal Federal usurpation of greater anc,l greater power, the with[...]and its Big Business protectors? This destruction of 50 sovereign states to the extent of declaring challenge will need to be met. all[...]rs. There seems support to complete concentration of government power in to be hope that the liberals of 1976 are beginning to take a Washington, including control of almost every detail of our leaf out of old book of their fellows of 1776 and again personal lives and our institutions of education. 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 pronouncements of liberals might be most enlightening. many, many more of our Democratic leaders are beginning So then h[...]vernment and to see the conservatives. I was one of lthem. We did not believe that point that[...]olutely. When both the liberals and conservatives of our liberty. We noted the past reforms on child[...]sure are dedicated to liberty and to the future of a status quo. We believed that chastising corpor[...]ket for public office (Scobey 1935) and standard of living. We were so shamefully wrong as these persist in "Yes, but it's better i[...]little last years have proven. We were no lovers of big business; attention in our great plan for the future; every great our methods of gradualism were different. We believed country in every age of man has had its yapping Jackals. government and[...]elvin S. Nelson was in the large part the ca use of our economic troubles. We feared big governemnt as all the people of the world have been justified in doing through the ages. We were right if the present growing attitude of most influential democrats can be used as the criterion.[...]ED CARNEY We all remember bitter battles of the great depression between big business and gov[...]ry will refresh Resource Development Division of the State Land[...] |
| [...]ena Increase crop productivity and income of state lands since his assignment, and Ed gets around the state in the through irrigation projects of a size practical to individual course of his work.[...]firm up water rights by use. The new division of the State Land Department came Stock[...]nt; in programs into being when the 1967 session of the State Legislature coordinated with SCS a[...]nvolving state land lessees. set aside 2½¢ out of every dollar of state land income "These are working pa[...]:► ) of the state," Mr. Carney advises. "A prime aim of the[...]Ed Carney now is director of the Department of[...]Skogmo Family Clothing During his days as a state senator from Daniels, Mr. The Fab[...]ey served on the senate committee on state lands. As a Bev's Sewing Center consequence that, alon[...]ssful farmer, The Thrift Shop and the son of homesteaders, plus having headed up a Wolfe's World of Fashions veteran's farm training program under t[...]has Holyk's Western Wear many thousands of acres of state land, added up to the Sears Catalog[...]job for the right man. Moreover, in the course of his work, Mr. Carney has not Clubs and Lounges: been handicapped by the fact that the current head of the Pioneer Lounge State Land Department al[...]Ginger's Bar In the course of his visit here, the Leader asked Mr. Maxine and Arlee's Bar Carney what was one of his first steps after his Ponderosa[...]ve Drumm. He was the originator and chief sponsor of the bill in 1967 which set up the new Pu[...]Dakota Utilities me that I should know the spirit of the law, as Mr. Drumm Mountain Bell Telephone had in mi[...]es, in connection with Sol berg's Kamp Grounds of America, the only national organization N[...]inning. Thus the Resource Development Division of the State Kramer Implement Land Departme[...]directed toward carrying out the following kinds of Insurance Agents and Banks: ac[...] |
| [...]man Farmer's Elevator of Scobey Dr. Ken Lee Daniels County Veterina[...] |
| [...]Kavon (now of Plentywood) and managed by Harry[...]Shook. The scene shows the arrival of seven new Fords.[...]w years by the big You will find a choice line of trimmed hats Turk store, later P[...] |
| [...]I! TO THE GALLANT OF WORLD WAR II[...]3-4-- I Entrance of Colors[...]Pledge of Allegiance . . . . Audience[...]"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United[...]dity States of America and to the Republic for which[...]i, T / Sgt. Henry Schauer of Scobey[...]■ Holder of Congressional Medal of Honor[...]A M«:rry C:hr,s n,as a nd a[...] |
| [...]11111111111111 The Music Corporation of America[...]or 16 years to the life of your frame[...]Painting of All types done in town[...]SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SATURDAY, NOV. 5 |
| [...]Administering the oath of office to Sorte during[...]d Sorte with a black judicial robe. Savageau, now of Hubbard , Oregon was the subject of a Spectators included the governor's wife and members of feature story in 1973 of the Portland Oregonian. She Sorte's family. worked from 1942 to 1949 in the flag loft of the Mare Island So rte said he and his fami[...]home in Wolf naval shipyard in Vallejo. Each crew of ladies in making Point, seat of Roosevelt County. the flags had a number assigned to each batch of ten. Sorte succeeds District Judge J[...]Iwo Jima, the Joe June 20. Rosenthal photo of which became immortalized in Sorte is a native of Scobey, seat of Daniels County. He statuary and on U.S. stamps, M[...]bachelor's degree in history from the University of by the Navy that it was one of 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 assistant attorney general under delegation fr[...]960 to 1962. He was in private legal that several of the mixed service group who raised that flag[...]r lives during or minutes a short time as a deputy county attorney in Great Falls. afterwar[...]ter that year. blacksmith and Mabel worked at one of the local tailor Anderson appointed Sorte as director of the Montana shops - son, Cecil, born 1914. (above information sent to Office of Economic Opportunity in January. So rte held the[...]He is married to the former Anne Brown of Bigfork. THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULDN'T![...]t 1937; |
| [...]nce yesterday by the Leader, is the almost As Schauer ran to catch up with the Patrol, which had unbelieveable account of some of the dare-devil feats of T- resumed its advance, he glimpsed another sniper hiding gt. Henry Schauer of Scobey, who was recently awarded behind the chimney on the roof of a house 150 yards ahead the Congressional Medal of Honor by Gen. Patch. The of his unit. Schauer stopped, aimed, and his burst of fire Leader also received a large picture showing[...]man snipers in less than heroism and marksmanship of this Scobey soldier, who two minutes! offered himself as a target to German snipers in order that T[...]halted by a heavy them, was witnessed by hundreds of other American enemy artillery conc[...]ne guns soldiers and by his officers who rate him as the best which cut loose with chains of fire just over the top of the Browning Automatic (BAR) marksman in the U.S. Army. ditch. One of the German machine guns was only 60 yards And with that marksmanship Schauer has nerves of steel in front of the ditch while the other was emplaced 500 and co[...]t, to the right front. With the Third Division of the Seventh Army in One of the Patrollers climbed out of the ditch into the France-"A-Kraut-an-Hour-Schaue[...]auer again. This time he knelt to fire by the men of a Third Infantry Division Battle Patrol to the at the nearest enemy weapon, just as though he was Division's eleventh soldier to win the Congressional Medal practicing another firing position. Shells burst no farther of Honor. from him than 15 yards; strings of grazing German tracers Pfc. Henry Schauer, Scobey, Montana, was in the heat of whipped past him at chest-level. When he fir[...]ans ran to man the gun. man 's army-17 Germans in as many hours. Both crumpled[...]. Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, Commanding General of the Moving target or stationary, no m[...]auer turned his body toward the given the mission of cutting Highway No. 7 southeast of machine gun 500 yards away which was firi[...]fully inserting a new magazine into his enemy out of a large area , protect its regiment's flank in[...]Once again the Battle Patrol could move because of it could reach the initial objective. This is an[...]May 24, 1944, it had passed for a group the size of the Battle Patrol. through t[...]ghway No. For three and one-half hours members of the Battle 7. Patrol crawled flat on th[...]oad it was to cross. The enemy was throwing a lot of small arms fire at the men from the front and rig[...]ers opened up on the patrol from the rear. One of the men armed with a BAR (automatic rifle), climbed out of the ditch and walked slowly toward the snipers. Two of the Germans were at the base of a house 200 yards to the rear, one lay on the roa[...]fourth was concealed in a wheat field to the left of the house. The BAR man walked slowly and steadily. It was Pfc. Henry Schauer, who is, in the words of Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Brown, " the best Bar man I have ever seen." All four of the snipers shifted their fire from the other members of the patrol and centered their fire on Schauer. It[...]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 of steel. He stood upright, raised his automatic rif[...]ith the grass. Two burst from the BAR killed both of them. Schauer turned his body slightly. The snipe[...]opened up on it from a point of 100 yards to the front. In[...] |
| [...]rk VI tank, 600 yards to the left, fired a number of rounds in rapid succession. For the third time[...]rs Schauer took on the enemy, alone. Climbing out of the ditch, he crawled[...]rectly at him, and each one burst within 20 yards of him, showering him with dirt. Schauer raised h[...]er. The 20 rounds in the magazine killed all four of the machine gun crew. In a period of 17 hours Pfc. Schauer had killed 17 Germans, knoc[...]and to its successful advance and accomplishment of its important mission. Henry Schauer is the on[...]onor that goes only to men who have won the Medal of Honor. May 15, 1958 - A[...]ast Sunday when he The dress and cap are of fine black wool, richly |
| [...]mud and snow, took the abuse of potholes and deep ruts,[...]one wheel because of the dragging transmission. When the[...]Rust has taken its toll of the truck body, and the old side-[...]hicle left of the curtains, and pointed out the special flaps t[...]The truck was his only means of motor transportation[...]$150 during a trip to Minnesota. He drove it west as far as Redstone in December without side curtains or tir[...]H.P. Larson in 1936. As he recalls, it cost either $700 or[...]t time. It is a "I thought I was sitting on top of the world when I four plow tractor rated at 40 horse power. He used part of bought that truck," Mr. Mi]ierrecalls. "It was my[...]took him a long time to finish pay for it because of Before that, Mr. Miller had used horses for[...]trip to Scobey from the Ole The low seat of the tractor was uncomfortable even Shipstead ranc[...]th rapid transportation (the truck could make all of20 to the old two cylinder Avery that he ha[...]occasional job - like pulling the new tractor out of the mud engine vibrated so violently that it was in danger of falling when it gets stuck. apart.[...]"I have always believed in making things last as long as Many farmers, he recalls , bought auxiliary[...]ks with the result that they A native of Indiana, Fred Miller has lived in the county drov[...]after the railroad came in. He Since the speed of the truck was limited and it was not came[...]owerful enough to carry more than a standard load of 60 at Sarles, N.D. He recalls that they got out of the train bushels it was easy on tires, and the r[...]hill and walked up the hill, easily only two sets of tires in 40 years. The second set, which s[...] |
| months of European duty he returned to the Scobey area,[...]rust got inside the case. southwest of Four Buttes where he lived unt'il his death.[...]of the watch is in good condition, except the hands.[...]good running condition-thanks to the watchful eye of 1948[...]was disclosed that the net profit from the raffle of the old Model T fire truck amounted to slightly m[...]Firemen COWBOY RECALLS MEMORIES OF expect to apply this sum on the hoped-for purchase of a INTERESTING PAST new, l[...]rothy Rustebakke is always the first on the scene of any fire. Getting back, however, to the matter of the old Model T To Dave Willoughby, equ[...]ll unused for many years, afternoon show of the Daniels County Fair this week, we feel it was[...]tely visiting the Scobey area was something of a homecoming. this was done profitably. During the early days of Scobey Mr. Willoughby, who As mentioned in a previous issue, the old Model Twas[...]m Kansas to Culbertson in 1909, won by Paul Huber of Wolf Point. It was delivered to him oft[...]e all the hills on where he was always sure of a good meal. high.[...]Mr. Willoughby's fondest memory of Scobey concerns a When Luverne Hansen was prou[...]under a sub-contract from Gilmore and Love of Miles City. grocery and dry goods store in the lo[...]to by the Ben Franklin store and Woodwards, both of which, him as if everyone in Scobey went to celebrate the holid[...]In those days Luverne knew the city like the palm of his fellow who had won one. The two turkey[...]emises now occupied by Carl's Tavern. young lads of his age and younger got their first[...]Main street sidewalks between buildings as soon as the animals were started out they all decided to and lamp posts. He was one of the few who could negotiate head for thei[...]they got ahead of her again until they reached their[...]Willoughby's family moved to south of Poplar in 1911, PLOWS UP WATCH LOST 31 YEA[...]ill Be Necessary up when he became of age. Later he sold it.[...]citement in horses. had been plowed up by the son of Aime Carrier, who farms One of his more entertaining adventures was helping Joe'[...]rains, drouth, plowing and other Some of the cattle were reluctant to swim and had to be vagaries of the weather-the big, 17-jewel Waltham has[...]A shooting affray at the homestead claim of his sister-in- encompasses the period of Joe Nadeau's residence in this law in the timber country near Culbertson is another of his community.[...] |
| His sister-in-law's brother was George Hatfield, one of 1949 - A few feet to the left from Jimmy Hillstrom's back the feuding Hatfields of Tennessee (and kin to the door there is a spot in the ground that keeps sinking-no Hatfields of Navajo). One evening he became embroiled in[...]r. The Indian used the throws into it. Kind of a provoking proposition. He did kitchen table as a shield when Hatfield shot from behind s[...]ago when that sinking spot was the source of a supply of ·' Carrie's stove and stovepipes and skillet were full of water for many householders in Scobey. It was then known holes, and so were the utensils hanging behind the stove." as the Gibney well; and good water it was, too.[...]arned trick riding, and also had rounds of the town with his outfit, supplying water by the[...]g horses . filling up. The underground stream of water flowing He worked as a trainer and double for the movies , and through the bottom of the well evidently keeps carrying also raised palaminos and pintos. Those were the days of a way dirt from the bottom of the old well hole. Tom Mix , William S. Hart, Buc[...]Hoot her home this week , the first of its kind to be placed in a Gibson in the " Wild H[...]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 ho[...]According to Sam (A.M.) Dunn, in the early days of of a river in southern Washington.[...]rill, a ridden . Willoughby learned his technique of teaching from rancher, was having dinner wi[...]IMPLES knew that one of Cook's horses had had the same[...]his question, and Bill said he'd given the length of a goose 's neck and are the wiser for it. Halvor[...]said , " Yup, so did mine." Ted Hachman , one of the lucky dice tossers, had his goose under his arm tail-end-to as he was playing one of the pin- ball games. Behind him Francis Brasen wa[...]axville one night. Afterwards they came back a nd as did the goose snapped its clamper on the end of to Scobey and had lunch at Burton 's Caf[...]Hachman 's proboscis causing him a certain amount of go to a dance at the Silver Star Hall, but as they came out of pain and discomfort. Moral of that story is: Don 't look the cafe, Fred[...]Jake three in the g oose raffle was carrying one of them under his Timmons heard of it and came in to see Fred the next day. a[...] |
| [...]would be a sin ; To this please add two cakes of[...]the dough with melted Next stir in a teaspoonful of butter, as the recipes say; nice clear salt,[...]As soon as it's light, place again Pour the whole mixture in[...]Knead it well this time. Here is A pan 's just as good, if it hasn't[...]d place it in bread pans , You ' ve other things of great im-[...]Next let it rise to the level of ening power,[...]don 't set near a door. Two tablespoonfuls of lard, and[...]One hour more of waiting and too thick;[...] |
| [...]h underfoot. One more step and he was One night as Hans Jorgensen and his helper, Big John standing in ten inches of the cold, thick oil. Nuhring, were deep in the gr[...]working The light through the open door of the furnace room on a grave they heard a four-hor[...]load revealed a dark, shiny surface instead of the customary of grain from the west. Horses and driver were both[...]ay, dusty concrete floor. Then he heard the throb of a asleep, plodding along slowly.[...]gh the lobby, straightened up, stuck his head out of the grave, and Pete called the hotel ow[...]mp was lashed the horses, presumably all the rest of the way into pumping just the last dregs now, and 4500 gallons of the Scobey. At any rate, they disappeared down th[...]frantically Extra mattresses, paper cartons of bedding; even boxes of yelling, " Git up! Git up! "[...]Hans and asked cartons containing hundreds of bottles of brandy P.R. had in bewilderment, " What's the mat[...]Then it was noticed the oil was within an inch of flowing[...]Nothing here may be recorded of what was said. But the MEMOIRS, RECOLLECTIONS, RE[...]the sewer trap. There was no MEMORIES OF FRED HAUN pump in t[...]nace An early day depot agent in Scobey and one of the very ignited. few Spanish American war[...]te Frank more than a half million dollars as a railroad worker, Beeks used to haul water aroun[...]in the new oil fields of the 20's. Mr. Haun also recalls how a steam engin[...]He hooked a hoseline to a steam outlet of the furnace. threshing was Scobey's power for its[...]gine, later exchanged for a gas near the bank of the Poplar river. This hoseline process engine.[...]The river was frozen over and a good share of the oil who in the mid-twenties sold to what is n[...]began to move its winding course of about 65 miles to the[...]Missouri river near Poplar, big gobs of oil were noticed on GUSHER IN THE GO[...]Some enterprising citizens of Poplar, along with some[...]tanker near the Gorham Hotel in Thousands of acres were leased at from ten cents to twenty- Sc[...]tests, spudded in a well north of Poplar and struck a 150 " I don 't want a room[...]It may be added that it cost the City of Scobey "Good Lord, man , go round behind the ho[...]Burley Bowler The truck contained 4,500 gallons of thick, black furnace oil and when he was s[...] |
| rival, also had the makings of a club considerably better The fact that t[...]s a two-base hit, so Swede went to noted a number of new faces on both line-ups. Scobey th[...]innings later Donaldson, the noted colored hurler of whom John that the "Black Sox" pair showed the "bush leaguers" a McGraw of the New York Giants is reported to have said,[...]o a good job in pitchout to his catcher. Just as soon as the fourth "ball" the major leagues.[...]called for the ball and then that someone thought of the 1919 Chicago White Sox the cathcer t[...]nd, his Porky Dallas, an ·Indian boy by the name of Eastman, a high pitched voice heard by everyone but the busy big first baseman by the name of McLaughlin (of whom infielders, crying "give me that[...]l, Hinden give me that ball." by name, all of whom had at some time or other played in[...]No definite count was made, but some of those who were in Plentywood for the game. It was[...]Scobeyites came home with about $6,500 of Plentywood The players had their workout and th[...]ney. Plentywood was then headquarters for a group of "play ball" order. On the mound, beaming with[...]anuts on confidence, John Donaldson was the focus of attention. their team. Happy Felsch, Mi[...]was an outfielder holds some kind ofrecord as an outfielder for the great 1919 listed as Jackson. Donaldson's control was too good for the[...]ave you. And on more than one occasion a majority of the The crowd was tense and then above the stilln[...]Treasure State. That announcement was as much of a surprise to the The initial game at Plentywood attracted sufficient majority of Scobey fans at the game as it was to attention so that a fed[...]gate to see that Uncle Sam got his share of the admission been picked off the Oriental Limite[...]admissions to mean a gross of at least50<fo more. The gross Undaunted, Donal[...]ayroll and expenses, and they kept it up for part of the inning.[...]. It was That year Scobey had also won renown as the biggest the third inning before Swede came to[...]Happy again. With his 2,500,000 bushels of spring wheat being loaded into cars at first pitc[...]ent. The ball was a little above Donaldson's head as it began its Some record yields were eviden[...]limbing and it was still going northern part of the county along the Canadian line. The strong when it passed over the tiers of parked cars which Scobey customs officer,[...]surrounded the outfield--on, on to the other side of the race man for the department with ter[...] |
| [...]There are perhaps a score of these fellows about the yard[...]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, the more you have lived, no one is poor who is dumping it at the side of the rack or wheel where the rich in memories.[...]wall to get the in to the hay. The rest of the crew spra w1full length on their operator, a[...]and visited During this time the appearance of a heavy streak of with your neighbors. Whether or not it was your[...]r, then the puff, conversations, from the number of eggs the chickens laid puff, puff of the exhaust becomes audible, and at last the yesterday to who was the latest boyfriend of the girl down grinding of the gears as the outfit rolls down the last low the road.[...]was provided the opening at the front of the fire box and the hot coals by a local piano[...]falling from the grates ash iike shooting stars. As the Greengard and Marvelle Hillstrom was among o[...]ng for the current picture from side to side, as a duck carries his head when walking. showing wa[...]The outfit comes to a halt at the foot of the lane; the clank of main street hollering for the show, "The Sheik of Araby" the fire door and hiss of the steam injector are as distinct as showing at the Rex tonight. Show begins at 8:00 o'clock. though we were beside the engine instead of a quarter of a For which the hollerer was admitted free. They[...]every creak of its wheels in the muffled interior, is dra.w n 3.[...]rt waist. a square of ruddy lamplight shows. Within, heavy cheap 4. Boy[...]er up and down the streets. greasy odor of an eating place hangs heavily on the night 5. Nob[...]you didn 't take a second air. helping of everything or of every dish set before you you This cook[...]itchen mounted were ill or the cook would take it as a personal insult to her high on wheels and rea[...]nd every straggler came is the mainspring of the whole system; from early morning home on time[...]is silhouetted in the reddish light of the doorway, her[...]hands resting ·on her hips as she pauses for a moment's[...]ing the stillness is broken by a MEMORIES OF THRESHING DAYS loud[...]h over steel separator rolling a long line of lazy black smoke from its threshing machines in o[...]nd the long drive belt swinging between them days as they were when I was a little fellow come to mind[...]ladder at the loft door, and make short work of harnessing Those events are still vivid in my min[...]The more optimistic and carefree About sundown of 'an August evening we hear a clatter nat[...]e giving vent to their feelings by a and clapping of boards that grows louder and louder until gay if not always melodious whistling as they dash basins in a cloud of dust the bundle wagons bump up the lane. You of cold well water over their faces. Within 10 minut[...]a have all crowded into the warmth of the cook car to threshing hand must drive a slow[...]g motion that are familiar with cities and places known to us only in the makes the separator jar steadily to and fro, and the wind wildest of dreams. And what command they have of stacker roars with a gale in its[...]ongue machine early with our tanks so as to be on hand at the dance![...] |
| [...]sual commotion. There are three kinds of owls: the great horned owl, the Then 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 plunges out of meadowlark. There are the yellow flicker , the[...]most numerous of the two. It is great fun to watch the two men on either side of the The pine grosbeak, the common redfold ,[...]e bald eagle ($5,000 federal fine for killing one of straw enters the beater evenly distributed. See h[...]natural grace the bodies swing with each tossing of a the American magpie and the starling. The[...]s show like red copper in the and a variety of hawks, and some ducks. Magpies , crows sunlight.[...]full, for the mechanical measuring daily diet of insects , and the magpies are sea vengers . apparatus at the top of the elevator trips almost Larry Fjeld is northeastern Montana chairman of continuously so heavy is the wheat. We swing the grain Ducks, Unlimited, a voluntary organization of sportsmen spout hastily over into an empty tank that stands in wait, who have made quite a bit of progress in establishing wet and after seeing tha[...]e "barren prairies" have some animals in variety, as under the strain and we move slowly over the soft field well. Few of these are readily discernible to the town- with t[...]ke shot and strike be getting more numerous, as the prairie is their natural the heap in the bin[...]d there a wolf, and there have been occasional As the day advances it grows broiling hot and the odor of reports of bear. sweating men and animals mingles with the d[...]noon a deafening unpracticed eye. blast of the steam whistle gives the signal for the dinner[...]high lights in many an empty afternoon. The puff of the exhaust and the roar of the blower continues. As darkness settles down the teams make their way sl[...]ones and smoking, and still the clatter and bang of dish washing floats from the cook car door. Thin[...]a. THE "BARREN PRAIRIE" NOT QUITE |
| [...]ENJOYING LIFE ---PIONEER STYLE grave of an early sheepherder who used to climb the butte and sit, day after day, watching his band of sheep grazing Adapted from Richard C. Davids, in Farm Journal in the fields below: Friends of the .sheepherder, it is said, buried him there[...]rairies sparkle. The story is a likely one, as .the area once was a favorite "Tighten. up the be[...]es summer pasture for ranchers from other areas of the state. All join hands and find your places.[...]oes, roll up your socks, homesteaders, but most of them say they have never heard Swing them gels till you rattle their hocks." the story of the cairn.[...]the the butte stands. Other early homesteaders of the area say . calico flapped! How we made the ra[...]e'd butter our hands to keep the stuff Many of them believe it was put there merely as a marker from sticking, and pitch in. Fudge parti[...]gh And the old spelldown .... remember the thrill of being the the area. Others say that '.' piling[...]second, or even third? You had to take pastime of lonely sheepherders, and that such cairns were pa[...]member once common. But they agree that the top of a steep cactus- the breathless suspense as the last man on your side covereq butte was an[...]Indian division on a blackboard out in plain view of your friends, ~eads on the butte many years ago. It is known that listening for the ohs and ahs that meant you[...]who work the surrounding acres, and to pieces out of our readers: "Barbara Frietchie" --or the noble[...]ers 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 s[...]untouched by we were prompted by the moving lips of a sympathetic dvilization.[...]d 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 lugged it in, enou[...]med, "For goodness' sake! The calves have got out of the pen." And went out and chased them in again;[...]Remember what fun we had matching our muscles in of hose; · ·[...]omsticks, turned arms, lifted the Come To The End Of a Perfect Day". rear quarters of an obliging horse. Every third cowpasture[...] |
| The great glorious day to wait for was the 4th of July. The little things Dad did made moments we'll live with Early that morning some of us would rush outside and yell: till we die[...]or three smaller ones on " Hurrah for the Fourth of July!" We'd get out the freezer - his lap and[...]hat having good home-made ice cream. Oh , the joy of being the one to fun doesn't mean going pla[...]fun "clean the dasher"! (And have a dish besides, of course!) over the last 75 years - wonderfu[...]And rodeos - roundups - branding-days, with lots of good more today, if we can match our forebears in imagination , food and lots of good neighbors here to help. The men "git up and gumption". would save a few of the calves till last for the young kids to E[...]rprise every day. Mother showed us the wonders of the back pasture; we Maybe it's just eat[...]n the backyard, with the hunted nests, kept lists of birds, looked for the first fireflies winking. The stuff that builds moments of pure bluebell, looked in awe at the flood-swollen[...]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 RAIN IN 6 H[...]a duck. As a result, there were many people who found[...]truck south of town about a half mile off the highway . The[...]water got up as high as the seat so they moved to the back end of the truck and stood in a half foot of water in the truck[...]m also the waters raged . They got into Scobey As a matchmaker through the years, a horse would bea[...]e into the gra in. Th e Marqui s and The treat of winter was when Dad would hook up to the[...]ce. There was magic in Probably one of th e grea test s ingl e disasters occurred in winter sleighrides, bells, the squeal of sledrunners, and Sheridan County when the Carrol da m west of Plentywood clouds of breath from the horses. went out. The wall of wa ter re lea sed moved down the The greatest[...]pa th was the and Mother did for us. The best fun of all was just to go entire Jud Goodman spread of buildings, fa rm mac hinery, a long. As simple as that![...] |
| [...]nity had Wednesday forenoon and reported a scene of total witnessedviest rainfall ever heard of in the history of this destruction. The house was far down on its site, a mass of area-6.09 inches. All over the community hou[...]how Hail losses , uninsured , south and west of Scobey are others fared. There was plenty to see. · mounting in total as reports continue to come in. Damage to the Gorham Hotel in Scobey, the roof of Serephin LaPierre had to chop holes in the west side of which was unable to withstand the deluge, w[...]ng to release the continuing flood thousands of dollars to repair. Many of the second and of water which poured in under the big back door. third floor rooms were shambles of falling plaster and Getschel's sign , torn down[...]w out two big display window, adding to the mess as water from the windows upstairs, one of the large plate glass windows in street flooded u[...]tore. A window in the lobby, and the glass of one of the outer doors. Water the Peterson end of the building also went in from the from[...]a-Dakota Utilities man, was to let out the stream of water which ran the length of the sitting by the lobby window. He decided to go upstairs. As building from the back. Cracked windows at Greeng[...]water in varying each became isolated communities as roads washed out degrees. The Michel Kern residence on the southern edge of and lost their bed. In Scobey, a power and light cut-off, town by the highway had 30H inches of water in the living inseparable companion of tricky weather, and telephone room. The[...]e bus in Scobey. There is a serious washout of the city were smashed to kindling. The Lucht resi[...]stern edge had its roof blown off by the twisting of Plentywood the highway stops. These are telephone[...]pen 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 trail south of Flaxville as usable to make contact with No. snow fence. 2. Orville Lockrem of Circle made that trip Wednesday and the bus left[...]orothy Kjelstrup community. Rain washed out miles of fences south and Le[...]Veis lost a granary. Julius Lekvold had one wall of his snowstorm in northeastern Montana en[...]ne who could not take immediate shelter. South of town in the Johnson pasture sixteen head of Chief concern of the community became directed that cattle were trapped in a corner of the fence as the water rose evening toward the apparently hopeless plight of eight about them. Shortly after the storm had sub[...]ween Scobey and Flaxville. These let them through as he did they ignored the opening. Later peop[...]ave been able In the Peerless community a rain of more than an inch to take shelter at one of the farmsteads along the highway. was enjoyed wit[...]than it had all unlikely. during the year of 1936. Flaxville had as much or more. Wait[...]Shipstead said the same. Two miles out of Flaxville the missing cars had bogged in Others confirmed it. This will always be remembered as the snow Sunday afternoon. They decided to get in one the year of the big rain.[...]heater stopped. The car was out of gas. Then began the WITH HAIL, TORNADIC W[...]More than a mile west of the Alfred Goulet place west of[...]ough to get to the Goulet place, their themselves as a prevailing north wind gathered intensity[...] |
| [...]fatigued Mrs. Gerald Zuck, who farm south of Flaxville, senior, and cold to continue withou[...]blizzard still raging, John black bridge west of Scobey "just for fun" about 3:30 that worried a[...]rouble later were on one ( the farm 6 miles north of Flaxville, walked 4 1/ ~ miles into iceberg that was "as big as a house," as one put it later. Flaxville, where he arrived a[...]e pleaded with him to wait until the storm of the impending danger to those who were left. wo[...]Going down the swollen river the large cakes of ice soon delay. He walked the remaining 6 miles[...]laxville he waded out to the east side of the river and ran to the with news that all was well and to arrange for transfer of highway for help. his wife and the other[...]Highway 13 is about three quarters of a mile from the Marooned Ministers place where he got out of the water. He was running along The Rev. Benson, Lutheran minister of Scobey, who had the road to town when he[...]xville, 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 to Scobey to see i[...]e to Flaxville and spent the night at the home of Peter Lekvolds turned off the highway in the direction of the Hexom.[...]· Redstone Sunday afternoon, Robert of the intense mud and water. Ferguson and church[...]noon. and were forced to stop on the east side of the big drift on It was dark when the boys heard help coming, and they the other side of which they saw snowed-in automobiles. wer[...]d that evening to collect volunteer rescuers. One of survivors huddled in one car where they had be[...]help was on its way. The Lekvolds was received of their fate. They were cold and cramped but t[...]and wait it out on the cake he had left. scene of almost hysterical joy.[...]y Lekvold was stranded on a slab on the west side of The marooned survivors had kept warm by rub[...]He stayed there until other and shifting about as much as they could with nine Chet Murphy came with[...]summoned in the back seat and six in the front of the Joe Klos car. by Dennis Jones, who swam[...]for a while trying to check on west side of the Poplar river. their bearings and in so doi[...]Mr. Murphy went for the rope and tractor. he got as close to Two of the men, before help arrived that morning, had Lekvold as he dared with the tractor, which according to walked to the farm home of Bill Parent and returned with authoritive[...]necessary care. Murphys put him in a tub of cold water to[...]to battle with ice and shallow The first day of spring, last Sunday, came close to being water. In the process of which Gary Leibrand's boat the last for two Sc[...]ime Sheriff Russell Steen and Louis the middle of the swollen Poplar River west of Scobey. Lekvold waded in and threw a ro[...]ied it Larry LaPierre and Gary Lekvold, sons of Mr. and Mrs. around his waist. They held[...]if the ice should move with the respectively, of Scobey, were feeling pretty foolish about w[...]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 exhuberance could[...]himself had come in , but as the boat was coming they The four boys who e[...]His feet after the were: Dennis Jones, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jones ordeal swelled badly, but at this writing are reported back of Scobey, junior in high school. Bob Zuck, son of Mr. and to normal.[...] |
| [...]ach spring. Last Sunday, however, the watery song of spring carried a grim note that nearly hit a[...]hree generations it has seemed to their crescendo of tragedy.-R.P.[...]the other side of that "little river" during the few weeks in[...]ing that it floods. Many incidents could be cited of[...]broke forth with a gush. Two or three days of very warm Strong West Wind Drives Sparks O[...]and Highways cakes of ice, forming jams, which in turn made the water A grass blaze that started along the G.N. right of way |
| [...]Those events and the capturing or shooting of horse the crabs, weeds and mud, drained the gas,[...]up perked along not faring run of news. too badly after three weeks immersion.[...]ower presses to modern type- . FROM THE TIME BOOK OF JACK CARNEY, 1916[...]hers now how to devote.more time to .the business of G.F. Crandell[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.20 picture· of everyday life and events of the community and Ham 12 lbs ..................[...]ozen years away from the news and editorial desk of the Leader, the publisher is pinchhitting this w[...]to three months on the Looking back over some of the files of the early 20's we Grand Banks fishing for cod, co[...]zip and zest than at the present. holds were full of salted down fish. In 1864 the family Northeast Montana was then a sort of testing ground moved to Northfield, Minnesota where they had between the forces of "Red Flag" Charles Taylor and those employme[...]worked in Minneapolis for the Pillsbury salvation of the world. Milling Company as a stone dresser, sharpening the large Since then a number of newspapers have passed from mill stones[...]laxville Hustler, Flaxville Dakota driving a span of mules from Hutchinson. There Democrat and Whiteta[...]hich made their debuts they obtained the townsite of Overly and sold lots, as the and farewells earlier, as did the Dooley Sun, The Outlook railroad was buil[...]Scobey and bought 16 acres in the northwest part of town 47 years old. In 1927 the Leader absorbed th[...]ublication at Old Scobey in 1912 with Jesse Smith as manager. Frank Tyner, another under the direction of Joe Hocking, who sold his Glasgow nephew, was als[...]ved two at Richey, Montana. Frank was the manager of the for homestead patent publications, there are[...]at Plentywood and the business being incorporated as the Smith-Tyner one at Wolf Point, allpartofValle[...]xville in 1914-15. of Smith and Tyner in the Scobey part of the business and County seat battles, the Bull Moose, Socialist, Farmer- installed Halbert Ames as manager. He died in Scobey in Labor and Communist parties, all of which had columns 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. He was 79. state, provided[...] |
| [...]school in 1919. In 1913 Smith moved out of the Mill house, Hub 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 base[...]oom and a cook stove in the kitchen. Many buckets of Winnifred Gilbert of Rochester , Minnesota were married lignite coal were carried in and buckets of ashes carried on July 13, 1921. Halbert worked for the president of the out. National Real Estate Boa rd , as secretary, and later worked fo r T h e Ye ll o ws[...]siness. In 1926 he came to'" Scobey a s man a ger of the mill and elevator which was then named the Ma[...]Hub were appointed as a committee to select a site for the[...]motors stopped for lack of fuel. The pilot tried to get back to[...]mill until Hub could get back in the summer of 1930.[...]lessons in Burbank from the firm of Paul Mantz. There he[...]model airplane and in the spring of '34 he and Burleigh[...]In the year 1934 there were a lot of grasshoppers so Hub[...]large hopper in the fron t cockpit of the airplane. The[...]grasshopper bait at that time was a mixture of bran ,[...]oil was used for the sole purpose of inducing the farmers to spread the poison as they thought that would attract[...]grasshoppers. As hoppers have no taste or smell they[...] |
| [...]ait by air and school and progressed head of the line check department obtained blueprints t[...]t for advanced instrument cards. In the summer of 1944 he year and following years poison spray w[...]round spreaders. Transport and wound up as Chief Flight Supervisor in 1938 was a rust year[...]asshopper infestation, so we bought many carloads of Guard having enlisted at age 17 in 1943.[...]bey Hub was In 1935 Hub hired Carl Helmbrecht of Mott, North pursuaded to take the job of chairman of the hospital Dakota to manage the mill and elev[...]In 1935 Hub and Burleigh took over the operation of the project got under way. Glasgow airport[...]n 1953 he took a job with there was quite a lot of charter work and some student Aero Service of Denver flying their map editor who was instruct[...]Fort Peck Dam was a big attraction. In the winter of 1936 Army. In five months we covered most of North and South Burleigh and Hub operated the W[...]ssion for was identifying all things such as school houses, passenger hops over Los Angeles and charter flights. classifying roads as to being dirt, gravel or paved, etc., etc. H[...]In the late 50's Hub and Lyman Clayton of Wolf Point airplanes about 1935 and sold quite[...]went back to Lock Haven, to a friend of Lyman's in Wolf Point in 1972 and retired Penns[...], Paul and Richard, took over the York City and as we were that close to New York, Ole said, operation of the mill after Carl Helmbrecht left in 1954 and[...]imeter. Without a compass The mill is one of the first business establishments in we took of[...]orted from five to seven hangar. After a couple of days in New York, armed with a families, all interested in the building of the town and ·supply of maps, we headed for Scobey. The Cub cruised at[...]and and the family moved into what has been known as the we could see our shadow on the ground going[...]"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 boarding house and many of the early settlers had Cub several winters hunt[...]Winnifred became active in a number of organizations. franchise for Rearwin airplanes[...]six grandchildren and one great- In November of 1939 Ed. Battleson suggested we fly gra[...]motor My family came to the new town of Scobey in the fall of stopped and all we could do was glide toward sh[...]ta for a tragic landed cross wind in the middle of the grass, the first reason: their eldest[...]Ed hired a and killed on the main street of that town by two drunken motorboat and tried to find pieces of the prop in the bay for drivers, and my parents[...]the newest boom town, making the latter part of their caught a 42 pound Redfish. We had it pack[...]e born in the new town. checked out in all types of aircraft from single engine My father, Edon A. Amundson, was a native of Iowa. trainers, twin engine fighters and bombers[...]sod-busting machines that rating he was assigned as an instructor in instrument flo[...] |
| [...]those days. Later he sold real estate and served as Justice of the Peace. He had an office on a side street and[...]ere, 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 that safe standing in the 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 sons, all half[...]kept, staked out between the two hotels, a number of pit bull dogs for fighting. When my brother Ellsw[...]d to call on One-Eyed Mollie for his daily ration of pie or cake, he had to dodge the dogs. Mollie and[...]y, but they were very kind to the little boy. One of the sons used to take Ellsworth with him when he[...]name was Nora Caroline Erickson; she was a native of Moorhead, Minnesota. There were five children in[...]and told my mother that Phyllis became Professor of English History at the University of Johnson, of the musical Johnson family, had come to my Pittsb[...]ldren at the funeral for the minister's baby. All of his students, a member of the Mellon family. Alice the singers[...]undson 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 position for many mo[...]mundson, whose a white dress in the dead of winter. (She intended no pun.) memories have cont[...]rolled around, would be he is retiring this year as a printer on the Sacramento Bee. outgrown. I[...]as not a waste. Sadly enough, there were a number of James G. Davis, a stockbroker now retired, and ha[...]gelic, a small female writing short stories, some of which have appeared in Oliver Twist,[...]turday Evening Post. The Speaking of stores, I believe that we used to buy our youngest child of the Amundson family, Helen Fitzgerald, g[...]dollars," he announced. "There are only seven of us. Lena, husband , Charles, on their ranch outside of town. this has got to stop. Are we[...]nursing. But to return to the schools of Scobey. The teacher I They are scattered all over[...]commanding presence, patience During our stay of ten years in Scobey, 1913 to 1923, we and a[...]lived for the most part on twelve acres southeast of town, forgotten her. Ellsworth remembers M[...]he read. She had an square wooden building which, of course, has long since eighth grade education and six weeks of Normal School. been tom down; as I remember, the interests of my family Education or not, she could te[...]n, they raised the centered around the activities of the children in school. teaching requirem[...]igh 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 meda[...]entered speaking contests and won, big piles of them down by the depot. Wonder what they did and I became a professional mourner at the age of nine. with them."[...] |
| [...]eason: my father was determined that all five of his children were to have university educations,[...]issoula, and in time and with hardship, those of us who wanted university , degrees got them. He[...]bout education. At a time when only a handful of men in town had any higher education, he want[...]wide skies and the prairies, they are a part of me today. The memores may be hazy, but I have[...]e company. In 1955 the Occident became a part of the Peavey Company. About this time the compa[...]vator into one complete feed plant and use it as a distribution point for feed and merchandise.[...]e in Montana. Since I had worked in this area of Montana in 1941, I applied for the Scobey pla[...]ing to Scobey I was married to Theresa Filzen of Minot. Theresa and Joe Anderson[...]As we did not have a house yet, I came out hereabout[...]After we had a home of our own to live in, Theresa, a[...]I worked with other members of the Athletic Club[...]the new plant in operation by December of the same year.[...] |
| [...]". Ed Battleson did, and made a tour that led him as Ronald Audet and Patricia (Patti) Schaefer were united far west as Great Falls, Montana. He found a job in Mrs. in m[...]s, Wild Rose. Later he started the town of.Hamlet, North Ronnalee and Michelle. Dan and Tom[...]end of a new branch line from Williston, North Dakota.[...]homesteads six miles north of the present Peerless. Th[...]the site of Battleson postoffice. The women ran the[...]moved us to Scobey in the spring of 1917, to be Uncle Ed's[...]er in the new venture. Young Art Hanson, a cousin of[...]on in the vulcanizing (tire) department were part of[...]Ole and Cal Peterson, brothers of Ernie, from Minnesota. Ron Audet Family - 1974 1917 - a summer of dust and mud contingent on the whim of the elements. We lived for a year in "Uncle Ed's[...]ame a year later.) I missed the trees and flowers of Ron and Patti have lived all their lives in Dan[...]hief pleasure County and are the son and daughter of Donald and Leonie was to take two year old W[...]t and Howard and Berniece Schaefer, who spent all of Ole and Cal, always good for a couple of nickels! And we their married lives here also. Ro[...]eam cones from the Thomas Confectionery graduates of Scobey High School as are their two older (now the Wolfe Insurance Agency). That summer had a sons. Highlights of our family were our Jaycee years when noisy accompaniment of buzzing saws and staccato both of us were instrumental in reorganizing Jaycees and[...]s and small houses mushroomed Jayceens and served as organizational presidents of both overnight. The landscape varied from su[...]embering our visits her cookies and the profusion of occasion by Ron and tiny daughter, Ronnalee, in t[...]rs" (field mallow) in her prairie grass rendition of "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon ".[...]r later her house became the residence of my husband's Extravaganzas on two occasions and i[...]tivities outside our home tend years. A few of the wilfflowers still bloom around the edges more to the public service type thing such as Fair Board .- of "real" lawn. Marta Vargas, the mother ofmy niece,[...]ves there now. · with Wheatland Tire of Scobey and Plentywood. Patti is employed by Dr. M[...]e year was about 1908. "Eddie" Battleson (brother of my mother, Christine Peterson) Ii ved on a farm n[...]m trapping. He bought a motorcycle and at the age of 17[...] |
| [...]ed (Brenden). Mother was burdened that summer of 'l 7. There was |
| open-air pavilion was on the center of main street. There home. Back to Scobey to work in the "big store" and to live was always plenty of ice, cut from the Poplar River and in a mo[...]ed in straw and sawdust, on the Fourth, with tubs of it cleaned and redecorated. in the basement of the store. Lula (Norman) Groseth and I 19[...]son sold out his share in the drank a whole case of pop, 24 bottles at one time. We were business[...], and never did and Dad bought his house, still known ;;is the Peterson eat enough of "Muddy" Jones' butterscotch pie to get sick.[...]terrible. We hung wet sheets in front of 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, s[...]modeled, painted and papered. Mr. Fuller, middle of the park. Every Saturday there were band[...]anted to retire so he concerts with Roland Olson as director. Frequently in the gave Casper his[...]sh, if he would like to help him paper our wedge of Mrs. Ed Lee's burnt sugar cake- mouth-watering[...]more headaches. Gayle arrived in 1934. brothers of Art, had also come to Montana by now. They[...]We also went seven years without Cash, otherwise known as Peterson Battleson Haagenson a car or a[...]ty shop in the store operated by Olivia daughter of their own, Leona Claire, who is now married to Bailey (sister of Ben Haagenson) and Jeannette Tande. Clarence Moldenhauer of Seattle, Washington. Aunt Later Lucy[...]ll time on branch line from Plentywood to the end of the line. Harry the Madoc Bench, seven miles east of Scobey, having Battleson was in the Flaxville sto[...]health caused us to sell out to Conlin's of Williston three Casper Brenden of Flaxville and I were married in yea[...]ore. In Glasgow. We eloped, making the front page of the Scobey 1969 John, my son, started his[...]February, 1945, Uncle Ed Battleson was the victim of in Scobey. Milton Hoff, his brother-in-law, had b[...]y and Bakery. stock of Peoples Cash Store. After several winters in Now we heard the echoes of "Go west, young man". In Arizona we built our dream house (1954) on the farm. the fall of 1926 Milton and Inanda Hoff, their baby son,[...]tely Their home is in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania. thought Milton had made his by sell[...]ineer for Honeywell in Milton got a job with Bank of Italy (now Bank of Phoenix, Arizona. They have three[...]and Philip. John met his future wife, Carol Rein of Melville, borrowed the fare and headed back to Sc[...]ntana, at Concordia College. They were married in of 1927. What matter we were broke; we were going ba[...]Eric. In the spring of 1927 Uncle Ed and Dad bought another Jo[...]the remodeled and expanded store, Howard Isaac's of Glentana, and we were in Battleson[...]a year. No houses were available the record of the oldest and most continuous Chevrolet so Casp[...]here now. The Brenden Mary Helen was born July 28 of that year. Our chief Company building is rented to the state as a liquor store. entertainment came from a new Atw[...]Carol teaches voice and piano to a large number of was on far into the night. My heart broke[...] |
| [...]days form a foundation and basis for the building of the new. Modern buildings, paved streets, trees, flowers have changed this place to one of the prettiest Ii ttle towns in Montana. The big sky is the same. Whiskey Buttes, now known as Four Buttes, stand sentinel over the broad acres,[...]. 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 to[...]To God alone the Glory) in this Bicentennial year of 1976. SID BENNETT[...]seventeenth year came to Montana with a |
| [...]summer of 1973 he was privileged to attend the National[...]Scout Jamboree in Idaho. He is employed part-time as[...]turned again in 1913 to take up a homestead south of the[...]in-law of Gus Whipple of the Peerless area. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles.[...]Both Mr. and Mrs. Bowler are natives of Ontario, born[...]youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cryderman.[...]n every little town to publish proving up notices of[...]each town's bid for the county seat designation, as Montana had begun to get into the throes of "county-[...]In the fall of 1916 Mr. Bowler bought the Independent at Rex and[...]4, 1946 in Vancouver, A series of business house fires in Antelope and Washington.[...]n and Rex is from increasing shortage of help on the bigger papers in South Dakota. We wer[...]owler to be sent to Scobey that year to pinch-hit as editor[...] |
| [...]And shadows of the night. Ah---I'm as rich as Croesus |
| [...]and married Miss Maud Cryderman, also of Ontario, who week.[...]except for the years 1950-52 when they lived most of the Gwendolyn Wells of Long Beach, and two sons, Larry of time in Washington, D.C. where he was an administrative Scobey and Duane of Billings. assistant to the late Senator Zales Ect[...]He first visited Scobey in 1913, with the idea of setting up He constructed an ingenious clock ([...]was window) which has caused considerable comment as to in Whitetail in 1914 and in 1915[...]drug store in Flaxville. journeyman watchmaker as a late teen-ager in Port Altho[...]in Scobey printing and publishing business as a hobbyist in is the first one he had built since[...]helped get Larry lives in Scobey and is editor of the Daniels County out the short-lived Madoc[...]e a Leader. Duane lives in Billings and is editor of the Billings few prescriptions. Gazette.[...]By this time he no longer could escape the smell of The Bowlers had 12 grandchildren and 15 great[...]1919 to the late Joe Dolan, after a series of fires had[...]one of them Daniels, and at Scobey the new county seat,[...]the Scobey Sentinel had undergone a number of ownership[...]one of the deans of Montana weekly newspapering.[...]conditions, Mr. Bowler was installed as editor and[...]of directors composed offarmers and businessmen in t[...]convention of the Farmer-Labor organization in Butte,[...]blisher, with U.S. Butte Miner, one of that cities dailies. Dunne drafted the F- Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton and Mel Ruder, later[...]Pulitzer Prize winner, when Irsihman, but of small scruples, Dunne had taken his text the Scobey man began serving as president of the from the articles of the Third International, alleged bible of Montana Press Association.[...]unne admitted to Mr. Bowler his wholesale lifting of text[...]and said, "What the hell's the difference, most of these BURLEY BOWLER, 77 MEETS[...]Mr. Dunne later became editor of the Daily Worker in[...]rn Montana editor and On the basis of that experience at close range with publisher, pa[...]r entered there.November 26 in the terminal stage of cancer. disenchanting private statements of intentions by the late Memorial services will b[...]p.m. A. C. Townley, earlier organizers of the Nonpartisan from the Methodist Church in Scob[...]er came to the bitter realization that rural most of his Zife. The remains were interred at Scobey[...]week. basis of leadership he had witnesed first hand. Born Aug[...]eyman watchmaker It marked several of the stormiest years of newspapering and jeweler, and also served with th[...]r was to witness. In nearby He was the youngest of six brothers, and two sisters, all Plentywood, Charles "Red Flag" Taylor, a fascinating of whom preceded him in death, except Ivan, of Empress, personality, was using t[...] |
| [...]ed and fifty years old?" In 1926, a combination of political thugs came up from He wanted[...]Waller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Altho their efforts were cripplin[...]CHARLES FRANCIS BRADFORD FAMILY influence of the Producers /yews at Plentywood was beginning t[...]radford Senior was born on October 9, more years, as the Roaring Twenties drew to a close.[...]ems for agriculture on the plains Bradford. then, as there are now. Satisfactory solutions still remain Charles, better known as Charlie, came to Montana and in the wings, and of all the efforts both sincere and worked as a young man. insincere, it was in the sobering '30s and the advent of the On June 6, 1936 Charlie married Dorothy Hachmann, New Deal that farmers and the majority of the nationgave who was born April 4, 1912 to Dora[...]ring these years also that Mr. Bowler became work as a motor boat operator on the Fort Peck Dam until known as an unflinching Republican and foe of the New the year 1939, when they moved[...]ime recognizing the need for many moved northwest of Glasgow where they farmed at both of its sounder programs in which his own party had been sites. delinquent. But he had an abhorence of "saviors." Those he had seen at close range reeke[...]race on the Progressive ticket. He was an admirer of Eugene V. Debs in earlier years. , During more than half a century of newspapering he had occasion to meet and visit with many public luminaries in the political scene of both parties at all levels. Burley Bowler was a member of the National Press Club at Washington, D.C. while there serving several years on the staff of the late Senator Ecton. He was a delegate to the[...]oved to be well-founded. When he was installed as president of the Montana Press Association he was greatly plea[...]nvention ten years later, then was U.S. Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton. Mr. Bowler was state committeeman for the county Republican party at the time of his passing. Over the years he served as master of the Masonic Lodge in Scobey, president of Lions Club of which he was a charter member, and in 1951 was sp[...]uild the Memorial hospital. Wedding of Charles Francis Bradford Sr. and He helped orga[...]d. His last project out there, his father. He was known as Little Charlie. when his health began to fail in[...]lisher's Column," running for years in the In May of that year Dorothy and infant son Charles joined L[...]. August, he was awarded lifetime membership, one of three In December 1943 Richard was bor[...]Four Buttes where Charlie worked for the A man of many faults and certain virtues and talents, he elevator. Both sons attended part of their grade school in was not one to shrink from[...]ires, libel suits, financial reverses and support of many The boys thought she was just great.[...] |
| [...]a son of Ole and Malina Oyness Brekke. The youngest of five children, he grew up in the Shell Creek[...]s three. He attended a rural country school south of Blaisdell, a year of high school in Blaisdell, and graduated[...]education at North Dakota State School of Science at[...]daughter of Clarence Gunderson, an early day[...]y High School in 1946 and attended the University of[...]Addition. Charlie farmed land north and northwest of One of her pupils was her brother, an eighth grader. town and later was proprietor of the B & W Club. Surprisingly, thi[...]Scobey in the spring of 1949.·In 1951 they built the house on On April[...]e lost his life in a house fire in the corner of Second Street and Second Avenue, where they Maple[...]ank. years. Boy Scouting has taken much of their time. As a Linda is living in Scobey also, and is married to Wayne member of Troup 298, Norman served as president of the Vatnsdal, who is from Badger, Minnesota. He c[...]g a Den Mother for five years was much years, one of them in Germany. He is residing in Richland[...]A former Jaycee, Norman h as b een 1n . L.10n ' s Cl u b ,[...]partner, Ed Tong. He was president of Montana Auto OTTO BRANDT[...]the children started school, Clarice went back to of work to keep him busy 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 substitu[...]ster. In order to continue teaching times to most of the northeastern Montana towns as an she spent four summers at Northern M[...]in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from[...] |
| [...]Intensive Care unit at Yale Medical Center known as "The end of the line". in New Haven, Connecticut. 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, Wisconsin, Iowa[...]h Business Administration from the University of Montana, Dakota and others I don't rememb[...]examination. He is a student at the University of Montana sorry to tell you but school will n[...]cout, he earned his God and because of the terrible flu epidemic." "If you wish, you may[...]t homes drama. He is attending the University of Montana in where there was death or w[...]ts center them. We made a pact- in case any one of us became ill, on music and drama.[...]we would care for each other. Strange as it may seem, not by Norman and Clarice Brekke one of us had the flu. At the end of the month each one[...]month's salary and a notice of appreciation because we[...]water. The saloons 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 w[...]n invited to the homes. We did miss the young of adventure.[...]en for they were at war. I had never heard of Scobey but received a notice of a I remember well November 11th, when th[...]. Our Since Scobey offered the highest salary of any notice I had superintendent, Olive Nelson[...]The school children Fae Wickwire, a member of the school board, told me that gathered boxes[...]d 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[...]finally began to come home. One day in March, as my in Sioux Falls had never heard of it and it wasn't on his roommate Ruth Ellsw[...]ter we met have routed you?" After three days of riding freight trains, the soldier boys at a dance in the Eastern Star Hall. Fred[...]Kuster was a marvelous cook and several of the fellows[...]Burne and others. As we stood watching the ice pile up and[...]distance away; "Doesn't that look like the figure of a[...]man?" she said. We observed it for a few minutes as the ice[...]authorities at once. They found it to be the body of a[...]I taught the third grade two years as Miss Richardson[...]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 process of separating to become Daniels County. When[...] |
| [...]the Scobey Citizen which headed the announcement of our marriage, "Freddie Makes His Own License."[...]ob during the day while I finished my fourth year of teaching in Scobey. Later I did substitute teachi[...], Barrie, was born in 1925. When our boys were of kindergarten age, I started the first private kin[...]and was graduated from Philadelphia Conservatory of Music. He lives in New Jersey where he makes use of his music by playing the organ or piano for church, weddings, supper clubs and dances. He is also Clerk of Court for Monmouth County. He and his wife Tove have a daughter. Barrie was graduated from University of Washington , Magna Cum Laude, and is Executive Vice President of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Company. He and his wife Barb[...]again and we moved north of Peerless. Gladys, Margaret Bureau of Public Roads was offered Fred to work on the[...]ome day I'm going to throw him to Seattle to work as a Cost Accountant for the U.S. Air[...]the barn and milk .old bossy and take care of him."[...]earer Barrie. We will always cherish our memories of[...]tonsils and adenoids. There was an assembly line of[...]and how Pennsylvania on April 7, 1885. He was one of 13 children. A Lloyd always bailed her out.[...]g many dark freckles, that were the bane of her life. If anyone over during the famine in Ire[...]Minnesota where they In the spring of 1927 Eddie decided to try his wings and farmed an[...]left home, but things didn't go as planned. Rather than My mother, Viola, was born June 11 , 1895 and was one of write home for money, he hopped a freight[...]ard. Sidney area. She met and married dad in June of 1908 at After my folks separated in 1928, dad went to Sidney the age of 13 years. The first children were Edward, Lloyd, where he worked as a supervisor at the sugar refinery. and Gertrude.[...]1933 I applied for work at the court In August of 1914 they left Wibaux by covered wagon for[...]t the next four years tending bar in care of that. People were al ways getting us confu[...] |
| [...]loose. The hook hit him on the fight. back of the head, ca using a brain concussion. He died tw[...]and emigrated to Canada in June, 1911. Jeanne (as I have many things to be thankful for, for the[...]arn;! July 21, 1887 and came to the United giving of one's self. No matter how bad things are there is[...]married in the Dutch community of Manhattan, Gertr[...]promising, especially with the approach of winter and[...]Great Falls as assistant manager with the Hollarn Loan[...]Scobey as manager of the same company. The late Knute[...]om Scobey Anniversary Album In the early days of the new town of Scobey, Eddie's |
| them as chairman. He was also chairman of the Ration Else was in the Scobey High Class of 19J8 and the next Board during World War II. Ofte[...]erred to Boston University. She received a degree of painlessly getting contributions from those who didn't from the School of Education in 1942 and did graduate intend to give[...]d versatile work in the Graduate School of Social Work for a year. She appreciation for the[...]on June 2, most who knew him. Although not noted as a church-goer 1943. Charles was born in[...]date who has Else worked for a while as medical social worker at New ever actively campai[...]Charles was also active in the early organization of the 4-H club William (Bill). Charles received his discharge in December program. Many of the younger generation give her credit 1[...]ting, having a big start with the in the fall of 1946, graduating in 1947 with a degree in Red Cro[...]entered the had over the years. Travelling is one of her hobbies-- insurance business, forming his own Daniel's Agency. including a number of trips back to her native Holland, Else w[...]ars until they merged with the late Charlie Wolfe as the loves the United States and has seen a great portion of it. Wolfe Daniels Agency. Both were active i[...]high school here. Helen graduated in the class of 1932 and went to Northern Montana College in Havre, majoring in education. She became a part of the country school system-- teaching at the Dodds[...]Virginia, wa~ born there. Then they made a number of moves as Bob followed the wildlife profession--to Helena,[...]gnment with the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations and they have lived in Nairobi, Ke[...]nsend for a couple years, she accepted a position as Home Demonstration Agent in Hill County and[...]erican Legion Auxiliary and in the music programs of Development Agent for the Great Northern Railroad[...]osition with what later became the edition of "Outstanding Civic Leaders of America". Burlington Northern Railroad. Their son Fred, a Charles served as commander of both Post and District of Washington State University graduate, lives with his wife the American Legion, worked as a Boy's State chairman at Mercer Island, Washingt[...]a. Association, and Sportsman's Club, and as Secretary of Ardis (Pinky) is a school teacher in Concord, Cal[...]the Farmers Elevator for 18 years. He served as chairman Upon retirement in 1973 the Jarretts moved to Walnut of the Board of Education from 1954 to 1964, was chosen Creek, Ca[...]their present home when not traveling. Boss of the Year by the local Jaycees in 1973 and[...] |
| [...]16, 1967 he married In 1935 Charles, oldest of the children, came to Montana. Joy Rogneby and they have two girls, Sherri Lin and The remainder of the family came the following year. Treena Joy. J[...]the three sons, after finishing high her diploma as a beautician. She has been employed in the sch[...]ed forces: Charles--303rd Bomb traffic department of Bell Telephone Company in Group (Hel[...]After cessation of the war Francis enrolled at Gonzaga[...]n Minnesota, and for several the remainder of his family still reside in Minneapolis. years was Principal of the Schools in St. Paul. Francis, working for the state of California, is married There she met George Cas[...]active in that. She was president California. of the Woman's Club, Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and a member of the Episcopal Church. Cora died in 1926. Mr. Ca[...]Y for the remainder of his schooling. I attended all twelve[...]ere. He then went custom during the potato famine of 184 7; from Germany, sometime harvesting in th[...]following in the 1800's; and from France, by way of Canada, year he worked in Plentywood and at present is engaged in probably during the dim areas of French Colonial days. farming with his father in Daniels County and Canada. In The segment of the family from Ireland settled in and the spring of 1955 we moved to the Chabot farm where we around[...]sota in the early 1870's. worked as a welder for Eaton Metals and became an The pa[...]g from Germany located underwriter for Mutual of New York Insurance Company. in western Minnesota[...]Illinois, and finally to Minnesota. Four brothers of this spent part of two su111mers working in California in the family fought with the Minnesota Volunteers of the Union vineyards, other than that he is hi[...], man. they moved into the Tarsus-Omemee area of Bottineau In 1959 we bought the Herto[...]with Paul's brother Le Verne as a two year partner. In 1961 Charles M.[...] |
| [...]o H.C. Nelson who sold it to Roundup, Montana and as a family project built a new box Solberg a[...]sold to for it and went on the first wagon train of Daniels County Joe Gilmore in 1930. Eventual[...]ous guests Ludvig Graff. Carl sold part of his farm to Milene and part travel with us. My mo[...]Walter's homestead is now part of the Wolford Estate. He[...]GREN FAMILY Summers of Richey, Montana. They had four girls and[...]along with their three spent a number of years in Newtown and Garrison, North children, Le[...]nnesota. They 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 la[...]1971. Esther died in February 1974. The remainder of their children, Tillie, Carl, Walter,[...]year in the Army of Occupation in Germany. He returned Walter and C[...]married the former both filed on homesteads south of Scobey. In Ruth Akers. In 1929[...]ster, Esther, to file for him. This land is south of Scobey Nona and Eldon, moved to Richey, Montana in 1943. Until and is owned by his widow, Mrs. Ruth Bilyeu of Federal his death January 1, 1949 he and[...]death in Scobey on December 29, 1950 at the age of 49. Mr. Christensen served on the Board of Trustees of[...]and was City Treasurer of Scobey at the time of his death. He also served as chairman of the Daniels Corn ty[...]charter member of the Scobey Lion's Club.[...]and the C.C.D. program, the Scobey Lodge of the Degree of[...]office since January, 1946. He has also served as City Treasurer of Scobey since January, 1951.[...] |
| Carroll College and College of Great Falls. She and her allowed to practice as such in the United States. However husband, Rober[...]ghters, her services were valued in the ~te of Washington where and now live in Bellevue, Nebras[...]he died of pneumonia. Their mother was left alone with[...]North It was a small white house west of the home Mark built for Dakota, where Mark was em[...]r I ended before he many years. He served as mayor in Scobey. was inducted. Their son, Mark Jr[...]ey and were also her marriage. She arrived in one of the first group of employed at the Hellickson Lumber Yard.[...]rses at the Aasmus home which served as a hospital in Scobey. Dr. Crookston Normal School[...]n Anna's mother came to first teacher in the area of the Fadness Ranch. Her mother make her home[...]of North Dakota. Donna taught school and married[...]ics. He and his wife Mina had four sons. She died of[...] |
| [...]late J.P. Devaney, who later became Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Before leaving Sco[...]Minot since 1940 and passed away there at the.age of 70 in 1955. SAMUEL COCHRANE FAMILY[...]came to Scobey from Plaza, |
| [...]n Verwood, Saskatchewan, married Lawrence Goodwin of Cornach. Thex have one son, Larry. Edna was in th[...]as a captain in Wor1d War II, then Superintendent of Schools in British Columbia. He is now retired an[...]Columbia. Samuel Cochrane Sr. died at the age of 64. His wife Minnie lived to be 91. Samuel came[...]na. By Claribel (Mrs. N.L.) Lumsden of Regina JOE COLLINSON |
| [...]Son Bonar 24-hour basis. During the flu epidemic of 1918 he survives and live in Califor[...]m D.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 bedridden but was able to read an[...]d the at his last illness by Dr. Willard Peterson of Twin Falls, United States. He married Martha[...]ness in Fort Peck during the dam boom and for all of his youth was a patient of Dr. Collinson. days and later on was in the[...]died in 1961 at the age of 78. They had one son, William,[...]R.J. Coughlin was proprietor of the Motor Jnn in the[...]Scobey. Here was the main plant and sales office of the[...]was one of the first businessmen in northeastern Montana[...]to employ the use of an airplane--one of which was a Ryan[...]arly years when he first came to Scobey. A native of Lilly Dale Collinson[...]received his training as a baker at Dunwoody Institute in[...]was also born in Ontario, Canada, locations as a cook and baker. While employed in Marshall, lat[...]fe, Katherine. school in Butte and the University of Michigan and taught In 1924, after hearing[...], unknown, Gloria Justus, snake, another reminder of the bravery of the Mable Buer and Peggy Noble. homesteaders. She was a member of a girl's basketball team at Michigan University a[...]ug store in Scobey. She was a very active mem her of the Order of the Eastern Star - she received a 50-year pin and[...]y the local chapter at this time. She also served as president of the local PTA and produced local plays and[...] |
| [...]urton's for about six months Les joined the staff of the Jones Cafe. In 1926 the Crawford's decided to[...]d at the Fort Peck Dam and later Many hundreds of meals were served by the Crawford's in the[...]2 he entered the army and during the "good times" of the twenties and the "hard served with the 4th Armored Division in Europe, earning times" of the thirties when the going prices for meals were[...]rried 25¢ and 35¢. Good steaks were a specialty of the house Catherine Miller. They had five[...]oan. After the war he returned to Scobey oncoming of World War II, and the scarcity of both help and lived there the rest of his life. He worked as a mechanic and food supplies, the Crawford's sold[...]aanes and moved to Billings where he was employed as a b[...]d, Minnesota with his family where he is director of the education department at Moorhead State Teache[...]tely found a job with the Topmost in the memories of the family are the many Scobey Sentin[...]pportunity to rub editor. elbows with such as Shorty Russell, Ross Daniels and In 1[...]tead three and a half miles other early residents of Daniels County. Even though the south of Scobey on land which later belonged to Earl famil[...]elped 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 fo[...]Ringheim He married Laura 0 etersen, also of Scobey, in t917. Her[...]parents homestead was on part of the present Scobey[...]. A, 362nd Inf., 91st Division. He lost the sight of[...]is right eye in France in an accidental explosion of a PETER DARCHUK grenade in the hand of a soldier standing next to him. His[...]Peter Darchuk was born in 1912 on a farm north of blind. Scobey, son of George and Tina Darchuk. His parents came In 1914 he was a member of Scobey's first baseball team to Montana in 1910 from Manitoba. Pete was one of 14 and in the early 30's coached Scobey[...]eceased), Helen, Alice special box in the back of his Model T Ford, was a favorite[...] |
| sport of Mr. Davis' during the early 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 Dako[...]rth Dakota in January, 1969. Mrs. Davis, who was known as an accomplished seamstress, died in June, 1973.[...]dren, Mickey, after the world's biggest elephant of that time. Stacie, Tracie Mueller.[...]y-one and a half remembered the Civil War Battle of Lexington. Her folk; had a horse that was taken by the soldiers at the beginning of the war. One Sunday the family was sitting in the[...]"I loved baseball and horse-racing, but had some of the best times in Montana hunting coyotes with do[...]t. Other dogs would be there by then to take care of the coyote." RAYMOND DEMING[...]AMILIES |
| [...]sed a niece, Mae. Both the children received most of their grade and high schooling .in Scobey. The fa[...]th the lumber business with J.R. Leer at the time of his father's death. A news item, from a 1927 pa[...]s and Glentana, adding to his extensive interests as a lumber dealer in N.E. Montana which now include[...]fred Eide was born in Bradgate, Iowa in 1898, son of Norwegian homesteaders. The family moved to a fa[...]. The railroads were being built and a great deal of grain was grown and Loraine and Harvey Eide[...]glen along the line to Canada with Harvey Evenson as manager. Melfred moved to Rockglen in 1926 and bu[...]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 taken care of on Saturday night so there were many long hours.[...]to high school in Alameda by car. My sister died of scarlet fever. The folks moved from the farm t[...]roads were opening new school opportunities south of the border so I applied for a position in[...] |
| [...]we were closest on the dear familiar ground of her back With a barber shop opening at the new[...]flower garden. Here she achieved a seasonal array of Scobey we moved back to the United States in 1934[...]lt better roads. Erickson was a member of the Degree of Honor, the All There were also many projects in R[...]after a short illness of a heart attack in 1952. Mr. Erickson Melfred t[...]y Mrs. Harriet Erickson was outstanding as a business Treasurer in 1946. He was active in ch[...]t. the unexpired term in the Daniels County Clerk of Court office and he served by re-election to that[...]il his death on March 28, 1955. He served a total of20 years in the Daniels County Courthouse. Lora[...]tended Kinman Business College and the University of Montana. Harvey received the eighth grade Amer[...]turned to college for his second year. He was one of the six students killed on February 12, 1950 Boze[...]ncy equipment. Loraine married Theodore Larsen of Harlowton. He graduated in 1955 with an engineeri[...]seven years in Germany with the European Division of Honeywell. They now live at Edina, Minnesota and[...]Harriet Erickson - 20th year of business - 1948[...]et Erickson were early day homesteaders northwest of Scobey in 1914. Mr. Erickson, in addition to farm[...]Erickson began acquiring merchandising experience as clerk in the old Chapin and Erickson · Mercantil[...]n 1938 Mrs. Erickson purchased Mr. Egland's share of the stock. The building and complete ownership of the Womans Shop came into Mrs. Erickson's[...] |
| [...]daughters: Sheryl Angelmeier, Opheim, mother of three[...]BERNARD is married to Margie Nakke , "'1ghter of As Nature touches each living thing;[...]r'l J:: e railroad They'll wait the coming of her who strays and lives in Great Fa[...]ve five c\H r-'m : Kathy Along the pathway of yesterdays. Chiotte, Great[...]tar softball and And rear its blue spikes, as iris do, basketball player, grad[...]GERALD is married to Clara Olson of Tioga and lives in[...]Tara, a fourth grader, Will bloom for her, as they used to do; living at home.[...]as one child; and Gordon, a student, The children of John and Birdie Ethier are: Scobey. FRANCES was married to Morris Paulson, son of Carl RITA attended the Lekvold and Sco[...]in Variety. She married Alvin Levang, son of Mr. and Mrs. Washington, D.C. before her marriage[...]ES JOHN is married to the former Dorothy Feltis of Peerless. They live in Opheim and are employed[...]Faanes was born June 3, 1894 at Mentor, Minnesota as custodians in the Opheim school system. They have two a son of Andrew and Ragnhild Faanes. He received hi[...] |
| [...]Schaefer, and as Deputy Clerk of Court for George Jones.[...]The Grubbs family moved from seven miles east of Whitetail to south of town when the children started to[...]and feet of those "good old days". After graduating, I[...]e in Scobey He came to Montana and was employed as cashier of the where he is affiliated with the farmin[...]ears following his military service Gerald served as Clerk and Recorder for 40 years beginning in traveled for Concordia College as an admissions 1928, probably the longest continuous tenure of any in the counselor. _ state of Montana in that spot.[...]sons, Len and Kim Hanson, also a native of Scobey. She is employed at Lonnie.[...]survived by his wife, daughter and sons. He was of the Lutheran faith and a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge.[...]J.B. and Josephine Fleming came to the old town of[...]adding to this the sale of ice cream which she made in a[...]small freezer. From these small beginnings one of Scobey's by Edna Fjeld[...]in which J.B. and Mrs. Larry and I are natives of Daniels County. Larry was Fleming both wor[...]ce and born in 1914 and grew up 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[...]ntana's first Curling Club in Scobey, and was one of the organizers of the Daniels County Sportsmen's Club, now disbanded. He has been a member of the Scobey Fire Department since[...]The late Charlie Johnson, founder and namesake of the house as a deputy for John Smith in the Assessor's[...] |
| [...]old Westby school 20 miles southeast of Flaxville. He[...]Division in the Pacific Theatre, holding the rank of[...]College and later was admitted to the School of Law at[...]returning to Scobey in the fall of 1951 to enter private practice. He is a member of the State Bar of Montana,[...]Mr. Fosland served as County Attorney of Daniels[...]County for eight years and was also City Attorney of Scobey for a number of years. He is a past Commander of the Scobey post of the American Legion, and has been[...]active in the Lions Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars,[...]Washington. Both of her parents were born in Butte, Gerald Anderson[...]General Charles S. Warren, of Butte mining fame, and a member of the original Montana Constitutional[...]ate took the job to Davis and Shook (predecessors of University. She has been very active[...]d become foreman. place north of Scobey on land presently owned by Anna J. Adolph Fonk was born tfone 12, 1893 in the little country Lund of Scobey. of Luxemburg. At an early age he came with his 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, and presently engaged World War and one-time member of the Scobey American in farming in Daniel[...]Ann, a Legion. He came to Scobey in 1925 to work as a mechanic language major at Whitman Colleg[...]n. The Foslands reside in Scobey. A replica of an old Civil There was also a stepson, Gerald A[...], rests stepdaughter, Mrs. Robert Frederick, both of Billings who peacefully on their front lawn. were a part of the Fonk family here. Adolph Fonk was living here at the time of his death in 1952. HISTORY OF THE FRANK-WALKER FAMILIES MR. AND MRS. JOR[...]in the old Hollarn Company building located south of the Percy Lewarton, in 1917. He was born in[...]n 1914 and sold it |
| [...]This is the interior of the People's Meat Market in Scobey[...]in 1922. There are fourteen halves of beef hanging on the[...]Stephens shot the buffalo. Instead of giving calendars, the meat was sold as a novelty. Hamburger and stew meat 75[...]was born in Omemee, North 1913. There she worked as a saleslady in the Nelson Dakota. She[...]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 ro[...]ldren and have smile." them delivered to some of the poorer families in Scobey for Omemee, Nort[...]oved to their home, they never left without a cup of tea. Scobey that year and Joe[...] |
| [...]ed in the famous former Levon Ah tone of Billings, also a teacher. They have baseball team of 1925. He also played several seasons with a[...]ve graduated from Scobey High School, served four of humor. After the Frank Market was sold he worked[...]Greenland working in communications. He is now a known by her friends as "Maggie" worked in the Thomas Medic Fir[...]cobey and later in the former Donna Sramek of Palm Bay, Florida. They have a Scobey Drug Store[...]e is a junior Raymond Vernon Walker, or "Irish" as he preferred to be high teacher and princip[...]Montana in 1913 where he Puckett of Peerless. They have two sons. graduated from high[...], went to Dillon Normal School and the University of Montana. I Northern Montana College at[...]h taught at to the former Cathy Whitlow of Four Buttes and they have schools in Opheim, Darb[...]ndace graduated from Scobey High School, went one as a meat cutter for his stepfather. He quit teachin[...]ow she lives at the Glasgow Air Base, Mutual Life of Fargo and Collins Insurance Agency of where her husband, Tom Southland of Whitetail, Montana Plentywood. He was active in numerous enterprises over is employed as fireman. They have a boy and a girl. the years, and in 1963 was president of the Rocky Mary Donne graduated f[...]married to Jim Donahue of Scottsburg, Indiana. He is a n Local history was one of his many interests and he took accountant w[...]eenly devoted to his Rozlyn is a graduate of Scobey High School and is community and a great booster of Scobey. He used to say, employed at the Le[...]ood for me." For several years Burley Bowler of Scobey. They have one son. he was scoutmaster of the Scobey Boy Scout troop and John[...]ior in high school. Scouts. He was past president of the Great Plains Area Boy Melissa is a fr[...]oyhood. He school. was a charter member of the Scobey Lions Club and active[...]re hard, but looking back, we spent the best days of our Ii ves on the A colorful character of the old west was Gene Froman. MEX Ranch."[...]south of Scobey where he raised wheat and oats. This was[...]Scobey. Alvida French, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amada French of One experience he had before moving to town: he had Flaxville, and Gertrude Nordgren daughter of Mr. and purchased some grasshopper poison and was hauling it Mrs. Nels Nordgren of the Pleasant Prairie Community home in the back of his wagon with a horse tied behind that were marr[...]hen he arrived home the horse had eaten farm west of Madoc in November 1939. Alvida started the poison, but as Gene philosophically said, "It didn't do working as a mechanic for Vic Hillstrom Motors; taking[...]own and later in a works. In 1940 they bought one of the oldest houses in shack with his five[...]ing. During the next 20 years they had a family of four girls He often remarked, "People used[...]had to hold his face very Havre after four years of service in the Air Corps. He now close to the board to be able to see. Some of his adversaries[...] |
| [...]oved to town he slept in every conceivable - type of place, sometimes in Ii very barns, sometimes in Vic Hillstrom's garage, and many times in the open out-of- doors. When he allowed himself the luxury of a shack to live in he shared it with his dogs, and pets of all descriptions. He raised chickens and pigeons[...]nge indeed that this character could be the uncle of the colorful singer and movie actress Jane Froman. Gene died as a result of an accident, having fallen on the concrete sidewa[...]grocery store and post office. After seven years of drought he came with Guy Stalders, Alfred Getsche[...]ed green and prosperous. They rented a farm north of Scobey which is[...]continued to run the business as a family. In 1956 they sold[...]they had dances at the store business all of his life, except for two years he the Four Comers[...]ill take over. fast growing f'amily. So he worked as a clerk for $100.00 a month. He \\ ould take time[...]Service at building was torn down and is now part of the Tande's Williston, North Dakot[...] |
| [...]summer of 1912 and purchased a pool hall, with rooms[...]out and bought a farm north of Scobey. With the drouth, Harry Gibbs Family l[...]and Mrs. John Gibney and two grandchildren west of Whitetail in what was then Sheridan County. This |
| [...]Gorham was obliged to sleep in a granary for lack of hotel[...]on December 29, 1929. The hotel had fifty family of thirteen. He spent his early childhood in Madoc[...]Falls to operate the hotel himself. The following of Flaxville. She graduated from Flaxville in 1957 a[...]any are was employed by the Nemont Telephone Coop of Scobey. the stories circulating about P[...]pades during Frenchy and Kay were married in June of 1958 and their that time. He became a stockholder in the Citizen's State family consists of Rhonda, Brenda, Jeanne, Jennifer and Bank[...]engaged in a hotly contested race for mayor of Scobey with THE FRANK GOODMANS[...]Downing) came to Scobey in May hundreds of gallon~ of fuel oil into the basement of the of 1911. Two of her brothers, George Downing, Jr. and Will Go[...]teads; the city sewer, and there was plenty of discussion about and she came from Velva, North D[...]homestead adjoining theirs. For the seven months of monkeys, parrots, tropical birds, and[...]e city dump to the city water tank. original site of the town and later at the new location, B[...]ead on weekends by horseback. operation of the hotel as they grew up, and they eventually The postoffice[...]Billings in general store. The other five months of the year she spent 1945 to manage a taxi comp[...]va, North Dakota working in the postoffice there, of Frances married Stephen Vavra shortly after[...]ngs Frank Goodman came to Scobey in the spring of 1912, and eventually assumed ownership of the cab company from Mt. Ayr, Iowa. A few years p[...]enry take up a homestead near Vida, Montana south of the and Raynell Schwabe purchased the[...]P.R. Gorham died in Billings in 1965 at the age of needed a clerk in their store at Scobey. He rode[...]ra died in Washington in 1967. Bud is three teams of horses, using a jerk-line. i[...]; Steve told Frank to jump out and hold the heads of the horses up out of the water. The water was freezing cold but the qu[...]was routed to the east this community (north of Scobey in the French of the original location of Scoh~y, the present site became community). He was one of those Frenchmen of whom it the permanent location, and businesses an[...]and Frank continued birthday, regardless of his age, he would receive telegrams with their jo[...]age 74. He is survived by five daughters, one of whom lives Jackson, Seattle), two grandsons, a gr[...]also a Scobey businessman for some time, a number of years south of Scobey until 1942, when they operating the[...]By Henrietta Gratton Downs of San Francisco. G[...]Reid and Edith are descendants of pioneer families that Traveling through northea[...]and Dagmar in Sheridan County for an oil company of which he was an officer in 1927, P.R. b[...] |
| [...]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[...]the University of Minnesota which he attended, (with[...]er having moved around management of the store and was one of the young men Montana and North Dakota 29 times as relief agent for about town. He also w[...]orth Dakota American Legion Post 56, and as a student of government in 1947 and moved to Opheim, Montana i[...]1956 and politics. Reid bid on the job as Great Northern Depot Agent in On Fe[...]1973 he received the Burlington Northern Employee of the Scobey where Ralph continued in the store. There were no Month Award and is also a member of the Veterans children. Association of Great Northern (now Burlington Northern, Mr. Greengard was serving as chairman of the central Inc.) committee of the Daniels County Republican party at the Reid[...]ve in Boy Scout work for 23 years. time of his passing; he was a longtime precinct He receiv[...]years committeeman on Scobey's west side. as representative to the National Council of Boy Scouts of America for the Great Plains Area Council with headquarters in Minot, North Dakota. He was president of the Lions Club in 1971-72 and Ralph[...]gion 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 I[...]endi Jo was born at Augusta, Georgia. In the line of duty and having given his life for his cou[...] |
| [...]he wanted a pair of shoes - a certain kind, no other. Ralph[...]One of the most painful things to Mr. Greengard was if[...]A crony of Mr. Greengard's salad days, the late Jack[...]Mr. Greengard had a great variety of interests, and he kept accurate accounts of his dabblings in farm land,[...]current flow of periodicals into his household was[...]extensive and varied. He made no great show of his[...]lost one of its staunchest citizens with the untimely MAN OF PARTS passing of Ralph Greengard. ·[...]community and his library is the most exten!3ive of any substantial renovations and remodeling. priva[...]de The name Greengard was an Americanization of the light was on usually until dawn, while he abs[...]ccumulated written wisdom, philosophy and fojbles of the folk coming from Latvia and Lithuania. The na[...]the Greengard hospitality was kept a growing list of bird varieties he observed in the bird legendary[...]g which attracted many enjoy it. He was a gourmet of food and drink. A favorite varieties of feathered friends. phrase of his was "The best is poor enough."[...]Ralph His personal filing system was a mystery of ordered Greengard. His garden was always green. c[...]information needed on almost any subject, served as the pianist for many years; was a member of the particularly in regard to the Scobey communit[...]Ralph" was a Following the passing of Ralph the business was closed common phrase among[...]rd sold her in his little crow's nest in the back of the store, or at home. home in Scobey and moved t[...]contributed D.C.L. of principle, often when it hurt.[...]ation PAUL AND MYRNA GRIBBLE of unusual character; and customers ranging far up into Canada and around Montana. Its stock of merchandise Written by P[...]o the store and facetiously asked, "I want a pair of overalls -size The Paul Gribbles, farmers of the Bredette Community 62." (definitely a[...] |
| [...]Wolf Point March 5, 1949. They are the parents of two daughters, Margaret and Mary. Both attended the Bredette rural school and are graduates of Scobey High School. Margaret attended the College of Great Falls for three years and was a teacher o[...]an, Montana. Mary has just completed four years of nurse training at MSU. She is married. Since[...]tate Liquor Store, and at present in the office of the County Superintendent of Schools. Mr. Gribble visits the farm quite often, though upon ad vice of doctors he has not been actually engaged in far[...]postoffice was discontinued. He served 25 years as Observer at the Weather Bureau and that station[...]1972. He was the only one remaining in this area of the for many dances from 1918 to 1941, includin[...], Wanty at Yuma , Arizona. Remaining of the original family Minnesota and came to Montana in 1900 as a railroader. are a brother Harry and sister Alice of Great Falls, He was at the engine throttle of the first train into Scobey Montana and Marie[...]Oregon. and bought lots in the new town, now known as the Gritz By Cecelia Hagfeldt, who lives[...]in 19~ 5, and in East Scobey at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Daniels they had one daughter, Alvina Bruehl of Long Beach, Street. California. Pet[...]7. It is now the Hillstrom Garage. He was 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[...]ON the Catholic Church. He died at the age of 69 of a stroke on April 28, 1949. Ernest L. Halv[...]of Bill Gilchrist. They settled in Peerless where Er[...]for Holt, Minnesota March 20, 1895. The family of eight were four years. Three children - Gl[...]community for a few years. Following the death of his then Solberg Implement before strik[...]are many commercial, residential and farm Bert, known as Hagfeldt Bros. The partnership dissolved[...]d with additional land in the Triangle area out of Fort in a lumber yard accident, and is[...]nd Kirby. Glen is a medical student at University of[...] |
| [...]West was young and full of advP,nture. Any history of Battleson and Company must be traced to[...]sota to "try his luck" on the plains and prairies of[...]grabbing land as fast as it opened up. Mr. Battleson then[...]1969. Holly, Lianne, Glen, Monroe Brothers of Williston, North Dakota in the spring Lynette, Gina, Kirby, Alice and Ernie. of 1917, and six years later contracted to sell Buic[...]through Pence Auto Company of Minneapolis, then the[...]rchard, Washington and enduring the loss of its building by fire, selling more units resides[...]filled 30's-a nine-year drought, and the years of World Washington. Kirby, a junior high school student, is at War II, sustained by the sale of farm equipment, hardware home .[...]raduation Eldon married the former Janet Erickson of Peerless, a graduate nurse from Trinity Hospital[...]h. He spent some time in the army and is now head of the Business Department at Shelby High School. He[...]rt ially destroyed the building with a great deal of damage being done by fire and water. Since its re[...]as also been affiliated with the Executi ve Board of Montana State Low Income and Council on Poverty g[...]Upon the <lea th of Mr. Battleson in 1945 Art Hanson and[...]ially 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 o[...] |
| [...]impressive shrapnel, and on the 17th of October it was necessary to assortment of cars in addition to Chevrolet and Buick in a[...]axwell, Dort, Star and Thanksgiving Day of that year and was discharged in Durant, Studebake[...]Lions, was councilman for several years, chairman of Romaine Kittock and I were married in 194 7. She was the the Daniels Memorial Hospital and chairman of the daughter of the late Tom Kittock and wife Anna, now Mrs. Dani[...]d their son K. Gordon Myron Anderson of Peerless and a son, Thomas, who has a Hanson, con[...]of Ben and Bertha Lien, formerly of Peerless. CLIFFORD I. HANSON AND FAMILY[...]ganizations, 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 to Joplin, Montan[...]ls County and Scobey is the only place on brother of A.R. Hanson), also coming at this same time was[...]and Mayme. Gladys later married Eddy Burton, son of a pioneer Scobey family. In 1931 my father Henr[...]k with him sister Mayme. By now the older members of the family were grown and on their[...]taken by my Uncle Art and Aunt Josephine, better known as Babe, to raise through my adulthood. Cliff was born May 15, 1918, the first child of Chris and All of my twelve years of schooling were ih Scobey. I Gertrude Hanse[...]y participated in football and track, was captain of the 1936 area until he entered the service in 1942. He graduated football team. I was a member of the first track team to go from Scobey High Sc[...]of Charles and Elsie Motschenbacker. She graduated f[...]Cliff worked as a heavy duty mechanic for Cummins[...]Diesel. At the time of his retirement in 1937, because of a[...]·Recreation Administration from the University of[...] |
| Northern Testing Laboratories as a geologist. Sandi is a receptionist at the Billi[...]taught 32 pupils, all in one room. She had one of the best "Indian ponies" around, and was an excel[...]a doc comm uni ties. She passed a way in February of 1967. HARRY J. AND LAURA M. HANSEN |
| [...]e he operated a grocery and meat business in part of Warner, Donna and Lori Harrison the pr[...]squatted on land about 50 miles northeast of Glasgow. In During the early 20's Harry served as a manager of the July 1913 he shipped an immigrant car f[...]to Glasgow and from there traveled by team fellow of dogged determination Harry broke up quarrels[...]e to time by the simple filing. expedient of physically yanking them apart. This was a In August 1913 Mrs. Haug and baby came from task of no mean proportions at times, particularly when[...]met them in the participants included such toughs as Swede Risberg Glasgow and they arrived Au[...]e small were capable bar-room and street fighters of no small homestead shack to shreds and t[...]ly. On the quieter side Mr. Hansen was a member of the Methodist Church, Masons, and the Eastern Star, serving all stations. He was a one time member of the City Council Front row: Melvin Haug, Wanda, Mrs. Melvin Haug. Back and served several terms as mayor; later as city clerk, and row: Orpha and Mildred Haug. at the time of his demise he was city health clerk. He was also a member of the Scobey Lions Club, the Sportsmens Club, and the Scobey Gun Club. In his day Harry competed with the best of the nation in trap shooting. A revival of the gun club in recent years was due in a great m[...]mograph crew. He married Donna Ferestad, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Inger Ferestad in 1956. They[...] |
| [...]ded to leave the homestead and Department of Intergovernmental Relations, Local move closer to[...]HAUN health decided we should retire in the fall of 1945 and we bought a home in Scobey and lived in[...]o years, draft board member four years, treasurer of the ORVILLE AND BETTY JO HAUGO[...]years, and president of the Scobey Lions Club." Orville Haugo was born[...]om Iowa. He grew up in the miles west of Kansas City, July 20, 1880.·My father was Julian[...]was about five years old, then Mrs. H.J. Chilson of Missoula. They moved to Three Forks, return[...]r to Shelby, Michigan, to Montana where he worked as a pharmacist for one year. Philadelphia[...]Connecticut, eight miles west of Hartford. He traveled six[...]farm 16 miles east of Hartford. He and my mother lived[...]igned and went to L_os Angeles. The city was full of[...]so waited until Orville was through with his year of internship at Three Forks, Montana. Cecil also[...]After ten years or so Cecil sold a half interest of the Service Drug Store business to Orville; and on retiring he sold the other half of the business to him. Haugos are still living in S[...]have four children. Glenn and Keith are graduates of Montana University in Missoula and Sharon[...] |
| [...]Havre and worked as a relief agent at Shelby, Devon,[...]eight miles out of Bozeman. He retired last year.[...]in August of 1902. She had a heart attack and passed away[...]in October of 1971. In March of1972 I moved to Lewistown,[...]driving north of Scobey in a Ford coupe; it was 30 or 40[...]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[...]house just north of the depot was all lit up. Curious, I went[...]confiscated a truckload of beer and wine. The truck was[...]a case of beer and a gallon jug of wine and went home to[...]what he saw. He told of the fight; they then asked him what[...]were thrown open. Dodds received the description of the[...]summer of 1917, together with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. small sawmill town west of Winslow, Arizona with Juluis He[...] |
| [...]came the War, and Vernon joined Uncle Sam's navy, of coal, usually quite close to home. Cow chips were[...]contributing to the civic activities of the community. He Minnesota to teach in the Line Coulee School. He had a served two terms as mayor, and was also active in the repair shop on[...]Florence is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools in lives at Lovel) and Wayne who passed a[...]rived in Scobey in June 1935 The children of settlers were finishing school, with no teen from[...]Pa and the five kids, age nonsense of disobeying the rules! Vernon , Florence, Kenneth,[...]all the girls fair, pretty Carl had been manager of the Mott Hill & Elevator blondes a[...]old Kloss Studio. Florence he was a son of a Homesteader too.[...]and devotion of the lovely Lucille! Front row: Florence ,[...] |
| [...]carpentry for the rest of his life.[...]During the construction of Fort Peck Dam Bill was employed as a carpenter, and he, Mrs. Heppner, and Gloria[...]After the completion of work at Fort Peck the family[...]worked on many structures in the Scobey area, one of[...]STROM STORY If Lucille in her dreams ever thought of him then, and when the War ended would he see[...]rn December 5, 1887 in Carver County, In the land of the Aussies were girls blonde and fair, but his[...]k hair. Hillstrom. I was the eldest of four boys. I attended school at At last the War e[...]ed. thirty miles south of Minnepolis. I worked in Minneapolis Again a Civil[...]n. 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 all young people will, so left at home,[...] |
| for fifteen years as a mechanic at the John P. Snider Company.[...]I brought my wife, the former Mabel Rose Kaiser of Onalaska, Wisconsin and our daughter Marvelle V[...]rly 1921 I headed for the then up and coming town of Scobey and I moved froll) Poplar to Scobey. I r[...]ne 11, next year. 1929 I married Claire Weber of Crosby, North Dakota, at[...]ved to Manitoba, Canada in 1908. Their the spring of 1917. With us came our faithful dog Jerry. We[...]veled by lumber wagon 1910 where the rest of the children were born: John, Laura, to a homeste[...]A homesteaded about 14 miles north east of Scobey. Joe did year later we moved to Whitetail[...](now the Waller Funeral Home). This seems so odd as I remember all the good times we had there. We went fishing and hunting. There were lots of picnics at Stony Point and a small lake in[...] |
| [...]Mr. Holyk established himself on the west side of main street south of the court house, where the new post office is no[...]Lucht lives at the present time. Old photo of Charles M. Johnson and the dray. The Holyk's m[...]y in 1950. Joe died in 1952. The total number of years that the Holyk family has been Charli[...]arrival in Scobey. He used teams of horses and wagons for A son, John, went into t[...]ing to Model T Ford trucks in the late 20's. age of 15 and remained for five a half years. Babe enter[...]of Main Street next to the railroad tracks and adjac[...]n Richland, Charlie Johnson served as a city councilman and was a Montana for ten years where Mel managed the McCabe member of the Methodist Church and the Old Fellows Elevator[...]Larry 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 years. McC[...]tors until his is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools. retirement. I went to work in the Daniel[...]ness College. She is MEMORIES OF SCOBEY married and continues to live there. Larry[...]was the busiest place in town, with all and works as a dental assistant there. Although not born[...]by rail. and raised right here we have lived most of our lives in and When Scobey had its own municipa[...]nson and infant son Wayde, came to the "new town" of Scobey shortly after its inception. They arrived[...]er a short stay on an unsuccessful homestead west of Opheim. They had met and married in Plentywood, C[...]nia. They lived in a tarpaper shack on the corner of the property south of the Cecil by Norman Johnson Marsh home, until such time as Charley was able to build their permanent[...] |
| [...]in a barrel on a stoneboat, with a team of horses belonging[...]started proving up a homestead in 1918, southwest of[...]following her graduation from the University of Oregon.[...]yllis became a teacher in Daniels County, and one of her schools was the Shennum School north of Four Buttes. She[...]I taught school at the Killenbeck school north of Four Buttes and one south of Scobey in the "dirty thirties", when[...]Pratt of Scobey, and Norma Becker of Billings.[...]de, Norman and Estelle. Phyllis farm south of town. was born while we were in Antelope.[...]proficient in her We moved to the new townsite of Scobey in the fall of music and paintings; and her talents have passed on to her 1913, same time as the Great Northern rail line came in to children and grandchildren, as is evidenced irr the display Scobey. Dad had the hardware store built when we arrived. of pictures at various art shows. Estelle and Phylli[...]d in art and music; and Norman has played in hack of the store until our house was built. It wa[...] |
| [...]ad close to Peerless. He left Scobey for a period of time to serve in the United States Navyin France, and then returned to Scobey. Rose Mahler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mahler, worked in a confecti[...]d until 1924 when he was appointed town constable of Scobey. Those were busy times for a policeman at[...]operating, and the product sold stimulated plenty of excitement in the alleys and on the streets. Some of the hard cases from the standpoint of[...]s Family early 20's peace disturbances were a few of the professional baseball players, like Swede Ris[...]cobey to accept a temporary position was one of our early day teachers. The school at first was w[...]is now located. It was later moved to a more time as undersheriff and then was appointed to the central part of the school district. It was quite a thrill to see position of Probation Office, which job he held until his the old building moving across the prairie behind one of retirement thirty-two years later. George passed[...]four children: Our farm had one of the few groves of wild trees for some Margaret, George Jr ., John F[...]miles around and naturally became the picnic spot of the Margaret, now retired from the U.S. Probation and Parole neighborhood, especially the end of school picnic with the Office after thirty-three and one half years of government hand cranked ice cream. It also was our main supply of service, lives in Seattle, Washington with her hu[...]hat is if Harry. George Jr., a long time employee of the Burlington someone else didn't get in a[...]One and five children. John Franklin is a member of the was a large prairie fire, that th[...]g in its path. My mother, older sister and I were as Director of the Municipal Court Probation Ofnce in[...]n and were Seattle. (It is interesting that three of his four children prepared to evacuate. The f[...]ped when it hit the French lane. The Bryce serves as the Probation Officer for the counties of other incident was one of those old time blizzards when you Hill and Blaine[...]Dad secured the job of deputy clerk of court, and was Mrs. Rose D. Johnson appointed to the job as clerk upon the death of the former[...]clerk. He held this job the remainder of his life, passing[...]children still live in the Lake Charles area and as far as I prairies of Canada about 100 miles from here in 1903.[...]d, arrived three years Hilda worked as a secretary in Scobey until she married later. Th[...]which her sons still operate. In the spring of 1915 the lure of homestead land brought After working at va[...]lda, 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. The first years business ventures of our own, my wife Gladys and I of farming were done with oxen.[...]ed the radio and TV department from Leibrand's As we grew old enough to help, . ::ach one of us children Service and have operated it for the past eleven years as had our duties to perform. Dori8 being the oldest[...]became proficient at handling horses and 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 i[...]We all attended the old Middle Fork school. One of the Minneapolis. To date we have no[...] |
| [...]P.S. "Muddy", as Mrs. Jones was affectionately called, was[...]president of both State and Salem Gun Clubs.[...]the daughters in Salem at the time of their parent's[...]He was born April 15, 1893 in Russia, the son of Aaron[...]He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Williston, North[...]Dakota and was one of the backers for the Scobey[...] |
| [...]HE PETER T. KARLSRUDS Opera of New York City and makes his home there. He is[...]eer in public school this country around the turn of the century. He had music and now manages a music[...]cobey in 1916. He also had worked on the building of and a boy. the Great Northern Railroad into Monta[...]ife in Scobey; he had been school board beginning 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.[...]Scobey as High School Principal. She took an active part in[...]the age of 80. Mrs. Karlsrud survives him and is in a[...]Saskatchewan in the 50' s to take care of the in valid mother of W.A. Wangren, principal of the Scobey High School.[...]rlsruds Mrs. Karlsrud came to the Scobey area as a teacher and |
| [...]met him. In 1915 Carl came to Scobey and worked as a bartender in the Smith' and Boyd Saloon, the bu[...]e were the years when the West, often referred to as the "Wild West", was rightly named, especially in[...]ncommon in these parts; they lived one step ahead of the law. In 1915, about a year before we were mar[...]gan quarreling with Frank Chapin, another patron. As the quarrel progressed the men went outside, Chap[...]gster through the back. The buildings still stand as they did then, with a space of four or five feet between them. (Maxine and Arlee[...]one of the first graves in the Scobey Cemetery. The man[...]kind that occasionally served as baby beds. Their eight[...]work as a bonus.[...]My father always had a beautiful team of horses of which he was proud. He was very cautious of pushing them too 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, enjoyed every minute of it--even holding the family cat. The[...]cat population of Medicine Lake, I recall, was soon to[...]served as a barn for the horses. The door was wide s[...] |
| [...]rooms are as they were then except for the necessary[...]of articles necessary for homemaking; towels, pillow[...]During World War I when our men were drafted much of[...]Then the day of joy came, when the Armistice was[...]as here also that my father acquired the nickname of until he sold the business to Doug. Doug sold it a few years "Joe Poof'' because of his way of expressing himself when later to Maxine and A[...]events which were the highlights of the year: July 4th On November 22, 1916 Carl a[...]One of our neighbors in early days was Gilbert Bakke,[...]week by the drayman with his horse- north of us. He and his brother-in-law, Chapin, had a dra[...]imney was washed and dried, blacksmith here, as was another old friend, Tom Smith. we polished i[...]son. There was nothing sweeter than the sound of the Also a neighbor was Walt Williams, an early-day barber teakettle sizzling at the back of the kitchen range. Water with ab, dutiful voice, who contributed a lot of his talent for barrel, teakettle, and all--those were the good old days! the entertainment of the people. The house was gaily decorated for[...]s and neighbors who had had a boarding-house known as The Mill House, which still strung red he[...] |
| [...]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,[...]Mitchell attended his first eleven years of school in Carl passed away in December of 1970. Scobey and graduated[...]ve taken place in the nearly sixty years one year of college at Eastern in Billings and his second sin[...]and gone, year, just completed, at the University of Montana, business places have changed, and the to[...]. On June 11, 1973 Donna Mae died as a result of a car Carl Kilgore reminiscences in a 1963 Sparta[...]ing episode that stemmed from a · sophomore year of high school. long evening of mild bragging of cowboy abilities and Stanley has just completed his first year of high school in h orsemanship by himself and other[...]de this coming year. She is a a prominent rancher of the area by the name of Tom member of the Girl Scouts and also is on the Scobey Swim Bullman. Desperately in need of cowboys and feeling that Team. he had fallen into a bonanza of skill and knowledge, Tom On November 30,[...]by Irene Kincannon introduced them to his herd of 56 head of horses he had available and ready for a local roundup. Unable to escape this witness of their prowess with the cow pony, Carl and the oth[...]A B. KING day (until 8 P.M.) solving the problems of a loose cinch, snakey horse, long stirrup, lack of tobacco, and other In 1913 Otto King traveled by train to Redstone, " problems of the field". Needless to say, the next day as the Mon~ 'na to look into the prospects of running a "bronc busters" limped back into the S[...]ganized community. He wired Saloon, conversation as to their cowboy abilities were quite his wife Olg[...]of their parents, the Otto Kings moved to Montana.[...]on left his degree but not the inclination. That, as much as anything, parent's farm home at Stanley, North Da[...]Navajo, where new life in Scobey. Don began work as a partsman and Otto built the general store and a[...]ed short stay in Scobey Don made the acquaintance of a as much as a dollar a pound for coffee. Little did she know[...]e been the city lights which beckoned in the Bank of Scobey at the time. spring of 1920, because with baby daughter Kathryn Jane,[...]obby" 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 worked at which consisted of tracing the travels of those containers, Western Bee in Polson making be[...]Scobey, Richardton, North Amidst all of this activity Otto King served as mayor of Dakota and Denver, Colorado. He worked on construction Scobey, was the first dad to serve as president of the Scobey and as a contract painter in Colorado and Florida and P.[...]c Mason and Shriner, rarely presently is employed as a carpenter in Scobey. miss[...] |
| [...]provided in something less than the grand manner of 1975. Farm land was acquired as the _years went by, and the Good Lord aided by Fr[...]e land somehow managing to make Otto feel capable of running tractor, combine and other equipment - co[...]was at home caring for the girls, preparing some of the best food served in a vast area, playing card[...]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[...]d not escape, her enthusiasm did not run rampant. As a mother and wife she (Mrs. Cliff Hanson)[...]from Arizona. Joe took over and retired as a Lt. Colonel. the farming operations, and Kathry[...]om was a quiet man and a hard worker. supervision of Otto King's only joy at the time, his grandson Ri[...]nd family moved to Scobey in October in highlight of each trip for Otto being to return and find that[...]d to survive The family consisted of two daughters and one son, Irene, without him.[...]married and was him without his speech or the use of his right side. It was living in Great Falls[...]d been in the greenhouse business. Tom was one of five children who ..:ame from Delano,[...]a section foreman in Scobey in 1912 so as you old timers can well remember. Prices, as now, were Tom became the first section foreman and remained so out of sight. I can remember so clearly the rice flour a[...]ur that Mother used for baking bread. That One of the interesting things Tom did while section bread would have made the best of ammunition, but it was foreman in Scobey was taki[...]d we became used to it. Then on the track to some of his patients (in the winter time) that happy da[...]t better, then the crash! Who will In December of 1912 he married Ann Krueger from ev[...]hort note about Al who sometimes a pound of butter or so. Kloss being of sturdy h as continued with the railroad and has 40 yea[...] |
| [...]Many a family picture and other pictures of yesteryear[...]their family of four came to the Scobey area in the spring of[...]The lure of the homesteading land in Montana was so[...]ed and sold a product named "Ponomo". It was made of wheat and was a coffee substitute. When the in[...]ut I did and was very ill. Being a great lover of flowers Mr. Kloss had a profusion of them planted south of the studio. Pansies were his favorite. He called them his little people. The rear of the studio was living quarters, built by Mr. Klos[...]rdays. I believe at one time he was also Justice of the Pea€e. He was a good citizen and very well[...]March 1937 in Scobey. Mrs. First shack of D.C. Knapp. Left to right: Bob, Esther and Kloss passed a way in May of the same year. Irene, the eldest of the three Kloss children, passed a way[...]Washington and has for over 50 years. He, of the railroad coming to Old Scobey influenced thes[...]hree sons, one purchased the interests of Mr. Chapin and the business of whom died at the young age of six. I lived in many was known as the Knapp-Crandell Mercantile Company. states an[...]aryland. The store carried a complete line of dry goods, ready-to- In 1950 I was employed by S[...]ies, harness-- with them until I reached the age of retirement. In 1973 everything. Mrs. Knap[...]Laura Ehlers for several years) took charge of the many friends in Baltimore thought we had suddenly lost bookkeeping. An office in the back of the store was our minds. We now live about two m[...]Walla, equipped to transact the business of selling Rumley and[...] |
| [...]of this department. Bob, the second boy, took over w[...]Clifford left to attend the University of North Dakota. The[...]of 1913-1914 in Williston, North Dakota where the th[...]miles northwest of Scobey a group of men had "squatted"[...]nd upon Hart-Parr tractors. Mr. Knapp took charge of this which they had settled was bein[...]loyed in the store. Glen Sam Stewart in behalf of themselves and their neighbors. Jones was the man[...]ed Art Scarseth , Vern that area north of Scobey for homesteading. Shacks Walters, Frank Ny[...]and the cler ks found th e items. miles south of the home place from John Fuller, and raised Groce[...]with a horse- Hereford cattle. This was always known as the "Fuller drawn cart. Clifford, the olde[...] |
| family loved this ranch as Coal Creek ran a few steps from After 19 years of teaching Esther, the only daughter, is the back d[...]Lake, Montana. Charlie was the victim of a car accident in Opportunities were always av[...]in 1970. was written in on the Democratic ballots of Daniels County As this history is being written the Knapp daughter is for County Superintendent of Schools, and she was duly filled with humble pride and a deep appreciation of her elected that fall, another opportunity was re[...]luential in school systems. At this time the~term of office was two years, and she served four terms a[...]wo-teacher schools, The Black Bridge, as it is now called, going to Old Scobey plus villag[...]ervised and visited was in the middle of an ocean, qr so it seemed to me as there regularly. After her years as County Superintendent of was so much water. Schools Mrs. Knapp t[...]My sister and I crossed the river by boat as the bridge music in the Scobey Public School Syst[...]fered a stroke in 1958. In who took us the rest of the way to Old Scobey by horse and 1959 Mrs. Knapp was chosed Pioneer Teacher of the Year buggy through water ~ll the wa[...]to Scobey by train from Wells County, North years of her life were spent in the Faith Lutheran Home at[...]ied Henry Stoven, who had a The early day home of the Knapps was a three room farm nine miles north of Scobey, now known as the Big Sky structure on Main and Third Avenue. T[...]My second home was with a family living south of Four is presently where Mr. and Mrs. Vic Hillstro[...]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[...]ncing, but Mr. Riek, a large man weighing members of Prairie Chapter No. 75, O.E.s.·[...]dance in the children were born to them: Donovan of San Diego, school house known as the Kerstein School on the creek California, a re[...]veteran; Dorothy passed a way in bottom east of Whiskey Buttes as it was known at that 1965; Clifton of Denver, Colorado; and Alanna Copeland of time. I met Emil, Alexina and Delia Audet[...]Polly Naylor were married in 1970. After 45 years of many others. We had so much fun that night. A bunch ofus teaching, the last 19 of which were spent in Gallatin took a st[...]pail to pay for the butter. I rode affectionately known as "Dupe"is a registered nurse. They horsebac[...]anced and humped his back. He was honored 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 Point community. He was[...]ll 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. Riek said, "But Alma, she State Board of Health from 1963 to 1971.[...]ke-cherries we Caldwell. Fay is a retired fireman of the Union Pacific soon had our sacks fil[...]w enjoying a well-earned veteran of World War I~Jack came from Castleton, Nort[...] |
| [...]th served in the Korean War in charge of the Scobey office after the death of Fred Bydeley. the Merchant Marine. They have four[...]and were on night Knudson, at the age of 63, died in May 1951. patrol at Cam Ranh. He has[...]": I The year of 1927 I worked for my sister Vera and husband , Wy[...]in other words ran the errands). There were a lot of men from Minnesota, most of them Finlanders, very good workers. It rained so[...]g 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[...]orth Dakota in 1917. They acquired some land west of the Bonnes farm (now owned by Chet Murphy) about[...]ents, Jacob Peters, also George Robinson (parents of Howard and Grace Holter). I went into the hote[...]oved and respected him. I have many fond memories of him and have many wonderful in-laws and outlaws as A very used to say.[...]MAX KRIVOSHA The best years of my life were when the children were growing up. W[...]in Scobey for 35 years, says that he never heard of close friends . We were Lutherans and Harmons Met[...]etter than the life we left I do not think any of the dams are used anymore. lt was behind."[...]dities work there. Max started school as there had been no consisting of dry beans, salt, rice, salt pork, cheese and[...]re the days . his classmates took advantage of his ignorance to teach We all came through fine a[...]akota. most of our presents were simple and home-made," said[...]or, Norway in 1888. He came to America at the age of 22 to work for his brother[...]business courses in Minna polis. The first of the LaPierre's to arrive in this area was Louis He came to Montana in 1915, homesteading southwest of LaPierre and his family who cam[...] |
| [...]Paradis who was a native of this community for many[...]homestead north of Four Buttes on the land that was later[...]local school teacher Lulu Manley. Of the seven Audet girls[...]Three of the other sisters married locally, Alexina marrie[...]Of the surviving original brothers, one, Seraphin, s[...]the farm north of Four Buttes to what was later known as[...]Raymond and Rita, all of whom married natives of this[...]Pierre on left and Lt. Raymond La Pierre war as bomber pilots on B-l 7's. Ray as a lieutenant was ' right.[...]Roger completed 36 missions as a bomber pilot receiving[...]return he flew with the Air Transport Command out of[...]to Scobey with the rank of Major and has lived here since.[...]since has worked for the navy as a civilian. Eugene and[...]definitely natives of the community and will continue to be[...]We moved to Scobey from Arizona in the fall of 1963. I Seraphine and Delia LaPierres Fiftieth An[...]rst in the community to run a business office - as a Service Representative - in 1968. At large custom threshing crew, who did work for many of the present she is still employed there. old[...]r. and Joe were married to Paradis girls, sisters of Joe Before moving to Scobey we h[...] |
| [...]1924 he was elected Sheriff of Daniels County. He served[...]illicit liquor traffic required the attention of all Jaw[...]Lawrence died in 1960 and Al in 1963 at the age of 78.[...], Paul, Vincent 'and Alton, a:nd a brother, Axel, of[...]community of Scobey, Montana in 1916 were Edward T.[...]the Red River Valley of North Dakota where their parents[...]add to the already varied backgrq_unds of the prairie[...]young people, however, arrived as total strangers to[...]area south of Flaxville. Arriving in late fall, Ed and Gerda[...]west end of town. There, John, the first of tl).ree children[...]Mom and Dad, Ed and Gerda Lee in back seat of Model T-[...]North During the spring 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 fa[...] |
| began clearing the land with the idea of eventually and Chicago markets, entai[...]adually rock piles grew on the This kipd of enterprise he continued into the late 1950's. acreage corners as tlie resistant virgin land slowly yielded. Duri[...]Ed bought, sold, traded, and shipped to a variety of shack on the prairie homestead while Ed worked in[...]t young homesteadet1 were unconscious forerunners of Bob's birth was the well-known local practical nurse and contemporary subu~pan l[...], Blanche Timmons. At this time, too, Esther mode of life may h~ ye been the urgency of survival. (Olson) Narveson lived with[...]In 1940-41 he served two terms as mayor of Scobey, also[...]. From 1942-1955 Ed served in the elective office of Sheriff of Daniels County, having become widely[...]During his years as sheriff the inner office of the[...]and views, and played some of the wildest pitch games on[...]record ... all for the price of a cup of coffee which then cost[...]ve cents. Probably even yet in some remote corner of the[...]jailhouse a listener might hear the voice of Ed Lee saying,[...]Often called on any hour of day or night, Ed had ample[...]firmly believed in listening to both sides of any issue, and he was well-known and respected as a trusted friend , Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lee[...]on the wrong side of the jailhouse bars. Ed's sense of[...]for him throughout his life. One of his favorite philosophies A few sparsely locate[...]cattle that brushed In 1954-56 Ed served as state representative. Although up against the sha[...]served well, he did not care for the larger brand of relentless winds that baked, dried, and howled, a[...]n 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 and fri[...]litics. He also lacked sympathy for In the fall of 1918 Gerda and young John returned to lo[...]g state representative, the winter. In the spring of1916adaughter, Margaret, was however, chalk[...]tead land. Another notable record of service was Ed's membership Perhaps the family's[...]in the 1920's a passing cyclone ripped widely known for his fine tenor voice, and h e often away the[...], scattering kindling across the performed as a soloist at various local functions and prairie.[...]family that Ed Lee remnants to mark th.e location of the homestead, now was to sing the old[...]m the homestead During all the years of Ed's public service his wife Gerda stake and unab[...]the St. Paul From 1959-196 Ed served as Daniels County Treasurer,[...] |
| [...]62. His health had begun to fail, and in December of 1964 Ed suffered a fatal stroke and died on Janua[...]activities until prior to her death in September of 1970. Of the three children the oldest John continued to live around Scobey most of his life. He graduated from Scobey High School an[...]United States Border Patrol, mainly in the state of Washington, and spent a year in the navy (1944-45[...]h; and a daughter, Bonnie. Jackie died at the age of two and one-half years of spinal meningitis. Dick died at the age of twenty-one of spinal meningitis while serving with a reserve unit of the U.S. Army in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. T[...]amily - Christmas 1974. Back row left to business of her own.[...]ar in 1942. In 1975 she retired from twenty years of teaching. She is married to Earl and Ann hav[...]several years on the Scobey City Council and also as mayor Scobey High School in 1944. He attended college prior to a of Scobey. three-year stint in the U.S. Navy during[...]tly lives in Great Falls, Montana where he serves as Montana Branch Manager of Northwest National Life Insurance Company. He mar[...]n 1904 in Allamakee County, Iowa. The first three of five[...]John worked as a fireman on the railroad until 1911 when[...]of John's had homesteaded in Canada, did not like th[...]ity, and sold his-preemption to John. Going ahead of his family, John took all of the family's possessions in a Earl Leibrand an[...]d when Earl was six months old. Earl received all of his two of his brothers heavily bearded and living in a sod[...]a dirt floor. Going behind the shack Maude period of World War II and at that time joined the navy and[...]rugged life with the strength of character for which she is Ann was born in Glasgow, Montana and received most still known. of her schooling in Opheim, Montana and Oroville, Most of the houses in the Canadian community were Washing[...]Ann met in Mesa, Arizona at a built of sod; John and Maude's was a frame home insulated Montana Picnic in 1946. After their marriage in August of and banked by sod on the outside. Maude tells of baking that year Earl went into the plumbing, hea[...]ter pounds. One time when John took a load of wheat to joined by Ed's sons, Gary and Richard. E[...]sons continue in Leibrand's good use of the gift. She became a homespun photographer, Ser[...]going out with horse and buggy, taking pictures of local[...] |
| [...]morticians, to become the official grave digger of the[...]season of the year. John often spent long, cold hours[...]John told of being involved in finishing a digging[...]not be seen from the road. Hearing a team of horses coming[...]can ·you tell me what time it is?" The driver of the team,[...]among all the dead. His reply was characteristic of his droll humor as he said, "Well, no. It's those so and so's walkin[...]In spite of his dry sense of humor and liking for a joke, John was known for his insistence that nobody was worth[...]years of honest work, for others as well as for himself, John died in October of 1952.[...]His widow Maude still lives in Scobey and is known for[...]today!" Later sitting in the sun of her daughter's backyard, she said, "This is as hot as Dutch love!" She went on to explain she had known such love in her younger years with citizens and[...]hand 1970. Esther still lives in Scobey as do his children; both car in the area, a Model T Ford, for the huge sum of $300. sons are continuing the plumbing and e[...]obey where there was a high school. In the summer of their families in Scobey. 1922 homesteads w[...]in 1925, and will be remembered for his operation of home cresting south hill overlooking the town. Th[...]ey girl, Janet is still referred to by old timers as the "Lei brand Place". Goss; and they have one son. In 1947heleftScobeyfor East One of his farms was located on the river bottom land, a[...]ually half-smoked Company. cigar, or a chunk of chewing tobacco undergoing slow, The[...]1927. She married a local man, reinstate himself as a staunch Republican, and this Howard[...]Pearl, the second daughter, is the widow of John Lee, still began cussing the Republicans, sa[...]electrical business. He married Ann Jenson of Orovile, When the bottom fell out of both the wheat and potato Washingt[...] |
| [...]n River Valley in Manitoba Earl continues to work as a partner in the Leibrand where Dad fo[...]of the Pool Elevators out of Grandview until their return to[...]Scobey in 1947 with five of the children: They took out MARTIN LEIBRA[...]lia Leibrand in 1892 at McGregor, Iowa, a brother of Florence lives in Scobey. They had six chil[...]ada James married Hilda Wahl, daughter of Hilmar and where he took up a homestead at Verwood. He met and Gabrielle Wahl of Madoc, in Nevada. They have 14 married Florence Berry of Viceroy, Saskatchewan. children and[...]er I, Anne, married Douglas McCulloch of Grandview, construction. I, Anne, was born at Sco[...]he Water Superintendent in changed in the lniddle of the stream. Scobey. Things got pretty tough as the "depression" was coming Fred was born[...]n with the dust and the hoppers. We have memories of Cora Wahl, daughter of Hilmer and Gabrielle Wahl of picking "cow-chips" for burning in the old cook s[...]ren't quite "ripe", sliding down the alkali banks of the grandchildren. "crick"; the tar bubbles w[...]Shirley Lei brand married Anton Dighans, a son of Peter paper siding of our shack at Coronach. I have memories of and Magdelena Dighans, pioneer Peerless resi[...]fornia. player piano to pay for our meager supply of groceries. He has three children by his fi[...]when Steve began his job as teacher and coach in the[...]Steve, one of twelve children, was born and raised in[...]Clinic School of Cytotechnology.[...]histologist at the University of Iowa.[...] |
| [...]The Levads bought a home in Scobey. SUMMARY OF BETH AND CARL LINDQUIST |
| married December 25, 1902 to William G. Lile of Gallatin, with a team and hay rake in the f[...]declining years was a major cause of her debilitation. It[...]operation of a linotype.[...]four decades of some very interesting years there. Toward[...]were a number of things at the Leader she did would not be[...]done quite as well as she felt they should be done; and her[...]the last part of the journey, we had a three-hour ride in the[...]went well. But eventually news of the bountiful crops from the virgin soil of northeastern Montana began to trickle to[...]The same sponsor of the Northern Minnesota bank[...]already arrived, rented a house, and placed some of our Only surviving close relative is a half-si[...]d, with a hot, dusty June wind coming through the of numerous tragic misfortunes, during her many year[...]with dust 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 me Mother was too proud and ind[...]heless for many we saw were ominous signs of what waB going to be our years taxed her means to[...]was all over and I could return now to Typical of her determined energy, was the time when she[...]aken out all the nails, iived in the country west of Scobey and walked several scoure[...] |
| [...]. Some years later it se~med that that section of Montana was fast becoming a hopeful "next year" a[...]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 appointed the first secretary of the Daniels County Land Bank Association and serv[...]passed away. They were the most gratifying years of his life for he saw many a hard working farmer sa[...]ant to request his creditors to accept one-fourth of the value of that debt as a complete payment. But those pioneer farmers hum[...]lized that these people were not only the victims of the times but that they still had integrity.[...]right (niece) Alfred and Ed ward Marti are sons of the large George |
| [...]The jewelry store closed within a couple- of years when to Radville, Saskatchewan in 1906-1907[...]the partner disappeared one night with all of the assets of I met Tom McClelland there. He was in partners[...]m on his Tom farmed and dealt in horses and I, as a nurse's aid, country calls. This association[...]iences. We hauled water in a Jim served as Chief of the Scobey Volunteer Fire little wagon from a wel[...]from the early 1920's During the flu epidemic of 1918, only two pregnant to the early 1940[...]Valley, California; Cleona, He also served as manager of the Scobey baseball team better known as "Tommy", who was born in Kalispell and in[...]and intense rivalry between the town teams of Scobey and ten great grandchildren.[...]of those games. At one time the roster of the Scobey team[...]organized baseball as a result of the Chicago Black Sox scandal of the World Series (that scandal led to the[...]CCURDY establishment of the Office of Commissioner of Ba-seball).[...]y family lived in Scobey from the early days of hunting coyotes with greyhound dogs which they un[...]t transported in a large cage on the back of a Model T Ford. Scobey with McCurdy Lumber and Co[...]til they spotted a coyote, then he had been owner of the McCurdy Lumber Company at release[...]n 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 McCurdy Brody.[...]among the first white settlers of that area. Prior to her[...]re growing up Belle was active in a great HISTORY OF THE JAMES R. MCINTYRE FAMILY number of 4-H Club and Girl Scout projects. Her early[...]teacher's training was put to good use as she taught in the Jim McIntyre and Belle Ford[...]1940's accepted employment in the Woman's Shop, of 1914 decided to move to the newly established town of operated by Harriet Erickson. Ill health for[...]aret Margaret, the oldest daughter, worked as secretary to followed later in the fall, after Ji[...]ed housing Superintendents Skeie and Danielson of the Scobey for them.[...]ck to his wife and told her that 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[...]ter several moves spent the their glorious shades of tan. The house was located on what last thirteen years of his career in Departmental is now Janus Street and served as their home as long as Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Retiring i[...]aret and Alfred now live on Whidbey however. Many of the conveniences that we enjoy today Isla[...]t cellars were a necessity. Superintendent of Schools, Leo Lattin, until marrying Water[...] |
| [...]. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as a Senior Staff Officer with Johns Hopkins Univers[...]Virginian, graduated from Louisville, University of Kentucky Dental Department in 1916. After passing[...]After meeting Dick Coughlin Sr. and Leo Linderman of the Westland Oil Company one day in Medicine Lake they He worked for Solberg Implement as a salesman from prevailed upon him to open an off[...]ted the Dario Cafe on main happened in the summer of 1922. street in Sco[...]a school teacher in the drive-in cafe south of Scobey then known as Bill and Medicine Lake, after he had returned fro[...]Scobey High School. Harry E. Melinder was born of Swedish parentage in Germany in 1909 - he[...] |
| I am the oldest of ten children. My parents, Mr. and Mrs.[...]re the First World War Earl Knudson, expected all of us to help with all the chores 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. He returned to enter practice at Wolf Point work because there were so many of us. When my sisters coming from ther[...]am. 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[...]ath towel County in 1926 at the urging of Bill and Carrie Lind of covering their heads over a big kettle of water. Madoc, Anna's sister an[...]teaded at Larslan. Winnie and Anna leased the Sid of the time we'd have church in the school every other Bennet ranch south of Flaxville for two years. It was a Sunday. We didn[...]ded 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 shoe games. Running the hills with old tires was south of the Canadian border, just in time for the dust bo[...]years. They finally decided to rent another piece of land and we spent a lot of time together with them. wit[...]ightened me a lot. We had to that part of Daniels County for three years and then moved han[...]or 11 at night. During this time school in front of the cook stove so we could be warm before he finally paid off all of his farming debts. He went from walking two miles[...]town in there to work for the city of Scobey as a meter reader with later years, we children had[...]er duties. For years he and George Beeks were the of the time so I was the one to take over the respon[...]s only two employees until Winnie became Chief of Police, a of the household duties. In those days children neve[...]and explained to us that we were at war and some of our boys would be going to fight. The other time[...]g 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 instead of kerosene lamps and electric appliances to make th[...]rrow will live in retirement due to the condition of his health.[...] |
| [...]rming again. He bought the Selmer Wang farm north of Scobey, rented the Joe Morrison place and the Mil[...]etirement came and from then on he spent his time as an attendant at Frontier Town until his death in[...]was a very busy lady with their wide acquaintance of friends and relatives. There were many grand dinn[...]aw sharing their home. She was a life long member of the Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid. She passe[...]still "home". charter for Merchants National Bank of Scobey. December[...]FRED MERRICK Company. He continued as agent for them until 1942. He also bought, sold a[...]e and horses during In the wooded valley of the Minnesota River, a short these years.[...]distance below the mouth of the Redwood, stood the Lower During the 30's Dad was Mayor of Scobey. After the Agency. Around the agency were gathered the posts of the 1 reorganization of the Citizens State Bank in 1932, Dad often[...] |
| In this August of 1862, the annuity money for payments he was[...]fice he held for fourteen years in to the Indians of the valley---about $70,000---had not which people of this area recall that he made an arrived yet.[...]ve In 1924 he was married to Edith Patterson of Scobey. To people, and one, Andrew Myrick, when a[...]ness at Richey, Montana. In 1943 while discontent of the Indians boiled over into action. Art was repairing a granary on his farm northwest of The Indians attacked the different posts,[...]drew Myrick was killed, shoulders to a pile of lumber and rocks about fifteen feet and when foun[...]ter was taken to Minnepolis for several the blood of white settlers. By the time the uprising was[...]e appeared on the road back to quelled, estimates of the deaths ran from five hundred to health wh[...]rt died at Richey in 1949 shortly after the death of his arrived at Fort Ridgeley, twenty-five miles east of the long-time close friend, faithful unders[...]er, Ed Chelgren. Following the blood bath, many of the Indians were tried for murder by a hastily pu[...]nd President Lincoln commuted the death sentences of all but HALE 0. NELSON FAMILY 3[...]1916. They lived with Ira and Etha until members of their families. Some had been taken prisoner[...]rs had been taken into the on the south side of Scobey. A daughter Ruth Katheryn, camps of "friendlies" for protection; many had been killed[...]e. children had disappeared and among them, those of the Hale worked with his brother in the[...]Fred Merrick was born in the Turtle Mountain area of last years he was city clerk. North Dakota[...]Street, whfoh the kidnapped from the trading post of Myrick's at the Lower Crandells now own. While they lived here another Agency during the uprising of '62 and grew to manhood daughter, Helen M[...]near their mother in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Son Fred attended the Carlisle[...]is pictured with the great Jim Thorpe on a photo of that school's football team. The photo appeared i[...]on - 1963 He came to Montana and about the time of the first World War raced another man from Flaxvi[...]. 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[...]yrick to Merrick. He was found dead, apparently of a heart attack, on the sidewalk near Leibrand's S[...]Y Art came to Montana early in 1912 at the age of 17 from |
| [...]S. Customs, retiring in McAllen, Texas at the age of seventy. Hale Nelson passed away October 12, 1964, at the age of 76. Ella Nelson now resides at Apt. 620, 4435 N[...]uth Nelson Cawley A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE |
| [...]ated until 1912. That year the extra large county of spectacle--a load oflumber, rolls of tar paper and household Williams was divided and[...]old son, alone on this elected the first sheriff of the new county and the family vast expanse of prairie. This lone man, Henry C. Nelson moved to Crosby, North Dakota. Mr. Nelson served as and family, was the vanguard of the army of"sod busters" sheriff for two terms or four years. As the state laws of to follow--invaders of the "Empire of the Cattle Barons" North Dakota allowed a sheriff to serve only two terms, he from the Long Creek of the Mouse River to what must have entered the re[...]ing this then been little more than a cluster of bunk houses around period at Crosby a daughter L[...]pand the business, Mr. Nelson bought the Of course Henry Nelson, his wife Amanda and son Geor[...]bey from Mr. Clarence would know nothing of these distant neighbors to the west Penn and associates in the spring of 1929. The family for several years to com[...]ess in Outlook until selling it. He then heat of summer, the kerosene lamp shone from the window moved to Scobey and joined his father in the operation of of the tar-papered homestead shack to guide those wh[...]st and told these pioneers about the The years of the great depression followed and it took Crosby and Daniels Corrals. In the summer of 1902, I great effort but the business managed to[...]had Solberg. Mr. Nelson died in Scobey at the age of sixty-nine. two stalls for cows and two for hor[...]n your way to In 1971 Mrs. Nelson died at the age of ninety-one. Montana homesteads. In[...]he Daniels County Leader carried the people of the Scobey country as he lay on his death bed in story and pictures in[...], the Nelson 1945. I quote from him: "In spite of hard times, fear, boys receiving the honors as the first three brothers from poverty and str[...]when they got the money; I just can't think of anyone of fighting fronts. When discharged they came back t[...]atisfaction Scobey, later entering the University of Montana where to him to live long enough[...]courage, strength and fidelity. Vernon two years of law. He then took a position with the And[...]ay 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 teaching Melvin retired and now lives in three sons on the fighting fronts of World War II, rather Meadview, Arizona. Lola live[...]th her husband William A. Cooke, a retired member of caustically critical we have been of political even ts that we the production staff of the Fargo Forum. They have a believe wi[...]rn in Soring, Denmark February employed part time as a salesman for travel trailers, motor 2, 1888.[...]when Rasmus associated with a San Francisco firm as Corporation was a very young man and h[...]good background for a business of his own. He next California. They also have a sev[...]ss law and typing. However he PIONEERING MEMORIES OF H.C. AND AMANDA quickly reverted back to the two finger method of typing. NELSON AS RECALLED BY SON MELVIN[...]$1000.00 from the owner of the Norma bank and bought a My father and moth[...]a cot in his say promising because it was a year of tall grass. The office, so he both lived and worked there. He also sold horse tracks of the wagons were already dim in the waves of buggies and had buggy whips to spare lon[...]green going east twenty miles to the border town of Portal, no longer in use. He later had[...] |
| [...]"Dirty Thirties" he, as well as many others, got many grey[...]their bills. Rasmus Nelson in front of his farm implement and When t[...]Scobey. There is no sign now of the former Flaxville business as the buildings were torn down and the Albert[...]ew Anderson, had owned a hardware store. The town of Orville was a flourishing spot on the map until t[...]ame through about six miles to the north and most of the businesses moved to Flaxville or Madoc. The A[...]nly child, Eleanor, graduated from Iowa State day of the year. It rained the day before, the day of, and the University in Home Economics. She taug[...]rried 1st Lt. John Harmon from Libby. A pilot and of Mother's) and Bill Vendsel, their attendants, wer[...]engaged at the time and were married in the fall of that the 5th Air Force where he re[...] |
| [...]ed with Rasmus in the John Deer One of the highlights of this experience was to appear business. Their chi[...]nd Barry, graduated with Jeanette Rankin as a speaker at Dagmar. She was our from Scobey High[...]islative session there Barry married Linda Brekke of Reserve. Shaula married were seven new c[...]w. County was one of them. After the close of sessions John In October of 1972, after 59 years in business in Daniels took the bar exams which he passed and w.as admitted to County, Rasmus became fully retired a[...]aniels County was going through the legal process of Barry and Linda. It became known as Rasmus Nelson, Inc. being made a county an[...]rder to take his children to school more daughter of Barry and Linda, represents the fourth[...]graduate of McPhail School of Music. When John retired[...]They spent a number of winters in Texas and Florida . THE JOHN SAMUE[...]t is About this time there was a general exodus of his that he isn't here to relive again[...]ergland Olsen was born in Hadley, Minnesota three of his uncles. They all filed claims near Homestead.[...]amily had a store in this community. His relative of John's relinquished his claim which John[...]children the value of a college education, a goal which they After a[...]all attained. Dad attended the University of Minnesota shipped an immigrant car of horses and machinery to and later was[...]rom Cumberland Law School at Froid. He stayed out of school for two years, did the needed farming, and[...]He went back to college and the St. Paul College of Law. John graduated in 1915 from Macalester Col[...]g picture 1915 - Henry W. Olsen 1917 from College of Law at St. Paul. The day after he gradua[...] |
| [...]help with the task ofraising twins in the dead of winter. My aunt has often remarked that some of her happiest Lebanon, Tennessee in 1912. He was a[...]structed wooden caskets for the many victims. Ira of North Dakota. Uncle Carl introduced a bill in the[...]ota State Legislature to have this area preserved as a friends of our parents. Ethel and Mother had an agreement national park. Today we have Theodore Roosevelt if either 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 1[...]r Norma he kept in contact with her over a period of tossed them over the fence where Dad found them t[...]- in a big tumble weed! Dad tells of the time his mother and Dad arrived in Scobey i[...]into the town's from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in "saloon". Later they learned t[...]College, Topeka, .admonished the men on the evils of such a place. A tree Kansas, and in schools in Si[...]ther was her not to plant them too close together as the branches president of Schell's Brewery which is still a flourishing wou[...]Crop failures, responsibility of raising four 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 Mont[...] |
| [...]around the country and at one in 1955 at the age of 75. Mother is 92 and an invalid at our time was director of the Scobey City Band and also the nursing home. M[...]and We bought a little house at the end of Scobey's main am a speech clinician in the New Ul[...]ND VICTORIA OLSEN bank as cashier in Granite Falls, Washington.[...]nd Olsen was born in Albert Lee, Minnesota, a son of T.K. and Ella Olsen, originally from Norway. Rola[...]ly age, and the family moved to the northern part of the state where Roland spent his adolescent years[...]after graduation he enlisted in the 2nd Division of the U.S. Army at[...]front rooms as the dental office and reception room, with[...]Emma, came to Scobey to help Dr. Olson as dental[...]nd Roland Olsen His stint in the army being of short duration he returned |
| [...]e, but just scared them to death! "Uncle Bill", as I called him, was quite a guy. I remember one nig[...]ache or his anger to be awakened at that ungodly (as he called it) hour. James Marlenee, Father of Lucy Parks One time he took me to a country dan[...]ver and we'd gotten back home it was the wee hour of the morning. Poor Uncle Bill! He sure got heck fr[...]when he'd go up town he would put on his goggles (as he called them), turn the soft brim of his hat back from his forehead, take long strides[...]THE "SKIP" PARKS FAMILY C.E. P~rks, better known as "Skip", was born in Indiana, went to Canada and t[...]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 Parkhurst homeste[...]k, so they moved to town. There, with Fred Miller of Velva, North Dakota, he operated a service station and tire vulcanizing shop. This was known as the South Side Service Station. This was b[...] |
| [...]children, Clarence Daddy until Ray soloed as a pilot. Ray and Nellie were (Skippy), Lynne and[...]married in California. While on his sixth mission as a died at the age of 24. Lynne, an L.P.N., lives in Albany, bom[...]Woman's Shop and did any odd jobs she could find, as In 1943 Skip and Lucy moved to Tacoma,[...]e eldest Oie son, Lewis. Pasadena, California of cardiac asthma in 1945. Lucy They were married an[...]ren are gone from home. Dickie, the most of the time since then. She presently resides in the[...]homesteaded four miles northeast of Scobey. They also[...]the family arrived here their only means of tra vei from the[...]the outfit, the rest of the family walked. Their house was built of sod in a side hill.[...]as a hardware merchant with Johnson Hardware. In the[...]Ann, is married to Jim Humble, the administrator of the nursing home in Wibaux, Montana. Lou Ann is a[...]le musical talent and ability, preferred the role of wife of Raymond LaPierre to the rather name was later changed to Paus-Strom Hardware and uncertain strug·g le of a career in music. She received a F[...] |
| [...]airplane with H.H. Ames of Scobey. He had begun flying during the winter of 1932-33, at Burbank, California and[...]We arrived late in the afternoon of a two-day flight from[...]many lacked the social polish of my city-friends, and I had[...]candid, and hospitable. My fondest memories of Daniels County are of the people I met while there.[...]there were just too many incidents of interest to record. We[...]flew just about everywhere as landings were no problem. A[...]spot on the prairie, short stretch of road; almost anywhere.[...]road at the edge of town and taxi up to the house on the[...]USA at the request of the Mounties. Another time we ran[...]. The business is now owned by Gordon total of four airplanes. One of them had no compass. One Blomquist.[...]ry close to the ground to try to who was a victim of World War II in Europe. He was, at find an[...]oad station with a name on it. One that time, one of the youngest Eagle Scouts in America. In finall[...]ned out to be Lewistown and I was his senior year of high school he helped save a young boy about 9[...]ip home. This airplane did not the National Court of Honor. have a clo[...]wrong side of the fence. I hadn't expected to find an airport[...]-unforgettable time I was demonstrating one of the I was the first of my immediate family to arrive in airplane[...]coming apart and uncontrollable. After a series of wild[...] |
| [...]the ground and going been advised to get out of the bakery business and go west too fast for a no[...]1937 I was operated the business as the Reiner's Bakery. At one time employed as an Aeronautical Inspector by the Civil[...]in 1916 to homestead approximately 20 miles south of Scobey. Part of the 1973 catch. Tracy, John and Jack Reiner.[...]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.[...]student at the University of Wyoming; Tracy is a[...]Patrice, Tracy. Clint Richardson of Scobey had a caller last Sunday that[...] |
| [...]said, "Herb Jacques could drive wife, who may be known by some as the sister of the first straight, and so could Noel (Ric[...]lry business with a man named Hoyt. The firm name of Hoyt & Chisholm was well known in the early Scobey days, and they built the stru[...]HOWARD SCHAEFER FAMILY Scobey, the lower half of which has been rented to the Service Drug store for the past couple of decades and is still Howard Schaefer and Bern[...]ty in and Berniece, in 1922. At the time of their union, Howard 1915 that he paid Claude Tand[...]red 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[...]e same shack in Scobey. Clint said they just kind of hit it off together. All were young and fancy free, and they took accomodations as they found them. Lodging in those days in the new[...]cedar siding definitely a luxury item ... in any of the prairie towns, Scobey not excluded. While[...]weeks ago underwent a substantial remodeling, one of several it has born them are Patti Audet of Scobey; Larry, also of Scobey; undergone in the years since it was new the same year that Jeanne Oleson of Kalispell; Libby Baker of Spokane, was Year One for the new townsite. Washington; and Jim, now of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Clint said to us, "You know, I guess I've spent most of my Howard, being an avid golfer and instrument[...]Slammin' Sam Snead, famed golf figures of that era. Larry around to asking a homesteader be[...]by Grain Growers Oil Company, M.D.U. , boundaries of land before the survey?[...]s relatives, the Richardsons and manager of the infant Nemont Telephone Co-op and Jacques did[...]el 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 cou[...]ece and Howard then measured the distance (number of flag revolutions times worked full time in their home office until Howard's death the circumference of the wheel). in 19[...]Canadian border," Clint said, "and Some of our fond memories include weekends spent drove du[...]well-stocked candy showcase much to the delight of their[...] |
| grandchildren. We also spent lots of time at the golf course town of Scobey, Montana. Herentedasmallhouse,anddid as a family. Howard was no slouch at the game himsel[...]others came when something went the City of Scobey as caretaker of the cemetery, the dump, wrong with their game.[...]worn-out occupants of a second-hand Model T, which Nell bought out of the sale money of their home, and which was[...]chauffered by the former owner as part of the bargain. NORMAN AND LAURA SCHARF[...]ARLES HARRIS most of the trees and shrubbery in both the park and the[...]bey in 1914 from Gernin, In 1924 a fire of unknown origin leveled their house in the Saskatc[...]n. He was married to Laura southwest part of town, and Dan, Mrs. Scott, and Ralph McCleod in 1[...]e to in Denver, Colorado. Mazel is Mrs. Art Audet of Scobey. them, and they returned to Scobey,[...]ip, who married Lona Tande and another plot of ground in the Oie-Kjos addition and, works at Nem[...]starting with an old store building of unknown genesis, Jackson, teaches school in White[...]l and Dan continued his work for the City of Scobey for several remodeled it as a hotel in the 1920's. Mr. Scharf passed years after that. Mrs. Scott was well known for her nursing away in 1925.[...]and he relinquished it for the less-exacting life of leased to Dr. Collinson who used it as a hospital. Oscar Von cowboy-laborer. Daniel No[...]ng cemetery. from Dr. Collinson and ran it as a hotel until 1965, when they sold out to Victor DeTienne. Some of the old time residents at the hotel were: Glen Ha[...]d Doug Kilgore at Carl's Tavern; Otto Brandt, one of Scobey's first brick layers; Emma[...]farmer in this community. As told by daughter Sally (Sarah) While working in[...]handise. Our family did not join him for a couple of[...]ing where he worked for Heleri Due, also a native of Michigan who was born June the railroad an[...]in Our home in Scobey, just west of Main street, was November, 1893. Shortly thereaft[...]horses for the Greenwood family, one member of whom was Electa, I notorious Frank James. Their s[...]later by my folks. The closet was part of the hay loft. My After several years in Willow[...]d 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 wreck[...]en born in 1902. Thus it was that in early spring of 1917 the proud 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 impr[...]happened into the new trees we had planted as saplings had grown in 25 years.[...] |
| [...]Later he joined the Continental Oil Company as an agent. Frank served a term as mayor of Scobey, 1927-28. He and[...]Star organizations and were members of the Episcopal[...]her husband died in May of 1952. She passed away[...]Smith, the fourth in a family of ten children. He was named My sister Eva and I[...]dhood. bought a store here in Minneapolis and two of us worked In 1906 he came from England to[...]for Civil Service jobs. Canada, as a journeyman blacksmith. He moved to Dad and Mother are both gone. All three of us are Sherwood, North Dakota in 1908 where he met and married married with children of our own. Martha Baukm[...]Sally Shaich Ozwveld northeast of Scobey in 1913 where Tom set up a blacksmi[...] |
| [...]e lot and for United Airlines. building of the present Gampp blacksmith shop from[...]Ft. until about a year before his d eath in March of 1947. Wayne, Indiana college. They ha[...]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 gr[...]nty Chester Ben (Chet) Solberg, the second son of Ben and Treasure Title Insurance Compan[...]ront row: Marjorie, Now a brief resume of Chet's business ventures in Loren and Chester - 1[...]as an International Harvester dealer. This early bus[...]efore the Nelsons. In 1973 the International part of Marjorie Ellen Miner was born in the prairie ho[...]coun tr y school and graduated partner of Chet's from 1944 to '64. Extensive remodeling fro[...]d display room certifica tion after only one year of t raining. I then taught in 1954. Later the o[...]ields blossomed in 1938 but at the going out of the farm equipment business in 1973 we sell harve[...]the Silver Star area and also east of town (Rudolph Nyquist We built our home[...] |
| 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 involve[...]ckory 30th, a Tennessee Infantry Division made up of either National Guards or volunteers. Some of the old timers recall that Marvin and Martin Foss[...]ocal Smoke Creek girl, Bernice Lawrence, daughter of George and Dora Lawrence. She obtained her higher[...]s, Curtis Bruce taken in 1960. Marvin became well known by state and national Democratic party officials[...]ive sessions--he was the oldest continuous member of the Scobey VFW post, having been a member for 41[...]s. Bernice Sorte was deputy county superintendent of Superintendent of Public Instruction. schools for ten years and was[...]Jim recalls that his Dad told him of numerous incidents family consists of four sons: Dr. Curtis, a dentist at Albany,[...]. Healy to drive Oregon, married Mary Jean Rucker of Plentywood. They him[...]hewan. With Montana, married Elizabeth Anne Brown of Kalispell. a team of horses across country--this family had several They have one daughter, Donald, of Olympia, ch[...]he treated with Washington, is a Deputy Director of Budget and Planning pneumonia jackets and at least some of the children Agency. He and the former Ilo Brenden of Scobey have two survived--in fact Marvin knew that one of these girls still daughters. Jerry lives a[...] |
| Mrs. Sorte died at the age of 61 in 1964. Marvin died at the age of 77 in 1972 at the Fort Harrison Veteran's Hospita[...]. Sorte was associated with the late Fred Krassin of Flaxville in the Krassin & Sorte Coal Company whi[...]Co. before it became Kr?ssin and Sorte. (The site of the Scobey headquarters later housed Johnson Tran[...]site now stands the Trower Bldg., the front part of which is used by Scobey Auto Parts). In later y[...]gg 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[...]was a creek part of the year and a succession of small pools "To know a person like Bernice Mary Lawrence Sorte as the remainder of the time. People came from Whitetail to a friend,[...]d not survive attempting to operate a ranch. work of all people eventually comes to an end, but the[...]o Scobey and rented the Olive Hotel which results of work well done will live on indefinitely. Under[...]e kids found work on other ptople's the influence of her calm, understandipg personality[...]the remainder of the house onto the Dick Mahler property.[...]ND FAMILY took care of gardens and lawns for several years before he[...]so, at present he is in Peveley, Missouri, south of St. succeeded in finding a place to live on the Asa Dunn ranch. Louis. The family consisted of Mrs. Stagg (Annie) and four Annie[...]ed in Montana. Minnesota. A number of people then living in Whitetail had gone to[...]. On the ride to the Asa Dunn ranch, just south of town, we GUY AND BLANCHE STALDER[...]Montana January 30, 1915, and farmed north of Havre for When the Dunn's moved into Whi[...] |
| [...]ett City, Sebastian County, Arkansas Bill was one of train to Scobey that day was Mrs. George Ruth, Sr[...]ille, Arkansas where he bathtub on the north side of the house of the Martin married Nannie Pearce. They c[...]we purchased the Joe Paradis farm two miles west of there. While we lived there Guy was elected count:v commissioner of Daniels County. For several years then we moved t[...]t. Our daughter Elizabeth married Bill Thompson of Sidney, Montana at Fort Peck in 1937. He was an e[...]Billie, our youngest daughter, married LeRoy Hill of Palo Alto, California in 1947. He has taught and[...]ey in 1916 from Glentana. Bill Stephens was one of four brothers, all of whom came to northeastern Montana in the 1890's.[...]taking Dr. T.W. Collinson as a partner. In later years Bill[...]died. W.T. Stephens died in 1946 at the age of 75. He was the last of his family. His wife, Nannie, passed away in 1972[...]stands in the northeastern part of town. Only the Stephens[...] |
| [...]ortune 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[...]d 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 Company in Duluth, Minnesota.[...]al store in Antelope, Montana. With the extension of the Great Northern railroad to the town of Scobey and ultimately Opheim, the two partners purchased the hard ware store of Ira Nelson in Scobey and the Strom family--now in[...]rom and his family moved to Glasgow in the spring of 1934. With the beginning of the construction of the Fort Peck Dam on the heels of the depression, it seemed wise to take advantage of this business opportunity which was to have a proposed life of five years. The Stroms looked forward to returning to Scobey at the end of those five years, but when construction was exten[...]th . After the First World War in which he served as a corporal in the Marine Corps, he came to Scobey[...]sition and moved to the Stanley area where worked as an electrician (Sundy's shop) and as a he proved up on a homestead. Late[...]in an auto accident. He him to many areas of northeastern Montana which remarried in 1934. He was a forty-year member of the included what was later Daniels Cou[...]their three Chris Swenson was assistant cashier of the First daughters grew up; Stanley and his family also live in that National Bank of Crary, North Dakota in 1910 when he area. A son of Stanley works in a Billings bank.[...] |
| [...]lentywood. They have a son, Craig, vice president of the Citizens Bank in Billings, and a daughter, Su[...], Scobey Gary French) on the administrative staff of the New Kaiser Hospital in Portland. Stanley and Olive are the grandparents of three and now reside in Lake Oswego, Oregon.[...]Borre into enrolling in a short course of English at the[...]ollege. When his uncle became ill Borre took care of the bookstore. LIFE OF BORRE 0. TANDE In t[...]him, "I'd rather have a clerk Norway, the oldest of eight children. Before coming to who can talk Norwegian, for most of my customers are America at the age of 27 he worked in a bakery, paper mill, Norwegian." on the railroad, and as a bookkeeper. Borre w[...]n, a school teacher. Borre took her to "B.O.", as Borre was called, felt helpless not knowing[...]e in the community to own he never did. He worked as a section hand on the railroad a car, to ta[...]Montana was in 1915 when he went to was observed as a religious day. The section boss knocked s[...]Borre took him on a cot in the baggage car of the train to the fi re him, but rather res[...] |
| [...]to sell them. Borre in vested in the stock market as[...]home. Ruth Alice was born in a house that served as the[...]was performed on one of the Tong children on the kitchen[...]summer of 1928 and over 50 relatives attended.[...]On Sundays after church they took notice of those who[...]farm which he had purchased. In the summer of 1936 _a[...]rented out the land and kept only a few head of livestock.[...]great loss when his wife died in 1954 at the age of 66. Borre Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Tande[...]the amount his uncle. Borre always referred to it as their " shack". They of a grocery list in his head. ' had ano[...]to be with and made each one feel very few pieces of furniture in ea ch pla ce. Borre was the post[...]t with him until his death in 1974 at the age of 93. their fine neighbors. "We had such good times[...]Rachel died c1t age seven in 1924. by team of horses the 19 miles to Scobey for big shopping,[...]a major in the Rachel, their first born, died of an abscessed tooth at the Air Force Reserve. He had one daughter and one son. His age of seven.[...]ren Mrs. Lee. This two-story house had the luxury of r unning and eight grandchildren. water an[...]rug store to Woodrow Lang ha ug , president of Lutheran and opened a general store. He op[...] |
| [...]Show in 1970, and Scobey Jubilee Show in 1963, as well as Bob Tande was born in Scobey to Al and Bert[...]etic Club c:ihows to raise money for construction of (Bertha) Tande. He married Lillian Veis. They[...]children: son Rod is in the insurance business as well as an the Saddle Club and has done the custodial a[...]groups. Bob was the originator and organizer of local[...]represent the state of Montana in driving the Montana[...]July 4, 1825 marked the beginning of a mass migration of[...]influx of the Irish and Italians. Chris Tande, his father[...]af, his five brothers and two sisters were a part of that[...]ass movement, coming to America in the early part of the[...]end of their life spans. Chris told of the long hours of hard[...]the light of the lantern flashed in their faces, signaling the[...]beginning of another day of work.[...]Chris enrolled at Concordia College as a full-time[...]college made available at that time a course of study[...]the American way of living. The course included the[...]miles northwest of Scobey near the homesteads of Claude[...]married Julia Lien of Grand Forks. He, his wife and[...]because of drought conditions - but Chris said, "My credit[...]civic activities. night, to hear an explosion of glass. She subsequently He has been a Scobey volunteer fireman since 1940 and for observed the rump of their horse, Nellie, filling the opening 30 y[...]with hammer and nails, put up a quilt to serve as a banquets, race meets and rodeos. Bob[...] |
| [...]was begun in the early hours of the morning. The children,[...]ande seat the many hours of travel. About noon they reached the[...]Al Tande ranch just five miles west of Scobey and left the[...]who had three children of their own. Chris and Julia[...]The winter blizzards were of a violent nature, and it was[...]ht in one of these winter storms and need to find shelter. Chr[...]and Julia saved the lives of two young people with just such[...]in a blizzard, saw the light in the window of the cabin, and[...]Chris and Ed Lee and this partnership was known as Lee & Tan[...]over the store alone, at which time it became known as Tande Gro[...]Julia died in October of 1959 and was spared the agony of knowing t[...]by the defendant. This was in July of 1966. Ludvig left a[...] |
| [...]alifornia, also married a pastor who is in charge of The Teigens have two daughters, Marla and Susan. Both furthering the education of pastors. They have four sons received thei[...]with his dad. He married Isabelle (Boots) Eklund of Ada, husband, Denis Dalbout, and daughter[...]Pearle Goulet, daughter of Joe and Nellie Goulet. They Teigen came to Scob[...]here he had operated a dairy farm south of Scobey. To them were born lived the previous five years, in the fall of 1927. He worked five children, 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 wh[...]ing. time before buying land south of Four Buttes. He continued[...]Fred Tollefson was a resident of Scobey from 1926 when[...]He was well known for his knowledge of horses and racing and was a great favorite of all Saddle Club[...]His son Paul was a star athlete as well as a great weight[...]o and a half miles south Marlene Truck Lines. of Scobey. He ran the barber shop in the daytime and[...]ere. following year the Teigens bought land south of Four They moved to Scobey whe[...] |
| [...]In the fall of 1926 Don and I drove to St. Paul, Minnesota[...]and the home town of our parents. My father, Martin[...]ed on the city council, church board, is a member of the fire department, Lions Club, Elks, Mas[...] |
| [...]Our first year in Scobey was the beginning of the great[...]1936 Mr. Ford sold the drug store to Cecil Marsh of[...]either, of course. We bought water from the waterman, Mr.[...]caved in and buried them alive. One of these men was[...]really loved that little shack. jewelry business of our own. A jewelry salesman told us Harv[...]watch Recorder's office during the summers of 1933, 1934, 1935 repair man. After looking over t[...]e decided and 1936. Those were the years of the government seed upon Scobey, perhaps because[...]s In September, 1929 we came to Scobey with all of our and seed liens. There were 50 to 100 or more of those filed possessions, a bed, a table and four[...]trom, clerk and myself, part time wholesale house of Minneapolis, Minnesota that my father cler[...]ed best was a trip on weekends to beginning stock of jewelry. Don had purchased the Fort[...]0 per month. This building was located just north of This house was owned by W.A. MacDougal, form[...]oman's Shop. The last shop principal of schools at Scobey. We purchased it from Mr . doing business in this Woman's Shop was known as the MacDougal later on and I still own[...]it. While " Clothes Closet", which sold its stock of merchandise to living here our daughter Alice was born at the Olson The Fabric Shop in the spring of 1975 and closed its doors, Hospital. the firs[...]age of 51. The Gampp building and the building adjace[...]About a year after his death I began work as bookkeeper the north were torn down during the 70[...]Scobey has been our home since the fall of 1929. expense. Don's father came too and p[...] |
| [...]dedicating it to the Silver Slipper is another of his enterprises. In all these memory of his father, Donald Trower.[...]One of his projects in Scobey is the Annual Spring Ou[...]cted each spring, featuring Willamette University of Salem, Oregon. She is presently national[...]Roning, was born in Minnesota. She was four years of age Ramon Trower, a native of Scobey, started farming at when her mother died, and very early in life she learned to the age of 20 with Bill Brayko. He also farmed his father,[...]the motherless family. Donald Trower's land south of Scobey. In a few years time After she was grown Marie moved to Maxbass, North he purchased land of his own. Dakot[...]ranch was a sod house, devoid of any modern[...]illiam, a cousin, Elizabeth. Second In the fall of 1959 he purchased the old and run-down[...]d that where there is a will, a way can be found. As a part of operation of this grain elevator it was always in his mind to[...]l years later he went into sales and construction of steel buildings--Ea ton and Behlen. At first the[...]sold were mainly grain storage tanks. This phase of the business has expanded to include garages, machine shops and commercial buildings. Some of his finished construction projects in Scob[...] |
| [...]ople in Rock Glen , house and enjoyed the comfort of modern conveniences. Saskatchewan. Wi[...]cember, 1942. started work for the City of Scobey where he continued The Turners had seve[...]a Minneapolis. She married Monte Larson of Sidney. The busy person and now in her older year[...]ity where he is needlework. Her afghans are 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 skilful lawyer. fi[...]Fingal, North Dakota, daughter of Lauritz and Theodora Leenhert Vink was born in[...]rother Chris living in Scobey he chose this state as his M.J. Walker at Plentywood on January 30, 1923. Shortly new home. Montana had need of young men on farms and after their mar[...]easily found. Many came to see what known to their many friends as "Maggie and Jiggs" . Montana had to offer and rem[...]nd Claude Tande a year each; then period of forty-two years. he worked for Carl Miller for si[...]ore. Alec and young lady from Holland by the name of Engelina Joe Collinson the[...] |
| [...]as their apprentice. She continued under a number of pharmacists over the years, as well as becoming head of the general sales department. Her late husband, J[...]t Scobey Drug, later worked the last twenty years of his rfe at the Scobey Drug, passing away in 1959.[...]y in 1917 and for about twenty years was employed as a meat cutter at Frank's Meat Market. During his[...]s, "Joe" Walker played semi- professiona ha eball as a catcher and centerfielder on teams in North Dak[...]snow storm from Oph i where Al had been employed as Lena and Nathan Goodrich manager of the Farmers Union Oil Station and of the Rural Electrification Association, during our[...]Larry. Al's Cafe He came to Scobey as an R.E.A. construction contractor. employed as vice-president with the Delay First National |
| [...]ad 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 p[...]le in the wagon box until the kerosene burned out of the lantern. We made Old Scobey the third night,[...]ade home the fifth day about five 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 t[...]to Medicine Lake. The first train just pulled out of Scobey as we came over Old Scobey hill, but I walked to Fla[...]May Handy - married Tom Handy and they farm north of Peerless. Dixie Rae Halverson - married Larrie Halverson and they farm northwest of Scobey. Dallas Roy Williamson - married Elaine Theodos of Williston. They live in Plentywood and have their[...]Marge, Gerald, Janet and Carol Wolfard business of Williamson's Glass and Sport Center.[...]California. Scobey in about 1927 from Oregon as a tobacco and sundry Wally also owned a[...]the operation at Twin Bridges for a number of years prior to country and the people, he worked[...]cobey in married to Arnette Rubin, daughter of George and approximately 1932 to work at Jones' C[...]o Carol A., married to Russell E. Malone of Kansas. She is began farming and ranching in the spring of 1933, north of County Clerk and Recorder for Daniels Count[...]Marjorie G., married to Clifford L. Hagfeldt, son of sold the Club Billiards to Wesley Cromwell[...] |
| [...]Janet Rae, married to Gregory Hanson, son of Gordon[...]nn passed away suddenly August 6, 1960 at the age of[...] |
| [...]trol, retired, Jerry worked in the tailor shop, as did his sister Matilda; Everson, Washing[...] |
| [...]By Lal on Jones In the spring of 1913 my folks came to Scobey via Great |
| [...]cuss as it scared the horses to death as it passed or met[...]Another oddity was a man who brought a load of hired[...]little sort of cockpit, no cab-only the windshield. After the[...]Back in the early years of the Butte Creek School about[...]teacher. They lived up on Coal Creek, a distance of about Killenbeck, Madge Morris (teacher), June Jo[...]ouldn't make it back until noon the next day. All of us Barney, ? - ?, Iona Gebhardt, and Kathleen Bla[...]teacher never came. Many of the old timers will remember I can well remembe[...]Mr. Woodly. He was a very good sign painter. Most of the Canada and settled on a farm about two miles[...]the right hand corner 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. T[...]y chore winter and the one full length of the north wall on the Ponderosa Bar. summer, cert[...]an's dad owned and operated it at that time. Part of his family still live in this area: his widow, no[...]town at this time and up until 1927 when Edwards, of Scobey, his sons William and Clark of the Great Northern Railway reache[...]It was 23 Peerless, and Mrs. Waldo Fladager, also of Peerless. miles and 18 gates to Scobey. Nothing like cow passes of The winter pastime was whist parties, the Nort[...]blood in your eyes. It was very important to win. As I recall now. This happened to my mother at the "Turk" store. at one of these suppers an uncle of mine, C.P. Jones, was Mother bought some[...]ted to cook the oyster stew. Somehow he got a box of them discovered about half were rotten.[...]s and with it. This mistake nearly caused a riot, as the stew was we sells rotten eggs." That wa[...]o eat in more ways than one. It couldn't be used, of received. course, and the winners of that round settled for crackers I In abou[...]rodeo put on in Scobey. It was on the 4th of July and it was In the mid 20's, about 1925 or[...]ool the rodeo was a fellow by the name of "Rees tow". I believe locked in a crate, one per[...]r and ice cream cones that still 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 in the coal mining business[...]in grand style. this land now. They have one part of the farm which is still Another amusing s[...]d the "buffalo pasture". It is growing grain now. As I Monahan regarding Gus Jenson. Gus farmed[...]Truax's foreman. Creek area for a number of years and he also dug many of He was Homer· Powell's father.[...]he country and had a threshing There was a lot of grain hauled by tractor as trucks were machine. Monahan used to relate[...]e a runaway at one time or tractor at a top speed of four miles per hour. Some people another.[...]would be at least a four Club. He had one of the best windups I believe I have ever day trip i[...]s Gus compare these wagons with our modern method of truck- I'm sure. ing from 300 to 500[...]speeds up to 70 During the early years of the county we had our cowboys. miles per hour.[...]d At about this same time a fellow by the name of Thorson, there, a saddle tramp I guess they[...]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[...] |
| [...]Haagenson, Bobby Fouhy and Pat Larson. Sheryl Rea of at times cost him the 1st place money because he[...]qualified. 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 grew older and dropped t[...]mpede and other wild west out. It is now known as the Green Acres Club. All of the Bob shows. He did every trick the pros did an[...]ith Fouhy children have been members, seve~ of the Milton an old stock saddle and a horse he bro[...]Fladager children have been and are members, four of the for the public he didn't make this his career[...]Arnold Andersen children have been, two of the Lawrence brother was very good at the same things, but he was less Larson children and several of the Joe Pruttis children aggressive and wouldn't[...]have been members, the four children of Bob and Joyce The early day settlers of Butte Creek who are left in this Chapman have[...]k Fouhy, generation are the children of Bernard Dighans, Clark Mrs. Alfred Hames (now Mrs[...]awrence and Florence Larson, Anna Belle when some of these things took place and at the time you[...]Bob Fouhy, Milton never feel they will be a part of the history of the county and and Lois Fladager and Melvin Andersen. state. If anyone was left out please excuse me as it wasn't intentional. There are a number of the second generation still in the area. Part of the Hames family, several of the R.J. Fouhy family, some of the Feltis's, some of the Kleeman 's, Lowthians, Erstad's, O.A. Wyman's[...]tte Creek Valley in 1913 from Canada, HISTORY OF 4-H IN THE BUTTE CREEK,[...]as the country was thickly settled we looked for mor[...]ing land and moved to land west of Coronach in covered The earliest 4-H that is re[...]he Butte Creek wagon, driving our herd of cattle and horses, and camping community had Tony[...]ord Fouhy, Ralph on the way. Lots of new settlers were coming in there and Jones, Bill Hames and Darold Jones as its first members we made many friends. with Phil Lowthian as the leader for the boys. Tony recalls In[...]at this club began in about 1924 with A.W. Worden as the followed us to the Coronach Country and lived in with us County Agent. They each had an acre of com for their first till 1913 when we heard of land in Montana.at Butte Creek project and a broo[...]eads so came down and recalling those times, told of the trip to 4-H Camp in Poplar looked it over and decided to move down, as we needed which they made in the back of an old Republican truck more pasture f[...]es, our friends, came fair held at the home place of Carl Hammerburg in about to visit us from North Dakota and also came down and 1923. The highlight of the fair, which included judging looked[...]lane Frank and Bob bought a plow and team of horses and ran a which came up from Williston and[...]l who dared risk it. The plane was the first many of them had Frank Fouhy family - Emma Johnson and Ma[...]on running board. into the 40's was a girls' club known as the Happy Hearth and Home Helpers. Sophie Kleeman and Mrs. Jess Slaughter were the leaders of cooking and sewing. Some of the members were Dorothy and Betty Feltis, Lloree[...]k. In about 1935 Willie Fladager was the leader of a group ot Peerless area boys. Some of the early members were George and Roy Larson, Han[...]eding. In about 1948 Milton Fladager was a leader of a boys' club with some of its members being Ronnie Jones, Alfred Kiser, Jr.[...]ch extended from Peerless to the Northwest corner of the county. The early members were Johnny[...] |
| [...]'s Ranch, Peerless, Montana. furrow around pieces of land for themselves, Charley and[...](its old name was were grazing on it, also bands of horses.[...]Tande). We brought down seven head of oxen and hired a settler,[...]lesons had a hardware from early spring till last of June. In 1914 Fred and Charley[...]e many other business places. We were in Valley As they had school age children we needed a school,[...]and Daniels in 1920 from parts of Valley and Sheridan refused but promised to furni[...]vote of 964 to 358. community turned out and helped. Our[...].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[...]re kept in and broke and gentled for work. We had as 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 wi[...] |
| [...]raise a few flowers. I have lots of friends and good[...]I have almost completed a genealogy of the Fouhy family and also one of the Johnson family which was my maiden[...]There are very few of the first early settlers left from the[...]many ' Dad " (Frank Fouhy) taken on "Bue~;", one of our best changes in the mode of farming and living since our early saddle horses-[...]days but all for progress of the country.[...]and the sleepy Laurence J. Fouhy, son of the late Robert J. and children slept on the des[...]t the walls. Christina M. Fouhy, was one of a set ·of twins born at Walter Warden was our extension[...]rs on fence posts and had a 1912 from Iowa by way of Canada. telephone line. We had a radio and left[...]ls; was inducted into the service where he served as a machine Mary, who married Ray Kragness and lives at Billing~; gunner in the European theatre of war. He was wounded in Walter, who died of polio in December 1919; Emma, who 1s eastern Fran[...]en- hospital he rejoined his outfit; at the close of the war he was dive; Francis (Pat), who is marrie[...]d from the service in and farms and ranches north of Peerless; David, who was November 1945. killed in a car accident in June 1950 west of Four Buttes. In 1946 Laurence and his brothe[...]uous use from 1915 to June 1971, closing for lack of partnership that has lasted through the years. In[...]d into the Peerless District in 1974. spring of 1954 they expanded this partnership by buying[...]rming and ranching and operate We planted a grove of trees and some years had corn ripen under the name of Fouhy Bros. Inc. in the fields.[...]e war years when labor was hard to get I daughter of Mary Rose and the late Earl C. Trotter, of worked in the field, driving four to six horses o[...]ordan, Montana). plow disc and drag. I also acted as a mid-wife for many of Four children were born to them: Mary Kay,[...] |
| [...]where they spend part of each year. Their children[...]In the year of1912 Robert, "Bob", first came to the area of Montana now known as Daniels County. He came with his[...]sides about a mile apart overlooking a big valley of knee high grass. This is what became known as Butte Valley or[...]as squatters. The land was not surveyed yet for[...]It was on one of these trips that Bob stopped to eat an[...]rs Laurence has been an active member on a number of boards and committees. He served on the county ASC 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 for the Daniels Memorial Hospital and now is one of the directors of the Scobey radio station, K.C.G.M., and is a dire[...]ociation, the Scobe~ Roping Club and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.[...] |
| [...]Ruth married Albert Hall and they farmed north of[...]home was built just out of Richland, where they live now.[...]brother north of Richland.[...]Ernest Robert lives on the "home place" north of Peerless. He married Helen Brenke of Pine Bluff,[...]Charles north of Richland. He married Nellie Trotter of[...]Terry and Donald. She succeeded Reese as Postmaster in A homestead shack and a sod barn[...]Jeanne married Lloyd A. Fossum and farmed several of the barn. The lumber for the house and barn roof was years north of Richland . They also owned and operated a hauled[...]lived in Nashua till Robert passed away in May of 1961. farmed south of Richland several years before moving to[...]dren, Leitha, Robert, she passed away in May of 1973. and Dorothy. After Clarence's death Julia worked for seven years as a draftsman at Fort Peck and Garrison Dam in Nort[...]Lynne. Lavina and Homer farmed and ranched north of homesteaded four and one half miles north of Peerless. He Richland until Lavina became Postmas[...]1910 in Oxbow. In the summer of 1914, Luella with their,[...]in 1962. At the time of his passing he was the oldest person[...] |
| [...]eeder" to the doctor. Roy was never to walk again as the[...]to be cared for as an invalid in a wheel chair. Roy was an[...]Bob is married to the former Evelyn Davis of Scobey.[...]Helena. Donna is married to Jack Carney of Scobey and[...]as a son, Todd. Lorna is married to Jim Woodridge of[...] |
| [...]By Lal on Jones It was the spring of 1912 when my pa, Fred C. Jones, first |
| [...]overed wagon, and a buggy. The immigrant car came as far as Whitetail and from there the cows were trailed ho[...]shack was 16' by 32' and this was to be the home of a Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kleeman family of seven children and four adults the first winter of 1916-1917. Our closest neighbors were Elmer Stu[...]d Tony was to be confirmed he remembers it as his first car Charles Danelson. The children walk[...]house for Thanksgiving feasting. In the spring of 1917, the Leo Greeman family stayed Very[...]In 1923 the family moved four miles south of their after immigrating when their baby boy died[...]Basin area. A tornado struck Mother helped many of the neighbors in 1918 who were the area i[...]athered in the other room. An early remembrance of Nora is the time they had to In the fall of the year Dad would run a threshing rig attend Con[...]for a long time. morning with the wagon and team of horses. The time Amelia and Nora were[...]enjoyed among the neighbors such as card parties, dances, Peter Kleeman family left t[...]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[...]To this unio'n seven children were born of which four are[...]Dad passed away in September, 1967, at the age of94 and Mother in November, 1970, at the age of 91. They had been[...] |
| [...]in work they were familiar with. Married in April of 1917, He recalls that he used to go barefoo[...]ft for Montana in an immigrant car along with as shoes were expensive and had to be saved for[...]nd Don Chapman, Guy Miller and R. wintertime. As a barefoot boy he used to herd cattle and-[...]10 miles northwest of what is now Peerless in the Butte When he w[...]n for two cents a moved to the land east of Richland , purchased b y Don bushel, furnishi[...]his working day while the stars jumped out of bed and grabbed a meat fork , gave the horse[...]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[...]ol teacher), Phil built a two-room house a fourth of a says. "One day I said to myself: 'When milk[...]was unaware of the letter . Sh e arrived in Scobey and made[...]ked for came into the her way to the hotel of One-Eyed Molly , where sh e slept barn while[...]ady who had never ventured far from home. She of humor."[...]red. Explanations were made and the newlyweds of Frank Fouhy of Butte Creek and Laurence Larson of set forth for home eating a picnic lu[...]at noon. Georgetta, used to the trees of South Dakota, was They first lived on the Ellis Jones place north of the Butte amazed that there were no shady spots[...]dings and all over to the ate in the shade of the buggy. Phil was on the Butte Creek Frank[...]eline Michel and dad) on the southeast corner of Peerless and moved in most they have a home of their own on the farm where Phil first of the buildings from the Miller place and later red[...]ave two boys, Patrick II and Troy. They live west of Phil died in 1969 and Georgetta died in 197[...]nd, but her home order is Sacred Heart Priory of Richardton, Mrs. Lowthian's reminisce[...]The good smell of creeping cedar when burned was a[...]s pulled his cook-car HISTORY OF down close[...]was arranged the length of the schoolroom and loaded with[...]kfast and went home tired but happy, hometown of Milbank. Both of their parents were farmers, and wi[...] |
| AS IT WAS Peerless a[...]has made a big difference. to Glasgow the 18th of April. I cou[...]s and started to run down the creeks yet. Winter of 1915 and 16 everything-it took all the 194[...]was bad , once it was 60 degrees below and lots of snow. ahead and got things the way I want[...]fred through, there were some good times as I look back, but Kiser, Fred Jones , and a man b[...]that is the most of us. Scobey had four lumber yards, four churches, four There are only four left of the first ones that were on saloons. These men I met were in to get two four loads of Butte Creek. Merrel Chapman, now living i[...]morning. I don't know how I got over Butte Creek, as that He came to Montana in 1910 and homes[...]showed it. they moved 7-1/2 miles northwest of Peerless in the Butte I never shot so many gopher[...]ent to live with his sister, got on the hill west of Scobey, then Dick Coughlin in a mod- el T and I r[...]gone down , but they had a snat team on each end of the bridge, the road from Scobey to Old Scobey wa[...]every- thing to start with , I saw several crates of chickens, several of the roosters were crowing and had their heads out[...]py. Somewhere around 1916 the state took a lot of this land for school purposes, they took the best[...]and there, to induce it to get settled. Spring of 1916 I went back to North Dakota and worked on a[...]e sills level by using my water bottle. Summer of 1917 I got Alex Mallard and Tom Larson to break 2[...]ed in the Army, November 6, came back in the fall of 1919 and have been here ever since. I bought my first team of horses in 1922 and put in 22 days with the[...] |
| [...]away in 1929; Marian (Mrs. Gene Peare) of Edmonds, Washington, Jack of Tyler, Texas, Carol (Mrs. Alfred Dighans) of Peerless, and Gary. Marian, Carol, Jac[...] |
| [...]some ammunition and pulled out slugs of the big shells and[...]tapped the end of the bolt with a pair of pliers. They tried Carbert store and post offi[...]from Bert tapping the gun in the middle of the night and tapped too Carter. They just revers[...]went off. It sounded like a shot went off and it of it. He started the store and post office combination. He made his mother scream and a couple of women across the had a son.[...]belonged to Tom Holyk, so I gave him a bill of sale for the 1926 and tried a radio shop near Bur[...]the gun, I got the traps and the sheriff got back of some guys shoe repair shop. He repaired and built[...]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 just as well off. on the farm to keep the radio shop goin[...]. 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 bl[...]now 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 floor out of th~ old shed because we had to keep warm a[...] |
| [...]James V. Bennett arrived at Scobey in the spring of1915 These years were the ones in which there was a at the age of 37 with vast enthusiasm for the future of this transition from hand and livestock powered[...]Taylor tractors and accompanying era of mechanical farming. This was reflected at the til[...]al contracts for "Ranch" where the need for as much machine work as deeds for lands in the western part of what is now Daniels possible was accented by a walkout of20 harvest hands (all County and northeastern Valley County. members of the IWW) on the first day of good harvest The first year, 1915, saw him bre[...]ay wait for a dry up which included hundred acres of virgin land to flax. The crop was good and free meals for all of the crew. provided him with a partial financial c[...]echanical application to farming became the order of development of his farming operation for the following t[...]eping with this, he invented, manufactured on the of the farming operation was Jim Bennett's primary[...]P. Devaney, a Minneapolis attached to a sack of gopher poison. At the top of the tube, attorney who later ·became Chief Justice of the Supreme and directly beneath the sack, there was a spring loaded Court of Minnesota, continued to buy farm land and[...]ntil they, at their releasing a measured amount of the poison. This was used peak of enterprise, controlled around 8,000 acres oflands[...]y drop poisoned oats at stretching from northwest of Scobey to Opheim. He the edge of a gopher hole. By this method, many acres of continued to break and put into production many of these gopher-infested ground could be cover[...]obtained, and in addition did still a few of these gopher guns around in the community. consid[...]uary 16, 1918, J.V. Bennett and Isetta M. Stetson as well as operating two threshing outfits in this area and[...]: Peyton in 1919, James V. twenty miles northwest of Scobey, the "Home Ranch" as a Bennett, Jr. in 1921 , and Gordon in 192[...]e, in addition to trying to keep three miles east of the "Home Ranch" buildings. Jim did[...] |
| In the early part of the twenties, J.V. Bennett and John rains but the crop rusted out--- a summary of 1938 and the P. Devaney spent considerable effort and money in frame of mind of the tough pioneer who went through this promoting the extension of the Great Northern Railroad period of drouth and depression can probably be best fr m[...]expressed by Jim Bennett in his diary entry of December the Great Northern then granted to the[...]"Personally, we started out with the highest of hopes. Bennett and Devaney, the exclusive right to own , Planted and grew a great stand of grain, the kind we have subdivide, and sell lots[...]t is selling for about 45¢ a bushel ifitis good, as low Peerless, Richland, Glentana and Opheim. as 15¢ if it is poor. We have more feed than ever, but The railway extension was started in the fall of 1925 and nothing to feed it to. We tried the F[...]to be turned down on the grounds of not needing it, and With its headquarters at[...]uld be about $9,000. So figure it out atmosphere of a small town, everyone was healthy and[...]in 1928. Although there had been some past years of Meanwhile, during this period, the chil[...]d to Eugene, Oregon to be close to the University of Townsite and Land Co. appeared to be a sleeping financial Oregon for the impending college education of the children. giant. The expense of the move was paid for by a slight-of-hand Then came the infamous thirties and took[...]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 business of the North Country understanding that Ed[...]family and keep the farming unpayable taxes, all of which gradually assigned the enterprise as intact as possible during these years, Jim company to a li[...]nett, during the winters, worked on various types of The vision and hopes of 1915 became obliterated .[...]tember, 1934 he appraised and purchased optimism of the twenties to the reality of the thirties: for the U.S. Government the land which became the " The end of a disastrous year. About everything but F[...]and disease, but we are healthy and resigned and as In 1937-1939 he was an auditor for the State of Montana we look back we can see a few things we[...]ent Compensation Commission. for, but the spector of vanished life time .earnings is and In 1939 he became Secretary for the State of Montana perhaps will always endure ...[...]ed about 4,000 acres. Put in enforcement of the then new Montana Fair Trade Act. granary about 1100 bushels of wheat and 200 bushels of With these activities and considerable[...]he, in addition to keeping the major part of the farming about 3 inches. Winds started to blow[...]d supporting and educating the continued the rest of the year. Fields were still drifting in family[...]failure at Scobey in July, attendance of the eldest son, Peyton, at the University of directly and indirectly about $300. Lost perhaps[...]Oregon. options. No real estate income to speak of. Paid no taxes, so The year, 1939, with the return of moisture to the plains far, except a few lots. Ve[...]ummer fallowed and an increase in the price of grain, provided a swift for next year. The averag[...]own. Unprecedented and visions of 1915 started to become a reality for Jim unemploy[...]versities and Jim and Izetta were able to do many of the The J.V. Bennett diary for 1933 notes that on January 1 things of which they had dreamed. Jim spent more and of that year wheat was selling for 18¢ per bushel, at Scobey. more time hunting the elusive duck with many of his old The financial disasters continued thro[...]years from 1931 through 1938, with the exception of the traveled considerably during the win[...]0 per bushel. 1938 was the first yearof good of many years of hope, privation and sacrifice.[...] |
| During these later years, J.V. Bennett devoted a lot of children. The Carney family later moved to th[...]h area in western North Dakota. Jack Carney first of drouth farming of the thirties into farming methods and came to Montana in 1911 and worked out of Plentywood as techniques that would avoid such bitter disasters[...]mley Oil Pull Company, and future. Most important of these were the use of the Noble participated in the introduction of tractor power to replace Blade and other subsurfa[...]irie" land in the ·area. His farming and the use of strips to avoid erosion. He was one trade area included the entire region of what is now the of the first in this area to demonstrate the efficiency of branch line of Burlington Northern running out of these methods.[...]merits of tractor power from 1914 until he retired in 1917[...]summer of 1915 along the Canadian boundary and about[...]32 miles northwest of Scobey in the Coal Creek area. His[...]area. (He later married one of Richardson's daughters.)[...]The summer and fall of 1915 saw the construction of[...]become known as the "Golden Bench". The "Golden[...]earlier settlers. It was during the winter months of[...]the raising of grain crops. The purchase of the tractor (30-[...]60 Rumley repossessed) and plow enabled all of the[...]at a price of $2.50 per bushel to give each member of the[...]erson baked the best November 21, 1951 at the age of seventy-five. bread in the neighborhood and supplied this mainstay of Isetta M. Bennett is now living at the Episcopa[...]nnett,Jr. became a hotel executive and has served as assistapt manager and manager of the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, The Hotel Pierre[...]oston, among others. Gordon Bennett, who served as an army M.P. in World War II, married the former Suzanne Heinecke of Helena and they have two children. He is a district judge at Helena. Judith married Edwin J. Eilertsen of Brooklyn, New York who became an Episcopal clergy[...]lla, North,Dakota, the eighth child from a family of12 not work in this community and the Co[...] |
| [...]of 1945 and to this marriage was born three children[...]Ed, a former state senator, is director of the Department of Professional and Licensing Bureau. Previously he[...]administrator of the Resource Division of the Department of State Lands. In this position he was responsible[...]"See this hole in this straw hat of dad's? I am going to[...]seball team that played other teams on both sides of the International Boundary. Members of the team varied but at the time of the picture taking the team was composed of Mark and Roll Larson, Clint Richardson, Bob Humbe[...]ershwitz, Al Beamer and Jack Carney. In January of 1920 Jack Carney married Florence Bell Richardson (eighth child in a family of 13 children). Florence was born October 22, 1896.[...]iton and this contributed to his death at the age of 39 on February 14, 1932. Florence Carney survived[...]on the homestead until her death on November 19th of 1952. The Jack Camey homestead is still[...] |
| [...]When then to Manitoba and in 1923 to a farm north of Scobey. Thomas the youngest was about four years of·age, Mr. He married Martha Zaroslwsky at Fort[...]Neighbors and close friends of the Conboys were moving The sons are Andrew of Keene, North Dakota, I van of to North Dakota, so Mrs. Conboy decided to move also. Scobey, Harry of Gorham; Ann and Nellie Chornuk of They settled on a farm at Bowbells, North Dakota. Bismarck, Mrs. Tony Kowcun (Mary) of Paulson, Montana Kathryn taught at a coun[...]this community. and Mrs. Nick Haverluk (Pauline) of Fairfield, North In 1913, Jack came to[...]mas enlisted in the Army in the Dakota at the age of 71. He had been ailing for the past year month of March 1918. After serving one year overseas, he w[...]Jack enlisted also but was rejected because of poor eye- near Gorham, North Dakota.[...]employed at the Employment Security Commission of[...]rked in various this structure 32 miles northwest of Scobey is not a relic of stores, The Knapp and Crandell Mercantile, The Go[...]Tom was manager of this club. Tom was also manager of Sod House, protected by tarpaper, on the old Chor[...]s. Although now abandoned and showing the ravages of Tom and Jack Conboy time in the interior, the outside of the structure clearly shows how the tarpap[...] |
| [...]931, Tom operated a Bowling Alley in the basement of the Gorham Hotel. From 1933 to 1947 Tom owned and[...]med. He purchased farm land about six miles south of Scobey and grazing land north of Whitetail. In 1947 he sold all of his holdings and moved to East Helena, Montana. T[...]t, reside in East Helena. Richard is Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court in Helena. Robert is employed at the Department of State Lands as Resource Specialist, and Mary Ann Marsh lives in[...]HISTORY OF GEORGE F. CRANDELL[...]COLLINS In the fall of 1912, D.C. Knapp, Jack Conboy, A.W.[...]ain. homesteading as soon as they had made their selections to They squatted[...]in 1915. in other parts of the state, before the land was surveyed. Their homestead , located eight miles northeast of Four Also the Great Northern Railroad was going to build west Buttes, was the scene of many events including church from Plenty[...]homestead. I had worked for a number of years in a store, in Jim and Phoebe raised eight children, Bill of Challange, fact from the time I was 14 years[...]Ellen-Fairview, Montana, in the spring of 1913 we came back to Scobey. We shipped Archie-Ne[...]and Chuck-Scobey, two carloads of -immigrant's goods and supplies to Montana.[...]se to the A.N. Tande ranch There were many tons of coal mined in the pasture to where we ren[...]le we waited for sold, cut ready for the fry pan, as well as garden products. information on where the railr[...]ted. After we had been in entertaining themselves as well as others and playing for business about three[...]ed that this was not the ideal place for a store. As far as the railroad was concerned it seemed at a[...] |
| [...]own operation as the railroad was still in the hands of the[...]Ranch. As we talked, we told him that we were looking for[...]chunk ofland up west of him. He told us to go take a look at[...]too. There were seven of us that had land that joined and[...]In the spring of 1916, we formed a company of ten and[...]stop to fill the seeder box when we were running as in a full line of groceries and other supplies, and soon had a we[...]oing. Lee Butler and Roy Ellsworth did our as we went. We all took shifts and in 30 days had broke, freighting, using three wagons and 16 head of horses, packed and seeded 1025 acres of flax. taking about a week to make the round trip[...]In the fall, we harvested about 15 bushels of flax per acre, Poplar, a sixty mile trip each way[...], this sparked the Great Northern spent most of my time herding the range stock out of the and the race was on. Each one trying to reach[...]aches. The Great Northern had the edge on the Soo as they just had to ranchers were not very sym[...]now storm and then it turned real cold. It looked as and between two and three hundred people attended[...]d a lot was got a big chinook and most of the snow melted. We got bought, it was moving day[...]amed John Trying to thresh was some job as the engine that we used Lee of Medicine Lake was hired to do the moving. The first burned a mixture of kerosene and water. The water had to building tha[...]ng on a day like that. Did we know the south half of the Tande store now. It was first called the ho[...], and a large restaurant stove. He One of the first things that a homesteader tried to do w[...]dug. steaks which were his specialty. He had one of the first There are lots of well digging stories. It was said if you cafes in[...]g - hammers and saws could be heard night and day as people heard the story, decided to dig, so with spade in hand he ~ worked to get some sort of building up before winter set in. started to dig right in the middle of the ant hill. Now you Supplies still had to be fr[...]r after the "steel" reached vile intrusion of their domain and very quickly put the run[...] |
| [...]big job, flour and sugar bought by the hundreds of pounds. proceeded to disrobe, until he had nothi[...]uch if he ever tried digging in fruits such as apples, peaches and raisins which made an ant hi[...]at time sold groceries through morning when some of the neighbors stopped in to see how the[...]the well was coming along if there were any signs of water. lantern chimneys too were important items to be As they stood around talking Mrs. Knapp came out of the remembered for winter supplies. Co[...]was lucky in this respect, there were lots of coal mines close got busy and dug in that well she would bake some pies and by. Most of the people butchered their own meat supply for fix dinner for all of them. Mrs. Knapp was noted for her the[...]the winter socializing good pies and the promise of a home cooked meal was very began with[...]ll inviting, for we were all bachelors. But none of us wanted to were the order of the day. Everyone seemed to have a good dig in t[...]he well spraying weeds and summerfallowing as they do now. in case blackdamp had formed. Blackd[...]Picnics, ball games, barn dances and the Fourth of July gas that sometimes did form in wells. None h[...]the big celebration that was looked forward found as yet in this part of country. This possibility was to. discussed at length, mostly for Mrs. Knapps benefit, as she I had quit the store business somet[...]rsation. A lantern was got and carefully lit, and as of an era. People were buying cars, trucks and tract[...]that Mrs. Knapp would not see this days of horse farming was ending. My brother Gordon was h[...]s a very nervous and emotional out of the Army and was batching with me. We went into woman, and when the lantern was brought up out of the Scobey, in the winter time when[...]got back out to the shack he found the before any of the boys had gone down. She told them she door open, and four or five of a neighbors pigs on the floor didn't want any of those boys going down that well again. f[...]irst tractor and the needed that was the way some of the bachelors of Coal Creek supplies to go with it,[...]er story comes to mind faucet in the barrel of oil. The oil was very heavy and ran that is rathe[...]d fix supper. Before going to bed asked ifhe knew of anyone that might want a well dug, and I[...]dug. But when you ask him, talk loud. He is hard of in the morning. You can well imagine the[...]im. The pail all right. And the rest of the oil was on the ground. The man in question was Frank Nye, a very prim and proper tough part of this was not only the loss of the oil right in the little man who was not one bit deaf, and despised loud talk. middle of spring work but the money to replace it was Wyman[...]ght a threshing machine. Brother Jim had had lots of on and on, but this happened up on the Golden Ben[...]experience running threshing outfits for a number of years, had been named after the first ripe fields of Golden Flax, so he was the separator man[...]re everyone had a car or truck, the fall of 1927, I bought a Case combine, one of the three going to Scobey was quite an undertakin[...]the next year, I'd have got a better combine, as the later back home in a few hours. It was a two[...]models had roller bearings. So ended the days of binders where we lived and whoever went generally[...]he 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 to be known as the dirty thirties[...] |
| [...]dry and crop failures. We wererightin the middle of the Dust Bowl. It seemed our son, Jim developed a[...]tion and Dr. Morrow advised that we seek a change of climate. I had a sister living in Washington so I[...]ome to us. I will add this that I am the only one of the ten that homesteaded on the "Golden Bench" st[...]live it over again. I guess this is something all of us think about. We only pass this way once, this[...]urveyed and each squatter then knew the boundary of his homestead. I got to my brother's place wit[...]e and partly through purchase, I took over plenty of plow shares to sharpen. I spent most of the Kilgore's homestead and spent the w[...]urchase Tom Conboy's half section and one quarter of spring of 1918 I came back to Scobey and helped my[...]ch and I was able to purchase more land and weeks of training I was sent with a contingent of men to machinery. New Hampshire to take ou[...]t that time the flu married in the winter of 1929 and then came the stock came on in full force and many of my buddies died. Back in market crash. Wheat[...]ple got the flu too. My brother, Kilgore, to as low as 18 cents a bushel. Also the dry years came back and my mother died within hours of each other. There was and we had no crops to speak of for eight or nine years. a quarantine on travel,[...]en we retired and moved to town. Our son and 24th of December we each recieved our $60 mustering out[...]th Jack Conboy her husband is principal of the elementary schools. who was hauling grain and here I spent the rest of the We have eight grandchildren and five great winter. In the spring of 1919 I helped my brother George gra[...] |
| MAC AND NORA DRUMMOND Another member of the Tande family is Nora |
| In his final years one could see Mac with a yard full of and Kathleen. Walter Sr. served in the U.S. N[...]George Erstad lives north of Peerless. He married Alyce[...]This poem probably states how Mac south of Four Buttes and farm in the Peerless area. would[...]Scobey and farm south of Four Buttes. They have one son An old cowboy's be[...]One of the few people left in this country who can recal[...]day, he was also one of the very few here who never[...]school. Otto and Agnes Erstad came to this part of eastern All of his 90 years have been spent on farms, and he sti[...]spends his summers on his farm 16 miles north of Peerless, where they were born and raised. They I[...]where he settled in 1917. Poor roads and a lack of winter- short time, from there they moved twenty-[...]untered many hardships the first farms all of my life." years they lived in Montana.[...]ston County, Minnesota, on Kate Lohan, a sister of Agnes Erstad, came to Montana a February 15,[...]ears old his father short time later. She was one of the first teachers in that moved the family to[...]community. The schoolhouse at that time was made of sod. homestead near the present town of Hoople. Their only means of transportation was by horse and The f[...]er than Otto ran threshing machines in the fall of the year. the house of unhewn logs and mortar that they built Agnes cook[...]As a boy Mr. Grythe spent his time working around[...]attend school. Like the other children of Norwegian[...]he was expected to make his own way as soon as possible.[...]to oxen as his father used them, too. However, he did[...] |
| [...]land 16 miles north of Peerless. Mrs. Grythe died in 1946.[...]says, "But after a couple of years I began to like it better.[...]Mr. Grythe passed away in Scobey in July of 1964 at the age of 92.[...]da had been married for four years and were tired of .-.-........... _ •:-:-:-:-:-[...]and make a home of their own. They homesteaded in the :::::::[...]l Creek community which is thirty miles northwest of ··-·.· ::::•·[...]with a rancher who had a buckboard and team of wild "It wasn't in olden days like it is now,"[...]eir machinery most of the time, but the horses knew the way and followe[...]ar and Amanda Halvorson's first home here was a As far as work goes, Mr. Grythe likes the present day[...]which they later sodded up for warmth. Because of its size, says, "I think we enjoyed ourselves muc[...]ose it was the scene of many neighborhood social gatherings days. Nowaday[...]and Amanda Halvorson's daughter, Viola, was made of sweet milk and flour. Served with butter and[...]In the mid 1960's, after over fifty years of farming and as Christmas, was a weak beer made of wild hops, sugar r[...]ter. "We were tickled to death when we got some of that," he Oscar passe[...]By Viola (Halvorson) Kasseth north of Badger, Minnesota when he was 21.[...] |
| [...]father, was one of nine boys. He grew to manhood in[...]year was a year of some kind of epidemic. One of those[...]and Mom decided to get a way from the congestion of[...]as a constructor and helped build the railroad into[...]down as a section foreman and had as a hobby picture[...]about 1915. The first homes were made of a little bit of lumber and a lot of sod.[...]wo more children- Oscar Halvorson used to tell of hard times and good Clarence and Bery[...]played for dances across th_e making a total of eight children, seven of which were line in order to eat. He had one job d[...]ime Once while walking down a hill with a pail of eggs he got was near, he hired a neighbor c[...]in a hailstorm. A hailstone tore through the brim of get the doctor. He made the mistake of paying him in his hat. He hollered to his dog, "Get out of the way, Blue," advance. When he got to tow[...]ay, he and dashed on down the hill. He had a pail of scrambled first went to a saloon to wa[...]"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 start[...]o find that I was My recollection of schools in those days indicate there plowing in a[...]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[...]e outside. was held every day regardless of the weather. Sometimes There were lots of dances there. Often the Canadians came t[...]four horses and danced all blizzards. As the children grew older and high school was night[...]ouse in Scobey and we would move In the middle of the room was an enormous stove called to[...]tayed 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 house down, and it held enormous chunks of coal. 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.[...]up his homestead. Every year as they traveled through our "The homestead days were the best days of our life." country, they would camp at[...]u- head. These provided us with much of our entertainment. tioner of Louis Riel, who was hanged in Regina, Sask[...] |
| [...]stud horse thru living in Clarkston. many of the counties helping to keep the horse population[...]n 1970. to try to keep warm by and packing out as much ash as the Lillian married in Canada and later moved[...], Cliff all a very strong sense of values. Richardson , still live. Lila lived wi[...]LACE CLAYTON HODGES he worked on the construction of the railroad to Ophiem. He then worked for J.I. C[...]d lives in Wallace Clayton Hodges, Sr. (known as Claytor W.C.) Spokane, Washington. He married Alberta Frank of was born in Mexico, Missouri. It w[...]ee was born years. He and his wife, Lillian Woods of Scobey, have in 1305. He moved his fami[...]for a time and he took a job as State Land Appraiser during Beryle fini[...] |
| [...]October 31, 1909. during World War I and died of the flu in an Army camp in They farmed[...]' place to make it from the border, north of Dooley, Montana in the early more convenient to the better road as Clayt had the spring of 1910. As soon as that homestead was secured they contract to carry[...]arly 30's. In 1941 when one-half mile south of the border. Governor Ford (who was a personal fri[...], along with Sam Clayt again worked for the state as General Field Agent Richardson, and brot[...]ar they built their sod shacks under the guidance of tell one on himself. One he told was: Standing on[...]eaner-sized pigs at the trough, the spring of 1914 Herby moved his family to the small one he w[...]k to grow a pig's tail to maturity so on the spur of the to do his seeding. moment he took his jack[...]Herby containing oats for the livestock, a crate of chickens docked a lamb's tail. In the morning his[...]e always ended by saying he "did save quite a bit of feed." Jacques, containing furniture; and[...]a bed and other 1930 they had to haul every drop of water for the house and household goods. Tie[...]ony livestock. Anna was an artist at making a pan of water pulling a cart, and trailing behi[...]sow except for nursing time so they and daughter of Neill Richardson, in 1930. Both are deceased-[...]aughter, came through the dunking but most of the feed oats were Alice Ruth (Mrs. Carlos Ponce)[...]ack was Robert married Helen Jacques, daughter of Herbert built in the late fall. Also[...]er, (Judy), Jacques, and Brent. mile south of the soddy. They had not been able to dig a[...]was "Urbay". He used the name Herby, and Herbert as his legal name, for the rest of his life. When he was two months old his parents[...]884. She was raised in Indiana, the second oldest of Samuel and Amy Richardson's thirteen children. Sh[...]nd her brother and sister seeking a new location. As Byrl had been advised to live in a drier c[...] |
| [...]1886, a son of Adelme and Lumina Jacques. When he was[...]brother Herby's homestead. Of course it was again[...]necessary to become a citizen of the United States in order[...]In the early years Joe farmed with horses as did everyone[...]preferred to be free to go out working as a cook or choreboy[...]Joe never married. He had the reputation of being an and some of the neighbors breaking. He a nd Clint[...]in cook cars, and anyplace where there was a crew of men. Rumley separator and ran a threshing rig aro[...], with six kitchen chairs, to make slices of the lemon rind floating around. up an immigrant c[...]id (homesteader in the watchful eyes of his nephew Richard Jacques , who tended community[...]eath in 1969. to the Peace River country when one of their horses stepped into a hole and broke its le[...]xa in 1932. They have two daughters, Mary Jacques of Seattle, Washington and Ru th (Mrs. Ray Parker) of Federal Way, Washington. Richard passed away in S[...]have three children, Judith (Mrs. Gerald Schafer) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jacques of Plentywood, Montana and Brent of Bismarck , North Dakota. Robert passed awa[...] |
| RICHARD AND .J._EANNE JACQUES In 1914, as a young boy of six years, Richard arrived in |
| [...]l Lovell and family; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey October of 1914, I spent about two weeks looking over[...]d Mrs. Jack Wulfe and family; Mr. various tracts of land northwest of Scobey upon which no and Mrs. John Shenn[...]Mrs. Otto Erstad and family; exterior boundaries of certain half section tracts claiming Mr. an[...]ger and family; approximately 16 miles northwest of Scobey for myself. Mr. and Mrs. Charl[...]. J.V. Bennett never forget. That was the winter of 1915-1916. For the and family; Mr. John Karst and his aged father-John was information of those who were not living in the area, or not[...]ng in Montana I want to report: That was a winter of LaPierre-homesteaded on Coal Creek, North West deep snow and on occasion of intense cold waves. The first Daniels Coun[...]wave hit the area on January 8th, 9th, and 10th, of John was single-father a widower; Mr. To[...]r); Mrs. Anna M. arranged to purchase a half-ton of a "better type" coal in Kemp, my mother. M[...]Scobey earlier in the fall, for just the occasion of very cold purchased relinquishments to half se[...]amily. I believe Mr. " correct time" to make use of coal with the most units of Skerritt filed on homestead land about 12 miles farther heat in every pound of coal. I remember the date of the west of Old Carbert Post Office, but later purchased and[...]ecause that happened to lived on one of the Heninger brothers 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 not to attempt to walk to the home of my willingness on the part of everyone to help when help was nearest neighbor that day-a distance of almost two miles. needed cemented friendships between the early settlers For the remainder of the winter the cold was not so severe; whic[...]wife of another homesteader was like a long-lost sister.[...]to locate on a homestead in a Very few of the original homesteaders are still living now fr[...]and I. courage. In recalling some of the difficulties I faced I do not There was[...]hat I was a good neighbor. One evening in January of 1917 it. I was born on a farm in North Central Mi[...]my mother and I were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. entire area had been settled for ove[...]Neil Richardson when a very young brother of Mr. born in 1892, was no longer primitive, and sm[...]d a and four miles. Only 11 miles away was a city of 3500 younger brother attempted to fi[...]m Richardson then said: "John, if you will go for of 1916. I encouraged my mother, and my aunt and her[...]le trip. I want you to travel by way of the winter road-and homestead entries on land whi[...]e team with a light sleigh and get out here as quickly as my first year on the homestead difficult and a lo[...]instructions I will give you". period. After some of my relatives located near me I had Mr. Richardson then harnessed his best team of horses and someone to talk to. Shortly after my aunt and her husband gave them a full measure of grain. I was enroute to Scobey settled on their h[...]the Sam Richardson farm home, 28 miles north west of sleep there,- doing their required homestead duty[...]l 45 degrees below zero. The neighbors history of early homestead days would be At about 8:00 P.M. of that same evening I saw Dr. Tucker incomplete wit[...]es to girl had been burned "over 70% of her body and that she hold on- with words of encouragement that everything canno[...]l be better before you know it, and similar words of that recovery for the girl is impossible in view of the encouragement. The early settlers generally c[...]o do was everyone who lived within five (5) miles as neighbors. to provide medications to relieve much of the very intense Using the five mile distance as the figure of "distance pain. Laura Richardson died at the home of her parents on[...] |
| [...]ning considerable sacrifice on the part of many parents. The accident.[...]homestead a very lonesome for construction of new school buildings. I happened to live life. W[...]and not attending school until September of 1924. In order to high school there. Her mother[...]funds; that was done in about surviving relative of her mother then was living-her 1923. A[...]to visit us in Montana, which she did in August of 1917. for the building. The district schoo[...]small wage, plus free board and room in the home of the return even if she were married while on the[...]1920's. I never learned for certain whether that of Wi,lliston, North Dakota has had a tremendous imp[...]acher at our home, board and room free, for 115th of the 1973-on February 11th. Never lived there.[...]ool 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[...]I was appointed Relief Clerk on The plan of boarding and rooming the teacher "without September 28, 1932 by the Board of County 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 fr[...]iven free room and board for continued in service of what was the Department of Public about five to six weeks of the school term. But the plan did Welfare until I[...]olicy that employees get a full school term of nine months of school and that retire at age 70 years. Shortly a[...]eight however, District Judge Loucks appointed me as 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 three children completed the retired effective May 1, 1970 because of my wife's poor eight grades of school work in seven years of school health.[...]e back to the years we high school course of study, with excellent grades, during lived on the[...]m 1917 through the year 1932. four years of attendance in high school. We had many wonderful[...]nto Montana (from during the first half of the 1920's than during the last Canada) there was[...]one job to another- the United States side. Many .of you will recall that during and to another-an[...]s, and the Canadians for the remainder of your lifetime. would get the beer on their side.[...]nada) we would drink our beer on the Canada side of the line, and then swim back to the United States side of the line. To my knowledge, no one ever brought a bottle of beer into the United States at any time, not in[...]d Canadian sides Dakota to their locations. of the United States-Canada border in that area wher[...]cated. That swimming hole in community of Coal Creek. He dug wells with a high derrick the[...]he boring machine, powered by a team of horses. He later sold natural flow of the river put it there and everyone in the t[...]rrit; and bought a powers low area made good use of it. derrick boring machine. On March 13, 1919 we were The matter of education of our children called for married[...] |
| [...]July 26, 1920 and died very suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51 years. He left a widow and eight children.[...]came to town every summer, 4th of July celebrations, He brought up four horses fr[...]ook on a Fordson tractor. We farmed middle of Main Street at Christmas time, with goodies for i[...]) 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 Holy Rollers".[...]t on fire, a warning no doubt, and we saw men age of 74.[...]themselves. Needless to say, they got the message as the By Florenc[...]Dakota and leased land from the state, northwest of Scobey, about 14 miles out by the old Max Drummon[...]and son Ernest came by new model T Ford; the rest of the family came by train. The reason they[...] |
| [...]st taught the Julian School and West Fork. List of the family and where they now live: Alfred died i[...]elyn) Anderson, Kalispell, Montana. Donald, son of Ernest is present county foreman and road supervi[...]ranch-stripmine in background former Fay Brennan of Dunsieth, North Dakota. Fay came to Whitetail to[...]When the railroad was built to Scobey, one of the[...]bought 150 tons of hay at $6.00 a ton. There was plenty of THOMAS LOVELL FAMILY[...]ing grain into Scobey (at the time Scobey was one of The Thomas S. and Elizabeth' Lovell family came[...]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 to Wibaux, and taught school in[...]The First World War came and many of the young In 1913, we came in three wagons, on[...]y a and crops were poor. fellow' by the name of Cassidy. They had to be ferried I Franc[...]cent to his father and in mighty good that winter as potatoes were scarce. 1923 took ove[...]In 1926 my father bought the farm one mile north of[...] |
| In 1950 Noel and I moved to this farm nor.t h of Scobey. later on September 29, 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 Coal Creek Community. since, and my daughter[...]n County in young to homestead. He located a plot of land in the Coal Minnesota. He was raised at[...]. He married Florence Norby at Culbertson in June of this area and also helped build the first telegra[...]andidate for sheriff on After reaching the age of 21 in the spring of 1913 he the Progressive "Bull Moose" ticket[...]up his (which at that time included all of the present Daniels homestead; luckily no one had[...]to the County, Sheridan County, and part of Roosevelt County). area. .[...]nd was not always perfectly ascertained. As a consequence about a year later on November 24,[...]rst Canadian border by the only name I can recall as N urs~ met and became pleasantly acquainte[...]in Scobey. He was used to the wide open prairies, as she had been born and interested in farming, as well as various enterprises, raised in timber country; although in later years she came including the ownership of a cafe, the Shamrock, during to prefer the open spaces. the tough years of 1937-38, in which he and Florence On August 3,[...]Japanese at the end of two years to devote more time to In thinking a[...]lay games. There was a togetherness in those days of hard times that will never be enjoyed agaii:i.[...]rbert School for their elementary education. Some of the teachers that taught at the Carbert School we[...]ely. Don spent three years in the Army, 22 months of this time in England, France and Belgium.[...] |
| [...]washboard and keep warm atomosphere-an assurance of success anywhere. Emil by. We had wonderful dough[...]been a fine "maitre d' "anywhere. He was the last of September and we returned home. Grandad kind of fellow who looked well-dressed even in overalls.[...]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 one in fall of 1935 and continued farming. In the fall of 1937 we those days. While the fellow was casting[...]is brother Clint, and later called in dollar bill of his own and in the same movement Clint and Charle[...]Top Nite Club", emphatic denial to the allegation of the disturber, who then three miles east of Scobey. Later it was sold and burned was on the f[...]Charlie suffered a severe stroke in the fall of 1955 and and put his apron back on. It was quiete[...]in Scobey and a daughter Mrs. Charles A member of St. Philip's Catholic parish, Emil was also a (L[...]tock 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, Florence, lives[...]HISTORY OF[...]They brought with them two of their children, Irma and Charles (Charlie) Hen[...]ntry December 30, 1900, at Benville, Indiana, son of Samuel and over. They had come from Indiana[...]here they lived at the Lovell shack. 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 homestead. As Charlie grew into manhood, he place. I[...], 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 nam[...]katchewan. In 1912, they moved 20 miles southeast of Rockglen, Saskatchewan (only two miles north of the border). They came by wagon and horses. Frank[...]ried, they lived in a sod house 2-1/2 miles south of the border with Charlie's dad, as his mother had passed away in October 1926, and[...]quipment by rail and they were close to the town of Baldonnel. They each took up homesteads and were clearing the land of trees and brush. He stayed less than a ye[...] |
| [...]to the water and coal. Neill helped other members of his family build sod houses. Neill carried mai[...]Neill carried the mail for many years, being one of the first mail carriers Clint Richardson mov[...]would carry it in the summer northwest of Scobey in 1913. He was the fifth child of time when he was busy with the field work. They u[...]ing back out the next. In the fall of 1913 when the businesses of Old Scobey were Neill and Thurza lived in the sod house till 1920. Their in the process of moving to the present Scobey, Clint other son Jim[...]Oregon to run another hardware burned in the year of 1925. They lost everything as they store for Frank Johnson. When his si[...]live with visiting at the Joe Jacques home. A lot of the relatives were her. there, as they had relatives from North Dakota visiting.[...]eth Turner New. Elizabeth They stayed at the home of Sam Richardson after the fire, worked for[...]ut from town that they owned. graduate of Scobey High with the class of 1936. Liz was a When Neill first started to br[...]low with four horses. from a yard of cloth. Clint and Elizabeth bought the Scobey C[...]hn 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 wa[...]wo years later Elizabeth passed on at a young age of A favorite spot in the summertime was just north of Neill 53. and Thurza's place, it was called t[...]me-made ice working with the Bureau of Reclamation for the state of cream was made and sold. Neill and Thurza had man[...]past ten Canadian friends, walking over to visit as they lived only a years, and Honey is living[...]then moved to Scobey where she purchased the home of Dr. Morrow. She enjoyed life with her many friend[...]place and Clayton lives on a ranch two miles west of the home place. (now deceased) Neill was one of the thirteen children that came out to the[...] |
| [...]After supper it was to put up beds and as I remember we FAMILY[...]years old, moved the doughnut wagon. Some of the men slept under the his family from Versaille[...]wagons on horse blankets. Dakota in April of 1907. The seven mile trip from Arvilla to There were many hardships proving up a homestead, as the farm Dad had rented, and where we were to live, was well as some good fun if you made it yourself. Traveling[...]as done by horseback, wagon and horses, and a lot of I had never seen before was all the snow that was still on walking. That was my means of getting places. Also the ground. 1906 and 1907 ha[...]in Montana that could be taken sod house of my parents and blew down a few squatters' as squatters' right. He took our mother and my young[...]the train back to North Dakota. Montana. That was as far west as the Great Northern had This land was[...]1913, we had a sale and behind. The number of times the flag came up could be later we immigrat[...]rough by revolutions times circumference of wheel. Noel Richardson horseback to Coal Creek, s[...]did the driving with Herby Jacques helping as they were their food. It took days to make this t[...]y we made it to a lived in the sod house as long as they lived-Mother family place by the name of Parent. They were kind people passing away[...]ed us for dinner, and I've always said it was of 1914. Sam Richardson was the constructor. There w[...]with the school board with team clerk.) The rest of the day we drove to where Dad had picked and[...]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[...]uld have survived it here without it. It was lost of[...]homestead as it was closer to my folks and ten miles cl[...] |
| [...]The heart of John Shennum was light as he sat astride[...]pace-trot gaits as they, with colt "Billy" _trailing along[...]behind, moved across the high ground east of "East[...]Minnesota with honors; he, a man of extremely high talent[...]in athletic dexterity had served as Captain of the Cadet[...]he had asked for and won the hand of the beautiful Della[...]They moved almost immediately to the heart of the Red[...]River Valley, commuting to the North Dakota side of the[...]employment on one of the largest grain and livestock[...]were superintendents of the spreads - he of the outdoor Samuel Richardson Family- back row-Byrle, Leata , responsibilities and she of the domestic staff - and here middle-Mary, eill,[...]it not for unrests and urges brought about as set forth in the[...]Reports were reaching the eyes and ears of John and Joy. Jean Ann is now Mrs. John Hellander, has ·one Della Shennum from out of the Montana portion of the daughter: Jennifer Jean. Charles died April[...]qualified homesteaders and the call of the west was strong.[...]Grace A. Daniels of research. National weather reports and records[...]ent to town; had to go when the advanced the idea of tilling and surface mulching of the men took in grain to sell in fall. There was[...]reaking), only got the most necessary things such as kerosene for followed by laying fallow (Summerfal[...]lon for $1.25 (which lasted me all winter) areas, as opposed to the long practiced procedure of fall and 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[...]milk captured moisture. And so it was in the mind of the Scobey and butter. We got many of our eat such as eggs, butter, Country farmer-to-be as he kneelecl the mare into a lope, and meat from acros the line, as there wa n 't much liveried the mare and colt wit[...]d. Beans walked up the street to the little house of his brother Joe, and dried fruits were cheap, owe ate lots of that if we could who had arrived the year before,[...]nk and get the ugar to sweeten the fruit. We paid as high as $30.00 wrote to wife Della at Watford City, North[...]ing. Another 50th anniversary 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 fla[...]broke, and it took all claimed. It was the desire of the Shennum brothers that my hare of the crop to pay for the breaking, so I had to go[...]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 was observed[...]gs for eight cents a dozen and Erection of "Shacks" was first in order. With shiplap,[...] |
| [...]. Lighting was by when "J.V." got out of the cattle he assisted in arranging kerosene lamp[...]ble for Shennum to obtain-some for mined from one of the many surface mines in the p[...]also had one of the first custom seed grain cleaning So, the J[...]r two children, a well for water, a downwind side of the commonly upon the scene and even an airpl[...]uture. They had good health, endless "Spirit of St. Louis") owned by Westland Oil Company was ambition, and to the - as it appeared at that point of their seen in Scobey skies. youth a future im[...]Until good roads and large trucks (and, of course, the There was much to be done and Shennums moved to "Get extension of the railroads' services westward to Opheim) with[...]ed a huge steamer all western growers of Daniels County and some of North- tractor and a twelve bottom sod breaking p[...]available, this being Scobey, and one of the overnight stops outfit to the Shennum place a[...]horse-drawn wagons and bobsleds was the one side of the quarter section. Although he was to break all Shennum place. A huge strawshed type of barn was erected except that to be reserved for p[...]ers" kept the to the equipment and the rapid pace of sod breaking ended premises loaded from the end of the threshing period until and the balance of that quarter was eventually broken out the[...]de natural quarry to In the early years of the settlement there were many erect a spacious c[...]own- things missing that are looked upon as commonplace sites of the two Scobeys, helping to move buildings from today - one of them being schools. In the years of no the old townsite down on the Poplar river flat[...]to Minnesota and North Dakota to work at as official provided the student could pass the test[...]tain the funds to furnish the at the end of the year. Somewhere in the mid twenties John shac[...]and center and financial assistance headquarters of the material for the erection of a one-room school which the varjous Shennum enter[...]years. They Twenties" also roared into the lives of the Shennums. drying up of the streams, no feed for Ii vestock, closing of There did not appear to be enough hours in the day to keep the banks and loss of life-savings in many cases but the stride of the changes of the day taking place on the though there was an exodus of many, it never crossed the Daniels County cene. High a m ong the reasons for the mind of John and Della Shennum to leave - they had "Break[...]re 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-powered -[...]rom Scobey and man had mach in es and the opening of Montana State lands, both to volunteered. J[...]to obtain state land with water on it for pasture of II. By this time there were five Shennum sons of military horses for what r emained of t h e horse powered portion of age. Ben, then attending Butte Business Coll[...]the threshing news arrived in Butte of the Pearl Harbor bombing. operation). John Shennu[...]his written tests produced such a high degree of tractor and a 24" Rumely threshing machine and wh[...]o a outfit was no match in output for such giants as the Harold crash engineering course at Montana State at Bozeman, E dlund type of Altmann - Taylor powered 40" seperator,[...]d two daughters and five sons. All a nd Publisher of the "Daniels County Leader") was, as his received their elementary and high school training in the school schedule permitted, one of the stalwarts of the crew. Shennum rural schoolhouse and/ or t[...]All have experienced successful business careers as well a[...] |
| homemakers. Daughter Pearl raised a family of four and is The first winter we lived i[...]Ruth, then George was located on a piece of land 33 miles in and out of Radio, TV, and business is an executive travel northwest of Scobey in the Coal Creek community where tour dir[...]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[...]and gophers did much damage, even won top honors as salesman of the year with his insurance though poisoning and trapping got rid of some of them. company in that season. Jim went to Alaska[...]the welding school at the welcome source of food. The young rabbits were delicious University of Alaska; now directs welding and repair at the[...]the oider ones were stewed. Another source State of Alaska State Highway shop in Anchorage. Ben of food we enjoyed was mushrooms, which were plentif[...]when farmers sometimes did not get sales division of The Gates Rubber Company of Denver their seed back in harvest, an[...]estead a huge Hospital brought to an end 50 years of energetic activity in prairie fire swept thro[...]could be seen Scobey Country - almost to the day. As he had written for twenty miles. Everything around the place was burned wife Della in the spring of 1916 they celebrated their except our s[...]the rig and well drilling became the main source of income Joe[...]collect, my father put on a little extra pressure as we were in THE SKERRITT FAMILY need of food supplies, whereupon the man found a tin full of[...]ee-day blizzards seemed to be quite common in the of Irish farmers, but from his early manhood he work[...]one occasion Dad went to get a cow he had cities as a clerk in department stores. The first four year[...]s and got caught in such a storm. The were served as apprentice with little or no pay. While he[...]haystack, but at last got to the dwelling of a fellow named Gwendolyn (Mrs. Arnold Wahl) and H[...]s decided to move to a farm eight miles northwest of Scobey, Montana. They L to R: Skerri[...]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[...]ed the extra passenger, but accepted two roosters as payment for the ride. After George Skerritt was[...]farm. We were covered with blankets in the bottom of the sleigh. I'm sure we looked queer to al[...] |
| [...]ad 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 room. Maybe these are Antelope eight miles east of Plentywood, they decided to some of the things that made the pioneers strong people.[...]mie were in the barber shop, by morning. As we look back we wonder how those having had shave[...]home to dwellings kept from burning, as the stove-pipes would their families, when the tr[...]half way across the room in order grabbed on just as it was leaving, but Jimmie having to[...]ce to get home to carry in the coal and almost as big a job to take out ashes his new wife for Easter, which was extremely important as and clinkers. Getting the kerosene lamps and lanterns they had just come over from Scotland. As the train left, cleaned and filled was ano[...]th his suitcase on called "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 Ple[...]to the next place. Quite a change from the speed of down he stuck his fork in one chicken and[...]plate, leaving the other chicken for the family of four The people worked hard and long hours, ne[...]ng place some. He seemed to have a lot of solutions to the way breakfast at 4:30 A.M. Bill[...]asked Mr. Knapp and saddle. with a tingle of pride in his voice. :'Two suppers in the one[...]anted to give us came along. "Independent Workers of the World." The 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 However, it w[...]l events. consideration, but it was hard for some of those hard- In 1923 Dad had a chance[...]in when they used bobsleds and dug the shocks out of the 1952. snow. The first part of the day was used to get the engine In 19[...]met Milking cows was our supplementary source of in 1928-29. Teachers were then g[...]be kept in a cool place for 24 hours cashed, as the county did not have enough money. and the cre[...]place and in 1940 bought a farm five miles east of Scobey tiresome old dasher churns. Then the butte[...]in where we now live. The first few years of married life saw five and ten pound crocks to take to town when the chance us quite short of money and I was glad to get20¢ an hour to came.[...]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. crates came into use, much to the delight of the grocer. One We had six children. Patr[...]aul, died would have to go through the experience of putting your soon after birth. The five are all married. Darold and his hand in a pail of oats and come up with a broken egg in wi[...], have two boys and live can never forget the joy of the first hand cranked cream in Glendive,[...]d , Lee Nixon , separator or forget the awful job of washing it. and two boys live in[...]oyer, 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. As we pa use to look back on the so-called good old days, Nowadays when every member of the family wants his we can't help but[...]mers had it a little easier. own bedroom, I think of the days when the whole family What a g[...]my Dad and his hired Who would ever think of such a thing happening to rural man , Alex McArth[...]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[...] |
| [...]tion will be patient with us if farm out of Strathcona, Minnesota. He raises beef cattle we s[...]rough the wmter evenmgs. Valentines were made out of wall paper samples. The endless hours spent over[...]I came to Redstone, Montana during February of 1912. I next year. I'm sure things will get better." 'so it ~as with[...]oved from Sheridan County to the present location of the hope and perseverance and a lot of hard work we would farm (12 miles north of Richland) during April of 1917. I keep _goi~g, helping one another over the[...]came to Montana on the advice of a friend of mine who shanng JOY and sorrow. God was good to u[...]by~ year or two. I came from Oklahoma. I had and as always if we would realize how much better off w~[...]l Creek sod schoolhouse and voted 1914, the year of World War I. All our lights in the ship had[...]emy to see us. The ship's main light had to be on of had it not been such a stormy day, as it snowed heavy. course. Our ship was torpedoed once but was unharmed as the torpedo hit the end of it. It shook us up a little but I was There w[...]summer t~rm. However, after the first couple of years, the vacci_nated, so they told her she wou[...]from my house and my children got ten months of school- mother she would have to go back to Ireland as she had a ing instead of three. cataract on one of her eyes. She explained to them her husband had c[...]locat10n m the fall of 1916 there was a Soo Line survey way to join him[...]sed to feel how cold Montana was during the month of January. Poplar to Opheim. The two s[...]where the town of Richland is and ran side by side on 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 on the way here in spring of 1917, this country entered hills. We had heard Mo[...]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, Clyde of Richland Willie of races. Scobe!, Lottie Hansen of Wolf Point, nine gra~dchildren, My mother was[...]and six great-grandchildren. to Montana, as she wasn't used to that type of life. But as the ~ears went on she adjusted to it and we were[...]O.E. Spear and Family My dad got a job as a welldigger. No one had money so he h~d to trade[...]r he could get in exchange for his work. The rest of the family stayed home and took care of things on the farm. Arnold Wahl and I g[...] |
| [...]tly 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[...](Coal Creek drainage) which was a part of Valley County Family Origin - The parents of Harvey Wagar and at that time. Danie[...]e year women were given the right to vote. spring of 1907 from North Dakota homesteading in the Froid,[...]ly weds. We were prepared November 27, 1914. 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 of Homestead, and candy for the women. In the fall of 1916 we moved from Montana was farmed in prior to[...]Homestead, Montana to our homestead which is part of our of Scobey. Three boys, Kenneth, Howard, and William,[...]taken place since that time. There was just miles of prairie Armed Forces during World War II. Kenneth[...]o fences, no roads, nothing except the the Bureau of Reclamation for27 years at various locations[...]we had kerosene lamps. A silver dollar would go as far as business. Howard and his wife, Peg, have one son,[...]oal 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 1[...]hay for our livestock a distance of eight miles. Upon boundary of the 160 acres of land which they called their nearing the hay[...]homestead. When the land was surveyed, the State of engulfed the area. Shelter was found a[...]nd 36, to which the State was Canadian side of the border. I returned to the homestead on entitl[...]r fuel was in the cellar. fully homesteaded, such as \4.'est of Scobey. This is one Most of our neighbors were young, had just gotten reason the western part of Daniels County has a higher married , and came from different parts of the country to than usual percentage of state land. In this arid region, it file[...] |
| [...]attended at the Jim Collins ranch with members of the Teachers who taught t h e school p ut on bas[...]and piano. help raise money to finish the in side of t h e sch ool. Pat Occasionally Mac Drummond[...]tions were attended at the for $15.00 to help out as it was goi n g to a good cause. Som e Carl Hammerberg ranch and the Butte Creek School. For of the teachers who ta ught at th e Shennum Sch ool[...]The the international border. salaries of rural teachers in the earlier da ys ra n ged from[...]le for county commissioner from the west district of Shennum Harvey Wagar, Jo hn Ke mp , C h a rl ey[...]y S. Halverson, Harry Bummer, While long hours of physical labor were required in th e Claude[...]came primarily from family "get-togeth ers", such as picnics and ball games in sum m er with card parties and Prices - In the summer of 1932, during the depression dancing in the winter. One winter t h e whist player s of Coal years , Harvey Wagar copied the following[...]0.28 Brothers. Some of the old timers attending fro m th e Coal O[...]1928 Scobey invited the whist players fro m west of Butterfat[...]0.01 3/4 included Jack Wulf who was the partner of H arvey Wagar. Light Hogs[...]June 17, 1975 Scobey grain prices compare as follows:[...]homestead days in modes of travel, communication, sources of power through machines for all functions of farming and ranching, extension of railroad lines and cars[...]relatively hard life of the homestead days has been[...]repla ced by an ea sier way of life. Life expectancy has[...]and medical adva ncem ent. Addition of electricity through[...] |
| [...]d in Daniels County in are many times referred to as the "good old" days, but I 1914 from Red W[...]t to Harvey Wagar. the "good old" days to our way of life today. Whether our They had four children, Raymond , Kathryn, Mary Lou, higher standard of living and way of life can continue and John. John died in[...]ents in about 1916. He came to 20 miles southeast of Rockglen, Saskatchewan[...]skatchewan. In 1912 they moved 20 miles southeast of Rockglen, Saskatchewan. In 1923 Paul Wolfe boug[...]omestead at Coal Creek or Carbert, 12 miles north of Peerless, and was farming. He also was a g[...] |
| [...]hennum , Dakotah Bernard, Beryl Henninger (mother of Ron Fjeld) and Dorothy Lawrence (teacher and aunt of Judge Sorte) Front Row: Walter Erstad, Joe[...] |
| [...]away in 1935. The rest of us all graduated from Flaxville[...]time. She is married to northern Norway, the Land of the Midnight Sun, when he Norman Johnson and they live in Four Buttes where they was 18 years of age. Carolina Anderson came from[...]nesota where they daughters, Donna of Scobey and Norma of Billings. I, worked on the Staples and Richards f[...]e so they could get their former Rose Gaustad of south Flaxville. We have two citizenship papers i[...]children, Duane :.•i -l Clarice of Scobey. Duane served in Mother and Dad were ma[...]on after came to the Wild West, settling in of that time was spent in Germany. He is now employe[...]the Our parents told us many interesting stories of events that Corps of Engineers in the Army in Europe during World took[...]War II. He married Betty England of England while he In 1910 they moved three miles south of Navajo, making was stationed there. They h[...]ake was also an important shopping place for many of the homesteaders. There was plenty of work with the building of the house and barn, breaking up the land, fencing[...]n 1912 Henry came to the Flaxville Dad had one of the first motor cars, a 1917 Model T co[...]n Daniels County came into southeast of Flaxille. On June 27, 1917 he married Louise being, he was one of the first census takers in that part of Hagen of Barnsville, Minnesota at Willison, North the coun[...]omestead. Henry's wife by hand for his own horses as well as those of his was born in Barnsville, Minneso[...]innesota and went to Williston, North postoffice, as well as a general store, grain elevator, hotel, Dakota[...]They settled on red plush seats, was the main way of traveling. Henry's homeste_a d south of Flaxville and raised three There was a country[...]ouise Cray out and push the Ford up the hill east of the church. Reverend Tjomsland held the first con[...]Eagle Creek community in 1923, and Syrus was one of the first class confirmed in 1924. The Ladies Aid[...]the neighborhood in attendance - men and children as well as the ladies. Sometimes, after the chores were done[...]od card games. Many hardships were endured, one of the worst ones being the flu epidemic of 1918. Doctors traveled in all sorts of bad weather, and oftentimes they braved deep snow[...]s unable to come, -ladies in the community served as midwives to deliver the babies. In 1928 we move[...]t to the neighbor's to hear the nightly broadcast of Amos 'n Andy. Ma Perkins was the favorite[...] |
| [...]for 22 years where he took a claim south of Flaxville. Glyn Bjerke lives on that was custodia[...]e armed forces from 1942 to 1946. He of the Sheridan County ASC Board from 1937 until he married Ann Spear of Scobey after being discharged from passed away in 1957. Mildred died in April of 1971. the service. He then went farming in the Fo[...]e in Scobey. and Harvey who farm south of Redstone and Donald of Kenneth Cray also grew up and received his sch[...]family, Henry and Louise HISTORY OF CARL J. FROSLAN sold their homestead to Ed Tyler[...]Karn Morstead Froslan. Carl was the youngest of four and made her home with her daughter and son-[...]LUDVIG N. G_RAY Ludvig N. Cray, son of Karl and Anne Cray, was born at Cooperstown, Nort[...]family moved to the Eagle Creek community, south of Flaxville. He never married. He passed away in 19[...]ch was born in Redstone, Montana in 1916, the son of Hugh and Mildred French. After he graduated fr[...]n Portland, Oregon. During World War II he worked as a welding instructor for War Production Training. In the spring of 1946 Glenn and Winnie and their two children move[...]ed in the lumber mills. He returned in the spring of Daniels County. This is where brot[...] |
| [...]afely at its destination. homestead was southeast of Flaxville. Later Nansen 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[...]Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, who ranks with Ibsen as one of Carl died at the age of 79 years in St. James, Minnesota Norway's g[...]friendship of composer Edvard Grieg, and his concert[...]singing of Norwegian folk songs, which he collected, as Emil Getterberg of Valley City, North Dakota came to well as for his opera roles and classical concerts. One D[...]he enthusiastic critic described his voice as being "equal to a saw, but it was too late to hom[...]Lammers house was like having a concert hard work of early day farming. He rented the land out on[...]for music lessons. I did get tired of listening to the scales Emil never married and[...]th the land was and never even thought of developing my own voice, even inherited by four n[...]I had a good voice in those days." now farms part of it.[...]fell in love with Fridtjof (Fred) Halverson, son of a[...]America to seek his fortune as there was no room for him in FOR A[...]anyway." Sixty years ago Mrs. Anna Halverson of Flaxville was One of her fiance's brothers accompanied her on the Ii ving in one of Oslo, Norway's most famous and luxurious nin[...]ted mansions and preparing meals for such guests as Fridtjof States. It was a rough crossing.[...]eak English She was a housekeeper in the home of Thorvald and first. Mally Lammers, fa[...]in a little a pleasant life, and she still smiles as she recalls how house way out on the prai[...]k to anybody, "she explained. fiance to the wilds of the American prairie. She[...]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 followed an older sister[...]ife to his plow. "The Lammers had no children of their own," she says. The cow died but the[...]wonderful to me, too. They the present town of Homestead. Their 12x14. tarpaper never referred to me as a 'hired girl'." shack wa[...]on in Oslo. Mrs. Lammers' sister was the wife of Fridtjof Nansen, "I thought it was roma[...]n Norway. I thought the prairie humanitarian. One of Nansen's best known looked so naked I hated t[...]ot used to it." accomplishments was the designing of a special ship, the She rem em hers ho[...]to keep it from blowing away. Their barn was made of sod. iifted but not crushed when caught in the ar[...]lowed this ship to be frozen in the Polar Sea off of eastern meat on tall poles all around. Siberia,[...]rew were married and she took a job as cook in a Bainville continued their explor[...] |
| [...]rouble. Culbertson, and then rode 22 miles on top of a load of poles A son, Alfred, died in 1922 and a daug[...]job." in 1957. Anna passed away as a result of a stroke in the The first of her seven children was born in 1910 on the Scobey hospital in 1965. homestead. Like all of her other children, he was born without the assistance of a doctor. An elderly woman came to help. Five wee[...]moved to another homestead about six miles south of Navajo. Mr. FRED AND EVELYN HA[...]in Daniels 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 the river with my baby in my Culbertson to Redstone with a team of horses and wagon. arms."[...]States entered World War I. He spent most of his military they could not see where they were.[...]around Flaxville. When the Chicago Cubs ended one of come upon the homestead of the John Severson family, their seasons several of their players came to Scobey, and which had arriv[...]many years at Coal Creek, Smoke Creek, crackling of the flames, and had to ~ait helplessly to see if[...]r-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 Sigurd Halverson of Flaxville, Edward of Redsone, Paul of Ontario, Oregon, and Mrs. Vernon (Teckla) Zettler of Ashfork, Arizona. There are also nine grandchildr[...]ps house for her son Sigurd. She has a rich store of memories and some treasured old magazine clippings telling of the famous people she knew long ago in Norway. A[...]uth, married to They came to Homestead in March of 1910 with a month John Vanlandingham, li[...]er Shirley They settled on their farm southwest of Redstone. Their Hanson, lives in Silver Sta[...]children, Kim, Laurie, John and James. made of sod. They had midwives for the children and Dr. After a stroke in 1949 Fred Sr. took up the hobby of Healey of Flaxville was their first family doctor.[...]he first church which was the old great deal of meticulous work - all done by a man with a Orvill[...]travel means. A new Model T Ford March of 1967. Evelyn passed away in January of 1971. was bought in 1926. Indians would go[...] |
| [...]probably first to Minnesota. He homesteaded south of Navajo in 1910 and later bought the Art William's[...]ruary, 1831 and died at west St. Paul in February of[...]located eight miles south of Navajo, which was then a part[...]of Valley County. In March of 1909 Paul, his mother[...]g until 1947 when he sold from Culbertson, as well as all of their other supplies, with his farm to George Sev[...]ised chickens for a few ranch by pastors of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, years. He later moved to Seguin, Texas where he owned of Scobey. All of these services were in the German four houses whi[...]ld. My grandmother passed a way in July of 1923, and Mary compiled by Georg[...]some time with Emery LaRoche as his assistant. This[...]Kanning under the name of Kanning Brothers, and by 1917 farmed[...]the most land of any farmer in Sheridan County, with a The Kanning family originated in Germany, and the total of 3500 acres. The years of 1917-18-19 were dry years older children were bor[...]ated to America in 1885, settling in a rural area of and moved to Canada in 1919.[...] |
| During the winter of 1919-20 our father, Ferdinand, brought his mother[...]d was in ailing health and passed away in October of 1922. In 1925 Paul took us six children, Fred, Em[...]e into his home where we lived until we had homes of our own. We all went the four miles to school at[...]d away in 1948, Henry in 1949, and Louis in 1967. Of the six children Paul raised, three are dead: Fre[...]1956; and Adolph in 1972. Still living are George of Plentywood, Minnie (Severson) and Bennie, both of Flaxville. Paul was a happy and congenial perso[...]heart and his home to anyone who might be in need of a helping hand. Henry farmed on the Indian res[...]Valier staying with a family by name of Norsky. He had a[...]e back to Navajo to visit Thomas Lee, a brother of Mrs. John Severson, was born several times[...]g 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 western Mon[...]County from Marathon, Wisconsin in October of 1912.[...]eight miles southeast of Flaxville. There were four[...] |
| [...]Delphine married Cecil Garneau of rural Reserve. They[...]December 31, 1906, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linder, Sonnentag and Mr. Ben[...]Sr. At the age of three he came to Navajo, Montana with the men are[...]Ed went to school at what was known as the Eagle Creek School. At the age of fifteen he worked for Paul Kanning Yeager farm th[...]hool at Eagle Creek School three miles away. Most of the time they walked. Walter remembers stopping a[...]passed away in 1965, Frances in 1971 ending life of hard but rewarding work.[...] |
| In 1928 he married Lena Meyer of north Navajo. She was born October 26, 1908 at Tr[...]th Navajo. The Ed Linders have two boys, Marvin of Sidney and Delano of Great Falls. In 1950 Eddie and Lena bought the[...]born in Daniels County September 1, 1929, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Linder. Marvin went to schoo[...]ths. In November, 1951 he married Marion Miller of Plentywood. They were wed in Lamport, Texas. They have three children, Bill of Dugway, Utah; Mrs-:- Tom "Carla" Vertasselt of Sidney, Montana; and Bruce, a senior, of Sidney. Marvin is shop foreman at Larson Motors[...]weekends, are great agate hunters, and make lots of beautiful jewelry. DELANO LINDER FAMILY |
| [...]married Irene Aki of Waianae, Hawaii and they have one[...]island of Guam and at present are at McGrath, Alaska[...]Walter Linder as Electronic Technician. After college he enlisted[...]school much of the time.[...]month of June, 1910, by ox-drawn covered wagon.[...]was about six miles southeast of Flaxville, where they[...]and a tent. After several weeks of such living, a home was a[...]crops completely "camping" in the tent. One of her outstanding memories of failed.[...]the trip to Montana was that she sat in the back of the[...] |
| [...]uby on h is lap, and Don. wagon, looking out as they moved along, bu;ily occupied[...]rn in Aneta , North Dakota, |
| Meanwhile that spring, Clara Redlacqyk of Fall Creek, Corps, a horrible experience h[...]Earl Randall's. She filed on 320 acres southeast of Wisconsin, which he still owns and ope[...]seven and a half miles southeast of Flaxville in the fall of[...]were playing train. Marie Murr, In the spring of 1914 Clara and Ed were married and Walte[...]d 34 years with the usual ups and there. As a result there were three sets of burnt feet. downs of life during those early years. Their two[...]liked the country very much but there was a lot of work. In 1948 they sold the farm and lived in[...]hter Vergile Father passed away April of 1946, also in Glasgow. married Allan Becker. He p[...]l years ago Joseph married Marie Knorr of Poplar, Montana. He i~ and she Ii ves in Tennesse[...]e seven grandchildren are grown now and give lots of is retired. His wife is deceased. joy and h[...]aduating in Walter married Ruth Marcott of Dickinson, North 1940. Verona married Sgt. Henry[...]Ludwig ~arried Viola Linder, daughter of Frances and[...]Lewis and Ada Longacre, were also early settlers of the JOHN MURR FAMILY[...]California and Frances Holmes of Springfield, Oregon. John Murr and his children[...]our children and so did Bill Murr and Murr, widow of the late William Murr, and they lived on a J[...]eople living together the farm 17 miles southeast of Flaxville, close to the Indian first winter.[...]d them to push it down his throat. with the class of 1937. After graduation he returned to When[...]n his mouth he bit them hard. Marathon and worked as a painter. He served in the Army[...] |
| [...]Washington. Frank Murr, brother of Joseph and Bill, came later with Willie[...]a (Murr) Longacre Emma Severson, daughter of John Severson. She was born[...]farm and in 1937 there was no crop because of drought so in[...]south of Navajo and worked on a W.P.A. project. In the W[...]Roger, Larry (right) and Jackie (below), sons of the Linden[...]axville busy nursing others and acting many times as midwife. where he worked for the Farmers Union Oil Station. After Her home remedies, such as mustard and onion plaster Larry and[...]ten miles south of Redstone. The three boys finished their The ch[...]first eight years of school in Redstone. Harold - married Myrtle Oden,[...]Department of North Dakota.[...] |
| Larry was married to Sharon Grayson of Plentywood, and they have two children, Debra and[...]Gold Milk. Jackie was married to Linda LaCounte of Bainville, Montana and they have three children,[...], Wisconsin in 1911 and settled seven miles south of Bert Reno Flaxville. He says he looked[...]ss and picked that spot for his homestead. A team of oxen was used to break the land the first year.[...]ls, who came here Bertha Teren, a niece of Mrs. John Severson, came to from Fall Creek to cook for her brother Ed. They had no Montana as a young lady to visit, and in 1918 filed on a children of their own, but raised two nephews, Clarence homestead of 80 acres near them, south of Navajo. A small and Donald Mehis.[...]nds the winter was discha; ged on account of rheumatic fever. He had months in California and[...]He also worked at the Corps of Engineers in St. Paul where B[...]community work. Two of their sons are pastors, Henry Jr. My gra[...] |
| [...]veral Burlington, Wisconsin. By 1911 he was tired of milking children. Harley and Marie celebr[...]and in the fall started a homestead southwest of Redstone Stringer farm southeast of Redstone. Duri.Jlg these years in the Eagle'[...]a house. The garden despite the wind and drought of the terrible 30's. In lumber used was hauled fr[...]from the John was married to Myrtle Click of Mount Hope, falling debris.[...]ing 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 board. He died on November 12, 1956, at the age of 81. In 1949 the Schlags retired from farming an[...]y on July 30, 1960 and Maude Schlag died in March of 1962. by Mrs. Ma[...]al burning stove. There was a small barn and some of the[...] |
| [...]February 16, 1899, son of John and Lena Severson. When[...]homestead south of Navajo in 1910. There were a few years Eagle[...]t 1925 and moved to the school grounds |
| [...]he bundles ran out. George bought a used As each year goes by they are thankful for continued[...]made a trip to Yellowstone Park, drove to the top of Mt. Washburn which was 10,300 feet[...]SEVERSON high. This drive was later discontinued as it was considered too dangerous. The roads at tha[...]rson came to this county in 1910, paved and some of them were not even gravelled so at homesteading about eight miles south of Navajo. He was times it was tough going, especia[...]25, 1906 near Kramer, them at the age of eleven in 1866 and located at Madison, North Dak[...]Tom Lee, to his homestead two miles east of the town of George milked cows and they shipped cream in f[...]he ford ust. One could hardly believe the density of it. Damp sheets were hung in front of the windows to absorb some of it. There was no crop in 1937, not even thistles[...]chool 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 had her[...]hores. Those were busy days with all the activity of a growing family and larger farming operations.[...]e was bought and moved from about six miles south of Redstone to the farm and remodeled and the family[...]vel kerosene refrigerator was The winter of 1906 and 1907 was very severe and several bought[...]the Lees moved to program (REA) came along, most of the farmers got the Paulson homest[...]en were small Homestead. There was lots of snow that winter also and n o there was not much[...]y had a small doctor, so Mrs. Paulson acted as midwife . Snow was melted tent and campstove and[...]he Yellowstone Park was great, In the fall of 1909 John and his oldest son, George came five ch[...]for the tent in the park in those days. because of the running water. They had driven many miles Als[...]Homestead they had a load of lumber , which was hauled George and Ruth have[...]from Culbertson and left there until Ma rch of 1910 when little traveling by going on several gr[...]John came to build a one-room shack , 14x16. Part of their[...] |
| [...]attended my first year of school at Eagle Creek School. The rest of my school years I went to Plentywood and[...]red during the winter and the shack One of the things we do during the summer for a week is[...]gs and baby Emma. This was rode horseback as outriders. an early spring and the creeks were high. They forded the Big Muddy west of Homestead and the hayrack almost floated off the wagon. They passed a load of lumber that was stuck in the mud down to the axl[...]g the family arrived and had a fire in the corner of the shack to keep warm.[...]. They for the small bus pulled by Dad's team of horses. In 1947 we were gone for over three weeks and were finally found 20-25 missed six weeks of school because of all the snow! We had miles south of the homestead. John and George walked[...]flax. The first crop froze so it yielded a total of six bushels. That summer they built a sod barn fo[...]up. The sod chunks piled up like bales and acted as insulation. Coal was hauled from Eagles Nest whic[...]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 anothe[...]daughter, Inez, was born and she died in infancy of convulsions. The nearest doctor was in Redstone. They were charter members of Zion Lutheran Church at Orville, Montana. The[...]everson and mule team for wagon train. the Fourth of July. The first buggy was bought in 1918, and an[...]er for high school. Phelps) was killed in October of 1952. After graduation I attended the State School of Science at John was hardly ever sick in his life and 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[...]d 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 Ha[...] |
| [...]e when we moved to Plentywood and I was in a room of over forty! I graduated from Plentywood High Scho[...]rmy in 1962. I married Cheryl Johnson, daughter of Melvin and Dorothy Johnson of Raymond, and we lived on the farm, helping my dad[...]Central Exchange for nine months, and then worked as a Walco insurance salesman.[...]The Vernon Severson family . As heads appear: Mark,[...]We both still think of Daniels and Sheridan Counties as[...]and Fred Stone first homesteaded south of Navajo about Marla. 1910 on the north side of Eagle Creek. They built a nice[...]by Mrs. George Severson We live north west of Bozeman and about 60 miles from Yellowstone Park.[...]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 he came west to better Scobey and raised south of Flaxville on my parents' himself. He worked in the Dakotas for a couple of years, farm and ranch, where I spent 21 years. I[...]Reserves in 1965 and served my active southeast of what is now Flaxville, from John Gunderson , duty[...]a 9x12 shack on the place, Lorraine, a daughter of Anker and Dora Jensen, was so that was Ad[...]ildren: Michael, Kelly, Matthew, distance of 40 miles one way. Winters were cold and so was Ma[...]ttended a carpenter enough hay to last a couple of days, made a big kettle of trade school in Minnesota for two years, returning to do soup and spent most of the time in bed, getting up to refuel contruction[...]fire and eat. Prairie chicken was the main source of In the fall of 1962 I moved my wife and family to Great meat.[...]s and worked in construction there until November of house and used the homestead shack for[...] |
| [...]Betty JOE VAUBEL Lehner of Minneapolis. By that time he owned a car and they[...]from the last team he sold. He decided to keep it as a souvenir and put it in his bank box in the Rese[...]erved in the Army in World War One in France, and of "old times" and could remember the names of many as a result was in poor health. In the mid thirties[...]in a military He passed away in 1971 at the age of 89 years. cemetery in San A[...] |
| [...]berg, was born in Frazee, Minnesota corners of our shack. on October 5, 1889, living there until the spring of 1906. One morning we found a herd of horses had surrounded Our family moved to the Deep River country northeast of the spring, which was our only source of water. Dan Minot, North Dakota in 1906, later hom[...]his dog managed three and a half miles north west of Froid. ' to disperse the herd.[...]school, which my teaching there until the spring of 1910. My father, E.E. father had built. Tea[...]Store in Redstone and we were married miles south of the present town of Redstone. This area was September 1, 1915. Vi[...]homestead at the beginning of the depression. Vic was a[...]outbreak of World War II he rented the land out and went to[...]s. All the wide open spaces, having saddle ponies of our been home to me, and to my family as they have grown up. own, learning to ride horseba[...]in farming methods, lakes. In June, at the close of the school term, we traveled transportation, mo[...]so my sister and I could be together. A number of years later, as Sheridan County was Clarence Wilk[...]ine just across the line into Daniels in the fall of 1936 with his wife Isabelle and two children, Cou[...]rents sold their farm near Froid and joined a lot of work to be done before winter! us. Farmers from S[...]een McN ess, 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[...]for water supply in Spokane; Helen Tucker Later as crops were planted and harvested, my father[...]eserve and Georg was in the Navy. ng and were one of the first to farm with a tractor.[...]six day mail delivery there now. Our excitement of the west and a new life proved only too true many[...]atherings; the barn dances which everyone went to as there were no babysitters in[...]e Muddy River. A homesteader had thrown out a pan of live The Tyler family ancestry has be[...]hay that had been recently cut and in the history of Henry (1849-1926) and Clarissa (1852-[...] |
| 1933) Tyler. They were married in 1870 and were parents of Harvey married Annie Merrick in 1912. They h[...]children, one of whom died in the 1918 flu epidemic as did Joseph, born in 1873, never married. He lived[...]Emma, Mrs. Alfred Hackmann, both of Plentywood. George and Sarah (Arion) both died at[...]Harvey died in 1968. Emma's children are: Ernest of Dakota. Sarah had two daughters , Eva and Ethel. The Scobey; Marie of Fort Smith, Arkansas; Carol Fester of latter's three daughters are married to Max Hackmann of Medicine Lake; Gerald and Lily Mae Nelson of Flaxville; Scobey, Floyd Carlson and Ralph Hendri[...]Robert (who has served 16 years in the Navy) of Virginia formerly of Flaxville) respectively. Beach, Virginia; Clarice Knutson of Plentywood; Judy Rose Arion was mother of four, Walter, deceased, and Nelson of Scobey; Leland of Medicine Lake; and Vernon of Edward of Flaxville, Mertyle and John.[...]grandchildren. Harvey Tyler's Lettie was the wife of William Konshur of Flaxville. Their son Harold is married to th[...]in 1960. and Nancy of Plentywood; Harvey and Jack of Sidney; Pearl had a son and two daughters , one of whom was Emily Hendrickson of Redstone; Connie, Sharon, Shirley married to Worth Logan of Flaxville. and Debbie of Flaxville. There are six grandchildren. Marion Edgar, better known as Ed, never married. His Vernon, the youngest of the Tyler family, came in 1910 to first homestead was south of Culbertson. In 1906 he came Culbertson and[...]valley to Ed's to his homestead seven miles south of Flaxville, hauling homestead. To quote him[...]th-class the lumber to build his home with a team of oxen from wood butchers, but it took us[...]12x14 Culbertson. Through the years he became one of the shed with two windows, a door an[...]one harvest filled the granaries and a wheat pile of his farm south of Flaxville. He died in 1972. 45 to 50,000 b[...] |
| [...]g in decay. Within its walls once rang the sounds of life, the sounds of hope, of jo~'~, and yes, of 1 s[...]nd country and man, they toiled in the Springtime of new life into the steady, settled time of Summer. And when Autumn 's beauty had faded into the white stillness of Winter, they rested from their toils. A simple cr[...]ce they lie, and the wind whispers a soft requiem as it stirs the rustling grass. Now faded memories f[...]y come back to us once more in fond recollections of yesteryear. We gratefully acknowledge their will[...]at was in store. In our hearts we front. One of the lumber yards can be seen directly behind thank them for more than can be named as we honor them the bank. The small house[...]ore and later Pooler's meat THE TOWN OF FLAXVILLE market, A[...]ifficult to picture in our minds the wide expanse of Galloway's creamery, Mort Owsley, the first caf[...]r dealerships, Carl Gilbertson's northeast corner of this beautiful state. land[...]liss Brown's millinery shop, Kanning The coming of the Great Northern railroad in 1913 was[...]rs' elevators, Swenson responsible for the growth of several new towns along its Brothers' gara[...]son, Battleson, route , among them being the town of Flaxville. Several and Kirkeby, Rafshol[...]ple and businesses had settled in the inland town of confectionary and post office, an assortment of hotels and Orville, six miles to the south, with[...]ld played an important part in the history of the pioneers, for Scobey site.[...]the train was the fastest and most dependable way of The railroad and townsite surveyor crews ate their meals at the Henry Boyer home southeast of the new town and it was to have been named Boyer.[...]n the almost abandoned main street today that all of these businesses were located within the town at[...]is now); Johnson's store, Sparling's East side of Main Street, 1914, Flaxville, Montana.[...] |
| [...]nyder, unknown, Ed Molden, Loaded trucks of wheat waiting to be unloaded at the unknown, Fran[...]eople began to travel on to larger cities and way of sending messages. towns to do much of their buying. This sturdy village prospered and[...]uilt in the early years which later burned. years of its infancy into the drought stricken years of the A new one was built with shares in it being sold to the 1930's, when the ink of nearly every business was more red public on a[...]lins, high school times returned. With the coming of better highways and prinicipal, managed it[...]carrier, Ted Williamson and Bob Hardy. Its days of usefulness are over, with the exception of an occasional From left to right: an early day de[...]k Peltier, Henrietta Peltier (Kurtz) and One of the early day thrills many will remember was on a[...]daring feat was far more of a thrill than to watch the outer[...]space activities of today on television.[...]The city drayman in front of the Molden 's Mint Bar. Beside[...]it is the Flaxville Hustler, one of the newspaper offices.[...] |
| [...]Northeast Montana League of Champions, Flaxville 1938[...]witt, L. Haroldson, Joe during the week that many of the folks came to town to do Haugen, Wilbu[...]a French, Don Mohn, Stub Fjeld, Loyal The town of Flaxville was incorporated in 1955, with Brenden and Bert Cossette. Arden Olsen as the first mayor. Councilmen were Al Johansen, Har[...]aged the police magistrate and Peter Kurtz, chief of police. local lumber yard. He was a[...]e and professional ball in Canada. Some of the early players in gone, and the growing pains[...]Elvin there have been various organizations such as Boy and Mollerstuen, the French brothe[...]Bert and Clifford the most part, Flaxville's days of bustling activity are over, Cossette, Larry and[...]hn and and now, in it twilight years, the history of the sturdy town Harold Hewitt. Some of our Canadian neighbors were it once was, the adversities of hard times and strong team members too[...]and Harrison. Artie Stafne was the team the pages of yesterday's memories.[...]team was the Champion of the Northeast Montana[...]Baseball League-this was a very competitive group of[...]e 40's some new and younger faces Flaxville was known as a good baseball town through were on t[...]of the oldsters. 1914 - front row: Art Gord, Alvin Ryerson, Tony Swenson, Mention should be made of a few of Flaxville's most Fred Hanson . Second row: P.R. Kurtz, Vick Merell, _ __ ardent baseball fans of yesteryear-Harry Seiler, Pete Thrunson, L. V. Han[...]fan, continues to follow all of Flaxville's hall teams. The[...]local business people were great contributors, as well as[...]axville;s most successful basketball season, that of[...] |
| [...]composed of Joe Murr, A.J. Wood, Eugene LaRoche, Peter[...]urtz, and Art Gourde, contracted for the building of the[...]the early years of its existence. Early in the spring of 1915, Father Peche, O.S.B.., from[...]On November 2, 1918, the Catholics of Flaxville purchased two acres of land from Leon Duval. This was[...]surveyed and mapped out under the name of St. Louis[...]sanctuary and in the social area of the basement.[...]to right: Tully Tryan Mass and Solemn Mass of Reverend Raymond Lapke, son (No. 11), Wade Tryan, Jim Legare, Phillip French, Craig of Mr. and Mrs. John Lapke of Madoc. He was the first Miller, Rick Tryan, Coach[...]n to be ordained to the priesthood in the history of Gunderson (No. 25), Kevin Hatfield, David Safty,[...]The following have served as priests at Flaxville:[...]as an administrator), Altmann, Sorger, Whalen, Kenne[...]as organized in 1910, at the In the first game of the state tournament, the Cards same tim[...]Elder, farm. Twelve ladies met at the home of Mrs. Goulet to begin Flaxville ran up 62 points t[...]y Flaxville 68-61. affairs of auxiliary church work. Kevin Hatfield, 14 years old, 6 foot five inch Cardinal, Eleven of the twelve charter members were : Mrs. Nick was n[...]oceeds from the dance being used for the purchase of HISTORY OF THE FLAXVILLE Mass[...]IS CATHOLIC CHURCH Of late years the ladies of the Al tar Society had a project[...]iles Taken in part from the newspaper telling of the around. Their annual Fall dinner was attended by over 500 50th anniversary of the Great Falls Diocese people ea[...]. John Hennessy came to care for the One of the main services of the Society is to supply the Catholics of this northeastern corner of the state, he needs of the church altar, such as candles, priest's traveled with a team of horses from Plentywood. In 1910 he vestment[...]e Missals. They also sponsor founded the missions of Flaxville and Scobey, and for the clothing[...]nches for next five years Flaxville was a mission of Culbertson, receptions, etc. served by[...]e 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 area were in the home and barn of Joseph Goulet, near the town of Orville. The homesteads of Joe Paradis and Louis LaPierre near HISTORY OF FLAXVILLE Scobey, were also used for Masses in th[...]to 1918 the mission was served by Father Hennessy of Plentywood. With the coming of the railroad On May 20, 1925, a meeting was held in the hall over Peter in 1913, the town of Flaxville came into being, and Mass Hexom's general store for the purpose of organizing a was said once a month in the[...] |
| Tjomsland, pastor of Scobey and Zion of Orville churches, FLAXVI[...]lson, Gunder in 1925, at the same time as the congregational Sherseth, and Fred Tasa. Mrs.[...]e church proper were begun. One of the ladies' first projects was to finish and furn[...]when the the church basement at a cost of $242.00. furnace was installed and the floor of the church was laid. The Eagle Creek Aid w[...]v officiating. sizeable amount of money at their meetings and fancy Rev. Tjomsland resigned in the spring of 1928 and moved work sales. to his farm south of Flaxville. Rev. R.L. Simonson served The ladies of both Aids were active through the years the paris[...]l membership, the Eagle Creek Aid During the term of the latter, the congregations of Zion of was disbanded in later years, and its member[...]church merged into a new Zion of Orville or Flaxville groups. congregation in Nove[...]Flaxville congregations merged, so Zion Lutheran of Flaxville. The Revs. V. Boe (1945-1946), t[...]lbert established a new one, with Rev. R. Johnson as our new Hammer, treasurer. pastor. Late[...]Along with the reorganization, the name of the group The Revs. E. Novak (1959-1963), N. Bors[...]Hicks, with the change in the official title of the national have since served the parish.[...]organization. In later years it became known as the In 1956 the church was enlarged to its pre[...]m bing and rest rooms being added and modernizing of an active part of the church and in addition to its regular the kit[...]s, the ladies have worked on many worthwhile cost of the new addition was $13,000.[...]ctober 7, 1956. District President Reidar Daehlin of Great Falls dedicated the structure on December 2[...]Irving Bunse's haywagon. THE HISTORY OF THE FLAXVILLE |
| [...]t and which served in that capacity all the years of its standard tools, a pair of pliers, screwdriver, and the usage.[...]Mr. and Mrs. Irving Bunse were charter members of the important to have along to be used in being pulled out of the church which was organized by Brother Van Ors[...]and the poor with like concern. He had many bills of Greenberg, Stafne, Pooler, Seiler, Barnhart, Hewi[...]anding, and it is a safe guess that he wrote many of families, as well as many others not remembered these them off as paid. His office was always in a state of many years later.[...]jovial man and his driving habits were the brunt of many The ladies' auxiliary group was also activ[...]His soft eastern accent was a lifetime way years of the church's existence. of speaking. Although there may have been others, on[...]Mr. and Mrs. Mike Nathe of Redstone. It is believed that[...]Bruce Klos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Klos, was the last baby Taken in part from a clipping of hundreds that he delivered.[...]uding Drs. Tucker and Needles, also Dr. community of Wheelwright, Massachusetts in 1880. He[...]ow, took his premedical studies at the University of Vermont, too, was an early doctor. Dr. Heal[...]the 20's and his medical degree at the University of Kentucky at there was a hospital and five[...]s intern work at the Farren At the time of his retirement he went back to Memorial Hospital[...]He had been in continual practice in as one of her teachers in Northhampton, a lady who later Fl[...]t in married Calvin Coolidge. 1957, a period of more than 43 years. D[...]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'Harra of the Great Falls contentment, and mild exercise co[...]idered the most important factors. His background as a longtime country doctor with vast years of calls at all[...]the schoolyard was a familiar sight in the town of Flaxville Dr. Healy[...]destroyed, along with names of the first teachers, although[...]basketball team as a part of the school program.[...]In 1922 Mr. J.T. Casey headed the teaching staff as[...]Jordan, and Mrs. Ruth Guy received wages of $139.00 per[...]and received a salary of $96.00 per month. He was followed[...] |
| [...]distance from where the old one stood. The class of 1960[...]addition of a dining room and stage area was added in[...]enlarged with the addition of students from Navajo, Smoke[...]with grocery stores in the early 1920's, as they owned several of them in the northeastern part of Montana. One of these stores was in Flaxville, with Harry Battles[...]ught the store building from Andy Rafshol. Brenna as early-day janitors. 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 i[...]sister of Ephriam (Effie) Hensrud. She came here from years[...]our children, Fern, Elaine, money was spent, such as for many tons of coal, chemicals William and Lloyd, a member of the Air Force, who was for the toilets, (for this was before the days of running[...]e mixed with water and applied in the same manner as paint, but it differed in that it rubbed off on o[...]roots in the community of Flaxville, where we came as a Lucille Mehls (Krusemark), Alice Brenden (Sch[...]more than babies. Olaf came to be Superintendent of (Hart), Clayton Bunse, Loyal Brenden, Garth Knudsvig, the Flaxville School in the fall of 1947. During our stay and Gerald Zuck (deceased) were members of the first high there , I also taught at the[...]The first memory we have of Flaxville is Ii ving in the gym of the old school house for the first month while th[...]ere 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[...]We left in the fall of 1957, and Olaf went into the[...]been County Superintendent of Schools and lay minister at[...] |
| [...]was 88 in July of 1975, makes her home at the Friendship[...]early 1900's. He lived a very colorful young life as a cowboy, taking part in cattle drives from Texas[...]Clayton, Violet, Pansy, Dean and Iris south of Scobey. Her first impression of this country was that it was very frightening. At[...]e, she could Montana homesteaders in a part of Sheridan County hear the coyotes howling all abou[...]which was later to be included in the new county of spent much of her time with her brother Lou, his wife and[...]Mid3:le, Saskatchewan as far as Bengough, ~lso in that Our parents often told[...]laughed at how they each had the wrong impression of the of land to homestead. After making their claims abou[...]n maid, while Mother was sure that he was the son of and loaded a wagon with the necessary suppli[...]anged their lives for any other In May of that year, Ernie returned to Canada for his even if they could have. Mother told of Dad riding wife and Dad's family, Ros[...]k 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[...]new have been better if he had brought her a sack of sugar or a home. Their first cup of coffee in the new state of Montana ham, as these were trying times, and most of the people was brewed over a fire using "buffalo chips" for fuel. All of could not afford any luxuries.[...]o Williston in 1918, during the flu fires as there were no coal mines opened at that time. epi[...]foot room the My parents had six children, one of whom died in following year. infancy. Mark, the oldest son, married Vivian Bureau of The town of Whitetail, seven miles to the north, was our Whitetail. He spent many years as a mail clerk on the train closest town and pos[...]ired, and R~ilroad came through south of us, we were only three although their home is in Spokane, they spend much of miles from the new town of Flaxville. their time on their small farm north of that city. They had Although we lived in th[...]ealthiest one in the family now, after many years of While we were still living on the far[...]and dray line in Flaxville for married Carl Wilke of Rolla, North Dakota. We farmed many yea[...]farm and go into cattle Irving Bunse, his team of horses and cutter often used to raising in the Fl[...], Rose, home with him from England. In the spring of 1975, they took a trip to England. It was[...] |
| [...]ls with the doctor. Dad always stayed at the home as long as the doctor's services were needed. On one occasion they were gone for two days awaiting the birth of a baby. Many times they would be caught in a blin[...]instincts. Mother often accompanied the doctor as a practical nurse, and at one time she could list over sixty children in the area that she had been of assistance to the doctor at their birth.[...]ight In the early 1940's Dad was the custodian of the Flaxville (standing): Mary, Patrick, Timoth[...]mily. Jackie Sale;: until his retirement in March of 1975. He and his was a Den Mother for the[...]ith church wife, the former Geneva Sherseth, also of Flaxville, are and school work and raising[...]onged to the looking forward to the leisure years of retirement. Violet Flaxville Woman's Club wh[...]the army and is living in Anchorage, Alaska well-known farmer in the area, passed away in 1972. Dean[...]ank, Washington where attending the School of Optometry at Pacific University in he is employed[...]NDERSON CAVANAUGH 1927- ~Ja"m~s Cavanaugh, son of John and Bridie Cavanaugh MR. AND MRS. LEO COSSETTE |
| [...]ink several years as a carpenter, and at the Flaxville and[...]elda Johansen, were married on April 10, As the land beckons Bert, so the school bells seem t[...]for seven years. I now teach elevator. All three of our children were born during the six at the Flaxville school. years we lived there. In March of 1960, we moved to During the years[...]gil and Larry Legare, former Flaxville residents) as a bookkeeper. On June 20, 1969 we moved to Flaxville where Don assumed the position of manager of the GTA elevator, previously managed by John Vaagne. I was employed as MR. AND MRS. LLOYD FRENCH school secretary in September of that year, and still hold this position.[...]om Flaxville High School and was co-valedictorian of his class. Jeanette Lloyd and I were both[...]n high school lived in Flaxville most of the time since we were married. received a superi[...]val in Lloyd farms and does a great deal of carpenter work 1971 and 1973. Jim, our youngest,[...]We had nine children, two of whom died in infancy. The Don and I enjoyed a o[...]oldest live in Scobey; Steven is employed at the of this year as part of a group of GT A employees who Nemont Telephone Co-op. He married Arlene Kjensmo of earned the trip.[...]h Don, our family, and I are proud to be a part of the the Soil Conservation Program and is[...]former Julie Nelson of Scobey. Marcella is a beautician and[...]Maher of Scobey. Myrna married Dean Ferestad of Scobey[...]eo French Albert (Bert) French is the youngest of thirteen children |
| [...]n the farm and the men used about twenty six head of horses to do the farming. The boys and hired hel[...]MR. AND MRS. ELLIS GUY take some of the cooking duties from Mother. One of the granaries was converted into a bunk house fo[...]n, 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 to ride, and took part Flaxville in the summer of 1913. There were four children together in rodeos[...]e was to be done, we still found time barley. All of the work was done with horse-drawn for recreation[...]nd equipment which meant long and strenuous hours of toil swimming in the summer. On Saturday nights w[...]he farmers. There was little rainfall during some of the the many dances at Davis Beach, near Scobey,[...]farmers, and for several years drove the total of nine children, three boys and six girls.[...]moved into Flaxville to the at Smoke Creek. house known as the Mike Dorwin house. He worked as a In 1917-1918 the influenza epidemi[...]the school for two terms, doing painting and many of their neighbors passed away. Both Dad and his rep[...]to enter military service in World War I because of time, so after Dad was no longer janitor, he open[...]A very lovely and capable young lady, by the name of of Main street. This building was later purchased by[...]t managed to make quite a few trips to on a tract of land sixteen miles south of Flaxville. In 1929, Scobey - especially to the Ba[...]ed into Flaxville, 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 busi[...]e and Dad Dad now went back to his former work of setting up machinery and doing carpenter work. He also worked as Sarah Guy and her family: Floyd, Ray, Ruth and El[...]or the children were all married and had families of their own. They moved to a community near Ronan, Montana, where Dad worked again as janitor and two of the school teachers lived with them. Due to Dad's ill health, they moved into Ronan in December of 1943. He passed away in 1944. Mother co[...] |
| [...]which were located in the basement of the house, from[...]methods of cooking on a gas range and cooling the milk in[...]the milk would be frozen, pushing itself out of the top of the[...]were on display. They spent a great deal of time looking[...]used to blast the coal loose. Because of its danger, it was[...]is still known as Dynamite Hill.[...]y a car owner cursed the black, shiny, sticky tar as he Ellis and Ruth Guy, their wedding day, Fargo,[...]ved to larger cities to work in factories because of to establish their residence on his farm in the M[...]o 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 equilibrium. Mrs. Kramer's cafe at the north end of Main Street Ronald was involved in sports and music in school and attracted customers from as far away as Wolf Point, we both took piano lessons, with a lot of help from our very Plentywood, and towns in C[...]afe 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 M[...]he streets were lined with cars the entire length of born on the hottest day of the year. When I was about five the town. y[...]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 glas[...] |
| [...]ership many times. Dad's pool hall became a well known business througho.ut a large territory. On many summer afternoons, music could be heard as Harold Weber with his violin and someone at the[...]th two other bars in town, Dad still had to hire as many as three extra men to help him take care of his customers. An interesting character that soon became known by everyone in town was our family dog, Jackie. He developed the habit of taking his naps in the middle of Main Street. Many men came into Dad's place, mad[...]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 died when he was s[...]Cora Nelson and Nettie Hexom in front of Old Orville Store The depression years were hard on the Flaxville in process of remodeling for first Hexom home in Flaxville. com[...]n 1929, taking my folks' savings along with those of many others. Dad kept his place open up to 18 hou[...]me to Montana. His first location was in the town of now that the W.P.A. program came into existence,[...], and extended through the northern part of the state, and the with the improved crop condit[...]situation store was moved into the new town of Flaxville where the changed for the better.[...]burning locomotives had out the interests of the other two shortly thereafter, and been replac[...]engines on the trains and was sole owner of Hexom' s General store for the next thirty Ronald[...]Nettie Anderson, daughter of Anna and Andrew After selling the pool hall, D[...]wned until about 1950. He also bought a farm east of moved to Columbus, North Dakota, and in 1[...]rold died in several friends went to a spot north of Regina, infancy. The six of us all · went to elementary and high Saskatchewan, Lake Copalo, to fish. After one of their trips school in Flaxville, and clerked in Dad's store while we they brought back two tanks full of Northern Pike, some were growing up. weighing as much as 27 pounds. We[...]mmunity, school and church He also had a hobby of coin collecting which in later affairs th[...]any hazards to overcome with the depression years of the people at the coin collectors' conventions.[...]ls. Mother was active in various projects such as cancer Strong determination and the will[...]ondition Our mother died after an illness of only a few hours on and passed away in the Culbertson Hospital in August of September 2, 1940. Her death was caused[...]in Flaxville home. Left county for the Department of Agriculture. He then spent a to right, back row: Philip, Allan, Peter and Adolph. Front part of his remaining years traveling and spending time[...]Flaxville in 1952. We have lived in various parts of the country, and now live at Battle Ground, Washington. Ronald graduated as Salutatorian of the 1950 hig-h school class, and then went[...] |
| [...]time spent in Flaxville Alfred wa s elected Zion of Orville Lutheran Church.[...]city council. Two children Following the sale of his store, Dad was an insurance were born[...]5, 1959 in between the two upper chambers of her heart. The delicate Roseville. He is buried b[...]e was in the hospital only ten I am the oldest of the children and live in Citrus Heights, days and after another five days of convalescence in the California. I am employed at[...]Army Air Force homestead from Elmer Johnson of Antelope in 1948 a nd in during World War II and was stationed in Australia. While August of 1963 we moved to this farm where we have lived he[...]chael, and Stephanie. Yvonne is Mrs. Tim Eichhorn of Scobey where they lived for several years. Richardson of Antelope and the mother of two, Christie They now live in Citrus Heights. My[...]22. We were married on last in a family of six children: Fred, Emma, Adolph, December 23, 19[...]ix orphans into his home where they first manager of the Farmers Union Trading Company. We all grew up. moved to Flaxville in July of1947 and bought the Flaxville The family had its share of hard work during these horse- Variety from Charles Zimmerman. This was our home and powered years of farming. Ben's sister Emma (Mrs. business until 1[...]Adolph Kollmann) often went out to drive a span of four Kurtz.[...]on in Scobey, and sold it in 1961 to Ray LaPierre of Scobey. in the field again. One of Ben's chores, since he was too During this year he was a member of the Scobey small to drive horse[...]y. Back row: Victor, Judy, Yvonne. south of Redstone, and later finished his eighth grade at[...]months as he was needed at home to help with the farm[...]I was born in the homestead home of my parents, Mr. and[...]of today. Since we went to town only when all the fa[...]Gophers were a real hazard to the tender shoots of wheat and oats and the job of poisoning them was usually[...]relegated to the children. There was lots of time for daydreaming as I walked the length and bread th of the pastures dropping a spoonful of poison~d oats into each[...] |
| [...]at several types of work, the last one being on road[...]construction in various parts of Montana and North[...]several ones under the employ of Joe and Marian Miller[...]time at the same business place as her husband. Our third[...]June 27, 1969. She was married and was the mother of a[...]when we thought we were at the end of our rope, but the[...]ways overcome, and things were on an even Most of the young people had their own horse and my keel once more. We count our many blessings of a faithful Dolly and I made many miles as we brought the wonderful family, good[...]e pasture and in the spring and fall best of all we are a part of this beautiful country which we made the four mil[...]hool where I shall treasure until the end of our days. went for eight years. Going to Flaxv[...]me was a slow process via the horse and buggy way of traveling. Red- letter days, indeed, were the very few trips we made to Scobey each year. I would spend most of the time on the MR. AND MRS.[...]d by Helen (Tong) Klos as remote as Chicago or New York, and I was quite old before I[...]Indiana. He was the sixth child in a family of eight Plentywood five or six times a year! I reme[...]had to back down the homesteaded north of Navajo, where Joe's brother Bill and hill and tak[...]rs 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 away in 1927, and the family work was not one of my favorite pastimes. To get revenge struggled to keep the farm going through the hard times of on her, I would go into the granary or haystack a[...]and 30's. Joe went to a CCC camp, a program nest of baby mice, pick them up by their tails and chase[...]still work and earn money. has a mortal fear of mice. After she was married she and her husband lived in the rattlesnake country of the southeastern part of the state. She always took a stick with Hele[...]her when she went to get the mail and had no fear of killing any snake that she might see along the way. Ben and I were married in 1937, which was one of the worst disaster years in the history of this country. The thick duststorms lasted all thr[...]tes from there and eat quickly before it was full of dirt. There was no rain during the summer, and th[...]til 1944 when Ben sold the farm to Tom Mohn. Four of our children were born while we lived here. Ou[...]Klos addition in Flaxville in what had been part of the pasture. Ben worked[...] |
| [...]e had built on this farm, to see the World's Fair as well as some baseball games, so we lived that f[...]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. This left us short of money again so we both southeast of Scobey. I attended a country school near our[...]work at the Farmers 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 each other. Their deaths drew in the Sch[...]ere were good prospects for another bumper One of these decisions was mine to make one summer[...]osy. In July day when I was home alone. I saw one of the cows lying on we were saddened by the death of Joe's mother, and in the ground apparently sick from eating the wrong kind of August a hail storm wiped out our crop.[...]than at school, so I quit teaching in the middle of the deep breath, uttered these words, "Live or di[...]ed One summer I gathered up the bleached bones of dead Joe's income by giving room and b[...]s, horses and cattle. When I had a wagon box full of bones, Ardith Goerhring and Anne Gunders[...]where we sold The hot and dry summer of 1945 cut the harvest yields them and got enough m[...]On the day before school was to start in each one of us a dress. The bones were shipped out-by the[...]he insurance from the h ouse, we bought the house known During my first teaching position at Navajo, I met Joe, as the Cossette home from P ete Jensen. The communit[...]Our son Michael was born in 1936 truth of the old saying, "a friend in need is a friend ind[...]38. In 1940 we moved to Wolf Because of the war shortages, many things that we Point wher[...]d to buy silverware, dishes, and In the spring of 1941 we moved to Flaxville, and lived fur[...]on our one available. 1935 Chevrolet coupe as we were driving to Plentywood to The wa[...]losing post-war slump, with a great deal of unemployment. Joe time, on the day of the deadline. los[...]. Sunday, February 2, 1947, began as a nice sunny day, and Joe took two of our children and some neighbors to the[...]occupants of two other vehicles, 15 people in all, were[...]stranded on the road two miles west of Flaxville for almost[...]running until the full tank of gas was exhausted, and after[...]In the spring of 1947 a dance orchestra, The Four Aces,[...]was formed. It consisted of Donald Tryan playing the[...] |
| family of t wo boys and two girls.[...]955, where the upkeep was cheaper, but wagon load of 1umber for Medicine Lake. They drove as far there was very little room to stock our groceries. After as Sheep Creek, a half mile from the town which is n[...]to the Postal lathing and shingling work. A part of their work was also Department for a postoffice.[...]s, to the Flaxville community to look for a piece of land on and Joe worked with the State Highway De[...]which to homestead. They located six miles south of what thirteen years. Frances has worked sixteen[...]ith got her degree at the worked in various parts of the country. Before the railroad University of Reno and her master's degree at Berkely, came thr[...]aduation Bruce Medicine Lake bringing back a load of lumber for the was appointed to both the Air For[...]ildren and spending the winters in Comet in April of 1910. They remarked on the fact that warmer clim[...]Norbert and Anna Lemm, nephew and niece of Mrs. Nick MR. AND MRS. PETER R. KURTZ Weber. They are parents of fifteen children, one daughter,[...]Jacqueline, passed away when a small girl of leukemia. as told to Dorothy Kanning The livin[...]Dennis and Carolyn of Renton, Washington; Veronica Peter Kurtz was born in Delano, Minnesota in 1889. As a (Pomerleau) of Miles City, Montana; Robert and Lyle of young man he came west, going as far as Havre, Montana · Flaxville; LeRoy of Los Angeles, California; Leo of and into Canada, working as a carpenter, and doing Cohasset, Massachusetts; Aquina (Larson) of Peerless, lathing and shingling work, and building chimneys. Montana; Donna (McDowell) of Pismo Beach, California; In 1909 he heard about the land which would be opened Darrel of Jeffrey City, Wyoming; Joan (Torno) ofCutbank, for homesteading the next year, and in March of 1910 he, Montana and Jean (Schultz) of Glendive, Montana. The his brother William and S[...]is, Joan, Henrietta, Peter, sheriff for the town of Flaxville by Sheriff Arthur E. Jean and Dennis.[...]a cattle inspector and chief of police in Flaxville during[...]those years. He became a familiar sight as he walked about[...]town at night, his police cap tilted on the back of his head, a cigar in the corner of his mouth, and a six-cell[...]flashlight in his hand. He is one of very few peace officers[...]who never has owned a car. He is known to have made the[...]During his last years as the town cop, his son Robert was[...]the deputy if Pete was out of town.[...]their children, all of whom were home for the occasion.[...]Both have been members of the Elks Club for many[...]years, and he has been in the Knights of Columbus since[...] |
| [...]imers ball game. 1922. Pete is a lifetime member of the Montana-Dakota |
| [...]e my since worked for the state in the Department of Public parents live. I attended the Miles City College of Beauty Safety. Gail and his wife have two childre[...]nto Since our parents are all descendants of pioneer families, the Army Reserve in March of 1963 for a short time. He we are quite familiar with this corner of our state. rejoined the army in 1965 where he was[...]We came to Flaxville in the fall of 1968 when John equipment training. After spending some time at Fort accepted the position of teaching mathematics in the high Leonard Wood, Mi[...]hased the former Elizabeth Hammer home a few part of their work is to formulate fiscal requirements fo[...]t the First National Bank in the Trust Department of security stocks and bonds. MR. AND MRS[...]a, Adela and Harry, came to Flaxville in December of 1898. He came with his parents in an immigr[...]the next three |
| [...]for Flaxville, with bumper crops to enable a lot of business transactions to take place. We enjoyed these early years with the main center of entertainment being the movie theatre, where, in[...]to them. Mrs. Gilbert Hammer and I were in charge of the Sunday School in our church for many years.[...], Washington, and works in the payroll department of the Washington Irrigation Development Company. Th[...]St. John's University for two years. Ben worked as a mail sorter on the Great Northern Railway betwe[...]orth Dakota and Havre, Montana for a brief period of time and then went to Great Falls, Montana. In 19[...]nd shoe repair shop. During World War I he served as a German interpreter in France. While he was gone[...]Legion sponsored a sold the most I.H.C. tractors of any dealer in the United "Major Bowes Night". Ben was master of ceremonies and States ·a nd was presented an award for this played the part of Major Bowes. accomplishment in Chicago in 1928.[...]gina Steffans were married the betterment of Flaxville and the community. He was at St. Cloud,[...]omeone less 1889 at St. Cloud, and was a graduate of the Commercial fortunate. Business College[...]ville and established their home on the east side of depression of the thirties set in. Ben felt its impact strongly[...]d helped Ben with the bookwork. They were members of He remarked to me several times that the[...]Society and Ben in the men's society and Knights of and to try to keep a good community spirit g[...]late Columbus. He also helped with the remodeling of the thirties business im proved and Be[...]the Whitetail-Flaxville Ancel Fasset died of a heart attack in St. Cloud enroute home from a t[...]ime to New Orleans. He is buried at St. Cloud. as First State Vice Commander. Regina was a member of Regina carried on th e business[...] |
| [...]is parents in 1913 to their homestead a mile east of town. He grew up on the farm with his brothers an[...]. grandmother until she died of diphtheria when I was seven. I then went to live[...]sister, Elma, Mrs. Roy Dorwin. Uncle Roy (Jim, as he is familiarly called) had come to Montana in 1[...]ome back to Montana and we all came here in March of 1925. We arrived by train and my first impression was one of[...]In 1926 my cousin Jene was born and we became as close as the many trees that grew in Wisconsin, and I coul[...]my graduation I worked in the post office a team of horses and sleigh. After refreshments at t[...] |
| [...]some of Flaxville' s good teams. He is one of the few fellows After Lora graduated from high[...]et AW orld War I veteran, Jimmy was one of the servicemen John Hassing while there and they[...]sewer system. "In this day of modern machinery nearly anyone need- Other residents 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 the job." Flaxville, who dug his o[...]new town sewer system) had to pass thru the edge of his garden and he wanted to carefully keep the to[...]Disinfection, Bacteriology, Principles of Embalming and Jimmy (real name Roy W. Dorwin) w[...]Sanitary Science, and received his certificate as a licensed years for Jim Sparling in the lumber y[...]present owner, Arden Olson. Before that he served as Flaxville's postmaster for 11 years. He first Jim Sparling came to the area as a homesteader in 1913. 81 year old Flaxvi[...] |
| [...]He wa appointed to the office of State Commissioner of[...]the time of their death s. An event of major interest took place during the 30's[...]u ed a little-traveled road n orth of the main highway.[...]hen they came to the steep hill about a mile west of town,[...]Ardys (Anderson) Peter so n , a niece of my mother, who[...]classmate of mine. She taugh t school at Peerless at one[...]time. They n ow live in Mercer Isla nd a suburb of Seattle.[...]The lives of Arnt and Carrie Stafne had their beginnings[...]the death of Arnt's fath er. Several years later, at the age .[...]n .'-iparhnR and l{wndson ,],mrnv of 16, Arnt set out on h is journey to the United St[...]a " m a n " on his own in spite of his youth. He worked to[...]s passage on the ship , and already had the trade of[...]York, knowing no on e there and with no knowledge of America when she was a young girl.[...]far away, but and proved up on a homestead north of there. They later des pite the difficulties in tr[...]ille, then a new community and town badly in need of When the rail line was built to Scobey, Dad a n[...]at Dad made the first " shingle" for his practice as mortician.[...]ng. y ars old Th y then moved to the w tern pa rt of town , The twins, Adeline and Arthur,[...], Mother often reminisced about the fact that two of[...] |
| [...]A coal stove provided the heat for all of the cooking,[...]rom the next block for many years. Mother did all of our washing by hand until most of us were grown, and also[...]house and shop in a good state of repair. He made nearly all of the tools and equipment which he used in the shop[...]and polishing plow shares was the work of a blacksmith in[...]ite need in the pioneer community. His reputation of[...]unusual to see children of all ages standing in the doorway[...]the blacksmith shop on one side of the house and a garage[...]of John our oldest son, in Wolf Point. He was also s[...]pounds each, and the rest were the average weight of ten or eleven pounds. The many hardships our pa[...]rength that saw them through the difficult tim es of raising a large, though healthy, family. After we[...]at night, Mother spent m a n y h ours sewing all of our clothes by lamplight. That in itself was an e[...]aked bread and pastries for many families in town as well as the cafe owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tousley. Mrs. Tousley and Mother in later years talked of the many times that Mrs. Tousley came from their cafe and bought all of the baked goods that Mother had just baked[...] |
| [...]retirement center on the north edge of Salem. anniversary in 1951, with many friends and[...]e School in 1939, and from the University of Montana in just two weeks before Mother's death in Great Falls. 1943. I am employed as a secretary in a C.P.A. firm in Mother and Dad[...]tired from IBM and Civil Service. years after all of us had grown, and enjoyed their Our[...]and had had three operations University of Washington and now does pollution they reluctantl[...]68. After her Willamette University in May of 1975; and Douglas Emil, loss Dad's will to live w[...]received his Master's Degree from the University of later. A son Floyd passed away in 1972 in Los Ang[...]having lived in Central Ford car in the fall of 1912 from North Dakota. They and South America an[...]and after two years sold it to Ed Dad's footsteps as a blacksmith, is employed in Jamaica, Battl[...]ldren. My folks' first impressions of Montana were that it was Reynald was the first[...]were hard in the first years and since there was as yet no high school in Flaxville, he that they[...]orseback the seven miles. During the coldest part of the Mother and Dad were married in Plentywood, Montana winters he stayed at the home of his uncle, John Grendal. on June 18, 1919. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding Mildred was a member of the first graduating class in Flax- anniversar[...]e occasion which was observed in the First All of our family escaped the flu epidemic of 1918 which Lutheran Church in Havre. took so m[...]cing, sometimes maintained that the nightly drink of honey, whiskey and as often as three times a week, and, after they had a family,[...]in Since Dr. Healy had no facilities to take care of such an running about the hills and the olde[...]ice, and then followed the We were members of the Lutheran church and all of us long wait for the train to arrive and the even[...]dren were confirmed there, and all were graduates of trip in the baggage car to Williston. By the time[...]Their oldest son, Wilbur, is the principal of the junior MR. AND MRS. EMIL M. SWENSON[...]Lori, in high school. Keith is assistant manager of the car, from McGregor, North Dakota. In 1914 he[...]ther John owned together. His first impressions of this country were its vastness and wide open spac[...]Minnesota in the early part of 1900, and Mother, a native of[...] |
| [...]miles south of Flaxville, and Mother registered for land[...]homestead there, so she later homesteaded north of Great[...]June, 1922 and Harold in May, 1924. In the fall of 1924 I[...]was 57 years of age at the time of his death. Mother[...]death on April 16, 1970, at the age of 85. Mother often spoke of their first Christmas party in[...]cupboards and a shelf with a curtain in front of it for a[...]Harold and Dorothy Thompson, children of Harry and[...]rry) Thompson. Decorah, Iowa, came in September of 1913. Her brother, |
| [...]e and writing jobs, I wa s, for ten years, editor of the Albany (California) Times, and now am Public Relations Director of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Oakland[...]er 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 i[...]family business, Value Villages, fo r the benefit of the Raymond Wittak family retarded or disabled veterans. While there, he was president of the congregation in his church for several years,[...]renting the Sheldon Haroldson farm south of Flaxville, si grandchildren. All of their family is in volved in th e which h[...]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[...]and diffi ulty falling asleep I recite the names of all the attended one year of college at Concordia College and one residents of the town when I was a child. I wish m y own[...]ELTIER TRYAN south of Redstone. During the second year, the school[...]regory Allan was born in Emma Peltier, daughter of Louie and Alice Peltier came 1962 and C[...]During the years previous to our purchase of our present George and Emma were married in 19[...]During our years of frequent moves we met many new[...]variety of experiences. MR. AND MRS. RAYMOND WITTAK[...]suddenly of cancer, came from Minnesota to make her[...] |
| [...]where Swede had been a lumber jack in the forests of They have since moved to Salem, Oregon. Florence died of northern Minnesota . They had heard that Ii ving cancer in April of 1976. conditions in this part of Montana were different from Sara Work[...]for work, A fire broke out in one of the apartments over the Edmond hired him with the agreed salary of $12.00 per day Farmers Union Co-op Market o[...]d by hot coffee and food on hand for the men as long as they the Farmers Union Oil Station where he worked until worked. There was a great deal of smoke and water damage March of 1959.[...]work with the FU shop was 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 f[...]urved in the the years. He was a veteran of World War I , and in 1956 he position to make use of the odorous substance which makes was admit[...]amputated his right leg. After his the far corner of the men's rest room, seemingly posed and return home he again tried selling his line of goods, but his ready for its next victim who used[...]he did, he dashed out into the station, shouting as he pulled then fitted with artificial legs, and[...]oe realized that With the extra burden of an invalid husband to care for, the joke had been[...]Sara closed the doors of her cafe in 1960. On May 13, two Two chi[...] |
| [...]Flaxville to dispose of our property in 1967. At Christmas time in 1962[...]ces. Lloyd reunion in Albany, Oregon, at the home of her son Garry, enlisted in the Army Signal C[...]assigned to 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 had all ret[...]phone. We were married in 1963 at Las Vegas. I of the Air Force brought 20 prisoners of war from the sold my home in Cucamonga, and we se[...]planned, POW's home from Hanoi in 1973. and as a result, we were still there at Christmas time w[...]s 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[...]returned to Belfield, North Dakota. In the spring of 1913 he and his wife, Laura, and their son. Edwar[...]set out for Plentywood, Montana which was the end of the railroad, and on to Flaxville to the new prai[...]eam and wagon. Their place was one mile northwest of Flaxville. Gaspard and Laura had three children: Edward of Flaxville, born in Belfield, North Dakota in 1911; Irene of Portland, now Mrs. William Hanisch, born in Fargo in 1913; and Norman of Arlington, Texas, born in Fargo in 1923. They c[...]ing: Shirley, Gary and Denise. ' of 1970 and Gaspard the following year in August of 1971. THE EDWARD DUVAL FAMILY |
| [...]ph bought the Chris Gebhardt farm, north and west of Four Buttes. We moved there in the fall, we also had cattle here and did some farming too. The high light of the year there was when the creek broke up in the[...]not cross the creek to come home - he had a team of horses and a load of hay. Roy Killenbeck wanted to get to town from hi[...]nch was born November 26, 1878 in Quebec, Canada. As a small boy he moved with his parents to North D[...]uebec. She came to the Grafton, North Dakota area as a young girl with her parents. They Mr. and Mrs. Amada French were married in 1904. In March of 1913 they decided to come to Montana with their young family to a homestead about one and half miles west of Flaxville. (Their son, Omer and family now reside on this same farm, at the same site). Amada came as relaxing. Amada grew his own tobacco one year but he . far as Plentywood by train with his wife and five childr[...]ily was old enough to attend school they grew out of this house, and in 1926 a large hotel from[...]d with an enclosed top-Ovila Goulet was one of the drivers. lived in for two years. In October o[...]ighbors and relatives which holds many happy help of one carpenter, relatives and neighbors, the famil[...]king a Ii ving was a family project - the raising of food adding to the enjoyment with a jig and his[...]he caller. to brand with their Dad's supervision, as well as helping Being active members in church so[...]which time the neighbors joined important part of the French family. Amada walked to in too. All wh[...]he mother and daughter and three was one of the charter members of the St. Louis Altar boys helped shock the grain).[...]ass you took a turn caring for or driving horses, as most of the was held at the Goulet farm before the building of the farm work was done with horses. It was a grea[...]at the neighbors during sickness, loss of loved ones, or sharpened by Amada right out in the field with a portable other times of need. forge. Even with all this field work, the m[...]for the farm with her family a number of years. She then[...] |
| [...]Chic; later she lived in Scobey, Cindy Garberg of Malta and Wendy Danelson of Plentywood near Alice. She was at home on the farm at the Billings. time of her death on June 16, 1961, with Omer and his[...]xville section) Montana prairie began. The family of Amada and Corrine is as follows: OMER FRENCH FAMILY LYDIA, Mrs. Emery LeMieux of Flaxville (family story in Omer was born[...]h his parents in 1913. He ALICE, Mrs. Sam Sprague of Plentywood. They have three grew up helpin[...]oved was baseball, and the French boys were cause of illness he now lives at the State Hospital in Warm an important part of the Flaxville teams. Omer worked for Springs.[...]Rasmus Nelson in 1928 and in 1934 he worked as a heavy OMER lives on the home place.[...]l 1940 when he started farming in ALFRED, "Chic", of Flaxville worked on construction the Fl[...]king on the road between jobs, served in the Army as a Construction Engineer, he Westby and Plen[...]locally until his recent retirement. of West by. They were married in 1940. They moved to the DELVINA Meader of Spokane-her family consists of present site of the French farm and have lived there ever Gary an[...]has operated a grain farm, raised hogs and ALVIDA of Scobey (see Scobey section for family story). cattle, and operated a gravel business for a number of WILFRED (Jumbo) of Flaxville, he served in the navy, years.[...]died in 1963, Marlene has been gardening, all of which has kept them busy through the hospitalized[...]These three, because of a genetic disease - PKU - are FEBULAH (Feb) Miller of Vancouver, Washington. She retarded ad[...]ton. They have three children, Kenneth, Scott and of Schools. She has two children, Dennis and Becky. Kimberly. Ken is in the Air Force as a career, Sherry works LLOYD of Flaxville (family story in Flaxville section). as an LPN and is going to night school to get her R.N. ALDA is Mrs. Eugene Mayer of Westby. They have three degree. Lu Anne,[...]aken over Omer' s farm SYLVIA is Mrs-. Todd Tryan of Flaxville. Their family is operation as he chose to retire a year ago. They have three Jack, Tully and Wade at home and Donnette Handy of children, Debbie, Raquel and Da[...] |
| [...]dad), on the past toward a peaceful future. Much of this was Wilfred Parent, Joe Parent an[...]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 knew them. Omer and Charlotte hope that they can[...]called Orville about three miles south of our place. Then the[...]railroad came in 1914 and the town of Flaxville was[...]was needed for field work, we walked! As the years passed Napoleon (Paul) Fugere, born i[...]He had the first car in the neighborhood -a Model of 1922 where they made their home on a farm three m[...]e bought in 1914. In 1916 he added on to the west of Flaxville. Their children are Percy, Wayne, Adele[...]edicine Lake. Joe Fugere lived on the farm west of Flaxville with his Many dances were he[...]ouse, too, in the years Dona Fugere, a brother of Paul, Joe, and Art, first lived before a Cat[...]axville. on the Silvio Goulet homestead southwest of Flaxville, They had a family of thirteen children - two died in later on the E. R[...]re his wife died (1939) leaving him with five of people who travelled through our area called gyps[...]North Dakota. of food. It also seemed to us that the Indians were[...]veral places, lived on the present afraid of the white people in those early days. In the fall[...]would be gone for some time with several of the neighbors Kenneth Halverson home). He also mo[...]e first school bus-by that time he had a bus load of his In the fall of 1909 Joe Goulet came from Oakwood, North[...]rs or drowning them out. house, and in the spring of 1910 he returned, bringing his Joe and[...]ife, Nellie (Parent) and four children. They came as far as moved to Scobey. The farm was then fa[...] |
| [...]of Scobey with Theophile Rheault, after which he wor[...]for the city of Scobey until his death in 1947. ground during Chr[...]rm was bought' by a son-in-law, George Safty load of possessions when the horses started to run away. (husband of Cora), whose son Ronnie rented and later Wilfred[...]oe· 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 smok[...]or Wilfred for away September 21, 1963 at the age of 78. Their family the winter. included: Alfred, the eldest, deceased; Amanda Barge of Wilfred rode his bicycle to Poplar to celebrate the Fourth Kalispell; Cora Safty of Scobey; Ovila deceased; Jeannette of July only to have it break down along the way, so he Cavanaugh of Scobey; Eugene, deceased; Raymond of threw it in the river and had to walk the rest of the way. Colfax, California; Doris Johnson of Kalispell; Earle of The children are: Kalispell; Pearl Tiegen of Troy, Montana; and Geraldine Roger served in the army at Fort Knox, Kentucky from Lindsay of Englewood, Colorado.[...]aniels County from Grafton, North Dakota by train as far as Poplar and by wagon from there. He arrived in 191[...]a three miles west and one and a half miles south of Flaxville.[...]Germany. He grew up there but at the age of 26 decided to North Dakota. She came out t[...] |
| Early day picture of Henry Hackmann family. girl Henry married, was b[...]lived in Park |
| [...]Max works Navajo and Flaxville area for a number of years before for the City Sanitation Dep[...]til about 1932. Contact was lost with them south of Redstone for many years and then retired and until 1962. A sister of Dora's had a letter from her with just moved to Plentywood in 1959. They had no children of their the word Redstone on it. This sister, E[...]three children by a previous living sister of Dora's. Emma had asked the daughter marriage. Hei:man worked for various farmers and later of .another sister of Dora's if she would give one last married Elizab[...]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'[...]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 Redstone where the and this a[...]e Great Northern Railroad. Neither Ed nor of Lena's in Iowa that she had mentioned and later o[...]She came out for several summers. After a period of with his brother Ted in Scobey. Alfred married E[...]ng families are able to Tyler. They farmed south of Flaxville until recently when communicate on[...]Plentywood. They have a family often child- As the Hachmann children grew up, they started to us[...]ille area and worked in that different spelling of their last name. Some spell it area and m[...] |
| FRANK HARDY Frank was one of the early Flaxville area homesteaders. He came he[...]12. His homestead was about three miles southeast of Flaxville. (Mrs. Ruth Fisher lives there now). Fr[...]and later lived in Flaxville. He died at the age of 87 in the 1950's. Some of the other early settlers near Flaxville were Tony Johnson , who homesteaded north of the Ben Mollerstuen place. He was a bachelor. He[...]rville; and Andrew Rudeen was a homesteader north of the Weber place.[...]ttling in Wisconsin, later Red Wing, much of. Rose was Mrs. Randall and we do not know much M[...]about her family. Mary, Mrs. Adolph Hansen of Scobey born in Norway, later coming to North Dak[...]d in Kenyon, Minnesota in 1877. Their first years of Dewey homesteaded south of the R.Y. on the Reservation marriage were spent[...]line- later he bought a large ranch north of Whitetail. Re records indicate that Torger homes[...]s struck by a train and killed in Williston. Some of the· children. They lived south of Flaxville, later moving to Salt family had gone out to Montana ahead of him. Mrs. Hen-[...]Lake City where he died in 1952. Some of his family are: drickson's homestead was about one mile south of Flax- Ralph, Roger, Lewis (a highway pat[...]r later years she lived with Tom and south of Flaxville, on land now owned by Glen Hammer. Mart[...]d in Martin's homestead was a mile south of Flaxville. He 1941 · Olive and Tillie, both deceased; Martin who died in was known for his extensive farming, cattle and hog 1955; A[...]cooked for Martin-the big pies she made with lots of died in 1939· Thomas, Jr. in 1954; Rose in 1928;[...]s place. I remember many interesting incidents of the family. I Henry homesteaded north of Redstone where he had a spent one year with Aunt[...]e. She died in 1943. They Price then. She told me of the depression years when they have one daughter, Jeanne, now Mrs. Harold Tyler of rode the box cars. Bertha married William Piester[...]were spent in Harold and · I Ii ved south of Flaxville for many years, Helena.[...]ride. All of them seemed to be hard working pioneers. I[...]those wonderful pioneers of the West![...] |
| [...]where Arthur had a barbershop of his own. Our first child,[...]of Flaxville (there was no town there then) and they[...]very much - lots of level land and fresh air. They thought[...]that we should come out too - so in the summer of 1911 we[...]the children, then three, four and five years of age and[...]our homestead; we stayed part of the time on the homestead and the rest of the time at my sister's. In 1913[...]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[...]own. I was so 1910 took up a homestead just south of Flaxville. Martin angry-but they wouldn't let me[...]nty, Minnesota. admitted that they were the cause of it! In 1913 the rail- He was a bachelor and nev[...], Tim and road came through and with it the towns of Plentywood, Dewey came to Montana together.[...]o stay on the farm alone and come to the prairies of what is now Daniels County. He with the kids, I p[...]k up a homestead about one and a half miles south of night. Flaxville.[...]brothers settled nearby; then in 1913 the mother of got a school going in one room in Flaxville with[...]s, Mrs. Ragnhild Hendrickson, came out and Hansen as the teacher. Alice started school there, we had t[...]also went to the Navajo school with Nell McGowan as the cattle. He gradually became known as a fellow who passed up no opportunities. He liked[...]o the equipment necessary to farm it. At the time of Martin's death he was farming about 500 acres of land. Pioneer barber Hillings giv[...]Then I went to Larimore, North Dakota and worked as a waitress in a cafe; there I met Arthur H[...] |
| [...]lived on an acreage in Dalton Gardens, a suburb of Coeur teacher. She would walk across the coulees[...]Circle on to our tar paper shack. We milked lots of cows and sold Pharmacy here. cream to buy[...]and vegetables. I remember carrying many buckets of sons have since passed away too: Wi[...]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[...]ch and work all day. We would bring home a couple of tons each time ' until we had our winte[...]'< It was now time for the rest of the children to go to school. Arthur got the job of d·:-iving the school bus. He bought a light wago[...]led the neighbor's children. It was quite a worry as it got so stormy at times that he could not see w[...]tle from eating them. We were now getting a lot of neighbors - Frank Hardy, Bill Cook, Henry Luchts,[...]d 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[...]was our hired man on the farm then; he took care of things there until we moved back. When the war wa[...]ter at Flaxville and Plentywood. I spent a lot of my time washing clothes on the rubbing boa[...] |
| [...]farm six miles south of Flaxville on Anders' parent's farm.[...]winter of 1974 we built a new home on the farm.[...]Eugene homesteaded in 1910 near the present site of[...]a cattle ranch in Broadus, Montana; Phoebe of Santa Andrew Husbyn Barbara, California; Dolores Loos of Santa Barbara, California; and Yvonne Bentz of Tustin, California.[...]by Eleanor Legare February 21, 1889, a son of Mikal Husbyn and Ingeborg Anna Husbyn. He was the oldest of nine children and the Back in the fall of 1924, the Joe Legare family moved only one to com[...]from Riverside, Montana (with the help of a brother-in-law, In 1909 he came to Minnesota[...]live and now owned by Frances Legare. They made As the homestead land was all taken in North Dakota[...]returned to Plummer and moved 35 head of cattle, crossing the Missouri River by bought a team of horses. One winter they drifted for home ferry with two of the cows falling in - one swam to shore again and[...]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) was pretty handy with the violin at house[...]at.his home in the early days. He died at the age of 1932. We started our life together on a farm southeast of 69 in 1958 from a heart attack. His farm was abou[...]dahl place) down in the hills and miles northeast of Flaxville. Roos's now own this place. coule[...]work Anders V. Jensen was born in Denmark, son of Jens and towards Scobey, Four Buttes or wh[...]e joined the Army where he served two years, part of the Redstone, Flaxville highway and he also[...]1966. Meredith She left behind a family of three daughters and her was born in Scobey, daughter of Albert and Winnifred husband, Al[...] |
| [...]Tom Ofte place of the early years). We took care of the cattle[...]In 1974 we moved two and a half miles south of the A.R.[...]town situated between Vida and Nick wall, south of Poplar. second daughter, Iona Mae, died at the age of six months In 1924 they moved southwest of Flaxville where they from the flu, November 22, 1[...]to first h ome-where they raised their family of eleven buy a one room cook car from Emil Otto whi[...]Handy) was born in 1939. We farmed the land south of our Thirteen children were born to the Legares, two of whom buildings too. We also drove the scho[...] |
| [...]stripped a three foot vein ofrather good quality of Pasadena, California, served 29 months in the Ale[...]pay off debts and pay for the huge quantities of groceries Washington, served in France, Belgium a[...]ocal grocer) participated in D-day; Cpl. Raymand, of Flaxville, spent was glad to take coal f[...]ermany; Seaman 2nd Class Leo, also lot of cooking during that time. By this time Clarence and of Flaxville, chose the navy. Eddie, now of Wolf Point, Donald were born so there w[...]After the stripped area was gone, Slim did some of the Legare family include: Lucille (Edwards) of underground tunneling. Another man, Jack Warren, Whitetail, Clarice (Weber) and Arthur of Flaxville, and worked with him. We often wondered why he left rather Henry of Boulder, Montana.[...]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 purcha[...]ook some blankets and they loaded Ed on many know as the "old Andrew Rodeen" place, southeast[...]him into Dr. Healy in Flaxville. He was too badly of town. Their children are: Mrs. Clara Barr, Bowlin[...]ny Linders usually had a barn dance before Ronald of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Gary of Missoula, haying time and many were he[...]r and Arnie Linder chorded on the piano HISTORY OF THE WALTER MEHLS FAMILY[...]Mrs. Mehls died March 16, 1926 at the age of 36 years. Walter and Augusta Mehls came to Daniels County from She died of childbirth with flu complications. The baby Fall[...]was born by this time. take care of the rest. She did remarkably well for a young[...]had to be done. On March 20, 1929 Bernadine died of a to live there. Many little shacks and homes beg[...]taken to Williston but it was too late as peritonitis had set sister Louise, was already settled south of Flaxville. The in. Both Mrs. Mehis and Bernadine are buried in the lure of the West and free land appealed to Walter so[...]e was born. Railroads had been built in this area as was broken up - Clarence, age twelve and Donald, age nine far as Medicine Lake. Emigrant boxcars were used to[...]Florence went to Wisconsin, Lorena worked as a maid and and cattle that far. He drove the hors[...]n, Minnesota offered to help Lucille with a built as a temporary home. This later became the chicken[...]Walter went to work for MDU Power Company out of barn and two granaries were also built. The house[...]our family left. a long time because of his back. He returned to Wisconsin There were g[...], Leslie. She died in 1962 so adjoining land such as the John Chance, Fred Stang and Walter[...]d Washington D.C. for there was coal there. Teams of horses pulling scrapers and Robert Henry,[...]nos began moving the dirt from the hillside. Some of family-Hamilton Ross. He received royalt[...]vention that improved the carburetor. Lorena died of Wrona, Henry Lucht and other neighbors. Th[...] |
| [...]graduated from high school in Fall Creek, worked as a maid for several wealthy families - married Dal[...]nd, who was killed in the Vietnam war and Richard of Flaxville. Clarence farmed south of Flaxville for many years. He passed away in 1975.[...]he Army. His health failed and he has spent a lot of time in the veteran's hospitals. He married Darle[...]Alfred Hackmann farm home-the coal mine was south of it about one-fourth mile.[...]homesteaded in Sun City, Arizona. south of Flaxville in 1915-16. He came from the Red River I, (brother Sig) recall that Peder did most of his high Valley in North Dakota in 1911 to the Ar[...]- 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 work[...]ot their master's in the area. Peder Moe was best known for his threshing degrees and went into e[...]the Flaxville area from 1917 to 1924 - doing lots of In 1925 he moved to north of Brockton and developed a threshing, 12 hours a day on the pitchfork handle. The farming operation of 6000 acres. This is now farmed by his wages[...]fall of 1924. I played baseball on the Flaxville team in[...]My wife, Adeline and I had 72 years of teaching between[...]California most of the time with her children, and myself[...](youngest son) are the only survivors of this big pioneer family of the Nils Moe's of the Archer community.[...]Province of Quebec, where he lived until he was about 20[...]years of age. When hearing of the treasures to be garnered[...]bie. Hearing of the expeditions against the Indians in the[...]He was a witness to the battle of the Little Big Horn in[...] |
| [...]one rod off by using this crude method of survey. When we[...]first came to this community we had 35 quarters of alloted[...]already worked. Together we broke 100 acres of land the[...]In the summer of 1910 the railroad came to Plentywood.[...]Lake and wagon loads of lumber, food and clothing were[...]1912 we planted potatoes in the sod and the crust of the[...]The only means of communication in those days was by[...]doctor was Doctor Healy, who came in 1913, others of the supply train, escaped the fate of the ambushed doing everything in the line of duty from delivering babies, army.[...]rs. Before Having traveled the vast void areas of Montana he was acquainted with the lay of the land. There was a rumor that there was Indian land to be had in the area of Daniels Wilfred and Georgiana Parent county. _[...]anor and three sons-in-law, David LaBlanc husband of Jane, Joe Goulet husband of Nellie, and Art Gourde, husband of Roseann, and their families shipped four immigran[...]e Custer army, knew what to do. We set fire ahead of us and then moved the wagons with all of our belongings and cattle on the spot we'd burned[...]h housed the animals and humans until such a time as homestead shacks could be erected. Land ar[...] |
| [...]rive for team and buggy. During the flu epidemic of 1918 the doctor had a driver taking him from pla[...]ircumstances. My homestead was two miles west of Flaxville. My father had a section which I purch[...]nch in 1917 and bought Arthur Gourde's homestead as he decided he was tired of pioneering and wanted to return to Grafton, North[...]9 I was united in marriage to Georgianna Rheault of Fargo, North Dakota. To this union two children[...]ine shop. Buck lives in Lewiston, Idaho, working as a construction fore- man on a large dam in New Mexico. Of the 18 children born to Alfred Parent only two survive at this writing, namely Mrs. Eugene LaRoche of Engle- wood California and Wilfred Parent, now 88, of Williston, North Dakota. The burial of loved ones were made in seclud- ed garden areas until a cemetery was established. Coffins for the burials of adults were sometimes boughten, but often hand m[...]l- 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 gr[...]saw with our own eyes some had returned to dust as prophesied. Entertainment in those early day[...]hing, rodeos and a giant roundup. We got to most of those events by riding horseback. My sister,[...]by Wilfred Parent they could see farther a way, as the grass was so tall. In late[...]about two miles southwest of now Flaxville, on the hill[...]over this water, what was part of his pasture then. Lumber Joseph Parent of Oakwood, North Dakota and Emilia was hauled from Poplar and Culbertson, by horses and Duval of Hickson, North Dakota were married January 12, sp[...]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 kerosene, until Flaxville got[...]dians passed through northeast Montana. They came as far as 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 the pasture by[...]er years, when times got tough, Joe left in April of 1910 Joe Parent and Emilia and baby daughter, and[...]t caved was set up on a hill about two miles west of Flaxville, so down, 30 feet of dirt and Leo and Frank were buried, but[...] |
| [...]up a homestead two miles west of Flaxville. In 1915 he[...]daughter of the Horace Bourassa's of the Flaxville area).[...]William and Anna's family consisted of ten daughters.[...]BERNIECE-married Ole Bjarko of the Peerless area in[...]FRANCES-married Virgil Legare of Flaxville in 1937.[...]- MARGARET-married Frederick Calkin II of Michigan.[...]VERA-married Norman Juel of Scobey in 1945. They are Mrs. Aime Carrier.(Alma)[...]active in American Legion work, Vera is a member of the Scobey Big Sky Singers of the A.L.A., they took part in[...]. This tragedy forced them to move Manager of the local ·radio station, KCGM, in Scobey. to th[...]ace for many CAROL-married Alvin Dobbins of Helena. He died in years, until he was getting up[...]y lived there PATRICIA-married Max Walter of the Whitetail and enjoyed town life, until they b[...]7. Their children are: Rodney, now lives· summer of 1971, one month apart, Joe at the age of88 years and Emilia, 83 years. The place was sold[...]ill Parent (right)-1912 . through the early years of homestead days, and raised a large family of ten children, six daughters and four sons. One so[...]Emilia's children are: ALMA married Aime Carrier of Four Buttes, Montana in 1927.- They have five chi[...]one daughter, Paula. LOUIS married Roze Zimmerman of Beckemeyer, Illinois. They have five children, Le[...]lix Wicka, (deceased), later married Ken McFarlen of Great Falls (deceased). Lucille now lives[...] |
| [...]married in 1904, and moved to in Honakaa, Island of Hawaii; and Maxine, Mrs. Paul the Fla[...]ntain Bell in Scobey. Gene is southwest of Flaxville. They farmed there through all the active in many civic organizations, as is Patti. She is a hard years of drought (we remember the blowing thistles!). member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Scobey[...]s sister) -then Dad started mining coal northeast of Patti and Gene's children are: James, Michael and[...]October 13, 1971; Deanna, married to Mark Jensen of doing carpenter work at this time. In 1960[...]rs old. American Legion Auxiliary and is also one of the Big Sky Our family consisted of: Raymond, deceased; Clifford, Singers. She works[...]1943; Loren lives in MARILYN-married Artley Svir of Minnesota. Their two Williston and is[...]y live in Great Falls. self, Rose Gibbs of Boulder, Colorado. William Parent died at the age of 64 in 1954. His wife, Anna, moved into Flaxville[...]42-left to right top row: The name of Roos is a derivative of Rose. The Berniece, Margaret, Eleanor, Ruth, Vera and Frances. grandfather of August Roos, Sr. was a soldier in the Bottom: Patricia, (father) Bill with Maril[...]He developed a black rose, and in honor of this accomplishment, adopted the name of Roos.[...]parents at the age of 13 and grew to manhood in Pierz,[...] |
| [...]rn on June 16, 1928. My parents were Mr. and east of Flaxville. After he had built his shack and made Mrs. C.P. Fisher of Scobey. other preparations, he returned to Minnes[...]ied on January 29, 1947. We bought a small spring of 1912, the family came by train to Plentywood. house and moved it to the farm home site of Fritz's parents. Their household goods and livest[...]ay at the for August and Lenora to raise a family of twelve children: age of three months. Fritz Jr. was born in 1949. He was[...]o begin the Scobey hospital; Elizabeth (Hackmann) of Wolf Point; his practice there. Dr. Krogs[...]n time for the baby's delivery, however. Fritz is as (Seiler), employed in a nursing home in Glasgow,[...]her husband have two sons. Montana; Louise (Tax) of Othello, Washington; Raymond, They live[...]and we then decided to apply for the adoption of a baby. In Agnes (Beeks) of Chicago, Illinois. 1[...]the other things that interests meant many hours of hard work, but there were keep a young g[...]ns, Henry, Jr. Henry and Fritz, while the history of the Roos family[...]s at Havre, continues with the living descendants of August and[...]John Roos farm three miles north of Flaxville.[...]JOHN ROOS Fritz, the eleventh child in a family of twelve, was born to Mrs. and Mrs. August Roos on[...]on April 27, 1883 at his hitch in the army, part of which was spent in Japan and Mintenba[...] |
| [...]at the Daniels Memorial Hospital after an illness of several months.[...]by Geraldine Safty Ronald Safty, son of George and Cora Safty of Whitetail, |
| [...]We have one son and a daughter. Leslie, now of Billings, Flaxville. They were brought here by Pete Johnson. Harry married the former Delores Tkachyk of Scobey. They have and Art farmed with their fathe[...]renchy) in the Army Air Corps in 1941. Arthur now of Billings, Girard of Scobey. They have four girls and one boy. went in[...]d his brother Art, together farmed the One of my treasured souvenirs is a registered letter, Se[...]etter contained a five Harry married Jean Baker of Norwalk, Ohio in Great dollar bill and[...]e plane was Mary attends Montana State University as a sophomore. recovered, and the mail was[...]months at the bottom of the ocean. Harry died in 1972 as a result of an accident on an oil drilling job. MR[...]ona came to Flaxville in 1918. He was among |
| [...]FOUR BUTTES chairman of the Board of County Commissioners,[...]ce for 19 years surrounding rolling prairies west of Scobey were known towhen they retired and went to live in Oregon. They have early fur traders and map-makers as Whiskey Buttes. They since passed a way. are to b[...]so on an 1859 map that was produced at the behest of the[...]ur Buttes Store - October 1963 Bennett, president of North Country Town site and Land Company bought l[...]nd subdivided into lots and sold them. The town of Four Buttes began in 1926, a few months after the[...]n the Four Buttes Farmers Elevator began the last of June, 1926. It was receiving grain by August, 1926 and had a capacity of 35,000 bushels. Another elevator was built by a l[...]er that year. E.A. Enochson was the first manager of the Farmers Elevator. He continued in that capaci[...]ce then and it has been enlarged by thcl addition of an annex and three large tube bins. The managers[...]1926 by Herman Wagner. Assisting in the operation of the store and post office was Hans Kjos. H[...] |
| [...]assort - NORMAN ment of spices and canned ; M RCANTILE i[...]still ,a re looking for when you come \ be plenty of planting weather · in, j,ust holler, and we'll[...]where: J A wide variety of items from : Some Hot News[...]n Mere. offers . you a metic items. Paper tissues of var- 5 % d iscount\ on all individual ious kinds.[...]y general store, Just to g·ive you some idea of just like this one, ,t hat big, mod- the things[...]~ pillow cases. ·some of these beast.[...]ful.l : Four Buttes, Mont. |
| [...]Valley City, North Dakota. They settled north of Four[...]married Phyllis Hanger of Pleasant Prairie. They have[...]e was one telephone in town, a went to work as manager of the F.U. Carriers and we lived crank on a box on[...]alled to the telephone a messenger service charge of insurance agent for M.F.U. Since 1974[...]. We have three children Willie, Michel and times of the day or night. Since 1949 the mail is deliver~[...]interests and raise cattle. Leonard is the son of the late Pete the branch and for a means of transportation when the Vandeberg and Joan is one of the Bonneau family of roads were blocked. That is no more since the pas[...]November 1966 he married Mileen Peterson of Conrad, highway was built west from Scobey to Fou[...]e road. They are early-day to get television, one of the last areas in the nation. settlers.[...]phones all through the county farm homes are just as nice and as modern as town homes, and every one has a repair shop. Ther[...]lentiful in this roomy, big sky, clean air county of ours. Norm[...] |
| [...]school in Scobey. They are originally natives of the farming and cattle. Gary also has a sports eq[...], Kevin and Brian. Kevin is in the medical branch of here with children Tammy, Donna and Lonie.[...]in connection with his uncle is the son of Clarence and Olive Hellickson, old time Sam Hanso[...]teaded earlier. Eddie married residents of Daniels County. Kay got his schooling in Marie Marik of Nebraska in 1928. There are four great Scobey. He has been working in various parts of the grandchildren. Eddie was a good and helpful n[...]Melvin Werdal and Eileen are long-time residents of compiled[...]Buttes for 16 secretary-treasurer. Some of the meetings were all day years; retired farmers from north of town and they ran the affairs with dinner served in the evenings. Since few of the bar and cafe for several years. Their main pa[...]was organized in 1953 with Mrs. Kermit Ferestad as and Emilia Miller, from Saskatchewan, Canada in 1[...]in 1936. Alfred Kaul as secretary-treasurer. Charter members still Howard and .Lorna Dahl are long-time residents of Four in the club are Mrs. Ted Skornogoski,[...]e, and on to who was also charter member of the former club. The club high school in Scobey.[...]n the bar and cafe for a time. Howard is the son of the late Ben Dahl and Lura, who lives in Scobey.[...]Harriet Gilchrist, the eldest daughter of Elmer and Dakota, and homesteaded one-half mile east of Four Buttes Margaret Gilchrist, early pion[...]ver missed a day to come to the store to get known as "the flat", south and west of present day Four the mail and visit with friends[...]Their children: Wanda Lee who died site of the school. at the age of two and a half; Janet and Richard got their Harriet gave an acre of her homestead land on which to elementary schooli[...]uated from build a permanent school, known as the Gilchrist school. Scobey High and went on to[...]d a repair business. Richard married Dianne Sharp of The school was large and always well eq[...]rams performed in the early years at least), than as a Laura continues to live on the family farm.[...]town are: Steve and Mary Ann side of the school room had a row of large windows across Shipstead. Steve is the son of Jim Shipstead of South Four it; the east wall had two small ones high up on the wall. Buttes and Mary Ann is of the Bruhn family of Wolf Point. Lulu (Manley) Audet remembers what a great set of maps Steve has worked for the elevator for[...] |
| [...]English in her two years of teaching. The three Gilmore[...]and returned to Minnesota, the only one of the Elmer[...]boarded at the Melvin Evensons as Miss Weber did. Harriet Gilchrist -[...]. 53 in Sheridan County |
| taught a number of years. In later years Ruth Shiell, and[...]hool District Clerk, ground equipment, consisting of slides, swings and giant a very kind and o[...]o offered to take slide, remained in the one acre of woven wire fence but care ofmy luggage an[...]to the courthouse to meet about the only reminder of this site of learning now is a the County Superintendent[...]sh. flights of stairs we entered a very small office at the front of Margaret Chicoine[...]RISE AND SHINE of things to me about Montana schools curriculum, sc[...]r me in an hour, so I , friend and former teacher of mine told me Daniels County scooted down to the Scobey Drug and bought some tooth had schools of this nature and gave me the name of a paste. Mrs. Joe Walker was the clerk[...]ksendahl, whom I later met). postmaster, of my mail route address. I was most anxious She tol[...]through. Right again! Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe were two of was sunny with water running down the streets. I[...]e and when she discovered I was feasting on a box of glad to exchange my flowery hat, etc. for th[...]partook of a very good supper, a sample of all the good[...]of books, etc. and playground equipment and a barn f[...]horses of the children who drove to school.[...]nit( a /.art of this school because this schoolhouse had a[...]a dictionary (large) on a stand, a wall map of the world, a[...] |
| [...]dow. An event of memorable importance was a trip to the Each[...]the gate shut. I I learned she was Mrs. Art Strom of Scobey. saw that the flag monitor had the flag[...]nd walked home with We could have been 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[...]ecessary, by bringing and there was a busy time of activity. blankets, a keros[...]from home. The school trustees had a good supply of weekly trek to Scobey. Evelyn took music lessons[...]o say good-bye to the Mr. Evenson was a lover of flowers and kept a beautiful pupils, to Roman Suc[...]ers brought kind, thoughtful and ever considerate of the teacher. Then the children to town (the men[...]n much French. program was settled upon in place of a Christmas one. The The books were checked[...]had been decided upon. For this play a wardrobe of clothes was provided. needed. The teacher contributed an array of hats, shoes, The grand Evensons had made i[...]en the Buttes. Mrs. Robbins was taking a suitcase of butter to sell teacher arrived to unlock the door[...]r dismay that were going in to shop and take care of business matters. someone had camped in the schoo[...]and any other Thus ended my first year of teaching in Daniels County. locked cabinets, leav[...]ANDERSON could use. The County Superintendent of Schools visits were looked My dad came to Scobey in the spring of 1913. He filed his forward to by teacher and pupi[...]sitation, Mrs. claim on a homestead one mile west of the Four Buttes.[...] |
| [...]live in Montana and two in California. Bennie was of 1914 with his wife Bridget and daughters Muriel,[...]a Mae, sons William Jr. (Bill), and baby the 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[...]n 1924 to Albert Bernard he settling in a new way of life. came to Sc[...]e city until he retired We had the experiences of all the early settlers. Gladys because of ill heal th in 1939. Many of the trees and shrubs and Bill hauled water on a s[...]to her family kerosene, so we were without light as he could not get home and home. She was a faithful and active member of the through the storm until morning. When my moth[...]little while crossing the street on the east end of Scobey on shop at our farm. He sharpened plow sha[...]th Tom Smith. Then during harvest he would go out as a separator man on threshing crews. Young Bill we[...]ame in 1912 with her Muriel taught in a number of country schools in those parents, Claudia and Fer[...]a man wanted for murder in Montreal. In the fall of 1954 he was elected sheriff, but _ did not live t[...]nd married Avon Powell, a mail man up to the time of his retirement in 1945 due to ill health. They st[...]One daughter passed away in the 1960's at the age of forty. Bill worked at Greengards Clothing Stor[...]in Billings until his health failed. He was rated as one of the best clothing salesmen in northeast Mo[...] |
| [...]the money under his plate. We remember most of all their farm from the David Brothers in 1924. B[...]sometimes brought in the house for extra beds, as often present time Roy Killenbeck is leasing it.[...]n six children: Arthur Audet, who consisted of cedar fence -posts, barb wire, coal, groceries, h[...]or 29 years; Gertrude flour, barrels of kerosene and much lumber, as everyone Brenkman, Great Falls;-Violet Hawbaker, farms south of was building or improving their homestea[...]etts; common cause. We can remember many of these people Joan Sell, Helena. Donald and Leonie[...]ht. All were glad to be inside where it was warm, as an from the farm in 1949 and bought a house in Se[...]the stormy night. Frenchmen have always been known for their happy, fun~ So, in this way[...]wood was our first home in Montana. John or Jack as he was called, broke horses at the Andrew Fadness Ranch. The family then consisted of John and Elizabeth Baldry, son Harold and daught[...]moved to the Dave Tingley place, on the big bend of the Poplar River. To start our little farm or ranch consisted of a 16x20 tar paper house, a little stable and cor[...]herd with their tails up and poor, but most of the time happy. headed for the river and our litt[...]cnics and ball games in the summer, machine. Some of the tarpaper and laths were tore off the wi[...]ollins, Henry river settled down to grazing again as if nothing had Siggelkow, Archie La Pei[...]Skerritt. We have many memories of the long winters and trips to We moved fr[...]ards or have a dance at miles west of Opheim, into the badlands to ranch in someone's p[...]But with overcrowded range conditions, the crash of roads were hard-packed with much travel by horse-[...]to the same old area in 1930, A large portion of the grain raised was hauled, in winter, to star[...]with a big family, on sleighs to Scobey, Montana as it was the end of the but we always tried to have a band of sheep and raised a railroad line at that time. We[...]d. It was not north in Saskatchewan, Canada. Many of the Canadians drudgery to us - it was a way of life. hauled their grain to Scobey market, as it was too far to Ruth Baldry married Eln[...]er have what they called then a "stopping place". As it was too far extensive farm and ranch holdi[...]Harold Baldry married Mae Lapke, who had two of horses for feed and partook of their meals with us and daughters an[...] |
| [...]1942. Isabelle During those early years of their marriage five children, passed away in 1974[...]Air moved to a homestead five miles northeast of what is now Borne in Europe in 1944. They have on[...], and her patience to no end in such trying times of our days in Montana. With no modern conveniences,[...]er good food Lawrence D. Bernard, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. William came from it. Wood was scarc[...]ing. Elizabeth Baldry passed away in 1948. as the War Department informed his parents he was[...]considered "missing in action " from the date of the visit with his friends and neighbors. He was never too busy surrender of Corregidor, May 7, 1942. to lend a hand. He was always glad when new people came, as it meant more schools, churches and roads. Althou[...]greedy man, and al ways Leo Bernard, 35, son of Mr. and Mrs . William Bernard, was said "if it· was used right there was plenty of land for overcome with a heart attack on t[...]them November 26, 1942. they'll take care of you". In his twilight years he loved to ta[...] |
| [...]IAN AND ANNIE BLANC died in 1942 while a prisoner of the Japanese, and Leo who by Kathleen Adams a[...]d three years in the army, he decided to the help of his sons. In 1958 he retired from active[...]her community and trip, he worked his way over as a fireman on a freighter to financial endeavors.[...]hington hospital following two and one-half years of treatment for an incurable Mr. and[...]e Larsen, died May 2, 1971 in the Scobey hospital of a brain tumor. They have two children, Leon and W[...]William Bernard died on July 4, 1962 at the age of 84 years; and Beatrice Bernard died on December 3, 1969 at the age of 87 years. The remaining members of the Bernard family now consist of two sons and four daughters: Arthur, married to Stella Erstad. They have one son William. They farm south of Four Buttes. Gerard, retired from farming and is spending most of his time traveling. Jean, married to Martin Man[...]ttenger, and eleven grandchildren. They farm west of Four Buttes. Leonie married George Blanc. (He died August 10, 1974). She farms west of Four Buttes. Josephine married to Robert[...] |
| [...]d 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[...]ie McHugh was born in Ireland in 1882. At the age of twenty she went to England to work as domestic helper. After nine years she decided to come to the United States where she had two brothers, one of whom, Jack, was employed at the Peter Marron ranch. Other friends of hers in the Plentywood area were Mrs. John Falxa and Annie Connolly. To her, Plentywood was the end of nowhere, for Plentywood in 1912 was like most pra[...]oved "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 1946 when they m[...]ntil she went to Minot, Annie died in February of 1951 in Billings while on her North Dakota, w[...]ved with her new diet. They lived remaining years of his life visiting his children and taking in Scobey for a number of years before moving back to their occasional trip[...]uary 1942; her husband Just south of present day Four Buttes, Montana, an area passed[...]of the townsite of present day Four Buttes. These folks[...]Chicoine was born in Upton , Quebec in 1888 and As great-nieces of Zabe and Deline (Chicoine) Chartier, on March 6, 1910 at the age of 21 left the town of not much is remembered about them by us, but they[...]lar, Montana by be mentioned in the early history of our county since they train. There, he paid $[...]a lumber wagon came in 1908 and settled southwest of Four Buttes, the headed for Old Scobey. F[...]y-walking plow, my dad broke up his had travelled as far west as San Francisco in his younger first 40 acres[...]who settled to make a go of it. They came from Quebec to Kalispell,[...] |
| [...]er program when both crepe returned in the spring of 1915 with his wife Maggi and two paper sash[...]od they lived on farming but he was proud of his school board membership my mother's place for[...]at the Gilchrist school which covered most of the school's 1916 was an eventful year for Arthur. The first of his five history. Later he was an ASC board me[...]he time were proved up his claim, and for the sum of$410.00 purchased mechanically minded but as I recall our dad kept mother his first car, a Mod[...]and us girls in a state of suspense a lot with mechanics, as In the next few years we moved to the Chartier[...]o market. returned to Minnesota to bring the rest of his family west; He hauled to Medicine Lake[...]to sew and "she took a great deal of ribbing" from dad as to Left to right: Margaret, Dorothy, Marraine, Alyce and Normans: Melvin Eve[...]rs bought the |
| [...]ten and it provided us with warmth and that sense of pick up the various items in town fo[...]er and dad was the in the sack and all of the money she had been leaving in the one who cou[...]In 1910 there was a regular rodeo on Fourth of July at-Old some neighbors barn where, after bedd[...]one lived on every 320 acres. People· on benches of in the loft, the grown-ups would dance, often[...]ens 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[...]to a drifter. In the early never outgrew her love of dolls, and each granddaughter years S[...]y days. When There were a lot of horses running loose belonging to relatives from out-of-state visited, it required a trip to the Shi[...]s against the horses and cattle. Herders and lots of visiting.[...]ose Tingleys. but he never retired from the land, as he liked to garden and Tingley showed him t[...]get married." the farm and winters in the states of Washington and There was a lot of bootlegging on the flat during California. These were the years of seeing their eleven prohibition. One[...]were plowing land and found a five-gallon barrel of Karnes Sundby and owned by the four remaining dau[...]tson, Seattle; and Phyllis Lar- full of thistles. We went to get equipment to get it out,[...]Charles Chicoine, son of Norbert and Eugenie Chicoine, Timmons pointed wes[...]was born July 24, 1887 in Adamsville, Province of Quebec. You'll see the buildings." Chartier's pla[...]ad snared some gophers and had harnessed up three of the animals and were trying to drive them around.[...]other event Art rem em hers is a fire in the fall of 1910, believed set by an outside sheep outfit that was in the habit of burning off the old grass when it left the[...] |
| [...]d to Quebec where he met and married Emma LaBlanc of Chicago. Emma was a friend of Charles' sister Bernadette. They returned to Char[...]ghters Rita and Anita (Mrs. the youngest of the Chicoin~ brothers to come from Quebec, Erling[...]Canada, came in 1913 and homesteaded on the well known Bjarko. "flat" area south of Four Buttes. The Alvin Rustabakkes Harry Bjarko[...]Leo, who played a violin at many of the dances, was the artistic dreamer of the family and not meant to be a tiller of THE LEO CHICOINE FAMILY[...]booming days of the building of Ft. Peck Dam, the Leo Mable Nelson came from P[...]and spent many hours being only about one-fourth of a mile away, Mabel decided doing some fine w[...]l live in Wolf Point. Mabel has four the location of the stack she was able to get her directions gr[...]n, arriving at the Blattners exhausted. Days such as these she learned to do oil painting from Mrs. Blattner and still has some of her own paintings and some of Mrs. Blattners.[...]re were many good dances, which were held in some of the J.W. Conroy and his twin sons, James H. (Jim) and John barns and homes of the neighbors. H. (Jack), came to Montana in the summer of 1916 and[...] |
| settled 15 miles west of Scobey. They came from Austin, C[...]be the first manager of the newly organized Farmer's[...]Model T Ford. In spite of the bad roads, we made the trip[...]finding the riv ht road as there were no road signs, and very[...]and no trees. It seemed as though we had reached the end of[...]yet completed. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Conroy As a small child, and over the years, I remember my[...]took along blankets so Four Buttes - Fall of 1926 |
| So we settled into the routine of work, raising our family had worked in Spokane[...]tchered for Sam Burgess then came the rough years of the "Dirty Thirties". and Gus Dahlquist. Carl made a success of the elevator during both the good He and B[...]ed on adjoining half and the bad years. It seemed as though everything was sections and also[...]rs. During the winter of 1918 he went back to Neche, North Then Carl met[...]This happened on May 28, 1943. of Mullinahone, Ireland. In the spring they returned[...]with mules and sled. Their home was one of the first The rest of the family grew up, married and have[...]in Scobey and died in 1968. They through a period of sorrow - it was and always will have a have f[...]Angeline Enochson the O.J. Daley place west of Scobey where they still live.[...]John is married to Dorothy Feltis of Peerless (194 7). He[...]girls and four grandchildren. miles southwest of Scobey. He was a butcher by trade and Be[...]Gerald is married to Clara Olson of Tioga, North Dakota.[...]Some of the early day activities were family picnics,[...]of July celebrations in Scobey, and going to church[...]Melvin Evenson was one of the early settlers near[...]homesteaded fifteen miles west of Scobey. He came from[...]After attending the University of North Dakota, his[...]and clerking. One of the first things he did on his[...]homestead was to plant a grove of trees, which grew well.[...] |
| [...]Evelyn passed away at the age of nineteen years while[...]Evenson from 1922 to 1941, most of that time in the Four Buttes area[...]Avondale area in Valley County where both of their[...]parents homesteaded in 1913, the L.D. Flickingers of South[...]in a plane crash as a test pilot; Hazen, Jr. is head of the[...]daughter; Nina is Mrs. Lyle Walstad of the Opheim area,[...]ey have seven children; and Charles with a family of[...]area. Opal is the only one of the family who graduated from[...]Scobey High School, the rest of the children graduated[...]Bryan, a twin brother of Hazen's, lived in the Four[...]Norma, Mrs. Louis Milhon of Dillon, has two children and[...]of Rainier, Washington has two children.[...] |
| [...]ord truck. We lived the first summer a mile north of Four[...]ickenger, Nina (Flickenger) Walstad Audet as one of his teachers here. He went on to earn a Mary Anne[...]' Doctorate in engineering. Six of the sons served a total of Bryan's wife Marjorie, Bryan's daughter.[...]ns in 1969. The children are all living; in order of age Ruppel of Glasgow. The family has vivid memories of they are: Myself (Clarence) and Jim of Daniels County; W.P.A. days and dust storms. The[...]John at Roundup; Francis at Jordan; Evelyn of Salem, reside in Opheim. Oregon; Guy at Plains; Angeline of Rialto, California· Leo of Plains; Helen at Helena; Martin of Plains; Ruth of Portland, Oregon; and LeRoy of Torrance, California. THE CHRIS GEBHARD[...]rch 16, 1862, married Margaret Becker a childhood |
| [...]ame to Daniels County in 1914. publication of Montana State College Extension Service. He retur[...]with his hard work, there was still lots of time for fun--dances, ball wife and sons, William[...]and family moved to they milked 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 tra[...]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 homesteaded south and west of Four Buttes, commonly called "The Flats". Marga[...]ambitious, hard-working, very capable "Grandma", as she was called by everyone in later years, could[...]summer in Montana she sat and made rose beads out of wild roses by the hour! They built a large two-st[...]e ground, with nothing salvaged but a drawer full of pictures. They then bought land and a house a few[...]ad fine Percheron horses and had the largest span of teams in the vicinity--sixteen head, with four ab[...]phers traveling in the area wanted to make movies of them, but the Gilchrists would have none of it. Elmer invented a hitch called the Gilc[...] |
| [...]hounds, goats and horses of all breeds--among them[...]appaloosas. He was an ardent horseman and was one of the founders and a past president of the Scobey Saddle[...]nearest timber to be used in construction of the clubhouse,[...]of the time on horseback, or by buggy or sled, keepi[...]attend high school there, spent the winter of 37-38 in[...]ochester, Washington, then returned in the spring of carpentry work herself), where she resided until[...]r farms the land. Delbert married Theresa Kurtz of there. She married John L. Wolters in Plentywood,[...]A "shivaree" as mentioned in the above story was a loud[...]an evening of fun.[...]1915 from Monticello, Minnesota and settled west of[...]ied in 1925 to Beatrice Sullivan, they lived west of[...] |
| [...]and Ingeliev had met at Lardal, Norway. In April of the same Four Buttes Little Cardinals ba[...]they returned to his homestead seven miles south of Wahl. Second row from left to right: Harold Dean Nehring, Four Buttes via Poplar by a team of horses and wagon. Danny Ferestad, Den[...]Ferestad. adequately as a protection from the elements but soon became too small as the family grew in number. Five children were bor[...]was built. of July celebrations, and pot luck suppers among the[...]by Ernest home. Gampp and the school was known as the Ferestad School. Volga married Arthur Garberg of Whitetail and lives at Many activities were cente[...]Irene married Russell (Pete) Morris of Great Falls. They Frank Bennie's and Tonjums were some of the families had two children, Barba[...]linski had Healy married Arlene Dahl of Scobey and has five no children they played an ac[...]resides in Portland, Oregon. All five children of the Ferestad family were members of LouElla married James C. Warren of Cordele, Georgia. the Scobey Lutheran Church.[...]d, Oregon for 25 years but have With the advent of the depression, drought, rece[...]ing but Kermit married Olive Dugan of Poplar. worry and desperation but there were many[...]Most people remember Mrs. Ferestad as a happy, gentle; such as picnics on Police Creek, chokecherry pickings, 4th helpful person. She knew the perils of the prairie and the Front row: Ivar and[...] |
| hardships of the early 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[...]ounts on the "Old Timers". He spends a great deal of time reminiscing about his old friends on incidents of the past. He feels so fortunate to have played a part in molding some of Daniels County history.[...]16. He homesteaded first on the reservation south of the Thunem place. Later he bought his brother, To[...]ter the war he returned and later met Dora Berger of Verendyre, North Dakota who came to Daniels Count[...]met was Mildred Lekvold Poyner. Dora is a sister of Carl Berger of Whitetail.[...]Ira Ferestad married Arline Grove of Peerless, Montana,[...]farm, eight miles south of Four Buttes, with his brother[...]Kermit, the youngest son of I var and Ingeliev Ferestad, Ferestad family. Lef[...]p row: Donna, Ira, Carroll, married Olive Dugan of Poplar, Montana, who was one of Dorothy. Bottom: Inger, Gary, Dora.[...]wing World War II he and his wife Warner Harrison of Scobey, Dorothy married Jim Albright returned to Scobey and took up farming and ranching of Dubois, Wyoming. They also had three sons, Ira, C[...]ter purchased. and Gary. Ira married Arline Grove of Peerless. Carroll Four children were born to Kermit and Olive, namely married Darla Danelson of Scobey and Gary married Shari Danny, Dennis, Dean and Diane. All four children Davis of Minnesota. All five children graduated from[...]and graduated. Scobey High School and are members of the Scobey Danny attended Ellenda[...]ta and EMC in Billings. He married Rosalie Rustad of[...] |
| [...]Leah Rae and Lance. Kermit is a member of the Scobey Saddle Club, the They live in Bozeman[...]onnected with the LG.A. grocery store. Dan serves as a family are members of the Catholic church. Lieutenant in the.National G[...]I came to Scobey in the spring of 1914 with my mother,[...]spring' of 1912. They both took up homesteads a few miles[...]south of Four Buttes. They both received their[...]Montana from Rouville County Province of Quebec,[...]Only three of the family are Ii ving today: Mary Gilmore[...]Jarton of Vancouver, British Columbia; James Patrick[...]Gilmore of Colton, California; and I , Gertrude Gilmore[...]Mulotte of Butte, Montana.[...]his family to the Four Buttes area in August of 1941. He Dakota and Aberdeen State Teachers Colle[...]fifth grade. His Dakota and received his Bachelor of Science degree. He teacher was Mrs. Lulu Audet. He attended Scobey schools married Bonnie Fouhy of Peerless and they have two and graduat[...]e to rising costs Phyllis Hanger, daughter of Paul and Laura Hanger. returned to Montana. He is[...]s 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 t[...]graduated from Scobey High School. I worked as secretary Dean graduated from Dawson Junior Col[...]years. Glendive, Montana. He married Myrna French of Flaxville After we were married we lived[...]ifornia while Bud finished the service. In August of Dean worked two years at the Equity Elevator of Wolf 1963 we moved to Paul Hanger's farm[...]Myrna, his wife, is a In the spring of 1966 we moved into Scobey and Bud beautician alon[...]School and is Rapid City South Dakota. She worked as a secretary m currently employed with th[...]ation was Jordan, Montana where our second Dakken of Great Falls. At present they are living in Park[...]d to Glendive. Our son, Arlin Lee, was A number of neighbors will recall the hard winters of born in Scobey. We moved back to Scobey in[...]es for groceries and arrived home once just ahead of an old-fashioned blizzard. There was so much[...]winter that he could walk right into the hay loft of his big barn. The pigs were even snowed in. An[...]tein arrived in what is now old bunk house served as the pig's living quarters . Kermit Daniels County in 1910 with their family of seven. They fed the animals through the stove pip[...]the door shoveled out. After the death of two children from diphtheria, my father[...] |
| [...]party for poorly prepared food. As time passed on there him as a hired hand also came with them. All that were[...]e were crop failures and eligible took homesteads as well as Harry Lewis, who later sickness. married[...]with nostalgia and think how fortunate we Much of the land has changed hands by now, however were to have been in Daniels County as early settlers and to Sid's widow, Laura, lives o[...]M.A. LaMotte of St. Marie, Illinois came to Scobey on the[...]Police Creek six miles west of Silver Star Hall. Joining[...]were the homesteads of Olive Rhodes, Jim and Rex Rhodes,[...]children were Mildred Neilson of Davenport, Washington, Joe's old homestead -[...]g place to be, with nothing but |
| [...]Murphy's homestead, married BeverlyJ. Schwartz of Sauk[...]Connie (Mrs. Bernie Shafer) of Denver, Colorado; and[...]Candace (Mrs. Gary Linder) of Flaxville; and a son, Michael Kenneth Murphy of Scobey.[...]Canada by train to Scobey in the year of 1915 (February),[...]and took a homestead by Stony Butte west of Four Buttes.[...]Creek, so they moved the house northwest of the Buttes,[...]and built the barn. There he had a lot of horses and cattle. Marion and Daisy's 50th Weddin[...]1969 and Mildred in 1974. I still live southwest of Four Buttes.[...]Gilchrist, who had homesteaded on the flat south of Four Buttes with her sister Pearl (later Mrs. Art[...]c where he built a new home. He children are Gary of Wyola, Montana; Janice (Mrs. Keith loved card games with his friends. For many years they Norby) of Sidney, Montana; and Joslyn (Mrs. John[...]to Scobey to pass the summers here. Mrs. Murphy) of Yakima, Washington. Maurice and Marian[...] |
| [...]was also one of the first farmers to use a crawler-type[...]tractor and "fresno" in exec>~vating the basement of what is[...]At the peak of his farming career, Selmer had 15,000 Aime Carrier acres of cultivated and pasture land, 3,200 of which was[...]as many as 275 calves were branded in one day, and 100 Alm[...]Nelson Brothers shipped their cattle to northwest of Scobey.[...]of Wagoner, Garrison and Abbot. Selmer's considerabl[...]market. In 1975 at the age of 81, Selmer still placed his[...]T.W. Collinson during the winter of the flu epidemic in[...]rn in Mekinoc, North Dakota, in hundreds of miles over prairie roads, deep in snow, to bring 1894. At the age of 19 in 1914 Selmer came to Daniels medicine to those who were sick. Selmer and Carl County as an employee of the Avery Farm Machine Enochson, manager of Four Buttes elevator were Company out of Peoria, Illinois. His job was to keep the big i[...]g every home to survey interest and potential use of was working part time for Ole Shipstead as a farm hand. rural electric services on th[...]rs Selmer In 1915 Selmer broke one-half section of state land in the was president of the Four Buttes Farmer's Elevator and Four Buttes[...]med expedited the considerable job of getting materials to continuously by him for 60 y[...]ore when there was a tremendous shortage of construction sections of land were purchased. This partnership lasted materials. Nelson was a member of the Williston Elks until 1922. Besides the beginnings of what later became Lodge and the Scobey Sad[...]worked many Elizabeth Brown Nelson, known to everyone as winters at the Ford Garage which was owned by Sho[...]was fifteen years old. Norman Nelson, a brother of Selmer, came to Scobey in Her parents, Mr.[...]nership was formed which lasted until north of Wolf Point. Residents of the Scobey and Wolf Point Norman's death in 1969. When cattle became a part of their communities will long remember the cry[...]nd his 82-pound their brand, "N Over Lazy B". One of the most colorful and wife ran a hamburger stand on Fourth of July's, innovative aspects of Selmer Nelson's history in Montana s[...] |
| Brownie received most of her high school education in Iowa and Fargo, Nort[...]nt High School. She later attended the University of Montana at Missoula and taught at the Liberty Cou[...]married. "Brownie" Nelson has been very active as a member of the St. Philip's Catholic Church. She also, for m[...]n Seattle, Washington. Lois married Maurice Davin of Walla Walla, Washington and now lives in Spokane,[...]We moved to town the next year, as Lula was in the[...]folks drove us in the car. Our family consisted of my parents, Elmer and Hilda When Earl[...]ather died in 1956 and my mother, who is 86 years of and his family had immigrated to Canada from Minn[...]ere dad was born. He filed on a homestead and all of us Dubuc, Saskatchewan. Earl passed away in[...]lf-way we left our home July, 1904, by way of Krirtanstad, place. We had a large barn and they[...]eir way home. These people hauled rough as usual. grain in wagons or sleds, whatever the wea[...]nded in England. We went across My first memory of a Christmas was that my folks didn't to Live[...]ry where you didn't understand the My first bit of schooling came from a school a couple lang[...]atchewan. Selmer Nelson was my first teacher. All of us children went I worked for a farm[...] |
| [...]possessions filed on the homestead ten miles west of Scobey. His and started their first home i[...]ulson returned to Montana by train. They west of Four Buttes. They spent several winters in arrive[...]ima, Washington. Also the Ostby's have shack west of Scobey. eig[...]with their children and some of their granchildren and[...]ir sixtieth anniversary with their children, some of Alfred and his friend camped on the land and be[...]most of their married life on their homestead.[...] |
| [...]AND MRS. H. W. RIEK Hilmore William Riek, son of William J. and Alma Schumann Riek arrived in 1909[...]om 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[...]r. Our homestead was located about ten miles west of the original townsite of Scobey. We had a few chickens and they were fo[...]chicken hawks. One day during an attack by a pair of hawks my father shot one, and then was attacked b[...]Annie Rustebakke - wedding picture - 1916 Some of the things I remember most were the country dance[...]In 1936 I went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the Soil Conservation Service. I[...]linder, Iowa on Alvin, a veteran of World War II, farms the home place December 30, 1[...]20, 1892. Both Martin and Anme Cochran of Tacoma, Washington and they have five moved to Th[...]husband on the Ole Shipstead farm southwest of Four for Annie, who came to join him in April, 19[...]Buttes. They have three married children, Gary of Grandma Gilchrist's place on the flat and their two sons, Glasgow, Mark of Scobey and Jeffrey of Circle, and four Homer and Alvin, were born there[...]G started out from Thief River Falls on the first of October in a Model T loaded with packages, blankets and the three Amelia Jennings, daughter of Wilson and Edith children. It was a bad winter with lots of snow but they got Goldrick Jennings of Rugby, North Dakota, became the to Westby before they had to abandon the Model T. They bride of Carl Ryding, son of Andrew and Louise Peterson took the train to Four Buttes where Martin's brother Ted Ryding of Twin Valley, Minnesota on December 4, 1907[...] |
| [...]Truesdell-Dierks and felt fortunate to have a job as the[...]accustomed to a rural life, of raising a large garden and[...]despite the lack of cash. In 1930 the population of Four Buttes was eleven. Art[...]There were four members of the Ryding family, as the[...]dest daughter Alpha was working in Kellogg, Idaho as a[...]mem her of the population. There were many good times[...]shared with neighbors and friends of the countryside,[...]Amelia and Carl were of the Lutheran faith and Amelia[...]was a Mason and Amelia was a member of Order of[...]later in the Judith Basin. Amelia, the oldest of six children, was born of English- In 1901 he came to northeastern Mon[...]84. She came first winter in a dugout west of Four Buttes on Spring with her parents by ox team[...]ht in rural schools there. band of sheep to the Police Creek area where they wintered Carl was born in 1881, in Norway, of Swedish parents and came to America when he was n[...]Melvin Evenson. Valley, Minnesota. At the time of their marriage Carl managed an elev at Twin Bridg[...]re born to this union: Alpha, now Mrs. 1 ; Bening of St. Maries, Idaho; Delanor, Mrs. Roy Killen},< (d[...]ed in infancy; ➔ Florence, Mrs. Peyton Bennett, of Scobey. In 1922 an electrical storm hit the little town of Y ·:, With one clap of thunder and a flash of lightning elevator was hit and burned to the ground. Insun : covered the loss of the grain filled elevator, but left 1 , wi[...] |
| [...]October 3, 1878, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick[...]8, got their mail in Wolf Point and Glasgow. Some of the 1964. winters were quite long. In S[...]Ole was caught They had two sons, Arthur of Four Buttes and Clifford of in a blizzard while returning to the ranch from W[...]o; two daughters, Mrs. Russell (Myrtle) Ellingson of He had salt and lumber loaded on the wagon and had to Havre and Mrs. Raymond (Gertrude) Schaefer of Denver, spend three days under the wagon, which h[...]n. with the lumber. The salt had to be left there as the load was too heavy to pull through the snow on a wagon. Sleighs were used from then till the middle of May. They THE SMITH FAMIL[...]alt the following June and the barrels were empty as the snow had dissolved all the salt in the[...]ttes (Whiskey During the run off in the spring of 1907 some of the men Flats) area about 1912. Three sister also came to the same were stranded on the north side of the West Fork and were area. Tillie (Mrs. O[...]left two children, Gerald and Gwendolyn. of her own south of Four Buttes. Ole and Minnie had five Ern[...]Ole in 1952. James and Milton still live south of Four Buttes. Milton MR. AND MRS. STANI[...]Austria with their family of nine children, Kazmer,[...] |
| [...]Portland, Oregon; Dorothy (Thielke) Rangbacher of Fort and Sophia by boat to Canada. They settled there in a town Peck, Montana; and Robert Theilke of Littleton, Colorado. called Goodeve, Saskatchewa[...]jobs. While in colors and pastels. One of Clarence's more important Good eve three more ch[...]achievements in the area was a large collage of the Fort Joseph, Christina and Roman.[...]ir homestead in the years with the Corps of Engineers at the Fort Peck and Peerless community[...]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 farm that she and the b[...]sket socials and dances at our school. We had one of moved to Glasgow only about a month before he[...]schools in the district, the Gilchrist the age of 59. She truly had a hard life on this Montana sc[...]prairie. The family of Stanistaus and Eva Suchy consisted of eight boys and four girls. Kazmer deceased in[...]Mons immigrated from Norway in the spring of 1913 to children, Edward of Eureka, Montana, Janet Greenwood Hatton, North Dakota, doing mostly farm work while of Great Falls, Montana, and Barbara of Cornwall, New there. In 1916 he came t[...]his brother Jonas had come a few years ahead of him. He Mary and Fred Merks and two girls live[...]Roosevelt County, proved it up, built a shack, as most of John's first wife Gertrude passed away in 1969[...]ore than a year overseas, coming back in the fall of[...]ns, the Gilchrists, hoping to gain some knowledge of Montana we leased the Lystad farm south of Four Buttes, farming before striking out on their own. It 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[...]1917. after Mickey got out of the service, and Mons had to retire Clarence ma[...]were born three children: Lietha (Thielke) Dragoo of there ever since, Mons having[...] |
| [...]Kenda, Stacey, Dennis and JoDell. They lived most of their married life in Poplar, having spent a couple of years on the west coast in the service. In the fa[...]se that quite a change to come from the mountains of Norway to a it took a recount to determine that dad had won by three flat place such as this, but I have loved every day ofit and votes. I remember that it was during his term as still do.[...]H.J. Christenson in 1919 home. They had a family of four children, Carol, Joyce, Things se[...];s Merlyn and Eugene. I think my father owned one of the many basket social and dances were held. One[...]. He also established the store night in November of 1928, my dad and mom took a basket[...]a short way from the South farm. Eugene died of a heart[...]away m January of 1968. Actually there is not a Wagner[...] |
| [...]ted States when Sherd cut, made plenty of feed for our livestock. We mined she was twelve y[...]n and came to I had never been out of the state of Iowa, so those first Montana in 1913. They lived southwest of Four Buttes and years I got lonesome for my parents and the rest of the later moved to Peerless where he managed the[...]ation. They belonged to the Prairie Chapter Order of the around my old home. Eastern Star in Scob[...]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 life in dramatics as well as in the field of art. homesteading neighbors, including two fo[...]populated. One of our neighbors was my brother, Johnny SHERD A[...]We started a band of sheep by getting bum lambs from I was born in[...]uilt our band up to for five years. In the spring of 1914 I came to Montana; my about 1200 head; o[...]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 c[...]ming land. went to work for the Mansfield Daniels as a housekeeper. In 1940 Sherd ran for st[...]a nd the winter of 1943 in Helena during the legislative After wo[...]n, unsuccessfully, for the homestead on West Fork of Poplar River in the spring of Senate. In 1948 he was elected to the Sen[...]that winter in Helena. Sherd passed a way of a heart attack Sherd was born in West Virginia[...]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 S[...]a, later moving to California, after their family of claim. When we first started our married life we[...], 1940. They first year we planted thirteen acres of oats which yielded a had three children, James, Diane and Eileen. Ross was good crop of hay. The oats along with prairie grass tha[...] |
| Our son Eugene married Jewell Meyer of Saco in January, 1942. They have four children, P[...]d back to Iowa, then to Prescott, Arizona because of their son's health. Vane passed away ten years ag[...]HE ROBBINS The Gerald Robbin family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. |
| [...]of Four Buttes; and Thelma, Mrs. Mike Tucey, of Las[...]cows, chickens, James A. Shipstead, son of Ole and Minnie Shipstead, and Rover; and from the[...]oss the brown farms six miles southwest of Four Buttes, Montana. countryside, Hilda missing[...]sti Kay. At their homestead they were neighbors of Downings The children all started their schooling at the Four and Chelgrens. After some years of dry winds and no crops, Buttes school[...] |
| [...]James R. and his wife, the former Dierdre Nyberg of . school at Scobey.[...]orn in He is married to the former Mary Ann Bruhn of Wolf the newly built Daniels Memorial H[...]ndi Penny graduated from Montana Institute of the Bible, in Jean. Lewistown. She has served as a missionary in Alaska. Onalee is married to Lyle Davison of Kildeer, North Kristi is married to a yo[...]Rhode. They both attended the Montana Institute of the nurse's training.[...] |
| JULIAN OF YESTERYEAR The only sign now of Julian, a pioneer town still remembered by older[...]e, and an old cellarhole or two about one quarter of a mile east of it. Once Tom Smith operated a blacksmith shop in[...]r or Old Scobey by Frank (Fatty) Merrill, brother of Silas Merrill.[...]Carrie Erickson - first postmistress at the town of Julian.[...]and their family. It later was the home of Mr. and Mrs. The first postmistress was Mrs. Ca[...]ere. This work was discontinued in 1919 by reason of continuous drought and fewer people in the area.[...]nchers who had cattle or sheep lived in that part of the state. When homesteaders came, they we[...] |
| [...]STAD FAMILY Much of this material is taken from memory, so I can't[...]vouch for the accuracy of it. The Oscar Bilstad family arrived in this ar[...]y, North Dakota in an old car. Their memories are of the cold winters, the time their house burned the[...]Kenneth Bilstad, deceased. One of the early settlers coming to the Daniels County[...]area was Fred E. Engberg, better known to his friends and acquaintances as Ed Engberg. He and John Knutson[...]OYD ENGBERG March of 1910. They drove out here with two wagons[...]ok several graduated from Whitetail in the spring of 1929, staying days; they had their own h[...]me for a year to help with farm work. In the fall of 1930 I Ed's first claim joined the Fadness r[...]me. Ed spent two winters Engineering. 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 colle[...]I went to Los Angeles to look for work in 1934 as times area, and he wanted to be nearer to[...]eally tough on the farm in the thirties. I worked as a been surveyed, but was not open for filing[...]n tin this area, Hollywood Delivery Service, then as a city mail carrier in and many people had[...]ngeles for almost seven months, then went to work as very lucky if he had a horse to ride. Hors[...]$400 to $500 a team, and that was a lot of money in those On May 1, 1940 I was transferred[...]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[...]arted with four horses and a walking under orders of the War Manpower Commission, to operate[...]Canada, my widowed mother's farm for the duration of the war. In where he had farmed before. December of 1945 we returned to the Bay Area and I[...]cial coal mines in the area, so resumed my duties as railway mail clerk. peopl[...]coal. There were many places where In the fall of 1946 my mother wrote me that she was t[...]ded up far from the snow and blizzards of Montana. buying it and continuing in the mail ser[...]40 a month on that. Feeding and clothing a family of five didn't leave us much money to HARRY[...]w up around Litchfield, Minnesota and moved a lot of fun, don't we?" That was another of the moments in with his parents to Saskatche[...]hl, and on March 14, 1907 they were In November of1950 I obtained a transfer to Turtle Lake, m[...]hewan. They had five North Dakota, where I worked as railway mail clerk until children, Harrie[...]y moved to Montana in the late over the operation of the home farm. We have lived here summer or early fall of 1912. They settled a few miles south ever since. ' of the Canadian boundary line, in what is now Daniel[...]which was considerably larger. Lillian took care of Betty earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the two Engberg[...]and Vera, live in Gillette, Wyoming. Bill is head of the Auto have room to bring too many belonging[...]ip. They returned to Canada later to get the rest of there. their personal property. By spring of H113 they were ready Larry earned his Doctor's[...]rado to start 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 P[...]ding Scobey High School. He has about thirty head of relief, seed loans, or any other form of charity. At times it sheep.[...] |
| [...]d, wasstrugglingtomovethehouse all of the children were small and had to walk to school[...]y to sell him a sleigh, we had nine months of school during the fall, winter car. Dad told him[...]hitetail. My oldest sister, Harriet, was a member of the T Ford. He had to go to Plentywood to get it[...]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[...]lled a threshing machine. Chet a much better job of handling the car. When he got home Hall,[...]a deal with him to furnish the power for the job of shipy black thing with brass radiator and head l[...]nt, and 30 by 3½ in the rear. All tires three of them, but usually obliged some of the other were smooth white rubber with no rough[...]ain also. Later Dad bought road. At the least bit of rain you were stuck. But it was a Fordson[...]ails at the machine. incredible speed of 25 to 30 miles an hour, your hair flying[...]tor. It was a in the wind, and your eyes watering as though you were slow-moving growling t[...]xperienced such a thrill. wonderful piece of equipment in the world. I spent many My mother wa[...]a few years the "non-skid" tires (tires with of hearing, but it was so much nicer than driving ho[...]ungry. They could almost drive horses crazy. most of the neighbors had Model T's. O.B. Richert had an 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 a[...]ond-hand with big yellow wheels. Dad had a number of tools for John Deere tractor to pull[...]t the fixing those early day cars, so quite a few of the neighbors easiest-pulling combine in the[...]ve the valves ground, new piston team of horses onto the front of the tractor to get up some of rings installed, or some other minor repair job d[...]steep hills. Ed was quite disgusted. It was a lot of was always a willing helper, and Mom always had a[...]trouble, but so much nicer than the old method of threshing cup of coffee ready. There were many hours of good and so much faster. It also r[...]four years old when I had the unmatched privilege of considerably. driving that 1914 Model T, one of the really BIG highlights During the years Dad bought two additional 320-acre of my life.[...]h brought his holdings to an During the summer of 1917 Dad had a new house built. even 10[...]it was none too much to support a family of seven. Rearing hired one of the neighbors, Herbert Beyer, as head children and putting them through school was expensive, carpenter, and many of the neighbors pitched in to help even i[...]Dad contracted pneumonia and died in the winter of dead-air space between the layers of plaster to act as 1936-37. I had gone to Los Angeles, Ca[...]was finished, and the knew nothing of his illness until I received the telegram furnitu[...]g that he was dead. The shock to me was terrific, as hospital. She had been to Kenmare, North Dakota f[...]a roaring fire in the operating expenses, as Dad hadn't left a will. I had to old heating stov[...]arried Bernard from the Turkey Red Lumber Company of Whitetail. The Walter, also a[...] |
| [...]ted from Scobey High School, went to the Bay Area of California and attended business college there. She did office work for a number of years, and met and married Fred Youmans. They mov[...]Youmans live in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Lucile, the youngest, after graduation from high school, moved to the Los Angeles area of California. She still lives there with her husban[...]aveled to the Dakotas in a sister of Julian Erickson covered wag[...]Dakota and Julian and the rest of us were born in a log My father, Erick Erickson[...]ice home and came to the United States at the age of six with his there. parents. His father se[...]nt My brother Theodore was the first one of us to come to made up of Wisconsin volunteers entirely, and lost his life[...]rancher by the name of Langridge, and brother Julian, My mother, Carri[...]y parents, Eva, Roy andI(Clare),camein the spring of house, lived in a log cabin, traveled by covered[...]fe, passing away in California in 1952 at the age of95 brought his wife Ellen and son Arthur, then p[...]then about 21 years of age. A couple of years later[...]homesteaded in the area, as did Theodore, Julian, and Jim.[...]once Theodore's, later became the home of Julian and[...]Julian Erickson was a lad of about 16 when he came[...]Woodley, they were startled by the sound of shots. They rode to the top of a hill and saw, on the flat below them, 15[...]shooting. The Indians were in search of the Dutch Henry[...] |
| [...]him, as he helped his mother, who was postmaster. Julian[...]live in Scobey. All of their six children have had college In the fall of 1903 a steam threshing machine set fire to educ[...]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 creek. Hefoughtthe fire most of the night, along with the Bonnes', the Tandes, an[...]m Anthon, (1903-04) was a tough one. The shortage of feed was Iowa. He married Goldie Rhodes that same year and their disastrous to a band of 3,000 sheep being wintered there by son Leonar[...]d Leonard went to live with his Glasgow. Only 300 of the 3,000 sheep survived the winter, grandmo[...]Ernest purchased state land seven miles south of Four Julian Erickson also worked for Henry and[...]. Ernest Shipstead brothers had frozen a quantity of cranberries in then went to Iowa and brought[...]n and lived in they enjoyed cranberries and cream as a special treat all Greenbush, Minnesota, le[...]embered how mail and homestead land north of Madoc and they continued to freight then came up[...]d Scobey to the point which later bakery of her own, across the street from the first Scobey[...]operated by the late Jay Gullickson. She was one of the[...] |
| [...]first members of the Catholic Altar Society and was active[...]Ernest was a member of the Police Creek ball team,[...]playing third base, and also a member of the Knights of Columbus. At one time he served as Democratic[...]occupied most of the time, they were involved in[...]land about eleven miles north and east of Whitetail,[...]relative of his, and bought the squatter's rights on another piece of land two miles or so further west. He proved up o[...]he west were the Mendenhalls, the Wedding picture of Ernest and Rose Gampp - January 1924[...] |
| [...]there he met Helen Salberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. On the hill right south of his land came two sisters, Cara George Salberg[...]th her parents. They were married at the trouble, as Emily Anderson was very ill, with an attack of Wild Rice parsonage by Pastor B.L. Opdahl. a[...]The couple went south after about a week of visiting said she couldn't be moved, so the opera[...]d, Andrew worked at the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room where the operation plumbing and othe[...]ating table. born to us. In the latter part of May we began a trip to The doctor brought a nurse[...]Montana. My first impressions were of the wide open[...]In the spring of 1924 we moved onto our own land. We[...]There was also the crop to put in that spring of 1924. The[...]or in who was in a pregnant condition and in need of something haying. The wheat was planted an[...]he was found also pretty good, though not as good as 1924. A granary frozen and dead.[...]tached had been built in 1924. The flu epidemic of1918 was very severe and many died. Our[...]hey had three other children, schools, of which there were three in District No. 16. Gerhar[...]We also had new neighbors move in west of us. They when their mother passed away. Oscar him[...]Dodd School and the Prairie School; some of his teachers There were many others that died f[...]and then decided coming out to the prairies of Montana there seemed to be to go back to J[...] |
| [...]met an oJd friend, Richard Haugo, who was one of our[...]Oscar, Edwin Reinert (who went by the name of Reinert, Minneapolis. I started to read my new Testament and but signed his name as E.R. Huso), and Joram came from found 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 also lived near this[...]h was called were other Christians out there too, as we found out when Joice. His father's name wa[...]ding. Neither one spent much time several classes of children and Herb Beyer taught the adult iri Mo[...]hool lasted for several years in the members of S.S. Huso's family. summer seasons.[...]moved were six boys in the family. Not all of them could Ii ve at into Scobey in the fall of 1937. Orville had been in an home and make[...]· Orville went to Concordia fall of 1940 and also went the next year, two full years.[...]was over Orville decided to go to the University 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 for several[...]Oscar Huso at Ketchikan, Alaska - 1910 relative of Merriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Ted and Pat have a souvenir and confectionery shop in Woods Bay, south of Big Fork, Montana.[...]Andrew and I moved into Scobey for the winters of 1952 eighteen, in the year 1906, he we[...] |
| [...]e. When you got to Plentywood will you get a roll of felt paper and my kerosene can filled? I will pay[...]They had farm machinery and a team of horses with them[...]the doorway of the car, and waved at us as the train rolled[...]tough trip, as one of the horse~ was so uneasy, and needed[...]Oscar had two teams of horses, and with Joram's two,[...]they were busy breaking sod that spring of 1912. Oscar[...]Marlenee. After the proverbial "seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine" Oscar, too, left Montana.[...]in 1914, as cook and housekeeper. Reinert was going so I A[...]. 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 shack. The first four were already came to Whitetail by train, which was at the end of the Soo h omesteading - you can tell by the cloth[...]ese four had their shacks built where the corners of their and fresh-smelling from the new lumber. H[...]my summer. Oscar's shack had two rooms, one of which in 1911. Joram, and William Aasland[...] |
| [...]to Marlenee at their ranch home south of Scobey on March "cleanse" it with lye to eliminat[...]16, 1908. He was the youngest child in a family of six Our drinking water was brought from a shallow[...]ded field. This had to be cleaned once in a while as it, too, had school at the Parkl}urst Country School, later going to undesirable contents, such as field mice that drowned in it. school in Scob[...]the Ethel, who was a long time employee of Westland Oil hill from the south, and \after a few words of introduction Company. announced: "Well, now[...]ns. News place, then later moved north of Scobey. He married Miss came by word-of-mouth or letter. I can remember no Margaret Darchuk, daughter of Ukranian pioneers Mr. newspaper out there, althou[...]bought the former Roger Sherburne farm north of Scobey[...]dad. He married Carmen Willard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.[...]Lanny married Patricia Southland, 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 Wo[...]d and built a new home in Scobey where early fall of that year Jessie Birch came east too, met[...]and they were married there. has filed as a candidate for United States Congress from She a[...]! Higher rank meant 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 tim[...]by J oAnn Marlenee Oscar left the hard work of ditching, and took to buying farms, improving the[...]ota, and gradually shifted miles n ortheast of Scobey to George and Lucile Marlenee. farther and[...]as been farming 13 miles away in 1963, at the age of 77 years. The two sisters northeast of Scobey ever since. survive.[...]In 1944 Dale married JoAnn Robertson, daughter of the This material was compiled by Dena Huso, and her Juy 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 years to memo[...] |
| [...]in 1914 that was called "The Selling of the Townsites" for Dale and JoAnn have six chil[...], with daughters Jodi and JoAnn, living southwest of Many times in the winter they would all p[...]p 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 the home rug-like covering[...]working in Bozeman and Scobey; Holly, a graduate of Falls where she lived for several years and later moved to North Dakota State School of Science at Wahpeton , Sumner, Washing[...]they lived Washington, Dale farming north of Scobey, and Clarence when first married. It was once the farm home of Oscar of Sumner, Washington. and Dr. William Olson.[...]when she decided to go homesteading in the wilds of father Frank Marlenee moved to Scobey, hauling th[...]r brother, Harry Engberg, settled ten miles south of Scobey. came through[...]a covered wagon In 1903 George homesteaded land of his own 10 miles headed for Montana. Lillian joined them, and together north of Scobey, living first in a homestead shack and lat[...]south and her family. They farmed 12 miles south of Scobey and west. This place had an eigh[...]Havre, Montana. Mr. Miller gave up his job as station they had a bumper crop that was completel[...]very popular place for many of their Canadian friends. The On the Fourth of July they went to Scobey for an all day[...] |
| [...]a story about Jake Timmons: The profit was poor, as no charge was made for meals or summe[...]ere the men were sleeping to wake them The wife of Tom Smith (the blacksmith) died, 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'[...]dney lying on the ground, rolling in a big puddle of everyone's amazement a pelican fell. Nob[...]most of the time until 1925, when I married Mabel Thayer[...]one in her class, sometimes with the disapproval of the useful life.[...]MCDOWELL with a group of students of all nationalities. She had two[...]s later we moved to Missouri., all of her time in Europe she never stayed at a hotel, b[...]esteaded earlier and sold out in the homes of the people who had been recommended to her. 1929.[...]job to job and ended up in Old Scobey in October of 1911. I worked on the Daniels house, stayi[...] |
| homestead about 13 miles northeast of Scobey in the Whitetail-Madoc area. She taught sc[...]r. She had no pain and remained cheerful in spite of her disability. The McDowells lived in Scobey in[...]nnati, Iowa in 1880 to live and farm just outside of Mrs. Juy Robertson with JoAnn and Merton[...]of Whitetail. They raised four children, Merton of Albuquerque, New Mexico; JoAnn Marlenee of north Scobey; Barbee Shipstead of west Scobey; and Diane Gillis of Billings. ·[...]of college. He played football, baseball and was act[...]hundreds of cattle and horses and much land if he would[...]Documentation is missing as to his reasons, but he opted (maybe because of it??) to pass up this opportunity, and[...]River as well, and went to eastern Montana in the summer[...]of 1910. Juy, his father M.M. Robertson, and sister[...]miles northwest of Whitetail. Mrs. M.M. Robertson and[...]daughter La Vivian joined the balance of the family here,[...]nd granddaughter Diane fall of 1914 and early 1915. Juy ultimately bought his[...]father's and sister's homesteads as well 'as some[...]Culbertson by wagons drawn by multi-team hitches of Joe, on a large scale. Later he operated a genera[...]ied Elizabeth Soden in 1887. She was the daughter of although threshing and some breaking of sod was done John Soden who was born in Ireland i[...]891. member of his crew that it was only because the crew[...] |
| not want to plug it. A season's wages were bet as to VANE[...]nd M.M. Robertson continued to extoll the virtues of miles northeast of Scobey and two miles southwest of the his rig. inland postoffice of Julian, Montana. We built a house, During the[...]id coal, played third base and shortstop for some of the local good soft water. We put up a[...]owed the baseball teams. This was during the time of the great prairie sod for growing whea[...]phasis on baseball in northeast Montana with some of garden. the teams employing major league players such as those The first years were very hard[...]his operation in the early 30's during the depth of the brother John mined lignite coal a few miles east of our depression and worst of the drouth years with cattle homestea[...]vegetables, and meat for the coal; which we could of Scobey, then D. Sipes north of Poplar and finally with use as we had no money. Eddie Smith north of Poplar. In the spring, when the We[...]our days to trail to summer We left Iowa as it was very hard for young people to start pastu[...]Two Brenden's and Knudsvigs (about 20 miles south of Madoc, boys were born to us while we wer[...]in 1921, Mansfield Ross. He now lives northwest of Whitetail until his death in 1953. ·[...]tall 1915 was a good year with plenty of moisture from snow waving grass and envisioned a[...]s were cleared off and crops put in. us as we liked the climate and always enjoyed living on our The winters were tough with blizzards and cold, as homestead. Grandpa said, "The wind b[...]28, 1965 mines around the country, a poor grade of lignite. after havj_ng a stroke 21[...]to check on his crops and the neighbors. On one of his rides he lost his big gold pocket watch. From then on he would look for it as he knew just about where he had lost it. One day[...]-~ :· :i" quarters of a mile, to visit with our children. |
| [...]ol hall manager in Scobey at that time. The mayor of a larger area than it does now. People came for miles and Scobey was asked to submit the names of five prominent miles around; now they g[...]ess men in Scobey to the Postal headquarters, one of fairs and most of their entertainment. which would be chosen as the name of the new post office in The earliest settle[...]. situated just across the Poplar River and south of the Lige Olson, C.K. Hanson, P.M. Thorem, Bi[...]s moved to the O.E. Susag place with Oswald Susag as Atkinson, Jim, Rex, and Bob Rhodes, Jim[...]The activities of the hall through the years have been[...]4-H Club Early in January, 1925 the residents of the community events, community Thanksgivin[...]ws, general elections, Notary Public, Paul Crum, of Scobey to form the Silver Star church services[...]frequently in the earlier years. It the articles of corporation were Pete Thorem, J .G. Johnson, wa[...]miles and often danced until daylight. At one of these very first meetings Mrs. Robert Rhodes[...]200.00. In a short time, three hundred custom of celebrating the 17th of May "Syttende Mai". The seventy-three memberships[...]neighbors gathered upon the bench just west of the H.P. total cost of the hall was about $4500.00. They hired one[...]d kindling paid carpenter, Bob Wakeland, but much of the work was for a big bonfire in the ev[...]oing what he was best at. included plenty of good food and homemade ice cream. The Dick Veis h[...]June 24, 1926, followed by a Theodore Imbs acted as chairman and O.E. Susag as dance. From then on the picnics were annual affairs. secretary. The first board of directors included the five following: Theodore I[...]re were several 4-H clubs in the community. Three of Olson, Vice President; O.E. Susag, Secretary, and[...]lub and Thorem, Treasurer. Pete Thorem was chosen as the first Poplar Valley 4-H Club, which[...]No one knows for sure when it began but some of the were hired to haul water for dances. They also sold tickets alumni of1924-1925are Mrs. John Poyner, Mrs. Chris Veis, fo[...]Frances Chase In 1927, Jake Jacobsen was hired as janitor at $5.00 a and Mrs. William Ferguson. night. O.E. Susag or Knudt Christensen acted as The Just So Club, in 1935, has as members Lorraine Secretary-Treasurer for m[...] |
| [...]girl, Oluf Monson, the MacNamara baby, two babies of Mr. Swanstrom, Pearl Sorsdahl, Eula Shipstead Sho[...]ld. was sewing, baking, cooking or something else of interest. The members met in the club member's ho[...]Barker boy. Ralph Susag was leader with Ben Dahl as assistant The Silver Star Home Demons[...]organized in 1921 with A.W. Warden as our first County Six delegates, Elvin and LeRo[...]ime. It Great Falls Fair in 1937 with Ralph Susag as leader. seems there wasn't a thing ab[...]The Poplar Valley 4-H Club started in the spring of 1951 didn't learn to do. Miss Cushman served as our first when Albert HeHickson asked Harriet Eic[...]f she would be a leader for a club. With the help of Jesse C. Ben (Lura) Dahi, Alice Susag, and Laur[...]1952, with Lou Hellickson and Tony Ereth joining as leaders in later years. Jesse Drury was a leader[...]baby beef projects were shown at the present site of the fairgrounds. The baked projects and sewing we[...]were held at the Pines which is located southeast of Glasgow. The club members helped build the dormit[...]Fairview Cemetery is located on a hill just north of (Clara) Olson, Mrs. Hans (Hannah) Olson, Mrs. Theo. the Silver Star Hall. It consists of two acres ofland donated ("Mame") lmbs, Mrs. P[...]ker. Front row: Mrs. Ben (Lura) Dahl, Mrs. mother of Peter M. Lekvold and their adopted son B.J.[...](Mildred) Poyner and Mrs. Ralph (Clarice) parents of Mildred Lekvold Poyner and Louis Lekvold.[...]ied up there on the hill. No record has been kept of them, so this may prove to be the BASEBALL TEAM only recorded list of these early day residents. With the help of some of the oldtimers here are the names of those The Police Creek Baseball Team was[...]tery. The first one They were a lively bunch of young farmers in the area in 1916 was Oscar Lekvold seven year old brother of Louis around Lekvolds and Four Buttes. Lek[...]otte, their manager Albert Hovin and baby (mother of Melvin Ferdina), Mrs. and first[...] |
| [...]aid of a motor and tipple (an apparatus that tipped the[...]into the truck), they could elevate three-fourths of a[...]helping occasionally as hoist man. Some of the cooks at[...]Many of the people now in the Silver Star area are sons f[...]base and Ernie Gampp, third and daughters of the early day settlers. Most of them base.[...]Joe Beauchamp, Richard Veis, bunk beds back of the old black heater in the corner of the Chris Veis, Ozro Brown and Harry Wilcoxen als[...]he homestead about six and a half miles northwest of where Bray Show when the bloodhounds were after Eliza as she the Silver Star Hall now stands. Many good ga[...]nger the music, both played violins. The families of the baseball generation and all of those helping to keep it that way. players usuall[...]The Lekvold School was located south of the present This underground lignite coal mine[...]a for many years. The shaft was Shipstead as their first teacher. situated just east of the garage on the B.J. Lekvold place. Oth[...]. They lowered the it was moved just south of the Theodore Imbs place. On the bucket with Merri[...]ong before second move it was placed south of the Alfred Thorem they heard a " thud" ; he had t[...]he old Martin Nielsen place. bottom. With the aid of a mirror Laura reflected the The e[...]on, Jean sunlight so the men could see the bottom of the shaft. With Thomas Karlsrud, Joshua Will[...]Clarabel Malcolm. gas consisting mostly of carbon dioxide which kills[...] |
| [...]so they could close the school due to a shortage of funds. At this time the eighth graders had to t[...]promoted. The Gilmore School located just south of the Bill Manternach farmyard, was the third schoo[...]to 1930 and then it was closed. It was also used as a voting place for a few years.[...]whenever they could get a pastor to come out. One of the main ones was C.G. Tjomsland. He was pastor a[...]. It was for Mr. and Mrs. Ole Olson, grandparents of Robert Olson, who now lives on his father's ranch[...]as held at the hall. This was for Ole Monson, one of the many community bachelors. A LOOK A[...]nine miles south of Scobey. |
| [...]hment. Rural schools sometimes had pupils in each of the eight grades. It kept the teacher busy to kee[...]chool opened with a salute to the flag and Pledge of Allegiance, and singing, reading, writing, arithm[...]They stayed for a period of time with the Gerrit Jansen[...]errit telling about when he shocked a large field of grain[...]be shocked on the other side of the hill, but when he took[...]acher. Back row: Late in the fall of 1942, Gerrit and I were married and we Bernyce lm[...]continued to farm about eight miles southwest of Scobey Ra y m ond Olson, front row: Mar vin Veis[...]Roger, all of whom are married. Nancy and family are now[...]let Gors Bekker couple of two-year diplomas in college (Automotive[...]have were especially green and beautiful in June of that year as continued. we drove to their farm south of Scobey. I was used to seeing One humorous i[...]fact that I could Marie Nielsen (now deceased) of the Silver Star community see for miles and miles[...]. I also met Gerrit on this vacation. a word of English then, came to their home after they found[...]later married to Frank Bennis, and Marie out of the house.[...] |
| [...]n at Lennox, Iowa on February 7, 1892. At the age of two years he came to Montana with his mother Frances Chenoweth - better known to all as "Aunt Fan". An aunt Laura Dolson and her family a[...]wasn't long before she was elected Superintendent of Schools there. She went by horse and buggy to vis[...]wife Hulda , son Harland, and Glen ·s mother, known as Zieske's barber shop. In 1945 with failing health[...]oweth served in the army from 1942-1946. graduate of Scobey High School. He was very active in the[...]fice. He married music department and is a member of "The Star Dusters" Marie Larson from Peerl[...]After Glen's death Hulda worked as nurse's aide at the[...]of 1916 when we moved to Scobey, and filed ·on a ho[...]on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation southwest of Scobey.[...]side of town; spent our time getting acquainted with othe[...]living on the homestead during the summer of 1917, word·[...]Bennie was one of the first to be called to serve his[...]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.[...]and was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa as their service records[...] |
| [...]n took part in the D-Day operations off the coast of ormandy and was reported missing in action on J[...]being conducted for the missing men. He was one of the sailors in charge of a landing barge carrying U.S. military personnel[...]e was heavy and John said that the last few yards of[...]Henry E., second son of Hans P. and Emma Hanson, w~s the war and is married to orinne Dressen of Minneapolis.[...]the Hans Hanson farm until Henry Edna, daughter of Hans P. and Emma Hanson married[...]Myrtle, daughter of H.P. and Emma Hanson, marri~d City and at the time of the marriage was with the Border[...]Cliff Peterson of Scobey in 1930. Cliff and Myrtleworkedm[...]Peterson's Ready To Wear. Palmer and Edna Hanson of Silver Star Community They h[...] |
| [...]War I, so he didn't know what to expect at home, as the flu epidemic was raging in the States. In[...]illiams who had land but hired someone to farm it as he taught school. Elvin was born in 1924 and Helen in 1925. In the spring of 1926 we bought the Edward Martinson farm and move[...]ies and raising our children on limited means. 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 19[...]Memorial Home and sold my home to Steven Wheelers of the Econo Lumber Compan y .[...]When the h ouses were ready, the rest of the two families HANS P. HANSON FAM[...]going. They married in Paynesville in 1899. Five of their children were had left nice homes in[...]the hill s and riverbanks by hand, and the acres of land he wanted his sons to have larger farms Hans[...]adjoining farm) decided , in 1916, to team of horses or oxen. go to Montana to look things over[...]dna M. Jenkins in They bought adjoining farms , of 320 acres, through the 1930. Edna had co[...]School in the building that gave him the nickname of " Elevator" Silver Star community[...]Shirley wh o is were so many families by the name of Hanson in the area , married to Fred Hanson of Redstone . They live on th e farm that there had to be some way of keeping them straight. and have four c[...]Doug, the son of Palmer and Edna, is married to Gloria Hans and[...]wo railroad immigrant cars. Popielwewski of Saugatuck, Michigan. Doug and Gloria O.E. Susag a[...]with the Hansons upon the death of his mother. He lived chicken.[...] |
| [...]he third son in the family, married Betty Gabriel of Malta; they now live in Sidney. They had three so[...]army. He was a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry above the call of duty in Italy in Jennie and Harve Kile 1944. He is now the only living Montanan of the second World War possessing the Medal of Honor. Henry is married and lives in Washington s[...]e Hanson haul grain from farm to market, as it was difficult to find family: Henry E. and Dough (son of Palmer and Edna). It truck driver. Jennie[...]and should be mentioned that Fred Hanson, husband of am still driving. During the time we were hauling we were hirley (daughter of Palmer and Edna) although from a also lo[...]ved in the Armed Forces. farm southwest of Scobey, where we have lived and farmed[...]hine shop. I came to Scobey in May of 1913 with my mother, Mrs. In 1940 we moved to C[...]in the Silver Star community. the gold mines of Cripple Creek, so we moved to Colorado I[...]917, going to Springs, where Harve used our fleet of trucks to help build Fort Lewis, Washington a[...]Hale , where Harve assisted with the construction of signed, remaining there until August, 1919. a large ki Camp on top of a mountain. I then ca[...]ill there we decided to go to Wolf Point, Montana as we had reside.[...]are Lorraine Brennan of Monarch, Montana, Jeanette Hedreck of Bremerton, Washington, and Claire of Wolf Point, and Kenneth of Scobey. Lorraine, Jeanette and[...]school, as did Kenneth , where they all graduated. During[...]the draft board for twelve years. We are members of the[...] |
| [...]wagon from Poplar to their homestead claim west of Silver[...]it the house on the hill north of Silver Star. With no help we[...]ired from farming and Kenneth is now of Beatrice and Louis. He was not very old but always farming it. We are members of the American Legion and helped when he c[...]ed out a living the best and enjoyed being a part of the Silver Star community. we could. Moth[...]ma married Chris Veis. They had B.J. Lekvold: One of his first memories of Montana is a trip three children, Vern now of Plentywood who has six he made to Medicine Lake f[...]ildren, Kenneth who is married to Barbara Pettmen of journey.[...]g the youngest, who married Anne Robbins of Missoula. 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[...]at the Silver Star Hall, July 1929. Parents of Mrs. Pete B.J., Jeanette.[...] |
| [...]Children of Pete and Betsy Lekvold-Selma, Oscar, Peter and Be[...]1948 wh ich Wangrud, Vice-President of the Delay Bank in Norfolk , happens to be my birt[...]ne daughter, Joslyn. Lois married and at the time of her death she wasemployedatMontana- Pau[...]children are Mark, died in 1966 and was employed as maintenance man at the Jeffrey and Paula. In 1971 , I made the first of the wagon Daniels Memorial Hospital at the time of his death. train trips in Daniels Co[...]ld died in 1924 Company on May 17, 1935 as a mechanic making $50 per and Grandma Olson died[...]nds in mostly in the various ready to wear shops. As to other New Mexico. He later moved to[...]s, James (who Downing (who was born north of Silver Star Hall in 1912, died in infancy), and Jess. Donna is married to Larry the son of Ida Downing who now lives in Scobey), boug[...] |
| [...]7. Kenny Marlenee' s shop across the street east of Ba ttlesons. Martin , Lucy and Don |
| After harvest and through the winter of 1960, Don helped Louie Lekvold in his auto painting shop. In the fall of 1960 he met Ruby Goltz, whom he married the next[...]n Plentywood. Her folks moved to a farm northeast of Dooley, Montana and Ruby attended grades two thro[...]ol. After the school bus ran in this area because of the school closing, she attended grades seven thr[...]needed supplies. Dakota University. At the age of twenty-three he came to Later he brough[...]new born son, Gilman, to Old Scobey (in the fall of 1912) to stake out a claim for a Montana. hom[...]ountry Enduring all the frustrations of life on the prairies and because of the bleakness. He rented a room in a hotel in Old[...]cks. called French Lane. There he saw lush fields of flax. He felt The long winters, droughts, hail[...]e early thirties found these people in the depths of the was not old enough to file for a homestead. Eddie traded his depression, the worst of the dust storms and, as many still Reo car for the land and the shack tha[...]ld Scobey until he found his strength of everyone. newly purchased home , three miles west of where the Silver To supplement the family income, Eddie worked as a Star Hall now stands.[...] |
| [...]barn. of EMIi c. He married Annie Jan sen of Seo bey and farmed Another story that was told[...]home was being and ranched four miles north of Scobey. He died on June built, Eddie went to town[...]al training in Havre. She taught five fifty years of farming). y[...]Ford was purchased for $550 to Edward Tong of Scobey. They have one daughter - and it was a big[...]ordia College and received a appendix. The length of time it took to travel to Plentywood M.A. degre[...]iversity. He served in the to the nearest surgeon as well as the rough roads U.S. Navy, WW 2, as a Radarman 2/ c. Art taught school for contribute[...]th. a number of years and returned to farming and ranching in[...]y came 1954. He is married to Cleo Fladager of Peerless. He has again. (However, it did rain in 1937, but no crop was raised served in the Montana House of Representatives for twelve in the county b[...] |
| [...]eading was what many people from the East spring of 1903. That fall his fiancee, Miss Marie Jensen lo[...]children, but many friend s. sixteen miles north of Saco, Montana. In 1909 he married Their home was[...]I have heard it told that there is a coulee north of Saco her 90th birthday on November 30, 1971. She[...]with Martin and Marie when he mentioned that one of his great-great forbears was General came from D[...]died leaving her as woman of the family for her father and[...]homestead north of Saco was not what it had been said to[...]Coulee communities. They had no home of their own but Bessie took care of the families and home places where the[...]and conscientious woman and pillar of the family. The summer of '31 all the family's possessions, also their[...], Montana. i n July, 1919 and began to farm south of Scobey. He Marie and Ira have two chil[...]t the Farm ers George missed several years of school after he was of Elevator in Scobey for six years a nd then moved[...]d start school he walked three miles in all kinds of Harvester Company from 1953 thru 1959.[...] |
| [...]community of skunks made their pad under the Ii ving room[...]floor of the house. Believing freedom to be their god give[...]In the last days of 1949 we bought an old house with lot in[...]'s mother, Bessie Wright (Prestage). provided as the wages came in from his mechanic's job. I The other girl is a good friend of hers. The picture did most of the work myself, except for the very heavy stuff.[...]had perfatape coming out of my ears long before the job[...]ster for the V.F.W. served in the Pacific theatre of war operations until the end continuing into 1967. of WW II. He was a Seaman First Class assigned to th[...]turkey - in January, 1963, but quitting then One of these misses was only a hairs bread th a way from[...]not turn back the clock where his health was side of the ship.[...]until moved to the Wolfard farm eight miles south of Scobey October 9, 1967 when he died in the evening at his home ~here George had charge of the farm and ranch there. after he had fallen asleep watching television. Because of material shortages caused by_government military[...]oil and farm tools. The roads were always full of snow in the winter time, JIM RHODES[...] |
| [...]n in 1918. There were twelve children. Two c;lied as infants and one was killed in World War II. All but two of the remaining children still live in Montana. He[...]ay in 1968. OLIVE RHODES Olive Rhodes (mother of Jim, Bob and Rex) came to Montana in 1913 accompa[...]8. HANS C. HANSEN and JORGEN HANSEN were brothers of Mrs. Robert Rhodes. They also homesteaded in the[...]nton and then to the Judith Basin where he worked as a cowboy and engaged in various enterprises. In 1[...]n his brothers who were ranching on the West Fork of the Poplar River. He returned to the Judith Basin the following year. There he bought a bunch of horses from a sheep rancher and brought them back[...]as an 18-year-old visiting a bar at Candle, north of Lewistown. He could also remember visiting the ol[...]Wall" saloon at Old Scobey, where such characters as Dutch Henry, the Pidgeon-Toed Kid and other tough[...]chise. He came to the Wolf Point vicinity in 1880 as a teamster with part of the government forces engaged in bringing[...] |
| [...]1968. Rose Shipstead died in 1971. Other members of the family are still operating the home ranch.[...]straightened up. He used this method of stopping his Scobey, son of the Indian Agent Major Charles R. A.[...]he needed a rest and Scobey, after whom the town of Scobey is named. Major[...]camp. I spent the night Scobey used to name many of the Indians after presidents[...]rder returned, fed and from his son Charles tells of an experience of an Indian rested. He asked about another[...]friend who bore the name George Washington: Three of the been out with a band of sheep and should have returned. Indians went to W[...]a taxicab and the driver was curious about them, as looking. We searched all day in a ground bl[...]of about nineteen sheep that had been killed by the[...]saw signs of blood and moccasin tracks where Indians had next[...]hey had brought along Oscar Shipstead's memories, as told during Jubilee days: on a sled. The[...]he had been all winter, frozen, north month short of sixteen and Ole was just eighteen. We got of Blink Spring. Blink Spring was so named be[...] |
| [...]ynesville, Minnesota and homesteaded on 320 acres of land in the Silver Star community. The following[...]they settled ori an adjoining farm. The rest of the Susag and Hanson families arrived in Scobey b[...]train on April 16, 1917. Alice's first impression of Scobey caused her to burst into tears and upon r[...]aving grass. Ralph would be seen kicking the toe of his shoe into the ground and after being question[...]ice Susag, 50th Wedding Anniversary, eastern edge of the Susag spread. It is now owned and O[...]home constructed there, overlooking the west fork of range and dairy cattle. Thousands of pounds of butter and the Poplar river. The Crawford farm had been gallons and gallons of buttermilk were churned by Alice homesteaded by C[...]askatchewan) had lived the first thirty-two years of their to see young "city kids" like Dickie La[...]d life on the Charlie Tong place on the east fork of Trower and their friends getting a free ride[...]as with their sleds fastened to the back of O.E.'s sleigh as he there that they raised their four children.[...]Ralph and Clarice's children are all graduates of Scobey Kahle Post Office from their home after Ot[...]t, with her husband Jale, Krause gave up that job of several years. It seemed to be the operate the[...]o town. Processing Manager for the bank of Everett. Sylvan is the Later regular mail carrier[...]d Clarice with eleven grandchildren. organization of the Liberty School in the fall of 1917 and For a number of years Pearl Susag taught school in the Oswald hel[...]. Finally, on April 8, 1918, with Celeste Sackett as the first teacher and an enrollment of six pupils, school began. By Ray, Carl, Syl[...]mand for help at home, the weather, and the depth of the river crossings. The Susags were also active organizers of the Silver Star Community Hall and O.E. served as its first secretary and was a member of the Board of Directors for many, many years. As early as September 6, 1917 when Ladies Aid met at the home of Mrs. Allie Olson, mother of Bob Olson, Alice has been active in church and ci[...]den. Oswald and Alice were both active members of the local Farmers Union and of Scobey Lutheran church. For several years, O.E. served on the Board of Directors for Faith Lutheran Home in Wolf[...] |
| [...]sons, Bob, Bruce and Brian, who are all graduates of the Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thunem came to this area in May, University of Washington and are em ployed in Seattle and[...]Minnesota by train. Their five children boys were of school age and taught at the junior high level[...]Oswald passed away January 28, 1971 at the age of eighty-five and a half years. In nine months he a[...], and for the last three years she has spent part of the cold winter months visiting relatives in Arizona. And believe it or not, the sight of Scobey, when she returns each spring, does not ca use her to burst into tears as it had so long ago.[...]worked on ranches around Malta. He settled south of Richland the next year and continued farming there until 1935 when in the dark days of the depression went to work at Fort Peck Dam. A[...]ilver Star community. Tom was County Commissioner of Daniels Thunem Family - 1[...] |
| [...]he passed away in February, 1946 and she in April of 1963. Mrs. Ralph Thunem was Miss Catherine Christ[...]eptember 28, 1898. Mel lives on the ranch south of the original home place. Josie, now retired, live[...]ry lives in Spokane, Washington and is a graduate of Kinman Business University and is office manager[...]ed to take up a homestead in children of Or Lynn's previous marriage and they were the Mon[...]parents of one child - Dixie who with her husband LeRoy Th[...]· They traveled to Montana by what was then known as an Ragnhild married Roger VonKuster. T[...]ragic accident in implements and a limited number of livestock. Their Arizona in 1971. Ragnhild still resides in Scobey. enthusiasm, as they began to cultivate the native sod, for a[...]d Christina Suchy. They have two mew life on land of their own was no doubt very great. childr[...]have two children - activities. The construction of the Silver Star Hall in 1925 Rodne and Lona Rae[...]ial in Scobey and still reside there. events as well as general entertainment for the area Ma[...]consists of Terry, Bryan and Paula. They continue to live The family of Soren and An ton in a Veis consisted of five in Scobey. sons and two daughters. Sons Ch[...]farm. at age 88, of the Daniels Memorial Nursing Home.[...] |
| [...]number of young teachers were hired from Sheridan Joy School is located southwest of Flaxville about 16 County. They always managed to get married and of miles. Originally named Jay School after the Jay family course in that day and age their careers as teachers were that owned the land, but mail and people's pronunciations over. As wedding bells rang school bells quit for the youn[...]official name, teacher. much to the relief of a few students that disliked being[...]spring where the schools competed in various type of races. Sometimes tempers flared and being called[...]As remembered by Laverne Holmberg Hellickson[...]delivered once a week. Much of the land around the school[...]came H meetings and card parties. the center of the community activities for many years as well as a center of learning. Today the land it stood on has been c[...]Dickinson family came to this area in the spring of Miss We her was the first teacher in the new building. She 1913 to take up homesteads southeast of Scobey in what became Mrs. Vic Hillstrom a[...] |
| [...]of mules on a scraper.[...]called upon to play the part of a mid-wife and to help when[...]a neighbor was sick. During the flu epidemic of 1918 she[...]During the "Dirty-Thirties" the rest of the families, except[...]of Scobey and operated a dairy for a few years along[...]Of the thirteen children of Edward and Clara Dickinson,[...]home the winter of 1930. They were married September 15,[...]to the Garfield Wilson farm who donated one acre of land. The school became known as the Spring Valley School. School was held there u[...]system. The building was moved into town and used as a teacherage. Dances, social gatherings[...] |
| [...]where he owns a garage. In the spring of 1940 we moved from Fred White's place Alt[...]ne girl, live in Anoka, to our present home south of Scobey where we have resided Minnesota. He is[...]north of the track in Scobey. They had a house and big red[...]ased through the Federal Land Bank with a payment of $150 cash. After arriving and finding many window[...]cres by acquiring the Lindsey place and a couple of 40's we bought with her parents and went to schoo[...]ealth reasons. hall in Scobey. We did a lot of horseback riding and driving Of our five children the two youngest live in[...] |
| [...]children were still quite wanted including plenty of candy. young. Sarah[...]Gazell was a sister of Mrs. Ferd Morrison. That same year of 1908, in December, her son Vernon SARAH E. FORDYCE died of diabetes, the same disease which had taken his[...]Iowa. There she grew to womanhood and in February of his. 1889 was married to William Fordyc[...]Froid to Ferd Morrison in exchanged for a piece of his land 13 miles southeast of Scobey, also in the Line Coulee Mrs. Fordyce and[...]November 3, 1931 at about the age of 39. After his death[...]over 20 miles south of Flaxville in 1919.[...]The eight children of the Frederick family are all living.[...] |
| [...]taking soil samples as they went, and looking for a likely[...]h Dakota. The children are: Margaret Williamson of Scobey, Montana; Eugene Frederick of Terriboone, Oregon; Percy Frederick of south Flaxville; Dawn Hanson of south Flaxville; LeRoy Frederick on the homestead[...]Egile Furule - 1950 Chapman, north of Peerless; Dwight Frederick on home place, south F[...]y Alvhild. January 17, 1886. At the age of seventeen he came to The first farming[...]shing machine and Fordson tractor were purchased. of Rev. Russel Halaas, well known in this area) and worked In 1926 a large[...] |
| [...]ins), and Terri, a School Board, and was a member of Zion Lutheran Church student in college. of the Orville community. Mrs. Furuli continued operating the farm with help of son Kaare. Egil joined the Air Force, and served until 1945. After his discharge, with the addition of more land, Egil NELS RASMUS[...]se brothers were born to Rasmus and Ingeborg Area of California, where Carol managed a Safeway store.[...]Nels married in 1925 to Selma Swenson, daughter of Ida was a member of Zion Lutheran Church of Orville, and and Andrew Swenson; they[...]Gaustad Hlucny and Andrew Richard Gaustad (known as Egil Furuli is now a carpenter in Oakland, Cal[...]original homestead. They have two of Scobey. Richard Gaustad now has Martin's original[...]cobey High Martin had come to America as a young man of 21 in School.[...] |
| [...]miles southwest of Flaxville. Our family consists of three[...]Hereford cattle and farming. We have been members of the[...]join and Richard takes part as a leader. This year we have[...]other or whatever is near. We are members of Scobey[...]and was on the reservation, just three miles west of Bernt, his older brother. The little homestead ho[...]but now lives in Norway. County, south of Scobey in the fall of 1920 to the place Odin's daugh ter, Ingrid , also came t o Montana and lived now known as the Paul Gilbert farm. They came from in Scobey f[...]were born, Paul and area. He is survived by Irene of Wenatchee, Washington Geraldine. Dale, Louise, Harlan and Paul attended a and Richard of Flaxville, who still farms Martin's c[...]challenge to all. There was Krauth barn south of Scobey. The Bill Hendrens and lots of hard work, cold winters, and so on, but they had others played for the dances. We had a lot of ball games, their good times too: Ga th erings su[...], swimming and picnics on the Poplar River, known as school doings and F ourth of July picnics; everyone would Taylor's Beach.[...]omed Fred Gilbert farmed for a number of years and later sold everyone. Farms are now larger and the herds of cattle and the farm to Paul. He drove school bus for a number of years horses grew larger too. Th e farm work, fir[...]hinery. They all felt Fred died in the fall of 1957, Carrie in October, 1962. proud and happy wi[...]in Scobey and had an implement shop known as Tony's[...]Leslie Ereth married Debra Gunter of Yuma, Arizona[...] |
| [...]Ludvig Graff came to Daniels County in the spring of 1913 from Roseau County, Minnesota and worked for[...]and Oie, and filed on a homestead two miles east of Scobey. In the fall he returned to Minnesota to[...]llard, Luella 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 a[...]ed with frost. Julia dressed the children for bed as if they were going outside to play.[...]canning pickles and the man wanted the jug of vinegar,[...]from six miles east of the homestead with twenty-seven[...]horses, and a couple of years later put on a three-room[...]addition. They also moved half of the Chelgren livery ba rn[...]Manternach place south of Scobey.[...]s·erved in Africa and Italy during World War II as a[...]growing family of six children made a small farm in[...]water from a spring about a mile and a half of my parents for the rest of their lives. away at the Evenskaas place, their closest neighbor. Their life was one of saving and scrimping to feed and In March of 1914 Ludvig returned with his livestock and[...]. Sometimes on a Sunday for their own field crops as well as doing custom work for afternoon we all walked[...]a wagon and a custom threshing crew for a number of years. drove across the hills to[...]owed the outfit 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 they had to take their turn at herding cattle, as there were could go to tell her, "They're comin[...]ith milk cows, pigs and chickens to be taken care of[...] |
| [...]Alma, the youngest, married John Leib of Eure~a, The few relaxing moments Ma had were[...]gers fairly flew and the knitting needles clicked as she knitted by lamp light late into the night.[...]grandsons) operate a welding and miles southwest of Flaxville where he built a 16 by 18 repair shop.[...]ngaards, and Haroldsons. Mrs. Goodwin, who lived of Fiaxville. They live in Scobey and had six childr[...]I remember my first three months in Montana as being and lives in Loveland, Colorado with their[...]t I returned to Peterson for six weeks while age of eleven.[...]The second child, Julia, married Carl Danelson of there. I returned to Montana in late fall and we[...]is single and lives in Chester, happy experience as we became acquainted with Lees, Montana. Julian (Bubby) married Drunell Cobb of Tandes, Johnsons and Falkners. Alabama and farm[...]erque, New Mexico for one year and Denver, Safty of Flaxville and has seven children: June, who Color[...]in 1921 and begin raising married Irvin Odegaard of Whitetail and lives on a family. Three girls - Wi[...]their folks. with many happy days as well as the trying times while The third child, Clare[...]live at St. Regis, summer following our marriage as Mr. Storle and I enjoyed Montana. They have five[...]a black eye for not using the bat properly. Some of Rory and Rennie. Clara Mae , who lost her first[...]Times were not easy during this period of time - however Justin . Ernie owns and operates[...]Mr. Storlepassed away in October of 1967. Marlene and I The fourth child (me, Ella) married Dale Gilbert of continued to live in our home in Scobey until October of Scobey. He passed away in 1966. I still live on[...]mmercial pilot with TWA. They liv~ in welcome all of our friends to stop in to see us any time. Calif[...]es and Dale Howard. Bernie married Joanne Brasen of lives in Spokane, Washington. Fred and Winnie hav[...]three girls, Lynette, Ruby Mae and · Vionna. All of them are married and there are nine children betw[...]who passed away in 1972. HISTORY OF CLIFTON E. JONES She now lives on the farm with m[...]ifton E. Jones came to this country in the spring of child , Bernadine, who married Dale VandenBos of Shelby, 1910 by team and wagon, alo[...] |
| [...]getting more land as time went on and stock, so that helped[...]them through the depression of the thirties.[...]Cooper had been trained as an accountant. They had Cliff and Octera Jones[...]Enroute they stopped in Firth or Forth, Alberta as that was as far as the railroad went in those days. They arrived[...]at the end of the railroad line and found themselves in an[...]e drill trousers and shirts. The station was full of[...]around a little pot-belly stove, as it was still quite cold.[...]change behind the cover of their trunk. It must have been a[...]provisioned with three loaves of bread, bacon and tea; a[...]little lard pail, a 22 rifle and a couple of blankets.[...]t their fire on the windward Wilbur Jones Family. As heads appear: Paulie, Jerry, side so[...]other Ewen, Saskatchewan. He wanted to get land of his own so Pete Furuli and Cooper Kesti[...]homestead. He went back to Glen one of the worst hail storms - laid everything flat.) |
| man was accompanying them, either by the n~me of just as hard as marbles with the fire going full blast. Gustad or[...]im to board in Glasgow and fire, and was soon out of control. Instead of beating the Helena. In the spring she brok[...]ead quickly. The bottom plow with the help of Sam Burgess. three fled to the other side of the creek. They knew they had Her homestead[...]e harvester at to become Flaxville) on the fourth of July in 1911. The town 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[...]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 the colts and stock targ et for bunco artists. Th[...]lace". 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 Heins[...]Lake, North Dakota to her the two from the hands of the con-man, telling them they homestead.[...]days to make the trip, and it could use his place as home base and walk the surrounding was som[...]she had her own bedroll and settled on a section of land, each homesteading a half little t[...]section. This section was located 14 miles south of by a half-breed Indian. She ran and[...]kicked. She never hired men to help her as she felt they[...]orses at the livery, and eating too much. She was known as the "Grass Widder" in that country. Even though t[...]as she called him, in about 1916. Her daughter Ethel[...]in 1913 and boarded out in the western part of the state.[...]ere she attended school and received her training as a[...]and was raised as a southern belle used to the better things[...]s, to be a good hostess and to oversee the duties of a Spencer, Jeanne (Kestin) Coram, Maxine (Kestin) Graff. young miss of the gentry. Yet she came to Montana and Not shown[...]in the cold, bleak winters of Montana.[...]came to the area in 1908-1909 with the side of her husband in the lamplight. To them were her fo[...]with cancer after only about ten years. Much of the Jesse Mason, fought in the Civil War for the[...]scharge. Outa was an ambitious, a series of years. Cooper passed away in his native driving,[...]. Ethel which she wore long. She had a good sense of humor and remarried and two more[...] |
| [...]them a little so as they will be able to do some hard work in[...]kinds of reading ... " Cooper's letter of April 11, 1915: "I am just up to my eyes[...]months. We have got in 60 acres of wheat already. It is just[...]thing of anything else now so the sooner it is in the bett[...]anyone going to town to post a letter as everybody round[...]th his machine. The following is a compilation of excerpts from Cooper Nels' brother, Mar[...]Oil outfit at Scobey and They give us a good idea of the life of the early got a big auto in on the[...]r Dave (Johnson) and Pete torpedoeing of the "Lusitania", kind of tough work, poor (Furuli), we got through with th[...]" o'clock and pulled over on to us - threshed 120 of 150 of wheat and then came the rain that night and no th[...]it Washington, North Carolina, the daughter of Jesse and was all off with threshing for twelve d[...]hay Outa Dowdy. Her father was the captain of a 100 foot and oats for two weeks and potatoes fo[...]er which he sailed on Pamlico Sound off the coast of weeks made our potato patch look queer. All the crew from North Carolina. Ethel used to sail with him as a child and the West, Opino country, no crop, had[...]hustle. loved it. She talked about the luxury of eating fresh oysters It might be our turn next -[...]nded the Art Institute. Outa had again seems kind of slow ... We finished threshing Friday take[...]they moved to Montana. Sheldon and one of Dave's kids or rather Mrs. J.'s kids. We E[...]s brought a Bull tractor, hard life of a homesteader's wife. Pullsome plow, too, and Dun[...]helma, at Sheldon) figuring on shipping a carload of cattle from St. home; there was no s[...] |
| [...]ning and being involved in community efforts such as the P.T.A. and the Episcopal (All Saints) Church[...]nday School teacher. She raised a large garden as well as poultry and livestock, and canned as much of this as she could. She put up pork in layers of lard in huge crocks. Pickles were made, and the r[...]and then go home and re-enact it to the enjoyment of her children and husband. Also, they tell of the times the team N.M.C. at Havre, later tau[...]keeping her family together by working long hours as a cook in the hospital. Were she alive today, s[...]ren. Alvina, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hinzman,[...]family to Estevan as a small child. She grew up there and[...]moved to a ranch 24 miles northeast of Wolf Point in 1925,[...]died in 1947. southeast of Scobey in 1916. When Martin came he helped[...]y Shop from 1945 his brother Gudman trail 50 head of horses from Killdeer,[...]the horses up November, 1974. She was a member of the First here. Martin built a house with a shall[...]Presbyterian Church. She passed away in March of 1975. cellar that saved many trips of water carrying. Later in the[...]She had two sons, John of Wolf Point and James of Fort spring, after school was out, Mrs. Knudsvig,[...]Benton, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Tope of Fort Benton, Over the years she taught school at[...]uggy six and seven miles. Even though she had use of only one arm, she enjoyed many years playing the[...]y. He settled near the Bill Kraft ranch. Norgaard of Flaxville. They had three children. Their son[...]e crash in 1967. Mable died in later years of his life. 1965. Their daughters are Vivien and Myrna. He Ii ved the last three years of his life in his homestead Another daughter, Martha, who was one of the first shack on the Jess Drury farm[...]re, also attended Flaxville High School and of his land to Jesse.[...] |
| [...]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 Scobey Hospital in August, 1948 at the age of eighty-two. He was survived by a sister in Califo[...]The soil was in the blood of both ofus so after being there[...]1915, and worked for Daniels at Old Scobey as we all went through in the thirties. at first. Sh[...]Olaf homesteaded Time, youthful energy, lack of money hung heavy on our the land where the farm b[...]ctricity, had also an and the land directly north of this. They farmed together inventive mind. He built one of the first electric light plants until the middle[...]community so we nearly always had electric lights of Saskatchewan and purchased a store.[...]an Herman was married in 1932 to Gerda Sorenson of electric iron. These were for a thir[...]try. We also had a meat grinder Since the death of Herman Nyhus in 1951 the farm has that wa[...]een operated by Mrs. Nyhus and Dean with the help of machine. For a while we considered sendi[...]her family and Robert reside at Children of Willis and Anna Ocher: Gary, Arliss, Wilma, White[...]r N.els. His homestead land was a few miles south of Flaxville, but he rented out his land and returne[...]by Mrs. Willis Ocker Willis Fred Ocker of Omemee, North Dakota came to |
| [...]Martin died September 7, 1959 at the age of 80, and little west of Flaxville. Our fifth child was born there, Theodore died at the age of 83 in December of 1963. Both delivered by her dad. All our children[...]a home in Scobey. After living there for a couple of CLARENCE W. ROSSING years we bought the Benson Dairy, just northeast of Scobey. Those were busy years. The children in hi[...]tana. It took seven days to make the trip by rail as health began to fail in 1949 and through 1974, he has had there were blizzard conditions most of the way which made seven major surgeries, plus he[...]l T. Burgett. They have six 600 acres of oats and flax. Getting a snowstorm in early child[...]In late spring the mother and rest of the family came. Calvin married Ruth Klemme fr[...]Rudy and have four children. He has been manager of Sears and Roebuck rug and. furniture department f[...]Woman's Club, scouting, church, choir, and Woman of the Year in 1965. She has been real active in pla[...]ng grain. Frank and Edna on lead, Clarence School of Nursing. After nursing for two years she married[...]n 1922 and on October 26, 1924 married Viola Buck of[...]Knudson, now deceased; Orman of Libby, Montana;Joyce McCann of Plentywood, Montana; Donna Knapp of MARTIN AND THEODORE OLANDER Antioch, California; and Ila Mae We:adt of Columbia Falls,[...]sold our farming interests in the spring of 1963. In 1961 we Martin and Theodore were two b[...]bought a small acreage and home out of Columbia Falls, southwest of Flaxville. Martin, the eldest, was born in[...]e children in the neighborhood loved to go there, as Theodore always had I came to Scobey in August of 1915. My parents were candy for them. He always gave them ripe plums during neighbors of Dennis Coughlin at Rose Creek, Minnesota. plum se[...]nd reserved man, but He was the father of R.J. Coughlin, one of Scobey's first was always ready to be of any help to his neighbors. bu[...] |
| [...]lroad was away at high speed in view of the deputy sheriff. He offering special rates of $12.00 for round trip from quickly fo[...]n the horse and said, "Hello Bill" to the chagrin of into Scobey with him, and I have lived here since[...]tchewan, Canada in 1909. He homesteaded southeast of Whitetail in 1912. It took us two days to make th[...]ee, Ole Schow, Amos We are members of the Methodist Church , Daniels Saterlee, Anna Sat[...]County Farmers Union, a member of the Masonic Lodge,[...]nd the Eastern Star. My wife Goldie died suddenly of a[...]served in the Air have lived on a farm southeast of Scobey since, except for Force for 20 years[...]ved four years in the Air Force, wide open spaces of good old Montana and we moved back now[...]. Gloria, born in I recall the early topography of this area - hills, coulees, 1944, works in Portland, Oregon. ravines, creeks and prairie. There was lots of prairie grass by Melvin Schow and rich fertile soil. Wild game of prairie chickens, grouse, ducks and geese for tho[...]ractors in 1912, a Rumley Oil Pull, breaking sod, as well as other makes of heavy equipment JOHN AND BERNE[...]t that was hot news at the time. There were gangs of horse rustlers holed up in the John, the son of Samuel R. and Mary Smith of Scott Whitetail-Redstone area from time to time a[...]County, Indiana, was born April 29 , 1878. As a young man Dakota sheriff deputized Bill Endersb[...]rug and a Islands and served five years as corporal in the Coast sewing machine. After the d[...]After returning to Indiana he worked as postmaster at deputies came in, sat down o[...] |
| [...]The Smiths were parents of three children, Mildred,[...]Randy Smith, son of Ernest Smith, now farms the land[...]prairie with a team of horses and wagon. Early day Bernetha Smith (Mrs.[...]LARA SNYDER Death came to John Smith at the age of 75 on June 23, 1954 when he was taken with a stro[...]dson, Indiana in Bernetha Smith died at the age of 83 on January 22, 1975 1885, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Snyder, and went to at[...] |
| [...]has worked in Helena most of the time. Homer and Clara's wheat in 1969.[...]u. there and came west to North Dakota and worked as a farm hand; then he came to Culbertson, Montana in the springs of 1906 and 1907 and there was so much snow he went back to North Dakota. ·He returned in the spring of MR. AND MRS. ANDREW SWENSON 1908[...]n Norway. He came to Scobey and bought land south of the golf course. He kept Wisconsin when[...]n the homesteaded thirteen miles south of Scobey. Andrew's dad Air Force for four years and[...]ldren went back to Minnesota for the school term, as there were no schools in their area, neither road[...]ister Martina (Storle) Bekkerus's homestead south of Flaxville which he farmed for six years.[...]ls Henry also worked on WP A in these dry years of the Gustad and they had two children[...]mer Snyder and they have one boy. In the spring of 1935 we moved to the farm, known as the Albert married Nellie Barnes a[...] |
| [...]trimmed been up here on the flats above the head of Give-Out in white. There was a clothes line and a lot of clothes on it Morgan. I had ridden across from S[...]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 H[...]hut the gate and rode up I had a little string of saddle horses with me, with my bed to the hou[...]Everything was neat; a cement horse trough full of water breaks of the Poplar. I hadn't worked the country[...]g late so I rode on down to Hornet, and, as I soon discovered, Mrs. Himli was a good Sackett[...]d cook. There was furniture in the left the rest of my string in Sackett' s pasture, saddled Bald h[...]o the east bench. I covered the was kind of a shock, but a very pleasant one for me, a count[...]r tin can Martin had gone east with a shipment of cattle but his and frying pan grub for a[...]ate dessert, home canned plums, about two quarts of had lunch with Goodman and upon my inquiry he sa[...]e thick chocolate icing! not seen nor heard of this bunch of Appaloosas you speak 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[...]nd get started to the farmer's fences at the edge of the Flaxville ranching for myself.[...]them a bout the Canadian schoolmom who acted as if she when I got around the farmer's fences swu[...]farming and go to New Mexico on account of bad health. fillies. There were wild as 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 H[...]r town fourteen miles a way to sign the them both as colts from the Appaloosa bunch for which I[...]ince which I did, and carried a supply of water from the they were branded. In fact I had n[...]orry 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 h[...]. acquired an Appaloosa stud, just how is not now known. That evening Mr. Himli came there[...]bird's band. and bought his little bunch of cattle through an My dad had a homestead on th[...]ent with his bank .... I wintered there that head of the Cotton wood, but, like nearly everyone else o[...]ince that blue Saskatchewan. We had shipped a lot of horses over there to roan Appaloosa mare,[...]me up this coulee. do the farm work. In the fall of 1920 Dad had given up the We later bought this land a mile west of the Himli place farm and had come back to the ran[...]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 goo[...]ot bothered rounding- Now, the writing of this little chronicle gives rise to a up to brand[...]brand any colts I could he is master of his own destiny. One would hardly like to find.[...]admit that the course of his life had been set by the flight of · When I got these fillies quieted down in th[...]g him get his wind, and thought cowboy way of doing. However, I was at that time looking the si[...]found one. I must give the Appaloosa he had a lot of miles on him that day and it was ten miles[...] |
| [...]osa horses. I just could not risk the possibility of letting some slick-hunter get away with one Appaloosa colt. So, let us say, that the location of this ranch was decided that October day in 1922 when I rode across from Smoke Creek to the head of Give-Out Morgan and could not find this Appaloosa bunch. And along Highway 13 south of Scobey you may see Neil[...]. \ Mountain Maid, mother of Many Chips, has a top[...], Clemow's ranch. Tip spent most of the breeding season in[...], 1962 HISTORY OF THE NEIL TAYLOR RANCH |
| [...]Rocket with a safety rope anchored to the tongue of the wagon. Johnny Nelson in the wagon with Kenny Hansen driving the team of six colts. They were working for us. chairman w[...]cher Poplar River. The business people of Scobey,donated the |
| [...]which is which! Fae married Robert K. Phillips of Lewistown, Montana. They Ii ve on a ranch near Le[...]three children, Jim, Wes and Julie. In the fall of 1944 Neil was elected to represent Daniels County in the State House of Representatives, Helena, Montana. He was re-elect[...]He considered this a great honor from the people of Daniels County and he did his best to represent t[...]on several committees and was twice made Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He balanced the bud[...]Neil he wished Neil would handle his own affairs as well as he did those of the state![...]liam Cavanaugh, stayed on the ranch the remainder of that year, then in right in cart. Januar[...]an apartment in Roundup, Montana to be near both of my daughters and their families. They-hav-e- all been a source of joy and comfort to me.[...]ver, I will never "prove up" on a piece of land then return to Minneapolis to forget our goo[...]ved for over 41 years. the appeal of those endless prairies kept 1uring him back in[...]Wilkinson is southwest of Flaxville, just over the line on JOHN D. CA[...]rt Peck Indian Reservation. It was not free land, as BRIDIE MURPHY CAVANAUGH 1896-1936[...]Some of the early day settlers in that area who were It[...]seemed a and Cooper Kestin. It was known in later years as the Joy remote, barren place. He stepped off the[...]Wilkinson had each brought with them whereabouts of the livery barn for there were no street[...]n who corner while the horses did most of the work for a few directed John to the livery ba[...]passing wagon. The front wheel of the truck flipped the Emmett, James, Patricia, Ka[...]p, it stuck in the road and into the transmission of the John D.[...]In the winter of 1925 John meta dark-haired Irish lass in[...]the home of the founder of the Burma Shave Company[...]family of four was born. James in 1927, Emmett in 1928,[...]Depression and the long drought of the Thirties made life[...] |
| [...]southwest of Flaxville in the Joy Community.[...]several years he was the sole support of his step-mother[...]led on land fourteen and one-half miles southwest of[...]in 1928 for the object of his affections, the lady (or maybe M rs. John Cav[...]Ted) had a change of heart and she moved on. Ted and Ed[...]Ted's lack of immediate romantic success did not deter on the f[...]nity and in neighbors to visit, an d perhaps best of all , they really Daniels County. He served many terms on the board of didn't know th ey were so poor . trustees of Joy School, and was active in promoting and Br[...]niversary. John tried keeping his sense of fairness earned him the respect of the whole family together with th e help of a succession of community. housekeepers.[...]Ted served on the council of the Orville Lutheran Church The children atten[...]a During the drouth/ depression years of the early thirties little easier. The Wilkinsons[...]under. He was on the first county committee of the original Flaxville where he worked for the Fa[...]ultural Adjustment Act, or triple A, a forerunner of Company and later became a r ural mail carrier. T[...]transacted business in the courtroom of the county Mary, Colleen, Patrick and Robert.[...]even a typewriter - a far cry from the office of today. the farm and has operated it since with the exception of Ted still is a firm believer in farm c[...]dren . In 1934 the daughter of a boyhood friend came out to Betty attended No[...]make his home there. the last twenty-three years of his life. For a man who had In 1944 the[...]nal homes in for Mon tan a and the rolling fields of Daniels County had Minnesota, after they s[...]d by Mrs. T .J. Mohn. John served on the Board of T r ustees of Joy School, the Ed moved to North[...] |
| [...]I A bird 's-eye-view of the bustling little "Hub City of the Big Bench". 1. Newspaper office - law office;[...]rothers Elevator (before it was moved to RR right-of-way); 13. Sam |
| MADOC, THE HUB CITY OF THE BIG BENCH of the hardware store. W.B. Shoemaker worked for Mr.[...]Woods. Some of the carpenters in town were T. Primeau, A few years before there were any towns in the area of the Emory LaRoche, Chris Wells, Elmer Freye, a[...]a God-forsaken country shop was south of the Hotel McDonald but it was la ter and that a[...]ersons, Gordons, Bourassas, Lapkes, of the Peace who was Chris Conlan , brother of Margaret Aldriches, Fjelds, Fagans, Yuills, Mikk[...]ris what to say to Before there was any sort of settlement in the town of make the ceremony official. Madoc the community was known as the Big Bench, but the foundations of the town were getting under way for as early as 1912 a strange man came riding up to Grandma[...]up in one day In about 1913 the actual town of Madoc came into being by T. Primeau for his[...]was moved to the townsite and it type of boarding house. Harry Batterton ran it for a while continued to be called Orville. With the coming of the before selling it to Hans and Lena[...]osen, and until Meala. This was located west of the Hotel McDonald. 1914 it was called Boyer, or Boyer's Siding. There are many Another cafe known as the Farmers' Cafe was run by Mrs. stories as to how Madoc got its name. This is the one told b[...]ocated between the two saloons on main a pioneer of those days, Horrace Bourassa: street. A sister of Mrs. Cale Aldrich , Mrs. Capistrant was The[...]from St. Paul and stayed only a short time. Both of the Townsite Company was for the name Flaxville because of hotels served meals, also, and at one time John LaFrance the wide expanse of flax growing along the bench. The had[...]aloon. town to the east had applied for the name of Boyer, the name of a homesteader southeast of the townsite. Somehow in the handling of the applications, they became mixed and the tow[...]MADOC ST ATE BANK people did not want Boyer as the name of their town, so they had to start over in trying to agree on a new name. The State Bank of Madoc opened in early 1915. The Two of the first settlers in the territory were Murdock[...]ent; E.H.E. Helgeson, cashier; and several served as the name Murdock and the LaRoches wanted Rochev[...]ous positions. The bank was located on the corner of The town grew until there were, through the[...]ocery store. He and his wife furnished . a period of dry years, many homesteaders sold out and[...]es in the area. The building was moved away, so as a result, many of the businesses went purchased by Jim Sparling of Flaxville who moved it to his broke. In later y[...]ch caused a further decline. In the election of 1920, after the new county of Daniels had been formed, Madoc was in competiti[...]for the county seat. Madoc received only a third as many votes as Scobey, and this was the fatal blow for a brave[...]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 landlords in town of the past.[...]uilt a feed and Following is a brief summary of many ot the business livery stable which[...]Crystal, North Dakota. After the hotel went out of business Hector Massart. He and Victor Ferron o[...]ho m oved Theatre in 1917. It was housed in one of the saloons. 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 1929. The o[...]as owned by Arthur Brunelle, and proprietorship of William Conlan, father of Mrs. Ernest called the Hotel Washington a[...]erated it It was later moved from the west side of Main street to east until 1920.[...] |
| [...]ontgomery ran the business with George Green wood as mechanic. Sam Donegan and John Broughton also wor[...]Madoc Recorder: "On Tuesday afternoon at the hour of 4:15 a bright light shot across the Hub City in spite of the dark and stormy day. it was occasioned by the turning on of the electric current of the new electric lighting plant recently installe[...]. The lights have greatly improved the appearance of the main street and the Hub City now puts on the[...]publisher and he is standing holding a copy of it. He also MADOC DRAY LINES[...]ivery was a very necessary business. It consisted of a flatbed on a horsedrawn wagon or sleigh and was[...]LY4th known as T.J.'s Dray and Elmore Rowe worked for him.[...]~ linll' LIST OF PRIZES HARDWARE STORE The ori[...]At S~Jr&tional 8alute 'Of C&1111on. 8 :00 &. m.-lllffting of VarioUJ Committee. &t Wuhington Hotel.[...]Declaration of Ind_ependence by Attorney A. 8. Hemphill.[...]Speaker of the Day, Hon. Judge Davia of lCut Scobey.[...](2) Potato Race by Girls-Prize: Pair of Ladies' Gauntlet&, Donated by B. J:.[...](4) Fat Man '■ Race-Prise : Box of Oigan, donated by J. I . Robblnl. known as the Farmers Lumber Company with C. Aldrich, (Ii) Ladie■' Race-Box of Candy, donated by Jerry Madaen.[...],J. Madsen associated in its Tug.of-War-Married Men va. Single llen-Prise: Oigara for[...]ka during the Klondike gold rush. The first issue of the Madoc Recorder. When he moved away, Sig sol[...]1915. Published every to W. Johnson of the Seo bey Sen tinal.[...] |
| [...]officially changed to Madoc with George Springer as[...]ate and the Voight brothers in the various stages of their of the last cancellation was March 29, 1963, after f[...]ted the first saloon and the and a half years of existence. second was owned by LaRoche and LaFran[...]in his back. He was also mentioned in the murder of Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia", which went u[...]l. The following January Mr. J.W. Hill, president of There were three stores at the same time, the[...]into Madoc on a flat car. The foundations of concrete posts had been in 1914. They sold it to[...]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 no church buildings, services of various denominations were held in the schoolhous[...]ATORS There were three elevators in Madoc, one of which burned in 1919. They were known as Winter-Truesdell- Ames, the Montana-Dakota, and K[...]ey had originally built it off the railroad right-of-way so the grain could be loaded onto the box cars by wagon. It soon became necessary to move onto the right-of-way by the other two. The elevator was moved on r[...]larie, The standard depot in Madoc brother-in-law of George Boyd who managed the Mont- . Dak elevator;[...]were all a part of the common way of life.[...]I left Madoc in the fall of 1915 to become a traveling Madoc inherited the[...]he railroad freight agent. I cherish the memories of my stay there and came through town in 1914. It w[...]that came down from Scobey Cash Store with Henry as the first postmaster, and his in the morning and[...]n the aftermoon. I wife, Mary, was next. In March of 1915 its name was revisited the town in 19[...] |
| [...]A picture of the Madoc School in its original state was hard[...]ind but one was finally located. Mary Kamrud Lamb of[...]this on one of her trips back here. William Middlebrook died[...]article from which the above was taken . He died of lung cancer. He was comptroller and vice 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 named after him. George Lane was t[...]r Mr. Middlebrook left, and Elmer Jackson was one of the last to serve in that capacity. The newer sta[...]istrict. The first school in the Madoc area (then known as the Big Bench Community) was a one-room building southwest of Madoc in Angus Morrison 's pasture. A one-armed t[...]and Kaiser. Clark, held the first term in summer of 1912. Some students were Fagans, Robbins, Yuills,[...]che) Lapke coming to school carrying a whole loaf of bread every day, from which she would prepare lun[...]at noon. This old school, moved into town, served as the town school for about three years with Florence Montgomery and Alice Murphy as teachers. Total enrollment as of March 11 , 1915, according to the Madoc Messenger was 45. By October of 1916 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 , Bud Fag[...] |
| [...]s. Henry D. Bloss. They ran After the formation of Daniels County in 1920, Madoc the[...]any people left during the depression. Final year of school, 1961-62, had an enrollment of sixteen. Some Madoc teachers were Ethel E. Sing[...]arge tents like circus tents. Undoubtedly some of them are LaRoche's.[...]Last of Soles". It appears to be the real thing ho[...] |
| [...]4!"'!4!"l,-"'O---":t=r.L1f.~~ H_L OF >'YAY L ~ . _ _ _ _ ?, 5I'~;~ -/~ll=fj~ -- - - --[...].5rr.- Plat of the original townsite of Madoc when it was known as Boyer. Madoc Main Street - 1916[...] |
| [...]y settlers in northeastern Montana. In the spring of 1910 four families, including the Aldriches, A.M.[...]by train to Medicine Lake, Montana. The remainder of the journey was made with horses and wagons. All their belongings were hauled from Medicine Lake also, as the railroad was just being built. They arrived at their new homesites May 14, 1910. Tents were used as shelter until homes were built. Several men worke[...]· were one-story, with three or four rooms. Some of the early settlers lived in sod shacks. Wheat raising and other crops were the main source of income. Most of the farmers also raised cattle and hogs. When the small town of Madoc sprang up, our parents owned a livery stabl[...]r alsa served on the school board and was Justice of Cale Aldrich family - 1917. Back row: Gladys, Vivian, the Peace in Madoc for a number of years. The one-room Bessie. Front row: Cale, Earl and Alice. school house was located at the north end of the Aldrich farm and was later moved to town and[...]One of the incidents of interest we always remember was[...]er 25, 1903. Fourth of July celebration. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich left[...]years. Three of the family of six children are still living in[...]of this country was one of desolation. The first spring we[...]bought some horses and with another of Nora's brothers[...](Arnold) settled twelve miles north of Scobey on a Holum Loan place. The fall of that year we got enough money[...]Nora and Thea Kamrud cooking for the crew. As the nights[...]and I mined coal one half mile north west of the Zeidler[...]We sold it for $1.50 a ton. Some of our early day memories are of hanging wet sheets in the windows to keep[...] |
| [...]d Ingrid. the army worms, using Russian th istles as cattle feed and The place where I now l[...]ing from goiter surgery in Minneapolis at the age of from work on the Fort Peck Da m, Saddle Club, to[...]North Dakota, whom I had known from Norway. In 1973 I Our son Dale was born in[...]place near Madoc and has a family of ten. Haldis (Mrs .[...]and wor ked on th e has six children. All of my children attended grade school famil y fa rm. The livelihood of the people was made from in Madoc. mining[...]he next fall I returned to Norway wh ere I worked as a lumberjack for my father. It was hard John Vislie Barstad, eldest son of Mikkel and Ingeborg work but I thought it was fun[...]nd raised on the -Madoc Bench. He Sta tes in 1912 as I had heard about the hom esteads in at[...]ince. In Mar ch and Beverly Jean Pierce of Plentywood were married in 191 ;3 I came from Wis[...]the Madoc Fred Lee near Archer. Then in the fall of 1915 I bo ught th e area while living on the Templeman place and later the relinquishment of my cousin 's land near Madoc. I s tayed J[...]orway after having an excellent crop in the fall of '21. children are in the Scobey schools. Wh[...]J ohn continues to farm in the Madoc area as well a s returned in 1923 with intentions of selling out a nd being involv[...] |
| [...]dworking and making signs for local not of draft age at the time he signed up for it. I aske[...]replied, "If you can find a Agency, is secretary of the Daniels County Aging Council, Sheridan County homesteader to whom Barton told his is a member of the Daniels Memorial Hospital Guild, a[...]t came to Montana, I'll accept the charter member of the Madoc Home Demonstration Club homesteader's affidavit." and is a member of Flaxville Lutheran Church where she[...]llie there was a homesteader who could has served as church organist for several years.[...]presented to the chairman of the Sheridan County Draft[...]That night in Madoc in the back room of the law office of Billie Barton was a farmer east of Madoc who also the local barrister[...]owing story, written by George T. Springer, tells of how Springer by George T. Springer got Barton out of one of his entanglements-this one almost put him in the[...]ll on and off the baseball field. Fun was his cup of tea. He worked for Peter Voight, who farmed My grandparents were both born in Missouri. Nancy north of Madoc, and did his work well.[...]t war with Germany. direct descendant of Richard Cromwell who was a brother Under the Sele[...]0, to Oliver Cromwell-Lord Protector of England. Grandma inclusive, were obliged to regis[...]her, pianist, seamstress, and painter. the rounds of the local bars. In their cups a wave of Grandfather was born in Columbia, Mis[...]ified their age and registered for traveled as Grandma said, "from pillar to post" from then the[...]ived. binge in Scobey. Voight needed the services of Barton After they were married the[...]ame to me offering me $50.00 if 1 on one of the first steamboats up the river to Fort Benton[...]ld. They used 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.[...]tywood. There I interviewed Jack Bennett, Sheriff of Sheridan County and head of the Sheridan Nancy and David[...]old him that it was my belief that Barton was not of draft age; that his appearance and general demean[...]ked Bennett for deferment for a reasonable length of time to enable me to get proof of Barton's age. My request was granted. Billie c[...]nswer why he did something crazy when he was full of herbs?" He was very emphatic in his ass,e rtion that he was 32 years of age at the time he signed up ~ut he had no proof of any kind. He was born in Ithaca, New York. There[...]t 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[...] |
| [...]down in March of 1915. Mary with[...]of Madoc-then known as Orville-south of the railroad[...]on a homestead west of Scobey. The small shack was[...]deathly afraid of cyclones so I guess that is why the[...]y the Mary Batterton Weeks at the age of wind. We would also gather up "chi[...]assed away at the ripe old age Grandma was afraid of the Indians. They drove by team of 87. She was taken care ofby Mrs. Mary Lockrem, an[...]here for one year. Then they friend and old timer of Orville. Grandma died May 26, 1934 moved to New M[...]orn in St. Louis, · burned down, ran a pool hall of which Grandma greatly Missouri on March 9, 1885.[...]way, and one sister, farm about three miles north of Madoc where he planted who died at birth. Dad wen[...]nd I, Mary, was born there. My was also president of the co-op store board in Flaxville. Dad grandpare[...]moved to Flint, to dance all night. He was judge of elections for 49 years 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 disliked the[...]a and came to Orville. In the spring months short of his goal. He was the end of the Batterton of 1914 the rest of us came out. Grandpa built the house in li[...] |
| Over the years Harry was well known for his brand of and Frank. The older children attended s[...]ds' and also in the Hunter school and the variety of accidents he had with farm implements west of Hendersons. Some of them attended Ma doc school. and automobiles. One[...]take- Alex Bonneau died in 1928 at the age of 44 from injuries off and lost nearly all of his clothing escaping to avoid obtained whe[...]bout it shortly horse on the old road west of Madoc. Emily died in March, afterward.[...]1950 in Madoc at the age of 70. The daughter, Mary Weeks, lives in Ukiah, C[...]time of her death in 1950. Eugene lives on the family far[...]north of Madoc. Fred died as a young boy in about 1915[...]U FAMILY Vanderberg of Peerless and now lives in Missoula. Eva[...]ne, live in Scobey. hired to finish the remainder of the breaking. The first year Alex worked for the[...]car in 1912; also two sets of steel wheels that we proceeded[...]at Plentywood about 2/3 of April was gone. Joe Bourassa,[...]cow, as once in a while the cow decided she'd gone far[...]much respect for the wishes of the cow; it kept right on Roger and Lorraine Jero[...]Bureau's - five miles northwest of Whitetail Post Office, where the town of Whitetail now stands, arriving in a[...]snowstorm about the first of May.[...]last of June; then Dad took Mary, Anna, and me back to St[...]John, North Dakota, which is just east of the Turtle Mountains and north of Rolla, North Dakota. All nine of us[...]allotments)-800 acres in 1911 near where the town of[...] |
| [...]during the summer of 1912 Joe and Dad broke up 240 acres[...]on East 1/2 of SE 1/4 Sec. 34 T36 R49 and S-1/2 of Sec 35[...]town of Madoc for LaRoche, Primeau, etc. After[...](Lemieux)Bourassa. (Dad and Mother taken at turn of the century.) Top left: F.X. Alfred Bourassa - Father of Horace |
| morning there would be a skiff of snow on the pillows.None piano, Bob Templemen on trombone. Later Sylvan White of us were ever sick that winter; the good Lord must[...]e was fun, too. , The spring of1914 broke early, the town ofMadoc having B[...]kota, Dad was a started building in the late fall of 1913-the Winter- blacksmith at St. John for many[...]s set in farm in early 1914 and during the summer of 1914 moved it there and with too much easy credit and poor collections he on to the back of a lot at Madoc and used it afterwards as finally decided to move here. We came by train to[...]od. was originally for Mary and J.B. but neither of them liked The Turtle Mountain country is t[...]Schaeffers a little later yet. But in the winter of 1914- with trees of many kinds, including cranberry, gooseberry, 1915 we lived in Madoc. Most of us, Blanche, Irene, and I crabapple, raspberry, c[...]at Murphy's sister, Irene, was being in this type of country, the open space of Montana teaching.[...]finally adjusted to it with time. The spring of 1915 was cold and almost all summer. After R[...]s and sisters: getting the crop in, on the Fourth of July Madoc put on its There were nine child[...]passed away a we lived on the farm. That winter of 1915-1916 was few years 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, Washing[...]stad's farm for three days until the snowplow and of Madoc, passed away in the mid 1930's. Fred passed[...]we knew how cold it was (which we didn't); it was of years ago and is unable to walk. She was married[...]irst World Yyar the youngest in the family. Three of her children live in starts in spring of 191 7. J.B. was exempted partly for bemg Chicago, one south of Flaxville and one at Havre, on the farm, partly[...]er than Irene, was until August 1917 at 18 years of age, and those registered married to James Nunn.[...]Washington where most of her children are. 1918: another poor year on[...]elped all the time and daughters the lighter work of 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 married. Mary and Anna in[...]Irene in afterwards that they didn't know which of us wa~ going 1919. Mother was in and out of the house, helping bring first, but we all pulled out of it. Dad was left with a heart supplies to the out[...]ried in 1921. barrel to J.B. and me. We operated as Bourassa Brothers, Mother always had a lovely lot of flowers along with farming and threshing commerc[...]has rewarded this Dad passed away in the spring of 1928 and Mother in the patient, kindly mother for all the care and patience she had fall of 1929. Dad and Mother stayed with us for several w[...]hey passed The last and perhaps the least of the children, the old away.[...]looking over my reminiscing it looks like a life of all asked why I never married. I always answer th[...]Both I live at Flaxville, after many years of staying in the old J.B. and I played pool, and I[...]en I get to the pearly gates, He will have Two of Dad's brothers had moved to Radville,[...]he 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 1657-Jean Bourassa, originally trumpet, with Carl England on the violin, his wife on of Poitou, France, signed his engagement and[...] |
| [...]for the New France. He married at Quebec the 20th of October 1665 to Pereta Valley. He was 35 years ol[...]riage with Catherine Poitvin. He was the ancestor of the majority of the Bourassas of the North American Continent. Another Bourassa[...]anbly in 1884 to Marie Leber. He was the ancestor of the great Henri Bourassa. A genealogy and history of the Bourassa's was published in 1965 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the marriage of the first Bourassa in Canada, by Alem Bourassa, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. A complete genealogy of the Bourassa family can be had from: LaSocie[...]corporations and on a farm four miles north west of Flaxville. businesses. He had[...]d At that time there were no hospitals, so all of the children respect and confidence of the people he represented. were born at the farm:[...]at Canyon Ferry Lake, where they spent most of their time the chores involved on the farm. The greatest chore was along with members of the family as they came and left for preparing for the coming of the long cold winters. J.B., as other parts of the country. J.B. died of a massive heart he was called, would have to haul[...]was a Aurora. She spent the night with him as the car was stuck very large garden and canning w[...]g. Registered cattle were sold for $20 .00 a head as and called Lyle who was then working for the[...]to all but a blessing in disguise as he was an energetic In 1933, J.B. was elected[...]person and had to be doing something all of the time. Had remained in that capacity for appro[...]ation was instituted during this time As the years passed, the children and their families (known as WPA) in order to help the people through those[...]gow, Montana. Eilleen legislation for the benefit of the little man and did not cater (Schagunn) lives on a farm about 30 miles south of to company policies. He was his own man working f[...]ville. Omer lives in Palm Desert, managing a kind of people.[...]1945 and again in 1947 he was elected and served as Aurora, Colorado where her husband works[...]his Airlines. purpose was the same as it was while a Representative. In In 1967 Aurora married Louis Francis of East Helena 1949 he was appointed as Liquor Inspector for the who had[...]Canyon Ferry Lake, 20 miles from Helena, Montana. of Montana until 1954. From then on he worked as a Lobbyist at the State Capitol in the interest of Montana[...] |
| [...]Bourassa. When I There were several members of the Brunelle family who started school I could sp[...]le was married to a LaChapelle. They had Aircraft as a sheetmetal man on an experimental[...]was a sister of T.J. Primeau.[...]where all of them filed on homesteads in the Spring Valley[...]place, and the house stands today pretty much as the· I joined the United States Air Force duri[...]Field, Arizona. Opal and I were in the fall of 1910 and again in 1911 where Curtis married marri[...]ool at Roswell, New Mexico, where we later moved. As I was later being sent Bush family, Agnes[...]and Curtis about 1925. from one place to another as a combat crew radio-operator insturctor, Opal ret[...]red the Veteran's hospital there, and Opal worked as a stenographer in the Secretary of State office. After three years in and out of the Veteran's hospital, I went to work for the Mo[...]Veterans organization. Opal works at the College of the Desert. Our daughter Cheri, Mrs.John L[...] |
| [...]rrill 1888 and moved to Bein Fait, Saskatchewan as a little girl. have two boys, both gradua[...]Agnes and Curtis returned to Scobey in the spring of School. Curtis is with the Coast Gua[...]nce was listed 1958. For the remainder of her life she lived in Scobey. She as East Scobey. died at the age of 83. · Cliff Jones, Frank[...]Agnes had some terrifying experiences. She told of Daniel and Olive and their two[...]respassers shooting prairie chickens off the roof of their came from Minnesota to Madoc, Mont[...]veryone else during eat. They were horse dealers of questionable reputation, the 20's and[...]went through hard, trying but were more or less of the Robinhood variety, as they times, feeding their families o[...]ock they could raise, and what other necessities of horses. Agnes was "scared to death" but fed them[...]and Richard died the next year. Years later one of his children was to ask, "Grandma, was[...]1915 Alma was born. She died in the flu epidemic of hills, the times we would take our fathe[...]him in 1918. The Garfield Wilson home was set up as a make-shift the fields, running like[...]e monsters under them, and one time. At the time of Alma's death Carmon and Agnes slidi[...]December 18, 1919. In the When those of the children that went to school in Madoc late 20's, because of ill health, Curtis took his family and we[...]Sadie 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 R[...]ing and screaming, to the bus. Carmon started as an independent decorator in 1933, and still is in business as owner of Bush Decorating Service. In 1940 he purchased th[...]Betty (Mrs. Joe Loehr). Bush Cafe with the help of his mother and sister until October 1942. On April 12, 1941 he followed the lead of numerous local men and married a teacher, Gertrude McColly of Hinsdale. At that time married teachers were not[...]iately following the Second World War. In August of 1942 they moved into the house in which they still live. Carmon was Justice of Peace from 1947 to 1975, and he has been Fire Ch[...]ildren. Vaughn, now Mrs. Bob Dann, is a graduate of Hamline University and is presently Executive Director of the North Shore Cancer Society at Evanston, Illi[...]duated from MSU and is County Executive Director of the ASC Service of Wheatland and Meagher Counties and lives in Harl[...]University in St. Paul, Minnesota. In January of 1944 Ada married Merrill Smith of Crescent, Oklahoma. At the time Merrill w[...] |
| Some of the things vividly remembered by some of us about life and school in Madoc are: Helen clubbin g one of her brothers and Ray Girard over the head with h[...]er tongue on the school flag pole in the middle of winter because Jerry Barstad dared her to; seein[...]rson when he stepped on some baby mice that some of the girls had found. Daniel moved the family to Scobey in the summer of 1940, when Betty was less than a year old. He co[...]and watching· Lois turn yellow with a bad case of jaundice. Lyle served in the Army during·Worl[...]aurice and Agnes Constant in about 1910. Murphy) of Marysville, California, Lyle of Billings, Helen (Mrs. Darrell) Schipman of Richey, Montana, Sadie Mae (Mrs. Joe) Metzger, whose husband travels for the Department of Interior, Lois (Mrs. Marlin) Schipman of O.E. DUNN FAMILY Glendive, Darlene (Mrs. Al) Kessler of Ollala, Washin gton, Scotty of Scobey, and Betty (Mrs; Joe) Loehr of Scobey. by Iola M. (Gray[...]Maurice Constant was born in Belguim in 1892 of farmed . parents Mr. and Mrs. Josep[...]ttended Madoc brother and a _sister. When he w_as just a teenager the school where I taught i[...]rs. where Mr. Dunn died in 1945. All of his girls married and Following a cyclone and[...]Morrison, and homesteaded ten miles northeast of Scobey. There he daughter of the Ferd Morrisons· of the Silver Star farmed and mined coal. Maurice[...]73. The girls are Valentine (Mrs. Phillip Hanson) of West J _o rdan, Utah, Mary Smith of Carson City, Nevada: Mauricette (Mrs. Joe Klabunde) of Havre, a n d Elaine GUSTAV ELGESTAD FAMILY (Mrs.Harman Regelman) of Reno, Nevada . When the girls went to h[...] |
| [...]Harold Skerrit now lives. In the fall of 1934 they moved to Scobey where they worked for Hans Olson the winter of the Morrison place about three quarters of a mile west of 1915-16. Another daughter, Borghild, was born at[...]lace and other acreage They homesteaded northeast of Scobey in 1916. Neighbors nearby. were[...]eceived his were born, Oscar and Carl. Oscar died as a child of two education in North Dakota. In 1918[...]Number 315. He was a charter member of Post 121 of the the Emma Crone farm north of Madoc, where they stayed American Leg[...]arents in 1906. She received her half miles south of Madoc which finally became their edu[...]d Myrtle were born Ellen, were born at this home. Of course all babies were there. In 1928 th[...]ir household possessions, delivered with the help of neighbor ladies or a mid-wife. machinery, and Ii vestock in two emigrant cars to the end of The nearest church was Orville, southwest of Flaxville, the Northern Pacific railroa[...]trucked their possessions to their farm northeast of Circle. Gustav passed away in 1953. His wife c[...]re. Ella from the so-called "good old days", many of which were is married to Kenneth J. La[...]ildren came to Daniels County from Circle in 1933 as he liked the country by Ma[...]Lamb here. He hired two men to help drive 23 head of cattle and three wagons across country 100 miles as by rail it was a Snorre Eriksen arrived[...]train from long round about way. It took six days as a rain delayed Minnesota in 1922. the fi[...]yway, George Valdely was a bachelor Ii ving north of[...]smoked out. They promised a big dance for all of Ma doc the[...] |
| [...]Two of Hubert E. Field's sons, Clinton and Stephen. The[...]nally, our father came out to ranch with 500 head of horses. However, by 1915 ranching went out becaus[...]all the riding that was involved with the horses as our dad wasn't able to. There were horse thieves[...]those days and our mother went after a few horses of ours that had been stolen. Anona recalls going to[...]e her reflection. The first year we came out many of the horses returned to their old home near[...]re he was school janitor for 13 years. Then of the family were from Williston, North Dakota. Hub[...]traded some land with a Mr. Todd from east of Madoc. This again. Later they returned to Scobey[...]land is now owned by Horace Bourassa. Members of the John waited until he was 86 to accept his Soc[...]hen, He always said that he was able to take care of himself. Paul, Lois, Jessie, and Buel. Clin[...]the farm . Stephen farmed west of Carl Fjeld. Lois was Bud is a retired construc[...]of this handicap he masterecl playing the piano and[...]often the guest as school programs. Roy homesteaded near[...]ught out in Spokane There were several members of the Field family who after they moved. l[...]rea during the teens and the early Most of the family moved out west and some of them are twenties. The father was Hubert E[...] |
| [...]n the 3 C's camp where September 24, 1884. Both of their families moved to he learned his trade of Heavy Machinery Operator. Later Williston, North Dakota, where as young people they met he went into Civil Service[...]ith all Peck dam. The same year Eunice Rae Taylor of Sedro- their possessions to a homestead five miles north of Madoc, Woolley, Washington joined him in Montana[...]bey. It was rugged living there at that time as everything had In 1936 I moved to Vallejo, Cal[...]s on which until 1938. I then returned to Montana as my brother had they raised wheat.[...]six months. While there we were able to see some of our They had all been friends in North Dakota.[...]riends, the Fjelds who had 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[...]ere in 1940 I met horse and wagon to Plentywood as that was the nearest William Rogers and in July 1[...]Salem, Oregon June 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 of 1948. His wife Eunice and my brother took care of the horses and worked in the fields. daughter Bet[...]here Eunice taller than me. We also had the job of keeping the garden remarried. Betty graduated fro[...]ther and I moved away. He worked in the city hall as spring and early fall we drove a two wheel cart[...]n a fishing season. During World War II he worked as a steel blizzard came we all spent the night at school as our draftsman at the Talbert Shipyard in Bellingh[...]an remember going to passed away there at the age of 83 in July 1968. school when it was 40 to 50 de[...]sor 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 passed our hands, feet, nose and ears, as they were froze twice a away in Reno from cancer.[...]tober 1974 when after two eye surgeries I retired as Life on the farm at that time was not easy. E[...]lis, where my father's brother Paul - to the west of us on the farm. I also visited with Mrs. J . own[...]s. Carl Fjeld and Hazel and Eli five gallon cans of honey, chocolate, cocoanut and other LaRoche. Sor[...]~r every fall and canned everything we could out of the garden. The Harry Gibbs family moved to S[...]he couldn 't stand the cold winters. So in June of 1928, along Emma Gilbertson was born in Portland, North Dakota with my mother's father, Pete Anderson of Williston, December 2, 1887. She went to school a[...]County, Minnesota. Carl Fjeld was born in North- of my father's family had moved. The followin[...] |
| [...]lso in Roseau County, Minnesota. The first part of March 1910, Carl struck out to Montana to look fo[...]ything 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 lea[...]t 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 for Montan[...]lliston Carl was still there; about30-40 carloads of immigrants were held up there for a three day sno[...]April tenth I came to Culbertson and in a couple of days Carl got there and unloaded all our stuff. H[...]ll stayed with Mr. and Mr. Albert Jallo, a couple of blocks from Culbertson main street. Then in a few[...]allo and I stayed back in Culbertson to take care of the cattle the best we could. They went up main s[...]j As they came back they got acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Severson from south of Flaxville; they borrowed a wagon from him to bri[...]We sent to Sears and Roebuck for a cook stove, as soon as we got lined up with groceries and everything we[...]barns where we thought he would be. But no trace of the ox and we had to get out to our claim because one of the men, Mr. Gjarde stayed back there at the shac[...]cks and unload and set up housekeeping and plenty of green grass for the horses and cattle, but[...] |
| [...]of the livery barns which we overlooked and didn't i[...]Carl and I put up many tons of hay and since Laura was with us she took care of George. He was one year old. Our[...]and the next thing we found out was that half of the land[...]but he wouldn't sell. A bunch of Indians claimed all the[...]four feet of snow, which lasted all winter. We didn't worry.[...]back in the spring of 1911. Fall of 1911, we had a wonderful[...]Fjeld and family taken 1917. 1/4 of a mile away. On March 12, 1912 Clarence (Ole) was[...]born. In early summer of 1914, we decided to move closer to[...]went to Roseau for a carload of cows and fence posts. Then[...]was no place like Montana to us, but it was lots of[...]In the evening of January 10, 1911 a young man came to Carl[...]would get our go back. We got to our shack the 19 of May, 1910. First part horses back sometime, someway. To move to his shack at of June we had a foot of snow. The cattle didn't know what once if we[...]roken on it. So the next morning January 11, Carl of our stuff-some oak and cedar fence posts t[...] |
| [...]rode all that night until early morning to south of old Scobey. Then he turned Polly loose and he wai[...]ride down the main line and has never been heard of ever since. A Gilbert Forbregd and[...]and they lived on a farm. They became the parents of In 1916, Caroline was born and the next summer[...]ey, where he since we left in 1910. In the spring of 1917, Carl ordered a homesteaded. He died in 1[...]t fall, 1918. Nine or Gilbert Forbregd, son of Anton Lauris and Jonetta ten pupils were attendin[...]Dakota. He married Clara Bertine Chraft of Inwood, Iowa when te11ching school.[...]s a pure breed bull, three hundred chickens, lots of Minnesota and South Dakota, and settled in Ca[...]rkeys and ducks and geese, plus the barn was full of hay. 1943. Gilbert worked for the United Stat[...]San Francisco, in 1958 where his Scobey. The fall of 1928, we moved to Scobey and Clarence widow[...]Carl (Stub) still resides in Minnesota as does their eldest son, James. graduated from Scob[...]worked on the Spurgeon Ranch as a ranch hand. While Anton Lauris Forbregd was b[...]esteading among the Lofoten Islands off the coast of Norway. His at that time-(1) alkali wate[...]place called Norland. They emmigrated time of his life. Herman and his brother, Sigurd, W P·,[...]3, and settled in Baltic, South shipping out of Culbertson, when they were asked to haul a Dakota[...]safe to a small community established north of Culbertson[...] |
| [...]the last time he saw Herman for a couple of hours, as he[...]ring this time, Selma Halverson (Forbregd) worked as[...]of the only two white girls in Terry at that time. T[...]source of entertainment there were dances in Beach, North[...]This happy couple was blessed by the births of six[...]rows of garden vegetables. Herman continued this[...]Together, with the aid of their children, they weeded day[...]furnished half of Scobey, including local stores, as well as[...]The bushels of cucumbers went on and on. Selma loved[...]r ows of sweetpeas that bloomed to their fullest. Every[...]weekend she carried bouquets of sweetpeas to the.hospital;[...]it was her own private way of spreading sunshine. The[...]One of the highlights of the growing season was the p icking of chokecherries. Selma loved to pick Wedding picture of Herman and Selma Forbregd, chokecherries, and make preserves, syrups, and, of course December 21 , 1916, Plentywood, Montana. jug after jug of wine which she often gave for gifts. One[...]sinessman that always enjoyed receiving a portion of[...]it's so mild to drink and tasty, even buy a keg of beer if the men standing around would help[...]keg and settled down " Barn dances served as special social events in the lives to drink. Th[...]arted to drink from it when the and hearts of Ma and Dad," explains Shirley. Selma safe went[...]ain did worked for days, with assistance of her daughter, Shirley, anyone see Herman a nd S[...], Herman left Culbertson after several months of and coffee. The whole family would[...]When hauling this dynamite, Herman from as far as fifty miles. The music was usually provided was always sure to carry a couple jugs of homemade booze by Mrs. Leutsch, Mrs. Edwar[...]e barn was Dad's pride and joy," say Harold and of this sort. Sigurd told Harold that Herman was fam[...]nd extra grub on the way it was built. The peak of the barn is as straight as the day it home." After he left Culbertson, he[...]was new. It holds memories for all. worked as a logger. Later, he came back, and squatted near One of the biggest joys of Selma and Herman's life Scobey, working on the[...]n ever became disco.uraged. construction of the homestead shack. "At this time, Dad,"[...]while practicing, Dad threw the luxuries of "gilded aged" women. She found her greatest , rop[...]ch it. He did catch it, happiness in the middle of the vegetable garden or[...] |
| [...]amongst the hogs or chickens. Selma did the work of a man when it was required of her. She mended fences, wrangled cattle, and jus[...]done she could do. She had her femininity also, as she did enjoy dressing especially careful for spe[...]ways looked clean and polished. Herman served as County Representative for a term and belonged to[...]afternoon for Madoc. He was renting a farm north of Madoc, owned by his aunt, Marie Foss (Mrs. Emory[...]Anton Forbergd farm. Mr. Forbregd was the father of Mrs. Carl K veseth. My father and Ed Lee were ele[...]Enger as teacher for the first four years. Tillie C. Ophei[...]My father died in 1936 of Bright's disease. After his[...]The three spent the-year of 1910 at Ogema, Saskatchewan,[...]as the timber wolves would get the newborn ca[...] |
| [...]I guess it was kind of lonesome for my mother with only[...]with the help of Nancy Sloan as midwife. Mrs. Orville[...]right south of my folks' homestead. Here is something[...]All supplies came out of Culbertson. Joseph and Louise Girard[...]FRED GOULET FAMILY |
| Of the twenty-one sons and daughters, eighteen were[...]ey, with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goulet of this city. It is one of the largest fa milies in the United States. Photo in front of the family home: In front, left to right: Brian,[...]owns an ice plant and lived there until February of 1962 when they moved to sells insurance; Geraldin[...]place to Dale Fossen. Bellevue and is part owner of Tour Ice; Donna Collado has two children and they[...]and Michael are still at home. of Madoc in about 1911. There were several children,[...]enry. Chris Hanson served 01 _ the Raymond, son of Joseph Goulet - and Genevieve school election board frequently in the early years of Hunter Goulet moved into the Madoc Community in 1[...]ce and so Madoc and a daughter, Margaret, was one of the only Raymond and Genevieve rented the place f[...]Cora was a moved into it. Genevieve was a native of Madoc, having teacher at the Spring Valley school south of Madoc. She been born and raised there. (See Hunte[...]iving in Kentucky. After Norway on April 29, 1872 of parents Hans and Marsellia[...] |
| [...]Gordon of Madoc) in Utah, Ervin in Alaska, and Hazel[...](Mrs. Harry) Bummer of Scobey. Marvin died in the 30's.[...]ed in the 50's. Clarence married Sylvia Rasmussen of[...]and as the clerk wasn't interested in the Madoc store, h[...]got too deep I lived at one of the hotels. It happened that[...]South Dakota and as we were planning a June wedding, he[...]I will always cherish the fond memories of all those[...]el Air Nursing Home. Maaasoval. When 18 years of age he came to America to Earl and Jennie H[...]e Skyberg in 1898. Later Sam Hanson'[...] |
| [...]Lou's as his adjoined Ernie's. To this union was born seve[...]children. Joseph, the first, died at the age of six weeks. The[...]the famiy to Scobey. It was the site of the present day[...]Andersons-the family of Ella Mae Evenskaas. Her senior The first wedding[...]as married to Lapke upstairs in the home of Beatrice Gilchrist. After Earl Hardison. Mrs. Har[...]turned out to give us a send off". Taken in front of the Hotel Montana College at Havre. She was a[...]Sweetgrass, Montana and later in Foss in the fall of 1916 and shipped ·two immigrant cars th[...]she renewed from Walhalla, North Dakota the first of March 1917. He acquaintances with John[...]e to Montana from Calvin, North Dakota the spring of 1910. they shipped their team and wagon and whate[...]hey turned their wagon box over and rode under it as they didn't have fare to travel on the passenger[...]ut two and one half miles north and a little west of what later became Madoc. They built their homeste[...]tead and built a homestead shack. Margaret worked as a clerk at the Kirkeby-Rafshol store at Ol[...] |
| [...]tricia worked in an office at Galena Air Base out of older boys on the bus used to shovel a lot of snow and put on Spokane for a time. Later she at[...]frequently. His brother, Adam School and worked as a beautician until her marriage to lived wit[...]e Sandy is with the Burlington The winter of 1937-38 Ernie and Adam hauled the cattle Norther[...]Scobey and come back on Sunday with a load of ground feed and hay to Flaxville where Jim is cur[...]e stationed in Memphis, Company board of directors. Tennessee. After his discharge from th[...]en. Later he work. They used to hold a week of school in the summer and Tom bought their folks'[...]five children- drive his bus with a load of boys and girls to Havre to old Kenneth, Donald, L[...]his Dad and married Darlene would go as a leader and they would take Bill and Tom Tryan i[...]e Democrat party. She was Vice-chairman of the Democrat still holds. They have six children-[...]Central Committee in Daniels County at the time of her Bradley, Lisa, and Jeffery.[...]moved to Scobey and lived there until his barrel of water on the stoneboat to the end of the garden death, in 1965. Tom sold his land[...]After Bill's land (the Home Place) came out of the Soil[...]On the morning of January 13, 1913 an emigrant car[...]. population of around a hundred. There were four saloons, a[...]ng she sewed. Margaret was glad impression of the storm John would sometimes answer when she di[...]other and say that he bus made to put on the back of it. He put old car cushions thought the[...] |
| [...]Following the spring planting John wrote one of the few[...]ever describe the beauty of this wonderful land. As I sit[...]this letter to you I can look over the many acres of our land where millions upon millions of crocuses are blooming. It is a carpet of blue stretched from horizon to[...]couple miles of the place. Shouldn't be much of a hike."[...]arrived to help with the delivery of one baby and to say,[...]In August of 1924 a son, John, passed away. Mr. Hunter[...]1941. Mrs. Hunter passed away in 1959 at the age of[...]ars. One son lives at Pablo, Montana and the rest of[...]THE LIFE AND TIMES OF[...]plains of Daniels County were as varied a lot as could well[...]minimum of work, prove up and sell out.[...]Carl Jacobson came to Montana for reasons of health. evening of the third day the wind died down, the stars[...]atter's rights with all improvements on 320 acres of the section ofland, five miles northeast of present day Scobey, choicest farm land to be had[...]40 above by nine o'clock in the morning, a change of 85 and infant son, Harry.) There they found[...]A day later the snow had for the sum of $60.00, agreed to take them and their completely[...]good as his word, and several days later, he depos[...] |
| [...]ch money. This crop in. At the approach of winter, they boarded up the· was April of 1912, and the world seemed beautiful. The[...]ass was lush and every little depression was full of water, they spent the winter with relatives.[...]one half miles complete with a team of horses, a wagon, machinery and west-on present Ro[...]nd last time. Carl was no cowboy, planted it as late in the season as they dared, then 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[...]danced to the music of Carl's violin, often accompanied by[...]loved to read and as their collection of books grew their[...]Cherry, Barney, Betty, and Edith. As each new baby came[...]the original 12 x 16 foot shack became the center of a five[...]ids needed schooling too. At first this consisted of two to Carl Jacobson on porch of original homestead four months of summer school. Fortunately, Edna was a hou~e.[...]ool teacher herself, so we children received most of our[...]Scobey High School; and all three of the girls eventually[...]· fluctuatirtg with the yield and price of wheat. The 20's were[...]Carl died suddenly in the spring of' 41. He had never been[...]sick in his life. Edna with the assistance of son, Barney[...]favorite gathering place of her sixteen.grandchildren. She[...]The rest of the children all still live in ¥ontana. Harry The Montana·wind and sun; the rest and solitude of the has a jewelry shop in Plentywood. Ch[...]een teaching, now headquarters in health. The end of summer found her strong and fit and Miles City. Betty (Mrs. John Gunderson) of the Navajo brown as an Indian.[...]a 40 day threshing run that Fall. 1912 was a year of bumper west of J orda:Q.[...] |
| [...]acobson farmstead until we purchased a farm south of Madoc (Elgestad farm), and moved there in 1963.[...]Mrs. Louise Morrison's. Barney was a member of the Madoc School Board and Alphonsine[...]active in the community. Ida was a charter member of the Gladys Taulbee who was originally from[...]d I remained on the farm works taking care of the elderly in their homes. until 1973 when I mov[...]in about 1908. Then in 1910 they came to the Iowa of parents Anna and Frank Jacoby. His mother died[...]north of their place. Carl and Emma Fjeld were friends of when Charlie was a baby and the family was put in[...]ere Charlie grew up. Charlie left home at the age of sixteen and has made his own here in the 20's[...]died in Minneapolis. His wife living for the rest of his life. He worked for some neighbors[...]November 29, 1929 Charles and Alphonsine Bonneau of Madoc were married in Scobey. They returned to No[...]they returned and lived on county land northeast of Madoc. In 1933 he and by Ma[...]ter Charlie homesteaded on a quarter section west of Lebels. Gulik and Thea Kamrud were both[...]ey moved into Madoc where place south of Madoc. In 1927 or '28 Gulik bought the Charlie ha[...]homestead from Gjert Urdahl. acre farm northeast of Madoc for $525 from the county. He S[...] |
| [...]. with Henry Austinson in the 30's. Thea was well known and loved for her good humor, warm hospitality, and most of all her practical jokes! They sold their farm t[...]laf California and Ingeborg Eriksen and Mary Lamb of Buhl, Kveseth. Idaho.[...]Arnold Kveseth. Sons of Carl JENNIE FORBREGD KVESETH[...]sons of Anton Forbregd. Carl Kveseth, born in 1888, was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Severt P. Forbregd, as his mother died while he was quite young. He had a brother, Olaf. Jennie Amanda Forbregd was the daughter of Anton and Jonetta Forbregd. She was born i[...] |
| [...]n San Francisco where Ernest worked for the Corps of Engineers and also Dean William Lapke was born in 1920 to John A. and as a musician. They had two sons, Douglas, and Kenne[...]rancisco. first of six children. He attended the Madoc school for th[...]e sent on to active duty overseas when the ending of by Mrs. Joe LaCount[...]lso taken a on the "home place" north of Madoc, and have lived there homest'ead. Another of his uncles, Art Brunelle, had the ever sin[...]also recalled that there was a little store north of Madoc that was moved into town with a Rumley trac[...]received her RN diploma from St. Vincent's School of Nursing after which she enlisted as an Army Nurse. She[...]most phases of the Church work of St. Philip's Parish of[...]officer of the Daniels Memorial Hospital Guild; a County[...]·held several terms as an officer; and she was a charter member of the Madoc Home Demonstration Club and has[...] |
| [...]e in the St. Philip's Church and its projects and as a member of the Knights of Columbus. He has been an officer continuously for 25 years in 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 Credit Union and has served 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 Organization serving as County Grain Chairman. He also serves as a board member of the Oswego CD&D grain facility at Oswego, Montana. All of these activities point out his main interest in life, his interest and occupation of grain farming. JOHN ANDREW LAPKE-[...]pke was born in 1894 near Westphalia, |
| [...]re in 1883 he married Marguerite Brunelle who was of[...]nch and Chippewa descent but born on the prairies of[...]Mountains of North Dakota. In 1909 after five more[...]and William. when the rest of the family moved out. This being ahead of[...]the Madoc School Board. Alice is a charter member of the Madoc Extension Homemakers, and has had a bus[...]r with his horses. Joe filed on a homestead south of Redstone. His brother, Bill Lapke, helped him break up some of the land which they seeded. Range horses and catt[...]ouraged and left the homestead and became a "Jack of all trades". He was a steam engineer, shearer of sheep, a shoer of horses, a harness maker and a mechanic. He was no[...]harge. He returned to this area following the end of the war. He enjoyed working with horses and en[...]he Twin Cities to see Dan Patch, the famous pacer of the Teens. Joseph Lapke died in Augm~t of1946 in the Scobey Clinic Hospital. He remained a[...]Remi de N apierville, Quebec, Canada in 1852, one of the six children born to Pierre and Marceling Bes[...]railroad reached Madoc in 1913. Being ahead of the survey Dakota in 1878 stopping briefly in Chi[...]found that the line ran Dakota where he was part of the start of this community. between the house and the barn. As everyone else was in[...] |
| [...]North Dakota, the fifth child of Ferdinand and Marguerite[...]a number of years.[...]In 1911 he filed on a homestead, part of which later became the townsite of Madoc.[...]rdinand died in 1926 and Marguerite in 1927. Many of their children stayed in the area and a summary of their lives follows: Clara married Theophile Prim[...]in Flaxville area- was first County Commissioner of Daniels County-moved to Washington in mid 40's-re[...]Marguerite Delia, and Frederich Horace, both of whom family, farmed by Jumbo French.[...]Alberta in the spring of 1929, settling on a farm there. Lucien lived i[...]of his life, trapping. Alice married William Lapke[...]traveled extensively throughout the United worked as carpenter-died 1972.[...]l on farm. Fred was a friend of all who ever met him. He was best Louie[...] |
| [...]Lucien A. LaRoche, seventh child of Ferdinand and[...]California in the Veterinary Corps and then as a cook. He was discharged in August of 1919. He returned home and[...]farmed his parent's farm and worked at a variety of jobs including threshing crews and as hired man on various[...]Foss LaRoche, taken on her 85th birthday in June of In 1942 he enlisted in the Army and served at Fort Bliss, 1975, with all of her grandchildren. Front row: Dick Texas and Fort Riley, Kansas as a cook. In 1943 he received LaRoche, Marie and Ji[...]In August of 1975 he was admitted to the Old Soldiers[...]spring of 1910, Dad heard about the homesteads in the[...]United States of America near what became Madoc. We[...]wagon with Mother and us kids, the youngest of us being[...]nly seven months old. We slept in a tent but lots of nice[...]area in 1910 and homesteaded one half mile north of the present town of Madoc. Besides farm- ing he also worked as a carpenter, building many of the houses and barns in the Madoc and Flaxville a[...]her, Gabe, came from Stavanger, Norway at the age of eighteen. She worked in North Dakota until 1911 when she was old enough to file for a homestead north of Madoc. The children of this marriage are Amy Noble of Newport Beach, California, Ardis Harber of Torrance, California[...] |
| [...]age of 93, eight years after they celebrated their sixti[...]west of his dad's place and it was discovered that there[...]had cattle. He and his wife returned to the side of the wagon, and by evening they would have[...]ily and we crossed the border at north of Madoc for many years and moved to Whitefish in Po[...]1911 where they still reside. There was a total of nine We came through Plentywood and stopped at Redstone children, seven of whom are still living in various parts of where there was a very small store in a home. We[...]e-married William Potts in Madoc in 1918 and side of us . His transportation was~ buckboard drawn by[...]Northern Railroad. Alice remarried Oscar Redahlin of money but we did have a big garden and a big barrel of salt[...]Scobey and moved to a farm four miles northwest of the lack of oxygen, so the door had to be opened once in a[...]at area except There had to be a plentiful supply as the winters were long Dam10n, who returned[...]A little daughter, Eva, died at the age of two while the for staple food and clothing for th[...]H.E. and MARY LOCKREM Madoc. Then five of us children would drive to school. In spri[...] |
| [...]to Medicine Lake and sold it. I loaded up with as midwife for many of the births around the area. She also groceries fo[...]doctor come into Madoc and he wanted Vahl of Whitetail. some one to start a drug store so the[...]esume his old business. Then the doctor moved out of Madoc and we sold all of our drugs to the Scobey store. Mrs. Bridg[...]She had ten children, some of whom remained in the[...]family story follows; Mae of Calgary; John who lived in the[...]Fife Lake, Saskatchewan, area and Madoc; Jim of Rapid City, South Dakota; Bridget of Idaho; Bill of this area; Ed of Washington; Dave of Madoc; Margaret Gustitis, whose[...]Helen Killian of Scobey. Of this large pioneer family only[...]ad groceries in both buildings. Wedding picture of Tom and Mary McGovern - 1914 Father had one and I[...]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, son of Bridget nearly everyday some one wanted me to tak[...]h a young lady, Gina Bardalen, from brother-of the McGovern family married a sister and Dalton,[...]e graduated in December 1915 and I brother of the Killian family - Tom and Helen McGover[...] |
| [...](brother of Evelyn Killian) Duval, son of John and Evelyn[...]south of Madoc in 1912. He had previously farmed at New[...]Wisconsin. Both of his parents came from Poland.[...]a fourth miles north of his place. Helen was born in Wedding picture of Helen and John Killian taken in 1915. Men[...]igan. Her folks lived in various places, (parents of Evelyn Duval and Har vey Killian.[...]Killion had two children: married Mrs. Ruth Olson of the south Scobey ·area. Tom Harvey-now of Scobey-married Shirley Hendricks, a died in 1956.[...]tor Norman for several years. They have Ernest, of Albuquerque, New Mexico , who has been in[...]ation field there for many years and south of .Madoc and lives in Scobey. has conducted two Tee[...]Flaxville section) Nellie Carriere of Los Angeles-who is a registered nurse Joh[...]ee children. Nellie and Ernest have retained some of their father's farm interests-Harvey Killian farm[...]about 1925 from Fremont, Nebraska. They came here as in 1961.[...]s Kopsky, who had previously A neighbor family of the McGovern's were the Steiners,- homestea[...]ve to homesteaders nearby. Bill's place was north of Dave Montana. At first the Marik fam[...]more Rowes') and Rudolph's place south of Madoc; later, they moved to the Carl K veseth ,·as just east (later the Art Gordon home). Bill and h[...]a where he worked for his uncle, Sam Hanson. part of his latter life in Colorado. After they were married, they moved north of Four Buttes[...] |
| [...]several years and with the First World War many of the[...]Taylor, who was one of the first school teachers in Madoc.[...]al times before moving to their present home west of Four Buttes. They have a daughter Arletta and one[...]e to the Madoc area in 1911 and homesteaded south of Madoc. In about 1915 I had the garage in M[...] |
| [...]. Their residence in Madoc was located south west of the school. She stayed in Madoc until 1932 when s[...]da (Olavine) LaRoche, and Mrs. Gus (Marie) Girard of Scobey, David of Medicine Lake, Robert and Joseph.[...]n 1903. They located on a homestead one mile west of what became[...]The Jim Morrison land adjoined the townsite of what Angus M. and Frances Morrison - they were eventually became known as Madoc. Some speculators some of the first settlers on the Madoc Bench in bought lots from Jim in what was known as the Morrison 1.910.[...]the expansion of the bustling little city. Jim Morrison[...]Madoc. He was a firm believer in the fertile soil of Montana elevator in World War II which was late[...]Madoc and its community. Mr. cate composed of H.H. Ames, Art Hanson, and Carl Lind- Morrison was manager of Bonnes and Oie Lum her quist. After the death of Herman Schaefer the Morrison's Company until that firm disposed of the business. He was took over the post office with Louise as postmaster, a known familiarly as "Dad" Morrison and he was ever positi[...]ntly lives in the Daniels May 13, 1920 at the age of69 years. His wife Frances died in Memorial Home[...]s where her husband ran Shorty's farmed south of Scobey in the Silver Star Community. He Pl[...] |
| [...]in Arlee, Montana. He has one son, Danny. Another of Jim and Louise's sons died in infancy in 1920.[...]mus then moved to Spokane where he spent the rest of his life. VICTOR PARADIS FAMILY[...]there |
| [...]14, 1894 in Esterville, Iowa. Elmore farmed all of his life in[...](now owned by Dale Fossen), and later southeast of Madoc[...]farm. Lillie served as clerk of the Madoc school board for[...]In June of 1917 the Schaefer family, consisting of[...]venture as a result of recommendations made by traveling men , friends of my father. They told him that Madoc was[...]All of us boys attended school in Madoc. Eventually, due[...]ool janitorship, etc. and still had a small stock of[...]son on February 27 , 1922. Lillian was a daughter of Chri s and Ida Hanson , and was born Augus[...] |
| [...]held the office til George T. Springer was one of the biggest backers in the October 1, 1918, having resigned preparatory to entering adva~cement of Madoc during its early history. A quote t[...]dustrious young man. "Attorney George T. Springer of the Scobey Sentinel and I became its edit[...]n It was a position thoroughly enjoyed by me as I had a fbir Plentywood. When he is home George i[...]for the paper in my native postmaster and editor of his home town paper. No doubt Michigan. F[...]mnedest to keep Madoc on the employed as an adjuster for the Citizens State Bank of map!"[...]as born on Michigan's Upper creation of Daniels County and with Lou Boyd covered the Peni[...]chool, spent two years in the S.L. and A. College of the some opposition in the West Fork area led by Judge Arnold. University of Minnesota and in 1915 received an LLB[...]he Sheridan County degree at the St. Paul College of Law. He belongs to Scobey Commissioners called[...]ongs to the Delta votes for a new county of Daniels and 260 against it. In the Theta Phi Lega[...]nty seat Scobey polled 964 votes and Madoc member of the Selmer Oie Post No. 173, Veterans' of 358. When the Sheridan County Commissi[...]call the election, Gus Oie, of the Citizens State Bank, was in Here are some of George Springer's memories in his own Minnea[...]eaguers (Non-Partisan) rich, maturing in the fall of 1916. He wrote Griggs, Cooper and Close b[...]ul, to .recommend an The thriving town of Scobey stands, adjuster to work on his maturing p[...]s, recommended, and arrived in Madoc in September of 1916. For on this day the board select,[...]Sigurd M. Forbregd, real estate man and publisher of the In 1920 I became house attorney for[...]ghter, who is a student the reasons I could think of why Madoc should have a counselor at In[...]residence was Railroad complied without a hearing of the petition. I was taken up in Minneapolis w[...]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[...]water sport of the lumberjacks. For the 16th con ecutive[...]States and Canada vied for the title of "King of the White[...]Saturday Evening Post of Septem her 27, 1941 with color[...]1947, at the request of Walter Yust, editor of Encyclopedia[...] |
| Britannica I wrote the hi tory of birling whi h is in the boys would hear us. There were no lights, just windo 1947 edition of Britannica. · frames around the windows of the tar-papered home. The ince retirement I ha[...]Madison , Minnesota. Most of their married life was spent[...]Grocery Store for awhile. Bert homesteaded east of Madoc about 1910, and was very During World[...]. It was in the mid-twentie when h e sold out as pharmacist at the Collinson Drug Store. In 1926 h[...]Opheim until he retired because of ill health. He passed[...]a nd hi on , Harry arrived in Scobey in February of 1914. Other families from Milan who settled in Da[...]Minnesota arrived 1917 - 25th wedding anniversary of Haluor and Anna in the im migrant car. In the car[...]enevieve, and Nina. Front row: Edna 1914 the re t of the family arrived in cobey, Mo th er, Anna Ruth,[...]Internal Revenue Agents. Alfred worked mostly out of arrival like we were, but other had come to ee the train Great Falls. Albert out of Tucson , Arizona. Alfred married come in. udd enl[...]a. Albert and Alfred where Evenskaas lived , east of town , He pas ed away November 1971. and told them to tell of our predicament. Then he took us to Nina took[...]in various schools in Montana and wagon and tea m of horses. The bottom of the wagon was wa high school librarian in Lewistown at the time of her spread with straw for us to sit on. Herbert Evenskaa had death in July, 1960. She was voted " Teacher of The Year" come along too, and spent the time duri[...]. She has three we decided to sing and make a lot of noise so Dad and the children. Loyal is ma[...] |
| [...]for a few Halvor S. Thompson farmed northeast of Scobey. He yea rs and after the birth of their fourth child , Angelita . . passed away in[...]they moved to the farm of the Madoc Bench . They had two Anna Thompson[...]After the death of Peter Voight in 1957, the family sold[...]children received the rest of their schooling there. Henry Thompson came to[...]the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, · settled east of Scobey in the Spring Valley area . It was Washing[...]the countryside looked four children. the same as my home in Saskatchewan. ·[...]two children. Angie is an Avon Lady . with some of the neighbors. Later the lake was made at[...]the families. We went in a truck driven by one of our They live at Saff Rafael , California and Van[...]many meetings. The Ma doc Farmers Union was one of our Park , Kansas . many activities. Henry was president of the ASCS in the beginning in 1933. He held this[...]mily is all grown and married and have children of their own. Oscar and Phyllis (DeWitt) live in[...]Hilmar Morris Wahl was born in Hayward, Wisconsin of state. They have three children.[...]discharge in May, 1919. In the fall of 1923 Hilmar came to[...]atterton , Carl Fjelds, Ray Lardys, Art auction of townsite lots in Scobey and bought one on the Lomelands , and Emma Crone . east side of Main Street. He built a building in 1914 a[...] |
| [...]of a hillside after removing over twenty feet of earth.[...]Hilmar passed away on July 7, 1963 at the age of 72.[...]Gabrielle lives in Madoc at the family home. Ten of their[...]She worked as a cashier for several years. Randy is[...]married to Edwin Simonson. They farmed north of Four Hilmar M. Wahl served in the infantry in Wor[...]He homesteaded north of Madoc from 1913 until 1927. He[...]Georg e passed away at the age of 76. Hilmar M . Wahl Family - 1973. Back row: Lil[...]Fall of 1909 filing on the homestead and then returned in[...]the Spring of 1910 to take up residence. He lived there all of |
| [...]ing a rag on a wagon wheel and counting the turns of the wheel. Later when the Government survey came[...]only off about 20 feet from the correct line! All of the farmers had to move their fields over to the[...]Curtis (Agnes) Bush. They both lived about a half of mile from Garfield. They were married in 1926. Th[...]rn to this union, one son dying in infancy, James of Poplar, Montana, and Robert of Scobey. The house the family was raised in was[...]am from Medicine Lake. It burned down in November of 1947 at which time Garfield almost lost his life.[...]tail. Coming to the valley about the same time as Garfield was a brother, Gordon and a sister, Mrs.[...]ly day activities included dances in the haylofts of Pearl Livingston and her husband Jim homestead[...]he entertainment hall was built. the same section as Garfield. Jim froze to death in a spring[...]d all day. He has since pastored in the Assembly of God Church in We left Madoc in the 30's. Ad served as under-sheriff in Chinook, and at the present tim[...]ity, Iowa; they have two he worked as a guard for Boeing. Ad passed away in 1961. child[...]kanagan, Washington. grandparents, the Roy Days, of south Flaxville, her mother being their daughter,[...]h intentions A family by the name of Mitchell lived in Madoc for a to farm and raise h[...], Harvey. Plentywood while the men drove 150 head of horses across Fritz and Laura Mart[...]the early twenties. He was involved in one of the elevators. and wagon were used to haul their[...]woman. This couple slept on the floor at the foot of the bed. James Nunn lived west of Fagans. He was father of The rest of the floor was covered with Indians.[...]Shorty Robbins homesteaded what became known as the Lake by wagon. Our horses ran wild over the[...]The Satterlee family lived southwest of Madoc. Mrs. the trip back to Williston for Christ[...]because Emma Savage was a relative of Peter Voight and she we had to go by wagon to Ple[...]d to Ethel Singleton, Madoc Plentywood depot. All of us kids were all wrapped in pa per[...] |
| [...]and is farmed Ben and Maude Schlag Ii ved east of Madoc in the by Iver Wahl. The farm is located south of Mike Barstad's. twenties. They had a daughter, Fl[...]ghter lives George Bush was a hired man of O .E. Dunn and he drove near Antelope-she is Mrs[...]school bus. Thomas and Nancy Sloan lived north of the Bill Lapke Gil and Bertha Carlson lived northeast of Madoc 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.[...]g in Medicine Lake. George Smith was a brother of the well-known "Three- Virgil Christensen lived in Ma[...]t to Wolf Wheel " Smith . He homesteaded "'hat is known as the Point later where he was an engine[...]St. John, North little farming northwest of Madoc. D.B. Cluster was his Dakota and homesteade[...]ore leaving this now lives. He has been described as "a feared character country, he worked on[...]ohn Conrath (no information) apparently used this as his mode of transportation. Three- Elmer and Bessie C[...]where Elmer The Snyder family lived southwest of Madoc. ran one of the elevators. Their four sons were Wilburn, Victor St. Arnold lived west of Carl Fjeld 's. There were Howard, Raymond, an[...]an Armeda Sullivan. The Ole Sund name was well-known in Madoc. He was involved in business in town and[...]d Autumn. They left in the thirties, living south of Madoc near the Lottie Parshall farm. · C. Tappa[...]'s. W.M. " Billie" Woods homesteaded southeast of Madocin Mrs. Korte.n dick and Mrs. Crabtre[...]MADOC PIONEERS Following is a list of people of whom there was little orno |
| [...]Ed Lee homesteaded sou th east of Ma doc in 1912. He died Gabe Foss, brother of Mrs. Emory (Marie) LaRoche was in 1950 and is buried in Scobey. On his epitaph reads the one of the first homesteaders on the Madoc Bench. He[...]family. His farm is located homesteaded northeast of Madoc north of the Bert north of Mike Barstad's and is now owned by John Templeman[...]and ranched Asten 0. Lien farmed south of Madoc. There were three north of Madoc. He was a bachelor and later moved · to[...]nd, Bill's brother, and his wife Ella lived north of John Lapke farm. Ole's dad was also here for a wh[...]ng the dry years. was a sister of Mrs. Elmer Crabtree. Anton Jorgensen homesteaded west of Fagans. Hub Arndt Lomeland came h[...]northeast of Madoc on what is now the Clifford Holum Homer[...]d Robert, are very prominent persons in the state of Nevada, Mrs. Larson was a music teacher[...]hl later in Scobey. Mrs. Paul Valette and two of their girls.[...] |
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Daniels County Bi-Centennial Commission, Daniels County History Part A (Pages 1-548) (1977). Montana History Portal, accessed 20/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78576
