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 | [...]HOMESTEADERS Many years ago This land on which we stand Was just a sea of rollin grass A[...]Indian Man. Then came herds of cattle Fifty years ago Times were never easy Thru war and peace[...]omplainin We salute the many No matter when we're born |
| [...]en record of what is usually known as history. We have attempted to write a book of memories. Nostalgia? Well,it migh[...], "You are old when you dwell in retrospect." But to recall as much as one can of the ways and days of[...]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 history of the pioneers of this area have become legend. Their unwritten saga wil[...]the first settlers have been lost and forgotten. This book was written in the hope of preserving echoes[...]d with others, surprised with a few. In compiling this book we have tried to think of all generations. Some names and importan[...]or their descendents. The gathering of material for this history has been a pleasure and a privilege. With the best of intentions, there will be things left out which should have been included. Should there be[...]being as careful as possible. Care has been taken to be accurate, but necessarily it cannot be altoget[...]y is. With each turn of the page it will bring to mind thoughts of yesterdays and the progress made. It makes us sad to think that progress cannot be made without it being at the expense of someting that can never be replaced. This is the way it has always been and that is[...] |
| 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[...], and whose visions, accomplishments and memories we cherish and prize above silver and gold - this history is lovingly dedicated. IN[...]anor |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To the Daniels County Bicentennial Committee: Bob[...]rard, Bob Tande, Paul Chabot and Milton Shipstead for their approval, support and constant encouragement. To the Area Workers: Artists |
| [...]what is now Valley County belonged to the District of Louisiana, then to the Territory of Louisiana of which St. Louis was[...]subdivisions of this area to which the valley belonged, gradually ab-[...]created outto Big Horn, but was 11C10n ,wa//ow«J up by an exte[...]original terri tory save for i ts outer boundaries. In 1893 Valley county was created out of Dawson, and i ts residence swing their local g[...]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 |
| [...]erminated the tribe, and were largely responsible for its This vast and inspiring prairie was once populated by[...]an Assiniboine are probably not as well known to historians tribes--the Assiniboines (stone-boiler[...]s realm on the American continent, 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 t[...]llen from an estimated 28,000 in the early 1800's to less than THE FIRST WHITE MAN[...]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 kn[...]uts can still . the present name of Poplar River. This historic visit is be seen in parts of western Dan[...]May 3, 1805. days, with Indians still following this route during 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 resp[...]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[...]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[...]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 and stoneheaded clubs for close fighting. Most carried shields of painted buffalo hide, treated to become tough enough to turn aside an arrow and TH[...]times a bullet. These shields, which were thought to give their owners supernatural protection in bat[...]s. principal business of this area. As elsewhere in the United Befoi·e the[...]were procured the favorite method of hunting was to leadership of John Jacob Astor, established a tra[...]mouth of the animals , killing them with 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[...]timulated when, in strong war parties of Indians. This was the first white 182~. Fort Union was establi[...]The principle gods were Sun and Thunder, regarded to be by white trappers. With the decline of prices for beaver manifestations of the Great Spirit, ruler[...]on a scaffold. Each year the company sent out its Indian trade goods, When the bodies would de[...]tives would stocking the stores with from fifteen to twenty thousand bury the bones.[...] |
| [...]rs. 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 c[...]Some of the men who had come to Montana with the The Indian trade at the post[...]much large herds of Texas cattle turned to horse rustling. When, ceremony. When a trading pa[...]in 1883, drought swept northward from Texas to the hoisted and the cannon discharged to signal that trade Canadian boundary, beef prices dropped, fortunes were was about to commence. lost overnight, and big ranches now unable to afford hired Gifts were exchanged and the Indi[...]· ·.__ · fed and given drinks by the Company. This was followed cowpunchers drifted north, some to Wyoming and some to · by an exchange of oratory. After dispensing with the the Valley County area of Montana. Out of this migration ceremonies trade began. When trading be[...]Indians were allowed in the store at any one time to the largest, toughest and most colorful of western outlaw prevent the situation from getting 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, Mont[...]de disappeared entirely. -compiled by Ben Shennum for 1963 Homesteaders[...]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[...]id that he would get a bill of sale from Williams for[...]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.[...]e as Texas began trailing cattle by the thousands to nothing to do with his brother's illegal activities. The northeastern Montana to be "finished" before shipping. other, a[...]wild bunch, was known as Coyote Cattlemen began to put preasure on Washington to open Pete. the Indian reserve, and in 1888 this was declared an Among the other me[...]nreserved public domain. There were no provisions for Reed (who, some time after he quit the wild bunch, wes selling or leasing the land. It was to be used, but not owned, dragged to death by a horse), Kid Trailer, Frank Carlyle, by[...]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[...]the colorful Plentywood. According to a story he and some of the wild "Hominy" Thompson[...]e Poplar River and its unsuccessfully to start a fire with damp buffalo chips. branches. Most of those on the Middle Fork of this river Dutch Henry suggested going two mil[...]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[...] |
| [...]wn Back in his chair, a hand clawing for his gun, he went in was established it took the n[...]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 depu[...]As he hit the floor the outlaw got his gun out, but it was how he met his death. The Mounted Pol[...]-on two separate occasions. John A. pistol out of the outlaw's hand and across the floor. Davis,[...]identified the body of Young Al Tande went to the fallen man. At his request he a murdered man[...]" the gunman gasped. Dutch Henry. He is also said to have been hanged in Outside in .the bitter cold, the wounded man revived Mexico for his rustling activities, and his brother Chris is[...]He clenched his teeth and between them said, said to have believed this story. But it is also said that he "The s, to do this, after I slept with them. By the married and live[...]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[...]ulbertson people have ever since declared out of the cabin and to whom the outlaw addressed his last that Dutch Hen[...]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 prison. The work of u[...]at 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[...]Nelson, also known as Sam Kelly, gave himself up to DEATH OF "HORSE THIEF" JONES IN RANCH[...]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[...]his activities. little table in the ranch shack. For a moment that must 4[...]ck Winnefield. A short article have been eternity for the two deputies who had him about him appears elsewhere in this book.[...] |
| [...]pal of Nelson's, named Trotter, had been This unholy alliance took place in early 1899 and put[...]and With him was a young man named Seffick, held for more an undesirable citizen and J[...]n in Culbertson. deputy, set out to get him. Eader heard that Jones was at a In Va[...]counties as well as door Jones came out the back door, stole the deputy's Valley, he was[...]the law was when he was shortly after this escapade that he joined up with freed two men fro[...]Later Nelson dropped out of the picture and another Nelson did not know of Seffick but he wanted to set gang, known as the Jones-Carlyle group, was formed to Trotter free. He arranged to get a key which fitted the jail continue the[...]and leading two saddled broncs, he rode openly up to the OVERHEARS PLAN jai[...]The idea was 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 mini[...]is 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 finally was turned loose near the Se[...]kota. Carl Gilbertson ranch near Redstone. This was in the fall He was sent by Sid Willis, th~n sheriff of Valley County of 1902. It ended efforts to capture the gang by organized and today owner of the Mint in Great Falls, to scout and see action at that time. ,if the re[...]man was tempted to earn one of them. Several tried Activities of this group became so troublesome that unsuc[...]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 R[...]re was a price of$800 on the man's head. combined to clean up the rustlers.[...]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 hor[...]g Moore afoot. He country, while King would ride to Canada and-enlist the also took Moore's big, black cowhide coat for himself. aid of the Royal Northwest Mounted Poli[...]Moore finally got back to Culbertson where he reported[...]e outlaw who held 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 cowhide coat. excitement he missed. The outlaws ran for their guns and This action by Jones resulted in immediate and horses and the deputy took to the brush, making good his increased efforts to capture him and break up the gang. A escape.[...]posse was formed and rode out after the outlaws. However, Nothing apparently was done after this try. Then Jones once again Jones outsmart[...]was December and it entered the picture. Thought to be from Nevada, he was a was cold with h[...]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[...]was near Scobey. They went to that district and started 6 See Elmer "Homi[...]scattered ranches in the neighborhood. section, this book.[...]4, 19047 when they 10 Tom A. Davis: Should this be John A. Davis who lived called on the[...]the capacity of son Albert were caring for a herd of 250 steers a n d deputy lawman? John[...]ound and the deputies accepted Tande's invitation to cemetery. stay with him for awhile.[...] |
| [...]inquest was held9 • the man proven to be Jones and the On the evening of the second day a stranger rode up to $1500 paid. Tande's shack. He explained th[...]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[...]that they would lead them to the outlaw's hideout, but a Bird and Moran wer[...]n the man entered. fresh fall of snow made this effort useless. The bandit Both glanced up and b[...]t a leader broke up in the spring. once belonging to Moore! There was an aftermath to the killing of Jones. At once the deputies rea[...]Nearly a year later a big, redheaded man rode up to the the outlaws. However they did not know their man and Tande ranch and wanted to know the details of the Jones judged him to be Carlyle. Between themselves they agreed killing. to wait until an opportunity came to "throw down" on the The man who asked for the story was "Red" Nelson, one outlaw rather than to force the issue just then. time p[...]ore. (See footnote 2) sourdough. Bird volunteered to get up and cook breakfast, Footnotes for story of "Horsethief Jones", added in 1976 claimi[...]KID TRAILER Jones all had to occupy the same bunk. You can imagine, yourself,[...]beside them. As he did so he took a new automatic out of a shoulder holster and laid it on his chest.[...]d, as they likeable youth who attached himself to different bands of heard him grunt at intervals.[...]along with Sam Hall and Tom Reid, a herdsman for horses enthusiasm. Bird, watching him, laid down[...]aw band of Nelson and Jones. 1 turner and started to roll a cigarette, a perfectly natural Tr[...]s a reward on his head, he was in constant demand to .30-.30 was standing. play at dances through out the country.[...]collectjng some reward money, made an attempt to capture SHOOTING STARTS[...]es capture<;! him without trouble and started for Glasgow in a with the command, "Put 'em up, Carl[...]elated at the Moore did get back to Culbertson .a nd report.ed the beginning of this story, made his break for liberty. He incident. This eventually led to Jones' sudden and violent ·chose a "shoot-out" rather than capture, and failed. death a short time Iater.3 Jones was alive when taken out of.the shack after the The following[...]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[...]married and was living on my homeetead near them to sign a note making the county responsible for the Stady, North Dakota, in the Writing Ro[...]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[...]shirt for Jones' burial. Ibid, No. 8 , above.[...]Fair aSee Death of Horsethief Jones, this book history, 1963, stat.es that Jones died at Give-Out Morgan 4 Mother of Elner, Irvin and[...] |
| [...]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[...]y not far north of where the writing rock stands. This man, who was not even very successful at making h[...]· But even that was not enough for Knapp. Knowing that there was a reward for Trailer, he informed the sheriff at Crosby of the outlaw's 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[...]n. After Trailer had dismount.ed and mentioned in this section of the book. walked away, leaving his gun[...]rial of Ed Sherman, the Culbertson sheriff called out, 'Up with ,em, or you are a dead man!' horseman, came to a close Tuesday evening and result.eel in Trailer looked at his guns on the saddle horn and back to a verdict of guilty. The evidence against Sherman was the ones in the hands of the two lawmen and decided to strong and it was plainly shown that he has been[...]hieves that have been operating in He was taken to Crosby for trial. When the jury came in that section. He adm[...]ions but that he was not traveling under anything to say before sentence was passed. The prisoner that[...]class of rounders who have been horse until I get out, and when I do Joe will be a dead man!' · harass[...]portions of the county. •Trailer was sentenced to twenty years in the North Sherman will probably be sentenced this afternoon. Five Dakota penitentiary.[...]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[...]who have been operating north of Joe Knapp sold out and left the country. He left no Culbertson was brought to Glasgow Sunday evening by forwarding address.[...]lives way up on the river.* It Kid Trailer was out of prison in thirteen to fifteen years." appears that Reid was captured by[...]eak, is Police sometime last week and turned over to Mr. Davis. written that Trailer stopped oc[...] |
| 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 surviv[...]ad long ago left the in question, had the horse for twenty-nine years. country.[...]om Ryan * John A. Davis, "up on the river" refers to the Muddy, near was seen in the area was following an attempt by him to Daleview.[...]e leg; he stopped at the Ator ranch near Antelope to have From the North Montana Review, Glasgow, Ju[...]aused by "his gun going The editor paid a visit to the county jail Wednesday off when his h[...]lley County officials wanted of him. He claimed to have been wrangling horses for a PIGEON-TOED KID Can[...]r Golden Jubilee History Book, 1963) is supposed to have been operating with up in the North country. He has retained Attorney Herren to look after his Back in the ranching days[...]le, and at times is extremely nervous. He wanted to know if and as second choice took those which had[...]like. He was could readily be changed. referred to Kid Flannagin for further information. One such man[...]ys that while he is not guilty and did not intend to get off horse rustlers because, unlike most of th[...]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 sto[...]Schuyler that the Culbertson Searchlight seemed to take great "Sky" Small, sheriff of Valley County,[...]search of him. July 6, 1904: Owing to lack of evidence Tommy Reid was George[...]e 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 congratulate party for the Pigeon-Toed Kid at Bonnabel's and said he himself that he got away, for ifit were not for the fact that · would ride ahead up to the house. If the Kid was there he County Attorney Kerr had been in poor health and would lead his horse to the post and tie it. If he was not physi_cally unable to get around he would have had a hard there he woul[...]recognized, he went for his guns and Calderwood shot him.[...]d about the area with a partner by shooting, told to Clara Reeser by Camille Bonnabel, early- the name[...]ished in a diamond jubilee Tom Ryan, according to Ellis Hurst, an Outlook rancher edition of the Gl[...]l bags lay around his cabin and he made no effort to "Pigeon Toe The Kid", or more commonly[...]et them Canada when the Mounted Police 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[...]n North Dakota. It is said that the money from this robbery was given to a "One April morning, the Kid rode in and asked me for a homesteader who returned it to its rightful owners. hammer," said Bo[...]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[...]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[...]had just finished eating she wanted. She pointed out two, and he drew a six-gun dinner when there came a loud pounding on the door. We with each hand and shot the heads off of both of them at weren't used to that. About that time the door opened and once.[...]the sheriff looked in. We said, 'Come in'. The sheriff and[...] |
| [...]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 b[...]nk'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 i[...]t, and O.J. Anderson, 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[...]re they went anu they did they jerked the deposit out of his hands, pocketed why they went is the story[...]ly days when Scobey was known as a him and Fugere to get behind the fixtures and keep their "pretty tough" town, Ed Norse and his kid brother didn't hands up. do much to improve the reputation of the booming and The victims were then made to lie down, face down, on sprawling little city. Qu[...]he gang stood guard over them while took Ed Norse to get the Scobey cemetery started. No one another b[...]athering all the money in a sack. has ever proved this one, but the first burial in the Scobey Vith t[...]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 th[...]mlt. Mr. Smerud was commanded to lead the short A man met his death in 1916 on[...]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 i[...]ision 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 imprisoned in t[...]the first candidate m · ave the alarm. for its new cemetery.*[...]id not leave the Scobey territory immediately, at>out $500 worth of liberty bonds, some of which are bu[...]owever, he did not own a ranch, and later drifted out of valuable papers with them. the area and went to North Dakota. There he shot and Sheriff Lawrence, who happened to be in Flaxville when killed a man. This one they pinned on him, and he wound the robbery[...]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 mi[...]hich Lawrence Tousley and Murr were following ran out years, somewhat likeable in his own way.[...]One day the sheriff from Glasgow came looking for the sheriff did not know how close he was to them, but Senator Kid. The sheriff was riding one[...]at judging from above he would say it He expected to find the Kid and bring him in. w[...]rly The bandit car went south from Flaxville for six miles, day law enforcement. But the Kid had h[...]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.[...]now history. daylight this morning, feeling that he had a reasonable[...]d robbed in the same fashion by handed a hand gun to the bartender and asked him to put it three men who made their getaway. They sec[...]The case parcel containing twice that much. came to trail at Plentywood in early 1916. Norris[...] |
| The bandits were well armed for the job and no doubt Little is heard today about the illegal stills, rum- meant to kill or get the money to resist arrest at all costs. running, bootleggers[...]ried a machine gun, as well as rifle and shotgun. This The traffic in illicit liquor became widesp[...]rumor. It is probably United States, and this area was no different than any true, though, as booze runners out of Minot carry machine other. guns mounted in[...]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 dr[...]g business hauling captured persons, suspected of to haul suitcases, boxes, etc. The passenger limit was five bootlegging, to the federal court in Havre. Most who were people.[...]s people found guilty were given a fine, told not to do it again, and did not come here very much duri[...]ting into the defended many of those charged with this offense. tracks. Sometimes they would get three to four feet high. The whiskey patrols were ke[...]lity was po.o r the horses in that patrol went on to bigger and better jobs in law would often get off[...]tough with lots of patrol was in the area, threw out the whiskey mash; the endurance.[...]bly- Some freighting was done, causing outfits to meet now legged, squealing and squawking betrayin[...]another fearing the advent of the revenue and cap to keep warm on the open trail. Many days in patrol[...]tionable. if he would get through since then went to town feeling secure. On the return trip, roads we[...]sure had built up Mr. Merrill (Fatty) intended to make two trips a week if during the day and to the owner, each explosion was as at all possible.[...]shot; the boxcar load of grapes fermenting coming to teach school,- homesteader's wives and families, with the juice running out. roving preachers including Brother Van Orsdal, M[...]by the law. Nelson Tande were among others known to have ridden to Prior to prohibition there were two saloons in Scobey-- Scobey in this manner. He hauled many a schoolmarm to one operated by Smith and Boyd, the other by Stephens her school--but didn't marry any. and Griffi[...]the most popular was the Dirty Shame Mrs. Bonnes. This vefiicle was driven in a parade in located within[...]1913 axing barrels were cleansed and used for curing salt pork. when the railroad came to-the atea and the postoffice was The costly experiment had ended. moved to new Scobey. Written[...]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[...]seed, hauls of grain and records for loading were claimed[...]Among the towns to back up its claims with records is[...]rica. 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[...]This was the record in 1924 and it was almost equaled[...]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[...]out again."[...]in 1922 and 1923, due to a machinist's and boilermaker's[...]on was not built until 1925 and the closest route to different stages. The first shows the tornado descending market for farmers in the west end of Daniels County was fro[...]irection; 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[...]rience demonstrated that 45 miles from to 28 cents for quite a while. John England brought two |
| [...]ss behind the cutting bar carried the grain heads to the elevator which took them up and dumped them i[...]when the barge was full, would stack it in stacks for threshing later. The driver would ride on a seat fixed to the long balance pole behind the header. This is 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[...]ontana with a steam engine. Notice the water tank for the engine at left. Lunch break.[...] |
| [...]entirely with power machinery. The field shown in this picture was summer fallowed the previous 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[...] |
| [...]rig. Note wooden threshing machine. Threshing out wheat with steam engine power. Tom Tjone is standing on ground by team hitched to grain wagon. He has |
| [...]Twin City gasoline tractor belonging to Roy Day; breaking[...]on farm, Whitetail, in 1916, pulling what appears to be ten breaker bottoms.[...] |
| [...]t Orvile. Note the device in front of the tractor to keep the wheel in the furrow; also the steel gaso[...]w, Carl Austinson, engineer; 1912. ready for seeding, Spring of 1926. Mel Thunem plowing -[...]and what appears to be a P&O plow at Orville in 1925.[...] |
| [...]were soon depleted, the first settlers had to turn to other things for heat. Fortunately, beneath the surface of[...] |
| [...]A spark caused a keg of powder to explode at the Wiley[...]percent of his body burned, Lignite is inferior to the anthracite and bituminous coals survived. f[...]me were open pit strip mines; many were to two dollars a ton at the mines contrasted with twelve to tunneled into hillsides and there were two shaft mines. fifteen dollars for eastern coal.[...] |
| [...]l and plentiful supplies. No more coal or. ashes to haul; no clinkers to dig out of the grates; no more coal dust or banking of fi[...]per floor Branding at Fadness Ranch. Left to right: Andy, Claire was used for dances until again filled with hay. Barn[...]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[...]ops so Walt butchered them and sold the wild meat to Scobey patrons.[...]eer of the Road East of Archer where everyone got stuck in the Whitetail and Redstone community.[...]Charles Tong shot this bird (swan?) in 1918. It measured 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 the colored collection would pour out of the sack-"glassies, commies, crackies,[...] |
| [...]hly prized. Because the dolls broke easily, Note: This article written by Dorothy Rustebakke was they were kept in the boxes they came in for several published in the Daniels County Leader of December 27, months just to be looked at and admired. 1962. Most of those int[...]storm. Her mother told friends gathered together this week to celebrate an "old the children that Sant[...]fashioned" is today's celebration? Ask out of the pantry. They weren't under the tree at all[...]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 cent[...]nry and Ole large number of young people gathered to celebrate . Shipstead · froze a qua[...]ossen , who was a homestead child, recalls This "home freezer" kept the Shisteads and Mr. Erickson, her first Christmas here in 1909. The family traveled to who w·a s working for them, with a supply of cranberries all Hoke Smith[...]eived a pleasure even today. pop gun for Christmas and declared happily that "I shot[...]nies that were supplying the settlers with lumber for those days and there were many skating parties at[...]It was many years before the settlers had to buy trees. A Sunday-school Christmas program w[...]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[...]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[...]Al Tande (who told me how Jim problem to keep America Free! Stephens killed bad man Jones[...]Kusters, the Manternachs and the McLeods. Nor can we ever forget crusty old John[...]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[...]h they were made.No, here and who was known to be armed. In making the arrest there was no war with stockmen of the kind we often read both Courtney and Burmester we[...]ro was about; they welcomed us and befriended us. We learned to hanged by the enraged citizenry. like and respect them; we square danced with them, did Jack Ben[...]m a part of our lives. Soi t Bennett, filled out the unexpired term of the murdered was thus that[...]tacts with sheriff and was later elected to serve that office from 1917 Daniels County. to 1924. Now that we are speaking of Quality People, let us not On one occasion he went to "Three Wheel" Smith's farm forget those hundreds of fellow farmers who should be very to possess a team of horses on a foreclosure. Smith, who proud to have been "Rugged Individualists"--those who[...]peculiar first name from that fact that he dared to come west where survival might well depend on[...]began. The women were hitting the Daniels County we wish to honor. By recording these Jack with their pitchforks and it was tough going. Jack deeds we are honoring people who richly deserve to be finally got Smith down but the latt[...]the end of one remembered. I want now, therefore, to add to the list those of the sheriffs thumbs. Jack[...]brought the team in with him. did so very much to help farmers, stockmen and all others from Sheridan's Daybreak to help Scobey to become, as it boasted, the largest "Primary Wheat[...]e who took such active parts in bringing baseball to the area in the 1920's. Happy Felch and Swede Ris[...]John Brown, farmer of the Peerless area, came to that timers. Nor were our home boys neglected on[...]rned two or three years still alive and in Scobey to accept the honors for their long later. years of great effort, namel[...]ords show that he was born at Perry, Iowa in 1892 to and Shook, Battleson-Peterson, Hanson, Rasmus Nel[...]who was, as records. earlier related, out in the lead of the early migration of He[...]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[...]as 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.[...]ad recently leaving Scobey in 1945. Vernon worked for the Great placed his farm for sale. Northern as a telegrapher until he died in[...]la Cooke with her husband, a retired shop foreman for ROBERT BRUCE the Fargo Forum newspaper, live in Fargo, North Dakota. Their son, Lon Cooke, is a plant manager for Corning An early 1927 issue of the[...]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[...], North Dakota hospitalization and sincerely hope to pay Scobey a visit in to parents of Scottish and Chippewa descent. the not[...]servation school and was graduated Best Wishes for Daniels County's part in Happy[...] |
| Prior to the first World War, he was a featured cornet sol[...]nlisted en masse, and throughout the war, both in this country and overseas, remained together as a band[...]owing the war he was with the Million Dollar Band for a while; for a time he was with the Lehigh Valley Symphony orchestra. He also sold musical instruments for various companies. It has been said by those wh[...]age of ten, he moved west to Albion, Iowa, where he Thomas Rossler, wanted b[...]occupation he followed for ten years. On April 6, 1880, he Rossler, travel[...]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[...]ing of that sturdy American pioneer type who seem to The arrested man was wanted-for the murder of a RCMP grow restless unde[...]ier 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.[...]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[...]The Daniels children-left to right: Maydene, Mansfield, It has occured to the writer that during the recent and Marjorie Daniels. campaign for the creation of Daniels County, possibly very few[...]once thought of the man in whose memory and honor this proposed county has been named. For this reason, I have thought that it would be very appr[...]nment ·service and became a fast friend of Major this time to write a short sketch, very imcomplete at the[...]sfield A. Daniels and the part he Indian Agent for the Fort Peck reservation, and the man pla[...] |
| [...]In 1901, Mr. Daniels made his first trip north to the present site of "Old Scobey", which is locate[...]ing 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[...]ed here, for the benefit fo those who did not know him, that[...]whom we all know or have read of, and who were eternally[...]ready to do, give or lend to those who needed. And believe[...]me, he had his hands full for they borrowed, they begged[...]raditions of a type of westerner, now $20,000.00. This home was modern throughout and is one gone foreve[...]idence the year 'round. of the best in this part of the state notwithstanding that On Janu[...]was united in marriage every bit of material had to be freighted 60 miles overian.d a second time to Mabel E. Brooks, who was then a nurse in from Pop[...]ool 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 stre[...]just been gave unreservedly of his body and mind to his manifold established at that time by Joseph B[...]the duties. early and most respected pioneers of this section, who has The writer of this sketch came to "Old Scobey" in July, since passed away, and wasl[...]igned and when Mr. Daniels located month, he left for Rochester hospital, where it was believed there a[...]and held the office upon his throat, he returned to Scobey in October of that until it was discontinu[...]go. Few people year, quite improved in health and for the next two years he here do not know that Mrs. Daniels' name is "Mabel". This seemed to regain his old time vigor and go. ·[...]name Mabel B. A bitter disappointment to Mr. Daniels in that year--and Daniels and receive[...]city that goes with an that while he was believed to be in his last earthly days-~ office of this nature.[...]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 became the[...]enter location. Mr. Daniels had always planned on this road[...] |
| [...]neral was conducted by the Masonic it. The reason for the road being built from Plentywood was frate[...]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. way, we have always held in great esteem and veneration[...]t class of God's noblemen who repeatedly refused to enter the arena as a contestant. He pioneer a[...]eved 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[...]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[...]evidence of 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 unmistakable signs new cou[...]Mansfield Daniels right to left: Will Davis, Doc Hall, Clate[...]he buffalo skull in for eground, also the odd tent.[...] |
| [...]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[...]alo 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[...]rks 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![...]Indian Teepees along the Poplar River camped for Indian Old Scobey-1909[...]harvest workers. He kept his eyes wide open to the idea as he followed the Thus a town too[...]set into his Scobey, at that time Indian Agent for the Fort Peck Indian |
| [...]lement Shop run and booming little town. For three years it was the only by Clarence Penn and[...]aniels, a post office, the community center for sixty mi es around . garage business of R.J. Coug[...]oad 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 t[...]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[...]new townsite officially changed from East Scobey to Scobey and had a regular postoffice with Pat Burk[...]efore that businessmen of East Scobey contributed to a fund which provided for carrying mail from old Scobey to the new town which in 1916 incorporated as a city[...]building materials 60 miles overland from Poplar. This 1912 mansion had water works, fixtures for gas lighting, a ball room, totaling more than twenty well furnished rooms. He also built a house for the servants. What is now Scobey area was opened for homesteading in 1910. Immediately people from various parts of the United States began to move "Out West" and settle on the rich plains. Sever[...] |
| Then came the time for the migration 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[...]chickens the settlement raised its wings and flew to the the only person who carried a gun ar[...]ctor. The first them had had too much to drink. One fellow was in pretty house to be moved was that of Martin Smith, the residence bad shape. He went out behind the saloon and put an now owned by Mrs. Ar[...]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[...]Oie Bank, Paul Crum law office, livery out on the floor and the other guy kept trying to reach it. So barn and others.[...]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 life in this Mr. Blegen said he had worked at every kind[...]tc. He have and the girls I could have, I didn't want!" also had some land several miles west of the old townsite, southeast of Four Buttes. He moved up to the Scobey townsite in 1915, he worked for the old Johnson Hardware (now the Ponderosa building), after working for Ira Nelson for awhile in what became the Paus-Strom Hardware and[...]D. BOYD which is still under that name. He worked for the new owners for many years too . He remained a bachelor. He[...]ew was the last of the Boyd family. He left loved to visit about the Old Scobey and the pioneer days![...]e Daniels County Leader. Before coming to Scobey he lived at Jamestown , North Amos Blegen,[...]- Do you know where the No. 995. Coming to Scobey before the railroad he and first city wate[...]city water well in Scobey. It was moving to the present townsite with the arrival of the stee[...]s could be driven part of the business to Thomas Conboy, now of East around and up to it for convenient watering in the new Helena.[...]before the town was incorporated in For the last fifteen years of his life Lou lived in P[...]st west of the Johnson Transfer. It was installed to facilitate night loading and unloading at the tra[...]in the air (Amos said it was about eight feet) , this light could be seen for miles , r.:;arking the new town. Excerpts from a[...]y Lori Lee Pratt. Mr. Blegen was born and grew to manhood in southern |
| [...]and it was from there that he hauled 1umber for an elev a tor In 1901 the Joe Bonnes and John M[...]amilies which my dad, C.K. Hanson built for him in 1912 and packed up all their sheep and hor[...]ark. As soon as the floor was in, all and shipped out from Velva, North Dakota to find homes the neighbors were invited to a dance before the bins were on land that had been opened to homesteaders in the put in. Joe, hims[...]scene of a tragedy which through grassland, ideal for his sheep and horses. Mrs. changed their[...]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 hauled mail between Old didn't appear for supper his father went looking and found Scobey a[...]om and "parlor" -- quite different five miles to the cemetery. Louis Boyd, a saloon keeper, from t[...]s also unique because it furnished a Cadillac for the pallbearers who were Frank had running water[...]asement with a toilet where you pulled the chain. This Parkhurst, Alfred Evenskaas and Wesley La[...]and campaigned diligently to close the saloons. But in The Bonnes had three[...]l, and final the family so he took them all to Wisconsin to spend the twins Alma and Alvin. One thing I remem[...]girls used it! Bonnes and children came back to Scobey but they never So we were horrified when we saw Luella venturing forth again lived on[...]starch (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 t[...] |
| [...]upstairs. Jake Timmons taught Ole and Tom how to Lehnan children; Paul Holiday; and Frank Sutcliff[...]un the butcher shop. I Mrs. Bonnes always came out in the summer with some butchered the chickens , made sausages and hamburger - of her friends to pick the red currants she had growing so whic[...]usually took home some buckets of that we had no market for the liver, heart, head, etc. The " sheep manure" for their gardens. butche[...]une 15, 1895. Ole Buer came from Oslo, Norway and we met in Radville, Saskatchewan 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[...]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 Frank Hughes place. We cut the ice into blocks, packed itin[...]sawdust, hauled it to town and delivered it door-to-door as folks kept food in ice boxes then. We had a livery barn,[...]hauled gas and oil to Opheim with horses. He did road and[...]bridge building work. We farmed on the West Fork at the[...]John Hanger farm. I sewed the clothing for our own family and did a lot of sewing for the Wards. I cooked on a cook car[...]at Whitetail in 1927 for Charlie Grant. In 1928 I cooked for[...]Collinson, Irving and I drove a team of horses to Erstads[...]We had six children: Jim, Mable, Helen, Clifford, Iv[...]rly . Mable and Beverly are still living. In 1932 we si tting. moved to the Coal Cr eek farm and farmed for Pat Murphy until 1940. Then we rented state land ten miles north west[...]in 1948 at Phoenix, 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 lived on the farm, was until we could move into living quarter s above the butcher married to Mable Crawford in 1959 and had one child, shop. T[...]ntil his death in 1970. Mable and I stayed in the We bought the butcher shop from Mr. Able and lived country for two years, then moved into town for the winter.[...] |
| [...]y took over the farming after Clifford died. to be always where he wa s needed, especially in the[...]when in almost every case he was the fir Jt man to down the with Beverly's help. I had a stroke in F[...]F ollowing gra d uation, Ingrid went home to Cummings nine grandchildren and nine great grandc[...]That fall, Ingrid went to Minneapolis to further her[...]TCHWORK OF MEMORIES to go on with her musical training, br:.t Anna the o[...]sister wa s considered more brilliant in this direction, and Paul Crum and Ingrid Kirkeberg were in the graduating wa s sent to St. Olafs in Northfield. I ngrid was to be a class of Fargo High School in 1904. Ingrid w[...]ith dark hair and an oval face. She was secretary to the principal and checked attendance. Quoting fro[...]oves every member of the class. One of those whom we hate to leave."[...]ather , 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 the flags for the cold weather (attachable).[...]and in 1906, a fter being admitted to the Bar, ope ed a law[...]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[...]itor of Cynosure. E smon d until they moved to Amarillo, Texas where Paul was among the players[...]909. In 1911 they moved letter. "In choosing Crum for Center, football pr ecedent back to North Dakota, and Halvorson was again Paul's was[...]e with his passing. In open field playing it We were to choose our middle names later. When she wa[...] |
| and retained Helen as a middle name. When we were little I called her Honeen , as I could not pronounce Helen. Later this was shorted to Honey, and it became a family name. For my middle name I chose Bixby, my paternal grandmo[...]e 1s a reproduction of President Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby commending her and sympathizing with her for having given five sons to the Civil War. The Crum side of t~e family were P[...]he lived there until December, 1895 when he came to Fargo to live with his father who had remarried . When[...]t Grand Forks, at the University of North Dakota. This - together with the mood of the times was probabl[...]uence in his life. There was Hearst with his lust for war. " Remember the Main - The Hell with Spain" .[...]the Phillipines when he was seventeen - remained for Paul - the most important event - and the dominating influence of his entire life. To make an often reprinted story short- "The Boy Hero of the Phillipines" as he was to be called, like most of the young men of the Grand Forks Military Academy, was possessed by a wild desire to do soldier duty in the Phillipines, but was refus[...]ing officer knew his age. However, he simply left 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 an[...]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 off[...]the present site of Scobey, and made arrangements for sanitation, casualty figures were obscured by de[...], 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 feve[...]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 forever after believe[...]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 fo[...]Steve recalls - "The lumber and materials for our home authorized to wear the uniform of Uncle Sam. Later,[...]ie trails from the rail Representative Marshall, for one, succeeded in having head at Wolf[...]recognition of Crum's limited size before 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 our Phillipin[...] |
| [...]he pantry was always stocked a have had to cross the river to get where he was. He was month ahead for storms, and I helped put a lamp in the[...]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[...]rd of sorts. The In the winter, Mom used to go sledding down the hills currants, gooseberries[...]h us. When there were blizzards and snow too deep for there was a clump of wild Juneberries.[...]rails, Dad would stay in town with Selmer Into this same valley, Honey and I would go early in the Oie, the banker. Out of tobacco during one blizzard , he put mornings to search for the Teenie Weenies we thought were on his muskrat cap and went a[...]wild rose bushes. prairie to Biard Pittingers and came back with a small plug[...]e 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 kitche[...]davenport which served as a bed for Uncle Roy and Aunt[...]Lillian with two year old Evelyn when they came to stay with us for part of one winter, while he wa s out of work in[...]One Christmas, I wakened Honey to tell her there were[...]angels at the foot of our bed. We soon found th ey were[...]Mom usually chose for us. 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 drip, and waiting for the sunshine. In the summer Mom[...]often let us use the con ten ts of her trunk to play " dress up". The Paul Crum Homestead[...]raved calling Summertime in Montana was lovely. We wandered cards, scarves and bras[...]ders or butterflies. And a lovely soft red gully. We picked flowers for Mom, and listened to the mull dress, which it was hard to imagine her in because she meadowlarks song. We ate chokecherries, rose petals and usually wore seersucker. cactus berries . . And always went down to the river, After the first few winters we lived in town in a little sometimes to wade, other times to stare in fascination at house next to the "Sears Roebuck" house , a big red house the p[...]e rippling where the Dobbins lived, and where we had wonderful surface of the water and listen to the music as it babbled on, times. Mrs. Dobbin was always ready for impromptu fun and watch the minnows darting throu[...]ith the children. I tasted Jello with cream there for the moss. Steve would probably be fishing, or sai[...]They and the other girls showed us how to make May baskets, sent to Minot for the same midwife who had delivered and we made them for years afterwards. We would go out to Honey and me. Steve was the first and last of us[...]As soon as Taylor could toddle, Mom took him down to doorknobs of our friends homes. Then we would knock on the river with the rest of us, and[...]was When summer came again, back we would go to the walking, he wandered away one morning.[...] |
| [...]. But, Before it was built we went to services and Sunday school somehow it wasn 't, and we were a1ways :, apn , · · J,~ ,._h 0[...]the Odd Fellows Hall, the Rex Theatre , a nd then for The first thing we would do, after a tom of our 1o.vo11te[...]..-- 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[...]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 morning we found everything in sight[...]tep. organ in the Chapel for many years. Before the mission Steve loaded all our playthings on his wagon to try to move came we had attended either the Lutheran or Methodist awa[...]es. Whenever Mother We all missed the farm, and I suppose, Mother especi[...]he would hurry us She came to the old white schoolhouse one lovely autumn down the cellar, where we would huddle until th e danger[...]once more the bumpy ride over the prairies to our farm. Our potatoes and kerosene lamp.[...]use, where a hired man was now living, seemed We used to meet the neighbor children, visiting at the melancholy and deserted . But we enjoyed the rest of the Biard Pittinger farm from Indiana for the summer, day[...]townspeople enjoyed it as much as we did. We came back nearby where we found broken bits of pottery and odds and often in the years to come. Dad would often bring an old ends to represent th e contents of our cupb oard. From this crony and they would re-live the old days, and the Spanish same farm , we used to get our milk and cream in covered tin[...]I emptied our banks experience, except of course for Mrs. Watts ' ream and fifty ,.u d we t to ,.own , first to the Variety Store, and then to cen t - five po und crocks of butter, delivered b[...]Case's onfectionery Store. The next stop, we decided, buggy to town . ✓ 0uld be to cross the railroad tracks and go to the Old Another childhood memory was of the p[...]oor of the original sod kitchen of the Pittingers to really. Amid the jumble inside we found nickel Hershey th e south of us. I remember[...]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 three of us . What the later outcome of this was I do not round farmers and as in most cases,[...]remember. I often think back to this example of the lives to the farm were well rewarded. I remember theirs as[...]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[...]bit there, and thought it in this Democracy. The " Wobblies ", those International[...]Workers of the World ". were ever present when we were Many, like my father and m otr.er, , ho[...]young, ..... __ _:: ~1.. e I W W came to be understood as " I Won 't h omestead only part[...]t y er u g the oundation for the a s the cla im w [ s proved up. 1 hen 1;';- -[...]etty) the only one of us with blue eyes neig hbor for s hares , which a t least helpe · pay rn e taxes[...]ience 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[...]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[...]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[...]he barn, was an Eagle Scout, and excelled at was to parade downtown to watch the burning of the[...]pression 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[...]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 following year,[...]ony with all nature. in the grades she caught up to me as she was promoted, a nd The pioneer days were over, and we were growing up. we went on through together.[...]In brief: Steve worked his way through college to become Dad and Mother bought a little white h[...]an electrical engineer. He went to work as head of design Street. Later, All Saints Chapel was built across the street. for Minneapolis Honeywell. Taylor was going to the[...] |
| [...]n 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[...]Texas. They retired with their son Barbu John to Hawaii[...]disappearance of all his savings to try to save Didi's[...]Mother passed away in April in 1965 while we were still in[...]hed 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[...]le accident in September, University and studying to be a Traffic Engineer. Honey 1955. was wo[...]hared an apartment in Ironically this final tragedy brought Dad full circle, back Minneapolis. Stephen 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[...]ith a degree in course of his life. He wrote to me as follows: English literature, now studying l[...]ember 26th. Your mother had Minneapolis Honeywell for thirty-five years. her Episcopal rector 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 Mo[...]there in March, 1898, in an old square rigger, in to Salt Lake City where Chris was with the 9th Service ballast to Tacoma and coal back to San Francisco. On my Command as a refrigeration e[...]dio in early fall. It was a windy, sandy Marines. We bought our present home and acreage on[...]ty-one Medals issued posthumously to Private Paul Crum Jr., years ago, while Chris was[...]mpaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Chris went to work for True Temper Corporation, and we Medal, Victory Medal World War II. spent[...]n home. Our winter Paul Crum lived to be seventy-eight before his death at residence varied from Cleveland to Alexandria, Virginia, Fort Harrison, Helena. Honey and Morris were at his to Santa Monica, California to Chicago before an early bedside, and arranged for his interrment at Custer retirement.[...]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[...]r 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.[...]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[...] |
| limitless sky one sees on the ocean , to begin a n ew life . And ALFRED[...]ngrid Crum was a tru e pioneer's wife, ever ready to help her neighbors whenever there was sickness or[...]e same spirit of early Scobey, coming to what is now Daniels County in courageous search -[...]09. He was born in Bellview, Minnesota. He worked for fallen away - they are now free to begin that most vital Mansfield Daniels[...]Irma Bixby Lange Later he moved back to the old Timmons place on the[...]Poplar river flats where he worked for Jake Timmons and[...]Nelsons were residents of 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[...]on what later became the Joe McKiernan and ran it for a couple of years; sold it to a Hockam, and Mr. place. He also had a brothe[...]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 19[...]s hospital down on Main Sweden, coming to America at the age of three. He was Street near t[...]y of 11 children near Cokato, Minnesota. He years for Dr. Collinson. 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[...]ea on which he resided Excerpts from a letter to Dorothy Rustbakke in 1963. until our co[...]1919. He then resolved to complete his education in the field[...]to this union were born three children: David, Donald and[...]In 1922 he came back to Montana and entered into law Ronald and Dorothe[...]tter 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 their marriage was spent for several more terms. Dave also helped out John in Albuquerque, New Mexico where Ron was sta[...]th the United States Air Force. Upon their return to family west to Opheim (1926) where he set up private law Montana[...]d also served as State Representative from school for five years. In 1959 they moved into Scobey and Valley county. He returned to Scobey in 1933, taking over Ron taught two years[...]he practice of his brother, John, who had decided to leave operated Fjeld's Men and Boy's Clothing Store for 13 years, Scobey and establish a law practice in Milaca, Minnesota. selling out in 1974 to go into farming. Ron and Dorothy The N[...]as appointed District Judge by Governor Sam Ford, to eighth grader.[...] |
| Vernon Hoven, who had taken leave of his duties to enter 80th birthday in 1973 with close fr[...]rn 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 resi[...]n 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[...]an 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[...]Velva. Later he worked for the Swanson Implement[...]He went to Old Scobey in 1911 where he worked for[...]When Scobey moved to its present location he also[...]in Siberia. After leaving the service he returned to[...]selling out to H.C. Nelson and Sons (Lyle and George).[...]ake Timmons of Iowa brought his wife and daughter for more than ten years. Since 1932 she has been farming Blanche to Poplar in 1901 and freighted to Old Scobey the (she recently sold her farm south of Madoc to Don Mohn same year. He managed the Dani[...]Jake Timmons was a man who was not looking for credit quietly observing the passage of ye[...] |
| [...]d benefit Scobey, then Jake would do all he could to get it. He was a greatlover of stories[...]y years later settlers spent their first night in this country at the Timmons-Daniels Hotel. The following day they would be taken over the country looking for a location. Daniels and Timmons saw the need for water conservation and they dammed the Poplar Riv[...]Old Scobey. twigs and brush, storing enough water to flood many acres of hay land.[...] |
| [...]d which resulted in the forming of Daniels County out of that section of Valley County lying west of th[...]Cone counties came into being at the same time. This election was coupled with one for the selection of a county seat. Madoc and Scobey were the contenders. In preparation for this event Scobey had installed electric lights, a water and sewage system, and other improve- ments to make it a logical contender. Scobey won the coveted county seat by a vote of 964 to 358. On August 30 of that same year Samuel V . St[...]nd made a part of the Twentieth Judicial District for the State of Montana . George Springer, early[...]a Scobey attorney, was an enthusiastic supporter for the[...], with Lou Boyd, circulating petitions and trying to Earl Br[...]ince the citizens that they should support Scobey for ~[...]cobey 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 stou[...]y the kayo route. " Three commissioners served to help form the new |
| [...]UNTY SEAT thankful for the county creation and guard it with just[...]realization. Last, but not least, let us strive to keep in mind THE WISH OF THE VOTERS OF THE NEW CO[...]in the making of Daniels county we have stood "all for OF DANIELS HAS BEEN VOICED AND WON one," let us keep it "one for all," and that in every righteous DECISIVELY. WIS[...]se of duty. MAJORITY DEMONSTRATED BY HEAVY VOTING FOR DIVISION AND CLAIMS SET FORTH BY[...]ged The County Vote for laurels to her crown when she was chosen as county seat of t[...]AT There has been much talk and speculation as to the possibility of making a new county and the ch[...]eat, 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 been most carefully gone over; details For the new YES 1079 worked out and committees appointed to execute same. County of Daniels[...]the making of the new county and choice of Scobey for REPRESENTATIVE county se[...]619 Madoc, the only rival of Scobey for county seat honors, Frank Hughes[...]857 made every effort to put her claims fore most for the E.P. LaRoche[...]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,[...]334 far as her desire is concerned to be the county seat of David J. Martin[...]CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT wish to retain Madoc 's good will in the future as in the[...]722 free from humiliation and insinuations - this is as it Peter Tang[...]COUNTY TREASURER from start to finish.[...]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[...]est. The selection of office rs have their duties to perform may the sacredness of[...]intrusted Frank M. Robinson with power, to the advancement of all good, growth and progressive yet conservative moues for the good and gain COUNTY SU[...]993 and always, be a credit to the great State of Montana, free L[...] |
| [...]yed Molly" shortly after the town of Scobey moved to its present location, was purchased to serve as the county courthouse. This building is one of the few courthouses to be found in eastern Montana that still retains th[...]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[...]n been four individuals held this position, namel y: Frank M. |
| [...]1937-1942; Roy Day - 1939-1944; a pprai ser hired to take care of land and buildings. Wyvil Bj[...]- 1963 to date; Irvin Halverson -[...]Court Clerk of court: John Shippam -June 1920 to February |
| [...]A true scholar comes to mind. This jingle was written by Claire, C.A. Hillstrom, County Superintendent of S[...]1943 to 1954 with Pat Horton as Under Sheriff. Pat[...] |
| [...]ldred Cla usen was th e first on e in th e county to do th is. Daniels County Sh op[...] |
| [...]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.[...]ilding of a new multi-purpose building on Timmons to cleaning and painting the room. The Women's Club sent Street to house the new library. out letters to ladies of other towns and communities in[...]hompson, Librarian Daniels County soliciting help for soliciting books and money in a door-to-door campaign . Doors of the new library were[...]lver Tea which brought in $100 in cash. Adding it to the library treasury made a balance of $249. The[...]City-County Library" and the hours were 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 COUNTY FAIR p.m.[...]s librarians. Mrs. Victor Hillstrom was appointed to A County Fair Board, appointed by[...]Commissioners, has been in existence for several years. Late in 1946 the Women's Club m[...]as in charge the county commissioners urging them to take over the of annual exhibits of 4-[...]ese responsibilities and finances of the library. This could not exhibits were held at various place[...]e and well-attended celebrations. operating under this name. Mrs. Marie Brudie was hired In[...]organizations met to make plans for the formation of a In November 1959 the library was moved to its present Fair Association, to work in connection with the Fair location at 104[...]inted by consist of 21 trustees, elected to represent all parts of the the commissioners to manage the finances of the library count[...]The First Annual Daniels County Fair under this In 1968 M.J. Traynor was elected to the Montana arrangement was held in[...]rodeo , a night show, and a carnival added to the festivities. County Free Library was built up to an updated library by A quonset, previousl[...]used the Mont~na State Library with state funding for libraries. the commercial exhibits, but othe[...]hillips and A 36 x 100 frame building to house exhibits at the Valley met in the City-Coun[...]th the fairgrounds was constructed in time for the 1958 fair. State Librarian, David Hoffman of Helena for the purpose In 1961, a livestock scale[...]alent show. Evening shows have featured approvals for a bookmobile to service rural areas . It is a varie[...] |
| [...]as written what they could gather about available to attempt to produce a comple~and accurat.e their own s[...]may have been the peak record of the schools in, this area, becau,e qefore 1920 year in stu[...] |
| [...]Frederick to di stance, roads and weather the length of the sc[...]ad di tion to companionship and guidance. The school was Smoke[...]rt eq uipment was added both inside and out. Wells were dug[...]and th e children no longer carried water to school along[...]fa milies leaving the farms , children ready for high school and a ye n to attend a larger school in town , saw the[...]out of existen ce. It was with reluctance that many s[...]s of age. The names of th e schools were selected for varied reasons . Som e such as Four Buttes, Eagle[...]of the schools were ph ysically m oved from yea r to year to better acco mm odate the ch a n ges in pop[...] |
| La Combe School. Left to right: Helen Bureau, Alice Bureau, Henry Bureau,[...]nts took their places in the world , giving honor to with the times. Before long parents will tell their child ren those schools of yesterday. Here's to the parents , the and grandchildren abol!,t th e school houses being out on children and the teachers who made it al[...]nning" . Long gone are the anti-over players were here. who romped out to play at recess , the gopher snarers, the The school buildings have been sold and moved a way for water pail carriers, the happy days of comr[...]ountry schools where programs, remaining are used for voting places , Home Demonstra- basket s[...]he Dodd school ho use from District tainment to the early settlers who were eager to do their bit #16 holds sway in Pioneer Town. Where once eager young for the education of the children. feet tramped in and out and sat at desks , heads bent over The bui[...]the three R's, now greets forever a monument to our early settlers with their visions visitors wh[...]stare in of tomorrow. awe at how it used to be. Of th[...]A word of praise and tribute to the parents, teachers ,[...]To the teacher, early day and present day , "Teachin[...]evaluator - every teacher must assume if he is to be a[...]In addition to the decline in school population, rural area[...]consolidation very feasible. The last to consolidate was[...] |
| teachers away from the class rooms to enter war work and service, leaving a teacher sho[...]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 an[...]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.[...]schooling pails were left in the yard. By this time there was not much in moving westward. 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 cla[...]) so the teacher would peel some vegetables, wash for the children of the early arrivals. dishes and plan her menu for the next day. Soup and cocoa Teachers faced lon[...]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[...]ys walked. In winter she enjoyed a early in order to build the fire , do the janitor work (free), da[...]reen grass and pink wild roses from a college but this bit of sheepskin does not always or a fie[...]tin drinking cups which provided drinking water for the Class preparation was done by lamp light beca[...]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 day; only very necessary items were provided for the engage in snow ball fights , but to " go straight home", then educational needs of[...]fire, checked the outdoor magazines and for canned fruit and box labels. She made toilets and[...]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. In general the early day teacher[...]well experienced. She improvised, using ingenuity to no reports, recommended whether or not th[...]eachers were Occasionally special visitors came to visit school; some technically the 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 on their best behavior.[...]rd of County was, some of the children were eager to recite and they were Commissioners. allowed the floor. Now and then there was to be found a Schools were rated regular and superior by the State "show off' looking for personal attention, which Departme[...]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.[...]iving fairly close by managed some sort of visits to the school. She was often held in terror by the[...]xville and They al ways feared she would ask them to remove their Whitetail provided buses. s[...]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[...]. . . . . . . 1963- Bill Lapke as bus driver for Madoc School - 1930's Mabel V. Thayer teacher[...]courses to Scobey to enable teachers to earn credits for |
| [...]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 ,[...]And there's time for recreation, May we work in humble service See our playground in MONTANA For the betterment of man; For it merits estimation. Look to God Who will sustain us, Seek His help in every p[...]M of the mood. The cowboys are just fakes. But go to just one rodeo,[...]BELT and MOCCASIN they're making, Seldom known to shirk. Beaded[...]u know. You think the old time west is gone? Come to Scobey and celebrate. Where there's SWEETGRASS for your pony Or the Wolf Point rodeo ,[...]f dudes and flocks of sheep. Carl Bull and others we could name, Still going strong through not so you[...]See the ROUNDUP in the fall. It's better to be a has-been Than to be a never-was.[...]If 'tis here you would abide; I have list to the call of the mocking bird,[...] |
| But if you should choose to leave us Then banked the fire and swept the flo or . From MONTANA far to go, Her subject[...]She taught them all from A to Z. Fas tened with a SILVER BOW . And then she taught them how to spell by Rachel Sorenson In the one room school we done so well.[...]We tried to grasp what the teacher said[...]No cafeteria to serve hot stew . MONTANA We needed no gym to make us strong[...]f the ravages of age. Where we all were taught the Golden Rule. Brown grassland graduates to purple hills, |
| [...]My memory is best served And you listen close to the waving grain by voices and[...]that I have met. And hear his voice crying out for rain From the echoes of After[...]my mother A desperate cry for needed rain I live w[...]worthwhile," she said; If you let yourself enjoy this depth and she lived by Of the cattle, the train, the cry for rain this truly You can always hear the taunting sounds[...]Margaret Lee (Hollis) enough for all;[...]echo I hear are relative to comes[...]of his own; As we reach the age of[...]le He set to the task places , and events to right what becomes a[...]he shading "This, too, will of the years[...] |
| [...]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,[...]And her hands were near to the household deeds. Maybe then I will know She gave to me of the best she could; "This, too, will pass away."[...]That my heart might thrill to a starry night,[...]nd her eyes have dimmed by the falling tears. And we grew together This little dog and I[...]She had placed herself as the sacrifice! To lick the tears,[...]... To my mother We are both young yet, He and I, Yet one fear nags m[...]They all hold their treasures When viewing first this mighty land of happiness wh[...]But they all show the hardships Land for the taking to build a home of the lives w[...]ad. 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[...] |
| [...]wn little land. For every little girl and boy.[...]and gone From whom do we get it, but from God above. with swiftness much t[...]And trying to get the car to go. It's been 200 years since[...]. From Christmas Eve to Christmas morn.[...]And peace and love to everyone. and friends, young and old,[...]by Judy Fouhy for this land that we hold.[...]"Allow me to catch[...]This moment of childhood[...]So hard to delay them[...]MEDITATION This picture is special[...]Time---stood still. Hidden, enfolded, But coming to be.[...]Mrs. Cecil M. Ferguson Budding, leaf-baby Peer out and see. As a butterfly sheds |
| [...]lend a hand to that lus - ty bunch, on[...]Sco·o bey down to Te - e - xas, Let us[...]Down to the Ri·o[...]ons once a-gain To the best route in[...]a-bout that r oad for the fnends you·\'e got. On[...]II c t 's go all out for a great old route. Aa·a.n[...]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 busine[...]through 1907 after which the Scobey family moved to Morris, Minnesota. Major C.R.A. Scobey died at[...]child born on that post. Major Scobey was married to Elizabeth Strachen in !887 at Fort Buford, North Dakota. Their son, Cha rles Scobey, had two boys and a girl a[...] |
| [...]were not prepared for winter, and some had little PIO[...]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 ar[...]ulbertson 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.[...]e, especially prosperous looking homesteaders out into the one 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 trappers had been wor[...]Several outlaw gangs had hideouts in this wild area Company established a trading post at[...]ing 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[...]e Ranch, in a house which still stands arranging for Sitting Bull's surrender was somewhere[...]ll be came as a bitter disappointment to the owner to learn later found.[...]near the Poplar River, is on the old come to his townsite, but would start a new town across t[...]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.[...]own of Scobey, located 14 miles waiting for it. south of the Canadian border and 60 miles fr[...]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[...]irst store in Scobey. This tavern had just been moved over from the old town[...]ay with the Charles Robert Anderson Scobey, agent for the Fort Peck back bar purchased in 1915. It still has the tin on the Indian Reservation, to aid in obtaining a post office for the ceiling and walls which were so popular i[...]Scobey continued to grow and was incorporated in 1916. Soon the Da[...]County voted between Scobey and Madoc for county seat. Some of the first white families to settle in what is now Scobey won, 964 to 358. "Scobey Country" included the John Mantemach[...]ap 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 "squatt[...] |
| [...]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 were A[...]supported the fellows they had hired to play ball. Scobey From the beginning, the town[...]extreme effort of Plentywood sportsmen of broken for seeding with one-bottom plows pulled by horses flying a pitcher in from Missouri just in time for one game or oxen. Later much sod was turned with[...]ngines. 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 years of this high-priced baseball, with again have come into c[...]Minnesota , winning almost every game. In order to rains came or failed to come for the farmers' crops and as encourage sportsmen from other towns to bet on the game prices for grain and cattle fluctuated . Scobey would sometimes agree to pitch a different man Population of Scobey and Daniels County continued to each inning. rise slowly (after the "popu[...]with grandstand, underground watering and lights. This farmers and other residents packed up their belon[...]olunteer labor and donated materials and and left for greener pastures which usually did not exist.[...]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[...]ain thrived, The 1960 Scobey Plainsmen went to the national semi- although the population did no[...]930, and rural area. There evidently was a desire for many to seek followed with several years of winning teams. After their fortunes in urban areas. This was aided by larger having a number of di[...]lly won the machinery which allowed fewer farmers to handle more state championship in 1969[...]r state officials found that they were continuted to show great community pride by keeping[...]"big towns." business house was remodeled during this period. Golf also has a long hi[...]was annual invitational tournament scheduled for this year. when, in the mid '60's, residents proved t[...]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 rin[...]any new buildings, both residential and out•of-town co mpetition comes from neighboring com[...]d rodeos have tried it elsewhere, are moving back to what have been an important part o[...]of some of the infamous "Chicago Black For the past few years the FM-Stereo radi o station i[...]romoting sports around northeast Montana. decided to put a team together that could beat powerful[...]ore than its pitcher, John Donaldson. Scobey, not to take this lying share of people who take an active[...]cal feelings have run hot around Scobey many ball for life after allegedly "throwing" the 1919 World[...]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[...]from Sheridan County resulted in fire being set to the Co unty Museum Assoc iatio n a nd bui[...]st 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 Wha[...]nstruction (including a dam on the Poplar grouse, to mention a few. Raccoons, mink, wolves, antelope[...]rs and see, close-up, the effect of this type of development and will trappers are having[...]ctual strip The variety of habitat contributes to the many kinds of mining and smoke stacks ar[...]river and digging into underwater streams will do to and some real "badlands." A number of small dams[...]ater s uppl y a nd a lso what the big smoke added to the Poplar River for fishermen 's pleasure. stacks, only abo ut 17 miles from Scobey, will do to the air The biggest celebration in the a rea's[...]the rails. It was Most residents are hoping for steady economic 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[...]d Earth . Many benches (with high backs) built for the occasion Scobey is the northernmost[...]way connecting Montana and popular meeting places for hundreds of former residents Saskatchewan, and with oiled highways leading in from and "old timers" here. 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 m[...]years, clean air, blue skies and town , dedicated to the hardy homesteaders and located on abounding friendship still exist in this prairie la nd where the western edge of Scobey, c[...]s 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[...] |
| [...]ated as it was on the wide open pra irie, subject to the su n, moon and the n orth wind , it had several odds aga inst it, for a ll the beauty of the prairies. The piom~e r businessmen and women were n ot to be denied at least a ch a nce to impregnate th e a rea with ideas and methods that[...]olicy structure were well laid by these pioneers. We of the present generation can little appreciate w[...]. The town has grown in numbe rs , in wealth , we h ave more organizations, finer buildings , but g[...]from small strea ms and wells. The cattlemen h ad to find a special location , tho, with shelter and i[...]ards were therefore amo ng the first undertakings to be erected in order that the sod buster and the rancher had a place to deliver their products. The merchants got in line to be recipients of Sl"l me of this revenue.[...]els County are past. Pionee r life has give n way to the onward march of civili zation. Where once oxe[...]wn of Scobey, Sheridan Cou nty, Monta na Pursuant to a call issued by the Mayor, Gustav Oie, the Town[...]well started on its water and sewage s ubscrib ed to the oa th of office as prescribed by statute, system, its street lighting system and was about to vote on before J.C. J ac kson, Notary Public. a bond issue for a new school - which was later The Mayo r appointed J.C. Jackso n for the office of town constructed and since torn down to make way for the new clerk .[...]conded by Alderman hostelry when this picture was taken. The Gorham wasn 't Coughlin th[...], Gus Oie, A. W. On motion the meeting adjo urned to November 22nd, 1915 Chapin, Geo. Cudhie,[...]have passed on. Jake Timmons , then representing this Atten: Geo. Cudhie[...] |
| [...]4 4 It would be interesting to kno w who the little fellow is May Holc[...] |
| [...]merly GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD The first train to arrive in Scobey was Thanksgiving The Great Northern Railway was extended to Opheim in |
| [...]bar for the longest period) and after being vacant for[...]There is no documentary proof available to the[...]ompany, which was started in Old Scobey and moved to[...]out of business about the same time the Citizens Stat[...]ishback and Jarvis of the Glentana Territory used this and Gustav Oie, vice president, of Scobey;[...]Minnesota was elected to the board in 1917. was the world's greatest primary wheat market. This is a[...]tion took place in February of award was received for being active in civic organizations 1921. The[...]. and programs and was the third such award given out up .:''ristenson, president; L.V. Hanson, O.B. Egland , W.T. until this time.[...]Long may the Burlington Northern, Inc. continue to The next changes in the board of dir[...]became president coming when railroads are going to be vital again. and E.W. Battleson rep[...]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,[...]. no doubt shared optimism felt by most for continued[...]y lak dem gude ol' cars dropped to just over $200,000, but they stayed in business Foray ain't soon forgatting dem days ve had to freight. and during this period became the only bank in Scobey.[...]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,[...].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 notting, ven county bonds for grain. With the depression over and bump[...]1943 when deposits passed the one million mark for the Tailing business ban rotten, ets foolish maki[...]lers Monday, packing same ol ' elected to the board, taking her husband's place after his[...]death. She had been active in the bank for many years and continued working there for several more years. On det ol' yerkvawter branch[...]Another lady who spent over twenty years working for Wit leaky, rattlin' enyine, en cars of long ago,[...]ate was Miss Emma Nordtorp, who started in Ay lak to taking ride, wit mey Gena by mey side,[...] |
| [...]DANIELS COUNTY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION elected to the board a short time later replacing Scarseth.[...]. It was a desire to establish a credit union that would make[...]loans, small ones to those in need who did not have access to bank assistance. His enthusiasm and that of other[...]Robert was elected president of this organization and held that position for 28 years until his retirement. M.E. Veis[...]the bank at that time and is the only native |
| building was erected on the site with ample room for expansion of business. Robert Ferguson had great pride in this organization; 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'[...]stock. Case machinery was added to the business, along[...]In 1964 the implement business was sold to Don Maggie Walker - long time employee at Scobey[...]we have since added two annexes giving us a capacity[...]ushels. An office, new scales and many dates back to 1906 when Daniels County was part of Valley[...]hat 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[...] |
| [...]uor store opened in May, 1934. The liquor sales for State Liquor Store No. 51-Scobey for 1948 - $76,804.04. The liquor sales for State Liquor Store No. 51 - Scobey for the fiscal year -1974-1975 -$132, 166.00. Some[...]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[...]During this same period of time they also formed the[...]Johnson Farm Loan Company of Glasgow. This firm[...]equal to the challenge and began the Montana Abstract[...]an intelligent and patriotic ballot and working for the Charles C. Richard E .[...]presidential vote was give to Colonel Roosevelt, and he[...]ces was Richard E. 1916 he supported Hughes for the presidency and was a (Dick) Johnson, who came to Glasgow, Montana the first believer in r[...]ples". He enlisted in the time in 1 99 and worked for the Lewis-Wedum Company. Marines in 19[...]d in 1919. He was a Store at Glasgow. He returned to Minnesota where he charter member of[...]ion, and also its post commander. Mr. Johnson who for many years owned and managed the Montana[...]Abstract Company at Scobey. Dick Johnson returned to Roy Johnson was born in Dexter, Iowa[...]the manager of the business and continued to transact its who, until his death in the 1960's w[...]H. Johnson , as Plentywood and later moved to Scobey. a lad of 19, became identified with the l[...]cade business. He continued the operation for a period of almost[...] |
| 15 years until he sold the business to Carmel M. Morey in HISTORY O[...]any in 1962 and has How fitting, as we are in the Bicentennial Era, to be been sole operator since that time.[...]small groups, so a combined meeting was held. Out of this[...]County Electric Cooperative electricity has paid to the rural area of our country, I feel it in Med[...]e 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 area.[...]s were satisfied with services provided by Farmer this meeting emerged the Northern Electri Co-op with[...]On October 4, 1950 application was made to become Rogenes, Wm. Niehoff, Art Reed, Martin Sauber, E.R. incorporated and for license to open books for subscription. Strate, and Lalon Jones.[...]were occupied with membership drives . . . hours we got to be a going concern. However, about this explaining the scope and purpose of the project. time we were confronted with shortages of every type due To qualify for an R.E.A. loan, the cooperative had to be to World War Two. This set the project back several years in a position to provide area coverage and put up a and the costs[...]nergy was put through the system. Along with this feasibility had to be proven and lines from Fort Peck to Opheim. The first farm energized many times this was difficult. was the Jacobson farm, east of Opheim. This surely was day in the history of Daniels, Valley,[...]es, now being c:rved by Northern Electric.! At this time there are some 1000 miles of distribution li[...]its beginning. During its infant years it had to purchase the white elephant plant from Montana Da[...]eim, which later was abandoned and sold in Canada for junk. This was necessary to get the franchise of Opheim with the railroad and public service commission to be also consulted. From Opheim to small towns of Glentana, Richland, Peerless, Four Buttes and Frazer were energized, and then on to rural areas. Some of the very isolated places[...]ed as well as local Cooperative pictured left to right: William Herman, oil fields and one refiner[...]d 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[...]The first loan was approved June 27, 1952 and was for because of lack of education and experience, Virgil $1,987,000. The loan was to acquire five existing former Burdette was hired[...]bers, upgrade success of Northern Electric is due to Virgil's guidance of their service from manual to dial telephones, and bring this co-op through infancy to a very successful enterprise. new service to 2135 new subscribers. Later purchases were An important person in this struggle from the beginning made of two t[...]d 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 in some small way, when they flip the switch, dialing where we can call any city in the United States that the young generation to today will realize the sweat, from our own home". This service, plus many refinements, time and labor that made this possible and that they will is very commonplace today and to many young people, do a good job of carry[...] |
| [...]and deliver groceries and other needed items for his mail[...]building near the old bank building. It was moved to the Masonic building and in 1928 was moved to the Gorham Hotel. In 1940 it was moved to the building where[...]the Leader office is now, from there it was moved to the old[...]Mountain Bell Association was changed to the Nemont Telephone Cooperative, Inc.[...]st telephones were used in Scobey May of 1968. At this time the majority of the new lines is not[...]e company historical being installed were planned to be buried facilities. By records. Earliest[...]lephone Company was in operation before 1916 over to one-party, buried cable service; by 1974 four mor[...]time there were 103 telephones in Scobey. service to rural areas. According to a resume published in 1959 the first Consistent[...]r in rural telephony in Montana from 1914 to 1916. Mrs. Glenn Jones served as chief and has been "first" in many aspects, and is continuing to operator for one year, 1916-1917. She and her husband plan for the future.[...]from · 1918 to 1923, followed by Grace Knapp (Mrs. Ed[...]1941 the chief operator in Scobey was According to the available records Mabel B. Daniels was[...]working in that capacity until her promotion to chief Scobey, originally known as East Scobey, in[...]opertor in 1941. When the Scobey phone system was this position until 1921 when Sid Bennett became converted to dial operatin in 1953 Mrs. Whipple became a postm[...]ice 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 tha[...]or: "Remember before and Old Scobey at that time. This contract was let on the dial system wen[...]l; giving the dope on all ball scores of out of town games ... Andrew 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 ne[...]rea manager Wolfe served as contract mail carrier for over 30 years out ·supervising Scobey's telephone operations from Wolf of Scobey to West Fork, Carbert, Line Coulee, and north to Point, began his phone company career in Sco[...]combination man. "When I went to Scobey in 1946," During his many years as mail[...]snowmobiles, and various types of phones. To make calls, customers cranked the handle on autom[...]ntral office. The sleigh during the winter months to protect him from operator answered th[...]connection from her switchboard." walked all day to keep warm, and the horse's bits would T[...]ffice, Loendorf noted, is the sometimes be frozen to their mouths. In a blizzard in 1929 same bui[...]tion that has served area the trip from West Fork to Scobey took him 16 hours. It was phone customers since the beginning of telephone service his custom to change teams at the Bill Gilchrist place. in Scobey. "It has since been remodeled to suit current Ralph Peters was another mail carrie[...]dorf said, "but when I first worked In addition to handling the mail Mr. Wolfe, like other in[...]ural mail carriers of those days, was often asked to buy with kitchen, were still there."[...] |
| Others who have worked for Mountain States Telephone operations. Delays in arrival of key equipment for the and later Mountain Bell in the recent past in[...]necessitated later sending two carloads of staff to Luft, who maintained the central office and insta[...]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 lea[...]ercial broadcast experience. It was another first for worked for the phone company in Scobey until 1968. Mrs. this area with many unique, sometimes weird, and often Mary Lavey succeeded her and continues to work as a expensive experiences and ep[...]he station began a month of testing from midnight to 6 Gene Marley, Mountain Bell sub-foreman, has b[...]aying 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[...]el, accommodate growth and provide better service for area Gordon Juel, John Rustebakke. custom[...]partially covered the severe loss. in the area for an improved environment.[...]o From the beginning KCGM has endeavored to be a began in April, 1968 when Larry C. Bowler en[...]estern North Dakota with D.C. seeking application to the Federal Communication news, public n[...]coverage of events never before broadcast the FCC to assign Channel 239 (95.7MH) to Scobey, in behalf of the many rural[...]chneekloth, Roy Killenbeck, Milton a place for the development of local talent and local Gunders[...]personalities, as well as a place oflearning for area youth. application for a construction permit and its attendant[...]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[...]prospective personnel was held in November, 1970. For the next seven months Chief Engineer A. Erwin Nelson conducted classes for ROSELAND PARK employers and prospective employees in regard to the Federal Communication Commission requirements for Roseland Park, located in the cent[...]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[...]e Directors with the searched in vaid for the park, but finally found Mr. Scott's Universit[...]adio 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 contributed the land for the special seminar for the student operators, staff and board, park area. He also was responsible for the water works of relative to equipment operating technique and general[...] |
| [...]Carl Cole - barber. He came to Scobey from North Dakota Daniel Scott became pa[...]in 1920 and operated a barber shop here for many cared for the cemetery and dump grounds. For two years years. After selling out here he became interested in potatoes were planted in the plowed area of the park to the cattle business with Jess Smith south of Poplar. ready it for planting. Then shrubs , 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[...]ery-Jack and Tom Conboy, where Ginger's soon died out and were never replaced. In 1919 a[...]George Cudhie was an attorney. concerts to the public.[...]building was purchased by Edmund Doucette for a a $50,000 swimming pool, the first steel tank t[...]rooming house and barber shop. Now owned by this part of the country, was opened . The water is ke[...]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[...]Spear. DeWilde had a novelty shop next to the Rex. Lloyd and Marian Alexander - Depot. Lloy[...]. They had four children: remembered for many years as the "Sears and Everett, Willon[...]olice officer in Scobey enroute to Alaska" from Ogden, Utah on a[...]with a long strip of border for his territory. He is now[...]remembered here for his accommodating manner[...]married Charlotte Noble, and moved to Townsend,[...] |
| [...]rles passed away from a heart J.B. Fleming - came to old Scobey in 1912 and in 1913 condit[...]in Great Falls. the site on the Poplar River to the present townsite of Indy Halverson - Grocer[...]t Bozeman at his home in 1954. He was married to the former Nora Hansen; both are now deceased[...]business. His wife was Rhoda and they had one son, Jack. Mrs. Nina Ford lived here, too. Dora Fowler - Beauty Shop. Gallagher - worked for Battleson's. Mrs. Gallagher was a seamstress.[...]Gluck - Drayman and freighter. Gem Cafe was next to Hillstrom Motors.[...]ow is. Sarah Griffith - in 1927 moved from Scobey to the west coast to make her home.[...]d in the bank. Haburchak lived here from 1952 to 1964. He was Nicholas Healy, early bar[...]uilding County Agent and Alice was bookkeeper for the is now.[...] |
| two daughters Ardeen and Jane. The family moved to owned by Gordon Blomquist, formerly[...]tracks. He and wife Auget and son James moved to Scobey area resident for 40 years later moving to Corvallis, Montana. Hamilton,[...]wife Kathryn was an invalid for many years, Tom Kittleson - Blacksmith with Tom S[...]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, Bernell, Novella. Rudolph Leer worked for O.B. Egland Lumber, wife Kathryn, sons Rudol[...]eader. Wife Maude, worked at the theater and for many years at the newspaper office. Had one[...]liam and Maude died at Scobey and are buried here. Leo Linderman - Westland Oil Company employee, wi[...]nd his wife Amelia (Kramer) and family moved to Washington. Had three children, Stanton, Leo[...]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[...]ery business from War veterans in this community. He was a lovable old Madsen. Late[...]fellow with a remarkable stamina when it came to sold to Ambrose Murphy and Indy Halvorson. In 1952 telling of the old days. Halvorson sold to Chris Tande, who later rented the Erling[...]rtsman at the Noland Implement. His property to Kitzenbergs.[...]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 for the children until they were grown. Later Elmer a[...]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 Sco[...]W. He died in a fire in Scobey year later. Worked for moved his building to its present location and is now[...] |
| [...]nything, worked at odd jobs around the area prior to[...]He did not return to Scobey following his navy service[...]Seger's were transferred to Sand Point, Idaho where[...]In later years she opened a gift shop next to the Rex[...]Shrank. They moved to Arizona where Henry died.[...]Judith continues to make her home there.[...]sons: Ford, Jimmie, Bobby and Jack. They moved to Glasgow and later to Browning.[...]Roy Thomas - Confectionary later sold to George Case.[...]Frank Wakeland was a carpenter, moved to Washington in family moved back to Vermont where Shorty grew up early[...]later his wife and baby died. Shorty drifted west to Later operated a cafe. Moved to Plains Montana Carrington and Balfour, North[...]h in the early 1940's, She t3:ught school for many years. Shorty has he had lived in the Sc[...]1921. Shorty is remarned and continues to live at Plains. r~membered as one who was int[...]Henry and Raynell Schwabe owned the Gorham Hotel for livestock and farming and was always a source[...]Jeanme and Miletta. They sold the hotel and moved to one time he operated a car loader in Scobey a[...]70's. She was a niece of P.R. as a messenger for Depot Agent Fred Haun. Shorty Gorham. cared for lawns and yards for many people in Scobey, Mike Skadron had a g[...]and on the afternoon of his death had been caring for Skadron and wife Bertha had one daughter Sally. the Art Hagfeldt lawn. He sat down to rest in the shade They moved to California. of the trees where he passed quie[...]n the Chester Ford. Cecil Marsh worked for him later West he loved.[...]and John. Wife was Ruth. They moved to Bea~h, North as Mr. Fixit because of his ability to r~pair almost Dakota. Ral[...]Raymond, Roland, Forest moved to Yakima Washington to live. '[...] |
| [...]at the typewriter; probably Irving Davis next to him; Alvah "Slim" Shaw, standing next to auto.[...]heated argument he roared, "I'll throw you from this grown from 39 charter members to 127 members in 1974. office out!" and Joe was a man of action.[...]painter. Many were the signs "Woodley Did It" in this and youth, civil defence and national secur[...]n: Lester and Orlo them. Selling poppies for veterans and helping with the Woodward were c[...]the Auxiliary participate in. Orlo moved to the west coast. William, Elizabeth,[...]n 1913. They gave an entirely different sound to the ears than cement gives. What places SCOBEY POST 56, AMERICAN LEGION they were for money to fall through. Must have been someone always hunting for something lost there. compiled by Charles Cassidy Must have been dangerous too for here a board, there a board, could flip up and leave a dangerous opening. The charter for Scobey Post 56 was issued at National[...] |
| [...]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 appl[...]the formative years, but year as the date for the registration of all men of draft age. those s[...]on sites. In Scobey fifteen Legionnaires acted as for veterans of the three wars--Civil, Spanish-Americ[...]ferent indigent The first draft call for one man was made on November veterans were aided[...]eteran's 14, 1940. Nine men volunteered for the call and the Board Bureau. During those years, as now, fast-talking drew straws to determine who would go. Alvin Rustebakke promoter[...]s the first inductee from Daniels wished the Post to promote. All were turned down. Cou[...]Hall, courthouse, No men were ordered to report for induction under the various local offices, homes[...]ird draft call ordered the following thirteen men to thirties and early forties a mammoth Fourth of July report for induction: Vernon Nelson, Harry Jacobson, celebra[...]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[...]st Junior Legion Baseball team was coached for Fort Missoula where they were sworn in on Februar[...]DistrictlhelditsconventioninScobey. appears that this game, won by Scobey, assured the Homer Chaillaux,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[...]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 February, 1931 the Ladies Auxiliary of Post 56 was for the "duration". Two hundred copies of the book "F[...]time the Auxiliary has In" were purchased to be given to m~m reporting for duty in ever been an active adjunct to the Post. (See Auxiliary the Armed Force[...]tacted 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[...]t on record "that the National A piano, donated to the Post by W.T. Stephens in 1936, is Constitution of the American Legion be amended to enable still in use. veterans of World War 2 to join the Legion". In December, 1936 the Post pu[...]ph building at 107 Daniels Street from the county for $135. Greengard donated a bottle of twen[...]chase agreement were $27 down, which to the club. Specified was that a member must be a W[...]ip in Post 56 be pockets, and five years in which to pay the balance of$108. continuous from tha[...]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 bottl[...]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 registered for the The work load of the Service Officer became h[...]program. A heavy rain fell, soaking the parade out applications for terminal leave pay, admission to participants. veteran's hospitals, colle[...]Today the Post still maintains a lending service for answering letters and questions of returning vete[...]l is sponsored; Memorial was instituted in 1947. This Legion-founded program, an and Veteran's Da[...]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.[...]e ordered from the VA Christenson were delegates to American Legion Boy's for deceased veterans. State. Since the inception of[...]the eighty-five junior class boys have been sent to Boy's State Service of Their[...]-----"In memory of our departed comrades, may we American Legion, VFW, Masons, Commercial Club,[...]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 certi[...]re won the title; Late in 1944 word came to Scobey that Henry Schauer, Scobey recaptured the[...]been a warded the Congressional Medal of Honor for Since 1930 the minutes of the Post are replete[...]ntry and intrepedity above and beyond references to Legion baseball--the problems and t[...]the program. nation's highest award for bravery: Captain William Galt, FORTY NINTH PA[...]r; Medical Technician Laverne Parrish, Ronan; and This program was begon by Legionnaires of this Legion Pfc. Donald Ruhl, Columbus, recei[...]in "hands across the Powers, Alder, returned to Montana upon completion of border for the continued promotion of good will and[...]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[...]temporary arrangement, put together for a local Campbell Larson, official envoy of the Un[...]Earl Fairbanks, switch from one team to another as the occasion Scobey, told the visiting[...]The 1964 Observance brought Governor Tim Babcock to had one of the first teams in the area an[...]on; Olson 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[...]ngaged John Donaldson, noted colored pitcher, and to |
| [...]e 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 top. Swede (Risberg) and Donaldson ("Nigger Joe ") fought hard for ten innings with a score of 1-1 until the first o[...]er the pan. The last half of the ninth looked bad for Scobey. One man down and bases bull, a short liner to second then a completed sensational doubleplay stopp ed them from scoring. In the tenth Myers went to first and succeeded in reaching third on pass bal[...]heast background is the Scobey Schoo l. From left to right back Montana Baseball League in 1949.[...]Fred Leibrand, games. Plentywood won 10 for second place. Outlook and Don Brayko, Alfred Scha[...], Big Beaver, Saskatchewan, tied for third. Other teams in George Cornwell, Richard Ro[...]Redstone-Archer. The league had been in operation for two Donald Christenson, Harvey Eide, Vern Veis, D[...]locality. Scobey team from left to right and positions:[...]rayko, p; Ken Larson, p; Harry Larson, 2b; Jack This venture wa costing Scobey b usinessmen '4300 a[...]ding: Elmer Gilchrist, cf; Harvey Eide, ss; month to meet the team payroll and expen e ; this was Jiggs Humbert, mgr.; Alfred Schammel, rf; Tom Wright, kept up for three month .[...] |
| [...]oth 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 bal[...]the game. Last Monday, Plentywood again went down to defeat ai tht' Scobey park by a score of 7-2. Tak[...]• .- u11 -. . , From left to right, back row: Managrr Jv .. , L1Jer::;<., ...[...], ul< • , l';,.-'. F.u11l TO right, back row:[...]., . , . , . ~-kd u, Wkhita . Ka11-.;,l~ to The history of baseball in the county wo[...] |
| [...]n, Montana A A U Champions in 1958. Standing left to right: Fred Walker, L arry Wangrud, Leo Zimmer, O[...]onship tourney, Wichita, Kansas - 1960. From left to right back row: Larry Ferguson, Paul Fezer, Cliff[...]llan Lowes, Wally Sinner, Andy Stolen. (See text for account of this tournament.)[...] |
| [...]ponsored by the Scobey American Legion. From left to right back row: Coach Clyde Norman, Larry Grayson[...]and Don Puckett. Front: Keith contributor to Legion ball in Daniels County. This shot Zieske, Jack Tryan, Greg Fjeld, Dana Audet a[...]ef history of the Scobey Legion baseball was lost to the Kansas state champions, 2-0. This program in the article concerning Pos[...]m the tournament, 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[...]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. place[...] |
| [...]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.[...]inning as a local talent tournament, it has grown to include several men who have had professional try[...]th the Scobey Collegians in July 1970. Left to right are Brian Kjensmo, Robert Haugo, the 1973 tourney, was an " All Pac-8" performer for Wayne Chabot, John French, Richard LaR[...]ints per game in the Scobey tourney and was named to Unsworth and Kevin French. the All Star t[...], a native of Watford City, North Dakota, played for the Scobey Plainsment in the 1973 tourney. Cavin[...]blished by the group in 1936 has provided playing for Valley City State and was later on the roster of valuable information as a basis for subsequent histories. the Chicago Bulls during th[...]ents. accompanied on this trip by Harlan Johnson, Vernon Three former par[...]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 complex. (Ra[...]., and Robert Lee Trower donated a parcel of land to square off the above received Merits of Re[...]) Honor for saving the lives of others. Track equipment costing $1 300 has also been donated to Edmond Karlsrud was chosen the American B[...]son are natives of Daniels County. Wars, for saving Lowell Burgett from drowning. He[...]Lyle Gustitus, a Life Scout, was chosen to represent[...]in Minnesota in 1948, the first Scobey scout to make this[...]olph Leer Sr., and Rev. M. Ranheim, Award for Distinguished Service to Boyhood in 1947. Reid troop committeemen; R.V. Wa[...]an, LeRoy Bystrom, Arlie Veis, Gerald Anderson, This troop, one of the most outstanding in the country[...]er, gained national and international recognition for its Edward Nordgren, Harlan Johns[...] |
| [...]the graves were moved to Scobey when the cemetery was In 1956 Jordan Fos[...]many deaths that it was necessary to dig graves both night Mikel P. Lund attended th[...]summer camp at Camp Metigoshe, North Dakota, and this summer four scouts Alan Fitz,[...]that Sunday--July 1, 1872. The sun was attempting to[...], working with each Boy Scout's himself to the bystanders, stating that he was William own c[...]the Sabbath Day, he was looking for a place to hold The following scouts--and possibly others--have earned services. this coveted award: Ned Blevins, Richard Brekke, Keith[...]ught with toil, heartbreak and hardship, that was to Marley, Tracey Reiner.[...]Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1848 to parents of[...]ts died while he was still a boy, leaving is said to have been the result of a shooting on Main Street[...]Some people said that Civil War broke out; he stayed home and did the farm work. the folks[...]le Gettysburg raged over a large part of they had to shoot a man to start a cemetery! the V[...] |
| [...]preceded him and a crowd would be gathered to receive[...]was always requested to sing two of his favorite hymns:[...]To obtain funds to build the Scobey church, Brother Van[...]including the saloonkeepers, were solicited for donations.[...]mountain valleys of Idaho and Montana to the prairie[...]He was an uncommon "common" man. He had hunted to the front of the crowd and shook hands with Mr.[...]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;[...]er he went he was welcomed with open arms, and For a time he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvani[...]buried in Helena on the afternoon of his resolve to go on to the frontier by a former Union Army Decem[...]n that he had been requested jobless, but managed to convince Captail Coulson of the so often to sing: river steamer, Far West, that in time the f[...]will soon be over when the digging will be done, for passage to Fort Benton, Montana Territory would be[...]er, the captain returned When Jesus comes to claim us, and says 'It is enough', most of it to the evangelist to carry on his labors in The diamonds[...]no longer in the rough." Montana. On the trip to Montana, he encountered Sitting Bull and Rain-in-[...]the Far West. They were persuaded by the captain to leave without any trouble arising. Later, and[...]ld during the next two years in homes He began to conduct services in the scattered and rented halls. In 1922, thanks to the generosity of the settlements, going out with wagon trains; after one service member[...]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 furnishings of this rustic chapel were made and like all nicknames, it was to be with him for the remainder donated by the members[...] |
| [...]ucted by S.D. Hooker, rector, on August-17, 1923, for Gwynetha Lee Lile, age 19, daughter of Mr. and Mr[...]923 Rev. D.R. Miller of Noonan, North Dakota came to Malcolm Jones, H.P. Perkins, Stanley Welsh, Frank Scobey to begin what is now known as the Full Gospel[...] |
| [...]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 rur[...]month the new Hupmobile brought the shepherd to his town for use as a church.[...]the fall of 1947 a full basement was constructed for pastor arrived two hours late; the people sti[...]church was In 1913 the congregation moved to Scobey. The new moved to a corner location. Later an addition was[...]l of1914. There were completed in the early 50's. This church was the first four in the first con[...]Catherine Miller Darch uk was church secretary for the Lutheran congregation known as the Middle For[...]Scobey Lutheran choir in 1927. Left to right back row: Mr.[...]local contractor. Levads now live in this house four blocks[...]an Lutheran Church. (1876-1953). Pastor from 1911 to 1918. During the depres[...]strange sight to see men soliciting funds on the alternate A.N. Ta[...]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 accomplishments oflateryears .... we[...] |
| [...]comprised "Firsts and longests" go as follows: to Julia Bystrom the first slate of officers for the newly formed Lutheran and Oscar Johnson, firs[...]od in 1933 which has sponsored the Boy Scouts pin to Mrs. John Bystrom. First organists, Olive Bonnes of America. and Mrs. L.V. Hanson. Organist for the longest time, Mrs. The Senior Choir ha[...]rved as growing auxiliary of the congregation. We have had and president and vice president of the[...]Our congregation is now 65 years old. For the golden Karlsrude were the great guiding light[...]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 were the first leaders. Fi[...]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 li[...]average attendance of 25 to 30 and more during the[...]ns forty and more miles by team and buggy for each service. who served there as heads ap[...] |
| [...]hout money and with very few belongings, no place to who traveled through this vicinity twice in 1910, and by live and no means[...]· ministers and both admitted to the bar as lawyers, had In 1911 Father Alphonse Peche, a Benedictine priest accepted this pioneer country parish. He found the people stati[...]and every three months during the winter. cared for him and his family until the parsonage was Mass w[...]s 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[...]ration, and through the generosity of the Scobey for his family to move into on Thanksgiving Day, parishioners, toge[...]ed by the Methodist Board of Home Missions. With this money and contributions by members and other int[...]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 homestead shacks, winning souls for Christ. following year Father G[...]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,[...]o, the church and an adjoining garage was built. This give the church was enlarged and a parish hall bu[...]August 26, 1937. educational building sufficient for the church program. Rev. J.L. McCarthy served the parish as interim priest for Ministers who served after Rev. Stone were: R.[...], D.A. Kroft, Alexander Muirden, Ernest attached to Glentana. Kistler, Raymond Robinson (Ass't .), Ro[...]M.O. Smith, James Father Altmann was transferred to St. Raphaels in Dickinson, Arthur Swaren , Ronald[...]. to Roundup in 1961.[...] |
| [...]rger's service the rectory was enlarged of 14 to the young in spirit pushing 70. Last year a membe[...]ed. from Fort Benton who served until transferred for health reasons, and now lives in San Diego. On[...]or on June 15. January, 1947, for the purpose of promoting Father Kenney died une[...]bey Cemetery. Father John J. county. This has been accomplished by obtaining game Houlihan,[...]organizations in matters of interest to sportsmen. St. Philip's Parish Center, built at[...]St. Thomas Catholic Church at Whitetail was moved to Jacobsen, directors. Pioneer Town at the D[...]annual banquet is held, with programs of interest to Scobey.[...]kilted Scotsmen more than 400 years ago. It came to Scobey after Larry Fjeld, Bob Willard, and Jack R[...]an 100 townsfolk joined the club and a hunt began for a curling rink. The first dirt was moved on Octob[...]ual Harry Hansen Memorial was ready, waiting only for freezing weather. In December Shoot - 1957. t[...]rinks entered, more than half of them Canadians. (This in spite of raging blizzards and sub-zero tempera[...]The trap was moved out on the hill about three miles east Reid's Bi[...]when trap shooting was revitalized in the area. This is the Curling has come to Scobey to stay and the local club is second year at the new site which now boasts two modern looking forward to organization of clubs in neighboring traps[...]the experts hired by clubs as instructors. They for the first annual Harry Hansen Memorial Shoot in 1957. are not permitted to play in Bonspiels or play-downs. They (at least 45 entrees) competed for turkeys, hams and Unlike golf, players must not w[...]s well as the immediate community. Harvey Montana to have a curling rink, has 16 local teams.[...]Scobey Gun Club held their annual You don't have to be young. Players range from youngsters[...] |
| [...]watch; and Kate Von Kuster, outer watch. To my[...]wledge, Rose Johnson is the only member living of this[...]decided to give grants of $150 to fifteen deserving student[...]Wolford at Bozeman. The grant was changed to $200 for facilities were dedicated in memory of her husban[...]ho was an avid sportsman and trap received this in 1969 and 1973 respectively. shooter. Their son, Ramon, donated the metal building to The first meetings of Scobey Lodge No. 61 wer[...]a period of time the Degree of Honor has donated to[...]f Honor Protective Hospital in Miles City for outside lighting of the flag pole. Association Lo[...]on October 7, Degree of Honor Drill Team. Left to right first row: Edna Waller, Magdalene ~u[...] |
| [...]j FOR EVERY MOTHER'S SON 10 Ui1 \Visl' ons[...]....... Pm·<.~y i FORto stc;:tl ! |
| [...]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[...]they decided to have a reunion. By popular demand,[...]proceeds have been donated to the hospital. witnessed in this flower fantasy. The playlet opens by[...]announces the Prince's invitation to the May Day ball.[...]ella throughout, on the fact that she has no gown to |
| [...]s at discovering his Princess. It is impossible to mention all the characters who are deserving of p[...]ines with a clear enunciation that was a pleasure to hear and acted their different parts with finish[...]ghtful restraint the grace and courtesy necessary for the Herald. Larry Bowler as Bonnie[...]The Scobey V The operetta was presented for a Methodist benefit and --[...]BIG CONCERT deserving of much credit 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[...]I wish to express thanks to all who helped and especially the Don't miss i[...]ission, 25c and 50c |
| [...]Ordinance 97 established fire limits for Scobey and[...]buildings within city limits. matters pertaining to a fire department. In March a fire In September, 1928 G.G. Kidwell won the contract to bell was ordered and G.A. Dahlquist was appointed Fire, build a new fire hall for $3546. Chief at a salary of $100 a year.[...]George Ruth, and was purchased from J.B. Fleming for $60 and was later Louis Ferestad. torn down. Hell[...]he early months of 1930 Scobey Fire Department on this site for $216. Building completed in January, 1917. purchased a new American La France fire truck for $5200. Water was hauled to the fire hall by wagon tank and Resolution No. 18[...]ober, 1917 a motor chemical engine apparatus fund to pay for the truck. equipped with two 35 gallon chemical t[...]McIntyre became Fire Chief in September, 1930 and for the sum of $1339. In 1919 an ordinance was passed[...]Small truck was bought from Battleson Motor Co. for providing for proper construction of chimneys and use of $550.[...]ebruary, 1936 a fire fund of two mills was levied for In 1920 Ordinance 54 was passed creating the of[...]son became Fire Chief in 1943 and the fire bought for $1795. In 1921 a resolution was passed to pay department held their first annual dance on St. Patrick's volunteers for fighting fires, and a fire whistle was bought Day. for $48.12.[...]days. The fire department bought 500 ft. of hose for $550. In 1926 the two department bought the littl[...]fire truck in 1953. old chemical trucks were sold to Opheim. March, 1927 G.A. Joe Hellickson became Fi[...]ruck in 1960; an International Deparment was sold to P.R. Gorham for $200 in May, 1928 1000 gallon Darly Pumper. In 1975 the City of Scobey and fire hall moved to present site east half oflot 18, block passed a bond issue for $60,000 for a new fire truck. 10.[...] |
| bid to supply a Ford truck Superior fire equipment 1000[...]the gold mine at gallon pumper on a Ford tilt cab to arrive in September of Lead, and they attended the Passion Play at Spearfish. this year.[...]Scout Council was formed with headquarters at this organization in the early years and their followers Lewistown. In 1926 we became part of this council. Before have continued to carry the torch. They were and are a relinquishing our funds we were successful in securing an group who said "It[...]noe from a portion of it. are an eloquent tribute to the ability, faithfulness and zeal The Browni[...]eley and the year. Carnations are presented to the mothers, Mrs. Jessie Seeger organized the Gir[...]ave earned awards but the The quilt was sent to Shodair Crippled Children's present records show[...]privileged to have Mrs. Bydeley with them at this time. In 1940 the Great Northern Railway Compan[...]efforts of Ginger Fosland our girls a freight car to be converted into a club house and "Hands A[...]lations began. Various Daniels County gave a lot. This was the first Girl Scout troops have visit[...]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 entertai[...]red a and the Highland Fling. bus and went to Belle Fouche, South Dakota where they[...]estake Girl Scout Camp. The Annie Lund to start Camp Lund. With the river close by sidelight of this trip was a trip to Mount Rushmore canoeing and swimming[...]Country" awards at Scobey Methodist Church. Left to right back row: Mildred Smith, Edna Battleson, Desiree Linquist completed the requirements for the Margaret McIntyre, Helen Bydeley, Ruth[...] |
| [...]Council for over 20 years.[...]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.[...]and some filled in for just a few months.[...]July In July 1972 Karen Tymofichuk made a trip to the 15, 1926. They held the first meeti[...]urt of Here is a list of some of the projects we had in this club. It Awards Mary Jo Bjarko and Nancy Fitz wer[...]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[...]bea utification, your personal appearance, colors for you, Bubble, Toil and Trouble" in C hicago ; and[...]pot removers, lighting your home, Tymofichuk went to 'Saddle Straddle" in Wyoming.[...] |
| [...]HOSPITALS In the early days of this area the entire territory north of Daniels Me[...]" Atkinson. He was back in 1944 were due to the endeavors of the Scobey Lions the agency doct[...]ital - 1963 well as trained nurses who had turned to homesteading, took care of the medical needs of t[...]umpkin seeds boiled in water. No records exist to name these often-heroic women, but a few whose names have been mentioned by contributors to this book are Mrs. Louisa Watts, Effie Du_sk, Miss Pag[...]y risked contracting dangerous diseases by caring for their patients, and also bore the additional risk of bringing these diseases home to their own families. During the flu epidemic of[...]n, who assisted the over-worked doctors in caring for the great number of patients.[...] |
| [...]and medical laboratory, special sterilizing room for all equipment and fully equipped laundry and kitchen. This is a far cry from the not so modern early hospita[...]as run by Mrs. Stella Redfield Harris, with room for eight patients. Mrs. Harris , a registered nurse[...]rs. Dahlquist. Dr. Deifenbaker also had patients here. The Aasness Hospital , located just north of[...]from the Harris Hotel where it had been located for five years, to the Arlington Hotel building. Dr. Collinson star[...]in 1933 and managed it until it closed as a home for the aged in 1957, the year Dr. Mrs. Bo[...]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[...]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· sup[...]en first-aid Norman. Early day doctors who served this area without and some were transferre[...]here. Dr. Robert Knapp helped with surgery, coming from[...]April , 1952 we took in nursing care patients and continued[...]MOST OF THEM CARING FOR NEWBORN[...]dropped in to wish many happy returns to one of their long-[...] |
| [...]However, beds and cots had to be set up in every possible[...]corner of the house to accommodate so many. "We had[...]"I still don't know where we put them all."[...]Olson used to bathe the babies while sitting in front of the[...]There was no glassed-in nursery for the babies. Their[...]operating and delivery room, which also had to be used for[...]the babies never seemed to suffer from this arrangement[...]Even in the years when rigid feeding schedules for[...]ight's sleep, unbroken by the demands of from one to five the years between 1935 and 1952, and Mrs. Ol[...]ays in the She did most of the cooking for her patients, and she is pleasant home-like atmos[...]omplete with real butter and cream, is best. back to health here by Mrs. Olson and her daughter,[...]rsing her nurse's training in 1934. Esther worked for Dr. Collinson own seven children through several illnesses she felt she and then for Dr. Thomas Morrow.[...]lvin Olson that time and Dr. Morrow begged Esther to start a of Culbertson, Mrs. Hel[...]ternity hospital where she could "take care of up to four Art Olson, Mrs. Myrtle Anderson, Mrs[...]n and 16 great Dr. Morrow even found the house for this purpose, grandchildren. convenien[...]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 was rented at first[...]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[...]years. very realistic. In fact, the first patient to enter the hospital Summing up her years with[...]at all, but an elderly farmer from says, "We worked hard but I think we did a lot of good, too. Flaxville who was sufferi[...]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-[...]GUILD that the patient made a rapid recovery. We had no equipment at all at first, not even an[...]Hospital Society who baby case, and in those days we had the mother and baby were to manage the new hospital. They felt the need of a 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, routine organizational me[...]ation and other supplies needed by the patients. "We January 11, 1952. The guild was created and became a never even thought of chargin~ for those things," Mrs. member of[...] |
| [...]rary chairman, opened the back in, spin the crank for there were no starters. I always meeting for election of officers and appointment of carried an extra spring for the car, because occassionally committees for the ensuing year. The first slate of officers the trail would be washed out and there would be an abrupt were: Mrs. J .N. Ro[...]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 on the spot. One trip I will place ready for occupancy, in the week before the hospital remember was when I had to go sixty miles and had opened.[...]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. Suddenly we hit the bottom the Guild which assessed its memb[...]r 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 has been Scobey with his team. On his way home he[...]a meaningful and helpful assistance that has been out of my car and kept it until spring when I came for the regularly carried on. The Guild bought curtains for many car. rooms, and provided linens for its use. In the spring[...]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[...]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 m[...]id in one lung which was quite matters pertinent to the organization. Another courtesy is painful. My driver unhitched a horse and rode across to a Cheer Box filled with small gifts to be used for the young test the water's safety. He returned, h[...]l. wagon and we made a successful crossing. The next wagon The[...]n'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 the older guests in need of part time the[...]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[...]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 DR. CLIFFORD TUCKER lived by this river thirty years and never have I seen it any[...]worse." Shortly after this trip a man was digging lignite In 1913 the For[...]nk caved in crushing his abdominal the government for homesteading by drawing numbers. organs. The family sent for a priest and me to come. The Both my brother Forest and I drew low n[...]d 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 ac[...]nd the patient in very severe condition. His next to Forest's land. We made the required improvements bladder was ruptured from the crushing. We loaded him on the land. There were no fences on t[...]sed the river, got him on the freight time, so if we traveled at night the North Star was our train to take him to the hospital in Glasgow, but he passed guide. Nex[...]away on the train. by four horse hitches, hitched to a gang plow. One trip into Can[...]n the spring of 1915 I opened my office in Scobey to husband from across the line came for me. As we 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,[...] |
| badly infected eyes. I was compelled to stay overnight When Scobey became a[...]torm and slept on a couch in my overcoat. to receive a permit to carry a gun. I had lots of enjoyment in One w[...]ng a fierce blizzard, Frenchie practicing to be a good shot by putting my horse in a run and I started out with a team of yellow broncs hitchd to a and shooting at fence posts as I passed them. home-made sled. We couldn't see the road, so took to the I entered World War I, in the fall of 1917, and spent three railroad track, followed it to Flaxville, then headed across months in Kansa[...]pastures and became lost in the storm. Fin?i.lly we saw a training during which I had a wonderful time for officers light in a window. We spent the night there and next were quite popular. I was attached to the cavalry unit morning we went to our destination. The patient was composed of part of the seventh and third units. Later we having her first child soi twas evening before the ha by was were converted to light artillery (horse drawn). During the born. 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 th[...]tal. I was so ill I crawled on my hands and knees to my face, so I had my mittens covering my face. S[...]am started running and were I returned to Scobey and went into practice with Dr. Tom soon out of sight. We followed the fence in deep snow for Collinson 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[...]ts a~ heads of the staffs of the hospital. girls for venereal diseases each month.[...]peciality until I retired in 1958. horses hitched to three sleds with the drivers walking to The year following the first rodeo at[...]recall was in 1920, Burley Bowler and I decided we would One day when it was 58 degrees below ze[...]uck in rodeo business by putting on the first one for I were making a trip to Opheim. We spent the night in Old Scobey. Mr. Bowler[...]harge of the gate receipts and paying prize money to the up to the ceiling. The stable consisted of upright pole[...]ks getting things ready. Slim Jensen and weather out. Then Mother Nature added her help by l borrowed the snow fence. These we used to build corrals to putting a good blanket of snow on the straw. The[...]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[...]slept in the barn. hundred pounds or over. We were gone three days on this trip. Only single[...]. These horses were all In the winter of 1916 we had 60 below zero weather for sunfishers, hitting the ground with a lot[...]except a few who sunfished. them in the barn to prevent them from getting pneumonia. We built our riding chute in the center of the The[...]ess. There was shooting mounted and rules for riding were that he came out of the and one victim died while I was removing t[...]th his spurs in the horse's neck. He was required to the wound. There were several stabbings, but thos[...]ratch his spurs in the horse's neck and shoulders for the were beaten up while intoxicated would need a[...]odeo the participating riders went been beaten up to my hotel room in the usual mess, and while we were cleaning him up I remarked I was tired of out on the town and were well-polluted the following[...]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[...]f breed Indians and white men. he pays the bill." This made the patient very unhappy Thi[...]riders. A half-breed Indian wore a because he had to stay until the bank opened to get money to pay me.[...]iquor were sitting directly and rode him out. I understood that this cowboy was killed under a hotel window. T[...] |
| [...]. Arthur Stone Needles, 63, physician and surgeon for He served the Scobey area, faithfully and w[...]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.[...]Scobey and Mrs. Needles was a high school teacher here. held jointly with the Jaycees on June 30[...]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. The[...]part scholarship to Junior Citizens Camp and also to the[...]housing reservations for the Golden Jubilee and compiled[...]In 1965 the Jayceen Scrapbook was dedicated to the[...]were given out to 127 servicen1cu by Red Cross workers.[...]District Vice President for the next year. The Jayceens , donated money to buy an x-ray cabinet for Daniels[...]May Day baskets were made and given to all the Scobey[...]first night's stop for the Wagon Train in 1973.[...]Pampers were delivered for the first time to all newborn Dr. L.T. Krogstad[...]t the hospital in 1974, and they also had a booth for -[...]uly 4th celebration, and new jerkins were started for[...]dance for the 50th anniversary of the Silver Star Dr. L.T. Krogstad came to Scobey in 1950, taking over Community. t[...]rrow, who was leaving, having been in poor health for several months. A native of North Dakota[...] |
| [...]philosophical endeavors, contributes to the aid and secretary-treasurer; Otto R. King, li[...]an, Carl representative from Scobey to the American Legion Boy's Lindquist, Elmer Skeie,[...]also assisted financially in sending local youth to president; Richard Jacques, vice preside[...]The purpose of this association is to preserve antique[...]items, in memory of the pioneers of this country, farmers, SCOBEY LODGE NO. 109 A.[...]ing May 30, 1916 more than a score of This organization is incorporated as a state chartered[...]g in the new representing all parts of this area. thriving town of Scobey joined together and petitioned the Grand Lodge of Montana for a charter to open a lodge at Scobey "having a propriety of the[...]diffusing the genuine principles of Freemasonry, for the convenience of our respective dwellings and d[...]very first and third Tuesday of the month, except for July, August and part of September. At the present time there are 77 members. The following have been Masons for over 50 years: J. Fred Haun, D.A. Bostick, George[...]wnstairs 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[...]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 museum may be outright gifts or In carrying out its avowed purpose as above stated in its pl[...]r loan agreement set up by the Museum application for a charter the Lodge, in addition to its Association.[...] |
| [...]is there. Club. Pioneer Town, Scobey's dedication to the area's early Also the old bar building from[...]steaders has been a complete used for a summer theater for a couple seasons. It houses community effort from[...]uring Threshing Bee Days and is manpower required to move the structures and goods that called t[...]nd money. Civic early day demise was laid out is there, also an old groups, businesses and indi[...]stove and lilac vegitol lotion resources together to establish this community attraction. poured on many a gay you[...]ays under you:rfeet and the scent of the forth to charm the fair sex on a Saturday night. A tiny pa[...]s, beaded purses, long mod sunglasses of the 70's to dim the bright Montana sun, kid gloves, high topped buttoned shoes, breast pins and but for awhile you can put yourself 50 to 60 years back in hat pins are admired. time and sample how life was back then. Memories come to Scobey used to be the headquarters of Westland Oil life on the s[...]Westland gas station holds a place on horses tied to hitching posts and old cars moving along. th[...]all came of antique items from telephones to tonics. Many of the from towns surrounding Scobey[...]grandparents of people still living here.[...]and grinding a whole hog for sausage to feed the thousands of visitors who come to Scobey for the annual[...]which draws out the full flavor of Pioneer Town as the[...]valuable antiques given to Pioneer Town.[...]Town will become a major attraction for the ear. (portions of this article adopted from MondaKonia[...]R OF THE EASTERN STAR The stately white house, for example, was moved from It was in the ea[...]f the Eastern years had been a stopping off place for farmers hauling Star. The name "Prairie" was selected by the group. It was wheat to Scobey. This home of Steve Watts was built in a very go[...]graphy of Daniels County at that time. donated it to Pioneer Town plus the expenses to move it. Previous to the first meeting of Prairie Chapter in the As[...]is the present Chapter room. Shares were sold to Masonic barber shop which also displays an[...] |
| [...]membership to date. Death has taken a heavy toll. Many[...]have moved to other places to live and a number have[...]ar party in 1920 at Mrs. Ira Nelson's We have been honored to have had sisters Mary Helen home, now owned and l[...]d Adah and as Grand Martha, E. Jean Standing left to right: Mrs. Josephine Fleming, Mrs. Olive K[...]Irma Lindeman, On February 28, 1930 we instituted Sunset Chapter No. Mrs. Lily Dale Coll[...]son (mother of Hale and Ira), Mrs. Cora to-be. The past is done and laid away. The present we're Case. Bottom row: Mrs. Ingrid Needles,[...]endeavored to fulfill the purposes of the order - "Charity, banquet and washing of the dishes came to $6.00. This was Truth and Loving KindRess" by being mi[...]· 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 the Prairie Chapter Golden Anniversary in rooms for the dignitaries.[...]e evening in 1942 that Harry Hansen, W.P. offered to come in the afternoons and light the oil burner o[...]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 coffee. The the various civic and community activities for nearly joy was shortlived, for by the time of the next meeting, the thirty y[...]s started in the Ration Board had asked Lily Dale for the slip back. early forties with Ed[...]ee and Charles Wolfe as the members. It brought to mind 1917 again. Remember this poem? The End of a Hoover Day[...]ng; Red Olson; Gordon Marlenee; Francis I've come to the end of a meatless day,[...]ead Carpetner. My thoughts revert in a musing way To the foods which today I've been fed. I think of the cheese and the beans and fish And the oysters I've had to eat. I've no regrets for the good old days I really didn't miss the meat. I've come to the end of a wheatless day |
| [...]mber of interested horsemen felt there was a need for the repairing and developing of the Daniels Coun[...]dea of enlarging and reorganizing the Saddle Club to spearhead this project came about. Jack Coughlin was elected as the first president and Jim Buer, Sr. as secretary. This new organization then proceeded to grade a new race track, build the big fence aroun[...]d bleachers and encourage the Cmmty Commissioners to appoint the first county fair board. The club sponsored Saddle Club shows in the early summer, then turned to fall festivals which favored 4-H Club exhibits and sponsorship which was to lead up to current fairs. In 1947 they began plans for setting up a building which they felt the communi[...]r beautiful clubhouse. The building was first put to use in June, 1949 and since that time has been th[...]church groups and service organizations have used this building over the years for their various activities, much of the time at no charge, and the building has been donated for nearly every Red Cross blood bank held in Daniels[...]rodeos in the area. Bob Tande has been secretary for over 25 years. SCOBEY SCHOOL HIST[...]" Scobey was founded in 1913 it was soon |
| [...]school, seventh and eighth Lucille Hall was named to head the new institution. Before grades."[...]s the teacher of that rural school. She also came to principal Rasmussen, Hertzberg and Mrs. South. The Scobey to teach. School board members were Sid Bennett, subjects taught were the basic ones needed to fulfill the Chairman, Frank Hughes Sr., Geo_rge Robinson and John requirements for admission to the university - algebra , M. Smith.[...]r if necessary and must have at least nine pupils to speaking." operate." As time went on sma[...]agreement was made with Mr. Bill Stephens for the use of and educational responsibilities. Hrwever, the Scobey the Rex Theatre for practice and games. It was a little Superintenden[...]onsible inconvenient as the seats had to be moved off the floor for all rural schools in District I. In early years t[...]before and back again after practice, as well as for games. the District was also the truant officer a[...]here were no dressing rooms or showers. " schools for the purpose oflooking after delinquent children[...]s were: and school property and employed teachers for vacant Lulu Manley (Audet), Clara H[...]le Knight (Hallack). basement and plans were made for an annex to the · Mrs. A.S. Needles was s[...]20-21. 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[...]ere brought in and set up behind the school house for W.A. Lanstot, B.M. Pierce, T. Lundeva[...]Larson who has served for the past twenty-three years. Following is a lis[...]c in planning and helping with Leo Zuck recalls this about his father's tenure as Scobey the bu[...]k working toward a M.A. District's Superintendent for one year, 1919-20 then went degree. He delivered several Baccalaureate addresses to Flaxville. Previous to 1919 he was County througho[...]s a three-story square wooden sold to many universities as a reference book--"The frame[...]er Self Placement'." basement and later converted to class rooms. The top floor He lived in[...]Elmer Skeie came to Scobey as head of the Scobey school[...]coming to Scobey. After seven terms at Scobey, Mr. Skeie[...]went to Big Sandy to head the schools several years before[...]going to Hardin. He was in his eighth year as[...]Scobey for seven .years--1938-1945. Prior to his retirement[...] |
| [...]have a price, a price often paid for with the blood of our[...]money was difficult to come by. A steak dinner could be[...]Admission to a movie was only thirty-five cents. During[...]applications from students that we decided to cut the[...]dollars and fifty cents each, to be worked out at twenty-five[...]Underwood, North Dakota to come to Scobey I brought one[...]rolled down her cheeks, that happy to receive nine hundred[...]enjoyment and satisfaction. We had a staff of very[...]ly folks, and very solid citizens - many of whom, we are proud to state, are still among our closest friends." w[...]struction at that time and work was being hurried to |
| superintendent of schools to live in was another problem-- new roof fro[...]thing was available so the School Board proceeded to been installed. You remember the seven inches of rain buy a house for the superintendent. There was no legal[...]water surging through the basement precedent--so we were advised--and the Board might be[...]ng 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[...]in athletics and I remember what a thrill it was to have a apartments for teachers and as I remember we ended up championship football and ba[...]d I really believe those apartments proud we all were over the achievements of the music did more to solve the then critical teacher shortage more[...]bly of more importance, the success than anything we could have done.[...]ho came into my office after the country students to school. I remember the old we had initiated a girls physical education program[...]try. It was involved showers and he said to me, "Now George, I ain 't much too heavy for the chassis and I al ways wondered here to complain but I ain't sending my girls to this here why the front wheels remained on the ground. The most school to be sprinkled." Yes, I can remember Al unique thin[...]office and saying, "George, you wanta hire out for another students, seated on the two hardwood benc[...]ree years?" I also remember one of our candidates for freezing during those long cold winter months. To[...]chool requirements, was granted permission to participate in the Bus System. Two school houses[...]s given a dummy diploma and country and converted to a bus garage and the district immediat[...]cational education. As many will At this time Scobey Schools needed a good remember, schoo[...]tudents carried his story: their plates to the gym balcony where the lunch was eaten.[...]1966 With the availability of surplus commodities we were In recalling my tenure with t[...]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 disc[...]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 the music-lunch room, the shop and the busi[...]ing program completed most of our problems seemed to be solved except for the old heating plant. And I tremble whenever I t[...]n with a cement cap, caught on fire two times and we had to tear a big hole in the top and use a back hoe to dig out the burning coal and pile it out on the school yard. We put tons of water on the fire and the more water we added the hotter it got. Then, too, it seemed for every cubic foot of coal we burned we took out two cubic feet of ashes! I think the first major improvement we made was to install an electric winch to raise those ashes from that hole. The custodians[...]hand before that. Some modem technology had come to Scobey Public Schools! The next major 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[...]years spent in Scobey, and they were great years for me and my family, I think of math and science courses were beefed up to aid the college many things most of which affecte[...]r the blizzard at tournament the Board to the Women's Club who initiated a time and most out of town spectators had to remain all kindergarten for the Scobey Public Schools, which was night[...] |
| [...]e School with other curriculum changes for the students, eliminating of the driving of cars once the students had and come to school and the hair and dress codes.[...]The School Board enlarged the hot lunch kitchen to that: twice the original size, added a bra[...]basement; new ovens were installed the board for the school was an indepth review of the so that b[...]school rather than buy building and facilities. This review began when I thought all the baked goods. we ought to make some long range plans about the school Th[...]ng in an building and the type of program to be provided. Some underground automatic sprinklin[...]concern was registered over the lack of space for certain field.[...]program was the building of the with respect to basketball, elementary physical education, new bus garage. Happily this was one accomplishment drama and music.[...]gistered over the where a bond issue did not have to be passed. The old bus stability of the high s[...]arage was sold and moved; and the teacherage next to it corner of the foundation was deteriorating. was moved to a new location across from the grade school Because our objective was to correct these needs over a playground, enhancing the landscape and giving more period of time, we asked the University of Montana to help area for the school. analyze these needs and to assist in establishing some It is with pride a[...]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[...]"This administration called for action in providing a[...]would be given the opportunity to reach their greatest[...]providing an educational program designed to meet the[...]therapy program to correct speech and hearing difficulties. R. Gene Busch was Superintendent from 1960 to 1968. Scobey Public Schools became involv[...]uela, Germany 2. A new heating-ventilation system for the main building and Brazil. Scobey Pu[...] |
| [...]cultural program in 1973. Curriculum offerings to students were stressed with a full time art progr[...]ate passing necessary legislat10n allowmg schools to include kindergarten students to the foundation program in 1974, resul~ed. in ~cob[...]the first district fmanced kmdergarten program. This school term also witnessed the Four Buttes Elemen[...]Number l." New elementary school - Scobey This year of 1976 finds Scobey Schools with two modern, Scobey Eighth Grade Class - 1917. From left to right: |
| [...]x of them receiving superior ratings and elegible to atte nd the regional music meet at Spokane. Pa[...]team in 1927. This novice team did not do very well, losing[...]games to all other teams around - one game was lost to[...]districts . It did In the above picture are left to right: James Hillstrom and ha ve one defeat e[...]e Irish Walk er, grade school coach · left to right front row: Verne Gibbs, Harold Pugh, Howard[...]nnon, Howard Crabtree. Top row: was taken enroute to Missoula . Claren[...]man, Coach Armstrong. FIRST TRACK TEAM TO GO TO |
| [...]Don Duda. In 1959 the coaches were Gordon Point for district honors, and losing to Sidney in the title Stoddard and Leo Reinhold. Mr. Stoddard also coached the playoff for the Eastern Montana Championship. Credit[...]was assisted by Harlan Stahlecker. must be given to Coach Reinhart and his group of boys for Bill Hilton took over the coaching dutie[...]play. No record is available for the 1964 football season . Bill The Scobey gri[...]n 1944. The season ended without a single victory for the In 1966 the Spartans won three games[...]n the 1945 season with assistant. 16 men out for football. The Spartans defeated the Poplar[...]Mr. Hallock the assistant coach. banquet was held for the team and their fathers at which Coa[...]r T. Scott of Butte presented 25 silver footballs to in 1969. The Spartans had three wins, and fi[...]There were forty -five out for football , one of the largest The Scobey Spart[...]eld in made first team all conference for the Spartans. Assistant Scobey on November 12, on[...]Heaton. overtime the Wolf Point Wolves broke away for 14 yards to Although the Scobey Spartans compiled on[...]atisfaction for the team , school and community. In 1948 thirty-five boys turned out. The season ended Assistant Coach was Bert[...]ord 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,[...]ive and three record in No record is available for the 1951 season. The Spartans 1974 under the[...]were Mr . Yanni and Mr. Sizer. records available for 1952 although the coaches were the For the first time since 1953 the Scobey Spartan foot[...]s won the Eastern Montana Class B football for first place with Broadus and Medicine Lake , and[...]he Montana Athletic Association, awarded a trophy to the school and silver footballs to the team members. Mr. Halstead was the coach. The[...]1920-1921 No records were available for 1954 and 1955. Mr. Halstead coached the 1954 squa[...]had never seen a basketball before this year. They started The Spartans were impressiv[...]North Dakota and eastern Montana won one and tied for one. hard r[...]nder Froid's experience and weight won for them. The next day coach Van Gordon. They were tied in the conference for they stopped and dropped another[...] |
| lo ing to Medicine Lake at home on January 15 by a much[...]them down to one basket and finishing with a score of: Janua[...]not overcome a big lead made in the first This was probably the best game of the season played here. half. January 29 the Fairview girls , champions i[...]19, and Medicine Lake, tates, beat us at home 46 to 7. two in the lea[...]f the season was played with the We lost to Outlook, on a square court, with none foot Williston girl at cobey with an to score for the first baskets, January 22. Fairview[...]5-14. With their enthusiasm winning, 33 to 11; a four day tour of eastern Montana with and o[...]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[...]the State Class B ea on, des pite the fact that this was our first year and tournament held in L[...]Scobey's opening game; Hardin won over Scobey 63 to Pra ise hould be extended to Coach Miller, who had 41 and Red Lodge forced Scobey out of the tourney 50-39. through hard work managed to turn out a good team, Scobey, again in 1951, won a place in the state although we did not win the majority of games played.[...]On September 25, 1920 Mr. Miller issued a call for again was the host city for the State B. basketball candidates. Practice was[...]ated by team soon selected. The basketball season for Scobey High Anaconda 59-40· in the next g[...]d Froid High at Scobey 56-36. Froid. Due to inexperience we lost the game with a score of Team: Richar[...]l Rhodes, Duane Overby, 40-23. Th e n ext evening we played Medicine Lake at that Richard McCar[...]The next trip to the state tourney was made in 1954. In Janua ry 8th we played Outlook at home . Scobey played the[...]e identification on the back of the picture, left to 1948 Scobey Spartan basketball team, left to right hack rig ht, back ro w: Braaten, Har[...] |
| [...]n the divisional tournament in Scobey and went on to play in the State Tournament in Glasgow. Don Nutt[...]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, Kirk Veis, Dan Dane/son, Brad Veis , Greg Fjeld, Jeff Richardson, Joe Loehr, Kent Cromwell, Larry Feitz, Pat Anderson. This team won second place in the Eastern Divisional t[...]: Scobey 44 - Big Fork 37; second game Scobe lost to For yth 42-39 . The 1976 Spartan basketball te<Lm, co[...]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[...]ates. Kirk, right in the picture, became eligible to |
| Play cast for "The Old Homestead" at Scobey High in 1937. Front row, left to right: Mauricette Constant, Eileen Parks, Ruth Sc[...]e, Gloria 4th of July Parade - 1976. Back to camera: Joe Lohr, Heppner, Lillian Crawford, Haz[...]Grant, Donna Tande, Gloria Gaines. Preceding this, there was a Glee Club led by Valborg Lun[...] |
| [...]Knudson's home for mother, Mrs. Marit Slette. Several[...]"If we are both living at your next birthday, we will have a party for you."[...]Lawson's birthday December 28th so we decided to have a joint party for them.[...]arrangements with the local photographer to take pictures[...]After the party was over someone remarked that we keep[...]Fowler's (now Mrs. Koster). We were all invited to come to[...]s. Koster's daughter, had prepared a real banquet for[...]the occasion. Bingo was played before lunch and we must state that we all enjoyed ourselves immensely. " We Are Going To School" walking float in the 4th of July[...]many good parties are being held from time to time. Hanrahan, Kile and Kevin Myhre. Back row: Claire Dated at Scobey, Montana this 6th day of September, Hillstrom, Superinte[...] |
| [...]In 1972 we departed from Scobey, traveled through[...]Eagle's Nest, north to the Canadian border, returning to Scobey to help promote the annual Threshing Bee. The[...]boss man for this trek was Bill Tryan of Flaxville. The[...]and in places it was required to have some outriders hang[...]on the uphill side of some wagons to keep them from rolling. 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 f[...]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 joined with theThoeny- promote rodeo or summer ac[...]ed Wood Mountain Train at Scotty's Corral to complete a the idea in 1970 and everyone who was[...]iding hands of Kidd enthusiastic. Plans were made for a 1971 wagon train. The Nygaard of Wolf Point. A very special attraction of this wagon train was promoted by the Scobey Saddle Clu[...]Saddle Club, should have a unit claim to be the only participant who traveled to the first participating. A delegation was organiz[...]d purchased a team of black horses, Lady and Lad. This again 50 years later in 1973 with her[...]reation 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 Drury manning the boss detail on this called the North East Montana Train. After about a year's one. We had 15 wagons making this trek with again many preparation of restoring wag[...]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[...]t members in charge. There were several units has to be contributed to the entire club and participating including[...]lf Point, Scobey 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 entire time the train has been rolling, the which makes for interesting and invigorating wagon trail blazing[...]Posse, Iowa, Oregon, North 1971 saw us headed for Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan, and South[...]mbirie<l Canada under the leadership of Bob Tande to help them in honor of Monte's 50th yea[...]1st Homecoming. There were 12 wagons we had a caravan of 33 units leaving Scobey and agai[...]uiding us on our way. Upon arriving at Wolf Point we Babcock of Wolf Point. Ed, at 83 years, made the[...]combined 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[...]and including breakdowns, runaways and buck-offs. We had his lead team to make up the only four horse hitch on the some jub[...]the circle, causing an exciting traveled to Flaxville for the 750 Club Days. chain of events. Also in 1971[...]o 1976 planning is almost complete for the North East wagons and three outriders took part in the Milk River Montana Bicentennial Train. We will haul to Opheim, Train from Zortman to Malta, Montana. Representing parade in Opheim June 26 and 27, then start for Scobey the Scobey were Bob and Lil Tande with the[...]28th herded along by Don Anderson of Scobey. We will wagon and team, Arlee and Maxine Baldry with the arrive in Scobey July 2nd and organize for the Hellickson brother's wagon and team and outriders Ken Bicentennial Parade to be held July 3rd. We are working on[...] |
| [...]ws, style shows, and food will also have six star for the years we've been roving the concessions. open prairies[...]N DAY A group ofladies met on January 14, 1946 for the purpose TO BE OBSERVED AT SCOBEY of organizing a unit of the[...]rt, E.L. Fairbanks, Cars will be provided for the Grand Army Veterans who M.E. Nelson, R.V. Wal[...]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 whe[...]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 over in March of 1947 by the county business and close for the day. and named Daniels County Library.[...]le 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[...]g pool; installing park tables 1895 he went to Santa Cruz, California to live with his and benches at the city park; donating books to the school grandfather. In December of 1895 he left California and and hosting teacher's receptions. We have given boxes of went to live with his father, an attorney, in Fargo, North merchandise to the veteran's hospital, and yearly[...]l in Fargo until the spring of donations are made to the Red Cross, polio, Scouts, Fort 1898. H[...]When the Spanish American War broke out he others. 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[...]V.F.W., worked to form a Post in this area. It was decided[...]France. Chief of Staff Taylor wrote to Crum: I wish to congratulate you upon the formation of this, the first Post in Montana, for I think it will be the nucleus for more from Infantry. However the enlisting officer[...]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 ordina[...]rary memberships. Gustav Again he made an attempt to enlist, but was turned down Oie, a brother of[...]member. He then attempted to enlist in the First Nebraska Paul Crum[...]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 parade about 1921. X points out Paul Crum.[...] |
| [...]TO POST 173 The Auxiliary to Selmer Oie Post 173, Veterans of[...]in The Auxiliary works as an aid to the Post in helping the thrown into war. The added work n ecessitated by the war local charities for veterans and their families and in giving ca used the Post to become more a ctive, and late in 1944 gifts and donations to veteran hospitals and old soldier's $400 was donated to the Depa rt m ent Relief Fund. John home[...]ter an of the Spanish and standards to organizations, patriotic materials to American War, went out a nd signed up man y new schools, and sponsored patriotic contests for schools. The members, hitting the parents of m en[...]hing Auxiliary has 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[...]a public address system to the ball park, run a refreshment Ormand W. Paus[...]1, 1945, was the fi rst member of donated to the hospital , swimming pool and nurse's Selmer Oie Post 173 to lose his life on the field of battle. scholar[...]War, th e Post National Home in Michigan for widows and orphans of became involved in various[...]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 promoting what was allegedly[...]Tournament in Mon tana. A VFW Club was to veteran 's hospitals and the local Daniels Memori[...]s as Rei ner Bakery. a bicentennial project. This venture didn't last long and was sold later . On October 29, 1[...]A history of Daniels County that is to be worthy cannot Day and Memorial Day patriotic p[...]and bitterness in the the Post contributed $1000 to the fund. Each year Post 173 great depressi[...]e, time send3 one junior boy from the high school to the American cools the combatants and tends to clarify the issues. There Legion Boys State Semin[...]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[...]s headlines the next morning. Yes, we must always let time membership in the post, and a worked in the post up t o the temporize before we put these current 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.[...]who claimed for man everywhere certain fundamental , Selver Oie[...]n E. Oie, was inalienable rights, who claimed for man the right to be born at Madison, Minnesota in 1887. He came to Scobey in master of his government and his destiny. He was a man the years before 1913 and worked for his brother Gustav, who looked upo[...] |
| [...]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 s[...]eoples in strife against their governments trying to periodicals from 1945 to 1975 and search them for serious aggrandize their power."[...]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, specifically limiting the powers given government love? We can only speculate on the peaceful conditions. It and those reserved to the people. Yes, and they added the looks suspiciously like "Detente" to me. Could we conclude first ten amendments making it more defi[...]tician innovators. They had a point. They pointed out a very bad does even propose to legislate responsible handling of the omission by[...]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[...]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[...]sequences which will likely be therefore disloyal to American per se. They were unwilling chains of political tyranny before the third Happy to let flag waving cloud the issue in which they so[...]trange then that these liberals prove to be more perceptive than we were in Daniels found no fault or mistrust for government but gave it their County and the[...]ole 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[...]re that the dam has been built. The was the cause for the fury and contempt of the p[...]residents. Will individuals show enough insight to deal Federal usurpation of greater anc,l greater[...]with the project and its Big Business protectors? This destruction of 50 sovereign states to the extent of declaring challenge will need to be met. all 50 legislatures unconstitutional. The[...]TV, magazines and newspapers. There seems support to complete concentration of government power in to be hope that the liberals of 1976 are beginning to take a Washington, including control of almost every detail of our leaf out of old book of their fellows of 1776 and again pe[...]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" co[...]business and international bankers were dangerous to absolutely. When both the liberals and conservatives of our liberty. We noted the past reforms on child labor,[...]l powerful government--then there will be no need for organization. We believed that these reforms would[...]le who I am continue without upsetting the cart. We believed in the sure are dedicated to liberty and to the future of a status quo. We believed that chastising corporate business[...]our world-renowned the Communist ticket for public office (Scobey 1935) and standard of living. We were so shamefully wrong as these persis[...]in Russia," need little last years have proven. We were no lovers of big business; attention in our great plan for the future; every great our methods of gradualism were different. We believed country in every age of man[...]t and its past financial policies and its failure to exercise authority to control corporate and banker greed[...]e large part the ca use of our economic troubles. We feared big governemnt as all the people of the world have been justified in doing through the ages. We were right if the present growing attitude of mo[...]ED CARNEY We all remember bitter battles of the great depression between big business and government. We remember Ed Carney, 50,[...] |
| [...]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[...]ssed a law which allows the State Land Department to involving state land lessees. set aside 2½¢ out of every dollar of state land income "T[...]One such project was completed this year in Daniels[...]and a pumping site for border site irrigation system on 24[...]division is to properly claim and use water resources for[...]more productive land use; hence increased income for both[...]many thousands of acres of state land, added up to the Sears Catalog Store right job for the right man. Moreover, in the course of his[...]ought it would be a good idea," Mr. Carney said, "to Montana Liquor Store have a visit with Dave Dru[...]n in the State Land Department. It seemed logical to Montana Dakota Utilities me that I should kno[...]r. Carney said Mr. Drumm had encountered the need for such a law in state lands administration when he was Automobile and Implement Dealers: looking for likely tourist camping sites, in connection with[...]Erickstein Motor Co., INc. Although this was a rather unique basis to set up a law Hillstrom Motors for programs long overdue in the State Land Departmen[...]Its job and policies are directed toward carrying out the following kinds of Insurance Agen[...]al Life Ins. Co. feasible, the state range lands; this, in cooperation with Citizens State B[...] |
| [...]Great Northern Railway Station Coast to Coast Hard ware OK Hardware[...] |
| [...]SUPPLIES for quite a while yet. Prompt Attention -[...]Realty company, to be replaced in a few years by the big |
| [...]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[...]and Justice for All."[...]Tribute to Gold Star Parents Rev. Virgil T . Foss[...]Tribute to Service Men and Veterans[...] |
| [...]to present Season[...]or 16 years to the life of your frame[...]"It Costs More Not to Paint[...]Than It Does To Paint."[...]- com plished pianist, who will, in addition to his duties as accomp::mist, also give a numb[...]Ii Ready-Made Aprons and Lunch Cloths For Sale I[...]HOURS: ONE TO SIX P. M.[...] |
| [...]Administering the oath of office to Sorte during[...]She Sorte's family. worked from 1942 to 1949 in the flag loft of the Mare Island So[...]Roosevelt County. the flags had a number assigned to each batch of ten. Sorte succeeds Di[...]rps. (It will be recalled Anderson from 1960 to 1962. He was in private legal that several of the[...]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 duri[...]ppointed Sorte as director of the Montana shops - son, Cecil, born 1914. (above information sent to Office of Economic Opportunity in January.[...]ost until being named an administrative assistant to the and printed in Daniels County Leader)[...]He is married to the former Anne Brown of Bigfork. THE LITTL[...]DICK KTYTOR SEES BROTHER FOR FIRST[...]orth of here since |
| [...]y the Leader, is the almost As Schauer ran to catch up with the Patrol, which had unbelieveable[...]snipers in less than heroism and marksmanship of this Scobey soldier, who two minutes! offered himself as a target to German snipers in order that The Battle Pa[...]te their positions and then eliminate road. This time it was temporarily halted by a heavy them, w[...]ommon understanding.) yards distant, to the right front. With the Third Division of th[...]in One of the Patrollers climbed out of the ditch into the France-"A-Kraut-an-Hour-Sch[...]en 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[...]were beachhead and piled up a score that is hard to beat in any killed. Just then two more Germans ran to man the gun. man 's army-17 Germans in as many hours. Both crumpled to the ground dead when Schauer gave He was prese[...]was all the same to Schauer. When the Third Division prepared to make the With four more German[...], Italy, the Battle Patrol was accounted for, Schauer turned his body toward the given the mis[...]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[...]because 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.[...]e woods and reached its objective, Highway No. For three and one-half hours members of the Battle[...]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[...]e men armed with a BAR (automatic rifle), climbed out of the ditch and walked slowly toward the snipers. Two of the Germans were at the base of a house 200 yards to the rear, one lay on the road near the house, and the fourth was concealed in a wheat field to the left of the house. The BAR man walked slowly[...]ol 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 y[...]r shave you or part your hair. But Schauer seemed to have nerves of steel. He stood upright, raised his automatic rifle to his shoulder, and went to work. The snipers 170 yards a way alongside the house were low to the ground, blending in with the grass. Two burst[...]d moved about 800 yards down the ditch impossible to spot. Schauer fired again. One burst was[...]opened up on it from a point of 100 yards to the front. In[...] |
| addition, a German Mark VI tank, 600 yards to the left, fired a number of rounds in rapid succession. For the third time in less than 24 hours Schauer took on the enemy, alone. Climbing out of the ditch, he crawled[...]howering him with dirt. Schauer raised his BAR to his schoulder. The 20 rounds in the magazine kill[...]hours Pfc. Schauer had killed 17 Germans, knocked out three machine gun nests, and personally eliminated the most dangerous threats both to the Battle Patrol itself and to its successful advance and accomplishment of its[...]uding 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.[...]rs of FRED MILLER HERE FIFrY YEARS |
| [...]For 19 years the old Ford was in constant use, haulin[...]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[...]got too deep he put the truck a way and resorted to[...]been worn out and removed. But Mr. Miller still has what is Fre[...]left of the curtains, and pointed out the special flaps that enabled a person to poke an arm through to open the door,[...]was retired to light duties, which it still performs. It is ofte[...]towed to the field behind the tractor so that Mr. Miller h[...]way to ride home.[...]He has had several offers from collectors for the 1924 Ford, but does not plan to part with it.[...]"You get sentimentally attached to something that has[...]for $150 during a trip to Minnesota. He drove it west as far[...]chains. At Redstone for the famous old "Redstone hill" he had to buy chains in order to get up the hill. He remembers this Ford car particularly well because he[...]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.[...]my pride and his World War I Veterans bonus for the down payment, joy for a long time." \ and it took him a long time to finish pay for it because of 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[...]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 th[...]occasional job - like pulling the new tractor out of the mud engine vibrated so violently that it was in danger of falling when it gets stuck. apart.[...]I could," he says. transmissions for their trucks with the result that they[...]wearing area since 1914, when he came to Scobey with an them out in a short time.[...]d and it was not came with Cris Estenson, for whom he had been working powerful enough to carry more than a standard load of 60 at Sarles, N.D. He recalls that they got out of the train bushels it was easy on tires, and th[...]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[...]yond repair, Don Trower took the case off Tuesday this He proved up his claim in 1920, and in 1923 sold it to week and examined the works. Strangely enough the big Francis Solem, after being hailed out. He worked for Ole sterling silver ;~ase was still shiny, and except for some Shipstead that summer, and started in again for himself discoloration on the inside wa[...]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[...]in good running condition-thanks to the watchful eye of[...]Aime Carrier's boy who happened to see the shiny object[...]the raffle of the old Model T fire truck amounted to slightly more than $800. Firemen COWBOY RECALLS MEMORIES OF expect to apply this sum on the hoped-for purchase of a INTERESTING PAST new, light firetruck to replace the old pickup-still in service- which has been in use for about fifteen years, and[...]the scene of any fire. Getting back, however, to the matter of the old Model T To Dave Willoughby, equestrian performer at the truck, which stood in the firehall unused for many years, afternoon show of 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.[...]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 area. by his brother-in-law. Luverne Hansen, Scob[...]Scobey who proudly told us at the meeting Monday this week that he used to make it a point to stop at the George Kirn ranch, on the trip from here to Wolf Point he made all the hills on where h[...]inner 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-cont[...]ttended a Thanksgiving dance here where it seemed to by the Ben Franklin store and Woodwards, both of which, him as if everyone in Scobey went to celebrate the holiday. incidentally, are still Ha[...]fellow who had won one. The two turkeys were used for a hand, and the maximum speed at which any corne[...]Thanksgiving at the Smith and Boyd be turned. On this route also, under his tutelage, many Sa[...]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 sidewal[...]ings as soon as the animals were started out they all decided to and lamp posts. He was one of the few who could negotiate head for their home ranches, in every direction. the side[...]ccasional concr.ete stoop. Scobey area to help round up the runaways. Yes, when Luverne[...]illoughby recalls, had headed down the firetruck to Wolf Point, making all the hills on high, we road toward Plentywood. A woman with an a[...]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 LOST 31 YEARS about 40 miles out near Long Grass on Muskrat Creek.[...]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[...]g with horses rather than cattle because he liked to During the recent spring work his watch-lost sinc[...]re entertaining adventures was helping Joe's land for him.[...]500 cattle across the Missouri River at Poplar. For 31 years-through rains, drouth, plowing and other Some of the cattle were reluctant to swim and had to be vagaries of the weather-the big, 17-jewel Walt[...]compasses the period of Joe Nadeau's residence in this law in the timber country near C[...] |
| [...]as George Hatfield, one of 1949 - A few feet to the left from Jimmy Hillstrom's back the feuding Hatfields of Tennessee (and kin to the door there is a spot in the gro[...]stovepipes and skillet were full of water for many householders in Scobey. It was then known ho[...]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[...]Despite this interesting history, however, Jimmy is still I[...]with doing something about the well which defies out in California , and stayed there, still working h[...]ater flowing He worked as a trainer and double for the movies , and through the bottom of the[...]ctors. At Santa Fe, Calif. , Willoughby worked for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and later for Bing Crosby. For seven years FIRST ELECTRIC RANGE , he was lead man at the Del Mar race track for Crosby. Among the best movie horses he trained , according to Mrs. Knute Knudson had an electric rang[...]ino 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[...]start. One of these, a red roan , was trained to drag a supposedly drowning man out of the river by his clothing. Willoughby also wor[...]s per hour. In 1955 Willoughby chose Klichitat to " retire" with. He is ANECDOTES[...]kima Indian, and is the name According to Sam (A.M.) Dunn, in the early days of of a river[...]Whitetail country, farmers fenced their crops to keep cattle Klichi tat' s back feet were educated to dance before he and horses out. If a cow persistently got into a man's crop, was trained to dance with his front feet , or even to be that cow usually ended up on his dinne[...]Cy complimented Hoak on the good beef. He went on to say " When the back feet learn first , they become automatic," that he had never eaten his own beef, to which Hoak he says.[...]C.N. Gibbs, Navajo, raised horses for many years. One[...]condition, he called on Bill to see how he had treated his Ted Hachman and "Tu[...]underestimated horse. He asked Bill this question, and Bill said he'd given the length of a goose 's neck and are the wiser for it. Halvor the horse some kerosene. So Gibbs tr[...]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 raffl[...]ice tossers, had his goose under his arm tail-end-to as he was playing one of the pin- ball games. Beh[...]Fred Haun writes that he and some friends went to a fowl. Hachman looked around to see what was going on movie in Flaxvi[...]goose snapped its clamper on the end of to Scobey and had lunch at Burton 's Cafe. They planned to Hachman 's proboscis causing him a certain amount of go to a dance at the Silver Star Hall, but as they came out of pain and discomfort. Moral of that story is: D[...]ped him around when holding a live goose tail-end-to. up to the Humbert House, near where the courthouse is, Howard Hillstrom, who was fortunate enough to win and Dr. Collinson treated Fred for a kidney stone. Jake three in the g oose raffle w[...]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 w[...]ake came in they told Jake they would see da rted out and bit " Tuffy" near the Red Owl Store. if I was able to see visitors. They brought the baby across[...] |
| [...]the ba b y started t o cr y . Jake was taken back for a minute, asked how Fred was , and Fred said, " O[...]would be a sin ; To this please add two cakes of For the dough is all right and yeast,[...]it's going to rise, Or the liquid kind if preferred[...]Cover with a bread towel , set in If this bread isn 't good , it won't a warm place to stay be our fault ,[...]Two hours or more , to rise until Now add the sugar, tablespoon-[...]When you see it grow , you " Mix well together, for dissolved[...]Knead it well this time. Here is A pan 's just as good, if it hasn't[...], knowledge to hoard. a hole.[...],t~~~ And set again to rise for an That-"Makes the bread that[...]greased just right. portance to do. Shape each loaf you make to First sift the flour-use the finest[...]This bread will be good enough Three quarts is the me[...]for any young man. "GOLD MEDAL" the brand. Some[...]Next let it rise to the level of ening power,[...]pans-no more, If this is your choice, just add[...]Have the temperature right- to the flour[...]it isn 't made to freeze . 'Till the flour and lard are mixed ,[...]to bake,- Wai ting to play its part, to make[...] |
| [...]his night slippers and went to the basement after During the flu epidemic in 1[...]ht. The stairway was deaths that it was necessary to dig graves both night and rather dark and P[...]ohn , who was over six feet tall and who happened to man dumped his loads regularly. Pete retreate[...]he stairs and through the lobby, straightened up, stuck his head out of the grave, and Pete called the hotel[...]or; liquor Back at the cemetery Big John turned to Hans and asked cartons containing hundreds[...]h him?" bought at cut rate prices for quantity.[...]a small opening in the furnace front, an opening for[...]S problem was "how can we get it out?" It was too thick and sticky to flow down through the sewer trap. There was no[...]he P.R.'s resourcefulness, accumulated for him something world today, J. Fred Haun recollect[...]million dollars as a railroad worker, Beeks used to haul water around Scobey for fifty-cents a homesteader and small store[...]'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's power for its first light plant, run The hot steam dire[...]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 hoseline process engine. continued for days, not to mention the general cleanup job It was about th[...]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[...]and easily mistaken for crude oil. by Burley Bowler[...]Thousands of acres were leased at from ten cents to twenty- Scobey, Montana, walked into the deserted[...]It was a minute or two before a a good profit for cash and a one-per-cent royalty basis.) sleepy vo[...]nd struck a 150 " I don 't want a room ; I want to know where you want barrel per day flowing producer at 6,200 feet. this fuel oil."[...]the hotel and you will approximately $1,000 to have its septic tanks cleaned that find a metal c[...]spring. The trucker went back to his tanker, drove up the alley and turned in behi[...]It was springtime, 1925, and prospects for a good ball the trucker headed down the street to find an eating house. team at Scobey w[...] |
| [...]entirely unanticipated event--left room for argument. But The teams had their opening conte[...]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[...]uers" a McGraw of the New York Giants is reported to have said, new angle. "if he could be wh[...]give a million dollars Before Swede went to the plate Happy told Swede to get for him." on base even if he had to take a Donaldson curve in the Donaldson was getting along in years. He claimed to be ribs. But Swede again singled. When Happy stepped to the in his late 30's, but some claimed he was pas[...]her who could still do a good job in pitchout to his catcher. Just as soon as the fourth "ball" th[...]en, and others record time, but didn't stop there. Swede was interested in local basebal[...]automatically on second. The infield called for the ball and then that someone thought of the 1919 Chicago White Sox the cathcer threw it to the bunched infielders who began outcasts. Where[...]de Risberg, the "Black Sox" their attempt to get Hap. To be brief, Happy, who was a shortstop who, with Ci[...]spite his waddling walk, kept the had been barred for life from organized baseball, was infi[...]ime or other played in The game ended 4 to 2. Practically everyone from Scobey the minor lea[...]had wagered every dollar for which they could find takers. Between 300 and 400 Scobeyites journeyed to No definite count was made, but some of those who were in Plentywood for the game. It was by far the biggest crowd a a position to estimate fairly accurately, said that ball game h[...]is money. Plentywood was then headquarters for a group of "play ball" order. On the mound, beaming with gamblers and they went all out for more than peanuts on confidence, John Donaldson w[...]r holds some kind ofrecord as an outfielder for the great 1919 listed as Jackson. Donaldson's control was too good for the White Sox, spelled the difference between defeat and first two men facing him. Then Risberg stepped to the victory for the Scobey club. plate.[...]Minot or what once diverted his gaze from Risberg to the batter on deck. have you. And on more t[...]e. That announcement was as much of a surprise to the The initial game at Plentywood a[...]ent majority of Scobey fans at the game as it was to attention so that a federal in te[...]coming at Risberg's invitation, had gate to see that Uncle Sam got his share of the admission[...]playing on a percentage basis, 60- driven by car to Plentywood, arriving only a few minutes 40, and the gate was reported at $1,100. It didn't matter before the game. He changed in to a Scobey uniform in the that a Scobey chec[...]admissions to mean a gross of at least50<fo more. The gross Undau[...]hing. Swede got a still set a record for those days in eastern Montana. With a single and[...]obey businessmen were putting up $4,300 per month to Swede took three mighty swings and was out, ending that meet the team payroll and expenses, and they kept it up for part of the inning. three months. Plentywood also failed to score in the first inning. It was That year S[...]as the biggest the third inning before Swede came to bat again. primary wheat market in America, something more than Donaldson walked Swede to get at Happy again. With his 2,500,000[...]g and there was a ringing smack. Scobey for shipment. The ball was a little above Donaldson's[...]e a plainclothes surrounded the outfield--on, on to the other side of the race man for the department with territory ranging from track[...]ocated. Swede and British Columbia to Mexico, said some fields must have Happy[...] |
| [...]fe is a collection of memories. The more you have to their horses or carrying huge forks full of[...]he packs deftly and pitches them back 1. You had to crank a telephone on the wall to get the in to the hay. The rest of the crew spra w1full length[...]and one long ring, etc., and visited During this time the appearance of a heavy streak of with yo[...]not it was your ring that blue-black smoke to the southward tells us that the rig sounded, you probably listened to many juicy itself is coming. T[...]haust becomes audible, and at last the yesterday to who was the latest boyfriend of the girl down[...]re box and the hot coals by a local piano player for fifty cents a night. Bertha falling from[...]slowly along, the high grain elevator sways did this in Scobey. The advertising for the current picture from side to side, as a duck carries his head when walking. s[...]oys going up and down The outfit comes to a halt at the foot of the lane; the clank of main street hollering for the show, "The Sheik of Araby" the fire do[...]night. Show begins at 8:00 o'clock. though we were beside the engine instead of a quarter of a For which the hollerer was admitted free. They holler[...]he now empty water tank, that amplifies from 7:30 to 8:00 o'clock.[...]e muffled interior, is dra.w n 3. When you wanted to know what tim.? it was you up to the well. reached in your vest pocket for your watch or if a lady to the The cook car is in the house yard where on its black wall watch pinned to your shirt waist.[...]ee caused by playing marbles. The right shoe wore out smoke pours from the iron stove pipe on[...]ing or of every dish set before you you This cook car is a wonderful place-a kitchen mounted were ill or the cook would take it as a personal insult to her high on wheels and reached by a half-dozen[...]be taken up when it is time to move on. Inside there are two 6. The local druggi[...]hands resting ·on her hips as she pauses for a moment's[...]loud, cheery "Roll out boys!" The rig has moved on into the[...]s men sleep when there is time for such a luxury. And now[...]the outfit is lined up for the day's work. The separator with By Arch[...]days as they were when I was a little fellow come to mind . indicates complete readiness for the day's work. Today every farm task has become[...]nd carefree About sundown of 'an August evening we hear a clatter natures among thpm are giving vent to their feelings by a and clapping of boards that g[...]have all crowded into the warmth of the cook car to threshing hand must drive a slow team, he makes t[...]at 6 o'clock shouting drivers pull their teams up to a sudden halt. when the machine is alre[...]ylinder These threshing hands are a wonderful lot to a boy. They drones, the shakers rock with[...]on that are familiar with cities and places known to us only in the makes the separator jar steadily to and fro, and the wind wildest of dreams. And what[...]stacker roars with a gale in its throat. We have come to the language that makes your ears tingle and your tongue machine early with our tanks so as to be on hand at the dance![...]start, and now stand at our horses heads for a few minutes[...] |
| until they become accustomed to the unusual commotion. There are three kinds of owls: the great horned owl, the Then we clamber up on the wheels of the tanks to catch a snowy owl, a much smaller bird, a[...]l of the first half bushel of wheat as it plunges out of meadowlark. There are the yellow flicker , the prairie the grain spout. Later we measure and remeasure the horned lar[...]he English sparrow, "dumps" in a battered measure to make sure that the the cedar waxwing[...]most numerous of the two. It is great fun to watch the two men on either side of the The[...]hat the and the bald eagle ($5,000 federal fine for killing one of straw enters the beater evenly dis[...]t they all have a Soon the first tank is full, for the mechanical measuring daily diet of insect[...]a chairman of continuously so heavy is the wheat. We swing the grain Ducks, Unlimited, a vol[...]traces are secure, ease off. The area preserves for waterfowl nesting and feeding. horses lie forward[...]some animals in variety, as under the strain and we move slowly over the soft field well. Few of these are readily discernible to the town- with the wheels cutting deep, At the granary we shovel the dweller, but to those who get out and around the country wheat into the bin with la[...]is their natural the heap in the bin solidly. So we go back and forth all day habitat), beavers , bobcat, lynx , raccoons, mink , otter, long until we stoop , thrust the shovel into the wheat, and[...]eye. blast of the steam whistle gives the signal for the dinner hour. Again the bundle racks are drawn pell-mell to the feeding yard, for dinner awaits no man at the cook car. One[...]by Dorothy Rustebakke intermission for lunch in mid-afternoon. Those lunches were high[...]homeward, and the men are a little bit too tired to sing or joke much. Again the threshing hands l[...]fellow from nowhere in particular and ever bound for Canada. THE "BARREN PRAIRIE" NOT QUITE |
| According to legend the five-foot-high cairn marks the[...]R STYLE grave of an early sheepherder who used to climb the butte and sit, day after day, watchi[...]lybands and loosen up the traces summer pasture for ranchers from other areas of the state. All join[...]omesteaders of the area say . calico flapped! How we made the rafters ring! the-same thing when asked about the monument. Off for taffy pulls! We'd butter our hands to keep the stuff Many of them believe it was[...]ing, and pitch in. Fudge parties were fun, too. to guide the sheepherders who drove their herds thro[...]tain's first pick, second, or even third? You had to take pastime of lonely sheepherders, and that[...]our side covereq butte was an unlikely location to pile rocks just for wrestled with seizure, pneumonia, surcingle, pyor[...]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 . ndia[...]. We learned to debate, too, on subjects like: Which makes · Whatever the reason for the 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" --or the nobl[...]y road in their words of Patrick Henry--or others we had heard so often streamlined cars, it is a silent reminder of a bygone day that we knew them by heart. And if stage fright gripped u[...]he sod was unbroken and the prairies untouched by we were prompted by the moving lips of a sympathetic[...]audience. We'd close with a chapter from the Bible, and in[...]our land-locked prairie school, sing: "Pull for the shore, sailor, pull for the shore."[...]hogs, saddled the mule, and got the children off to school. Did the washing, mopped the floors, washe[...]ead; Split some firewood and lugged it in, enough to fill the kitchen bin; Cleaned the lamps and put i[...]hurned the butter, baked a cake, then exclaimed, "For goodness' sake! The calves have got out of the pen." And went out and chased them in again; Gathered the eggs and locked the stable, back to the house Bidding was brisk at box social[...]es, mended a basketfull Remember what fun we had matching our muscles in of hose; · · contests? We heaved rocks, chopped wood, sawed, boxed, Then opened the organ and began to play,- "When You wrestled, pulled at broomsticks, turned arms, lifted the Come To The End Of a Perfect Day".[...]Daisy LaMotte had a corner dedicated to baseball.[...] |
| The great glorious day to wait for was the 4th of July. The little things Dad did made moments we'll live with Early that morning some of us would rush outside and yell: till we die. When he read aloud, two or three smaller ones on " Hurrah for the Fourth of July!" We'd get out the freezer - his lap and Mother rocking the youngest, we shivered the eggs and cream that went into Mom's[...]athless when he scandal - and with someone on top to steady it, we'd crank squeaked like Baby Bear. away. Along about 3:30 Mom would say, "Oh, I nearly We know this secret"- we lucky ones with dads who loved forgot." Then we'd break open the freezer and serve the u[...]ome-made ice cream. Oh , the joy of being the one to fun doesn't mean going places. Farm folks have had fun "clean the[...]!) over the last 75 years - wonderful fun. We can have even And rodeos - roundups - branding-days, with lots of good more today, if we can match our forebears in imagination , food and lots of good neighbors here to help. The men "git up and gumption". would save a few of the calves till last for the young kids to Every single solitary day can be fun right at home to a rope.[...]Mother showed us the wonders of the back pasture; we Maybe it's just eating supper in the backyard, with the hunted nests, kept lists of birds, looked for the first fireflies winking. The stuff t[...]plan some simple f-un at home . .. One standby for fun throughout the years has been the . something to look forward to and look back on , and mix it horse. We'd catch old Dewey in the pasture, lead him by the[...]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 pasture until we fell off. Our rides[...]Hanrahan would have made a T-V producer shudder. We loved those animals , and their faults made us love them all the more. We kids lived in constant fear that Father would let[...]ng tail would clamp them tight. At the first kick we kids piled out like rats from a burning barn, and I'd swing 'round to catch the youngest as Mother would toss him to me. After pawing the air, Lady would take off as[...]6-INCH RAIN IN 6 HOURS footfeed was stuck to the floorboards.[...]CAUSES COMPLICATIONS FOR[...]What happened Tuesday afternoon shouldn 't happen to[...]orted. But these are some which were, in addition to ------- those in the main story this issue:[...]way to the field. He and a farm helper were marooned in[...]water got up as high as the seat so they moved to the back[...]observing the storm in his car tried to get over near them to[...]lp and he became stluck. Later Dick Coughlin came out in a six by six . He bogged down. Hack to town and out again he came this time with the other Westland six by six tank[...]truck. He was able to snake them all out. It was then about[...]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[...]the horses. went out. The wall of wa ter re lea sed moved down the[...]ng before it. In its pa th was the and Mother did for us. The best fun of all was just to go entire Jud Goodman spread of bu[...] |
| [...]sedviest rainfall ever heard of in the history of this destruction. The house was far down on its site,[...]then , 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[...]sodden furnishings. The wind that afternoon blew out two big display window, adding to the mess as water from the windows upstair[...]wading pool. At Brayko Rooms it was necessary to open the front door McCormick, the Montana-Dakota Utilities man, was to let out the stream of water which ran the length of the sitting by the lobby window. He decided to go upstairs. As building from the back. Cracked w[...]each became isolated communities as roads washed out degrees. The Michel Kern residence on[...]n is full. Norman Allen's line difficulties added to the isolation. residence j[...]a serious washout of the city were smashed to kindling. The Lucht residence between Flaxville a[...]ith Bruce by Lucht's, saw his home smashed to bits. At the old ball Randall has shovel crews working three shifts to re-open park, the grandstand, long a land[...]gainst the big trail south of Flaxville as usable to make contact with No. snow fence. 2. Orville[...]MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPE DEATH expected to be back on schedule for many days. Trapped in 25 Below Blinding Blizzard Out in the country the several hailstorms that afternoon For More than 24 Hours seriously damaged crops in the[...]Dorothy Kjelstrup community. Rain washed out miles of fences south and[...]cars on the Hillstrom swam over with wire-cutters to cut the fence to highway somewhere between Scobey and Flaxv[...]r the Sunday matinee. Attempts Vic Hillstrom came out with a boat to help. Sherman to locate them started that evening when they were J[...]ugh the night opening but again they refused only to go on to another and early morning hours. place a[...]ess community a rain of more than an inch to take shelter at one of the farmsteads along the h[...]ating results. Scobey had Those who were out in the storm knew this to be very more rain in six hours Tuesday afternoon[...]much or more. Wait for Death Frank Manternach , here since 1901, stat[...]nry Shipstead said the same. Two miles out of Flaxville the missing cars had bogged in Others confirmed it. This will always be remembered as the snow Sunday afternoon. They decided to get in one the year of the big rain.[...]heater stopped. The car was out of gas. Then began the WITH HAIL, TORNADIC WIND TOP long wait, probably for death. ANYTHING SEEN HERE BEFORE[...]their after the lunch hour darkening skies began to unburden bearings well enough to get to the Goulet place, their themselves as a pr[...] |
| [...]who farm south of Flaxville, senior, and cold to continue without help. John froze his neck.[...]nds and face. They senior. made it to Goulets.[...]aging, John black bridge west of Scobey "just for fun" about 3:30 that worried about his 11-year[...]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[...]ed the cake and sent the boys off freezing wind to his farm home. There he found the in separate directions. children in bed, fire out, and the little girl's eyes swollen Bob Zuck, unable to swim, was in shallow water where from crying. Tuesday morning he walked into Flaxville he waded out to the east side of the river and ran to the with news that all was well and to arrange for transfer of highway for help. his wife and the other two children home.[...]ers place where he got out of the water. He was running along The Rev.[...]eran minister of Scobey, who had the road to town when he was overtaken by Mr. and Mrs. con[...]ld 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[...]rmed 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[...]r and found the 15 sounded that evening to collect volunteer rescuers. One of survivors h[...]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[...]French's heated school bus from Flaxville went out tried to swim out but the current was so strong that he immediat[...]t in the rest. Flaxville was the decided to go back and wait it out on the cake he had left. scene of almost hyste[...]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.[...]till Mrs. Murphy called the police in Scobey for help while missing. Mr. Murphy went for the rope and tractor. he got as close to Two of the men, before help arrived that mo[...]old as he dared with the tractor, which according to walked to the farm home of Bill Parent and returned with authoritive sources was up to the headlights in the water. blankets, coats,[...]d caps. A few minutes Murphy threw the rope to Gary who then waded to the later help came from Flaxville. tractor and was taken to the Murphy house and given the[...]sary care. Murphys put him in a tub of cold water to thaw him out slowly and Gary commented on the water[...]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 Leibrand's boat the last for two Scobey boys late Sunday evening when[...]obey. 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 ran[...]terrain there walked about a mile along the creek to a concentrated help of the Fire Department and[...]LaPierre was on thinking he could lead him out where he, tragedy.[...]ternoon waited and took him in the boat to safety. His feet after the were: Dennis Jones,[...]Stanley Jones ordeal swelled badly, but at this writing are reported back of Scobey, junior in high school. Bob Zuck, son of Mr. and to normal.[...] |
| [...]pring 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[...]bey Monday noon blackened a vast area of prairie to the east and southeast before being stopped by c[...]t slightly south of west, kept the fire confined to the right of way for some distance. It swept west up towards the Herm[...]everal crews of farmers and town citizens hurried to the scene and they succeeded to some extent in controlling its spread, but the fanning wind prevented putting a stop to it. The grass in a southeasterly direction the[...]he east side of the highway the fire finally died out near Madoc. At times the blinding smoke made driving on the highway difficult and motorists were obliged to use their car lights for some distance. During the sweep of the fire th[...]"Whoop" Manternach, one of the volunteers trying to quench the flames, took off in his car across cou[...]s. But his car bogged down in a low, wet spot and stuck. There he frantically tried every trick in the book to get out-but to no avail. Others were helping him. By then the[...]ternach and his in the picture over to the ridge of hills in the background helpers started to throw dirt over his car to protect it to where you can ~ee the snow. some extent. Adva[...]arles and his Dad decided it was an excellent day to licking around the bumpers when Ken Marlenee came[...]r. They along with his tractor and snaked the car out of the path of loaded the pickup, backed it up to the bank and thus the furious sheet of fire which[...]It was noon, Charles had come to the house for dinner. A varied crew of helpers did sterling duty near the Roy decided to unload just one more load. Charles and I Harold S[...], directly in the path of the fire. They waited for about ten minutes for Dad to come in and then were able to prevent the flames from sweeping over his went to check to see what was keeping him. house and buildings. At another time in the afternoon the Just as we got outside Dad came crawling up out of the fire flushed a jackrabbit from its hiding[...]krat. He was nearly exhausted, bushes. It bounded out into another bush. But the flames blue fro[...]res were gone and overshoes pursued relentlessly. Out again came the jackrabbit, this oozing water with each step. There was no s[...]ked like a rodeo pickup. After helping him get to the house, warmed, and in bronc before speeding a[...]lid into the water among the floating headway due to the protective area tramped down by cakes of ice. It sank within a few minutes. Dad managed to countless Saturday night crowds, volunteer firefighters crawl out through a window of the cab and swim ashore, occasionally took time off from their duties to quench fires dodging ice cakes and struggling to get ashore. Heavy of their own.[...]lel on the north side of the when he ducked to miss an ice cake, saw them floating for a east highway. It was consumed in the early stages of the while, attempted to grab for them but missed. fire which appears to have had its beginning along the It wa[...]949 seen. Charles dived and hooked a chain to the bumper and[...] |
| the truck was hauled out with a tractor. The men removed[...]arming, income taxes, support Roy, however, had to have new dentures made. prices for farm products, 90-mile per hour modern cars,[...]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[...]esk of the Leader, the publisher is pinchhitting this week for Editor Larry HANNIBAL H. AMES[...]1848. He grew up on the Leader from J.F. Dolin. For almost ten years before that, island helping his father, a fisherman. His formal however, we had been engaged in newspaper work in this schooling was obtained there. His father owned a[...]schooner and they would spend up to three months on the Looking back over some of the files of the early 20's we Grand Banks fishing for cod, coming back when their realize we had a little more zip and zest than at the presen[...]as then a sort of testing ground moved to Northfield, Minnesota where they had between the[...]t the Hannibal also worked in Minneapolis for the Pillsbury salvation of the world.[...]assed 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 Producers mill and dam for water power on the Crow river, which he News at P[...]took his nephew Jesse dropped from the scene, not to mention the Madoc Smith, who had been working in the bank, to Overly, North Messenger, Madoc Recorder, Flaxvill[...]the Dooley Sun, The Outlook railroad was building to Overly. They started a bank and Promoter, Westby[...]depositors and closed the bank. In 1913 they came to The Leader, which carries a "36th Year" label[...]at Richey, Montana. Frank was the manager of the for homestead patent publications, there are now just[...]yner one at Wolf Point, allpartofValleyCountywhen we edited Company. In 1926 Hannibal Ames bought out the interests papers at Flaxville in 1914-15.[...]engine in on the ballot at one time or another in this corner of the the plant. He was 79. state, provided targets for newspaper fusiliers, and there Halbe[...] |
| [...]high school in 1919. In 1913 Smith moved out of the Mill house, Hub and Winn and son his siste[...]of ashes carried on July 13, 1921. Halbert worked for the president of the out. National Real Estate Boa rd , as secretary, and later worked fo r T h e Ye ll o ws 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 w[...]In 1926 the mill was paying $100 per month to support a[...]Hub were appointed as a committee to select a site for the[...]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".[...]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[...]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[...]met Burleigh Putnam who was working for Paul. After[...]flew it up to Scobey. Winn and Janet, Burleigh's wife,[...]engine, and Burleigh proceeded to equip it with necessary wind driven power to feed the grasshopper bait from a[...]oil was used for the sole purpose of inducing the farmers to[...]would eat the poison bait only for the moisture it contained.[...] |
| 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 instrument cards. In the summer of 1944[...]ison spray was used and the was assigned to fly passenger runs for Military Air grasshopper bait was used only wit[...]Chief Flight Supervisor in 1938 was a rust year for wheat and 1939 another MAT for the western United States. Paul was in the Coast grasshopper infestation, so we bought many carloads of Guard having enlisted at age 17 in 1943. In 1946 we came · rusted wheat and ground it for sale to the government for back to Scobey and in the fall built the house we still live in. grasshopper bait.[...]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[...]ed. 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[...]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 until he decided he was passenger bi-plane, and with the dam building at Fort Peck getting too old for that low flying. In 1953 he took a job with the[...]editor who was instruction. Hopping passengers for sight-seeing over the editing aerial photog[...]In the winter of 1936 Army. In five months we covered most of North and South Burleigh and Hu[...]rport in Glendale, having obtained the concession for was identifying all things such as school[...]charter flights. classifying roads as to being dirt, gravel or paved, etc., etc. Hub Ames had acquired the distributorship for Piper In the late 50's Hub and Lyman C[...]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[...]aul 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 di[...]is one of the first business establishments in we took off for New York and flew directly over the Empire Scobey and over the years has contributed largely to the State Building, landing on Long Island besi[...]community. It has always supported from five to seven hangar. After a couple of days in New Yor[...]n the building of the town and ·supply of maps, we headed for Scobey. The Cub cruised at county. about 65 or 70 mph and one time through North Dakota we In 1926 Winnifred and son Paul joined H[...]he family moved into what has been known as the we could see our shadow on the ground going backward[...]ll House had been used as a rooming Ole learned to fly a plane on the way home. We used that and boarding house and many of t[...]active in a number of organizations. franchise for Rearwin airplanes and covered Minnesota,[...]ng in Butte. Richard and his family are in hard to sell anything, but we did sell some. Glasgow. There[...]In November of 1939 Ed. Battleson suggested we fly grandson. around the western Unit[...]Winnifred G. Ames for expenses and Hub furnished the airplane, a Rearwi[...]Halbert D. Ames Sportster. We flew to Pocatello, Idaho the first night, then to Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Glendale, Californ[...]THE AMUNDSON FAMILY IN SCOBEY Galveston. We were 1500 feet over the bay and a mile and half[...]sintegrated. The motor My family came to the new town of Scobey in the fall of stopped and all we could do was glide toward shore. We 1913. They had left Williston, North Dakota for a tragic landed cross wind in the middle of the grass, the first reason: their eldest son, Edon, age 13, had been run down propellerless a[...]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 deat[...]t 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[...]latter part of their caught a 42 pound Redfish. We had it packed in ice and journey from Wolf Point by hired car with Edan 's hen, shipped back to Scobey. When we returned P.R. Gorham Biddy, squawking 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 th[...]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[...]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 receivi[...] |
| 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 unusu[...]ace. He had an office on a side street and I used to visit him there, afternoons, imprinting on my bra[...]stared at it in a surge of memories. Next door to the Tallman House stood the town's second hotel,[...]all half-brothers, supplied excitement and gossip for the more respectable element in town. 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 ha[...]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[...]Johnson, of the musical Johnson family, had come to my Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died[...]ofmy blonde hair, The John Carroll Amundson Chair for Visiting Lecturers I had been chosen to sing with her and two other angelic in English Hi[...]by one looking children at the funeral 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[...]San Diego Board of Health, holding that position for many mother she sighed and said what an e[...]tended no pun.) memories have contributed greatly to this article, makes She supposed she would have to go down to Lear's and buy his home with his wife, Emma, in C[...]ime summer rolled around, would be he is retiring this year as a printer on the Sacramento Bee. out[...]have been a teacher and social worker, am married to was not a waste. Sadly enough, there w[...]Speaking of stores, I believe that we used to buy our youngest child of the Amundson family, He[...]torming has been a teacher and is now a secretary for the local home: "Our bill for groceries this month was thirty hospital in Garrison , North Dak[...]s, on their ranch outside of town. this has got to stop. Are we eating gold or what?" That was There are ten g[...]in 1920. Now in 1976 I spend forty dollars a week for two almost all the professions: the clergy, busin[...]aching, secretarial work, nursing. But to return to the schools of Scobey. The teacher I They are sca[...]e During our stay of ten years in Scobey, 1913 to 1923, we and a talent for making us want to do our best. I have never lived for the most part on twelve acres southeast of town,[...]s a rough one, but probably the best teacher seen for quite a distance. My brother Ellsworth tells me[...]she wasn't raising hell with the class, she that we were never able to use the water it pumped because would read[...]eberry Finn and God help it was tainted with oil. We children went to school in a blue the kid who made any noise w[...]children in school. teaching requirements to a high school diploma and three Carroll was a mem[...]lon." and won a gold medal. Years later, down and out in Paris, Another memory Ellsworth contributes: "In those days he tried to pawn it, only to learn that the medal was not they still picked the prairies for buffalo bones. There were gold , only plat[...] |
| 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, thos[...]rees got them. He was an unusual man, our father, for that time and place. He had an obsession abou[...]ducation, he wanted all his children, girls, too, to have it. So we left, but I remember Scobey still; I remember the children we played with, the Pittenger girls and the Crum[...]iction that it was a wonderful place in which to be born and to grow up, and the children who do so are lucky[...]by Joe Anderson I started working for the Occident Elevator Company in Theresa and Jo[...]As we did not have a house yet, I came out hereabout two[...]After we had a home of our own to live in, Theresa, a[...]The company sold the elevator to the locally owned[...]have transferred to some other area but elected to stay in[...] |
| [...]AUDET FAMILY decided to follow Horace Greeley's advice, "Go west, young[...]. It was not too Church by Father Anthony Sorger. To our union were born long before he was a pa[...]st Peterson (my father) from Richville, Minnesota to[...]During this time Ed's oldest brother Ben, a "locator" was[...]first shack was home for him, his wife, Marie (sister o . .[...]Harold Edland), their son and sister Isabel. This was also[...]toffice while Ben scouted around helping settlers to find[...]moved us to Scobey in the spring of 1917, to be Uncle Ed's[...]of the elements. We lived for a year in "Uncle Ed's house".[...]he son and daughter of Donald and Leonie was to take two year old Willard to visit my young uncles, Audet and Howard and Berni[...]r, who spent all of Ole and Cal, always good for a couple of nickels! And we their married lives here also. Ron and Patti are[...]overnight. The landscape varied from sunset to sunrise! chapters. Patti enjoyed her participatio[...]in the Moon ". lawn still brings a glow to my heart. Twenty-five years Patti also enjoyed ve[...]the wilfflowers still bloom around the edges more to the public service type thing such as Fair Board[...]By Patti Audet Left to right: Harry, Ed, Andrew and Ben Battleson[...] |
| [...]hat summer of 'l 7. There was cooking and washing for five men, Uncles Ed, Ole, Cal, The Caspe[...]le and John. bulb in each room, no running water. We drank water from a barrel by the kitchen door. Mr. Beeks, the dray man, filled the barrel for 50 cents. Sometimes we were lucky to get ice east-New York. Benches were never too hard or weather for our newly acquired ice box. How we loved to pick up the too hot under the big brown tent[...]esent cold chips as the iceman hacked off a chunk to fit the box. Vic Hillstrom residence. A capac[...]young and old alike. A season ticket for $2.50 was a real November 24, 1917 my youngest brother Clare was born. prize to possess. There wasn't any money for luxury, but It took the folks a year to decide on a name, th us the Mother considered a Chautauqua ticket to be a necessity. nickname "Babe" still sticks at t[...]Willard Peterson engendered an appreciation for the finer things in life, married Myrtle Jensen o[...]ho. He bought Dr. introducing young and old to the enjoyment of the Storkan's practice in Plenty[...]$5000--what a "Bill" and Myrtle are grandparents to five. huge sum in those days! We were lonesome for Minnesota Doctor Clare Peterson is professor of[...], grocery store at Detroit Lakes. Back we went. Both Mother identical twins Sue and Mae, Er[...]the business was not large enough to support three remembered are Burley Bowler, Dr. C[...]e tournaments. "Can you come? Just bought out Turk of Peoples Cash With the advent of "water[...]and bushes Store." In less than a year we were where we never wanted turned into trees and "Minnesota lawns" and flowers to be again. In the middle of the winter I had a hor[...]ing of slips and doctors said years later). We moved upstairs over the store plants. Old Eric La[...]g business. Every bride got a free Corner". This place was home for 20 years (13 of them after rose bush.[...]en and I were married). Sundays were different; we went to Methodist Sunday The store was often[...]ak chairs. Brother Van, the circuit miles to the west and north. The Canadian and American rid[...]black preacher's coat came at least once a year. We largest primary wheat shipping center in t[...]least in the United States. Grain wagons made 100 to 150 and I thought he might look something[...] |
| [...]the center of main street. There home. Back to Scobey to work in the "big store" and to live was always plenty of ice, cut from the Poplar River and in a mouse-infested rented house. We exterminated, stored in straw and sawdust, on th[...]oseth and I 1929 Uncle 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[...]on eat enough of "Muddy" Jones' butterscotch pie to get sick. place and now owned by my brothers.[...]terrible. We hung wet sheets in front of the windows. The T[...]the paperhanger down the street, wanted to retire so he concerts with Roland Olson as director. Frequently in the gave Casper his sample books. We ordered the paper summer, ice cream socials were[...]nd 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!)[...]anson (Art's Depression Days, 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 evenings and vacations. We also went seven years without Cash, otherwise kn[...]a car or a real vacation. I worked in the store for almost Company. Ben Haagenson had married Isabel[...]d 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[...]the operator. !sable died in 1922. Henry Hanson's son, Cliff, grew up in The boys, my brothers,[...]lege, Scobey and has been Daniels County Assessor for several medical school, internship, etc.[...]married later, all worked in the store. We lived on the farm Rebuilding began very soon. By this time Jim Hill had in the summer and in town during the winter. extended the Great Northern Railroad to Opheim. Various Another seven years, 1[...]s were along the made his appearance. We were then 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[...]er stores. we had a yen to go back to Main Street. We bought a lot Where was I all this time? Going to school, graduating where Dr. McDaniel had h[...]Montana on July 11, 1926 health caused us to sell out to Conlin's of Williston three Casper Brenden of Fla[...]married in years later. After that we rented to the Federated Store. In Glasgow. We eloped, making the front page of the Scobey 1969 John, my son, started his first business venture, Sentinel and[...]ding. bakery in Opheim the year before. He worked for the Hoffs ln February, 1945, Uncle Ed Ba[...]oples Cash Store. After several winters in Now we heard the echoes of "Go west, young man". In Arizona we built our dream house (1954) on the farm. the fall of 1926 Milton and Inanda Hoff, their baby son, Mary Helen had graduated from Concordia College in Casper and I, started for California to seek 1949, married Rev. Russell Halaas, a Lutheran pastor. our forture. (We had a very few dollars, but we privately Their home is in the Poconos Moun[...]thought Milton had made his by selling his bakery to John They have four children, Mark, David, John and Beth. Reiner, Jack's uncle, for $13,000 cash.) Gayle taught kindergarten for seven years and married It didn't take me long to get homesick for Montana. Curtis Bummer, a cybernetic engineer for Honeywell in Milton got a job with Bank of Italy[...]a). Nobody nee,d ed a baker and jobs were scarce. We and Philip. John met his future wife, Carol Rein of Melville, borrowed the fare and headed back to Scobey in February Montana, at Concordia College. They were married in of 1927. What matter we were broke; we were going back to 1968 and have three children, Kimberly, Chr[...]d expanded store, Howard Isaac's of Glentana, and we were in Battleson Company location. The Company which held business. We lived there a year. No houses were available[...]d most continuous Chevrolet so Casper built one. We furnished it with wedding presents, agency in[...]The year 197 4 witnessed a new building to replace the old "Blue Heaven". "Millie and me and Baby makes three." Peoples Cash. Coast to Coast is there now. The Brenden Mary Helen was bo[...]Our chief Company building is rented to the state as a liquor store. entertainment came f[...]adio 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[...] |
| [...]1962. The old days form a foundation and basis for the building of the new. Modern buildings, paved streets, trees, flowers have changed this place to one of the prettiest Ii ttle towns in Montana. Th[...]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 mo[...]ncordia College, I too repeat, "Soli Deo Gloria" (To God alone the Glory) in this Bicentennial year of 1976.[...]ewspaper clipping Sid Bennett has been likened to the man who raises |
| [...]summer of 1973 he was privileged to attend the National[...]Iowa - he came to Daniels County area in 1911 - left, but[...]returned again in 1913 to take up a homestead south of the[...]one son, Lewis. After spending some time in Idaho and[...]Washington he returned to Scobey in 1948 where he-was[...]employed at the Cozy Cafe and later moved out to Saltese,[...]He came west to Saskatchewan in 1909.[...]ardent Conservative eloped to Moose Jaw with Maud,[...]transition period jeweler to printer and editor at Flaxville[...]fn 1916 that their first son, Larry, was born. Mr. Bowler was then putting out the nearby Madoc Recorder. Those[...]in every little town to publish proving up notices of[...]for each town's bid for the county seat designation, as[...]Montana had begun to get into the throes of "county-[...]Antelope from John Grayson who had to foreclose on a[...]previous owner. It was at Antelope that another son, Duane, was born in November 1918. We were married August 24, 1946 in Vancouver,[...]age of help on the bigger papers in South Dakota. We were both born in Iowa, but lived there Pl[...]Daniels County) prompted Joe Dolan to buy out Burley I began teaching in 1936 in rural school[...]Bowler on the condition that he would come to work for him This fall , 1975, I will begin my eighth full term in[...]ounds in those days and there were 22 Our first son, John , was born in June, 1953 in we[...]ducers News, and a crisis on an Ned, our second son, is a senior in Scobey High School. associat[...]has been active in music and speech. Bowler to be sent to Scobey that year to pinch-hit as editor[...] |
| [...]For today----[...]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 Anniver[...]ollowing a fulsome birthday program. TRIBUTE TO MRS. BURLEY BOWLER by Cecil M. Fe[...]and printer. He moved the family to Scobey which became MY NEIGHBOR[...]ewspapering that reached A kettle on for tea back to pre-WWI days. There's always room---when we drop in--- Meanwhile the family was growing up. All three of the For you and your---and me. chil[...] |
| played the golf game in season for the exercise and this He came west to Saskatchewan in 1909 and in 1911 met summer has b[...]is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. except for the years 1950-52 when they lived most of the[...]Scobey and Duane of Billings. assistant to the late Senator Zales Ecton.[...]in the jewelry business, but plans did not work out. He was window) which has caused considerable comment as to in Whitetail in 1914 and in 1915 se[...]ago. Radville, it was not until he came to Flaxville that the Mr. Bowler passed away in 1[...]printer, editor, (and betimes jeweler) for both the Flaxville California.[...]n Scobey and is editor of the Daniels County out the short-lived Madoc Recorder. He also filled qu[...]By this time he no longer could escape the smell of The[...]ndependent which he edited and published, selling out in 1919 to the late Joe Dolan, after a series of fires had[...]It was at this time that new counties were being formed,[...]Burley Bowler was "loaned" to the Sentinel in 1921, and[...]and there met for the first time Bille Dunne, who was on the Burley[...]stitution and by-laws, later adopted. A brilliant to be Montana's first and only Pulitzer Prize winner[...]that time for world revolution and the Soviet Union.[...]Dunne admitted to Mr. Bowler his wholesale lifting of text[...]from that instrument for the new farmers organization,[...]World War II he became a special Monday evening this week about five-thirty, Burley Soviet plenipotentiary to Mongolia. Bowler, 77, longtime northeastern Monta[...]re he had lived League, Mr. Bowler came to the bitter realization that rural most of his Zif[...]erred at Scobey problems were not going to be solved at higher levels on the Cemetery Tuesday this week. basis[...]tario militia. eastern Montana ever was to witness. In nearby He was the youngest o[...] |
| [...]ut four years ago, he said, "Hell, looked forward to weekly by the general public, but with I've been in worse spots than this before in my life. Did you apprehension by those who were the targets. think I planned to be a hundred and fifty years old?" In 1926, a c[...]political thugs came up from He wanted to go down swinging; and mercifully, he did. Plentywood and set fire to the Leader. Waller F[...]efforts were crippling ... the Leader was printed for many weeks at Wolf Point ... this arrant political gangsterism became identified for what it was. By 1928 Mr. Bowler had bought out the Sentinel. The awesome CHARLES FR[...]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 ther[...]ain Charles, better known as Charlie, came to Montana and in the wings, and of all the efforts[...]rity 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[...]Deal, while at the same time recognizing the need for many moved northwest of Glasgow where they farmed[...]e he had seen at close range reeked in their lust for power. He had campaigned for Bob LaFollete and B.K. Wheeler in 1924 in their p[...]an half a century of newspapering he had occasion to meet and visit with many public luminaries in the[...]taff of the late Senator Ecton. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Philadelphi[...]ere with some forebodings, which that fall proved to be well-founded. When he was installed as pres[...]Montana Press Association he was greatly pleased to be able to introduce the main speaker, with whom he had visi[...]Fred Seaton. Mr. Bowler was state committeeman for the county Republican party at the time of his pa[...]mber, and in 1951 was special fund drive chairman for the final $50,000 drive necessary to build the Memorial hospital. Weddin[...]d at 6, 1936. neighboring tournaments for nearly twenty-five years. He once played the cour[...]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[...]rest in the sport, which it did. His 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.[...]oat operator. His "Publisher's Column," running for years in the In May of that year Dorothy and infa[...]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 an[...]ttended part of their grade school in was not one to shrink from controversy.[...]The boys thought she was just great. ~ost causes for him were normal conditions. When he[...] |
| [...]Wahpeton'. On April 30, 1947 he came to Scobey to work at[...]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[...]of the B & W Club. Surprisingly, this situation presented very few problems. 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 th[...]ugh eight in the Madoc School. In July 1963 his son, Charles, who was returning home After[...]Linda is living in Scobey also, and is married to Wayne member of Troup 298, Norman served a[...]Vatnsdal, who is from Badger, Minnesota. He came to local group and has been treasur~r for several years. He Montana in 1964 and is employed[...]· served on the Great Falls Area Council for many years, and Scobey. They have an adopted son[...]received the Silver Beaver award. Another son, Ronald, served in the U.S. Army for three For Clarice being a Den Mother for five years was much years, one of them in Germany[...]d Otto Brandt was born in 1879 in Sweden. He came to been on the Ford Dealer Council. Sco[...]ll 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.[...]rade 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[...]ur summers at Northern Montana College at artisan for contractors. He always made his headquarters[...]1927. Charlie Harris recalled that he had worked for him Four children greatly enlive[...] |
| [...]e 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 earn[...]d 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 active in football, music and flu epidemic. For one month we went to different homes drama. He is attending the Un[...]in bed desperately ill and we did what we could to wa:it upon Carla, the youngest, is in high school Her interests center them. We made a pact- in case any one of us became ill,[...]ama. we would care for each other. Strange as it may seem, not[...]nth's salary and a notice of appreciation because we[...]y 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.[...]tagious 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. men for they were at war. I had never heard of Sco[...]tice I had superintendent, Olive Nelson, came to my room and told received and was "Way out west in Montana", I applied me the good[...]that gathered boxes and what they could find to build a big bon- when they read one of my qua[...]er 11th until the boys My problem was, how to reach Scobey. The depot agent finally began to come home. One day in March, as my in Sioux F[...]general direction. Giving lunch at Harts Cafe, we saw two young soldiers being me his card, he[...]Fred Brunet and Ferd Wienicke. A few weeks later we met have routed you?" After three days of rid[...]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[...]work at school and there was still time before we were due[...]at Kate Von Kuster's Boarding House for dinner. Kate Von[...]Burne and others. As we stood watching the ice pile up and[...]breaking in the river, Ruth pointed to a large cake some[...]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 fellows" we[...]the authorities at once. They found it to be the body of a[...]and the third year I taught it as Mrs. Brunet, for Fred and I[...]process of separating to become Daniels County. When[...] |
| Fred went to get a marriage license from Mr. Shippam, no blanks had been received for Daniels County; so, he and John Nyquist, the County Attorney, got out the law books and drew up the first license for Daniels County. I still have the clipping from t[...]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 fourth yea[...]the first private kindergarten which I continued for several years and also did private tutoring. Both[...]es use of his music by playing the organ or piano for church, weddings, supper clubs and dances. He is also Clerk of Court for Monmouth County. He and his wife Tove have a daug[...]d a son Craig all in college. During the years we lived in Scobey, Fred worked for the Citizens State Bank, First National Bank, and[...]Burke Foreman - Graduation Day County Supervisor for WPA projects. We both were active in civic and church organizations. We moved from Scobey in 1943. It had been my home for In 1918 the folks decided to try their hand at farming 25 years, and longer for Fred. A position with the U.S. again and we moved north of Peerless. Gladys, Margaret Bureau of Public Roads was offered Fred to work on the and Gordon were added to the family tree. Alaska Highway. We lived for several months in Canada,[...]cried so much she said "Some day I'm going to throw him to Seattle to work as a Cost Accountant for the U.S. Air out." I said, "If you do I'll pick him up, make him a bed in Force at the Boeing Company where he remained for about 19 years. When he retired in 1963 we moved to Pomona to the barn and milk .old bossy and take c[...]t my concern, which always made be nearer Barrie. We will always cherish our memories of[...]Gordon special to me. In 1922 we moved to town again and Scobey and our old friends.[...]dad went back to tending bar for Carl Kilgore. In 1923[...]In 1923 the hospital brought in Dr. Morrow to remove[...]were given pretty pink juice to drink afterwards and I had PAT[...]to stay in the hospital overnight. I was very unhapp[...]e of 13 children. A Lloyd always bailed her out. She had fiery red hair and baby sister was burie[...], 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 June 11 , 1895 and 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 we[...]After graduating in 1933 I applied for work at the court In August of 1914 they left Wibaux by covered wagon for house. I got the job but they asked for Gladys and that took Scobey where dad spent the n[...]. went to work on construction at the Fort Peck Dam[...] |
| [...]ining consciousness. In 1936 my dad moved back to Sidney where he met and married a widow with thre[...]940's he FREDERICK CORNELIUS moved to Williston where he again tended bar. He lived[...]re until he had a massive heart attack, was taken to JEANNEITE CORNELIA BYDELEY Billing[...]and emigrated to Canada in June, 1911. Jeanne (as I have many things to be thankful for, for the best things Jeannette Cornelia Van Ameronge[...]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 sh[...]Montana on December 21, 1912. They returned to[...]Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada where Fred worked for[...]Helen, arrived January 28, 1914. The family moved to[...]r three years in Great Falls Fred was transferred to[...]changed after World War II to the Continental Land Company due to the revised policy on foreign currency[...]Bainville to change trains. Temporarily, they lived in the[...]extremely good-natured, he was considered by some to be somewhat effeminate. This was dispelled one evening, however, when a gravel[...]daughters Wietske, Helen challenge. When he came to the end of the counter, still and Else in[...]a friend of Eddie's, knocking him down. Eddie let out a whoop and waded into the gravel-crew bruiser. L[...]ty affairs. badly bruised, scratched, and begging for mercy. It was the Fred was on the school board for years, serving many of[...] |
| [...]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 those who didn't from the School of Education in 1942 and did graduate intend to give. His subtle humor, dignity and versatile work in the Graduate School 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[...]the story that he in some way became a candidate for Armament Officer in the Air Force, in Tucs[...]e only candidate who has Else worked for a while as medical social worker at New ever acti[...]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 farmi[...]back into Montana State University affectionately for her knitting, having a big start with the in[...]ating in 1947 with a degree in Red Cross knitting for which she furnished many socks, Industr[...]ing that time their daughter sweaters and mittens for service men. After Fred's passing, Jean Ann was born. 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 residence. worked for Leibrand Service. In 1951 Charles became She returns often to Scobey and the attendance at her 85th manager for the Continental Land Company until it was birthday reception attested to the many friends she has dissolved. He c[...]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.[...]national Independent Insurance Association up to[...]in Scobey and went through grade and high school here. Helen graduated in the class of 1932 and went to Northern Montana College in Havre, majoring in ed[...]r's College in Minnesota. Afterwards she returned to teaching in Opheim and in Flaxville. In 1942 she[...]service, and while he was overseas she went back to teaching in the Havre school system . They then returned to Missoula for Bob to finish his schooling. A daughter, Virginia, wa~ b[...]of moves as Bob followed the wildlife profession--to Helena, then to Coeur d'Alene, where another daughter, Barbara, arrived. They transferred to Boise, Idaho and in 1956 to Jackson, Wyoming. In 1966 Bob received an assignm[...]. The two daughters are married. Wietsk P (Vee to all her friends) was a graduate in the Mr.[...]ls, 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 D[...]rs. Else worked with the Red Cross and they moved to Great Falls where Charlie was Agriculture[...]ry and in the music programs of Development Agent for the Great Northern Railroad. They the Me[...]and the community. She was also were transferred to Seattle, Washington in 1962 where acti[...]in Lion's Club, Commercial Club, the Fair married to Bob Thomas and lives in San Jose, California.[...]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,[...]s, 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[...]forces; 1876. She taught school in Minnesota, and for several the remainder of his family still[...]ools in St. Paul. Francis, working for the state of California, is married There she m[...]Santa Barbara. 31, 1917. Shortly after they came to Scobey where she was Margaret (Brant) lives[...]and Millie Poyner. Paul attended LaPierre School for seven years then moved to Scobey with his parents in 1948 CASSIDY for the remainder of his schooling. I attended all tw[...]years at Scobey school. We were 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. for Nemont Construction Crew, finishing out the winter at The family is descended from immigrants coming from Battleson and Company. Our first son, Mark, was born in County Wicklow, County Limerick and Cork and Ireland Scobey and was schooled here. He then went custom during the potato famine of 1[...]rom Ireland settled in and the spring of 1955 we moved to the Chabot farm where we around Janesville, Wisconsin and in Iowa, later moving to lived until 1957. Then we moved to Billings and Paul Springfield, Minnesota in the early 1870's. worked as a welder for Eaton Metals and became an The part ofthe family emigrating from Germany located underwriter for Mutual of New York Insurance Company. in western[...]program ever since. He has Illinois, and finally to Minnesota. Four brothers of this spent part of two su111mers working in Califor[...]rsus-Omemee area of Bottineau In 1959 we bought the Hertoghe Implement business County in[...]r partner. In 1961 Charles M. Cassidy was born to Michael Cassidy and Paul and I purchased l[...]business until 1969 we sold out our business. 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[...] |
| [...]ith a cable laying crew in the Scobey Carl for a time was in partnership with Clarence Penn in a[...]urchased 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[...]berg and Melena in 1943. The livery barn was sold to for it and went on the first wagon train of Daniels C[...]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.[...]from Sweden Dakota. Walter died in 1955. to a small dairy and garden farm which they owned an[...]west of Scobey on a farm. Their son Dale lived on this of Chelgren when they became citizens a few years[...]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 esta[...]eriff, Arthur Nelson, a position he was too young to file a homestead he pursuaded an older which[...]3. 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 hi[...]Frank H. and Theda Christensen and infant son, Dean, came to Scobey from Sidney, Montana in August, 1926. Mr.[...]College in Helena for four years, served in the U.S. Navy,[...] |
| [...]llege of Great Falls. She and her allowed to practice as such in the United States. However hu[...]d in Scobey they Mark and Anna Clayburgh moved to Scobey, Montana had two children with[...]s a small white house west of the home Mark built for Dakota, where Mark was employed at the Peterson L[...]family. In 1918 they moved to the Fadness Ranch in the Ss,_obey Mark was employed at the Hellickson Lumber Yard for area. Mark was drafted, but World War I ended bef[...]He served as mayor in Scobey. was inducted. Their son, Mark Jr., was born at the ranch. Claire[...]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[...]n was the family doctor. Minnesota before leaving for Montana, where she was the 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.[...]Norway. She was not Forks, North Dakota at this time. When Mark retired they moved to Bismarck, North[...], 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[...] |
| [...]rd, a longtime lawyer and real estate agent, came to Scobey in 1914. He was active in this community until about 1932 when he went to Minneapolis entering law practice with the late J[...]ford was active in real estate activities and was for a time interested in the old Merchant's National[...]his law practive and building business in Scobey to Carl Lindquist, who came to Scobey in 1928. Thomas Clifford was never marri[...]CHRANE FAMILY 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[...]arried Lawrence Goodwin of Cornach. Thex have one son, Larry. Edna was in the ladies ready-to- wear business in British Columbia. Lawrence was[...]Sr. died at the age of 64. His wife Minnie lived to be 91. Samuel came from Ireland when he was 19[...]May 22, 1879. He died in 1943. He taught school for many years, then attended Ontario College of Phar[...]l~v\;3. He spent two years in New York, then came to North l.Jc1kota where he operated a drug store at[...]d Mattie Littlefield in 1908. In 1912 they came to Outlook where he operated , drug In graduation to[...]t the University store until 1919 when he sold it to Chester Ford. of Toronto medical college, is Dr. T. W. Collinson, who has He decided to change his career, so went to Davenport without question, ushered more new lives into this world and graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He came to than any other M.D. in northeastern Montana. Shortly Scobey and practised his profession then went to Helena, · before this picture was taken Dr. Collinson was rated one later returning to Scobey to operate the Scobey Drug. of the best lacros[...]Bryce, now deceased. Dr. was the physician for foe Great[...]o even though he was into his fifties, he learned to play the of hockey and baseball. If there had bee[...]h. He had varied decades later, it is likely that we in the west might never business and real estate[...]livered 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 gener[...]ploma in that field. As the new townsites began to form along the Great Northern rail line in 1913,[...]ing Dr. Fitz). In 1916 the Collinson family moved to Scobey to establish a practice which was to last until Dr. Colli nson's death in 1957.[...] |
| too for the very moderate charges he made for his Her last years were spent in t[...]his car. He broke his hip in 1949, but was able to continue his[...]m years of his life he was bedridden but was able to read and 1914 to 1933. His brothers, Dr. T.W. and Joe also lived i[...]35. He was Idaho, a former Scobeyite who happened to be visiting here in the motel business in Fort Peck during the dam boom and for all of his youth was a patient of Dr. Collinson.[...]died in 1961 at the age of 78. They had one son, William,[...]Westland Company until it was moved to Minutin 1928. He[...]to employ the use of an airplane--one of which was a[...]the early years when he first came to Scobey. A native of Lilly Da[...]returned to Minnesota where he worked · in several Lily D[...]d 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 abo[...]ized the first basketball teams in the area, both for girls and boys. She also organized all-high schoo[...]tions twice a year and in between also found time to file on a homestead. After her marriage she sold her homestead for $2000 and invested it in the new drug store in Sc[...]-year pin and was honored by the local chapter at this time. She also served as president of the[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Crawford with son, Leslie, and granddaughter Meg.[...]Pete and Catherine Darchuk and children from left to[...]es, Diane, and Carl taken in 1960. After working for Burton's for about six months Les joined |
| [...]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[...]Stacie, Tracie Mueller. "Mother, who lived to be ninety-one and a half remembered the Civil Wa[...]vre. 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[...]etimes 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[...]al. It will seldom do the same thing twice. After we killed one or two the others recognized the car and would hide. "We could see a coyote a mile a way go over a hill and hide and listen for the car. The dogs, wise to this, were released and we would drive the car on to one side to throw the coyote off guard. One hound, Sam, was a[...]g and throw it. Other dogs would be there by then to take care of the coyote." RAYM[...]DALE SMITH FAMILIES |
| [...]itizens State Bank. He purchased the Woman's Shop for his wife- later selling it to J. Harriet Erickson. They moved to Bakersfield, California where he established a bu[...]udy Leer (who also lived in Scobey). They had one son, Otto, Jr. and they raised a niece, Mae. Both the[...]1927 paper reads: "O.B. Egland, Scobey lumberman, this week purchased the Monarch lumber yards in Scobey, Peerless and Glentana, adding to his extensive interests as a lumber dealer in N.E[...]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[...]d 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 rail[...]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[...]town teams or as an umpire when he was too tired to play the game. Rockglen was a town of young peopl[...]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 rec[...]ol 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 start[...]Melfred and I were married in 1928 at Assiniboi&. We[...] |
| [...]ly, and later, Harvey. we were closest on the dear familiar ground of her b[...]den. Here she achieved a seasonal array of Scobey we moved back to the United States in 1934 and flowers[...]ting a home surely from indifferent clods. for several years. We then bought the B.O. Tande home. Mrs[...]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. Mr[...]952. Mr. Erickson Melfred took a Watkins Route for outdoor work during passed away some ye[...]lerk of Court office and he served by re-election to that office until his death on March 28, 1955. He[...]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 six students k[...]Chi basketball team. The memorial money was given to the Daniels County Hospital for emergency equipment. Loraine married Theodore[...]55 with an engineering degree at Bozeman and went to work for Honeywell in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They spent s[...]west of Scobey in 1914. Mr. Erickson, in addition to farming, wasanadeptsalesman,conducting sales all along the Soo line for merchants. He was associated with the Chapin Groc[...]n · Mercantile in Scobey. She later was employed for six years at the David ·Mercantile, which later[...]vinced Mrs. Erickson that she was just the person to be the manager. The years confirmed his judgment[...]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[...]son. Her garden will fill with life, this spring BERNARD is married to Margie Nakke , "'1ghter of As Nature touch[...]arden beds. GERALD is married to Clara Olson of Tioga and lives in[...]ton; and Tara, a fourth grader, Will bloom for her, as they used to do; living at home. But the[...]and tend us, since she's away?" worked for J. V. Bennett for sixteen years and then oegan to by Cecil Ferguson farm for himself. After leaving the far.ro-he.houghi the J[...]who is married to Roy Nelson lives in.Richland and they[...]ander, Great Falls, has one child; Debby, married to[...]: Scobey. FRANCES was married to Morris Paulson, son of Carl RITA atten[...]employed in the worked at the courthouse and for the Harry Hansen trucking business until he retir[...]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. The[...] |
| [...]Schaefer, and as Deputy Clerk of Court for George Jones.[...]Whitetail to south of town when the children started to[...]never seemed to reach our feet. One cold spring morning[...]Gerald, we moved to Great Falls where Larry began to[...]birthday and they changed the age limit. We later went The Carl Faanes family. Standing: Len and Virlaine. back to farming. Seated: Florence, Lonnie and Carl.[...]in the army, going from Fort Knox, Kentucky to a base in education in Minnesota, having attended[...]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[...]eaches He married Fl-orence Rossing in 1925 and to this union senior high social studies in Scobey.[...]In 1928 Mr. Faanes retired and the family moved to Kalispell where he passed away May 12, 1973. He i[...]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[...]racted the attention of attended a country school for a short time, then for several M.L. Hoff (he worked in the local 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[...]on, founder and namesake of the house as a deputy for John Smith in the Assessor's office, present[...]el T truck that-he also in the Treasurer's office for Wyvil BjerJrn and Howard wanted fitted[...] |
| [...]Concordia College for one year. In 1944 he entered the[...]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[...]County for eight years and was also City Attorney of[...]Scobey for a number of years. He is a past Commander of[...]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[...]vels, and helped organize Camp Lund, Adolph Fonk, out here from Minneapolis. He stayed to a Girl Scout camp located next to the river on the old Tande marry, raise a family[...]xemburg. 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[...]Montana State University, Bozeman, where he grew to manhood. He was a veteran of the first Mont[...]unty; and a daughter, Jane Ann, a Legion. He came to Scobey in 1925 to work as a mechanic language major at Whitma[...]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 re[...]their front lawn. were a part of the Fonk family here. Adolph Fonk was living here at the time of his[...]ndependent Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frank came to Scobey in 1922. He had law in Scobey. From 1951 to 1955 his law office was located homesteaded in[...]and learned the meat cutting trade. He worked for Armour business. Prior to that time the building was occupied by and Swift for several years and in 1907 went to Souris, Fred Bydeley and Knute Knudson, agents for Hollarn North Dakota where he worked i[...]became the Continental Land he came to Outlook, Montana to worked for C.A. West in Company. In 1955 Mr. Fosland purchas[...]purchased in 1914 and sold it moved the building to the rear of the lot and constructed a to F.J. Frost in 1919. In 1922 he purchased the Pion[...]t in Scobey. It is now owned by The family came to Montana in 1928 when Jordan G[...] |
| [...]This is the interior of the People's Meat Market in Sc[...]Bert Moyer and O.L. Frank. This buffalo was shipped in[...]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[...]leslady in the Nelson Dakota. She came to Scobey in 1923 and graduated from General Store. She married Otto Frank in 1917 and for Scobey High School in 1925. That fall sh[...]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 Satur[...]ded nurse with a and a chicken or roast and candy for the children and have smile." them delivered to some of the poorer families in Scobey for Omemee, North Dakota and lived in Outlook, Montana their Sunday dinners. When their many friends came to where he married Auget Johnson in 1923. They moved to their home, they never left without a cup[...] |
| [...]teaches shop at Billings, Montana. He is married to the several other boys from Scobey played in the[...]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[...]Raymond Vernon Walker, or "Irish" as he preferred to be high teacher and principal at Thompson F[...]rn in Omemee, North Dakota. 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 Montana. I Northern Montana College at Havre for two years, joined met him in Scobey and we were married at Rugby, North the army a[...]year in combat in Vietnam. He now Dakota in 1929. We have a daughter, Patricia, now Mrs. work[...]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 Business School. Now she live[...]y Fair. married to Jim Donahue of Scottsburg, Indiana. He is a n L[...]ive part in contributing pictures and information for one son. the 1963 Golden Jubilee book. He was keenly devoted to his Rozlyn is a graduate of Scobey High S[...]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 Bowler of Scobey. They[...]ie and Willa Mae, are still in grade Beaver Award for Distinguished Service to Boyhood. He school. was a charter membe[...]Perhaps the Frank and Walker families enjoyed, for the most part, their life on the homestead in Butte Creek. This was evidenced in an article compiled by Irish for the 1963 EUGENE FROMAN Gol[...]when he wrote "Times were hard, but looking back, we spent the best days of our Ii ves on the[...]He had come to this area from England and he took a faTIU[...]south of Scobey where he raised wheat and oats. This was more difficult for him than for most because he had very[...]poor eyesight. In order to see the rows while seeding Gene had to use a high wheeled drill, so tne horse would foll[...]One experience he had before moving to town: he had Flaxville, and Gertrude Nordgren dau[...]the poison, but as Gene philosophically said, "It didn't do working as a mechanic for Vic Hillstrom Motors; taking the horse any harm and didn't kill the hoppers either." time off each spring and fall to farm his land. He later went For a time after moving to town Gene slept in an old to work for Rasmus Nelson's Implement where he still[...]es in shack with his five dogs. He loved to hunt rabbits with the Scobey - a house which was[...]s and since he couldn't see he took friends along to see hospital, and a day nursery.[...]four girls He often remarked, "People used to wonder how Old and six boys, and four years later they adopted twin girls. Gene was going to get along, but since hard times they Alden atte[...]on, North wonder how they are going to make it themselves." Dakota; graduated from Northern Montana College at Gene loved to play checkers. He had to hold his face very Havre after four years of service in the Air Corps. He now close to the board to be able to see. Some of his adversaries[...] |
| tried to torment him by stealing checkers off the board. L[...]couldn't even beat him then." After Gene moved to town he slept in every conceivable - type of plac[...]ic Hillstrom's garage, and many times in the open out-of- doors. When he allowed himself the luxury of a shack to live in he shared it with his dogs, and pets of a[...]unted rabbits and coyotes. Strange indeed that this character could be the uncle of the colorful sing[...]HE GETSCHEL FAMILY In 1923 Frank Getschel came to Daniels County from Havre, Montana where he had h[...]Getschel, Jack McKiernan and Rod Sherburne by car to Scobey. They had all heard that Daniels County lo[...]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[...]at home. Howard has been in now the Farver farm. For amusement they had dances at the store business all of his life, except for two years he the Four Comers School and many times they went by sled served in World War II. For several years he also farmed with all the childre[...]nd 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.[...]ocery store from the there in 1909. They moved to Montana and homesteaded[...] |
| [...]airs. John left Minnesota at his doctor's advice, to a dryer climate for his asthma.[...]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 Febru[...]obey, and accordingly, the Gorham Hotel Flaxville to Gus and Mary Girard, the fourth son in a[...]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[...]engaged in a hotly contested race for mayor of Scobey with THE FRANK GOOD[...]Pat Murphy. P.R. lost but he didn't quit fighting.[...]mpany 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 times, P.R. had homestead adjoining theirs. For the seven months of monkeys, parrots,[...]nd 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.[...]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,[...]s postmaster. . moved to Washington; Bud joined his father in Billings Frank Goodman came to Scobey in the spring of 1912, and eventua[...]estead 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,[...]in Billings and Pat, widowed in 1965, works for a Billings The ride was not without hazard. In[...]by Pat Gorham Hill difficulty; Steve told Frank to jump out and hold the heads of the horses up out of the water. The water was freezing cold but the[...]in After the Great Northern Railroad was routed to the east this community (north of Scobey in the French of the o[...]uthfully said he had "joie de vivre" - each moved to "East" Scobey. Both Addie and Frank continued[...]at the local hospital. one great-granddaughter at this writing. They farmed for Mr. Gratton was also a Scobey businessman for some time, a number of years south of Scobey unti[...]n they operating the Silver Slipper. moved to Redding, California and then to San Jose, south[...]arrived in Antelope and Dagmar in Sheridan County for an oil company of which he was an officer[...] |
| [...]Heart for wounds received in action resulting in his dea1 1[...]Paul, Minnesota to Joseph and Tillie Greengard. He was[...]ther and his father's brother, Sam, Back row left to right: Reid Jr., Reid, Edith, Muriel. Seated: e[...]training at the Reid started working in Frazer for the railroad in June, Great Lakes Naval Tra[...]ceived five ha ttle stars He returned again to Scobey and became active in the in Germany and Fr[...]Montana and North Dakota 29 times as relief agent for about town. He also was active in civi[...]and as a student of government in 1947 and moved to Opheim, Montana in 1951. In 1956 and p[...]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[...]y at the Reid has been active in Boy Scout work for 23 years. time of his passing; he was a[...]itteeman on Scobey's west side. as representative to the National Council of Boy Scouts of America for the Great Plains Area Council with headquarters i[...]active in Legion baseball and Babe Ruth baseball for a number of years. He also has been active in ind[...]ristmas basketball tournament by having a team in this tourney. Reid and Edith had four children: Muri[...]as inducted into the army in March, 1958 and went to Fort Lewis, Washington for his basic training. He was married to Judy Hass and their daughter Wendi Jo was born at[...]ia. In the line of duty and having given his life for his country he received the Bronze Star Medal for Meritorious Achievement in ground operatio[...] |
| [...]7-A, in maroon," the man requested. "We'll take a look,"[...]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[...]Conboy, who worked for Greengards on and off almost[...]crowded store: "We'll have to rip-rap the aisles, or[...]somebody's gonna get hurt. Maybe we better take off two[...]Unlike many who live mostly for their business alone,[...]etc.,all in addition to his abiding interests in politics,[...]recognition and he was slated to be a Montana delegate to[...]store The days and nights were always too short for Ralph ·location was at long last available for him to buy, after Greengard. He was the most well-read p[...]ished iiolid friendships and pleasant outstanding for its shrubs, trees and flowers. Ralph also acquain[...]bird varieties he observed in the bird legendary to the numerous ones who had opportunity to baths and bird house, in a setting which attracte[...]Every day was a full and interesting one for Ralph His personal filing system was a mystery[...]eded 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[...]was closed common phrase among those who bothered to seek him out out and sold; and after a few years Mrs. Greengard so[...]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[...]y a special order item) Ralph smiled and said, for many years, became Scobey residents in 196[...] |
| [...]ool. Margaret attended the College of Great Falls for three years and was a teacher one year before h[...]e. In recent years Mrs. Gribble was employed for a while at Ware's Style Shop, the State Liquor[...]ors he has not been actually engaged in 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[...]eath March family members no longer residing in this area he played 1, 1972. He was the only one remaining in this area of the for many dances from 1918 to 1941, including the first original family. His mother moved to Great Falls in the dance at the Silver Star Com[...]ining of the original family Minnesota and came to Montana in 1900 as a railroader. are a b[...]By Cecelia Hagfeldt, who lives in the first house to be built Addition. He married Julia Kamla at Gl[...]ifornia. Pete operated a n auto garage fro m 1917 to 1927. It is now the Hillstrom Garage. He was Chief of Police for ten years and then operated a tavern for another twelve years. He was a member of the El[...]9. 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[...]t and Bulk Plant. Later he operated this business himself for Holt, Minnesota March 20, 1895. The family of e[...]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 then Solberg Implement before striking out on his own in father the family moved to Scobey in 1917 and he resided the carpentr[...]ed Leibrand-Halvorson, Contractors. He farmed for many years with brothers Hilmer and T[...]buildings in Daniels County constructed by them. This in the early 1940's but he continued to farm here, along partnership was dissolved[...]jured with additional land in the Triangle area out of Fort in a lumber yard acciden[...] |
| [...]y history of Battleson and Company must be traced to[...]Minnesota to "try his luck" on the plains and prairies of[...]were looking for greener pastures so they settled at Scobey,[...]asked Art Hanson, his cousin who was working for him in North Dakota, to join the business in Scobey. Battleson[...]of 1917, and six years later contracted to sell Buicks[...]distributor for the area. Gradually Battleson and Hanson[...]bought out the other partners and in 1927 Mr. Hanson Washington , Seattle, married to Karen Seeley from Salem, assumed management[...]daughter, Kristin. moved to the west coast in semi-retirement. Lynette is t[...]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[...]. He and Janet have two daughters. Allen returned to Scobey and enlisted in the army. After spending c[...]y he now lives in Havre. Jean Halverson worked for Bill Bernard in the Scobey Hotel, beginning in 1959 shortly after Mrs. DeTray, who was managing it for him, died. Three months later she rented it from[...]he Senior Citizens Center and is Project Director for the group. She has also been affiliated with the[...]by Jean Halverson A.R. Hanson and his son, Gordon ART HANSON[...]his son, K. Gordon Hanson, took over the company assets.[...]y where, as he puts it, "he came up from a flunky to |
| [...]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[...]pnel, and on the 17th of October it was necessary to assortment of cars in addition to Chevrolet and Buick in amputate my leg benea[...]Pontiac, Oldsmobile and even I returned to Scobey and went back to work for Battleson Pullmans are about the best remembered.[...]d His years in Scobey were not devoted entirely to the auto held this position until 1954, and have been County busines[...]sor since January 1955. the Lions, was councilman for several years, chairman of Romaine Kittock[...]Finance Committee. Melvin Holter. We have a daughter, Connie, now Mrs. He married Ma[...]don Myron Anderson of Peerless and a son, Thomas, who has a Hanson, continued in the busine[...]degree in mathematics and is teaching in Wyoming. We Hansons sold the business and now live in Salt La[...]My outside work is devoted to my church and veterans[...]I was born in 1917 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota and we Foreign Wars. I am treasurer of the local Legion Baseball moved to Joplin, Montana three weeks later. In 1924 we Committee. came to Scobey with my father, Henry L. Hanson (a[...]place on brother of A.R. Hanson), also coming at this same time was earth and plan on spending the r[...]Scobey family. In 1931 my father Henry decided to move back to Minnesota and took with him sister Mayme. By now[...]cle Art and Aunt Josephine, better known as Babe, to raise through my adulthood. Cliff wa[...]ball team. I was a member of the first track team to go from Scobey High School in 1937. He was in the air force to State from Scobey in 1937.[...]er he was discharged in November 1945 he returned to here and went to work for Battleson & Co., where Uncle Art Scobey where he worked for Battleson Company. was part owner and manager, un[...]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[...]for ten years and is currently working for a degree in[...] |
| [...]n September 1886 in Pilot, North Dakota. She came to Montana to homestead in 1910 in the Navajo community. E. H[...]r Stevens. She and her brother, Fred Hanson, used to have shooting contests. E. Helen worked in the courthouse for many years and continued her farming operations i[...]at Albert Lea, Minnesota, 1946. going on to college at Valparaiso, Indiana where he took busi[...]ura Wood at Forest River, Minnesota in July 1912. To them was born one child, John Luverne. no[...]Harry Hansen was the first depot agent, operating out of a Fork, near Peerless (then known as Tand[...]rom Libby, Montana. and he came back to Scobey and purchased the Chapin After serving in this capacity for a time, he went to work Mercantile business and real estate, changing it to the for Frank Johnson in the hardware business, in[...] |
| Lu Verne Hansen family 1974. Front row left to right: Mom, Laurie, Judy. 2nd row: Dad, Donna, De[...]ore in l,he part which was later leased (in 1929) to the W.G. Woodward Company. In the early 40's Ha[...]MELVIN HAUG and meat business to a variety store with a Ben Franklin franchise, an[...]hip with Marguerite Melvin Haug came to Montana in April 1913 and Conboy.[...]al baseball teams. A well set-up Minnesota to Glasgow and from there traveled by team fellow of[...]and wagon. In February 1914 the land was opened for among the team members from time to time by the simple filing. expedient of physically yanking them apart. This was a In August 1913 Mrs. Haug and baby came from task of no mean proportions at times, particularly when Minnesota to live on the homestead. Melvin met them in the par[...]eet fighters of no small homestead shack to shreds and the baby, two months old, repute.[...]n club in recent years was due in a great measure to his efforts. Harry passed away on April lJ, 19[...]L. WARNER HARRISON L. Warner Harrison came to Scobey December 1954 from Mobridge, South Dakota[...]in 1956. They traveled with the seismograph crew for a while. Warner worked at various jobs unt[...] |
| [...]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. Service Division. We then farmed the Chartier and Barbeau lands for three years. In October 1927 we again wanted to try our luck in the Butte Creek community and took over the A.V. Lawrence ranch. There we farmed for eighteen years. Our J. FRED HAUN health decided we should retire in the fall of 1945 and we bought a home in Scobey and lived in it for five years. In from clippings and his own memories June 1950 we sold the home and went out to the ranch to clean and repair the buildings. But after a big s[...]y from 1915 until in September 1950 again decided to live in Scobey where we 1948. He served before that at Chester, Mont[...]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 member[...]TTY JO HAUGO A.O.U.W. for five years, Masonic lodge secretary five[...]borne, 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,[...]lottery 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[...]son Carl and his wife, Ruth. This photo taken in 1971. Cecil Marsh had generously promised that he would hold |
| [...]proved up on the homestead, resigned, and went to Los[...]ngeles in 1914 and bought a moving-picture house. This was a bad move, and I sold out at a loss. I went back to[...]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[...]eight miles out of Bozeman. He retired last year.[...]in October of 1971. In March of1972 I moved to Lewistown,[...]brought him to about a mile north of Scobey -- then let him out so the deputy could not see where he stored his l[...]One night as I was going to bed- rather late -the custom[...]se of beer and a gallon jug of wine and went home to bed. I had refreshments for several weeks.[...]and Fred Haun attempted to arrest a bootlegger, but the bootlegger was too[...]much for him - he fought the sheriff. Later the bootlegger[...]was arrested for resisting an officer. At the trial one[...]witness (Eddie Burton, then just a kid) was told to state[...]heriff was doing, a:rd he said, "He was hollering for[...]very good meat market for many years; W.R. Dodds was a[...]realtor. At one time for some reason several thousand acres[...]from the Westland Oil, nearer to the depot; Ben Horvik was[...]manager. After some years he left for Bismarck, North[...]section. I brother Clarence. They came by train to Scobey and settled next worked at Waterbury, Nebr[...]ota; in the Line Coulee community. Land sold for just a few Vienna, North Dakota; Norwich,[...] |
| [...]were poor married Wayde Johnson and they moved to California, fo r many years. The youngest member, Elma, was born in and Kenneth left for aircraft studies in California. Montana. In the f[...]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[...]rom North Dakota. When grown Joe began farming for himself. In 1927 he Meantime Carl was bu[...]who had come from contributing to the civic activities of the community. He Minnesota to teach in the Line Coulee School. He had a[...]he repair shop on the farm and each fall would go out with his Lion's Club and the Methodist Church.[...]and moved to Havre, where he worked with Vernon in his Irma (n[...]te died in 1973 and Carl died in 1974. born while we Jived on the farm .[...]ab technician who Florence is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools in lives at Lovel)[...]me, 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 Hillstrom ar[...]ruman constructed two office buildings for rental purposes. Bowen building, where Getschels[...]by Florence Helmbrecht Johnson to the Scobey Fire Department since 1940 and was Fir[...]-1960. I have been active in church youth work for many years and recently completed 19 years with t[...]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[...]nd 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 all made him welcome and[...]Not one ever dreamed this Bill Helton would steal the love[...] |
| [...]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 carpentry for the rest of his life.[...]in 1919, in which year he returned to Scobey and married[...]Two children were born to the marriage: Floyd and[...]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[...]ing days few. And Bill joined the army and sailed for Down Under, saw strange sights and adventure,[...]red F. and Tilda Melberg thoughts ever strayed to the girl with dark hair. Hillstrom.[...]Vic Hillstrom on Frank. parked near them to tease "Uncle Bill". With laughter and banter the[...]ome Cliff and Teva killed the little red rooster, to welcome the travelers in the style they were used to. Their first home, a trailer, into construction B[...]y or a girl, two or three or just one? Bill hoped for a girl with brown eyes like her mom. A Memoria[...]given the name Linda Lou. From nineteen forty-six to seventy-one, the days and months and the years[...]est as all young people will, so left at home, we have Lucille and Bill. To shower with good wishes in their twenty-fi[...] |
| [...]e A. Hillstrom The Vic Hillstrom family . Left to right: Marvelle, Howard, James, Betty (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 headed for the then up and coming town of Scobey and I moved froll) Poplar to Scobey. I rented the Peter Gritz garage buildin[...]ter bought the building and continued in business for over fifty years. Same spot, same owner, same m[...]ence Hitsman, Eva J. Hitsman, and special award for being top salesman in the district that[...]have one son Charles;heisin the army in Germany. We other places. are looking forward to seeing Charles and family again My first wif[...]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[...]argo, North Dakota in The family moved to Manitoba, Canada in 1908. Their the spring of 1917. With us came our faithful dog Jerry. 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.[...]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 for Daniels County. He worked in the court house for many years. Joe and Mary Holyk and grandson Jimmy We had a pleasant life. The radio was invented and m[...]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 went fishing and hunting. There were lots of picn[...]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 father died while on vacation in 1951. I married and worked for Farmers Union for 22 years. My husband worked for the railroad for 37 years. We are enjoying retirement. Mother, now 90, i[...] |
| [...]rm and whr n the new town began in 1913 he moved to town. Supplie , food and clothing were all purch[...]always got along. He sold his business building to John Brayko in 1945. A house was brought in from[...]les M. Johnson and the dray. The Holyk's moved to Battle Ground, Washington where they lived about[...]val 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[...]of Main Street next to the railroad tracks and adjacent to[...]with son Wayde Mel and I and our family moved to Montana from until her death in 1970[...]on served as a city councilman and was a Montana for ten years where Mel managed the McCabe member of[...]nd the Old Fellows Elevator, and I was postmaster for five years. Bonnie was Lodge. seven years ol[...]city councilman and was and a half years old when we arrived there. When the a member of the volunteer fire department for many years. McCabe Elevator Company sold out their holdings we He married Florence Helmbrecht in 1939 and they reside in moved to Flaxville, Montana for a year and then Scobey Great Falls, Montana where he is Maintenance and where we h_ave lived since. Operations Supervisor for the school district and Florence Mel continued to work in grain elevators until his is secretary to the Superintendent of Schools. retirement. I went to work in the Daniels County[...]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[...]bey by train, and 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, Montan[...]ves with were handpulled up Main Street to the hotel. her Airforce husband, J.D. McMurtry in[...]freight arriving by rail. and raised right here we have lived most of our lives in and When Scobey had its own municipal light plant, located around this area.[...]Wayde Johnson and infant son Wayde, came to the "new town" of Scobey shortly after its incept[...]n Marsh home, until such time as Charley was able to build their permanent home on the same property. Their We came to Antelope from Hendrum, Minnesota in 1911. daughte[...]s born there in 1918. There we also were in the hardware business. There[...] |
| [...]From 1915 to '24 Mother taught piano lessons, did[...]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[...]teacher, Mary McCloud. We used to haul water to our place[...]to Luther Greenup, another neighbor. For many years Mother conducted our family orchestra[...]and we went on tours for several years. She even got me to[...]We started school in Scobey in a one room school hou[...]We started proving up a homestead in 1918, southwest[...]Westfork, where Dad and Harry Hansen had a store. We[...]I remember one trip we made to Yellowstone Park in 1916[...]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[...]homestead was sold. We visited relatives there, and went on to Banff Park. Another tim~ it took us four days to get from Williston to Minot, North Dakota, playing concerts[...]In 1924 we moved to Eug-ene, Oregon where we attended[...]Dad moved back to Scobey in 1927 and continued in the[...]worked for Ralph Greengard in his clothing store in Scobey[...]I married Hilma Brenna. We have two daughters, Donna[...]Dad died jn .1941. Left to right: Phyllis, Adelaide, Norman and Estelle[...]Phyllis farm south of town. was born while we were in Antelope. Mrs. Frank Johnson, 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 evidence[...]lay Scobey. Dad had the hardware store built when we arrived. of pictures at various art shows[...]lis are All the lumber was hauled in from Poplar. We lived in the very gifted in art and music[...]s built. It was completed various dance bands for m_any years .[...] |
| 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.[...]d town constable of Scobey. Those were busy times for a policeman at night in Scobey. Numerous speakeas[...]ls were the rule; street lights would get knocked out. threshing machines came to thrash our wheat. Orr Burgett In 1930 George left Scobey to accept a temporary position was one of our e[...]almost the identical spot where the Milton moved to Havre, Montana where George worked for a short Ofstedal house is now located. It was later moved to a more time as undersheriff and then was appointed to the central part of the school district. It was quite a thrill to see position of Probation Office, which job he he[...]away in these huge iron monsters they used for tractors in those[...]Our farm had one of the few groves of wild trees for some Margaret, George Jr ., John Franklin, and Br[...]attle, Washington with her husband fruit for the year, Juneberries and chokecherries, that is[...]ime employee of the Burlington someone else didn't get in and strip the trees first. Northern Railro[...], Montana wi~h his .wife Two incidents come to mind while I was still young. One and five childr[...]was a large prairie fire, that threatened to consume Washington State Parole Board, having for[...]al 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[...]ather's footsteps by working in probation from out in the Glentana area. By luck the wind died down[...]h lane. The Bryce serves as the Probation Officer for the counties of other incident was one of t[...]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.[...]n were grown Rose accepted a job with come to visit. It was three days before they dared to try and[...]er retirement. Sh~ now ~esides in the We later moved to a neighboring farm and soon after Eagles Manor in[...]Mrs. Rose D. Johnson appointed to the job as clerk upon the death of the former[...]clerk. He held this job the remainder of his life, passing[...]make a living at it. They moved to Louisiana where she[...]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. plumber for Leibrand's Service, radio technician for the Doris, Hilda, and myself, Stanley. They settl[...]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 Stan's Electronics. We have three children. Dennis has became proficient[...]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 We all attended the old Middle Fork school. One of the Minneapolis. To date we have no grandchildren. hardest things to do was to go to school when the big[...] |
| [...]famous for her butterscotch pie. The best ever.[...]married Margaret Rhode in 1910. They had one son,[...]to Scobey in 1913. He and Floyd Working operated a p[...]room and wholesale tobacco and candy business for about[...]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 ra[...]ful 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[...]afe. In 1943 they sold their business and retired to San Francisco where they joined their daughter Ma[...]and Esther Kahn, who came to the United States. Mike came to Daniels County in 1925. He owned and[...]Dakota and was one of the backers for the Scobey[...] |
| [...]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 mu[...]yoming, and in Cheyenne, Wyoming before returning to[...]Scobey which the family continued to farm. The family sold out and moved to Mobridge, South[...]Claudine Kessler, born June 18, 1889, came to Fife Lake, Saskatchewan in the 50' s to take care of the in valid mother[...]to make her home in Scobey. She nursed at the Daniel[...]Memorial Hospital until she moved to Seattle, Washington July 6, 1952, the Karlsruds e[...]ssler 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 Lake he worked for 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' an[...]hese 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 par[...]ep ahead of the law. In 1915, about a year before we were married, a trouble-maker came into the saloo[...]the Recreation Center). The gangster ran through this space and shot Chap~n before he could cross the street to safety. His was Carl Kilgore[...]who shot him was never pµnished for his crime.[...]There was little or no paper money used at this time.[...]carry its money to the bank ih clothesbaskets, the large[...]bartenders were given ten-dollar gold pieces for their extra[...]Minnesota the family moved on west to Kenmare, North |
| [...]We enlarged the house in later years, but the origin[...]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[...]of articles necessary for homemaking; towels, pillows and[...]Lake, to pack my things in. Somehow the store label was[...]but was delivered back to the store in Medicine Lake. The[...]Scobey turned out to big them goodbye at the depot, the[...]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 prohibition[...]gum, etc. Later Boyd sold his share to Tom Conboy. A high[...]pound for coffee.[...]ired the nickname of until he sold the business to Doug. Doug sold it a few years "Joe Poof'' because of his way of expressing himself when later to Maxine and Arles Baldry. The building, however, his old Overland car gave him trouble. When it didn't run has remained essentially unchanged. The ot[...]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[...]ing, Hennesy. He served parishes from Culbertson to Scobey, New Year's and Easter Monday dance[...]ling in a Model T Ford on prairie trails. He came to Theatre before the elevated seats were added.[...]under construction at room, which was used for many years for these functions. that time.[...]e. It Scobey's first police officer, from whom we bought our lot. was smaller then, three roo'""ls[...]al 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.[...]which had house across Main Street from us. to be filled and cleaned every day and the wicks tri[...]mith here, as was another old friend, Tom Smith. we polished it with a page from a Sears-Roebuck cata[...]utiful voice, who contributed a lot of his talent for barrel, teakettle, and all--those were the good[...]t of the people. The house was gaily decorated for us when we came Another early-day barber[...] |
| [...], football, Boyd Saloon in 1911. Conversation ran to long days in the golfing, tennis and swimming. Hi[...]rom his dad's whatever else cowboys were supposed to talk about over pickup battery. their beer. Among[...]vening was Lisa will be in the fifth grade this coming year. She is a a prominent rancher of the[...]3 the Don Kincannon family 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[...]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 bust[...]ized 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[...]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 November 10, 1947[...]hing, parent's farm home at Stanley, North Dakota to begin a occasioned a move by the young couple to Navajo, where new life in Scobey. Don began work[...]tance of a as much as a dollar a pound for coffee. Little did she know young Fraulein, Irene[...]sota, what the future held! who was working for Pat Murphy in the Citizens State It[...]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,[...]. The headquarters remained standing at proceeded to make it their family home for the years to least a decade longer than minim um safety standa[...]might have allowed, and it is hard to believe at one time in In November 1966 Don and[...]retaries, and Otto and Massey Ferguson Implements for five years. In late himself worked practically ar[...]arbara King 1971 they sold the implement business out and the was born to the couple in 1924, and some years later following spring, 1972, moved to Polson, Montana where Kathryn and "Bobby" were given the dubious but time- Don worked as a shop fore man for Stedje Brothers Ford consuming responsibility of[...]bey, Richardton, North Amidst all of this activity Otto King served as mayor of Dakota and[...]worked on construction Scobey, was the first dad to serve as president of the Scobey and as a[...] |
| avocation he later gave up), and seemed always to be available when civic duty called. Because the[...]ood 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 caring for the girls, preparing some of the best food served[...]She and Mrs. Burley Bowler, Sr. took a walk daily out to the Mason Hill south of Scobey. The two of them i[...]ng themselves with the normal assortment. She saw to it the girls joined 4-H to learn to sew, and take piano lessons from Mrs. L.V. Hanson and Laura Ibsen. Left to right: Tom, Alfred, Charles, Gerald Pittenger and[...]ed in the service after the war husband Joe moved to Scobey from Arizona. Joe took over and r[...]arrived, Grandpa King found himself really pushed for time to spend with those two miracles. To give Kathryn ATHNIEL KLOSS AN[...]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 wa[...]in Europe. the grandchildren had somehow managed to survive The family consisted of two daughters and one son, Irene, without him.[...]ed a severe stroke, leaving with her parents to Scobey. Irene was married and was him without his[...]Idaho. rest he had been longing for in those long silent months. Mr. and Mrs. Kloss and Mildred came to Scobey from[...]photo and bakery business. Previous to coming to North[...]he had done mason work along with his ph9to studio. He THE THOMAS MARTIN KITTOCK FAMILY[...]n Scobey a while he eventually opened Minne::;ota to Poplar, Montana. His father Pete Kittock[...]first section foreman and remained so out of sight. I can remember so clearly the rice flou[...]oatmeal flour that Mother used for baking bread. That One of the interesting thin[...]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[...]emained 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 i[...](deceased 1943), those two bossys) and we sold vegetables and milk and Alfred (Great[...] |
| [...]Washington on a little two by four place where we have a[...]chickens, six sheep and raise a beautiful garden. We[...]their family of four came to the Scobey area in the spring of[...]the Ambrose W. Chapin family, made plans to "GO[...]other property were sold and all headed by car for[...]Scout Camp Lund) became home until fall for these[...]y. Mrs. First shack of D.C. Knapp. Left to right: Bob, Esther and Kloss passed a way in May[...]en in California. Francis was married in 1919 to a girl from Idaho. They had three daughters. All[...]erated. Rumors College Place, Washington and has for over 50 years. He, of the railroad coming to Old Scobey influenced thes1 like his father before him, was in the photo business until merchants to build at this site. The store was moved to East he retired in 1968. His wife Fern passed aw[...]the railroad was coming here. George Crandell I, the youngest, married at 18[...]store carried a complete line of dry goods, ready-to- In 1950 I was employed by Sears-Roebuck and sta[...]takes and headed west. Our Laura Ehlers for several years) took charge of the many friends in Baltimore thought we had suddenly lost bookkeeping. An office in the back of the store was our minds. We now live about two miles from Walla Walla, equipped to transact the business of selling Rumley an[...] |
| [...]The D. C. Knapp children left to right: Fay, Esther, Bob and[...]Clifford D. and Louise Knapp Family-1942. Left to right:[...]of this department. Bob, the second boy, took over when[...]Clifford left to attend the University of North Dakota. The[...]boys attended school. The need for a school in Scobey was[...]graduation was held in the Methodist Church for the lon'e[...]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[...]upon Hart-Parr tractors. Mr. Knapp took charge of this which they had settled was being hel[...]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 Walters, Frank Nye, Keith Mi[...]were built on the desired acreages, and this is where the Conboy, Maude Lile, Catherine Conboy[...]al tim es a day with a horse- Hereford cattle. This was always known as the "Fuller drawn cart[...] |
| family loved this ranch as Coal Creek ran a few steps from[...]the back door. Many hours were spent swimming in this retired and living in Scobey. She was married to Charles A. little stream; the grass was abundant and beautifully Peters for 28 years and they made their home in Medicine gr[...]ccident in Opportunities were always available for those who 1955. In 1959 Edward C. Leibrand and Esther were wanted them. This family seemed to become involved in married, and Scobey is again home for her. Ed passed varied lines oflivelihood. When in[...]Democratic ballots of Daniels County As this history is being written the Knapp daughter is for County Superintendent of Schools, and she was dul[...]s should not be influential in school systems. At this time the~term of office was two years, and she se[...]of$125.00 per month. Mrs. Knapp was well prepared for this office, having graduated[...]chool several years before and I came to Scobey by train with my sister Anna who had a aft[...]The Black Bridge, as it is now called, going to Old Scobey plus village schools that she supervis[...]was in the middle of an ocean, qr so it seemed to me as there regularly. After her years as County[...]fore retirement. Active and and when we got across we were met by Blanche 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[...]Business and Professional Club. The last We came to Scobey by train from Wells County, North years of[...]utheran Home at Dakota. My sister wanted me to come and keep her Wolf Point so that she could be[...]ere she passed a way on May 29, incidently to help scare the coyotes from her door. 1964. Mr. K[...]s the Big Sky structure on Main and Third Avenue. This building is now Hereford Ranch. located a[...]. and Mrs. Knapp were charter liked to go to dancing, but Mr. Riek, a large man weighing membe[...]two lively bay horses. So Clifford D. was married to Louise M. Hansen. Four that was how I got to go to my first prairie dance in the children were born to them: Donovan of San Diego, school[...]1970. After 45 years of many others. We had so much fun that night. A bunch ofus teaching[...]took a stroll in the moonlight and took out time from County High School at Bozeman, Montana[...]While I was on the Riek farm I was asked to go to a Robert D. Knapp married Muriel Duplanty in Chicago, neighbor's to buy some butter. Mrs. Riek put a fifty cent Illin[...]ol. Muriel, piece in a gallon syrup pail to pay for the butter. I rode affectionately known as "Dupe"is a registered nurse. They horseback. We started down the road the hors~ trotting; have one son, Robert D. Knapp, Jr. who lives in ·[...]"chivarri". medical doctor in Wolf Point, Montana for forty-two years. The pony got excited and h[...]ontrol him so I thought the best thing I could do for his 40 years of service to the Wolf Point community. He was get off rat[...]d, "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[...]und flour sack. There were so many choke-cherries we Caldwell. Fay is a retired fireman of the Union P[...]tate ventures have been profitable wine and this time was happy. for Fay and Cleo, among them are farms, a motel and a[...]Chief for quite a few years.[...] |
| We had four children. Catherine (eldest) married Har[...]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[...]ay 1951. patrol at Cam Ranh. He has two children. We have eleven[...]": I The year of 1927 I worked for my sister Vera and husband , Wyvil, who had a thr[...]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[...]Max Kriuosha person and we had a good life together. My family and I loved a[...]many wonderful in-laws and outlaws as A very used to say.[...]f my life were when the children were growing up. We lived on the place now owned by Ralph[...]mon and my son Bryce became in Scobey for 35 years, says that he never heard of close friends . We were Lutherans and Harmons Methodist. Christmas until his family came to Grand Forks, North At time for confirmation, Bryce said he would not be[...]e Russia, confirmed, unless Don could be also. So we had to ask the where Mr. Krivosha was born, the d[...]s. 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.[...]new land. In England he saw a colored man for the first dams and Chick Sales houses (outdoor to[...]in America winter night one did not linger there to read Sears & were black. " I didn't care what color they were," he said. "I Roebuck c[...]ought that anything would be better than the life we left I do not think any of the dams are used a[...]five or six weeks in those days. not too pleasant for the men to be out, with a chill factor His father had relative[...]rks, and he obtained being 60 degrees below. Also we received commodities work there. Max[...]lt, rice, salt pork, cheese and opportunity for school in Russia. He spoke no English, and ground[...]his classmates took advantage of his ignorance to teach We all came through fine and have had good laughs about him swear words. When he was 14 he began to learn the it. We were thankful at the time. shoe repair business, which has followed him for 4 7 years. I liked Montana from the first time I saw it and have " We celebrated Christmas in America like other people[...]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 LAPIERRE FA[...]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[...]church. After the ceremony, returning to the homestead Seraphin had taken out in the Coal Creek community, they[...]had three flat tires and arrived on the rims to the 10'x14' shack in which they lived for five years before moving to the farm north of Four Buttes to what was later known as[...]Raymond and Rita, all of whom married natives of this[...]earned the Purple Heart and was returned to the states.[...]After recuperating he was discharged and returned to Scobey and still lives here. Ray and Nellie have two boys,[...]return he flew with the Air Transport Command out of[...]to Scobey with the rank of Major and has lived here[...]since has worked for the navy as a civilian. Eugene and[...]Rita have one son, Lee. They now live in California but plan to return to Scobey when they retire.[...]nitely natives of the community and will continue to be for quite some time.[...]We moved to Scobey from Arizona in the fall of 1963. I Seraph[...]th 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[...]n what is now the Carl My wife Mary went to work at the local Mountain Bell Miller Ranch. Louis was the first in the community to run a business office - as a Service Representa[...]968. At large custom threshing crew, 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[...]decided to make SGobey our home. In 1974 Mary and I went H[...]t. 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[...]Soon after retiring from this office he moved to Red[...]business until 1945 when he moved to California. Mrs.[...]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[...]room cabin on property adjacent to the Ericksons in the[...]was born in 1917. Left to right: Anna, Mary and Eugene Jr. Arizona, Alask[...]m Russia and her mothers parents from Germany. |
| [...]entailing long, tedious rail travel. planting it to wheat. Gradually rock piles grew on the This kipd of enterprise he continued into the late 195[...]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 Ed worked in town markets. and drove out weekends in his Model T. Undoubtedly many[...]e in their midwife, Blanche Timmons. At this time, too, Esther mode of life may h~ ye been the[...]1927 further marked a change for Lees when Ed went to work for Harry Hanson in his grocery store. Ed remained[...]out B.O. Tande's grocery store, and the business beca[...]Lee and Tande until about 1941. At this time Chris bought out Ed's share, and Ed once again changed roads--this one[...]remaining under contract to several meat packing companies for which he bought and shipped cattle and[...]travels related to buying livestock.[...]man's.quarters became the daily dropping-in place for[...]record ... all for the price of a cup of coffee which then cost[...]arbitrator opportunity to practice what seemed a natural[...]firmly believed in listening to both sides of any issue, and[...]usually even to the few who might have found themselves[...]for him throughout his life. One of his favorite phil[...]ated neighbors visited occasionally, was: "This, too, will pass." but Gerda mostly recalled the r[...]the he served well, he did 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 accom[...]lly. Having thought he was by then too old to begin to play the many been a member of a large family on[...]and national politics. He also lacked sympathy for In the fall of 1918 Gerda and young John returned to lobbying factions so prevalent and so constantly courting town to live in the now more complete house and to spend in the legislative chambers. Being s[...]ime in adventures. town. Eventually Ed rented out his homestead land. Another notab[...]an church choir from 1928-1964. He was fortunate, for early in the 1920's a passing cyclone ripped widely known for his fine tenor voice, and h e often away the home[...]a soloist at various local functions and prairie. For many years a kitchen table and chair and a[...]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[...]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[...] |
| retiring from public life in 1962. His health had begun to fail, and in December of 1964 Ed suffered a fatal[...]old a Host Arrayed in White". Gerda Lee continued to be active in her activities until prior to her death in September of 1970. Of the three children the oldest John continued to live around Scobey most of his life. He graduated[...]spent a year in the navy (1944-45). They returned to Scobey in 1948 to take over the old Daniels place. John and Pearl h[...]y in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The surviving son, Kenneth, is a Scobey veterinarian living on the h[...]l 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[...]red from twenty years of teaching. She is married to Earl and Ann have three children: John, working in Salt Walter Hollis and has two children: a son, Charles, a Lake City; Margie, married to Michael Gardner and living Washington teacher and[...]ey High School in 1944. He attended college prior to a of Scobey. three-year stint in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He returned to navy service during the Korean conflict. He prese[...]children were born in this area: Edward, Donald, Berniece.[...]the family migrated to Verwood, Saskatchewan. A cousin[...]locality, and sold his-preemption to John. Going ahead of[...]ived in Scobey that he, too, might register for a claim at homestead land. since their marriage.[...]y 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[...]navy and shed a few tears, and then returned to face her new and served in the SeaBees for four years. rugged life with the strength of character for which she is Ann was born in Glasgow, Montana[...]into the plumbing, heating and electric bread for local bachelors when flour cost $5.00 per 100 bus[...]pounds. One time when John took a load of wheat to joined by Ed's sons, Gary and Richard. Edward died in market he returned with a camera for Maude who made 1970 and Earl and Ed's sons contin[...]going out with horse and buggy, taking pictures of l[...] |
| [...]markets, John went to work for Waller and King, local morticians, to become the official grave digger of the[...]Scobey community for many, many years and in every[...]chipping frozen ground for winter resting places. One time[...]along the road John raised up to call to the driver, "Say,[...]road calling back, "What do you want to know for? You're[...]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 whether for himself or others. In fact he instilled in his[...]children the idea that when they worked for someone else,[...]years of honest work, for others as well as for himself, John[...]is 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 Wedding around her, "Goodbye folks. I'm going out among THEM Anniversary.[...]she said, "This is as hot as Dutch love!" She went on to[...]e prints which she her Dutchman, John. sold for a $1.00 a dozen.[...]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[...]cal. They had school. Two more children were born to John and Maude in three children: Gary, Ri[...]s children; both car in the area, a Model T Ford, for the huge sum of $300. sons are continuing th[...]ecause ofincreasing difficulty in finding schools for the contracting business started by their fathe[...]and Medicine Lake, the Leibrands moved once more, this time three children. Both sons are married, also, and live with to Scobey where there was a high school. In the summ[...]ut John bought up three The second son, Donald, graduated from Scobey High farms for back taxes, and the family finally settled into a School in 1925, and will be remembered for his operation of home cresting south hill overlooking the town. This place the Scobey Rex Theatre. He married a Scobey girl, Janet is still referred to by old timers as the "Lei brand Place". Goss;[...]ty fine potatoes were raised year after year. for many years. Donald and wife now live in Helena wh[...]deliberate mastication. John was once again able to Scobey High School in 1927. She marri[...]n, reinstate himself as a staunch Republican, and this Howard Schaefer in 1934 and is includ[...]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, taken the who[...]ied Ann Jenson of Orovile, When the bottom fell out of both the wheat and potato Washi[...] |
| [...]: John, Margie and Nancy. my folks moved to the Swan River Valley in Manitoba Earl continues to work as a partner in the Leibrand wher[...]of the Pool Elevators out of Grandview until their return to[...]obey in 1947 with five of the children: They took out MARTIN LEIBRAND AND FAMILY[...]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[...]reat-grandchildren. At an early age he migrated to Saskatchewan, Canada James married Hil[...]ilding Jim was born at Verwood. They then moved to Portland, contractor in the area ~nd has built many business places Oregon for health reasons. In 1928 they came to Scobey including Citizen's State Bank and[...]was born at Scobey. Manitoba. We have two children, Bill and Marilyn, and In 1929 we returned to Canada taking a farm at three grandchildren. Coronach. We lived across the "crick" and often rowed We took up residence in Scobey in 1955 and received our across in a tin tank to take fresh doughnuts to the butcher citizenship in 1961. Bill married[...]and thawed and Dad upset the tank in mid-stream. We tied dry 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 th[...]wan. He married on with the dust and the hoppers. We have memories of Cora Wahl, daughter of Hilmer and Gabrielle Wahl of picking "cow-chips" for burning in the old cook stove and ·Madoc. Fr[...]ched in the pump handle, while forced him to slow down. He sells real estate in Bozeman, pumping water to wash hands after picking "chips" that Mon[...]f the grandchildren. "crick"; the tar bubbles we picked and chewed from the tar Shirley Lei[...]idents. They the chickens living on grasshoppers. We ate many green have five children and mak[...]ied Florence Bradford in California. player piano to pay for our meager supply of groceries. He has thr[...]r selling and lives in California. the cow for nine dollars to pay freight on household goods, Sandra Leibr[...]in Leibrand family Kenville - 1941. Back row left to to Scobey and managed the Tastee Freez for orie season. right: Jim, Sandra, Mother, Dad, Anne. Front row left to They have two children, Terry and Robin. ri[...]The Steve Levad family moved to Scobey in August, 1968[...]Before coming to Scobey Steve coached and taught in[...] |
| Linda has been an announcer for KCGM-FM radio since its beginning. The Levads[...]. She taught three years in North Dakota, coming to Scobey in 1926. The superintendent at the time o[...]ll who, with his wife Lenore and baby Lois, came to Scobey as superintendent of the Scobey school sys[...]d the second grade teaching position; thus began for Beth a pleasant five years in the Scobey school[...]and Beth Lindquist - August 20, 1935 often came to Scobey to visit and stay with old friends who were most ho[...]wyer who came from then returned to Minnesota to attend the University and Minnesota in 1929, who[...]versity of North Dakota graduating in 1928. I We courted for seven years since I was beginning my law was admitted to the practice oflaw in Montana in 1928 and practice and felt I must have a house for my bride. Finally a began law practice in Scobey in 1929. I served three terms house was available and we were married in 1935 at the as County At[...]'55. I retired in 1972 after being were present for the wedding. We took a short honeymoon actively engaged in the law practice since 1929, except for and as we neared Minneapolis we saw signs which read my time on the Supreme Court. "Your Credit is Good at the New England". This delighted Note: Mr. Lindquist passed away in Scobey on June 3, us for we had need of that to buy furniture for our little 1976. house. I gave Beth a shotgun for a wedding gift and taught her to shoot and many were the enjoyable hunting trips i[...]In December, 1958, a new home was completed and we moved in in time to have twelve guests for Christmas From a Clipp[...]god-daughter, whose Anderson of Glasgow for Mrs. Maude B. Lile, 86, resident of father passed away in 1964, was married to David this area since 1914 when she and her late husband too[...]ly plot at Scobey Cemet.ery In our early years we were active in various with her[...]the age of 19 in a fall from a horse enroute to school (now Masonic Lodge, Legion, Veterans of Fo[...]r of the O.E.S., Past In ailing health for the past ten years, she spent the past Matron of[...]he longest resident of the Gorham Hotel, until We have spent our past five winters in Arizona. This ill health caused her to move; she had a one-room seems better for Carl's heart condition and Beth's arthritis. apartment at the Gorham from the day it was ready for I was born in 1899 at Paynesville, Minnesota.[...]rch 11 , 1885 at forces in WWI in 1917-18. I came to the Scobey area in 1919, Eureka, Kansa[...] |
| married December 25, 1902 to William G. Lile of Gallatin, with a team an[...]struck close by and she was thrown when the 30's; to the union was born one child Gwynetha.[...]editor. She learned office work and began to learn[...]went to the Leader and continued in that work for nearly[...]end, being semi-retired and finally retiring due to[...]In 1893 the urge to travel to America became too strong to[...]Soon his banking days began. He was sent to northern Minnesota to open a bank in a very new pioneer[...]railroad to the town. There was -- a freight train so -during[...]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[...]In this community rainfall was usually plentiful so all[...]the virgin soil of northeastern Montana began to trickle to[...]decided to open a bank in Old Scobey. It was first called th[...]T. Anderson and Oie Bank and later changed to the[...]mile away, all buildings were moved to the new location. In[...]their spacious and attractive ranch home to travelers. My[...]Mother was happy to learn that this town had a railroad Starting at left: Elizabeth Fowler, Gwynetha Lile, Signa and that it didn't require a caboose ride either. But she Stai, Hele[...]wasn't quite sure she wanted to bring her family to the wild . and wooly west. To entice her Father promised her the[...]f-brother, Patton Moss, an early Williston to Scobey we jolted along in what must have day farmer in this area, long preceded her in death. bee[...]windows covering us with dust and soot. We three, tired Mrs. Lile was known to a wide circle of people in this area and hungry, sat thinking of all the unp[...]pendability. 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 mi[...]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 nails, iived in the country west of Scobe[...]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 standing on the station platfor[...] |
| 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[...]ice in the icebox, water barrels filled and soon we were eating a delicious cold lunch. Knut Knutson,[...]bachelor, had been the genie that had transformed this house to a home. His "batching days" on his homestead had[...]. 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[...]ed's adventurous spirit along with his great love for[...]the outdoors led him and his cousin, Edwin Yoerg, to stake[...]er. The prospects of prospering were dim but they stuck it out until they had acquired ownership of their claim[...]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[...]not for them and the family returned to New Ulm in 1921.[...] |
| [...]by horse drawn wagons on their way to and from the I was born in Winona, Minnesota to Andrew and reservation were a common[...]welry 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 the early 1920's when he became associated 1931 when we moved to Kalispell, Montana. with the[...]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 Harr[...]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 o[...]l a block away. Department for nearly two decades, from the early 1920's During the flu epidemic of 1918, only two pregnant to the early 1940's. Many a night in the cold winter[...]ys were often caused by overheated pot-bellied We had four children: Clarice, who passed away at[...]married Chuck dressed and on his way to the fire hall to get the engine Herbkersman and lives in Libby; Au[...]o was born in Kalispell and in the 1920's. This was a very successful period due to the is married to Ray Libeck. We have ten grandchildren and intense rivalry[...]scandal of the World Series (that scandal led to the JOHN ROBERT MCCURDY[...]During this period Jim and Irving Davis made an art The McC[...]the cage when they got Tampa and Dunedin previous to his retirement. At the time within range. The[...]mong the first white settlers of that area. Prior to her marriage to Jim she had taught school and held several[...]teacher's training was put to good use as she taught in the Jim McIntyre and[...]November 2, Methodist Church Sunday School for many years. In later 1911 in Valley City, North D[...]er Jim operated a jewelry store in Valley City for several three granddaughters. years after comp[...]d employment in the Woman's Shop, of 1914 decided to move to the newly established town of operated by Harriet Erickson. Ill health forced her to retire Scobey. He opened a jewelry store in partn[...]argaret, the oldest daughter, worked as secretary to followed later in the fall, after Jim had procure[...]Superintendents Skeie and Danielson of the Scobey for them.[...]lfe in Scobey in 1940. At Jim had written back to his wife and told her that she the time of th[...]post office but a few months later transferred to the Postal favorite color - and it was, unpainted[...]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, the youngest daughter, worked for the County coal burning stoves and root cellars w[...]Smith well, Montana-Dakota Utilities Company for a few years before[...] |
| [...]sda, Maryland. Billings, then moved to Plentywood where he set up a[...]chiropractic service until 1948 when they moved to Scobey where he practiced for about 15 years. (In the building now[...]were no children. They moved to Glendive in 1963 where he[...]community. We were married in 1947 and have lived in[...]first worked for Ralph Shiell and Red Olson in the auto[...]at 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[...]one day in Medicine Lake 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 happened in[...]2. street in Scobey for two years. In 1960 we decided to build In 1923 he married Olive McGrath, a scho[...]ive-in. It was the first drive-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. McDaniel passed away at family. We opened Bill and Betty's Variety Store in 1963. Phoenix in March, 1976. We have three daughters. Margaret Jane is married to[...]Knudson Michel Swedish cruise ships. He then came to the United States My childhood dur[...] |
| [...]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 en[...]ce as a medical officer and around the house, and we made it a pleasure instead of went to France. He returned to enter practice at Wolf Point work because there w[...]s. When my sisters coming from there to Scobey in 1922 to enter partnershi~ and I went after the cows we took Kool-aid type drinks and with Dr. Collinson. This partnership was dissolved a few cookies with us, we spent all afternoon before we returned years later and he and his wife[...]ked them and separated the milk. My to Scobey in 1933. He has practiced here since, until July mother washed clothes on the scrub board and we took when he sold his office building and practice to Dr. L.T. turns scrubbing the clothes. The hardest[...]Krogstad. wood and Mother always was afraid we would get hurt. Ironing clothes was an everyday thing with flat irons heated on the stove. The chores we enjoyed most were churning butter, grinding coffe[...]by Amber Moulds Shamley along with Mom. We used 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[...]in-law, who had Sundays were my favorite days. We'd go to church. Most homesteaded at Larslan. Winnie and Anna leased the Sid of the time we'd have church in the school every other Bennet 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 dinner. There were so many large families[...]e, having always been a farmer, decided he needed to then--so there were always a lot of children to play ball or move on to a farm of his own. He bought some land just horse[...]south of the Canadian border, just in time for the dust bowl great fun. The Motschenbaker family[...]ildren also years. They finally decided to rent another piece of land and we spent a lot of time together with them. with the farm buildings close to the border. They lived in The dirt storms in 1937 frightened me a lot. We had to that part of Daniels County for three years and then moved hang wet sheets on the windows to be able to breathe in the into town where Winnie went to work for the Grain house and often we went down the cellar during the storms. Growers Oil Company for $100.00 per month at hours from Our homes were never too warm in winter so we dressed for six in the morning until 10 or 11 at night. During this time school in front of the cook stove so we could be warm before he finally paid off all of his farming debts. He went from walking two miles to school. When we moved to town in there to work for the city of Scobey as a meter reader with later years, we children had to "batch" by ourselves some many other duties. For years he and George Beeks were the of the time so I was the one to take over the responsil;lilities only two empl[...]ays children never position he held for many years. complained much. We just accepted whatever came along and always seemed to have a good time just working. During my high school years times were better and we had Winnie and Anna Moulds more pleasures. We got to go more places, a show in Scobey or a dance. We all liked to dance so the whole family went, even babies in bu[...]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. We stood on the school steps and watched them take him away. We all came to Scobey for his funeral and sang the song, "In the Garden". We all thought a 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.[...]er Dr. and Mrs. T.M. Morrow left Scobey Monday this week |
| [...]rented the Joe Morrison place and the Miller land for several years. He retired from the city at 65 years and was back out on the grader again the next morning. Finally tru[...]became cashier and part owner. This continued until his[...]h in 1949. Magdalene and Patrick B. Murphy came to Scobey from Over the years Mother "helped out" in the oil station and New England, North Dakota[...]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.[...]d office until they were granted a life. To me, Scobey is still "home". charter for Merchants National Bank of Scobey. December[...]iture 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 and[...] |
| In this August of 1862, the annuity 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 Indians, them was born one son, Erwin (now deceased) and two "What will we eat?" told them to eat grass. daughters, Ione and Corrine. They resided in Scobey until To complicate matters, the weather was hot and dry a[...]ust 18; Andrew Myrick was killed, shoulders to a pile of lumber and rocks about fifteen feet and[...]d ran red with severe and he later was taken to Minnepolis for several the blood of white settlers. By the time[...]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[...]ng the blood bath, 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[...]0. Nelson, Ira's brother brought his bride, Ella to Survivors drifted back to the valley, looking for Scobey in March 1916. They lived with I[...]. A daughter Ruth Katheryn, camps of "friendlies" for protection; many had been killed; was born to them while they lived here. children had disappeared and among them, those of[...]nother Agency during the uprising of '62 and grew to manhood daughter, Helen Mae, was born. Bo[...]Hale and Ella Nelson - 1963 He came to Montana and about the time of the first World War raced another man from Flaxville to Froid. The race ordinarily would not have been unusual; but this one was because Fred was on foot and the other, h[...]riat ropes around their bed rolls near Culbertson to keep rattlesnakes away while they slept. In later years Fred worked for various ranchers around . Scobey--always with a h[...]y or how his last name became changed from Myrick to Merrick. He was found dead, apparently of a hea[...]THE ARTHUR E. NELSON FAMILY Art came to Montana early in 1912 at the age of 17 from |
| Hale and Ella Nelson left Scobey in 1930. He worked for the government, first with the Border Patrol and later for the U.S. Customs, retiring in McAllen, Texas at t[...]was born in Greenbay, Wisconsin in 1876. He moved to Minnesota in 1896 and became an operating steam e[...]Stroschine in Minneapolis in 1898 and moved back to northern Minnesota to farm, where their first son George was born in March, 1900. A new land was opened to homesteading in North Dakota and the Nelson famil[...]came west by immigrant train and horses and wagon for[...]Nelson - Spring '42 H. C. Nelson family. Left to right: daughter Lola (holding |
| [...]was man and young woman and two year old son, alone on this elected the first sheriff of the new county and the family vast expanse of prairie. This lone man, Henry C. Nelson moved to Crosby, North Dakota. Mr. Nelson served as[...]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[...]st another born. In 1917 the Nelson family moved to Outlook where hundred miles or more into M[...]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[...]ead. A Daniels County Implement Company was sold to Mr. Chet hip-roofed barn was built and pa[...]in Scobey at the age of sixty-nine. two stalls for cows and two for horses and a hay mow. A Amanda Nelson kept the home in Scobey until about 1948 well was dug to water the family, the stock and the weary when she, Melvin, Lyle and Vernon moved to Polson, travelers who came in greater[...]e 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[...]y father really enjoyed paying a great compliment to military services. The Daniels County Leader carr[...]rty and strife, these people all paid their debts to me Daniels County to leave the country for action on the when they got the money; I[...]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[...]atisfaction that I recall thaf~y family was first to place years of teaching Melvin retired and now li[...], North Dakota conclusive evidence that we love America, no matter how with her husband Will[...]a retired member of caustically critical we have been of political even ts that we the production staff of the Fargo Forum. They hav[...]. George and his wife Ann and son Philip moved to Longmont, Colorado in 1946. George opened an inco[...]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[...]egree in Psychology and is presently to Norma, North Dakota. His father died when Rasmus[...]er worked in the bank in Norma, an experience one to carry on the Nelson name) live in San Rafael, which he never regretted, for he felt it equipped him with a[...]good background for a business of his own. He next California. They a[...]NDA quickly reverted back to the two finger method of typing. NELSON AS REC[...]N When he felt ready to strike out on his own, he borrowed[...]the waves of buggies and had buggy whips to spare long after they were green going east twenty miles to the border town of Portal, no longer in use. H[...]line including North Dakota. There were no tracks to the west. To them a the Ford, Durant, Star and Ply[...] |
| [...]The two couples left for Froid soon after the wedding to[...]to attend the wedding. Due to the heavy rains, several[...]bridges along the way had washed out and Mother and[...]Anderson, and in 1940 it was moved to Scobey and Mother[...]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[...]decided to consolidate the Flaxville and Scobey businesses[...]one, and in 1940 he moved his inventory and house to[...]0th Wedding Anniversary - 1966 Mother came to the Orville community in 1913 with her |
| [...]John Deer One of the highlights of this experience was to appear business. Their children, Shaula and Barry[...]. She was our from Scobey High School and went on to Montana colleges. first Congresswoman. Duri[...]k 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,[...]Inc. being made a county and John was aked to run for County Rasmus died in Scobey in April 1973. Cora lives in the Attorney in Scobey. He was elected for five terms. same home her father built in 1916. Amber, 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.[...]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 Das[...]ol intermittently if there was not much farm work to do. HENRY AND ALMA OLSEN Sc[...]r 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[...]Homestead. A in 1880. The family had a store in this community. His relative of John's relinquished hi[...]shipped an immigrant car of horses and machinery to and later was graduated from Cumberland Law School at Froid. He stayed out of school for two years, did the needed farming, and taught school near his farm to meet expenses. He went back to college and the St. Paul College of Law. John g[...]ied Agnes Walstom, and a few days later they left for Culbertson, Montana. In 1918 John was induced to run for the state legislature from Plentywood on the Repu[...]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[...]ood in her veins and will make a fitting helpmate to her[...]ollinson had great difficulty in arriving on time for this great event due to the severe blizzard. Mother's family Wedding pict[...]twins! They sent her sister Elsie to Scobey, and a nurse to[...]iest Lebanon, Tennessee in 1912. He was attracted to the west memories revolved around her Scobey visi[...]ra in the badlands Dad constructed wooden caskets for the many victims. Ira of North Dakota. Uncle Carl[...]ardwood 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 Roosevelt if either of them fell vi[...]take care of the children. We have a wooden toy box Dad In 1900 Dad met Alma[...]innesota made and one side panel is written "wood for casket while visiting his sister at Pillsbury Aca[...]other were married in 1915. She graduated shocked to see their mothers bravely walk into the town's fr[...]ved at Schell's Park where her father was her not to plant them too close together as the branches pre[...]y which is still a flourishing would have no room to expand--but alas--no trees grew and business in N[...]n 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.[...] |
| [...]Band and also the nursing home. Mother once made this poignant remark: school band. "Maybe we should have never left Scobey!"[...]r in a Roland arrived in Scobey. I believe we met at a dance the Minneapolis high school. Elsie[...]ian in the Minneapolis schools. affair, but we dated off and on and were married at My hujband and I lived in Honolulu for 20 years. I Williston. returned with my daughter after my husband's death, and We bought a little house at the end of Scobey's main[...]Theo Olsen Wright Two children were born to us - June Lucille Olsen, who[...]tive with the telephone company in Seattle. After we[...]t Scobey Roland did government work that took him to[...]father died at an early age, and the family moved to the northern part of the state where Roland spent[...]during his stay Dr. William Olson came to Scobey in 1910. He bought in the army.[...]moved to Scobey, bought a five-room house, had the two[...]were occupied by a Dr. Hanley for some time.[...]Emma, came to Scobey to help Dr. Olson as dental[...]t in the army being of short duration he returned to Ada at the end of the war. Mr. Lou Nelson, who ha[...]and of the opportunities in Montana so Roland set out for the Land of Opportunity. When he arrived in Scobe[...]the First National Bank, a rewarding line of work for Roland. He had a natural aptitude for meeting people, and was always interested[...] |
| [...]perhaps) when one day four or five horsemen came to their home and asked if they could feed and water[...]es. Mr. Olson obliged them and then asked them in for dinner. When they left they gave Mr. Olson a twen[...]want it, but they insisted and were very grateful for the hospitality. Guess who they were? The Jesse J[...]re like Robin Hood, I think. They robbed the rich to give to the poor. At least that is what they said about Jesse. He did hot like to harm anyone, but just scared them to death! "Uncle Bill", as I called him, was quite[...]woke up with a terrible toothache. I did not want to awaken him to pull the tooth because it was after midnight. He[...]rn thing just kept on aching so, therefore, I had to awaken him. I don't know which was worse - the toothache or his anger to be awakened at that ungodly (as he called it) hou[...]lenee, Father of Lucy Parks One time he took me to a country dance. Those days by the time the dance was over and we'd gotten back home it was the wee hour of the mor[...]got heck from his 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. Then he would say, "Such God-forsa[...]his forehead, take long strides like he was going to the unknown. Dr. Olson moved away in the early[...]better known as "Skip", was born in Indiana, went to Canada and then to Daniels County. Here he met Lucy Marlenee who had[...]ly landjusteastofthe William Parkhurst homestead. This land is now owned by Mrs. Hazel Shaw. They lived[...]e Skip had developed a spinal ailment which ruled out hard work, so they moved to town. There, with Fred Miller of Velva, North Dak[...]ated a service station and tire vulcanizing shop. This was known as the South Side Service Station. This was backed by Otto King and the old Farmers Oil C[...]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 there were no free ice cream cones for little sisters. She also worked at the old[...] |
| [...]rector 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[...]is employed in the Rockledge returned to Scobey and he and Nellie farmed the Seraphin Clin[...]in and Sibyl. He is office manager and dispatcher for Western the navy in Tacoma. Dennis married[...]Ray been with the Fremont Unified School District for the past retired four years ago due to ill health. Nellie has been fourteen years and ar[...]l community Zelda was a worker too. She worked for Mrs. Erickson in musical and dramatic activities for the past 25 years. the Woman's Shop and did any o[...]ld find, as In 1943 Skip and Lucy moved to Tacoma, Washington she also wanted to go to school. She also attended Eastern where he[...]a Peerless country and while on his way to Arizona to seek relief, he died in school when she fell in love with the eldest Oie son, Lewis. Pasadena, California of cardiac asthma[...]e still Ii ving on the Oie farm, returned to Scobey in 1947 and has made this her home although their children are gone from ho[...]Daniels County Memorial Nursing Home. were unable to rescue him. He had just completed the eighth grad[...]The Samuel G. Paus family came to Scobey in 1914 and[...]managed to bring their organ. Mrs. Pa us rode from Poplar[...]Hardware. The store hours were from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Front row: Clarence, Nellie, Lucy[...]s. |
| [...]years in Pasadena, California and came to Scobey via[...]to fly with him. We arrived late in the afternoon of a two-day flight[...]pretty nippy, but the ground had thawed. We then went to the Ames' home which had been closed up for the winter.[...]My first thought was, "The food is going to be awful."[...]essed and spoke differently than I was accustomed to;[...]deep misgivings about them. However, it didn't take long to learn that the people were solid citizens; down to earth,[...]there were just too many incidents of interest to record. We[...]Mr. Ames had relatives in Oswego;· we would land on the[...]road at the edge of town and taxi up to the house on the town square. We would land in a meadow near Eureka[...]the landing was in Canada and we had to taxi back into the[...]USA at the request of the Mounties. Another time we ran[...]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. Ormond retired in 1966 after 50 years in the fire; but, we got it out. While with Mr. Ames, he owned a hardware busines[...]day going to Great Falls alone, I had been keeping my Ormond[...]teacher,.in 1922 and direction by reference to section lines; cutting across them they had four[...]ission Hills, at about a 45 degree angle. Out near the Bear Paws the sky California; Yvonne Ver[...]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 wa[...]uts in America. In finally showed up; it turned out to be Lewistown and I was his senior year of high sc[...]meritorious recognition from pocket compass for the trip home. This airplane did not the National Court of Honor.[...]d 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 people at[...]ndation, 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[...]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 pas[...]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[...] |
| [...]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. restaurant and bakery from the Hoffs. For 20 years they I had no family in Daniels County[...]during the "Dam Days" they delivered bakery goods to Aeronautics Authority, and retired early in 1970. I now live towns in four counties. They sold bread for ten cents a loaf in Fallbrook, California.[...]Burleigh Putnam any child would want to visit and very patient girls to sell[...]eastern Europe (Margaretha and John Reiner) came to Montana from St. Louis, Missouri in 1916 to homestead approximately 20 miles south of Scobey.[...]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[...]tardusters and other dance bands, played baseball for 20 years, taught music at Flaxville for nine years, and trapped for many years as a hobby.[...]g in Leader The Jack Reiner Family. Standing left to right: Mark, Carmen and Jack. Sitting: Kris, Jon,[...]turned back the clock to days more than forty years ago[...]n Poor crops and a growing debt drove them back to the the new town, located where now Mr. and Mrs. Roger trade that they knew so well. Due to poor health, John had Sherburne re[...] |
| [...]king-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[...]Y Scobey, the lower half of which has been rented to the Service Drug store for the past couple of decades and is still Howar[...]in 1934 at Scobey. Howard came to Daniels County in 1916 Chisholm recalled upon arriving in this community in and Berniece, in 1922. At t[...]union, Howard 1915 that he paid Claude Tande $100 to locate him on his was employed by Daniels[...]hildren homestead. Two years later he was drafted for World War I and upon his discharge furthered his[...]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[...]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 j[...]the new town was considered standard if the roof didn't leak too bad, the wind didn't blow through the walls hard enough to blow the light (a kerosene lamp) out, and floor off the ground enough to a void puddles inside from rains. Well into the '[...]e discussing with Clint his reminiscences brought to mind by the visitor, we asked him when it was that he had The Howard Schaeffer Family. Back row left to right: homesteaded. He told us in 1912; near wher[...]mesteaded several years later. In 1913 Clint went to Berniece. work for Frank Johnson at the Johnson Hardware. The late F[...]f Kalispell; Libby Baker of Spokane, was Year One for the new townsite. W[...]d Jim, now of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Clint said to us, "You know, I guess I've spent most of my H[...]n, and Berniece named their first Getting back to the homesteading, we asked Clint a two children, Patti and[...]ter 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[...]a walking plow maintained that position for eleven years. Schaefer's Tax snubbed behind; and a red flag tied to the rear wheel in Service was created dur[...]uld employment as a sideline, but proceeded to grow until it be counted.[...]el). in 1974. "We started at the Canadian border," Clint said, "and[...]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[...]tore 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[...] |
| grandchildren. We also spent lots of time at the golf course town[...]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[...]e city park, then in its planning stages. He sent for[...]worn-out occupants of a second-hand Model T, which Nell[...]bought out of the sale money of their home, and which was[...]cemetery. Norman J. Scharf came to Scobey in 1914 from Gernin, In 1924 a f[...]the Saskatchewan, Canada by train. He was married to Laura southwest part of town, and Dan, 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 children, Mildred Threlkeld by this time married William Heppner and resided in (Grea[...]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[...]bson Post Hall and Dan continued his work for the City of Scobey for several remodeled it as a hotel in the 1920's. Mr[...]years after that. Mrs. Scott was well known for her nursing away in 1925.[...]ried Charles Harris who came educated man for his time. He attended medical school in from Quen[...]t 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 scalpel, and he relinquished it for the less-exacting life of leased to Dr. Collinson who used it as a hospital. Oscar Vo[...]tober 1, 1943. Kuster, who worked with Charles at this time, moved with Mary Helen (Nellie) preceded 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 cemeter[...]and ran it as a hotel until 1965, when they sold out to Victor DeTienne. Some of the old time residents a[...]ns State Bank; Clarence Penn, long time farmer in this community. As told by dau[...]constructed My father, Ben Shaich, came to Scobey around 1921. He what is now Getschel's Sup[...]othing 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[...]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 bor[...]e, 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 Dakota where their son, Ralph, was born in Our home in Sc[...]was November, 1893. Shortly thereafter they moved to originally a barn which had been mo[...]Minnesota where, it is said, Dan wrangled horses for the Greenwood family, one member of whom wa[...]Their stay was brief since they believe. This barn was improved by the Greenwood's and never received any remuneration for their work. later by my folks. The[...]as being wrecked. He added automobile forced them to again seek new beginnings. The two more rooms and a garage. We were the first, or among family had by this time increased to four, Irene having the first, to have indoor plumbing and a furnace and were been[...]s, 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 ye[...] |
| [...]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.[...]Mrs. Smith continued to make her home in Scobey after[...]Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England to Arthur and Sarah[...]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 i[...]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[...] |
| shop. A son, Sidn ey (who died May 18, 1941) was born to Germany for three years. Now they are at Redwood City, them a[...]birth. Shortly California where she works for Title Insurance and Rick afterward he came t o Scobey and soon bought the lot and for United Airlines. building of the present Gampp bl[...]d Tom Smith became a n a t uralized citizen of this country Timothy. on April 16, 1937. He was[...]in the Army and now works for Burroughs Company. He[...]National Guard. He is now the manager for the County Chester Ben (Chet) Solberg, the sec[...]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 e[...]Scobey. We bought the Daniels County Implement[...]as an International Harvester dealer. This early business[...]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[...]eceiving teaching building was built for the shop, offices and display room certifica tion[...]t in 1954. Later the old building was donated to the local rural schools.[...]he fields blossomed in 1938 but at the going out of the farm equipment business in 1973 we sell harvest the rusted fields were empty hea ded. An yway we only General Motors products. Through the years we have went ahead with our plans and were married i[...]ad many men in our employ; Norman Fossen has been We Ii ved in Richland the first winter. Chet h a uled coa l from with us for more than 20 years. Our years in business in loca[...]pla r River; he had Scobey have been good to us and our many friends in this made his own ice cutting machine. We th en m oved t o his large area have enr[...]es. Chet also does some family home on the bench. We lived there for five years farmin g , which seems to be his main recreation. We farm in before moving to Scobey.[...]tar area and also east of town (Rudolph Nyquist We built our home in Scobey and here our five children place). We built a big display area there for new and used grew up.[...]Along with family duties there has also been time to Student. He was in the Air Force and they[...] |
| [...]ILY Shortly after World War I Marvin Sorte came to Montana and homesteaded in the Smoke Creek commun[...]owned by Harold Hanson. He had just been mustered out a Sgt. from the 30th Infantry Division which was[...]at Marvin and Martin Fossen walked from Flaxville out south to stake a claim. In 1926 he married a local Smoke C[...]in Miles City and Dillon. They lived in Richland for a couple years where Left to right: Donald Lawrence, Gerald Lee, Marvin he worked for H.P. Larsen many years until his retirement.[...]mber of the Scobey VFW post, having been a member for 41 years .[...]current position is Administration Assistant to the Mrs. Bernice Sorte was deputy county superi[...]Superintendent of Public Instruction. schools for ten years and was also county librarian. Their[...]in the early days--he was employed by Dr. Healy to drive Oregon, married Mary Jean Rucker of Plentywood. They 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 Mont[...]a team of horses across country--this family had several They have one daughter,[...] |
| [...]e and Dora Lawrence. She Scobey. came to Medicine Lake with her family as a young girl and later moved to Plentywood where she graduated from high school in 1922. In 1926 she was married to Marvin Sorte at Assiniboine, moved to Doctor D.B. Healy's place and lived there for Saskatchewan. They lived at Richland two years 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 Hillstrom, for one room house but no other buildi[...]before her death, wrote the 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[...]remainder of the time. People came from Whitetail to a friend, a neighbor, an official, a helper is an[...]wim 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[...]Erma and Irwin left Scobey in 1926 to attend college in God bless her memory."[...]took care of gardens and lawns for several years before he[...]After finishing college Irwin taught school for a year in[...]Antelope, and then started working for the Helena post The Henry T. Stagg family came to Whitetail, Montana office, carrying mail for thirty years. He and his wife have in April, 1912[...]hompson still snow in spots around the depot when we arrived. We Falls, Montana. Marie is in Minnesota, E[...]a Dunn and Henry Stagg (he bookkeeper for a construction company, so he moves every had come out earlier to find a place to live). Mr. Stagg had year or so, at present[...]ssouri, south of St. succeeded in finding a place to live on the Asa Dunn ranch. Louis. The fami[...]umber of people then living in Whitetail had gone to[...]Stagg when he was teaching in Iowa. On the ride to the Asa Dunn ranch, just south of town, we GUY AND BLANCHE STALDER saw our f[...]by Blanche Stalder calendar wrong. He was certain to get stuck in the snow if he was not careful. Flicker-tail,[...]rried in Havre, gopher, he was different than any we had ever seen before. Montana January 30, 1915, and farmed north of Havre for When the Dunn's moved into Whitetail we stayed on the several years. We left Havre and arrived in Scobey October ranch. We were there about three years, after which we 25, 1923. Guy had come by car a[...] |
| [...]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.[...]in both the Mexican and What a lovely day when we arrived! But the next day was Civil Wars. ver[...]es thick in an old In 1914 Bill returned to Bentonville, Arkansas where he bathtub on the nor[...]in married Nannie Pearce. They came back to Montana and Ericksons, with whom we stayed when we first arrived. settled in Glentana. Here their 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 where the Martin Ericksons were living. We lived with them two weeks--then they moved to Scobey. We lived there by the Poplar River four years. Then we purchased the Joe Paradis farm two miles west of there. While we lived there Guy was elected count:v commissioner of Daniels County. For several years then we moved to Scobey during the school months so the girls could attend school. In 1941 in October we purchased the T.J. Lundeval home on Daniels Stree[...]d has been a counsellor in the high schools there for many years. They have two daughters.[...]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 e[...]Their oldest son, William Pearce, was born in Scobey in Bill Stephe[...]The youngest son, James Bart, was born in 1926. Jim is[...]Bill Stephens entered in to the theatre business in 1920,[...] |
| THE STROM FAMILY Arthur G. Strom came to Culbertson, Montana on June 15, 1913, arriving o[...]igh school there a week previously and determined to find his fortune in the west. He came to Culbertson to work as a clerk in the hardware store of S.S. Moe[...]ssenger train in the late afternoon. She had come to keep books in the general store owned and run by[...]e of Gilbert Johnson who was a hardw.are salesman for the firm of Marshall Wells Company in Duluth, Min[...]With the extension of the Great Northern railroad to the town of Scobey and ultimately Opheim, the two[...]rom 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[...]-and yet another five--they stayed in Glasgow. By this time the business was well established and it seemed reasonable to continue it there. In 1945 the son-in-law and[...]e Claire operated the Scobey store until its sale to Gordon Blomquist, the present owner.[...]served as a corporal in the Marine Corps, he came to Scobey. He resigned this position and moved to the Stanley area where worked as an electrician ([...]he proved up on a homestead. Later he worked for the E.J. projectionist at the Rex Theatre. He mar[...]Lander Real Estate Company in Williston. This work took Bertoneau. She was later killed in an auto accident. He him to many areas of northeastern Montana which remarrie[...]liked grain farming and saw a future in it for this area. Bremerton, Washington. His wife Mae,[...] |
| [...]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),[...]ch, 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[...]The Tande's opened their home to the small community.[...]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[...]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[...]large farewell party was given for them at the church and[...]After a short time on the farm the children began to find[...]1941 , Borre found farm work too difficult to do alone so he rented out the land and kept only a few head of livestock.[...]d 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[...]were h omesteading, with a He was a joy to be with and made each one feel very few pieces of[...]was the post special. When his children came to visit him, he enjoyed master and Marie the assist[...]coffee in bed. The coffee pot was always kept hot for his Borre said it was never lonely on t he pra[...]in 1974 at the age of 93. their fine neighbors. "We had such good times together", Borre said, and "we helped one a nother because at that[...]age seven in 1924. by team of horses the 19 miles to Scobey for big shopping, Iver died on February 10, 1975. He was an executive pilot to see the doctor or go to church. for Peoples Gas Company in Chicago and a major in the[...]live in Park Ridge, Illinois. 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[...]e husband's store. She has six children Mrs. Lee. This two-story house had the luxury of r unning[...]a nice building that had been a drug store to Woodrow Lang ha ug , president of Lutheran and op[...]e. They have two daughters and two ' usiness here for many years, and had many business gr[...]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.[...] |
| [...]63, 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) Tande. He married Li[...]obey ball park. He chaired the building committee for children: son Rod is in the insurance busines[...]s completion in 1949. He , Phil Audet who works for Nemont Telephone Company at was also Saddle Cl uh secretary for nearly 30 years, and has Scobey.[...]wagon train beginning in 1971, and was chosen to[...]Bob clerked at the Scobey post office for 34 years and[...]Norwegians to the United States, exceeded only by the[...]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[...]put in by his first employer and the men working for[...]him. He said it would seem they had just gone to bed when[...]designed to help the "newcomer" better orient himself to[...]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[...]when he returned. There were no roads, no fences to[...]active in Scobey area civic activities. night, to hear an explosion of glass. She subsequently He has been a Scobey volunteer fireman since 1940 and for observed the rump of their horse, Nellie, fi[...]he cabin wall that had been a window. Old Nellie, for announced and emceed various activities inclu[...]g bees, with hammer and nails, put up a quilt to serve as a banquets, race meets and ro[...] |
| From left to right: Lyder and Boots Tande. Back row:[...]Adeline, Jeannette, Ludvig and Olga promptly went to sleep - a[...]continued on into Scobey and returned to the Tande ranch[...]routine procedure for the homesteader to burn a light in the[...]one of these winter storms and need to find shelter. Chris[...]nd 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[...]ile and grocery store. Borre later sold his store to Chris and Ed Lee and this partnership was known as Lee &[...]knowing that her older son, Ludvig, an attorney in[...]by the defendant. This was in July of 1966. Ludvig left a[...]away, worked for Boeing. They have one daughter.[...] |
| [...]resently lives in Eleanor returned to teaching in 1959 and taught for nine Climax, Minnesota where her husband is a pas[...]ng second and fourth grades. She also taught plan to retire in Scobey. They have four daughters. kindergarten for three sessions under the Woman's Club Olga (Mrs[...]Marla taught music after where her husband works for the government. They have graduation an[...]ave four children, Craig, Brad, Teresa For many years the Teigens were involved in politics[...]Cliff Teigen came to Scobey in the early thirties. He PAL[...]worked at Grain Growers for several years. He married[...]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[...]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[...]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 m[...]he and his mother and son Paul came to Scobey from North[...]Fred worked for the Paus-Strom Hardware for over 30[...]He was well known for his knowledge of horses and[...]He passed away September, 1, 1960. Left to right_: Marla, Eleanor, Palmer, Susan Teigen[...]d 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[...]course we returned to Outlook, Montana, our home town[...]there and Don apprenticed under him for the next year and[...]ught school in Montana and Nevada. She is married to W.R. Barney and lives in Billings. Bill works for Miller Safeway Construction.[...] |
| [...]depression. We remained in the Gampp building for two years when we realized we could not make enough to pay the rent. One reason for this was that the First National[...]Bank became insolvent and closed its doors. We lost the small bank 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[...]his store, rent free, for his watch repair bench and for one showcase to display his merchandise. When Mr. Ford[...]moved his drug store to the building which is now The[...]In 1936 Mr. Ford sold the drug store to Cecil Marsh of Plentywood and moved to Idaho. Don continued to do business in this store with Cecil Marsh until his death.[...]In 1930 our son, Ramon, was born at the Humbert House[...]was $35.00 and room and nursing care for ten days was $35.00. We lived in rooms behind the jewelry store while we were in the Gampp building, but when we moved we then[...]either, of course. We bought water from the waterman, Mr.[...]a problem to keep the water cool until we bought a second[...]We burned coal in our kitchen range and in a heater[...]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[...], North Dakota, Fort Benton, Montana To supplement our income I worked at the Clerk and a[...]1935 repair man. After looking over these places we decided and 1936. Those were the years o[...]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[...]h. 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[...]d my father built a after its completion. We liked it very much to spend a work bench for him before we left Outlook. weekend at Saco Hot Wells also. We rented the Gampp building from Mrs. Rose Gampp In 1939 we moved to the house on Lot 4 Wohler Addition. for $40 per month. This building was located just north of This house was owned by W.A. MacDougal, former Mrs. Ma[...]shop principal of schools at Scobey. We purchased it from Mr . doing business in this Woman's Shop was known as the MacDouga[...]thes Closet", which sold its stock of merchandise to living here our daughter Alice was born at[...]. The Gampp building and the building adjacent to it on About a year after his death I be[...]Elevators, owned by m y My father came with us to Scobey and helped ready the son Ramon Trower, for seven years retiring Ma y 31, 1971. Gampp building for a store. This we had to do at our own Scobey has been our home[...]e. Don's father came too and painted the interior for In 1952 Don Trower, Harry Hanson and Harve[...]ated the gun club. In 1975 extensive improvements for displaying our merchandise.[...] |
| a Steel Behlen building for a club house, dedicating it to the Silver Slipper is another of his enterprise[...]and recommendations for each new year. RAMON TROWE[...]r mother died, and very early in life she learned to 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 children. They rented the Al Lawrence wedding was performed for these two people in Rock Glen , house and enjoyed[...]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[...]he died in December, 1942. started work for the City of Scobey where he continued The Turn[...]ter Rhea attended school at Missoula and neighbor to family and friends. She has always been a[...]ger 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[...]e married brother Chris living in Scobey he chose this state as his M.J. Walker at Plentywood on J[...]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 began maki[...]on farms Drug shortly after she moved to Scobey and continued to and learning new skills with unfamiliar machinery[...]ore until just before her death in 1970--a worked for Ed Spear and Claude Tande a year each; then period of forty-two years. he worked for Carl Miller for six summers, working in the lumber camps around Eureka, Montana for six winters. In 1942 Leenhert entered the service for his new country and he was honorably discharged in 1943. He returned to Scobey area and assisted his brother Chris on the farm and worked for Guy Stalder.[...]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[...]late Harry Thompson, the regular pharmacist, 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 lad[...] |
| [...]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[...]dean, Al, Larry. Al's Cafe He came to Scobey as an R.E.A. construction contractor.[...]vice-president with the Delay First National |
| GEORGE WELDELE MEMORIES I came in 1913 to seek a homestead and employment, and had a claim about eight miles northeast. I went from Medicine Lake to Opheim via Scobey and Old Scobey to squat on a homestead with a friend who had a 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 out of the lantern. We made Old Scobey the third night, but froze again in an old hotel with cracks you could stick your finger in. We made home the fifth day about five miles northwes[...]homestead, hired a man by the name of Mule Nelson to haul me l um her for a shack. On the way into Scobey I changed my mind; I decided to go back to Medicine Lake. The first train just pulled out of Scobey as we came over Old Scobey hill, but I walked to Flaxville to catch a ride to Medicine Lake. I got there Christmas Eve (after n[...]hanging outside ..... some trip. But I came back to Flaxville after Christmas and have been here ever[...]Margaret were married in Scobey in 1937. Ted came to Scobey and worked for Lawrence Marlenee in 1936. Three years we made our home at Ray, North Dakota, Plentywood, Flaxville and came back to Scobey in 1960, where Ted did carpenter work and had to retire from due to poor health. In 1968 he started to work for Nemont Telephone Company doing janitor and maintenance work. In 1969 we established a greenhouse business and began resto[...]. "Wally" Wolfard, born in Washington, first came to California. Scobey in about 1927 from Oreg[...]rest in a sawmill and mining ' salesman. Deciding to stay in Scobey because he liked the operation at Twin Bridges for a number of years prior to country and the people, he worked at the Club Billiards for his death. Frank Schumacher. In 1933 he marr[...]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[...]of 1933, north of County Clerk and Recorder for Daniels County and he is a Scobey and also in the[...]mechanic at Erickstein Motors. They have one son, In 1941 Wally bought the Club Billiards and con[...]y D., now in Germany with the United States Army. this operation along with his farming 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[...]county and Cliff is a School Board Trustee for School transportation for funerals. District Number One. They have three children: Douglas, a A son, Dean L. Wolfard, by a previous marriage,[...]man; and deceased in March, 1968, lived in Scobey for a short time Donald and Lori, both[...] |
| [...]Janet Rae, married to Gregory Hanson, son of Gordon[...] |
| [...]Matilda was married in 1920 to Floyd Working, who had[...]1915 was Jerry carpenter, built the mill here. They also built a good home Ohlmann. Later his mo[...]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.[...] |
| [...]on Jones In the spring of 1913 my folks came to Scobey via Great |
| [...]cuss as it scared the horses to death as it passed or met[...]hands up from Fergus Falls, Minnesota to work in the har-[...]vest fields. He saw the money to be made hauling grain so he proceeded to take the bus body from its chassis, put a[...]the time I started to school we had Mrs. Woodly for our Killenbeck School - Summer 1923. Left to right: Ray teacher. They lived up o[...]and Kathleen Blanc. kids would go to school and have a good time until we saw her coming, then we would all go home and tell our folks the[...]is handiwork on place. He hauled water in barrels for his livestock (several them. Down in the rig[...]"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 f[...]Johnson and blizzards and cold with temperatures to 40 degrees below. Phyllis Norman's dad ow[...]it at that time. Part of his family still live in this area: his widow, now Mrs. Scobey was our town at this time and up until 1927 when Edwards, of Scobey, h[...]also of Peerless. miles and 18 gates to Scobey. Nothing like cow passes of The winter[...]oday. · South for an oyster supper. These games were played with[...]umorous blood in your eyes. It was very important to win. As I recall now. This happened to my mother at the "Turk" store. at one of these su[...]Mother bought some eggs there and when she went to use elected to cook the oyster stew. Somehow he got a box of[...]the stew Turk about it he replied, "Madam, we buys rotten 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, o[...]ed. course, and the winners of that round settled for crackers I In about 1915 or 16 I remember going to probably the first guess.[...]he was later convicted or at least tried for horse or cattle trucks. were about the only ones in the country at this time. stealing. There is something about hot,[...]at still remind me of that long ago the herd grew to 40 or more head, but the Truax brothers[...]and shook the houses and rattled the windows. This here. The Fouhy brothers, Lawrence and Charley, farm started the Fourth off in grand style. this land now. They have one part of the farm which is[...]well, Sr. was Truax's foreman. Creek area for a number of years and he also dug many of He was[...]tractor as trucks were machine. Monahan used to relate the day Gus got ready to not very plentiful. The farmers would haul about[...]es 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[...]horrible pitcher. I shall always each-500 bushels to the trip. It is rather interesting to remember that windup. Marion LaMott remem[...]thod of truck- I'm sure. ing from 300 to 500 bushels at one load at speeds up to 70 During the early years of the county we had our cowboys. miles per hour. Jack Clark used to roam the country working here and At about this same time a fellow by the name of Thorson,[...]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- wa[...]pretty wheel trailer behind. The odd thing about this was the fact good bucking horse riders. Ano[...]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 believe. He didn't[...] |
| only ride the horse, he rode for the crowd, looking back over Jimmy and Kay Po[...]shoulder and fanning the bronc with his big hat. This Haagenson, Bobby Fouhy and Pat Larson. Sh[...]money because he would lose Scobey belonged for one year. This club has continued a stirrup or some other small[...]Wolf Point Stampede and other wild west out. It is now known as the Green Acres Club. All of[...]r children have been and are members, four of the for the public he didn't make this his career. Tony, his Arnold Andersen ch[...]Pruttis children aggressive and wouldn't do them for show. have been members,[...]early day settlers of Butte Creek who are left in this Chapman have been members and now in the new[...]have been, some people I have inadvertently left out. I was quite young to name a few, Lawrence and Florence Larson, Anna Be[...]er and Melvin Andersen. state. If anyone was left out please excuse me as it wasn't intentional. There[...]FRANK AND EDITH FOUHY FAMILY 1904 to 1975 Drummonds. I am the only second generation Jones left here. Submitted by L[...]We came to Butte Creek Valley in 1913 from Canada, HISTO[...]THE BUTTE CREEK, where we lived, having come from Nebraska and Iowa in[...]RLESS AREA 1904. We farmed at Oxbow, Saskatchewan for six years but[...]as the country was thickly settled we looked for more graz- ing land and moved to land west of Coronach in covered The earliest 4[...]s 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[...]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 , eve[...]ran a which came up from Williston and gave rides to all who dared risk it. The plane was the first ma[...]ganized the C-B Club which extended from Peerless to the Northwest corner of the county. The ea[...] |
| [...], Peerless, Montana. furrow around pieces of land for themselves, Charley and[...]d bar, surveyed at the time and the state picking out school lands[...]re, McCarthy but where people were living left it for homesteads. The[...]Tande). We brought down seven head of oxen and hired a settl[...]into Peerless was Monday November 8, Tom Larson, to drive them. He broke up the sod, working[...]there were many other business places. We were in Valley As they had school age children we needed a school, so[...]unty 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[...]as voted 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 teacher was Miss May Coughl[...], 1926, in Peerless, Montana. Built homesteading. We got our mail at Coal Creek at first or at[...]Scobey where the railroad had come in 1913. Later we had a post office in Battlesons' home, then at th[...]line Brockway was postmistress. The land was open for homesteading in 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[...]e 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 outfi[...] |
| [...]We planted wild plum trees and I picked and sold to[...]We bought a Delco light plant in 1926 and put in a[...]Pat hooked up to the powerline.[...]liked the country so decided to retire there. We bought a[...]pberries, and stra wherries and good garden spot. We[...]cerebral hemmorage. I continued to live there until I sold[...]ce and bought a house in town. In 1969, I decided to return to Daniels County and bought the Marlenee house[...]children. And am still able to do my own housework and[...]neighbors, for which I am very thankful.[...]days but all for progress of the country.[...]Material Complied by Edith (Mrs. Frank Fouhy) We came to the first celebration in Scobey in 1914 and camped in a tent for three days with our Canadian friends Mr. and Mrs[...]THE LAURENCE FOUHY FAMILY Our school was used for socials, dances, picnics and Sunday school. The[...]1920's Battleson, near present day Peerless. and we held fairs at Carl H. Ammerbergs in his garage an[...]at 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 s[...]te Creek taught by several different teachers. We had seven children: Florence, who married Laurenc[...]he war he was dive; Francis (Pat), who is married to Anna Belle Bingham in Austria. He was discharged[...]arted a farming ranching continuous use from 1915 to June 1971, closing for lack of partnership that has lasted through the y[...]strict in 1974. spring of 1954 they expanded this partnership by buying We always raised a large garden, chickens, and geese. out their brother-in-law Lloyd Fossum. They have now We canned vegetables and meat, butchering our own beef. incorporated their farming and ranching and operate We planted a grove of trees and some years had corn[...]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 b[...]). plow disc and drag. I also acted as a mid-wife for many of Four children were born to them: Mary Kay, a registered my neighbors in the community, one especially, a French nurse, worked in Scobey for Dr. Fitz for two years and at lady who could not speak English. I could not understand this time has returned to college at Bozeman for more French, but we got along fine and her first child was named medi[...]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 M[...] |
| [...]families moved to Canada to homestead in somewhat the[...]In the year of1912 Robert, "Bob", first came to the area of[...]brother Frank by saddle horse and pack horse to look the[...]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[...]istina (Nestman) wedding -1906. Back row left to right: Raymond Lee, Mary Kay. Front: |
| [...]. Fouhy, 50th Wedding Anniversary - 1956 Left to right, back row: Ch arles, Laurence, L y n[...] |
| [...]d 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[...]home was built just out of Richland, where they live now.[...]They have one son, Albert F. Hall Jr.[...]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[...]in A homestead shack and a sod barn were ready for the 1973. They also farm in the area. first winter. Fireguards furnished the material for the sides Jeanne married Lloyd A. Fossum and farmed several of the barn. The lumber for the house and barn roof was years north[...]or fo ur day bar at Richland before moving to Pacific, Washington to trip. In 1926 Bob built a big new home which sfll[...]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[...]and presently is living in Denver, Colorado piped to the new house and barn using only gravity flow.[...]egree 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[...]and Dorothy. After Clarence's death Julia worked for seven years as a draftsman at Fort Peck and Garri[...]ears 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[...]Bill, Doris and Agnes came to Whitetail by train where[...]back to his homestead home. George Clarke left Oxbow[...]and came to Montana in 1915 to be with his daughter,[...]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[...]to Peerless and then on a railroad hand car "behind[...]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 make many visits to cheer him up but would always[...]Bob is married to the former Evelyn Davis of Scobey.[...]They live in Seattle where Bob has worked for Boeing for 24[...]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[...]Helena. Donna is married to Jack Carney of Scobey and has a son, Todd. Lorna is married to Jim Woodridge of[...]ave two boys, Ross and Benjamin. Ellen is married to Ken Kjos. Norma, Mrs. Dennis LaPierre has[...] |
| [...]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;[...]r 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[...]the hill, and Charlie on the West. They returned to North Dakota that fall. In the Spring of 1913 the[...]Soo Line and pulled into Whitetail, unloading at this point, and making the balance of the journey by horse and buggy with their worldly goods. They started to break the sod but because of the heavy soil where they homesteaded they · had to pool their horses power to pull the sixteen inch walking plow. It took[...]dree Jones, Darold Jones, Lavon Jones, six horses to handle the job. Later four families, Pa's and[...]m Canada, each family taking five huad. Oxen far out pull a horse and breaking the remainder of our[...]in winter. It seems In 1934, I was married to Verna Gebhardt. My dad rented as I look back on early days in the area we had a lot of fun. his land on Butte Creek to me and in 1936 I also became Up until 1920 there was no Daniels County. We were part manager of the Farmers Union Oil[...]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[...]. In 1920 Daniels 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 mode[...]very dry years. No crops; no machinery. We never missed a year of paying patronage money. I[...]ired 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[...]anager. I have also expanded my bowl area where ·we remained for 10 years. People lost their farmland over the[...]rom the machinery, cattle, everything, and pushed out of the limited amount I rent, as of 1974 the remainder of my land country. During this period I graduated from Scobey High plus a cattle expansion is operated by my son, Ronnie, and School (1931). When I was a Junior, I[...]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 nine granchildren. I have served several 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[...]rk 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.[...] |
| We have enjoyed life in Daniels County and plan on staying if our health permits. We could never be happy any other place. We really count our blessings.[...]ving in Halbrite, Saskatchewan, when they decided to venture to a new land to homestead in the Butte Creek area. Their belongin[...]ws 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 fa[...], 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[...]own Lavina Fou y were also along on this trip. drinking water. School was held only in the[...]gathered at the school house for Thanksgiving feasting. In the spring of 1917, the Leo Greeman family stayed Very few had families to celebrate with so they made it a with us. Later t[...]their baby boy died in August. homestead to the Horse Shoe Basin area. A tornado struck Mot[...]om sick with the flu. Later she took sick and had to spend the shack. Luckily it happened early in[...]An early remembrance of Nora is the time they had to In the fall of the year Dad would run[...]attend Confirmation services in Scobey. In order to be using his steam engines. Sometimes the weather would not there on time, they had to leave home at 2 o'clock in the agree and they would be held up in places for a long time. morning with the wagon and team of horses. The time Amelia and Nora were the cooks for his cookcar.[...]s card parties, dances, Peter Kleeman family left to right: Clara (Mrs. Tom and much social[...]Lou Dobeas). stock to St. Paul and other market points. He covered a[...]large area and made many acquaintances never to be[...]Another sorrow came to t he family when Mary, the[...]The folks continued to rive on the farm until in 1949 when[...]they moved to Peerless. Dad stilJ would go to the farm regularly to see the cattle and all. He also raised rabbits in[...]9 Mother fulfilled one of her many dreams, a trip to[...]To this unio'n seven children were born of which f[...] |
| [...]lee. so coming to Daniels County to farm was a new adventure Pete Kleeman's memor[...]d in April of 1917, He recalls that he used to go barefooted all summer long, Phil then.left for Montana in an immigrant car along with as shoes were expensive and had to be saved for his friends, Merrill and Don Cha[...]and R. wintertime. As a barefoot boy he used to herd cattle and- Hamilton, affectionately called Hammy. They bought la nd for sport-fight rattlesnakes.[...]eerless in the Butte When he was old enough to work for a living he took Creek Community. They[...]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 bushel, furnishing the wagon and team himself. For Chapman, and the building remains t[...]til one broke a window. Don He was expected to start his working day while the stars jumped out of bed and grabbed a meat fork , gave the horse[...]o built a in the evening before he could quit for supper. 28 x 60 ft. sod barn and[...]of his wife in June when her term of school was out (she was walking behind a plow that I could h[...]oom house a fourth of a says. "One day I said to myself: 'When milking-time comes mile from[...]ng site. Mail arrived only tonight I am going to help myself to the first cow I milk.'" when someone made the thirty mile trek to Scobey, so wh en He soon found that this practice helped tide him over till Georgetta[...]made "One day," he says, "the man I worked for came into the her way to the hotel of One-Eyed Molly , where sh e slept barn while I was helping myself to the milk. He said, 'Look fully clothed and e[...]on the door and the town seemed quite uncivilized to a "Fortunately the boss was understanding and[...]pushed the dresser against the door to keep out any[...]to town and brought home the mail where Phil read th[...]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[...]reek and Laurence Larson of set forth for home eating a picnic lunch on the open prairie[...]in 1938. at noon. Georgetta, used to the trees of South Dakota, was They first l[...]the Butte amazed that there were no shady spots to eat a picnic. They Creek school and then moved buildings and all over to the ate in the shade of the buggy. Phil wa[...]Frank Miller place. The Jones land they passed on to G.M. school board for 21 years, a school which was attended by Chap[...]by daughter 1922 the Lowthians had a son, Archie, who now resides in Peggy Ann two year[...]Billings where he is an accountant, is married to Betty Mae In 1948 they bought the Albert Gregerson place, (once Noblett, and has a son, Leonard. In 1925 another son , Offetts and ho[...]d his Wayne, was born, who is married to Adeline Michel and dad) on the southeast corn[...]nd later redid the built his two-room house for his bride. He farms the house.[...]years. In 1928, Lois was born, supplied milk for Peerless for some years. who married Mil[...]never-to-be-forgotten scent. One Thanksgiving, in 1922,[...]down close to the schoolhouse. Many brought roasted[...]Big Stone, South Dakota near his remained for breakfast and went home tired but happy, home[...]re farmers, and with still some food left to take home.[...] |
| [...]Peerless and in 1926 to Opheim, I bought a model T truck in[...]Crops run something like this years-'15 and '16 were I don 't know when the Indians left this country. It was good, '17, '18, and '19 nothing, '20 to '28 were good, '29 was Valley County then , it w[...]rough, '30, '31, and '32, '34 all dry, but if we'd had spray we opened for settling quite a few settlers were here before it[...]dry, '38 we had rust, but from then on things have been I came out here in March 1916 and filed on the homestead[...]iling went then has made a big difference. to Glasgow the 18th of April. I couldn't pay my taxes for seven years, also seed loans The winter was ju[...]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[...]om November 10 on till March. This will give you an idea what we early settlers went Scobey was all mud no walk[...]s there were more disappointments than we had planned, killed in the war.[...]nes that were on saloons. These men I met were in to get two four loads of Butte Creek. Merrel Chapman, now living in Arizona, lumber for the Butte Creek school , so I got a chance to ride Oscar Olsen, somewhere in the west, Edith Fouhy now at out. I wanted to get to Carl Hammerbys. I knew him and Scobey,[...]om Minnesota. Spring 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[...]ess off him and turned him loose, later shot him. We stayed at Fred Jone's that night and I walked to Carl's next Jess Myro Slaughter[...]w I got over Butte Creek, as that He came to Montana in 1910 and homesteaded near whole flat w[...]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 ,[...]hools. one mule. He told us the bridge had washed out at Old Due to Jesse's ill health, they purchased a home in Scob[...]r 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 Sco[...]m on each end of the bridge, the road from Scobey to Old Scobey was lined with people coming in the wa[...]ome were leading milk cows. They had every- thing to start with , I saw several crates of chickens, several of the roosters were crowing and had their heads out and taking it all in. Women and kids all seemed to be happy. Somewhere around 1916 the state took a lot of this land for school purposes, they took the best and left some here and there, to induce it to get settled. Spring of 1916 I went back to North Dakota and worked on a well drilling outfit[...]ot hitch roof, one roll ofroof- ing got lost so I didn't have any on the south side-the level got broken s[...]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[...]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[...] |
| [...]Tom Holyk and Thorpe had a trap line. They didn't catch By Randall Thorpe and B. Christianson[...]some ammunition and pulled out slugs of the big shells and[...]er. They just reversed his name and made one word out hard and it went off. It sounded like a s[...]Pete Gritz, cop. They confiscated the gun but didn't actual- He was . born in Dagmar, Montana and Kath[...]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 res[...]hurt and that way they got it all radios but let out a lot of credit and didn't get a crop enough settled and calmed down and we were just as well off. on the farm to keep the radio shop going so he quit the second winter. Thorpe remembers going to Humbert's with a team of horses and wagon and buying a wagon load of old bones for $2.00 a load. The bones were all blanched and white because they had been laying out in the prairies for several years. He also caught gophers and sold the tails for 1¢ each to the Scobey courthouse and Noel Richardson paid him 2¢ each for the whole gophers body to feed bad- gers. Trapped badgers sold for $5.00 each. Mr. Thorpe also remembers and said "I don't know how Dan Henderson found out." But we were out of coal and in a blizzard he went out in his coal mine and delivered a load of coal to us. We had chopped some of the floor out of th~ old shed because we had to keep warm and we didn't know there was a storm coming. I'll 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[...]my Holyk were just kids and explored it and found out it had no basement just a cellar. They decided to use it for a hideout to smoke and while they were down there one time the[...]ere again. Coal Creek Homesteaders-L to R-Clinton Richardson, They were only 11 ye[...] |
| [...]there was a at the age of 37 with vast enthusiasm for the future of this transition from hand and livestock powered farming to an area, two Altman Taylor tractors and accompanying era of mechanical farming. This was reflected at the tillage and seeding equipment, and several contracts for "Ranch" where the need for as much machine work as deeds for lands in the western part of what is now Daniels[...]ow 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 farming operation for the following the day, and techniques and[...]velopment and expansion In keeping with this, he invented, manufactured on the of the farming[...]ry "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,[...]was a spring loaded Court of Minnesota, continued to buy farm land and trap door which cou[...]heir releasing a measured amount of the poison. This was used peak of enterprise, 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[...]nd in the community. considerable custom breaking for other settlers in the area On January 16, 1[...]son as well as operating two threshing outfits in this area and were married at Deer Lodge, Montana.[...]921 , and Gordon in 1922. The family spent center for his operations. Among his neighbors in that area[...]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.[...] |
| [...]V. Bennett and John rains but the crop rusted out--- a summary of 1938 and the P. Devaney spent co[...]ame of mind of the tough pioneer who went through this promoting the extension of the Great Northern Ra[...]h 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[...]"\Oration formed by Messrs. "Personally, we started out with the highest of hopes. Bennett and Devaney, the exclusive right to own , Planted and grew a great stand of grain, the kind we have subdivide, and sell lots in the townsites along the new had in mind for 25 years and three weeks before harvest, railroad line from Scobey to Opheim. the rust ate i[...]s, Gluten (now extinct), Wheat is selling for about 45¢ a bushel ifitis good, as low Peerless[...]im. as 15¢ if it is poor. We have more feed than ever, but The railway extension was started in the fall of 1925 and nothing to feed it to. We tried the FSA for a loan but expect completed in 1926. to be turned down on the grounds of not needing it,[...]adquarters at Peerless, the townsite company we've had one good year in the eleven past, and the[...]s 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[...]in one is produce less. In the meantime, we are hanging on the afternoon.[...]be any more cockeyed than Jim Bennett bought out his partner, J.P. Devaney, in '38 no matt[...]and from 1926 through 1929 things went very well for Our gross income has been around $5,000,[...]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[...]en some past years of Meanwhile, during this period, the children stayed in short crops and l[...]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 college education of the children.[...]The expense of the move was paid for by a slight-of-hand Then came the infamous th[...]; as a result of the dated check in return for a postdated check with the drouth, the real esta[...]tallments and receivable and bank account to cover it. In order to support the family and keep the farming unpayabl[...]tact as possible during these years, Jim company to a limbo status.[...]mental jobs: An entry in J.V. Bennett's diary for December 31, 1931 would more graphically describ[...]appraised and purchased optimism of the twenties to the reality of the thirties: for the U.S. Government the land which became the[...]Preserve at Medicine Lake. flood 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 State of Montana perhaps will always endure[...]eded Commission. Where he was responsible for the and re-seeded acreage planted about 4,000 acr[...]nancial ingenuity, flax. Rainfall at Peerless was 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[...]ds were still drifting in family, had proveded for the entrance and continued December. Lost $72 in[...]obey in July, attendance of the eldest son, Peyton, at the University of directly and indirec[...]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 gr[...]increase in the price of grain, provided a swift for next year. The average decline in stocks for year has turnabout in the family fortunes[...]ed and visions of 1915 started to become a reality for Jim unemployment and with labor saving machinery.[...]ur day. The old year is The family returned to Helena from Eugene in 1939 and dying and with it many hopes. Didn't expect much but with the return to better years the children were able to really could not look for such a complete washout in complete t[...]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 whic[...]Jim spent more and of that year wheat was selling for 18¢ per bushel, at Scobey. more time hunting[...]ers and built a home 1935 crop which was fair and for which the price received at Saybroo[...] |
| [...]ot 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 future. Most imp[...]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 Burlington Northern running out of these methods. Bainville and extending to Opheim. He spent considerable[...]from sales work. The desire to participate in the homestead[...]"homestead" houses for the homesteaders to live in.[...]pioneers to carve their destiny in the area that was to[...]Bench", a vision these hardy pioneers had for the land, was[...]all native grass at that time, except for small tracks broken[...]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[...]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[...]bread in the neighborhood and supplied this mainstay of Isetta M. Bennett is now living at the Episcopal Church life for the others who were bachelors at the time. D.C. R[...]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 childre[...]L to R-Al Daniels, Jack Carney, and two friends JA[...]he eighth child from a family of12 not work in this community and the Coal Creek neighbors[...] |
| [...]of 1945 and to this marriage was born three children. Mary[...]Elaine is married to John Vollertsen and living in Helena,[...]of State Lands. In this position he was responsible for[...]Ed Carney Family-L to R-Steve, Mary, Ed, Betty, Jack "See this hole in this straw hat of dad's? I am going to[...]13 children). |
| [...]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[...]Conboy died. Mrs. Conboy and children continued to live Manitoba in 1920. To this union were born three sons and on the farm for several years. four daughters.[...]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 Nelli[...]ana Kathryn taught at a country school in this community. and Mrs. Nick Haverluk (Pauline) of Fairfield, North In 1913, Jack came to Montana and settled on homestead Dakota.[...]n the Dakota at the age of 71. He had been ailing for the past year month of March 1918. After serving[...]hornuk 1919. last year had moved from Scobey to a farm he purchased Jack enlisted also b[...]Jack continued to live on the homestead for a time. Then he moved to Scobey and through the years he was[...]son, 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 p[...]n Scobey and through the years clerked in various this structure 32 miles northwest of Scobey is not a r[...]nuk in the late '30s. Bill Michel, Scobey Variety for several years. 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[...]Tom was manager of this club. Tom was also manager of Sod House, protecte[...]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,[...]ey 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[...]ey operated until Tom's death in April 1957. At this time June 1975 Tom's wife, Agnes, and sons, Richa[...]THIS I REMEMBER JIM AND PHOEBE COLLINS[...]Chapin and myself came out to Old Scobey, an inland |
| [...]Scobey that the Great Northern was able to take over their[...]We now return to the time spent at the A.N. Tande ranch.[...]D.C. Knapp and myself had been looking for land to homestead while we were there, but had not found any. S.E.[...]Ranch. As we talked, we told him that we were looking for[...]homestead land. He said that he was on his way to Coal[...]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 this,[...]when the land was finally surveyed we each got our[...]In the spring of 1916, we formed a company of ten and[...]plow, seeder and packer. We started to break, breaking[...]mile turn. We ran day and night stopping only to refuel, George and Enid Crandell[...]change plow lays and fill the seeder box. We really did not need to stop to fill the seeder box when we were running as in a full line of groceries and other supplies, and soon had a we carried flax seed in bags on the platform and cou[...]g. Lee Butler and Roy Ellsworth did our as we went. We all took shifts and in 30 days had broke, freight[...]nd 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 fail[...]the best crop on the bench that year due to the fact that I they started to build that, this sparked the Great Northern spent most of my time herding the range stock out of the and the race was on. Each one trying to reach the vast new fields. At that time the[...]herd laws, and country .that would be opening up to new settlers. The the range stock were[...]Northern had the edge on the Soo as they just had to ranchers were not very sympathetic to his complaints. build from Plentywood. Then the Great Northern bought About the time we were ready to start threshing we had a the townsite where Scobey now stands. A lot[...]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[...]got a big chinook and most of the snow melted. We got bought, it was moving day again for the Knapp and started threshing an[...]er 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 O[...]ted and poured into the carburetor. One day while we Company Bank, the second was the Smith & Boyd Sal[...]were threshing a neighbor came by and asked us if we were and tbe Knapp and Crandell store was next. Our store was crazy to be out threshing on a day like that. Did we know the south half of the Tande store now. It wa[...]was stretched a bit, but after hearing that we all about froze Mercantile Company. I well rememb[...]One of the first things that a homesteader tried to do was soon set up in business and was noted for his T-bone after he has built his shack is to dig a well or get a well dug. steaks which were h[...]e, Con boy found a large ant hill close to his shack and having - hammers and saws could be[...]d 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[...] |
| [...]rever possible. Jack left the be grain to haul and winter supplies to put in. This was a digging doing double quick time and with e[...]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.[...]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[...]gh 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 the remembered for winter supplies. Coal Creek community house and[...]ep and told the boys if they was lucky in this respect, there were lots of coal mines close got[...]ost of the people butchered their own meat supply for fix dinner for all of them. Mrs. Knapp was noted for her the winter and by Christmas time th[...]rties, dances, and basket socials. All inviting, for we were all bachelors. But none of us wanted to were the order of the day. Everyone seemed to have a good dig in that well on a Sunday morning. We had other plans time, old and young. for the day. But Jack Carney could 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 t[...]lebration 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 sometime before 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 caref[...]ying cars, trucks and tractors. The carefully put out, so that Mrs. Knapp would not see this days of horse farming was ending. My brother Gordon was happen. Mrs. Knapp was a very nervous and emotional out of the Army and was batching with me. We went into woman, and when the lantern was brought up out of the Scobey, in the winter time when it was bitter cold. We spent well "OUT" she almost 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[...]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[...]he bachelors of Coal Creek supplies to go with it, including a barrel oflubricating oil.[...]ome cooked meal. To make it nice and handy I built a nice stand and put a While we are on well stories, another story comes to mind faucet in the barrel of oil. The oil w[...]in involved Jack Carney. slow, so when we came in from the fields at night, I would Wyman Feltis had a well boring outfit and was looking for put a five gallon pail under the faucet[...]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 J[...]es there is a fellow over there that wanted this little job, never thinking about it till I opened[...]a very prim and proper tough part of this was not only the loss of the oil right in the lit[...]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 s[...]That summer my brother, Jim, had come and we boys all nothing. Wyman, thinking he had not hear[...]elous just looked at him then Wyman really boomed out "I hear story teller too. I wish he were here now to write this up. He you want a well dug." Then Frank said "What in hell is the could paint a picture with words. We had been having real matter with you, do you think I'm deaf?" This was just the good crops on the Bench for quite awhile and that fall I reaction that Jack had expected. Stories like this could go bought a threshing machine. Brother Jim had had lots of on and on, but this happened up on the Golden Bench. It experience running threshing outfits for a number of years, had been named after the first[...], 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 go[...]ller bearings. So ended the days of binders where we lived and whoever went generally had a list a and threshing machines for me. mile long for himself and neighbors, everyone wanting[...]pring 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[...]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 34 were all dry and crop failures. We wererightin the middle of 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[...]crops in Montana, straight end ways. I continued to farm there until 1956 when I retired. Our son Jim[...]guess that after all these years it is still home to us. I will add this that I am the only one of the ten that homesteade[...]ve my life if I could live it over again. I guess this is something all of us think about. We only pass this way once, this is how I remember my years in Montana.[...]in 1902 and landed in Brandon, Manitoba. In 1904 we moved to Portal, North Dakota. In 1917 I came to Scobey to visit my brother George. When my brother, George,[...]then knew the boundary of his homestead. I got to my brother's place with Jack Conboy, who was moving a tractor to the bench. I was promptly appointed cook and blacksmith for the breaking crew. There were inheritan[...]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[...]seeding. In July I was drafted into the For about seven years we 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 In 1928 I met the teacher; Alvina Skornogoski. We were town was Berlin, New Hampshire. About that t[...]people got the flu too. My brother, Kilgore, to as low as 18 cents a bushel. Also the dry years c[...]within hours of each other. There was and we had no crops to speak of for eight or nine years. a quarantine on travel, so I was not allowed to go to the During this time our son, Gordon Jr., and daughter, Jonet, funeral.[...]were born. Somehow we lived the depression out and by the Early in November, we learned by the grape vine, that time the c[...]ame back our children were the war was over. Soon we were transferred to Camp ready for high school. We purchased a house in Scobey and Devens, Massachusetts and after waiting two weeks we continued to farm and commute back and forth till about were sent back to Camp Dodge, Iowa for discharge. On the 1957 when we retired and moved to town. Our son and 24th of December we each recieved our $60 mustering out grandson now operate the farm and our daughter is pay and I came back to Montana. After a day or two in married to Gordon Vanderpan and lives in Baker, where Scobey[...]rain and here I spent the rest of the We have eight grandchildren and five great winter. I[...]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[...] |
| [...]Drummond, who was about 13 when the family moved to the Scobey area. School was a problem in those[...]ed the upstairs as a school and lived downstairs. This school was attended by the Manternachs, Marlenees[...]Daisy and Dot Hughes. The children rode horseback to school. Another school was in a granery by the[...]"If you don 't change your ways you are going to become an outlaw," her mother warned him. The prophesy came true, for soon afterwards "Kid" Trailor became a well-known[...]nd About 60 mile·s from Williston, on the trip to the new ranch, the parents had to leave the children at a cattle camp while they returned to Williston on business. · The airpla[...]ws bamboo sticks with a motor, belonged to a man known as stopped at the camp to corral their horses. The girls cooked "Lucky Bob". It flew for about a quarter of a mile, about 100 dinner for them and received high praise for their cooking. feet high. "The outlaws were always polite to women ," Mrs. On the plains it was odd enough at that time to see an Drummond says. They often stopped at the Tande ranch to auto to say nothing of an airplane! ·[...]fourth member of the family came with her parents to Old furniture carried out to make more room. People came from Scobey in[...]they ate from Canada in 1909 and worked for the Tandes until their breakfast and went home. S[...]ment in 1960. Nora had lost her arm when A trip to Medicine Lake on July 4, 1911, to see their first a young teenager due to an injury but never let that stop her airplane, i[...]brother-in-law, Claude and Clara Tande's, helping to helping.[...]the dead animal to burn the hair. This, Claude did and[...]purchased the old community hall and had it moved to[...]1960, they sold their farm and moved to Scobey where Nora[...] |
| [...]U.S. Navy in 1943, children, either teaching them to rope or doing magic tricks on a floating dry dock for two years in the Pacific Ocean. and Nora passing out cookies and donuts. Georg[...]rm. A good friend and neighbor Rick Handy wrote this poem Caroline Erstad Grotte, married Boyd Grotte. They live upon Mac's passing. This poem probably states how Mac south of Four Buttes and farm in the Peerless area. would like to be remembered in this book. Stella Erstad Bernar[...]en by the Roundup Boss on high, William. To bring in wand 'ring dogies and punch cattle in th[...]tead 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,[...]. 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[...]One of the few people left in this country who can recall[...]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 years[...]they were born and raised. They Ii ved in Scobey for a where he settled in 1917. Poor roads and a la[...]e miles time neighbors have forced him to spend his recent winters north west to a homestead in the Coal Creek or Carbert[...], on Kate Lohan, a sister of Agnes Erstad, came to Montana a February 15, 1873. When he was eig[...]of the first teachers in that moved the family to North Dakota, where he took out a community. The schoolhouse at that time was mad[...]It was about 75 miles from their homestead to Grand Walter Erstad who lives in Tacoma, Washin[...]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[...]When he was 14 years old he was "hired out". There were[...]he was expected to make his own way as soon as possible.[...]to oxen as his father used them, too. However[...] |
| [...]In 1917 they came to Daniels County and leased state[...]"I didn't like Montana very well when I first came," he[...]says, "But after a couple of years I began to like it better.[...]Now I don't think I would care to go back to Minnesota.[...]happened to him, but admits to being hit in the head by a[...]falling tree and being knocked cold forto preventing him[...]from Ii ving to reach his 90th birthday.[...]Oscar and Amanda Halvorson came to Montana from[...]Northwood, North Dakota in 1913. At this time, Oscar and[...]Amanda had been married forto Montana to find some land :::::::::[...]Dakota already lived in this community at the time.[...]Travel to Montana was made by train to Popl~r where Theodore Grythe[...]the railroad ended. From Poplar to Old Scobey they took 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 bum[...]it along with Scobey to Coal Creek, Oscar and Amanda caught a ride them."[...]he says. "There is broncs. This trip was made at dark with the driver sleeping no[...]me, but the horses knew the way and followed now. We used to walk behind the plow. And in harvest we the trail. had to walk around and pick up the bundles by hand. They thought that this was the wildest country they had It wasn't all[...]ill looked beautiful. The grass was knee together to play ball and pitch horseshoes.[...]and water. parties to attend.[...]hirty feet, methods much better than the old. But for recreation, he which they later sodded up for warmth. Because of its size, says, "I think we enjoyed ourselves much better in those[...]od social gatherings days. Nowadays youngsters go to town with money in their[...]days. Oscar played the violin, so he was pockets. 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 time without[...]for many years. Supper in his younger days was inva[...]ey own and live on a neighboring farm - according to Mr. Grythe. "I would still take that before I[...]the river by moved to Scobey where they purchased a home. They the bask[...]rented their farm-ranch to their son-in-law and daughter. "We were tickled to death when we got some of that," he[...]heston Johnson at Roseau, Minnesota. He had taken out a homestead about 12 miles[...] |
| [...]father, was one of nine boys. He grew to manhood in[...]While in Illinois, to them were born three girls-Vivian,[...]Dad and Mom decided to get a way from the congestion of[...]This all transpired in the early 1900's. Also about this[...]homestead in Daniels County. He urged Dad to join him.[...]lroad, two more children- Oscar Halvorson used to tell of hard times and good Clarence[...]r after taking up times. After buying their place for $73.00, they had $2.00 to his homestead, one more child-Wayne-was born; live on. He took his fiddle and played for dances across th_e making a total of eight children, seven of which were line in order to eat. He had one job digging fence-post holes. 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 Lif[...]about my appearance into this world. When Mom's time Once while walking down[...]he got was near, he hired a neighbor cowboy to ride into town to caught in a hailstorm. A hailstone tore through t[...]the mistake of paying him in his hat. He hollered to his dog, "Get out of the way, Blue," advance. When he got to town on that cold March day, he and dashed on dow[...]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 about br[...]r oxen. "I took those oxen and a turned out OK as Ed's wife had a lot of experience as a breaking plow. Everything was fine when I started out. I midwife. was surprised, when I looked back, to find that I was My recollection o[...]I stopped and went was a sad lack of them. For a while, Dad would rent a house back to the house for a drink. When I came back one of the in Scobey during the school year for the older children. oxen was lying down. I said "[...]ng 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 scho[...]oked at me. kids went to that school, taught by Oliva Ralstin. The third[...]?" 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[...]lled The Shennum School. The families involved in this the ox a good wallop. The ox took right off and t[...]ngers, and Collins. Their house was very large for a homestead shack-14 x This was the first full school term in this district. School 30, and all in one room. It was[...]needed, Dad bought a house in Scobey and we would move In the middle of the room was an enormous stove called to town for the winter school. Dad stayed on the farm to "Jumbo". It was set in a box of dirt so that it w[...]it held enormous chunks of coal. To explain about the livestock. I should mention tha[...]country, they would camp at our place for a while. Dad allowed them to eat from the garden and even gave them a[...]from the Miles City area and sold them to him for 10¢ a many years ago. Dan Henderson's father was[...]1885. at our place on Sundays for a rodeo. We also provided some[...] |
| [...]ow sitting- Vivian, Dad, Mom, and Lillian stock for the Peerless & Richland Rodeos. Jack Clark and[...]time. 1969. |
| [...]a and worked in a restaurant Glasgow and she came to Helena to keep house for his in Bottineau. She married Herby O[...]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[...]They farmed near Bottineau and then moved to a the east.) At first they lived in the Jack Full[...]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 spr[...]soon as that homestead was secured they contract to carry mail for the Carbert Post Office. He moved to the Coal Creek Community and homesteaded just car[...]chose his land, along with Sam Clayt again worked for the state as General Field Agent Richard[...]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'[...]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 t[...]and trailing behind, was a neighbor boy on a tend to several chores. They did this for several years horse driving the cattle.[...]the Canadian line at before they got a well dug, for in the dry 30's money was Raymond where the[...]iture came unglued and the pet cat deserted them, for Clayt passed away in 1943 and was buried at Helena, the government inspector to come test the livestock. When Montana. Anna then[...]rossed Coal Creek near the T.S. Lovell place, the for Father Sorger for years. She died in 1961 and is buried water[...]and tipped. The little pigs were in a box to keep them Wallace C. Hodges, Jr. married Irma Richardson, separated from the sow except for nursing time so they and daughter of Neill Richa[...]5. They had three built on what was to be the south quarter about one-fourth children: ~[...]mile south of the soddy. They had not been able to dig a water well and were moving to water, but when the[...]water for quite some time until they could get a well-digge[...]to come in. Several hand dug wells were tried but at[...]certain depth the lantern that the digger used to test the air would go out and that meant gas, so the well would have to[...]born February 6, 1883 in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota to Adelme and Lumina Jacques. He was christened Urba[...]ame Herby by his W. C. Hodges shoveling out after big snow on homestead first school teacher[...]ed the name Herby, and Herbert as his legal name, for the rest of his life. When he was two months old[...]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[...]seeking a new location. As Byrl had been advised to live in a drier climate[...] |
| [...]old enough to homestead he homesteaded in Canada at[...]Torquay, Saskatchewan. He took-out citizenship papers in order to prove up his place, then came back into the Unite[...]necessary to become a citizen of the United States in order[...]to prove up. Joe especially enjoyed getting some unw[...]young fellow into an argument and then getting out his United States Citizenship papers to prove to the fellow that it was necessary to become a citizen if you moved from[...]North Dakota into Montana-always neglecting to[...]progressed to a tractor. He had all he wanted in motors Herby a[...]preferred to be free to go out working as a cook or choreboy for vacationers, so in later years he hired his crop[...]was an especially good meat cook. front at night. This tractor was unloaded off a fl at car in He often cooked for crews during harvest, at shearing time, Poplar an[...]around t h e Joe was always quick to entertain with an oyster supper, neighborhood. He[...]emade ice cream suppers and card parties with the to bring in registered Aberdeen An gus cattle, shipp[...]them in from Minnesota , with six kitchen chairs, to make slices of the lemon rind floating ar[...]nd bought a house in In a rented pasture close to the home place was a dugout town. When he could no longer walk up town to play cards in a hill , marked by a broken laundry[...]nds each day he moved into the Knight Hotel close to Coal Creek and a bank where coal jutted out. It and did light housekeeping. He lived[...]is wife had spent some months when to h is needs and his grand-niece Mary Jacques, who[...]t o his health until his death in 1969. to the Peace River country when one of their horses[...]up their little laundry stove, and used the coa l for fuel. They had sheltered their one horse in with[...]ng 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[...]farmed since 1939, leaving the farm on Coal Creek for Richard to farm. Richard married Jeanne Falxa in 19[...] |
| [...]d four year old sister, Helen. The homestead site to which they came was chosen because of its proximity to water and lignite coal which could be seen protru[...]creek bottom. Both items were of vital importance to the early homesteaders. Richard first attended[...]n prairie grass. One of his boyhood chores during this period was herding the cattle on the open range to keep them from mixing with neighbors herds or wan[...]Jacques pasture and passed near the family home. This posed a problem for Richard, when the Indians tra_veled the trail in summer, for fear his dog, Shep, would follow the wagons. Growing to manhood in the community he continued farming and[...]early Sheridan County pioneers, who had come to the area[...]itetail bank at 15% discount. Otherwise, they had to be[...]incomes afforded little cash for entertainment. On[...]Karst's swimming hole for swimming, baseball games,[...]County Museum. He donated the homestead shack to the[...]having gone back to teaching in 1959.[...]Mary for several years was employed in the office of Merle[...]Yakima, Washington previous to her marriage to[...]lived in Yakima until 1968. They moved to Seattle. They[...] |
| [...]s. Noel Richardson; Mr. During my first visit to East Scobey, Montana in late and Mrs. Ru[...]mily; approximately 16 miles northwest of Scobey for myself. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heninger[...]never forget. That was the winter of 1915-1916. For the and family; Mr. John Karst and his[...]; Mr. and Mrs. Seraphin living in Montana I want to report: That was a winter of LaPierre-ho[...]Reed-settled in the area in about 1910-left for California the tar- paper lined shack. Fortunately I had provided not in about 1923 to 1925-never returned; Mr. Joe Herskowitz only sufficient lignite coal for my needs, but I had also and wife- (latter was my mother's sister); Mrs. Anna M. arranged to purchase a half-ton of a "better type" coal in[...]er and my uncle both Scobey earlier in the fall, for just the occasion of very cold purchased relinquishments to half sections near my spells, and when I saw the[...]ead June 1915- was certain that when it got down to 55 below zero was the Mr. and Mrs. George Skerritt and family. I believe Mr. " correct time" to make use of coal with the most units of Sk[...]coldest day-January 9, 1916-because that happened to lived on one of the Heninger brother[...]good neighbor". The attitude of smart enough not to attempt to walk to the home of my willingness on the part of everyone to help when help was nearest neighbor that day-a d[...]cemented friendships between the early settlers For the remainder of the winter the cold was not so s[...]er male about 25 below was the coldest cold wave we had at any homesteader was "like a bro[...]ther homesteader was like a long-lost sister. For a single young man to locate on a homestead in a Very few of[...]understand (now) how I managed enough willpower to do that I was a good neighbor. One ev[...]home of Mr. and Mrs. entire area had been settled for over 40 years before I was Neil Richardson[...]tive, and small off- Richardson came to the home to report that his sister, railroad towns with gener[...]ty of 3500 younger brother attempted to fill a gasoline lantern which population even in[...]ther, and my aunt and her left for the Sam Richardson farm. husband did not settle o[...]. Sam Richardson then said: "John, if you will go for of 1916. I encouraged my mother, and my aunt and[...]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 fa[...]eally made team with a light sleigh and get out here as quickly as my first year on the homestead[...]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[...]e 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,[...]ing I saw Dr. Tucker incomplete without reference to the good neighbors who on Scobey Main[...]ncouraged others through good times and bad times to girl had been burned "over 70% of he[...]it, and similar words of that recovery for the girl is impossible in view of the encourageme[...]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[...] |
| [...]ing 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 19[...]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 fro[...]parties, mother's sister. I influenced my mother to invite Margaret dances, and box socials were given to raise money to pay to visit us in Montana, which she did in August of 1917. for the 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 wa[...]eturn even if she were married while on the trip, to break in school children's parents". At one tim[...]he city the early 1920's. I never learned for certain whether that of Wi,lliston, North Dakota[...]t report was correct or was idle gossip. We kept a school on ·my life-married there in 1917;[...]teacher at our home, board and room free, for 115th of the 1973-on February 11th. Never lived t[...]rm, during one school term. It was a matter of We Ii ved on the homestead from the time of our marriage "either helping to that extent or perhaps have school for until October 1, 1932. By then we had two children in high only five or six m[...]he Board of County Commissioners charge" for about 115th or I / 6th of the school term worked[...]housewife in made by State Headquarters from time to time but I whose home the teacher was given free room and board for continued in service of what was the Department of Public about five to six weeks of the school term. But the plan did We[...]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, with excelle[...]four years of attendance in high school. We had many wonderful neighbors, and during the[...]e many foreclosures on farms, and was warm enough for swimming in the Poplar River at the many[...]k in Daniels County Court every Sunday afternoon. We enjoyed visiting with the House at Scobey which was to last "for about two or three Canadians and they enjoyed vis[...]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[...]eer in their stores, and the Canadians for the remainder of your lifetime. would get the beer on their side. We-the Americans would John B. Kemp passed[...]John B. Kemp United States and Canada) we would drink our beer on the Canada side of the line, and then swim back to the United States side of the line. To my knowledge, no one ever brought a bottle of bee[...]e, not in bottles, not in cans, not in kegs, but we had the beer BEN LARSON we wanted on those hot Sunday afternoons. And while[...]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 homesteaders from Williston, North neutral[...]the United States and Canadian sides Dakota to their locations. of the United States-Canada bor[...]igh derrick the Mid-Poplar River was really made-to-order. The boring machine, powered b[...]put it there and everyone in the the machine to George Skerrit; and bought a powers low area mad[...]derrick boring machine. On March 13, 1919 we were The matter of education of our children called for married in Plentywood, Montana.[...] |
| [...]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 Street at Christmas time, with goodies for in the Coal Creek Carbert Community until 1950.[...]In the late 20's a new religious sect came to town.and.the their education including high school at Peerless. 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 o[...]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[...]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[...]from· 1923 to 1947. ALFRED AND AMANDA LINQUIST FAMILY[...]Donald Linquist Family. L to R - Fay, Desiree, Sheila, |
| [...]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[...]l was mainly dug by hand. My father sold the coal to[...]in by Russells son, Bud.) When the railroad was built to Scobey, one of the[...]water and tall grass for grazing. 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.[...]World War came and many of the young In 1913, we came in three wagons, one driven by my fellows had to go. Noel Richardson went. Prices were high father[...]re poor. fellow' by the name of Cassidy. They had to be ferried I Frances was married to Noel Richardson in July 1920.[...]ssouri River. Our dog, being afraid it was We had two ~hildren, Stanley born in July 1929 and Joyce going to be left behind, swam the river. in N ovem her 1934. Stanley is married to Leona We located in the Coal Creek Community, which was[...]hree children, Paul, Nola and then Valley County. We pitched our tents near the Coal Susan. Joyce is married to Jerry Bjarko. They have two Creek and a lignite coal mine, where we would have water children, Joanne and Jeffrey. and fuel, and homesteaded that location. When we first My brother Russell Lovell married Madge Richardson in came we had sheep, then later farmed and had cattle.[...]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[...]ngle 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 pota[...]August 1972. The son, Bud is continuing on.[...]we bought my father's store. We ran the Carbert Post Office[...]postmaster. Our mail in 1913 and on, came to East Scobey,[...]Bob or Charles Humbert getting the mail for the[...]community people and carrying it in gunny sacks to their place. We came by horseback to get the mail-a happy[...]We bought land from two old-timers, John McCal1 and[...]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 Dece[...]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[...]d plowed a furrow around the area he came to Medicine Lake in 1910, living there until 1913, had selected. He then went to work in Canada around when he came to Scobey, and had lived in this community Viceroy, Saskatchewan. He helped farmer[...]e married Florence Norby at Culbertson in June of this area and also helped build the first telegraph hn[...]In 1914 Emil Pomerleau was a candidate for sheriff on After reaching the age of 21 in the[...]1913 he the Progressive "Bull Moose" ticket for Sheridan County, returned to the Coal Creek Community and took up his[...]ls homestead; luckily no one had jumped his claim to the County, Sheridan County, and part of[...]Communications were slower those days in this area and In 1918 Ida Torkelson from Duxby, Minnesota came to the ground to be covered was considerable. Identity, too, Montana to visit her sister Mrs. Amanda Halverson and[...]4, 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[...]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[...]ing the ownership of a cafe, the Shamrock, during to prefer the open spaces.[...]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[...]Emil and Mrs. Pomerleau This creek crossed the Canadian line at the Karsts. Ev[...]ever be enjoyed agaii:i. Donald and Diane went to the Carbert School for their elementary education. Some of the teachers[...]. Don spent three years in the Army, 22 months of this time in England, France and Belgium. Don married Joyce Rossing in July 1950 and to thic, union were born Grant, Gregory, Lori Jo and[...]so farming the old homestead. Diane is married to Burton Rice. They have four children: Rebe[...] |
| [...]orence 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[...]re d' "anywhere. He was the last of September and we returned home. Grandad kind of fellow who looked[...]as tending bar a fellow came in, laid down We moved 2-1/2 miles south west of the sod house in[...]f 1935 and continued farming. In the fall of 1937 we those days. While the fellow was casting his eyes about for moved to Scobey and continued farming through 1944. a likely pigeon to bully, Emil without saying anything Charlie at different times worked for Tom Conboy in quietly folded his bar apron and walked around the bar to · Conboy's Bar. In 1944 Charlie bought a partner[...]t put up the "Tip Top Nite Club", emphatic denial to the allegation of the disturber, who then three m[...]put his apron back on. It was quieter than normal for was permanently handicapped. He also had farmi[...]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 this country with horses and wagons. Dakota. In 1913 t[...]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[...]rrier, a blacksmith, and a good mechanic. He went to farming on the homestead. Cecelia was born in 190[...]and other equipment by rail and they were close to the town of Baldonnel. They each took up homeste[...]brush. He stayed less than a year and came home to stay. In 1934 Charlie worked at Fort Peck Dam for awhile, came home in May, and the family returned with him. Edgar was six years and Lillian 21 months old. We lived in[...] |
| [...]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 McCall place. Neill carried the mail for many years, being one of the first mail carriers Clint Richardson moved to the Coal Creek community, in this community. Thurza would carry it in the summer[...]ining theirs. into Scobey one day and coming back out the next. In the fall of 1913 when[...]se till 1920. Their in the process of moving to the present Scobey, Clint other son Jim, was born in this sod house, in 1914. Irma bought flax from the farmers at trackside for Dana Knapp. was five years old when they came here, and Clayton was After he completed this job, he went to work at Frank three years old.[...]e 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 we[...]they were was left a widow, he moved back to Coal Creek to live with visiting at the Joe Jacques home. A lot[...]e of Sam Richardson after the fire, worked for many years at the Woodward's store, and was a till they moved a home out from town that they owned. graduate of[...]ss of 1936. Liz was a When Neill first started to break land he used a walking very talented g[...]layton and Irma started school in 1917. They went to Cleaners from Mike Kahn and ran a very su[...]the Carbert school, walking about business for a number of years. Clint died in March of1969 fou[...]working with the Bureau of Reclamation for the state of cream was made and sold. Neill and T[...]Washington, Bill has been in the Navy for the past ten Canadian friends, walking over to visit as they lived only a years, and Honey i[...]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[...]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 Richardson, when 52 ye[...]ept under the his family from Versailles, Indiana to Arvilla, North wagons on horse blanket[...]n April of 1907. The seven mile trip from Arvilla to There were many hardships proving up a homestead, as the farm Dad had rented, and where we were to live, was well as some good fun if you m[...]very hard winter. poisoning gophers. We lived in Grand Forks County seven years. In 1912,[...]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 la[...]circumference of wheel. Noel Richardson horseback to Coal Creek, sleeping out nights and carrying did the driving with Herby Jacques helping as they were their food. It took days to make this trip out to Coal Creek straight drivers. When the land was surveyed it was only and back to Plentywood by horse. When they returned we off about 30 feet. then took the six ho[...]The men got busy and built four sod houses, one for Sam pigs, chickens, machinery, household goods (i[...]l Richardson also very large tent, which had room for three beds and a big had a two room sod h[...]), majestic range, and chairs. It took us all day to make Jacques each built a one-room sod house. These sod houses it from Plentywood to Redstone where we stayed all night. were very warm in winter[...]r parents The bed bugs nearly ate us up. Next day we made it to a lived in the sod house as long as they[...]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[...]ilt a sod school in the fall Esther. She asked us for dinner, and I've always said it was of 1914.[...]dell and D.C. Knapp 14 or 15 children ready for school at Coal Creek. Dad had to had a small store at the Tande ranch. George was the drive to Oswego to meet with the school board with team clerk.) The rest of the day we drove to where Dad had picked and wagon. How I remember how he hated those trips! Our out a homestead. We got to Coal Creek that evening about homesteads[...]he county sunset. After arriving there was a tent to pitch, unloading was divided in 1920. Ellen[...]There was school there until 1923. cooking supper for ten people, (no running water either.) The[...]time was held any place they could find room to have it.[...]forth every day from where Tom Handy now lives to a half[...]ard and as high as a graded road, down Coal Creek to Poplar by Humberts' and to Claude Tande on to the French[...]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[...]In June, 1918 I married Albert Daniels. We lived on my homestead as it was closer to my folks and ten miles closer to Scobey. Our son, Charles Albert was born June 14, 1920.[...] |
| [...]he had asked for and won the hand of the beautiful Della[...]They moved almost immediately to the heart of the Red River Valley, commuting to the North Dakota side of the[...]hotel in Fargo, North Dakota, soon leasing it to accept[...]Father it not for unrests and urges brought about as set forth in t[...]Mrs. John Hellander, has ·one Della Shennum from out of the Montana portion of the daughter: Jennifer[...]75. I now West. Northeastern Montana was eligible for claim by live in cobey but still have my homeste[...]To agriculturally educated John Shennum it called for a bit[...]ndicated that the average rainfall left something to be[...]submitted prior to graduation, wherein student John We women harldy ever went to town; had to go when the advanced the idea of tilling and surface mulching of the men took in grain to sell in fall. There was no money so we soil during the sod-breaking time (Laid over breaking), only got the most necessary things such as kerosene for followed by laying fallow (Summerfallowing) harvested lamp , five gallon for $1.25 (which lasted me all winter) areas, as opposed to the long practiced procedure of fall and groceries which the men bought. We put in four or five plowing with replanting the following year of the entire hundred-pound sack of flour for a years supply, and sugar acreage could average out greater yield - (over a period of and taple su pplies, that lasted a long time; or we lived on time) by planting half the acreage but using a year's extra what we had , which wa n't much except bread and milk cap[...]d so it was in the mind of the Scobey and butter. We got many of our eat such as eggs, butter, Country farmer-to-be as he kneelecl the mare into a lope, and meat[...]a 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 per hundred for sugar in 191 . The First World War was on. "Get the kids on the train and come on - we will spend our Grain prices wer high , but we rai ed nothing. Another 50th anniversary in Scobey." eries of dry year . We paid $3.00 a bushel for seed wheat, By 1916 much of the choice homestead land had been 6.50 for flax eed. I hired 126 acre , broke, and it took a[...]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 lad[...]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 "Sh[...]in order. With shiplap, tar made butter and sold for 15 cents a pound . And some paper siding, composi[...]hile 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[...] |
| [...]rom and a Twin City purchased shack completed and this was to be the home until 1930 from Pete Larsen[...]structure and a new house acreages farmed for Ed Battleson. John and J.V. Bennett was built on[...]on the place owned joint Hereford herd sires for their cattle herds and so neighbor Bill Bernard dug a well. Lighting was by when "J.V." got out of the cattle he assisted in arranging kerosene l[...]e that the state land which was pasture for the Bennett herds kitchen range, fuel, first Buffalo "Chips" the lignite coal was made available for Shennum to obtain-some for mined from one of the many surface mines in the pasture and some for grain farming. Bennett-Shenn um neighborhood.[...]ain cleaning So, the John Shennums had a shack for themselves and operations in the area. Automobiles and trucks appeared their two children, a well for water, a downwind side of the commonly upon the scene and even an airplane (A Ryan shack to shelter mare Topsy and colt Billy. They had a[...]) owned by Westland Oil Company was ambition, and to the - as it appeared at that point of their s[...]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[...]ern Valley County moved their grain to the only market tended plow one season and in return Hank brought the available, this being Scobey, and one of the overnight stops outfit to the Shennum place and "Broke" some 12 acres on for the horse-drawn wagons and bobsleds was the one side of the quarter section. Although he was to break all Shennum place. A huge strawshed type of barn was erected except that to be reserved for pasture something happened in the Shennum barnyard and "Stopovers" kept the to the equipment and the rapid pace of sod breaking[...]the balance of that quarter was eventually broken out the spring work time arrived. Men had to eat in shifts at the with a sulky or single botto[...]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 th[...]as commonplace sites of the two Scobeys, helping to move buildings from today - one of them b[...]no the old townsite down on the Poplar river flat to the new school facilities Mrs. Shennum tau[...]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[...]his original homestead and "the farm " which was, for five decades, to be the nerve four others joined with him[...]istance headquarters of the material for the erection of a one-room school which the varjo[...]group donated to the newly created school district. While the p[...]those years which were not so kind: The progress for the first four or five years the " Roaring[...]ums. drying up of the streams, no feed for Ii vestock, closing of There did not appear to be enough hours in the day to keep the banks and loss of life-savings in[...]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 me[...]n es and the opening of Montana State lands, both to volunteered. John Shennum was registered ,[...]-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 II. By this time there were five Shennum sons of military horses for what r emained of t h e horse powered portion of[...]siness College , was the t h e farming endeavo r (this would include bi nder first to volunteer, which he did whhin minutes after the h arvesting and bundle team work for the threshing news arrived in Butte[...]his Eyesight tests prevented assignment to a combat unit but own threshing outfit, an Advanc[...]omputational ability that he was at once assigned to a outfit was no match in output for such giants as the Harold crash engineering[...]Taylor powered 40" seperator, then rused to Boeing in Seattle where he worked on the Shenn um[...]g all the military imposed specifications for the B-17 Bomber. The way from the D.C. Knapp farm[...]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 an[...] |
| [...]family of four and is The first winter we lived in a shack on the Acheson farm, employed wi[...]ge was located on a piece of land 33 miles in and out of Radio, TV, and business is an executive travel[...]ith offices in Greely, Colorado. John we spent eight years. The first crop was in 1917, fo[...]visor 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[...]of some of them. company in that season. Jim went to Alaska ten years ago; Rabbits were plentif[...]ighway shop in Anchorage. Ben of food we enjoyed was mushrooms, which were plentiful in ow[...]there was not enough fat on the pork to fry it. John Shennum's death in 1966 at Daniels[...]hack was on the homestead a huge Hospital brought to an end 50 years of energetic activity in prai[...]the flames could be seen Scobey Country - almost to the day. As he had written for twenty miles. Everything around the place was bur[...]t our shack which stood on a gravel hill. Luckily we Golden Wedding in Scobey November 15, 1961. Della were at the Achesons or I'm sure we would not have Shennum moved shortly after his passing to Billings and survived that ordeal. in th[...]t city. Sam dug wells together for awhile. Later George bought[...]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[...]saying he didn't have any money - but after three trips to[...]lect, my father put on a little extra pressure as we were in THE SKERRITT FAMILY[...]silver dollars and counted out $62 to pay for the well he had been enjoying for some time. Written by Harold Sker[...]blizzards and had to rely on the horses to take him home. George Skerritt, my father, was born in Ireland, the son Three-day blizzards seemed to be quite common in the of Irish farmers, but from[...]worked in 1920's. On one occasion Dad went to get a cow he had cities as a clerk in department[...]was well liked, he didn 't like the class ropes to let the cow go free, unhitched the horses and tri[...]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. Ar[...]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[...]his chores, but it was three days before we knew Dad had Nova Scotia, and traveled to Plaza, North Dakota where survived the[...]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[...]horses and chickens. The owner was issued a pass to ride on the train. As money was almost non-exista[...]a 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 years and[...]ren 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.[...]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.[...] |
| [...]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[...]ble Northern ran a mixed train on the branch line to Scobey. to keep warm. The ice on the water pail would be qui[...]were in the barber shop, by morning. As we look back we wonder how those having had shaves and haircuts before coming home to dwellings kept from burning, as the s[...]d in stove-pipes grabbed their suit cases and ran for the train. George that sometimes extend[...]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 a[...]in stopped so long at some towns asked him to eat dinner with them. Mrs. Fuller put two that tr[...]ir bu_s iness done and chickens on the table for Jack to carve, but when Fatty sat go on to the next place. Quite a change from the speed of down he stuck his fork in one chicken and put it on his travel[...]plate, leaving the other chicken for the family of four The people worked hard and[...]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 eve[...]ride in his voice. :'Two suppers in the one We had a neighbor, Bill Wriston, that helped out at times night," explains Bill.[...]d 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 events. consideration, but it was hard for some of those hard- In 1923 Dad had a chance to rent a better farm from Bill working farmers to accept a ten-hour day when most Alderdice so he sold his cattle for $40 per cow and calf and worked about eighteen ho[...]rley Heninger place Threshing became a long drawn out affair when there were where the folks li[...]poor threshing weather prevailed. I to retire. They bought a home in Scobey where they s[...]her in when they used bobsleds and dug the shocks out of the 1952. snow. The first part of the day was used to get the engine In 1933 I married Elma Pe[...]while Elma was teaching the Shennum school that we met Milking cows was our supplementary source[...]tting $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[...]med off with a saucer, and stored in the We started our married life on the former Wash Henin[...]hurns. Then the butter was packed in where we now live. The first few years of married life saw five and ten pound crocks to take to town when the chance us quite short of money and I was glad to get20¢ an hour to came. Butter and eggs were traded for groceries. Eggs help a neighbor stack[...]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[...]ave two boys and live in Pacific Grove, ones hand to appreciate the separated egg containers. One[...]in Billings, Montana. Donna and Danny How did we ever do without all the health rules and[...]na 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, Nowadays when every member of the family wants his we can't help but wish the oldtimers had it a little[...]Who would ever think of such a thing happening to rural man , Alex McArthur, were digging a[...] |
| [...]neration 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[...]g through the wmter evenmgs. Valentines were made out of wall paper samples. The endless hours spent ov[...]. SPEAR Roebuck catalog looking and dreaming what we'd get if we had the money, and then father would say "Well th[...]I came to Redstone, Montana during February of 1912. I next[...]moved from Sheridan County to the present location of the hope and perseverance and a lot of hard work we would[...]came to Montana on the advice of a friend of mine who shanng JOY and sorrow. God was good to us in many ways[...]two. I came from Oklahoma. I had and as always if we would realize how much better off w~[...]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 sailed for Montana in January[...]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[...]e would have no doubt been a few more votes enemy to see us. The ship's main light had to be on of[...]school age children B~rt Michels and too seasick to really care.[...]ged a small house and moved it halfway between We came from London. We had to be examined and vaccinated. There was one lady who didn't believe in being our homes, and hired a private teacher for a three month[...]the vacci_nated, so they told her she would have to go back; so[...]n't long until a school was she finally consented to have it done. When we arrived in[...]the boundary 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 rec[...]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[...]town of Richland is and ran side by side on the We never knew what winter was before. We had a lot of[...]I felt sure of having a town close by, but while we were things to learn. We didn't know what to think of the bare[...]on the way here in spring of 1917, this country entered hills. We had heard Monta11~ was rolling with money but[...]the railroads and left me were disappointed after we arrived.[...]the nearest market until J.V. Bennet I wanted to learn to milk cows and I did a lot ofit in the[...]·x tended further west. I married my wife years to follow. My cousins put me on a cow and she threw[...]Our children me off into a duck pond. I learned to ride horseback and that was the joy of my life. I[...]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.[...]a job as a welldigger. No one had money so he h~d to trade cows or whatever he could get in exchange for his work. The rest of the family stayed home and[...]on the farm. Arnold Wahl and I got married and we lived in Montana a few years but drought hit so it was hard to make a living. We decided to move to Minnesota and that's where our home _is no_w. We have five children: Mrs. Carl Miller(Fern) who hv[...]d one boy. Mrs. Bud Newquist (Juanita) is married to a printer a~d they Ii vein Alamogordo, New Mexico[...]. They farm , raise turkeys, and he is a salesma~ for Rupp Snowmobiles. They have three girls and two b[...]rapper. They have two boys and one girl. Our only son, Oswald Wahl lives on a[...] |
| [...]person would get 320 acres as a homestead. We filed on our (Harvey Wagar and Family) homestead in 1915. This is in the Coal Creek community[...]y 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[...]agar and Nettie Pioneering - When we were married in 1914, it was Schulz were married in Plentywood, Montana on customary to shivaree the newly weds. We were prepared November 27, 1914. Part of the Jack Murray land on the with a 16 gallon keg of beer for the men and a box of apples Fort Peck Indian Reservation west of Homestead, and candy for the women. In the fall of 1916 we moved from Montana was farmed in prior to homesteading northwest Homestead, Montana to our homestead which is part of our of Scobey. Thr[...], and William, present farm. It is hard to believe the changes that have were born to this union. Kenneth and Howard served in the take[...]Armed Forces during World War II. Kenneth worked for grass with no fences, no roads, nothing except the the Bureau of Reclamation for27 years at various locations homestead tar-papered shack to live in. This was "horse in Montana and North Dakota. Howard li[...]rnia 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, Kenneth eight or ten paper dollars will toda[...]communications were very slow compared to today. We manages the farm.[...]from several 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[...]rrow 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 bou[...]armstead on the Montana found sections 16 and 36, to which the State was Canadian side of the border. I returned to the homestead on entitled for school purposes, were taken or squatted on in[...]the homestead many cases. Thus the State made up for this loss or during the three:day blizzard[...]additional land where the area was not coal we used for fuel was in the cellar. fully homesteaded, such as \4.'est of Scobey. This is one Most of our neighbors were young,[...]ed , and came from different parts of the country to than usual percentage of state land. In this arid region, it file 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[...] |
| [...]Erstad , John Shenn um, a nd Bill Bern a rd wen t to O.B. Scobey banker at the time. The count[...], a n d he let us have enough so Scobey paid for the suppers. On many Friday or lumber on our individ ual 12910 in terest n otes for th e Saturday evenings during the winter, dances were Shennum choolhouse, which we built ourselves in 1922. attended at[...]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[...]d attend 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 Butte Creek School. For of the teachers who ta ught at th e Shennum Sch o[...]s in the earlier da ys ra n ged from about $75.00 to $105.00 per month. Ch ildren wh o a ttended[...]milies: J ac;k from the Osset Community came to my place and got me to Wulf, Otto Erstad, John Shen num , Bill Bernard , J oe file for county commissioner from the west district of She[...]$0.29 After the whist games we danced with music by the David Winter w[...]0.16 Scobey to play whist with the losers to pay fo r th e suppers . Eggs[...]sources of power through machines for all functions of[...]a ccessible, have all tended to make the country and world[...]smaller in relation to time. With the technical advances in[...]in creased s ubstantially due to a higher standard ofliving[...]REA is possibly t he major ingredient responsible for[...] |
| modernizing rural areas to a degree where they can JA[...]ived in Daniels County in are many times referred to as the "good old" days, but I 1914 from Re[...]iven a choice anyone would prefer area, next to Harvey Wagar. the "good old" days to our way of life today. Whether our They h[...]my father in 1934. without some deterioration in this troubled economic My mother, two sisters, and I moved to Wisconsin in period and until fuel self-sufficien[...]r passed away in 1963. our ingenious capabilities to the limit. Kathryn Dunha[...]Esther and I work for a furniture factory in Jefferson. I Paul Wolfe was born June 29, 1898 in Austria, and came have one son, Gary. to Kronau, Saskatchewan with his parents in about 1916. He came to 20 miles southeast of Rockglen, Saskatchewan By Raymond Wulf to live with his older brother Rudolf and his family[...]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[...]ed away in 1943 and in 1945 Paul quit farming due to ill health and rented the farm. He passed[...] |
| Shennum School - mid 20's. Left to right - rear row: Clarence Henninger, Pear[...] |
| [...]Syrus had been in ailing health for many years and passed by Llo[...]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[...]a grocery store. They have two Sweden. They came to Perley, Minnesota where they daugh[...]hards 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 their former Rose Gaustad of south Flaxville. We have two citizenship papers in this country. children, D[...]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[...]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 homesteaders. There was plenty of[...]he THE HENRY CRAY FAMILY well. For the first few years travel and farming was all made with horses. Their entertainment was to visit the Henry Cray was born in Moss[...], neighbors, go on picnics in the summer time, or to enjoy a 1880 and when he was four years old he came to new record for the Victor phonograph. News from the[...]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 c[...]ettled on Henry's homestead. 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 shopping. Later Navajo had its own She was raised in Minnesota and went to Williston, North postoffice, as well as a general[...]our farm home where Syrus, Hilma, John and I went to school until 1928. Our family went to church at the Zion Lutheran church at Orville. Sometimes we had to get Henry and Louise Cray out and push the Ford up the hill east of the church.[...]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 resulted in poor crops and low prices for farm produce. Radio was by now in most homes, and if reception was poor at one's home, he went to the neighbor's to hear the nightly broadcast of Amos 'n Andy[...] |
| [...]Fort Peck her schooling. In 1936 she was married to Albert Indian Reservation. He sol[...]t Bainville and Hachmann. They lived in Flaxville for 22 years where he took a claim south of[...]l. In October, 1967 farm now. they moved to Scobey where Albert worked and Hazel went In 1912 Hugh married Mildred Phelps. She had been to work at the Daniels Memorial Nursing Home where s[...]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, having raise[...]HISTORY OF CARL J. FROSLAN sold their homestead to Ed Tyler and moved to Flaxville where he worked at McCabe elevator for six years and then Carl J. Froslan was b[...]y Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota to Hans and remained in Flaxville until October, 1967, moved to Scobey Karn Morstead Froslan. Carl was the[...]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 Vancouver,[...]ng World War II he worked as a welding instructor for War Production Training. In the spring of 1946[...]r two children moved on a farm in Daniels County. This farm was originally owned by "Mac" McAllister. .[...]chard (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. The[...]as born 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,[...]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 mills. He returned in the spring of Daniels County. This is where brothers Peder and Martin[...] |
| [...]Later Nansen became known for accomplishing the He was a member of Orville L[...]rded the Carl drove a Model T touring car back to St. James, Nobel Peace prize for this. Minnesota in the early 1920's, with top down all[...]Nansen children attended school next door to the mansion Mollerstuens and Walter Linders.[...]and stopped in regularly after school to eat the waffles and He enjoyed people and was always happy. He lived to hot chocolate that she prepared for them. On one occasion visit. Sometimes he disagreed just to keep the conversation she assisted at a for[...]ota. wrote the words to Norway's national anthem.[...]tours took him throughout Europe. He was noted for his[...]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[...]ard work of early day farming. He rented the land out on every day," Mrs. Halverson says. "They 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[...]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[...]"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 r[...]North Dakota, but insisted on learning to speak English She was a housekeeper in the ho[...]s Norwegian opera singers. It was "I didn't want to find myself sitting alone in a little a pleasant[...]still smiles as she recalls how house way out on the prairie and tied down with babies and foolish people thought she was to leave it all to follow her not be able to talk to anybody, "she explained. fiance to the wilds of the American prairie.[...]en, 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[...]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[...]ad near in Oslo. And their friends were wonderful to me, too. They the present town of Homestead. Their 12x14. tarpaper never referred to me as a 'hired girl'." sh[...]artist, statesman, and did miss the trees we had in Norway. I thought the prairie humanitarian[...]n looked so naked I hated to go outside. But I got used to it." accomplishments was the designing of a speci[...]as built in such a manner that it would be to keep it from blowing away. Their barn was made of[...]She also remembers how the Indians used to hang fresh allowed this ship to be frozen in the Polar Sea off of eastern meat[...]ts would carry the ice Her husband went to Kalispell to work soon after they and the ship to Spitzbergen, while he and his crew[...] |
| [...]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[...]me in Flaxville I cleaned the shack and went back to my job." in 1957. Anna passed a[...]the assistance of a doctor. An elderly woman came to help. Five weeks after the baby was born they moved to another homestead about six miles south of Navajo[...]a wagon, hitched up four horses, and they started out. The Muddy River was swollen with the Fred Hanson came to Montana from Bachelors Grove in spring run-off and had to be crossed with the wagon Grand Forks County, North Dakota in 1910 to homestead floating and the horses swimming.[...]in Daniels County, south of Flaxville. To help pay the "I was scared to death," Mrs. Halverson remembers, expen[...]the river with my baby in my Culbertson to Redstone with a team of horses and wagon. arms."[...]tary they could not see where they were. "FinaJly we drove into service in France. a clothesline and we heard a baby crying," she recalls. "It He p[...]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.[...]eir place. She could hear the taught school for many years at Coal Creek, Smoke Creek, crackling of the flames, and had to ~ait helplessly to see if and Redstone. She also played for dances in the early years the river would stop th[...]in Redstone, and taught piano lessons for several years. The Halversons lost a four-mont[...]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[...]anuary, still lives in Flaxville and keeps house for her son Sigurd. She has a rich store of memories[...]n understand why her employers were so reluctant to see her leave for America 57 years ago. FRED H[...]ed Anna Swanson, who was Swedish. They first |
| [...]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[...]to this country in an immigrant car. They brought with[...]lost their fat white dog to the Indians who ate it. This made[...]aul drove the steam engine across the reservation to[...]ressure from the steam hose. and they lived there for many years. She died later from The lumber for their homestead buildings was hauled pneumonia. H[...]ell as all of their other supplies, with his farm to George Severson. He and a friend, Charlie[...]rd, loaded their belongings in his jeep and drove to Regular worship services were held at the Kanning Brownsville, Texas where he raised chickens for a few ranch by pastors of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, years. He later moved to Seguin, Texas where he owned of Scobey.[...]es were in the German four houses which he rented out. He lived in Sequin until he language. passed a[...]enry owned and operated a grain elevator in Madoc for[...]some time with Emery LaRoche as his assistant. This elevator burned to the ground and was never rebuilt. Louis[...]hip went broke. Louis withdrew from it immigrated to America in 1885, settling in a rural area of and moved to Canada in 1919.[...] |
| [...]father, Ferdinand, brought his motherless family to Redstone from Karlsruhe, North Dakota. We lived with our aunt Mary, and grandmother for a while. Dad was in ailing health and passed away[...]ph, George, Minnie and Bennie into his home where we lived until we had homes of our own. We all went the four miles to school at Eagle Creek with horses. My last teache[...]ll who knew him. He opened his heart and his home to anyone who might be in need of a helping hand.[...]and her husband, Lester Severson, lived with him for 19 years where she cooked for him and Lester helped with the farming operations[...]re husband at the Eagle Creek school. He had come to Daniels County with his parents in 1910. Minnie remembers that the first , thing said to the Borghild Lee children when they came to their new home was, "Well, take off your coats and get to work!" He left for western Montana and made his home near[...]sign "Uncle Tom's Cabin". He came back to Navajo to visit Thomas Lee, a brother of Mrs. John Severs[...]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[...]ld and was comical. He stayed at the nursing came to Navajo in 1910 where he homesteaded two[...]in 1912, 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[...]Culbertson and Medicine Lake, including lumber for the[...]Entertainment was limited to house parties and visiting[...]Frank Linders. Delphine went to sleep on the way and was left in the wagon to finish her nap. The Murr boys decided[...]it would be fun to "tin can" a dog and with all the yelping[...]to search. After a time the outfit was locate[...] |
| [...]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[...]School. At the age of fifteen he worked for Paul Kanning Yeager farm three miles away. Mrs. Y[...]e wagon and dried her tears. ice for Bill Konchur and also hauled and dug coal. For a time Anton and Frank owned a threshing outfit,[...]ing Anniversary in 1954. The two brothers married to sisters. Another brother and sister who were attendants at the wedding came for the occasion. Anton passed away in 1965,[...] |
| [...]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 1948 he entered the service where he was for the next four years. He was in Korea during the war for twelve months. In November, 1951 he married Mar[...]en 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[...]Navajo. He worked as a mechanic in Havre, Montana for four During these early homestead days Frank broke up years; at which time he and Diane moved to Great Falls, many acres of land for planting.[...]l when it was butchering time the Linders Montana to work for Auto Motor. butcher[...]After Frank retired he and Cecelia moved to Flaxville to THE FRANK LINDER FAMILY[...]ily they were traveling to Arizona Mr. and Mrs. Bill Koncher[...]rain coat on. When Slim and Bill returned to Flaxville, they 17, 1904 he married Cecelia Arebe[...]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 f[...]Raymond Linders . _ enough lumber from Culbertson to build a larger and better while Monnie and Frank Linder Jr. were visiting her folks home. This took some time because they had to haul in Boise, Idaho. .[...]south Hanson farm. children homesteaded the trip for groceries would always Frank and Cecelia had seven children: Raymond, take two days, one day to reach Culbertson and the next deceas[...] |
| [...]Frank, Jr., deceased. an important event. We began updating and remodeling[...]Our boys, Ronald and Anton went to grade school at[...]ER FAMILY married and we have one granddaughter, Kim.[...]bably the high point in our life was in 1964 when we by Blanche Linder[...]We enjoy farming and I'm sure Daniels County will[...]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[...]The Owen Logan family came to Daniels County from[...]required three' weeks or more to complete. The oxen[...]developed sore feet enroute, so it was necessary for the family to camp near Redstone, Montana until they were[...]well enough to continue the trip. Their final destination[...]cattle with him, plus some grain for spring planting on[...]in order to build one it required several three-day trips to Walter Linder (at 14) and Beauty Medicine Lake for lumber. In the meantime the family[...]ime 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 th[...] |
| Owen Logan Family - first campground. Left to right: Raymond, Grandpa Fawcett, Freedia, Worth ,[...], Ruby on h is lap, and Don. wagon, looking out as they moved along, bu;ily occupied MARCUS LONG |
| [...]e says. Upon discharge he Wisconsin came by train to Flaxville and stayed with the started a pai[...]death Mrs. Murr went to live with her daughter at Renton,[...]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[...]and Walter Murr, and Raymond Linder said this was where the spent the winter in Wisconsin visit[...]he 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[...]Barbara years they sold the property and retired to Seattle, where was born in Montana. Ed passe[...]d died February 26, 1971. Washington. Verona went to Havre college, graduating in Walter mar[...]r the farm 17 miles southeast of Flaxville, close to the Indian first winter. ,. Reservation[...]Joseph had to walk or ride five miles to school and had to In a year or so they moved to Flaxville where Clarence pass the old John[...]boys in the attending high school. Viola returned to Wisconsin to live. school tried to make him eat sagebrush. He said he couldn't 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[...] |
| [...]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[...]ry Linder, spring Linden again worked for Paul Kanning. born at Marathon, Wisconsin, were married in Wisconsin and came to Daniels County in 1909 with their four children.[...]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[...]arry and Sharon live in Great Falls, and he works for Meadow Gold Milk. Jackie was married to Linda LaCounte of Bainville, Montana and they hav[...], Jason, Tisha and Jared. Jackie is Station Agent for Frontier Airlines in Billings. MR.[...]by Blanche Linder Earl Randall came to Daniels County from Fall Creek, |
| [...]ible dust storms, drought, and no crop they moved to[...]g was born on June 14, 1886 near plant for many years. Joy is married and has several Burlin[...]ebrated their golden cows and planting and caring for corn by hand in wedding in 1970. He has now retired. Wisconsin, so he ventured west to Montana to help his by G[...]t and John, farm and ranch. In 1914 he returned to Wisconsin and married a school teacher, Maude Smi[...]urned and made a home on the Pfeiffer place close to Albert. They had JOHN H. SCH[...]lington, Wisconsin on In 1921 the Schlags moved to the Carlton Buel ranch April 25, 1875. In 1896 he had the desire to see the west and where Ben was foreman. Ben had cowboys to help roundup he came to Bozeman and worked on a sheep ranch for four cattle and horses off the reservation where[...]t. In 1900 he came by covered wagon to Culbertson. Along From 1924-1929 they lived in[...]ranch at Culbertson during the summer moved back to Sheridan County and farmed the George[...]home was a log cabin the place will be remembered for Mrs. Schlag's beautiful which was lived in[...]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 the ear[...]Dakota. Mrs. Schlag passed away in 1934. teachers for the Leet County school, two miles distant. A[...]d 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 wa[...]t the house where the Fred Halverson family lived for many years. Harley was an only son and went to school at Eagle Creek School. He married Marie Murr and they had one son, Joy. They were living then on the farm whe[...] |
| [...]he was about ten the family moved to HoIJ}estead where they lived for about a year. Then his father took up a[...]h Logan, Lester Severson. children rode horses to school. A cook car was bought from |
| three years. He bought Nakken out in 1922 and sold out to gradually renting out the farm land. The children's stories Irv Metzler[...]23 follow. until 1935 when the bundles ran out. George bought a used As each year goes by they are thankful for continued combine in 1936 from the Ben Nathe Implement in good health for them and their families. Flaxville. A Ford ru[...]se in 1924 and George and Vern Tyler made a trip to Yellowstone Park, drove to the top of Mt. Washburn which was 10,300 feet JOHN J. AND LENA SEVERSON high. This drive was later discontinued as it was considered[...]that time were not John J. Severson came to this county in 1910, paved and some of them were not[...]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 they both worked at surveying for the her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Lee, w[...]n 1909 figure the acreages. It was hot, hard work to do all that they moved to Homestead. They arrived first in Culbertson walk[...]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[...]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 a[...]4 George bought a Jacobs Wind Charger light plant for $1252 and on February 3rd how nice it was to Lena and John Severson - 1918 have electric lights and some power for appliances. In 1946 an old house was bought and moved from about six miles south of Redstone to the farm and remodeled and the family moved into it in 1947. In 1948 the plumbing for the bathroom was finished. A Servel kerosene refr[...]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 t[...]ove and spent three days at the Regina for water so there was much moisture in the air. Fair; and in 1952 a trip to the Yellowstone Park was great, In the fall of 1909 John and his oldest son, George came five children, some not so small, blankets, food , tent, camp to the Navajo area with team and wagon to locate a stove made for a well loaded car. There was not much[...]pot on Eagle Creek, mainly trouble finding a spot for the tent in the park in those days. because of[...]d driven many miles Also there were no facilities 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.[...]led George and Ruth have been fortunate enough to do a from Culbertson and left there un[...]on several group tours. George is John came to build a one-room shack , 14x16. Part of th[...] |
| [...]rest of my school years I went to Plentywood and[...]We were married November 10, 1962. We have two sons, Lonnie and Monte. I worked for my dad and we lived on his 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[...]er 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[...]here. lumber had disappeared during the winter and the shack 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 1910 they left Homestead early in the mornin[...]ast five years. I restored a two-seated buggy and we took across the reservation in an open hayrack l[...]ly furniture and other belongings and baby Emma. This was rode horseback as outriders. an earl[...]the wagon. They passed a load of lumber that was stuck in the mud down to the axles on Wolf Creek. At[...]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 three horses so they farmed together. They began walked the two and a half miles to school when the weather to dig rocks and break sod; however, they got only six acres 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 by Dad's team of horses. In 1947 we were gone for over three weeks and were finally found 20-25 missed six weeks of school because of all the snow! We had miles south of the homestead. John and George walked 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 more room added[...]roceries were bought in Medicine Lake in the fall to last all winter. Coffee was bought in 100 lb. box[...]alking 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[...]rses everywhere they went those first years, even to Scobey on Norman Severson and mule team for wagon train. the Fourth of July. The first buggy[...]in which daughter Jennie (Mrs. Jasper We moved to Plentywood in the winter for high school. Phelps) was killed in October of 195[...]n February 14, 1937. His wife was in the army for two years after which I returned to my Lena also lived a good life until the age of 8[...]former job of selling vacuum cleaners. I now work for Hart August 18, 1960.[...] |
| [...]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 g[...]ter of Melvin and Dorothy Johnson of Raymond, and we lived on the farm, helping my dad, for two years. Then I wanted to see if I could make a living in town, so we moved to Great Falls where I was employed at the Farmers Union Central Exchange for nine months, and then worked as a Walco insurance[...]We both still think of Daniels and Sheridan Counties[...]children are always glad for summer--time to go to[...]shack and lived there for five years when they left for[...]house which later caught fire and he was burned to death. One son, Artie and his family, live in Minneapolis. He was In 1970 I beg~n selling mobile homes, transferring to a street car conductor for many years and later drove city Bozeman when I became manager. I sold them for four buses. years, and am presently sell[...]by Mrs. George Severson We live north west of Bozeman and about 60 miles fro[...]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[...]ttended Eagle and when he heard land was open for homesteading he Creek School and was graduated from Flaxville High, then came to Daniels County, Montana in 1912. He bought land e[...]during our who had homesteaded it, but wanted to move closer to his school days and were married June 30, 1957.[...]uated from Plentywood High. was hauled to Medicine Lake with a four horse outfit, a We now have six children: Michael, Kelly, Matthew,[...]were cold and so was Marshall, Mark, and Karlene. We lived on the farm where I the shack, so when a[...]il 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 Fa[...]ovember of house and used the homestead shack for a chicken coop.[...] |
| [...]l's homestead in about 1916. Life was lonely for bachelor so in 1929 he married Betty[...]armed with horses. His horses Joe Vaubel came to Montana about 1915 and was |
| [...]PHELPS WILBERG stacked. We _were often frightened during the night, until[...]we learned it was a stray horse or two rubbing on th[...]there until the spring of 1906. One morning we found a herd of horses had surrounded Our family moved to the Deep River country northeast of the 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[...], had written that he had taken squatter's rights for Victor Wilberg, who was working in the Englebr[...]eek valley, 17 Hardware Store in Redstone and we were married miles south of the present town of Redstone. This area was September 1, 1915. Vic was born at B[...]on December 29, 1888. We spent our first winter in[...]Redstone, then moved to Williston. Our son Vernon was[...]born there. Our next move was to Grand Forks, living there for eight years. Our daughter Ruth (Mrs. T.R. Brekke)[...]born there. We moved back to Williston, then to the[...]blockman for the Hart Par Tractor Company for 13 years[...]outbreak of World War II he rented the land out and went to Seattle to work in the war plants where he passed away[...]the Phelps school for the next thirteen years. Since my[...]Wilberg grandchildren. Up to this year (1975) I have always spent[...]and I hope to spend at least a short while there each year. How excited we were; a whole new world opening up for From the beginning back in 1910, the hom[...]paces, having saddle ponies of our been home to me, and to my family as they have grown up. own, learning to ride horseback and all the new ad ventures Changes have been made, different people have farmed yet to come. To us the west must be an exciting place, so th[...]lakes. In June, at the close of the school term, we traveled transportation, 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 family are still close neighbors, helped during this trip. We found two tar papered shacks 12'x12' ready for us. These were built THE CLARENCE WILKE FAMILY close to one another, so my sister and I could be together[...]an County was Clarence Wilke came to Flaxville in 1926 to make his divided froin Valley County and then Dan[...]ecall 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 beyond started asking for Our children are: Eileen McN ess, sh[...]s 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[...]Amarillo, Texas; George is in m the hay mow when we were overcrowded. maintenance for water supply in Spokane; Helen Tucker Later as[...]org was in the Navy. ng and were one of the first to farm with a tractor. Clarence reti[...]ranch and Gamble Store in Poplar where we live. l~ter at Allie Pfeiffers, a five mile ride to either place. Some[...]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[...] |
| [...]ol Fester of latter's three daughters are married to Max Hackmann of Medicine Lake; Gerald and[...]ur of Flaxville. Their son Harold is married to the former Jean Hendrickson. son Douglas lives at[...]kson of Redstone; Connie, Sharon, Shirley married to Worth Logan of Flaxville.[...]n, the youngest of the Tyler family, came in 1910 to first homestead was south of Culbertson. In 1906 he came Culbertson and then on to Eagle Creek valley to Ed's to his homestead seven miles south of Flaxville, hauling homestead. To quote him, "We were about fourth-class the lumber to build his home with a team of oxen from wood butchers, but it took us three full days to build a 12x14 Culbertson. Through the years he be[...]his farm south of Flaxville. He died in 1972. 45 to 50,000 bushels. Ed died in 1946.[...] |
| [...]. prime, a young man and his bride set forth to accept the |
| A scene in the Ed Molden Saloon. Left to 'right: Slim Carlson, Emery King, Joe Snyder, unknown, Ed Molden, Loaded trucks of wheat waiting to be unloaded at the unknown, Frank Marsh bartender[...]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 new one was built with shares in it being sold to the 1930's, when the ink of nearly every business[...]er, with the exception of an occasional From left to right: an early day dentist, his wife and son, dance being held there. Louis Peltier, Buck Pel[...]owned an airplane, gave rides to people for a dollar. There[...]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 for weeks, and the all-day event and dance in[...] |
| 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[...], Joe during the week that many of the folks came to town to do Haugen, Wilbur Swenson, Phil Hexom and[...]ub which sponsors an annual rodeo and sports day. For Morvik, Phil and Adolph Hexom, Bert and[...]Baseball League-this was a very competitive group of[...]fan, continues to follow all of Flaxville's hall teams. The[...]m sponsored an annual dance in the Flaxville Hall to raise money for uniforms, etc.[...] |
| [...]Kurtz, and Art Gourde, contracted for the building of the[...]purchased two acres of land from Leon Duval. This was surveyed and mapped out under the name of St. Louis Cemetery, and for a time also served the Scobey mission.[...]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[...]istrict and Divisional playoffs easily, advancing to the State tourney held in the Carroll College fie[...]arm. Twelve ladies met at the home of Mrs. Goulet to begin Flaxville ran up 62 points to 60 for the opponents; the plans for an organization that has survived through good ch[...]proceeds from the dance being used for the purchase of HISTORY OF THE FLAXVILL[...]which was looked forward to by people for many miles Taken in part from the newspaper 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 ne[...]founded the missions of Flaxville and Scobey, and for the clothing drives for the needy, and serve lunches for next five years Flaxville was a mission of Culber[...]HISTORY 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[...]nto being, and Mass Hexom's general store for the purpose of organizing a was said once[...] |
| [...]FLAXVILLE ALCW presiding. Those present at this first meeting were Peter Carlson, Peter Hexom, Or[...]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[...]One of the ladies' first projects was to finish and furnish Services were held in the base[...]The Eagle Creek Aid was organized also at this time. Eight pews and a piano were purchased.[...]were: Mrs. John Severson, president; Mrs. Due to crowded conditions at the public school, classes[...]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[...]became one unit. N. Benson (1946-1953) continued to serve from Scobey. The first officer[...]63), N. Borsvold (1963-1969), was changed to Womens Missionary Federation in keeping R. Widerh[...]e known as the In 1956 the church was enlarged to its present size, with American Lutheran Chur[...]an active part of the church and in addition to its regular the kitchen facilities also being made at this time. The total functions, the ladies have work[...]projects. The cornerstone for the addition was laid October 7, 1956. District P[...]Methodist Sunday School picnic on way to Eagles' Nest in[...]OF THE FLAXVILLE LUTHERAN PARSONAGE This house, purchased by the Flaxville parish for their parsonage, has an interesting history of ma[...]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 Hewit[...]t. 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 mos[...]car, the doctor replied, "Cranking." In addition to the built and which served in that capacity all t[...]nse were charter members of the important to have along to be used in being pulled out of the church which was organized by Brother Van Orsdal in mud, or when the cranking arm gave out. 1914. Their daughter, Pansy, was the first baby to be Doc had two bags filled with nece[...]nding ever ready beside the door, and he doctored to the Other active members included the Tousley,[...]rber lived in a small vacation, some well-meaning ladies cleaned and house in Flaxville in 1934, and the church continued to straightened it only to be told, on his return, that now he function until the early 40's, when it was disbanded and didn't know where anything was. The doctor was a happy,[...]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[...]At the time of his retirement he went back to Memorial Hospital in Montague, Massachusetts, and[...]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[...]t Wheelwright, lassachusetts, person. His formula for a healthy life was a sensible diet, at the ag[...]by Dorothy Kanning hours, caused him to be tempted to modify the "sleep when needed" to "sleep when you can get it". Regarding transpor[...]s, a fold-back top and "presto lights" (carbide). This car was good during the weather when snow did not[...]The school was built mainly for grade students, with the[...]was decided to add more rooms and a gymnasium to the[...]building. With the new gym, they were able to have a[...] |
| [...]was the first to be graduated from the new building. The[...]r 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 replaced M[...]in Flaxville. In the late 1920's it was sold to the IGA chain Hammer (now married) and Mrs. Guy.[...]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 and Glenna had four children, Fern, Elaine, money was spent, such as for many tons of coal, chemicals William and Lloyd, a member of the Air Force, who was for the toilets, (for this was before the days of running[...]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 splitting kindling for the furnace, kalsomining the walls - this was a powdery substance mixed with water and appl[...]her expenses included paying the Swenson brothers for electricity generated by[...]im Sparling, and Oscar Mollerstuen were We were not really old-timers in Daniels County, but[...]ille Lockrem the clerk having lived there for ten years makes us have rather deep during the 19[...]roots in the community of Flaxville, where we came as a Lucille Mehls (Krusemark), Alice Bren[...]lmina Lein much more than babies. Olaf came to be Superintendent of (Hart), Clayton Bunse, Loyal[...]st high there , I also taught at the school for five years. school class. The first memory we have of Flaxville is Ii ving in the[...]gym of the old school house for the first month while the house we were to live in was being made ready. A water Part of the[...]was extended underground from the school building to our house, so we had a limited supply of running water[...]il the pipes froze up in January and did not thaw out[...]several years after we left Flaxville. We always enjoyed the fun-loving and kind people and[...]we thought the town, with its wide-open spaces, was[...]place for youngsters to grow up in. We left in the fall of 1957, and Olaf went into the[...]Lutheran ministry for six years. Since that time he has[...]analyst for an oil company. Elaine, Mrs. Brooks Hanna,[...] |
| [...]thirty-one great grandchildren. My father came to what is now Daniels County in the early 1900's. H[...]a cowboy, taking part in cattle drives from Texas to Montana. He also trailed horses from North Dakota to Great Falls, Montana with his father, Sam Boyd.[...]VING BUNSE My mother, Teresa Conlan, also came to this country in the early 1900's, coming here by train[...]and Iris south of Scobey. Her first impression of this country was that it was very frightening. At nigh[...]about her. Consequently, she which was later to be included in the new county of spent much of he[...]Daniels. family. Mother later sold her homestead to her sister Early in 1913, Dad and a f[...]ach had the wrong impression of the of land to homestead. After making their claims about ten ot[...]miles from the Canadian border, they returned to Midale Indian maid, while Mother was sure that he[...]. They said they both got fooled, but returned to establish their homestead claims. neither would have exchanged their lives for any other In May of that year, Ernie returned to Canada for his even if they could have. Mother told of Dad r[...]ily, Rose and the two children, Clayton horseback to visit her and quite often bringing her a box of[...]ed 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[...]was brewed over a fire using "buffalo chips" for fuel. All of could not afford any luxuries. the earliest homesteaders used this animal waste for their My folks moved to Williston in 1918, during the flu fires a[...]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 the years we lived in Flaxville also. Dad was able to add on a twelve by twelve foot room the My par[...]following year. infancy. Mark, the oldest son, married Vivian Bureau of The town of Whitetail, seven miles to the north, was our Whitetail. He spent many years[...]nd R~ilroad came through south of us, we were only three although their home is in Spokane[...]farm north of that city. They had Although we lived in the Whitetail school district Dad six children and were foster parents to over a hundred arranged to drive the school bus into Flaxville in 1917 and 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[...]Strand children also He is involved in a program for the handicapped. He is the rode in the school[...]family now, after many years of While we were still living on the farm, two children were[...]into I am the oldest daughter and after going to college at Flaxville, and here a third daughter, Iris, was born in 1921. Havre for two years, I taught school until I met and[...]ned the Ii very stable and dray line in Flaxville for married Carl Wilke of Rolla, North Dakota. We farmed many years and was also the agent for the Continental Oil near 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 n[...]ldren in Sunburst where they have made their home for over thirty years. Pat has recently retired and t[...]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[...] |
| [...]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 en[...]vices were needed. On one occasion they were gone for two days awaiting the birth of a baby. Many times[...]d, Dad would secure the reins and let them return to the barn in Flaxville by their own instincts.[...]ldren 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[...]d with Cub Scouts, taught religious Th.:/oldest son, Clayton, worked for a sign company in classes plus all his oth[...]March of 1975. He and his was a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts, is busy with church wife, the for[...]nd school work and raising a family. She belonged to the looking forward to the leisure years of retirement. Violet Flax[...]nurse's training in Billings before studying to be an[...]th Dakota. After their marriage, they lived there for he worked for a time in Scobey for Greengard's Men's some time, and their oldest 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 Union Oil Company fulltime until 1951[...]the Flaxville cemetery. our area. He couldn't go out on his route so hired Jack Leo was the rural mail carrier from Flaxville for thirty- Frederick, a licensed pilot, to fly him over his route. They two years, with a[...]delivery bus. During the he hired Wilfred French to take him around his route in a severe winte[...]several days at a time when he was unable to travel due to weren't very good then.[...]yet new, succeeding Roy Dorwin who had been clerk for several when the many newspapers were[...]wn After his retirement, Leo moved to Spokane, Washington incorporated in 1955 and has continued in both positions where he lived for twelve years. He died there of injuries un[...] |
| [...]th the farm in the Soil Bank Program, Bert worked for by Zelda Fink[...]s the land beckons Bert, so the school bells seem to call 1954 in Plentywood, Montana. to me. I began teaching in the Whitetail school in 1963 to In July we moved to Comertown where Don managed the fill out a term, and taught there for seven years. I now teach elevator. All three of o[...]during the six at the Flaxville school. years we lived there. In March of 1960, we moved to During the years, our children hav[...]Tracy attended Bozeman Vo-Tech and Rocky elevator for six years. Our children all began school in Mountain College at Billings. Rochelle is married to Raymond. Our next move was to Glasgow where Don Claude Frederic[...]le residents) as a bookkeeper. On June 20, 1969 we moved to Flaxville where Don assumed the position of manag[...]cretary in September of that year, and still hold this position.[...]by Corinne French Our oldest son, Mike, was a 1972 graduate from Flaxville High Sch[...]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 S[...]e has the time. I do many odd jobs, but my school this fall, (1975). specialty is cake baking and decorating them for Mike entered the army and is presently statione[...]any. We had nine children, two 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[...]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.[...]e rank of John and Etta Gunn moved to Flaxville from Outlook on Corporal, he returned to Montana and engaged in farming November 1, 1918 to farm. They were very much impressed and carpentry[...]e level farm land. My family moved from Outlook to south of Flaxville The farm to which we moved was four miles southwest of where Dad farme[...]d I completed our grade and high school We moved during the very cold winter months, which d[...]not add to the pleasantness of the work. Russell, Carl, and[...]aded with household goods, Carl had the lumber in this same school earlier.[...]nd I were married in 1953 and Ii ved in Flaxville for rear driving our cattle on horseback. Dad, Moth[...]the winter, Bert drove the from Outlook. car for me, and in spite of the road not being paved and[...]armer, Dad's first big stormy weather conditions, we missed only one day of project was to enlarge the basement into a family kitchen. schoo[...]a team of horses and a scoop, they cemented the We have four children: Tracy, Rochelle, Philip, and[...]nd walls, laid a floor, and made a walk-in cellar for Mark.[...]of canned goods and vegetables. It made a very We lived in Scobey for a few years and moved back to nice, large kitchen to accommodate the big family and Flaxville in 1959 when we built the home we now live in. hired hands.[...] |
| [...]and the men used about twenty six head of horses to do the farming. The boys and hired help did the f[...]est and threshing season he usually got a cookcar to MR. AND MRS. ELLIS GUY take s[...]of the granaries was converted into a bunk house for the hired by Betty Lou (Guy) Young men. Scott and Wes Cromwell worked for Dad, and another Ellis Freeman Guy ca[...]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 was done with horse-drawn for recreation, with skating parties in the winter an[...]f toil swimming in the summer. On Saturday nights we went to for the farmers. There was little rainfall during som[...]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 worked for Scobey.[...]time at the Sparling Hardware store in Flaxville, for In 1920 another daughter, Leona, was born, making a neighboring farmers, and for several years drove the total of nine children, three boys and six girls. school bus for the so-called Happy Flat consolidated school In 1924 Dad sold the farm and moved into Flaxville to the at Smoke Creek. house known as the Mike Dorwi[...]pidemic struck the area and janitor at the school for two terms, doing painting and many of their neighbors passed away. Both Dad and his repairing for various people during the summer months. brother Floyd were very ill for about six weeks. Dad was Mother had been running a boarding house during this unable to enter military service in World War I because of[...]apable young lady, by the name of of Main street. This building was later purchased by Ruth M[...]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 for Rasmus Nelson and Ben Nathe, and did Illinois some years previously. Mother chose to work in rough carpenter work, building granaries[...]ause it was not too far from home and she roofing for several people around the area. wanted to establish her American citizenship. Dad met her[...]esteading, 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 ope[...]h he later moved into Flaxville, and attaching it to the charge of it. She took a year off from her store duties to little white house north of the schoolgrounds whi[...]during this time, on September 7, 1927, that she and Dad Dad now went back to his former work of setting up machinery and doing[...]Carl worked there. During World War II, he helped to build the Farragut, Idaho Navy Base. Harry also worked there and they drove to and from Spokane, Washington where Harry lived. In June 1943, Dad sold our former Flaxville home to Frank Hewitt. By this time my parents were alone, for the children were all married and had families of their own. They moved to a community near Ronan, Montana, where Dad worked[...]wo 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[...] |
| [...]releasing the blades into the wind to charge the batteries[...]'juice' is too low." If the wind didn't blow for several days,[...]the kerosene or gasoline lamps had to be put to use again.[...]the morning, and by the time we brought it into the house[...]the milk would be frozen, pushing itself out of the top of the[...]Hexom's store across the street was a bright spot for the[...]used to blast the coal loose. Because of its danger, it w[...]building was situated on a hill in a field, and this hill was an ideal spot for skiing and sledding. Mr. Sparling, who[...]time we saw the new snow plow with a rotary blade, which[...]everyone in town came out to see this fantastic new[...]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.[...]axville. The Tanges decided people moved to larger cities to work in factories because of to establish their residence on his farm in the Mineral the good wages, that our prosperous town began to decline. Bench area.[...]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-[...]tracted customers from as far away as Wolf Point, we both took piano lessons, with a lot of help from[...]especially busy nights for this cafe and Clara Bakely, who I have many memorie[...]arance, and what a thrill Bill Sidora worked for Dad in his pool hall until it was to look up at the ceiling to see the light bulb hanging from sold in 1944. Bill was a native of Poland and had come to its cord making a very bright light from such a s[...]entually located in glass. The country people had to wait many years more for Flaxville. His home was a room in t[...] |
| [...]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 inter[...]ran over that stupid dog of yours! He won't move for a car, and acts as if he owns the road! " Jackie[...]Flaxville in process of remodeling for first Hexom home in Flaxville. community. The ban[...]those of many others. Dad kept his place open up to 18 hours a day to bring in the needed to North Dakota where he homesteaded and in 1912 he money and Mother went to work in the Hexom store. It was came to Montana. His first location was in the town of no[...]ailroad was transferred their bank from Whitetail to Flaxville, and extended through the nort[...]into the new town of Flaxville where the changed for the better. three continued to have the business together. Dad bought By now the old fashioned coal-burning locomotives had out the interests of the other two shortly thereafter[...]was sole owner of Hexom' s General store for the next thirty Ronald and I spent many summer ev[...]Andrew After selling the pool hall, Dad worked for a short time in Anderson, was born October 24,[...]1950. He also bought a farm east of moved to Columbus, North Dakota, and in 1913 they came Flaxville and farmed until 1953, when he rented the land to to the Orville settlement in a covered wagon. Todd T[...]in Flaxville. Harold died in several friends went to a spot north of Regina, infancy. The six of us all · went to elementary and high Saskatchewan, Lake Copalo, to fish. After one of their trips school in Flaxville, and clerked in Dad's store while we they brought back two tanks full of Northern Pike[...]as 27 pounds. We were all active in community, school and church[...]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[...]cancer Strong determination and the will to carry on overcame the drives, P .T.A., church act[...]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[...]and children-1945-in Flaxville home. Left county for the Department of Agriculture. He then spent a to right, back row: Philip, Allan, Peter and Adolph.[...]me in Flaxville on February 11, 1965. He was laid to rest beside Mother in the Scobey cemetery. Aft[...]eart in the Catholic church in Flaxville in 1952. We have lived in various parts of the country, and n[...]ian of the 1950 hig-h school class, and then went to Carroll College in Helena. He is married a[...] |
| [...]ore, 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, Yvonn[...]his Mary's hospital in Rochester, Minnesota to close a hole son Adolph. He retired in 1958 and d[...]ationed in Australia. While August of 1963 we moved to this farm where we have lived he was there, he met and married his wife, and their son, since. Gary, was born there. From 1945 to 1950 he was a teacher Our daughter Judy is married to Dennis Pitts and they and coach at Flaxville High[...]ta. 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 several years. Richardson of Antelope a[...]in 1913, the born at Bainville, Montana in 1922. We were married on last in a family of six[...]Minnie and Ben. Their mother died when he was We first lived in Reserve where Alfred worked for the four years old and is buried near the[...]ere 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 wa[...]their father passed away. Soon after this, their Uncle Paul, Our next move was to Dagmar, where Alfred was the a bachel[...]rst manager of the Farmers Union Trading Company. We all grew up. moved to Flaxville in July of1947 and bought the Flaxville[...]ring these horse- Variety from Charles Zimmerman. This was our home and powered years of farming. Ben's sister 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 self-service La underama for the hungry crew, and then would spend the afternoon in Scobey, and sold it in 1961 to Ray LaPierre of Scobey. in the field again. One of Ben's chores, since he was too During this year he was a member of the Scobey small to drive horses, was to herd the cattle. If it rained Commercial Club. while he was out with them, he was small enough to crawl[...]r 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[...] |
| [...]Dakota. He worked in season at this for thirteen years. He[...]I worked for a year at the Workentine Cafe and then went[...]to work in the Co-op Market, which was formerly the[...]Hexom store. I clerked there for fourteen years, the last[...]family . Back row: Delores, Loretta, to serve a hitch in the army and is stationed in Ger[...]rothy, Dean and Life has been good to us. There have been many times B en. when we thought we were at the end of our rope, but the[...]their own horse and my keel once more. We count our many blessings of a faithful Dolly and I made many miles as we brought the wonderful family, good health, tried and true friends, and cattle to and from the pasture and in the spring and fall best of all we are a part of this beautiful country which we made the four mile trip to the Smoke Creek School where I shall treasure until the end of our days. went for eight years. Going to Flaxville from our farm home was a slow process v[...]Red- letter days, indeed, were the very few trips we made to Scobey each year. I would spend most of the time[...]D MRS. JOSEPH KLOS road deciding what I would buy for the nickel or dime I had to spend. Plentywood, less than fifty miles away, se[...]cherville, bought a 1914 Baby Grand Chevrolet and we might go to Indiana. He was the sixth child in a[...]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[...]owing 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[...]nd find a the late 20's and 30's. Joe went to a CCC camp, a program nest of baby mice, pick the[...]ent wherein young men could through the house and out into the yard with them. She still work and[...]ck with Helen and Joe Klos her when she went to get the mail and had no fear of killing any snake[...]one of the worst disaster years in the history of this country. The thick duststorms 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 while we lived here. Ours was the first house built in the K[...] |
| 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 whi[...]orite sport. we moved from Fort Peck. I was born April 14, 1914[...]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. This left us short of money 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[...]there was a shortage of teachers, so I went back to teaching died within three weeks of each other. T[...]in the Schneekloth School. With our new riches, we bought our family even closer, now that we children had to make the Harry Mollerstuen home in Flaxv[...]In 1943 there were good prospects for another bumper One of these decisions was mine to make one summer crop, we had our jobs, and everything looked rosy. In July[...]ome alone. I saw one of the cows lying on we were saddened by the death of Joe's mother, and i[...]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[...]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[...]nd Anne Gunderson. my girl friend and I took them to Scobey where we sold The hot and dry summer of 1945 cut the harvest yields them and got enough money to buy the material to make severely. On the day before school was to start in each one of us a dress. The bones were shipped out-by the September, our house was completely destroyed by fire. carloads to be used for commercial purposes. Nothing[...]I graduated from high school in 1931, and went to college that was so badly damaged by smoke t[...]e in 1933. I do not know if I have ever been able to used. Our friends and neighbors came to our rescue with convince my daughters that I had only one dress to wear contributions collected by Vern Tyler. With this money and the entire year at college. the insurance from the h ouse, we bought the house known During my first teachin[...]ossette home from P ete Jensen. The community and we were married in 1934. We lived at Fort Peck, also had a household shower for us, proving again the Montana for six years. Our son Michael was born in 1936[...]nd 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, we made 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 everywhere felt the meet the realtor. We arrived five minutes before closing post[...]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[...]d Joe took two of our children and some neighbors to the[...]were there, but they decided to start for home. They and the[...]stranded on the road two miles west of Flaxville for almost[...]working part time at the three bars in town. This extra income was indeed a windfall, for the farm program cut[...]production acreage more each year, until we could not[...]In 1948 another son, Bruce, was born, rounding out our[...] |
| [...]s, two buggies, and their wagons, and In 1950 we bought the grocery store from Philip Hexom, came to Culbertson, Montana. They rented an old barn to but later bought the former bank building and moved our put their horses in, and the next day they started out with a business there in 1955, where the upkeep was cheaper, but wagon load of 1umber for Medicine Lake. They drove as far there was very little room to stock our groceries. After as Sheep Creek, a half mile from the town which is now struggling on for five more years, and with the stiff Froid, and ar[...]etition, 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[...]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 Credit Union, we hired Joe's brother · surveyed in 1912. 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 for this purpose. Bill lat[...]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[...]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 chose the latter, and[...]is employed by Westinghouse at Pasco, years later to Fred Krassin. Washington. Michael is an educatio[...]unseith, North Dakota in Burlingame, California. We have 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[...]rn Meyers. and Delia and brother Buck were born. We are spending our retirement years in remodeling o[...]They remarked on the fact that warmer climates. We are always happy to come back to many people were frightened by this awesome spectacle. Flaxville.[...]small girl of leukemia. as told to Dorothy Kanning The living childr[...]f Jeffrey City, Wyoming; Joan (Torno) ofCutbank, for homesteading the next year, and in March of 1910[...]The Kurtzs moved to Flaxville in 1924 so that the Peter and Henrietta[...]n 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[...]Seated: Francis, Joan, Henrietta, Peter, sheriff for the town of Flaxville by Sheriff Arthur E. Jean a[...]Nelson, a position he held for thirty four years. He was also[...]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[...]the deputy if Pete was out of town.[...]their children, all of whom were home for the occasion.[...]Both have been members of the Elks Club for many[...] |
| [...]Kurtz, Charlie Carroll and Harry Seiler lift one for old time's sake. These fellows umpired the old-ti[...]Honorary Life Member of the USAF Air Defense Team for faithful service in the Ground Observers Corps.[...]thering held at the Flaxville park some years ago to honor Peter Kurtz upon his retirement after servi[...]THANKS, PETE Dorothy Kanning We pause to pay our tribute |
| 1968, he and his family returned to Georgia, where he has Bozeman. I was born at Culbertson, Montana, where my since worked for the state in the Department of Public pa[...]have two children. and worked for a time at the Beauty Clinic in Plentywood. Darn[...]oneer families, the Army Reserve in March of 1963 for a short time. He we are quite familiar with this corner of our state. rejoined the army in 1965 where he was 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[...]before his discharge. Since we came to Flaxville, our family has increased Diane graduated from high school and took a business from one to four children: Shawn, Brian, Brent, and course at Rapid City, South Dakota. She then went to Lynette. _ Denver, 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 and enjoy living in the community[...]ort 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 were mighty glad when we reached our Montana. destination.[...]ager at the years, and in 1914 he went to Columbus, North Dakota to Farmers Union Oil Company at Flaxville, and that[...]rk 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 Flaxville for five years and .e njoyed our time completion of his school there, he came to Flaxville and there very much. We had been in Flaxville nearly a year worke[...]ore. He drove the school when the station burned to the ground. It had been bus during th[...]d presumably 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[...]at the time, spending Thanksgiving with We were married in 1926, bought a house from George'[...]storm 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 into the new buil[...]uch appreciated change from the makeshift methods we had in those long months in the building process.[...]f the Farmers Union Oil Station in Wolf Point and we moved there. He has been manager since 1971. We were originally from Wisconsin and moved to Montana in 1956 for health reasons. After living in three localities and traveling 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 years we spent in Daniels County. MR.[...] |
| 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 main center of[...]ies were held with nearly everyone in town coming to them. Mrs. Gilbert Hammer and I were in charge of the Sunday School in our church for many years. Our two sons, Gerald and Larry, were born in Daniels County. In 1942 we sold our business place to Frank Pfieffer and moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where George worked at the Farragut Na val Base. In 1944 we moved to Spokane and he then worked for the Curtis Gravel Company. We moved to Billings, Montana in 1951 where George again did barber work until he retired in 1968. We still live in Billings. Both our sons served i[...]ald was a Corporal in the army and was in Germany for three years. He is married, lives in Centralia, W[...]daughter and two sons. He is presently attached to the U.A. 145 and will go aboard the USSR Ranger i[...]at Miere Grove and attended St. John's University for two years. Ben worked as a mail sorter on the G[...]etween 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 sh[...]op going. After the war was over, Ben came back to Flaxville and Ben Na the in his American Le[...]nternational Harvester Company machine franchis~e for this area. He received recognition for having During the thirties, the American Legi[...]remonies and States ·a nd was presented an award for this played the part of Major Bowes.[...]Ben served on the school board and always worked for On May 29~ 1928 Ben and Regina Steffans were ma[...]egina was born September 18, always ready to give a helping hand to someone less 1889 at St. Cloud, and was a graduat[...]In 1929 the stock market crashed and the great to Flaxville and established their home on the east[...]always had a large garden, raised chickens, for he had person ally financed many farmers in the a[...]ookwork. They were members of He remarked to me several times that the only way he kept St. Lo[...]ere 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 C[...]and served on the cemetery after 1940. board for many years.[...]art condition and on March 6, 1942 Ben belonged to the Whitetail-Flaxville Ancel Fasset died[...]Post No. 121 '>f the American Legion, and served for a time to New Orleans. He is buried at St. Cloud. as First[...]ber of Regina carried on th e business for four years and then the American Legion Auxiliary. They both held offices on sold it to Arnie Rasm ussen in 1946. She bought a hom[...] |
| [...]November 18, 1910 at Royalton, Minnesota. He came to Flaxville with his parents in 1913 to their homestead a mile east of town. He grew up on the farm with his brothers and sisters, went to school in Flaxville, and later worked for Ben Nathe, Arnie Rasmussen, and at the Builders C[...]died of diphtheria when I was seven. I then went to live with my mother's only sister, Elma, Mrs. Roy[...]le Roy (Jim, as he is familiarly called) had come to Montana in 1913, but returned to Wisconsin. He decided to come back to Montana and we all came here in March of 1925. We arrived by train and my first impression was one[...]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 Wi[...]ld be a place with so few trees. In 1933 we moved to Flaxville and Uncle Jim became Uncle Jim's fath[...]also, and was employed there until 1973. hotel, we set out on the ten-mile ride to the farm. Before Gus and I were married in 1939. We have a daughter, leaving we put large overcoats over the coats we already Lora Jeanne. After we were married we lived in the Pearl wore, and placed our feet on hot wrapped bricks to keep Murr house for six weeks, and then moved into the house them war[...]vacated by Theophile Rheault. We still live in this house. Mr. and Mrs. August Roos and daug[...] |
| [...]Fritz in farming the Andrew baseball, first for the old Smoke Creek team and later for Husbyn farm.[...]After Lora graduated from high school she went to Minot around here to have played ball in England and Wales! where she[...]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 105 ft. Sewer Ditch" up out in the alley when they laid the main lines, so th[...]Dorwins were among the first in Flaxville to enjoy the city sewer system. "In this day of modern machinery nearly anyone need-[...]who dug his own by hand. Jimmy said the ditch (to hook up with the new town sewer system) had to pass thru the edge of his garden and he wanted to carefully keep the top soil separate for proper replacement and he didn't want the big machines tearing MR. A[...]SPARLING up the garden. "Besides", he added, "I didn't have much else to do." by Thomas Sparling[...]ming and Jimmy (real name Roy W. Dorwin) worked for many Sanitary Science, and received his certificate as a licensed years for Jim Sparling in the lumber yard and later for the mortician on May 1, 1920. Builders Centre'[...]. 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 yea[...] |
| [...]For many years my mother gave piano lessons and had[...]In 1927 Dad was elected to the State Legislature where he[...]He wa appointed to the office of State Commissioner of[...]th ey moved to Seattle, Wa hington , where they lived until[...]hi red the Bourassa broth ers to move it into Flaxville. They[...]When they came to the steep hill about a mile west of town,[...]t h ey used a Rumley Oil P ull tractor to pull the building and two steam tractors to pull back t o keep it from going down[...]t he hill too fast. It i quite sa fe to surmise that there were[...]to th e movers.[...]1879. His mother and sisters came to America soon after[...]l{wndson ,],mrnv of 16, Arnt set out on h is journey to the United States,[...]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 knowl[...]ficulties in travel he made his way across movec1 to Medi ine Lake where Dad worked for his brother th e country where he was reunited wi[...]~i also assembled Model ''T' Ford cars. They came to Our mother and dad were married at Abercr[...]Five aHs mbled and there was a pro pective buyer for it, Da d children were born h ere: John , Gladys,[...]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[...]ily and venture forth seeking a new home. He came to the buye1 he wa8 on hi own from there on .[...]n badly in need of When the rail line was built to Scobey, Dad a nd Harry a blacksmith . After he ha[...]ch tore in Flaxville, with Dad la ter buying sent for the fa mily who made the trip by train. out Harry' intere t. He a dded furn it ure a nd la te[...]en Dr. Healy arrived , he, too, was just starting out Tie wa the fir t Daniels ounty Coroner a lon g wi[...]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, Adeline and Arthur, and Floyd, Doris and and in 1929 we moved ·nto o r newl buil h use wh ich th[...] |
| [...]A coal stove provided the heat for all of the cooking,[...]from the next block for many years. Mother did all of our[...]took in washing for others.[...]1914 to 1957. Since new things were hard to come by, he worked diligently to make furniture and other improve-[...]to work with him.[...]the early days, and in this way our father answered a[...]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[...]ever-fascinating trains was another worry for them, for it[...]for our family during our growing up years, and we looked forward to meeting friends at the Methodist church. After[...]we acquired a radio, Dad preferred to stay home and listen to Norweigan services. In 1939 we were greatly saddened by the untimely death[...]of John our oldest son, in Wolf Point. He was also survived Mr. and Mr. A[...]ot realized by us children until years later when we under- stood the love and concern and God-given s[...]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[...]itself was an enormous task, but she also managed to find time and stamina to do sewing for other people, for the extra money was always needed. She also baked bread and pastries for many families in town as well as the cafe owned b[...]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, Mother would simply get busy and start in baking for ~ti~;t~:111:~?l~!~t~}alf~i-~{J:ti ~[...] |
| [...]de in the Wolf Point area. moved to Portland, Oregon. They now live at Salem town, a[...]y in a C.P.A. firm in Mother and Dad continued to live in Flaxville for several Salem. My husband is retired from IBM a[...]d Lee, a graduate from independence in being able to care for themselves. After OSU in chemistry in 1966,[...]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 recei[...]in Great Falls. Gladys (Gampp) lives with her son, Gary in South Gate, California, she has six child[...]John Swenson and his brother Emil came to Scobey in a living in Washington, D.C., after hav[...]ht a garage in Scobey and after two years sold it to Ed Dad's footsteps as a blacksmith, is employed i[...]Flaxville. building and repairing farm machinery. We, Doris and Clara Hammer came by train to Flaxville in 1916 from Elaine, live in Great Fall[...]e public North Dakota with her sister Helen to live on their school system. Elaine is employed a[...]hat it was Reynald was the first in our family to go to high school, much like North Dakota. Times were[...]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 co[...]coming for the occasion which was observed in the First A[...]om getting the flu. a favorite activity was to go on picnics in Eagles Nest, a The most serio[...]their energy in Since Dr. Healy had no facilities to take care of such an running about the hills[...]acked Arthur in ice, and then followed the We were members of the Lutheran church and all of us long wait for the train to arrive and the even longer children were[...]and all were graduates of trip in the baggage car to Williston. By the time he and our Flaxville Hig[...]few months in Polson, Montana, they moved to Havre[...]Their oldest son, Wilbur, is the principal of the junior MR[...]Havre school system. We have two daughters, Pam and Emil Swenson arrive[...]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[...]r John owned together. His first impressions of this country were its vastness and wide open spaces. T[...]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[...] |
| [...]miles south of Flaxville, and Mother registered for land[...]Upon our return to Flaxville, Dad bought an interest in[...]continued to live part time in the family home until her[...]ck, a one-room affair with apple boxes stacked up for[...]pboards and a shelf with a curtain in front of it for a closet. There was hardly enough room for the cook stove,[...]meal for the affair. Others attending were Fred Hanson,[...]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[...]h six miles north of Orville, and they then moved to the new town of Flaxville. Mother was the first h[...]always breaking down, and Dad was then called on to get it in running order again. It was during thes[...], 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[...] |
| [...]utheran church. Mother clerked at the Hexom store for many years and later worked in the local telephone office. After various office and writing jobs, I wa s, for ten years, editor of the Albany (California) Time[...]spital Medical Center in Oakland. I am married to John Larimer and have fo ur daughters: Judi, Mrs.[...]attended Montana State College at Bozeman, worked for Northern Auto in Bozeman and at several other auto establishments before moving to St. Louis, Missouri where he became involved in h[...]e was president of the congregation in his church for several years, and both were active in church work. After living there for many years they moved to Den ver, which is more centrally located for his business. They have four children: David, Hal[...]with a two children ould have had the opportunity to be raised there . year diploma. We were married in 1957 at the Pleasant Prairie[...]s ummer home for nine years.[...]house burned to the ground , and we moved into the George Tryan came to Montana in 1912 with his parents, Redst[...]g 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 in the In 1966 we bought the Mike Imig house in Flaxville and I Pel[...]d Louis. During the years previous to our purchase of our present George and Emma were married in 1926. Three children hom e we lived on the Haroldson farm in the summers, were born to them: Jeanne Evenson, Darlene Henderson[...]farm near Redstone, and we spent four summers there. We[...]During our years of frequent moves we met many new[...]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 for farmers in the Flaxville- I finished my four year requirements for a degree at Redstone communities.[...], and have since been teaching In 1952 Ray left for the army, going first t o Camp the f[...]1954. In between the busy schedule we enjoy camping trips. The next fall he began working for the Pepsi-Cola There is n ever a du[...]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[...]son In 1959 Swede and Florence moved to Walhalla, North Michael came to Flaxville in 1952 from Badger, Minnesota D[...]n the forests of They have since moved to Salem, Oregon. Florence died of northern Minnesot[...]cancer in April of 1976. conditions in this part of Montana were different from 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[...]'s Cafe. Creek community. Since Swede was looking for work, A fire broke out in one of the apartments over the Edmond hired hi[...]p Market one winter night, and and room and board for himself and his family. firemen worked all through the night to keep the flames Three months later Swede went to work for Ted under control. Sara 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 Sta[...]done to the building and grocery store, but the loss was[...]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[...]in tried selling his line of goods, but his ready for its next victim who used the toilet. This victim remaining leg bothered him greatly and he was compelled was Joe, who did not notice the skunk for a while, but when to go back to the hospital to have that removed also. He was he did, he dashed out into the station, shouting as he pulled then fi[...]With the extra burden of an invalid husband to care for, the joke had been on him that time.[...]in 1960. On May 13, two Two children were born to Swede and Florence while months[...] |
| [...]ma Rubin later opened a cafe in time for us to decide that we would like to live there, so we conjunction with their bar and hotel business and Sara bought a home in Salem where we still live. We returned to cooked for them for some time. Flaxville to dispose of our property in 1967. At Christmas t[...]n 1945; Donald was who had invited me, his uncle, to come to the gathering assigned to the Army Tank Corps; and Garry served as an also.[...]me 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, who was in _the Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron via the telephone. We were married in 1963 at Las Vegas. I of the Ai[...]rs of war from the sold my home in Cucamonga, and we settled in Flaxville, Phillipines to Hawaii. This was probably the first father- spending our winters 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.[...]bringing They coaxed us into staying longer than we had planned, POW's home from Hanoi in 1973. and as a result, we were still there at Christmas time when I enl[...]20, and in the the great Oregon flood took place. This was a long enough U .S. Navy in 1924.[...] |
| 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[...]ris Gebhardt farm, north and west of Four Buttes. We moved there in the fall, we also had cattle here and did some farming too. Th[...]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 now. Ralph passed away in 1963. Our children are: Gene, married to Joyce Carrier Juel-they have one daughter, Katrin[...]tt: Ralph married Beverly Ferestad. They have one son, Ralphie, and they reside in Scobey.[...]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 wi[...]married in 1904. In March of 1913 they decided to come to Montana with their young family to a homestead about one and half miles west of Flaxville. (Their son, Omer and family now reside on this same farm, at the same site). Amada came as[...]ife and five children. found the short season to be a problem for curing it out. He There Corrine's brother, Silvio Goulet, met them by sleigh did this in the basement and when his pipe needed filling and horses and brought them out to a "make-do shack". In he would crush a lea[...]The family When the family was old enough to attend school they grew out of this house, and in 1926 a large hotel from we[...]s pulled by horses-a lumber wagon Madoc was moved to the present site. It was remodeled and with[...]top-Ovila Goulet was one of the drivers. lived in for two years. In October o 1928 it was destroyed There was always time for getting together with the by fire. Another house[...]s a family project - the raising of food adding to the enjoyment with a jig and his violin. Wilfred[...]French boys learned Parent was the caller. to brand with their Dad's supervision, as well as he[...]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[...]the Joe Goulet farm. Mass you took a turn caring for or driving horses, as most of the was held at[...]church. Amada and Corrine were never too busy to help out forward to have a tractor and plow. Plow lays were[...], loss of loved ones, or sharpened by Amada right out in the field with a portable other times of need. forge. Even with all this field work, the milking, gardening, Amada was[...]t the family home. Corrine lived at keeping house for a large family there was time for the farm with her family a num[...] |
| The Amada and Corrine French Family-top row, left to right: Alvida, Delvina, Dona, Lydia, Omer, Alice,[...]1911. He came to Montana with his parents in 1913. He ALICE, Mrs.[...]e grew up helping his dad drive the horses for the farming children, Jerry, Grant 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 baseb[...]mportant part of the Flaxville teams. Omer worked for Springs.[...]of West by. They were married in 1940. They moved to the DELVINA Meader of Spokane-her family consists[...]sed hogs and ALVIDA of Scobey (see Scobey section for family story). cattle, and operated a gravel business for a number of WILFRED (Jumbo) of Flaxville, he served in the navy, years. Omer and Charlotte love to see things grow - they and is married to Louise Meyer. They had two girls born have[...]ts. Sherry, Mrs. Ken Berge lives in Blaine worked for Leo Lattin when he was County Superintendent[...]Flaxville section). as an LPN and is going to night school to get her R.N. ALDA is Mrs. Eugene Mayer of Westby.[...]ville. Their family is operation as he chose to retire a year ago. They have three Jack, T[...] |
| A. French 's moved the old Madoc Hotel, remodelled for their home. Joe Goulet-heading for Montana-1909 |
| [...]Wilfred Goulet Family: left to right-Dorothy, Aurora,[...]Nine children were born to this union and six are still[...]1918·. He was to be shipped overseas when the war ended.[...]when that was sold he went to work in the coal mines north[...]for the city of Scobey until his death in 1947. groun[...]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[...]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 t[...]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[...]elebrated their 50th wedding broom and knocked it out. They finally had to kill it. It was anniversary on July 3, 1952. They[...]assed in a hot bed that provided smoking pleasure for Wilfred for away September 21, 1963 at the age of 78. Their f[...]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[...]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 north of Flaxville. Mr. Hachmann built a dugout to be used during storms and it is still there or at[...]g and it splintered the window sill and then down to the basement.[...]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 school children of today they didn't have a hot lunch[...]program and couldn't go downtown if they didn't like[...]at the school was having. They took their lunches to[...]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[...]worked for various neighbors as a young lady and then[...] |
| Henry Bachmann Family-back row, left to right: Herman, Max, Oscar, Henry. Middle: William[...]Scobey 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 Dora Hachmann kept in touch with her family in out and later married Minnie Pfeiffer Bolke. They far[...]32. Contact was lost with them south of Redstone for many years and then retired and until 19[...]of Dora's had a letter from her with just moved to Plentywood in 1959. They had no children of their the word Redstone on it. This sister, Emma, was the last own but he helped rai[...]had asked the daughter marriage. Hei:man worked for various farmers and later of .another sis[...]ive one last married Elizabeth 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 t[...]like his brothers and sisters did, at various to Redstone to the postmaster. It was somewhat of a jobs. He ha[...]was a young man miracle as the letter went to Redstone where the and this affected his health. He lived with his brother Te[...]ille 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 brot[...]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 an[...]kmann and some, Hackman. They 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[...]ssed away in 1963, Anna in 1969, Herman he farmed for a while on the Frank Gross place. They los[...] |
| [...]Torger (Tom) was born in Norway in 1852, came to one will remember her for her cats which she thought so America in 1862, s[...]Wing, much of. Rose was Mrs. Randall and we do not know much Minnesota. His wife, Ragnhild S[...]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[...]ed 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 wer[...]dren. They lived south of Flaxville, later moving to Salt family had gone out to Montana ahead of him. Mrs. Hen-[...]patrolman in Great Fa~ls), ville. She lived there for many years with Bertha Dewey, and Charlie,[...], both deceased; Martin who died in was known for his extensive farming, cattle and hog 1955; Annie[...]in 1910; Ole died in infancy; Olava cooked for Martin-the big pies she made with lots of died in[...]now live on this place. I remember many interesting incidents o[...]Harold and · I Ii ved south of Flaxville for many years, Helena. later in town, and then in 1971 we moved to Plentywood The following family story is by Je[...]the hospital. We have nine children:[...]married to Julius Hendrickson and they live on the family[...]to Redstone with my friend, Edna Miller. It was alwa[...]when Uncle Martin and Aunt Julia came to visit us,[...]inging ice cream and goodies and taking the folks for a ride. All of them seemed to be hard working pioneers. I[...] |
| [...]steam laundry. Later we moved to Arvilla, North Dakota[...]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 we packed up and came to the West. We came by train to Culbertson, then rode a stagecoach to Medicine Lake and we were met there and ended up at my sister's home-t[...]ing for a townsite-they camped in a tent at the Boyers.[...]Mrs. Boyer was busy cooking for them so I came in handy to help her out. Supplies had to come from Medicine Lake,[...]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[...]our homestead; we stayed part of the time on the[...]at Boyers. We were busy once again cooking for them. I Tom Hendrickson, Jr.-1910[...]rained and there was a large crock full of water out by the[...]ors, they had egged on the youngest boy, Everett, to Martin Hendrickson came to Montana in 1900 and in get into the crock and was[...]h and with it the towns of Plentywood, Dewey came to Montana together. Re[...]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 Culbertson and we could buy groceries. It was about 12 miles across the Plentywood. In 1910 he decided to leave the River County prairie to get there. I was scared to stay on the farm alone and come to the prairies of what is now Daniels County. He wi[...]In 1914 it was time for the kids to be starting school. They His brothers settled n[...]h 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[...]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[...]came in the 20' s, no rain and no crops, so we decided to leave the farm. We had an auction sale and sold off the[...]cattle, horses and machinery and moved to Bainville,[...]settled there so that the children could go to high school. For entertainment back in those days on the farm, the[...]d waltz and do all the old time dances. Those who didn't care to dance would play cards; others would just sit and[...]ere was always a big lunch served. The only place to get a "square"-Henry .Joyer's home. We lived in Bainville until 1940. We sold out and moved Left to right-Mrs. Boyer, Mrs. Patterson, Arthur Hilling. to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho where my husband got a carpe[...]at Farragut, Idaho where the Navy base was built. We[...]Coeur teacher. She would walk across the coulees to Nim Gaines' d'Alene for ten years. He barbered the latter years too, until and go with their children. Later on we got some cattle, pigs his health gave out. We sold out and came to Billings, and chickens and began real farming. We built more room Montana to be near our son, Henry. He has Hillings Circle on to our tar paper shack. We milked lots of cows and sold Pharmacy here. cream to buy groceries. We also had our own meat, potatoes Arthur[...]William, a Methodist water on the garden when it didn't rain. During the minister, died in[...]d 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[...]s 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 would load up the kids and lunch and work all day. We would bring home a couple of tons each time ' until we had our winter supply. '< It was now time for the rest of the children to go to school. Arthur got the job of d·:-iving the scho[...]agon with a canvas top on it and a little hP-ater to keep them warm. He hauled the neighbor's children[...]d not see where he was going-there were no fences to follow at that time-just the prairie and cow trails. The next year we went to the coulees to cut fence posts so that we could fence our crops to keep the horses and cattle from eating them. We were now getting a lot of neighbors - Frank Hardy[...]ng outfit and in the fall I cooked in his cookcar for his crew. I would take Henry with me and leave the older children at home to get along by themselves. We were close by and their dad could be with them at[...]ng 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 cooked at Ted White[...]e hotel. I was chairman of the Red Cross in 1918; we did a lot of knitting (mostly socks) for the soldiers. My baby girl, Hazel, was born while we lived there. I was my own doctor at the time. My mother had been a mid-wife and she had told us things to do in case we had to . This knowledge came in very handy at this time. Charlie Edwards was our hired man on the farm then; he took care of things there until we moved back. When the war was over the barber came back and we moved again to the farm. In the meantime, Arthur was barbering i[...]ter 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[...]beauty shops in Scobey until she got married. We live and[...]We have two children, Kurt, six, and Kalu, four. In[...]winter of 1974 we built a new home on the farm.[...]Flaxville - before this he worked in Los Angeles. He[...]Della Parent in 1915, they were the first couple to[...]he became a county commissioner, a job he had for six[...]all of 1924, the Joe Legare family moved only one to come to America. from R[...]h the help of a brother-in-law, In 1909 he came to Minnesota to an aunt Engeborg Theophile Rheault and son, Raymond) to Flaxville and Rollofson who had come in 1900. The[...]ed on the Rheault farm one-fourth mile from where we Plummer, North Dakota to an uncle, Joe Rollefson. now live an[...]th five teams and wagons-Arthur, age 12, was went to Montana and took a homestead near Flaxville in[...]ongings, they taking up the homestead he returned to Plummer and moved 35 head of cattle,[...]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 spr[...]and they were in such bad It took four days for the move but five days before they shape that he didn't get much crop in that year. could r[...], North Dakota. Andrew (as he was thought we would some day begin married life together! known[...]in the early days. He died at the age of 1932. We started our life together on a farm southeast of[...]and miles northeast of Flaxville. Roos's now own this place. coulees. The first months, Arthur wo[...]across the fields to his folks' for work each day. Later we got the horses which we farmed with for three years. We also had a few cows and chickens and we planted a large THE ANDERS JENSEN FAMILY garden to help make a living. Afterwehadahorsehecould[...]Anders Jen sen ride to my folk's farm-the Bill Parents- about ten miles,[...]to catch a ride with the other men in a car and go to work Anders V. Jensen was born in Denmark, son[...]or wherever jobs were avail- Helga Jensen, coming to Flaxville in 1949. He worked on able. They[...]hen ways, etc. Later he helped drive mules to build the he joined the Army where he served two[...]d in Four Buttes road in 1939. 1956 he went to work for the Bell Telephone Company until Our first d[...]was born in 1933 in a two room 1960, then he went to work for Nemont Telephone house about six miles to the closest neighbor. She was Cooperation in Scob[...]on October 5, 1972 in a tragic car accident quit to start farming. near Circle, Montana where they were to make their home. Anders married Meredith[...] |
| [...]~'la xville. Art still drove the school bus for $65 a month[...]been $44 a month and we were happy to make that much to Ii ve on and to care for the family. _[...]In February, 1941 we moved out to the A.R. Hanson farm where we resided for the next 33 years, (this was the old[...]Tom Ofte place of the early years). We took care of the cattle[...]and farmed by the month for wages, then later we farmed it on shares. We also farmed for Ernest Tjomsland a few miles south. We bought his machinery to get started on our own. We farmed for Arnold Tjomsland after Ernest's[...]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![...]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[...] |
| [...], now at Everett, pay off debts and pay for the huge quantities of groceries Washington, served in France, Belgium and Germany and needed to feed the working crew. Pete Hexom (local grocer)[...]l. Raymand, of Flaxville, spent was glad to take coal for the grocery bills. Mrs. Mehls did a several month[...]so lot of cooking during that time. By this time Clarence and of Flaxville, chose the navy. E[...]Donald were born so there was quite a family to support. served with thearmyin the Korean War. Th[...]thur of Flaxville, and worked with him. We often wondered why he left rather Henry of Boulde[...]mysteriously. He didn't even come back for wages due him.[...]Hendrickson heard someone groaning and calling for help. by Meta Simonson He got on his horse to find out where it was coming from.[...]edge into the mine-he was badly hurt. Louie came to the Henry Lucht and family moved to the Flaxville area Mehls home for help. Walter hooked up a team of horses to from Saco, Montana in 1921. They purchased a farm[...]rs. Clara Barr, Bowling hurt so he had to be taken to Williston, his one leg was Green, Ohio-Mrs. Alice[...]ucht, Bowling took him a long time to recover, but he made it. Green, Ohio. Mrs. Lucht[...]ially during the Wrona in 1933-two sons were born to them-they are: winter. Tony Linders[...]gather for a party - Gordon McLaughlin would play his[...]age of 36 years. Walter and Augusta Mehls came to Daniels County from She died of childbi[...]r marriage they girl lived only 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. take care of the rest. She did remarkably well for a young Montana and the Dakotas wanted settler[...]ing, 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[...]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 blow was more than Walter could take so the home Lucille was born. Railroads had been built in this area as was broken up - Clarence, age twelv[...]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[...]h their household goods across the prairie trails to their finish high school. Lucille stayed in Montana until 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 granaries were also built. The ho[...]Malta. He was injured there at work and unable to work for stands there. The barn burned after our family le[...]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[...]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[...]Lorena worked in Chicago and Washington D.C. for there was coal there. Teams of horses pulling scr[...]family-Hamilton Ross. He received royalties for some the people who helped were Tom and Casper Br[...]a died of Wrona, Henry Lucht and other neighbors. This turned out cancer in 1961. to be a rather successful venture while the coal lasted. After Lucille taught school for ten years near Worthington-[...] |
| [...]ark in 1941. After the World War II-they returned to make their home in Worthington, they have two dau[...]from high school in Fall Creek, worked as a maid for several wealthy families - married Dallas Baker i[...]laire and they have two children. Clarence came to Wisconsin too and spent some time on the farm the[...]of Flaxville. Clarence farmed south of Flaxville for many years. He passed away in 1975. Donald work[...]d most of his high Valley in North Dakota in 1911 to the Archer-Plentywood school work by corr[...]University of Montana as a special student to get his B.A. Nearly all worked on Moe Hillatonetimeoranother. From degree in economics - then went out and made quite a 1913 through 1917 the Moe Brothe[...]ir master's in the area. Peder Moe was best known for his threshing degrees and went into educa[...]around the Flaxville area from 1917 to 1924 - doing lots of In 1925 he moved to north of Brockton and developed a threshi[...]fork 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 businessma[...]machinery dealer, in Minnesota in 1919 to be the tractor mechanic and operator addition to oil stations and motel operator. Another son.[...]I stayed in education work for 40 years - I taught and[...]moved to Toppenish and Auburn, Washington where I live.[...](youngest son) are the only survivors of this big pioneer[...]years of age. When hearing of the treasures to be garnered[...]in the newly opened frontier, he migrated to Fargo, North[...]He was a witness to the battle of the Little Big Horn in[...] |
| [...]government survey crews came along we were only about one rod off by using this crude method of survey. When we first came to this community we had 35 quarters of alloted Indian land. When we found we were going to lose these allotments, because we didn't have enough Indian blood, we filed homesteads in order to keep the land we had already worked. Together we broke 100 acres of land the[...]first year and I broke 40 acres for myself in 1912. In order to build our homestead shacks, we had to go to Poplar and[...]buy lumber two months in advance, paying cash for same[...]when ordered.You could get good lumber those days for $15[...]In the summer of 1910 the railroad came to Plentywood. Then all crops were freighted to Plentywood or Medicine[...]commodities were ordered in lots to suffice for about one[...]In 1912 we planted potatoes in the sod and the crust of the[...]were built where we had homesteaded. When we first came, we got our mail in old Scobey. Then[...]deliver it to the Orville Lockrem Store. Late in 1914 we got a[...]post office in Flaxville. Our first mail carrier for the rural Alfred Parent[...]fitting eye glasses, to helping with leg ,1 papers. Before Having trav[...]and. There was a rumor that there was Indian land to be had in the area of Daniels Wilfred and Geor[...]sing 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.[...]g been an old scout in the Custer army, knew what to do. We set fire ahead of us and then moved the wagons with all of our belongings and cattle on the spot we'd burned. The smoke was so thick we wrapped our heads with blankets so we wouldn't suffocate. When the fire hit the buffalo[...]ey would literally explode. Continuing on our way we settled in what is now Flaxville community, in la[...]ng point, using a wagon, team, flags and compass, we surveyed our own land. When[...] |
| that if someone was very ill we had to take a horse and buggy, drive to Plentywood to get the doctor and after he had attended the patient we had to return him to his office, which was a fair drive for team and buggy. During the flu epidemic of 1918 the doctor had a driver taking him from place to place. He sometimes went several days without sleep, trying to do the best he could under the circumstances.[...]sed from him in later years. I sold my homestead to Amada French in 1917 and bought Arthur Gourde's[...]he decided he was tired of pioneering and wanted to return to Grafton, North Dakota with his family. On January 2, 1919 I was united in marriage to Georgianna Rheault of Fargo, North Dakota. To this union two children were born, Cleothilda Parent[...]ge dam in New Mexico. Of the 18 children born to Alfred Parent only two survive at this writing, namely Mrs. Eugene LaRoche of Engle- wo[...]areas until a cemetery was established. Coffins for the burials of adults were sometimes boughten, bu[...]itable. 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 e[...]horseshoe pitching, rodeos and a giant roundup. We got to most of those events by riding horseback. My[...]er a cyclone wind tore the tent down. It was torn to pieces so Joe took Emilia and baby to old Scobey to stay in[...]over this water, what was part of his pasture then. Lumber[...]e, North Dakota. They farmed near They made trips to Poplar to buy a year's supply of Oakwood, but getting crowdec.i for land, they thought of groceries, coal and kerosene, until Flaxville got built up. going west to look for homestead land. In 1909, in the fall, Not long af[...]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 th[...]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[...]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 cover[...], all was what he liked. So the family moved back to Flaxville to French speaking. The trail was rough, with bad weather, farm his father's homestead for many years. Later they and it took a good week to get to their destination. They had moved farther south to farm what is now the Wigger place. brought extra[...]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. Th[...] |
| [...]North Dakota, coming to Montana in 1910 where he took[...]ELEANOR-married Arthur Legare (family story in this ,[...]Cabarett in Glasgow. Then he owned it with his son, Larry,[...]nd Chicago. Vera is Assistant Alvin and Louis got out. This tragedy forced them to move Manager of the local ·radio station, KCGM, in Scobey. to the place that is now the Bill Lapke farm. There[...]original Juel homestead. (see Didrik enough land to farm so they moved to the Dave LaBlanc Juel story in Scobey Outlying section for their family.) farm, his brother-in-law. Joe farmed the place for many CAROL-married Alvin Dobbins of Hele[...]years, until he was getting up in age and decided to sell to 1973. Carol still lives in Helena. Art Legare[...]88 years and Emilia, 83 years. The place was sold to Joe Lantz. Joe and Emilia lived a full life with[...]eceased). Lucille now lives in Scobey and has one son, Terry. ALICE married Bob Ellertson and is[...] |
| [...]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[...]m Wilfred Goulet about six miles Marley, he works for mountain Bell in Scobey. Gene is southw[...]s is Patti. She is a hard years of drought (we remember the blowing thistles!). member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Scobey In 1924 we leased this farm to Joe Legare (Mrs. Legare was Big Sky Singers. Patt[...]ren are: James, Michael and Terrie Scobey. This lasted a few years, then we moved back to Jean, all at home.[...]raduation from In 1944 they moved to Williston. In 1945 Mother passed Flaxville High 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[...]: Raymond, deceased; Clifford, Singers. She works for MDU in Scobey. Elton works in deceased[...]5 - he was engaged in farming in the construction for Daniels County in road maintenance. Pe[...]Mrs. Fritz Roos The Bill Parent Family-1942-left to right top row: The name of Roos is[...]He developed a black rose, and in honor of this[...]Mintenballenbach, Germany. He came to America with his[...]parents at the age of 13 and grew to manhood in Pierz,[...]Minnesota. It was here that he was to meet his future wife,[...] |
| Left to right, back row: Elizabeth, Anna, Louise, Charles[...]Raymond, Henry-about 1939. August now decided to change his misfortune into |
| In 1910 he came to homestead in the Flaxville community and lived th[...]elson of Scobey, were married on July 2, 1954. 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 still reside. We have seven children: June, Mrs. Irvin Odegard of Left to right: Mrs. Semple, holding baby Ruth (Page), Jac[...]1915 Michael, Janet and Peggy of the family home. We have some farm land but Ronnie also raises cattle[...]Red Angus bulls. Besides the original home place we The 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[...]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 married at Scobey in 1934 and lived with rai[...]ie Semple Pelo. In 1933, Arthur Harold'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 Billi[...]s is a registered letter, Semple land in addition to their own. stamped Novem[...]in Great dollar bill and had been sent to me by my brother Walter, Falls in 1952. There are[...]ool in the A&P aircraft Pacific Ocean and we thought the mail was lost forever. mechanic's cou[...]and The Postal Department reimbursed me for the money, and Gary farm the Semple homestead and[...]e. Thomas and readable, and none the worse for having spent nine attends Flaxville in grade four[...]Harold was born at St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1912 to Mr. and Mrs. Nick Weber. After his father had spent a year Edward Wrona came to Flaxville in 1918. He was among south of Flaxvill[...]farmed near Flaxville. Horse trading and son came to this country in an immigrant car, and they was ano[...]married Meta Buethe of Velva, North Dakota. We had six I was born at Riverside, Montana in 191[...]aret Darvak, Klamath Falls, the Joseph Legare's). This was a little town about five Oregon[...] |
| [...]edding picture taken November 16, 1921. Portland for nine years. Clarence is a carpenter foreman. |
| [...]post office. They had the store and post office for 19 years surrounding rolling prairies west of Scobey were known towhen they retired and went to live in Oregon. They have early fur traders and map-makers as Whiskey Buttes. They since passed a way. are to be found by that name in old geography books and[...]lma and daughters War Department. The Indian name for them was Shonka Donna and Norma Jean. Norman and Hilma still run the Tinga meaning "big dog stables." The Plains Indians had store and post office. Norman also farms. The daughters no name for their 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 exchanged "fire water" for the fur_:, . · Jught by Indian 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[...]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.[...] |
| [...]your I H::'e -this, in addition to all ,t he : "''The ,Complete Country Store'' ; st[...]nventory on ' 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[...]weather bother you. There'll still ,a re looking for when you come \ be plenty of planting weather · in, j,ust holler, and we'll hunt , ye,t. _ . for it together. It's bound to be i Drug Sundries[...]Some Hot News asp irins to horse liniment. Cos- Norman Mere. offers . y[...]. School supplies. Shoe CASH purchases amounting to findings (that mea:is la_ces, pol- $10 or more. This is effective im- ish , s'hoe taps etc.). ,Also ma[...]it was the country general store, Just to g·ive you some idea of just like this one, ,t hat big, mod- the things we have around here, em drugstores are pat.terned ! we list the foll~wing-by no a•:'ter.[...]Here you 'll find sheet bl•ank- ery~ horses . This is also the ,· ets'. double blankets, Bates n:a[...]things, you know), sheets and first a :d station for man or >V .•>·· -[...]-.<--->"-" "· l'" things are scarce, but we have Guess tha,t 's all for now. s~ e ; r:·· 'em. Ready-to-Wear[...]tes, Mont. stoc·k of work gloves. Many , ' items for the ladies, too. · ! Eig-ht miles wes[...]Norman Johnson paints. Complete line of ,hand1lcs for forks, shovels, axes, ham- mers, e_tc. Household[...]rious local organizations. In 1918 the ladies met to do the knitting for the Red Cross. In 1926 several families met to organize a club to further community enterprise.[...]county competition. Uniforms for the Little League were children, Kelly and Lori,[...]family lived in Four Buttes for a few years and he ran the The Four Buttes scho[...]ed on gas truck for the elevator. Doyon's farm, two miles north of Fo[...]The first oil well in this area was drilled on the Otto Audet was the teache[...]dry hole in 1953. Otto moved his house and family to moved there, and Leo Zuck was the first teacher a[...]our Buttes and farmed until his health forced him to location. The school was in operation until 1967.[...]in closing of the school the children were bussed to Scobey. Billings and s[...]as three children, Wayne, building and it is used for community affairs.[...]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[...]two miles. They came here in 1941. Alfred worked for[...]ked during the dam boom days. Their children went to[...]patrolman in this area. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Thieven. We bought the Four Buttes[...]Tavern from John and Ida Miller in August, 1963. We Ii ved Badger farm at Four Buttes[...]in our trailer house beside the bar. We did some remodeling,[...]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 place. We have three children Willie, Michel and times of t[...]in Four Buttes, by Tiny Puckett, the mail carrier for 26 years. It used to be a having moved here in 1947 to be near their farming treat for the children to ride the train between the towns on interests[...]eonard is the son of the late Pete the branch and for a means of transportation when the Va[...]e passenger Madoc. Their son James went to school in Four Buttes. car has been taken off and[...]depot there were several_depot in the army for three years in 1959. He was stationed at agents a[...]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 1957 we were able Buttes though they live across the road. They are early-day to get television, one of the last areas in the nati[...]There are more an~ more young people coming back to settle on farms after bemg out in the world for a few years. High ways an~ roads are goo_d and vehicles are plentiful in this roomy, big sky, clean air county of ours.[...] |
| [...]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[...]and Randy. Mel has been employed at the elevator for twenty A Home Demontration Club was or[...]John and Ida Miller have lived in Four Buttes for 16 secretary-treasurer. Some of the meet[...]ed in the evenings. Since few of the bar and cafe for several years. Their main pastime is ladies were able to drive, the husbands and children came fishing in[...]had their meetings. Their meetings were from May to Pennsylvania. Also a daughter Lorraine Chapman and October. This club was disbanded in the early 1940's. her husba[...]uhring, and Mrs. Alfred Ostby, and Rusty all went to elementary school here, and on to who was also charter member of the forme[...]District was abandoned. Card parties are given for its up- Helena. Howard's oldest daughter, Lorna,[...]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 a[...]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 p[...]ho also Buttes was the first teacher in this area, teaching in a small came for the mail. He married Laura Levang from the[...]rriet gave an acre of her homestead land on which to elementary schooling at Four Buttes, graduated fr[...]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[...]d 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. Sid passed away i[...]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[...]members what a great set of maps Steve has worked for the elevator for several years and is the school had and a l[...]ride in maintaining a "Superior" Lothair, Montana to manage the Farmers Elevator. They rated school and to do this not only was the building well[...] |
| [...]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[...]a Suchy. maintained and equipped but they had to keep well |
| [...]later years Ruth Shiell, and a banana. This lady informed me that she lived across Eunice Shi[...]was a Mrs. Grimes. Her husband worked for the Westland The Gilchrist School which became[...]Oil Company. abandoned in 1946 and was annexed to Four Buttes Eventually the tra[...]the snow grew deeper and the wind seemed to blow harder. For many years the school, the horse barn and school[...]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 Superi[...]or the other but after climbing two never seemed to flourish. flights of stairs we entered a very small office at the front of[...]introduced me to, Mrs. Knapp who was to become my life[...]ND 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[...]hers' 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[...]. 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 the post office where I informed M[...]old me it was a desirable school so I had applied to the to be certain I would get my mail. He told me I had no County Superintendent and was given a contract for nine cause for worry on that score because Mr. and Mrs. Jim mont[...]iging people anyone could 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 we changed trains at whose thoughtful wif[...]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 s[...]trail over the prairie we went. Mrs. Evenson and three little Claire Weber[...]cher in 1927. girls anxious to meet their new teacher greeted me and I[...]meals and hospitality I was to enjoy that year in their[...]On Monday morning, early, we went to school. This[...]f books, etc. and playground equipment and a barn for the horses of the children who drove to school. This school was well furnished and clean. The usual[...]nit( a /.art of this school because this schoolhouse had a[...]were a little shorter for the first and second graders. The[...]horse hitched to a green cart. The horse was named Pinto.[...]It was about two miles to school. Pinto could always be[...] |
| These were the children entrusted to my care for nine Knapp's daughter, Esther Peters, accompanied her and the months. We decorated the schoolroom to create a homey, children hoped she would accompany her often. She pleasant place to be. The children brought (what they told sparked[...]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 sayi[...]a windy day in October Mrs. Evenson, good-nite, we will meet in the morning light, may angels the girls and I went to Peerless to attend their first fair. guard us while we sleep. Good-nite, good-nite boys and Peerless was[...]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. toi[...]wn and then I sat After viewing the exhibits, we walked around up town. down to correct papers, make lesson plans, etc. Time Several concessions were set up. We saw one man who, we passed quickly and it was soon time to go home. were sure, was a "tin-horn gambler" moved in for the day. The Evenson girls usually stayed and walked home with We could have been very wrong of course. So much for the me unless I had a lot of work to do and then they went on Peerless Fair of 1927! instead. It was a lovely time to walk with the meadow larks The days grew shor[...]s and wild flowers snows came. There were storms. We prepared ourselves to by the wayside. In the fall the golden wheat wa[...]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 everyo[...]ghbors 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 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[...]sion 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[...]hildren: Margaret who loved planting the crops). We left early and everyone was dressed to read everything she could find, Alice who was going to up. Before noon "the rains came", and what a rain. It be a nurse, Morraine the spokesman and reporter for the lasted all day. Going home Mrs. Robbin and M[...]m real --like the time she lost her rain and mud for help and ruined their new spring outfits. hat and[...]e "Indian" stole it Mr. Evenson came in by truck for his family. So much for when it must have blown down the road at recess;[...]a Christmas one. The The books were checked out, wraps located, house plants usual preliminaries[...]d the door -- another key had been decided upon. For this play a wardrobe of clothes was provided. needed.[...]pupils brought props and clothes. All was chicken for supper. Early Saturday morning my trunk and in or[...]r rain set in, bags were loaded on the sleigh and we went to Four Buttes and it was still raining on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon a where I took the train to Scobey to continue on my way to car was noticed parked by the schoolhouse. Not mu[...]ook on many passengers at Four attention was paid to it, but on Monday morning when the Buttes. Mrs. Robbins was taking a suitcase of butter to sell teacher arrived to unlock the door, she found to her to her lucky butter customers in Scobey, several others surprise it was unlocked. She found to her dismay that were going in to shop and take care of business matters. someone h[...]ride the train home again in the late afternoon. for the bookroom, the basement, her desk and any othe[...]hich were in the basement, cups, etc. were taken. To all appearances a man, woman and child had spent[...]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,[...] |
| [...]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[...]a kidney ailment in the early winter of returned to Scobey in 1970. 1915. This was a sad event to take place so soon after After my dad sold our farm in 1924 to Albert Bernard he settling in a new way of life. came to Scobey and worked for the city until he retired We had the experiences of all the early settlers. Gl[...]ie 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 h[...]ad many friends who enjoyed her a quick, hot fire for biscuits, we would go out and gather fresh bread and tea in the afternoons.[...]1938. She never regained consciousness and horses for the neighbors.[...]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[...]T 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.[...]st 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[...]rried in September 1926. He ran the cream station for a while and then he and Art Elvude had the City D[...]ood 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 a[...]ne 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[...]orty. Bill worked at Greengards Clothing Store for many years and then moved to southern Montana and northern Wyoming. He worked[...]and met and married Marie Hagfeldt. They had one son, Delno. Bill had one son Gerald and a daughter Denise by a previous marriage to Selma Javenager. He worked at Wedums Store in Gla[...]t Peck Dam days. Then he and his family went back to southern Montana and made their home in Billings[...]esmen in northeast Montana. Marie's work took her to Denver, Colorado. They moved there where Bill die[...]om high school I worked at Mike Skadron's Grocery for four years. I worked at the Rex Theatre three summers and for a short time for Wyvil The Audet family origin[...] |
| [...]aPierre, Alexina had a nights lodging, for which we never had a set price, Butler, Alice LaPierre, Am[...]hey bought their the money under his plate. We remember most of all their farm from the David Brothers in 1924. Before this they great horse hide, buffalo, and shee[...]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, who[...]e -posts, barb wire, coal, groceries, has worked -for - Leibrands for 29 years; Gertrude flour, barrels of[...]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, Massachusetts; common cause. We can remember many of these people Joan Sell, Hele[...]ldren. They moved night. All were glad to be inside where it was warm, as an from the farm[...]sparsely populated area was not a healthy place to be in The original house still stands at the f[...]he stormy night. Frenchmen have always been known for their happy, fun~ So, in this way we passed many years, some better than loving nature[...]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 moon[...]ELIZABETH BALDRY The John Baldry family came to Daniels County from |
| [...]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 B[...]Horace Baldry married Patricia McGuire in 1946. To this their homestead land, six more children were born to them: union were born two girls and two boys. The[...]1951. They have two boys and one girl. They were, for many years, in the restaurant business. They now[...]They have three daughters and one son. Doug works for the U.S. Government at the Hawthorne Naval Base at Hawthorne, Nevada. This s,tory would not be complete without a tribute to our pioneer folks. Mother, Elizabeth Ann Endicott[...]er, John Pernie Baldry from Groton, South Dakota. We remember mother's blind faith in people that right and honesty would win out in the end, and her patience to no end in such trying times of our days in Montan[...]heat, along with the dirt and ashes. · Sometimes we burned cow chips in the friendly old cook stove,[...]sacks and a gentle saddle horse or wheel barrow, we boys a few months later was with the American Forces under picked many chips for fuel. So, through sickness good and General[...]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 c[...]re schools, churches and roads. Although he loved to trade horses, he was not a greedy man, and al way[...]"if it· was used right 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, "Boys, you[...]on bad from a sheep and if you stay home and care for them November 26, 1942. they'll take care of you". In his twilight years he loved to talk · about the early days with the freight tea[...]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[...] |
| William Bernard family. Left to rig t standing: Joseph Bernard, Jean Manley, Arth[...]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[...]tal following two and one-half years of treatment for an incurable Mr. and Mrs. Adrian B[...]orby) and Joslyn and six grandchildren. Joseph, son, married Bessie Larsen, died May 2, 1971 in the Sc[...]of two sons and four daughters: Arthur, married to Stella Erstad. They have one son William. They fa[...]nding 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-c[...] |
| in his pocket. He came west to Saskatchewan, spending the winter at Estevan, the[...]icap, 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 Plentywood in 1912 was like most prairie towns, s[...]ie and sparsely populated; and since she was used to thickly populated areas, this seemed really "wild and wooly". She worked on the Peter Marron ranch and applied for a homestead. Since she didn't spend the required three years on her homestead s[...]arried in Plentywood on July 15, 1915. They moved to Bainville, where he had a homestead. After about[...]iving 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[...]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[...]life visiting his children and taking in Scobey for a number of years before moving back to their occasional trips back to California. He died in January farm, where[...]er 1941 and served no details remain with us to tell. for four years -- forty-two months being spent in the[...]he is survived by his wife. Kathleen was married to F.E. Adams in Sidney in January 1942; her husband[...]na, an area passed away in July 1966. She has one son, a student at called the "Flat" was prime h[...]lcoxon long before early settlers moved in to take advantage ofit. in July 1940; her husband wa[...]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[...]tled southwest of Four Buttes, the headed for Old Scobey. From Old Scobey he travelled the farm[...]phy's and is now owned by twelve miles to his Uncle Chartier's place on foot. In that Alfre[...]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 mar[...]Gilch;rist and her two sisters, Harriet brothers, to Montana. Charles came in 1909, Arthurin 1910 and Effie. It was this winter when my granddad returned and Leo in 1913. The three nephews homesteaded near to Minnesota, that my mother and Aunt Effie s[...] |
| [...]paper sash and my school girl reputation fell to the floor. sons Bill and Clay, to live here. In the early yea[...]of his school board membership my mother's place for a few years. at the[...]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 naturali[...]farmers at the time were proved up his claim, and for the sum of$410.00 purchased mechanically[...]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[...]estead where the farm "torn down" and we worried 'til departure time whether the remains today. Moving about like this created many car would be back in r[...]rlier 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 time. Scobey. Others on the "Flat" were[...]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 w[...]Mother was a good homemaker and tried to teach her[...]daughters the skills. Sewing, which was basic for most was not for her and it wasn't until her third child did she b[...]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 yo[...]gether in 1914, spending a winter alone in a want to milk, then fine". But there always were some[...]a laundry stove, which chores that required doing for need's sake, like picking they also cooked on. For amusement they played cards and potatoes after dad dug them. The wind seemed to always went to dances. Mrs. Bill Reik entertained the young blow[...]Mrs. Chicoine and joy was her kitchen coal range. We used to shine it remembers how the mail carrier, the late Jim Wolfe, used to often and it provided us with warmth and that sense of pick up the various items in town for the homesteaders, on security, when dad would be gone and didn't arrive home request, and leave them i[...]ather us around it that was used for a mail box. Mrs. Chicoine often left a note (some[...]the best seat in the house--the asking for sewing supplies, and left the money to pay for oven door), and with coals glowing red, she would[...]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 mothe[...]ainment was there. Along with the paying for the supplies himselfl school programs, dances wer[...]fun was card playing where often managed to make a Ii ving. The large ranchers were real the[...]henever 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 an[...]her homesteader a job in preference to a drifter. In the early never outgrew her love of[...]here were a lot of horses running loose belonging to relatives from out-of-state visited, it required a trip to the Shipstead, Taylor Green, Mose Tingley, Butler, Fadness, Truax Ranch for a look at the buffalo, or a picnic at the[...]ande. Most ranchers were on creek bottom. All had to neighbors and area relatives got together for big dinners fence their fields against[...]cared for the sheep. There were no sod shacks on the flat.[...]. 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[...]ellow came here and offered us grandchildren grow to adulthood. money to let him hide whiskey in our granaries. We Both mother and dad died in 1970, mother in Ma[...]; and Phyllis Lar- full of thistles. We went to get equipment to get it out, but son, Cypress, California. when we got back it was gone.[...]eaching Old Scobey in 1910, and asking directions to- his uncle's (Zabe Chartier's) place. Jake[...]ngs. Charles Chicoine, who had come a year before to pick out the homesteads had a shack. Emma[...]harnessed up three of the animals and were trying to drive them around. One time; after helping a ne[...]d up a sweat while digging the well, was so close to freezing that he was unable to get off his horse when he finally reached the Otto Smith place. They heard his calls for help and took him in. Another event Art rem em he[...]l. 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[...]Colfax, North Dakota bound for Four Buttes. Carl was to[...]It took us three days to make the trip. We were driving a[...]Model T Ford. In spite of the bad roads, we made the trip[...]without any car trouble. Sometimes we had a little trouble[...]few gravek~ roads. The third night we spent in Plentywood. The next day we arrived in Scobey, registered[...]at a hotel, and then drove to Four Buttes.[...]and no trees. It seemed as though we had reached the end of[...]civilization. Four Buttes didn't help our lonely feeling very[...]e years, I remember my father playing a harp, and we still have the harp in the family. With Jim at th[...]y-day barn dances in the Peerless vicinity. Going to the dance was a full-day affair. The kids also got to go and Mother took along blankets so Four Buttes - Fall of 1926 that we could be bedded down on the hay. We would leave home in the early afternoon with the[...]Scobey in 1933, Lined up, waiting to be unloaded, were several trucks followed by the[...]y as a Drummer Carl managed somehow to get the trucks unloaded - Boy in Wisconsin at age[...], he saw many parts of the country pencil. We managed to find some paper to keep records, as a soldier, having engaged in many skirmishes with then back to Scobey for supplies. troublesome bands of Indians hostile to the westward I didn't want to spend my days in Scobey because there movement of[...]was really afraid. John H. (Jack) Conroy moved to Wisconsin in 1942 and I would spend the[...]ere other members of sitting in the car. We had our meals in Martha Shrank's his family lived[...]cook-car. She was cooking for the crew that was building James H. (Jim) and[...]ir eight children moved the other elevator. to Seattle in 1942. Jim died in 1955 and Irene passe[...]back to Scobey became increasingly more tiresome. So we Seven of their children remain in the vicinity[...]pstairs in the store buildinf: and Emily returned to Montana to live. She and her husband batched there. It wasn't finished so we used blankets over are retired ranchers and live[...]s in Seattle; Mary Jo's husband shaping up. We had a train that we called tri-weekly - it is with the city-county department in Seattle. went to Opheim on Monday and tried all week to get back. All eight of the children are marrie[...]he next spring the elevator company built a house for but that is another generation, and perhap[...] |
| So we settled into the routine of work, raising our fam[...]e were good years and Dakota before coming here. He butchered for Sam Burgess then came the rough years of the "Dir[...]sections and also butchered together. turning out fine after the bad years. During the winter of 1918 he went back to Neche, North Then Carl met with an accident in[...]31 married Birdie Crotty, recently him his life. This happened on May 28, 1943. of 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.[...]Jack butchered throughout the country for friends and Dakota; Carmen (Mrs. Jerry Niederhauser) and family live neighbors for years; he also had a grain threshing rig. at Medicine Lake, Montana; Jay and his family are in To this marriage seven children were born. Mary died in B[...]Silver Star cemetery. Four Buttes was our home for many years - We found Doloris married Arnold Paulson[...]nold ran th happiness and friends there and altho we also went A & J Blacksmith Shop in Sc[...]Rita was married to Alvin Levang in 1944. They bought[...]Rita and Frances John is married to Dorothy Feltis of Peerless (194 7). He[...]butcher by trade and Bernard was married to Margie Nakken in 1949. He works for the Burlington Northern Rail o d at Great Falls.[...]Gerald is married to Clara Olson of Tioga, North Dakota.[...]He is a salesman for Kea ting's Furniture Store in Williston.[...]moving into Scobey in 1934 to attend high school.[...]of July celebrations in Scobey, and going to church every[...]been in the Nursing Home in Scobey for the past two years.[...]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[...]thirty years. For the first few years he spent the winters[...]homestead was to plant a grove of trees, which grew well.[...]By this time he had built a two-story house which was[...]almost ready for occupancy. They had four daughters:[...] |
| [...]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[...]es, later moving further up the Butte Creek where we had put the buildings and had fenced for pasture. The Lewis and May Flickenger with twins[...]family lived there until 1946 when they moved to Scobey on twins birthday. Back row left to right: Hazen Flickenger into the Morrow house. (In 1948 they moved to Plains, Jr., Haze'! D. Flickenger, Opal (Flickeng[...]ve that he was fortunate in having Mrs. Lulu left to right: Dale Flickenger, Nina (Flickenger) Walstad Audet as one of his teachers here. He went on to earn a Mary Anne (Flickenger) Omuig, Bryan's daug[...]LCHRIST FAMILY Chris and Kathryn Gebhardt came to the Scobey Elmer Dougla~ Gilc[...]d |
| [...]n 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 still lots of time for fun--dances, ball wife and sons, William E. (Bill[...]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[...]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[...]Clay Gilchrist beautiful brick home for a homesteader's shack on the barren prairies. Few people who knew this ambitious, hard-working, very capable "Grandma",[...]rst summer in Montana she sat and made rose beads out of wild roses by the hour! They built a large two[...]she painted herself. A few years later it burned to the ground, with nothing salvaged but a drawer fu[...]. Some photographers traveling in the area wanted to make movies of them, but the Gilchrists wo[...] |
| [...]to farming and ranching, Bill tried his hand at rais[...]mules, sheep, greyhounds for hunting coyotes, coon[...]nearest timber to be used in construction of the clubhouse,[...]to this union: Douglas, Delbert, Lorraine and Alice. They[...]They moved to Peerless in 1937 so the children could[...]e she resided until her death 1938. They lived for a time in Poplar and Frazer. Lorraine in 1951.[...]rtha, living in Scobey. His son Delbert, the land for the Gilchrist School and was the first teacher[...]le, Scobey; Dennis Gilchrist, wife Ginger and son to Daniels County in 1915 with his parents. He was n[...]homa; Mrs. Orville (Cheryl) 21, so could not take out a homestead. Two years later, he Novak, Robert[...]he was born at Hills, Minnesota on July 17, 1894, to Arne and Gusta va Moen Hendrickson. She first came to Scobey[...]and noisy party· given to newlyweds. People came with[...]dunked in the water tank for good measure. Afterward all William (Bill)[...]ilchrist - 1920 gathered in the house to enjoy the lunch they brought and[...]Clay A. Gilchrist came to Montana with his family in[...]was responsible for the Horse Quadrille which made a big[...]In 1924 he leased land and started to build a futur.e for[...]at this time. Married in 1925 to Beatrice Sullivan, they lived west of[...]and works for Lockheed. Clay A. Gilchrist is in Spokane,[...] |
| Washington. He is a plant foreman for Calkins Implement Company. Fae Ann Gilchrist live[...]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 Popla[...]rene living on the "Flat", a term associated with this area. and Pete are deceased. Although J[...]They resided in Portland, Oregon for 25 years but have With the advent of the depression, drought, recently moved to Scobey where they are making their grassho[...] |
| [...]s on incidents of the past. He feels so fortunate to have played a part in molding some of Daniels Cou[...]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[...]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[...]Kermit spent two years working for Consolidated[...]hen enlisted in the U.S. Airforce where he served for three born. The twins are Donna and Dorothy. Donn[...]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[...] |
| [...]business at Fairview, Montana. He sold out and returned to farming at Scobey with his son, Dean. Olive still continues to teach and is presently teaching at Fairview.[...]I came to Scobey in the spring of 1914 with my mother,[...]We 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[...]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[...]r College at at the Scobey schools for two years. Glendive, Montana. He married Myrna French of Flaxville After we were married we lived for one year in San Diego, and they have two children[...]ears at the 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[...]is wife, is a In the spring of 1966 we moved into Scobey and Bud beautician along with her domestic activities. worked for Leibrand's Plumbing and Electrical Shop for Diane graduated from the National Business College ?f one year. He then went to Highway Patrol School and is Rapid City South Dak[...]oyed with the Montana Highway Patrol. Great Fall~ for two and a half years. She married Trent His[...]are living in Park daughter Alisha was born. We moved there in January, City, Montana where Trent[...]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[...]e animals through the stove pipe hole in the roof for originally came from Chicago, Illinois to North Dakota. five days until he could get the door shoveled out. After the death of two children[...] |
| decided the big city was not the place to raise a large Wheat, oats and flax was seeded. Father owned the only family. But this was not the answer for his restlessness. 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 their reports this seemed the ideal dream he end up doing the cooking. Men cooks never stayed more had searched for. He then moved his family to Montana. A than a few days, I supposed[...]ch young Englishman, Harry Lewis, who was working for party for poorly prepared food. As time passed on there him[...]look back with nostalgia and think how fortunate we Much of the land has changed hands by now, however were to have been in Daniels County as early settlers and to Sid's widow, Laura, lives on his original homeste[...]M.A. LaMotte of St. Marie, Illinois came to Scobey on the[...]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),[...]Later in the summer they decided to move closer to Butte[...]Marion and Daisy's 50th Wedding Anniversary. Left to right: Margaret, Mildred, Marion, Daisy, Tony and[...]eth taken May machine and did threshing for all the neighbors around. In 17, 1935.[...]they also In 1945 he sold the homestead to his son, Aime Carrier, farmed and ranched on the flat for several years. Their and moved back to Quebec where he built a new home. He children are[...]s. Keith loved card games with his friends. For many years they Norby) of Sidney, Montana; and Joslyn (Mrs. John would come back to Scobey to pass the summers here. Mrs. Murphy) of Yakima, Washington. Mauric[...] |
| [...]was also one of the first farmers to use a crawler-type[...]e on the old homestead people were present to work, observe, offer advice, and eat during the s[...]d 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[...]son, manager of Four Buttes elevator 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 prairie. For 20 years Selmer In 1915 Selmer broke one-half s[...]Farmer's Elevator and Four Buttes community, and this land was farmed expedited the considerable job of getting materials to continuously by him for 60 years. In 1916 a partnership rebuild th[...]of construction sections of land were purchased. This partnership lasted materials. Nelson was a[...]many Elizabeth Brown Nelson, known to everyone as winters at the Ford Garage which was[...]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. Charle[...]as his threshing crew which he operated from 1916 to were living in Scobey when they c[...] |
| [...]er of the St. Philip's Catholic Church. She also, for many years, was in the Scobey PTA, the Hospital G[...]cobey in August, 1975. Seven children were born to their marriage. Sister Claudia (Ilamae) is a musi[...]By Berniece Norman We moved to town the next year, as Lula was in the[...]eighth grade and the teacher wasn't able to teach her the I was only nine months old when I came to the Four required subjects. That spring we moved back to the Buttes area in 1916. To my knowledge my Dad had come country and I went to school at the Gilchrist School by the year before and filed on a homestead where we lived horse and buggy or horseback, and wh[...]children: 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 1932. could continue our education. We came from Dubuc, Saskatchewan, Canada. My dad[...]who is 86 years of and his family had immigrated to Canada from Minnesota age, lives in the D[...]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 ocean liner for Hull, England. The North Sea was very stopped aga[...]er the weather. Three days later we landed 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[...]n 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[...]t teacher. All of us children went I worked for a farmer before I met and married Elmer. there in[...]. Norman, and we live near Scobey.[...] |
| [...]Genevieve to Montana. This time they brought livestock Alfred Ostby arriv[...]s and started their first home in Montana. This first year homestead was located by what was then[...]This crop was harvested and hauled to Scobey to an Alfred returned to his home at Sheyenne, North Dakota elevator. From that year the Ostbys continued to break up in July and was united in marriage to Genevieve Seastrand land and farm this homestead until they retired in 1957 on July 6, 1[...]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[...]ross 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 |
| [...]iek 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, f[...]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[...]miles west of the original townsite of Scobey. We had a few chickens and they were forever being at[...]I married Virginia Gilbert in December, 1927. We have two sons. H. Gilbert Riek is a veterinari[...]20, 1892. Both Martin and Annie In 1936 I went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture with the Soil[...]e 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 Martin's brother the Yucatan. The past two years we have stayed in the Alfred died in 1932. They then moved to his place where Phoenix, Arizona area, Apache Junction to be specific. they lived until moving in[...]They lived in this house in Scobey their remaining years.[...]for General Electric. Martin Rustebakke was born at[...]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. J. RYDING started out from Thief River Falls on the first of October in[...]drick Jennings of Rugby, North Dakota, became the to Westby before they had to abandon the Model T. They bride of Carl Ryding, son of Andrew and Louise Peterson took the train to Four Buttes where Martin's brother Ted[...] |
| [...]In 1930 Carl was transferred to Four Buttes for Winter- Truesdell-Dierks and felt fortunate to have a job as the[...]depression was setting in. There wasn't a crop to cut in the[...]- back to gasoline lanterns, and the family became[...]accustomed to a rural life, of raising a large garden and[...]Carl and Amelia lived in Four Buttes for six years, then moved to Glasgow. They frequently returned to visit their[...]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[...]Four Buttes on Spring with her parents by ox team to North Dakota in 1895 where Creek. her father,[...]al schools there. band of sheep to the Police Creek area where they wintered Carl was born in 1881, in Norway, of Swedish parents and came to America when he was nine months old. His parents homesteaded along the Wild Rue River, out ofT•P~~[...]. In the intervening y, ; four children were born to this union: Alpha, now Mrs. 1 ; Bening of St. Maries,[...]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 Winter-Truesdell-Dierks. The com1 .: shipp[...] |
| [...]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[...]tes 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 us[...]THE SMITH FAMILY returned for the salt the following June and the barrels were[...]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[...]he 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. br[...]outfit. In 1912 Ole sold his ranching interests to his brother They farmed for several years before selling their interests Henry, moved up on the bench, took out a homestead and and moved a way.[...] |
| [...](Thielke) Rangbacher of Fort and Sophia by boat to Canada. They settled there in a town Peck, M[...]mportant Good eve three more children were added to the family, achievements in the area was[...]h hangs in the Museum at Fort Peck. They moved to Montana in 1913 in what is now called Clarence died in 1948. Julia then was employed for seven Daniels County. They settled on their home[...]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[...]aret 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 basket socials and dances at our school. We had one of moved to Glasgow only about a month before her death at t[...]ist 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.[...]also di<;l mostly farm work here and took out a homestead in Manitoba, Canada.[...]s. Sophia passed away in 1960. She was married to Ernest Halvorson. They had four children, first w[...]ed in car accident in 1958. Beverly is married to Richard Kennedy. They have four children, two boy[...]spent only a little time here, and then went to Casper,[...]By Margaret Sundby to Norway for the girl he left behind when he came to the United States. I came to Casper and we were married in Kate Thielke, a widow and profe[...]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[...]oys had no experience in In 1927 we started back to Montana from Amarillo, farming whatsoever. They l[...]After arriving in cousins, the Gilchrists, hoping to gain some knowledge of Montana we leased the Lystad farm south of Four Buttes, farming before striking out on their own. It takes more as the Lystads had to move to a different climate for health than a short apprenticeship to learn the business of reasons. A few years later we bought the farm, had two farming. The boys and th[...]problems. One was with the deep well they drilled for Ada and Mickey Whitlow, their four c[...]ived on the farm since 1950 the well was crooked. This was about 1917. 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.[...]oast in the service. In the fall 1973, they moved to Glasgow. In April, 1974 Kenny wa~ killed in a pic[...]and now in Comm1ss10ner and reelected for a second term in a race Scobey all these years since coming to Montana. It was ~ith Charlie Jones in 1928. The vote ended up so close that quite a change to come from the mountains of Norway to a it took a recount to determine that dad had won by three flat place such as this, but I have loved every day ofit and votes. I[...]By Anna Tonjum road to Four Buttes and the Wagner "kids" all learned how[...]to swim in what we called "our" swimming hole. When my[...]1911. In 1918 moms sister Ahce Wolterstorff came out from Minnesota he was married to Annette Wolterstorff in St. Paul, in the early ye[...]Gilchrist school. My Minnesota and they returned to the flat to establish a father bought more land from H.J. Chr[...]children, Carol, Joyce, Things seemed to be going fine. During those yea;s Merlyn and Euge[...]nces were held. One Saturday first automobiles in this area. He also established the store night in Nove[...]and my dad's violin and headed for the Gilchrist school to[...]join in the fun. About midnight my dad wanted to come[...]s gone from a coronary heart attack. He was 54 at this Carol, Merlyn and Joyce.[...]here. Her brother Gordon Wolterstorff helped her for a time. We lost Merlyn in a car accident in 1952. This was[...]farming for Mom and after we lost him Mom sold the[...]farms; the homestead on the flat to Jim Shipstead and the Christ~nson place to Norman Johnson. My mother passed[...] |
| [...]ittenberg, Germany on November 11, 1865. She came to the United States when Sherd cut, made plenty of feed for our livestock. We mined she was twelve years old. During her teen y[...]and diamond willows from the river banks for kindling, we continued for eleven years. Her stage name was Stella kept comfortably warm in our two room shack.We also had Keene. 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 of Iowa, so those first Montana in 1[...]t of Four Buttes and years I got lonesome 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[...]cobey. We had no doctor in the country and I enjoyed helpin[...]of art. homesteading neighbors, including two for my 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 hom[...]By this time the country was beginning to get quite well[...]Fork from us. We had many enjoyable times at card[...]We started a band of sheep by getting bum lambs from[...]ht school there our 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[...]ome of the homesteaders began leaving the country we homestead twelve miles north of Scobey. When I arrived I bought up their claims for grazing and farming land. went to work for the Mansfield Daniels as a housekeeper. In 1940 Sherd ran for state senator on the Republican The Daniels had a[...]e in ticket. His campaign was successful. We spent that winter Old Scobey.[...]in Helena during the legislative After working for the Daniels for two years I filed on a se sions. In 1944 Sherd ran again, unsuccessfully, for the homestead on West Fork of Poplar River in the spring of Senate. In 1948 he was elected to the Senate and we spent 1916.[...]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[...]spend the summer months in Scobey and the cowboy for Si Merrill and the Erickson brothers.[...]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 first started our married life we had three nine children were grown. Ray pass[...]half years ago. which my brother had given us for a wedding present. The Our son Ross married Alice Blanc in July, 1940. They first year we planted thirteen acres of oats which yield[...] |
| [...]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" area southwest 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, wher[...]ld graduated from high school. In 1935 they moved to[...]young. Lydia still "helps out" making candy for a local John remained on his homestead and in 1[...]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 wife live in Pa[...]MRS. THORBJORN GROTTE or streams, the usual site for picnics. John and Lydia had one son, John Jr. (Jack) and reared As told to Ruth Hanrahan their nephew Gerald Smith from the[...]· About 1912 Thorbjorn Grotte came out to Scobey where Jack spent his first years of scho[...]bjorn 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[...] |
| [...]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[...]JAMES A. SHIPSTEAD FAMILY Dakota to bring his wife, the former Hilda Westby. They came to Poplar by train with four horses, cows, chickens,[...]uite In 1948 he married Barbee Robertson. To them were born surprised to see cattle grazing at large. She was drivi[...] |
| [...]s R. was the first baby boy born in He is married to the former Mary Ann Bruhn of Wolf the n[...]ed as a missionary in Alaska. Onalee is married to Lyle Davison of Kildeer, North Kristi is married to a young Glasgow rancher, Alan Dakota. They[...] |
| [...]Theodore, single, built a good farm home for his parents[...]rs. Clare Ricker. first post office was in this home, and the old post office Later Tannehills to[...]Arnesons, Dennis McDowell, I.A. Whitetail Courier for 1918 has an ad for gopher poison sold Spencers, and the Charlie[...]p there. His wife, Martha, died here and he moved to Scobey. Barney C. Miller ran the Mrs. Schar[...]1914. lumber yard. This old store was the last building left standing in Julian for some years. Some here can remember when Bert Mend[...]n, serving the Whitetail-Flaxville-Julian circuit for the Methodist church, probably had his semi-monthly preaching services here. This work was discontinued in 1919 by reason of contin[...]was here several years before the land was opened to homesteaders. Only ranchers who had cattle or she[...]came, they were called "nesters". Said Hoke Smith to one homesteader: "We've got a new law in Montana; the nesters have got to roll up their fence when they leave."[...] |
| [...]D FAMILY Much of this material is taken from memory, so I can't[...]vouch for the accuracy of it. The Oscar Bilstad family arrived in this area in 1913,[...]One of the early settlers coming to the Daniels County[...]area was Fred E. Engberg, better known to his friends and[...]moved to this area from Crosby, North Dakota arriving in[...]March of 1910. They drove out here with two wagons[...]goods, and brought I grew up on the farm, went to Prairie School, and some horses and c[...]had their own hotel accommodations - a tent. home for a year to help with farm work. In the fall of 1930 I E[...]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[...]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[...]I worked as a been surveyed, but was not open for filing until 1913. chauffeur for a while, then worked in garages, and later for In those days cars were almost non-existan 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[...]ch married. In the spring of 1944 I was sent back to Montana work on a plow. Ed started with fo[...]king under orders of the War Manpower Commission, to operate plow. He had brought his horses with him from Canada, my widowed mother's farm for the duration of the war. In where he had farmed before. December of 1945 we returned to the Bay Area and I There were no[...]the coal was very near the surface. going to sell the farm. Taking vacation from mail service,[...]ending his winters in sunny California, came home to help her ready it for sale, but ended up far from the snow a[...]continuing in the mail service, renting the farm to Lyle. We had just bought a home in San Leandro, California[...]th on that. Feeding and clothing a family of five didn't leave us much money to HARRY P. AND JEANNETTE A. ENGBERG squande[...]Wisconsin said, "Daddy, wedon'thavemuchmoney, but we sure have in 1884, grew up around Litchfield, Minnesota and moved a lot of fun, don't we?" That was another of the moments in with his parents to Saskatchewan, Canada. There he met my life that I[...]y were In November of1950 I obtained a transfer to Turtle Lake, married at Weyburn, Saskatchew[...]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 home farm. We have lived here summer or early fall of[...]Canadian boundary line, in what is now Daniels We had four children. County. They lived with Harry's sister, Lillian, for a time. Phyllis, our oldest daughter, was kille[...]Later a neighbor, Oscar Bilstad, permitted them to use his accident a week before Easter in 1967, ne[...]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. Harr[...], 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 he[...] |
| [...]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[...]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 education, and attended high schoo[...]ter, Harriet, was a member of the T Ford. He had to go to Plentywood to get it. On the way first class graduated[...]my home he stopped at a stretch of open prairie to learn a little youngest sister, Lucile, was a[...]ial" grain all over again. When he again started for home, he could do separator, commonly called[...]ad a 10-20 Titan tractor, so they the family had to admire the new acquisition. It was a made a deal with him to furnish the power for the job of shipy black thing with brass radiator and head lights, 30 threshing. They planned to thresh the grain for only the by 3 inch tires in front, and 30 by 3½[...]her were smooth white rubber with no rough tread to grip the neighbors by threshing their gra[...]ad bought road. At the least 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[...]happy hours on it. I don't think it did too much for my sense Dad loved it. In a few years the "non-sk[...]es, mosquitoes, and flying ants were "looking up" for the automobile crowd. By 1917 or 1918[...]with big yellow wheels. Dad had a number of tools for John Deere tractor to pull it. The Rumley was not the fixing those earl[...]rs 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[...]s and a 40-acre tract, which brought his holdings to an During the summer of 1917 Dad had a new hou[...]wn blueprints. He it was none too much to support a family of seven. Rearing hired one of t[...], carpenter, and many of the neighbors pitched in to help even in those days. with the build[...]r 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[...]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 hardwood floor[...]here money back, saying that if th~y wanted to come to in the washroom, and a real stairway to the upstairs California they could do it on their own, they didn't have to rooms. So different from the ladder to the upstairs rooms in have their kids pay th[...]aster was not completely cured renter for the farm, and helped Mother get some money for when we moved in, so when Dad built a roaring fire in the[...]rating expenses, as Dad hadn't left a will. I had to old heating stove, the sudden drastic change in return to the Railway Mail Service or lose my seniority. temperature caused the plaster to crack in several places. A Mom continued to rent the farm, or hire someone to farm it man named Pearl Green did the plastering,[...]ool Harriet attended he was no longer in the area to repair the cracks ca used by Montana Normal[...]n and acquired a life the excess heat. The lumber for the house was purchased certificate for teaching school. She married Bernard from the Tur[...]Walter, also a teacher, and they moved to Tacoma, house was built over a full basement and[...]ck by a pickup and killed early one morning By this time I had started school, but I wasn't too thrilled while walking to their children's home. Harriet has retired. about[...]m high school he stayed at home and helped school for only three months -during the summer- beca[...] |
| [...]e rented the home place until 1954, when he moved to a ranch he bought near Big Timber, Montana. He later traded the ranch for some income property in Lewistown. He still lives[...]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,[...]oungest, 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[...]1850 cabin in Velva, North Dakota. Later we had a nice home and came to the United States at the age of six with his[...]My brother Theodore was the first one of us to come to made up of Wisconsin volunteers entirely, and lost his life Montana, and then my brother Jim, who worked for a in the service.[...]brother Julian, My mother, Carrie Knudson, came to the United States then about 16, came in 1902 and worked for various from Norway with her parents when she was three years ranchers. old. This girl, later to marry Erick Erickson, lived in a sod My pare[...]n, and 1910 by train from Velva, North Dakota to Poplar and the first postmistress in a pioneer to[...]from there by wagon. In 1912 Julian returned to Minot and full life, passing away in California i[...]was working for various ranchers in the vicinity.[...]rode to the top of a hill and saw, on the flat bel[...] |
| [...]Back to back seats were mounted inside the box. Mrs. Juli[...]1 In 1912 Julian returned to Minot and brought his wife[...]. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Erickson them, they decided to play at it. live in[...]e fall of 1903 a steam threshing machine set fire to educations. Their son Arthur, Jr. owns the old[...]THE ERNEST GAMPP FAMILY dragged along to smother the fire, to hold it down. The fire destroyed much land, and the following winter Ernest Gampp came to Montana in 1915 from Anthon, (1903-04) was a toug[...]Goldie Rhodes that same year and their disastrous to a band of 3,000 sheep being wintered there by[...]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[...]iles south of Four Julian Erickson also worked for Henry and Ole Buttes and began farm[...]frozen a quantity of cranberries in then went to Iowa and brought Leonard home. a small dugout beh[...]reat 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 m[...]owned and operated a brought over from Old Scobey to the point which later bakery of her own,[...]rent his first automobile. It brought the mail up to what later businesses over the years, the last being a variety store was to become Julian postoffice. It was a two cyl[...] |
| [...]eighbors shared their talents with each other and this[...]in Portland, Oregon for the past 32 years. She was married 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[...]d. 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.[...]d, 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 On[...]nage by Pastor B.L. Opdahl. appendecitis. She had to have an operation, but the doctor The cou[...]he couldn't be moved, so the operation would have to around. We went by Minneapolis, where we stayed and be done in their house.[...]ra and did some sightseeing. Andrew volunteered to help. He scrubbed and washed In Iowa, at Joice where we lived, Andrew worked at the walls, ceiling, and f[...]operation plumbing and other work, and there a son, Orville, was took place. The kitchen table became the operating table. born to us. In the latter part of May we began a trip to The doctor brought a nurse along and Andrew decided he Montana. We visited my parents and his relatives and better h[...]took his mine, also some friends, and went on to North Dakota to gun and went out looking for some prairie chickens. He got visit the Midbos near Northwood. It rained while we were home to his shack with two or three and cleaned and fried[...]ain. So our trip west was delayed, but at brought this up to the Anderson home. The operation was last we got on our way westward again. Orville, about ove[...]she recovered nicely. parents all the way to Montana from Iowa.[...]as the first week in June, 1923 that I first came to[...]We heard the coyotes wailing at night and when Andre[...]was out in the threshing Orville and I were alone and we[...]In the spring of 1924 we moved onto our own land. We[...]belonged to the Holland Loan Company at that time.[...]Before we could live on our own place Andrew had to buy[...]ll which became the barn; one house became a shop for[...]the house. While we lived here our second son, Theodore,[...]There was also the crop to put in that spring of 1924. The[...]anted 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[...]and taking in programs and socials in the newborn son, Kenneth. They had three other children,[...]and Beryl. They were all very young We also had new neighbors move in west of us. They w[...]the neighborhood and at school, which he started to gotten up and gone to help and the children would have attend[...]an Tong, Ruth Schlechter, Ruth others will recall this and who they were. Marriage,[...]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.[...] |
| [...]before Christmas. We enjoyed our new home. Andrew had[...]been in ailing health for a while and he passed away[...]He had been wanting to go to Norway to meet his aunts and cousins for a long time. We took supp lies along and we both painted there. We also had a trip to Stockholm, Sweden and enjoyed it very much. We have both exhibited[...]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 scenes for relaxation. The H usos came from farms nea[...]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 hi[...]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 small town which 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 th[...]ertain mostly the class. The Sunday School lasted for several years in the members of S.S. Huso's[...]120 acres - and there When the dry years came we sold our cattle and moved were six boys in[...]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[...]ed real homestead near Crosby. Knut, the second son, well. homesteaded near Draper, South Dakota. We moved into Scobey for three school years and the boys both graduated in[...]om high school and Theodore from grade school. We then went back to farming and from there Theodore could catch the school bus to Flaxville High School where he graduated. · Orville went to Concordia fall of 1940 and also went the next yea[...]Infantry. After the war was over Orville decided to go to the University of Montana and he graduated in 194[...]re 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 taugh[...]coach in some schools. In 1971 he was married to Patricia Lewis Demoulin, a Oscar Huso at Ke[...]Oscar, the third son, was more adventurous. At age Andrew and I moved into Scobey for the winters of 1952 eighteen, in the year 1906, he went to Canada, and filed on and 1953. In the summers we went back and forth to the a homestead land in Saskatchewa[...] |
| [...]ms he must have had a teepee in summer. But Oscar didn't farm in Canada. He worked out whenever he could. He did take out citizenship in Canada, and probably planned on farming later - maybe after he found a helpmate to share the home with him. He proved up in 1909 then left Saskatchewan for British Columbia, then Ketchikan, Alaska, then Seattle, then Crosby, North Dakota, then Plentywood, to get ready for homesteading in that state. It came when he was i[...]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 writes[...]'s the world using you fellows? Started threshing here. When you got to Plentywood will you get a roll of felt paper and[...]stayed on his land, trying to make it a permanent home. He[...]The others stayed till proved up, then rented to Oscar and[...]others around there. Reinert hung on to the property, and[...]d it till he died in 1948. After that it was sold to Charles[...]Oscar, Reinert, Joram, thought I should go out and help Oscar. By that time he and Eugene Both u[...]s shack. The first four were already came to Whitetail by train, which was at the end of the S[...]and fresh-smelling from the new lumber. How I got to land joined; not so lonesome that way. Reinert an[...]otten "emigrant car" - a railroad boxcar fixed up for emigrants. the bedding washed, and the[...] |
| wallpaper cleaner, we had a very satisfying place to live. CHARLES MARLENEE FAMILY He[...]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.[...]the only one born in Montana. He attended field. This had to be cleaned once in a while as it, too, had school at the Parkl}urst Country School, later going to undesirable contents, such as field mice that dro[...]chuk, daughter of Ukranian pioneers Mr. newspaper out there, although it was there that I.J. Doerr[...]and I can't remember anyone else To this union were born three sons, Ronald, Robert and ha[...]the Canadian border. This school has now been moved to[...]bus line and he went to Whitetail school. The family[...]University in Missoula, later returning to farm with his[...]Casey and Allison. Their oldest son, David, died in[...]They live in Plentywood where Bob Others I met out there were: the Dodds, the Robertsons, tea[...]rch, Shoppe. and the Scharnattas. I was out there again in the summer Lanny marri[...]met he and his family live. Ronald, in this Bicentennial Year, Joram at St. Ansgar, Iowa, and[...]married there. has filed as a candidate for United States Congress from She accompanied him back to Chatham, Massachusetts. the Eastern[...]aper! Higher rank meant more expense, and it came out of the paycheck. I had just come out of the Army School of Nursing before I went to Whitetail the second time. I couldn't continue 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 MARLE[...]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[...]lenee was born at the family farm home 15 started out in eastern North Dakota, and gradually shifted miles n ortheast of Scobey to George and Lucile Marlenee. farther and farther to the east and south until he was in He remembers walking, skiing, and riding horseback to "home" country around Joice and Lake Mills, Iowa.[...]4 Dale married JoAnn Robertson, daughter of the This material was compiled by Dena Huso, and her[...]miles east of Dale's -going her first four years to memory, so if slight errors appear in it,[...] |
| [...]14 that was called "The Selling of the Townsites" for Dale and JoAnn have six children: Peggy, Mrs. Q[...]hters and go roller skating in Scobey. To keep warm they used Angela and Cathi, on a farm w[...]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 architect[...]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[...]esteaded land of his own 10 miles headed for Montana. Lillian joined them, and together north[...]n 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[...]rmed 12 miles south of Scobey and west. This place had an eight-foot square shack on it. homes[...]unity. 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[...]they had a bumper crop that was completely hailed out. agent for the Soo Line Railroad in Crosby, North Dakota Onc[...]up there and Montana. opened the gates to the corral and got their horses back Duri[...]very popular place for many of their Canadian 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[...] |
| [...]mmons: The profit was poor, as no charge was made for meals or summer before, Jake got up e[...]rushing back in where the men were sleeping to wake them The wife of Tom Smith (the blacksmith[...]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[...]s only a few years old. On one occasion, Tom went to bring your rifle - there's a pelican flying over." Scobey for supplies, and while there bought a new suit, The men all rushed out. Actually there was no pelican, hat, and a pair ofrubber boots for Sidney. He brought them but the men pretended to see one and yelled, "There, home, put them on the boy, and sent him outside to play. A Charlie. Right over there!" pointing to the sky. Finally few minutes later Tom looked out the window and saw Charlie shouted, "I see it!" and fired at the blank sky. To Sidney lying on the ground, rolling in a big pudd[...]arried Mabel Thayer From Great Falls they moved to Seattle, Washington who taught in the area. We adopted two boys, brothers, and from there to Long Beach, California where they who[...]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[...]professor. The students didn't stay in one school; they[...]moved around often returning to receive the degree from[...]rs lived there until I was about three years old. We moved to ceased, and she believes they were killed by the Nazis. In Iowa, and ten years later we moved to Missouri., all of her time in Euro[...]My brother Dennis homesteaded earlier and sold out in the homes of the people who had been recommended to her. 1929. Returning to this country, she taught in North Dakota,[...]then at her father's suggestion came west to take up a[...]Mr. and Mrs. O.K. McDowell In 1911 I went to Kansas to work in the wheat harvest. I |
| [...]school at Redstone, Madoc, and elsewhere, and was for some years County Superintendent. She married O[...]tiple sclerosis in the early forties and was able to get around to do housework only by using a wheel chair. She had[...]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[...]tenth grade: The family moved to Eugene, Oregon then to[...]es M. Robertson and his J uy left Caldwell, Idaho for[...]covered wagon and extra horses. Their intent was to[...]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[...]living quarters were established. They proved up this[...]neighboring land belonging to Luther Dodd.[...]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 a[...]l Delaware County, Iowa. Three children were born to M.M. about its attributes. After c[...] |
| not want to plug it. A season's wages were bet as to VANE AND CARRIE ROSS whether this crewman could plug the machine singlehanded with[...]by Mrs. Carrie Ross to pitch the bundles in lengthwise. The safety valve[...]ted 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 J[...]truck solid coal, played third base and shortstop for some of the local good soft water. We put up a windmill, and plowed the baseball teams. This was during the time of the great prairie sod for growing wheat, flax, oats, potatoes, and a emphas[...]those The first years were very hard for us. It was difficult to involved in the Black Sox scandal.[...]ttle but he expanded his cattle many miles to work and earn $1.00 per day and he and his operat[...]Sherd Wilcoxen. The cattle were for the coal, some folks did not have the money and t[...]raft south potatoes, vegetables, and meat for the coal; which we could of Scobey, then D. Sipes north of Poplar and finally with use as we had no money. Eddie 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 there, and we had both grown up on farms. Two Brenden's and Knu[...]20 miles south of Madoc, boys were born to us while we were on the homestead. stopped there last in 1954[...]in Watsonville, California. When M.M. came to these parts he thrilled at the tall 19[...]at and good rainfall. There were good crops. We made a Ii ving first fall a prairie fire swept th[...]til 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 ou[...]nd After Ii ving in Minnesota and Iowa we came to Arizona not a damn thing to stop her". Coal was dug from strip wher[...]e. Grandpa raised a huge garden every year and didn't allow a weed to go to seed. In the fall he traded produce for groceries and sundries.[...]horses that grazed on the prairie in He loved to ride and almost every day he could be seen homesteading days - 1912. riding around the country to check on his crops and the neighbors. On one of[...]ig gold pocket watch. From then on he would look for it as he knew just about where he had lost it. O[...]4 •. ,- years was walking or riding over to our place, three- -~ :· :i" quarters of a mile, to visit with our children. |
| [...]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[...]William Parkhurst, Alvah Shaw, Clara J. was moved to the O.E. Susag place with Oswald Susag as[...]Penrose and postmaster, where it was in operation for ten years. In 1932 Theodore Imbs. when Highwa[...]nners, F.U. meetings, decided they needed a hall for their various activities. baseball games, h[...]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[...]the largest and nicest place around. People came for Bennie Dahl, Palmer Hanson and Oscar Manternach.[...]tings Mrs. Robert Rhodes The first group to place for these dances were the (Ingeborg) suggested the name "Silver Star" for the hall, Gribbles; John played the violin,[...]en Gile on Allie Olson donated one acre ofland for the building site. the drums. Later on ten acres were bought from Allie for the grounds, Mrs. H.P. Hanson (Emma) started the old Norwegian for which they paid $200.00. In a short time, three h[...], Bob Wakeland, but much of the work was for a big bonfire in the evening. They had a picnic w[...]ther early meeting was held November 20, 1926. At this time Joe Erickson became the first president; All[...]he Just So Club has had many leaders and members. for his work at each dance. B.J. Lekvold and Ben Olson No one knows for sure when it began but some of the were hired to haul water for dances. They also sold tickets alumni of1924-1925are Mrs. John Poyner, Mrs. Chris Veis, for which they received $2.00 each.[...]1935, has as members Lorraine Secretary-Treasurer for many years. Lekvold B[...]Helen Dahl Greene, and Vera Gilmore that position for thirty-six years.[...] |
| [...]e Silver Star Home Demonstration Club was leader. This club started around 1935.[...]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[...]s several projects. Mrs. if she would be a leader for a club. With the help of Jesse C. Ben (Lura) Da[...]charter members since 1921. We had many good meetings, Members were Albert He[...]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 youth shows. The[...]nty-three project leaders. left to right: Mrs. Ferd Morrison, Mrs. Glen (Hulda)[...]e") lmbs, Mrs. Peter (Clara) Thorem, Mrs. Gerritt for this purpose by Mrs. Bryhnild Lekvold. She was the[...]Susag. At one time there were plans to build a church on this ground which never materialized. There are quit[...]on the hill. No record has been kept of them, so this may prove to be the BASEBALL TEA[...] |
| [...]After this shocking episode, Jim Towey became the next[...]ed up one barrel at a time; it took seven barrels to make[...]a ton. Later on they used a team and managed to get a half[...]In 1936, Krassen and Sorte operated this mine. With the[...]The men in the mine at this time were Chris V eis, Al[...]their cooks. At this time they could elevate a ton at a time.[...]remember being "tucked in" for the night on those hard At various times later[...]between dances to check on their offspring. The main baseball di[...]Butte rawhide whip. Many a youngster had to dash back and sit Creek , Pleasant Prairie and Bi[...]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[...]Edna M. Hanson members present. At this writing in 1975, three members are left: Ted Rust[...]ekvold School was located south of the present This underground lignite coal mine opened in 1931 and[...]and was built in 1914 with Jeanette supplied coal for the area for many years. The shaft was Shipstead as th[...]ordgren, Sylvia in a dynamite blast and went over to B.J. Lekvolds for Trombetta, Evelyn O'Dell, Ellen Madsen, Christine coffee and dinner while waiting for things to settle down. Frederickson, Alpha Hanson, Lucille Finegan, Georgia He was getting more and more anxious to go down. Julius Goodman and Almina Lein. tried to pursuade him to wait a little longer, but he insisted The Li[...]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 wa[...]heard a " thud" ; he had toppled from the bucket to the house across the road from the old Martin[...]e which kills The last teacher in this school was Edna M. Hanson. At quickly. this time, 1932-33, the county asked her to put the seventh[...] |
| [...]e seventh and eighth grades in one year. They did this so they could close the school due to a shortage of funds. At this time the eighth graders had to take the state board examinations in all subjects in order to be promoted. The Gilmore School located just so[...]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[...]rvices were held whenever they could get a |
| Pepper School - left to right: Dora Fowler, Elizabeth Fowler, Al Fowler,[...]ach of the eight grades. It kept the teacher busy to keep ahead with the different lessons each day. School opened with a salute to the flag and Pledge of Allegiance, and singing, r[...], Violet Bekker, Gerald Bekker, Nancy Each year we had programs at Christmas and Bekker, Glenn Bekker, Roger Bekker Thanksgiving. We ended the school term with a picnic for the pupils, parents, neighbors and friends.[...]They stayed for a period of time with the Gerrit Jansen[...]half-sister who had come to this country some years earlier.[...](cut with a binder) and Mr. William Ferguson, for whom he[...]ield so quickly. Mr. Ferguson said there was more to[...]Gerrit back to the field he saw that he had completed[...]Gerrit returned to Holland in 1929 and marrfecf a[...]coming to America. They then came to Scobey in 1930 and before long were farming for themselves. Ten years later[...]n the fall of 1942, Gerrit and I were married and we Bernyce lmbs, Helen Jaski, Lillian Veis , Onlynne Hanson, continued to farm about eight miles southwest of Scobey Ra y m[...]in Great Falls after living for three years in the Aleutian[...]working for Civil Service. Nancy taught four years in the[...]elementary school system prior to that. After receiving a by Violet[...]Mechanics and Pre-Engineering), Glenn decided to try In 1942 I came to Daniels County from St. Paul, farmi[...]ng farming Minnesota , where I had been employed, to spend my their livelihood in Daniels[...](deceased in 1959), and (Industrial Arts) for two years previous to that. her husband John Nielsen. They met me at the depot in The Bekker family who came to America together still Wolf Point and I remember[...]beautiful in June of that year as continued. we drove to their farm south of Scobey. I was used to seeing One humorous incident laughingly tol[...]n (now deceased) of the Silver Star community see for miles and miles fascinated me and I began to like was when Gerrit and his brothers, who[...]speak Montana more and more. I also met Gerrit on this vacation. a word of English then, came to their home after they found He told me about th[...]skunks in Holland, so came together from Holland to Daniels County in 1928 by they did not realize they had to keep their distance from boat. They were Gerrit,[...]Martin sisters, Cornelia (Nellie), later married to Frank Bennis, and Marie out of the house.[...] |
| [...]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 f[...]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 Krause who lived near Kahle[...]e Fowler Cafe which he renamed "Glen's Eat Shop". This cafe was Combined picture shows left to right-Glen Chenoweth, located in the small apartment connected to "Clipper" wife Hulda , son Harland, and G[...]In 1945 with failing health, he sold Aunt Fan. out to Ole Bondy. Glen passed away February 10, 1946. Glen and Hulda had one son, Harland, who grew up in Scobey and is a[...]Olson Hospital for five years. When the Daniel's Memorial[...]Hospital opened in 1952 she worked there for about seven[...]We were married in Fessenden, North Dakota November[...]of 1916 when we moved to Scobey, and filed ·on a homestead[...]We came by rail on the Great Northern Railroad and[...]lived in Scobey before we started living on the homestead . That winter we rented Dick Coughlin 's shack on the east[...]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[...]took his wife back to Harvey, North Dakota to live with her[...]and was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa as their service records[...] |
| [...]hat 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 c[...]rrying 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[...]Patrol. They had one son, Guy, who is an electrical water was red with bloo[...]ns 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[...]the Peterson Battleson Store for many years. They now live[...]in Plentywood and operate Peterson's Ready To Wear. Palmer and Edna Hanson of Silver Star Community They have one son, Bill, and one daughter, Karrol Kay.[...] |
| didn't keep up with them , they weren't discharged until January 16, 191. He got back to Harvey and to his wife and baby boy January 19, 1919. The mail service was bad during World War I, so he didn't know what to expect at home, as the flu epidemic was raging in the States. In August, 1920 we moved back to Scobey with two sons , LeRoy born while his dad was overseas and Howard , born at Harvey. Ben worked for Jess Smith at the Mill, packing flour until spring when we moved to the Sidney Matter farm. A daughter, Alene was 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 Helen in 1925. In the spring of 1926 we bought the Edward Martinson farm and moved there to make our home and to send our children to the Lekvold school. Our early day activities w[...]means. As the community grew, so did the need for a larger recreation center for social activities. As a result the Silver Star Ha[...]erested in home projects and there were 4-H Clubs for the young folks. In 1950 we sold our farm and retired and bought a home in Scobey. We both worked at various jobs, my last one , being[...]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 .[...]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[...]With a good visit and cry it helped both to keep going. They married in Paynesville in 1899.[...]mer, Edna, Henry, Myrtle and hard for us who live here now to imagine the water that Stener. Orlynne was born i[...]ey carried in buckets, the lignite coal that had to be dug Since Minnesota was becoming more crowd[...]by hand, and the acres of land he wanted his sons to have larger farms Hans (and O.E. that[...]ho lived on an adjoining farm) decided , in 1916, to team of horses or oxen. go to Montana to look things over. The oldest son, Palmer, married Edna M. Jenkins in They bought[...]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[...]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.[...]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 immigrant cars.[...]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 was hungry for with the Hansons upon the[...] |
| [...], 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 conspicuous gallantry above the call of duty in I[...]been there several times and liked it. There we started to Those serving in the · Armed Forces from the Hanson haul grain from farm to market, as it was difficult to find family: Henry E. and Dough (son of Palmer and Edna). It truck driver. Jennie and I started to drive the trucks and should be mentioned that Fre[...]am still driving. During the time we were hauling we were hirley (daughter of Palmer and Edna) although from a also looking for a farm to buy. So in 1945 we purchased a different Hanson family , served in the Armed Forces. farm southwest of Scobey, where we have lived and farmed ever since. We have always liked the north country with its[...]and the winds blow free, that's the place for me. HARVE AND JENNIE KILE[...]ook up farming and construction work. Jennie went to college and taught school nine years in Beaver County. We were married in 1930 at Liberal, Kansas and lived[...]B. J. LEKVOLD Elmwood, Kansas. We later moved to Plains, Kansas where Harve farmed and worked in the machine shop. I came to Scobey in May of 1913 with my mother, Mrs. In 1940 we moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado, where we Bryhnild Lekvold and brother Peter, and M[...]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[...]ain. I then came home to help at the homestead with farming. After the army work was finished, we went to our home In February, 1920, brother Peter passed away and at that near Penrose, Colorado to care for our fruit farm. While time I rented and later bought the farm where we still there we decided to go to Wolf Point, Montana as we had reside.[...]Laura Narveson, my wife, came to Scobey in April, 1917[...]the years we had some very hot dry spells and for several years in a run we had hail come and take the crop but the[...]latter years have been better. But we must expect to take[...]We were blessed with eleven grandchildren, two[...]so we have eight now, and four great grandchildren.[...]We c_elebrated our 50th anniversary August 27, 1972[...]I served on the Scobey school board for sixteen years and on the draft board for twelve years. We are members of the[...] |
| [...]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[...]and B.J. Lekvold, who also accompanied them, not to[...]Beatrice was born in 1918, adding to my mother's[...]My mother's brother, John Olson, came to help us. Our[...]Grandma Lekvold, Dad's mother, lived close by. We called[...]se on the hill north of Silver Star. With no help we couldn't save the farm, so we moved in with Grandma[...]We worked at anything and everything just to get by, in order to eat and have a roof over our heads. Before he die[...]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 "Doc" Schwisinger, then for Albert Estenson for two years[...]and Selmer Nelson. Sister Selma stayed home to take care We have retired from farming and Kenneth is now[...]Louis. He was not very old but always farming it. We are members of the American Legion and h[...]ctive part in various things After moving to town in 1927 we eked out a living the best and enjoyed being a part of the Silver Star community. we could. Mother made rugs and we cleaned houses for 25[...]ldren, Vern now of Plentywood who has six he made to Medicine Lake for lumber with Peter Thoren children, Cary,[...]Mary Ann who married Bill Henderson, who works for and set up a tent that night for camp. The next morning, Waddell and Reed. T[...]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[...]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[...]death. train trips in Daniels County to Wood Mountain, Our grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.[...]nd Lois and family. Jess parents) came later than we did. Their other children were married Patr[...]re Grant, Kristin and Ericka. Clarissa, Minnesota to continue living there . Grandm a Louis, my brother, started working for Battleson Lekvold had come with us. Grandma Lekvo[...]rtle Jacobson. She passed away on started working for Battleson Company at $50 per month. September 19, 1937. On October 13, 1940 Louis married He was to be employed by that firm for 37 yea rs, going on t o Frances Hermanson and t[...]n, Gary, Solberg's where he still works. I worked for Doctor Morrow Harley and Judy. Gary spent four years in the Air Force for ten years starting in either 1928 or 1929. I work[...]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 Andrew[...]Aid, church work, Woman 's He now works for E.G.G. Corporation in radio, radar and Club and Girl Scouts. I also worked at the blood ban k for aerial photography. Harley has been in the Air Force for 11 two or three years when it first started. My G[...]s 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[...]en minutes from Disneyland. Mrs. Bydeley had been to us in the early days on the farm. After working for Battleson Company Louis and Gordon John and I[...]912, died in infancy), and Jess. Donna is married to Larry the son of Ida Downing wh[...] |
| [...]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 M[...]f the Scobey Fire Department and butter to many people in Scobey. She also crocheted since 1[...]o been one of the largest and knitted articles for sale. blood donors in Daniels County, so far at e[...]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[...]in Scobey, As told to Mildren Brenden Montana. He was raised on a[...]llie Poyner Don attended the Ferestad School for half of his first year[...]came back to the Silver Star area where he worked ' for MARTIN AND LUCY LINDERMAN Donald Gilmore for two years during harvest. He also[...]Linderman was born in Estonia on November 8 1891 to John and Anna Linderman. John Linderman wa~ a Lut[...]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 operations with his brother Robert for several years. Then he sold out and moved to Montana in 1923. He worked on fa:P'lns around the Peerless-Four Buttes area for many years. Martin met Lucy LeMay in the Peerle[...]knot was tied that lasted 28 years. They lived in this community for several years and in 1938 bought a farm in the Si[...]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[...]ter 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 atte[...]at the rural school. After the school bus ran in this area because of the school closing, she attended[...]by were married they farmed with Martin Linderman for several 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 Scobey from Poplar for $7.[...]moved to Montana in an immigrant car, bringing four Eddi[...]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 n[...]be raised in the country he would were hard to endure and during the early twenties many stay.[...]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[...]home , three miles west of where the Silver To supplement the family income, Eddie worked[...] |
| [...]1913 retired and moved to Scobey with Clarine, his second wife,[...]y, so the barn door was -kept Children born to Eddie and Anna Lund were: locked at night. One ni[...]t Havre Normal School. Gilman the noise and found out that it came from two pigs trying to served during World War II in the U.S. Navy wit[...]orth of Scobey. He died on June built, Eddie went to town for lumber and windows. On the 25, 1965. They h[...]ke all the windows. Gilman. Canvas was used for window covering until he could get to 2. Theolyn attended country grade school, Scobey High town again. (Eddie's crops were hailed out seven times in School and Normal training in[...]d 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[...]d 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[...]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. (However[...]served in the Montana House of Representatives for twelve in the county because the rains cam[...] |
| [...]PRESTAGE FAMILY Martin Nielsen came to America from Denmark in th e Homesteading[...]all his fiancee, Miss Marie Jensen looked forward to at the time when Clarence William came over from the homeland and in 1904 they were Prestage came to Montana. He came alone to make married. They came to Daniels County in 1923 from arrangements for a 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 Munso[...]age was born in Michigan on Manternach and moved to Scobey. In 1954 they observed · July 8, 1881 and[...]. small boy. He came to Montana in 1905 and homesteaded Mr. and Mrs.[...]died leaving her as woman of the family for her father and[...]Clarence had gone for the doctor to Saco, when he came[...]neighbors for miles around. There was no transportation[...]stead north of Saco was not what it had been said to[...]but the venture proved to be a failure. In 1914 the family moved to Scobey country where Clarence worked out around the Silver Star and Line[...]belonged to Dick Vies. Later they moved to the Bill Lannon place where they worked for the Lannon family. They Ii ved[...]was well appreciated when she was asked to sing at[...]cattle, had been gathered to pay for the funeral expense.[...]er man, Ira Cave, who had two Uffe ielsen came to Daniels County November, 1916 small da[...]hers Einar a n d left with her father and brother to Kalispell, Montana John ielsen. The following spring h e worked for Fr ank where they lived for the next few years. Pepper. He enlisted in the ar[...]ving at Plains, Montana. i n July, 1919 and began to farm south of Scobey. He Marie and Ira[...]ears of school after he was of Elevator in Scobey for six years a nd then moved to school age. There was no school building close en[...]ttend when he was ready. When he finally Com pany for six years. He worked for International did start school he walked three mi[...]y schools which he attended were Still 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:::-n Montana for some years Point, Montana. George returned to visit in 1938 to Scobey and remained.[...] |
| [...]floor of the house. Believing freedom to be their god given[...]ight they would not be ousted. Time was what took to get the walls up and them out.[...]Eventually we got a car - first car for us since George[...]had been back from the service. I started to learn to drive[...]In the last days of 1949 we bought an old house with lot in[...]town and moved our household stuff to town. George still[...]kept working on the house to make it a decent living quarters. We put in a basement under the house. Later new[...]re did most of the work myself, except for the very heavy stuff. was taken in Michigan befor[...]had perfatape coming out of my ears long before the job[...]George was a mechanic at Battleson's Garage for some ranch farm. years. Later he transferred to Erickstein Motors, a Ford He married Rose Sever[...]y and In 1960 he became quartermaster for the V.F.W. served in the Pacific theatre of war o[...]7. of WW II. He was a Seaman First Class assigned to the In 1963 George began having trouble walking to and U.S.S. Barnstable,a troup transport ship. While on duty from work. He seemed to think that it was from his there were two near mi[...]was suffering. He quit bombers aimed their planes for the troup transport ship. smoking - cold t[...]rked off and on between heart attacks Returning to Scobey after World War II George resumed[...]ys until January, 1967 when he was told farm work for 0.0. Wolfard. In June that year the family[...]ld not work any more. He was disabled until moved to the Wolfard farm eight miles south of Scobey[...]tions around the world it was extremely difficult for us at home here to get transportation vehicles or any building material or even soap to do the family washings. The only transportation vehicle available for THE RHODES FAMILY AND HANSEN FAMILY the[...]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[...]ed in 1945. ROBERT(BOB)RHODES Bob Rhodes came to Montana in 1915. He was married to Ingeborg Hansen in 1918. There were twelve childr[...]Olive Rhodes (mother of Jim, Bob and Rex) came to Montana in 1913 accompanied by Jim Penrose. They[...]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 bou[...]horses from a sheep rancher and brought them back to Henry and Ole. This time he decided to stay. Always a colorful personality, Oscar cou[...]Henry, the Pidgeon-Toed Kid and other toughs used to hang out. His adventures were many, and it was always to his regret that the prairies became so well settl[...]s first expedition against Chief Cochise. He came to the Wolf Point vicinity in 1880 as a teamster wit[...]in a horse accident in 1939. Also deceased are a to Poplar from the Woody Mountains in Canada where t[...]lph, Leonard and Harold, and Mrs. Sibbits used to cook dinners for the ranchers who daughters Doris (Mrs. Rich[...]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 Jubi[...] |
| [...]In 1915 in November a blizzard came up while we were.at O'Shields, Elaine Hope, Lin Shipstead. Th[...]our sheep camp. I went out to help an elderly sheepherder. I four great-grandch[...]finally came on to his sheep and found him crouched in the Rose Ship[...]a buffalo robe wrapped around him. He She used to have hair-pulling fights with Charles[...]straightened up. He used this method of stopping his Scobey, son of the Indian[...]gave him my horse to ride back to camp. I spent the night Scobey used to name many of the Indians after presidents[...]name George 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[...]od and moccasin tracks where Indians had next one out was Chester Arthur. Then George got out, and[...]made camp for the night in a tent they had brought along Oscar[...]month short of sixteen and Ole was just eighteen. We got of Blink Spring. Blink Spring was so[...]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 |
| [...]the Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thunem came to this area in May, University of Washington and are em[...]her comfortable home which was built in 1953, and for the last three years she has spent part of the co[...]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 bou[...]Josie , Art, Richard, Mel ana County from 1949 to 1954.[...] |
| in 1942 and moved to Hamilton, Montana where he passed away in Februar[...]Kinman Business University and is office manager for Inland Empire Goodwill Industries. Carolyn lives[...]. 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[...]hey arrived in what is now Daniels County in 1917 to Hellickson lives on the family farm. Richa[...]passed on. · They traveled to Montana by what was then known as an R[...]till resides in Scobey. enthusiasm, as they began to cultivate the native sod, for a Andrew married Christina Suchy. They have t[...]in Activities in those early years were limited to visiting Scobey. with neighbors and friends a[...]s made their home provided much needed facilities for both civic and social in Scobey and still reside there. events as well as general entertainment for the area Marvin married Thelma Halvor[...]consists of Terry, Bryan and Paula. They continue to live The family of Soren and An ton in a Veis c[...]ve two children - Karen accompanied their parents to the new country. Andrew and Jon.[...] |
| [...]Mrs. O.K. McDowell taught there for three years. Quite a[...]ville about 16 County. They always managed to get married and of miles. Originally named Jay Sc[...]over. As wedding bells rang school bells quit for the young called it Joy School so it did become the official name, teacher. much to the relief of a few students that disliked being[...]mpers flared and being called a "Jaybird" was not to be tolerated. LINE[...]I came to teach in the Line Coulee School in August, 1927[...]had gone back to sod, and I could count up to 125 range[...]The children either walked many miles to school or rode[...]This school, built in 1913, was closed in 1936. The[...]ilding was purchased by area families and is used for 4- 1927 a nice, new sturdy building was erected. This became H meetings and card parties. the center of the community activities for many years as well as a center of learning. Today the land it stood on has been converted back to farm land. Emmett Cavanaugh bought the schoolhous[...]Gaustads, Ockers, Cavanaughs, Taylors and others, for shorter periods. The Dickinson family came to this area in the spring of Miss We her was the first teacher in the new building. She 1913 to take up homesteads southeast of Scobey in what became Mrs. Vic Hillstrom and moved to Scobey. later was called S[...] |
| [...]being built. Floyd worked on this for a time driving a team[...]For entertainment there were dances in the homes,[...]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[...]helped care for the sick until she contracted the disease and[...]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.[...]ell, Iowa) were married June 5, 1928. They worked for 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[...]this area. Jim lives at Buffalo, Wyoming; Barbara at[...]ad lived Glen Ullin, North Dakota coming to Montana in 1931 for several years, moving there from Aberdeen, South[...]belongings in wagons. The first thing that had to be done was to build a house Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dr[...]Miss Amelia Malcolm. Later the school was moved to the Garfield Wilson farm who donated one acre of[...]lept there. Mother and the older girls cooked and we younger ones helped with the dishes. Water had to be carried in and waste water out.[...] |
| We rented and lived on various places from 1931 to 1939. Kent works for Nemont and he and Alice have two boys We lived on the Lynn Hanrahan farm and were close and one girl. neighbors to the George LeCombe, Leon Wimmer, and[...]with welfare work and Gilbert Overland families. We lived three winters at the lives with her fi[...]n LaCombe place near the old Prairie School where we Glendive, Montana. boarded the teachers. Al[...]where he owns a garage. In the spring of 1940 we moved from Fred White's place Alton, his wife and two boys and one girl, live in Anoka, to our present home south of Scobey where we have resided Minnesota. He is a chemical engineer and works for since.[...]Alton, Wayne, Neysa, and Kent were all born while we lived in the Whitetail area. Myra was born in Sco[...]hose years, from the old home-made covered pickup to the new modern buses. The place we bought and still live on was purchased through th[...]150 cash. After arriving and finding many windows out we were allowed to keep $50 from the original $150 to replace the windows. The Tom Olson family were the last ones to occupy the place before we came. During 1930 Jesse mined our coal and rod[...]orseback in below zero weather through heavy snow to get a ride several more miles to work on W.P.A. for $40 a month. When we started farming here we had a 10-20 I . Internatio[...]s 4 years old. machinery, mower, rake and wagon. We milked quite a few cows. We gradually added more farming acres by acquiring the Lindsey place and a couple of 40's we bought with her parents and went to school in Line Coulee and Joy from C.J. Sevenson. We still farm with thehelpofKentand School. The hous[...]Star Garage. The church is still here that we had our We also own a modest home in Scobey, where we have programs in. We used to roller skate and dance in the show spent the past several winters due to health reasons. hall in Scobey. We did a lot of horseback riding and driving Of o[...]s, etc. Mrs. Dacus's parents died Myra is married to Ike Cromwell and he works for Grain in Spokane. Growers. She is employed at the[...]two boys. think we had more fun then than they do now because[...] |
| [...]nces in Line Coulee schoolhouse, Nels Gustad used to play the violin and we all had fun. Ed and I were married in 1924 in the Methodist Church in Scobey. We had eight children, Irene, LeRoy, Lola,[...]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 William Fordyce died while the children[...]young. Sarah Fordyce, with the children, came to Montana On summer days we snared and drowned gophers in the[...]tween Froid selling their tails at the courthouse for a penny apiece. and Homestead, Montana. A si[...]and Hattie, were already homesteaders in this area. Hattie[...]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[...]his mother moved onto this land to live.[...]Mrs. Fordyce let the farm out on shares and moved to Scobey where she kept house for Albert Schammel and cared for his two motherless children for almost 16 years. 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[...] |
| [...]out his fare to this country on the Halaas farm. Peder[...]were going to be opened in the Daniels County area, he and[...]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[...]first two years all grain was hauled to Medicine Lake (the[...]nearest railroad) and enough lumber hauled back to build[...]Peder Furuli about 1914 Left to right: Ray Frederick, Mrs. Ray Frederick, Joyce |
| Peder Furuli family. Left to right back row: Egil, Alvhild, Kaare. Front: Peder and Ragna. still larger tractor were bought. This pretty well retired the Alvhild Furuli Sherseth, deceased, 1975. Her husband |
| [...]children attend Scobey School. We are engaged in raising[...]Hereford cattle and farming. We have been members of the[...]Valley 4-H Cl uh ever since Ka are was old enough to join and Richard takes part as a leader. This year we have[...]and sons can be seen out the window trying to rope each other or whatever is near. We are members of Scobey[...]s built in 1928. Martin made several trips back to Norway but Nels never went back. A younger brother, Odin, came to FRED. GILBERT FAMILY Montana in 1925 but went back to care for their parents in 1926. A sister, Ingeborg, remained in Norway but her son, The Fred and Carrie Gilbert family arrived in Daniels Ottar, did come to Montana but now lives in Norway. County, south of Scobey in the fall of 1920 to the place Odin's daugh ter, Ingrid , also came t[...]s the Paul Gilbert farm. They came from in Scobey for several years but is now in Texas.[...]irginia Barclay (by a former and worked part-time for several people in the surrounding marriage).[...]his wife, Doris Mahler Gaustad and their We used to go to Taylor's beach for ball games, dances at three sons, Kaare, Rex and[...]he Fred It was a great experience and challenge to all. There was Krauth barn south of Scobey. Th[...]ters, and so on, but they had others played for the dances. We had a lot of ball games, their good times too: Ga[...]h. 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 fa[...]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[...]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[...]Garage which they sold to Adolph Kramer. They had two[...]children: Larry is married to Doris Gill and is in the I.B.M.[...]children: Kathy is married to Rocky Ware, they own the[...] |
| 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 fi[...]o 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[...]ays coated with frost. Julia dressed the children for bed as if they were going outside to play.[...]nor understand English but was finally induced to take[...]to the home place. The other half was moved to the Fra nk[...]A need to expand made the folks come to Montana. A[...]their first years in Montana! Pa had come out.earlier and[...]bought the Dacus (Ed'sdad)homestead. InJuneof1917 we[...]Graff and Belmer, Millard and person to locate Dr. Collinson and get hi.m .to the depot Luella.[...]Lundeval drove us out to the farm that was to be the home They hauled water from a spring about a mile and a half of my parents for the rest of their lives. away at the Evenskaas pl[...]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[...]rchased a There was very little time for entertainment and very Rumley tractor and plow and started breaking the prairie little entertainment to be had. Sometimes on a Sunday for their own field 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 cooking for the crew and raising her own Hansons who had[...]me. Days ahead Ma baked Junice, Oran, and Bertha, to complete the family. Millard and prepared fo[...]s as all the farmers did. A neighbor girl came in to As soon as the children were old enough to ride a horse help and I remember my older sister riding as fast as she they had to take their turn at herding cattle, as there were could go to tell her, "They're coming". It was a busy time no[...]with milk cows, pigs and chickens to be taken care of[...] |
| 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.[...], Maurice mending and knitting socks and mittens to keep the family and Alan. clothed and warm throu[...]Himli, and I arrived in Flaxville · The oldest son, Joe, still lives in Scobey where he and his June,[...]e married La Verne Hol~berg who "shack" which was to be our home. Being a new bride and came from Cambridge, Minnesota to teach the Lme Coulee seeing the wild west for the first time was a scary School. They have fou[...]ence and shortly after getting settled I found it to be Danielson and lives in Minneapolis. They have[...], Colorado with their two sons, Bobby so lonesome for family and friends I had left in Peterson, and J[...]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 (Bu[...]the home place with their three . Two years after we arrived in Montana we moved to children , Teresa, Sue and Alan. Geraldine married Ronald Albuquerque, New Mexico for one year and Denver, Safty of Flaxville and has seven children: June, who Colorado, returning to Montana in 1921 and begin raising married Irvin[...]vid, Linda, Mike, nine years following our return to Montana were filled Janet and Peggy live at home[...]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[...]have three chil~ren, Debbie, received a black eye for not using the bat properly. Some of Rory and Ren[...]were Gene Torgerson in 1967, and is now married to Al Powers Smiths Taylors, Tongs, Gustads, Furulis[...]th their son Times were not easy during this period of time - however Justin . Ernie owns and operates hot oil trucks in there was always an occasion to get together with friends Dickinson, North Dakota. Kay married Edna Hamblen to enjoy good food and good times. and now operated[...]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 Four Buttes. Merle in 1942, but we continued our farming operations. is a college s[...]hild (me, Ella) married Dale Gilbert of continued to live in our home in Scobey until October of Scob[...]y in 1966. I still live on the farm and 1974 when we moved to Glasgow, Montana. raise a few cattle. I have two[...]Marlene and I live 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[...]e three boys, Trent, Brian and Brad. daughter and son, Colleen and Lalon. They farm my farm and raise c[...]Montana. She has one son, Lynn. Oregon. They have three girls, Lynette, Rub[...]ime. She had one Clifton E. Jones came to this country in the spring of child , Bernadine[...] |
| [...]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[...]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.[...]planned to homestead in British Columbia.[...]they tried to change from their traveling clothes into their[...]Canadian women waiting for their menfolk, who were[...]There was no privacy for the two to change so they tried to[...]how ill-suited their attire would be for the land they found[...]the strange clothing and the strange men trying to change.[...]Like proper Englishmen they stopped for afternoon tea.[...]said that another Ewen, Saskatchewan. He wanted to get land of his own so Pete Furuli and Cooper Kestin (day after picture taken was |
| [...]settling and Because Mason got lost for three days in a blinding returned to the old country). The grass ignited from the snowstorm, Outa sent him to board in Glasgow and fire, and was soon out of control. Instead of beating the Helena.[...]tom plow with the help of Sam Burgess. three fled to the other side of the creek. They knew they had[...]Scobey. 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.[...]nd, 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,[...]ade hay, took care of the colts and stock targ et for bunco artists. These fellows would hire[...]best hand on the themselves, team and buckboard, out for $50 a day and place". She would work o[...]and boil a half bushel of them in finding a place to homestead. Henry Heinsman, potatoes in[...]freighted from Devil's Lake, North Dakota to her the two from the hands of the con-man, telling them they homestead. It took her three days to make the trip, and it could use his place as home[...]o. She used two horses and a area seeking a place to homestead. They always had a soft triple b[...]th grain herself with a half spot in their hearts for the bluff, out-spoken old-timer. They bushel measure. Although[...]ally stopped off at a half-way house run section. This section was located 14 miles south of[...]kicked. She never hired men to help her as she felt they[...]waiting for the meal and she'd come out and say, "What[...]shocking, hay needing to be put up" and off they'd go to do[...]Outa left her homestead and went to cook for Billy Kraft in a half-way house. This house was located near the[...]in 1913 and boarded out in the western part of the state.[...]and was raised as a southern belle used to the better things[...]oman, a pianist Kestin brothers and sisters. Left to right: Wasyl Adkins, and singer; she was trained to speak intelligently on most Wanda (Kestin) Lahn, Ralph Kestin, Maryllyn (Kestin) subjects, to be a good hostess and to oversee the duties of a Spencer, Jeanne (Kestin)[...]young miss of the gentry. Yet she came to Montana and Not shown: Thelma (deceased), Lloyd,[...]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[...]Much of the Jesse Mason, fought in the Civil War for the Union and family's savings was used for treatments at Rochester over received an honorabl[...]remarried and two more children were added to the family, was an excellent cook. The place she originally claimed to Llewellyn and Wasyl. She moved to Scobey in 1933-34. homestead was jumped by a bank[...]inter in Montana in a tar-papered shack belonging to received their early schooling at Joy[...]irl). 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[...]anyway, and I guess we will have a hard enough job to pay for those cattle without any horses to pay for. I am keeping up our horses this winter; I put them in at night and feed[...]them a little so as they will be able to do some hard work in the spring ... We don't work on Sundays. I am longing for Spring, this sitting around is irksome though I have all[...]Cooper's letter of April 11, 1915: "I am just up to my eyes[...]in work and so don't expect too much for the next two months. We have got in 60 acres of wheat already. It is just[...]work and sleep nowadays; no time for anything at all ...[...]East burying their father who just died so we are existing Cooper's letters. Back row: Summervi[...]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.[...]t home before the automobile so it looks like we are going to be left. Have to school was built. The children remember programs[...]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[...]up and stayed late. Nels put in Ethel married for the third time in 1945. She passed your[...]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[...]barn at Boyer burnt down when I was up elements, we started threshing down in here three weeks[...]have read all about the ago. I was hauling grain for Dave (Johnson) and Pete torpedoeing of the "Lusitania", kind of tough work, poor (Furuli), we got through with them on Saturday at four[...]t got his hands full." o'clock and pulled over on to us - threshed 120 of 150 of wheat and then came t[...]daughter of Jesse and was all off with threshing for twelve days; 10 teams, hay Outa Dowdy. Her father was the captain of a 100 foot and oats for two weeks and potatoes for fifteen men for two schooner which he sailed on Pamlico Soun[...]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, while on board[...]Later her parents were divorced and she went to live with I never had such a big family in my[...]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 thei[...]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 youn[...]Institute. Outa had again seems kind of slow ... We finished threshing Friday taken up a homes[...]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[...]ich she was enrolled. She paid her way by working for there to McCarthy's to a show and speech given by her room and board. She was proud to have received an Plentywood. Got home this morning at daybreak and education[...]ovember, 1915. Her upbringing made her ill-suited to the here. Tom Cowan I hear has brought a Bull tractor,[...]She kept house in a new five-room house built for her by hotel in Boyer."[...]er and neighbors. She raised their eight children here. This letter was dated February 11, 1915: "We are (he and Ethel taught her older chldren,[...]attle from St. home; there was no school at this time near enough for Paul next month so I may go down again to pick them out. I them to attend. The Kestins and neighbors united to start a guess Sheldon will chore and herd[...] |
| later Joy School was built and education was available for all. Ethel was a hard worker but always managed to find time to sing, read, laugh and have a good time. She enjoy[...]l as poultry and livestock, and canned as much of this as she could. She put up pork in layers of lard i[...]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 Furil[...]io in their home at that time. Ethel would listen to the program and then go home and re-enact it to the enjoyment of her children and husband. Also,[...]school at the Navajo and Joy would be hitched up for a dance somewhere, all would go, Schools.[...]When Cooper passed a way in 1930, Ethel was left to raise Reba is Mrs. Carl Hansen and they live[...]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[...]Point and James of Fort spring, after school was out, Mrs. Knudsvig, Dawn, came.[...]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[...]ended Flaxville High School and of his land to Jesse.[...] |
| [...]6-1948) Arthur had an old horse which he rode to the neighbors-- |
| [...]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[...]Both delivered by her dad. All our children went to the Joy are buried in the Orville Ceme[...]When Betty Lou and Calvin started high school we bought a home in Scobey. After living there for a couple of CLARENCE W. ROSSING years we bought the Benson Dairy, just northeast of Scobey[...]e children in high Clarence came to Montana from Badger, Minnesota school and grades,[...]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[...]it very uncomfortable in the car. In 1966 we sold our farm, after farming it for thirty years. His father started the company[...]r tractor. The first crop was before her marriage to Earl T. Burgett. They have six 600 ac[...]early children. Her husband has been in education for twenty- October delayed threshing until[...]f Sears and Roebuck rug and. furniture department for two years. Before his marriage he was a Marine.[...]in Bismarck where his business is. Arliss went to P.L.U. for one year and then to Columbus 1923 - Hauling grain. Frank and Edna on lead, Clarence School of Nursing. After nursing for two years she married sitting on right sid[...]Engstrom, a psychiatrist. After living in Seattle for fourteen years, they moved to Great Falls, Montana. They have three children. In all we have twenty-one grandchildren. We have Lillian. All are living but Ma[...]Antioch, California; and Ila Mae We:adt of Columbia Falls,[...]The family farmed through to 1962 and due to ill health[...]farming interests in the spring of 1963. In 1961 we Martin and Theodore were two bachelors who lived bought a small acreage and home out of Columbia Falls, southwest of Flaxville. Martin[...]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.[...]neighbors. The children in the neighborhood loved to go there, as Theodore always had I came to Scobey in August of 1915. My parents were candy for them. He always gave them ripe plums during[...]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[...] |
| [...]the crop that year was sneaked out to the corral, mounted his horse, and rode tremendou[...]puty sheriff. He offering special rates of $12.00 for round trip from quickly followed and finally caught up with the rider who Minneapolis to Scobey and back. He talked me into coming turned on the horse and said, "Hello Bill" to the chagrin of into Scobey with him, and I have l[...]the sheriff. I was postmaster in Scobey for many years. A[...]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 |
| [...]orn 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 commu[...]il 1927 when they moved Snyder. into Scobey to live. John had been elected Daniels County Assess[...]HOMER F. AND CLARA SNYDER Death came to John Smith at the age of 75 on June 23, 1954 when[...]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[...]and lives in New Jersey. He works for General Tire. Curtis[...]a certified welder for Palmer Construction. Velma and[...]Harlan, who served in the Air Force for nine years , passed[...]Line for six years. Joann finished high school at Kalispel[...]heat in 1969. We sold the farm in 1961. We lived on the Flathead Lake[...]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.[...]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 Neodeska, Kansas. He was in th[...]een miles south of Scobey. Andrew's dad Air Force for four years and in 1957 he married Joan[...]e and was buried at Orville Cemetery. Nickel, and to them were born one boy and two girls. We bought some land in Line Coulee in 1940 and lived there until we moved to town and built a house here and lived here ever s[...]e his parents homesteaded in Saskatchewan, Canada for' seven years. The mother and younger children went back to Minnesota for the school term, as there were no schools in thei[...]roads or railroads. When Henry was 18 he moved to Montana to farm and improve his sister Martina (Storle) Bekkerus's homestead south of Flaxville which he farmed for six years. Alvin Swenson, Clara[...]Wisconsin and the rest were born here. Selma married Nels Henry also worked on WP A in[...]er and they have one boy. In the spring of 1935 we moved to the farm, known as the Albert married Nel[...]hey have four children. Cooper Kestin farm, which we later purchased, also Roy Swenson[...]37 was the poorest year on record. It was too dry for the They sold 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[...]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 FOR HIS RANCH IN WILLOW COULEE[...]EY,MONTANA in to the farming settlement; up the lane two hundred y[...]s a barn and a windmill and a I could not find this Appaloosa bunch. They should have few outb[...]been up here on the flats above the head of Give-Out in white. There was a clothes line an[...]s from Smoke Creek, west, so I knew this farmer had himself a cook. toward the Poplar. I[...]net who was also, and glanced at me; then I find this Appaloosa bunch.[...]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[...]·horse. I worked on across the open country west to the Everything was neat; a cement horse[...]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.[...]e 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 eas[...]ent of cattle but his and frying pan grub for a few years - I ate too much, and brother, Goodm[...]thick chocolate icing! not seen nor heard of this bunch of Appaloosas you speak We visited, getting acquainted, and I told them I ha[...]the springs and been working in Canada for a couple of years but would water holes in the side coulees and on north to the flat clear now like to fine! a place which I could rent and get started to the farmer's fences at the edge of the Flaxville ranching for myself. And, feeling friendly-like, I even told[...]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. The[...]n 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[...]idence the prospective fence corner and held them to check them over. There were renter arrived on the scene early next morning, while we both two year olds, one was a blue roan Appaloosa[...]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[...]m the they were branded. In fact I had not ridden this range for windmill to the house for Mrs. Himli. I thanked her for the two years. · accommodations, told her I was sorry the place had been Dad had bought a bunch of h[...]om Albert Kirn on Poplar Creek. Albert's out making a circle down Poplar Creek and back to father , Henry Kirn , had been a scout for Miles, had Sackett's horse camp where[...]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 C[...]bit by the farming roundup in June, went to Saskatoon and got that bug and rented a big wheat[...], 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 up this coulee. do the farm work. In the fall of 1920 Dad had given up the We later bought this land a mile west of the Himli place farm and had come back to the ranch and sent me over to and built our ranch buildings here by t[...]make it the hard way. There was very little sale for stock in county has taken my land for taxes a time or two and we Canada at that time, just after the war, so I spent two years have had to sell horses to the cannery once or twice. We grading roads in summer and freighting in winter,[...]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[...]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.[...]r, 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 Appaloos[...]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 the possi[...]aloosa colt. So, let us say, that the location of this ranch was decided that October day in 1922 when I rode across from Smoke Creek to the head of Give-Out Morgan and could not find this Appaloosa bunch. And along Highway 13 south of[...]has six Chip's colts on the ground and three more to come.[...]/ him and are breeding 15 mares to him this years. (1962)[...]ise Schooler Taylor. A few years later they |
| [...]arade. Neil on Rocket with a safety rope anchored to the tongue of the wagon. Johnny Nelson in the wag[...]driving the team of six colts. They were working for us. chairman was appointed for each month and the teacher Poplar Rive[...]s people of Scobey,donated the |
| [...]and Julie. In the fall of 1944 Neil was elected to represent Daniels County in the State House of Representatives, Helena, Montana. He was re-elected for five more terms, serving for 12 years 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[...]y, 1965 I rented an apartment in Roundup, Montana to be near both of my daughters and their families. They-hav-e- all been a source of joy and comfort to me.[...]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 ma[...]"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 for over 41 years. the appeal of thos[...]were most homesteads, but had to be purchased.[...]mmigrant cars loaded with the equipment necessary for Rick Johnson, 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[...]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 each brought with them whereabouts of the livery barn for there were no street a Mogul one cylind[...]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 lifel[...],n 1924 John bought his first Model T and used it to haul John had not come to Montana with enthusiasm. He wheat to Flaxville. He could make two trips a day where it[...]uth Dakota with his ·adopted used to take two days to make one with the team. parents and brother to Hopkins, Minnesota. Returni[...]therine Elizabeth "Betty", post up, it stuck in the road and into the transmission of the John[...]that it was necessary to saw the post in two to get the truck[...]Minneapolis. He brought her to Montana and they were[...]Bridie Murphy had emigrated from Ireland in 1920 to[...]John's father sold his farm and retired to Minneapolis.[...] |
| [...]devote to helping others. Such a man was Ted Krongard[...]who lived for some thirty years in Daniels County[...]later. The father died when Ted was fourteen and for[...]Ted came to Montana in 1915, two years after Ed, and[...]in 1928 for the object of his affections, the lady (or maybe[...]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 Daniels County. He served many terms on the board of didn't know th ey were so poor .[...]outh Dakota was gone. made loans to farmers to try to keep them from going James married Jacq uelin[...]mmittee of the original Flaxville where he worked for the Farmers Union Oil Agricultural[...]in paper boxes. There was not When John moved to Scobey in 1949 E mmett stayed on even[...]r in farm cooperatives and in the two years, 1951 to 1953, wh en h e served with the United Fa[...]He was an active Democrat, but failed in a bid for the children , Jon, Kenneth, Carol, Mary Jo and D[...]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[...]in 1936 and lived on the farm for eight years. Ed continued John purchased a home in Scobey in 1949 and lived there to make his home there. the last twenty-three years of his life. For a man who had In 1944 they bought a far[...]n , which is not far from their original homes in for Mon tan a and the rolling fields of Daniels County had Minnesota, after they sold 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.[...]of T r ustees of Joy School, the Ed moved to North Saint Paul, Minnesota and worked Farmers Un[...]t Fla xville, and was active many years for an elevator manufacturing firm. He is now in the[...]respected. Daniels County is a better place for his having lived here. In most rural communities people can point out by James Cavanaugh outstanding individuals who seem to have much time to[...] |
| [...]2. Kanning Brothers Elevator (before it was moved to RR right-of-way); 13. Sam Montgomery's Madoc Gara[...]ne-room school. Note the shacks in the background for as far as you can see.[...] |
| [...]of the hardware store. W.B. Shoemaker worked for Mr.[...]also had a homestead . His impressions were that this was a God-forsaken country shop was so[...]d 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[...]l hall. Madoc The first years from about 1909 to 1912 brought the also had a cement jail[...]held the kerosene lamp while telling Chris what to say to Before there was any sort of settlement in t[...]he foundations of the town were getting under way for as early as 1912 a strange man came riding up to Grandma RESTAURANT[...]son's home and informed her that there was going to be a town a short distance from their homestead.[...]town of Madoc came into being by T. Primeau for his mother-in-law, Margaret LaRoche. on land don[...]4 which was also a office from Orville was moved to the townsite and it type of boarding house. Harry Batterton ran it for a while continued to be called Orville. With the coming of the before selling it to Hans and Lena Hole and her sister, Miss railroad a name for the station had to be chosen, and until Meala. This was located west of the Hotel McDonald. 1914 it[...]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 be[...]pistrant 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 the name Flaxville because of hotels se[...]catering service, apparently in the saloon. town to the east had applied for the name of Boyer, the name of a homesteader so[...]nt Boyer as the name of their town, so they had to start over in trying to agree on a new name. The State Bank of[...]as purchased by C. few adverse situations arose to set back its progress. Due to Englund for a grocery store. He and his wife furnished . a period of dry years, many homesteaders sold out and music for many dances in the area. The building was moved[...]rchased by Jim Sparling of Flaxville who moved it to his broke. In later years when the highway was[...]en 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[...]Crystal, North Dakota. After the hotel went out of business Hector Massart. He and Victor Ferro[...]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[...]was later moved from the west side of Main street to east until 1920.[...] |
| [...]also worked there. Sam had the first light plant. This is an article from the Madoc Recorder: "On Tuesda[...]tbed 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[...]LY4th known as T.J.'s Dray and Elmore Rowe worked for him.[...]NTANA 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[...]3 :45 p . m.-Fanner■ ' Bone Rae-Free for All-Prise $10 .00.[...]SPORT EVUTB-Fllll FOR ALL[...](8) Pie Eating Cont.It for Boys-Prise $1.00. Pi• Donated by lladoc Hotel.[...].of-War-Married Men va. Single llen-Prise: Oigara for the Winnen[...]eau & 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[...]When he moved away, Sig sold the paper paper came out on March 4, 1915. Published every to W. Johnson of the Seo bey Sen tinal.[...] |
| [...]NS officially changed to Madoc with George Springer as[...]stence. second was owned by LaRoche and LaFrance. This was later owned by Mark M. Hanson, who, in the 19[...]hot by a taxi dancer and was in serious condition for some time from the WILLIAM T. MI[...]e time, the first one Great Northern, sent me to Havre for a physical and being started by E. Renwall in 191[...]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[...]Eight feet on the south end was partitioned off for an office MADOC CHURCHES for me and the balance was used as a waiting and frei[...]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[...]thers. The Kanning Brothers had the best elevator for they had originally built it off the railroad rig[...]o the box cars by wagon. It soon became necessary to move onto the right-of-way by the other two. The elevator was moved on rollers. Eli LaRoche managed it for several years. It was later sold to the Equity Co-op Association, headed by Ed Bucher[...]B. Morrison and Bob Willard, Having come to Montana from Vermont, I felt that at In 1960 Ramo[...]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[...] |
| [...]to find but one was finally located. Mary Kamrud Lam[...]Buhl, Idaho, who went to Madoc School in the 20's took this on one of her trips back here. William Middlebrook died February 16, 1974, a[...]ct of the institution's rapid expansion from 1924 to 1959. A residence hall on the University of Minne[...]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[...]ool district number 52 was formed in 1916. |
| [...]in 1920, Madoc the hardware store for several years became School District Number 9. Th[...]Last of Soles". It appears to be the real thing however Alice[...] |
| [...]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[...]til homes were built. Several men worked together to build the homes which · were one-story, with thr[...]p, our parents owned a livery stable and drayline for several years. Our father alsa served on the scho[...]917. 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.[...]One of the incidents of interest we always remember was[...]community at this time. Other important early day Cale and Nellie A[...]Madoc in the 30's and resided in Thompson Falls for many[...]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,[...]Eddie and Hilmar, were already here. Our first impression of this country was one of desolation. The first spring we[...]Loan place. The fall of that year we got enough money from the crop to pay our grocery bill and with the 50¢ left[...]over we bought coffee. We went threshing with Gulik[...]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 out in the 30's, coyote hunting with greyhound[...] |
| [...]a 's year lease. I returned again in 1925, this time with my wife g olden wedding anni versary. and daughter, Ingeborg. We rented the Emma Crone place for two years and then in 1927 we built our home on the[...]farm I had purchased from my cousin. We had six children[...]w live was bought from Gulik selling our best cow for $18.00. Thro ugho ut th e fo llowi n g Kamrud in 1948. My wife died suddenly in 1948 while years we continued farming. I did carpen ter jobs va rying[...]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.[...]n 1973 I 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[...]side. Before th ere was d y namite the miners had to set fire on the rocks un til th ey crac ked a nd then the men could use a pick to break up th e rocks . I had many uncles in the St[...]decided JOHN V. BARSTAD- t o g o to orth Dakota. The boat trip across th e Atlan tic[...]D too k abo ut ten days. The next fall I returned to Norway wh ere I worked as a lumberjack for my father. It was hard John Vislie Bars[...]but I thought it was fun at the time . I returned to the Barstad,· was born and raised on the -Ma[...]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[...]rk , job being digging rocks. In 1914-15 I worked for Ed and Matthew and Julia. They raised t[...]The older children attended the Madoc and farmed for seven years until 1922 when I returned to g rade school and Flaxville schools and[...]ls. While in orway I married Ingeborg Arneson and we J ohn continues to farm in the Madoc area as well a s returned in 1923 with intentions of selling out a nd being involved in the construction business. He has been returning to buy a farm in Norwa y. H owever I could n ot[...]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 i[...] |
| in oil painting, woodworking and making signs for local not of draft age at the time he signed up for it. I asked him if business establishments.[...]hat might help establish Barton's Beverly works for Daniels County Social Services age[...]ging Council, Sheridan County homesteader to whom Barton told his is a member of the Daniels M[...]pital Guild, a age when he first came to Montana, I'll accept the charter member of the Ma[...]utheran Church where she Fortunately for Billie there was a homesteader who could has served as church organist for several years. make such an affi[...]presented to the chairman of the Sheridan County Draft[...]draft. He was 28 years old when he first came to Montana BILLIE BARTON[...]r the candle burned low. And Billie Barton worked for Pete Voight. He was truly quite a character and was heard to say, "Ya can't beat fun." was always doing someth[...]by George T. Springer got Barton out of one of his entanglements-this one almost put him in the army. SQUADS EA[...]baseball field. Fun |
| Harry Batterton out in his wheat crop in 1939.[...]Harry and the two men to the right are[...]fastened to the ground with heavy cable. Still the shack[...]bounced around when we had a storm. Grandma was[...]homestead didn't last longer than one summer. The day[...]after a storm we would wander over the prairie looking for[...]atterton Weeks at the age of 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[...]aken care ofby Mrs. Mary Lockrem, an old overland to Butte, lived there for one year. Then they friend and old timer of Orville. Grandma died May 26, 1934 moved to New Mexico and back to Missouri where they and was buried at the old Orville church yard. Ii ved in the Ozarks for several 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[...]tor, and deputy sheriff. I married and was living out on the prairies in a tarpaper stillhave.thestarba[...]adoc where he planted who died at birth. Dad went to Medicine Lake in 1906 and trees, built a small ho[...]1910 and then in 1912 Mother was a "champ" caller for the square dances which were passed away. When Mo[...]held around the country side in farmers barns and we used was very unhappy in Montana so we all moved to Flint, to dance all night. He was judge of elections for 49 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 D[...]on September 17, 1964, just a couple 1913 he left for Montana and came to Orville. In the spring months short of his goal. He was the end of the Batterton of 1914 the rest of us came out. Grandpa built the house in line. He is buried at[...]randma lived so many years. He passed grandmother out on the open prairies that he loved.[...] |
| Over the years Harry was well known for his brand of and Frank. The older childr[...]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[...]es in Four Buttes. Alex and Emily Bonneau came to the Madoc area in Emily Bonneau's b[...]n a tent until that fall when their the boys up to Madoc to stay with the Bonneaus. The boys homestead shack[...]was his wife, Lorraine, live in Scobey. hired to finish the remainder of the breaking. The first year Alex worked for the Great Northern Railroad 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 shipp[...]th breaking plows and oil tank on wagon, shipping out[...]car in 1912; also two sets of steel wheels that we proceeded to build two cars on, one cook and bedroom car, and[...]blacksmith shop. By the time we had this outfit all lined up[...]my older brother, had come out to Whitetail in 1910 along[...]We left Plentywood with the Rumely, trailing the two[...]enough and would lie down and the Rumely didn't have much respect for the wishes of the cow; it kept right on Roger and[...]tractor operator-(Dad) and we'd go back and raise the cow to her feet again. · We were five days coming by the South Bench by[...]operator in Scobey) was homesteading, to arrive at August[...]After it cleared up we proceeded to break soil, first 100[...]breaking commercially for other homesteaders until the[...]st of June; then Dad took Mary, Anna, and me back to St.[...]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[...]town of Madoc for LaRoche, Primeau, etc. After[...]back to St. John for the winter 1912-1913. Horace Bourassa, Sr. an[...]ssa, Sr. He and three brothers and families moved to |
| [...]that winter; the good Lord must have played drums for awhile with us. I later started playing the been looking out for us, I guess. ·violi[...]e fall of 1913-the Winter- blacksmith at St. John for many years. Later he switched Truesdale and St. Antony Elevators were put up in the fall to harness and machinery. His right arm finally troubled and winter (1913-1914). Dad put up a small store out on the him, so he gave up blacksmithing. The poor[...]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 originally for Mary and J.B. but neither of them liked The Turtle Mountain country is two to three hundred feet it very well and Dad sold it later on to Conlins who sold it higher than the surrounding plains and are all covered to Schaeffers a little later yet. But in the winter[...]any kinds, including cranberry, gooseberry, 1915 we lived in Madoc. Most of us, Blanche, Irene, and I[...]erry, chokecherry, strawberries, etc. After went to school that winter; Pat Murphy's sister, Irene, was being in this type of country, the open space of Montana teachi[...]looked rather bare, but we finally adjusted to it with time. The spring of 1915 was cold and[...]and dance. girl, Pamela, had married at St. John to Philias Lebeau, People were wearing heavy coats[...]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 f[...]thern home at Spokane, Washington and was married to August passenger train was stalled in a snowbank on Mike Bureau. Mary, who was married to Fred LaRoche, formerly Barstad's farm for three days until the snowplow and of Madoc, passe[...]'s. Fred passed shovel crew came up and got them out. J.B. and I walked to away in July, 1974. John Baptist (J.B.) died in 1[...]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.[...]o the year 1916 set in: another poor crop married to Jack Bradley, is still living in Chicago. She was[...]arts in spring of 191 7. J.B. was exempted partly for bemg Chicago, one south of Flaxville and one at H[...]at 18 years of age, and those registered married to James Nunn. She still lives in Tacoma, then never got to go. Wash[...]too much, they was scarce; and the flu came on. We all had our own turns also helped Mother, doing l[...]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. Mother was in and out of the house, helping bring first, but we all pulled out of it. Dad was left with a heart supplies to the outfit until the girls were gone, then staying condition that 'inade him decide to sell, lock, stock and in the house doing the cooking until J.B. married in 1921. barrel to J.B. and me. We operated as Bourassa Brothers, Mother always had[...]il usually a good garden. God surely has rewarded this Dad passed away in the spring of 1928 and Mother in the patient, kindly mother for all the care and patience she had fall of 1929. Dad and Mother stayed with us for several with all the family. years, and afterwar[...]and no play, but that wasn't the case altogether. We ever wanted me. enjoyed dances and visits betwee[...]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, Saskachewan shortly after we left. In 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 harn[...]. 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 sta[...] |
| at LaRochelle for the New France. He married at Quebec the 20th of October 1665 to Pereta Valley. He was 35 years old. In 1676, he c[...]orth American Continent. Another Bourassa came to Canada; Francois, who also originated from Poitou, France. He married at Fort St. Louis, at Chanbly in 1884 to Marie Leber. He was the ancestor of the great Hen[...]Left to right, back row: Luella, Eileen, Delia, Aurora, L[...]Jean, Eilleen, J.B. and Aurora both loved to fish and hunt deer. They Omer and Annette.[...]with members of the family as they came and left for preparing for the coming of the long cold winters. J.B., as[...]died of a massive heart he was called, would have to haul wheat to the mills in attack on November 8, 1959 while hunting deer with Plentywood for flour and other staples needed. There was a Aurora. She spent the night with him as the car was stuck very large garden and canning was a slow process[...]er 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[...]livestock fed. to all but a blessing in disguise as he was an energ[...]unty Commissioner and person and had to be doing something all of the time. Had remained in that capacity for approximately six years. he been parti[...]e 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[...]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, Montana. Eilleen legislation for the benefit of the little man and did not cater (Schagunn) lives on a farm about 30 miles south of to company policies. He was his own man working for his Flaxville. Omer lives in Palm Deser[...]Aurora, Colorado where her husband works for United State Senator from Daniels County. There a[...]Helena 1949 he was appointed as Liquor Inspector for the who had lost his wife a few y[...]spend the on share crop basis. In 1950 they moved to Helena, winters at Palm Springs an[...]abin on Montana where he became chief Field Agent for the State Canyon Ferry Lake, 20[...] |
| [...]by Larry Wahl I was born in 1922, to Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bourassa. When I There we[...]majoring Margaret Brunelle was married to Ferdinand LaRoche. |
| [...]at Great Falls. Ada and Merrill 1888 and moved to Bein Fait, Saskatchewan as a little girl.[...]m C.M. Russell High Agnes and Curtis returned to Scobey in the spring of School. Curt[...]uard at Boston, and Jim 1912 where they remained for many happy but difficult works in Great Falls. years. Curtis had to go to Glasgow to file his intent for On January 14, 1946 Agnes Bush was m[...]eantime Sheridan County was Point to Louis Smith, a piano tuner. She travelled with hi[...], 1915. His residence was listed 1958. For the remainder of her life she lived in Scobey. Sh[...]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[...]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. Lik[...]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 attendance, during what we'll call our farm years, we children loved it. and Carmon was named for her brother, Carmon James. There[...]in the flu epidemic of hills, the times we would take our father's lunch to him in 1918. The Garfield Wilson home was set up[...]the fields, running like blazes over any bridges we came to hospital so that Dr. Tucker could care for all the patients at because we just knew there were monsters under them, and on[...]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[...]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 dec[...]At that time married teachers were not eligible to tea.:::h, but if she were married after the school year began, she could finish out the term. 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 teach for two years during the teacher shortage immediatel[...]till live. Carmon was Justice of Peace from 1947 to 1975, and he has been Fire Chief since 1960.[...]five years at Los Alamos, New Mexico, then moved to a G.I. homestead at Riverton, Wyoming for about[...] |
| [...]middle of winter because Jerry Barstad dared her to; seeing Alvin Ellingson getting his head cut open by a baseball bat; and wanting to kill Bill Henderson when he stepped on some baby[...]f the girls had found. Daniel moved the family to Scobey in the summer of 1940, when Betty was les[...]eenhouse during the summer and working part time for Walt Vanderpan in the lumber yard for a few years, Daniel also worked several summers for Ernie Sell during harvest. He also spent several[...]ng 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 several years; almost losing Scotty several times when he had double pneumonia, coming terribly close to.losing Betty who had black diphtheria when she w[...]rld War II, and Scotty was in the Army from 1959 to 1961. Olive Cameron passed away in 1966, and D[...]ie Mae (Mrs. Joe) Metzger, whose husband travels for the Department of Interior, Lois (Mrs. Marlin) S[...]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 MAURICE CONSTA[...]his wife, Ada, and the two oldest girls had come to by Margaret Chabot ·[...]d Mrs. Joseph Constant. He had one We were married in 1922. Our children attended Madoc[...]early t wenties and again in the · ·family came to Forget, Saskatchewan. Maurice's parents late forties. We left the farm in 1943 a nd moved into Scobey homesteaded and farmed there for several y ears. where Mr. Dunn died[...]e 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 South Dakota. before coming here. They came here in about 1913 or '14 I li[...]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[...]aurice 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[...]t 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[...]on the Mikkel Barstad farm. Another move was made to Number 315. He was a charter member[...]at Turtle Lake in 1919 and has been a and worked for several years. Signe and Klara were born continuous member for 57 years. during these years. The first car, a Mo[...]He married Mattie Sorben in 1922. His wife came to bought in 1924. In 1926 they purchased a farm one[...]and Ella and Myrtle were born Ellen, were born at this home. Of course all babies were there. I[...]machinery, and Ii vestock in two emigrant cars to the end of The nearest church was Orville, southw[...]ad 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 Pocatello, Idaho. Her away in 1971, still able to recall clearly all the incidents husband, Al[...]d days", many of which were is married to Kenneth J. Larson and they live in Scobey. filled[...]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 acr[...]days. He was the cook on the Snorre worked for Ernie Henderson the first winter he was road and[...]Years ago it was a custom to shi varee the newly married.[...]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.[...]smoked out. They promised a big dance for all of Ma doc the[...]In 1911 John Fagan came to Daniels County to file on a[...]by horse and buggy. The whole family moved out the following year by immigrant car to Medicine Lake and 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 |
| [...]That summer my father and brother worked for the[...]Highway Department near the Oregon coast and we lived by Marion E. Field Roger[...]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.[...]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, W[...]at that time as everything had In 1936 I moved to Vallejo, California where I worked to be built and fences put up. They had 160 acres on which until 1938. I then returned to Montana as my brother had they raised wheat. become.ill. We lived in Glasgow and I worked in a cafe there Two other couples 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[...]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 Army Engineers. where their son Albert C. Field was born. They traveled by . In 1939 I returned to Vallejo to work, where in 1940 I met horse and wagon to Plentywood as that was the nearest William Rogers and in July 1941 we were married. railroad. In April 1915 they returned to Williston again My brother Albert's only c[...]t 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[...]ds. 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 also had the job of keeping the garden remarried.[...]rom High School at Eugene. 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 Sundays when we went chokecherry picking. Ammunition Depot at Mar[...]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[...]orked 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 seas[...]World War II he worked as a steel blizzard came we all spent the night at school as our draftsman at[...]hipyard in Bellingham. He parents could not get to school. I can remember going to passed away there at the age of 83 in July 1968. school when it was 40 to 50 degrees below ze-ro. Our teacher When my husband and I' moved to Reno, he was a shift - thawed us .out in the morning and my mother did it when supervisor in the Palace Club. I eventually went to work as we got home after school. They had a tub of snow to put on a dealer in the Clubs. In October 1961 my[...]other. neighbors helped each 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[...]After harvest time and when the wheat was sold, we all Caroline Fjeld Davis. While there I saw another girlhood looked forward to making out our grocery order that was chum Sylvia Hanrahan D[...]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, beans, Morrison in Ma[...]of honey, chocolate, cocoanut and other LaRoche. Sorry I didn't see more but every minute I was things we needed to last the year. My mother al ways there I was busy. · managed to make it last. We butchered a ste~r every fall and canned everything we could out of the garden. The Harry Gibbs family moved to Scobey where he worked at the Court House. About[...]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[...] |
| On May 13, 1908, we were married in Roseau County, Minnesota. In 1909, our son, George, was born also in Roseau County, Minnesota. The first part of March 1910, Carl struck out to Montana to look for a homestead. He went to Baker and Terry, Montana but he did not like it there. It was too hot and dry, so he came home and in the mean time we had a letter from his school chum, Albert Jallo,[...]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[...]at. 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 caught down the line maybe W[...]a and on April ninth, George. and I said good-bye to our friends and relations. We got on the train at Fox railroad station and heading for Montana too. When I got to Williston Carl was still there; about30-40 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[...]from all immigrant cars. On April tenth I came to Culbertson and in a couple of days Carl got there[...]es and cattle were tied up in a sod stable, close to where we all stayed with Mr. and Mr. Albert Jallo, a coupl[...]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 went up main street and everywhere, but no one complained. But we were scared. In a few days the men folks came bac[...]ed Carl Fjeld roof, and a sod shack for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jallo. Albert did not have lumber, but Carl had one door and one window for J allos sod shack, too.[...]uth of Flaxville; they borrowed a wagon from him to bring all our stuff from Culbertson and on this trip back to Culbertson a little colt was born. We sent to Sears and Roebuck for a cook stove, as soon as we got lined up with groceries and everything we needed - out on the wild, wide prairie. Then the day came when we were all ready to hitch up the teams, all set to leave. And here, one ox was gone and he was'no where to be found. So Carl, George, and Carl's brother walked all over the prairie for three days; Laura and I were into every building even in- to the Livery barns where we thought he would be. But no trace of the ox and we had to get out to our claim because one of the men, Mr. Gjarde stayed back there at the shacks until we got there. Well, Carl decided to hitch the milk cow and the ox to the other wagon. The cow did not like it any more than we did. It was no load for her but just to hold up the wagon poles. It was bad up and down those steep '. Culbertson hills. We camped out in the open one or two nights. We enjoyed it-nice weather all the time. But were we tickled to get to our shacks and unload and set up housekeeping and plenty of green grass for the horses and cattle, but the poor ~ow could not walk for two weeks, she was too stiff; we had to carry water and fee to her, but we didn't mind! The hvrses had to be hobbled. They wanted to[...] |
| [...]out with us and to hold down the claim. When Carl came,[...]Albert said your ox is still here. He had been tied up in one[...]of the livery barns which we overlooked and didn't inquire at that time. We came out too late to put in any crop, but[...]little colt got cut by the hay mower and we lost her. In the fall, Carl went to Froid or Homestead in threshing time to make money for groceries. When Carl came home[...]from the harvest field, we lost one horse from pink eye[...]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[...]nicest land on the Madoc Bench, (we call it now), it was just a bluff to scare the homesteaders. Only thing we could do was to move two miles east to Coulee land. Winter was soon[...]coming on. First thing was to dig a well. We got good water down 25 feet. Then we moved our shack and everything[...]and all the hay had to be hauled again and Carl and I made[...]a big sod stable (barn) and fixed up our house for the winter. All the lignite coal we needed, Carl dug and hauled[...]home. On December second (my birthday) we got three-[...]four feet of snow, which lasted all winter. We didn't worry. Only thing was, we didn't hear from our friends and[...]It was six miles to Whitetail, no neighbors except[...]Lauzons, four or five miles to the west. Mr. and Mrs. A. Jallo went to Plentywood to work that winter. They came[...]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 Fj[...]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[...]One morning we looked out and saw our horses had run[...]away. My husband started out one direction and I the[...]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[...]declined and rode home to find Carl had found the horses in[...]the evening of January 10, 1911 a young man came to Carl Fjeld, Bozeman - 1943[...]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 wa[...]t land and 50 acres and on July fourth, Carl went to Culbertson to get the rest already broken on it. So t[...] |
| that evening he said tomorrow morning we will drive over there with the oxen and fix up th[...]en started there that summer by the young man. So we took along some food, water, bedding and baby Geo[...]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 a[...]g man had rode all that night until early morning to south of old Scobey. Then he turned Polly loose and he waited for the mail stage or bus and got a ride down the mai[...]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![...]ne son and five daughters. His wife died in 1917, we all took a trip to Fox, Minnesota. My first vacation 1906. In 1912 he traveled by train to Scobey, where he since we left in 1910. In the spring of 1917, Carl ordered a homesteaded. He died in 1928. threshing rig but when we came home from our trip it had been dry and no rain, so no crop. One year we were hailed out-maybe in 1913. In 1918, Carl Jr. (Stub) was born. George was going to school at the Lauzon school-one and a half miles[...]the Rumley tractor, one and a fourth miles closer to our place. Clarence started school that fall, 191[...]on March 10, 1917. They traveled by train to Scobey, In 1922 or 23, October 9, our big barn[...]in 1917 where they homesteaded. Their oldest fall we moved our big house and a small barn from a place[...]yrtle, was born in Montana on June 5, 1918. After we had bought, to our home place. In the barn that burned lea[...]he barn was full of hay. 1943. Gilbert worked for the United States 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[...]isco, in 1958 where his Scobey. The fall of 1928, we moved to Scobey and Clarence widow Clara still resid[...]still resides in Minnesota as does their eldest son, James. graduated from Scobey High. Stub went to college in Two other daughters Evelyn[...]their youngest son, Donald live in California. Stub and family live[...]d nine great- grandchildren. George, our oldest son, passed away April 1, 1952.[...]Herman Forbregd came by train to Culbertson from ANTONLAURISFORBREGD[...]22, 1858. His father, Severt homesteading here. It was great land and beautiful Peder Forbregd wa[...]recalls a story often told by his father about this undecided Lofoten Islands, a place called Norland[...]is life. Herman and his brother, Sigurd, W P·, , to the United States in 1883, and settled in Baltic, South shipping out of Culbertson, when they were asked to haul a Dakota on a farm. Anton married Jonetta Gunderson in safe to a small community established north of Cul[...] |
| [...]the last time he saw Herman for a couple of hours, as he[...]During this time, Selma Halverson (Forbregd) worked as[...]Later, Selma and her sister, Clara, moved to Scobey, where[...]This happy couple was blessed by the births of six[...]children, but due to non-medical tactics, the twins, Mary[...]children still stick close to their first home with Shirley, the[...]went by that Selma and Herman didn't put in rows and[...]rows of garden vegetables. Herman continued this gardening process for years after his wife passed on.[...]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[...]jug after jug of wine which she often gave for gifts. One[...]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[...]es 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[...]hrough the floor. Never again did worked for days, with assistance of her daughter, Shirley,[...]and coffee. The whole family would attend this festive freighting and hauling dynamite up to the Railroad occasion. The huge atte[...]people coming Construction crews. When hauling this dynamite, Herman from as far as fifty miles. The music was usually provided was always sure to carry a couple jugs of homemade booze by Mrs. Leutsch, Mrs. Edwards, Bill Lapke, and Charlie for the crew's cook. In return Herman received a warm Jacoby. place to sleep, two meals, and possibly a ham or something[...]arn was Dad's pride and joy," say Harold and of this sort. Sigurd told Harold that Herman was famous[...]was constructed, designed and built by Herman's for saying, "If I can supply the cook with a jug. I k[...]and remains on the same plot where have a place to sleep, lots to eat, and extra grub on the way it was built. Th[...]eyed west and was new. It holds memories for all. worked as a logger. Later, he came back, a[...]life Scobey, working on the Tande Ranch. During this time, he 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 Culbertson for the n ever became disco.uraged. construction of the homestead shack. "At this time, Dad," 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 houses, nice[...]nd her greatest , rope at a badger, not expecting to catch it. He did catch it, happiness in[...] |
| [...]d 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 special occasions, and al ways looked clean and polished. Herman served as County Representative for a term and belonged to several organizations. He passed away in March,[...]a World War I veteran. He saw front line service for four months. After the war he worked one year in North Dakota, moving from there to Madoc where he began farming. He returned to his home comm unity in Minnesota and married Gret[...]ch 1, 1923. They left by train the same afternoon for Madoc. He was renting a farm north of Madoc, owne[...]bruary 1, 1924. (Henry's brother Oscar was also out there at the time. Oscar was married to Irene Anderson in Scobey in 1930. Henry[...]Carl K veseth. My father and Ed Lee were elected to the school board in[...]Enger as teacher for the first four years. Tillie C. Opheim Mr. and Mr[...]ison) was my sixth grade teacher. 1923. They left for Madoc the same day. My[...]death the farm was sold to John Lapke. My mother lives[...]eph Girard and Louise Revet both came from France to[...]Saskatchewan, where they had farmed, to the Boyer area (later changed to Madoc) in 1911. They were accompanied[...]by Adlard Lebel, a young man also eager to homestead.[...]in the Big Muddy area trying to ranch but it was impossible[...]er wagons with their possessions and headed south to the States to build a home·s tead house with a sod roof on[...]katchewan. Two years later they traveled by train to[...]Lebel with a wagon to journey to their new home. All their[...]and bedding were lost on the train and they came to[...] |
| [...]I guess it was kind of lonesome for my mother with only[...]grandfather came out from Wisconsin and homesteaded[...]All supplies came out of Culbertson. Joseph and Louise Gir[...]id find their clothes.) At the homestead they had to THE ALFRED GOULET FAMILY |
| Of the twenty-one sons and daughters, eighteen were present for a reunion last Sunday in Scobey, with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Goulet of this city. It is one of the largest fa milies in the U[...]Photo in front of the family home: In front, left to right: Brian, Mike and Johnny. Second row: Julie,[...]een Ashpole has three Raymond and Genevieve moved to Madoc, three more children, her husband works in[...]ived there until February of 1962 when they moved to sells insurance; Geraldine Mares had four children, lives in Colfax, California, later selling the place to Dale Fossen. Bellevue and is part owner of Tour I[...]being full grown when their parents moved to Madoc. The[...]vieve rented the place from him and students ever to attend Madoc High School. Cora was a moved into i[...]also served in the Madoc post office. eight years to Elementary school at Madoc. Raymond and Genevieve[...]le in 1940. They had three children before moving to Madoc. They were Annette, married to Arkley Mullinax and now living in[...]Sam) Elinius Hanson was born at Maasoval, married to Ronald Tinal and living in Kentucky. After[...] |
| [...]Agnes was married to John Yukovanko in Scobey and she[...]I worked for E .J. Ren wald in his store in Froid and I lived[...]asked me to go up there which I did, in her place. I boarded[...]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[...]Home. Maaasoval. When 18 years of age he came to America to Earl and Jennie Hardison - Jennie was a clerk at the E.J. |
| [...]homesteal Margaret traded her homestead for her orotner 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[...]1928 an sold the pool hall and moved back to the farm.[...]eighth grade. There were buses to take them to school-in the winter this was mostly a team and a sleigh with a bus[...]arrangements for her to stay with a family in Scobey---'[...]giving them mostly farm produce for her board and room.[...]ppi, clerk at the E.J. Renwald store, was married to Lapke upstairs in the home of Beatrice G[...]ted from High School she attended Northern turned out to give us a send off". Taken in front of the Hotel[...]far left is Arthur Brunelle, proprietorof for the Daniels County Free Press and worked in offic[...]Oregon.. They moved to Canada ··where he worked at[...]she and his wife, Ethel, and their children moved out here to had met while working in Sweetgrass. They were married live. They sold the farm to Alex's brother, W.J. Henderson in St. Phillips Church in Scobey. They lived in Spokane for in 1919 and moved back to North Dakota. W.J . Henderson awhile until Jack graduated from Gonzaga University. never lived out here. His brother, Ernie farmed the land They moved to Shelby where Jack is with the Toole County and la[...]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[...]ool and worked as a beautician until her marriage to lived with them and would take the team and[...]on it and pick up the children Ernie couldn't get to with Spokane, Washington, Moscow, Idaho, and at[...]hey have six children-Charlene, William, to Calvin, North Dakota to their brother, Will's place to Margaret, Jacqueline, Teresa, and James. winter them. We had no feed here. After finishing his Jacqueline attended Kinman[...]anaugh at load up the cattle and drive down to North Dakota. They'd St. Phillips Church in Scobe[...]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[...]r in Farmers Union Junior farmed with his Dad and for Knute Christensen. Later he work. They used to hold a week of school in the summer and Tom bough[...]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[...]the Madoc school. The family was operated a motel for several years. Now he sells active in Farmers Union work for many years. Ernie would investments and securitie[...]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 w[...]956 they moved along. It was a long days drive to Havre in those days. to Scobey where Tom worked for Nemont Telephone Margaret was als[...]from farming and sold Although times were hard, we always had enough to eat their land to sons Bill and Tom. After Margaret's death, in and clothes to wear. Ernie had cattle, horses, pigs, and 1955, Ernie lived on the farm for awhile with Bill and his chickens. Margaret had a garden. Ernie would haul a family. Then he moved to Scobey and lived there until his barrel of water on the stoneboat to the end of the garden death, in 1965. Tom sol[...]the had purchased from his brother, Will) to Dean and Louie garden and water it.[...]After Bill's land (the Home Place) came out of the Soil Bank, he leased it to Andy Hertoghe. Lowell Burgett farmed it for awhile. At Present, Pam and Larry Humbert[...]certainly good to see them living there and improving the[...]was always the same: "That's where the money ran out, Margaret sewed for the family-mostly from old clothes son". sh[...]ossible and sew into new garments. She also sewed for her was 44 degrees below zero with winds up to 65 miles an sister, Teresa Boyd's family. Later we were able to buy new hour. The storm lasted three days. When asked to recall his material for the clothing she sewed. Margaret was glad[...]of the storm John would sometimes answer when she didn't have to sew anymore. "Son, I thought hell had froze over!" Other times he wo[...]ck 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 cushions thought the Lord had forsaken him for sure. On the[...] |
| [...]ever describe the beauty of this wonderful land. As I sit writing this letter to you I can look over the many acres of[...]ng. It is a carpet of blue stretched from horizon to[...]Mother was sure this was the signal she had been waiting for. On April tenth 1913 she arrived with the three[...]and she went to the general store, introduced herself and[...]asked how she might get word to John that his family had[...]your man was already in this spring, so more than likely he[...]oldest more than likely be somebody going out that way in the children, Robert, Arthur, and Joh[...]She was grateful to learn that he was joking, for in a[...]belongings and the driver instructed to take them to the[...]driver shouted to John who peered into the darkness from[...]the open door to see who was there. The first thing his wife[...]said to him was, "Well, here we are, Wes. Let's get these[...]Three children were born to the Hunters, all delivered by[...]arrived to help with the delivery of one baby and to say,[...]In August of 1924 a son, John, passed away. Mr. Hunter[...]The men and women who came to homestead the grassy[...]ur. to build a home but most came for the "fast buck", do a[...]minimum of work, prove up and sell out. Carl Jacobson came to Montana for reasons of health. evening of the third day the w[...]warned-"If you want to keep her-get her to a dry The temperature still registered 30 below[...], saloon where, within the hour, he had purchased for $20.00 who lived in Glasgow, Montana, the county seat, to a half squatter's rights with all improvements on[...]rtheast of present day Scobey, choicest farm land to be had in Montana. before le[...]e days after the blizzard, the temperature soared to They arrived by train, at Poplar, Montana. ([...]k 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[...] |
| [...]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, the[...]eautiful. The shack, and returned home to Boyceville, Wisconsin, where grass was lush and e[...]hem in Poplar · Carl soon found a job, working for Pete Hardenberg, an again, only this time they arrived by emigrant car, already establ[...]arm) while Edna and even a milk cow. This time the trip to the homestead took Harry held down the homestead.[...]ive days and even then the milk cow nearly played out. Carl wanted to go to his claim, Pete loaned him a saddle F[...]they farmed-that is they broke up sod and horse. This was the first and last time. Carl was no cowboy,[...]home every permitted. There were fences to build, wells to dig (always week end.[...]unsuccessfully) a sod barn and chicken coop to construct.[...]played the fiddle and for many years the neighborhood 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:[...]along, Carl would add another room to the house, so that[...]kids needed schooling too. At first this consisted of two to Carl Jacobson on porch of original homestead[...]school teacher herself, so we children received most of our[...]horseback, but somehow we children all graduated from[...]One trip stands out in everyone's memory. In 1926, Carl[...]·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.[...]sick in his life. Edna with the assistance of son, Barney[...]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[...]Holis homestead was just the therapy Edna needed to regain her Thompson), who has been teach[...]ille. Edith (Mrs. Robert Carl worked all summer for Harden berg and then put in Wheat[...] |
| Barney Jacobson family. Left to right: Phyllis, Ida, Barney and Clyde.[...]In 1946, Ida Pittenger married Barney Jacobson. We anniversary, March 15, 1975. lived on the Jacobson farmstead until we purchased a farm south of Madoc (Elgestad farm), and moved there in 1963. We had two children, Phyllis and Clyde. Phyllis marr[...]hey live Charlie was janitor at Madoc school for several years. He in Portland, Oregon. Clyde marr[...]d was also mail messenger from the depot to the post office at they are now living on the far[...]lphonsine died in 1950. Charlie remarried in 1955 to active in the community. Ida was a charter member[...]s 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 mo[...]homestead for 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[...]gain. Albert died in Minneapolis. His wife living for the rest of his life. He worked for some neighbors[...]. and later in North Dakota. In 1928 Charles came to Montana and worked for Ackerman brothers near Glentana. On November 2[...]au of Madoc were married in Scobey. They returned to North GULIK KAMRUD Dakota for one year and in 1931 they returned and lived on c[...]amrud) Lamb and Henry Austinson Alphonsine worked for Joseph Girard. Shortly thereafter Charlie homeste[...]in Plentywood after leaving then lived in Scobey for two years while Charlie worked on Norway in[...]d in the WPA gravelling roads all over the county for $4 per day, 11 Outlook-Plentywood area before[...]d from Gjert Urdahl. acre farm northeast of Madoc for $525 from the county. He Smith got that nam[...]heel tractor he farmed until 1962 when he sold it to Ramon Trower. owned. Thea and Gulik lived in Madoc for a copple years[...] |
| [...]d also in Scobey. Gulik threshed with Hilmar Wahl for several years too. Later he did some custom combi[...]tinson in the 30's. Thea was well known and loved for her good humor, warm hospitality, and most of all her practical jokes! They sold their farm 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[...] |
| [...]. They lived in San Francisco where Ernest worked for the Corps of Engineers and also Dean William Lapke was born in 1920 to John A. and as a musician. They had two sons, Dou[...]rst of six children. He attended the Madoc school for the[...]y 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[...]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[...]lding 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[...]adjusted to farm life and rural living after having be[...] |
| [...]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 C[...]it Union and has served on its Board of Directors for 25 years. He is a Board member of the Flaxville F[...]Company and was a clerk of the Madoc School Board for many years. Dean is also a member of the Daniels[...]at Oswego, Montana. All of these activities point out his main interest in life, his interest and occup[...]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 o[...]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 M[...]member of spring of 1915 he returned by railroad to the Madoc area. the Madoc Home Demonstration Club. John served on the He worked for his brother, Bill, Emory LaRoche and on the[...]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 Wadlow),[...](Diricksweiler). In 1902 his family moved to Redfield, Manley) lives in Scobey. South Dakota where they farmed for several years.[...]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[...]homesteaded again in the same area. He proved up this one and sold it to George Grosse at the time of his marriage.[...]In 1916 he was wed to Alice LaRoche (daughter of[...]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[...]born, the family once more pulled up stakes, this time looking for a place where land would be available for all his[...]Upon hearing ofland to be opened up in Montana, they embarked for Culbertson by train, from where they set off[...], Clara, May, ground before returning to North Dakota until spring Alice, William, Harvey,[...]when the rest of the family moved out. This being ahead of[...]the railroad they had long distances to haul produce - first[...]1888. Within a few years he moved with his family to South Dakota. He worked for his father and others there until he came to Montana in an immigrant car with his horses. Joe[...]ses, a harness maker and a mechanic. He was noted for this ability to run a steam engine on the threshing crews. He w[...]ington state following his discharge. He returned to this area following the end of the war. He enjoyed[...]njoyed race horses and pacers, even making a trip to the Twin Cities to see Dan Patch, the famous pacer of the Teens. J[...]bec, Canada in 1852, one of the six children born to Pierre and Marceling Bessette LaRoche. He came to North railroad reached Madoc in 1913. Bei[...]survey Dakota in 1878 stopping briefly in Chicago to work in a also, they staked out their 320 acres, however when the brickyard. The[...]line ran Dakota where he was part of the start of this community. between the house and th[...] |
| [...]up at St. John's, North Dakota, where they lived for[...]In 1909 he came to what is now Madoc, Montana when[...]retired from farming, building a house in Madoc- this house is now on the John Lapke farm. During the f[...]adoc area where Theophile built many houses-moved to Washington-she died 1963. Cecelia married John[...]omesteaded 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[...]18. Robert now area also had business there-moved to Peace River, lives in Fort Nelson, B[...]Getting unsettled, the family moved to Peace River, Medicine Lake-died 1974.[...]929, settling on a farm there. Lucien lived in this area all his life-served in World War With M[...]eled extensively-lives in Jeanne went to live with Dorothy. Fred took up the dream Scobey.[...]Nelson, British Columbia, where he trapped for many Elias married Hazel Thompson-farmed in Mad[...]wit and humor, and he was a master Malta-retired to Colorado.[...] |
| [...]1896. In 1910 he came to Daniels County area with his[...]family. By the time he was old enough to homestead there[...]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 h[...]y an honorable discharge and returned to Scobey. He worked Noble, Ken Noble, Donna LaRoche, Dave LaRoche and for the Tjon family and later for "Doc" Morrison. Diane LaRoche.[...]In August of 1975 he was admitted to the Old Soldiers[...]United States of America near what became Madoc. We 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[...]n North Dakota until 1911 when she was old enough to file for a homestead north of Madoc. The children of this marriage are Amy Noble of Newport Beach, C[...] |
| [...]some sold for taxes and many just closed their doors. Teles[...]their homestead to North Battleford, Saskatchewan in[...]wedding anniversary. He still danced the jig at this time.[...]land to the family homestead for approximately f1 ve years[...]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[...]oal 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[...]th his folks in 1921. butter. With the extra milk we would feed the chickens . Dad Adeline-ma[...]in 1915 and farmed went ahead with the family and we crossed the border at north of Madoc for many years and moved to Whitefish in Portal, North Dakota.[...]e they still reside. There was a total of nine We came through Plentywood and stopped at Redstone[...]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[...]rried 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[...]da. 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 working for Great Bourassa. Everyone was friendly. We didn't have much[...]road. Alice remarried Oscar Redahlin of money but we did have a big garden and a big barrel of salt[...]h. He died in 1973 and she is living in a pork so we made out fine. We lived in a sod house which was[...]in dance the night away the lamp would almost go out from Scobey and moved to a farm four miles northwest of the lack of oxygen, so the door had to be opened once in a Flaxville. J.B. died[...]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 built we Canada with their folks. All married in n[...]nd 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. Wo[...]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 while the for staple food and clothing for the family.[...]. About 1911 I, Adeline, the oldest girl, went to a school near Scobey st~ying with Pete Harden berg. I was thirteen years old, workmg for my room and board which included washing clothes[...]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 hom[...]In 1914 Henry E . and Mary Lockrem moved to Madoc .In ~913 when the railroad came through,[...]ran it at my Dad's store that he used to have to come out to my for several years before moving back to the homestead. homestead to get away from it all. He talked me When 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. After leaving Madoc, we bought saw the new sign on the store. It said "H.[...]d the drug store in Flaxville and were there for six and a half Son" above the door and that's where I worked for my years. The Lockrem Cash Store in Madoc was sold to Gust father. We had a doctor come into Madoc and he wanted Vahl of Whitetail. some one to start a drug store so the customers wouldn't have to go to Scobey to have their prescriptions filled. So Father starte[...]rth 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.[...]City, South Dakota; Bridget of Idaho; Bill of this area; Ed[...]Helen Killian of Scobey. Of this large pioneer family only two survive at this writing-they are Jim and Helen. Orville and Gina Lockrem in 1916. After the druggist left we had groceries in both buildings. Wedding pictur[...]rgery in |
| [...]settling at Estevan, Saskatchewan before coming to the[...]g children are: technician for Doctor Norman for several years. They have Ernest, of Albuquerque[...]home place the teaching and education field there for many years and south of .Madoc and lives in Scobey. has conducted two Teen Age Study tours to Spain-; he and Evelyn-married to Edward Duval ofFlaxville-(Seerural his wife , Alm[...]in-law, Marie and Helen and Emil Gerths came to Montana years; He married Mary Severt in Scobey i[...]homesteaded in the early teens near Madoc. This cousin two brothers, Bill and Rudolph and their mother were died and to claim inheritance, they had to move to homesteaders nearby. Bill's place was north of Da[...]place south of Madoc; later, they moved to the Carl K veseth ,·as just east (later the Art[...]rdell , They Spokane in the 50's. Lucie moved to Coeur d ' Alene, Idaho •noved to Snohomish , Washington. Rudolph left this area where her daughter Helen lived. She[...]Marie married Eddie 0. Wahl, who had come to the :rnd was buried at Orville. Rudolph had one son and lived Madoc area where he worked for his uncle, Sam Hanson. part of his latter[...] |
| [...]d 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[...]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,[...]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 wa[...]mil Gerths were married in Nebraska before coming to Montana. They also farmed near Four Buttes before moving to Idaho. They have four children; Donald, Luverne,[...]RY 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[...]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[...]to Montana earlier and come back with the report tha[...]was good out there.[...]Addition to tl-ie original townsite. They were anticipating[...]burned to the ground. He also operated the Occident Madoc.[...]a elevator in World War II which was later sold to a syndi- and was a great booster for Madoc and its community. Mr. cate composed[...]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[...]James "Do.c " married Tillie Opheim and ,\'lJ.doc for several years where her husband ran Shorty's[...]in Tacoma, Washington. New Mexico near their son, James. Thomas "Frank"[...] |
| [...]s married and lives in Arlee, Montana. He has one son, Danny. Another of Jim and Louise's sons died in i[...]dances and if we could get a priest, mass was held in it. The[...]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 and they both died out in Tacoma. Rasmus Ostrup was a newcomer from De[...]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.[...]ame 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 Lebel, Hanna and Asa Peterson bench and maybe they could help out. When they got there they found out it was the Lauzons they had known back in Quebec.[...]us. So now there were enough children in the area to start a school. Several of the Asa and H[...]Crone was one of the first teachers and she used to ride homestead until 1941 when they bough a[...]k as a teacher south of Scobey. was attempting to convey English to french and Asa was born and rais[...]1. A a died in the mi , i accomplish it, she did! This building was also used for sixties. There were no children.[...] |
| [...]Lillie served as clerk of the Madoc school board for[...]moved to Tacoma, Washington where she lived with her[...]around Madoc. Les' son, James, farmed for Elmore for a[...]and dry goods. Madoc had been chosen for this business in 1918[...]to automobiles and better roads, Madoc gradually die[...]ovember 14, 1892 at Hensel, North Dakota. He came to the Madoc community in 1916. At first hr w[...] |
| [...]October 1, 1918, having resigned preparatory to entering adva~cement of Madoc during its early hi[...]vice. from the Plentywood Press can best describe this In late 1917, S.M. Forbregd sold the Madoc Recorder to industrious young man. "Attorney George T. Spring[...]hen he is home George is a mighty busy for journalism dating back to high school days when I man. Besides being a wide[...]ney, he is covered news and sports for the paper in my native postmaster and editor of h[...]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!" Scobey. During this time I supported enthusiastically the George T.[...]m high territory circulating a petition for its formation. There was school, spent two years[...]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 th[...]rnity and is an honorary contest for county seat Scobey polled 964 votes and Madoc mem[...]358. When the Sheridan County Commissioners voted to Foreign Wars.[...]roid, 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[...]arrived in Madoc in September of 1916. For on this day the board select, During my employment at Madoc, which lasted 'til Has ruled that we can now elect. December 15, 1916, I became well a[...]was very stout, people in the area and I decided to remain and practice law. But he took the cou[...]r of the In 1920 I became house attorney for Griggs. Cooper and the Ma doc Recorder, offered m[...]t. Paul, and acted in that capacity 'til building for my assistance in conducting the Recorder. retirement in 1953. On February 19, 1917, I was admitted to practice law in June 30,1926 I was married to Miss Elizabeth W. Trine Montana. My first fee was received for drawing the bylaws (deceased 1967) at Marshalltown, Iowa. There is a son. for the Madoc Town Hall Association. Soon thereafter I Theodore G., account executive for advertising in Batton, drew and circulated a petition addressed to the Montana Barton, Durstine and Osborne,[...]Scandinavian working for him doing chores and among[...]1926 to perpetuate and promote birling (log rolling) the[...]water sport of the lumberjacks. For the 16th con ecutive[...]States and Canada vied for the title of "King of the White[...]pictures. My son, Ted, won the National Junior Title. In[...] |
| [...]boy s and Dad soon arrived. They had gone to Bystroms to writing and pur uing the many interest I ha[...]. I am making my home at Heritage We have told about Dad and Mom and now about their M[...]in Ely, Minnesota where he was an Optometrist. To this by Mary Kamrud[...]Harry worked in Olsens Grocery Store for awhile. Bert homesteaded east of Madoc about 19[...]Chiropractic training in Parti an League. He ran for local political offices. Bert was Illinois. Lat[...]aken 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[...]ere married in Milan , Minne ota on June 4, 1 92. To thi uni on were born eleven children. Selmer the[...]ther had written Dad about our arrival , but when we 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 , Arizona. Alfred married come in. udd enly we saw Helmer F la n walking along with Blanche Snar[...]ay 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[...]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 , Washi[...]in Lewistown 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[...]ieve took her teachers training in Montana , over to Bystroms where we stayed that night. We waited Colorado and North Dakota. She taught in M[...]ll the next day but Dad and the boys did not come for us so in Washington. She married Harold Wilhelm in 1971. Mr . Even kaas drove us to our new home. It was dark Hazel married Elias LaRoche in 1924. They lived in before we reached home , Mr. Even kaas pointed out some Madoc , Flaxville and Scobey. To this union was born three buildings and told u that wa home. We could see some children . Vernon, who passed away[...]ed and lives on a farm near Opheim. She has three we decided to sing and make a lot of noise so Dad and th[...] |
| [...]in 1930. homestead there . He farmed for a few years after proving Hulda took teacher'[...]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[...]were mar ried in 1936. They lived in Leavenworth for a few Halvor S. Thompson farmed northeast of[...]23. they moved to the farm of the Madoc Bench . They had two An[...]children went to the Madoc School until ready for high Hazel Thom[...]in 1958. Hyla had to drop out due to ill health. Peter and[...]Force for four years, stationed in Thailand during the Viet[...]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[...]usband live near Easton, Kansas and Each year we went to Eagles Nest to pick June berries have two children. Angie is an[...]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 · Francisco. He and his wife Renee have two daughters. the families. We went in a truck driven by one of our They live at Saff Rafael , California and Vancouver, · neighbors. We had taffy pulls and sleigh rides in the Washingto[...]and , house across the road from our home. Also we gathered at Willard live at Leavenworth , Kansas.[...]Hyla is a data entry operator for I.B.M . in Kansas City , Henry was always interested in politics so we attended Missouri. She and her mother Evelyn live[...]t of the ASCS in the beginning in 1933. He held this position until we moved to submitted by Mrs. Evely[...]Audry Albrecht lives in Olympia where she works for the Hilmar Morris Wahl was born in Hayward,[...]ve in Scobey. the family moved to Greenbush, Minnesota. Later he Deloris Jean a[...]Grant, Illinois and Camp Dodge, Iowa. He was sent to Cecil and his wife live at Wenatchee where he[...]rge in May, 1919. In the fall of 1923 Hilmar came to[...]he Madoc area where his brother Eddie was working for[...]Mikkel Barstad homestead for two years while Mike PETER JAMES 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[...]ildren 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[...]did threshing for several years. Gabrielle recalls cooking in[...]after having bought Grandma Batterton's house. This was more convenient for us going to school. While living at[...]the farm the children had to get up and meet[...]For several years after moving into Madoc the family[...]returned to the farm to spend the summers.[...]different jobs since moving to Great Falls. Hilmar Jr.[...]ran the elevator in Madoc for a couple years about 1960.[...]home also and works for " Butch" erecting steel buildings. 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[...]State University in Bozeman and plans to teach foreign[...]married to Edwin Simonson. They farmed north of Four Hilmar[...]ed in the infantry in World War I. Buttes for many years and are now living in Scobey. Taken in[...]Garfield Wilson came to Spring Valley community in the[...]the Spring of 1910 to take up residence. He lived there all of Elien ,[...]even were born after moving his life except for a few years that they lived in the Carbert[...] |
| [...]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 an[...]e married in 1926. There were three children born to this union, one son dying in infancy, James of Poplar,[...]ghbors Clarence 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[...]under our coats. There wasn't enough snow for sleighs. Gordon lost one arm in a threshing ma[...]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.[...]as built. the same section as Garfield. Jim froze to death in a spring Mother often played. Everyone always brought all their snowstorm while looking for horses. Their daughter and kids an[...]after he finished high from all over to the Yuill ranch. Baseball was a great sport schoo[...]ble school in Minneapolis. then too. We often went seven miles and stayed all day. He ha[...]in the Assembly of God Church in We left Madoc in the 30's. Ad served as under-sherif[...]ime 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. children, LaWonna[...]her daughter, Grace, in Spokane. The youngest son, Bob still lives on the original Alma is married to Dr. H.C. Ellsperman and lives in homestead. He ma[...]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 head o[...]Fritz and Laura Martinson were in Madoc for a while in country from Williston to what later was Madoc. A horse the e[...]lved in one of the elevators. and wagon were used to haul their belongings from Th[...]who attended school in Madoc. He later Plentywood to Madoc They stayed one night at an Indian moved to Sidney and became an insurance man. He was in camp where there was a white man married to an Indian Riverside, California in the forties. woman. This couple slept on the floor at the foot of the bed.[...]dians. Ormond. The lumber to build our home was hauled from Medicint:[...]K veseth place. countryside for several years. One interesting event was[...]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 ever been when we got in at the James Singleton was related to Ethel Singleton, Madoc Plentywood depot. A[...] |
| Skoglund family, a son, Clarence. (no information) Ronald. His[...]enties. They had a daughter, Florence. They moved to Mr. Bucker died in the forties. the Plen[...]amily. Clarence Rossing. A son, Lloyd, owns the Carlson Hoke Smith (no informa[...]Virgil Christensen lived in Madoc and went to Wolf Wheel " Smith . He homesteaded "'hat is know[...]Point later where he was an engine hostler for Great Palutske place where Alfred Goulet lived. G[...]ike Barstad father and he was also in this area. Before leaving this now lives. He has been described as "a feared cha[...]John Conrath (no information) apparently used this as his mode of transportation. Three- Elm[...]btree and their four sons lived in Wheel returned to St. John where he died. Madoc for several years in the 20's and 30's where Elmer[...]at the old Four Scobey before moving to.Coeur d'Alene, Idaho wehere Mrs. Corners Scho·ol[...]ves. 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[...]Todd homesteaded the Horace Bourassa land. Had a son, Harry . Paul Valette lived on the George Safty[...]Mrs. Korte.n dick and Mrs. Crabtree .on way to- Home- about 1910.[...]y Andrew Beaudine, a bachelor. George Boyd came to this area in about 1912. He married Teresa Conlan. The[...]thwest of Madoc and later Mr. Drown moved to Spokane where he died . They had five children (M[...]ens . He was from Wisconsin. He married and had a son, later moved out to the Peerless country.[...] |
| [...]th of Madoc. He was a bachelor and later moved · to children; Noble, Mable, and Lillian. Nob[...]Fort Peck Dam project after the family left here. Hans and Lena Hole farmed the Bill Lapke place[...]dad and Herman's uncle). He was Agatha. They left this area in the 20's and itis thought that married to Carrie Veberg and they celebrated their silver they returned to Minnesota. They were related to the wedding in 1930. Carrie was Mrs. W[...]Bill went to Minnesota in the thirties. Ole Jaeger came fro[...]north of John Lapke farm. Ole's dad was also here for a while. They Madoc on the Berg place. Fjelds now own this land. Ella left in the early 20's during the dry[...]Ray and Lydia Lardy lived on the Emma Crone place for had been Ed Bucher's cook. They had some[...]ydia 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, ar[...] |
Daniels County Bi-Centennial Commission, Daniels County History Part A (Pages 1-548) (1977). Montana History Portal, accessed 18/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78576
