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| PREFACE History is a story of people. As such, it is usually thought of as a record of the activities of people. The story of[...]s, 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 reminiscing. Some people say, "You are old when you dwell in retrospect." But to recall as much as one can of the ways and days of the early years,[...]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 before the histo[...]rea have become legend. Their unwritten saga will be a proud heritage treasured by their descendents. Countless stories that made up the warp and weave of the life of the fir[...]f the items still persist in altered state.You'll be interested in some, bored with others, surprised with a few. In compiling this book we have tried to think of all generations. Some names and importan[...]een omitted, but not intentionally. In general it is a record of the past, written by the pioneers thems[...]e gathering of material for this history has been a pleasure and a privilege. With the best of intentions, there will be things left out which should have been included. Should there be a slip up please remember that it was made in spite of being as careful as possible. Care has been taken to be accurate, but necessarily it cannot be altogether so. No history is. With each turn of the page it will bring to mind thoughts of yesterdays and the progress made. It makes us sad to think that progress cannot be made without it being at the expense of someting that can never 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 encou[...]sh and prize above silver and gold - this history is lovingly dedicated. INTRODUCTION[...]anor |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To the Daniels County Bicentennial Committee: Bob[...]d constant encouragement. To the Area Workers: Artists |
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| [...]03, 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 toto Big Horn, but was 11C10n ,wa//ow«J up by an extention of MN-[...]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[...]Danifl/1 county MS created reducing Valley county to i~ prn11nt lize |
| [...]northern Indian Assiniboine are probably not as well known to historians tribes--the Assiniboines (stone-boilers). The tribe received as some other tribes. No troops have ever been neede[...]tinent, are give this long neglected credit to the Assiniboine, the now considerably reduced bot[...]ce huge domain, extending from the Missouri River to the Saskatchewan River, has now shrunk to small reservations. The number of people in the tribe has fallen from an estimated 28,000 in the early 1800's to less than THE FIRST WHITE MAN[...]In Daniels County the history of Indian activity is quite "The level, fertile, open and exceedingl[...]pee rings of the plains" of northeastern Montana, to use the words of Assiniboines are plainly visible[...]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[...]present name of Poplar River. This historic visit is be seen in parts of western Daniels County.[...]the The northeastern Montana prairies were a paradise for 1920's. wild life, according to the journals of the Lewis and Clark In overco[...]iboine displayed "surrounded" the party according to Captain Lewis. The a high sense of personal responsibility and initiative that buffalo, particularly the bulls, were so tame that they modern civilization could well note. 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[...]rgest grizzly continent the Assiniboine used dogs as beasts of burden. bear of which the expedition ma[...]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 be dragged top of the front shoulder. The grizzly weighed between five about as the tribe followed the buffalo herds.[...]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[...]s and prairie rodents. of the south. In addition to bows and arrows, the Assiniboine carried spears[...]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[...]principal business of this area. As elsewhere in the United Befoi·e they had hor[...]preceded the cattleman and by calJi ng them into a trap where they could be surrounded the farmer. and kj !led. or by stampeding them over a cliff. After horses In 1829 the American Fur Co[...]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[...]arrows. This required Yellowstone River. This was a stockaded post with considerable skill.[...]bastions, and was constructed to withstand attacks by Th<' introd uction of fi[...]s established by the American Fur outpost in what is now Montana and was located ·Company at the conf[...]Or<ler was maintained in the Assiniboine camp by a Union twelve clerks and 129 men. Here the trades[...]The principle gods were Sun and Thunder, regarded to be by white trappers. With the decline of prices for[...]niboine Indians. being placed in the branches of a tree or on a scaffold. Each year the company sent out i[...]tives would stocking the stores with from fifteen to twenty thousand bury the bones.[...] |
| [...]key, ·although never authorized by law, was also a principal and lucrative THE[...]principal currency at the fort was buffalo robes. A The existence of Fort Union, and later Fo[...]r dollars. The price of coffee was created ,a need for horses. And the coming of settlers to $1 a pound, brown sugar was the same. Calico was $1 a northeastern Montana added to the need. 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[...]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 party approached the flag was 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 Indi[...]ollowed cowpunchers drifted north, some to Wyoming and some to · by an exchange of oratory. After dispensing with the[...]Indians were allowed in the store at any one time to the largest, toughest and most colorful of[...]tting out of hand. gangs. Halle, a stock inspector during this period, reported . During the 1860's much of the Indian trade came to be in his files that "Valley County, Montana is the most- " conducted at the army posts or by the[...]lawless and crookedest county in the Union and that the the Indian agencies rather than the old trading posts. Fort Big Muddy is the worst part of it". 2 Union was abandoned in 1[...]Dutch Henry, who is still remembered by many of the old[...]timers, came to Montana with cattle trailed up from Texas.[...]Early in his career he rode for a man named Dad Williams. DAYS OF THE OPEN RANGE It is said that he would get a bill of sale from Williams for[...]25 head of horses, then run off with a bunch more into the The beef industry of Montan[...]rthern plains were first ignored by broke. As many ~s 400 head of horses were stolen in one the[...]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. Henry Yeuch, Jauch o[...]s. One of Stockmen from weetem Montana and from as far south them, Chns3 , was a respectable rancher who would have as Texas began trailing cattle by the thousands to nothing to do with his brother's illegal activities. The northeastern Montana to be "finished" before shipping. other, a member of the 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 the other member of the gang[...]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 the ranche[...]irch. north of the Missouri. But the area of what is now Daniels Most of the local people had no trouble with the outlaws , County was a blank 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 Wh[...]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, th[...]Henry and Ole sought shelter and food at a homestead shack while the Shipstead, Manternach family, the Joe Bonnes family, owner was a way they left things as they found them. Charles Woodley, Frank Hughes Sr., Bill Crone, Julian Dutch Henry is credited with naming the town of Erickson, some o[...]the colorful Plentywood. According to a story he and some of the wild "Hominy" Thompson.[...]bunch were camping on a little creek. The cook was trying They settled[...]e Poplar River and its unsuccessfully to start a fire with damp buffalo chips. branches. Most of t[...]ve 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[...] |
| [...]and when the town Back in his chair, a hand clawing for his gun, he went in was established it took the name. a fast roll. Fast, yes, but not fast enough. Long[...]other member of the gang had prices on A soft-nosed slug from the .30-.30 in the hands of 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, from the sixgun in the hands of the second What happened to Dutch Henry is still not certain, as deputy, scored a flaming groove across his head. there are several "reliable", but conflicting accounts of As he hit the floor the outlaw got his gun out, but it was how he met his death. The Mounted Police claim that he too late. The swiftly moving foot of a deputy kicked the was killed in Canada--on two separate occasions. John A. pistol out of the outlaw's hand and acros[...]identified the body of Young Al Tande went to the fallen man. At his request he a murdered man found in a brush heap in Minnesota as carried him outside. "Air, I want air!" the gunman gasped. Dutch Henry. He is also said to have been hanged in Outside in .th[...]or 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[...]I'll get them!" died in Stillwater, Minnesota of a gunshot wound. The following is an interesting news item from the Culbertson Searchl[...]o 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[...]ses near the Canadian line in was dead a few hours later. And, with his death came the bot[...]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 morning of the gunfight which took place was kill[...]story degree, and now serving the fourth year of a life sentence in of outlawry in that part of Montana at the turn of the the state penitentiary at Stillwater, may be an innocent century. man. The complete vindication of young McKenzie rests And it is not entirely the story of Frank Jones. It also up[...]Dutch notorious cattle rustlers and horse thieves that ever Henry, Kid Trailer4, Reed and othe[...]th". It was Saskatchewan last Monday. Dutch Henry is the man for not until 1898 that Jones pushed his weary pony across the whose murder McKenzie was sentenced to spend his life in Missouri to seek new fields for his depredations and joined p[...]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 his innocence. McKenzie's case is one of the strangest in Before that time Nelson was the leader of the outlaws of the[...]ernors bushy beard and hair, and he had a price on his head and a Johnson and Eberhart of Minnesota, Governor D.A. public record when Jones arrived.[...]2 Red Nelson, also known as Sam Kelly, gave himself up to DEATH OF "HORSE THIEF" JONES IN RANCH authorities at Plentywood. As most shootings were HOUSE GUN BATTLE NEAR SCOBEY[...]charges but, instead, on a charge of helping a prisoner by Harry M. Lund, from Daniels Count[...]cember, 1940 purchased a ranch on the Muddy in Saskatchewan. In[...]1913 he homesteaded near Debden, also in that province. "Stick 'em up pardner, you're covere[...]3 Also spelled Carlisle. He was an ex-mounted policeman not change expression. Only his hands, moving as he reached for a knife and fork to use on the pile of flapjacks who gave up his j[...]activities. little table in the ranch shack. For a moment that must 4[...]Kid Trailer's name was Jack Winnefield. A short article have been eternity for the two depu[...]ace of two Coroner's jury verdict stated that Jones was killed on guns, he made his play[...] |
| At that time a pal of Nelson's, named Trotter, had been[...]99 and put in jail on general suspicion of being a hard citizen. probably was a mutual need. Jones had become more and With him was a young man named Seffick, held for more an undesirable citizen and John Eader, Culbertson m[...]Culbertson. deputy, set out to get him. Eader heard that Jones was at a In Valley County, which then comprised what no[...]e front Sheridan, Roosevelt and Daniels counties as well as door Jones came out the back door, stole the deputy's Valley, he was known as a rustler and killer. · horses, l[...]hen he was shortly after this escapade that he joined up with freed two men from the Valley C[...]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 jai[...]as good but it didn't work. Jones, constantly A noisy (nosy) cattle buyer sought to interfere and was shot in a fleshy spot for his impertinence. Otherwise the on the alert, had seen King ride up to Thompson's abode jailbreak proceeded with a minimum of discomfort. The and had fol[...]there heard every word. result was that Nelson 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[...]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 f[...]turned loose near the Seffick were holed up near a little town in South Dakota. Carl Gilberts[...]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.[...]owever the big rewards remained in force and many a man was tempted to earn one of them. Several tried Activities of this group became so troublesome that unsuccessfully and finally Jim Moore, a barber and finally rewards were put on the heads[...]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 Andersby5, disarming him without trouble. He placed his captive in a Elmer (Hominy) Thompson6 , Frank King and George sleigh, hitched up a team and started for Glasgow to turn LaPorte agreed to have themselves deputized and to try the man over to Sheriff Harry Cosner. , and round[...]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 a[...]am and put Trailer on one deputized ranchers were to make a circle in their part of the of the horses, ta[...]g Moore afoot. He country, while King would ride to Canada and-enlist the also took Moore's[...]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,[...]of the outlaws had the outlaws on foot, he tried to gun them down. In his big, black co[...]lted 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.[...]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 kindred soul in Nelson ran off the horses o[...]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 Endersby. Bill Endersby For several weeks 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 Montana shortly befor[...]was near Scobey. They went to that district and started 6 See Elmer "Hominy" T[...]it was January 14, 19047 when they 10 Tom A. Davis: Should this be John A. Davis who lived called on the Andrew Tan[...]capacity of son Albert were caring for a herd of 250 steers a n d deputy lawman? John A. Davis, a Civil War veteran and batching it. the father of Bill Davis, a partner with Shook at one time in The day was[...]he 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 that he had ridden 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 ran[...]y the night. that they would lead them to the outlaw's hideout, but a Bird and Moran were in the cabin when the man[...]ng the big, black cowhide coat without a leader broke up in the spring. once belonging to Moore! There was an aftermath to the killing of Jones. At once the deputies realized they had come upon one of Nearly a year later a big, redheaded man 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 partner of Jones, who had left the gang. He Early that evening young Al Tande made up a batch of disappeared again as thoroughly as before. (See footnote 2) sourdough. Bird volunteered to get up and cook breakfast, Footnotes for s[...]thief Jones", added in 1976 claiming he was known as the "Pancake Kid" and that he was the best cook of any in those parts. The a[...]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,[...](C.C.) and Jones lay down beside them. As he did so he took a new automatic out of a shoulder holster and laid it on his chest. Jack Winnefield, known as ·Kid Trailer, came into the The deputies did not sleep a wink that night, they territory with cattle 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.[...]kes with along with Sam Hall and Tom Reid, a herdsman for horses enthusiasm. Bird, watching him, laid down the p_a ncake stolen by the outlaw band of Nelson and Jones. 1 turner and started to roll a cigarette, a perfectly natural Trailer was an accomplished fiddler and even after there action. As he did it, he moved toward a comer where his was a reward on his head, he was in constant demand to .30-.30 was standing.[...]Jim Moore, a Culbertson constable, desirous of[...]collectjng some reward money, made an attempt to capture SHOOTING STARTS Trailer at a dance at the Ed Sherman2 place. Moore With a swift movement he picked it up, leveled it at Jon[...];! him without trouble and started for Glasgow in a with the command, "Put 'em up, Carlyle."[...]alleged killer, robber and horsethief, who Then as Moran drew a pistol and also covered him he must[...], freed Trailer, took the horses and realized in a flash what had happened.[...]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 h[...]iberty. 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 Jones was alive when taken out of.the shack after the The following is from a st.ory told by Mrs. Marie Ness blast of gunfire[...]Halverson': · and the outlaw was wrapped in a big canvas, then placed "Kid Trailer was a handsome young man, of average in a sleigh and with a fresh t.eam the two deputies, build, in his early twenties. When I first talked to him it accompanied by Andrew Tande, started for Poplar with was in the spring of 1907 or 1908 as closely as I can recall. I their wounded prisoner. Before l[...]married and was living on my homeetead near them to sign a note making the county responsible for the[...]he then One morning after daybreak, I heard an unusual noise. I 21 year old Albert.[...]cked 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 dying in the afternoon near what is now th~ Frank Cusker ranch8, 35 miles southeast o[...]9 George Robinson, lat.er a Scobey •resident, but at that[...]identified the body as that of Jones, inst.ead of Carlyle, as The men with the outlaw's body did not arrive i[...]d mistakenly assumed. Ellen Scobey, until about 2 A.M. the next day. From there they daughter of Major C.R.A. Scobey after whom the town was summoned Sheriff Conner (Cosner) from Glasgow. An named. insisted that the Indian police provide a clean[...]orsethief Jones, this book history, 1963, stat.es that Jones died at Give-Out Morgan 4 Mot[...] |
| a grouse. I raised my rifle, aimed and shot the bir[...]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 Knapp who had a spread in a deep brush filled valley not far north of where t[...]d Trailer. · But even that was not enough for Knapp. Knowing that there was a reward for Trailer, he informed the sheriff at Cr[...]whereabouts. The sheriff and his deputy rode out to the place and hid in the brush until the[...]In an interview, the compiler of this article was told that[...]tson sheriff called out, 'Up with ,em, or you are a dead man!' horseman, came to a close Tuesday evening and result.eel in Trailer looked at his guns on the saddle horn and back to a verdict of guilty. The evidence against Sherman 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 surrender. with a bunch of horse thieves that have been operating in He was taken to Crosby for trial. When the jury came in that section. He admitted that Jones had been at his place with the verdict of g[...]udge asked him if he had on several occasions but that he was not traveling under anything to say before sentence was passed. The prisoner that name. Sherman's conviction will have the effect o[...]request-take good care of my buckskin scattering an undesirable class of rounders who have been horse until I get out, and when I do Joe will be a dead man!' · harassing the stockmen in other portions of the county. •Trailer was sentenced to twenty years in the North Sherman will probably be sentenced this afternoon. Five Dakota penitentiar[...]years and fine of $55 is the extreme penalty in this case.• The only reward received by Knapp was a .44 handgun *See Kid Trailer history, this book. given to him by the sheriff for his protection. Who received ******** the cash reward is questionable but many people had June 25, 1904: T[...]ft the country. He left no Culbertson was brought to Glasgow Sunday evening by forwarding address. J.A. Davis, a rancher who lives way up on the river.* It Kid Trailer was out of prison in thirteen to fifteen years." appears that Reid was captured by the Canadian Mounted In the Bruce Smith biography, 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[...] |
| given a preliminary hearing before Justice Friedl. This He gave a motherless colt to the Desonias for their leaves Dutch Henry alone as the sole survivor of the gang unborn child who he felt would be a girl. Mildred, the child up north as it is thought that Carlisle had long ago left the in question, had[...]Sheridan's Daybreak states that the last time Tom 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[...]ch was caused by "his gun going The editor paid a visit to the county jail Wednesday off when his h[...]lley County officials wanted of him. He claimed to have been wrangling horses for a PIGEON-TOED KID Canad[...]d of Dutch Henry or any of the rest of the gang that he (from Homesteader 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. singed the h[...]tless heads of stock, men drifted Kid Trailer is putting most of his time mastering a fiddle, into the country in search of unbranded horses and cattle, and at times is extremely nervous. He wanted to know if and as second choice took those which had brands that the reporter had any idea what Deer Lodge is like. He was could readily be changed. referred to Kid Flannagin for further information.[...]Pigeon- Toed Kid, who operated 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 them, he was with any of Tom Evans' 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 stole some horses from Ole Shipstead. 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 Calderw[...]search of him. July 6, 1904: Owing to lack of evidence Tommy Reid was George[...]the Wesley discharged here Saturday. The county is out over $300 on Howard ranch, went to Glasgow to get some supplies for the deal. The Searchlight intimates that he was received the Kid. Learning that there was a reward for the horse with open arms by the people of Culbertson who appeared thief, he told the sheriff that there was to be a birthday to rejoice over his deliverance. Reid can congratula[...]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 would tie the horse in the barn. t[...]He died a few minutes later. Another outlaw remembered by a few old-timers was Another account[...]es and Tom Ryan, who traveled about the area with a partner by shooting, told to Clara Reeser by 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 Glasgow Courier, October 9, 1962, is as who knew him, was a man who hated petty larceny. Empty follows: mail bags lay around his cabin and he made no effort to "Pigeon Toe The Kid", or more commonly[...]Toe", was a young man about 22 years old. He was in When s[...]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[...]north of Opheim where he Afterward it was learned that the injury was a gunshot fell in with a bunch of horse thieves who were rustling wound received in a bank robbery. 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 Bonnabel. "I wondered what he wanted a Mrs. Lon Desonia, whose home was a stopping place for hammer for. He wanted to shoe a horse. (This horse most travelers in the Daleview-Redstone vicinity, declared probably belonged to John Richardson, whose horse he that Ryan was the most gentlemanly man she ever knew. had stolen a few days before). He had a pair of shoes on his One time she was trying to catch some chickens for the saddle. next meal, he rode up and offered to "fetch" the chickens "Another fellow, th[...]ting 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.[...] |
| [...]TUESDAY AFTERNOON knew him because he had had a fight with him before. The Kid got up and started[...]tate 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[...]I took my razor blade and man had been left to guard, carrying with them more than removed the bullet. The officers loaded the Kid in a wagon $4,500 of the bank's money and leaving the four bank and took him to Glasgow." em[...]killed at When the bandits went to the bank president, A.P. Bonnabel's at Richland in 1908 by Deputy Hugh[...], bookkeeper were all working this book, lives in a rest home in Harlem, Montana. behind the fixtures. They were ordered to put up their[...]THERS ·of the robbers to make a deposit, and Joe Fugere, a farmer, ,, had just received cash for a check. Nobody knows where the Norse Brothers "[...]deposit out of his hands, pocketed why they went is the story. the[...]ng During the early days when Scobey was known as a him and Fugere to get behind the fixtures and keep their "pretty to[...]orse 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. Quite the contrary. It is said that it the floor. Two of the gang stood guard over them while took Ed Norse to get the Scobey cemetery started. No one another busied himself gathering all the money in a sack. has ever proved this one, but the first burial in the Scobey 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 ti[...]mlt. Mr. Smerud was commanded to lead the short A man met his death in 1916 on main street from a bullet }. ,.rade. The bandits then locked the vau[...]Another man, John Shipman of Wolf Point, and a child Boyd's and Kahle's Pool Hall. The gunplay didn't happen came to the bank just then and they were ordered into a in just the manner that the gunsmoke television 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 rang out from between two rr·. i> se i[...]ble. 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 th[...]piace, was notified and he and Deputy up his days as a "lifer" in the North Dakota state Tousley were so[...]ut the Chrysler owned by Joe Murr was the only That's where the first Norse went. The Kid's story is a one fast enough to keep pace. little different. He was also self-emp[...]ess, 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 Mur[...]of oil and overheated he was within a mile of them. The One day the sheriff from Gla[...]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 ar[...]first stop, when his hands were freed, he slipped 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.[...]riff Art Nelson left again at but where they went is now history. daylight this morning, feeling that he had a reasonable[...]held up and robbed in the same fashion by handed a hand gun to the bartender and asked him to put it three men who made their getaway. They secured between in the safe. (from an interview) Charles Edward Norris $7,000 and $8,000 at Froid and apparently overlooked a was charged with murder in the death of Chapin. The case parcel containing twice that much. came to trail at Plentywood in early 1916. Norris was found It is thought it might have been the same gang that "not guilty" of the charge.[...] |
| [...]ll 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 or hijacking during the fourteen The Leader is informed that the bandit car at Flaxville years that the "noble experiment" was taking place. carried a machine gun, as well as rifle and shotgun. This The traffic in illi[...]ecame widespread over the statement, however, may be only rumor. It is probably United States, and this area was no different than any true, though, as booze runners out of Minot carry machine othe[...]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[...]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. In winter there were very few passengers as people found guilty were given a fine, told not to do it again, and did not come here very much duri[...]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[...]n breed weighing who when the warning was brought that the revenue approximately 1200 pounds. They were[...]bly- Some freighting was done, causing outfits to meet now legged, squealing and squawking betrayin[...]ads making difficulty in passing each one thought that his hogs had some dread disease and shot other.[...]several before realizing that the dread 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[...]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. Those who rode with him were teachers loud as a rifle shot; the boxcar load of grapes fermenting coming to teach school,- homesteader's wives and families,[...]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 Step[...]and Griffith. In Flaxville there was a saloon run by After about two years Timmons and Daniels bought an Molden.[...]y" period some speakeasies were run from employed a different" driver, Andrew Upsall, brother of priv[...]ty Shame Mrs. Bonnes. This vefiicle was driven in a parade in located within the business district of[...]years later. Howard's It has been said that every grocer knew who was making fath~r, Vic Hill[...]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[...]tion of the 18th amendment county following a period of wet and cloudy'weather. The to the Constitution and became enforceable in[...] |
| [...]prairies in response to a little scratching and a handful of[...]Among the towns to back up its claims with records is[...]America. One realizes today that it was quite a task for a town of less than 1,500 people to load more than 2,750,000[...]and team and a few tractor outfits. In those days a horse outfit had a large haul over prairie trails for a long distance-up to 45 miles in some cases. When they got to town, there invariably was a jam in[...]uncommon for 300 outfits to be waiting in Scobey .at one time to have wheat unloaded. A single farmer likely had[...]seven 120-bushel wagons tied up, with a shortage of[...]"Some days the tie-up was so serious that elevators[...]recalled. "If a trainload of empties came in, whether day or[...]night, they would be loaded within eight hours -and sent[...]in 1922 and 1923, due to a machinist's and boilermaker's[...]strike the first year and a switchmen's strike in 1923.[...]Distance was also a problem. The Opheim Railroad[...]on was not built until 1925 and the closest route to different stages. The first shows the tornado des[...]ounty was from the cloud; in the second, dust can be seen rising from via Scobey. the ground; in the third, the funnel spiraling around 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[...]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 |
| CuttinR the heads from the Rrain stalks using a horse ''pushed" header. A rotating canvass 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[...]cks for threshing later. The driver would ride on a seat fixed to the long balance pole behind the header. This is an old Acme header.[...]Hauling Grain to Scobey Cutting with a header at the O.E. Susag farm , 1929. From left to right: Bert Songstad, John Sherve, Martin Nielsen[...]Ralph Susag. Threshing at Tande, Montana with a steam engine. Notice |
| [...]The ranch consists of 640 acres. Mr. Carney took a 320-acre homestead about ten years ago and has since purchased a half-section. He has been very success{ul infarmi[...]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 of high protein test which often brings a premium of 10% or more above the normal market pr[...]awn combine; Coal Creek, 1926. Cutting oats with a binder, 1913; photo unidentified.[...] |
| [...]hing out wheat with steam engine power. Tom Tjone is standing on ground by team hitched to grain wagon. He has hat at back of his head, a dark handkerch_ief knotted at neck.[...]Ad Yuill breaking land in 1916 on what is now the Harold Combining, 1970, George Sev[...] |
| [...]Twin City gasoline tractor belonging to Roy Day; breaking[...]on farm, Whitetail, in 1916, pulling what appears to be ten breaker bottoms.[...] |
| Rumley Oil Pull breaking on the J.A. Norgaard homestead at Orvile. Note the device in front of the tractor to keep the wheel in the furrow; also the steel gaso[...]Ben Bollerstuen breaking sod with a Case gasoline tractor and what appears to be a P&O plow at Orville in 1925.[...] |
| [...]were soon depleted, the first settlers had to turn to other[...] |
| [...]die Hance hauling coal from the Kravik coal mine, a[...]Silver Star coal mine and a busy day.[...]community, died in the shaft from black damp, a non-[...]The North mine, also a shaft mine, was located[...]northwest of Scobey. Much of the coal that was burned in Scobey came from that mine. The Howe mine at Coal Creek employed as many as·[...]931, Leon Parent and Frank Fordyce were killed in a strip mine accident in Line Coulee when a bank caved in on[...]. A spark caused a keg of powder to explode at the Wiley[...]with fifty percent of his body burned, Lignite is inferior to the anthracite and bituminous coals survived. f[...]ntry, but with patience it Without the coal that these mines produced the country can be fired, and once it is it gives heat. could not have been developed. During the days of scant It is only natural that numerous mines sprung into harvest and[...]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[...] |
| [...]l and plentiful supplies. No more coal or. ashes to haul; no clinkers to dig out of the grates; no more coal dust or bank[...]ls either caved in or were filled in. Today there is not an operating coal mine in Daniels County: But, as these photos attest, it was not always so.[...]per floor Branding at Fadness Ranch. Left to right: Andy, Claire was used for dances until aga[...](Paus) and brother, Ben Horvik. pictured is on Herman Forbregd farm, northwest of Madoc.[...]ng at the Kerstein place, Four Buttes, 1923. Left to right: Maurice, Harry, Sam.[...] |
| [...]these buffalo from the Scotty Phillips Ranch To far right is Josephine in buggy, Ernest right on grader, at Fo[...]ops so Walt butchered them and sold the wild meat to Scobey patrons.[...]from wing tip to wing tip, seven and one half feet; from the REMEMBER WHEN? Every boy used to have his homemade sack containing head to the feet in the photo was five feet. marbles? How[...]REMEMBER WHEN? little,cratked. Marble playing was a sure harbinger of The pioneers were pla[...]e first m~l~d \jcilled barn full of poultry in a night. Coyotes carried off snow revealed a black spot of earth as was th, first chickens a~d turkeys in the evening and sometimes in meadowlark singing from the top of a fence post or tlw bif broad day l\ght.[...] |
| [...]nty Leader of December 27, months just to be looked at and admired. 1962. Most of those interv[...]d record players supplied modern children do. a background of sacred and popular Christmas music , and Mrs. Fossen states that she learned the truth about old colored lights bl[...]Santa after the family had been snowbound at an aunt's evergreen (or aluminum) Christmas trees, families and place on Christmas Eve during a storm. Her mother told friends gathered together this week to celebrate an "old the children that Santa would leave their presents at their fashion[...]pr~sents were brought Just how "old fashioned" is today's celebration? Ask out of the pan[...]der the tree at all! any homesteader, or child of a homesteader. Christmas in Many famili[...]busters built their shacks along the until that date , and the day was celebrated with visiting P[...]and feasting. Mrs. Louise Davis recalls that Blanche Timmons made a Some Scandanavians from the "Old Country" Christmas tree by covering a chokecherry tree with a vine remembered the day as something akin to Halloween, known as creeping cedar. Properly decorated it looked like when tricks were to be played. a real Christmas tree and was the central decoration at a Cranberries also made their debut here[...]ristmas party in old Scobey before 1913, at which a Julian Erickson remembers that Henry and Ole large number of young people gathered to celebrate . Shipstead · froze a quantity of cranberries in a special Christmas Eve with singing and dancing.[...]they were living. Mrs. Carrie Fossen , who was a homestead child, recalls This "home freeze[...]first Christmas here in 1909. The family traveled to who w·a s working for them, with a supply of cranberries all Hoke Smith's place in a bobsled. It was only four miles but winter[...]of the children were cranberries were a treat that Mr. Erickson remembers with numb when they arrived . Johnny Smith had received a pleasure even today. pop gun for Christmas and declared happily that "I shot Many of the Christmas custom[...]e Norwegian tradition. which brings a renewed time of fellowship, wonder, and The Scandanavian favorite dishes, such as lutefisk, lefse sacred reflection, has chang[...]l and blood sausage were served at Christmas time as was trappings. home-grown turkey.[...]s, and the lumber Ice skating on the river was a favorite holiday pastime in companies that were supplying the settlers with lumber for those[...]It was many years before the settlers had to buy trees. A Sunday-school Christmas program was held at the[...]nearest schoolhouse. The children. had ample time to descendants, it is only natural that such items as lutefish, prepare for this big event, as school was held only in the lefse, fattigm[...]rs: home-made. Others came by mail order, brought to Scobey by stage.[...]om my Little girls usually received new dresses to wear to the father's stories of his 1912 visi[...] |
| [...]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[...]old John JACK BENNETT A. Davis, probably one of the earliest of them all.[...]Richard Burmester answered what appeared to be a picture of the old west. They were all a great and wonderful routine request to come to Mondak and prefer charges people. Their fortitude in the most trying times of the 30's against a Negro laborer who had been disturbing the peace r[...]h they were made.No, here and who was known to be armed. In making the arrest there was no war with[...]t; they welcomed us and befriended us. We learned to hanged by the enraged citizenry. like and[...]e danced with them, did Jack Bennett, a brother of Scobey' s first mayor Sid business with them and made them a part of our lives. Soi t Bennett, filled out the unexpired term of the murdered was thus that my father 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 had received his peculiar first name from that fact that he dared to come west where survival might well depend on hauled freight with a three-wheeled steam engine, also had one's strength of character and merits. a bad temper. Sure, and all these noble characteristics cannot be When Bennett arrived at the farm Smith was hauling applied on a basis of occupation or time they were[...]g 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 thei[...]k deeds we are honoring people who richly deserve to be finally got Smith down but the latter bit off the end of one remembered. I want now, therefore, to add to the list those of the sheriffs thumbs. Jack[...]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 Market of[...]e who took such active parts in bringing baseball to the area in the 1920's. Happy Felch and Swede Ris[...]the great negro pitcher John Donaldson will long be remembered by the old John Brown, farmer of the Peerless area, came to that timers. Nor were our home boys neglected on the playing vicinity in the early 1930's. He purchased a half section of field, Joe Walker among them. Yes[...]rned two or three years still alive and in Scobey to accept the honors for their long later. years[...]Knapp and Crandell, Davis Records show that he was born at Perry, Iowa in 1892 to and Shook, Battleson-Peterson, Hanson, Rasmus Nel[...]ic Hillstrom, Pat Murphy and H.C. Nelson who was, as records. earlier related, out in the lead of the early migration of He was a "loner" and therefore there was much "Sod Busters" leaving his mark as businessman and early speculation about him and his activities prior to arriving law man at Noonan, Crosby, Outlook and f[...]ounty. Scobey, coming there in early 1929 in time to experience He was found dead in his sha[...]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. his person as well as another check of a large amount. He Here is a short account of the H.C. Nelson family since[...]t placed his farm for sale. Northern as a telegrapher until he died in 1963; Ly le died in[...]n live at Longmont, Colorado and their son Philip is a clinical psychologist practicing in California. Sister, Mrs. Lola Cooke with her husband, a retired shop foreman for[...]ive in Fargo, North Dakota. Their son, Lon Cooke, is a plant manager for Corning An early 1927 issue of the Daniels County Leader sta[...]g Flats, New York; and yours truly lives in that Robert Bruce, Medicine Lake, Montana, had been Ar[...]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 long period of Robert Bruce w[...], North Dakota hospitalization and sincerely hope to pay Scobey a visit in to parents of Scottish and Chippewa descent. the not[...]l at Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he Birthday U.S.A. 1976; may it leave a true and encouraging played football on the same team as Jim Thorpe.[...] |
| Prior to the first World War, he was a featured cornet soloist with the Harvey, North Da[...]h in this country and overseas, remained together as a band. It became known as Bachman's "Million Dollar Band". Following the war he was with the Million Dollar Band for a while; for a time he was with the Lehigh Valley Symphony orche[...]It has been said by those who heard Bruce play that few could match his ability. He was "between jobs" when he accepted the directorship of the Scobey band that year, but would appear with the John Philip Sousa band in 1928. Last reports stated that Robert Bruce was a patient in the Fort Meade VA Hospital in South Da[...]age of ten, he moved west to Albion, Iowa, where he Thomas Rossler, wanted by Canadian authorities, was received a common school education and worked at the capture[...]uties carpenter trade. Later he worked in a drygoods store and Ray Hunter and Marvin Cupp on[...]Rossler, traveling under many aliases throughout a · was united in marriage to Adele Timmons, at Marietta, career in crime, was[...]and brought Iowa. No children were born to this marriage. In July 1907, to Scobey by the officers to be jailed. Canadian authorities Mrs. Daniels passed a way. were notified. , Being of that sturdy American pioneer type who seem to The arrested man was wanted-for the murder of a RCMP grow restless under the influence of civilization and ease, constable during a bank holdup in Montreal earlier in the Mr. Daniels moved in April 1896 to Poplar, Montana where year. he was destined to do· his share in the carving out and He made his way across Canada to Moose Jaw where he making a new empire. He became identified there with the w[...]scape. The wanted man, some way or another, got to the border, and when first noticed in Whitetail, was walking. He was turned over to the RCMP. ---excerpts from Daniels County Lead[...]er was tried, found guilty and hanged in Montreal that fall. Taken From[...]hursday, May 27, 1920 BRIEF HISTORY OF MANSFIELD A. DANIELS, |
| [...]In 1901, Mr. Daniels made his first trip north to the present site of "Old Scobey", which is located on the west bank of the Poplar river abou[...]ng 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 explain-[...]e, for the benefit fo those who did not know him, that[...]ready to do, give or lend to those who needed. And believe[...]priest and in a large measure he was that too.[...]hardships of building up the community and who is today[...]ed the present Citizens State Bank of Scobey, and that time, or who they were, but it is a well known fact that later married a niece of Mr. Timmons. they were extremely few, ·[...]In 1912, Mr. Daniels began the erection of a beautiful stock ranchers who lived many miles apart. It was the day home on a cozy little hill overlooking the west bank of the of cayuse and lariat, bachelors and flapjacks--a time when Poplar river, and which cost hini in the neighborhood of the worst and best traditions of a type of westerner, now $20,000.00. This home was modern throughout and is one gone forever, were in full evidence the year[...]he best in this part of the state notwithstanding that On January 20, 1909, Mr. Daniels was united in marriage every bit of material had to be freighted 60 miles overian.d a second time to Mabel E. Brooks, who was then a nurse in from Poplar. Those were the days when Mr. Daniels wore 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. Scob[...]just been gave unreservedly of his body and mind to his manifold established at that time by Joseph Bonnes, another of the duties. ear[...]on, who has The writer of this sketch came to "Old Scobey" in July, since passed away, and wasl[...]es Woodley became postmaster rumored on all sides that he was on his deathbed. In that after Mr. Bonnes resigned and when Mr. Daniels lo[...]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 discontinued about three years ago.[...]th 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 nature.[...]n of Scobey--the 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[...]etting the post Plentywood, and it was impossible to build down into his office, he at once bec[...] |
| being built up the Poplar valley from Poplar, and in that Mr. Daniels passed away on April 15, 1919[...]would have remained where he established in a chair. His funeral was conducted by the Masonic i[...]rom Plentywood was fraternity, of which he was a member, and was attended by because the Soo was b[...]eved, 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.[...]n 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 all a man gained country, in order that we, who come later may work and by entering politics was a host of enemies. In regard to live in comparative comfort. Of this class of men was enemies, it is truthfully said he had very few. Mansfield A. Daniels. He came, he hewed and he won. Now In the winter of 1919, Mr. Daniels suffered a paralytic he has passed on to a reward that humanity does not give , stroke from which he never recovered. He realized that the and we are left to mourn the presence and daily comfort of end h;d[...]f it in many ways. The one whom we learned to love. We cannot call him back, but first move for the creation of a county bearing his nam e we have done a fitting thing in his honor--we have placed a was started at this time and he showed unmistaka[...]Mansfield Daniels right to left: Will Davis, Doc Hall, Clate Hall, on a hunting trip in the early 1900 's . Note t[...] |
| [...]Scobey at its present site; and the third, Scobey as it is today.[...]cobey Freight Train 1901-1913. Steve Robinson has a[...]string of horses pulling sleighs, which were used to haul fr eight from Poplar to Old Scobey. It took three to four days to make the round trip of 100 miles. The cost of hau[...]me odd 75 years ago on the prairies of Montana in a region where the foot of man had scarcely trod and where a few years before roamed the Indians and the buffalo a struggling infant town was born. The reason for this birth was Mansfield Daniels making a trip from Poplar, Montana in 1901 to the site of what was to become Old Scobey. He beheld with pleasure acres[...]adow larks were singing everywhere! The river was a home for muskrats and beaver, and trees lined its banks in places. What a site for a future town![...]harvest workers. 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.[...]with him. The germ had set into his Scobey, at that time Indian Agent for the Fort Peck Indian |
| [...]the only by Clarence Penn and Mansfield Daniels, a post office, the community center for sixty[...]age business of R.J. Coughlin and Charlie Grimes, a It was a big disappointment t o .his big hearted man general merchandise store (Daniels & Timmons), a saloon, when he learned that the rai road construct10n engineers a warehouse, an undertaking parlor, a real estate office, a wouldn't consider running the line any furth[...]1913. He had hoped th e railroad would come as far as the Timmons saw the need for ater 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, sto[...]rails would extend across the Poplar enough water to flood many acres of hay land.[...]Left to right: Martin Smith and Jake Timmons out for a[...]July 4, 1913-Scobey, Montana A 1911 picture of the old Scobey postoffice, Mansfi[...]new In 1912, Mr. Daniels built a beautiful home on the west |
| [...]gration of business places There wasn't a jail in Scobey but there was a constable and homes to "east Scobey". Like a flock of prairie named Roy Corneveau. He rode a big bay horse and was chickens the settlement raised its wings and flew to the the only person who carried a gun around town. One night east and settled there[...]oved the boys in the saloon were getting a little wild as some of by John Lee of Froid, Montana Case tractor. 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 followed b[...]empty beer bottle in each back pocket--planning to use McCurdy house , now owned by Mrs. Clarence Na[...]re, 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[...]out on the floor and the other guy kept trying to reach it. So barn and others.[...]said that the De Laval cream separator was one of the[...]t sellers the store had. He would load several in a AMOS BLEGEN 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[...]worked at every kind of job and community. He was a handyman and hardware clerk in kno[...]girls I wanted I couldn't hardware and implements as well as food, harness, etc. He have and the girls[...]d townsite, southeast of Four Buttes. He moved up to the Scobey townsite in 1915, he worked for the ol[...]LOUIS D. BOYD which is still under that name. He worked for the new owners for many years too . He remained a bachelor. He Louis D. Boyd, who star[...]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. The following article is from the Daniels County Leader. Before coming to Scobey he lived at Jamestown , North Amos Blegen, a pioneer resident of these parts asked these Dakota, where he became a life member of the Elks Lodge questions of the lo[...]- Do you know where the No. 995. Coming to Scobey before the railroad he and first city wate[...]city water well in Scobey. It was moving to the present townsite with the arrival of the steel. located in the middle of the street between what is now the Martin died with the flu in 1918 an[...]his lockers. The well was located so teams could be driven part of the business to Thomas Conboy, now of East around and up to it for convenient watering in the new Helena. townsite (that was before the town was incorporated in[...]sewer was installed). Oregon where he was a member of the Hinson Baptist Do you know where th[...]Church. He passed away in Portland. Amos said that a gasoline flame light was the first street light.[...]st west of the Johnson Transfer. It was installed to facilitate night loading and unloading at the tra[...]said it was about eight feet) , this light could be seen for miles , r.:;arking the new town. Excerpts from an interview with pioneer Amos Mr. Blegen was born and grew to manhood in southern |
| [...]Mr. Bonnes was part owner of a lumber yard in Madoc and it was from there that he hauled 1umber for an elev a tor In 1901 the Joe Bonnes and John Manternach[...]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, himself, furnished the music, as he was a great Scobey area.Joe Bonnes found the perfect pl[...]olin lessons in town. miles south of Old Scobey - a river and a bayou winding However, that elevator was the scene of a tragedy which through grassland, ideal for his sh[...]psahl and their mother had 18, went to the elevator one afternoon to grind some feed, already arrived and had homestea[...]got caught in the belt and was carried to his death. When he Peters lived. Another brother[...]ck houses, which from every direction, as Harry was well liked. He was were soon built and[...]ry so the procession of wagons, Bonnes' house was a two-story, five bedroom house with buggi[...]om and "parlor" -- quite different five miles to the cemetery. Louis Boyd, a saloon keeper, from the usual frontier home. It was also unique because it furnished a Cadillac for the pallbearers who were Frank had running water in the kitchen and a bathroom in the Hughes, Oliver Bystrom, Cecil Marlenee , Alvah basement with a toilet where you pulled the chain. This Parkhurst, Alfred Evenskaas and Wesley Lasiter. A was possible because of a spring in the hillside above the sidelight o[...]r was piped in. They also Bonnes was an active member in the Anti-Saloon League planted a grove of beautiful trees. and campaigned diligently to close the saloons. But in The Bonnes had three[...]re Olive and Harry, first set of twins, That winter Joe thought a change of scene might help Edith, Luella who's tw[...]l, and final the family so he took them all to Wisconsin to spend the twins Alma and Alvin. One thing I remem[...]daring" than the rest. Face powder was a way with Locomotor-a taxis. In the spring a sad Mrs. just coming "in" but of course only "wicked" girls used it! Bonnes and children came back to Scobey but they never So we were horrified when w[...]again lived on the farm. They moved into what is now the with cornstarch (in lieu of powder) on her face! It seemed to Carmen Bush house. She rented out the farm for the next me that Mrs. Bonnes believed in the saying, "Spare[...] |
| [...]upstairs. Jake Timmons taught Ole and Tom how to Lehnan children; Paul Holiday; and Frank Sutcliff[...]ns , made sausages and hamburger - of her friends to pick the red currants she had growing so which was then five cents a pound. So plentiful was meat abundantly . They usually took home some buckets of that we had no market for the liver, heart, head, etc.[...]While they were here Olive married Perry Blevins, a prize fighter. The family left here abo ut 1920 and it is believed that most of the children live on the west coast. M[...]katchewan where he was buying and selling horses. A group of us decided to move t o Montana from Radville. Making the journey to Scobey were the Discher family with five children and a hired man in one wagon, myself and two year old son J immy, Tom McClelland who had a wagon and Ole who drove a wagon. It took four days across at Diamond Crossi[...]We moved to new Scobey within two months and located[...]where the Gorham Hotel is. We ran the butcher shop until[...]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 folks kept food in ice boxes then. We had a livery barn, horses and a dray and delivered stuff around town. Ole[...]hauled gas and oil to Opheim with horses. He did road and[...]and did a lot of sewing for the Wards. I cooked on a cook car[...]Collinson, Irving and I drove a team of horses to Erstads and delivered a new baby, George. Dischers, Timmons,[...]moved to the Coal Cr eek farm and farmed for Pat Murphy[...], Arizona. We went there for his health We came to Old Scobey in September, 191 3. When we as he had suffered with heart trouble for sixteen years. arrived in the Scobey area we camped on an old river bed Clifford did the fa rming and[...]nto living quarter s above the butcher married to Mable Crawford in 1959 and had one child,[...] |
| [...]y took over the farming after Clifford died. to be always where he wa s needed, especially in the kickoff, I've remained in town, put in a large garden every year when in almost every case he was the fir Jt man to down the with Beverly's help. I had a stroke in February, 1975 which runner." slowe[...]F ollowing gra d uation, Ingrid went home to Cummings nine grandchildren and nine great grandc[...]a count ry store. There were two sisters and three[...]That fall, Ingrid went to Minneapolis to further her education, staying with an aunt who painted church 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[...]irkeberg 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 was bo[...]her . 12, 1883 in Cummings, North Dakota. She was a shy, pretty blue eyed girl with dark hair and an oval face. She was secretary to the principal and checked attendance. Quoting fro[...]ry member of the class. One of those whom we hate to leave."[...]his Paul Crum, Sr.-Taken about 1915 on the farm-h is first father , Attorney Taylor Crum, in Fargo. He really didn't car, a Ford touris t model. The top came up and it had side want to be a la wyer, but he was the last of fo ur s ns, and t[...](attachable). older boys h a d chosen other careers. Paul thought he r eally[...]wan ted a chicken ranch. But he apprenticed with his father[...]and in 1906, a fter being admitted to the Bar, ope ed a law[...]His pet lawyer named Halvorson. During that 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[...]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[...]g Crum for Center, football pr ecedent back to North Dakota, and Halvorson was again Paul's was knocked on the head as he was the lightest man on the partner in M[...]is passing. In open field playing it We were to choose our middle names later. When she was seemed that he was possessed with some particular power quite grown up, my sister chose Susan as her first name,[...] |
| and retained Helen as a middle name. When we were little I called her Honeen , as I could not pronounce Helen. Later this was shorted to Honey, and it became a family name. For my middle name I chose Bixby,[...]. The Bixby's were originally from England , with an admixture of Scotch and Irish . Honey thinks she recalls a bit of French, but I c~n't remember reading of it. In the genealogy there 1s a reproduction of President Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby commending her and sympathizing with her for having given five sons to the Civil War. The Crum side of t~e family were P[...]dfather Simon 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[...]San Juan Hill in " the most splendid moment of h is life". The men in blue , and " the moment" -ju[...]d 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[...]for Santa Cruz , remaining with his grandparents 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[...]" well and bravely in all engagements", according to Crum to Old Scobey where he was an attorney and Land officer's testimony. Toward th[...]re the Daniels and the perhaps with the "fever", as his grandmother feared. Timmons. He filed on a quarter section five miles north of Death was[...]ere obscured by deaths from building , and a well. disease. But the pine coffins led to Major Walter Reed's Honey remembers being told that we arrived in Old identification of the yellow f[...]hen 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 for[...]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 al[...]r most army blanket and buried on the prairie in a pine box. precious and lasting memorie[...]The lumber and materials for our home authorized to wear the uniform of Uncle Sam. Later,[...]at Wolf Point. Father had the farm home built in a special bills passed by Congress in recognition[...]re we arrived by horse drawn vehicle. It service to his country while in his teens.[...]clude 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[...]Nails between the studdings would overnight be covered[...] |
| with glistening frost. The pantry was always stocked a have had to cross the river to get where he was. He was month ahead for storms, and I helped put a lamp in the perfectly dry, and no one e[...]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.[...]round tables. I liked visiting the Dad planted a Caragana hedge around our cluster of office , a pleasant two room bulding with a rather stale odor little buildings, placing a bone at the bottom of each hole. of ink, dust[...]joyed looking at the Besides our house there were an outhouse, woodshed, barn National Geographic. and a chicken coop with willows nearby. Mom had[...]od 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[...]re were blizzards and snow too deep for there was a clump of wild Juneberries.[...]of tobacco during one blizzard , he put mornings to search for the Teenie Weenies we thought were[...]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 wood burning range in the kitchen , office in tow[...]invariably be chocolate with butter cream frosting , or a butter layer cake with fudge frosting. A crock of beans,[...]kitchen, was a base burner with isinglass doors, a ro und oak table and chairs. There was a leather chair and davenport which served as a bed for Uncle Roy and Aunt[...]Lillian with two year old Evelyn when they came to stay[...]One Christmas, I wakened Honey to tell her there were[...]That may have been the Christmas we got our Edison[...]and military tunes, and he used to enjoy walking the floor,[...]carrying Taylor, and later Paul, in time to the music. Spring was a long drawn out time - watching the rain[...]often let us use the con ten ts of her trunk to play " dress up". The Paul Crum Homestead[...]or with lace insertion and tiny tucks. There was a[...]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 a[...]ersucker. 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 patterns of sunlight on the peb[...]we had wonderful surface of the water and listen to the music as it babbled on, times. Mrs. Dobbin was always re[...]th cream there for the moss. Steve would probably be fishing, or sailing boats. first time, and there was a party with a peanut hunt. Velma Taylor was born on the farm[...]They and the other girls showed us how to make May baskets, sent to Minot for the same midwife who had delivered[...]e made them for years afterwards. We would go out to Honey and me. Steve was the first and last of us[...]and pick buttercups, bluebells and Indian born in a hospital because Mother feared they might[...]ets over the candies before hanging them on the As soon as Taylor could toddle, Mom took him down to doorknobs of our friends homes. Then we[...]When summer came again, back we would go to the walking, he wandered away one morning. They f[...]I remember the men who brought our things in the that afternoon over by Stoney Point. Dad said h[...] |
| 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[...]0 ~r the Odd Fellows Hall, the Rex Theatre , a nd then for The first thing we would do, after a tom of our 1o.vo11te s '··- 1, Amenc..-- n f r, gw n Hall, whfr h as owned place, was to search for the toys and things we had left by Dad at that time. Uad was of the· first vestry behind us. As soon as we awoke we would be out in the sun members , and we all took an active part. Mother took her and the wind. One mo[...]rything in sight turn as Sunday School Superintendent and played the cover[...]sion Steve loaded all our playthings on his wagon to try to move came we had attended[...]he would hurry us She came to the old white schoolhouse one lovely autumn down[...]afternoon and the four of us excused a bit early, and drove was over. I can still recall[...]once more the bumpy ride over the prairies to our farm. Our potatoes and kerosene lamp.[...]house, where a hired man was now living, seemed We used to meet the neighbor children, visiting at the[...]ooms Dad had installed a diving board there, and the with stones and pebbles. There was a long deserted cellar townspeople enjoyed it as much as we did. We came back nearby where we found broken[...]s and often in the years to come. Dad would often bring an old ends to represent th e contents of our cupb oard. From th[...]the old days, and the Spanish same farm , we used to get our milk and cream in covered tin American War. buckets. It h ad a rich , sv eet flavor nequaJled m la er[...]' 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 b[...]ectionery 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[...]'s Store. It was unlike any other store in town, a shack earthen floor of the original sod kitchen of the Pittingers to really. Amid the jumble insi[...]r's delicious bars on a table between heaps of denim overalls priced at homemade candies - and the player piano on an upper level ninety-eigh[...]his money still had all of his, so he was elected to buy. When "The Red River Valley" . And I remember[...]returning it to Taylor, he carefully divided-between the T h e Hoke Smiths to our northeast were gen uine, year[...]er 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[...]young, ..... __ _:: ~1.. e I W W came to be understood as " I Won 't h omestead only part of the tirn , usu[...]er u g the oundation for the a s the cla im w [ s proved up. 1 hen 1;';- - .•'[...]{.,, -- . :~ • , r p :-. 'ed B"' d harvested by a Elizabeth Grace, (Betty) the only one of us with blue eyes neig hbor for s hares , which a t least helpe · pay rn e taxes.[...]ell on September 2, 1921 My husband's fami ly had a similar experience in Havre, while we lived there for a year. We returned to Scobey by but still own the farm, always hoping for a bumper crop, to train , and Dad met us in[...]sold the white say nothing of the possibility of an oil strike. house and had the farm buildings moved to our property on About the time Steve was ready for school, Dad bought a the eastern edge of town. Ford to uring car, and there were many more rides back an[...]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[...]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[...]rum children, was born August 23, 1923. Steve had a most vivid memories is the day the entire Scobey school workshop in the barn, was an Eagle Scout, and excelled at was to parade downtown to watch the burning of the[...]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 or cabbages in ret urn for legal services. When I would have that privilege, and I never once took my eyes was sixteen, I was given a horse by a good farmer friend of away from her face. When s[...]Dad's, Mr. Kostanick, at a time when having my own horse beyond belief, and[...]was my heart's desire. All that summer and fall I rode over American flag. The r[...]in the hills and prairies to my heart's content. Even though I my memory with[...]g - 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 ... " always had the happy memory of that time when we were Honey started school the fo[...]ony with all nature. in the grades she caught up to me as she was promoted, a nd The pioneer days we[...]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 Saints Chapel[...]for Minneapolis Honeywell. Taylor was going to the[...] |
| [...]in Billings since 1951. Morris is District Manager for State[...]Barbara Irma who is married to Larrae Rocheleau, They[...]to Italy and Rumania where he met and married his wi[...]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[...]of communism. Perhaps a final irony in Taylor's life,[...]disappearance of all his savings to try to save Didi's[...]Paul Crum Sr. spent his retirement years in a simple log[...]Montana. He read, fished and gardened a bit. His friends Top row, left to right: Elizabeth, Taylor, Stephen, Paul, Jr. would come to visit him , and he enjoyed helping his Bottom: Ho[...]It was in Stryker during a visit to his Dad, that young Paul was killed in an automobile accident in September, University and studying to be a Traffic Engineer. Honey 1955. was working, and they all shared an apartment in Ironically this fin[...]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 sociology teacher; Tom, with a degree in course of his life. He wrote to me as follows: English literature, now studying law; and Bob, a student "I left here on September second[...]ried with military honors in the Presidio Verdes, is divorced and lives in Lomita. He was with[...]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 married the following "San Francisco looked strange to me. I first went to sea October in 1934. Our first major move from Montana was from 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 engineer during WWII. Both[...]regiment at the Presidio in early fall. It was a windy, sandy Marines. We bought our present home[...]ty-one Medals issued posthumously to Private Paul Crum Jr., years ago, while Chris was[...]ervice Medal, Machine Company in Cleveland. After a company merger American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Chris went to work for True Temper Corporation, and we[...]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 inte[...]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 Am[...]andchildren. Our son honoring Paul Crum as First Commander and co-founder. Chris is a commander in the U.S. Navy, at present on a tour In this journey into the past, one central truth stands out as safety officer on the Aircraft Carrier John F. Ke[...]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 country. Then, as a young man with a family, British Columbia.[...] |
| limitless sky one sees on the ocean , to begin a n ew life . And ALFRED GIMMESTAD Ingrid Crum was a tru e pioneer's wife, ever ready to help her neighbors whenever there was sickness or need. Alfred was an early 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 th[...]ta. He worked for fallen away - they are now free to begin that most vital Mansfield Daniels and Jake T[...]Irma Bixby Lange Later he moved back to the old Timmons place on the[...]e of th e first women in the New Scobey in 191 3. A Mrs. Fleming and a pool room man 's wife were the first two , then I[...]MR. AND MRS. IRA NELSON building that is now the Legion Hall. The building was moved up fr[...]Scobey. In March 1914 we closed the restaurant, as Mr. Discher They had a hardware store which they sold in 1920 to Art needed the building for a blacksmith shop. And Ed Burton Strom an[...]obey was their home. They also farmed I started a power laundry in th e back half of the building[...]hat later became the Joe McKiernan and ran it for a couple of years; sold it to a Hockam, and Mr. place. He also had a brother, Hale Nelson who was another Discher had bought th e building that now is right north of 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, Sas[...]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 near Cokato, Minnesota. He[...]attended McAllister College at St. Paul. Harking to the call Later Dr. Collinson leased the buildin[...]of western lands and opportunity, young Dave came to built for a rooming house. And I guess it ran until the new[...]took up a homestead in Opheim area on which he resided Excerpts from a letter to Dorothy Rustbakke in 1963. until our co[...]the major offensives of the A.E.F., being discharged in[...]1919. He then resolved to complete his education in the field[...]to this union were born three children: David, Donal[...]In 1922 he came back to Montana and entered into law Ronald and Dorothe[...]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 first year of thei[...]th the United States Air Force. Upon their return to family west to Opheim (1926) where he set up private law Montana[...]Ronald taught practice and also served as State Representative from school for five years.[...]to 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 N[...]et in what later have three children: Charolette, a graduate of the was known as the Downs apartments. University of Montana with a degree in Business David wa[...]ree consecutive terms-In 1943 in Helena; Gregory, a Senior in high school, and Scott, an he was appointed District Judge by Governor Sam Ford, to eighth grader. fulfill the duties of that office during the absence of Judge[...] |
| Vernon Hoven, who had taken leave of his duties to enter 80th birthday in 1973 with close fr[...]r from which the the elections and was successful-an office which he above account was ta[...]was born at Sheldon, North Dakota July Lottie is at this time one of the longest continuous 11, 1888 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Penn. He moved with his residents of Scobey - in her blood is an equal mixture of parents to Velva , North Dakota in 1900 to his father 's those who came to northeastern Montana in the early days ho[...]t 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 Poplar was made by wagon , a two-day trip. (One of the wagon drivers was Jake Davis, a squatter in Scobey area since 1904.) The Timmons' operated a store in the new town, Lottie helped look after t[...]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[...]Clarence was a veteran of World War I serving with 31st[...]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 A.M. also member of Scobey V.F.W.[...]By C.H. railroad came, putting a new townsite in the offing- one on higher ground, about a mile or so northeast of old Scobey. Lottie got[...]id Bennett became postmaste,_ Lottie worked there as a postal clerk Jake Timmons of Iowa broug[...]. 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 Dani[...]lling some each year and Jake Timmons was a man who was not looking for credit quietly[...] |
| [...]of building up the Scobey community. If there was a chance of getting something that would benefit Scobey, then Jake would do all he could to get it. He was a greatlover of stories f and jokes. He was a firm Democrat and served as chairman of the Board of County Commissioners in[...]and his brother-in-law Mansfield Daniels started a general store in 1901 . These two gentlemen owned and operated a blacksmith shop, rooming and boarding house, impl[...]mmons-Daniels Hotel. The following day they would be taken over the country looking for a location. Daniels and Timmons saw the need for[...]Old Scobey. twigs and brush, storing enough water to flood many acres of hay land.[...] |
| [...]e political boundaries of eastern Montana were in a constant state of change.[...]IIJlll In 1920, an election was held which resulted in the forming of Daniels County out of that section of Valley County lying west of the line b[...][!]- 46, and that portion of Sheridan County lying east of said ran[...]lection was coupled with one for the selection of a county seat. Madoc and Scobey were the contenders[...]this event Scobey had installed electric lights, a water and sewage system, and other improve- ments to make it a logical contender. Scobey won the coveted county seat by a vote of 964 to 358. On August 30 of that same year Samuel V . Stewart, governor of Montana, officially proclaimed that Daniels County "be attached and made a part of the Twentieth Judicial District for the S[...]rge Springer, early postmaster at Madoc and later a Scobey attorney, was an enthusiastic supporter for the[...], with Lou Boyd, circulating petitions and trying to Earl Brackee, Tom Davis convince the citizens that they should support Scobey for[...]oad ditch The thriving town of Scobey stands With a county seat within its hands. For on this day the board select Has ruled that we can now elect. The judge thought he was very s[...]y the kayo route. " Three commissioners served to help form the new |
| [...]riction, fractions and outside radicalism. Let us be SCOBEY WINS COUNTY SEAT[...]realization. Last, but not least, let us strive to keep in mind THE WISH OF THE VOTERS OF THE NEW CO[...]one," let us keep it "one for all," and that in every righteous DECISIVELY. WISDOM AND SANCTIO[...]Vol. VIII NUMBER 20 SCOBEY AS LOGICAL COUNTY SEAT CITY.[...]RETURNS OF The long desired county of Daniels is realized at last; DANIELS[...]The County Vote for laurels to her crown when she was chosen as county seat of the new county.[...]SEAT There has been much talk and speculation as to the possibility of making a new county and the choice of Scobe[...]y seat, nevertheless there has been no real doubt as to Madoc 358 the ultimate outcome as all plans for the new county and county seat had[...]YES 1079 worked out and committees appointed to execute same. County of Daniels[...]From the returns of the election the results show that those in charge have faithfully and fruitfully pe[...]467 much credit cannot be given those who were connected with the making of[...]REPRESENTATIVE county seat. They worked with a vim and vigor that could H. Amelius Christensen[...]only bring victory. From the official returns, it is plainly B.D. Templeman 784 evident that their work was as a whole, that of wisdom and sound judgment, emphatically endors[...]G.A. Esual[...]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. Laughlin 334 far as her desire is concerned to be the county seat of David J. Martin[...]407 The contest, as desired by Scobey, has been a friendly, good natured one. One where Scobey has[...]CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT wish to retain Madoc 's good will in the future as in the past, John Shippam[...]722 free from humiliation and insinuations - this is as it Peter Tang 553 should be. No personal grievance or uu.lgar attacks have been made by that town. Her victory has been clean-cut COUNTY TREASURER from start to finish.[...]804 Scobey's reward can justly be claimed on the merits of Orville E. Loc[...]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[...]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[...]ice of their supporters has not been Harry A. Gibbs[...]311 Daniels county be used, and not abused, by those intrusted Frank M. Robinson with power, to the advancement of all good, growth and progressi[...]993 and always, be a credit to the great State of Montana, free L[...] |
| [...]el 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 the facade of its early years , com[...]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[...]Eugene LaRoche, G.A. Esval Office of Daniels County A[...]. . . . John S. Nyquist Hanson - 1955 to date. |
| The Assessors Office is an elected office, but since the Commissioners: Frank Hughes - 1920-1920; G.A. first of July 1973 it has been with the Departme[...]of the State and th e Assessor and all his h elp is Luther Dodd - 1921-1922; Herman Wagner - 1923-1[...]W. Guy Stalder - 1931- between 1957 and 1963 when a classifier was hired. Since 1936; J.B. Bourassa - 1933-1938; M.A. LaMotte - 1935- going with the Department of Revenue there has been an 1940; George Olson - 1937-1942; Roy Day - 1939-1944; a pprai ser hired to take care of land and buildings. Wyvil Bj[...]- 1963 to date; Irvin Halverson -[...]Jordan A. Fosland; M.J . Traynor. Catherine Darchuk, Clerk of Court Clerk of court: John Shippam -June 1920 to February |
| [...]Zelpha, not a Robin but an ambitious Martin[...]And the office a man made not the same.[...]A true scholar comes to mind.[...]Claire A. Hillstrom[...]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[...]58; Alma Shipstead - 1946-1953, 1959-1962; Claire A. Hillstrom - 1963 to date. C.A. Hillstrom, County Superintendent of Schools.[...]1943 to 1954 with Pat Horton as Under Sheriff. Pat Horton[...]elected 1954, passed away approximately a month before[...]with L. Warner Harrison as Under Sheriff. The present[...] |
| [...]TREASURER 1920-1924 - Al Fowler ; 1925-1926 - J a m es A. Mead · 1927-1930 - George R. Case; 1931-1 932 - H .J . Kjos; 1933- 1936 - H .J . Hi ts m a n ; 1937-1942 - Wyvil Bjerke; 1943-1946 - H.J. Sc[...]D A NI E LS COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE[...]i n D. Grove The fo ur year term began in 1939 a nd Wyvi l Bjerke Dale Hanrahan served on e two-year ter m a n d one fo ur-yea r t erm . A lan Linder Begi n ning with th e term of March 1975 was th e fi rst year a[...]co uld ucceed th emselves after h avi n g ser ved a Richard Grove fo ur year term and Mildred Cla usen was th e first on e in th e county to do th is. Daniels County Sh op[...] |
| Daniels County courthouse employees as heads appear: Patricia Baker, Patricia Clausen Te[...]mith , Senator A.E. Lund, State Representative[...] |
| [...]aniels County newly organized Scobey Womep's Club to meet with them Free Library are: Mrs. Marie Brudie, Mrs. Ben Dahl, Mrs. for a discussion on organizatipn of a public library. A Marvin Sorte, Mrs. Flossie Nelson, and M[...]Wm. Cromwell, Jr. , Mrs. Charles Carl Lindquist. As a result the two clubs met with the Motsc[...]mbers donated their services building of a new multi-purpose building on Timmons to cleaning 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[...]soliciting help for soliciting books and money in a door-to-door campaign . Doors of the new library were opened on May 4, 1946 with a Silver Tea which brought in $100 in cash. Adding it to the library treasury made a balance of $249. The name of the library was " 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. on Wednesdays. Ladies donated their time as librarians. Mrs. Victor Hillstrom was appointed to A County Fair Board, appointed by the County superv[...]as in charge the county commissioners urging them to take over the of annual exhibits of 4-[...]re held at various places in Scobey, often in the be done until the new fiscal year. In July, 1947 the[...]irs, and named " Daniels County Free Library" and is still some of these were large and[...]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[...]Board. It was decided that the Fair Association should In 1967 a Library Board of Trustees was appointed by consist of 21 trustees, elected to represent all parts of the the commissioners to manage the finances of the library count[...]ir under this In 1968 M.J. Traynor was elected to the Montana arrangement was held in August, 1955. An afternoon Library Commission. Through his efforts the Daniels rodeo , a night show, and a carnival added to the festivities. County Free Library was built up to an updated library by A quonset, previously erected by the Fair Board, ho[...]ls, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Phillips and A 36 x 100 frame building to house exhibits at the Valley met in the City-Coun[...]fman of Helena for the purpose In 1961, a livestock scale was purchased, and a new of discussing the possibilities of organizing a library stage, mounted on wheels, was built in 1962. federation . A library federation is the organization of The fair has been a popular and successful venture, several county libraries with one of the libraries acting as a attended by large crowds. Afternoon shows, at v[...]times, have included a rodeo, automobile daredevils, home- On July 1,[...]Phillips gave their contests) and a talent show. Evening shows have featured approvals for a bookmobile to service rural areas . It is a variety of acrobatic acts and typical vaudeville acts. A 4- called the Golden Plains Library Federa[...] |
| [...]A SAGA OF SCHOOLS It would take years of rese[...]as written what they could gather about |
| [...]The role of the rural schools played a very important part Prairie Dell Distric[...]District No. 1 7 kn own by the school s that existed in them. Their schools[...]la ndmarks. However , as the years passed and depression District No. 4[...]Frederick to di stance, roads and weather the length of the sc[...]ad di tion to companionship and guidance. The school was Smoke[...]of school picnic was a traditional affair attended by young a nd old from miles around. District No. 6 District No. 13 District No. 20 As time went on, modern school houses were built. Ne[...]and th e children no longer carried water to school along[...]with lunch in syrup and lard pails or in a fancy empty[...]ct No. 14 school yard a nd trees planted. Flaxville Middle[...]and a ye n to attend a larger school in town , saw the passing of a tradition, " the little white school house" went[...]out of existen ce. It was with reluctance that many saw it Earlier schools were: Big Bench #[...]ols were selected for varied reasons . Som e such as |
| La Combe School. Left to right: Helen Bureau, Alice Bureau, Henry Bureau,[...]e, Mae La Combe , Arthur Wilkes, Wilfred LaCombe, A rthur Bureau, Alfred Bureau. go. It meant the end of an era and the feeling was A firm foundation was built in knowledge. And the |
| teachers away from the class rooms to enter war work and service, leaving a teacher shortage. The salaries fluctuated over[...]e if not especially attractive. By 1931, however, a trend downward began. World War II in the 40's brought an upward trend. Qualifications became more lax and[...]eld. 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 childre[...]time to prepare lesson plans by daylight. In a number of Many of the teachers welcomed an opportunity to teach schools a kerosene stove was provided to warm up soup or a few months or weeks while " proving up" their homestead cocoa for the noon lunch (a forerunner of our hot lunch claims. Books were ga[...]acherous 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 home. She nearly always walked. In winter she enjoyed a early in order to build the fire , do the janitor work (free), dazzling surface of the whitest snow, although a blizzard supervise playground and instill a love of learning in their could come up unexp[...]ly day rural teachers held degrees she saw a vast expanse of green grass and pink wild roses from a college but this bit of sheepskin does not always or a field of plowed rich black soil. In the autumn, she saw make a " good " teacher. They were courageous , dedicated, ripening grain fields, golden rod and occasionally a prairie hard workers, sincere, resourceful and de[...]eir pupils. A covered crock (water cooler) succeeded a water pail and The duties of the teacher in th[...]light because by the pupils and teacher. A patron or neighbor usually brought time school cl[...]n were the water. In later days quite often a well was dug on the overshoed , scarved and mitte[...]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 the children. Every teacher was a the teacher could begin her chores. She carried c[...]mpound (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[...] |
| [...]she carried her tools of her trade with term to determine if they qualified for promotion . her.[...]well experienced. She improvised, using ingenuity to no reports, recommended whether or not they be re-hired , end.[...]eachers were Occasionally special visitors came to visit school; some technically the responsib[...]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 operation as well as work on the budget for each fiscal year usually o[...]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[...]eived immediately from the teacher. The A word about our secondary schools. At one time in[...]four-year high schools in in the fall and spring to check progress and the condition of operation.[...]e 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.[...]yed with relatives or friends , some " batched" . A In later years the County Health Nurse paid reg[...]iving fairly close by managed some sort of visits to the school. She was often held in terror by the[...]rs and mouths. country. Peerless provided a dormitory, Flaxville and They al ways feared she would ask them to remove their Whitetail provided buses. s[...]The high schools all had a good curriculum and teachers. The school curric[...]ool had their own band and athletic team provided a guideline - the course of study - where[...]ave 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[...]Claire A. Hillstrom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963- Bill Lapke as bus driver for Madoc School - 1930's Mabel V.[...]Claire A. Hillstrom[...]courses to Scobey to enable teachers to earn credits for[...]certification and other interested people to take for self-[...]of these teachers, extension courses began with a four[...]enrollment grew to over thirty in some classes with many[...]Claire A. Hillstrom[...] |
| [...]Part of the infinite Master Plan , Only added to its worth. They challenge to effort the sons of man.[...]H uldah Lucile Winsted As we read the Chapter's history ,[...]d in each task. Many twinkling stars were added, |
| But if you should choose to leave us Then banked the fire and swept the flo or . From MONTANA far to go, Her subject[...]e She taught them all from A to Z. Fas tened with a SILVER BOW . And then she taught them how to spell by Rac[...]Seated two in a seat our faces red We tried to grasp what the teacher said Lunch was a homemade sandwich or two No cafeteria to serve hot stew . MONTANA We needed no gym to make us strong[...]walk home was plenty long. I saw your prairies on an autumn day, I'm told kids are[...]ind quite worn away, But I remember that one room school Mute symbols of the ravages of ag[...]aught the Golden Rule. Brown grassland graduates to purple hills, |
| [...]k with the comin' night My memory is best served And you listen close to the waving grain by voices and[...]the haunting sound of hooves that echo in Traveling fast across the plain[...]flows and welds If you listen close as well you might with mine[...]d of the golden grain. accept that I am[...]the trod of the settler's step that I have met. And hear his voice crying out for ra[...]he crop begin my mother A desperate cry for needed rain[...]n plain. " Try again .. .if it is[...]gained beauty Bright yellow gold that smites the eye, in my soul... Brazen a s the noonday sun , Mus[...]defiant, undismayed , in a tenor voice, As staunch as s tubborn pioneers cl[...]by Dorothy Rustebakke He tapped a jig[...]echo I hear are relative to comes from a need most points of view. of his own; As we reach the age of[...]le He set to the task places , and events to right what becomes a[...] |
| Echoing voices return As he rode his horse o'er acres broad incessantly,[...]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,[...]s and laughter ... and love ... Only strength is yet untried ... perhaps[...]By Rose Prestage, Scobey, Montana In a phase of retrospect.[...]ears ago when my world was small, When the spirit is low, And my mot[...]lags, With a gentle smile, she was always there when the dark looms With a tender hand and a pleading prayer. deeper than day--- Maybe then that echo She sup[...]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[...]She offered her life that I might know Jumped up from his basket,[...]ary and bloodshot. That my heart might thrill to a starry night, That my feet might walk on the mountain height. I got so excited, As did he;[...]She has given much , she has paid a price; Always there when I needed him - She had placed herself as the sacrifice! To lick the tears,[...]... To my mother We are both young yet, He and I, Yet on[...]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[...]and they worked from sunrise to Outlaws, Indians and prairie fires[...] |
| [...]could have Christmas is a time of joy their own little land.[...]Christmas is a time of love The years have come and gone[...]ch too fast, 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 last. Christmas is a time of snow And trying to get the car to go. It's been 200 years since Christmas is a time of trimming the tree our nation's birth, And Jesus lying in a manger, how much better could it be? And our forefathers gave Christmas is the time that Jesus is born us so much beautiful earth. From Christmas Eve to Christmas morn. Christmas is a time of fun So remember dear neighbors And peace and love to everyone. and friends, young and old,[...]by Judy Fouhy for this land that we hold.[...]"Allow me to catch[...]So hard to delay them[...]MEDITATION This picture is special[...]Time---stood still. Hidden, enfolded, But coming to be.[...]M. Ferguson Budding, leaf-baby Peer out and see. As a butterfly sheds |
| [...]Thru MOOSl' Jaw a11d the lme. From lend a hand to that lus - ty bunch, on[...]Sco·o bey down to Te - e - xas, Let us build that road just[...]a-and Oem·er.[...]pen A · bout Un·clc Sam[...]ry beck-ons once a-gain To the best route in[...]~pots that fall: a-bout that r oad for the fnends you·\[...]t 's go all out for a great old route. Aa·a.nd do 1t now- right here' Here is your copy of the " Powder River Trail Song " an original composition to help further the road fut11n• of eastern |
| [...]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[...]rs and in the local Masonic Lodge. He also served as superintendent of county schools. Major Scobey was an Indian Agent at Poplar from 1889 through 1907 after which the Scobey family moved to Morris, Minnesota. Major C.R.A. Scobey died at Morris, Minnesota in 1923. He was[...]Jersey. His wife was born at Fort Still, Oklahoma a nd was the first whi te child born on that post. 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.[...] |
| [...]to go back to. Both groups were hardy. Northeastern Montana[...]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" Tucked neatly into this beautiful setting is Scobey, the would go out with the prospective homesteaders to help county seat of Daniels County.[...]ck good land. In Daniels County, the old west is still somewhat new in There are stories of outlaws, posing as locators, taking that some of the first white settlers are still living[...]of the few places in the United States where this is true. unsettled territory and commiting murder to take what Previous to 1900, there were no permanent settlements in[...]know what happened as they waited for word from the new White trapp[...]d hideouts in this wild area Company established a trading post at Fort Union about during those early years, most of whom were friendly to the 85 miles to the southeast. Other than these hardy fellows,[...]laws alone. the rich and fertile plains belonged to the Assinniboine Some of the more famous[...]Henry gang, the Pigeon Toed Kid, It was just a few miles across the Canadian border north Norse Brothers, Tom Ryan and a fellow known simply as of Scobey at John Louis Legare's trading post that the U.S. '\ ones." Cavalry picked up Chief Sitting Bull in 1885 following an Jones, who had a big reward on is head, was shot and agreement made earlier with h[...]e meeting killed at the Tande Ranch, in a house which still stands arranging for Sitting B[...]near Scobey, by two posse men posing as cowpunchers. between where Scobey and Plentywood[...], In 1912 Mansfield Daniels built a $20,000 mansion at most probably in the breaks o[...]eoples of the plains- rooms, including a ballroom were featured in the home. It teepee rings, stone tools and arrowheads-can still be came as a bitter disappointment to the owner to learn later found. in the year that the Great N orthem Rail way would not The site of Scobey, near the Poplar River, is on the old come to his townsite, but would start a new town across the Woody Mountain Trail, used by Sioux Chiefs Gaul and river, about a mile and a half east on the slopes. Sitting Bull as they moved warriors back and forth aero s The town of Scobey began moving to the new townsite the Canadian border during thei[...]summer of 1913 and when the first train arrived to the white man. on Thanksgiving Day of that year there was a town The beginning of the town of Scobey, loca[...]The work crews were paid off at noon on that cold and Dakota, was in 1902 when Mansfield Dani[...]y, and in the words of those who Timmons started a large ranch at what is now known as remembers, "all hell broke loose." "[...]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[...]ver from the old town. Mansfield Daniels asked a personal friend, Major It is still opera ting in the same location today with[...]. It still has the tin on the Indian Reservation, to aid in obtaining a post office for the ceiling and walls which w[...]fice was started Daniels Bullet holes can be found in the ceiling, dating from wilder named it[...]Scobey continued to grow and was incorporated in 1916. Soon the Da[...]obably the deciding opened their doors, including a bank which in 1916 became factor when, in[...]county seat. Some of the first white families to settle in what is now Scobey won, 964 to 358. "Scobey Country" included the John Mantemachs (with A former frame construction hotel, most recently ca[...]steads, the One-Eyed Molly's and known as a house of pleasure, was Marlenees, and the Timmons[...]cobey became county seat and The area was just a blank spot on the map at that time. It 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 picturesque courthouses i[...] |
| the early 20's. The fact that Scobey was the end of the Swede Risber[...]Great Northern Railway's branch line contributed to the Meyers, Porky Dallas, George Eastman[...]n 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 w[...]games between Scobey and Plentywood as businessmen confiscated.[...]supported the fellows they had hired to play ball. Scobey From the beginning, the town[...]oth games by narrow margins . .. grain and cattle as an economic base. The first sod was in spite[...]th one-bottom plows pulled by horses flying a pitcher in from Missouri just in time for one gam[...]and then immediately flying him back again in a private pulled by big steam engines. It has been only in the past plane. This was in 1925. few years that tractors as large as those early day steamers Scobey had three ye[...]ries. the team barnstorming around a large area, as far east as Scobey's prosperity has had its ups and downs as the Minnesota , winning almost every game. 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 "population explosion" of the early During the 1950's a new ba ll park was built, complete 1900's) until[...]of these people just left their land or business to be has a new scoreboard . taken for taxes, as real estate values were near nil during Bas[...]time again in the late '50's a nd early '60's with teams that With the coming of World War II, the depressio[...]ain thrived, The 1960 Scobey Plainsmen went to the national semi- although the population did no[...]place war, through the '50's and '60's there was a slow but steady nationally, winning three and[...]obey in 1930, and rural area. There evidently was a desire for many to seek followed with several years of winning[...]an areas. This was aided by larger having a number of district titles, Scobey finally won the machinery which allowed fewer farmers to handle more state championship in 1969[...]Scobey has recently been a regular host of the state Legion In spite of t[...]en tournaments, after state officials found that they were continuted to show great community pride by keeping[...]and attended in Scobey than in the various stores a nd stock in good s hape. Nearly every Main Street[...]ring this period. Golf also has a long history in Scobey, with the 49th Perhaps[...]same location all the town's future by approving a city-wide paving bond through the years,[...]f paved streets everyone has Curling, a sport for many years unique to Scobey among taken even more pride in the communi[...]t become one of the cleanest, neatest small towns to be since 1958 when the 44xl 72-foot rink w[...]bey's future has now Scobey Plainsmen, an independent basketball team, been rewarded as the population trend has reversed. The each years sponsors a tournament during the Christmas 1970 census showe[...]raws some of the finest players in the population is now estimated at over 1,700. There have been[...]d rodeos have tried it elsewhere, are moving back to what have been an important part of sports history in Scobey perman[...]ewhat during the '50's Sports have always been a n important part of Scobey's and early '60'[...]colorful past, hosted annually by Scobey. A recent upswing of interest beginning with teams almost as soon as there were enough has prompted the repairing of the lighted arena and a big young men around a nd hitting national sports magazines 68x250 foot indoor arena is now under construction. with the hiring of some o[...]Scobey has been doing an outstanding job in covering and During the pro[...]romoting sports around northeast Montana. decided to put a team together that could beat powerful Scobey has plenty o[...]t their Scobey. They hired some players, included a noted black kicks from national televisio[...]ore than its pitcher, John Donaldson. Scobey, not to take this lying share of people who take an active part, participating or down, hired some fo[...]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[...]the more than 50 buildings include a completely stocked Strong political differences between the editor of a general store and an a uthentic homestead shack. Scobey newspaper, the Daniels County leader, and a group Pioneer town growth h as been g uided by the Daniels from Sheridan County resulted in fire being set to the Co unty Museum Assoc iatio n a nd buildings a nd Leader plant in the early morning hours ofa day in 1926. A machinery have been brought in from around th[...]ue listed the names of the donated money. It is the site of an annua l Threshing Bee alleged culprits. Those named filed a lawsuit against the and Antique Show ... July 3 a nd 4 in this bicentennial newspaper. This was soon dropped. year. An organizer for the Nonpartisan League narrowly What of the future? escaped hanging in a Scobey saloon late one night in 1919. Agriculture still is big in Scobey Country, a lthoug h there The rope was around his neck and the other end thrown a re large amounts of oil (not yet developed becaus[...]and elk are gone. One easily can find watching a big lignite coal powered electrical generating deer, coyotes, fox , beaver, rabbits, duck, partridge a nd plant under construction (including a dam on the Poplar grouse, to mention a few. Raccoons, mink, wolves, antelope River) just a few miles away in Saskatchewan. They will and ly[...]ctual strip The variety of habitat contributes to the many kinds of mining and smoke stacks are in another country. wildlife. Within a half hour's drive from Scobey one can H[...]river and digging into underwater streams will do to and some real "badlands." A number of small dams have the Scobey area water s uppl y a nd a lso what the big smoke added to the Poplar River 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 gro[...]growth, called the Homesteaders' 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 tog[...]of the things which can be gained from the Good Earth . Many benches (with high backs) built for the occasion Scobey is the northernmost town on Highway 13, the lined th[...]all four directions tourism is on the increase. It was this celebration which planted the seeds for Scobey Country is part of the " newest la nd" in the 48 Pioneer Town, which has now grown to be the major states and a lthough many things have undergone great tourist[...]years, clean air, blue skies and town , dedicated to the hardy homesteaders and located on aboun[...]tains almos t everything the latch string is always out.[...] |
| Northern Town a nd Land Co. platted out the town of Scobey July 2, 1913 a nd sold lots to: Paul Babcock Ma r[...]r & Rugg Roger D. Burke A.O. Leach R.J . C[...].R. McCurdy W.R. J a rvis & W.T. Stephens Christina Larson[...]Charles W. Smith A.N. Ta nde Bert Mason John A Davis Ely Tod H.H. Am[...]C. Amundson Jennie E. Fate A.A. de Lorimiu Thomas Mc[...]lbert 1.0. Bakken A.W. Chapin Christian T[...]J .F. Whetstone Helena A. Gilmer Norman Scharf Alida Cluchey Mrs. Robert Ch a rboneau Mathilda Hemp[...]Nellie Nichols et con 8-28-17 A. Anderson Dusbek[...]Herbert E. Montgomery William A. Olson Dakota-Western Tel. Co.[...]Bonnes Ole Buer et a l Anna Phelan Lutheran Chu[...]unde J.W. Bogart Carl A. Kahle George N. Ro[...]lan Ollye E. Jackson G.A. Anderson E.F. Schreiner[...]R.J. Coughlin A.S. Needles Peter Melin Joseph Kerstein David A. Johnson George Cudhie[...]oolly Emil Pomarleau A.W. Chapin Willi a m Lasater Ira R. Nelson Wilda E. Lindsay Nels A. Nelsen Sam Burgess[...]L. Flint J.O. Jacobson N.A. Healy E.A. Amundson Willard Brown J.A. Fulton Jo[...] |
| [...]he Beginnings of Today's Town . Being located as it was on the wide open pra irie, subject |
| [...]Lot Blk. showing in the left foreground is the corner of the building William A. Olson 13 3 housing[...]y Sentinel, absorbed by the Leader in William A. Olson (bought /927. The remodeled building is now occupied by Frank's from city on[...]rcantile. The Merchants Na tio nal Bank was then, as C.B. Aasness (N 40 ft.) .[...]. 20 3 only business house in that block still under its original Hellekson Lum[...]1 4 Automobile dealers apparently did a good business then, Joe Thomas, Sr. 2 4 as evidenced by the parked cars, although two or thr[...]enson 3 4 barns did a thriving business.[...]115 ft.) 4 4 It would be interesting to kno w who the little fellow is May Holcomb (W 25 ft.) . 4[...]Mercantile Co. 6 6 John A. Fulton 16 2[...]Co ......... . 5 3 E.A. Amundson . 16 6 Cit[...]cCurd y Lumber Co ... 19 6 A .A. Delorimer .. 8 3[...]y Lumber Co. 21 6 Carl A. Ka h le .. 10 3[...] |
| [...]Voight & Emma Savage 5 7 I.A. Kloss .................. . 10 H.W. Olson ..[...]7 Peter Gritz ................. . 16 A.D. Delorimer ............. . 12 7[...]llows Hall .......... . 16 7 John A. Davis ............. . 3 Odd Fellows Hal[...]Theo. Colby ................ . 4 Edon A. Amundson ........ . 18 7 Thoma[...]7 Sid Bennett ................ . 8 G.A. Dahlquist ............. . 1 8 Ir[...]Ira Nelson . ................ . 10 Floren A. Bakken .......... . 3 8 J.R. Mc[...]therine Conboy ......... . 8 8 A.L. Lindsay .............. . 5 Anna ue ...[...]ol Dist. 1 ........ .. ... . . 11 9 W.A. Lannon ......... .. ... . 8 School Dist. 1 .............. . 12 9 W.A. Lannon .............. . 9 T.M. Facey ..[...]Martha Bonnes ............ . 11 Phoebe A. Brockway ....... . 3 Martha[...]Milo J. Smith ............. .. 15 A.L. Grant . ................ . 7[...]11 Gustav Oie 10 G.A. Dahlquist ............. . 2 11 G .A. Anderson ............. . 11 Mrs. Ole Buer .............. . 3 G.A. Anderson ........ ..... . 12 Olye J[...] |
| [...]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[...]There is no documentary proof available to the conjecture that the Citizens State is a continuation , under a different name, of the Bank of T. Anderson-Die an[...]ompany, which was started in Old Scobey and moved to[...]same principals as the T. Anderson-Die Bank which went[...]Minnesota was elected to the board in 1917. was the world's greatest primary wheat market. This is a[...]by 1922 had deposits totalling $275,000 with a capital of[...]A complete reorganization took place in February of[...]c organizations 1921. The directors elected at that time were H.J. and programs and was the third suc[...]Long may the Burlington Northern, Inc. continue to The next changes in the board of directors took place in serve northeastern Montana as the day (it looks like) is September of 1926 when W.T. Stephens became president coming when railroads are going to be vital again. and E.W. Battleson replac[...]LINE corner6tt,.ding to the location it occupied until 1972, after[...]The roaring twenties were drawing to a close and at the Ay lak to taking ride, wit mey Gena by mey side,[...]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[...]In 1931 P.R. Gorham became a member of the board and Ven you're riding on dis[...]dshake 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,ju ban hearing farmers say, 1935, a position he held until his death in 1957. A.B. "Ve gat bumper crop naxt jear, ay know ve gats[...].P. Larsen replaced Den give moorgages and liens, to pay for pork en beans, Gorham as directors during the 1930's. En tan par cent ban[...]'44 , the Citizens State reached a milestone at the end of Ju can hear trav'ling bun[...]lers Monday, packing same ol ' elected to the board, taking her husband's place after his[...]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 En yog along from Madoc a hundra mile or so. working in ba[...]ashier of the bank in September of 1949 and later that[...] |
| year succeeded H.P. Larsen as a director. Larsen was re- DANIELS COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION elected to the board a short time later replacing Scarseth. The next cha[...]n Mrs. MC. Robert Ferguson of Scobey had a dream back in the 30's. Kloster replaced Mrs. Murphy. It was a desire to establish a credit union that would make loans, small ones to those in need who did not have access to bank assistance. His enthusiasm and that of others[...]held that position for 28 years until his retirement. M.E. Veis In the fall of 1957 Marvin Veis became a director and in |
| [...]anization; he had seen it grow from its inception to a strong and useful financial force in the area filling a need for them who had special need of its services. If any one needed a lasting recognition to his memory, then this credit union would serve~as a reminder of Robert's unfailing efforts toward his[...]Company was also on the property. A Ford garage came 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 known as Erickstein Motor Company. Eventually H.O.[...]stock. Case machinery was added to the business, along[...]Norman Brekke joined the firm, became a stockholder[...]In 1964 the implement business was sold to Don Maggie Walker - long time employee at Scobey[...]known as Erickstein Motor Company. HISTORY OF SCOBEY[...]Fitz, Michael The Farmers Elevator is the oldest business in Scobey Kloster and Larry B[...]ng interests of the other two partners and formed a up of the by-laws in 1914, when a handful of young pioneer corporation which presen[...]e: Paul Crum, times and one of the early fixtures is still used as a display Dave Nyquist, Howard Schaefer, Carl Faa[...]use in the pharmacy, Daniels. basement and as storage places in the back room. Part of[...]was sold at $50 a share and is now worth many times that[...]we have since added two annexes giving us a capacity of Record of the land where Erickstein Motor Company is 225,000 bushels. An office, new scales and many dates back to 1906 when Daniels County was part of Valley[...]de. In the year of County and Sheridan County. At that time the Northern 1924 Scobey was the[...]n the Town and Land Company of Minnesota operated a world, marketing over 2½ million bushels 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 rai[...]Company was there, later being west to Opheim, the Farmers Elevator marketed all of this changed to Montana Dakota Utilities; Egland Lumber[...] |
| [...]Eichhorn, Mons Tonjum, Gus Benson, Halbert Ames, A.B. Benson, Ragnhild Von Kuster, Mrs. Lena K. Wang[...]The Montana Abstract Company was organized prior to 1920 which was the year Daniels County was create[...]osevelt County; and Scobey in Daniels County. Due to[...]of providing an abstract office in the new county seat of[...]equal to the challenge and began the Montana Abstract[...]company -- a position he held until his death in 1951. A biographical sketch appearing in an early history of Montana states that "with the exception of always casting an intelligent and patriotic ballot and working for[...]OHNSON THE ABSTRACTMAN an active participant in political affairs. His firs[...]presidential vote was give to Colonel Roosevelt, and he became a member of the progressive party in 1912, while in[...]16 he supported Hughes for the presidency and was a (Dick) Johnson, who came to Glasgow, Montana the first believer in r[...]arines in 1918 and was discharged in 1919. He was a Store at Glasgow. He returned to Minnesota where he charter member of[...]d and managed the Montana remained a bachelor all of his life. Abstract Company at Scobey. Dick Johnson returned to Roy Johnson was born in Dexter, Iowa[...]unty Abstract Company which he later incorporated as the Valley Company in November of that year, 1913. Roy assumed County Abstract Company .[...]the manager of the business and continued to transact its who, until his death in the 1960's w[...]iated with Dick Johnson. In 1914 Roy H. Johnson , as Plentywood and later moved to Scobey. a lad of 19, became identified with the life and in[...]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[...]business. He continued the operation for a period of almost[...] |
| 15 years until he sold the business to Carmel M. Morey in HISTORY O[...]ompany in 1962 and has How fitting, as we are in the Bicentennial Era, to be been sole operator since that time. observir.g t[...]an individual basis, but it was finally decided that one[...]small groups, so a combined meeting was held. Out of this[...]meeting grew the idea that the area should comprise the Because of the ve[...]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[...]group from Sheridan County. In October, 1941 a group of fellows with foresight and Organizing a cooperative was determined as the only possibly imagination held a meeting in the Farmers Union practical[...]h Cooperatives and some were acting as board members of head office now at Opheim.[...]ors were Resner Blikken, H.O. valuable as organization progressed. Dohlen, Harvey Haugen, E[...]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 Jo[...]ber 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 exp[...]nted 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[...]its beginning. During its infant years it had to purchase the white elephant plant from Montana Da[...]d 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[...]one generally the outer area has been electrified as well as local Cooperative pictured left to right: William Herman, oil fields and one refiner[...]nson, The Northern Electric, along with the RE.A. program Francis Tarum, Wyman Feltis, and Margaret Hass. Not has been the greatest factor to the rural people of any one shown are Will[...]nd Robert Roruig. thing which could have happened to them, especially the housewife. It has completely[...]e, Virgil $1,987,000. The loan was to acquire five existing former Burdette was hired in 1950. He is still manager. The telephone compani[...]subscribers, 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 important person in this struggle from the beginn[...]of North Dakota. would never accept defeat which is one of the reasons for At the 1953 annual meeting it is interesting to note that a Northern Electric' s existence today. speaker stated that "sometime in the future, we can have We hope i[...]where we can call any city in the United States that the young generation to today will realize the sweat, from our own[...]s 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 carrying it on in future years. beyond comprehension that it was not always available.[...]of the Lalon Jones - a charter member Northeastern Montan[...] |
| [...]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[...]Bernard Building in 1955. The post office is now in a new[...]Mountain Bell Association was changed to the Nemont Telephone Cooperative, Inc. An exact date of the opening of the Scobey telephone[...]t this time the majority of the new lines is not shown in existing telephone company historical being installed were planned to be buried facilities. By records. Earliest available information indicates that Four December of 1972 a total of five exchanges had been cut Valleys Telephone 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 complete[...]anding and receiving the same reliable An improved magneto switchboard was installed in service in the rural areas as in the cities. Town people and 1921 and outsid[...]ities were completely rebuilt. businesses benefit as well as farmers by good telephone At that time there were 103 telephones in Scobey. service to rural areas. According to a resume published in 1959 the first Consistent w[...]as Mrs. Alvin Olafson, who served Nemont has been a pioneer in rural telephony in Montana 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 he[...]later operated a restaurant in Scobey, the Jones Cafe.[...]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[...]me chief operator at Mountain States Telephone in that the first post office was at the Woodley home. Scobey. She began her career as an operator in 1932, Pat Burke was the first postmaster in the new town of working in that capacity until her promotion to chief Scobey, originally known as East Scobey, in 1913. He held opertor in 19[...]when Sid Bennett became converted to dial operatin in 1953 Mrs. Whipple became a postmaster. After Mr. Bennett died in September, 1933 business office clerk. In 1964 she was made a service Albert W. Schammel became postmaster and 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 Daniels County Leader Tande, who were pa[...]ge line between Poplar remembered her years as an operator: "Remember before and Old Scobey at that time. This contract was let on the dial[...]ndrew Upsal, Martin Mitchell Jr., S. Robinson, up to the she deserved a medal from sports fans just for that!" establishment of the post office in the new town. James A. Paul Loendorf, who is now Mountain Bell area manager Wolfe served as contract mail carrier for over 30 years out ·[...]Scobey's telephone operations from Wolf of Scobey to West Fork, Carbert, Line Coulee, and north to Point, began his phone company career in Scobey as a the Custom Office. combination man. "When I went to Scobey in 1946," During his many years as mail carrier Mr. Wolfe Loendorf sai[...]snowmobiles, and various types of phones. To make calls, customers cranked the handle on automobiles. In the early days he had a small stove in his the side of the phone, ri[...]ntral office. The sleigh during the winter months to protect him from operator answered th[...]connection from her switchboard." walked all day to keep warm, and the horse's bits would The current Mountain Bell office, Loendorf noted, is the sometimes be frozen to their mouths. In a blizzard in 1929 same building at the same location 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 Scobey the living quarters, a kind of housekeeping room rural mail carriers of those days, was often asked to buy with kitchen, were still there."[...] |
| [...]necessitated later sending two carloads of staff to Luft, who maintained the central office and insta[...]operating the campus community affairs and served as president of the Scobey FM station on a Sunday by special permission. Athletic Club. KCGM is probably the only radio station in the United M[...]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 that year. Mrs. Strand, born in Paris, France,[...]and often Mary Lavey succeeded her and continues to work as a expensive experiences and episodes alo[...]bey business office. The station began a month of testing from midnight to 6 Gene Marley, Mountain Bell sub-foreman, has been A.M. in May, 1971, with the operators and engineers working Scobey since 1963 serving as a combinationman manning the station, playing music and giving brief before his promotion to sub-foreman in 1969. station id[...]. 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[...]nnis improvements have been made by Mountain Bell to Bartole, Janice Bartole, Dorothy R[...]artially covered the severe loss. in the area for an improved environment. A better transmitter was obtained, the site rebuilt[...]n resumed operation on July 1, 1973. records show a total of 1,207 phones, including extensions, The radio station is presently operating with full and in use at the e[...]Chairman of the Board of Prairie Communications is[...]o From the beginning KCGM has endeavored to be a began in April, 1968 when Larry C. Bowler engaged a firm station meeting the needs of northeastern Montana, of attorneys and a consulting engineer in Washington, south[...]estern North Dakota with D.C. seeking application to the Federal Communication news, public n[...]rts, with emphasis Commission. On August 16, 1968 a petition was filed with directed toward coverage of events never before broadcast the FCC to assign Channel 239 (95.7MH) to Scobey, in behalf of the many rural communities. Montana. Scobey was assigned that channel on March 5, The radio station originated through the foresight of a 1969.[...]Robert Schneekloth, Roy Killenbeck, Milton a place for the development of local talent and loc[...]nd Marvin Veis. The personalities, as well as a place oflearning for area youth. application for a construction permit and its attendant D[...]ration the Board has taken no data took more than a year's time. fees of[...]f its duties. Its aim always Building began on a transmitter site three miles east of has been 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 above the Leader eventually on a sound economic basis. on the comer of Main and 1s[...]r, 1970. For the next seven months Chief Engineer A. Erwin Nelson conducted classes for[...]ARK 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[...]had written that he lived one block from the park. They Arrangem[...]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 contribute[...]o was responsible for the water works of relative to equipment operating technique and general[...] |
| [...]Otto Brandt was a brick layer and stonemason. He died[...]Roger Burke was a tailor. His wife Verna played piano at[...]Dora Bush had a cafe where the postoffice is now, formerly[...]Building now is.[...]Betty's is. H.J. Christensen - bank employee; Coyla was a daughter.[...]Carl Cole - barber. He came to Scobey from North Dakota Daniel Scott became pa[...]1917, and also in 1920 and operated a barber shop here for many cared for the cemetery[...]atoes were planted in the plowed area of the park to the cattle business with Jess Smith[...]r. 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[...]'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.[...]pital, one time the Olive Hotel, closed and the A wading pool was constructed in 1952. In August, 1[...]building was purchased by Edmund Doucette for a a $50,000 swimming pool, the first steel tank type[...]this part of the country, was opened . The water is kept at a Norman and Vera Juel. pleasant temperature by a heating system. Gus A. Dahlquist - meat market. Pla yground equipment[...]er 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[...]k 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[...]land and last Nidia Spear. DeWilde had a novelty shop next to the Rex. Lloyd and Marian Alexander - Depot. Lloy[...]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 -[...]retta. from the mail order firm of that name bv Dane White. Edon and Nora Amundson owned[...]WW2; married Alfhild Elgestad. Gilbert Bakke was a night cop. O.B. Egland - Lumber, where Erickstein Motors is today.[...]olice officer in Scobey enroute to Alaska" from Ogden, Utah on a[...]younger than when he left Scobey. He was a former resident of Scobey. Was a government veterinarian with a long strip of border for his territory. He is now[...]Superintendent of the stockyards in Ogden. "Doc is[...]married Charlotte Noble, and moved to Townsend, Montana where he had a gold mine.[...] |
| [...]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 b[...]in Great Falls. the site on the Poplar River to the present townsite of Indy Halverson - Grocer[...]t Scobey and left Scobey in 1932 when he accepted a field position with the Regional Service of t[...]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 Drug[...]gher - worked for Battleson's. Mrs. Gallagher was a seamstress. They lived in the present Roger S[...]Gluck - Drayman and freighter. Gem Cafe was next to Hillstrom Motors.[...]rohibition bar located where Ginger's Bar now is. Sarah Griffith - in 1927 moved from Scobey to the west coast to make her home.[...]d in the bank. Haburchak lived here from 1952 to 1964. He was Nicholas Healy, early bar[...]and Alice was bookkeeper for the is now. Hershberger had a tire shop.[...](Sherman) was a nursery school supervisor. They had[...] |
| two daughters Ardeen and Jane. The family moved to owned by Gordon Blomquist, formerly[...]Billings in the late 40's where Ben passed away a few Johnsons, later Paus-Strom. years later while fishing. Marie is nursing in a Billings Ertes Nash - barber, wife Hazel Weaver[...]Christ Nielsen h a d the Case Implement Agency across the Cliff Humbert opened a barber shop here in 1916 and was a tracks. He and wife Auget and son James moved to Scobey area resident for 40 years later moving to Corvallis, Montana. Hamilton,[...]rl, Hans, . Kalvin, Beverly and Bob Jensen drove a delivery truck and ice wagon. Ice house[...]; passed away in Baker, Montana. Sam Kerstein had a pool hall. Jer[...]as Keogen - Attorney, came in the early 20's. Had a hand store proprietor. Loved horses and had a son George who was a noted basketball coach at Notre beauti[...]. wife Kathryn was an invalid for many years, Tom Kittleson - Blacksmit[...]preceding her death. His second wife, Emma, moved to Max Krivosha - Shoe shop, died April 16, 1965 in[...]ic store, had three children moved to Opheim to manage the telephone office there. Robert, B[...]where he had lived many years. Sam Luras was a drayman. He and his wife Amelia (Kramer) and family moved to Washington. Had three children, Stanton, Leo[...]ned by J.F. Whetstone. At 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[...]War veterans in this community. He was a lovable old Madsen. Later Mike Skadron moved in and he later fellow with a remarkable stamina when it came to sold to Ambrose Murphy and Indy Halvorson. In 1952 telling of the old days. Halvorson sold to Chris Tande, who later rented the Erling Sand is a partsman at the Noland Implement. His property to Kitzenbergs. wife is the former Bernice Waller. They have two James A.' Meade - Clerk, farmer, died March 16, 1935;[...]Alfred Schammel - long time postmaster and an early Lee Meyers -barber. Left here in the early[...]lla, son Alfred and daughter his barber shop to Herman Doucette. Lee and wife Patr[...]mmel passed away when children Mildred moved to Havre. He died of a heart attack in were young. Mrs. Sarah Fordyce kept house for him 1953. Mildred continues to make her home in Havre. and cared fo[...]the second Mrs. Schammel Theresa Mulcare operated a beauty parlor 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 was a hardware merchant in old Scobey who IWW. He died in a fire in Scobey 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[...]and while there a few letters were received from him.[...]He did not return to Scobey following his navy service[...]but there are reports that he died in Sitka, Alaska.[...]Seger's were transferred to Sand Point, Idaho where[...]Judi th Anderson Shrank was an early day practical nurse.[...]In later years she opened a gift shop next to the Rex Theatre. She was also a homesteader. Married Henry[...]Shrank. They moved to Arizona where Henry died.[...]Judith continues to make her home there.[...]Harry Shook was an early day Ford dealer in partnership[...]sons: Ford, Jimmie, Bobby and Jack. They moved to Glasgow and later to Browning.[...]Stephens-Griffith Bar - where Virginia's Bar is now.[...]Roy Thomas - Confectionary later sold to George Case. Fred Tollefson was an employee of Pa us-Strom Hardware[...]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 Davi[...]later his wife and baby died. Shorty drifted west to Later operated a cafe. Moved to Plains Montana Carrington and Balfour, North[...]former Helen Colby, pa~sed away. employed in a bank. Until his death in the early 1940's,[...]e had lived in the Scobey area since 1921. Shorty is remarned and continues to live at Plains. r~membered as one who was interested in crops, Henr[...]otel for livestock and farming and was always a source of nearl_y 20 years. Child[...]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 was a niece of P.R. as a messenger for Depot Agent Fred Haun. Shorty[...]for many people in Scobey, Mike Skadron had a grocery store on Main Street. Mr. and on the[...]ter Sally. the Art Hagfeldt lawn. He sat down to rest in the shade They moved to California. of the trees where he passed quie[...]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[...]where Maxine and Arlie's is now. Harry South had a variety store. Wife Elsie, daughter[...]Parks residence, where the Tade car wash is now.[...]Raymond, Roland, Forest moved to Yakima Washington to live. '[...]Walt Williams was a barber.[...] |
| [...]the time since. Joe, Jr. lives in Chicago and is in the soft drink business. The elder Joe is remembered here as a[...]at the typewriter; probably Irving Davis next to him; Alvah "Slim" Shaw, standing next to auto.[...]nd vice president, Ruth likeable fellow, with a spirited temper and when his Chelgren; sec[...]ive Olsen. Germanic grammar would be more pronounced, as The American Legion Auxiliary is the largest woman's was the case one day when during a particularly organization in Scobey a[...]ou from this grown from 39 charter members to 127 members in 1974. office out!" and Joe was a man of action. Its activities a[...]clude veterans affairs, Joseph Fred Woodley - was a homesteader and sign community ser[...]nd died September and many other projects. An auxiliary singer's group was 6, 1928.[...]formed in 1970 and they have entered national competition William Woodward was a Civil War veteran, wife at three[...]ects Redmond Harris, their daughter, operated a hospital. the Auxiliary participate in. Orlo moved to the west coast. William, Elizabeth,[...]ecall the wooden sidewalks in 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[...]Cassidy Must have been dangerous too for here a board, there a board, could flip up and leave a dangerous opening. The charter for Scobe[...]November 29, 1920 and countersigned by could be replaced without too much cost.[...] |
| However the Montana Department records show that the Armistice Day programs were ai[...]rship of the local Legion and VFW Posts. Programs A. Greenwood, Harry Kerstein, Gem·ge W. Johnson,[...]ols. Music was furnished by the school and Olson, A.H. Dasinger, Harry Thompson, Walter Bulpitt,[...]n of music director Joe Hylland. George Clements, A.L. Brunet, Oscar Manternach, E.A. In 1940 the Montana State Legion[...]as held Lund, Orlo C. Woodward, Arthur N. Nelson. A.H. Dasinger in Glasgow. Since this was the closest that this meeting publisher of the Scobey Citizen, signed the charter had ever been to Scobey, a large delegation from this area application. Noticeably absent from the application is the attended. The Scobey High School Band marched in the name of Dr. A.S. Needles, who was elected Commander of[...]Selective Service Act of 1940 set October 16th of that Few records remain concerning the formative years, but year as the date for the registration of all men of draft age. those show that the Post put on several movies at the Various places around the county were established as theater. Social meetings, complete with dinners,[...]ation sites. In Scobey fifteen Legionnaires acted as for veterans of the three wars--Civil, Spanish-Am[...]he 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 offi[...]ird draft call ordered the following thirteen men to thirties and early forties a mammoth Fourth of July report for in[...]The weekend prior to their departure a dinner was served Reciprocal meetings between Canadian and American to the inductees at the Legion Hall. This was followed by a Legionnaires were held on both sides of the 49th Parallel dance at the Blue Room of the Gorham Hotel. as far back as 1927. Scouting was promoted and supported.[...]1941 DistrictlhelditsconventioninScobey. appears that this game, won by Scobey, assured the[...]National Americanism Director for the Scobey Nine a berth in the state tournament at Billings. American Legion, spoke to the Convention. "Make Bob Schaefer, who could pit[...]governments and to the fire department, railroads, public On July 4, 1931 Bob Schaefer, in a game with Poplar, utilities, the Red Cross and the Daniels County Defense pitched a "no hit-no run", twenty strike out game; Scobey Commission. The Legion Hall was to be donated for the use won 10-0. Following this, in a playoff game 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 Febr[...]s of the book "Fall formed with 39 members. Since that 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[...]The local Legion sponsored a huge Fourth of July During the Great Depression[...]ronc riding, Indians in full short the work might be. 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.[...]Early in 1943 the Post went 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 purchased the old laundry A "last man's club" was set up in January, 1943. Ra[...]m the county for $135. Greengard donated a bottle of twenty-five year old brandy Terms of the purchase agreement were $27 down, which to the club. Specified was that a member must be a World the six man building committee paid from their own War I veteran and that his membership in Post 56 be 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 paid whenever possible."[...]who qualify. February 11, 1937 with the decision to begin renovation Fourth of Ju[...] |
| [...]t National President Mervyn veterans were invited to participate in Memorial and Woods of th[...]an 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 registe[...]ervice Officer became heavier, filling program. A heavy rain fell, soaking the parade out applications for terminal leave pay, admission to participants. veteran's hospitals, colle[...]ers and Today the Post still maintains a lending service for answering letters and questio[...]ogram 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;[...]ern 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 partie[...]e 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[...]es 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 certificates Everett Pitte[...]re won the title; Late in 1944 word came to Scobey that Henry Schauer, Scobey recaptured the title in 19[...]been a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for Si[...]ntry and intrepedity above and beyond references to Legion baseball--the problems and the call of duty" in a pitched battle with the German forces vicissitud[...]near Cisterna di Littoria, Italy on May 23-24 of that year. coaches, but during those years the communi[...]in "hands across the Powers, Alder, returned to Montana upon completion of border for the contin[...]. The observance leaving Henry Schauer, a member of Post 56 now residing consists of a memorial service, speeches by visiting i[...]ond World War.) The Scobey Post has been host to the 49th Parallel Observance on three occasions:[...]Legion posts filled the Scobey Ball Park but had to be hel~ BASEBALL in the hi[...]nadian Le- Baseball, during the time that the county was first being gion; Commander Neil Shepard and Adjutant Chet Shore settled, often was a spontaneous affair. Teams were of a represented the Montana American Legion. Colonel temporary arrangement, put together for a local Campbell Larson, official envoy of the Unit[...]Earl Fairbanks, switch from one team to another as the occasion Scobey, told the visiting delegates[...]Old-timers state that Smoke Creek, south of Flaxville, The 1964 Observance brought Governor Tim Babcock to had one of the first teams in the area and that, in 1911, that Scobey; Commander Hike Mains and Adjutant Chet Sh[...]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[...]the field Because of rumors, in 1925, that Plentywood had |
| [...]ged at Plentywood last Sunday (June 14, 1925), in a ten inning game resulting in a score of 4-1 in Scobey's favor. It was a little tough for the boys to play on a back yard lot but, nevertheless, they came out on[...]("Nigger Joe ") fought hard for ten innings with a score of 1-1 until the first of the tenth when th[...]oked bad for Scobey. One man down and bases bull, a short liner to second then a completed sensational doubleplay stopp ed them from scoring. In the tenth Myers went to first and succeeded in reaching third on pass bal[...]were champions of the 8 team Northeast background is the Scobey Schoo l. From left to right back Montana Baseball League in 1949.[...]locality. Scobey team from left to right and positions:[...]This venture wa costing Scobey b usinessmen '4300 a Reiner, c. Standing: Elmer Gilchrist, cf; Harvey Eide, ss; month to meet the team payroll and expen e ; this was[...]three years of high-priced ba eba ll and glamorou a it wa it was not worth the price. One intere ting not is that on th day after Chri stmas in 192 , a ba eball game wa8 played at Whitetail by two[...]d's 1914 team . Their first conference teams from that town.[...] |
| [...]ouglu Myers home. Eastman was forced 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 gate were seen on any ball park, fans saw them that day. Had it not rained, there might have been a few more dollars taken in ai the gate, but the ra[...]the game. Last Monday, Plentywood again went down to defeat ai tht' Scobey park by a score of 7-2. Taken from the Scobey Sentinel, Fri[...]• .- u11 -. . , From left to right, back row: Managrr Jv .. , L1Jer::;<., ...[...], ul< • , l';,.-'. F.u11l TO right, back row:[...]11tana: watering facilities. The ClulJ }Jru1n0Led an<l c ,,.,\ r1 tJ t ·n l :. . ,-,[...]ague, Babe Ruth. Legiun. ::;oft ba11 ~::; "½t:11 a~ l"U11n,.[...]., . , . , . ~-kd u, Wkhita . Ka11-.;,l~ to The history of baseball in the county wo[...] |
| Scobey Plainsmen, 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, Cliff[...]Quilling. Front row: Gordon Scurvin, Ken Lekvold, A llan Lowes, Wally Sinner, Andy Stolen. (Se[...] |
| [...]ponsored by the Scobey American Legion. From left to right back row: Coach Clyde Norman, Larry Grayson[...]ane during the season's play. Earl also is an annual financial Trangsrud, J.J. Hagfeldt and Don Puckett. Front: Keith contributor to Legion ball in Daniels County. This shot Zieske,[...]s taken during action in the Scobey-Billings game as Hagfeldt. Bat boys: Kirby Halvorson, Kelly Norman[...]veteran first baseman Lee Cook. It would be a good bet that[...]on any given summer Sunday afternoon 60 years ago that[...]eball somewhere around the county area! - second, a stunning upset, they knocked off the third place[...]ark, Georgia, 8-6. Their next game There is a brief history of the Scobey Legion baseball was lost to the Kansas state champions, 2-0. This[...]t, but they pictures appear here. had made a mark in being the first Montana team to have In reading this book it will be noticed that some ever won a game at the National.[...]e information concerning these teams has reverted to the style of baseball in which teams are it was decided to leave them where they were originally hastily put together for a special event. placed.[...] |
| [...]er since. The S.I.T. has expanded from strictly a trophy tournament to where prize monies , team trophies, all star awar[...]ney 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. From the relatively humble beginning 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 tourney, was an " All Pac-8" performer for Wayne Chabo[...]ints per game in the Scobey tourney and was named to Unsworth and Kevin French. the All Star team. Cavin Anderson , a native of Watford City, North Dakota, played for the Scobey Plainsment in the 1973 tourney. Cavin was a two-time NAIA All-American history[...]was later on the roster of valuable information as a basis for subsequent histories. the Chicago Bulls[...]rrison* played in . In less than four and a half years, under Mr. Walker's Austria and Hollan[...]Johnson was the first to attain the rank, and Ormand The Plainsmen team[...]Paus, Jr. was the youngest scout ever to attain that rank at receipts, has donated $3500 toward the purchase of land that time. for the Scobey school track and football co[...]n, 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[...]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[...]Bystrom, and Lloyd The following members served as a Troop Committee; Battleson. Elmer Skeie[...]secretary; R.V. Walker, who served as vice president of the Great Oliver Bystrom, treas[...]Ranheim, Award for Distinguished Service to Boyhood in 1947. Reid troop committeemen; R.V. Wa[...]Erwin outstanding accomplishments and membership. A Scobey Nelson, Ellsworth Skeie,[...] |
| [...]Fosland Jr., Keith Haugo, Mikel Before that time, when there were no doctors or Lund, Larry G[...]the graves were moved to Scobey when the cemetery was In 1956 Jordan Fos[...]Park, Idaho. many deaths that it was necessary to dig graves both night Mikel P. Lund attended th[...]In recent years there has been an addition that doubled Michael M. Fitz attended the Wilderness Canoe Base at the size of the cemetery, and a cemetery association was Ely, Minnesota in 1971, and Philmont Scout Ranch at formed at that time. Cimarron, New Mexico in 1972. Ned Blevins[...]ve Metts attended summer camp at Camp Napi, which is located on the east Compile[...]Institutional Representative that Sunday--July 1, 1872. The sun was attempting to break through the clouds as a lone passenger scrambled[...], 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-[...]fraught with toil, heartbreak and hardship, that was to Marley, Tracey Reiner.[...]William Wesley Van Orsdel was born on a farm near[...]Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1848 to parents of[...]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[...]e man who knew what he had done. Some people said that Civil War broke out; he stayed home and did the farm work. the folks who lived around here must be healthy, because In 1863 the battle 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[...] |
| [...]congregation would be singing. He preached appealing[...]preceded him and a crowd would be gathered to receive[...]was always requested to sing two of his favorite hymns:[...]After his appointment as Supervisor of the Milk River[...]was an earlier structure north of town. To obtain funds to build the Scobey church, Brother Van[...]Each saloonkeeper donated one hundred dollars--a large amount at that time. Rev. W.W. Van Orsdel[...]mountain valleys of Idaho and Montana to the prairie[...]y of our Northeast, founding churches, hospitals, an[...]dedication, he wormed his way He was an uncommon "common" man. He had hunted to the front of the crowd and shook hands with Mr.[...]many a sod house and homestead shack; he was equally at[...]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;[...]e went he was welcomed with open arms, and For a time he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania[...]buried in Helena on the afternoon of his resolve to go on to the frontier by a former Union Army Decem her 24th. chaplai[...]Perhaps someone, somewhere, thinking of him on that 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 fare of fifty dollars "The day will soon be 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; paid. When it was, a few months later, 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 will be shining, 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 of ALL SAINT[...]the Far West. They were persuaded by the captain to leave without any trouble arising. Later, and[...]T.W. Collinson, 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 well attended services the first week he known as All Saints Mission. was there.[...]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[...]the leadership of Bishop H.H. Fox of he was given a horse. It was also about this time that the Billings, All Saints chapel was built and completed. Many name " Brother Van" was tied to the young preacher, and, of the furnishi[...]c chapel were made and like all nicknames, it was to be with him for the remainder donated by the m[...]the He began his services by singing the hymns that many baptismal font by Mrs. M. Lile in[...]ir childhood in faraway and Susan Crum made a lovely wooden cross in memory of homes, an[...] |
| [...]y, Montana, built 1923. First missionary was Rev. A.M. Frost.[...]R.J. Westfall, Rev. D.E.L. Wells, Captain A.F. Gowing,[...]A.L.M. The first baptism, by S.D. Hooker, took[...]d was organized in 1920 with Mrs. Jennie |
| [...]were conducted in the old Legion pastor. It was a long and arduous trip by buggy. The great Hall.[...]black horses Kate and Spike finally gave out and a call About a year after Rev. Miller came he was instrumental went out for an "Auto for presten i Plentywood." Once a in purchasing a rural school house, which was moved into month the new Hupmobile brought the shepherd to his town for use as a church. new flock. Once Sunday because of a severe rain storm the In the fall of 1947 a full basement was constructed for pastor arri[...]church was In 1913 the congregation moved to Scobey. The new moved to a corner location. Later an addition was church building was fini[...]on and Carrie were held here regularly, and there is a ladies' Missionary Colby. Marian and Herman are still living. Their father Council and a Young People's group associated with the C.K. Hanson, who died in 1955, was a pioneer deacon. church.[...]N CHURCH Gronneberg, A.H. Amundson, Stanley G.Knudson,[...]States of David Simonson (son of Rev. R.L.) a missionary in America, a few pioneer families in the area near the middle[...]f the Poplar River in northeast Montana organized a Catherine Miller Darch uk was church secretary for the Lutheran congregation known as the Middle Fork longest period. Her daughter Diane married one of our Lutheran Church. A partial list of the early members of former[...]Scobey Lutheran choir in 1927. Left to right back row: Mr.[...]first parsonage was purchased from W.J. Wohlers, a[...]south of the church. A new parsonage was built in 1959.[...]our congregation became a part of the newly merged First Pastor, Scobey Lut[...]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. Tande, Bertha Egelson, F.G. Gregerson, C.K.[...]hnson , L.J. Conlan, Ole Ten members had a bazaar and dinner on November 13, Helland, Hale Nelson, Andrew Flatney, A.H. Twedt and 1913 and took in $137.70. A great sum sixty-five years ago! H.P. Larson.[...]Rev. Fretheim wrote later, "If we were to measure their The "parish" was from Plentywood to here and first two year's work in[...]it would not roundabout. S.J. Fretheim from 1911 to 1918 was the first measure up with the[...] |
| [...]ere are other values greater than money. L.A. Gunerud, U.S. immigration officer, T. Lundevall[...]Dr. Wm. Olson, A.F. Bein and Casper Brenden comprised "Firsts and longests" go as follows: to Julia Bystrom the first slate of officers f[...]od in 1933 which has sponsored the Boy Scouts pin to Mrs. John Bystrom. First organists, Olive Bonnes[...]me, 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[...]h and Mrs. Pete Our congregation is now 65 years old. For the golden Karlsrude were t[...]lights of our Sunday anniversary in 1961 a booklet was published. Much credit School for many years. Hilma Evenskaas and Bertha is due to Mrs. Alvin Rustebakke for its compilation. Colby[...]e School teacher in It was the Luther League that gave the life-like canvas in 1916 was O.J. Mithun[...]thful are the far away twenties. too numerous to mention but their names are all known in the "Boo[...]This church had its beginning in the year 1910 in a little schoolhouse two and a half miles north and west of the[...]Frank Hughes, Sr. homestead. A Sunday School had been[...]reorganized May 1, 1910 and known as the Middle Fork Union Sunday School. It had a membership of about 50, an average attendance of 25 to 30 and more during the[...]Burgett as Superintendent and more and larger classes;[...]pastors, and especially by a Methodist minister, a[...]team and buggy for each service. who served there as heads appear: Rev. Boe, Rev. Foss, In the spring of 1912 the District Superintendent, Rev. O.A. Rev. Gronneberg, Rev. Knudson, Russell Halaas, Rev. White, organized the church with a membership of twenty. Benson, Rev. Simonso[...] |
| [...]hout money and with very few belongings, no place to who traveled through this vicinity twice i[...]ortation. He must have Father Hennessy, who drove a team of horses from wondered why he and his wife[...]· ministers and both admitted to the bar as lawyers, had In 1911 Father Alphonse Peche, a Benedictine priest accepted this pioneer country[...]eople stationed at Culbertson, held services once a month during very responsive. They opened their[...]Lyceum Theater. Confessions He was furnished a saddle horse on which he rode were heard behind a piano or behind a cheesecloth hung hundreds of miles , establishing preaching points and across a corner of the room. giving spiritual comfort to many . He borrowed a team and From 1915 to 1918, Scobey was served by Father wagon and hauled most of the lumber from Poplar to build Hennessy from Plentywood. It was during his[...]ough the generosity of the Scobey for his family to move into on Thanksgiving Day, parishioners, together with a gift of $200 from the November 25th , 1913. Extension Society, that work was begun on the church. The community Thanksgiving dinner was enjoyed by a The main altar was donated by Louis LaPierre, car[...]side altar and statues by R.J. " Brother Van " . That evening they held the first Methodist Coughlin, S[...]hodist Episcopal Church of Scobey, Montana" . In that same year the church received a memorial gift of $250.00 from Mr. and Mrs. Georg[...]emory of their daughter, Mae K. Fox. In addition a loan of $550.00 was allowed by the Methodist Boa[...]tions by members and other interested people and a great amount of donated labor the church was comp[...]d 15, 1914, with special services; and now known as "The Mae K. Fox Memorial Methodist Episcopal Chu[...]on in 1939 of the three major Methodist bodies , that the official name became "The First Methodist Ch[...]ly possessed the pioneer qualification necessary to enable him to travel far and wide , on foot, horseback , Th[...]n all kinds of weather, praying in many dedicated to the patronage of St. Philip Bonitas, and the hom[...]following year Father Gerald Dillon was appointed as first About 1923 the Methodist Church decided to construct a resident priest. He also attended to the outlying missions hall adjoining the church . This became a reality in 1924. of Glentana, Peerless, Whitetail[...]ry of its The P.E. Burke home was purchased as a rectory. dedication . In 1941 an extensive renovating program was On August[...]deled 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 came[...]ogram. Rev. J.L. McCarthy served the parish as interim priest for Ministers who served after[...]n 1942 the mission of Peerless was Cookingham , D.A. Kroft, Alexander Muirden, Ernest attached to Glentana. Kistler, Raymond Robinson (Ass't .), Rowland Martin , The parish mortgage was burned at a parish dinner on (Ass't. ), Fred Anstice, Frank S. Hollett, A.E. Plummer, February 5, 1942, highlighted by an address by the Most Thomas Roddy, J.S. Bellinger,[...]M.O. Smith, James Father Altmann was transferred to St. Raphaels in Dickinson, Arthur Swaren , Ronald[...]r Heath , Fred Collins, and Michael and installed as St. Philip's new pastor, serving until transfer M[...]. 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 wer[...]of the Coronach team visiting Scobey played a few ends ... under the Plentywood Council.[...]essed the first Solemn Hoot, mon, but it is a grand old game! Mass and High Mass of Reverend Ra[...]he Scobey Curling Club, the first one in Montana, is Louis church in Flaxville.[...]sportsmanship and increasing game and fish in the is buried in the Scobey Cemetery. Father John J.[...]organizations in matters of interest to sportsmen. St. Philip's Parish Center, built at a cost of The first officers were Cl[...]St. Thomas Catholic Church at Whitetail was moved to Jacobsen, directors. Pioneer Town at the Daniels County Museum grounds in An annual banquet is held, with programs of interest to Scobey.[...]nd from Larry Fjeld Curling, a game played on ice, was originated by kilted |
| [...]watch; and Kate Von Kuster, outer watch. To my knowledge, Rose Johnson is the only member living of this[...]lizabeth Fowler (Mrs. Williams Collins) director. An[...]as captain. By selling Degree of Honor insurance,[...]es lined with red silk. In 1928, with Edna Waller as[...]Mrs. Magdalene Murphy served as State President and Palmer Teigan, Vic Hillstrom and Carl Linquist at trap later as a member of the National Degree's Welfare Board. sh[...]decided to give grants of $150 to fifteen deserving student[...]s entering college. In 1962 Alice Trower received a Mrs. Fem Trower was presented with a corsage from the grant after entering Concordia College; later, 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 h[...]Mark and Patrice Reiner late Don Trower, who was an avid sportsman and trap received this in 1[...]ter. Their son, Ramon, donated the metal building to The first meetings of Scobey Lodge No. 61 wer[...]DEGREE OF HONOR Over a period of time the Degree of Honor has donated to[...]hting of the flag pole. Association Lodge No. 61, a National Fraternal life[...]on October 7, Degree of Honor Drill Team. Left to right first row: Edna Waller, Magdalene ~u[...] |
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| [...]and STARDUSTERS. Charles Carbone moved to Havre so Kenny Lekvold.[...]ale Smith took over drums; Gordon Vanderpan moved to[...]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,[...]proceeds have been donated to the hospital.[...]Fairy, played by Phyllis Johnson, paddling a golden canoe and singing a song introducing Fairyland. A vision ofrare[...]beauty was the tableau presented as the curtain rose on the[...]announces the Prince's invitation to the May Day ball.[...]Cinderella throughout, on the fact that she has no gown to wear to the ball. She is unselfishly happy in their pleasure,[...]though secretly she yearns to go. Nellie La Pierre and Virginia Miller - one of[...]Scene II shows Daisy beautifying and sending off to the performances together. Through the years they[...]neer Town. Bowler. She is then sad to think she cannot go, but is cheered by the approach of Godmother Nature, LaBerta[...]does so and emerges changed from a drab brown to a LIITLE FOLKS' OPERETTA WAS beautiful golden blossom. A lovely chariot then appears REAL[...]line Christianson and Dorothy Gibson. The chariot is Cinderella in Flowerland Presented to attended by Bonnie Bee, who q[...]isy starts for the ball. The creation of beauty is in itself cause for appreciation The third scene was a triumph of beauty and grace. It and enjoyment but when there is combined with it a represents the May Day ball and the shower. It begins with delicate imaginative touch and a finesse and dash rarely the dance of the[...]followed by the seen in children's plays you have a delightful combination. triumphal entrance o[...]nce The splendid crowd which was fortunate enough to then has eyes for none but Daisy.[...]lls witness " Cinderella in Flowerland" witnessed a in this scene are delightful. Es[...]mention performance which in artistry and finish is seldom were the eight little sunbea[...]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.[...]h of humble Daisy, whom The story of Cinderella is familiar to everyone, which none of her sister flowers suspect her as the one who will be made all the more interesting the delightful adaptation able to wear the golden slipper discovered by the[...] |
| [...]s his happiness at discovering his Princess. It is impossible to mention all the characters who are deserving of praise, as everyone of the 36 characters took his part most acceptably. Little Helen Robinson as Daisy, Cinderella, was charming. Her several solos were sung in a[...]was at all times above criticism, Lee Montgomery as the Prince, and Bonar Collinson as his Herald, divided honors among the boys. Both read their lines 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[...]d courtesy necessary for the Herald. Larry Bowler as Bonnie Formerly of Hendrum, Minn. Bee added a comedy touch which was most appreciated. Especial[...]terfly characters , Known As Adeline Christianson and Dorothy Gibson. The sp[...]eceived. Little Joyce Cole took premier honors in a group of songs , while Charles Smith and Rex Linderman each entertained with a cornet solo.[...]The Scobey V The operetta was presented for a Methodist benefit and --- will give a --- was supervised throughout by Mrs. Swenson , who is[...]for the successful accomplishment of so difficult an undertaking. Mrs. A.L. Brunet was responsible for the beautiful costuming which added greatly to the play. All the mothers helped in the preparati[...]ndrum, Minn., on immense amount of work necessary is obtainable from the fact that a large committee worked six nights until past[...]I wish to express thanks to all who helped and especially the Don't miss i[...]he Scobey V , July 14, 1918, Hendrum, |
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| bid to supply a Ford truck Superior fire equipment 1000 g[...]at Rapid City, the gold mine at gallon pumper on a Ford tilt cab to arrive in September of Lead, and they attend[...]Summer of 1956 they enjoyed a three-day Primitive[...]During these years they operated as a Lone Troop. After[...]anning from 1954 the Treasure State Girl It was a noble and earnest group of women who served[...]ecame 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, is a hi-lite of of those working with Girls Scouts. Mr[...]eley and the year. Carnations are presented to the mothers, Mrs. Jessie Seeger organized the Gir[...]school year, all troops taking turns. Caroling is enjoyed in Jim McIntyre, Mrs. Harold Hitsman, Mrs[...]Luft and Mrs. E. Richardson completed. there are a number of girls who have earned awards but the The quilt was sent to Shodair Crippled Children's present records show[...]ayle Brenden, Judy The Girl Scouts had a part in the Historical Pageant at Paus, Mary Ann[...]privileged to have Mrs. Bydeley with them at this time. In 19[...]y through the efforts of Ginger Fosland our girls a freight car to be converted into a club house and "Hands Across the Border" relations began. Various Daniels County gave a lot. This was the first Girl Scout troops[...]lub 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 entertained by our Girl Cory Vink who built a house. Scouts.[...]om The Court of Awards in April 1966 was an international Plentywood and Opheim and their leaders, Miss Eunice event as several Girl Guides were in attendance. Cathy Shi[...]lander, Miss Margaret Kochansky, a Canadian girl presented the Sword Dance Barnhart, Mrs. A. Fonk and Mrs. V. Hillstrom chartered a and the Highland Fling. bus and went to Belle Fouche, South Dakota where they[...]and Mrs. J. Fosland leased 20 acres from enjoyed a week at the Homestake 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[...]ent when Lady Baden-Powell Roosevelt, was present that day. They toured the summer (widow of fou[...]Country" awards at Scobey Methodist Church. Left to right back row: Mildred Smith, Edna Battleson,[...]erite Lawrence. Middle Nancy Fitz was a member of the Mountaineering and row: Gwen[...] |
| [...]The county agents over the years were: A.W. Warden;[...]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. As you will note there were periods with no county a[...]and some filled in for just a few months.[...]HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUBS that same year Mary Jo Bjarko was at the camp site "Ca[...]The Silver Star club was organized in 1921 with A.W. Canada. Warden as our first county agent, who was here until July In July 1972 Karen Tymofichuk made a trip to the 15, 1926. They held the first meeti[...]was financed which was at the Imb 's place at that time. by the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund. At the Court of Here is a list of some of the projects we had in this club.[...]Fitz were awarded the seems there wasn 't a thing about homemaking that we First Class patch. ancy also attended "Saddle Straddle", didn 't learn to do! Home canning of meats - beef and a Girl Scout horseback event in Wyoming.[...]urniture, Lannon took part in Colonial Ca ravan , a summer camp at making footstools, color in yo[...]pot removers, lighting your home, Tymofichuk went to 'Saddle Straddle" in Wyoming.[...] |
| [...]nada, east past the North Dakota in Scobey, is the culmination of the hopes and efforts of line, and west "as far as he was needed", was served by Dr. many longtime residents of the community. I ts beginnings C.A. Atkinson, better known as "Doc" Atkinson. He was back in 1944 were due to the endeavors of the Scobey Lions the agency doct[...]patients. His $275,000. The hospital became a reality in 1952, after wife was called Pazuta Win[...]l trips group endeavors were supplemented by a government across the Missouri River during the t[...]ives and other women skilled in the healing arts, as Memorial Hospital - 1963 well as trained nurses who had turned to homesteading, took care of the medical needs of t[...]ometimes surprisingly effective. One of these was a tea made of pumpkin seeds boiled in water. No records exist to name these often-heroic women, but a few whose names have been mentioned by contributors to this book are Mrs. Louisa Watts, Effie Du_sk, Mis[...]e additional risk of bringing these diseases home to their own families. During the flu epid[...] |
| Today it boasts the facilities of a fully-equipped operating room with surgical and anesthesia equipment, a complete emergency room, modern delivery room, X[...]and fully equipped laundry and kitchen. This is a far cry from the not so modern early hospitals in[...]ris, with room for eight patients. Mrs. Harris , a registered nurse, had the aid of such fine doctors as Dr. Collinson of Scobey and Dr. De Wayne of Wolf[...], was managed by Mrs. Aasness and run primarily as a maternity home. Another maternity home was run by Mrs. Humbert and known as the Humbert Hospital. In 1936 the Clinic, own[...]Hotel where it had been located for five years, to the Arlington Hotel building. Dr. Collinson started his clinic with Miss White as first R.N. After she leit, his sister-in-law, Mr[...]lson came in 1933 and managed it until it closed as a home for the aged in 1957, the year Dr.[...]f P oint. Located on the Main Street of Scobey is the Olson Hospital , now an old folks home , but formerly an aptly- managed hospital. Serving here were doctor[...]ed by Mrs. Esther Olson Lynene from April of 1935 to April of 1952. Dr. In April, 1935 I was asked by Doctor L.M. Morrow to Benson of Plentywood served here and Dr. Knapp of Wolf start a maternity home. I rented the Oie home on Main' Po[...]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 occasional surgery, often first-aid Norman. Early[...]on in that capacity until 1971.[...]The Olson hospital was the scene of a birthday party[...]dropped in to wish many happy returns to one of their long-[...]As is inevitable when people visit Mrs. Olson at[...] |
| [...]However, beds and cots had to be set up in every possible[...]corner of the house to accommodate so many. "We had[...]babies, including a set of twins, were born at the hospital-[...]all done on an old-fashioned stove. In the winter time Mrs.[...]Olson used to bathe the babies while sitting in front of the[...]operating and delivery room, which also had to be used for an occasional patient when the hospital was crowded.[...]the babies never seemed to suffer from this arrangement[...]babies were in vogue Mrs. Olson let her judgement be her[...]uring the many years when it served the community as "And I have always felt that babies should be held while one of Scobey's two hospitals. being fed." It is doubtful if Mrs. Olson ever enjoyed a whole Hundreds of babies were born at Mrs. Ols[...]ight's sleep, unbroken by the demands of from one to five the years between 1935 and 1952, and Mrs. Ol[...]did most of the cooking for her patients, and she is pleasant home-like atmosphere of the hospital, and one of those cooks who believe that good old fashioned food patients with all manner[...]ed complete with real butter and cream, is best. back to health here by Mrs. Olson and her daughter,[...]ildren include Sigurd Olson of Froid, Alvin Olson that time and Dr. Morrow begged Esther to start a of Culbertson, Mrs. Helen Peter[...]ternity hospital where she could "take care of up to four Art Olson, Mrs. Myrtle Anderson, Mrs. Esther Lyhene, all maternity cases a't a time." of[...]grandchildren. conveniently locate a short distance south of the business Af[...]finally the Olson hospital continued to operate as a home for agreed to begin this new enterprise, and the Olson hospital elderly people. Mrs. Olson is assisted in this work by her began. The house wa[...]schedule, Mrs. Olson still finds time to make up the It wasn't long until they realized that the idea of a Christmas baskets sent out by the American Auxiliary maternity hospital with a capacity of four patients was not every years. very realistic. In fact, the first patient to enter the hospital Summing up her years with the hospital, Mrs. Olson was not a maternity case at all, but an elderly farmer from says, "We worked hard but I think we did a lot of good, too. Flaxville who was suffering from a bad case of blood I still miss the[...]d 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 GUILD that the patient made a rapid recovery. We had no equipment at all at first, not even an The Daniels Memorial Hospital Gu[...]e days we had the mother and baby were to manage the new hospital. They felt the need of a for ten full days. Other patients were charged $3 a day." guild to render assistance to the hospital itself. An There were no extra charges for operating room[...]anuary 11, 1952. The guild was created and became a never even thought of chargin~ for those t[...] |
| Mrs. E.T. Peterson, as temporary chairman, opened the back in, spin the[...]r election of officers and appointment of carried an extra spring for the car, because occassionally[...]year. The first slate of officers the trail would be washed out and there would be an abrupt were: Mrs. J .N. Robertson, president; Mrs. Alvah Shaw, stop, breaking a spring. One had to be an amateur vice president; Mrs. 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.[...]y walking the last twelve miles. place with over a thousand visitors attending the tea On another occasion a man came for me to go north of served by the Guild mem hers for this event. Many Peerless to see a member of his family. It was late evening monetary contributions that day added to the treasury of and the prairie looked smooth. Su[...]the bottom the Guild which assessed 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 of the patient's house so we walked the setting aside one afternoon a month for sewing and rest of the way. I stayed all night and he took me back to mending for the hospital. Through the years this[...]th his team. On his way home he took the battery a meaningful and helpful assistance that has been out of my car and kept it until spring w[...]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 ass[...]ur arrival at the West Fork Creek there Each May a Hospital Tea is sponsored by the Guild--its were a number of wagons camped waiting for the ice flow 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 hospital. spent 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 meeting on cross as his wife had fluid 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 re[...]wagon and we made a successful crossing. The next wagon The hospital and the Guild have both filled a real need in wasn't so lucky as it was hit by a big block of ice. We then the Scobey area. Since the building of the main unit, a wing came to what had been an ankle-deep stream, but by now has been added for[...]e horse's tails and supervision. Another addition is on the agenda in the near almost to the spring seat on the wagon. future.[...]One spring I was substituting for a doctor at Wolf Point. Submitted by The liveryman drove me to the banks of the river where a Mrs. J .N. Robertson man had a boat. I entered the wooden boat, took off my fur[...]The patient was suffering a severe hemorrhage. When I[...]safely." I asked him ifhe didn't expect us to return. He said, "When you stepped in that boat I had my doubts for I have D[...]worse." Shortly after this trip a man was digging lignite In 1913 the Fort Peck[...]numbers. organs. The family sent for a priest and me to come. The Both my brother Forest and I drew low n[...]ing up and refused before the drawing Forest took a spade and went out to to go. I stepped into the boat and said to him, "You 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 acres. Later our father, Dr. W.S. Tucker, filed on a claim boat. I found the patient in very severe condition. His next to Forest's land. We made the required improvements[...]land. There were no fences on the reservation at that into the steel boat, crossed the river, got him o[...]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 Canada I will never forget. A patient's In the spring of 1915 I opened my office in Scobey to husband from across the line came for me. As we were practice medicine. My father practiced 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 following morning which were rugged so when I was called out to make a he had to follow the clothes line to get to the barn. They country trip I drove my car. In cold weather we had to drain lived in a small sod house which consisted to two small the radiator at each stop for at that time anti-freeze was rooms with dirt floors. 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[...] |
| badly infected eyes. I was compelled to stay overnight When Scobey became a county seat I was the first person because of the storm and slept on a couch in my overcoat. to receive a permit to carry a gun. I had lots of enjoyment in One winter evening during a fierce blizzard, Frenchie practicing to be a good shot by putting my horse in a run and I started out with a team of yellow broncs hitchd to a and shooting at fence posts as I passed them. home-made sled. We couldn't see the road, so took to the I entered World War I, in the fall of 1917, and spent three railroad track, followed it to Flaxville, then headed across months in Kansa[...]es and became lost in the storm. Fin?i.lly we saw a training during which I had a wonderful time for officers light in a window. We spent the night there and next were quite popular. I was attached to the cavalry unit morning we went to our destination. The patient was com[...]s evening before the ha by was were converted to light artillery (horse drawn). During the born. On our return trip we were driving through a pasture 1918 flu epidemic another lieutenant was sent to the along a wire fence. The horses heels were throwing snow i[...]tal. I was so ill I crawled on my hands and knees to my face, so I had my mittens covering my face. S[...]The whipple developed into T.B. I spent a year and half in Fitzsimmons tree broke dragging[...]am started running and were I returned to Scobey and went into practice with Dr. Tom soon[...]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[...]g girls. May had me check her specialists a~ heads of the staffs of the hospital. girls for[...]peciality until I retired in 1958. horses hitched to three sleds with the drivers walking to The year following the first rodeo at[...]ss by putting on the first one for I were making a trip to Opheim. We spent the night in Old Scobey.[...]harge of the gate receipts and paying prize money to the up to the ceiling. The stable consisted of upright pole[...]l borrowed the snow fence. These we used to build corrals to putting a good blanket of snow on the straw. There was a hold the horses. A few days before the rodeo Slim Jensen narrow opening for the entrance. The horses furnished the and a couple of cowboys rode all the horses to select the heat from their bodies so it was as snug as a bug in a rug. I best buckers. For the finals we used ten outstanding forgot to mention I stayed at the hotel and slept in all my[...]-fed bucking horses weighing twelve clothes with a charcoal warmer. Frenchie slept in the barn.[...]r for sunfishers, hitting the ground with a lot of force. The range two days. I made a sixty mile round trip in my cutter alone, horses were much smaller so did not have near as much but the minute I arrived at my destination[...]overed them with blankets and got except a few who sunfished. them in the barn to prevent them from getting pneumonia.[...]blacksmith living in Scobey at that time. Contestants The saloons did a thriving business. There was shooting mounted and rules for riding were that he came out of the and one victim died while I wa[...]th his spurs in the horse's neck. He was required to the wound. There were several stabbings, but thos[...]r the were beaten up while intoxicated would need a change of first five jumps with his hat in his right hand and the underclothes and be cleaned up before I would attend their ha[...]qualified. wounds. One night the marshall brought a drunk who had[...]odeo the participating riders went been beaten up to my hotel room in the usual mess, and while we wer[...]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[...]Thirteen excellent riders were thrown that day. There[...]were several successful riders. A half-breed Indian wore a because he had to stay until the bank opened to get money to pay me.[...]he rode a bucking horse. One horse he rode, the surcingle[...]his spur in the horse's flank, earlier purchased a pint of liquor were sitting directly and rode him out. I understood that this cowboy was killed under a hotel window. They were making so much noise a riding a bronc. lady occupying a room on the second floor dumped the[...]er any of the rider's names but Slim contents of a chamber pot on them.[...] |
| [...]been residing in February 23, 1949. The deceased is survived by his widow, Escondido, California. Mrs. Ingrid (Jestin) Needles, a son William of Yelm, by Florence Sheron Bennett Washington, and a brother, Dr. J.W. Needles of Glendale, California[...]cobey during the early 20's and while here served as The Scobey J ayceens were organized on[...]n. with 21 members. The organization is an auxiliary of the Upon leaving here he practiced in Illinois, the state of Jaycees and is devoted to assisting them in projects to Washington, and later to Lima, Montana where he had better the community. Membership is limited to wives of been about a year. the Jaycees. Mrs. Ingrid Needles, a sister of Mrs. C.T. Swenson, made The firs[...]practiced in Beverly Ulstad, treasurer. An installation banquet was Scobey and Mrs. Needles was a high school teacher here. held jointly w[...]The J ayceens provided potluck lunches to the Jaycees as Methodist Church and Eastern Star.[...]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. Ii ve in a retirement home not far from Portland, Oregon. They sponsored the Heart Fund, contributing toward a part scholarship to Junior Citizens Camp and also to the[...]a Jubilee Cookbook with recipes from the Daniels Co[...]In 1965 the Jayceen Scrapbook was dedicated to the[...]- Spokette and Sparkler A ward::; were established in 1971, as well as the District Roadruuner award which creates[...]were given out to 127 servicen1cu by Red Cross workers.[...]In 1972 Ginny Heaton assumed temporary duties as[...]donated money to buy an x-ray cabinet for Daniels[...]May Day baskets were made and given to all the Scobey[...]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 -[...]In 1975 the Jaycees families had a toboggan party at DR. LORANCE. T. KROGS[...]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[...]having been in poor health for several months. A native of North Dakota, Dr. Krogstad, received hi[...]fficer~ were R. Leer, continuing until 1948, with an interruption of about two president; Carl L[...]esident; Elmer years, (1944-1945), when he served as a medical officer in Skeie, second vice-[...] |
| [...]philosophical endeavors, contributes to the aid and secretary-treasurer; Otto R. King, li[...]needy brothers. It also assists in sponsoring an annual Charter members were R. Leer, H.L. Hitsman, Carl representative from Scobey to the American Legion Boy's Lindquist, Elmer Skeie,[...]Olsen, T. Lundevall, H.E. Nustad, E.W. Battleson, A.W. Schammel, George L. Hart, O.W. Paus, W.P. McDa[...]on, and R.H. Greengard, A.R. Hanson.[...]also assisted financially in sending local youth to president; Richard Jacques, vice preside[...]The purpose of this association is to preserve antique[...]is country, farmers, SCOBEY LODGE NO. 109 A.F.&A.M. ranchers, merchants[...]ife. On Thursday evening May 30, 1916 more than a score of This organization is incorporated as a state chartered, Master Masons origjna ting from as far west as Oregon non-profit museum association with active members and as far east as Indiana and now Ii ving in the new rep[...]her and petitioned the Grand Lodge of Montana for a charter to open a lodge at Scobey "having a propriety of the craft at heart, and desirous of[...]rship Master; Sid Bennett, First Senior Warden; D.A. Bostick, First Junior Warden; G.S. Dahlquist, John A. Lawson, A.S. Needles, H.J. Hansen, Paul Crum, Ernest Woodward, Al Lindsey, Ambrose C. Delange, H.W. Olsen, A.W. Chapin, H.O. Nelson, Harry G. Shipppam, D.C. K[...]Geo. N. Robinson, C.O. Humbert, E.E. A street scene in Pioneer Town Nichols, A.J. Lawson. · Only one of these original signer, D.A. Bostick, is on the lodge rolls today. During that first year, seventeen new members were initiated into the Lodge and the Lodge has remained active since that time. Regular meetings are held every first and t[...]ve been Masons for over 50 years: J. Fred Haun, D.A. Bostick, George Crandell, Earl Fairbanks, Jacob F. Goehring, Ben A. Harvik, Carl Lindquist, W.A. McDaniel, George F. Springer, W.H. Storms. The first meeting of the Lodge was held in a building on lot 6, block 1 of Scobey, situated in[...], which building has recently been demolished. At that time there was a cafe downstairs and the Lodge held its meetings upstairs for a year, after which it moved to its present site on 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[...]rvice 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 wit[...]vements, carpeting and changes in the lower floor to accomoda te the needs of the various tenants.[...]The exhibits at the museum may be outright gifts or In carrying out its avowed purpose as above stated in its placed there under loan agreement set up by the Museum application for a charter the Lodge, in addition to its Association.[...] |
| [...]Flaxville, the old bank building from Whitetail 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 used for a summer theater for a couple seasons. It houses community effort from i[...]e local talent show during Threshing Bee Days and is manpower required to move the structures and goods that called the "Dirty Shame Saloon" in honor of a place of that comprise the town were donated. Pioneer Town was[...]ame years past. The undertaking parlor where 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 t[...]stove and lilac vegitol lotion resources together to establish this community attraction. poured on many a gay young blades face before 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 packed-away memories greet you as you enter the old dress shop displays t[...]ton schoolhouse, church or general store. You may be wearing sleeved waists, ostrich plumed hats, beaded purses, long mod sunglasses of the 70's to dim the bright Montana sun, kid gloves, high[...]t 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 streets of Pioneer Town of Scobey, as you see Company so the old Westland gas station holds a place on horses tied to hitching posts and old cars moving along. the street. A general store building is stocked with a supply The buildings that now comprise Pioneer Town all came of antique items from telephones to tonics. Many of the from towns surrounding Scobey, as far as 60 miles away. goods in the store were purc[...]during the first weekend in July each summer is the Cook[...]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[...]which draws out the full flavor of Pioneer Town as the[...]The building housing the autos is one of three steel[...]the second served as a general work area and a third, donated by Ramon Trower, will be used in the summer of[...]valuable antiques given to Pioneer Town. The community of Scobey has a thriving project under[...]Town will become a major attraction for the ear.[...]It was in the early part of the year of 1917 that those nine miles north of Scobey. Since Scobey is only about 14 active in Masonic activities in[...]the house in its early idea of organizing a chapter of the Order of the Eastern years had been a stopping off place for farmers hauling Star[...]"Prairie" was selected by the group. It was wheat to Scobey. This home of Steve Watts was built in a very good choice because of the fitting descripti[...]horn, topography 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 one walks along the streets of the restored town,[...]l 3, 1917 the meetings were held in the can visit a variety of oldtime establishments. Dr.[...]d floor which other commodities instead of cash), a dentist's office, is the present Chapter room. Shares were sold to Masonic barber shop which also displays an old permanent wave members, shows and oth[...]machine of Lee Myers, (barber and hair dresser); an old undertaken. Finally, through some tax difficulty on the jail, blacksmith shop, land site office, a fire hall where part of the owner, the Masons[...]sed in Scobey (it was building. manpower), an old law office donated by attorney Carl[...]t on Institution Night on April 3, 1917 Linquist, an old schoolhouse named Dodd, the 1913[...]of Carbert. Also the Episcopal Church, it is recorded that the turkey alone cost St. Thomas Catholic[...] |
| [...]Estelle Bennett, Laura Dodd, D.A. Bostic, L.D. Tucker,[...]membership to date. Death has taken a heavy toll. Many have moved to other places to live and a number have[...]rs. 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, Mrs. Thora Chapin, M[...]Mrs. Julia (Frank) All history is a story, and the story of Prairie Chapter .. .is Johnson, Mrs. Alice D. Knapp, Mrs. Thuston, Mrs. Verna a story in volumes three ...The past, the present a[...]son (mother of Hale and Ira), Mrs. Cora to-be. The past is done and laid away. The present we're Case. Botto[...]ing, 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"[...]· 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[...]1967. The hall was so cold one evening in 1942 that Harry Hansen, W.P. offered to come in the afternoons and light the oil burner o[...]urs around the stove was filled with good things. A testing of the .SADDLE[...]g 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 cof[...]Evanskaas, John Lee and Charles Wolfe as the members. It brought to mind 1917 again. Remember this poem? The End of a Hoover Day Scobey Saddl[...]ng; Red Olson; Gordon Marlenee; Francis I've come to the end of a meatless day, Brasen; Ha[...]Not pictured is Henry Austinson, Head Carpetner. My thoughts revert in a musing way To the foods which today I've been fed. I think of the cheese and the beans and fish And the oysters I've had to eat. I've no regrets for the good old days I really didn't miss the meat. I've come to the end of a wheatless day |
| [...]Bantz and Otto Otten. In the middle forties a number of interested horsemen |
| [...]school, seventh and eighth Lucille Hall was named to head the new institution. Before grades."[...]achers were the Misses Thomas, was 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.[...]f Trustees of School "In 1920-21 an art class under direction of Mrs. District No. 1[...]ral schools. Minutes of South was added, also 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 we[...]r 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 fi[...]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 Dist[...]Clerk of before and back again after practice, as well as for games. the District was also the truant offic[...]er (Collins), Myrtle With attendance increasing a one story structure was Jevnager (Zuc[...]night (Hallack). basement and plans were made for an annex to the · Mrs. A.S. Needles was school principal 1920-21. building. In 1919 a second story was added for Jr. High and Clerks of District I from 1914 to 1976 are as follows: R.H. High School. As country schools closed these buildings[...]set up behind the school house for W.A. Lanstot, B.M. Pierce, T. Lundevall, T.S. Herreid[...]rved for the past twenty-three years. Following is a list of Scobey's Superintendents: 1914-15 By 1929 it became apparent that the present buildings Miss L. Hall; 1915-16, Sche[...]- were inadequate, so bonds were sold and a two-story brick 19, Miss Olive Nelson; 1919-20 J.[...]923-26, H.W. Bruehls; Little can be remembered about the early 1926-32, W.A. MacDougall; 1932-38, Elmer Skeie; 1938-45, superintendents. However, Mrs. Samuel Smith is living as J.E. Danielson; 1945-61, George H. _Hayes; February, '61- well as Mrs. MacDougal1. Mrs. MacDougall, now Mrs.Van Jun[...]fered the 32 rural schools in Scobey 1970-, James A. Webster.[...]Leo Zuck recalls this about his father's tenure as Scobey the building of the new school. I a[...]instrumental in Scobey having a golf course. He attended "My father John Q. Zuc[...]Columbia University in New York working toward a M.A. District's Superintendent for one year, 1919-20[...]ree. He delivered several Baccalaureate addresses to Flaxville. Previous to 1919 he was County throughout the state as he was a talented speaker. " Superint~ndent of Schools at[...]"After leaving Scobey he accepted a teaching position at Michigan. The family was com[...]was put in book form and "The school house was a three-story square wooden sold to many universities as a reference book--"The frame building, the first floor of which was a semi- Technique of Teacher Self Placement'." basement and later converted to class rooms. The top floor He lived in[...]Red Cross. He continued his writing and had a book[...]Aging" when he died from a heart attack. His name is in[...]Elmer Skeie came to Scobey as head of the Scobey school[...]system in the fall of 1931, succeeding W.A. MacDougall as superintendent. He was a graduate of St. Olafs College at[...]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[...]J.E. Danielson serv1e d as Superintendent of Schools in[...]Scobey for seven .years--1938-1945. Prior to his retirement[...]Washington. His last assignment was that of Director of[...] |
| [...]have a price, a price often paid for with the blood of our[...]money was difficult to come by. A steak dinner could be purchased in a local restaurant fo:r seventy cents.[...]Admission to a movie was only thirty-five cents. During[...]National Youth Administration (N.Y.A.) allotments in[...]applications from students that we decided to cut the[...]dollars and fifty cents each, to be worked out at twenty-five[...]cents per hour. I remember, too, that when I left Underwood, North Dakota to come to Scobey I brought one[...]received her new contract she was so elated that tears rolled down her cheeks, that happy to receive nine hundred[...]enjoyment and satisfaction. We had a staff of very[...]are proud to state, are still among our closest friends." w[...]years in their |
| superintendent of schools to live in was another problem-- new roof from the main buildipg just a few days after it had nothing was available so the School Board proceeded to been installed. You remember the seven inches of rain buy a house for the superintendent. There was no legal[...]recedent--so we were advised--and the Board might be of the schoolhouse. I remember the ha[...]from the northwest, one enormous stone hitting a window Schammel house. That was probably a first in Montana pane in the science room and a piece of glass cutting a gash school finance.[...]in my hand and I was standing ten feet a way from the From that beginning we soon found that places for window. - , teachers were about as scarce and we started to bring in the I remember the keen rivalry o[...]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 f[...]were over the achievements of the music did more to solve the then critical teacher shortage more[...]of the Scobey Schools in the years after. With a faculty intact, our next problem was in getting[...]ho came into my office after the country students to school. I remember the old we had initiated a girls physical education program which homemade bus that went up into the 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 thing a[...]months. Tough kids, graduation who lacked a credit in meeting the I guess. A revolution then took place in the Scobey School requirements, was granted permission to participate in the Bus System. Two school houses were brought in from the exercises but was given a dummy diploma and country and converted to a bus garage and the district immediatel[...]anic. college and became a school administrator! Such was Our next rather[...]chools." lunches, music and vocational education. As many will At this time Scobey Schools needed a good remember, school lunches were served from th[...]linarian 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[...]he Board Several measures were taken to upgrade the curriculum. of Education initiated a bond issue, for (I believe) $180,000, German was added as a foreign language course. The with which we built[...]ch room, the shop and the business education wing as well as new shower rooms at the end of the old gym. With that building program completed most of our problems seemed to be solved except for the old heating plant. And I tremble whenever I think about that. It was a masterpiece of engineering! How it ever kept the school buildings warm year after year is still a mystery. The coal bin, 16 feet down with a cement cap, caught on fire two times and we had to tear a big hole in the top and use a back hoe to dig out the burning coal and pile it out on the s[...]! I think the first major improvement we made was to install an electric winch to raise those ashes from that hole. The custodians had todoit by hand before that. Some modem technology had come to Scobey Public Schools! The next major improveme[...]ilding 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[...]which stood on the east playground. I was advised that a high wind might topple one of them over and what a tragedy that would be. Anyway the new grade school solved that problem. As I look back on those 16 years spent in Scobey, an[...]math and science courses were beefed up to aid the college many things most of which affected the school in one way bound students. An elementary classroom was donated by or another.Yo[...]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[...]rm which blew the very successful and is still being used.[...] |
| A complete student handbook was written as well as the including a new furnace and furnace room. (The end of the boa[...]riving of cars once the students had and come to school and the hair and dress codes.[...]with many families in attendance at the games and that was made was taking the storeroom off the[...]The School Board enlarged the hot lunch kitchen to that: twice the original size, added a brand new dishwasher, a "Perhaps the most significant contribution pr[...]s were installed the board for the school was an indepth review of the so that baking could be done at the school rather than buy building and[...]we ought to make some long range plans about the school The athletic field was renovated by putting in an building and the type of program to be provided. Some underground automatic sprinkling s[...]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[...]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 mo[...]eriod 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. While the overall[...]chool 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[...]James A. Webster is the present Superintendent. He and[...]notes that:[...]his administration called for action in providing a[...]would be given the opportunity to reach their greatest[...]incorporated in 1971 encompassing a resource room R. Gene Busch providing an educational program designed to meet the needs of the educationally handicapped as well as a speech therapy program to correct speech and hearing difficulties. R. Gene Busch was Superintendent from 1960 to 1968. Scobey Public Schools became involv[...]student a senior from Yugoslavia. Other countries 1. Established a full time Elementary Principal position. represented by students have been Venezuela, Germany 2. A new heating-ventilation system for the main building and Brazil. Scobey Public Schools also hosted an exchange[...] |
| teacher from Japan on an education and cultural program in 1973. Curriculum offerings to students were stressed with a full time art program becoming a reality in the 1970-?1 school year. Additional co[...]traae and mdustry along with re-establishment of a vocational agriculture program.[...]ate passing necessary legislat10n allowmg schools to include kindergarten students to the foundation program in 1974, resul~ed. in ~cob[...]es Elementary School District officially becoming a part of Note postmark "East Scobey" an[...]Scobey Eighth Grade Class - 1917. From left to right: well equipped buildings, a faculty of 41 teachers and tutors, plus two principals, a superintendent, and an[...]Johnson, Supt. Earl Burget, Edna Grant, unknown, a long way.[...](Zuck), Edna Two Scobey graduates have returned as featured Rothwell, Alberta Gre[...]n May, 1971 and Duane W. Bowler in May, 1973. Lee is a professor at the University of Montana and Duane is editor of the Billings Gazette, Montana's largest[...]otte, B. Collinson. Front ro w seated: D. Mahler, A.[...] |
| [...]x of them receiving superior ratings and elegible to atte nd the regional music meet at Spokane. Pa[...]games to all other teams around - one game was lost to Glasgow with an approximate score of 106-0. The team[...]pictured above, that of 1928; apparently learned some[...]lessons because it defeated every team that it met,[...]became champions of what is now several districts . It did In the above picture are left to right: James Hillstrom and ha ve one defeat e[...]. In Point, but in m eeting the Wolves again, won. Pictured from the group picture are 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 |
| [...]ere Gordon Point for district honors, and losing to Sidney in the title Stoddard and Leo Reinhold.[...], and he was assisted by Harlan Stahlecker. must be given to Coach Reinhart and his group of boys for[...]on in regular play. No record is available for the 1964 football season . Bill The Scobey grid season opened with a turnout of twenty Hilton was head coach ,[...]the conference. in 1944. The season ended without a single victory for the In 1966 the Spart[...]x games . Mr. Munson as the head coach , and Mrs . Burton the The Spar[...]championship under the coaching of M.G. Butters. A 1968 with Mr. Hallock the assistant[...]r T. Scott of Butte presented 25 silver footballs to in 1969. The Spartans had three wins, and fi[...]the division. In 1970 the Spartans had a record of three wins and five the team won four g[...]the Spartans. Assistant Scobey on November 12, on a snow covered field. In the Coach was Jim[...]ime the Wolf Point Wolves broke away for 14 yards to Although the Scobey Spartans compiled only a three win 2-0. Coach Butters was assisted by Wayne Casman and five record in 1971 it was a year of pride and and Bill Cullen.[...]ve with the Spartans, under Coach Butters, having a three Levad. and one record. Because of a tie in conference standings, In 1972 the Spartans had a record of two wins and six Scobey and Plentywood had to square off for the losses. Quarterback Dan Audet was chosen to represent championship. Plentywood won its first[...]eam In 1973 Coach Levad led the Spartans to a four and four had a season ending with one win, and three losses.[...]the Sizer. 1950 season. It was his last year as coach of the Spartans. The Scobey Spartans amassed a five and three record in No record is available for the 1951 season. The Spartans 1[...]Broadus and Medicine Lake , and championship with a team that gave Scobey the most al together had a record of six wins and two losses. Coach successf[...]as assisted by George Rider, Joe Sullivan and Cal a warded the second place trophy in the football[...]Great Falls where they ranked fifth . At the a nnuals . football banquet Mr. Rex Dailey, secretary treasurer of the Montana Athletic Association, awarded a trophy to the school and silver footballs to the team members. Mr. Halstead was the coach. The[...]ed the 1955 team. had never seen a basketball before this year. They started The[...]e was with Froid December 10. The Spartans had an impressive year in 1957 under F[...] |
| lo ing to Medicine Lake at home on January 15 by a much Scobey 10. Vies (Veis) went in the[...]them down to one basket and finishing with a score of: January Outlook played at Scobey and[...]ake played at Scobey. well but could not overcome a big lead made in the first This was proba[...]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[...]5-14. With their enthusiasm winning, 33 to 11; a four day tour of eastern Montana with and one yea[...]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 John[...]econd in the divisional cobey High chool had a very successful basketball basketball tournament, earning a spot in the State Class B ea on, des pite the fact that this was our first year and tournament held[...]Scobey's opening game; Hardin won over Scobey 63 to Pra ise hould be extended to Coach Miller, who had 41 and Red Lodge[...]t of the tourney 50-39. through hard work managed to turn out a good team, Scobey, again in 1951, won a place in the state although we did not win the ma[...]lasgow On September 25, 1920 Mr. Miller issued a call for again was the host city for t[...]ketball candidates. Practice was begun at one and a In Scobey's first game the Spartans w[...]d Froid High at Scobey 56-36. Froid. Due to inexperience we lost the game with a score of Team: Richard Audet, Burnell Rhod[...]23. Th e n ext evening we played Medicine Lake at that Richard McCarty, Allen Ackers, Ronal<l Aud[...]The next trip to the state tourney was made in 1954. In Janua r[...]cobey High chool basketball team of 1926-27, from an incomplete identification on the back of the picture, left to 1948 Scobey Spartan basketball team, left to right hack rig ht, back ro w: Braaten, Har[...] |
| [...]n the divisional tournament in Scobey and went on to play in the State Tournament in Glasgow. Don Nutt[...]es. They did not advance far in 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[...]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[...]stant 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 Vei[...]ng, Vernon Nelson, Margaret Lee, Mr. E. Skeie, that they were in the top one-half of one per cent of[...]lstrom, Duane (1976) Kirk Veis received word that he ranked in the top |
| [...]omestead" at Scobey High in 1937. Front row, left to right: Mauricette Constant, Eileen Parks, Ruth Sc[...]SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Scobey High School A Capella Choir in 1942, directed by A. Hertoghe, K. Ferestad, B. Wagar, J. Severt, J. |
| [...]April 29th, 1937 a birthday party was held at the[...]older ladies were present and among them a dear old[...]never did have a birthday party, nor a birthday cake. The[...]e both living at your next birthday, we will have a[...]Lawson's birthday December 28th so we decided to have a[...]arrangements with the local photographer to take pictures[...]of the group and each lady was presented with a picture.[...]After the party was over someone remarked that we keep[...]Fowler's (now Mrs. Koster). We were all invited to come to[...]Mrs. Koster's daughter, had prepared a real banquet for[...]state that we 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, Jil[...]many good parties are being held from time to time. Hanrahan, Kile and Kevin Myhre. Back row: C[...]endent; Ruth Hanrahan, Teacher; Joe A.D. 1948. Lohr, Pupil.[...]Note: Scobey still has a Sunshine Club. A 1948 HISTORY OF THE SUNSHINE CLUB Someone sugg[...]WAGON TRAIN |
| [...]Eagle's Nest, north to the Canadian border, returning to Scobey to help promote the annual Threshing Bee. The[...]with a year's experience. Very rough country was covered[...]and in places it was required to have some outriders hang[...]on the uphill side of some wagons to keep them from[...]olling. Another hill for some was made by hooking an 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 fall[...]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 w[...]g hands of Kidd enthusiastic. Plans were made for a 1971 wagon train. The Nygaard of Wolf Point. A very special attraction of this wagon train was p[...]an was decided they, the Saddle Club, should have a unit claim to be the only participant who traveled to the first participating. A delegation was organized and they Wild Horse Stampede by horse and wagon in 1923 and purchased a team of black horses, Lady and Lad. This[...]y covered and road map publication. The wagon was a creation due wagon. She also contributed to the teamster work while to the efforts of members and the Scobey school. The[...]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 Dru[...]called the North East Montana Train. After about a year's one. We had 15 wagons making this t[...]rs. 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. for five years with hopes of many more. 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[...]obey and Peerless. members. Each year we have had a different wagon One of the outfits had a runaway the first morning out master but for the[...]training, somewhat like starting the day with a cool Peerless and his helpers. The water wagon an[...]and operated 1975, another big year, as Monte Montana accompanied by Ron and Janet Ereth,[...]mbirie<l Canada under the leadership of Bob Tande to help them in honor of Monte's 50th yea[...]ecoming. There were 12 wagons we had a caravan of 33 units leaving Scobey and again and a score of outriders. The most colorful entries of[...]ombined with the Poplar and Whitewater trains for a trip, driving ponies on a rubber-tired wagon, an exception total of 4 7 wagons in the parade. We were again to our rules. Ray, at 72, rode his horse and packed[...]n 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[...]s and buck-offs. We had his lead team to make up the only four horse hitch on the some jub[...]again threw firecrackers into the circle, causing an exciting traveled to Flaxville for the 750 Club Days. chain of events.[...]veral wagoneers, two 1976 planning is almost complete for the North East wagons and thr[...]Montana Bicentennial Train. We will haul to Opheim, Train from Zortman to Malta, Montana. Representing parad[...]and outriders Ken Bicentennial Parade to be held July 3rd. We are working on[...] |
| [...]o have In the sixties the club sponsored a kindergarten course let us enjoy our travel all o[...]MEMORIAL SUNDAY AND DECORATION DAY A group ofladies met on January 14, 1946 for the purpose TO BE OBSERVED AT SCOBEY of organizing a unit of the Federated Womens Club. The first offi[...]s, president; Mrs. Memorial Sunday will be observed by religious services Grace (Gerald) Mel[...]. at the Rex Theater on Sunday, May 30, at 11 A.M., Rev. Brenden, second vice president; Mrs. P.T[...]re: Mesdames G. Hayes, V. public is generaly invited. Hillstrom, E.T. Peterson, B. Bowler, Martin Fossen, Decoration Day will be observed on Monday, May 31, by Rasmus Nelson , Jo[...]d, Roy Humbert, E.L. Fairbanks, Cars will be provided for the Grand Army Veterans who M.E. Nel[...]de. Prof. John Zuck Larry Bowler. The club became a member of the General will deliver the[...]o'clock p.m. after which there will be a parade to the The first project was to start a library, later named the cemetery where the gra ves will be decorated and Community Library, situated in the[...]honor of the dead. The officers courthouse, after a committee had met with the Lion's Club of the Legion and Veterans request that their members and the county commissioners. The m[...]s 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 ov[...]alen Chapel Walter Bulpitt, John A. Greenwood, William Manternach,[...]rge M. Pierce, Brown 0. were the T.B. X-ray unit, a $1,000 gift and $2,500 toward Friske, Frank[...]Alex Mallard and Jule DeLattre. the building fund as well as funding for the sidewalk Founder of the Post, named after Selmer Oie, was Paul completion to the Daniels County hospital; support of the[...]rk on August Little League baseball team; funding a lifeguard and 6, 1880. Of his early years little is known. Sometime before heating unit at the swimming 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[...]'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[...]l in Fargo until the spring of donations are made to the Red Cross, polio, Scouts, Fort 1898. H[...]attempted to enlist in the First North Dakota Volunteer[...] |
| [...]Crum, after arnvmg in Manila, attached himself to[...]participated in every battle of this unit--as a civilian: When[...]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[...]899. During the fore part of 1919 Paui' Crum then a~ attorney in Scobey and a member of A.R. Patters'on Post 7, V.F.W., worked to form a Post in this area. It was decided[...]when the Post was formed that it would be named after Selver Oie, a soldier from Scobey who had lost his life in Paul[...]France. Chief of Staff Taylor wrote to Crum: I wish to[...]in Montana, for I think it will be the nucleus for more from Infantry. However the enlisting officer knew that he was the state." too young and would not swe[...]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 Sa[...]lunteer Infantry and veterans of Scobey, John A. Davis and William H. the Tenth Pennsylvania were[...]given honorary memberships. Gustav Again he made an attempt to enlist, but was turned down Oie, a brother of Sel ver Oie, was also made an honorary on account of age. member. He then attempted to enlist in the First Nebraska Paul Crum[...]er, 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[...]they were able to retain the charter. Fourth of July parad[...] |
| [...]France by Christmas of the same year. He was a member of[...]in the campaigns of 1918 and died in a base hospital in[...]TO POST 173 The Auxiliary to Selmer Oie Post 173, Veterans of[...]es was again The Auxiliary works as an aid to the Post in helping the thrown into war. The adde[...]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[...]uxiliary has supplied flags Smith , quartermaster 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,[...]sponsored local Brownies for twenty years, those as they came home fro m over seas, th us building the donated playground equipment to the City Park, furnished post into a strong Post again. a public address system to the ball park, run a refreshment Ormand W. Paus Jr., nineteen years old , killed in a ction stand during the active years of soft b[...]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[...]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[...]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 timers as Rei ner Bakery. a bicentennial project. This venture didn't last lo[...]MELVIN NELSON'S VIEWS The local Post sponsored the Babe Ruth team fo[...]sponsored all Americanism, Veterans A history of Daniels County that is to be worthy cannot Day and Memorial Day patriotic prog[...]els County Retirement Home was b uilt that brought heights of frustration and bitterness in the the Post contributed $1000 to the fund. Each year Post 173 great depression of the 1930's. As i~ always the case, 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 Seminar in Dillon. is no clarification of these high emotions unless we realize The Post would like to pay homage to P a st that really the history of our county, as is the case with the Quartermasters "The Work Horses[...]rest of the country, started over 200 years ago; that it passed on in the late years mainly: Joh n Smith who was blossomed into a bloodless but bitter revolution of the the man wh[...]d War II boys working in the 1930's , that the making of history ends but temporarily Post;[...]must always let time membership in the post, and a worked in the post up t o the temporize befo[...]rrent events into 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.[...]as the liberals then who brought the innovations. A liberal of course was recognized in 1776 as a revolutionary SE LMER OI E:[...]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 looked upon limited government as a necessity, but an who was involved in the bank ofT. Anderson & Oie. Selm er institution which he should fear--one that he should[...] |
| forever monitor lest it make itself his master. 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: "The history of man has been, over the ages, a story of propagandizing or editorializing let[...]eoples in strife against their governments trying to periodicals from 1945 to 1975 and search them for serious aggrandize their[...]a of good much time making each house of congress a limit upon the feeling" between them. So have our economic and political power of the other, making a system of checks and problems 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[...]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[...]inite what rights without positive proof that big business, big labor and big of individuals should not be denied by government. Of government have found that peace is more in keeping with mistrust of government, ther[...]May I ask why no politician innovators. They had a point. They pointed out a very bad does even propose to legislate responsible handling of the omission by the founders of our republic. "There can be no huge multi-billion dollar pension funds of labor that have real political liberty without economic libe[...]ced union They were right. Like the repetition of a broken record they leaders? Why too, have long and hard fought strikes been maintained that the huge corporations and the so rare in recent years? Is that now written "Detente"? The International Bank~rs[...]endangered economic performance says that the people now how a union of liberty. For an old dyed-in-the-wool conservative, it is now forces against them. difficult to concede that they were right again! Many of Big go[...]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 d[...]on people take the consequences 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 Birthday of U.S.A. 2076. If the next generation does not profoundly believed. Strange then that these liberals prove to be more perceptive than we were in Daniels found no[...]e U.S. 45 years ago, then our whole loyal support as the only instrument they had to chances are small. subdue the "Economic Royalists". In that our history will Today we face the effects to our air and water from the prove they were wrong![...]ct just north of the border. Citizens their means to solve the problem they were wrong! That remain unaware that the dam has been built. The was the cause for the[...]residents. Will individuals show enough insight to deal Federal usurpation of greater anc,l greater[...]otectors? This destruction of 50 sovereign states to the extent of declaring challenge will need to be met. all 50 legislatures unconstitutional. They g[...]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 every det[...]n. Were they embrace limited government and a healthy mistrust of the justified in trusting big goverment? The recent would-be masters. Senator Jackson of Washington and pronouncements of liberals might be most enlightening. many, many more of[...]ght 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[...]in all powerful government--then there will be no need for organization. We believed that these reforms would any future qua[...]. We believed in the sure are dedicated to liberty and to the future of a status quo. We believed that chastising corporate business wonderful co[...]standard of living. We were so shamefully wrong as these persist in "Yes, but it's better i[...]t and its past financial policies and its failure to exercise authority to control corporate and banker greed[...]our economic troubles. We feared big governemnt as all the people of the world have been justified[...]owing attitude of most influential democrats can be used as the criterion.[...]1969 has been heading up the supported big labor. A quiet hour in any library will refresh[...] |
| [...]state in the through irrigation projects of a size practical to individual course of his work. lessees and to firm up water rights by use. The new division[...]ed with SCS and soil and water districts, passed a law which allows the State Land Department to involving state land lessees. set aside[...]and a pumping site for border site irrigation system on[...]► ) of the state," Mr. Carney advises. "A prime aim of the division is to properly claim and use water resources for[...]Ed Carney now is director of the Department of[...]Skogmo Family Clothing During his days as a state senator from Daniels, Mr. The Fabri[...]ey served on the senate committee on state lands. As a Bev's Sewing Center consequence that, along with being a successful farmer, The Thrift Shop and the son of homesteaders, plus having headed up a Wolfe's World of Fashions veteran's fa[...]ly Tande's Toggery after WWII, and the fact that northeastern Montana has Holyk's Western Wear many thousands of acres of state land, added up to the Sears Catalog Store right job for th[...]Clubs and Lounges: been handicapped by the fact that the current head of the Pioneer Lounge State Land Department also is a northeastern Montanan, 109 Club .[...]ver Slipper (Supper Club) " I thought it would be a good idea," Mr. Carney said, "to Montana Liquor Store have a visit with Dave Drumm. He was the originator and[...]n in the State Land Department. It seemed logical to Montana Dakota Utilities me that I should know the spirit of the law, as Mr. Drumm Mountain Bell Telephone had in mind. It was a valuable guide, at the outset." Nemont[...]said Mr. Drumm had encountered the need for such a law in state lands administration when he was[...]and Implement, Inc. with headquarters in Montana, a brainchild brought into Rasmus Nelson, In[...]Erickstein Motor Co., INc. Although this was a rather unique basis to set up a law Hillstrom Motors for programs long overd[...]Citizens State Bank & Murphy Agency federal and s a te agencies in each county.[...] |
| [...]Paulson Body Shop A.J. Fosland Wheat[...]M.J. Traynor J & A Welding & Blacksmith Shop[...]Great Northern Railway Station Coast to Coast Hard ware OK Hardware[...] |
| [...]- AUTO . That old suit was mighty good in its day and if you let us clean it. It can be used SUPPLIES for quite a while yet. Prompt Attention - Price[...]Note that the First National Bank building is up-the |
| [...]I! TO THE GALLANT OF WORLD WAR II[...]"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United[...]States of America and to the Republic for which[...]Tribute to Gold Star Parents Rev. Virgil T . Foss[...]Tribute to Service Men and Veterans[...]Mr. A. T. Hibbard[...]- ::> a ronag«: cind -o•.J r' <1:s 1«: s you hau«:[...]A M«:rry C:hr,s n,as a nd a ( ar.ipy N -e. vv \' «:a.- t,:; you[...] |
| [...]is proud[...]to present Season Is Here[...]or 16 years to the life of your frame[...]"It Costs More Not to Paint[...]Than It Does To Paint."[...]Scobey, Mont. SATURDAY, NOV. 5 |
| [...]Administering the oath of office to Sorte during[...]Justices Frank I. Haswell and John W. Bonner. A former Scobey and Flaxville lady, Mrs. Mabel Haswell presented Sorte with a black judicial robe. Savageau, now of Hubbard , Oregon was the subject of a Spectators included the governor's wife[...]She Sorte's family. worked from 1942 to 1949 in the flag loft of the Mare Island So[...]Point, seat of Roosevelt County. the flags had a number assigned to each batch of ten. Sorte succeeds District Judge Jack R. Loucks , who died Shortly after that epic flag-raising on Iwo Jima, the Joe Jun[...]h became immortalized in Sorte is a native of Scobey, seat of Daniels County. He stat[...]stamps, Mrs. Savageau was notified holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of by the Navy that it was one of the flags that she had made. Montana and is a 1960 graduate of the University of The years passed - then in June, 1973 she was presented a Montana Law School. framed photo of the epic event on I wo Jima by an official Sorte served as an assistant attorney general under delegation from the U.S. Marine Corps. (It will be recalled Anderson from 1960 to 1962. He was in private legal that several of the mixed service group who raised that flag practice in Great Falls from 1962 until[...]her lost their lives during or minutes a short time as a deputy county attorney in Great Falls. afterward.[...]Sorte was a deputy counsel to the Oregon Legislature in The 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 Anderson appointed Sorte as director of the Montana shops - son, Cecil, born 1914. (above information sent to Office of Economic Opportunity in January.[...]dent Bob Jensen - post 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 LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULDN'T! DICK KTYT[...]TIME IN 53 YEARS |
| directly from France yesterday by the Leader, is the almost As Schauer ran to catch up with the Patrol, which had unbelieveable[...]awarded behind the chimney on the roof of a house 150 yards ahead the Congressional Medal of[...]aimed, and his burst of fire Leader also received a large picture showing Gen. Patch tumbled the sniper's body off the roof. placing the award on "Kraut-an-Hour-Schauer." The Pfc. Schauer[...]dier, who two minutes! offered himself as a target to German snipers in order that The Battle Patrol worked its way up the di[...]road. This time it was temporarily halted by a heavy them, was witnessed by hundreds of other Am[...]ne guns soldiers and by his officers who rate him as the best which cut loose with chains of[...]he German machine guns was only 60 yards And with that marksmanship Schauer has nerves of steel[...]ommon understanding.) yards distant, to the right front. With the Third Division of th[...]rollers climbed out of the ditch into the France-"A-Kraut-an-Hour-Schauer" is the name given enemy 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[...]he 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 presented the nation's highest military award by them a burst. Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, Commanding Ge[...]was all the same to Schauer. When the Third Division prepared to make the With four more German[...]s away which was firing at him Cisterna. In order to reach the highway it had to clean the without let-up. Carefully inserting a new magazine into his enemy out of a large area , protect its regiment's flank in[...]r- the advance, cross abroad flat wheat field and a road, man German crew. All four were killed. move through a woods, and cover more open terrain before[...]use of it could reach the initial objective. This is an immense job Schauer. By the next morning, May 24, 1944, it had passed for a group the size of the Battle Patrol.[...]uous German grazing machine gun fire, once having to leap concertina wire, then all flat and keep goin[...]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 patrol from the rear. One of the men armed with a BAR (automatic rifle), climbed out of the ditch a[...]e snipers. Two of the Germans were at the base of a house 200 yards to the rear, one lay on the road near the house, and the fourth was concealed in a wheat field to the left of the house. The BAR man walked slowly and steadily. It was Pfc. Henry Schauer, who is, in the words of Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Brown, " th[...]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[...]tly. The sniper lying on the shaded road was only a deeper shadow. One burst from the BAR finished hi[...]d moved about 800 yards down the ditch impossible to spot. Schauer fired again. One burst was alongside the highway when a German machine gun enough. opened up on it from a point of 100 yards to the front. In[...] |
| addition, a German Mark VI tank, 600 yards to the left, fired a number of rounds in rapid succession. For the[...]~ -.I forward a few yards and stood upright, facing the machine g[...]howering him with dirt. Schauer raised his BAR to his schoulder. The 20 rounds in the magazine killed all four of the machine gun crew. In a period of 17 hours Pfc. Schauer had killed 17 Ger[...]onally 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 officers including five star generals, an honor that goes only to men who have won the Medal of Honor. May 15, 1958 - An unofficial survey at this time points strongly to the MRS. LARS HAMMER |
| [...]safety glass) windshield unscathed. This is all the more[...]markable because the truck was completely exposed to[...]In cold weather Mr. Miller says he used to get the truck[...]snow got too deep he put the truck a way and resorted to[...]curtains that separated the driver from icy winds have[...]rn out and removed. But Mr. Miller still has what is Fred Miller's first vehicle[...]f the curtains, and pointed out the special flaps that enabled a person to poke an arm through to open the door,[...]When Mr. Miller bought a new truck in 1943 the old truck[...]was retired to light duties, which it still performs. It is often towed to the field behind the tractor so that Mr. Miller has way to ride home.[...]Ford, but does not plan to part with it.[...]"You get sentimentally attached to something that has been with you that long," he says.[...]until 1926, when he purchased a second hand Model T Ford for $150 during a trip to Minnesota. He drove it west as far as Redstone in December without side curtains or tir[...]had to buy chains in order to get up the hill.[...]used it when he was courting a young school teacher,[...]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.[...]H.P. Larson in 1936. As he recalls, it cost either $700 or[...]$900, and was considered high priced at that time. It is a "I thought I was sitting on top of the world wh[...]r rated at 40 horse power. He used part of bought that truck," Mr. Mi]ierrecalls. "It was my pride and[...]ar I Veterans bonus for the down payment, joy for a long time." \ and it took him a long time to finish pay for it because of Before that, Mr. Miller had used horses for the drought. transportation, and the 20-mile trip to Scobey from the Ole The low seat of the[...]tead ranch, where he was working at the time, 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 tractor, but still uses it for an faster than 20 miles an hour because beyond that speed the occasional job - like pulling the new tractor out of the mud engine vibrated so violently that it was in danger of falling when it gets stuc[...]"I have always believed in making things last as long as Many farmers, he recalls , bought auxiliary[...]s. transmissions for their trucks with the result that they A native of Indiana, Fred Miller has lived in the c[...]wearing area since 1914, when he came to Scobey with an them out in a short time.[...]son, for whom he had been working powerful enough to carry more than a standard load of 60 at Sarles, N.D. He recalls that they got out of the train bushels it was easy on[...]Once here, he took up a homestead on "the strip" about The front tires[...]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 watch was probably damaged almost where he ha[...]proved up his claim in 1920, and in 1923 sold it to week and examined the works. Strangely[...]se was still shiny, and except for some Shipstead that summer, and started in again for himself[...]de was still in good condition. The on state land that fall. When the late Melvin Evenson w[...]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[...]of the watch is in good condition, except the hands. They[...]were rusted together. These will be replaced. LUVERNE HANSEN'S DELIVERY TRUCK[...]in good running condition-thanks to the watchful eye of[...]Aime Carrier's boy who happened to see the shiny object[...]is place on the tractor during spring work. At a Scobey firemen's meeting Monday evening it was disclosed that the net profit from 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 ha[...]and By Dorothy Rustebakke is always the first on the scene of any fire. Getting back, however, to the matter of the old Model T To Dave Willoughby, equestrian performer at the truc[...]the Daniels County Fair this week, we feel it was a wise thing to dispose ofit; and fortunately visiting the Scobey area was something of a homecoming. this was done profitably.[...]g the early days of Scobey Mr. Willoughby, who As mentioned in a previous issue, the old Model 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[...]Hansen, Scobey fireman, 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 he was always sure of a good meal. high.[...]r. Willoughby's fondest memory of Scobey concerns a When Luverne Hansen was proudly recounting how[...]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 school At the time Willoughby was buying horses for the army kid, running a delivery truck for his dad, who then had a under a sub-contract from Gilmore and Love of Miles City.[...]n the location now occupied He attended a Thanksgiving dance here where it seemed to by the Ben Franklin store and Woodwards, both of which, him as if everyone in Scobey went to celebrate the holiday. incidentally, are still Hansen real estate. He won a turkey, and also obtained another one from a In those days Luverne knew the city like the p[...]ow who had won one. The two turkeys were used for a hand, and the maximum speed at which any corner[...]nner party on Thanksgiving at the Smith and Boyd be turned. On this route also, under his tutelage, m[...]d 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 sidewalks between buildings as soon as the animals were started out they all decided to and lamp posts. He was one of the few who could[...]ranches, in every direction. the sidewalk run in a car at a fairly good speed without Horses and[...]rrowed from all over the hitting anything except an occasional 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 road toward Plentywood. A woman with an automobile knew full well that if it 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 Will Be Necessary up when he became of age[...]In addition to dealing with horses, he worked on various June 3,[...]alls riding with Charles and Joe Nadeau came in to see Don Trower, the jeweler, the Jack E[...]tkinson bunch. He preferred other day. He was all a-flutter. With him he had his watch. working with horses rather than cattle because he liked to During the recent spring work his watch-lost sinc[...]ther Some of the cattle were reluctant to swim and had to be vagaries of the weather-the big, 17-jewel Waltham[...]e time it has been lost almost entirely A shooting affray at the homestead claim of his sis[...]law in the timber country near Culbertson is another of his community.[...] |
| [...]s brother was George Hatfield, one of 1949 - A few feet to the left from Jimmy Hillstrom's back the feuding Hatfields of Tennessee (and kin to the door there is a spot in the ground that keeps sinking-no Hatfields of Navajo). One evenin[...]matter how much dirt. junk and other debris Jimmy a disagreement with an Indian visitor. The Indian used the throws into it. Kind of a provoking proposition. He did kitchen table as a shield when Hatfield shot from behind som[...]over," Willoughby relates, ago when that sinking spot was the source of a supply of ·' Carrie's stove and stovepipes and s[...]ere the utensils hanging behind the stove." as the Gibney well; and good water it was, too.[...]The late Frank Beeks, you will recall, used to make the and Poplar area. He learned trick riding[...]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.[...]Despite this interesting history, however, Jimmy is still In 1917 Willoughby joined the army. He w[...]underground stream of water flowing He worked as a trainer and double for the movies , and th[...]aminos and pintos. Those were the days of a way dirt from the bottom of the old well hole. To[...]mong the best movie horses he trained , according to Mrs. Knute Knudson had an electric range installed in Willoughby, were a palamino stallion ridden by Hoot her home this week , the first of its kind to be placed in a Gibson in the " Wild Horse Picture" and 12 horses used in Scobey home, according to report. "The Outlaw," the picture in whi~h Jane R[...]August 18, 1927 start. One of these, a red roan , was trained to drag a supposedly drowning man out of the river by his clothing. Willoughby also worked as a trick rider, and one of his favorite stunts was a Roman ride between a horse and car at 35 miles per hour. In 1955 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 in southern Washington. 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 dinner table. Cy Merrill, a ridden . Willoughby learned his technique of teaching from rancher, was having dinner with a neighbor, Hoak Smith. a famous trainer, Mark Smith.[...]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.[...]year, a horse that he had bought from Bill Cook got the[...]T GOOSE PIMPLES knew that one of Cook's horses had had the same[...]condition, he called on Bill to see how he had treated his Ted Hachman and "Tu[...]question, and Bill said he'd given the length of a goose 's neck and are the wiser for it. Halvor[...]d his horse the " Goose" Olson , who contemplates a trip back to the old same way and it died. 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 dice game at Sam's Place. said , " Yup, so[...]ice tossers, had his goose under his arm tail-end-to as he was playing one of the pin- ball games. Behind[...]en was teasing the Fred Haun writes that he and some friends went to a fowl. Hachman looked around to see what was going on movie in Flaxville one night. Afterwards they came back a nd as did the goose snapped its clamper on the end of to Scobey and had lunch at Burton 's 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 the cafe, Fred doubled over in pain. His friends helped 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. Jake three in the g oose raffle was[...]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 snake-l[...]near the Red Owl Store. if I was able to see visitors. They brought the baby across[...] |
| [...]ba b y started t o cr y . Jake was taken back for a minute, asked how Fred was , and Fred said, " O.K. now." Just then but then said, " I knew that was the trouble all the time. " EARLY DAY BREAD |
| [...]his night slippers and went to the basement after During the flu epidemic in 1[...]n the furnace room light. The stairway was deaths that it was necessary to dig graves both night and rather dark and P[...]step he felt a squish underfoot. One more step and he was One night as Hans Jorgensen and his helper, Big John[...]ight through the open door of the furnace room on a grave they heard a four-horse team coming with a load revealed a dark, shiny surface instead of the customary of g[...]dusty concrete floor. Then he heard the throb of a asleep, plodding along slowly.[...]ohn , who was over six feet tall and who happened to man dumped his loads regularly. Pete retreated. be wearing a white shirt, was bent over digging. He Leaving an oily trail up the stairs and through the lobby, s[...]R. Gorham. who slept hollered , " Hey, what time is it?" in his bachelor[...]d look , grabbed his whip and It couldn't be, but it was true. The tanker pump was lashed the[...]or; liquor Back at the cemetery Big John turned to Hans and asked cartons containing hundreds[...]ver Then it was noticed the oil was within an inch of flowing into a small opening in the furnace front, an opening for[...]Nothing here may be recorded of what was said. But the MEMOIRS, RECOL[...]sticky to flow down through the sewer trap. There was no[...]D HAUN pump in town that would handle it. But prompt action must be taken before the heating oil near the furnace An early day depot agent in Scobey and one of the ve[...]n recollects how the late Frank more than a half million dollars as a railroad worker, Beeks used to haul water around Scobey for fifty-cents a homesteader and small store owner at Sunbu[...]oil fields of the 20's. Mr. Haun also recalls how a steam engine used for He hooked a hoseline to a steam outlet of the furnace. threshing was Scobey[...]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 steam engine, later exchanged for a gas near the bank of the Poplar river. This h[...]continued for days, not to mention the general cleanup job It was about then , Mr. Haun recalls, that Coughlin 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.[...]began to move its winding course of about 65 miles to the[...]944. formed a syndicate and began securing oil leases. The tr[...]Thousands of acres were leased at from ten cents to twenty- Scobey, Montana, walked into the deserted[...]later sold at the night bell at the desk. It was a minute or two before a a good profit for cash and a one-per-cent royalty basis.) sleepy voice from an adjoining apartment answered. In[...]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[...]It may be added that it cost the City of Scobey "Good Lord, man , go[...]the hotel and you will approximately $1,000 to have its septic tanks cleaned that find a metal covering over the intake." spring. The trucker went back to his tanker, drove up the alley and turned in behind the three-story concrete structure. He found a metal covering. Pretty big, he thought. But it THE OFF COLORED SCOBEY SOX was dark at 3 a.m. He shoved his hose into the opening ar.. d swi[...]It was springtime, 1925, and prospects for a good ball the trucker headed down the street to find an eating house. team at Scobey were looking up. Plentywood, a traditional[...] |
| rival, also had the makings of a club considerably better The fact that the ball sailed completely over the cars--an than in past years.[...]t Scobey and fans the umpire ruled it was a two-base hit, so Swede went to noted a number of new faces on both line-ups. Scobey third and Happy to second base. Donaldson was still the edged its Sh[...]ld master on the mound and no scores were made in that Before the scheduled return game at Plentywood, the inning. grapevine had it that Plentywood had engaged John It[...]noted colored hurler of whom John that the "Black Sox" pair showed the "bush leaguers" a McGraw of the New York Giants is reported to have said, new angle. "if he could be whitewashed I would 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[...]plate wielding his mighty willow, Donaldson waved a all agreed he was a pitcher who could still do a good job in pitchout to his catcher. Just as soon as the fourth "ball" the major leagues.[...]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[...]e Donaldson stood on the mound, his Porky Dallas, an ·Indian boy by the name of Eastman, a high pitched voice heard by everyone bu[...](of whom infielders, crying "give me that ball, throw it here, please more later), and a ski-jumping Finn from St. Paul, Hinden give me that ball." by name, all of whom had at some time or other played in The game ended 4 to 2. Practically everyone from Scobey the minor lea[...]kers. Between 300 and 400 Scobeyites journeyed to No definite count was made, but[...]ood for the game. It was by far the biggest crowd a a position to estimate fairly accurately, said that ball game had ever attracted in northeast Montana[...]money. Plentywood was then headquarters for a group of "play ball" order. On the mound, beaming[...]till On the Scobey lineup, batting fourth, was an outfielder holds some kind ofrecord as an outfielder for the great 1919 listed as Jackson. Donaldson's control was too good for the[...]nd first two men facing him. Then Risberg stepped to the victory for the Scobey club. plate[...]Scobey couldn't lose that season, whether they played at Donaldson, real[...]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 abov[...]lts when they went Donaldson's voice was heard in a rather surprising tone, on the diamond th[...]" Treasure State. That announcement was as much of a surprise to the The initial game at Plentywood attracted sufficient majority of Scobey fans at the game as it was to attention so that a federal in tern al revenue man was at the Plentyw[...]coming at Risberg's invitation, had gate to see that Uncle Sam got his share of the admission been pic[...]e and money. The teams were playing on a percentage basis, 60- driven by car to Plentywood, arriving only a few minutes 40, and the gate was reported at $1,100. It didn't matter before the game. He changed in to a Scobey uniform in the that a Scobey checker said there were enough paid dugout[...]admissions to mean a gross of at least50<fo more. The gross Undaunted, Donaldson began pitching. Swede got a still set a record for those days in eastern Montana. With a single and stopped at first. Happy, who hadn't swung at a similar crowd at a return game in Scobey the gate was ball in two ye[...]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[...]three months. Plentywood also failed to score in the first inning. It was That year Scobey had also won renown 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[...]nto cars at first pitch Swede swung and there was a ringing smack. Scobey for shipment. The ball was a little above Donaldson's head as it began its Some record yields were eviden[...]h Scobey customs officer, who later became a plainclothes surrounded the outfield--on, on to the other side of the race man for the departme[...]ocated. Swede and British Columbia to Mexico, said some fields must have Happy jaunted[...]cre. Then the rhubarb began. Ground rules said a ball hit At any rate Scobey made wheat and baseball history in into the cars around outfield was an automatic two-bagger. 1925.[...] |
| [...]J NO ONE WITH FOND MEMORIES IS BROKE There are perhaps a score of these fellows about the yard |
| 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, about the size of a handful of the first half bushel of wheat as it plunges out of meadowlark. There are the yel[...]stern snow bird , the English sparrow, "dumps" in a battered measure to make sure that the the cedar waxwing and the Bohemian waxwing, the latter weight is correctly set. most numerous of the two. It is great fun to watch the two men on either side of the The[...]eagle feeder toss the bundles head first, one at a time, so that the and the bald eagle ($5,000 federal fine for[...]tural grace the bodies swing with each tossing of a the American magpie and the starling. There[...]onzed necks show like red copper in the and a variety of hawks, and some ducks. Magpies , crows[...]starlings are considered pests, but they all have a Soon the first tank is full, for the mechanical measuring daily diet[...]levator trips almost Larry Fjeld is northeastern Montana chairman of continuously so heavy is the wheat. We swing the grain Ducks, Unlimited, a voluntary organization of sportsmen spout hastily over into an empty tank that stands in wait, who have made quite a bit of progress in establishing wet and after seeing that all the traces are secure, ease off. The area p[...]e "barren prairies" have some animals in variety, as under the strain and we move slowly over the soft field well. Few of these are readily discernible to the town- with the wheels cutting deep, At the granary we shovel the dweller, but to those who get out and around the country wheat in[...]large 2-handled scoops. The hard they see a lot. There are deer, antelope, some elk (who will[...]attle against the steel like shot and strike be getting more numerous, as the prairie is their natural the heap in the bin solidly. So we[...]cally. now and there a wolf, and there have been occasional As the day advances it grows broiling hot and the od[...]Indeed , the "barren prairies " label is only applied by the weights heavily upon the nostrils. At noon a deafening unpracticed eye. blast of the[...]hour. Again the bundle racks are drawn pell-mell to the feeding yard, for dinner awaits no man at the[...]One MYSTERY MONUMENT o'clock, a warning toot from the whistle; the work proceeds steadily through the afternoon head with only a short by Dorothy Rus[...]fternoon. Those lunches were high lights in many an empty afternoon. The puff of the exhaust and the roar of the blower continues. As darkness settles down the teams make their way slowly homeward, and the men are a little bit too tired to sing or joke much. Again the threshing hands l[...]or I have changed; but still the threshing hand is a singing, care-free fellow from nowhere in partic[...]a. THE "BARREN PRAIRIE" NOT QUITE |
| According to legend the five-foot-high cairn marks the ENJOYING LIFE ---PIONEER STYLE grave of an early sheepherder who used to climb the butte and sit, day after day, watchi[...]the fields below: Friends of the .sheepherder, it is said, buried him there in his favorite place a[...]fun--that-s what made the prairies sparkle. The story is a likely one, as .the area once was a favorite "Tighten. up the bellybands and loosen u[...]omenade round "It was there when I came and that's all I know about it," Keep that calico off the ground." claims Wyman Feltis, wh[...]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 thro[...]er the thrill of being the the area. Others say that '.' piling up rocks" was a favorite captain's first pick, second, or even third? You had to take pastime of lonely sheepherders, and that such cairns were part, even if you went down on the first word. Remember once common. But they agree that the top of a steep cactus- the breathless suspense as the last man on your side covereq butte was an unlikely location to pile rocks just for wrestled with seizure, pneumo[...]nstructed by Indians, and Were you ever in a ciphering match? You did long . one early settler says that children used to find Indian division on a blackboard out in plain view of your friends, ~eads on the butte many years ago. It is known that listening for the ohs and ahs that meant you'd cast a . ndians did build cairns long before white me[...]. We learned to debate, too, on subjects like: Which makes ·[...]cairn, it has been there for at the better wife, a good housekeeper or a good cook? ieast six years, and perhaps much longer. To the tractor- And those stirring "literari[...]iving farmers who work the surrounding acres, and to pieces out of our readers: "Barbara Frietchie" --[...]hers we had heard so often streamlined cars, it is a silent reminder of a bygone day that we knew them by heart. And if stage fright grippe[...]touched by we were prompted by the moving lips of a sympathetic dvilization. audience. We'd close with a chapter from the Bible, and in[...]the acrobats, maybe a trained bear who could drink from a pop bottle and ride a bicycle? Chautauqua began just three[...]reached 20,000 towns in a summer. "AN AVERAGE DAY IN GRANDMOTH_E R's HOMESTEAD DAYS" Grandmother, on a winter's day, milked the cows, slopped the hogs, 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 fruit, pressed her husband's Sunday suit, Swept the parlor, made the bed, baked a dozen loaves of bread; Split some firewood and lugged it in, enough to fill the kitchen bin; Cleaned the lamps and put i[...]he thought would spoil, Churned the butter, baked a cake, then exclaimed, "For goodness' sake! The ca[...]in; Gathered the eggs and locked the stable, back to the house Bidding was brisk at box social[...]ed by girls who were "good lookers or good Cooked a supper that was delicious, and afterward washed cookers". Many a girl landed a good husband by her up. all the dishes;[...]ht. Fed the cat and sprinkled the clothes, mended a basketfull Remember what fun we had match[...]od, 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". rear quarters of an obliging horse. Every third cowpasture Daisy LaMotte had a corner dedicated to baseball.[...] |
| The great glorious day to wait for was the 4th of July. The little things Dad did made moments we'll live with Early that morning some of us would rush outside and yell:[...]king the youngest, we shivered the eggs and cream that went into Mom's mix were a when he roared like Papa Bear, were breathless when he scandal - and with someone on top to steady it, we'd crank squeaked like Baby Be[...]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[...]magination , 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.[...]r the first fireflies winking. The stuff that builds moments of pure bluebell, looked in awe at[...]ughout the years has been the . something to look forward to and look back on , and mix it horse. We'd catch o[...]nnamon 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 past[...]Ruth A. Hanrahan would have made a T-V producer shudder. We loved those animals , an[...]them all the more. We kids lived in constant fear that Father would let the reins hang limp .o n Lady's[...]t the first kick we kids piled out like rats from a burning barn, and I'd swing 'round to catch the youngest as Mother would toss him to me. After pawing the air, Lady would take off as if the 6-INCH RAIN IN 6 HOURS footfeed was stuck to the floorboards.[...]What happened Tuesday afternoon shouldn 't happen to a duck. As a result, there were many people who found[...]orted. But these are some which were, in addition to -------[...]way to the field. He and a farm helper were marooned in his[...]truck south of town about a half mile off the highway . The[...]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 box with a washtub over their heads. Roger LaPierre ,[...]observing the storm in his car tried to get over near them to[...]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[...]uddenly realized they could go no further without a boat.[...]m also the waters raged . They got into Scobey As a matchmaker through the years, a horse would beat Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. a hammock any day. With. a good horse, you could tie the The twister, which took the gra ndstand , gran a ries a nd lines together, drop them over the dashboard,[...]hree 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[...]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[...]he The greatest happiness came from the things that Dad valley washing everything before it[...]d Mother did for us. The best fun of all was just to go entire Jud Goodman spread of buildings, fa rm mac hinery, a long. As simple as that! li[...] |
| [...]over the area By six o'clock that evening the community had Wednesday forenoon and reported a scene of total witnessedviest rain[...]destruction. The house was far down on its site, a mass of area-6.09 inches. All over the community householders, twisted lumber. Among items lost was a new combine and farmers and businessmen checked their own damage and a new grand piano, still crated.[...]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 po[...]'s sign , torn down by the wind , crashed through a sodden furnishings. The wind that afternoon blew out two big display window, adding to the mess as water from the windows upstairs, one of th[...]in street flooded under the door into the store. A window in the lobby, and the glass of one[...]The basement was a wading pool. At Brayko Rooms it was necessary 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 windows at Greeng[...]water in varying each became isolated communities as roads washed out degrees. The Michel[...]e southern edge of and lost their bed. In Scobey, a power and light cut-off, town by the highw[...]ephone 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[...]estern part highway kept the bus in Scobey. There is a serious washout of the city were smashed to kindling. The Lucht residence between Flaxville a[...]gale. Dale Wrona, who had recently moved in a little house reports from district engineer, Bob[...]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 landmark of Scobey, is no the highways. Meanwhile he advises use of the old R-Y more than a pile of smashed wood stacked against the big trail south of Flaxville as usable to make contact with No. snow fence. 2. Orville Lockrem of Circle made that trip Wednesday and the bus left Scobey by that route the same day. FIFT[...]Train service all along the branch line cannot be MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE DEATH expected to be back on schedule for many days.[...]zard Out in the country the several hailstorms that afternoon For More than 24 Ho[...]e in four places with the splinters. Jake A treacherous lull Sunday in a freezing, blinding 5-day Veis lost a granary. Julius Lekvold had one wall of his[...]the roof seriously loosened Sunday afternoon that personal disaster threatened from the plate.[...]Chief concern of the community became directed that cattle were trapped in a corner of the fence as the water rose evening toward the apparently ho[...]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 ignored the opening. Later peop[...]day matinee. Attempts Vic Hillstrom came out with a boat to help. Sherman to locate them started that evening when they were Johnson , on his Appaloosa[...]ugh the night opening but again they refused only to go on to another and early morning hours. place a[...]It was believed by some that they might have been able In the Peerless 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 tha[...]unlikely. during the year of 1936. Flaxville had as much or more. Wait[...]d bogged in Others confirmed it. This will always be remembered as the snow Sunday afternoon. They decided to get in one the year of the big rain.[...]1944 More than a mile west of the Alfred Goulet place west of[...]their after the lunch hour darkening skies began to unburden bearings well enough to get to the Goulet place, their themselves as a prevailing north wind gathered intensity.[...] |
| [...]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.[...]h others had boarded icebergs at the At 6:30 a.m. Monday, with the blizzard still raging, John black bridge west of Scobey "just for fun" about 3:30 that worried about his 11-year old girl and a baby boy alone on afternoon. The four boys[...]of Flaxville, walked 4 1/ ~ miles into iceberg that was "as big as a house," as one put it later. Flaxville, where he arrived a[...]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[...]e remaining 6 miles against the hit an ice jam which capsized the cake and sent the boys off freezing wind to his farm home. There he found the i[...]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.[...]ildren home. Highway 13 is about three quarters of a mile from the Marooned Minis[...]eran minister of Scobey, who had the road to town when he was overtaken by Mr. and Mrs. con[...]ces at Flaxville, started Louis Lekvold and a brother of Gary's. They were on their out for Scobey. About a half mile west of Flaxville he was way home to Scobey to see if Gary was home. On being caught in the s[...]o 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 Pete[...]ter. 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 I[...]aw snowed-in automobiles. were encouraged to hold on. The Scobey fire alarm was Ferguson[...]rd walked over and found the 15 sounded that evening to collect volunteer rescuers. One of survivors h[...]had been since 6 the boys commented later that when they heard the p.m. Sunday. It was then 10 a.m. Monday and first word whistle they knew that help was on its way. The Lekvolds was received[...]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[...]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.[...]Gary Lekvold was stranded on a slab on the west side of The marooned survi[...]arm by rubbing each the river where there is a gravel pit. He stayed there until other and shifting about as much as they could with nine Chet Murphy came with[...]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 Mrs. Murphy called the police in Scobe[...]Mr. Murphy went for the rope and tractor. he got as close to Two of the men, before help arrived that morning, had Lekvold as he dared with the tractor, which according to walked to the farm home of Bill Parent and returned with authoritive 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[...]necessary care. Murphys put him in a tub of cold water to[...]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[...]t of Scobey. Lekvold waded in and threw a rope to Larry who tied it Larry LaPierre and Gary Le[...]around his waist. They held the other end to keep Larry Roger LaPierre and Mr. and Mrs. Lou[...]ter. the whole thing afterwards but very happy to be alive Sherman Johnson, Scobey rancher nearby, who knew indeed. They were well aware that without the the terrain there walked about a mile along the creek to a concentrated help of the Fire Department and other shallow spot where he waded in and got a hold of ice volunteers their spring exhuberanc[...]himself had come in , but as the boat was coming they The four boys who encountered trouble that afternoon waited and took him in the boat to safety. His feet after the were: Dennis Jones,[...]or in high school. Bob Zuck, son of Mr. and to normal.[...] |
| Riding the ice cakes has long been a brief, popular sport MIDDLE FORK IN[...]unday, however, the watery song of spring carried a grim note that nearly hit a For at least three generations it has seemed to their crescendo of tragedy.-R.P. women-folk that the Humbert men absolutely love to get to the other side of that "little river" during the few weeks in[...]the spring that it floods. Many incidents could be cited of[...]On April 1st, 1943, after a long and snowy winter, spring[...]broke forth with a gush. Two or three days of very warm Stron[...]weather had made the creeks rise in a hurry, raising the Roads and Highw[...]e, forming jams, which in turn made the water A grass blaze that started along the G.N. right of way |
| the truck was hauled out with a tractor. The men removed T[...]arming, income taxes, support Roy, however, had to have new dentures made.[...]hand-set type and man-power presses to modern type- . FROM THE TIME BOOK OF JACK CARNEY,[...]publishers now how to devote.more time to .the business of G.F. Crandell[...]· unemployment taxes, and giving .their readers a better Mrs. Hill's fresh pork 85 lbs. . . . . . .[...]9 - Newspaper Somewhat offbeat after more than a dozen years away from the news and editorial desk of the Leader, the publisher is pinchhitting this week for Editor Larry[...]HANNIBAL H. AMES FAMILY Bowler who, with Mrs. B. is enjoying a brief vacation with Scobey friends in San Franci[...]Hannibal Hamlin Ames was born on an island, Vinal . It is just 35 years ago that the publisher purchased the Haven, Maine on Janua[...]ader from J.F. Dolin. For almost ten years before that, island helping his father, a fisherman. His formal however, we had been engag[...]is schooling was obtained there. His father owned a fishing area. ~ schooner and they would spend up to three months on the Looking back over some of[...]ng for cod, coming back when their realize we had a little more zip and zest than at the present. hol[...]sh. In 1864 the family Northeast Montana was then a sort of testing ground moved to Northfield, Minnesota where they had between the[...]Flag" Charles Taylor and those employment in a flour mill owned by Adelbert Ames. who believed that the Lenin-Stalin forces were not the Hann[...]Milling Company as a stone dresser, sharpening the large Since then a number of newspapers have passed from mill stones used at that time for grinding the wheat. In the scene. Two or three were born and died at Scobey. The 1880 he moved to Hutchinson, Minnesota and built a flour Pioneer Press, Sheridan County News and Pro[...]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, Flaxville Hustler, Flaxville Dakota driving a span of mules from Hutchinson. There Democrat and[...]ey 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 Broadax[...]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 nort[...]n 1927 the Leader absorbed the Scobey and started a flour mill. The mill was in operation in 1914 Sen[...]ublication at Old Scobey in 1912 with Jesse Smith as manager. Frank Tyner, another under the direction of Joe Hocking, who sold his Glasgow nephew, was also a partner. They built the elevator at Courier last[...]at Plentywood and the business being incorporated as the Smith-Tyner one at Wolf Point, allpartofValle[...]Moose, Socialist, Farmer- installed Halbert Ames as manager. He died in Scobey in Labor and Communist[...]olumns 1927 while supervising the installation of a diesel engine in on the ballot at one time[...] |
| [...]b and Winn and son his sister Floren ce fil ed on a homestead six miles south of Paul moved in. At that time there was no basement or Vida a nd h e spent two s ummers there with his sister. He furnace in the house, only a heating stove in the Ii ving atten ded college in orthfield, Minneapolis. Halbert and room and a cook stove in the kitchen. Many buckets of Winnif[...]of the 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 Oswego, a lso in t he grain exchange in Minneapolis for a year getting experien ce in the grain business. In 1926 he came to'" Scobey a s man a ger of the mill and elevator which was then named[...]In 1926 the mill was paying $100 per month to support a[...]Minneapolis and helped organize a golf club with Dick[...]Hub were appointed as a committee to select a site for the[...]Richard Ames was born in Minne a polis on June 1 7, 1929,[...]who was three and a half years old, went to Rochester to the Clinic. They took a plane at Rochester to fly back to Ca rl Helmbrech t and Hub Ames at the "mill". Minneapolis, a tri-motored Ford. After landing in St. Paul[...]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[...]the St. Paul airport, but the plane cra~hed in a street on[...]ark bluff. The pilot was killed and Paul suffered a[...]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[...]Hub obtained his pilot license he bought a low wing Kinner[...]flew it up to Scobey. Winn and Janet, Burleigh's wife,[...]followed with the boys in a car. In the year 1934 there were a lot of grasshoppers so Hub bought an old J5 Travelaire, a biplane with a 225 hp Wright[...]engine, and Burleigh proceeded to equip it with necessary wind driven power to feed the grasshopper bait from a[...]grasshopper bait at that time was a mixture of bran ,[...]used for the sole purpose of inducing the farmers to spread the poison as they thought that would attract grasshoppers. As hoppers have no taste or smell they[...] |
| We were the first to spread grasshopper bait by air and school[...]f the line check department obtained blueprints to sell to other operators, but the next for advanced ins[...]ison spray was used and the was assigned to fly passenger runs for Military Air grasshopper[...]round spreaders. Transport and wound up as Chief Flight Supervisor in 1938 was a rust year for wheat and 1939 another[...]46 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 l[...]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 t[...]under way. Glasgow airport, hiring Frank Wiley to work with them. In 1951 Hub bought a Cub airplane for spraying crops Hub had acquired a 1933 Custom Waco airplane, a four and for three summers did this un[...]am building at Fort Peck getting too old for that low flying. In 1953 he took a job with there was quite a lot of charter work and some student Aer[...]g over the editing aerial photographs under a contract with the Fort Peck Dam was a big attraction. In the winter of 1936 Army.[...]ssion for was identifying all things such as school houses, passenger hops over Los Angeles and charter flights. classifying roads as to being dirt, gravel or paved, etc., etc. Hub[...]Wolf Point airplanes about 1935 and sold quite a few in eastern were associated in a charter and ambulance company Montana and weste[...]n 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[...]flying. Company had been selling flour through 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 af[...]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 owners. flight instruments except an altimeter. Without a compass The mill is one of the first business establishments in we[...]Scobey and over the years has contributed largely to the State Building, landing on Long Island beside a blimp community. It has always supported from five to seven hangar. After a couple of days in New York, armed with a families, all interested in the building o[...]l 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 we could see our shadow on the ground going[...]"Mill House". The Mill House had been used as a rooming Ole learned to fly a plane on the way home. We used that and boarding house and many of the early s[...]red the Winnifred became active in a number of organizations. franchise for Rearwin airplanes and covered Minnesota, Halbert is now retired and the family lives in Scobey. Nor[...]ota 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.[...]es 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, Californ[...]Y 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 a[...]1913. They had left Williston, North Dakota for a tragic landed cross wind in the middle of the g[...]ellerless airplane landing in Galveston. Ed hired a and killed on the main street of that 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, but could not 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 part of their caught a 42 pound Redfish. We had it packed in ice and[...]int by hired car with Edan 's hen, shipped back to Scobey. When we returned P.R. Gorham B[...]king miserably from her cage on the running had a fish feed for us. board. Biddy, by the way, lived for eight years. A few In 1942 Hub enlisted in the Air Force joi[...]lifornia. The first year he was first girl to be born in the new town. checked out in all types of aircraft from single engine My father, Edon A. Amundson, was a native of Iowa. trainers, twin engine fighters and bombers to four engine When he first came to Scobey he was a salesman for the bombers and transports. After r[...]Case Rumley Steamers, those sod-busting machines that rating he was assigned as an instructor in instrument flouri[...] |
| 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 brain the sight of a massive black safe standing in the corner of the[...]I came into town one weekend and caught sight of that safe standing in the office of an automobile agency. The name, Edon A. Amundson, was still emblazoned on it, and I stared at it in a surge of memories. Next door to the Tallman House stood the town's second hotel, an establishment run by a woman known as One- Eyed Mollie who with her four sons, all half[...]Her boys kept, staked out between the two hotels, a number of pit bull dogs for fighting. When my brother Ellsworth , then about five or six, used to call on One-Eyed Mollie for his daily ration of pie or cake, he had to dodge the dogs. Mollie and her sons might have had doubtful reputations, they may have participated in a murder or 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 Am[...]s maiden name was Nora Caroline Erickson; she was a native of Moorhead, Minnesota. There were five ch[...]One day I came home and told my mother that Phyllis became Professor of English History at th[...]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 Carroll Amunds[...]Visiting Lecturers I had been chosen to sing with her and two other angelic in English Hi[...]ral for the minister's baby. All of his students, a member of the Mellon family. Alice the singers were to wear white. I was delighted and did not Amundson Leed became a microbiologist with the City of tell her that I was practically tone deaf. When I told my San Diego Board of Health, holding that position for many mother she sighed and said what an extravagance, buying years until her death in 1970. Ellsworth Amundson, whose a white dress in the dead of winter. (She intended 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, California; a dress which, by the time summer rolled around, would be he is retiring this year as a printer on the Sacramento Bee. outgrown. It was a terrible waste, she said, but the dress I have been a teacher and social worker, am married to was not a waste. Sadly enough, there were a number of James G. Davis, a stockbroker now retired, and have lived funerals that winter, and at each I stood at the coffin in my in Philadelphia all my married life. My avocation is white dress, droning away, looking angelic, a small female writing short stories, some of which[...]The Speaking of stores, I believe that we used to buy our youngest child of the Amundson family, He[...]Tande's. One day my father came storming has been a teacher and is now a secretary for the local home: "Our bill[...]anch outside of town. this has got to stop. Are we eating gold or what?" That was There are ten grandchildren, their careers[...]in 1920. Now in 1976 I spend forty dollars a week for two almost all the professions: the clergy, business, the people. That's inflation. military, ranching , teaching, secretarial work, nursing. But to return to the schools of Scobey. The teacher I They are sca[...]earance. fourth grade. She had a commanding presence, patience During our stay of ten years in Scobey, 1913 to 1923, we and a talent for making us want to do our best. I have never lived for the most part[...]s Miss Manley. He the site being distinguished by a windmill that could be writes: "She was a rough one, but probably the best teacher seen for quite a distance. My brother Ellsworth tells me I had. When she wasn't raising hell with the class, she that we were never able to use the water it pumped because would read[...]od help it was tainted with oil. We children went to school in a blue the kid who made any noise while she read. She had an square wooden building which, of course, has long[...]on and six weeks of Normal School. been tom down; as I remember, the interests of my family E[...]children in school. teaching requirements to a high school diploma and three Carroll was a member of the high school debating team months of the Normal School at Dillon." and won a gold medal. Years later, down and out in Paris,[...]ry Ellsworth contributes: "In those days he tried to pawn it, only to learn that the medal was not they still picked the p[...]n by the depot. Wonder what they did and I became a professional mourner at the age of nine.[...] |
| We moved a way from Scobey in 1923, and we moved for a rather unusual reason: my father was 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 , degrees got them. He was an unusual man, our father, for that time and place. He had an obsession about education. At a time when only a handful of men in town had any higher education, he wanted all his children, girls, too, to have it. So we left, but I remember Scobey st[...]ber the wide skies and the prairies, they are a part of me today. The memores may be hazy, but I have the conviction that it was a wonderful place in which to be born and to grow up, and the children who do so are lucky[...]ust, 1939. I continued the same work until I went to the service in 1942. After I had returned fro[...]had been discharged from the army I went back to work for the company. In 1955 the Occident became a part of the Peavey Company. About this time the company decided to convert the feed mill and the elevator into one complete feed plant and use it as a distribution point for feed and merchandise.[...]e Morey, manager, was retiring .) Prior to coming to Scobey I was married to Theresa Filzen of Minot. Theresa and Jo[...]As we did not have a house yet, I came out hereabout two[...]Our first home in Scobey was a basement apartment in[...]1957, the PV company purchased a house. |
| [...]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 west as Great Falls, Montana. He found a job in Mrs. in marriage on September 4, 1954 in S[...]. 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,[...]ana College in Billings and the girls attend a homestead, acquired more land, built a hardware store, Scobey elementary school.[...]st Peterson (my father) from Richville, Minnesota to[...]end of a new branch line from Williston, North Dakota.[...]During this time Ed's oldest brother Ben, a "locator" was[...]toffice while Ben scouted around helping settlers to find[...]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[...]partner in the new venture. Young Art Hanson, a cousin of[...]4 1917 - a summer of dust and mud contingent on the whim[...]of the elements. We lived for a year in "Uncle Ed's house".[...]Gladys, came a year later.) I missed the trees and flowers of[...]ved all their lives in Daniels Minnesota. A 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 Berni[...]ho spent all of Ole and Cal, always good for a couple of nickels! And we their married lives her[...]mas Confectionery graduates of Scobey High School as are their two older (now the Wolfe Insurance Agency). That summer had a sons. Highlights of our family were our Jaycee ye[...]s 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[...]the Man in the Moon ". lawn still brings a glow to my heart. Twenty-five years Patti also enjoyed ve[...]lar activities outside our home tend years. A few of the wilfflowers still bloom around the edges more to the public service type thing such as Fair Board .- of "real" lawn. Marta Vargas, the[...]rs. Lion's Club, Jaycees, School Board , etc. Ron is presently Thomas Brenden, Jr., lives there now[...]th 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 -[...]other of my mother, Christine Peterson) Ii ved on a farm near Underwood, Minnesota. His first money was made from trapping. He bought a motorcycle and at the age of 17[...] |
| [...]ughter Mildred (Brenden). Mother was burdened that summer of 'l 7. There was |
| [...]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, st[...]le Ben Haagenson sold out his share in the drank a whole case of pop, 24 bottles at one time. We were business and moved to Williston, North Dakota. Mother 15 years old and[...]ver 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.[...]f the windows. The The city park was no longer a fenced-in potato patch. store building was of orange-crate construction. Many a Young trees, small lilac bushes, and bravely blo[...]hin kalsomine. Casper bushes were growing there. A white bandstand graced the remodeled, pain[...]the paperhanger down the street, wanted to retire so he concerts with Roland Olson as director. Frequently in the gave Casper his[...]wholesale. One day after work Casper asked a young and Methodist ladies. (Homemade freezer ice cream and a fellow, Carmon Bush, if he would like to help him paper our wedge of Mrs. Ed Lee's burnt[...]room. "Sure," Carmon replied and another career to rem em her!)[...]but we were never really unhappy. brother) went to work there. Adolph and Henry Hanson, Inf[...]arrived in 1934. brothers of Art, had also come to Montana by now. They We were farming "on the side" during early mornings, late worked for a while at Battleson Company and Peoples[...]o went seven years without Cash, otherwise known as Peterson Battleson Haagenson a car or a real vacation. I worked in the store for almost[...]ned the force my aunt. They raised Willis Brown, a nephew, and had a then. We had a beauty shop in the store operated by Olivia daughter of their own, Leona Claire, who is now married to Bailey (sister of Ben Haagenson) and Jeannett[...]Cliff Peterson (a cousin), and Myrtle Hanson, whom he Battleson[...]the winter. extended the Great Northern Railroad to Opheim. Various Another seven years, 1[...]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.[...]es. we had a yen to go back to Main Street. We bought a lot Where was I all this time? Going to school, graduating where Dr. McDaniel had his old dental office, built a brick from Scobey High School in 1925, with one y[...]Montana on July 11, 1926 health caused us to sell out to Conlin's of Williston three Casper Brenden of Fla[...]were married in years later. After that we rented to the Federated Store. In Glasgow. We eloped, makin[...]entinel and shocking our elders. Casper had built a Wheatland Tire, in the building. baker[...]a College in Casper and I, started for California to seek 1949, married Rev. Russell Halaas, a Lutheran pastor. our forture. (We had a very few dollars, but we privately Their home is in the Poconos Mountains of Pennsylvania. thought Milton had made his by selling his bakery to John They have four children, Mark, David,[...]seven years and married It didn't take me long to get homesick for Montana. Curtis Bummer, a cybernetic engineer for Honeywell in Milton got a job with Bank of Italy (now Bank of[...]children, Kristi, Paul America). Nobody nee,d ed a baker and jobs were scarce. We and Philip. J[...]in 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, Chr[...]and Dad bought another John's business is on the remodeled and expanded store, Howard Isaac[...]. The Company which held business. We lived there a year. No houses were available the record o[...]edding presents, agency in the United States. a second-hand cook stove and cupboard and called it our The year 197 4 witnessed a new building to replace the old "Blue Heaven". "Millie and me and Baby makes three." Peoples Cash. Coast to Coast is there now. The Brenden Mary Helen was born July 28 of that year. Our chief Company building is rented to the state as a liquor store. entertainment came from a new Atwater 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[...] |
| [...]efore Casper's death in 1962. The old days form a foundation and basis for the building of the new.[...]d streets, trees, flowers have changed this place to one of the prettiest Ii ttle towns in Montana. The big sky is the same. Whiskey Buttes, now known as Four Buttes, stand sentinel over the broad acres,[...]ack 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 my chi[...]ncordia College, I too repeat, "Soli Deo Gloria" (To God alone the Glory) in this Bicentennial year of[...]SID BENNETT from a newspaper 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[...]Boy Scout Jamboree in Idaho. He is employed part-time as an announcer at KCGM radio in Scobey.[...]Iowa - he came to Daniels County area in 1911 - left, but[...]returned again in 1913 to take up a homestead south of the[...]Washington he returned to Scobey in 1948 where he-was[...]employed at the Cozy Cafe and later moved out to Saltese,[...]Montana. He died there in April, 1957. Cyrus was a brother-[...]n-law of Gus Whipple of the Peerless area. He was a[...]Burley Bowler was born August 26, 1890 on a farm near[...]KCGM Radio in Scobey became a journeyman watch maker and jeweler, and[...]He came west to Saskatchewan in 1909.[...]sed not many miles apart, but who never met until a chance occasion at Lang, Saskatchewan, at a Valentine[...]ardent Conservative eloped to Moose Jaw with Maud,[...]they first met, and he called her that ever since. Their first child, a daughter, Gwendolyn, was born at[...]sensed an inter~st in newspapering. It was during the[...]transition period jeweler to printer and editor at Flaxville fn 1916 that their first son, Larry, was born. Mr. Bowler[...]in every little town to publish proving up notices of[...]each town's bid for the county seat designation, as Montana had begun to get into the throes of "county-[...]owned by P.A. Paulson who had bought it from Joe Dolan.[...]Antelope from John Grayson who had to foreclose on a previous owner. It was at Antelope that another son,[...]August 24, 1946 in Vancouver, A series of business house fires in Antelope and Washington. I am a native Nebraskan and Rex is from increasing shortage of help on t[...]Plentywood the county seat town (including what is now only briefly. Daniels County) prompted Joe Dolan to buy out Burley I began teaching in 1936 in rural schools in Nebraska. Bowler on the condition that he would come to work for him This fall , 1975, I will begin my ei[...]later worked on the Producers News, and a crisis on an Ned, our second son, is a senior in Scobey High School. associated pu[...]has been active in music and speech. Bowler to be sent to Scobey that year to pinch-hit as editor[...] |
| [...]Her love is like a candle----[...]Ah---I'm as rich as Croesus And happy as can be---[...]much of a church-going fellow, was given a birthday party[...]forty-seven years as a member of the women 's aid society in Scobey for that church was recognized as being the Maude a~d Burley Bowler observe their Golden Wedding longest here. She was given a pin in commemoration. She Anniversary. 1911-1961 also has been a longtime member of the church board.[...]Christian Service, here join with her in a party, complete with birthday cake, following a fulsome birthday program. TRIBUTE TO MRS. BURLEY BOWLER by Cecil M. Fe[...]and printer. He moved the family to Scobey which became MY NEIGHBOR[...]across the fence two years old, and a former home of the then defunct and s[...]y Free Press (started in 1934) in the early 40's. An era She always has a cookie jar---- ended of lusty, no-holds barred newspapering that reached A kettle on for tea back to pre-WWI days. There's always room---when w[...]ver the years was active in Methodist A body ever ate--- Church w[...]d many times she's brought me some was a longtime member of the Eastern Star, and active in Upon a flowered plate. other[...] |
| [...]or 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[...]was visiting a sister at Radville. Mr. and Mrs. Bowler lived continuously in Scobey The deceased is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. except for the years 1950-52 when[...]s, Larry of time in Washington, D.C. where he was an administrative Scobey and Duane of Billings. assistant to the late Senator Zales Ecton.[...]13, with the idea of setting up He constructed an ingenious clock (in the Leader in t[...]was window) which has caused considerable comment as to in Whitetail in 1914 and in 1915 se[...]oler's how it operates; something he learned when a graduate drug store in Flaxville. journeyman watchmaker as a late teen-ager in Port Altho he[...]in Scobey printing and publishing business as a hobbyist in is the first one he had built since that time long ago. Radville, it was not until he came to Flaxville that the Mr. Bowler passed away in 1967, and Mrs. B[...]pportunity presented itself more fully. He became a 1974. Gwendolyn (Wells) passed away in 1972 in[...]and also helped get Larry lives in Scobey and is editor of the Daniels County out the short-lived Madoc Recorder. He also filled quite a Leader. Duane lives in Billings and is editor of the Billings few prescriptions. Gaz[...]1919 to the late Joe Dolan, after a series of fires had[...]devastated the Antelope business section and in an[...]It was at this time that new counties were being formed,[...]the Scobey Sentinel had undergone a number of ownership[...]Burley Bowler was "loaned" to the Sentinel in 1921, and[...]conditions, Mr. Bowler was installed as editor and manager on a temporary basis. The Sentinel then was[...]owned by the Farmers Publishing Company with a board[...]sher, with U.S. Butte Miner, one of that cities dailies. Dunne drafted the F- Secretary of[...]. L constitution and by-laws, later adopted. A brilliant to be Montana's first and only Pulitzer Prize winner, w[...]e had taken his text the Scobey man began serving as president of the from the articl[...]sociation. that time for world revolution and the Soviet Union.[...]In a bull session in a hotel room during that convention, Dunne admitted to Mr. Bowler his wholesale lifting of text[...]from that instrument for the new farmers organization,[...]New York and after World War II he became a special Monday evening this week about five-thirty, Burley Soviet plenipotentiary to Mongolia. Bowler, 77, longtime northeastern Montana editor and On the basis of that experience at close range with publisher, passed[...]f intentions by the late Memorial services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. A. C. Townley, earlier organizers of the Nonpartisa[...]re he had lived League, Mr. Bowler came to the bitter realization that rural most of his Zife. The remains were interred at Scobey problems were not going to be solved at higher levels on the Cemetery Tuesday t[...]had witnesed first hand. Born Aug. 26, 1890 on a farm near Dundalk, Ontario, In 1924, in a mutual disagreement over policy, he left the ther[...]d grade and graduated Sentinel and on a shoe string bought the two year old from high sch[...]nield County Leader. apprenticed and later bacame a journeyman watchmaker It marked se[...]tario militia. eastern Montana ever was to witness. In nearby He was the youngest of six b[...], all Plentywood, Charles "Red Flag" Taylor, a fascinating of whom preceded him in death, except[...]personality, was using the Producers News like a Alberta. whiplash. He also established a liaison between there and[...] |
| [...]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 Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Altho their efforts[...]f the Producers /yews at Plentywood was beginning to destroy itself, altho it lingered on for a few Charles Francis Bradford Senior was born on October 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 on the plains Bradford. then, as there are now. Satisfactory solutions still remain Charles, better known as Charlie, came to Montana and in the wings, and of all the efforts both sincere and worked as a young man. insincere, it was in the sobering '30s[...], 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[...]harlie continued It was during these years also that Mr. Bowler became work as a motor boat operator on the Fort Peck Dam until known as an unflinching Republican and foe of the New[...]y had been sites. delinquent. But he had an abhorence of "saviors." Those he had seen at clos[...]esidential race on the Progressive ticket. He was an admirer of Eugene V. Debs in earlier years. , During more than half a century of newspapering he had occasion to meet and visit with many public luminaries in the[...]f both parties at all levels. Burley Bowler was a member of the National Press Club at Washington,[...]rs on the staff of the late Senator Ecton. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Philadelphi[...]returned from there with some forebodings, which that fall proved to be well-founded. When he was installed as president of the 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,[...]the time of his passing. Over the years he served as master of the Masonic Lodge in Scobey, president of Lions Club of which he was a charter member, and in 1951 was special fund drive chairman for the final $50,000 drive necessary to build the Memorial hospital. Weddin[...]helped organize the Scobey Golf Club in 1927, was a Dorothy Catherine Magdalene Bachmann, June charter member, played a tough game on the course and at 6, 19[...]ed the course in even par, no birdies, no bogies, a record that still stands. In 1953 he spent the entire summer[...]vating 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[...]last project out there, his father. He was 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. work on the dam site where he was a motor boat operator. His "Publisher's Column," running for years in the In May of that year Dorothy and infant son Charles joined Leader[...]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 talent[...]ttended part of their grade school in was not one to shrink from controversy.[...] |
| [...]a son of Ole and Malina Oyness Brekke. The[...]was three. He attended a rural country school south of Blaisdell, a year of high school in Blaisdell, and graduated[...]Wahpeton'. On April 30, 1947 he came to Scobey to work at[...]sales work. On January 1, 1949 he became a stockholder in[...]Clarice Brekke was born in the Navajo community, a daughter of Clarence Gunderson, an early day homesteader, who came to Daniels County in 1910 from[...]t Missoula. Shortly after her eighteenth Moving to Scobey in 1949 they built a home in the Oie birthday, she began teac[...]of One of her pupils was her brother, an eighth grader. town and later was proprietor of t[...]. 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 Company[...]d Norman set up after visiting him, was killed in a one-vehicle accident in housekeeping in the[...]e on On April 25, 1965 Charlie lost his life in a house fire in the corner of Second Street and[...]still live. His widow is residing in her home in Scobey with her son[...]active in community affairs over the Richard, who is employed with the Citizens State Bank. years. Boy Scouting has taken much of their time. As a Linda is living in Scobey also, and is married to Wayne member of Troup 298, Norman served as president of the Vatnsdal, who is from Badger, Minnesota. He came to local group and has been treasur~r for several years. He Montana in 1964 and is employed by Noland Implement in · served[...]rea Council for many years, and Scobey. They have an adopted son whose name is Tracy. received the Silver Beaver awar[...]U.S. Army for three For Clarice being a Den Mother for five years was much years, one of them in Germany. He is residing in Richland fun and a r~warding experience. She has been in Girl where he is employed with the Richland Farm Supply.[...]A former Jaycee, Norman h as b een 1n . L.10n ' s Cl u b ,[...]:N"orman is presently an active stockholder in Erickstein[...]Motor Company and is engaged in farming with his[...]d 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 work as a teacher's aide in 1967. This reawakened her the northeastern Montana prairies. He was a craftsman of interest in teaching and she was a substitute Junior High the old school (learning his trade in Sweden) and his vork English teacher for a semester. She taught remedial met the highest 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 she spent four summers at Northern Mont[...]ays made his headquarters Havre, receiving a degree in Elementary Education in in Scobey and s[...]e at Scobey School. 1927. Charlie Harris recalled that he had worked for him Four children gre[...]in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Science in nursing from From a newspaper clipping Pacific Lutheran University in 1971. (Note that mother[...] |
| and daughter graduated the same year.) She is currently men, or waiting hours in depots, I finally arrived in Scobey, employed in an Intensive Care unit at Yale Medical Center known as "The end of the line". in New Haven, Connecticut. I was met by a group of teachers who came from many Richard a 1970 Scobey grad, earned a Bachelor of Arts in states; Mississippi, Wis[...]ntroductions she said, "I'm 1 examination. He is a 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[...]Robert graduated from Scobey High 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 act[...]music and flu epidemic. For one month we went to different homes drama. He is attending the University of Montana in[...]in bed desperately ill and we did what we could to wa:it upon Carla, the youngest, is in high school Her interests center them. We made a pact- in case any one of us became ill, on mu[...]we would care for each other. Strange as it may seem, not b[...]received a letter from the Scobey School Board enclosing a month's salary and a notice of appreciation because we[...]he saloons were In was in the fall of 1918 that I, Fay Richardson, arrived doing a good business and we never walked on that side of in Scobey to teach the third grade. Scobey was five or Main Street. We were thrilled every time we saw a real, live six years old at that time. I had been teaching in South cowboy. There was a friendliness that was contagious and Dakota, my home state, and wanted to get away in search we were often invited to the homes. We did miss the young of adventure[...]. I had never heard of Scobey but received a notice of a I remember well November 11th, when the word reached vacancy in the school there through a teacher's agency. Scobey the Armistice ha[...]tice I had superintendent, Olive Nelson, came to my room and told received and was "Way out we[...]ars streaming down my face, I and was offered a contract. tol[...]as over. The school children Fae Wickwire, a member of the school board, told me that gathered boxes and what they could find to build a big bon- when they read one of my qualificati[...]f the street and snake danced around it taken a course in Human Behavior, they said immediately[...]It was a long time from N ovem her 11th until the boys 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 i[...]called the soldiers would you please send me a card and tell me how I should Fred Brunet and Ferd Wienicke. A few weeks later we met have routed you?" Afte[...]of riding freight trains, the soldier boys at a dance in the Eastern Star Hall. Fred mixed tr[...]ssenger 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[...]Kuster was a marvelous cook and several of the fellows[...]were Oscar Fryslie, D.A. Bostick, Fred Brunet, Bobby[...]Burne and others. As we stood watching the ice pile up and[...]breaking in the river, Ruth pointed to a large cake some distance away; "Doesn't that look like the figure of a man?" she said. We observed it for a few minutes as the ice drifted closer to shore and decided it certainly did look like[...]a man. "We'll hurry back for dinner and tell the fe[...]the authorities at once. They found it to be the body of a[...]I taught the third grade two years as Miss Richardson[...]and the third year I taught it as Mrs. Brunet, for Fred and I[...]were married on September 4, 1920. At that time Daniels 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[...]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[...]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 C[...]les. They have twin sons, Dennis and Douglas, and a son Craig all in college. During the years we[...]In 1918 the folks decided to try their hand at farming 25 years, and longer for Fred. A position with the U.S.[...]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[...]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[...]t." I said, "If you do I'll pick him up, make him a bed in Force at the Boeing Company where he remained for about 19 years. When he retired in 1963 we moved to Pomona to the barn and milk .old bossy and take c[...]ryone was amused at my concern, which always made be nearer Barrie. We will always cherish our memorie[...]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 By Mrs. A.L. Brunet[...]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 PAT[...]to stay in the hospital overnight. I was very unhapp[...]ania on April 7, 1885. He was one of 13 children. A Lloyd always bailed her out. She had fiery[...]is family was coming many dark freckles, that were the bane of her life. If anyone over during the famine in Ireland. After a stay in called her carrot top, 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.[...]left home, but things didn't go as planned. Rather than My mother, Viola, was born[...]was one of write home for money, he hopped a freight near Great seven children. Her family left Illinois and settled for a Falls. It derailed and he was decapitated. time in Missouri, then moved up to the Glendive and Lloyd joined the[...]After my folks separated in 1928, dad went to Sidney the age of 13 years. The first children were Edward, Lloyd, where he worked as a supervisor at the sugar refinery. and Gertrude.[...]ouse. I got the job but they asked for Gladys and that took Scobey where dad spent the next four years tending bar in care of that. People were al ways getting us confused. Lloyd C[...]. went to work on construction at the Fort Peck Dam[...] |
| Our dad was also working there. Lloyd worked only a few first and only time anyone had ever seen Eddie Burton in a months when a cable broke loose. The hook hit him on the fight. back of the head, ca using a brain concussion. He died two days later at the D[...]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 & there until he had a massive heart attack, was taken to JEANNEITE CORNELIA BYDELEY Billing[...]and emigrated to Canada in June, 1911. Jeanne (as I have many things to be thankful for, for the best things Jeannette Cor[...]ife 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 off. I am thankful for a wonderful job in Canada. Upon arrival she[...]Montana on December 21, 1912. They returned to[...]Helen, arrived January 28, 1914. The family moved to[...]Radersburg, Montana. Farming wasn't all that promising, especially with the approach of winter and another baby. Good word came that a job was waiting in Great Falls as assistant manager with the Hollarn Loan[...]r three years in Great Falls Fred was transferred to Scobey as manager of the same company. The late Knute[...]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[...]urant with its famed horseshoe counter. Eddie, a talented musician of the 20's, could play anything. In a dance hall once at Havre he was featured as a star trombonist- and he delivered the goods, even though on that instrument he had no idea what note he was hittin[...]extremely good-natured, he was considered by some to be somewhat effeminate. This was dispelled one evening, however, when a gravel-crew tough walked into a Scobey restaurant and challenged everyone, including a number of "fighting men". None answered his[...]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,[...] |
| them as chairman. He was also chairman of the Ration[...]ext 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 painlessly getting contributions from t[...]hool of Education in 1942 and did graduate intend to give. His subtle humor, dignity and versatile work in the Graduate School of Social Work for a year. She appreciation for the finer things in life were admired by returned to Scobey to marry Charles A. Dapiels on June 2, most who knew him. Although not noted as a church-goer 1943. Charles was born in S[...]y ministers from all denominations in town. There is his commission from Yale University and later was also the story that he in some way became a candidate for Armament Officer in the Air[...]ly candidate who has Else worked for a while as medical social worker at New ever actively campai[...]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[...]n give her credit 1945 and they returned to Scobey where he carried on for teaching them to swim. She is remembered farming until gett[...]niversity affectionately for her knitting, having a big start with the in the fall of 1946, graduating in 1947 with a degree in Red Cross knitting for which she furnished many socks, Industrial Engineering. During that time their daughter sweaters and mittens for serv[...]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 manag[...]Company until it was birthday reception attested to the many friends she has dissolved. He c[...]ng and entered the had over the years. Travelling is one of her hobbies-- insurance business, forming his own Daniel's Agency. including a number of trips back to her native Holland, Else was secretary-receptionist for the agency for about 20 trips to Africa , and even a round-the-world trip in 1970. She years until they merged with the late Charlie Wolfe as the loves the United States and has seen a great portion of it. Wolfe Daniels Agency. Both were active in both state and Also she is still enthusiastic about bridge and daily swims. national Independent Insurance Association up to[...]Helen graduated in the class of 1932 and went to Northern Montana College in Havre, majoring in education. She became a part of the country school system-- teaching at t[...]r's College in Minnesota. Afterwards she returned to teaching in Opheim and in Flaxville. In 1942 she[...]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~ born there. Then they made a number 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 Organiza[...]tions 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 State University in Bozeman. After teaching in Townsend for a couple years, she accepted a position as Home Demonstration Agent in Hill County and[...]rs. Else worked with the Red Cross and they moved to Great Falls where Charlie was Agriculture[...]and the community. She was also were transferred to Seattle, Washington in 1962 where acti[...]a". Burlington Northern Railroad. Their son Fred, a Charles served as commander of both Post and District of Washington[...]with his wife the American Legion, worked as a Boy's State chairman at Mercer Island, 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 in Concord, California. the Farmers Elevator for 18 years. He served as chairman Upon retirement in 1973 the Jarretts moved to Walnut of the Board of Education from 1954 to 1964, was chosen Creek, California , their[...] |
| [...]w 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 Sev[...]were born: Charles, 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, She[...]the three sons, after finishing high her diploma as a beautician. She has been employed in the schoo[...]AND CORA CASE Ray, a commercial artist in Minneapolis , was married in[...]1950. He passed away in 1964 and is buri"d at Fort Snelling Cora Day Case was born[...]Francis, working for the state of California, is married There she met George Case and they were[...]Santa Barbara. 31, 1917. Shortly after they came to Scobey where she was Margaret (Brant) lives[...]in Lewistown; Marilyn (McCrary) in Garden Grove, that time and she became active in that. She was president California. of the Woman's Club, Past Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star and a member of the Episcopal Church. Cora died in 1926[...]seven years then moved to Scobey with his parents in 1948[...]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.[...]on Crew, finishing out the winter at The family is descended from immigrants coming from Batt[...]year he worked in Plentywood and at present is engaged in probably during the dim areas of Frenc[...]nd 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 from Germany[...]s born in Scobey and will Family sources state that the family originating in graduate in 1976. He became an Eagle Scout in 1974 and France came west by degre[...]program ever since. He has Illinois, and finally to Minnesota. Four brothers of this spent part of[...]Volunteers of the Union vineyards, other than that he is his father's second hand Army during the American Civil War-. Following that war, man. they moved into the Tarsus-Omemee a[...]ht the Hertoghe Implement business County in what is now North Dakota. with Paul's brother Le Verne as a two year partner. In 1961 Charles M. Cassidy was born to Michael Cassidy and Paul and I purchased l[...]ss. Since then we He left Springfield and went to Oregon in 1910. On his have leased land in the[...]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 Scobey Carl for a time was in partnership with Clarence Penn in are[...]Implement Company. In 1932 Our family purchased an old mountain 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 Danie[...]more 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 marri[...]by Lois Chabot daughters. They lived for a time in Rolla, North Dakota but moved to Minot in 1948. Carl died in 1965.[...]Walter's homestead is now part of the Wolford Estate. He[...]Christine along with their three spent a number of years in Newtown and Garrison, North ch[...]from Sweden Dakota. Walter died in 1955. to a small dairy and garden farm which they owned and[...]assumed the name lived west of Scobey on a farm. Their son Dale lived on this of Chelgren when they became citizens a few years later. place until 1971. Esther[...]on 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[...]by the newly elected Sheriff, 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[...]came to Scobey from Sidney, Montana in August, 1926. Mr.[...]He also served as chairman of the Daniels Corn ty[...]publican Central Committee from 1948-1950 and was a[...]office since January, 1946. He has also served as City[...]and has been a football coach and teacher since 1954. He[...]and has been an assistant coach at Montana State[...]have a daughter and three sons.[...] |
| [...]llege 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[...]re and now live in Bellevue, Nebraska. Sgt. Scott is retiring they lived. from the U.S. Air Force[...]d in Scobey they Mark and Anna Clayburgh moved to Scobey, Montana had two children with[...]d in Crookston, Minnesota in arrived in a Model T Ford and lived in the Chapman house. 1915[...]e was in Sentinal Butte, North It was a small white house west of the home Mark built for[...]e Peterson Lumber his family. Their home is now owned by the George Stahl Yard.[...]family. In 1918 they moved to the Fadness Ranch in the Ss,_obey Mark wa[...]r I ended before he many years. He served as mayor in Scobey. was inducted. Their son, Mark Jr[...]he Clayburgh's when she was The family then moved to Scobey. teaching i[...]Ranch before Ben and Ade Harvick moved to Scobey and were also her marriage. She arrived in[...]rses at the Aasmus home which served as a hospital in Scobey. Dr. Crookston Normal School.[...]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.[...]Chalmers agency where he from Norway when he was a boy. His father was a remained until his retirement. The family lived in Grand minister, and his mother a doctor in Norway. She was not Forks, North[...]When Mark retired they moved to Bismarck, North Dakota where they bought a new home. Anna'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[...]Stanley P. V oak, a mechanical engineer. They lived in[...]Their daughter, Cherey, is married and lives in Iowa.[...]World War II. He was a Lieutenant Colonel. They have two[...]Mark Jr. is an attorney. They live in New Mexico. Ben is an orthopedist in Grand Forks and is very active[...]a brain hemorrhage when their youngest son was in t[...]hird grade. Ben later married Beverly Manternach, a[...]Grand Forks where Ben has an orthopedic clinic. Ben has[...] |
| [...]contributed Mr. Clifford, a longtime lawyer and real estate agent, In 1913 Samuel Cochrane Sr. came to Scobey from Plaza, |
| 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 a captain in Wor1d War II, then Superintendent of Schools in British Columbia. He is now retired and lives in Delta, British Columbia.[...]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. By Claribel ([...]l~v\;3. He spent two years in New York, then came to North l.Jc1kota where he operated a drug store at Eckman. Thl re he married Mattie Littlefield in 1908. In 1912 they came to Outlook where he operated , drug In graduation togs as he topped his class at 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[...]Northern and he also became a director in the Citizen's THE DR. T.W. C[...]tario, in Scobey and both served at varying times as pharmacists Canada. His parent~ came from England[...]h pharmacists and grew up in Durham, Ontario, was a good student and was a chiropractors. Joe died in 1943 and Alick in 1961. much better than average lacrosse player - a game which He became an active member of the Scobey Golf Club, eastern Canadians then thought as much of as they now do even though he was into his fifties, he learned to play the of hockey and baseball. If there had bee[...]ate Bank glamor of professional sports which came a couple of in 1935 and remained so until his death. He had varied decades later, it is likely that we in the west might never business and real esta[...]West Clinic Hospital. Over 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 remembered begin his general practice. After two[...]g in Montana - here he spent nine years. During that period he met and married Miss Lily Dale, a Dr. T. W. Collinson school teacher[...]was born there. Dr. took post graduate work from a New York School of Optometry and received his 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~ by 1914 had established the Scobey Drug Company as a going concern - (still in business under that name, current owner being 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. Collinson passed the state board as a pharmacist in 1917. By 1921 Scobey had bec[...] |
| [...]ional services and he conducted his profession on a Scobey. She passed away January 12, 1968. Son[...]his car. He broke his hip in 1949, but was able to continue his[...].C. Leader work though slower and with the aid of a cane. The last five ALICK COLLINSON was a resident of Scobey from years of his life he was bedridden but was able to read and 1914 to 1933. His brothers, Dr. T.W. and Joe also lived i[...]all current events. He was attended Scobey at that time. Alick was educated in Canada and the at his[...]. He married Martha Hf)ath in 1135. 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[...]and a daughter, Jane.[...]Westland Company until it was moved to Minutin 1928. He[...]to employ the use of an airplane--one of which was a Ryan[...]He is survived by his widow Gertrude and a daughter[...]from a newspaper clipping[...]the early years when he first came to Scobey. A native of Lilly Dale Collins[...]received his training as a baker at Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis. -A fter being discharged from the service he[...]returned to Minnesota where he worked · in several Lily D[...]was also born in Ontario, Canada, locations as a cook and baker. While employed in Marshall, later moving to Pontiac, Michigan. She attended high Mi[...]ived 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 ra[...]r and incidently looked up. Cozy Cafe -1928. Left to right: Leslie Crawford, Stewart There, coiled above the door sunning itself, was a large Wakeland, Glen Chenoweth, unknown, Gloria J[...]ble Buer and Peggy Noble. homesteaders. She was a member of a girl's basketball team at Michigan University and was also a drama student. When she taught in Culbertson she[...]anized all-high school dramatic productions twice a year and in between also found time to file on a homestead. After her marriage she sold her homest[...]ested it in the new drug store in Scobey. She was a very active mem her of the Order of the Eastern Star - she received a 50-year pin and was honored by the local chapter at this time. She also served as president of the local PTA and produced local pla[...]ne being Edmond Karlsrud,aneighth grader- she saw that he had his first prominent singing role before the public at a PTA program.[...] |
| [...]Pete and Catherine Darchuk and children from left to[...]of the Jones Cafe. In 1926 the Crawford's decided to make Montana their permanent home and purcha&ed[...]ensen (Bob Jensen's dad). During the family to look after themselves, the baby Paul going to this time there were two additions to the family, Lucille in live with his sister, Ma[...]n 1943 he married 25¢ and 35¢. Good steaks were a specialty of the house Catherine Miller.[...]Carl, James and Joan. After the war he returned to Scobey oncoming of World War II, and the scarcity[...]and lived there the rest of his life. He worked as a mechanic and food supplies, the Crawford's sold the cafe to Mrs. Carl and also farmed. He died in 1964 at Scobey. Faanes and moved to Billings where he was employed as a by Catherine Darchuk meat cutter and later a cook until his retirement. Lucille and her two so[...]s in Moorhead, Minnesota with his family where he is director of the education department at Moorhead[...]VIS government in Washington, D.C. Mable returned to Scobey in 1959 and married Clifford Buer. She and[...]Springs, Missouri. He came to Medicine Lake and then to Until his death Les enjoyed relating the many[...]typesetting and press happenings at the Cozy Cafe to any interested ear. feeding in Missouri and immediately found a job with the Topmost in the memories of the famil[...]colorful characters which we had the opportunity to rub editor. elbows with such as Shorty Russell, Ross Daniels and In 1914 he chose a homestead three and a half miles other early residents of Daniels Count[...]south of Scobey on land which later belonged to Earl family has been a way from Scobey for more than 30 years, Norm[...]te homesteaders. After they still think of Scobey as their "hometown" and have leaving the newspaper he worked as a clerk at the Tallman many fond memories of the cafe, the school and the many Hotel for a while. In 1914 he began to work at the Ford celebrations they participated i[...]garage then owned by Harry Shook. He continued to work By Mabel Crawford Buer there until failing eyesight forced him to quit in 1930. and Luc[...]townsite. He went in the army that same year and served with Co. A, 362nd Inf., 91st Division. He lost the sight of[...]his right eye in France in an accidental explosion of a PETER DARCHUK grenade in the hand of a soldier standing next to him. His other eye began to fail in later years and in 1962 he became Peter Darchuk was born in 1912 on a farm north of blind. Scobey, son of Ge[...]Darchuk. His parents came In 1914 he was a member of Scobey's first baseball team to Montana in 1910 from Manitoba. Pete was one of 14[...]ing coyotes with stag hounds, which he carried in a (deceased), Peter (deceased), John (deceased), He[...]special box in the back of his Model T Ford, was a favorite[...] |
| [...]uring the 20's he and his companions would take as many as 80 coyotes during a season. In 1930 he was hired by the government as a killer of coyotes and predatory animals. During the middle 30's he worked as a saleman in Kansas for three years but returned to Scobey. In 1952 he began to work as a nursery salesman for a company from North Dakota and sold many shrubs a[...]trees at the hospital grounds. Irving died at a Veteran's rest home in Fargo, North Dakota in January, 1969. Mrs. Davis, who was known as an accomplished seamstress, died in June, 1973. Reminiscences from an early interview with Irving Davis: "Everyone i[...]n, Mickey, after the world's biggest elephant of that time. Stacie, Tracie Mueller. "Mother, who lived to be ninety-one and a half remembered the Civil War Battle of Lexington. Her folk; had a horse that was taken by the soldiers at the beginning of th[...]n Great Falls. Their children are: when they saw a horse coming down the road. M[...]Mueller, (Vicki), Billings; Danny, Havre; the "That looks like our old horse," someone said. The hors[...], 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 an[...]times in Montana hunting coyotes with dogs. I had a Model T Ford with a box on back with a door that was released by a rope from the front seat. I had ·three, sometimes four, stag hounds, and 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 animal. It will seldom do the same thing tw[...]cognized 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." RAYM[...]DALE SMITH FAMILIES |
| [...]ed 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 business with his partner, Rudy Leer (who also lived in Scobey). They had one son, Otto, Jr. and they raised a niece, Mae. Both the children received most of th[...]ft here in 1932. Mrs. Egland died first, and Otto a few years later, in 1963. The son was continuing[...]th J.R. Leer at the time of his father's death. A news item, from a 1927 paper reads: "O.B. Egland, Scobey lumberman,[...]er yards in Scobey, Peerless and Glentana, adding to his extensive interests as a lumber dealer in N.E. Montana which now includes[...]son of Norwegian homesteaders. The family moved to a farm at Volga, South Dakota. When an older brother came home from serving in the army Melfred went to a barber school in Montivideo, Minnesota where he s[...]. Mel/red Eide Solberg's folks. In 1923 he drove a truck for Solberg's to their ranch near Opheim and then came to Scobey to barber -with Carl Cole and Ralph Hively. The railroads were being built and a great deal of grain was grown and Loraine a[...]944 shippt1d from here; the railroads were coming to south Saskaichewan from Assiniboia to Kildeer and things looked good; O.B. Egland had a lumber yard in Scobey and one in Rockglen along the line to Canada with Harvey Evenson as manager. Melfred moved to Rockglen in 1926 and built his own barber shop with bath, water works and lights, and later added a room for a billiard table. He was an avid baseball fan and played on town teams or as an umpire when he was too tired to play the game. Rockglen was a town of young people and haircuts were 50¢ and a shave 25¢. The shop was open until all had been[...]o there were many long hours. He met and married a young school teacher, Marion M. Bowden, who was t[...]l. I was born in Alameda, Saskatchewan in 1906 to English homesteaders. My older sister and I drove five miles with horse and buggy to grade school in Dalesboro, then to high school in Alameda by car. My sister died of scarlet fever. The folks moved from the farm to Kootenay, British Columbia for fruit growing. I went back to Saskatchewan to attend college in Moosejaw and Regina where I received my teaching certificate. I had heard that the railroads were opening new school opportunities south of the border so I applied for a position in the Bordervale school and was hired. We rode to Rockglen in Heagg's station wagon, straddling the rails. I stayed there until the McKee boys came to town with a sleigh for me and supplies for all the community, plus stove pipes for a one-room school and an addition for me. I taught all eight grades and was there for two terms. With a lumber yard and elevators starting, there[...] |
| rented a two-bedroom house in Rockglen where Loraine[...]t on the dear familiar ground of her back With a barber shop opening at the new Gorham Hotel in yard flower garden. Here she achieved a seasonal array of Scobey we moved back to the United States in 1934 and flowers[...]elfred worked with P.E. (Blondie) Teigen, renting a home surely from indifferent clods. for se[...]February 8; 1880 in Glinton, The children started to school and it kept us mothers, who Minnesot[...]t 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 b[...]s and built better roads. Erickson was a member of the Degree of Honor, the All There were[...]after a short illness of a heart attack in 1952. Mr. Erickson Melfred took a Watkins Route for outdoor work during p[...]y Mrs. Harriet Erickson was outstanding as a business Treasurer in 1946. He was active in chur[...]lerk of Court office and he served by re-election to that office until his death on March 28, 1955. He served a total of20 years in the Daniels County Courthouse[...]de American Legion Citizenship Award. When he was a junior he attended the first Montana Boys State 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[...]re Larsen of Harlowton. He graduated in 1955 with an engineering degree at Bozeman and went to work for Honeywell in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The[...]west of Scobey in 1914. Mr. Erickson, in addition to farming, wasanadeptsalesman,conducting sales all[...]Erickson began acquiring merchandising experience as clerk in the old Chapin and Erickson · Mercantil[...]rmer resident. Mr. Egland convinced Mrs. Erickson that she was just the person to be the manager. The years confirmed his judgment and[...]ame into Mrs. Erickson's hands in 1943. She was a versatile lady who kept her mind open and alert to all things cultural and worthwhile. She lived her religion--every day. What joy it was to talk with her about[...] |
| A Tribute to J. Harriet Erickson daughters: Sh[...]fill with 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 They'll wait t[...]h Falls, has one daughter; and Kelly, a star softball and And rear its blue spikes, as iris do, basketball player, grad[...]ase, from garden beds. GERALD is married to Clara Olson of Tioga and lives in[...]Newtown; Daryl, Williston; and Tara, a fourth grader, Will bloom for her, as they used to do; living at home. But the[...]or J. V. Bennett for sixteen years and then oegan to by Cecil Fergu[...]and A.Repair Shop in Scobey and .operated it UJ:}til hi[...]who is married to Roy Nelson lives in.Richland and they[...]ander, 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 atten[...]the O.J. Dailey farm in children: Delano, married to Marlys Hunter, presently in 1948 and are sti[...]obey has two boys and one girl; Scobey, married to Muriel Wiley, has one child, Warren and Donald te[...]king with Delano in the body shop; Anita, married to Harland Hawbaker and living in Plentywood has one[...]CARL AND FLORENCE FAANES JOHN is married to the former Dorothy Feltis of Peerless. They live[...]Faanes was born June 3, 1894 at Mentor, Minnesota as custodians in the Opheim school system. They have two a son of Andrew and Ragnhild Faanes. He rece[...] |
| [...]Schaefer, and as Deputy Clerk of Court for George Jones.[...]Whitetail to south of town when the children started to[...]school. The school bus in the early years was a covered wagon or sleigh, horse-drawn with a coal-burning stove in[...]never seemed to reach our feet. One cold spring morning[...]in crossing a swollen creek, the bus tipped, spilling the[...]dents and the burning coals from the stove all in a heap,[...]Gerald, we moved to Great Falls where Larry began to[...]le waiting departure, two things happened; he had a[...]mily. Standing: Len and Virlaine. back to farming. Seated: Florence, Lonnie and Carl.[...]in the army, going from Fort Knox, Kentucky to a base in education in Minnesota, having attended b[...]s wife Sheril and family live in Scobey He came to Montana and was employed as cashier of the where he is affiliated with the farming 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 traveled for Concordia College as an admissions 1928, probably the longest continuous tenure of any in the counselor. _ state of Montana in that spot. Dana gra[...]eaches 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 is employed at Lonnie.[...]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.[...]MING contributed by Claire A. Hillstrom 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[...]on the farm north of Madoc. He Mae, became a money-maker. It attracted the attention of attended a country school for a short time, then for several M.L. Hoff (he work[...]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[...]unty Sportsmen's Club, now disbanded. He has been a member of the Scobey Fire Department since[...]harlie Johnson, founder and namesake of the house as a deputy for John Smith in the Assessor's office, present dray line in Scobey had a Model T truck that-he also in the Treasurer's office for Wyvil BjerJrn and Howard wanted fitted ~th a longer than the standard size box. He[...] |
| [...]was two years old. He received a.JI his public school[...]armed forces and was a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne[...]sergeant in a rifle company. He received his honorable[...]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 practice. He is a member of the State Bar of Montana,[...]Mr. Fosland served as County Attorney of Daniels[...]Scobey for a number of years. He is a past Commander of[...]eral Charles S. Warren, of Butte mining fame, and a[...]Fosland also attended Montana State took the job to Davis and Shook (predecessors of Uni[...]stein's), who in turn assigned their new mechanic to organizations over the years, particularly in[...]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. pl[...]little country Lund of Scobey. of Luxemburg. At an early age he came with his parents to The couple are the parents of a son, Jordan A. (Chip), Jr. America. They settled south of Minneapolis. in Wabasha, a graduate of Montana State University, Bozeman, where he grew to manhood. He was a veteran of the first Montana, an avid flyer, and presently engaged World War and o[...]erican in farming in Daniels County; and a daughter, Jane Ann, a Legion. He came to Scobey in 1925 to work as a mechanic language major at Whitman College,[...]Washington, and presently on her second trip to Europe. Selma Anderson and to this couple was born a son, Vernon. The Foslands reside in Scobey. A replica of an old Civil There was also a stepson, Gerald Anderson, and a War cannon, mounted on old wagon wheel[...]ings who peacefully on their front lawn. were a part of the Fonk family here. Adolph Fonk was l[...]FRANK-WALKER FAMILIES MR. AND MRS. JORDAN A. FOSLAND[...]ndependent Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frank came to Scobey in 1922. He had |
| [...]This is the interior of the People's Meat Market in Scobe[...],· would buy half a beef at·a time.[...]meat was sold as a novelty. Hamburger and stew meat 75 cents a pound, roasts $1 per pound and steaks $1.50 per[...]pound. They shipped buffalo meat to the eastern and Florence Ethel Edmonson was bor[...]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 was born in Omemee, North 1913. There she worked as a saleslady in the Nelson Dakota. She came to Scobey in 1923 and graduated from General Store.[...]1917 and for Scobey High School in 1925. That fall she enrolled in the several years they rented homes in Scobey and later built a Nurses Training School in Minot, North Dakota.[...]arry Bummer. She died graduation she was a registered nurse in the Plentywood, at her home i[...]36 and they the Franks. Mrs. Frank would often go to the store on have a son, Robert. They now live in Sacramento. I will[...]esh 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 Omem[...]heir 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[...] |
| [...]and teaches shop at Billings, Montana. He is married to the several other boys from Scobey played in the famous former Levon Ah tone of Billings, also a teacher. They have baseball team of 1925. He also played several seasons with a boy and a girl. Canadian teams. He was a quiet man but had a great sense Clive graduated from Scobey[...]and Greenland working in communications. He is now a known by her friends as "Maggie" worked in the Thomas 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 Bay, Florida. They have a Scobey Drug Store for many years. It was a rare day when boy and a girl. you did not find Maggie in the store. She d[...]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 Fall[...]He moved with 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 Montan[...]ried at Rugby, North the army and spent a year in combat in Vietnam. He now Dakota in 1929. We have a daughter, Patricia, now Mrs. works at Butler Steel in Glasgow, Montana. He is married LeRoy Moline, and two granddaughters. Irish taught at to the former Cathy Whitlow of Four Buttes and they[...]two daughters. While teaching in Scobey from 1934 to 1942 he also helped Candace graduated from Scobey High School, went one as a meat cutter for 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[...]was active in numerous enterprises over is employed as fireman. They have a boy and a girl. the years, and in 1963 was president of the[...]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 a[...]accountant with the American Can Company. They h a ve an active part in contributing pictures and informat[...]e 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 several years Burley Bowle[...]troop and John, born 1956, died in a car accident in 1970. under his direction thirtee[...]became Eagle Kevin, still at home, is a senior in high school. Scouts. He was past president of the Great Plains Area Boy Melissa is a freshman at home. Scout Council, and in 1947 he w[...]l in grade Beaver Award for Distinguished Service to Boyhood. He school. was a charter member of the Scobey Lions Club and activ[...]e homestead in Butte Creek. This was evidenced in an article compiled by Irish for the 1963[...]spent the best days of our Ii ves on the A colorful character of the old west was Gene Froma[...]He had come to this area from England and he took a faTIU[...]poor eyesight. In order to see the rows while seeding Gene had to use a high wheeled drill, so tne horse would follow[...]One experience he had before moving to town: he had Flaxville, and Gertrude Nordgren dau[...]ity home in the back of his wagon with a horse tied behind that were married in October 1939. They bought the O.E[...]1939. Alvida started the poison, but as Gene philosophically said, "It didn't do working as a mechanic for Vic Hillstrom Motors; taking[...]he 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[...]car near the railroad tracks in town and later in a works. In 1940 they bought one of the oldest houses 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. how they were doing. During the next 20 years they had a family of 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[...]-of- doors. When he allowed himself the luxury of a shack to live in he shared it with his dogs, and pets of a[...]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 result of an accident, having fallen on the concrete sidewalk[...]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[...]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 which is[...]continued to run the business as a family. In 1956 they sold[...]the dry goods and turned it completely to groceries. At this[...]early 1958 Howard and Roy split the business, Roy to[...]late Jay Gullickson. 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 growing f'amily. So he worked as a clerk for $100.00 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.[...]ore. In 1938 the building was sold, and he rented a small store. That Harry Gibbs worked in the Reclamation Service at building was torn down and is now part of the Tande's Williston, North[...]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 |
| [...]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,[...]obey, and accordingly, the Gorham Hotel Flaxville to Gus and Mary Girard, the fourth son in a opened its doors on December 29, 1929. T[...]He spent his early childhood in Madoc rooms, an excellent restaurant, a confectionery shop and and attended school there,[...]barber and beauty shops, and was equipped t.o do a rushing Scobey where he finished high school. Aft[...]ss. 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 Flaxv[...]ay were married in June of 1958 and their that time. He became a stockholder in the Citizen's State family consist[...]which was quite a fortune in those days, but he did succeed[...]engaged in a hotly contested race for mayor of Scobey with[...]Old timers will remember when an oil company dumped Mrs. Goodman (Addie Downing) came to Scobey in May hundreds of gallon~ of fue[...]ssion about and she came from Velva, North Dakota to take a lawsuits. Long on pets, at various[...]monkeys, parrots, tropical birds, and an alligator which residence per year required to "prove up" the homestead disappeared and r[...]toffice in Scobey, first at the the city dump to the city water tank. original site of the town an[...]ces, 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[...]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, North Da[...]s postmaster. . moved to Washington; Bud joined his father in Billings Frank Goodman came to Scobey in the spring of 1912, and eventua[...]ownership of the cab company from Mt. Ayr, Iowa. A few years previous he had proved up when P.R. retired. Pat married Bud Hill and they operated a homestead in South Dakota. His parents had left Iowa to the hotel until 1950 when they moved to Great Falls. Henry take up a homestead near Vida, Montana south of the[...]urchased the Gorham about 1953 Missouri River and a brother, Harry, had taken a job and operated it until 1973, when it was purchased by the working in a general store in Poplar, Montana. It was Wares. Harry who told him that the Timmons-Daniel partners P.R. Gorham died in Billings in 1965 at the age of needed a clerk in their store at Scobey. He rode from Poplar seventy-eight, and did and said the unusual until that time. with Steve Robinson, who was freighting by[...]nces Gorham Vavra died in Washington in 1967. Bud is three teams of horses, using a jerk-line. in Billings and Pat, widowed in 1965, works for a Billings The ride was not without hazard. In crossing a frozen travel agency. · stream the l[...]by Pat Gorham Hill difficulty; Steve told Frank to jump out and hold the heads of the horses up out[...]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[...]ion, and businesses and postoffice could be truthfully said he had "joie de vivre" - each moved to "East" Scobey. Both Addie and Frank continued[...]e daughter, Georgia (Mrs. Don age 74. He is survived by five daughters, one of whom lives Jackson, Seattle), two grandsons, a granddaughter, and in Scobey - Mrs. James Downs, an RN at the local hospital. one great-granddaughter[...]iting. They farmed for Mr. Gratton was also a Scobey businessman for some time, a number of years south of Scobey until 1942, when they operating the Silver Slipper. moved to Redding, California and then to San Jose, south[...]eid and Edith are descendants of pioneer families that Traveling through northeastern Montana on busin[...]ved in Antelope and Dagmar in Sheridan County for an oil company of which he was an officer in 1927, P.R. between 1906 and[...] |
| [...]the Gallantry Cross with Palm, and was a holder of the[...]serving as a Green Beret and had received his diplom a as[...]Paul, Minnesota to Joseph and Tillie Greengard. He was[...]Ralph was raised in a family of five brothers and one[...]sister in Williston, where his father was a merchant and[...]ther 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 La[...]from Williston high school in 1916 and that fall enrolled in[...]iving his army discharge, having served an honorable discharge there at war's end. overseas[...]ceived five ha ttle stars He returned again to Scobey and became active in the in Germany and Fr[...]f the young men Montana and North Dakota 29 times as relief agent for about town. He also w[...]orth Dakota American Legion Post 56, and as a student of government in 1947 and moved to Opheim, Montana in 1951. In 1956 and politics. Reid bid on the job as Great Northern Depot Agent in On Fe[...]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[...]inued in the store. There were no Month Award and is also a member of the Veterans children.[...]on Northern, Mr. Greengard was serving as chairman of the central Inc.)[...]r 23 years. time of his passing; he was a longtime precinct He received the Silver Beaver A[...]years committeeman on Scobey's west side. as representative to the National Council of Boy Scouts of America for[...]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 basketball tournament by having a team in this tourney. Reid and Edith had four c[...]who lost his life in Vietnam in December 1968 had a daughter, Wendi Jo. Reid Jr. was 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[...] |
| [...]One Sunday afternoon a gentleman from Canada was in[...]he wanted a pair of shoes - a certain kind, no other. Ralph[...]came down and opened the store. "I want a french toe, size 7-A, in maroon," the man requested. "We'll take a look,"[...]if he had a pair like that in black, too. He got them.[...]One of the most painful things to Mr. Greengard was if someone 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[...]customer had gone out, unidentified, that the item requested could be discovered in stock - -perhaps in the[...]A crony of Mr. Greengard's salad days, the late Jac[...]crowded store: "We'll have to rip-rap the aisles, or[...]Mr. Greengard had a great variety of interests, and he kept[...]etc.,all in addition to his abiding interests in politics,[...]recognition and he was slated to be a Montana delegate to[...]lph ·location was at long last available for him to buy, after Greengard. He was the most well-read p[...]own way he was planning community and his library is the most exten!3ive of any substantial renovation[...]well, and his bedisde The name Greengard was an Americanization of the light was on usually until[...]uaintances 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. phrase of his was "The best is poor enough." Every day was a full and interesting one for Ralph His personal filing system was a mystery of ordered Greengard. His garden was alwa[...]information needed on almost any subject, served as the pianist for many years; was a member of the particularly in regard to the Scobey community, hfl could American Legion A[...]valuable information or evidence. "See Ralph" was a Following the passing of Ralph the business 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 little c[...]f the store, or at home. home in Scobey and moved to Los Angeles where she Although gentle by nature,[...]d remains at the present time. he had the courage to "stand up and be counted" in matters[...]STORE The Greengard store in Scobey always had a reputation PAUL AND MYRNA GR[...]Written by Paul Gribble a few days |
| [...]College of Great Falls for three years and was a teacher one year before her , marriage. She has a two and a half year old daughter and resides at Jordan, M[...]pleted four years of nurse training at MSU. She is married. Since moving here the Gribbles have[...]In recent years Mrs. Gribble was employed for a while at Ware's Style Shop, the State Liquor St[...]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 an[...]farms, Art and Bert. Paul became postmaster at that time and served until his parents passed away i[...]postoffice was discontinued. He served 25 years as Observer at the Weather Bureau and that station has been oldest son Cliff started[...]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 Community Hall that celebrated late 1930's with her daughter[...]1970. George survived him by a few months, August, 1972.[...]ining of the original family Minnesota and came to Montana in 1900 as a railroader. are a brother Harry and sister Alice of Great Falls,[...]gon. and bought lots in the new town, now known as the Gritz By Cecelia Hagfeldt, who lives in the first house to be built Addition. He married Julia Kamla at Glasg[...], Street. California. 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[...]Catholic Church. He died at the age of 69 of a stroke on April 28, 1949. Ernest L. Halvorson, born July 12, 1924 to Halvor 0 . and[...]Arthur William Hagfeldt was the second son born to employed by C.H. Wilbur in the Conoco[...]while they lived at Peerless. In 1952 they moved to visited his brother Harry and worked in the Scobey Scobey where Ernie worked for a time at Smith's Conoco, community for a few years. Following the death of his t[...]iking out on his own in father the family moved to Scobey in 1917 and he resided the carpentry field. In 1958 he formed a partnership with here until his death.[...]ny commercial, residential and farm Bert, known as Hagfeldt Bros. The partnership dissolved[...]them. This in the early 1940's but he continued to farm here, along partnership was dissolved[...]and in the Triangle area out of Fort in a lumber yard accident, and is currently disa bled. Benton, which was operated[...]ong with his Gina , and Kirby. Glen is a medical student at University of[...] |
| [...]Any history of Battleson and Company must be traced to[...]Minnesota to "try his luck" on the plains and prairies of[...]a town that was just being built while homesteaders were[...]grabbing land as fast as it opened up. Mr. Battleson then[...]North Dakota, to join the business in Scobey. Battleson[...]of 1917, and six years later contracted to sell Buicks[...]in 1927 Mr. Hanson Washington , Seattle, married to Karen Seeley from Salem, assumed management responsibilities when the founder Oregon. They have a daughter, Kristin. moved to the west coast in semi-retirement. Lynette is teaching in Tingo Maria, Peru, South[...]an University, Tacoma, filled 30's-a nine-year drought, and the years of World Washington. Kirby, a junior high school student, is at War II, sustained by the sale of farm[...]on married the former Janet Erickson of Peerless, a graduate nurse from Trinity Hospital in Minot. Eldon went to Jordan, Mon tan a to teach. He spent some time in the army and is now head of the Business Department at Shelby High School. He and Janet have two daughters. Allen returned to Scobey and enlisted in the army. After spending considerable time in army hospitals with a service-connected disability he now lives in Havr[...]inning in 1959 shortly after Mrs. DeTray, who was managing it for him, died. Three months later she rented it from him , and later bought the building. In 1968 a fire part ially destroyed the building with a great deal of damage being done by fire and water. Since its remodeling it is no w a n apartment building. Jean ha s been active in the Senior Citizens Center and is Project Director for the group. She has also been[...]by Jean Halverson A.R. Hanson and his son, Gordon[...]d especially the 50 golden years In 1917 it was a well-known fact around Scobey that if in Scobey where, as he puts it, "he came up from a flunky to one couldn 't find what he wanted at Battleson & Co., there owner and manager". He is now "mostly retired", living[...] |
| part-time in California and at a summer place near Glacier In 1944 I was ship[...]ational 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[...]t by artillery The long-time dealer 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 benea[...]ell, Dort, Star and Thanksgiving Day of that year and was discharged in Durant, Studebaker, Ov[...]Pontiac, Oldsmobile and even I returned to Scobey and went back to work for Battleson Pullmans are about the best re[...]d 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 in the Commercial Club,[...]Committee. Melvin Holter. We have a daughter, Connie, now Mrs. He married Mable Gra[...]ordon Myron Anderson of Peerless and a son, Thomas, who has a Hanson, continued in the business. In 1972 the Gordon degree in mathematics and is teaching in Wyoming. We Hansons sold the business[...]Romaine died in 1973 after a lingering illness.[...]FAMILY My outside work is devoted to my church and veterans[...]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[...]d 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[...]by my Uncle Art and Aunt Josephine, better known as Babe, to raise through my adulthood. Cliff wa[...]ervice in 1942. He graduated football 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.[...]er he was discharged in November 1945 he returned to here and went to work for Battleson & Co., where Uncle Art Sco[...]Recorder's office for a year and taught the Butte Creek School for a year before her marriage. Clifford Hanson family left to right: Father Henry L., Cliff and Lorra[...]December 1948. They moved to Worland, Wyoming where[...]they lived until 1950, when they moved to Billings. They[...]Cliff worked as a heavy duty mechanic for Cummins[...]At the time of his retirement in 1937, because of a[...]Lorraine was a medical secretary at the Billings Clinic[...]for ten years and is currently working for a degree in[...]West High where Kris will be a sophomore next year. Glenn[...]Glenn is employed at Foods Unlimited in Billings where[...]he has worked since his discharge. He is also a student at[...]Eastern Montana College. Paul will receive a degree in[...]1972. They live in Billings where Bob is employed by[...] |
| Northern Testing Laboratories as a geologist. Sandi is a receptionist at the Billings Clinic.[...]n September 1886 in Pilot, North Dakota. She came to Montana to homestead in 1910 in the Navajo community. E. H[...]d one of the best "Indian ponies" around, and was an excellent shot with her .25 caliber Stevens. She and her brother, Fred Hanson, used to have shooting contests. E. Helen worked in the[...]n the Navajo and Ma doc comm uni ties. She passed a way in February of 1967. HARRY J. AND L[...]at Albert Lea, Minnesota, 1946. |
| 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 |
| [...]ther daughter Mildred, arrived at Robert is at present working at the DeTienne Lumber the lit[...]ebuilt after the one was destroyed by Yard and is planning on furthering his education in the the t[...]ved, 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. Se[...]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 farmed for eighteen y[...]e should retire in the fall of 1945 and we bought a home in Scobey and lived in it for five years. In[...]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 Fred Haun was depot agent in Scobey from 1915 until in September 1950 again decided to live in Scobey where we 1948. He served before that at Chester, Montana where bought a new home. Mrs. Haun was a telegrapher. When he retired to move to California a news item carried this statement:[...]served faithfully on his job and also found time to be Red Cross chairman for 12 years, school board mem[...]LE AND BETTY JO HAUGO A.O.U.W. for five years, Masonic lodge secretary fi[...]wrote these memories: eight months old he rode in a Model T Ford with his parents I was born in Osborne, Kansas, a small town about 200 all the way to Montana from 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 Shawn[...]d, 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,[...]days a week on a commuter train. One day he bought a[...]ticket for one dollar and won $1500.00. He bought a[...]went to work for the Great Northern Railway at Grove[...]then resigned and went to L_os Angeles. The city was full of[...]rators and agents - no jobs. The Santa Fe sent me to a[...]in 1971. Cecil Marsh had generously promised that he would hold |
| [...]homestead about a mile from the Chester depot in 1907,[...]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,[...]ord, Malta, Bainville, and Plentywood. I was sent to[...]my pension, and moved to Burbank, California. We moved back to Bozeman in 1959. Our son, Carl had[...]by Montana State College. Carl married Ruth Dick, a first grade teacher in Scobey. They live on a small screage about[...]in August of 1902. She had a heart attack and passed away[...]in October of 1971. In March of1972 I moved to Lewistown,[...]Some memories: During prohibition a deputy sheriff was driving north of Scobey in a Ford coupe; it was 30 or 40[...]below zero and the Ford quit. A rum-runner came along in a Cadillac with a load of whiskey, picked him up, and brought him to about a mile north of Scobey -- then let him[...]One night as I was going to bed- rather late -the custom[...]and looked into a window; several prohibition officers were[...]in there having a party. They had plenty ofliquor; they had[...]confiscated a truckload of beer and wine. The truck was[...]a case of beer and a gallon jug of wine and went home to[...]At a dance at Silver Star many years ago, the sheriff[...]and Fred Haun attempted to arrest a bootlegger, but the bootlegger was too[...]was arrested for resisting an officer. At the trial one[...]witness (Eddie Burton, then just a kid) was told to state[...]the sheriff was doing, a:rd he said, "He was hollering for[...]recall some old businesses: Sam Burgess operated a[...]y good meat market for many years; W.R. Dodds was a[...]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[...]Louis Discher operated a blacksmith shop from 1910 into[...]the 30's. He shod horses and oxen. They put a band under the ox - had a pulley and raised the ox a foot or so off the[...]section. I brother Clarence. They came by train to Scobey and settled next worked at Waterbury, Nebr[...]in the Line Coulee community. Land sold for just a few Vienna, North Dakota; Norwich, North Dakota; Upham, dollars an acre. The children would run barefooted but North Dakota; and Chester, Montana. I filed on a cactus grew all over and created quite a problem. The[...] |
| [...]were poor married Wayde Johnson and they moved to California, fo r many years. The youngest member,[...]ed 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[...]Sunday. married Delores Ash, a school teacher from North Dakota. When grown J[...]mself. In 1927 he 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[...]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 f[...]Studio in Havre; Mary Ann (Mrs. Jim Buchanan, a lab technician who Florence is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools in lives at Lovel)[...]ed 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 1936-1937. In[...]rental purposes. Bowen building, where 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[...]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 Fir[...]Homesteading days all were neighbors and friends, a down to earth group with no airs or pretence. The Helmb[...]hair. Company in Mott, and Hub Ames had hired him to manage Her father was Cliff, and Teva he[...]Wilbur the brother. the " Mill House", and it was a good thing that it was large Mongst this closely knit group came a stranger one day, enough! However, all that room wasn't needed for long, one and al[...]ecause Vernon, following his Dad 's hobby, became a From the north country he came and every one knew, that photographer and bought the old Kloss Studio. Florence he was a son of a Homesteader too.[...] |
| [...]February 17, 1890, and emigrated to Canada in 1902. His[...]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[...]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[...]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[...]red F. and Tilda Melberg thoughts ever strayed to the girl with dark hair. Hillstrom.[...]and Bill came Belle Plaine, Minnesota, a town on the Minnesota River back home, his Arm[...]outh of Minnepolis. I worked in Minneapolis Again a Civilian his problems were real, win a job and a promise from lovely Lucille. One evening while parking high on a hill, a young nephew Vic Hillstrom on Frank. 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 Bill went, then soon they were expecting a Blessed Event. A boy or a girl, two or three or just one? Bill hoped for a girl with brown eyes like her mom. A Memorial Day child, Bill's wish had come true! an[...]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 from the nest as all young people will, so left at home, we have Lucille and Bill. To shower with good wishes in their twenty-fi[...] |
| [...]om Claire A. Hillstrom The Vic Hillstrom family . Left to right: Marvelle, Howard, James, Betty (upp[...] |
| for fifteen years as a mechanic at the John P. Snider Company. The urge to come west in 1917 overtook me, planning to stay a couple years only. A friend told me about Poplar and it sounded like a good place to try. I brought my wife, the former Mabel Rose K[...]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 heade[...]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[...]salesman. The firm never changing hands during that time. My sons Howard, James and Rusyl have work[...]cial award for being top salesman in the district that Harold L. Hitsman year. I am an avid sportsman and I love pets, especially hor[...]are looking forward to seeing Charles and family again My first wif[...]n E. Carney and lives in Helena, Montana. Rusyl is at Scobey. Marvelle married Theodore Johnson. S[...]nd Mary were married February 7, 1899 in Austria. A By Victor Fremon[...]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 He started in a shoe factory at a very young age in[...]Our family, Harold Hitsman, Eva J. Hitsman and I, an making shoes by hand. only child, Flore[...]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[...]Joe and Mary Holyk and grandson Jimmy We had a pleasant life. The radio was invented and my[...]rams. When I was in the eighth grade daddy went to work for the O.B. Egland lumber yard and a year later we built our new home (now the Waller Funeral Home). This seems so odd as I remember all the good times we had there. We[...]ng. There were lots of picnics at Stony Point and a small lake in Canada. In the summer there was Gir[...]raduated 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 fath[...]ears. We are enjoying retirement. Mother, now 90, is with us.[...] |
| [...]rm and whr n the new town began in 1913 he moved to town. Supplie , food and clothing were all purch[...]y horse and wagon and the round trip took almost a week. Mr. Holyk established himself on the wes[...]uth of the court house, where the new post office is now. About a year later he bought a building 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 H[...]always got along. He sold his business building to John Brayko in 1945. A house was brought in from the homestead farm and[...]les M. Johnson and the dray. The Holyk's moved to Battle Ground, Washington where they lived about a year before Mr. Holyk passed away in 1950. Joe died in 1952. The total number of years that the Holyk family has been Charlie Johnson f[...]ohnson Transfer upon his in the shoe repair work is 148 years. 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 purchased the former[...]of Main Street next to the railroad tracks and adjacent to Westland Oil Company. The office building is now located[...]with son Wayde Mel and I and our family moved to Montana from until her death in 1970[...]n Richland, Charlie Johnson served as a city councilman and was a Montana for ten years where Mel managed the McCa[...]Larry were two His son Wayde also served as a city councilman and was and a half years old when we arrived there. When the a member of the volunteer fire department for many[...]rence 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.[...]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[...]nie 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[...]d each the United States Airforce for four years, is now married hotel 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[...]was the busiest place in town, with all and works as a dental assistant there. Although not born[...]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 m[...]efrace from Illinois and Virginia. They lived in a tarpaper shack on the corner of the property sout[...]by Norman Johnson 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[...]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[...]ound our shack had been turned upside down during a[...]weekend wind storm. Our nearest neighbor was a school teacher, Mary McCloud. We used to haul water to our place in a barrel on a stoneboat, with a team of horses belonging to Luther Greenup, another neighbor.[...]went on tours for several years. She even got me to play piano in a trio with my sisters; that did some doing![...]We started school in Scobey in a one room school house in[...]We started proving up a homestead in 1918, southwest of[...]Westfork, where Dad and Harry Hansen had a store. We also had a store in Avondale in partnership with Roy Paus.[...]I remember one trip we made to Yellowstone Park in 1916 in a 1914 Buick touring car. The roads were pretty bad[...]the park we drove behind a four-horse stage coach, and could only go a few miles each day. In 1919 we made a trip to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where my dad had[...]homesteaded many years before; having ridden a bicycle[...]there from Hendrum, Minnesota. He worked an elevator there; that was the first one being built in Saskatoon. The[...]on to Banff Park. Another tim~ it took us four days to get from Williston to Minot, North Dakota, playing concerts[...]In 1924 we moved to Eug-ene, Oregon where we attended[...]Phyllis became a teacher in Daniels County, and one of her[...]Phyllis is now living in Scobey. She keeps busy golfing,[...]Dad moved back to Scobey in 1927 and continued in the[...]Dad died jn .1941. Left to right: Phyllis, Adelaide, Norman and Estelle[...]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 Scobey. Dad had[...] |
| 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[...]wn constable of Scobey. Those were busy times for a policeman at night in Scobey. Numerous speakeasie[...]Jones Family early 20's peace disturbances were a few of the professional baseball players, like Sw[...]threshing machines came to thrash our wheat. Orr Burgett In 1930 George left Scobey to accept a temporary position was one of our early day[...]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[...]ruit for the year, Juneberries and chokecherries, that is if Harry. George Jr., a long time employee of the Burlington someon[...], 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[...]g 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[...]ped when it hit the French lane. The Bryce serves as the Probation Officer for the counties of o[...]e resides in Havre with his wife and three had to tie a rope to the door knob to be sure you could find children.[...]had After the children 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 H[...]Mrs. Rose D. Johnson appointed to the job as clerk upon the death of the former[...]GE JONES FAMILY make a living at it. They moved to Louisiana where she[...]children still live in the Lake Charles area and as far as I prairies of Canada about 100 miles from here in 1903. know Dexter is still alive. Maude Preddy, also from England, arrived three years Hilda worked as a secretary in Scobey until she married later. They[...]ey started Leibrand's Service shortly after moved to Rock Springs, Wyoming. _ _ which he[...]ng at various jobs including electrician and them to Scobey bringing with them ti1ree small children.[...]oris, Hilda, and myself, Stanley. They settled on a piece of Air Force, juke box and coin machine repairman, and a few land about nine miles northwest of SL .bey. T[...]ed the radio and TV department from Leibrand's As we grew old enough to help, . ::ach one of us children Service and have operated it for the past eleven years as had our duties to perform. Dori8 being the oldest, soon Sta[...]and did some of the been in the Air Force as a Radar Tech for almost 15 years. field work. We all took our turn at it as we grew up. Bryan has a grocery store in Denver, and Sherry works in W[...]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.[...]P.S. "Muddy", as Mrs. Jones was affectionately called, was[...]to Scobey in 1913. He and Floyd Working operated a pool[...]The family moved to Salem, Oregon. There he was[...]GLENN JONES My mother and father came to Montana from Minnesota to homestead. They came via rail in 1910. After a rather unsuccessful attempt at farming near Culbertson they moved to Scobey where my mother operated the telephone office from 1914 to 1919. My father was with a mercantile company at that time. From 1920 unto 1943 they operated the Jones Cafe. In 1943 they sold their business and retired to San Francisco where they joined their daughter Marjorie (Mrs. Carl A. Brookhauser). Kathryn, the older daughter, res[...]and Esther Kahn, who came to the United States. Mike came to Daniels County in 1925. He owned and operated a cleaning and tailoring shop until his retirement[...]He was a member of the Elks Lodge in Williston, Nor[...] |
| [...]era 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 public school this country around the turn of the century. He had music and now manages a music store in Boulder, homesteaded near Willisto[...]olorado. The Quentin Karlsruds have two children, a girl in Scobey in 1916. He also had worked on the building of and a boy. the Great Northern Railroad into Montana. He was Peter Karlsrud was a leader in his community all associated with the F[...]ife in Scobey; he had been school board beginning as well as farming near Scobey many years on a president, lay leader of the Lutheran Church, a Mason and homestead. active in a number of civic charitable undertakings.[...]yoming, and in Cheyenne, Wyoming before returning to Scobey as High School Principal. She took an active part in[...]Church. She had early proved up on a homestead near 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[...]by C.A.H. Claudine Kessler, born June 18, 1889, came to Fife Lake, Edmond Karlsruds Mrs. Karlsrud came to the Scobey area as a teacher and |
| [...]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[...]r Dave Pomerleau, my brother. It was at this time that I met him. In 1915 Carl came to Scobey and worked as a bartender in the Smith' and Boyd Saloon, the 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 in the saloon 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 parts; they lived one step ahead of the law. In 1915, about a year before we were married, a trouble-maker came into the saloon and began quarreling with Frank Chapin, another patron. As the quarrel progressed the men went outside, Chap[...]gster through the back. The buildings still stand as they did then, with a space of four or five feet between them. (Maxine[...]and shot Chap~n before he could cross the street to safety. His was Carl Kilgore[...]carry its money to the bank ih clothesbaskets, the large |
| [...]rooms are as they were then except for the necessary[...]bought the lot to the north, now owned by H.arold Skerritt,[...]I recall an incident that proved amusing to everyone except myself. Girls always had a "hope chest" consisting[...]my personal things, clothing, etc. I had gotten a large wooden crate from P.E. Johnson, a storekeeper in Medicine Lake, to pack my things in. Somehow the store label was[...]but was delivered back to the store in Medicine Lake. The[...]had a good laugh but me.[...]Scobey turned out to big them goodbye at the depot, the[...]train leaving here at 5 A.M.[...]signed. Everybody turned out with an old dishpan or pail and a stick or something to celebrate by making noise. It[...]a partner with Lou Boyd. About this time the prohib[...]into a pool-hall and ice cream parlor, also selling cand[...]gum, etc. Later Boyd sold his share to Tom Conboy. A high[...]In those times John Reiner had a bakery and I think bread was 6¢ a loaf--delicious bread, too. Eggs were 6¢ a Doug Kilgore dozen, butter 15¢ a pound, and I remember paying 20¢ a[...]Carl purchased a liquor license and operated Carl's Tavern It was here also that my father acquired the nickname of until he sold the business to Doug. Doug sold it a few years "Joe Poof'' because of his way of expressing himself when later to Maxine and Arles Baldry. The building, however,[...]was Stephens and Griffith. stayed with him, even to receiving mail addressed to "Joe I recall the years past when the townspeople were not so Poof". This is an incident that Doctor McDaniel well rushed and organized--a time when there were several remembered many yea[...]'s annual chicken dinner, Plentywood, Montana by a pioneer priest, Father John the Lutheran[...]ing, 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.[...]ass in the Rex Theatre. Catholic Church added a basement hall and recreation The present Catholi[...]ich was used for many years for these functions. that time.[...]kitchen. Also in the years. kitchen stood a large water barrel, where water was M[...]in 1916 and built the house just delivered once a week by the drayman with his horse- north of us. He and his brother-in-law, Chapin, had a drawn wagon in summer and horse-drawn sleigh in winter. general store. I once bought a large mixing bowl there for This was 50¢ a barrel. Drinking water was delivered daily 15¢. I have it yet. for 5¢ a pail.[...]built and Ii ved in the corner · Our lights at that time were kerosene lamps, which had house across Main Street from us. to be filled and cleaned every day and the wicks trimmed. Other neighbors were the Savageaus. He was a After the smoked-up glass chimney was washed and dried, blacksmith here, as was another old friend, Tom Smith. we polished it with a page from a Sears-Roebuck catalog. They each h~<! one son[...]sweeter than the sound of the Also a neighbor was Walt Williams, an early-day barber teakettle sizzling at the back o[...]Water with ab, dutiful voice, who contributed a lot of his talent for barrel, teakettle, and all[...]edding, by friends and neighbors who had had a boarding-house known as The Mill House, which still strung red he[...] |
| They had a second-hand store; also had a hotel where the Monte attended school in[...]raduated from court house now stands. He was also a painter. business college in Rapi[...]Fried Chicken in Rapid City the Eco no Lumberyard is now. There was a fire there once as assistant manager. Monte married Karen Purrington[...]. Monte Harris, was where Celia Richardson's home is now. still with Kentucky Fried and Karen with Anthony's. Nearby, O.B. Eglund, had a lumberyard. Mitchell at[...]ed, and the town has grown. I Missoula. His major is in drama. He is presently employed have many memories, some happy, some sad; but I feel at a newly opened restaurant in Missoula, learning the[...]. On June 11, 1973 Donna Mae died as a result of a car Carl Kilgore reminiscences in a 1963 Spartan Shopper: accident at Polson, Montana. She had completed her Carl recalls an amusing episode that stemmed from a · sophomore year of high school. long evening of[...]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 t[...]rom his dad's whatever else cowboys were supposed to talk about over pickup battery. their beer. Among the attentive listeners that evening was Lisa will be in the fifth grade this coming year. She is a a prominent rancher of the area by the name of Tom member of the Girl Scouts and also is on the Scobey Swim Bullman. Desperately in need of cowboys and feeling that Team. he had fallen into a bonanza of skill and knowledge, Tom On N[...]moved 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 problems of a loose cinch, snakey horse, long stirrup, lack of[...]er 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 in Coleraine, Minnesota, "This will be limited if there happened to be a stranger in the bar. another Chicago." Ol[...]there because I am on my way." Much to the consternation[...]of their parents, the Otto Kings moved to Montana. DON KINCANNON FAMILY[...]teaching school, a position for which she had the college On Novem[...]incannon left his degree but not the inclination. That, as much as anything, 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 als[...]mechanic with the Erickstein Motor Company. After a Years later Olga would report in horror that they charged short stay in Scobey Don made the acquaintance of a as much as a dollar a pound for coffee. Little did she know young Fraul[...]yn 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,[...]ned forces in setting up the Farmers Oil Stanley, a baby who died shortly after birth, and Lisa.[...]ut Daniels and northern Don and Irene purchased a home in Sidney and Valley Counties. The headquarters remained standing at proceeded to make it their family home for the years to least a decade longer than minim um safety standards come[...]might have allowed, and it is hard to believe at one time in In November 1966 Don and[...]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 worked as a shop fore man for Stedje Brothers Ford consuming responsibility of "checking barrels", a task Tractor New Holland at Ronan and Irene worke[...]Amidst all of this activity Otto King served as mayor of Dakota and Denver, Colorado. He worked on construction Scobey, was the first dad to serve as president of the Scobey and as a contract painter in Colorado and Florida and P.T.A., was a very enthusiastic Mason and Shriner, rarely presently is employed as a carpenter in Scobey. missed a Lions Club meeting, golfed regularly (an[...] |
| 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 ser[...]the grand manner of 1975. 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[...]girls, preparing some of the best food served in a vast area, playing cards when she had the opportunity--be it bridge, cribbage, rummy or whatever. She and Mrs. Burley Bowler, Sr. took a walk daily out to the Mason Hill south of Scobey. The two of them in the summer also managed a daily golf game--sometimes carrying a single club rather than burdening themselves with 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[...]ng machine with the proper attitude. Olga was not a joiner, and in the organizations she could not escape, her enthusiasm did not run rampant. As a mother and wife she (Mrs. Cliff Hanson) d[...]Babe was unexcelled. Olga died on July 25, 1949, a blow from Holyk), Scobey. Charles, (Bill[...]ed 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 joy[...]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 t[...]Francis and Mildred. Mildred was the only one that came In May, 1958, Otto King suffered a severe stroke, leaving with her parents to Scobey. Irene was married and was him without his[...]rancis was working in not until December 23, 1958 that he was allowed the final[...]hs. Mr. and Mrs. Kloss and Mildred came to Scobey from[...]photo and bakery business. Previous to coming to North[...]he had done mason work along with his ph9to studio. He THE THOMAS MARTIN KITTOCK FAMILY was a very versatile man. He at one time, along with a[...]me from Delano, After being in Scobey a while he eventually opened Minne::;ota to Poplar, Montana. His father Pete Kittock[...]he war years were hard on everyone They needed a section foreman in Scobey in 1912 so as you old timers can well remember. Prices, as now, were Tom became the first section foreman an[...]oatmeal flour that Mother used for baking bread. That One of the interesting things Tom did while se[...]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[...]arried Ann Krueger from ever forget that? Delano, Minnesota. She has remained in Scobey ever Mr. Kloss didn't have much to lose, but what little he did since.[...]have went bang! But that didn't discourage him. He There were seven children in the Tom Kittock family-- planted a huge garden, bought two Jersey cows (he adored Fl[...]tables and milk and Alfred (Great Falls, Montana. A short note about Al who sometimes a pound of butter or so. Kloss being of sturdy h as continued with the railroad and has 40 years in[...]tarting with his Dad in Scobey on the section. He is now a down. Mrs. Kloss made and sold delici[...] |
| [...]Washington on a little two by four place where we have a few chickens, six sheep and raise a beautiful garden. We[...]Many a family picture and other pictures of yesteryear[...]bear the name A. Kloss, Photographer.[...]their family of four came to the Scobey area in the spring of[...]was a grain buyer, owning and operating elevators in[...]attractive that the Knapps and their next door neighbors,[...]the Ambrose W. Chapin family, made plans to "GO[...]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 D. and Louise Knapp Family-1942. Left to right:[...]Clifford left to attend the University of North Dakota. The[...]boys attended school. The need for a school in Scobey was apparent and a $14,000 school was constructed in 1914.[...]d D. Knapp. Alice D. Knapp's 80th Birthda y. Left to right: Fay, Esther, In 1921 the Knapps retire[...]and devoted their time to farming and ranching. Thirty[...]miles northwest of Scobey a group of men had "squatted"[...]on homesteads. When it was learned that the land upon Hart-Parr tractors. Mr. Knapp took[...]t growing community. Scobey Mrs. Knapp went to Helena to confer with Governor was thriving. Eight clerks w[...]neighbors. Jones was the manager until he went in to the restaurant The Governor prevailed upon the land commission to open business. Other clerks included Art Scarseth , Vern that area north of Scobey for homesteading. Shacks Wal[...]were built on the desired acreages, and this is where the Conboy, Maude Lile, Catherine Conboy, F[...]dered their community. Later, D.C. purchased a ranch two and a half groceries at the counter and the cler ks fou[...]nd raised Groceries were delivered several tim es a day with a horse- Hereford cattle. This was always known as the "Fuller drawn cart. Clifford, the oldest Knapp boy, was in charge Place", and is now owned by Clayton Richardson. The[...] |
| family loved this ranch as Coal Creek ran a few steps from After 19 years of teaching Esther, the only daughter, is the back door. Many hours were spent swimming in[...]retired and living in Scobey. She was married to Charles A. little stream; the grass was abundant and beauti[...]Lake, Montana. Charlie was the victim of a car accident in Opportunities were always avai[...]d and Esther were wanted them. This family seemed to become involved in married, and Scobey is again home for her. Ed passed varied lines oflive[...]the Democratic ballots of Daniels County As this history is being written the Knapp daughter is for County Superintendent of Schools, and she was duly filled with humble pride and a deep appreciation of her elected that fall, another opportunity was realized. pioneer parents. Although Mrs. Knapp was a Republican, she strongly Esther Knapp Peters Leibrand advocated that politics should not be influential in school systems. At this time the~t[...]chool several years before and I came to Scobey by train with my sister Anna who had a after her marriage in 1900. There were 36 one-tea[...]wo-teacher schools, 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 Superintendent of was so much wa[...]My sister and I crossed the river by boat as the bridge music in the Scobey Public School System. She also taught was impassable. A Mr. John Engstrom operated the boat several rural[...]Timmons energetic for over 85 years, she suffered a stroke in 1958. In who took us the rest of the way to Old Scobey by horse and 1959 Mrs. Knapp was chose[...]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 sh[...]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[...]y sister Anna later married Henry Stoven, who had a The early day home of the Knapps was a three room farm nine miles north of Scobey, now known as the Big Sky structure on Main and Third Avenue. This building is now Hereford Ranch. located at the airport. In 1916 a larger home was built and My second home was with a family living south of Four is presently where Mr. and Mrs. Vic Hillstrom live.[...]Buttes named William Riek's and son Hilmer. Also a D.C. Knapp was a charter member of Scobey Lodge No. nephew Arthur Scarseth of Wisconsin. Mrs. Riek (Alma) 109, A.F.A.M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Knapp were charter liked to go to dancing, but Mr. Riek, a large man weighing members of Prairie Chapter No.[...]ildren in the Knapp family. us in a Democrat buggy drawn by two lively bay horses. So 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 house known as the Kerstein School on the creek California, a retired navy veteran; Dorothy passed a way in bottom east of Whiskey Buttes as it was known at that 1965; Clifton of Denver, Colorado; and Alanna Cop[...]rs of many others. We had so much fun that night. A bunch ofus teaching, the last 19 of which were spent in Gallatin took a stroll in the moonlight and took out time from Co[...]e have from teaching. In 1973 he passed away from a severe heart been my good friends ever sin[...]While I was on the Riek farm I was asked to go to a Robert D. Knapp married Muriel Duplanty in Chicago, neighbor's to buy some butter. Mrs. Riek put a fifty cent Illinois where he was attending medical school. Muriel, piece in a gallon syrup pail to pay for the butter. I rode affectionately known as "Dupe"is a registered nurse. They horseback. We start[...]in the pail Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bob has been a practicing started rattling around; it made a noise like a "chivarri". medical doctor in Wolf Point, Montana[...]anced and humped his back. He was honored in 1972 as Citizen of the Year, and in 1973 I could no[...]best thing I could do for his 40 years of service to the Wolf Point community. He was get off rat[...]ll off. Mrs. Riek was provoked at served 27 years as a school trustee, and as a member of the not having any butter but Mr. Riek said, "But Alma, she State Board of Health from 1963 to 1971. could have been kil[...]Hilmer Riek and I went choke-cherry picking to Whiskey Idaho. They have five children, all livin[...]lo, 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[...]here were so many choke-cherries we Caldwell. Fay is a retired fireman of the Union Pacific soo[...]as happy. for Fay and Cleo, among them are farms, a motel and an I married Jack McIntyre in Scobey in 1925. He was a Econo-Wash. They are now enjoying a well-earned veteran of World War[...]8 grandchildren and six great- Dakota. A brother James was a jeweler here, also Fire grandchildren. Chief for quite a few years.[...] |
| [...]married Harold Richland. He also worked in a bank at Fife Lake, Olson, a World War II veteran. They have four children.[...]our children. Rennie (our He was married to Othelia Slette in 1919 in Glasgow - youngest) ser[...]udson died in 1949 and Mr. and his dog Baron went to Vietnam, and were on night Knudson, a[...]d for my sister Vera and husband , Wyvil, who had a threshing rig and a cook car. I was cook and Vera was flunky (in other words ran the errands). There were a lot of men from Minnesota, most of them Finlander[...]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[...]siness. I married Avery Knight in 1956. He was a very fine Max Kriuosha person and we had a good life together. My family and I loved and res[...]f him and have many wonderful in-laws and outlaws as A very used to say.[...]ose neighbors were Floyd and Rachel Harmon. Floyd is dead and Rachel married Otto Sorenson Max Krivosha - who has operated a shoe repair business (dead). Their son Don Harmon[...]e became in Scobey for 35 years, says that he never heard of close friends . We were Luthera[...]ethodist. Christmas until his family came to Grand Forks, North At time for confirmation, Bryce said he would not be Dakota when he was eight years old. In White Russia, confirmed, unless Don could be also. So we had to ask the where Mr. Krivosha was born, the d[...]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.A. building new land. In England he saw a colored man for the first dams and Chick Sales houses (outdoor toilets). On a cold time in his life, and he thought that all people in America winter night one did not linger there to read Sears & were black. " I didn't ca[...]thought that anything would be better than the life we left I do not think an[...]weeks in those days. not too pleasant for the men to be out, with a chill factor His father had relatives in Gra[...]dities work there. Max started school as there had been no consisting of dry beans, salt,[...]his classmates took advantage of his ignorance to teach We all came through fine and have had good[...]him swear words. When he was 14 he began to learn the it. We were thankful at the time.[...]Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient for some[...]nudson was born in Solor, Norway in 1888. He came to America at the age of 22 to work for his brother LA[...]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[...] |
| [...]Paradis who was a native of this community for many[...]years. The other boys married in to the Audet family, which[...]ain which took ten days. The Audet family took up a homestead north of Four Buttes on the land that was later[...]d by the one boy in the family, Emil, who married a[...]married Fred, Alice married Edward who died a few years[...]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[...]Pierre on left and Lt. Raymond La Pierre war as bomber pilots on B-l 7's. Ray as a lieutenant was ' right. wounded in action on a bomb run over Germany,[...]earned the Purple Heart and was returned to the states.[...]After recuperating he was discharged and returned to[...]Roger completed 36 missions as a bomber pilot receiving[...]to Scobey with the rank of Major and has lived here[...]since has worked for the navy as a civilian. Eugene and[...]plan to return to Scobey when they retire.[...]nitely natives of the community and will continue to be[...]We moved to Scobey from Arizona in the fall of 1963. I Seraph[...]rres Fiftieth Anniversary. Rita, had accepted a contract to teach biology in Scobey High Roger and Ray. School for that 1963-64 term. We had two children when we[...]Anna Marie, a high school senior; Eugene "Tip", a sophomore; Mary 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 Representative - in 1968. At large custom[...]rew, who did work for many of the present she is still employed there. 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 H[...]into the Honey-Bee business and in 1975 formed a Edward, Tom and Seraphin and a sister, Emma Chabot. company named Seo-Bee Honey Company. We had a nice The boys in that family married 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[...]three 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.[...]sons, Paul, Vincent 'and Alton, a:nd a brother, Axel, of[...]Among the early citizens coming to the young, bustling[...]wegian; Gerda's, purely Swedish--both hardy stock to add to the already varied backgrq_unds of the prairie[...]nor their families were strangers to one another. The two[...]young people, however, arrived as total strangers to[...]Ed had filed a homestead claim in the Pleasant Prairie[...]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, Alask[...]During the spring and summer of 1917 Ed managed to |
| [...]entailing long, tedious rail travel. planting it to wheat. Gradually rock piles grew on the[...]e continued into the late 1950's. acreage corners as tlie resistant virgin land slowly yielded. Duri[...]orses 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 E[...]n his Model T. Undoubtedly many In 1927 a third child, Robert, joined the family. Present a[...]1927 further marked a change for Lees when Ed went to[...]In 1940-41 he served two terms as mayor of Scobey, also[...]remaining under contract to several meat packing[...]travels related to buying livestock. During his years as sheriff the inner office of the[...]both town and country cronies. Back here in a strictly[...]and views, and played some of the wildest pitch games on[...]record ... all for the price of a cup of coffee which then cost[...]jailhouse a listener might hear the voice of Ed Lee saying,[...]arbitrator opportunity to practice what seemed a natural[...]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[...]hout his life. One of his favorite philosophies A few sparsely located neighbors visited occasional[...]ss." but Gerda mostly recalled the roaming cattle that brushed In 1954-56 Ed served as state representative. Although up against the sha[...]not care for the larger 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 night hours vocally. Having thought he was by then too old to begin to play the many been a member of a large family on a well-settled farm, games of compromise that are of necessity a part of state· Gerda was often depressed, lonely[...]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[...]8-1964. He was fortunate, for early in the 1920's a passing cyclone ripped widely known for his f[...], scattering kindling across the performed as a soloist at various local functions and prairie. For many years a kitchen table and chair and a performances. In fact, more than one old[...]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[...]'s public service his wife Gerda stake and unable to undertake the work himself, Ed sold raise[...]also spent a few years in the 1950's working with a niece, In addition to grocery store work, Ed began buying and Ma[...]er 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 served as Daniels County Treasurer,[...] |
| 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 representing all churches sang "Behold 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[...]rol, 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 a[...]wenty-one of spinal meningitis while serving with a reserve unit of the U.S. Army in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The surviving son, Kenneth, is a Scobey veterinarian living on the home ranch.[...]ciation. He died unexpectedly in 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, att[...]ollege and taught briefly in Montana, later going to Washington to do civil service work during the second World War[...]75 she retired 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,[...]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 presently lives in Great Falls, Montana where he serves as Montana Branch Manager of Northwest National Life Insurance Company. He married a Glasgow girl, Dorothy JOHN W[...]John worked as a fireman on the railroad until 1911 when[...]the family migrated to Verwood, Saskatchewan. A cousin[...]locality, and sold his-preemption to John. Going ahead of[...]ily, John took all of the family's possessions in a Earl Leibrand and Anna K. Jenson were married[...]ttle, Washington. They have lived in Scobey that he, too, might register for a claim at homestead land. since their marriage.[...]nd the children followed, also by train, arriving a Earl was born in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada day sooner than planned. She hired a team and wagon to where his parents homesteaded. They moved to Scobey take them to the homestead site. There she found John and when[...]two of his brothers heavily bearded and living in a sod schooling in Scobey. He worked on the west coast during a shack with a dirt floor. Going behind the shack Maude period 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 y[...]life with the strength of character for which she is Ann was born in Glasgow, Montana and received[...]Washington. Earl and Ann met in Mesa, Arizona at a built of sod; John and Maude's was a frame home insulated Montana Picnic in 1946. Afte[...]nked by sod on the outside. Maude tells of baking that year Earl went into the plumbing, heating and ele[...]were later pounds. One time when John took a load of wheat to joined by Ed's sons, Gary and Richard. Edward died in market he returned with a camera for Maude who made 1970 and Earl and Ed's[...]d's good use of the gift. She became a homespun photographer, Service.[...] |
| [...]markets, John went to work for Waller and King, local morticians, to become the official grave digger of the[...]John told of being involved in finishing a digging[...]assignment in which he was "deep" enough that he could not be seen from the road. Hearing a team of horses coming[...]along the road John raised up to call to the driver, "Say,[...]can ·you tell me what time it is?" The driver of the team,[...]road calling back, "What do you want to know for? You're[...]humor as he said, "Well, no. It's those so and so's walkin[...]around back in town that scare me!"[...]In spite of his dry sense of humor and liking for a joke, John was known for his insistence that nobody was worth much if he was not willing to work hard, long hours[...]children the idea that when they worked for someone else,[...]whoever it might be and however they might feel, that person deserved a good, honest day's work. Having given[...]years of honest work, for others as well as for himself, John[...]His widow Maude still lives in Scobey and is known for[...]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 We[...]she said, "This is as hot as Dutch love!" She went on to[...]ints which she her Dutchman, John. sold for a $1.00 a dozen. Edward, a young man when the family arrived in When Edwa[...]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 busin[...]cal. They had school. Two more children were born to John and Maude in three children: Gary, Ri[...]he Canadian location: Pearl and Earl. John caused a In 1959 Edward married Esther (Knapp)[...]hand 1970. Esther still lives in Scobey as do his children; both car in the area, a Model T Ford, for the huge sum of $300. sons[...]ecause Maude had close relatives in Irene is married and lives in Scobey with her husband and[...]ldren. Both sons are married, also, and live with to Scobey where there was a high school. In the summer of their familie[...]r back taxes, and the family finally settled into a School in 1925, and will be remembered for his operation of home cresting sou[...]is place the Scobey Rex Theatre. He married a Scobey girl, Janet is still referred to by old timers as the "Lei brand Place". Goss; and they have one[...]Helena, Montana where he owned and operated a theatre here some mighty fine potatoes were raise[...]John's arrival in Montana, citizens knew he is employed by Northwest Bank and Union Trust him ei[...], his usually half-smoked Company. cigar, or a chunk of chewing tobacco undergoing slow,[...]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 b[...]y vocally Pearl, the second daughter, is the widow of John Lee, still began cussing the Republicans, saying that some blinkety living in Scobey and is included in the Ed Lee history. blank Republican had stolen a part from his irrigation The youngest[...]erved in the United States him how he knew it was a Republican thief, John replied, Naval 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[...]shington in 1946. They have lived in Scobey since that[...] |
| [...]: 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 foun[...]story. mountains. It was here that John and Sandra were born.[...]ool Elevators out of Grandview until their return to[...]and in Nevada until ill health forced him to retire. He My dad, Martin Leibrand, was born to George and passed away at Daniels Me[...]1968. Ameilia Leibrand in 1892 at McGregor, Iowa, a brother of Florence lives in Scobey. They h[...]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 Gabri[...]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[...]dren, Bill and Marilyn, and In 1929 we returned to Canada taking a farm at three grandchildren. Corona[...]ence in Scobey in 1955 and received our across in a tin tank to take fresh doughnuts to the butcher citizenship in 1961. Bill married[...]ry they live 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 Superintendent in changed in the lniddl[...]Scobey. Things got pretty tough as the "depression" was coming Fred was born[...]n the building trade until ill health the fingers that got pinched 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[...]ar Shirley Lei brand married Anton Dighans, a son of Peter paper siding of our shack at Coronac[...]ied Florence Bradford in California. player piano to pay for our meager supply of groceries. He has three children by his first marriage. He is remarried Fred and Shirley were born at Coronac[...]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. ri[...]The Steve Levad family moved to Scobey in August, 1968[...]when Steve began his job as teacher and coach in the[...]Before coming to Scobey Steve coached and taught in[...]Williamburg, Iowa, and Linda was a cytologist and[...] |
| Linda has been an announcer for KCGM-FM radio since its beginning. The Levads bought a home in Scobey. SUMMARY OF BETH AND CARL LIND[...]from |
| married December 25, 1902 to William G. Lile of Gallatin, with a team and hay rake in the field a sudden storm came Missouri at McMurry, Missouri,[...]struck close by and she was thrown when the 30's; to the union was born one child Gwynetha. horses ran away, suffering a back injury which in her declining years was a major cause of her debilitation. It[...]editor. She learned office work and began to learn operation of a linotype.[...]went to the Leader and continued in that work for nearly[...]end, being semi-retired and finally retiring due to[...]were a number of things at the Leader she did would not be done quite as well as she felt they should be done; and her[...]In 1893 the urge to travel to America became too strong to resist and Torjus Lundevall, a young accountant, boarded Maude B. Lile a ship at Oslo, Norway.[...]Soon his banking days began. He was sent to northern Minnesota to open a bank in a very new pioneer[...]community. Mother was pleased but hoped there was a railroad to the town. There was -- a freight train so -during[...]the last part of the journey, we had a three-hour ride in the caboose. To quote Mother it was the shakiest ride she had[...]the virgin soil of northeastern Montana began to trickle to[...]decided to open a bank in Old Scobey. It was first called the[...]T. Anderson and Oie Bank and later changed to the[...]State Bank. When the railroad placed the station a 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 she Stai, Helen Price, M[...]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 relative is a half-sister, Blondina, belongings in it. During those last five hours from living in Portland. A half-brother, Patton Moss, an early Williston to Scobey we jolted along in what must have day farm[...]r more than the average share owned, with a hot, dusty June wind coming through the of numero[...]ust 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 independen[...]eanliness. 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 routine. Once when missing 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 when she a house from which they had even taken out all the[...]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 this that while working When we saw Father[...] |
| 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[...]box, water barrels filled and soon we were eating a delicious cold lunch. Knut Knutson, at that time a bachelor, had been the genie that had transformed this house to a home. His "batching days" on his homestead had taught him many housekeeping skills. In appreciation Knut was a frequent dinner guest at our house. Some years later it se~med that that section of Montana was fast becoming a hopeful "next year" area. Those years taught that the man with the most shares can accept or reject advice as he chooses and the same is true with a large depositor in a position of authority. Eventually my father was a[...]aniels County Land Bank Association and served in that capacity in 1939 when he passed away. They were the most gratifying years of his life for he saw many a hard working farmer save his farm. It wasn't easy for a loan applicant to request his creditors to accept one-fourth of the value of that debt as a complete payment. But those pioneer farmers humbl[...]plicants were heavily in debt, the Board realized that these people were not only the victims of the times but that they still had integrity.[...]the outdoors led him and his cousin, Edwin Yoerg, to stake a claim in western North Dakota. In 1910 they settl[...]returned to New Ulm in 1913. Alfred still had . a love for this western country and in[...]Alfred's brother Edward and moved to Scobey, Montana.[...]About this time there was a great oil boom in central[...]Montana. In 1919 the Marti's moved to Winnett where Alfred and Edward operated a grocery store. After two[...]not for them and the family returned to New Ulm in 1921.[...]killed in a hunting accident. Hertha Marti died in 1959.[...]Alfred is now 89 and one of New Ulm's most popular[...]until his retirement some years ago--he is 80 years old.[...] |
| [...]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 the McIntyre house. Christine D[...]ily moved The jewelry store closed within a couple- of years when to Radville, Saskatchewan in 1906-1907.[...]orses. 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[...]m 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 Redfiel[...]my home. Fifty-four Company. Jim continued to operatethejewelryconcession babies were delivered from 1924 to 1930. I didn't have until his death in 1947. indoor plumbing nor conveniences. We hauled water in a Jim served as Chief of the Scobey Volunteer Fire little wagon from a well a block away. Department for[...]e flu epidemic of 1918, only two pregnant to the early 1940's. Many a night in the cold winter months mothers survived,[...]married Chuck dressed and on his way to the fire hall to get the engine Herbkersman and lives in Libby; Au[...]Valley, California; Cleona, He also served as manager of the Scobey baseball team better 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 i[...]Plentywood. Many a dollar changed hands on the outcome[...]organized baseball as a result of the Chicago Black Sox[...]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 lived in Scobey from the[...]ess with both Old and East transported in a large cage on the back of a Model T Ford. Scobey with McCurdy Lumber and Coal[...]would cruise the prairies until they spotted a coyote, then he had been owner of the McCurdy Lumber Company at release the dogs by a spring door on the cage when they got Tampa and Dunedin previous to his retirement. At the time within range. The[...]s daughter, Mrs. Jean Belle, or "Mrs. Mac" as she was more often called, was McCurdy Brody.[...]among the first white settlers of that area. Prior to her marriage to Jim she had taught school and held several[...]and Jean, were growing up Belle was active in a great HISTORY OF THE JAMES R. MCINTYRE FAMILY[...]teacher's training was put to good use as she taught in the Jim McIntyre and Belle Ford[...]being called "Grandma Mac" by her Jim operated a jewelry store in Valley City for several three granddaughters. years after completing a course in watch making at the Belle was an accomplished seamstress and in the early Elgin Wa[...]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 partnership with in 1952[...]aret Margaret, the oldest daughter, worked as secretary to followed later in the fall, after Jim had procure[...]lfe in Scobey in 1940. At Jim had written back to his wife and told her that she the time of their m arriage Alfred was a clerk in the Scobey would just love the house as it was fin1shed in tan, her post office but a few months later transferred to the Postal favorite color - and it was, unpainted[...]last thirteen years of his career in Departmental is now Janus Street and served as their home as long as Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Retiring in 1970 after a they lived in Scobey. The "tan" walls were soon f[...]live on Whidbey however. Many of the conveniences that we enjoy today Island, Washington state. were not available to the early day residents. Oil lamps, Jean,[...]County coal burning stoves and root cellars were a necessity. Superintendent of Schools, Leo Lattin, until marrying Water was a precious commodity and was carried from the Jack Goss in 1939. Jack, an electrical engineer, was with nearby Smith well, a never ending chore (the Smith well, Montana-Dakota Utilities Company for a few years before[...] |
| entering the research field. In 1952 he accepted a position Chicago. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving as a Senior Staff Officer with Johns Hopkins University's two years. Applied Science Laboratory; a position he still holds. Jean In 1946 he marr[...]sda, 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.[...]DR. W.P. MCDANIEL Dr. W.P. McDaniel, a Virginian, graduated from Louisville, University[...]Montana dental state boards he stayed in Montana. That was in 1916. After war was declared he went to Helena and enlisted in The Bill Michels family.[...]rgaret, Betty. the U.S. Dental Corps. He returned to Medicine Lake after Front row: Meri Jo and Ka[...]ake they He worked for Solberg Implement as a salesman from prevailed upon him to open an office in Scobey. This all 1950 to 1962. We also operated the Dario Cafe on main hap[...]treet in Scobey for two years. In 1960 we decided to build In 1923 he married Olive McGrath, a school teacher in the drive-in cafe south of Scobey then known as Bill and Medicine Lake, after he had returned fro[...]ve-in cafe in Scobey. We Montana has been good to us, especially Scobey, the operated it for three years, then decided to go into a fifty-five hears we have spent there. business where we would have more time to spend with our Note: Since writing this, Dr. McDa[...]We have three daughters. Margaret Jane is married to[...]Scobey. Kathy Ann is presently teaching Physical DR. H.E. MELINDER AN[...]Education in Stevensville, Montana. Meri Jo is in her[...]IES then served in the Swedish navy, later he was a masseur on by Betty Knudson Michel Swedish cruise ships. He then came to the United States My childhood during the[...]iropractic College in Peerless comm unity is different from today's way ofli ving.[...] |
| [...]ren. 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 to[...]ith Dr. Collinson. This partnership was dissolved a few cookies with us, we spent all afternoon befor[...]ked them and separated the milk. My to Scobey in 1933. He has practiced here since, unti[...]when he sold his office building and practice to Dr. L.T. turns scrubbing the clothes. The hardest[...]was afraid we would get hurt. Ironing clothes was an everyday thing with flat irons heated on the stov[...]ce cream. Being the oldest girl in the family put a lot of responsibility WINNIE AND A[...]long with my mother if one of the children needed a doctor. I often sat up with the younger children[...]sed home remedies like onion plasters, sugar with a little kerosene in a spoon for a bad Winfield E. (Winnie) and Anna Moulds came to Daniels cold, and steaming the little ones with a hot bath towel County in 1926 at the urging of Bill and Carrie Lind of covering their heads over a big kettle of water. Madoc, An[...]who had Sundays were my favorite days. We'd go to church. Most homesteaded at Larslan. Wi[...]et ranch south of Flaxville for two years. It was a Sunday. We didn't always have a pastor. We usually had grand ranch to live on and they enjoyed it; however company for[...]families Winnie, having always been a farmer, decided he needed to then--so there were always a lot of children to play ball or move on to a farm of his own. He bought some land just horse s[...]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 t[...]ime school in front of the cook stove so we could be warm before he finally paid off all of his farming debts. He went from walking two miles 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 du[...]eorge Beeks were the of the time so I was the one to take over the responsil;lilities only two employees until Winnie became Chief of Police, a of the household duties. In those days children n[...]st accepted whatever came along and always seemed to have a good time just working. During my high school yea[...]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[...]r. 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.[...]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 lot of him. We didn't have electricity yet when I left home at the age of nineteen , so I never got to use the luxury of electric lights instead of kerosene lamps and electric appliances to make the household chores easier.[...]is week by car for Wisconsin where they purchased a home in Oconomowac, where Mrs. Morrow was born and raised. Dr. Morrow will live in retirement due to the condition of his health.[...] |
| [...]etirement came and from then on he spent his time as an attendant at Frontier Town until his death in 1974. In the meantime Mrs. Moulds was a very busy lady with their wide acquaintance of fr[...]nd dinners and card game~ at the house, and never a day the Moulds family livei\ alone--there were al[...]rs and brother-in-law sharing their home. She was a life long member of the Lutheran Church and the L[...]h in 1949. Magdalene and Patrick B. Murphy came to Scobey from Over the years Mother "he[...]the bank. After Dad's death Mother continued to manage brother's bank in that city. March 17, 1914 they arrived in the bank until it was sold to M.R. Kloster in 1951. Scobey.[...]Scobey and its people. It was their They opened a land office until they were granted a life. To me, Scobey is still "home". charter for Merchants National Bank[...]ing, furniture and fixtures. In 1928 Dad became an agent for the Westland Oil FRED MERRICK Company. He continued as agent for them until 1942. He also bought, sold a[...]In the wooded valley of the Minnesota River, a short these years.[...] |
| [...]y money for payments he was elected sheriff, an office he held for fourteen years in to the Indians of the valley---about $70,000---had not which people of this area recall that he made an arrived yet.[...]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 Ind[...]w 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-hande[...]ed over into action. Art was repairing a granary on his farm northwest of The Indians attacked the different posts, Scobey, a ladder slid with him and he fell on his head and[...]ust 18; Andrew Myrick was killed, shoulders to a pile of lumber and rocks about fifteen feet and when found, had a mouth filled with grass. below - h[...]d 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[...]d, faithful undersheriff and active Lower Agency, a week after the uprising began. bus[...]ath, many of the Indians were tried for murder by a hastily put together court that was convened at the agency and 306 were sentenced to be hanged. However, some sentences were remitted and[...]SON FAMILY 38 who were hanged at the same time on a square gallows in Mankato the day after Christmas[...]0. Nelson, Ira's brother brought his bride, Ella to Survivors drifted back to the valley, looking for Scobey in March[...]r they, at first rented and later purchased a two-room house by the marauding Indians; others had been taken into the on the south side of Scobey. A daughter Ruth Katheryn, camps of "friendlies" for protection; many had been killed; was born to them while they lived here. children had disappea[...]Hale worked with his brother in the store, was a deputy Myricks.[...]91. His father had been They bought a larger house on Main Street, whfoh the kidnapped[...]nother Agency during the uprising of '62 and grew to manhood daughter, Helen Mae, was born. Bo[...]ed the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania and is pictured with the great Jim Thorpe on a photo of that school's football team. The photo appeared in a leading magazine some years ago. 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 un[...]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[...]for various ranchers around . Scobey--always with a horse if possible. He never related why or how his last name became changed from Myrick to Merrick. He was found dead, apparently of a heart attack, on the sidewalk near Leibrand's Ser[...]s buried in the Scobey Cemetery. --From an interview with Fred in the 1940's. cc THE ARTHUR E. NELSON FAMILY Art came to Montana early in 1912 at the age of 17 from |
| [...]by Ruth Nelson Cawley A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE H. C. Nelson family. Left to right: daughter Lola (holding |
| H.C. established a farm machinery business which he great unkown lay beyond. It must have been a very lonely operated until 1912. That year the extra large county of spectacle--a load oflumber, rolls of tar paper and household[...]and the new county was named goods on a covered wagon, two horses and a cow, a young Divide with the county seat at Crosby. Mr.[...]of prairie. This lone man, Henry C. Nelson moved to Crosby, North Dakota. Mr. Nelson served as and family, was the vanguard of the army of"sod busters" sheriff for two terms or four years. As the state laws of to follow--invaders of the "Empire of the Cattle Barons" North Dakota allowed a sheriff to serve only two terms, he from the Long Creek of the Mouse River to what must have entered the real estate business for a while. During this then been little more than a cluster of bunk houses around period at Crosby a daughter Lola and a son Vernon was a corral in the Crosby country and thence west another born. In 1917 the Nelson family moved to Outlook where hundred miles or more into Montana's northeast part, Mr. Nelson established a farm machinery business. The dominated al[...]aniels-Timmons ranch on the Poplar River. Hoping to expand the business, Mr. Nelson bought the[...]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 th[...]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[...]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 1[...]Development did proceed on the Nelson homestead. A Daniels County Implement Company was sold to Mr. Chet hip-roofed barn was built and painted a bright red. It had Solberg. Mr. Nelson died in Sc[...]ine. two stalls for cows and two for horses and a hay mow. A Amanda Nelson kept the home in Scobey until about 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[...]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[...]the My father really enjoyed paying a great compliment to military services. The Daniels County Leader carried the people of the Scobey country as he lay on his death bed in story and pictures in[...]te of hard times, fear, boys receiving the honors 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 co[...]d fidelity. Vernon two years of law. He then took a position with the And now on America's Birthday 1976, it is with great Great Northern Railroad as a dispatcher. After many satisfaction that I recall thaf~y family was first to place years of teaching Melvin retired and now li[...]Fargo, North Dakota conclusive evidence that we love America, no matter how with her husband William A. Cooke, a retired member of caustically critical we have been of political even ts that we the production staff of the Fargo Forum. They have a believe 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 cre[...]rn in Soring, Denmark February employed part time as a salesman for travel trailers, motor 2, 1888. When he was three years old he came to homes and campers. George and Ann's only son Phil[...]nson, Minnesota with his family. Later they moved a doctorate degree in Psychology and is presently to Norma, North Dakota. His father died when Rasmus associated with a San Francisco firm as Corporation was a very young man and he took over the farm. Personn[...]ly Dad later worked in the bank in Norma, an experience one to carry on the Nelson name) live in San Rafael,[...]never regretted, for he felt it equipped him with a good background for a business of his own. He next California. They also have a seven year old daughter. attended a business college in Valparaiso, Indiana where[...]NDA quickly reverted back to the two finger method of typing. NELSON AS RECALLED BY SON MELVIN When he felt ready to strike out on his own, he borrowed[...]00.00 from the owner of the Norma bank and bought a My father and mother tied their two horses on[...]shop in Flaxville. 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 promising because it was a year of tall grass. The office, so he bot[...]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. He later had an automobile 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[...]to attend the wedding. Due to the heavy rains, several[...]Anderson, and in 1940 it was moved to Scobey and Mother[...]There were two children in our family, a son Harold and[...]"Dirty Thirties" he, as well as many others, got many grey[...]hairs, and may even have lost a few in trying to keep the bank going. For a few years red ink was more common in[...]barley, or whatever the farmers had to give him to apply on[...]_m ore important to everyone, and travel became less[...]complicated with the improved cars. It was then that Dad decided to consolidate the Flaxville and Scobey businesses[...]one, and in 1940 he moved his inventory and house to Scobey. There is no sign now of the former Flaxville[...]business as the buildings were torn down and the Albert[...]0th Wedding Anniversary - 1966 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[...]niels 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,[...]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 Nelson Harmon a counselor in public school system. The daughter is a[...]they bought a new home in Milaca. They spent a number of winters in Texas and Florida . THE[...]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 Sc[...]writing our Father's Scobey story my only regret is About this time there was a general exodus of his that he isn't here to relive again those early years. neighbors to Montana to settle on homesteads, including Henry We[...]his uncles. They all filed claims near Homestead. A in 1880. The family had a store in this community. His relative of John's relinquished his claim which John mother was a remarkable lady and instilled in her eight bought[...]children the value of a college education, a goal which they After a year at Macalester College, Minnesota John[...]Dad attended the University of Minnesota shipped an immigrant car of horses and machinery to and later was graduated from Cumberlan[...]e needed farming, and taught school near his farm to meet expenses. He went back to college and the St. Paul College of Law. John g[...]ted 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[...]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 extent, their new home will be amoni' relatives located in[...]North Dakota--thus removing the hardships that beset the pioneers a generation ago. The bride at least has pioneer[...]blood in her veins and will make a fitting helpmate to her[...]great event due to the severe blizzard. Mother's family Wedding pict[...]twins! They sent her sister Elsie to Scobey, and a nurse to[...]aunt has often remarked that some of her happiest Lebanon, Tennessee in 1912. He was attracted to the west memories revolved around her Scobey visi[...]ctims. Ira of North 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 have Theodore R[...]take care of the children. We have a wooden toy box Dad In 1900 Dad met Alma Marti from New Ulm, Minnesota made and one side panel is written "wood for casket while visiting his siste[...]atonna, handles". Minnesota where Mother also was a student. Through his I recall the time E[...]and sister Norma he kept in contact with her over a period of tossed them over the fence where Dad fo[...]- in a big tumble weed! Dad tells of the time his mother and Dad arrived in Scobey in 1914. He established a general Ira Nelson's mother were visiting their r[...]other were married in 1915. She graduated shocked to see their mothers bravely walk into the town's fr[...]Topeka, .admonished the men on the evils of such a place. A tree Kansas, and in schools in Sioux Falls, South[...]ved at Schell's Park where her father was her not to plant them too close together as the branches president of Schell's Brewery which is still a flourishing would have no room to expand--but alas--no trees grew and business in N[...]had two more additions: mid-winter. I quote from a preserved clipping from the local SkidmJre and Ge[...]responsibility of raising four young "The groom is one of the live wires of a hustling town in children and fear of what the future might have for Scobey Montana. He is a merchant having established a store in prompted Mother and Father to make the difficult decison that new town. Two sisters and a brother are located in the to return to New Ulm in 1924.[...] |
| [...]untry and at one in 1955 at the age of 75. Mother is 92 and an invalid at our time was director of the Scobey[...]enwood was working at the Richland Oil Skidmore is a lawyer in Labor Relations in Honeywell in Co[...]and Oil Company - at the time Minneapolis. George is a political science teacher in a Roland arrived in Scobey. I believe we met at a dance the Minneapolis high school. Elsie lives in Minneapolis and is first night he was there. It wasn't any "love at first sight" a part-time speech clinician in the Minneapolis sch[...]after my husband's death, and We bought a little house at the end of Scobey's main am a speech clinician in the New Ulm schools.[...]Theo Olsen Wright Two children were born to us - June Lucille Olsen, who chose a musical career - and "Buzz" D.R. Olsen, an[...]left Scobey Roland did government work that took him to[...]nd Seattle. Just before he died he went back into a ROLAND AND VICTORIA OLSEN bank as cashier in Granite Falls, Washington.[...]Roland Olsen 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[...]by Signa~J ohnson Minneapolis. Having a musical background he was placed in the band and[...]during his stay Dr. William Olson came to Scobey in 1910. He bought in the army.[...]some land near his brother's farm near a small village called Julian. There he built a one-room shack, began his[...]first dental practice and did a hangup business! In 1912 he moved to Scobey, bought a five-room house, had the two front rooms as the dental office and reception room, with[...]g q~arters in the rear. There were rooms upstairs that were occupied by a Dr. Hanley for some time.[...]Emma, came to Scobey to help Dr. Olson as dental[...]E. Johnson, who was a dentist in Chicago, died in 1912.[...]t in the army being of short duration he returned to Ada at the end of the war. Mr. Lou Nelson, who ha[...]m. He started work at the First National Bank, a rewarding line of work for Roland. He had a natural aptitude for meeting people, and was alwa[...]he couldn't please them in business he surely was an artist at pleasing with his piano performa[...] |
| [...]perhaps) when one day four or five horsemen came to their home and asked if they could feed and water[...]in for dinner. When they left they gave Mr. Olson a twenty dollar bill. He did not want it, but they[...]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 a guy. I remember one night I woke up with a terrible toothache. I did not want to awaken him to pull the tooth because it was after midnight. He had put some medication on it a few days before hoping it would improve, but the darn thing just kept on aching so, therefore, I had to awaken him. I don't know which was worse - the toothache or his anger to be awakened at that ungodly (as he called it) hour. James Marlenee, Father of Lucy Parks One time he took me to a country dance. Those days by the time the dance w[...]s sister Emma (my foster mother) for keeping just a 16 year old girl out so late! In those days, at 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[...]when he'd go up town he would put on his goggles (as he called them), turn the soft brim of his hat back from his forehead, take long strides like he was going to the unknown. Dr. Olson moved away in the early 40's and is spending his last years in Encinatis, California.[...]HE "SKIP" PARKS FAMILY C.E. P~rks, better known as "Skip", was born in Indiana, went to Canada and then to Daniels County. Here he met Lucy Marlenee who had[...]1915. Her father, James Marlenee, owned 160 acres a few miles south of Scobey. He died in 1935. Lucy and Clarence were married in 1917. He filed on a quarter acre of hilly landjusteastofthe William Parkhurst homestead. This land is now owned by Mrs. Hazel Shaw. They lived mostly on rented farms until 1926. By that time Skip had developed a spinal 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 b[...]siness changed hands. Three daughters were born to Lucy and Skip - Eileen, Zelda, and Nellie. They a[...]een worked every chance she got, since she wanted to go on to school. She worked at Case's Confectionary, and t[...]rsity-Hayward. Her first teaching position was in a degree and teaching credential from California State rural school near Circle. It was during a weekend visit at[...] |
| home that year that she met the band director from vocal music scholarship to the University in Missoula and Peerless. Two week[...]ict band festival in Plentywood on May went to Tacoma and worked in the shipyards with her 10, 1[...]children, Clarence Daddy until Ray soloed as a pilot. Ray and Nellie were (Skippy), Lynne and Parks. Skippy, with a birth defect, married in California. While on his sixth mission as a died at the age of 24. Lynne, an L.P.N., lives in Albany, bomber pilot, Ray's plane was hit by Germ.an shrapnel and California with her daughter Madalen[...]d. After his recovery he Anthony and Vincent. She is employed in the Rockledge returned to Scobey and he and Nellie farmed the Seraphin Clin[...]ierre land. They have two sons: Kenneth, who owns a live in Oakland, California with their daughters,[...]ir-styling shop in San Francisco; and Dennis, who is in and Sibyl. He is office manager and dispatcher for Western t[...]ict for the past retired four years ago due to ill health. Nellie has been fourteen years and ar[...]and has been active in all community Zelda was a worker too. She worked for Mrs. Erickson in[...]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[...]grew worse, Montana College. 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[...]e still Ii ving on the Oie farm, returned to Scobey in 1947 and has made this her home althoug[...]Daniels County Memorial Nursing Home. were unable to rescue him. He had just completed the eighth grade. Donnie is a vice-president in the Citizens' State Bank. He married Sheila McCarthy and they have a[...]The Samuel G. Paus family came to Scobey in 1914 and[...]managed to bring their organ. Mrs. Pa us rode from Poplar[...]on a freight lumber wagon driven by Jim Johnson. When[...]- homestead was with a horse and buggy. If Mrs. Paus had[...]built of sod in a side hill. Two sons, Roy and Ormond, and a daughter, Viola, soon joined them. Roy is a merchant in Opheim, Montana; Viola[...]as a hardware merchant with Johnson Hardware. In the[...]Hardware. The store hours were from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Front row: Clarence, Nellie, Lucy[...]Sheila are both active in the Jaycees, |
| [...]Major Scobey, who was an Indian Agent at Fort Peck[...]years in Pasadena, California and came to Scobey via[...]the following winter had bought an airplane and hired me to fly with him.[...]We arrived late in the afternoon of a two-day flight from[...]California. My first impression was that it was cold; it was[...]ty nippy, but the ground had thawed. We then went to[...]The first thing I saw was a very large coal-cooking range.[...]My first thought was, "The food is going to be awful." Being city-bred I had always thought that food not cooked[...]a wonderful cook, the stove worked like a charm, and the[...]essed and spoke differently than I was accustomed to;[...]to learn that the people were solid citizens; down to earth,[...]Airplanes were still quite a novelty in those days, and[...]there were just too many incidents of interest to record. We flew just about everywhere as landings were no problem. A[...]road at the edge of town and taxi up to the house on the town square. We would land in a meadow near Eureka where he had a summer place on a nearby lake; one tim~[...]the landing was in Canada and we had to taxi back into the[...]into bad weather and landed at a railroad junction, and[...]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[...]but, we got it out. While with Mr. Ames, he owned a hardware business. The business is now owned by Gordon total of four airplanes[...]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 children: Shirley Case, Mission Hills, at about a 45 degree angle. Out near the Bear Paws the sky C[...]ta; and Ormond, Jr., sight. So I descended to very close to the ground to try to who was a victim of World War II in Europe. He was, at find an elevator or railroad station with a name on it. One that time, one of the youngest Eagle Scouts in America. In finally showed up; it turned out to be Lewistown and I was his senior year of high school he helped save a young boy about 90 degrees off-course. In Great Falls I bought a small from drowning and received meritorious reco[...]rt of Honor. have a clock either; and, neither did I have a watch. So, In 1928 the Ormond Paus family bought the Sara enroute to Minneapolis one time I brought along my alarm Griffith home, which had been a club for "visitors" during clock. The airport p[...]ches 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 the[...]ying suit needed when leaving Scobey. So I picked an Claire was chosen Daniels County Queen in 1964 when open spot and landed. A man drove up in a car and we Daniels County celebrated its 50th anniversary. Ormond chatted for a minute or two and finally he asked me why I passe[...]'t landed on the airport; WPA had just built them a[...]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 BURLEIGH PUTNAM 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[...] |
| [...]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 for comfort.[...]1937 I was operated the business as the Reiner's Bakery. At one time employed as an Aeronautical Inspector by the Civil during the "Dam Days" they delivered bakery goods to Aeronautics Authority, and retired early in 1970.[...]s in four counties. They sold bread for ten cents a loaf in Fallbrook, California.[...]Burleigh Putnam any child would want to visit and very patient girls to sell[...]eastern Europe (Margaretha and John Reiner) came to Montana from St. Louis, Missouri in 1916 to homestead approximately 20 miles south of Scobey.[...]John acquired a farm north and west of the airport. Due to failing health and no available help, in 1945 he[...]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[...]took over the farm in 1948. Also that year he married the[...]working with his father-in-law, Gus Waller, as a mortician.[...]trapped for many years as a hobby.[...]Jack and Carmen have five children: Mark, a grad[...]student at the University of Wyoming; Tracy is a mortician, currently is a student at P.L.U. in Tacoma - he[...]students at P.L.U.; and _K ris is at home. A SUNDAY CALLER REMINISCES[...]from a clipping in Leader |
| [...]int said, "Herb Jacques could drive wife, who may be known by some as the sister of the first straight, and so c[...]ere straight drivers. They'd proved it." Chisholm is retired after 36 years with the Internal Clint said that when the land was later surveyed it was Revenue S[...]nd his wife stopped here Sunday found that the wagon, walking-plow, red flag on the wheel, enroute through to Seattle where they have a daughter to plus Jacques and Richardson's straight dr[...]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 the Coal Creek country on land now o[...]rson. He also went into the jewelry business with a man named Hoyt. The firm name of Hoyt & Chisholm[...]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 firm. in 1934 at Scobey. Howard came to Daniels County in 1916 Chisholm recalled upon[...]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[...]ge furthered his education in business, then upon a career of service with the federal government, far from here. But a bright spot of his career appeared to be those few years in the Scobey country when it was a very young town on the prairies. He and Clint, 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[...]young and fancy free, and they took accomodations as they found them. Lodging in those days in the new[...]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 '20s a tar-paper shack was fairly standard living accomodations; cedar siding definitely a luxury item ... in any of the prairie towns, Scob[...]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[...]mesteaded several years later. In 1913 Clint went to Berniece. work for Frank Johnson at the[...]g now occupied by Clint and Charlie's, which only a few weeks ago underwent a substantial remodeling, one of several it has[...]rgone in the years since it was new the same year that Jeanne Oleson of Kalispell; Libby Baker of[...]d 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."[...]n, 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 got Slammin' Sam Snead, 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[...]nt Nemont Telephone Co-op and Jacques did it with a team and wagon and a walking plow maintained that position for eleven years. Schaefer's Tax snubbed behind; and a red flag tied to the rear wheel in Service was created during the time of his M.D.U. such a way that the number of times the flag came up could employment as a sideline, but proceeded to grow until it be counted.[...]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 chi[...]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[...] |
| [...]wn of Scobey, Montana. Herentedasmallhouse,anddid as a family. Howard was no slouch at the game himself and some freight hauling for a few weeks, then went to work for it was to him that the others came when something went the City of Scobey as caretaker of the cemetery, the dump, wrong with t[...]worn-out occupants of a second-hand Model T, which Nell[...]chauffered by the former owner as part of the bargain. NORMAN AND LAURA S[...]cemetery. Norman J. Scharf came to Scobey in 1914 from Gernin, In 1924 a fire of unknown origin leveled their house in the Saskatchewan, Canada by train. He was married to Laura southwest part of town, and Dan, Mr[...]lph 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[...]an 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: P[...]Craig, who married Ann starting with an old store building of unknown genesis, Jackson, t[...]k for the City of Scobey for several remodeled it as a hotel in the 1920's. Mr. Scharf passed years after that. Mrs. Scott was well known for her nursing away i[...]and mid-wife abilities._Dan Scott was a well-read, well- In 1927 Laura Scharf married C[...]his youth, but his roommate'.s experience with a went into construction and trucking. When they moved to resurrecting cadaver dulled Daniel's keenness for the Saco for a few years doing construction work, the hotel was[...]inquished it for the less-exacting life of leased to Dr. Collinson who used it as a hospital. Oscar Von cowboy-laborer. Daniel Norr[...]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 a[...]farmer in this community. As told by daughter Sally (Sarah) While working in[...]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. They buildings. He passed a[...]& Navy Store - handling only men's Mrs. Harris, an active member in the Methodist Church, clothing at first and later adding women's clothing to their passed away in 1964 in Scobey.[...]merchandise. Our family did not join him for a couple of[...]Around 1925 they purchased a general store previously[...]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[...]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 moved there by a Minnesota where, it is said, Dan wrangled horses for the Greenwood[...]illow City, where Nellie operated father added a glassed in porch, the windows of which he a restaurant and Dan had a livery stable, the advent of the bought when a school house was being wrecked. He added 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 spring of 1917 the proud possessors of an Atwater Kent radio. Attending a Dan left Willow City with a wagon and team of horses, and class reunion in 1958 I was impressed to see how much the after two or three week's travel, happened into the new trees we had planted as saplings had grown in 25 years.[...] |
| [...]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. Mr. Smith worked for a time in the Scobey Drug Store.[...]Later he joined the Continental Oil Company as an agent. Frank served a term as mayor of Scobey, 1927-28. He and[...]Mrs. Smith continued to make her home in Scobey after[...]in Great Falls. The daughter Helen passed away at an[...]From a clipping[...]Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England to Arthur and Sarah Smith, the fourth in a family of ten children. He was named My sister Eva and I left Scobey in 1933 after graduation. Thomas to 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 Civil Service jobs. Canada, as a journeyman blacksmith. He moved to Dad and Mother are both gone. All three of us a[...]Martha Baukman. They came to the Julian community[...]d northeast of Scobey in 1913 where Tom set up a blacksmith Back row: Dale Smith, Wes ([...] |
| shop. A son, Sidn ey (who died May 18, 1941) was born to Germany for three years. Now they are a[...]Gampp blacksmith shop from Faye is a Concordia graduate. She taught music in Norman Scharf. He continued in business in that location Washington and married Bill Bartley, a professor in a Ft. until about a year before his d eath in March of 1947.[...]y have two children, Erin and Tom Smith became a n a t uralized citizen of this country Timothy. on April 16, 1937. He was a long-time member of the Scobey David is also a Concordia graduate. He spent three years fire dep[...]Brian. They live in Lawrence, Kansas where he is a K-Mart[...]arjorie Solberg Loren is a Concordia graduate and served in the[...]National Guard. He is now the manager for the County Chester Ben (Ch[...]Treasure Title Insurance Company in Kalispell and is Elaine (Finkenhagen) Solberg, was born in 1916 at[...]a 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 ery best. He worked at Ft. Peck in '34 a n d '35.[...]in back row. Front row: Marjorie, Now a brief resume of Chet's business ventures in Loren[...]as an International Harvester dealer. This early busine[...]Marjorie Ellen Miner was born in the prairie home a t the business was sold to Ken Noland. Gerald Melena was a Ossette, Montana, went to coun tr y school and graduated partner of Chet's from 1944 to '64. Extensive remodeling from Opheim High School. I a ttended Havre college one has been done through the years; a new brick and tile year and was among the la st g[...]t in 1954. Later the old building was donated to the local rural schools.[...]ell harvest the rusted fields were empty hea ded. An yway we only General Motors products. T[...]en We Ii ved in Richland the first winter. Chet h a uled coa l from with us for more than 20 years.[...]pla r River; he had Scobey have been good to us and our many friends in this made his own ice[...]for five years farmin g , which seems to be his main recreation. We farm in before moving to Scobey.[...]here our five children place). We built a big display area there for new and used grew up.[...]Along with family duties there has also been time to Student. He was in the Air Force and they[...] |
| [...]yed working with the school and church functions, as well as the Scouts and 4-H groups; currently I am involve[...]ILY Shortly after World War I Marvin Sorte came to Montana and homesteaded in the Smoke Creek commun[...]d by Harold Hanson. He had just been mustered out a Sgt. from the 30th Infantry Division which was called the Old Hickory 30th, a Tennessee Infantry Division made up of either National Guards or volunteers. Some of the old timers recall that Marvin and Martin Fossen walked from Flaxville out south to stake a claim. In 1926 he married a local Smoke Creek girl, Bernice Lawrence, daughte[...]Miles City and Dillon. They lived in Richland for a couple years where Left to right: Donald Lawrence, Gerald Lee, Marvin he wor[...]nal Democratic party officials and leaders, being a state representative in the 1937 and '39 legislat[...]inuous member of the Scobey VFW post, having been a member for 41 years .[...].,,,- ,-. r .,. )'A, t ·. :::.·"'[...]current position is Administration Assistant to the Mrs. Bernice Sorte was deputy county superi[...]rian. Their Jim recalls that his Dad told him of numerous incidents family consists of four sons: Dr. Curtis, a dentist at Albany, in the early days--he was employed by Dr. Healy to drive Oregon, married Mary Jean Rucker of Plentyw[...]him out on calls. One time they had to start out in a howling have six children: James, now District Judge at Wolf Point, blizzard to a family in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan. With Montan[...]Brown of Kalispell. a team of horses across country--this family had se[...]from pneumonia which he treated with Washington, is a Deputy Director of Budget and Planning[...]survived--in fact Marvin knew that one of these girls still daughters. Jerry[...] |
| [...]stands the Trower Bldg., the front part of which is used by Scobey Auto Parts). In later years, Mr. Sorte was a trusted assistant and employee at the old H.P. La[...]enry T. Stagg near the weigh station in 29, 1903, a daughter of George and Dora Lawrence. She Scobey. came to Medicine Lake with her family as a young girl and later moved to Plentywood where 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 Sas[...]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 Hillstr[...]which we children really liked--it had a creek, or rather it following tribute to her: was a creek part of the year and a succession of small pools "To know a person like Bernice Mary Lawrence Sorte as the remainder of the time. People came from Whitetail to a friend, a neighbor, an official, a helper is an experience swim in the pools. That was during World War I and we her friends may well call a privilege and inspiration. The found we could not survive attempting to operate a ranch. work of all people eventually comes to an end, but the We moved to Scobey and rented the Olive Hotel which results o[...]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[...]en up, and Having worked with her has indeed been a real pleasure everyone helped with the cream and egg business. and a great privilege. Erma and Irwin left Scobey in 1926 to attend college in God bless her memory."[...]By Claire A. Hillstrom was still in school in Scobey.[...]After finishing college Irwin taught school for a year in[...]the Helena post The Henry T. Stagg family came to Whitetail, Montana office, carrying ma[...]innesota. There was five children. Ir\\in is retired and living in Thompson still snow in spot[...]hen we arrived. We Falls, Montana. Marie is in Minnesota, Erma in Walla were met at the depot[...]Walla, Washington, Roma in Scobey and Orville is a (Mary) Stagg, Ed Weaver, Asa Dunn and Henry Stagg (he bookkeeper for a construction company, so he moves every had come out earlier to find a place to live). Mr. Stagg had year or so, at present he is in Peveley, Missouri, south of St. succeeded in finding a place to live on the Asa Dunn ranch. Louis. The fami[...]children: Irwin, Erma, Roma and Orville, who was a baby three years in the Faith Lutheran[...]nd remained in Montana. Minnesota. A number of people then living in Whitetail had gone to[...]Stagg when he was teaching in Iowa. On the ride to the Asa Dunn ranch, just south of town, we[...]DER saw our first "flicker-tail" and were assured that he must have gotten his days mixed up or had look[...]by Blanche Stalder calendar wrong. He was certain to get stuck in the snow if he was not carefu[...] |
| [...]Elizabeth was seven years old and Billie Born to Capt. and Mrs. James Berry Stephens in 1871 at wa[...]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[...]. 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 w[...]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[...]n of Sidney, Montana at Fort Peck in 1937. He was an engineer at Fort Peck Dam. They have five children and now live in Palm Springs, California where he is semi-retired. Billie, our youngest daughter, ma[...]o, California in 1947. He has taught and has been a counsellor in the high schools there for many yea[...]S FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. W.T. (Bill) Stephens came to Scobey in 1916 from Glentana. Bill Stephens was one of four brothers, all of whom came to northeastern Montana in the 1890's. Bill was an early Nannie Stephens day cowpuncher[...]reside in Anaheim, California. They have a son and a[...]Althouse, now a retired Air Force Colonel. They live in[...]e youngest son, James Bart, was born in 1926. Jim is an architectural engineer and makes his home in Kali[...]Bill Stephens entered in to the theatre business in 1920,[...]taking Dr. T.W. Collinson as a partner. In later years Bill[...]Citizens State Bank and was a partner with Otto King in[...]The theatre business was sold in 1945, a year before Bill[...]family has lived th re; today a grandson, Jim Tande and[...] |
| THE STROM FAMILY Arthur G. Strom came to Culbertson, Montana on June 15, 1913, arriving o[...]innesota. He had graduated from high school there a week previously and determined to find his fortune in the west. He came to Culbertson to work as a clerk in the hardware store of S.S. Moen which was also a general store. In October of the following year a young lady named Mary Helen Hupman disembarked from that same passenger 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 time these two married at Williston, North Dakota in the home of a friend and business associate by the name of Gilbert Johnson who was a hardw.are salesman for the firm of Marshall Wells[...]Oscar Fryslie pictured. partnership in a hardware and general store in Antelope, Montana. With the extension of the Great Northern railroad to the town of Scobey and ultimately Opheim, the two[...]son in Scobey and the Strom family--now including a young daughter--moved to Scobey to own and manage the business. Later a third partner, Ormond W. Paus, entered the 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 c[...]ess was well established and it seemed reasonable to continue it there. In 1945 the son-in-law and[...]ore, and at the present time the third generation is operating the Glasgow store--grandson Mike who en[...]e Claire operated the Scobey store until its sale to Gordon Blomquist, the present owner. FLOYD A. SUNDERHAUF |
| [...]Y W. AND OLIVE SWENSON Stanley Swenson was born to C.T. and Inglein Swenson in Scobey in 1916. He at[...]The B. 0. Tande family. Back row left to right: Ruth,[...], Eunice. Seated: Borre and Marie Tande. Left to right: Stanley Swenson, Susan (Mrs. Gary French),[...]enson. In 1941 he married Miss Olive Hanisch, a school teacher |
| [...]and bought horses which he hauled by truck to North Dakota to sell them. Borre in vested in the stock market as[...]home. Ruth Alice was born in a house that served as the[...]The Tande's opened their home to the small community.[...]Tande living room and an emergency mastoid operation[...]A Tande reunion was held at the Tande home in the[...]It was a big day when Borre purchased his first[...]utomobile. Unfortunately the tires were not built to stand[...]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[...]from the store for a meal during the week.[...]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[...]rm which he had purchased. In the summer of 1936 _a[...]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[...]ghter Luella run the store. later they moved into a two room d welling--9'x15' in size-- Borre was blessed with a keen mind and was so adept at Tande next to the store tha t Borre h ad purchased from w[...]dd up the amount his uncle. Borre always referred to it as their " shack". They of a grocery list in his head. ' had another shack on land th ey were h omesteading, with a He was a joy to be with and made each one feel very few pieces of fu[...]was the post special. When his children came to visit him, he enjoyed master and Marie the assista nt post master . The postal perpetuating a custom from Norway by serving them boxes were rig[...]en mind remained had the store and the homestead, a nd h e often talked about with him until his[...]d times together", Borre said, and "we helped one a nother because at that BORRE TANDE'S FAMILY: ti[...]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 of an abscessed tooth at the Air Force Reserve. He ha[...]inois. Iver, their only son, was born in 1919. That year they Luella Burros lives in Aneta, North Dakota, and owns moved to Scobey, into the house later owned by Mr. and[...]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. Th[...]many years, and had many business gr a ndchildren. interests.[...]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 for a rich heritage.[...] |
| [...]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[...]the building committee for children: son Rod is in the insurance business as well as an the Saddle Club and has done the custodial and[...]wagon train beginning in 1971, and was chosen to[...]July 4, 1825 marked the beginning of a mass migration of Norwegians to the United States, exceeded only by the[...]Olaf, his five brothers and two sisters were a part of that mass movement, coming to America in the early part of the[...]for a year for a young farmer near Aneta, North Dakota,[...]who had paid Chris' fare to America, with the understanding that the money would be repaid in this way. Bob and Lil Tande[...]Chris and the young farmer remained good friends to the[...]him. He said it would seem they had just gone to bed when[...]Chris enrolled at Concordia College as a full-time[...]college made available at that time a course of study designed to help the "newcomer" better orient himself to[...]growing family lived on the homestead in a two-room cabin[...]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 second crop which was a good one.[...]The 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[...]adult baseball and in the cabin wall that had been a window. Old Nellie, for announced and emceed[...]threshing bees, with hammer and nails, put up a quilt to serve as a banquets, race meets and rodeos. Bob a[...] |
| From left to right: Lyder and Boots Tande. Back row:[...]with him the trip was a two-day journey. He and Julia[...]bedded the four children down on quilts in a lumber wagon, Julia Lien Tande (Mrs. Chris 0 .)[...]Adeline, Jeannette, Ludvig and Olga promptly went to sleep - and Chris and Julia sat up front on a hard wooden Chrts 0. Tande[...]continued on into Scobey and returned to the Tande ranch that evening, go1ng home the next day. The winter blizzards were of a violent nature, and it was routine procedure for the homesteader to burn a light in the cabin windows all night long, should someone be caught in one of these winter storms and need to find shelter. Chris[...]just such a light. The young couple were caught on the open prairie in a blizzard, saw the light in the window of the cabi[...]headed for it. Had there not been a light they would have[...]When Chris and Julia made the move to Scobey he worked for his brother, Borre, who owned a general mercantile and grocery store. Borre later sold his store to Chris and Ed Lee and this partnership was known as Lee & Tan[...]er the store alone, at which time it became known as Tande Gro[...]f knowing that her older son, Ludvig, an attorney in Plentywood, Montana was shot and killed in a courtoflaw by the defendant. This was in July of 1966. Ludvig left a wi[...] |
| [...]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.[...]aks, program. California, also married a pastor who is in charge of The Teigens have two dau[...]Cliff Teigen came to Scobey in the early thirties. He PAL[...]hter 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[...]ldren, Judy, Patty, Linda, Mike and Mary. In 1958 as a barber for Ertes Nash in a shop back of the, then, First they moved to Troy, Montana where they bought a hotel. National Bank. He recalls that there had been an early Cliff has now retired from the[...]s were mud, ankle deep. The town continues to work at the post office. They have 14 was full of[...]in Scobey in 1938. He worked around on farms for a short waiting benches full until early Sunday mor[...]Fred Tollefson was a resident of Scobey from 1926 when[...]he and his mother and son Paul came to Scobey from North[...]racing and was a great favorite of all Saddle Club[...]His son Paul was a star athlete as well as a great weight[...]He passed away September, 1, 1960. Left to right_: Marla, Eleanor, Palmer, Susan Teigen[...]D TONG In 1929 the shop burned and they opened a shop in the Edward came to Daniels County with his parents in |
| [...]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[...]Homme, had a jewelry store and watch repair business[...]a half. Edward and Thealyn Lund[...]ard has served on the city council, church board, is a |
| [...]years when we realized we could not make enough to pay the rent. One reason for this was that the First National[...]ank account we had there, but it was great enough a 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 building that is now Ginger's Bar. He offered Don space in[...]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[...]rented a house in southeast Scobey from Ferd Morrison a t[...]Frank Beeks, who brought it in a large tank drawn by two[...]horses. He came twice a week and filled two barrels. It was a problem to keep the water cool until we bought a second[...]We burned coal in our kitchen range and in a heater in[...]Later we bought an oil-burning heater. I was happy to have a house to live in rather than those dreadfully hot It was in 1929 that we began to look for a location for a rooms behind the store. I really loved that little shack. jewelry business of our own. A jewelry salesman told us Harvey Killian now has a modern home on that location. that Watford City, 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[...]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[...]rt time wholesale house of Minneapolis, Minnesota that my father clerk. My salary was $80.00 per month. Martin Homme did business with, gave us credit for a The recreation we liked best was a trip on weekends to beginning stock of jewelry. Don had purchased the[...]hmaking tools while at school and my father built a after its completion. We liked it very much to spend a work bench for him before we left Outlook.[...]m Mrs. Rose Gampp In 1939 we moved to the house on Lot 4 Wohler Addition. for $40 per m[...]ated just north of This house was owned by W.A. MacDougal, former Mrs. Martin Erickson's Woman's[...]r . doing business in this Woman's Shop was known as the MacDougal later on and I still own[...]thes Closet", which sold its stock of merchandise to living here our daughter Alice was born at[...]pital. the first time in over fifty years or more that that building Don died from a heart attach on February 16, 1954 at the has been[...]. The Gampp building and the building adjacent to it on About a year after his death I began work as bookkeeper the north were torn down during the 70[...]one Coop and was there fo r seven years, building is now on those lots.[...]Elevators, owned by m y My father came with us to Scobey and helped ready the son Ramon Trow[...]years retiring Ma y 31, 1971. Gampp building for a store. This we had to do at our own Scobey has been our home[...]gen us. My father had given us two show cases and a wall case reactivated the gun club.[...] |
| a Steel Behlen building for a club house, dedicating it to the Silver Slipper is another of his enterprises. In all these memory o[...]nty and Saskatchewan, KCGM after a disastrous fire. Canada.[...]One of his projects in Scobey is the Annual Spring Our daughter Alice has a B.A. degree in English from Institute, a program conducted each spring, featuring Willamette University of Salem, Oregon. She is presently national speakers with topics o[...]nesota. She was four years of age Ramon Trower, a native of Scobey, started farming at when her mother died, and very early in life she learned to the age of 20 with Bill Brayko. He also farmed hi[...]family. Donald Trower's land south of Scobey. In a few years time After she was grown Marie moved to Maxbass, North he purchased land of his own.[...]lived for a few years in Minnesota. Then, persuaded by[...]William's father, they moved in 1915 to Opheim where the father owned a cattle ranch. The Turner's home on this[...]ranch was a sod house, devoid of any modern[...]hours to establish a home for the family. Ramon Trower[...]Back row left to right: William, a cousin, Elizabeth. Second |
| In 1923 the Turners moved to Scobey to provide Damhoff who was to later become his wife. In 1950 the schooling for[...]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.[...]l, from '52-'69 after which he retired. He was an excellent Martin, Elizabeth and Shirley. Only thr[...]services there. In 1969 his wife Lin was given a position in Bill, Gladys and Earl were in the ser[...]y. Mrs. Turner makes her home still in Scobey--a good Their daughter Rhea attended school at Missoula and neighbor to family and friends. She has always been a Minneapolis. She married Monte Larson o[...]ung couple make their home in Miles City where he is needlework. Her afghans are works of art and many are manager of a jewelry store and she is legal secretary to a proud to own examples of her work wrought by her skilful[...]re until Johnson. She moved with her family to Outlook in 1917 he came to the United States in 1930. Because he had a and graduated from Outlook High School.[...]rother Chris living in Scobey he chose this state as his M.J. Walker at Plentywood on January 30[...]ms and after their marriage they moved to Scobey. The couple was work was to be easily found. Many came to see what known to their many friends as "Maggie and Jiggs" . Montana had to offer and remained to make it their home. Mrs. Walker went to work for Dr. Collinson at the Scobey Leenhert b[...]on farms Drug shortly after she moved to Scobey and continued to and learning new skills with unfamiliar machinery[...]at the store until just before her death in 1970--a worked for Ed Spear and Claude Tande a year each; then period of forty-two year[...]he was honorably discharged in 1943. He returned to Scobey area and assisted his brother Chris on the[...]-a _·:_::[...]In 1926, the same year that Great Northern began to extend the branch line rails from Scobey to Opheim, Leenhert made a trip home to Holland in 1947. He Maggie first went to work at the drug store. remained there until Febr[...], soon for the United States. It was on this trip that he met a was to leave for Opheim to establish a drug store. Alec and young lady from Holla[...] |
| and Maggie was their apprentice. She continued under a number of pharmacists over the years, as well as becoming head of the general sales department. He[...]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 cutter at Frank's Meat Market. During his youthful days, "Joe" Walker played semi- professiona ha eball as a catcher and centerfielder on teams in North Dakot[...]Ordean and Ronald Butch) came t Scobey in 1949 in a snow storm from Oph i where Al had been employed as Lena and Nathan Goodrich manager of[...]dean, Al, Larry. Al's Cafe He came to Scobey as an R.E.A. construction contractor. employed as 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 wagon pulled by a team of broomtails which played out south of Flaxville. We took the broomtails to a stopping place, then returned to the wagon to protect the groceries from swifts; slept a little in the wagon box until the kerosene burned[...]de Old Scobey the third night, but froze again in an old hotel with cracks you could stick your finger[...]miles northwest of Opheim; found homestead, hired a man by the name of Mule Nelson to haul me l um her for a shack. On the way into Scobey I changed my mind; I decided to go back to Medicine Lake. The first 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 nearly freezing again), riding in a well-filled Model T rear seat with my feet hanging outside ..... some trip. But I came back to Flaxville after Christmas and have been here ever[...]Margaret were married in Scobey in 1937. Ted came to Scobey and worked for Lawrence Marlenee in 1936.[...]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-dra[...]and helped in the business. There is also a daughter, Helen[...]. "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 Bil[...]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,[...]unty Clerk and Recorder for Daniels County and he is a Scobey and also in the Line Coulee area.[...]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 ex[...]eral Home with the county and Cliff is a School Board Trustee for School transportation fo[...]ct Number One. They have three children: Douglas, a A son, Dean L. Wolfard, by a previous marriage, student at Mont[...]and deceased in March, 1968, lived in Scobey for a short time Donald and Lori, both st[...] |
| [...]Janet Rae, married to Gregory Hanson, son of Gordon[...]where she is a registered nurse and he is a doctois[...]after a short illness.[...] |
| [...]Matilda was married in 1920 to Floyd Working, who had[...]me here in 1915. He and his father, Lyle Working, a Running the dray in Old Scobey before 1915 was[...]carpenter, built the mill here. They also built a good home Ohlmann. Later his mother and step-fath[...]rds and sold Browns, and his sister Matilda, came to the area. They wholesale tobacco. He die[...]he tailor shop, and the Woman's Shop. often tried to buy Jerry's four beautiful white horses.[...]trol, retired, Jerry worked in the tailor shop, as did his sister Matilda; Everson, Washing[...] |
| [...]on Jones In the spring of 1913 my folks came to Scobey via Great |
| [...]cuss as it scared the horses to death as it passed or met[...]Another oddity was a man who brought a load of hired[...]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[...]n box on it and really went commercial. He sat in a[...]the time I started to school we had Mrs. Woodly for our Killenbeck School - Summer 1923. Left to right: Ray teacher. They lived up on Coal Creek, a distance of about Killenbeck, Madge Morris (teach[...]seven miles. She would walk home about twice a week and Johnson, George Blanc, Verna Gebhardt, K[...]and Kathleen Blanc. kids would go to school and have a good time until we saw[...]he old timers will remember I can well remember A.A. Hames who moved down from Mr. Woodly. He was a very good sign painter. Most of the Canada and settled on a farm about two miles from our old bus[...]rademark, head of cattle and six or eight horses) as well as his drink- "Woodly did it". The last one of these I remember to go was ing and house water. This was a daily chore winter and the one full le[...]orth wall on the Ponderosa Bar. summer, certainly a most unpleasant job in winter during It[...]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 still live in this area:[...]also of Peerless. miles and 18 gates to Scobey. Nothing like cow passes of The winter[...]. · South for an oyster supper. These games were played with I remember an incident which seems rather humorous blood in your eyes. It was very important to win. As I recall now. This happened to my mother at the "Turk" store. at one of these suppers an uncle of mine, C.P. 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 them discovered about half were r[...]tten eggs and with it. This mistake nearly caused a riot, as the stew was we sells rotten eggs." 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.[...]e hauled past our school the rodeo was a fellow by the name of "Rees tow". I believe locked in a crate, one per truck. Truax's two new GMC[...]in the country at this time. stealing. There is something about hot, dry and dusty days The truck[...]trigued 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 4th of July. I also recall as a kid each 4th of July some of the were .interested[...]city fathers would set off dynamite. It made a terrible noise North Dakota and they eventually s[...]is land now. They have one part of the farm which is still Another amusing story I remember was told by George called the "buffalo pasture". It is growing grain now. As I Monahan regarding Gus Jenson. Gus farmed[...], Sr. was Truax's foreman. Creek area for a number of years and he also dug many of He was Ho[...]the water wells around the country and had a threshing There was a lot of grain hauled by tractor as trucks were machine. Monahan used to relate the day Gus got ready to not very plentiful. The farmers would haul about four start threshing. He said it was a very quiet day if Gus d~dn't wagons and grain tanks behind a 30-60 Altman Taylor have at least three teams h ave a runaway at one time or tractor at a top speed of four miles per hour. Some people another. Gus used to pitch baseball for the Butte Creek hauled from the Opheim area. This would be at least a four Club. He had one of the best windups[...]agons 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 remembers Gus compare these[...]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 of Thorson, there, a saddle tramp I guess they call them nowadays in w[...]ey,converted the story books. He was a familiar figure in this area. There his car to what we call truck tractor now and pulled a two- was also Wilmar Davis and Meldon Jones[...]cking horse riders. Another I might mention along that the trailer had large wooden wheels with iron tir[...]e was one of the think he probably hauled from 70 to 100 bushels of grain in best saddle bronc riders I ever saw. He could have ably this outfit. It might be added it caused many a horseman to competed at Madison Square Garden I[...] |
| [...]ey belonged for one year. This club has continued a stirrup or some other small detail and get disqua[...]eadily until the present time of 1976 but took on a new Leo was also a tremendous trick rider as good or better than name as the Coal Creek youngster grew older and dropped t[...]int Stampede and other wild west out. It is now known as the Green Acres Club. All of the Bob shows. He di[...]y children have been members, seve~ of the Milton an old stock saddle and a horse he broke himself. Too bad Fladager[...]mbers and now in the new area are G.M. Chapman, O.A. Wyman, Mrs. Frank Fouhy, generation[...]k Mrs. Alfred Hames (now Mrs. Edwards). There may be Hames, Delroy Brackee, among other[...]ve inadvertently left out. I was quite young to name a few, Lawrence and Florence Larson, Anna Belle whe[...]Andersen, Bob Fouhy, Milton never feel they will be a part of the history of the county and and Lois[...]n. state. If anyone was left out please excuse me as it wasn't intentional. There are a number of the second generation still in the area[...]s, some of the Kleeman 's, Lowthians, Erstad's, O.A. Wyman's and FRANK AND EDITH FOUHY FAMILY 1904 to 1975 Drummonds. I am the only second generation J[...]We came to Butte Creek Valley in 1913 from Canada, HISTO[...]as the country was thickly settled we looked for mor[...]ing land and moved to land west of Coronach in covered The earliest 4-H that is recalled in the Butte Creek wagon, dri[...]g in there and Jones, Bill Hames and Darold Jones as its first members we made many friends. with Phil Lowthian as the leader for the boys. Tony recalls In 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 acre of com for their first till 1913 when we 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 back of an old Republican truck more pasture for our cattle that were increasing fast. along with boys from other clubs. He also recalls a county In July 1913, Charley and Fred J[...]home place of Carl Hammerburg in about to visit us from North Dakota and also came down and[...]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 ma[...]s and Charles on running board. into the 40's was a girls' club known as the Happy Hearth and Home Helpers. Sophie Kleeman[...]In about 1935 Willie Fladager was the leader of a group ot Peerless area boys. Some of the early me[...]beef breeding. In about 1948 Milton Fladager was a leader of a boys' club with some of its members being Ronnie[...]ganized the C-B Club which extended from Peerless to the Northwest corner of the county. The ea[...] |
| [...]had a feed barn and hotel. Luke Murphy had a feed bar, surveyed at the time and the state pick[...]Albert Lavang a blacksmith shop, Efler a store, McCarthy but where people were living left[...]a cafe and Art Olson loan office. The town was move[...]). We brought down seven head of oxen and hired a settler,[...]into Peerless was Monday November 8, Tom Larson, to drive them. He broke up the sod, working[...]1925-with great excitement. Battlesons had a hardware from early spring till last of June. In[...]a hotel, Pauline Brockway the Post Office and store[...]e many other business places. We were in Valley As they had school age children we needed a school, so County at that time. Sheridan County was formed in 1913 asked the board at Oswego to_put up a school and they[...]parts of Valley and Sheridan refused but promised to furnish desk and books and[...]the county seat over Madoc by teacher if we built a school, which we did. All the vote of 964 to 358. community turned out and helped. Our first t[...]where the railroad had come in 1913. Later we had a post office in Battlesons' home, then at the Hamm[...]n 1915. We lived at Glasgow. In 1916 we decided to build a house, getting the lumber from J.R. McCurdy Lumber Co. in Scobey. We had a spring of water at the foot of a hill and piped the water into the house and on to 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. Ted Bales with our outfit-1917. Fr[...] |
| [...]We planted wild plum trees and I picked and sold to[...]We bought a Delco light plant in 1926 and put in a pressure pump and I had an iron, washing machine and[...]Pat hooked up to the powerline.[...]liked the country so decided to retire there. We bought a[...]ived there five years when Frank passed away from a cerebral hemmorage. I continued to live there until I sold the place and bought a house in town. In 1969, I decided to return to Daniels County and bought the Marlenee house[...]80th birthday last June with a surprise party given by my[...]children. And am still able to do my own housework and raise a few flowers. I have lots of friends and good[...]I have almost completed a genealogy of the Fouhy family[...]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[...]he walls. Christina M. Fouhy, was one of a set ·of twins born at Walter Warden was our e[...]his garage and He grew up in Butte Creek on a homestead that his Earl Vanee was on hand with a light plane to give rides at parents had filed on 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 the grades was in a one room hook at times so the neighbors could li[...]ls; was inducted into the service where he served as a machine Mary, who married Ray Kragness and lives[...]a, who 1s eastern France by mortar fire and after a brief stay in the Mrs. Richard Schipman and lives on a ranch near Glen- hospital he rejoined his outfit; at the close of the war he was dive; Francis (Pat), who is married to Anna Belle Bingham in Austria. He was discharged[...]Peerless; David, who was November 1945. killed in a car accident in June 1950 west of Four Buttes.[...]hool, which was in Walter Truax place and started a farming ranching continuous use from 1915 to June 1971, closing for lack of partnership that has lasted through the years. In the pupils. It w[...]ed this partnership by buying We always raised a large garden, chickens, and geese. out their brot[...]their farming and ranching and operate We planted a grove of trees and some years had corn ripen unde[...]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 community, one especially, a French nurse, worked in Scobey for Dr. Fitz for t[...]sh. I could not understand this time has returned to college at Bozeman for more French, but we got al[...]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. Vicki Jo is in the eighth grade.[...] |
| [...]Laurence and Nellie bought a home in Scobey in 1960,[...]families moved to Canada to homestead in somewhat the[...]In the year of1912 Robert, "Bob", first came to the area of Montana now known as Daniels County. He came with his[...]brother Frank by saddle horse and pack horse to look the[...]hillsides about a mile apart overlooking a big valley of knee high grass. This is what became known as Butte Valley or[...]Robert and Christina came back to this land the next fall as squatters. The land was not surveyed yet for[...]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[...]He later found that the puppy was gopher meat! The[...]istina (Nestman) wedding -1906. Back row left to right: Raymond Lee, Mary Kay. Front: During the years Laurence has been an active member |
| [...]. Fouhy, 50th Wedding Anniversary - 1956 Left to right, back row: Ch arles, Laurence, L y n[...] |
| [...]over by a train.[...]Richland until Albert took a job at Fort Peck and worked to its completion. He then went back to farming, commuting[...]from Nashua. This situation was changed when a new[...]rles has never married. He farms and ranches with a[...]Judy. He continues to farm and ranch the land his father[...]hey have four children, Mary, Raymond, Laura Left to right: Robert Fouhy, Charles B. Jones, Scotty, Fr[...]Terry and Donald. She succeeded Reese as Postmaster in A homestead shack and a sod barn were ready for the 1973. They[...]material for the sides Jeanne married Lloyd A. Fossum and farmed several of the barn. The lumbe[...]north of Richland . They also owned and operated a hauled by team and wagon from Poplar, a three or fo ur day bar at Richland before moving to Pacific, Washington to trip. In 1926 Bob built a big new home which sfll stands work in real estate. They have four children, Karen, and is occupied by his fourth son and family, Ernest[...]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[...]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[...]ter Clarence's death Julia worked for seven years as a draftsman at Fort Peck and Garrison Dam in North Dakota. She met and married Edward Bittner, a Wisconsin dairy farmer and has lived in Dorcheste[...]ALFRED A. HAMES Lavina became a school teacher, and after a few years married Homer Powell. Six children were 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 H[...]moved to Oxbow, Saskatchewan and then to Montana. His first wife died in Oxbow. From that union, Leonard, Dan, Well drilling by Henry Felti[...]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, Luella. He operated a blacksmith shop at Battleson,[...]sons also liked to play guitars, violins and sing. Alfred die[...] |
| [...]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 the doctor. Roads were blocked with snow a-nd the nearest[...]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 was an inspiration to the community, he always had a smile and[...]would always remember him with a birthday party and would make many visits to cheer him up but would always[...]Fred is a pastor in Powell, Wyoming. He and Ida Bess[...]an instructor at MSU, Alan, George, Ruth and Robin l[...]Bob is married to the former Evelyn Davis of Scobey.[...]Clarke lives on the home place. He is married to Frances[...]Marjorie is married to Waldo Fladager and lives near[...]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[...]e, Sylvia have two boys, Ross and Benjamin. Ellen is married to Ken Kjos. Norma, Mrs. Dennis LaPierre has two children, Camille Flint. Wanda, Mrs. John Morrison is living at the Glasgow Air Base where he is Recreational Director. Winifred lives at home and is a sophomore in the Peerless high school.[...] |
| [...]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;[...]old, 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 Whit[...]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[...]each family taking five huad. Oxen far out pull a horse and breaking the remainder of our Peerless. He married a local girl, Winifred Himli, and they farm was con[...]eventually settled in Spokane where he operates a Pooling manpower and lumber, Butte Creek schoo[...]in winter. It seems In 1934, I was married to Verna Gebhardt. My dad rented as I look back on early days in the area we had a lot of fun. his land on Butte Creek to me and in 1936 I also became Up until 1920 the[...]ger of the Farmers Union Oil Company in Peerless, a of Valley with · Glasgow as the county seat. The trip of position I held for 36 years until 1972. Currently I am Glasgow was a three to four day affair by team and buggy trainin[...]hey were few and far between, generally made only to the company 's bookkeeping. During my yea[...]niels County was management we built up an enviable record throughout formed, with Scobey and Madoc battling it out to see who the state. The station has a modern plant, handling would become the county seat. Scobey won. petroleum products as well as hardware, paints, tires, and The early 20's sa[...]No crops; no machinery. We never missed a year of paying patronage money. I guess 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 of our record I lef[...]30 saw us drop into the dust the company as manager. I have also expanded my bowl area where[...]hed out of the limited amount I rent, as of 1974 the remainder of my land country. During this period I graduated from Scobey High plus a cattle expansion is operated by my son, Ronnie, and School (1931). When I was a Junior, I lived at the Holyk son-in-law,[...]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 have[...]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 well for himself. He built up a good dirt contracting ity Club, T.V. transl[...]ion) with lots of hard work and have been a charter member helping to organize and get sleepless nights. One of his son[...]ough 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.[...] |
| [...]on staying if our health permits. We could never be happy any other place. We really count our blessi[...]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 chi[...], 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[...]eman family stayed Very few had families to celebrate with so they made it a with us. Later they moved into the Carbert area.[...]their baby boy died in August. homestead to the Horse Shoe Basin area. A tornado struck Mother helped many of the neighb[...]om sick with the flu. Later she took sick and had to spend the shack. Luckily it happened early in[...]family was gathered in the other room. An early remembrance of Nora is the time they had to In the fall of the year Dad would run a threshing rig attend 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 hor[...]enjoyed among the neighbors such as card parties, dances, Peter Kleeman family left to right: Clara (Mrs. Tom and much social[...]a (Mrs. Ted Rustebakke), 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[...]youngest girl, passed a way very suddenly in 1936. She was only a sophomore in high school.[...]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[...]town as a pastime.[...]In 1959 Mother fulfilled one of her many dreams, a trip to[...]she left in 1897. It was a wonderful reunion as many of her cousins and a sister were still living. To this unio'n seven children were born of wh[...] |
| [...]lee. so coming to Daniels County to farm was a new adventure Pete Kleeman's memories:[...]with. Married in April of 1917, He recalls that he used to go barefooted all summer long, Phil then.left for Montana in an immigrant 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[...]10 miles northwest of what is now Peerless in the Butte When he was old enough to work for a living he took Creek Community. They set up a tent in which they lived various jobs. He can remember shoveling corn to feed 300 while they built a tar paper sha ck. The shack was la ter steers, for $17 a month. He picked corn for two cents a moved to the land east of Richland , purchased b y Don[...]uling manure about two miles he received 10 cents a while the men were asleep, some range horses came a nd load.[...]rubbed on the window sill until one broke a window. Don He was expected to start his 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 he could quit for supper. 28 x 60 ft. sod barn and a sod shop. Anticipating the arrival "I was 6' 3" tall, and I would get so hungry after a day of his wife in June when her term of school was out (she was walking behind a plow that I could hardly navigate," he a school teacher), Phil built a two-room house a fourth of a says. "One day I said to myself: 'When milking-time comes 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 practice helped tide him over till Georgetta wrote Phil that she was arri vin g on the tra in, h e suppert[...]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 that long-legged devil sucking all the profit up!'[...]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 ventured[...]pushed the dresser against the door to keep out any[...]to town and brought home the mail where Phil read th[...]letter which revealed that his wife was at that moment in LAURENCE LARSONS 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[...]e Larson of set forth for home eating a picnic lunch on the open prairie Butte Creek[...]in 1938. at noon. Georgetta, used to the trees of South Dakota, was They first lived on the Ellis Jones place north of the Butte amazed that there were no shady spots 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 which was attended by Chapman, now Joy[...]ed by daughter 1922 the Lowthians had a son, Archie, who now resides in Peggy Ann two[...]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 a[...]regerson 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 on the farm where Phil first[...]rried Milton Flad ager and they have six sons and a Both children liked the farm and 4-H.[...]married Donna Slaughter. Georgetta lived a full life which saw hard times and good. They[...]Lois Lowthian Fladager Daughter, Peggy Ann is now Sr. Paula OSB a nursing sister, she had a Masters Degree. She moves around, but her home order is Sacred Heart Priory of Richardton, Mr[...]The good smell of creeping cedar when burned was a never-to-be-forgotten scent. One Thanksgiving, in 1922,[...]ur entire community, adults and children, enjoyed a real[...]down close to the schoolhouse. Many brought roasted[...]turkeys and kept them hot until serving time . A long table[...]re farmers, and with still some food left to take home.[...] |
| AS 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[...]b and wooden box, from By O.A. Wyman Davis and Sh[...]It was good, '17, '18, and '19 nothing, '20 to '28 were good, '29 was Valley County then , it w[...]t if we'd had spray we opened for settling quite a few settlers were here before it would have had a crop in '35. I had a little crop, but '36, '37 was surveyed.[...]an the office. My filing went then has made a big difference. to Glasgow the 18th of April.[...]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 d[...]ill March. This will give you an idea what we early settlers went Scobey was al[...]fred through, there were some good times as I look back, but Kiser, Fred Jones , and a man bythenameofSmith, hewas there were[...]ar. that is the most of us. Scobey had four lumber yards,[...]There are only four left of the first ones that were on saloons. These men I met were in to get two four loads of Butte Creek. Merrel[...]ona, lumber for the Butte Creek school , so I got a chance to ride Oscar Olsen, somewhere in the west, Edith Fouhy now at out. I wanted to get to Carl Hammerbys. I knew him and Scobey,[...]Creek was belly deep, but we made it. Smith had an extra horse along somewhere near Coyote Coulee he wanted to get him hitched up, he got his leg tangled up[...]m loose, later shot him. We stayed at Fred Jone's that night and I walked to Carl's next Jess Myro Slaughter[...]morning. I don't know how I got over Butte Creek, as that He came to Montana in 1910 and homesteaded near whole flat w[...]ontana. He married Beulah Motschenbacher in about a week. There had been a fire in the fall ofl915 so the 1917 at Plenty[...]loody 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 ,[...]he 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 L[...]s in 1950. After his death in 1954, Beulah bought a and I walked to Scobey.[...]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![...]sse 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, se[...]t 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 (Octo[...]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[...]hen 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.[...] |
| [...]Tom Holyk and Thorpe had a trap line. They didn't catch By Randall Thorpe and B. Christianson Family _ much. He had a 22 rifle they got someplace and they found[...]put powder in a bowl and then put some paper wads in and[...]tapped the end of the bolt with a pair of pliers. They tried Carbert store and p[...]out hard and it went off. It sounded like a shot went off and it of it. He started the store[...]combination. He made his mother scream and a couple of women across the had a son. street went and told the 'sheriff that Thorpe had shot his Randall Thorpe was raised[...]a and Katherine ly get the one that had discharged, but they got one just like Christ[...]not. The younger ones were it. He had an old one and gave the sheriff the one that born at Carbert or Scobey; Chris, Owen, Eileen an[...]ristiansen 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[...]nd 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 becau[...]so 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 ea[...]derson 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 never forget him for that. Here in Scobey down across the tracks there 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. Thorp[...]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[...]ere again. Coal Creek Homesteaders-L to R-Clinton Richardson, They were only 11 ye[...] |
| [...]These years were the ones in which there was a at the age of 37 with vast enthusiasm for the fut[...]ransition from hand and livestock powered farming to an area, two Altman Taylor tractors and accompanying[...]al contracts for "Ranch" where the need for as much machine work as deeds for lands in the western part of what is now Daniels possible was accented by a walkout of20 harvest hands (all County and northe[...]im break and sow several conditions after a 30 day wait for a dry up which included hundred acres of virgin land to flax. The crop was good and free meals for all of the crew. provided him with a partial financial cushion for the Mechanical application to farming became the order of development of his fa[...]Bennett's primary "Ranch", and sold, a "Gopher Gun". This was a long tube interest. He and his partner, J.P. Devaney, a Minneapolis attached to a sack of gopher poison. At the top of the tube, at[...]e and directly beneath the sack, there was a spring loaded Court of Minnesota, continued to buy farm land and trap door which could be opened with thumb pressure, thus engage in land transactions in the area until they, at their releasing a measured amount of the poison. This was used peak[...]se, controlled around 8,000 acres oflands by a rider on horseback to accurately drop poisoned oats at stretching from northwest of Scobey to Opheim. He the edge of a gopher hole. By this method, many acres of continued to break and put into production many of these gopher-infested ground could be covered in a day. There are lands the partnership had obtained, and in addition did still a few of these gopher guns around in the community.[...]uary 16, 1918, J.V. Bennett and Isetta M. Stetson as well as operating two threshing outfits in this area and were married at Deer Lodge, Montana. They established a across the line in Canada.[...]In the late teens and early twenties he built a farmstead born in those early years: Peyton in[...]wenty miles northwest of Scobey, the "Home Ranch" as a Bennett, Jr. in 1921 , and Gordon in 1922.[...]center for his operations. Among his neighbors in that area several summers on the farm and winters i[...]ding two those years, where, in addition to trying to keep three miles east of the "Home Ranch" buildings. Jim did active youngsters clean enough to recognize, Isetta helped considerable blacksmithing at the ranch in those days. cook for 20 to 25 men crews.[...] |
| [...]ett and John rains but the crop rusted out--- a summary of 1938 and the P. Devaney spent conside[...]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. "Person[...]hopes. Bennett and Devaney, the exclusive right to own , Planted and grew a great stand of grain, the kind we have subdivide[...]weeks before harvest, railroad line from Scobey to Opheim. the rust ate i[...]Four Buttes, Gluten (now extinct), Wheat is selling for about 45¢ a bushel ifitis good, as low Peerless, Richland, Glentana and Opheim. as 15¢ if it is poor. We have more feed than ever, but The ra[...]on 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[...]good year in the eleven past, and the county did a very brisk business selling lots in these new towns is taking our property for past due taxes. Roosevelt says we from 1925 through 1930. Old timers recall an auction at can spend our way to prosperity. Wallace says the answer Opheim where more than $90,000 in lots were sold in one is produce less. In the meantime, we are hanging on[...]ropes and betting that '39 can't be any more cockeyed than Jim Bennett bought out[...]p in the healthy debts were figured would be about $9,000. So figure it out atmosphere of a small town, everyone was healthy and for yourself. My head aches and I have a pain I can't happy, and a new member came along; Judith, who was[...]ly 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 impending[...]The expense of the move was paid for by a slight-of-hand Then came the infamous thirtie[...]d good friend, Ed Battleson wherein Ed gave Jim a current up and produced nothing but deficits; as a result of the dated check in return for a postdated check with the drouth, the real estate business of the North Country understanding that Ed would not cash Jim's check until Townsite and[...]d up leaving not much Jim informed him that there was sufficient money in his more than unco[...]tallments and receivable and bank account to cover it. In order to support the family and keep the farming unpayabl[...]enterprise as intact as possible during these years, Jim company to a limbo status.[...]governmental jobs: An entry in J.V. Bennett's diary for December 31, 19[...]appraised and purchased optimism of the twenties to the reality of the thirties: for the U.S. Government the land which became the " The end of a disastrous year. About everything but Fed[...]and disease, but we are healthy and resigned and as In 1937-1939 he was an auditor for the State of Montana we look back we can see a few things we sbf uld be grateful Unemployment Compensation Commission. for, but the spector of vanished life time .earnings is and In 1939 he became Secretary for the S[...]od Distribution Board under the Montana Trade A " Wonderful" year has just elapsed. Between seede[...]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 togethe[...]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 swift for next year. The average decline in stock[...]ed and visions of 1915 started to become a reality for Jim unemployment and with labor saving machinery. Think Bennett. there always will be; that or a six hour day. The old year is The family returned to Helena from Eugene in 1939 and dying and with it[...]idn'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 ed[...]universities and Jim and Izetta were able to do many of the The J.V. Bennett diary for 1933 notes that on January 1 things of which they had dreamed. Jim spent more and of that year wheat was selling for 18¢ per bushel, at Sc[...]raveled considerably during the winters and built a home 1935 crop which was fair and for whic[...] |
| During these later years, J.V. Bennett devoted a lot of children. The Carney family later moved to the White time, money and interest into crystalli[...]of the thirties into farming methods and came to Montana in 1911 and worked out of Plentywood as techniques that would avoid such bitter disasters in the a salesman for the Rumley Oil Pull Company, and fut[...]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 the entire region 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[...]"locater" was S.E. Richardson, a pionee in the Coal Creek[...]"homestead" houses for the homesteaders to live in.[...]pioneers to carve their destiny in the area that was to become known as the "Golden Bench". The "Golden Bench", a vision these hardy pioneers had for the land, was[...]all native grass at that time, except for small tracks broken[...]1915-1916 that the Golden Bench Land Company was formed to pool the limited assets together to purchase a tractor and plow to "break" the land and make it tillable for[...]his own equipment) to "break" 90 acres and seed it to flax. J. V. Bennett Sons - standing, Peyton; left, Gordon; right, The equipment ran 24 hours a day with each shift working James V. Bennett, Jr.[...]12 hours. The flax produced up to 18 or 14 bushels per acre at a price of $2.50 per bushel to give each member of the[...]Golden Bench Land Company a start in the farming[...]chester, Minnesota, on It was reported that Mrs. Oscar Halverson baked the best November 21,[...]and supplied this mainstay of Isetta M. Bennett is now living at the Episcopal Church life for t[...]ell with the best water and Dick Peyton Bennett is now farming the lands originally 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[...]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 Bilt[...]oston, among others. Gordon Bennett, who served as an army M.P. in World War II, married the former Suzanne Heinecke of Helena and they have two children. He is a district judge at Helena. Judith married Edwin J. Eilertsen of Brooklyn, New York who became an Episcopal clergyman. They have three children and[...]L to R-Al Daniels, Jack Carney, and two friends JA[...]was Arvilla, North,Dakota, the eighth child from a family of12 not work in this community[...] |
| [...]of 1945 and to this marriage was born three children. Mary[...]Elaine is married to John Vollertsen and living in Helena,[...]Ed, a former state senator, is director of the Department[...]Ed Carney Family-L to R-Steve, Mary, Ed, Betty, Jack[...]this hole in this straw hat of dad's? I am going to wear it some day." Steve is dubious at Jack 's declaration.[...]ce, the heritage. John Edward Carney formed a baseball team that played other teams on both |
| [...]John and Anne Conboy began their married life on a Ukraine, later moving with his parents to Austria and 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 w[...]Conboy died. Mrs. Conboy and children continued to live Manitoba in 1920. To this union were born three sons and on the f[...]re Andrew of Keene, North Dakota, I van of to North Dakota, so Mrs. Conboy decided to move also. Scobey, Harry of Gorham; Ann and Nellie Chornuk of They settled on a farm at Bowbells, North Dakota. Bismarck, Mrs. To[...]ry) of Paulson, Montana Kathryn taught at a country school in this community. and Mrs. Nick H[...]of Fairfield, North In 1913, Jack came to Montana and settled on homestead Dakota.[...]ch 1918. After serving one year overseas, he with a heart condition, but had been visiting in Scobey just received his honorable discharge at Glasgow, in April a few days before his last illness. Mr. and Mrs. Chornuk 1919. last year had moved from Scobey to a farm he purchased Jack enlisted also but[...]Jack continued to live on the homestead for a time. Then he moved to Scobey and through the years he was[...]on, Ronald J., who lives in Billings, Montana. He is[...]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[...]rious this structure 32 miles northwest of Scobey is not a relic of stores, The Knapp and Crandell Mercantile, The Golden homestead days. It was an economy type barn built by the Rule, Skadron groc[...]. 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 1[...]About 1925, Scobey had a professional baseball club.[...]e old Chornuk place was built by him when he came to the place in the early '20s. Although now[...] |
| [...]y and Agnes Knudson were married in October 1930. To this union was born three children, Richard, Mary Ann, and Robert. In 1931, Tom operated a Bowling Alley in the basement of the Gorham Hotel. From 1933 to 1947 Tom owned and operated Conboy's Bar. In 1941[...]il. In 1947 he sold all of his holdings and moved to East Helena, Montana. Tom and Don Leibrand purcha[...]ichard and Robert, reside in East Helena. Richard is Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court in Helena. Robert is employed at the Department of State Lands as Resource Specialist, and Mary Ann Marsh lives in[...]In the fall of 1912, D.C. Knapp, Jack Conboy, A.W. Chapin and myself came out to Old Scobey, an inland Jim and Phoebe Collins were married Janu[...]town, from Portal, North Dakota. We had heard that the Weyburn, Saskatchewan and came to Montana to Daniels government was going to open up some land for County in 1914 by wagon train. homesteading as soon as they had made their selections to They squatted on land that became their homestead replace sections 16 and 36, land they had lost to squatters when they were able to file in 1915. in other[...]r Also the Great Northern Railroad was going to build west Buttes, was the scene of many events including church from Plentywood and that Scobey would be a good location services, dancing, and family gatherings until they bought for a store. I was interested in both a store and a a home and moved to Scobey in 1966. homestead. I had worked for a number of years in a store, in Jim and Phoebe raised eight children,[...]Vera-deceased March 5, 1974, Bob- to file on land. Woodburn , Oregon, Bud-Billings, Mo[...]After looking the country over we returned to Portal, and in action February 3, 1944, Ellen-Fai[...]ana, in the spring of 1913 we came back to Scobey. We shipped Archie-New Meadows, Idaho, and[...]two carloads of -immigrant's goods and supplies to Montana. Plentywood, and freighted these to the A.N. Tande ranch There were many tons of coal mined in the pasture to where we rented a store building that Tande had used years help feed and clothe the fam[...]le we waited for sold, cut ready for the fry pan, as well as garden products. information on where the railroad would be built and The family were all musical and spent many hours where a townsite would be selected. After we had been in entertaining themselves as well as others and playing for business about three[...]decided that this was not the ideal place for a store. As far as the railroad was concerned it seemed at a standstill, so By Ellen Marie Trang we moved to Old Scobey. We built a building, 24 by 40, put[...] |
| [...]Scobey that the Great Northern was able to take over their own operation as the railroad was still in the hands of the[...]We now return to the time spent at the A.N. Tande ranch.[...]D.C. Knapp and myself had been looking for land to[...]Ranch. As we talked, we told him that we were looking for 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 that it was not open yet for homesteading. Soon after[...]too. There were seven of us that had land that joined and[...]In the spring of 1916, we formed a company of ten and bought a. 30-60 Oil Pull Rumley tractor, an eight bottom[...]plow, seeder and packer. We started to break, breaking[...]tting his breaking done at the same time. It made a three[...]mile turn. We ran day and night stopping only to refuel, George and Enid Crandell[...]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 an[...]oing. Lee Butler and Roy Ellsworth did our as we went. We all took shifts and in 30 days had br[...]acked and seeded 1025 acres of flax. taking about a week to make the round trip to and from In the fall, we harvested about 15 bushels of flax per acre, Poplar, a sixty mile trip each way. We had been in business which we hauled to Scobey. I think we got about two there about three months, when we heard that the "Soo" dollars a bushel for it. The years 1917 and 1918 were line had started to build west from Ambrose, North failures. In 1919 there was a short crop. I think that I 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[...]k 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[...]aches. The Great 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 b[...]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 wh[...]he Smith & Boyd Saloon were threshing a neighbor came by and asked us if we were and tbe[...]ndell store was next. Our store was crazy to be out threshing on a day like that. Did we know the south half of the Tande store no[...]rst called the how cold it was. It was 40 below that morning. I think that Minneapolis Store, later named the Knapp and Crandell was stretched a bit, but after hearing that we all about froze Mercantile Company. I well remember the first time I saw stiff, which proves that the mind does have a control over Ed Burton. He was going up the street behind a dray loaded the body. with his pots and pans, and a large restaurant stove. He One of the first things that a homesteader tried to do was soon set up in 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 his specialty. He had[...]ough the "steel" did not reach Scobey found an ant hill, water would be found close by. Jack until Thanksgiving Day, 1913, Scobey was a busy place, Con boy found a large ant hill close to his shack and having - 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 after the "steel" reached vile[...] |
| [...]cking wherever 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 st[...]ugar 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.[...]uch if he ever tried digging in fruits such as apples, peaches and raisins which made an ant hill again.[...]ght. Prunes and apricots were Some time later a well was started at the D.C. Knapp 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 Savage companies who at that time sold groceries through morning when some of the neighbors stopped in to see how the mail order catalogues. Kero[...]lantern chimneys too were important items to be As they stood around talking Mrs. Knapp came out of[...]ere lots of coal mines close got busy and dug in that well she would bake some pies and by. Mos[...]winter socializing good pies and the promise of a home cooked meal was very began with ca[...]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[...]ung. for the day. But Jack Carney could generally be depended In the spring for 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 had formed. Blackdamp was a deadly Picnics, ball games, barn dances and the Fourth of July gas that sometimes did form in wells. None had ever been was always the big celebration that was looked forward found as yet in this part of country. This possibility was to. discussed at length, mostly for Mrs. Knapps benefit, as she I had quit the store business somet[...]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. Knapp would not see this days of h[...]ing. My brother Gordon was happen. Mrs. Knapp was a very nervous and emotional out of[...]ost went into hysterics. She said she a few days in town, and Gordon decided to go back 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[...]hem she door open, and four or five of a neighbors pigs on the floor didn't want any of those boys going down that well again. 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 cook[...]e 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. "earned" a good home cooked meal. To make it nice and handy I built a nice stand and put a While we are on well stories, another story 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.[...]rom the fields at night, I would Wyman Feltis had a well boring outfit and was looking for put a five gallon pail under the faucet and open it abo[...]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. But one night, I forgot Jack told him, "Yes there is a fellow over there that wanted this little job, never thinking about it till I opened my eyes a well dug. But when you ask him, talk loud. He is hard of in the morning. You can well imagine the rest. I had a full hearing." Jack told him he would go over wit[...]on the ground. The man in question was Frank Nye, a very prim and proper tough part of t[...]d 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[...]im, repeated batched together. Jim was a good cook and liked doing itso the question louder, looking just a bit disgusted. Frank still he was our chief cook and dishwasher. He was a marvelous just looked at him then Wyman really bo[...]story teller too. I wish he were here now to write this up. He you want a well dug." Then Frank said "What in hell is the could paint a picture with words. We had been having real matte[...]good crops on the Bench for quite awhile and that fall I reaction that Jack had expected. Stories like this could go bought a threshing machine. Brother Jim had had lots of on[...]experience running threshing outfits for a number of years, had been named after the first r[...]den Flax, so he was the separator man and a good one. that had first been raised there. Time marches on and another change is taking place. In In the early years before everyone had a car or truck, the fall of 1927, I bought a Case combine, one of the three going to Scobey 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 better combine, as the later back home in a few hours. It was a two or three day job from models had roller[...]ers where we lived and whoever went generally had a list a and threshing machines for me. mile l[...]ed something. If it was in the spring there would be plow lays 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, too, these were busy trips, if you had a crop there woulci was to have. What has to be known as the dirty thirties[...] |
| started in 1929. That fall our son, Jim, was born.1930, 31, 32, 33 and[...]f the Dust Bowl. It seemed 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 wheat. So all in a[...]crops in Montana, straight end ways. I continued to farm there until 1956 when I retired. Our son Jim then took over the farm. I guess that after all these years it is still home to us. I will add this that I am the only one of the ten that homesteaded on the "Golden Bench" still living and I believe the only man that was in business in both Old Scobey and Scobey that is still alive. I am 87 years old now, June 27, 1975[...]life if I could live it over again. I guess this is something all of us think about. We only pass this way once, this is how I remember my years in Montana.[...]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, homesteaded about the only settler there at that time was Oscar Halverson and his wife Amanda.[...]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 blac[...]rough 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. br[...]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[...]ki. We were town was Berlin, New Hampshire. About that time the flu married in the winter of 192[...]market crash. Wheat prices tumbled from around a dollar Montana many people got the flu too. My brother, Kilgore, to as low as 18 cents a bushel. Also the dry years came back and my mothe[...]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., an[...]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 reciev[...]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[...]etothefarm with Jack Conboy her husband is principal of the elementary schools. who was haul[...]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[...] |
| [...]A DRUMMOND Another member of the Tande family is Nora |
| In his final years one could see Mac with a yard full of and Kathleen. Walter Sr. served in the U.S. Navy in 1943, children, either teaching them to rope or doing magic tricks on a floating dry dock for two years in the Pacific Oc[...]Melvin Haug farm. A good friend and neighbor Rick Handy wrote this po[...]Buttes and farm in the Peerless area. would like to be remembered in this book. S[...]and farm south of Four Buttes. They have one son An old cowboy's been taken by the Roundup Boss on high, William. To bring in wand 'ring dogies and punch cattle in th[...]until I'm sure Baldy or 01' Buck was saddled 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,[...]and Caroline Erstad Grotte The hand. There is Mose, Al, Pete, Claude, Dan, Spike, and Little Jo[...]sh up his fiddle and rosin up his bow. He'll play a little tune and do a step or two To liven up old comrades. We'll miss him here below. He'll make the grade up there, If its not all a myth: He was a man we always liked to ride the river with. THE[...]1962, recalled his pioneer days in an interview with[...]living in a sod shanty, driving oxen behind a walking plow, OTTO AND AGNES ERSTAD and receiving 40 cents a day for a dawn-to-dusk working[...]ended formal school. Otto and Agnes Erstad came to this part of eastern All of his 90 y[...]y were born and raised. They Ii ved in Scobey for a where he settled in 1917. Poor roads and a lack of winter- short time, from there they moved[...]e miles time neighbors have forced him to spend his recent winters north west to a homestead in the Coal Creek or Carbert in[...]t he doesn't like it. Community, where they built a one room house and went "I couldn't l[...]orn in Huston County, Minnesota, on Kate Lohan, a sister of Agnes Erstad, came to Montana a February 15, 1873. When he was eight years o[...]time later. She was one of the first teachers in that moved the family to North Dakota, where he took out a community. The schoolhouse at that time was made of sod. homestead near the pr[...]was by horse and The family lived in a sod house in North Dakota. It was wagon. Farming[...]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[...]y have two children. Walter Jr. oxen, it was a long trip. Even with horses the trip took two[...]days. When there was an elevator built (at Grafton), 20[...]miles away, it was still an all-day trip with the oxen. With Otto and Agnes E[...]horses the trip could be made in just a few hours. As a boy Mr. Grythe spent his time working around[...]home. There were no schools, and he never had a chance to[...]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[...]he was expected to make his own way as soon as possible.[...]to oxen as his father used them, too. However, he did[...] |
| [...]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.[...]Mr. Grythe claims that nothing very -exciting has ever[...]happened to him, but admits to being hit in the head by a[...]\o" ••••••••••' when he was a young man. It came close to preventing him[...]from Ii ving to reach his 90th birthday.[...]Oscar and Amanda Halvorson came to Montana from[...]renting land, so they came to Montana to find some land :::::::::[...]and make a home of their own. They homesteaded in the ::::::[...]Coal Creek community which is thirty miles northwest of ··-·.· ::::•·[...]Travel to Montana was made by train to Popl~r where Theodore Grythe[...]the railroad ended. From Poplar to Old Scobey they took a stage, which was a Big Case car, that carried six or seven[...]ails and shallow creek crossings. During the trip a spring[...]e car, but with pioneer spirit, the men broke off a[...]ost, wired it in place and continued on their way to "Oxen are stubborn," he says. "When the oxen wanted to Scobey. It was a bumpy ride, but they got there. From Old go home[...]it 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 is now," he says. "There is broncs. This trip was made[...]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. They thought that this was the wildest country they had It wasn't[...]ill looked beautiful. The grass was knee together to play ball and pitch horseshoes.[...]d 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 as work goes, Mr. Grythe likes the present day[...]od social gatherings days. Nowadays youngsters go to town with money in their[...]s. We didn't have money in our pockets but we had a also in demand to play for old time dances around the area good tim[...]ears. Supper in his younger days was invariably a mush, Oscar[...]grew up there. She married James cream, and maybe a little cinnamon, it was delicious Kasseth and they own and live on a neighboring farm - according to Mr. Grythe. "I would still take that before I ranch. They h[...]living in Helena. A treat the youngsters enjoyed at special occasions[...]mid 1960's, after over fifty years of farming and as Christmas, was a weak beer made of wild hops, sugar[...]the river by moved to Scobey where they purchased a home. They the basketful.[...]rented their farm-ranch to their son-in-law and daughter. "We were tickled to death when we got some of that," he Oscar passed awa[...]ot beer, Scobey and is still quite active. but it tasted good." In 190[...]on Johnson at Roseau, Minnesota. He had taken out a homestead about 12 miles[...] |
| [...]father, was one of nine boys. He grew to manhood in Southern Illinois and married a school chum, Oletha[...]While in Illinois, to them were born three girls-Vivian,[...]year was a year of some kind of epidemic. One of those[...]Dad and Mom decided to get a way from the congestion of[...]as a constructor and helped build the railroad into Ca[...]down as a section foreman and had as a hobby picture[...]ime, Dad's brother, Edward, came west and took up a homestead in Daniels County. He urged Dad to join him.[...]about 1915. The first homes were made of a little bit of lumber and a lot of sod.[...]lroad, two more children- Oscar Halvorson used to tell of hard times and good Clarence[...]ter buying their place for $73.00, they had $2.00 to his homestead, one more child-Wayne-was born[...]dle 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. living. You might say this is a story by a 60 year old baby. He walked four miles to work and got $10 a day digging Life in Daniels County was a bit rugged. Dad told me with a spade in gumbo.[...]world. When Mom's time Once while walking down a hill with a pail of eggs he got was near, he hired a neighbor cowboy to ride into town to caught in a hailstorm. A hailstone tore through the brim of get the[...]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[...]rson loaned him four oxen. "I took those oxen and a turned out OK as Ed's wife had a lot of experience as a breaking plow. Everything was fine when I started[...]midwife. was surprised, when I looked back, to find that I was My recollection of schools in those days indicate there plowing in a perfectly straight line. But I stopped and went was a sad lack of them. For a while, Dad would rent a house back to the house for a drink. When I came back one of the in Sco[...]ap." Nothing doing. I Later, he moved a granary out on the road in about 1921, hollered. Nothing doing. I got a leather strap to hit the ox. which was the first country school in that area. The He just shook his head. I pulled his ea[...]oked at me. kids went to that school, taught by Oliva Ralstin. The third Jus[...]. "Why year Jim Collins sponsored a building near his place and aren't you plowing?" he asked. "Got a whip?" I showed him · we hired a teacher, a Mrs. Lockren, for two more years. A the strap. "That's no whip. Get a barbed wire three or four formal district was then formed and a school was built, feet long." Henderson made a whip from the wire and gave called The Shennum School. The families involved in this the ox a good wallop. The ox took right off and there was[...]s, and Collins. Their house was very large for a homestead shack-14 x This was the first[...]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 would not burn take care of the livestock.[...]it held enormous chunks of coal. To explain about the livestock. I should mention that Often, instead of dancing, the people would march around Dad had befriended a tribe of indians shortly after taking the stove.[...]up his homestead. Every year as they traveled through our "The homestead days[...]country, they would camp at our place for a while. Dad allowed them to eat from the garden and even gave them a beef once in a while. In turn , they brought him wild horses • The Henderson family moved a way from Coal Creek from the Miles City area and sold them to him for 10¢ a many years ago. Dan Henderson's father was the ex[...]e- There were several cowboys in the area that would gather wan after the abortive Riel Rebellion in 1885. at our place on Sundays for a rodeo. We also provided some[...] |
| [...]. Jack Clark and George passed away during that time and Beryle died in Wilmer Davis were the top riders at that time. 1969. Fatty Wilson used to stay with Dad during those winters. Wayne (that's me) finished school in Oregon. I then Fatty ran sheep from Poplar to Canada during the moved with my folks to Clarkston. I worked for a while in a summer. He then sat around the fire and told stor[...]tory teller. I'm 30 years, I have worked for a Caterpillar dealership. I sure because he rehears[...]y and talked half married Josephine Peterson, a registered nurse, in 1940. I the night. have been a volunteer fireman for 35 years and looking Ano[...]aracter I should mention was forward to retirement. We have a son and a daughter both Charley McKuen. Charley traveled with a stud horse thru living in Clarkston. many of the counties helping to keep the horse population Vivian's son, Gerald Melena, and Beryle's son, Ronald up. He met a violent end, however. His stud turned on him Fjeld, both live an·d farm in Daniels County. one hot day and stompe[...]en someone mentions the "good old days", my first to cobey. She ran a boarding house for some time. Later, thought is I'm glad they are gone. No more disasterous she m[...]mics; no more 16 - 18 hour days, no more battling a Richland area . After Emil's death , she moved to Coeur blizzard to feed the livestock; no more digging lignite coal d 'Alene, Idaho, and then to Seattle where she died in 1970. to try to keep warm by and packing out as much ash as the Lillian married in Canada and later moved to Clarkston, coal you put in. Times were diffi[...]she and her husband, Cliff all a very strong sense of values. Richardson , still l[...]Confectionary. She left Scobey in 1925 and moved to Clarkston where she worked for a utility company for 40 years. She is retired and still lives in Clarkston. Rex worked in the post office in Scobey for a time. Then WALLACE CLAYTON HODGES he worked on the construction of the railroad to Ophiem. He then worked for J.I. Case Company and finally went into the insurance business. He is retired and lives in Wallace Clayton Hodges, Sr. (known as Claytor W.C.) Spokane, Washington. He married Alb[...]901 and Ruth Belle in early 1930's. He then moved to Oregon briefly and then to 1903. He went to Helena in 1903 and took work in a grocery Clarkston. He also worked for a utility company for over 20 store. His family[...]obey, have in 1305. He moved his family to a farm near Montana City retired and live in Clarkston . for a time and he took a job as State Land Appraiser during Beryle finished sc[...]World War II. in 1919 and the family moved back to Helena.[...] |
| [...]she remained in North Dakota and worked in a restaurant Glasgow and she came to Helena to keep house for his in Bottineau. She[...]y. 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[...], 1909. during World War I and died of the flu in an Army camp in They farmed near Bottineau and then moved to a the east.) At first they lived in the Jack Fuller[...]atchewan, 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 spring of 1910. As 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 car[...]mile south of the border. Governor Ford (who was a personal friend) took office, It was in 1912 that Herby chose his land, along with Sam Clayt again worked for the 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 they squatt[...]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[...]the spring of 1914 Herby moved his family to the small one he was recalling having heard about[...]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[...]was made with three wagons; one driven by He went to the house thinking no more ofit than if he had Herby containing oats for the livestock, a crate of chickens docked a lamb's tail. In the morning his pig was dead. He and a sow that farrowed on the trip; another driven by Joe always ended by saying he "did save quite a bit of feed." Jacques, containing furniture; and a covered wagon driven When Clayt and Anna moved 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 was a pony livestock. Anna was an artist at making a pan of water pulling a cart, and trailing behind, was a neighbor boy on a tend to several chores. They did this for several years[...]hey crossed the Canadian line at before they got a well dug, for in the dry 30's money was Ray[...]ied at Helena, the government inspector to come test the livestock. When Montana. Anna then[...]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[...]l and the children were taken across the creek on a Ruth married Robert Hodges (now deceased) and[...]The sod shack was lived in until a tar-papered shack was Robert married Helen Jac[...]Herbert built in the late fall. Also a barn was buiit, and they were Jacques. Robert pas[...]5. They had three built on what was to be the south quarter about one-fourth children: ~rs.[...]mile south of the soddy. They had not been able to dig a water well and were moving to water, but when the[...]government survey was made they were not allotted that Hel[...]water for quite some time until they could get a well-digger to come in. Several hand dug wells were tried but at a HERBERT JACQUES 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 be abandoned. Herbert Jacques was born February 6, 1883 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota to Adelme and Lumina Jacques. He was christened Urba[...]was "Urbay". He used the name Herby, and Herbert as his legal name, for the rest of his life. When he[...]eled 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 Richards[...]ith her father and her brother and sister seeking a new location. As Byrl had been advised to live in a drier climate[...] |
| [...]Helen Hodges is now living near Plentywood, 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[...]In the early years Joe farmed with horses as did everyone[...]progressed to a tractor. He had all he wanted in motors Herby and[...]914 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[...]years he hired his crop 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[...]ns h ung on t h e bread and pastries and was an especially good meat cook. front at night. This tractor was unloaded off a fl at car in He often cooked for crews durin[...]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 was the first in[...]emade ice cream suppers and card parties with the to bring in registered Aberdeen An gus cattle, shippin g man-sized sandwich[...]them in from Minnesota , with six kitchen chairs, to make slices of the lemon rind floating around. up an immigrant car. In later years he sold his farm and bought a house in In a rented pasture close to the home place was a dugout town. When he could no longer walk up town to play cards in a hill , marked by a broken laundry stove. It was very wit h his friends each day he moved into the Knight Hotel close to Coal Creek and a bank where coal jutted out. It and did l[...]is wife had spent some months when to h is needs and his grand-niece Mary Jacques, who tended caught in a snowstorm. They had been traveling through 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 th[...]d 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 February, 1928 at Coal C'rBek. Herby passed a way in July, 1954 at P lentywood, where he had mo[...]1939, leaving the farm on Coal Creek for Richard to farm. Richard married Jeanne Falxa in 19[...] |
| RICHARD AND .J._EANNE JACQUES In 1914, as a young boy of six years, Richard arrived in |
| [...]s. Noel Richardson; Mr. During my first visit to East Scobey, Montana in late and Mrs. Ru[...]y; Mr. Herman homestead rights. I finally staked a 320 acre tract located Shennum-single; Mr.[...]family; Mr. The first winter on the homestead is a period in time I will Washington Heninger-single; Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Bennett never forget. That was the winter of 1915-1916. For the an[...]living in the area, or not single-the father a widower; Mr. and Mrs. Seraphin living in Montana I want to report: That was a winter of LaPierre-homesteaded on Coal C[...]9th, and 10th, of John was single-father a widower; Mr. Tom Hughes, 1916. At 8:00 A.M. on January 9, 1916 the temperature was[...]rtunately I had provided not in about 1923 to 1925-never returned; Mr. Joe Herskowitz only suf[...]r was my mother's sister); Mrs. Anna M. arranged to purchase a half-ton of a "better type" coal in Kemp, my mother. My[...]ccasion of very cold purchased relinquishments to half sections near my spells, and when I saw the[...]Kemp, filed on homestead 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[...]urchased and coldest day-January 9, 1916-because that happened to lived on one of the Heninger brothers land. Every one of the be my birthday, the day I became 24 years of age, and also above named was a "good neighbor". The attitude of smart enough not to attempt to walk to the home of my willingness on the part of everyone to help when help was nearest neighbor that day-a distance of almost two miles. needed ceme[...]ve we had at any homesteader was "like a brother"; between women, every time afterwards.[...]wife of another homesteader was like a long-lost sister. For a single young man to locate on a homestead in a Very few of the original homesteaders a[...]). I believe there are only three left-two others a way from your homestead shack took considerable[...]the difficulties I faced I do not There was an occasion in my life when I demonstrated understand (now) how I managed enough willpower to do that I was a good neighbor. One evening in January of 1917 it. I was born on a farm in North Central Missouri, but the my[...]40 years before I was Neil Richardson when a very young brother 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 stores we[...]ura, had been severely burned when the sister and a and four miles. Only 11 miles away was a city of 3500 younger brother attempted to fill a gasoline lantern which population even in the early 1890's, a very excellent had just "gone dry".[...]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 en[...]h 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 i[...]hen 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,[...]e neighbors history of early homestead days would be At about 8:00 P.M. of that same evening I saw Dr. Tucker incomplete without reference to 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 that everything cannot live longer that about six or seven days". He said will be better before you know it, and similar words of that recovery for the girl is impossible in view of the encouragement. The earl[...]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 mile distance as the figure of "distance pain. L[...] |
| [...]o funds I found living alone on the homestead a very lonesome for construction of new school buildings. I happened to live life. While I was employed in Chicago in 1914 I met a young in an area where there were several families with child[...]ttending 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 from their own funds; that was done in about surviving relative of her moth[...]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 provide pay for a teacher, but at a very low wage. In fact, on August 16, 1917 before she returned to Chicago, to keep a during one or two school terms the teacher was paid "a promise she had made to her superior,-that she would small wage, plus free board[...]eturn even if she were married while on the trip, to break in school children's parents". At one tim[...]teacher's monthly wages were less than $100.00 a month in Williston, North Dakota on February 11th[...]early 1920's. I never learned for certain whether that of Wi,lliston, North Dakota has had a tremendous impact report was correct or was idle gossip. We kept a school on ·my life-married there in 1917; my wif[...]school term, during one school term. It was a matter of We Ii ved on the homestead from the time of our marriage "either helping to that extent or perhaps have school for until October 1[...]ve or six months during the school year." school, a boy and a girl. I was appointed Relief Clerk on Th[...]ty. Various changes in programs were a hardship on the teacher, as well as on the housewife in made by State Headquarters from time to time but I whose home the teacher w[...]at was the Department of Public about five to six weeks of the school term. But the plan did We[...]n did time it was the Welfare Departrrient policy that employees get a full school term of nine months of school and that retire at age 70 years. Shortly after March 15, 1[...]eight however, District Judge Loucks appointed me as Roosevelt years of school attendance. As a matter of fact-and a County Juvenile and Probation Officer from which[...]se same three Whenever I give serious thought to Margaret and my life children then enrolled[...]ed their together my thoughts always take me back to the years we high school course of study,[...]the 1920's than during the last Canada) there was a wonderful swimming hole. Residents half-(1926-1930). By about 1930 livestock prices were from that area, from the United States side and also from "down" and wheat was down also. the Cana~a side, gathered at the swimming hole almost[...]ng with the House at Scobey which was to last "for about two or three Canadians and they e[...]ing 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 it-it may turn into a job purchase good beer in their stores, and the C[...]B. Kemp passed away in February 1976. swim across that swimming hole (it was exactly on that neutral strip which forms the boundary between th[...]the Canada side of the line, and then swim back to the United States side of the line. To my knowledge, no one ever brought a bottle of beer into the United States at any time[...]fternoons. 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- they were on that 50 or 60 foot wide bringing out some[...]the United States and Canadian sides Dakota to their locations. of the United States-Canada border in that area where He had a Buick passenger car. Later he settled in the our swimming hole was located. That swimming hole in community of Coal Creek. He dug wells with a high derrick the Mid-Poplar River was really made-to-order. The boring machine, powered by a team of horses. He later sold natural flow of the river put it there and everyone in the the machine to George Skerrit; and bought a powers low area made good use of it.[...] |
| [...]at odd jobs and was unloading coal from a railroad car, standing: Roy, Robert (Bob)[...]July 26, 1920 and died very suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51 years. He left a widow and eight children.[...]arly day activities remembered were the Chautaqua that came to town every summer, 4th of July celebrations, He[...]ous baseball team, and the Elks' tree in the them to Davis and Shook on a Fordson tractor. We farmed middle of Main[...], Bob and Marie received In the late 20's a new religious sect came to town.and.the their education including high schoo[...]place th~y used for church was close to our place. It was We moved into town (Peerless) every fall and back to the a very loud kind of religion with a lot of action, called in farm in the spring. By t[...]In 1951 , he was appointed by Governor Aronson to bad that something had to be done. A cross was erected in Deputy Field Agent for the State Land Department. A the road next to the church, wrapped in sacks and kerosene positio[...]December 11, 1959 at the and was set on fire, a warning no doubt, and we saw men age of 74.[...]riding on horses, dressed with white sheets on to diguise themselves. Needless to say, they got the message as the By Florenc[...]from· 1923 to 1947. ALFRED AND AMANDA LINQUIST FAMILY[...]Donald Linquist Family. L to R - Fay, Desiree, Sheila, |
| [...]rson, Kalispell, Montana. Donald, son of Ernest is present county foreman and road supervisor, was a[...]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[...]By Evelyn Anderson In 1914 they built a six room house, (it is still being lived[...]When the railroad was built to Scobey, one of the[...]bought 150 tons of hay at $6.00 a ton. There was plenty of THOMAS LOVE[...]Our place was a stopping place for the driver and teams[...]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 lived on a sheep ranch 40 miles northeast of Wibaux. We to Wibaux, and taught school in 1918 through 1923. went to school in Wibaux.[...]ree 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.[...]ildren, 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,[...]ched 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 My brother Rus[...]920. They have two children, Peggy born in June That first summer 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 them in a dugout in the hill, they tasted Russell took up a homestead adjacent to his father and in mighty good that winter as potatoes were scarce. 1923 took ove[...]August 1972. The son, Bud is continuing on.[...]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[...]until my father's death in May 1932. A few years later my 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 September 29, 1974. This is written in memory of Noel passed a way in Decem her 195 7. I have lived here ever[...]E McCANN FAMILY 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 1[...]29, 1889, at Corcoran in Hennepin County in young to homestead. He located a plot of land in the Coal Minnesota. He was r[...]are, North Dakota, and Creek Community and plowed a furrow around the area he came to 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,[...]ne m 1914. They have two sons, Ray and Dana. that area. In 1914 Emil Pomerleau was a candidate for sheriff on After reaching the ag[...]"Bull Moose" ticket for Sheridan County, returned to the Coal Creek Community and took up his (which at that time included all of the present Daniels homestead; luckily no one had jumped his claim to the County, Sheridan County, and part of[...]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 consequence about a year later on November 24, 1919, they were married 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 from across the until at least several months later that the two men first Canadian border by the only name I can recall as N urs~ met and became pleasantly acquainte[...]ssociated during the early years with Frank 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 enterprises, raised in timber country; al[...]ter years she came including the ownership of a cafe, the Shamrock, during to prefer the open spaces.[...]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[...]farming. Thenewrestaurantownerwent bankrupt in a few things that hold the best memories were the get-togethers at[...]gather at the old swimming hole. Everyone brought a picnic lunch. The men would play baseball and hor[...]d watched the kids swim and play games. There was a togetherness in those days of hard times that will never be enjoyed agaii:i. Donald and Diane went to the Carbert School for their elementary education. Some of the teachers that taught at the Carbert School were: Miss Emerson,[...]um. 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[...]They are also farming the old homestead. Diane is married to Burton Rice. They have four children: Rebecca, Le[...]w living in Blackfoot, Idaho and own and o ~n1 le a Bowling Lane. Ida McCann passed away May 25, 1974 after a !en gthy illness. Leland passed away four[...] |
| months. Emil and Florence were good managers, had a a tent. We had a two-burner gasoline camp-stove to cook on, clean place, and served good food in a pleasant heat water to wash clothes on a washboard and keep warm atomosphere-an assurance of success anywhere. Emil by. We had wonderful doughnuts. It turned very cold the would have been a fine "maitre d' "anywhere. He was the last of Sep[...]also Well-mannered, he was also deliberate and a realist. worked several years on WP A. Once when he was tending bar a fellow came in, laid down We moved 2-1/2 miles south west of the sod house in the a five-dollar bill, it was larger in more ways than[...]e 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[...]ly folded his bar apron and walked around the bar to · Conboy's Bar. In 1944 Charlie bought a partnership in where the other fellow was standing. He laid down a five- Conboy's Bar with his brother Clint, and la[...]the same movement Clint and Charley's and now it is called the Ponderosa. immediately, without saying anything, 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 m[...]walked back behind the bar, Charlie suffered a severe stroke in the fall of 1955 and and put his[...]ore 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 Elks Lodge, Williston. He was also a member of the Scobey Saddle Club. His wife, Flore[...]Neill and Thurza Richardson came to Daniels County in[...]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 th[...]miles north of Peerless). His father constructed a sod house They they built a sod house south of what is now the home on their homestead. As Charlie grew into manhood, he place. It was right along Coal Creek, so they would be able followed in the footsteps of his father, who was a self made veterinarian. Charlie never liked his nickname as he found everyone iri the country had a horse named "Charlie". Neill and Thurza[...]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[...]e, so he brought the engine with him. He was also a locksmith, a farrier, a blacksmith, and a good mechanic. He went to farming on the homestead. Cecelia was born in 190[...]les and Cecelia were first married, they lived in a sod house 2-1/2 miles south of the border with Charlie's dad, as his mother had passed away in October 1926, and[...]s barbering; he cut almost everyone's hair around that area. In 1930 Charlie was at Peace River, B.C.[...]and other equipment by rail and they were close to the town of Baldonnel. They each took up homeste[...]the land of trees and brush. He stayed less than a year and came home to stay. In 1934 Charlie worked at Fort Pe[...] |
| [...]Clint Richardson and Gotlieb Lontt. Taken in 1912 to be close to the water and coal. Neill helped other members of[...]ild 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[...]e first mail carriers Clint Richardson moved to the Coal Creek community, in this community. Thur[...]Samuel and Amy Richardson. His parents took up a horses and buggy, and in the winter time a sleigh, going homestead and he also took a homestead adjoining theirs. into Scobey one day a[...]se till 1920. Their in the process of moving to the present Scobey, Clint other son Jim, was born[...]was After he completed this job, he went to work at Frank three years old.[...]ore 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. They lost everything as they store for Frank Johnson. When his sister Florence Carney were not at home. It was a Sunday afternoon and they were was left a widow, he moved back to Coal Creek to live with visiting at the Joe Jacques home. A lot of the relatives were her. there, as they had relatives from North Dakota visiting.[...]d for many years at the Woodward's store, and was a till they moved a home out from town that they owned. graduate of Scobey High with the class of 1936. Liz was a When Neill first started to break land he used a walking very talented gal that could sew and make most anything plow, later using a sulky plow with four horses. from a yard of cloth. Clint and Elizabeth bought the 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 Carbert school, walking about business for a number of years. Clint died in March of1969 four and a half miles. Their first teacher was Kate Murphy. and two years later Elizabeth passed on at a young age of A favorite spot in the summertime was just north of[...]hardson and Elizabeth (Honey) Richardson. Wendell is the Americans. Picnics were held and home-made ic[...]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 over a mile from the border. In fact, Clayton married a Carney's. Canadian girl, Theresa Choquer, in Ma[...]za 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[...]nces. She passed away in May, 1959. Irma had come to live with her, when her husband passed away in Wa[...]Jim now farms the home place and Clayton lives on a ranch two miles west of the home place. (now deceased) Neill was one of the thirteen children that came out to the homestead with his dad, Sam 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[...]Frank, and Ellsworth rode in a covered wagon we called Samuel Ellsworth Richa[...]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 made it yourself. Traveling made in a big wagon through slush a foot deep. Something was done by horseback, wagon and horses, and a lot of I had never seen before was all the snow that was still on walking. That was my means of getting places. Also the ground. 1906 and 1907 had been a very hard winter. poisoning gophers.[...]ars. In 1912, The first summer there, a cyclone took the wet roof off the Dad heard there was land in Montana that could be taken sod house of my parents and blew down a few squatters' as squatters' right. He took our mother and my young[...]cks. 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 the Great Northern had 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 cattle through by[...]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[...], chickens, machinery, household goods (including a Richardson, a two room soddy, and Neill Richardson also very large tent, which had room for three beds and a big had a two room sod house. Clint Richardson and Herby 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 v[...]he bed bugs nearly ate us up. Next day we made it to a lived in the sod house as long as they lived-Mother family place by the name of Par[...]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, Cl[...]and The men in the neighborhood built a sod school in the fall Esther. She asked us for d[...]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 were then in Val[...]until the county sunset. After arriving there was a tent to pitch, unloading was divided in 1920. Ellen[...]e range horses destroyed the old soddy. School at that[...]time was held any place they could find room to have it.[...]forth every day from where Tom Handy now lives to a half[...]le east of Jacques building. (Wonder who would do that[...]In the teens there was a road built up of snow, just as hard and as high as a graded road, down Coal Creek to Poplar by Humberts' and to Claude Tande on to the French[...]hardly pass with a load on a sleigh. We were very fortunate to have had the lignite coal or no[...]fresno to get the dirt off. Men dug with picks and crowbars[...]to get the coal, then loaded it on wagons, then unlo[...]stored out 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 J[...] |
| [...]The heart of John Shennum was light as he sat astride[...]pace-trot gaits as they, with colt "Billy" _trailing along[...]Scobey" that spring day in 1916. Was not the world's[...]possibility limitless at that point? He had graduated from[...]Minnesota with honors; he, a man of extremely high talent[...]in athletic dexterity had served as Captain of the Cadet[...]They moved almost immediately to the heart of the Red River Valley, commuting to the North Dakota side of the[...]"The Panatorium", a tailorshop in the then leading[...]hotel in Fargo, North Dakota, soon leasing it to accept[...]it not for unrests and urges brought about as set forth in the paragraphs that follow.[...]hing the eyes and ears of John and Joy. Jean Ann is now Mrs. John Hellander, has ·one Della Shennum[...]To agriculturally educated John Shennum it called for a bit Grace A. Daniels of research. National weather reports an[...]indicated that the average rainfall left something to be desired but the dryland farming paper that had been Grace Daniels remembers: 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[...]reaking), only got the most necessary things such as kerosene for followed by laying fallow (Summerfal[...]lon for $1.25 (which lasted me all winter) areas, as opposed to the long practiced procedure of fall and grocerie[...]ear of the entire hundred-pound sack of flour for a years supply, and sugar acreage could average out greater yield - (over a period of and taple su pplies, that lasted a long time; or we lived on time) by planting half the acreage but using a year's extra what we had , which wa n't much exce[...]he 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[...]y in Scobey." eries of dry year . We paid $3.00 a bushel for seed wheat, By 1916 much of the[...]laimed. 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.[...]ship. Much When my son Charle was small I used to take him in a search, little success, but the lady fortune smiled. And so borrowed Ii ttle wagon with a sack and spend a great deal of the stage was set for a lifetime of farming and ranching my time hunting cow chips. I mean hunt, as we had only which lasted 50 years. As he had predicted to wife Della two cows. I baked bread for a couple of bachelors. They their Golden Wedding 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 firs[...]th shiplap, tar made butter and sold for 15 cents a pound . And some paper siding, composition dry wa[...]ng, six groceries were high . Coffee was 60 cents a pound , tomatoes inch flooring the task was on. While brother Joe made the 35 cents a can, oranges we only looked at (80 and 90 cents two day trip to McCurdys in Scobey to obtain the material, per dozen), and banan[...] |
| [...]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 mo[...]ther when fire destroyed the little structure and a new house acreages farmed for Ed Battleso[...]eir cattle herds and so neighbor Bill Bernard dug a well. Lighting was by when "J.V." got[...]d in arranging kerosene lamp, cooking and heat by a Monarch malleable that the state land which was pasture for the Bennett[...]lignite coal was made available for Shennum to obtain-some for mined from one of the many surfac[...]seed grain cleaning So, the John Shennums had a shack for themselves and operations in t[...]tomobiles and trucks appeared their two children, a well for water, a downwind side of the commonly upon the scene and even an airplane (A Ryan shack to shelter mare Topsy and colt Billy. They had a monoplane built in San Diego along with the Lindbergh Bible, a faith, and a future. They had good health, endless "Spiri[...]) owned by Westland Oil Company was ambition, and to the - as it appeared at that point of their seen in Scobey skies. youth a future immeasurable.[...]rge 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 huge steamer 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 ret[...]ing Scobey, and one of the overnight stops outfit to the Shennum place and "Broke" some 12 acres on[...]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[...]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 bottom plow. The young couple[...]umor 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 there were many erect a spacious chicken coop. They worked in the town- things missing that are looked upon 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[...]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[...]tead and "the farm " which was, for five decades, to be the nerve four others joined with him in[...]of the material for the erection of a one-room school which the varjous Shennum enterprises. group donated to the newly created school district. While the p[...]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[...]day taking place on the though there was an exodus of many, it never crossed the Daniels County cene. High a m ong the reasons for the mind of John and Della Shennum to leave - they had "Breakthrough" (And these things[...]never learned failure ... nor were they anxious to learn. Scobey Country and a ll of Montana, for that matter) was What may have been mention[...]n es and the opening of Montana State lands, both to volunteered. John Shennum was registered ,[...]ease and purchase . . The Shennums first acquired a and by strange happenstance the Armistice was signed F ordson tractor which could pull a two-bottom plow. They five days before he 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[...]his Eyesight tests prevented assignment to a combat unit but own threshing outfit, an Advance Rumley " Oilpull" 12- 20 his written tests produced such a high degree of tractor and a 24" Rumely threshing machine and while the computational ability that he was at once assigned to a outfit was no match in output for such giants as the Harold crash engineering course at Monta[...]Taylor powered 40" seperator, then rused to Boeing in Seattle where he worked on the Shenn um crew made many a 60 day run ranging all the military impos[...]r 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[...]hn 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 scho[...]All have experienced successful business careers as well a[...] |
| homemakers. Daughter Pearl raised a family of four and is The first winter we lived in a shack on the Acheson farm, employed with a business firm in Portland, Oregon. Ruth, then George was located on a piece of land 33 miles in and out of Radio, TV, and business is an executive travel northwest of Scobey in the C[...]rst crop was in 1917, followed by Shennum Jr. has a career as supervisor with the telephone three poor years. This came as a shock to those who had company and also owns a housing complex in Havre, been fortunate enough to have bumper crops in 1915 and Montana. Harry died[...]and gophers did much damage, even won top honors as salesman of the year with his insurance th[...]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[...]od stamps or relief checks Anchorage, Alaska. Joe is retired from a career with the during those dry years wh[...]their seed back in harvest, and when a pig was butchered, and resides in Federal Way, Wa[...]there was not enough fat on the pork to fry it. John Shennum's death in 1966 at Daniels[...]The first year our shack was on the homestead a huge Hospital brought to an end 50 years of energetic activity in prairie fire swept through the area, the flames could be seen Scobey Country - almost to the day. As he had written for twenty miles. Every[...]d their except our shack which stood on a gravel hill. Luckily we Golden Wedding in Scobey[...]not have Shennum moved shortly after his passing to Billings and survived that ordeal. in the Bicentennial year will have completed ten most Sam Acheson had a well drilling machine so George and active Christian outreach years in that city. Sam dug wells together f[...]Joe L. Shenn um for a few years: Almost everyone needed a well, but it was For John A. Shennum and Della Shennum sometimes hard to collect the money. I recall one man[...]he didn't have any money - but after three trips to collect, my father put on a little extra pressure as we were in THE SKERRITT FAMILY[...]need of food supplies, whereupon the man found a tin full of[...]silver dollars and counted out $62 to pay for the well he had[...]itt There were many times that Dad got lost in the winter[...]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 hi[...]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 apprentice with little or no pay. While he[...]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 an injured arm received 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[...]before we knew Dad had Nova Scotia, and traveled to Plaza, North Dakota where survived the[...]d her husband Sam Acheson and two children lived. A year later Achesons decided to move to a farm eight miles northwest of Scobey, Montana. They L to R: Skerritt Family-Harold, Margaret, Gwen, George loaded an imigrant car on the Great Northern with all their[...], cows, horses and chickens. The owner was issued a pass to ride on the train. As money was almost non-existant, George rode as a stow-away in the car. Before arriving in Scobey t[...]ed the extra passenger, but accepted two roosters as payment for the ride. 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 y[...]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, were drilling a well at row of straw along one side of the[...]lope eight miles east of Plentywood, they decided to some of the things that made the pioneers strong people. come home for Easter Sunday. At that time the Great During those cold winter nights it was almost impossible Northern ran a mixed train on the branch line to Scobey. to keep warm. The ice on the water pail would be quite thick On Saturday, George and Jimmie 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 stove-pipes would their families, when the tr[...]uit cases and ran for the train. George that sometimes extended half way across the room in order grabbed on just 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 ano[...]suitcase between There were many people that would come and go past our his knees, but he must[...]ed "characters". One of these was "Fatty" Wilson, a a stick over his shoulder, and caught the train bef[...]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[...]. One morning when Bill Hounock was a tall slim cowboy that hung out at our the men were threshing on the D.C. Knapp 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 only a horse place I ever worked." "How's that, Bill?" asked Mr. Knapp and saddle. with a tingle of pride in his voice. :'Two suppers in the one We had a neighbor, Bill Wriston, that helped out at times night," explains Bill.[...]with chores when Dad was away. Bill was a mysterious At that time they were threshing until 10 P.M. when one fellow with a secret past. One day my sister and I walked car had lights beamed on the separator and 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 W[...]he best thing he could think of farmers preferred to say it stood for "I won't work." was a drink out of his whiskey bottle that he kept for However, it was time that the men received more special ev[...]some of those hard- In 1923 Dad had a chance to rent a better farm from Bill working farmers to accept a ten-hour day when most Alderdice so[...]per cow and calf and worked about eighteen hours a day seven days a week. moved. In 1927 he bought the Charley Heninger place Threshing became a long drawn out affair when there were whe[...]poor threshing weather prevailed. I to retire. They bought a home in Scobey where they spent remember my Dad h[...]1952. snow. The first part of the day was used to get the engine In 1933 I married Elma Pe[...]while Elma was teaching the Shennum school that we met Milking cows was our supplementary sour[...]in 1928-29. Teachers were then getting $125 a month. livelihood. In the early days 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[...]dren remember the place and in 1940 bought a farm five miles east of Scobey tiresome old dashe[...]ars 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 help a neighbor stack thresh. With the aid of a few milk would be packed in a pail of oats until 12 or 24 dozen egg cows, somehow we got by. crates came into use, much to the delight of the grocer. One We had six children. Patricia's twin brother, Paul, died would have to go through the experience of putting your[...]The five are all married. Darold and his hand in a pail of oats and come up with a broken egg in wife Anne have two boys and live in Pacific Grove, ones hand to appreciate the separated egg containers. One[...]wego, regulations? Back in the old 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[...]we can't help but wish the oldtimers had it a little easier. own bedroom, I think of the days when the whole family What a great difference electricity and telephones make.[...]and his hired Who would ever think of such a thing happening to rural man , Alex McArthur, were digging a well in the winter America. It seemed as remote as putting a man on the time and the one bedroom was shared with the family of moon , but both became a reality .[...] |
| I hope the younger generation will be patient with us if farm out of Strathcona, Minnesota. He raises beef cattle we seem a little bewildered when we hear the expression and is a beekeeper. They have two boys. "There is nothing to do", when we found so much fun in pus~ing a hoop with a stick or getting a one dollar toy for[...]I came to Redstone, Montana during February of 1912. I next year. I'm sure things will get better." 'so it ~as with moved from Sheridan County to the present location of the hope and perseverance and a lot of hard work we would[...]came to Montana on the advice of a friend of mine who shanng JOY and sorrow. God was good to us in many ways[...]by~ year or two. I came from Oklahoma. I had and as always if we would realize how much better off w~[...]no homestead but lived on purchased land that was deeded are than some unfortunate people we would give thanks for One incident that comes to mind that I guess would b~ the blessings we have. ·[...]enough voters for a quorum so we were advised to go to an The 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 s[...]ne vote placed the two west townships in Daniel~ to be out by nine P.M. so it wouldn't be so easy for the[...]County. There would have no doubt been a few more votes enemy to see us. The ship's main light had to be on of had it not been such a stormy day, as it snowed heavy. course. Our ship was torpedoed once but was unharmed as the torpedo hit the end of it. It shook us up a little but I was There wasn't a school within ten miles and there were[...]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[...]county paid the teacher. It wasn'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[...]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 recollection is that when I secured my[...]locat10n m the fall of 1916 there was a Soo Line survey way to join him, so they let us 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 winter was before. We had a lot of west. I felt sure of having a town close by, but while we were things to learn. We didn't know what to think of the bare[...]World War I, and that stopped the railroads and left me were disappoint[...]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[...]in Minot, North Dakota. Our children me off into a duck pond. I learned to ride horseback and that was the joy of my life. In later years I rode in[...]e 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 f[...]ld 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 children: Mrs. Carl Miller(Fer[...]wo girls and one boy. Mrs. Bud Newquist (Juanita) is married to a printer a~d they Ii vein Alamogordo, New Mexico. They have[...]cona Minnesota. They farm , raise turkeys, and he is a salesma~ for Rupp Snowmobiles. They have three gi[...]onja) lives at Strathcona, Minnesota. Her husband is a beekeeper and trapper. They have two boys and one girl. Our only son, Oswald Wahl lives on a[...] |
| [...]res . Consequently in 1909 the law was changed so a Reminiscence of Homesteading and Subsequent Events person would get 320 acres as a homestead. We filed on our (Harvey Wa[...]homestead in 1915. This is in the Coal Creek community[...](Coal Creek drainage) which was a part of Valley County Family Origin - The parents of Harvey Wagar and at that time. Daniels County was created in 1920 which is Nettie Schulz came to Culbertson, Montana by train in the also the year women were given the right to vote. spring of 1907 from North Dakota homesteadi[...]Plentywood, Montana on customary to shivaree the newly weds. We were prepared Novembe[...]Part of the Jack Murray land on the with a 16 gallon keg of beer for the men and a box of apples Fort Peck Indian Reservation west o[...]of 1916 we moved from Montana was farmed in prior to homesteading northwest Homestead, Montana to our homestead which is part of our of Scobey. Three boys, Kenneth, Howard, and William, present farm. It is hard to believe the changes that have were born to this union. Kenneth and Howard served in the taken place since that time. There was just miles of prairie Armed Force[...]various locations homestead tar-papered shack to live in. This was "horse in Montana and North Dak[...]veniences, not even radio , Beach, California and is engaged in the plumbing we had kerosene lamps. A silver dollar would go as far as business. Howard and his wife, Peg, have one son,[...]avel and Tillison, born November 9, 1972. William is home and communications were very slow compared to today. We manages the farm.[...]eral other mines in Homesteading - When we came to Montana in 1907, the area, namely Be[...]n Henderson , Jack Reed , people were moving west to use their homestead rights. At and Pete Hanson. Without lignite coal homesteading this that time a person 21 years of age or older could squat on[...]60 acres ofland. Since the land was not surveyed, a furrow first winter on the homestead, 1916-1917, we had to haul made with a plow and horses roughly marked the hay for our livestock a distance of eight miles. Upon boundary of the 160[...]ed their nearing the hay stacks one morning, a howling blizzard homestead. When the land was sur[...]engulfed the area. Shelter was found at a farmstead on the Montana found sections 16 and 36, to which the State was Canadian side of the border. I returned to the homestead on entitled for school purposes, we[...]r fuel was in the cellar. fully homesteaded, such as \4.'est of Scobey. This is one Most of our neighbors were young, had just gotten reason the western part of Daniels County has a higher married , and came from different parts of the country to than usual percentage of state land. In this arid[...]e on 320 acre homesteads. Soon the babies started to was finally evident a family could not make a living on 160 arrive and we started thinking about a school in our[...] |
| [...]surer, and C.T. Swenson , Erstad , John Shenn um, a nd Bill Bern a rd wen t to O.B. Scobey banker at the time. The country whist players won Egland, lumber dealer in Scobey, a n d he let us have enough so Scobey paid for[...]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 Occ[...]tend and play the Murphy, Scobey banker, came out a nd boug h t t wo bas ket s violin. Many July 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[...]the teachers who ta ught at th e Shennum Sch ool a nd still many years picnics and ball games, in[...]ian live in Daniels County are Mrs . Frances Rich a rdson , Mrs . families joined , were held on[...]. P h yllis N orma n , Poplar River providing a swimming pool where it crosses Mrs. Laura K. Kers[...]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 Estens[...]milies: J ac;k from the Osset Community came to my place and got me to Wulf, Otto Erstad, John Shen num , Bill Bernard ,[...]strict of Shennum Harvey Wagar, Jo hn Ke mp , C h a rl ey Daniels County. I was ele[...]and Henninger , Pat Shea, Euge n e T h ei ve n , a nd N ei l served better than 22 years en[...]John Collins, J .V. Bennett Clint Skillin gberg, a nd Wilmer Gunderson , Guy Stalder, J .B[...]came primarily from family "get-togeth ers", such as picnics and ball games in sum m er with card part[...]0.16 Scobey to play whist with the losers to pay fo r th e suppers . Eggs[...]June 17, 1975 Scobey grain prices compare as follows:[...]Progress - Changes that have occurred since[...]a ccessible, have all tended to make the country and world[...]smaller in relation to time. With the technical advances in[...]fa rming a nd ranching operations, improved crop varieties[...]repla ced by an ea sier way of life. Life expectancy has[...]in creased s ubstantially due to a higher standard ofliving[...]REA is possibly t he major ingredient responsible[...] |
| modernizing rural areas to a degree where they can JACO[...]ived in Daniels County in are many times referred to as the "good old" days, but I 1914 from Red W[...]g in the Coal Creek doubt very seriously if given a choice anyone would prefer area, next to Harvey Wagar. the "good old" days to our way of life today. Whether our They h[...]My mother, two sisters, and I moved to Wisconsin in period and until fuel self-sufficiency is obtained, will test 1938, where my mother passed away in 1963. our ingenious capabilities to the limit. Kathryn Dunha[...]five children. Her eldest, Arthur, is a Chemist at ·Park[...]She is a housewife and a part time school teacher. Ronald is a school teacher in Jefferson. Robert lives in Jeff[...]is employed at a malting company. The youngest daughter is Kathy. She will be a junior in high school.[...]Esther and I work for a furniture factory in Jefferson. I Paul Wolfe wa[...]8 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[...]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[...]s 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[...]r Marion married Edward Harvelko in late 40's and is now living in San Bernardino, California.[...] |
| Shennum School - mid 20's. Left to right - rear row: Clarence Henninger, Pear[...] |
| [...]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, wh[...]came from have the postoffice and a grocery store. They have two Sweden. They came to Perley, Minnesota where they daugh[...]s 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[...]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 spent in Germany. He is now employed at Culbertson, where Dad had a harness and saddle shop. the Tande gr[...]arents told us many interesting stories of events that Corps of Engineers in the Army in Europe dur[...]e. They have two daughters, Sue and the trip with a team and wagon which took several days.[...]ather died in 1943, and Mother passed away in had to be made to Culbertson for lumber and supplies for 1970. the new homestead buildings. Medicine Lake was also an important shopping place for many of the homestea[...]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 t[...]ota 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 cars, a 1917 Model T community where he took up a homestead about nine miles touring, in the area.[...]e being, he was one of the first census takers in that part of Hagen of Barnsville, Minnesota at Wil[...]omestead. Henry's wife by hand for his own horses as well as those of his was born in Barnsville, Minnesota on November 8, 1889 to neighbors.[...]which was the their name later coming to the United States from Norway. nearest town for s[...]She was raised in Minnesota and went to Williston, North postoffice, as well as a general store, grain elevator, hotel, Dakota wh[...]ay of traveling. Henry's homeste_a d south of Flaxville and raised three There was a country school at Eagle Creek about two[...]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 th[...]the neighborhood in attendance - men and children as well as the ladies. Sometimes, after the chores were done in the evenings, there would be a few good card games. Many hardships were endure[...]rd 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 result[...]and if reception was poor at one's home, he went to the neighbor's to hear the nightly broadcast of Amos 'n Andy[...] |
| [...]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 sol[...]in Flaxville for 22 years where he took a claim south of Flaxville. Glyn Bjerke lives on that was custodian at the Flaxville School. 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[...]eived 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[...]. Flaxville. Kenneth served in the navy from 1944 to 1948. compiled[...]r the service he married Lillian Waters and moved to Great Falls where they have made their home ever since. Kenneth is a driver for Ryan's Trucking Service. In 1943, h[...]HISTORY OF CARL J. FROSLAN sold their homestead to Ed Tyler and moved to Flaxville where he worked at McCabe elevator for[...]y Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota to Hans and remained in Flaxville until October, 1967, moved to Scobey Karn Morstead Froslan. Carl was the[...]Cooperstown, North Dakota in 1887. When he was a young man the family moved to the Eagle Creek community, south of Flaxville. He[...]ated from high school in Redstone in 1934 he went to work on the Fort Peck Dam. He married[...]as from Rothsay, Minnesota. In 1940 Glenn went to work for the Bonneville Power Administration in V[...]n Portland, Oregon. During World War II he worked as a welding instructor for War Production Training.[...]Glenn and Winnie and their two children moved on a farm in Daniels County. This farm was originally owned by "Mac" McAllister. . Glenn and Winnie have a son Richard (Dick) and a daughter Judy. Dick is married to Diana Polikowsky from Rochester, Minnesota. They have one son, Richard. Dick is an electrical engineer and works for the Control Data Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Judy is married to Tom Mathes and they live in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have two sons, Tommy and Michael. Tom Mathes is on the police force in Cincinnati. Carl Fr[...]orn in Nevada, Iowa in 1884. In 1905 out to Montana to take up homesteads. Carl remained at he came to Montana and filed on a claim near Bainville, home with his mother, and she passed away in 1914. Carl, Montana. That winter he went to St. Marys, Idaho and knowing there was still land to homestead, left by train for worked in the lumber[...]ned in the spring of Daniels County. This is where brothers Peder and Martin[...] |
| [...]nsen became known for accomplishing the He was a member of Orville Lutheran Church, and[...]than two years. He was awarded the Carl drove a Model T touring car back to St. James, Nobel Peace prize for this.[...], with top down all the way. Nansen was a frequent visitor at the Lammers Carl never mar[...]. Halverson remembers him well. The worked with H.A. Christensen, Adler Fjones, Ben 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 formal ball at the Nansen mansion. lively. The la[...]Bjornstjerne Bjornsen, who ranks with Ibsen as one of Carl died at the age of 79 years in St.[...]reatest dramatists and writers. Bjornsen also and is buried in Madelia, Minnesota. wrote the words to Norway's national anthem.[...]ging of Norwegian folk songs, which he collected, as Emil Getterberg of Valley City, North Dakota came to well as for his opera roles and classical concerts. One 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[...]"Living in the Lammers house was like having a concert hard work of early day farming. He rented[...]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 dea[...]o still own it. Walter Linder though I had a good voice in those days." now farms part of it.[...]ll in love with Fridtjof (Fred) Halverson, son of a neighborhood storekeeper. Fridtjof decided to go to SHE TRADED A MANSION America to seek his fortune as there was no room for him in FOR A PRAIRIE SHACK his father's business. He went to Madoc, North Dakota in 1906, and a year and a half later Anna joined him. From an article by Dorothy Rustebakke "The Lammers did not want me to do," Mrs. Halverson[...]recalls. "Mr. Lammers told me I was foolish to go to such a Flaxville:[...]ous 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 Bjorns[...]North Dakota, but insisted on learning to speak English She was a housekeeper in the home of Thorvald and[...]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 prai[...]wn 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. She found work at a ranch in the Bainville area where Born on a farm in Sweden, and one of 14 children, Mrs. she cooked for about a dozen men. Two of the men were Halverson followed an older sister to Norway to work Russians who had come over after[...]found 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[...]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'." shack was a drastic change from the mansion in Oslo. Mrs.[...]n looked so naked I hated to go outside. But I got used to it." accomplishments was the designing of a special ship, the She rem em hers how[...]ehind their shack "Fram", which was built in such a manner that it would be to keep it from blowing away. Their 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 on tall poles all around. Siberia, predicting that the currents 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 continued their explorations by[...] |
| "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 passed away from a heart attack at home in Flaxville I cleaned the shack and went back to my job." in 1957. Anna passed away as a result of a stroke in the The first of her seven children[...]r children, he was born without the assistance of a doctor. An elderly woman came to help. Five weeks after the baby was born they moved to another homestead about six miles south of Navajo[...]FRED AND EVELYN HANSON Halverson rigged up a wagon, hitched up four horses, and they started o[...]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, expenses of homesteading he took a job of freighting from "sitting in the middle of the river with my baby in my Culbertson to Redstone with a team of horses and wagon. arms."[...]rine Corps when the United They were caught in a March snowstorm and after dark States ent[...]e. "FinaJly we drove into service in France. a clothesline and we heard a baby crying," she recalls. "It He played on[...]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.[...]Halverson was alone with her baby She was a "schoolmarm" from Minot, North Dakota. She a prairie fire threatened their place. She could he[...]ek, Smoke Creek, crackling of the flames, and had to ~ait helplessly to see if and Redstone. She also played for dances[...]lessons for several years. The Halversons lost a four-month-old baby girl and a Fred worked as a mechanic in Flaxville before and after boy of ten as a result of the flu epidemic after World War I. t[...]ily 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[...]ville and keeps house for her son Sigurd. She has a rich store of memories and some treasured old mag[...]n understand why her employers were so reluctant to see her leave for America 57 years ago.[...]Hanson Fred Halverson came from Oslo, Norway on a ship. He married 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[...]hildren, Joseph Jr., Dan and Cindy. Ruth, married to They came to Homestead in March of 1910 with a month John Vanlandingham, lives in Billi[...]John and Roger. Fred, married to the former Shirley They settled on their farm s[...]n Silver Star community. They have four house was a frame house. The barn and chicken coop were[...]midwives for the children and Dr. After a stroke in 1949 Fred Sr. took up the hobby of Heal[...]ng, renewing and rebuilding rifles. This involved a They all helped build the first church which was the old great deal of meticulous work - all done by a man with a Orville church. Church activities and Ladies Aid[...]school dances and house Evelyn continued to give piano lessons and Fred worked parties and Fr[...]re his death in buggy were the main travel means. A new Model T Ford March of 1967.[...] |
| [...]eger originally came from Germany, probably first to Minnesota. He homesteaded south of Navajo in 1910[...]The family moved to Balfour, North Dakota. In 1908[...]Paul's brother, Henry, came to Culbertson by train, and[...]cated eight miles south of Navajo, which was then a part I[...]to this country in an immigrant car. They brought with[...]them cattle, horses, a steam engine and a threshing rig.[...]lost their fat white dog to the Indians who ate it. This made[...]aul drove the steam engine across the reservation to[...]their new home. Sparks from the engine started a fire in the[...]ngine around the fire and |
| [...]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 i[...]had homes of our own. We all went the four miles to school at Eagle Creek with horses. My last teache[...]verson) 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. Henry farmed on the Indian reser[...]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!"[...]Valier staying with a family by name of Norsky. He had a[...]tle cabin in Valier. Above the door he had put up a large THOMAS LEE[...]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[...]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[...]912, being over 74 years old. Tom lived there for a number of years. During the winter the neighbors would play a lot of cards. With another fellow he went to 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[...]traveled by team and wagon to their home. The first winter Tom Lee and Sister S[...]spent with Frank and Ceilia. In spring they built a[...]rocks and other work connected with establishing a home.[...]new house that was started in 1914.[...]Entertainment was limited to house parties and visiting[...]neighbors. On one occasion there was a gathering at 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[...]wagon! By that time it was getting dark, making it difficult to search. After a time the outfit was located at the Herman[...] |
| [...]have four children, reside in that community.[...]Sr. At the age of three he came to Navajo, Montana with the men are brothers.[...]Ed went to school at what was known as the Eagle Creek[...]Bill Konchur and also hauled and dug coal. For a time Anton and Frank owned a threshing outfit, powered by a steam engine. In 1915 Rob Hall, a carpenter from Wisconsin, built a Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Linder, Marvin and Delano[...]arn on the place. All work was done by horses, so a barn was a necessity. He built several others in the community that are still standing. The children attended schoo[...]ing Anniversary in 1954. The two brothers married to sisters. Another brother and sister who we[...] |
| [...]e, Saskatchewan, Canada and came with her parents to north Navajo. The Ed Linders have two boys, Mar[...]e son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Linder. Marvin went to school at Navajo, Eagle Creek and Flaxville. In 1[...]"Carla" Vertasselt of Sidney, Montana; and Bruce, a senior, of Sidney. Marvin is shop foreman at Larson Motors in Sidney and Marion is a teller at Richland National Bank. They enjoy bo[...]INDER FAMILY Delano Linder, most commonly known as Del, was born Mr. and Mrs. Frank Linder - Golden Wedding - in Daniels County on October 7, 1930 to Lena and Edwin August 15, 1954 Linder. He went to school in Navajo, Eagle Creek and Scobey. Del gra[...]service, on June 19, day back. It was really a blessing when a store was started Delano married Diane Frethiem of Plentywood, Montana. at Navajo. He worked as a mechanic in Havre, Montana for four[...]broke up years; at which time he and Diane moved to Great Falls, many acres of land for plantin[...]l when it was butchering time the Linders Montana to work for Auto Motor. butchered 12 pigs and a beef, and sometimes some turkeys Delano now has a wheel lining shop of his own in[...]too. Cecelia would spend a whole week making Linder partnership with Gus & Jack, and a home in Great Falls.[...]main sport, and Frank would blow up a tune on the mouth organ at least once or twice a week.[...]After Frank retired he and Cecelia moved to Flaxville to THE FRANK LINDER FAMILY live. Their house is now owned by the Robert Schneekloths.[...]ily they were traveling to Arizona Mr. and Mrs. Bill Koncher[...]and Slim Carlson of Flaxville paid them a visit. Slim and Frank Linder, the son of Mr. an[...]degree weather while Frank was shivering with a heavy Frank worked as a logger in Wisconsin and on August rain coat on. When Slim and Bill returned to Flaxville, they 17, 1904 he married Cecelia Arebellacher. They remained said "Frank weathered many a blizzard in Montana but in Wisconsin until 1909 at which time they moved to shivers in Arizona". Montana, coming first by train to Culbertson. Later the In 1940 the Frank Linders had the misfortune of losing Linders came to the Navajo community to homestead. their farm house to fire. Frank Linder Jr. lived there at the Their first home was a sod shack until they could get time and t[...]Raymond Linders . _ enough lumber from Culbertson to build a larger and better while Monnie and Frank Linde[...]folks home. This took some time because they had to haul in Boise, Idaho. .[...]wagon all the way. The land is now farmed by Linder brothers, Terry and In the[...]d seven children: Raymond, take two days, one day to reach Culbertson and the next deceas[...] |
| [...]anick, Arizona; and Frank, Jr., deceased. an important event. We began updating and remodeling[...]Our boys, Ronald and Anton went to grade school at[...](Knight) were married in the "dirty al ways be our home. thirties", truly a challenging time for newlyweds. We farmed and lived with his parents, the Anton Linders, for a few years until they retired and moved to Flaxville.[...]at Glasgow, Montana for a year. At this point Ronald[...]After three years they moved on to Wake Island where they survived a very destructive typhoon. They also lived on the[...]college at Bozeman and Havre, where he earned a degree Mr. and Mrs. Walter Linder as Electronic Technician. After college he enlisted[...]Since his discharge from the Navy he is employed by[...]The Owen Logan family came to Daniels County from[...]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[...]their new homestead. Their first necessity was a home, but in order to build one it required several three-day trips to Walter Linder (at 14) and Beauty[...]lived in a small 8x10 snack, which was already on the land,[...]and a tent. After several weeks of such living, a home was a welcome sight. Walter worked on W.P.A. one winter, earning $44 per Although o[...]ars old at the time Freedia month. It seemed like a fortune then. We milked cows and (Logan) Thompson can still remember the homemade sold cream to supplement our income. He also worked at b[...]the trip to Montana was that she sat in the back of the[...] |
| Owen Logan Family - first campground. Left to right: Raymond, Grandpa Fawcett, Freedia, Worth , Jam es, Georgia (Mother) , Owen (Father) , Ruby on h is lap, and Don. wagon, looking out as they moved along, bu;ily occupied MARCUS LONG |
| Meanwhile that spring, Clara Redlacqyk of Fall Creek, Corps, a horrible experience he says. Upon discharge he Wisconsin came by train to Flaxville and stayed with the started a painting and paper hanging business in Wausau, Ea[...]wns and operates. He married Flaxville and put in a crop. Lucille S[...]Barbara, who is married.[...]death Mrs. Murr went to live with her daughter at Renton,[...]seven and a half miles southeast of Flaxville in the fall of[...]William Murr family in an immigrant railroad car. They[...]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[...]d 34 years with the usual ups and there. As a result there were three sets of burnt feet. downs[...]thought the 320 acres ofland offered was a lot ofland. The:y graduated from Flaxville School[...]liked the country very much but there was a lot of work. In 1948 they sold the farm and lived in Flaxville a few They had to build a home, dig a well, dig up rocks, etc. years. Later they moved to Frontdale, Oregon and bought There were four boys born in Wisconsin: Joseph a place where they raised raspberries. After ten and a half Edward, Walter and Ludwig. In 1913 a daughter, Barbara years they sold the property and retired to Seattle, where was born in Montana. Ed passe[...]randchildren 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.[...]d died February 26, 1971. Washington. Verona went to Havre college, graduating in Walter mar[...]Dickinson, North 1940. Verona married Sgt. Henry A. Ewaniec who died in Dakota. :rhey lived in Pendleton, Oregon. His wife and a 1950. Their children were Roger and Cynthia. Verona grandson were killed in an automobile accident September married Gene R. Nea[...]n and Terri Carla. Verona now lives in Tacoma and is four daughters and two sons. working at Pi[...]widow of the late William Murr, and they lived on a Joseph Murr so there were 20 people living together 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 Clare[...]hool 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 In 1914[...]nt with hot water from in World War II and became a sergeant in the Medical a washing machine. The only thing they could[...] |
| [...]ed child. the older brother Peter. Frank operated a saloon in Flaxville and ran it until the late 20'[...]40's. Peter worked around Flaxville and married a widow, Martha Wade, who had two children. He live[...]ville until he and Martha separated. He then went to Alaska to look for gold and died there in the 1930's.[...]w up in northeast Montana. In 1936 he was married to Barbara (Murr)[...]in Homestead. They went to work for Paul Kanning on the[...]the fall they went to Kramer, North Dakota with E'mma's[...]harvest fields there. That winter they lived eight miles[...]south of Navajo and worked on a W.P.A. project. In the William Murr, born in Pennsylv[...]on, Wisconsin, were married in Wisconsin and came to Daniels County in 1909 with their four children. They brought some belongings in a railroad immigrant car. Their first home was a sod house, which they shared with two other families that first winter. The house that they built later still stands, tall and erect, on[...]y Norman Rasmussen. William Murr Family. Left to right: Harold, Mrs. Murr, |
| Larry was married to Sharon Grayson of Plentywood, and they have two c[...]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.[...]by Blanche Linder Earl Randall came to Daniels County from Fall Creek, A year later he married Louise Mehls, who came here Bertha Teren, a niece of Mrs. John Severson, came to |
| [...]ible 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 on June 14, 1886 near plant for many years. Joy is married and has several Burlington, Wisconsin. By[...]e has now retired. Wisconsin, so he ventured west to Montana to help his by G[...]t 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. SCHLAG a daughter, Florence, who is now Mrs. Max Rasmussen at Antelope.[...]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 re[...]t. In 1900 he came by covered wagon to Culbertson. Along From 1924-1929 they lived in[...]were Jack Wagner and Bill Endersby. John operated a wheat farm near Madoc. In 1930 they had worked on a cattle ranch at Culbertson during the summer moved back to Sheridan County and farmed the George and in the fall started a homestead southwest of Redstone Stringer farm sou[...]in the Eagle's Nest area. His first home was a log cabin the place will be remembered for Mrs. Schlag's beautiful which was lived in until 1912 when he built a house. The garden despite the wind and drought of[...]umber used was hauled from Medicine Lake. In 1911 a 1934 a severe windstorm took the roof off the barn. Luck[...]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, During th[...]rs for the Leet County school, two miles distant. A After 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. Schlag was clerk of the school boa[...]by Mrs. Max Rasmussen a home in Plentywood. Mr. Schlag was custodian at t[...]county was divided. A nine month term started then.[...]building was the usual one room school, heated by a coal burning stove. There was a small barn and some of the[...]born in Wisconsin and Myrtle in Kansas. They had a log cabin where they lived and then later built t[...]Halverson family lived for many years. Harley was an only son and went to school at Eagle Creek School. He married M[...] |
| [...]he was about ten the family moved to HoIJ}estead where they lived for about a year. Then his father took up a[...]homestead south of Navajo in 1910. There were a few years Eagle Creek School - 1918. Bertha P[...]h Logan, Lester 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[...]ntil 1935 when the bundles ran out. George bought a used As each year goes by they are thankful for continued[...]ealth for them and their families. Flaxville. A Ford run-about was another purchase in 1924 and George and Vern Tyler made a trip to Yellowstone Park, drove to the top of Mt. Washburn which was 10,300 feet[...]SEVERSON high. This drive was later discontinued as it was considered too dangerous. The roads at that time were not John J. Severson came to this county in 1910, paved and some of them were[...]born on May 13, 1855 at Underdahl, Norway to parents, On December 28, 1933 George and Ruth[...]Gjorgen and Ingeborg Severson. He came to America with married. She was born October 25, 1[...]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[...]n 1909 figure the acreages. It was hot, hard work to do all that they moved to Homestead. They arrived first in Culbertson walk[...]by train on July 30 and stayed overnight at a hotel and made much easier and George worked wit[...]veying. Tom Lee, to his homestead two miles east of the town of Ge[...]ve 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[...]non, Eileen, Ronald and Marvin. School was always a problem in the country because of bad weather and roads. The boys especially had a lot of fun with their Shetland ponies and Eileen[...]51 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[...]1948 the plumbing for the bathroom was finished. A Servel kerosene refrigerator was The win[...]lies 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 coal couldn't be hauled fast enough with horses from conveniences[...]small Homestead. There was lots of snow that winter also and n o there was not much traveling, but in 1949 they had a small doctor, so Mrs. Paulson acted as midwife . Snow was melted tent and campstove and[...]e was much moisture in the air. Fair; and in 1952 a trip to the Yellowstone Park was great, In the fal[...]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 trouble finding a spot for the tent in the park in those days. be[...]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.[...]Homestead they had a load of lumber , which was hauled George and Ruth have been fortunate enough to do a from Culbertson and left there until M[...]traveling by going on several group tours. George is John came to build a one-room shack , 14x16. Part of their[...] |
| [...]rest of my school years I went to Plentywood and[...]farm in a trailer house for nine years.[...],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[...]Lester and Dora. and was so well built that we built a basement under it and[...]did some remodeling. Then we moved an old barn from the[...]E.E. Sheridan place in Sheridan County a few miles from[...]One of the things we do during the summer for a week is had only a dirt floor. On a bright sunny day on March 19, to take a wagon train trip. We have gone on them for the 1[...]ning 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 famil[...]gs and baby Emma. This was rode horseback as outriders. an early spring and the creeks were high. They forde[...]ayrack 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[...]ut nine in the evening the family arrived and had a fire in the corner of the shack to keep warm. I was born in Scobey in 1935 to George and Ruth John had three horses, a plow, a disc and drill, and Tom Severson. I went to Eagle Creek School for eight years, we Lee had t[...]med 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 was nice. We remember that the roads were plenty tough broke before the horses ran a way in a big snow storm. They for the small bus pulled[...]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 of six bushels. That summer they built a sod barn for the horses and four cows, and one mo[...]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. box[...]s. The next two years more land was broke up with a walking plow pulled by two oxen. He traded a horse for two oxen. Then a team of horses and a team of oxen were used to pull a sulky plow. Later another daughter, Dora, was born. In 1914 a new two story frame house was built. This house is still standing. In 1915 another daughter, Inez, w[...]rses everywhere they went those first years, even to Scobey on Norman Severson and mule team for[...]of July. The first buggy was bought in 1918, and an 83 Overland car, 1918 model, was bought in 1920. A tragic event in the Severson family in later year[...]daughter Jennie (Mrs. Jasper We moved to Plentywood in the winter for high school. Phelps)[...]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[...] |
| [...]D CHERYL SEVERSON I was born in Scobey and went to Eagle Creek School, where I was the only one in my grade--what a difference when we moved to Plentywood and I was in a room of over forty! I graduated from Plentywood H[...]arm, 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.[...]The Vernon Severson family . As heads appear: Mark,[...]when I went into the insurance business. I am now a[...]both still think of Daniels and Sheridan Counties as[...]children are always glad for summer--time to go to[...]1910 on the north side of Eagle Creek. They built a nice[...]Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After she died he lived in a trailer[...]house which later caught fire and he was burned to death.[...]n 1970 I beg~n selling mobile homes, transferring to a street car conductor for many years and later dro[...]Adam Vaubel was born near Marathon, Wisconsin. As a young man he worked as a lumberjack. Wages were poor My parents are George and Ruth Severson. I was born at and as the timber became scarce he came west to better Scobey and raised south of Flaxville on my parents' himself. He worked in the Dakotas for a couple of years, farm and ranch, where I spent 21[...]was graduated from Flaxville High, then came to Daniels County, Montana in 1912. He bought land e[...]in 1965 and served my active southeast of what is now Flaxville, from John Gunderson , duty in 1956[...]during our who had homesteaded it, but wanted to move closer to his school days and were married June 30, 1957. mother and brothers. There was a 9x12 shack on the place, Lorraine, a daughter of Anker and Dora Jensen, was so that was Adam's first home. born and raised in Sherida[...]The first year he broke 40 acres and seeded a crop. Wheat in Plentywood and graduated from Plentywood High. was hauled to Medicine Lake with a four horse outfit, a We now have six children: Michael, Kelly, Matth[...]e lived on the farm where I the shack, so when a blizzard came up he fed his horses worked with my dad until 1959; then I attended a carpenter enough hay to last a couple of days, made a big kettle of trade school in Minnesota for two years, returning to do soup and spent most of the time in bed, getting up to refuel contruction work in Plentywood in 1960.[...]In the fall of 1962 I moved my wife and family to Great meat. He didn't like venison. In a few years he built a larger Falls and worked in construction there until November of house and used the homestead shack for a chicken coop.[...] |
| [...]JOE VAUBEL Lehner 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 assoc[...]ught catch them any place without trouble. 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 Reserv[...]r 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 On[...]and could remember the names of many as a result was in poor health. In the mid thirties he moved early settlers who stayed briefly and went on to other to a warmer climate, living in Albuquerque, New Mexico[...]he went "broke" three times, each time for a few years. Later he bought property in Segiun, Te[...]where he passed away in 1949. He is buried in a military He passed away in 1971 at the a[...] |
| [...]we learned it was a stray horse or two rubbing on the I, Elsie Phel[...]il the spring of 1906. One morning we found a herd of horses had surrounded Our family moved to the Deep River country northeast of the 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[...]e 1914-1915 term. There I met Phelps, had written that he had taken squatter's rights for Victor Wilb[...]rn at Bartlett, North Dakota all Valley County at that time. on December[...]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[...]stead at the beginning of the depression. Vic was a[...]k of World War II he rented the land out and went to Seattle to work in the war plants where he passed away[...]with a heart attack on March 4, 1942.[...]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. How excited we were; a whole new world opening up for From the[...]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 the land through the year[...]on, modern homes, etc. However, the west by train to Culbertson, by horse and buggy to Froid homestead days still bring back many[...]by lumber wagon, with our supplies, the 40 miles to Wolf Creek. Dan Campbell, whose son Roy and famil[...]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 Dan[...]Eileen and James, and they rented a farm from Peter The present house on my homestead was built in 1911. At Kurtz. I recall that my first impression was that there 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 b[...]een McN ess, she now Ii ves in meals and lodging, as it was a four day haul to get a load of Boulder, Colorado, she has three sons; James is a rancher grain to Medicine Lake, usually in the winter with sled an[...]niversal City, Texas, she has four children; John is a ~eds were 35¢ per night. Meals were 25¢ each. Many slept helicopter mechanic in Amarillo, Texas; George is in m the hay mow when we were overcrowded.[...]for water supply in Spokane; Helen Tucker Later as crops were planted and harvested, my father[...]d in ~-E. Phelps and my brother Rollin Phelps ran a threshing the National Guard Reserve and Georg was in the Navy. ng and were one of the first to farm with a tractor. Clarence retired from far[...]n Poplar where we live. l~ter at Allie Pfeiffers, a five mile ride to either place. Some[...]ivery there now. Our excitement of the west and a new life proved only too true many times with the[...]d 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 pan of live 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 o[...] |
| [...]ildren, one of whom died in the 1918 flu epidemic as did Joseph, born in 1873, never married. He lived[...]ol Fester of latter's three daughters are married to Max Hackmann of Medicine Lake; Gerald and[...]lliam Konshur of Flaxville. Their son Harold is married to the former Jean Hendrickson. son Douglas lives at[...]Plentywood; Harvey and Jack of Sidney; Pearl had a son and two daughters , one of whom was[...]kson of Redstone; Connie, Sharon, Shirley married to Worth Logan of Flaxville.[...]are six grandchildren. Marion Edgar, better known as Ed, never married. His Vernon, the youngest of the Tyler family, came in 1910 to first homestead was south of Culbertson. In 1906 he came Culbertson and 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 ope[...]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.[...] |
| [...]IN REVERIE The tall grass whispers 'neath a gnarled dead tree. A lonely house stands deserted, its windows gone, t[...]. prime, a young man and his bride set forth to accept the East s[...] |
| 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.[...]s then the modern faster cars, people began to travel on to larger cities and way of sending messages. towns to do much of their buying. This sturdy village prospered and grew through the A theatre was built in the early years which later[...]infancy into the drought stricken years of the A new one was built with shares in it being sold to the 1930's, when the ink of nearly every business was more red public on a co-operative basis. Elmer Jackson was an early- than black, and on into the 1940's when th[...]usefulness are over, with the exception of an occasional From left to right: an early day dentist, his wife and son, dance bein[...]f the early day thrills many will remember was on a Mrs. Louis Peltier, taken in 1914. ' Sunday afternoon when Dewey Lowers, a local man who owned an airplane, gave rides to people for a dollar. There was a young lady with him who jumped from the plane[...]with a parachute, and it is safe to surmise that seeing this daring feat was far more of a thrill than to watch the outer[...]Independence Day celebrations were looked forward to[...]it is the Flaxville Hustler, one of the newspape[...] |
| 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[...]Harold Hewitt, L. Haroldson, Joe during the week that many of the folks came to town to do Haugen, Wilbur Swenson, Phil Hexom and[...]h Brenden and Bert Cossette. Arden Olsen as the first mayor. Councilmen were Al Johansen, Har[...]ny good ball players back in the early years, one that still serves in that capacity. Arnie Rasmussen was named was o[...]of police. local lumber yard. He was a pitcher and played some Businesses have change[...]Stan Milford, Layton Galloway, the Giles Variety, a beauty shop, two bars, the post office, one brothers, and Jim Dorwin-a very good athlete (still active elevator, the depot, and an oil station. Through the years at 81 years)[...]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 Wil[...]Brenden, Harold Hanson, Emil Club which sponsors an annual rodeo and sports day. For Morvik,[...]embers too: Bill Morrow, Orris Monson, Erling and competition that it bravely overcame, have all gone into M[...]Baseball League-this was a very competitive group of[...]some new and younger faces Flaxville was known as a good baseball town through were on the[...]Don Higgins, Bob the years-even before there was a town team there were Kurtz, Todd Tryan,[...]n Ryerson, Tony Swenson, Mention should be made of a few of Flaxville's most Fred Hanson . Second row:[...]who still enjoy a good ball game and a visit about the good teams that Flaxville had. George Tryan, another baseball[...]fan, continues to follow all of Flaxville's hall teams. The[...]local business people were great contributors, as well as[...]team sponsored an annual dance in the Flaxville Hall to[...]Flaxville;s most successful basketball season, that of[...] |
| [...]composed of Joe Murr, A.J. Wood, Eugene LaRoche, Peter[...]Cemetery, and for a time also served the Scobey mission.[...]In 1931 the church was enlarged and a parish hall was[...]fthefirstHigh Flaxville Cardinals. Back row, left to right: Tully Tryan Mass and Solemn Mass of[...]Rod Wiemeri. Front row: Thor native son to be ordained to the priesthood in the history of Gunderson (No. 2[...]The following have served as priests at Flaxville:[...]as an administrator), Altmann, Sorger, Whalen, Kenney,[...]istrict and Divisional playoffs easily, advancing to the State tourney held in the Carroll College fie[...]FLAXVILLE ALTAR SOCIETY divisional, the first that the Car.dinals have been in, was in Glasgow.[...]he state tournament, the Cards same time that the first Masses were said at the Joe Goulet defe[...]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 organization that has survived through good championship with Colum[...]nals got times and bad, until today it is still actively busy in the a slow start, was won by Flaxville 68-61.[...]The ladies later held a dance in the Goulet barn with the[...]Mass vestments and an Altar Missal. ST. LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH[...]f late years the ladies of the Al tar Society had a project 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 of the state, he needs of the church altar, such as candles, priest's traveled with a team of horses from Plentywood. In 1910 he[...]d serve lunches for next five years Flaxville was a mission of Culbertson, receptions, etc. served by Father Alphonse Pache, a Benedictine priest. In The Society is divided into three Circles: St. Mary, St. 1915 it became a mission of Plentywood, and since 1919, it Bernadette, and St. Catharine. has been a mission of Scobey. The first Masses said in the[...]OF FLAXVILLE Scobey, were also used for Masses in that area. AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH From 1915 to 1918 the mission was served by Father Hennessy of[...]coming of the railroad On May 20, 1925, a meeting was held in the hall over Peter in 1913,[...]xom's general store for the purpose of organizing a was said once a month in the hall over the general store.[...] |
| [...]lson, Gunder in 1925, at the same time as the congregational Sherseth, and Fred Tasa. Mrs.[...]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[...]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 1928 when the the church basement at a cost of $242.00. furnace was installed and the fl[...]d was organized also at this time. Eight pews and a piano were purchased. O[...]were: Mrs. John Severson, president; Mrs. Due to crowded conditions at the public school, classes[...]Though they were few in number, the ladies earned a District President A.M. Skindlov officiating. sizea[...]in the spring of 1928 and moved work sales. to his farm south of Flaxville. Rev. R.L. Simonson s[...](1939-1945) were the pastors. projects. Due to its small membership, the Eagle Creek Aid During[...]oined the Orville and the town church merged into a new Zion of Orville or Flaxvil[...]became one unit. N. Benson (1946-1953) continued to serve from Scobey. The first officers in the newly formed organization were: It was then that the Flaxville, Pleasant Prairie, and Mrs.[...]Mollerstuen, secretary; Mrs. Gilbert established a new one, with Rev. R. Johnson as our new Hammer, treasurer. pastor. Late[...]63), N. Borsvold (1963-1969), was changed to Womens Missionary Federation in keeping R. Widerh[...]organization. In later years it became known as the In 1956 the church was enlarged to its present size, with American Lutheran Chur[...]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[...]by the Flaxville parish for their parsonage, has an interesting history of many owners and many occup[...]eneral store with Peter Hex om, had the foresight to build the large structure. It has been a home for Carl Tange, George 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[...] |
| home is at present. It was apparently planned to build a When asked what gave him the most troubl[...]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.[...]traditional Ford 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 was[...]. 1914. Their daughter, Pansy, was the first baby to be Doc had two bags filled with necessa[...]nding ever ready beside the door, and he doctored to the Other active members included the Tousley,[...]arnhart, Hewitt long standing, and it is a safe guess that he wrote many of families, as well as many others not remembered these them off as paid. His office was always in a state of many years later.[...]ne occasion when he was away on It was recalled that Reverend Barber lived in a small vacation, some well-meaning ladies[...]se 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[...]didn't know where anything was. The doctor was a happy, the members joined the Scobey or Redstone[...]joking remarks. His soft eastern accent was a lifetime way years of the church's existence.[...]case is recalled when stormy weather prevented the doctor[...]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[...]as the last baby Taken in part from a clipping of hundreds that he delivered.[...]dies at the University of Vermont, too, was an 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. Lo[...]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[...]He had been in continual practice in as one of her teachers in Northhampton, a lady who later Flaxville since his coming in 1914[...]retirement in married Calvin Coolidge. 1957, a period of more than 43 years.[...]959, When he retired at 77, Dr. Healy was still an energetic from coronary thrombosis at Wheelwright, lassachusetts, person. His formula for a healthy life was a sensible diet, at the age of 78. He was of the Catholic fa ith and was a sleep when it was needed, a busy mind with a measure of nephew of the late Bishop O'Ha[...]alls contentment, and mild exercise could perhaps be Diocese. considered the most important factors. His background as a longtime country doctor with vast years of calls[...]by Dorothy Kanning hours, caused him to be tempted to modify the "sleep when needed" to "sleep when you can get it". Regarding transpor[...]arly years in Flaxville, Dr. Healy said he bought a new Model T Ford in 1914. It was a runabout coupe with ising-glass side FLAXVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 7 curtains, a fold-back top and "presto lights" (carbide). This[...]by Dorothy Kanning the roads. At those times a bob-sled or cutter and horses were -used.[...]the schoolyard was a familiar sight in the town of Flaxville Dr. Healy[...]it is remembered that John Q. Zuck was school principal[...]was decided to add more rooms and a gymnasium to the[...]building. With the new gym, they were able to have a basketball team as a part of the school program.[...]In 1922 Mr. J.T. Casey headed the teaching staff as[...]and received a salary of $96.00 per month. He was followe[...] |
| [...]By the late 1950's it was felt that the old school was no[...]longer adequate, so the new schoolhouse was built a short[...]was the first to be graduated from the new building. The[...]addition of a dining room and stage area was added in[...]Peterson-Battleson-Haagensen was a name associated The old Flaxville school house.[...]with grocery stores in the early 1920's, as they owned[...]managing it during all the years that it operated under that in that capacity by Frank Hewitt, John Gunn, and John[...]ught the store building from Andy Rafshol. Brenna as early-day janitors. Harry was a brother of Ed Battleson, prominent Scobey Mrs. Jordan took over the duties as principal (with a cut businessman. Ruth Linthicum (later Mrs. Ellis Guy), who of about $100.00 in wages) for a short period, and in 1924 had also worked in the Seo bey store, came to work for Harry Mrs. Chris Tange and Wilma Marsh r[...]in Flaxville. In the late 1920's it was sold to the IGA chain Hammer (now married) and Mrs. Guy.[...]managing the store. 1925 until 1932, when he was killed in a car accident. Harry was married to the former Glenna Hensrud, a William A. Collins was then the principal for the next few[...]Hamlet, North Dakota. It is interesting to note the purposes for which the Harry[...]our children, Fern, Elaine, money was spent, such as for many tons of coal, chemicals William and Lloyd, a member of the Air Force, who was for the toilets,[...]killed in a plane crash on May 6, 1945. water) draying bills for hauling supplies (the dray was a[...]1973 at Havre, Montana. horse-drawn vehicle used to haul freight and supplies), paying someone for sp[...]for the furnace, kalsomining the walls - this was a powdery substance mixed with water and applied in the same manner as paint, but it differed in that it rubbed off on one's clothing if he[...]oots in the community of Flaxville, where we came as a Lucille Mehls (Krusemark), Alice Brenden (Schae[...]lmina Lein much more than babies. Olaf came to be Superintendent of (Hart), Clayton Bunse, Loyal Br[...]The first memory we have of Flaxville is Ii ving in the[...]house we were to live in was being made ready. A water Part of the new school house at Flaxville.[...]was extended underground from the school building to our house, so we had a limited supply of running water[...]thought the town, with its wide-open spaces, was a good place for youngsters to grow up in.[...]Lutheran ministry for six years. Since that time he has[...]Our son Bruce is married and lives in Alaska. He is an -- - .,. - analyst for an oil company. Elaine, Mrs. Brooks Hanna, is :i~--1$.::?: "'.1_ - :;,_..,._ a nurse in Williston, North Dakota.[...] |
| [...]thirty-one great grandchildren. My father came to what is now Daniels County in the early 1900's. He lived a very colorful young life as a cowboy, taking part in cattle drives from Texas to Montana. He also trailed horses from North Dakota to Great Falls, Montana with his father, Sam Boyd.[...]VING BUNSE My mother, Teresa Conlan, also came to this country in the early 1900's, coming here by[...]Scobey. Her first impression of this country was that it was very frightening. At night, when she was a[...]prairie, she could Montana homesteaders in a part of Sheridan County hear the coyotes howling all about her. Consequently, she which was later to be included in the new county of spent much of her t[...]Daniels. family. Mother later sold her homestead to her sister Early in 1913, Dad and a friend, Ernie Waite came from Margaret.[...]Mid3:le, Saskatchewan as far as Bengough, ~lso in that Our parents often told us about their first me[...]ach had the wrong impression of the of land to homestead. After making their claims about ten other. Dad thought the small black-haired lass was an 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[...]ed their lives for any other In May of that year, Ernie returned to Canada for his even if they could have. Mother to[...]ily, 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 a sack of sugar or a home. Their first cup of coffee in the new state of Montana ham, as these were trying times, and most of the people was brewed over a fire using "buffalo chips" for fuel. All of could[...]sed this animal waste for their My folks moved to Williston in 1918, during the flu fires as there were no coal mines opened at that time. epidemic. Dad worked in an elevator there. This was his Our family lived in a small eight by ten foot shanty until trade during[...]lived in Flaxville also. Dad was able to add on a twelve by twelve foot room the My parents had[...]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[...]the Great Northern between Spokane and Shelby. He is now retired, and R~ilroad came through south of us, we were only three although their home is in Spokane, they spend much of miles fro[...]laxville. their time on their small farm north of that city. They had Although we lived in the Whi[...]district Dad six children and were foster parents to over a hundred arranged to drive the school bus into Flaxville in 1917 and c[...]1918 so that we children would be able to attend school Hugh, the second son, is a bachelor and lives in Helena. there. The George Bunse and George Strand children also He is involved in a program for the handicapped. He is the rode in the school bus. healthiest one in[...]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[...]tal Oil near Conrad, Montana for 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. Next in the family is Bette who married Percy (Pat) Kelley after she graduated from college. Pat was a Border Patrolman and later an inspector at the Canadian- American border. They[...]im from England. In the spring of 1975, they took a trip to England. It was the first time back there for Rose in over thirty years. They had three girls and a boy. A daughter passed away in 1971.[...] |
| [...]and oil supplies throughout the area. In addition to these duties, he also provided transportation for Dr. Healy during the winter months. He used an enclosed heated sleigh, called a cutter, in making these house calls with the doctor. Dad always stayed at the home as long as the doctor's services were needed. On one occasion they were gone for two days awaiting the birth of a baby. Many times they would be caught in a blinding snowstorm. Knowing the horses would find[...]d, 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[...]ol 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[...]d Robert. Yard. When the war was over, they moved to Salem, Oregon where they resided until their deat[...]religious Th.:/oldest son, Clayton, worked for a sign company in classes plus all his other jobs and raising a family. Jackie Sale;: until his retirement in March of 1975. He and his was a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts, is busy with church wife, the former 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 Flax[...]usband, Ray Heckart, are also retired and live on a The children have all attended Flaxville[...]athleen works in Scobey. Michael served three and a half is the postmaster. Her husband, Bernard "Pat" Menge, a years in the army and is living in Anchorage, Alaska well-known farmer in[...]here he works. Gregory married Deborah Jensen and is and his wife, Dorothy, live at Burbank, Washingto[...]e School of Optometry at Pacific University in he is employed by the school system. Iris and her husba[...]ts until his attends M.S.U. at Bozeman and is presently taking his death in 1973. She now lives[...]nurse's training in Billings before studying to be an anesthetist. Mary is attending M.S.U. at Bozeman in pre-[...]46 in St. Philips Church in Scobey. They lived in a one room teacherage at the Joy Both Mr[...]heir marriage, they lived there for he worked for a time in Scobey for Greengard's Men's s[...]son, Donald, was born there in Store. They moved to Flaxville in August 1947. Jim worked 1914. The family came to Flaxville in 1915, where six more for the Farmers[...]worst weather in the history of 1920's and is buried in the Flaxville cemetery. our area. He co[...]ail carrier from Flaxville for thirty- Frederick, a licensed pilot, to fly him over his route. They two years, with a good share of the miles being made with a would buzz the farm and drop the mail. That same spring team of horses and homemade delivery bus. During the he hired Wilfred French to take him around his route in a severe winter months, patrons remember, the[...]as lots of mud and roads several days at a time when he was unable to travel due to weren't very good then. bad weather and deep snow, so it was a great day of Jim became clerk of the school dis[...]pers were read and reread. years. He also started as Town Clerk when the town After his retirement, Leo moved to Spokane, Washington incorporated in 1955 and has[...]Catholic Church in Spokane. He was survived by a sister 1953. They have been busy raising a family of eight and brother in North Dakota. Mrs. Cossette was a cousin of children--Kathleen, Michael, Gre[...] |
| [...]ink several years as a carpenter, and at the Flaxville and[...]elda Johansen, were married on April 10, As the land beckons Bert, so the school bells seem 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 tea[...]years we lived there. In March of 1960, we moved to During the years, our children hav[...]in Mountain College at Billings. Rochelle is married to Raymond. Our next move was to Glasgow where Don Claude Frederick. They have a daughter, Jessica. Philip managed the GT A elevator and I was employed at the John an[...]gil and Larry Legare, former Flaxville residents) as a bookkeeper. On June 20, 1969 we moved to Flaxville where Don assumed the position of manag[...]previously managed by John Vaagne. I was employed as MR. AND MRS. LLOYD FRENCH school secretary in September of that year, and still hold this position.[...]by Corinne French Our oldest son, Mike, was a 1972 graduate from Flaxville High School and was[...]ounty, and have and the guitar group she belonged to in high school lived in Flaxville most of the time since we were married. received a superior rating at the State Music Festival in Lloyd farms and does a great deal of carpenter work 1971 and 1973. Jim, our youngest, will be a junior in high whenever he has the time. I d[...]. specialty is cake baking and decorating them for Mike entered the army and is presently stationed at weddings, annive[...]of whom died in infancy. The Don and I enjoyed a one week trip to Hawaii in January four oldest live in Scobey; Steven is employed at the of this year as part of a group of GT A employees who Nemont Telephone Co-op. H[...]ley 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. former Julie Nelson of Scobey. Marcella is a beautician and[...]by Cleo French Albert (Bert) French is the youngest of thirteen children |
| The family kept busy with things that went along with Bozeman, Montana; and Lee (Harry) in 1972 at West farming at that time. There were about five hundred acres Richlan[...]and the men used about twenty six head of horses to do the farming. The boys and hired help did the f[...]the harvest and threshing season he usually got a cookcar to MR. AND MRS. ELLIS GUY take s[...]Mother. One of the granaries was converted into a bunk house for the hired b[...]illiam and man, whose first name was Bill became a good friend of Sarah Guy, to their homestead site a few miles south of Harry's and they broke horses to ride, and took part Flaxville in the summer of 19[...]h (Mrs. Chris Tange), and from Illinois also came to help with the work. Ellis. Dad he[...]g wheat, flax, and With all the work there was to be done, we still found time barley. All of the work[...]wimming in the summer. On Saturday nights we went to for the farmers. There was little rainfall during[...]ey, 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[...]a time at the Sparling Hardware store in Flaxville, for In 1920 another daughter, Leona, was born, making a neighboring farmers, and for several ye[...]n 1924 Dad sold the farm and moved into Flaxville to the at Smoke Creek. house known as the Mike Dorwin house. He worked as a In 1917-1918 the influenza epidemic[...]out six weeks. Dad was Mother had been running a boarding house during this unable to enter military service in World War I because of time, so after Dad was no longer janitor, he opened a little his prolonged and almost fatal illness. eating place that he called "The Beanery" on the west side A very lovely and capable young lady, by the name o[...]e store George Mollerstuen, who remodeled it into a barber shop. in Scobey during that town's early years. Mother's family After this project, Dad worked for some time setting up had come to the Rock Glen, Saskatchewan area from machinery f[...]Illinois some years previously. Mother chose to work in rough carpenter work, building granaries[...]eople around the area. wanted to establish her American citizenship. Dad met her[...]s 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 which he had attend a business college in Fargo, North Dakota. It was b[...]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 progress at that time. At the 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,[...]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 winte[...] |
| [...]These were tall three-legged towers with a generator and huge blades that looked like airplane propellers mounted at[...]releasing the blades into the wind to charge the batteries[...]'juice' is too low." If the wind didn't blow for several day[...]the kerosene or gasoline lamps had to be put to use again.[...]refrigerator which meant quite a change from the old methods of cooking on a gas range and cooling the milk in[...]winter it had been an opposite situation. Mr. Bunse, the[...]the milk would be frozen, pushing itself out of the top of the[...]Bill Nothelfer, who had a grocery store, sold fish that[...]stay frozen outside, but if there should be several warm days at a time, the fish would become quite smelly.[...]Hexom's store across the street was a bright spot for the[...]were on display. They spent a great deal of time looking[...]which made good coal mines a necessity. Dynamite was used to blast the coal loose. Because of its danger, it w[...]stored in a tin building about a half mile from town. The[...]building was situated on a hill in a field, and this hill was an ideal spot for skiing and sledding. Mr. Sparling,[...]is still known as Dynamite Hill.[...]badly blocked that no car could travel on them. The first[...]time we saw the new snow plow with a rotary blade, which[...]threw the snow aside, was indeed an exciting one. Nearly[...]everyone in town came out to see this fantastic new[...]many a car owner cursed the black, shiny, sticky tar as he Ellis and Ruth Guy, their wedding day, Fargo,[...]er 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.[...]ased the little house easier, and it seems that during World War II, when many that Chris Tange owned in Flaxville. 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.[...]hel and Bill Nothelfer, and I remember his saying that joined the family circle: I was born on July 22,[...]y merchants. Ronald on July 3, 1931. I contracted a severe cold when less Dad was also in busin[...]er in Seiler's than two years old, which affected a gland in my neck. My Pool Hall, and he 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 equili[...]ic in school and attracted customers from as far away as Wolf Point, we both took piano lessons, with a lot of help from our very Plentywood, and tow[...]of the early years in Flaxville. I also had a cafe south of the drug store. On these nights rem[...]the she said "at the Dahlquist Hospital", adding that I was theater. The streets were lined wi[...]rs 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 small ball of America as a young man who eventually 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[...] |
| [...]nge ownership many times. Dad's pool hall became a well known business througho.ut a large territory. On many summer afternoons, music could be heard as Harold Weber with his violin and someone at the[...]here. 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 interesting character that soon became known by everyone in town was our fa[...]eet. Many men came into Dad's place, madder than a hornet and said, "I mighty near ran over that stupid dog of yours! He won't move for a car, and acts as if he owns the road! " Jackie died when he was s[...]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 now that the W.P.A. program came into existence, giving Orv[...]Jake and John Goerhing Rafshol in a grocery store. In 1913 the railroad was transferred their bank from Whitetail to Flaxville, and extended through the nort[...]three continued to have the business together. Dad bought By now[...]ew After selling the pool hall, Dad worked for a short time in Anderson, was born October 24, 18[...]family he owned until about 1950. He also bought a farm east of moved to Columbus, North 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 Tryan.[...]were married on December 15, 1914. All Dad was an avid fisherman and each June he and[...]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 Flax[...]ern Pike, some were growing up. weighing as much as 27 pounds. We[...]ve in community, school and church He also had a hobby of coin collecting which in later a[...]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[...]ls. Mother was active in various projects such as cancer Strong determination and the will to carry on overcame the drives, P .T.A., church activities, Red Cross work, and[...]rial 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 seriou~ blood condition Our mother died after an illness of only a few hours on and passed away in the Culbertson Ho[...]September 2, 1940. Her death was caused by a cerebral 1951 . Dad spent two years checking g[...]for the Department of Agriculture. He then spent a to right, back row: Philip, Allan, Peter and Adolph.[...]me in Flaxville on February 11, 1965. He was laid to rest beside Mother in the Scobey cemetery. Aft[...]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.[...]a on March 25, 1883. He left his parental home at an early age, going first[...] |
| [...]ldren Following the sale of his store, Dad was an insurance were born while we lived there, Yvonne and Victor. agent for a time and in 1948 he moved to Roseville, On May 26, 1960, Yvonne underwent surgery a t St. California where he opened a men's clothing store with his Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota to close a hole son Adolph. He retired in 1958 and died July[...]chambers of her heart. The delicate Roseville. He is buried beside Mother at the Orville operation was a total success and she has since lived a cemetery.[...]ed. owns Hexom's Men's Store in Roseville. Philip is an Alfred had bought the grandparent[...]homestead from Elmer Johnson of Antelope in 1948 a nd in during World War II and was stationed in Australia. While August of 1963 we moved to this farm where we have lived he was there, he me[...]on, 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[...]Their three children are Market grocery store for a time. Ilo is married to George Teresa, Michael, and Stephanie. Yvonne is Mrs. Tim Eichhorn of Scobey where they lived for[...]hey 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 Creswe[...]ana in 1922. We were married on last in a family of six children: Fred, Emma, Adolph, Decem[...]Alfred worked for the four years old and is buried near the farm home where they International Harvester Company. In 1944 we moved to lived. Some time later, their father brought his family to Westby, Montana and he worked on a farm near there for a Redstone, Montana. They lived for a few years with Ben's year. Our daughter Judy was[...]fter this, their Uncle Paul, Our next move was to Dagmar, where Alfred was the a bachelor, took the six orphans into his home wher[...]Trading Company. We all grew up. moved to Flaxville in July of1947 and bought the Flaxville[...]r Emma (Mrs. business until 1963 when we sold out to Bob and Verna Adolph Kollmann) often went out to drive a span of four Kurtz.[...]horses in the fields in the forenoon, came in to make dinner In 1960 Alfred opened the first se[...]pend the afternoon in Scobey, and sold it in 1961 to Ray LaPierre of Scobey. in the field again[...]chores, since he was too During this year he was a member of the Scobey small to drive horses, was to herd the cattle. If it rained Commercial Club.[...]while he was out with them, he was small enough to crawl under a discarded wash boiler that the wind had blown out[...]on the prairie. Ben went to school in the Whitney School, Alfred Johansen fam[...]months as he was needed at home to help with the farm[...]Mrs. Tom Fjone in 1916. We later moved to the former[...]Harry Tousley home which he had sold to Nels Boyd.[...]of today. Since we went to town only when all the family[...]pastures or to the neighbors, or relaxing with a book or[...]Gophers were a real hazard to the tender shoots of wheat[...]relegated to the children. There was lots of time for[...]daydreaming as I walked the length and bread th of the[...]pastures dropping a spoonful of poison~d oats into each[...] |
| [...]is now retired. I worked for a year at the Workentine Cafe and then went to work in the Co-op Market, which was formerly the[...]children and is night auditor at the Ponderosa Motel.[...]time at the same business place as her husband. Our third[...]daughter, Loretta, was killed in a car accident in Billings[...]e 27, 1969. She was married and was the mother of a[...]family . Back row: Delores, Loretta, to serve a hitch in the army and is stationed in Germany. Bernice, Richard. Front row[...]rothy, 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 ho[...]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 trave[...]ter days, indeed, were the very few trips we made to Scobey each year. I would spend most of the time[...]ing what I would buy for the nickel or dime I had to spend. Plentywood, less than fifty miles away, seemed by Helen (Tong) Klos as remote as Chicago or New York, and I was quite old before I[...]as born on September 1, 1907 atScherville, bought a 1914 Baby Grand Chevrolet and we might go to Indiana. He was the sixth child in a family of eight Plentywood five or six times a year! I remember how the car children. When[...]d my Frances Klos, made the decision to go west. They brother Adler, who was the driver, had to back down the homesteaded north of Nava[...]sister Antonia now live. Joe went to school at the Navajo My sister Della is eight years older than I and in our Schoo[...]rs with the growing up years she used those years as a leverage to get farming. me to do things that I didn't think I should have to do, as Their father passed away in 1927, and the family work was not one of my favorite pastimes. To get revenge struggled to keep the farm going through the hard times of on her, I would go into the granary or haystack and find a the late 20's and 30's. Joe went to a CCC camp, a program nest of baby mice, pick them up by their[...]ith them. She still work and earn money. has a mortal fear of mice. After she was married she an[...]e southeastern part of the state. She always took a stick with Helen and Joe Klos her when she went to get the mail and had no fear of killing any snake that she might see along the way. Ben and I were ma[...]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 plate[...]r, 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 games, so we lived that first summer in our two-room shack which which is his favorite sport.[...]erwood, North 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.[...]again so we both southeast of Scobey. I attended a country school near our went to work. Joe drove the school bus and had part time[...]arents, Charles and Ida Tong, there was a shortage of teachers, so I went back to teaching died within three weeks of each other. T[...]new riches, we bought our family even closer, now that we children had to make the Harry Mollerstuen home in Flaxville. the decisions that they had made before.[...]another bumper One of these decisions was mine to make one summer crop, we had our jobs[...]ick from eating the wrong kind of August a hail storm wiped out our crop. We were more than feed. Looking closer, I saw that she was bloated, and knew 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 knife blade, so, with the knife poised in the air, I took a home than at school, so I quit teaching in the[...]term. I was also pregnant, which helped to make my plunged the knife into the cow. It must h[...]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[...]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 shipped out-by the[...]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 that it could not be at Havre 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 Ty[...]st teaching position at Navajo, I met Joe, as the Cossette home from P ete Jensen. The communit[...]34. We lived at Fort Peck, also had a household shower for us, proving again the Montan[...]born in 1936 truth of the old saying, "a friend in need is a friend indeed". and daughter Frances in 1938. In 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 cooked on a two burner with Joe's brother Frank. While there,[...]kerosene stove for two 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 ever[...]utes before closing post-war slump, with a great deal of unemployment. Joe time, on the day[...]lost his job at the oil station, so I went back to teaching, this time at Redstone, Montana to finish the year for Janet[...]Higgins, who decided to go back to college for her master's[...]. Sunday, February 2, 1947, began as a nice sunny day,[...]d Joe took two of our children and some neighbors to the afternoon movie in Scobey. A blizzard came up while they[...]were there, but they decided to start for home. They and the[...]that their body warmth kept them alive in the 28 degre[...]In the spring of 1947 a dance orchestra, The Four Aces,[...]and played at a dance every weekend. Joe was also[...]income was indeed a windfall, for the farm program cut[...]make a living from that alone.[...] |
| [...]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 mo[...]horses in, and the next day they started out with a business there in 1955, where the upkeep was che[...]agon load of 1umber for Medicine Lake. They drove as far there was very little room to stock our groceries. After as Sheep Creek, a half mile from the town which is now struggling on for five more years, and with[...]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 their horses, teaching, this time in Whitetail where I taught for two and a livery barn, after which they erected a large tent they years.[...]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 in use[...]ble 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 thirteen years. Frances has worked sixteen years with the is now Flaxville. After Pete had proved up on his la[...]came through in 1913, Pete and Bill hauled grain to California. She is now married. After graduation Bruce Medicine Lake bringing 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[...]atter, and majored in nuclear In 1914 Pete opened a hotel in Flaxville which he sold three engineering. He is employed by Westinghouse at Pasco, years later to Fred Krassin. Washington. Michael is an educational psychologist at Henrietta Pe[...]ve six grandchildren. 1899. When she was a young girl her family moved to Joe and I moved back to Flaxville in November, 1973, Harris, Saskatchewan[...]Comet in April of 1910. They remarked on the fact that warmer climates. We are always happy to come back to many people were frightened by this awesome spect[...]Jacqueline, passed away when a small girl of leukemia. as told to Dorothy Kanning The living childr[...]eter Kurtz was born in Delano, Minnesota in 1889. As a (Pomerleau) of Miles City, Montana; Robert and Lyle of young man he came west, going as far as Havre, Montana · Flaxville; LeRoy of Los Angeles, California; Leo of and into Canada, working as a carpenter, and doing Cohasset, Massachusetts; Aqu[...]a; In 1909 he heard about the land which would be opened Darrel of Jeffrey City, Wyoming; Joan (Tor[...]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 carpen[...]Nelson, a position he held for thirty four years. He was al[...]a cattle inspector and chief of police in Flaxville[...]those years. He became a familiar sight as he walked about[...]head, a cigar in the corner of his mouth, and a six-cell flashlight in his hand. He is one of very few peace officers[...]who never has owned a car. He is known to have made the remark once that he had lived in this town for over forty[...]years and all he could ever afford was a wheelbarrow. During his last years as the town cop, his son Robert was[...]and were later guests at an open house affair hosted by[...] |
| [...]ows umpired the old-timers ball game. 1922. Pete is a lifetime member of the Montana-Dakota We pause to pay our tribute |
| 1968, he and his family returned to Georgia, where he has Bozeman. I was born a[...]e two children. and worked for a time at the Beauty Clinic in Plentywood. Darnel[...]r families, the Army Reserve in March of 1963 for a short time. He we are quite familiar wit[...]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 t[...]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.[...]Colorado, where she works for Frontier Airlines. A We purchased the former Elizabeth Hammer home a few part of their work is to formulate fiscal requirements for years ago[...]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[...]nesota on April 13, Gloria, Adela and Harry, came to Flaxville in December of 1898. He came with his parents in an immigrant car from 1961. We arrived on Christmas Eve, coming from Devon, Minnesota to Poplar, Montana in 1911. They drove across Montana. We drove on black ice from Wolf Point to country with horses to their homestead near Orville, Flaxville, so we we[...]ager at the years, and in 1914 he went to Columbus, North Dakota to Farmers Union Oil Company at Flaxville, and that was work in his uncle's hardware store. In 1917 he left for our reason for coming to Daniels County. Minneapolis to attend Nealar Barber College. Upon We lived in[...]ur time completion of his school there, he came to Flaxville and there very much. We had been in Flaxville nearly a year worked in the Aslakson grocery store. He drove the school when the station burned to the ground. It had been bus during th[...]esumably the fire was George barbered for a time in the Greenberg barber shop started when the burglars tried to blast open the safe. Our and in 1923 he bough[...]ng with We were married in 1926, bought a house from George's a daughter in Cutbank. The next two years were busy[...]started on the new building. The contractors had a part of George and Alice Mollerstuen. the new building up when a severe windstorm in the area blew the wall down and they had to clean up the mess and start all over again. As time went on we eventually got everything moved i[...]ed into the routine of business once more. It was a much appreciated change from the makeshift method[...]71. We were originally from Wisconsin and moved to Montana in 1956 for health reasons. After living[...]aveling around much of the state, we have decided that this is the part that we prefer to call home. None of us know what the future will bring, but we do know that we have many pleasant memories of the year[...] |
| 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[...]iels 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[...]h our sons served in the armed forces. Gerald was a Corporal in the army and was in Germany for three years. He is married, lives in Centralia, Washington, and work[...]ation 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 Novemb[...]St. John's University for two years. Ben worked as a mail sorter on the Great Northern Railway between Williston, North Dakota and Havre, Montana for a brief period of time and then went to Great Falls, Montana. In 1914 he came to Flaxville and opened a harness and shoe repair shop. During World War I he served as a German interpreter in France. While he was gone a Mr. Calin kept his shop going. After the war was over, Ben came back to Flaxville and Ben Na the in his American Le[...]uring the thirties, the American Legion sponsored a sold the most I.H.C. tractors of any dealer in th[...]Night". Ben was master of ceremonies and States ·a nd was presented an award for this played the part[...]egina was born September 18, always ready to give a helping hand to someone less 1889 at St. Cloud, and was a graduate of the Commercial fortunate. Busi[...]In 1929 the stock market crashed and the great to Flaxville and established their home on the east[...]felt its impact strongly town. Regina always had a large garden, raised chickens, for he had p[...]ookwork. They were members of He remarked to me several times that the only way he kept St. Louis Catholic Church where she was active in the his sanity was to work on church and community projects Altar Society and Ben in the men's society and Knights of and to try to keep a good community spirit going. In the late Columbus[...]He developed a heart condition and on March 6, 1942 Ben belonged to the Whitetail-Flaxville Ancel Fasset died of a heart attack in St. Cloud enroute home from a trip Post No. 121 '>f the American Legion, and served for a time to New Orleans. He is buried at St. Cloud. as First State Vice Commander. Regina was a member of Regina carried on th e busin[...]uxiliary. They both held offices on sold it to Arnie Rasm ussen in 1946. She bought a home in local, district and state levels.[...] |
| [...]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 Nat[...]died of diphtheria when I was seven. I then went to live with my mother's only sister, Elma, Mrs. Roy Dorwin. Uncle 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.[...]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 there could be a place with so few trees. In 1933 we moved to Flaxville and Uncle Jim became Uncle Jim's fath[...]. After my graduation I worked in the post office a team of horses and sleigh. After refreshments at[...]ntil 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, leaving we put large overcoats over the[...]l wore, and placed our feet on hot wrapped bricks to keep Murr house for six weeks, and t[...] |
| August farms the former Irving Bunse farm and is in In the early years, Jimmy kept in[...]some of Flaxville' s good teams. He is one of the few fellows After Lora graduated from high school she went to Minot around here to have played ball in England and Wales! where she[...]chosen (after the Armistice was signed) to travel around have three children and are present[...], 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 plac[...]igs Because his was all ready to go, the contractors hooked him Own[...]Dorwins were among the first in Flaxville to enjoy the city[...]ts and businesses are still in the process of ing a sewer ditch dug over 100 ft. long would contact some- being hooked in ... as fast as a couple of backhoes can do one with a backhoe. Not so with Jimmy Dorwin of[...]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 r[...]. "Besides", he added, "I didn't have much else to do." by Thomas Sparling Jimmy is 81 years old. He has always kept himself in goo[...]Sanitary Science, and received his certificate as a licensed years for Jim Sparling in the lumber yar[...]lders Centre's present owner, Arden Olson. Before that he served as Flaxville's postmaster for 11 years. He first Jim Sparling came to the area as a homesteader in 1913. 81 year old Flaxvill[...] |
| [...]In 1927 Dad was elected to the State Legislature where he[...]He wa appointed to the office of State Commissioner of[...]Agriculture, Labor a nd Industry in 1936 where he served[...]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'[...]hi red the Bourassa broth ers to move it into Flaxville. They u ed a little-traveled road n orth of the main highway.[...]When they came to the steep hill about a mile west of town, t h ey used a Rumley Oil P ull tractor to pull the building and 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 ma n y road ide engineers a lon g the way giving their advice to th e movers.[...]I live in Seattle where I have a con ulting electrical[...]and a daughter , all married.[...]Ardys (Anderson) Peter so n , a niece of my mother, who[...]freq uently stayed with us in Flaxville, married a college[...]time. They n ow live in Mercer Isla nd a suburb of Seattle.[...]half a continent apart. Carrie Wold was born in Aber-[...]until she and her sisters opened a dressmaking and[...]1879. His mother and sisters came to America soon after[...],],mrnv of 16, Arnt set out on h is journey to the United States, a " m a n " on his own in spite of his youth. He worked to[...]blacksmith . This was to be his life's work. He arrived in His wife, Tora Esval, was born in Norway and came to New York, knowing no on e there and with no knowledge of America when she was a young girl. th e E n[...]ha ve seemed very far away, but and proved up on a homestead north of there. They later des pite the difficulties in travel he made his way across movec1 to Medi ine Lake where Dad worked for his brother th[...]s. s ·sters. I a~i also assembled Model ''T' Ford cars. They came to Our mother and dad were married at Abercr[...]es. Aft r the car was Augus t 5, 1901. They began a blacksmith shop. Five aHs mbled and there was a pro pective buyer for it, Da d children were born h ere: John , Gladys, a son who died at would show him what the pedals an[...]h buyer drove around In 1914 the call to the west prompted Dad to leave his the block and jump off when the went by the store, telling family and venture forth seeking a new home. He came to the buye1 he wa8 on hi own from there on . F laxville, then a new community and town badly in need of When the rail line was built to Scobey, Dad a nd Harry a blacksmith . After he had established living quarters, he op ned a branch tore in Flaxville, with Dad la ter buying[...]o made the trip by train. out Harry' intere t. He a dded furn it ure a nd la ter, lumber. When Dr. Healy arrived , he[...]arting out Tie wa the fir t Daniels ounty Coroner a lon g with hi and never forg ot that Dad made the first " shingle" for his practice as mortician. office and refused to take pay for the job. Dr. Healy My fo lks lived above the hardware store until I wa a few repaid this favor many times in the years following. y ars old Th y then moved to the w tern pa rt of town , The twins,[...]r newl buil h use wh ich th Elaine wer e a ll born in the home at Flaxville. In later ,Jame[...]rs , Mother often reminisced about the fact that two of[...] |
| [...]A coal stove provided the heat for all of the cooki[...]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[...]to work with him.[...]and polishing plow shares was the work of a blacksmith in[...]e early days, and in this way our father answered a[...]skill in his trade brought him customers form a wide range.[...]sparks was a fascinating sight to the children, so it was not 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[...]forward to meeting friends at the Methodist church. After[...]we acquired a radio, Dad preferred to stay home and listen to Norweigan services.[...]stood the love and concern and God-given strength that saw them through the difficult tim es of raising a large, though healthy, family. After we ch ildren had been put to bed at night, Mother spent m a n y h ours sewing all of our clothes by lamplight. That in itself was an enormous task, but she also managed to find time and stamina to do sewing for other people, for the extra money w[...]aked bread and pastries for many families in town as well as the cafe owned by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tousley. Mrs[...]nd Mother in later years talked of the many times that Mrs. Tousley came from their cafe and bought all of the baked goods that Mother had just baked for her family. Glad to be able to help them out, a nd also grateful for the extra money, Moth[...] |
| by a wife and three children. The children and their[...]de in the Wolf Point area. moved to Portland, Oregon. They now live at Salem town, a Mother and Dad celebrated their golden wedding[...]ath in Great Falls. 1943. I am employed 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 a[...]Our three children are Richard Lee, a graduate from independence in being able to care for themselves. After OSU in chemistry[...]ton and now does pollution they reluctantly moved to Great Falls in 1967. She grew research; Va[...]in May of 1975; and Douglas Emil, loss Dad's will to live was gone, and he died two years received his Master's Degree from the University of later. A son Floyd passed away in 1972 in Los Angeles,[...]by Mary Helen Swenson Heilman where she is active in the Senior Citizens and Granny Girl Sco[...]John Swenson and his brother Emil came to Scobey in a living in Washington, D.C., after having lived in[...]d Africa. Arthur, having followed in bought a garage in Scobey and after two years sold it to Ed Dad's footsteps as a blacksmith, is employed in Jamaica, Battleson and bought a garage in Flaxville. building and repairing farm[...]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 at the Columbus mother's ho[...]My folks' first impressions of Montana were that 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 while. horseback the seven miles. During the cold[...]hey celebrated their fiftieth wedding Mildred was a member of the first graduating class in Flax-[...]ertainment included dancing, sometimes maintained that the nightly drink of honey, whiskey and as often as three times a week, and, after they had a family, hot water before retiring, kept us from getting the flu. a favorite activity was to go on picnics in Eagles Nest, a The most serious illness in our family occured[...]vered area near Navajo. Gathering Arthur suffered an appendicitis attack during the night. there[...]their energy in Since Dr. Healy had no facilities to take care of such an running about the hills and the older folks[...]eran church and all of us long wait for the train to arrive and the even longer children were[...]and all were graduates of trip in the baggage car to Williston. By the time he and our Flaxville Hig[...]lks lived in Flaxville until 1945. After spending a few months in Polson, Montana, they moved to Havre[...]Their oldest son, Wilbur, is the principal of the junior MR. AND MRS.[...]high school in Havre, and his wife, Margaret, is 1; brarian.[...]m and Emil Swenson arrived in Scobey in 1913 in a 1912 Ford Lori, in high school. Keith is assistant manager of the 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, Kall[...]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[...]Minnesota in the early part of 1900, and Mother, a native of[...] |
| [...]discharged a Corporal. He and Mother were married in[...]Scobey on October 22, 1919. He had a homestead seven[...]Glasgow, Montana, but was unsuccessful in getting a[...]proving up her claim, Dad worked in a garage in Great[...]Upon our return to Flaxville, Dad bought an interest in[...]continued to live part time in the family home until her[...]shack, a one-room affair with apple boxes stacked up for[...]cupboards and a shelf with a curtain in front of it for a[...]who owned the lumber yard; A.P. Smerud, the second[...]couldn't see where they were going, they ran into a barbed wire fence along the way. To make sure 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[...]ana where another partner, Tony Kirkeby, operated a store also. Mother and Peter stayed at Orville[...]h six miles north of Orville, and they then moved to the new town of Flaxville. Mother was the first housekeeper in Flaxville, living in a 14 x 16 shack which later became a part of the house occupied by the Rasmus Nelson f[...]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, Pe[...]y Raffshol had arrived in Flaxville, Jerry Masek, a banker, moved his house and bank buildings from Orville to Flaxville, to be followed by a blacksmith shop, hall and several other 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 th[...] |
| [...]he Ladies Aid and Sunday School affairs . Dad was a deacon in th e Lutheran church. Mother clerked at[...]spital Medical Center in Oakland. I am married to John Larimer and have fo ur daughters: Judi, Mrs. Eric Lund of Napa, California; Nancy, a graduate of Albany High School; Susan, who will be a senior in 1976; and Lisa, who will be a freshm an. There are two grandchildren, David and Paula Lun[...]t several other auto establishments before moving to St. Louis, Missouri where he became involved in h[...]ork. After living there for many years they moved to Den ver, which is more centrally located for his business. They hav[...]Flaxville, si grandchildren. All of their family is in volved in th e which he still farms .[...]he grade school in the Eagle Creek school, a few miles south of education I received there. So[...]College and one residents of the town when I was a child. I wish m y own year at Eastern Montana College, graduating with a two children ould have had the opportunity to be raised there . year diploma.[...]house burned to the ground , and we moved into the George Tryan came to Montana in 1912 with his parents, Redst[...]er building replaced the Mr. and Mrs. William Try an. Prior to settling in the Smoke burn ed one and the[...]er came 1962 and Connie Arlene in 1964. to Flaxville in 1914. There are seven other children[...]d Louis. During the years previous to our purchase of our present George and Emma we[...]d on the Haroldson farm in the summers, were born to them: Jeanne Evenson, Darlene Henderson[...]people who became dear friends. We also had a wide[...]suddenly of cancer, came from Minnesota to make her by Eileen Wittak[...]home with us for three years before going to live with her[...]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[...]I finished my four year requirements for a degree at Redstone communities.[...]the first and second grades in Flaxville. Ray is still reckenridge, Kentucky, after which he spe[...]an working for the Pepsi-Cola There is n ever a dull moment at our house and that is the Companv in Plent wood and later was fo rtun a te in way we wa n t it t o be.[...] |
| [...]Swede bought the house next door to the Peter Kurtz's, AND[...]tine gardens proved that it is an important factor in bountiful[...]son In 1959 Swede and Florence moved to Walhalla, North Michael came to Flaxville in 1952 from Badger, Minnesota D[...]ed the Standard Oil Company. where Swede had been a lumber jack in the forests of They have since moved to Salem, Oregon. Florence died of northern Minnesota . They had heard that Ii ving cancer in April of 1976. c[...]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.[...]Since Swede was looking for work, A fire broke out in one of the apartments over the[...]firemen worked all through the night to keep the flames Three months later Swede went to work for Ted under control. Sara kept her cafe open all night, keeping Williamson for a short tirrte, after which he was hired by hot coffee and food on hand for the men as long as they the Farmers Union Oil Station where he worked until worked. There was a great deal of smoke and water damage March of 1959. done to the building and grocery store, but the loss was[...]re always playing practical jokes on at a minimum. anyone they could, and Joe Bourassa, who was a welder in Jake had been injured in an accident while at work with the FU shop was the unfortunate victim of one of their a construction company in Grand Forks in 1947. He fell jokes. In the summer of 1955 Matt Dickman, who owned a several feet from a scaffold, and his injuries caused blood local bar, threw away a skunk which had been stuffed and clots in his legs. These bothered him a great deal through mounted on a board. The skunk's tail was curved in the the years. He was a veteran of World War I , and in 1956 he position to make use of the odorous substance which makes was admitted to the Veteran's Hospital in Fargo, North them feare[...]mpelled 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 out into the station, shouting as he pulled then fitted with artificial legs, and special controls were up his trousers, "There's a skunk in there!" Seeing installed in his car. everyone laughing at his predicament, Joe realized that With the extra burden of an invalid husband to care for, the joke had been on him that time. Sara closed the[...]in 1960. On May 13, two Two children were born to Swede and Florence while months[...] |
| 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 time in 1962 Sara's family had a family Sara's three sons served in the A[...]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 that time in Cucamonga, artilleryman. He later became a member of the Oregon 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,[...]a, 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.[...]planned, POW's home from Hanoi in 1973. and as a result, we were still there at Christmas time whe[...]n the the great Oregon flood took place. This was a long enough U .S. Navy in 1924. I retired as Chief Petty Officer in 1945.[...] |
| THE GASPARD DUVAL FAMILY Gaspard Duval came to the Flaxville area in 1912. He[...]I |
| [...]and Ralph, Jr. moved from Garrison, North Dakota to Plains, Montana in 1948. We lived there for three years where we raised cattle and had a small farm. In 1950 Ralph bought the Chris Gebhar[...]the spring! One time Ralph had taken the children to school in the morning but by afternoon he could not cross the creek to come home - he had a team of horses and a load of hay. Roy Killenbeck wanted to get to town from his farm so he brought his boat down an[...]er - then Roy went across again the took the team to town! In 1954 we purchased the place we live on n[...]sed away in 1963. Our children are: Gene, married to Joyce Carrier Juel-they have one daughter, Katrin[...]nch was born November 26, 1878 in Quebec, Canada. As a small boy he moved with his parents to North Dakota. Corrine Goulet French was born April 3, 1886 in St. Lambert, Quebec. She came to the Grafton, North Dakota area as a young girl with her parents. They Mr. and[...]married in 1904. In March of 1913 they decided to come to Montana with their young family to a homestead about one and half miles west of Flaxvi[...]on this same farm, at the same site). Amada came as relaxing. Amada grew his own tobacco one year but he . far as Plentywood by train with his wife and five children. found the short season to be a problem for curing it out. He There Corrine's bro[...]pe needed filling and horses and brought them out to a "make-do shack". In he would crush a leaf and believe me, everyone knew when 1915 a house was built and in 1917 the barn was built and he was relaxing with his pipe!! with a few additions is still being used today. The family When the family was old enough to attend school they grew out of this house, and in 1926 a large hotel from were picked up by a bus pulled by horses-a lumber wagon Madoc was moved to the present site. It was remodeled and with an enclosed top-Ovila Goulet was one of the drivers.[...]with the by fire. Another house was started right a way and with the neighbors and relatives whic[...]ing at the French farm with Amada always Making a Ii ving was a family project - the raising of food adding to the enjoyment with a jig and his violin. Wilfred and livestock took so[...]French boys learned Parent was the caller. to brand with their Dad's supervision, as well as helping Being active members in church societies was an with the threshing, etc., at which time the neigh[...]important part of the French family. Amada walked to in too. All who were big enough to help had a part in the town to fire-up at the church many, many times. Corrine f[...]s organized at the Joe Goulet farm. Mass you took a turn caring for or driving horses, as most of the was held at the Goulet farm before the building of the farm work was done with horses. It was a great step church. Amada and Corrine were never too busy to help out forward to have a tractor and plow. Plow lays were at[...]or sharpened by Amada right out in the field with a portable other times of need. forge. Even w[...]lking, gardening, Amada was taken suddenly by a heart attack on butter making, bread baking, cann[...]e family home. Corrine lived at keeping house for a large family there was time for the farm with her family a number of years. She then[...] |
| The Amada and Corrine French Family-top row, left to right: Alvida, Delvina, Dona, Lydia, Omer, Alice,[...]na prairie began. The family of Amada and Corrine is as follows: OMER FREN[...]1911. He came to Montana with his parents in 1913. He ALICE, Mrs.[...]and Karen. and going to school when he could. One activity the DONA farmed in the Flaxville area for many years. Be- community loved was baseball, and the Fr[...]ness he now lives at the State Hospital in Warm an important part of the Flaxville teams. Omer worke[...]Rasmus Nelson in 1928 and in 1934 he worked as a heavy OMER lives on the home place.[...]king on the road between jobs, served in the Army as a Construction Engineer, he Westby and Plenty[...]of West by. They were married in 1940. They moved to the DELVINA Meader of Spokane-her family consists[...]since. Omer has operated a grain farm, raised hogs and ALVIDA of Scobey (see[...]ion for family story). cattle, and operated a gravel business for a number of WILFRED (Jumbo) of Flaxville, he served in the navy, years. Omer and Charlotte love to see things grow - they and is married to Louise Meyer. They had two girls born have planted many trees, along with berries and with a genetic disease. Kay died in 1963, Marlene has be[...]o years. girls, Tammy and Sue. Jumbo farms and is also a carpen- They have five children. LeRoy and Roberta now are in a ter. He and Louise are very active in all community Sheltered Workshop program in Malta, Marva is at home. activities. These three, because of a genetic disease - PKU - are FEBULAH (Feb) Miller[...]ildren, Dennis and Becky. Kimberly. Ken is in the Air Force as a career, Sherry works LLOYD of Flaxville (family story in Flaxville section). as an LPN and is going to night school to get her R.N. ALDA is Mrs. Eugene Mayer of Westby. They have three degree. Lu Anne, Mrs. ·Reese Puckett, Jr. is living in sons, Vance, Myron and Kim.[...]e and Lu Anne have taken over Omer' s farm SYLVIA is Mrs-. Todd Tryan of Flaxville. Their family is operation as he chose to retire a year ago. They have three Jack, Tully and[...] |
| A. French 's moved the old Madoc Hotel, remodelled[...]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 (Nellie's dad), on the past toward a peaceful future. Much of this was Wilf[...]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 Flaxville. They did their shopping at a small inland village same![...]used the horse and buggy to get to school but if the horse[...]was needed for field work, we walked! As the years passed Napoleon (Paul) Fugere, born i[...]there was much progress. Joe built a home in Flaxville Bernadette Tessier who was born[...]for the winter months, he acquired more land, a section and North Dakota. They came to Daniels County in the Spring 80 acres. He had the first car in the neighborhood -a Model of 1922 where they made their home on a farm three miles T - which he bought in 1914. In 1916 he added on to the west of Flaxville. Their children are Percy,[...]e and other brother, Napoleon, for many years. He is a bachelor. He neighborhood gatherings. M[...]n at our house, too, in the years Dona Fugere, a brother of Paul, Joe, and Art, first lived before a Catholic church was built in Flaxville. on the Si[...]ad southwest of Flaxville, They had a family of thirteen children - two died in later o[...]r the Orville church. infancy-so ours was a very busy home. I remember clans While living the[...]They were quite harmless; all they wanted was a handout lives in Fargo, North Dakota. of food. It also seemed to us that the Indians were almost Art Fugere farmed seve[...]s. In the fall Joe Art Legare farm and on the Zeb a Jay place (now the would be gone for some time with several of the neighbors Kenneth Halverson home). He also moved back to the digging coal for fuel for the[...]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 THE JOE GOULET FAMILY HISTORY[...]cows each before going to school in the morning and others[...]the first school bus-by that time he had a bus load of his In the fall of 1909 Joe Goulet[...]e summertime pastime was snaring Dakota and filed a homestead claim. He built a two room gophers or drowning them out.[...]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,[...]Nine children were born to this union and six are still[...]Wilfred entered the army in 1917 a,nd was discharged in 1918·. He was to be shipped overseas when the war ended.[...]Goulet when that was sold he went to work in the coal mines north[...]week in 1952. Another 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 planted many They had a mean turkey that always chased Aurora. The beautiful trees - at on[...]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[...]her. On 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 had at that time forty- the best turkey dinner she ever ate.[...]ndchildren. Joe· One year they raised a small crop of tobacco by the house passed away April 21, 1959 at the age of 85. Nellie passed in a hot bed that provided smoking pleasure for Wilfred for away Se[...]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[...]eceased; Raymond of threw it in the river and had to walk the rest of the way. Colfax, California; Dor[...]od, Colorado. 1946 to 1947. He now lives in Billings.[...]Okinawa and Florida from 1950 to 1954. He now lives in[...]and Darlene lives on a farm near Scobey. By Darlene Goulet Graff Wilfred Goulet came to Daniels County from Grafton, |
| [...]eft 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 Dako[...]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[...]d east and north of Flaxville. Mr. Hachmann built a dugout to be used during storms and it is still there or at least it was until a few years ago. It was while the family lived on the homestead that a most unusual thing happened. Down in the basement they had a gasoline can with some gas in it. It had a saucer on it. One night there was a storm and lightning struck a window near where their son Ted was sleeping and it splintered the window sill and then down to the basement.[...]the can or starting a fire. 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.[...]The Hachmann children received their schooling in a[...]the school children of today they didn't have a hot lunch[...]at the school was having. They took their lunches to school which consisted of a sandwich or two with a pickle. Once in a while the kids at school would trade lunches.[...]the Flaxville area and lived there for a number of years. He moved to Scobey and lived with his sister and her husband,[...]moved to the Daniels Memorial Nursing Home where he is still residing. He will be 81 years old thisfall.Johngrewup[...]worked for various neighbors as a young lady and then[...] |
| Henry Bachmann Family-back row, left to right: Herman, Max, Oscar, Henry. Middle: William[...]ey where Max works Navajo and Flaxville area for a number of years before for the City Sanitation Department. coming to Scobey. They had no children. William worked[...]y years and then retired and until 1962. A sister of Dora's had a letter from her with just moved to Plentywood in 1959. They had no children of their[...]st own but he helped raise her three children by a previous living sister of Dora's. Emma had[...]Roos. They worked for Tom Erickstein try·to see if they could find some relatives. Lena agreed to for a number of years on his farm near Peerless and then write a letter but felt it would be a long chance as there on a farm north of Wolf Point. They had no children. wasn't a complete address. She wrote a letter and mailed it Edward worked like his brothers and sisters did, at various to Redstone to the postmaster. It was somewhat of a jobs. He had a bad tooth pulled while he was a young man miracle as the letter went to Redstone where the and this affected his health.[...]notified William Hachmann who got in touch with a friend Dam and on the Great Northern Railroad. Neither Ed nor of Lena's in Iowa that she had mentioned and later on Ted married. Osca[...]and the Lena and her friend came out to meet the Hachmann Redstone area. He never married. He is currently living family. She came out for several summers. After a period of with his brother Ted in Scobey. Alfred[...]about 32 years the remaining families are able to Tyler. They farmed south of Flaxville until recently when communicate once again. they retired to Plentywood. They have a family often child- As the Hachmann children grew up, they started to use ren. Albert grew up in the Flaxville area and worked in that different spelling of their last name. Some spe[...]Ii ved in Flaxville for many years before moving to Henry and Dora Hachmann moved to Scobey in 1941. Scobey where they no,v reside. Do[...]away in 1963, Anna in 1969, Herman he farmed for a while on the Frank Gross place. They lost a in. 1970, William in 1973 and John in[...] |
| [...]le. (Mrs. Ruth Fisher lives there now). Frank was a bachelor. He lived on several places near town an[...]teaded north of the Ben Mollerstuen place. He was a bachelor. He is buried at the Zion cemetery at Orville; and Andrew Rudeen was a homesteader north of the Weber place.[...]I recall that Bertha was a wonderful seamstress. Every- Torger (Tom) was born in Norway in 1852, came to one will remember her for her cats w[...]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[...]nesota. Homestead line- later he bought a large ranch north of Whitetail. Re records indicate that Torger homesteaded in Grand Forks ma;ried a teacher, Betty, and the last years they lived in 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-[...]mile south of Flax- Ralph, Roger, Lewis (a highway patrolman in Great Fa~ls), ville. She liv[...]many years with Bertha Dewey, and Charlie, a mechanic there. Tim homesteaded two miles Rose an[...]3; Henry, died in Martin's homestead was a mile south of Flaxville. He 1941 · Olive and Ti[...]Julius in meringue-I've never seen pies like that since I spent those infancy; He;man in 1975; Soph[...]Henry homesteaded north of Redstone where he had a spent one year with Aunt Bertha who was Mrs. Henr[...]lliam Piester, and Plentywood. later had a cafe in Flaxville. Her last years were spent in[...]later in town, and then in 1971 we moved to Plentywood The following family story is by Jeannie Hendrickson where Harold is employed at the F.U. station and I work at Tyler:[...]Francie, who weighed less than one and a half p_o unds at[...]boys have spent many months in the service. Emily is married to Julius Hendrickson and they live on the family[...]Debbie is in high school in Flaxville.[...]to Redstone with my friend, Edna Miller. It was alwa[...]when Uncle Martin and Aunt Julia came to visit us,[...]ng ice cream and goodies and taking the folks for a ride. All of them seemed to be hard working pioneers. I[...] |
| [...]ed housekeeping. He was barbering and I worked in a steam laundry. Later we moved to Arvilla, North Dakota where Arthur had a barbershop of his own. Our first child,[...]Alice was born there in 1907; a son, William Howard Taft[...]Mr. Boyer and my sister had a homestead two miles out[...]that we should come out too - so in the summer of 1911[...]packed up and came to the West. We came by train to Culbertson, then rode a stagecoach to Medicine Lake and[...]Henry Boyers. At that time the surveyors were busy survey- ing for a townsite-they camped in a tent at the Boyers.[...]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[...]drive over to Orville for groceries and supplies.[...]By this time we were getting a one room shack put up on[...]rained and there was a large crock full of water out by the[...]house. All of a sudden I heard a lot oflaughing-it was the MARTIN H[...]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 south of Flaxville. Martin angry-b[...]ry 10, 1885 in Goohue County, Minnesota. admitted that they were the cause of it! In 1913 the rail- He was a bachelor and never married. Martin, Tim and road[...]h and with it the towns of Plentywood, Dewey came to Montana together. Re[...]nch 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 Marti[...]between Williston Sundays he would ride his horse to Redstone to barber so and Brockton, and carried mail between[...]2 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 with the kids, I put knives in the door besides locking it at took up a homestead about one and a half miles south of night. Flaxville.[...]In 1914 it was time for the kids to be starting school. They His brothers settled nearby; then in 1913 the mother of got a school going in one room in Flaxville with Helen the boys, Mrs. Ragnhild Hendrickson, came out and Hansen as the teacher. Alice started school there, we had to homesteaded on land near them.[...]omestead Martin began raising wheat and also went to the Navajo school with Nell McGowan as the cattle. He gradually became known as a fellow who passed up no opportunities. He liked a large operation and also the equipment necessary to farm it. At the time of Martin's death he was far[...]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[...]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.[...]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 carpenter[...]lived on an acreage in Dalton Gardens, a suburb of Coeur teacher. She would walk across the coulees to Nim Gaines' d'Alene for ten years. He bar[...]igs 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 Arthur passed away from a heart attack in Billings. Two and vegetables. I r[...]sons have since passed away too: William, a Methodist water on the garden when it didn't rain[...]minister, died in Mason, Illinois, and Everett, a heavy summer I went into the coulees to pick June berries, equipment operato[...]ts, gooseberries, pin cherries and choke cherries to in Billings with my daughter and son-in-la[...]iful at George Mollerstuen. (Mrs. Hilling is nuw 88 years young.) that time. In the fall after harvest we would take a load of wheat to Medicine Lake and bring back a supply of flour for the Arthur and Sena Hilling winter. This was a three day trip with horses. In thP. f 11y summer we would go to Eagle's Nest and dig our coal for the winter. We[...]s and lunch and work all day. We would bring home a couple of tons each time ' until we had[...]'< 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. It was quite a worry as it got so stormy at times that he could 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 lot of neighbors - Frank Hardy, Bill Cook, Henry[...]ehls, Ed Wrona and Archie .Lorenz. Nick Weber had a threshing outfit and in the fall I cooked in his[...]enry 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; we lived over the barber shop. I[...]. I was chairman of the Red Cross in 1918; we did a lot of knitting (mostly socks) for the soldiers.[...]was my own 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.[...]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 clothes on the rubbing board. Later on 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[...]winter of 1974 we built a new home on the farm.[...]Della Parent in 1915, they were the first couple to be married in the Flaxville Catholic Church. They built a[...]Eugene bought his first car in 1920. He needed a car after he became a county commissioner, a job he had for six[...]a cattle ranch in Broadus, Montana; Phoebe of Santa[...]by Eleanor Legare February 21, 1889, a son of Mikal Husbyn and Ingeborg Anna Husbyn. He[...]all of 1924, the Joe Legare family moved only one to come to America. from Riverside, Montana (with 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[...]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 homestead land was all taken in North Dakota[...]th five teams and wagons-Arthur, age 12, was went to Montana and took a homestead near Flaxville in one teamster[...]ongings, they taking up the homestead he returned to Plummer and moved 35 head of cattle, crossing the Missouri River by bought a team of horses. One winter they drifted for home ferry with two of the cows falling in - one swam to shore again and when Anders found them in the spring a farmer and the other one they roped and th[...]days for the move but five days before they shape that he didn't get much crop in that year. could reach their destination with the cattle. The above information is from his cousin, Leonard Meeting Ar[...]have Rollofson, of Fortuna, North Dakota. Andrew (as he was thought we would some day begin ma[...]he age of 1932. We started our life together on a farm southeast of 69 in 1958 from a heart attack. His farm was about two Nava[...]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 by 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[...]or wherever jobs were avail- Helga Jensen, coming to Flaxville in 1949. He worked on able. They worked on WP A projects, bridges, dams, water- farms in the Plea[...]hen ways, etc. Later he helped drive mules to build the he joined the Army where he served two[...]d in Four Buttes road in 1939. 1956 he went to work for the Bell Telephone Company until Our first daughter, Monica, 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[...]when he taken from us 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. Tryan in 1966. Meredith She left behind a family of three daughters and her was born[...] |
| [...]la xville. Art still drove the school bus for $65 a month wh ich was big wages at that time. The WPA wages had 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[...]on shares. We also farmed for Ernest Tjomsland a few 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[...]Parent about ten years ago. We feel this will be our last :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[...]very dear to us: Verlane and Jennifer Smolak, Christine[...]Jason Handy. Tne Arthur Legare Family-1971-left to right top row: THE JOSEPH LEGA[...]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, Vir[...] |
| [...]orporal Walter, now the dirt was stripped a three foot vein ofrather good quality of Pasadena[...]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 several months in Germany; Seaman 2nd Class Leo, also lot of cooking during that time. By this time Clarence and of Flaxville, cho[...]nt, Donald were born so there was quite a family to support. served with thearmyin the Korean War. Th[...]He always carried a hunting knife.[...]One of the people who helped dig the mine had a very[...]He got on his horse to find out where it was coming from. He found that Ed Wrona had driven his car over the steep[...]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[...]rs. Clara Barr, Bowling hurt so he had to be taken to Williston, his one leg was Green, Ohio-Mrs. Alice[...]d Theodore Lucht, Bowling took him a long time to recover, but he made it. Green, Ohio. Mrs. Lucht died in 1929. Henry married Meta Dancing was a popular pastime, especially during the Wrona in 1933-two sons were born to them-they are: winter. Tony Linders usually had a barn dance before Ronald of Salt Lake City, Utah;[...]gather for a party - Gordon McLaughlin would play his[...]if one was available and Otto Stromstad was also a pretty by Lucille Mehls Krusemark[...]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.[...]ake care of the rest. She did remarkably well for a young Montana and the Dakotas wanted settlers[...]irl 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 set sister Louise, was already se[...]ed 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[...]e was born. Railroads had been built in this area as was broken up - Clarence, age twelve and Donald, age nine far as Medicine Lake. Emigrant boxcars were used to went to live with Earl and Louise Randall. Lorena and tra[...]s, 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 grandparents so that she could with 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. Roy Miller) who lived in Knutson a dollar an acre for his 320 acres. A sod house was Worthington, Minnesota offered to help Lucille with a built as a temporary home. This later became the chicken 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 gr[...]Malta. He was injured there at work and unable to work for stands there. The barn burned after our family left. a long time because of his back. He returned to Wisconsin There were good times and bad times.[...]n 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 lan[...]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 a nursing home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He died 19[...]in 1973 and was buried in Fall Creek cemetery. a coal mine on his farm. He had dug test holes so h[...]d Robert Henry, Wisconsin congressman, and a wealthy fresnos began moving the dirt from the hi[...]Tom and Casper Brenden, Ed invention that improved the carburetor. Lorena died of Wrona, He[...]ghbors. This turned out cancer in 1961. to be a rather successful venture while the coal l[...] |
| [...]ark in 1941. After the World War II-they returned to make their home in Worthington, they have two dau[...]graduated from high school in Fall Creek, worked as a maid for several wealthy families - married Dalla[...]laire and they have two children. Clarence came to Wisconsin too and spent some time on the farm the[...]into the Army. His health failed and he has spent a lot of time in the veteran's hospitals. He marrie[...]ota, and have three sons. The Walter Mehls farm is now the Alfred Hackmann farm home-the coal mine w[...]R MOE Peder, Jr., is a lawyer in Billings and daughter Karen was a by Sig Moe and Ida Erickson[...]May, 1960. His widow, Stella, lives "Moe Hill" is named after Peder Moe who homesteaded i[...]om the Red River I, (brother Sig) recall that Peder did most of his high Valley in North Dakota in 1911 to the Archer-Plentywood school work by correspondence - while attending the area. He came from a family of ten boys and two girls. University of Montana as a special student to get his B.A. Nearly all worked on Moe Hillatonetimeoranother.[...]egree in economics - then went out and made quite a 1913 through 1917 the Moe Brothers baseball team[...]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 the pitchfork handle. The farming operation of 6000 acres. This is now farmed by his wages ranged from $3.50 a day - 30¢ an hour to $6.50 - spike son, Skuli Moe. Peder was also a successful businessman in pitcher about 54¢. Al "Slim" 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.[...]the years until 1942 - he was also a partner in the farming[...]operation near Brockton. He now operates a hotel in Big[...]1917 I also recall that I heard my first World Series baseball[...]I especially remember pitching against Scobey that year.[...]moved to Toppenish and Auburn, Washington where I live.[...]us. My sister, Mrs. Ida (A.C.) Erickson, who now lives in[...]years of age. When hearing of the treasures to be garnered[...]in the newly opened frontier, he migrated to Fargo, North Daktoa where he settled on a homestead near Abercrom-[...]Dakotas and Montana, he joined a supply train and[...]He was a witness to the battle of the Little Big Horn in[...] |
| [...]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[...]and I broke 40 acres for myself in 1912. In order to build our homestead shacks, we had to go to Poplar and[...]a thousand.[...]In the summer of 1910 the railroad came to Plentywood. Then all crops were freighted to Plentywood or Medicine[...]ed back. Groceries and clothing were ordered from a salesman who toured the community with a horse and[...]commodities were ordered in lots to suffice for about one year at a time. Many, many anecdotoes are told about the[...]earth was so hard that they grew lengthways, not round.[...]in 1913 or 1914 David LaBlanc would meet a rider from[...]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[...]as acquainted with the lay of the land. There was a rumor that there was Indian land to be had in the area of Daniels Wilfred and Georgia[...]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[...]n, 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 fire on the reservation. Alfred Parent, having been an old scout in the Custer army, knew what to do. We set fire ahead of us and then moved the wa[...]explode. Continuing on our way we settled in what is now Flaxville community, in large circus tents which housed the animals and humans until such a time as homestead shacks could be erected. Land around the Scobey area was government surveyed, so starting from their stopping point, using a wagon, team, flags and compass, we surveye[...] |
| that if someone was very ill we had to take a horse and buggy, drive to Plentywood to get the 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.[...]d was two miles west of Flaxville. My father had a section which I purchased from him in later years. I sold my homestead to Amada French in 1917 and 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 Pa[...]illiston, North Dakota and helps her husband run a machine shop. Buck lives in Lewiston, Idaho, working as a construction fore- man on a large dam in New Mexico. Of the 18 children born to Alfred Parent only two survive at this writing,[...]ones were made in seclud- ed garden areas until a cemetery was established. Coffins for the burial[...]often hand made, packed with straw and lined with a white sheet or something suitable. Children who died were usual- ly readied for burial by a friend or neighbor of the family, · with ~akes for the aduits until time of burial. When a cemetery was established these graves were 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[...]by Wilfred Parent they could see farther a way, as the grass was so tall. In late summer a cyclone wind tore the tent down. It was torn to pieces so Joe took Emilia and baby to old Scobey to stay in[...]e, North Dakota. They farmed near They made trips to Poplar to buy a year's supply of Oakwood, but getting crowdec.i f[...]erosene, 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. They came as far as what is now many times. The gypsies were always a problem. Their Flaxville, and decided they would move here as they liked camping grounds were in the pasture by[...]e 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 la[...]ilia 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 covered wagon in a long caravan with many relatives, all was what he liked. So the family moved back to Flaxville to French speaking. The trail was rough, with bad we[...]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 coal mine. Leo turkeys. They set up a big tent large enough for all the and Frank Fordyce, Alvin Swenson and a brother Louis families to live in until they could build a house. The tent were undermining coal under a 30 foot bank. It caved was set up on a hill about two miles west of Flaxville, so[...] |
| [...]North Dakota, coming to Montana in 1910 where he took up a homestead two miles west of Flaxville. In 1915 he[...]in Custer, Michigan, where Fred .is with the Pepsi Cola[...]Company and Margaret works in a nursing home.[...]active in American Legion work, Vera is a member of the Scobey Big Sky Singers of the A.L.A., they took part in[...]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 was not Norma[...]original Juel homestead. (see Didrik enough land to farm so they moved to the Dave LaBlanc Juel story in Scobey[...]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[...]88 years and Emilia, 83 years. The place was sold to Joe Lantz. Joe and Emilia lived a full life with many ups and downs[...]ugh the early years of homestead days, and raised a large family of ten children, six daughters and four sons. One son died in infancy, the other in a coal mine accident. They had 21 grandchildren and[...]are Marcel, Leo, Loran, Joyce, Dora. LEO died in a coal mine accident, age 21. DAVE Parent, born in 1913. He and his wife, Evelyn have one boy, Mark and a daughter, Carolyn, Dave lives in Miles City. JEAN[...]s one son, Terry. ALICE married Bob Ellertson and is living in Lewistown, Montana. LORRAINE mar[...] |
| [...]Rheault Famjly-left to right: Thraphile, Bla1t-che, Cliff-[...]orth Dakota. They were married in 1904, and moved to in Honakaa, Island of Hawaii; and Maxine, Mrs. Pa[...]ater Patti married Eugene Dad bought a farm from Wilfred Goulet about six miles Marley, he works for mountain Bell in Scobey. Gene is southwest of Flaxville. They farmed there through all the active in many civic organizations, as is Patti. She is a hard years of drought (we remember the blow[...]d the Scobey In 1924 we leased this farm to Joe Legare (Mrs. Legare was Big Sky Singers. Pattie is a LPN at the local hospital. Mother's siste[...]es, Michael and Terrie Scobey. This lasted a few years, then we moved back to Jean, all at home.[...]raduation from In 1944 they moved to Williston. In 1945 Mother passed Flaxville High S[...]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 the family resides. Beverly is active in the where he lived until his deat[...]e was 90 years old. American Legion Auxiliary and is also one of the Big Sky Our family consi[...]of Minnesota. Their two Williston and is employed by the G.N. Railway; and my- sons are Je[...]Mrs. Fritz Roos The Bill Parent Family-1942-left to right top row: The name of Roos is a derivative of Rose. The Berniece, Margaret, Elean[...]s. grandfather of August Roos, Sr. was a soldier in the Bottom: Patricia, (father) Bill wi[...]Carol. He developed a black rose, and in honor of this[...]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,[...]were farming there that they experienced their first[...]ne when they lost their home by fire, saving only a[...] |
| 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 th[...]ay in 1963 at the Daniels Memorial Hospital after an illness of several months.[...]4. We started our married life at Whitetail in a trailer house on the George Safty farm, living there until 1956. We then moved to the old Joe Goulet farm near Flaxville where we s[...]ldren: June, Mrs. Irvin Odegard of Left to right: Mrs. Semple, holding baby Ruth (Page), Jack Whitetail; Rodney, a freshman in college; David, Linda, Sempl[...]trip across the continent at this early date was a very · also own the former Bekkerus place a few miles to the east, tedious one. It was made by way of the Great Lakes to and the pasture land on the George Safty farm of the west Milwaukee, then by train to Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, Whitetail area. and from there to Hastings on the Mississippi River. The[...]boat they traveled on was stuck on a sand bar for many[...]Minnesota in 1885 and for some time lived in a one-room[...]John Semple moved to Larimore, North Dakota where he was a member of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellow[...]in 1899. Little is known of his activities until he moved to[...]Flaxville home-1936 Ronald Safty Family-left to right: Linda, Janet, Ronnie, |
| Harry Semple Family-left .. to right, back row: Gregg, Johnny, Gary. Seated: Mar[...]Ruth, Arthur and Harry. The three children moved to Burtrum, Minnesota and were We were mar[...]'s folks. This farm has been our home ever since. a tenth grader and Harry, a ninth grader, came to live in We have one son and a daughter. Leslie, now of Billings, Flaxville. The[...]ry was inducted three boys and one girl. Kay is now Mrs. Harold (Frenchy) in the Army Air Corps i[...]banjo. He and the late Winnie Moulds were a popular Harry Semple was born in 1917 in Flaxvi[...]some when they played the banjo and spoons in the that time was Sheridan County. Following his separatio[...]r farmed the One of my treasured souvenirs is a registered letter, Semple land in addition to their own. stamped November 26, 1942. The letter contained a five Harry married Jean Baker of Norwalk, Ohio in Great dollar bill and had been sent to me by my brother Walter, Falls in 1952. There are five children: John is an FAA who was stationed in the Aleutians with the Coast certified A&P aircraft mechanic and commercial pilot.[...]ver the Gary attends Helena Vo-Tech School in the A&P aircraft Pacific Ocean and we thought the mail was lost forever. mechanic's course and is a commercial pilot. John and The Postal De[...]e plane was Mary attends Montana State University as a sophomore. recovered, and the mail was delivered, musty, but intact Gregory is a senior in high school at Flaxville. Thomas[...]at the bottom of the ocean. Harry died in 1972 as a result of an accident on an oil drilling job. MR. AND MRS. HAROLD[...]Harold was born at St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1912 to Mr. |
| [...]mber 16, 1921. Portland for nine years. Clarence is a carpenter foreman. |
| [...]arseth took over the store and The four buttes that rise like small mountains above the[...]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 store also on an 1859 map that was produced at the behest of the[...]ir horses. They simply called them Big Dog. It is believed that the buttes received this name because they were a rendezvous r· >i - .t. There fur traders exchang[...]trappers. The small caves in the buttt-6 provided an excellent place to cache the illicit whiskey. Henry and Ole Ships[...]near the buttes when they came in 1901, but moved to the West Fork the next spring .Among the early ho[...]y 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[...]ld them. The town of Four Buttes began in 1926, a few months after the railroad extended west from[...]6. It was receiving grain by August, 1926 and had a capacity of 35,000 bushels. Another elevator was built by a line company and was purchased by the farmers in[...], the other one having burned in September, 1944. An oil station owned by the Farmers Elevator burned in November that year. E.A. Enochson was the first manager of the Farmers Elevator. He continued in that capacity until May 1943, when he was fatally injured in an accident at the elevator. He was replaced by Dale[...]then and it has been enlarged by thcl addition of an annex and three large tube bins. The manag[...] |
| [...]H::'e -this, in addition to all ,t he : "''The ,Complete Country Store'' ; st[...]' DEAR FOLKS· I this stuff is r_eially a headache! ·•[...]Feeds, seeds. Garden and field ; from a stamp to a bottled gas ! varities. Don 't let th is snowy ' range. If you don't see wha,t you ! weather bother you. There'll still ,a re looking for when you come \ be plenty of planting weather · in, j,ust holler,[...]_ . for it together. It's bound to be i Drug Sundries , here ·somewhere: J A wide variety of items from : Some Hot News asp irins to horse liniment. Cos- Norman Mere. offers . you a metic items. Paper tissues of var- 5 % d iscount\[...]. School supplies. Shoe CASH purchases amounting to findings (that mea:is la_ces, pol- $10 or more. This is effective im- ish , s'hoe taps etc.). ,Also ma·g[...]it was the country general store, Just to g·ive you some idea of just like this one, ,t ha[...]es are pat.terned ! we list the foll~wing-by no a•:'ter. : means a complete list: Mi[...]e you 'll find sheet bl•ank- ery~ horses . This is also the ,· ets'. double blankets, Bates n:a- home cl the Four 1Buttes post- ·tena·l (thr[...]xchange and j things, you know), sheets and first a :d station for man or[...]r:·· 'em. Ready-toA ful.l : Four Buttes, Mont. stoc·k[...]and supper club is operated by Kay Hellickson and family.[...]y has been held together by Staple food items; ,a-Jso frozen[...]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.[...]hey have two county competition. Uniforms for the Little League were children, Ke[...]im 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[...]o being the school was 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.[...]still live there. One daughter, Ann, is married and lives in closing of the school the children were bussed to Scobey. Billings and s[...]daughter, Rosie, is married and has three children, Wayne, building and it is used for community affairs.[...]Although Four Buttes is a small town it has fared better vicinity, Mrs. Alf[...]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, repl[...] |
| [...]eight grades, from 1943to 1955, when she retired. She was a homesteader in 1914 and came to Homestead by train from[...]farm until their retirement. They raised a nephew, Roger[...]Chicago. Lulu is widowed and now lives in Scobey.[...]ked during the dam boom days. Their children went to[...]three children and live in Scobey. Bud is a respected[...]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. When anyone was in Scobey. 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 p[...]nd times of the day or night. Since 1949 the mail is deliver~d by Melissa. carrier at regular times[...]y 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 blocked. That is no more since the passenger Madoc. Their son James went to school in Four Buttes. car has been taken off and[...]in Scobey and enlisted During the time there was a depot there were several_depot in the army[...]the Fort Monmouth New Jersey, then spent a year at the Red spring when school was over there was a school picmc at Stone Arsenal i~ Alabam[...]Naha, Okinawa. He got his discharge in 1962. In an all-day affair. In the early 50's a very much nee~ed November 1966 he marri[...]son of Conrad, highway was built west from Scobey to Four Butt.es, which Montana and they are[...]d Eddie and Marie Wahl are considered to be in Four and school busses started operating. By 1[...]ugh they live across the road. They are early-day to get television, one of the last areas in the nati[...]town and country everyone knows his neighbor and is very hel~ful when Old Zabe Chartier'[...]turkeys. needed. At mail time you will often find a gathenng at the store and the coffee pot never ru[...]r get-togethers, keeps everyone around the county a big happy family. With electricity and 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 plentifu[...] |
| [...]natives of the farming and cattle. Gary also has a sports equipment Williston, North Dak[...]pper Club, and live Wayne, Kevin and Brian. Kevin is in the medical branch of here with childre[...]und farms, in connection with his uncle is the son of Clarence and Olive Hellickson, old tim[...]in various 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. Melvi[...]Miller, along with brothers and sisters. She went to school here and also in Scobey. She is now married to FOUR BUTTES EXTENSION HOMEMAKERS Mel[...]en employed at the elevator for twenty A Home Demontration Club was organized in 1936 in years. He is our favorite "gas man" and can give you a good Four Buttes with Mrs. Art Scarseth, pre[...]ar and cafe for several years. Their main pastime is ladies were able to drive, the husbands and children came fishing in[...]had their meetings. Their meetings were from May to Pennsylvania. Also a daughter Lorraine Chapman and Octob[...]was organized in 1953 with Mrs. Kermit Ferestad as and Emilia Miller, from Saskatchewan, Canada in 1[...]in 1936. Alfred Kaul as secretary-treasurer. Charter members still How[...]Buttes and in Daniels County. They farm and have a gun Mrs. Norman Johnson, Mrs. Alfred Kau[...]uhring, and Mrs. Alfred Ostby, and Rusty all went to elementary school here, and on to who was also charter member of the forme[...]at the school. and now lives in Washington. Ellen is married, has two The club purchased the[...]after the little girls and lives in Idaho. Donna is married and lives in District was abandoned. Ca[...]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[...]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 th[...]s was the first teacher in this area, teaching in a small came for the mail. He married Laura Levang from the tar papered shack about a mile or two from the permanent Medicine Lake area[...]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 from build a permanent school, 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[...]e 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 program. Dianne is a (probably used more for a dressing room for the many public school teacher.[...]rams performed in the 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 had a row of large windows across Shipstead. Steve is the son of Jim Shipstead of South Four it;[...]all ones high up on the wall. Buttes and Mary Ann is of the Bruhn family of Wolf Point. Lulu (Manley) Audet remembers what a great set of maps Steve has worked for the elevator for several years and is the school had and a large world globe remains prominent now farming w[...]two little girls, in ones memory. Also a school clock which never had the Jennifer and Bra[...]members took great pride in maintaining a "Superior" Lothair, Montana to manage the Farmers Elevator. They rated school and to do this not only was the building well[...] |
| [...]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[...]farm, which was a rather long drive even though she did[...]boarded at the Melvin Evensons as Miss Weber did. Harriet Gilchrist -[...]a Suchy. maintained and equipped but they had to keep well |
| taught a number of years. In later years Ruth Shiell, and a banana. This lady informed me that she lived across Eunice Shipstead and finally Flo[...]the school was in operation. was a Mrs. Grimes. Her husband worked for the Westland[...]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 hor[...]nt, 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 learning now is a the County Superintendent. The courthouse d[...]or the other but after climbing two never seemed to flourish. flights of stairs we entered a very small office at the front of[...]garet Chicoine Sundby the stairs. Behind a desk sat a lovely lady who Mr. Evenson introduced me to, Mrs. Knapp who was to become my life long friend. A very charming, efficient and helpful person.[...]I recall she wore a dark red dress. 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 on March 28, 1927. Having 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[...]counts. not have summer terms, but Montana did at that time. A Mr. Evenson told me he would call for me in an hour, so I , friend and former teacher of mine told me 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 friend was[...]te address. I was most anxious She told me it was a desirable school so I had applied to the to be certain I would get my mail. He told me I had no County Superintendent and was given a contract for nine cause for worry on that score because Mr. and Mrs. Jim months.[...]ld find anywhere. I myself out in my Sunday best, a flowery hat, suit, etc. The then hurried back to the courthouse to meet Mr. Evenson ride was long and slow. I think[...]whose thoughtful wife, Olga, had provided a warm winter Bainville. I did not pack a lunch, but a lady seated near me coat, boots, mittens, and scarf for me to wear. I was very had one and when she discovered I was feasting on a box of glad to exchange my flowery hat, etc. for these warm chocolates, she felt sorry for me and offered me a sandwich wraps. So in a sleigh over the snow banks on a cut-across[...]cher in 1927. girls anxious to meet their new teacher greeted me and I[...]partook of a very good supper, a sample of all the good[...]meals and hospitality I was to enjoy that year in their[...]On Monday morning, early, we went to school. This[...]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.[...]nit( a /.art of this school because this schoolhouse had a goM ... ull sized basement with a well in it.[...]were two rows with an aisle between. The desks in front were a little shorter for the first and second graders.[...]front with a tap bell. There was a recitation bench in front, a dictionary (large) on a stand, a wall map of the world, a[...]the teacher. In the summer, Junior Robbin drove a white horse hitched to a green cart. The horse was named Pinto.[...]It was about two miles to school. Pinto could always be[...]Maurice Murphy rode a Shetland pony; the Chicoine[...] |
| These were the children entrusted to my care for nine Knapp's daughter, Esther Peters,[...]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[...]thers, 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 saying "good-nite, Peerless Fair. On a windy day in October Mrs. Evenson, good-nite, w[...]he morning light, may angels the girls and I went to Peerless to attend their first fair. guard us while we slee[...]and Peerless was booming with many businesses and a new girls. Good-nite teacher," I began my janit[...]e 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 do[...]I learned she was Mrs. Art Strom of Scobey. saw that the flag monitor had the flag down and then I sat[...]ng the exhibits, we walked around up town. down to correct papers, make lesson plans, etc. Time Seve[...]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[...]rong 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 shor[...]ws came. There were storms. We prepared ourselves to by the wayside. In the fall the golden wheat was harvested spend a night in the schoolhouse, if necessary, by bringing and there was a busy time of activity. blankets, a kerosene lamp, extra sandwiches in the lunch On Saturday Mrs. Evenson, the girls and I made a pails from home. The school trustees had a good supply of weekly trek to Scobey. Evelyn 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 o[...]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 whic[...]In April the gracious County Superintendent held a Play and Catherine Christensen who came so far with their Day in Scobey. It was an occasion where all the rural plodding horse and buggy to learn and play with the other schools gathered a[...]er considerate of the teacher. Then the children to town (the men were working in the fields there we[...]he 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 th[...]Mrs. Chicoine girls, Phyllis who could embroider a story with all the ran off the road on the Timmo[...]w spring outfits. hat and really convinced us all that the "Indian" stole it Mr. Evenson came in by tru[...]atient and willing, Maurice Murphy, studious was a grand occasion despite the rain.[...]Gilmore whose mother spoke Since school would be closed before Christmas, no French and whose Irish father couldn't understand very Christmas program would be given , therefore, a Halloween much French. program was settled upon in place of a Christmas one. The The books were checked o[...]ouse plants usual preliminaries were planned and a playette was distributed and I locked the door -- another key had been decided upon. For this play a wardrobe of clothes was provided. needed. The teacher contributed an array of hats, shoes, The grand Evensons h[...]et 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 h[...]ed cabinets, leaving them open. Her desk had been A very happy year. rifled, the scissors and cosmeti[...]dren and she had brought were missing, along with an odd jacket or two forgotten on Friday night. the dishes which were in the basement, cups, etc. were taken. To all appearances a man, woman and child had spent the weekend there[...]nt 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 homestead one mile west of the Four Buttes[...] |
| Later a town was named after these hills. Then he went in October, 1935. We have four daughters and one son. back to Hensel, North Daktoa and returned in the summer T[...]n Plentywood, August, 1961. I Martin, who died of a kidney ailment in the early winter of returned to Scobey in 1970. 1915. This was a sad event to take place so soon after 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[...]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 b[...]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 sto[...]olic church. She had many friends who enjoyed her a quick, hot fire for biscuits, we would go out and[...]h bread and tea in the afternoons. She was hit by a car "buffalo chips". My dad was a blacksmith and had a little while crossing the street on the east end[...]s the first fatal accident in Scobey's One day a prairie fire started from a spark from the forge. history. The neighbors saw[...]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 he would go out as a separator man on threshing crews. Young Bill went with Donald Audet came to Four Buttes in 1920 from Forgey, him to drive a bundle te~m.[...]Leonie came in 1912 with her Muriel taught in a number of country schools in those parents, Claudia and Ferdinand Audet. They came in an first years. She walked sometimes and drove a horse and open wagon and homesteaded where the Em[...]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 course being given for adults in the local school. long trip. They had to live in a tent for a long time before She started to work in the courthouse in 1922 and worked their h[...]Pat Horton in Spokane and soon after she returned to Scobey he came and worked at Bill Handran~. He an[...]d in September 1926. He ran the cream station for a while and then he and Art Elvude had the City Dra[...]ed 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 wanted for murder in Montreal. In the fall of 1954 he was elected sheriff, but _ did not live to be sworn into office. He suffered a fatal heart attack a few days before the swearing in. When Gladys was in Spokane she met and married Avon Powell, a mail man up to the time of his retirement in 1945 due to ill health. They still live in Spokane and have c[...]ards Clothing Store for many years and then moved to southern Montana and northern Wyoming. He worked[...]y 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 Gla[...]t Peck Dam days. Then he and his family went back to southern Montana and made their home in Billings after having a pool hall in Bridger. Bill was a clothing salesman in Billings until his health failed. He was rated as one of the best clothing salesmen in northeast Montana. Marie's work took her to Denver, Colorado. They moved there where Bill die[...]I worked at the Rex Theatre three summers and for a short time for Wyvil The Aude[...] |
| [...]il Audet, Delhia LaPierre, Alexina had a nights lodging, for which we never had a set price, Butler, Alice LaPierre, Amie LaBarge,[...]eir huge horse blankets they then leased his land to Ray LaPierre for five years. At the sometimes brought in the house for extra beds, as often present time Roy Killenbeck is leasing it. some had to sleep on the floor. Their loads coming home To this union was born six children: Arthur Audet, w[...]flour, barrels of kerosene and much lumber, as everyone Brenkman, Great Falls;-Violet Hawbaker,[...]omesteads or ranches. In Sco~ey; Ronnie Audet has a wheel alignment and tune-up this way we met many interesting people, all working for a shop in Scobey; Richard Audet, Gardner, Massachus[...]ldren. 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 sleigh road with a few landmarks in the then passed away August 7, 1[...]sparsely populated area was not a healthy place to be in The original house still stands at the farm[...]l 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,[...]1915 he operated a general store in the same locality. Wes Baldry[...]Leo, Joe, Jean, Arthur and Leonie were born to Mr. and Tonapah, Nevada.[...]action while serving with the 82nd Air moved to a homestead five miles northeast of what is now Borne in Europe in 1944. They have one daught[...]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. The[...]7. They have one son and two daughters. They have a cattle and sheep ranch at Wendell, Idaho. Doug[...]se at Hawthorne, Nevada. This s,tory would not be complete without a tribute to our pioneer folks. Mother, Elizabeth Ann Endicott[...]akota. 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[...]the infantry on February 15, 1941 , and sacks and a gentle saddle horse or wheel barrow, we boys a few months later was with the American Forces und[...]ing. Elizabeth Baldry passed away in 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[...]oo 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[...]there was plenty of land for overcome 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,[...]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[...]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 he passed away, how long he had[...]ainte Justine, County Dorchester, Quebec, Canada, to Pierre Bernard and Arthemise Bedard Bernard. Ja[...]maine was born at Sainte Germaine, Quebec, Canada to Octave and Philomene Turmel. The couple was mar[...]rmaine. From 1905 until 1910 Mr. Bernard operated a[...] |
| William Bernard family. Left to rig t standing: Joseph Bernard, Jean Manley, Arth[...]ADRIAN AND ANNIE BLANC died in 1942 while a prisoner of the Japanese, and Leo who by Kath[...]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[...]othes 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 Blan[...]arsen, died May 2, 1971 in the Scobey hospital of a brain tumor. They have two children, Leon and Wan[...]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 Gi[...]he farms west of Four Buttes. Josephine married to Robert Boehlke. They have one son William. She te[...]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 manage[...] |
| in his pocket. He came west to Saskatchewan, spending the winter at Estevan, then went into North Dakota where he found work on a farm near Bottineau. Finding his lack of knowledge of the English language a handicap, he attended a local grade school off and on for two years, and as a result learned to speak excellen t English. In 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[...]d area were Mrs. John Falxa and Annie Connolly. To her, Plentywood was the end of nowhere, for Plent[...]ie and sparsely populated; and since she was used to thickly populated areas, this seemed really "wild[...]worked on the Peter Marron ranch and applied for a homestead. Since she didn't spend the required th[...]John Zabe and Delina Chartier Falxa ranch a few miles from the Marron ranch. These two young[...]arried in Plentywood on July 15, 1915. They moved to Bainville, where he had a homestead. After about four years they Zabe was a kind, beloved "Uncle" who always walked bought a farm west of Four Buttes, living in that area until with a cane as long as we could remember because he had 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 peach orchard. 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. The[...]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[...]"Aunt" only a few years later. They would surely have The Bla[...]er 1941 and served no details remain with us to tell. for four years -- forty-two months being sp[...]THE ARTHUR CHICOINE FAMILY 1974; he is survived by his wife. Kathleen was married to F.E. Adams in Sidney in January 1942; her husband[...]Just south of present day Four Buttes, Montana, an area passed away in July 1966. She has one son, a student at called the "Flat" was prime hom[...]lcoxon long before early settlers moved in to take advantage ofit. in July 1940; her husband was killed in a plane accident in Around the year 1907 or '08 a middle-aged couple, Zabe and March 1969. They had[...]James, Diane and Delina Chartier set up a homestead a few miles southwest Eileen.[...]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[...]Chicoine was born in Upton , Quebec in 1888 and As great-nieces of Zabe and Deline (Chicoine) Charti[...], 1910 at the age of 21 left the town of not much is remembered about them by us, but they should Adamsville, Quebec and arrived in Poplar, Montana by be mentioned in the early history of our county since they train. There, he paid $15.00 fare aboard a lumber wagon came in 1908 and settled southwest o[...]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 Alfred Bellanger. They were middle-aged when they[...]from their native land. Zabe In 1911, using a sulky-walking plow, my dad broke up his had travelled as far west as San Francisco in his younger first 40 acres[...]ear added another 40. Thus years, later returning to Quebec, Canada and marrying his began his lo[...]ina Chicoine. who settled to make a go of it. They came from Quebec to Kalispell, Montana first , Arthur married Pearl Gilchrist from Montecello, finally taking up a homestead in our county. They were Minnes[...]Gilch;rist and her two sisters, Harriet brothers, to Montana. Charles came in 1909, Arthurin 1910[...]13. The three nephews homesteaded near to Minnesota, that my mother and Aunt Effie surely their Aunt and Un[...]proved their pioneering spirit by living in a little tar[...] |
| papered shack, heated only by a laundry stove. Grandpa mortifying momen[...]paper sash and my school girl reputation fell to the floor. sons Bill and Clay, to live here. In th[...]his school board membership my mother's place for a few years. at the G[...]ool which covered most of the school's 1916 was an eventful year for Arthur. The first of his five history. Later he was an ASC board member for Daniels daughters was born, h e became a naturalized citizen, he County. I do not[...]$410.00 purchased mechanically minded but as I recall our dad kept mother his first car, a Model T Ford. and us girls in a state of suspense a lot with mechanics, as In the next few years we moved to the Chartier place and every time we wanted to go somewhere, he had the car finally located on m[...]ut like this created many car would be back in running condition. neighbors. There was t[...]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[...]2. Later like many he mortgaged his land, lost it to surrounded us; Uncle Leo and Charles and families[...]rists, 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[...]to sew and "she took a great deal of ribbing" from dad as to Left to right: Margaret, Dorothy, Marraine, Alyce and |
| to milk a cow. She always said "When you marry if you homesteaded together in 1914, spending a winter alone in a want to milk, then fine". But there always were some homestead shack, heated only by a laundry stove, which chores that required doing for need's sake, like picking[...]and potatoes after dad dug them. The wind seemed to always went to dances. Mrs. Bill Reik entertained the young blow[...]coine 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 items in town for the homesteaders, on security, when dad would be gone and didn't arrive home request, and leave them in the large sack hung from a post before dark. Mother would then gather us around it that was used for a mail box. Mrs. Chicoine often left a note (someone luckily getting the best seat in th[...]asking for sewing supplies, and left the money to pay for oven door), and with coals glowing red, s[...]e bag. When spring came and the snow tell stories to her audience. I might add that years later we thawed she discovered to her dismay that there was a hole discovered mother was a very poor singer and dad was the in th[...]bag had slipped into a snowbank. All winter, Jim had been In those ye[...]at the school or In 1910 there was a regular rodeo on Fourth of July at-Old some neigh[...]eat and chickens and had milk cows and 'til dawn. A big source of fun was card playing where often managed to make a Ii ving. The large ranchers were real the games o[...]til the lamps were friendly. Whenever a homesteader needed a job he would blown out at first light. Christmases were memorable. go to work for Henry Shipstead, who would give a Dolls, books and clothing were the main gifts. Mother homesteader a job in preference to a drifter. In the early never outgrew her love of d[...]sheep on the flat. Chartier asked if he received a doll from her every year until they outgrew them.[...]g, busy days. When There were a lot of horses running loose belonging to relatives from out-of-state visited, it required a trip to the Shipstead, Taylor Green, Mose Tingley, Butler, Fadness, Truax Ranch for a look at the buffalo, or a picnic at the Oscar Shipstead on Police[...]ande. Most ranchers were on creek bottom. All had to neighbors and area relatives got together for big[...]ose Tingleys. 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[...]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 on the flat during California.[...]ng their eleven 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[...]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[...]ss, Montana; Alyce Carlson, discovered a barrel in a basement hole that had blown half- Spokane; Marraine Robertson, Seat[...]yllis Lar- full of thistles. We went to get equipment to get it out, but son, Cypress, California.[...]eaching Old Scobey in 1910, and asking directions to- his uncle's (Zabe Chartier's) place. Jake[...]e Chicoine, Timmons pointed west and said, "Go in that direction. was born July 24, 1887 i[...]rm with buildings. Charles Chicoine, who had come a year before to pick out the homesteads had a shack. Emma (LaBlanc) and Chas. C[...]men behaving strangely. When he got closer he saw that the men, Mr. Gilbert and Arthur Moses, had snared[...]harnessed up three of the animals and were trying to drive them around. One time; after helping a neighbor named Amos Presnel dig a well, Art started riding home by horseback in a snowstorm. The storm soon became a full-fledged blizzard and Art, who had worked up a sweat while digging the well, was so close to freezing that he was unable to get off his horse when he finally reached the Ott[...]lp and took him in. Another event Art rem em hers is a fire in the fall of 1910, believed set by an outside sheep outfit that was in the habit of burning off the old grass whe[...]ountry in the fall. It was only with great effort that Art managed to save his buildings. Mrs. Chicoine and her[...] |
| [...]Charlie Chicoine homesteading There he grew to manhood and in 1909 was lured to |
| [...]Harrison--two years and Emily--one year, arrived to make their home. In August[...]fax, North Dakota bound for Four Buttes. Carl was to be the first manager of the newly organized Farmer's[...]It took us three days to make the trip. We were driving a[...]without any car trouble. Sometimes we had a little trouble finding 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 end of[...]construction, and a store not yet completed. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Conroy As a small child, and over the years, I remember my |
| [...]ties". and Gus Dahlquist. Carl made a success of the elevator during both the good[...]ed on adjoining half and the bad years. It seemed as though everything was sections and also[...]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[...]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.[...]rew up, married and have new homes at that time. families. Bill and his family live in Wahpe[...]amily 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 Buttes[...]friends there and altho we also went A & J Blacksmith Shop in Scobey and died in 1968. They through a period of sorrow - it was and always will have a have five children and eight grandchildren. s[...]Rita was married to Alvin Levang in 1944. They bought[...]rs Doloris, Rita and Frances John is married to Dorothy Feltis of Peerless (194 7). He[...]grandchildren. miles southwest of Scobey. He was a butcher by trade and Bernard was married to Margie Nakken in 1949. He[...]Gerald is married to Clara Olson of Tioga, North Dakota. He is a salesman for Kea ting's Furniture Store in Willis[...]moving into Scobey in 1934 to attend high school.[...]of July celebrations in Scobey, and going to church every[...]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[...]homestead was to plant a grove of trees, which grew well.[...]By this time he had built a two-story house which was[...]Gilchrist School, which was about a mile from their home.[...] |
| [...]Melvin Evenson and family moved to Thief River Falls[...]yn and Melvin Evenson from 1922 to 1941, most of that time in the Four Buttes area[...]moved to Scobey and the latter to Glasgow eventually. Mrs. Evenson and Ruth in[...]lvin and Olga Evenson - 1938 shortly after moving to |
| [...]Left to right: Ruth, Martin, Helen, Leo and LeRoy[...]Ford truck. We lived the first summer a mile north of Four[...]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[...]father-in-law. Front row Plains. I believe 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 daughter'[...]Doctorate in engineering. Six of the sons served a total of Bryan's wife Marjorie, Bryan's daughter.[...]Myself (Clarence) and Jim of Daniels County; W.P.A. days and dust storms. The Hazen Flickingers now[...]LCHRIST FAMILY Chris and Kathryn Gebhardt came to the Scobey Elmer Dougla~ Gilc[...]ta. |
| [...]ta. Elmer, with their three daughters which is illustrated 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[...]ng crops was homesteads, then, in 1915, came back to Montana with his hard work, there was sti[...]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, just[...]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 hom[...]lats". Margaret hated it at first. She had left a spacious, Clay Gilchrist beautiful brick home for a homesteader's shack on the barren prairies. Few p[...]ambitious, hard-working, very capable "Grandma", as she was called by everyone in later years, could conceive that during her first summer in Montana she sat and made rose beads out of wild roses by the hour! They built a large two-story home, which she painted herself. A few years later it burned to the ground, with nothing salvaged but a drawer full of pictures. They then bought land and a house a few miles distant from C.H. Wilbur, originally Bi[...]. Some photographers traveling in the area wanted to make movies of them, but the Gilchrists would have none of it. Elmer invented a hitch called the Gilchrist equalizer,[...] |
| [...]to farming and ranching, Bill tried his hand at rais[...]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,[...]to this union: Douglas, Delbert, Lorraine and Alice.[...]school, three and a half miles from their farm home, most[...]inside; at times with a small coal stove inside. They moved to Peerless in 1937 so the children could[...]e resided until her death 1938. They lived for a time in Poplar and Frazer. Lorraine in 1951.[...]died in 1958, Bill on February 20, 1968. He is survived by Harriet, the eldest daughter, taug[...]le, Scobey; Dennis Gilchrist, wife Ginger and son to Daniels County in 1915 with his parents. He was n[...]; Mrs. Orville (Cheryl) 21, so could not take out a homestead. Two years later, he Novak, Robert, Phil, and Delroy, Roseau, Minnesota; Mrs. bought a relinquishment. He married Martha Hendrickson[...], Montana; on June 28, 1920 at Plentywood. It was an all day trip by Mark, Timothy and Mary Jane,[...]he was born at Hills, Minnesota on July 17, 1894, to Arne and Gusta va Moen Hendrickson. She first came to Scobey A "shivaree" as mentioned in the above story was a loud and noisy party· given to newlyweds. People came with[...]banging on their noisy implements. The groom may be[...]ilchrist - 1920 gathered in the house to enjoy the lunch they brought and an evening of fun. CLAY A. GILCHRIST FAMILY Clay A. Gilchrist came to Montana with his family in[...]Scobey in what is now called Daniels County.[...]as responsible for the Horse Quadrille which made a big[...]In 1924 he leased land and started to build a futur.e for[...]Married in 1925 to Beatrice Sullivan, they lived west of[...]He is survived by his widow and four children. E.D. (Gi[...]Gilchrist lives in Glasgow, Montana and is a railroad man. |
| Washington. He is a plant foreman for Calkins Implement Company. Fae Ann Gilchrist lives in Seattle, Washington and is a banker. Beatrice Gilchrist, retired, lives in Sea[...]ad arrived in Daniels County in 1910. He returned to Crookston, Minnesota where he married Ingeliev.To[...]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 Feres[...]estad and Gary Wahl. Front Their first home was a two-room structure which served row: Ran[...]Ferestad. adequately as a protection from the elements but soon became too small as the family grew in number. Five children were born here with only a midwife's assistance, Volga, Irene, Healy, LouElla and Kermit. In 1924 a new eight-room house was built.[...]ot luck suppers among the The children attended a rural school located one-half neighbors[...]est home. Gampp and the school was known as the Ferestad School. Volga married A[...]Robert (Bobby). Both Irene living on the "Flat", a term associated with this area. and Pet[...]hl of Scobey and has five no children they played an active role in community affairs children,[...]sion, drought, recently moved to Scobey where they are making their grasshoppers,[...]Most people remember Mrs. Ferestad as a happy, gentle; such as picnics on Police Creek, chokecherry picki[...] |
| [...]her choice, she would not have exchanged her role as a farmer's wife and mother. Many have sampled her l[...]brated his 94th birthday on February 18, 1975. He is mentally alert and physically well and has contri[...]dates and accounts on the "Old Timers". He spends a great deal of time reminiscing about his old friends on incidents of the past. He feels so fortunate to have played a part in molding some of Daniels County history.[...]INGER AND DORA FERESTAD Inger K. Ferestad came to Daniels County from Norway on April 1, 1916. He h[...]t Dora Berger of Verendyre, North Dakota who came to Daniels County in 1929 to work for the Manternach family. The first person Dora met was Mildred Lekvold Poyner. Dora is a sister of Carl Berger of Whitetail.[...]Janice and Mark. Janice was killed in a car accident[...]1958. Then moved to Four Buttes and worked in the[...]var and Ingeliev Ferestad, Ferestad family. Left to right top row: Donna, Ira, Carroll, married Oli[...]bey, Dorothy married Jim Albright returned to Scobey and took up farming and ranching of Dubois[...]eerless. Carroll Four children were born to Kermit and Olive, namely married Darla Dan[...] |
| [...]wo children, Leah Rae and Lance. Kermit is a member of the Scobey Saddle Club, the They live i[...]merican Legion, and all the connected with the LG.A. grocery store. Dan serves as a family are members of the Catholic church.[...]ss 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,[...]spring' of 1912. They both took up homesteads a few miles[...]e lived in the Gilchrist School District. We came to[...]Circle, Montana to Alfred and Freda Kaul. He moved with Dennis att[...]ale Teachers College· in North his family to the Four Buttes area in August of 1941. He Dakota[...]en State Teachers College in South went to the Four Buttes school through the fifth grade. H[...]and graduated from Scobey High School in 1959. That fall children namely, Twyla and Michael. Dennis t[...]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 Scobey High School. I worked as secretary Dean graduated from Dawson Junior Col[...]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, farmi[...]orn. the Madoc Farmers Elevator. Myrna, his wife, is a In the spring of 1966 we moved into[...]Business College ?f one year. He then went to Highway Patrol School and is Rapid City South Dakota. She worked as a secretary m currently employed with the Montana Highway Patrol. Great Fall~ for two and a half years. She married Trent His first sta[...]moved there in January, City, Montana where Trent is employed by his father at 1968. Pop's Inn.[...]In 1970 we moved to Glendive. Our son, Arlin Lee, was A number of neighbors will recall the hard winters of born in Scobey. We moved back to Scobey in November, 1950-1951 when government sno[...]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 right into the hay loft of his big barn. The pigs were even snowed in. An Phillip and Anna Kerstein arrived in what is now old bunk house served as the pig's living quarters . Kermit Daniels Coun[...]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[...]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 what he called a cook car. He for homesteads, he sent his two oldest sons to look at the would hire a man to cook but most often my sister would country. From[...]d more had searched for. He then moved his family to Montana. A than a few days, I supposed he was threatened with a lynch young Englishman, Harry Lewis, who was working for party for poorly prepared food. As time passed on there him as a hired hand also came with them. All that were were good and bad times. There were crop failures and eligible took homesteads as well as Harry Lewis, who later sickness. married[...]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[...]d Anna Kerstein had ten Kerstein Lewis land which is owned by Dora's daughter grandchild[...]M. A. LAMOTTE M.A. LaMotte of St. Marie, Illinois came to Scobey on the[...]who was a schoolteacher in Illinois in 1917 and our[...]s old homestead - 1916 Sod shacks were built to accomodate the family. For |
| [...]Candace (Mrs. Gary Linder) of Flaxville; and a son,[...]Canada by train to Scobey in the year of 1915 (February),[...]and took a homestead by Stony Butte west of Four Buttes.[...]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[...]s. By M.A. LaMotte DAN MURPHY FAMILY |
| [...]was also one of the first farmers to use a crawler-type[...]ractor in dirt moving. He owned and operated such a[...]and "fresno" in exec>~vating the basement of what is[...]as many as 275 calves were branded in one day, and 100 Alm[...]e on the old homestead people were present to work, observe, offer advice, and eat during the summers, which is about fifteen miles baked beans. The Nelson Brothers shipped their cattle to northwest of Scobey. Sioux City, Iowa for 43 consecutive years to the stockyards[...]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 Machine[...]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 Shipstead as a farm hand. rural electric services on the[...]pedited the considerable job of getting materials to continuously by him for 60 years. In 1916 a partnership rebuild the elevator which was destroyed by fire at a time was formed with John A. Davis and one and a half more when there was a tremendous shortage of construction sections of l[...]is partnership lasted materials. Nelson was a member of the Williston Elks until 1922. Besides[...]many Elizabeth Brown Nelson, known to everyone as winters at the Ford Garage which was owned by Sho[...]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[...]Point Norman's death in 1969. When cattle became a part of their communities will long remember[...]azy B". One of the most colorful and wife ran a hamburger stand on Fourth of July's, innovative a[...]as his threshing crew which he operated from 1916 to were living in Scobey when they c[...] |
| [...]married. "Brownie" Nelson has been very active as a member of the St. Philip's Catholic Church. She a[...]cobey in August, 1975. Seven children were born to their marriage. Sister Claudia (Ilamae) is a music teacher in Fargo, North Dakota. Richard married Flossie Fugere in 1948 and was killed in an auto accident in 1959. Sister Yvonne (Mary) is doing social work in Jellico, Tennessee. Father John, a Jesuit priest, teaches at Seattle University in S[...]now lives in Spokane, Washington where Mr. Davin is a certified public accountant. Pat died in an auto accident in 1960 following service in the na[...]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 o[...]Lula, Earl, Bernice, rented rooms for them to stay in. After Lula graduated and Edward, my cous[...]er his from high school my folks moved to town in the fall so we mother died. He died in 19[...]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[...]me. Lula lives in where dad was born. He filed on a homestead and all of us Dubuc, Saskatchewan.[...]Additional note by Hilda Norman: I can remember that my folks welcomed the farmers from I was[...]ed 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[...]eir way home. These people hauled rough as usual. grain in wagons or sleds, whatever the wea[...]d in England. We went across My first memory 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 gave five days in Liverpool, then boarded a liner for Canada. We away in those days from a lumber yard or grocery store- so saw many icebergs and passed two other ocean liners. my mother got a big Russian thistle and we children cut We arrived in Canada on a Sunday morning. Then we decorations for it. I remember I got a tooth brush that said went by bus and train to 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 first bit of schooling came from a school a couple language, but we survived. Later my parents went to miles south, which was called Valley School and M[...]acher. All of us children went I worked for a farmer before I met and married Elmer. there in a horse and cart.[...] |
| [...]It was in March, 1915 that Alfred returned with Genevieve to Montana. This time they brought livestock Alfr[...]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 homestea[...]stayed in Sheyenne until and rented their land to Eddie Wahl. After renting their September. Leavin[...]n 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[...]few years have lived in Wolf living and borrowed a team and wagon. From Froid, Alfred Point, Mont[...]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[...]ixty-one years. and continued on the prairie road to the homestead he had filed on in June. The Al[...]nty and presently |
| [...]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, Wisconsin. My father shipped out in an immigrant car. He brought a cow and calf, farm machinery and some household goods. The near- est railroad point at that time was Poplar. The 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 Custer. Ou[...]est of the original townsite of Scobey. We had a few chickens and they were forever being attacked by chicken hawks. One day during an attack by a pair of hawks my father shot one, and then was at[...]ember, 1927. We have two sons. H. Gilbert Riek is a veterinarian and lives in Sidney, Montana. William J. Riek is a Presbyterian minister and lives in Eldon, Missou[...]rom Montana State College in Bozeman in 1926 with a major in Agriculture. - I taught school at Brow[...]20, 1892. Both Martin and Annie In 1936 I went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture with[...]Rustebakke from the SCS in December, 1965. Since that time we have enjoyed retirement 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 into[...]born at Cylinder, Iowa on Alvin, a veteran of World War II, farms the home place Dec[...]born ~t and adjoining land. His wife is the former Dorothy Spencer, Iowa on August 20, 18[...]an of Tacoma, Washington and they have five moved to Thief River Falls, Minnesota where they met and[...]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.[...]n 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.[...]from Thief River Falls on the first of October in a Model T loaded with packages, blankets and the th[...]gs, daughter of Wilson and Edith children. It was a bad winter with lots of snow but they got Goldrick Jennings of Rugby, North Dakota, became the to Westby before they had to abandon the Model T. They bride of Carl Ryding, son of Andrew and Louise Peterson took the train to Four Buttes where Martin's brother Ted[...] |
| [...]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[...]now), but at that time there wasn't electricity so a reversal - back to gasoline lanterns, and the family became[...]accustomed to a rural life, of raising a large garden and[...]There were four members of the Ryding family, as the[...]dest daughter Alpha was working in Kellogg, Idaho as a[...]moved to Glasgow. They frequently returned to visit their[...]was an ardent church worker until her health failed. Car[...]was a Mason and Amelia was a member of Order of[...]Ole came to Montana in 1894. He worked on ranches near[...]ildren, was born of English- In 1901 he came to northeastern Montana and spent his Irish parents[...]Nebraska in 1884. She came first winter in a dugout west of Four Buttes on Spring with her parents by ox team to North Dakota in 1895 where Creek. her father,[...]e 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[...]ta. At the time of their marriage Carl managed an elev at Twin Bridges, North Dakota. Later he mam[...]. In the intervening y, ; four children were born to this union: Alpha, now Mrs. 1 ; Bening of St. Maries, Idaho; Delanor, Mrs. Roy Killen},< (deceased 1964); a son Carl, deceased in infancy; ➔ Florence, Mrs. Peyton Bennett, of Scobey. In 1922 an electrical storm hit the little town of Y ·:, With one clap of thunder and a flash of lightning elevator was hit and burned to the ground. Insun : covered the loss of the grain filled elevator, but left 1 , 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 for Win[...]hold goods by freight car. The fa r drove by car, an open type sedan, or side curtains whe: top[...] |
| [...]October 3, 1878, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick[...]to Crafton, North Dakota with his family and lived t[...]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[...]Shrank retired in the early 1950's and continued to[...]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[...]wo sons, Arthur of Four Buttes and Clifford of in a blizzard while returning to the ranch from Wolf Point. Chicago; two daugh[...]e had salt and lumber loaded on the wagon and had to Havre and Mrs. Raymond (Gertrude) Schae[...]reat 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 used from then till the middl[...]alt the following June and the barrels were empty as the snow had dissolved all the salt in the[...]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 W[...]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[...]interests Henry, moved up on the bench, took out a homestead and and moved a way. started farming.[...]ed and In 1915 he married Minnie Smith who had a homestead left two children, Gerald and[...]e and Minnie had five Ernest's homestead is still farmed by a uephew , James children, Gladys, Marie, Eunice, J[...]. Milton MR. AND MRS. STANISTAUS SUCHY is on the home place. Gladys, Mrs. Theodore M[...] |
| [...](Thielke) Rangbacher of Fort and Sophia by boat to Canada. They settled there in a town Peck, Montana; and Robert Theilke of Li[...]mportant Good eve three more children were added to the family, achievements in the area was a large collage of the Fort Joseph, Christina and R[...]h hangs in the Museum at Fort Peck. They moved to Montana in 1913 in what is now called Clarence died in 1948. Jul[...]ck 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 Kate was a sister of Margaret Becker Gilchrist. She Ii ved people had time for a few gatherings. Most of the fun things on the farm that she and the boys had for 17 years. She had were[...]and dances at our school. We had one of moved to Glasgow only about a month before her death at the nicest and biggest[...]ict, the Gilchrist the age of 59. She truly had a hard life on this Montana school.[...]Mons immigrated from Norway in the spring of 1913 to children, Edward of Eureka, Montana, Janet Greenw[...]f Cornwall, New there. In 1916 he came to Scobey where the Ferestads and York survive.[...]his brother Jonas had come a few years ahead of him. He Mary and Fred Merks[...]also di<;l mostly farm work here and took out a homestead in Manitoba, Canada.[...]Roosevelt County, proved it up, built a shack, as most of John's first wife Gertrude passed away[...]e four children, twins Dorothy and Doris, Stanley an Johnny. Stanley and wife Hilda live in Hot Spr[...]s. Sophia passed away in 1960. She was married to Ernest Halvorson. They had four children, first w[...]. Jr., killed in car accident in 1958. Beverly is married to Richard Kennedy. They have four children, two boy[...]spent more than a year overseas, coming back in the fall of[...]HIELKE spent only a little time here, and then went to Casper, Wyoming, where he spent a few years. While there he sent 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 19[...]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 s[...]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[...]striking out on their own. It takes more as the Lystads had to move to a different climate for health than a short apprenticeship to learn the business of reasons. A few years later we bought the farm, had two farmi[...]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 chil[...] |
| Left to rig~t: Tonjum family. Ada, Mons, Anna, Kenneth. \ Kenneth married a Poplar girl, Vera Johnson, and they Herman[...]ost of their married life in Poplar, having spent a |
| [...]ittenberg, Germany on November 11, 1865. She came to the United States when Sherd cut, made[...]ring her teen years she our own coal a mile and a half from home. With the coal embarked upon a stage career which she sutcessfully[...]an upstairs for storage and an extra bed. She married Clarence Wilbur in Boston and came to I had never been out of the state[...]me for my parents and the rest of the later moved to Peerless where he managed the filling family; also I missed the trees I'd been accustomed to station. They belonged to the Prairie Chapter Order of the around my o[...]country and I enjoyed helping Mrs. Wilbur was a very talented artist and her home held the s[...]any of her paintings. Her death marked the end of a long married. I delivered the babies of some of our and active life in dramatics as well as in the field of art. homesteading neighbors,[...]sister, Mr. Wilbur, following her death, moved to Glasgow Jennie, who, with her husband Ray Pyle, had where he lived for a few years and later passed a way in that homesteaded in the hills above West Fork. Our[...]were born without a doctor, Ross in 1918 and Eugene in[...]By this time the country was beginning to get quite well[...]We started a band of sheep by getting bum lambs from I was[...]ur neighbor Henry Shipstead. We built our band up to for five years. In the spring of 1914 I came to Montana; my about 1200 head; our cattle herd[...]her, Vane Ross and his wife, had already filed on a some of the homesteaders began leaving th[...]p their claims for grazing and farming land. went to work for the Mansfield Daniels as a housekeeper. In 1940 Sherd ran for state senator on the Republican The Daniels had a beautiful home and a general store in ticket. His campaign was successful. We spent that winter Old Scobey. a nd the winter of 1943 in Helena during the legisl[...]working for the Daniels for two years I filed on a se sions. In 1944 Sherd ran again, unsuccessf[...]spring of Senate. In 1948 he was elected to the Senate and we spent 1916. that winter in Helena. Sherd passed a way of a heart attack Sherd was born in West Virginia. His family moved to in June, 1949. After his death I bought a home in Scobey Iowa when he was a young man. Sherd came to this area in where I lived for a number of years. I have now sold my an emigrant car in the spring of 1914. He worked as a home and spend the summer months in Sco[...]6 and Ray Pyle. The Pyles left here in 1920 to make their home in went to live on my homestead; together we proved up my Minnesota, later moving to California, after their family of claim. When we[...]d three nine children were grown. Ray passed a way three and one horses, ten heifers, a milk cow, a few chickens and a pig half years ago. which my brother had given us for a wedding present. The Our son Ross marri[...]r we planted thirteen acres of oats which yielded a had three children, James, Diane and Eileen. Ross was good crop of hay. The oats along with prairie grass that killed in a plane accident March, 1969.[...] |
| [...]ster and Micki. My brother Vane Ross moved back to Iowa, then to Prescott, Arizona because of their son's health.[...]Jr. Robbin and Gerald Smith Minnesota to Oregon in the year of 1912. On this train was Zabe Chartier, who persuaded the Robbins to stop off in Montana. They settled on the "flat" a[...]st of Four Buttes. John, the eldest son, took out a homestead since his father Gerald had had a homestead in Dakota so was not eligible for another one. In 1917 the Gerald Robbin family went to Volt, Montana where they had a grocery store. In 1929 they moved to Great Falls and had a neighborhood grocery store for many years.[...]lived for a time. Robbins lived in Scobey a few years, where[...]ld graduated from high school. In 1935 they moved to[...]Falls, an energetic, entertaining lady some 80 springs[...]young. Lydia still "helps out" making candy for a local John remained on his homestead and in 191[...]candy store during the busy seasons, travels to Seattle another homesteader, Lydia Bruentrup. Lydia came from often to visit her son Jack and family who have two grown St. Paul, Minnesota to Montana in 1915 to keep house for children. Gerald Smith and[...]John Jr. (Jack) and reared As told to Ruth Hanrahan their nephew Gerald Smith from the time he was a fifth or sixth grader.[...]· About 1912 Thorbjorn Grotte came out to Scobey where Jack spent his first years of schooling at the Gilchrist his brother Carl was a cashier at the Oie and Anderson school, then atte[...]chool when Robbins Bank. Thorbjorn found a homestead southeast of Scobey moved to the farm now owned by John Ween ts , where they with a good spring on it and went back to Aneta, North[...] |
| [...]bought land near Four Buttes, where they built up a 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 these growing things for a home in Scobey. A son Boyd[...]Mrs. Grotte's home in Scobey shows that she still loves[...]farm) , Montana "crocus" windflowers, Gumbo lily (a[...]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[...]uite In 1948 he married Barbee Robertson. To them were born surprised to see cattle grazing at large. She was drivi[...] |
| [...]zeman. James R. was the first baby boy born in He is married to the former Mary Ann Bruhn of Wolf the n[...]Lewistown. She has served as a missionary in Alaska. Onalee is married to Lyle Davison of Kildeer, North Kristi is married to a young Glasgow rancher, Alan Dakota. They live in Butte, Montana where she is in Rhode. They both attended the Montana[...]Bible and Montana State University. A community picnic at the Four Buttes in 191[...] |
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| [...]LIAN OF YESTERYEAR The only sign now of Julian, a pioneer town still remembered by older settlers here, is the Julian Erickson home, which once housed the postoffice, and an old cellarhole or two about one quarter of a mile east of it. Once Tom Smith operated a blacksmith shop in Julian, Cora Anderson - a dance hall, Lucille Vahl -a grocery store, Sam McKackney - a beer parlor, Barney Miller - a lumber yard, and Julian Erickson operated the postoffice. But Julian never had a railroad. Mail was first hauled on a stoneboat from Poplar or Old Scobey by Frank (Fat[...]Theodore, single, built a good farm home for his parents[...]ong them ar~ the Ray Arnesons, Dennis McDowell, I.A. Whitetail Courier for 1918 has an ad for gopher poison sold Spencers, and the[...]nnehill & Vahl. Living at Julian , perhaps near that store, was Tom Smith, who had a blacksmith shop there. His wife, Martha, died here and he moved to Scobey. Barney C. Miller ran the Mrs. Schar[...]was here several years before the land was opened to homesteaders. Only ranchers who had cattle or sheep lived in that part of the state. When homesteaders 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."[...] |
| [...]Much of this material is taken from memory, so I can't[...]yd Engberg traveling from Crosby, North Dakota in an old car. Their memories are of the cold winters,[...]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[...]goods, and brought I grew up on the farm, went to Prairie School, and some horses and c[...]days; they had their own hotel accommodations - a tent. home for a year to help with farm work. In the fall of 1930 I E[...]in Mechanical squatting on the land at that time. Ed spent two winters Engineering. In the fall of1931 wheat was eighteen cents a there, and then moved to the claim north and east of bushel in Whitetail, so I did not return to college. Instead I Scobey about 15½ miles, the[...]llian 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 in the thirties. I worked as a been surveyed, but was not open for filing until 1913. chauffeur for a while, then worked in garages, and later for[...]n tin this area, Hollywood Delivery Service, then as a city mail carrier in and many people had to walk. A person was considered Los Angeles for almost seven months, then went to work as very lucky if he had a horse to ride. Horses were selling for a rail way mail clerk. $400 to $500 a team, and that was a lot of money in those On May 1, 1940 I was transferred to the San Francisco days. Many people star[...]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 mines in the area, so resumed my duties as railway mail clerk. peopl[...]es where In the fall of 1946 my mother wrote me that she was 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[...]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 recreation. When[...]4, 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 shall never forget. Jeannette A. Sorsdahl, and on March 14, 1907 they were In November of1950 I obtained a transfer to Turtle Lake, married at Weyburn, Saskatchewan. They had five North Dakota, where I worked as railway mail clerk until children, Harrie[...]nd 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[...]summer or early fall of 1912. They settled a few miles south ever since.[...]of the Canadian boundary line, in what is now Daniels We had four children.[...]nty. They lived with Harry's sister, Lillian, for a time. Phyllis, our oldest daughter, was killed in an auto Later a neighbor, Oscar Bilstad, permitted them to use his accident a week before Easter in 1967, near Billings.[...]in Bozeman. She and her building a house and ham on their homestead. The husband, Wi[...]d 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[...]was a struggle that seemed impossible.[...] |
| [...]all of the children were small and had to walk to school. onto a new cellar he had just dug, when an automobile Later, when we could ride horseback, or drive a horse on a salesman named Joe Ka von, stopped in to try to sell him a sleigh, we had nine months of school during the fall, winter car. Dad told him that if he would help him get the house and spring. We attended a small, one-room country school moved onto the cellar he would buy a car. Joe helped him for our elementary e[...]til almost midnight, so Dad bought his first car- a Model Whitetail. My oldest sister, Harriet, was a member of the T Ford. He had to go to Plentywood 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 member of the last class. more about the fundamentals of driving a car. He would In the late teens or e[...]turn left and right and start Hanrahan bought a 22 "Red River Special" grain all over again. Whe[...]home, he could do separator, commonly called a threshing machine. Chet a much better job of handling the car. When he got home Hall, another neighbor, had a 10-20 Titan tractor, so they the family had to admire the new acquisition. It was a made a deal with him to furnish the power for the job of shipy black thi[...]nd head lights, 30 threshing. They planned to thresh the grain for only the by 3 inch tires in[...]her were smooth white rubber with no rough tread to grip the neighbors by threshing their gra[...]st bit of rain you 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 in 1924 that Dad bought our first tractor. It was a in the wind, and your eyes watering as though you were slow-moving growling t[...]t crying. It wasn't everyone who experienced such a thrill. wonderful piece of equipment in t[...]t many My mother wasn't so enthusiastic about all that speed, but happy hours on it. I don't think it did too much for my sense Dad loved it. In a few years the "non-skid" tires (tires with of hearing, but it was so much nicer than driving horses, a rough tread) came on the market, and things were[...]of the neighbors had Model T's. O.B. Richert had an In the fall of 1929 Dad's brother, Ed, bought a new . Overland, and "Bick" Edwards had a Buick. Gus Vahl of Rumley pull-type combined harvester and thresher, later Whitetail had a Crow-Elkhart, a big cumbersome thing commonly called a "combine". Dad bought a second-hand with big yellow wheels. Dad had a number of tools for John Deere tractor to pull it. The Rumley was not the fixing those early day cars, so quite a few of the neighbors easiest-pulling combine in the world, and we had to hitch a would come over to have the valves ground, new piston team of horses onto the front of the tractor to get up some of rings installed, or some other min[...]the steep hills. Ed was quite disgusted. It was a lot of was always a willing helper, and Mom always had a hot trouble, but so much nicer than t[...]and so much faster. It also required a much smaller labor fellowship enjoyed over (and u[...]tched privilege of considerably. driving that 1914 Model T, one of the really BIG highlights[...]farms and a 40-acre tract, which brought his holdings to an During the summer of 1917 Dad had a new house built. even 1000 acres. At that time it seemed like a lot ofland, but He designed it himself and made his own blueprints. He it was none too much to support a family of seven. Rearing hired one of the neighbors, Herbert Beyer, as head children and putting them thr[...], carpenter, and many of the neighbors pitched in to help even in those days. with the building. The house was back-plastered, 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. B[...]when Mom came home from the saying that he was dead. The shock to me was terrific, as hospital. She had been to Kenmare, North Dakota for an Dad was my favorite relative. Earlier in winter I had sent appendectomy. It was quite a thrill to move into a brand my parents some money to come out and visit me in Los new house with hardw[...]and Angeles. Dad, being the proud man that he was, sent the living room, a cistern with a handy little pump right there money back, saying that if th~y wanted to come to in the washroom, and a real stairway to the upstairs 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 c[...]ome money for when we moved in, so when Dad built a roaring fire in the operating expenses, as Dad hadn't left a will. I had to old heating stove, the sudden drastic change in return to the Railway Mail Service or lose my seniority. temperature caused the plaster to crack in several places. A Mom continued to rent the farm, or hire someone to farm it man named Pearl Green did the plastering, and he was an until 1947. expert at it - gave it a very smooth trowel finish. However, Upon[...]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 the house wa[...]mpany of Whitetail. The Walter, also a teacher, and they moved to Tacoma, house was built over a full basement and a concrete Washington after Mother so[...]Mom was struck by a pickup and killed early one morning By this ti[...]school, but I wasn't too thrilled while walking to their children's home. Harriet has retired. about it. I was much more interested in the "three A's" Her husband still teaches. (animals,[...]d aeroplanes), and the .,three Floyd is now farming the home place. T's", (teams,[...] |
| [...]e rented the home place until 1954, when he moved to a ranch he bought near Big Timber, Montana. He late[...]e. 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,[...]aren. The Youmans live in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Lucile, the youngest, after graduation from high school, moved to the Los Angeles area of California. She still liv[...]children, Annie and Christine, traveled to the Dakotas in a sister of Julian Erickson covered wagon. Theodore was born in a sod house in South[...]Dakota and Julian and the rest of us were born in a log My father, Erick Erickson, was born in Norw[...]cabin in Velva, North Dakota. Later we had a nice home and came to the United States at the 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 los[...]Montana, and then my brother Jim, who worked for a in the service.[...]brother Julian, My mother, Carrie Knudson, came to the United States then about 16, came in[...]e 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 i[...]then about 21 years of age. A couple of years later[...]homesteaded in the area, as did Theodore, Julian, and Jim.[...]My dad and Theodore passed a way in the house that is[...]len. Julian passed away April 10, 1971, and Ellen is now[...]Julian Erickson was a lad of about 16 when he came[...]He recalls that, while hauling hay with Charles[...]rode to the top of a hill and saw, on the flat below them, 15[...] |
| [...]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[...]him, as he helped 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 place called Stony Point. Not finding Mem[...]. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Erickson them, they decided to play at it. live in[...]children have had college In the 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. He also works at the bank in Scobey. area of rangeland. It burned 100 tons of hay and a barn at his brother's farm, and jumped across cre[...]can recall the late "Whoop" Manternach sitting on a cowhide that was being THE 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 tough one. The shortage of feed was Iowa. He married Goldie Rhodes that same year and their disastrous to a band of 3,000 sheep being wintered there by so[...]in Goldie was taken and Leonard went to live with his Glasgow. Only 300 of the 3,000 shee[...]er, grandmother in Iowa. and these were sold to Bonnes. Ernest[...]anuary, 1924 he married Shipstead, then living in a dugout on the West Fork. The Rose Rainowski who had a daughter Margaret. Ernest Shipstead brothers had frozen a quantity of cranberries in then went to Iowa and brought Leonard home. a small dugout behind the one in which they lived,[...]n and lived in they enjoyed cranberries and cream as a special treat all Greenbush, Minnesota, leaving there to join her brother winter.[...]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 months she worked th[...]n the Fleming Bakery and later owned and operated a brought over from Old Scobey to the point which later bakery of her own,[...]fire station. She purchased a building on Main Street from Julian Erickson remembers that it was in 1904 he saw the late Tom Cliffor[...]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 cylinder operated by the late[...] |
| [...]Ernest was a member of the Police Creek ball team,[...]playing third base, and also a member of the Knights of[...]Columbus. At one time he served as Democratic[...]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.[...]Andrew Haugo came to Montana in 1910 and settled on[...]Montana. He later sold his squatter's rights to R. Huso, a[...]this. He built a homestead shack on this with lumber[...]His neighbors to the east were the Bilstads, Robertsons and the Dodds. To the west were the Mendenhalls, the Wedding[...] |
| Mains, Ericksons, and many others. To the south were the brothers lived, and in[...]ta. and Emily Anderson and took up land. They had a house After taking a trip out west to see how his crop was in built there and moved in. They even had a piano there after Montana he returned to Iowa. There just wasn't any crop a while. that year and seed wheat had been $5 a bushel. Andrew worked hard on his land, hauling rocks and Andrew worked for a while at a house-moving job by breaking up sod. He also worked at times for his neighbors 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 One days news came that his closest neighbors were in Helen lived with her parents. They were married at the trouble, as Emily Anderson was very ill, with an attack of Wild Rice parsonage by Pastor B.L. Opdahl. appendecitis. She had to have an operation, but the doctor The couple went south after about a week of visiting said she couldn't be moved, so the operation would have to around. We went by Minneapolis, where we stayed and be done in their house.[...]ra and did some sightseeing. Andrew volunteered to help. He scrubbed and washed In Iow[...]e 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 Monta[...]d 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 chicken[...]dbos near Northwood. It rained while we were home to his shack with two or three and cleaned and fried[...]our trip west was delayed, but at brought this up to the Anderson home. The operation was last[...]patient fine and all were hungry, so they all had a eight months old, rode in a Model T Ford car with his good meal, except the p[...]she recovered nicely. parents all the way to Montana from Iowa.[...]It was the first week in June, 1923 that I first came to[...]spaces and the big sky. It is rightly named "The Big Sky[...]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[...]hall which became the barn; one house became a shop for[...]remodeling the hall into a barn _and fixing up the others. Richard and Helen[...]There was also the crop to put in that spring of 1924. The[...]year before in 1923 he had bought six horses, a milk cow,[...]and broke up about sixty more acres and that first summer There were many hardships in those days. A woman put up some hay. He changed work with a neighbor in who was in a pregnant condition and in need of something haying. The wheat was planted and also some flax that he urgently, walked for a long distance for help. It was in the hired put in. That year we had a good crop and in the fall winter and the snow was very deep and her walk became were able to pay off all loans and debts. The year 1925 was ex[...]he was found also pretty good, though not as good as 1924. A granary frozen and dead.[...]Dodd died, and also Mrs. Oscar Bilstad. She left a neighbors and taking in programs and soc[...]ere was hospital soveryill with flu and pneumonia that he couldn't a playmate about Orville's age. There were some older ones be told about his wife's death. He would undoubtedly[...]the neighborhood and at school, which he started to gotten up and gone to help and the children would have attend[...]ol; some of his teachers There were many others that died from the flu. No doubt were Eleanor Ha[...]ing 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.[...] |
| [...]In 1954 he had a house built in Scobey, finishing just[...]been in ailing health for a while and he passed away[...]met an oJd friend, Richard Haugo, who was one of our[...]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,[...]Falls and Billings. We continue to enjoy painting.[...]E HUSO FAMILY During the dry years there was less to do and I would sometimes do some small watercolor[...]elaxation. The H usos came from farms near a small town in About that time, too, my mother became very seriously W[...]ng 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 also lived near this[...]h was called were other Christians out there too, as we found out when Joice. His father's name was Torbjorn (Tom). Edwin's we started a Sunday School. Ruth Hanrahan donated the[...]o Scobey in the 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 reco[...]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 yea[...]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 Scobey. Theodore attended the University 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 seven years. He was a math teacher but also taught various other subjects. He was coach in some schools. In 1971 he was married to Patricia Lewis Demoulin, a Oscar Huso at Ketchikan, Alaska - 1910 rela[...]the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Ted and Pat have a souvenir and confectionery shop in Woods Bay, sou[...]s 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 way between[...]Saskatoon and Regina. His first home there was a sod[...] |
| shanty near a pond. It seems he must have had a teepee in summer. But Oscar didn't farm in Canada[...]y planned on farming later - maybe after he found a helpmate to share the home with him. He proved up in 1909 the[...]ttle, then Crosby, North Dakota, then Plentywood, to get ready for homesteading in that state. It came when he was in Montana in November[...]in November, 1911 from Crosby: " I hope my shack is finished, for I shipped my goods today to Plentywood, and expect to be out on the claim by Monday", and Eugene Bothum wr[...]you fellows? Started threshing here. When you got to Plentywood will you get a roll of felt paper and my kerosene can filled? I[...]They had farm machinery and a team of horses with them in that car. When they passed the home farm they stood in[...]the doorway of the car, and waved at us as the train rolled by. It was on a cold May 10th, 1912 - so cold it froze the[...]on the apple trees, blooming at the time. It was a tough trip, as one of the horse~ was so uneasy, and needed[...]they were busy breaking sod that spring of 1912. Oscar[...]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[...]had it till he died in 1948. After that it was sold to Charles[...]until 1926. Oscar continued in that work, but Reinert went[...]in 1914, as cook and housekeeper. Reinert was going so I A snapshot taken in 1912 shows Oscar, Reinert, Joram, thought I should go out and help Oscar. By that time he and Eugene Both um with a group of visitors from Crosby was farming with a tractor. I left Reinert at Crosby and in front of Oscar's shack. The first four were already came to Whitetail by train, which was at the end of the S[...]spent the night at Birch's rooming house, and had a gotten unexpected company while working at someth[...]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'[...]1. Joram, and William Aasland left Joice, Iowa in an was again divided into sleeping space. After I had gotten "emigrant car" - a railroad boxcar fixed up for emigrants.[...] |
| wallpaper cleaner, we had a very satisfying place to live. CHARLES MARLENEE FAMILY He had a big tank, or drum, outside which caught the rain water, and it lasted a good while. The water from the well 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. He was the youngest child in a family of six Our drinking water was brought from a shallow well in the children and the only 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 drowned in it. school in Scobey where he stayed with his older sister, Late in the summer, in August, a stranger came over the Ethel, who was a long time employee of Westland Oil hill from the south, and \after a few words of introduction Company. announced[...]rs Mr. newspaper out there, although it was there that I.J. Doerr and Mrs. George Darchuk in the a[...]and I can't remember anyone else To this union were born three sons, Ronald, Robert and having one at that time. Lanny. They also had a daughter, Susan Ethel, who died[...]e Canadian border. This school has now been moved to[...]er Town. Soon afterward Whitetail started running a bus line and he went to Whitetail school. The family[...]University in Missoula, later returning to farm with his[...]and graduated with a degree in Vocational Agriculture, He[...]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 they were married there. has filed as a candidate for United States Congress from She accompanied him back to Chatham, Massachusetts. the Eastern District on the Republican ticket. Joram was a lieutenant by then, and they had officer's[...]e out of the Army School of Nursing before I went to Whitetail the second time. I couldn't continue training on fifteen dollars a month. After we had worn out the clothes we 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 privilege.[...]Oscar left the hard work of ditching, and took to buying farms, improving them, and reselling them at a profit. He Dal H. Marlenee was born at t[...]radually 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.[...]uy Robertsons of Whitetail. JoAnn had grown up on a sister, Amanda (Huso) Tjernagel. Much of it is from farm a few miles east of Dale's -going her first four years to memory, so if slight errors appear in it, please bear with a country school, five years at Whitetail, a[...] |
| [...]Lucile remembers attending a big celebration in Scobey in 1914 that was called "The Selling of the Townsites" for D[...]Many times in the winter they would all pile in a bobsled Scobey; Connie, 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 married Linda Schilling of Sidney, lives on t[...]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. draf[...]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[...]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)[...]came through Crosby with his family in a covered wagon In 1903 George homesteaded land o[...]em, and together north of Scobey, living first in a homestead shack and later they proceeded on to Montana, and the Julian community, building the h[...]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 square shack on it. homesteaded some l[...]ss community. Oakley McDowell built 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, rai[...]she married Barney C. Miller in crops and making a living. Lucile remembers that in 1928 Havre, Montana. Mr. Miller gave up his job as station they had a bumper crop that was completely hailed out. agent for the[...]up there and Montana. opened the gates to the corral and got their horses back During their stay in Julian the Miller's home became a home.[...]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 race[...]stop overnight with the Millers, then continue on to[...] |
| [...]was great, but the Timmons place. I heard a story about Jake Timmons: The profit was poor, as no charge was made for meals or summe[...]rushing back in where the men were sleeping to wake them The wife of Tom Smith (the blacksmith) died, so he had up. One of the men always had a rifle and liked to use it, but the Millers take care of his son, Sidney, for a time. Sidney he couldn't see very well. Jake called, "Charlie, Charlie, was only a few years old. On one occasion, Tom went to bring your rifle - there's a pelican flying over." Scobey for supplies, and while there bought a new suit, The men all rushed out. Actually there was no pelican, hat, and a pair ofrubber boots for Sidney. He brought them 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[...]shouted, "I see it!" and fired at the blank sky. To Sidney lying on the ground, rolling in a big puddle of everyone's amazement a pelican fell. Nobody had seen a muddy water. When Tom asked him why he was doing that thing. Sidney replied, "That's the only way I can get water in my The[...]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[...]own. 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 re[...]Berlin and Heidelberg. There were very few raises a nice garden and, being a perfectionist, keeps women attending tho[...]the only everything spic and span. She has lived a very active and one in her class, sometimes[...]moved around often returning to receive the degree from[...]She remembers a late-night snowball fight in Berlin MR. AND MRS. O.K. MCDOWELL with a group of students of all nationalities. She had t[...]girl friends and a boy friend from Poland who were part I was bor[...]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 Europe she never stayed at a hotel, but in My brother Dennis homesteaded ea[...]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[...]Mr. and Mrs. O.K. McDowell In 1911 I went to Kansas to work in the wheat harvest. I |
| [...]well in 1925 and lived in the Julian area. They h_a d, two foster children, brothers. Mabel developed 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 cheerfu[...]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 R[...]Juy married Hilda Stensgard, a teacher in 1923, and[...]tenth grade: The family moved to Eugene, Oregon then to Caldwell, Idaho where M.M. had a butcher shop. The[...]with a covered wagon and extra horses. Their intent was to[...]Juy spent that winter living with the resident Indians[...]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[...]father's and sister's homesteads as well 'as some neighboring land belonging to Luther Dodd.[...]by wagons drawn by multi-team hitches of Joe, on a large scale. Later he operated a general store. He horses. Early day farming wa[...]hn 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 188[...]without plugging the machine he was challenged by a 1975; and La Vivian 1891. member of his crew that it was only because the crew did[...] |
| not want to plug it. A season's wages were bet as to VANE AND[...]hine singlehanded with the only stipulation being that he had by Mrs. Carrie Ross to pitch the bundles in lengthwise. The safety valve[...]Ross) were married 61 years ago the result being 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 S[...]inland postoffice of Julian, Montana. We built a house, During the early years in the Julian community Juy barn and granary, dug a 60 foot well, struck solid coal, played third bas[...]f the local good soft water. We put up a windmill, and plowed the baseball teams. This was[...]sod for growing wheat, flax, oats, potatoes, and a emphasis on baseball in northeast Montana with so[...]en. the teams employing major league players such as those The first years were very hard for us. It was difficult to involved in the Black Sox scandal.[...]bles on the new sod.Vane walked Juy always had a few cattle but he expanded his cattle many miles to work and earn $1.00 per day and he and his operat[...]the brother John mined lignite coal a few miles east of our depression and worst of the[...]Sipes north of Poplar and finally with use as we had no money. Eddie Smith north of Poplar. 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 the[...]20 miles south of Madoc, boys were born to us while we were on the homestead. stopped there[...]g until the Ross living in Prescott, Arizona. A third son was born at herd moved on. Juy operated[...]in Watsonville, California. When M.M. came to these parts he thrilled at the tall 1915 was a good year with plenty of moisture from snow waving grass and envisioned a perfect cattle country. That and good rainfall. There were good crops. We made a Ii ving first fall a prairie fire swept through and exposed myriad 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[...]sed away June 28, 1965 mines around the country, a poor grade of lignite. after havj_ng a stroke 21 months before. Grandpa raised a huge garden every year and didn't allow a weed to go to seed. In the fall he traded produce for grocerie[...]1914 - These are wild 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[...]pocket watch. From then on he would look for it as he knew just about where he had lost it. One day[...]rs later while riding, he saw something shiny on a pocket gopher mound. Dismounting he picked up hi[...]-:" and it started ticking. The watch is still in the family. Grandpa died in 1947. His[...]4 •. ,- years was walking or riding over to our place, three- -~ :· :i" quarters of a mile, to visit with our children. |
| [...]he Kahle Post Office was named after Carl Kahle - a In these early years the Silver Star community included pool hall manager in Scobey at that time. The mayor of a larger area than it does now. People came for miles and Scobey was asked to submit the names of five prominent miles around; now they 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 chosen as the name of the new post office in The ear[...]the family name is given it includes all the children too. The nam[...]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[...]ving dinners, F.U. meetings, decided they needed a hall for their various activities. baseball[...]l elections, Notary Public, Paul Crum, of Scobey to form the Silver Star church services and one f[...]. Community Club Corporation. The five directors to sign The dances were held frequently i[...]tings Mrs. Robert Rhodes The first group to place for these dances were the (Ingeborg) sugges[...]the old Norwegian for which they paid $200.00. In a short time, three hundred custom of celebrati[...]b Wakeland, but much of the work was for a big bonfire in the evening. They had a picnic which done by local help; each one doing w[...]all picnic was held on June 24, 1926, followed by a Theodore Imbs acted as chairman and O.E. Susag as dance. From then on the picnics wer[...]lub and Thorem, Treasurer. Pete Thorem was chosen as the first Poplar Valley 4-H Club, which[...]for sure when it began but some of the were hired to haul water for dances. They also sold tickets[...]Frances Chase In 1927, Jake Jacobsen was hired as janitor at $5.00 a and Mrs. William Ferguson. night. O.E. Susag or Knudt Christensen acted as The Just So Club, in 1935, has as members Lorraine Secretary-Treasurer for many yea[...]Cavanaugh, Helen Dahl Greene, and Vera Gilmore that position for thirty-six years.[...] |
| [...]. The members met in the club member's homes once a week and dues were a nickel a meeting. The Silver Star 4-H Club members were[...]Barker boy. Ralph Susag was leader with Ben Dahl as assistant The Silver Star Home Demons[...]organized in 1921 with A.W. Warden as our first County Six delegates, Elvin and LeRo[...]ime. It Great Falls Fair in 1937 with Ralph Susag as leader. seems there wasn't a thing about homemaking that we The Poplar Valley 4-H Club started in the spring of 1951 didn't learn to do. Miss Cushman served as our first when Albert HeHickson asked Harriet Eic[...]r and gave us several projects. Mrs. if she would be a leader for a club. With the help of Jesse C. Ben (Lura) Dahi, Alice Susag, and Laura Lekvold are Drury a club was organized.[...]1952, with Lou Hellickson and Tony Ereth joining as leaders in later years. Jesse Drury was a leader for twenty-two years. Since there wasn't a fair at this time, the projects were shown at you[...]first several camps were held at the Pines which is located southeast of Glasgow. The club members he[...]nty-three project leaders. left to right: Mrs. Ferd Morrison, Mrs. Glen (Hulda)[...]weths'mother), Mrs. Allie The Fairview Cemetery is located on a hill just north of (Clara) Olson, Mrs. Hans[...]Susag. At one time there were plans to build a church on this ground which never materialized. There are quite a few people buried up there on the hill. No record has been kept of them, so this may prove to be the BASEBALL TEAM only rec[...]r Fairview Cemetery. The first one They were a lively bunch of young farmers in the area[...] |
| [...]operator. With a well machine motor and one horse he[...]pulled up one barrel at a time; it took seven barrels to make a ton. Later on they used a team and managed to get a half tone at a time.[...]aid of a motor and tipple (an apparatus that tipped the[...]o the truck), they could elevate three-fourths of a ton at a time. .[...]helping occasionally as hoist man. Some of the cooks at[...]They also used a mule down in the mine, who stayed[...]their cooks. At this time they could elevate a ton at a time.[...]between dances to check on their offspring. The main baseball di[...]the front benches at the homestead about six and a half miles northwest of where Bray Show when the bloodhounds were after Eliza as she the Silver Star Hall now stands. Many good ga[...]chunks". Also when Simon arguments took place on that diamond. Games were played Legree lashed away at poor old Uncle Tom with a long with Volt, Benrud, Mineral Beach, Scobey, Ossette, Butte rawhide whip. Many a youngster had to dash back and sit Creek , Pleasant Prairie and Bi[...]ty together. All the working together and playing a large barn on his homestead where they had Saturd[...]rnished remains in good condition thanks to the younger the music, both played violins. The f[...]baseball generation and all of those helping to keep it that way. players usually went with them and made a picnic day ofit.[...]Laura Lekvold The Police Creek Team had a 1948 reunion with all the[...]a for many years. The shaft was Shipstead as their first teacher. situated just east of the garage on the B.J. Lekvold place. Other teachers that followed her were Cornelia Grimson, The first[...]ice Stai, Marian Hanson, Ruth Nordgren, Sylvia in a dynamite blast and went over to B.J. Lekvolds for Trombetta, Evelyn O'D[...]istine 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 w[...]ed 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 was moved[...]was placed south of the Alfred Thorem they heard a " thud" ; he had toppled from the bucket to the house across the road from the old Martin Nielsen place. bottom. With the aid of a mirror Laura reflected the The ear[...]Thomas Karlsrud, Joshua Williams, Nina McMonigal, a large hook on a rope they succeeded in hooking him by his Ce[...](Hanson), Vera Peters, and also called chokedamp, a non-explo8ive but suffocating Clarabel[...]this time, 1932-33, the county asked her to put the seventh[...] |
| [...]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 south[...]haw (Hazel Parkhurst). She taught there from 1929 to 1930 and then it was closed. It was also used as a voting place for a few years. CHURCH SERVICES Church services were held whenever they could get a A LOOK AT THE RURAL SCHOOLS |
| Pepper School - left to right: Dora Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, Al Fowler,[...]er, Eliher Pepper and at end Alva Parkhurst. was a real punishment. Rural schools sometimes had |
| [...]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 t[...]aid 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[...]ent of Schools there. She went by horse and buggy to visit her various schools which were quite far apart. In 1912 they lived in Saco where Glen worked for a rancher. In 1913 they came to Scobey where he worked for Mose Tingley and Otto[...]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.[...]a had one son, Harland, who grew up in Scobey and is a Harland Chenoweth served in the army f[...]ecorder's office. He married music department and is a member of "The Star Dusters" Marie Larson[...]where he is employed at the Hill County Abstract office.[...]After Glen's death Hulda worked as nurse's aide at the[...]the Scobey School lunch room. Now she is retired and lives[...]of 1916 when we moved to Scobey, and filed ·on a homestead[...]That winter we rented Dick Coughlin 's shack on the ea[...]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[...]Dr. Kline, a dentist of Scobey gave each of the Scobey[...]boys $10 and a pair of dice as they left. Before Bennie left h e[...]took his wife back to Harvey, North Dakota to live with her[...]France as Co. Mechanic of Co. A, 362nd Inf. of the 91st Div.[...]and was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa as their service records[...] |
| [...]days later another telegram was received stating that he had been found alive. John reported back to his ship at the time that a funeral service was being conducted for the missing men. He was one of the sailors in charge of a landing barge carrying U.S. military personnel from a larger ship out in the bay to the landing area on the French beach. The barge hit a mine and all men were ordered "to hit the water" and Fred and Shirley Hanson swim the remaining 150 yards to shore. German machine gun fire was heavy and John said that the last few yards of[...]Patrol. They had one son, Guy, who is an electrical water was red with blood. They sought[...]d son of Hans P. and Emma Hanson, w~s the war and is married to orinne Dressen of Minneapolis. married to Ruby Hermanson, Outlook, Saskatchewan, m They hav[...]in Plentywood and operate Peterson's Ready To Wear. Palmer and Edna Hanson of Silver Sta[...] |
| [...]n't discharged until January 16, 191. He got back to Harvey and to his wife and baby boy January 19, 1919. The ma[...]as 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 w[...]he Mill, packing flour until spring when we moved to the Sidney Matter farm. A daughter, Alene was born in 1921. We 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 Hele[...]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[...]ies and raising our children on limited means. As the community grew, so did the need for a larger recreation center for social activities. As a result the Silver Star Hall came in being in 1925[...]In 1950 we sold our farm and retired and bought a home in Scobey. We both worked at various jobs, m[...]away in 1970. I lived alone until I fell and had to go to the hospital , then I lived with my son Howard an[...]ntered the Daniels Memorial Home and sold my home to Steven Wheelers of the Econo Lumber Compan y .[...]LY came t o Montan a by passenger train. It is said that Emma was so lonesome, that she would Hans Hanson was born in 1874 at Paynesville, Minnesota. wa lk to th e Susag's farm several times a week to visit Alice. Emma Israelson was born in Norway in 1880. They were With a good visit and cry it helped both to keep going. They married in Paynesville in 1899.[...]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 in Montana.[...]th ey carried in buckets, the lignite coal that had to be dug Since Minnesota was becoming more crowded[...]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.[...]r st taugh t in the Ueland School near Comertown. to build their first ho~ses. Hans' house was a tall two story The following year she taught the Liberty School in the building that gave him the nickname of " Elevator"[...]Palmer and Ed na h ad two children, Shirley wh o is were so many families by the name of Hanson in the area , married to Fred Hanson of Redstone . They live on th e farm that there had to be some way of keeping them straight. and[...]ter 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[...]ey. belongings. There was some trouble hanging on to the John J enkins, Edna's youngest brother, came to live chickens because the railroad crew wa[...] |
| [...]ly, met and married Gilbert Skaer while attending a beauty schcol in Kansas City operated by his mother. Gil has a barbershop in Great Falls. They have four children, George, Ronny, Karen and Melinda. Henry Schauer came to live with Hans and Emma Hanson when he was about[...]d no mother and his father was working from place to place. He lived at the farm until he joined the army. He was a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for consp[...]in Italy in Jennie and Harve Kile 1944. He is now the only living Montanan of the second World War possessing the Medal of Honor. Henry is married and lives in Washington state.[...]here 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 am still d[...]irley (daughter of Palmer and Edna) although from a also looking for a farm to buy. So in 1945 we purchased a different Hanson family , served in the Armed For[...]and the winds blow free, that's the place for me. HARVE AND JENNIE[...]ook up farming and construction work. Jennie went to college and taught school nine years in Beaver Co[...]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 Bryhnil[...]ther Peter, and M. Lekvold and owned and operated a fuel and fruit business. family[...]d 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 A[...]signed, remaining there until August, 1919. a large ki Camp on top of a mountain. I then came home to help at the homestead with 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 rent[...]r 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[...]ire attended the Lekvold school which was one and a[...]school, as did Kenneth , where they all graduated. During[...]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[...] |
| [...]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[...]Star. Their first dwelling place was a tent, then a[...]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 burdens. Beedie was a cripple. She died on April 6, 1948.[...]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,[...]very 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 no[...]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 cou[...]cents an hour. In 1927 Selma married Chris Veis. They had B.J. Lekvold: One of his first memories of Montana is a trip three children, Vern now of Plentywood who has six he made to Medicine Lake for lumber with Peter Thoren[...]married Bill Henderson, who works for and set up a tent that night for camp. The next morning, Waddell a[...]could not resume their children, Kenneth who is married to Barbara Pettmen of journey.[...]l, Donald, Linda Ann, Dana and Gary; and Larry To celebrate the Fourth they took up their cooking[...]issoula. 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!"[...] |
| [...]-President of the Delay Bank in Norfolk , happens to be my birthday. Sister Selma died May 28, 1961[...]e wasemployedatMontana- Paul Chabot who is engaged in farming in the Scobey and Dakota Utili[...]children are Mark, died in 1966 and was employed as maintenance man at the Jeffrey and Paula[...]death. train trips in Daniels County to Wood Mountain, Our grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.[...]other children were married Patricia Nason, a nurse. Jess is a medical x-ray John, George, Ollie, Clara and Elme[...]re Grant, Kristin and Ericka. Clarissa, Minnesota to continue living there . Grandm a Louis, my brother, started working fo[...]ld died in 1924 Company on May 17, 1935 as a mechanic making $50 per and Grandma Olson died in[...]9, 1937. On October 13, 1940 Louis married He was to be employed by that firm for 37 yea rs, going on t o Frances Herman[...]ds proving grounds in mostly in the various ready to wear shops. As to other New Mexico. He later moved to Albuquerque and married places--it is difficult to remember every one. Other Mary Andrews. They have two girls, Cindy and Kimberly. a ctivities included Ladies Aid, church work, Woman[...]when it first started. My Girl Scout stint and a half years, one year in Vietnam and four and a half la sted about thirty years. Mrs. Bydeley was involved in years in Germany. He is now at Andrews AFB, Maryland. this latter effort too. It was very pleasant and rewarding to Judy married Don Daniels from Great Falls, and[...]years and I had never forgotten how good both Mr. a n d California which is only ten minutes from Disneyland. Mrs. Bydeley had been to us in the early days on the farm. After[...]r Hall in 1912, died in infancy), and Jess. Donna is married to Larry the son of Ida Downing wh[...] |
| [...]of Ba ttlesons. Martin , Lucy and Don They ran that shop until 1951 and sold it to Pete Larson. Louis then patrolled the Canada and U.S. border for the federal government for a year and a half on the hoof and ~efore Lucy came to Montana she worked in Bemidji, mouth break out. While doing that he built a large two car Minnesota. She also worked at[...]Plentywood, Montana ; in the Peerless area and at an early which 1t has been called since, and he still works there. hospital in Scobey as a cook. She sold homemade bread Louis has been a member of the Scobey Fire Department and butter to many people in Scobey. She also crocheted since 1939 and still is. He has also been one of the largest and knitt[...]Lucy was from a family of six children. She has two To conclude my story, I would like to give special sisters, Mrs. Charles (Margaret) Cassidy of Scobey, mention to two registered nurses who came from St. Paul to Montana and Mrs. Jerry (Irene) Bevelhimer of Arizona. take up a homestead in Montana. They were Clara[...]ssed away in 1954. Allie Olson in 1916. Their son is Bob Olson. Lena married George Olson, and their son is Raymond Olson. These two ladies were very good nu[...]as born in Scobey, As told to Mildren Brenden Montana. He was raised on a farm in the Silver Star area.[...]came back to the Silver Star area where he worked ' for[...]Linderman was born in Estonia on November 8 1891 to John and Anna Linderman. John Linderman wa~ a Lutheran minister.[...]rla, Ruby, Sheila and Teena In 1911 Martin came to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from Estonia and traveled by train to Foremost, Alberta where he filed for a homestead. He engaged in farming and ranching ope[...]ert for several years. Then he sold out and moved to Montana in 1923. He worked on fa:P'lns around t[...]the Peerless area, and in 1926 the knot was tied that lasted 28 years. They lived in this community for several years and in 1938 bought a farm in the Silver Star area. The farm is located southwest of Scobey and is the homestead of Jack Ethier. Martin Linderman passed away in 1965. He belonged to the Lithuanian Lutheran church. He has one brothe[...]was born at Lake Lyda Minnesota on March 21, 1893 to Edward and Mary LeMay'.[...] |
| [...]y Goltz Linderman was born in Plentywood, Montana to Gordon "Pete" and Iling Goltz. When she was small[...]t twenty years later her brother Dale worked with a crew that tore this airport runway out. Ruby attended the first grade in Plentywood. Her folks moved to a farm northeast of Dooley, Montana and Ruby attend[...]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 Eddie Lund grew up[...]ta 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. At first sight he did not[...]prairies and because of the bleakness. He rented a room in a hotel in Old open range, in the "big sky count[...]ed in Scobey, and the next day went into the area that is now and the hills became dotted with many[...]ng 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 land but who[...]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, condit[...]home , three miles west of where the Silver To supplement the family income, Eddie worked as a Star Hall now stands.[...] |
| [...]1913 retired and moved to Scobey with Clarine, his second wife,[...]962 he passed homestead and look after things. At that time there were away. horse thieves in the country, so the barn door was -kept Children born to Eddie and Anna Lund were: locked at night. One ni[...]vre 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[...]ie 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.[...]s was used for window covering until he could get to 2. Theolyn attended country grade school, Sc[...]years in various schools around the county. She is married In 1925 the 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 obtained Anna Marie _B arney. in 1926; a new house was built in 1927.[...]school at In August, 1931, Anna Lund died from a ruptured Scobey. He attended Concordia College and received a appendix. The length of time it took to travel to Plentywood M.A. degree from Montana University. He served in the to the nearest surgeon as well as the rough roads U.S. Navy, WW 2, as a Radarman 2/ c. Art taught school for contributed to her death. a number of years and returned to farming and ranching in During the forties and fifties the rains finally came 1954. He is married to Cleo Fladager of Peerless. He has again. ([...] |
| [...]PRESTAGE FAMILY Martin Nielsen came to America from Denmark in th e Homesteading was what many people from the East spring of 1903. That fall 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 home before sending for the young Brookings, South Dakota. Martin farmed with Bill Lannon woman who was to be his bride. on shares. He bought the Ole Munson p[...]age 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.[...]the best Bessie Wright at Glasgow, Montana. food that Marie could make and delicious. Marie celebra ted I have heard it told that there is a coulee north of Saco her 90th birthday on Novemb[...]his home with Martin and Marie when he mentioned that one of his great-great forbears was General came[...]died leaving her as woman of the family for her father and[...]Clarence had gone for the doctor to Saco, when he came[...]The homestead was a very lonely place. There were no[...]stead north of Saco was not what it had been said to be. 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[...]belonged to Dick Vies. Later they moved to the Bill Lannon[...]February 20, 1931 Bessie died suddenly from a heart[...]Bessie had been gifted with a lovely natural singing[...]was well appreciated when she was asked to sing at various community gatherings. She was a hard-working[...]cattle, had been gathered to pay for the funeral expense. Marie married an older man, Ira Cave, who had two Uffe ielsen came to Daniels County November, 1916 small daughters by a previous marriage. Together they all from Bensler, Denmark. He lived wit h brothers Einar a n d left with her father and brother to Kalispell, Montana John ielsen. The following spr[...]ving at Plains, Montana. i n July, 1919 and began to farm south of Scobey. He Marie and Ira[...]after he was of 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[...]Motors. graduated from Scobey High School. Due to bad health he retired a nd is still living in Wolf After being around weste:[...]George returned to visit in 1938 to Scobey and remained.[...] |
| [...]And until the basement walls were finally set up a[...]floor of the house. Believing freedom to be their god given right they would not be ousted. Time was what took to get[...]Eventually we got a car - first car for us since George[...]had been back from the service. I started to learn to drive[...]a driver's license.[...]In the last days of 1949 we bought an old house with lot in[...]town and moved our household stuff to town. George still[...]got a mechanic's job on the G.I. bill at Battleson's Ga[...]kept working on the house to make it a decent living quarters. We put in a basement under the house. Later new[...]r reconstruction and finishing were Girl on right is George's mother, Bessie Wright (Prestage). provided as the wages came in from his mechanic's job. I The other girl is a good friend of hers. The picture did m[...]ment at the O.L. Wolfard George was a mechanic at Battleson's Garage for some ranch far[...]years. Later he transferred to Erickstein Motors, a Ford He married Rose Severt in 1940.[...]the end continuing into 1967. of WW II. He was a Seaman First Class assigned to the 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 misses reported when Japanese suicide smoking habit that his health was suffering. He quit bombers aimed t[...]3, but quitting then One of these misses was only a hairs bread th a way from the could not turn back the clock whe[...]rked off and on between heart attacks Returning to Scobey after World War II George resumed[...]n he was told farm work for 0.0. Wolfard. In June that year the family that he could not work any more. He was disabled until moved to the Wolfard farm eight miles south of Scobey[...]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 v[...]ouse 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[...]e 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[...]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 b[...]live in Montana. He never homesteaded. He passed a way in 1968. OLIVE RHODES Olive Rhodes (mother of Jim, Bob and Rex) came to Montana in 1913 accompanied by Jim Penrose. They both homesteaded on Police Creek. Jim Penrose passed a way around 1925. Olive died in 1948. HANS C. HANS[...]er Star community in 1912 and 1915. Hans remained a bachelor all his life. Jorgen married Eleanor Jen[...]ad two children. Jorgen passed away in 1973. Hans is still living in Viborg, South Dakota.[...]1901 - left to right: Rose Sibbits Shipstead (age 6), Mrs. Oscar Shipstead came to Montana from Minnesota in Bill (Kitty)[...]7, 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 visiting a bar at Candle, north of Lewistown. He could also[...]Wall" saloon at Old Scobey, where such 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 settled with homestea[...]se was born 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 siste[...], Kittie and William Sibbits. William Sibbits was a sub Indian Agent under Major Scobey, and after co[...]s first expedition against Chief Cochise. He came to the Wolf Point vicinity in 1880 as a teamster with part of the government forces engaged in bringing Chief Sitting Bull was killed in a horse accident in 1939. Also deceased are a to Poplar from the Woody Mountains in Canada where the son David and a daughter Elsie (Mrs. Frances Chase). Chief had fl[...]lph, Leonard and Harold, and Mrs. Sibbits used to cook dinners for the ranchers who daughters[...]la (Mrs. Paul came down from the Scobey area, and that is how Rose met Shope). Oscar Shipstead. They[...]o children, Rose Shipstead was chosen to be Homestead Queen for Wallace and Helen, died in early childhood. A son, Odin, the Homesteader's Golden[...] |
| [...]In 1915 in November a blizzard came up while we were.at O'Shields, Elai[...]our sheep camp. I went out to help an elderly sheepherder. I four great-grandchildren.[...]finally came on to his sheep and found him crouched in the Rose Ship[...]snow with a buffalo robe wrapped around him. He She used to have hair-pulling fights with Charles[...]Scobey, son of the Indian Agent Major Charles R. A.[...]sheep, along with his dog. I told him he needed a rest and Scobey, after whom the town of Scobey is named. Major gave him my horse to ride back to camp. I spent the night Scobey used to name many of the Indians after presidents[...]rs could not pronounce or spell the Indian names. A letter The next day the old sheepherder returned, fed and from his son Charles tells of an experience of an Indian rested. He asked about another her[...]ge Washington: Three 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 looking. We searched all day in a ground blizzard without all eastern people are. To the first one out he said, "What's success. We came to a butte where there were the carcasses[...]of about nineteen sheep that had been killed by the wolves; your name?" The In[...]·removed a carcass. There was a plac~ where there were two the driver said, "I suppose your name is George roads near a butte, with possibility "that the herder may Washington." George said, "Yes. Ho[...]made camp for the night in a tent they had brought along Oscar Shipstead's memories, as told during Jubilee days: on a sled. The next spring it was found that the missing I was always after adventure and finding something herder had taken that road. He was found, still sitting new. I left Minnesota in February, 1895 with Ole. I was a beside the road where he had been all wint[...]was so named because it was off the train at what is now Havre - it was then called Bull a dirty spring, and hard to find a place to drink. A horse Hook. We went to Fort Benton, and I drifted on down to named Blink, in attempting to drink there, became stuck in Judith Basin. I got to breaking horses and I loved it.[...] |
| [...]E SUSAG FAMILY In 1916 Oswald E. Susag came to Scobey, Montana from |
| husband Joe Horish, an electronics engineer in the Puget[...]the Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thunem came to this area in May, University of Washington and ar[...]all over 1963. In 1966 she married Harold Craft, a supervisor in the the country. They ranched an[...]ay January 28, 1971 at the age of eighty-five and a half years. In nine months he and Alice would hav[...]when she returns each spring, does not ca use her to burst into tears as it had so long ago.[...]mentary school in Sisseton, South Dakota. He came to Montana in 1913 and worked on ranches around Malt[...]1935 when in the dark days of the depression went to work at Fort Peck Dam. After a few years he bought a farm in the Silver Star community. Tom was County[...]Josie , Art, Richard, Mel ana County from 1949 to 1954.[...] |
| in 1942 and moved to Hamilton, Montana where he passed away in Februar[...]Carlson) lives in Hamilton, Montana where Marvin is a real estate broker. Art and Richard are both dece[...]nd Dorothy were married in October, 1942 and have a son Gary and a daughter Carolyn. Gary lives in Spokane, Washington and is a graduate of Kinman Business University and is office manager for Inland Empire Goodwill Industr[...]he 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,[...]Martin. He adopted three until the family decided to take up a homestead in children of Or Lynn's pr[...]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 Ragnhild married Roger VonKuster. They had two "immigrant train" - bringing with them a few simple farm children - Lee and Lola. Roger died in a tragic accident in implements and a limited number of livestock. Their Arizona in 1971. Ragnhild still resides in Scobey. enthusiasm, as they began to cultivate the native sod, for a Andrew married Christina Suchy. They have two[...]in Activities in those early years were limited to visiting Scobey. with neighbors and friends a[...]ial in Scobey and still reside there. events as well as general entertainment for the area Ma[...]consists of Terry, Bryan and Paula. They continue to live The family of Soren and An ton in a Veis consisted of five in Scobey. sons and two[...]ve two children - Karen accompanied their parents to the new country. Andrew and Jon. was bo[...]ie Soren Veis died in 1961 and Antonina is now a resident, were born on the family farm.[...] |
| [...]O.K. McDowell taught there for three years. Quite a[...]ng teachers were hired from Sheridan Joy School is located southwest of Flaxville about 16 County. They always managed to get married and of miles. Originally named Jay School after the Jay family course in that day and age their careers as teachers were that owned the land, but mail and people's pronunciations over. As wedding bells rang school bells quit for the youn[...]did become the official name, teacher. much to the relief of a few students that disliked being[...]races. Sometimes tempers flared and being called a "Jaybird" was not to be tolerated. LINE CO[...]As remembered by Laverne Holmberg Hellickson[...]I came to teach in the Line Coulee School in August, 1927[...]delivered once a week. Much of the land around the school[...]had gone back to sod, and I could count up to 125 range[...]s in the area. There were many area bachelors and a[...]The children either walked many miles to school or rode[...]horseback and carried their lunches in tin pails. A pail on a Joy School. 1. Ralph Kestin, 2. Bernice Gile,[...]d in 1936. The |
| [...]being built. Floyd worked on this for a time driving a team of mules on a scraper.[...]school. They often rode horseback to get to these places or[...]called upon to play the part of a mid-wife and to help when a neighbor was sick. During the flu epidemic of 191[...]Floyd, 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[...]Garfield Wilson for a few years. During the depression he[...]worked on the W.P.A. to provide for a growing family.[...]of Scobey and operated a dairy for a few years along with[...]grain farming. He continued to farm until ill health forced him to retire. All seven children graduated from Scobey[...]1930 at Bismarck, North Dakota and lived that winter near wagon from southern Saskatchewan where they had lived Glen Ullin, North Dakota coming to Montana in 1931 for several years, moving there f[...]all their belongings in wagons. The first thing that had to be done was to build a house Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Drury and[...]ded the stock on grassy places until fences could be built. The first school the children attended was in a homesteaders shack where they sat side by side on benches. Later a school was built near Roy's homestead. The first teacher was a lady homesteader, Miss Amelia Malcolm. Later the school was moved to the Garfield Wilson farm who donated one acre of land. The school became known as the Spring Valley School. School was held there u[...]system. The building was moved into town and used as a teacherage. Dances, social gatherings and occas[...]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[...]nd were close and one girl. neighbors to the George LeCombe, Leon Wimmer, and Neysa Battleson is employed with welfare work and Gilbert Overland f[...]where he owns a garage. In the spring of 1940 we moved from Fre[...]is 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.[...]Dorothy Dacus was a small child. They came with horses[...]and cattle by wagon train. He bought the place that now is[...]north of the track in Scobey. They had a house and big red[...]barn over there and later ran a livery barn near where[...]Noland's Implement Company is now. Mrs. Dacus lived J~sse and Sylvia Drury[...]hose years, from the old |
| [...]nces in Line Coulee schoolhouse, Nels Gustad used to play the violin and we all had fun. Ed and I we[...]la, Bernetha and Frank Frodyce. Bernetha is the baby. Lorraine, Viola, Walter, Leonard and Lu[...]iving except Walter and Irene I remember coming to town three times a year and Dad would give us a quarter. We went home with everything we[...]young. Sarah Fordyce, with the children, came to Montana On summer days we snared and drowned gophers in the year 1908 and took up a homestead between Froid selling their tails at the courthouse for a penny apiece. and Homestead, Montana. A sister and her husband, Rosa[...]Dorothy Dacus and Jim Trower, and a brother and his wife, Jake Gazell[...]Gazell was a sister of Mrs. Ferd Morrison. That same year of 1908, in December, her son Vernon[...]rn Trower and Howard Smith A few years later, about 1913, Mrs. Fordyce, Bernet[...]and Frank moved to the Scobey area. Bernetha and Frank Sarah E. Fo[...]her husband parents, John and Susan Gazell, moved to Wayne County, lived on her claim. I think Mrs. Fordyce and Frank lived on Iowa. There she grew to womanhood and in February of his. 1889 was married to William Fordyce. Three children were In 1922 Mrs. Fordyce traded her homestead land n ear born to them, Bernetha, Wilbur and Vernon. Froid to Ferd Morrison in exchanged for a piece of his land[...]lee Mrs. Fordyce and granddaughter Debbie. She'll be 90 community, near Bernetha and Frank's claims. Frank a nd Sunday. his mother moved onto this land to live. Frank Fordyce was killed in a strip-mine accident on[...]Mrs. Fordyce let the farm out on shares and moved to[...]She then retired and went to live with her daughter, Mrs.[...]at Minot, North Dakota in 1915. They came to Montana by train to Flaxville and stayed at the Tousley Hotel and[...]Boarding House until they could get out to their homestead[...]They traded their homestead for a cow to Martin[...]They were all born at Flaxville, or in that community, and[...] |
| [...]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 Flaxvill[...]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.[...]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[...]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: Pede[...]ll jobs. Carol is still with Safeway at Mill Valley, California. Th[...]Galassi), Wendy (Mrs. Frank Hawkins), and Terri, a School Board, and was a member of Zion Lutheran Church student[...]Force camps with Carol during World War II, moved to the Bay These brothers were born to Rasmus and Ingeborg Area of California, where Carol managed a Safeway store. Gaustad in Korsvegen , Nor[...]istiansund, Norway others, wanted to go to America. Nels came when he was 20 January 28, 1888. There she grew to womanhood and in 1903 to Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked in the married[...]as already States the family revisited Norway for a time. That was the there. last personal contact she had with her family until 1951, Nels then came to Daniels County and homesteaded in when a brother Kaare Fostervoll, visited. He was on a Line Coulee in 1911. For transportatio[...]s infancy. Mrs. Furuli Nels married in 1925 to Selma Swenson, daughter of Ida was a member of Zion Lutheran Church of Orville, and[...]Gaustad Hlucny and Andrew Richard Gaustad (known as Egil Furuli is now a carpenter in Oakland, California. Richard[...]and grandparents kept the children for a while. Then Martin Rose.[...]kken in 1946. They are raised them and a foster daughter, Rose Andrusen Brenna, now farmin[...]d now has Martin's original children. Sandra, now a teacher and housewife, in homestead. Tacoma, Washington, and Mark, a student at Scobey High Martin had come to America as a young man of 21 in School.[...] |
| [...]will be a junior; and Lance will be a fourth grader. Our[...]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[...]ad and sons can be seen out the window trying to rope each other or whatever is near. We are members of Scobey[...]Lutheran Church and Doris teaches a Sunday School[...]nt, his older brother. The little homestead house is moved but is still on the original place. A new house was built in 1928. Martin made several trips back to Norway but Nels never went back. A younger brother, Odin, came to 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,[...]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. They came from in Scobey for several years but is now in Texas. Grinnell, Iowa. They[...]ey Gilbert, and Harlan and Virginia Barclay (by a former and worked part-time for several people in[...]). 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'[...], Doris Mahler Gaustad and their We used to go to Taylor's beach for ball games, dances at three so[...]ool, had several barn dances at the Fred It was a great experience and challenge to all. There was Krauth barn south of Scobey. Th[...]ey had others played for the dances. We had a lot of ball games, their good times too: Ga th erings such a s barn dances, swimming and picnics on the Poplar River, known as school doings and F ourth of July picnics; everyo[...]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 horses grew larger too. Th e farm[...]· horses, is now done by motored m achinery. They all felt[...]962. proud and happy with what they had been able to do with Dale Gilbert married Ella Hellickson. To them two God's help.[...]ert who married Howard Nels and Martin belonged to t he Orville Lutheran Corey and lives[...]California where Howard Church. Nels passed away a t age 85 a nd Martin nearly 80. is a pilot for T.W.A. Airlines; and Bernie Gilbert who He'd just had a nice trip to Norway the summer before. married Joan Br[...]in Scobey and had an implement shop known as Tony's Garage which they sold to Adolph Kramer. They had two[...]the Lucas Chevrolet Body Shop and is an insurance[...]children: Larry is married to Doris Gill and is in the I.B.M.[...]children: Kathy is married to Rocky Ware, they own the Ponderosa Bar. Kim is with Daniels and Wolfe insurance[...]business. Jeff i's at home, a junior in high school.[...] |
| 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[...]ed with frost. Julia dressed the children for bed as if they were going outside to play.[...]One time an Indian family stopped when Julia was[...]nor understand English but was finally induced to take[...]In 1922 Ludvig moved a two-story house over the hills[...]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[...]s·erved in Africa and Italy during World War II as a mechanic in the Army Air Force. He is now deceased .[...]A need to expand made the folks come to Montana. A growing family of six children made a small farm in[...]landed in 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 liv[...]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 immigrant car. In 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 enter[...]d breaking the prairie little entertainment to be had. Sometimes on a Sunday for their own field crops as well as doing custom work for 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 cook[...]d, Clifford, Kenned, Milton, Threshing was an exciting time. Days ahead Ma baked Junice, Oran, and Bertha, to complete the family. Millard and prepared fo[...]tfit around , pitching died at the age of 13 from a heart condition. bundles as all the farmers did. A neighbor girl came in to As soon as the children were old enough to ride a horse help and I remember my older sister riding as fast as she 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 fences. with milk cows, pigs and chickens to be taken care of[...] |
| besides the cooking. We kids caught a ride with Pa in the Montana. They have one child, Karen, and a foster girl, grain wagon to bring them coffee and a big lunch in the Raeleen. forenoon and afternoon[...]Alma, the youngest, married John Leib of Eure~a, The few relaxing moments Ma had were spent s[...], Maurice mending and knitting socks and mittens to keep the family and Alan. clothed and warm throu[...]gers fairly flew and the knitting needles clicked as she knitted by lamp light late into the night.[...]e farm. How bravely they bore the cancerous pain that took both their lives. Pa[...]here he and his June, 1917. Mr. Himli established a homestead in 1916, 18 son , Jim , (and now grandsons) operate a welding and miles southwest of Flaxville where he built a 16 by 18 repair shop. In 1927 he married La Verne Hol~berg who "shack" which was to be our home. Being a new bride and came from Cambridge, Minnesota to teach the Lme Coulee seeing the wild west for the first time was a scary School. They have four children, Irma who[...]ence and shortly after getting settled I found it to be Danielson and lives in Minneapolis. They have three sons, a very lonesome life. My closest neighbors were Nyh[...]dren: about two miles from our place, soon became a very dear Robert, Robin , Mark, Michelle, Barbar[...]I remember my first three months in Montana as being and lives in Loveland, Colorado with their[...]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 acquainted with Lees, Montana. Julian[...]. Two years after we arrived in Montana we moved to children , Teresa, Sue and Alan. Geraldine marri[...]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[...]vid, Linda, Mike, nine years following our return to Montana were filled Janet and Peggy live at home with their folks. with many happy days as well as the trying times while The third child, Clare[...]assed 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 no[...]live at St. Regis, summer following our marriage as Mr. Storle and I enjoyed Montana. They have five[...]d social events at Taylor's Beach. I Kathy Page (a teacher from Scobey School), is a principal participated on the Women's Soft Ball team that year and at Cascade, Montana. They have three chil~ren, Debbie, received a black eye for not using the bat properly. Some of[...]ng 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 children, Giles,[...]. married Jean Reiner and lives on a farm with their son Times were not easy[...]s 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[...]er 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 Fou[...]n 1942, but we continued our farming operations. is a college student majoring in psychology.[...]hild (me, Ella) married Dale Gilbert of continued to live in our home in Scobey until October of Scob[...]. 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[...]e at 328 6th Ave. So., Glasgow. We Howard Corey, a commercial pilot with TWA. They liv~ in welcome all of our friends to stop in to see us any time. California (Camarillo) with the[...]ives in Spokane, Washington. Fred and Winnie have a Scobey and they have three boys, Trent, Brian an[...]ime. She had one Clifton E. Jones came to this country in the spring of child , Bern[...] |
| [...]getting more land as time went on and stock, so that helped[...]About 1944 they moved to town, but Cliff still worked his[...]started to fail. In 1963 they celebrated their golden[...]Wilbur still continues to farm, he has two daughters and a[...]and she has a daughter.[...]e Kestin brothers, Sheldon and Ralph Cooper, came to[...]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. Cooper had been trained as an accountant. They had Cliff and Octera Jones planned to homestead in British Columbia.[...]Enroute they stopped in Firth or Forth, Alberta as that was as far as the railroad went in those days. They arrived[...]end of the railroad line and found themselves in an isolated area with only a little wooden station house. Here[...]they tried to change from their traveling clothes into their[...]around a little pot-belly stove, as it was still quite cold.[...]There was no privacy for the two to change so they tried to[...]ehind the cover of their trunk. It must have been a[...]how ill-suited their attire would be for the land they found[...]the strange clothing and the strange men trying to change.[...]sioned with three loaves of bread, bacon and tea; a little lard pail, a 22 rifle and a couple of blankets.[...]t their fire on the windward Wilbur Jones Family. As heads appear: Paulie, Jerry, side so that it blew toward the creek. The grass stood taller[...]than Cooper who was over six feet. It was said that another Ewen, Saskatchewan. He wanted to get land of his own so Pete Furuli and Cooper Kestin (day after picture taken was |
| [...]them, either by the n~me of just as hard as marbles with the fire going full blast. Gustad or[...]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 co[...]na. In the spring she broke the land herself with a two- flames, they fanned them and the fire spread[...]tom plow with the help of Sam Burgess. three fled to the other side of the creek. They knew they had[...]ey. Any extra help she received she paid for with a provisions on their backs they began walking and good meal to the donor. Her homestead life was a happy eventually came to a town named Boyer in Montana (later one; 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 i[...]enry Boyer place). ready to go in the morning. She said, "I cooked, branded, . As immigrants they each had $1,000 so they were a good plowed, raked, made hay, took care of[...]ts. These fellows would hire and had a real good judgment about it - best hand on the themselves, team and buckboard, out for $50 a day and place". She would work on a roundup and would bake as would drive the greenhorns around supposedly aiding many as 50 loaves of bread and boil a half bushel of them in finding a place to homestead. Henry Heinsman, potatoes in a day. She had a good black kitchen range. She an old timer (his farm bordered Outa Osborne's) rescued 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 their hearts for the bluff, out-spok[...]. Although she had her own bedroll and settled on a section of land, each homesteading a half little tent, she usually stopped off at a half-way house run section. This section was located 14 miles south of by a half-breed Indian. She ran and broke her own hors[...]Old Pet was her horse; she'd drive her with a mare that kicked. She never hired men to help her as she felt they[...]as the "Grass Widder" in that country. Even though the[...]men in the country knew she had an ulterior motive, they'd[...]shocking, hay needing to be put up" and off they'd go to do her bidding. She was such a good cook, so good looking, and capable that they couldn't stay away, and besides[...]there weren't many women in that country in those days.[...]Outa left her homestead and went to cook for Billy Kraft in a half-way house. This house was located near the[...]Poplar River along an old trading trail. She married Will, as she called him, in about 1916. Her daughter Ethel[...]ere she attended school and received her training as a[...]and was raised as a southern belle used to the better things in life. She was an accomplished horsewoman, a pianist Kestin brothers and sisters. Left to 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) Coram, Maxine (Kestin) Graff. young miss of the gentry. Yet she came to Montana and Not shown: Thelma (deceased), Lloyd,[...]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[...]aryllyn. Cooper became ill was born and raised on a southern plantation. Her father, with canc[...]as used for treatments at Rochester over received an honorable discharge. Outa was an ambitious, a series of years. Cooper passed away in his native driving, capable woman. She was a beautiful woman, five England in 1930. T[...]ral Land Bank. Ethel which she wore long. She had a good sense of humor and remarried and 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 banker while she was working Here the c[...]yn, Jeanne, Ralph, and Lloyd winter in Montana in a tar-papered shack belonging to received their early schooling at Joy School, a school that Will Downing (he married a Manternach girl). She said it Cooper and Ethel worked to secure along with their was so cold the p[...] |
| [...]farm with the six horses we have, we got a pretty big bunch[...]plowed last fall so I guess I can put in a fairly big crop[...]anyway, and I guess we will have a hard enough job to pay for those cattle without any horses to pay for. I am keeping[...]them a little so as they will be able to do some hard work in[...]Spring, this sitting around is irksome though I have all[...]Cooper's letter of April 11, 1915: "I am just up to my eyes[...]ths. We have got in 60 acres of wheat already. It is just[...]thing of anything else now so the sooner it is in the better .. R.C. Kestin, Dave Johnson, Marti[...]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 older children at home before the automobile so it looks like we are going to be left. Have to school was built. The children remember programs that get busy with all 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[...]borne's). The preacher plowed it away in 1950 and is buried in the Scobey Cemetery. with his machine. The following is a compilation of excerpts from Cooper Nel[...]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 g[...]t 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 Do[...]nd sure enough it rained so much and kept so dull that it Washington, North Carolina, the daughter[...]Outa Dowdy. Her father was the captain of a 100 foot and oats for two weeks and potatoes for[...]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 of eating fresh oysters It might be our turn next - we got threshed at last- 500 flax[...]Later her parents were divorced and she went to live with I never had such a big family in my house before, the a wealthy family on a southern plantation. Here she crew said they were sorry to leave but I cannot say I quite received her training to be a lady, a pianist and a hostess, endorsed their sentiments.[...]the typical southern belle. We had a cook car here two weeks and that was the only Her mother, Outa Osborne, had moved north to Chicago redeeming feature in the business, a young married couple and Ethel joined her[...]... We finished threshing Friday taken up a homestead near Scobey in December, 1914, and morning at 9 o'clock and I took 3 loads to town with they moved to Montana. Sheldon and one of Dave's kids or rather Mrs. J.'s kids. We Ethel was then sent to school in Rollins, Montana. got home at 12 o'cloc[...]s 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[...]ough the eighth grade. She had met and was caught a few hours sleep ... Dave's brother is up here from corresponding with a neighboring homesteader, Ralph C. Minnesota and D[...]ovember, 1915. Her upbringing made her ill-suited to the here. Tom Cowan I hear has brought a Bull tractor, hard life of a homesteader's wife. Pullsome plow, too, and Duncan McDonald is building a She kept house in a new five-room house built for her by hotel in Boy[...]xine and Thelma, at Sheldon) figuring on shipping a carload of cattle from St. home; there was[...]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 do[...] |
| [...]and education was available for all. Ethel was a hard worker but always managed to find time to sing, read, laugh and have a good time. She enjoyed entertaining and being involved in community efforts such as the P.T.A. and the Episcopal (All Saints) Church where she was a Sunday School teacher. She raised a large garden as well as poultry and livestock, and canned as much of this as she could. She put up pork in layers of lard in h[...]ldren's clothing, often in the evenings alongside a kerosene lamp, after the outdoor work was finishe[...]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 the only ones who had a radio in their home at that time. Ethel would listen to the program and then go home and re-enact it to the enjoyment of her children and husband. Also,[...], 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 sometim[...]hey 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[...]keeping her family together by working long hours as a cook in the hospital. Were she alive today, she[...]r family carrying on the traditions she passed on to them with their big WILLIAM AND[...]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. Mart[...]h failed in North Dakota. It took three long days to trail the horses up November, 1974. She was a member of the First here. Martin built a house with a shallow water well in the Presbyterian Church. She passed away in March of 1975. cellar that saved many trips of water carrying. Later in the[...]Benton, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Tope of Fort Benton, Over th[...]ss from high school at Flaxville. He then went on to college and was in Arthur Moses was born i[...]ass from Northern Montana College migrated to Iowa and in 1910 he came to the Scobey at Havre, Montana. He taught school. H[...]ville. They had three children. Their son A single man, he was employed by various farmers in the Byran was killed in a plane crash in 1967. Mable died in later y[...]ended Flaxville High School and of his land to Jesse.[...] |
| Arthur Moses (1866-1948) Arthur had an old horse which he rode to the neighbors-- |
| that, but during the meantime washers changed and[...]Sheldon, used to live with them before her marriage. Then Durin[...]in, 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[...]Both delivered by her dad. All our children went to the Joy are buried in the Orville Ceme[...]etty Lou and Calvin started high school we bought a home in Scobey. After living there for a couple of CLARENCE W. ROSSING[...]e children in high Clarence came to Montana from Badger, Minnesota school and grades,[...]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[...]and Pleasant Prairie school farming with a 30-60 Hart Par 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 husband has been[...]artment for two years. Before his marriage he was a Marine. Wilma has five children, Charles, Vale[...]tern Montana College in Billings. Gary married a Danish girl from Dagmar, Montana. They have three children. Gary is a natural born salesman. After selling insurance he[...]states. They live in Bismarck where his business is. Arliss went to P.L.U. for one year and then to Columbus 1923 - Hauling grain. Frank and E[...]sitting on right side. Dr. Donald E. Engstrom, a psychiatrist. After living in Seattle for fourteen years, they moved to Great Falls, Montana. They have three children.[...]Montana. From memories and a clipping The family farmed through to 1962 and due to ill health[...]ere two bachelors who lived bought a small acreage and home out of Columbia Falls, sou[...]dhue County, Minnesota in 1878. The brothers came to We had our 50th anniversary in October, 1974 and hope to the Orville community in 1911. have many more. Martin lived in a small tar-papered house, and never owned a car. Theodore was a little more modern. He had a two-story white house and drove a Model T Ford car. He ALBERT W. SCHAMMEL later owned a pickup. Both brothers farmed with ho:-ses, until[...]ut in. From a 1962 letter They were good kind neighbors. The children in the neighborhood loved to go there, as Theodore always had I came to Scobey in August of 1915. My parents were candy f[...]lin at Rose Creek, Minnesota. plum season. He was a very quiet and reserved man, but He wa[...]Coughlin, one of Scobey's first was always ready to be of any help to his neighbors. businessmen. They h[...]After my parents retired from the farm I was free to when it came through the country in the 19[...] |
| [...]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 away[...]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 l[...]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,[...]Goldie. Left to right: Mrs. Walt Williams , Baby Bonnie, Melvin |
| [...]following year when Mr. Snyder took up a homestead near Scobey and built a house so he could move the family up[...]prairie with a team of horses and wagon. Early day Bernetha Smit[...]Luetta (Snyder) Dickinson what is now Daniels County. Here his father , Samuel R. Smith , had a homestead in the Line Coulee area. Bernetha Fordyce was born in Corydon, Iowa on August 10, 1891. She came to Montana near Froid with her mother and brothers in 1908 and later they all came to this area and lived on a farm in the Line Coulee community. In 1914 Bernetha filed on a homestead and was granted a patent. John Smith and Bernetha Fordyce were ma[...]omestead, which joined the Samuel R. Smith farm , that John was farming.[...]il 1927 when they moved Snyder. into Scobey to live. John had been elected Daniels County Assessor on the Democratic ticket in 1926 and he served in that capacity from 1927 until 1952. HOMER F. AND CLARA SNYDER Death came to John Smith at the age of 75 on June 23, 1954 when he was taken with a stroke. Homer F. Snyder[...]5, the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Snyder, and went to at the Daniels Memorial Hospital and Home. school at LaPorte, Indiana. He grew up to young manhood[...] |
| [...]Vernon, who served in the Navy for six years , is married[...]d in Great Falls since serving in the Marines. He is a certified welder for Palmer Construction. Velma a[...]They both work in Great Falls. Velma, an RN , is[...]families live in Alaska. Mavis's husband is a sheet metal[...]shore three years. In 1964 we bought a house in Lincoln.[...]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.[...]consin when he was ten years old. Ida Swenson was that a few years and sold it to L.V. Hansen at the bank and born in 1887 i[...]w'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 Neodes[...]e and was buried at Orville Cemetery. Nickel, and to them were born one boy and two girls. We bough[...]ine Coulee in 1940 and lived there until we moved to town and built a house here and lived here ever since.[...]years. The mother and younger children went back to Minnesota for the school term, as there were no schools in their area, neither roads or railroads. When Henry was 18 he moved to Montana to farm and improve his sister Martina (Storle) Bekk[...]Ii ved near Flaxville and ih the fall they bought a relinquishment on a 160 acre homestead and 320 Selma Swe[...]ere. Selma married Nels Henry also worked on WP A in these dry years of the Gustad and[...]n Swenson married Mary Barnes. They lived here in a cannery in Alaska, that winter he worked on the Fort Scobey a[...]ey have one boy. In the spring of 1935 we moved to the farm, known as the Albert married Nellie Barnes and they[...]the homestead and rented the Thweet place. grain to sprout, and the army worms came in and took That was where Jessie Drury is now. They had that for a everything green. Henry also worked on WP A. In the few years and rented the Philip's farm and lived there till winter months he went to Butte to work in the copper they moved to Scobey in 1940. They both passed away in m[...] |
| [...]NDING THE LOCATION back to Sackett's camp. In this fence corner where I held[...]the fillies there was a gate across a lane which lead east SOUTHEASTOFSCOBEY,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 here[...]head of Give-Out in white. There was a clothes line and a lot of clothes on it Morgan. I had ridden across[...], so I knew this farmer had himself a cook. toward the Poplar. I covered the country as well as I could Well, I looked at the sun which w[...]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 Li[...]The man's name was Himli and he was a good farmer. ·horse. I worked on across the open country west to the Everything was neat; a cement horse trough full of water breaks of the[...]orked the country at the windmill, a clean stall and feed in the barn for thoroughly but it was getting late so I rode on down to Hornet, and, as I soon discovered, Mrs. Himli was a good Sackett's horse camp and stayed all night. Next morning I housekeeper and a good cook. There was furniture in the left the r[...]in Sackett' 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 of a shock, but a very pleasant one for me, 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[...]and upon my inquiry he said, them in a big cut glass bowl, and home made cake with "Well, now. I have not been here but a few days. But I have thick chocolate icing![...]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[...]ng west again towards the Poplar and them a bout the Canadian schoolmom who acted as if she when I got around the farmer's fences swung north into 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 ti ve deal with a young farmer down on coulee as soon as I came in sight. I ran them down and Hay Creek to rent the place on what I thought wa~ very turned them when we got to the fences. I got them into a attractive terms. By lucky coincidence the prospective fence corner and held them to check them over. There were renter arrive[...]ext morning, while we both two year olds, one was a blue roan Appaloosa and the were doing chores. Mr. Himli hitched a team to the buggy other a sorrel, both wearing my dad 's brand. I recognized and they set out for town fourteen miles a way to sign the them both as colts from the Appaloosa bunch for which I contract. I had volunteered to finish the barn chores, had been searching, altho[...]en them since which I did, and carried a supply of water from the they were branded. In fact I had not ridden this range for windmill to the house for Mrs. Himli. I thanked her for the t[...]I was sorry the place had been Dad had bought a bunch of horses, something over a rented as I liked it very much. I saddled Hornet and rode h[...]irn on Poplar Creek. Albert's out making a circle down Poplar Creek and back to father , Henry Kirn , had been a scout for Miles, had Sackett's horse camp where I spent the night. acquired an Appaloosa stud, just how is not now known. That evening Mr. Himli came there looking for me. He One story is that he got this horse from an Indian from and the Hay Creek farmer ha[...]and bought his little bunch of cattle through an My dad had a homestead on the reservation up near the arrangement with his bank .... I wintered there that head of the Cotton wood, but, like nearly everyone else on winter. I put in a crop that spring, and after the horse the prairie during Wo[...]bit by the farming roundup in June, went to Saskatoon and got that bug and rented a big wheat farm over at Dewar Lake, schoolmom. It will be forty years this fall since that blue Saskatchewan. We had shipped a lot of horses over there to roan Appaloosa mare, named Shady, led me u[...]given up the We later bought 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 where sell the stock. When you make a living with horses you Hornet and I scared up these two fillies that day. The make it the hard way. There was very lit[...]r stock in county has taken my land for taxes a time or two and we Canada at that time, just after the war, so I spent two years have had to sell horses to the cannery once or twice. We grading roads in su[...]a bronces earn their living until I could to raise a lot of Hereford cattle and two daughters to help us get them sold. When I got back to the ranch in the fall of '22 make a living, but we still have a few good Appaloosas. horses were so cheap that they had not bothered rounding- Now, 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. admit that the course of his life had been set by the flight[...]ese fillies quieted down in the fence corner I a wild mare. Sounds like a rather aimless, driftying, sat there on Hornet, l[...]ght cowboy way of doing. However, I was at that time looking the situation over. This Hornet was a good filly chaser but for a ranch and I found one. I must give the Appaloosa he had a lot of miles on him that day and it was ten miles horse credit for leading me to it. Horses were not worth[...] |
| much. Any colts we did not find that fall, we would probably have gotten in the spring roundup. I am sure I would not have gone back to spend that extra day searching for any other bunch. I did then, and do now, have a yen for Appaloosa horses. I just could not risk t[...]get away with one Appaloosa colt. So, let us say, that the location of this ranch was decided that October day in 1922 when I rode across from Smoke Creek to the head of Give-Out Morgan and could not find th[...]has six Chip's colts on the ground and three more to come.[...]\ Mountain Maid, mother of Many Chips, has a top[...]-~ Bozeman last year, but Taylors will have a few late colts by / him and are breeding 15 mares to him this years. (1962)[...]s Denver Taylor |
| [...]o colts in the Scobey parade. Neil on Rocket with a safety rope anchored to the tongue of the wagon. Johnny Nelson in the wag[...]onated the always helped too. We usually included an action game, prizes for the various events. We put in a 24 hour day that such as the husbands being lined up against the wives in a day. Neil was invited to be head judge at the County Fair in contest putting a pillow case on a pillow - simple, but fun. Spencer, Iowa. At o[...]hool. We also enjoyed taking our children to the various Margaret and Fae worked hard on th[...]ool, helped put up hay in North Dakota and helped to haul it the Bredette School, the Line Coulee School and the Silver home with a truck and a trailer. Star Hall, and also to the social gatherings in the various Neil was interested in the Saddle Club and helped to homes. We had many pleasant times with good, clean fun. organize it. He also helped to haul logs from the mountains One day the boys came coyote hunting. They found a den to build it. The girls and Neil always took part in[...]ce; ate their lunch, then sat all night listening to parades, and the Saddle Club sports events. In th[...]nd Fae raced in all left at the same time to go home for breakfast and then almost every race. An interesting exhibition was a Horse hurried back - but all was quiet in[...]this. and her pups! The Scobey team was invited to present their quadrille in One fall we h[...]during the ·harvest. Sunday morning they wanted to go Neil al ways had several horses in the parad[...]and broke colts two months old, and hitched them to a wagon assured them no one would be there. About fifteen minutes and put them in the[...]made the harness and after they left a number of cars came from the east; we just wagon.[...]knew they were headed for the swimming hole! - a big had a "pack string" of four Appaloosa colts. He had som[...]quipment tied on each colt. They were to take the ladies and girls for a promenade down the interesting "exhibits". We als[...]e Wolf beach, so the boys tried desperately to hurry into their Point Stampede, Neil in the rodeo and the girls in the races. clothes. It was as much a surprise to us as it was to the One year we took 27 horses to Wolf Point, which included boys. six Palo[...]Montana State hard times and we had a good life. Rodeo Queen.[...] |
| [...], Byrne, Lamar, Daryl and Joel. Just g uess which is which! Fae married Robert K. Phillips of Lewistown, 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[...]ears in the State Legislature. He considered this a great honor from the people of Daniels County and he did his best to represent them well. He was a staun ch Republican. During his terms in Helena,[...]Neil he wished Neil would handle his own affairs as well as he did those of the state![...]eft; J.H. Cavanaugh, Neil died May 2, 1964 from a massive heart attack. I center; Mrs. J.[...]m Cavanaugh, stayed on the ranch the remainder of that year, then in right in cart. January, 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.[...]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 here now. However, I will never "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[...]Wilkinson is southwest of Flaxville, just over the line on[...]rt Peck Indian Reservation. It was not free land, as BRIDIE MURPHY CAVANAUGH 1896-1936 were most homesteads, but had to be purchased.[...]Some of the early day settlers in that area who were It was after twelve o'clock on a chill, dark night in late John's neighbors we[...]son, Jack Burke, John Haroldson, Ray homesteaders to start a new life in what was to become Frederick, Herman Nyhus, Frank H[...]nder 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[...]ked 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[...]he livery barn for there were no street a Mogul one cylinder tractor. They were not very li[...]successful machines and were soon parked in a fence The man answering the knock was Harry Bat[...]corner while the horses did most of the work for a few directed John to the livery barn, and helped later to locate a years. homestead and they became lifelong frien[...],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 moved from LaBolt, South Dakota with his ·adopted used to take two days to make one with the team. parents and brother to Hopkins, Minnesota. Returning from town one evening, he ran over a diamond willow fence post that had fallen on the road from a[...]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 Minneapolis where she had a brother. She was working in[...]John's father sold his farm and retired to Minneapolis.[...]John and Bridie lived on his homestead which a[...] |
| [...]devote to helping others. Such a man was Ted Krongard[...]Ted and his brother Ed ward were born on a farm near[...]died when Ed was born and their father remarried a few[...]Ted came to Montana in 1915, two years after Ed, and[...]not at romance. When he built a beautiful new farm house[...]Ted) had a change of heart and she moved on. Ted and Ed[...]continued their bachelor existence for a few years more - earning a reputation for being very fussy housekeepers.[...]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 Daniel[...]ct of the whole family together with th e help of a succession of community. housekee[...]orked with where he and Ed were members. a W.P.A. crew. The drouth ended in 1939 and life became a During the drouth/ depression years of[...]outh Dakota was gone. made loans to farmers to try to keep them from going James married Jacq uelin[...]Agricultural Adjustment Act, or triple A, a forerunner of Company and later became a r ural mail carrier. They have the present A.S.C.S. The committee held its meetings and eight[...]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 ha[...]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 .[...]Havre. They have five He was an active Democrat, but failed in a bid for the children , Jon, Kenneth, Carol, Mary[...]n . In 1934 the daughter of a boyhood friend came out to Betty attended Northern Montana College and was Montana with a young couple who were going to help Ted married to Bill Swart in December, 1955. They presently[...]m 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 of his life. For a man who had In 1944 they bought a farm near New Richmond , once thought that city life was ever ything, his attachment Wisconsin , which is not far from their original homes in for Mon tan a and the rolling fields of Daniels County had[...]old their farm here. The house was grown so great that he considered it th e b est place on earth later bought and moved to Scobey by the late P.B. Murphy. to live. It is prese~tly owned by Mrs. T .J. Mohn. John serve[...]of T r ustees of Joy School, the Ed moved to North Saint Paul, Minnesota and worked Farmers Un[...]a xville, and was active many years for an elevator manufacturing firm. He is now in the Catholic Church . He died in 1972.[...]ired. J a mes Ca vanaugh In Wisconsin Ted promptly[...]affairs and developed a large and successful farm. He is retired and they have a rural home near New Richmond . MR. AN D MRS. THEODORE KRONGARD Ted Krongard is an uncommon man, honest and AND E DWARD KRO[...]respected. Daniels County is a better place for his having[...]James Cavanaugh outstanding individuals who seem to have much time to[...] |
| I A bird 's-eye-view of the bustling little "Hub City[...]2. Kanning Brothers Elevator (before it was moved to RR right-of-way); 13. Sam |
| [...]me of the carpenters in town were T. Primeau, A few years before there were any towns in the area[...]ips. The livery barn was owned b y C. Aldrich and a on the rich virgin soil. The prairies were wide, with wild Mr. Jackson owned a laundry. The first barber in the town animals ro[...]was Walter Zimmerman who also had a homestead . His impressions were that this was a God-forsaken country shop was south of the Hotel McDonald but it was la ter and that a person would have to be crazy to stay here, but moved to near the Recorder office when Ed Green had the c[...]ver, they came and they stayed. shop. A Mr. Anderson also barbered in the pool hall. Madoc The first years from about 1909 to 1912 brought the also had a cement jail, built in 1917, a town hall , following people: Forbregds, Gabe an[...]constructed in 1915, which was later moved , and a Justice Morrisons, Hendersons, Gordons, Bourassa[...]e were many office when Chris married a couple, both strangers. George others; some stay[...]held the kerosene lamp while telling Chris what to say to Before there was any sort of settlement in t[...]ceremony official. Madoc the community was known as the Big Bench, but the foundations of the town were getting under way for as early as 1912 a strange man came riding up to Grandma RESTAURANTS Lou Morrison's home and informed her that there was going to be a town a short distance from their homestead. The[...]rgaret LaRoche. on land donated by Fred LaRoche. That same year the post Another was built by John Hunter in 1914 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 we[...]'s Siding. There are many Another cafe known as the Farmers' Cafe was run by Mrs. stories as to how Madoc got its name. This is the one told by Phil Capistrant, located between the two saloons on main a pioneer of those days, Horrace Bourassa: street. A sister of Mrs. Cale Aldrich , Mrs. Capistrant was The town's original application to the Northern from St. Paul and stayed only a short time. Both of the Townsite Company was for[...]flax growing along the bench. The had a catering service, apparently in the saloon. town to the east had applied for the name of Boyer, the name of a homesteader southeast of the townsite. Somehow[...]MADOC ST ATE BANK people did not want Boyer as the name of their town, so they had to start over in trying to agree on a new name. The State Bank of Madoc opene[...]ent; E.H.E. Helgeson, cashier; and several served as the name Murdock and the LaRoches wanted Rochev[...]out $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 a[...]es in the area. The building was moved away, so as a result, many of the businesses went purchased by Jim Sparling of Flaxville who moved it to his broke. In later years when the highway was[...]lumber yard. bypassed Madoc which caused a further decline. In the election of 1920, af[...]county of Daniels had been formed, Madoc was in competition with Scobey for the county seat. Madoc received only a third as many votes as Scobey, and this was the fatal blow for a brave HOTELS little town on the Big Bench. The only business that remains is the elevator, along 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[...]1914 and 1915 respectively. McDonald also built a feed and Following is a brief summary of many ot the business liv[...]nd son Jack came from Grant and Sutton in 1915. A second one opened in 1916 by Crystal, Nort[...]It was housed in one of the saloons. There it to his farm near Flaxville to use as a house. It burned in was a harness shop east of · the bank under the[...]ted by Al Woods. Lauzon became proprietor a fter Brunelle a nd operated it It was later moved from the west side of Main street to east until 1920.[...] |
| [...]GE The garage was built in 1915 by Lote Curtis. A short time later Sam Montgomery ran the business with George Green wood as mechanic. Sam Donegan and John Broughton also worked there. Sam had the first light plant. This is an article from the Madoc Recorder: "On Tuesday afternoon at the hour of 4:15 a bright light shot across the Hub City in spite of[...]eet and the Hub City now puts on the glamor which is justly due it." The article was entitled "Let There Be Light In Madoc".[...]publisher and he is standing holding a copy of it. He also MADOC DRAY LINES had a real estate office. In the days when practically everything was shipped by rail, the dray delivery was a very necessary business. It consisted of a flatbed on a horsedrawn wagon or sleigh and was used to deliver goods from the train to the various business places. Madoc's first dray l[...]ler and Joe LaCount. Theophile Primeau also owned a dray LY4th known as T.J.'s Dray and Elmore Rowe worked for him.[...]iginal hard ware store was opened by Lote Curtis, a MADOC,MONTANA champion wrestler from Minneapolis. He sold out to two men from Ada, Minnesota, Hans Flom and W. Chr[...]nd 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[...]9 :00 a. m.-Open Air Concert by Redstone Concert Band. Fl[...]eld and their Rumley tractors. 10 :00 a. m.-Pande Thru ll&in Street. It burned soon after it was moved. 11 :00 a. m.-Orand Allembly &t Public Square.[...]Invocation by Rev. A·. R. Stone.[...]Declaration of Ind_ependence by Attorney A. 8. Hemphill.[...]: Box of Oigan, donated by J. I . Robblnl. known as the Farmers Lumber Company with C. Aldrich,[...](One Box) Donated By Primeau & Lall.oc:be. management. The other yard sold out to Libby Lumber Dil~At Pavilion,[...]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.[...] |
| [...]NS officially changed to Madoc with George Springer as[...]Robbins started the first saloon and the and a half years of existence. second was owned by LaRo[...]r owned by Mark M. Hanson, who, in the 1940's was a wealthy theatre owner in Hollywood. He was shot by a taxi dancer and was in serious condition for some[...]after receiving a Master's degree in business at Dartmouth[...]ES 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[...]ace 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[...]ght feet on the south end was partitioned off for an office MADOC CHURCHES for me and the balance was used as a waiting and freight room. I slept on a cot at the end of the building. Although there[...]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 some good donatipns from them. The Lutherans had an organized congregation in 1919. Pastors were Rev.[...]doc, one of which burned in 1919. They were known as Winter-Truesdell- Ames, the Montana-Dakota, and K[...]off the railroad right-of-way so the grain could be loaded onto the box cars by wagon. It soon became necessary to move onto the right-of-way by the other two. The[...]e managed it for several years. It was later sold to the Equity Co-op Association, headed by Ed Bucher[...]as manager at the time it burned. In 1917 the W-T-A elevator was managed by Herman Slarie, The standa[...]B. Morrison and Bob Willard, Having come to Montana from Vermont, I felt that at In 1960 Ramon Trower opened the D.C. Farmers e[...]in the Wild West, where shoot-outs in the and it is still in operation. saloons, shaving and bathing only once a week, and knowing a man who had been in the KlondiJ:,:~ gold rush[...]were all a part of the common way of life.[...]baseball team and I did help to win a few games. I left Madoc in the fall of 1915 to become a traveling Madoc inherited the Orville post off[...]It was housed in the Lockrem my one "mixed-train" a day that came down from Scobey Cash Store with Henry as the first postmaster, and his in the morni[...] |
| [...]A picture of the Madoc School in its original state[...]to find but one was finally located. Mary Kamrud Lam[...]Buhl, Idaho, who went to Madoc School in the 20's took[...]e. William Middlebrook died February 16, 1974, a short time after he wrote the article from which[...]president of the University of Minnesota and was a chief architect of the institution's rapid expansion from 1924 to 1959. A residence hall on the University of Minnesota is named after him. George Lane was the depot agen[...]brook 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[...]t. The first |
| Carl Fjeld moving the old Lauzon School in 1918. Still a landmark on the Madoc roadside. Moses Morin, L[...]he depression. Final |
| [...]________________ N8c'J?W_117a _ _ ___ _ _ ,...,.~[...]the original townsite of Madoc when it was known as Boyer. Madoc Main Street - 1916[...] |
| [...]g of 1910 four families, including the Aldriches, A.M. Morrisons, Shorty Robbins, James Kopsky, left their homes in Calvin, North Dakota to file on homesteads. They traveled by train to Medicine Lake, Montana. The remainder of the jour[...]r belongings were hauled from Medicine Lake also, as the railroad was just being built. They arrived at their new homesites May 14, 1910. Tents were used as shelter until homes were built. Several men worked together to build the homes which · were one-story, with thr[...]small town of Madoc sprang up, our parents owned a livery stable and drayline for several years. Our[...]Back row: Gladys, Vivian, the Peace in Madoc for a number of years. The one-room Bessie. Front row:[...]north end of the Aldrich farm and was later moved to town and then replaced by a new school.[...]getting our first automobile. It was a Reo touring car and[...]where they worked in a lumber company. Mrs. George[...]ssie) Fox lives in Missoula where her husband was a[...]moved with the family to Canada, became a citizen there, then returned to the United States in 1925. Nora Wahl was[...]We came by train to Madoc in 1925. Nora's brothers,[...](Arnold) settled twelve miles north of Scobey on a Holum Loan place. The fall of that year we got enough money from the crop to pay our grocery bill and with the 50¢ left[...]Kamrud and Hilmar Wahl. We lived in a cook car with[...]Nora and Thea Kamrud cooking for the crew. As the nights grew colder I went back to our first home to get additional bedding and an Indian crawled out from beneath the bed.[...]In 1926 we moved to the Leo Zeidler farm, where Ray Lardy[...]land. We cut down a forty foot dirt bank to get to the coal. We sold it for $1.50 a ton. Some of our early day memories[...]are of hanging wet sheets in the windows to keep the dust[...]t in the 30's, coyote hunting with greyhounds and a[...] |
| [...]d Ingrid. the army worms, using Russian th istles as cattle feed and The place where I now l[...]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 spring. Ra e a nd Debbie. They farm in the s urroun ding a rea. My children are scattered far a[...]Leonard) Lueck is in Billings and has three children.[...]place near Madoc and has a family of ten. Haldis (Mrs .[...]rom the armed forces and has two I was born in a mountain valley in Telem ark, Norway on ch[...]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 States a n d in 1909 I 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 father. It was hard J[...]but I thought it was fun at the time . I returned to the Barstad,· was born and raised on the -Madoc Bench. He Sta tes in 1912 as I had heard about the hom esteads in at[...]wood 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 Edwards), Susan (Mrs. G[...]ell), I worked on various farms in the Plentywood a r ea, m y fi rst Paul, Mary, Dale and Daniel ,[...]farmed for seven years until 1922 when I returned to g rade school and Flaxville schools and the younger orway after having an excellent crop in the fall of '21. children[...]rneson and we J ohn continues to farm in the Madoc area as well a s returned in 1923 with intentions of selling out a nd being involved in the construction business. He has been returning to buy a farm in Norwa y. H owever I could n ot a ctive in th e Farmer 's Union , has served on the Madoc get the price I wanted so I returned to Norway once again School Board and the Sc[...]chool Board and has after having rented rriy land to Hilmar Wahl on a three ser ved in the Un ited S tates Army. His spare time is s pen t[...] |
| [...]he had any suggestion that might help establish Barton's Beverly works for[...]ty Social Services age. He thought a moment and replied, "If you can find a Agency, is secretary of the Daniels County Aging Council, Sheridan County homesteader to whom Barton told his is a member of the Daniels Memorial Hospital Guild, a age when he first came to Montana, I'll accept the charter member of the Ma[...]Club homesteader's affidavit." and is a member of Flaxville Lutheran Church where she Fortunately for Billie there was a homesteader who could has served as church organist for several years. make such an affidavit. One was prepared, signed, and[...]presented to the chairman of the Sheridan County Draft[...]draft. He was 28 years old when he first came to Montana BILLIE BARTON[...]That night in Madoc in the back room of the law office of Billie Barton was a farmer east of Madoc who also the l[...]Barton worked for Pete Voight. He was truly quite a character and was heard to say, "Ya can't beat fun." was always doing someth[...]BATTERTON FAMILY Billie Barton was an amiable, smiling, south-paw[...]omwell was born December 11, 1847. Her father was a In 1917, the United States was at war with Germ[...]direct descendant of Richard Cromwell who was a brother Under the Selective Service Act single men 21 to 30, to Oliver Cromwell-Lord Protector of England. Grandma inclusive, were obliged to register for the draft. graduated from Stevens college in Columbia, Missouri and On a day off, Billie and a pal went to Scobey and made was a teacher, pianist, seamstress, and painter. the rounds of the local bars. In their cups a wave of Grandfather was born in Colum[...]20, 1846. patriotism engulfed them and they went to the Draft Board David Lynch Batterton mar[...]ified their age and registered for traveled as Grandma said, "from pillar to post" from then the draft claiming no exemption. until they came to Montana and Grandpa passed away. In due course Billie received notice to appear in Grandpa was a Civil War veteran, a Knight Templar Plentywood for a physical examination. Upon receipt[...]hereof he informed Voight what he had done during a they lived. binge in Scobey. Voight[...]up the Missouri River badly on the farm and came to me offering me $50.00 if 1 on one of the first steamboats up the river to Fort Benton could get Billie released from the draft asserting that he felt when Dad was only three years old. They used to have to positive that he was not of draft age. I told him to send wait for hours for herds of buffalo to cross the river. Billie in to see me. I lost no time getting on my horse (fi[...]ents got Barton into his predicament and told him that it was my belief that Barton was not of draft age; that his appearance and general demeanor belied it. I asked Bennett for deferment for a reasonable length of time to enable me to get proof of Barton's age. My request was granted. Billie came to see mt. I led with my chin when I asked him why h[...]f herbs?" He was very emphatic in his ass,e rtion that he was 32 years of age at the time he signed up ~[...]Ithaca, New York. There were no living relatives that he knew ofto whom I could turn for verification o[...]. I wrote the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Ithaca, to ascertail\ if his birth was on record. It was not[...]d nothing. Having exhausted every possible source to establish his age, my back was to wall. I took my file to Plentywood and went over it with Jack Bennett. He was satisfied that I made a diligent search for evidence to support Barton's claim that he was[...] |
| [...]Harry and the two men to the right are[...]away November 7, 1914 and was buried on a small hill east of Madoc-then known as Orville-south of the railroad[...]now is just a wheat field. Grandpa was the only person ever[...]I also remember that Grandma and I spent one summer on a homestead west of Scobey. The small shack was[...]fastened to the ground with heavy cable. Still the shack[...]bounced around when we had a storm. Grandma was[...]deathly afraid of cyclones so I guess that is why the[...]after a storm we would wander over the prairie looking fo[...]our tubs and dishpans that had been blown away by the Mary Batte[...]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 old[...]of 87. She was taken 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 Orv[...]l years. 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[...]. I married and was living out on the prairies in a tarpaper stillhave.thestarbadgeandthekeytotheinne[...]ail. Dad owned the first restaurant in Madoc, ran a work so they loaded up and joined Dad in Montana.[...]erton, was born in St. Louis, · burned down, ran a pool hall of which Grandma greatly Missouri on Ma[...]pproved, besides his farming interests. He bought a an accident and the other went his own way, and one[...]adoc 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 p[...]nts joined us in 1910 and then in 1912 Mother was a "champ" caller for the square dances which were p[...]used was very unhappy in Montana so we all moved to Flint, to dance all night. He was judge of elections for 49 years Michigan where Dad worked at General Motors for a year. and had hoped to set a record of sorts by making it 50 years Bui Dad dis[...]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 goal.[...]us came out. Grandpa built the house in line. He is buried at the old Orville cemetery beside Madoc w[...]s. He passed grandmother out on the open prairies that he loved.[...] |
| [...]old humor, his keen interest in politics (He was a Democrat!), Lauzon school near Fjelds' and a[...]chool. and automobiles. One time he got caught in a power take- Alex Bonneau died in 1928 at t[...]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[...]north of Madoc. Fred died as a young boy in about 1915[...]from injuries resulting from a horse kicking him in the[...]and Dominic Bonneau Frank is married and lives in Libby. Regina married[...]es in Four Buttes. Alex and Emily Bonneau came to the Madoc area in Emily Bonneau's b[...]d in Malta he brought Dakota. The family lived in a tent until that fall when their the boys up to Madoc to stay with the Bonneaus. The boys homestead shack was built. They only had a team so they attended school in Madoc. Gene died in 1969 and Roger and only broke a little land the first year. Later some one was 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[...]zons. There were four children born before coming to Montana: Alphonsine, Eugene, Fred and Dominic. Fi[...]to Plentywood about March 20, 1912, Dad having shipped a[...]hammer and small protable engine, etc. in an emigration[...]car in 1912; also two sets of steel wheels that we proceeded to build two cars on, one cook and bedroom car, and[...]my older brother, had come out to Whitetail in 1910 along[...]cow, as once in a while the cow decided she'd gone far[...]to her feet again. ·[...]operator in Scobey) was homesteading, to arrive at August[...]ere the town of Whitetail now stands, arriving in a[...]After it cleared up we proceeded to break soil, first 100[...]st of June; then Dad took Mary, Anna, and me back to St. John, North Dakota, which is just east of the Turtle[...]Madoc now stands. After taking us back to St. John, Dad[...] |
| [...]came back to Whitetail with Mother, Blanche and Irene. He[...]also shipped out a Case 36-inch Threshing machine, and[...]they moved the plow outfit to the rented allotments and[...]T36 R49. That fall Dad threshed around what was later the[...]back to St. John for the winter 1912-1913. Horace Bou[...]ssa, Sr. He and three brothers and families moved to |
| morning there would be a skiff of snow on the pillows.None piano, Bob Templemen on trombone. Later Sylvan White of us were ever sick that winter; the good Lord must have played drums for[...]Before leaving St. John, North Dakota, Dad was a started building in the late fall of 1913-the Win[...]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 on the him, so he gave up blacksm[...]h 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 orig[...]r 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 of 1914- with[...]erry, chokecherry, strawberries, etc. After went to school that winter; Pat Murphy's sister, Irene, was being in[...]looked rather bare, but we finally adjusted to it with time. The spring of 1915 was cold and[...]ere nine 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 years were flying 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 farm. That winter of 1915-1916 was few years ago at 81 years of age. Regina is still living in a extremely cold and a lot of snow. The Great Northern home at Spokane, 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[...]crew came up and got them out. J.B. and I walked to away in July, 1974. John Baptist (J.B.) died in 1[...]one day rather than hitch up the horses and were is in Scobey in the nursing home; she broke her hip a couple asked it we knew how cold it was (which we didn't); it was of years ago and is unable to walk. She was married to Wm. 52° below zero. Parent, who passed a 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 through rust; 1[...]hernia. I wasn't registered Montana. Blanche, who is just older than 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[...]work after it was plowed, until they were us in a room at each end of the house. We were told married. Mary and Anna in 1915, Blanche and Irene in afterwards that they didn't know which of us wa~ going 1919. Moth[...]t, 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 a good garden. God surely has rewarded this Dad pa[...]In looking over my reminiscing it looks like a life of all asked why I never married. I always answer that nobody work and no play, but that wasn't the case altogether. We ever wanted me. e[...]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 boys[...]. I satin the bandstand with my cousins listening to the band and I Notes concerning the coming of the first Bourassa to got the musical bug from that. Later I started playing Canada the fifth[...] |
| [...]ce. He married at Quebec the 20th of October 1665 to Pereta Valley. He was 35 years old. In 1676, he contracted a second marriage with Catherine Poitvin. He was th[...]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 publi[...]Alem Bourassa, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. A complete genealogy of the Bourassa family can be had from: LaSociete Genealogiq ue Canad[...]Left to right, back row: Luella, Eileen, Delia, Aurora, L[...]won confrontations with large corporations and on a farm four miles north west of Flaxville.[...]ad gained his purpose in life, the profound At that time there were no hospitals, so all of the child[...]Jean, Eilleen, J.B. and Aurora both loved to fish and hunt deer. They Omer and Annette.[...]ad established their home in Helena and had built a cabin Difficult times lay ahead and everyone h[...]re was along with members of the family as they came and left for preparing for the coming of the long cold winters. J.B., as other parts of the country. J.B. died of a massive heart he was called, would have to haul wheat to the mills in attack on November 8, 1959[...]ood for flour and other staples needed. There was a Aurora. She spent the night with him as the car was stuck very large garden and canning was a slow process but that in snow and mud. 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, sand storms that wiped 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 the minimum 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 in that capacity for approximately six years. he been partially crippled, he would have been a very There were many problems to cope with. The Works difficult person to care for. Progress Administration was instituted during this time As the years passed, the children and their families (known as WPA) in order to help the people through those moved abou[...]so quite prominent in the disabled due to war injuries. Louella died at age 21 in 1942. Far[...]ent. Delia (Osburn) is now dividing her time between Indio, In 1943, J[...]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[...]ittle 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 his Flaxville. Omer lives in Palm Desert, managing a kind of people.[...]1945 and again in 1947 he was elected and served as Aurora, Colorado where her husband works[...]his Airlines. purpose was the same as it was while a Representative. In In 1967 Aurora married Louis Francis of East Helena 1949 he was appointed as Liquor Inspector for the who had lost his wife a few years previously in an auto Montana State Liquor Board, with headquarter[...]dent. She has been very happy and they have City. That is when they moved from thefarm,leasingitout purchased a home in Palm Springs. They spend the on share crop basis. In 1950 they moved to Helena, winters at Palm Springs an[...]na. of Montana until 1954. From then on he worked as a Lobbyist at the State Capitol in the interest of[...]Compiles by Lyle A. Bourassa[...] |
| [...]by Larry Wahl I was born in 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bourassa. When I There we[...]ion in 1940 I attended Flaxville area. |
| [...]at Great Falls. Ada and Merrill 1888 and moved to Bein Fait, Saskatchewan as a little girl. have two boys, 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 whe[...]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, and[...]e remainder of her life she lived in Scobey. She as East Scobey.[...]s, Frank Buller, Garfield Wilson, and 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[...]ff 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 during eat. They[...]but were more or less of the Robinhood variety, as they times, feeding their families o[...]ld acquired their ho1·ses only from people with an abundance grow, the stock they could r[...]t other necessities of horses. Agnes was "scared to death" but fed them they could buy. Eight more children were born to them without question.[...]e 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 attendan[...]hills, the times we would take our father's lunch to him in 1918. The Garfield Wilson home was set up as a make-shift the fields, running like blazes over any bridges we came to hospital so that Dr. Tucker could care for all the patients at[...]19. In the When those of the children that went to school in Madoc late 20's, because of ill health[...]ily and were old enough, there were rides to school in the "bus" spent nearly three years in[...]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 Service. In 1940 he pur[...]lowed 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.[...]have three children. Vaughn, now Mrs. Bob Dann, is a graduate of Hamline University and is presently Executive Director of the North Shore[...]ton, Illinois. Harvey was graduated from MSU and is County Executive Director of the ASC Service of[...]Counties and lives in Harlowton, Montana. Roger is a senior at Hamiline University in St. Paul, Minne[...]five years at Los Alamos, New Mexico, then moved to a G.I. homestead at Riverton, Wyoming for ab[...] |
| [...]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 mice that some of the girls had found. Daniel moved the family to Scobey in the summer of 1940, when Betty was less than a year old. He continued in the greenhouse work he[...]rt time for Walt Vanderpan in the lumber yard for a few years, Daniel also worked several summers fo[...]eral years working in the coal mine. Life was a little easier for Olive after moving to Scobey. 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[...]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 D[...]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[...]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[...]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 th[...]n 1945. All of his girls married and Following a cyclone and hailstorm which destroyed their had families . A daughter, Mary died in 1968 and Myrtle in home 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[...]tar farmed and mined coal. Maurice's homestead is now Community. owned by Andy Hertoghe, a nephew. The Constants had four girls and on[...]vada: Mauricette (Mrs. Joe Klabunde) of Havre, a n d Elaine GUSTAV ELGESTAD FA[...]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 c[...]d~ 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 winter of the Morrison place about three quarters of a mile west of 1915-16. Another daughter, Borghild,[...]earby. were Ernie Hendersons and Herman Forbregd. A trip by Albert 0. Ellingson was 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[...]eceived his were born, Oscar and Carl. Oscar died as a child of two education in North Dakota.[...]on the Mikkel Barstad farm. Another move was made to Number 315. He was a charter member of Post 121 of the the Emma Crone[...]erican Legion at Turtle Lake in 1919 and has been a and worked for several years. Signe and Klara wer[...]for 57 years. during these years. The first car, a Model T Ford was He married Mattie 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.[...]ns, delivered with the help of neighbor ladies or a mid-wife. machinery, and Ii vestock in two emigrant cars to the end of The nearest church was Orville, southw[...]cific 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, Allen Ackers is a Chemical Engineer there. Ella from the so-called "good old days", many of which were is married to Kenneth J. Larson and they live in Scobey. filled[...]ert 0. Ellingson and wife and three children came to Daniels County from Circle in 1933 as he liked the country by Mary (Kamrud) Lamb here. He hired two men to help drive 23 head of cattle and three wagons across country 100 miles as by rail it was a Snorre Eriksen arrived in Madoc by train from long round about way. It took six days as a rain delayed Minnesota in 1922. the first man he met was Alex Bonneau. traveling about one and a half days. He was the cook on the Snorre wo[...]Years ago it was a custom to shi varee the newly married.[...]Anyway, George Valdely was a bachelor Ii ving north of[...]er Ellingson family. Allen and Millie to shivaree them. When they arrived the place looked[...]Jim Morrison's brothers, Bill and Toots, decided to look Ellingson taken at their golden wedding anniversary around. They discovered the door to the house was hooked 1972.[...]from the inside which meant that the newlyweds were at[...]smoked out. They promised a big dance for all of Ma doc the[...]next Saturday, a promise which they kept. Snorre married[...]In 1911 John Fagan came to Daniels County to file on a[...]following year by immigrant car to Medicine Lake and from there by hayrack to Madoc. There was a blizzard on[...] |
| [...]sa. 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[...]by Marion E. Field Rogers that summer at Newport, Oregon.[...]In 1930 we moved to Bellingham, Washington where my Roy Field wa[...]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. Later Williston, North Dakota, where as young people they met he went into Civil Service[...]ere married in early 1912. Their 1937 he returned to Montana where he worked on the Fort honeymoon w[...]r Eunice Rae Taylor of Sedro- their possessions to a homestead five miles north of Madoc, Woolley, Was[...]ied in Scobey. It was rugged living there at that time as everything had In 1936 I moved to Vallejo, California where I worked to be built and fences put up. They had 160 acres on which until 1938. I then returned to Montana as my brother had they raised wheat.[...]become.ill. We lived in Glasgow and I worked in a cafe there Two other couples moved there about the same time. for six months. While there we were able to see some of our They had all been friends in No[...]d lived on the farm east of us Gibbs family had a homestead n orth from us and the and some of the[...]fer 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 child, a daughter, Betty, was where I (Marion) was born.[...]Salem, Oregon June 9, 1941. Albert not having As my brother and I were growing up, we both had our good health for a number of years passed away of cancer in chores to do before and after school. I milked the cows and[...]daughter Betty remained in Oregon. They lived for a time I can remember shocking wheat when the shocks were in Dallas and later moved to Eugene, Oregon where Eunice taller than me. We[...]gene. weeded every summer. We earned five cents a row hoeing ·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[...]ry limited. Picnics in the In 1942, I went to work under Civil Service at the Naval summer on[...]sland, California. I worked At Christmas always a Christmas tree and party at the there until 1946 when my husband and I moved to Reno, school.[...]re I still reside. My brother and I both went to the Gibbs school My father Roy, li[...]ther and I moved away. He worked in the city hall as spring and early fall we drove a two wheel cart and horse, a draftsman- and spent a few summers in Alaska during then in the winter we had a closed in sleigh. Often when a fishing season. During World War II he worked as a steel blizzard came we all spent the night at school as our draftsman 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 mo[...]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[...]tober 1974 when after two eye surgeries I retired as Life on the farm at that time was not easy. Everything I lost all vision i[...]ch other out. At harvest time every one · It is only fitting I end this with my last visit to Montana helped harvest, which ever fields were r[...]hile there I saw another girlhood looked forward to making out our grocery order that was chum Sylvia Hanrahan Drury, who had been our[...]rom Minneapolis, where my father's brother Paul - to the west of us on the farm. I also visited with Mrs. J . owned a grocery store. We ordered sugar, flour, rice, bea[...]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 pa[...] |
| [...]. 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 t[...]dry, so he came home and in the mean time we had a letter from his school chum, Albert Jallo, also f[...]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 with calf; Carl bought it for a sum of fifteen dollars. This was the fi!'st week in April 1910. There was a couple of stow aways in that freight car heading for Montana, but one got caug[...]a and on April ninth, George. and I said good-bye to our friends and relations. We got on the train at[...]d station and heading for Montana too. When I got to Williston Carl was still there; about30-40 carloads of immigrants were held up there for a three day snow storm and cattle inspection. Carl had to leave that fifteen dollar cow and calf which was only a trick on all the immigrants. Chickens and clothin[...]from all immigrant cars. On April tenth I came to Culbertson and in a couple of days Carl got there and unloaded all our stuff. Horses and cattle were tied up in a sod stable, close to where we all stayed with Mr. and Mr. Albert Jallo, a couple of blocks from Culbertson main street. Then in a few days, the men folk loaded up the wagon with l[...]rs. 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 w[...]re, but no one complained. But we were scared. In a few days the men folks came back and told us they[...]12x14, slanted Carl Fjeld roof, and a sod shack for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jallo. Albert d[...]j 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[...]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[...]ys; 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 t[...]it-nice weather all the time. But were we tickled to get to our shacks and unload and set up housekeeping and[...]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,[...]Albert said your ox is still here. He had been tied up in one[...]at that time. We came out too late to put in any crop, but[...]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 land[...]we built on was Indian land. Carl offered to pay the Indian but he wouldn't sell. A bunch of Indians claimed all the[...]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[...]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[...]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[...]back in the spring of 1911. Fall of 1911, we had a wonderful 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 away. On March 12, 1912 Clarence (Ole) was[...]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[...]good water 49 feet down in the bottom. We struck a 4x6 flat 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[...]other. I walked a long way and came upon an Indian camp suddenly. I was a little scared but the Indians were friendly[...]and offered me a horse to ride. I was glad to take up their[...]r and I asked them how I would get the horse back to them. They told me they were going to Scobey the next day[...]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.[...]In the evening of January 10, 1911 a young man came to Carl Fjeld, Bozeman - 1943[...]r 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 a young colt left! He said in 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 cattle didn't know what once if we could make it before somebody else would move to do. I raked snow with the garden rake, but before the day in and that meant we would get close to where we were the was over the snow 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[...]Carl of our stuff-some oak and cedar fence posts that he went over there on skis-thre[...] |
| that evening he said tomorrow morning we will drive over there with the oxen and fix up that sod stable that had been started there that summer by the young man. So we took along some fo[...]ng and baby George and the cat, and some wood and a ker;sene lamp~ Carl and I worked all day on that stable, with pails and some old hay laying around there. There was a small laundry stove in the shack so it was nice a[...]d the cat slept nearly all day. So Carl went back to our shack three miles or more. George and I staye[...]ows 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 around! That young 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, Carol[...]ive 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 spring of 1917, Carl ordered a homesteaded. He died in 1928. threshing rig bu[...]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 school house 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 o[...]on March 10, 1917. They traveled by train to Scobey, In 1922 or 23, October 9, our big barn burned down. That Montana in 1917 where they homesteaded. 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 leaving Montana in 1918, they lived in British Columbia, down was a pure breed bull, three hundred chickens, lots of[...]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 resid[...]Carl (Stub) still resides in Minnesota as does their eldest son, James. graduated from Scobey High. Stub went to college in Two other daughters Evelyn[...]Herman Forbregd came by train to Culbertson from ANTONLAURISFORBREGD[...]worked on the Spurgeon Ranch as a ranch hand. While Anton Lauris Forbregd was bor[...]t was great land and beautiful Peder Forbregd was a sea captain on a fishing vessel country, but two reason[...]Islands off the coast of Norway. His at that time-(1) alkali water, and (2) rattlesnakes. Haro[...]Helmer also came from around the recalls a story often told by his father about this undecided Lofoten Islands, a place called Norland. They emmigrated time of his life. Herman and his brother, Sigurd, W P·, , to the United States in 1883, and settled in Baltic,[...]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 Culbe[...] |
| [...]a nd had a mad badger on his hands. Sigurd said that was the last time he saw Herman for a couple of hours, as he and a badger were being dictated by a run ·away bronc."[...]ring this time, Selma Halverson (Forbregd) worked as a waitress in a small cafe in Terry, Montana. She was one[...]of the only two white girls in Terry at that time. The main[...]Later, Selma and her sister, Clara, moved to Scobey, where[...]Shirley remembers her mother telling her that she and Herman met on a blind date set up by Clara. Three months[...]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[...]hroughout their years together," states Stan. Not a year went by that Selma and Herman didn't put in rows and[...]furnished half of Scobey, including local stores, as well as[...]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 Forbreg[...]businessman that always enjoyed receiving a portion of[...]this product once made this statement "It's fun to serve at a They found that they could not unload it. So, they offered to social party, because it's so mild to drink and tasty, even buy a keg of beer if the men standing around would help[...]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 an[...]nce of her daughter, Shirley, anyone see Herman a nd Sigurd leave a town so fast. preparing cakes, homema[...]this festive freighting and hauling dynamite up to the Railroad occasion. The huge atte[...]When hauling this dynamite, Herman from as far as fifty miles. The music was usually provided was always sure to carry a couple jugs of homemade booze by Mrs. Leut[...]for the crew's cook. In return Herman received a warm Jacoby. place to sleep, two meals, and possibly a ham or something "The barn was Dad's prid[...]say Harold and of this sort. Sigurd told Harold that Herman was famous Stan. It was constructe[...]an'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 the barn is as straight as the day it home." After he left Culbertson, he[...]was new. It holds memories for all. worked as a logger. Later, he came back, and squatted near[...]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 brother Sigurd, hauled lumber from[...]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[...]ded aged" women. She found her greatest , rope at a badger, not expecting to catch it. He did catch it, happiness in[...] |
| [...]ngst the hogs or chickens. Selma did the work of a man when it was required of her. She mended fences, wrangled cattle, and just about · anything that needed to be done she could do. She had her femininity also, as she did enjoy dressing especially careful for spe[...]ways looked clean and polished. Herman served as County Representative for a term and belonged to several organizations. He passed away in March,[...]by Grace Foss My father, Henry G. Foss, was a World War I veteran. He |
| [...]homest.eaders that located claims near them that fall were[...]with the help of Nancy Sloan as midwife. Mrs. Orville Lockrem was also a midwife and she came from the Orville[...]right south of my folks' homestead. Here is something[...]id find their clothes.) At the homestead they had to THE ALFRED GOULET FAMILY walk to the old country school known as the Lauzon or Field school located on Fjeld's pr[...]er. Joseph broke the sod for the first crops with a walking plow and Alfred was born in North Dakota and came with his two horses. All the lumber to build the new shacks and parents, the Joe Goulets, to the Flaxville area in 1912. barns around the coun[...]. Louise lived by herself until before moving to the Madoc area where we lived 20 years. she was 9[...]her daughter Lucy at the In 1955 we moved to Scobey where we lived until his death time of her[...]pen heart surgery. J.B. Bourassa for 75¢ a day, shocking grain. The total fall Adlard died and Lucy remarried to James Buer and they income was $75.00 with a long winter ahead! Alfred worked had six children; Ada, James, Pattie, Joan (Vatnsdal), on the WP A projects, as did many other men, so things Quentin, and Mayfean (deceased). were going a little better. He later drove the school bus and[...]ar Wahl drove it for 14 years without an accident. family.) During these years a baby was born into our family every Gustav mar[...]t one time Alfred had three bus routes and we had a (Cox), Elaine (G ass-deceased), Robert, Shirley newly overhauled bus ready to go. I drove it to Alfred's (McDermott), Norman, Norma (Tade), Carol[...]We never recovered from that setback. Aime married Natalie Severt and has f[...]vegetables. His life's ambition was to be a coach, and he did The homesteads are still own[...]Alfred worked for Jim Leibrand as a carpenter and helped to build the new section of the Scobey school. When[...]his health began to fail, I went to work at the Cozy Cafe ARTHUR AND KERSTIN[...]ay in 1958. After Alfred passed away I afterwards to the present Gordon place southwest of moved to Nampa, Idaho in 1972 and later to Bellevue, Flaxville to what was the Orville community. (Sophie[...]ked at the who has four children. She is part owner of Tour Ice in Holter home in Culberts[...]n lumberjack from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who came to Billings and works at a Safeway store; David, married to Culbertson in 1909.) Sounds kind of easy, doesn't[...]an, has five children and lives in involved going to Glasgow, Montana, county seat of Valley Bell[...]then was good sized. After getting and owns a share of Tour Ice; Jean, Mrs. Burnell Rhodes, married it took some time to get a load of supplies and has five children, lives in Missoula where they own a stock lumber loaded up so they could go to their homestead, car racing track and she works at a bottling company; which had been located i[...] |
| [...]one sons and daughters, eighteen were present for a reunion last Sunday in Scobey, with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goulet of this city. It is one of the largest fa milies in the United States. Photo in front of the family home: In front, left to right: Brian, Mike and Johnny. Second row: Julie,[...]rear, Keith, Emil and Dwain. Colorado where he is a geologist; Doreen Ashpole has three Raymond and Genevieve moved to Madoc, three more |
| [...]Agnes was married to John Yukovanko in Scobey and she[...]and as the clerk wasn't interested in the Madoc store, h[...]asked me to go up there which I did, in her place. I boarded[...]oo deep I lived at one of the hotels. It happened that[...]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[...]wedding picture - Mrs. Hardison is now living in Tacoma, Washington at 1898.[...]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[...]the famiy to Scobey. It was the site of the present day[...]Recreation Center. They built a new home on the farm in 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---'[...]bruary 16, 1915. Jennie 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 Montana College at Havre. She was a news correspondent McDonald. Man at far left is Arthur Brunelle, proprietorof for the Dani[...]ghton in St. Phillips Hardison. Woman in gray cap is Mrs. Louise Morrison and Church in Scobey. He was a heavy equipment operator at the second woman from the right is Mrs. Ferdinand the Fort Peck Dam.[...]Oregon.. They moved to Canada ··where he worked at[...]~onstruction work in a different capacity until his death in[...]worked in the Scobey A.S.C. office and at the U.S. Alex Henderson bou[...]is 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. Phil[...]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 hi[...]SON 1889-1965 _. to right: Bill, Ernie, Margaret and Tom. Back row left to MARGARET CONLAN HENDERSON 1892-1955[...]' Ernie Henderson and his brother, Dave, came to |
| [...]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 ch[...]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 i[...]on it and pick up the children Ernie couldn't get to with Spokane, Washington, Moscow, Idaho, and at[...]his truck. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where Sandy is with the Burlington The winter of 1937-38[...]hey have six children-Charlene, William, to Calvin, North Dakota to their brother, Will's place to Margaret, Jacqueline, Teresa, and James.[...]any truck and put the truck box on with a cattle rack. They·<l (Studebaker Sales) until sh[...]anaugh 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[...]d Robert. Ernie worked on W.P.A. road crew in 1939. He served on William serve[...]ge from the Marine Corps he Margaret was an active leader in Farmers Union Junior farmed with[...]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. The family was operated a motel for several years. Now he sells[...]y 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 a week's summer camp. Margaret Thomas farmed with his Dad and married Darlene would go as a leader and they would take Bill and Tom Tryan in[...]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[...]nd with the Cooperative, becoming manager in 1964-a position he Democrat party. She was Vic[...]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 19[...]r 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[...]certainly good to see them living there and improving the[...]place. Like good old days with a family living there again.[...]On the morning of January 13, 1913 an emigrant car[...]containing six horses, two sulky plows, a wagon, utensils,[...]$285.00 and John Hunter was shuttled onto a siding at a Three Madoc oldtimers - Dave Henderson, Jim Morrison, town called Madoc. It was a thriving town with a Ernie Henderson in 1912. population of around a hundred. There were four saloons, a store, postoffice, and a combination land and newspaper[...]was always the same: "That's where the money ran out, Margaret sewed for t[...]rt and turn the material whenever It is recorded that on January 13, 1913 the temperature possible and[...]or 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[...]ver!" Other times he would 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[...] |
| [...]ever describe the beauty of this wonderful land. As I sit writing this letter to you I can look over the many acres of[...]blooming. It is a carpet of blue stretched from horizon to[...]he prairie, her first words were "Where can I buy a[...]and she went to the general store, introduced herself and[...]asked how she might get word to John that his family had[...]won't be back until fall. But don't you worry! There will[...]r and their three oldest more than likely be somebody going out that way in the children, Robert, Arthur, and John M.[...]t two or three days and they will drop you within a couple miles of the place. Shouldn't be much of a hike." She was grateful to learn that he was joking, for in a short while a wagon was loaded with the family's[...]belongings and the driver instructed to take them to the Hunter place. That was a memorable ride through the tall[...]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[...]Three children were born to the Hunters, all delivered by Grandma LaRoche, a very capable midwife. Dr. Healy arrived to help with the delivery of one baby and to say, "That will be three dollars, John." In August of 1924 a son, John, passed away. Mr. Hunter[...]The men and women who came to homestead the grassy[...]plains of Daniels County were as varied a lot as could well be imagined. They were the young and the old, the pr[...]ur. to build a home but most came for the "fast buck", do a[...]Carl Jacobson came to Montana for reasons of health. evening of the thi[...]he Northern Lights danced across the survive a second bout with pneumonia and her doctor had sky[...]warned-"If you want to keep her-get her to a dry The temperature still registered 30 below when John climate." ventured forth into town. A kind Fate guided him into a They purchased a "relinquishment" from Edna's Aunt, saloon where,[...]who lived in Glasgow, Montana, the county seat, to a half squatter's rights with all improvements on 3[...]rtheast of present day Scobey, choicest farm land to be had in Montana. before leavi[...]e days after the blizzard, the temperature soared to They arrived by train, at Poplar, Montana. (Carl, Edna 40 above by nine o'clock in the morning, a change of 85 and infant son, Harry.) There they found a freighter, who degrees within 32 hours. A day later the snow had for the sum of $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 depos[...] |
| at their new home, a 12 x 16 foot homestead shack with crops, for those homesteaders who had managed t_o put a their clothes, some groceries, and not much money. This crop in. At the approach of winter, they boarded up the· was April of 191[...]eautiful. The shack, and returned home to Boyceville, Wisconsin, where grass was lush and e[...]l 1913, found them in Poplar · Carl soon found a job, working for Pete Hardenberg, an again, only this time they arrived by em[...]ree and one half miles complete with a team of horses, a wagon, machinery and west-on present Robert Ferguson farm) while Edna and even a milk cow. This time the trip to the homestead 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.[...]danced to the music of Carl's violin, often accompanied by[...]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[...]original 12 x 16 foot shack became the center of a five[...]ded schooling too. At first this consisted of two to Carl Jacobson on porch of original homestead[...]ur months of summer school. Fortunately, Edna was a hou~e.[...]and Edna loaded up a_ll the kids in the Model T touring car ._[...]·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 Jacobso[...]died. Now, Grandson Clyde Jacobson is farming the (Wheatcroft), Barney Jacobson and Bet[...]nd sun; the rest and solitude of the has a jewelry shop in Plentywood. Cherry (Mrs. Holis homestead was just the therapy Edna needed to regain her Thompson), who has been teach[...]. Betty (Mrs. John Gunderson) of the Navajo brown as an Indian.[...]croft) helps her husband and boys run their ranch a 40 day threshing run that Fall. 1912 was a year of bumper west of J orda:Q.[...] |
| Barney Jacobson family. Left to right: Phyllis, Ida, Barney and Clyde.[...]ived on the Jacobson farmstead until we purchased a farm south of Madoc (Elgestad farm), and moved th[...]d was also mail messenger from the depot to the post office at they are now living on the far[...]Mrs. Louise Morrison's. Barney was a member of the Madoc School Board and Alphonsine died in 1950. Charlie remarried in 1955 to active in the community. Ida was a charter member of the Gladys Taulbee who w[...]om Campton, Madoc Home Demonstration club and was an officer in it. Kentucky. Gladys goes to Denver every winter where she Barney passed aw[...]Albert and Lena Jallo came from Roseau, Minnesota to Charles Jacoby was born June 1, 1898 in Clay Co[...]Culbertson in about 1908. Then in 1910 they came to the Iowa of parents Anna and Frank Jacoby. His mother died Madoc area and found a homestead. Fjelds homesteaded[...]l and Emma Fjeld were friends of when Charlie was a baby and the family was put in an[...]r several years and made it good. They left moved to Bird Island, Minnesota where Charlie grew up. Cha[...]and has made his own here in the 20's and went to Wyoming and later to[...]. and later in North Dakota. In 1928 Charles came to Montana and worked for Ackerman brothers near Gle[...]au of Madoc were married in Scobey. They returned to North GULIK KAMRUD Dak[...]Girard. Shortly thereafter Charlie homesteaded on a quarter section west of Lebels. Gulik an[...]rlie has lived ever since. In 1945 Charlie bought a 160- "Three-Wheel" Smith homestead from Gjert[...]adoc for $525 from the county. He Smith got that name from the three wheel tractor he farmed until 1962 when he sold it to Ramon Trower. owned. Thea and Gulik lived in Madoc for a copple years[...] |
| [...]custom combining Carl Kveseth apparently in a very happy mood. with Henry Austinson in the 30's[...]f all her practical jokes! They sold their farm to Mikkel Barstad in 1948 and moved to Minneapolis where they both died in the sixties.[...]November 1938, San Francisco, left to Mike Barstad. The living children are Inga and Al[...]8, was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Severt P. Forbregd, as his mother died while he was quite young. He had a brother, Olaf. Jennie Amanda Forbregd was[...] |
| [...]so Dean William Lapke was born in 1920 to John A. and as a musician. They had two sons, Douglas, and Kenneth[...]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[...]a 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, a[...]the ever since. Washington Hotel. 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 w[...]tion. Joe recalls the first building in Madoc was a shack put up by T.J. Primeau for Mrs. LaRoche to start a restaurant. It was put up in one day. Joe also recalled that there was a little store north of Madoc that was moved into town with a Rumley tractor. Joe and Amelia live in Mt. Vern[...]Madoc garage and light plant. Joe LaCount who had a dray line.[...]Nursing after which she enlisted as an Army Nurse. She[...]She married Roger L. Heath, who is an Air Force career[...]adjusted to farm life and rural living after having been[...]raised a "city girl". Over the years she has been active i[...]Scobey; a Girl Scout and Brownie leader; a member and[...]officer of the Daniels Memorial Hospital Guild; a County[...]·held several terms as an officer; and she was a charter[...] |
| [...]e in the St. Philip's Church and its projects and as a member of the Knights of Columbus. He has been an officer continuously for 25 years in the Daniels County Farmers Union as well as being a member of the Madoc Farmers Union Local for 35 years. He is a charter member of the Daniels County Federal Cred[...]served on its Board of Directors for 25 years. He is a Board member of the Flaxville Farmers Union Oil Company and was a clerk of the Madoc School Board for many years. Dean is also a member of the Daniels County National Farmers Organization serving as County Grain Chairman. He also serves as a board member of the Oswego CD&D grain facility at[...]rew Lapke was born in 1894 near Westphalia, Iowa, a son of Andrew and Catherine (Diricksweiler). His Mr. and Mrs. John Lap_ke parents had emigrated to the United States from their native Germany. At the age of eight, his family moved to a farm near Redfield, South Dakota. In the fall of[...]Louis came with his brother Joe by immigrant car to Poplar and Catholic Church and its auxiliary of Flaxville from its then he came on to visit his brother, Bill who was · begi[...]steading in the Madoc area. John, being too young to the Church. Both were active in the Farmers Union take a homestead, went back to South Dakota. In the organization at Madoc. Elveda was a charter member of spring of 1915 he returned by railroad to the Madoc area. the Madoc Home Demonstration[...]action in France and Germany. He farm to their sons, Dean and Louie. Elveda passed away in[...]arming upon hi.s return. Six children were born to this happy couple: Dean Wm. (married Juanita Wadl[...]s in Colorado; Edna, (Mrs. Westphalia, Iowa, a son of Andrew and Catherin Harold Rickman), lives[...](Diricksweiler). In 1902 his family moved to Redfield, Manley) lives in Scobey.[...]Following the death of his parents, he came to the Daniels[...]County area with George Grosse by train to Poplar. John Lapke family. Left to right: Louie, Dean, John, He homeste[...]and sold it to George Grosse at the time of his marriage.[...]In 1916 he was wed to Alice LaRoche (daughter of[...]"Primeau Place" the first summer and following that they[...]in the Madoc area, moving occasionally to better their[...]Scobey High School. The children are: May-married to Harold Baldry; Ernest-married to Ann Lillian Lystad; Clara-married to Jon Lakegard; Helen-married to Robert Hamilton; Howard-married to Pearl Hack; Hazel-married to John Demoss; Harvey, unmarried;[...]William-married to Jutta Meyer; Leo married to Agnes[...] |
| [...]to Canada where in St. Boniface, Manitoba another ch[...]moved to Marguerite's allotment at St. John's in the Turtl[...]looking for a place where land would be available for all his[...]Upon hearing ofland to be opened up in Montana, they[...]reached the area which is now Madoc. Here they squatted[...]on 320 acres, building a house that fall, plowing some Back row: Hazel, Helen, Ernest, Howard, Clara, May, ground before returning to North Dakota until spring Alice, William, Harvey,[...]the railroad they had long distances to haul produce - first[...]erved many years on the Madoc School Board. Alice is a charter member of the Madoc Extension Homemakers, and has had a busy life with her bountiful vegetable and flower gardens and her chickens. Bill passed a way in 1951. JOSEPH PAUL LAPKE FERDINAN[...]bec, Canada in 1852, one of the six children born to |
| [...]a number of years. In 1909 he came to what is now Madoc, Montana when[...]In 1911 he filed on a homestead, part of which later[...]He operated a bar with his brother-in-law John[...]64 years old, they retired from farming, building a house in Madoc- this house is now on the John Lapke farm. During the flu epidem[...]27. Many of their children stayed in the area and a summary of their lives follows: Clara married The[...]adoc area where Theophile built many houses-moved to Washington-she died 1963. Cecelia married John LaFrance-homesteaded and ran a business in Madoc area-moved to Kalispell in 1919- died 1966.[...]first County Commissioner of Daniels County-moved to Washington in mid 40's-retired to While living at Madoc, three chi[...]Alberta Canada. area-died 1964-son Earle is now on the home farm. While spending time at Yakima, Washington, a son Fred married Marie Bourassa-homesteaded in[...]18. Robert now area also had business there-moved to Peace River, lives in Fort Nelson, B[...]in 1929. Died 1974. A girl, Jeanne Marie, was adopted in about 1939. Sh[...]Getting unsettled, the family moved to Peace River, Medicine Lake-died 1974.[...]Alberta in the spring of 1929, settling on a farm there. Lucien lived in this area all his[...]eled extensively-lives in Jeanne went to live with Dorothy. Fred took up the dream Scobey.[...]pke-farmed in Madoc area- He obtained a lease on an area 60 by 40 miles, near Fort she and son Harvey[...]traveled extensively throughout the United worked as carpenter-died 1972.[...]ouie still on farm. Fred was a friend of all who ever met him. He was best Lou[...]remembered by his wit and humor, and he was a master Malta-retired to Colorado.[...] |
| [...]and a son Earle. Earle and his wife Virginia and their[...]LUCIEN A. LaROCHE Lucien A. LaRoche, seventh child of Ferdinand and[...]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[...]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 LaRoche, taken on her 85th[...]t 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[...]In August of 1975 he was admitted to the Old Soldiers[...]Teles Lauzon and his family lived on a farm near[...]Redvers, Saskatchewan. In 1909 there was a cyclone that destroyed all the buildings and crops. In the[...]packed the few things that we had and Dad drove a covered[...]only seven months old. We slept in a tent but lots of nice[...]t town of Madoc. Besides farm- ing he also worked as a carpenter, building many of the houses and barns[...]n North Dakota until 1911 when she was old enough to file for a homestead north of Madoc. The children of[...] |
| [...]their homestead to North Battleford, Saskatchewan in[...]land to the family homestead for approximately f1 ve year[...]before moving west to Tacoma, Washington. They had six[...]their golden girls before moving to Whitefish, Montana. They left wedding anniversary[...]Whitefish in 1923 and moved to Tacoma where Emil died and Louise died a few years later.[...]west of his dad's place and it was discovered that there[...]was coal on his land. They developed a strip coal mine for a They _would milk the cow and put the cream in a pail tied to few years and also had cattle. He and his wife returned to the side of the wagon, and by evening they would[...]north of Madoc for many years and moved to Whitefish in Portal, North Dakota.[...]1911 where they still reside. There was a total of nine We came through Plentywood and s[...]still living in various parts of where there was a very small store in a home. We bought a Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Adeline and Lawrence few things that we needed. Along the way we met a wa gon[...]sixtieth wedding anniversary in July and stopped to talk. We found out that it was J oe Goulet 1975.[...]is neighbor. They were French also and invited us to Ve_ril~a-married Alderich Lauzon, a very distant their place for dinner and to spend the night. Then we cousm, m 1918, farmed for a short while in Daniels County drove to Scobey trying to find a place to homestead. We 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[...]moved to Whitefish shortly after. One son was born to oxen. Later on we met Mr. Bureau, his brother, an d Joe them. William died in 1941 while[...]remarried Oscar Redahlin of money but we did have a big garden and a big barrel of salt[...]Whitefish. He died in 1973 and she is living in a pork so we made out fine. We lived in a sod house which was[...]nursing home in Whitefish. so tight that when the neighbors would come over and[...]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[...]urele, Leontine, Pete, Amede, and Damion returned to with, which delighted us all! After the house was[...]ps. 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 R[...]Amede and his wife and family returned to Whitefish in was the primary crop then, along wit[...]still lives there. harvested flax was hauled to Plentywood and exchanged A little daughter, Eva, died at the age of two whil[...]. About 1911 I, Adeline, the oldest girl, went to a school near Scobey st~ying with Pete Harden berg.[...]room and board which included washing clothes on a wash board. Then th~ schoolhouse was built about[...]CKREM Madoc. Then five of us children would drive to school. In spring the snow was so deep and soft t[...]e by Orville Lockrem to jump to keep going. Later a school was built near our home.[...]In 1914 Henry E . and Mary Lockrem moved to Madoc .In ~913 when the railroad came through, Madoc was a from th e Orville settlement. They built a store in Madoc mce httle town but by 1915 it was[...]in Madoc. He 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 Mo[...] |
| all my grain to Medicine Lake and sold it. I loaded up with as midwife for many of the births around the area. She also groceries for the store and when I got to Madoc I taught parochial school. Afte[...]rug store in Flaxville and were there for six and a half Son" above the door and that's where I worked for my years. The Lockrem Cash Store in Madoc was sold to Gust father. We had a doctor come into Madoc and he wanted Vahl of Whitetail. some one to start a drug store so the customers wouldn't have to go 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 a[...]Estevan, Saskatchewan to the Madoc area in about 1912.[...]s Company for about three years. In 1915 I bought a 1914 Model T Ford from THE TOM M[...]r it. I was one of the only ones in Madoc who had a car, so Tom was born in Menominee, Michigan, son of Bridget nearly everyday some one wanted me to take them some and Thomas McGovern-he came to the Culbertson area in place. I would get paid $3.00 for a trip to Scobey or 1907 and to the Ma doc vicinity in 1910. He married Mary Whitetail, $5.00 to Redstone, and $15.00 to Plentywood. So Killian on November 25, 1914-she had arrived early that in only four months I had earned my money back. With year to keep house for her brother, John Killian. (The next that money I went to Fargo to business school where I met year another marriage occured which meant a sister and and fell in love with a young lady, Gina Bardalen, from brother-of the McGovern family married a sister and Dalton, Minnesota. We graduated in Dec[...]lian family - Tom and Helen McGovern invited Gina to come to Montana and be bookkeeper at our married Mary and John Killian.) These two couples store. That she did and we were married in February 19[...] |
| [...]John Killian was an early day settler who homesteaded[...]John met and married a young neighbor lady, Helen[...]McGovern in 1915. Her parents had a homestead one and a fourth miles north of his place. Helen was born i[...]settling at Estevan, Saskatchewan before coming to the[...]Harvey-now of Scobey-married Shirley Hendricks, a died in 1956. His surviving children are:[...]in Scobey. has conducted two Teen Age Study tours to Spain-; he and Evelyn-married to Edward Duval ofFlaxville-(Seerural his wife , Alm[...]lle section) Nellie Carriere of Los Angeles-who is a registered nurse John passed away in 1925[...]arik and their two daughters and son- Dave was a pioneer bachelor. He lived on his farm many in-law, Marie and Helen and Emil Gerths came to Montana years; He married Mary Severt in Scobey i[...]about 1925 from Fremont, Nebraska. They came here as in 1961. Anton had a cousin , James Kopsky, who had previously A neighbor family of the McGovern's were the Steine[...]udolph and their mother were died and to claim inheritance, they had to move to homesteaders nearby. Bill's place was north of Da[...]place south of Madoc; later, they moved to the Carl K veseth ,·as just east (later the Art Gordon home). Bill and h[...]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 ha[...] |
| [...]started a light plant in 1917. There were crop failures for[...]businesses started closing. I was married to Florence[...]We moved out to the coast to Seattle after everything in[...]Madoc started declining. I remember that in 1912 we organized a baseball team and Herman Forbregd was our[...]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,[...]efer and Christensen on George Shipman's place in a one-room house. They brothers: Ed, Ken,[...]tor 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 by Sam Montgomery I came to the Madoc area in 1911 and homesteaded sou[...] |
| 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[...]son brothers. Standing: George, Angus family came to the Madoc Bench in 1910 from Calvin, "[...]. They had previously lived in Iowa before coming to Pembina County North Dakota in 1903. They located on a homestead one mile west of what became[...]farmed in Madoc. There was also a daughter, Mae, whose[...]James Brady Morrison came to the Madoc community in[...]here until his death in 1956. He was born in 1881 to Angus[...]moved to North Dakota. There he met Louise Mayne who[...]was visiting relatives. Jim and Louise returned to her home[...]there in 1908. They returned to North Dakota where they farmed for a while. In 1912 Jim and Louise joined his[...]parents in Montana. A friend, Ernie Henderson, had been to Montana earlier and come back with the report that all[...]ey were eventually became known as Madoc. Some speculators some of the first sett[...]bought lots from Jim in what was known as the Morrison 1.910. Addition to tl-ie original townsite. They were anticipating[...]burned to the ground. He also operated the Occident Madoc. He was a firm believer in the fertile soil of Montana elevator in World War II which was later sold to a syndi- and was a great booster for Madoc and its community. Mr.[...]h of Herman Schaefer the Morrison's Company until that firm disposed of the business. He was took over the post office with Louise as postmaster, a known familiarly as "Dad" Morrison and he was ever position that she held until 1960 when she retired. Mrs. rea<iy to assist the community in advancement. He died on[...]Malta. was born in North Dakota before coming to Madoc. She is Mrs. Jack (Pauline) Englund who now lives at Pueblo, married to Wilburn Crabtree and lives in South Gate, Colorad[...]of Scobey in the Silver Star Community. He Place, a aloon. Angu "Toot" died in Bremerton,[...]Tillie, now lives in Roswell, V.. ashington. Bill is still living in Tacoma, Washington. Ne[...] |
| [...]wedding anniversary in Whitefish in July 1975. is married and lives in Arlee, Montana. He has one s[...]dances and if we could get a priest, mass was held in it. The[...]Emil Paradis started a pool hall in Madoc. Lawrrnce[...]married Adeline Lauzon in 1915 . Joe was married to l{ose RASMUS OSTRUP[...]Saskatchewan for a couple years before moving to Yakima by Larry Wahl[...]where he died in 1969. Louise was married to Emil Lauzon[...]they both died out in Tacoma. Rasmus Ostrup was a newcomer from Denmark when he Victor Paradis passed a way in Madoc in 1922 and his homesteaded his 160[...]hitefish, Montana in 1949. His homestead was next to Joseph Girard's. Rasmus spent his winters in Spokane every year. Asa Peterson rented his land for a year or two. Hilmar Wahl bought his homestead in 1926. Rasmus then moved to Spokane where he spent the rest of his life.[...]s near Scobey, so they packed their belongings in a wagon and buggy with two boys and a girl, Joe, Lawrence, and Louise. After crossing into Montana they came across a farmer and inquired about directions to Scobey. The farmer's name was Gibbs. He said there was -a family living out on the Adlard and Lucy Leb[...]Lauzons they had known back in Quebec. They took a homestead near the Lauzons. Joe and Louise Girard[...]us. So now there were enough children in the area to start a school. Several of the Asa and Hannah Pe[...]Asa had previously homesteaded together and built a school on the Lauzon farm. Emma four mil[...]Crone was one of the first teachers and she used to ride homestead until 1941 when they bough a place six miles horseback almost two miles. Her greatest task as a teacher south of Scobey. was attempting to convey English to french and Asa was born and rais[...]But in Iowa in 1 98. She died in 1961. A a died in the mi , i accomplish it, she did![...] |
| [...]on the old Steiner place where he and Lillie had a very nice farm. Lillie served as clerk of the Madoc school board for[...]moved to Tacoma, Washington where she lived with her[...]rs. She died there in 1972. The 'Elmore Rowe farm is[...]owned by the Brendens. Elmore's brother, Les, and a[...]und Madoc. Les' son, James, farmed for Elmore for a couple years. Charlie Jacoby recalls that he worked with[...]in the building that had previously housed the Bourassa[...]venture as a result of recommendations made by traveling[...]men , friends of my father. They told him that Madoc was an up and coming town and it was in those days.[...]to automobiles and better roads, Madoc gradually die[...]the school janitorship, etc. and still had a small stock of[...]ovember 14, 1892 at Hensel, North Dakota. He came to the Madoc community in 1916. At first hr worked a[...]Lillian Hanson on February 27 , 1922. Lillian was a daughter of Chri s and Ida Hanson , and wa[...] |
| [...]October 1, 1918, having resigned preparatory to entering adva~cement of Madoc during its early history. A quote the military service. from the Plen[...]late 1917, S.M. Forbregd sold the Madoc Recorder to industrious young man. "Attorney George T. Spring[...]yesterday after several days visit in It was a position thoroughly enjoyed by me as I had a fbir Plentywood. When he is home George is a mighty busy for journalism dating back to high school days when I man. Besides being a wide awake attorney, he is covered news and sports for the pa[...]r. 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 adjuster for the Citizens State Bank of map!"[...]aduated from high territory circulating a petition for its formation. There was school, spent two years in the S.L. and A. College of the some opposition in the West[...]old. University of Minnesota and in 1915 received an LLB Acting on the petition the Sheridan County 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[...]358. When the Sheridan County Commissioners voted to Foreign Wars.[...]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 a[...]road 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 ar[...]doc, which lasted 'til Has ruled that we can now elect. December 15, 1916, I became wel[...]was very stout, people in the area and I decided to remain and practice law. But he took the cou[...]n the Recorder Company, St. Paul, and acted in that capacity 'til building for my assistance in condu[...]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[...](deceased 1967) at Marshalltown, Iowa. There is a son. for the Madoc Town Hall Association. Soon th[...]ve for advertising in Batton, drew and circulated a petition addressed to the Montana Barton, Durstine and Osborne,[...]ion setting forth all Jeanne Springer Kern, a daughter, who is a student the reasons I could think of why Madoc should have a counselor at Indian Hill High School, C[...]marriage, residence was Railroad complied without a hearing of the petition. I was taken up in Mi[...]is an anecdote therefrom: George T. Springer[...]"A banker in Scobey, Montana, had a young[...]his various duties was the milking of a cow. One morning[...]with a pail of milk and the hanker said: "How's the milk[...]1926 to perpetuate and promote birling (log rollin[...] |
| Britannica I wrote the hi tory of birling whi h is in the boys would hear us. There were no ligh[...]boy s and Dad soon arrived. They had gone to Bystroms to writing and pur uing the many interest I ha[...]in Ely, Minnesota where he was an Optometrist. To this by Mary Kamrud[...]Colorado. He took Chiropractic training in Parti an League. He ran for local political offices. Bert[...]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 sold out as pharmacist at the Collinson Drug Store. In 1926 he went to Tor tein Kamrud. to Opheim . He married Olna Rodenbaugh in May , 1927. To this union was born one daughter. He was a pharmacist in[...]1 5 . While living in Milan Minnesota he managed a department tore and was very active in home talen[...]was born in Willmar Minnesota in 1870. he took up a dre -making and hat-making course in t. Paul , Minne ota before her marriage. Halvor S. Thomp on a nd Anna C. Bystrom were married in Milan , Minne ota on June 4, 1 92. To thi uni on were born eleven children. Selmer the[...]nevieve, Hazel, 8dna Hulda and Ruth. Hal vor a nd hi on , Harry arrived in Scobey in February of[...]Even kaas . In April 1914 another son , James and a cousin, Helmer Flan from a uk Center, Minnesota arrived 1917 - 25th wedding[...]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 ,[...]Blanche Snarr from Havre, Montana. He passed away a water-j ug in his hand. He didn 't know when we were to January, 1970. arrive o this meeting was ju t a coincidence. He told Albert married The[...]own , 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 , Washington the re cent Hotel. oon Alfred Evenskaas a rrived with a and Texas. She taught in various schools in Monta[...]stown at the time of her spread with straw for us to sit on. Herbert Evenskaa had death in July, 1960.[...]ome along too, and spent the time during the trip to their in 1959-1960. home teasing us with the traw. What a pest! They took us Genevieve 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[...]d Harold Wilhelm in 1971. Mr . Even kaas drove us to our new home. It was dark Hazel marrie[...]as 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[...] |
| [...]r liked the land on the Madoc Bench so h~ took up a Minneapolis, Minnesota. She passed away in 1930. homestead there . He farmed for a few years after proving Hulda took teacher's training in Montana and up on the land a nd then rented it out, fi rst to Clarence 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[...]until 1941. Ruth took a beauty course in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[...]She had beauty shops in Scobey and Flaxville. She is now was visiting his father in Leavenworth ,[...]e mar ried in 1936. They lived in Leavenworth for a few Halvor S. Thompson farmed northeast of Sc[...]23. they moved to the farm of the Madoc Bench . They had two An[...]children went to the Madoc School until ready for high[...]in 1958. Hyla had to drop out due to ill health. Peter and[...]AND HULDA THOMPSON Nam conflict.[...]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 Shipyard in Bremerton, ·[...]visiting her sister and brother-in- Phillip is a diesel mechanic at Cummin 's Diesel at law, Cur[...]at Ravalli and have My first impressions were that the countryside looked four children. the same as my home in Saskatchewan. ·[...]ive near Easton, Kansas and Each year we went to Eagles Nest to pick June berries have two children. Angie is an Avon Lady . with some of the neighbors. Later the lake was made at Harry is a mechanic for United Air Lines at San Eagles Nest and a picnic in the summer was great fun for · Francis[...]ee have two daughters. the families. We went in a truck driven by one of our They live at Saff Rafa[...]l was held in the country school Melody is a key punch operator. She and her husband , house[...]d had great sing-alongs. Hyla is a data entry operator for I.B.M . in Kansas City ,[...]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 thei[...]ve in Scobey. the family moved to Greenbush, Minnesota. Later he Deloris Jean a[...]ve two sons. homesteaded there and also worked on a state They live in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.[...]was drafted Marjorie lives in Wenatchee. She is office manager· at into the infantry and he rece[...]Grant, Illinois and Camp Dodge, Iowa. He was sent to Cecil and his wife live at Wenatchee where he[...]signed. There he served only a few months before his[...]rge in May, 1919. In the fall of 1923 Hilmar came to[...]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[...]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 of a hillside after removing over twenty feet of earth[...]Threshing was always a busy time. Hilmar along with[...]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.[...]homeplace. Anna (Mrs. Fred Sherer) is a registered nurse[...]different jobs since moving to Great Falls. Hilmar Jr.[...]ran the elevator in Madoc for a couple years about 1960.[...]I:Ie served for a year in Vietnam while in the army. Carol[...]She worked as a cashier for several years. Randy is married to Peggie Sporleder and is a bookkeeper in the[...]hospital in Conrad. Elair "Larry" is attending Montana[...]State University in Bozeman and plans to teach foreign[...]Hilmar also had another daughter, Edith, who is married to Edwin Simonson. They farmed north of Four Hilmar[...]from a clipping[...]1927 he moved into Scobey where he was a contract[...]Garfield Wilson came to Spring Valley community in the[...]the Spring of 1910 to take up residence. He lived there all of Elien ,[...]were born after moving his life except for a few years that they lived in the Carbert into Madoc. These were[...]there was a s urvey stake in the area of Old Scobey.[...] |
| Garfield and Cliff Jones surveyed by tying a rag on a wagon wheel and counting the turns of the wheel.[...]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 half of mile from Garfield. They were married in 1926. There were three children born to this union, one son dying in infancy, James of Po[...]nce and Orman Rossing who dragged him out through an outside stairway. While in the hospital 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).[...]nough snow for sleighs. Gordon lost one arm in a threshing machine accident. Cliff That old pot belly stove in the depot 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. the newly laid tracks. He later lost his life in a freak tractor accident in 1915 or 1916. Early[...]he entertainment hall was built. the same section as Garfield. Jim froze to death in a spring Mother often played. Everyone alw[...]after he finished high from all over to the Yuill ranch. Baseball was a great sport school and he then attended Bible sch[...]We left Madoc in 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, Iowa; they have two he worked as a guard for Boeing. Ad passed away in 1961. childre[...]David. Louise is still living with her daughter, Grace, in Spokane[...]still lives on the original Alma is married to Dr. H.C. Ellsperman and lives in homestead. He ma[...]l farmed way up north near the A.B. YUILL FAMILY[...]a wrestler and was called "The Big Miller". He was a Ad and Louise Yuill and their two daughters, Gr[...]ls County in 1912 with intentions A family by the name of Mitchell lived in Madoc for a to farm and raise horses. The women took the train to short time in the teens. They had a son, Harvey. Plentywood while the men drove 150 h[...]Fritz and Laura Martinson were in Madoc for a while in country from Williston to what later was Madoc. A horse the early twenties. He was involved in one of the elevators. and wagon were used to haul their belongings from They had a son 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 in t[...]dians. Ormond. The lumber to build our home was hauled from Medicint: Shorty Robbins homesteaded what became known as the Lake by wagon. Our horses ran wild over the[...]mily lived southwest of Madoc. Mrs. the trip back to Williston for Christmas the first year we Melvin Schow was a daughter. were in Montana. We got up at two in the morning because Emma Savage was a relative of Peter Voight and she we had to go by wagon to Plentywood to catch the train at kept house for him. She had a daughter, Irene. eight. It was the coldest I've e[...]ot in at the James Singleton was related to Ethel Singleton, Madoc Plentywood depot. A[...] |
| Skoglund family, a son, Clarence. (no information) Ronald. His farm is now owned by the state and is farmed Ben and Maude Schlag Ii ved east of Madoc in the by Iver Wahl. The farm is located south of Mike Barstad's. twenties. They had a daughter, Florence. They moved to Mr. Bucker died in the forties. the Plen[...]ied. The daughter lives George Bush was a hired man of O .E. Dunn and he drove near Antelope-she is Mrs. Max Rasmussen. the sch[...]east of Madoc on the place. Old timers recall Tom as having had a high, squeaky Bill Lind place or near there. Bertha was a sister of voice. They both died and had no family. Clarence Rossing. A son, Lloyd, owns the Carlson Hoke Smith (no in[...]Drilling in Medicine Lake. George Smith was a brother of the well-known "Three- Virgil Christensen lived in Madoc and went to Wolf Wheel " Smith . He homesteaded "'hat is known as the Point later where he was an engine hostler for Great Palutske place where Alf[...]ived. George died here Northern Railway. Had a daughter Marion. in the early days. · Roy Cluster was a bachelor sheepherder who also did a Walter "Three-Wheel" Smith came from St. John,[...]ore leaving this now lives. He has been described as "a feared character country, he worked on th[...]Dam m the who had brushes with the law." He owned a three wheel 30's. The farm is now owned by Girards. tractor which he bought fro[...]ohn Conrath (no information) apparently used this as his mode of transportation. Three- Elmer[...]btree and their four sons lived in Wheel returned to St. John where he died. Ma[...]at the old Four Scobey before moving to.Coeur d'Alene, Idaho wehere Mrs. Corners Scho·ol located in what is now the Andy Hertoghe Crabtree still lives. pasture. Victor St. Arnold played the violin for a dance when John and Bill Lapke were married to Elveda and Alice LaRoche. They left in the early[...]is family lived in Madoc and he was the last ever to do any blacksmithing. He had three children. They left in the 20's. There was also an Armeda Sullivan. The Ole Sund name was well-kn[...]Todd homesteaded the Horace Bourassa land. Had a son, Harry . Paul Valette lived on the George[...]Mrs. Korte.n dick and Mrs. Crabtree .on way to- Home- about 1910.[...]MADOC PIONEERS Following is a list of people of whom there was little orno |
| [...]rs. Emory (Marie) LaRoche was in 1950 and is buried in Scobey. On his epitaph reads the one of[...]steaders on the Madoc Bench. He words "A Pioneer". He had no family. His farm is located homesteaded northeast of Madoc north of the Bert north of Mike Barstad's and is now owned by John Templeman place. He died in the[...]d in the Oscar (?) Gould (no information) Also a son Richard. 30's. Charlie Grant was a cattleman who farmed and ranched Asten[...]of Madoc. There were three north of Madoc. He was a bachelor and later moved · to children; Noble, Mable, and Lillian. Nob[...]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 fro[...]h of John Lapke farm. Ole's dad was also here for a while. They Madoc on the Berg place. Fjelds[...]20's during the dry years. was a sister of Mrs. Elmer Crabtree. Anton Jorgensen[...]northeast of Madoc on what is now the Clifford Holum Homer Knight (no inform[...]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[...]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 of Nevada, Mrs. Larson was a music teacher[...] |
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| A history of the communities in Daniels Coun[...] |
Daniels County Bi-Centennial Commission, Daniels County History Part A (Pages 1-548) (1977). Montana History Portal, accessed 13/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78576
