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 | [...]Indian Man. Then came herds of cattle Fifty years ago Bringin in the homesteader But they were rich in[...]'t show Thru war and peace Lord from up above |
| [...]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 when you write about yesterday and the days before that, it really is a form of remi[...], "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 must delve in old pages, look at old things, talk to those who remember more, or how would one fare? "The dear dead days beyond recall; are precious to us all." This book has attempted to present a view of Daniels County area from its earliest beginnings down to the present time. We have attempted to gather and preserve a segment of its earliest memories befor[...]cendents. 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 th[...]with a few. In compiling this book we have tried to think of all generations. Some names and important events may have been omitted, but not i[...]of material for this history has been a pleasure and a privilege. With the best of intentions, there w[...]being as careful as possible. Care has been taken to be accurate, but necessarily it cannot be altoget[...]y is. With each turn of the page it will bring to mind thoughts of yesterdays and the progress made. It makes us sad to think that progress cannot be made without it bei[...]r be replaced. This is the way it has always been and that is the way it is today.[...] |
| DEDICATION To ·the hardy pioneers with a great variety of backgrounds and experience, all with a yen to go West, who came to this area to live where they suffered many hardships and encountered numerous obstacles, but with great de[...]bearing the torch of expansion through the years, and whose visions, accomplishments and memories we cherish and prize above silver and gold - this history is lovingly dedicated.[...]anor Teigen at which time Claire Hillstrom agreed to spearhead a history book for Daniels County. Eleanor Teigen, Doris Hughes and Myrna Gribble were appointed to assist lier.[...] |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To the Daniels County Bicentennial Committee: Bob[...], Harold "Frenchy" Girard, Bob Tande, Paul Chabot and Milton Shipstead for their approval, support and constant encouragement. To the Area Workers: Artists And Others. |
| [...]what is now Valley County belonged to the District of Louisiana, then to the Territory of Louisiana of which St. Louis was[...]subdivisions of this area to which the valley belonged, gradually ab-[...]braska Territory (1854), Dakota Territory (1861), andto Big Horn, but was 11C10n ,wa//ow«J up by an exte[...];,er County into Daww,n and Big Hom in 1876. (Note Big Horn[...]was created out of Dawson, and i ts residence swing their local gover- ment from Glendive to Glasgow.[...] |
| [...]S - In 1912 sizeable Valley County was chopped to form Blaine County; in 1913 to form Sheridan. •IN 1915 - Phillips County was formed out and note that south of FINAL CARVING - In 1919 Rool!IMlltcounty was formed and in 1920 |
| [...]The smallpox epidemic of 1780 and 1837 almost exterminated the tribe, and were largely responsible for its This vast and inspiring prairie was once populated by red[...]iendliness 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-boiler[...]the whites in the fur trade, cattle ranching and early The Assiniboines, who were once lords and masters of homesteading periods than any o[...]tinent, are give this long neglected credit to the Assiniboine, the now considerably reduced both in number and holdings. earliest residents of all. Their once huge domain, extending from the Missouri River to the Saskatchewan River, has now shrunk to small reservations. The number of people in the t[...]llen from an estimated 28,000 in the early 1800's to less than THE FIRST WHITE MAN[...]an activity is quite "The level, fertile, open and exceedingly beautiful 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 turned. Many hammer heads, arrow heads, and first viewed by white men in the year of 1805, wh[...]in Clark ascended several miles of what he termed to River to the Woody mountains in Canada was used for 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[...]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,[...]iboine displayed "surrounded" the party according to Captain Lewis. The a high sense of personal responsibility and initiative that buffalo, particularly the bulls,[...]would scarcely make way for the party to pass. The elk Long before horses were introduced to the American were also very tame. The largest elk and the largest grizzly continent the Assiniboine use[...]he Each family owned several, which were hitched to poles to area. The elk measured 5'3" from the tip of the hoof to the form a travois. In this way belongings could[...]tribe followed the buffalo herds. and six hundred pounds, was 3'11" around the neck and Foo·t travel with dogs was slow, and contacts with other 8'7" from the nose to the tip of the tail. In addition to these tribes were slight. When horses were acqui[...]p, brown bear, white bear, beaver, geese, swans, and Gros Ventre tribes on the west and the Crow and Sioux ducks, wolves, c_o yotes and prairie rodents. of the south. In addition to bows and arrows, the Assiniboine carried spears and stoneheaded clubs for close fighting. Most carried shields of painted buffalo hide, treated to become tough enough to turn aside an arrow and THE FUR TRADE sometimes a bullet. These shields, which were thought to give their owners supernatural protection in bat[...]the Assiniboine hunted buffalo States the trapper and trader preceded the cattleman and by calJi ng them into a trap where they could be surrounded the farmer. and kj !led. or by stampeding them over a cliff. Afte[...]were procured the favorite method of hunting was to leadership of John Jacob Astor, established a trading post, charge into a herd and ride alongside the stampeding Fort Union, on the[...]bastions, and was constructed to withstand attacks by Th<' introd uction of fi[...]y the American Fur outpost in what is now Montana and was located ·Company at the confluence of the Yellowstone and approximately 85 miles southeast of Scobey. Mi 8[...]in the Assiniboine camp by a Union twelve clerks and 129 men. Here the trades of tailor, military .so[...]smith, blacksmith, tinner, cooper, carter, hunter and express his wishes, but coqld not enforce them u[...]At first most of the fur hunting and trapping was done The principle gods were Sun and Thunder, regarded to be by white trappers. With the decline of prices[...]the sun dance festival. interested, and the trade was ·conducted mostly with the Fun[...]Indian trade goods, When the bodies would decay and fall the relatives would stocking the stores with from fifteen to twenty thousand bury the bones.[...] |
| [...]kets, combs, flannel shirts, winters and of prairie fires, and of outlaws. pantaloons, kettles, lead, powder, gun worms, bar iron, rifle balls, gun flints, vermillion and coat buttons. Sugar and coffee also later became popular. Whiskey, ·although never authorized by law, was also a principal and lucrative THE EARLY OUTLAWS[...]alo robes. A The existence of Fort Union, and later Fort Buford, robe was worth about four doll[...]e of coffee was created ,a need for horses. And the coming of settlers to $1 a pound, brown sugar was the same. Calico was $1 a northeastern Montana added to the need. This made horse yard. An agent could realize 100 per cent profit but the ranching, and also horse rustling, a lucrative business. business expenses and hazards were immense. Some of the men who had come to Montana with the The Indian trade at the post[...]much large herds of Texas cattle turned to horse rustling. When, ceremony. When a trading pa[...]in 1883, drought swept northward from Texas to the hoisted and the cannon discharged to signal that trade Canadian boundary, beef prices dropped, fortunes were was about to commence. lost overnight, and big ranches now unable to afford hired Gifts were exchanged and the Indian guests were seated, help, releas[...]their cowhands. Jobless, homeless · ·.__ · fed and given drinks by the Company. This was followed cowpunchers drifted north, some to Wyoming and some to · by an exchange of oratory. After dispensing wi[...]Indians were allowed in the store at any one time to the largest, toughest and most colorful of western outlaw prevent the situa[...]During the 1860's much of the Indian trade came to be in his files that "Valley County, Mont[...]osts or by the authorized traders at lawless and crookedest county in the Union and that the the Indian agencies rather than the old[...]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 fur trade disappeared entirely.[...]timers, came to Montana with cattle trailed up from Texas.[...]d not get going until Dakotas or Canada and sell them. Finally Williams went about 1866, and the northern plains were first ignored by[...]nada, sold, restolen, with the Indians restrained and the buffalo killed off (the and brought back to Montana or the Dakotas to be resold. last record of a buffalo being killed in old Valley County Dutch Henry was, according to some, from Holland; was in 1885), the northern grassland began to look other sources that he was a Saxon German. His name was attractive to atockmen who needed a summer range.[...]o brothers. One of Stockmen from weetem Montana and from as far south them, Chns3 , was a[...]e as Texas began trailing cattle by the thousands to nothing to do with his brother's illegal activities. The northeastern Montana to be "finished" before shipping. other, a[...]wild bunch, was known as Coyote Cattlemen began to put preasure on Washington to open Pete. the Indian reserve, and in 1888 this was declared an Among[...]ld bunch, wes selling or leasing the land. It was to be used, but not owned, dragged to death by a horse), Kid Trailer, Frank Carlyle, by[...]Toed Kid , By 1895 there was talk of irrigation and smaller farms James McNab, and Birch. north of the Missouri. But the area of wha[...]ank space on the map, bearing only the and on occasion the horse thieves were persuaded to bring names of rivers and creeks, and the name Whiskey Buttes b~ck horses they[...]se above the surrounding prairies. up" meat to present to homesteaders who had fed them. A few adventurous ranchers and land-seekers began to Many can recall having members of the outlaw gang top come into the area to settle. Among them were Camille for meals. They were courteous to the women , and if the Bonnabel, Taylor Green, the Tande family, Henry and Ole sought shelter and food at a homestead shack while the Shipstead, Ma[...]ming the town of Erickson, some of the Marlenees, and the colorful Plentywood. According to a story he and some of the wild "Hominy" Thompson.[...]ying They settled mostly along the Poplar River and its unsuccessfully to start a fire with damp buffalo chips. branches. M[...]ttlers drove across the unfenced range with horse and wagon to Poplar to buy their groceries and supplies, to get their mail and to buy the lumber they needed to build their :2 Outlaws of the Big M[...] |
| thereafter called Plentywood creek, and when the town Back in his chair, a h[...]the hands of one their heads Dutch Henry was able to roam about in the lawman smashed into his right shoulder, entered his side. open, and could go to town to buy supplies for the others. A second bullet[...]sixgun in the hands of the second What happened to Dutch Henry is still not certain, as depu[...]s. 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 his request he a murdered man[...]" the gunman gasped. Dutch Henry. He is also said to have been hanged in Outside in .th[...]d man revived Mexico for his rustling activities, and his brother Chris is slightly. He clenched his teeth and between them said, said to have believed this story. But it is also said that he "The s, to do this, after I slept with them. By the married and lived peaceably until 1928 or 1929 when he[...]DEATH BROKE GANGS settlers of Valley County and many in Culbertson Frank Jones,[...]Henry or Henry Ieuch who in 1902, 1903 and rightfully entitled to his more commonly known or 1904 made periodic visits to Culbertson to spend the nickname of "Horse thief" Jones[...]an line in was dead a few hours later. And, with his death came the both Montana and Canada. Dutch Henry was reported br[...]which once overran murdered about four years ago and Alex McKenzie, also the northeastern part of the state. known in Culbertson, was tried and convicted of the Albert Tande, the[...]have ever since declared out of the cabin and to whom the outlaw addressed his last that Dutch Henry was still alive and is now appears 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 morni[...]cidents, was only the climax of the story degree, and now serving the fourth year of a life sentence in[...]e vindication of young McKenzie rests And it is not entirely the story of Frank Jones. It a[...], Frank Carlyle3, Dutch notorious cattle rustlers and horse thieves that ever Henry, Kid Trailer4, Reed and others. terrorized the border country. He was shot and killed by the These men already were active in rustling, killing and Northwest Mounted Police sixty miles south of Moo[...]ny across the whose murder McKenzie was sentenced to spend his life in Missouri to seek new fields for his depredations and joined prison. The work of unraveling the large s[...]landing McKenzie behind prison bars has commenced and it is expected that in a few days at the latest McKenzie will walk out of the penitentiary a free man to join his old father and mother who have worked untiringly for four long years to prove NELSON, EARLY OUTLAW[...]f the outlaws of the criminal annals of Minnesota and at different times in the district. His name[...]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.[...]n Jones arrived. McKinnon of Prince Edward Island and of the British Foreign Office."[...]Nelson, also known as Sam Kelly, gave himself up to DEATH OF "HORSE THIEF" JONES IN RANCH[...]Only his hands, moving as he reached for a knife and fork to use on the pile of flapjacks who gave u[...] |
| [...]This unholy alliance took place in early 1899 and put in jail on general suspicion of being a hard[...]probably was a mutual need. Jones had become more and With him was a young man named Seffick, held for more an undesirable citizen and John Eader, Culbertson murdering one Billy Anderson in Culbertson. deputy, set out to get him. Eader heard that Jones was at a In Va[...]en comprised what now are nearby ranch and went there. When he went in the front Sheridan, Roosevelt and Daniels counties as well as door Jon[...]e 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 clash with t[...]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 free. He arranged to get a key which fitted the jail continue the depredations. door and then, accompanied by a man known as "Smitty" and leading two saddled broncs, he rode openly up to the OVERHEARS PLAN jail and set about freeing his pal.[...]constantly A noisy (nosy) cattle buyer sought to interfere and was shot in a fleshy spot for his impertinence. Otherwise the on the alert, had seen King ride up to Thompson's abode jailbreak proceeded with a minimum of discomfort. The and had followed and climbed on the roof of the shack and[...]elson gained Seffick as a new member of his gang and authorities were more than ever eager to The following morning, when King was enroute to Canada and about 15 miles up the Muddy from catch up with h[...]Thompson's, Jones waylaid him and took him prisoner. Only one attempt was recorded of these efforts to capture Nelson. That took place a year after the jailbreak when King was then taken to the outlaw's hideout, blindfolded man whose name is nbt recorded heard that Nelson and and kept for 14 days. He finally was turned loose nea[...]f 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 action at that time. ,if the report was true. However the big rewards remained in force and many a man was tempted to earn one of them. Several tried Activities of[...]ame so troublesome that unsuccessfully and finally Jim Moore, a barber and finally rewards were put on the heads of all the outlaws constable living at Culbertson, decided to add his attempt with Jones and Carlyle rated at $1500 each and the other to the others. He had heard that Kid Trailer was near men from $500 to $800 each. Citizens and lawmen Redstone and there was a price of$800 on the man's head. combined to clean up the rustlers. Moore made his capture, finding Trailer at a dance and A group consisting of Tom A. Davis 10 , Billy[...]ptive in a Elmer (Hominy) Thompson6 , Frank King and George sleigh, hitched up a team and started for Glasgow to turn LaPorte agreed to have themselves deputized and to try the man over to Sheriff Harry Cosner. , and round up or kill the outlaws. However word got to Jones that Trailer was a captive. He When the time was ripe, King rode to Thompson's shack waylaid the constable and Trailer and freed his near Whitetail and told him of the plan of action. The henchman. He unhitched the team and put Trailer on one deputized ranchers were to make a circle in their part of the of the horses, taking the other and leaving Moore afoot. He country, while King would ride to Canada and-enlist the also took Moore's big, black[...]e took the coat, known throughout the countryside and, close in on the gang from the north and prevent any of in doing so, he unwittin[...]Moore finally got back to Culbertson where he reported[...]him up had been Carlyle. One This man was only to report back but, finding the thing, however[...]of the outlaws had the outlaws on foot, he tried to gun them down. In his big, black co[...]itement he missed. The outlaws ran for their guns and This action by Jones resulted in immediate and horses and the deputy took to the brush, making good his increased efforts to capture him and break up the gang. A escape. posse was formed and rode out after the outlaws. However, Nothing a[...]once again Jones outsmarted them. It was December and it entered the picture. Thought to be from Nevada, he was a was cold with heavy snow on the ground and the outlaw lone wolf at first but soon found a k[...]off the horses of the posse leaving them afoot. and they joined forces.[...]There were two men on that posse, George Bird and Frank Moran, private citizens deputized to aid in the[...]new mounts and stuck to the trail. 5 Incorrectly spelled, should be[...]they stubbornly continued following · had moved to a ranch on Whitetail Creek from western down leads and finally heard that part of the gang at least Mo[...]was near Scobey. They went to that district and started 6 See Elmer "Hominy" Thompson histo[...]Days passed and it was January 14, 19047 when they 10 Tom[...]called on the Andrew Tande ranch where Andrew and his near Daleview and on occasion filled the capacity of son[...]deputy lawman? John A. Davis, a Civil War veteran and batching it. the father of Bill Davis[...]with Shook at one time in The day was stormy and cold with the snow deep on th e the Ford Garage in Scobey, is buried in the Scobey ground and the deputies accepted Tande's invitation to cemetery.[...] |
| [...]inquest was held9 • the man proven to be Jones and the On the evening of the second day a stranger rode up to $1500 paid. Tande's shack. He explained th[...]idden 35 miles A short time later Bird and Moran with others set out to that day and that he was very tired. Tande asked him to follow Jones' tracks near the Taride ranch with the· hope come in and stay the night. that they would lead them to the outlaw's hideout, but a Bird and Moran were in the cabin when the man entered.[...]this effort useless. The bandit Both glanced up and both saw the same thing at the same gang apparently stayed in the hideout all winter and time~-the man was wearing the big, black cowhide[...]t a leader broke up in the spring. once belonging to Moore! There was an aftermath to the killing of Jones. At once the deputies rea[...]Nearly a year later a big, redheaded man rode up to the the outlaws. However they did not know their man and Tande ranch and wanted to know the details of the Jones judged him to be Carlyle. Between themselves they agreed killing. to wait until an opportunity came to "throw down" on the The man who asked for the story was "Red" Nelson, one outlaw rather than to force the issue just then. time p[...]ore. (See footnote 2) sourdough. Bird volunteered to get up and cook breakfast, Footnotes for story of "Ho[...]n 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 and the men spent the evening playing hearts. When bedtime came it was found that Bird, Moran and KID TRAILER Jones all had to occupy the same bunk. You can imagine, yourself,[...]iled in (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, kno[...]herds being driven in. He was a testified later. And neither did Jones, they believed, as they likeable youth who attached himself to different bands of heard him grunt at intervals.[...]thereby earning his nickname. However dawn came and Bird began serving. Jones, his He gradually drifted into "bad" company and was soon, suspicions apparently lulled, went after the pancakes with along with Sam Hall and Tom Reid, a herdsman for horses enthusiasm. Bird,[...]ake stolen by the outlaw band of Nelson and Jones. 1 turner and started to roll a cigarette, a perfectly natural Trailer was an accomplished fiddler and even after there action. As he did it, he moved t[...]s a reward on his head, he was in constant demand to .30-.30 was standing.[...]collectjng some reward money, made an attempt to capture SHOOTING STARTS[...]ed it at Jones capture<;! him without trouble and started for Glasgow in a with the command, "Put[...]rst. Frank Jones, alleged killer, robber and horsethief, who Then as Moran drew a pistol and also covered him he must have been nearby, freed Trailer, took the horses and realized in a flash what had happened. .Moore's cowhide coat, and 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 incident. This eventually led to Jones' sudden and violent ·chose a "shoot-out" rather than capture, and failed. death a short time Iater.3[...]It was early in the morning Halverson': · and the outlaw was wrapped in a big canvas, then plac[...]dsome young man, of average in a sleigh and with a fresh t.eam the two deputies, build, in his early twenties. When I first talked to him it accompanied by Andrew Tande, started for[...]ing, Tande had asked was not yet married and was living on my homeetead near them to sign a note making the county responsible for the[...]in the Writing Rock country. ·cattle in his care and which were left in charge of the then One m[...]picked up my single shot .22 rifle and went outside to see if I The journey was along the old Wood Mo[...]g on the gable ofthe roof was which ran eastward to the agency town. Jones did not survive the trip[...]time working at Tanner and Best's General Store in P9plar[...]tlaw's body did not arrive in Poplar Bird and Moran had mistakenly assumed. Ellen Scobey, until[...]t Give-Out Morgan 4 Mother of Elner, Irvin and Rueben Halverson of Daniels Spring, twent[...] |
| a grouse. I raised my rifle, aimed and shot the bird in the head, it fell on the other side of the building from where I was. I walked around to pick it up and to my surprise and alarm there was Kid Trailer on his buckskin horse. He said to me, 'Ma'am, you are a good shot, and I hope you and I stay on good terms. I don't want to face you on any other than good terms, but I have ridden all night and need a drink of water.' I gave him the water, hooked the door and he rode a way. Trailer headquartered with Joe K[...]t Crosby of the outlaw's whereabouts. The sheriff and his deputy rode out to the place and hid in the brush until the[...]wanted man rode in. After Trailer had dismount.ed and mentioned in this section of the book. walked awa[...]with ,em, or you are a dead man!' horseman, came to a close Tuesday evening and result.eel in Trailer looked at his guns on the saddle horn and back to a verdict of guilty. The evidence against Sherman was the ones in the hands of the two lawmen and decided to strong and it was plainly shown that he has been in league s[...]hieves that have been operating in He was taken to Crosby for trial. When the jury came in that sect[...]ions but that he was not traveling under anything to say before sentence was passed. The prisoner that[...]of rounders who have been horse until I get out, and when I do Joe will be a dead man!' · harassing t[...]portions of the county. •Trailer was sentenced to twenty years in the North Sherman will probably b[...]years andto him by the sheriff for his protection. Who receiv[...]have been operating north of Joe Knapp sold out and left the country. He left no Culbertson was brought to Glasgow Sunday evening by forwarding address.[...].* It Kid Trailer was out of prison in thirteen to fifteen years." appears that Reid was captured by[...]Sheridan's Daybreak, is Police sometime last week and turned over to Mr. Davis. written that Trailer stopped occasionally at the Smith The charge against him is grand larceny and he will he[...] |
| [...]Friedl. This He gave a motherless colt to the Desonias for their leaves Dutch Henry alone a[...]om Ryan * John A. Davis, "up on the river" refers to the Muddy, near was seen in the area was following an attempt by him to Daleview.[...]e leg; he stopped at the Ator ranch near Antelope to have From the North Montana Review, Glasgow, Ju[...]aused by "his gun going The editor paid a visit to the county jail Wednesday off when his h[...]the outlaws of the early years he under arrest and interviewed several of the prisoners who disa[...]nty bastille. Tommy Reid was feeling his best and said he did not know what in thunder the Valley County officials wanted of him. He claimed to have been wrangling horses for a[...]EON-TOED KID Canadian outfit the past two years and has never heard of Dutch Henry or any of the re[...]r Golden Jubilee History Book, 1963) is supposed to have been operating with up in the North country. He has retained Attorney Herren to look after his Back in the ranching days when the branding iron case and is confident that he will go scot free.[...]e, 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[...]like. He was could readily be changed. referred to Kid Flannagin for further information.[...]Malcome Bruce is taking his medicine like a man and his business by himself. He was despised by the other says that while he is not guilty and did not intend to get off horse rustlers because, unlike most of th[...]ns' booze it will be a lesson for him quarrelsome and cruel. He insisted on burning the homes and that henceforth he will confine himself to cold water of his victims. when he feels the desire to fill up on liquid matter. He said The Kid sto[...]Schuyler that the Culbertson Searchlight seemed to take great "Sky" Small, sheriff of Valley County, took his two interest in representing his case and asked that the Review deputies, Sid Bennett and Hugh Calderwood, and went in set him aright before the public. search of him. July 6, 1904: Owing to lack of evidence Tommy Reid was George[...]The county is out over $300 on Howard ranch, went to Glasgow to get some supplies for the deal. The Searchlight[...]ppeared thief, he told the sheriff that there was to be a birthday to rejoice over his deliverance. Reid can congratulate party for the Pigeon-Toed Kid at Bonnabel's and said he himself that he got away, for ifit were not for the fact that · would ride ahead up to the house. If the Kid was there he County Attorney Kerr had been in poor health and would lead his horse to the post and tie it. If he was not physi_cally unable to get around he would have had a hard there he woul[...]tied his horse in front of the house. Sid and Sky went[...]recognized, he went for his guns and Calderwood shot him.[...]Another account describing the Kid's activities and Tom Ryan, who traveled about the area with a partner by shooting, told to Clara Reeser by Camille Bonnabel, early- the name[...]day sheep rancher, and published in a diamond jubilee Tom Ryan, according to Ellis Hurst, an Outlook rancher edition of the Gl[...]ny. Empty follows: mail bags lay around his cabin and he made no effort to "Pigeon Toe The Kid", or more commonly[...]caught him for some with his guns on. He refused to hide, saying, "They're not crime (do not know what for). Anyway, the police were going to find me hiding behind a'. bed or in the cellar." taking him to jail but when the train stopped he jumped out Once Ryan came to the Hurst ranch to treat an injury he of the window, escaping through the brush. He finally claimed to have received when his horse fell on him. worked[...]horses along the border and selling them in North Dakota. It is said that the money from this robbery was given to a "One April morning, the Kid rode in and asked me for a homesteader who returned it to its rightful owners. hammer," said Bo[...]me was a stopping place for hammer for. He wanted to shoe a horse. (This horse most travelers in the Daleview-Redstone vicinity, declared probably belonged to John Richardson, whose horse he that Ryan was the[...]a pair of shoes on his One time she was trying to catch some chickens for the saddle. next meal, he rode up and offered to "fetch" the chickens "Another fellow, the Kid, and I had just finished eating she wanted. She pointed out two, and he drew a six-gun dinner when there came a loud pounding on the door. We with each hand and shot the heads off of both of them at weren't used to that. About that time the door opened and once.[...]heriff looked in. We said, 'Come in'. The sheriff and[...] |
| [...]e had had a fight with him before. The Kid got up and started toward his coat. The deputy shot[...]ntered the State Bank at Flaxville about 2:30 him and he fell to the floor dead. 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 Hudson car on the street where one who was eating dinner with us. I took my razor blade and man had been left to guard, carrying with them more than removed the b[...]the Kid in a wagon $4,500 of the bank's money and leaving the four bank and took him to Glasgow." employees and two customers locked in the vault. Editor's note:[...]killed at When the bandits went to the bank president, A.P. Bonnabel's at Richland i[...]104 years old, at the printing of assistant, and O.J. Anderson, bookkeeper were all working this b[...]behind the fixtures. They were ordered to put up their hands and look down. Milo Kingsley, manager of the[...]THERS ·of the robbers to make a deposit, and Joe Fugere, a farmer,[...]. the currency and threw the checks on the floor, ordering During the early days when Scobey was known as a him and Fugere to get behind the fixtures and keep their "pretty tough" town, Ed Norse and his kid brother didn't hands up. do much to improve the reputation of the booming and The victims were then made to lie down, face down, on sprawling little city. Qu[...]he gang stood guard over them while took Ed Norse to get the Scobey cemetery started. No one another b[...]obey Vith that operation complete the five men and one lady cemetery has been credited to him by people who were ere ordered to get up one at a time and march into the around the town at the time.[...]mlt. Mr. Smerud was commanded to lead the short A man met his death in 1916 on[...]. 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 Hall. The gunplay didn't happen came to the bank just then and they were ordered into a in just the manner that[...]n western closet, after which the robbers ran out to their car, a big shows like to portray. No show-down in the middle of the Hudson Super Six, and they sped away. dusty street. In this case a shot[...]soon released themselves of the business places, and Scobey had the first candidate m · ave[...]..; robbers got about $4,500 in currency and silver and Ed Norse did not leave the Scobey territory im[...]h are but pursued his trade of rounding up horses and cattle. registered and non-negotiable. They also took other However, he did not own a ranch, and later drifted out of valuable papers with them. the area and went to North Dakota. There he shot and Sheriff Lawrence, who happened to be in Flaxville when killed a man. This one they pinned on him, and he wound the robbery took piace, was notified and he and Deputy up his days as a "lifer" in the North Dako[...]Norse went. The Kid's story is a one fast enough to keep pace. little different. He was also self-employed in the cattle and Sheriff Lawrence followed them until after dark and horse (stealing) business, doing pretty well in the territory according to Banker Schnitzler of Froid, who soon joined west[...]ined on the bandits. were those who would testify to his fairness and courtesy They had about a ten mile start and when the Chrysler in under most circumstances. He was a chap of twenty-one which Lawrence Tousley and Murr were following ran out years, somewhat likeable in his own way. of oil and overheated he was within a mile of them. The O[...]ing for the sheriff did not know how close he was to them, but Senator Kid. The sheriff was riding one horse and leading another. Schnitzler said that judging from above he would say it He expected to find the Kid and bring him in. was about a mile, but darkness had set in. He found and arrested him in the true tradition of early[...]a hills southeast of Homestead when he was forced to secure cyanide pill from his pocket into his mouth. They didn't another car and he then went on to Williston. take him alive, but the sheriff did ta[...]It was Wednesday night when Lawrence returned to the saddle. Scobey, and arming himself, and with better descriptions Nobody knows where the Norse brothers hailed from ; of the men , he and Undersheriff Art Nelson left again at but where t[...]owned by Senator Chapin, Ed Norse came into Smith and Boyd's saloon, Schnitzler, was held up and robbed in the same fashion by handed a hand gun to the bartender and asked him to put it three men who made their getaway. They sec[...](from an interview) Charles Edward Norris $7,000 and $8,000 at Froid and apparently overlooked a was charged with murder i[...]The case parcel containing twice that much. came to trail at Plentywood in early 1916. Norris[...] |
| The bandits were well armed for the job and no doubt Little is heard today about the illegal stills, rum- meant to kill or get the money to resist arrest at all costs. running, bootleggers[...]ng place. carried a machine gun, as well as rifle and shotgun. This The traffic in illicit liquor[...]only rumor. It is probably United States, and this area was no different than any true, though,[...]ounty Leader, October 20, 1927 hiding places and moonshine was available at almost[...]and rum-running trucks, with the drivers chained to the THE EARLY STAGE[...]stop from Canada to cities farther south with their It was then mandatory to have a regular man to carry the expensive loads. mail. Fatty Merrill was employed for the job. In summer he To many farmers distilling and selling liquor was drove an outfit called a buckboard. It was a sort of cross "bread and butter" during the rainless years at the between a wagon and a buggy, having no vehicle springs beginning of the great depression. and only light ones under the seat. There were two se[...]The passenger trains on the Great Northern did a and a platform behind with a metal rim around it a place booming business hauling captured persons, suspected of to haul suitcases, boxes, etc. The passenger limit was five bootlegging, to the federal court in Havre. Most who were people.[...]s people found guilty were given a fine, told not to do it again, and did not come here very much during the winter mon[...]s offense. tracks. Sometimes they would get three to four feet high. The whiskey patrols were kept busy and many a novice When a blizzard was on and visibility was po.o r the horses in that patrol went on to bigger and better jobs in law would often get off the track,[...]nd it again by the enforcement later. hard packed and built up road. T[...]pigs and chickens gobbled it up and ran around wobbly- Some freighting was done, causing outfits to meet now legged, squealing and squawking betraying their owners-- and then on the roads making difficulty in passing each one thought that his hogs had some dread disease and shot other.[...]disease was In winter he drove an open jumper and wore a fur coat drunkeness; another fearing the advent of the revenue and cap to keep warm on the open trail. Many days in patrol buried his beer on a hot day in a plowed field and winter it was questionable. if he would get through since then went to town feeling secure. On the return trip, roads were not built up as they are now and blizzards were passing the field where the eviden[...]sure had built up Mr. Merrill (Fatty) intended to make two trips a week if during the day and to the owner, each explosion was as at all possible.[...]shot; the boxcar load of grapes fermenting coming to teach school,- homesteader's wives and families, with the juice running out. roving prea[...]Several liquor peddlers had their vehicles and loads George Downing and baby daughter Adeline, Clara confiscated upon bei[...]by the law. Nelson Tande were among others known to have ridden to Prior to prohibition there were two saloons in Scobey-- Scobey in this manner. He hauled many a schoolmarm to one operated by Smith and Boyd, the other by Stephens her school--but didn't marry any. and Griffith. In Flaxville there was a saloon run by After about two years Timmons and Daniels bought an Molden.[...]International (chain drive) two cyclinder vehicle and During the "dry" period some speakeasie[...]ing fath~r, Vic Hillstrom, was the best lathe man and liquor from the amount of sugar bought. mechanic[...]With the repeal of the 18th Amendment, and because it growth.[...]ner until 1913 axing barrels were cleansed and used for curing salt pork. when the railroad came to-the atea and the postoffice was The costly experiment had ended. moved to new Scobey. Written[...]amendment county following a period of wet and cloudy'weather. The to the Constitution and became enforceable in January, fo[...] |
| [...]prairies in response to a little scratching and a handful of seed, hauls of grain and records for loading were claimed[...]Among the towns to back up its claims with records is[...]town of less than 1,500 people to load more than 2,750,000[...]This was the record in 1924 and it was almost equaled in[...]and team and a few tractor outfits. In those days a horse[...]distance-up to 45 miles in some cases. When they got to town, there invariably was a jam in loading and dispatching. Railroaders recall it was not[...]uncommon for 300 outfits to be waiting in Scobey .at one time to have wheat unloaded. A single farmer likely had[...]registered the outfits and marked the wagons in the order[...]night, they would be loaded within eight hours -and sent[...]in 1922 and 1923, due to a machinist's and boilermaker's strike the first year and a switchmen's strike in 1923.[...]extension was not built until 1925 and the closest route to different stages. The first shows the tornado des[...]d is Those Ii ving in Peerless,. Richland and even Opheim had pointed in a different direction; the last shows the tornado a long way to haul by team or tractor. The west prairie trail a[...]d. Funnel did not touch ground. was rough and hilly the 22 miles to Peerless, and not mueh[...] |
| [...]( better the additional seven miles to Richland, or 23 to sold as low as 18 cents per bushel one day and was only 27 |
| [...]ss behind the cutting bar carried the grain heads to the elevator which took them up and dumped them into a header barge. The bargeman kept the severed grain heads away from the elevator, and when the barge was full, would stack it in stacks for threshing later. The driver would ride on a seat fixed to the long balance pole behind the header. This is[...]Hauling Grain to Scobey Cutting with a header at the O.E. Susag farm , 1929. From left to right: Bert Songstad, John Sherve, Martin[...] |
| [...]ney took a 320-acre homestead about ten years ago and has since purchased a half-section. He has been v[...]season. The estimated yield 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[...]twenties. Melvin Schow farm, 1922; binder and horses.[...] |
| [...]. Tom Tjone is standing on ground by team hitched to grain wagon. He has hat at back of his hea[...] |
| [...]Twin City gasoline tractor belonging to Roy Day; breaking[...]ier breaking sod northwest of Four Buttes. Axel and Pete Furuli disking sod about 1916. Case steame[...]on farm, Whitetail, in 1916, pulling what appears to be ten breaker bottoms.[...] |
| [...]t Orvile. Note the device in front of the tractor to keep the wheel in the furrow; also the steel gaso[...]George Severson's Allis Chalmers tractor, disk and drill; Schow on the plow, Carl Austinson, enginee[...]and what appears to be a P&O plow at Orville in 1925.[...] |
| [...]Because there was little native wood and buffalo chips[...]were soon depleted, the first settlers had to turn to other[...]seen in the banks of rivers and creeks. Lou Wipple, Randy Machart, and Bill Hance at Greenup[...] |
| [...]of around fifteen miles. George E. Grubbs mining and hauling coal 1930's or late 1920's.[...]Silver Star coal mine and a busy day.[...]In 1931, Leon Parent and Frank Fordyce were killed in a[...]ting in the winter's coal supply with wagon and partially buried him. Lewis Parent, in the Donald's help and Carl Tange's old Samson truck. wago[...]A spark caused a keg of powder to explode at the Wiley[...]15 and Charles Carter, 26, died later from burns. Elmer[...]percent of his body burned, Lignite is inferior to the anthracite and bituminous coals survived. found in other regio[...]at these mines produced the country can be fired, and once it is it gives heat. coul[...]that numerous mines sprung into harvest and little money, the lignite coal was priced at one[...]me were open pit strip mines; many were to two dollars a ton at the mines contrasted with twelve to tunneled into hillsides and there were two shaft mines. fifteen[...] |
| 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 the shafts and tunnels either caved in or were filled in. Today[...]rey team; Pete Tho rem standing, leaning on fork; and Betsey Lekvold on the hay stack. Filling haym[...]per floor Branding at Fadness Ranch. Left to right: Andy, Claire |
| [...]these buffalo from the Scotty Phillips Ranch To far right is Josephine in buggy, Ernest right on grader, at Fort Pierre, South Dakota. They were wild and would Alfred next. Others are not identified. break down fences and got into the neighbors crops so Walt butchered them and sold the wild meat to Scobey patrons.[...]here everyone got stuck in the Whitetail and Redstone community. spring. Taken in 1913. On[...]from wing tip to wing tip, seven and one half feet; from the |
| [...]den Home at Orville, Montana in 1912. (Note crowd and modes of transportation) HOMESTEAD CHRISTMASES heads and kidskin bodies. Later they received plaster dolls[...]nty Leader of December 27, months just to be looked at and admired. |
| Wesley Howard, Oscar and Henry Shipstead, Claude story to new generations who will have a most challenging Tande, Chris Tande and Al Tande (who told me how Jim problem to keep America Free! Stephens killed bad man Jones[...]August Jevnager, the Von Kusters, the Manternachs and the McLeods. Nor can we ever forget crusty old Jo[...]em 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 Richard Burmester answered what appeared to be a picture of the old west. They were all a great and wonderful routine request to come to Mondak and prefer charges people. Their fortitude in the mos[...]al quality of which they were made.No, here and who was known to be armed. In making the arrest there was no war w[...]n of the kind we often read both Courtney and Burmester were killed. The Negro was about; they welcomed us and befriended us. We learned to hanged by the enraged citizenry. like and respect them; we square danced with them, did[...]r of Scobey' s first mayor Sid business with them and made them a part of our lives. Soi t Bennett[...]made our earliest contacts with sheriff and was later elected to serve that office from 1917 Daniels County. to 1924. Now that we are speaking of Quality People, let us not On one occasion he went to "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 been "Rugged Individualists"--those who[...]peculiar first name from that fact that he dared to come west where survival might well depend on[...]team engine, also had one's strength of character and merits. a bad temper. Sure, and all these noble characteristics cannot be[...]or time they were hay with his wife and her sister helping. Smith would not evidenced and widely dispersed among the whole people of let the team go and a fight began. The women were hitting the Daniels County we wish to honor. By recording these Jack with their pitchforks and it was tough going. Jack deeds we are honoring people who richly deserve to be finally got Smith down but the latt[...]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 he businessmen whose good faith and credit--and courage-- brought the team in with him. did so very much to help farmers, stockmen and all others from Sheridan's Daybreak to help Scobey to become, as it boasted, the largest "Primary Wheat[...]e who took such active parts in bringing baseball to the area in the 1920's. Happy Felch and Swede Risberg JOHN BROWN from the Chicago Red Sox and also the great negro pitcher John Donaldson will[...]John Brown, farmer of the Peerless area, came to that timers. Nor were our home boys neglected on[...]they were all land from the state, left, and returned two or three years still alive and in Scobey to accept the honors for their long later. years of great effort, namely Knapp and Crandell, Davis Records show that he was born at Perry, Iowa in 1892 to and Shook, Battleson-Peterson, Hanson, Rasmus Nelson, parents, John M. and Sara (Jones) Brown--no other Vic Hillstrom, Pat Murphy and H.C. Nelson who was, as records. earli[...]f the early migration of He was a "loner" and therefore there was much "Sod Busters" leaving his mark as businessman and early speculation about him and his activities prior to arriving law man at Noonan, Crosby, Outlook and finally at in Daniels County. Scobey, coming there in early 1929 in time to experience He was found 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 mystery surrounding Brown heightened when it embarrassed to express our real warm feelings to our was found that he, at the time of his death, had a .32 in a neighbors and friends until it was too late; so it was with holster strapped to his waist. Two rifles were also in the my father and myself. May these words help to make room. He had about $2500 in travelers checks and cash on amends to those who still live.[...]y since owned stock in several corporations and had recently leaving Scobey in 1945. Vernon worke[...]- excerpts from Daniels County Leader 1964 and mother followed them in 1973. George and Ann live at Longmont, Colorado and their son Philip is a clinical psychologist pract[...]y Leader stated Glass Co. at Big Flats, New York; and yours truly lives in that Robert Bruce, Med[...]Montana, had been Arizona on Lake Mead in winter and at his home on the hired to direct the Scobey town band during the coming Deschutes River in Oregon in summer. I am beginning to summer. enjoy good health again after a[...]in 1887 at Belcourt, North Dakota hospitalization and sincerely hope to pay Scobey a visit in to parents of Scottish and Chippewa descent. the not too distant future.[...]He attended the reservation school and was graduated Best Wishes for Daniels County's[...]here he Birthday U.S.A. 1976; may it leave a true and encouraging played football on the[...] |
| Prior to the first World War, he was a featured cornet sol[...]outbreak of the war, the band enlisted en masse, and throughout the war, both in this country and overseas, remained together as a band. It became[...]ls County Leader and Sheridan's Daybreak THOMAS R[...]age of ten, he moved west to Albion, Iowa, where he |
| [...]In 1901, Mr. Daniels made his first trip north to the present site of "Old Scobey", which is locate[...]ere 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. That was nineteen years ago and we call this a pioneer country today. The writer[...]and the strong man of the community. It should be exp[...]whom we all know or have read of, and who were eternally ready to do, give or lend to those who needed. And believe[...]and stole from Daniels. He was their storekeeper, the[...]banker and their counsellor-he was everything but their[...]priest and in a large measure he was that too.[...]brother-in-law, who shared equally in the trails and Randolph, who lived with the Daniels. hardships of building up the community and who is today[...]Sheridan County. In 1911 Gustav Oie came here and does not know iust how many settlers there were h[...]lished the present Citizens State Bank of Scobey, and that time, or who they were, but it is a well kno[...]niece of Mr. Timmons. they were extremely few, ·and consisted almost entirely of In 1912, Mr.[...]e hill overlooking the west bank of the of cayuse and lariat, bachelors and flapjacks--a time when Poplar river, and which cost hini in the neighborhood of the worst and best traditions of a type of westerner, now $20,000.00. This home was modern throughout and is one gone forever, were in full evidence the ye[...]was united in marriage every bit of material had to be freighted 60 miles overian.d a second time to Mabel E. Brooks, who was then a nurse in from Pop[...]re the Indian school at Poplar.. In that year Mr. and Mrs. himself out physically. A man of great physical stature Daniels moved to Scobey and settled on a ranch, and there and strength, he never thought of a breakdown and he Mrs. Daniels still resides. 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 passed away, and waslocated about two miles south 1913. Mr. Daniels was then broken in health and it was of "old" Scobey. Mrs. Charles Woodley beca[...]n his deathbed. In that after Mr. Bonnes resigned and when Mr. Daniels located month, he left for Rochester hospital, where it was believed there and started his little store, Mrs. Woodley resigned by all here, that he would end his life. After an operation and Mrs. Daniels became postmaster and held the office upon his throat, he returned to Scobey in October of that until it was discontinu[...]rs ago. Few people year, quite improved in health and for the next two years he here do not know that Mrs. Daniels' name is "Mabel". This seemed to regain his old time vigor and go. · is because she held the office under the name Mabel B. A bitter disappointment to Mr. Daniels 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 natu[...]town he had "Mannie" Daniels, as he was known to his more intimate planned, nurtured and built--to a new location, the location associates in those days, started in to build the foundation it occupies today. The reason for this of course, was beca us~ of his future home, and be it said to his everlasting credit, the Great Northern was bu[...]e from he built it well. After starting his store and getting the post Plentywood, and it was impossible to build down into his office, he at once became the financial and business center location. Mr. Daniels had[...] |
| being built up the Poplar valley from Poplar, and in that Mr. Daniels passed away on April[...]wood was fraternity, of which he was a member, and was attended by because the Soo was building in along the northern border old acquaintances from near and far. of the state from North Dakota and the Great Northern The writer has always believed, more or less, in the paralleled their road to keep the business from going north saying that " To the victors belong the spoils." In the same to that line. way, we have always held in great esteem and veneration Mr. Daniels was a staunch Republican 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 into a new and unknown always said that he thoroughly believed[...]ountry, in order that we, who come later may work and by entering politics was a host of enemies. In regard to live in comparative comfort. Of this class o[...]Mansfield A. Daniels. He came, he hewed and he won. Now In the winter of 1919, Mr. Daniels suffered a paralytic he has passed on to a reward that humanity does not give , stroke from which he never recovered. He realized that the and we 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 to love. We cannot call him back, but first move fo[...]honor--we have placed a was started at this time and he showed unmistakable signs new county upon the map of Montana , and named it in his oi deep feeling when informed of[...]Mansfield Daniels right to left: Will Davis, Doc Hall, Clate[...]aprons the men are wearing, and the buffalo skull in[...] |
| SCOBEY -- PAST AND PRESENT There are three important epochs in Scob[...]the new town of East Scobey 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. |
| [...]Blacksmith Shop, the Implement Shop run and booming little town. For three years it was the only by Clarence Penn and Mansfield Daniels, a post office, the commu[...]y mi es around . garage business of R.J. Coughlin and Charlie Grimes, a It was a big disapp[...]er running the line any further than the boarding and rooming house, and the office of Paul Crum, east edge of the Poplar fl at, which was accomplished in Legal Advisor and Land Commissioner. Daniels and 1913. He had hoped th e railroad[...]as the Timmons saw the need for ater conservation and they town h e had fo unded . But it was not to be until 1926 that dammed the Poplar River with twigs and brush, storing the Great Northern 's rails would extend across the Poplar enough water to flood many acres of hay land. flat and on 60 miles more. Left to right: Martin Smith and Jake Timmons out for a[...]new In 1912, Mr. Daniels built[...]ple from various parts of the |
| [...]wasn't a jail in Scobey but there was a constable and homes to "east Scobey". Like a flock of prairie named Roy Corneveau. He rode a big bay horse and was chickens the settlement raised its wings and flew to the the only person who carried a gun around town. One night east and settled there. Many of the buildings were moved[...]ctor. The first them had had too much to drink. One fellow was in pretty house to be moved was that of Martin Smith, the residence bad shape. He went out behind the saloon and put an now owned by Mrs. Art Hagfeldt. It was fol[...]empty beer bottle in each back pocket--planning to use McCurdy house , now owned by Mrs. Clarence Na[...]the Lyceum Theatre, J.B. Fleming Bakery, Coughlin and to happen and went to prevent it. The "bad guy" and Roy Grimes garage, Clarence Penn's Implement, Louis Discher started to wrestle and ended up on the floor. Roy's gun fell Blacksmith[...]rum law office, livery out on the floor and the other guy kept trying to reach it. So barn and others. Mr. Blegen got the gun and put it in his pocket until[...]Mr. Blegen worked in the Johnson Hardware store and[...]EN Model T truck and deliver from farm to farm. They were in[...]such demand that there never seemed to be enough to go Amos was born in Spring Grove, Minnesota, came west around. to Old Scobey in 1913, living out the rest of his li[...]r. Blegen said he had worked at every kind of job and community. He was a handyman and hardware clerk in known all kinds[...], "Nope,---the girls I wanted I couldn't hardware and implements as well as food, harness, etc. He have and the girls I could have, I didn't want!" also had[...]d townsite, southeast of Four Buttes. He moved up to the Scobey townsite in 1915, he worked for the ol[...]for awhile in what became the Paus-Strom Hardware and LOUIS D. BOYD wh[...]in 1974 at the age of 82. He resided 1910 and lived here until 1922. was born May 9, 1878 at at[...]ew 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.[...]e Daniels County Leader. Before coming to Scobey he lived at Jamestown , North Amos Blegen,[...]- Do you know where the No. 995. Coming to Scobey before the railroad he and first city water well in Scobey was located? Amos and Ira Martin Smith went i:qto the saloon bu[...]city water well in Scobey. It was moving to the present townsite with the arrival of the stee[...]is now the Martin died with the flu in 1918 and Carl Kilgore Gorham Hotel and the Getschel (now Michel's) food purchased his interest in the business. Boyd later sold his lockers. The[...]s could be driven part of the business to Thomas Conboy, now of East around and up to it for convenient watering in the new[...]een years of his life Lou lived in Portland, 1916 and before the water system and sewer was installed). Oregon where he was[...]st west of the Johnson Transfer. It was installed to facilitate night loading and unloading at the tracks in the days before elevators and warehouses were built. Although not very high in[...]Horne, by Lori Lee Pratt. Mr. Blegen was born and grew to manhood in southern |
| [...]and it was from there that he hauled 1umber for an elev a tor In 1901 the Joe Bonnes and John Manternach families which my dad, C.K. Hanson built for him in 1912 and packed up all their sheep and horses, plus household goods which is still a landmark. As soon as the floor was in, all and shipped out from Velva, North Dakota to find homes the neighbors were invited to a dance before the bins were on land that had been opened to homesteaders in the put in. Joe, hims[...]sons in town. miles south of Old Scobey - a river and a bayou winding However, that elevator[...]gedy which through grassland, ideal for his sheep and horses. Mrs. changed their whole lives. In the fall of 1916 Harry, then Bonnes' brother, John Opsahl and their mother had 18, went to the elevator one afternoon to grind some feed, already arrived and had homesteaded where later the got caught in the belt and was carried to his death. When he Peters lived. Another brother[...]didn't appear for supper his father went looking and found Scobey and Poplar.[...]ver got over it. Shortly after coming here, Joe and his friend, John The funeral was held at the farm home and people came Manternach, both ordered Sears Roebuc[...], as Harry was well liked. He was were soon built and still stand where they were built. Joe burie[...]-story, five bedroom house with buggies, and the Model T's began at the farm and came the dining room, "sitting" room and "parlor" -- quite different five miles to the cemetery. Louis Boyd, a saloon keeper, from t[...]s who were Frank had running water in the kitchen and a bathroom in the Hughes, Oliver Bystrom[...]e chain. This Parkhurst, Alfred Evenskaas and Wesley Lasiter. A was possible because of a sprin[...]e of beautiful trees. and campaigned diligently to close the saloons. But in The Bonnes had three[...]ces are soon forgotten. children. They were Olive and Harry, first set of twins, That winter[...]p Edith, Luella who's twin died at birth; Carrol, and final the family so he took them all to Wisconsin to spend the twins Alma and Alvin. One thing I remember about Luella[...]of course only "wicked" girls used it! Bonnes and children came back to Scobey but they never So we were horrified when w[...]starch (in lieu of powder) on her face! It seemed to Carmen Bush house. She rented out the farm for[...]Some of the renters were: J. Elmer Jones , who's and spoil the child".[...] |
| winter term; Pete Rutz and his nephews and nieces, the upstairs. Jake Timmons taught Ole and Tom how to Lehnan children; Paul Holiday; and Frank Sutcliffe. butcher, etc. , so th[...]me butchered the chickens , made sausages and hamburger - of her friends to pick the red currants she had growing so whic[...]rize fighter. The family left here abo ut 1920 and it is believed that most of the children live on the west coast. My dad, C.K. Hanson bought the farm and his daughter and husband, the Chet Murphy's reside there now.[...]by Eleanor (Hanson) Teigen OLE AND FRIEDA BUER I was born t o Andrew and Christina Deering at Winona, We moved to new Scobey within two months and located[...]1921 , then sold it to Dalquist. We had an ice house near the[...]sawdust, hauled it to town and delivered it door-to-door as[...]horses and a dray and delivered stuff around town. Ole |
| Gay and Beverly took over the farming after Clifford died. to be always where he wa s needed, especially in the[...]when in almost every case he was the fir Jt man to down the with Beverly's help. I had a stroke in F[...]F ollowing gra d uation, Ingrid went home to Cummings nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. where h er parents, both immigrants fro m Norway, owned[...]a count ry store. There were two sisters and three brothers That fall, Ingrid went to Minneapolis to further her[...]murals, and an uncle who was an architect. She had hoped A PATCHWORK OF MEMORIES to go on with her musical training, br:.t Anna the o[...]wa s considered more brilliant in this direction, and Paul Crum and Ingrid Kirkeberg were in the graduating wa s sent to St. Olafs in Northfield. I ngrid was to be a class of Fargo High School in 1904. Ingrid w[...]e was a shy, pretty blue eyed girl with dark hair and an oval face. She was secretary to the principal and checked attendance. Quoting from the annual "Cynosure", "She was very good natured and never melancholy. Says she really loves every member of the class. One of those whom we hate to leave."[...]idn't car, a Ford touris t model. The top came up and it had side want to be a la wyer, but he was the last of fo ur s ns, and the flags for the cold weather (attachable).[...]and in 1906, a fter being admitted to the Bar, ope ed a law[...]time he made a trip expressions a re in F ilipino and are unintelligible. Quoting to Olym pia , Washington where Ingrid was teach ing[...]nt of the Athletic elementary school, to ask her to marry him. They were Association and the Board of Control, and the Athletic married December 5, 1908 at[...]m, 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 Amarillo, Texas where Paul was among the players who won honor pins and t h e Stephen was born on October 28, 190[...]g Crum for Center, football pr ecedent back to North Dakota, and Halvorson was again Paul's was knocked on the hea[...]he took care of the position in good shape, and Helen on January 31, 1913. being always sure with his passing. In open field playing it We were to choose our middle names later. When she wa[...] |
| and retained Helen as a middle name. When we were lit[...]could not pronounce Helen. Later this was shorted to Honey, and it became a family name. For my middle name I chose Bixby, my paternal grandmother's name, and Dad gave me the Bixby genealogy which has since b[...]inally from England , with an admixture of Scotch and Irish . Honey thinks she recalls a bit of French,[...]e 1s a reproduction of President Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby commending her and sympathizing with her for having given five sons to the Civil War. The Crum side of t~e family were P[...]6, 1880. His mother's name was Helen Bixby Crum, and she died in 1885 in Santa Cruz, California. Paul'[...]on S. Bixby was appointed his guardian that year, and he lived there until December, 1895 when he came to Fargo to live with his father who had remarried . When[...]y Roosevelt - the hero in the " Rough Rider" hat, and the blue polka dot handkerchief fluttering behind[...]lendid moment of h is life". The men in blue , and " the moment" -just before the stars and stripes went up were immortalized by Stephen Cran[...]- remained for Paul - the most 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 refus[...]arents a few days. Simon Bixby refused permission to enlist, but in July, 1898, Paul went to Paul Crum-taken about 1902 San Francisco and shipped as an ordinary seaman on the boat Andrew Welch bound for Honolulu. He wanted to reach Manila by the time the First Dakota Regiment arrived. He attached himself to the regiment, and served The Homestead Act, making land available, drew Paul " well and bravely in all engagements", according to Crum to Old Scobey where he was an attorney and Land officer's testimony. Toward the end he was[...]Commissioner. Among his clients were the Daniels and the perhaps with the "fever", as his grandmother[...]. With poor the present site of Scobey, and made arrangements for sanitation, casualty figures were obscured by deaths from building , and a well. disease. But the pine coffins led to Major Walter Reed's Honey remembers bei[...]n Old identification of the yellow fever virus , and the poor camp Scobey in 1913 when she was three months old , and I was rations to the Pure Food and Drug laws. two years. Stephen was three and a half. How long we lived Nevertheless, Paul f[...]ie there I do not remember, before moving to the homestead . young. He often said he would like to be wrapped in an old But the years which followed gave us all some of our most army blanket and buried on the prairie in a pine box. precious and lasting memories . Paul served his country one[...]although not Steve recalls - "The lumber and materials for our home authorized to wear the uniform of Uncle Sam. Later,[...]re we arrived by horse drawn vehicle. It service to his country while in his teens. was in the spring and the country was green and beautiful His medals include the McKinley Medal and the Silver to me. There was a running stream for fishing. My first job Star for Gallantry in Action , and a ribbon for service in the was to pick up cow chips for cook stove fuel. I remember[...]ere Paul Crum, attorney, later helped organize and became exposed and there was the fragrance of the new wood.[...] |
| [...]he pantry was always stocked a have had to cross the river to get where he was. He was month ahead for storms, and I helped put a lamp in the perfectly dry, and no one ever knew how he got there. window during[...]Memorable times were the occasions we all went to town Mother said our home was first built on t[...]Scobey in 1914. It was just around the was moved to the site on the bluff which was level and had corner from Collinson's Drug Store where we enjoyed ice a good view of the valley and Stoney Point. cream sundaes[...]the bottom of each hole. of ink, dusty books and tobacco , and enjoyed looking at the Besides our house there were an outhouse, woodshed, barn National Geographic. and a chicken coop with willows nearby. Mom had[...]buildings were al ways g oing up , Plymouth Rocks and sometimes Rhode Island 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 sledding down the hills currants, 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 Juneb[...]town with Selmer Into this same valley, Honey and I would go early in the Oie, the banker. Out of tobacco during one blizzard , he put mornings to search for the Teenie Weenies we thought were on his muskrat cap and went across the snow driven living there under the wild rose bushes. prairie to Biard Pittingers and came back with a small plug In the evening, Steve, Honey and I would be at the top of of chewing tobacco! the bluff to meet Dad coming in horse and buggy from his We kept warm with a woo[...]In the " other room", besides the two bedrooms and[...]oak table and chairs. There was a leather chair and[...]davenport which served as a bed for Uncle Roy and Aunt[...]Lillian with two year old Evelyn when they came to stay[...]One Christmas, I wakened Honey to tell her there were[...]beautiful dolls, dressed in pink and blue, the same colors[...]and military tunes, and he used to enjoy walking the floor, carrying Taylor, and later Paul, in time to the music.[...]drip, and waiting for the sunshine. In the summer Mom[...]often let us use the con ten ts of her trunk to play " dress up". The Paul Crum Homestead There were kid gloves and slippers, high necked white lace[...]dresses, or with lace insertion and tiny tucks. There was a[...]vely. We wandered cards, scarves and brass buckles with semi-precious stones happily over the farm, and knew every stone, hill and in the shape of spiders or butterflies. And a lovely soft red gully. We picked flowers for Mom, and listened to the mull dress, which it was hard to imagine her in because she meadowlarks song. We ate chokecherries, rose petals and usually wore seersucker. cactus berries . . And always went down to the river, After the first few winters we lived in town in a little sometimes to wade, other times to stare in fascination at house next to the "Sears Roebuck" house , a big red house the p[...]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 ready for impromptu fun and watch the minnows darting through the weaving[...]be fishing, or sailing boats. first time, and there was a party with a peanut hunt. Velma Taylor was born on the farm on March 20, 1915. They and the other girls showed us how to make May baskets, sent to Minot for the same midwife who had delivered and we made them for years afterwards. We would go out to Honey and me. Steve was the first and last of us who was the hills and pick buttercups, bluebells and Indian born in a hospital because Mother feared they might Paintbrush. And there were little white and yellow flowers possibly give her the wrong baby b[...]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 door and run. the shallow water in his diaper. Later, when[...]When summer came again, back we would go to the walking, he wandered away one morning. They f[...]d dray, looking around at all the space and stillness around[...] |
| our little farm, and remarking that it must be lonely. But, Before it was built we went to services and Sunday school somehow it wasn 't, and we were a1ways :, apn , · · J,~ ,._h 0[...]..-- n f r, gw n Hall, whfr h as owned place, was to search for the toys and things we had left by D[...]out in the sun members , and we all took an active part. Mother took her and the wind. One morning we found everything in sigh[...]turn as Sunday School Superintendent and played the covered with army worms. • en m y sh[...]sion Steve loaded all our playthings on his wagon to try to move came we had attended[...]churches. And I remember tornados or cyclones. Whenever Mother We all missed the farm, and I suppose, Mother especially. would see one of th[...]he would hurry us She came to the old white schoolhouse one lovely autumn down[...]l th e danger afternoon and the four of us excused a bit early, and drove was over. I can still recall the mixed odor[...]once more the bumpy ride over the prairies to our farm. Our potatoes and kerosene lamp.[...]re a hired man was now living, seemed We used to meet the neighbor children, visiting at the melancholy and deserted . But we enjoyed the rest of the Biard P[...]day along the river banks and in the old swimming hole. mid way between our farms and outline magical playrooms Dad had installed a diving board there, and the with stones and pebbles. There was a long deserted cellar[...]back nearby where we found broken bits of pottery and odds and often in the years to come. Dad would often bring an old ends to represent th e contents of our cupb oard. From this crony and they would re-live the old days, and the Spanish same farm , we used to get our milk and cream in covered tin Americ[...]One morning Honey, Taylor and I emptied our banks experience, except of course for Mrs. Watts ' ream and fifty ,.u d we t to ,.own , first to the Variety Store, and then to cen t - five po und crocks of butter, delivered by horse and Case's onfectionery Store. The next stop, we decided, buggy to town . ✓ 0uld be to cross the railroad tracks and go to the Old Another childhood memory was of the p[...]oor of the original sod kitchen of the Pittingers to really. Amid the jumble insi[...]ps of denim overalls priced at homemade candies - and the player piano on an upper level[...]aylor, who was extremely careful with where Janel and Ida and the boys would sing old songs like[...]his money still had all of his, so he was elected to buy. When "The Red River Valley" . And I remember the horseback[...]returning it to Taylor, he carefully divided-between the T h e Hoke Smiths to our northeast were gen uine, year[...]later outcome of this was I do not round farmers and as in most cases, those who gave their remember. I often think back to this example of the lives to the farm were well rewarded. I remember theirs as a dedication and dogged persistence of those who are lovely place to visit, and many a happy time we spent there. committed to Socialism or Communism as compared to the They would have a crowd in for a day and the table would easy going and sometimes apathetic attitude of many of us be h eaped with good food . I ate rabbit there, and thought it in this Democracy[...]ver present when we were Many, like my father and m otr.er, , ho lived on the young, ..... __ _:: ~1.. e I W W came to be understood as " I Won 't h omestead only part[...]re The h Internat10nal and their ilk. '. he la , ,d was either 1~{.,, -- . :[...]while we lived there for a year. We returned to Scobey by but still own the farm, always hoping for a bumper crop, to train , and Dad met us in Bainville. He had sold the white sa[...]strike. house and had the farm buildings moved to our property on About the time Steve was read[...]the eastern edge of town. Ford to uring car, and there were many more rides back and Steve recalls, "Father gave me an account at the Egland for th to town . When I was seven we moved into town for Lumber Company, and I was allowed to add another room good, and I began school in the first grade with Miss 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 c[...]workshop in the barn, was an Eagle Scout, and excelled at was to parade downtown to watch the burning of the[...]ugh the depression came along at the end of high and where we were to march, and trying to decide who was school, before that even, Dad would often receive a bag of to carry the flag, I had a great desire to be the one who rutabagas[...]egal services. When I would have that privilege, and I never once took my eyes[...]t a time when having my own horse beyond belief, and I marched in the parade carrying the was my heart's desire. All that summer and fall I rode over American flag. The rest of the day and the bonfire blur in the hills and prairies to my heart's content. Even though I my memory with the flag and the children chanting - wasn't allowed to keep him through the winter, the sadness "Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at France .... " at having to give "Bobby" back was forgotten, and I have "Kaiser Bill went up the hill to take a look at France ... "[...]ony with all nature. in the grades she caught up to me as she was promoted, a nd The pioneer days were over, and we were growing up. we went on through together[...]In brief: Steve worked his way through college to become Dad and Mother bought a little white house on First an electrical engineer. He went to work as head of design Street. Later, All Saint[...]for Minneapolis Honeywell. Taylor was going to the[...] |
| [...]Barbara Irma who is married to Larrae Rocheleau, They have five daughters and one son.[...]Taylor enlisted in the army after Pearl Harbor and went to Italy and Rumania where he met and married his wife[...]Didi. He was with S H A P E in France and Fort Bliss in[...]Texas. They retired with their son Barbu John to Hawaii[...]Both Taylor and Didi warned repeatedly of the danger[...]disappearance of all his savings to try to save Didi's parents who were held hostage in prison by the[...]Taylor and Didi's resources, including the proceeds from[...]Communists simply executed her parents.[...]Betty, first in Minneapolis and finally in San Francisco.[...]Paul Jr. went into the Marines after high school and[...]Montana. He read, fished and gardened a bit. His friends Top row, left to right: Elizabeth, Taylor, Stephen, Paul, Jr. would come to visit him , and he enjoyed helping his Bottom: Honey and Irma nei[...]It was in Stryker during a visit to his Dad, that young[...]n an automobile accident in September, University and studying to be a Traffic Engineer. Honey 1955. was working, and they all shared an apartment in[...]tephen was thirty when he was married. In to San Francisco, the place where he shipped out to the 1942 he was transferred to Los Angeles. There are three Phillipines as a boy, and which determined the entire children. Mary, a soc[...]ith a degree in course of his life. He wrote to me as follows: English literature, now studying law; and Bob, a student "I left here on September second with the body, and the at Northern California. Steve sold the home i[...]litary honors in the Presidio Verdes, is divorced and lives in Lomita. He was with National[...]or read the service in the funeral home I went to Northern Montana College in Havre, and met and at the graveside. The flag was given to your mother .... Christian A. Lange. We were marr[...]ing "San Francisco looked strange to me. I first went to sea October in 1934. Our first major move from Mo[...]there in March, 1898, in an old square rigger, in to Salt Lake City where Chris was with the 9th Service ballast to Tacoma and coal back to San Francisco. On my Command as a refrigeration e[...]e Phillipines in 1899 I was in camp with my Betty and Paul came there briefly while they were in the[...]windy, sandy Marines. We bought our present home and acreage on place then, and has now become beautifully landscaped." Grand Tra[...]ty-one Medals issued posthumously to Private Paul Crum Jr., years ago, while Chris was[...]mpaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Chris went to work for True Temper Corporation, and we Medal, Victory Medal World War II. sp[...]n home. Our winter Paul Crum lived to be seventy-eight before his death at residence varied from Cleveland to Alexandria, Virginia, Fort Harrison, Helena. Honey and Morris were at his to Santa Monica, California to Chicago before an early bedside, and arranged for his interrment at Custer retirement.[...]lefield Cemeter where he was buried with military and Through the years I have enjoyed art museums, Masonic honors in November, 19b8. libraries, and taking vanous courses in literature and the In 1969 Honey and Morris Wold attended a 50th arts. We both love to read, and Chris loves to fish and Anniversary of the Selmer Oie American VFW in Scobey, garden, visit our children and grandchildren. Our son honoring Paul Crum as First Commander and co-founder. Chris is a commander in the U.S. Navy[...]elen received her master's degree 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 two children, Jennifer and Benjamin, live in Vancouver, honor of his[...]into the equally vast and empty prairies, under the same[...] |
| limitless sky one sees on the ocean , to begin a n ew life . And ALFRED GIMMESTAD Ingrid Crum was a tru e pioneer's wife, ever ready to help her neighbors whenever there was sickness or[...]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 Daniels County in courageous search - with the desires and fetters of earth 1909. He was born in Be[...]ta. He worked for fallen away - they are now free to begin that most vital Mansfield Daniels and Jake Timmons at Old Scobey and quest - th e inner voyage into Truth.[...]Irma Bixby Lange Later he moved back to the old Timmons place on the[...]plar river flats where he worked for Jake Timmons and[...]and early-day northeastern Montana souvenirs at the[...]women in the New Scobey in 191 3. A Mrs. Fleming and a pool room man 's wife were the first two , then I was third and Mrs. Ole Buer and her sister, Mrs. Tom McClelland were next. Mr. Lu Discher and I had the first restaurant, in the MR. AND MRS. IRA NELSON building that is now the Legion H[...]They had a hardware store which they sold in 1920 to Art needed the building for a blacksmith shop. And Ed Burton Strom and Ormond Paus. The present E.T. Peterson and wife started their restaurant on Main Street.[...]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 also had a brother, Hale Nelson[...]early day resident of Scobey. They both moved to the St. the Legion Hall at Redston e and had it moved up to Scobey. Paul area - they returned to Scobey to visit several times We built a house, right west of the hall and shop and ran after they left here. a hospital for some time there. The train did not pull up to the depot until the day after Thanksgiving Day 191 3. Lu Discher , Tom McClelland and Ole Buer drove a four horse team and belongings from Radville, Saskatchewan, Canada and landed in Old Scobey, I think the early part of[...]October. Then three weeks later my four children and I drove over with two horses and balance of our belongings. David N. N[...]s hospital down on Main 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[...]attended McAllister College at St. Paul. Harking to the call Later Dr. Collinson leased the building Dr. Olson had of western lands and opportunity, young Dave came to built for a rooming house. And I guess it ran until the new Montana in 19[...]t. and taught school in the Dagmar community and later[...]ea on which he resided Excerpts from a letter to Dorothy Rustbakke in 1963. until our co[...]into the 91st Division and saw active overseas service in[...]1919. He then resolved to complete his education in the field[...]of law and in 1922 received his degree from the Minnesota[...]llege of Law. He married Miss Marie Howe in 1920, and to this union were born three children: David, Donald and RONALD AND DOROTHY FJELD M[...]In 1922 he came back to Montana and entered into law Ronald and Dorothey (Lee) Fjeld were married in 1952 at[...]had Glenburn, North Dakota. Dorothy had come out to been appointed first county attorney for the newly formed Montana from North Dakota to teach in Scobey School in Daniels County in 1920, and was to serve in that capacity the fall of 1950. The firs[...]th the United States Air Force. Upon their return to family west to Opheim (1926) where he set up private law Montana[...]itetail , where Ronald taught practice and also served as State Representative from school for five years. In 1959 they moved into Scobey and Valley county. He returned to Scobey in 1933, taking over Ron taught two years[...]he practice of his brother, John, who had decided to leave operated Fjeld's Men and Boy's Clothing Store for 13 years, Scobey and establish a law practice in Milaca, Minnesota. selling out in 1974 to go into farming. Ron and Dorothy The Nyquist Law office was on[...]ice of Public Instruction ticket in 1936 and served three consecutive terms-In 1943 in Helena; Gregory, a Senior in high school, and Scott, an he was appointed District Judge by Governor Sam Ford, to eighth grader.[...] |
| Vernon Hoven, who had taken leave of his duties to enter 80th birthday in 1973 with close friends and was the service. In 1948 he sought the office of[...]aniels County Leader from which the the elections and was successful-an office which he ab[...]me 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 his father 's those who came to northeastern Montana in the early days homestead north of Velva . . . . and of those who met them. Lottie was born October 5, 1893 at Poplar to a full-blooded Assiniboine woman and a Frenchman named Parshall, whom Lottie never knew; she was taken into the home of Mansfield and Addie Daniels as a child, and began her schooling at Poplar. In 1904, she was sent to the Indian School at Fort Shaw, near Great Falls. She recalls the trip there involved a train trip to Great Falls and from there by wagon to the school. She attended school there three years , returning again to Poplar. Mrs. Daniels died in 1907, so Lottie then moved up to old Scobey to live with the Jake Timmons family - the trip from[...], Lottie helped look after the daughter, Blanche, and quietly observed all of the goings on in the bust[...]Clarence attended rural school and business college in[...]He went to Old Scobey in 1911 where he worked for[...]Daniels and Timmons Store as a clerk and machine[...]When Scobey moved to its present location he also[...]in Siberia. After leaving the service he returned to[...]selling out to H.C. Nelson and Sons (Lyle and George).[...]He was Post Master of Scobey Lodge No. 109. A.E. and[...]He was later in ill health and devoted his time looking Miss Lottie Parshall[...]after his farming interests here and in Velva, North[...]Relatives are one brother in Velva, North Dakota and[...]ey on May 10, 1964. fortunes of Mansfield Daniels and Timmons when the[...]n the telephone office in Scobey, living with Sid and Stella Bennett. Mansfield Daniels[...]JACOB C. TIMMONS became postmaster, died in 1920 and in 1921 Sid Bennett became postmaste,_ Lottie wor[...]k Jake Timmons of Iowa brought his wife and daughter for more than ten years. Since 1932 she has been farming Blanche to Poplar in 1901 and freighted to Old Scobey the (she recently sold her farm south of Madoc to Don Mohn same year. He managed the Daniels and Timmons whose father Tom operated the land since 1935) and has business interests in Old Scobey. lived in her home in Scobey, travelling some each year and Jake Timmons was a man who was not[...] |
| equally, with Mr. Daniels, in the trials and hardships of building up the Scobey community. If[...]d 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 Commiss[...]• Jake Timmons and his brother-in-law Mansfield Daniels started a general store in 1901 . These two gentlemen owned and operated a blacksmith shop, rooming and boarding house, implement shop, livery barn, undertaking parlor, and real estate business. Many years later settlers s[...]ver the country looking for a location. Daniels and Timmons saw the need for water conservation and they dammed the Poplar River with Timmons home in Old Scobey. twigs and brush, storing enough water to flood many acres of hay land.[...] |
| [...]rmation of Dawson County in 1889, Valley in 1893, and the division which formed Sheridan County in 1913[...]IIJlll In 1920, an election was held which resulted in the forming of Daniels[...]ey County lying west of the line between Range 45 and Range[...][!]- 46, and that portion of Sheridan County lying east of said range line. Roosevelt and McCone counties came into being at the same time. This election was coupled with one for the selection of a county seat. Madoc and Scobey were the contenders. In preparation for this event Scobey had installed electric lights, a water and sewage system, and other improve- ments to make it a logical contender. Scobey won the coveted county seat by a vote of 964 to 358. On August 30 of that same year Samuel V . St[...]ially proclaimed that Daniels County "be attached and made a part of the Twentieth Judicial District fo[...]a . George Springer, early postmaster at Madoc and later a Scobey attorney, was an enthusiastic supp[...]s Bil lehus, with Lou Boyd, circulating petitions and trying to Earl Br[...]y the kayo route. " Three commissioners served to help form the new |
| [...]from friction, fractions and outside radicalism. Let us be SCOBEY[...]thankful for the county creation and guard it with just[...]realization. Last, but not least, let us strive to keep in mind THE WISH OF THE VOTERS OF THE NEW CO[...]we have stood "all for OF DANIELS HAS BEEN VOICED AND WON one," let us keep it "one for all," and that in every righteous DECISIVELY. WISDOM AND SANCTION OF THE sens[...]AJORITY DEMONSTRATED BY HEAVY VOTING FOR DIVISION AND CLAIMS SET FORTH BY[...]ELECTION RETURNS OF The long desired county of Daniels[...]eforth it will take its place among the prominent and TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1920 p[...]The County Vote for laurels to her crown when she was chosen as county seat of t[...]COUNTY SEAT There has been much talk and speculation as to the possibility of making a new county and the choice of Scobey[...]eat, nevertheless there has been no real doubt as to Madoc[...]ultimate outcome as all plans for the new county and county seat had been most carefully gone over; de[...]YES 1079 worked out and committees appointed to execute same. County of Daniels[...]NO 260 From the returns of the election the results show that those in charge have faithfully and fruitfully performed their duties and the outcome has only been what was[...]ATOR anticipated by all who studied the situation and L.F. Greenup[...]were connected with the making of the new county and choice of Scobey for REPRESENTATIVE county seat. They worked with a vim and vigor that could H. Amelius Christense[...]nt that their work was as a whole, that of wisdom and sound judgment, emphatically endorsed and desired by COUNTY COMM[...]857 made every effort to put her claims fore most for the E.[...]738 consideration of the county seat, but to no avail. She made H.D. Ludington[...]598 a most determined fight to the last minute, but at that, made no beneficial impression or additional recruits to her CLERK & RECORDER bann[...]0 personal influence or where her supporters were to be most Mrs. Carroll W. Spurrier[...]by so placing the county seat. The results were 3 to 1 against her and tho her hopes were high, they were SHERIFF never to be realized, and plainly speaking never will be, as G.P. La[...]334 far as her desire is concerned to be the county seat of David J. Martin[...]CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT wish to retain Madoc 's good will in the future as in the[...]722 free from humiliation and insinuations - this is as it Peter T[...]COUNTY TREASURER from start to finish.[...]405 her contention - the desires and choice of the majority of the voters. Madoc can gracefully bow to her conqueror, yet COUNTY ATTORNEY should remember: it is difficult to get anywhere when the Geo. Cudhie[...]395 "Hub" has departed from the "Spokes" and the "Spokes" Theodore Imbs[...]714 The election is past, may it be left at rest. The selection of office rs have their duties to perform may the sacredness of[...]311 Daniels county be used, and not abused, by those intrusted Frank M. Robinson with power, to the advancement of all good, growth and progressive yet conservative moues for the good and gain COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT[...]er 993 and always, be a credit to the great State of Montana, free L[...] |
| 1963 Elected County Officials and Clerks (Year of the Jubilee). Back row: J. Edward[...]e Commercial Hotel building, which had been 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 th[...]alcony across the front. Inside , however, modern and up-to-date equipment is used by the staff to facilitate the keeping of records and to expedite county business. FIRS[...]Office of Daniels County Assessor since its |
| [...]gene P. LaRoche - 1920-1926; Revenue of the State and th e Assessor and all his h elp is Luther Dodd - 1921-1922; Herma[...]- 1930-1934; W. Guy Stalder - 1931- between 1957 and 1963 when a classifier was hired. Since 1936[...]1937-1942; Roy Day - 1939-1944; a pprai ser hired to take care of land and buildings. Wyvil Bjerke - 1943-1944; RB.[...]- 1963 to date; Irvin Halverson -[...]Court Clerk of court: John Shippam -June 1920 to February |
| [...]Alice, laboring and gracious[...]And the office a man made not the same.[...]Helen, patient and fair,[...]Alvina, young and eager[...]Alma, gentle and kind, A true scholar comes to mind.[...]David J. Martin appointed in 1920 to 1922, one term. First William A. Lumpkin[...]elected Sheriff was A.V. Lawrence 1923 to 1928 with Under[...]iff, Arthur Nelson. Arthur Nelson elected in 1929 to[...]Lee - high school counselor in Glasgow from 1965 to 1968. He was Aftercare Counselor with the Department of Institutions from 1968 to 1971. He was appointed Chief Probation Officer in[...]ntana Probation Officers' Association in May 1972 and has been re-elected every year since. County[...]1946-1953, 1959-1962; Claire A. Hillstrom - C.A. Hillstrom, County Superintendent of S[...]1943 to 1954 with Pat Horton as Under Sheriff. Pat Horton[...]elected in 1956 and 1958 and served through 1962, and[...]elected and has served from 1963 until the present time[...]office and jail has been here since county was formed[...] |
| [...]D A NI E LS COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE[...]n g ser ved a Richard Grove fo ur year term and Mildred Cla usen was th e first on e in th e county to do th is. Daniels County Sh op[...] |
| [...], Mel Hylland. Inset, Angelina Vink. At side: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Herling. Ed B . Smith , Senat[...] |
| [...]BRARY Hall, Four Buttes and Peerless. Later, Silver Star stop was[...]aniels County newly organized Scobey Womep's Club to meet with them Free Library are: Mrs.[...]ry. A Marvin Sorte, Mrs. Flossie Nelson, and Mrs. Oscar library committee of Scobey Women's Cl[...]rl Brenden, finance chairman, Mrs. E.T. Peterson, and Mrs. Liebrand, Mrs. Wm. Cromwell, Jr. ,[...]he Motschenbacher, Mrs. Esther Liebrand and Arnold county commissioners who offered the use o[...]ilding of a new multi-purpose building on Timmons to cleaning and painting the room. The Women's Club sent Street to house the new library. out letters to ladies of other towns and communities in Mr[...]niels County soliciting help for soliciting books and money in a door-to-door campaign . Doors of the new library were[...]lver Tea which brought in $100 in cash. Adding it to the library treasury made a balance of $249. The name of the library was " City-County Library" and the hours were 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 COUNTY FAIR p.m.[...]s librarians. Mrs. Victor Hillstrom was appointed to A County Fair Board, appointed by[...]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 exhib[...]m . was the responsibility of the Daniels County, and it was Earlier, many communities had their own fairs, and named " Daniels County Free Library" and is still some of these were large and well-attended celebrations. operating under this[...]organizations met to make plans for the formation of a In November 1959 the library was moved to its present Fair Association, to work in connection with the Fair location at 104[...]inted 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 group joined the Rocky and hire the librarians. The board was: Mrs. R.V. Wal[...]ir under this In 1968 M.J. Traynor was elected to the Montana arrangement was held in[...]ts the Daniels rodeo , a night show, and a carnival added to the festivities. County Free Library was built up to an updated library by A quonset, previousl[...]its were still On Oct9ber 21 , 1971 librarians and trustees from the displayed in the high s[...]ounties of Daniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Phillips and A 36 x 100 frame building to house exhibits at the Valley met in the City-Coun[...]In 1961, a livestock scale was purchased, and a new of discussing the possibilities of organizi[...]nization of The fair has been a popular and successful venture, several county libraries with[...]s, rolling-pin throwing Daniels, Sheridan, Valley and Phillips gave their contests) and a talent show. Evening shows have featured approvals for a bookmobile to service rural areas . It is a variety of acrobatic acts and typical vaudeville acts. A 4- called the Golden P[...]Daniels County on April 4, 1973 at Flaxville, and the 4-H beef auction takes place following one of the Whitetail , and Scobey, and on April 5 at the Silver Star aftern[...] |
| [...]as written what they could gather about available to attempt to produce a comple~and accurat.e their own schools. In 1920 what[...]ne schools. Daniels County was a part of Sheridan and Valley In 1930 several district.a had as many as five operating Counties and before that a part of Dawson County.[...] |
| [...]n e were community centers of activities and were known[...]la ndmarks. However , as the years passed and depression District No. 4 and drought took its toll, more and more families moved Line Co ulee Distric[...]District No. 18 away and more and more districts were consolidated. Due Joy[...]Frederick to di stance, roads and weather the length of the school[...]terms were necessarily short and in the summer months[...]ad di tion to companionship and guidance. The school was Smoke Creek Di[...]arbert eq uipment was added both inside and out. Wells were dug Sh en num and th e children no longer carried water to school along Michel with lunch in syrup and lard pails or in a fancy empty[...]and a ye n to attend a larger school in town , saw the[...]sus showed 1,982 children between the ages of six and 21 years of age. The names of th e schools were s[...]people who lived there, s uch as Frederick, Duck and Michel. Several of the schools existed only briefly and eventua ll y these school districts were con soli[...]of the schools were ph ysically m oved from yea r to year to better acco mm odate the ch a n ges in pop[...] |
| La Combe School. Left to right: Helen Bureau, Alice Bureau, Henry Bureau,[...], Alfred Bureau. go. It meant the end of an era and the feeling was A firm foundation was built in knowledge. And the |
| teachers away from the class rooms to enter war work and service, leaving a teacher shortage. The salari[...]t an upward trend. Qualifications became more lax and many housewives who were former teachers re-entered the field. After the war, teaching qualifications began to get more stringent and salaries continued to rise. The early day teacher was a capable, resourceful person, ready to cope with every situation that arose from minor to major discipline problems to giving first aid and diagnosis , varying from 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 school in sod On way to Coal Creek School - 1917 houses and claim shacks. The salaries were small, the classes often large as schools were not plentiful and many older children attended because they had mis[...]time to prepare lesson plans by daylight. In a number of Many of the teachers welcomed an opportunity to teach schools a kerosene stove was provided to warm up soup or a few months or weeks while " pro[...]nner of our hot lunch claims. Books were gathered and formal education began program) so the[...]e early arrivals. dishes and plan her menu for the next day. Soup and cocoa Teachers faced loneliness, treacherous roads (often were the easiest to prepare. When this was finished the walking to and from school with only an unbroken trail to next thing, with a look at the darkening sky and clock, was follow) without even a fence for a guide when snow piled to gather her books and papers and lock the door and start high and the wind blew. They arrived at a cold schoolhouse[...]ys walked. In winter she enjoyed a early in order to build the fire , do the janitor work (free), da[...]st 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[...]rees she saw a vast expanse of green grass and pink wild roses from a college but this bit of sh[...]edicated, ripening grain fields, golden rod and occasionally a prairie hard workers, sincere, resourceful and deeply interested in chicken or rabbit. the[...]vered crock (water cooler) succeeded a water pail and The duties of the teacher in the early days we[...]done by lamp light because by the pupils and teacher. A patron or neighbor usually brought time school closed at 4 o'clock and the last children were the water. In later days quite often a well was dug on the overshoed , scarved and mittened in winter and sweatered schoolground which simplified the water problem. At one in spring and fall , sent homeward after lengthy good[...]ed along with the lunch pail. nights , admonished to go straight home and not to loiter In the early years frugality was a necessary order of the on the way to pick ripe rose berries, chase gophers or[...]provided for the engage in snow ball fights , but to " go straight home", then educational needs of[...]collector. She collected pictures from catalogs and emptied the ashes, stoked the fire, checked the outdoor magazines and for canned fruit and box labels. She made toilets and cleaned them if needed , shut the doors , her own charts and flash cards. She gathered here and scattered sweeping compound (brick red oily sawdust) on there to provide the "aides" for teaching. When she arrived the floor , swept it up leaving an oily shine to the floor , checked to see if any stray mittens or sweaters or di[...] |
| each fall she was loaded down with boxes and bags of graders took county-wide exami[...]she carried her tools of her trade with term to determine if they qualified for promotion . her. In general the early day teacher was well educated and The County Superintendent checked the teachers' well experienced. She improvised, using ingenuity to no reports, recommended whether or not th[...]eachers were Occasionally special visitors came to visit 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 children were doing and Superintendent to oversee the general rural school to meet and sometimes judge the teacher. The pupils were[...]rd of County was, some of the children were eager to recite and they were Commissioners. allowed the floor. Now and then there was to be found a Schools were rated regular and superior by the State "show off' looking for pers[...]were four , four-year high schools in in the fall and spring to check progress and the condition of operation. All were accredited. These were located at the buildings and equipment and to offer suggestions and Scobey, Flaxville, Peerless and Whitetail. Most of the helps to the teacher. She was the person the teacher[...]d stay in town during the school months. reported to.[...]iving fairly close by managed some sort of visits to the school. She was often held in terror by the transportation back and forth from their homes in the pupils who feared her looking in their ears and mouths. country. Peerless provided a dormitory, Flaxville and They al ways feared she would ask them to remove their Whitetail provided buses. socks and check their toes. The high schools all had a good curriculum and teachers. The school curriculum was rigid. The[...]nt Nearly every school had their own band and athletic team provided a guideline - the course o[...]requirements in terms of math, reading, language and Since 1920 there have been eight (8) County Superinten- writing had to be adhered to. Teachers knew what they dents . were hired to teach and at what time. Seventh and eighth Mabel V. Thayer . . . . . . . . . .[...]and Claire Hillstrom spearheaded bringing extension[...]courses to Scobey to enable teachers to earn credits for certification and other interested people to take for self-[...]improvement. Through the undaunted and untiring efforts[...]enrolled. It was followed by many other courses and the enrollment grew to over thirty in some classes with many[...]all certified and credits recognized.[...] |
| [...]But my eyes o'erflow, and my heart just thrills[...]You may love your land of palm and pine, Prairie Chapter had its birth;[...]Part of the infinite Master Plan , Only added to its worth. They challenge to effort the sons of man.[...]winkling stars were added, As the years have come and gone; MON[...]And there's time for recreation, May we work in humbl[...]For it merits estimation. Look to God Who will sustain us, Seek His help in every p[...]M of the mood. The cowboys are just fakes. But go to just one rodeo,[...]Store your grubstake in the CABINET, And colorful silken shirts,[...]Or with Iron ROD AND BIG FORK And when the day is over,[...]Are the BLACKFOOT and the CROW, The truest friend a cowboy has BELT and MOCCASIN they're making, Seldom known to shirk. Beaded[...]u know. You think the old time west is gone? Come to Scobey and celebrate. Where the[...]hens, Crowds of dudes and flocks of sheep. Carl Bull and others we could name, Still going strong through not so young, See the WHITETAIL and the Blacktail, They do things just the same.[...]Catch a FISHTAIL in a FISHTRAP, And it has no flaws, See the ROUNDUP in the fall. It's better to be a has-been Than to be a never-was.[...]And you'll see more by a DAM SITE I have lived in the land of palm and pine, THAN you've ever seen before. And on heights where snows eternal shine, Where the winds on the ocean moan and whine, There's a HOMESTEAD on a HIL[...]If 'tis here you would abide; I have list to the call of the mocking bird, Build a STONE SHACK on the PRAIRIE And the song of the nightingale I've heard,[...] |
| But if you should choose to leave us Then banked the fire and swept the flo or . From MONTANA far to go, Her subject[...]She taught them all from A to Z. Fas tened with a SILVER BOW . And then she taught them how to spell by Rac[...]We tried to grasp what the teacher said[...]No cafeteria to serve hot stew . MONTANA We needed no gym to make us strong[...]rning more today Vast rolling ruggedness of brush and sage; From specialized teachers wi[...]aught the Golden Rule. Brown grassland graduates to purple hills, |
| [...]night My memory is best served And you listen close to the waving grain by voices and words You can hear the haunting sound of hooves[...]flows and welds If you listen close as well you might[...]ng with the golden grain And with Tennyson I Haunting the land of the golde[...]ettler's step that I have met. And hear his voice crying out for rain From the echoes of After the seeding and the crop begin my mother[...]ourself enjoy this depth and she lived by Of the cattle, the train, the cry[...]plot you 've won . at God and His universe. Ignoring storm and prairie drought Dad sang[...]clear, vigorous , Who sank their roots and stayed . and true; by Dorothy[...]oh, I believed Age and Time are part of in him. God's plan and And so the loudest Einstein 's theory and echo I hear are relative to comes[...]le He set to the task places , and events to right what becomes a[...] |
| [...]he rode his horse o'er acres broad incessantly, and He dreamed[...]Hail to this man, that Pioneer I have tried to infuse With faith in future things to come into my own. With his inclination to persevere Oh, beauty is there, Out of sod and grass to build his home. and music is there,[...]Doris Hughes and laughter ... and love ... Only strength is yet untried ... perha[...]spirit is low, And my mother stood so serene and tall, when effort lags,[...]With a tender hand and a pleading prayer. deeper than day--- Maybe then[...]She supplied my wants and she filled my needs , will sound; And her hands were near to the household deeds. Maybe then I will know She gave to me of the best she could; "This, too, will pass away." All my whims and fancies she understood.[...]G I could calm my fears and I'd still my hurts[...], The light of day and the sunset glow; Eyes bleary and bloodshot. That my heart might thrill to a starry night,[...]I brought her grief and I brought her pain. I held him on my lap, And they left their marks by the constant strain. And he licked me.[...]And her eyes have dimmed by the falling tears. And we grew together This little dog and I She has giv[...]She had placed herself as the sacrifice! To lick the tears,[...]... To my mother We are both young yet, He and I, Yet one fear nags me still, When he's gone,[...]MEMORIES SO DEAR Who'll lick the tears And comfort me when I cry?[...]See neighbors and loved ones[...]with smiles fresh and new ... What wonderment the pioneer felt[...]ch grew. Where until now the redman dwelt Buffalo and wild game at his command. Som[...]t they all show the hardships Land for the taking to build a home of the lives which they had. Sunshine and breezes all so airy A man wanted to settle and cease to roam. Those were the days of adve[...]when most hopes were just dreams Water and coal, grass and sod and they worked from sunrise to Outlaws, Indians and prairie fires sunse[...] |
| [...]For every little girl and boy.[...]Christmas is a time of love The years have come and gone From whom do we[...]Christmas is a time of hope And families are large and strong Don't be bad and don't say "nope". with closeness that will always[...]And trying to get the car to go. It's been 200 years since[...]ion's birth, And Jesus lying in a manger, how much better could it be? And our forefathers gave[...]. From Christmas Eve to Christmas morn.[...]mber dear neighbors And peace and love to everyone. and friends, young and old, by Judy Fouhy O[...]me, pass through these pages of memories so dear, And the young in the future will cherish these years![...]"Allow me to catch[...]So hard to delay them[...](On John 15:1-8) And softly-fleetingly[...]Time---stood still. Hidden, enfolded, But coming to be.[...]rs. Cecil M. Ferguson Budding, leaf-baby Peer out and see. As a butterfly sheds |
| [...]lend a hand to that lus - ty bunch, on[...]Sco·o bey down to Te - e - xas, Let us[...]a-and Oem·er.[...]Down to the Ri·o[...]ons once a-gain To the best route in[...]Powder River Trail Song " an original composition to help further the road fut11n• of eastern Montana and strengthen relations with the Canadian pro[...] |
| [...]ey, after whom the town of Scobey was named, came to Glendive in 1883 and engaged in the cattle business. He was a member of the 15th territorial legislature and in 1889 was appointed by President Harrison India[...]ile in Glendive he was prominent in civic affairs and in the local Masonic Lodge. He also served as sup[...]through 1907 after which the Scobey family moved to Morris, Minnesota. Major C.R.A. Scobey died at[...]child born on that post. Major Scobey was married to Elizabeth Strachen in !887 at Fort Buford, North Dakota. Their son, Cha rles Scobey, had two boys and a girl and two grandchildren.[...] |
| [...]were not prepared for winter, and some had little PIONEER COUNTRY[...]ones who just wouldn't quit, and the ones who had nothing to go back to. Both groups were hardy. Northeastern Montana, where big sky and the prairie The lands south of Sco[...]lands, river bottoms, were settled earlier and many homesteaders came first to canyons, rolling hills and wheat fields , all are part of a Culbertson or Poplar by rail and headed from there to the fascinating area. new country to pick out land. For a small fee "locators" Tuc[...]would go out with the prospective homesteaders to help county seat of Daniels County.[...]States where this is true. unsettled territory and commiting murder to take what Previous to 1900, there were no permanent settlements in[...]ing those early years, most of whom were friendly to the 85 miles to the southeast. Other than these hardy fellows,[...]f they, in tum, left the outlaws alone. the rich and fertile plains belonged to the Assinniboine Some of the more famous outlaw names included Jones and Sioux Indians. and Nelson, the Dutch Henry gang, the Pigeon Toed Kid[...]adian border north Norse Brothers, Tom Ryan and a fellow known simply as of Scobey at John Louis[...]Jones, who had a big reward on is head, was shot and agreement made earlier with his emissaries. The[...]men posing as cowpunchers. between where Scobey and Plentywood are now located, In 19[...]Old Scobey. Waterworks, gaslight fixtures and over 20 Much evidence of those first peoples[...]atured in the home. It teepee rings, stone tools and arrowheads-can still be came as a bitter disappointment to the owner to learn later found.[...]near the Poplar River, is on the old come to his townsite, but would start a new town across the Woody Mountain Trail, used by Sioux Chiefs Gaul and river, about a mile and a half east on the slopes. Sitting Bull as they moved warriors back and forth aero s The town of Scobey began moving to the new townsite the Canadian border during thei[...]rs of resistance during the summer of 1913 and when the first train arrived to the white man.[...]waiting for it. south of the Canadian border and 60 miles from North The work crews were paid off at noon on that cold and Dakota, was in 1902 when Mansfield Daniels and Jake storm Thanksgiving Day, and in the words of those who Timmons started a larg[...]The Smith and Boyd Saloon (only one in town) did a New settlers and travelers stopped at the Timmons place tremendous business that day but Smith was forced to (Daniels lived in Poplar for the first few years) and extra threaten the crowd with guns to keep them from wrecking rooms were added to the Timmons home to accommodate the place. Bartenders also kept clubs handy to discourage night visitors. They also laid in supplies for newcomers to the exuberent fellows from becoming too un[...]. It still has the tin on the Indian Reservation, to aid in obtaining a post office for the ceiling and walls which were so popular in those days. small[...]Scobey continued to grow and was incorporated in 1916. Soon the Daniels-Tim[...]eral The installation of water, sewer and lights, pushed by the business places in the new town and other businesses town's first mayor,[...]County voted between Scobey and Madoc for county seat. Some of the first white families to settle in what is now Scobey won, 964 to 358. "Scobey Country" included the John Mantemach[...], the Shipsteads, the One-Eyed Molly's and known as a house of pleasure, was Marlenees, and the Timmonses and the Danielses. more or less vacant when cobey became county seat and The area was just a blank spot on the map at t[...]it became the courthouse. This building was added to later had 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[...]their work The 20's were prosperous and lively days in Scobey in 1912.[...]Country, with moonshiners and bootleggers matching Of the squatters and homesteaders arriving during wits wi[...]irst Wheat was king during those years and Scobey became year. Many had very little i[...] |
| [...]Great Northern Railway's branch line contributed to the Meyers, Porky Dallas, George Eastman and Wally Hinden large amount of grain. The rails pushed on west to Opheim were former professional players on[...]were a bit out of shape and did too much partying, but were Also, wheat prices were depressed in Canada and many still one of the best and certainly the most colorful group of laods of gra[...]ere bet on two many cases had their truck or team and wagon games between Scobey and Plentywood as businessmen confiscated.[...]supported the fellows they had hired to play ball. Scobey From the beginning, the town[...]. winning both games by narrow margins . .. grain and cattle as an economic base. The first sod was[...]much sod was turned with "gang plows" and then immediately flying him back again in a priva[...]ar east as Scobey's prosperity has had its ups and downs as the Minnesota , winning almost every game. In order to rains came or failed to come for the farmers' crops and as encourage sportsmen from other towns to bet on the game prices for grain and cattle fluctuated . Scobey would sometimes agree to pitch a different man Population of Scobey and Daniels County continued to each inning. rise slowly (after the "popu[...]any with grandstand, underground watering and lights. This farmers and other residents packed up their belongings was all with volunteer labor and donated materials and and left for greener pastures which usually did not e[...]of these people just left their land or business to be has a new scoreboard . taken for taxes, as[...]Baseball at all levels continued in Scobey and hit the big those dust bowl depressions years.[...]pression's end were state AAU champs twice and runners up other times. and good crops in the mid '40's, Scobey once again thrived, The 1960 Scobey Plainsmen went to the national semi- although the population did not increase. Following the pro tournament in Kansas and finished in seventh place war, through the '50's and '60's there was a slow but steady nationally, winning three and losing two. decline in population, both in Scobey and surrounding American Legion baseball started in Scobey in 1930, and rural area. There evidently was a desire for many to seek followed with several years of winning[...]lly won the machinery which allowed fewer farmers to handle more state championship in 1969 and did it again in 1973. land.[...]r state officials found that they were continuted to show great community pride by keeping better handled and attended in Scobey than in the various stores a n[...]Curling, a sport for many years unique to Scobey among taken even more pride in the community and Scobey has Montana towns, has provided[...]t become one of the cleanest, neatest small towns to be since 1958 when the 44xl 72-foot rin[...]found , with many new buildings, both residential and out•of-town co mpetition comes from n[...]istmas 1970 census showed 1,486 Scobey residents, and the holidays which draws some of the[...]Western sports, horse racing, calf roping and rodeos have tried it elsewhere, are moving back to what have been an important part o[...]l God's Country. Country. Interest dropped off somewhat during the '50's Sports have always been a n important part of Scobey's and early '60's with action only at the three-day cou[...]hosted annually by Scobey. A recent upswing of interest beginning with teams almost as soon as there were[...]has prompted the repairing of the lighted arena and a big young men around a nd hitting national spor[...]bey has been doing an outstanding job in covering and During the prosperous '20's, arch rival Plenty[...]romoting sports around northeast Montana. decided to put a team together that could beat powerful[...]ore than its pitcher, John Donaldson. Scobey, not to take this lying share of people who take[...]times over the years, especially during the '20's and during Senes.[...]the '30's when various groups sent in agitators to fan the[...] |
| unrest caused by the depression in attempts to further the early-day frontier towns had. Top attractions among some special interest. the mor[...]nces between the editor of a general store and an a uthentic homestead shack. Scobey newspaper, the Daniels County leader, and a group Pioneer town growth h as been g[...]from Sheridan County resulted in fire being set to the Co unty Museum Assoc iatio n a nd bui[...]s come about almost entirely from volunteer labor and destroyed and the following issue listed the names of the[...]its. Those named filed a lawsuit against the and Antique Show ... July 3 a nd 4 in this bicentenni[...]y, a lthoug h there The rope was around his neck and the other end thrown a re large amounts[...]ds prevailed. water), lignite coal and probably potash below the s urface. Wild life[...]Scobey people are closely once plentiful buffalo and elk are gone. One easily can find watching a b[...]nstruction (including a dam on the Poplar grouse, to mention a few. Raccoons, mink, wolves, antelope[...]just a few miles away in Saskatchewan. They will and lynx are also seen occasionally. Hunters and see, close-up, the effect of this type of development and will trappers are having increasingly good luck[...]ctual strip The variety of habitat contributes to the many kinds of mining and smoke stacks are in another country. wildlife. Wi[...]erned wi th what the dam find level plains, brush and s mall trees along the streams on the river and digging into underwater streams will do to and some real "badlands." A number of small dams have[...]ater s uppl y a nd a lso what the big smoke added to the Poplar River for fishermen 's pleasure. stacks, only abo ut 17 miles from Scobey, will do to the air The biggest celebration in the a rea's history came in qua lity and crop growth. 1963, the 50th anniversary of the co[...]esteaders' Golden Jubilee, a five day event to avoid any "boom and bust" situa tion, and to keep the with many things going on, but with emphasis on just area a good place to live, while taking sensible advantage getting together and visiting. of the[...]ghway 13, the lined the shady side of Main Street and became the most only primary highway connecting Montana and popular meeting places for hundreds of former residents Saskatchewan, and with oiled highways leading in from and "old timers" here.[...]a nd" in the 48 Pioneer Town, which has now grown to be the major states and a lthough many things have undergone great touris[...]anges in the last 75 years, clean air, blue skies and town , dedicated to the hardy homesteaders and located on abounding friendship stil[...] |
| [...]Scobey July 2, 1913 a nd sold lots to: Paul Babcock Ma r[...]Drug Co. Bon Ton Feed and Seed Barn Hellekson Lumber Co[...] |
| [...]ated as it was on the wide open pra irie, subject to the su n, moon and the n orth wind , it had several odds aga inst it[...]auty of the prairies. The piom~e r businessmen and women were n ot to be denied at least a ch a nce to impregnate th e a rea with ideas and methods that would help develop the new community[...]est anywhere, with good water from small strea ms and wells. The cattlemen h ad to find a special location , tho, with shelter and if possible a spring that would not freeze during[...]George Cudhie. - 1912 Elevators and stockyards were therefore amo ng the first undertakings to be erected in order that the sod buster and the rancher had a place to deliver their products. The merchants got in line to be recipients of Sl"l me of this revenue.[...]els County are past. Pionee r life has give n way to the onward march of civili zation. Where once oxe n , mules, and horses plodded their wea ry way , the tractors a[...]es a re now seen, spinning along ove r the fields and good roads. Where in the early years a ll the eye[...]ere made of sod, now there are large modern homes and farm buildings. The trailer house has become the[...]wn of Scobey, Sheridan Cou nty, Monta na Pursuant to a call issued by the Mayor, Gustav Oie, the Town[...]s published in the Scobey Sentinel 20 years ago - and Larsen .[...]e city since then. The late Sid Bennett was Mayor and The Mayo r a nd each of the Aldermen took and Scobey had just got well started on its water and sewage s ubscrib ed to the oa th of office as prescribed by statute, system, its street lighting system and was about to vote on before J.C. J ac kson, Notary Public.[...]ackso n for the office of town constructed and since torn down to make way for the new clerk .[...], Gus Oie, A. W. On motion the meeting adjo urned to November 22nd, 1915 Chapin, Geo.[...] |
| [...]t.) . 16 3 Nelson 's hardware and then the Chapin and Erickson Davis & Shook (S 90 ft. ).[...]40 ft.) . 17 3 now, the first and only brick business house. Next Davis[...]19 3 bakery came next and then Dr. Collinson 's drug store, the Libby Y[...]Lumber Co. 21 3 ownership and management.[...]4 4 It would be interesting to kno w who the little fellow is May Holcomb (W[...]. 4 3 J.S. and J.R. McCurd y . 15 6[...] |
| [...]merly GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD The first train to arrive in Scobey was Thanksgiving The Great Northern Railway was extended to Opheim in |
| [...]TIMES AND PERSONNEL CHANGE, AS FULL[...]Avenue and Main.[...]bar for the longest period) and after being vacant for[...]There is no documentary proof available to the[...]a different name, of the Bank of T. Anderson-Die and Company, which was started in Old Scobey and moved to[...]dent; 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.[...]Minnesota was elected to the board in 1917. was the world's greatest prima[...]The new bank experienced slow but steady growth and Hart Pa rr engine pulling seven wagons of grain.[...]921. The directors elected at that time were H.J. and programs and was the third such award given out up .:''[...]Stephens, and T.W. Collinson. Long may the Burlington Northern, Inc. continue to The next changes in the board of dir[...]became president coming when railroads are going to be vital again. and E.W. Battleson replaced Christenson.[...]LINE corner6tt,.ding to the location it occupied until 1972, after[...]purchasing the building and fixtures from the Merchants On det ol' yerkvawter[...]The roaring twenties were drawing to a close and at the Ay lak to taking ride, wit mey Gena by mey side, end of 1928 the bank had deposits totalling $345 ,000 and En yog along from Madoc forgatting homestead bill[...]prosperity. However the crash of '29 and the "dirty Ay skol remamber long ago det mixed tr[...]y lak dem gude ol' cars dropped to just over $200,000, but they stayed in business Foray ain't soon forgatting dem days ve had to freight. and during this period became the only bank in Scobey[...]In 1931 P.R. Gorham became a member of the board and Ven you're riding on dis line you're meeting peop[...]in October, 1932 P.B. (Pat) Murphy became cashier and Wit gude ol' vestern handshake en varmth ju naver buy, was elected to the board the following year, replacing L.V. Ay know dem pi'neers veil to Montana stick lak ha!, Hanson. Det's va[...]included T.W. Collinson 's election to the presidency in On dis branch line ev'ry day,[...]tsome rain. " Scarseth also replaced Stephens and H.P. Larsen replaced Den give moorgages and liens, to pay for pork en beans, Gorham as directors[...]onds for grain. With the depression over and bumper crops in 1943 and[...]lers Monday, packing same ol ' elected to the board, taking her husband's place after his[...]h. She had been active in the bank for many years and[...]ate was Miss Emma Nordtorp, who started in Ay lak to taking ride, wit mey Gena by mey side, 1942 and retired in 1964. She had a total of over 50 years[...]M.R. Kloster became executive vice president and by George T. Springer cashier of the bank in September of 1949 and later that[...] |
| [...]DANIELS COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION elected to the board a short time later replacing Scarseth.[...]. It was a desire to establish a credit union that would make[...]loans, small ones to those in need who did not have access 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[...]In the fall of 1957 Marvin Veis became a director and in 1958 became active in the operation in the job of vice president and cashier. M.R. Kloster had become president and chairman of the board after Dr. Collinson's death[...]ture in 1959, replacing H.P. Larsen as a director and in 1961 D.S. Amundson served a few months on the[...]rvin Veis became the managing officer of the bank and in April, 1962 Veis and Roy Killenbeck bought Kloster's interest in the bank, with Mrs. T.H. Veis and Mrs. D.B. Killenbeck replacing the Klosters on th[...]s resumed the presidency of the bank at that time and is the only native son to have held that position in the history of the ban[...]Veis. In May of 1962 Peter Fosland was elected to the board of directors and he served until 1967 when he was replaced by Ro~e[...], who started at the bank in 1957 as a bookkeeper and teller and became vice president and These credit union meetings were first held in private cashier, was elected to the board in January of 1970 and homes and in the insurance office of C.T. Swenson with serv[...]H.J. Schaefer as treasurer. The first salary paid to 1974. Early in 1969 the Killenbecks sold their st[...]gnificent sum of $50 a year. The office interests to Marvin Veis and left the board of directors. · was moved to an office in Grain Growers building, and the The present four-member board of directors are M.E. treasurer's salary was increased to $10 a month. In 1952 Veis, T.H. Veis, Jordan A. Fosland and H.H. Arndt; Mr. the credit union office was moved to the insurance office of Arndt having joined the official staff in 1974 and serves as Ben Shennum with Ben acting as assistan[...]During all these early years the membership and assets Over the years, through thick and thin, one knows there slowly but surely climbed and loans were made to had to be many trials, stormy times, and near disasters in deserving members. the operatio[...]hen a new office in a building erected by it all, and has · continued to prosper and help the Stanton Danelson. Mary Hillstrom, an able assistant in community to prosper.[...]as A new, modem building on the comer of Second and served ever since, with the assistance of Jeannie[...]In December, 1958 the board decided it was time to own much needed improvement and has served the banking their own building. The ol[...]was purchased, the old building sold and moved, and a new[...] |
| [...]anization; he had seen it grow from its inception to a strong and useful financial force in the area filling a need[...]services. If any one needed a lasting recognition to his memory, then this credit union would serve~as[...]Ferguson and Beulah Edland[...]into being that was known as Davis and Shook in 1916.[...]In 1933 T.O. Erickstein, E.W. Battleson, and A.R. Hanson formed a corporation, and the garage became[...]Brekke and T.O. Erickstein bought Battleson and Hanson stock. Case machinery was added to the business, along[...]In 1964 the implement business was sold to Don Maggie Walker - long time employee at Scobey Drug. Kincannon. At present Edward E. Tong and Norman G. Brekke are partners in the Ford and Mercury business, still[...]located in the south half of the present building and was owned by Dr. Collinson until his death in[...]Elevator is the oldest business in Scobey Kloster and Larry Bowler. Later Dr. Fitz purchased the[...]h the drawing interests of the other two partners and formed a up of the by-laws in 191[...]ioneer corporation which presently owns the store and property. farmers and the original stockholders incorporated. The pro[...]ilding site, the previous site of the T. Anderson and Oie Karlsrud, Mr. Olson, Bob Willard and Ted Biasch. Some of Bank on Main Street and the previous site of the the assi[...]ers are: Ed Colby, Joe Pugh, Ralph Amundson, Juse and Hershberger residences on 1st Peters, Uffe Nelsen, Art Olson, Lile Dravland and Richard Avenue West. The original building was remodeled several Grove. Four secretaries have come and gone: Paul Crum, times and one of the early fixtures is still used as a display Dave Nyquist, Howard Schaefer, Carl Faanes and Charles case. Other original fixtures are in use in the pharmacy, Daniels. basement and as storage places in the back room. Part of[...]riginal building has been used in the present new and president; Noah England, vice president; Pa[...]secretary; and William Ferguson, Theodore Colby, Orr[...]Burgett, and George Robinson. The original elevator stock[...]was sold at $50 a share and is now worth many times that[...]225,000 bushels. An office, new scales and many dates back to 1906 when Daniels County was part of Valley improvements and repairs have been made. In the year of County and Sheridan County. At that time the Northern[...]was the largest primary wheat market in the Town and Land Company of Minnesota operated a[...]ls of grain in that business that dealt in leases and real estate. It passed on to year alone. Farmers Eleva tor share of this was one million different owners, R.J. Coughlin and to Davis and Shook. bushels. Before the railroads came into Canada and went The Scobey Electric Company was there, later being west to Opheim, the Farmers Elevator marketed all of this changed to Montana Dakota Utilities; Egland Lumber[...] |
| [...]enson, Ragnhild Von Kuster, Mrs. Lena K. Wangrud, and Mrs. Lena K. Goodrich, present vendors.[...]The Montana Abstract Company was organized prior to 1920 which was the year Daniels County was create[...]Roosevelt County; and Scobey in Daniels County. Due to[...]they sold the records in Great Falls, Malta and Glasgow.[...]made the first farm loan in Valley County and aside from[...]Scobey. Roy and Charles Johnson of Plentywood were equal to the challenge and began the Montana Abstract[...]an intelligent and patriotic ballot and working for the Charles C. Richard E .[...]presidential vote was give to Colonel Roosevelt, and he[...]1916 he supported Hughes for the presidency and was a (Dick) Johnson, who came to Glasgow, Montana the first believer in republican principles". He enlisted in the time in 1 99 and worked for the Lewis-Wedum Company. Marines in 1918 and was discharged in 1919. He was a Store at Glasgow. He returned to Minnesota where he charter member of[...]on, the sister of Roy H. Johnson , Legion, and also its post commander. Mr. Johnson who for many years owned and managed the Montana remained a bac[...]Abstract Company at Scobey. Dick Johnson returned to Roy Johnson was born in Dexter, Iowa January 30, 1892, Glasgow in' 1909 and was appointed cashier of the Lewis but was reared and received his education in Alexandria, Brother , B[...]C. Johnson the manager of the business and continued to transact its who, until his death in the 1960's was owner and president affairs until enlisting in the Mar[...]son. 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 Montana Montana and joined with his brother-in-law in the[...]States Air Corps late in 1945. He purchased an interest in 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. The[...]f Johnson in 1951 acquired the remaining interest in the county records, including those at[...] |
| 15 years until he sold the business to Carmel M. Morey in HISTORY O[...]PERATIVE, INC. Carmel M. Morey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William[...]ct Company in 1951; purchased the company in 1962 and has How fitting, as we are in the Bicentennial Era, to be been sole operator since that time.[...]Meetings were held in Plentywood and at Four Buttes on[...]ld 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 Northern Electric Cooperative in is most worthy to at least write a short summary of its Opheim. Daniels County decided to join forces with the struggle for birth in our ar[...]n October, 1941 a group of fellows with foresight and Organizing a cooperative was determine[...]ern Electri Co-op with Cooperatives and some were acting as board members of head office[...]these cooperatives. Their knowledge and experience was The original incorporators were[...]gressed. Dohlen, Harvey Haugen, E.F. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John On October 4, 1950 application was made to become Rogenes, Wm. Niehoff, Art Reed, Martin Sauber, E.R. incorporated and for license to open books for subscription. Strate, and Lalon Jones.[...]October 16, 1950. The next After many meetings and a great deal of time and late two years were occupied with membership drives . . . hours we got to be a going concern. However, about 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.A. loan, the cooperative had to be to World War Two. This set the project back several years in a position to provide area coverage and put up a and the costs rose many many times.[...]the system. Along with this feasibility had to be proven and lines from Fort Peck to Opheim. The first farm energized many t[...]surely was day in the history of Daniels, Valley, and Roosevelt Counties, now being c:rved by Northern[...]me there are some 1000 miles of distribution line and about 1200 members. The co-op has made steady gro[...]its beginning. During its infant years it had to purchase the white elephant plant from Montana Dakota Power Company at Opheim, which later was abandoned and sold in Canada 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[...]ed as well as local Cooperative pictured left to right: William Herman, oil fields and one refinery.[...]program Francis Tarum, Wyman Feltis, and Margaret Hass. Not has been the greatest factor to the rural people of any one shown are Willie Larsen and Robert Roruig. thing which could have happened to them, especially the housewife. It has completely[...]The first loan was approved June 27, 1952 and was for because of lack of education and experience, Virgil $1,987,000. The loan was to acquire five existing former Burdette was hired[...]bers, upgrade success of Northern Electric is due to Virgil's guidance of their service from manual to dial telephones, and bring this co-op through infancy to a very successful enterprise. new service to 2135 new subscribers. Later purchases were An[...]in 1974 was Resner Blikken of Opheim. He and the Ambrose Exchange of North Dakota. would neve[...]At the 1953 annual meeting it is interesting to note that a Northern Electric' s existence today[...]y in the United States that the young generation to today will realize the sweat, from our own home". This service, plus many refinements, time and labor that made this possible and that they will is very commonplace today and to many young people, do a good job of carry[...] |
| [...]and deliver groceries and other needed items for his mail[...]building near the old bank building. It was moved to the Masonic building and in 1928 was moved to the Gorham Hotel. In 1940 it was moved to the building where[...]the Leader office is now, from there it was moved to the old[...]Mountain Bell Association was changed to the Nemont Telephone Cooperative, Inc.[...]e company historical being installed were planned to be buried facilities. By records. Earliest[...]lephone Company was in operation before 1916 over to one-party, buried cable service; by 1974 four more and that the magneto "hand-crank" system was were completed. The West Scobey and Peerless exchanges purchased sometime in 1916 by the Mountain States were upgraded in 1975 and '76 with permanent buried Telephone and Telegraph Company, predecessor of cable being ins[...]today's Mountain Bell. People are demanding and receiving the same reliable An improve[...]in the rural areas as in the cities. Town people and 1921 and outside plant facilities were completely rebuilt.[...]time there were 103 telephones in Scobey. service to rural areas. According to a resume published in 1959 the first Consistent[...]r in rural telephony in Montana from 1914 to 1916. Mrs. Glenn Jones served as chief and has been "first" in many aspects, and is continuing to operator for one year, 1916-1917. She and her husband plan for the future.[...]from · 1918 to 1923, followed by Grace Knapp (Mrs. Ed[...]1941 the chief operator in Scobey was According to the available records Mabel B. Daniels was[...]working in that capacity until her promotion to chief Scobey, originally known as East Scobey, in[...]when Sid Bennett became converted to dial operatin in 1953 Mrs. Whipple became a postm[...]de a service Albert W. Schammel became postmaster and held this representative. office up to the time Reasy Ray became present day[...]shortly before The first mail contract was let to Dave Tingley and Al her retirement. At that time the Daniel[...]mbered her years as an operator: "Remember before and Old Scobey at that time. This contract was let on[...]ndrew Upsal, Martin Mitchell Jr., S. Robinson, up to the she deserved a medal from sports fans j[...]Scobey's telephone operations from Wolf of Scobey to West Fork, Carbert, Line Coulee, and north to Point, began his phone company career in Sco[...]combination man. "When I went to Scobey in 1946," During his many years as mail[...]o 'hand-crank' traveled with horses, snowmobiles, and various types of phones. To make calls, customers cranked the handle on autom[...]ntral office. The sleigh during the winter months to protect him from operator answered the ring and made the desired freezing on his long journey wit[...]connection from her switchboard." walked all day to keep warm, and the horse's bits would The current Moun[...]ffice, Loendorf noted, is the sometimes be frozen to their mouths. In a blizzard in 1929 same bui[...]tion that has served area the trip from West Fork to Scobey took him 16 hours. It was phone customers since the beginning of telephone service his custom to change teams at the Bill Gilchrist place. in Scobey. "It has since been remodeled to suit current Ralph Peters was another mail carrie[...]dorf said, "but when I first worked In addition to handling the mail Mr. Wolfe, like other in[...]ural mail carriers of those days, was often asked to buy with kitchen, were still there."[...] |
| [...]tions. Delays in arrival of key equipment for the and later Mountain Bell in the recent past include Vi[...]necessitated later sending two carloads of staff to Luft, who maintained the central office and installations the U ofMcampuswherefurtherknowledgeand technique and repairs. While working in Scobey he was active in[...]y actually operating the campus community affairs and served as president of the Scobey FM stati[...]the Mountain Bell States in modern time to go on the air with an entire board, office in 1967, training to succeed Anona Whipple who staff, and learning operators having no previous retired tha[...]this area with many unique, sometimes weird, and often Mary Lavey succeeded her and continues to work as a expensive experiences and episodes along the way. service representative in[...]he station began a month of testing from midnight to 6 Gene Marley, Mountain Bell sub-foreman, has been A.M. in May, 1971, with the operators and engineers working Scobey since 1963 serving as a combinationman manning the station, playing music and giving brief before his promotion to sub-foreman in 1969. station identifications while testing the transmitter and IMPROVEMENTS[...]. In 1953 the Scobey phone system was converted to dial KCGM FM received its license to begin broadcasting on operation and operator calls have since been routed to June 10, 1971. The first day of operation[...]orth, completely remodeled inside. Many additions and Burley Bowler, Vera Juel, Inez Str[...]nnis improvements have been made by Mountain Bell to Bartole, Janice Bartole, Dorothy Rustebakke, Grant Juel, accommodate growth and provide better service for area Gordon Ju[...]y additions allow the removal of some aerial wire and poles partially covered the severe loss. in[...]etter transmitter was obtained, the site rebuilt, and There were 99 phones in Scobey in 1916. Mountai[...]he radio station is presently operating with full and in use at the end of August, 1975. part time staff, with Vera Juel manager and sales director.[...]o From the beginning KCGM has endeavored to be a began in April, 1968 when Larry C. Bowler en[...]g the needs of northeastern Montana, of attorneys and a consulting engineer in Washington, southern Saskatchewan, and western North Dakota with D.C. seeking application to the Federal Communication news, public notices, music, and sports, with emphasis Commission. On August 16, 1[...]coverage of events never before broadcast the FCC to assign Channel 239 (95.7MH) to Scobey, in behalf of the many rural[...]few community leaders, and developed through the Prairie Communications was incorporated on July 15, determination and loyalty of the board of directors, 1969 with the[...]oard members: Larry Bowler, management, and operators. The station has always been Jack Reine[...]a place for the development of local talent and local Gunderson, Lawrence Fouhy, and Marvin Veis. The personalities, as[...]area youth. application for a construction permit and its attendant During the course of its[...]transmitter site three miles east of has been to fill the needs of communications facility for Seo bey, and a 400 foot tower was erected on the land leased rural northeastern Montana communities and to do this from Earl Norman. The studio is located a[...]y on a sound economic basis. on the comer of Main and 1st Avenue West. The first meeting of prospecti[...]ROSELAND PARK employers and prospective employees in regard to the Federal Communication Commission requirements[...]Scobey, was started in 1914. It still wasn't much to speak of Linda Lev ad and Dennis Unsworth were the first to in 1917 when Mrs. Irene Heppner first came to Scobey with receive their third class radio operator's license from the her mother. They came to join her father, Daniel Scott, who FCC on January[...]ound Mr. Scott's University of Montana Journalism and Radio TV school house. He explained that for the present time it was only to have a representative come to Scobey and conduct a plowed up ground. Sid Bennett[...]special seminar for the student operators, staff and board, park 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.[...] |
| [...]Otto Brandt was a brick layer and stonemason. He died[...]the Kloss Studio. She was born October 17, 1884 and[...]Ambrose Chapin - General Mercantile where Bill and[...]Carl Cole - barber. He came to Scobey from North Dakota Daniel Scott became park custodian in 1917, and also in 1920 and operated a barber shop here for many cared for the cemetery and dump grounds. For two years years.[...]atoes 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 , trees and a row ofrose The family moved to Renton, Washington in 1943; bushe extending east to west where the present path is Carl returned to his barbering trade there. He died in today. Resi[...]ark recall the beauty of 1959. the pink and red roses in bloom. However the rose bushes Conboy's Toggery-Jack and Tom Conboy, where Ginger's soon died out and were never replaced. In 1919 a Bar now is. bandstand was built and local bands offered weekly George Cudhie was an attorney. concerts to the public. Clinic Hospital, one time the Olive Hotel, closed and the A wading pool was constructed in 1952. In A[...]st steel tank type pool in rooming house and barber shop. Now owned by this part of the country, was opened . The water is kept at a Norman and Vera Juel. pleasant temperature by a heating syst[...]t market. Pla yground equipment, picnic tables, and well-kept Pete Damkjer was born December 15, 1882 in Chicago, grass and trees also help to make the park a popular place Illinois and grew up in Wisconsin. He came to Daniels throughout the summer months.[...]he became a salesman, and for twenty years was a[...]ews, sister of Mark April 6, 1885. He and his wife came to Scobey with his Hanson , had a millinery shop, sold it to Mrs. Leo parents in 1910 to homestead. He worked for the Linderman who later sold it to Mrs. Barry Stephens, Farmers Oil Company for many years. They had one later to O.B. Egland , then Mrs. Martin Erickson, Bill[...]died July 7, 1941. Henderson , Wallace Edland and last Nidia Spear. DeWilde had a novelty shop next to the Rex. Lloyd and Marian Alexander - Depot. Lloyd Alexander[...]Art Strom residence. worked in the depot. He and his wife painted pictures William Dobbin - Insurance Agent, bought the house and gave painting lessons. They had four children: remembered for many years as the "Sears and Everett, Willon , Clinton, Marian. Roebuck house" and an early day landmark in the C.B. and Anna Aasness - operated first Scobey light plant.[...]d by mail Their children were John , Lawrence and Loretta. from the mail order firm of that name bv Dane White. Edon and Nora Amundson owned the Tallman Hotel.[...]olice officer in Scobey enroute to Alaska" from Ogden, Utah on a[...]vacation trip minus his black cigar and looking !j.[...]Lee Ellis and wife Aslaug managed the Gamble Store.[...]They had two sons LeRoy and Bruce. Moved west in[...]married Charlotte Noble, and moved to Townsend,[...] |
| Tom Facey bought theatre from Mark Hanson and called it Solberg Implement. They had t[...]re. and Jeannette. Charles passed away from a heart J.B. Fleming - came to old Scobey in 1912 and in 1913 condition at an early age. Jeannette is married. moved his Confectionery and Bakery business from Haburchaks now live in Great Falls. the site on the Poplar River to the present townsite of Indy Halverson - Grocer[...]Glen (Bubbles) Hanley - Fireman on the railroad and part- California and Mae (Rae) of Oregon City, Oregon. Mr. ti[...]Fleming was born in 1873 at St. Louis, Missouri and passed away in October, 1949 at Watsonville,[...]He was with the First National Bank at Scobey and left Scobey in 1932 when he accepted a field[...]t Bozeman at his home in 1954. He was married to the former Nora Hansen; both are now deceased. They had two sons and a daughter. Chester Ford owned the now Service Dr[...]as in the lumber business. His wife was Rhoda and they had one son, Jack. Mrs. Nina Ford lived[...]Sherburne residence. Charles Gluck - Drayman and freighter. Gem Cafe was next to Hillstrom Motors.[...]ow is. Sarah Griffith - in 1927 moved from Scobey to the west coast to make her home.[...]lessons. They had two children, Lola and Norman. Alex Haburchak - County Agent. Alex and Alice Rudolph Hauge worked in the bank. Haburchak lived here from 1952 to 1964. He was Nicholas Healy, early barber where dry cleaning building County Agent and Alice was bookkeeper for the is n[...]rvig - Grocery store near present Conoco Oil Alex and Alice Haburchak[...]Ben Hyde, early homesteader and auctioneer. Wife Marie[...] |
| two daughters Ardeen and Jane. The family moved to owned by Gordon Blomquist, formerly[...]Cliff Humbert opened a barber shop here in 1916 and was a tracks. He and wife Auget and son James moved to Scobey area resident for 40 years later moving to Corvallis, Montana. Hamilton,[...]children were Earl, Hans, . Kalvin, Beverly and Bob Jensen drove a delivery truck and ice wagon. Ice house Elizabeth. was[...]k. Bert Olds - Mason and plasterer. Wife Ethel. Children: Jim Johnson - Me[...]hand store proprietor. Loved horses and had a son George who was a noted basketball[...]Henry Pfaff, Barber, father oflrene Luras and Leland. His King and Waller - Undertaking parlor.[...]preceding her death. His second wife, Emma, moved to Max Krivosha - Shoe shop, died April 16, 1965 in Scobey. Minot after his death in 1943 and died there. Lloyd Lathrop - Newspaperman; wife Ma[...]late lessons. They had two daughters, Audrey and Lillian. 20's. She had two daughters Olna and Delta. She later Ed and Irene Larson - Music store, had three children moved to Opheim to manage the telephone office there. Robert, B[...]B. Egland Lumber, wife Kathryn, sons Rudolph and John. William Givens Lile -Teacher and early homesteader. Wife Maude, worked at the theater and for many years at the newspaper office. Had[...]here she was attending college. Both William and Maude died at Scobey and are buried here. Leo Linderman - Westland Oil Com[...]lived many years. Sam Luras was a drayman. He and his wife Amelia (Kramer) and family moved to Washington. Had three children, Stanton, Leonard and Lloyd. One son drowned in Poplar River. Live[...]one time it housed a drug store. He sold it to Elmer Erickson, then to Madsen and later to George Herman Ruth was the last of the survi[...]able old Madsen. Later Mike Skadron moved in and he later fellow with a remarkable stamina when it came to sold to Ambrose Murphy and Indy Halvorson. In 1952 telling of the old days. Halvorson sold to Chris Tande, who later rented the Erling[...]rtsman at the Noland Implement. His property to Kitzenbergs.[...]rch 16, 1935; children, Betty Jane and Gerald. County Treasurer 1925-26.[...]Alfred Schammel - long time postmaster and an early Lee Meyers -barber. Left here in the ear[...]old day farmer. Wife Leonella, son Alfred and daughter his barber shop to Herman Doucette. Lee and wife Patricia. Mrs. Schammel passed away when children Mildred moved to Havre. He died of a heart attack in we[...]e kept house for him 1953. Mildred continues to make her home in Havre. and cared for the children until they were grown. Later Elmer and Esther Miller - Ice cream bar. Moved away. Albert remarried and when the second Mrs. Schammel Theresa Mulcare ope[...]for 15 years, passed away, he moved to California where he lived passed away in Min[...]r beauty until his death. shop to Estella Erstad. The shop was on Main Street[...]ty) after serving in the Canadian Army, next to Reiner's Bakery. WWI, came to the United States organizing for the Ira Nelson w[...]ey year later. Worked for moved his building to its present location and is now the county.[...] |
| [...]nything, worked at odd jobs around the area prior to[...]World War II. He headquartered at the Jake and Tom[...]and while there a few letters were received from him.[...]He did not return to Scobey following his navy service[...]taught school. They had two sons Burton and Ross. Seger's were transferred to Sand Point, Idaho where[...]In later years she opened a gift shop next to the Rex[...]Shrank. They moved to Arizona where Henry died.[...]Judith continues to make her home there.[...]with Wm. Davis. Harry and Helen Shook had four[...]sons: Ford, Jimmie, Bobby and Jack. They moved to Glasgow and later to Browning.[...]Roy Thomas - Confectionary later sold to George Case.[...]a Turney - Turney Hotel on north Main Street. parents who had moved there from Vermont. The Frank Wakeland was a carpenter, moved to Washington in family moved back to Vermont where Shorty grew up early 40's. and was educated. He was married in 1891 and a year Henry (Shorty) Sickles worked at Davis and Shook garage. later his wife and baby died. Shorty drifted west to Later operated a cafe. Moved to Plains Montana Carrington and Balfour, North Dakota where he was[...]ey area since 1921. Shorty is remarned and continues to live at Plains. r~membered as one who was interested in crops, Henry and Raynell Schwabe owned the Gorham Hotel for livestock and farming and was always a source of nearl_y 20[...], David, Camille, quiet information on market and crop conditions. At Jeanme and Miletta. They sold the hotel and moved to one time he operated a car loader in Scobey and served Billings in the early 70's. She[...]horty Gorham. cared for lawns and yards for many people in Scobey, Mike Skadron had a grocery store on Main Street. Mr. and on the afternoon of his death had been caring for Skadron and wife Bertha had one daughter Sally. the Art Hagfeldt lawn. He sat down to rest in the shade They moved to California. of the trees where he passed quie[...], 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. Ral[...]Hoke Smith operated a cafe and later farmed north of[...]Martin Smith-partner of Lou Boyd's in Smith and Boyd's where Maxine and Arlie's is now.[...]and Maxme. Frank and Charles Smith - ice house across from Clarence[...]Mike Ward and wife and children Ralph, Virginia, Rita,[...]Raymond, Roland, Forest moved to Yakima Washington to live. '[...] |
| [...]of the time since. Joe, Jr. lives in Chicago and is in the soft drink business. The elder Joe[...]at the typewriter; probably Irving Davis next to him; Alvah "Slim" Shaw, standing next to auto.[...]h, Victoria Olson, Florence Joe Wagenhal, hat off and Ed Lee. Peters, Lyd[...]Ruth likeable fellow, with a spirited temper and when his Chelgren; secretary, Olive McDani[...]a particularly organization in Scobey and one of the most active. It has heated argumen[...]ou from this grown from 39 charter members to 127 members in 1974. office out!" and Joe was a man of action. Its activities are varied and include veterans affairs, Joseph Fred Woodley - was a homesteader and sign community service, education and scholarship, children painter. Many were the signs "Woodley Did It" in this and youth, civil defence and national security, girl's state area. He was born August 14, 1858 and died September and many other projects. An auxiliary singer's group[...]formed in 1970 and they have entered national competition William Wo[...]at three National Legion Conventions and placed at two of Elizabeth Jane Woodward. Children: Lester and Orlo them. Selling poppies for veterans and helping with the Woodward were carpenters and wood workers. Estelle Veteran and Memorial Day programs are other projects Redm[...]the Auxiliary participate in. Orlo moved to the west coast. William, Elizabeth,[...]by Else Daniels Estelle and Lester all died at Scobey. Wooden Sidewalks - Old[...]n 1913. They gave an entirely different sound to the ears than cement gives. What places[...]POST 56, AMERICAN LEGION they were for money to fall through. Must have been someone always h[...]or here a board, there a board, could flip up and leave a dangerous opening. The charter f[...]But wood though it rattled, was not expensive and Headquarters on November 29, 1920 and countersigned by could be replaced wit[...] |
| [...]e Wolf Point during the years 1938, 1939 and 1940 under the Post charter applications lists th[...]ames: John sponsorship of the local Legion and VFW Posts. Programs A. Greenwood, Harry Kerstein,[...]Scobey Schools. Music was furnished by the school and Olson, A.H. Dasinger, Harry Thompson, Walter Bulp[...]en, signed the charter had ever been to Scobey, a large delegation from this area applica[...]14, 1940. Nine men volunteered for the call and the Board Bureau. During those years, as now, fast-talking drew straws to determine who would go. Alvin Rustebakke promoter[...]s the first inductee from Daniels wished the Post to promote. All were turned down. Cou[...]Hall, courthouse, No men were ordered to report for induction under the various local offices, ho[...]ur Buttes, second draft call. Silver Star and Davis Beach. Throughout the twenties, The third draft call ordered the following thirteen men to thirties and early forties a mammoth Fourth of July report for induction: Vernon Nelson, Harry Jacobson, cel[...]Schauer, Bob Lien, Dan contributors. Memorial Day and Armistice Day programs, Gordon, Dominic Bonneau, Walter Vanderpan and Frank held in conjuntion with the VFW, at the Rex[...]The weekend prior to their departure a dinner was served Reciprocal meetings between Canadian and American to the inductees at the Legion Hall. This was follow[...]Hotel. as far back as 1927. Scouting was promoted and supported. The "Lucky Thirteen" left by[...]y were sworn in on February by Preston McLoughlin and managed by Irving Davis. 18, 1941.[...]ament at Billings. American Legion, spoke to the Convention. "Make Bob Schaefer, who could pit[...]who smooth function of city, county state and federal were on base at the time. governments and to the fire department, railroads, public On July[...]e with Poplar, utilities, the Red Cross and the Daniels County Defense pitched a "no hit-no r[...]e; Scobey Commission. The Legion Hall was to be donated for the use won 10-0. Following this,[...]e with Poplar, of anything that pertained to defense work; rifles and gun Scobey again became the Legion District champion. cases were to be taken care ofby the Sheriffs Department In F[...]time the Auxiliary has In" were purchased to be given to m~m reporting for duty in ever been an active adjunct to the Post. (See Auxiliary the Armed Force[...]. Conditions rapidly became worse regalia and the early-morning firing of a cannon. The and in early 1934 the Post contacted Senators Wheeler and expenses came to $870. A flag was purchased for the draft Erickson urging them to support a federal bonus for ex- board office and school awards were given that year. servicemen.[...]t on record "that the National A piano, donated to the Post by W.T. Stephens in 1936, is Constitution of the American Legion be amended to enable still in use. veterans of World War 2 to join the Legion". In December, 1936 the Post pu[...]chase agreement were $27 down, which to the club. Specified was that a member must be a W[...]paid from their own War I veteran and that his membership in Post 56 be pockets, and five years in which to pay the balance of$108. continuous from that date until there were only three There is no interest charge mentioned. The county also World War 1 continuous members left who were to receive sold to the Legion "all the old lumber it could use for $15 to that bottle and drink it as a toast. The bottle has long since be[...]who qualify. February 11, 1937 with the decision to begin renovation Fourth of July cele[...]and 1944.[...] |
| [...]umed full activity. Commander John Helming and Department Adjutant Membership increased dramati[...]t National President Mervyn veterans were invited to participate in Memorial and Woods of the Royal Canadian Legion and Saskatchewan Veteran's Day programs. Preparations were made to Premier W. Ross Thatcher were the principal speakers. completely renovate the existing hall or to build a new one. Approximately 150 persons were[...]ut applications for terminal leave pay, admission to participants. veteran's hospitals, college entry, burial markers and Today the Post still maintains a lending service for answering letters and questions of returning veterans. differen[...]oy's State program Legion Boy's State and baseball is sponsored; Memorial was instituted in 1947. This Legion-founded program, an and Veteran's Day observances are co-sponsored with the actual workshop in stafe and local government, is held at VFW, Color Guard and Scobey schools; contributions are the campus of Western Montana College in Dillon during sent to the VA hospitals in our area for veteran's the summer of each year. That year Hai.vey Eide and Don Christmas parties, burial markers are ordered from the VA Christenson were delegates to American Legion Boy's for deceased vete[...]the eighty-five junior class boys have been sent to Boy's State Service of Their[...]their souls rest in peace.' Amen.'' Lion's Club and Jaycees. Wor[...]Four Buttes Lawrence Bernard was purchased and added to the Legion Hall in November, LeRoy Bystrom 1952. To pay for the addition, redeemable certificates of Don Collins varying amounts were sold to the members. Many Wyman Jones cert[...]y the purchasers or donated back Floyd Baldry to the Post. It cannot be stated who purchased certi[...]Holyk, Lloyd Battleson Don Christenson, and in later years by Dr. Clyde Norman VIET NAM[...]re won the title; Late in 1944 word came to Scobey that Henry Schauer, Scobey recaptured the[...]t are replete with "conspicuous gallantry and intrepedity above and beyond references to Legion baseball--the problems and the call of duty" in a pitched batt[...]vicissitudes with money, transportation, players and near Cisterna di Littoria, Italy on May[...]from Montana received our faithfully encouraged and supported the program. nation's high[...]eyser; Medical Technician Laverne Parrish, Ronan; and This program was begon by Legionnaires of this Le[...]ald Ruhl, Columbus, received posthumous District and the Royal Canadian Legion Zone immediately awards. Sgt. 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 passed away about t[...]na Medal of Honor dignataries, social gatherings and banquet. winner of the second World War.) The Scobey Post has been host to the 49th Parallel Observance on three occasions:[...]ations from twenty-four Canadian Legion branches and American Legion posts filled the Scobey Ball Park but had to be hel~ BASEBALL in the[...]unty was first being gion; Commander Neil Shepard and Adjutant Chet Shore settled, often was[...]Earl Fairbanks, switch from one team to another as the occasion Scobey, told the visiting[...]The 1964 Observance brought Governor Tim Babcock to had one of the first teams in the area and that, in 1911, that Scobey; Commander Hike Mains and Adjutant Chet Shore team played games i[...]n by name, had only one arm but this did not seem to Past National President Robert Kohaly of t[...] |
| Scobey baseball team, about 1923 or 1924. From left to right: Manager Tom Conboy, Porky Dallas, unknown,[...], unknown. -Scobey's 1925 baseball team, left to right: Batboy Charles Smith, Porky Dallas, Wally[...]e Eastman, Joe Lupe, Johnny Myers, Steve Mattick, and Swede Risberg. In upper left The year 1914 saw the Smoke C[...]engaged John Donaldson, noted colored pitcher, and to |
| [...]cobey's favor. It was a little tough for the boys to play on a back yard lot but, nevertheless, they came out on top. Swede (Risberg) and Donaldson ("Nigger Joe ") fought hard for ten inn[...]of the ninth looked bad for Scobey. One man down and bases bull, a short liner to second then a completed sensational doubleplay stopp ed them from scoring. In the tenth Myers went to first and succeeded in reaching third on pass balls. Eastma[...]heast background is the Scobey Schoo l. From left to right back Montana Baseball League in 1949.[...]ames. Plentywood won 10 for second place. Outlook and Don Brayko, Alfred Schammel, Gordon Vanderpan,[...]the league were Raymond, Antelope, Whitetail and Chris Veis. Front row: Clay Gilchrist, Ramon Trow[...]Harvey Eide, Vern Veis, Dick years and all players were residents of their team's Conboy[...]locality. Scobey team from left to right and positions:[...]ding: Elmer Gilchrist, cf; Harvey Eide, ss; month to meet the team payroll and expen e ; this was Jiggs Humbert, mgr.;[...]ey had about three years of high-priced ba eba ll and glamorou a it wa it was not worth the price. On[...]cobey Athletic Club came into Preston McLoughlin and managed by Irving Davis, who b[...] |
| [...]d at second on an infield grounder. Dallas walked and both advanced a base on a wild pitch. Swede clouts out a single bringing in two scores. Plentywood failed to score in the last of the tenth and the game ended with a final score of 4-1 for Scobey. One of the longest two base hits and the largest crowd for an eight hundred dollar gat[...]the game. Last Monday, Plentywood again went down to defeat ai tht' Scobey park by a score of 7-2. Tak[...]• .- u11 -. . , From left to right, back row: Managrr Jv .. , L1Jer::;<., ...[...], ul< • , l';,.-'. F.u11l TO right, back row:[...]., . , . , . ~-kd u, Wkhita . Ka11-.;,l~ to The history of baseball in the county wo[...] |
| [...]n, Montana A A U Champions in 1958. Standing left to right: Fred Walker, L arry Wangrud, Leo Zimmer, O[...]onship tourney, Wichita, Kansas - 1960. From left to right back row: Larry Ferguson, Paul Fezer[...] |
| [...]ponsored by the Scobey American Legion. From left to right back row: Coach Clyde Norman, Larry Grayson[...]Batboys: Dan Danelson, Pat Anderson, Kelly Norman and Don Puckett. Scobey's 1973 State American Leg[...]Gunderson, Doug Hagfeldt, Pete Kurtz and Earl Randall were two regular fans at last |
| [...]in 1966 by the Scobey Plainsmen Independent team and has been run by them ever since. The S.I.T. has expanded from strictly a trophy tournament to where prize monies , team trophies, all star awards and sponsor expense money exceeds $4000. It has no set format in regard to the number of teams invited. It has been expanded to include however many teams enter in a given year.[...]inning as a local talent tournament, it has grown to include several men who have had professional try[...]th the Scobey Collegians in July 1970. Left to right are Brian Kjensmo, Robert Haugo, the 1973 t[...]ichard LaRoche, Ramon Washington State University and was on the early season Trower, Larry Fiet[...]etz, Dallas points per game in the Scobey tourney and was named to Unsworth and Kevin French. the All Star team. Cavin Anderson[...]n 1936 has provided playing for Valley City State and was later on the roster of valuable information[...]T. played in the Vanderpan, Robert Brunet, and Rudolph Leer, Jr. European professional leagues: John Morrison* played in . In less than four and a half years, under Mr. Walker's Austria and Holland ; Tom Morrison*, his brother, and leadership, Scobey had thirteen Eagle Sc[...]Johnson was the first to attain the rank, and Ormand The Plainsmen team , from Christmas Tournament Paus, Jr. was the youngest scout ever to attain that rank at receipts, has donated $3500 t[...]and that time. for the Scobey school track and football complex. (Ramon Scouts Carol Erickson, Ormand Paus Jr., and Robert Lee Trower donated a parcel of land to square off the above received Merits of Re[...]ck equipment costing $1 300 has also been donated to Edmond Karlsrud was chosen the American B[...]in 1944 by the National Veterans of Foreign *John and Tom Morrison are natives of Daniels County.[...]received a Gold Medal and a $500.00 scholarship.[...]Lyle Gustitus, a Life Scout, was chosen to represent[...]in Minnesota in 1948, the first Scobey scout to make this[...]out Troop was organized in One hundred and ten members of the troop served in Scobey on Marc[...]Paus, Jr., Wyman Jones, LeRoy Bystrom, and Lloyd The following members served as a Troop C[...]e Silver Beaver Rev. T. Roddey, Rudolph Leer Sr., and Rev. M. Ranheim, Award for Distinguished Service to Boyhood in 1947. Reid troop committeemen; R.V. Walker, scoutmaster; Lloyd Grayson and Norman Brekke received the Silver Beaver Larson,[...]d on the first Scout Roster: Harold Darchuk and Harold Girard received the Scouter's Andrew Beeks[...]Lyle Gustitus, Clifford Hagfeldt, Kenneth Tonjum, and David Nyquist, Donald Nyquist, Clair Olson, John[...]Scouts of Troop 298 are Ormand Paus, Jr., Vernon and Ronald Tande.[...]uk, Dale Manternach, Earl Turner, gained national and international recognition for its Edward[...]on, Robert Lee, Erwin outstanding accomplishments and membership. A Scobey Nelson, Ell[...] |
| [...]graveyards, people were buried on the prairie, and some Hellickson, Larry Fietz, Kenneth Leibrand, N[...]n private burial places. Most of Richard LaRoche, and Jeffery Chabot. the graves were moved to Scobey when the cemetery was In 1956 Jordan Fos[...]many deaths that it was necessary to dig graves both night Mikel P. Lund attended the 7th National Jamboree at and day. Farragut State Park, Idaho in 1969.[...]s Canoe Base at the size of the cemetery, and a cemetery association was Ely, Minnesota in 1971, and Philmont Scout Ranch at formed at tha[...]ew Mexico in 1972. Ned Blevins, Mark Hellickson and Brian Tousley attended the 8th National Jamboree[...]nded summer camp at Camp Metigoshe, North Dakota, and this summer four scouts Alan Fitz, PALMS OF VICTORY Kirby Halvorson, Dana Juel and Steve Metts attended summer camp at Camp Napi, wh[...]that Sunday--July 1, 1872. The sun was attempting to[...]plank of the newly docked riverboat, Far MARIAN AND GOD AND COUNTRY AWARDS West.[...], working with each Boy Scout's himself to the bystanders, stating that he was William own church, offers the Marian, or God and Country Van Orsdel, a Methodist preacher, and that because it was Award.[...]the Sabbath Day, he was looking for a place to hold The following scouts--and possibly others--have earned services. thi[...]Keith Thus began the career, dedicated and selfless, often Haugo, Tim Holyk, Dick LaRoche, M[...]im fraught with toil, heartbreak and hardship, that was to Marley, Tracey Reiner.[...]Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1848 to parents of English and Holland-Dutch descent. His maternal[...]ry, which was started on July 4, 1914, His parents died while he was still a boy, leaving is said to have been the result of a shooting on Main Street. William, his two brothers and four sisters orphans. A It seems that several men were playing cards and kindly aunt took them in. gambling; one made a misplay and was shot by another His two older br[...]at Civil War broke out; he stayed home and did the farm work. the folks who lived around her[...]le Gettysburg raged over a large part of they had to shoot a man to start a cemetery! the Van Orsdel farm and when, that fall, President[...] |
| [...]preceded him and a crowd would be gathered to receive[...]him. Services were held wherever there was room and he was always requested to sing two of his favorite hymns:[...]"Harvest Time" and "Diamond In The Rough".[...]Congregations were started in these places and in many of[...]He and Reverend R.H. Stone were instrumental in the[...]To obtain funds to build the Scobey church, Brother Van and the pastor canvassed the new town. Businessmen,[...]mountain valleys of Idaho and Montana to the prairie[...]orphanage, schools, visiting the sick and dying, praying, Abraham Lincoln delivered his fam[...]singing, preaching, bringing the news and just plain on the battlefield at Gettsyburg, Will[...]He was an uncommon "common" man. He had hunted to the front of the crowd and shook hands with Mr. buffalo wit[...]many a sod house and homestead shack; he was equally at Following the war, and after his brothers had returned ease wi[...]; he home safely, William, his brother, Fletcher, and a friend · enjoyed "good" eating, but often subsisted on scanty fare; began to hold evangelistic services throughout the[...]getting bald--he attempted to disguise it by combing what About this t;me he decided that he would go West to carry hair he had over the hairless spot;[...]wherever he went he was welcomed with open arms, and For a time he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania wherever he went, he was at home agan. and, on Sundays, held religious services.[...]icago, where he was encouraged in 1919 and was buried in Helena on the afternoon of his resolve to go on to the frontier by a former Union Army Decem[...]Van 0rsdel arrived in Sioux City, Iowa, penniless and Christmas Eve sang the hymn that he had been requested jobless, but managed to convince Captail Coulson of the so often to sing: river steamer, Far West, that in time the f[...]e over when the digging will be done, for passage to Fort Benton, Montana Territory would be And no more gems be gathered, so let us all press on;[...]er, the captain returned When Jesus comes to claim us, and says 'It is enough', most of it to the evangelist to carry on his labors in The diamonds[...]no longer in the rough." Montana. On the trip to Montana, he encountered Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face when they, with a large number o[...]the Far West. They were persuaded by the captain to leave without any trouble arising. Later, and On the evening of November 1, All Saints D[...]llinson, organized the Fort Benton was a rough and wild frontier town, but Van Episcopalians of Scobey and vicinity into what is now 0rsdel held several wel[...]ld during the next two years in homes He began to conduct services in the scattered and 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[...]the Billings, All Saints chapel was built and completed. Many name " Brother Van" was tied to the young preacher, and, of the furnishings of this rustic chapel were made and like all nicknames, it was to be with him for the remainder donated by th[...]er book racks by Steven Crum. Brother Van rode and walked into the mountains and he The altar was given by the members of[...]nce 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 gathered[...] |
| [...]Jackie Kestin, Susan Dickson, Richard Dickson, and Judy[...]Norval Curry and C.J.M. Bull, Bob Kern (Lay reader), Rev.[...]ok place on February 11, 1921, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Davis. Those baptized at the time were: Joan Winnifred Davis, John William Shook, and Kathryn Jane King. The first confirmation class[...]argaret Skeen, Helen Isabelle Skeen, Samuel Smith and Frank Smith. They were confirmed on March 28, 192[...]3, for Gwynetha Lee Lile, age 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lile. The first marriage, conducte[...]on November 28, 1930, when Edwin David Carpenter and Dorothy Susan Sunderland, both of Opheim, were un[...]l Church - Scobey Mrs. Winnifred Haun, secretary; and Mrs. Helen Shook, treasurer. The first elected vestrymen were George Case, Tom Smith, Paul Crum and George Cudhie. SCO[...]923 Rev. D.R. Miller of Noonan, North Dakota came to Malcolm Jones, H.P. Perkins, Stanley Welsh, Frank Scobey to begin what is now known as the Full Gospel[...] |
| [...]nducted in the old Legion pastor. It was a long and arduous trip by buggy. The great Hall.[...]black horses Kate and Spike finally gave out and a call About a year after Rev. Miller came he w[...]month the new Hupmobile brought the shepherd to his town for use as a church.[...]till waited. additional Sunday School facilities, and the church was In 1913 the congregation moved to Scobey. The new moved to a corner location. Later an addition was[...]vices Thompson, Herman Hanson, Marian Hanson and Carrie were held here regularly, and there is a ladies' Missionary Colby. Marian and Herman are still living. Their father Council and a Young People's group associated with the[...](1918-1922) had come and gone. C.G. Tjomsland was now[...]Vanderpan of Brookings, South Dakota and the Rev. Just 135 years after the birth of our[...]Scobey Lutheran choir in 1927. Left to right back row: Mr.[...]the main sanctuary and the parsonage. 1959 was the year[...]an Lutheran Church. (1876-1953). Pastor from 1911 to 1918. During the depres[...]strange sight to see men soliciting funds on the alternate A.N. Ta[...].J. Conlan, Ole Ten members had a bazaar and dinner on November 13, Helland, Hale Nelson, Andrew Flatney, A.H. Twedt and 1913 and took in $137.70. A great sum sixty-five years ago[...]Rev. Fretheim wrote later, "If we were to measure their The "parish" was from Plentywood to here and first two year's work in dollars and cents, it would not roundabout. S.J. Fretheim from 1911 to 1918 was the first measure up with the[...] |
| [...]Dr. Wm. Olson, A.F. Bein and Casper Brenden comprised "Firsts and longests" go as follows: to Julia Bystrom the first slate of officers for the newly formed Lutheran and Oscar Johnson, first wedding. First life membersh[...]od in 1933 which has sponsored the Boy Scouts pin to Mrs. John Bystrom. First organists, Olive Bonnes of America. and Mrs. L.V. Hanson. Organist for the longest time, Mrs. The Senior Choir has usually been a healthy and Casper 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 s[...]ough the years. other woman. Mrs. M.J. Clay burgh and Mrs. Pete Our congregation is no[...]uch credit School for many years. Hilma Evenskaas and Bertha is due to Mrs. Alvin Rustebakke for its compilation. Colby[...]thful are the far away twenties. too numerous to mention but their names are all known in the "Boo[...]schoolhouse two and a half miles north and west of the[...]reorganized May 1, 1910 and known as the Middle Fork[...]average attendance of 25 to 30 and more during the[...]Burgett as Superintendent and more and larger classes; and with preaching services following Sunday School b[...]pastors, and especially by a Methodist minister, a[...]raveled Scobey Lutheran 50th Anniversary. Pastors and interns forty and more miles by team and buggy for each service. who served there a[...] |
| [...]ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH Clucheys, Hardenburgs, and others. The first resident pastor was Rev. Re[...]lics of the Scobey arrived in 1913 with his wife and three-year-old daughter, community were first administered by Father Delucies, without money and with very few belongings, no place to who traveled through this 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 were both ordained Plentywood. · ministers and both admitted to the bar as lawyers, had In 1911 Father[...]during very responsive. They opened their hearts and homes and the summer and every three months during the winter. cared for him and his family until the parsonage was Mass was offered at the homes of Joe Paradis and Louis completed. LaPierre and often at the Lyceum Theater. Confessions He w[...]hundreds of miles , establishing preaching points and across a corner of the room. giving spiritual comfort to many . He borrowed a team and From 1915 to 1918, Scobey was served by Father wagon and hauled most of the lumber from Poplar to build Hennessy from Plentywood. It was during his[...]with his own hands. He had it ready ministration, and through the generosity of the Scobey for his family to move into on Thanksgiving Day, parishioners, toge[...]house; after Ed LaPierre, stations by John Gibney and two other which services were conducted by Rev. Stone, assisted by parishioners, and the side altar and statues by R.J. " Brother Van " . That evening t[...]urch was officially incorporated in January 1914 and named "The First Methodist Episcopal Church of S[...]rch received a memorial gift of $250.00 from Mr. and Mrs. George W. Betts in memory of their daughter[...]ethodist 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 dedicated on August 14 and 15, 1914, with special services; and now known as "The Mae K. Fox Memorial Methodist[...]First Methodist Church of Scobey, Montana. ) Interest and attendance in both the Sunday School and church services increased rapidly. These service[...]ly possessed the pioneer qualification necessary to enable him to travel far and wide , on foot, horseback , The 34' by 64' building was begun in October, 1915, and and later by car, sleeping on the ground , in haystacks , and completed in December, 1916. In 1917 the church w[...]n all kinds of weather, praying in many dedicated to the patronage of St. Philip Bonitas, and the homestead shacks, winning souls for Christ.[...]first About 1923 the Methodist Church decided to construct a resident priest. He also attended to the outlying missions hall adjoining the church[...]reality in 1924. of Glentana, Peerless, Whitetail and Flaxville. In 193 the church observed the 25t[...]v. P.J. Conaty was 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[...]ers. During the 1950 decade more improvements Men and Women, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine were made, and the parsonage remodeled and enlarged and the CYC were organized. In that year also, the church and an adjoining garage was built. This give the church was enlarged and a parish hall built in the basement. today a commodious parsonage, sanctuary, and an Rev. H.B. Altmann of Laurel ca[...], D.A. Kroft, Alexander Muirden, Ernest attached to Glentana. Kistler, Raymond Robinson (Ass't .), Ro[...]M.O. Smith, James Father Altmann was transferred to St. Raphaels in Dickinson, Arthur Swaren , Ronald Hamilton , Roger Glasgow and on March 4 Father Anthony Sorger was Green, Arthur Heath , Fred Collins, and Michael and installed as St. Philip's new pastor, serving unt[...]. to Roundup in 1961.[...] |
| [...]rger'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[...]Hoot, mon, but it is a grand old game! Mass and High Mass of Reverend Raymond Lapke, at St.[...]s succeeded by Rev. Martin Whalen adult and 26 high school rinks registered. from Fort Benton who served until transferred for health reasons, and now lives in San Diego. On May 1, 1956 Father L[...]Father Kenney died unexpectedly on August 3, 1965 and sportsmanship and increasing game and fish in the is buried in the Scobey Cemetery. Fat[...]t at Glasgow, was appointed temporary birds and fish from the state farms and hatcheries, by administrator until June 15, 1966 when Father David F. feeding and sheltering game and fish, by destroying Dwyer of Stockett, was appoin[...]predators, by obtaining equitable hunting and fishing Father Dwyer was succeeded by Father Edward seasons, and by assisting neighboring sportsmen Shinnick on Ju[...]organizations in matters of interest to sportsmen. St. Philip's Parish Center, built at[...]Lindquist, Walt Holle, Roy Killenbeck and Irwin St. Thomas Catholic Church at Whitetail was moved to Jacobsen, directors. Pioneer Town at the D[...]An annual banquet is held, with programs of interest to Scobey.[...]NG CLUB From news articles of 1959-1961 and from Larry Fjeld Curling, a[...]kilted |
| [...]watch; and Kate Von Kuster, outer watch. To my[...]members earned their uniforms; white dresses and white[...]Mrs. Magdalene Murphy served as State President and Palmer Teigan, Vic Hillstrom and Carl Linquist at trap later as a member of th[...]decided to give grants of $150 to fifteen deserving student[...]ater, Janet Scobey Gun Club, as the new clubhouse and improved Wolford at Bozeman. The grant was changed to $200 for facilities were dedicated in memory of her husband, the honor and deserving students. Mark and Patrice Reiner late Don Trower, who was an avid sportsman and trap received this in 1969 and 1973 respectively. shooter. Their son, Ramon, donated the metal building to The first meetings of Scobey Lodge No. 61 wer[...]Hall and private homes, with conventions and drills in the[...]a period of time the Degree of Honor has donated to the local hospital, various civic drives, and the Veteran's The Scobey Chapter of Degree of H[...]on October 7, Degree of Honor Drill Team. Left to right first row: Edna Waller, Magdalene ~u[...] |
| [...]I CLIFFORD KKAPP, Director and Sec.[...]lia ·' Roland Olsen andto stc;:tl ! |
| [...]Bourasa, Ordean Wangrid, Cliff Hagfeldt, Vic Luft and STARDUSTERS. Charles Carbone moved to Havre so Kenny Lekvold.[...]ale Smith took over drums; Gordon Vanderpan moved to Baker so Jack Riener took over trumpet and trombone. Harley moved to Havre also. The orchestra finally broke[...]up as Sylvan and Dale also moved away. Four years ago,[...]they decided to have a reunion. By popular demand,[...]they've had three more in the last two years and the proceeds have been donated to the hospital.[...]and singing a song introducing Fairyland. A vision of[...]ed by Bonner Collinson, calls in all the Blossoms and announces the Prince's invitation to the May Day ball.[...]ella throughout, on the fact that she has no gown to wear to the ball. She is unselfishly happy in their pleas[...]though secretly she yearns to go. Nellie La Pierre and Virginia Miller - one of their first Scene II shows Daisy beautifying and sending off to the performances together. Through the years they have ball her proud and ill-tempered sisters, Hollyhock and entertained for many banquets, shows and put on the Tiger Lily, played by Phyllis Johnson and Gwendolyn "Dirty Shovel" shows at Pioneer Town. Bowler. She is then sad to think she cannot go, but is[...]does so and emerges changed from a drab brown to a LIITLE FOLKS' OPERETTA WAS[...]Adeline Christianson and Dorothy Gibson. The chariot is Cinderella in Flowerland Presented to attended by Bonnie Bee, who q[...]on The third scene was a triumph of beauty and grace. It and enjoyment but when there is combined with it a represents the May Day ball and the shower. It begins with delicate imaginative touch and a finesse and dash rarely the dance of the Prince with[...]nce The splendid crowd which was fortunate enough to then has eyes for none but Daisy. All the dances and drills witness " Cinderella in Flowerland" witnes[...]y worthy of mention performance which in artistry and finish is seldom were the eight little sunbeams, played by lstand 2nd grade equalled. And by their intense interest and generous girls and led by little Donna Clayburgh and Juanita applause throughout the little play they[...]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 forward, bright sunbeams. breathless, to witness the triumph of the humble Daisy.[...]Daisy, whom The story of Cinderella is familiar to everyone, which none of her sister flower[...]teresting the delightful adaptation able to wear the golden slipper discovered by the[...] |
| [...]s at discovering his Princess. It is impossible to mention all the characters who are deserving of p[...]COMING! clear, sweet voice, and her acting was at all times above criticism, Lee Montgomery as the Prince, and Bonar Collinson as his Herald, divided honors amo[...]ines with a clear enunciation that was a pleasure to hear and acted their different parts with finish[...]The Johnson Orchestra and dash. Lee made a charming and gracious Prince, while FROM MONTANA Bonar evidenced with delightful restraint the grace and courtesy necessary for the Herald. Larry Bowler a[...]Known As Adeline Christianson and Dorothy Gibson. The specialties between acts we[...]honors in a group of songs , while Charles Smith and Rex Linderman each entertained with a cornet solo[...]he operetta was presented for a Methodist benefit and --- will give a --- was su[...]e for the beautiful costuming which added greatly to the play. All the mothers helped in the preparati[...]I wish to express thanks to all who helped and especially the Don't miss it. Admission, 25c and 50c |
| [...]Georgia I.and ••.•.••••.••.••.[...]Ordinance 97 established fire limits for Scobey and defined and restricted the use of inflammable material in I[...]yor Oie appointed a committee on the construction and repair of buildings within city limits. matters pertaining to a fire department. In March a fire In September, 1928 G.G. Kidwell won the contract to bell was ordered and G.A. Dahlquist was appointed Fire, build a new fi[...]mentioned from Fire Department First fire hall and city hall was on First Avenue, the January, 1929:[...]Swenson, Burley Bowler, Hale Nelson, George Ruth, and was purchased from J.B. Fleming for $60 and was later Louis Ferestad. torn down. Hellickson L[...]La France fire truck for $5200. Water was hauled to the fire hall by wagon tank and Resolution No. 181 created a fund designated as f[...]ober, 1917 a motor chemical engine apparatus fund to pay for the truck. equipped with two 35 gallon ch[...]Jim McIntyre became Fire Chief in September, 1930 and for the sum of $1339. In 1919 an ordinance was pa[...]for providing for proper construction of chimneys and use of $550. stove pipe.[...]ice of the City of Scobey. Fire Chief, his duties and his salary, and a fire hose was Dwight Swenson became Fire Chief in 1943 and the fire bought for $1795. In 1921 a resolution was passed to pay department held their first annual dance on St. Patrick's volunteers for fighting fires, and a fire whistle was bought Day. for $48.12.[...]fire truck in 1953. old chemical trucks were sold to Opheim. March, 1927 G.A. Joe Hellickson became Fire Chief in 1954. Dahlquist became Fire Chief and a fire siren was erected Carmen Bush becam[...]ire that year. Lot 1, Block 11, site of City Hall and Fire Department acquired a new truck in 1960; an International Deparment was sold to P.R. Gorham for $200 in May, 1928 1000 gallon Darly Pumper. In 1975 the City of Scobey and fire hall moved to present site east half oflot 18, block pas[...] |
| bid to supply a Ford truck Superior fire equipment 1000[...]the gold mine at gallon pumper on a Ford tilt cab to arrive in September of Lead, and they attended the Passion Play at Spearfish. this[...]studying and planning from 1954 the Treasure State Girl It was a noble and earnest group of women who served Scout[...]dquarters at this organization in the early years and their followers Lewistown. In 1926 we became part of this council. Before have continued to carry the torch. They were and are a relinquishing our funds we were successful in securing an group who said "Itcould be done," and did it. These women equipped canoe from a portion of it. are an eloquent tribute to the ability, faithfulness and zeal The Brownie Tea, preceding Mother's Day,[...]hose working with Girls Scouts. Mrs. Fred Bydeley and the year. Carnations are presented to the mothers, Mrs. Jessie Seeger organized the Girl Scouts on October 19, teachers and council. Hospital favors are made during the 1924[...]d Hitsman, Mrs. Knute Knudson December. and others.[...]blocks, Many records have been lost or mislaid and no doubt which Mrs. Vic Luft and Mrs. E. Richardson completed. there are a number[...]ave earned awards but the The quilt was sent to Shodair Crippled Children's present records show[...]privileged to have Mrs. Bydeley with them at this time. In 19[...]efforts of Ginger Fosland our girls a freight car to be converted into a club house and "Hands Across the Border" relations began.[...]troops have visited the Canadian Girl Guides and toured Club House in Scobey. Later the building was given to the Regina, camped and taken in many musical events there. Golf Club to be used for a warehouse and the lot sold to The Girl Guides in turn have been entertai[...]rds in April 1966 was an international Plentywood and Opheim and their leaders, Miss Eunice event as se[...]presented the Sword Dance Barnhart, Mrs. A. Fonk and Mrs. V. Hillstrom chartered a and the Highland Fling. bus and went to Belle Fouche, South Dakota where they In 1968 Mr. and Mrs. J. Fosland leased 20 acres from enjoyed a we[...]estake Girl Scout Camp. The Annie Lund to start Camp Lund. With the river close by sidelight of this trip was a trip to Mount Rushmore canoeing and swimming are enjoyed. Memorial Park. Gutzon Borgl[...]r of the heads of In 1969 Ginger Fosland and Wilma Trower were the only Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore United States leaders present w[...]der of Boy Scouts) was present. home of President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge near by. The In 1970 Jane Fosland and Janice Elgestad received the special "God and Country" award at the Scobey Lutheran and Beth Halvorson and Ruth Collins received their "God and Country" awards at Scobey Methodist Church. Left to right back row: Mildred Smith, Edna Battleson,[...]Nancy Fitz was a member of the Mountaineering and row: Gwendolyn Thomas, Wietske Bydeley, Sarah Shi[...]k Packing event on the slope of Mt. Hood in 1971, and Mae Egland, Dorothy Johnson, Lois Swenson, Elizab[...]Donna Claybourgh, Gladys Battleson, June Turner, and Hazel Girl Scouts at Camp Lund.[...] |
| [...]and Camp Maiden.[...]The K C's sponsor the Girl Scouts and the Woman's Club[...]and September; George Hart 1935-37, Earl Bjork 1937-3[...]April 1945 and Donald Allen 1947 to July 1948; Arthur[...]er 1949-1951; Darrell Fenner from September 19f)l to <lVember 195 1; Alex Haburchak 1%2 to 1964; Lee Rovig 1964 to 1969; and our last county agent is Rick Sampsen.[...]at camp. and some filled in for just a few months.[...]July In July 1972 Karen Tymofichuk made a trip to the 15, 1926. They held the first meeting in the Liberty School , United Kingdom and Ireland . The major cost was financed which w[...]cts we had in this club. It Awards Mary Jo Bjarko and Nancy Fitz were awarded the seems there wa[...]lso attended "Saddle Straddle", didn 't learn to do! Home canning of meats - beef and a Girl Scout horseback event in Wyoming.[...]personal appearance, colors for you, Bubble, Toil and Trouble" in C hicago ; and Cindy cleaning carpets, spot removers, lighting your home, Tymofichuk went to 'Saddle Straddle" in Wyoming. foreign foods bound buttonholes, making belt loops and During the yea rs camping has been enjoyed at C[...]ing in zippers, choosing well fitting shoes, care and Rotary, Epping, orth Dakota; The Pines, Stoney Point, cleaning of your sewing machine and many more.[...] |
| [...]in Scobey, is the culmination of the hopes and efforts of line, and west "as far as he was needed", was served by Dr.[...]" Atkinson. He was back in 1944 were due to the endeavors of the Scobey Lions the agency doctor in Poplar, and was called Pazuta Club, which directe[...]numerous fund raising drives. Personal donations and his calling, not the least of which were occasion[...]nally doctors among the homesteaders. Midwives and other women skilled in the healing arts, as Me[...]ital - 1963 well as trained nurses who had turned to homesteading, took care of the medical needs of t[...]umpkin seeds boiled in water. No records exist to name these often-heroic women, but a few whose names have been mentioned by contributors to this book are Mrs. Louisa Watts, Effie Du_sk, Mis[...]dangerous diseases by caring for their patients, and also bore the additional risk of bringing these diseases home to their own families. During the flu epid[...] |
| [...]of a fully-equipped operating room with surgical and anesthesia equipment, a complete emergency room, modern delivery room, X-ray and medical laboratory, special sterilizing room for all equipment and fully equipped laundry and kitchen. This is a far cry from the not so mo[...]of such fine doctors as Dr. Collinson of Scobey and Dr. De Wayne of Wolf Point, who was quite active[...]he 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 Cl[...]Hotel where it had been located for five years, to the Arlington Hotel building. Dr. Collinson star[...]d it until Mrs. Julia Rener Paulson came in 1933 and managed it until it closed as a home for the age[...]there were Drs. Furnish , Everett Jones, Morrow, and McDade. Dr. Collinson was aided in surgery by Drs. Jones and Knapp from Wolf P oint. Located on the Main S[...]T.M. Morrow of Scobey, D.B. Healy from Flaxville, and in later years, OLSON HOSPITAL Dr. Krogstad . It was owned and 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 h[...]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 help at that time. Many babies· superintendent and two doctors, Dr. M.D. Fitz and Dr. C.H. were delivered here, an occasion[...]doctors who served this area without and some were transferred elsewhere. Drs. T.M. Morrow benefit of hospitals included Dr. Needles and Dr. Tucker. and D.B. Hea1y, both deceased , brought their patient[...]April , 1952 we took in nursing care patients and continued Esther Nar veson[...]dropped in to wish many happy returns to one of their long- time members and fellow workers , Mrs. Hannah Olson,[...] |
| [...]Mrs. Olson and Esther were helped by other members of[...]the family and also by outside help during the busy years[...]and did not require much space.[...]However, beds and cots had to be set up in every possible[...]corner of the house to accommodate so many. "We had[...]nine hospital beds and some extra cots," Mrs. Olson says.[...]At first there was little equipment, and the cooking was[...]Olson used to bathe the babies while sitting in front of the[...]operating and delivery room, which also had to be used for[...]the babies never seemed to suffer from this arrangement and were never troubled by rashes or other contagious[...]guide, and fed the babies when they were hungry. people and events connected with the Olson hospital[...]rs when it served the community as "And I have always felt that babies should be held whi[...]ight's sleep, unbroken by the demands of from one to five the years between 1935 and 1952, and Mrs. Olson says she hungry babies, dur[...]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 t[...]d fashioned food patients with all manner of ills and injuries were nursed complete with real butter and cream, is best. back to health here by Mrs. Olson and her daughter, Her patients were, and still are, treated with home-made Esther. bread and rolls. The Olson hospital came into being afte[...]n children through several illnesses she felt she and then for Dr. Thomas Morrow.[...]lude 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 Anderson, Mrs[...]of Scobey. There are also 16 grandchildren and 16 great Dr. Morrow even found the house for t[...]as built in 1952 district on Main Street. Esther and her mother finally the Olson hospital continued to operate as a home for agreed to begin this new enterprise, and the Olson hospital elderly people. Mrs. Ol[...]ork by her began. The house was rented at first, and was later daughter, Mrs. Myrtle An[...]schedule, Mrs. Olson still finds time to make up the It wasn't long until they realized[...]years. very realistic. In fact, the first patient to enter the hospital Summing up her years with[...]of blood I still miss the mothers and the babies." poisoning in his hand. He was sent to Williston for treatment, but insisted on coming back to Scobey where Esther could take care of him. His arm had to be amputated-the first operation at the hospital-and after DANIELS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL G[...]d$25fora the request of Lutheran Homes and Hospital Society who baby case, and in those days we had the mother and baby were to manage the new hospital. They felt the need of a[...]r patients were charged $3 a day." guild to render assistance to the hospital itself. An There were no extra ch[...]l meeting was held at the court hous.e medication and other supplies needed by the patients. "We January 11, 1952. The guild was created and became a never even thought of chargin~ for those things," Mrs. member of the Lutheran Homes and Hospital Society Olson says.[...] |
| [...]for there were no starters. I always meeting for election of officers and appointment of carried an extra spring for the ca[...]t slate of officers the trail would be washed out and there would be an abrupt were: Mrs. J .N. Robert[...]Mrs. Alvah Shaw, stop, breaking a spring. One had to be an amateur vice president; Mrs. Selmer Nelson , secretary; and Mrs. mechanic to replace them. Sometimes the drop would be so R.M. Ferguson, treasurer. Since the hospital was to open in severe that it would break the frame. Sometimes the lights the spring, the first need was to clean it after the workers went out so someone had to 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[...]week before the hospital remember was when I had to go sixty miles and had opened.[...]ing the tea On another occasion a man came for me to go north of served by the Guild mem hers for this event. Many Peerless to see a member of his family. It was late evening monetary contributions that day added to the treasury of and the prairie looked smooth. Suddenly we hit the bo[...]its members a dollar a year. of a coulee and buried the car to the hub. Fortunately we The first assistance to the hospital by the Guild was were within a mile[...]e setting aside one afternoon a month for sewing and rest of the way. I stayed all night and he took me back to mending for the hospital. Through the years this[...]On his way home he took the battery a meaningful and helpful assistance that has been out of my car and kept it until spring when I came for the regular[...]. The Guild bought curtains for many car. rooms, and provided linens for its use. In the spring of the year and the ice gave way, I had In 1957 a nurse's scholarship was set up to provide many adventurous trips. I will describe a few. A husband assistance to worthy young graduates interested in taking whose wife was very ill came after me with a team and a nurse's training. Twenty graduates have been a[...]ns camped waiting for the ice flow proceeds used to provide help for the scholarships. In to subside so we could cross. We went to a farm house and October there is a food ingathering for the hosp[...]ent the night. Early the next morning we returned to the The Guild has a Sunshine Chairman for each year and a creek. The wagons were still there. On the opposite bank Program chairman to take care of each meeting's message. another patient's husband was standing waving for us to The Hospital Supervisor at times addresses the m[...]id in one lung which was quite matters pertinent to the organization. Another courtesy is painful. My driver unhitched a horse and rode across to a Cheer Box filled with small gifts to be used for the young test the water's safety. He[...]pital. wagon and we made a successful crossing. The next wagon The hospital and the Guild have both filled a real need in wasn'[...]nce the building of the main unit, a wing came to what had been an ankle-deep stream, but by now ha[...]water came up over the tops of the horse's tails and supervision. Another addition is on the agenda in the near almost to the spring seat on the wagon. future.[...]Submitted by The liveryman drove me to the banks of the river where a[...]Cecil Ferguson coat and overshoes. Around us big cakes of ice were flatin[...]d, "I see you got back HOSPITALS, GUILDS, and DOCTORS safely." I asked him ifhe didn't expect us to return. He said,[...]lived by this river thirty years and never have I seen it any[...]organs. The family sent for a priest and me to come. The Both my brother Forest and I drew low numbers, so the day priest took one look at the river ice breaking up and refused before the drawing Forest took a spade and went out to to go. I stepped into the boat and said to him, "You should what was considered the best land of the reservation and be better prepared to die than I am." He stepped into the tested the soil. We then filed an adjoining claim of 320 boat and we crossed safely. Our return was made in a steel[...]nd the patient in very severe condition. His next to Forest's land. We made the required improvements[...]we traveled at night the North Star was our train to take him to the hospital in Glasgow, but he passed guide. Nex[...]away on the train. by four horse hitches, hitched to a gang plow. One trip into Can[...]n the spring of 1915 I opened my office in Scobey to husband from across the line came for me. As we w[...]ne. My father practiced medicine, using the going to his home 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[...]orning which were rugged so when I was called out to make a he had to follow the clothes line to get to the barn. They country trip I drove my car. In cold weather we had to drain lived in a small sod house which consisted to two small the radiator at each stop for at that t[...]rs. The conditions were terrible as the unknown . To start the car in cold weather I had to unscrew mother had given birth to a child which had been dead a spark plug, put in a little gasoline, and screw the plug twenty-four hours or more. She and the other children had[...] |
| badly infected eyes. I was compelled to stay overnight When Scobey became a county seat I was the first person because of the storm and slept on a couch in my overcoat. to receive a permit to carry a gun. I had lots of enjoyment in One w[...]ng a fierce blizzard, Frenchie practicing to be a good shot by putting my horse in a run and I started out with a team of yellow broncs hitchd to a and shooting at fence posts as I passed them. home-made sled. We couldn't see the road, so took to the I entered World War I, in the fall of 1917, and spent three railroad track, followed it to Flaxville, then headed across months in Kansas City in uniform before I was called in pastures and became lost in the storm. Fin?i.lly we saw a[...]cers light in a window. We spent the night there and next were quite popular. I was attached to the cavalry unit morning we went to our destination. The patient was composed of part of the seventh and third units. Later we having her first child soi twas evening before the ha by was were converted to light artillery (horse drawn). During the born.[...]1918 flu epidemic another lieutenant was sent to the along a wire fence. The horses heels were th[...]hospital. I was so ill I crawled on my hands and knees to my face, so I had my mittens covering my face. S[...]ipple developed into T.B. I spent a year and half in Fitzsimmons tree broke dragging Frenchie[...]sh board. When T.B. Hospital in Denver, and was discharged in 1920. he let go of the lines the team started running and were I returned to Scobey and went into practice with Dr. Tom soon out of sigh[...]llinson for one year. three miles before we came to a farm house. The farmer I went to California where I had a recurrence of T.B. hitched a team to his rig, a wagon box on runners. He took After the disease became arrested I formed a partnership us to Flaxville, where we got on a freight train for Scobey. with Dr. Groff at Nortenville, Kansas. He wanted to travel It was two weeks before they found the team, the harness some and I wanted to specialize in proctology. I spent time all torn to pieces. at Mayo Clinic and in Chicago. In 1928-29 I went to When I first went to Scobey there were two saloons, five London,[...]lace being the largest. She had entirely to proctology with two of the world's leading some[...]wing cities. I located in Wichita, Kansas in 1929 and Canada, Opheim and Glentana with teams of twelve pr[...]peciality until I retired in 1958. horses hitched to three sleds with the drivers walking to The year following the first rodeo at[...]recall was in 1920, Burley Bowler and I decided we would One day when it was 58 degrees below zero Frenchie and try our luck in rodeo business by putting on the first one for I were making a trip to Opheim. We spent the night in Old Scobey. Mr. Bowler did the publicity and I planned the Peerless. The hotel had big potbel[...]t two thirds charge of the gate receipts and paying prize money to the up to the ceiling. The stable consisted of upright pole[...]spent two weeks getting things ready. Slim Jensen and weather out. Then Mother Nature added her help by l borrowed the snow fence. These we used to build corrals to putting a good blanket of snow on the straw. The[...]or the entrance. The horses furnished the and a couple of cowboys rode all the horses to select the heat from their bodies so it was as s[...]s. For the finals we used ten outstanding forgot to mention I stayed at the hotel and slept in all my trained and grain-fed bucking horses weighing twelve clothes[...]men quickly force when they hit the ground and bucked straight away unhitched the horses, covered them with blankets and got except a few who sunfished. them in the barn to prevent them from getting pneumonia.[...]e The trail I followed was well packed with snow and about grandstands. All horses were saddl[...]ving business. There was shooting mounted and rules for riding were that he came out of the and one victim died while I was removing the bullet f[...]th his spurs in the horse's neck. He was required to the wound. There were several stabbings, but those who scratch his spurs in the horse's neck and shoulders for the were beaten up while intoxicate[...]first five jumps with his hat in his right hand and the underclothes and be cleaned up before I would attend their[...]odeo the participating riders went been beaten up to my hotel room in the usual mess, and while we were cleaning him up I remarked I was tired of out on the town and were well-polluted the following[...]g during the day but were attending these fellows and getting no pay before they left[...]not drunk enough to affect their riding. The riders were town. The marshall said, "This one is going to pay. I have his watch and I'll have the liveryman hold his team until half breed Indians and white men. he pays the bill." This made the patie[...]riders. A half-breed Indian wore a because he had to stay until the bank opened to get money to pay me.[...]d a pint of liquor were sitting directly and rode him out. I understood that this cowbo[...] |
| [...]ES England, Belgium, and Germany with the U.S. Army[...]orps. Dr. Arthur Stone Needles, 63, physician and surgeon for He served the Scobey area, faithfully and well until 1957, the Union Pacific railroad at Li[...]by Florence Sheron Bennett Washington, and a brother, Dr. J.W. Needles of Glendale, Californ[...]s was born September 12, 1885 in Pueblo, Colorado and resided there about 25 years. He served with[...]War. He practiced in Scobey during the early 20's and while here served as The Scobey J ayce[...]e practiced in Illinois, the state of Jaycees and is devoted to assisting them in projects to Washington, and later to Lima, Montana where he had better the community. Membership is limited to wives of been about a year.[...]rguson, vice president; Dorothy Fjeld, secretary; and Dr. Needles and C.T. Swenson. Dr. Needles practiced in[...]ad, treasurer. An installation banquet was Scobey and Mrs. Needles was a high school teacher here.[...]62. The two sisters were active in community work and in the The J ayceens provided potluck lunches to the Jaycees as Methodist Church and Eastern Star. they[...]nbeck When the two sisters retired they moved to Lake Oswego Lake in 1962, and they also had a booth at the Daniels to be near the daughter and son of the Swensons. They now County Fair.[...]part scholarship to Junior Citizens Camp and also to the[...]housing reservations for the Golden Jubilee and compiled[...]In 1965 the Jayceen Scrapbook was dedicated to the Jaycee's Purple Cow ''Cookie" and won the state[...]J ayceens tried their first rummage sale in 1969, and[...]were established with lhe Canadian Jaycees and[...]- Spokette and Sparkler A ward::; were established in 1971,[...]were given out to 127 servicen1cu by Red Cross workers.[...]District Vice President and Doris Mahler was elected[...]donated money to buy an x-ray cabinet for Daniels[...]Memorial Hospital and started concessions at the stock[...]May Day baskets were made and given to all the Scobey businesses in 1973, and first families were visited by the[...]Pampers were delivered for the first time to all newborn Dr. L.T. Krogstad[...]babies at the hospital in 1974, and they also had a booth for -[...]the July 4th celebration, and new jerkins were started for[...]KROGSTAD McCartys, and the Jayceens served a sack lunch at the[...]rsary of the Silver Star Dr. L.T. Krogstad came to Scobey in 1950, taking over Community. t[...]The Scobey Lions Club was organized and received it He started his general pract[...] |
| and Frank Christensen, directors; H.L. Hitsman, philosophical endeavors, contributes to the aid and secretary-treasurer; Otto R. King, lion tamer; and J.F. support of many Masonic organizations, charities, and Haun, tail twister.[...]an, Carl representative from Scobey to the American Legion Boy's Lindquist, Elmer Skeie,[...]. Walker, C.T. Swenson, and R.H. Greengard, A.R. Hanson.[...]nty Museum Association was organized improvements and several other civic projects. The Club i[...]also assisted financially in sending local youth to president; Richard Jacques, vice preside[...]secretary-treasurer; Frenchy Girard, director and Bud[...]The purpose of this association is to preserve antique[...].M. ranchers, merchants and housewives who used them in[...]non-profit museum association with active members and as far east as Indiana and now Ii ving in the new representing al[...]his 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 reasons." On August 31, 1916[...]venteen new members were initiated into the Lodge and the Lodge has remained active since that time. Regular 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[...]olished. At that time there was a cafe downstairs and the Lodge held its meetings upstairs for a year, after which it moved to its present site on Main street in Scobey where it now owns the building and rents its lower floor to, at the present time, "The Fabric Shop". Among th[...]n the post office department in the late twenties and early thirties, the Service Drug Store Scobey Museum sign incorrect as far as Legare and Sitting from 1936 to 1965. The Lodge building has been improved Bull. 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 facilities, kitchen improvements, carpeting and changes in the lower floor to accomoda te the needs of the various tenants.[...]application for a charter the Lodge, in addition to its Association.[...] |
| [...]der the supervision of building from Madoc and the postoffice mail boxes from the Daniels County Museum Association and Frontier Flaxville, the old bank build[...]is there. Club. Pioneer Town, Scobey's dedication to the area's early Also the old bar building from Whitetail is there and was ranchers and homesteaders has been a complete[...]ommunity effort from its beginning. All the money and the local talent show during Threshing Bee Days and is manpower required to move the structures and goods that called the "Dirty Shame Saloon"[...]here many an with benefit shows, contributed time and money. Civic early day demise was laid out is there, also an old groups, businesses and individuals have put their barbershop with its potbellied stove and lilac vegitol lotion resources together to establish this community attraction. poured on[...]ore he went The board walkways under you:rfeet and the scent of the forth to charm the fair sex on a Saturday night. A tiny pa[...]dress shop displays the long hobble skirts and mutton schoolhouse, church or general store. You[...]s, beaded purses, long mod sunglasses of the 70's to dim the bright Montana sun, kid gloves, high topped buttoned shoes, breast pins and but for awhile you can put yourself 50 to 60 years back in hat pins are admired. time and sample how life was back then. Memories come to Scobey used to be the headquarters of Westland Oil life on the s[...]Westland gas station holds a place on horses tied to hitching posts and old cars moving along. the street. A general[...]all came of antique items from telephones to tonics. Many of the from towns surrounding Scobey[...]y. goods in the store were purchased new by parents or[...]and grinding a whole hog for sausage to feed the thousands of visitors who come to Scobey for the annual Threshing Bee and Antique Show. It is a two day event[...]antique cars, tractors, steam engines and threshing[...]the second served as a general work area and a third,[...]valuable antiques given to Pioneer Town.[...]"Prairie" was selected by the group. It was wheat to Scobey. This home of Steve Watts was built in[...]graphy of Daniels County at that time. donated it to Pioneer Town plus the expenses to move it. Previous to the first meeting of Prairie Chapter in the As[...]plete with the doctor's log of Later Hoyt and Chisholm built the present Masonic patients, many of whom paid their bills with milk, hay and building and the Scobey Lodge built the second floor which oth[...]is the present Chapter room. Shares were sold to Masonic barber shop which also displays an old permanent wave members, shows and other ways of raising money were machine of Lee Myers, (barber and hair dresser); an old undertaken. Finally,[...]ne cost St. Thomas Catholic Church from Whitetail and the Greek $17.75. Then with the sher[...] |
| [...]Haun, and D.C. Knapp.[...]since Prairie Chapter was instituted and now 114 hold membership to date. Death has taken a heavy toll. Many[...]have moved to other places to live and a number have[...]Haun, and Clara Paus. Scobey Eastern Star party in 1920 at Mrs. Ira Nelson's We have been honored to have had sisters Mary Helen home, now owned and lived in 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,[...]y. Two on 117 at Opheim. The officers and members went by train right end unidentified. Middle row: Mrs. Elizabeth and were royally received. Humbert, "Grandma" Morriso[...]Frank) All history is a story, and the story of Prairie Chapter .. .is Johnson, Mrs.[...]a story in volumes three ...The past, the present and the yet- Burke, Mrs. Nelson (mother of Hale and Ira), Mrs. Cora to-be. The past is done and laid away. The present we're Case. Bottom row: Mr[...]en Hansen, living, day by day. The third and last volume three, Is Mrs. Ernie Dodd.[...]a colorful and useful existence. The members have[...]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 bef[...]members but also of the "stranger within our used and the kerosene cost $.55 and there was probably gates".[...]· some left over. A luncheon was served to 20 ladies at $.35 Taken from the history written by Claire Hillstrom, apiece and $2.00 was paid to the Tallman Hotel for three secretary for[...]e evening in 1942 that Harry Hansen, W.P. offered to come in the afternoons and light the oil burner on meeting nights. Social ho[...]as been one of the leading the local Ration Board and was fortunate enough to obtain organizations in the area in 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 shortlive[...]Evanskaas, John Lee and Charles Wolfe as the members. It brought to mind 1917 again. Remember this poem?[...]ng; Red Olson; Gordon Marlenee; Francis I've come to the end of a meatless day, Brasen; Harold Edland, Architect; Bob Tande, Chairman. And peacefully lying in bed,[...]ead Carpetner. My thoughts revert in a musing way To the foods which today I've been fed. I think of the cheese and the beans and fish And the oysters I've had to eat. I've no regrets for the good old days I really didn't miss the meat. I've come to the end of a wheatless day |
| Saddle Club Quadriile Team - 1949: Ruth and Elner Halverson, Norma and Lansing Eichhorn, Vi and Cliff Wolfe, Ann and Ir vin Hal verson, Hazel and Henry Danelson, Vi and Arlo Anderson, Bev Ulstad and Bud Gaustad, "Whoop " Manternach (caller), Ralph and Emma Jones, Geo and Florence Rubin, Wilfred LaCombe and Grace Hanrahan, Ray and E cho Garberg, Penny Bantz and Otto Otten. In the middle forties a number o[...]horsemen |
| house school) and moved into the new townsite. Miss was occupied by the high school, seventh and eighth Lucille Hall was named to head the new institution. Before grades."[...]s the teacher of that rural school. She also came to principal Rasmussen, Hertzberg and Mrs. South. The Scobey to teach. School board members were Sid Bennett, subjects taught were the basic ones needed to fulfill the Chairman, Frank Hughes Sr., Geo_rge Robinson and John requirements for admission to the university - algebra , M. Smith.[...]history, English, geometry, Latin and physics. " In the early years the Board of Trus[...]a debate team which won the the meetings in 1914 and 1915 show that all rural schools District Eight championship and Ray Clark, a member of will open April 1 and close the last week in November, or the[...]state title in extemporaneous sooner if necessary and must have at least nine pupils to speaking." operate." As time went on small school distrists were "Girls and boys basketball teams were organized. An formed, they supported and conducted their own financial agreement was made with Mr. Bill Stephens for the use of and educational responsibilities. Hrwever, the Scobey the Rex Theatre for practice and 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 room[...]f the ~achers who taught in the early 20 's were: and school property and employed teachers for vacant Lulu M[...]rd Knapp, Helen Colby (Sickles), built in 1914-15 and by 1916 rooms were finished in the and Myrtle Knight (Hallack). basement and plans were made for an annex to the · Mrs. A.S. Needles was s[...]ng. In 1919 a second story was added for Jr. High and Clerks of District I from 1914 to 1976 are as follows: R.H. High School. As country[...]T. Cookingham, Miss Fae Wickwire, were brought in and set up behind the school house for W.[...]Violet Anderson, Kay Ames, Mildred Ellingson and Ella .. Lutheran Church basement ..[...]1918- were inadequate, so bonds were sold and a two-story brick 19, Miss Olive Nelson; 1919-20 J.Q Zuck; 1920-21, John J. building was built and finished in 1931. Miner; 1921-23, Samuel Smith; 1[...]ebster. and was very enthusiastic in planning and helping with Leo Zuck recalls this about his fa[...]ree. He delivered several Baccalaureate addresses to Flaxville. Previous to 1919 he was County througho[...]ichigan. The family was composed of his wife Ruth and Grand Forks, North Dakota and attended the university three sons, Merlin, Leo and Gerald." working on his PhD . His thesis was put in book form and "The school house was a three-story square wooden sold to many universities as a reference book--"The frame[...]Technique of Teacher Self Placement'." basement and later converted to class rooms. The top floor He lived in Austin, Texas and was associated with the[...]Red Cross. He continued his writing and had a book[...]Elmer Skeie came to Scobey as head of the Scobey school[...]Northfield, Minnesota and taught in North Dakota before coming to Scobey. After seven terms at Scobey, Mr. Skeie[...]went to Big Sandy to head the schools several years before[...]going to Hardin. He was in his eighth year as[...]Scobey for seven .years--1938-1945. Prior to his retirement[...]he spent forty years in public school and college[...]administration in North Dakota , Montana , Alaska and[...]Admissions at Pacific Lutheran University. He and his[...] |
| [...]During our first years in Scobey, times were hard and money was difficult to come by. A steak dinner could be[...]Admission to a movie was only thirty-five cents. During[...]applications from students that we decided to cut the amounts in half and provide fourteen allotments at three dollars and fifty cents each, to be worked out at twenty-five[...]Underwood, North Dakota to come to Scobey I brought one[...]rolled down her cheeks, that happy to receive nine hundred[...]enjoyment and satisfaction. We had a staff of very[...]dedicated teachers and workers, and many very[...]and many top-notch scholars. My family and I also[...]friendly folks, and very solid citizens - many of whom, we[...]are proud to state, are still among our closest friends." w[...]ool gymnasium was under |
| superintendent of schools to live in was another problem-- new roof fro[...]thing was available so the School Board proceeded to been installed. You remember the seven[...]rough the basement precedent--so we were advised--and the Board might be of the schoolhouse[...]hich struck held liable--but they took the chance and purchased the from the northwest, one e[...]in Montana pane in the science room and a piece of glass cutting a gash school finance. in my hand and I was standing ten feet a way from the From th[...]- , 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 country and make them into in athletics and I remember what a thrill it was to have a apartments for teachers and as I remember we ended up championship football and basketball team and how with about 15 units and I really believe those apartments proud we 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 any[...]ho came into my office after the country students to school. I remember the old we had[...]e north country. It was involved showers and he said to me, "Now George, I ain 't much too heavy for the chassis and I al ways wondered here to complain but I ain't sending my girls to this here why the front wheels remained on the ground. The most school to be sprinkled." Yes, I can remember Al unique thin[...]gh the top, which kept those office and saying, "George, you wanta hire out for another s[...]chool requirements, was granted permission to participate in the Bus System. Two school houses[...]exercises but was given a dummy diploma and country and converted to a bus garage and the district immediately after the exercises he came into the office and went into the transportation business by purchasi[...]diploma at me. He later graduated from own buses and hiring their own mechanic. college and became a school administrator! Such was Our ne[...]school life in Scobey Schools." lunches, music and vocational education. As many will[...]erved from the old science disciplinarian and they found one in Kedric Flint. Here is store room on the second floor and the students carried his story: their plates to the gym balcony where the lunch was eaten.[...]ct I, under constant pressure from state sources to serve better my first tasks were to upgrade the school's curriculum and meals, etc. With this pressure and local pressure to improve devise and enforce a new set of disciplinary codes. the music program and the vocational program the Board Several measures were taken to upgrade the curriculum. of Education initiated a[...]ith which we built the music-lunch room, the shop and the business education wing as well as new shower[...]ing program completed most of our problems seemed to be solved except for the old heating plant. And I tremble whenever I think about that. It was a m[...]down with a cement cap, caught on fire two times and we had to tear a big hole in the top and use a back hoe to dig out the burning coal and pile it out on the school yard. We put tons of water on the fire and the more water we added the hotter it got. Then,[...]! I think the first major improvement we made was to install an electric winch to raise those ashes from that hole. The custodians[...]hand before that. Some modem technology had come to Scobey Public Schools! The next major improvement came with the increase in enrollment and the building of the new elementary school. Left to right: Kedrick Flint, Gordon, Patti, Kay, Carol and I used to have nightmares over those big high light poles[...]ed that a high wind might topple one of them over and what a tragedy that would be. Anyway the new grad[...]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 affecte[...]r the blizzard at tournament the Board to the Women's Club who initiated a time and most out of town spectators had to remain all kindergarten for the Scobey[...]storm which blew the very successful and is still being used.[...] |
| [...]written as well as the including a new furnace and furnace room. (The end of the board policies outlining school rules, policies and coal era at the school.) procedures.[...]of the driving of cars once the students had and come to school and the hair and dress codes. 4. Little Guy Basket[...]our with many families in attendance at the games and that was made was taking the storeroom off the missing dinner. superintendent's office and moving the principal and 5. Elementary Library established. superi[...]The School Board enlarged the hot lunch kitchen to that: twice the original size, added a bra[...]be done at the school rather than buy building and facilities. This review began when I thought all[...]we ought to make some long range plans about the school Th[...]d was renovated by putting in an building and the type of program to be provided. Some underground automatic sprinklin[...]programs, and the conflict between the gym and the stage The largest building program was the building of the with respect to basketball, elementary physical education, new bu[...]appily this was one accomplishment drama and music. Also concern was registered over the where a bond issue did 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 new location across from the grade school Because our objective was to correct these needs over a playground, enhancing the landscape and giving more period of time, we asked the University of Montana to help area for the school. analyze these needs and to assist in establishing some It is with pride and satisfaction that I recall my five priorities.[...]an may have been too years in Scobey. The support and loyalty of the school ambitious, I believe it helped people to understand the board, faculty and students and taxpayers was an educational needs and to begin to make plans to satisfy outstanding feat, and one that is to be commended to the them." town of Scobey. Since 1966 I hav[...]Supt. James Webster and family - John, Mike, Supt.[...]Webster, Bill, Mrs. Webster and Kim.[...]ames A. Webster is the present Superintendent. He and[...]and Master's degree from the University of Idaho. He[...]curriculum and educational program where every student[...]would be given the opportunity to reach their greatest[...]providing an educational program designed to meet the[...]therapy program to correct speech and hearing difficulties. R. Gene Busch was Superintendent from 1960 to 1968. Scobey Public Schools became involved in its first The major points of interest while he was Superintendent foreign student e[...]ating-ventilation system for the main building and Brazil. Scobey Public Schools also hosted[...] |
| teacher from Japan on an education and cultural program in 1973. Curriculum offerings to students were stressed with a full time art progr[...]• and vocational courses in business and traae and mdustry along with re-establishment of a vocation[...]ate passing necessary legislat10n allowmg schools to include kindergarten students to the foundation program in 1974, resul~ed. in ~cob[...]a part of Note postmark "East Scobey" and one cent stamp. School District Number l." Ne[...]Scobey Eighth Grade Class - 1917. From left to right: |
| [...]RTICIPANTS Eight tudent pupil s of Mr. Hylland and Mrs. Lathrop, took part in the state music festiv[...]3, in 1940 six of them receiving superior ratings and elegible to atte nd the regional music meet at Spokane. Pa[...]; Nellie Parks , vocal; Eugene herseth, piano; and Margaret LaMotte, vocal.[...]games to all other teams around - one game was lost to[...]including Glasgow, Crosby, Wolf Point, Poplar and[...]districts . It did In the above picture are left to right: James Hillstrom and ha ve one defeat early in the season at the h[...]e Irish Walk er, grade school coach · left to right front row: Verne Gibbs, Harold Pugh, Howard[...]nnon, Howard Crabtree. Top row: was taken enroute to Missoula . Claren[...]man, Coach Armstrong. FIRST TRACK TEAM TO GO TO |
| [...]virtue of defeating Circle, Poplar, Plentywood, and Wolf assisted by Don Duda. In 1959 the coaches were Gordon Point for district honors, and losing to Sidney in the title Stoddard and Leo Reinhold. Mr. Stoddard also coached the play[...]ntana Championship. Credit 1960 team , and he was assisted by Harlan Stahlecker. must be given to Coach Reinhart and his group of boys for Bill Hilton took over the coaching duties in 1961 , '62 and their fine sportsmanship and showing during the season. '63. Assistant coach was Clay Dunlap. Larry Veis and Rod The Spartans won the first District Football[...]Honorable Mention Awards in 1961. undefeated, and unscored upon in regular play.[...]Hilton was head coach , assisted by Clay Dunlap and men in 1943, most of them inexperienced underclassmen. Roger Schultz. The new coach was George Heen and the team won one Mr. Munson took over the head coaching duties in 1965, game and lost four. assisted by Mr. Burton and Mr. Hallock. The Spartans Twenty men played fo[...]the In 1966 the Spartans won three games and lost five with Spartans and they lost six games . Mr. Munson as the head coach , and Mrs . Burton the The Spartan football team beg[...]iors playing on the 1967 football squad. Indians and the Plentywood Wildcats and lost four games. They were coached by Mr. Carter and Mr. Hallock. The 1946 Spartan football squad g[...]he assistant coach. banquet was held for the team and their fathers at which Coach Steve Leva[...]r T. Scott of Butte presented 25 silver footballs to in 1969. The Spartans had three wins, and five losses. Coach Butters and his team. Ther[...]In 1970 the Spartans had a record of three wins and five the team won four games and lost three. The losses. Pete Dickson , Rick Danelson and Jim Darchuk championship playoff against Wolf Poi[...]ime the Wolf Point Wolves broke away for 14 yards to Although the Scobey Spartans compiled on[...]Butters was assisted by Wayne Casman and five record in 1971 it was a year of pride and and Bill Cullen. atisfaction for the team , school and community. In 1948 thirty-five boys turned out[...]der Coach Butters, having a three Levad. and one record. Because of a tie in conference standings, In 1972 the Spartans had a record of two wins and six Scobey and Plentywood had to square off for the losses. Quarterback Dan Audet was chosen to represent championship. Plentywood won its first[...]6. Yanni and Myron Sizer, head coach Mr. Levad . Thirty-thr[...]eam In 1973 Coach Levad led the Spartans to a four and four had a season ending with one win, and three losses. season. Coach Levad was assisted by Mr. Yanni and Mr. Coach Butters' squad won four games and lost two in the Sizer. 1950 season. It was h[...]artans. The Scobey Spartans amassed a five and three record in No record is available for the[...]sisted by Mr. Baker. No were Mr . Yanni and Mr. Sizer. records available for 1952 although th[...]ss B football for first place with Broadus and Medicine Lake , and championship with a team that gave Scobey the most al together had a record of six wins and two losses. Coach successful season in its histor[...]Levad was assisted by George Rider, Joe Sullivan and Cal a warded the second place trophy in the football Moore. tournament in Wolf Point, and participated in the State Compiled by Ste[...]he Montana Athletic Association, awarded a trophy to the school and silver footballs to the team members. Mr. Halstead was the coach. The Spartans defeated Poplar, Circle, Wolf Point, Malta and Plentywood. Fairview SCOBEY BA[...]1920-1921 No records were available for 1954 and 1955. Mr. Halstead coached the 1954 squad, and Charles Van The girls' basketball team was composed of players who Gordon and Bob Southada coached the 1955 team.[...]es, the strongest teams in North Dakota and eastern Montana won one and tied for one.[...]year in 1957 under Froid's experience and weight won for them. The next day coach Van Gordo[...]tied in the conference for they stopped and dropped another game. The girls were secon[...] |
| lo ing to Medicine Lake at home on January 15 by a much[...]them down to one basket and finishing with a score of: January Outlook played at Scobey and won, the score Outlook 22, Scobey 29.[...]The final whistle blew with Scobey, 19, and Medicine Lake, tates, beat us at home 46 to 7. two in the lea[...]ason was played with the We lost to Outlook, on a square court, with none foot Williston girl at cobey with an to score for the first baskets, January 22. Fairview at Scobey, with Fairview half and Williston s game 15-14. With their enthusiasm winning, 33 to 11; a four day tour of eastern Montana with and one year ' experience in the 1921-1922 girls' tea[...]hree games _played - Scobey defeated Sidney, lost to should be a remarkable one. Fairview 7-6, and lost to Bainville. Last home game Scobey Team : Helen Pri[...]defeated Plentywood, 21-12. Scobey lost to Medicine Lake Lile , Viola Dobbin , Adelaide Johnson , Myrtle Jevnager. and Glasgow in the district tournament held in Wolf P[...]n, des pite the fact that this was our first year and tournament held in Laurel. Scobey defeated[...]Scobey's opening game; Hardin won over Scobey 63 to Pra ise hould be extended to Coach Miller, who had 41 and Red Lodge forced Scobey out of the tourney 50-39. through hard work managed to turn out a good team, Scobey, aga[...]basketball candidates. Practice was begun at one and a In Scobey's first game the Spartans[...]d Froid High at Scobey 56-36. Froid. Due to inexperience we lost the game with a score of[...]The next trip to the state tourney was made in 1954. In Janua r[...]e identification on the back of the picture, left to 1948 Scobey Spartan basketball team, left to right hack rig ht, back ro w: Braaten, Harold Pug[...]yko, Clay Gilchrist, Coach Butters. Morris Pugh , and Howard Schaefer.[...] |
| [...]Spartans won the divisional tournament in Scobey and went on to play in the State Tournament in Glasgow. Don Nutt[...]n the state tourney as Laurel defeated them 68-39 and Chinook won over them 42-37. From left to right front row: Don Christianson, Ray Trower, Ha[...]Quentin Karlsrud, Elmer Gilchrist, Richard Roland and Coach Manley Butters. Scobey Spartans - 1954. Left to right: Earl Jackson, Cliff Hagfeldt, Ira F[...] |
| 1976 Scobey Spartan State Tournament Team from left to right: Dale Barstad, Bill Bartole, Bryan Tousley,[...]: Scobey 44 - Big Fork 37; second game Scobe lost to For yth 42-39 . The 1976 Spartan basketball te<Lm, coached by head coach Greg Pauley and assistant coach Jan Ophus, was the first Spartan team to play in the state tournament in twenty-two years. (1954) Scobey School Band - 1935. Left to right back row: Ned Blevins and Kirk Veis, Scobey seniors, have received |
| [...]omestead" at Scobey High in 1937. Front row, left to right: Mauricette Constant, Eileen Parks, Ruth Sc[...]e, Gloria 4th of July Parade - 1976. Back to camera: Joe Lohr, Heppner, Lillian Crawford, Hazel Himli, Catherine Kevin and Kile Myhre, Kristi Zieske, Jill Lohr. MacIntyre,[...]s plays, Future Farmers of America, a Latin Club. and a tumbling class. A 1940 ann ,.1al of Scobey H[...]ary, Manford Jackson; treasurer, Eugene Anderson; and advisor, C.J. DeStaffany. It had 55 member[...] |
| [...]FLOWER Blue and Gold Morning Glory[...]older ladies were present and among them a dear old[...]hostess, overhearing the conversation, spoke up and said,[...]Mrs. Flickinger' s birthday was December 26th, and Mrs.[...]Lawson's birthday December 28th so we decided to have a[...]· party at her house and it was held December 27th, 1937. At[...]Discher' s grandchildren, Betty Discher and George[...]arrangements with the local photographer to take pictures of the group and each lady was presented with a picture.[...]Fowler's (now Mrs. Koster). We were all invited to come to her home January 8th, 1938 and Mrs. Elizabeth Collins,[...]the occasion. Bingo was played before lunch and we must[...]e all enjoyed ourselves immensely. " We Are Going To School" walking float in the 4th of July Our Sunshine Club has been active and still is, and Parade - 1976. Front row: Kristi Zieske, Jill Loh[...]many good parties are being held from time to time. Hanrahan, Kile and Kevin Myhre. Back row: Claire[...]N TRAIN September 1st, 1948, that Mrs. L. Discher and Mrs. K. Knudson should write the history of the S[...]recreation including family, friends and community[...] |
| [...]Hellickson, Graden Michel, and Roy Connell of Glasgow.[...]In the wagon were Virginia and Kim Hellickson, Orrie and Alvie Baldry and Weston Dickinson.[...]Eagle's Nest, north to the Canadian border, returning to Scobey to help promote the annual Threshing Bee. The[...]train consisted of 12 wagons, some new drivers and some[...]and in places it was required to have some outriders hang[...]on the uphill side of some wagons to keep them from[...]extra team to the original ones to make four head to make[...]and we borrowed a pack horse from the Kent Drury pack[...]outfit to put into harness so the train could go on. That f[...]Bob and Lil Tande, Ted and Margaret Williamson and Arlee and Maxine Baldry traveling from Land usky to 1975 wagon train circle at Toaves dam[...]1973 was a big year with our tour from Scobey to Wolf Point to help celebrate the 50th Annual Wild Horse[...]wagons under the gatherings. Each year it travels to some community to help leadership ofElner Halverson. We joine[...]ed Wood Mountain Train at Scotty's Corral to complete a the idea in 1970 and everyone who was contacted was very carav[...]Saddle Club, should have a unit claim to be the only participant who traveled to the first participating. A delegation was organized and they Wild Horse Stampede by horse and wagon in 1923 and purchased a team of black horses, Lady and Lad. This again 50 years later in 1973 with her grandsons and team was the feature team in the 1972 Montana Tourist families the Elvin and Roland Holums, also by covered and road map publication. The wagon was a creation due wagon. She also contributed to the teamster work while to the efforts of members and the Scobey school. The enroute. Scobe[...]h year. The 1974 wagon train traveled to Poplar, Montana. Tom Even though the wagoneers came from a large area, we are Halverson and Kent Drury manning the boss detail on this called[...]ing outriders. Also several wagoneers and outriders traveled to driving teams, we were ready to travel and travel we have Flaxville to help promote the 750 Club Days later that year. f[...]We traveled from Zerbe Brothers to Wolf Point with the The work and planning that goes into our organization Wolf Point members in charge. There were several units has to be contributed to the entire club and participating including members from Wolf Point, Scobey and Peerless. members. Each year we have had a differ[...]s been rolling, the which makes for interesting and invigorating wagon trail blazing job has been han[...]mewhat like starting the day with a cool Peerless and his helpers. The water wagon and emergency shower. vehicle equipped with mobile phone, owned and operated 1975, another big year, as Monte Montana accompanied by Ron and Janet Ereth, has been with us also the entire by Patsy Montana and several units from California, way.[...]headed for Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, and South Dakota and various Montana areas combirie<l Canada under the leadership of Bob Tande to help them in honor of Monte's 50th yea[...]we had a caravan of 33 units leaving Scobey and again and a score of outriders. The most colorful entries o[...]son train were two oldtimers, Ed Murphy of Scobey and Ray guiding us on our way. Upon arrivi[...]made the 75 mile combined with the Poplar and Whitewater trains for a trip, driving ponies on a[...]total of 4 7 wagons in the parade. We were again to our rules. Ray, at 72, rode his horse and packed up from represented on the Milk River Train, traveling from Wolf Point to Scobey to join our train and complete the trip Whitewater south to Malta. Arlee and Maxine Baldry's to Wood Mountain. Many exciting events took place wagon and pole team combining with Don Anderson and including breakdowns, runaways and buck-offs. We had his lead team to make up the only four horse hitch on the some jubilant observers who visited one evening and entire combined trains at Malta. Sev[...]the circle, causing an exciting traveled to Flaxville for the 750 Club Days. chain of events.[...]ning is almost complete for the North East wagons and three outriders took part in the Milk River Montana Bicentennial Train. We will haul to Opheim, Train from Zortman to Malta, Montana. Representing parade in Opheim June 26 and 27, then start for Scobey the Scobey were Bob and Lil Tande with the Saddle Club 28th herded along by Don Anderson of Scobey. We will wagon and team, Arlee and Maxine Baldry with the arrive in Scobey July 2nd and organize for the Hellickson brother's wagon and team and outriders Ken Bicentennial Parade to be held July 3rd. We are working on[...] |
| n offi ial Wagon T rain flag . The colors of red, white and Our projects are financed by serving dinners,[...]sponsoring carnivals, talent shows, style shows, and food will also have six star for the years we've[...]3 when the school undertook the helping ourselves and neighboring communities with project. celebrations and good clean outdoor living.[...]ine Baldry Claire Hillstrom, Mildred Poyner, and Edna Waller, with[...]MEMORIAL SUNDAY AND DECORATION DAY A group ofladies met on January 14, 1946 for the purpose TO BE OBSERVED AT SCOBEY of organizing a unit of the[...]Tucker will preach the sermon. treasurer and recording secretary; Mrs. Vic Hillstrom,[...]secretary. and Scobey Post of American Legion will attend and the Charter members were: Mesdames G. Hayes, V[...]elena, Gordon Crandall, American Legion and other organizations will parade. 0. Paus, Albert[...]M.E. Nelson, R.V. Walker, Chris Veis, M.J. Sorte, and Mrs. will take the place of honor in the par[...]o'clock p.m. after which there will be a parade to the The first project was to start a library, later named the cemetery where the gra ves will be decorated and Community Library, situated in the basement of th[...]e had met with the Lion's Club of the Legion and Veterans request that their members and the county commissioners. The members raised the report at Memorial Hall at 1:30 p.m. from which place they necessary money in various ways, collected books and, 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 the day. and named Daniels County Library.[...]William R. Among many other projects sponsored and supported Pash, Hames M. Rhodes, Geor[...]Brown 0. were the T.B. X-ray unit, a $1,000 gift and $2,500 toward Friske, Frank J. Mersen, Alex Mallard and Jule DeLattre. the building fund as well as fundi[...]Post, named after Selmer Oie, was Paul completion to the Daniels County hospital; support of the[...]Little League baseball team; funding a lifeguard and 6, 1880. Of his early years little is[...]g pool; installing park tables 1895 he went to Santa Cruz, California to live with his and benches at the city park; donating books to the school grandfather. In December of 1895 he left California and and hosting teacher's receptions. We have given boxes of went to live with his father, an attorney, in Fargo, North merchandise to the veteran's hospital, and yearly Dakota. He attended school in Fargo until the spring of donations are made to the Red Cross, polio, Scouts, Fort 1898. Harrison, Shodair hospital , the Penny Art Fund, and When the Spanish American War broke[...]attempted to enlist in the First North Dakota Volunteer[...] |
| [...]Crum, after arnvmg in Manila, attached himself to Company B, first North Dakota Volunteers and[...]the fighting died down he attempted to enlist in the[...]down because of age. In his determination to enlist he obtained a pass to Manila and walked to Marilso where'the[...]military equipment and was allowed to perform duty and[...]House Resolution 3388, an act to place Paul Crum on the[...]Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, from 28 March 1899 to 20June[...]attorney in Scobey and a member of A.R. Patters'on Post 7,[...]V.F.W., worked to form a Post in this area. It was decided[...]France. Chief of Staff Taylor wrote to Crum: I wish to[...]officer knew that he was the state." too young and would not swear him into the service. Crum[...]re listed on the charter. The addresses then went 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 Saskatchewan. Two Civil Wa; About the same time the New York Volunteer Infantry and veterans of Scobey, John A. Davis and William H. the Tenth Pennsylvania were in camp ou[...]rary memberships. Gustav Again he made an attempt to enlist, but was turned down Oie, a brother of[...]member. He then attempted to enlist in the First Nebraska Paul Crum was chosen first Commander, and Fred Volunteer Infantry but the commander, Captain Killian Irving Davis was picked to be First Adjutant. did not have the authority to enlist him. However Captai~ During the hard[...]s" it was difficult Killian did permit young Crum to go with his command to to keep the Post active, but due to the endeavors of a few Manila, where he stated that he would attempt to enlist digging into their pockets and paying the dues of others him. they were able to retain the charter. Fourth of July parad[...] |
| [...]enlisted in the army at Scobey June, 1917, and was in[...]in the campaigns of 1918 and died in a base hospital in[...]TO POST 173 The Auxiliary to Selmer Oie Post 173, Veterans of[...]Gertrude Suchy, Margaret Stagg and Shirley Turner. On December 7, 1941 the United[...]in The Auxiliary works as an aid to the Post in helping the thrown into war. The adde[...]d by the war local charities for veterans and their families and in giving ca used the Post to become more a ctive, and late in 1944 gifts and donations to veteran hospitals and old soldier's $400 was donated to the Depa rt m ent Relief Fund. John home[...]master a nd veter an of the Spanish and standards to organizations, patriotic materials to American War, went out a nd signed up man y new schools, and sponsored patriotic contests for schools. The members, hitting the parents of m en over seas or catching Auxiliary has[...]us building the donated playground equipment to the City Park, furnished post into a strong Post[...]a public address system to the ball park, run a refreshment Ormand W. Paus[...]1, 1945, was the fi rst member of donated to the hospital , swimming pool and nurse's Selmer Oie Post 173 to lose his life on the field of battle. scholar[...]Post National Home in Michigan for widows and orphans of became involved in various financial enterprises, and in veterans , and are active in donating to cancer research 1949 donated $1529 to the Scobey Swimming P ool fund. and encouraging their members to do community work. This money was raised by promo[...]Current projects include Christmas gifts and donations the first Pitch Tournament in Mon tana. A VFW Club was to veteran 's hospitals and the local Daniels Memorial formed , purchasing what is now Bill & Betty's a nd the Home and purchasing of the national flag and standard as Club 109, better known by the old tim[...]centennial project. This venture didn't last long and was sold later . On October 29, 1957 Paul Crum[...]sponsored the Babe Ruth team fo r several years, and has co-sponsored all Americanism, Veterans A history of Daniels County that is to be worthy cannot Day and Memorial Day patriotic programs. omit mention of the political, economic and social strife When the Daniels County Retiremen[...]t that brought heights of frustration and bitterness in the the Post contributed $1000 to the fund. Each year Post 173 great depressi[...]e, time send3 one junior boy from the high school to the American cools the combatants and tends to clarify the issues. There Legion Boys State Semin[...]emotions unless we realize The Post would like to pay homage to P a st that really the history[...]ours on th e each day when the sun sets and the record thereof appears books[...]on the television screen in the evening and on newspaper books; and Marvin Sorte, with 40 years continuous[...], we must always let time membership in the post, and a worked in the post up t o the temporize be[...]nto the time of his death. The Post is still here and will continue to books. 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.[...]fundamental , Selver Oie, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Sven E. Oie, was inalienable rights, who claimed for man the right to be born at Madison, Minnesota in 1887. He came to Scobey in master of his government and his destiny. He was a man the years before 1913 and worked for his brother Gustav, who[...] |
| [...]Yes, as late as our memories on that. The 1930 to 1940 periodicals are still 1912 Woodrow Wilson, the professor at Princeton wrote there. To convince anyone that I am not presently this: "Th[...]eoples in strife against their governments trying to periodicals from 1945 to 1975 and search them for serious aggrandize their power."[...]controversy between Big Business, Big Labor and Big At our constitutional convention the found[...]feeling" between them. So have our economic and political power of the other, making a system of checks and problems been solved, and so can we expect these great balances to limit the executive, legislative and judicial and diverse powers to live together in perpetual brotherly powers, spec[...]can only speculate on the peaceful conditions. It and those reserved to the people. Yes, and they added the looks suspiciously like "Detente" to me. Could we conclude first ten amendments making[...]thout positive proof that big business, big labor and big of individuals should not be denied by govern[...]pointed out a very bad does even propose to legislate responsible handling of the omission by[...]oken record they leaders? Why too, have long and hard fought strikes been maintained that the huge corporations and the so rare in recent years?[...]ve, it is now forces against them. difficult to concede that they were right again! Many of[...]protection, the legal these people even· refused to permit their children to protection, while Big Business provides the campaign "pledge allegiance to the Flag" or to sing the Star funds and Big Labor delivers the vote. And two hundred Spangled Banner in school. No, I will[...]sequences which will likely be therefore disloyal to American per se. They were unwilling chains of political tyranny before the third Happy to let flag waving cloud the issue in which they so[...]trange then that these liberals prove to be more perceptive than we were in Daniels found[...]ust for government 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 chances are small. subdue the "Economi[...]history will Today we face the effects to our air and water from the prove they were wrong! In the prob[...]ct just north of the border. Citizens their means to solve the problem they were wrong! That[...]am has been built. The was the cause for the fury and contempt of the practices of b[...]ncing the conservative. They (the Liberals) aided and abetted the residents. Will individuals show enough insight to deal Federal usurpation of greater anc,l greater power, the with the project and its Big Business protectors? This destruction of 50 sovereign states to the extent of declaring challenge will need to be met. all 50 legislatures unconstitutional. They gave sound Watch the TV, magazines and newspapers. 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 ev[...]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 b[...]would-be masters. Senator Jackson of Washington and pronouncements of liberals might be most enlight[...]cratic leaders are beginning So then how right and how wrong were the to express no confidence in big government and to see the conservatives. I was one of lthem. We did not believe that point that "power" corrupts and "absolute power" corrupts big business and international bankers were dangerous to absolutely. When both the liberals and conservatives of our liberty. We noted the past[...]. We believed in the sure are dedicated to liberty and to the future of a status quo. We believed that cha[...]Communist ticket for public office (Scobey 1935) and standard of living. We were so shamefully wrong[...]e of man has had its yapping Jackals. government and its past financial policies and its failure to exercise authority to control corporate and banker greed[...]tles of the great depression between big business and government. We remember Ed Carney, 50, Daniels County farmer and former distinctly battles between business and government legislator, sinc[...] |
| Department. He and his family have been living in Helena 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. lessees and to firm up water rights by use. The new division[...]f the State Legislature coordinated with SCS and soil and water districts, passed a law which allows the State Land Department to involving state land lessees. set aside[...]rking partnerships," Mr. Carney toward improving and/ or preserving state owned land. emphasi[...]and a pumping site for border site irrigation system[...]division is to properly claim and use water resources for[...]state and lessee.[...]Professional and Occupational Licensing.[...]eing a successful farmer, The Thrift Shop and the son of homesteaders, plus having headed up a[...]GI bill shortly Tande's Toggery after WWII, and the fact that northeastern Montana has Ho[...]many thousands of acres of state land, added up to the Sears Catalog Store right job for th[...]course of his work, Mr. Carney has not Clubs and Lounges: been handicapped by the fact that the c[...]is visit here, the Leader asked Mr. Maxine and Arlee's Bar Carney what was one of his first ste[...]ought it would be a good idea," Mr. Carney said, "to Montana Liquor Store have a visit with Dave Drumm. He was the originator and chief sponsor of the bill in 1967 which set up th[...]n in the State Land Department. It seemed logical to Montana Dakota Utilities me that I should kno[...]ands administration when he was Automobile and Implement Dealers: looking for likely tourist cam[...], INc. Although this was a rather unique basis to set up a law Hillstrom Motors for programs l[...]mplement Land Department came into being. Its job and policies are directed toward carrying out the following kinds of Insurance Agents and Banks: activity in cooperation with those leasing[...]niels Agency Range renovation .... maintaining and improving, where Northwestern National Life[...]Citizens State Bank & Murphy Agency federal and s a te agencies in each county.[...] |
| [...]l & Betty's Variety Hotels and Motels: Recreation Center[...]t Shops & Variety: Barber and Beauty Shops: Bill & Betty's Variety (mentioned a[...]Stella's Beauty Shop Medical and Drug ·services: Mazel's Beauty[...]Great Northern Railway Station Coast to Coast Hard ware OK Hardware[...]ery AND OTHERS Special Services: Prairie Cleaners[...] |
| [...]- AUTO . That old suit was mighty good in its day and if you let us clean it. It can be used[...]~AND[...]Kavon (now of Plentywood) and managed by Harry[...]finest structure in town, and across the street is the Pioneer Realty company, to be replaced in a few years by the big You will[...]Frank Getschel and Sons, then Coast to Coast. IN THE[...]• Give us a call and be convinced[...] |
| [...]I! TO THE GALLANT OF WORLD WAR II[...]■ Kay Francis and Nila Aather in ! Invoc[...]"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United[...]■ Comedy and Oddity States of America and to the Republic for which[...]and Justice for All."[...]!! Comedy and News Friday, Saturday, Nov. 10-11-[...]Tribute to Gold Star Parents Rev. Virgil T . Foss Mr. and Mrs. Willia!Tl Bernard, Four Buttes[...]Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Bystrom, Scobey[...]Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Collins, Scobey[...]Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Richert, Whitetail[...]Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Baldry, Richland Mr. and Mrs. George Rubin, Whitetail[...]■ Comedy, Cartoon and Oddity Mr. and Mrs. Meldon Jones, Scobey[...]Nov. 12-13-14- Mr. and Mrs. L. 0. Pittinger, Scobey[...]. . Judge David N. Nyquist Helen Hayes and Rob't. Montgomery in[...]Tribute to Service Men and Veterans[...]Ii Comedy and News[...] |
| [...]to present Season[...]or 16 years to the life of your frame[...]"It Costs More Not to Paint[...]Than It Does To Paint."[...]fast as c1 popular concert artist over radio and televis ion. His appear- ance here will be a[...]- com plished pianist, who will, in addition to his duties as accomp::mist, also give a numb[...]Ii Ready-Made Aprons and Lunch Cloths For Sale[...]HOURS: ONE TO SIX P. M.[...] |
| [...]Administering the oath of office to Sorte during[...]preme Court chambers was Associate HUBERT AND MABEL SAVAGEAU Jus[...]Justices Frank I. Haswell and John W. Bonner. A former Scobey and Flaxville lady, Mrs. Mabel Hasw[...]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 family will make their home in Wolf naval shi[...]Roosevelt County. the flags had a number assigned to each batch of ten. Sorte succeeds Di[...]ve of Scobey, seat of Daniels County. He statuary and on U.S. stamps, Mrs. Savageau was notified[...]one of the flags that she had made. Montana and is a 1960 graduate of the University of The years[...]rps. (It will be recalled Anderson from 1960 to 1962. He was in private legal that several of the[...]practice in Great Falls from 1962 until 1966 and also served on Iwo Jima either lost their lives d[...]Sorte was a deputy counsel to the Oregon Legislature in The Savageau family lived in the Scobey and Flaxville 1968. He returned to the attorney general's office in Helena area during the 20's and 30's. Mr. Savageau was a later that year. blacksmith and Mabel worked at one of the local tailor[...]- son, Cecil, born 1914. (above information sent to Office of Economic Opportunity in January.[...]ost until being named an administrative assistant to the and printed in Daniels County Leader)[...]He is married to the former Anne Brown of Bigfork. THE LITTL[...]en a scene from a slapstick comedy, but it |
| [...]y the Leader, is the almost As Schauer ran to catch up with the Patrol, which had unbelieveable[...]of his unit. Schauer stopped, aimed, and his burst of fire Leader also received a large pi[...]d killed five German 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 The Battle Pa[...]along the he might better locate their positions and then eliminate road. This time it was tempo[...]rican enemy artillery concentration and two machine guns soldiers and by his officers who rate him as the best[...]One of the German machine guns was only 60 yards And with that marksmanship Schauer has nerves of stee[...]ont of the ditch while the other was emplaced 500 and courage entirely beyond common understanding.) yards distant, to the right front. With the Third Division of th[...]my fire. It was Schauer 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 anoth[...]famed breakthrough from the Anzio gunner and the assistant at the nearest German gun were beachhead and piled up a score that is hard to beat in any killed. Just then two more Germans ran to man the gun. man 's army-17 Germans in as many hours. Both crumpled to the ground dead when Schauer gave He was prese[...]was all the same to Schauer. When the Third Division prepared to make the With four more Germans and the nearest enemy weapon breakthrough at Cisterna[...]s away which was firing at him Cisterna. In order to reach the highway it had to clean the without let-up. Carefully inserting[...]otect its regiment's flank in BAR, he sighted and emptied the magazine into the four- the advance, cross abroad flat wheat field and a road, man German crew. All four were killed. move through a woods, and cover more open terrain before Once aga[...]le Patrol. through the woods and reached its objective, Highway No. For three and one-half hours members of the Battle 7.[...]uous German grazing machine gun fire, once having to leap concertina wire, then all flat and keep going. The patrol had its first tough time when it reached the ditch beside the road it was to cross. The enemy was throwing a lot of small arms fire at the men from the front and right front. And, to make matters worse, four snipers opened up on the[...]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 road near the house, and the 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 t[...]d their fire from the other members of the patrol and centered their fire on Schauer. It is easy to guess how close they came to him-enemy sniper bullets at a range of oqly 200 yards and less either shave you or part your hair. But Schauer seemed to have nerves of steel. He stood upright, raised his automatic rifle to his shoulder, and went to work. The snipers 170 yards a way alongside the house were low to the ground, blending in with the grass. Two burst[...]d moved about 800 yards down the ditch impossible to spot. Schauer fired again. One burst was[...]opened up on it from a point of 100 yards to the front. In[...] |
| addition, a German Mark VI tank, 600 yards to the left, fired a number of rounds in rapid succe[...]~ -.I forward a few yards and stood upright, facing the machine gun only 80 yar[...]tank fired at least four shells d"rectly at him, and each one burst within 20 yards of him, showering him with dirt. Schauer raised his BAR to his schoulder. The 20 rounds in the magazine kill[...]17 Germans, knocked out three machine gun nests, and personally eliminated the most dangerous threats both to the Battle Patrol itself and to its successful advance and accomplishment of its important mission. Henry Schauer is the one man from eastern and northern Montana who rates a salute from all army[...]uding five star generals, an honor that goes only to men who have won the Medal of Honor.[...]An unofficial survey at this time points strongly to the fact that Vic Hillstrom, Scobey car and implement dealer, holds the record for the bigges[...]t occurred last Sunday when he The dress and cap are of fine black wool, richly and his wife and grandson, Doug Hillstrom, were fishing embroidered. A matching purse is hooked to the belt. The down by the old dam. white blouse is made of linen and is adorned with hand The fishing party was having generally good luck as the tatting at the cuffs and neckline. day progressed, but when Vic landed tha[...]h Occasionally Mrs. Hammer wears the dress to some of witnesses ... anditcertainlywasthat ... w[...]a lodge made up of natives of Hadeland and their The fish wei~hed eight pounds and was 22 inches long. descendents. Mrs. Hammer has served as secretary- He gave it to Herman Forbregd, another fisherman, who[...]resigned this year. cooked it up Tuesday evening and is planning on Her son, Magne, inh[...]e had had his picture taken with being made to attract more second-generation Norwegians the big fish, he gave us that kind of a look he can give and into the organization and English is now being used at said, "Now don't put[...]ers have been members for 20 What are you going to do with a guy like that! years. S[...]maybe it was Izzak Wal ton, said Both Mr. and Mrs. Lars Hammer were raised in the state that th[...]t count the time taken out for of Hadeland and were married there in 1913. Their oldest fishing; and we wonder if perhaps on the big ones a fella son, Magne, was also born there. In 1916 they came to isn't entitled to some overtime. America, and their ocean crossing was especially At any rate[...]of the rubber tape memorable because they had to travel 300 miles west of the measure and the great days along a stream or in a boat on a usual course to avoid German U boats. lake. MRS.[...]me such as is worn on festive occasions To many modern day farmers the old Ford Model TT ton[...]de the costume herself, starting it top and side curtains with isinglass windows, is just a |
| [...]mud and snow, took the abuse of potholes and deep ruts, and even came through with its original plate glass ([...]markable because the truck was completely exposed to[...]In cold weather Mr. Miller says he used to get the truck[...]going by pouring hot water in the radiator and jacking up[...]snow got too deep he put the truck a way and resorted to[...]Rust has taken its toll of the truck body, and the old side-[...]been worn out and removed. But Mr. Miller still has what is Fred Mi[...]left of the curtains, and pointed out the special flaps that[...]enabled a person to poke an arm through to open the door,[...]was retired to light duties, which it still performs. It is ofte[...]towed to the field behind the tractor so that Mr. Miller h[...]way to ride home.[...]Ford, but does not plan to part with it.[...]"You get sentimentally attached to something that has[...]for $150 during a trip to Minnesota. He drove it west as far[...]had to buy chains in order to get up the hill.[...]Matilda Rolseth, at Pequot, Minn. He continued to correspond with her when he returned to Montana, and in 1927 she came to Wolf Point to become his bride.[...]She passed away in 1956, and their daughter, Mrs. Fred on his 1930 model Holt[...]$900, and was considered high priced at that time. It is a[...]that truck," Mr. Mi]ierrecalls. "It was my pride and his World War I Veterans bonus for the down[...]ime." \ and it took him a long time to finish pay for it because of Before that, Mr.[...]r the drought. transportation, and the 20-mile trip to Scobey from the Ole The low seat of the[...]was a though he used an old car cushion to raise it, and there was two-day trip. no way to stand up while driving. But he found it superior[...]nsportation (the truck could make all of20 to the old two cylinder Avery that he had owned before, miles an hour) traveling time to town was drastically and also to horse for heavy work. He used it until 1949, reduced. Mr. Miller says he was never tempted to travel when he bought a rubber tired tr[...]iller has lived in the county drove them too fast and overloaded them, th us wearing area since 1914, when he came to Scobey with an them out in a short time.[...]in. He Since the speed of the truck was limited and it was not came with Cris Estenson, for whom he had been working powerful enough to carry more than a standard load of 60 at[...]ot out of the train bushels it was easy on tires, and the rear wheels have had below the Redstone hill and walked up the hill, easily only two sets of tires[...]he half way between the T.H. Shipstead and W.W. Howard main repairs needed by the truck have[...]ll Creek valley. He took time off from which used to break frequently until the manufacturer homesteading to serve overseas in the U.S. Army, arriving[...] |
| months of European duty he returned to the Scobey area, Expecting that the[...]ff Tuesday this He proved up his claim in 1920, and in 1923 sold it to week and examined the works. Strangely enough the big Fran[...]sterling silver ;~ase was still shiny, and except for some Shipstead that summer, and started in again for himself discolora[...]lvin Evenson works still look bright and the hair spring in fine shape.No moved to Minnesota in 1938 he acquired his farm[...]Don says the only treatment necessary will be to set the works in cleaning solution and do some polishing. The face[...]in good running condition-thanks to the watchful eye of[...]Aime Carrier's boy who happened to see the shiny object[...]the raffle of the old Model T fire truck amounted to slightly more than $800. Firemen COWBOY RECALLS MEMORIES OF expect to apply this sum on the hoped-for purchase of a INTERESTING PAST new, light firetruck to replace the old pickup-still in service- which has been in use for about fifteen years, and By Dorothy Rustebakke is[...]the scene of any fire. Getting back, however, to the matter of the old Model T To Dave Willoughby, equestrian performer at the truc[...]ounty Fair this week, we feel it was a wise thing to dispose ofit; and fortunately visiting the Scobey area was so[...]Twas came with his family from Kansas to Culbertson in 1909, won by Paul Huber of Wolf Point. It was delivered to him often dealt with horses in this are[...]He recalls that in traveling between Poplar and Scobey who proudly told us at the meeting Monday this week that he used to make it a point to stop at the George Kirn ranch, on the trip from here to Wolf Point he made all the hills on where h[...]ecounting how he Thanksgiving dance and dinner in 1916, and an made all the hills on high, we could not help but think back adventure involving 67 ho13es. to the days, many years ago, when he was a young sch[...]had a under a sub-contract from Gilmore and Love of Miles City. grocery and dry goods store in the location now occupied He attended a Thanksgiving dance here where it seemed to by the Ben Franklin store and Woodwards, both of which, him as if everyone in Scobey went to celebrate the holiday. incidentally, are still Ha[...]state. He won a turkey, and also obtained another one from a In those days[...]d won one. The two turkeys were used for a hand, and the maximum speed at which any corner could dinner party on Thanksgiving at the Smith and Boyd be turned. On this route also, under his tu[...]occupied by Carl's Tavern. young lads of his age and younger got their first Willoughby had obtained 67 horses from the Scobey opportunity to learn ho-·.v to drive. He also knew the exact area, which he started off, with three riders, to Poplar. But clearances along Main street sidewal[...]as the animals were started out they all decided to and lamp posts. He was one of the few who could negot[...]at a fairly good speed without Horses and automobiles were borrowed from all over the hitt[...]ccasional concr.ete stoop. Scobey area to help round up the runaways. Yes, when Luverne[...]illoughby recalls, had headed down the firetruck to Wolf Point, making all the hills on high, we[...]could be done at all, he could do it! attempted to stop them, but every time she passed them,[...]Willoughby's family moved to south of Poplar in 1911, PLOWS UP WATCH LO[...]Willoughby squatted on a claim there, and later proved it Jeweler Says Only Minor Repairs[...]In addition to dealing with horses, he worked on various June 3,[...]nches in the area. He recalls riding with Charles and Joe Nadeau came in to see Don Trower, the jeweler, the Jack Evans, and the "Doc" Atkinson bunch. He preferred other day.[...]g with horses rather than cattle because he liked to During the recent spring work his watch-lost since 1917- ride fast and there was more excitement in horses. had been plo[...]ar. For 31 years-through 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 roped and later ferried across. lain in the soil. Th[...] |
| [...]as 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 gro[...]e embroiled in matter how much dirt. junk and other debris Jimmy a disagreement with an Indian[...]Hatfield shot from behind some inquiring; and what he learned only partially solved the kitchen[...]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. Willoughby began his[...]The late Frank Beeks, you will recall, used to make the and Poplar area. He learned trick riding, and also had rounds of the town with his ou[...]cing at Poplar in 1915. barrel or gallon to those not connected with the city water In 1916 he took his horses to Great Falls and there won a system. $400 relay race.[...]g about the well which defies out in California , and stayed there, still working horses . filling[...]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[...]Jones, Hopalong Cassidy, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. , and the other early cowboy actors. At Santa Fe, Calif. , Willoughby worked for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and later for Bing Crosby. For seven years[...]mong the best movie horses he trained , according to Mrs. Knute Knudson had an electric rang[...]her home this week , the first of its kind to be placed in a Gibson in the " Wild Horse Picture" and 12 horses used in Scobey home, according to report. "The Outlaw," the picture in whi~h Jane Russell[...]start. One of these, a red roan , was trained to drag a supposedly drowning man out of the river by his clothing. Willoughby also worked as a trick rider, and one of his favorite stunts was a Roman ride between a horse and car at 35 miles per hour. In 1955 Willoughby chose Klichitat to " retire" with. He is ANECDOTES - JOKES a black and white spotted horse 16 hands high. The name means " dancing feet" in Yakima Indian, and is the name According to Sam (A.M.) Dunn, in the early days of of a river[...]Whitetail country, farmers fenced their crops to keep cattle Klichi tat' s back feet were educated to dance before he and horses out. If a cow persistently got into a man's crop, was trained to dance with his front feet , or even to be that cow usually ended up on his dinne[...]Cy complimented Hoak on the good beef. He went on to say " When the back feet learn first , they become automatic," that he had never eaten his own beef, to which Hoak he says.[...]condition, he called on Bill to see how he had treated his Ted Hachman and "Tuffy" Tong both underestimated horse. He asked Bill this question, and Bill said he'd given the length of a goose 's neck and are the wiser for it. Halvor the horse some ker[...]the " Goose" Olson , who contemplates a trip back to the old same way and it died. He went back to Cook's and said, country soon , brought 20 live geese to Scobey a few days "Say, Bill, I gave kerosene to my horse. and he died." Bill ago. They were raffled off in a di[...]ice tossers, had his goose under his arm tail-end-to as he was playing one of the pin- ball games. Beh[...]easing the Fred Haun writes that he and some friends went to a fowl. Hachman looked around to see what was going on movie in Flaxvi[...]goose snapped its clamper on the end of to Scobey and had lunch at Burton 's Cafe. They planned to Hachman 's proboscis causing him a certain amount of go to a dance at the Silver Star Hall, but as they came out of pain and discomfort. Moral of that story is: Don 't look[...]ped him around when holding a live goose tail-end-to. up to the Humbert House, near where the courthouse is, Howard Hillstrom, who was fortunate enough to win and Dr. Collinson treated Fred for a kidney stone. Ja[...]ying one of them under his Timmons heard of it and came in to see Fred the next day. arm. " Tuffy" Tong saw his and stepped up to inquire about During the night some woman was brought in and had a the goose . When h e got within range the s[...]came in they told Jake they would see da rted out and bit " Tuffy" near the Red Owl Store. if I was able to see visitors. They brought the baby across[...] |
| the hall and put the baby in my arms. Jake came in and the ba b y started t o cr y . Jake was taken back for a minute, asked how Fred was , and Fred said, " O.K. now." Just then but then said[...]Now grease well a bowl and put my daughter,[...]would be a sin ; To this please add two cakes of[...]For the dough is all right and yeast, it's going to rise, Or the liquid kind if preferred[...]a warm place to stay be our fault ,[...]Two hours or more , to rise until Now add the sugar, tablespoon-[...], knowledge to hoard. a hole.[...]Now back in the bowl once It's the cook and the flour , not[...],t~~~ And set again to rise for an That-"Makes the bread that[...]And place it in bread pans , You ' ve other things o[...]greased just right. portance to do. Shape each loaf you make to First sift the flour-use the finest[...]Next let it rise to the level of ening power,[...]Have the temperature right- to the flour[...]n 't set near a door. Two tablespoonfuls of lard, and[...]it isn 't made to freeze . 'Till the flour and lard are mixed , Keep the room good and warm without doubt.[...]to bake,- Wai ting to play its part, to make[...]One hour more of waiting and too thick;[...] |
| [...]his night slippers and went to the basement after During the flu epidemic in 1[...]ht. The stairway was deaths that it was necessary to dig graves both night and rather dark and Pete was still sleepy. On the second bottom day.[...]step he felt a squish underfoot. One more step and he was One night as Hans Jorgensen and his helper, Big John standing in ten inc[...]d of the customary of grain from the west. Horses and driver were both half gray, dusty concrete[...]the coal Big John , who was over six feet tall and who happened to man dumped his loads regularly. Pete retreate[...]Leaving an oily trail up the stairs and through the lobby, straightened up, stuck his head out of the grave, and Pete called the hotel owner, Prosper R.[...]drover took one startled look , grabbed his whip and It couldn't be, but it was true. The tank[...]he way into pumping just the last dregs now, and 4500 gallons of the Scobey. At any rate, they dis[...]in the basement. the run , trace chains clanking and the driver frantically Extra mattresses, pap[...]frozen chicken just received and sitting on the floor; liquor Back at the cemetery Big John turned to Hans and asked cartons containing hundreds of bottl[...]lem was "how can we get it out?" It was too thick and sticky to flow down through the sewer trap. There was no[...]the furnace An early day depot agent in Scobey and one of the very ignited. few Spanish Ameri[...]million dollars as a railroad worker, Beeks used to haul water around Scobey for fifty-cents a homesteader and small store owner at Sunburst, Montana, barrel.[...]ne used for He hooked a hoseline to a steam outlet of the furnace. threshing was Scob[...]liquified the sticky mess sufficiently to let it flow, slowly, customers on the then new townsite with D.C. current from but steadily on its way to the city cesspool a mile away a generator off the[...]continued for days, not to mention the general cleanup job It was about th[...]got which followed. interested in petroleum and sold the light plant to Aasness, The river was frozen over and a good share of the oil who in the mid-twenties sold to what is now the Montana- remained in the big septic tank or made its way slowly to Dakota Utilities. Co.[...]In the spring when the ice was breaking up and the water began to move its winding course of about 65 miles to the[...]and easily mistaken for crude oil.[...]formed a syndicate and began securing oil leases. The trucker parked h[...]Thousands of acres were leased at from ten cents to twenty- Scobey, Montana, walked into the deserted lobby and rang five and fifty cents per acre. (These leases were later so[...]minute or two before a a good profit for cash and a one-per-cent royalty basis.) sleepy voice from[...]tests, spudded in a well north of Poplar and struck a 150 " I don 't want a room ; I want to know where you want barrel per day flowing[...]bey "Good Lord, man , go round behind the hotel and you will approximately $1,000 to have its septic tanks cleaned that find a metal c[...]spring. The trucker went back to his tanker, drove up the alley and turned in behind the three-story concrete structu[...]ntained 4,500 gallons of thick, black furnace oil and when he was satisfied the pump was functioning It was springtime, 1925, and prospects for a good ball the trucker headed down the street to find an eating house. team at Scobey w[...] |
| [...]t The teams had their opening contest at Scobey and fans the umpire ruled it was a two-base hit, so Swede went to noted a number of new faces on both line-ups. Scobey third and Happy to second base. Donaldson was still the edged its Sh[...]old master on the mound and no scores were made in that Before the schedul[...]uers" a McGraw of the New York Giants is reported to have said, new angle. "if he could be wh[...]give a million dollars Before Swede went to the plate Happy told Swede to get for him." on base even if he had to take a Donaldson curve in the Donaldson was getting along in years. He claimed to be ribs. But Swede again singled. When Happy stepped to the in his late 30's, but some claimed he was pas[...]her who could still do a good job in pitchout to his catcher. Just as soon as the fourth "ball" th[...]was called, Felsch lowered his head and made first in The Scobey manager, H.J. Hansen, and others record time, but didn't[...]ically on second. The infield called for the ball and then that someone thought of the 1919 Chicago White Sox the cathcer threw it to the bunched infielders who began outcasts. Where[...]de Risberg, the "Black Sox" their attempt to get Hap. To be brief, Happy, who was a shortstop who, with Cicotte, Felsch, Jackson and others fast man on his feet despite his[...]infield busy until Swede had crossed home plate and located in Rochester, Minn_e sota. He was signed[...]Happy ended up safe back at first. per month and expenses. Honey Guyer, Johnny Meyers,[...]me that ball, throw it here, please more later), and a ski-jumping Finn from St. Paul, Hinden g[...]ime or other played in The game ended 4 to 2. Practically everyone from Scobey the minor lea[...]for which they could find takers. Between 300 and 400 Scobeyites journeyed to No definite count was made, but[...]t was by far the biggest crowd a a position to estimate fairly accurately, said that ball game h[...]500 of Plentywood The players had their workout and the umpire issued his money. Plentywood wa[...]e mound, beaming with gamblers and they went all out for more than peanuts on confid[...]White Sox, spelled the difference between defeat and first two men facing him. Then Risberg stepped to the victory for the Scobey club. plate[...]Minot or what once diverted his gaze from Risberg to the batter on deck. have you. And on more than one occasion a majority of the The crowd was tense and then above the stillness players[...]e. That announcement was as much of a surprise to the The initial game at Plentywood a[...]ent majority of Scobey fans at the game as it was to attention so that a federal in te[...]coming at Risberg's invitation, had gate to see that Uncle Sam got his share of the admission been picked off the Oriental Limited at Bainville and money. The teams were playing on a percentage basis, 60- driven by car to Plentywood, arriving only a few minutes 40, and the gate was reported at $1,100. It didn't matter before the game. He changed in to a Scobey uniform in the that a Scobey chec[...]admissions to mean a gross of at least50<fo more. The gross[...]for those days in eastern Montana. With a single and stopped at first. Happy, who hadn't swung at a[...]obey businessmen were putting up $4,300 per month to Swede took three mighty swings and was out, ending that meet the team payroll and expenses, and they kept it up for part of the inning.[...]three months. Plentywood also failed to score in the first inning. It was That year S[...]as the biggest the third inning before Swede came to bat again. primary wheat market in America, something more than Donaldson walked Swede to get at Happy again. With his 2,500,000[...]being loaded into cars at first pitch Swede swung and there was a ringing smack. Scobey for s[...]dent in the fields in the climb. It kept on going and climbing and it was still going northern part of the coun[...]e a plainclothes surrounded the outfield--on, on to the other side of the race man for the departme[...]rom track on which the diamond was located. Swede and British Columbia to Mexico, said some fields must have Happy jaunted[...]ball hit At any rate Scobey made wheat and baseball history in into the cars around o[...] |
| [...]fe 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 poo[...]lean lad catches the packs deftly and pitches them back 1. You had to crank a telephone on the wall to get the in to the hay. The rest of the crew spra w1full length on their operator, and when she answered , you said, "hello central" stomachs on a grass spot, smoking and talking in low and you told her who you wanted. If you were on a party tones. line you rang one short and one long ring, etc., and visited During this time the appearance of[...]not it was your ring that blue-black smoke to the southward tells us that the rig sounded, you probably listened to many juicy itself is coming. T[...]puff, puff of the exhaust becomes audible, and at last the yesterday to who was the latest boyfriend of the girl down[...]the opening at the front of the fire box and the hot coals by a local piano player for fifty[...]grates ash iike shooting stars. As the Greengard and Marvelle Hillstrom was among others who[...]advertising for the current picture from side to side, as a duck carries his head when walking. showing was provided by young boys going up and down The outfit comes to a halt at the foot of the lane; the clank of mai[...]e show, "The Sheik of Araby" the fire door and hiss of the steam injector are as distinct as sh[...]he now empty water tank, that amplifies from 7:30 to 8:00 o'clock.[...]e muffled interior, is dra.w n 3. When you wanted to know what tim.? it was you up to the well. reached in your vest pocket for your watch or if a lady to the The cook car is in the house yard where on its black wall watch pinned to your shirt waist.[...]kings with a hole in the right china, pots, and tin ware rattle continuously, tarry soft coal kne[...]smoke pours from the iron stove pipe on the roof, and the by pushing a homemade scooter up and down the streets. greasy odor of an eat[...]ll or the cook would take it as a personal insult to her high on wheels and reached by a half-dozen steps that can cooking ab[...]be taken up when it is time to move on. Inside there are two 6. The local druggi[...]long, narrow tables-one against each long wall and the local doctor - and didn 't charge a consultation fee. benches[...]arm clock. The rural flanked by cupboards and a large work table. The moist ones were awakened[...]at roof. The cook 8. The curfew blew at 9 o'clock and every straggler came is the mainspring of[...]until late in the evening she prepares and repairs. Now she REMEMBE[...]north field an hour or so earlier-engineer and separator Tractors Cough Over Steel Threshing Ma[...]men sleep when there is time for such a luxury. And now[...]our fields, old memories oftheshing stack, and the long drive belt swinging between them days as they were when I was a little fellow come to mind . indicates complete readiness for the[...]ustic glamour. ladder at the loft door, and make short work of harnessing Those events are still vivid in my mind. and feeding the teams. The more optimistic and carefree About sundown of 'an August evening we hear a clatter natures among thpm are giving vent to their feelings by a and clapping of boards that grows louder and louder until gay if not always melodious w[...]have all crowded into the warmth of the cook car to threshing hand must drive a slow team, he makes t[...]s into the barnyard where the The teams and racks rattle into the field at 6 o'clock shouting drivers pull their teams up to a sudden halt. when the machine is alre[...]ylinder These threshing hands are a wonderful lot to a boy. They drones, the shakers rock with a swinging motion that are familiar with cities and 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 throat. We have come to the language that makes your ears tingle and your tongue machine early with our tanks so as to be on hand at the dance! start, and now stand at our horses heads for a few mi[...] |
| until they become accustomed to the unusual commotion. There are thre[...]the Then we clamber up on the wheels of the tanks to catch a snowy owl, a much smaller bird, a[...]r , the prairie the grain spout. Later we measure and remeasure the horned lark , the east[...]he English sparrow, "dumps" in a battered measure to make sure that the the cedar waxwing and the Bohemian waxwing, the latter weight is correc[...]most numerous of the two. It is great fun to watch the two men on either side of the The[...]bundles head first, one at a time, so that the and the bald eagle ($5,000 federal fine for killing o[...]. See how these); the prairie falcon and the gyrfalcon; the Hungarian smoothly the muscles flex beneath the blue shirts and with partridge, the ring-neck pheasant, the[...]with each tossing of a the American magpie and the starling. There are crows bundle. The bent bronzed necks show like red copper in the and a variety of hawks, and some ducks. Magpies , crows sunlight. and starlings are considered pests, but they all have[...]mechanical measuring daily diet of insects , and the magpies are sea vengers . apparatus at the to[...]made quite a bit of progress in establishing wet and after seeing that all the traces are secure, ease off. The area preserves for waterfowl nesting and feeding. horses lie forward, the muscles in hips and shoulders bulge The "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 the wheels cutting deep, At the granary we shovel the dweller, but to those who get out and around the country wheat into the bin with large[...]brown kernels rattle against the steel like shot and strike be getting more numerous, as the prai[...]atural the heap in the bin solidly. So we go back and forth all day habitat), beavers , bobcat, lyn[...]ntil we stoop , thrust the shovel into the wheat, and weasels , coyotes, fox badgers, muskrats, ra[...]in mechanically. now and 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 dust and Indeed , the "barren prairies " l[...]hour. Again the bundle racks are drawn pell-mell to the feeding yard, for dinner awaits no man at the[...]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 slowly homeward, and the men are a little bit too tired to sing or joke much. Again the threshing hands lay sprawled on their stomachs, talking in low tones and smoking, and still the clatter and bang of dish washing floats from the cook car do[...]ing, care-free fellow from nowhere in particular and ever bound for Canada. THE "BARREN PRAIRIE" NOT QUITE |
| According to legend the five-foot-high cairn marks the[...]R STYLE grave of an early sheepherder who used to climb the butte and sit, day after day, watching his band of sheep gr[...]s said, buried him there in his favorite place and marked his grave Your neighbors were your.fr[...]a once was a favorite "Tighten. up the bellybands and loosen up the traces summer pasture for ranchers from other areas of the state. All join hands and find your places. The old-time sheepherders are[...], promenade round "It was there when I came and that's all I know about it," Keep that calico off[...]Off for taffy pulls! We'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 parties were fun, too. to guide the sheepherders who drove their herds through And the old spelldown .... remember the thrill of bei[...]tain's first pick, second, or even third? You had to take pastime of lonely sheepherders, and that such cairns were part, even if you went down[...]our side covereq butte was an unlikely location to pile rocks just for wrestled with seizure, pneumo[...]ome believe the cairn was constructed by Indians, and Were you ever in a ciphering match? You did long . one early settler says that children used to find Indian division on a blackboard out in plain[...]years ago. It is known that listening for the ohs and ahs that meant you'd cast a . ndians did build[...]. We learned to debate, too, on subjects like: Which makes ·[...]od housekeeper or a good cook? ieast six years, and perhaps much longer. To the tractor- And those stirring "literaries" or "rhetoricals", with driving farmers who work the surrounding acres, and to pieces out of our readers: "Barbara Frietchie" --[...]inder of a bygone day that we knew them by heart. And if stage fright gripped us, when the sod was unbroken and the prairies untouched by we were prompted by the[...]dience. We'd close with a chapter from the Bible, and in[...]pop bottle and ride a bicycle? Chautauqua began just three[...]years before Farm Journal did, and by the early 20's[...]ked the cows, slopped the hogs, saddled the mule, and got the children off to school. Did the washing, mopped the floors, washed the windows, and did some chores; Cooked a dish of home-dried frui[...]aked a dozen loaves of bread; Split some firewood and lugged it in, enough to fill the kitchen bin; Cleaned the lamps and put in oil, stewed some apples she thought would[...]dness' sake! The calves have got out of the pen." And went out and chased them in again; Gathered the eggs and locked the stable, back to the house Bidding was brisk at box socials when men recognized and set the table;[...]okers or good Cooked a supper that was delicious, and afterward washed cookers". Many a girl la[...]king. Good cooks blossomed overnight. Fed the cat and sprinkled the clothes, mended a basketfull[...]chopped wood, sawed, boxed, Then opened the organ and began to play,- "When You wrestled, pulled at broomsticks, turned arms, lifted the Come To The End Of a Perfect Day".[...]Daisy LaMotte had a corner dedicated to baseball.[...] |
| The great glorious day to wait for was the 4th of July. The little[...]Early that morning some of us would rush outside and yell: till we die. When he read aloud, two[...]of July!" We'd get out the freezer - his lap and Mother rocking the youngest, we shivered the eggs and cream that went into Mom's mix were a[...]like Papa Bear, were breathless when he scandal - and with someone on top to steady it, we'd crank squeaked like Baby Be[...]o loved forgot." Then we'd break open the freezer and serve the us and mothers who liked having us around - that having good home-made ice cream. Oh , the joy of being the one to fun doesn't mean going places. Farm folks have had fun "clean the dasher"! (And have a dish besides, of course!) over the last 75 years - wonderful fun. We can have even And rodeos - roundups - branding-days, with lots of g[...]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 Every single solitary day can be fun right at home to a rope.[...]ughout the years has been the . something to look forward to and look back on , and mix it horse. We'd catch old Dewey in the pasture, lead him by the all up with cinnamon rolls and laughter, puffed rice candy mane to the gate, and climb on - two and three at a time - and love. and gallop across the pasture until we fell off. Our[...]a T-V producer shudder. We loved those animals , and their faults made us love them all the more. We k[...]we kids piled out like rats from a burning barn, and I'd swing 'round to catch the youngest as Mother would toss him to me. After pawing the air, Lady would take off as[...]6-INCH RAIN IN 6 HOURS footfeed was stuck to the floorboards.[...]What happened Tuesday afternoon shouldn 't happen to[...]orted. But these are some which were, in addition to -------[...]way to the field. He and a farm helper were marooned in his[...]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[...]observing the storm in his car tried to get over near them to help and he became stluck. Later Dick Coughlin came out in[...]a six by six . He bogged down. Hack to town and out again[...]truck. He was able to snake them all out. It was then about[...]Clint Richardson and John Forchak were on the Wolf[...]nd lines together, drop them over the dashboard, and he'd _some houses also moved the Marqui[...]bin more than three feet over on its around you , and cuddled up to your true love. The road was foundation, pulling out th e bolts which held it to th e never long enough. Buggy riding with your gi[...]excessive leakage into the gra in. Th e Marqui s and The treat of winter was when Dad would hook up to the other Scobey elevators are still busy pumping out water bobsled and haul a dozen shrieking, laughing children five from their pits. miles away to fish through the ice. There was magic in[...]er sleighrides, bells, the squeal of sledrunners, and Sheridan County when the Carrol da m west[...]ashing everything before it. In its pa th was the and Mother did for us. The best fun of all was just to go entire Jud Goodman spread of buildings[...]livestock and hi s beautiful , compl etely mod ern , new[...] |
| Jim Cross and Charlie Smith flew over the area[...]hat evening the community had Wednesday forenoon and reported a scene of total witnesse[...]wisted lumber. Among items lost was a new combine and farmers and businessmen checked their own damage and a new grand piano, still crated.[...]hen , if not too busily engaged with it, went out to see 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, will cost the Motor Service building 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[...]hird floor rooms were shambles of falling plaster and Getschel's sign , torn down by the wind , crashe[...]fternoon blew out two big display window, adding to the mess as water from the windows upstair[...]oor into the store. A window in the lobby, and the glass of one of the outer doors. Water the Pe[...]wading pool. At Brayko Rooms it was necessary to open the front door McCormick, the Montana-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 w[...]stairs the big plate window he had been Gambles, and RCU were broken further.[...]nward. Water was everywhere. Scobey, Flaxville and Whitetail All over town basements took[...]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[...]e living inseparable companion of tricky weather, and telephone room. The basement with no drain is full. Norman Allen's line difficulties added to the isolation. residence just north was in a similar condition. Three Between here and Wolf Point five washouts on the empt[...]a serious washout of the city were smashed to kindling. The Lucht residence between Flaxville and Whitetail. Five miles east and west on the western edge had its roof blow[...]ith Bruce by Lucht's, saw his home smashed to bits. At the old ball Randall has shovel crews working three shifts to re-open park, the grandstand, long a land[...]gainst 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 Scobey by that route the same day.[...]MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE DEATH expected to be back on schedule for many days.[...]Hours seriously damaged crops in the Silver Star and Four Buttes Dorothy Kjelstrup community. Rain washed out miles of fences south and Leader Staff Writer west. The wind destroyed Pete Thorem 's barn and punctured his house in four places with the splin[...]ana ended so quickly barn caved in about six feet and the roof seriously loosened Sunday afternoon[...]ter the storm had subsided Howard adults and seven children, who were in cars on the Hillstrom swam over with wire-cutters to cut the fence to highway somewhere between Scobey and Flaxville. These let them through as he did they[...]inee. Attempts Vic Hillstrom came out with a boat to help. Sherman to locate them started that evening when they were J[...]toward the reported still missing and continued all through the night opening but again they refused only to go on to another and early morning hours. place and break their way through.[...]ess community a rain of more than an inch to take shelter at one of the farmsteads along the h[...]Those who were out in the storm knew this to be very more rain in six hours Tuesday afternoon[...]the snow Sunday afternoon. They decided to get in one the year of the big rain.[...]Flaxville, John Cavanaugh, his wife and two boys, stalled All Tuesday morning the barom[...]their after the lunch hour darkening skies began to unburden bearings well enough to get to the Goulet place, their themselves as a prevailin[...]relatives. They walked through the blinding storm and[...] |
| [...]ald Zuck, who farm south of Flaxville, senior, and cold to continue without help. John froze his neck. Larry LaPierre, 16, sophomore, and Gary Lekvold, 17, a Mrs. Cavanaugh froze her legs, hands and face. They senior. made it to Goulets.[...]ut 3:30 that worried about his 11-year old girl and a baby boy alone on afternoon. The four boy[...]ersed unaware Friends there pleaded with him to wait until the storm of the impending danger to those who were left. would abate to some extent. Cavanaugh felt he could not[...]hit an ice jam which capsized the cake and sent the boys off freezing wind to his farm home. There he found the in separate directions. children in bed, fire out, and the little girl's eyes swollen Bob Zuck, unable to swim, was in shallow water where from crying. T[...]he walked into Flaxville 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 two children home.[...]eran minister of Scobey, who had the road to town when he was overtaken by Mr. and Mrs. conducted Sunday afternoon services at Flaxville, started Louis Lekvold and a brother of Gary's. They were on their out fo[...]half mile west of Flaxville he was way home to Scobey to see if Gary was home. On being caught in the storm and ran into the ditch. He walked back informed by Zuck that the boys were in trouble the to Flaxville and spent the night at the home of Peter Le[...]afternoon, Robert of the intense mud and water. Ferguson and church officials, were lucky to get to The water had fallen somewhat from[...]t Flaxville night. Monday morning they started to Scobey it raised again considerably during that late afternoon. 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. were encouraged to hold on. The Scobey fire alarm was Ferguson and Clifford walked over and found the 15 sounded that evening to collect volunteer rescuers. One of survivors h[...]rd the p.m. Sunday. It was then 10 a.m. Monday and first word whistle they knew that help w[...]lds was received of their fate. They were cold and cramped but took flashlights and headed back to where they had left the otherwise comparativel[...]boys earlier. those he could back to Flaxville in his car and Willfred Larry LaPierre, who was not re[...]ol bus from Flaxville went out tried to swim out but the current was so strong that he immediately and brought in the rest. Flaxville was the decided to go back and wait it out on the cake he had left. scene of[...]e is a gravel pit. He stayed there until other and shifting about as much as they could with nine[...]tractor after being summoned in the back seat and six in the front of the Joe Klos car. by Den[...]d warmly. Art Holum Sunday water to the west side and hence to the Murphy place on the evening had been outside for a while trying to check on west side of the Poplar river. their bearings and in so doing had lost one shoe. It is still M[...]Mr. Murphy went for the rope and tractor. he got as close to Two of the men, before help arrived that mo[...]old as he dared with the tractor, which according to walked to the farm home of Bill Parent and returned with authoritive sources was up to the headlights in the water. blankets, coats, scarfs, ov~rcoats and caps. A few minutes Murphy threw the rope to Gary who then waded to the later help came from Flaxville. tractor and was taken to the Murphy house and given the[...]sary care. Murphys put him in a tub of cold water to thaw him out slowly and Gary commented on the water[...]Aime Girard, Luverne Hansen and Gary Leibrand OLD MAN RIVER STRIKE AT ICE R[...]immediately took their boats to the black bridge from[...]where they commenced to battle with ice and shallow The first day of spring, last Sunday, came close to being water. In the process of which Gary Le[...]kes ramming ·it. they were stranded wet, cold and helpless on icebergs in In the meantime Sheriff Russell Steen and Louis the middle of the swollen Poplar River west of Scobey. Lekvold waded in and threw a rope to Larry who tied it Larry LaPierre and Gary Lekvold, sons of Mr. and Mrs. around his waist. They held the other end to keep Larry Roger LaPierre and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lekvold from going[...]ter. the whole thing afterwards but very happy to be alive Sherman Johnson, Scobey ran[...]terrain there walked about a mile along the creek to a concentrated help of the Fire Department and other shallow spot where he waded in and got a hold of ice volunteers their spring exhu[...]countered trouble that afternoon waited and took him in the boat to safety. His feet after the were: Dennis Jones, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Jones ordeal swelled badly, b[...]obey, junior in high school. Bob Zuck, son of Mr. and to normal.[...] |
| [...]For at least three generations it has seemed to their crescendo of tragedy.-R.P.[...]women-folk that the Humbert men absolutely love to get to[...]On April 1st, 1943, after a long and snowy winter, spring[...]rise in a hurry, raising the Roads and Highways cakes of i[...]bey Monday noon blackened a vast area of prairie to the east and southeast before being stopped by cultivated fie[...]t slightly south of west, kept the fire confined to the right of way for some distance. It swept wes[...]miles east of Scobey. Several crews of farmers and town citizens hurried to the scene and they succeeded to some extent in controlling its spread, but the fanning wind prevented putting a stop to it. The grass in a southeasterly direction the Tip Top caught and on the flames swept until cultivated areas were e[...]nding smoke made driving on the highway difficult and motorists were obliged to use their car lights for some distance. During[...]"Whoop" Manternach, one of the volunteers trying to quench the flames, took off in his car across cou[...]lames. But his car bogged down in a low, wet spot and stuck. There he frantically tried every trick in the book to get out-but to no avail. Others were helping him. By then the[...]a shown flames were dangerously close, Manternach and his in the picture over to the ridge of hills in the background helpers started to throw dirt over his car to protect it to where you can ~ee the snow. some extent. Advance fingers of creeping flame were Charles and his Dad decided it was an excellent day to licking around the bumpers when Ken Marlenee came clean the barn and dump the refuse into the river. They along with his tractor and snaked the car out of the path of loaded the pickup, backed it up to the bank and thus the furious sheet of fire which seconds late[...]It was noon, Charles had come to the house for dinner. A varied crew of helpers did sterling duty near the Roy decided to unload just one more load. Charles and I Harold Skerrett place, directly in the path of the fire. They waited for about ten minutes for Dad to come in and then were able to prevent the flames from sweeping over his went to check to see what was keeping him. house and buildings. At another time in the afternoon the[...]blue from the cold, his dentures were gone and overshoes pursued relentlessly. Out again came th[...]sign of the time with a scorched tail. He kicked and bucked like a rodeo pickup. After helping him get to the house, warmed, and in bronc before speeding away from the flames.[...]lid into the water among the floating headway due to the protective area tramped down by cakes of ice. It sank within a few minutes. Dad managed to countless Saturday night crowds, volunteer firefighters crawl out through a window of the cab and swim ashore, occasionally took time off from their duties to quench fires dodging ice cakes and struggling to get ashore. Heavy of their own.[...]winter clothing, rubber overshoes full of water and the An important casualty of the fire was the[...]lel on the north side of the when he ducked to miss an ice cake, saw them floating for a east hi[...]n the early stages of the while, attempted to grab for them but missed. fire which appears to have had its beginning along the It wa[...]Leader April 14, 1949 seen. Charles dived and hooked a chain to the bumper and[...] |
| [...]e men removed Those events and the capturing or shooting of horse the crabs, weeds and mud, drained the gas, oil and water, thieves captured more newspaper space than the regular put in new gas, oil and the pickup perked along not faring[...]arming, income taxes, support Roy, however, had to have new dentures made.[...]super highways, radar, the radio and T-V, the atom bomb and jet liners have supplanted the cowpoke, the six-[...]shooter, the buckboard and the work horse in the news[...]hand-set type and man-power presses to modern type- . FROM THE TIME BOOK OF JACK CARNEY,[...]setting machines and automatic press.es: Editors and publishers now how to devote.more time to .the business of G.F. Crandell[...]meeting payrolls and income taxes, social security· and· Salt Meat 34 lbs. . ...... : ................... : . . $5.00 · unemployment taxes, and giving .their readers a better Mrs. Hill's fresh[...]. . . . . . $10.20 picture· of everyday life and events of the community and Ham 12 lbs ....................................[...]after more than a dozen years away from the news and editorial desk of the Leader, the publisher is p[...]schooner and they would spend up to three months on the Looking back over some of[...]back when their realize we had a little more zip and zest than at the present. holds were full of salt[...]as then a sort of testing ground moved to Northfield, Minnesota where they had between the forces of "Red Flag" Charles Taylor and those employment in a flour mill owned by Ad[...]g the wheat. In the scene. Two or three were born and died at Scobey. The 1880 he moved to Hutchinson, Minnesota and built a flour Pioneer Press, Sheridan County News and Producers mill and dam for water power on the Crow river, which he News at Plentywood, the Medicine Lake Wave, Froid and his brother Arthur operated until 1920. In the Tr[...]aun, Minnesota, Nashua Independent, Glasgow Times and others have and Kendrick, Idaho. In 1910 he took his nephew Jesse dropped from the scene, not to mention the Madoc Smith, who had been working in the bank, to Overly, North Messenger, Madoc Recorder, Flaxvill[...]g a span of mules from Hutchinson. There Democrat and Whitetail Courier which 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 building to Overly. They started a bank and Promoter, Westby News, Homestead Broadaxe, Coalri[...]lroad moved west in 1912 they paid off their Call and the Dagmar something or other. depositors and closed the bank. In 1913 they came to The Leader, which carries a "36th Year" label is actually . Scobey and bought 16 acres in the northwest part of town 47 years old. In 1927 the Leader absorbed the Scobey and started a flour mill. The mill was in operation i[...]ego, Montana, later getting another one at Frazer and Where something more than 20 newspapers once s[...]publications, there are now just three elevators and Jesse managed the flour mill and elevator, printing offices-one at Scobey, one at Plentywood and the business being incorporated as the Smith-Tyne[...]1914-15. of Smith and Tyner in the Scobey part of the business and County seat battles, the Bull Moose, Socialist[...]lbert Ames as manager. He died in Scobey in Labor and Communist parties, all of which had columns 1927[...]state, provided targets for newspaper fusiliers, and there Halbert Hamlin Ames was born a[...] |
| and Ruth. He graduated from high 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 si[...]en ded college in orthfield, Minneapolis. Halbert and room and a cook stove in the kitchen. Many buckets of Winn[...]re married lignite coal were carried in and buckets of ashes carried on July 13, 1921. Halber[...]out. National Real Estate Boa rd , as secretary, and later worked fo r T h e Ye ll o ws to n e Trail Association selling m embers hips in th e association from Baker, Montana to Yellowstone Park. He worked in the elevator at Os[...]xperien ce in the grain business. In 1926 he came to'" Scobey a s man a ger of the mill and elevator which was then named the Ma rquis Flour[...]Coyote pelts - 1938, Hub Ames and Ole Fjeld[...]In 1926 the mill was paying $100 per month to support a[...]Minneapolis and helped organize a golf club with Dick[...]ughlin, Sr. , Rude Hauge, who worked in the bank, and Hub were appointed as a committee to select a site for the[...]l used Marquis Milling Co. Flo ur Mill - Elevator and Mill House now was selected. - 1930[...]and while Winnifred was in the hospital Hub and Paul, who was three and a half years old, went to Rochester to the Clinic. They took a plane at Rochester to fly back to Ca rl Helmbrech t and Hub Ames at the "mill". Minneapo[...]it climbed to about 500 feet over the city when all three[...]motors stopped for lack of fuel. The pilot tried to get back to[...]Mounds Park bluff. The pilot was killed and Paul suffered a[...]fractured vertebra, broken ribs and punctured lung. Hub[...]spent at hospitals in St. Paul the family went to Ventura, California for the winter to recuperate. Everett Moyer, a[...]brother-in-law from Minneapolis came out to manage the[...]While in California in 1932 and 1933 Hub took flying[...]model airplane and in the spring of '34 he and Burleigh flew it up to Scobey. Winn and Janet, Burleigh's wife,[...]engine, and Burleigh proceeded to equip it with necessary wind driven power to feed the grasshopper bait from a[...]sawdust and arsenic flavored with banana oil. The banana[...]used for the sole purpose of inducing the farmers to[...] |
| We were the first to spread grasshopper bait by air and school and progressed head of the line check department obtained blueprints to sell to other operators, but the next for advanced instrument cards. In the summer of 1944 he year and following years poison spray was used and the was assigned to fly passenger runs for Military Air grasshopper[...]d only with ground spreaders. Transport and wound up as Chief Flight Supervisor in 1938 was a rust year for wheat and 1939 another MAT for the western[...]t age 17 in 1943. In 1946 we came · rusted wheat and ground it for sale to the government for back to Scobey and in the fall built the house we still live in. g[...]Helmbrecht of Mott, North pursuaded to take the job of chairman of the hospital Dakota to manage the mill and elevator. Carl was later a board. Some money had been raised, but more was needed. partner and stayed until 1954 when he moved to Havre to Trips were made to Helena to obtain government money, be with his son Vernon in a photo studio. and finally the funds were available and the building In 1935 Hub and Burleigh took over the operation of the project got under way. Glasgow airport, hiring Frank Wiley to work with them. In 1951 Hub bought a C[...]ed a 1933 Custom Waco airplane, a four and for three summers did this until he decided he was passenger bi-plane, and with the dam building at Fort Peck getting t[...]job with there was quite a lot of charter work and some student Aero Service of Denver flyi[...]Army. In five months we covered most of North and South Burleigh and Hub operated the Waco on Grand Central Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah. The editor Airport in Glendale, having ob[...]school houses, passenger hops over Los Angeles and charter flights. classifying roads as to being dirt, gravel or paved, etc., etc. Hub[...]torship for Piper In the late 50's Hub and Lyman Clayton of Wolf Point airplanes about 1935 and sold quite a few in eastern were associated in a charter and ambulance company Montana and western North Dakota. One Cub was bought called Clayton and Ames. Hub sold his interest in the plane by Ole Fjeld. Hub and Ole went back to Lock Haven, to a friend of Lyman's in Wolf Point in 1972 and retired Pennsylvania to take delivery. The Marquis Milling f[...]gh a broker in New The Ames sons, 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 "Let's take the Cub and fly there on our way home." The operated it until 1959 when the property was sold to Nash Cub was powered by a 40 H.P. engine and did not have any Brothers, the present own[...]ness establishments in we took off for New York and flew directly over the Empire Scobey and over the years has contributed largely to the State Building, landing on Long Island besi[...]community. It has always supported from five to seven hangar. After a couple of days in New Yor[...]ilies, all interested in the building of the town and ·supply of maps, we headed for Scobey. The Cub cruised at county. about 65 or 70 mph and one time through North Dakota we In 1926 Winnifred and son Paul joined Halbert in Scobey were flying at about a thousand feet above the ground and and the family moved into what has been known as the[...]ll 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 hunting coyotes and Ole was the best boarded there.[...]organizations. franchise for Rearwin airplanes and covered Minnesota, Halbert is now retired and the family lives in Scobey. North and South Dakota and Montana. In the 30's it was Paul is living in Butte. Richard and his family are in hard to sell anything, but we did sell some. Glasgow. There are six grandchildren and one great- In November of 1939 Ed. Battleson[...]Winnifred G. Ames for expenses and Hub furnished the airplane, a Rearwin[...]Halbert D. Ames Sportster. We flew to Pocatello, Idaho the first night, then to Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Glendale, California, Palm Springs, El Paso, Texas, Austin, Texas and then THE AMUNDSON FAMILY IN SCOBEY Galveston. We were 1500 feet over the bay and a mile and half from shore the propeller disintegrated. The motor My family came to the new town of Scobey in the fall of stopped and all we could do was glide toward shore. We[...]airplane landing in Galveston. 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, devastated by his death, felt that souvenirs,[...]t find anything. While we were they had to start a new life elsewhere. They chose Scobey, waiting for a new prop we spent a few days fishing and the newest boom town, making the latter[...]aught a 42 pound Redfish. We had it packed in ice and journey from Wolf Point by hired car with Edan 's hen, shipped back to Scobey. When we returned P.R. Gorham B[...]lifornia. The first year he was first girl to be born in the new town. checked out in all type[...]a native of Iowa. trainers, twin engine fighters and bombers to four engine When he first came to Scobey he was a salesman for the bombers and transports. After receiving his instrument[...] |
| after his arrival, he saw the need for a hotel and so built the Tallman House, the name being an allusion to his height which was six feet two, a rather unusual height in those days. Later he sold real estate and served as Justice of the Peace. He had an office on a side street and I used to visit him there, afternoons, imprinting on my bra[...]chool north of town, I came into town one weekend and caught sight of that safe standing in the office[...]me, 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,[...]four sons, all half-brothers, supplied excitement and gossip for the more respectable element in town.[...]brother Ellsworth , then about five or six, used to call on One-Eyed Mollie for his daily ration of pie or cake, he had to dodge the dogs. Mollie and her sons might have had doubtful reputations, the[...]two, gambling, certainly, but they were very kind to the little boy. One of the sons used to take Ellsworth with him when he went off to practice shooting his 45 automatic. At that time many men, respectable and Amundson Family. Carroll, 12 year[...]n Amundson who One day I came home and told my mother that Phyllis became Professor of E[...]Johnson, of the musical Johnson family, had come to my Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died in 1963. room at school and told me that because ofmy blonde hair, The John C[...]Visiting Lecturers I had been chosen to sing with her and two other angelic in English History was establis[...]Mellon family. Alice the singers were to wear white. I was delighted and did not Amundson Leed became a microbiologist wit[...]that position for many mother she sighed and said what an extravagance, buying years until her[...]tended no pun.) memories have contributed greatly to this article, makes She supposed she would have to go down to Lear's and buy his home with his wife, Emma, in Carmichael,[...]te, she said, but the dress I have been a teacher and social worker, am married to was not a waste. Sadly enough, there were a number of James G. Davis, a stockbroker now retired, and have lived funerals that winter, and at each I stood at the coffin in my in Philadelph[...]Oliver Twist, in fact. Good Housekeeping and The Saturday Evening Post. The Speaking of stores, I believe that we used to buy our youngest child of the Amundson family, He[...]ne day my father came storming has been a teacher and is now a secretary for the local home:[...]anch outside of town. this has got to stop. Are we eating gold or what?" That was Th[...]aching, secretarial work, nursing. But to return to the schools of Scobey. The teacher I They are scattered all over the United States, and great- remember best was Mrs. Ida Price w[...]e During our stay of ten years in Scobey, 1913 to 1923, we and a talent for making us want to do our best. I have never lived for the most part[...]hell with the class, she that we were never able to use the water it pumped because would read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn and God help it was tainted with oil. We children went to school in a blue the kid who made any noise w[...], has long since eighth grade education and six weeks of Normal School. been tom down; as I r[...]children in school. teaching requirements to a high school diploma and three Carroll was a member of the high school deb[...]months of the Normal School at Dillon." and won a gold medal. Years later, down and out in Paris, Another memory Ellsworth contributes: "In those days he tried to pawn it, only to learn that the medal was not they still p[...]ld , only plated. Alice 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[...] |
| We moved a way from Scobey in 1923, and we moved for a rather unusual reason: my father was determined that all five of his children were to have university educations, and the cheapest way to get them was to move to a town where a university was located. We went to Missoula, and in time and with hardship, those of us who wanted university[...]was an unusual man, our father, for that time and place. He had an obsession about education. A[...]ducation, he wanted all his children, girls, too, to have it. So we left, but I remember Scobey st[...]the children we played with, the Pittenger girls and the Crum children; I remember the wide skies and the prairies, they are a part of me today. Th[...]iction that it was a wonderful place in which to be born and to grow up, and the children who do so are lucky, indeed.[...]y elevator fire - March 10, 1965 JOE AND THERESA ANDERSON by Joe[...]ust, 1939. I continued the same work until I went to the Theresa and Joe Anderson |
| [...]AUDET FAMILY decided to follow Horace Greeley's advice, "Go west, young[...]man". Ed Battleson did, and made a tour that led him as Ronald Audet and Patricia (Patti) Schaefer were united far we[...]. It was not too Church by Father Anthony Sorger. To our union were born long before he was a partner and then had his own store at three sons, Dan, Tom and Patrick and two daughters, Wild Rose. Later he started the town of.Hamlet, North Ronnalee and Michelle. Dan and Tom are attending Dakota, and married Caroline (Lena) Hensrud. He filed on Eastern Montana College in Billings and the girls attend a homestead, acquired more[...]brought his brother Andrew and cousin Nels Christianson from Underwood, and his mail-carrier brother-in-law[...]st Peterson (my father) from Richville, Minnesota to[...]help with these enterprises while he looked over and finally[...]exploring Scobey country. He and his sister Isabel filed or[...]Harold Edland), their son and sister Isabel. This was also[...]toffice while Ben scouted around helping settlers to find[...]McKay's Machine Shop had changed hands and was now "Battleson and Co." garage. After a year living in a[...]moved us to Scobey in the spring of 1917, to be Uncle Ed's[...]my mother from Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and "Hank"[...]Ole and Cal Peterson, brothers of Ernie, from Minnesota.[...]1917 - a summer of dust and mud contingent on the whim[...](Uncle Ed's wife, "Lena", and two children, Edna and Gladys, came a year later.) I missed the trees and flowers of Ron and Patti have lived all their lives in Daniels[...]lonesome nine year old, my chief pleasure County and are the son and daughter of Donald and Leonie was to take two year old Willard to visit my young uncles, Audet 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. Ron and Patti are both would get ice cream cones[...]ears when noisy accompaniment of buzzing saws and staccato both of us were instrumental in reorganizing Jaycees and hammering. Shacks and small houses mushroomed Jayceens and served as organizational presidents of both overnight. The landscape varied from sunset to sunrise! chapters. Patti enjoyed her participatio[...]was nurse Eigelston. shows in the old Rex Theater and was joined on one Remembering our visits her cookies and the profusion of occasion by Ron and tiny daughter, Ronnalee, in the wild "t[...]in the Moon ". lawn still brings a glow to my heart. Twenty-five years Patti also enjoyed ve[...]ce of my husband's Extravaganzas on two occasions and in Pioneer Town. parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Brenden, in their retirement Ron's ex[...]the wilfflowers still bloom around the edges more to the public service type thing such as Fair Board[...]now. · with Wheatland Tire of Scobey and Plentywood. Patti is employed by Dr. M.D. Fitz.[...]By Patti Audet Left to right: Harry, Ed, Andrew and Ben Battleson -[...]ey was made from trapping. He bought a motorcycle and at the age of 17[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Peterson and two sons; Dr. Clare Peterson and Dr. Willard Peterson. Not shown daughter Mildred[...]s burdened that summer of 'l 7. There was cooking and washing for five men, Uncles Ed, Ole, Cal,[...]nden family. Children are: Mary Helen, Cousin Art and my Dad. No electricity except a naked light Gayle and John. bulb in each room, no running water. We dra[...]the barrel for 50 cents. Sometimes we were lucky to get ice east-New York. Benches were never too[...]ther for our newly acquired ice box. How we loved to pick up the too hot under the big brown tent[...]esent cold chips as the iceman hacked off a chunk to fit the box. Vic Hillstrom residence. A capac[...]a special flavor. young and old alike. A season ticket for $2.50 was a real[...]y youngest brother Clare was born. prize to possess. There wasn't any money for luxury, but It took the folks a year to decide on a name, th us the Mother considered a Chautauqua ticket to be a necessity. nickname "Babe" still sticks at t[...]ollinson (the doctor's wife) also now Doctor Bill and Doctor Clare. Doctor Willard Peterson engen[...]lls, Idaho. He bought Dr. introducing young and old to the enjoyment of the Storkan's practice in Plenty[...]her tutoring, Scobey people served on a destroyer and later was stationed at Butte, still engage in and enjoy home-talent productions that are and after the war settled in Twin Falls, Idaho. There[...]vorful. four children, John, Willard Jr., Charles and Judith Clare. By 1920 Daddy had made or rather saved $5000--what a "Bill" and Myrtle are grandparents to five. huge sum in those days![...]Peterson is professor of surgery at the and its flowering blooms. My grandparents were living[...]Medical School. He married Harriet there and Dad's brothers wanted him as a partner in a Saraz[...]es. Back we went. Both Mother identical twins Sue and Mae, Ernie Clare (also a doctor), and I said "Never again, and especially not Scobey". Never and Mary Elizabeth. There are three grandchildren.[...]along with other of the town's young broke and goodbye $5000. The grocery store burned and fathers, organized the Scobey Golf Club. Names the business was not large enough to support three remembered are Burley Bowler, Dr. C[...]families. Ed Battleson. My brothers Willard and Clare were golf In November, 1920, a telegram came from Ed Battleson, enthusiasts and played in many competitive tournaments. "[...]s Cash With the advent of "water works", shrubs and bushes Store." In less than a year we were where we never wanted turned into trees and "Minnesota lawns" and flowers to be again. In the middle of the winter I had a horrible became a reality. Mother started a garden club and there is attack (one of many) of eczema broug[...]evidence in town of her generous giving of slips and doctors said years later). We moved upstair[...]Casper Brenden and I were married). Sundays were different; we went to Methodist Sunday The store was often open almost twenty-four hours a day. School and church. It was a plain spartan type of building The merchandising territory was vast and extended fifty with straight-back oak chairs. Brother Van, the circuit miles to the west and north. The Canadian and American riding Bishop with bushy white hair, kindly blue eyes and farmers stocked up twice a year. Scobey was[...]least in the United States. Grain wagons made 100 to 150 and I thought he might look something like God. Mrs.[...]e drivers slept under the Smith, Mrs. Rudah Enger and Mrs. Ingrid Needles were wagons and camped on the way. I remember the folks three bel[...]. Hamburger Brown's stand was five-day Chautauqua and Lyceum programs from the far ac[...] |
| [...]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 mouse-infested rented house. We exterminated, stored 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 1929 Uncle Ben Haagenson sold out his s[...]pop, 24 bottles at one time. We were business and moved to Williston, North Dakota. Mother 15 years old and I have never liked pop since, and never did and Dad bought his house, still known ;;is the Peterson eat enough of "Muddy" Jones' butterscotch pie to get sick. place and now owned by my brothers. Casper and I moved "Muddy" and Glen ran the Jones Cafe (now Stans[...]ruction. Many a Young trees, small lilac bushes, and bravely blooming rose "Sunkist" sign shone th[...]te bandstand graced the remodeled, painted and papered. Mr. Fuller, middle of the park. Every S[...]the paperhanger down the street, wanted to retire so he concerts with Roland Olson as direc[...]olesale. One day after work Casper asked a young and Methodist ladies. (Homemade freezer ice cream and a fellow, Carmon Bush, if he would like to help him paper our wedge of Mrs. Ed Lee's burnt[...]ering living room. "Sure," Carmon replied and another career to rem em her!)[...]years Uncle Ed Battleson bought the and Casper's amateur expertise. Ingwalson store in R[...]but we were never really unhappy. brother) went to work there. Adolph and Henry Hanson, Inflation has far more hea[...]arrived in 1934. brothers of Art, had also come to Montana by now. They We were farming "on[...]gs, late worked for a while at Battleson Company and Peoples evenings and vacations. We also went seven years without Cash[...]rce my aunt. They raised Willis Brown, a nephew, and had a then. We had a beauty shop in the s[...]er of their own, Leona Claire, who is now married to Bailey (sister of Ben Haagenson) and Jeannette Tande. Clarence Moldenhauer of Seattle[...]my brothers, were away at school, college, Scobey and has been Daniels County Assessor for several[...]Cliff Peterson (a cousin), and Myrtle Hanson, whom he Battleson Company was d[...]By this time Jim Hill had in the summer and in town during the winter. extended the Great Northern Railroad to Opheim. Various Another seven years, 1941, and John Casper Brenden other Peterson Battleson ente[...]farming full time on branch line from Plentywood to the end of the line. Harry the Madoc Bench,[...]eson was in the Flaxville store. Ed even ventured to bought the Jim Kopsky, Billy Woods, Ed Lee and Tom Shelby and Malta and was a silent partner in Erickstein Sloan farms. The forties were our golden years and by 1947 Motors and other stores. we had a yen to go back to Main Street. We bought a lot Where was I all this time? Going to school, graduating where Dr. McDaniel had h[...]in 1925, with one year at college, building and went into the furniture business. Casper's ill In[...]Montana on July 11, 1926 health caused us to sell out to Conlin's of Williston three Casper Brenden of Flaxville and I were married in years later. After that we rented to the Federated Store. In Glasgow. We eloped, makin[...]son, started his first business venture, Sentinel and shocking our elders. Casper had built a[...]s Frank Getschel bought the Fleming Confectionery and Bakery. stock of Pe[...]house (1954) on the farm. the fall of 1926 Milton and Inanda Hoff, their baby son, Mary Helen had graduated from Concordia College in Casper and I, started for California to seek 1949, married Rev. Russel[...]thought Milton had made his by selling his bakery to John They have four children, Mark, David, John and Beth. Reiner, Jack's uncle, for $13,000 cash.)[...]Gayle taught kindergarten for seven years and married It didn't take me long to get homesick for Montana. Curtis Bummer,[...]n, Kristi, Paul America). Nobody nee,d ed a baker and jobs were scarce. We and Philip. John met his future wife, Carol Rein of Melville, borrowed the fare and headed back to Scobey in February Montana, at Concordia[...]27. What matter we were broke; we were going back to 1968 and have three children, Kimberly, Christopher and Montana! Eric. In the spring of 1927 Uncle Ed and Dad bought another John's business is on the remodeled and expanded store, Howard Isaac's of Glentana, and we were in Battleson Company locati[...]ses were available the record of the oldest and most continuous Chevrolet so Casper built one. W[...]y in the United States. a second-hand cook stove and cupboard and called it our The year 197 4 witnessed a new building to replace the old "Blue Heaven". "Millie and me and Baby makes three." Peoples Cash. Coast to Coast is there now. The Brenden Mary Helen was bo[...]Our chief Company building is rented to the state as a liquor store. entertainment came f[...]ter Kent radio that Carol teaches voice and piano to a large number of was on far into the night. My heart broke to leave our first students. She and John live on the farm.[...] |
| [...]never! My father, Ernest Peterson, died in 1970 and mother died in 1961, seven months before Casper's death in 1962. The old 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. Th[...]stand sentinel over the broad acres, the valleys and the rolling hills. The third generation has come back from the larger cities and varied experiences to "carry the ball". I thank God I'm here to see and be a small part of it. Remembering the motto of m[...]ncordia College, I too repeat, "Soli Deo Gloria" (To God alone the Glory) in this Bicentennial year of[...]ewspaper clipping Sid Bennett has been likened to the man who raises |
| [...]He is a Scout and has earned his Eagle Badge. In the[...]summer of 1973 he was privileged to attend the National[...]Iowa - he came to Daniels County area in 1911 - left, but[...]returned again in 1913 to take up a homestead south of the[...]one son, Lewis. After spending some time in Idaho and Washington he returned to Scobey in 1948 where he-was[...]employed at the Cozy Cafe and later moved out to Saltese,[...]undalk, Ontario, Canada. There he attended school and Ned Blevins at KCGM Radio in Scobey became a journeyman watch maker and jeweler, and[...]He came west to Saskatchewan in 1909. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bowler are natives of Ontario, born and raised not many miles apart, but who never met un[...]Seven months later the young journeyman jeweler and ardent Conservative eloped to Moose Jaw with Maud,[...]youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Cryderman.[...]they first met, and he called her that ever since.[...]transition period jeweler to printer and editor at Flaxville[...]in every little town to publish proving up notices of[...]homestead claims, and at the same time get in some plugs[...]Montana had begun to get into the throes of "county-[...]owned by George Cook, and on the Flaxville Democrat,[...]of 1916 Mr. Bowler bought the Independent at Rex and Attie Blevins - August 24, 1946[...]Antelope from John Grayson who had to foreclose on a[...]A series of business house fires in Antelope and Washington. I am a native Nebraskan and Rex is from increasing shortage of he[...]Daniels County) prompted Joe Dolan to buy out Burley I began teaching in 1936 in rura[...]Bowler on the condition that he would come to work for him This fall , 1975, I will begin my ei[...]Printers moved arounds in those days and there were 22 Our first son, John , was born in[...]later worked on the Producers News, and a crisis on an Ned, our second son, is a senior[...]ey The past two years he has been active in music and speech. Bowler to be sent to Scobey that year to pinch-hit as editor[...] |
| [...]And shadows of the night.[...]And happy as can be---[...]And smiled---on me.[...]ollowing a fulsome birthday program. TRIBUTE TO MRS. BURLEY BOWLER by Cecil M. Fe[...]and printer. He moved the family to Scobey which became MY NEIGHBOR[...]aved across the fence two years old, and a former home of the then defunct and smiled--on me-- Scobey Citizen. In 1927 he bought the Scobey Sentinel, And oh the lift it gave my heart which[...]A kettle on for tea back to pre-WWI days. There's always room---when w[...]growing up. All three of the For you and your---and me. children were educated and graduated from Scobey Schools and attended college. My neighbor's cookies ar[...]having served many years on the board. She And many times she's brought me some was a longtime member of the Eastern Star, and active in Upon a flowered plat[...] |
| played the golf game in season for the exercise and this He came west to Saskatchewan in 1909 and in 1911 met summer has been getting in nine holes several times a and married Miss Maud Cryderman, also of Ontario, who[...]was visiting a sister at Radville. Mr. and Mrs. Bowler lived continuously in Scobey[...]st 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 Ecton.[...]window) which has caused considerable comment as to in Whitetail in 1914 and in 1915 set up his bench in Pooler's how it opera[...]Altho he previously had showed some interest in the Arthur, Ontario, more than 50 years ago. The one in Scobey printing and publishing business as a hobbyist in is the first[...]ago. Radville, it was not until he came to Flaxville that the Mr. Bowler passed away in 1967, and Mrs. Bowler in opportunity presented[...]y in 1972 in printer, editor, (and betimes jeweler) for both the Flaxville Californi[...]Democrat and the Flaxville Hustler, and also helped get Larry lives in Scobey and is editor of the Daniels County out the shor[...]so filled quite a Leader. Duane lives in Billings and is editor of the Billings few prescriptions.[...]e the smell of The Bowlers had 12 grandchildren and 15 great printer's ink and in 1917 he bought the Antelope grandchildren.[...]Independent which he edited and published, selling out in 1919 to the late Joe Dolan, after a series of fires had[...]devastated the Antelope business section and in an[...]one of them Daniels, and at Scobey the new county seat,[...]and management changes, since its establishment in 19[...]Burley Bowler was "loaned" to the Sentinel in 1921, and[...]conditions, Mr. Bowler was installed as editor and[...]of directors composed offarmers and businessmen in the[...]and there met for the first time Bille Dunne, who was[...]fted the F- Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton and Mel Ruder, later . L constitution and by-laws, later adopted. A brilliant to be Montana's first and only Pulitzer Prize winner, when Irsihman,[...]that time for world revolution and the Soviet Union.[...]Dunne admitted to Mr. Bowler his wholesale lifting of text[...]and said, "What the hell's the difference, most of th[...]New York and after World War II he became a special Monday e[...]hirty, Burley Soviet plenipotentiary to Mongolia. Bowler, 77, longtime northeastern Montana editor and On the basis of that experience at[...]re he had lived League, Mr. Bowler came to the bitter realization that rural most of his Zif[...]erred at Scobey problems were not going to be solved at higher levels on the Cemetery Tuesda[...]ment over policy, he left the there he was raised and attended grade and graduated Sentinel and on a shoe string bought the two year old from hig[...]Danield County Leader. apprenticed and later bacame a journeyman watchmaker It marked several of the stormiest years of newspapering and jeweler, and also served with the Ontario militia. eastern Montana ever was to witness. In nearby He was the youngest of six brothers, and two sisters, all Plentywood, Charles "Red Fl[...]lash. He also established a liaison between there and[...] |
| [...]ut four years ago, he said, "Hell, looked forward to weekly by the general public, but with I've been[...]the targets. think I planned to be a hundred and fifty years old?" In 1926, a combination of political thugs came up from He wanted to go down swinging; and mercifully, he did. Plentywood and set fire to the Leader. Waller F[...]f the Producers /yews at Plentywood was beginning to destroy itself, altho it lingered on for a few[...]tober 9, more years, as the Roaring Twenties drew to a close. 1910 at Stewartville, Minnesota, to Alex and Cora There were many problems for agriculture[...]ain 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 and Henry Hachmann the broadest peacetime mandate in its history to the new in Walch County, North Dakota. They start[...]Peck Dam until known as an unflinching Republican and foe of the New the year 1939, when they moved southwest and later Deal, while at the same time recognizing th[...]for power. He had campaigned for Bob LaFollete and B.K. Wheeler in 1924 in their presidential race o[...]an half a century of newspapering he had occasion to meet and visit with many public luminaries in the politica[...]taff of the late Senator Ecton. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Philadelphia in 1948, and returned from there with some forebodings, which that fall proved to be well-founded. When he was installed as pres[...]Montana Press Association he was greatly pleased to be able to introduce the main speaker, with whom he had visited a great deal at the 1948 GOP convention, and whom, at the state press convention ten years lat[...]t of Lions Club of which he was a charter member, and in 1951 was special fund drive chairman for the final $50,000 drive necessary to build the Memorial hospital. Wedding of Charles Francis Bradford Sr. and He helped organize the Scobey Golf Club in 1927[...]charter member, played a tough game on the course and at 6, 1936. neighboring tournaments f[...]the entire summer full-time rebulding the greens and renovating the tee-offs, In 1940 Dorothy came to Scobey to stay with her folks to at virtually no cost whatsoever to the club, to renew public have their first-born, who was named Charles Junior after interest in the sport, which it did. His last project out[...]as known as Little Charlie. when his health began to fail in recent years, was building In January 1941 Charlie went to Boulder City, Nevada to the big grass tee-off at No. 1.[...]ning for years in the In May of that year Dorothy and infant son Charles joined Leader, and up until just the past few weeks, was widely him. In September they returned to Glasgow and farmed read. again. Late in 1941 they moved to the O.J. Dailey place At the Montana Press Asso[...]s born. The family living newspapermen in Montana to hold that honor. later moved to 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 controversy.[...]teacher. Fires, libel suits, financial reverses and support of many The boys thought she was just gre[...]en he In May 1946 Linda was born, and Ronald in 1948.[...] |
| [...]a son of Ole and Malina Oyness Brekke. The[...]community and was baptized and confirmed in the Shell[...]Blaisdell, a year of high school in Blaisdell, and graduated[...]Wahpeton'. On April 30, 1947 he came to Scobey to work at[...]department and the bookkeeping department, and later in[...]homesteader, who came to Daniels County in 1910 from Minnesota, and Pansy Knight Gunderson, who[...]came from Virginia in 1906 with her parents and grew up Family picture. Charles Bradford Sr., Dor[...]dford, Linda Bradford, school when she met and married Clarence. Clarice has Ronald Bradford.[...]Scobey High School in 1946 and attended the University of[...]t Missoula. Shortly after her eighteenth Moving to Scobey in 1949 they built a home in the Oie[...]avajo School. 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.[...]. Later, leaving his family in Scobey, he moved to Maple The following summer she attended Western Montana Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada to work for the Sout~ College at Dillon and that year she taught grades five Construction Com[...]ing home After their marriage Clarice and Norman set up after visiting him, was killed in a[...]n a house fire in the corner of Second Street and Second Avenue, where they Maple Creek, Saskatchew[...]heir time. As a Linda is living in Scobey also, and is married to Wayne member of Troup 298, Norman served a[...]Vatnsdal, who is from Badger, Minnesota. He came to local group and has been treasur~r for several years. He Montana in 1964 and is employed by Noland Implement in · served on the Great Falls Area Council for many years, and Scobey. They have an adopted son whose name is Tr[...]in Germany. He is residing in Richland fun and a r~warding experience. She has been in Girl wher[...]Scout work, Lutheran Church, Woman's Club, and Eastern By Linda Bra[...]Lutheran Church council, city council, and Fair Association , and Masonic Lodge.[...]Motor Company and is engaged in farming with his[...]Dealer's Advertising Committee from 1967-1971, and had Otto Brandt was born in 1879 in Sweden. He came to been on the Ford Dealer Council. Scobey in 1917. He was a master plasterer and found a lot After all the children started school, Clarice went back to of work to keep him busy at his trade in the new towns on[...]ern Montana prairies. He was a craftsman of interest in teaching and she was a substitute Junior High the old school (learning his trade in Sweden) and his vork English teacher for a semester. She taught remedial met the highest standards, causing him to travel at various reading the second semester. In order to continue teaching times to most of the northeastern Montana towns as an[...]ing a degree in Elementary Education in in Scobey and stayed at the Harris Hotel in Scobey since[...]for him Four children greatly enlivened and enriched the Brekke mixing plaster in 1919. Mr. B[...]in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Science in nursing[...] |
| and daughter graduated the same year.) She is current[...]states; Mississippi, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and North Business Administration from the University of Montana, Dakota and others I don't remember. Our superintendent and has passed the Certified Public Accountant's was Olive Nelson and after our introductions she said, "I'm 1 exam[...]student at the University of Montana sorry to tell you but school will not open for one month Law School. An Eagle Scout, he earned his God and because of the terrible flu epidemi[...]igh in 1973. He was a We all decided to stay and do what we could to help in the Boy's State delegate, and was active in football, music and flu epidemic. For one month we went to different homes drama. He is attending the Un[...]in bed desperately ill and we did what we could to wa:it upon Carla, the youngest, is in high[...]t- in case any one of us became ill, on music and drama.[...]eem, not by Norman and Clarice Brekke one of us had the flu. At[...]month's salary and a notice of appreciation because we[...]from my home town; it was FRED AND FAY BRUNET young and wild and barren, the trees were newly planted and watered sparingly with saved water. The saloons w[...], Fay Richardson, arrived doing a good business and we never walked on that side of in Scobey to teach the third grade. Scobey was five or[...]boy. There was a friendliness that was contagious and Dakota, my home state, and wanted to get away in search we were often invited to the homes. We did miss the young of adventure[...]tice I had superintendent, Olive Nelson, came to my room and told received and was "Way out west in Montana", I applied[...]od news. With tears streaming down my face, I and was offered a contract.[...]the school board, told me that gathered boxes and what they could find to build a big bon- when they read one of my qua[...]I had fire in the middle of the street and snake danced around it taken a course in Human Behavior, they said immediately and the town went wild with joy. they could use m[...]er 11th until the boys My problem was, how to reach Scobey. The depot agent 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 Ellsworth and I were eating our noon maps, but he started m[...]g soldiers being me his card, he said, "When, and if you ever reach there, enthusiastically w[...]the soldiers would you please send me a card and tell me how I should Fred Brunet and Ferd Wienicke. A few weeks later we met have[...]in the Eastern Star Hall. Fred mixed trains, and being the only passenger with the train Brunet was returning to take up his position with the[...]He had come to Scobey from his home in North Dakota.[...]One early spring day Ruth and I decided to take a walk to Left to right: Barr_y, Fay, Fred and Bob Brunet the river to watch the ice breaking up. We had finished our[...]work at school and there was still time before we were due[...]Kuster was a marvelous cook and several of the fellows[...]Burne and others. As we stood watching the ice pile up and breaking in the river, Ruth pointed to a large cake some[...]drifted closer to shore and decided it certainly did look like[...]a man. "We'll hurry back for dinner and tell the fellows" we[...]decided. The fellows were definitely interested and notified[...]the authorities at once. They found it to be the body of a[...]man murdered months before and thrown in the river.[...]Sometime later the body was identified and after much[...]tective work, the criminal was apprehended, tried and[...]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[...] |
| Fred went to get a marriage license from Mr. Shippam, no blanks had been received for Daniels County; so, he and John Nyquist, the County Attorney, got out the law books and drew up the first license for Daniels County. I s[...]21. When he was about three years old I was asked to teach the second grade, when a teacher resigned just two weeks before school was to open. We were fortunate in getting Edna Due, a neighbor girl , to care for Bob during the day while I finished my f[...]kindergarten which I continued for several years and also did private tutoring. Both boys graduated from high school at Scobey. Bob and Barrie were in service during World War II. Bob was in the Signal Corps and Barrie was with Patton's Third Army. After the war Bob attended Concordia, Carnegie Tech , and was graduated from Philadelphia Conservatory of M[...]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 Barbara live in Los Angeles. They have twin sons, Dennis and Douglas, and a son Craig all in college. During the years w[...]for the Citizens State Bank, First National Bank, and the Farmers Oil Company. During the depression he[...]or for WPA projects. We both were active in civic and church organizations. We moved from Scobey in[...]In 1918 the folks decided to try their hand at farming 25 years, and longer for Fred. A position with the U.S.[...]again and we moved north of Peerless. Gladys, Margaret Bureau of Public Roads was offered Fred to work on the and Gordon were added to the family tree. Alaska Highway. We lived for sev[...]when my mother came home with Gordon, he Chicago and Washington, D.C. Then Fred was transferred[...]cried so much she said "Some day I'm going to throw him to Seattle to work as a Cost Accountant for the U.S. Air[...]about 19 years. When he retired in 1963 we moved to Pomona to the barn and milk .old bossy and take care of him."[...]Gordon special to me. In 1922 we moved to town again and Scobey and our old friends. dad went back to tending bar for Carl Kilgore. In 1923[...]In 1923 the hospital brought in Dr. Morrow to remove tonsils and adenoids. There was an assembly line of[...]children and the waiting seemed an eternity. All the others[...]were given pretty pink juice to drink afterwards and I had PATRICK BURKE[...]to stay in the hospital overnight. I was very unhapp[...]I often think about the fights Gladys got into and how Pennsylvania on April 7, 1885. He was one of[...]oyd always bailed her out. She had fiery red hair and baby sister was buried at sea when his family was[...], the fight was on. Pennsylvania his family moved to Minnesota where they In the spring of 1927 Eddie decided to try his wings and farmed and raised the children.[...]than My mother, Viola, was born June 11 , 1895 and was one of write home for money, he hopped[...]ar Great seven children. Her family left Illinois and settled for a Falls. It derailed and he was decapitated. time in Missouri, then moved up to the Glendive and Lloyd joined the National Guard. 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 we[...]he worked as a supervisor at the sugar refinery. and Gertrude.[...]house. I got the job but they asked for Gladys and that took Scobey where dad spent the next four ye[...]. went to work on construction at the Fort Peck Dam[...] |
| [...]king there. Lloyd worked only a few first and only time anyone had ever seen Eddie Burton in a[...]ining consciousness. In 1936 my dad moved back to Sidney where he met and married a widow with three children. In the late 1940's he FREDERICK CORNELIUS moved to Williston where he again tended bar. He lived[...]re until he had a massive heart attack, was taken to JEANNEITE CORNELIA BYDELEY Billings where he died in 1961. My mother remained in Scobey and late in the 1930's she Fred was born in Le[...]. and emigrated to Canada in June, 1911. Jeanne (as I have many things to be thankful for, for the best things Jeannette Cornelia Van Amerongen) was born in in life are free, and the happiest times are when one is Amsterdam, Hollarn;! July 21, 1887 and came to the United giving of one's self. No matter how bad things are there is States in December, 1912 to meet Fred who had secured a al ways someone worse[...]onger husband, two great kids, five grandchildren and Margaret employed and with only 25¢ in his pocket. They were and Gordon whom I see often.[...]Montana on December 21, 1912. They returned to[...]Helen, arrived January 28, 1914. The family moved to Broadwater County in April, 1914 and homesteaded near[...]promising, especially with the approach of winter and[...]daughters were born, Wietske and Else.[...]r three years in Great Falls Fred was transferred to[...]changed after World War II to the Continental Land Company due to the revised policy on foreign currency[...]Bainville to change trains. Temporarily, they lived in the[...]Fowler Hotel until their furniture arrived and they then[...]the early days of the new town of Scobey, Eddie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Burton, had their restaurant with its fam[...]ce at Havre he was featured as a star trombonist- and he delivered the goods, even though on that instr[...]o idea what note he was hitting. Easy-mannered and extremely good-natured, he was considered by some to be somewhat effeminate. This was dispelled one ev[...]gravel-crew tough walked into a Scobey restaurant and challenged everyone, including a number of "fighting men". None answered his Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bydeley with daughters Wietske, Helen challenge. When he came to the end of the counter, still and Else in 1941. unopposed, he hit a friend of Eddie's, knocking him down. Eddie let out a whoop and waded into the gravel-crew bruiser. Less than a minute later the tough was bleeding, Both Fred and Jeanne were active in community affairs. badly bruised, scratched, and begging for mercy. It was the Fred was[...] |
| [...]Else was in the Scobey High Class of 19J8 and the next Board during World War II. Often he was asked to make year went to Montana State Univer~ity but later collections for worthy causes--he just seemed to have a way transferred to Boston University. She received a degree of painl[...]idn't from the School of Education in 1942 and did graduate intend to give. His subtle humor, dignity and versatile work in the Graduate School o[...]er things in life were admired by returned to Scobey to marry Charles A. Dapiels on June 2, most who knew[...]h-goer 1943. Charles was born in Scobey and was in her high he developed long-lasting intelle[...]school graduating class. He joined the service and received many ministers from all denominations in[...]e is his commission from Yale University and later was also the story that he in some way beca[...]ficer in the Air Force, in Tucson, Arizona. mayor and has probably been the only candidate who has[...]f. Haven General Hospital and then went on to Tucson. She Jeanne started the Girl Scout movement in Scobey and returned to Havre, Montana to have their son Charles was also active in the ear[...]younger generation give her credit 1945 and they returned to Scobey where he carried on for teaching them to swim. She is remembered farmi[...]neering. During that time their daughter sweaters and mittens for service men. After Fred's passing,[...]rn. Upon graduation the family moved Jeanne moved to Great Falls in 1950, to Seattle in 1962 and back to Scobey where Charles continued farming and to Walnut Creek, California in 1973, her present res[...]Service. In 1951 Charles became She returns often to Scobey and the attendance at her 85th manager for the[...]Company until it was birthday reception attested to the many friends she has dissolved. He continued farming and entered the had over the years. Travelling is one[...]Daniel's Agency. including a number of trips back to her native Holland, Else was secretary-receptionist for the agency for about 20 trips to Africa , and even a round-the-world trip in 1970. She years[...]late Charlie Wolfe as the loves the United States and has seen a great portion of it. Wolfe Daniels Agency. Both were active in both state and Also she is still enthusiastic about bridge and daily swims. national Independent Insurance Association up to[...]MILY The three daughters were raised in Scobey and went through grade and high school here. Helen graduated in the class of 1932 and went to Northern Montana College in Havre, majoring in ed[...]r's College in Minnesota. Afterwards she returned to teaching in Opheim and in Flaxville. In 1942 she married Robert L. Casebeer, who went into the service, and while he was overseas she went back to teaching in the Havre school system . They then returned to Missoula for Bob to finish his schooling. A daughter, Virginia, wa~ b[...]of moves as Bob followed the wildlife profession--to Helena, then to Coeur d'Alene, where another daughter, Barbara, arrived. They transferred to Boise, Idaho and in 1956 to Jackson, Wyoming. In 1966 Bob received an assignment with the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations and they have lived in Nairobi, Kenya since that time. The two daughters are married. Wietsk P (Vee to all her friends) was a graduate in the Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daniels, Bill and Jean - 1966 1935 class and proceeded to a degree in Home Economics in 1939 at Montana Sta[...]sition as Home Demonstration Agent in Hill County and Both Else and Charles were active in community and lived in Havre. In 1946 she married Charles E. Jarrett and civic affairs. Else worked with the Red Cross and they moved to Great Falls where Charlie was Agriculture American Legion Auxiliary and in the music programs of Development Agent for th[...]hern Railroad. They the Methodist Church and the community. She was also were transferred to Seattle, Washington in 1962 where active in the Girl Scouts and 4-H. She was listed in the 1967 Charlie held the[...]Charles served as commander of both Post and District of Washington State University graduate,[...]d, Washington. Charles' daughter, Ariss, is and was active in Lion's Club, Commercial Club, the Fair married to Bob Thomas and lives in San Jose, California. Association, and Sportsman's Club, and as Secretary of Ardis (Pinky) is a school teacher[...]airman Upon retirement in 1973 the Jarretts moved to Walnut of the Board of Education from 1954 to 1964, was chosen Creek, California , their presen[...]Boss of the Year by the local Jaycees in 1973 and served ten[...] |
| [...]ere married at graduated from Scobey High in 1963 and Jean in 1964. Bill Willow City, North Dakota on November 3, 1920. went on to Montana State University, receiving his degree From North Dakota they moved to Bemidji, Minnesota in 1968. His interest in flying led him to ROTC at the and later to Wadena and to southern Minnesota. University and a commission, and then into the Air Force Seven children were[...]Mary (died in where he became a pilot instructor and has just recently infancy), Francis, Raymond, Margaret, Catherine and been assigned to Fairchild AFB in Spokane, Washington, Maril[...]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 fol[...]ed States became actively engaged in the Billings and Montann State University. She later received s[...]34lst Bomb Group, 14th Air Force, China, Burma and 1, 1974 and they have one daughter, Jennifer Jean.[...]University in Spokane and Ray attended Walker Art[...]les M. Cassidy died in Scobey. GEORGE AND CORA CASE Ray, a co[...]1950. He passed away in 1964 and is buri"d at Fort Snelling Cora Day Case was bo[...]med forces; 1876. She taught school in Minnesota, and for several the remainder of his family st[...]alifornia, is married There she met George Case and they were married July and lives in Santa Barbara. 31, 1917. Shortly after they came to Scobey where she was Margaret (Brant) lives[...]own; Marilyn (McCrary) in Garden Grove, that time and she became active in that. She was president C[...]lub, Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and a member of the Episcopal Church. Cora died in 1926. Mr. Case was County Treaburer, and he also had Case's Confectionery. HI,_; passed away in Minnesota. PAUL AND LOIS CHABOT[...]Both Paul and I were born and raised in Daniels County- Paul's parents, Amedee and Margaret Chabot; my parents, John and Millie Poyner. Paul attended LaPierre School for[...]seven years then moved to Scobey with his parents in 1948 CASSIDY[...]e married in 1954. Paul The Cassidy family came to Scobey from Mii. nesota in worked for his father through harvest then went to work 1935 and 1936.[...]nded from immigrants coming from Battleson and Company. Our first son, Mark, was born in County Wicklow, County Limerick and Cork and Ireland Scobey and was schooled here. He then went custom during the[...]th his first summer. The 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[...]. 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 Janesville, Wisconsin and in Iowa, later moving to lived until 1957. Then we moved to Billings and Paul Springfield, Minnesota in the early 1870's. worked as a welder for Eaton Metals and became an The part ofthe family emigrating fro[...]New York Insurance Company. in western Minnesota and southeastern North Dakota. Our second son Jeff was born in Scobey and will Family sources state that the family orig[...]raduate in 1976. He became an Eagle Scout in 1974 and France came west by degrees from New England, thr[...]the scouting program ever since. He has Illinois, and finally to Minnesota. Four brothers of this spent part of[...]r partner. In 1961 Charles M. Cassidy was born to Michael Cassidy and Paul and I purchased land in Coronach, Saskatchewan Mary McCormick Cassidy at Springfield, Minnesota in area and started farming along with the implement 1890.[...]ur business. Since then we He left Springfield and went to Oregon in 1910. On his have leased land in the states and purchased more land in return journey he homestea[...]s relinquishing his rights. From Wyoming he moved to born in Minot, North Dakota and will graduate in 1976 Bozeman, Montana and later to Livingston. He was from eighth grade. drafted in to the army from Livingston during World War I. In 1972 we added another member to our family, 15 year Following the war h[...] |
| and is now employed with a cable laying crew in the S[...]n wagon in 1971 at this business was sold to H.C. Nelson who sold it to Roundup, Montana and as a family project built a new box Solberg and Melena in 1943. The livery barn was sold to for it and went on the first wagon train of Daniels County Joe Gilmore in 1930. Eventually the barn was divided and to Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan. We have gone on four sold--one-half to Frank Manternach and the other half to wagon train trips since, and have had numerous guests Ludvig Graff. Carl sold part of his farm to Milene and part travel with us. My mother, Millie Poyner, went with us the to Houg in 1932 and moved back to Princeton, Minnesota. whole trip our first year to Wood Mountain. Carl was married in 1934 and the couple had four[...]moved to Minot in 1948. Carl died in 1965.[...]left Scobey in 1930 and operated elevators in Bear Creek, Richey and Malta, Montana. In 1934 he married Alice[...]Summers of Richey, Montana. They had four girls and three boys. He and his family left Montana in 1944 and In 1880 John and Christine along with their three spent a number of years in Newtown and Garrison, North children, Lena, Alfred and Edwin imigrated from Sweden Dakota. Walter died in 1955. to a small dairy and garden farm which they owned and Esther married the late Frank Manter[...]r, Edgar enlisted in the army in 1917 and served in the 1st Esther, Edgar and Roy were born in Minnesota. Edgar was Div[...]my of Occupation in Germany. He returned Walter and Carl came to Daniels County in 1911. They to Scobey in 1919 to farm. In 1925 he married the former both filed on[...]Scobey. In Ruth Akers. In 1929 to 1930 he managed an elevator in addition they established and operated a livery barn in Scobey and Four Buttes. He was appointed Under Sheriff Scobe[...]eriff, Arthur Nelson, a position he was too young to file a homestead he pursuaded an older which he held until 1943. He, his wife and two children, sister, 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 his partner Arthur Way, Washington and farmed by Esther's son Dale Nelson operated the Richey Hardware and Implement Manternach.[...]a Chelgren Lemiuex Edgar Chelgren, Roy Chelgren and Esther Chelgren |
| Carroll College and College of Great Falls. She and her allowed to practice as such in the United States. However husband, Robert A. Scott, have a son and seven daughters, her services were valued in the ~te of Washington where and now live in Bellevue, Nebraska. Sgt. Scott is ret[...]k Clayburgh family arrived in Scobey they Mark and Anna Clayburgh moved to Scobey, Montana had two children with them, Donna and Mark Jr. They in 1919. They were married in Crookston, Minnesota in arrived in a Model T Ford and lived in the Chapman house. 1915. Their first hom[...]family. In 1918 they moved to the Fadness Ranch in the Ss,_obey Mark wa[...]he Clayburgh's when she was The family then moved to Scobey. teaching i[...]lived at the Fadness Ranch before Ben and Ade Harvick moved to Scobey and were also her marriage. She arrived in one of the[...]Anna was active in the Lutheran Church and other Harvick. They left Fertile, Minnesota with[...]organizations including youth groups. Harvick and Fadness children.[...]Shortly before Ben was born Anna's mother came to first teacher in the area of the Fadness Ranch. Her mother make her home with the family. refused to move the children to Montana unless Mr. In 1935 Mark and Forest Ford decided to open a Ford Fadness would promise to build a school house there, and agency: They moved to Plentywood, Montana to their new he did.[...]s venture. Mark attended Augsburg College. His parents came Mark later joined the Allis[...]s retirement. The family lived in Grand minister, and his mother a doctor in Norway. She was not[...]When Mark retired they moved to Bismarck, North[...]a's mother 50th Anniversary, June 30, Ji965, Mark and Anna continued to live with them until her death. Clayburgh.[...]Mark did not care for retirement and worked at a lumber[...]yard owned by Ben Harvick. He used to say, "lumber was[...]Mark and Anna celebrated their 50th wedding[...]Edmonds, Washington with their daughter Donna and family; and also in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Mark[...]Jr. and family.[...]They had three children, eight grandchildren and five[...]Donna, Mark Jr. and Ben graduated from the University[...]of North Dakota. Donna taught school and married[...]Their daughter, Cherey, is married and lives in Iowa.[...]sons, Mark and Bill.[...]Ben is an orthopedist in Grand Forks and is very active in politics. He and his wife Mina had four sons. She died of[...]four sons, Jim, Bob, John and Rick.[...] |
| [...]contributed Mr. Clifford, a longtime lawyer and real estate agent, In 1913 Samuel Cochrane Sr. came to Scobey from Plaza, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cochrane Jr.[...]played on Saturday nights and all the ranchers, farmers |
| land and retired to Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. He returns to his Rio Grande Valley home in Texas during the wi[...]have one son, Larry. Edna was in the ladies ready-to- wear business in British Columbia. Lawrence was[...]of Schools in British Columbia. He is now retired and lives in Delta, British Columbia. Samuel Cochrane Sr. died at the age of 64. His wife Minnie lived to be 91. Samuel came from Ireland when he was 19 and Minnie was a pioneer from Indiana.[...]l~v\;3. He spent two years in New York, then came to North l.Jc1kota where he operated a drug store at[...]d Mattie Littlefield in 1908. In 1912 they came to Outlook where he operated , drug In graduation to[...]t the University store until 1919 when he sold it to Chester Ford. of Toronto medical college, is Dr. T. W. Collinson, who has He decided to change his career, so went to Davenport without question, ushered more new lives into this world and graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He came to than any other M.D. in northeastern Montana. Shortly Scobey and practised his profession then went to Helena, · before this picture was taken Dr. Collinson was rated one later returning to Scobey to operate the Scobey Drug. of the best lacros[...]io. His three children are Ober, Betty Shirley, and Hazel Statler.[...]Northern and he also became a director in the Citizen's[...]During those years Alick and Joe, his brotters, also lived Thomas William Collinson was born in Ontario, in Scobey and both served at varying times as pharmacists Canada. His parent~ came from England and Scotland. He in the drug store. They also were both pharmacists and grew up in Durham, Ontario, was a good student and was a chiropractors. Joe died in 1943 and Alick in 1961. much better than average lacrosse[...]o even though he was into his fifties, he learned to play the of hockey and baseball. If there had been the money and game well. He became president of the Citizens St[...]rofessional sports which came a couple of in 1935 and remained so until his death. He had varied decade[...]s likely that we in the west might never business and real estate interests, including the Rex have seen Tom Collinson. He graduated from medical Theatre, and the small hospital operation, the Scobey school a[...]r the year he delivered a major portion beckoned ,and so he moved to Max Bass, North Dakota to of the children in this immediate area - he is re[...]he spent nine years. During that period he met and married Miss Lily Dale, a Dr. T. W[...]graduate work from a New York School of Optometry and received his diploma in that field. As the new townsites began to form along the Great Northern rail line in 1913, Doc and his brother Alick got a business lot in Scobey an[...]ing Dr. Fitz). In 1916 the Collinson family moved to Scobey to establish a practice which was to last until Dr. Colli nson's death in 1957. Dr.[...]had become the seat of the new county of Daniels, and the Collinson's had another boy,[...] |
| [...]the new retirement home in professional services and he conducted his profession on a Scobey. She[...]the flu epidemic of 1918 he survives and live in California. practically lived in his car. He broke his hip in 1949, but was able to continue his From D.C. Leader work though slower and with the aid of a cane. The last five ALICK C[...]m years of his life he was bedridden but was able to read and 1914 to 1933. His brothers, Dr. T.W. and Joe also lived in write and keep up with all current events. He was attended Scobey at that time. Alick was educated in Canada and the at his last illness by Dr. Willard Peterson o[...]35. He was Idaho, a former Scobeyite who happened to be visiting here in the motel business 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 motel business in Glasgow. He[...]and a daughter, Jane.[...]in Scobey. Here was the main plant and sales office of the[...]Westland Company until it was moved to Minutin 1928. He[...]to employ the use of an airplane--one of which was a[...]He is survived by his widow Gertrude and a daughter Helen. Two sons, Jack and Richard, are deceased.[...]AND THE CRAWFORD CAFE[...]the early years when he first came to Scobey. A native of Lilly Da[...]returned to Minnesota where he worked · in several Lily D[...]orn in Ontario, Canada, locations as a cook and baker. While employed in Marshall, later moving to Pontiac, Michigan. She attended high Minnesota he met and married his wife, Katherine. school in Butte and the University of Michigan and taught In 1924, after hearing about the jo[...]Montana, Les and Katherine and two-iear old Mable . When Lily Dale lived on her homestead near Culbertson moved to Scobey where Les hired out to the Burton Cafe. she was appointed to take a school census. She hired a livery rig to take her to the v~rious ;homesteads. At one_sod shanty she rapped on the door and incidently looked up. Cozy Cafe -1928. Left to right: Leslie Crawford, Stewart There, coiled abo[...]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 and was also a drama student. When she taught in Culb[...]irst basketball teams in the area, both for girls and boys. She also organized all-high school dramatic productions twice a year and in between also found time to file on a homestead. After her marriage she sold her homestead for $2000 and invested it in the new drug store in Scobey. She[...]of the Eastern Star - she received a 50-year pin and was honored by the local chapter at this time. She also served as president of the local PTA and produced local plays and encouraged young singers . and actors-one being Edmond Karlsrud,aneighth[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Crawford with son, Leslie, and granddaughter Meg. Pete and Catherine Darchuk and children from left to right: Joan, Peter, James, Diane, and Carl taken in 1960. After working for Burton's f[...]of the Jones Cafe. In 1926 the Crawford's decided |
| [...]avis' during the early days. During the 20's he and his companions would take as many as 80 coyotes[...]s hired by the government as a killer of coyotes and predatory animals. During the middle 30's he worked as a saleman in Kansas for three years but returned to Scobey. In 1952 he began to work as a nursery salesman for a company from North Dakota and sold many shrubs and trees around the community. He planted the shrubs and trees at the hospital grounds. Irving died at[...]e Jumbo - I weighed ten pounds when I was born', and grew fast, and was fat. My mother called me Jumbo Dale and Billie Smith and three grandchildren, Mickey, after the world's b[...]Stacie, Tracie Mueller. "Mother, who lived to be ninety-one and a half remembered the Civil War Battle of Lexing[...]eone said. The horse twms, Darryl, Missoula; and Darla; Curtis, Havre; ca~e into the yard--and it was indeed their old horse, very Charlotte, Havre. thm and worn. After that, whenever they went to town and the band was playing, the horse went crazy. It went right to the band and stood there. "I loved baseball and horse-racing, but had some of the best times in M[...]seat. I had ·three, sometimes four, stag hounds, and carried pinch-bars; we had to get the coyotes away from the dogs before the fur was torn, and the year I worked for the government we had to hold an autopsy on each coyote and report what it had been ea ting. "A coyote is a smart[...]e killed one or two the others recognized the car and would hide. "We could see a coyote a mile a way go over a hill and hide and listen for the car. The dogs, wise to this, were released and we would drive the car on to one side to throw the coyote off guard. One hound, Sam, was a tall and slender dog. If the mud and snow was deep he could outrun a coyote and get his teeth into a leg and throw it. Other dogs would be there by then to take care of the coyote." RAYMOND DEMING Ada and Raymond Deming - 50th Anniversary |
| O.B. EGLAND, SR. AND FAMILY Mr. O.B. England Sr. dotted northeastern Montana with lumber yards. He had an interest in the Citizens State Bank. He purchased the Woman's Shop for his wife- later selling it to J. Harriet Erickson. They moved to Bakersfield, California where he established a bu[...]lso lived in Scobey). They had one son, Otto, Jr. and they raised a niece, Mae. Both the children received most of their grade and high schooling .in Scobey. The family left here in 1932. Mrs. Egland died first, and Otto a few years later, in 1963. The son was cont[...]ased the Monarch lumber yards in Scobey, Peerless and Glentana, adding to his extensive interests as a lumber dealer in N.E. Montana which now includes 6 yards." MR. AND MRS. MELFRED EIDE |
| [...]oraine books, politics, people, homes and the theatre. But perhaps joined the family, and later, Harvey. we were[...]achieved a seasonal array of Scobey we moved back to the United States in 1934 and flowers which her loving hands had coaxed gently and Melfred worked with P.E. (Blondie) Teigen, rentin[...]February 8; 1880 in Glinton, The children started to school and it kept us mothers, who Minnesota. She grew up in Ortonville, Minnesota and was had cars, busy with picnics at Davis Beach and at married there to Martin Erickson. Hansen's, taking Scouts to the Pines and band members to They raised a nephew Clare Erickson to manhood only festivals in Williston in dust and mud. We were glad when to sadly lose him in an untimely death at age 21. Mrs. they bought dark band uniforms and built better roads. Erickson was a mem[...]he All There were also many projects in Red Cross and Home Saints Episcopal Church and All Saints Guild. She died Demonstration Clubs.[...]Treasurer in 1946. He was active in church, city and lodge woman and any worthy civic or benevolent enterprise activit[...]term in the Daniels County Clerk of Court office and he served by re-election to that office until his death on March 28, 1955. He[...]rship Award. She attended Kinman Business College and the University of Montana. Harvey received the[...]State in Dillon. He received several scholarships to state colleges and enrolled in Montana State in the Engineering Department. In 1949 he returned to college for his second year. He was one of the si[...]Chi basketball team. The memorial money was given to the Daniels County Hospital for emergency equipme[...]ted in 1955 with an engineering degree at Bozeman and went to work for Honeywell in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The[...]n of Honeywell. They now live at Edina, Minnesota and have three children--Richard, Douglas and Nancy.[...]Clare Erickson MARTIN AND HARRIET ERICKSON by Cecil Ferguson Martin and Harriet Erickson were early day |
| A Tribute to J. Harriet Erickson daughters: Sh[...]daughters; and Susan Stahl, living in Opheim, has one[...]life, this spring BERNARD is married to Margie Nakke , "'1ghter of As Nature touches each living thing; Herman and Louise Nakken. He is retired fr'l J:: e railroad[...]ll wait the coming of her who strays and lives in Great Falls. They have five c\H r-'m : K[...]mold through Falls, has one daughter; and Kelly, a star softball and And rear its blue spikes, as iris do,[...]arden beds. GERALD is married to Clara Olson of Tioga and lives in[...]children: Pat, Williston; Jerry, The roses and pansies and asters too, Newtown; Daryl, Williston; and Tara, a fourth grader, Will bloom for her, as they used to do; living at home. But they-like the daisies-will nod and say, DELORES married Arnold P aulson in 1939. Arnold "Who'll love and tend us, since she's away?" worked for J. V. Bennett for sixteen years and then oegan to by Cecil Fergu[...]and A.Repair Shop in Scobey and .operated it UJ:}til his .[...]death in 1968:Arnold and Delores had five children-: Mary[...]who is married to Roy Nelson lives in.Richland and they[...]en; Judy Swenson has three children; Pat JOHN AND BIRDIE ETHIER CHILDREN Lander, Great Falls, has one child; Debby, married to Kerry Halverson, has 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 Scobey schools. She and Ida Paulson in 1943. Morris was self-employed in the worked at the courthouse and for the Harry Hansen trucking business until he r[...]Variety. She married Alvin Levang, son of Mr. and Mrs. Washington, D.C. before her marriage. They h[...]the O.J. Dailey farm in children: Delano, married to Marlys Hunter, presently in 1948 and are still farming it. They have four children: Jack , the auto body business in Scobey has two boys and one girl; Scobey, married to Muriel Wiley, has one child, Warren and Donald teaching in the Browning School system; Dennis, Eileen, Billings; and Luverne, Scobey. working with Delano in the body shop; Anita, married to Harland Hawbaker and living in Plentywood has one son; by The Family and Wanita Fouhy, Peerless. ~ Birdie Ethier and children. Top row: Frances, Bernard, CARL AND FLORENCE FAANES |
| [...]Schaefer, and as Deputy Clerk of Court for George Jones.[...]busy seasons and vacations.[...]Edna Grubbs was born at Whitetail and attended Whitetail elementary and high school and several°[...]Whitetail to south of town when the children started to[...]never seemed to reach our feet. One cold spring morning[...]students and the burning coals from the stove all in a heap,[...]and feet of those "good old days". After graduating,[...]Larry and I were married in 1939. In 1945, with our son[...]Gerald, we moved to Great Falls where Larry began to[...]birthday and they changed the age limit. We later went The Carl Faanes family. Standing: Len and Virlaine. back to farming. Seated: Florence, Lonnie and Carl. Larry and I have two sons, Gerald, born in 1942,[...]attended Scobey school, Montana State University and[...]in the army, going from Fort Knox, Kentucky to a base in education in Minnesota, having attended[...]Gerald and his wife Sheril and family live in Scobey He came to Montana and was employed as cashier of the where he is[...]ng operation. For bank at Flaxville before moving to Scobey in 1928. He several years following his military service Gerald served as Clerk and Recorder for 40 years beginning in travel[...]Dana graduated from Concordia College and teaches He married Fl-orence Rossing in 1925 and to this union senior high social studies in Scobey. He married the former were born a daughter; Verlaine, and two sons, Len and Kim Hanson, also a native of Scobey. She[...]the bank in Scobey. In 1928 Mr. Faanes retired and the family moved to Kalispell where he passed away May 12, 1973. He is survived by his wife, daughter and sons. He was of the Lutheran faith and a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge. MR. AND MRS. J .. B. FLEMING contr[...]J.B. and Josephine Fleming came to the old town of[...]Fleming baked bread to sell. In 1913 the family moved to East Scobey and Mrs. Fleming continued to bake bread, LARRY FJELD FAMILY adding to this the sale of ice cream which she made in a[...]Confectionary and Bakery, in which J.B. and Mrs. Larry and I are natives of Daniels County. Larry was Fleming both worked, aided by their daughters, Grace and born in 1914 and grew up on the farm north of Madoc. He Mae[...]bank) who bought the years the family rode horses to Madoc six miles distant. concern in 1925 and sold it a short time later to Reiner's. They rode two on each horse without saddles. He recalls The Flemings moved to Eugene, Oregon and later to that this was bumpy way to travel, especially ifhe got the California. back seat. When he was in the eighth grade they mQved to Mr. Fleming was born in 1873 at St. Louis[...]came west into Max Bass, North Dakota and then on to Larry played on Scobey's first American Legion[...]dependent team. He was instrumental in organizing and building Montana's first Curling Club in Scobey, and was one of the organizers of the Daniels County S[...]rt The late Charlie Johnson, founder and namesake of the house as a deputy for John Smith[...]also in the Treasurer's office for Wyvil BjerJrn and Howard wanted fitted ~th a longer than[...] |
| [...]graduated from Scobey High School and attended[...]armed forces and was a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne[...]discharge in November 1946. He returned to Concordia College and later was admitted to the School of Law at[...]Admitted to the bar in October 1950, he was associated[...]returning to Scobey in the fall of 1951 to enter private[...]Northeast Montana Bar Association, and Phi Delta Phi[...]County for eight years and was also City Attorney of[...]the Scobey post of the American Legion, and has been[...]Montana Bar Association and Lutheran Church.[...]Washington. Both of her parents were born in Butte, Gerald Anderson[...]General Charles S. Warren, of Butte mining fame, and a[...]Fosland also attended Montana State took the job to Davis and Shook (predecessors of University. S[...]stein's), who in turn assigned their new mechanic to organizations over the years, particularly in[...]the shop. The new mechanic's name was on state and local levels, and helped organize Camp Lund, Adolph Fonk, out here from Minneapolis. He stayed to a Girl Scout camp located next to the river on the old Tande marry, raise a family and become foreman. place north o[...]y. 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 set[...]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 Daniels County; and a daughter, Jane Ann, a Legion. He came to Scobey in 1925 to work as a mechanic language major at Whitman College, Walla Walla, at the old Davis and Shook garage. In 1930 he married Washington, and presently on her second trip to Europe. Selma Anderson and to this couple was born a son, Vernon. The Fos[...]ivil There was also a stepson, Gerald Anderson, and a War cannon, mounted on old wagon whe[...]HISTORY OF THE FRANK-WALKER FAMILIES MR. AND MRS. JORDAN A. FOSLAND[...]n Fosland has practiced independent Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frank came to Scobey in 1922. He had |
| Mr. and Mrs. 0.L. Frank taken at Outlook[...]meat hooks, Bert Wenzil at the left and O.L. Frank, owner[...]Bert Moyer and O.L. Frank. This buffalo was shipped in[...]meat was sold as a novelty. Hamburger and stew meat 75[...]cents a pound, roasts $1 per pound and steaks $1.50 per[...]pound. They shipped buffalo meat to the eastern and Florence Ethel Edmonson was born in Arthur Vill[...]ied Harvey Walker in 1901 at Omemee, North Dakota and to this union was born three children. She moved with her children to Fortuna, North Dakota for a short time and then to Outlook, Montana in Laura Vivian Walker[...]leslady in the Nelson Dakota. She came to Scobey in 1923 and graduated from General Store. She married Otto Frank in 1917 and for Scobey High School in 1925. That fal[...]in the several years they rented homes in Scobey and later built a Nurses Training School in Minot, North Dakota. After home now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bummer. She died graduation s[...]Montana, Reno, Nevada and Sacramento, California I will always remember t[...]hospitals. She married Dolph McDermott in 1936 and they the Franks. Mrs. Frank would often go to the store on have a son, Robert. They now live in Sacramento. I will Saturday evening and fix boxes of fresh fruits, vegetables always think of Vivian as "that red-headed nurse with a and a chicken or roast and candy for the children and have smile." them delivered to some of the poorer families in Scobey for Omemee, North Dakota and lived in Outlook, Montana their Sunday dinners. When their many friends came to where he married Auget Johnson in 1923. They moved to their home, they never left without a cup of tea. Scobey that year and Joe worked in the Frank Market[...] |
| [...]I owned by his step-father. Joe loved baseball and he and teaches shop at Billings, Montana. He is married to the several other boys from Scobey played in the[...]5. He also played several seasons with a boy and a girl. Canadian teams. He was a quiet man but ha[...]g Store until his death in 1958. His wife, and Greenland working in communications. He is now a[...]homas Medic Fireman in Orlando, Florida and is married to the Confectionary when they moved to Scobey and later in the former Donna Sramek of Palm B[...]for many years. It was a rare day when boy and a girl. you did not find Maggie in the store. She[...]and two years at Helena, graduating in 1968. He is a junior Raymond Vernon Walker, or "Irish" as he preferred to be high teacher and principal at Thompson Falls, Montana called, was[...]th for the last four years. He is married to the former Patti his family to Outlook, Montana in 1913 where he[...]Parris graduated from Scobey High School, went to Dillon Normal School and the University of Montana. I Northern M[...]at Havre for two years, joined met him in Scobey and we were married at Rugby, North the army and spent a year in combat in Vietnam. He now Dakota[...]in Glasgow, Montana. He is married LeRoy Moline, and two granddaughters. Irish taught at to the former Cathy Whitlow of Four Buttes and they have schools in Opheim, Darby, Belgrade, Scobey and Hardin. two daughters. While teaching in Scobey from 1934 to 1942 he also helped Candace graduated fr[...]r his stepfather. He quit teaching in 1944 year to Great Falls College, then one year to Great Falls and became an insurance agent in Scobey for Pioneer[...]ves at the Glasgow Air Base, Mutual Life of Fargo and Collins Insurance Agency of where her[...]is employed as fireman. They have a boy and a girl. the years, and in 1963 was president of the Rocky[...]worked one year at the Sherwood Inn in Tacoma and is with the Daniels County Fair. married to Jim Donahue of Scottsburg, Indiana. He is a n Local history was one of his many interests and he took accountant with the American Can Company. They h a ve an active part in contributing pictures and information for one son. the 1963 Golden Jubilee book. He was keenly devoted to his Rozlyn is a graduate of Scobey High School and is community and a great booster of Scobey. He used to say, employed at the Leader office in Scobey. She is married to "What is good for Scobey is good for me." For sev[...]he was scoutmaster of the Scobey Boy Scout troop and John, born 1956, died in a car acci[...]Melissa is a freshman at home. Scout Council, and in 1947 he was awarded the Silver The twins, Anne Marie and Willa Mae, are still in grade Beaver Award for Distinguished Service to Boyhood. He school. was a charter member of the Scobey Lions Club and active[...]t his home in Scobey in 1965. Perhaps the Frank and Walker families enjoyed, for the most part, their[...]He had come to this area from England and he took a faTIU[...]south of Scobey where he raised wheat and oats. This was[...]poor eyesight. In order to see the rows while seeding Gene had to use a high wheeled drill, so tne horse would follow ALVIDA AND GERTRUDE FRENCH the track. Eventually he quit farming and moved into[...]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[...]lstrom Motors; taking the horse any harm and didn't kill the hoppers either." time off each spring and fall to farm his land. He later went For a time after moving to town Gene slept in an old to work for Rasmus Nelson's Implement where he still wrecked car near the railroad tracks in town and later in a works. In 1940 they bought one of the[...]es in shack with his five dogs. He loved to hunt rabbits with the Scobey - a house which was once an old people's home, a dogs and since he couldn't see he took friends along to see hospital, and a day nursery.[...]four girls He often remarked, "People used to wonder how Old and six boys, and four years later they adopted twin girls. Gene was going to get along, but since hard times they Alden atte[...]on, North wonder how they are going to make it themselves." Dakota; graduated from Northern Montana College at Gene loved to play checkers. He 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[...] |
| tried to torment him by stealing checkers off the board. L[...]couldn't even beat him then." After Gene moved to town he slept in every conceivable - type of plac[...]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 and hunted rabbits and coyotes. Strange indeed that this character could be the uncle of the colorful singer and movie actress Jane Froman. Gene died as a resu[...]HE GETSCHEL FAMILY In 1923 Frank Getschel came to Daniels County from Havre, Montana where he had homesteaded and run a grocery store and post office. After seven years of drought he came with Guy Stalders, Alfred Getschel, Jack McKiernan and Rod Sherburne by car to Scobey. They had all heard that Daniels County looked green and prosperous. They rented a farm north of Scobey wh[...]late Ernie Peterson and Ed Battleson. In 1948 he bought[...]Frank and Ida had six children, Cecil, Scobey; Howard,[...]y; Doris, Helena; Roy, Boulder; Violet, Billings; and[...]Frank passed away in 1952. Howard, Ida and Roy continued to run the business as a family. In 1956 they sold[...]the dry goods and turned it completely to groceries. At this[...]In early 1958 Howard and Roy split the business, Roy to the locker plant and Howard continuing in the grocery[...]Scobey; and Debra who lives at home. Howard has been in now t[...]e, except for two years he the Four Comers School and many times they went by sled served in Worl[...]Upon Jay's death he sold his that lasted all day and into the night. Everyone enjoyed interest to Esther. Howard will continue to serve the these times, even the children.[...]band Lee Frank soon found farming wasn't enough to support his Hinkley will take over. fast gr[...].00 a month. He \\ ould take time out each spring and fall for farming. During the "Dirty Thirties" he decided to give up farming and move to town.[...]n Schaich's store. In 1938 the building was sold, and he rented a small store. That Harry Gi[...]the Reclamation Service at building was torn down and is now part of the Tande's Williston, Nor[...]ocery store from the there in 1909. They moved to Montana and homesteaded[...] |
| [...]summer of 1912 and purchased a pool hall, with rooms[...]airs. John left Minnesota at his doctor's advice, to a[...]out and bought a farm north of Scobey. With the drouth, Harry Gibbs Family left to right: Ivan, Lyle, Gladys west of Whitetail in what was[...]ty\\ as formed |
| [...]MILY Gorham was obliged to sleep in a granary for lack of hotel[...]accommodations. This prompted his decision to build a Harold (Frenchy) Girard was born February 28, 1932 in hotel in Scobey, and accordingly, the Gorham Hotel Flaxville to Gus and Mary Girard, the fourth son in a opened[...]ms, an excellent restaurant, a confectionery shop and and attended school there, later the family moved into barber and beauty shops, and was equipped t.o do a rushing Scobey where he fin[...]ation he business. Alas, came the depression and the rush slowed to spent two years in the Marine Corps and then returned to a walk, then a stand-still. "P.R." terminated his Scobey to help his father with the farming. association with the oil company and moved to Scobey Kay Weber Girard was born to Harold and Clarice Weber from Great Falls to operate the hotel himself. The following of Flaxville. She graduated from Flaxville in 1957 and then years were tough, but not without comedy, and many are was employed by the Nemont Telephone Coop of Scobey. the stories circulating about P.R. and his escapades during Frenchy and Kay were married in June of 1958 and their that time. He became a stockholder[...]mily consists of Rhonda, Brenda, Jeanne, Jennifer and Bank and parted with thirty thousand dollars in one day, D[...]mpany dumped Mrs. Goodman (Addie Downing) came to Scobey in May hundreds of gallon~ of fue[...]of 1911. Two of her brothers, George Downing, Jr. and Will Gorham, thinking it was filling the fuel tank, but it filled Downing and their wives were living on their homesteads; the city sewer, and there was plenty of discussion about and she came from Velva, North Dakota to take a lawsuits. Long on pets, at[...]s of monkeys, parrots, tropical birds, and an alligator which residence per year required to "prove up" the homestead disappeared and rumor had it residing everywhere from in claim sh[...]toffice in Scobey, first at the the city dump to the city water tank. original site of the town and later at the new location, Bud, Frances, and Pat joined their father in the commuting to her homestead on weekends by horseback. operation of the hotel as they grew up, and they eventually The postoffice was located at the[...]took over the management when P.R. moved to Billings in general store. The other five months of the year she spent 1945 to manage a taxi company he had purchased. in Velva,[...]Frances married Stephen Vavra shortly afterward and which her father was postmaster. . moved to Washington; Bud joined his father in Billings Frank Goodman came to Scobey in the spring of 1912, and eventually assumed ownership of the cab company f[...]d up when P.R. retired. Pat married Bud Hill and they operated a homestead in South Dakota. His parents had left Iowa to the hotel until 1950 when they moved to Great Falls. Henry take up a homestead near Vida, Montana south of the and Raynell Schwabe purchased the Gorham about 1953 Missouri River and a brother, Harry, had taken a job and operated it until 1973, when it was purchased by[...]e at Scobey. He rode from Poplar seventy-eight, and did and said the unusual until that time. with Steve Robi[...]ing a jerk-line. in Billings and Pat, widowed in 1965, works for a Billings The[...]· stream the lead team broke through the ice and was in by Pat Gorham Hill difficulty; Steve told Frank to jump out and hold the heads of the horses up out of the water.[...]e quick action was successful. The team responded and they all arrived in due time at the Daniel's[...]COME GRATTON where Mr. Daniels took charge and soon had his new employee drying by the fire.[...]Come Gratton was an early day farmer and rancher in After the Great Northern Railroad was routed to the east this community (north of Scobey in t[...]hose Frenchmen of whom it the permanent location, and businesses and postoffice could be truthfully said he had "joie de vivre" - each moved to "East" Scobey. Both Addie and Frank continued birthday, regardless of h[...]g "Congratulations Dad, on your Adeline Downing and Frank Goodman were married in 21st bir[...]ackson, Seattle), two grandsons, a granddaughter, and in Scobey - Mrs. James Downs, an RN at th[...]n they operating the Silver Slipper. moved to Redding, California and then to San Jose, south[...]REID AND EDITH GRAYSON P.R.GORHAM[...]Reid and Edith are descendants of pioneer families that[...]Montana on business arrived in Antelope and Dagmar in Sheridan County for an oil company of which he was an officer in 1927, P.R. between 1906 and 1910. Reid's mother, Mae Grayson,[...] |
| [...]the Gallantry Cross with Palm, and was a holder of the[...]serving as a Green Beret and had received his diplom a as[...]RALPH AND BERTHA GREENGARD[...]Paul, Minnesota to Joseph and Tillie Greengard. He was[...]Ralph was raised in a family of five brothers and one[...]ter in Williston, where his father was a merchant and[...]In 1915 his father and his father's brother, Sam, Back row left to right: Reid Jr., Reid, Edith, Muriel. Seated: established a store in Scob.ey (at the present location) and Larry and Karla.[...]business there and in the Williston store. He was graduated[...]from Williston high school in 1916 and that fall enrolled in[...]He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and entered training at the Reid started working in[...]ceived five ha ttle stars He returned again to Scobey and became active in the in Germany and France. After having moved around management of the store and was one of the young men Montana and North Dakota 29 times as relief agent for[...]t, North Dakota American Legion Post 56, and as a student of government in 1947 and moved to Opheim, Montana in 1951. In 1956 and politics. Reid bid on the job as Great Northern D[...]ss Bertha Cowan in Scobey after Glen Brooks moved to the Butte division. In Minnepolis. After their honeymoon they returned to 1973 he received the Burlington Northern Employee[...]continued in the store. There were no Month Award and is also a member of the Veterans[...]time precinct He received the Silver Beaver Award and served two years committeeman on Scobey's west side. as representative to the National Council of Boy Scouts of America for[...]. He was president of the Lions Club in 1971-72 and Ralph H. Greengard - 1958 received t[...]ional. He was Post Commander ofV.F.W. in 1969- 70 and was All State Commander during that time. Reid has been active in Legion baseball and Babe Ruth baseball for a number of years. He also has been active in independent basketball as a player and coach and has supported the Scobey Invitational Christmas b[...]urnament by having a team in this tourney. Reid and Edith had four children: Muriel (Mrs. Ronald Swenson) lives at Sidney, Montana; Karla (Mrs. Doug Moen) and two children lives at Pocatello, Idaho; Larry and his wife Kym live at Auburn, Washington; and Reid, Jr. who lost his life in Vietnam in Decembe[...]eid Jr. was inducted into the army in March, 1958 and went to Fort Lewis, Washington for his basic training. He was married to Judy Hass and their daughter Wendi Jo was born at Augusta, Georgia. In the line of duty and having given his life for his country he r[...] |
| [...]Scobey and inquired where he could find Ralph Greengard;[...]came down and opened the store. "I want a french toe, size[...]One of the most painful things to Mr. Greengard was if[...]meone should ask a clerk in the store for an item and be told the store did not have it - only to discover long after the[...]Conboy, who worked for Greengards on and off almost[...]crowded store: "We'll have to rip-rap the aisles, or[...]buyers and put on three more salesmen."[...]Mr. Greengard had a great variety of interests, and he kept[...]residential and business real estate, the stock market,[...]etc.,all in addition to his abiding interests in politics,[...]reading, music, art, conversation, fine food and drink. The[...]extensive and varied. He made no great show of his[...]recognition and he was slated to be a Montana delegate to[...]Culturally, economically and civic-wise, Scobey has[...]alized another ambition when the store The days and nights were always too short for Ralph ·location was at long last available for him to buy, after Greengard. He was the most well-read p[...]ce 1915. In his own way he was planning community and his library is the most exten!3ive of any substantial renovations and remodeling. private collection; the books were read well, and his bedisde The name Greengard was an Americ[...]ere Jewish accumulated written wisdom, philosophy and fojbles of the folk coming from Latvia and Lithuania. The name means ages. "green garden," and the Greengard home in Scobey was He cherished iiolid friendships and pleasant outstanding for its shrubs, trees and flowers. Ralph also acquaintances and the Greengard hospitality was kept a growing list of bird varieties he observed in the bird legendary to the numerous ones who had opportunity to baths and bird house, in a setting which attracted many enjoy it. He was a gourmet of food and drink. A favorite varieties of feathered friends.[...]ough." Every day was a full and interesting one for Ralph His personal filing s[...]years; was a member of the particularly in regard to the Scobey community, hfl could American Legion Auxiliary, and helpful in all community rustle around in his papers and inevitably come up with and musical events. valuable information or evidence.[...]was closed common phrase among those who bothered to seek him out out and sold; and after a few years Mrs. Greengard sold her in his[...]the back of the store, or at home. home in Scobey and moved to Los Angeles where she Although gentle by nature, his humor was trenchant, and remains at the present time. he had the courage to "stand up and be counted" in matters[...]always had a reputation PAUL AND MYRNA GRIBBLE of unusual character; and customers ranging far up into Canada and around Montana. Its stock of merchandise[...]y Paul Gribble a few days was unique in character and in depth.[...]years ago a massive-sized man came into the store and facetiously asked, "I want a pair of overalls -si[...]." (definitely a special order item) Ralph smiled and said, for many years, became Scobey residents in 1965, and have "Bib or bibless?" and fitted him from stock.[...] |
| Paul Gribble and Myrna M. Mclnturff were married in 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 one year before her , marriage. She has a two and a half year old daughter and resides at Jordan, Montana. Mary has just compl[...]Gribbles have been active in the Masonic Lodge and O.E.S. They have done considerable traveling in the States and Europe. In recent years Mrs. Gribble was emp[...]e at Ware's Style Shop, the State Liquor Store, and at present in the office of the County Superint[...]n farming for many years. Mr. Gribble came to the Bredette Community with his parents in 1914. The Gribble home was the Bredette Postoffice from 1915 to 1943. Paul's mother was the first postmaster and served until retiring in the late 30's. Fueling up at Hagfedt farms, Art and Bert. Paul became postmaster at that time and served until his parents passed away in 1943. He resigned and the postoffice was discontinued. He served 25 years as Observer at the Weather Bureau and that station has been oldest son Cliff sta[...]g in this area of the for many dances from 1918 to 1941, including the first original family. His mother moved to Great Falls in the dance at the Silver Star Com[...]brothers Hilmer, Scobey 1947, and Bert, Coram, Montana.[...]l in operation by his widow, PETER AND JULIA GRITZ Cecelia Davies Hagfeldt and son Cliff. Another son Glenn[...]resides in Dayton, Washington and daughter Mary Lynne Peter Gritz was born Aug[...]ona. 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 Hagfeldt Anderson at Portland, on Thanksg[...]913. He liked the new townsite Oregon. and bought lots in the new town, now known as the Gri[...]By Cecelia Hagfeldt, who lives in the first house to be built Addition. He married Julia Kamla at Glasgow in 19~ 5, and in East Scobey at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Daniels they had one daughter, Alvina Bruehl of[...]ifornia. Pete operated a n auto garage fro m 1917 to 1927. 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 ERNEST L. HALVORSON the Cath[...]9. Ernest L. Halvorson, born July 12, 1924 to Halvor 0 . and D.C.L. Ragna Halvorson in Scobey, attended school and[...]D Day landings in Normandy, and was discharged in 1945. THE ARTHUR W. HAG[...]Arthur William Hagfeldt was the second son born to employed by C.H. Wilbur in the Conoco Service Station Scandinavian immigrants John and Mary Hagfeldt at and Bulk Plant. Later he operated this business himse[...]four years. Three children - Glen, Lynette, and Holly - were raised and educated at Argyle and Warren, Minnesota. Art born while they lived at Peerless. In 1952 they moved to visited his brother Harry and worked in the Scobey Scobey where Er[...]iking out on his own in father the family moved to Scobey in 1917 and he resided the carpentry field. In 1958 he[...]He farmed for many years with brothers Hilmer and There are many commercial, residential and farm Bert, known as Hagfeldt Bros. The partners[...]them. This in the early 1940's but he continued to farm here, along partnership was dissolved[...]out of Fort in a lumber yard accident, and is currently disa bled. Benton, which was opera[...]Scobey -Lianne, Mac Drummond homestead in 1960 and along with his Gina , and Kirby. Glen is a medical student at Univer[...] |
| [...]farm equipment, hardware and petroleum products, and[...]West was young and full of advP,nture.[...]Any history of Battleson and Company must be traced to[...]Minnesota to "try his luck" on the plains and prairies of[...]merchandise stores, first in Wild Rose and then seven miles[...]implements and autos in 1917. But he and two partners[...]North Dakota, to join the business in Scobey. Battleson and Company received the Chevrolet franchise from E r[...]Dakota in the spring Lynette, Gina, Kirby, Alice and Ernie. of 1917, and six years later contracted to sell Buicks[...]distributor for the area. Gradually Battleson and Hanson bought out the other partners and in 1927 Mr. Hanson Washington , Seattle, married to Karen Seeley from Salem, assumed management[...]daughter, Kristin. moved to the west coast in semi-retirement. Lynette is t[...]During the next 20 years the firm had its ups and downs, America. Holly teaches at Port Orchard, Washington and enduring the loss of its building by fire, selling more units resides at Gig Harbor. Lianne and Gina are college in 1928 than at any[...], filled 30's-a nine-year drought, and the years of World Washington. Kirby, a junior hi[...]and service work in the shop. JEAN HUMBE[...]ess Jean had been ART HANSON[...]n the <lea th of Mr. Battleson in 1945 Art Hanson and[...]years with the business and especially the 50 golden years |
| part-time in California and at a summer place near Glacier In 1944 I was shipped overseas with my Inf. Div., and National Park, Montana from which he can "commute" to later landed on Anzio Beach, seeing action all the way Scobey to attend to his various interests. north i[...]has handled an impressive shrapnel, and on the 17th of October it was necessary to assortment of cars in addition to Chevrolet and Buick in amputate my leg beneath the knee. I[...]n his half-century in Scobey. Maxwell, Dort, Star and Thanksgiving Day of that year and was discharged in Durant, Studebaker, Overland, Velie, Hudson and Essex, 1945. Rickenbacker, Oakland and Pontiac, Oldsmobile and even I returned to Scobey and went back to work for Battleson Pullmans are about the best re[...]Co. until 1950. I became County Treasurer in 1950 and His years in Scobey were not devoted entirely to the auto held this position until 1954, and have been County business. A.R. Hanson was active[...]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. Daniels County World War II F[...]ughter, Connie, now Mrs. He married Mable Grant and their son K. Gordon Myron Anderson of Peerless and a son, Thomas, who has a Hanson, continued in the business. In 1972 the Gordon degree in mathematics and is teaching in Wyoming. We Hansons sold the business and now live in Salt Lake City. have two grandchildren, Chana and Jason Anderson.[...]of Ben and Bertha Lien, formerly of Peerless. CLIFFORD I. HANSON AND FAMILY My outside work is devoted to my church and veterans organizations, 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, Montana three weeks later. In 1924 we Committee. came to Scobey with my father, Henry L. Hanson (a I think Daniels County and Scobey is the only place on brother of A.R. Hanson), also coming at this same time was earth and plan on spending the remaining years "here". his brother Leonard, and my sisters Kathryn, Henrietta, by Clifford I. Hanson Gladys and Mayme. Gladys later married Eddy Burton, son of a pioneer Scobey family. In 1931 my father Henry decided to move back to Minnesota and took with him sister Mayme. By now the older members of the family were grown and on their CLIFFORD AND LORRAINE HANSEN own. I was 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 Sco[...]ntire life in the Scobey participated in football and track, was captain of the 1936 area until he e[...]ball team. I was a member of the first track team to go from Scobey High School in 1937. He was in the air force to State from Scobey in 1937. during World War II and spent three years inPanama. After attending Kin[...]er he was discharged in November 1945 he returned to here and went to work for Battleson & Co., where Uncle Art Scobey where he worked for Battleson Company. was part owner and manager, until going into the service Lor[...]of Charles and Elsie Motschenbacker. She graduated from[...]Peerless High School in 1945 and worked at the Clerk and Recorder's office for a year and taught the Butte Creek[...]before her marriage. Clifford Hanson family left to right: Father Henry L., Cliff and Lorraine were married in Wolf Point where Leonard[...]December 1948. They moved to Worland, Wyoming where[...]they lived until 1950, when they moved to Billings. They[...]born in Billings - Paul, Sandra and Kristin.[...]for ten years and is currently working for a degree in[...]Glenn, Paul and Sandra all graduated from Billings[...]and Paul both served during the Nietnam War, Glenn in[...]the army and Paul in the navy.[...] |
| [...]Harry and Laura Hansen E. Helen Hanson on the left with[...]n September 1886 in Pilot, North HARRY J. AND LAURA M. HANSEN |
| Lu Verne Hansen family 1974. Front row left to right: Mom, Laurie, Judy. 2nd row: Dad, Donna, Del. Back: Jim. There he operated a grocery and meat business in part of Warner, Donna and Lori Harrison |
| [...]d (rebuilt after the one was destroyed by Yard and is planning on furthering his education in the th[...]fall. Later two more daughters arrived, Orpha and Wanda. Glenn will go to Helena to work for the State In October 1924 we decided to leave the homestead and Department of Intergovernmental Relations, Local move closer to a railroad town and Scobey was the choice. Service Division. We then farmed the Chartier and Barbeau lands for three years. In October 1927 we again wanted to try our luck in the Butte Creek community and took over the A.V. Lawrence ranch. There we farme[...]alth decided we should retire in the fall of 1945 and we bought a home in Scobey and lived in it for five years. In from clippings and his own memories June 1950 we sold the home and went out to the ranch to clean and repair the buildings. But after a big snow storm[...]y from 1915 until in September 1950 again decided to live in Scobey where we 1948. He served befo[...]Mrs. Haun was a telegrapher. When he retired to move to[...]"Fred served faithfully on his job and also found time to[...]ber four years, treasurer of the ORVILLE AND BETTY JO HAUGO A.O.U.[...]years, and president of the Scobey Lions Club." Orville Ha[...]ght months old he rode in a Model T Ford with his parents I was born in Osborne, Kansas, a small town about 200 all the way to Montana from Iowa. He grew up in the[...]always moving around the United States. We moved to He was married to Betty Jo Chilson, daughterof Mr. and Shawno, Wisconsin when I was about five years old, then Mrs. H.J. Chilson of Missoula. They moved to Three Forks, returned to Osborne; later to Shelby, Michigan, to Montana where he worked as a pharmacist for one year. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and to Manchester,[...]lottery ticket for one dollar and won $1500.00. He bought a[...]farm 16 miles east of Hartford. He and my mother lived[...]there until they passed away - my father at 91 and my[...]went to work for the Great Northern Railway at Grove[...]then resigned and went to L_os Angeles. The city was full of operators and agents - no jobs. The Santa Fe sent me to a J. Fred Haun (90) and his wife, Winnifred (87), with their Ce[...]graduated from the |
| [...]proved up on the homestead, resigned, and went to Los Angeles in 1914 and bought a moving-picture house. This[...]was a bad move, and I sold out at a loss. I went back to Havre and worked as a relief agent at Shelby, Devon,[...]Gildford, Malta, Bainville, and Plentywood. I was sent to Scobey in 1915, where I was cashier and operator, then[...]my pension, and moved to Burbank, California. We moved back to Bozeman in 1959. Our son, Carl had[...]been in the army. He got his Master's Degree and was hired[...]Winifred Mae Randolph and I were married in Aberdeen[...]in August of 1902. She had a heart attack and passed away[...]in October of 1971. In March of1972 I moved to Lewistown, Montana and am living in the Eagle's Manor there.[...]below zero and the Ford quit. A rum-runner came along in a[...]Cadillac with a load of whiskey, picked him up, and brought him to about a mile north of Scobey -- then let him[...]One night as I was going to bed- rather late -the custom[...]and looked into a window; several prohibition officer[...]confiscated a truckload of beer and wine. The truck was[...]a case of beer and a gallon jug of wine and went home to[...]many years ago, the sheriff Roy B. Humbert and Fred Haun attempted to arrest a bootlegger, but the bootlegger was too[...]witness (Eddie Burton, then just a kid) was told to state[...]land and located people on the land.[...]from the Westland Oil, nearer to the depot; Ben Horvik was[...]Dakota and bought a lumber yard. Hellickson lived in[...]Minneapolis and made several visits a year; after Ben left[...]the 30's. He shod horses and oxen. They put a band under[...]the ox - had a pulley and raised the ox a foot or so off the[...]his knees and trimmed the hoof and fitted the shoe. Early-day depot a[...]summer of 1917, together with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. |
| [...]rea, but crops were poor married Wayde Johnson and they moved to California, fo r many years. The youngest member, Elma, was born in and Kenneth left for aircraft studies in California.[...]mined the winter's supply Then came the War, and Vernon joined Uncle Sam's navy, of coal, usually quite close to home. Cow chips were a going off to North -Africa. Mildred married James common summe[...]. While herding cattle the boys Hillstrom , and they set up housekeeping in Scobey. Speck had the[...]Meantime Carl was busy managing the mill, and married La Verne Holmberg, who had come from 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 the farm and each fall would go out with his Lion's Club and the Methodist Church. threshing crew.[...]en are: and moved to Havre, where he worked with Vernon in his Irma (now Mrs. Danielson and an R.N. living in photograph studio, and he and Kate enjoyed a happy Minneapolis) and James who works with his father, were retirement. Kate died in 1973 and Carl died in 1974. born while we Jived on the far[...]ab technician who Florence is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools in lives at Lovel) and Wayne who passed away in 1953, were Great Falls; Kenneth is in Burlingame, California and is born after the family moved to Scobey. an aircraft mechanic for United Airlines; Mildred and Jim Joe was a mechanic for Vic Hillstrom from[...]re Getschels is now located. In 1940 he Speck and Dee Helmbrecht live in Havre and Speck has an purchased the former Harris building and started his own aerial spray service in Chester. repair shop and is still in business there. He has belonged by Florence Helmbrecht Johnson to the Scobey Fire Department since 1940 and was Fire Chief from 1955-1960. I have been active in church youth work for many years and recently completed 19 years with the Girl Scouts[...]BILL AND LUCILLE HELTON[...]Since Homesteading days all were neighbors and friends, a down to earth group with no airs or pretence. The Helmb[...]ool, with no teen from Mott, North Dakota--Ma, Pa and the five kids, age nonsense of disobeying the rules! Vernon , Florence, Kenneth, Mildred and Charles (Speck). The boys had grown handsome and all the girls fair, pretty Carl had been manager of the Mott Hill & Elevator blondes and brownettes, but one had dark hair. Company in Mott, and Hub Ames had hired him to manage Her father was Cliff, and Teva her mother, completing her the Scobey Millin[...]family was Wilbur the brother. the " Mill House", and it was a good thing that it was large Mongst th[...]l that room wasn't needed for long, one and all made him welcome and hoped he would stay. because Vernon, following hi[...]became a From the north country he came and every one knew, that photographer and bought the old Kloss Studio. Florence h[...]and devotion of the lovely Lucille! Front row: Floren[...]rl Helmbrecht, Mildred. Back row: Vernon, Kenneth and Charles - 1964. Lucille and Bill Helton and Linda and Bob Olsen taken on[...] |
| [...]February 17, 1890, and emigrated to Canada in 1902. His parents both died and were buried in Saskatchewan,[...]Canada. Bill came to Plentywood in 1914 and helped his brothers, who preceded him to the United States and[...]In 1916 he moved to Scobey where he was to engage in[...]He entered the Army in 1918, and received his discharge[...]in 1919, in which year he returned to Scobey and married[...]Two children were born to the marriage: Floyd and[...]employed as a carpenter, and he, Mrs. Heppner, and Gloria[...]grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Scott, to attend high[...]school; he was afflicted with pneumonia and rheumatic fever and died in 1935.[...]returned to Scobey and Bill continued with his trade. He[...]The ensuing affliction was to plague him for many years and after several admissions to Fort Harrison hospital in Lucille and Bill Helton - July 1971[...]The family home was sold in 1945, and the family took up[...]still lives. But War clouds were gathering, and darker they grew, drawing nearer and nearer, making courting days few. And Bill joined the army and sailed for Down Under, saw strange sights and adventure, but often did wonder--[...]f Lucille in her dreams ever thought of him then, and when the War ended would he see her again?[...]nty, In the land of the Aussies were girls blonde and fair, but his Minnesota. My parents were Alfred F. and Tilda Melberg thoughts ever strayed to the girl with dark hair. Hillstrom.[...]hool at At last the War ended, the Axis defeated, and Bill came Belle Plaine, Minnesota, a t[...]gain a Civilian his problems were real, win a job and a promise from lovely Lucille. One evening whi[...]Vic Hillstrom on Frank. parked near them to tease "Uncle Bill". With laughter and banter the courtship soon ended, in a Wolf Point parsonage, with Nellie and Wilbur attendants. Then on a Glacier Park Honeymoon, went the Bride and Groom, that like all other Honeymoons ended too soon. At home Cliff and Teva killed the little red rooster, to welcome the travelers in the style they were used to. Their first home, a trailer, into construction B[...]A Memorial Day child, Bill's wish had come true! and Baby was given the name Linda Lou. From nineteen forty-six to seventy-one, the days and months and the years have sped on. Their girl finished College and began a career of teaching, and now she's been married a year. Tho' she's flown f[...]people will, so left at home, we have Lucille and Bill. To shower with good wishes in their twenty-fi[...] |
| [...]e A. Hillstrom The Vic Hillstrom family . Left to right: Marvelle, Howard, James, Betty (upper right) and Rusyl (lower right).[...] |
| [...]ic at the John P. Snider Company. The urge to come west in 1917 overtook me, planning to stay a couple years only. A friend told me about Poplar and it sounded like a good place to try. I brought my wife, the former Mabel Rose Kaiser of Onalaska, Wisconsin and our daughter Marvelle Victoria and son Howard Frank, to ' Poplar in 1917. I rented a garage building and had the agency for cars and machinery. In 1917 a fire destroyed the building and I rebuilt. This building is the Farm Supply now. In early 1921 I headed for the then up and coming town of Scobey and I moved froll) Poplar to Scobey. I rented the Peter Gritz garage building and established a farm machinery and automobile sales and service business. I later bought the building and continued in business for over fifty years. Same spot, same owner, same mechanic, and same salesman. The firm never changing hands during that time. My sons Howard, James and Rusyl have worked with me over the years.[...]eived Florence Hitsman, Eva J. Hitsman, and special award for being top salesman in the dis[...]ld L. Hitsman year. I am an avid sportsman and I love pets, especially horses, dogs and cats. I retired in 1972 and enjoy hunting and fishing here, in Canada and Alaska, the Yukon and I have one son Charles;heisin the army[...]are looking forward to seeing Charles and family again My first wife died August 19, 1[...]an Langseth Minneapolis, Minnesota. Howard and James and families live at Palmer, Alaska. Betty married John E. Carney and lives in Helena, Montana. Rusyl is at Scobey. M[...]MILY August 1967. I have thirteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. Joe and Mary were married February 7, 1899 in Austria. A[...]By Victor Fremont Hillstrom son Mike and daughters Ann and Natalie were born there. Mr. Holyk came to New Jersey from Austria at the turn[...]he century. After about eight months he went back to Austria to bring his family to America. HAROLD HITSMAN[...]Austria and later employed several men in his own factory, Our family, Harold Hitsman, Eva J. Hitsman and I, an making shoes by hand. only child,[...]argo, North Dakota in The family moved to Manitoba, Canada in 1908. Their the spring of 191[...]We daughter Tena was born there. They moved to Montana in came by train to Wolf Point and traveled by lumber wagon 1910 where the rest of the children were born: John, Laura, to a homestead on the Fort Peck reservation. Alex, Tom, Frank, who is deceased, and Babe. The Holyk's The next fall my father went to work in Plentywood. A homesteaded about 14 miles north east of Scobey. Joe did year later we moved to Whitetail where I started school. When I was in the second grade we moved to Scobey where my father helped set up the books fo[...]house for many years. Joe and Mary Holyk and grandson Jimmy We had a pleasant life. The radio was invented and my . uu. dad and I really enjoyed the programs. When I was in the eighth grade daddy went to work for the O.B. Egland lumber yard and a year later we built our new home (now the Walle[...]ll the good times we had there. We went fishing and hunting. There were lots of picnics at Stony Point and a small lake in Canada. In the summer there was Girl Scout camp and 4-H camps. Soon after I graduated from high school in 1931, my father went to work for the Internal Revenue and my parents left Scobey. They lived in Havre for a time and then moved to Helena were Daddy was in the main office. My father died while on vacation in 1951. I married and worked for Farmers Union for 22 years. My[...] |
| harness and shoe repair on the farm and whr n the new town began in 1913 he moved to town. Supplie , food and clothing were all purchased in Poplar. They went by horse and wagon and the round trip took almost a week. Mr. Holyk e[...]lding occupied by the bowling alley at that time and where Jean Halvorsen's · apartments are located now. There he converted his purchase into a hotel and harness shop. During the years the Holyk's have seen prosperity and bad times but between his shop and the farm Joe always got along. He sold his business building to John Brayko in 1945. A house was brought in from the homestead farm and was located where Meta Lucht lives at the present time. Old photo of Charles M. Johnson and the dray. The Holyk's moved to Battle Ground, Washington where they lived about[...]arrival in Scobey. He used teams of horses and wagons for A son, John, went into the army during peace time at the drayage, graduating to Model T Ford trucks in the late 20's. age of 15 and remained for five a half years. Babe entered He p[...]r Stephens-King Coal Company in the army in 1943 and was honorably discharged in 1946. the late 20's,[...]of Main Street next to the railroad tracks and adjacent to[...]er 1943. His son Wayde carried MEL AND LIL HYLLAND on the bu[...]y died in 1938. Grace lived with son Wayde Mel and I and our family moved to Montana from until her death in 1970. Zahl, North Dakota in 1949 and lived in 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, and I was postmaster for five years. Bonnie was Lodge. seven years old and the twins, Linda and 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[...]He married Florence Helmbrecht in 1939 and they reside in moved to Flaxville, Montana for a year and then Scobey Great Falls, Montana where he is Maintenance and where we h_ave lived since. Operations Supervisor for the school district and Florence Mel continued to work in grain elevators until his is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools. retirement. I went to work in the Daniels County[...]sessor's office shortly after arriving in Scobey, and have worked there since 1961. Bonnie graduated from Flaxville High School and went to Billings Business College. She is MEMORIES OF SCOBEY married and continues to live there. Larry and Linda graduated from Scobey High School and Larry went into When most people arrived in Scobey by train, and each the United States Airforce for four years, i[...]otel had its own two-wheel cart for luggage which and a draftsman in Billings, Montana. Linda lives with were handpulled up Main Street to the hotel. her Airforce husband, J.D. McMurtry in[...]the depot was the busiest place in town, with all and works as a dental assistant there. Although not born freight arriving by rail. and raised right here we have lived most of our lives in and When Scobey had its own municipal light plant, lo[...]The general stores--B.O. Tande's and Harry Hansen's - CHARLES M. JOHNSON FAM[...]The meat markets - Otto Frank's and Gus Dahlquists. Charles M. Johnson and wife, Grace Fleenor Johnson, Wayde Johnson and infant son Wayde, came to the "new town" of Scobey shortly after its inception. They arrived by horse and wagon, after a short stay on an unsuccessful homestead west of Opheim. They had met and married in Plentywood, Chiirley having come there from Penn, North Dakota, and THE FRANK JOHNSON FAMILY efrace from Illinois and Virginia. They lived in a tarpaper shack on the c[...]n Marsh home, until such time as Charley was able to build their permanent home on the same property. Their We came to Antelope from Hendrum, Minnesota in 1911.[...] |
| [...]in 1915 and was in a field a long way from town. Actually it[...]From 1915 to '24 Mother taught piano lessons, did[...]and taught us children music and all the other things a[...]good mother could do. She made it possible for us to take six[...]teaching music. She even had time to go to the homestead on weekdays for three years to help prove it up. She was a[...]little unhappy when we got to the homestead one morning and found our shack had been turned upside down durin[...]teacher, Mary McCloud. We used to haul water to our place[...]to Luther Greenup, another neighbor.[...]and we went on tours for several years. She even got me to[...]Westfork, where Dad and Harry Hansen had a store. We[...]I remember one trip we made to Yellowstone Park in 1916[...]he park we drove behind a four-horse stage coach, and[...]to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where my dad had[...]homestead was sold. We visited relatives there, and went on to Banff Park. Another tim~ it took us four days to get from Williston to Minot, North Dakota, playing concerts and battling bad roads. In 1924 we moved to Eug-ene, Oregon where we attended[...]high school and university. Mother passed away there in[...]married Reed Clark, and now lives in Walla Walla,[...]Washington. They have two sons, Reed Jr., and Daniel.[...]Phyllis became a teacher in Daniels County, and one of her[...]arried Earl Norman who was in the garage business and trucking; later farming and cattle. They have three[...]daughters, Shonny, Julie and Teri. Earl died in 1972 and[...]painting, and several other hobbies, and traveling. Dad moved back to Scobey in 1927 and continued in the[...]Buttes and one south of Scobey in the "dirty thirties", when[...]warrants were small and often no good. During the time I[...]Pratt of Scobey, and Norma Becker of Billings.[...]Dad died jn .1941. Left to right: Phyllis, Adelaide, Norman and Estelle Earl Norman and I bought the store in Four Buttes[...]1949. Hilma and I still have the store and post office; also then three children, Adelaide, Norman and Estelle. Phyllis farm south of town. was b[...]son, Julia, was very 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 Sc[...]of pictures at various art shows. Estelle and Phyllis are All the lumber was hauled in from Poplar. We lived in the very gifted in art and music; and Norman has played in hack of the store unt[...] |
| GEORGE W. JOHNSON FAMILY George came to Scobey, Montana from Minnesota in 1918 to homestead 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 confectionery store where she met George, and in 1920 they were married. George worked in th[...]t in Scobey. Numerous speakeasies were operating, and the product sold stimulated plenty of excitement in the alleys and on the streets. Some of the hard cases from the s[...]professional baseball players, like Swede Risberg and Hap Felsch. Frequent street brawls were the rule;[...]threshing machines came to thrash our wheat. Orr Burgett In 1930 George left Scobey to accept a temporary position was one of our e[...]almost the identical spot where the Milton moved to Havre, Montana where George worked for a short Ofstedal house is now located. It was later moved to a more time as undersheriff and then was appointed to the central part of the school district. It was quite a thrill to see position of Probation Office, which job he he[...]days. 1967. Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson had four children:[...]es for some Margaret, George Jr ., John Franklin, and Bryce. 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 ic[...]husband fruit for the year, Juneberries and chokecherries, that is if Harry. George Jr., a lo[...]f the Burlington someone else didn't get in and strip the trees first. Northern Railro ~! d, lives in Havre, Montana wi~h his .wife Two incidents come to mind while I was still young. One and five children. John Franklin is a member of the was a large prairie fire, that threatened to consume Washington State Parole Board, having for[...]everything in its path. My mother, older sister and I were as Director of the Municipal Court Probation Ofnce in home alone. We hitched a team to the wagon and were Seattle. (It is interesting that three of his four children prepared to evacuate. The fire had traveled some 40 miles fol[...]d down work.) John lives in Seattle with his wife and two children. and the fire was stopped when it hit the French lane.[...]was one of those old time blizzards when you Hill and Blaine. He resides in Havre with his wife and three had to tie a rope to the door knob to be sure you could find children.[...]n were grown Rose accepted a job with come to visit. It was three days before they dared to try and[...]Sh~ now ~esides in the We later moved to a neighboring farm and soon after Eagles Manor in Havre, Montana.[...]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[...]Doris married Dexter Sargent and they took over the[...]make a living at it. They moved to Louisiana where she[...]dren. The George Jones arrived with his family and settled on the children still live in the Lake Charles area and as far as I prairies of Canada about 100 miles fr[...]later. They were married at Machoun, Saskatchewan and Ed Leibrand and together they started Leibrand's Service shortly after moved to Rock Springs, Wyoming. _ _ which he[...]ter working at various jobs including electrician and them to Scobey bringing with them ti1ree small children.[...]s Service, radio technician for the Doris, Hilda, and myself, Stanley. They settled on a piece of Air Force, juke box and coin machine repairman, and a few land about nine miles northwest of SL .bey.[...]business ventures of our own, my wife Gladys and I of farming were done with oxen. purchased 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, soon Sta[...]. Dennis has became proficient at handling horses and did some of the been in the Air Force as a[...]p. Bryan has a grocery store in Denver, and Sherry works in We all attended the old Middle Fork school. One of the Minneapolis. To date we have no grandchildren. hardest things to do was to go to school when the big[...] |
| [...]California and Marjorie is in Mount Dora, Florida.[...]Glenn Jones passed away in 1948 and "Muddy" in 1961.[...]Lowell, and two daughters, Delores and Eleanor. He came to Scobey in 1913. He and Floyd Working operated a pool room and wholesale tobacco and candy business for about[...]The family moved to Salem, Oregon. There he was[...]president of both State and Salem Gun Clubs. Carl passed away in 1959 and Mrs. Kahle in 1960 at[...]alem. Their son was located at North Bend, Oregon and[...]nes GLENN JONES |
| [...]RUDS Opera of New York City and makes his home there. He is married to a talented musician and they have three Peter T. Karlsrud was a Norwegian by birth and came to daughters. Quentin had a successful career in pub[...]ntry around the turn of the century. He had music and now manages a music store in Boulder, homesteaded[...]ey in 1916. He also had worked on the building of and a boy. the Great Northern Railroad into Montana.[...]ident, lay leader of the Lutheran Church, a Mason and homestead.[...]Wyoming, and in Cheyenne, Wyoming before returning to[...]Prairie Chapter O.E.S. and much work in the Lutheran[...]Scobey which the family continued to farm. The family sold out and moved to Mobridge, South Dakota in 1947 where Peter bought and ran a grain[...]the age of 80. Mrs. Karlsrud survives him and is in a[...]rsing home in Boulder, Colorado. The two children and[...]Claudine Kessler, born June 18, 1889, came to Fife Lake, Saskatchewan in the 50' s to take care of the in valid mother[...]to make her home in Scobey. She nursed at the Daniel[...]Memorial Hospital until she moved to Seattle, Washington July 6, 1952, the Karlsruds e[...]concerned about her friends welfare; and anyone who[...]ssler Edmond Karlsruds Mrs. Karlsrud came to the Scobey area as a teacher and |
| CARL AND ADELINE KILGORE by Mrs. Adeline[...]n Hedrick, Iowa. From there his family moved west to York, North Dakota in 1906. He came to Medicine Lake in 1910. While he was in Meaicine L[...]at this time that I met him. In 1915 Carl came to Scobey and worked as a bartender in the Smith' and Boyd Saloon, the building and business that Maxine and Arless Baldry now have. These were the years when the West, often referred to as the "Wild West", was rightly named, especially[...]n business. It was during this period that I came to realize the dangerous position my husband-to-be was in. Outlaws were not uncommon in these par[...]ere married, a trouble-maker came into the saloon and began quarreling with Frank Chapin, another patro[...]e men went outside, Chapin through the front door and the gangster through the back. The buildings stil[...]space of four or five feet between them. (Maxine and Arlee's and the Recreation Center). The gangster ran through this space and shot Chap~n before he could cross the street to safety. His was Carl Kilgore[...]Silver and gold coins were the common currency. After[...]special celebrations the Smi~h and Boyd Saloon would |
| [...]repairs and changes in furnishings. The lot was purchased[...]bought the lot to the north, now owned by H.arold Skerritt,[...]I recall an incident that proved amusing to everyone[...]rticles necessary for homemaking; towels, pillows and[...]Lake, to pack my things in. Somehow the store label was[...]overlooked and was still on the crate. It arrived in Scobey,[...]but was delivered back to the store in Medicine Lake. The[...]Scobey turned out to big them goodbye at the depot, the[...]and a stick or something to celebrate by making noise. It[...]Martin Smith died in 1918 and Carl Kilgore then became[...]amendment was enacted and they converted the saloon into a pool-hall and ice cream parlor, also selling candy,[...]gum, etc. Later Boyd sold his share to Tom Conboy. A high[...]In those times John Reiner had a bakery and I think[...]dozen, butter 15¢ a pound, and I remember paying 20¢ a[...]Carl purchased a liquor license and operated Carl's Tavern It was here also that m[...]ired 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 Arles Baldry. The building, however, his old Ove[...]he other saloon he would say, "It went poof-poof and stopped." The name was Stephens and Griffith. stayed with him, even to receiving mail addressed to "Joe I recall the years past when the towns[...]incident that Doctor McDaniel well rushed and organized--a time when there were several rememb[...]f the year: July 4th On November 22, 1916 Carl and I were married in celebrations, the Ca[...]neer priest, Father John the Lutheran ham and lutefisk dinners, Thanksgiving, Hennesy. He served parishes from Culbertson to Scobey, New Year's and Easter Monday dances held in the Rex traveling in a Model T Ford on prairie trails. He came to Theatre before the elevated seats were added. Later the Scobey once each month and held Mass in the Rex Theatre. Catholic Church added a basement hall and recreation The present Catholic Church was under[...]ater was Martin Erickson came in 1916 and built the house just delivered once a week by the drayman with his horse- north of us. He and his brother-in-law, Chapin, had a drawn wagon in summer and horse-drawn sleigh in winter. general store.[...]My brother, Emil Pomerleau, built and Ii ved in the corner · Our lights at that time[...]which had house across Main Street from us. to be filled and cleaned every day and the wicks trimmed. Other neighbors were the[...]s a After the smoked-up glass chimney was washed and dried, blacksmith here, as was another old f[...]buted a lot of his talent for barrel, teakettle, and all--those were the good old days! the enterta[...]tson. His wife home from our wedding, by friends and neighbors who had had a boarding-house known[...]Some good old friends were Mr. and Mrs. John Fuller.[...] |
| [...]where the Monte attended school in Scobey and graduated from court house now stands. He was als[...]istant manager. Monte married Karen Purrington of and four horses perished. I think the other one, Scharf and Rapid City. They now live in Hutchinson, Kansas.[...]me is now. still with Kentucky Fried and Karen with Anthony's. Nearby, O.B. Eglund, had a[...]in December of 1970. Scobey and graduated from Polson High. He then attended M[...]years one year of college at Eastern in Billings and his second since Carl and I came. People have come and gone, year, just completed, at the University of Montana, business places have changed, and the town has grown. I Missoula. His major is in d[...]pened restaurant in Missoula, learning the secure and contented here, and at peace. These are the cooking trade. really imp[...]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 others in the Smith and Scobey. He is much interested in basketball, football, Boyd Saloon in 1911. Conversation ran to long days in the golfing, tennis and swimming. His hobby is building saddle, little or no food, sleeping on the ground, and rockets, which he launches by using power from his dad's whatever else cowboys were supposed to talk about over pickup battery. their beer. Among[...]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, 1973 the[...]d rousted everyone out the next morning at 5 A.M. and back to their home at Scobey where they have continued to because he felt quite assured that this rough crew was quite live to the present day. accustomed to riding without breakfast, immediately[...]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 others were soon mounted and spent a most miserable OTTO R. AND OLGA B. KING day (until 8 P.M.) solving the probl[...]nch, 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 Smith and Boyd lumb~ryard in that newly organized community. He wired Saloon, conversation as to their cowboy abilities were quite his wife Olga i[...]innesota, "This will be limited if there happened to be a stranger in the bar. another Chicago[...]there because I am on my way." Much to the consternation of their parents, the Otto Kings moved to Montana. DON KINCANNON FAMILY[...]hing, parent's farm home at Stanley, North Dakota to begin a occasioned a move by the young couple to Navajo, where new life in Scobey. Don began work as a partsman and Otto built the general store and also homesteaded land. mechanic with the Erickstein Motor Company. After a Years later Olga would report in horror that they charged short stay in Scobey[...]because with baby daughter Kathryn Jane, Irene and Don were married in Outlook. To them seven the Kings moved west--all the way to Scobey. Bill Stephens children were born, Terry, Monte, Mitchell, Donna, and Otto King joined forces in setting up the Farmers Oil Stanley, a baby who died shortly after birth, and Lisa. Company, with stations throughout Daniels and northern Don and Irene purchased a home in Sidney and Valley Counties. The headquarters remained standing at proceeded to make it their family home for the years to least a decade longer than minim um safety standa[...]might have allowed, and it is hard to believe at one time in In November 1966 Don and Irene purchased the former those more than rustic[...]unett, Gus Waller, H.P. Larsen Implement business and housed the J.F. Case Bill Devaney, Axel Lawrence, two secretaries, and Otto and Massey Ferguson Implements for five years. In lat[...]ra King 1971 they sold the implement business out and the was born to the couple in 1924, and some years later following spring, 1972, moved to Polson, Montana where Kathryn and "Bobby" were given the dubious but time- Don work[...]ing barrels", a task Tractor New Holland at Ronan and Irene worked at which consisted of tracing the tr[...]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.T.A., was a very enthusiastic Mason and Shriner, rarely presently is employed as a[...] |
| avocation he later gave up), and seemed always to be available when civic duty called. Because the city needed a mortician, Waller and King were formed, which service was provided in s[...]75. Farm land was acquired as the _years went by, and the Good Lord aided by Fred Bydeley brought Chris Vink to Daniels County from Holland, and for some twenty- seven years Chris farmed the land somehow managing to make Otto feel capable of running tractor, combine and other equipment - contrary to the fact. In the meantime, Olga was at home car[...]y--be it bridge, cribbage, rummy or whatever. She and Mrs. Burley Bowler, Sr. took a walk daily out to the Mason Hill south of Scobey. The two of them i[...]ng themselves with the normal assortment. She saw to it the girls joined 4-H to learn to sew, and take piano lessons from Mrs. L.V. Hanson and Laura Ibsen. Left to right: Tom, Alfred, Charles, Gerald Pittenger and The intention was great, but neither can play the piano Jay and Roy. now, and it was years later the girls approached the sewing machine with the proper attitude. Olga was not a joiner, and in the organizations she could not escape, her enthusiasm did not run rampant. As a mother and wife she (Mrs. Cliff Hanson) deceased 197[...]All three boys Alfred, Roy and Charles were in the The year after Olga died Kathryn King Dickson and her military service. Roy remained in the service after the war husband Joe moved to Scobey from Arizona. Joe took over and retired as a Lt. Colonel. the farming operations, and Kathryn took over the - Tom was a quiet man and a hard worker. supervision of Otto King's only jo[...]Grandpa King found himself really pushed for time to spend with those two miracles. To give Kathryn ATHNIEL KLOSS AND FAMILY and Joe a little time with their children, Barbara and Otto did manage to do some foreign traveling, with the Athniel Kloss and family moved to Scobey in October in highlight of each trip for Otto being to return and find that 1917, when World War I was still raging in Europe. the grandchildren had somehow managed to survive The family consisted of two daughters and one son, Irene, without him. Francis and Mildred. Mildred was the only one that came In[...]g suffered a severe stroke, leaving with her parents to Scobey. Irene was married and was him without his speech or the use of his righ[...]ng for in those long silent months. Mr. and Mrs. Kloss and Mildred came to Scobey from[...]photo and bakery business. Previous to coming to North Dakota he had resided in Wisconsin and Minnesota where[...]he had done mason work along with his ph9to studio. He THE THOMAS MARTIN KITTOCK FAMILY[...]n Scobey a while he eventually opened Minne::;ota to Poplar, Montana. His father Pete Kittock[...]as now, were Tom became the first section foreman and remained so out of sight. I can remember so clearly the rice flour and until his death in 1941.[...]aking Dr. Collinson by motor car filling to say the least and we became used to it. Then on the track to some of his patients (in the winter time) that happy day! November the 11th, 1918 the war was over and the Dr. could not reach by horse and buggy. very gradually times[...]ever Mr. Kloss didn't have much to lose, but what little he did since.[...]arry (deceased 1943), those two bossys) and we sold vegetables and milk and Alfred (Great Falls, Montana. A short note about[...]being of sturdy h as continued with the railroad and has 40 years in German stock and ambitious never let anything get him starting wit[...]e section. He is now a down. Mrs. Kloss made and sold delicious cottage cheese. crane opera[...] |
| [...]few chickens, six sheep and raise a beautiful garden. We[...]Many a family picture and other pictures of yesteryear[...]Dana Chalker Knapp and Alice Dickinson Knapp with[...]their family of four came to the Scobey area in the spring of[...]was a grain buyer, owning and operating elevators in Portal, Columbus and Rival. Alice was busy with the four[...]children and teaching school when needed.[...]attractive that the Knapps and their next door neighbors,[...]the Ambrose W. Chapin family, made plans to "GO[...]ST". The Knapp elevators, the Cha pin barber shop and other property were sold and all headed by car for[...]pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. A. Kloss Mr. Kloss and a brother once manufactured and sold a |
| [...]The D. C. Knapp children left to right: Fay, Esther, Bob and Clifford and faithful dog, Touser - 1914. D.C. Knapp[...]Clifford D. and Louise Knapp Family-1942. Left to right:[...]Dorothy, Donovan, Clifford, Louise, Clifton and Alanna.[...]Clifford left to attend the University of North Dakota. The[...]Mrs. Knapp and the four children spent the school year[...]apparent and a $14,000 school was constructed in 1914.[...]d D. Knapp. |
| [...]rs were spent swimming in this retired and living in Scobey. She was married to Charles A. little stream; the grass was abundant and beautifully Peters for 28 years and they made their home in Medicine green.[...]who 1955. In 1959 Edward C. Leibrand and Esther were wanted them. This family seemed to become involved in married, and Scobey is again home for her. Ed passed varied li[...]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 realized. pioneer parents. Although Mrs. Knapp was a Republican, she strong[...]s. At this time the~term of office was two years, and she served four terms ata salaryof$125.00 per mon[...]y City North Dakota State Normal College in 1897, and had taught school several years before and I came to Scobey by train with my sister Anna who had a aft[...]The Black Bridge, as it is now called, going to Old Scobey plus village schools that she supervised and visited was in the middle of an ocean, qr so it seemed to me as there regularly. After her years as County[...]water. Schools Mrs. Knapp taught the sixth grade and third grade My sister and I crossed the river by boat as the bridge music i[...]t several rural schools before retirement. Active and and when we got across we were met by Blanche Timmons[...]oke 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[...]ugh water ~ll the way. by the Wolf Point Business and Professional Club. The last We came to Scobey by train from Wells County, North years of[...]utheran Home at Dakota. My sister wanted me to come and keep her Wolf Point so that she could be near her son and favorite company while she proved up her home~tead and doctor, Robert D. Knapp. Here she passed a way on May 29, incidently to help scare the coyotes from her door. 1964. Mr. K[...]cobey, now known as the Big Sky structure on Main and Third Avenue. This building is now Herefo[...]d at the airport. In 1916 a larger home was built and My second home was with a family living south of Four is presently where Mr. and Mrs. Vic Hillstrom live. Buttes named William Riek's and son Hilmer. Also a D.C. Knapp was a charter me[...]isconsin. Mrs. Riek (Alma) 109, A.F.A.M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Knapp were charter liked to go to dancing, but Mr. Riek, a large man weighing membe[...]two lively bay horses. So Clifford D. was married to Louise M. Hansen. Four that was how I got to go to my first prairie dance in the children were born to them: Donovan of San Diego, school[...]known at that 1965; Clifton of Denver, Colorado; and Alanna Copeland of time. I met Emil, Alexina and Delia Audet also Anna, Ethel Phoenix, Arizona. Louise passed away in 1963. Cliff and Terpestra and Johnny Wertz, also Seraphia LaPierre and Polly Naylor were married in 1970. After 45 years[...]allatin took a stroll in the moonlight and took out time from County High School at Bozeman,[...]While I was on the Riek farm I was asked to go to a Robert D. Knapp married Muriel Duplanty in Chicago, neighbor's to buy some butter. Mrs. Riek put a fifty cent Illin[...]ol. Muriel, piece in a gallon syrup pail to pay for the butter. I rode affectionately known a[...]a for forty-two years. The pony got excited and he pranced 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 get off rat[...]provoked at served 27 years as a school trustee, and as a member of the not having any butter but[...]d, "But Alma, she State Board of Health from 1963 to 1971. could have been killed." Fayette B. and Cleo Bonneru Knapp live in Nampa, Hilmer Riek and I went choke-cherry picking to Whiskey Idaho. They have five children, all livin[...]our Buttes). Hilmer rode the pony I had Armstrong and Don live in Pocatello, Nadine Pew lives in ridden and I rode a Pinto. Mrs. Riek gave us each a 100 Boise, Robert Jay lives in Payette and Delno lives in pound flour sack. There[...]had our sacks filled . Mrs. Riek made jelly, jam and Railway. Various real estate ventures have been profitable wine and this time was happy. for Fay and Cleo, among them are farms, a motel and an I married Jack McIntyre in Scobey[...]ton, North retirement. They have 18 grandchildren and six great- Dakota. A brother Ja[...] |
| [...]n. They have four children. Saskatchewan and in 1918 began his work in Scobey with Bryce, our[...]our children. Rennie (our He was married to Othelia Slette in 1919 in Glasgow - youngest) ser[...]there were no children. Mrs. Knudson died in 1949 and Mr. and his dog Baron went to Vietnam, and were on night Knudson, at the age of[...]I The year of 1927 I worked for my sister Vera and husband , Wyvil, who had a threshing rig and a cook car. I was cook and Vera was flunky (in other words ran the errands).[...]not get too much threshing done, but I was happy to collect the most wages of the whole crew. I almost forgot to mention that I was jack of all trades at[...]oldest brother Chris, my mother, brother Adolph, and sister Vera came from North Dakota in 1917. They[...]ive miles near Nigger Coulee. Neighbors were John and Ted Peters and their parents, Jacob Peters, also George Robinson (parents of Howard and Grace Holter). I went into the hotel business in 1950 and at the present time am still in the business.[...]ine Max Kriuosha person and we had a good life together. My family and I loved and respected him. I have many fond memories of him and have many wonderful in-laws and outlaws as A very used to say.[...]obey, 1961 Sheill. Our close neighbors were Floyd and Rachel Harmon. Floyd is dead and Rachel married Otto Sorenson Max Kri[...]shoe repair business (dead). Their son Don Harmon and my son Bryce became in Scobey for 35[...]never heard of close friends . We were Lutherans and Harmons Methodist. Christmas until his family came to Grand Forks, North At time for confirmation, Bryc[...]a, confirmed, unless Don could be also. So we had to ask the where Mr. Krivosha was born, the day was just like any Harmons permission and it was given so Don and Bryce other, and in those times any day was grim. "The Czar were confirmed together. Rachel and I have continued controlled everything," he says, "and things were very being very good friends.[...]tough. We were lucky that we were able to get away." He Last but not least I have to mention the " dirty thirties". recalls the trip across Europe with his family enroute to the Quite a few men including Jack worked on W.P.[...]n England he saw a colored man for the first dams and Chick Sales houses (outdoor toilets). On a cold time in his life, and he thought that all people in America winter night one did not linger there to read Sears & were black. " I didn't ca[...]weeks in those days. not too pleasant for the men to be out, with a chill factor His father had relatives in Grand Forks, and he obtained being 60 degrees below. Also we recei[...]sting of dry beans, salt, rice, salt pork, cheese and opportunity for school in Russia. He spoke no English, and ground (canned) meat; also clothing. Those were t[...]his classmates took advantage of his ignorance to teach We all came through fine and have had good laughs about him swear words. When he was 14 he began to learn the it. We were thankful at the time.[...]. I liked Montana from the first time I saw it and have " We celebrated Christmas in America[...]most of our presents were simple and home-made," said[...]time. MR. AND MRS. KNUTE KNUDSON Mr. Knudson was born in Solor, Norway in 1888. He came to America at the age of 22 to work for his brother LA[...]anne, North Dakota. There he finished high school and later took 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 came from Forget,[...] |
| [...]years. The other boys married in to the Audet family, which[...]later and she later married Tom. Delia married Seraphin.[...]Leo Butler, Mathele married Bill Laberge, and Amy[...]Ii ves in the community. Sera phin and Delia were married[...]church. After the ceremony, returning to the homestead[...]had three flat tires and arrived on the rims to the 10'x14'[...]in which they lived for five years before moving to the farm north of Four Buttes to what was later known as[...]Seraphin and Delia have three children, Roger, Raymond and Rita, all of whom married natives of this[...]Nellie Parks, and Roger married Junice Graff. Both Ray and Roger served in the Air Force during the Major Roger La Pierre on left and Lt. Raymond La Pierre war as bomber pilots on[...]earned the Purple Heart and was returned to the states.[...]After recuperating he was discharged and returned to Scobey and still lives here. Ray and Nellie have two boys, Kenneth and Dennis.[...]the Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross. After his[...]Montana and California. When the war ended he returned to Scobey with the rank of Major and has lived here since. Roger and J unice have three children, Larry, Sherry and[...]Eugene Sherseth served in the navy during the war and[...]nce has worked for the navy as a civilian. Eugene and[...]plan to return to Scobey when they retire.[...]definitely natives of the community and will continue to be[...]EUGENE AND MARY LA VEY We moved to Scobey from Arizona in the fall of 1963. I Seraphine and Delia LaPierres Fiftieth Anniversary. Rita, had accepted a contract to teach biology in Scobey High Roger and Ray.[...]arrived and in July 1964 added another. Our children are:[...]ry Margaret, a fifth grader. Saskatchewan in 1910 and lived on what is now the Carl My wife Mary went to work at the local Mountain Bell Miller Ranch. Louis was the first in the community to run a business office - as a Service Representa[...]. old timers in the area, before Scobey was moved to its In 1971 we purchased a house on Robinson Street and present site. decided to make SGobey our home. In 1974 Mary and I went He was followed in 1912-13 by his brothers, Joe, Fred, into the Honey-Bee business and in 1975 formed a Edward, Tom and Seraphin and a sister, Emma Chabot. company named Se[...]into two families. Louis honey crop this year. and Joe were married to Paradis girls, sisters of Joe Before moving to Scobey we had lived in North Dakota,[...] |
| [...]1912. Next they moved to the Peerless community and in[...]terms in that office--years when cattle rustlers and[...]Soon after retiring from this office he moved to Red[...]business until 1945 when he moved to California. Mrs. Lawrence died in 1960 and Al in 1963 at the age of 78.[...]Surviving are one daughter, Marguerite Godwin and three sons, Paul, Vincent 'and Alton, a:nd a brother, Axel, of[...]Among the early citizens coming to the young, bustling[...]Lee and his bride Gerda. They came from farm country in Eugene Lavey and wife Mary Lavey the Red River Valley of North Dakota where their parents[...]their ages, Ed and Gerda had grown up on farms one-half[...]wegian; Gerda's, purely Swedish--both hardy stock to add to the already varied backgrq_unds of the prairie[...]same church, and social functions--certainly, neither they[...]nor their families were strangers to one another. The two[...]young people, however, arrived as total strangers to[...]rea south of Flaxville. Arriving in late fall, Ed and Gerda spent the first fall and winter in town, staying with Ed's sister and brother-in-law, Anna and O.T. Erickson. Ed took[...]a job with Chapin Grocery, and he began erecting a two-[...]room cabin on property adjacent to the Ericksons in the[...]was born in 1917. Left to right: Anna, Mary and Eugene Jr. Arizona, Alaska, Malta and Livingston, Montana. At each Mom and Dad, Ed and Gerda Lee in back seat of Model T-[...]t Cummins, North During the spring and summer of 1917 Ed managed to |
| [...]the land with the idea of eventually and Chicago markets, entailing long, tedious rail travel. planting it to wheat. Gradually rock piles grew on the[...]late 1940's horses also numbered among the Gerda and John were to spend lonely days ancl weeks in the stock Ed bought, sold, traded, and shipped to a variety of shack on the prairie homestead while Ed worked in town markets. and drove out weekends in his Model T. Undoubtedly ma[...]'s birth was the well-known local practical nurse and contemporary subu~pan living. The difference in t[...]927 further marked a change for Lees when Ed went to[...]with H.J. until 1930-31 when he and Chris Tande bought[...]out B.O. Tande's grocery store, and the business became Lee and Tande until about 1941. At this time Chris bought[...]out Ed's share, and Ed once again changed roads--this one[...]remaining under contract to several meat packing[...]companies for which he bought and shipped cattle and[...]travels related to buying livestock.[...]both town and country cronies. Back here in a strictly[...]and views, and played some of the wildest pitch games on[...]arbitrator opportunity to practice what seemed a natural[...]diplomacy in many scraps, both public and private. He 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 usually even to the few who might have found themselves[...]rger brand of relentless winds that baked, dried, and howled, and the politics. He confided to his family and friends that he coyotes that accompanied the nigh[...]lly. Having thought he was by then too old to begin to play the many been a member of a large family on[...]part of state· Gerda was often depressed, lonely and frightened. and national politics. He also lacked sympathy for In the fall of 1918 Gerda and young John returned to lobbying factions so prevalent and so constantly courting town to live in the now more complete house and to spend in the legislative chambers. Being s[...]busy life. Furthermore, durin 6 his term he and Gerda met Because Ed became increasingly involved in town work new friends and had some very pleasant and memorable and activities, the family too, spent more and more time in adventures. town. Eventually Ed[...]ripped widely known for his fine tenor voice, and h e often away the homestead shack, scattering ki[...]performed as a soloist at various local functions and prairie. For many years a kitchen table and chair and a performances. In fact, more than one old Scandinavian well with its wooden frame and top were the only visible friend left word in his will or with his family that Ed Lee remnants to mark th.e location of the homestead, now was to sing the old Norwegian hymn "Behold a Host plowed and sown to wheat. In the late 19.3 0's, having Arra[...]years of Ed's public service his wife Gerda stake and unable to undertake the work himself, Ed sold raised the family and was active in various groups. She the acreage.[...]in the 1950's working with a niece, In addition to grocery store work, Ed began buying and Martha (Erickson) Walker in what was then "The shipping cattle and hogs to eastern markets in the 1920's. Woman's Shop". Occasionally he accompanied shipments to the St. Paul From 1959-196 Ed[...] |
| retiring from public life in 1962. His health had begun to fail, and in December of 1964 Ed suffered a fatal stroke and died on January 6, 1965. At his funeral a choir r[...]old a Host Arrayed in White". Gerda Lee continued to be active in her 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 and married Pearl Leibrand in 1938. He spent several[...]Border Patrol, mainly in the state of Washington, and spent a year in the navy (1944-45). They returned to Scobey in 1948 to take over the old Daniels place. John and Pearl had four children: three boys, Jackie, Dick and Kenneth; and a daughter, Bonnie. Jackie died at the age of two and one-half years of spinal meningitis. Dick died at[...]n his sleep. Pearl is still active in Cowbelles· and many other local activities, and spent several years· in a fabric Earl Leibrand family - Christmas 1974. Back row left to business of her own. right: John, Ann, Nancy. Front row left to right: Margie Ed Lee's daughter, Margaret, attended Scobey schools, and Earl. graduating in 1936. She attended college and taught briefly in Montana, later going to Washington to do civil service work during the second World War[...]red from twenty years of teaching. She is married to Earl and Ann have three children: John, working in Salt Walter Hollis and has two children: a son, Charles, a Lake City; Margie, married to Michael Gardner and living Washington teacher and musician; a daughter, Marnee, a in Newport Beach, California; and Nancy, attending junior in music at Pacific Luthe[...]Earl has been interested in civic affairs and served The youngest child, Robert E. (Bob) gra[...]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 World War II. He returned to navy service during the Korean conflict. He prese[...]ed in 1974; Cathy, married, lives in Great Falls; and John W. Leibrand, born 1878, in Dubuque, Iowa, and Diane, still in high school, lives at home.[...]the family migrated to Verwood, Saskatchewan. A cousin[...]LEIBRANDS locality, and sold his-preemption to John. Going ahead of[...]of the family's possessions in a Earl Leibrand and Anna K. Jenson were married August railro[...]. , Maude and the children followed, also by train, arriving a[...]day sooner than planned. She hired a team and wagon to where his parents homesteaded. They moved to Scobey take them to the homestead site. There she found John and when Earl was six months old. Earl received all of his two of his brothers heavily bearded and living in a sod schooling in Scobey. He worked on[...]ing behind the shack Maude period of World War II and at that time joined the navy and shed a few tears, and then returned to face her new and served in the SeaBees for four years.[...]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 Washington. Earl and Ann met in Mesa, Arizona at a built of sod; John and Maude's was a frame home insulated Montana Picnic in 1946. After their marriage in August of and banked by sod on the outside. Maude tells of baking that year Earl went into the plumbing, heating and electric bread for local bachelors when flour[...]pounds. One time when John took a load of wheat to joined by Ed's sons, Gary and Richard. Edward died in market he returned with a camera for Maude who made 1970 and Earl and Ed's sons continue in Leibrand's goo[...]going out with horse and buggy, taking pictures of local[...] |
| [...]markets, John went to work for Waller and King, local morticians, to become the official grave digger of the[...]Scobey community for many, many years and in every[...]along the road John raised up to call to the driver, "Say,[...]apparently startled, cracked his whip and hastened up the[...]road calling back, "What do you want to know for? You're[...]strange and afraid working so much in the cemetery[...]humor as he said, "Well, no. It's those so and so's walking[...]In spite of his dry sense of humor and liking for a joke,[...]much if he was not willing to work hard, long hours[...]whoever it might be and however they might feel, that[...]His widow Maude still lives in Scobey and is known for[...]the Scobey Nursing Home, she still plies her wit and pixy-[...]like humor. One day her daughter Pearl came to take her out for a day, and Maude was heard to remark to those John W. and Maude Leibrand on their 45th Wedding[...]said, "This is as hot as Dutch love!" She went on to[...]nown such love in her younger years with citizens and events, then developing the prints which she[...]th grade the country school Scobey, went to work for Johnson Hardware. He married a could not accommodate him, and he was taken to Moose Scobey girl, Hilda Jones. In 1928 he opened his own Jaw to live with an English family while he attended business, Leibrand Plumbing and Electrical. They had school. Two more children were born to John and Maude in three children: Gary, Richard and Irene. Hilda died in 1955. the Canadian location: Pearl and Earl. John caused a In 1959 Edward mar[...]um of $300. sons are continuing the plumbing and electrical Because ofincreasing difficulty in[...]rted by their father. His daughter older children and because Maude had close relatives in Irene is married and lives in Scobey with her husband and Medicine Lake, the Leibrands moved once more, this time three children. Both sons are married, also, and live with to Scobey where there was a high school. In the summ[...]graduated from Scobey High farms for back taxes, and the family finally settled into a School in 1925, and will be remembered for his operation of home cres[...]He married a Scobey 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, and Helena, Montana where he owned and operated a theatre here some mighty fine potatoes were raised year after year. for many years. Donald and wife now live in Helena where Not long after J[...]tizens knew he is employed by Northwest Bank and Union Trust him either by his slow Iowa drawl, hi[...]deliberate mastication. John was once again able to Scobey High School in 1927. She married a local man, reinstate himself as a staunch Republican, and this Howard Schaefer in 1934 and is included in Howard association he maintained in both action and word all his Schaefer's history. life. One morning John came into town and very vocally Pearl, the second daught[...]saying that some blinkety living in Scobey and is included in the Ed Lee history. blank Republic[...]Naval SeaBees during World War II. He returned to Scobey "Well, if the so and so had been a Democrat, he would have and went to work for his brother Edward in the plumbing, take[...]ile, When the bottom fell out of both the wheat and potato Washington in 1946. They ha[...] |
| time and have three children: John, Margie and Nancy. my folks moved to the Swan River Valley in Manitoba Earl continues to work as a partner in the Leibrand where Dad found odd jobs and cutting wood in the contracting firm. See Earl Le[...]mountains. It was here that John and Sandra were born.[...]ool Elevators out of Grandview until their return to[...]e children: They took out MARTIN LEIBRAND AND FAMILY citizenship in[...]and in Nevada until ill health forced him to retire. He My dad, Martin Leibrand, was born to George and passed away at Daniels Memorial Hosp[...]e lives in Scobey. They had six children, 31 John and Sandy Lei brand. grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren. At an early age he migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada 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. Th[...]of Viceroy, Saskatchewan. children and five grandchildren. Jim is a building Jim was born at Verwood. They then moved to Portland, contractor in the area ~nd has b[...]aces Oregon for health reasons. In 1928 they came to Scobey including Citizen's State Bank and many homes. where Dad worked on the Gorham Hotel[...]Manitoba. We have two children, Bill and Marilyn, and In 1929 we returned to Canada taking a farm at three grandchildren. Coronach. We lived across the "crick" and often rowed We took up residence in Scobey in 1955 and received our across in a tin tank to take fresh doughnuts to the butcher citizenship in 1961. Bill married[...]hey live in Tucson. Marilyn married Audie Chornuk and thawed and Dad upset the tank in mid-stream. We tied dry[...]in Lander, Wyoming where Audie is in the clothes to a stick and passed them out to him and he cooking trade. Douglas is the Water[...]ronach, Saskatchewan. He married on 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 stove and ·Madoc. Fred was in the building trade until[...]ched in the pump handle, while forced him to slow down. He sells real estate in Bozeman, pumping water to wash hands after picking "chips" that Montana where they reside. They have five girls and two weren't quite "ripe", sliding down the alkali[...]grandchildren. "crick"; the tar bubbles we picked and chewed from the tar Shirley Lei brand marri[...]of our shack at Coronach. I have memories of and Magdelena Dighans, pioneer Peerless residents. Th[...]ers. We ate many green have five children and make their home in Bozeman, yolked eggs, pig weed greens, and brown scarred apples Montana. shoveled fr[...]e relief office taking our radio with the speaker and the in the navy and married Florence Bradford in California. player piano to pay for our meager supply of groceries. He[...]ren by his first marriage. He is remarried Fred and Shirley were born at Coronach. After selling and lives in California. the cow for nine dollars to pay freight on household goods, Sandra Leibr[...]in Leibrand family Kenville - 1941. Back row left to to Scobey and managed the Tastee Freez for orie season. right: Jim, Sandra, Mother, Dad, Anne. Front row left to They have two children, Terry and Robin. right. Fred and Shirley. In front: John.[...]The Steve Levad family moved to Scobey in August, 1968[...]when Steve began his job as teacher and coach in the[...]Steve, one of twelve children, was born and raised in[...]College and Winona State University.[...]Linda Levad was born in Minneapolis, and raised in[...]southern Illinois. She graduated from high school and junior college in Mason City, Iowa, and attended the May[...]There were married in 1964 and have four children,[...]Christopher, Kevin, Kimberly and Kirby. Before coming to Scobey Steve coached and taught in Williamburg, Iowa, and Linda was a cytologist and[...]teaching physical education, and head coaching football, and assisting in basketball and track.[...] |
| [...]vads 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 field a sudden storm came Missour[...]in the late up, lightning struck close by and she was thrown when the 30's; to the union was born one child Gwynetha.[...]was not helped in 1961 when she fell downstairs and broke[...]editor. She learned office work and began to learn[...]went to the Leader and continued in that work for nearly[...]the end, being semi-retired and finally retiring due to[...]ne quite as well as she felt they should be done; and her[...]In 1893 the urge to travel to America became too strong to resist and Torjus Lundevall, a young accountant, boarded Mau[...]Soon his banking days began. He was sent to northern Minnesota to open a bank in a very new pioneer[...]railroad to the town. There was -- a freight train so -during[...]caboose. To quote Mother it was the shakiest ride she had[...]the virgin soil of northeastern Montana began to trickle to the Middle West and farther east.[...]decided to open a bank in Old Scobey. It was first called th[...]T. Anderson and Oie Bank and later changed to the[...]mile away, all buildings were moved to the new location. In[...]their spacious and attractive ranch home to travelers. My[...]Mother was happy to learn that this town had a railroad Starting at left: Elizabeth Fowler, Gwynetha Lile, Signa and that it didn't require a caboose ride either. But[...]wasn't quite sure she wanted to bring her family to the wild . and wooly west. To entice her Father promised her the[...]had already arrived, rented a house, and placed some of our Only surviving close relati[...]f-brother, Patton Moss, an early Williston to Scobey we jolted along in what must have day farm[...]ny years, windows covering us 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 independent person with unflinching loyalty[...]cerned about cleanliness. Tho~e little whirlwinds and generosity to her friends, she nevertheless for many we saw were ominous signs of what waB going to be our years taxed her means to provide gifts for many young daily rou[...]a spring housecleaning, folks at graduation times and later weddings. Dagmar wrote that it was all over and I could return now to Typical of her determined energy, was the time[...]ll the nails, iived in the country west of Scobey and walked several scoured them, and pounded them back in again. At least so miles into Scobey and back each day, to work at a job in it seemed to her. Scobey. It was only shortly before th[...] |
| smiling and so happy to see us, the place seemed perfect to us. To our surprise we didn't even stop at a restaurant but blew right up the street to a one-story green house next to the Dana Knapp residence. There everything was in[...]roceries, ice in the icebox, water barrels filled and soon we were eating a delicious cold lunch. Knut[...]ad been the genie that had transformed this house to a home. His "batching days" on his homestead had[...]shares can accept or reject advice as he chooses and the same is true with a large depositor in a posi[...]etary of the Daniels County Land Bank Association and served in that capacity in 1939 when he passed aw[...]ave his farm. It wasn't easy for a loan applicant to request his creditors to accept one-fourth of the value of that debt as a complete payment. But those pioneer farmers humbly did, and, in many instances, those farms are still owned b[...]by Valborg Lundevall Woid ALFRED AND EDWARD MARTI Alfred and Ed ward Marti are sons of the large George |
| TOM AND DELLA MCCLELLAND whic[...]Indians wrapped in their colorful blankets and traveling by horse drawn wagons on their way to and from the I was born in Winona, Minnesota to Andrew and reservation were a common sight from[...]welry store closed within a couple- of years when to Radville, Saskatchewan in 1906-1907.[...]partnership with the company. Ole Buer buying and selling horses. On December 14, 1915 Jim then went to work at the Ford garage where he we were married and moved to Scobey where we lived until remained until t[...]20's when he became associated 1931 when we moved to Kalispell, Montana. with the late Dr. T.W. Collinson, driving him on his Tom farmed and dealt in horses and I, as a nurse's aid, country calls. This association led to Jim going back to his worked in the Dahlquist Hospital and the Harris Hospital former trade and he operated a watch repair and jewelry owned by Estelle Redfield Harris. After M[...]my home. Fifty-four Company. Jim continued to operatethejewelryconcession babies were delivered from 1924 to 1930. I didn't have until his death in 194[...]e flu epidemic of 1918, only two pregnant to the early 1940's. Many a night in the cold winter months mothers survived, and I was one. There were 32 deaths in the famil[...]lispell; Jane, married Chuck dressed and on his way to the fire hall to get the engine Herbkersman and lives in Libby; Audrene married Vilas started and on its way. AuClaire and resides in Grass Valley, California; Cleona,[...]etter known as "Tommy", who was born in Kalispell and in the 1920's. This was a very successful period due to the is married to Ray Libeck. We have ten grandchildren and intense rivalry between the town teams of Scobey and ten great grandchildren.[...]scandal of the World Series (that scandal led to the JOHN ROBERT MCCURDY[...]During this period Jim and Irving Davis made an art The McCurdy family liv[...]they until 1925. He was in business with both Old and East transported in a large cage on the back of a Model T Ford. Scobey with McCurdy Lumber and Coal operations. He There were very fe[...]by a spring door on the cage when they got Tampa and Dunedin previous to his retirement. At the time within range. The[...]born in Valley City, North Dakota. Her parents were[...]mong the first white settlers of that area. Prior to her marriage to Jim she had taught school and held several[...]and Jean, were growing up Belle was active in a great[...]E 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 were married November 2, Methodi[...]he Belle was an accomplished seamstress and in the early Elgin Watch Company, Elgin, Illinois[...]d employment in the Woman's Shop, of 1914 decided to move to the newly established town of operated by Harriet Erickson. Ill health forced her to retire Scobey. He opened a jewelry store in partn[...]2. She died in 1954. another individual. His wife and infant daughter Margaret Margaret, the oldest daughter, worked as secretary to followed later in the fall, after Jim had procured housing Superintendents Skeie and Danielson of the Scobey for them.[...]lfe in Scobey in 1940. At Jim had written back to his wife and told her that she the time of their m arriage[...]post office but a few months later transferred to the Postal favorite color - and it was, unpainted 2x4 studdings in all Transportation Service and after several moves spent the their glorious shad[...]of his career in Departmental is now Janus Street and served as their home as long as Headquarter[...]were soon finished 35 year career, Margaret and Alfred now live on Whidbey however. Many of the c[...]Island, Washington state. were not available to the early day residents. Oil lamps, Jean,[...]ughter, worked for the County coal burning stoves and root cellars were a necessity. Superintend[...]in, until marrying Water was a precious commodity and was carried from the Jack Goss in 19[...] |
| [...]1946 he married Elaine Radcliffs - they lived in and Jack make their home in Bethesda, Maryland. Billings, then moved to Plentywood where he set up a[...]chiropractic service until 1948 when they moved to Scobey[...]were no children. They moved to Glendive in 1963 where he[...]and is survived by his wife at Glendive.[...]Bill Michel and his wife Betty (Knudson) Michel both[...]Creek community, and Betty was raised in the Peerless[...]community. We were married in 1947 and have lived in[...]first worked for Ralph Shiell and Red Olson in the auto[...]body shop at the North Star Garage. Dr. and Mrs. W.P. McDaniel DR. W.P. MCD[...]artment in |
| I am the oldest of ten children. My parents, Mr. and Mrs. He came to Medicine Lake before 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 w[...]s. When my sisters coming from there to Scobey in 1922 to enter partnershi~ and I went after the cows we took Kool-aid type drinks and with Dr. Collinson. This partnership was[...]afternoon before we returned years later and he and his wife went east, returning again with the cows, milked them and separated the milk. My to Scobey in 1933. He has practiced here since, until July mother washed clothes on the scrub board and we took when he sold his office building and practice to Dr. L.T. turns scrubbing the clothes. The hardest job was chopping Krogstad. wood and Mother always was afraid we would get hurt. Ironi[...]joyed most were churning butter, grinding coffee, and making ice cream. Being the oldest girl in the family put a lot of responsibility WINNIE AND ANNA MOULDS on me. I worred along with my mother[...]a spoon for a bad Winfield E. (Winnie) and Anna Moulds came to Daniels cold, and steaming the little ones with a hot bath towel County in 1926 at the urging of Bill and Carrie Lind of covering their heads over a big kettle of water. Madoc, Anna's sister and brother-in-law, who had Sundays were my favorite days. We'd go to church. Most homesteaded at Larslan. Winnie and Anna leased the Sid of the time we'd have church[...]a pastor. We usually had grand ranch to live on and they enjoyed it; however company for dinner. Ther[...]e, having always been a farmer, decided he needed to then--so there were always a lot of children to play ball or move on to a farm of his own. He bought some land just horse[...]ildren also years. They finally decided to rent another piece of land and we spent a lot of time together with them. with the farm buildings close to the border. They lived in The dirt storms in 1937 frightened me a lot. We had to that part of Daniels County for three years and then moved hang wet sheets on the windows to be able to breathe in the into town where Winnie went to work for the Grain house and often we went down the cellar during the storms.[...]his farming debts. He went from walking two miles to school. When we moved to town in there to work for the city of Scobey as a meter reader with later years, we children had to "batch" by ourselves some many other duties. For years he and George Beeks were the of the time so I was the one to take over the responsil;lilities only two empl[...]lained much. We just accepted whatever came along and always seemed to have a good time just working. During my high school years times were better and we had Winnie and Anna Moulds more pleasures. We got to go more places, a show in Scobey or a dance. We all liked to dance so the whole family went, even babies in bu[...]ries I recall. One was when I was in eighth grade and Mr. F.R. Puckett (our principal) brought the radio to our room on December 7, 1941 and explained to us that we were at war and some of our boys would be going to fight. The other time was when Mr. Puckett died. We stood on the school steps and watched them take him away. We all came to Scobey for his funeral and sang the song, "In the Garden". We all thought a[...]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 the household chores easier.[...]ugust 18, 1949 issue Daniels County Leader Dr. and Mrs. T.M. Morrow left Scobey Monday this week |
| Winnie, Ann, Amber and Callie - Moulds Family Dr. T. W. Collinson, Magdalene Murphy, Pat Murphy and[...]rm north of Scobey, rented the Joe Morrison place and the Miller land for several years. He retired from the city at 65 years and was back out on the grader again the next morning. Finally true retirement came and from then on he spent his time as an attendant at[...]busy lady with their wide acquaintance of friends and relatives. There were many grand dinners and card game~ at the house, and never a day the Moulds family livei\ alone--there were always nieces and nephews or sisters and brother-in-law sharing their home. She was a life long member of the Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid. She passed away in 1971. They h[...]he eighth grade in Madoc, from Scobey High School and from two years at Northern Montana College in Hav[...]Calendar. MAGDALENE AND PATRICK B. MURPHY became cashier and part owner. This continued until his[...]death in 1949. |
| [...]sheriff, an office he held for fourteen years in to the Indians of the valley---about $70,000---had n[...]ord. The traders would extend no further credit to the native In 1924 he was married to Edith Patterson of Scobey. To people, and one, Andrew Myrick, when asked by Indians, them was born one son, Erwin (now deceased) and two "What will we eat?" told them to eat grass. daughters, Ione and Corrine. They resided in Scobey until To complicate matters, the weather was hot and dry and 1944 when Art and Edgar Chelgren purchased a hardware when hunting parties came in empty-handed, the and implement business at Richey, Montana. In 1943 wh[...]Scobey, a ladder slid with him and he fell on his head and simultaneously, on August 18; Andrew Myrick was killed, shoulders to a pile of lumber and rocks about fifteen feet and when found, had a mouth filled with grass. below - he weighed about 230 pounds and his injuries were Up and down the Minnesota River, the land ran red with severe and he later was taken to Minnepolis for several the blood of white settler[...]months treatments. He appeared on the road back to quelled, estimates of the deaths ran from five hundred to health when they moved. more than seven thous[...]long-time close friend, faithful undersheriff and active Lower Agency, a week after the uprising be[...]ut together court that was convened at the agency and 306 were sentenced to be hanged. However, some sentences were remitted and President Lincoln commuted the death sentences of[...]0. Nelson, Ira's brother brought his bride, Ella to Survivors drifted back to the valley, looking for Scobey in March 1916. They lived with Ira and Etha until members of their families. Some had been taken prisoner they, at first rented and later purchased a two-room house by the marauding[...]for protection; many had been killed; was born to them while they lived here. children had disappeared and among them, those of the Hale worked wi[...]sheriff, and held various other jobs in Scobey. During his F[...]ed here another Agency during the uprising of '62 and grew to manhood daughter, Helen Mae, was born. Bo[...]tended the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania and is pictured with the great Jim Thorpe on a photo[...]zine some years ago. Hale and Ella Nelson - 1963 He came to Montana and about the time of the first World War raced another man from Flaxville to Froid. The race ordinarily would not have been unusual; but this one was because Fred was on foot and the other, horseback. However Fred won the race and the bet--a bottle of whiskey. He told of a time when he and Vern Tyler coiled lariat ropes around their bed rolls near Culbertson to keep rattlesnakes away while they slept. In lat[...]y or how his last name became changed from Myrick to Merrick. He was found dead, apparently of a hea[...]idewalk near Leibrand's Service on April 11, 1955 and was buried in the Scobey Cemetery. --Fr[...]THE ARTHUR E. NELSON FAMILY Art came to Montana early in 1912 at the age of 17 from |
| Hale and Ella Nelson left Scobey in 1930. He worked for the government, first with the Border Patrol and later for the U.S. Customs, retiring in McAllen,[...]was born in Greenbay, Wisconsin in 1876. He moved to Minnesota in 1896 and became an operating steam engineer in a steam laundry. He married Amanda Stroschine in Minneapolis in 1898 and moved back to northern Minnesota to farm, where their first son George was born in March, 1900. A new land was opened to homesteading in North Dakota and the Nelson family[...]\, came west by immigrant train and horses and wagon for[...]Nelson - Spring '42 H. C. Nelson family. Left to right: daughter Lola (holding transportation. Two other sons, Melvin and Lyle, were |
| [...]spectacle--a load oflumber, rolls of tar paper and household Williams was divided and the new county was named goods on a covered wagon, two horses and a cow, a young Divide with the county seat at Crosby. Mr. Nelson was man and young woman and two year 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 buste[...]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 real estate business[...]k houses around period at Crosby a daughter Lola and a son Vernon was a corral in the Crosby country and thence west another born. In 1917 the Nelson family moved to Outlook where hundred miles or more into M[...]the Canadian border by the Cowboy's area was new and the business prospered and grew. Oasis at the Daniels-Timmons ranch on the Poplar River. Hoping to expand the business, Mr. Nelson bought the Of course Henry Nelson, his wife Amanda and son George Daniels County Implement in Scobey fr[...]would know nothing of these distant neighbors to the west Penn and associates in the spring of 1929. The family for several years to come. moved to Scobey that summer but son George remained to Yes, during the winter blizzards and the dry weather and operate the business in Outlook until selling it[...]r, 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 who the Daniels County Implement Company. made tracks to the west 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 service the (Melvin Nelson) was born in that lonely homestead shack. farmers and survive. In 1943 H.C. became very ill and the Development did proceed on the Nelson homestead. A Daniels County Implement Company was sold to Mr. Chet hip-roofed barn was built and painted a bright red. It had Solberg. Mr. Nelson[...]y at the age of sixty-nine. two stalls for cows and two for horses and a hay mow. A Amanda Nelson kept the home in Scobey until about 1948 well was dug to water the family, the stock and the weary when she, Melvin, Lyle and Vernon moved to Polson, travelers who came in greater and greater numbers. The Montana. Mrs. Nelson lived i[...]rliest landmark on the way west. It was the Ly le and Vernon died that year and Mrs. Nelson moved to place with the "Big Red Barn" where you could water your Fargo, North Dakota to live with her daughter Lola Cooke. horses, get a meal and sleep in the hay mow on your way to In 1971 Mrs. Nelson died at the age of ninety-one[...]Montana homesteads. In about 1942 Melvin, Lyle and Vernon entered the My father really enjoyed paying a great compliment to military services. The Daniels County Leader carr[...]cobey country as he lay on his death bed in story and pictures in the August 19, 1943 issue, the Nelson[...]nors as the first three brothers from poverty and strife, these people all paid their debts to me Daniels County to leave the country for action on the when[...]f fighting fronts. When discharged they came back to them who failed to do the right." It was a great satisfaction Scobey, later entering the University of Montana where to him to live long enough to see all these people prove their Melvin earned a degree in teaching, Lyle in law, and courage, strength and fidelity. Vernon two years of law. He then took a position with the And now on America's Birthday 1976, it is with great[...]atisfaction that I recall thaf~y family was first to place years of teaching Melvin retired and now lives in three sons on the fight[...]ave a believe will not deny her a great and free future. daughter and a son and six grandchildren. George and his wife Ann and son Philip moved to Longmont, Colorado in 1946. George opened an income tax and bookkeeping service and in 1953 he established a MR. AND MRS. RASMUS NELSON credit and collection office which he operated until selling and retiring in 1965. Retirement got boring so he has[...]r 2, 1888. When he was three years old he came to homes and campers. George and Ann's only son Philip has Hutchinson, Minn[...]Later they moved a doctorate degree in Psychology and is presently to Norma, North Dakota. His father died when Rasmus[...]rm as Corporation was a very young man and he took over the farm. Personnell Consultant. He and his wife and son (the only Dad later worked in the bank in Norma, an experience one to carry on the Nelson name) live in San Rafael,[...]he took bookkeeping, business law and typing. However he PIONEERING MEMORIES OF H.C. AND AMANDA quickly reverted back to the two finger method of typing. NELSON AS REC[...]N When he felt ready to strike out on his own, he borrowed[...]$1000.00 from the owner of the Norma bank and bought a My father and mother tied their two horses on picket mac[...]xville. He sold Rock Island, lines on that bright and promising morning in June, 1900. I McCormick, and Deering machinery. He had a cot in his say promis[...]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 long after they were green going east twenty miles to the border town of Portal, no longer in use. H[...]line including North Dakota. There were no tracks to the west. To them a the Ford, Durant, Star and Plymouth.[...] |
| [...]two couples left for Froid soon after the wedding to visit Dad's mother who had broken her hip and was unable to attend the wedding. Due to the heavy rains, several[...]bridges along the way had washed out and Mother and[...]Anderson, and in 1940 it was moved to Scobey and Mother[...]ere were two children in our family, a son Harold and[...]Dad bought stocks in the Flaxville bank and during the[...]hairs, and may even have lost a few in trying to keep the[...]barley, or whatever the farmers had to give him to apply on[...]lls. Rasmus Nelson in front of his farm implement and When the main roads improved[...]_m ore important to everyone, and travel became less[...]decided to consolidate the Flaxville and Scobey businesses into one, and in 1940 he moved his inventory and house to[...]business as the buildings were torn down and the Albert[...]Tryans now live there. Rasmus and Cora Nelson on their 50th Mother came to the Orville community in 1913 with her |
| [...]One of the highlights of this experience was to appear business. Their children, Shaula and Barry, graduated with Jeanette Rankin as a speaker at Dagmar. She was our from Scobey High School and went on to Montana colleges. first Congresswoman. Duri[...]were seven new counties created in the state and Daniels Merrill Swenson from Fairview.[...]in Daniels took the bar exams which he passed and w.as admitted to County, Rasmus became fully retired and sold his business the bar. to his family, John and Eleanor, Merrill and Shaula, and Daniels County was going through the legal process of Barry and Linda. It became known as Rasmus Nelson, Inc. being made a county and John was aked to run for County Rasmus died in Scobey in April 1[...]ber, one year old In the 1930's in order to take his children to school more daughter of Barry and Linda, represents the fourth easily, the Nyquists moved to Milaca, Minnesota, bought a generation to live in Daniels County. home, and John opened a law office. They have four boys and one girl. Two sons are lawyers, one a minister, and one by Eleanor Nels[...]They spent a number of winters in Texas and Florida . THE JOHN SAMUEL NYQUIST FAMILY before his health failed and in 1974 he passed away.[...]Agnes Nyquist December, 1888 to Per and Maria Nyquist. By 1896 Per[...]Cecil Ferguson made the decision to follow in his brother's footsteps and emigrate to America. The brothers had preceded him and gone to Dassel, Minnesota. . Per bought a farm near Dassel and John attended school intermittently if there was not much farm work to do. HENRY AND ALMA OLSEN School laws then required only forty d[...]neral exodus of his that he isn't here to relive again those early years. neighbors to Montana to settle on homesteads, including Henry We[...]which John mother was a remarkable lady and instilled in her eight bought.[...]y of Minnesota shipped an immigrant car of horses and machinery to and later was graduated from Cumberland Law School at[...]of school for two years, did the needed farming, and taught school near his farm to meet expenses. He went back to college and the St. Paul College of Law. John graduated in 1915 from Macalester College and in Wedding picture 1915 - Henry W. Olsen 1[...]aduated from law school he married Agnes Walstom, and a few days later they left for Culbertson, Montana. In 1918 John was induced to run for the state legislature from Plentywood on the Republican ticket, and was elected. 40th Anniversary, June 12, 1957. Left to right: Tom, Bob, |
| [...]n family picture, New Ulm, Minnesota - 1942. Left to[...]West and while the young couple will be pioneers to some[...]blood in her veins and will make a fitting helpmate to her[...]Twin girls were born in 1917, Elsie and Theo. Dr.[...]great event due to the severe blizzard. Mother's family Wedding pict[...]twins! They sent her sister Elsie to Scobey, and a nurse to[...]iest Lebanon, Tennessee in 1912. He was attracted to the west memories revolved around her Scobey visits. when his brother Carl became interested in ranching and When the flu epidemic struck Scobey durin[...]Dakota. Uncle Carl introduced a bill in the North and Ethel Nelson who had the hardwood store were close Dakota State Legislature to have this area preserved as a friends of our parents. Ethel and Mother had an agreement national park. Today we h[...]0 Dad met Alma Marti from New Ulm, Minnesota made and one side panel is written "wood for casket while[...]ent. Through his I recall the time Elsie and I cut off our blonde curls and sister Norma he kept in contact with her over a p[...]big tumble weed! Dad tells of the time his mother and Dad arrived in Scobey in 1914. He established a[...]ir respective families. store, was the undertaker and may have practiced some Ira and Henry were in the local barber shop and they were law. He and Mother were married in 1915. She graduated shocked to see their mothers bravely walk into the town's fr[...]ater they learned these dignified ladies had 1904 and taught music at Washburn College, Topeka, .admonished the men on the evils of such a place. A tree Kansas, and in schools in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her salesman once sold Mother several small trees and warned parents lived at Schell's Park where her father was her not to plant them too close together as the branches pre[...]y which is still a flourishing would have no room to expand--but alas--no trees grew and business in New Ulm. Our parents left by train Mother replaced them with sunflowers which grew tall and immediately after their wedding and arrived in Scobey in strong. By now our family ha[...]from a preserved clipping from the local SkidmJre and George. newspaper:[...]of the live wires of a hustling town in children and fear of what the future might have for Scobey Mon[...]ant having established a store in prompted Mother and Father to make the difficult decison that new town. Two sisters and a brother are located in the to return to New Ulm in 1924.[...] |
| [...]played in dance bands all 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. Mother once made this poig[...]nneapolis high school. Elsie lives in Minneapolis and is first night he was there. It wasn't any "l[...]nneapolis schools. affair, but we dated off and on and were married at My hujband and I lived in Honolulu for 20 years. I Williston. returned with my daughter after my husband's death, and We bought a little house at the end of[...]Theo Olsen Wright Two children were born to us - June Lucille Olsen, who[...]chose a musical career - and "Buzz" D.R. Olsen, an[...]t Scobey Roland did government work that took him to Havre and Seattle. Just before he died he went back into a ROLAND AND VICTORIA OLSEN bank as[...]was born in Albert Lee, Minnesota, a son of T.K. and Ella Olsen, originally from Norway. Roland's father died at an early age, and the family moved to the northern part of the state where Roland spent his adolescent years and graduated from Ada High School[...]ng a musical background he was placed in the band and remained in Minneapolis during his stay Dr. William Olson came to Scobey in 1910. He bought in the army.[...]first dental practice and did a hangup business! In 1912 he moved to Scobey, bought a five-room house, had the two[...]front rooms as the dental office and reception room, with[...]Dr. Olson had three brothers and four sisters. His sister, Emma, came to Scobey to help Dr. Olson as dental assistant and housekeeper after her husband, Dr. Charles[...]His parents, the Magnus Olson family, lived on the farm[...]in Spring Garden, Minnesota and the children were fairly Dr. Wm. Olson and sister Emma Johnson Victoria and Roland Olsen His stint in the army being of short duration he returned |
| young (Ruby and Emma had started teaching perhaps) when one day four or five horsemen came to their home and asked if they could feed and water their horses. Mr. Olson obliged them and then asked them in for dinner. When they left the[...]ollar bill. He did not want it, but they insisted and were very grateful for the hospitality. Guess who[...]re like Robin Hood, I think. They robbed the rich to give to the poor. At least that is what they said about Jesse. He did hot like to harm anyone, but just scared them to death! "Uncle Bill", as I called him, was quite[...]woke up with a terrible toothache. I did not want to awaken him to pull the tooth because it was after midnight. He[...]rn thing just kept on aching so, therefore, I had to awaken him. I don't know which was worse - the toothache or his anger to be awakened at that ungodly (as he called it) hou[...]lenee, Father of Lucy Parks One time he took me to a country dance. Those days by the time the dance was over and we'd gotten back home it was the wee hour of the[...]so late! In those days, at 16, one was too young to be out after 9:00 p.m. How times have changed! Uncle Bill used to hate the swirly dust storms we had in Scobey. The[...]his forehead, take long strides like he was going to the unknown. Dr. Olson moved away in the early 40's and is spending his last years in Encinatis, Californ[...]better known as "Skip", was born in Indiana, went to Canada and then to Daniels County. Here he met Lucy Marlenee who had[...]ew miles south of Scobey. He died in 1935. Lucy and Clarence were married in 1917. He filed on a quar[...]ailment which ruled out hard work, 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 backed by Otto King and the old Farmers Oil Company. Tires became cheaper and vulcanizing was no longer profitable, so the business changed hands. Three daughters were born to Lucy and Skip - Eileen, Zelda, and Nellie. They all graduated from Scobey High School. Times were very hard and Eileen worked every chance she got, since she wanted to go on to school. She worked at Case's Confectionary, and there were no free ice cream cones for little sis[...]Lucy Parks Getschel Grocery, the Service Drug, and later helped her dad in the State Liquor Store. Finally, the college career started, and she obtained her teaching credential from Eastern[...]ward. Her first teaching position was in a degree and teaching credential from California State[...] |
| [...]rector from vocal music scholarship to the University in Missoula and Peerless. Two weeks later she and Emerson Miller were attended there thr[...]ict band festival in Plentywood on May went to Tacoma and worked in the shipyards with her 10, 1941. Emerson and Eileen had three children, Clarence Daddy until Ray soloed as a pilot. Ray and Nellie were (Skippy), Lynne and Parks. Skippy, with a birth defect, marr[...]er pilot, Ray's plane was hit by Germ.an shrapnel and California with her daughter Madalen and her twin sons, he was very seriously wounded. After his recovery he Anthony and Vincent. She is employed in the Rockledge returned to Scobey and he and Nellie farmed the Seraphin Clinic in Oakland, California. Parks and his wife Angelina LaPierre land. They have[...]tella hair-styling shop in San Francisco; and Dennis, who is in and Sibyl. He is office manager and dispatcher for Western the navy in Tacoma. Dennis married Norma Hames and Pine in Emeryville, California. Emerson and Eileen have they have two children, Cassie Lynn and Aaron. Ray been with the Fremont Unified School District for the past retired four years ago due to ill health. Nellie has been fourteen years and are anticipating retirement. teaching music and has been active in all community Zelda was a worker too. She worked for Mrs. Erickson in musical and dramatic activities for the past 25 years. the Woman's Shop and did any odd jobs she could find, as In 1943 Skip and Lucy moved to Tacoma, Washington she also wanted to go to school. She also attended Eastern where he[...]. She was teaching in a Peerless country and while on his way to Arizona to seek relief, he died in school when she fell in l[...]of cardiac asthma in 1945. Lucy They were married and are still Ii ving on the Oie farm, returned to Scobey in 1947 and has made this her home although their children ar[...]Daniels County Memorial Nursing Home. were unable to rescue him. He had just completed the eighth grad[...]Citizens' State Bank. He married Sheila McCarthy and they have a[...]The Samuel G. Paus family came to Scobey in 1914 and[...]managed to bring their organ. Mrs. Pa us rode from Poplar[...]- homestead was with a horse and buggy. If Mrs. Paus had[...]Two sons, Roy and Ormond, and a daughter, Viola, soon[...]Hardware. The store hours were from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Front row: Clarence, Nellie, Lucy. Back row: Eileen and son Ryan. Don and Sheila are both active in the Jaycees, |
| [...]years in Pasadena, California and came to Scobey via[...]ing the winter of 1932-33, at Burbank, California and the following winter had bought an airplane and hired me to fly with him.[...]ty nippy, but the ground had thawed. We then went to[...]My first thought was, "The food is going to be awful."[...]a wonderful cook, the stove worked like a charm, and the[...]dressed and spoke differently than I was accustomed to;[...]many lacked the social polish of my city-friends, and I had[...]to learn that the people were solid citizens; down to earth, candid, and hospitable. My fondest memories of Daniels[...]rplanes were still quite a novelty in those days, and there were just too many incidents of interest to record. We[...]road at the edge of town and taxi up to the house on the[...]the landing was in Canada and we had to taxi back into the[...]into bad weather and landed at a railroad junction, and[...]next morning it was pretty nippy and in starting the Strom moved to Glasgow, but still was associated with the engine it backfired and to our consternation it also caught Scobey store. Or[...]day going to Great Falls alone, I had been keeping my Ormond married Claire Horvick, a teacher,.in 1922 and direction by reference to section lines; cutting across them they had four[...]Sheridan, Wyoming; Judith became overcast and there were no more section lines in Jensen, ·watford City, North Dakota; and Ormond, Jr., sight. So I descended to very close to the ground to try to who was a victim of World War II in Europe. He wa[...]in America. In finally showed up; it turned out to be Lewistown and I was his senior year of high school he helped sa[...]se. In Great Falls I bought a small from drowning and received meritorious recognition from pocket[...]have a clock either; and, neither did I have a watch. So, In 1928 the Ormond Paus family bought the Sara enroute to Minneapolis one time I brought along my alarm Gri[...]g clock. The airport people at Minot noticed it and kidded me prohibition. The hidden caches in the foundation, under about carrying an alarm clock to wake me up to land atmy. steps, behind blank walls were never f[...]kota the weather although they were quite evident to the new owners who warmed up so I decided to land and take off the heavy promptly replaced them with cl[...]aniels County Queen in 1964 when open spot and landed. A man drove up in a car and we Daniels County celebrated its 50th anniversary. Ormond chatted for a minute or two and finally he asked me why I passed away in 1968, bu[...]new airport, nobody had yet landed on it, and here I was[...]wrong side of the fence. I hadn't expected to find an airport there, so had not bothered to look for one the prairie was a BU[...]perfectly normal place to land. Then, there was the[...]ne of the I was the first of my immediate family to arrive in airplane's stability to a potential buyer, and it began Daniels County in April, 1934. I am distantly related to coming apart and uncontrollable. After a series of wild[...] |
| dives it leveled off about 10 feet above the ground and going been advised to get out of the bakery business and go west too fast for a normal landing. I was able to get the wheels to a more suitable climate. In 1920 they moved to Scobey onto the ground and then let it roll to a stop; it was too close and worked in the Burton Cafe. In 1925 they bought a[...]restaurant and bakery from the Hoffs. For 20 years they I had[...]during the "Dam Days" they delivered bakery goods to Aeronautics Authority, and retired early in 1970. I now live towns in[...]Burleigh Putnam any child would want to visit and very patient girls to sell[...]young immigrants from eastern Europe (Margaretha and John Reiner) came to Montana from St. Louis, Missouri 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 to failing health and no available help, in 1945 he invited[...]his nephew John (Jack) from Bourbon, Missouri to come and help him farm. In 1948 they moved to Redding, California to retire. John died in 1958 and Margaretha[...]sides in the Shasta Nursing Home in Redding. John and Margaretha Reiner Jack decided he liked Montana and grain farming and[...]next door, Carmen Waller. They farmed (still do) and[...]Stardusters and other dance bands, played baseball for 20[...]years, taught music at Flaxville for nine years, and[...]Jack and Carmen have five children: Mark, a grad[...]married Barbara Juhl in 1975; Patrice and John are students at P.L.U.; and _K ris is at home.[...]g in Leader The Jack Reiner Family. Standing left to right: Mark, Carmen and Jack. Sitting: Kris, Jon, Patrice, Tracy.[...]turned back the clock to days more than forty years ago when he and three other fellows had a bachelor's shack in Poor crops and a growing debt drove them back to the the new town, located where now Mr. and Mrs. Roger trade that they knew so well. Due to poor health, John had Sherburne re[...] |
| [...]some as the sister of the first straight, and so could Noel (Richardson). Everybody knew Mrs. H[...]and was later surveyed it was Revenue Service. He and his wife stopped here Sunday found th[...]king-plow, red flag on the wheel, enroute through to Seattle where they have a daughter to plus Jacques and Richardson's straight driving visit.[...]mbination was off in measurement only thirty feet to a Roy Chisholm came to this community in 1915 and took half section. up a homestead in th[...]Chisholm was well known in the early Scobey days, and they built the structure now owned by the Masons[...]Y 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 Berniece Leibrand were married occupied by that f[...]in 1934 at Scobey. Howard came to Daniels County in 1916 Chisholm recalled upon arriving in this community in and Berniece, in 1922. At the time of their union, Howard 1915 that he paid Claude Tande $100 to locate him on his was employed by Daniels[...]d. Two years later he was drafted for World War I and upon his discharge furthered his education in bus[...]here. But a bright spot of his career appeared to be those few years in the Scobey country when it was a very young town on the prairies. He and Clint, and Amos and Hoyt. We asked Clint Richardson how it was that he, Chisholm, Blegen and Hoyt happened to be in the 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. Lodgi[...]he wind didn't blow through the walls hard enough to blow the light (a kerosene lamp) out, and floor off the ground enough to a void puddles inside from rains. Well into the '[...]e discussing with Clint his reminiscences brought to mind by the visitor, we asked him when it was that he had The Howard Schaeffer Family. Back row left to right: homesteaded. He told us in 1912; near wher[...]ibby, Larry Patti, Jeanne. Front row: Howard, Jim and homesteaded several years later. In 1913 Clint went to Berniece. work for Frank Johnson at the[...]in 1913 built the building now occupied by Clint and Charlie's, which only a few weeks ago underwent a[...]wnsite. 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 instrumental in the life in that building."[...]Scobey Golf Club's creation, and Berniece named their first Getting back to the homesteading, we asked Clint a two children, Patti and Larry Sam, after Patty Berg and question that somehow or other we've never before[...]ead, famed golf figures of that era. Larry around to asking a homesteader before: Unless someone served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959 to 1963. Howard has professionally located you, how[...]and before the survey? and Nemont Telephone Co-op. He was the first business Clint said he and his relatives, the Richardsons and manager of the infant Nemont Telephone Co-op and Jacques did it with a team and wagon and a walking plow maintained that position for eleven years. Schaefer's Tax snubbed behind; and a red flag tied to the rear wheel in Service was created dur[...]uld employment as a sideline, but proceeded to grow until it be counted.[...]necessitated Howard's full time attention and his The plow marked the land boundary and the flag resignation from Nemont. Berniece and Howard then measured the distance (number of flag[...]"We started at the Canadian border," Clint said, "and Some of our fond memories include weekends spent drove due south so many revolutions and then turned at gardening at Grandpa John's acreage down by the Big right angles and drove some more, turning back up to the Muddy River (this property now belongs to Earl Leibrand, border. That was surveyed good so we knew where to Berniece's brother), and Sunday chicken dinners at start." Grandpa and Grandma Schaefer's in Madoc. The elder Driving a wagon and team with plow behind that Schaefers owned the General Store in Madoc and had a straight must have called for some real dead reckoning, we well-stocked candy showcase much to the delight of their[...] |
| [...]family. Howard was no slouch at the game himself and some freight hauling for a few weeks, then went to work for it was to him that the others came when something went[...]eir game. and the city park, then in its planning stages. He se[...]Nell and the children and they arrived on July 5, 1917, the[...]bought out of the sale money of their home, and which was[...]er owner as part of the bargain. NORMAN AND LAURA SCHARF Dan continued his municipal employment, and planted AND CHARLES HARRIS most of the trees and shrubbery in both the park and the cemetery. Norman J. Scharf came to Scobey in 1914 from Gernin, In 1924 a f[...]the Saskatchewan, Canada by train. He was married to Laura southwest part of town, and Dan, Mrs. Scott, and Ralph McCleod in 1911 who came from Quebec, Canada. To this again journeyed westward, this time to Oregon. (Irene had union there were born three ch[...]lkeld by this time married William Heppner and resided in (Great Falls), and twins, Mazel and Norman. Norman lives Scobey). The Oregon climate proved to be undesirable to in Denver, Colorado. Mazel is Mrs. Art Audet of Scobey. them, and they returned to Scobey, where they bought Audet's children are: Philip, who married Lona Tande and another plot of ground in the Oie-Kjos addition and, works at Nemont Telephone; Craig, who married An[...]s, Jackson, teaches school in Whitefish, Montana; and Dana, built the home now occupied by their daughter, Irene Allen and Laura, all at home. Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Scharf purchased the Gibson Post Hall and Dan continued his work for the City of Sc[...]and mid-wife abilities._Dan Scott was a well-read, we[...]ol in from Quenemo, Kansas. He did carpenter work and later his youth, but his roommate'.s experience with a went into construction and trucking. When they moved to resurrecting cadaver dulled Daniel's keenn[...]oing construction work, the hotel was scalpel, and he relinquished it for the less-exacting life of leased to Dr. Collinson who used it as a hospital. Oscar Vo[...]receded him in death in 1942. Ralph his wife Kate to Saco, too. die[...]ly members are buried in Scobey After returning to Scobey they took back the building 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 Hanley, who worked with Mr. Harris and later helped Doug Kilgore at Carl's Tavern; Otto[...]constructed My father, Ben Shaich, came to Scobey around 1921. He what is now Getschel's Super Valu and numerous other and his brother David opened a store on Main Street.[...]in the Methodist Church, clothing at first and later adding women's clothing to their passed away in 1964 in Scobey.[...]Ball Mercantile. Ben and David called their store the DANIEL[...]et Store. About 1928 Uncle David moved his family to[...]orn August 13, 1858 in when he moved to Minneapolis, selling out to Mr. Getschel. Stockbridge, Michigan. In the late 1880's he migrated to My father came from Russia with my mother and North Dakota, and on September 25, 1892 married Mary daughter Eva. He came to Wyoming where he worked for Heleri Due, also a native of Michigan who was born June the railroad and there homesteaded on a small farm. They 23, 1870 in Manistee, Michigan. After their marriage in moved to Omaha, Nebraska where my brother David and I Dunseith the couple returned to their home in Willow City, were born. North D[...]was November, 1893. Shortly thereafter they moved to originally a barn which had been mo[...]elieve. This barn was improved by the Greenwood's and never received any remuneration for their work.[...]ed in porch, the windows of which he a restaurant and Dan had a livery stable, the advent of the bou[...]as being wrecked. He added automobile forced them to again seek new beginnings. The two more rooms and a garage. We were the first, or among family had by this time increased to four, Irene having the first, to have indoor plumbing and a furnace and were been born in 1902. Thus it was that in early[...]io. Attending a Dan left Willow City with a wagon and team of horses, and class reunion in 1958 I was impressed to see how much the after two or three week's[...] |
| [...]FRANK AND HAZEL SMITH[...]Wisconsin. He was married to Hazel Mae McGill at[...]Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1913 and came to Scobey that[...]Two sons and a daughter were born to this union.[...]ank served a term as mayor of Scobey, 1927-28. He and Hazel were active in the Masonic Lodge and the Eastern Star organizations and were members of the Episcopal[...]Mrs. Smith continued to make her home in Scobey after[...]November, 14, 1971. Their t9ons, Charles and Dale, both[...]the "Village Blacksmith" Ben and Clara Shaich Family - 1930. Eva, David and Sarah.[...]Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England to Arthur and Sarah[...]ily of ten children. He was named My sister Eva and I left Scobey in 1933 after graduation. Thomas to succeed an immediately older brother who had The folks moved to Minneapolis two years later. My father died in early childhood. bought a store here in Minneapolis and two of us worked In 1906 he came from England to Niagara Falls, Ontario, there until we left for C[...]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 Baukman. They came to the Julian community[...]zel (McGill) Smith. Dale's oldest children Vickie and Danny Smith.[...] |
| shop. A son, Sidn ey (who died May 18, 1941) was born to Germany for three years. Now they are at Redwood City, them and there also Tom's wife died in childbirth. Shortly California where she works for Title Insurance and Rick afterward he came t o Scobey and soon bought the lot and for United Airlines. building of the pr[...]in business in that location Washington and married Bill Bartley, a professor in a Ft. until[...]ne, Indiana college. They have two children, Erin and Tom Smith became a n a t uralized citizen of t[...]in the Army and now works for Burroughs Company. He[...]ried Sandra Goodell. They have two children, Troy and Rebecca and live in Burnsville, Minnesota.[...]Colebank and they have three sons, Allen, Kevin and THE CHESTER SOLBERG FAMILY[...]Loren is a Concordia graduate and served in the[...]Chester Ben (Chet) Solberg, the second son of Ben and Treasure Title Insurance Company in Kalispell and is Elaine (Finkenhagen) Solberg, was born in 1916[...]land Bench area where he attended country school and later went to Montevideo, Minnesota to live with his grandparents while he was in high school. He then returned to help with the farming, always liking the machin e[...]brief resume of Chet's business ventures in Loren and Chester - 1958.[...]business from H.C. and George Nelson in 1944 and started[...]prairie home a t the business was sold to Ken Noland. Gerald Melena was a Ossette, Montana, went to coun tr y school and graduated partner of Chet's from 1944 to '64. Extensive remodeling from Opheim High School[...]has been done through the years; a new brick and tile year and was among the la st group receiving teaching building was built for the shop, offices and display room certifica tion after only one year o[...]t in 1954. Later the old building was donated to the local rural schools.[...]rough the years we have went ahead with our plans and were married in October. had many men[...]an 20 years. Our years in business in local mines and put ice up from the P opla r River; he had Scobey have been good to us and our many friends in this made his own ice cutting[...]for five years farmin g , which seems to be his main recreation. We farm in before moving to Scobey. the Silver Star area and also east of town (Rudolph Nyquist We built our home in Scobey and here our five children place). We built a big display area there for new and used grew up.[...]items. Elaine graduated from Kinman and married Richard Along with family duties there has also been time to Student. He was in the Air Force and they lived in participate in many civic and church organizations. Chet[...] |
| was mayor of Scobey. I have enjoyed working with the school and church functions, as well as the Scouts and 4-H groups; currently I am involved in our ALCW work in the local and district level. THE MARVIN J. AND BERNICE SORTE |
| [...]rte Coal Co. was originally the McCurdy Coal Co., and later the Stephens & King Coal Co. before it became Kr?ssin and Sorte. (The site of the Scobey headquarters later housed Johnson Transfer, in most recents years torn down and on the site now stands the Trower Bldg., the fron[...]In later years, Mr. Sorte was a trusted assistant and employee at the old H.P. Larsen Implement & Lumbe[...]rn at Maynard, Minnesota December Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Stagg near the weigh station in 29, 1903, a daughter of George and Dora Lawrence. She Scobey. came to Medicine Lake with her family as a young girl and later moved to Plentywood where she graduated from high school in 1922. In 1926 she was married to Marvin Sorte at Assiniboine, moved to Doctor D.B. Healy's place and lived there for Saskatchewan. They lived at Richl[...]rs before several years before moving to Grandmother Stagg's moving to Scobey in 1929." place. This was about five miles from town and had a small County Superintendent Mrs. Claire H[...]d--it had a creek, or rather it following tribute to her: was a creek part of the year and a succession of small pools "To know a person like Bernice Mary Lawrence Sorte as[...]remainder of the time. People came from Whitetail to a friend, a neighbor, an official, a helper is an[...]swim in the pools. That was during World War I and we her friends may well call a privilege and inspiration. The found we could not survive attempting to operate a ranch. work of all people eventually comes to an end, but the We moved to Scobey and rented the Olive Hotel which results of work well[...]ive on indefinitely. Under Mother ran; Dad and the kids found work on other ptople's the influen[...]ranches. In the winter the kids went to school and Dad got problems shrunk to proportionate size, spirits lifted and a job tending the county scales. This led to buying cream good fortune became a thing to be shared with others. and eggs from the farmers, so the hotel was given up, and Having worked with her has indeed been a real pleasure everyone helped with the cream and egg business. and a great privilege. Erma and Irwin left Scobey in 1926 to attend college in God bless her memory."[...]Helena, Roma married Deitrick (Dick) Mahler, and Orville By[...]and Mother and Dad lost all their possessions. They moved[...]the county scales until closure. He then HENRY AND ANNIE STAGG AND FAMILY took care of gardens and lawns for several years before he[...]Antelope, and then started working for the Helena post The Henry T. Stagg family came to Whitetail, Montana office, carrying mail for thirty years. He and his wife have in April, 1912 by train from Pequot[...]here was five children. Ir\\in is retired and living in Thompson still snow in spots around the[...]dma Walla, Washington, Roma in Scobey and Orville is a (Mary) Stagg, Ed Weaver, Asa Dunn and Henry Stagg (he bookkeeper for a construction company, so he moves every had come out earlier to find a place to live). Mr. Stagg had year or so, at present[...]ssouri, 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 Stagg passed away in 1964 after spending about children: Irwin, Erma, Roma and Orville, who was a baby three years in[...]Wolf Point, then. Marie, the oldest, was married and remained in Montana. Minnesota. A number of people then living in Whitetail had gone to[...]Stagg when he was teaching in Iowa. On the ride to the Asa Dunn ranch, just south of town, we GUY AND BLANCHE STALDER saw our first "flicker-tail" and were assured that he must have gotten his days mi[...]by Blanche Stalder calendar wrong. He was certain to get stuck in the snow if he was not careful. Flicker-tail, picket pin or just plain Guy and Blanche Stalder were married in Havre, gopher, he[...]ver seen before. Montana January 30, 1915, and farmed north of Havre for When the Dunn's moved[...]yed on the several years. We left Havre and arrived in Scobey October ranch. We were there ab[...]which we 25, 1923. Guy had come by car and the two little girls and I[...] |
| came on the train. Elizabeth was seven years old and Billie Born to Capt. and Mrs. James Berry Stephens in 1871 at was six mont[...]Sebastian County, Arkansas Bill was one of train to Scobey that day was Mrs. George Ruth, Sr. nine children. His father fought in both the Mexican and What a lovely day when we arrived! But the next day was Civil Wars. very cold and froze ice several inches thick in an old In 1914 Bill returned to Bentonville, Arkansas where he bathtub on the nor[...]in married Nannie Pearce. They came back to Montana and Ericksons, with whom we stayed when we first arri[...]oldest daughter, Elizabeth, Upon arrival we went to Dr. Collinson's Drug Store where was born in[...]64. Harry Thompson waited on us. Then Guy took us to the farm which was the former Andrew Tande farm w[...]ng. We lived with them two weeks--then they moved to Scobey. We lived there by the Poplar River four[...]f Daniels County. For several years then we moved to Scobey during the school months so the girls coul[...]ngineer at Fort Peck Dam. They have five children and now live in Palm Springs, California where he is[...]l of Palo Alto, California in 1947. He has taught and has been a counsellor in the high schools there f[...]ters. THE W.T. STEPHENS FAMILY |
| THE STROM FAMILY Arthur G. Strom came to Culbertson, Montana on June 15, 1913, arriving o[...]raduated from high school there a week previously and determined to find his fortune in the west. He came to Culbertson to work as a clerk in the hardware store of S.S. Moe[...]ssenger train in the late afternoon. She had come to keep books in the general store owned and run by a man named Brooks. In the course of ti[...]t Williston, North Dakota in the home of a friend and business associate by the name of Gilbert Johnson[...]Scobey Bank owned by C. T. Swenson; C. T. Swenson and In 1918 Art Strom and Gil Johnson went into Oscar Fryslie pictured. partnership in a hardware and general 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 including a young daughter--moved to Scobey to own and manage the business. Later a third partner, Ormond W. Paus, entered the business and continued to operate the Scobey store after Art Strom and his family moved to Glasgow in the spring of 1934. With the beginning[...]am 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 extended another five years--and yet another five--they stayed in Glasgow. By this time the business was well established and it seemed reasonable to continue it there. In 1945 the son-in-law and daughter, Ernie Logan and Mary, became associated in the Glasgow store, and at the present time the third generation is opera[...]he United States Navy after four years in Vietnam and other naval assignments. Ormond Paus and his wife Claire operated the Scobey store until its sale to Gordon Blomquist, the present owner.[...]rgo, North Dakota Mrs. C. T. Swenson and Mrs. Ingrid Needles in 1896 and he lived at Wahpeton, North Dakota in his youth .[...]served as a corporal in the Marine Corps, he came to Scobey. He resigned this position and moved to the Stanley area where worked as an electrician (Sundy's shop) and as a he proved up on a homestead. L[...]s later killed in an auto accident. He him to many areas of northeastern Montana which remarrie[...]assed away in 1968 in liked grain farming and saw a future in it for this area. Bremerton, Washington. His wife Mae, and a daughter Chris organized a state[...]National Bank was built on that corner and Mr. and Mrs.[...]Price and lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon where their three C[...]the First daughters grew up; Stanley and his family also live in that National Bank[...] |
| STANLEY W. AND OLIVE SWENSON Stanley Swenson was born to C.T. and Inglein Swenson in Scobey in 1916. He attended grade and high school there. After graduation he attended Kinman Business College in Spokane, Washington and entered the oil business shortly afterward in She[...]The B. 0. Tande family. Back row left to right: Ruth,[...]Luella, Iver, Eunice. Seated: Borre and Marie Tande. Left to right: Stanley Swenson, Susan (Mrs. Gary French),[...]vice president of |
| [...]business and bring supplies. He also maintained his[...]farming interests in the Peerless area, bought and sold cars and bought horses which he hauled by truck to North Dakota to sell them. Borre in vested in the stock market as[...]throughout the years. Luella and Eunice were both born at[...]The Tande's opened their home to the small community. Several weddings and two funerals were conducted in the[...]Tande living room and an emergency mastoid operation[...]summer of 1928 and over 50 relatives attended.[...]utomobile. Unfortunately the tires were not built to stand up under the poor road conditions and he spent much time[...]blowouts on the way to Wolf Point. Life in Scobey was good to Borre and his family. He[...]enjoyed a successful business and Marie kept busy with[...]came a long distance and invited them to have Sunday[...]Borre sold his general store to his brother Christ and they moved back to Aneta, North Dakota to her parent's[...]e farewell party was given for them at the church and[...]After a short time on the farm the children began to find[...]1941 , Borre found farm work too difficult to do alone so he rented out the land and kept only a few head of livestock. Borre and Marie were a devoted couple and Borre felt a[...]his wife died in 1954 at the age of 66. Borre Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Tande[...]size-- Borre was blessed with a keen mind and was so adept at Tande next to the store tha t Borre h ad purchased from with figures he could quickly and easily add up the amount his uncle. Borre always referred to it as their " shack". They of a grocery list in[...]were h omesteading, with a He was a joy to be with and made each one feel very few pieces of furniture i[...]was the post special. When his children came to visit him, he enjoyed master and Marie the assista nt post master . The postal[...]where they many friends. His cheerful spirit and keen mind remained had the store and the homestead, a nd h e often talked about wi[...]s. "We had such good times together", Borre said, and "we helped one a nother because at that[...]age seven in 1924. by team of horses the 19 miles to Scobey for big shopping, Iver died on February 10, 1975. He was an executive pilot to see the doctor or go to church. for Peoples Gas Company in Chicago and a major in the Rachel, their first born, died[...]h at the Air Force Reserve. He had one daughter and one son. His age of seven. wife Connie and son Barry live in Park Ridge, Illinois. Iver,[...]Luella Burros lives in Aneta, North Dakota, and owns moved to Scobey, into the house later owned by Mr. and and operates her late husband's store. She has six ch[...]two-story house had the luxury of r unning and eight grandchildren. water and a bathroom. E unice lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is married Borre bought a nice building that had been a drug store to Woodrow Lang ha ug , president of Lutheran and opened a general store. He operated a successful Broth erhood Insurance. They have two daughters and two ' usiness here for many years, and had many business gr a ndchildren. in[...]Ruth Alice lives in Ellendale, Minnesota and is married He opened a second store in Peerless, which he opera ted to Pastor Maurice Dronen. They have a son and daughter. with help, going there from Scobey twice a week to check on His children are grateful[...] |
| BOB AND LILLIAN TANDE and directed the Daniels County Fiftieth Anniversary[...]Show in 1970, and Scobey Jubilee Show in 1963, as well as Bob Tande was born in Scobey to Al and Bertin~ four Athletic Club c:ihows to raise money for construction of (Bertha) Tand[...]nsurance business as well as an the Saddle Club and has done the custodial and auctioneer And lives in Scobey; daughter Lona Rae married m[...]also Saddle Cl uh secretary for nearly 30 years, and has Scobey.[...]spent several years working with 4-H Club and Scout groups. Bob was the originator and organizer of local[...]wagon train beginning in 1971, and was chosen to[...]ob clerked at the Scobey post office for 34 years and[...]Norwegians to the United States, exceeded only by the[...]influx of the Irish and Italians. Chris Tande, his father[...]Olaf, his five brothers and two sisters were a part of that[...]mass movement, coming to America in the early part of the[...]Chris came via Montreal, Canada in 1912, and worked[...]who had paid Chris' fare to America, with the[...]at the money would be repaid in this way. Bob and Lil Tande Chris and the young farmer remained good friends to the[...]work put in by his first employer and the men working for[...]him. He said it would seem they had just gone to bed when[...]designed to help the "newcomer" better orient himself to[...]English language and its proper usage.[...]Chris left North Dakota and homesteaded seventeen[...]Tande, Mose Tingley, Jim Collins, and Ole Amundson. He[...]married Julia Lien of Grand Forks. He, his wife and[...]until 1922, when they left the farm and moved into Scobey. Donna and Lyder were born after the move to Scobey.[...]The first crop planted on the homestead failed to come up[...]was good and money was easy to borrow - at 12%." Chris[...]borrowed sufficient money the following year to put in a[...]e seventeen-mile trip into Scobey was a long one, and[...]when he returned. There were no roads, no fences to[...]active in Scobey area 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 years has coached Legion and adult baseball and in the cabin wall that had been a window. Old Nellie, for announced and emceed various activities including[...]ked right through the window. Julia, baseball and football games, county fairs, threshing bees, with hammer and nails, put up a quilt to serve as a banquets, race meets and rodeos. Bob authored, produced temp[...] |
| From left to right: Lyder and Boots Tande. Back row:[...]When Chris took his wife and four children into Scobey[...]with him the trip was a two-day journey. He and Julia bed[...]0 .) pulled by their two work horses Nellie and Dick. The trip[...]Adeline, Jeannette, Ludvig and Olga promptly went to sleep - and Chris and Julia sat up front on a hard wooden Chrts 0. Tand[...]Al Tande ranch just five miles west of Scobey and left the four youngsters with Al and his wife Bertha (Julia's sister),[...]who had three children of their own. Chris and Julia continued on into Scobey and returned to the Tande ranch[...]The winter blizzards were of a violent nature, and it was routine procedure for the homesteader to burn a light in the[...]one of these winter storms and need to find shelter. Chris and Julia saved the lives of two young people with ju[...]izzard, saw the light in the window of the cabin, and headed fo[...]When Chris and Julia made the move to Scobey he[...]mercantile and grocery store. Borre later sold his store to Chris and Ed Lee and this partnership was known as Lee & Tande. The partnership dissolved and in 1942 Chris took[...]Julia died in October of 1959 and was spared the agony of[...]Plentywood, Montana was shot and killed in a courtoflaw[...]ft a wife and six children.[...] |
| [...]resently lives in Eleanor returned to teaching in 1959 and taught for nine Climax, Minnesota where her husband is a pastor. They years, teaching second and fourth grades. She also taught plan to retire in Scobey. They have four daughters.[...]The Teigens have two daughters, Marla and Susan. Both furthering the education of pastors. They have four sons received their elementary and secondary educati'on in the and one daughter. Scobey schools and graduated from Concordia College at Donna (Mrs.[...]or the government. They have graduation and Susan worked at the U.S. Embassy in two sons and one daughter.[...]ng from with her husband, Boyd Eng bloom, and her three children, Concordia College he came back and went into business Julie, Eric and Carl Susan lives in Denver with her with his dad.[...]ts) Eklund of Ada, husband, Denis Dalbout, and daughter Nicole. Minnesota. They have four childr[...]many years the Teigens were involved in politics and and Victoria.[...]choir work, and both served on the Church Council.[...]Cliff Teigen came to Scobey in the early thirties. He PAL[...]Pearle Goulet, daughter of Joe and Nellie Goulet. They Teigen came to Scobey from California, where he had operated a dairy farm south of Scobey. To them were born lived the previous five years, in[...]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 where they bought a hotel. National[...]Cliff has now retired from the hotel business and Pearle snowstorm and the streets were mud, ankle deep. The town continues to work at the post office. They have 14 was full of[...]shing rigs. They all had grandchildren. money and the barber business was booming, with Ernie Teigen joined his two brothers, Palmer and Cliff, haircuts 50¢ and shaves 25¢. Saturday night saw the i[...]Written by Palmer and Eleanor Teigen[...]he and his mother and son Paul came to Scobey from North[...]He was well known for his knowledge of horses and racing and was a great favorite of all Saddle Club[...]He passed away September, 1, 1960. Left to right_: Marla, Eleanor, Palmer, Susan Teigen[...]EDWARD AND THEOLYN LUND TONG In 1929 the shop burned and they opened a shop in the Edward came to Daniels County with his parents in |
| [...]DONALD AND FERN TROWER[...]In the fall of 1926 Don and I drove to St. Paul, Minnesota in a Ford Coupe and lived there nine months while Don[...]course we returned to Outlook, Montana, our home town and the home town of our parents. My father, Martin Homme, had a jewelry store and watch repair business there and Don apprenticed under him for the next year and a half. Edward and Thealyn Lund Don and Fern Trower[...]Ramon Trower - six years old Bill and Anna Marie (Tong) Barne)' have farming interest[...]of the fire department, Lions Club, Elks, Masons, |
| [...]years when we realized we could not make enough to pay[...]Bank became insolvent and closed its doors. We lost the[...]loss to make it impossible to continue in the store.[...]Mr. Chester Ford had come to Scobey a few years prior to the time that we came and had opened a drug store in the[...]his store, rent free, for his watch repair bench and for one showcase to display his merchandise. When Mr. Ford[...]moved his drug store to the building which is now The[...]In 1936 Mr. Ford sold the drug store to Cecil Marsh of Plentywood and moved to Idaho. Don continued to do[...]was $35.00 and room and nursing care for ten days was[...]horses. He came twice a week and filled two barrels. It was a problem to keep the water cool until we bought a second[...]We burned coal in our kitchen range and in a heater in[...]Daniels County men. Some strip mining was done and[...]ars old caved in and buried them alive. One of these men was[...]ater we bought an oil-burning heater. I was happy to have a house to live in rather than those dreadfully hot It was in 1929 that we began to look for a location for a rooms behind the st[...], North Dakota, Fort Benton, Montana To supplement our income I worked at the Clerk and and Scobey were towns that could use a jeweler and watch Recorder's office during the summers[...]ter looking over these places we decided and 1936. Those were the years of the government seed upon Scobey, perhaps because it was nearest to home. loans and it was my job to index and file chattel mortgages 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 chairs, a three burner every day. Carl Faanes was Clerk and Recorder, Helen gasoline stove with an oven you placed over the burners, Byrd, Deputy Clerk and Recorder, Ardean Tjomsland, and a few dishes. S.H. Clausin and Company, the bookkeeper, Marvel Hillstrom, clerk and myself, part time wholesale house of Minneapolis,[...]e recreation we liked best was a trip on weekends to beginning stock of jewelry. Don had purchased the Fort Peck Dam while it was being constructed and also watchmaking tools while at school and my father built a after its completion. We liked it very much to spend a work bench for him before we left Outlook[...]m Mrs. Rose Gampp In 1939 we moved to the house on Lot 4 Wohler Addition. for $40 per m[...]op was known as the MacDougal later on and I still own and live in 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 first time in[...]age of 51. The Gampp building and the building adjacent to it on About a year after his death I be[...]okkeeper the north were torn down during the 70's and the Skogmo at Nemont Telephone Coop and was there fo r seven years, building is now on th[...]Elevators, owned by m y My father came with us to Scobey and helped ready the son Ramon Trower, for sev[...]31, 1971. Gampp building for a store. This we had to do at our own Scobey has been our home since the fall of 1929. expense. Don's father came too and painted the interior for In 1952 Don Trower, Harry Hanson and Harvey Haugen us. My father had given us two show cases and a wall case reactivated the gun club. In 19[...]were made at the shooting site and Ramon Trower donated[...] |
| a Steel Behlen building for a club house, dedicating it to the Silver Slipper is another of his enterprise[...]gs he has emphasized energy Our son Ramon owns and operates the Daniels County conservation. Farmers Elevators at Madoc, Montana and farms He was instrumental in maintaining Radio Station extensively in Daniels County and Saskatchewan, KCGM after a disas[...]uth, Oregon. and recommendations for each new year.[...]E WILLIAM TURNER FAMILY Builder and Businessman William Tu[...]tarted farming at when her mother died, and very early in life she learned to Ramon Tro[...]Back row left to right: William, a cousin, Elizabeth. Second |
| In 1923 the Turners moved to Scobey to provide Damhoff who was to later become his wife. In 1950 the schooling for[...]rformed for these two people in Rock Glen , house and enjoyed the comfort of modern conveniences.[...]d by the They made their home in Scobey and a daughter Rhea Ames family. He worked there for many years, then a short was born to bless their home. time at the Welfare Office. Poor health forced him to retire, Leenhert worked for the county one year '51-'52. Then he and after a year's illness he died in December, 1942.[...]he retired. He was an excellent Martin, Elizabeth and Shirley. Only three survive: June caretaker at the cemetery and many depended on his lives in California; Shirley[...]his wife Lin was given a position in Bill, Gladys and Earl were in the service in World War II. th[...]Their daughter Rhea attended school at Missoula and neighbor to family and friends. She has always been a Minneapolis. She married Monte Larson of Sidney. The busy person and now in her older years she has done much y[...]re 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[...]Cecil Ferguson and Lynn Vink[...]M.J. AND AUGET WALKER THE LEENHERT VINK FAMILY[...]Fingal, North Dakota, daughter of Lauritz and Theodora |
| and Maggie was their apprentice. She continued under[...]e wa born August 19, 1902 at Omemee, North Dakota to Harvey and Ethel Walker. He grew up at 0 look, Montana and attended school there. He came to Scobey in 1917 and for about twenty years was employed as a meat cut[...]er played semi- professiona ha eball as a catcher and centerfielder on teams in North Dakota, Montana, Utah and Canada. They had no children. AL AND LENA WANGRUD b Lena Wang ud Goodrich Al Wangr d and h · wife Lena and three boys, Larry, He came to Scobey as an R.E.A. construction contractor.[...]vice-president with the Delay First National |
| GEORGE WELDELE MEMORIES I came in 1913 to seek a homestead and employment, and had a claim about eight miles northeast. I went from Medicine Lake to Opheim via Scobey and Old Scobey to squat on a homestead with a friend who had a wago[...]ed out south of Flaxville. We took the broomtails to a stopping place, then returned to the wagon to protect the groceries from swifts; slept a little[...]homestead, hired a man by the name of Mule Nelson to haul me l um her for a shack. On the way into Scobey I changed my mind; I decided to go back to Medicine Lake. The first train just pulled out of Scobey as we came over Old Scobey hill, but I walked to Flaxville to catch a ride to Medicine Lake. I got there Christmas Eve (after n[...]hanging outside ..... some trip. But I came back to Flaxville after Christmas and have been here ever since.[...]TED WILLIAMSON Roy V. (Ted) Williamson and Margaret were married in Scobey in 1937. Ted came to Scobey and worked for Lawrence Marlenee in 1936. Three years[...]home at Ray, North Dakota, Plentywood, Flaxville and came back to Scobey in 1960, where Ted did carpenter work and had to retire from due to poor health. In 1968 he started to work for Nemont Telephone Company doing janitor and maintenance work. In 1969 we established a greenhouse business and began restoring horse-drawn equipment. Our three children were born in North Dakota and grew up in the Flaxville and Scobey vicinity. They are: Virginia 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 Willi[...]ine Theodos of Williston. They live in Plentywood and have their own Marge, Gerald, Janet and Carol Wolfard business of Williamson's Glass and Sport Center. and helped in the business. There is also a daughter,[...]riage. Dean has four children: O.L. AND ANN WOLFARD Deanne Lee, now deceased, Sally, Kay and Penny. Helen has two children, Robert and Gary. All reside in southern O.L. "Wally" Wolfard, born in Washington, first came to California. Scobey in about 1927 from Oregon as a tobacco and sundry Wally also owned an interest in a sawmill and mining ' salesman. Deciding to stay in Scobey because he liked the operation at Twin Bridges for a number of years prior to country and the people, he worked at the Club Billiards for[...]33 he married Anna M. Wally and Ann had four children: Neumiller, who had been bo[...]ed away December 12, 1966. He was with her family to Vida, Montana, and arrived in Scobey in married to Arnette Rubin, daughter of George and approximately 1932 to work at Jones' Cafe. Florence Rubin. They had no children. While continuing to work for Club Billiards, Wally also 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 County and he is a Scobey and also in the Line Coulee area.[...]ne son, In 1941 Wally bought the Club Billiards and continued Timothy D., now in Germany wit[...]until 1947 when he Marjorie G., married to Clifford L. Hagfeldt, son of sold the Club Billiards to Wesley Cromwell, Sr. Prior to the Arthur and Cecelia Hagfeldt. They farm extensively in the wa[...]Waller Funeral Home with the county and Cliff is a School Board Trustee for School transp[...]student at Montana State University, Bozeman; and deceased in March, 1968, lived in Scobey for a short time Donald and Lori, both students in Scobey public schoo[...] |
| [...]Jim Malone, Doug, Don and Lori Hagfeldt Dean Wolfard and Helen Larenzini Doug, Lari, Cliff, Marge and Don Hagfeldt |
| FLOYD AND MATILDA WORKING Matilda was married in 1920 to Floyd Working, who had come here in 1915. He and his father, Lyle Working, a Running the dray in[...]also built a good home Ohlmann. Later his mother and step-father, the W. on Main Street. Floyd ran the Club Billiards and sold Browns, and his sister Matilda, came to the area. They wholesale tobacco. He die[...]obey store, Conlan's, the tailor shop, and the Woman's Shop. often tried to buy Jerry's four beautiful white horses.[...] |
| [...]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[...]hands up from Fergus Falls, Minnesota to work in the har-[...]vest fields. He saw the money to be made hauling grain so he proceeded to take the bus body from its chassis, put a[...]grain box on it and really went commercial. He sat in a[...]harvest was over he put his bus back together and hauled[...]the time I started to school we had Mrs. Woodly for our Killenbeck School - Summer 1923. Left to right: Ray teacher. They lived up o[...]ven miles. She would walk home about twice a week and Johnson, George Blanc, Verna Gebhardt, Katherine[...]next day. All of us Barney, ? - ?, Iona Gebhardt, and Kathleen Blanc. kids would go to school and have a good time until we saw[...]her coming, then we would all go home and tell our folks the[...]was a very good sign painter. Most of the Canada and settled on a farm about two miles from our[...]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. This was a daily chore winter and the one full length of the north wall[...]It was "Johnson Hdwe. Store". Norman Johnson and blizzards and cold with temperatures to 40 degrees below. Phyllis Norman's dad owned and operated it at that time. Part of his family stil[...]w, now Mrs. Scobey was our town at this time and up until 1927 when Edwards, of Scobey, his sons William and Clark of the Great Northern Railway reached Peerless. It was 23 Peerless, and Mrs. Waldo Fladager, also of Peerless. miles and 18 gates to Scobey. Nothing like cow passes of The winter[...]umorous 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 su[...]Jones, was Mother bought some eggs there and when she went to use elected to cook the oyster stew. Somehow he got a box of[...]t half were rotten. Upon telling Mr. white pepper and thought it was salt. He seasoned the stew Turk about it he replied, "Madam, we buys rotten eggs and with it. This mistake nearly caused a riot, as th[...]en eggs." That was all the adjustment she too hot to 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 about 1915 or 16 I remember going to probably the first guess.[...]rodeo put on in Scobey. It was on the 4th of July and it was In the mid 20's, about 1925 or 26 the Truax ranch bought hot and dry. The only name I can recall in connection wit[...]. stealing. There is something about hot, dry and dusty days The trucks and the buffalo really intrigued us kids. Later and ice cream cones that still remind me of that long ago the herd grew to 40 or more head, but the Truax brothers[...]f dynamite. It made a terrible noise North Dakota and they eventually sold everything and left and shook the houses and rattled the windows. This here. The Fouhy brothers, Lawrence and Charley, farm started the Fourth off[...]foreman. Creek area for a number of years and he also dug many of He was Homer· Powell's fathe[...]the water wells around the country and had a threshing There was a lot of grain hauled by tractor as trucks were machine. Monahan used to relate the day Gus got ready to not very plentiful. The farmers would haul about[...]said it was a very quiet day if Gus d~dn't wagons and grain tanks behind a 30-60 Altman Taylor[...]es per hour. Some people another. Gus used to pitch baseball for the Butte Creek hauled from th[...]These wagons hauled 125 bushels witnessed and was a horrible pitcher. I shall always each-500 bushels to the trip. It is rather interesting to remember that windup. Marion LaMott remem[...]thod of truck- I'm sure. ing from 300 to 500 bushels at one load at speeds up to 70 During the early years of the county[...]Jack Clark used to roam the country working here and At about this same time a fellow by the name o[...]was a familiar figure in this area. There his car to what we call truck tractor now and pulled a two- was also Wilmar Davis and Meldon Jones who were pretty wheel trailer behind[...]e was one of the think he probably hauled from 70 to 100 bushels of grain in best saddle bronc r[...]tfit. It might be added it caused many a horseman to competed at Madison Square Garden I[...] |
| [...]e rode for the crowd, looking back over Jimmy and Kay Pomerleau, Ella Marie, Benny and Bruce his shoulder and fanning the bronc with his big hat. This Haagenson, Bobby Fouhy and Pat Larson. Sheryl Rea of at times cost him the 1[...]as continued a stirrup or some other small detail and get disqualified. steadily until the prese[...]name as the Coal Creek youngster grew older and dropped the good ones at Wolf Point Stampede and other wild west out. It is now known as[...]of the Bob shows. He did every trick the pros did and he did them with Fouhy children have been members, seve~ of the Milton an old stock saddle and a horse he broke himself. Too bad Fladager children have been and are members, four of the for the public he didn't[...]e things, but he was less Larson children and several of the Joe Pruttis children aggressive and wouldn't do them for show. have been members, the four children of Bob and Joyce The early day settlers of Butte Creek who are left in this Chapman have been members and now in the new area are G.M. Chapman, O.A. Wyman,[...]ve inadvertently left out. I was quite young to name a few, Lawrence and Florence Larson, Anna Belle when some of these things took place and at the time you Fouhy, Arnold and Millie Andersen, 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 pl[...]the Kleeman 's, Lowthians, Erstad's, O.A. Wyman's and FRANK AND EDITH FOUHY FAMILY 1904 to 1975 Drummonds. I am the only second generation J[...]We came to Butte Creek Valley in 1913 from Canada, HISTO[...]where we lived, having come from Nebraska and Iowa in CARBERT AND PEERLESS AREA 19[...]ing land and moved to land west of Coronach in covered The earliest 4[...]reek wagon, driving our herd of cattle and horses, and camping community had Tony Kleeman, Clifford Fouh[...]he way. Lots of new settlers were coming in there and Jones, Bill Hames and Darold Jones as its first members we ma[...]he boys. Tony recalls In 1911, Bob Fouhy and family (Frank's brother) that 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 a[...]e heard of land in Montana.at Butte Creek project and a brood sow for the next year. Tony Kleeman, in Valley to be opened for homesteads 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 ba[...]recalls a county In July 1913, Charley and Fred Jones, 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 at the land and decided to settle in Butte Creek. So home canned foods , even a baby contest, was the airplane Frank and Bob bought a plow and team of horses and ran a which came up from Williston and gave rides to all who dared risk it. The plane was the first many of them had Frank Fouhy family - Emma Johnson and Mary infront seen. s-'!at; Edith, Emma, Lil and Flo in back seat; Ruth and Another club which was active in the late thrities and Charles 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 and Marion King, Marion and Carol Slaughter, Beth Wyman and Lois Lowthian. County Agent was Earl Bjork. In[...]area boys. Some of the early members were George and Roy Larson, Hans Stennebein, Elwood Lien and Milton Fladager. Their project was beef breeding.[...]ers being Ronnie Jones, Alfred Kiser, Jr., Donald and Kenneth Pruttis, Oliver Grove, Richard and Larry (Pete) Hawbaker and Wayne Michel. In the 1950's Adeline Michel and Willie Spear organized the C-B Club which extended from Peerless to the Northwest corner of the county. The ea[...] |
| [...]row around pieces of land for themselves, Charley and[...]s Tande, run by Andrew Tande. Al Tande Fred Jones and Alex Loney. The land was just being had a feed barn and hotel. Luke Murphy had a feed bar, surveyed at the time and the state picking out school lands[...]a cafe and Art Olson loan office. The town was moved in grass was tall and lush, and many sheep from Glasgow 1925 t~ present site and named Peerless (its old name was were grazing on[...]Tande). We brought down seven head of oxen and hired a settler,[...]into Peerless was Monday November 8, Tom Larson, to drive them. He broke up the sod, working[...]from early spring till last of June. In 1914 Fred and Charley store, clothing store, grocery store and station, Bert Nelson Jones, Alfred Kiser and wife and others came in and a hotel, Pauline Brockway the Post Office and store and neighbors helped them put up their buildings.[...]unty was formed in 1913 asked the board at Oswego to_put up a school and they and Daniels in 1920 from parts of Valley and Sheridan refused but promised to furnish desk and books and[...]vote of 964 to 358. community turned out and helped. Our first teacher was Miss May Coughlin,[...]ffice in Battlesons' home, then at the Hammerberg and Roseberry store where Mrs. Pauline Brockway was p[...]n 1915. We lived at Glasgow. In 1916 we decided to build a house, getting the lumber from J.R. McCur[...]y. We had a spring of water at the foot of a hill and piped the water into the house and on to the barn, hog house and corrals. We farmed with horses with eight head on a gang plow. In winter the young horses were 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.[...] |
| [...]We planted wild plum trees and I picked and sold to many Scobey people, Mrs. Burley Bowler and Mrs. Glen[...]We bought a Delco light plant in 1926 and put in a pressure pump and I had an iron, washing machine and[...]Pat hooked up to the powerline. In 1950 Frank and I visited our daughter, Lillian who[...]ved in the Bitterroot Valley at Hamilton, Montana and liked the country so decided to retire there. We bought a[...]32-1/2 acre place which was sub-irrigated and had apples, raspberries, and stra wherries and good garden spot. We[...]cerebral hemmorage. I continued to live there until I sold the place and bought a house in town. In 1969, I decided to return to Daniels County and bought the Marlenee house[...]children. And am still able to do my own housework and raise a few flowers. I have lots of friends and good[...]and also one of the Johnson family which was my maide[...]Butte Creek area but their sons and daughters are still farming and ranching there. There have been many ' Dad " (Fra[...]of our best changes in the mode of farming and living since our early saddle horses-1927.[...]l Complied by Edith (Mrs. Frank Fouhy) We came to the first celebration in Scobey in 1914 and camped in a tent for three days with our Canadian friends Mr. and Mrs. Gus Sorsdhal and family. THE LAURE[...]Our school was used for socials, dances, picnics and Sunday school. The whole family went and the sleepy Laurence J. Fouhy, son of the late Robert J. and children slept on the desks lined against the wa[...]the 1920's Battleson, near present day Peerless. and we held fairs at Carl H. Ammerbergs in his garage and He grew up in Butte Creek on a homestead that his Earl Vanee was on hand with a light plane to give rides at parents had filed on when they came to this country in $5.00 each. We put insulators on fence posts and had a 1912 from Iowa by way of Canada. telephone line. We had a radio and left the receiver off the His schooling through[...]rence He attended high school in Peerless. Larson and lives at Peerless; Lillian, who married Carl[...]ered forthedraftand Saunders (now Mrs. Brockmen) and lives at Great Falls; was inducted into the servi[...]rved as a machine Mary, who married Ray Kragness and lives at Billing~; gunner in the European theatre[...]1919; Emma, who 1s eastern France by mortar fire and after a brief stay in the Mrs. Richard Schipman and lives on a ranch near Glen- hospital he rejoined[...]he war he was dive; Francis (Pat), who is married to Anna Belle Bingham in Austria. He was discharged from the service in and farms and ranches north of Peerless; David, who was Novembe[...]e 1950 west of Four Buttes. In 1946 Laurence and his brother Charles bought the They all attended the Butte Creek School, which was in Walter Truax place and started a farming ranching continuous use from 1915 to June 1971, closing for lack of partnership that h[...]ing We always raised a large garden, chickens, and geese. out their brother-in-law Lloyd Fossum. They have now We canned vegetables and meat, butchering our own beef. incorporated their farming and ranching and operate We planted a grove of trees and some years had corn ripen under the name of Fouhy[...]er, In 1918, the 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 on seeder, Nashua, Montana. (She was born at Jordan, Montana). plow disc and drag. I also acted as a mid-wife for many of Four children were born to them: Mary Kay, a registered my neighbors in the[...]urse, worked in Scobey for Dr. Fitz for two years and at lady who could not speak English. I could not understand this time has returned to college at Bozeman for more French, but we got along fine and her first child was named medical training; Raymo[...]school in Scobey in 1973 and is working for his Dad and We always found time to visit neighbors, go to picnics Uncle Charles on the farm; Laura Mae is a senior and play ball and pitch horse shoe.[...] |
| [...]Laurence and Nellie bought a home in Scobey in 1960,[...]Robert James Fouhy and his wife Christina Nestmann[...]hy were both born in Algona, Iowa. Robert in 1881 and[...]families moved to Canada to homestead in somewhat the[...]Julia, John, Lavina and Clifford. John died in infancy.[...]In the year of1912 Robert, "Bob", first came to the area of[...]brother Frank by saddle horse and pack horse to look the[...]Robert and Christina came back to this land the next fall[...]trips from Oxbow were made with team Laurence J. and Nellie (Trotter) Fouhy wedding picture - and wagon or hayrack. Saddlehorses were used to drive the November 1952.[...]It was on one of these trips that Bob stopped to eat an[...]about done eating and they were offering him more, they[...]Robert J. Fouhy and Christina (Nestman) wedding -1906. Back row left to right: Raymond Lee, Mary Kay. Front: Durin[...]e has been an active member |
| Robert J . Fouh y and Christina M. Fouhy, 50th Wedding Anniversary - 1956 Left to right, back row: Ch arles, Laurence, L y nn (Mik[...]. (Bob ) Fouhy , Christina Fouhy, La Vina Po well and Julia Bittner.[...] |
| [...]Ruth married Albert Hall and they farmed north of[...]Richland until Albert took a job at Fort Peck and worked to its completion. He then went back to farming, commuting[...]Charles has never married. He farms and ranches with a[...]Ruth Ann, Bonnie, Michael, Patsy, David, Jeanne and Judy. He continues to farm and ranch the land his father[...]Lawrence also farms and ranches and with his brother[...]hey have four children, Mary, Raymond, Laura Left to right: Robert Fouhy, Charles B. Jones, Scotty, Fred and Vicki, and live in Scobey during the school year. Jones and Alec Loney.[...]and they have five children, Reese Jr., Patricia, Ric[...]Terry and Donald. She succeeded Reese as Postmaster in A homestead shack and a sod barn were ready for the 1973. The[...]or the sides 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 by team and wagon from Poplar, a three or fo ur day bar at Richland before moving to Pacific, Washington to trip. In 1926 Bob built a big new home which sfll[...]k in real estate. They have four children, Karen, and is occupied by his fourth son and family, Ernest Calvin, Roger, and Alan . Robert.[...]er married. He has The h illside spring proved to be a very valuable asset. It worked with his brothers on the farm, with an oil company was used to irrigate an immense garden each year and was in Wyoming and presently is living in Denver, Colorado piped to the new house and barn using only gravity flow. since receiving a degree in welding there. Eleven children were born to Christina and Bob Fouhy. Robert and Christina retired from the farm in 1948 and Julia was the oldest. She married Clarence Thielke and lived in Nashua till Robert passed away in[...]med south of Richland several years before moving to Christina then came back to the home place to Ii ve for a few Fort Peck when the project there began. Clarence died at years until moving to the Daniels Memorial Home where Fort Peck in 1948[...]tha, 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 North Dakota. She met and married Edward Bittner, a Wisconsin dairy farmer and has lived in Dorchester, Wisconsin since then.[...]LFRED A. HAMES Lavina became a school teacher, and after a few years married Homer Powell. Six children were born to this union, Mary Lou, Homer Jr., Maxine, Jerry, Gordon and Alfred A. Hames came to the Peerless area in 1913. He Lynne. Lavina and Homer farmed and ranched north of homesteaded four and one half miles north of Peerless. He Richland unt[...]s was born in 1870 at Dundalk, Ontario and with his parents ago and they moved into town. moved to Oxbow, Saskatchewan and then to Montana. His[...]Feltis at Bob Fouhys in 1915. Doris, and Agnes were born. He married Luella Clarke in[...]Bill, Doris and Agnes came to Whitetail by train where[...]Alfred met them with a team and wagon and brought them back to his homestead home. George Clarke left Oxbow[...]and came to Montana in 1915 to be with his daughter,[...]Alfred was talented in music and would often entertain himself and his family with his violin and clarinet. The sons also liked to play guitars, violins and sing. Alfred died[...]Luella married John Edwards in 1973 and resides in[...]Bill was born in 1912. He married Mae Hinton and they[...]have six children: Clarence lives in Peerless and works at[...] |
| [...]vacation and Roy was trying to repair a .22 rifle when it[...]on the scene to help Alfred and Luella get Roy ready to go to[...]to Peerless and then on a railroad hand car "behind a[...]speeder" to the doctor. Roy was never to walk again as the bullet was lodged next to the spine. He was brought home to be cared for as an invalid in a wheel chair. Roy[...]inspiration to the community, he always had a smile and[...]would always remember him with a birthday party and would make many visits to cheer him up but would always[...]Fred is a pastor in Powell, Wyoming. He and Ida Bess have seven children: Vera and Judy in California; Harlen,[...]an instructor at MSU, Alan, George, Ruth and Robin live in[...]Bob is married to the former Evelyn Davis of Scobey.[...]years. They have three children, Donald, Gordan, and[...]Clarke lives on the home place. He is married to Frances Eayrs and they have three children, Clifford, Waldo, and[...]and has been active in community affairs.[...]Marjorie is married to Waldo Fladager and lives near[...]Peerless. They have five children, Ron and Bruce are in[...]Bruce is married to the former Nola Richardson and have two boys, Ross and Robin. Carol is working in a bank in[...]Helena. Donna is married to Jack Carney of Scobey and has a son, Todd. Lorna is married to Jim Woodridge of[...]endence, Missouri. WedJinR Picture 1910 - Alfred and Luella Hames[...]Mrs. Waldo Fladager the Motor Inn Garage. He and his wife, Sylvia have two |
| [...]pa, Fred C. Jones, first set eyes on Butte Creek and decided that was whe1 ~ h wanted to homestead. To begin from the beginning, my dad was born in Missouri. From there his family moved to Wisconsin, where the greater share of his people remained, although Pa and his brother, Charles, moved on to North Dakota where he met and married my mother, Fredree E. Leet, who had made her way to North Dakota from Illinois. They had three sons; my older brother, Darold, younger brother, Fredrick, and me, Lalon. As I said the year was 1912, when Dad and Uncle Charlie first came to what would later become Daniels County. They went ahead of their families to find homesteads. They staked their claims below what would later come to be known as "the Jones Hill" and plowed a furrow around them-Fred on the East side of the hill, and Charlie on the West. They returned to North Dakota that fall. In the Spring of 1913 they loaded family, bag and baggage aboard an emigrant car on the Soo Line and pulled into Whitetail, unloading at this point, and making the balance of the journey by horse and buggy with their worldly goods. They started to break the sod but because of the heavy soil where they homesteaded they · had to pool their horses power to pull the sixteen inch walking plow. It took[...]dree Jones, Darold Jones, Lavon Jones, six horses to handle the job. Later four families, Pa's and Fredrick Jones Uncle Charlie's included, smu[...]mily taking five huad. Oxen far out pull a horse and breaking the remainder of our Peerless. He married a local girl, Winifred Himli, and they farm was considerably easier.[...]n Spokane where he operates a Pooling manpower and lumber, Butte Creek school was successf[...]ough the course of the years it was_ Homes). He and Winnie have two children, Coleen and the site of most of our entertainment-picnics in summer, Lalon. dances, basket socials, and card parties in winter. It seems In 1934, I was married to Verna Gebhardt. My dad rented as I look back on e[...]a we had a lot of fun. his land on Butte Creek to me and in 1936 I also became Up until 1920 there was[...]rs until 1972. Currently I am Glasgow was a three to four day affair by team and buggy training Kenneth Kjos in management and doing so they were few and far between, generally made only to the company 's bookkeeping. During my yea[...]an enviable record throughout formed, with Scobey and Madoc battling it out to see who the state. The station has a mode[...]leum products as well as hardware, paints, tires, and The early 20's saw some very dry years. No cro[...]our cattle were the only thing that kept us dividends, kept estates settled, and retired the stock of our from going hungry. From '26 to '29 things picked up and we patrons as they retired. I am very proud[...]their farmland over the course of the years, and aside from the machinery, cattle, everything, and pushed out of the limited amount I re[...]a cattle expansion is operated by my son, Ronnie, and School (1931). When I was a Junior, I lived at the Holyk son-in-law, Roger Kasuske. Verna and I have three Hotel and batched. My father gave me $10 per month children; Ronald married to Geraldine Baldry, Fae married which bought my food and was my spending money. I lived to Roger Kasuske, and Garnet married to Richard Puckett. on eggs and potatoes and an occasional hot dog once in We also h[...]al awhile. During those bad times, Darold left us to find work terms on the school board, been ac[...]ined. Over the years he did ings helping to organize the Fire Department, the Commun- very we[...]lub, T.V. translator, the street lighting program and business (Jones Construction) with lots of hard work and have been a charter member helping to organize and get sleepless nights. One of his sons-in-law, and two of his sons into gear the Northern Electri[...]46. My mother three daughters, Virginia, Loretta, and Dorothy, and three passed away in Spokane in 1966. They went through lots of sons, Bill, Clifford, and John. ' rough times during the early years of homesteading to Fredrick and my mother moved to Minot where Fredrick make a better place for our generation and the future finished grade school. Mom went on to Great Falls and generations to live. The Lord should find a place for all Fredrick came back and graduated from high school in these old settlers to rest in peace.[...] |
| We have enjoyed life in Daniels County and plan on staying if our health permits. We could n[...]ving in Halbrite, Saskatchewan, when they decided to venture to a new land to homestead in the Butte Creek area. Their belongings were loaded in an immigrant car, a covered wagon, and a buggy. The immigrant car came as far as Whitetail and from there the cows were trailed home. A relative had come earlier to build a homestead shack for the family. The two- room shack was 16' by 32' and this was to be the home of a Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kleeman family of seven children and four adults the first winter of 1916-1917. Our[...]r Stubblefield, Luke Murphy, Alex Mallard , Frank and Bob Fouhy's, Mae Coughlin , Bill Gibson , Frank Miller, Mike Kennedy, and Tony was to be confirmed he remembers it as his first car Charles Danelson. The children walked four miles to the ride. They went with Frank Miller in his Model T. Julia and Butte Creek school with each one bringing his own[...]eman family stayed Very few had families to celebrate with so they made it a with us. Later t[...]their baby boy died in August. homestead to the Horse Shoe Basin area. A tornado struck Mot[...]ighbors in 1918 who were the area in June and took the one room from their two-room sick with the flu. Later she took sick and had to spend the shack. Luckily it happened early in[...]An early remembrance of Nora is the time they had to In the fall of the year Dad would run[...]attend Confirmation services in Scobey. In order to be using his steam engines. Sometimes the weather would not there on time, they had to leave home at 2 o'clock in the agree and they would be held up in places for a long time. morning with the wagon and team of horses. The time Amelia and Nora were the cooks for his cookcar.[...]s card parties, dances, Peter Kleeman family left to right: Clara (Mrs. Tom and much social visiting. Cun n ingham), L eo, Nora ([...]tebakke), Tony, Dad was a cattle buyer and made many trips by rail with an d Amelia (Mrs . Lou Dobeas). stock to St. Paul and other market points. He covered a large area and made many acquaintances never to be[...]Another sorrow came to t he family when Mary, the[...]The folks continued to rive on the farm until in 1949 when[...]they moved to Peerless. Dad stilJ would go to the farm regularly to see the cattle and all. He also raised rabbits in[...]9 Mother fulfilled one of her many dreams, a trip to[...]cousins and a sister were still living. To this unio'n seven children were born of which fou[...]daughter and one son. Leo (deceased) married Sophie Bondy and they had three sons and two daughters. Amelia[...](Mrs. Lou Dobeas) Great Falls, has one daughter and one[...]d passed away in September, 1967, at the age of94 and[...]married almost 67 years and had spent many enjoyable[...]years on the prairies with family and friends.[...] |
| [...]lee. so coming to Daniels County to farm was a new adventure Pete Kleeman's memor[...]d in April of 1917, He recalls that he used to go barefooted all summer long, Phil then.lef[...]igrant car along with as shoes were expensive and had to be saved for his friends, Merrill and Don Chapman, Guy Miller and R. wintertime. As a barefoot boy he used to herd cattle and- Hamilton, affectionately called Hammy. Th[...]eerless in the Butte When he was old enough to work for a living he took Creek Commun[...]various jobs. He can remember shoveling corn to feed 300 while they built a tar paper sha[...]th. He picked corn for two cents a moved to the land east of Richland , purchased b y Don bushel, furnishing the wagon and team himself. For Chapman, and the building remains today. One nigh t haulin[...]til one broke a window. Don He was expected to start his working day while the stars jumped out of bed and grabbed a meat fork , gave the horse were still shining in the morning, and it was 9 or 10 o'clock a jab, and the horse took off, fork and all. They also built a in the evening before[...]for supper. 28 x 60 ft. sod barn and a sod shop. Anticipating the arrival "I was 6' 3" tall, and I would get so hungry after a day of his wi[...]oom house a fourth of a says. "One day I said to myself: 'When milking-time comes mile from[...]ng site. Mail arrived only tonight I am going to help myself to the first cow I milk.'" when someone made the thirty mile trek to Scobey, so wh en He soon found that this pr[...]as unaware of the letter . Sh e arrived in Scobey and made "One day," he says, "the man I worked for came into the her way to the hotel of One-Eyed Molly , where sh e slept barn while I was helping myself to the milk. He said, 'Look fully clothed and extremely frightened since there was no at th[...]g all the profit up!' lock on the door and the town seemed quite uncivilized to a "Fortunately the boss was understanding and had a sense young lady who had never ven[...]pushed the dresser against the door to keep out any unexpected intruders. Don and Merril Chapman had gone to town and brought home the mail where Phil read the[...]Scobey. He caught a team off the prairie and with a buggy made the trip to Scobey. He found Georgetta a t the depot[...]ready to go back to South Dakota since her husband had The Laur[...]ter not appeared. Explanations were made and the newlyweds of Frank Fouhy of Butte Creek and Laurence Larson of set forth for home eating a picnic lunch on the open prairie Butte Creek and Minnesota) were married in 1938. at noon. Georgetta, used to the trees of South Dakota, was They first l[...]the Butte amazed that there were no shady spots to eat a picnic. They Creek school and then moved buildings and all over to the ate in the shade of the buggy. Phil wa[...]Frank Miller place. The Jones land they passed on to G.M. school board for 21 years, a school w[...]Billings where he is an accountant, is married to Betty Mae In 1948 they bought the Albert Gregerson place, (once Noblett, and has a son, Leonard. In 1925 another son , Offetts and homesteaded by Freeman Gregerson and his Wayne, was born, who is married to Adeline Michel and dad) on the southeast corner of Peerless and moved in most they have a home of their own[...]first of the buildings from the Miller place and later redid the built his two-room house fo[...]original farm which he purchased from his fa ther and has They inh erited the dairy from the Gregersons and added other acreage over the years.[...]who married Milton Flad ager and they have six sons and a Both children liked the farm and 4-H. daughter, Loren, Br[...]rs in the Army Wallace, Kathleen, Willard and Armand. Phil and in th e states and Okinowa. He married Donna Slaughter. Georgetta lived a full life which saw hard times and good. They have two boys, Patrick II and Troy. They live west of Phil died in 1969 and Georgetta died in 1972. Peerless on land boug[...]By Wayne Lowthian and Lois Lowthian Fladager Daughter, Peggy Ann[...]never-to-be-forgotten scent. One Thanksgiving, in 1922,[...]our entire community, adults and children, enjoyed a real[...]down close to the schoolhouse. Many brought roasted PHIL AND GEORGETTA LOWTHIAN turkeys and kept them hot until serving time . A long table[...]was arranged the length of the schoolroom and loaded with[...]cakes, cookies, vegetables, · Phil Lowthian and Georgetta Clevidence were married turk[...]th Dakota near his remained for breakfast and went home tired but happy, hometown of Milbank. Both of their parents were farmers, and with still some food left to take home.[...] |
| [...]S IT WAS Peerless and in 1926 to Opheim, I bought a model T truck in 1925 and a second hand 18-36 Hart-Par in 1929-by the[...]way, trucks cost $608 with steel cab and wooden box, from By O.A. Wyman Davis and Shook.[...]Crops run something like this years-'15 and '16 were I don 't know when the Indians left this country. It was good, '17, '18, and '19 nothing, '20 to '28 were good, '29 was Valley County then , it was surveyed in 1913. When it rough, '30, '31, and '32, '34 all dry, but if we'd had spray we opene[...]things have been I came out here in March 1916 and filed on the homestead fairly good. Better[...]iling went then has made a big difference. to Glasgow the 18th of April.[...]s just breaking up, the water hadn't and then improving your place with buildings and started to run down the creeks yet. Winter of 1915 and 16 everything-it took all the 1940's to get square. Never got was bad , once it was 60 degrees below and lots of snow. ahead and got things the way I wanted till in the 1950's.[...]od times as I look back, but Kiser, Fred Jones , and a man bythenameofSmith, hewas there we[...]nes that were on saloons. These men I met were in to get two four loads of Butte Creek. Merrel[...]er for the Butte Creek school , so I got a chance to ride Oscar Olsen, somewhere in the west, Edith Fouhy now at out. I wanted to get to Carl Hammerbys. I knew him and Scobey, and myself living in Scobey. Alfred also Lex Lewis fr[...]orse along somewhere near Coyote Coulee he wanted to get him hitched up, he got his leg tangled up THE JESS SLAUGHTER FAMILY somehow and broke it. So they just took the harness off him and turned him loose, later shot him. We stayed at Fred Jone's that night and I walked to Carl's next Jess Myro Slaughter[...]w I got over Butte Creek, as that He came to Montana in 1910 and homesteaded near whole flat was covered with wate[...]wood. She taught school in Outlook. In 1920 north and west was black, the gravel knolls sure showed it.[...]Floody and leased state lands, adding deeded lands to this. I was going to go to Scobey with Luke Murphy, but when They built a new home there in 1929. Mrs. Slaughter taught we got to Chas Jones , he was breaking sod three horses , at the Killenbeck and Butte Creek schools. one mule. He told us the bridge had washed out at Old Due to Jesse's ill health, they purchased a home in Scobey and said the road was closed, so Luke went home[...]in 1950. After his death in 1954, Beulah bought a and I walked to Scobey. home in Scobey and lived there until her death in 1958. I never m[...]n- Then Gary, the youngest child, went to live with his sister, got on the hill west of Scobey, then Dick Coughlin in a mod- el T and I rode with him , boy was I tired! The water had Jesse and Beulah Slaughter gone down , but they had a snat team on each end of the bridge, the road from Scobey to Old Scobey was lined with people coming in the wa[...]ome were leading milk cows. They had every- thing to start with , I saw several crates of chickens, several of the roosters were crowing and had their heads out and taking it all in. Women and kids all seemed to be happy. Somewhere around 1916 the state took a lot of this land for school purposes, they took the best and left some here and there, to induce it to get settled. Spring of 1916 I went back to North Dakota and worked on a well drilling outfit, came back in the fall (October) and built my shack-10xl2, twc, foot hitch roof, one r[...]ater bottle. Summer of 1917 I got Alex Mallard and Tom Larson to break 20 acres , I went back to North Dakota and enlisted in the 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 David boys and then 19 days with Harold Edlund, wages were $7 .00 a day for team and man and that was good money! In 1920 we started Daniels County which used to be Valley and Sheridan. In 1925 the railroad built west to[...] |
| Carol and family at Richland until he passed a way in 1964. Jesse and Beulah had five children-Helen, who passed[...]Dighans) of Peerless, and Gary. Marian, Carol, Jack and Gary Slaughter[...] |
| CARBERT STORE AND POST OFFICE Tom Holyk and Thorpe had a trap line. They didn't catch By Randall Thorpe and B. Christianson Family _ much. He had a 22 rifle they got someplace and they found some ammunition and pulled out slugs of the big shells and put powder in a bowl and then put some paper wads in and[...]ith a pair of pliers. They tried Carbert store and post office got it's name from Bert tapping the gun in the middle of the night and tapped too Carter. They just reversed his name and made one word out hard and it 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. street went and told the 'sheriff that Thorpe had shot his Ran[...]who mother. So down came Pat Murphy, and the sheriff, and married his mother and they later had eight more children. Pete G[...]t didn't actual- He was . born in Dagmar, Montana and Katherine ly get the one that[...]unger ones were it. He had an old one and gave the sheriff the one that born at Carbert or Scobey; Chris, Owen, Eileen and twins wasn't any good. They told him it was my gun but really it Jerry and Albert. Bert Christiansen came into Scobey in belonged to Tom Holyk, so I gave him a bill of sale for the 1926 and tried a radio shop near Burton's restaurant, in 22. Tom got the gun, I got the traps and the sheriff got back of some guys shoe repair shop. He repaired and built nothing. But nobody was hurt and that way they got it all radios but let out a lot of credit and didn't get a crop enough settled and calmed down and we were just as well off. on the farm to keep the radio shop going so he quit the second winter. Thorpe remembers going to Humbert's with a team of horses and wagon and buying a wagon load of old bones for $2.00 a load. The bones were all blanched and white because they had been laying out in the prairies for several years. He also caught gophers and sold the tails for 1¢ each to the Scobey courthouse and Noel Richardson paid him 2¢ each for the whole gophers body to feed bad- gers. Trapped badgers sold for $5.00 each. Mr. Thorpe also remembers and said "I don't know how Dan Henderson found out." But we were out of coal and in a blizzard he went out in his coal mine and delivered a load of coal to us. We had chopped some of the floor out of th~ old shed because we had to keep warm and we didn't know there was a storm coming. I'll nev[...]here was an old house where some man was supposed to have killed his wife so nobody would live in that house and they called it the Haunted House. Thorpe and Tommy Holyk were just kids and explored it and found out it had no basement just a cellar. They decided to use it for a hideout to smoke and while they were down there one time the cellar door slammed down and they never did go back there again. Coal Creek Homesteaders-L to R-Clinton Richardson, They were only 11 ye[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Bennett THE J.V. BENNE[...]The neighbors were Harvey Wagar and family, John |
| 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[...]Great Northern Railroad period of drouth and depression can probably be best fr m cobey to Opheim. The promotion being successful,[...]ntry of December the Great Northern then granted to the North Country 31, 1938: Townsite and Land Co., a coi ""\Oration formed by Messrs.[...]e 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 in the townsites along the new had in mind for 25 years and three weeks before harvest, railroad line from Scobey to Opheim. the rust ate i[...]ifitis good, as low Peerless, Richland, Glentana and Opheim. as 15¢ if it is p[...]railway extension was started in the fall of 1925 and nothing to feed it to. We tried the FSA for a loan but expect completed in 1926. to be turned down on the grounds of not needing it, and With its headquarters at Peerless, the townsite company we've had one good year in the eleven past, and the county did a very brisk business selling lot[...]rs recall an auction at can spend our way to prosperity. Wallace says the answer Opheim where[...]ropes and betting that '39 can't be any more cockeyed than[...]'38 no matter what the hell happens. 1926 and from 1926 through 1929 things went very well for[...]atmosphere of a small town, everyone was healthy and for yourself. My head aches and I have a pain I can't happy, and a new member came along; Judith, who was[...]this period, the children stayed in short crops and low prices the farming business by 1929 school and the family retained its identity. In 1936, they appeared to be developing well, and the North Country moved to Eugene, Oregon to be close to the University of Townsite and Land Co. appeared to be a sleeping financial Oregon for the impe[...]light-of-hand Then came the infamous thirties and took their toll on check cashing arrangement between J.V. Bennett and his J. V. Bennett, and, indirectly on the family: the farms dried good friend, Ed Battleson wherein Ed gave Jim a current up and produced nothing but deficits; as a result of the[...]hat Ed would not cash Jim's check until Townsite and Land Co. also dried up leaving not much[...]oney in his more than uncollectible installments and receivable and bank account to cover it. In order to support the family and keep the farming unpayable taxes, all of which g[...]tact as possible during these years, Jim company to a limbo status.[...]inters, worked on various types of The vision and hopes of 1915 became obliterated .[...]Starting in September, 1934 he appraised and purchased optimism of the twenties to the reality of the thirties: for the U.S.[...]Federal Game Preserve at Medicine Lake. flood and disease, but we are healthy and resigned and as In 1937-1939 he was an auditor for t[...]ut the spector of vanished life time .earnings is and In 1939 he became Secretary for the State[...]Commission. Where he was responsible for the and re-seeded acreage planted about 4,000 acres. Put[...]ir Trade Act. granary about 1100 bushels of wheat and 200 bushels of With these activities and considerable financial ingenuity, flax. Rainfall[...]for summer growing season he, in addition to keeping the major part of the farming about 3 inches. Winds started to blow in March and interests together and supporting and educating the continued the rest of the year. Fie[...]fting in family, had proveded for the entrance and continued December. Lost $72 in b~nk failure at S[...]eldest son, Peyton, at the University of directly and indirectly about $300. Lost perhaps $250 in 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. Very little ground summer fallowed and an increase in the price of grain, provided a swi[...]year has turnabout in the family fortunes and, again, the dreams been 41 % and still going down. Unprecedented and visions of 1915 started to become a reality for Jim unemployment and with labor saving machinery. Think B[...]ur day. The old year is The family returned to Helena from Eugene in 1939 and dying and with it many hopes. Didn't expect much but with the return to better years the children were able to really could not look for such a complete washout in complete their education at various schools and drought, prices, failures, etc." universities and Jim and Izetta were able to do many of the The J.V. Bennett diary for 1933[...]things of which they had dreamed. Jim spent more and of that year wheat was selling for 18¢ per bushe[...]next few friends, especially Ed Battleson and Ernie Peterson. They years from 1931 through 1938[...]traveled considerably during the winters and built a home 1935 crop which was fair and for which the price received at Saybrook,[...]yearof good of many years of hope, privation and sacrifice.[...] |
| [...]ot of children. The Carney family later moved to the White time, money and interest into crystallizing his experiences Earth area i[...]outh farming of the thirties into farming methods and came to Montana in 1911 and worked out of Plentywood as techniques that would[...]a salesman for the Rumley Oil Pull Company, and future. Most important of these were the use of t[...]participated in the introduction of tractor power to replace Blade and other subsurface cultivators for stubble mulch horse power to break up the "prairie" land in the ·area. His farming and the use of strips to avoid erosion. He was one trade area included[...]gion of what is now the of the first in this area to demonstrate the efficiency of branch line of B[...]Bainville and extending to Opheim. He spent considerable[...]from sales work. The desire to participate in the homestead[...]lands grew too great and he filed on a homestead in the[...]summer of 1915 along the Canadian boundary and about[...]The summer and fall of 1915 saw the construction of[...]"homestead" houses for the homesteaders to live in.[...]Daniels, Frank Nye, Jack and Tom Conboy, Dick[...]McConnen, Emil Pomerleau, Oscar Halverson and George Crandell. From many states and occupations came these pioneers to carve their destiny in the area that was to[...]formed to pool the limited assets together to purchase a tractor and plow to "break" the land and make it tillable for[...]60 Rumley repossessed) and plow enabled all of the[...]his own equipment) to "break" 90 acres and seed it to flax. J. V. Bennett Sons - standing, Peyton; left[...]12 hours. The flax produced up to 18 or 14 bushels per acre[...]at a price of $2.50 per bushel to give each member of the[...]y-five. bread in the neighborhood and supplied this mainstay of Isetta M. Bennett is[...]des: Knapp had the well with the best water and Dick Peyton Bennett is now farming the lands or[...]McConnen had the well with the most water. Coal to heat farmed by J.V. Bennett. He was married to Mrs. Florence the dwellings was supplied by[...]he mine R. Sheron in 1960; has two stepsons, John and Dennis. was located along Coal Creek to prove that the creek had Dennis has three children. J.V. Bennett,Jr. became a hotel executive and has served as assistapt manager and manager of the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, The Hotel Pierre in New York, and the Ritz Carlton in Boston, among others. Gordo[...]II, married the former Suzanne Heinecke of Helena and they have two children. He is a district judge at[...]an Episcopal clergyman. They have three children and reside at Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota.[...]L to R-Al Daniels, Jack Carney, and two friends JACK AND FLORENCE CARNEY FAMILY[...]from a family of12 not work in this community and the Coal Creek neighbors[...] |
| [...]of 1945 and to this marriage was born three children. Mary[...]Elaine is married to John Vollertsen and living in Helena,[...]Jr. (Jack) married Donna Kay Fladager and they have one son Todd Edward and Stephen James (single). Jack and Steve live on the family homestead -and operate the[...]of Professional and Licensing Bureau. Previously he was[...]organizing and implementing Montana's Resource[...]Ed Carney Family-L to R-Steve, Mary, Ed, Betty, Jack[...]this hole in this straw hat of dad's? I am going to[...]the picture taking the team was composed of Mark and Roll Larson, Clint Richardson, Bob Humbert, Lee McCann, Dick McConnen, Joe Hershwitz, Al Beamer and Jack Carney. In January of 1920 Jack Carney mar[...]13 children). Florence was born October 22, 1896. To this marriage one son was born (John Edward) and he presently resides in Helena, Montana. Due to the flu epidemic during World War I, Jack Carey was left with a serious heart conditon and this contributed to his death at the age of 39 on February 14, 1932. Florence Carney survived her husband and lived on the homestead until her death on[...] |
| [...]born December 18, 1891 in the John and Anne Conboy began their married life on a Ukraine, later moving with his parents to Austria and farm in Danbury, Iowa. Born to this Irish couple were four from there corning on in 1911 to Canada; first to Ontario, children, Kathryn, Mary, Jack, and Thomas. When then to Manitoba and in 1923 to a farm north of Scobey. Thomas the youngest[...]t Xavier, Conboy died. Mrs. Conboy and children continued to live Manitoba in 1920. To this union were born three sons and on the farm for several years. four daughter[...]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 fa[...]ryn taught at a country school in this community. and Mrs. Nick Haverluk (Pauline) of Fairfield, North In 1913, Jack came to Montana and settled on homestead Dakota.[...]land, in the Coal Creek area. He and Tom lived there when Mr. Chornuk passed away Ja[...]in April a few days before his last illness. Mr. and Mrs. Chornuk 1919. last year had moved from Scobey to a farm he purchased Jack enlisted also b[...]Jack continued to live on the homestead for a time. Then[...]he moved to Scobey and through the years he was[...]Store, Knapp and Crandell, and Greengards.[...]in 1958 and lived in Scobey until his death in 1959.[...]Kathryn and her mother came to Scobey about 1914.[...]Conboy died in the early 20's. Kathryn continued to Probably the only thatch roof barn with a steep pitch roof, live in Scobey and through the years clerked in various this structu[...]est of Scobey is not a relic of stores, The Knapp and Crandell Mercantile, The Golden homestead days. I[...]nomy type barn built by the Rule, Skadron grocery and also managed the Scobey late Nick Chornuk in the[...]. businessman, remembers walking by it on the way to rural After her retiremen_t in 1956, she moved to Bellingham, school in Carbert community, when Nick and his family Washington to live with her sister, Mary and husband, Mr. were building it. The land now is farmed by Clayton and Mrs. R.V. Carter, where she lived until her death in Richardson. Although a common sight in Europe and 1962. Asia, a steep pitch roof in Western U.S. is a rarity. In the years between 1923 and 1928 Tom and Jack owned and operated the Toggery.[...]e old Chornuk place was built by him when he came to the place in the early '20s. Although now abandoned and showing the ravages of Tom and Jack Conboy time in the interior, the outs[...] |
| Mrs. Anne Conboy and daughter Kathryn Jim and Phoebe Collins, Wedding Pic~ur... the American L[...]l Club, when it was first JIM AND PHOEBE COLLINS In t[...]Chapin and myself came out to Old Scobey, an inland |
| [...]Scobey that the Great Northern was able to take over their[...]We now return to the time spent at the A.N. Tande ranch.[...]D.C. Knapp and myself had been looking for land to[...]homestead land. He said that he was on his way to Coal Creek where he had located and said that there was a nice[...]chunk ofland up west of him. He told us to go take a look at it, so we did and it looked pretty good to us. D.C. and I decided to take a chance and locate even though we knew[...]other friends thought the idea was fine and located there[...]There were seven of us that had land that joined and[...]homestead. They were Jack and Tom Conboy, Frank Nye,[...]Pomarleau, Dick McConnan, D.C. Knapp and myself.[...]In the spring of 1916, we formed a company of ten and[...]plow, seeder and packer. We started to break, breaking[...]mile turn. We ran day and night stopping only to refuel, George and Enid Crandell change plow lays and fill the seeder box. We really did not need to 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 carried flax seed in bags on the platform and could refill good business going. 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 to and from In the fall, we harvested about[...]way. We had been in business which we hauled to Scobey. I think we got about two there about thre[...]dollars a bushel for it. The years 1917 and 1918 were line had started to build west from Ambrose, North fail[...]had Dakota. The Soo Line was the rival railroad, and when the best crop on the bench that year due to the fact that I they started to build that, 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 the vast new fields. At that time there were-no fences or herd laws, and country .that would be opening up to new settlers. The the range stock were[...]Northern had the edge on the Soo as they just had to ranchers were not very sympathetic to his complaints. build from Plentywood. Then the G[...]rn bought About the time we were ready to start threshing we had a the townsite where Scobey now stands. A lot sale was held heavy snow storm and then it turned real cold. It looked as and between two and three hundred people attended this though winter had come to stay,but late in December we sale. Now that the townsite was settled and a lot was got a big chinook and most of the snow melted. We got bought, it was moving day again for the Knapp and started threshing and then it turned bitterly cold again. Crandell store and other businessmen. A man named 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 that was moved was the T. Anderson and Oie be heated and poured into the carburetor. One day while we Comp[...]oon were threshing a neighbor came by and asked us if we were and tbe Knapp and Crandell store was next. Our store was crazy to be out threshing on a day like that. Did we know[...]ink that Minneapolis Store, later named the Knapp and Crandell was stretched a bit, but afte[...]ehind a dray loaded the body. with his pots and pans, and a large restaurant stove. He One of the first things that a homesteader tried to do was soon set up in business and was noted for his T-bone after he has built his shack is to dig a well or get a well dug. steaks which were h[...]e, Con boy found a large ant hill close to his shack and having - 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 freighted from Plentywood or the know that ants are very proper people and resented this main line. It was almost a year aft[...]el" reached vile intrusion of their domain and very quickly put the run[...] |
| [...]rever possible. Jack left the be grain to haul and winter supplies to put in. This was a digging doing double quick time and with each step he big job, flour and sugar bought by the hundreds of pounds. proceeded to disrobe, until he had nothing on but his Some took their wheat to the mill and had it ground. Dried birthday suit. I doubt very[...]d digging in fruits such as apples, peaches and raisins which made an ant hill again.[...]wonderful pies, were bought. Prunes and apricots were Some time later a well was star[...]bought in the twenty-five pound boxes. Many-used to send place. This, too, was to bed ug by hand and was about four their grocery orders to Montgomery Ward- or the M.W. feet wide and down about forty feet. It was a Sunday[...]gh morning when some of the neighbors stopped in to see how the mail order catalogues. Kerosene, matches, lamps and the well was coming along if there were any sign[...]lantern chimneys too were important items to be As they stood around talking Mrs. Knapp came[...]for winter supplies. Coal Creek community house and stood on the door step and told the boys if they 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 ow[...]Mrs. Knapp was noted for her the winter and by Christmas time the winter socializing good pies and the promise of a home cooked meal was very began with card parties, dances, and basket socials. All 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 that well on a Sunday morning. We had other plans time, old and young. for the day. But Jack Carney could general[...]or a while everyone was busy, but after the upon to come up with something to fit the situation. He crops were in they did not have to spend all summer thought that would be fine but they had better test the well spraying weeds and summerfallowing as they do now. in case blackdamp[...]y Picnics, ball games, barn dances and the Fourth of July gas that sometimes did form in[...]is part of country. This possibility was to. discussed at length, mostly for Mrs. Knapps bene[...]this was still standing on the doorstep listening to the because the times were changing. We had come to the end conversation. A lantern was got and carefully lit, and as of an era. People were buying cars, trucks and tractors. The carefully put out, so that Mrs. Kna[...]Gordon was happen. Mrs. Knapp was 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[...]ics. She said she a few days in town, and Gordon decided to go back out to was glad Mr. Carney had thought about testing that well Coal Creek. When he 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 did[...]boys going down that well again. frozen to death. They had pulled the bedding and mattress This was just the reaction that had been expected. But Mrs. onto the floor and had it torn to pieces. Knapp had promised the pies and home cooked meal, and In the spring I bought my first tractor and the needed that was the way some of the bachelors of Coal Creek supplies to go with it, including a barrel oflubricating oil.[...]ome cooked meal. To make it nice and handy I built a nice stand and put a While we are on well stories, another story comes to mind faucet in the barrel of oil. The oil was very heavy and ran that is rather humorous and again involved Jack Carney. slow, so w[...]ht, I would Wyman Feltis had a well boring outfit and was looking for put a five gallon pail under the faucet and open it about well drilling jobs, stopped at Jack Carney's place and half way and go in and fix supper. Before going to bed asked ifhe knew of anyone that might want a well dug, and I would go out an shut the faucet off. B[...]o over with him. 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 on[...]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 walked up to him and in a loud voice said, "I hear scarce also. you want a well dug." Frank just looked at him and said That summer my brother, Jim, had come and we boys all nothing. Wyman, thinking he had not h[...]batched together. Jim was a good cook and liked doing itso the question louder, looking just a bit disgusted. Frank still he was our chief cook and dishwasher. He was a marvelous just looked at him[...]story teller too. I wish he were here now to write this up. He you want a well dug." Then Fran[...]good crops on the Bench for quite awhile and that fall I reaction that Jack had expected. Stor[...]threshing machine. Brother Jim had had lots of on and on, but this happened up on the Golden Bench. It[...]Golden Flax, so he was the separator man and a good one. that had first been raised there. Time marches on and another change is taking place. In In the earl[...], I bought a Case combine, one of the three going to Scobey was quite an undertaking, you did not go that Ed Battleson had shipped to Scobey. Ifl'd waited until out and jump in your car or truck and go to town and be the next year, I'd have got a bette[...]ings. So ended the days of binders where we lived and whoever went generally had a list a and threshing machines for me. mile long for himself and neighbors, everyone wanting In February 1928, I ended my bachelor days and married something. If it was in the spring there[...]Enid Skeen. We spent our honeymoon at Hunters Hot to take in and blacksmith work to be done, repairs and Springs, which has since burned down. The 1928 crop was supplies to get, letters to mail and mail to bring out. In the a good one and the last one that that part of the country fall,[...]busy trips, if you had a crop there woulci was to have. What has to be known as the dirty thirties[...] |
| [...]That fall our son, Jim, was born.1930, 31, 32, 33 and 34 were all dry and crop failures. We wererightin the middle of the D[...]med our son, Jim developed an asthmatic condition and Dr. Morrow advised that we seek a change of climate. I had a sister living in Washington so I came out to look around and bought a place near Rochester. We moved out here in 1937. I still continued to go back and forth to Montana each spring and fall to put in my crop and harvest. I lost two more crops, after we moved out to Washington, due to rust. I guess that I stayed too long with Marquis[...]crops in Montana, straight end ways. I continued to farm there until 1956 when I retired. Our son Jim[...]guess that after all these years it is still home to us. I will add this that I am the only one of the ten that homesteaded on the "Golden Bench" still living and I believe the only man that was in business in both Old Scobey and Scobey that is still alive. I am 87 years old now[...]Canada near Toronto. My family moved west in 1902 and landed in Brandon, Manitoba. In 1904 we moved to Portal, North Dakota. In 1917 I came to Scobey to visit my brother George. When my brother, George,[...]ly settler there at that time was Oscar Halverson and his wife Amanda. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Crandell, Sr. In 1915 the Coal Creek area was finally surveyed and each squatter then knew the boundary of his homestead. I got to my brother's place with Jack Conboy, who was moving a tractor to the bench. I was promptly appointed cook and blacksmith for the breaking crew. There were inheritance and partly through purchase, I took over plenty of plow shares to sharpen. I spent most of the Kilgore's homestead and spent the winter getting ready to summer on the bench. In the fall I went to Swift Current, farm. Crops turned out quite good that fall, and I was able Saskatchewan to run a threshing rig for a company. In the to purchase Tom Conboy's half section and one quarter of spring of 1918 I came back to Scobey and helped my Jack's land. brother with[...]enjoyed fairly good crops on army. I was shipped to Camp Dodge, Iowa. After about six the bench 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 out aircraft timber. The closest[...]ime 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 cras[...]people 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, so I was not allowed to go to the During this time our son, Gordon Jr., and daughter, Jonet, funeral.[...]were born. Somehow we lived the depression out and by the Early in November, we learned by the grape vine, that time the crops and prices came back our children were the war was over. Soon we were transferred to Camp ready for high school. We purchased a house in Scobey and Devens, Massachusetts and after waiting two weeks we continued to farm and commute back and forth till about were sent back to Camp Dodge, Iowa for discharge. On the 1957 when we retired and moved to town. Our son and 24th of December we each recieved our $60 mustering out grandson now operate the farm and our daughter is pay and I came back to Montana. After a day or two in married to Gordon Vanderpan and lives in Baker, where Scobey, I again caughtaride[...]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 grandchildren and continue to have fairly good health. We put the crop in and also farmed my brother Kilgore' s estate. have been able to travel some since retiring. After spring's work I traveled through Canada and came back in time to help with the harvest. Partly through[...] |
| MAC AND NORA DRUMMOND Another member of the Tande fam[...]Drummond, who was about 13 when the family moved to |
| [...]l years one could see Mac with a yard full of and Kathleen. Walter Sr. served in the U.S. Navy in 1943, children, either teaching them to rope or doing magic tricks on a floating dry dock for two years in the Pacific Ocean. and Nora passing out cookies and donuts. George Erstad liv[...]rummond Gaines folks' original homestead and they bought the former[...]Melvin Haug farm. A good friend and neighbor Rick Handy wrote this poem Caro[...]ably states how Mac south of Four Buttes and farm in the Peerless area. would like to be remembered in this book.[...]Scobey and farm south of Four Buttes. They have one son An o[...]en by the Roundup Boss on high, William. To bring in wand 'ring dogies and punch cattle in the sky. Otto and Agnes lived on their original homestead until I'm[...]ed for that ride, they passed on in 1970 and 1971. To take Mac on the Milky Way across the Great Divide, To the large bunkhouse above up in the happy land,[...]ake him by and Caroline Erstad Grotte The hand. There is Mose, Al, Pete, Claude, Dan, Spike, and Little Joe; They'll polish up his fiddle and rosin up his bow. He'll play a little tune and do a step or two To liven up old comrades. We'll miss him here below.[...]ts not all a myth: He was a man we always liked to ride the river with. THE[...]ving oxen behind a walking plow, OTTO AND AGNES ERSTAD and receiving 40 cents a day for a dawn-to-dusk working[...]attended formal school. Otto and Agnes Erstad came to this part of eastern All of his 90 years have been spent on farms, and he still Montana in 1913 by train. They came from[...]16 miles north of Peerless, where they were born and raised. They Ii ved in Scobey for a where he settled in 1917. Poor roads and a lack of winter- short time, from there they mov[...]e miles time neighbors have forced him to spend his recent winters north west to a homestead in the Coal Creek or Carbert[...]it. Community, where they built a one room house and went "I couldn't live in town," he sa[...], on Kate Lohan, a sister of Agnes Erstad, came to Montana a February 15, 1873. When he was eig[...]of the first teachers in that moved the family to North Dakota, where he took out a community. The[...]Their only means of transportation was by horse and The family lived in a sod house in No[...]all of the year. the house of unhewn logs and mortar that they built Agnes cooked in cook cars.[...]It was about 75 miles from their homestead to Grand Walter Erstad who lives in Tacoma, Washin[...]as still an all-day trip with the oxen. With Otto and Agnes Erstad[...]home. There were no schools, and he never had a chance to[...]descent he learned to read while being confirmed by the[...]local pastor. In order to study his confirmation lessons he had to get up at five a.m. to study before he began his daily[...]eight children in his family, and since he was second oldest he was expected to make his own way as soon as possible.[...]to oxen as his father used them, too. However[...] |
| [...]In 1917 they came to Daniels County and leased state[...]says, "But after a couple of years I began to like it better.[...]Now I don't think I would care to go back to Minnesota.[...]happened to him, but admits to being hit in the head by a[...]falling tree andto preventing him[...]from Ii ving to reach his 90th birthday.[...]OSCAR AND AMANDA HALVORSON[...]Oscar and Amanda Halvorson came to Montana from[...]thwood, North Dakota in 1913. At this time, Oscar and[...]Amanda had been married for four years and were tired of .-.-........... _ •:-:-:-:-:-[...]renting land, so they came to Montana to find some land ::::::::: and make a home of their own. They homesteaded in the[...]Travel to Montana was made by train to Popl~r where Theodore Grythe[...]the railroad ended. From Poplar to Old Scobey they took a[...]passengers, baggage and mail. The roads were just prairie[...]trails and shallow creek crossings. During the trip a spring[...]fence post, wired it in place and continued on their way to "Oxen are stubborn," he says. "When the oxen wanted to Scobey. It was a bum[...]ot there. From Old go home they went, dragging me and the outfit along with Scobey to Coal Creek, Oscar and Amanda caught a ride them."[...]with a rancher who had a buckboard and team of wild "It wasn't in olden days like it i[...]most of the time, but the horses knew the way and followed now. We used to walk behind the plow. And in harvest we the trail. had to walk around and pick up the bundles by hand.[...]ill looked beautiful. The grass was knee together to play ball and pitch horseshoes. deep and very green, and creeks and springs had clear blue When he was a little older there were also dances and water. parties to attend. Oscar and Amanda Halvorson's first home here was a As far[...]od social gatherings days. Nowadays youngsters go to town with money in their[...]had a also in demand to play for old time dances around the area good tim[...]mush, Oscar and Amanda Halvorson's daughter, Viola, was made of sweet milk and flour. Served with butter and born at Coal Creek and grew up there. She married James cream, and maybe a little cinnamon, it was delicious Kasseth and they own and live on a neighboring farm - according to Mr. Grythe. "I would still take that before I[...]the mid 1960's, after over fifty years of farming and as Christmas, was a weak beer made of wild hops, sugar ranching, Oscar and Amanda Halvorson retired and and molasses. The hops were gathered along the river by moved to Scobey where they purchased a home. They the bask[...]rented their farm-ranch to their son-in-law and daughter. "We were tickled to death when we got some of that," he[...]n root beer, Scobey and is still quite active. but it tasted good.[...] |
| [...]father, was one of nine boys. He grew to manhood in Southern Illinois and married a school chum, Oletha[...]Alderson. Dad worked on farms, orchards, and distillery. While in Illinois, to them were born three girls-Vivian,[...]Lillian, and Lila- and two boys-Guy and Rex.[...]years was typhoid fever and it claimed the oldest boy. Dad and Mom decided to get a way from the congestion of the east and headed west. Dad signed on with the Soo Line[...]as a constructor and helped build the railroad into Canada,[...]across Saskatchewan and into Alberta. He then settled[...]down as a section foreman and had as a hobby picture[...]time, Dad's brother, Edward, came west and took up a[...]homestead in Daniels County. He urged Dad to join him. Dad and another brother, George (Wash), did join him in Oscar and Amanda Halvorson and daughter Viola about 1915. T[...]lumber and a lot of sod.[...]lroad, two more children- Oscar Halvorson used to tell of hard times and good Clarence and Beryle-were born. The year after taking up times. After buying their place for $73.00, they had $2.00 to his homestead, one more child-Wayne-was born; live on. He took his fiddle and 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 digging fence-post holes.[...]story by a 60 year old baby. He walked four miles to work and got $10 a day digging Life in Dani[...]he got was near, he hired a neighbor cowboy to ride into town to caught in a hailstorm. A hailstone tore through t[...]the mistake of paying him in his hat. He hollered to his dog, "Get out of the way, Blue," advance. When he got to town on that cold March day, he and dashed on down the hill. He had a pail of scrambled first went to a saloon to warm his-innards. He promptly eggs when he got ho[...]forgot what he came to town for. Consequently, three days When he set[...]enderson loaned him four oxen. "I took those oxen and a turned out OK as Ed's wife had a lot[...]midwife. was surprised, when I looked back, to find that I was My recollection o[...]owing in a perfectly straight line. But I stopped and went was a sad lack of them. For a while, Dad would rent a house back to the house for a drink. When I came back one of th[...]1, hollered. Nothing doing. I got a leather strap to hit the ox. which was the first country scho[...]nother Heninger kids, the Jim Collins kids, and the Oliver Ralstin hard swat. Still he just looked at me. kids went to that school, taught by Oliva Ralstin. The third[...]r Jim Collins sponsored a building near his place and aren't you plowing?" he asked. "Got a whip?" I sh[...]ee or four formal district was then formed and a school was built, feet long." Henderson made a whip from the wire and gave called The Shennum School. The fam[...]this the ox a good wallop. The ox took right off and there was rio school were the Shennums, Berm[...]Wagers, Kemps, Richardsons, Heningers, and Collins. Their house was very large for a home[...]rst full school term in this district. School 30, and all in one room. It was sodded up on the outside.[...]Canadians came the weather was very bad and I do recall some Montana down in a big wagon drawn by four horses and danced all blizzards. As the children grew older and high school was night.[...]needed, Dad bought a house in Scobey and we would move In the middle of the room was an enormous stove called to town for the winter school. Dad stayed on the farm to "Jumbo". It was set in a box of dirt so that it w[...]n take care of the livestock. the house down, and it held enormous chunks of coal. To explain about the livestock. I should mention tha[...]allowed them to eat from the garden and even gave them a[...]Coal Creek from the Miles City area and sold them to him for 10¢ a many years ago. Dan Henders[...] |
| da ck ro w standing-Lila, Clarence, Rex, Wayne, and Beryle. Front row sitting- Vivian, Dad, Mom, and Lillian stock for the Peerless & Richland Rodeos. Jack Clark and George passed away during that time and Beryle died in |
| [...]en) in she remained in North Dakota and worked in a restaurant Glasgow and she came to Helena to keep house for his in Bottineau. She[...]October 17, 1906. Their family. They soon married and in about 1921 they moved to children were both born in North Dakota, Richard in Coal Creek to make their home on the Blake Gage's Bottineau on November 16, 1907 and Helen in Larimore on homestead. (Mr. Blake Gage h[...]rmy October 31, 1909. during World War I and died of the flu in an Army camp in They farmed near Bottineau and then moved to a the east.) At first they lived in the Jack Full[...]ead at Fairlawn, Saskatchewan, just one-half mile and later they moved to the Tom Hughes' place to make it from the border, north of Dooley, Montana in the early more convenient to the better road as Clayt had the spr[...]soon as that homestead was secured they contract to carry mail for the Carbert Post Office. He moved to the Coal Creek Community and homesteaded just carried mail off and on until the early 30's. In 1941 when one-h[...]state as General Field Agent Richardson, and brothers-in-law Clint and Neill. The land even though he was a strong Democrat and Ford was a had not been surveyed so[...]had chosen (according to their own survey) in 1913. That Clayt always had a ready story and was the first one to same year they built their sod shacks under[...]how in southwestern Nebraska. In watching his sow and her weaner-sized pigs at the trough, the spring of 1914 Herby moved his family to the small one he was recalling having heard about how much extra feed room soddy with dirt floor and then he returned to Canada it took to grow a pig's tail to maturity so on the spur of the to do his seeding. moment he took his jack knife and snipped off the pig's tail. The trip was made with three wagons; one driven by He went to the house thinking no more ofit than if he had[...]tail. In the morning his pig was dead. He and a sow that farrowed on the trip; another driven b[...]t of feed." Jacques, containing furniture; and a covered wagon driven When Clayt and Anna moved to Anna's homestead in by Byrl and the children containing a bed and other 1930 they had to haul every drop of water for the house and household goods. Tied behind the last wagon[...]t making a pan of water pulling a cart, and trailing behind, was a neighbor boy on a tend to several chores. They did this for several years[...]furniture came unglued and the pet cat deserted them, for Clayt passed away in 1943 and was buried at Helena, the government inspector to come test the livestock. When Montana. Anna then moved from the farm and kept house they crossed Coal Creek nea[...]the for Father Sorger for years. She died in 1961 and is buried water was still high and the wagon with the oats hit a hole at Scobey. and tipped. The little pigs were in a box to keep them Wallace C. Hodges, Jr. married Irma[...]ated from the sow except for nursing time so they and daughter of Neill Richardson, in 1930. Both are[...]the chickens were saved. The sow was crated in and she Wallace in 1954 and Irma in 1970. They have one daughter, came[...]nce) who lives in California. lost. Byrl and the children were taken across the creek on a Ruth married Robert Hodges (now deceased) and Ruth horse. lives in Wallace, Idaho.[...]built in the late fall. Also a barn was buiit, and they were Jacques. Robert passed away in 1965. They had three built on what was to be the south quarter about one-fourth children: ~rs. Gerald Schafer, (Judy), Jacques, and Brent. mile south of the soddy. They had not been able to dig a water well and were moving to water, but when the[...]shack in 1915, hauled their water, and left the barn near[...]to come in. Several hand dug wells were tried but at[...]certain depth the lantern that the digger used to test the air would go out and that meant gas, so the well would have to[...]born February 6, 1883 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota to Adelme and Lumina Jacques. He was christened Urbaine but was[...]her his name 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 traveled with him and three older children, by wagon, to Bottineau, North Dakota where they homesteaded. It was there that he grew to manhood, began farming, and married Byrl Richardson. Bryl Kate Richardson[...]as raised in Indiana, the second oldest of Samuel and Amy Richardson's thirteen children. She had come west with her father and her brother and sister seeking a new location. As Byrl had been advised to live in a drier climate[...] |
| [...]and Jeanne Jacques lives in Scobey, Montana.[...]1886, a son of Adelme and Lumina Jacques. When he was old enough to homestead he homesteaded in Canada at[...]order to prove up his place, then came back into the Unite[...]States and took a homestead that touched corners with[...]necessary to become a citizen of the United States in order[...]to prove up. Joe especially enjoyed getting some unw[...]young fellow into an argument and then getting out his[...]United States Citizenship papers to prove to the fellow that it was necessary to become a citizen if you moved from[...]North Dakota into Montana-always neglecting to[...]progressed to a tractor. He had all he wanted in motors Herby and Byrl Jacques and children in I914 with his two model T 's-a truck and touring car. Neither[...]preferred to be free to go out working as a cook or choreboy[...]put in. Herby bo ught a Rumley tractor in 1915 and did his own Joe never married. He had the reputation of being an and some of the neighbors breaking. He a nd Clint especially clean bachelor and a very good cook. He baked Richardson ran it night and day with lanterns h ung on t h e bread and pastries and was an especially good meat cook. front at night.[...]or crews during harvest, at shearing time, Poplar and brought across country. In 1916 he bough t h is in cook cars, and anyplace where there was a crew of men. Rumley separator and ran a threshing rig around t h e Joe was always quick to entertain with an oyster supper, neighborhood. He[...]undin g countr y homemade ice cream suppers and card parties with the to bring in registered Aberdeen An gus cattle, shippin g man-sized sandwiches and homemade lemonade with thin them in from Minnesota , with six kitchen chairs, to make slices of the lemon rind floating ar[...]In later years he sold his farm and bought a house in In a rented pasture close to the home place was a dugout town. When he could no longer walk up town to play cards in a hill , marked by a broken laundry[...]nds each day he moved into the Knight Hotel close to Coal Creek and a bank where coal jutted out. It and did light housekeeping. He lived there under the[...]is nephew Richard Jacques , who tended community) and his wife had spent some months when to h is needs and his grand-niece Mary Jacques, who tended caught i[...]t o his health until his death in 1969. to the Peace River country when one of their horses stepped into a hole and broke its leg. They had dug back into the[...]s Hodges bank, put up their little laundry stove, and used the coa l for fuel. They had sheltered their one horse in with them and hung a canvas over the opening. When they were able to Joe J acques find another horse they had by then decided to homestead in the community. Byrl passed away in[...]in July, 1954 at P lentywood, where he had moved and farmed since 1939, leaving the farm on Coal Creek for Richard to farm. Richard married Jeanne Falxa in 1932. They have two daughters, Mary Jacques of Seattle, Washington and Ru th (Mrs. Ray Parker) of Federal Way, Washingto[...]apolis, Minnesota, Jacques of Plentywood, Montana and Brent of Bismarck , North Dakota. Robert p[...] |
| RICHARD AND .J._EANNE JACQUES In 1914, as a young boy of[...]hard arrived in |
| [...]measurement" my neighbors were: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Richardson and family; Mr. and Mrs. Neil Richardson and MY HOMESTEAD DAYS EXPERIENCES family; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jacques and family; Mr. and JUNE 1915-DECEMBER 1, 1933 Mrs. Paul Wolfe and family; Mr. Joe Jacquwa-single; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lovell and family; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Daniels and family; Mr. and Mrs. Noel Richardson; Mr. During my first visit to East Scobey, Montana in late and Mrs. Russel Lovell and family; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey October of 1914, I spent about two weeks looking over Wagar and sons; Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wulfe and family; Mr. various tracts of land northwest of Scobey upon which no and Mrs. John Shennum and family; Mr. and Mrs. Bill one was then living, or upon which no one had "staked" the Bernard and family; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Erstad and family; exterior boundaries of certain half section tracts claiming Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shennum and family; Mr. Herman homestead rights. I finally staked a 320 acre tract located Shennum-single; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Heninger and family; approximately 16 miles northwest of Scobey for myself. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heninger and family; Mr. The first winter on the homestead[...]in time I will Washington Heninger-single; Mr. and Mrs. 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 wh[...]rea, or not single-the father a widower; Mr. and Mrs. Seraphin living in Montana I want to report: That was a winter of LaPierre-homesteaded on Coal Creek, North West deep snow and on occasion of intense cold waves. The first Daniels County; Mr. John McCall, and his aged father- cold wave hit the area on January 8th, 9th, and 10th, of John was single-father a widowe[...]was single; Mr. Jack Hughes-single, Mr. and Mrs. Jack 55 degrees below zero outside the single board and inside Reed-settled in the area in about[...]rtunately I had provided not in about 1923 to 1925-never returned; Mr. Joe Herskowitz only sufficient lignite coal for my needs, but I had also and wife- (latter was my mother's sister); Mrs. Anna M. arranged to purchase a half-ton of a "better type" coal in Kemp, my mother. My mother and my uncle both Scobey earlier in the fall, for just the occasion of very cold purchased relinquishments to half sections near my spells, and when I saw the thermometer outside my door I[...]ead June 1915- was certain that when it got down to 55 below zero was the Mr. and Mrs. George Skerritt and family. I believe Mr. " correct time" to make use of coal with the most units of Sk[...]t of Old Carbert Post Office, but later purchased and coldest day-January 9, 1916-because that happened to lived on one of the Heninger brother[...]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 d[...]ke a long-lost sister. For a single young man to locate on a homestead in a Very few of[...]omestead shack took considerable and I. courage. In recalling some of the difficulties[...]understand (now) how I managed enough willpower to do that I was a good neighbor. One ev[...]North Central Missouri, but the my mother and I were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. entire area had been settled for over 40 yea[...]her of Mr. born in 1892, was no longer primitive, and small off- Richardson came to the home to report that his sister, railroad towns with general stor[...]Laura, had been severely burned when the sister and a and four miles. Only 11 miles away was a city of 3500 younger brother attempted to fill a gasoline lantern which population even in[...]had just "gone dry". Immediately Neil Richardson and I shopping center. My mother, and my aunt and her left for the Sam Richardso[...]you will go for of 1916. I encouraged my mother, and my aunt and her the doctor I will give you my very best team to make the hu band to purchase the relinquishments and then file trip. I want you to travel by way of the winter road-and homestead entries on land which joined my homestead. when you get to Scobey call Dr. Tucker and have him hire a The fact that I did not have a horse, nor a car, really made team with a light sleigh and get out here as quickly as my first year on the homestead difficult and a lonesome possible. Give him the road[...]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 homestead they purchased a car and after within 30 minutes; at 6:00 A.M. I called Dr. Tucker. Shortly that my mother, my aunt and her husband worked in before 6:30 A.M. Dr. Tucker and his driver left Scobey for Scobey and traveled back to their homesteads to rest and the Sam Richardson farm home, 28 miles[...]ing I saw Dr. Tucker incomplete without reference to the good neighbors who on Scobey Main Street and he told me that the Richardson encouraged others through good times and bad times to girl had been burned "over 70% of her body and that she hold on- with words of encouragement tha[...]days". He said will be better before you know it, and similar words of that recovery for the[...]generally considered extensive burns, and the only thing he was able to do was everyone who lived within five (5) miles as neighbors. to provide medications to relieve much of the very intense Using the five m[...]pain. Laura Richardson died at the home of her parents on[...] |
| [...]considerable sacrifice on the part of many parents. The accident.[...]school districts evidently were "broke" and had no funds I found living alone on the home[...]construction of new school buildings. I happened to live life. While I was employed in Chicago in 19[...]than my oldest child, who was not age six years, and Washington, D.C. and grew up there, completed grade and not attending school until September of 1924. In order to high school there. Her mother died in 1913 and late that have a schoolhouse five familie~ planned to build a autumn she decided to move to Chicago where the only schoolhouse fro[...]parties, mother's sister. I influenced my mother to invite Margaret dances, and box socials were given to raise money to pay to visit us in Montana, which she did in August of 1[...]he building. The district school board had agreed to Margaret and I were married in Williston, North Dakota[...]. In fact, on August 16, 1917 before she returned to Chicago, to keep a during one or two school terms the teacher was paid "a promise she had made to her superior,-that she would small wage, plus free board and room in the home of the return even if she were married while on the trip, to break in school children's parents". At one time I was told the another girl on the[...]North Dakota has had a tremendous impact report was correct or was idle gossip. We kept a school[...]died there in teacher at our home, board and room free, for 115th of the 1973-on February 11th[...]rom the time of our marriage "either helping to that extent or perhaps have school for until Octo[...]six months during the school year." school, a boy and a girl. I was appointed Relief Clerk on The plan of boarding and rooming the teacher "without September 28, 1932 b[...]housewife in made by State Headquarters from time to time but I whose home the teacher was given 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 We[...]get a full school term of nine months of school and that retire at age 70 years. Shortly after March[...]years of school attendance. As a matter of fact-and a County Juvenile and Probation Officer from which I matt[...]attendance in the Shennum School, and those same three Whenever I give serious thought to Margaret and my life children then enrolled in high school and completed their together my thoughts always take me back to the years we high school course of study,[...]in high school. We had many wonderful neighbors, and during the Financial condition[...]he 1920's. There were many foreclosures on farms, and was warm enough for swimming in the Poplar River[...]were from that area, from the United States side and also from "down" and wheat was down also. the Cana~a side, gathered at[...]ng with the House at Scobey which was to last "for about two or three Canadians and they enjoyed visiting with the people from months". However that job went from one job to another- the United States side. Many .of you will recall that during and to another-and another-and I worked for 37 years the 1920's it was not possible to buy beer, except perhaps and seven months. So-my advice to youth is: If someone some home brew. However, the Canadians were able to offers you a "short-time" job, take[...]rn into a job purchase good beer in their stores, and the Canadians for the remainder of you[...]John B. Kemp United States and Canada) 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 bee[...]LARSON we wanted on those hot Sunday afternoons. And while the Americans were drinking that Canadian beer they were Ben Larson first came to the Scobey area in 1912 or 13 not in Canada- the[...]n, North neutral strip on both the United States and Canadian sides Dakota to their locations. of the United States-Canada bor[...]igh derrick the Mid-Poplar River was really made-to-order. The boring machine, powered b[...]ater sold natural flow of the river put it there and everyone in the the machine to George Skerrit; and bought a powers low area made good use of[...] |
| [...]Alfred and Amanda Lindquist in 1918 Larson Family-seated: Marie, Ben , Florence, George, at odd jobs and was unloading coal from a railroad car, ALFRED AND AMANDA LINQUIST FAMILY[...]Donald Linquist Family. L to R - Fay, Desiree, Sheila, |
| [...]school at West Fork, Middle Fork, Pleasant View, and Coal Creek, in the 20's. Delia Linquist taught the Julian School and West Fork. List of the family and where they now live: Alfred died in July 1920; Am[...]Donald, son of Ernest is present county foreman and road supervisor, was appointed in 1960. He marrie[...]r Fay Brennan of Dunsieth, North Dakota. Fay came to Whitetail to teach, and taught the primary grades there from 1957 to 1960. They have two daughters, Desiree and Sheila. They uncovered the coal with a scraper and two horses;[...]l was mainly dug by hand. My father sold the coal to[...]When the railroad was built to Scobey, one of the[...]LOVELL FAMILY water and tall grass for grazing.[...]Our place was a stopping place for the driver and teams[...]ey (at the time Scobey was one of The Thomas S. and Elizabeth' Lovell family came from the bi[...]points in the world). It took Athens County, Ohio to Wibaux, Montana in 1903. Russell about four days to make the trip. was eight and I was four when we came to Montana. We I tried to get as much schooling as I could by going back li[...]eep ranch 40 miles northeast of Wibaux. We to Wibaux, and taught school in 1918 through 1923. went to school in Wibaux. The First World War came and many of the young In 1913, we came in three wagons, one driven by my fellows had to go. Noel Richardson went. Prices were high father the other by my brother Russell and the other by a and crops were poor. fellow' by the name of Cassidy. They had to be ferried I Frances was married to Noel Richardson in July 1920.[...]We had two ~hildren, Stanley born in July 1929 and Joyce going to be left behind, swam the river. in N ovem her 1934. Stanley is married to Leona We located in the Coal Creek Community,[...]Tymofichuk. They have three children, Paul, Nola and then Valley County. We pitched our tents near the Coal Susan. Joyce is married to Jerry Bjarko. They have two Creek and a lignite coal mine, where we would have water children, Joanne and Jeffrey. and fuel, and homesteaded that location. When we first[...]ichardson in came we had sheep, then later farmed and had cattle. August 1920. They have two[...]r we lived in tents. We spaded up a 1921 and Bud in October 1924. Peggy is married to Howard small garden and planted rutabagas in July and they came Erbele; Bud is single and lives on the old home place. along fine. We put t[...]tasted Russell took up a homestead adjacent to his father and in mighty good that winter as potatoes were scarce. 1923 took over his father's place and continued farming and ranching till his death in October 1952. His wife[...]My father moved from the farm in 1923 and he bought the Coal Creek Store. Noel and I had the Carbert Post[...]Office in another Ii ttle store building close by and in 1926[...]postmaster. Our mail in 1913 and on, came to East Scobey,[...]community people and carrying it in gunny sacks to their place. We came by horseback to get the mail-a happy[...]We bought land from two old-timers, John McCal1 and[...]farms and ranches.[...]Scobey from Jack Fuller. He and my mother lived there[...]mother returned to Ohio to live. She married Ed Barnes.[...] |
| In 1950 Noel and I moved to this farm nor.t h of Scobey. later on Septemb[...]fine pioneers of the Coal Creek Community. since, and my daughter Joyce and family live close by.[...]From a clipping. L.K. McCann came to what is now Daniels County from Emil Pomerleau was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pomerleau Chicago, Illinois in 1911. He[...]29, 1889, at Corcoran in Hennepin County in young to homestead. He located a plot of land in the Coal Minnesota. He was raised at Kenmare, North Dakota, and Creek Community and plowed a furrow around the area he came to Medicine Lake in 1910, living there until 1913, had selected. He then went to work in Canada around when he came to Scobey, and had lived in this community Viceroy, Saskatchewan[...]Florence Norby at Culbertson in June of this area and also helped build the first telegraph hne m 1914. They have two sons, Ray and Dana. that area.[...]"Bull Moose" ticket for Sheridan County, returned to the Coal Creek Community and took up his (which at that time include[...]ls homestead; luckily no one had jumped his claim to the County, Sheridan County, and part of Roosevelt County). area.[...]ommunications were slower those days in this area and In 1918 Ida Torkelson from Duxby, Minnesota came to the ground to be covered was considerable. Identity, too, Montana to visit her sister Mrs. Amanda Halverson and was not always perfectly ascertained. As[...]a nother fellow in this area had people coming up to him in Plentywood, Montana. and saying, "Emil, you're going to get my vote for On November 24, 1921 a son, Donald, was born to thi sheriff.... " That fellow was Burley Bowler and it was not union during a raging blizzard. A lady[...]y the only name I can recall as N urs~ met and became pleasantly acquainted. · Lac[...]mile~ a way in Scobey. It took M9ther many years to get Johnson in the hardware business in Scobey. He was used to the wide open prairies, as she had been born and interested in farming, as well as various e[...]ing 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, 1931 a daughter, Diane, was born, again enjoyed substantial success and sold profitably to a with Nurse Lace in attendance. Japanese at the end of two years to devote more time to In thinking about those early years in the pra[...]memories were the get-togethers at the neighbors' and picnics at the old John Karst swimming hole on th[...]reek. Emil and Mrs. Pomerleau This creek crossed the Canadian[...]Sunday during the dirty 30's families from Canada and the States would gather at the old swimming hole.[...]ought a picnic lunch. The men would play baseball and horseshoe, the women visited and watched the kids swim and play games. There was a togetherness in those day[...]mes that will never be enjoyed agaii:i. Donald and Diane went to the Carbert School for their elementary education[...]aught dunng Diane's later grade school years. Don and Diane completed high school in Scobey graduating in 1939 and 1949 respectively. Don spent three years in the Army, 22 months of this time in England, France and Belgium. Don married Joyce Rossing in July 1950 and to thic, union were born Grant, Gregory, Lori Jo and Kevin. Gregory is married and has a son. Lori Jo is also married. Don and Joyce are presently living in Plentywood. They are also farming the old homestead. Diane is married to Burton Rice. They have four children: Rebecca, Lee, Cindy and Kathy. Diane and Burt are now living in Blackfoot, Idaho and own and o ~n1 le a Bowling Lane. Ida McCann passed awa[...]!en gthy illness. Leland passed away four months and four days[...] |
| months. Emil and Florence were good managers, had a a tent. We had a two-burner gasoline camp-stove to cook on, clean place, and served good food in a pleasant heat water to wash clothes on a washboard and keep warm atomosphere-an assurance of success any[...]maitre d' "anywhere. He was the last of September and we returned home. Grandad kind of fellow who look[...]rlie also Well-mannered, he was also deliberate and a realist. worked several years on WP A. Once whe[...]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 his eyes about for moved to Scobey and continued farming through 1944. a likely pigeon to bully, Emil without saying anything Char[...]ed for Tom Conboy in quietly folded his bar apron and walked around the bar to · Conboy's Bar. In 1944 Charlie bought a partner[...]down a five- Conboy's Bar with his brother Clint, and later called in dollar bill of his own and in the same movement Clint and Charley's and now it is called the Ponderosa. immediately, with[...]ything, delivered an In 1946 Charlie and Clint put up the "Tip 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 floor. Emil then picked up the[...]rlie suffered a severe stroke in the fall of 1955 and and put his apron back on. It was quieter than normal[...]practically before it got started:- Quiet, neat, and Charlie is survived by his widow, Cecelia, a son , Edgar pleasant, and particularly neat; that was Emil. and family living in Scobey and a daughter Mrs. Charles A member of St. Philip's Catholic parish, Emil was also a (Lillian) Kittock and family live in Billings, Montana. member of the Knights of Columbus, Scobey, and a life. There are five grandchildren. member of E[...]NEILL AND THURZA RICHARDSON CHARLES AND CECELIA RICHARDSON Neill and Thurza Richardson came to Daniels County in[...]hey brought with them two of their children, Irma and Charles (Charlie) Henry Richardson was born on[...]ber 30, 1900, at Benville, Indiana, son of Samuel and over. They had come from Indiana to North Dakota in Amy Richardson. In 1907 they moved to Arvilla, North 1907. They came into this country with horses and wagons. Dakota. In 1913 they arrived at Coal Cree[...]ntry had a horse named "Charlie". Neill and Thurza Richardson In 1927 Charlie and Cecelia Walter were married in January. Her parents came from Austria in 1896 to New York, in 1897 to Gretna, Manitoba, then in 1909 to Carnduff, Saskatchewan. In 1912, they moved 20 mi[...]wo miles north of the border). They came by wagon and horses. Frank Walter (Cecelia's father) had his s[...]He was also a locksmith, a farrier, a blacksmith, and a good mechanic. He went to farming on the homestead. Cecelia was born in 1909 at Gretna, Manitoba. When Charles and Cecelia were first married, they lived in a sod h[...]d, as his mother had passed away in October 1926, and were farming. Charlie was barbering; he cut almo[...]amily across the border. They shipped the horses and wagons, and other equipment 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 year and came home to stay. In 1934 Charlie worked at Fort Peck Dam for awhile, came home in May, and the family returned with him. Edgar was six years and Lillian 21 months old. We lived in[...] |
| Frank and Jim Richardson Clint Richardson and Gotlieb Lontt. Taken in 1912 to be close to the water and coal. Neill helped other members of his family build sod houses. Neill carried mail from Scobey to the old Dodge place. The mail was addressed to Coal Creek at that time. In 191 7, NATHAN CLINT RICHARDSON FAMILY they changed it to Carbert, Montana. A.B. Carter had the store and it was located on the McCall place. Neill carried[...]e first mail carriers Clint Richardson moved to the Coal Creek community, in this community. Thur[...]with the field work. They used Samuel and Amy Richardson. His parents took up a horses and buggy, and in the winter time a sleigh, going homestead and he also took a homestead adjoining theirs. into Scobey one day and coming 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, was born[...]na Knapp. was five years old when they came here, and Clayton was After he completed this job, he went to work at Frank three years old. Johnson's hardware store and worked there until 1926. He They built a home on the home place in 1920. This home then went to Harrisburg, Oregon to run another hardware burned in the year of 1925.[...]arney were not at home. It was a Sunday afternoon and they were was left a widow, he moved back to Coal Creek to live with visiting at the Joe Jacques home. A lot[...]worked for many years at the Woodward's store, and was a till they moved a home out from town that t[...]ss of 1936. Liz was a When Neill first started to break land he used a walking very talented gal that could sew and make most anything plow, later using a sulky plow[...]rses. from a yard of cloth. Clint and Elizabeth bought the Scobey Clayton and Irma started school in 1917. They went to Cleaners from Mike Kahn and ran a very successful the sod school south of the[...]number of years. Clint died in March of1969 four and a half miles. Their first teacher was Kate Murphy. and two years later Elizabeth passed on at a young ag[...]in the summertime was just north of Neill 53. and Thurza's place, it was called the John Karst swimming Surviving their parents are Wendell Russ New, Bill hole. There were ball games, between the Canadians and Richardson and Elizabeth (Honey) Richardson. Wendell is the Americans. Picnics were held and home-made ice working with the Bureau of Reclamation for the state of cream was made and sold. Neill and Thurza had many Washington, Bill ha[...]y for the past ten Canadian friends, walking over to visit as they lived only a years, and Honey is living in Helena, Montana with Ed little[...]sa Choquer, in May 1933. In later years, Neill and Thurza spent the winter months in Scobey, later going to Indiana and Florida each winter. Clint Richardson Family. L to R - Clint, William , Eliza- Neill passed away in[...], on the way home from Florida. Thurza then moved to Scobey where she purchased the home of Dr. Morrow. She enjoyed life with her many friends and acquaintances. She passed away in May, 1959. Irma had come to live with her, when her husband passed away in Wa[...]away in May 1970. Jim now farms the home place and Clayton lives on a ranch two miles west of the ho[...]ll was one of the thirteen children that came out to the homestead with his dad, Sam Richardson, having many experiences over the years spent in Montana, good and bad. Written b[...] |
| SAMUEL ELLSWORTH AND AMY RICHARDSON After supper it was to put up beds and as I remember we FAMILY were all ready to get to bed after that long ride by wagon. I[...]took turns riding with Noel and Clint. Dad, Mother, Laura, Frank, and Ellsworth rode in a covered wagon we called Sa[...]ept under the his family from Versailles, Indiana to Arvilla, North wagons on horse blanket[...]n 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 m[...]p. Something was done by horseback, wagon and horses, and a lot of I had never seen before was all the snow[...]my means of getting places. Also the ground. 1906 and 1907 had been a very hard winter. poiso[...]tana that could be taken sod house of my parents and blew down a few squatters' as squatters' right. He took our mother and my youngest shacks. They got discouraged and in July they walked to brother, Samuel Ellsworth II on the train to Plentywood, Plentywood and took the train back to North Dakota. Montana. That was as far west as th[...]This land was not surveyed so in order to mark each gotten at that time. There they hired someone to take them homestead, in 1914, the men; our Dad, Neill, Clint, Noel by car to this land. They looked the land over and decided Richardson and Herby Jacques took a team and wagon to move to Montana. tied a red rag to the rear wagon wheel with a plow snubbed The following spring, March 10, 1913, we had a sale and behind. The number of times the flag came up could be later we immigrated by train to Plentywood. We Ii ved there counted. The plow marked the land boundary and the flag about a month while the men drove the ca[...]circumference of wheel. Noel Richardson horseback to Coal Creek, sleeping out nights and carrying did the driving with Herby Jacques helping as they were their food. It took days to make this trip out to Coal Creek straight drivers. When the land was surveyed it was only and back to Plentywood by horse. When they returned we off about 30 feet. then took the six horses and three wagons which contained The men got busy and built four sod houses, one for Sam pigs, chickens[...]ncluding a Richardson, a two room soddy, and Neill Richardson also very large tent, which had room for three beds and a big had a two room sod house. Clint Richardson and Herby table), majestic range, and chairs. It took us all day to make Jacques each built a one-room sod house. These sod houses it from Plentywood to Redstone where we stayed all night. were very warm in winter and cool in summer. Our parents The bed bugs nearly ate us up. Next day we made it to a lived in the sod house as long as they[...]They were kind people passing away in 1926 and Dad in 1934. Dad learned to and gave us lodging and something to eat. At noon next build sod houses when he lived in Nebraska from 1884 to day we got to the Andrew Tande Ranch, where Mrs. Knapp 1900. He then moved back to Indiana in 1900. was living with her children, Clifford, Robert, Fay, and The men in the neighborhood built a sod school in the fall Esther. She asked us for dinner, and I've always said it was of 1914. Sam Richards[...]were the best mea:l I ever ate. (George Crandell and D.C. Knapp 14 or 15 children ready for school at Coal Creek. Dad had to had a small store at the Tande ranch. George was the drive to Oswego to meet with the school board with team clerk.) The rest of the day we drove to where Dad had picked and wagon. How I remember how he hated those trips! Our out a homestead. We got to Coal Creek that evening about homesteads[...]he county sunset. After arriving there was a tent to pitch, unloading was divided in 1920. Ellen Shipstead was the first teacher the stove, beds, table, and chairs and some food, plus in the sod school house[...]time was held any place they could find room to have it. Roseberry taught two terms there and walked back and Samuel Ellsworth Richardson[...]forth every day from where Tom Handy now lives to a half[...]hard and as high as a graded road, down Coal Creek to Poplar by Humberts' and to Claude Tande on to the French[...]Lane Crossing Creek by Andrew Tande's ranch and on into Scobey. The road was quite narrow and one could[...]We were very fortunate to have had the lignite coal or no[...]work getting the coal uncovered. They used horses and fresno to get the dirt off. Men dug with picks and crowbars to get the coal, then loaded it on wagons, then unlo[...]and stacked it in the sheds. In those days the coal w[...]in the snow or in a cellar. Wet lignite was hard to[...]homestead as it was closer to my folks and ten miles closer to Scobey. Our son, Charles Albert was born June 14,[...]He married Else Bydeley in 1943 and they had two[...]children: Charles William (Bill) and Jean. Bill married Joy[...]Rogneby, they have two children: Sherri Lin and Treena[...] |
| [...]Corps, had won the corn picking and husking[...]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[...]_Red River where they successfully owned and operated[...]hotel in Fargo, North Dakota, soon leasing it to accept[...]employment on one of the largest grain and livestock[...]operations with vast acreages at Valley City and Castleton and it was not long before young Farmer John and Della[...]Family- back row-Byrle, Leata , responsibilities and she of the domestic staff - and here middle-Mary, eill, Clint, Moth er, front-Grac e, Noel, was security and independence at the highest level.. .. were Madge , Florence and Father 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 ·[...]stead. qualified homesteaders and the call of the west was strong. To agriculturally educated John Shennum it called fo[...]A. Daniels of research. National weather reports and records[...]ndicated that the average rainfall left something to be[...]submitted prior to graduation, wherein student John We women harldy ever went 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 no money so we soil durin[...]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[...]e hundred-pound sack of flour for a years supply, and sugar acreage could average out greater yield - (over a period of and taple su pplies, that lasted a long time; or we l[...]xtra what we had , which wa n't much except bread and 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 with Beeks livery barn, and re triction at that ti m e. Tea was 0 cents a pound. 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, took up pen and ink and get the ugar to sweeten the fruit. We paid as high as $30.00 wrote to wife Della at Watford City, North Dakota saying p[...]irst World War was on. "Get the kids on the train and come on - we will spend our Grain prices wer high[...]en 6.50 for flax eed. I hired 126 acre , 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 they be rather close in their operations that they may share back to Dakota and work. horses , machinery, labor and companionship. Much When my son Charle was small I used to take him in a search, little success, but the lady fortune smiled. And so borrowed Ii ttle wagon with a sack and spend a great deal of the stage was set for a lifetime of farming and ranching my time hunting cow chips. I mean hunt, as we had only which lasted 50 years. As he had predicted to wife Della two cows. I baked bread for a couple o[...]olden Wedding was observed in Scobey ... but back to furnished the flour and I baked the bread for them for $2.50 the early days .... a hundred pounds. Sold eggs for eight cents a dozen and Erection of "Shacks" was first in order. With shiplap, tar made butter and sold for 15 cents a pound . And some paper siding, composition dry walls, rubbero[...]the 35 cents a can, oranges we only looked at (80 and 90 cents two day trip to McCurdys in Scobey to obtain the material, per dozen), and bananas were 50 cents per dozen. muscled and well conditioned young John dug the 12' x[...] |
| "Cellar" by hand. Another day and the brothers had the machines from Vic Hillstrom and a Twin City purchased shack completed and this was to be the home until 1930 from Pete Larsen moved across Shennum acres and other when fire destroyed the little structure and a new house acreages farmed for Ed Battleson. John and J.V. Bennett was built on the same site. There wa[...]joint Hereford herd sires for their cattle herds and so neighbor Bill Bernard dug a well. Lighting was[...]e he assisted in arranging kerosene lamp, cooking and heat by a Monarch malleable that the st[...]lignite coal was made available for Shennum to obtain-some for mined from one of the many surface mines in the pasture and some for grain farming. Bennett-Shenn um neighbor[...]So, the John Shennums had a shack for themselves and operations in the area. Automobiles and trucks appeared their two children, a well for water, a downwind side of the commonly upon the scene and even an airplane (A Ryan shack to shelter mare Topsy and colt Billy. They had a monoplane built in San Diego along with the Lindbergh Bible, a faith, and a future. They had good health, endless "Spi[...]uis") owned by Westland Oil Company was ambition, and to the - as it appeared at that point of their s[...]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 it". Henry "Hank" Siggelkow owned a[...]all western growers of Daniels County and some of North- tractor and a twelve bottom sod breaking plow. John ern Valley County moved their grain to the only market tended plow one season and in return Hank brought the available, this being Scobey, and one of the overnight stops outfit to the Shennum place and "Broke" some 12 acres on for the 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 pasture something happened in the Shennum barnyard and "Stopovers" 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 spring work time arrived. Men had to eat in shifts at the with a sulky or single botto[...]lla Shennum table but good humor usually ran high and moved across the county to work for Homer Snyder and it is a pleasant era to recall. Andrew Fossum, Dave Breen, there made a few dollars to construct a small barn to fur- Ben Solberg are among the names that come to mind nish a stall for the two horses and another for a cow. Large during that time. sandstones were skidded from a hillside natural quarry to In the early years of the settlement th[...]as commonplace sites of the two Scobeys, helping to move buildings from today - one of them b[...]no the old townsite down on the Poplar river flat to the new school facilities Mrs. Shennum tau[...]d home, using courses ordered from Helena and recognized back and forth to Minnesota and North Dakota to work at as official provided the student could pass the tests sent out cash producing tasks to obtain the funds to furnish the at the end of the year. Somewhere in the mid twenties John shack, to enlarge the horse herd and otherwise improve Shennum donated two acres on his original homestead and "the farm " which was, for five decades, to be the nerve four others joined with him in giving their time and center and financial assistance headquarters of the[...]group donated to the newly created school district. While the p[...]the " Roaring Great American Depression and the Dust Bowl years. They Twenties" also roared i[...]d 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[...]m ong the reasons for the mind of John and Della Shennum to leave - they had "Breakthrough" (And these things also affected t he entire never learned failure ... nor were they anxious to learn. Scobey Country and a ll of Montana, for that matter) was[...]wered - Many had been drawn from Scobey and man had mach in es and the opening of Montana State lands, both to volunteered. John Shennum was registered , was called up, lease and purchase . . The Shennums first acquired a and by strange happenstance the Armistice was signed[...]-bottom plow. They five days before he was to leave. Then there was World War were able to obtain state land with water on it for pasture of[...]r (this would include bi nder first to volunteer, which he did whhin minutes after the h arvesting and bundle team work for the threshing[...]his Eyesight tests prevented assignment to a combat unit but own threshing outfit, an Advanc[...]tten tests produced such a high degree of tractor and a 24" Rumely threshing machine and while the computational ability that he was at once assigned to a outfit was no match in output for such giants a[...]Taylor powered 40" seperator, then rused to Boeing in Seattle where he worked on the Shenn um[...]other four brothers all served in uniform - Joe and Jim in to the Humbertson the east. Every attempt was made to Europe, Harry in the Pacific and John Jr. with the atomic employ school student labor and Montana University project in White[...]pion Larry Bowler (Now Editor John and Della had 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 permi[...]lwarts of the crew. Shennum rural schoolhouse and/ or the Scobey Schools. Larger tractors moved into the picture and Hart-Parr All have experienced su[...] |
| homemakers. Daughter Pearl raised a family of four and is The first winter we lived in a shack[...]George was located on a piece of land 33 miles in and out of Radio, TV, and business is an executive travel northwest of[...]one three poor years. This came as a shock to those who had company and also owns a housing complex in Havre, been fortunate enough to have bumper crops in 1915 and Montana. Harry died in the Denver area in 1974, having 16. Grasshoppers and gophers did much damage, even won top honors as s[...]e year with his insurance though poisoning and trapping got rid of some of them. company in that season. Jim went to Alaska ten years ago; Rabbits were plentiful and hard on gardens, but were a was educated in and taught in the welding school at the welc[...]licious University of Alaska; now directs welding and repair at the when fried and the oider ones were stewed. Another source State[...]which were plentiful in owns his own real estate and land development business in the spring. T[...]of Denver their seed back in harvest, and when a pig was butchered, and resides in Federal Way, Washington. there was not enough fat on the pork to fry it. John Shennum's death in 1966 at Daniels[...]hack was on the homestead a huge Hospital brought to an end 50 years of energetic activity in prai[...]the flames could be seen Scobey Country - almost to the day. As he had written for twenty[...]not have Shennum moved shortly after his passing to Billings and survived that ordeal. in the Bicentennia[...]Sam Acheson had a well drilling machine so George and active Christian outreach years in that city.[...]the rig and well drilling became the main source of income[...]ll, but it was For John A. Shennum and Della Shennum sometimes hard to collect the money. I recall one man[...]he didn't have any money - but after three trips to[...]silver dollars and counted out $62 to pay for the well he had[...]blizzards and had to rely on the horses to take him home. George Skerritt, my father, was born in Ireland, the son Three-day blizzards seemed to be quite common in the of Irish farmers, but from[...]worked in 1920's. On one occasion Dad went to get a cow he had cities as a clerk in department stores. The first four years bought from Humberts and got caught in such a storm. The were served as ap[...]the cow roped in, so Dad cut the enjoyed the work and was well liked, he didn 't like the class ropes to let the cow go free, unhitched the horses and tried distinction. He married, a city girl, Margaret Walshe, in to walk for shelter. Three times he came back to the same Dublin, Ireland in 1904. They had two children: haystack, but at last got to the dwelling of a fellow named Gwendolyn (Mrs. Arnold Wahl) and Harold. Chesum, who had a[...]when his horse In 1913 George Skerritt decided to seek his fortune in had fallen with him. He was glad to have some help with America. He boarded ship in E[...]as three days before we knew Dad had Nova Scotia, and traveled to Plaza, North Dakota where survived the storm. his sister Anna and her husband Sam Acheson and two children lived. A year later Achesons decided to move to a farm eight miles northwest of Scobey, Montana. They L to R: Skerritt Family-Harold, Margaret, Gwen, George[...]y possessions; furniture, machinery, cows, horses and chickens. The owner was issued a pass to ride on the train. As money was almost non-exista[...]e. After George Skerritt was in America for one and a half years he was able to borrow money to send for his wife and children, Gwendolyn 9-1/2 years and Harold six years. During the time the family was separated Margaret and the children had lived in London. Imagine the shock it was for a woman to come from the then world's largest city to a prairie country and a one-room tar paper shack. The family arrived in Scobey January 1915 dressed like city dudes and then had to ride in the horse drawn bob sleigh the eight miles to the Acheson farm. We were covered with blankets in the bottom of the sleigh. I'm sure we looked queer to all that saw us, but we in turn took time to become accustomed to the way the Americans ate and lived.[...] |
| On one occasion when George and his hired man, a little fifteen. The man and wife had the only bed and the rest a fellow by the name of Jim Johnson, wer[...]lope eight miles east of Plentywood, they decided to some of the things that made the pioneers[...]ble Northern ran a mixed train on the branch line to Scobey. to keep warm. The ice on the water pail would be quite thick On Saturday, George and Jimmie were in the barber shop, by morning. As we look back we wonder how those having had shaves and haircuts before coming home to dwellings kept from burning, as the s[...]istle blew. Both men often get red hot and many soot fires started in stove-pipes grabbed their suit cases and ran for the train. George that sometime[...]as it was leaving, but Jimmie having to serve the heating and cook stove. It was quite a chore to shorter legs missed it. It was his last chance 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 another daily chore. Jimmie sat on the[...]n There were many people that would come and go past our his knees, but he must not have stayed there too long, place and the homestead days were not without their so- bec[...]was "Fatty" Wilson, a a stick over his shoulder, and caught the train before it left well known shee[...]in stopped so long at some towns asked him to eat dinner with them. Mrs. Fuller put two that traveling salesmen could get their bu_s iness done and chickens on the table for Jack to carve, but when Fatty sat go on to the next place. Quite a change from the speed of down he stuck his fork in one chicken and put it on his travel today.[...]for the family of four The people worked hard and long hours, neighbors Fullers. helpe[...]app farm, eating place some. He seemed to have a lot of solutions to the way breakfast at 4:30 A.M. Bill Wright said, "This is the best to become rich, but for his life's work he owned onl[...]rked." "How's that, Bill?" asked Mr. Knapp and saddle. with a tingle of pride in his voice. :'Tw[...]fellow with a secret past. One day my sister and I walked car had lights beamed on the separator and one car used to over to see the old fellow, picking some wild flowers on the find the grain shocks. This came to a ha ult when the IWW way to iive to him. He was so pleased, he wanted 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[...]those hard- In 1923 Dad had a chance to rent a better farm from Bill working farmers to accept a ten-hour day when most Alderdice so he sold his cattle for $40 per cow and calf and worked about eighteen hours a day seven days a we[...]until 1940 when ill health forced him poor crops and poor threshing weather prevailed. I to retire. They bought a home in Scobey where they s[...]their remaining years. Dad died in 1943 and Mother 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 1933 I married Elma Pe[...]we had no cream separator so Later some had to forfeit 10% in order to get warrants the milk would have to be kept in a cool place for 24 hours cashed, as the county did not have enough money. and the cream skimmed off with a saucer, and stored in the We started our married lif[...]I imagine all children remember the place and in 1940 bought a farm five miles east of Scobey t[...]ive. 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. Butter and eggs were traded for groceries. Eggs h[...]ws, somehow we got by. crates came into use, much to the delight of the grocer. One We had six children. Patricia's twin brother, Paul, 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 wife Anne have two boys and live in Pacific Grove, ones hand to appreciate the separated egg containers. One California. George and wife, Terry, have two boys and live can never forget the joy of the first hand cranked cream in Glendive, Montana. Patricia and husband , Lee Nixon , separator or forget the awful job of washing it. and two boys live in Billings, Montana. Donna and Danny How did we ever do without all the health rules and are twins. Dan and his wife, Kim, live in Lake Oswego, regulations?[...]days every one that came Oregon. Donna and Don Boyer, two sons and one daughter along for a drink of water helped himself with the old Ii ve in Seo bey. dipper to get a drink out of the pail or crock always kept ready to quench our thirst. As we pa use to look back on the so-called good old days, Nowa[...]ily What a great difference electricity and telephones make. shared one or two rooms, or the time my Dad and his hired Who would ever think of such a thing happening to rural man , Alex McArthur, were digging a well in[...]It seemed as remote as putting a man on the time and the one bedroom was shared with the family[...] |
| [...]ewildered when we hear the expression and is a beekeeper. They have two boys. "There is nothing to do", when we found so much fun in pus~ing a hoop[...]n Wahl Chnstmas, ex~hanging ~>0oks with neighbors and reading through the wmter evenmgs. Valentines wer[...]O.E. SPEAR Roebuck catalog looking and dreaming what we'd get if we had the money, and then father would say "Well there's[...]I came to Redstone, Montana during February of 1912. I next[...]moved from Sheridan County to the present location of the hope and perseverance and a lot of hard work we would[...]_goi~g, helping one another over the rough spots, and came to Montana on the advice of a friend of mine who shanng JOY and sorrow. God was good to us in many ways[...]d me by~ year or two. I came from Oklahoma. I had and as always if we would realize how much better off[...]give thanks for One incident that comes to mind that I guess would b~ the blessings we have.[...]enough voters for a quorum so we were advised to go to an The following is by daughter, Gwen Wahl:[...]adjoining precinct to vote. For some reason I was almost[...]compelled to go to Scobey on Election Day. Mother, Harold and I sailed for Montana in January[...]I stopped at the Coal Creek sod schoolhouse and voted 1914, the year of World War I. All our lig[...]and my lone vote placed the two west townships in Daniel~ to be out by nine P.M. so it wouldn't be so easy for[...]e would have no doubt been a few more votes enemy to see us. The ship's main light had to be on of[...]I was There wasn't a school within ten miles and there were[...]wo families with school age children B~rt Michels and too seasick to really care.[...]ours. I rigged a small house and moved it halfway between We came from London. We had to be examined and vaccinated. There was one lady who didn't believe in being our homes, and hired a private teacher for a three month[...]the vacci_nated, so they told her she would have to go back; so[...]n't long until a school was she finally consented to have it done. When we arrived in[...]ndary line in Canada 1-1/2 miles New York we had to be examined again. They told my[...]from my house and my children got ten months of school- mother she would have to go back to Ireland as she had a[...]three. cataract on one of her eyes. She explained to them her husband had come across a year ago and we were on our A ~isal;>pointing[...]the fall of 1916 there was a Soo Line survey way to join him, so they let us go on.[...]stakes Whitetail to Opheim, and a Great Northern from We were dressed in summer clothes, so were surprised to feel how cold Montana was during the month of January. Poplar to Opheim. The two surveys came together at about[...]where the town of Richland is and ran side by side on the We never knew what winte[...]having a town close by, but while we were things to learn. We didn't know what to think of the bare[...]World War I, and that stopped the railroads and left me were disappointed after we arrived.[...]the nearest market until J.V. Bennet I wanted to learn to milk cows and I did a lot ofit in the[...]·x tended further west. I married my wife years to follow. My cousins put me on a cow and she threw[...]Our children me off into a duck pond. I learned to ride horseback and that was the joy of my life. In later years I rod[...]nt, nine gra~dchildren, My mother was lonesome and depressed when she came 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 all a happy family. O.E. Spear and Family My dad got a job as a welldigger. No one had money so he h~d to trade cows or whatever he could get in exchange for his work. The rest of the family stayed home and took care of things on the farm. Arnold Wahl and I got married and we lived in Montana a few years but drought hit so it was hard to make a living. We decided to move to Minnesota and that's where our home _is no_w. We have five chil[...]rn) who hves_ m Scobey, Montana. They are farming and her husband 1s Agsco Salesman. They have two girls and one boy. Mrs. Bud Newquist (Juanita) is married to a printer a~d they Ii vein Alamogordo, New Mexico[...]Strathcona Minnesota. They farm , raise turkeys, and he is a salesma~ for Rupp Snowmobiles. They have three girls and two boy~. Mrs. Ray Hanson (Sonja) lives at Strathcona, Minnesota. Her husband is a beekeeper and trapper. They have two boys and one girl. Our only son, Oswald Wahl lives[...] |
| Tfaruey Wagar Family - Dad, Howard, William , Kenneth and Mother. DANIELS COUNTY HISTORY[...]law was changed so a |
| [...]George Case, who was county treasurer, and C.T. Swenson , Erstad , John Shenn um, a nd Bill Bern a rd wen t to O.B. Scobey banker at the time. The count[...]s who taught t h e school p ut on bas ket socials to Collins family providing music on the violin and piano. help raise money to finish the in side of t h e sch ool. Pat Occasionally Mac Drummond would attend and play the Murphy, Scobey banker, came out a nd bou[...]4th celebrations 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 t[...]Shennum Sch ool a nd still many years picnics and ball games, in which Canadian live in Daniels Cou[...]ing pool where it crosses Mrs. Laura K. Kerstein, and Mrs. Esth er Leibrand . The the interna[...]s in the earlier da ys ra n ged from about $75.00 to $105.00 per month. Ch ildren wh o a ttended Politics - In 1930 Albert Estenson and Luther Greenup the Shennum School included the fo[...]milies: J ac;k from the Osset Community came to my place and got me to Wulf, Otto Erstad, John Shen num , Bill Bernard ,[...]Daniels County. I was elected in November 1930 and Henninger , Pat Shea, Euge n e T h ei ve n , a nd[...]Stalder, J .B. Bourassa, Wyvil Bjerke, Roy Davis and his mother, Christina.[...]in th e Claude Hanrahan , Leonard Danelson, and Thomas earlier days, time was still fo und fo r e[...]ily 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, durin[...]Wagar copied the following market Creek Community and Happy Valley Co mmunit y quo[...]0.03 Creek Community included Jack Reed, Tom and Jack Durum[...]0.08 Theodore Gryth, Harvey Wagar, and Oscar Halverson . F lax[...]0.16 Scobey to play whist with the losers to pay fo r th e suppers . Eggs[...]Cows and Heifers 0.02½[...]Canners and cutters 0.00½ Wa[...]No wonder farmers and ranchers couldn't pay their[...]farming and ranching, extension of railroad lines and cars and trucks which have made remote areas much more[...]a ccessible, have all tended to make the country and world smaller in relation to time. With the technical advances in[...]and livestock breeds, and modern conveniences, the[...]in creased s ubstantially due to a higher standard ofliving and medical adva ncem ent. Addition of electri[...] |
| modernizing rural areas to a degree where they can JACOB AND ELIZABETH WULF compare favorably with the modern conveniences found in urban areas. Homestead days, or horse and buggy days, Jacob and Elizabeth Wulf arrived in Daniels County in are many times referred to as the "good old" days, but I 1914 from Re[...]iven a choice anyone would prefer area, next to Harvey Wagar. the "good old" days to our way of life today. Whether our They h[...]nd , Kathryn, Mary Lou, higher standard of living and way of life can continue and John. John died in 1933 and my father in 1934. without some deterioration in this troubled economic My mother, two sisters, and I moved to Wisconsin in period and until fuel self-sufficiency is obtained, will tes[...]r passed away in 1963. our ingenious capabilities to the limit. Kathryn Dunha[...]She is a housewife and a part time school teacher. Ronald is[...]l teacher in Jefferson. Robert lives in Jefferson and[...]has three children: Miles , Marla, and Mel.[...]Esther and I work for a furniture factory in Jefferson. I Paul Wolfe was born June 29, 1898 in Austria, and came have one son, Gary. to Kronau, Saskatchewan with his parents in about 1916. He came to 20 miles southeast of Rockglen, Saskatchewan By Raymond Wulf to live with his older brother Rudolf and his family. In 1920 Paul married Wilhelmina (Minnie) Walter. In 1896 her parents had come from Austria to New York, in 1897 to Gretna, Manitoba, where she was born, and in 1909 to Carnduff, Saskatchewan. In 1912 they moved 20 mil[...]oal Creek or Carbert, 12 miles north of Peerless, and was farming. He also was a good carpenter. Minnie passed away in 1943 and in 1945 Paul quit farming due to ill health and rented the farm. He passed Oscar Halvorson[...]ghter Marion married Edward Harvelko in late 40's and is now living in San Bernardino, Californi[...] |
| Shennum School - mid 20's. Left to right - rear row: Clarence Henninger, Pearl Shennum , Dakotah Bernard, Beryl Henninger (mother of Ron Fjeld) and Dorothy Lawrence (teacher and aunt of Judge Sorte) Front Row: Walter Erstad, Joe Shennum, Raymond Wolf, Kenneth Wager and Wayne Henninger. Michel School, 1932[...]Eliz. |
| [...]Syrus had been in ailing health for many years and passed by Lloyd Brenna[...]ion Hilma worked in the John Brenna immigrated to America in 1889 from Flaxville telephone office for some 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[...]son came from have the postoffice and a grocery store. They have two Sweden. They came to Perley, Minnesota where they daughters, Donna of Scobey and Norma of Billings. I, worked on the Staples and Richards farms and she also Lloyd, farmed for a few years, and have been employed at worked at Concordia College. They both went to night the Nelson Implement for many years. I married the school to learn the English language so they could get thei[...]i -l Clarice of Scobey. Duane served in Mother and Dad were married in Moorhead, Minnesota the artillery brarn___ .f the Army from 1963 to 1967. A part in 1904, and soon after came to the Wild West, settling in of that time was[...]w employed at Culbertson, where Dad had a harness and saddle shop. the Tande grocery store in Scobey. John served in the Our parents told us many interesting stories of events that[...]was stationed there. They have two daughters, Sue and the trip with a team and wagon which took several days. Polly. The wagon trails went across country, and many trips Our father died in 1943, and Mother passed away in had to be made to Culbertson for lumber and supplies for 1970. the new homestead buil[...]was plenty of work with the building of the house and barn, breaking up the land, fencing , and digging the THE HENRY CRAY FAMILY well. For the first few years travel and farming was all made with horses. Their entertainment was to visit the Henry Cray was born in Moss[...], neighbors, go on picnics in the summer time, or to enjoy a 1880 and when he was four years old he came to new record for the Victor phonograph. News from the Cooperstown, North Dakota with his parents, where he outside world came to us through a weekly newspaper, the grew to manhood. The family later moved to Bonetrail, Producers News, from Plentywood. North Dakota. In 1912 Henry came to the Flaxville Dad had one of the first motor c[...]born in Barnsville, Minnesota on November 8, 1889 to neighbors. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Torgomson. Her parents had changed The first postoffice was at Redsone, which was the their name later coming to the United States from Norway. nearest town for s[...]its own She was raised in Minnesota and went to Williston, North postoffice, as well as a general[...]a where she found employment. It was in Williston and Great Northern depot. The passenger train, with its where Henry and Louise met and married. They settled on red plush seats, was the[...]Henry's homeste_a d south of Flaxville and raised three There was a country school at Eagl[...]miles from our farm home where Syrus, Hilma, John and I went to school until 1928. Our family went to church at the Zion Lutheran church at Orville. Sometimes we had to get Henry and Louise Cray out and push the Ford up the hill east of the church. Rev[...]ion classes in the Eagle Creek community in 1923, and Syrus was one of the first class confirmed in 192[...]rs, with all the neighborhood in attendance - men and children as well as the ladies. Sometimes, after[...]18. Doctors traveled in all sorts of bad weather, and oftentimes they braved deep snow and blizzard conditions. At times, if the doctor was unable to come, -ladies in the community served as midwives to deliver the babies. In 1928 we moved to Flaxville for high school. The farm which had been rented had to be taken back again and we raised cattle for a few years. The long drought and depression resulted in poor crops and low prices for farm produce. Radio was by now in most homes, and if reception was poor at one's home, he went to the neighbor's to hear the nightly broadcast of Amos 'n Andy[...] |
| Their first child, Hazel, grew up in Flaxville and received 1906 and worked with a survey crew on the Fort Peck her schooling. In 1936 she was married to Albert Indian Reservation. He sold his claim at Bainville and Hachmann. They lived in Flaxville for 22 years wh[...]l. In October, 1967 farm now. they moved to Scobey where Albert worked and Hazel went In 1912 Hugh married Mildred Phelps. She had been to work at the Daniels Memorial Nursing Home where she teaching a few years and had also homesteaded in is currently employed. Sheridan County and that is where they made their home. Maurice Cray also grew up and received his school there. In 1942 they moved to Plentywood. Hugh was a member He served in the armed forces from 1942 to 1946. He of the Sheridan County ASC[...]ent farming in the Four Buttes area Hugh and Mildred French had four sons, Willard, Glenn , where he still farms. Maurice and Ann live in Scobey. and Harvey who farm south of Redstone and Donald of Kenneth Cray also grew up and received his schooling in Oak Harbor, Washington. Flaxville. Kenneth served in the navy from 1944 to 1948. compiled[...]rench After the service he married Lillian Waters and moved to Great Falls where they have made their home ever[...]ce. In 1943, having raised their family, Henry and Louise HISTORY OF CARL J. FROSLAN sold their homestead to Ed Tyler and moved to Flaxville where he worked at McCabe elevator for six years and then Carl J. Froslan was born May 25, 18[...]y Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota to Hans and remained in Flaxville until October, 1967, moved to Scobey Karn Morstead Froslan. Carl was the youngest of four and made her home with her daughter and son-in-law until brothers and three sisters. her passing on July 28, 1972.[...]LUDVIG N. G_RAY Ludvig N. Cray, son of Karl and Anne Cray, was born at Cooperstown, North Dakota in 1887. When he was a young man the family moved to the Eagle Creek community, south of Flaxville. He[...]19 at the hospital at Williston. GLENN AND WINIFRED FRENCH HU[...]Carl's two older brothers, Peder and Martin, had gone |
| and other relatives and friends homesteaded. Carl's The u[...]he He was a member of Orville Lutheran Church, and repatriation of 500,000 World War[...]rded the Carl drove a Model T touring car back to St. James, Nobel Peace prize for this.[...]l never married. The last 22 years or so he lived and household, and Mrs. Halverson remembers him well. The worked wit[...]Nansen children attended school next door to the mansion Mollerstuens and Walter Linders. and stopped in regularly after school to eat the waffles and He enjoyed people and was always happy. He lived to hot chocolate that she prepared for them. On one occasion visit. Sometimes he disagreed just to keep the conversation she assisted at a for[...]the Lammers' house was Minnesota visiting nieces and nephews. Bjornstjerne[...]mes, Minnesota Norway's greatest dramatists and writers. Bjornsen also and is buried in Madelia, Minnesota. wrote the words to Norway's national anthem. Mr. and Mrs. Lammers were, themselves, celebrities in[...]their day. Thorvald Lammers gained the admiration and friendship of composer Edvard Grieg, and his concert EMIL GETTERBERG[...]Emil Getterberg of Valley City, North Dakota came to well as for his opera roles and classical concerts. One Daniels County by car to visit relatives. He liked what he enthusiastic critic described his voice as being "equal to a saw, but it was too late to homestead, so he bought some thousand st[...]were always crop shares, but each year came back to enjoy his Montana singing, and they also had pupils who came to the house property.[...]for music lessons. I did get tired of listening to the scales Emil never married and after his death the land was and never even thought of developing my own voice, ev[...]and everybody loved her."[...]While working in the Lammers household Anna met and[...]neighborhood storekeeper. Fridtjof decided to go to SHE TRADED A MANSION America to seek his fortune as there was no room for him in[...]his father's business. He went to Madoc, North Dakota in 1906, and a year and a half later Anna joined him. From an ar[...]"The Lammers did not want me to do," Mrs. Halverson[...]recalls. "Mr. Lammers told me I was foolish to go to such a Flaxville:[...]the Ii ving in one of Oslo, Norway's most famous and luxurious nine-day voyage across the Norse Sea and to the United mansions and preparing meals for such guests as Fridtjof States. It was a rough crossing. Nansen, the explorer, and Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Anna did[...]North Dakota, but insisted on learning to speak English She was a housekeeper in the home of Thorvald and first. Mally Lammers, famous Norwegian opera singers. It was "I didn't want to find myself sitting alone in a little a pleasant life, and she still smiles as she recalls how house way out on the prairie and tied down with babies and foolish people thought she was to leave it all to follow her not be able to talk to anybody, "she explained. fiance to the wilds of the American prairie.[...]ainville area where Born on a farm in Sweden, and one of 14 children, Mrs. she cooked for abo[...]the men were Halverson followed an older sister to Norway to work Russians who had come over after[...]employment in the wives. One owned a cow and the other one had a horse. The Lammers household.[...]one with the cow hitched the cow and his wife to his plow. "The Lammers had no children of the[...]The cow died but the wife survived. "So they used to treat me like a daughter. They always took Anna and Fred Halverson were married in Williston, me with them when they performed in operas and concerts North Dakota in 1908, and they filed on a homestead near in Oslo. And their friends were wonderful to me, too. They the present town of Homestead. Their 12x14. tarpaper never referred to me as a 'hired girl'." sh[...]ld famous explorer, scientist, artist, statesman, and did miss the trees we had in Norway. I th[...]n looked so naked I hated to go outside. But I got used to it." accomplishments was the designing of a speci[...]as built in such a manner that it would be to keep it from blowing away. Their barn was made of[...]She also remembers how the Indians used to hang fresh allowed this ship to be frozen in the Polar Sea off of eastern meat[...]ts would carry the ice Her husband went to Kalispell to work soon after they and the ship to Spitzbergen, while he and his crew were married and she took a job as cook in a Bainville cont[...] |
| "Once somebody came and told me that somebody was way to the reservation and would camp on the Tom Lee going to jump our claim," she recalls. "I took the train to farm but were no trouble. Culbertson, and then rode 22 miles on top of a load of poles A son, Alfred, died in 1922 and a daughter, Guden, died. in a lumberwagon to reach our place.Nobody was there, so Fred[...]t attack at home in Flaxville I cleaned the shack and went back to my job." in 1957. Anna passed a[...]the assistance of a doctor. An elderly woman came to help. Five weeks after the baby was born they moved to another homestead about six miles south of Navajo. Mr. FRED AND EVELYN HANSON Halverson rigged up a wagon, hitched up four horses, and they started out. The Muddy River was swollen with the Fred Hanson came to Montana from Bachelors Grove in spring run-off and had to be crossed with the wagon Grand Forks County, North Dakota in 1910 to homestead floating and the horses swimming. in Daniels County, south of Flaxville. To help pay the "I was scared to death," Mrs. Halverson remembers, expen[...]the river with my baby in my Culbertson to Redstone with a team of horses and wagon. arms."[...]e United They were caught in a March snowstorm and after dark States entered World War I. He[...]drove into service in France. a clothesline and we heard a baby crying," she recalls. "It He played on baseball teams in the early years in and was the most welcome sound I have ever heard." Th[...]their seasons several of their players came to Scobey, and which had arrived only two days before. They spent the Fred had the opportunity to play ball with them. night there.[...]Coal Creek, Smoke Creek, crackling of the flames, and had to ~ait helplessly to see if and Redstone. She also played for dances in the early[...]re. Fortunately it did. in Redstone, and taught piano lessons for several years. The Halversons lost a four-month-old baby girl and a Fred worked as a mechanic in Flaxville before and after boy of ten as a result of the flu epidemic[...]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 grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. The family left the original homestead in 1926 and moved to a farm near Eagles Nest. In 1953 they moved to Flaxville. Mr. Halverson died in 1957. Mrs. Halv[...]th birthday in January, still lives in Flaxville and keeps 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. And anyone who has ever sampled her expert cooking o[...]n understand why her employers were so reluctant to see her leave for America 57 years ago.[...]HALVERSON Evelyn and Fred Hanson Fred Halverson came from Oslo, Norw[...]ed Anna Swanson, who was Swedish. They first came to North Dakota in 1904 and then to Homestead in Fred and Evelyn had three children. Grace, now married 1906 and worked for a man named Paulson. They had to Joseph Bouchard, lives in California. They have t[...]children, Joseph Jr., Dan and Cindy. Ruth, married to They came to Homestead in March of 1910 with a month John Vanlandingham, lives in Billings and has two boys, old baby. John and Roger. Fred, married to the former Shirley They settled on their farm s[...]They have four house was a frame house. The barn and chicken coop were children, Kim, Laurie, John and James. made of sod. They had midwives for the children and Dr. After a stroke in 1949 Fred Sr. too[...]family doctor. collecting, renewing and rebuilding rifles. This involved a They all hel[...]by a man with a Orville church. Church activities and Ladies Aid were the paralyzed right hand. m[...]here Their main entertainment was school dances and house Evelyn continued to give piano lessons and Fred worked parties and Fred played the concertina. Horse, wagon,[...] |
| [...]eger originally came from Germany, probably first to Minnesota. He homesteaded south of Navajo in 1910 and later bought the Art William's farm also and 80 acres from Adam Vaubel which Wyman Hagan had h[...]in February, 1831 and died at west St. Paul in February of[...]The family moved to Balfour, North Dakota. In 1908[...]Paul's brother, Henry, came to Culbertson by train, and[...]Louisa, sister Mary, and brothers Louis and Herman came to this country in an immigrant car. They brought wi[...]them cattle, horses, a steam engine and a threshing rig.[...]ere unloading their belongings in Poplar they Mr. and Mrs . Herman Jaeger lost their fat white dog to the Indians who ate it. This made[...]aul drove the steam engine across the reservation to[...]rairie grass. He drove the engine around the fire and Sometime later he got a mail order bride from M[...]xtinguished it with pressure from the steam hose. and they lived there for many years. She died later f[...]ell as all of their other supplies, with his farm to George Severson. He and a friend, Charlie horses and wagon. Radford, loaded their belongings in his jeep and drove to Regular worship services were held at the[...]ran Church, Missouri Synod, years. He later moved to Seguin, Texas where he owned of Scobey.[...]My grandmother passed a way in July of 1923, and Mary compiled by George and Ruth Severson. died in 1934. Neither Paul[...]Henry owned and operated a grain elevator in Madoc for[...]elevator burned to the ground and was never rebuilt. Louis PAUL AND HENRY KANNING bough[...]Paul, Henry and Louis formed a partnership in 1909[...]under the name of Kanning Brothers, and by 1917 farmed[...]ith a The Kanning family originated in Germany, and the total of 3500 acres. The years of[...]older children were born at Minden before Paul's parents and the partnership went broke. Louis withdrew from it immigrated to America in 1885, settling in a rural area of and moved to Canada in 1919.[...] |
| [...]father, Ferdinand, brought his motherless family to Redstone from Karlsruhe, North Dakota. We lived with our aunt Mary, and grandmother for a while. Dad was in ailing health and passed away in October of 1922. In 1925 Paul took us six children, Fred, Emma, Adolph, George, Minnie and Bennie into his home where we lived until we had homes of our own. We all went the four miles to school at Eagle Creek with horses. My last teache[...]rades. Paul passed away in 1948, Henry in 1949, and Louis in 1967. Of the six children Paul raised, t[...]elby, Montana; Emma (Kollmann), who died in 1956; and Adolph in 1972. Still living are George of Plentywood, Minnie (Severson) and Bennie, both of Flaxville. Paul was a happy and congenial person who was liked and respected by all who knew him. He opened his heart and his home to anyone who might be in need of a helping hand.[...]Indian reservation near Reserve, Montana. Minnie and her husband, Lester Severson, lived with him for 19 years where she cooked for him and Lester helped with the farming operations. Min[...]re husband at the Eagle Creek school. He had come to Daniels County with his parents in 1910. Minnie remembers that the first , thing said to the Borghild Lee children when they came to their new home was, "Well, take off your coats and get to work!" He left for western Montana and made his home near[...]sign "Uncle Tom's Cabin". He came back to Navajo to visit Thomas Lee, a brother of Mrs. John Severson, was born several times and then he stayed a few weeks. When they November 13, 1876 in Norway and lived in Wisconsin until built the nursing home in Conrad he was the first patient. he came to Homestead in 1906. He went back to Wisconsin Everyone in the area knew him, he was easy to get along for two winters. He homesteaded a quarter, later sold it and with and mild and was comical. He stayed at the nursing came to Navajo in 1910 where he homesteaded two[...]e died in 1964. quarters near the John Severson's and Fred Halverson's. compiled by George and Ruth Severson His mother, Borghild Lee, lived wit[...]play a lot of cards. With another fellow he went to western Montana ANTON LINDER FAMILY and cut logs for a few winters. In later years he lost his farm to a loan company which happened to so many Anton and Frances Linder and family came to Daniels farmers that borrowed a little money to buy machinery. County from Marathon, Wisc[...]ey were met at Culbertson by brother Frank Linder and traveled by team and wagon to their home. The first winter Tom Lee and Sister Sarah Paulson was spent with Frank and Ceilia. In spring they built a shack and set up housekeeping on the land they filed on[...]children, Viola, Alvina, Delphine and Walter. Although[...]the kids were small they all pitched in and helped pick rocks and other work connected with establishing a home.[...]All supplies were hauled by team and wagon from Culbertson and Medicine Lake, including lumber for the[...]Entertainment was limited to house parties and visiting[...]Frank Linders. Delphine went to sleep on the way and was left in the wagon to finish her nap. The Murr boys decided[...]it would be fun to "tin can" a dog and with all the yelping and commotion, the horses broke loose from where they[...]were tied and ran away with the little girl still asleep in the[...]to search. After a time the outfit was locate[...] |
| [...]Linder, Eileen Severson, Vernon Severson, and Norman[...]EDWIN LINDER Double Golden W~dding - 1954. Mr. and Mrs. Anton[...]er was born at Marathon, Wisconsin on Linder, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linder. Witnesses Mrs. John[...]December 31, 1906, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linder, Sonnentag and Mr. Ben Linder. The women are sisters and Sr. At the age of three he came to Navajo, Montana with the men are brothers. his parents where they homesteaded. Ed went to school at what was known as the Eagle Creek[...]. In the winter he hauled Delphine from the wagon and dried her tears. ice for Bill Konchur and also hauled and dug coal. For a time Anton and Frank owned a threshing outfit, powered by a stea[...]all, a carpenter from Wisconsin, built a Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Linder, Marvin and Delano fine new barn on the place. All work was d[...]walked. Walter remembers stopping at Rasmussen's and they were joined by those children. Mrs. Rasmussen spoke only Norwegian and they couldn't understand her, but she sure made g[...]assed, some lean, some good. The children grew up and married. In 1941 Anton's health failed so they bought the Ellis Guy home in Flaxville, leaving Walter and family on the farm. Anton and Frances, along with Frank and Cecelia , celebrated their double Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1954. The two brothers married to sisters. Another brother and sister who were attendants at the wedding[...] |
| [...]October 26, 1908 at Trubune, Saskatchewan, Canada and came with her parents to north Navajo. The Ed Linders have two boys, Marvin of Sidney and Delano of Great Falls. In 1950 Eddie and Lena bought the Pete Kurtz farm where they still farm and reside. MARVIN LINDER Marv[...]Daniels County September 1, D[...]most commonly known as Del, was born Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linder - Golden Wedding - |
| [...]Wolf Point; The 1940's brought better crops and two children, so our Mrs. Gene (Lillian) Schriene[...]ectricity in 1951 was (Irene) Kattanick, Arizona; and Frank, Jr., deceased. an important event. We began updating and remodeling our home, and are still at it. Our boys, Ronald and Anton went to grade school at Eagle Creek and graduated from Flaxville high. Both are[...]LINDER FAMILY married and we have one granddaughter, Kim.[...]We enjoy farming and I'm sure Daniels County will Walter and Blanche (Knight) were married in the "dirty[...]truly a challenging time for newlyweds. We farmed and lived with his parents, the Anton Linders, for a few years until they retired and moved to Flaxville. RONALD AND IRENE LINDER[...]Ronald graduated from Flaxville High and enlisted in[...]the Navy shortly after. He studied meteorology and after[...]married Irene Aki of Waianae, Hawaii and they have one[...]After three years they moved on to Wake Island where they[...]island of Guam and at present are at McGrath, Alaska[...]ANTON W. AND CHIKO LINDER[...]Anton graduated from Flaxville High and attended college at Bozeman and Havre, where he earned a degree Mr. and Mrs. Walter Linder[...]Navy and spent seven years with "Uncle Sam", attending[...]and they were married in Hawaii in 1971.[...]The Owen Logan family came to Daniels County from[...]North Dakota (near Columbus and Portal) in about the[...]required three' weeks or more to complete. The oxen[...]family to camp near Redstone, Montana until they were[...]well enough to continue the trip. Their final destination[...]in order to build one it required several three-day trips to Walter Linder (at 14) and Beauty Medicine Lake[...]and a tent. After several weeks of such living, a hom[...]th. It seemed like a fortune then. We milked cows and (Logan) Thompson can still remember the homemade sold cream to supplement our income. He also worked at bread and other goodies her mother made while the Fort Peck[...]the trip to Montana was that she sat in the back of th[...] |
| Owen Logan Family - first campground. Left to right: Raymond, Grandpa Fawcett, Freedia, Worth ,[...]rgia (Mother) , Owen (Father) , Ruby on h is lap, and Don. wagon, looking out as they moved along,[...]a favorite handmade rag doll. Daily |
| [...]e says. Upon discharge he Wisconsin came by train to Flaxville and stayed with the started a painting and paper hanging business in Wausau, Earl Randall's.[...]east of Wisconsin, which he still owns and operates. He married Flaxville and put in a crop. Lucille Smith from Wausau and they have one child,[...]death Mrs. Murr went to live with her daughter at Renton,[...]Joseph Murr (born 1869 in Pennsylvania) and Barbara[...]15, 1893. They and their family settled in Daniels County seven and a half miles southeast of Flaxville in the fall o[...]They arrived with the Frank Linder family and the[...]in Culbertson, Montana. The Ed Mehis family. Left to right: Verona , Clara, Vergile, From there they came to Daniels County and built a sod Ed.[...]The first thing they did was to build a fireguard around[...]train. Marie Murr, In the spring of 1914 Clara and Ed were married and Walter Murr, and Raymond Linder said this was where the spent the winter in Wisconsin visiting their parents. They train dumped its ashes and they dragged their feet through lived on the homestead 34 years with the usual ups and there. As a result there were three sets[...]central Wisconsin because they daughters, Virgile and Verona, grew up here and thought the 320 acres ofland offer[...]was a lot of work. In 1948 they sold the farm and lived in Flaxville a few They had to build a home, dig a well, dig up rocks, etc. years. Later they moved to Frontdale, Oregon and bought There were four boys born in Wis[...]a place where they raised raspberries. After ten and a half Edward, Walter and Ludwig. In 1913 a daughter, Barbara years they sold the property and retired to Seattle, where was born in Montana. Ed passe[...]eph married Marie Knorr of Poplar, Montana. He i~ and she Ii ves in Tennessee.[...]ldren ano The seven grandchildren are grown now and give lots of is retired. His wife is deceased. joy and happiness. Edward was a deaf mute and never married. He lived Verona C. Mehls Neal, 6502 E. B St., Tacoma, nea:r: Glasgow and died February 26, 1971. Washington. Verona went to Havre college, graduating in Walter mar[...]akota. :rhey lived in Pendleton, Oregon. His wife and a 1950. Their children were Roger and Cynthia. Verona grandson were killed in an automobile accident September married Gene R. Neal and their two daughters are Verena 13, 1964. Walter passed away December 17, 1969. They had Jean and Terri Carla. Verona now lives in Tacoma and is four daughters and two sons. working at Pierce County Library, Techn[...]Ludwig ~arried Viola Linder, daughter of Frances and[...]children, three girls and two boys.[...]Barbara Murr married Joseph J. Longacre. His parents, Lewis and Ada Longacre, were also early settlers of the[...]California and Frances Holmes of Springfield, Oregon. John Murr and his children, Clarence and Viola, came They also live in Springfield[...]ry Frank Linder had four children and so did Bill Murr and Murr, widow of the late William Murr, and they lived on a Joseph Murr so there were 20[...]r the farm 17 miles southeast of Flaxville, close to the Indian first winter. ,. Reservation[...]Joseph had to walk or ride five miles to school and had to In a year or so they moved to Flaxville where Clarence pass the old John[...]boys in the attending high school. Viola returned to Wisconsin to live. school tried to make him eat sagebrush. He said he couldn't Clarence was active in all sports in school and graduated swallow it and asked them to push it down his throat. with the class of 1937. After graduation he returned to When they put their fingers in his mouth he bit them hard. Marathon and worked as a painter. He served in the Army[...]everely burnt with hot water from in World War II and became a sergeant in the Medical[...] |
| baking soda so Mother went and borrowed baking soda Ann - married[...]Washington. Frank Murr, brother of Joseph and Bill, came later with Willie - married P[...]other Peter. Frank operated a saloon in Flaxville and ran it until the late 20's or early 30's. He passed away in the 40's. Peter worked around Flaxville and married a widow, Martha Wade, who had two children. He lived around LINDEN AND EMMA PFEIFFER Flaxville until he and Martha separated. He then went to Alaska to look for gold and died there in the 1930's. Linden P[...]w up in northeast Montana. In 1936 he was married to Barbara (Murr)[...]in Homestead. They went to work for Paul Kanning on the farm and in 1937 there was no crop because of drought so i[...]the fall they went to Kramer, North Dakota with E'mma's[...]brother George, and George and Linden worked in the WILLIAM MURR[...]south of Navajo and worked on a W.P.A. project. In the William Murr, born in Pennsylvania, and Mary Linder, spring Linden again work[...]at Marathon, Wisconsin, were married in Wisconsin and came to Daniels County in 1909 with their four children.[...]he house that they built later still stands, tall and erect, on the farm now owned by Norman Rasmussen. William Murr Family. Left to right: Harold, Mrs. Murr, Roger, Larry (right) and Jackie (below), sons of the Linden[...]e Creek |
| Larry was married to Sharon Grayson of Plentywood, and they have two children, Debra and Terry. Larry and Sharon live in Great Falls, and he works for Meadow Gold Milk. Jackie was married to Linda LaCounte of Bainville, Montana and they have three children, Jason, Tisha and Jared. Jackie is Station Agent for Frontier Airlines in Billings. MR. AND MRS. EARL RANDALL Earl Randall came to Daniels County from Fall Creek, Bernt and his brothers and sisters were all born on the[...]to Montana prior to 1920. Anton married and lived on the[...]to Montana in 1925. Alma Kristine married to Lon Stewart[...]Lindberg in Minnesota, moved to New England, North Louise and Earl Randall and Mrs. Weber Atright HENRY AND BERTHA (TEREN) ROUFS A year later he married[...]Bertha Teren, a niece of Mrs. John Severson, came to |
| BENJAMIN AND MAUDE SCHLAG terrible dust storms, drought, and no crop they moved to Bergen, North Dakota where he and Joy worked in a REA Benjamin F. Schlag was born[...]r plant for many years. Joy is married and has several Burlington, Wisconsin. By 1911 he was tired of milking children. Harley and Marie celebrated their golden cows and planting and caring for corn by hand in wedding in 1970. He has now retired. Wisconsin, so he ventured west to Montana to help his by George and Ruth Severson brothers, Albert and John, farm and ranch. In 1914 he returned to Wisconsin and married a school teacher, Maude Smith. That summer they returned and made a home on the Pfeiffer place close to Albert. They had JOHN H. SCH[...]lington, Wisconsin on In 1921 the Schlags moved to the Carlton Buel ranch April 25, 1875. In 1896 he had the desire to see the west and where Ben was foreman. Ben had cowboys to help roundup he came to Bozeman and worked on a sheep ranch for four cattle and horses off the reservation where they grazed.[...]t. In 1900 he came by covered wagon to Culbertson. Along From 1924-1929 they lived in Daniels County where they with him were Jack Wagner and Bill Endersby. John operated a wheat farm near Ma[...]ranch at Culbertson during the summer moved back to Sheridan County and farmed the George and in the fall started a homestead southwest of Reds[...]hen he built a house. The garden despite the wind and drought of the terrible 30's. In lumber used wa[...]barn had been built. the animals were in the barn and escaped injury from the John was married to Myrtle Click of Mount Hope, falling debris. Kansas and has a son, Harvey, who now lives at Bergen, Dur[...]John no longer farmed he worked on the E.V. horse and cart always had to be readied. for the teacher and Hurst ranch in the Daleview community. He also was the Florence to get to school. During the severe winters it was last postmaster to Daleview. His remaining years were necessary to take them with a team of horses and sled. For spent in Redstone. a few years Mrs.[...]of 81. In 1949 the Schlags retired from farming and purchased[...]ate 50's. Benjamin passed away on July 30, 1960 and Maude Schlag died in March of 1962.[...]spring and three months in the fall, until 1920 when the[...]coal burning stove. There was a small barn and some of the Eagle Creek School Harley and Marie Schlag HARLEY SCHLAG FAMILY Harley Schlag's parents were John and Myrtle Schlag. |
| [...]GEORGE AND RUTH SEVERSON[...]February 16, 1899, son of John and Lena Severson. When[...]he was about ten the family moved to HoIJ}estead where[...]h Logan, Lester Severson. children rode horses to school. A cook car was bought from |
| three years. He bought Nakken out in 1922 and sold out to gradually renting out the farm land. The c[...]mplement in good health for them and their families. Flaxville. A Ford run-about was another purchase in 1924 and George and Vern Tyler made a trip to Yellowstone Park, drove to the top of Mt. Washburn which was 10,300 feet JOHN J. AND LENA SEVERSON high. This drive was later disconti[...]that time were not John J. Severson came to this county in 1910, paved and some of them were not even gravelled so at[...]born on May 13, 1855 at Underdahl, Norway to parents, On December 28, 1933 George and Ruth Lervik were Gjorgen and Ingeborg Severson. He came to America with married. She was born October 25, 1[...]er, them at the age of eleven in 1866 and located at Madison, North Dakota. Her parents were Rudolf and Beret Lervik Wisconsin and later at Miner, Wisconsin. He married Lena and they had both come from Norway. She had come to Lee on March 21, 1897. She was born in Leo, Norway on Montana in 1930 to teach school. That first summer after January 6, 1880 and came to the United States in 1891 with they were married they both worked at surveying for the her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Lee, who settled in Miner, county allot[...]push the mea s urin g wheel Wisconsin. John and his wife Lena had four children born and Ruth would set up the transit sticks --s o they could in Wisconsin , George, Lenora, Jennie , and' Lester. In 1909 figure the acreages. It was hot, hard work to do all that they moved to Homestead. They arrived first in Culbertson walk[...]the surveying was by train on July 30 and stayed overnight at a hotel and made much easier and George worked with it also when then came by team and wagon driven by Lena's brother, they started aerial surveying. Tom Lee, to his homestead two miles east of the town of George milked cows and they shipped cream in five Homestead. Lena's parents had come to this area in 1905 gallon cream cans to Williston. Later they moved to the and their homestead was a short distance from Tom's. farm where they now live. George went_ to chase the cows home one day and the dust was so thick it shorted out the car so he had to walk home. It was hard to breathe 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[...]vated. Strip farming gradually came into practice and rains did start coming. Their children were: Vernon, Eileen, Ronald and Marvin. School was always a problem in the country because of bad weather and roads. The boys especially had a lot of fun with their Shetland ponies and Eileen had her pony also, named Rocksy. In 1951 when they started high school the family moved to Plentywood in the winter and drove back and forth everyday to the farm in the spring and fall, thirty-five miles each way. The boys were able to help with the chores. Those were busy days with all the activity of a growing family and larger farming operations. In 1944 George bought a Jacobs Wind Charger light plant for $1252 and on February 3rd how nice it was to Lena and John Severson - 1918 have electric lights and some power for appliances. In 1946 an old house was bought and moved from about six miles south of Redstone to the farm and remodeled and the family moved into it in 1947. In 1948 the plu[...]sene refrigerator was The winter of 1906 and 1907 was very severe and several bought and used until 1951. When the Rural Electrification families including Fred Halversons and the Lees moved to program (REA) came along, most of the farmers got the Paulson homestead so they could try to keep warm , the electricity, and then later the telephone (RTA). The modern c[...]omestead. There was lots of snow that winter also and n o there was not much traveling, but in 1949 the[...]. Paulson acted as midwife . Snow was melted tent and campstove and spent three days at the Regina for water so there was much moisture in the air. Fair; and in 1952 a trip to the Yellowstone Park was great, In the fall of 1909 John and his oldest son, George came five children, some not so small, blankets, food , tent, camp to the Navajo area with team and wagon to locate a stove made for a well loaded car. There was not much homestead and finally chose a spot on Eagle Creek, mainly troub[...]ilities for tent campers. Another trip trying to locate a place where three neighbors could when all the family was able to go was to the Black Hills in homestead near each other.[...]had a load of lumber , which was hauled George and Ruth have been fortunate enough to do a from Culbertson and left there until Ma rch of 1910 when little trave[...]on several group tours. George is John came to build a one-room shack , 14x16. Part of th[...] |
| [...]I was born in Scobey July 5, 1944. My parents are George and Ruth. I was raised in the Eagle Creek area and[...]rest of my school years I went to Plentywood and[...]Scobey also, and her parents are Albert and Winifred.[...]Linda was raised in the Flaxville area and attended[...]Lonnie and Monte. I worked for my dad and we lived on his[...],1 In 1971 we moved to the farm where my dad's parents John Severson Family. Left to right back: Lenora, Dad and had homesteaded in 1910. The old house was built in 1914, Mother, George, Jennie. Front: Emma, Lester and Dora. and was so well built that we built a basement under it and[...]here. lumber had disappeared during the winter and the shack One of the things we do durin[...]rt floor. On a bright sunny day on March 19, to take a wagon train trip. We have gone on them for the 1910 they left Homestead early in the morning and came last five years. I restored a two-seated buggy and we took across the reservation in an open hayrack loaded with that in 1973 and 1975. The other years the whole family furniture and other belongings 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 axles on Wolf Creek. At[...]SON about nine in the evening the family arrived and had a fire in the corner of the shack to keep warm. I was born in Scobey in 1935 to George and Ruth John had three horses, a plow, a disc and drill, and Tom Severson. I went to Eagle Creek School for eight years, we Lee had t[...]farmed together. They began walked the two and a half miles to school when the weather to dig rocks and break sod; however, they got only six acres wa[...]orses. In 1947 we were gone for over three weeks and were finally found 20-25 missed six weeks of s[...]e snow! We had miles south of the homestead. John and George walked to study a little at home that time. We didn't get our mail many weary miles trying to find them. They broke 10-11 either during that bad spell. more acres and seeded it to flax. The first crop froze so it yielded a total[...]That summer they built a sod barn for the horses and four cows, and one more room added onto the shack and the outside sodded up. The sod chunks piled up like bales and acted as insulation. Coal was hauled from Eagles Nest which they dug with a pick and shovel. The groceries were bought in Medicine Lake in the fall to last all winter. Coffee was bought in 100 lb. boxes. Flour and sugar were bought in large quantities. The next t[...]raded a horse for two oxen. Then a team of horses and a team of oxen were used to pull a sulky plow. Later another daughter, Dora,[...]tanding. In 1915 another daughter, Inez, was born and she died in infancy of convulsions. The nearest d[...]Montana. The family traveled with lumber wagon and horses everywhere they went those first years, even to Scobey on Norman Severson and mule team for wagon train. the Fourth of July. The first buggy was bought in 1918, and an 83 Overland car, 1918 model, was bought in 192[...]daughter Jennie (Mrs. Jasper We moved to Plentywood in the winter for high school. Phelps)[...]ience at John was hardly ever sick in his life and was 81 years of Wahpeton, North,Dakota where I[...]in the army for two years after which I returned to my Lena also lived a good life until the age of 80, and died former job of selling vacuum cleaners.[...]r Express in Williston. I also have saddle horses and by George Severson enjoy going on the wagon trains and trail rides.[...] |
| RONNIE AND CHERYL SEVERSON I was born in Scobey and went to Eagle Creek School, where I was the only one in my grade--what a difference when we moved to Plentywood and I was in a room of over forty! I graduated from P[...]2. I married Cheryl Johnson, daughter of Melvin and Dorothy Johnson of Raymond, and we lived on the farm, helping my dad, for two years. Then I wanted to see if I could make a living in town, so we moved to Great Falls where I was employed at the Farmers Union Central Exchange for nine months, and then worked as a Walco insurance salesman.[...]Vernon, Kelly, Karlene, Mike, Lorraine, Matt and Marty.[...]We both still think of Daniels and Sheridan Counties as our "home country" and enjoy our visits there often. Our[...]children are always glad for summer--time to go to Grandpa and Grandma's farm.[...]FRED STONE Ronnie Severson family: Ronnie and Cheryl, Allen and Fred Stone first homesteaded south of N[...]shack and lived there for five years when they left for[...]house which later caught fire and he was burned to death. |
| [...]ehner of Minneapolis. By that time he owned a car and they traveled a bit, but still farmed with horses. His horses Joe Vaubel came to Montana about 1915 and was were like people to him. Each one was named and he could associated in farming with his br[...]It was a sad day land on the reservation and also owned some closer to when he had to sell them. Adam said he received a $100 bill Flaxville. from the last team he sold. He decided to keep it as a souvenir and put it in his bank box in the Reserve, Montana ba[...]Joe Vaubel In 1945 he retired and rented his land. He spent the winter months in the southern states, always returning to his beloved farm in spring. He had friends all over the states whom he met in his winter travels. He loved to talk He served in the Army in World War One in France, and of "old times" and could remember the names of many as a[...]irties he moved early settlers who stayed briefly and went on to other to a warmer climate, living in Albuquerque, New Mexi[...]he bought property in Segiun, Texas starting over and made good.[...] |
| VICTOR AND ELSIE PHELPS WILBERG st[...]herd of horses had surrounded Our family moved to the Deep River country northeast of the spri[...], later homesteading about Campbell came to our rescue and he and his dog managed three and a half miles north west of Froid. ' to disperse the herd. I had been teaching in North Dakota and continued I was the first teacher in[...]as working in the Englebritson mr sister Mildred and myself in the Wolf Creek valley, 17 Hardware Store in Redstone and we were married miles south of the present town o[...]Redstone, then moved to Williston. Our son Vernon was[...]born there. Our next move was to Grand Forks, living there[...]born there. We moved back to Williston, then to the[...]and had several dealers in Daniels County. At the[...]outbreak of World War II he rented the land out and went to Seattle to work in the war plants where he passed away[...]I continued living on the original homestead and taught[...]and family in Great Falls, and my daughter Ruth and family in Helena. I have six grandchildren and six great Vic and Elsie Wilberg grandchildren. Up to this year (1975) I have always spent[...]the summer and fall at the farm. My interest is still there and I hope to spend at least a short while there each year.[...]paces, having saddle ponies of our been home to me, and to my family as they have grown up. own, learning to ride horseback and all the new ad ventures Changes have been made, different people have farmed yet to come. To us the west must be an exciting place, so th[...]different from Minnesota with the beautiful woods and The years have seen many changes in f[...]on, modern homes, etc. However, the west by train to Culbertson, by horse and buggy to Froid homestead days still bring back many happy memories. and by lumber wagon, with our supplies, the 40 miles to Wolf Creek. Dan Campbell, whose son Roy and family are still close neighbors, helped during t[...]t THE CLARENCE WILKE FAMILY close to one another, so my sister and I could be together. A number of years later, as Sheridan County was Clarence Wilke came to Flaxville in 1926 to make his divided froin Valley County and then Daniels County was home with his[...]rs. H.B. French) home was in him and also by other farmers. He left in 1932. He returned Sheridan County and mine just across the line into Daniels in the fall of 1936 with his wife Isabelle and two children, County. Eileen and James, and they rented a farm from Peter The present house[...]first impression was that there was this time my parents sold their farm near Froid and joined a lot of work to be done before winter! us. Farmers from Scobey and beyond started asking for Our children are: Eileen 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 is a rancher grain to Medicine Lake, usually in the winter with sled and in Eureka, has one daughter; Agnes McKenzie lives[...]okane; Helen Tucker Later as crops were planted and harvested, my father lives in Amarillo, Texas. James and John both served in ~-E. Phelps and my brother Rollin Phelps ran a threshing the National Guard Reserve and Georg was in the Navy. ng and were one of the first to farm with a tractor. Clarence retired from farming and now works in the At first our mail was left at the Henry Gray ranch and Gamble Store in Poplar where we live. l~ter at Allie Pfeiffers, a five mile ride to either place. Some[...]delivery there now. Our excitement of the west and a new life proved only too true many times with t[...]THE TYLER FAMILY crops, community picnics and gatherings; the barn dances which everyone went to as there were no babysitters in[...]ose days. One prairie fire swept from Smoke Creek to the Muddy River. A homesteader had thrown out a p[...]The Tyler family ancestry has been traced back to 1760 ashes. It burned all the 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. The[...]Mrs. Tyler. The two remaining children are Harold and brother Harvey until his death in 1958.[...]Mrs. Alfred Hackmann, both of Plentywood. George and Sarah (Arion) both died at Cando, North[...]: Ernest of Dakota. Sarah had two daughters , Eva and Ethel. The Scobey; Marie of Fort Smith[...]ol 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 Hendrickson (both Robert (who[...]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. Plentywood. There[...]ur of Flaxville. Their son Harold is married to the former Jean Hendrickson. son Douglas lives at Kalispell and has two children. Bill They live in Plentywood and have nine children: Jimmy died in 1953 and Lettie 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.[...]n, the youngest of the Tyler family, came in 1910 to first homestead was south of Culbertson. In 1906 he came Culbertson and then on to Eagle Creek valley to Ed's to his homestead seven miles south of Flaxville, hauling homestead. To quote him, "We were about fourth-class the lumber to build his home with a team of oxen from wood butchers, but it took us three full days to build a 12x14 Culbertson. Through the years he became one of the shed with two windows, a door and a car roof." He traveled largest farm and ranch operators in the country. During around the nation, attended college, and finally settled on the 40's one harvest filled the granaries and a wheat pile of his farm south of Flaxville. He died in 1972. 45 to 50,000 bushels. Ed died in 1946.[...] |
| Flaxville and Outlying Areas[...] |
| [...]the sounds of life, the sounds of hope, of jo~'~, and yes, of[...]. prime, a young man and his bride set forth to accept the |
| A scene in the Ed Molden Saloon. Left to 'right: Slim Carlson, Emery King, Joe Snyder, unknown, Ed Molden, Loaded trucks of wheat waiting to be unloaded at the unknown, Frank Marsh bartender[...]McCabe Elevator in Flaxville in 1952. traveling, and the telegraph system was then the modern faster cars, people began to travel on to larger cities and |
| Road improving on main road to Flaxville. The Sid Bennett place.[...]and 1939. Left to right back row: Larry Fjeld, Pete Kurtz, town wer[...]om, Ump Bill Notholfer, Bill Morrow, Art together to spend the evening. It was perhaps the only time Stafne and Manager Harold Hewitt, L. Haroldson, Joe during the week that many of the folks came to town to do Haugen, Wilbur Swenson, Phil Hexom and Burnie Mohn. their buying, and the streets were lined with cars. Fr[...]e was incorporated in 1955, with Brenden and Bert Cossette. Arden Olsen as the first mayor. Councilmen were Al Johansen, Harry Barnhart, Robert Hardy, and Wilfred French. James Cavanaugh was appointed city clerk and many good ball players back in the ea[...]Milo Kingsley, who managed the police magistrate and Peter Kurtz, chief of police. local lumber yard. He was a pitcher and played some Businesses have changed hands, people have come and professional ball in Canada. Some of the early players in gone, and the growing pains have long since ceased. Firms[...]wo bars, the post office, one brothers, and Jim Dorwin-a very good athlete (still active elevator, the depot, and an oil station. Through the years at 81 years). In the 30's they were joined by John and Elvin there have been various organizations such as Boy and Mollerstuen, the French brothers-Omer, Chic, Dona, Girl Scouts, Women's Club, an Investor's Club, and the 750 Alvida and Wilfred, Loyal Brenden, Harold Hanson, Emil Club which sponsors an annual rodeo and sports day. For Morvik, Phil and Adolph Hexom, Bert and Clifford the most part, Flaxville's days of bustling activity are over, Cossette, Larry and Stub Fjeld, Don, and Burnie Mohn and and now, in it twilight years, the history of the stu[...]s were it once was, the adversities of hard times and strong team members too: Bill Morrow, Orris Monson, Erling and competition that it bravely overcame, have all gone into Marlowe Hicks, and Harrison. Artie Stafne was the team the pages of[...]manager in the 30's and 40's. In 1938 and '39 the Flaxville[...]ILLE BASEBALL TEAMS and fans. Large crowds attended each game with cars[...]After the war, in the 40's some new and younger faces Flaxville was known as a good bas[...]There were Weber, Bert French, Ron Guy and others, along with some[...]. Johnson (now deceased), Pete Kurtz and Earl Randall,[...]who still enjoy a good ball game and a visit about the good[...]fan, continues to follow all of Flaxville's hall teams. The[...]m sponsored an annual dance in the Flaxville Hall to[...] |
| [...]Kurtz, and Art Gourde, contracted for the building of the[...]Canada blessed the new bell and on May 11, 1916, Bishop[...]surveyed and mapped out under the name of St. Louis[...]Cemetery, and for a time also served the Scobey mission.[...]In 1931 the church was enlarged and a parish hall was[...]renovated and new furnishings were installed. Since then[...]it has been remodeled and carpet was laid in both the sanctuary and in the social area of the basement.[...]fthefirstHigh Flaxville Cardinals. Back row, left to right: Tully Tryan Mass and Solemn Mass of Reverend Raymond Lapke, son (No. 1[...]Jim Legare, Phillip French, Craig of Mr. and Mrs. John Lapke of Madoc. He was the first Miller[...]Rod Wiemeri. Front row: Thor native son to be ordained to the priesthood in the history of Gunderson (No. 2[...]Houlihan, Dwyer, and the present Father Shinnick. They won the District and Divisional playoffs easily, advancing to the State tourney held in the Carroll College fie[...]arm. Twelve ladies met at the home of Mrs. Goulet to begin Flaxville ran up 62 points to 60 for the opponents; the plans for an o[...]umbus in which the Cardinals got times and bad, until today it is still actively busy in the[...]Wilfred Parent, and Mrs. Joe Murr. Itisnotcertain who the[...]ILLE Mass vestments and an Altar Missal. ST. LOUIS CATHOLIC CHU[...]which was looked forward to by people for many miles Taken in part from t[...]years. At the time the Rev. John Hennessy came to care for the One of the main services of the Society is to supply the Catholics of this northeastern corner[...]rses from Plentywood. In 1910 he vestments, and update the Missals. They also sponsor founded the missions of Flaxville and Scobey, and for the clothing drives for the needy, and serve lunches for next five years Flaxville was a[...]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 HI[...]AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH From 1915 to 1918 the mission was served by Father Hennessy of[...]r in 1913, the town of Flaxville came into being, and Mass Hexom's general store for the[...] |
| Tjomsland, pastor of Scobey and Zion of Orville churches,[...]at the same time as the congregational Sherseth, and Fred Tasa. Mrs. Amanda Johnson was organization. The following ladies were elected to office: chosen to be organist.[...]president; Mrs. Henry Mehis, vice In addition to the above named, the charter members pr[...]Fred Tasa, Severson, J. Seversen, Harry Thompson, and R. Leer Wyvil Bjerke, R. Leer, John[...]l over the store until the Orville Lockrem, and the Misses Ruth Linthicum and present church was built. In June, 1925, plans were made, Rachel Nelson. and a basement and the church proper were begun. One of the ladies' first projects was to finish and furnish Services were held in the basement until[...]ement at a cost of $242.00. furnace was installed and the floor of the church was laid. The Eagle Creek Aid was organized also at this time. Eight pews and a piano were purchased.[...]were: Mrs. John Severson, president; Mrs. Due to crowded conditions at the public school, classes[...]ry-treasurer. There were two other members, fifth and sixth grades were taught there. namely, Mrs. Henry Cray and Miss Emma Kanning. The church building was ded[...]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 s[...]hrough the years the parish from 1928 until 1935, and then the Revs. M. with their meetings, fancy work sales, dinners and other Ranheim (1935-1939), V. Foss (1939-1945) were the pastors. projects. Due to its small membership, the Eagle Creek Aid During[...]ons of Zion of was disbanded in later years, and its members joined the Orville and the town church merged into a new[...]ey adopted the name In 1942 the Zion and Flaxville congregations merged, so Zion Lutheran[...]became one unit. N. Benson (1946-1953) continued to serve from Scobey. The first officer[...]It was then that the Flaxville, Pleasant Prairie, and Mrs. Harry Thompson, president; Mrs. Tom Mohn, vice Bredette churches separated from Scobey's parish and president; Mrs. John Mollerstuen, sec[...]63), N. Borsvold (1963-1969), was changed to Womens Missionary Federation in keeping R. Widerholdt (1969-1973) and the present pastor, J. Hicks, with the chang[...]e known as the In 1956 the church was enlarged to its present size, with American Lutheran Church Women. The ALCWhas been pl um bing and rest rooms being added and modernizing of an active part of the church and in addition to its regular the kitchen facilities also being mad[...]Methodist Sunday School picnic on way to Eagles' Nest in[...]sonage, has an interesting history of many owners and many occupants. Built in 1916, its walls could reveal many stories, some humorous, some sad, and most of them long since forgotten. Andy Rafshol[...]eneral store with Peter Hex om, had the foresight to build the large structure. It has been a home for[...]rge Lane, A.P. Smervd, Frank Hewitt, Leo Cossette and Harry Barnhart. Pastor Johnson and his family were the first to Ii vein the house. Pastor James Hicks and family are the current residents.[...] |
| home is at present. It was apparently planned to build a When asked what gave him the mos[...]car, the doctor replied, "Cranking." In addition to the built and which served in that capacity all the years of its standard tools, a pair of pliers, screwdriver, and the usage.[...]ord wrench, Dr. Healy said a chain was also 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 w[...]. 1914. Their daughter, Pansy, was the first baby to be Doc had two bags filled with nece[...]standing ever ready beside the door, and he doctored to the Other active members included the Tousley, Sparling, rich and the poor with like concern. He had many bills of[...]iler, Barnhart, Hewitt long standing, and it is a safe guess that he wrote many of families[...]confusion, and on one occasion when he was away on It was reca[...]vacation, some well-meaning ladies cleaned and house in Flaxville in 1934, and the church continued to straightened it only to be told, on his return, that now he function until the early 40's, when it was disbanded and didn't know where anything was. The doctor[...]obey or Redstone congregations. jovial man and his driving habits were the brunt of many The l[...]and his patient from going to the hospital in Scobey, and a[...]fine son was delivered in his home attached to is office, to DR. DENNiS B. HEALY Mr. and Mrs. Mike Nathe of Redstone. It is believed that[...]Bruce Klos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Klos, was the last baby Ta[...]Dr. Healy recalled the early years and the doctors Dennis Bartholomew Healy was born and raised in the around, including Drs. Tucker and Needles, also Dr. community of Wheelwright, Massa[...]early doctor. Dr. Healy said that before the 20's and his medical degree at the University of Kentucky at there was a hospital and five doctors in Outlook, Montana. Louisville in 1[...]At the time of his retirement he went back to Memorial Hospital in Montague, Massachusetts, and then Massachusetts, where he had a brother, 81, and two sisters. went to Sioux City, Iowa before coming to Montana to grow The doctor had never married. His sist[...]at the age of 78. He was of the Catholic fa ith and was a sleep when it was needed, a busy mind with[...]te Bishop O'Harra of the Great Falls contentment, and mild exercise could perhaps be Di[...]by Dorothy Kanning hours, caused him to be tempted to modify the "sleep when needed" to "sleep when you can get it". Regarding transpor[...]CHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 7 curtains, a fold-back top and "presto lights" (carbide). This car was good duri[...]ng the roads. At those times a bob-sled or cutter and horses were -used.[...]was sold and torn down. Early day records have been[...]was decided to add more rooms and a gymnasium to the[...]building. With the new gym, they were able to have a[...]Jordan, and Mrs. Ruth Guy received wages of $139.00 per[...]and received a salary of $96.00 per month. He[...] |
| [...]was the first to be graduated from the new building. The[...]addition of a dining room and stage area was added in[...]Creek, rural Westby, and Whitetail. MR. AND MRS. HARRY BATTLESON[...]that |
| MR. AND MRS. GEORGE BOYD Ou[...]grandchildren and thirty-one great grandchildren. My father came to what is now Daniels County in the early 1900's. H[...]a cowboy, taking part in cattle drives from Texas to Montana. He also trailed horses from North Dakota to Great Falls, Montana with his father, Sam Boyd. MR. AND MRS. IRVING BUNSE My mother, Teresa Conlan, also came to this country in the early 1900's, coming here by[...]intly by their children, brothers, Chris, Ed, Lou and Frank. They all homesteaded Clayton, Violet, Pansy, Dean and Iris south of Scobey. Her first impression of thi[...]ightening. At night, when she was alone Our parents, Irving and Rose Bunse, were early in her tarpaper shack on t[...]about her. Consequently, she which was later to be included in the new county of spent much of her time with her brother Lou, his wife and Daniels. family. Mother later sold her homestead to her sister Early in 1913, Dad and a friend, Ernie Waite came from Margaret.[...]katchewan as far as Bengough, ~lso in that Our parents often told us about their first meeting and province, by train and then walked into Montana in search laughed at how they each had the wrong impression of the of land to homestead. After making their claims about ten ot[...]miles from the Canadian border, they returned to Midale Indian maid, while Mother was sure that he was the son of and loaded a wagon with the necessary supplies, and a '_'Vealthy cattleman. They said they both got fooled, but returned to establish their homestead claims. neither would h[...]er 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, Rose and the two children, Clayton horseback to visit her and quite often bringing her a box of and Violet. Traveling in a two-seated buggy and team of chocolates. She would remark to her brothers that it would horses, it took them five days to make the trip to their new have been better if he had brought her[...]state of Montana ham, as these were trying times, and most of the people was brewed over a fire[...]sed this animal waste for their My folks moved to Williston in 1918, during the flu fires a[...]lived in Flaxville also. Dad was able to add on a twelve by twelve foot room the My parents had six children, one of whom died in[...]u 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 post office, but when the Great Northern between Spokane and Shelby. He is now retired, and R~ilroad came through south of us, we[...]in the Whitetail school district Dad six children and were foster parents to over a hundred arranged to drive the school bus into Flaxville in 1917 and children. 1918 so that we children would be able to attend school Hugh, the second son, is a bachelor and lives in Helena. there. The George Bunse and George Strand children also He is involved in a p[...]born, Pansy and Dean. In 1919 the family moved into I am the oldest daughter and after going to college at Flaxville, and here a third daughter, Iris, was born in 1921. Havre for two years, I taught school until I met and Dad owned the Ii very stable and dray line in Flaxville for married Carl Wilke of Rolla, North Dakota. We farmed many years and was also the agent for the Continental Oil near C[...]r many years until a serious accident caused Carl to give up the farm and go into cattle Irving Bunse, his team of horses and cutter often used to raising in the Flathead Valley, near Kalispell. W[...]rounds. six children were all grown, I went back to teaching school. We sold our ranch and built a new home in the same neighborhood. Nex[...]raduated from college. Pat was a Border Patrolman and later an inspector at the Canadian- American bord[...]e for over thirty years. Pat has recently retired and they have since done considerable traveling. O[...]England. In the spring of 1975, they took a trip to England. It was the first time back there for Rose in over thirty years. They had three girls and a boy. A daughter passed away in 1971.[...] |
| Company, selling and delivering bulk gas and oil supplies throughout the area. In addition to these duties, he also provided transportation for[...]better than he could, Dad would secure the reins and let them return to the barn in Flaxville by their own 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.[...]James Cavanaugh family. Back row left to right In the early 1940's Dad was the custodia[...]rick, Timothy, Gregory, Kathleen school building, and in 1943 our parents left Montana to and Michael. Sitting and kneeling left to right: Colleen, move to California where he worked at Mare Island Navy Jacqueline, James and Robert. Yard. When the war was over, they moved to Salem, Oregon where they resided until their deaths. Dad passed away in 1963 and Mother in 1972.[...]company in classes plus all his other jobs and raising a family. Jackie Sale;: until his retirement in March of 1975. He and his was a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts, i[...]er Geneva Sherseth, also of Flaxville, are and school work and raising a family. She belonged to the looking forward to the leisure years of retirement. Violet Flaxville Woman's Club when it was active. and husband, Ray Heckart, are also retired and live on a The children have all attended[...]Kathleen works in Scobey. Michael served three and a half is the postmaster. Her husband, Bernard "Pat" Menge, a years in the army and is living in Anchorage, Alaska well-known farmer[...]where he works. Gregory married Deborah Jensen and is and his wife, Dorothy, live at Burbank, Washington wh[...]sity in he is employed by the school system. Iris and her husband, Forest Grove, Oregon--he has tw[...]usetts until his attends M.S.U. at Bozeman and is presently taking his death in 1973. She now li[...]nurse's training in Billings before studying to be an[...]CAVANAUGH 1927- ~Ja"m~s Cavanaugh, son of John and Bridie Cavanaugh MR. AND MRS. LEO COSSETTE |
| MR. AND MRS. DONALD FINK W[...]several years as a carpenter, and at the Flaxville and[...]grain elevators. He now farms full time. Donald and I, Zelda Johansen, were married on April 10, As the land beckons Bert, so the school bells seem to call 1954 in Plentywood, Montana. to me. I began teaching in the Whitetail school in 1963 to In July we moved to Comertown where Don managed the fill out a term, and taught there for seven years. I now teach elevato[...]years we lived there. In March of 1960, we moved to During the years, our children hav[...]Flaxville. Tracy attended Bozeman Vo-Tech and Rocky elevator for six years. Our children all be[...]Mountain College at Billings. Rochelle is married to Raymond. Our next move was to Glasgow where Don Claude Frederic[...]ughter, Jessica. Philip managed the GT A elevator and I was employed at the John and Mark are still at home. Deere Implement Company (owned by Virgil and Larry Legare, former Flaxville residents) as a bookkeeper. On June 20, 1969 we moved to Flaxville where Don assumed the position of manag[...]aagne. I was employed as MR. AND MRS. LLOYD FRENCH school secretary in September of that year, and still hold this position.[...]e, was a 1972 graduate from Flaxville High School and was co-valedictorian of his class. Jeanette Lloyd and I were both born in Daniels County, and have and the guitar group she belonged to in high school lived in Flaxville mos[...]the State Music Festival in Lloyd farms and does a great deal of carpenter work 1971 and 1973. Jim, our youngest, will be a junior in high[...]specialty is cake baking and decorating them for Mike entered the army and is presently stationed at weddings, anniversaries, and other occasions. N eckarsulm, Germany.[...]children, two of whom died in infancy. The Don and I enjoyed a one week trip to Hawaii in January four oldest live in Scob[...]Scobey and they have three children. Stanley works with Don, our family, and I are proud to be a part of the the Soil Conservation Program and is married to the Flaxville community.[...]Julie Nelson of Scobey. Marcella is a beautician and[...]and they have two children.[...]Our three youngest children, Shawn, Melody, and Shannon are still at home and in school. ALBERT FRENCH FAMILY[...]ch is the youngest of thirteen children of Amadee and Corinne French, and was born and raised THE JOHN GUNN FAMI[...]ance west of Flaxville. He attended school there, and in December of 1944 he enlisted in the[...]rom the army with the rank of John and Etta Gunn moved to Flaxville from Outlook on Corporal, he returned to Montana and engaged in farming November 1, 1918 to farm. They were very much impressed and carpentry work. with the fields of flax and the level farm land. My family moved from Outlook to south of Flaxville The farm to which we moved was four miles southwest of where Dad farmed and ranched on the former Fred Krassin town, and in later years it was purchased by Silvio Goulet,[...]bought. My brothers who still owns it. Gene and Billy and I completed our grade and high school We moved during the very co[...]not add to the pleasantness of the work. Russell, Carl, and I continued my education at Eastern Montana Col[...]in the family, did most of the Billings, Montana and taught one year at the Westby rural moving.[...]wagon loaded with four horses, and Lee brought up the Bert and I were married in 1953 and Ii ved in Flaxville for rear driving our cattle on horseback. Dad, Mother, and us a while. I began m'y second term in the Westby[...]the weather owned at that time. Russell and Carl hauled feed all winter and road conditions were bad in the winter, Bert drove the from Outlook. car for me, and in spite of the road not being paved and the When the weather became warmer, Dad's f[...]we missed only one day of project was to enlarge the basement into a family kitchen. schoo[...]Using a team of horses and a scoop, they cemented the We have four children: Tracy, Rochelle, Philip, and ceiling and walls, laid a floor, and made a walk-in cellar for Mark.[...]storage of canned goods and vegetables. It made a very We lived in Scobey for a few years and moved back to nice, large kitchen to accommodate the big family and Flaxville in 1959 when we built the home w[...] |
| [...]ith things that went along with Bozeman, Montana; and Lee (Harry) in 1972 at West farming at that time.[...]e hundred acres Richland, Washington. in the farm and the men used about twenty six head of horses to do the farming. The boys and hired help did the farm work and Dad was manager over all. During the harvest and threshing season he usually got a cookcar to MR. AND MRS. ELLIS GUY take some of the cooking duties f[...]by Betty Lou (Guy) Young men. Scott and Wes Cromwell worked for Dad, and another Ellis Freeman Guy came with his parents, William and man, whose first name was Bill became a good friend of Sarah Guy, to their homestead site a few miles south of Harry's and they broke horses to ride, and took part Flaxville in the summer of 1913. There[...]ildren together in rodeos. Mother's brother Loren and his friends in the family, Ray, Floyd, Ruth (Mrs. Chris Tange), and from Illinois also came to help with the work. Ellis. Dad helped his father in raising wheat, flax, and With all the work there was to be done, we still found time barley. All of the w[...]or recreation, with skating parties in the winter and equipment which meant long and strenuous hours of toil swimming in the summer. On Saturday nights we went to for the farmers. There was little rainfall during some of the the many dances at Davis Beach, near Scobey, and the years, which cut the crop production. To supplement the rodeos and tent shows, complete with rides, that came to family income, Dad worked at various jobs. He wor[...]was born, making a neighboring farmers, and for several years drove the total of nine children, three boys and six girls. school bus for the so-cal[...]consolidated school In 1924 Dad sold the farm and moved into Flaxville to the at Smoke Creek. house known as the Mike Dorwi[...]1917-1918 the influenza epidemic struck the area and janitor at the school for two terms, doing painting and many of their neighbors passed away. Both Dad and his repairing for various people during the summe[...]been running a boarding house during this unable to enter military service in World War I because of[...]longer janitor, he opened a little his prolonged and almost fatal illness. eating place that he called "The Beanery" on the west side A very lovely and capable young lady, by the name of of Main street[...]Dad worked for some time setting up had come to the Rock Glen, Saskatchewan area from machinery for Rasmus Nelson and Ben Nathe, and did Illinois some years previously. Mother chose to work in rough carpenter work, building granaries and doing Scobey because it was not too far from home and she roofing for several people around the area. wanted to establish her American citizenship. Dad met her[...]d tried his hand at homesteading, proving up here and after that managed to make quite a few trips to on a tract of land sixteen miles south of Flaxville. In 1929, Scobey - especially to the Battleson store. The company he sold the farm to a Mr. Frederick, keeping the house eventually opened a store in Flaxville and put Mother in which he later moved 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 whi[...]during this time, on September 7, 1927, that she 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 Ellis. flag man on several highway projects in pr[...]time that the Fort Peck Dam was being built, Dad and Carl worked there. During World War II, he helped to build the Farragut, Idaho Navy Base. Harry also worked there and they drove to and from Spokane, Washington where Harry lived. In June 1943, Dad sold our former Flaxville home to Frank Hewitt. By this time my parents were alone, for 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 continued to make her home in Ronan, spending the winters with[...]gton; Delphine (Dvorak) at Lancaster, California; and Leona "Babe" (Carrington) at Portland, Oregon. There are many grandchildren, great and great great grandchildren. The deceased ar[...] |
| [...]their electricity, and then it was powered bywindchargers.[...]se were tall three-legged towers with a generator and[...]releasing the blades into the wind to charge the batteries[...]the kerosene or gasoline lamps had to be put to use again.[...]e next great improvements were the electric stove and[...]methods of cooking on a gas range and cooling the milk in[...]the morning, and by the time we brought it into the house[...]and wishing.[...]used to blast the coal loose. Because of its danger, it w[...]building was situated on a hill in a field, and this hill was an ideal spot for skiing and sledding. Mr. Sparling, who[...]everyone in town came out to see this fantastic new[...]r cursed the black, shiny, sticky tar as he Ellis and Ruth Guy, their wedding day, Fargo, North drove over it and the tar spattered on his car, leaving hard- Dakota, September 7, 1927. to-remove marks. After all the main roads had been p[...]in this manner, travel to larger towns was made much were married in Fargo. Dad had purchased the little house easier, and it seems that during World War II, when many that[...]axville. The Tanges decided people moved to larger cities to work in factories because of to establish their residence on his farm in the Mineral the good wages, that our prosperous town began to decline. Bench area.[...]ed in their first home, two children Michel and Bill Nothelfer, and I remember his saying that joined the family circle: I was born on July 22, 1929, and he could not compete with Scobey merchants.[...]affected a gland in my neck. My Pool Hall, and he later bought out Harry's interest. Many parents took me to Minot, North Dakota where I received salemen and tourists mentioned to him that they thought treatments for six weeks. As a result of this illness I lost a Flaxville was a neat and well-kept town. certain degree of equilibrium.[...]d of Main Street Ronald was involved in sports and music in school and attracted customers from as far away as W[...]with a lot of help from our very Plentywood, and towns in Canada. Saturday nights were capable mot[...]especially busy nights for this cafe and Clara Bakely, who I have many memories of the[...]On these nights remember asking Mother where Ron and I were born and after the movie was over, huge dances[...]town. years old, electricity made its appearance, and what a thrill Bill Sidora worked for Dad in his pool hall until it was to look up at the ceiling to see the light bulb hanging from sold in 1944. Bill was a native of Poland and had come to its cord making a very bright light from such a s[...]entually located in glass. The country people had to wait many years more for Flaxville. His home was a room in the Tasa Hotel and he[...] |
| [...]c could be heard as Harold Weber with his violin and someone at the piano livened up the atmosphere. With 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 inter[...]y men came into Dad's place, madder than a hornet and said, "I mighty near ran over that stupid dog of yours! He won't move for a car, and acts as if he owns the road! " Jackie died when he was seven years old. Cora Nelson and Nettie Hexom in front of Old Orville Store The[...]those of many others. Dad kept his place open up to 18 hours a day to bring in the needed to North Dakota where he homesteaded and in 1912 he money and Mother went to work in the Hexom store. It was came to Montana. His first location was in the town of no[...]Orville, where he was in business with Kirkeby and many people needed income. Jake and John Goerhing Rafshol in a grocery[...]ailroad was transferred their bank from Whitetail to Flaxville, and extended through the northern part of the state, and the with the improved crop conditions, the finan[...]three continued to have the business together. Dad bought By now[...]he interests of the other two shortly thereafter, and been replaced with new diesel engines on the trains and was sole owner of Hexom' s General store for the next thirty Ronald and I spent many summer evenings counting the[...]Nettie Anderson, daughter of Anna and Andrew After selling the pool hall, Dad worked[...]1950. He also bought a farm east of moved to Columbus, North Dakota, and in 1913 they came Flaxville and farmed until 1953, when he rented the land to to the Orville settlement in a covered wagon. Todd T[...]Our parents were married on December 15, 1914. All Dad was an avid fisherman and each June he and seven children were born in Flaxville. Harold 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[...]We were all active in community, school and church He also had a hobby of coin collecting[...]he years. The store business had its years proved to be a profitable one. He enjoyed meeting many hazards to overcome with the depression years of the people[...]entions. 1930's, burglaries, and crop failures taking their tolls. Mother was a[...]ects such as cancer Strong determination and the will to carry on overcame the drives, P .T.A., church activities, Red Cross work, and obstacles and times gradually became better. Dad playing the piano at Memorial Day services and school continued to operate the store until 1943, when he decided functions, to name only a few. to sell out. Mother becaI}\e ill with a very seri[...]ther died after an illness of only a few hours on and passed away in the Culbertson Hospital in August[...]king grain bins on farms in the Peter Hexom and children-1945-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 row: Ilo, Frances, and Myrtle. with his children and our families. He passed away at his home in Flaxville on February 11, 1965. He was laid to rest beside Mother in the Scobey cemetery. Aft[...]in Bozeman. I later ta ught school near Peerless and at Madoc. I married my college sweetheart in the[...]2. 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 to Carroll College in Helena. He is married and lives in Rapid City, South Dakota. MR. AND MRS. PETER HEXOM |
| [...]ran Church. Mayor and also served on the city council. Two children[...]ce were born while we lived there, Yvonne and Victor. agent for a time and in 1948 he moved to Roseville, On May 26, 1960, Yvonn[...]his Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota to close a hole son Adolph. He retired in 1958 and died July 15, 1959 in between the two upp[...]Orville operation was a total success and she has since lived a cemetery. normal and active life. She 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 C[...]irthday, which worked at the Daniels County Clerk and Recorder's office was about the best birt[...]n 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 was there, he met and married his wife, and their son, since. Gary, was born there. From 1945 to 1950 he was a teacher Our daughter Judy is married to Dennis Pitts and they and coach at Flaxville High School, and later owned Phil's live in Bloomington, Min[...]e Market grocery store for a time. Ilo is married to George Teresa, Michael, and Stephanie. Yvonne is Mrs. Tim Eichhorn of Scobey[...]r several years. Richardson of Antelope and the mother of two, Christie They now live in Citrus Heights. Myrtle (Thompson) is and Jeremy. Victor graduated from high school in 1975. employed at the Triple A at Modesto, California, and Allan lives at Creswell, Oregon. MR. AND MRS. ALFRED JOHANSEN BEN AND DOROTHY KANNING by Vivian Detienne[...]Alfred was born at Antelope, Montana in 1922 and I was Ben was born at Karlsruhe, North[...]George, Minnie and Ben. Their mother died when he was |
| [...]construction in various parts of Montana and North[...]I worked for a year at the Workentine Cafe and then went to work in the Co-op Market, which was formerly the[...]several ones under the employ of Joe and Marian Miller[...]children and is night auditor at the Ponderosa Motel.[...]Delores lives there, also, has three girls, and works part[...]on June 27, 1969. She was married and was the mother of a little girl. Richard and his~wife and their three sons farm my parents' and brother's farms. Ralph, his wife, and son[...]family . Back row: Delores, Loretta, to serve a hitch in the army and is stationed in Germany. Bernice, Richard. Front row: Ralph, Dorothy, Dean and Life has been good to us. There have been many times B en.[...]obstacle was always 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 health, tried and true friends, and cattle to and from the pasture and in the spring and fall best of all we are a part of this beautiful country which we made the four mile trip to the Smoke Creek School where I shall trea[...]e end of our days. went for eight years. Going to Flaxville from our farm home 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. JOSEPH KLOS road deciding what I would buy for the nickel or dime I had to spend. Plentywood, less than fifty miles away, se[...]len (Tong) Klos as remote as Chicago or New York, and I was quite old before I ever went there. In the[...]atScherville, bought a 1914 Baby Grand Chevrolet and we might go to Indiana. He was the sixth child in a[...]how the car children. When he was seven his parents, Michael and would not always make it up the Redstone Hill and my Frances Klos, made the decision to go west. They brother Adler, who was the driver, had to back down the homesteaded north of Navajo, where Joe's brother Bill and hill and take another run at it. sister Antonia now live. Joe went to school at the Navajo My sister Della is eight years older than I and in our School and helped his father and brothers 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 and find a the late 20's and 30's. Joe went to a CCC camp, a program nest of baby mice, pick them up by their tails and chase her sponsored by the government wherein young men could through the house and out into the yard with them. She 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 t[...]he state. She always took a stick with Helen and Joe Klos 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 wors[...]ststorms lasted all through the spring season due to the fact that the farming methods were not planned to deter the blowing to a slight degree, at least. The dust sifted into the house so badly that when our noon meal was ready, we had to leave it covered on the cookstove, fill our plates from there and eat quickly before it was full of dirt. There was no rain during the summer, and the grasshoppers ate what grain did manage to grow. In 1938 we moved to the former Ole Kirkeby farm and lived there until 1944 when Ben sold the farm to Tom Mohn. Four of our children were born w[...] |
| In 1932 he hopped a freight train and rode to Chicago free Frank had sold the new house he had built on this farm, to see the World's Fair as well as some baseball gam[...]rth Dakota, Crops were good that year and we were able to pay the the sixth in a family of nine children. When I was quite money back to Joe's mother and pay off the balance of the young, my family moved to a farm seventeen miles farm loan[...]I attended a country school near our went to work. Joe drove the school bus and had part time home.[...]tion. 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. T[...]our family even closer, now that we children had to make the Harry Mollerstuen home in Flaxv[...]another bumper One of these decisions was mine to make one summer crop, we had our jobs, and everything looked rosy. In July day when I was ho[...]we were saddened by the death of Joe's mother, and in the ground apparently sick from eating the wro[...]feed. Looking closer, I saw that she was bloated, and knew thankful that we were still working. that the only way to relieve the pressure was to pierce the Shortly before Christmas, Frances was struck by a car in skin and release the air. I didn't know just where to stick the street, and I decided then that I was more needed at the knif[...]deep breath, uttered these words, "Live or die!", and term. I was also pregnant, which helped to make my plunged the knife into the cow. It must h[...]es of dead Joe's income by giving room and board to two school girls, horses and cattle. When I had a wagon box full of bones, Ardith Goerhring and Anne Gunderson. my girl friend and I took them to Scobey where we sold The hot and dry summer of 1945 cut the harvest yields them and got enough money to buy the material to make severely. On the day before school was to start in each one of us a dress. The bones were s[...]house was completely destroyed by fire. carloads to be used for commercial purposes. Nothing was saved but a few clothes and some bedding I graduated from high school in 1931, and went to college that was so badly damaged by smoke t[...]e in 1933. I do not know if I have ever been able to used. Our friends and neighbors came to our rescue with convince my daughters that I had only one dress to wear contributions collected by Vern Tyler. With this money and the entire year at college.[...]he Cossette home from P ete Jensen. The community and we were married in 1934. We lived at Fort Peck,[...]ld saying, "a friend in need is a friend indeed". and daughter Frances in 1938. In 1940 we moved to Wolf Because of the war shortages, many things that we Point where Joe worked on a farm and I worked at the needed could not be bought in stores, so we went to every Buttrey store. auction sale for miles around to buy silverware, dishes, and In the spring of 1941 we moved to Flaxville, and lived furniture for our new home. I cooke[...]o years before there was an electric arrangements to buy the farm. We had four flat tires on our one available. 1935 Chevrolet coupe as we were driving to Plentywood to The war had now ended and business everywhere felt the meet the realtor. We[...]lost his job at the oil station, so I went back to teaching, this time at Redstone, Montana to finish the year for Janet[...]Higgins, who decided to go back to college for her master's[...]degree. Joe Klos Family. Michael, Frances, Edith and Bruce. Sunday, February 2, 1947,[...]and Joe took two of our children and some neighbors to the[...]were there, but they decided to start for home. They and the[...]24 hours. They all crowded into our car and kept the motor[...]running until the full tank of gas was exhausted, and after[...]drums, and Joe the piano. They became much in demand and played at a dance every weekend. Joe was a[...] |
| family of t wo boys and two girls. cars with six horses, two buggies, and their wagons, and In 1950 we bought the grocery store from Philip Hexom, came to Culbertson, Montana. They rented an old barn to but later bought the former bank building and moved our put their horses in, and the next day they started out with a business th[...]ke. They drove as far there was very little room to stock our groceries. After as Sheep Creek, a half[...]which is now struggling on for five more years, and with the stiff Froid, and arrived in Medicine Lake the next day. After competition, and two children in college, I went back to unloading their wagons, they built a barn for the[...]ng, this time in Whitetail where I taught for two and a livery barn, after which they erected a large t[...]had brought with them. In 1960 we moved to Nevada, renting the building to After they were settled in their new home and business, Helen and Henry Goulet who had a cafe there for two years. Bill and Sam cared for the livery stable and Pete looked for In 1968 we were able to rent the building to the Postal lathing and shingling work. A part of their work was also Department for a postoffice. After making a loan through to find land for people to squat on until the land was the Nevada State Cre[...]. The homesteaders could not file on their Frank to remodel the building into a postoffice, and it is land until after January 31, 1914. still i[...]Bill later sold his livery stable and he and Pete then came Nevada was good to us. I taught school for eleven years, to the Flaxville community to look for a piece of land on and Joe worked with the State Highway Department for which to homestead. They located six miles south of what[...]country. Before the railroad University of Reno and her master's degree at Berkely, came through in 1913, Pete and Bill hauled grain to California. She is now married. After graduation[...]ging back a load of lumber for the was appointed to both the Air Force and the Coast Guard hardware store that Pete was building for Jim Sparling. Academy. He chose the latter, and majored in nuclear In 1914 Pete opened a hotel in[...]is employed by Westinghouse at Pasco, years later to Fred Krassin. Washington. Michael is an educatio[...]1899. When she was a young girl her family moved to Joe and I moved back to Flaxville in November, 1973, Harris, Saskatchewan[...]the former Tony Linder home from La Vern Meyers. and Delia and brother Buck were born. We are spending our retirement years in remodeling our Both Pete and Henrietta remember seeing Halley's home, visiting our children and spending the winters in Comet in April of 1910. T[...]e fact that warmer climates. We are always happy to come back to many people were frightened by this awesome spect[...]Pete and Henrietta were married in Plentywood on July[...]30, 1917 by Father Hennessy and their attendants were 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,[...]small girl of leukemia. as told to Dorothy Kanning The living childr[...]Dennis and Carolyn of Renton, Washington; Veronica Peter[...]. As a (Pomerleau) of Miles City, Montana; Robert and Lyle of young man he came west, going as far as[...]xville; 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 (McDow[...]orno) ofCutbank, for homesteading the next year, and in March of 1910 he, Montana and Jean (Schultz) of Glendive, Montana. The his brother William and Sam Nickey loaded two railroad last two mentioned[...]The Kurtzs moved to Flaxville in 1924 so that the Peter and Henrietta Kurtz and family, taken on their 50th children would not have so far to go to school. Pete was still wedding anniversary. Standing, left to right: Aquina, kept busy working at carpenter, shingling and chimney LeRoy, Carolyn, Darrell, Lyle, Donna, Leo[...]r the town of Flaxville by Sheriff Arthur E. Jean and Dennis.[...]a cattle inspector and chief of police in Flaxville during[...]head, a cigar in the corner of his mouth, and a six-cell[...]who never has owned a car. He is known to have made the[...]years and all he could ever afford was a wheelbarrow.[...]and were later guests at an open house affair hosted[...]years, and he has been in the Knights of Columbus sin[...] |
| [...]ee Pioneer Day, 1963. Pete Kurtz, Charlie Carroll and Harry Seiler lift one for old time's sake. These[...]e member of the Montana-Dakota Police Association and an Honorary Life Member of the USAF Air Defense T[...]thering held at the Flaxville park some years ago to honor Peter Kurtz upon his retirement after servi[...]ETE Dorothy Kanning We pause to pay our tribute |
| 1968, he and his family returned to Georgia, where he has Bozeman. I was born a[...]or the state in the Department of Public parents live. I attended the Miles City College of Beauty Safety. Gail and his wife have two children. and worked for a time at the Beauty Clinic in Plentywood. Darnell graduated from high school and then went into Since our parents are all descendants of pioneer families, the Army[...]5 where he was in heavy We came to Flaxville in the fall of 1968 when John equipment[...]s in the high Leonard Wood, Missouri, he was sent to France, where he school, and has taught there since then. remained until shortly before his discharge. Since we came to Flaxville, our family has increased Diane graduated from high school and took a business from one to four children: Shawn, Brian, Brent, and course at Rapid City, South Dakota. She then went to Lynette.[...]Elizabeth Hammer home a few part of their work is to formulate fiscal requirements for years ago and enjoy living in the community very much. heavy check, support shops, and major maintenance. Joanne worked for a year ata bank in Seattle, later going to Denver where she works at the First National Bank in the Trust Department of security stocks and bonds. MR. AND MRS. HUBERT LESTER MR. AND MRS. GEORGE MOLLERSTUEN Our family, Hubert and Altha Lester and children, George was born in Twin Valley, Minnesota on April 13, MR. AND MRS. JOHN MCNEIL John was born at Froid, Montana, where his parents still |
| These were good years for Flaxville, with bumper crops to enable a lot of business transactions to take place. We enjoyed these early years with the[...]ies were held with nearly everyone in town coming to them. Mrs. Gilbert Hammer and I were in charge of the Sunday School in our church for many years. Our two sons, Gerald and Larry, were born in Daniels County. In 1942 we sold our business place to Frank Pfieffer and moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where George worked at the Farragut Na val Base. In 1944 we moved to Spokane and he then worked for the Curtis Gravel Company. We moved to Billings, Montana in 1951 where George again did[...]e armed forces. Gerald was a Corporal in the army and was in Germany for three years. He is married, lives in Centralia, Washington, and works in the payroll department of the Washington Irrigation Development Company. They have two sons and a daughter. Larry has been an aviation machinist in the navy since 1955 and will retire in 1976. He is married and lives in Oak Harbor, Washington. They have a daughter and two sons. He is presently attached to the U.A. 145 and will go aboard the USSR Ranger in November. MR. AND MRS. BERNARD CASPER NATHE by M[...]Grove, Minnesota. He was educated at Miere Grove and |
| MR. AND MRS. AUGUST ROOS, JR. by Mary (Ba[...]November 18, 1910 at Royalton, Minnesota. He came to Flaxville with his parents in 1913 to their homestead a mile east of town. He grew up on the farm with his brothers and sisters, went to school in Flaxville, and later worked for Ben Nathe, Arnie Rasmussen, and at the Builders Centre Hardware Store. I was bo[...]died of diphtheria when I was seven. I then went to live with my mother's only sister, Elma, Mrs. Roy[...]le Roy (Jim, as he is familiarly called) had come to Montana in 1913, but returned to Wisconsin. He decided to come back to Montana and we all came here in March of 1925. We arrived by train and my first impression was one of[...]Mr. and Mrs. Roy (Jim) Darwin, Flaxville, Montana.[...]Uncle Jim started to farm with his father the next spring. amazement at the wide open spaces. I was accustomed to In 1926 my cousin Jene was born and we became as close as the many trees that grew in Wisconsin, and I could hardly any sisters. believe that ther[...]lace with so few trees. In 1933 we moved to Flaxville and Uncle Jim became Uncle Jim's father, Mike Dorwi[...]tion I worked in the post office a team of horses and sleigh. After refreshments at the also, and was employed there until 1973. hotel, we set out on the ten-mile ride to the farm. Before Gus and I were married in 1939. We have a daughter, leavi[...]After we were married we lived in the Pearl wore, and placed our feet on hot wrapped bricks to keep Murr house for six weeks, and then moved into the house them warm on the long j[...]phile Rheault. We still live in this house. Mr. and Mrs. August Roos and daughter Laura.[...] |
| August farms the former Irving Bunse farm and is in In the early years, Jimmy kept[...]baseball, first for the old Smoke Creek team and later for Husbyn farm.[...]After Lora graduated from high school she went to Minot around here to have played ball in England and Wales! where she took nurses' training at St. Fra[...]as one of the servicemen John Hassing while there and they were married. They chosen (after the Armistice was signed) to travel around have three children and are presently living at Watertown, the British Isles and show them how the famous American South Dakota.[...], 1975 it no big deal to dig the 105-ft. ditch which varied in depth[...]from 4 to 6 feet, and fill it in after the pipe was in place.[...]igs Because his was all ready to go, the contractors hooked him Own[...]Dorwins were among the first in Flaxville to enjoy the city[...]ry nearly anyone need- Other residents and businesses are still in the process of ing a sewe[...]who dug his own by hand. Jimmy said the ditch (to hook up with the new town sewer system) had to pass thru the edge of his garden and he wanted to carefully keep the top soil separate for proper replacement and he didn't want the big machines tearing MR. AND MRS. JAMES T. SPARLING up the garden. "Besides", he added, "I didn't have much else to do." by Thomas Sparling[...]James T. Sparling was born in South Dakota and and hiking since his retirement from the hardware and attended the Hohenschuk-Carpenter College Embalming lumber yard in Flaxville some 16 years ago. He and Mrs. Extension Service in Des Moines, Iowa. He passed the Dorwin also keep their home and yard in excellent several examinatio[...]sinfection, Bacteriology, Principles of Embalming and Jimmy (real name Roy W. Dorwin) worked for many Sanitary Science, and received his certificate as a licensed years for Jim Sparling in the lumber yard and later for the mortician on May 1, 1920. Builde[...]ster for 11 years. He first Jim Sparling came to the area as a homesteader in 1913. 81 yea[...] |
| [...]For many years my mother gave piano lessons and had recitals and musical operettas with her students.[...]In 1927 Dad was elected to the State Legislature where he[...]He wa appointed to the office of State Commissioner of[...]fo r three years . He sold h is home and busin ess in 1949 and th ey moved to Seattle, Wa hington , where they lived until[...]An event of major interest took place during the 30's[...]hen Dad purchased th e old bank building in Madoc and hi red the Bourassa broth ers to move it into Flaxville. They[...]When they came to the steep hill about a mile west of town,[...]t h ey used a Rumley Oil P ull tractor to pull the building and two steam tractors to pull back t o keep it from going down[...]t he hill too fast. It i quite sa fe to surmise that there were[...]to th e movers.[...]engineering firm . My wife, Dorothy , and I have three sons and a daughter , all married.[...]MR. AND MRS. ARNT STAFNE[...]by daughters Doris and Elaine The lives of Arnt and Carrie Stafne had their beginnings[...]ie, North Dakota on October 20 , 1878, the fourth and[...]until she and her sisters opened a dressmaking and[...]1879. His mother and sisters came to America soon after[...]ears later, at the age |
| [...]baking, and heating the washwater which was carried[...]washing by hand until most of us were grown, and also[...]1914 to 1957. Since new things were hard to come by, he worked diligently to make furniture and other improve-[...]house and shop in a good state of repair. He made nearly[...]all of the tools and equipment which he used in the shop.[...]By having two forges and anvils he could train his sons to work with him.[...]and polishing plow shares was the work of a blacksmit[...]the early days, and in this way our father answered a[...]The blacksmith shop with its red hot metal and flying sparks was a fascinating sight to the children, so it was not unusual to see children of all ages standing in the doorway[...]always found time to tease and jest with them. Our parents were always on the alert to prevent accidents, for having[...]the blacksmith shop on one side of the house and a garage[...]Attending church and Sunday School was a highlight[...]for our family during our growing up years, and we looked forward to meeting friends at the Methodist church. After[...]we acquired a radio, Dad preferred to stay home and listen to Norweigan services.[...]dest son, in Wolf Point. He was also survived Mr. and Mr. Arnt Stafne on their wedding day-August 5, 19[...]Mr. and Mrs. Arnt Stafne on their 50th Anniversary. her[...]unds at birth, the twins ~ti~;t~:111:~?l~!~[...] |
| by a wife and three children. The children and their In 1942 the brothers sold their business and my folks families still reside in the Wolf Point area. moved to Portland, Oregon. They now live at Salem town, a Mother and Dad celebrated their golden wedding[...]of Salem. anniversary in 1951, with many friends and relatives I (Mrs. Richard Knights) gr[...]sary, the 67th took place School in 1939, and from the University of Montana in just two weeks[...]oyed as a secretary in a C.P.A. firm in Mother and Dad continued to live in Flaxville for several Salem. My husband is retired from IBM and Civil Service. years after all of us had grown, and enjoyed their Our three children are Richard Lee, a graduate from independence in being able to care for themselves. After OSU in chemistry[...]eceived his PhD from the Mother developed cancer, and had had three operations University of Washington and now does pollution they reluctantly moved to Great Falls in 1967. She grew research; Va[...]received her law degree from progressively weaker and passed away in 1968. After her Willamette University in May of 1975; and Douglas Emil, loss Dad's will to live was gone, and he died two years received his Master's De[...]fornia, she has six children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Reynald has retired from work with the Farmers' Union and lives in Great Falls. He and MR. AND MRS. JOHN SWENSON his wife, Mildred, have four children and nine grand- children. Mildred (Gens), widowed, al[...]eilman where she is active in the Senior Citizens and Granny Girl Scouts. Adeline (Schwinden) and her husband Jim are John Swenson and his brother Emil came to Scobey in a living in Washington, D.C., after hav[...]d car in the fall of 1912 from North Dakota. They and South America and Africa. Arthur, having followed in bought a garage in Scobey and after two years sold it to Ed Dad's footsteps as a blacksmith, is employed in Jamaica, Battleson and bought a garage in Flaxville. building and repairing farm machinery. We, Doris and Clara Hammer came by train to Flaxville in 1916 from Elaine, live in Great Fall[...]e public North Dakota with her sister Helen to live on their school system. Elaine is employed a[...]other's homestead claim. Hospital. Jerry (Bowman) and I have two children. My folks' fir[...]hat it was Reynald was the first in our family to go to high school, much like North Dakota. Times were hard in the first years and since there was as yet no high school in Flaxville, he that they were here, and they found it difficult to make a attended the one in Whitetail, and either walked or rode good living for a whi[...]les. During the coldest part of the Mother and Dad were married in Plentywood, Montana winters h[...]in Flax- anniversary in 1969 with many friends and relatives ville in 1929.[...]n Havre. took so many lives in the community. Our parents Early day entertainment included[...]intained that the nightly drink of honey, whiskey and as often as three times a week, and, after they had a family, hot water before retiri[...]om getting the flu. a favorite activity was to go on picnics in Eagles Nest, a The most serious illness in our family occured when hilly, tree-and-bush-covered area near Navajo. Gathering Arthur s[...]their energy in Since Dr. Healy had no facilities to take care of such an running about the hills and the older folks visited. emergency, he packed Arthur in 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 longer children were confirmed there, and all were graduates of trip in the baggage car to Williston. By the time he and our Flaxville High School except Keith who grad[...]few months in Polson, Montana, they moved to Havre[...]ilbur, is the principal of the junior MR. AND MRS. EMIL M. SWENSON high school in Havre, and his wife, Margaret, is 1; brarian.[...]Their sons, Lowell and Bruce, are in college. Brot er Evan[...]passed away in 1960. My husband and I both tea n in the[...]Havre school system. We have two daughters, Pam and Emil Swenson arrived in Scobey in 1913 in a 191[...]car, from McGregor, North Dakota. In 1914 he came to Coast to Coast store in Havre. His wife teaches school and Flaxville to begin a new business in a garage and repair their two daughters, Kallie and Leslie, are still in school. shop which he and his brother John owned together. His first impressions of this country were its vastness and wide open spaces. There were very few people in the MR. AND MRS. HARRY THOMPSON surrounding country when he first came. In 1921 he married Effie Lund and one child, Jean, was by Dorothy (Thompson) Larimer born to them. The early day actir:tir~ included baseball, dancing, and My father had come to Daniels County from St. James, many visits with t riends and neighbors. Minnesota in the early part of 1900, and Mother, a native of[...] |
| [...]My father later served in World War I and was discharged a Corporal. He and Mother were married in[...]miles south of Flaxville, and Mother registered for land[...]Both Harold and I were born in Great Falls. I arrived in[...]June, 1922 and Harold in May, 1924. In the fall of 1924 I[...]Upon our return to Flaxville, Dad bought an interest in the Flaxville garage, owned by John and Emil Swenson,[...]continued to live part time in the family home until her[...]cupboards and a shelf with a curtain in front of it for a[...]table, chairs and bed. Mother helped Mrs. Masek cook the[...]banker; storekeepers Hexom and Raffshol, and Rasmus[...]Harold and Dorothy Thompson, children of Harry and[...]k before they reached their destination, Orville, and since they couldn't see where they were going, they ran into a barbed wire fence along the way. To make sure this wouldn't happen again they stopped at Martin Froslan's sod hut and he went with them to the town, holding a kerosene lantern along side of the car so Peter could see to drive over the prairie trails. Peter and Andrew Raffshol had a store at Orville, and hauled their supplies from Froid, Montana where a[...]er, Tony Kirkeby, operated a store also. Mother and Peter stayed at Orville until November when the railroad came through six miles north of Orville, and they then moved to the new town of Flaxville. Mother was the first h[...]ily. Uncle Pete's car was always breaking down, and Dad was then called on to get it in running order again. It was during these times that Mother and Dad met. On the day after Mother, Pete, and Andy Raffshol had arrived in Flaxville, Jerry Masek, a banker, moved his house and bank buildings from Orville to Flaxville, to be followed by a blacksmith shop, hall and several other businesses later. Dad moved all of the buildings to the new townsite with his tractor. Peter's future wife, Nettie Anderson, and Mother rode to Flaxville with the first shack, part of the time in the building, and part of the time on the tractor with Dad.[...] |
| Both my parents were active in the American Legion and its auxiliary. Mother was active in the Ladies Aid and Sunday School affairs . Dad was a deacon in th e[...]Mother clerked at the Hexom store for many years and later worked in the local telephone office. After various office 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. I am married to John Larimer and have fo ur daughters: Judi, Mrs. Eric Lund of Nap[...]High School; Susan, who will be a senior in 1976; and Lisa, who will be a freshm an. There are two grandchildren, David and Paula Lund. My brother Harold attended Montana[...]e at Bozeman, worked for Northern Auto in Bozeman and at several other auto establishments before moving to St. Louis, Missouri where he became involved in h[...]the congregation in his church for several years, and both were active in church work. After living there for many years they moved to Den ver, which is more centrally located for his[...]y have four children: David, Hal, Leona (Coffin), and Sally (Norman ). There are renting the Sh[...]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[...]Na vajo . I graduated from Plentywood High School and diffi ulty falling asleep I recite the names of a[...]attended one year of college at Concordia College and one residents of the town when I was a child. I w[...]with a two children ould have had the opportunity to be raised there . year diploma.[...]years I taught at the Phelps school GEORGE AND EMMA PELTIER TRYAN[...]house burned to the ground , and we moved into the George Tryan came to Montana in 1912 with his parents, Redstone school until another building replaced the Mr. and Mrs. William Try an. Prior to settling in the Smoke burn ed one and the new material was supplied. Creek region they[...]lan was born in Emma Peltier, daughter of Louie and Alice Peltier came 1962 and Connie Arlene in 1964. to Flaxville in 1914. There are seven other children[...]n 1966 we bought the Mike Imig house in Flaxville and I Peltier family: Florence Viles, Eva Hamre, Henr[...]hool. Kurtz (Flaxville), Delia Gaines, Joe, Fred, and Louis. During the years previous to our purchase of our present George and Emma were married in 1926. Three children[...]d on the Haroldson farm in the summers, were born to them: Jeanne Evenson, Darlene Henderson spent five winters at the farm home ofmy parents, Mr. and (Scobey), and Donald K. (Flaxville).[...]munity, where they home n ear Outlook and two winters on the Donald Gray still reside, unti[...]farm near Redstone, and we spent four summers there. We[...]variety of experiences. MR. AND MRS. RAYMOND WITTAK[...]suddenly of cancer, came from Minnesota to make her by Eileen Wittak[...]home with us for three years before going to live with her[...]Washington. Ray was born at Badger, Minnesota, and grad ua ted from In 1968 another son was added to our family , Steven high school in Greenbush, Minnesota. In 1947 he came to Raymond. the Flaxville area and worked for farmers in the Flaxville- I[...]N orthern Montana in 1971 , and have since been teaching In 1952 Ray left for the army, going first t o Camp the first and second grades in Flaxville. Ray is still recken[...]he was 4-H, Little League baseball , and various school activities. with the Military Pohc[...]There is n ever a dull moment at our house and that is the Companv in Plent wood and later was fo rtun a te in w[...] |
| MR. AND MRS. DONALD HALVERSON Swede bought the house next door to the Peter Kurtz's, AND and here he experimented with soil fertilizEr, which was MR. AND MRS. HENRY WORKENTINE[...]gardens. Donald "Swede" and Florence Halverson and their son In 1959 Swede and Florence moved to Walhalla, North Michael came to Flaxville in 1952 from Badger, Minnesota D[...]n the forests of They have since moved to Salem, Oregon. Florence died of northern Minnesot[...]Sara Workentine came with her husband Jake to those to which they were accustomed, so they decided to Flaxville in 1951 to be near their daughter Florence and her come West.[...]rival in town Swede stopped in at Products, and Sara worked in the restaurant owned by the Farmers Union Oil Station, and soon was engaged in Mrs.Nettie Higgins,[...]Farmers Union Co-op Market one winter night, and and room and board for himself and his family. firemen worked all through the night to keep the flames Three months later Swede went to work for Ted under control. Sara[...]rrte, after which he was hired by hot coffee and food on hand for the men as long as they the Farm[...]worked. There was a great deal of smoke and water damage March of 1959. done to the building and grocery store, but the loss was kept The men he[...]kes on at a minimum. anyone they could, and Joe Bourassa, who was a welder in Jake[...]ho owned a several feet from a scaffold, and his injuries caused blood local bar, threw away a skunk which had been stuffed and clots in his legs. These bothered him a gr[...]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 admitted to the Veteran's Hospital in Fargo, North them feared by man and beast. Swede placed the skunk in Dakota w[...]ar corner of the men's rest room, seemingly posed and return home he again tried selling his line[...]is victim remaining leg bothered him greatly and he was compelled was Joe, who did not notice the skunk for a while, but when to go back to the hospital to have that removed also. He was he did, he dashed[...]as he pulled then fitted with artificial legs, and special controls were up his trousers, "There's a[...]With the extra burden of an invalid husband to care for, the joke had been on him that time.[...]in 1960. On May 13, two Two children were born to Swede and Florence while months later, Jake pass[...]ried in the they lived in Flaxville, Cynthia Faye and Craig Donald. Flaxville cemetery w[...] |
| Harold and Thelma Rubin later opened a cafe in time for us to decide that we would like to live there, so we conjunction with their bar and hotel business and Sara bought a home in Salem where we still live. We returned to cooked for them for some time. Flaxville to dispose of our property in 1967. At Christmas t[...]n 1945; Donald was who had invited me, his uncle, to come to the gathering assigned to the Army Tank Corps; and Garry served as an also. I was living alone at th[...]regon California. Later, when we had all returned to our homes, National Guards at Portland. In 1973 he and his son, Sara and I began to correspond, and we became engaged David, who was in _the[...]soners of war from the sold my home in Cucamonga, and we settled in Flaxville, Phillipines to Hawaii. This was probably the first father- spend[...]in Arizona. son team to ever crew an Air Evacuation inission. They In 1964 we were on our way south but went first to both received Outstanding Unit Award ribbons for their Oregon to visit her children, Frances, Florence, and Garry. part in Operation Home Coming, which inv[...]had planned, POW's home from Hanoi in 1973. and as a result, we were still there at Christmas time when I enlisted in the Army Signal Corps in 1920, and in the the great Oregon flood took place.[...] |
| THE GASPARD DUVAL FAMILY Gaspard Duval came to the Flaxville area in 1912. He[...]I r[...] |
| [...]LY by Ruth Fisher Ralph and I and our three children, Gene, Pat and Ralph, THE AMADA F[...]Quebec, |
| The Amada and Corrine French Family-top row, left to right: Alvida, Delvina, Dona, Lydia, Omer, Alice,[...]ia, Father (Amada), Albert, Mother (Corrine) Alda and Lloyd. moved into Flaxville with Dona and Chic; later she lived in Scobey, Cindy Garberg of Malta and Wendy Danelson of |
| [...]Joe Goulet-heading for Montana-1909 Omer and Charlotte .have been active in church, civic and school activities. They believe that each generation is given a place in time to make things a little better - to build formed a wagon train with Alfred Parent ([...]of this was Wilfred Parent, Joe Parent and Art Gourde. It took them learned from Amada and Corrine-whose place in time was three days to get to their destination. 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 do the Fla[...]railroad came in 1914 and the town of Flaxville was[...]used the horse and buggy to get to school but if the horse[...]e winter months, he acquired more land, a section and North Dakota. They came to Daniels County in the Spring 80 acres.[...]T - which he bought in 1914. In 1916 he added on to the west of Flaxville. Their children are Percy, Wayne, Adele, house. It had four bedrooms upstairs and two on the lower Veronica and Flossie. Mrs. Fugere (Bernadette) died in level, with bathroom and carbide lights. The lumber was October, 1948. Pau[...]his Many dances were held at our home and other brother, Napoleon, for many years. He is a[...]the years Dona Fugere, a brother of Paul, Joe, and Art, first lived before a Catholic church wa[...]of food. It also seemed to us that the Indians were almost Art Fugere far[...]those early days. In the fall Joe Art Legare farm and on the Zeb a Jay place (now the wou[...]hbors Kenneth Halverson home). He also moved back to the digging coal for fuel for the[...]had one first we gathered buffalo and cow chips for fuel to keep us daughter, Hazel.[...]hides to use in the sled in the winter time. We had a milk[...]cows each before going to school in the morning and others By Cora (Goulet) Safty[...]ur favorite summertime pastime was snaring Dakota and filed a homestead claim. He built a two room gophers or drowning them out. house, and in the spring of 1910 he returned, bringing his Joe and Nellie retired in 1945. They bought a home and wife, Nellie (Parent) and four children. They came as far as moved to Scobey. The farm was then farmed by their son Medicine Lake in an immigrant car, and from there they Eugene and his family. The farm house burned to the[...] |
| [...]Wilfred Goulet Family: left to right-Dorothy, Aurora,[...]oneymoon, their house burned with all their gifts and[...]Nine children were born to this union and six are still[...]1918·. He was to be shipped overseas when the war ended.[...]In about 1925 he farmed state land by Four Buttes and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Goulet when that was sold he went to work in the coal mines north[...]house was The time that they were moving to the mines from the moved to the place ; after this Eugene moved to Kalispell farm, Aurora was driving the wagon with the kids and a and the farm was bought' by a son-in-law, George Safty load of possessions when the horses started to run away. (husband of Cora), whose son Ronnie rented and later Wilfred jumped off the hay wagon and managed to catch bought the place. This homestead has remained in the them and bring them to a stop. family ever since its origin in 1909. Joe[...]were trees all around the kids could play outside and it wouldn't bother them, but farm. Ronnie has done considerable remodeling to the every time Aurora went out to gather the eggs, it would home since he has lived[...]one occasion she hit it on the head with a Joe and Nellie Goulet celebrated their 50th wedding broom and knocked it out. They finally had to kill it. It was anniversary on July 3, 1952. They[...]t turkey dinner she ever ate. seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Joe· One yea[...]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[...]ugene, deceased; Raymond of threw it in the river and had to walk the rest of the way. Colfax, California; Dor[...]en are: Kalispell; Pearl Tiegen of Troy, Montana; and Geraldine Roger served in the army at Fo[...]od, Colorado. 1946 to 1947. He now lives in Billings.[...]Okinawa and Florida from 1950 to 1954. He now lives in[...]ILY Evelyn, Dorothy and Rose all live in Portland, Oregon and Darlene lives on a farm near Scobey. By Darlene Goulet Graff Wilfred Goulet came to Daniels County from Grafton, |
| [...]burg, Germany on April 26, 1877. She left Germany and upon arriving in America she went to Iowa where she worked for a short time and then moved to North Dakota. She lived in Park River, North Dakota and in the fall of 1895 she married Henry. They had nine boys and four girls born while they were in North Dakota. Two of the daughters died in infan- cy. Henry and Dora stayed in North Dakota until 1913 when they moved to Montana. They farmed in the Ante- lope community for a short time before coming to the Navajo community. A son and daughter was born after they came to Montana. The daughter died in infancy. Henry and Dora and their family homesteaded east and north of Flaxville. Mr. Hachmann built a dugout to be used during storms and it is still there or at least it was until a few[...]t had a saucer on it. One night there was a storm and lightning struck a window near where their son Ted was sleeping and it splintered the window sill and then down to the basement.[...]Max arid Eva Jean Hackmann Herman and Elizabeth Hackmann[...]Dora Hachmann's big wish was to ride in an airplane since she ca.m e to America by boat. One time there was a[...]pilot in the area and he was giving rides for a small fee. Dora and her son Ted went up. She enjoyed her ride.[...]program and couldn't go downtown if they didn't like[...]at the school was having. They took their lunches to[...]Albert, Dorothy and Max. Henry grew up and worke<i in the Flaxville area and lived there for a number of years. He moved to Scobey and lived with his sister and her husband, Anna and Nick Meyers, until they passed away. Then[...]he went and lived with Ted until three years ago when he[...]moved to the Daniels Memorial Nursing Home where he is[...]and worked in the Flaxville area all his life. He liv[...]worked for various neighbors as a young lady and then[...] |
| Henry Bachmann Family-back row, left to right: Herman, Max, Oscar, Henry. Middle: William, John, Alfred, Edward, Theodore and Albert. Front: Anna, Henry (father), Dora (mother), and Dorothy. married Klaus ''Nick" Meyers. They[...]ancy. They live in Scobey where Max works |
| [...]a bachelor. He lived on several places near town and later lived in Flaxville. He died at the age of 8[...]or. He is buried at the Zion cemetery at Orville; and Andrew Rudeen was a homesteader north of the Webe[...]THE HENDRICKSON FAMILY TORGER AND MARTIN By Bernice Johnson (niece)[...]Torger (Tom) was born in Norway in 1852, came to one will remember her for her cats w[...]Red Wing, much of. Rose was Mrs. Randall and we do not know much Minnesota. His wife, Ragnhil[...]ph Hansen of Scobey born in Norway, later coming to North Dakota. They were area. They later moved to Idaho. They have five children. married in Kenyo[...]d in Grand Forks ma;ried a teacher, Betty, and the last years they lived in County, North Dakota in 1883, later coming to the Flaxville where he died in 1975. Flaxville area in 1913, but on the way out to Montana he Louis and Tim Hendrickson were twins. Louis had ten was struck by a train and killed in Williston. Some of the·[...]dren. They lived south of Flaxville, later moving to Salt family had gone out to Montana ahead of him. Mrs. Hen-[...]ed there for many years with Bertha Dewey, and Charlie, a mechanic there. Tim homesteaded two miles Rose and Mary. In her later years she lived with Tom and south of Flaxville, on land now owned by G[...]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; Annie died in 1933; Lewis and Timothy, twins, both raising. I recall the[...]t those infancy; He;man in 1975; Sophine in 1955, and Bertha in summer vacations with Martin and Julia. Laverne Meyers 1974.[...]ode the box cars. Bertha married William Piester, and Plentywood. later had a cafe in Flaxville. Her last years were spent in Harold and · I Ii ved south of Flaxville for many years, He[...]later in town, and then in 1971 we moved to Plentywood The following family story is by Je[...]where Harold is employed at the F.U. station and I work at Tyler:[...]Jim now works at the Plentywood hospital; Harvey and[...]s at Sidney; Harvey has one girl, Tim Hendrickson and oxen in 1910. Francie, who weighed less than one and a half p_o unds at[...]birth. Jack has two boys, Lonnie and Billie. Our three[...]married to Julius Hendrickson and they live on the family[...]farm· their children are Jerry and Julie. Connie, Sharon, Nan~y and Shirley are all employed at the hospital and[...]bought it and ranched there several years. He and his[...]to Redstone with my friend, Edna Miller. It was alwa[...]when Uncle Martin and Aunt Julia came to visit us, bringing ice cream and goodies and taking the folks for a[...]ride. All of them seemed to be hard working pioneers. I[...] |
| [...]started housekeeping. He was barbering and I worked in a steam laundry. Later we moved to Arvilla, North Dakota[...]Mr. Boyer and my sister had a homestead two miles out[...]of Flaxville (there was no town there then) and they liked it very much - lots of level land and fresh air. They thought[...]packed up and came to the West. We came by train to Culbertson, then rode a stagecoach to Medicine Lake and we were met there and ended up at my sister's home-the[...]to help her out. Supplies had to come from Medicine Lake,[...]which would require a three day trip by horses and wagon. My sister had a horse and I had a buggy, we would load up[...]the children, then three, four and five years of age and drive over to Orville for groceries and supplies.[...]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[...]ors, they had egged on the youngest boy, Everett, to Martin Hendrickson came to Montana in 1900 and in get into the crock and was jumping up and down. I was so 1910 took up a homestead just sout[...]ause of it! In 1913 the rail- He was a bachelor and never married. Martin, Tim and road came through and with it the towns of Plentywood, Dewey came to Montana together. Redstone, Navajo, Flaxville, Madoc and Scobey. Martin worked on the Winch Brother's ranch and livery Art bought four horses and a sulky plow and was busy stables in Culbertson. getting the land ready to plant the crop. On Saturdays and Later on Martin did some freighting between Williston Sundays he would ride his horse to Redstone to barber so and Brockton, and carried mail between Culbertson and we could buy groceries. It was about 12 miles across the Plentywood. In 1910 he decided to leave the River County prairie to get there. I was scared to stay on the farm alone and come to the prairies of what is now Daniels County. He wi[...]sides locking it at took up a homestead about one and a half miles south of night. Flaxville.[...]In 1914 it was time for the kids to be starting school. They His brothers settled n[...]len the boys, Mrs. Ragnhild Hendrickson, came out and Hansen as the teacher. Alice started school there, we had to homesteaded on land near them.[...]She On his homestead Martin began raising wheat and also went to the Navajo school with Nell McGowan as the cattle[...]d up no opportunities. He liked a large operation and also the equipment necessary to farm it. At the time of Martin's death he was far[...]cook-car in 1921. ARTHUR AND SENA HILLING FAMILY HISTORY By Mrs. Sena Hilling I came to Grand Forks, North Dakota from McIntosh, |
| [...]in the well to keep it from spoiling. We had to cure the fresh meat or can it to keep it from spoiling too. Then the drought[...]came in the 20' s, no rain and no crops, so we decided to leave the farm. We had an auction sale and sold off the cattle, horses and machinery and moved to Bainville,[...]Montana in 1924. Here Arthur bought a barber shop and[...]settled there so that the children could go to high school.[...]Hatfield's would play and everybody would square dance and waltz and do all the old time dances. Those who didn't[...]care to dance would play cards; others would just sit and visit. And then, there was always a big lunch served. The only place to get a "square"-Henry .Joyer's home. We lived in Bainville until 1940. We sold out and moved Left to right-Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Patterson, Arthur Hilling. to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where my husband got a carpe[...]Coeur teacher. She would walk across the coulees to Nim Gaines' d'Alene for ten years. He barbered the latter years too, until and go with their children. Later on we got some cattle, pigs his health gave out. We sold out and came to Billings, and chickens and began real farming. We built more room Montana to be near our son, Henry. He has Hillings Circle on to our tar paper shack. We milked lots of cows and sold Pharmacy here. cream to buy groceries. We also had our own meat, potatoes[...]passed away from a heart attack in Billings. Two and vegetables. I remember carrying many buckets of[...]minister, died in Mason, Illinois, and Everett, a heavy summer I went into the coulees to pick June berries, equipment operato[...]I still live currants, gooseberries, pin cherries and choke cherries to in Billings with my daughter and son-in-law, Alice and make sauce and jelly. These berries were all plentiful at[...]fall after harvest we would take a load of wheat to Medicine Lake and bring back a supply of flour for the Arthur and Sena Hilling winter. This was a three day trip with horses. In thP. f 11y summer we would go to Eagle's Nest and dig our coal for the winter. We would load up the kids and lunch and work all day. We would bring home a couple of ton[...]'< 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 wagon with a canvas top on it and a little hP-ater to keep them warm. He hauled the neighbor's children[...]d not see where he was going-there were no fences to follow at that time-just the prairie and cow trails. The next year we went to the coulees to cut fence posts so that we could fence our crops to keep the horses and cattle from eating them. We were now getting a[...]Joe Lemms, Fred Holmdahl, Walter Mehls, Ed Wrona and Archie .Lorenz. Nick Weber had a threshing outfit and in the fall I cooked in his cookcar for his crew. I would take Henry with me and leave the older children at home to get along by themselves. We were close by and their dad could be with them at night. He was hauling bundles, too, during the day. In 1917 and 18 we went to Whitetail to barber while that barber was a way in the army; w[...]doctor at the time. My mother had been a mid-wife and she had told us things to do in case we had to . This knowledge came in very handy at this time.[...]back. When the war was over the barber came back and we moved again to the farm. In the meantime, Arthur was barbering in the winter at Flaxville and Plentywood. I spent a lot of my time washing c[...]I did get a washing machine. In the summer we had to lower our milk, cream and butter down[...] |
| [...]ting in 1960. Then she went to Hollywood Beauty School in[...]ty shops in Scobey until she got married. We live and[...]We have two children, Kurt, six, and Kalu, four. In the[...]Della Parent in 1915, they were the first couple to[...]years. Eugene and Della had four children: Dewey, lives on[...]California; and Yvonne Bentz of Tustin, California.[...]r 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 come to America. from R[...]h the help of a brother-in-law, In 1909 he came to Minnesota to an aunt Engeborg Theophile Rheault and son, Raymond) to Flaxville and Rollofson who had come in 1900. The next stop was[...]e-fourth mile from where we Plummer, North Dakota to an uncle, Joe Rollefson. now live and now owned by Frances Legare. They made As the h[...]in North Dakota he the move with five teams and wagons-Arthur, age 12, was went to Montana and took a homestead near Flaxville in one teamster and the youngest teamster was Walt, age 8. 1910. Here he remained and farmed until his death. After Besides all their personal and household belongings, they taking up the homestead he returned to Plummer and moved 35 head of cattle, crossing the[...]ferry with two of the cows falling in - one swam to shore again and when Anders found them in the spring a farmer and the other one they roped and they pulled her through! in North Dakota was using them and they were in such bad It took four days for[...]ty handy with the violin at house Arthur and I (Eleanor Parent) were married January 31, parti[...]Navajo (the old Holmdahl place) down in the hills and miles northeast of Flaxville. Roos's now own this[...]across the fields to his folks' for work each day. Later we[...]also had a few cows and chickens and we planted a large THE ANDERS JENSEN FAMILY garden to help make a living. Afterwehadahorsehecould[...]Anders Jen sen ride to my folk's farm-the Bill Parents- about ten miles, to catch a ride with the other men in a car and go to work Anders V. Jensen was born in Denmark, son of Jens and towards Scobey, Four Buttes or wherever jobs were avail- Helga Jensen, coming to Flaxville in 1949. He worked on able. They[...]hen ways, etc. Later he helped drive mules to build the he joined the Army where he served two years, part of the Redstone, Flaxville highway and he also worked on the time in the Panama Canal Zo[...]d in Four Buttes road in 1939. 1956 he went to work for the Bell Telephone Company until Ou[...]was born in 1933 in a two room 1960, then he went to work for Nemont Telephone house about six miles to the closest neighbor. She was Cooperation in Scob[...]on October 5, 1972 in a tragic car accident quit to start farming. near Circle, Montana where they were to make their home. Anders married Meredith A. Try[...]She left behind a family of three daughters and her was born in Scobey, daughter of Albert and Winnifred husband, Al Hardy.[...] |
| [...]been $44 a month and we were happy to make that much to Ii ve on and to care for the family. _[...]In February, 1941 we moved out to the A.R. Hanson farm[...]and farmed by the month for wages, then later we farm[...]miles south. We bought his machinery to get started on our[...]In 1974 we moved two and a half miles south of the A.R. Hanson place to our own farm which we bought from Joe[...]:tnov~ until we are too old to do anything else! Arthur's hobby and pastime is riding and training his[...]horses. We spend our extra time going to the weekend[...]s, especially the ones in which our grandchildren and[...]very dear to us: Verlane and Jennifer Smolak, Christine and Eric Kahm , Janice Hardy, and Jodie, Jacquelin, Jor dan and Jason Handy. Tne Arthur Legare Family-1971-left to right top row: THE JOSEPH LEGA[...]J oe Legare was born in Fargo and his wife at Wild Rice,[...]later they came to Montana locating at Riverside, a small Th e Joe Legare Fa mily- left to right top row- Walter, He len, Arthur, Virgil, Le[...]ro w: Mrs. J oe Lega re (mother}, Eddie, Lucille and Joe (father).[...] |
| [...]Freddie, now at Everett, pay off debts and pay for the huge quantities of groceries Washington, served in France, Belgium and Germany and needed to feed the working crew. Pete Hexom (local grocer)[...]l. Raymand, of Flaxville, spent was glad to take coal for the grocery bills. Mrs. Mehls did a[...]f cooking during that time. By this time Clarence and of Flaxville, chose the navy. Eddie, now of Wolf[...]Donald were born so there was quite a family to support. served with thearmyin the Korean War. Th[...]ther man, Jack Warren, Whitetail, Clarice (Weber) and Arthur of Flaxville, and worked with him. We often wondered why[...]Hendrickson heard someone groaning and calling for help. by Meta Simonson He got on his horse to find out where it was coming from.[...]edge into the mine-he was badly hurt. Louie came to the Henry Lucht and family moved to the Flaxville area Mehls home for help. Walter hooked up a team of horses to from Saco, Montana in 1921. They purchased a farm that his stoneboat, took some blankets and they loaded Ed on many know as the "old Andrew Rodeen" place, southeast and took him into Dr. Healy in Flaxville. He was too[...]rs. Clara Barr, Bowling hurt so he had to be taken to Williston, his one leg was Green, Ohio-Mrs. Alice Buethe, Havre, Montana-Nellie severely injured and he had many other cuts and bruises. It Kirn, Poplar, Montana-and Theodore Lucht, Bowling took him a long time to recover, but he made it. Green, Ohio. Mrs. Lucht[...]ially during the Wrona in 1933-two sons were born to them-they are: winter. Tony Linders[...]barn dance before Ronald of Salt Lake City, Utah; and Gary of Missoula, haying time and many were held in the homes-Frank Montana. Henry[...]and Henry Luchts. On Walter's birthday they would all[...]violin, Frank Murr and Arnie Linder chorded on the piano HISTORY OF TH[...]if one was available and Otto Stromstad was also a pretty by Luc[...]d March 16, 1926 at the age of 36 years. Walter and Augusta Mehls came to Daniels County from She died of childbi[...]two days. This left Walter with six children went to Churchbridge, Saskatchewan. They came back to to care for. Lorena was then 16 and she had to quit school to farm in Wisconsin. Lorena was born by this time.[...]t. She did remarkably well for a young Montana and the Dakotas wanted settlers so land was girl with cooking, sewing and the many other tasks that offered to anyone who would draw up a claim and promise had to be done. On March 20, 1929 Bernadine died of a to live there. Many little shacks and homes began to dot the ruptured appendix. She was thirteen y[...]he was countryside. Earl Randall, who was married to Walter's taken to Williston but it was too late as peritonitis had[...]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 Flaxville cemetery. arrangements were made to make the move. By this time This bl[...]rea as was broken up - Clarence, age twelve and Donald, age nine far as Medicine Lake. Emigrant boxcars were used to went to live with Earl and Louise Randall. Lorena and transport their household goods, farm machinery, horses Florence went to Wisconsin, Lorena worked as a maid and and cattle that far. He drove the horses and wagon loaded Florence lived with her gran[...]h their household goods across the prairie trails to their finish high school. Lucille stayed in Mo[...]1930. newly acquired land. For some reason he had to pay Kastin Walter's sister, Selma (Mrs. R[...]od house was Worthington, Minnesota offered to help Lucille with a built as a temporary home. This later became the chicken chance to go to Normal Training School for Teachers. coop. By this time Florence and Bernadine were born. A Walter went to work for MDU Power Company out of barn and two granaries were also built. The house still Malta. He was injured there at work and unable to work for stands there. The barn burned after our[...]a long time because of his back. He returned to Wisconsin There were good times and bad times. When the crops and in 1932 he married Mrs. Tillie Steinke. They moved to had enough rain, times were good. Walter rented some her farm to live; she had one son, Leslie. She died in 1962 so adjoining land such as the John Chance, Fred Stang and Walter moved to an apartment in Fall Creek. Florence Art Hilling[...]he looked after him until he was unable to live alone - he then drove the school bus to earn a little 'extra money. About entered[...]lson talked Walter into opening in 1973 and was buried in Fall Creek cemetery. a coal mine on[...]les so he knew Lorena worked in Chicago and Washington D.C. for there was coal there. Teams of horses pulling scrapers and Robert Henry, Wisconsin congressman, and a wealthy fresnos began moving the dirt from the[...]royalties for some the people who helped were Tom and Casper Brenden, Ed invention that improved the carburetor. Lorena died of Wrona, Henry Lucht and other neighbors. This turned out cancer in 1961. to be a rather successful venture while the c[...] |
| [...]ark in 1941. After the World War II-they returned to make their home in Worthington, they have two dau[...]ied Dallas Baker in 1938. They live in Eau Claire and they have two children. Clarence came to Wisconsin too and spent some time on the farm there with his dad. A[...]o sons, Leland, who was killed in the Vietnam war and Richard of Flaxville. Clarence farmed south of Fl[...]ed away in 1975. Donald worked in the CCC camps and was drafted into the Army. His health failed and he has spent a lot of time in the veteran's hospi[...]ied Darlene Fry. They live in Bigleow, Minnesota, and have three sons. The Walter Mehls farm is now t[...]Peder, Jr., is a lawyer in Billings and daughter Karen was a by Sig Moe and Ida Erickson pharmacist until her marriage and lives in Helena.[...]d most of his high Valley in North Dakota in 1911 to the Archer-Plentywood school work by corr[...]nding the area. He came from a family of ten boys and two girls. University of Montana as a special student to get his B.A. Nearly all worked on Moe Hillatoneti[...]rom degree in economics - then went out and made quite a 1913 through 1917 the Moe Brothers b[...]was best known for his threshing degrees and went into education - teaching. I worked outfit a[...]around 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[...]wages ranged from $3.50 a day - 30¢ an hour to $6.50 - spike son, Skuli Moe. Peder was also a su[...]" Gustafson came from Poplar where he was an auto and machinery dealer, in Minnesota in 1919 to be the tractor mechanic and operator addition to oil stations and motel operator. Another son. on Peder's thr[...]stayed in education work for 40 years - I taught and coached at Custer, Simms and Belgrade in Montana then moved to Toppenish and Auburn, Washington where I live.[...]My wife, Adeline and I had 72 years of teaching between[...]California most of the time with her children, and myself[...]years of age. When hearing of the treasures to be garnered[...]in the newly opened frontier, he migrated to Fargo, North[...]Dakotas and Montana, he joined a supply train and[...]He was a witness to the battle of the Little Big Horn in[...]which Custer and his troops were massacred, but with[...] |
| [...]first came to this community we had 35 quarters of alloted[...]Indian land. When we found we were going to lose these[...]we filed homesteads in order to keep the land we had[...]first year and I broke 40 acres for myself in 1912. In order to build our homestead shacks, we had to go to Poplar and[...]In the summer of 1910 the railroad came to Plentywood. Then all crops were freighted to Plentywood or Medicine Lake and wagon loads of lumber, food and clothing were freighted back. Groceries and clothing were ordered from a[...]salesman who toured the community with a horse and buggy, eating and staying with the different settlers. These[...]commodities were ordered in lots to suffice for about one[...]In 1912 we planted potatoes in the sod and the crust of the[...]horse back or horse and buggy and Indian trails, which[...]lentywood around Redstone area, pick up the mail, and deliver it to the Orville Lockrem Store. Late in 1914 we got a[...]fitting eye glasses, to helping with leg ,1 papers. Before Having trav[...]and. There was a rumor that there was Indian land to be had in the area of Daniels Wilfred and Georgiana Parent county. _Alfred Parent married upon his return from the Custer Battle and was raising a large family when he decid- ed that he had to go to a new area in order to acquire land for his .growing sons and sons-in-law, so the decision was made to go West. They moved to Montana, settling near Flaxville in 1910; Alfred Parent and his entire family: three sons, namely Joe, Wilfred and William, five daughters, Jane, Nellie, Roseann, Della and Eleanor 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 immigrant cars to Poplar, Montana. While freighting our belongings from Poplar to where we were destined to take up homestead, we were caught in a prairie fi[...]g been an old scout in the 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. The smoke was so[...]y, in large circus tents which housed the animals and humans until such a time as homestead shacks coul[...]their stopping point, using a wagon, team, flags and compass, we surveyed our own land. When[...] |
| that if someone was very ill we had to take a horse and buggy, drive to Plentywood to get the doctor and after he had attended the patient we had to return him to his office, which was a fair drive for team and buggy. During the flu epidemic of 1918 the doctor had a driver taking him from place to place. He sometimes went several days without sleep, trying to do the best he could under the circumstances.[...]sed from him in later years. I sold my homestead to Amada French in 1917 and bought Arthur Gourde's homestead as he decided he was tired of pioneering and wanted to return to Grafton, North Dakota with his family. On January 2, 1919 I was united in marriage to Georgianna Rheault of Fargo, North Dakota. To this union two children were born, Cleothilda Parent Dusell and Cleomene (Buckshot) Parent. Cleo lives in Williston, North Dakota and helps her husband run a machine shop. Buck lives[...]ge 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 Dako[...]boughten, but often hand made, packed with straw and lined with a white sheet or something suitable.[...]emetery was established these graves were exhumed and moved to the cemetery. Some remains were intact but we saw with our own eyes some had returned to dust as prophesied. Entertainment in those early days were barn dances, horseshoe pitching, rodeos and a giant roundup. We got to most of those events by riding horseback. My[...]Quebec in 1926. They lived in the Peerless Emilia and Joseph Parent-married January 12, 1909 area.[...]er a cyclone wind tore the tent down. It was torn to pieces so Joe took Emilia and baby to old Scobey to stay in[...]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 Janua[...]e, North Dakota. They farmed near They made trips to Poplar to buy a year's supply of Oakwood, but getting crowdec.i for land, they thought of groceries, coal and kerosene, until Flaxville got built up. going west to look for homestead land. In 1909, in the fall, No[...]lfred, brother Wilfred, bought from horse traders to break land so they cc. uld seed brothers-in-law Joe Goulet and Art Gourde came to flax and oats. Gypsies and some Indians passed through northeast Montana. Th[...]e gypsies were always a problem. Their Flaxville, and decided they would move here as they liked campin[...]e pasture by the water. They the wide open spaces and tall grass. They went back to always a.sked for garden produce, milk, soap, and oats for North Dakota to prepare to be .back early in the spring, so their horses. In[...]s got tough, Joe left in April of 1910 Joe Parent and Emilia and baby daughter, and with the family moved to Fargo to find work, then to Alma, one month old, came to northeast Montana in a West Fargo to work in the meat packing plant. But farming cover[...], all was what he liked. So the family moved back to Flaxville to French speaking. The trail was rough, with bad we[...]his father's homestead for many years. Later they and it took a good week to get to their destination. They had moved farther south to farm what is now the Wigger place. brought extra horses, milk cows, geese, chickens and It was there that a son Leo, age 21, died in a co[...]. They set up a big tent large enough for all the and Frank Fordyce, Alvin Swenson and a brother Louis families to live in until they could build a house. The tent[...]miles west of Flaxville, so down, 30 feet of dirt and Leo and Frank were buried, but[...] |
| [...]North Dakota, coming to Montana in 1910 where he took[...]William and Anna's family consisted of ten daughters.[...]Douglas and Gregory. They reside in Ronan, Montana.[...]ir family includes: Larry, Janice, Vicki~, Pamela and[...]Chris, Robin, Tony, Roberta, David and Abigail. They live[...]Company and Margaret works in a nursing home.[...]5. They are Mrs. Aime Carrier.(Alma), Dave Parent and Leo Parent active in American Legion[...]conventions in Hawaii and Chicago. Vera is Assistant Alvin and Louis got out. This tragedy forced them to move Manager of the local ·radio station, KCGM, in Scobey. to the place that is now the Bill Lapke farm. There[...]original Juel homestead. (see Didrik enough land to farm so they moved to the Dave LaBlanc Juel story in Scobey[...]He died in years, until he was getting up in age and decided to sell to 1973. Carol still lives in Helena. Art Legare and,bought a home in Scobey. They lived there PATRICIA-married Max Walter of the Whitetail and enjoyed town life, until they both passed away in[...]1971, one month apart, Joe at the age of88 years and Emilia, 83 years. The place was sold to Joe Lantz. Joe and Emilia lived a full life with many ups and downs Wilfred Goulet (left) and Bill Parent (right)-1912 . through the early years of homestead days, and raised a large family of ten children, six daughters and four sons. One son died in infancy, the other in a coal mine accident. They had 21 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Joe and Emilia's children are: ALMA married Aime Carrier[...]e accident, age 21. DAVE Parent, born in 1913. He and his wife, Evelyn have one boy, Mark and a daughter, Carolyn, Dave lives in Miles City. JEANEATTE married William Karr and lives in Gardena, California, and has one daughter, Paula. LOUIS married Roze Zimme[...]rome, Frances, Lois. BEATRICE married N.L. Shuman and now lives in Scobey. Their children are Connie, T[...]eat Falls (deceased). Lucille now lives in Scobey and has one son, Terry. ALICE married Bob Ellertson and is living in Lewistown, Montana. LORRAINE married[...]have five children, Nora, Margie, Stewart, Tracy, and Mike.[...] |
| [...]Rheault Famjly-left to right: Thraphile, Bla1t-che, Cliff-[...]ord (sitting), Loren, Rose and Raymond.[...]by Rose Rheault Gibbs William and Ana Parent-1915 Theophile and his wife, Blanche, were born in Horace,[...]North Dakota. They were married in 1904, and moved to in Honakaa, Island of Hawaii; and Maxine, Mrs. Paul the Flaxville area[...]istles!). member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Scobey In 1924 we leased this farm to Joe Legare (Mrs. Legare was Big Sky Singers. Patt[...]-then Dad started mining coal northeast of Patti and Gene's children are: James, Michael and Terrie Scobey. This lasted a few years, then we moved back to Jean, all at home.[...]raduation from In 1944 they moved to Williston. In 1945 Mother passed Flaxville High School. Their family includes: Terry, who away and also our oldest brother, Raymond. Dad was still died October 13, 1971; Deanna, married to Mark Jensen of doing carpenter work at this time. In 1960 he moved to Scobey; and Marjorie, Marlene and Ronald, all at home in Boulder, Colorado to live with me (daughter Rose Gibbs), Scobey where[...]1. He was 90 years old. American Legion Auxiliary and is also one of the Big Sky Our family co[...]vir of Minnesota. Their two Williston and is employed by the G.N. Railway; and my- sons are Jeffrey and Jamie. They live in Great Falls. self,[...]ife, Anna, moved into Flaxville after his passing and she lived in her home there until her health fail[...]. MR. AND MRS. AUGUST ROOS, SR.[...]by Mrs. August Roos, Jr. and Mrs. Fritz Roos The Bill Parent Family-1942-left to right top row: The name of Roos is[...]Rose. The Berniece, Margaret, Eleanor, Ruth, Vera and Frances. grandfather of August Roos, S[...]Marilyn on his lap, German Army by trade, and his hobby was horticulture. Beverly, (mother) Anna, and Carol. He developed a black rose, and in honor of this[...]Mintenballenbach, Germany. He came to America with his parents at the age of 13 and grew to manhood in Pierz,[...]Minnesota. It was here that he was to meet his future wife,[...] |
| Left to right, back row: Elizabeth, Anna, Louise, Charles[...]Raymond, Henry-about 1939. August now decided to change his misfortune into |
| In 1910 he came to homestead in the Flaxville community and lived there all his life. He passed away in 1963[...]y Geraldine Safty Ronald Safty, son of George and Cora Safty of Whitetail, Ronald Safty Family-left to right: Linda, Janet, Ronnie, JOHN HAMILTON SEMPLE John Hamilton Semple w[...]ember 7, 1859. He moved as a small |
| Harry Semple Family-left .. to right, back row: Gregg, Johnny, Gary. Seated: Mary, Jean, Harry and Thomas-1970 Mr. and Mrs. Harold (Clarice) Weber in recent years. MR. AND MRS. HAROLD WEBER |
| Edward Wrona and Meta Buethe-wedding picture taken November 16, 19[...]carpenter foreman. John is a Detective Lieutenant and he is a licensed operator for the new " Br[...] |
| Four Buttes and Flats -391- |
| [...]Thereafter Art and Lydia Scarseth took over the store and The four buttes that rise like small mountains[...]post office. They had the store and post office 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 be found by that name in old geography books and In 1947 Normar1 Johnson from Scobey bought the[...]and moved there with his wife Hilma and daughters War Department. The Indian name for them was Shonka Donna and Norma Jean. Norman and Hilma still run the Tinga meaning "big dog stables." The Plains Indians had store and post office. Norman also farms. The daughters no[...]caves in the buttt-6 provided an excellent place to cache the illicit whiskey. Henry and Ole Shipstead spent one winter near the buttes when they came in 1901, but moved to the West Fork the next spring .Among the early ho[...]he Robbin families, Bill Barnard, Joe Nadeau, Jim and Art Beebe, Charlie, Arthur and Leo Chicoine, William Haenk, Mrs. Annie Little, Lulu and Mike Manley, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shrank, Hans Kjos, Iver Ferestad and others. A~ the railroad was being built west from Scobey to Opheim the Great Northern Railway Company gave permission 'to create townsites along the rail line. J.V. Four B[...]963 Bennett, president of North Country Town site and Land Company bought land in townsites and subdivided into lots and sold them. The town of Four Buttes began in 192[...]une, 1926. It was receiving grain by August, 1926 and had a capacity of 35,000 bushels. Another elevator was built by a line company and was purchased by the farmers in the early 40's. I[...]rts. Several have managed the elevator since then and it has been enlarged by thcl addition of an annex and three large tube bins. The managers have been Max Mavity, Dave Dick, Alvin Olson, Jim Waller, Ira Ferestad and at present Ray Evanson. The Four Buttes store w[...]n Wagner. Assisting in the operation of the store and post office was Hans Kjos. Herman Wagner d[...] |
| [...]NORMAN ment of spices and canned ; M RCANTILE i E[...]H::'e -this, in addition to all ,t he : "''The ,Complete Country Store'' ; st[...]nything here Feeds, seeds. Garden and field ; from a stamp to a bottled gas ! varities. Don 't let th is snowy[...]plenty of planting weather · in, j,ust holler, and we'll hunt , ye,t. _ . for it together. It's bound to be i Drug Sundries[...]Some Hot News asp irins to horse liniment. Cos- Norman Mere. offers . y[...]. School supplies. Shoe CASH purchases amounting to findings (that mea:is la_ces, pol- $10 or more.[...]ish , s'hoe taps etc.). ,Also ma·g - mediately and . w'ill con t inue •U1ntil az ines and p~pers. You know. June 1 , 1948. it was the country general store, Just to g·ive you some idea of just like this one, ,t ha[...]'Dry G:>ods Gas and oil. SoIT)e ,haberd::ish- Here you 'll find[...]the Four 1Buttes post- ·tena·l (threads and darning office, telephone exchange and j things, you know), sheets and first a :d station for man or[...]r:·· 'em. Ready-to-Wear[...]. . ....-... ,Children's clothin'd . tBoys' •and Norman. Mercantile men 's work clothing. A ful[...]vels, axes, ham- mers, e_tc. Household appliances and elecitrical su,pp.J.i•es. Don't Thursda[...]8 Arthur Bernard built the bar and dance hall in 1942. It give ll.llp H at first you[...]has changed hands several-times and at present the bar find wh::it you want. It's pro[...]and supper club is operated by Kay Hellickson and family. Groceries[...]rious local organizations. In 1918 the ladies met to do the[...]g for the Red Cross. In 1926 several families met to organize a club to further community enterprise.[...]At various times the community has had baseball and[...]am won first place one graduated from Scobey High and both became dental year, and the men's softball team won second place in assis[...]iforms for the Little League were children, Kelly and Lori, and now live in Scobey. Norma[...]f his son Richard, married Jim Becker of Billings and Ii ves there. They have a who was killed in an automobile accident. Richard and his son Daniel.[...]family lived in Four Buttes for a few years and he ran the The Four Buttes school was originall[...]N uhring farm south of Four Buttes and it was sealed over Four Buttes. When the town cam[...]as a dry hole in 1953. Otto moved his house and family to moved there, and Leo Zuck was the first teacher at that Four Buttes and farmed until his health forced him to location. The school was in operation until 1967. The rent and he passed away in 1959. His wife and son Harold building had been enlarged and modernized. After the still live there. One daughter, Ann, is married and lives in closing of the school the children were bussed to Scobey. Billings and she has two children, Craig and Cari. Another The Four Buttes Home Extension Club[...]daughter, Rosie, is married and has three children, Wayne, building and it is used for community affairs. Jeff and Tina, and lives in Roseau, Minnesota. In 1915, when no sc[...]of similar size, having kept most of its initial and taught some of the neighborhood children in her h[...]inesses. Some of them had no previous opportunity to attend In 1948 the REA electric line was extended to Four school. Mrs. Ostby had been a teacher before coming to the Buttes, replacing t[...]s were Sigurd, Alvin and the town pump was no more. Shortly thereafter the and Myrtle Olson and Art and Myrtle Shrank. telephone line came in and the people had telephones in[...] |
| [...]eight grades, from 1943to 1955, when she retired. She was a[...]homesteader in 1914 and came to Homestead by train from[...]Buttes. She married Emil Audet in 1926 and lived on the[...]Manley, who now lives with his wife and three sons in Chicago. Lulu is widowed and now lives in Scobey. Alfred and Freda Kaul live up the road from Four Buttes[...]ked during the dam boom days. Their children went to elementary school in Four Buttes. Arden and Ardella live in Billings, are married and have children. Bud (Alvin)[...]three children and live in Scobey. Bud is a respected[...]Mr. and Mrs. Bud Thieven. We bought the Four Buttes[...]Tavern from John and Ida Miller in August, 1963. We Ii ved B[...]making a new dining and dancing area. Had a dance[...]Sundays. We sold the Tavern to Tom Davis in 1965. Bud their homes. Before that there was one telephone in town, a went to work as manager of the F.U. Carriers and we lived crank on a box on the wall at the store.[...]In 1973 we lived in Miles City. Bud is an called to the telephone a messenger service charge of insurance agent for M.F.U. Since 1974 we moved back to twenty-five cents could be charged. The train use? to haul the Four Buttes area and are living on the late Maurice the mail which had to be met by the postmaster at irregular Murphy place. We have three children Willie, Michel and times of the day or night. Since 1949 the mail is[...]es. Very few days have been missed Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Vandeberg live in Four Buttes, by Tiny Puckett, the mail carrier for 26 years. It used to be a having moved here in 1947 to be near their farming treat for the children to ride the train between the towns on 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 b[...]e passenger Madoc. Their son James went to school in Four Buttes. car has been taken off and the depot has been abandoned. James graduated from high school in Scobey and enlisted During the time there was a depot there[...]r three years in 1959. He was stationed at agents and their families living in town. Usuall~ m_ the[...]hool picmc at Stone Arsenal i~ Alabama, and also spent two years in the buttes, attended by the whole neighborhood, and it was Naha, Okinawa. He got his discharge[...]son of Conrad, highway was built west from Scobey to Four Butt.es, which Montana and they are now li_ying in Great Falls, Montana. mad[...]ier. County roads were improved Eddie and Marie Wahl are considered to be in Four and school busses started operating. By 1957 we were[...]ugh they live across the road. They are early-day to get television, one of the last areas in the nati[...]settlers. Eddie came from Minnesota. They farmed and Although Four Buttes does not have too -~any I?[...]businesses are thnvmg with all the wheat farming and cattle raising. In town and country everyone knows his neighbor and is very hel~ful when Old Zabe Charti[...]time you will often find a gathenng at the store and the coffee pot never runs dry at the elevator. People all around are kept busy with schoo! and church activities in Scobey. Basketball, baseball[...]rling, bowling, golf, Pioneer Days, county fairs, and various other get-togethers, keeps everyone around the county a big happy family. With electricity and telephones all through the county farm homes are just as nice and as modern as town homes, and every one has a repair shop. There are more an~ more young people coming back to settle on farms after bemg out in the world for a few years. High ways an~ roads are goo_d and vehicles are plentiful in this roomy, big sky, cl[...]y of ours. Norman and Hilma Johnson[...] |
| [...]e have four children, Scott, Mike, Lisa and Tricia who attend and their son Gary are on the farm and continuing with the school in Scobey. They are originally natives of the farming and cattle. Gary also has a sports equipment Williston, North Dakota area. They fish, camp, and have business. Their daughter Arletta married Carroll Kjensmo pets and are in many school activities. and lives in Scobey. They have four children, Arleen, Kay and Edna Hellickson have the Supper Club, and live Wayne, Kevin and Brian. Kevin is in the medical branch of here with children Tammy, Donna and Lonie. Tammy has the U.S. Navy. Eddie came herein 1924 and began farming now married Mark Hendrickson and lives in Scobey. Kay and helping around farms, in connection with his uncle is the son of Clarence and Olive Hellickson, old time Sam Hanson, who had ho[...]ious parts of the grandchildren. Eddie was a good and helpful neighbor and country, but decided to come back to Daniels County. was always good natured. Melvin Werdal and Eileen are long-time residents of[...]ma Johnson Four Buttes. Eileen came here with her parents Jake and Erna Miller, along with brothers and sisters. She went to school here and also in Scobey. She is now married to FOUR BUTTES EXTENSION HOMEMAKERS Melvin Werdal and they have two teenage boys, Ricky and Randy. Mel has been employed at the elevator for[...]ed in 1936 in years. He is our favorite "gas man" and can give you a good Four Buttes with Mrs. Ar[...]Ferestad, vice president, and Mrs. C.O. Enochson, John and Ida Miller have lived in Four Buttes for 16[...]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 pastime is ladies were able to drive, the husbands and children came fishing in the various creeks and dams in Daniels County, along, visiting in the shade in nice weather while the ladies and visiting son Clarence and family who live in had their meetings. Their meetings were from May to Pennsylvania. Also a daughter Lorraine Chapman and October. This club was disbanded in the early 1940's. her husband Bob and their children who live in Th[...]as organized in 1953 with Mrs. Kermit Ferestad as and Emilia Miller, from Saskatchewan, Canada in 1915. president, Mrs. Russell Steen vice president, and Mrs. Ida also came from Canada in 1936.[...]retary-treasurer. Charter members still Howard and .Lorna Dahl are long-time residents of Four[...]Mrs. Ted Skornogoski, Mrs. Russell Steen, Buttes and in Daniels County. They farm and have a gun Mrs. Norman Johnson, Mrs. Alf[...]r, Ellen Vandeberg, Mrs. Beulah Nuhring, and Mrs. Alfred Ostby, and Rusty all went to elementary school here, and on to who was also charter member of the forme[...]ery second Tuesday at the homes or at the school. and now lives in Washington. Ellen is married, has tw[...]e school from the District after the little girls and lives in Idaho. Donna is married and lives in District was abandoned. Card parties a[...], Lorna, lives in Florence keep. The 4H Club and Cub Scout troop also hold their with her husband and children. Howard worked in an meetings there. elev a tor in Richland for some years and he and Lorna ran the bar and cafe for a time. Howard is the son of the late Ben Dahl and Lura, who lives in Scobey. The Dahls are old- ti[...]THE GILCHRIST SCHOOL Sid and Laura Kerstein are long-time residents in Daniels[...]Harriet Gilchrist, the eldest daughter of Elmer and Dakota, and homesteaded one-half mile east of Four Buttes Margaret Gilchrist, early pioneers to the Montana prairie, in 1910. Sid never 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 and neighbors who also Buttes was the first[...]d 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 schooling at Four Buttes, graduated fr[...]chool, known as the Gilchrist school. Scobey High and went on to colleges. Janet is now married This school was built in 1917 by Bob Sand wick. It was an to Ron Ereth, lives in Scobey and has three children, oustanding country school with a full cement basement Rhonda, Rachelle and Ryan. They are engaged in farming which contained a coal furnace and also a pump and well. and a repair business. Richard married Dianne Sharp of The school was large and always well equipped. On the Livingston and now lives in Miles City. Richard is a south it had a large cloak room and a library room counselor for the mental health pr[...]early years at least), than as a Laura continues to live on the family farm. mod[...], but it has warm memories. The west Newcomers to our town are: Steve and Mary Ann side of the school room[...]ll had two small ones high up on the wall. Buttes and Mary Ann is of the Bruhn family of Wolf Point.[...]eve has worked for the elevator for several years and is the school had and a large world globe remains prominent now farming[...]Also a school clock which never had the Jennifer and Brandi.[...]Throughout the years the community In 1973 Ray and Jo Ann Evanson came here from mem[...]ride in maintaining a "Superior" Lothair, Montana to manage the Farmers Elevator. They rated school and to do this not only was the building well[...] |
| [...]children spoke French, the two Shranks, German, and the[...]and returned to Minnesota, the only one of the Elmer[...]Gilchrist family to leave Montana and return to their[...]drove a horse and buggy to the present Albert Bernar.d[...]and Claire Weber (Hillstrom). Many teachers roomed and[...]Gilmore, Joseph Suchy, and Sophia Suchy. maintained and equipped but they had to keep well |
| [...]r of years. In later years Ruth Shiell, and a banana. This lady informed me that she lived across Eunice Shipstead and finally Floyd Stafne taught in 1939- the al[...]o. 10 was Oil Company. abandoned in 1946 and was annexed to Four Buttes Eventually the tra[...]the snow grew deeper and the wind seemed to blow harder. For many years the school, the horse barn and school At the Scobey depot, I was met by[...]k, ground equipment, consisting of slides, swings and giant a very kind and obliging gentleman who offered to take slide, remained in the one acre of woven wire fence but care ofmy luggage and escort me to the courthouse to meet about the only reminder of this site of lear[...]or the other but after climbing two never seemed to flourish. f[...]introduced me to, Mrs. Knapp who was to become my life[...]long friend. A very charming, efficient and helpful person.[...]s. She explained a number RISE AND SHINE of things to me about Montana schools curriculum, school[...]laws, etc. She also told me I was going to an exceptionally I first viewed Daniels County[...]nice school building in a nice neighborhood and was graduated from Minot Teachers' College the Friday before, fortunate to board and room at a home like Evenson's. How I had sought a summer school to teach. North Dakota did absolutely right[...]me he would call for 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. Afterwards I went to school that a friend had taught atone time. This[...]old me it was a desirable school so I had applied to the to be certain I would get my mail. He told me I had no County Superintendent and was given a contract for nine cause for worry on that score because Mr. and Mrs. Jim months. Wolfe were the mail carriers and their route mail always When I left Minot via G[...]the weather went through. Right again! Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe were two of was sunny with water runni[...]flowery hat, suit, etc. The then hurried back to the courthouse to meet Mr. Evenson ride was long and slow. I think we changed trains at who[...]ut a lady seated near me coat, boots, mittens, and scarf for me to wear. I was very had one and when she discovered I was feasting on a box of glad to exchange my flowery hat, etc. for these warm chocolates, she felt sorry for me and offered me a sandwich wraps. So in a sleigh o[...]trail over the prairie we went. Mrs. Evenson and three little Claire Weber (Hillstrom) teacher in 1927. girls anxious to meet their new teacher greeted me and I[...]meals and hospitality I was to enjoy that year in their[...]On Monday morning, early, we went to school. This schoolhouse was quite new and in excellent repair. Ithada well and furnace in the basement. There was a good supply[...]of books, etc. and playground equipment and a barn for the[...]horses of the children who drove to school. This school was well furnished and clean. The usual outside well and cooler and drinking cups in the hall were[...]The desks were in good condition and modern. There[...]were a little shorter for the first and second graders. The[...]globe and blackboards.[...]The three Christensen children, Catherine, Hazel and Lawrence drove. Evelyn and Sylvia Evenson came with[...]horse hitched to a green cart. The horse was named Pinto.[...]It was about two miles to school. Pinto could always be[...]girls Margaret, Alice, Morraine and Phyllis were brought[...]Gertrude Gilmore's father took her back and forth. Her[...] |
| These were the children entrusted to my care for nine Knapp's daughter, Esther Peters, accompanied her and the months. We decorated the schoolroom to create a homey, children hoped she would accompany her often. She pleasant place to be. The children brought (what they told sparked the visit with her interest in them and her their mothers, I don't know) house plants, beautiful ones to congeniality. place in the sunny window.[...]An event of memorable importance was a trip to the Each evening at four o'clock, after sayi[...]l meet in the morning light, may angels the girls and I went to Peerless to attend their first fair. guard us while we sleep. Good-nite, good-nite boys and Peerless was booming with many businesses and a new girls. Good-nite teacher," I began my jan[...]floor which I had sprinkled with sweeping think, and the place was filled. Three ladies from Scobey compound (oily sawdust and a red color), I dusted the were judges. One stood out to me by her attractiveness. She erasers, watered the house plants, checked to see that the was dressed to perfection and had a sparkling personality. toilet doors and barn door were closed and the gate shut. I I learned she was Mrs. Art Strom of Scobey. saw that the flag monitor had the flag down and then I sat After viewing the exhibits, we walked around up town. down to correct papers, make lesson plans, etc. Time Seve[...]e set up. We saw one man who, we passed quickly and it was soon time to go home. were sure, was a "tin-horn gambler" moved in for the day. The Evenson girls usually stayed and 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 the meadow larks The days grew shorter. The weather got colder and the singing from their perches on fence posts and wild flowers snows came. There were storms. We prepared ourselves to by the wayside. In the fall the golden wheat wa[...]t in the schoolhouse, if necessary, by bringing and there was a busy time of activity.[...]the lunch On Saturday Mrs. Evenson, the girls and I made a pails from home. The school trustees had a good supply of weekly trek to Scobey. Evelyn took music lessons from Mrs. coal. We never had to stay overnight but it was a hopeful L. V. Hanson and we shopped. wish to see what it would be like. By four o'clock everyone The neighbors and patrons were very hospitable. was glad to be able to go home though. Sunday found us going visiting to the neighbors and to The school received a superior rating from the State church. They invited me to their homes for dinner and Department and a name plate was placed on the door. coffee very[...]On December 7, 1927 it was time to say good-bye to the Mr. Evenson was a lover of flowers and kept a beautiful pupils, to Roman Suchy who was helpful to assist with the flower and vegetable garden which he irrigated. chores and with the little folks at recess; Hazel, Lawrence In April the gracious County Superintendent held a Play and Catherine Christensen who came so far with their[...]as an occasion where all the rural plodding horse and buggy to learn and play with the other schools gathered and competed in contests, art exhibits, children, the two Evenson children; Evelyn and Sylvia, scholastic events and athletic events. The mothers brought kind, thoughtful and ever considerate of the teacher. Then the children to town (the men were working in the fields there we[...]ret who loved planting the crops). We left early and everyone was dressed to read everything she could find, Alice who was going to up. Before noon "the rains came", and what a rain. It be a nurse, Morraine the spokesman and reporter for the lasted all day. Going home Mrs. Robbin and Mrs. Chicoine girls, Phyllis who could embroider[...]on the Timmons Hill. They walked in the gestures and make it seem real --like the time she lost her rain and mud for help and ruined their new spring outfits. hat and really convinced us all that the "Indian" stole i[...]was instituted by Mrs. Knapp. It Robbin, patient and willing, Maurice Murphy, studious was a grand occasion despite the rain. and never late, and Gertrude Gilmore whose mother spoke Since school would be closed before Christmas, no French and whose Irish father couldn't understand very Chri[...]d, house plants usual preliminaries were planned and a playette was distributed and I locked the door -- another key had been decide[...]oes, The grand Evensons had made ice cream and fried dresses, etc. The pupils brought props and clothes. All was chicken for supper. Early Saturday morning my trunk and in order on Friday night. On Saturday another rain set in, bags were loaded on the sleigh and we went to Four Buttes and it was still raining on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon a where I took the train to Scobey to continue on my way to car was noticed parked by the schoolhouse. Not mu[...]ook on many passengers at Four attention was paid to it, but on Monday morning when the Buttes. Mrs. Robbins was taking a suitcase of butter to sell teacher arrived to unlock the door, she found to her to her lucky butter customers in Scobey, several others surprise it was unlocked. She found to her dismay that were going in to shop and take care of business matters. someone had camped[...]ternoon. for the bookroom, the basement, her desk and any other Thus ended my first year of t[...]had been A very happy year. rifled, the scissors and cosmetics were gone. The finery the Claire Weber (Hillstrom) children and she had brought were missing, along with an odd j[...]hich were in the basement, cups, etc. were taken. To all appearances a man, woman and child had spent the weekend there and left with anything they thought they WILLIAM 0. AND BRIDGET 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 pupils. On one visitation, Mrs. claim on a[...] |
| [...]he went in October, 1935. We have four daughters and one son. back to Hensel, North Daktoa and returned in the summer Three live in Montana and two in California. Bennie was of 1914 with his wife Bridget and daughters Muriel, associated with the Massey Harris Implement business at Gladys, and Ella Mae, sons William Jr. (Bill), and baby the time of his death in Plentywood, August,[...]a kidney ailment in the early winter of returned to Scobey in 1970. 1915. This was a sad event to take place so soon after After my dad sold our farm in 1924 to Albert Bernard he settling in a new way of life. came to Scobey and worked for the city until he retired We had th[...]because of ill heal th in 1939. Many of the trees and shrubs and Bill hauled water on a stone boat from a spring a mile in the city park and cemetery were planted by my dad. He away. My mother and I were caught at home alone during a died in 1950 in Plentywood while visiting Bennie and me. terrible blizzard when my dad had gone to town to get My mother's life was completely devoted 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 morn[...]r a quick, hot fire for biscuits, we would go out and gather fresh bread and tea in the afternoons. She was hit by a car "buffalo chips". My dad was a blacksmith and had a little while crossing the street on the eas[...]bey on shop at our farm. He sharpened plow shares and shoed December 4, 1938. She never regained consciousness and horses for the neighbors.[...]m the forge. history. The neighbors saw the smoke and came with gunny sacks Written by Ella Mae Evenskaas to dip in the water trough to fight the fire. Two men, Halvor Olson and Aime Carrier came with plows to make a fire guard. In the early days in Scobey my dad was a blacksmith DONALD AND LEONIE AUDET with Tom Smith. Then during harvest[...]Young Bill went with Donald Audet came to Four Buttes in 1920 from Forgey, him to drive a bundle te~m.[...]el taught in a number of country schools in those parents, Claudia and Ferdinand Audet. They came in an first years. She walked sometimes and drove a horse and open wagon and homesteaded where the Emil Audet farm buggy other times. She taught at Gilchrist and Presnell is located. It took them ten days to come by wagon through schools. In 1920 she and Gladys went to Spokane and rain, wind and prairie fires. They brought their own cook worked. Later she came back to Scobey and attended a stove and unloaded it to cook their meals. It was a hard secretarial cours[...]adults in the local school. long trip. They had to live in a tent for a long time before She started to work in the courthouse in 1922 and worked their house was built. there almost contin[...]in 1961. Muriel had met Pat Horton in Spokane and soon after she returned to Scobey he came and worked at Bill Handran~. He and Muriel were married in September 1926. He ran the cream station for a while and then he and Art Elvude had the City Dray. In 1943 he started his career in police work and was very good in that field. He was under sheriff from 1943 to 1954. During that time Pat brought in a man wante[...]f 1954 he was elected sheriff, but _ did not live to be sworn into office. He suffered a fatal heart a[...]wearing in. When Gladys was in Spokane she met and married Avon Powell, a mail man up to the time of his retirement in 1945 due to ill health. They still live in Spokane and have celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary. They had two daughters ·and two sons. One daughter passed away in the 1960's[...]orked at Greengards Clothing Store for many years and then moved to southern Montana and northern Wyoming. He worked in clothing stores in Powell, Wyoming, Bridger and Billings, Montana. He came back here and met and married Marie Hagfeldt. They had one son, Delno. Bill had one son Gerald and a daughter Denise by a previous marriage to Selma Javenager. He worked at Wedums Store in Glasgow during the Fort Peck Dam days. Then he and his family went back to southern Montana and made their home in Billings after having a pool h[...]esmen in northeast Montana. Marie's work took her to Denver, Colorado. They moved there where Bill died. Donald and Lionie Audet After I, Ella Mae, graduated from[...]years. I worked at the Rex Theatre three summers and for a short time for Wyvil The Audet family originated in Quebec, Canada and had Bjerke in the seed loan office. I married Bennett Evenskaas eight girls and one boy: Marian LaPierre, Lumia Burgett,[...] |
| [...]set price, Butler, Alice LaPierre, Amie LaBarge, and Leonie Audet. everyone payihg what he fel[...]ore this they great horse hide, buffalo, and sheepskin coats with fur lived with Leonie's parents. Donald farmed until 1968, caps and mittens. Also their huge horse blankets they then leased his land to Ray LaPierre for five years. At the sometimes[...]beck is leasing it. some had to sleep on the floor. Their loads coming home To this union was born six children: Arthur Audet, w[...]Gertrude flour, barrels of kerosene and much lumber, as everyone Brenkman, Great Falls;-V[...]es. In Sco~ey; Ronnie Audet has a wheel alignment and tune-up this way we met many interesting[...]er many of these people Joan Sell, Helena. Donald and Leonie have 27 today along with the stories they told around the fire at grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. They moved night. All were glad to be inside where it was warm, as an from the farm in 1949 and bought a house in Seo bey. Leonie unmarked sl[...]sparsely populated area was not a healthy place to be in The original house still stands at the f[...]he farm. others, but all productive. And every year or two there Neighbors came from miles around and they were still came along another squalling bundle, that was to be dancing and eating at noon the next day. The furniture was moved out to make room for dancing. There could have even been a little moonshine there. JOHN AND ELIZABETH BALDRY The John Baldry family came to Daniels County from |
| Mae operate a treating plant and post mill at Lincoln, cheese factory in[...]nstruction at Leo, Joe, Jean, Arthur and Leonie were born to Mr. and Tonapah, Nevada.[...]na McLhardey in 1940. In 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Bernard with their five children Floyde was killed in action while serving with the 82nd Air moved to a homestead five miles northeast of what is now B[...]Horace Baldry married Patricia McGuire in 1946. To this their homestead land, six more children were born to them: union were born two girls and two boys. They were in the Marian, Gerard, Lawrence, Josephine and twins Carmel retail meat business in Ritzville, Washington. Horace and Cyril. Cyril died in infancy. · passed away[...]married Rose Herriot in 1951. They have two boys and one girl. They were, for many years, in the resta[...]married Dorla Spencer in 1957. They have one son and two daughters. They have a cattle and sheep ranch at Wendell, Idaho. Douglas Baldry married Alice Barton in 1953. They have three daughters and one son. Doug works for the U.S. Government at th[...]is s,tory would not be complete without a tribute to our pioneer folks. Mother, Elizabeth Ann Endicott Baldry born at Fairmount, Minnesota and father, John Pernie Baldry from Groton, South Dakota. We remember mother's blind faith in people that right and honesty would win out in the end, and her patience to no end in such trying times of our days in Montan[...]s, lignite coal was our heat, along with the dirt and ashes. · Sometimes we burned cow chips in the friendly old cook stove, but what great bread, cakes, and other good food Lawrence D. Bernard, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. William came from it. Wood was scarce on the[...], enlisted in the infantry on February 15, 1941 , and sacks and a gentle saddle horse or wheel barrow, we boys[...]ed many chips for fuel. So, through sickness good and General Douglas MacArthur in the Phillipine[...]imes, she came through with flying colors, proud, and Bataan fell he evidently succeeded in reachi[...]n 1948. as the War Department informed his parents he was Father was an easy going man who always had time to 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. Although he loved to trade horses, he was not a greedy man, and al ways Leo Bernard, 35, son of Mr. and Mrs . William Bernard, was said "if it· was used[...]vercome with a heart attack on the train en route to Fort everyone". He loved his livestock, especially his horses and Douglas, Utah, where he was to report for army duty. He cattle, but"always said, "Boys,[...]arn anything was taken off- the train at Lima and died in that city on bad from a sheep and if you stay home and care for them November 26, 1942. they'll take care of you". In his twilight years he loved to talk · about the early days with the freight teams and Ii vestock. Someone asked him a short time before[...]ad been in Montana; he said "fifty- three summers and God only knows how many winters". John Baldry pas[...]by Harold Baldry MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM BERNARD |
| William Bernard family. Left to rig t standing: Joseph Bernard, Jean Manley, Arth[...]sons were lost, Lawrence who ADRIAN AND ANNIE BLANC died in 1942 while a prisoner of the Japanese, and Leo who by Kathleen Adams and Alice Wilcoxon, daughters died in 1942. In 1945 the Bernards moved from the farm to a home in Adrian Blanc was born in southern France in 1876. After Scobey, while Mr. Bernard continued to work the farm with spending his required three years in the army, he decided to the help of his sons. In 1958 he retired from active come to the United States. Not having the money for the farming but continued to be active in other community and trip, he worked his way over as a fireman on a freighter to financial endeavors. Africa, South America, and finally to Quebec in 1909. He Marian, daughter, married M[...]said he landed with the clothes on hi~ back and ten dollars May 21, 1967 in a Seattle, Washington hospital following two and one-half years of treatment for an incurable Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Blanc - wedding kidney disease. Mauri[...]re - July 15, 1915 children, Gary, Janice (Norby) and Joslyn and six grandchildren. Joseph, son, married Bessie[...]al of a brain tumor. They have two children, Leon and Wanda Ackerman and two grandchildren. William Bernard died on July 4, 1962 at the age of 84 years; and Beatrice Bernard died on December 3, 1969 at the[...]ers 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 Manley. They have three daughters, Lois Gilchrist, Donna Lapke and Mary Lou Pittenger, and eleven grandchildren. They farm west of Four Butt[...]he farms west of Four Buttes. Josephine married to Robert Boehlke. They have one son William. She teaches school and lives in Tacoma, Washington. Carmel was married to Edward Morey. (One son, Curtis, died August 3, 1962 in a bicycle-car accident). She owns and manages the Montana Abstract Company in Sc[...] |
| in his pocket. He came west to Saskatchewan, spending the winter at Estevan, the[...]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 1911 he came to Plentywood where he worked on the John Falxa ranc[...]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[...]hers in the Plentywood area were Mrs. John Falxa and Annie Connolly. To her, Plentywood was the end of nowhere, for Plent[...]ke most prairie towns, surrounded by open prairie and sparsely populated; and since she was used to thickly populated areas, this seemed really "wild and wooly". She worked on the Peter Marron ranch and applied for a homestead. Since she didn't spend t[...]Adrian Blanc was working on the John Zabe and Delina Chartier Falxa ranch a few miles from the Marron ranch. These two young people became acquainted and were married in Plentywood on July 15, 1915. They moved to Bainville, where he had a homestead. After about[...]ould remember because he had 1946 when they moved to the San Joaquin Valley in rheumatism. Aunt Chartier was sickly and lived on a very California where they bought a pe[...]restricted diet for many years - until she went to Minot, Annie died in February of 1951 in Billi[...], where she was told she was starving herself way to Scobey from California and Adrian spent the to death. Her health improved 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 trips back to California. He died in January farm, where "Uncle" passed away in the early 30's and 1954.[...]The Blancs had three children: George, Kathleen and many stories worth telling, having been[...]ut Alice. George entered the army in October 1941 and served no details remain with us to tell. for four years -- forty-two months being sp[...]he is survived by his wife. Kathleen was married to F.E. Adams in Sidney in January 1942; her husband[...]called the "Flat" was prime homestead land and it wasn't MSU; she resides in Sidney. Alice married Ross Wilcoxon long before early settlers moved in to take advantage ofit. in July 1940; her husband wa[...]d the year 1907 or '08 a middle-aged couple, Zabe and March 1969. They had three children: James, Diane and Delina Chartier set up a homestead a few[...]were aunt and uncle to the Chicoine boys, Charles, Arthur and Leo, whom they persuaded to come out from Quebec, Canada to settle on the "Flat" the following years; Charles ZABE AND DELINA CHARTIER in '09, Arthur in '10 and Leo in '13.[...]rthur Chicoine was born in Upton , Quebec in 1888 and As great-nieces of Zabe and Deline (Chicoine) Chartier, on March 6, 1910[...]m by us, but they should Adamsville, Quebec and arrived in Poplar, Montana by be mentioned in the[...]id $15.00 fare aboard a lumber wagon came in 1908 and settled southwest of Four Buttes, the hea[...]he travelled the farm which was Maurice Murphy's and is now owned by twelve miles to his Uncle Chartier's place on foot. In that Alfre[...]blished his homestead in the "Flat" area. married and ventured so far from their native land. Zabe[...]San Francisco in his younger first 40 acres and the next year added another 40. Thus years, later returning to Quebec, Canada and marrying his began his long affair with his land, the area and the people childhood sweetheart, Delina Chicoine. who settled to make a go of it. They came from Quebec to Kalispell, Montana first , Arthur mar[...]e Chicoine with her dad Elmer D. Gilch;rist and her two sisters, Harriet brothers, to Montana. Charles came in 1909, Arthurin 1910 and Effie. It was this winter when my granddad returned and Leo in 1913. The three nephews homesteaded near to Minnesota, that my mother and Aunt Effie surely their Aunt and Uncle.[...] |
| [...]eturned in the spring of 1915 with his wife Maggi and two paper sash and my school girl reputation fell to the floor. sons Bill and Clay, to live here. In the early years, Dad's activity was principally After my parents' marriage in Plentywood they lived on far[...]-if farmers at the time were proved up his claim, and for the sum of$410.00 purchased mechanica[...]a Model T Ford. and us girls in a state of suspense a lot with mechanics, as In the next few years we moved to the Chartier place and every time we wanted to go somewhere, he had the car finally located on my dad's homestead where the farm "torn down" and we worried 'til departure time whether the remain[...]Like most farmers dad used horses for power, to work his years befriended my Aunt and mother when Grandpa land and to haul his grain by team and wagon to market. returned to Minnesota to bring the rest of his family west; He hauled to Medicine Lake in the early years, later to also the Brudie boys were mentioned often at this[...]tractor Wagners, the Smith Brothers, John Parbsts and relatives in 1932. Later like many he mortgaged his land, lost it to surrounded us; Uncle Leo and Charles and families, our the Federal Land Bank in the lean and dirty thirties but grandparents, the S-ilchrists, Uncle Bill and Clay Gilchrist continued to farm the land and .later was able to redeem it. and the Dan Murphys. Other neighbors were the Mother was a good homemaker and tried to teach her[...]not for her and it wasn't until her third child did she begin[...]to sew and "she took a great deal of ribbing" from dad as to Left to right: Margaret, Dorothy, Marraine, Alyce and Normans: Melvin Evensons. Late[...]o bachelor countrymen of Dad's were Louie |
| to milk a cow. She always said "When you marry if yo[...]gether in 1914, spending a winter alone in a want to milk, then fine". But there always were some[...]y also cooked on. For amusement they played cards and potatoes after dad dug them. The wind seemed to always went to dances. Mrs. Bill Reik entertained the young blow the hardest and coldest on those days. Mother's pride people, and there were dances and parties. ·Mrs. Chicoine and joy was her kitchen coal range. We used to shine it remembers how the mail carrier, the late Jim Wolfe, used to often and it provided us with warmth and that sense of pick up the various it[...]homesteaders, on security, when dad would be gone and didn't arrive home request, and leave them in the large sack hung from a post bef[...]house--the asking for sewing supplies, and left the money to pay for oven door), and with coals glowing red, she would sing and the supplies in the bag. When spring came and the snow tell stories to her audience. I might add that years later we thawed she discovered to her dismay that there was a hole discovered mother was a very poor singer and dad was the in the sack and all of the money she had been leaving in the one[...]would dance, often raised their own meat and chickens and had milk cows and 'til dawn. A big source of fun was card playing where often managed to make a Ii ving. The large ranchers were real the[...]ght. Christmases were memorable. go to work for Henry Shipstead, who would give a Dolls, books and clothing were the main gifts. Mother homesteader a job in preference to a drifter. In the early never outgrew her love of dolls, and each granddaughter years Shipstead ra[...]here were a lot of horses running loose belonging to relatives from out-of-state visited, it required a trip to the Shipstead, Taylor Green, Mose Tingley, B[...]Oscar Shipstead on Police Creek, Bonnes, Timmons, and Four Buttes or Rocky Buttes. On other Sundays the[...]ande. Most ranchers were on creek bottom. All had to neighbors and area relatives got together for big dinners fence their fields against the horses and cattle. Herders and lots of visiting.[...]d shacks on the flat. In 1956 my folks retired and dad put his land in soil bank, When Charti[...]. but he never retired from the land, as he liked to garden and Tingley showed him the flat. "I'll show you to the place but help mother with her beautiful flow[...]right on agoing. I'm going After retiring, dad and mother spent their summers on to get married." the farm and winters in the states of Washington and There was a lot of bootlegging o[...]prohibition. One time a fellow came here and offered us grandchildren grow to adulthood. money to let him hide whiskey in our granaries. We Both mother and dad died in 1970, mother in March and wouldn't have it on the place. dad in[...]Moonshine was buried all over. Bill Hink and Lamotte Dorothy in 1930. Presently their 'farrri is managed by were plowing land and found a five-gallon barrel of Karnes Sundby and owned by the four remaining daugh- moonshine. One day Henry Hartman and I (Art) ters, Margaret Sundby, Peerless, Montana;[...]blown half- Spokane; Marraine Robertson, Seattle; and Phyllis Lar- full of thistles. We went to get equipment to get it out, but son, Cypress, California.[...]ILY Art can recall reaching Old Scobey in 1910, and asking directions to- his uncle's (Zabe Chartier's) place. Jake[...]Charles Chicoine, son of Norbert and Eugenie Chicoine, Timmons pointed west and said, "Go in that direction. was bo[...]ngs. Charles Chicoine, who had come a year before to pick out the homesteads had a shack. Emma (LaBlanc) and Chas. Chicoine Two miles from the Chartier place[...]en he got closer he saw that the men, Mr. Gilbert and Arthur Moses, had snared some gophers and had harnessed up three of the animals and were trying to drive them around. One time; after helping a ne[...]rm. The storm soon became a full-fledged blizzard and Art, who had worked up a sweat while digging the well, was so close to freezing that he was unable to get off his horse when he finally reached the Otto Smith place. They heard his calls for help and took him in. Another event Art rem em hers is a f[...]l. It was only with great effort that Art managed to save his buildings. Mrs. Chicoine and her sister, Effie (Mrs. Dan Murphy)[...] |
| [...]Charlie Chicoine homesteading There he grew to manhood and in 1909 was lured to |
| [...]bey. They came from Austin, CARL AND ANGELINE ENOCHSON Minnesota where they owned and operated the Elk Hotel. The following year, 1917, Mrs. J.W. Conroy and Jim's wife, by Angeline Enochson Irene, and their two children, Harrison--two years and Emily--one year, arrived to make their home. In August 1926 - Carl, Donna (three months) and I left[...]fax, North Dakota bound for Four Buttes. Carl was to[...]It took us three days to make the trip. We were driving a[...]ding the riv ht road as there were no road signs, and very[...]at a hotel, and then drove to Four Buttes.[...]and no trees. It seemed as though we had reached the[...]construction, and a store not yet completed. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Conroy As a small child, and over the years, I remember my |
| [...]work, raising our family had worked in Spokane and different places in North and enjoying our new friends. There were good years and Dakota before coming here. He butchered fo[...]rough years of the "Dirty Thirties". and Gus Dahlquist. Carl made a success of the elevator during both the good He and Bert Moyer homesteaded on adjoining half and the bad years. It seemed as though everything was sections and also butchered together. turning out fine after t[...]During the winter of 1918 he went back to Neche, North Then Carl met with an accident in the Elevator that cost Dakota, and on January 31 married Birdie Crotty, recently him[...]Mullinahone, Ireland. In the spring they returned to The children and I moved back to Wahpeton, North Scobey to live on the homestead. They came by train to Dakota. On July 17, 1944, more sorrow came to us when Scobey. Bert Moyer met them and took them out to the farm Donna Marie passed away. with mules and sled. Their home was one of the first The rest of the family grew up, married and have new homes at that time. families. Bill and his family live in Wahpeton, North Jack butchered throughout the country for friends and Dakota; Carmen (Mrs. Jerry Niederhauser) and family live neighbors for years; he also had a grain threshing rig. at Medicine Lake, Montana; Jay and his family are in To this marriage seven children were born. Mary died[...]. infancy, and is buried at the Silver Star cemetery. Four But[...]d Arnold Paulson in 1938. Arnold ran th happiness and friends there and altho we also went A & J Blacksmith Shop in Scobey and died in 1968. They through a period of sorrow - it was and always will have a have five children and eight grandchildren. special place in my memories. Rita was married to Alvin Levang in 1944. They bought[...]They have four children and one grandchild.[...]ris Paulson in 1943. He was in the MR. AND MRS. JACK ETHIER truck[...]and three grandchildren. By the daughters Doloris, Rita and Frances John is married to Dorothy Feltis of Peerless (194 7). He[...]was in the Navy during World War II. John and Dorothy John (Jack) Ethier was born December 5,[...]. They have two from Neche, North Dakota in 1915, and homesteaded 16 girls and four grandchildren. miles southwest of Scobey. He was a butcher by trade and Bernard was married to Margie Nakken in 1949. He[...]Burlington Northern Rail o d at Great Falls. Jack and Birdie Ethier - January 31, 1918 They have five children and two grandch ildren. He was in[...]Gerald is married to Clara Olson of Tioga, North Dakota.[...]They have four children and two grandchildren. He was in[...]moving into Scobey in 1934 to attend high school.[...]of July celebrations in Scobey, and going to church every[...]Jack passed away on Januray 7, 1938 and Birdie has[...]MELVIN AND OLGA EVENSON[...]Scobey. Coming to Daniels County in 1910, he[...]father wanted him to go into the banking business, but[...]Melvin wanted to go West to homestead. When his father[...]saw that he was determined to go to Scobey, he said, "I will give you one year and you will be back." He stayed almost[...]and clerking. One of the first things he did on his[...]homestead was to plant a grove of trees, which grew well.[...]Evelyn, Sylvia, Ruth and Jeanette. The girls attended the[...] |
| [...]Melvin Evenson and family moved to Thief River Falls[...]and Olga still resides there.[...]where she lived with her husband and three children. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sather(Jeanette) and four children live in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Jarason (Sylvia) and two children live in Thief River Falls,[...]Mr. and Mrs. Hazen Flickinger lived in Daniels County 1917 - Olga, Evelyn and Melvin Evenson from 1922 to 1941, most of that time in the Four Buttes area[...]parents homesteaded in 1913, the L.D. Flickingers of Sout[...]Dakota and the C.L. Goodrichs from Illinois. The former moved to Scobey and the latter to Glasgow eventually. Mrs. Evenson and Ruth in flower g~rden. Melvin and Olga Evenson - 1938 shortly after moving to |
| [...]Left to right: Ruth, Martin, Helen, Leo and LeRoy[...]had put the buildings and had fenced for pasture. The Lewis and May Flickenger with twins and families taken[...]family lived there until 1946 when they moved to Scobey on twins birthday. Back row left to right: Hazen Flickenger into the Morrow house. (In 1948 they moved to Plains, Jr., Haze'! D. Flickenger, Opal (Flickeng[...]ve that he was fortunate in having Mrs. Lulu left to right: Dale Flickenger, Nina (Flickenger) Walstad Audet as one of his teachers here. He went on to earn a Mary Anne (Flickenger) Omuig, Bryan's daug[...]ries of they are: Myself (Clarence) and Jim of Daniels County; W.P.A. days and dust storms. The Hazen Flickingers now[...]Portland, Oregon; and LeRoy of Torrance, California. THE CHRI[...]GILCHRIST FAMILY Chris and Kathryn Gebhardt came to the Scobey Elmer Dougla~ Gilc[...]ere born here. My acquaintance, who came to the United· States from |
| [...]in "Big Teams in Montana", a 1925 Harriet, Effie, and Pearl came to Daniels County in 1914. publication of Montana State College Extension Service. He returned to Minnesota, leaving the girls on their Although breaking the land and planting crops was homesteads, then, in 1915, came back to Montana with his hard work, there was still lots of time for fun--dances, ball wife and sons, William E. (Bill) and Clay. Like others, they games, picnics on the "Buttes", skiing and skating in were attracted by the free homestead land. Perhaps they winter, "shivarees", and visiting. wished to get away from dairy life in Minnesota, where Elmer and Margaret with son Bill 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 trained to run a treadmill to pump winter climate. There E.D. passed away February 11, 1938 water and operate a separator, it was hard work. Possibly,[...]garet returned their pioneering spirit urged them to seek new horizons. to Daniels County later in the spring. She spent some time They came on a special immigrant train to Poplar, thence on the farm, then built a home in Scobey (doing much of the to Scobey via wagon with livestock, including a team of oxen, and household possessions. They homesteaded south and west of Four Buttes, commonly called "The Flats".[...]e that during her first summer in Montana she sat and made rose beads out of wild roses by the hour! Th[...]she painted herself. A few years later it burned to the ground, with nothing salvaged but a drawer full of pictures. They then bought land and a house a few miles distant from C.H. Wilbur, ori[...]eks' homestead. They had fine Percheron horses and had the largest span of teams in the vicinity--si[...]. Some photographers traveling in the area wanted to make movies of them, but the Gilchrists wo[...] |
| [...]to farming and ranching, Bill tried his hand at raising[...]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,[...]which still stands. Two sons and two daughters were born to this union: Douglas, Delbert, Lorraine and Alice. They[...]school, three and a half miles from their farm home, most[...]warm inside the covered sled with blankets and "foot[...]felt-covered metal pans with live hot coals Bill and Martha Gilchrist[...]They moved to Peerless in 1937 so the children could[...]er death 1938. They lived for a time in Poplar and Frazer. Lorraine in 1951.[...]is son Delbert, the land for the Gilchrist School and was the first teacher farms the land. Delbert m[...]there. She married John L. Wolters in Plentywood, and Apfelbach, Germany. They have two sons, Klaus and taught while he was serving in the armed forces during Steven, and two daughters Melinda and Krista at home. World War I. After his discharge[...]christ married Virginia Thievin. He died in Kathy and Pat Czysz. Harriet passed away in 1935, John 1966 leaving his widow and eight children. They are: Mrs. in 1973.[...]Vern (Winnifred) Baldry, Terry, Todd, and Theresa, Wolf William E. (Bill) Gilchrist, born[...]ent, Howard Lake, Minnesota grew up at Monticello and came and Kyle, Scobey; Dennis Gilchrist, wife Ginger and son to Daniels County in 1915 with his parents. He was not yet Michael, Woodward, Oklahoma; M[...]tead. Two years later, he Novak, Robert, Phil, and Delroy, Roseau, Minnesota; Mrs. bought a relinqui[...]rtha Hendrickson Michael (Billie Jean) Oja and Nikki, Glasgow, Montana; on June 28, 1920 at Plentywood. It was an all day trip by Mark, Timothy and Mary Jane, at home with their mother, horse and buggy. Martha came from Bagley, Minnesota.[...]he was born at Hills, Minnesota on July 17, 1894, to Arne and Gusta va Moen Hendrickson. She first came to Scobey[...]and noisy party· given to newlyweds. People came with kettles, buckets and sticks and would go around the house[...]good measure. Afterward all William (Bill) and Martha Gilchrist - 1920 gathered in the house to enjoy the lunch they brought and[...]Clay A. Gilchrist came to Montana with his family in[...]1915 from Monticello, Minnesota and settled west of[...]He farmed and ranched with his father and brother until[...]Clay was always interested in community affairs and[...]hit at county fairs and other celebrations during the early[...]In 1924 he leased land and started to build a futur.e for himself. Wheat farming and cattle were the main interest[...]Married in 1925 to Beatrice Sullivan, they lived west of[...]He is survived by his widow and four children. E.D. (Gil)[...]Gilchrist lives in Glasgow, Montana and is a railroad man.[...]and works for Lockheed. Clay A. Gilchrist is i[...] |
| [...]y. Fae Ann Gilchrist lives in Seattle, Washington and is a banker. Beatrice Gilchrist, retired, lives i[...]ad arrived in Daniels County in 1910. He returned to Crookston, Minnesota where he married Ingeliev.Tonjum on February 18, 1911. Previously Ivar and Ingeliev had met at Lardal, Norway. In April of t[...]nals ball team managed by Gary year 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, Dennis Ferestad and Gary Wahl. Front Their first home was a two-roo[...]row: Randy Whitlow, Monte Dahl, Gary Dahl and Dean[...]idwife's assistance, Volga, Irene, Healy, LouElla and Kermit. In 1924 a new eight-room house was built.[...]of July celebrations, and pot luck suppers among the The children attended a rural school located one-half neighbors and the annual Christmas party at the Ferestad mile f[...]e land was donated 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 centered there. The[...]ermans, Dave Gendreas, Lola, Donald and Billy. Fred Marshes, Bob Rhodes and later Inger Ferestads, Irene marr[...](Pete) Morris of Great Falls. They Frank Bennie's and Tonjums were some of the families had two children, Barbara and Robert (Bobby). Both Irene living on the "Flat", a term associated with this area. and Pete are deceased. Although John Heier, Martin Hagen and Joe Polinski had Healy married Arlene Dahl of Scobey and has five no children they played an active role i[...]rs children, Leona, Stanley, Beverly, Laura and Edna. Healy also.[...]sion, drought, recently moved to Scobey where they are making their grasshoppers, army worms, rust, smut, hail and other home. catastrophies, one would[...]Kermit married Olive Dugan of Poplar. worry and desperation but there were many happy times[...]elpful person. She knew the perils of the prairie and the Front row: Ivar and lngelieo. Back row-: Volga, Healy, Irene,[...] |
| [...]ld not have exchanged her role as a farmer's wife and mother. Many have sampled her lefsa at the annual Lutheran Lutefisk Supper and many more enjoyed the pastries and hot coffee which seemed ever present in her home.[...]rthday on February 18, 1975. He is mentally alert and physically well and has contributed many dates and accounts on the "Old Timers". He spends a great d[...]s on incidents of the past. He feels so fortunate to have played a part in molding some of Daniels Cou[...]LouElla Ferestad Warren INGER AND DORA FERESTAD |
| Baker and they have two children, Leah Rae and Lance. Kermit is a member of the Scobey Saddle Club, the They live in Bozeman where both Dan and Rosalie are Scobey Color Guard and the American Legion, and all the connected with the LG.A. grocery store. D[...]business at Fairview, Montana. He sold out and returned to[...]to teach and is presently teaching at Fairview.[...]I came to Scobey in the spring of 1914 with my mother,[...]Mrs. James Gilmore, my two teenage sisters, Mary and Margaret and eight year old brother James Patrick. My[...]father James Gilmore, and my brother John came in the[...]e lived in the Gilchrist School District. We came to[...]Gilmore of Colton, California; and I , Gertrude Gilmore[...]restad family. Kermit, Olive, Dennis, Danny, Dean and Diane. Taken at the farm - 1958.[...]Circle, Montana to Alfred and Freda Kaul. He moved with Dennis attended Ellendale Teachers College· in North his family to the Four Buttes area in August of 1941. He Dakota and Aberdeen State Teachers College in South went to the Four Buttes school through the fifth grade. His Dakota and received his Bachelor of Science degree. He[...]d Scobey schools married Bonnie Fouhy of Peerless and they have two and graduated from Scobey High School in 1959. That fall children namely, Twyla and Michael. Dennis taught he joined the Marines and served four years. He married school in Wilmot, South Dakota but due to rising costs Phyllis Hanger, daughter of Paul and Laura Hanger. returned to Montana. He is presently employed in Billings I was raised on a farm twenty miles south of Flaxville, and serving in the National Guard as a medic. His wife attended Westby School through the eighth grade, and Bonnie is a registered nurse and is also employed. graduated from Scobe[...]were married we lived for one year in San Diego, and they have two children, namely, Terry and Dionne. California while Bud finished the[...]he Equity Elevator of Wolf 1963 we moved to Paul Hanger's farm and while we lived Point before moving to Scobey. He is presently engaged in there (two and a half years) our first child, Alayne Lynell, farming operations along with his father and working at was born. the Madoc Farmers Elev[...]In the spring of 1966 we moved into Scobey and Bud beautician along with her domestic activities. worked for Leibrand's Plumbing and Electrical Shop for Diane graduated from the National Business College ?f one year. He then went to Highway Patrol School and is Rapid City South Dakota. She worked as a secre[...]h the Montana Highway Patrol. Great Fall~ for two and a half years. She married Trent His first s[...]In 1970 we moved to Glendive. Our son, Arlin Lee, was A number of n[...]rd winters of born in Scobey. We moved back to Scobey in November, 1950-1951 when government snowplows were active in 1972, and bought our home. Daniels County. Roads were opene[...]ithin hours. Kermit remembers the times he skiied to Four Buttes for groceries and arrived home once just ahead of an old-fashioned blizzard. There was so much PHILLIP AND ANNA KERSTEIN snow that winter that he could walk[...]rn. The pigs were even snowed in. An Phillip and Anna Kerstein arrived in what is now old bunk hou[...]roof for originally came from Chicago, Illinois to North Dakota. five days until he could get[...] |
| decided the big city was not the place to raise a large Wheat, oats and flax was seeded. Father owned the only family. Bu[...]ess. threshing machine. It took from 15 to 20 men to run the When rumors began that Montana was going to open up threshing machine. He had[...]r. He for homesteads, he sent his two oldest sons to look at the would hire a man to cook but most often my sister would country. From[...]d more had searched for. He then moved his family to Montana. A than a few days, I supposed[...]e with them. All that were were good and bad times. There were crop failures and eligible took homesteads as well as Harry Lewis,[...]I look back 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 on his original homeste[...]have shared experiences together. My brothers and sisters the Harry Kerstein land and also farms the Dora are all gone now. Phillip and Anna Kerstein had ten Kerstein Lewis land which i[...]M.A. LaMotte of St. Marie, Illinois came to Scobey on the[...]Great Northern Railroad in 1916 and home steaded on[...]were the homesteads of Olive Rhodes, Jim and Rex Rhodes, John Heier and Gery Lermon. I married Daisy McDevitt[...]who was a schoolteacher in Illinois in 1917 and our[...]s old homestead - 1916 Sod shacks were built to accomodate the family. For |
| [...]Connie (Mrs. Bernie Shafer) of Denver, Colorado; and Candace (Mrs. Gary Linder) of Flaxville; and a son,[...]Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nadeau, small daughter Rose, and[...]Canada by train to Scobey in the year of 1915 (February), and took a homestead by Stony Butte west of Four Butt[...]Later in the summer they decided to move closer to Butte[...]and built the barn. There he had a lot of horses and cattle. Marion and Daisy's 50th Wedding Anniversary. Left to right: Margaret, Mildred, Marion, Daisy, Tony and Evelyn. where I now live. The LaMotte's took active part in public, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nadeau and daughter Rose taken in 1910.[...]In 1924 Joe Nadeau had bought a new threshing |
| [...]was also one of the first farmers to use a crawler-type[...]tractor in dirt moving. He owned and operated such a tractor and "fresno" in exec>~vating the basement of what is[...]acres of cultivated and pasture land, 3,200 of which was[...]as many as 275 calves were branded in one day, and 100 Alma and Aime Carrier still live on the old homestead people were present to work, observe, offer advice, and eat during the summers, which is about fifteen mi[...]d beans. The Nelson Brothers shipped their cattle to northwest of Scobey. Sioux City, Iowa for 43 consecutive years to the stockyards of Wagoner, Garrison and Abbot. Selmer's considerable[...]Selmer will also be remembered for his assistance to Dr. THE SELMER NELSON FAMILY[...]ndreds 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 Mach[...]were Company out of Peoria, Illinois. His job was to keep the big instrumental in bringing the REA to Daniels County by farm machines in running condition. At the same time he visiting every home to survey interest and potential use of was working part time for Ole Sh[...]as president of the Four Buttes Farmer's Elevator and Four Buttes community, and this land was farmed expedited the considerable job of getting materials to continuously by him for 60 years. In 1916 a partn[...]d by fire at a time was formed with John A. Davis and one and a half more when there was a tremendous[...]the beginnings of what later became Lodge and the Scobey Saddle Club. extensive farm operations[...]many Elizabeth Brown Nelson, known to everyone as winters at the Ford Garage which was owned by Shook and "Brownie", was born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1902, and Davis. moved to Montana in 1916 when she was fifteen years old. Norman Nelson, a brother of Selmer, came to Scobey in Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, homesteaded 1922 and a new partnership was formed which lasted until north of Wolf Point. Residents of the Scobey and Wolf Point Norman's death in 1969. When cattle be[...]ed by Brown's in town!" when Charlie Brown and his 82-pound their brand, "N Over Lazy B". One of the most colorful and wife ran a hamburger stand on Fourth of July'[...]lmer Nelson's history in Montana stampedes, and any community celebration. The Browns was his threshing crew which he operated from 1916 to were living in Scobey when they celebrated their golden 1927. He and his 30-man crew traveled Daniels, Roosevelt, wedding anniversary in 1938. Charlie died in 1943 and and Valley Counties in the annual harvest seas[...] |
| [...]eceived most of her high school education in Iowa and Fargo, North Dakota but graduated from the Wolf P[...]er attended the University of Montana at Missoula and taught at the Liberty County rural school. She wa[...]nd Oil Company, headquartered in Scobey, when she and Selmer were married. "Brownie" Nelson has been[...]years, was in the Scobey PTA, the Hospital Guild, and other civic and social affairs. "Brownie" and Selmer celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in Scobey in August, 1975. Seven children were born to their marriage. Sister Claudia (Ilamae) is a musi[...]th Dakota. Richard married Flossie Fugere in 1948 and was killed in an auto accident in 1959. Sister Yv[...]married Maurice Davin of Walla Walla, Washington and now lives in Spokane, Washington where Mr. Davin[...]e are thirteen grandchildren in the Nelson family and one great-granddaughter. Flossie has eight childr[...]Mrs. Stanley French), Jennifer, Jocelyn, Jane Ann and Richard. Lois and Maurice Davin have five children: Sean, Lisa, Tod, Mary and Joseph.[...]niece Norman We moved to town the next year, as Lula was in the[...]eighth grade and the teacher wasn't able to teach her the I was only nine months old when I came to the Four required subjects. That spring we moved back to the Buttes area in 1916. To my knowledge my Dad had come country and I went to school at the Gilchrist School by the year before and filed on a homestead where we lived horse and buggy or horseback, and when it got cold my and spent our young years.[...]drove us in the car. Our family consisted of my parents, Elmer and Hilda When Earl and Lula were both in high school the folks Norman, and the following children: Lula, Earl, Bernice, rented rooms for them to stay in. After Lula graduated and Edward, my cousin, raised by my folks after his from high school my folks moved to town in the fall so we mother died. He died in 19[...]nada. My dad My father died in 1956 and my mother, who is 86 years of and his family had immigrated to Canada from Minnesota age, lives in the D[...]es in where dad was born. He filed on a homestead and all of us Dubuc, Saskatchewan. Earl passed a[...]sdal Helsingland, Sweden. My family the West Fork and Ossette community when they hauled sold their home and farm and decided to go to Canada. So grain to Scobey and our place seemed to be the half-way we left our home July, 1904, by way of Krirtanstad, place. We had a large barn and they stayed all night on the Norway. We spent five days there and then boarded an way to Scobey. My mother cooked for them and they ocean liner for Hull, England.[...]mory of a Christmas was that my folks didn't to Liverpool by horse-drawn carriage and bus. We spent get to town for a Christmas tree - which I believe they[...]r yard or grocery store- so saw many icebergs and passed two other ocean liners. my mother got a big Russian thistle and we children cut We arrived in Canada on[...]ember I got a tooth brush that said went by bus and train to Winnepeg, Manitoba. It was very "Little Brown Eyes", and we got a sled that we all shared. hard to come to a country where you didn't understand the My fi[...]couple language, but we survived. Later my parents went to miles south, which was called Valley School and Mrs. Saskatchewan. Selmer Nelson was my[...]ren went I worked for a farmer before I met and married Elmer. there in a horse and cart. Norman, and we live near Scobey.[...] |
| [...]Genevieve to Montana. This time they brought livestock Alfred Ostby arrived in Daniels County June, 1914, and and household furniture and all their worldly possessions filed on the homestead ten miles west of Scobey. His and started their first home in Montana. This first y[...]ed Whiskey Alfred broke up ten acres ofland and planted flax and oats. Buttes. This crop was harvested and hauled to Scobey to an Alfred returned to his home at Sheyenne, North Dakota elevator. From that year the Ostbys continued to break up in July and was united in marriage to Genevieve Seastrand land and farm this homestead until they retired in 1957 on July 6, 1914. The new couple stayed in Sheyenne until and rented their land to Eddie Wahl. After renting their September. Leaving his bride in Sheyenne, Alfred and land they continued to live in their farm home one mile friend Benny Paulson returned to Montana by train. They west of Four Buttes. T[...]tana where his brother James was Washington and the last few years have lived in Wolf living and borrowed a team and wagon. From Froid, Alfred Point, Montana. However, there has not been one summer and Benny drove the team and wagon across the prairie that they haven't returned to their farm home and enjoyed following a trail to Scobey. There they purchased lumber the summer months on their homestead in sixty-one years. and continued on the prairie road to the homestead he had filed on in June. The Al[...]Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ostby on their 60th Anniversary -[...]Wolf Point, Montana. He received his elementary and |
| MR. AND MRS. H. W. RIEK Hilmore William Riek, son of William J. and Alma Schumann Riek arrived in 1909 or 1910. My mother and I came for a visit in 1911, and to stay in 1912. My birthplace was La Crosse, Wis[...]shipped out in an immigrant car. He brought a cow and calf, farm machinery and some household goods. The near- est railroad poin[...]he only drinking water we could get in Poplar had to be bought from an Indian. It seemed like a very long way from Poplar to our farm when we were on a wagonload of lumber behind a team of horses. We used to stop at a halfway house run by some people named[...]inal townsite of Scobey. We had a few chickens and they were forever being attacked by chicken hawks[...]an attack by a pair of hawks my father shot one, and then was attacked by the mate! He finally shot the other one, but not 'til after it had clawed his shoulders and torn his shirt. Martin and Annie Rustebakke - wedding picture - 1916 Some of the things I remember most were the country dances and the Christmas parties during the holidays.· These would start early in the afternoon and last til past midnight. My mother and father are both deceased. I married Virginia G[...]ve two sons. H. Gilbert Riek is a veterinarian and lives in Sidney, Montana. William J. Riek is a Presbyterian minister and lives in Eldon, Missouri. I finished eighth gr[...]36. Spencer, Iowa on August 20, 1892. Both Martin and Annie In 1936 I went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the Soil Conservation Service. I retired Martin and Annie Rustebakke from the SCS in December, 1965.[...]ment by traveling in the south during the winter, and returning to our home in Billings, where we met them with a cutter and took them out to his place. They have lived since 1945. We have traveled in Mexico and to lived on various farms on the flat until[...]e Alfred died in 1932. They then moved to his place where Phoenix, Arizona area, Apache Junction to be specific. they lived until moving in[...]Annie died March 31, 1960, and Martin on August 30, 1969.[...]mer lives in Schenectady, New York. MARTIN AND ANNIE RUSTEBAKKE He has his doctorate in electrical engineering and works[...]d War II, farms the home place December 30, 1890, and Annie Christensen was born ~t and adjoining land. His wife is the former Dorothy Spencer, Iowa on August 20, 1892. Both Martin and Anme Cochran of Tacoma, Washington and they have five moved to Thief River Falls, Minnesota where they met and children, Carolyn (Mrs. Robert Hink), Dav[...]March 4, 1916. and Kathy. Martin came to the Four Buttes area early in 1917 to visit Annette (Mrs. Milton "Bud" Shipstead) lives with her his brothers Edwin and Alfred. He decided to stay and sent husband on the Ole Shipstead farm southwest of Four for Annie, who came to join him in April, 1917. They rented Buttes.[...]en, 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. In 1920 they moved grandchildren. back to Thief River Falls where their daughter, Annette, was born. In 1929 they decided to move back to Scobey. They C.[...]tober 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[...]drick 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[...] |
| [...]In 1930 Carl was transferred to Four Buttes for Winter- Truesdell-Dierks and felt fortunate to have a job as the[...]depression was setting in. There wasn't a crop to cut in the Saco area, and at Four Buttes there was still a mar.k et. A[...]- back to gasoline lanterns, and the family became accustomed to a rural life, of raising a large garden and[...]Amelia canned and preserved so the fami-ly was well fed,[...]and Lydia Scarseth had the post office and grocery store.[...]Carl Enochson managed the Farmer's Elevator. He and his wife Angeline had two children then, Donna and Bill.[...]shared with neighbors and friends of the countryside,[...]playing auction bridge and visiting. Carl and Amelia lived in Four Buttes for six years, then[...]moved to Glasgow. They frequently returned to visit their daughter Delanor, who had married and lived there. Amelia and Carl were of the Lutheran faith and Amelia[...]was a Mason and Amelia was a member of Order of[...]Krauth and Mrs. Ken Noland and six great grandchildren.[...]OLE SHIPSTEAD FAMILY Carl and Amelia Rydicg- wedding picture- December 4, 1907.[...]Ole came to Montana in 1894. He worked on ranches near[...]Fort Benton and later in the Judith Basin. Amelia, the oldest of six children, was born of English- In 1901 he came to northeastern Montana and spent his Irish parents at Ainsworth, Nebraska in 1884. She came f[...]n a dugout west of Four Buttes on Spring with her parents by ox team to North Dakota in 1895 where Creek. her father,[...]ugby. She was The following year he and his brother Henry brought a educated and taught 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 nine months old. His parents homesteaded along the Wild Rue River, out ofT•P[...]Martin Rustebakke, Ole Shipstead and Melvin Evenson. Valley, Minnesota. At the time[...]. In the intervening y, ; four children were born to this union: Alpha, now Mrs. 1 ; Bening of St. Mar[...]he 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 , with no alternative but to return to buying grair manager for grain companies. In 1924,we moved to Saco, Montana where Carl beet the manager[...] |
| [...]October 3, 1878, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick[...]to Crafton, North Dakota with his family and lived there[...]1902. In 1910 they came to Froid where Mr. Shrank raised[...]whiteface cattle. In 1913 they came to Four Buttes area to Mr. and Mrs. Ole Shipstead[...]Mr. Shrank retired in the early 1950's and continued to live in the Four Buttes community and later in Scobey until before moving to the West Fork. They bought supplies and he moved to the Wolf Point Rest Home. He died October 8, got their mail in Wolf Point and Glasgow. Some of the 1964. winters were[...]They had two sons, Arthur of Four Buttes and Clifford of in a blizzard while returning to the ranch from Wolf Point. Chicago; 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[...]ch he had shored up Colorado; one grandson and three great grandchildren. 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 us[...]H FAMILY returned for the salt the following June and the barrels were empty as the snow had dissolved[...]The Smith brothers, Otto, Fred, Sam, Ernest and poorly built barrels. Leonard started to arrive in the Four Buttes (Whiskey During the[...]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. Otto Booth), Minnie (Mrs. Ole Shipstead), running low on food. Ole and a young man from Canada and Millie. crossed the one and a half mile wide river in a water tank to They took up homesteads and started farming. The take supplies to the stranded herders. brothers had a big steam tractor and a threshing outfit. In 1912 Ole sold his ranching interests to his brother They farmed for several years[...]enry, moved up on the bench, took out a homestead and and moved a way. started farming.[...]onard died during the flu in 1918. He was married and In 1915 he married Minnie Smith who had a homestead left two children, Gerald and Gwendolyn. of her own south of Four Buttes. Ole and Minnie had five Ernest's homestead is st[...]ew , James children, Gladys, Marie, Eunice, James and Milton. There Shipstead. were many hard years but Ole enjoyed life and his family. Minnie died in 1937, Marie in 1943 and Ole in 1952. James and Milton still live south of Four Buttes. Milton MR. AND MRS. STANISTAUS SUCHY is on the home place. Gladys, Mrs. Theodore Maruschak, lives in California and Eunice, Mrs. Robert Rorvig, lives in Mr. and Mrs. Stanistaus Suchy immigrated from Soka[...] |
| [...]nd, 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 Go[...]nce was very artistic. He painted in oils, water and the older boys worked at different jobs. While in colors and pastels. One of Clarence's more important Good eve three more children were added to the family, achievements in the area was a large collage of the Fort Joseph, Christina and Roman. Peck Dam which hangs in the Museum at Fort Peck. They moved to Montana in 1913 in what is now called[...]ears with the Corps of Engineers at the Fort Peck and Peerless community. They traveled by train to Wolf Point Garrison Dams. She married a Wisconsin dairy farmer, then by wagon and horse team to the homestead. Edward Bettner.[...]ties at first. Everyone was Lloyd moved to Chelan, Washington. He too is dead. busy building and cultivating land. After that was done[...]. Most of the fun things on the farm that she and the boys had for 17 years. She had were basket socials and dances at our school. We had one of moved to Glasgow only about a month before her death at the nicest and biggest schools in the district, the Gilchrist[...]prairie. The family of Stanistaus and Eva Suchy consisted of eight boys and four girls. Kazmer deceased in 1914. Micheal passed away in 1936, his wife Anna and two girls, Christina and Patricia, reside MONSTON[...]n. Marion passed away in 1967. His wife Stella and four Mons immigrated from Norway in the spring of 1913 to children, Edward of Eureka, Montana, Janet Greenw[...]g mostly farm work while of Great Falls, Montana, and Barbara of Cornwall, New there. In 1916 he came to Scobey where the Ferestads and York survive.[...]nas had come a few years ahead of him. He Mary and Fred Merks and two girls live at Dauphin, also di<;l mostly farm work here and took out a homestead in Manitoba, Canada.[...]those days, along with Inger Ferestad. remarried and his wife Stella had two sons, Harold and Dick, survive. Frances and her husband John Nigrick live in Washugad, Washington. They have four children, twins Dorothy and Doris, Stanley an Johnny. Stanley and wife Hilda live in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Sophia passed away in 1960. She was married to Ernest Halvorson. They had four children, first w[...]ed in car accident in 1958. Beverly is married to Richard Kennedy. They have four children, two boys and two girls and live in Gig Harbor, Washington. Thomas lives in Scobey. Christina married Andrew Veis and they have two children, Barbara and Andrew, Jr. Roman married Jeanette Doyon. They have four children, Shirley, Dorothy, Butch and Debbie. They reside Anna Tonjum and horse - 1927 in Santa Ana, California. Mr. Sta[...]uring the first World War he enlisted in the army and[...]spent only a little time here, and then went to Casper,[...]By Margaret Sundby to Norway for the girl he left behind when he came to the United States. I came to Casper and we were married in Kate Thielke, a widow and professional dressmaker 1923. I was[...]ia Hougaard. Finding came from Buffalo, Minnesota to Daniels County with her work hard to get we went to Amarillo, Texas and Mons two teenaged boys. Her sons were raised in Rockford and worked in the oil fields. Buffalo, Minne[...]ience in In 1927 we started back to Montana from Amarillo, farming whatsoever. They lived with their aunt, uncle and Texas, which was a long journey then. After arriving in cousins, the Gilchrists, hoping to gain some knowledge of Montana we leased t[...]ir 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 the farm, had two farming. The boys and their mother ran into many children, Ada and Kenneth. problems. One was with the deep well they drilled for Ada and Mickey Whitlow, their four children, Randy, water[...]ble with the pump, because Cathy, Gene and Terry, have lived on the farm since 1950 the well[...]after Mickey got out of the service, and Mons had to retire Clarence married Julia Fouhy in 1927. To this union for health reasons. We moved to town and I have lived were born three children: Lie[...] |
| Left to rig~t: Tonjum family. Ada, Mons, Anna, Kenneth.[...]Kenneth married a Poplar girl, Vera Johnson, and they Herman Wagner had four children, Kenda, Stacey, Dennis and JoDell. They lived most of their married life in[...]oast in the service. In the fall 1973, they moved to Glasgow. In April, 1974 Kenny wa~ killed in a pic[...]d County I have made my home in Daniels County and now in Comm1ss10ner and reelected for a second term in a race Scobey all these years since coming to Montana. It was ~ith Charlie Jones in 1928. The vote ended up so close 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[...]By Anna Tonjum road to Four Buttes and the Wagner "kids" all learned how to swim in what we called "our" swimming hole. When[...]Scobey. He commuted between Scobey, the farms and Four HERMAN WAGNER FAMILY[...]· burnt. My folks rebuilt and their home on the farm was My dad, Herman Wagne[...]rold Skerritt where it still stands. My Minnesota and took up a homestead in about 1911. In 1918 moms s[...]lterstorff came out from Minnesota he was married to Annette Wolterstorff in St. Paul, in the early years and taught at the Gilchrist school. My Minnesota and they returned to the flat to establish a father bought more land from H.J. Chr[...]children, Carol, Joyce, Things seemed to be going fine. During those yea;s Merlyn and Eugene. I think my father owned one of the many basket social and dances were held. One Saturday first automobiles[...]ished the store night in November of 1928, my dad and mom took a basket and my dad's violin and headed for the Gilchrist school to[...]join in the fun. About midnight my dad wanted to come[...]ary heart attack. He was 54 at this Carol, Merlyn and Joyce. time. My mother continued farming and raised us children[...]attack in 1962. Eugene's wife and five children live in[...]!lin~, Colorado. Carol lives in Pasco, Washington and[...]farming for Mom and after we lost him Mom sold the[...]farms; the homestead on the flat to Jim Shipstead and the Christ~nson place to Norman Johnson. My mother passed[...]are strong and deep.[...] |
| [...](Rosie) with her oil paintings. CLARENCE AND ROSALIA WILBUR |
| [...]They have four children, Patty, Sherdien, Lester and Micki. My brother Vane Ross moved back to Iowa, then to Prescott, Arizona because of their son's health.[...]s in Prescott. They had three sons, Garvin, Ralph and Bruce. My brother Johnny Ross served in Germany[...]INS The Gerald Robbin family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. |
| [...]good home; and after there was money to start things they had fruit trees and flowers that were exceptional here. In[...]later years, after Thorbjorn's death, Hilda had to leave[...]lives nearby and farms the place.[...]married Eva Burkland and lived at Wolf Point; Caroll, who[...]married Carolyn Erstad and bought the home place south of Four Buttes; and Thelma, Mrs. Mike Tucey, of Las[...]native primrose), and even our state flower, the bitterroot. Mr. and Mrs. Thorbjorn Grotte[...]JAMES A. SHIPSTEAD FAMILY Dakota to bring his wife, the former Hilda Westby. They came to Poplar by train with four horses, cows, chickens, James A. Shipstead, son of Ole and Minnie Shipstead, and Rover; and from there they drove across the brown[...]es, Montana. countryside, Hilda missing the trees and flowers was quite In 1948 he married Barbee Robertson. To them were born surprised to see cattle grazing at large. She was driving the[...]n, Steven Kirk, Onalee Marie, James Robert, buggy and Thorbjorn the wagon. Penny Jo, and Kristi Kay. At their homestead they were neighb[...]children all started their schooling at the Four and Chelgrens. After some years of dry winds and no crops, Buttes school where the who[...] |
| [...]as programs. They finished high James R. and his wife, the former Dierdre Nyberg of . school a[...]s R. was the first baby boy born in He is married to the former Mary Ann Bruhn of Wolf the n[...]952. Point. They have two daughters, Jennifer Ann and Brandi Penny graduated from Montana Instit[...]ed as a missionary in Alaska. Onalee is married to Lyle Davison of Kildeer, North Kristi is married to a young Glasgow rancher, Alan Dakota. They live i[...]Bible and Montana State University. A community picnic[...]5. Hans Olsons, Art Chicoines, Gilchrists, Otsbys and others.[...] |
| [...]Erickson home, which once housed the postoffice, and an old cellarhole or two about one quarter of a m[...]y - a beer parlor, Barney Miller - a lumber yard, and Julian Erickson operated the postoffice. But Juli[...]Theodore, single, built a good farm home for his parents and their family. It later was the home of Mr. and Mrs. The first postmistress was Mrs. Carrie Erickson, and the Julian Erickson and stands in good condition today. The second one wa[...]icker. first post office was in this home, and the old post office Later Tannehills took charge ofit and had it in their store. boxes and service window are still there. The store at Julian was first run by 'Cile Vahl, and while Settlers recall some families whose stories aren't here; there she met and married C.F. (Bud) Tannehill. The am[...]8 has an ad for gopher poison sold Spencers, and the Charlie Vanness family. at Julian, Montana by[...]lacksmith shop there. His wife, Martha, died here and he moved to Scobey. Barney C. Miller ran the Mrs. Schar[...]l had Sunday School in it. Miny Mindenhall's wife and her mother, Mrs. Burroughs, taught classes. People came by horse-and-buggy. Rev. Reuben Dutton, serving the Whitetail-[...]continued in 1919 by reason of continuous drought and fewer people in the area. Theodore Erickson was here several years before the land was opened to homesteaders. Only ranchers who had cattle or she[...]came, they were called "nesters". Said Hoke Smith to one homesteader: "We've got a new law in Montana; the nesters have got to roll up their fence when they leave."[...] |
| [...]burned the second winter or fall they were here, and sliding parties with neighbors.[...]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 moved to this area from Crosby, North Dakota arriving in[...]loaded with machinery and household goods, and brought I grew up on the farm, went to Prairie School, and some horses and cattle with them. The trip took several graduated[...]wn hotel accommodations - a tent. home for a year to help with farm work. In the fall of 1930 I E[...]ll of1931 wheat was eighteen cents a there, and then moved to the claim north and east of bushel in Whitetail, so I did not return to college. Instead I Scobey about 15½ miles, the place he still owns. His sister stayed at home and helped with farm work. Lillian and his older brother Harry were located in that I went to Los Angeles to look for work in 1934 as times area, and he wanted to be nearer to them. The land had were really tough on the farm[...]3. chauffeur for a while, then worked in garages, and later for In those days cars were almost no[...]ery Service, then as a city mail carrier in and many people had to walk. A person was considered Los Angeles for almost seven months, then went to work as very lucky if he had a horse to ride. Horses were selling for a rail way mail clerk. $400 to $500 a team, and that was a lot of money in those On May 1, 1940 I was transferred to the San Francisco days. Many people started farming with oxen, because Bay area and on May 2nd Elsie Lindstrom and I were they were much cheaper and would do almost as much married. In the spring of 1944 I was sent back to Montana work on a plow. Ed started with four horses and a walking under orders of the War Manpower Commission, to operate plow. He had brought his horses[...]e had farmed before. December of 1945 we returned to the Bay Area and I There were no commercial coal m[...]the coal was very near the surface. going to sell the farm. Taking vacation from mail service,[...]ending his winters in sunny California, came home to help her ready it for sale, but ended up far from the snow and blizzards of Montana. buying it and continuing in the mail service, renting the farm to Lyle. We had just bought a home in San Leandro, California and were paying $40 a month on that. Feeding and clothing a family of five didn't leave us much money to HARRY P. AND JEANNETTE A. ENGBERG squander on luxuries or recr[...]ee or four years old, she looked up at me one day and Harry Powers Engberg was born at Hudson[...]in 1884, grew up around Litchfield, Minnesota and moved a lot of fun, don't we?" That was another of the moments in with his parents to Saskatchewan, Canada. There he met my life that I[...]Jeannette A. Sorsdahl, and on March 14, 1907 they were In November of1950 I obtained a transfer to Turtle Lake, married at Weyburn, Saskatchew[...]ntil children, Harriet, Floyd, Lyle, Lois and Lucile. July, 1954, then resigned and returned to Montana to take The Harry Engberg family moved to Montana in the late over the operation of the hom[...]Later a neighbor, Oscar Bilstad, permitted them to use his accident a week before Easter in 1967, ne[...]the two Engberg children while their parents were Montana State University in Bozeman. She and her building a house and ham on their homestead. The husband, William H. Finch, and their daughters, Karen Engbergs came to Montana in a covered wagon, so didn't and Vera, live in Gillette, Wyoming. Bill is head of the Auto have room to bring too many belongings with them on the Mechan[...]igh School first trip. They returned to Canada later to get the rest of there.[...]his Doctor's degree at Boulder, Colorado 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 Pennsylvania. He, his wife Linda, and son Eric are living enough machinery to get started farming. Hard times in Carlisle.[...]plagued them, but they managed to get by even through Aubrey is at home helping with the farm work and the "Seven Dry Years" and the "Dirty Thirties" without attending Sco[...] |
| [...]use all of the children were small and had to walk to school. onto a new cellar he had just dug, when a[...]horse on a salesman named Joe Ka von, stopped in to try to sell him a sleigh, we had nine months of s[...]m that if he would help him get the house and spring. We attended a small, one-room country sch[...]helped him for our elementary education, and attended high school at until almost midnight, s[...]ter, Harriet, was a member of the T Ford. He had to go to Plentywood to get it. On the way first class graduated from Whitetail High School, and my home he stopped at a stretch of open prairie to learn a little youngest sister, Lucile, was a[...]In the late teens or early 1920's Dad and Claude start, stop, back up, go ahead, turn left and right and start Hanrahan bought a 22 "Red River Special"[...]ad a 10-20 Titan tractor, so they the family had to admire the new acquisition. It was a made a deal with him to furnish the power for the job of shipy black thing with brass radiator and head lights, 30 threshing. They planned to thresh the grain for only the by 3 inch tires in front, and 30 by 3½ in the rear. All tires three of them[...]her were smooth white rubber with no rough tread to grip the neighbors by threshing their gra[...]were stuck. But it was a Fordson tractor, and that was used to power the theshing terrific fun flying along thos[...]t the machine. incredible speed of 25 to 30 miles an hour, your hair flying It was[...]d bought our first tractor. It was a in the wind, and your eyes watering as though you were[...]riving horses, a rough tread) came on the market, and things were especially when the flies, mosquitoes, and flying ants were "looking up" for the automobile[...]1929 Dad's brother, Ed, bought a new . Overland, and "Bick" Edwards had a Buick. Gus Vahl of Rumley pull-type combined harvester and thresher, later Whitetail had a Crow-Elkhart, a b[...]umber of tools for John Deere tractor to pull it. The Rumley was not the fixing those earl[...]ghbors easiest-pulling combine in the world, and we had to hitch a would come over to have the valves ground, new piston team of horses onto the front of the tractor to get up some of rings installed, or some other min[...]ted. It was a lot of was always a willing helper, and Mom always had a hot trouble, but so[...]ady. There were many hours of good and so much faster. It also required a much smaller labor fellowship enjoyed over (and under) those old Model T's. I force, which[...]farms and a 40-acre tract, which brought his holdings to an During the summer of 1917 Dad had a new hou[...]med like a lot ofland, but He designed it himself and made his own blueprints. He it was none too much to support a family of seven. Rearing hired one of t[...]s, Herbert Beyer, as head children and putting them through school was expensive, carpenter, and many of the neighbors pitched in to help even in those days. with the build[...]red, with a 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, California in 1934, so insulation. By fall the house was finished, and the knew nothing of his illness unt[...]saying that he was dead. The shock to me was terrific, as hospital. She had been to Kenmare, North Dakota for an Dad was m[...]er I had sent appendectomy. It was quite a thrill to move into a brand my parents some money to come out and visit me in Los new house with hardwood floors in the dining room and Angeles. Dad, being the proud man tha[...]here money back, saying that if th~y wanted to come to in the washroom, and a real stairway to the upstairs California they could do it on their own, they didn't have to rooms. So different from the ladder to the upstairs rooms in have their kids pay their way. I returned home and found a the "old house". The plaster was not completely cured renter for the farm, and helped Mother get some money for when we moved in[...]rating expenses, as Dad hadn't left a will. I had to old heating stove, the sudden drastic change in return to the Railway Mail Service or lose my seniority. temperature caused the plaster to crack in several places. A Mom continued to rent the farm, or hire someone to farm it man named Pearl Green did the plastering, and he was an until 1947. expert at it - ga[...]ool Harriet attended he was no longer in the area to repair the cracks ca used by Montana Normal School at Dillon and acquired a life the excess heat. The lumber for t[...]itetail. The Walter, also a teacher, and they moved to Tacoma, house was built over a full basement and a concrete Washington after Mother sold the farm and moved west. foundation. Mom was struck by a pickup and killed early one morning By this time I had started school, but I wasn't too thrilled while walking to their children's home. Harriet has retired. about[...]Her husband still teaches. (animals, automobiles, and aeroplanes), and the .,three Floyd is now farming the home place. T's", (teams, trucks and tractors), than I was in the ''three Lyle was born on the farm and grew up there. After R's". The first few years ou[...]graduation from high school he stayed at home and helped school for only three months -durin[...] |
| [...]e rented the home place until 1954, when he moved to a ranch he bought near Big Timber, Montana. He la[...]es in the Lewistown area. He has two sons, Marlon and Ronnie. Lois graduated 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 moved to Alaska, where Fred worked for Northwest Airlines. Later he was transferred to Great Falls, Montana, and still later, transferred to Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have three children, Greg, Pam and Karen. The Youmans live in Bloomington, Minnesota[...]oungest, after graduation from high school, moved to the Los Angeles area of California. She still liv[...]r husband, Jack Barcus. Heronlydaughteris married and lives in the Los Angeles area.[...]Erick and Carrie Erickson, with their two oldest[...]son) Ricker, children, Annie and Christine, traveled to the Dakotas in a sister of Julian[...]Dakota and Julian and the rest of us were born in a log My father, Er[...]in Velva, North Dakota. Later we had a nice home and came to the United States at the age of six with his there. parents. His father served in the Civil War in a regiment My brother Theodore was the first one of us to come to made up of Wisconsin volunteers entirely, and lost his life Montana, and then my brother Jim, who worked for a in the serv[...]rancher by the name of Langridge, and brother Julian, My mother, Carrie Knudson, came to the United States then about 16, came in 1902 and worked for various from Norway with her parents when she was three years ranchers. old. This girl, later to marry Erick Erickson, lived in a sod My parents, Eva, Roy andI(Clare),camein the spring of house, lived in a log cabin, traveled by covered wagon, and 1910 by train from Velva, North Dakota to Poplar and the first postmistress in a pioneer town, lived a long and from there by wagon. In 1912 Julian returned to Minot and full life, passing away in California in 1952 at the age of95 brought his wife Ellen and son Arthur, then perhaps about years, four months, and ten days. five year[...]examination and became the second postmistress. I was Theodore Er[...]Tannehills took it over and had it in their store. I[...]homesteaded in the area, as did Theodore, Julian, and Jim. Roy taught at the Eagle View and Darchuk schools. My dad and Theodore passed a way in the house that is[...]once Theodore's, later became the home of Julian and Ellen. Julian passed away April 10, 1971, and Ellen is now[...]and his wife Edna, live in Scobey.[...]rode to the top of a hill and saw, on the flat below them, 15[...]or 20 Indian police from Poplar riding around and[...] |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. Julian Erickson[...]International with wagon wheels and hard rubber tires. Back to back seats were mounted inside the box. Mrs. Julian Erickson and a friend in 1911 In 1912 Julian returned to Minot and brought his wife Ellen and son Arthur. They came by wagon. They lived in[...]postoffice, and the community was named Julian after[...]lped his mother, who was postmaster. Julian gang, and were pretending that they had the outlaws passed a way April 10, 1971 and Ellen is now in the Daniels surrounded at a plac[...]t. Not finding Memorial Nursing Home. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Erickson them, they decided to play at it. live in[...]e fall of 1903 a steam threshing machine set fire to educations. Their son Arthur, Jr. owns the old house and the prairie grass and the resulting blaze burned a large farms. H[...]bey. 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, and the Manternachs. He can recall the late "Whoop" M[...]THE ERNEST GAMPP FAMILY dragged along to smother the fire, to hold it down. The fire destroyed much land, and the following winter Ernest Gampp came to Montana in 1915 from Anthon, (1903-04) was a toug[...]Iowa. He married Goldie Rhodes that same year and their disastrous to a band of 3,000 sheep being wintered there by[...]the Shannon Hotel in Goldie was taken and Leonard went to live with his Glasgow. Only 300 of the 3,000 sheep survived the winter, grandmother in Iowa. and these were sold to Bonnes. Ernest[...]of Four Julian Erickson also worked for Henry and Ole Buttes and began farming. In January, 1924 he married Shipst[...]frozen a quantity of cranberries in then went to Iowa and brought Leonard home. a small dugout behind the one in which they lived, and Rose was born in Alpena, Michigan and lived in they enjoyed cranberries and cream as a special treat all Greenbush, Minnesota, leaving there to join her brother winter.[...]In those early days, Julian remembered how mail and homestead land north of Madoc and they continued to freight then came up by team and wagon from Poplar to farm that land also. During the winter m[...]ar river, then was in the Fleming Bakery and later owned and operated a brought over from Old Scobey to the point which later bakery of her own,[...]reet from the first Scobey became Julian precinct and post office. fire station.[...]rent his first automobile. It brought the mail up to what later businesses over the years, the last being a variety store was to become Julian postoffice. It was a two cyl[...] |
| [...]first members of the Catholic Altar Society and was active[...]playing third base, and also a member of the Knights of[...]committeeman and with the late Paul Crum attended the[...]Leonard and Margaret attended the Ferestad school[...]Although farm operation and their cattle raising[...]and dinners, baseball games and school programs. The[...]neighbors shared their talents with each other and this[...]In 1937 Ernest was severely burned in a fire and spent[...]in that city in 1943 to Erner A. Taylor, who died in 1962. She[...]has made frequent visits to Scobey through the years. Ernest died in 1965 and Rose in 1968.[...]Andrew Haugo came to Montana in 1910 and settled on land about eleven miles north and east of Whitetail,[...]Montana. He later sold his squatter's rights to R. Huso, a relative of his, and bought the squatter's rights on another[...]His neighbors to the east were the Bilstads, Robertsons and the Dodds. To the west were the Mendenhalls, the Wedding picture of Ernest and Rose Gampp - January 1924[...]Day 1925 - Ernest Gampp, Rose Gampp, Leonard and Margaret.[...] |
| Mains, Ericksons, and many others. To the south were the brothers lived, and in June, 1920 hewenttovisithiscousin McDowells, and Engbergs and Fred White, among many T.T. Haugo and family at Mahnomen, Minnesota. While more.[...]there he met Helen Salberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. On the hill right south of his land came[...]e Salberg, who lived near Twin Valley, Minnesota. and Emily Anderson and took up land. They had a house After taking a trip out west to see how his crop was in built there and moved in. They even had a piano there after Montana he returned to Iowa. There just wasn't any crop a while. that year and seed wheat had been $5 a bushel. Andrew worked hard on his land, hauling rocks and Andrew worked for a while at a hou[...]Lake Mills that fall, then went north again to Twin Valley, and helped build the Mendenhall house and others. this time to be a guest at the George Salberg home where On[...]st neighbors were in Helen lived with her parents. They were married at the trouble, as Emily Ander[...]nage by Pastor B.L. Opdahl. appendecitis. She had to have an operation, but the doctor The cou[...]he couldn't be moved, so the operation would have to around. We went by Minneapolis, where we stayed and be done in their house. took in the opera and did some sightseeing. Andrew volunteered to help. He scrubbed and washed In Iowa, at Joice where we lived, Andrew worked at the walls, ceiling, and floor of the room where the operation plumbing and other work, and there a son, Orville, was took place. The kitchen table became the operating table. born to us. In the latter part of May we began a trip to The doctor brought a nurse along and Andrew decided he Montana. We visited my parents and his relatives and better help with other things that he could do. He took his mine, also some friends, and went on to North Dakota to gun and went out looking for some prairie chickens. He go[...]dbos near Northwood. It rained while we were home to his shack with two or three and cleaned and fried there, and the North Dakota roads were terrible in those the[...]our trip west was delayed, but at brought this up to the Anderson home. The operation was last[...]ward again. Orville, about over, the patient fine and all were hungry, so they all had a eight months[...]ept the patient, but she recovered nicely. parents all the way to Montana from Iowa.[...]as the first week in June, 1923 that I first came to[...]spaces and the big sky. It is rightly named "The Big Sky[...]We heard the coyotes wailing at night and when Andrew was out in the threshing Orville and I were alone and we[...]belonged to the Holland Loan Company at that time.[...]Before we could live on our own place Andrew had to buy some buildings. He bought two houses and a community[...]tools and coal and the other was added onto and became[...]remodeling the hall into a barn _and fixing up the others. Richard and Helen Haugo - 1959 There was also the crop to put in that spring of 1924. The[...]some white Leghorns and later some pigs. He hauled rocks and broke up about sixty more acres and that first summer There were many hardships in[...]ith a neighbor in who was in a pregnant condition and in need of something haying. The wheat was planted and also some flax that he urgently, walked for a lon[...]the hired put in. That year we had a good crop and in the fall winter and the snow was very deep and her walk became were able to pay off all loans and debts. The year 1925 was extremely labored and finally impossible. She was found also pretty good, though not as good as 1924. A granary frozen and dead.[...]n 1924. The flu epidemic of1918 was very severe and many died. Our social life was visiting back and forth with our Mr. Dodd died, and also Mrs. Oscar Bilstad. She left a neighbors and taking in programs and socials in the newborn son, Kenneth. They had thr[...]e were three in District No. 16. Gerhard, Loretta and Beryl. They were all very young We[...]r himself was in the were Martin Arnesons and they had five sons, so there was hospital soveryill with flu and pneumonia that he couldn't a playmate about[...]d undoubtedly have also in the neighborhood and at school, which he started to gotten up and gone to help and the children would have attend when he w[...]Dodd School and the Prairie School; some of his teachers There[...]ng, Ruth Schlechter, Ruth others will recall this and who they were. Marriage, and Helen Bydeley. After breaking up some more land, and after hauling I was interested in art and liked to draw a lot. But after more rocks, he worked around for a while and then decided coming out to the prairies of Montana there seemed to be to go back to Joice, Iowa where his mother and two too much to do to find the energy and spare time to paint.[...] |
| [...]been in ailing health for a while and he passed away[...]neighbors in Minnesota, Andrew's second cousin, and best man at our wedding. Richard and I were married at the[...]He had been wanting to go to Norway to meet his aunts and cousins for a long time. We took supp lies along and we both painted there. We also had a trip to Stockholm, Sweden and enjoyed it very much. We have both exhibited[...]paintings and won some prizes at fairs in Scobey, Great[...]Falls and Billings. We continue to enjoy painting.[...]by Helen Haugo Richard Haugo, l'heodore Haugo and wife Patricia[...]E HUSO FAMILY During the dry years there was less to do and I would sometimes do some small watercolor scenes[...]nty, Iowa, along the Minnesota border. Three, ill and was taken to the University Hospital in Oscar, E[...]nt 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[...]d bought Edwin's homestead. Edwin died hymn books and others helped in various ways. There were sh[...]r one spent much time several classes of children and Herb Beyer taught the adult iri Montana, so our[...]S.S. Huso's farm was small - only 120 acres - and there When the dry years came we sold our cattle and moved were six boys in the family. Not all[...]e fall of 1937. Orville had been in an home and make a livelihood on so small a farm, so the accident, which happened when a boy unused to guns exodus began. The oldest son, Swen, proved up a accidently shot him in the arm and chest. He recovered real homestead near Crosby.[...]a. We moved into Scobey for three school years and the boys both graduated in 1940, Orville from high school and Theodore from grade school. We then went back to farming and from there Theodore could catch the school bus to Flaxville High School where he graduated. · Orville went to Concordia fall of 1940 and also went the next year, two full years. But by t[...]boys were in the war, Orville in Merchant Marine and Theodore in the Infantry. After the war was over Orville decided to go to the University of Montana and he graduated in 1949. He is now a pharmacist in S[...]ty of Montana at Missoula for a couple of winters and then came back and farmed for several years. He was married to Irma Fredericks in 1954 and two daughters were born to them. In 1958 Theodore decided to finish his education at Montana University, where[...]64. It took longer because sometimes he was going to school and working at the same time. He taught school for se[...]coach in some schools. In 1971 he was married to Patricia Lewis Demoulin, a Oscar Huso at Ke[...]- 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 For[...]third son, was more adventurous. At age Andrew and I moved into Scobey for the winters of 1952 eighteen, in the year 1906, he went to Canada, and filed on and 1953. In the summers we went back and forth to the a homestead land in Saskatchewan, half[...]Saskatoon and Regina. His first home there was a sod[...] |
| [...]he could. He did take out citizenship in Canada, and probably planned on farming later - maybe after he found a helpmate to share the home with him. He proved up in 1909 the[...]ttle, then Crosby, North Dakota, then Plentywood, to get ready for homesteading in that state. It came[...]ress was Julian, Montana via Scobey, Montana. He, and others from Crosby, must have filed either in lat[...]y shack is finished, for I shipped my goods today to Plentywood, and expect to be out on the claim by Monday", and Eugene Bothum writes Oscar at Julian too on Septe[...]you fellows? Started threshing here. When you got to Plentywood will you get a roll of felt paper and my kerosene can filled? I will pay you when I get[...]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,[...]stayed on his land, trying to make it a permanent home. He[...]had a ham, granary, well and windmill. He raised some pigs and chickens, and by 1919 had a fine grove started.[...]The others stayed till proved up, then rented to Oscar and others around there. Reinert hung on to the property, and[...]d it till he died in 1948. After that it was sold to Charles[...]enee. After the proverbial "seven years of plenty and[...]The early twenties found Oscar and Reinert back in[...]on big tile-drainage contracts. They were in Knut and Oscar Huso, first meeting after five years. partnership with Swen, the eldest, and worked with him[...]in 1914, as cook and housekeeper. Reinert was going so I A snapshot[...]ar, Reinert, Joram, thought I should go out and help Oscar. By that time he and Eugene Both um with a group of visitors from Cros[...]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 clothes - and must have Line. I spent the night at Birch's rooming house, and had a gotten unexpected company while working at[...]d their shacks built where the corners of their and fresh-smelling from the new lumber. How I got to land joined; not so lonesome that way. Reinert and Joram Oscar's place I don't remember, but I got there and enjoyed had been back on the home farm, which Rei[...]shack had two rooms, one of which in 1911. Joram, and William Aasland left Joice, Iowa in an was ag[...]r fixed up for emigrants. the bedding washed, and the walls freshened with[...] |
| wallpaper cleaner, we had a very satisfying place to live. CHARLES MARLENEE FAMILY He[...]nk, or drum, outside which caught the rain water, and it lasted a good while. The water from the well Charles Marlenee was born to Frank and Maggie was not even good for drinking. For washing I had to Marlenee at their ranch home south of Scobey on March "cleanse" it with lye to eliminate the foreign chemicals. 16, 1908.[...]rought from a shallow well in the children and the only one born in Montana. He attended 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 dro[...]ime employee of Westland Oil hill from the south, and \after a few words of introduction Company.[...]here, although it was there that I.J. Doerr and Mrs. George Darchuk in the area and they farmed and had started one in Whitetail -The Whitetail Couri[...]anched in the Julian community. had no telephone, and I can't remember anyone else To this union were born three sons, Ronald, Robert and having one at that time.[...]e Canadian border. This school has now been moved to[...]bus line and he went to Whitetail school. The family[...]in 1947. Bob and Lanny started school in Scobey and all[...]University in Missoula, later returning to farm with his[...]dad. He married Carmen Willard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.[...]Casey and Allison. Their oldest son, David, died in[...]infancy. Ronald and his dad continued farming until[...]Lanny returned from college and his National Guard duty,[...]the Big Sky Ranch and went into raising registered[...]Herefords together with their wheat and other small grain Wm. Berge and E.R. Huso at E.R.'s shack - 1916[...]and graduated with a degree in Vocational Agriculture[...]married Nancy Cheek in Great Falls and they have twin sons, John and Mark. They live in Plentywood where Bob Others[...]e were: the Dodds, the Robertsons, teaches and they also own the Sheridan Floral and Gift LaCombes, Wimmers, cousin Oscar Bilstad, Archie Birch, Shoppe. and the Scharnattas. I was out there again in the sum[...]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 World War I was over, and Reinert, children, Brooks and Stephanie. Lanny and Pat remodeled Joram, and Martin - the youngest - who had served in the the farm home where they now reside. army and navy, were back home or coming home. In the Ronald designed and built a new home in Scobey where early fall of that year Jessie Birch came east too, met he and his family live. Ronald, in this Bicentennial Year, Joram at St. Ansgar, Iowa, and they were married there. has filed as a[...]ted States Congress from She accompanied him back to Chatham, Massachusetts. the Eastern[...]epublican ticket. Joram was a lieutenant by then, and they had officer's Margaret died in 1969 and Charles in 1972. quarters, but it wasn't any cheaper! 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 time. I couldn't continue tr[...]worn out the clothes we brought from home, we had to buy our own with THE DALE MARLENEE FAMILY that fifteen dollars. I couldn't finance it, and neither could Dad, so I resigned. We had that pri[...]Marlenee Oscar left the hard work of ditching, and took to buying farms, improving them, and reselling them at a profit. He Dal H. Ma[...]farm home 15 started out in eastern North Dakota, and gradually shifted miles n ortheast of Scobey to George and Lucile Marlenee. farther and farther to the east and south until he was in He remembers walking, skiing, and riding horseback to "home" country around Joice and Lake Mills, Iowa. His the Prairie Scho[...]sota. He passed Scobey High School in 1938 and has been farming 13 miles away in 1963, at the ag[...]of the This material was compiled by Dena Huso, and her Juy Robertsons of Whitetail. Jo[...]miles east of Dale's -going her first four years to memory, so if slight errors appear in it, please bear with a country school, five years at Whitetail, and graduated them.[...] |
| [...]Lucile and George Marlenee Dale and Jo Ann Marlenee[...]called "The Selling of the Townsites" for Dale and JoAnn have six children: Peggy, Mrs. Quentin new Scobey. Buer, with daughters Jodi and JoAnn, living southwest of Many times in[...]e, Mrs. David Hanrahan, with daughters and go roller skating in Scobey. To keep warm they used Angela and Cathi, on a farm west of Whitetail; Donald robes and footwarmers, which were made of metal with a who[...]Sidney, lives on the home rug-like covering and smold.e ring coke inside. The show place farming and ranching with his dad; they have two hall was used to skate in and all the seats had to be children, Nicole and Danny; Dick, an architectural removed each time. draftsman and building contractor has been living and George passed away in 1953 and Lucile moved to Great 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[...]ow resides beside her son attends MSU at Bozeman; and Lori, still at home. Clarence. Their three sons are Athol at Auburn, Dale and JoAnn live in the same home where 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.[...]years old in 1902 his when she decided to go homesteading in the wilds of father Frank Marlenee moved to Scobey, hauling their Montana. She was visiting a sister - Mabel States - in belongings (by wagon) and driving their cattle. They Crosby, Nort[...]headed for Montana. Lillian joined them, and together north of Scobey, living first in a homestead shack and later they proceeded on to Montana, and the Julian community, building the house which st[...]d across the road from the Boud County, Nebraska, and came to Scobey in 1913 with Huso brothers. Later she bought a place farther south and her family. They farmed 12 miles south of Scobey and west. This place had an eight-foot squa[...]ilt a home for her at a later date. This George and Lucile lived on the land he had homesteaded home was moved to the Julian townsite and enlarged. until 1953, raising three sons and working hard at growing On December 24, 19313 she married Barney C. Miller in crops and making a living. Lucile remembers that in 1928[...]orth Dakota Once their horses strayed into Canada and were and helped his bride "prove-up" her homestead in impounded. George and Jim Erickson went up there and Montana. opened the gates to the corral and got their horses back During their stay i[...]an friends. The On the Fourth of July they went to Scobey for an all day Canadians, hauling grain to Scobey with team and wagon, celebration with races, parades and bronc busting. would stop overnight with the Millers, then continue on to[...] |
| [...]summer before, Jake got up early one morning and came lodging.[...]rushing back in where the men were sleeping to wake them The wife of Tom Smith (the blacksmith[...]had up. One of the men always had a rifle and liked to use it, but the Millers take care of his son, Sid[...]s only a few years old. On one occasion, Tom went to bring your rifle - there's a pelican flying over." Scobey for supplies, and while there bought a new suit, The men all rushed out. Actually there was no pelican, hat, and a pair ofrubber boots for Sidney. He brought them but the men pretended to see one and yelled, "There, home, put them on the boy, and sent him outside to play. A Charlie. Right over there!" pointing to the sky. Finally few minutes later Tom looked out the window and saw Charlie shouted, "I see it!" and fired at the blank sky. To Sidney lying on the ground, rolling in a big pudd[...]arried Mabel Thayer From Great Falls they moved to Seattle, Washington who taught in the area. We adopted two boys, brothers, and from there to Long Beach, California where they who are now grown. I farmed in the area and was at one operated a Candy Kitchen for a time. From there they time County Treasurer. moved to Los Angeles, where they were in the real estate[...]to Minnesota. She received her college degree in Fargo, When Mr. Miller died Lillian moved to Napa, California North Dakota, taught one year, and then went to Europe, to be near her sister, Mabel States, where she still[...]ccompanied by her mother. There she attended Hale and hearty at 86, she still does her own house work, University at Berlin and Heidelberg. There were very few raises a nice garden and, being a perfectionist, keeps women attending those colleges and she was often the only everything spic and span. She has lived a very active and one in her class, sometimes with the disapp[...]moved around often returning to receive the degree from[...]late-night snowball fight in Berlin MR. AND MRS. O.K. MCDOWELL wit[...]girl friends and a boy friend from Poland who were part I was born at Long Point, Illinois on June 2, 1889, and Jewish. She heard from them until suddenly t[...]there until I was about three years old. We moved to ceased, and she believes they were killed by the Nazis. In Iowa, and ten years later we moved to Missouri., all of her time in Euro[...], but in My brother Dennis homesteaded earlier and sold out in the homes of the people who had been recommended to her. 1929. Returning to this country, she taught in North Dakota,[...]then at her father's suggestion came west to take up a[...]1915 t~ Mr. and Mrs. O.K. McDowell In 1911 I went to Kansas to work in the wheat harvest. I |
| [...]Madoc area. She taught school at Redstone, Madoc, and elsewhere, and was for some years County Superintendent. She married Oakleyi McDowell in 1925 and lived in the Julian area. They h_a d, two foster[...]developed multiple sclerosis in the early forties and was able to get around to do housework only by using a wheel chair. She had no pain and remained cheerful in spite of her disability. The[...]n east Tennessee in 1811. He moved from Tenn~ssee to Davis County, Indiana and there Moses M. Robertson was born in 1859 along with eleven siblings. He was next to the youngest. They moved to Cin~innati, Iowa in 1880 to live and farm just outside of Mrs. Juy Robertson with JoAnn and Merton town. He died in 1893.[...]Juy married Hilda Stensgard, a teacher in 1923, and[...]Scobey; Barbee Shipstead of west Scobey; and Diane Gillis[...]tenth grade: The family moved to Eugene, Oregon then to[...]children went through high school and J uy had two years[...]of college. He played football, baseball and was active in[...]Moses M. Robertson and his J uy left Caldwell, Idaho for[...]with a covered wagon and extra horses. Their intent was to[...]and locating possible homestead sites. He was offered[...]hundreds of cattle and horses and much land if he would join the trip and marry the chief's daughter.[...]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[...]land and received patents from the U.S. government the Mode M. Robertson and granddaughter Diane fall of 1914 and early 1915. Juy ultimately bought his[...]father's and sister's homesteads as well 'as some[...]neighboring land belonging to Luther Dodd. At first M.M. and Juy, along with the other early M.M. Robertson[...]homesteaders freighted their supplies from Poplar and death. He farmed, went into cattle buying with hi[...]She was the daughter of although threshing and some breaking of sod was done John Soden who was born in Ireland in 1828. He came to with steam engines. M.M. Robertson threshed for America at twenty and located in Philadelphia, then to neighbors with a 44£ Rumley separator and was vocal Delaware County, Iowa. Three children were born to M.M. about its attributes. After completing a fall's threshing and Elizabeth: Juy Nathaniel 1888-1953; Catherine 189[...]plugging the machine he was challenged by a 1975; and La Vivian 1891.[...] |
| not want to plug it. A season's wages were bet as to VANE AND CARRIE ROSS whether this crewman could plug the m[...]by Mrs. Carrie Ross to pitch the bundles in lengthwise. The safety valve was tightened on the steam engine and the contest was on with Vane and I (Carrie L. Ross) were married 61 years ago the[...]g that the crewman forfeited his season's and left our native Iowa to live on the homestead located 11 pay and M.M. Robertson continued to extoll the virtues of miles northeast of Scobey and two miles southwest of the his rig.[...]years in the Julian community Juy barn and granary, dug a 60 foot well, struck solid coal, played third base and shortstop for some of the local good soft water. We put up a windmill, and plowed the baseball teams. This was during the ti[...]irie sod for growing wheat, flax, oats, potatoes, and a emphasis on baseball in northeast Montana with[...]rst years were very hard for us. It was difficult to involved in the Black Sox scandal. grow potatoes and vegetables on the new sod.Vane walked Juy alwa[...]ttle but he expanded his cattle many miles to work and earn $1.00 per day and he and his operation in the early 30's during the depth[...]d lignite coal a few miles east of our depression and worst of the drouth years with cattle[...]for the coal, some folks did not have the money and traded summered with various people including Billy Kraft south potatoes, 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[...]In the spring, when the We learned to love the prairie country and the climate. calves were small, it took four days to trail to summer We left Iowa as it was very hard for young people to start pasture and three days to return home in the fall. Tom farming there, and we had both grown up on farms. Two Brenden's and Knudsvigs (about 20 miles south of Madoc, boys were born to us while we were on the homestead. stopped there[...]Garvin Ross, now living in Berkeley, California and Ralph and the stopover generally disrupted their routing un[...]was born at herd moved on. Juy operated the farm and ranch Atwater, Minnesota in 192[...]in Watsonville, California. When M.M. came to these parts he thrilled at the tall 19[...]r with plenty of moisture from snow waving grass and envisioned a perfect cattle country. That and good rainfall. There were good crops. We made a Ii ving first fall a prairie fire swept through and exposed myriad until 1918 and 1919 when the dry years started. Due to poor rocks. M.M. had second thoughts about farming. crops we had to leave which was a great disappointment to Gradually the rocks 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 blowing forty miles an hour and After Ii ving in Minnesota and Iowa we came to Arizona not a damn thing to stop her". Coal was dug from strip wher[...]efore. Grandpa raised a huge garden every year and didn't allow a weed to go to seed. In the fall he traded produce for groceries and sundries.[...]horses that grazed on the prairie in He loved to ride and almost every day he could be seen homesteading days - 1912. riding around the country to check on his crops and the neighbors. On one of his rides he lost his b[...], -:" and it started ticking. The watch is still in the fam[...]4 •. ,- years was walking or riding over to our place, three- -~ :· :i" quarters of a mile, to visit with our children. |
| [...]rger area than it does now. People came for miles and Scobey was asked to submit the names of five prominent miles around; now they go to Scobey for school, church and business men in Scobey to the Postal headquarters, one of fairs and most of their entertainment. which would be chose[...]in The earliest settlers came between 1903 and 1916. When the Silver Star community.[...]und, Ole J. situated just across the Poplar River and south of the Lige Olson, C.K. Hanson, P.M. T[...]William Parkhurst, Alvah Shaw, Clara J. was moved to the O.E. Susag place with Oswald Susag as Atkinson, Jim, Rex, and Bob Rhodes, Jim Penrose and postmaster, where it was in operation for ten yea[...]the Kahle post office was Around 1916 and 1917 many more came into the area. discontinued.[...]ford, Laura Narveson (Lekvold), Knudt Christensen and Ralph Peters. Claren[...]and the Soren V eis family and others.[...]1925 - 1975 many and varied. They included dances, basket socials,[...]directors appeared before the the Bray's and The Little Oscar shows, general elections, Notary Public, Paul Crum, of Scobey to form the Silver Star church services and one funeral (Oluf Monson). Community Club Corporation. The five directors to sign The dances were held frequently i[...]ere Pete Thorem, J .G. Johnson, was the largest and nicest place around. People came for Bennie Dahl, Palmer Hanson and Oscar Manternach. miles and often danced until daylight. At one of these v[...]tings Mrs. Robert Rhodes The first group to place for these dances were the (Ingeborg) sugges[...]sister Leona Gribble Gile at the piano, and Loren Gile on Allie Olson donated one acre ofl[...]ne Hanson home. The men gathered dried wood and kindling paid carpenter, Bob Wakeland, but much o[...]was best at. included plenty of good food and homemade ice cream. The Dick Veis helped build th[...]he kitchen, which evening was spent visiting and playing games. Later on, are still in use.[...]26, followed by a Theodore Imbs acted as chairman and O.E. Susag as dance. From then on t[...]dore Imbs, Pete Thorem, Joe Erickson, Allie Olson and O.E. Susag.[...]of Olson, Vice President; O.E. Susag, Secretary, and Pete these were the Just So Club, Silver Star 4-H Club and Thorem, Treasurer. Pete Thorem was chosen as the[...]till exists. Manager, Ben Olson the first Janitor and was paid $5.00 The Just So Club has had many leaders and members. for his work at each dance. B.J. Lekvold and Ben Olson No one knows for sure when it began but some of the were hired to haul water for dances. They also sold tickets[...]ke Jacobsen was hired as janitor at $5.00 a and Mrs. William Ferguson. night. O.E. Susag or Knudt[...]In 1936, B.J. Lekvold became the hall manager and held Cavanaugh, Helen Dahl Greene, and Vera Gilmore that position for thirty-six[...] |
| [...]Swanstrom, Pearl Sorsdahl, Eula Shipstead Shope, and and Mrs. Oscar Shipstead (Helen and Wallace), Bennett J . Doris Shipstead Hope. Leade[...]on's grandmother), (Selma), Mrs. Ben Dahl (Lura), and Mrs. Alvah Shaw Peter M. Lekvold, B[...]daughter), Myrtle Jacobson Lekvold and Bryhnild Each year all the members took the sa[...]was sewing, baking, cooking or something else of interest. The members met in the club member's homes once a week and dues were a nickel a meeting. The Silver Star[...]t Olson, Arthur Lund, Raymond Olson, LeRoy Howard and Elvin HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUB Dahl, George, Milo and Lansing Eichhorn and the Barker boy. Ralph Susag was leader with Ben D[...]arden as our first County Six delegates, Elvin and LeRoy Dahl - George Eichhorn - Agent. Our f[...]b started in the spring of 1951 didn't learn to do. Miss Cushman served as our first when Albert[...]horn Johnson extension project leader and gave us several projects. Mrs. if she would be a[...]help of Jesse C. Ben (Lura) Dahi, Alice Susag, and Laura Lekvold are Drury a club was organized.[...]eetings, Members were Albert Hellickson, Neysa and Kent sponsored several good home talent plays and picnics Drury, Connie Bennis, Lorraine and Alice Anderson, Elsie during the past years. and Tuffy Johnson and Berdella Rhodes. Others joining later were Don Linderman, Carl Susag, Jim Morrison, Myrna and Mervel Rhodes, Iris and Bernie Gilbert, Diane Susag, Claira, Neal, Ernie, Kay, LeRoy and Ken Hellickson, Gary Cornwell, Carolyn and Jim Veis, Swede Johnson, Bob Parkhurst and Jerry Jones. Doc and Tillie Morrison became leaders in 1952, with Lou Hellickson and Tony Ereth joining as leaders in later years. Jes[...]esent site of the fairgrounds. The baked projects and sewing were judged in the old bakery, now the pre[...]e Demonstration Club-1941. Back row- club members and twenty-three project leaders. left to right: Mrs. Ferd Morrison, Mrs. Glen (Hulda)[...]VonKuster, Mrs. Betsy Lekvold and Beatrice on lap. "Aunt[...]Ben (Lura) Dahl, Mrs. mother of Peter M. Lekvold and their adopted son B.J. Chris (Selma) V[...]re the wife) Mrs. John (Mildred) Poyner and Mrs. Ralph (Clarice) parents of Mildred Lekvold Poyner and Louis Lekvold. Susag. At one time there were plans to build a church on this ground which never materia[...]o record has been kept of them, so this may prove to be the BASEBALL TEAM only[...]year old brother of Louis around Lekvolds and Four Buttes. Lekvold and Mildred Lekvold Poyner. Others were Mrs.[...]s were Marion LaMotte, their manager Albert Hovin and baby (mother of Melvin Ferdina), Mrs. and first baseman; Bob Rhodes, pitcher; Jim Rhodes, W[...]hort stop; Sherd Wilcoxen, Mrs. Olive Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Chenoweth's baby catc[...] |
| [...]operator. With a well machine motor and one horse he[...]ed up one barrel at a time; it took seven barrels to make a ton. Later on they used a team and managed to get a half[...]In 1936, Krassen and Sorte operated this mine. With the[...]aid of a motor and tipple (an apparatus that tipped the[...]Johnson and Bert Songstad with Clarence Narveson[...]various times were Selma Veis, Chet and Edna Murphy and Mr. and Mrs. Friese.[...]Lekvold and Alvah Shaw. Ole and Martin Nelson were Police Creek Baseball Team-191[...]area are sons field; B. J. Lekvold , second base and Ernie Gampp, third and daughters of the early day settlers. Most of them[...]eater in the corner of the Chris Veis, Ozro Brown and Harry Wilcoxen also played basement kitchen, with anxious parents dashing down with them. between dances to check on their offspring. The main baseball di[...]g on the front benches at the homestead about six and a half miles northwest of where Bray Sho[...]the Silver Star Hall now stands. Many good games and crossed the river on the "ice chunks"[...]Butte rawhide whip. Many a youngster had to dash back and sit Creek , Pleasant Prairie and Big Flat, the Gilchrist school with mother u[...]community together. All the working together and playing a large barn on his homestead where they[...]fter fifty years it night dances. Oscar Shipstead and Jim Penrose furnished remains in good condition thanks to the younger the music, both played violins. The families of the baseball generation and all of those helping to keep it that way. players usually went with them and made a picnic day ofit.[...]members are left: Ted Rustebakke, Marion LaMotte and B.J. Lekvold.[...]They were the Lekvold School, the Liberty School and the COAL MINE[...]This underground lignite coal mine opened in 1931 and Chet Solberg farm and was built in 1914 with Jeanette supplied coal for[...]Hanson, Ruth Nordgren, Sylvia in a dynamite blast and went over to B.J. Lekvolds for Trombetta, Evelyn O'Dell, Ellen Madsen, Christine coffee and dinner while waiting for things to settle down. Frederickson, Alpha Hanson, Lucille Finegan, Georgia He was getting more and more anxious to go down. Julius Goodman and Almina Lein. tried to pursuade him to wait a little longer, but he insisted The Liberty was built in 1917 and was situated between on going. B.J. Lekvold again urged him to lower a lantern the old Lige Crawford place and the O.E. Susag place. Then into the shaft or to wear a miner's cap. They lowered the it wa[...]heard a " thud" ; he had toppled from the bucket to the house across the road from the old Martin[...], Elizabeth Fowler, Helen Boggan, Morine trousers and hoisted him up. He had inhaled blackdamp, Boggan, Edna M. Jenkins (Hanson), Vera Peters, and also called chokedamp, a non-explo8ive but suffoc[...]this time, 1932-33, the county asked her to put the seventh[...] |
| graders through the seventh and eighth grades in one year. They did this so they could close the school due to a shortage of funds. At this time the eighth graders had to take the state board examinations in all subjects in order to be promoted. The Gilmore School located just so[...]ears. The teachers were Ellen Madsen, Mabel Colby and Mrs. Alvah Shaw (Hazel Parkhurst). She taught there from 1929 to 1930 and then it was closed. It was also used as a voting[...]rvices were held whenever they could get a pastor to come out. One of the main ones was C.G. Tjomsland. He was pastor at Scobey Lutheran from 1923 to 1928. The Aid Ladies served 1unch after the ser[...]edding celebration was held there. It was for Mr. and Mrs. Ole Olson, grandparents of Robert Olson, who[...]nine miles south of Scobey. <?ur_ family came to Montana from Byron, Michigan by train m May, 1912, to prove up land which my father Mr. The s[...]filed on. ' windows all (four to six) on one side. There were desks for My sister, Marjorie, and I attended Montana State the pupils and a large desk for the teacher also a long Normal College in Dillon and were issued teacher's recitation seat where each class was seated beside the certificates to teach. There was no school house in our teacher's desk to recite or answer questions about lessons neighborhood and for a short time our living room served th[...]ere were a couple of blackboards on the wall with and was called "The Parkhurst School". People kept chalk and erasers. These were used by teacher and pupils. coming and settling on claims and when there were more When a word was spe[...]lace the school house was sometime be asked to write it many times on the moved to accommodate them. My brother, Alvah J.[...]pot bellied stove Parkhurst, drove several miles to pick up some pupils and in the center of the room. Lignite coal fro[...]area. was brought by one of the parents for fuel. Building the fire[...]in the stove was up to the teacher so she had to get there early, around 7 a.m., to see that the room was warm. If she The -Liberty S[...]hung on a nail and was used by everyone. Teachers and pupils walked or rode on horseback to and[...]from school. My horse got away as I was about to mount to go home one evening so I had to walk home, the horse going[...]Out, Fox and Geese, Skating in the Winter. An irrigation[...]ditch was a quarter mile from this school and some pupils would take off for a swim and sometimes getting back after[...] |
| Pepper School - left to right: Dora Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, Al Fowler, Ruth Pepper, Richard Pepper, Eliher Pepper and at end Alva Parkhurst. was a real punishment. Ru[...]ach of the eight grades. It kept the teacher busy |
| [...]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 also came with them. "Aunt Fan" said she had caught the "Montana Fever" and wanted to find a teaching job. They came to Choteau, Montana first and it wasn't long before she was elected Superintendent of Schools there. She went by horse and buggy to visit her various schools which were quite far ap[...]here Glen worked for a rancher. In 1913 they came to Scobey where he worked for Mose Tingley and Otto Krause who lived near Kahle in the Silver Star community. In 1918 he joined the U.S. Army and was stationed at Fort Lewis. Glen and Hulda Carlson (who came from Elbow Lake, Minnesot[...]y farmed in the Silver Star community until 1924, and then moved into Scobey where he worked at the Jones Cafe and the Crawford Cafe. In 1942 he bought the Fowler C[...]cafe was Combined picture shows left to right-Glen Chenoweth, located in the small apartment connected to "Clipper" wife Hulda , son Harland, and Glen ·s mother, known as Zieske's barber shop. In 1945 with failing health, he sold Aunt Fan. out to Ole Bondy. Glen passed away February 10, 1946. Glen and Hulda had one son, Harland, who grew up in Scobey and is a Harland Chenoweth served in the a[...]& Recorder's office. He married music department and is a member of "The Star Dusters" Marie La[...]Larry, Lynn, Jim and Susan.[...]land Chenoweths now reside in Havre, Montana Glen and Hulda Chenoweth-married November 19, 1919[...]years and later on did part-time work. She also helped at[...]the Scobey School lunch room. Now she is retired and lives[...]BENNIE AND LURA DAHL[...]21, 1914 and lived in Harvey North Dakota until the spring[...]of 1916 when we moved to Scobey, and filed ·on a homestead[...]We came by rail on the Great Northern Railroad and[...]new homesteaders arriving near the depot and unloading their property to begin a new life on these dry and barren prairies, and looking for desirable land to file on. While[...]came about signing up for the draft for men to serve in[...]Bennie was one of the first to be called to serve his[...]boys $10 and a pair of dice as they left. Before Bennie left h[...]took his wife back to Harvey, North Dakota to live with her father and sister while he was in the service. He served in[...]and saw duty in France and neighboring countries.[...]and was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa as their service records[...] |
| [...]the youngest-Orlynne, Stener, Myrtle, Henry, Edna and Palmer. John took part in the D-Day operations off the coast of Douglas and Gloria Hanson-November 30, 1968[...] |
| [...]n't discharged until January 16, 191. He got back to Harvey and to his wife and baby boy January 19, 1919. The mail service was bad during World War I, so he didn't know what to expect at home, as the flu epidemic was raging in the States. In August, 1920 we moved back to Scobey with two sons , LeRoy born while his dad was overseas and Howard , born at Harvey. Ben worked for Jess Smith at the Mill, packing flour until spring when we moved to the Sidney Matter farm. A daughter, Alene was bor[...]lived on the homestead until fall, then hired out to Joshua Williams 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 moved there to make our home and to send our children to the Lekvold school. Our early day activities w[...]laying baseball between the different communities and raising our children on limited means. As the[...]Hall came in being in 1925. The County Agents and Home Demonstration Leaders kept us interested in home projects and there were 4-H Clubs for the young folks. In 1950 we sold our farm and retired and bought a home in Scobey. We both worked at variou[...]Free Library. Bennie started failing in health and passed away in 1970. I lived alone until I fell and had to go to the hospital , then I lived with my son Howard and famil y until 1974 when I entered the Daniels Memorial Home and sold my home to Steven Wheelers of the Econo Lumber Compan y .[...]Mr. and M rs. Hans (Emma) P. Hanson[...]1874 at Paynesville, Minnesota. wa lk to th e Susag's farm several times a week to visit Alice. Emma Israelson was born in Norway in 1880. They were With a good visit and cry it helped both to keep going. They married in Paynesville in 1899.[...]dren were had left nice homes in Minnesota and many friends. It is born in Minnesota: Palmer, Edna, Henry, Myrtle and hard for us who live here now to imagine the water that Stener. Orlynne was born i[...]ey carried in buckets, the lignite coal that had to be dug Since Minnesota was becoming more crowded , and since in the hill s and riverbanks by hand, and the acres of land he wanted his sons to have larger farms Hans (and O.E. that were broken walking behind a one bottom plow and Susag, who lived on an adjoining farm) decided , in 1916, to team of horses or oxen. go to Montana to look things over.[...]0 acres, through the 1930. Edna had come to Montana upon answering a Fort Peck Indian Agency.[...]eapolis Tribune. They hauled lumber from Scobey and helped each other She fir st taugh t in the Ueland School near Comertown. to build their first ho~ses. Hans' house was a tall[...]"Horsepower" Hanson. There Palmer and Ed na h ad two children, Shirley wh o is were so[...]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 children, Kim, Laurie, John and Ja mes . After their houses were both ready , they went back to Palmer passed away in 1955. Minnesota to get their belongings. Doug, the son of Palmer and Edna, is married to Gloria Hans and son, Palmer, had two railroad immigrant cars. Popielwewski of Saugatuck, Michigan. Doug and Gloria O.E. Susag and his brother-in-law, Clarence Narveson, h ave t wo sons, Doug and Dennis. At the present time also had two immigrant cars. They were loaded with their Doug and Gloria are operating the Recreation Center in cattle , horses , chickens , furniture and personal Scobey. belongings. There was some trouble hanging on to the John J enkins, Edna's youngest brother, came to live chickens because the railroad crew was hungr[...]with P alm er and Edna until he joined the U. . Navy.[...] |
| [...]w live in Sidney. They had three sons, Lee, Grant and Clark. Orlynne, third daughter in the Hanson family, met and married Gilbert Skaer while attending a beauty sc[...]ls. They have four children, George, Ronny, Karen and Melinda. Henry Schauer came to live with Hans and Emma Hanson when he was about fifteen years old. He had no mother and his father was working from place to place. He lived at the farm until he joined the a[...]above the call of duty in Italy in Jennie and Harve Kile 1944. He is now the only living Montan[...]r possessing the Medal of Honor. Henry is married and lives in Washington state. been there several times and liked it. There we started to Those serving in the · Armed Forces from the 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 I started to drive the trucks and should be mentioned that Fred Hanson, husband of[...]were hauling we were hirley (daughter of Palmer and Edna) although from a also looking for a farm to buy. So in 1945 we purchased a different Hanson f[...]farm southwest of Scobey, where we have lived and farmed[...]rolling hills and friendly people. Where the coyotes howl and the winds blow free, that's the place for me. HARVE AND JENNIE KILE[...]by Mrs. Kile Harve and Jennie Kile grew up in western Oklahoma, near Beaver. Harve took up farming and construction work. Jennie went to college and taught school nine years in Beaver County. We were married in 1930 at Liberal, Kansas and lived at B. J. LEKVOLD Elmwood, Kansas. We later moved to Plains, Kansas where Harve farmed and worked in the machine shop. I came to Scobey in May of 1913 with my mother, Mrs. In 1940 we moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado, where we Bryhnild Lekvold and brother Peter, and M. Lekvold and owned and operated a fuel and fruit business. family from Cla[...]e they homesteaded Then the war started in 1941 and people began to leave in the Silver Star community. the gold mines of Cripple Creek, so we moved to Colorado I was drafted into the army in September, 1917, going to Springs, where Harve used our fleet of trucks to help build Fort Lewis, Washington and on to Camp Green, North Fort Carson, and the Peterson Air Field. When that work Carolina. My group went on to England and then to France was finished we took our trailer house and equipment to and Germany. I was still there when the Armistice was[...]ain. I then came home to help at the homestead with farming. After the army work was finished, we went to our home In February, 1920, brother Peter passed away and at that near Penrose, Colorado to care for our fruit farm. While time I rented and later bought the farm where we still there we decided to go to Wolf Point, Montana as we had reside.[...]Laura Narveson, my wife, came to Scobey in April, 1917[...]from Paynesville, Minnesota with her sister Alice and Harve and Jennie Kile[...]Laura and I were married in 1922 in Scobey. Our family[...]Hedreck of Bremerton, Washington, and Claire of Wolf Point, and Kenneth of Scobey. Lorraine, Jeanette and[...]Claire attended the Lekvold school which was one and a half miles west and later one went by bus into Scobey[...]the years we had some very hot dry spells and for several years in a run we had hail come and take the crop but the[...]latter years have been better. But we must expect to take[...]grandsons and one granddaughter passed a way in infancy[...]so we have eight now, and four great grandchildren.[...]c_elebrated our 50th anniversary August 27, 1972 and[...]rved on the Scobey school board for sixteen years and[...]Scobey Lutheran Church and I have served on the Council[...] |
| [...]Pete and Betsy Lekvold with their four children, Selma,[...]Oscar, Millie and Louis, in ages ranging from six years to one month, came to Poplar on June 16, 1913. The journey[...]wagon from Poplar to their homestead claim west of Silver[...]sister and B.J. Lekvold, who also accompanied them, not to forget the very necessary livestock, two cows and a few[...]Beatrice was born in 1918, adding to my mother's[...]The flu invaded our little house and my father died in 1920.[...]My mother's brother, John Olson, came to help us. Our[...]We worked at anything and everything just to get by, in order to eat and have a roof over our heads. Before he died,[...]every day. The bachelors would buy it and carry it a way in[...]grain sacks. Mother sent away for a rug loom, and we all helped to make rugs to sell. B.J. and Laura Lekvold-married October 18, 1922 Mother and I went out to work in the cook cars. First for[...]and Selmer Nelson. Sister Selma stayed home to take care We have retired 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 could. Auxiliary and have taken an active part in various things After moving to town in 1927 we eked out a living the best and enjoyed being a part of the Silver Star community. we could. Mother made rugs and we cleaned houses for 25[...]ldren, Vern now of Plentywood who has six he made to Medicine Lake for lumber with Peter Thoren children, Cary, Doug, Kathy, Bradley, Jerry and Kelly; and Allie Olson. They left Medicine Lake at noon on J[...]ary Ann who married Bill Henderson, who works for and set up a tent that night for camp. The next morning, Waddell and Reed. They live in Kalispell and have five July 4, it was raining hard so they could not resume their children, Kenneth who is married to Barbara Pettmen of journey.[...]Kalispell, Donald, Linda Ann, Dana and Gary; and Larry To celebrate the Fourth they took up their cooking[...]t, 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 and Heidi. speech which went, "Ten thousand years ago this was a h-owling wilderness. And it still is!" Mr. and Mrs. Ole J. Olson-the only Golden Wedding held B.[...]ura, at the Silver Star Hall, July 1929. Parents of Mrs. Pete B.J., Jeanette.[...] |
| [...]Children of Pete and Betsy Lekvold-Selma, Oscar, Peter and Betsy Lekvold-November 20th, 1905 Mildred and Louis. Mother Betsy Lekvold died on May 28,[...]-President of the Delay Bank in Norfolk , |
| Warmdahl and Peter Lekvold shocking and B.J. on binder-1917. 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 Lekv[...]y Goltz Linderman was born in Plentywood, Montana to Gordon "Pete" and Iling Goltz. When she was small she lived in Glas[...]ed the first grade in Plentywood. Her folks moved to a farm northeast of Dooley, Montana and Ruby attended grades two through six at the rural[...]ing the 1960-61 · Eddie and Anna Lund-1912 school term. After Don and Ruby were married they farmed with Martin Linderm[...]years. Then they bought the He returned to Grand Forks, bought a Majestic range for farm. They have three daughters, Teena, Sheila and Carla. $35 and had it shipped to Poplar. A freighter brought it to[...]moved to Montana in an immigrant car, bringing four Eddi[...]work horses, two cows, some farm machinery and other Dakota. He attended Fargo Agriculture College and North needed supplies. Dakota University. At the age of twenty-three he came to Later he brought his wife and new born son, Gilman, to Old Scobey (in the fall of 1912) to stake out a claim for a Montana. homestead. A[...]ring all the frustrations of life on the prairies and because of the bleakness. He rented a room in a h[...]big sky country", settlers still moved in Scobey, and the next day went into the area that is now and the hills became dotted with many homestead shack[...]flax. He felt The long winters, droughts, hail and the constant winds that if such crops could be raised in the country he would were hard to endure and during the early twenties many stay.[...]homesteaders gave up and moved on. He met a man who had squatted on some[...]se 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 that was on it. He living can recall, conditions which tested the souls and walked southwest from Old Scobey until he found h[...]home , three miles west of where the Silver To supplement the family income, Eddie worked as a S[...]ld stay on the Gilman Lund family-Gilman, Annie, and children Beverly and Eddie[...] |
| [...]Theolyn Lund Tong and Edward Tong[...]In 1954 son Arthur took over the farming and Eddie Eddie Lund and homestead shack-1913 retired and moved to Scobey with Clarine, his second wife,[...]ed in 1939. On April 28, 1962 he passed homestead and look after things. At that time there were[...]y, so the barn door was -kept Children born to Eddie and Anna Lund were: locked at night. One night Anna t[...]1. Gilman John - He attended country school and high men talking down by the barn. Fearfully she[...]college at Havre Normal School. Gilman the noise and found out that it came from two pigs trying to served during World War II in the U.S. Navy wit[...]of EMIi c. He married Annie Jan sen of Seo bey and farmed Another story that was told: when a new home was being and ranched four miles north of Scobey. He died on June built, Eddie went to town for lumber and windows. On the 25, 1965. They have two children: Beverly Ann and Eddie way home a hail storm came up and broke all the windows. Gilman. Canvas was used for window covering until he could get to 2. Theolyn attended country grade school, Sc[...]crops were hailed out seven times in School and Normal training in Havre. She taught five fifty y[...]e first Model T Ford was purchased for $550 to Edward Tong of Scobey. They have one daughter - and it was a big event for the family. A radio was ob[...]Scobey. He attended Concordia College and received a appendix. The length of time it took to travel to Plentywood M.A. degree from Montana University. He served in the to the nearest surgeon as well as the rough roads[...]Radarman 2/ c. Art taught school for contributed to her death. a number of years and returned to farming and ranching in During the forties and fifties the rains finally came 1954. He is married to Cleo Fladager of Peerless. He has again. (However[...]e rains came too late - but the long years. Art and Cleo have three children, Barbee Ann, Mikel droug[...]. With better roads, better farming Paul, and John Arthur. Cleo Fladager married Art Lund in 1946-with their children about 1963. Mikel, Cleo, Barbee, Art and John.[...] |
| MR. AND MRS. MARTIN NIELSEN PRESTAGE FAMILY Martin Nielsen came to America from Denmark in th e Homesteading[...]all his fiancee, Miss Marie Jensen looked forward to at the time when Clarence William came over from the homeland and in 1904 they were Prestage came to Montana. He came alone to make married. They came to Daniels County in 1923 from arrangements for a ho[...]ota. Martin farmed with Bill Lannon woman who was to be his bride. on shares. He bought the Ole Munson place in 1936 in th e Both Clarence and Bessie Myrtle Wright were from Cass Silver Star[...]Mr. Prestage was born in Michigan on Manternach and moved to Scobey. In 1954 they observed · July 8, 1881 and he lost both his parents when he was a their 50th wedding anniversary. small boy. He came to Montana in 1905 and homesteaded Mr. and Mrs. Nielsen had no children, but many friend s.[...]a. In 1909 he married Their home was always open and welcome with the best Bessie Wright at Glasgow, Montana. food that Marie could make and delicious. Marie celebra ted I have heard it t[...]assed away in July 1960. J ohn there at one time. And George Henry Prestage had Stentoft made his home with Martin and Marie when he mentioned that one of his great-gre[...]. She was fourteen years old when her mother Mr. and Mrs. Martin Nielsen died leaving her as woman of the family for her father and two brothers, Clayton and George.[...]Clarence had gone for the doctor to Saco, when he came[...]except by foot or at times by horse or horse and wagon. The[...]stead north of Saco was not what it had been said to[...]Later at one time Clarence and Bessie had a restaurant,[...]but the venture proved to be a failure. In 1914 the family moved to Scobey country where[...]Clarence worked out around the Silver Star and Line[...]Bessie took care of the families and home places where the[...]family resided. At one time they lived on and farmed the[...]Joshua Williams' place, which in the forties and fifties belonged to Dick Vies. Later they moved to the Bill Lannon[...]and worked there many years - until 1931, when on[...]voice , and though she had had no formal voice training she[...]was well appreciated when she was asked to sing at[...]and conscientious woman and pillar of the family.[...]cattle, had been gathered to pay for the funeral expense.[...]er man, Ira Cave, who had two Uffe ielsen came to Daniels County November, 1916 small da[...]d wit h brothers Einar a n d left with her father and brother to Kalispell, Montana John ielsen. The following spr[...]ew years. Pepper. He enlisted in the army in 1917 and was station ed Later they lived at Sandpoint[...]as been living at Plains, Montana. i n July, 1919 and began to farm south of Scobey. He Marie and Ira have two children: John and Dorthy who married Dot Hugh es in 1926. Sh e died in 1936 and he are both now married and have their own families. married Getta Levang in[...]Elevator in Scobey for six years a nd then moved to school age. There was no school building close en[...]till working for International Harvester he moved to the Line Coulee and the Liberty schools. He later Wolf Point in 1957.[...]Motors. graduated from Scobey High School. Due to bad health he retired a nd is still living in Wol[...]George returned to visit in 1938 to Scobey and remained.[...] |
| [...]beaten. And until the basement walls were finally set up a[...]floor of the house. Believing freedom to be their god given[...]ight they would not be ousted. Time was what took to get the walls up and them out.[...]had been back from the service. I started to learn to drive and on June 23, 1949 I took my first driver's exams and got[...]town and moved our household stuff to town. George still[...]kept working on the house to make it a decent living[...]siding and interior reconstruction and finishing were Girl on right is George's mother,[...]ssie was married. It was very hard and time-consuming work, and I felt like I[...]years. Later he transferred to Erickstein Motors, a Ford He married Rose Sever[...]. At Christmas 1943 George joined the U.S. Navy and In 1960 he became quartermaster for t[...]7. of WW II. He was a Seaman First Class assigned to the In 1963 George began having trouble walking to and U.S.S. Barnstable,a troup transport ship. While on duty from work. He seemed to think that it was from his there were two near mi[...]concerned. He worked off and on between heart attacks Returning to Scobey after World War II George resumed and hospital stays until January, 1967 when he was to[...]ld not work any more. He was disabled until moved to the Wolfard farm eight miles south of Scobey[...]g at his home ~here George had charge of the farm and ranch there. after he had fallen aslee[...]ld it was extremely difficult for us at home here to get transportation vehicles or any building material or even soap to do the family washings. The only transportation vehicle available for THE RHODES FAMILY AND HANSEN FAMILY the family was the pickup truck, which was used between town, house and the field, and which was always loaded by Mrs. Robert (Ingeborg) Rhodes with oil and farm tools. The roads were always full of snow in the winter time, JIM RHODES and in the spring there were always soft with mud and Jim Rhodes arrived from Iowa in 1912. He and his wife running water. The house was old, broken and weather Hazel to whom he was married in 1925 had three chil[...] |
| Jim served in World War I. He homesteaded close to West Fork river. He died in 1962. REX RHODES[...]ed from Iowa in 1913. He married Margaret Evanson and one child was born to this couple. Margaret passed away when the baby was a month old. He married Gertrude Burke and they had two children. Rex also served in the fir[...]ed in 1945. ROBERT(BOB)RHODES Bob Rhodes came to Montana in 1915. He was married to Ingeborg Hansen in 1918. There were twelve children. Two c;lied as infants and one was killed in World War II. All but two of th[...]OLIVE RHODES Olive Rhodes (mother of Jim, Bob and Rex) came to Montana in 1913 accompanied by Jim Penrose. They[...]y around 1925. Olive died in 1948. HANS C. HANSEN and JORGEN HANSEN were brothers of Mrs. Robert Rhodes[...]homesteaded in the Silver Star community in 1912 and 1915. Hans remained a bachelor all his life. Jorgen married Eleanor Jenson and they had two children. Jorgen passed away in 1973[...]1901 - left to right: Rose Sibbits Shipstead (age 6), Mrs. Oscar Shipstead came to Montana from Minnesota in Bill (Kitty)[...]Olson (age 6) 1895 with his two brothers, Henry and Ole. He was born March 17, 1879 near Belgrade, Minnesota. In 1888 he went to Fort Benton and then to the Judith Basin where he worked as a cowboy and engaged in various enterprises. In 1903 he came to northeast Montana to join 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 to Henry and Ole. This time he decided to stay. Always a colorful personality, Oscar could remember the time that Calamity Jane sat on his lap and admired his hair when he was an 18-year-old visit[...]h characters as Dutch Henry, the Pidgeon-Toed Kid and other toughs used to hang out. His adventures were many, and it was always to his regret that the prairies became so well settl[...]orn at Wolf Point in 1895. Her father was a Sioux and her mother, who died four days after her birth, was an Assiniboine. She was raised by her mother's sister and her husband, Kittie and William Sibbits. William Sibbits was a sub Indian Agent under Major Scobey, and after coming west in 1867 with Oscar Shi[...]s first expedition against Chief Cochise. He came to the Wolf Point vicinity in 1880 as a teamster wit[...]in a horse accident in 1939. Also deceased are a to Poplar from the Woody Mountains in Canada where the son David and a daughter Elsie (Mrs. Frances Chase). Chief had[...]Those still living are sons Ralph, Leonard and Harold, and Mrs. Sibbits used to cook dinners for the ranchers who daughters Doris (Mrs. Richard Hope) and Eula (Mrs. Paul came down from the Scobey area, and that is how Rose met Shope). Oscar Shipste[...]o children, Rose Shipstead was chosen to be Homestead Queen for Wallace and Helen, died in early childhood. A son, Odi[...] |
| [...]mily are still operating the home ranch. Oscar and Rose's grandchildren are: Stuart and Carol Chase, David and Larry Shipstead, Jerry, Glen and Mike[...]our sheep camp. I went out to help an elderly sheepherder. I four great-grandch[...]finally came on to his sheep and found him crouched in the Rose Shipstead's memori[...]a buffalo robe wrapped around him. He She used to have hair-pulling fights with Charles[...], along with his dog. I told him he needed a rest and Scobey, after whom the town of Scobey is named. M[...]gave him my horse to ride back to camp. I spent the night Scobey used to name many of the Indians after presidents[...]in the sheepwagon and almost froze. and prominent people because the clerks and teachers could not pronounce or spell the Indian[...]The next day the old sheepherder returned, fed and from his son Charles tells of an experience of an[...]hree of the been out with a band of sheep and should have returned. Indians went to Washington, D.C. on tribal business. They Concerned we made up a searching party and went hailed a taxicab and the driver was curious about them, as looki[...]a ground blizzard without all eastern people are. To the first one out he said, "What's success. We came to a butte where there were the carcasses[...]saw signs of blood and moccasin tracks where Indians had next one out was Chester Arthur. Then George got out, and[...]aken the wrong one in the storm. But it was late, and name'!"[...]my companions said they had done all they could, and they[...]d that the missing I was always after adventure and finding something herder had taken th[...]all winter, frozen, north month short of sixteen and Ole was just eighteen. We got of Blink Sp[...]vre - it was then called Bull a dirty spring, and hard to find a place to drink. A horse Hook. We went to Fort Benton, and I drifted on down to named Blink, in attempting to drink there, became stuck in Judith Basin. I got to breaking horses and I loved it. the mud.[...] |
| OSWALD AND ALICE SUSAG FAMILY In 1916 Oswald E. Susag came to Scobey, Montana from |
| [...]ctronics engineer in the Puget MR. AND MRS. RALPH THUNEM Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton raised three 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 1917 and homesteaded in the Silver Star community. They Ta[...]rain. Their five children boys were of school age and taught at the junior high level accompanied th[...]e wide in Bremerton. Joe was stricken with cancer and died in open s·paces. Cattle and horses were in big bunches all over 1963. In 1966[...]a supervisor in the the country. They ranched and raised grain. They reti:veµ_ shipyard. After his retirement in 1970 they became avid trailerites and every winter are among the many "snowbirds" enjoy[...]d away January 28, 1971 at the age of eighty-five and a half years. In nine months he and Alice would have celebrated their 60th wedding an[...]in her comfortable home which was built in 1953, 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. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thunem-taken September 28, -1898[...]Throndson was born in Blooming Prairie, |
| in 1942 and moved to Hamilton, Montana where he passed away in February, 1946 and she in April of 1963. Mrs. Ralph Thunem was Miss[...]Montana where Marvin is a real estate broker. Art and Richard are both deceased. Mel and Dorothy were married in October, 1942 and have a son Gary and a daughter Carolyn. Gary lives in Spokane, Washington and is a graduate of Kinman Business University and is office manager for Inland Empire Goodwill Industries. Carolyn lives on her grandparent's (the late Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas Throndson) place and is married to Sherdien Wilcoxon. They have three children.[...]Andrew Veis-left to right Veis children-1926-Richard,[...]Andrew Ragnhild, Arlie, Lillian, Marvin and Chris. SOREN AND ANTONINA VEIS[...]ed Selma Lekvold. They had three children - Mr. and Mrs. Soren P. Veisimmigratedfrom Denmark in Vern, Mary Ann and Larry. Chris and Selma have both 1912. They arrived in Viborg, Sou[...]Martin. He adopted three until the family decided to take up a homestead in children of Or Lynn's previous marriage and they were the Montana. parents of one child - Dixie who with her husband LeRoy They arrived in what is now Daniels County in 1917 to Hellickson lives on the family farm. Richa[...]passed on. · They traveled to Montana by what was then known as an R[...]with them a few simple farm children - Lee and Lola. Roger died in a tragic accident in implements and a limited number of livestock. Their A[...]till resides in Scobey. enthusiasm, as they began to cultivate the native sod, for a Andrew marrie[...]s no doubt very great. children - Barbara and Andrew and also still reside in Activities in those early years were limited to visiting Scobey. with neighbors and friends and joining in community Lillian married[...]struction of the Silver Star Hall in 1925 Rodne and Lona Rae. They have always made their home provided much needed facilities for both civic and social in Scobey and still reside there. events as well as general ent[...]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 Chris and Richard and Arlie settled in California after World War II and daughter Ragnhild were born in Denmark and married Ruth Johnson. They have two children - Karen accompanied their parents to the new country. Andrew and Jon. was born in South Dakota and Lillian, Marvin and Arlie Soren Veis died in 1961 and Antonina is now a resident, were born on t[...] |
| [...]ville 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 bel[...]did become the official name, teacher. much to the relief of a few students that disliked being[...]n various type of races. Sometimes tempers flared and being called a "Jaybird" was not to be tolerated. LINE[...]I came to teach in the Line Coulee School in August, 1927[...]and lived in the teacherage. Water was carried from t[...]neighbors. There were no rural telephones and mail was[...]had gone back to sod, and I could count up to 125 range[...]orses in the area. There were many area bachelors and a[...]The children either walked many miles to school or rode horseback and carried their lunches in tin pails. A pail on a[...]Clara (Mrs. Homer Snyder), and Roy Swenson, Mabel and Elma Hellickson, two Robinettes and Autumn Sund. Popular recess and noon hour games were baseball, pum, Joy School ga[...]herage. pum pull away, tag and after snowfall, fox and geese. Holiday programs were given and some dances were[...]about building was purchased by area families and is used for 4- 1927 a nice, new sturdy building was erected. This became H meetings and card parties. the center of the community activit[...]oday the land it stood on has been converted back to farm land. Emmett Cavanaugh bought the schoolhouse THE EDWARD DICKINSON FAMILY and made it into a modem farm home. Early day famil[...]iles, Compiled by Marie Dickinson and Furulis, Fredericks, Kestins, Johnsons. Later wer[...]s, Nyhuses, Gaustads, Ockers, Cavanaughs, Taylors and others, for shorter periods. The 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 and moved to Scobey. later was called Spring Valley. They came by teit'.Hl and[...] |
| [...]school. They often rode horseback to get to these places or by horse and buggy. Neighborhood rodeos on Sunday[...]Hurley, Walter, Frank and Bob, and six girls - Pearl, Fern, Rose, Esta, Mary and Velva. Mrs. Dickinson was often called upon to play the part of a mid-wife and to help when[...]are for the sick until she contracted the disease and[...]The family grew up and married. Some moved away.[...]Floyd, moved to other parts to find work and never Dickinson brothers left to right: Hurley, Roy, Walter, Floyd returned to stay. Edward Dickinson died in Scobey on and Pat.[...]Floyd and Marie Chase (a young school teacher from[...]worked on the W.P.A. to provide for a growing family.[...]of Scobey and operated a dairy for a few years along with[...]grain farming. He continued to farm until ill health forced him to retire. All seven children graduated from Scobey[...]High School. Three - Duane, Donna and Pati, still live in[...]Colorado; and Shirley in Sterling, Illinois.[...]Of the thirteen children of Edward and Clara Dickinson,[...]Seattle area, and Hurley, in northern California; Velva[...]h Anniversary - 1963 MR. AND MRS. JESSE DRURY Jesse Drury and Sylvia Hanrahan met at the Hanrahan[...]1930 at Bismarck, North Dakota and lived that winter near wagon from southern Saskat[...]ad lived Glen Ullin, North Dakota coming to Montana in 1931 for several years, moving there from Aberdeen, South where Jesse worked and farmed near Whitetail. Dakota. They "trailed" their cattle and horses and hauled all their belongings in wagons. The first thing that had to be done was to build a house Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Drury and other buildings. The younger children herded the[...]Miss Amelia Malcolm. Later the school was moved to the Garfield Wilson farm who donated one acre of[...]y school system. The building was moved into town and used as a teacherage. Dances, social gatherings and occasionally church services were held in the sch[...]t time the threshing crew, usually neighbors, ate and sometimes slept there. Mother and the older girls cooked and we younger ones helped with the dishes. Water had to be carried in and waste water out.[...] |
| We rented and lived on various places from 1931 to 1939. Kent works for Nemont and he and Alice have two boys We lived on the Lynn Hanrahan farm and were close and one girl. neighbors to the George LeCombe, Leon Wimmer, and Neysa Battleson is employed with welfare work and Gilbert Overland families. We lived three winters at the lives with her five children, four girls and one boy at John LaCombe place near the old Prairi[...]ndive, Montana. boarded the teachers. Also rented and lived at Ed Engberg Wayne and his wife and son Ii vein Seattle, Washington and Dodd place.[...]d from Fred White's place Alton, his wife and two boys and one girl, live in Anoka, to our present home south of Scobey where we have resided Minnesota. He is a chemical engineer and works for since.[...]from Hart, Saskatchewan and from North Dakota when[...]and cattle by wagon train. He bought the place that n[...]North Star Garage and LaPierre's second hand store,[...]north of the track in Scobey. They had a house and big red barn over there and later ran a livery barn near where[...]lement Company is now. Mrs. Dacus lived J~sse and Sylvia Drury with children Alton, Wayne, Our four oldest children -Alton, Wayne, Neysa, and Kent |
| Grandma and Grandpa Eldred everybody took part. Sometimes, at dances in Line Coulee |
| [...]out his fare to this country on the Halaas farm. Peder[...]were going to be opened in the Daniels County area, he and Dave Johnson (a former homesteader and neighbor) made a trip by team and wagon towards the south Flaxville area,[...]taking soil samples as they went, and looking for a likely place to homestead. In 1911 when homestead rights[...]opened he came to the south Flaxville area and settled. He built a sod shack, and lived in it the first year or so. The[...]first two years all grain was hauled to Medicine Lake (the nearest railroad) and enough lumber hauled back to build a shack, shop, granary, and barn. Mabel and Ray Frederick[...]Peder Furuli about 1914 Left to right: Ray Frederick, Mrs. Ray Frederick, Joyce |
| Peder Furuli family. Left to right back row: Egil, Alvhild, Kaare. Front: Peder and Ragna. still larger tractor were bought. This[...]Loran Galassi), Wendy (Mrs. Frank Hawkins), and Terri, a |
| [...]RICHARD AND DORIS GAUSTAD Richard Ga us tad and Doris Mahler were married in[...]will be a junior; and Lance will be a fourth grader. Our[...]Hereford cattle and farming. We have been members of the[...]Valley 4-H Cl uh ever since Ka are was old enough to join and Richard takes part as a leader. This year we have[...]become interested in the Roping Club in Scobey and father Nels, Ben and Martin Gaustad and sons can be seen out the window trying to rope each[...]Lutheran Church and Doris teaches a Sunday School[...]class. homesteaded in 1915 and was on the reservation, just three miles west of[...]s built in 1928. Martin made several trips back to Norway but Nels never went back. A younger brother, Odin, came to FRED. GILBERT FAMILY Montana in 1925 but went back to care for their parents in 1926. A sister, Ingeborg, remained in Norway but her son, The Fred and Carrie Gilbert family arrived in Daniels Ottar, did come to Montana 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. The[...]Grinnell, Iowa. They had four children, Dale and Louise Nels farmed until the late 1930's. Then he lived in Scobey Gilbert, and Harlan and Virginia Barclay (by a former and worked part-time for several people in the surrounding marriage). Two more children 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[...]rm. homestead with his wife, Doris Mahler Gaustad and their We used to go to Taylor's beach for ball games, dances at three sons, Kaare, Rex and Lance. Line Coulee S[...]rn dances at the Fred It was a great experience and 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 d[...]Ga th erings such a s barn dances, swimming and picnics on the Poplar River, known as school doings and F ourth of July picnics; everyone would Taylor's Beach. Our first home was sod, and later a house come for miles around. They were all concerned for one was built. another and were a lways ready t o help and welcomed Fred Gilbert farmed for a number of years and later sold everyone. Farms are now larger and the herds of cattle and the farm to Paul. He drove school bus for a number of years h[...]the fall of 1957, Carrie in October, 1962. proud and happy with what they had been able to do with Dale Gilbert married Ella Hellickson. To them two God's help.[...]were born: Iris Gilbert who married Howard Nels and Martin belonged to t he Orville Lutheran Corey and lives at Camervilles, California where Howard Chu[...]in nearly 80. is a pilot for T.W.A. Airlines; and Bernie Gilbert who He'd just had a nice trip to Norway the summer before. married Joan Br[...]rly loved Montana. and Bradley. Bernie farms at Scobey.[...]in Scobey and had an implement shop known as Tony's[...]Garage which they sold to Adolph Kramer. They had two[...]Rhonda, Rochelle, and Ryan, all at home on the farm.[...]and they have one daughter, Maria Louise. Les managed[...]the Lucas Chevrolet Body Shop and is an insurance[...]children: Larry is married to Doris Gill and is in the I.B.M. business, and Karen at home.[...]and operate the Cinema Theatre and the Drive Inn in[...]children: Kathy is married to Rocky Ware, they own the[...]Ponderosa Bar. Kim is with Daniels and Wolfe insurance[...] |
| THE LUDVIG GRAFF FAMILY Ludvig Graff came to Daniels County in the spring of 1913 from Roseau County, Minnesota and worked for a company farm owned by Lundevall and Oie, and filed on a homestead two miles east of Scobey. In the fall he returned to Minnesota to wind up his interests there and brought his wife Julia and four children, Belmer, Millard, 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 and single walls which were always coated with frost.[...]he children for bed as if they were going outside to play.[...]Sam Hanson, Myers Johnson, Pete Berget - Graff and[...]canning pickles and the man wanted the jug of vinegar,[...]nor understand English but was finally induced to take some bread and other food instead.[...]horses, and a couple of years later put on a three-room[...]to the home place. The other half was moved to the Fra nk[...]Ken s·erved in Africa and Italy during World War II as a[...]A need to expand made the folks come to Montana. A[...]r first years in Montana! Pa had come out.earlier and[...]Scobey. A hurry-up trip was made by some kind Mr. and Mrs. Ludvig Graff and Belmer, Millard and person to locate Dr. Collinson and get hi.m .to the depot Luella.[...]Lundeval drove us out to the farm that was to be the home They hauled water from a spring about a mile and a half of my parents for the rest of their lives. away at the Evenskaa[...]ighbor. Their life was one of saving and scrimping to feed and In March of 1914 Ludvig returned with his livestock and clothe a family that soon grew to nine. Thank the Lord for other belongings in an i[...]n April Sam milk cows! How comforting to know they could al ways rely Hanson, a friend and neighbor from Minnesota, arrived. on the Norwegian milk dishes that were their heritage. Ludvig and Sam went into partnership and purchased a There was very little time for entertainment and very Rumley tractor and plow and started breaking the prairie little entertainment to be had. Sometimes on a Sunday for their own field[...]or afternoon we all walked across the pasture to visit a their neighbors. Later they bought a threshing rig and ran neighbor. About once a year we all piled in a wagon and a custom threshing crew for a number of years. drove across the hills to visit Ludvig Graffs and Sam Julia was busy cooking for the crew and raising her own Hansons who had migrated fro[...]exciting time. Days ahead Ma baked Junice, Oran, and Bertha, to complete the family. Millard and prepared food. Pa followed the outfit around , pi[...]s 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 coming". It was a busy time no[...]with milk cows, pigs and chickens to be taken care of[...] |
| [...]th Pa in the Montana. They have one child, Karen, and a foster girl, grain wagon to bring them coffee and a big lunch in the Raeleen. forenoon and afternoon.[...]have three children, Gerry Joy, Maurice mending and knitting socks and mittens to keep the family and Alan. clothed and warm through the long, cold winters. Her fingers fairly flew and the knitting needles clicked as she knitted by l[...]THE HIMLI-STORLE FAMILY Both my parents died on the farm. How bravely they bore the canc[...]by Mrs. Tena Himli Storle passed away in 1942 and Ma lived on on the farm until 1952, when she pas[...]. My husband, Knute Himli, and I arrived in Flaxville · The oldest son, Joe, still lives in Scobey where he and his June, 1917. Mr. Himli established a homestead in 1916, 18 son , Jim , (and now grandsons) operate a welding and miles southwest of Flaxville where he built a 16[...]e married La Verne Hol~berg who "shack" which was to be our home. Being a new bride and came from Cambridge, Minnesota to teach the Lme Coulee seeing the wild west for the[...]e four children, Irma who married Dale experience and shortly after getting settled I found it to be Danielson and lives in Minneapolis. They have three sons, a ver[...]e. My closest neighbors were Nyhus, Paul Johnnie and Dick. Jim married Shirley Cavanaugh Krongaards, and Haroldsons. Mrs. Goodwin, who lived of Fiaxville. They live in Scobey and had six children: about two miles from our place,[...]le, Barbara (who passed away friend. in infancy) and Brenda. Mary Ann married Jim Buchanan I remember my first three months in Montana as being and lives in Loveland, Colorado with their two sons, Bobby so lonesome for family and friends I had left in Peterson, and Joe. Wayne , who drowned in the Poplar River at the Minnesota that I returned to Peterson for six weeks while age of eleven.[...]Mr. Himli left for Canada to sell his farming interests The second child, Julia, married Carl Danelson of there. I returned to Montana in late fall and we moved to Scobey and now lives on the home place. They have three Scobey to spend the winter months. This proved to be a children , Carmen who is single and lives in Chester, happy experience as we became a[...](Bubby) married Drunell Cobb of Tandes, Johnsons and Falkners. Alabama and farm s the home place with their three . Two years after we arrived in Montana we moved to children , Teresa, Sue and Alan. Geraldine married Ronald Albuquerque, New Mexico for one year and Denver, Safty of Flaxville and has seven children: June, who Colorado, returning to Montana in 1921 and begin raising married Irvin Odegaard of Whitetail and lives on a family. Three girls - Winifred, Lucille and Hazel. The Odegaard's farm . The others, Rodney, David, Linda, Mike, nine years following our return to Montana were filled Janet and Peggy live at home with their folks.[...]ence, married Olive Nieland who Mr. Himli was ill and finally passed away in 1931. had come west from Minnesota to teach a country school in I was remarried in 1932 to Elmer Storle. I remember the Oregon. They are now retired and live at St. Regis, summer following our marriage as Mr. Storle and I enjoyed Montana. They have five children; Neil, who married the ball games and social events at Taylor's Beach. I Kathy Page (a[...]ticipated on the Women's Soft Ball team that year and at Cascade, Montana. They have three chil~ren, D[...]eye for not using the bat properly. Some of Rory and Rennie. Clara Mae , who lost her first husband th[...]ending these events were Gene Torgerson in 1967, and is now married to Al Powers Smiths Taylors, Tongs, Gustads, Furulis, Bummers, and lives on a ranch at Helena. They have three child[...]edericks, Dennis, Artie, Connie, Mary Lou, Kenny and Fred. Ernie Ca vana ughs and Wilkensons. . married Jean Reiner and lives on a farm with their son Times we[...]his period of time - however Justin . Ernie owns and operates hot oil trucks in there was always an occasion to get together with friends Dickinson, North Dakota. Kay married Edna Hamblen to enjoy good food and good times. and now operated the Four Buttes Supper Club. They have One daughter was born to Mr. Storle and me - Marlene. three children , Tammie, Donna and Lonnie. Tammie We continued to live on the farm until we moved to Scobey married Mark Hendrickson and lives at Four Buttes. Merle in 1942, but we conti[...]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 the farm and 1974 when we moved to Glasgow, Montana. raise a few cattle. I have two children: Iris who married Marlene and I live at 328 6th Ave. So., Glasgow. We Howard C[...]with TWA. They liv~ in welcome all of our friends to stop in to see us any time. California (Camarillo) with the[...]ther three daughters: Mrs. Fred (Winifred) Jones and Dale Howard. Bernie married Joanne Brasen of lives in Spokane, Washington. Fred and Winnie have a Scobey and they have three boys, Trent, Brian and Brad. daughter and son, Colleen and Lalon. They farm my farm and raise cattle. They live on the farm Mrs. J[...]Jessie , the fifth child, married Lowell Bender and hves m[...]Oregon. They have three girls, Lynette, Ruby Mae and · Vionna. All of them are married and there are nine children between them . Mabel m[...]E. JONES She now lives on the farm with me (Ella) and operates the Steak House in Scobey at the present time. She had one Clifton E. Jones came to this country in the spring of child , Bernadine, who married Dale VandenBos of Shelby, 1910 by team and wagon, along with Curt Bush, from Glen[...] |
| [...]getting more land as time went on and stock, so that helped[...]About 1944 they moved to town, but Cliff still worked his own land and worked with his son Wilbur until his health[...]started to fail. In 1963 they celebrated their golden[...]anniversary back at Glen Ewen in the summer and then at[...]Wilbur still continues to farm, he has two daughters and a[...]and she has a daughter.[...]The Kestin brothers, Sheldon and Ralph Cooper, came to[...]Leicestershire and Sussex, England on their family's[...]estate. Sheldon was sent to Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada to learn wheat farming from his mother's family.[...]He came in 1909 to Canada; in 1911 he returned to England to bring his brother Cooper, out with him to Canada.[...]had been trained as an accountant. They had Cliff and Octera Jones planned to homestead in British Columbia.[...]at the end of the railroad line and found themselves in an[...]they tried to change from their traveling clothes into their[...]white drill trousers and shirts. The station was full of[...]There was no privacy for the two to change so they tried to[...]the strange clothing and the strange men trying to change.[...]provisioned with three loaves of bread, bacon and tea; a little lard pail, a 22 rifle and a couple of blankets.[...]said that another Ewen, Saskatchewan. He wanted to get land of his own so Pete Furuli and Cooper Kestin (day after picture taken was |
| [...]. Gustad or O'Lander (he left soon after settling and Because Mason got lost for three days in a blinding returned to the old country). The grass ignited from the snowstorm, Outa sent him to board in Glasgow and fire, and was soon out of control. Instead of beating the[...]land herself with a two- flames, they fanned them and the fire spread quickly. The bottom plow with the help of Sam Burgess. three fled to the other side of the creek. They knew they had[...]th a provisions on their backs they began walking and good meal to the donor. Her homestead life was a happy eventually came to a town named Boyer in Montana (later one; she was able to do things - she'd drive the 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 town to get the fixings, come home and fix it, and have it board (probably the Henry Boyer place). ready to go in the morning. She said, "I cooked, branded,[...]plowed, raked, made hay, took care of the colts and stock targ et for bunco artists. These fellows would hire and had a real good judgment about it - best hand on the themselves, team and buckboard, out for $50 a day and place". She would work on a roundup and would bake as would drive the greenhorns around supposedly aiding many as 50 loaves of bread and boil a half bushel of them in finding a place to homestead. Henry Heinsman, potatoes in[...]freighted from Devil's Lake, North Dakota to her the two from the hands of the con-man, telling them they homestead. It took her three days to make the trip, and it could use his place as home base and walk the surrounding was sometimes forty below zero. She used two horses and a area seeking a place to homestead. They always had a soft triple box wagon and filled it with grain herself with a half spot in[...]bushel measure. Although she had her own bedroll and settled on a section of land, each homesteading a[...]h of by a half-breed Indian. She ran and broke her own horses - Flaxville.[...]kicked. She never hired men to help her as she felt they[...]horses at the livery, and eating too much. She was known[...]waiting for the meal and she'd come out and say, "What[...]shocking, hay needing to be put up" and off they'd go to do[...]and capable that they couldn't stay away, and besides[...]Outa left her homestead and went to cook for Billy Kraft[...]in 1913 and boarded out in the western part of the state.[...]There she attended school and received her training as a[...]and was raised as a southern belle used to the better things[...]ccomplished horsewoman, a pianist Kestin brothers and sisters. Left to right: Wasyl Adkins, and singer; she was trained to speak intelligently on most Wanda (Kestin) Lahn, Ralph Kestin, Maryllyn (Kestin) subjects, to be a good hostess and to oversee the duties of a Spencer, Jeanne (Kestin)[...]young miss of the gentry. Yet she came to Montana and Not shown: Thelma (deceased), Lloyd, and Gwendolyn. married Cooper Kestin in[...]Ethel and Cooper lived in a five room homestead house and raised turkeys, poultry, livestock, and a garden. She Outa M. Osborne (who was ultimately to become often sewed the children'[...]ng in the evening by Cooper's mother-in-law) came to the area in 1908-1909 with the side of her husband in the lamplight. To them were her four year old son, Mason. Her daughter, Ethel, came to born eight children, Maxine, Thelma, Gwendo[...]her in 1913. Outa originated from North Carolina and Ralph, Lloyd, Wanda, and Maryllyn. Cooper became ill was born and raised on a southern plantation. Her father,[...]esse Mason, fought in the Civil War for the Union and family's savings was used for treatment[...]England in 1930. The family faced difficult times and the foot six inches tall, dark blue eyes, and curly chestnut hair home was repossessed by th[...]hich she wore long. She had a good sense of humor and remarried and two more children were added to the family, was an excellent cook. The place she originally claimed to Llewellyn and Wasyl. She moved to Scobey in 1933-34. homestead was jumped by a bank[...]ey School. in South Dakota so she claimed another and spent her first Maxine, Thelma, Gwendolyn, Jeanne, Ralph, and Lloyd winter in Montana in a tar-papered shack belonging to received their early schooling at Joy[...]ed a Manternach girl). She said it Cooper and Ethel worked to secure along with their was so cold the potatoes[...]ighbors the Furuli's, the Frederick's, the Giles, and the[...] |
| [...]anyway, and I guess we will have a hard enough job to pay for those cattle without any horses to pay for. I am keeping[...]up our horses this winter; I put them in at night and feed them a little so as they will be able to do some hard work in[...]Cooper's letter of April 11, 1915: "I am just up to my eyes in work and so don't expect too much for the next two[...]work and sleep nowadays; no time for anything at all ...[...]Our breadmaker Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs. G. (Gile) are down Approximately 1915. The t[...]Cooper wrote in May 20, 1915: "It is pretty hard to catch three boys unknown. Ethel Kestin at right,[...]anyone going to town to post a letter as everybody round[...]here sticks pretty much to the fields.[...]Pete's (Furuli) got a new buggy and Gile has ordered an Himili's. Ethel taught the ol[...]the automobile so it looks like we are going to be left. Have to school was built. The children remember programs[...]these progressive neighbors. they put on for the parents and the good times that were I was going to write last night but Nels (Gustad) and the had at the old school. Swede girls' brother were up and stayed late. Nels put in Ethel married for the[...]a Osborne's). The preacher plowed it away in 1950 and is buried in the Scobey Cemetery. w[...]filed on 320 on the Reservation. Kestin's letter to Ethel, his wife, before their marriage. Tom Cowan sold his place to the Oil outfit at Scobey and They give us a good idea of the life of the early got a big auto in on the deal so Tom and old Dunk are going homesteaders.[...]t the ago. I was hauling grain for Dave (Johnson) and Pete torpedoeing of the "Lusitania",[...]old Wilson has just got his hands full." o'clock and pulled over on to us - threshed 120 of 150 of wheat and then came the rain that night and no threshing Ethel Eugenia Dowdy was born April 14, 1901 in and sure enough it rained so much and kept so dull that it Washington, North Carolina, the daughter of Jesse and was all off with threshing for twelve days; 10 te[...]a Dowdy. Her father was the captain of a 100 foot and oats for two weeks and potatoes for fifteen men for two schooner wh[...]l the crew from North Carolina. Ethel used to sail with him as a child and the West, Opino country, no crop, had to get out and hustle. loved it. She talked about the luxury[...]flax, while on board the schooner. 1100 wheat, and 1200 oats, not too bad. Later her parents were divorced and she went to live with I never had such a big family in my[...]rn plantation. Here she crew said they were sorry to leave but I cannot say I quite received her training to be a lady, a pianist and a hostess, endorsed their sentiments.[...]uthern belle. We had a cook car here two weeks and that was the only Her mother, Outa Osborne, had moved north to Chicago redeeming feature in the business, a young married couple and Ethel joined her mother and brother, Mason, in about and it was like the poor always with us, and now batching 1914. While there she attende[...]ken up a homestead near Scobey in December, 1914, and morning at 9 o'clock and I took 3 loads to town with they moved to Montana. Sheldon and one of Dave's kids or rather Mrs. J.'s kids. We Ethel was then sent to school in Rollins, Montana. got home at 12 o'clock Friday night and loaded up again in Dressmaking and needlecraft were among the courses in about seven hours and made it into town again and from which she was enrolled. She paid her way by working for there to McCarthy's to a show and speech given by her room and board. She was proud to have received an Plentywood. Got home this morning at daybreak and education through the eighth grade. She had met and was caught a few hours sleep ... Dave's brother i[...]ith a neighboring homesteader, Ralph C. Minnesota and Dave and him have bought the engine and Kestin (Cooper). She and Cooper were married in the whole threshing outfit[...]ovember, 1915. Her upbringing made her ill-suited to the here. Tom Cowan I hear has brought a Bull tra[...]life of a homesteader's wife. Pullsome plow, too, and Duncan McDonald is building a She ke[...]Cooper and neighbors. She raised their eight children here. This letter was dated February 11, 1915: "We are (he and Ethel taught her older chldren, Maxine and Thelma, at Sheldon) figuring on shipping a carloa[...]enough for Paul next month so I may go down again to pick them out. I them to attend. The Kestins and neighbors united to start a guess Sheldon will chore and herd those dogies and I will new school--the first school[...] |
| later Joy School was built and education was available for all. Ethel was a hard worker but always managed to find time to sing, read, laugh and have a good time. She enjoyed entertaining and being involved in community efforts such as the P.T.A. and the Episcopal (All Saints) Church where she was a[...]. 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 root cellar was full. Winter brought fresh me[...]he was adept at handwork, embroidery, crocheting, and so forth. The children remember when she would hike over to the Furuli's in the wintertime to listen to the "Amos 'n Andy" radio show. The weather would be too bad for them all to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Knudsuig go; the Furili' s were about[...]io in their home at that time. Ethel would listen to the program 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 taught school at the Navajo and Joy would be hitched up for a dance somewhere, all would go, Schools. She is now Mrs. Owen Montgomery and has five and sometimes spend the night with neighbors, or the[...]were enjoyed in the summer Dianna, Vicki and Edna. with the whole community participating. The family When Martha was ten years old her parents had twin enjoyed working and playing together. daughters, Reba and Greta. They each have four children. When Cooper passed a way in 1930, Ethel was left to raise Reba is Mrs. Carl Hansen and they live on the Pete Hansen her family on her own. She remarried and two more place in the Bredette comm[...]lives on the home place. They both taught school and drought and the homestead was lost. She found herself in Scobey. Hansen's children are Arlin, Carla, Donna and alone again and moved the family into Scobey where she Judy. Stentoft's are Martin, Anena, Lorene and JoAnn. continued her efforts keeping her family t[...]r family carrying on the traditions she passed on to them with their big WILLIAM AND ALVINA LINDSAY family get-togethers. They have given her 39 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren. Alvina, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hinzman, -V[...]nddaughter was born in 1893 in North Dakota and moved with her family to Estevan as a small child. She grew up there and[...]UDSVIG FAMILY moved to a ranch 24 miles northeast of Wolf Point in 1925,[...]and in 1944 they moved to Wolf Point, where Mr. Lindsay Mr. and Mrs. Martin Knudsvig homesteaded 25 miles[...]until 1947, and she was active until her health failed in North Dakota. It took three long days to trail the horses up November, 1974. She was a[...]She had two sons, John of Wolf Point and James of Fort spring, after school was out, Mrs.[...]Benton, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Tope of Fort Benton, Over[...]at the Tong, Jay, Custer ten grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. and Bredette schools. She would drive horse and buggy six and seven miles. Even though she had use of only one[...]ss from high school at Flaxville. He then went on to college and was in Arthur Moses was born in Missouri i[...]ass from Northern Montana College migrated to Iowa and in 1910 he came to the Scobey at Havre, Montana. He taught school. H[...]ars of his life. 1965. Their daughters are Vivien and Myrna. He Ii ved the last t[...]es born here, also attended Flaxville High School and of his land to Jesse.[...] |
| [...]6-1948) Arthur had an old horse which he rode to the neighbors-- WILLIS F. AND ANNA TONG OCKER Willis Fred Ocker of Omemee, North Dakota came to |
| that, but during the meantime washers changed and few winters they spent in Scobey.[...]Sheldon, used to live with them before her marriage. Then During these years Calvin, Wilma and Gary were born. she moved to Opheim. Then in 1936 we bought the Elmer Gile farm south and a Martin died September 7, 1959 at the age of 80, and little west of Flaxville. Our fifth child was bor[...]Both delivered by her dad. All our children went to the Joy are buried in the Orville Cemetery. school. Betty Lou and Calvin graduated from the eighth grade there. When Betty Lou and Calvin started high school we bought a home in Sc[...]e children in high Clarence came to Montana from Badger, Minnesota school and grades, milking cows, raising feed with all the with his dad in an emigrant car in March, 1913 to Poplar, farming besides. We lived there for seven years. Willis' Montana. 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 blizz[...]ch made seven major surgeries, plus heart attacks and strokes. it very uncomfortable in the[...]with two partners, Betty Lou taught the Madoc and Pleasant Prairie school farming with a 30[...]r tractor. The first crop was before her marriage to Earl T. Burgett. They have six 600 acres of oats and flax. Getting a snowstorm in early children. Her[...]In late spring the mother and rest of the family came. Calvin married Ruth K[...]There was Mable, Bertha, Alex, Florence, Rudy and have four children. He has been manager of Sears and Roebuck rug and. furniture department for two years. Before his m[...]has five children, Charles, Valerie, twins Ramon and Donald, and Suzanne Trower. Wilma has been very active in community affairs, Woman's Club, scouting, church, choir, and Woman of the Year in 1965. She has been real active in plays and chautauqua which were so popular in Scobey. She m[...]in Bismarck where his business is. Arliss went to P.L.U. for one year and then to Columbus 1923 - Hauling grain. Frank and Edna on lead, Clarence School of Nursing. After n[...]living in Seattle for fourteen years, they moved to Great Falls, Montana. They have three children.[...]iving but Mable. Clarence started farming retired and live at 611 Timmons St. , Scobey, Montana. in 1922 and on October 26, 1924 married Viola Buck of[...]Plentywood, Montana; Donna Knapp of MARTIN AND THEODORE OLANDER Antioch, California; and Ila Mae We:adt of Columbia Falls,[...]Montana. From memories and a clipping The family farmed through to 1962 and due to ill health[...]erests in the spring of 1963. In 1961 we Martin and Theodore were two bachelors who lived bought a small acreage and home out of Columbia Falls, southwest of Flaxville. Martin, the eldest, was born in and in 1970 moved into Kalispell and now make our home. Goodhue County, Minnesota in 1878. The brothers came to We had our 50th anniversary in October, 1974 and hope to the Orville community in 1911.[...]ore. Martin lived in a small tar-papered house, and never owned a car. Theodore was a little more modern. He had a two-story white house and drove a Model T Ford car. He[...]neighbors. The 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 plu[...]reek, Minnesota. plum season. He was a very quiet and 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. businessmen. They h[...]iences, not even electricity After my parents retired from the farm I was free to when it came through the country in the 1950's. The last engage in something else. My dad and I met Dennis[...] |
| [...]nesota. He had just come back sitting and his sister Edith dressed in his clothes and from Scobey and told me the crop that year was sneaked out to the corral, mounted his horse, and rode tremendous and that the Great Northern Railroad was[...]for round trip from quickly followed and finally caught up with the rider who Minneapolis to Scobey and back. He talked me into coming turned on the horse and said, "Hello Bill" to the chagrin of into Scobey with him, and I have lived here since. the sherif[...], Iowa November 7, 1895. My father, Ole M. Schow, and my mother, Theolena Schow, and I went to Minnesota, and from there to Macoun, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1909. He homesteaded southeast of Whitetail in 1912. It took us two days to make the trip.[...]The Melvin Schow family. Back row left to right: Clifford,[...]ichard, Larry, Lester. Front row: Melvin , Gloria and Goldie. Left to right: Mrs. Walt Williams , Baby Bonnie, Melvin |
| [...]The Smiths were parents of three children, Mildred, Ernest and Howard. Mildred and Ernest preceded their parents in death. Howard lives in Denver, Colorado.[...]homesteaded by his grandparents. John and Bernetha Smith Roxa and James W. Snyder MR. AND MRS. J.W. SNYDER Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Snyder and two daughters, Luetta and[...]Scobey and built a house so he could move the family up[...]prairie with a team of horses and wagon. Early day |
| [...]Henry and Benora had eight children. They were[...]and lives in New Jersey. He works for General Tire. C[...]a certified welder for Palmer Construction. Velma and[...]away at Lincoln in 1968. Mavis and Theodore and their[...]served four years in the Air Force, and worked on the Pipe[...]has worked in Helena most of the time. Homer and Clara's wheat in 1969.[...]house and moved to Choteau. 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 to Culbertson. Then on to Medicine Lake to homestead there and he sold out in 1913. He came to Andrew Swenson was born in Norway. He came to Scobey and bought land south of the golf course. He kept[...]s ten years old. Ida Swenson was that a few years and sold it to L.V. Hansen at the bank and born in 1887 in Barron, Wisconsin and married Andrew then he moved down on the Reservation and bought land Swenson there in 1905. there in 1917, two half sections and lost it in the dirty 30' s. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Swenson and Andrew's dad came In 1933 he married Clara Swenson and to them was born a from Prairie Farm, Wisconsin to Scobey in 1913 and son, James. He lives in Neodeska, Kansas. He was[...]of Scobey. Andrew's dad Air Force for four years and in 1957 he married Joan died here and was buried at Orville Cemetery. Nickel, and to them were born one boy and two girls. We bought some land in Line Coulee in 1940 and lived there until we moved to town and built a house here and lived here ever since. HENRY ST[...]by Mrs. Henry Storle Henry and Benora (Thompson) Storle were born in |
| [...]NDING THE LOCATION back to Sackett's camp. In this fence corner where I held[...]EY,MONTANA in to the farming settlement; up the lane two hundred y[...]there was a farm. There was a barn and a windmill and a I could not find this Appaloosa bunch. They should have few outbuildings and a little brown painted house trimmed been up her[...]ut in white. There was a clothes line and a lot of clothes on it Morgan. I had ridden acro[...]l, I looked at the sun which was pretty far down, and and checked every bunch of broncs I saw, but I could not looked at Hornet who was also, and glanced at me; then I find this Appaloosa bunch.[...]chased these fillies into the lane, shut the gate and rode up I had a little string of saddle horses with me, with my bed to the house and asked to stay all night. roll and frying pan packed on Little Badger, my night The man's name was Himli and he was a good farmer. ·horse. I worked on across the open country west to the Everything was neat; a cement horse[...]try at the windmill, a clean stall and feed in the barn for thoroughly but it was getting late so I rode on down to Hornet, and, as I soon discovered, Mrs. Himli was a good Sackett's horse camp and stayed all night. Next morning I housekeeper and a good cook. There was furniture in the left the[...]t' s pasture, saddled Bald house, even an organ and a bookcase with a glass front. It Horner and rode back up to the east bench. I covered the was kind o[...]a country pretty fairly, combed out the coulees and dropped range rider and freighter, to walk into that nice little house. down Give-Out Morgan to Martin Knudsvig's ranch. And the supper was a shock -to my capacity. After tin can Martin had gone east with a shipment of cattle but his and frying pan grub for a few years - I ate too much, and brother, Goodman, was hatching there and doing chores. I then ate dessert, home canned plums, about two quarts of had lunch with Goodman and upon my inquiry he said, them in a big cut glass bowl, and home made cake with "Well, now. I have not been[...]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 and on north to the flat clear now like to fine! a place which I could rent and get started to the farmer's fences at the edge of the Flaxville ranching for myself. And, feeling friendly-like, I even told settlement, then swung west again towards the Poplar and them a bout the Canadian schoolmom who ac[...]farmer's fences swung north into wanted to take up with me. Mr. Himli had decided to quit Willow Coulee. Here in Willow Coulee I scared up two 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[...]oulee as soon as I came in sight. I ran them down and Hay Creek to rent the place on what I thought wa~ very turned them when we got to the fences. I got them into a attractive terms. By lucky coincidence the prospective fence corner and held them to check them over. There were renter arrive[...]both two year olds, one was a blue roan Appaloosa and the were doing chores. Mr. Himli hitched a team to the buggy other a sorrel, both wearing my dad 's brand. I recognized and they set out for town fourteen miles a way to sign the them both as colts from the Appaloosa bunch for which I contract. I had volunteered to finish the barn chores, had been searching, although I had not seen them since which I did, and carried a supply of water from the they were bran[...]t I had not ridden this range for windmill to the house for Mrs. Himli. I thanked her for the t[...]rented as I liked it very much. I saddled Hornet and rode hundred head, from Albert Kirn on Poplar Creek. Albert's out making a circle down Poplar Creek and back to father , Henry Kirn , had been a scout for Miles,[...]t he got this horse from an Indian from and the Hay Creek farmer had disagreed over minor Woo[...]wan. In thiscaseitwouldhave details and their deal blew up. I rented the place equipped b[...]ability one from Chief Whitebird's band. and bought his little bunch of cattle through an M[...]se on winter. I put in a crop that spring, and after the horse the prairie during World War I, he got bit by the farming roundup in June, went to Saskatoon and got that bug and rented a big wheat farm over at Dewar Lake,[...]chewan. We had shipped a lot of horses over there to roan Appaloosa mare, named Shady, led me u[...]ght this land a mile west of the Himli place farm and had come back to the ranch and sent me over to and built our ranch buildings here by the spring wher[...]u make a living with horses you Hornet and I scared up these two fillies that day. The make[...]county has taken my land for taxes a time or two and we Canada at that time, just after the war, so I spent two years have had to sell horses to the cannery once or twice. We grading roads in summer and freighting in winter, making have al ways been land poor and horses poor and even had these old Montana bronces earn their living until I could to raise a lot of Hereford cattle and two daughters to help us get them sold. When I got back to the ranch in the fall of '22 make a living, bu[...], the writing of this little chronicle gives rise to a up to brand colts the year before. I had started out on my rather disturbing thought. Every man likes to believe that one-man roundup to corral and brand any colts I could he is master of his own destiny. One would hardly like to find.[...]g, sat there on Hornet, letting him get his wind, and thought cowboy way of doing. However, I wa[...]net was a good filly chaser but for a ranch and I found one. I must give the Appaloosa he had a lot of miles on him that day and it was ten miles horse credit for leading me to it. Horses were not worth[...] |
| [...]ing roundup. I am sure I would not have gone back to spend that extra day searching for any other bunch. I did then, and do now, have a yen for Appaloosa horses. I just c[...]r 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[...]. Neil says he has six Chip's colts on the ground and three more to come.[...]:~ Appaloosa filly by Tip, the horse from Dolly and ...... .[...]/ him and are breeding 15 mares to him this years. (1962)[...], September 7, 1897, son of Charles Denver Taylor |
| [...]arade. Neil on Rocket with a safety rope anchored to the tongue of the wagon. Johnny Nelson in the wag[...]g for us. chairman was appointed for each month and the teacher Poplar River. The business[...]gainst the wives in a day. Neil was invited to be head judge at the County Fair in |
| Monte, Dana, Byrne, Lamar, Daryl and Joel. Just g uess which is which! Fae married R[...]wn, Montana. They Ii ve on a ranch near Lewistown and have three children, Jim, Wes and Julie. In the fall of 1944 Neil was elected to represent Daniels County in the State House of Re[...]s a great honor from the people of Daniels County and he did his best to represent them well. He was a staun ch Republican[...]erms in Helena, Neil served on several committees and was twice made Chairman of the Appropriations Com[...]t attack. I center; Mrs. J.H. Cavanaugh and William Cavanaugh, stayed on the ranch the remain[...]y, 1965 I rented 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. His father and brother-in-law, Walter Wilkinson, went to I have found Roundup a very nice place to live and have Montana to homestead, and John decided that he would made many good friends[...]"prove up" on a piece of land then return to Minneapolis to forget our good neighbors and friends in Scobey and live. Though he made several trips back to the Twin Cities, Daniels County, where I lived fo[...]The land homesteaded by John, his father, and[...]were most homesteads, but had to be purchased.[...]John's neighbors were: Peder Furuli, Theodore and March, 1916, when the train chuffed into Madoc with two Edward Krongard, Martin and Bernt Gaustad, Dave and immigrant cars loaded with the equipment necessar[...]son, Jack Burke, John Haroldson, Ray homesteaders to start a new life in what was to become Frederick, Herman Nyhus, Frank H[...]the Olander brothers, Theodore and Martin, and Sheldon To young John, not yet twenty-one, this seemed a and Cooper Kestin. It was known in later years as the Joy remote, barren place. He stepped off the train and walked Com.munity, the name given the school. to a nearby house with a light in the window to inquire the John and Walter Wilkinson had each brought with them where[...]successful machines and were soon parked in a fence The man answering t[...]rses did most of the work for a few directed John to the livery barn, and helped later to locate a years. homestead and they became lifelong friends. I,n 1924 John bought his first Model T and used it to haul John had not come to Montana with enthusiasm. He wheat to Flaxville. He could make two trips a day where it[...]uth Dakota with his ·adopted used to take two days to make one with the team. parents and brother to Hopkins, Minnesota. Returni[...]"Betty", post up, it stuck in the road and into the transmission of the John D. Model T and stopped everything dead ... jammed so tight[...]that it was necessary to saw the post in two to get the truck off it. A few minor repairs and he putted on home.[...]Minneapolis. He brought her to Montana and they were[...]Bridie Murphy had emigrated from Ireland in 1920 to[...]John's father sold his farm and retired to Minneapolis.[...]John and Bridie lived on his homestead which a[...]Patricia, 1934 and Elizabeth (Betty), 1936. The Great[...]Depression and the long drought of the Thirties made life[...] |
| [...]devote to helping others. Such a man was Ted Krongard[...]Ted and his brother Ed ward were born on a farm near[...]died when Ed was born and their father remarried a few[...]ears later. The father died when Ted was fourteen and for[...]and the younger children. Ted came to Montana in 1915, two years after Ed, and settled on land fourteen and one-half miles southwest of[...]Flaxville, where he and Ed lived and worked together.[...]Ted) had a change of heart and she moved on. Ted and Ed[...]deter on the farm difficult. But there was enough to eat, good him from being interested in his community and in neighbors to visit, an d perhaps best of all , they really[...]trustees of Joy School, and was active in promoting and Bridie died from Brigh t's disease in 1936, t[...]ng the school in the late 1920's. His calm manner and their tenth wedding anniversary. John tried keepi[...]theran Church The children attended Joy School and John worked with where he and Ed were members. a W.P.A. crew. The drouth ended in 1939 and life became a During the drouth/ depre[...]irties little easier. The Wilkinsons left in 1940 and John 's last tie Ted served on the Emergency Fa[...]outh Dakota was gone. made loans to farmers to try to keep them from going James married Jacq uelin e Henderson and settled in under. He was on the first[...]ustment Act, or triple A, a forerunner of Company and later became a r ural mail carrier. They have the present A.S.C.S. The committee held its meetings and eight children, Kathleen, Michael, Gregory, Timot[...]he courtroom of the county Mary, Colleen, Patrick and Robert. courthouse and kept the files in paper boxes. There was not When John moved to Scobey in 1949 E mmett stayed on 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 cooperatives and in the two years, 1951 to 1953, wh en h e served with the United Farmers Union, being active in forming and promoting a States Army in Korea. He married Alene Ferestad . farmer-owned grain elevator, and the Farmers Union Oil Patricia attended Northern Montana College and in Company, both in Flaxville. 1955[...]d for the children , Jon, Kenneth, Carol, Mary Jo and Donald. Pat State Legislature. lives at[...]In 1934 the daughter of a boyhood friend came out to Betty attended Northern Montana College and was Montana with a young couple who were going to help Ted married to Bill Swart in December, 1955. They presently and Ed with the harvest. She was Margaret Krouse and reside in Oilton, Oklahoma and have three boys, Anthony, she liked what she saw, especially Ted. They were married Dale and Phillip. in 1936 and lived on the farm for eight years. Ed continued John purchased a home in Scobey in 1949 and lived there to make his home there. the last twenty-three years[...]ot far from their original homes in for Mon tan a and the rolling fields of Daniels County had M[...]ered it th e b est place on earth later bought and moved to Scobey by the late P.B. Murphy. to live.[...]of T r ustees of Joy School, the Ed moved to North Saint Paul, Minnesota and worked Farmers Union Oil Company at Fla xville, and was active many years for an elevator m[...]affairs and developed a large and successful farm. He is retired and they have a rural home near New Richmond . MR[...]Ted Krongard is an uncommon man, honest and AND E DWARD KRONGARD[...]James Cavanaugh outstanding individuals who seem to have much time to[...] |
| [...]ald Store (later owned by Lockrem) 5. Meat Market and Milk Storage; 6. H.E. Lockrem Cash Store; 7. B&M[...]. Hotel Washington; 9. Billiard Hall; 10. LaRoche and LaFrance (Palace) Saloon (later Mark M. Hansen's[...]2. Kanning Brothers Elevator (before it was moved to RR right-of-way); 13. Sam Montgomery's Madoc Garage and Light Plant; 14. Bonnes and Oie Lumber Co. (later Libby); 15. E.W. Pal[...] |
| [...]f the Emory LaRoche, Chris Wells, Elmer Freye, and Sidney Madoc Bench the early settlers began stak[...]hillips. The livery barn was owned b y C. Aldrich and a on the rich virgin soil. The prairies were wid[...]as south of the Hotel McDonald but it was la ter and that a person would have to be crazy to stay here, but moved to near the Recorder office when Ed Green had the crazy, brave or whatever, they came and they stayed. shop. A Mr. Anderson als[...]l hall. Madoc The first years from about 1909 to 1912 brought the also had a cement jail[...]a town hall , following people: Forbregds, Gabe and Marie Foss, constructed in 1915, which was later moved , and a Justice Morrisons, Hendersons, Gordons, Bouras[...]ed one night in his la w Hunters, Girards, Dunns and Hansons. There were many office when[...]held the kerosene lamp while telling Chris what to say to Before there was any sort of settlement in t[...]or as early as 1912 a strange man came riding up to Grandma RESTAURANTS Lou Morrison's home and informed her that there was going to be a town a short distance from their homestead.[...]4 which was also a office from Orville 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 Hole and her sister, Miss railroad a name for the station had to be chosen, and until Meala. This was located west of the Ho[...]as the Farmers' Cafe was run by Mrs. stories as to how Madoc got its name. This is the one told by[...]pistrant was The town's original application to the Northern from St. Paul and stayed only a short time. Both of the Townsite C[...]e because of hotels served meals, also, and at one time John LaFrance the wide expanse of fl[...]catering service, apparently in the saloon. town to the east had applied for the name of Boyer, the[...]handling of the applications, they became mixed and the towns were given each other's name. The[...]nt 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[...]elson, president; Andrew Fadness, vice Morrison and Ferdinand LaRoche. The Morrisons wanted president; E.H.E. Helgeson, cashier; and several served as the name Murdock and the LaRoches wanted Rocheville, assistant cashiers including B.M. Rude and L.W. Rodgers. since the site was on his homestead. They finally Carl Ross, B.F. Ackley, and C.T. Swenson also served in compromised on Mado[...]til there were, through the years, over Main and First avenue. Its capital stock was about $20,000. forty businesses there, and it was a busy little town until a It went broke in 1923 and the building was purchased by C. few adverse situations arose to set back its progress. Due to Englund for a grocery store. He and his wife furnished . a period of dry years, many homesteaders sold out and music for many dances in the area. The[...]rchased by Jim Sparling of Flaxville who moved it to his broke. In later years when the highway was[...]Madoc which caused a further decline. In the election of 1920, after the new county of Daniels had be[...]received only a third as many votes as Scobey, and this was the fatal blow for a brave[...]The first hotel was built by Duncan McDonald. Ole and with a few residences as well as many vivid memories of a Carrie Sund and Hans and Lena Hole were the landlords in town of the past. 1914 and 1915 respectively. McDonald also built a feed and Following is a brief summary of many ot the[...]by two men named two daughters, Hilda and Elsie, and son Jack came from Grant and Sutton in 1915. A second one opened in 1916 by[...]e hotel went out of business Hector Massart. He and Victor Ferron owned the Royal the buil[...]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[...]29. The other hotel was owned by Arthur Brunelle, and proprietorship of William Conlan, father of Mrs[...]was later moved from the west side of Main street to east until 1920.[...] |
| [...]s with George Green wood as mechanic. Sam Donegan and John Broughton also worked there. Sam had the fir[...]ght shot across the Hub City in spite of the dark and stormy day. it was occasioned by the turning on o[...]reatly improved the appearance of the main street and the Hub City now puts on the glamor which is just[...]publisher and he is standing holding a copy of it. He also[...]sted of a flatbed on a horsedrawn wagon or sleigh and was used to deliver goods from the train to the various business places. Madoc's first dray lines were run by Harley Moyer and Fred LaRoche. Moyer's was later operated by Harry Batterton and LaRoche's by Sid Miller and Joe LaCount. Theophile Primeau also owned a dray[...]LY4th known as T.J.'s Dray and Elmore Rowe worked for him.[...]A champion wrestler from Minneapolis. He sold out to two men from Ada, Minnesota, Hans Flom and W. Christensen, who called the business Madoc Implement and Hardware Company. They had the store from 1916 to 1919 when they sold it to Henry and Mrs. Bloss who ran it until 1927. The building was then sold and moved to[...]t by Redstone Concert Band. Flaxville by Bourassa and Fjeld and their Rumley tractors. 10 :00 a. m.-P[...]rill-By .School Girb. Flag Drill by School Boy■ and[...]Song-America, by Choir and Audience.[...]The two lumber yards were started by E. Palutzke and '1) 100 Yard Foot Race, Men.-Nobod[...]n. Bonnes-Oie. Jerry Madsen ran the Palutzke yard and (2) Potato Race by Girls-Priz[...]& Lall.oc:be. management. The other yard sold out to Libby Lumber Dil~At Pavilion,[...]COD AND MINOU WITH THJ: IDUY MADU the office building unt[...]been in Forbregd bought the business and changed the name to the Alaska during the Klondike gold rush. The fir[...]t on March 4, 1915. Published every to W. Johnson of the Seo bey Sen tinal.[...] |
| POOL HALLS AND SALOONS officially changed to Madoc with George Springer as[...]Hanson (Rowe), Herman Schaeffer, Louise Morrison, and Emil Louzon, LaRoche and LaFrance, Harry Batterton, Patricia Morrison. The postoffice was closed and the date and the Voight brothers in the various stages of thei[...]xistence. Shorty Robbins started the first saloon and the and a half years of existence. second was owned by LaRoche and LaFrance. This was later owned by Mark M. Hanson,[...]owner in Hollywood. He was shot by a taxi dancer and was in serious condition for some time from the[...]college. I spent a year and a half in the general offices in St.[...]e time, the first one Great Northern, sent me to Havre for a physical and being started by E. Renwall in 1913 or 1914. The[...]everal days with the was operated by H.E. Lockrem and the third was originally agent at Flaxville[...]doc depot go by built on the Horace Bourassa farm and moved into Madoc on a flat car. The foundations of concrete posts had been in 1914. They sold it to Hartje and Conlan who in turn sold poured the fall before. The next day I rode the train to it to Herman Schaefer in 1917.[...]from the train to keep me supplied for a few days. The[...]station building was thirty feet long and ten feet wide.[...]OC CHURCHES for me and the balance was used as a waiting and freight[...]Traveling ministers or priests made regular stops to hold the services. Anona Fagan Whipple recalled a Methodist circuit minister who used to go into the bars to talk to the men. It was said that Brother Brown received[...]congregation in 1919. Pastors were Rev. Fritheim and Rev. Kjer. ELEVATORS[...]wn as Winter-Truesdell- |
| [...]to find but one was finally located. Mary Kamrud Lam[...]Buhl, Idaho, who went to Madoc School in the 20's took[...]aken . 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 Minne[...]e was the depot agent after Mr. Middlebrook left, and Elmer Jackson was one of the last to serve in that capacity. The newer station, built in 1917, was moved to Glasgow in 1950. MADOC SC[...]Grey and Kaiser. |
| [...]he, Lowell Hole, Harold Sund, Genevieve Thompson, and Margaret Hanson. Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Bloss. They ran After the formati[...]ie, Big Bench or Hunter, Lauzon or Fjeld, Julian, and Dodds, perhaps others. Later many rural schools closed and students went into Madoc. Madoc had three teachers and three classrooms until 1930, when many people lef[...]rvik) Paus, Alma Shipstead, Elsie Motschenbacher, and Olive Ferestad, and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Burgett, beside those mentioned earli[...]Last of Soles". It appears to be the real thing however Alice[...] |
| [...]by Bessie (Aldrich) Fox Cale Miles Aldrich and his wife, Nellie, and children |
| [...]y - 1972. LaRaye, Dale, Della Rae, Nora , Debbie, and Henry. Taken on Henry and N ora 's year lease. I returned again in 1[...]anni versary. and daughter, Ingeborg. We rented the Emma Crone plac[...]for two years and then in 1927 we built our home on the[...]ipping in the plow furro ws from Gjermund , and Ingrid. the army worms, using Russian th istles as cattle feed and The place where I now live was bought f[...]of from work on the Fort Peck Da m, Saddle Club, to cabinets 56. I remarried in 1956 to Margit Garber fr m Fortuna, and furniture.[...]Our son Dale was born in 1940. In 1941 we moved to stopped farming and now rent my land to my son , John. W< Madoc where I still live. Nora[...]live in Scobey in the winter months but come back to the married La Raye Pfeiffer and has two da ug h ters, Della farm every s[...]a rea. My children are scattered far and wide. ~ngeborg (Mrs.[...]Leonard) Lueck is in Billings and has three children.[...]Gunvor (Mrs. Don) Mahlberg has five children and lived in[...]LY place near Madoc and has a family of ten. Haldis (Mrs .[...]Carroll) Buskirk has three children and lives in by Mike Barstad[...]after having retired from the armed forces and has two I was born in a mountain valley in Tel[...]ldren. Ingrid (Mrs. Wayne) Fugere lives in Scobey and May 26, 1890. I attended school th ere and wor ked on th e has six children. All of m[...]side. Before th ere was d y namite the miners had to set fire on the rocks un til th ey crac ked a nd then the men could use a pick to break up th e rocks . I had many uncles in the St[...]decided JOHN V. BARSTAD- t o g o to orth Dakota. The boat trip across th e Atlan tic[...]D too k abo ut ten days. The next fall I returned to Norway wh ere I worked as a lumberjack for my fat[...]John Vislie Barstad, eldest son of Mikkel and Ingeborg work but I thought it was fun at the time . I returned to the Barstad,· was born and raised on the -Madoc Bench. He Sta tes in 1912 as[...]om esteads in attended the Madoc School and Scobey High School. John Montana and it had been luring me ever since. In Mar ch and Beverly Jean Pierce of Plentywood were married in 191 ;3 I came from Wisconsin to Plentywood the day before 1948. To this couple were born ten children: Mikkel , Carol the election dividing Sheridan and Valley Counties a n d (Mrs . Terry Edwar[...]Plentywood a r ea, m y fi rst Paul, Mary, Dale and Daniel , who are twins, Mark , job being digging rocks. In 1914-15 I worked for Ed and Matthew and Julia. They raised their family in the Madoc Fred[...]th e area while living on the Templeman place and later the relinquishment of my cousin 's land nea[...]rassa farm. The older children attended the Madoc and farmed for seven years until 1922 when I returned to g rade school and Flaxville schools and the younger orway after having an excellent cr[...]chools. While in orway I married Ingeborg Arneson and we J ohn continues to farm in the Madoc area as well a s returned in 19[...]the construction business. He has been returning to buy a farm in Norwa y. H owever I could n ot[...]on the Madoc get the price I wanted so I returned to Norway once again School Board and the Scobey High School Board and has after having rented rriy land to Hilmar Wahl on a three ser ved i[...] |
| in oil painting, woodworking and making signs for local not of draft age[...]Services age. He thought a moment and replied, "If you can find a Agency, is secretary[...]ging Council, Sheridan County homesteader to whom Barton told his is a member of the Daniels M[...]pital Guild, a age when he first came to Montana, I'll accept the charter member of the Ma[...]tion Club homesteader's affidavit." and is a member of Flaxville Lutheran Church where sh[...]make such an affidavit. One was prepared, signed, and presented to the chairman of the Sheridan County Draft[...]Board at Plentywood and Barton was exempted from the[...]draft. He was 28 years old when he first came to Montana BILLIE BARTON[...]the local barrister the candle burned low. And Billie Barton worked for Pete Voight. He was truly quite a character and was heard to say, "Ya can't beat fun." was always doing someth[...]e almost put him in the army. SQUADS EAST AND WEST-ALMOST![...]ary (Batterton) Weeks |
| [...]Dunk McDonald's Feed and Livery[...]Harry and the two men to the right are[...]away November 7, 1914 and was buried on a small hill east[...]I also remember that Grandma and I spent one summer[...]fastened to the ground with heavy cable. Still the shack[...]our tubs and dishpans that had been blown away by the[...]wind. We would also gather up "chips" in a child's wagon six, taken in 1914. to use for·fuel to cook with. We were soon back in Orville[...]and a half years before she passed away at the ripe o[...]aken care ofby Mrs. Mary Lockrem, an old overland to Butte, lived there for one year. Then they friend and old timer of Orville. Grandma died May 26, 1934 moved to New Mexico and back to Missouri where they and was buried at the old Orville church yard. Ii ved[...]. Then they moved Dad al ways had a keen interest in anything going on in north again to Canada and North Dakota. In the town. He was town marshal for several years, served on meantime Dad had gone to Medicine Lake, Montana and the school board, was school janitor, and deputy sheriff. I married and was living out on the prairies in a tarpaper stil[...]heinnerdoorofthe shack. Grandpa had heart trouble and could no longer Madoc jail. Dad owned the first restaurant in Madoc, ran a work so they loaded up and joined Dad in Montana. . livery stable[...]es his farming interests. He bought a an accident and the other went his own way, and one sister, farm about three miles north of Madoc where he planted who died at birth. Dad went to Medicine Lake in 1906 and trees, built a small house and fixed a nice home there. He married Minnie A. Allen and I, Mary, was born there. My was also president of[...]in Flaxville. Dad grandparents joined us in 1910 and then in 1912 Mother was a "champ" caller for the[...]her held around the country side in farmers barns and we used was very unhappy in Montana so we all moved to Flint, to dance all night. He was judge of elections for 49[...]an 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 damp, snowy winters there and in but he passed away on September 17, 1964, just a couple 1913 he left for Montana and came to Orville. In the spring months short of his[...] |
| [...]rs Harry was well known for his brand of and Frank. The older children attended school in the old humor, his keen interest in politics (He was a Democrat!), Lauzon school near Fjelds' and also in the Hunter school and the variety of accidents he had with farm impleme[...]Hendersons. Some of them attended Ma doc school. and automobiles. One time he got caught in a power ta[...]u died in 1928 at the age of 44 from injuries off and lost nearly all of his clothing escaping to avoid obtained when he was hit by an automobile while riding a personal disaster and was able to laugh about it shortly horse on the old ro[...]onsine married Charles Jacoby in 1929. They lived and has four daughters. around the Madoc area and were living in Madoc at the[...]Vanderberg of Peerless and now lives in Missoula. Eva[...]Kipper lives in Colstrip and Elamir Baker in Washington. by Gene and Dominic Bonneau Frank is married and lives in Libby. Regina married[...]Leonard Vanderberg and lives in Four Buttes. Alex and Emily Bonneau came to the Madoc area in Emily Bonneau's b[...]om the Turtle Mountains in North Eugene and Roger. After his wife died in Malta he brought Da[...]n a tent until that fall when their the boys up to Madoc to stay with the Bonneaus. The boys homestead shack[...]attended school in Madoc. Gene died in 1969 and Roger and only broke a little land the first year. Later some one was his wife, Lorraine, live in Scobey. hired to finish the remainder of the breaking. The first y[...]freighting ties by wagon from Plentywood westward to Scobey while the railroad was being built. The ne[...], Pete Voight, Girards, Forbregds, MR. AND MRS. HORACE BOURASSA, SR. and Lauzons. There were four children born before coming to Montana: Alphonsine, Eugene, Fred and Dominic. Five by Horace[...]Dad, Mary, Anna and I, Horace J. Bourassa, first came to Plentywood about March 20, 1912, Dad having shipp[...]with breaking plows and oil tank on wagon, shipping out four horses and one cow. Also blacksmith tools, trip hammer and small protable engine, etc. in an emigration[...]to build two cars on, one cook and bedroom car, and one[...]my older brother, had come out to Whitetail in 1910 along[...]with Regina, my older sister, and August Bureau, her husband; also Gaston and Herman Bureau, August Bureau's brothers. Je and Herman met us at Plentywood.[...]the plows, oil tank and the cow. My job was following the[...]enough and would lie down and the Rumely didn't have[...]for the wishes of the cow; it kept right on Roger and Lorraine Jerome, Patrick Jerome and Emily dragging the cow till I'd run ahead and flag down the Bonneau in 1948. tractor operator-(Dad) and we'd go back and raise the cow to her feet again. ·[...]operator in Scobey) was homesteading, to arrive at August[...]After it cleared up we proceeded to break soil, first 100[...]acres on Joe's land which Dad put into flax, and then[...]last of June; then Dad took Mary, Anna, and me back to St.[...]Mountains and north of Rolla, North Dakota. All nine of us[...]Madoc now stands. After taking us back to St. John, Dad[...] |
| [...]came back to Whitetail with Mother, Blanche and Irene. He[...]lso shipped out a Case 36-inch Threshing machine, and they moved the plow outfit to the rented allotments and 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[...]threshing was over Dad, Mother, Blanche and Irene came back to St. John for the winter 1912-1913. Horace Bourassa, Sr. and Delia (Lemieux)Bourassa. (Dad Top left: F.X. Alfred Bourassa - Father of Horace |
| [...]John for many years. Later he switched Truesdale and St. Antony Elevators were put up in the fall to harness and machinery. His right arm finally troubled and winter (1913-1914). Dad put up a small store out[...]mithing. The poor crops 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 living quarters after building a larger store in front. This Plentywood. was originally for Mary and J.B. but neither of them liked The Turtle Mountain country is two to three hundred feet it very well and Dad sold it later on to Conlins who sold it higher than the surrounding plains and are all covered to Schaeffers a little later yet. But in the winter[...]15 we lived in Madoc. Most of us, Blanche, Irene, and I crabapple, raspberry, chokecherry, strawberries, etc. After went to school that winter; Pat Murphy's sister, Irene, w[...]looked rather bare, but we finally adjusted to it with time. The spring of 1915 was cold and almost all summer. After Regarding brothers and sisters: getting the crop in, on the Fourth of Ju[...]e children in our family. The oldest child a one and only celebration, baseball, rodeo and dance. girl, Pamela, had married at St. John to Philias Lebeau, People were wearing heavy coats and at times snowflakes and stayed on there. She passed a way about fourteen[...]around, but that was our best crop ever. Dad ago, and after her husband. Joseph, the next child, has built a small home on the farm and after Dad sold the store married at Whitetail to Ida McArthur. He passed away a we lived on the f[...]f age. Regina is still living in a extremely cold and a lot of snow. The Great Northern home at Spokane, Washington and was married to August passenger train was stalled in a snowbank on Mike Bureau. Mary, who was married to Fred LaRoche, formerly Barstad's farm for three days until the snowplow and of Madoc, passed away in the mid 1930's. Fred passed shovel crew came up and got them out. J.B. and I walked to away in July, 1974. John Baptist (J.B.) died in 1959. Anna Madoc one day rather than hitch up the horses and were is in Scobey in the nursing home; she broke[...]old it was (which we didn't); it was of years ago and is unable to walk. She was married to Wm. 52° below zero.[...]way many years ago. Irene, who was 1916-1917. And so the year 1916 set in: another poor crop married to Jack Bradley, is still living in Chicago. She was[...]d partly for bemg Chicago, one south of Flaxville and one at Havre, on the farm, partly medical; herni[...]Irene, was until August 1917 at 18 years of age, and those registered married to James Nunn. She still lives in Tacoma, then never got to go. Wash[...]t mentioned the girls too much, they was scarce; and the flu came on. We all had our own turns also he[...]except my sister Blanche, who helped 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[...]each end of the house. We were told married. Mary and Anna in 1915, Blanche and 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 outfit until the girls were gone, then staying condition that 'inade him decide to sell, lock, stock and in the house doing the cooking until J.B. married 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 commercially from then on until usually[...]arded 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 with all the family. years, and afterwards stayed with J.B. until they passed The last and perhaps the least of the children, the old away.[...]never married. I always answer that nobody work and no play, but that wasn't the case altogether. We ever wanted me. enjoyed dances and visits between different families. Both I l[...]lle, after many years of staying in the old J.B. and I played pool, and I played baseball and town hotel, I bought the house built by Jake Loma[...]ateur wrestling from 1914 on into the 1940's, six and passing the time reading, batching, playing my m[...]hardware store in but can't expect the good Lord to allow me too many more Madoc. He was a pro wrestler (Charles Curtis's brother). years. I hope when I get to the pearly gates, He will have Two of Dad's brothers had moved to Radville, told St. Peter to let this poor, simple minded country boy to Saskachewan before we left St. John, and one moved to enter, that I'd tried to play the game the best I knew how. Lafleche, Sask[...]1915 on The preceding article was meant to cover the years Dominion Day, July first (we had gone up a few days between and including 1912 to 1929 only. before), Lafleche celebrated with harness races, baseball, and rodeo. My dad's brother A.N. Bourassa had seven b[...]. I satin the bandstand with my cousins listening to the band and I Notes concerning the coming of the first Bourassa to got the musical bug from that. Later I started pl[...]wife on of Poitou, France, signed his engagement and he embarked[...] |
| [...]ce. He married at Quebec the 20th of October 1665 to Pereta Valley. He was 35 years old. In 1676, he c[...]orth American Continent. Another Bourassa came to Canada; Francois, who also originated from Poitou, France. He married at Fort St. Louis, at Chanbly 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 o[...]Left to right, back row: Luella, Eileen, Delia, Aurora, L[...]J.B., and Jean. Front: Omer and Annette. J.B. Bourassa[...]Agriculture. He loved working and helping the farmers, the Aurora Lauzon and John Baptist Bourassa were united laborers and other wage earners. He fought and sometimes in marriage on April 3, 1921. They bega[...]r won confrontations with large corporations and on a farm four miles north west of Flaxville.[...]re no hospitals, so all of the children respect and confidence of the people he represented. were bor[...]Lyle, Louella, Delia, Jean, Eilleen, J.B. and Aurora both loved to fish and hunt deer. They Omer and Annette. had established their home in Helena and had built a cabin Difficult times lay ahead and everyone helped in doing at Canyon Ferry[...]along with members of the family as they came and left for preparing for the coming of the long col[...]died of a massive heart he was called, would have to haul wheat to the mills in attack on November 8, 1959 while hunting deer with Plentywood for flour and other staples needed. There was a Aurora.[...]t with him as the car was stuck very large garden and canning was a slow process but that in snow and mud. The weather was cold and somehow, she is what everyone had to do. managed to get him into the car and to cover him up. The Then there was the drought, s[...]out next morning she walked eleven miles to the nearest phone everything. Registered cattle were sold for $20 .00 a head as and called Lyle who was then working for the telephone there was no feed. Hay had to be bought and shipped in to company and gave him the sad news. It was a great shock keep[...]livestock fed. to all but a blessing in disguise as he was an energetic In 1933, J.B. was elected County Commissioner and person and had to be doing something all of the time. Had remained[...]e would have been a very There were many problems to cope with. The Works difficult person to care for. Progress Administration was instituted[...]ime As the years passed, the children and their families (known as WPA) in order to help the people through those moved abou[...]so quite prominent in the disabled due to war injuries. Louella died at age 21 in 1942. Far[...]State Representative California and Brookings, Oregon, her husband is representing Daniels County. He worked hard and long disabled due to an auto accident. Jean is now working-at during this session with one objective in mind-to work on the Air Force Base at Glasgow, Mo[...]een 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 for[...]restaurant and golf course. Annette (Mitchke) lives in In 1945 and again in 1947 he was elected and served as Aurora, Colorado where her hus[...]iles accident. She has been very happy and they have City. That is when they moved from thef[...]spend the on share crop basis. In 1950 they moved to Helena, winters at Palm Springs and the summers at the cabin on Montana where he beca[...]worked as a Lobbyist at the State Capitol in the interest of Montana[...] |
| [...]by Larry Wahl I was born in 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bourassa. When I There were sever[...]tle English, but in time came from North Dakota and settled in the Madoc- |
| [...]15 years. They now live at Great Falls. Ada and Merrill 1888 and moved to Bein Fait, Saskatchewan as a little girl.[...], both graduated from C.M. Russell High Agnes and Curtis returned to Scobey in the spring of School. Curtis is with the Coast Guard at Boston, and Jim 1912 where they remained for many happy but[...]works in Great Falls. years. Curtis had to go to Glasgow to file his intent for On January 14, 1[...]eantime Sheridan County was Point to Louis Smith, a piano tuner. She travelled with him formed, andand Curtis had to haul their grain (mainly flax and wheat) to Culbertson for sale. Rather than to return empty they hauled freight back to Old Scobey, all with a team and wagon. Agnes and Mrs. Cliff Jones kept the neighborhood DANIEL AND OLIVE CAMERON bachelors supplied with bread.[...]experiences. She told of Daniel and Olive and their two children, Iris and Lyle, trespassers shooting prairie chickens off the roof of their came from Minnesota to Madoc, Montana in the middle house. Otto Ristow and a buddy used to stop regularly to 20's and settled on a farm there. Like everyone else durin[...]of questionable reputation, the 20's and dirty 30's, they went through hard, trying but w[...]ance grow, the stock they could raise, and what other necessities of horses. Agnes was "scared to death" but fed them they could buy. Eight more children were born to them without question.[...]the farm: Verle~ Richard; Helen; Sadie Curtis and Agnes Bush had three children: Carmon, Mae; Lois; Darlene; Ewart (Scotty); and Betty. Verle Alma, and Ada. Carmon was born at the "old homestead." passed away in 1935, and Richard died the next year. Years later one of his children was to ask, "Grandma, was Although times were hard, especially for our parents, that the hospital then?" Mrs. Ad Yuill was in a[...]we'll call our farm years, we children loved it. and Carmon was named for her brother, Carmon James.[...]hills, the times we would take our father's lunch to him in 1918. The Garfield Wilson home was set up[...]lds, running like blazes over any bridges we came to hospital so that Dr. Tucker could care for all t[...]ause we just knew there were monsters under them, and one time. At the time of Alma's death Carmon and Agnes sliding down the hills on our[...]When those of the children that went to school in Madoc late 20's, because of ill health, Curtis took his family and were old enough, there were rides to school in the "bus" spent nearly three years in Texas, Alabama, and Florida pulled by horses. 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 Rochester, Minnesota in 1938. and hauled, fighting and screaming, to the bus. Carmon started as an independent decorator in 1933, and still is in business as owner of Bush Decorating[...]sed the Polly-Cook-It Cafe from Daniel and Olive Cameron with their youngest daughter, Dora[...]oe 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 eligible to tea.:::h, but if she were married after the schoo[...]The current superintendent, Jake Danielson, came to Gertrude about a week before her marriage to ask her to wait until September to get married, but she refused. She did however tea[...]till live. Carmon was Justice of Peace from 1947 to 1975, and he has been Fire Chief since 1960. Carmon and Gertrude have three children. Vaughn, now Mrs. Bob Dann, is a graduate of Hamline University and is presently Executive Director of the North Sho[...]vanston, Illinois. Harvey was graduated from MSU and is County Executive Director of the ASC Service of Wheatland and Meagher Counties and lives in Harlowton, Montana. Roger is a senior a[...]five years at Los Alamos, New Mexico, then moved to a G.I. homestead at Riverton, Wyoming for[...] |
| [...]ings 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 doll when she[...]middle of winter because Jerry Barstad dared her to; seeing Alvin Ellingson getting his head cut open by a baseball bat; and wanting to kill Bill Henderson when he stepped on some baby[...]f the girls had found. Daniel moved the family to Scobey in the summer of 1940, when Betty was les[...]n the greenhouse work he had started on the farm and which he ran until about eight years before his death. Besides running the greenhouse during the summer and working part time for Walt Vanderpan in the lumb[...]Life was a little easier for Olive after moving to Scobey. At least she didn't have to watch Daniel kick the old car because it wouldn't start every time they went shopping- she could walk to the store. Also, she could go out in her own yard and pick chokecherries, thanks to a tree Scotty and Betty planted by throwing seeds into a hole. Otherwise, it was still touch and go for several years; almost losing Scotty sever[...]n he had double pneumonia, coming terribly close to.losing Betty who had black diphtheria when she was two, and watching· Lois turn yellow with a bad case of jaundice. Lyle served in the Army during·World War II, and Scotty was in the Army from 1959 to 1961. Olive Cameron passed away in 1966, and Daniel in 1971. The Cameron family remaining are: Iris (Mrs. Geo Maurice and Agnes Constant in about 1910. Murphy) of Marysvi[...]essler of Ollala, Washin gton, Scotty of Scobey, and Betty (Mrs; Joe) Loehr of Scobey.[...]I came to Montana in 1918 with my five year old son,[...]Ivan. In 1920 I began to keep house for O.E. Dunn who was[...]and his wife, Ada, and the two oldest girls had come to by Margaret Chabot ·[...]Dunn was a painter and paper h anger by trade, and also Maurice Constant was born in Belguim in 1892 of farmed . parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Constant. He had one W[...]d in 1922. Our children attended Madoc brother and a _sister. When he w_as just a teenager the school where I taught in the early t wenties and again in the · ·family came to Forget, Saskatchewan. Maurice's parents late forties. We left the farm in 1943 a nd moved into Scobey homesteaded and farmed there for several y ears. where Mr. Dunn died in 1945. All of his girls married and Following a cyclone and hailstorm which destroyed their had families . A daughter, Mary died in 1968 and Myrtle in home and ruined the crops, the whole family. decided to 1970. Pearl lives in Dayton, Ohio and Larina in Lead, come to Montana. Maurice married Agnes Ebert shortly[...]live with my son who married Dorothy Morrison, and homesteaded ten miles northeast of Scobey. There[...]the Ferd Morrisons· of the Silver Star farmed and mined coal. Maurice's homestead is now[...]ghe, a nephew. The Constants had four girls and one boy. The boy died in 1973. The girls are V[...]egelman) of Reno, Nevada . When the girls went to high school the Constant family moved into[...]· In 1938 Maurice and his family moved to Reno, Nevada Gustav and Esther Elgestad came from Norway in 1914. wher[...]th Maurice They mad~ stops in Minneapolis and South Dakota where a nd his wife died in Reno; Agnes in 1956 and Maurice in Esther had relatives, later coming to N orth Dakota where · 1964.[...] |
| Dooley, Montana and came to Plentywood and on to Harold Skerrit now lives. In the fall of 1934 they moved to Scobey where they worked for Hans Olson the winte[...]obey. Madoc. They later bought the place and other acreage They homesteaded northeast of Scobe[...]Neighbors nearby. were Ernie Hendersons and Herman Forbregd. A trip by Albert 0. Ellingson was born in Olmstead County, wagon to Scobey was made to bring out all the lumber and Minnesota and moved with his parents to McLean County supplies needed to build their homestead shack. Two sons in[...]hey homesteaded. He received his were born, Oscar and Carl. Oscar died as a child of two educ[...]U.S. years from pneumonia. The family later lived and worked Army and served in the Motor Transport Repair Unit on the Mikkel Barstad farm. Another move was made to Number 315. He was a charter member[...]American Legion at Turtle Lake in 1919 and has been a and worked for several years. Signe and Klara were born continuous member for 5[...]He married Mattie Sorben in 1922. His wife came to bought in 1924. In 1926 they purchased a farm one and a McLean County with her parents in 1906. She received her half miles south of Mad[...]ermanent home. The two youngest children, Alfhild and years near Turtle Lake and Ella and Myrtle were born Ellen, were born at this home. O[...]neighbor ladies or a mid-wife. machinery, and Ii vestock in two emigrant cars to the end of The nearest church was Orville, southw[...]the Northern Pacific railroad at Lindsay, Montana and which took a long time to get to with horses. trucked their possessions to their farm northeast of Circle. Gustav passed away in 1953. His wife continued to live Their son, Alvin, who is married and lives in St. Paul, on the farm, saying it was the best place to live. She sold the Minnesota, was born there. Daughter, Mildred, was born farm to Barney Jacobson in the late 60's. Esther passed in Scobey, and is married and lives in Pocatello, Idaho. Her away in 1971, still able to recall clearly all the incidents husband, Al[...]d days", many of which were is married to Kenneth J. Larson and they live in Scobey. filled with hard work and heart break along with the good Myrtle married Robert L. Nelson and they live in times.[...]Albert and Mattie Ellingson ALBERT ELLINGSON FAM[...]SNORRE ERIKSEN In 1911 John Fagan came to Daniels County to file on a[...]by horse and buggy. The whole family moved out the[...]following year by immigrant car to Medicine Lake and |
| [...]Two of Hubert E. Field's sons, Clinton and Stephen. The[...]Bourassa. John and Mattie Fagan - 1916 the way up to Madoc and the kids were under a tarp on the |
| ROY AND MARY FIELD That summer my father and brother worked for the[...]Highway Department near the Oregon coast and we lived by Marion E. Field Ro[...]In 1930 we moved to Bellingham, Washington where my Roy Field was born in Kasota, Minnesota Ma·y 28, 1885. brother and I attended school at Whatcam High. After Mary[...]in St. Paul, Minnesota -Albert graduated, he went to work in the 3 C's camp where September 24, 1884. Both of their families moved to he learned his trade of Heavy Machinery Operator.[...]e went into Civil Service with the Army Engineers and in and later married. They were married in early 1912. Their 1937 he returned to Montana where he worked on the Fort honeymoon was moving with horse and wagon with all Peck dam. The same year Eunice Rae Taylor of Sedro- their possessions to a homestead five miles north of Madoc, Woolley, W[...]at that time as everything had In 1936 I moved to Vallejo, California where I worked to be built and fences put up. They had 160 acres on which until 1938. I then returned to Montana as my brother had they raised wheat.[...]become.ill. We lived in Glasgow and I worked in a cafe there Two other couples mo[...]me time. for six months. While there we were able to see some of our They had all been friends in No[...]us Gibbs family had a homestead n orth from us and the and some of the Gibbs. My brother, his wife and I returned Herman Schaefer family had the only store in Madoc. to Oregon the following year. My brother worked there in In August 1913 Roy and Mary traveled to Williston Oregon on different projects for the Ar[...]as born. They traveled by . In 1939 I returned to Vallejo to work, where in 1940 I met horse and wagon to Plentywood as that was the nearest William Rogers and in July 1941 we were married. railroad. In April 1915 they returned to Williston again My brother Albert's only c[...]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 Betty remained in[...]ber shocking wheat when the shocks were in Dallas and later moved to Eugene, Oregon where Eunice taller than me. We[...]ng ·She married a school mate, Dennis Buffington and they •ipotaotes, to spend at the carnival that came to Scobey reside in Corvallis, Oregon with their two[...]Thresa and Krista. . The social life there was very limited. Picnics in the In 1942, I went to work under Civil Service at the Naval summer on[...]. I worked At Christmas always a Christmas tree and party at the there until 1946 when my husband and I moved to Reno, school.[...]Nevada where I still reside. My brother and I both went to the Gibbs school My father Roy, lived in Bellingham, Washington after northwest from us and later went t.o school in Madoc. In the my brother and I moved away. He worked in the city hall as spring and early fall we drove a two wheel cart and horse, a draftsman- and spent a few summers in Alaska during then in th[...]tsman at the Talbert Shipyard in Bellingham. He parents could not get to school. I can remember going to passed away there at the age of 83 in July 1968. school when it was 40 to 50 degrees below ze-ro. Our teacher When my husband and I' moved to Reno, he was a shift - thawed us .out in the morning and my mother did it when supervisor in the Palace Club. I eventually went to work as we got home after school. They had a tub of snow to put on a dealer in the Clubs. In October 1961 my husband passed our hands, feet, nose and ears, as they were froze twice a away in Reno from cancer. I remained in Reno and worked day.[...]not easy. Everything I lost all vision in one eye and have only partial in the was done by manual labor, although friends and other. neighbors helped each othe[...]It is only fitting I end this with my last visit to Montana helped harvest, which ever fields were r[...]ere visiting my old friend After harvest time and when the wheat was sold, we all Caroline Fjeld Davis. While there I saw another girlhood looked forward to making out our grocery order that was chum Sylvia[...]rom Minneapolis, where my father's brother Paul - to the west of us on the farm. I also visited with M[...], rice, beans, Morrison in Madoc, Mrs. Carl Fjeld and Hazel and Eli five gallon cans of honey, chocolate, cocoanut and other LaRoche. Sorry I didn't see more but every minute I was things we needed to last the year. My mother al ways there I was busy. · managed to make it last. We butchered a ste~r every fall and canned everything we could out of the garden. The Harry Gibbs family moved to Scobey where he worked at the Court House. About the same time my father also worked there a s draftsman and surveyor. CARL AND EMMA FJELD Due to the harsh win ters the doctor ad vised my father[...]Anderson of Williston, December 2, 1887. She went to school and grew up in North Dakota, we all moved to Salem, Oregon, where most Roseau County, Minnesot[...]year in · wood, Iowa, February 12, 1881. He went to school and grew March 1929, my mother passed away.[...] |
| [...]. The first part of March 1910, Carl struck out to Montana to look for a homestead. He went to Baker and Terry, Montana but he did not like it there. It was too hot and dry, so he came home and in the mean time we had a letter from his school[...]but was then in Culbertson, Montana. He wanted us to come there and he would locate some land for us and him- self. So without even going out there to see how it was, Carl ordered a railroad car and loaded up everything we had which was not much, except one team of horses and a one year colt, and one team of oxen. Two cows, two calves, a few chickens, and a cat. As Carl was loading the carload and was ready to leave, Tom, Carl's brother brought a young cow wi[...]aught down the line maybe Williston, North Dakota and on April ninth, George. and I said good-bye to our friends and relations. We got on the train at Fox railroad station and heading for Montana too. When I got to Williston Carl was still there; about30-40 carloa[...]nts were held up there for a three day snow storm and cattle inspection. Carl had to leave that fifteen dollar cow and calf which was only a trick on all the immigrants. Chickens and clothing were missing from all immigrant cars. On April tenth I came to Culbertson and in a couple of days Carl got there and unloaded all our stuff. Horses and cattle were tied up in a sod stable, close to where we all stayed with Mr. and Mr. Albert Jallo, a couple of blocks from Culbert[...]ays, the men folk loaded up the wagon with lumber and windows and Mrs. Carl Fjeld ~ Scobey doors from home, and left to look for a homestead for us all. Mrs. J allo and I stayed back in Culbertson to take care of the cattle the best we could. They went up main street and everywhere, but no one complained. But we were scared. In a few days the men folks came back and told us they found some real nice land and they built our shack, 12x14, slanted Carl Fjeld roof, and a sod shack for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jallo. Albert did not have lumber, but Carl had one door and one window for J allos sod shack, too.[...]As they came back they got acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Severson from south of Flaxville; they borrowed a wagon from him to bring all our stuff from Culbertson and on this trip back to Culbertson a little colt was born. We sent to Sears and Roebuck for a cook stove, as soon as we got lined up with groceries and everything we needed - out on the wild, wide prairie. Then the day came when we were all ready to hitch up the teams, all set to leave. And here, one ox was gone and he was'no where to be found. So Carl, George, and Carl's brother walked all over the prairie for three days; Laura and I were into every building even in- to the Livery barns where we thought he would be. But no trace of the ox and we had to get out to our claim because one of the men, Mr. Gjarde stay[...]the shacks until we got there. Well, Carl decided to hitch the milk cow and the ox to the other wagon. The cow did not like it any more than we did. It was no load for her but just to hold up the wagon poles. It was bad up and down those steep '. Culbertson hills. We camped o[...]it-nice weather all the time. But were we tickled to get to our shacks and unload and set up housekeeping and plenty of green grass for the horses and cattle, but the poor ~ow could not walk for two weeks, she was too stiff; we had to carry water and fee to her, but we didn't mind! The hvrses had to be hobbled. They wanted to[...] |
| [...]out with us and to hold down the claim. When Carl came,[...]of the livery barns which we overlooked and didn't inquire[...]at that time. We came out too late to put in any crop, but Carl and I put up many tons of hay and since Laura was[...]little colt got cut by the hay mower and we lost her. In the fall, Carl went to Froid or Homestead in threshing time to make money for groceries. When Carl came home[...]and the next thing we found out was that half of the[...]we built on was Indian land. Carl offered to pay the Indian[...]a bluff to scare the homesteaders. Only thing we could do[...]was to move two miles east to Coulee land. Winter was soon[...]coming on. First thing was to dig a well. We got good water[...]down 25 feet. Then we moved our shack and everything and all the hay had to be hauled again and Carl and I made a big sod stable (barn) and fixed up our house for the[...]winter. All the lignite coal we needed, Carl dug and hauled[...]Only thing was, we didn't hear from our friends and[...]It was six miles to Whitetail, no neighbors except[...]Lauzons, four or five miles to the west. Mr. and Mrs. A. Jallo went to Plentywood to work that winter. They came[...]flax crop on that new breaking and that Fall we added on to our 8x14 shack to 8x24. We hauled water from the coulee Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fjeld and family taken 1917. 1/4 of a mile[...]born. In early summer of 1914, we decided to move closer to the main road. First thing was to dig a well all by hand-got[...]solid rock, had to use dynamite. That well never goes dry.[...]Next thing we built a big barn and moved our house. In[...]went to Roseau for a carload of cows and fence posts. Then my dad came along and he wanted to sneak a ride free in[...]stock yard police found him. Dad had to pay his ticket from Fox station to Madoc. Dad staved all summer.[...]There was no place like Montana to us, but it was lots of[...]One morning we looked out and saw our horses had run[...]away. My husband started out one direction and I the other. I walked a long way and came upon an Indian camp[...]and offered me a horse to ride. I was glad to take up their offer and I asked them how I would get the horse back to them. They told me they were going to Scobey the next day and would pick up the horse on the way. I rode on and ran into a shepherd's shack and they offered me dinner. I declined and rode home to find Carl had found the horses in a coulee and he was home.[...]the evening of January 10, 1911 a young man came to Carl Fjeld, Bozeman - 1943 our sod barn and took our horse, Polly, but he left a note in[...]the barn window and the key to his shack and he said in the note not to make any alarm and how could we, we had only[...]his letter that we 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 c[...]we could make it before somebody else would move to do. I raked snow with the garden rake, but before the day in and that meant we would get close to where we were the was over the snow had melted away. It was nice and warm first time-only a mile away. Nice flat land and 50 acres and on July fourth, Carl went to Culbertson to get the rest already broken on it. So the next morning January 11, Carl of our stuff-some oak and cedar fence posts that he went[...] |
| [...]ow morning we will drive over there with the oxen and fix up that sod stable that had been started ther[...]g man. So we took along some food, water, bedding and baby George and the cat, and some wood and a ker;sene lamp~ Carl and I worked all day on that stable, with pails and some old hay laying around there. There was a small laundry stove in the shack so it was nice and warm so George and the cat slept nearly all day. So Carl went back to our shack three miles or more. George and I stayed all alone till next morning or forenoon then Carl came with the cows and calves and colt and chickens. The snow drifts were so solid the team and cows never broke through at all. Was I ever scared to sleep in that strange shack all alone, the baby and cat and !!-miles from everybody! Coyotes howling all arou[...]g man had rode all that night until early morning to south of old Scobey. Then he turned Polly loose and he waited for the mail stage or bus and got a ride down the main line and has never been heard of ever since. A Gilbert Forbregd and Carl Kveseth month later we heard that the horse had drifted back to Cuskers Ranch and Carl went to get her back and a month later she had a colt; were we ever happy to get our horse back! 1885 and they lived on a farm. They became the parents of In 1916, Caroline was born and the next summer July, six children, one son and five daughters. His wife died in 1917, we all took a trip to Fox, Minnesota. My first vacation 1906. In 1912 he traveled by train to Scobey, where he since we left in 1910. In the sp[...]t when we came home from our trip it had been dry and no rain, so no crop. One year we were hailed out-[...]1918, Carl Jr. (Stub) was born. George was going to school at the Lauzon school-one and a half miles away. That fall Carl moved the schoo[...]GILBERT FORBREGD with the Rumley tractor, one and a fourth miles closer to our place. Clarence started school that fall, 1918. Nine or Gilbert Forbregd, son of Anton Lauris and Jonetta ten pupils were attending school, Miss Emma Crone was Forbr~gd, was born and raised in South Dakota. He was the teacher then Helen Beck, Flossie Twigg and Jessie born in April 19, 1889 and lived around Dell Rapids, South Field-Roy Field's[...]on March 10, 1917. They traveled by train to Scobey, In 1922 or 23, October 9, our big barn[...]steaded. Their oldest fall we moved our big house and a small barn from a place child, Myrtle, was born in Montana on June 5, 1918. After we had bought, to our home place. In the barn that burned lea[...]ll, three hundred chickens, lots of Minnesota and South Dakota, and settled in California in turkeys and ducks and geese, plus the barn was full of hay. 1943. G[...]tes Government We moved our small homestead house to Madoc, where all during World War II and then for a steel company until his the children went to school. George started high school in retire[...]1958 where his Scobey. The fall of 1928, we moved to Scobey and Clarence widow Clara still resides. Their d[...]rtle Flesner started high school. Larry, Caroline and Carl (Stub) still resides in Minnesota[...]son, James. graduated from Scobey High. Stub went to college in Two other daughters Evelyn Eikeland, Doris Totten and Bozeman.[...]r youngest son, Donald live in California. Stub and family live in Bozeman, they have three boys. M[...]yn Forbregd Eikeland I have eight grandchildren and nine great- grandchildren. George, our oldest s[...]Herman Forbregd came by train to Culbertson from ANTONLAURISFORBREGD[...]evert homesteading here. It was great land and beautiful Peder Forbregd was a sea captain on a f[...]rway. His at that time-(1) alkali water, and (2) rattlesnakes. Harold Mother, Anne Margrita He[...]. They emmigrated time of his life. Herman and his brother, Sigurd, W P·, , to the United States in 1883, and settled in Baltic, South shipping out of Culbertson, when they were asked to haul a Dakota on a farm. Anton married Jonetta Gunderson in safe to a small community established north of Cul[...] |
| [...]and a badger were being dictated by a run ·away bron[...]Dakota, and in Baker, Montana. These dances were well[...]attended by local cowboys, traveling by horse and buggy. Later, Selma and her sister, Clara, moved to Scobey, where[...]Shirley remembers her mother telling her that she and[...]children, but due to non-medical tactics, the twins, Mary and Joseph, and a sister, Helen died. The other three[...]children still stick close to their first home with Shirley, the[...]lives in Chinook and Harold in Culbertson, has four[...]"Both Dad and Ma worked side by side, mostly outside,[...]went by that Selma and Herman didn't put in rows and[...]farm and city folks, with freshly picked and cut vegetables.[...]The bushels of cucumbers went on and on. Selma loved s weetpeas, and every year she planted her flower beds with[...]r ows of sweetpeas that bloomed to their fullest. Every[...]weekend she carried bouquets of sweetpeas to the.hospital;[...]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, Monta[...]this product once made this statement "It's fun to serve at a They found that they could not unload it. So, they offered to social party, because it's so mild to drink and tasty, even buy a keg of beer if the men standing around would help the most sophisticated drink and talk more than they unload it, and take it into the saloon. After it was properly[...]· placed in the saloon, they bought the keg and settled down " Barn dances served as special social events in the lives to drink. They had just started to drink from it when the and hearts of Ma and Dad," explains Shirley. Selma safe went crashin[...]Culbertson after several months of and coffee. The whole family would attend this festive freighting and hauling dynamite up to the Railroad occasion. The huge atte[...]The music was usually provided was always sure to carry a couple jugs of homemade booze by Mrs. Leutsch, Mrs. Edwards, Bill Lapke, and Charlie for the crew's cook. In return Herman received a warm Jacoby. place to sleep, two meals, and possibly a ham or something "The barn was Dad's pride and joy," say Harold and of this sort. Sigurd told Harold that Herman was famous Stan. It was constructed, designed and built by Herman's for saying, "If I can supply the cook with a jug. I know I'll father, John Forbregd, and remains on the same plot where have a place to sleep, lots to eat, and extra grub on the way it was built. The peak of[...]ome." After he left Culbertson, he journeyed west and 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 Tande Ranc[...]together was fishing. Each year they took a trip to Green walked from his squatting place to work everyday. Lake in Canada. Selma was the most patient person when He then decided to h omestead the land, and he and his it came to fishing. Though she might never get a nibble, she[...]Selma died in July, 1965, after living her life to its fullest. states Harold, "bought a bronc, and hoped to use it for She did not care about fancy h[...]nd her greatest , rope at a badger, not expecting to catch it. He did catch it, happiness in[...] |
| [...]ired of her. She mended fences, wrangled cattle, and just about · anything that needed to be done she could do. She had her femininity also[...]essing especially careful for special occasions, and al ways looked clean and polished. Herman served as County Representative for a term and belonged to several organizations. He passed away in March,[...]orked one year in North Dakota, moving from there to Madoc where he began farming. He returned to his home comm unity in Minnesota and married Grethe Ma uland on March 1, 1923. They le[...]was also out there at the time. Oscar was married to Irene Anderson in Scobey in 1930. Henry G. Foss and daughter Grace. Grace remembers that They left in[...]d was the father of Mrs. Carl K veseth. My father and Ed Lee were elected to the school board in[...]er for the first four years. Tillie C. Opheim Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Foss - wedding picture, March 1,[...]death the farm was sold to John Lapke. My mother lives[...]GIRARD AND LEBEL FAMILIES[...]Joseph Girard and Louise Revet both came from France to Canada and were married in 1899 at St. Maurice[...]Gustav and Lucy born at Cantal, Saskatchewan, Gabrielle[...]near Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, and Aime at Madoc. Joesph and Louise came from near Alida,[...]Saskatchewan, where they had farmed, to the Boyer area (later changed to Madoc) in 1911. They were accompanied[...]by Adlard Lebel, a young man also eager to homestead.[...]in the Big Muddy area trying to ranch but it was impossible[...]lumber wagons with their possessions and headed south to the States to build a home·s tead house with a sod roof on[...]territory, Gustav and Lucy remained with relatives in Canada and attended school at a convent in Wauchope,[...]katchewan. Two years later they traveled by train to[...]Lebel with a wagon to journey to their new home. All their clothes and bedding were lost on the train and they came to[...] |
| [...]Henry Boyd, John Killian, Billy Woods and Dave LaBlanc.[...]bachelors around, but soon Tom and Nancy Sloan moved[...]Lockrem was also a midwife and she came from the Orville[...]grandfather came out from Wisconsin and homesteaded[...]born in Sheridan county and my three younger sisters were[...]plies came out of Culbertson. Joseph and Louise Girard - 1910[...]id find their clothes.) At the homestead they had to THE ALFRED GOULET FAMILY |
| Of the twenty-one sons and daughters, eighteen were present for a reunion last Sunday in Scobey, with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goulet of this city. It is one of the[...]Photo in front of the family home: In front, left to right: Brian, Mike and Johnny. Second row: Julie, Dorothy, Mrs. (Jeri) R[...], David. Three sons standing at rear, Keith, Emil and Dwain. Colorado where he is a geologist; Doreen Ashpole has three Raymond and Genevieve moved to Madoc, three more |
| [...]Sam and Carrie had four sons and two daughters, Ervin,[...]Clarence, Marvin, Arthur, Agnes, and Hazel. Sam died in 1935 and Carrie died in 1934.[...]Gordon of Madoc) in Utah, Ervin in Alaska, and Hazel[...]Agnes was married to John Yukovanko in Scobey and she[...]Flaxville and they lived in Idaho where he died in 1957. -[...]I worked for E .J. Ren wald in his store in Froid and I lived[...]and as the clerk wasn't interested in the Madoc store[...]asked me to go up there which I did, in her place. I boarded[...]at Jim and Louise Morrison's along with Alice Murphy,[...]Hardison was being transferred from Calgary back to South Dakota and as we were planning a June wedding, he stopped to pay me a visit on his way through on February[...]15, 1915. He felt it would be foolish for us to put off our wedding and leave me in that cold country. It was the first[...]wonderful people in and around Boyer. . · Sam and Carrie Hanson's wedding picture -[...]Home. Maaasoval. When 18 years of age he came to America to Earl and Jennie Hardison - Jennie was a clerk at the E.J. |
| [...]Lou's as his adjoined Ernie's. To this union was born seven[...]s are Eileen, Jean, Patricia, Jacqueline, William and[...]Ernie bought the pool hall in Scobey in 1925 and moved the famiy to Scobey. It was the site of the present day[...]1928 an sold the pool hall and moved back to the farm.[...]eighth grade. There were buses to take them to school-in[...]the winter this was mostly a team and a sleigh with a bus[...]arrangements for her to stay with a family in Scobey---'[...]giving them mostly farm produce for her board and room.[...]year she shared an apartment with Norma and Dean Sonoppi, clerk at the E.J. Renwald store, was married to Lapke upstairs in the home of Beatrice G[...]from High School she attended Northern turned out to give us a send off". Taken in front of the Hotel[...]rietorof for the Daniels County Free Press and worked in offices in the Hotel Washington. In center are Mr. and Mrs. Scobey before she married P[...]rdison. Woman in gray cap is Mrs. Louise Morrison and Church in Scobey. He was a heavy equipm[...]Oregon.. They moved to Canada ··where he worked at[...]1972. They have two daughters, Patricia and Barbara. Eileen and Barbara live in Calgary, Alberta at present. ALEX AND ETHEL HENDERSON[...]worked in the Scobey A.S.C. office and at the U.S. Alex Henderson bought his farm at[...]Immigration office in Sweetgrass, Montana and later in Foss in the fall of 1916 and shipped ·two immigrant cars the Spokane[...]intances with John E. Parker from Shelby whom she and his wife, Ethel, and their children moved out here to had met while working in Sweetgrass. They were married live. They sold the farm to Alex's brother, W.J. Henderson in St. Phillips Church in Scobey. They lived in Spokane for in 1919 and moved back to North Dakota. W.J . Henderson awhile un[...]rother, Ernie farmed the land They moved to Shelby where Jack is with the Toole County and later bought it from him.[...]SON 1889-1965 _. to right: Bill, Ernie, Margaret and Tom. Back row left to MARGARET CONLAN HENDERSON 1892-1955[...]Eileen and Pat. ' Ernie Henderson and his brother, Dave, came to |
| State Bank and have lived there since. They have seven and backs on the sides so it was more comfortable to ride in. children-Mary, Teresa, Carol, John, Gregory, Joseph and He drove the first bus to Scobey from Madoc, along with his Arlene.[...]route from the farm to Madoc. In the winter Ernie and the Patricia 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 attended Spokane Beauty chains and take them off frequently. His brother, Adam School and worked as a beautician until her marriage to lived with them and would take the team and sleigh with a Charles "Sandy" Sanborn in Spokane. They lived in bus on it and pick up the children Ernie couldn't get to with Spokane, Washington, Moscow, Idaho, and at present in his truck. Coeur d'Alene, I[...]he Burlington The winter of 1937-38 Ernie and Adam hauled the cattle Northern. They have six children-Charlene, William, to Calvin, North Dakota to their brother, Will's place to Margaret, Jacqueline, Teresa, and James. winter them. We had no[...]on Friday they would take the bus off the Spokane and worked at Larson-Swalwell Motor Company truck and put the truck box on with a cattle rack. They·<l[...]rried James Cavanaugh at load up the cattle and drive down to North Dakota. They'd St. Phillips Church in Scobey. They lived in Scobey and come back on Sunday with a load of ground feed and hay to Flaxville where Jim is currently the Rural Mail Carrier. feed the cattle at home. They'd change back to the bus and They have eight children-Kathleen, Michael, Gregory, be ready to drive school bus on Monday morning. Timothy, Mary, Colleen, Patrick, and Robert. Ernie worked on W.P.A[...]illiam served with the United States Marine Corps and the Madoc school board and the Grain Growers Oil married Mary Ann Veis while[...]eader in Farmers Union Junior farmed with his Dad and for Knute Christensen. Later he work. They used to hold a week of school in the summer and Tom bought their folks' land. Bill put his land in the which amounted to some classes, handicraft, and Soil Bank and moved to -Kalispell where they owned and recreation-all held at the Madoc school. T[...]nion work for many years. Ernie would investments and securities. They have five children- drive his bus with a load of boys and girls to Havre to old Kenneth, Donald, Linda, Dana and Gary. Fort Assinaboine for[...]mmer camp. Margaret Thomas farmed with his Dad and married Darlene would go as a leader and they would take Bill and Tom Tryan in St. Louis Church in Flaxville. In 1956 they moved along. It was a long days drive to Havre in those days. to Scobey where Tom worked for Nemont Telephone Margaret was also active in Church work and with the Cooperative, becoming manager in 1964-a[...]Daniels County at the time of her Bradley, Lisa, and Jeffery. death. Ernie and Margaret retired from farming and sold Although times were hard, we always had enough to eat their land to sons Bill and Tom. After Margaret's death, in and clothes to wear. Ernie had cattle, horses, pigs, and 1955, Ernie lived on the farm for awhile with Bill and his chickens. Margaret had a garden. Ernie would haul a family. Then he 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 (the East Place that Ernie and in the evenings the family would all help weed the had purchased from his brother, Will) to Dean and Louie garden and water it.[...]Bank, he leased it to Andy Hertoghe. Lowell Burgett[...]farmed it for awhile. At Present, Pam and Larry Humbert and their family are farming it and living on the farm. Itis certainly good to see them living there and improving the[...]MR. AND MRS. JOHN WESLEY HUNTER[...]$285.00 and John Hunter was shuttled onto a siding at a Three[...]store, postoffice, and a combination land and newspaper[...]from old clothes son". she would rip apart and turn the material whenever It is recorded that on January 13, 1913 the temperature possible and sew into new garments. She also sewed for her was 44 degrees below zero with winds up to 65 miles an sister, Teresa Boyd's family. Later we were able to buy new hour. The storm lasted three days. When asked to recall his material for the clothing she sewed. M[...]John would sometimes answer when she didn't have to sew anymore. "Son, I tho[...]ould In 1937 Ernie bought a new Chevrolet truck and had a shift his quid from one cheek to the other and say that he bus made to put on the back of it. He put old car cush[...] |
| [...]writing this letter to you I can look over the many acres of[...]ng. It is a carpet of blue stretched from horizon to[...]children. After surveying her surroundings and gazing[...]and she went to the general store, introduced herself and asked how she might get word to John that his family had[...]fall. But don't you worry! There will John Wesley and Isadore Hunter and their three oldest more than likely be somebody going out that way in the children, Robert, Arthur, and John M. in 1915. next two or three days and they will drop you within a[...]She was grateful to learn that he was joking, for in a[...]belongings and the driver instructed to take them to the[...]buffalo grass which waved and rippled like endless waves. There was no road and the driver guided the horses in the[...]general direction and they chose the easiest way. What[...]seemed hours later, the wagon halted by the house and the driver shouted to John who peered into the darkness from[...]the open door to see who was there. The first thing his wife[...]said to him was, "Well, here we are, Wes. Let's get these[...]kids unloaded and into bed." Three children were born to the Hunters, all delivered by[...]arrived to help with the delivery of one baby and to say,[...]77 years. One son lives at Pablo, Montana and the rest of[...]THE LIFE AND TIMES OF[...]The men and women who came to homestead the grassy[...]be imagined. They were the young and the old, the prudent The Hunters in 1955. Isadore. Genevieve Goulet. Eugene, and the improvident, the strong and the weak. Some came Robert, Arthur. to build a home but most came for the "fast buck", d[...]minimum of work, prove up and sell out. Carl Jacobson came to Montana for reasons of health. evening of the thi[...]ad seen his wife Edna, just barely shone brightly and the Northern Lights danced across the survive a second bout with pneumonia and her doctor had sky. warned-"If you want to keep her-get her to a dry The temperature still registered 30 below[...]who lived in Glasgow, Montana, the county seat, to a half squatter's rights with all improvements on[...]rtheast of present day Scobey, choicest farm land to be had in Montana. before le[...]e days after the blizzard, the temperature soared to They arrived by train, at Poplar, Montana. ([...]nine o'clock in the morning, a change of 85 and infant son, Harry.) There they found a freighter,[...]now had for the sum of $60.00, agreed to take them and their completely disappeared and a month later John began to belongings, to the homestead they hacl never seen. He was plow.[...]good as his word, and several days later, he deposited them[...] |
| [...]managed t_o put a their clothes, some groceries, and not much money. This crop in. At the approach of winter, they boarded up the· was April of 1912, and the world seemed beautiful. The shack, and returned home to Boyceville, Wisconsin, where grass was lush and every little depression was full of water, th[...]y emigrant car, already established farmer (three and one half miles complete with a team of horses, a wagon, machinery and west-on present Robert Ferguson farm) while Edna and even a milk cow. This time the trip to the homestead took Harry held down the homestead. That first weekend when five days and even then the milk cow nearly played out. Carl wanted to go to his claim, Pete loaned him a saddle From then on they farmed-that is they broke up sod and horse. This was the first and 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 a half miles home every permitted. There were fences to build, wells to dig (always week end. unsuccessfully) a sod barn and chicken coop to construct.[...]Forgregd-O.E. Dunn-Daily Mathews and Carl[...]Jacobson) strip mining their winter's-coal; and thus the[...]played the fiddle and for many years the neighborhood danced to the music of Carl's violin, often accompanied by[...]Bill Lapke chording on-the piano. Both Carl and Edna loved to read and as their collection of books grew their[...]More children were coming to the Jacobson household:[...]Cherry, Barney, Betty, and Edith. As each new baby came[...]along, Carl would add another room to the house, so that[...]ded schooling too. At first this consisted of two to Carl Jacobson on porch of original homestead[...]Scobey High School; and all three of the girls eventually[...]So the seasons came and went, with the family fortunes[...]· fluctuatirtg with the yield and price of wheat. The 20's were[...]and Edna loaded up a_ll the kids in the Model T touri[...]·and headed back to the family home in Wisconsin. They[...]drove steadly for three full days to make it. The only hard[...]Minnesota to Minneapolis.[...]mestead going, until after World War II. She Left to right: Edna Jacobson, Carl Jacobson, Charry later moved to Scobey and Barney farmed it until he also Jacobson Thompson,[...]bson is farming the (Wheatcroft), Barney Jacobson and Betty Jacobson homestead. Edna l[...]still live in ¥ontana. Harry The Montana·wind and sun; the rest and solitude of the has a jewelry shop in Pl[...]Holis homestead was just the therapy Edna needed to regain her Thompson), who has been teach[...]ers in health. The end of summer found her strong and fit and Miles City. Betty (Mrs. John Gunderson[...]. Robert Carl worked all summer for Harden berg and then put in Wheatcroft) helps her husband and boys run their ranch a 40 day threshing ru[...] |
| Barney Jacobson family. Left to right: Phyllis, Ida, Barney and Clyde. BARNEY JACOBSON-[...]Gladys and Charles Jacoby on their 20th wedding |
| Thea Kamrud and Gulik Kamrud and also in Scobey. Gulik threshed with Hilmar Wahl f[...]Henry Austinson in the 30's. Thea was well known TORSTEIN KAMRUD[...]rived by Model T Ford in Scobey in |
| Ernest attended the Madoc and Scobey schools. He DEAN and JUANITA LAPKE married Evelyn Javenager. They live[...]co 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 Kenneth. Elveda Lapke at his grandmother'[...]in 1938 being an honor student and active in FFA and[...]Army Air Corps. He became a B-25 pilot and was ready to be sent on to active duty overseas when the ending of[...]Lincoln, Nebraska he met and married Juanita J. Wadlow Joe came to Madoc in February, 1914 and homesteaded in 1945. eighty acres. One reason Joe came to Madoc was that his After his discharge and their marriage, they built a home uncle, T.J. Primeau, was there and had also taken a on the "home place" north of Madoc, and have lived there homest'ead. Another of his uncle[...]. Joe ran a dray line for a while 'til he sold it to Sid Miller in 1917. Joe left Madoc in 1918 when he went to Nashua. There he met his wife, Amelia, and they were married in Minot the same year. They have six children, three sons and three daughters. Joe worked on construction. Joe[...]s a shack put up by T.J. Primeau for Mrs. LaRoche to start a restaurant. It was put up in one day. Joe[...]was moved into town with a Rumley tractor. Joe and Amelia live in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Three p[...]dware Co. Sam |
| Dean has been active in the St. Philip's Church and its projects and as a member of the Knights of Columbus. He has be[...]member of the Daniels County Federal Credit Union and has served on its Board of Directors for 25 years[...]member of the Flaxville Farmers Union Oil Company and was a clerk of the Madoc School Board for many ye[...]ntana. All of these activities point out his main interest in life, his interest and occupation of grain farming. JOHN[...]rn in 1894 near Westphalia, |
| [...]French and Chippewa descent but born on the prairies of[...]Dakota; and here six children were born-Clara, Cecilia,[...]Eugene, Emory, Fredrick and Veda. In 1893 he moved back to Canada where in St. Boniface, Manitoba another ch[...]moved to Marguerite's allotment at St. John's in the Turtl[...]children-Lucien, Alice, Elias, Elveda and Louie were[...]Upon hearing ofland to be opened up in Montana, they[...], Clara, May, ground before returning to North Dakota until spring Alice, William, Harvey, Leo and William. when the rest of[...]the railroad they had long distances to haul produce - first[...]son but the distances diminished until the Bill and Alice were active in Farmers Union work and the Flaxville Catholic Church. Bill served many y[...]charter member of the Madoc Extension Homemakers, and has had a busy life with her bountiful vegetable and flower gardens and her chickens. Bill passed a way in 1951.[...]1888. Within a few years he moved with his family to South Dakota. He worked for his father and others there until he came to Montana in an immigrant car with his horses. Joe[...]some of the land which they seeded. Range horses and cattle ate that first crop. He became discouraged 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 noted for this ability to run a steam engine on the threshing crews. He w[...]ington state following his discharge. He returned to this area following the end of the war. He enjoyed working with horses and enjoyed race horses and pacers, even making a trip to the Twin Cities to see Dan Patch, the famous pacer of the Teens. J[...]Ferdinand and Margarete LaRoche - 1915. Ferdinand La Roche wa[...]bec, Canada in 1852, one of the six children born to Pierre and Marceling Bessette LaRoche. He came to North railroad reached Madoc in 1913. Bei[...]survey Dakota in 1878 stopping briefly in Chicago to work in a also, they staked out their 320[...]start of this community. between the house and the barn. As everyone else was in[...] |
| [...]North Dakota, the fifth child of Ferdinand and Marguerite[...]In 1909 he came to what is now Madoc, Montana when[...]ding. Back row: Lucien, Emery, Eugene, Fred, Veda and Elias. Second row: Elveda, Eugenia, Alice, Clara and Cecila. Front: Grandma, Louis and Ferdinand. the same predicament they merely sq[...]rned during her |
| [...]and a son Earle. Earle and his wife Virginia and their[...]and fourth generation farming the early family home-[...]Lucien A. LaRoche, seventh child of Ferdinand and[...]1896. In 1910 he came to Daniels County area with his[...]family. By the time he was old enough to homestead there[...]California in the Veterinary Corps and then as a cook. He[...]as 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[...]farms. He was always in demad due to his willingness to work hard and his reputation for being a sober man. Marie Foss[...]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 Jim LaRoche. Back row: Beverly an honorable discharge and returned to Scobey. He worked Noble, Ken Noble, Donna LaRoche, Dave LaRoche and for the Tjon family and later for "Doc" Morrison. Diane LaRoche.[...]In August of 1975 he was admitted to the Old Soldiers[...]by Adeline (Lauzon) Paradis and and Aurora (Lauzon Bourassa) Francis[...]Teles Lauzon and his family lived on a farm near[...]cyclone that destroyed all the buildings and crops. In the[...]packed the few things that we had and Dad drove a covered wagon with Mother and us kids, the youngest of us being[...]two older brothers, Louis and Emil, drove two wagons[...]drawn by oxen with our stock and chickens tagging along. Mr. and Mrs. Earle LaRoche on their 25th Anniversary in 1975. Front row: Earle and Virginia. Back row: Jim, Donna, Dave and his wife Carol, Diane and Dick. Teles and Mary Lauzon in 1941. EMORY JOSEPH LaROCHE FAMILY Emory arrived in the area in 1910 and homesteaded one |
| [...]some sold for taxes and many just closed their doors. Teles and Mary Lauzon and the younger children moved from[...]their homestead to North Battleford, Saskatchewan in[...]Aime-married Maggie Gerom~ and farmed adjoining land to the family homestead for approximately f1 ve year[...]before moving west to Tacoma, Washington. They had six[...]childre~; three sons and triplet girls. The girls died shortly[...]after birth. Both Aime and Maggie died in Washington[...]where their boys are married and live. The Teles Lauzon family. Aime, Aurel, Adeline, Louis, Emil-married Louise Paradis and homesteaded Verilda, Pete, Alice, Amede, Leontine, Damion, and adjoining land. They farmed five or six years and had three Aurora. Seated are Teles and Ma ry on their golden girls before moving to Whitefish, Montana. They left wedding anniversary[...]Whitefish in 1923 and moved to Tacoma where Emil died and[...]Louis married Josephine Gerome and homesteaded west of his dad's place and it was discovered that there[...]a strip coal mine for a They _would milk the cow and put the cream in a pail tied to few years and also had cattle. He and his wife returned to the side of the wagon, and by evening they would have[...]Adeline-married Lawrence Paradis in 1915 and farmed went ahead with the family and we crossed the border at north of Madoc for many years and moved to Whitefish in Portal, North Dakota.[...]was a total of nine We came through Plentywood and stopped at Redstone children, seven[...]e in a home. We bought a Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Adeline and Lawrence few things that we needed. Along the way[...]brated their sixtieth wedding anniversary in July and stopped to talk. We found out that it was J oe Goulet[...]' and his neighbor. They were French also and invited us to[...]ich Lauzon, a very distant their place for dinner and to spend the night. Then we cousm, m 1918, farmed for a short while in Daniels County drove to Scobey trying to find a place to homestead. We and then moved to Whitefish and from there back to went to Come Grattons and stayed there a few days until Canada. Alderich passed a way in 194 7 and Verilda is we fo~nd a place to settle. Joe Goulet and his parents lived[...]Alice-married William Potts in Madoc in 1918 and side of us . His transportation was~ buckboard dr[...]moved to Whitefish shortly after. One son was born to oxen. Later on we met Mr. Bureau, his brother, an[...]ar Redahlin of money but we did have a big garden and a big barrel of salt[...]Whitefish. He died in 1973 and she is living in a pork so we made out fine. We l[...]so tight that when the neighbors would come over and Aurora-married John Baptiste Bou[...]Scobey and moved to a farm four miles northwest of the lack of oxygen, so the door had to be opened once in a Flaxville. J.B. died in Helena and Aurora remarried and while. The land and terrain was very similar to[...]ana. Saskatchewan, except there weren't any rocks to conten d[...]Aurele, Leontine, Pete, Amede, and Damion returned to with, which delighted us all! After the house was[...]el which was buffalo chips. Sask~tchewan and located on farms in that area except There had to be a plentiful supply as the winters were long Dam10n, who returned to the States in the 40's and married and h_arsh. Wood was scarce and a long way off. Spring and settled in Riverside, California. breakmg was done by the older boys and six oxen. Flax Amede and his wife and family returned to Whitefish in was the primary crop then, along wit[...]wife flax straw also supplemented the winter fuel and the[...]still lives there. harvested flax was hauled to Plentywood and exchanged A little daughter, Eva, died at the age of two while the for staple food and clothing for the family.[...]. About 1911 I, Adeline, the oldest girl, went to a school near Scobey st~ying with Pete Harden berg. I was thirteen years old, workmg for my room and board which included washing clothes on a wash bo[...]ar what later became H.E. and MARY LOCKREM Madoc. Then five of us children would drive to school. In spring the snow was so deep and soft the horse would have by Orville Lockrem to jump to keep going. Later a school was built near our hom[...]In 1914 Henry E . and Mary Lockrem moved to Madoc .In ~913 when the railroad came through,[...]ran it at my Dad's store that he used to have to come out to my for several years before moving back to the homestead. homestead to get away from it all. He talked me When Montana w[...]into selling my farm . It wa s sold by auction and I hauled[...] |
| all my grain to Medicine Lake and sold it. I loaded up with as midwife for many o[...]around the area. She also groceries for the store and when I got to Madoc I taught parochial school. Afte[...]the new sign on the store. It said "H.E. Lockrem and the drug store in Flaxville and were there for six and a half Son" above the door and that's where I worked for my years. The Lockrem Cash Store in Madoc was sold to Gust father. We had a doctor come into Madoc and he wanted Vahl of Whitetail. some one to start a drug store so the customers wouldn't have to go to Scobey to have their prescriptions filled. So Father started a drug store in the old E.J. Renwald store and had a druggist come in from Park River, North Dakota THE McGOVERN FAMILY to resume his old business. Then the doctor moved out of Madoc and we sold all of our drugs to the Scobey store. Mrs. Bridget McGovern and her family came from Estevan, Saskatchewan to the Madoc area in about 1912.[...]Madoc and Scobey area throug_!i the y~ars; Tom - his[...]Fife Lake, Saskatchewan, area and Madoc; Jim of Rapid[...]son now lives on the former Tom McGovern place; and[...]two survive at this writing-they are Jim and Helen. Orville and Gina Lockrem in 1916. After the druggist left we had groceries in both buildings. Wedding picture of Tom and Mary McGovern - 1914 |
| [...](brother of Evelyn Killian) Duval, son of John and Evelyn[...]Wisconsin. Both of his parents came from Poland. John met and married a young neighbor lady, Helen[...]McGovern in 1915. Her parents had a homestead one and[...]place. Helen was born in Wedding picture of Helen and John Killian taken in 1915. Menominee, Michigan. Her folks lived in various places, (parents of Evelyn Duval and Har vey Killian. settling at Estevan, Saskatchewan before coming to the[...]McGovern was born in Ireland and her father, Thomas[...]ed away about 1935. Later on Tom Helen and John Killion had two children: married Mrs. Ruth[...]y Helen. Harvey farms the home place the teaching and education field there for many years and south of .Madoc and lives in Scobey. has conducted two Teen Age Study tours to Spain-; he and Evelyn-married to Edward Duval ofFlaxville-(Seerural his wife , Alm[...]now resides in Scobey. has three children. Nellie and Ernest have retained some of their father's farm[...]Anton and Lucie Marik and their two daughters and son- Dave was a pioneer bachelor. He lived on his farm many in-law, Marie and Helen and Emil Gerths came to Montana years; He married Mary Severt in Scobey i[...]teens near Madoc. This cousin two brothers, Bill and Rudolph and their mother were died and to claim inheritance, they had to move to homesteaders nearby. Bill's place was north of Da[...]he Kopsky McGovern's (later became Elmore 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 his wife place. Marie attended Madoc school. Anton died in had three children at that time, May, Lyle and Ardell , They Spokane in the 50's. Lucie moved to Coeur d ' Alene, Idaho •noved to Snohomish , Washington. Rudolph left this area[...]Marie married Eddie 0. Wahl, who had come to the :rnd was buried at Orville. Rudolph had one son and lived Madoc area where he worked fo[...] |
| [...]Sam and Florence Montgomery in 1971. Emil Gerths, Helen M[...]several years and with the First World War many of the[...]businesses started closing. I was married to Florence[...]We moved out to the coast to Seattle after everything in[...]organized a baseball team and Herman Forbregd was our[...]Florence died in 1972 and I live in Seattle.[...]came to the United States with her parents and lived in[...]1894 and in 1908 they moved to Medicine Lake where they[...]lived until 1915 when John died. She then came to Madoc The Eddie 0. Wahl family about 1950. Marie, Arletta, Eddie and Gary.[...]LaRoche, Alma and Amel Christensen. Grndma Mary[...]Lockrem, Katie Froslan, Bob Schaefer and Christensen on George Shipman's place in a one-room house. They brothers: Ed, Ken, Harold, Mentor and George. moved several times before moving to their present home west of Four Buttes. They have a daughter Arletta and one son, Gary, who runs the family farm. Eddie passed a way in 1974. r Helen-and Emil Gerths were married in Nebraska before SAM MONTGOMERY by Sam Montgomery I came to the Madoc area in 1911 and homesteaded south |
| where she took in laundry and did housecleaning in order to support her family. Their residence in Madoc was[...]ol. She stayed in Madoc until 1932 when she moved to Flaxville and later to Poplar where she lived until her death in the mid[...]lson, Sarah Schafer, Mrs. Veda (Olavine) LaRoche, and Mrs. Gus (Marie) Girard of Scobey, David of Medicine Lake, Robert and Joseph. THE ANGUS MORRISON FAMILY[...](May 28, 1920) Angus Murdock Morrison and his.wife Frances and their The five Morrison brothers. Standing: George, Angus |
| Jim and Louise Morrison in 1915. served in the army in[...]y raised their four children; John, Tom, In 1912 Mrs. and Mrs. Victor Paradis from Forget, |
| [...](now owned by Dale Fossen), and later southeast of Madoc[...]on the old Steiner place where he and Lillie had a very nice[...]moved to Tacoma, Washington where she lived with her[...]now owned by the Brendens. Elmore's brother, Les, and a[...]Herman F. the father,.Lydia mother, and three sons; Lloyd Howard, and Robert, arrived in Madoc by train from[...]Williston , North Dakota and started the Madoc Cash Store[...]and dry goods. Madoc had been chosen for this busines[...]an up and coming town and it was in those days.[...]to automobiles and better roads, Madoc gradually died and finally Lydia and Herman Schaefer were about the sole[...]the school janitorship, etc. and still had a small stock of[...]Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schaefer Lillian Hanson Ro[...]ovember 14, 1892 at Hensel, North |
| [...]On June 27, 1917 I was appointed postmaster and[...]T. Springer his barbershop and equipped the post office with 134 all[...]October 1, 1918, having resigned preparatory to entering adva~cement of Madoc during its early hi[...]late 1917, S.M. Forbregd sold the Madoc Recorder to industrious young man. "Attorney George T. Springer of the Scobey Sentinel and I became its editor 'til I left Madoc. Madoc retu[...]mighty busy for journalism dating back to high school days when I man. Besides being a wide awake attorney, he is covered news and sports for the paper in my native postmaster and editor of his home town paper. No doubt Michigan. From August 1, 1919 to July 20, 1920 I was about him doing his damnedest to keep Madoc on the employed as an adju[...]n's Upper creation of Daniels County and with Lou Boyd covered the Peninsula April 2, 1889[...]on. There was school, 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 Acting on the[...]degree at the St. Paul College of Law. He belongs to Scobey Commissioners called an election and there were 1079 Lodge No. 109, A.F.&A.M. He also belongs to the Delta votes for a new county of Daniels and 260 against it. In the Theta Phi Legal Fraternity and is an honorary contest for county seat Scobey polled 964 votes and Madoc member of the Selmer Oie Post No. 173, Vete[...]358. When the Sheridan County Commissioners voted to Foreign Wars. call the election, Gus Oie, of the Citizens State Bank, was in H[...]his own Minneapolis on business. Carl Grotte and I composed the words: E.J.Renwald had a mercantile store at Froid, and following poem and dispatched it to him. one at Madoc. He closed the store in Madoc and had paper Up from the soil with Leaguers[...]ring in the fall of 1916. He wrote Griggs, Cooper and Close by the Great Northern Railroad ditch, Company, wholesale grocers, St. Paul, to .recommend an The thriving town of Scobey stands, adjuster to work on his maturing paper. I was With a county seat within its hands, recommended, and arrived in Madoc in September of 1916.[...]dge thought he was very stout, people in the area and I decided to remain and practice law. But he took the count by the kayo route. Sigurd M. Forbregd, real estate man and publisher of the In 1920 I became house attorney for Griggs. Cooper and the Ma doc Recorder, offered me office space in the Recorder Company, St. Paul, and acted in that capacity 'til building for my assis[...]ent in 1953. On February 19, 1917, I was admitted to practice law in June 30,1926 I was married to Miss Elizabeth W. Trine Montana. My first fee was[...]account executive for advertising in Batton, drew and circulated a petition addressed to the Montana Barton, Durstine and Osborne, Minneapolis, and Mrs. Railroad and Public Service Commission setting forth all[...]Scandinavian working for him doing chores and among[...]with a pail of milk and the hanker said: "How's the milk-[...]1945 and the year 1953. The association was organized in[...]1926 to perpetuate and promote birling (log rolling) the[...]States and Canada vied for the title of "King of the[...] |
| [...]have been engaged in freelance boy s and Dad soon arrived. They had gone to Bystroms to writing and pur uing the many interest I have had meet us - no roads on the prai[...]ome at Heritage We have told about Dad and Mom and now about their Manor , in Minneapolis.[...]in Ely, Minnesota where he was an Optometrist. To this by Mary Kamrud[...]ile. Bert homesteaded east of Madoc about 1910, and was very During World War I, he trained in the Signal Corps at mu h involved in the Farmer ' Union and the Non- Boulder, Colorado. He too[...]worked in Dr. Collinson's drug store. He marri d and had one on , Bobby. Other intere ts took him had taken a Pharmacy Course. On completion he returned to Minneapoli . It was in the mid-twentie when h e s[...]cist at the Collinson Drug Store. In 1926 he went to Tor tein Kamrud. to Opheim . He married Olna Rodenbaugh in May , 1927. To[...]g in Milan Minnesota he managed a department tore and was very active in home talent plays. Anna .[...]llmar Minnesota in 1870. he took up a dre -making and hat-making course in t. Paul , Minne ota befo[...]ere married in Milan , Minne ota on June 4, 1 92. To thi uni on were born eleven children. Selmer the eldest died in infancy. James, Harry, the twin Albert and Alfred , ina , Genevieve, Hazel, 8dna Hulda and Ruth. Hal vor a nd hi on , Harry arrived in[...]County were the Bystrom , the Harris Christensons and the Even kaas . In April 1914 another son , James and a cousin, Helmer Flan from a uk Center, Minnesota arrived 1917 - 25th wedding anniversary of Haluor and Anna in the im migrant car. In the car were horse[...]Alfred, chi kens , ome feed, harness , machinery and furniture. In Halvor, Anna, Genevieve, and Nina. Front row: Edna 1914 the re t of the family arrived in cobey, Mo th er, Anna Ruth, Hulda and Hazel . . , _ Thomp on and children, Albert and Alfred , ma , Genevieve Hazel, Edna Hulda , and baby Ruth. Mother had written Dad about our[...]stepped off the train at Scobey there was no one to meet us. Albert and Alfred (twi ns) continued to work on the farm . There we were strangers in a strange place-now what to They studied by correspondence; both were appointed do! The platform was crowded with people- ome to meet 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 ,[...]er-j ug in his hand. He didn 't know when we were to January, 1970. arrive o this meeting was ju t a c[...]ied Theresa Daub from Wabasso , Minnesota. 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 teachers training in Montana , Washi[...]cent Hotel. oon Alfred Evenskaas a rrived with a and Texas. She taught in various schools in Montana and wagon and tea m of horses. The bottom of the wagon was wa h[...]stown 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 during the trip to their in 1959-1960. home teasing us with the traw[...]ieve took her teachers training in Montana , over to Bystroms where we stayed that night. We waited Colorado and North Dakota. She taught in Montana and a ll the next day but Dad and the boys did not come for us so in Washington. She married Harold Wilhelm in 1971. Mr . Even kaas drove us to our new home. It was dark Hazel marrie[...]Mr. Even kaas pointed out some Madoc , Flaxville and Scobey. To this union was born three buildings and told u that wa home. We could see some children . Vernon, who passed away in infancy. Donna is light and thought that the hades did not fit very well , so married and lives on a farm near Opheim. She has three we decided to sing and make a lot of noise so Dad and the children. Loyal is married and has two children, they live[...] |
| [...]lias LaRoche passed away in 1958 when Ralph and Bertha Greengard bought the August, 1972.[...]ving Hulda took teacher's training in Montana and up on the land a nd then rented it out, fi rst to Clarence Washington. She taught in various schools in Montana. Rossing for a year and then to Bill La pke. Bill farmed it She passed away Feb[...]Smith , when he She had beauty shops in Scobey and Flaxville. She is now was visiting his father in Leavenworth , Kansas and t hey married and lives in California.[...]on farmed northeast of Scobey. He yea rs and after the birth of their fourth child , Angelita[...]23. they moved to the farm of the Madoc Bench . They had two An[...]more children born in Scobey , Harry and Melody. The children went to the Madoc School until ready for high[...]in 1958. Hyla had to drop out due to ill health. Peter and[...]oned in Thailand during the Viet HENRY AND HULDA THOMPSON Nam con[...]Thompson the farm in 1959 and moved to Lea venworth , Kansas. The[...]of their schooling there. Henry Thompson came to the Scobey area in 1912 and Peter is a supervisor at the Naval Ship[...], Hulda Hogman, from Estevan, married Bertha Gann and they have three children. Saskatchewan who was visiting her sister and brother-in- Phillip is a diesel mechanic at Cummin 's Diesel at law, Curtis and Agnes Bush. They were married in 1916. Missoula . He and his wife Marilyn live at Ravalli and have My first impressions were that the count[...]Saskatchewan. · Angelita and her husband live near Easton, Kansas and Each year we went to Eagles Nest to pick June berries have two children. Angie is an[...]echanic for United Air Lines at San Eagles Nest and a picnic in the summer was great fun for · Francisco. He and his wife Renee have two daughters. the families[...]one of our They live at Saff Rafael , California and Vancouver, · neighbors. We had taffy pulls and sleigh rides in the Washington.[...]ool Melody is a key punch operator. She and her husband , house across the road from our ho[...]d live at Leavenworth , Kansas. different homes and had great sing-alongs. Hyla i[...]terested in politics so we attended Missouri. She and her mother Evelyn live in Overland many meeting[...]ing in 1933. He held this position until we moved to submitted by Mrs. Evelyn J. Voight Washington. Our family is all grown and married and have children of their own. Oscar and Phyllis (DeWitt) live in Scobey. They had six HILMAR M. WAHL FAMILY children and have four grandchildren. Marie and Arnie Stennes live in Wenatchee; they have by Larry Wahl one daughter and two grandchildren. Audry Albrecht lives in Ol[...]children. newcomer parents from Norway on March 21, 1891. In 1896 Beryle and Milton Graff live in Scobey. the family moved to Greenbush, Minnesota. Later he Deloris Jean and Nowal Montgomery have two sons. homesteaded there and also worked on a state They live in Redwood Fal[...]hee. She is office manager· at into the infantry and he received his training at Camp North Central[...]Grant, Illinois and Camp Dodge, Iowa. He was sent to Cecil and his wife live at Wenatchee where he teaches.[...]rge in May, 1919. In the fall of 1923 Hilmar came to[...]their uncle, Sam Hanson. Hilmar and Eddie farmed the[...]VOIGHT 1885-1957 returned to Norway to be married .[...]rm near 1885 where he grew up . In 1913 he came to Daniels County, Gabrielle's parents. Their neighbors were Henry after the railroad was extended to Scobey. He attended the Austinsons , Harry Batter[...]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 and Their first six children were born while Ii ving on the rented it to Greengard's in 1915. (Greengard rented it[...] |
| [...]they all managed to pull through. Coal had to be dug out[...]Gulik Kamrud bought Carl Fjeld's threshing rig and they[...]was more convenient for us going to school. While living at[...]the farm the children had to get up and meet[...]returned to the farm to spend the summers.[...]lives in Scobey and has fourteen children. Iver farms the[...]Lei brand ) has five daughters and lives in Bozeman. Lillian[...]owns her home in Great Falls and has worked at several[...]different jobs since moving to Great Falls. Hilmar Jr.[...]They have three children and live in Madoc. Kaare lives at home also and works for " Butch" erecting steel buildings.[...](Mrs. John Cassidy) has one son and lives in Great Falls.[...]married to Peggie Sporleder and is a bookkeeper in the[...]State University in Bozeman and plans to teach foreign[...]married to Edwin Simonson. They farmed north of Four Hilmar[...]try in World War I. Buttes for many years and are now living in Scobey. Taken in 1918.[...]four sons and eight daughters. The sons are David, Dennis,[...]Donald, and Dallas. The daughters are Mrs. Jean[...]Delaire, Mrs. Dorothy Doty, and Mrs. Howard H . Harmon.[...]Lillian, I ver, Hilmar Jr. , Kaare, Randy, Larry, and Carol (Ca ssid yj. Front row: Cora (Lei brand), H[...], Ga brielle, GARFIELD WILSON and Anna (She rer). Garfield Wilson came to Spring Valley community in the[...]Fall of 1909 filing on the homestead and then returned in the Spring of 1910 to take up residence. He lived there all of Elien , and Cora. The next seven were born after moving[...], Hilmar Jr., Community. Kaare, Carol, Randy and Elair. Three died in childh ood- Th[...] |
| Garfield and Cliff Jones surveyed by tying a rag on a wagon wheel and counting the turns of the wheel. Later when the G[...]eet from the correct line! All of the farmers had to move their fields over to the west twenty feet. Garfield met and married his second wife, Levin a Hogman, when she came to visit her sisters, Mrs. Henry (Hulda) Thompson and Mrs. Curtis (Agnes) Bush. They both lived about a[...]e married in 1926. There were three children born to this union, one son dying in infancy, James of Poplar, Montana, and Robert of Scobey. The house the family was rai[...]ost lost his life. He was trapped in the basement and rescued by neighbors Clarence and Orman Rossing who dragged him out through an outs[...]al neighbors fixed the little shop in the yard iJ!to a very livable home, one Ad and Louise Yuill's wedding picture before coming to room but very comfortable. One year later they mo[...]railroad section house from Whitetail. Coming to the valley about the same time as Garfield was a brother, Gordon and a sister, Mrs. Pearl Livingston, (Meekma).[...]pot felt good. We returned Jones took him by team to Poplar and there they boarded the to Madoc in January, 1913 on the first train to travel over train for Minot, to the doctor where his arm was amputated.[...]ded dances in the haylofts of Pearl Livingston and her husband Jim homesteaded on new[...]as built. the same section as Garfield. Jim froze to death in a spring Mother often played. E[...]nowstorm while looking for horses. Their daughter and kids and they slept in the hay and the straw at the husband still live there-the Wil[...]after he finished high from all over to the Yuill ranch. Baseball was a great sport school and he then attended Bible school in Minneapolis. then too. We often went seven miles and stayed all day. He has since pastored in the Ass[...]the 30's. Ad served as under-sheriff in Chinook, and at the present time is pastoring at Poplar. He Kalispell for several years before moving to Spokane where married Faye Bull from Mason City,[...]Boeing. Ad passed away in 1961. children, LaWonna and James David. L[...]on the original Alma is married to Dr. H.C. Ellsperman and lives in homestead. He married Carol Hicks who wa[...]ghter, Lucille. They have two children, Du Wayne and Roger.[...]Silas and Ella Merrill farmed way up north near the[...]ian line. There were two Merrill children, Bessie and[...]Grace Yuill Elza and Pearl Miller lived on the Matthew place. He was[...]a wrestler and was called "The Big Miller". He was a Ad and Louise Yuill and their two daughters, Grace and janitor and bus driver at the school. Alma, arrived in Daniel[...]mily by the name of Mitchell lived in Madoc for a to farm and raise horses. The women took the train to short time in the teens. They had[...]ve 150 head of horses across Fritz and Laura Martinson were in Madoc for a while in country from Williston to what later was Madoc. A horse the early twenties. He was involved in one of the elevators. and wagon were used to haul their belongings from Th[...]who attended school in Madoc. He later Plentywood to Madoc They stayed one night at an Indian moved to Sidney and became an insurance man. He was in camp where there was a white man married to an Indian Riverside, California i[...]dians. Ormond. The lumber to build our home was hauled from Medicint:[...]mily lived southwest of Madoc. Mrs. the trip back to Williston for Christmas the first year we[...]Emma Savage was a relative of Peter Voight and she we had to go by wagon to Plentywood to catch the train at kept house for him[...]ot in at the James Singleton was related to Ethel Singleton, Madoc Plentywood depot. A[...] |
| [...]Ronald. His farm is now owned by the state and is farmed Ben and Maude Schlag Ii ved east of Madoc in the[...]enties. They had a daughter, Florence. They moved to Mr. Bucker died in the forties. the Plen[...]George Bush was a hired man of O .E. Dunn and he drove near Antelope-she is Mrs. Max Rasmussen. the school bus. Thomas and Nancy Sloan lived north of the Bill Lapke Gil and Bertha Carlson lived northeast of Madoc on the pl[...]ere. Bertha was a sister of voice. They both died and had no family. Clarence Ro[...]ree- Virgil Christensen lived in Madoc and went to Wolf Wheel " Smith . He homesteaded "'hat is know[...]g northwest of Madoc. D.B. Cluster was his Dakota and homesteaded the place where Mike Barstad father and he was also in this area. Before leaving this now[...]tractor which he bought from Horace Bourassa Sr. and John Conrath (no information) appar[...]his mode of transportation. Three- Elmer and Bessie Crabtree and their four sons lived in Wheel returned to St. John where he died. Madoc for several years in the 20's and 30's where Elmer The Snyder family lived south[...]of Carl Fjeld 's. There were Howard, Raymond, and Richard. The family later lived in three daughter[...]at the old Four Scobey before moving to.Coeur d'Alene, Idaho wehere Mrs. Corners Scho·ol[...]t. Arnold played the violin for a dance when John and Bill Lapke were married to Elveda and Alice LaRoche. They left in the early twenties. James T. Sullivan and his family lived in Madoc and he was the last ever to do any blacksmithing. He had three children. They[...]own in Madoc. He was involved in business in town and also farmed. His wife's name was Carrie.and they had several children including Harold, Evelyn , Mina , Helen, Gordon and Autumn. They left in the thirties, living south o[...]ded southeast of Madocin Mrs. Korte.n dick and Mrs. Crabtree .on way to- Home- about 1910.[...]of errors as most of the information is just bits and pieces picked up from many different people. If a[...]y Andrew Beaudine, a bachelor. George Boyd came to this area in about 1912. He married Teresa Conlan. They farmed southwest of Madoc and later Mr. Drown moved to Spokane where he died . They had five children (M&rk , Hughie, Betty, Rose, and another younger one). Mrs. Boyd lives in Hungry H[...]A Mr. Drown and daughter, Mattie, homesteaded Ed Bucher homeste[...]s. They teens . He was from Wisconsin. He married and had a son, later moved out to the Peerless country.[...] |
| [...]of Mrs. Emory (Marie) LaRoche was in 1950 and is buried in Scobey. On his epitaph reads the one[...]f the Bert north of Mike Barstad's and is now owned by John Templeman place. He died in[...]30's. Charlie Grant was a cattleman who farmed and ranched Asten 0. Lien farmed south of Madoc. There were three north of Madoc. He was a bachelor and later moved · to children; Noble, Mable, and Lillian. Noble worked on the Riverside, Californi[...]k Dam project after the family left here. Hans and Lena Hole farmed the Bill Lapke place. They[...]d several children including Lowell, Amos, Alton, and (Anton was Gilbert's dad and Herman's uncle). He was Agatha. They left this area in the 20's and itis thought that married to Carrie Veberg and they celebrated their silver they returned to Minnesota. They were related to the wedding in 1930. Carrie was Mrs. W[...]Bill went to Minnesota in the thirties. Ole Jaeger came from the east and homesteaded the Ed Lind, Bill's brother, and his wife Ella lived north of John Lapke farm. Ole[...]Arndt Lomeland came here in the teens and- farmed Ames now owns the land.[...]place. l:Ie was married in tht twenties and his wife, Carrie, Ray and Lydia Lardy lived on the Emma Crone place for had been Ed Bucher's cook. They had some children and in several years in the .thirties. Lydia was a Severt girl. They the thirties moved to Idaho. had two chilqren while living here. They moved to St. Daly Matthew lived on the Gilbert Forbregd h·omestead Cloud, Minnesota when they left here and they are still and was very active in the Methodist church in Scobey[...]Mrs. John Hunter was Daly's sister. They mov·e d to Pea~e The Larson family farmed near Madoc in the early days. River, Canada ·and later to Portland. Two sons, Burnell and Robert, are very prominent persons in the state o[...]Larry Wahl 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 21/02/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78576
