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 | ROOSEVELT COUNTY'S ''TREASURED Editor and Proj ct Dir ctor |
| [...]e, Eileen Schagunn, Helen Ostlund, Nancy Hagadone and Margery Shanks.[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editor and Author Eileen Schagunn. . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]don ............................................. and pictur and Margery hanks ...................................[...]1 ction and t Cind Kohl .....................................[...].......................... . Memb r: Al x Pana uk and B tt Hustad ...................................... Bainvill 0 car Olson and Evelyn a terline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ulb rtson Myrtle Barrington and Svend B rtel n ..................................[...].............. Bro kton Stanley ee , John LaRoche and Eil n chagunn ...................... Poplar Marvin Presser, el Schenk nberg and The Editors of Herald ew .................. . .[...]unty Commi ioners: Kenneth yquist, Alfr d Ka chub and G orge ten land[...]ry book wa elected from th 3 0 nam ubmitted on a contest ha is. SHARON DALE, Froid, Montan[...] |
| [...]de information on town histories, family stories, and were of general assistance to the editorial staff: Bainville: Betty Hustad, Ruth Nyquist and the Bainville Community Club Culbertson: Evelyn Casterline and James Spurgeon McCabe and Dane Valley: Viola Nelsen Froid: Myrtle Barrington and her special committee on rural schools: Bergit Ryder, Brockton: Bootsie Shanks, Lila Elgie, Alvin Lien, Marie Johnson, and the Schlenz, Poplar: tanley Nees, John LaRoche[...]e (Barlow) Colgan, To all of the people wh[...]he for the many hours of research To George Boyd and Barney Andresen for special illustrations To the[...]or wrote the Church To Chick and Mary Ferguson and Don's tudio for the refinishing of pictures To the town of Froid, Culbertson and Wolf Point; the Anderson Biem Community;[...]ertson Searchlight, The Froid Weekly and th Bainville News for their contributions of To KVC'K r dio for th ir adverti ing and promotion of the book To KXMO and K MV Television tation for their advertising spac[...]Bank, Traders tate Bank of |
| [...]. . . . . . 174 TOWN HISTORIES AND FAMILY STORIES Mondak .. .... .... . ...[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75- hels a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...] |
| [...]DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the PIONEERS and the HOMESTEADERS whose vision , faith and determination to succeed made it possible for future generations to enjoy and participate in the history of ROOSEVELT COUNTY'[...]n . my chtld. " When I Lm a chtld |
| [...]by Jim Nelson Roosevelt County wasn't settled in a day vi. |
| [...]. . . . . 1 l,ewis and Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 IOUX A D A I IBOI E TRIBE Hi tor of th iou and th A iniboin . . .. .. ..[...]35 Re rvation l.,,and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...].. 43 Arts and rafts on th Re ervation . . . . . . .[...]44 Indian lebrations and Dance ..............[...] |
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| LEWIS AND CLARK JOURNEY ACROSS[...]ither sunk through the ice during the As Lewis and Clark left the Mandans the party consisted[...]exhausted either to ascen t or swim back again, and 2nd Lieutenant of the United States Artillerists;[...]on we found several John Ord way, Nathaniel Pryor and Pa trick Gass; Privates parties of them. There are geese in abundance, and mo re William Bratten, John Coulter, John Collins[...]Alexander Willard, Richard Windsor, Peter Wiser, and The da y was clear and pleasant; the wind shifted to the Captain Clarks' black servant York. Interpreters were southeast and we could employ our sails, and went24 miles George Drewyer and Toussaint Charbaneau. The wife of to a low ground on the north side opposite the teep bluffs. Charbaneau , Sacajawea and her young child also The count[...]hills accompanied them. Sacajawea acted as guide and approaching nearer to the ri ve r and forming bluffs, some interpreter in many of the Indian languages. of white and others of a red colo r, exhibiting the usual The following is a day by day description of their travels appearances of minerals; and some burt hills, though through what is now Roose[...]ed this night where than usual, and the banks and sandbars are covered with a Fort Union was to be located.)[...]he Yellowstone. From the point of fertile and partially timbered. The only streams we met junct[...]today are two small runs on the north, and one on the south Yellowstone and Missouri River, which at a distance of a which rises into the neighboring hills[...]mile comes within 250 yards of each other. There, a water. At a distance of 18 miles, the Missouri makes a beautiful low plain commence, widening as the riv[...]bend to the southeast. Game is abundant- recede, and extends along each side of them for several the common, and the mule-tailed deer, elk, buffalo. miles, rising about one-half mile from the Missouri into a antelope, brown bear, bea ver and geese. The beaver has plain 12 feet higher than itself. The low plain is a few committed great devastation among the trees. inches above the high water mark, and where it joins the higher plain there is a channel of 60 or 70 yards in width, through which a part of the Missouri, when at its greatest height passes into the Yellowstone. At two and a half miles Monday, April 29, 1805 Kills bear. Camped this above the junction, and between the high and low plain, is night west of mouth of the Big Muddy. a small lake 200 yards wide, etending for a mile parallel We proceeded early, wit[...]rds from the white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Missouri and twice that distance from the Yellowstone, is a Indian had given us dread(ul account . They n ve r attack situation highly eligible for a trading establishment. him but in parties of six to eight persons and even then are (Later Fort Union.) This is in high plain which extends often defeated with a lo of one or more of th ir party. back three miles in width, and seven or eight miles in Ha ving no weapon but bows and arrow and the bad gun length along the Yellowstone where it[...]m, th y are oblig d to extensive body of woodland and along the Missouri with approach very near to th bear: a no wound except less breadth, till three miles ab[...]rtal, the (Indians) frPquen tly fall hills within a space of four yards in width. A sufficient sacrific if they mi their aim[...]uilding may easily be procured avoid man and uch i the t rror which he has in pired, near the[...]ta but in large irregular masses, of light color, and of and perform all th uper titious rite cu tomary when excellent quality. Game is abundant, and as yet quite they make war on a n ighboring nation. Hitherto tho e gentle; above[...]e of the ri ver , which th ir although to a killful rifleman th danger i very much various c[...]dimini hed et the white b ar i a terrible animal. On[...]approaching th se two both aptain Leu is and the hunter fired and each wounded a b ar. One of them made hi The northwest wind r[...]e cape: the other turned upon Captain Leu1is and pur ued were obliged to stop until 4 p. m. when w[...]b in{f badly wound d, the b ar dusk. On the south a beautiful plain separates the two could not run o fast a to pr vent him from reloading hi rivers, till at about six miles there is a timbered piece of low piece, which h again aimed at him. and a third shot from ground, and a little above it are bluffs where the country the hunter brought him to the ground. He wa a male not rises g radually from the river; the situations on the north quite full grown and weighed about 300 pound . Th color are more high and open. We camped on the north ide, the of the bear was yellowi h-brown; the eyes black and wind and the sand which it raised and the rapidity of the piercing; black front fe t: and th fur is fin r. thicker and current having prevented our advancing more than eight deeper than that of the black b ar. miles; during the later part of the day the[...]are surrounded with deer, elk. buffalo. antelopes and wider and crowded with sandbars. Although game i[...]hat is necessary for our sustenance. numerou and make great ravage among them.[...] |
| The hills are much more rough and high and almost being as large as dollars. Our[...]nks of the ri ve r. There are greater and buffalo and three beavers. This animal (beaver) we appearance[...]tail, which being in some places six feet thick; and the strata of burnt when boiled resembles in flavor the fleshy tongues and earth, which are always on the same le vel with those of the sounds of codfish, and is generally so large as to afford a coal.[...]camp, found several yards of scarlet entrance of a river which empties into a bend on the north cloth, suspended on the bough of a tree as a sacrifice to the side of the Missouri. This strea[...], with water for 15 yards; the banks are of earth and Missouri. The air was sharp this evening; the water froze steep though not high, and the bed is principally of mud. on the oars[...], found that it continues at the same width, with a gentle current, Friday, May 3, 1805 Camped this day three and a pursuing a course about north 30 degrees west through an half miles up Poplar River. extensive, fertile and beautiful valley, but without a single The weather became quite cold, the ice was a quarter of tree. The water is clea r and has a brownish yellow tint. an inch in the kettles, and the snow still continued in the[...]going on. At two miles from camp we passed a curious sandbar near Brockton.[...]collection of bushes, about 30 feet high and 10-12 feet in The wind was high from the north last evening and diameter, tied in the form of a fascine and standing on end continued so this morning. We proceeded and found the in the middle of the low gro[...]pposed to have river more winding than usual with a number of sand- been left by the Indians as a religious sacrifice. The low islands and bars, on one of which we camped at a distance grounds on the river are much wider and more common, of 24 miles. The low grounds are fertile and extensive but sometimes extending five to nine miles into the highlands. with very little timbe r, and the cottonwood very bad of its Through all th[...]d of the kind; being too small for planks, broken and dead at the river are everywhere visible, and the hills have become top, and unsound in the center of the trunk. We passed lower, the strata of coal, burnt earth and pumice-stone some ancient lodges of driftwood whi[...]pear to have in great measure ceased. At a distance of 14 miles we have been inhabited latel[...]the river on the north, which from the We killed a male elk with antlers measuring five feet three[...]males are with young. Wolves This is a bold and beautiful stream, 112 yards wide, with their cunn[...]river; for although antelope are swift of foot, and about knee deep for the 20 miles into the hills.[...]also on the surface of the earth; and a low range of Wednesday, May 1, 1805 Camped this day near river mountains at a distance to the west of north, whose south of Spr[...]oining country being The wind was in our favor and we were able to use the everywhere fertile, open and exceedingly beautiful. The sails till 12 o'clock, when the wind became so high and water of the river is transparent and is the only one that is squally that we were forced to come to at a distance of ten so of all those that fall into the Missouri. Before entering a miles, on the south, in a low ground stocked with large sandbar through which it discharges itself, its low cottonwood and remained there for the day; one of the grounds are formed of a stiff blue and black clay, and its canoes being separated from us and not able to cross over, banks, which are from eight to ten feet high and seldom if in consequence of high waves. The count[...]ed for several days, the hills At three and a half miles above the Porcupine (Poplar) are lower and the low ground wider and better supplied River we reached some high timber on the north and with lumber, principally of cottonwood. The under[...]nnel of the river which is is willow on the banks and sand-bars; rose bushes, red now dry. We saw vast quantities of buffalo, deer, elk, willows and the broadleaved willow in the low plains; antelope, beaver, ducks, geese, brant, swan and many while the high country on both sides is one[...]obably used for hunting by the Our hunters killed a buffalo, elk, goat, two beavers and a Hudson Ba y Fur Trading Co.) (Still another[...]trading and the Indians seemed quite friendly. ) Thursda y,[...]bed two creeks-southwest of Chelsea and probably |
| distance of 18 miles in a point of woodland on the north. out in a body to catch the game. The second species is The river is wider than usual and crowded with sandbars lower, shorter in[...]; the on all sides; the country is level, fertile and beautiful and color is not affected by the seasons varying from gray or there is much more timber than is common, a brownish-black to a cream-white color. They do not burrow circumstance very rare on the Missouri, and the first that nor ho wl. Captain Cla rk and one of the hunters met a large has occurred since we left the Mandans. There is a vast grizzly bear, and as we fired, it did not attempt to attack, quantity of game and the animals are extremely gentle, but fled with a tremendous roar, and although he had been especially the male buffalo,[...]0 times, managed to swim half across the river to a In the course of the day we passed some old Indian sandbar and survive about 20 minutes. He weighed 500 hunting[...]hich consisted of two large lodges, pounds and measured eight feet seven and a half inches; fortified with a circular fence 20 or 30 feet in diameter,[...]eleven inches around the overlaying each other to a height of five feet and covered middle of the foreleg and the talons were four and three- with trunks of trees that have drifted dow[...]d by three or more strong the common black bear. Besides fish and flesh, he feeds on sticks about the size of a man's leg or arm about 12 feet long roots and wild fruit. which are attached at the top by a withe of small willows The antelope are now lean with young so they may be and spread out to form a circle of 10 to 14 feet in diameter. readily[...]ver. Against these are placed pieces of driftwood and fallen timber, usually in three ranges, one on th[...]k Camp. interstices are covered with leaves, bark and straw so as to Sometime before noon on this day, Lewis and Clark form a conical figure about ten feet high with a small crossed the imaginary line between Roosevelt and Valley aperture in one side for a door. It is however, at best a very County. They spent this night on the sou[...]we camped Fort B en ton, then made a loop up near the Canadian southeast of creek with many wolves around. border and back. From there cutting across the Rockies to (P[...]ssing the Montana border on Septmber 13, We had a fine morning, and the wind being from the east 1805. we used our sails. At a distance of five miles we came to a They camped at 286 diffe rent places in Montana-with small island and twelve miles further camped on the north[...]their 4,000 mile trek spent crossing the state at a distance of 17 miles. The country is beautiful in[...]e. Among the vast quantities of game around us, a new References used were: brand of[...]further (1) Adjournal of the V oy ages and Travels o f a north) and the wolves being very abundant are of two[...]wolves associate in packs of of Lewis and Clark , by Elliot Coues. 10 or 12, and are rarely ever seen alone. They live in (3) On the Trail w ith Lewis and Clark, by Hal burrows near a spot much frequented by game and sally Stearns. Copied from Hal Stearns book |
| [...]on. From there they turned the Indians with horse and travois, then came the fur north and took a route near the Canadian border until they trappers and traders and finally the wagon trains. . reached the[...]ton. The 1863 trip also records that between 1862 and 1867, carrying emigrants from the prairie was burnt black between the west fork of the Minnesota west to the newly discovered gold fields in Poplar River and the Porcupine Creek. This trip also Montana, Oregon and California. The 1000 mile journey records the first mention of what was probably a between Minnesota and the Montana El Dorados crossed hailstor[...]plar an unmapped wilderness, inhabited by Indians and dotted River it is written, "Must have had heavy rain, grass is by only a few widely scattered fur trading posts and beaten flat, and the ground looks pox-marked, with very military f[...]ywhere." As early as 1853 there was interest in a northern The last expedition made by Fiske in 1866 followed the overland route to the west, and the government had earlier routes along the Missouri River and more of the authorized an exploration of several[...]plentiful for cooking. The mosquitos were bad and there valley along the Missouri and Milk Ri ve1·s and from there was much swatting. The prairies were green and the turned south at the foothills of the Rockies[...]the survey information was used by cattle and people were suffering from the heat during this t[...]ary The distance between Fort Berthold and Fort Union information for the wagon trains which were to follow in seemed to emphasize the distances and problems that lay the 1860's to the Montana gold fields and on to the west between the emigrants and their destination. Tempers coast.[...]frayed, the men drank heavily, quarreled and exchanged James L. Fiske was a private in the Third Minnesota blows over minor irritations. Finally a group led by the Regiment of Volunteers when he c[...]an of Sims brothers took some 40 wagons and traveled in conducting wagon trains of emigrants[...]such expeditions. Fiske the Sun River area and the rest went on to Helena. received $5000 and a military escort for his first wagon The H[...]meeting the Fiske trains at a point above Fort Berthold. The wagon train reac[...]ne in 1863. Holmes made having traveled 467 miles and averaging 16 miles per day. most of the trip[...]souri Fiske trains cutting off at Fort Rice and stopping at Fort River.[...]Dilts. Indian attacks had been frequent and severe and the In his diary Fiske notes, "We experienced g[...]train. necessary to unhook part of the wagons and use them to There seems to be no record of either Fiske or Holmes make a bridge over which the rest of the wagons can be making a trip in 1865. drawn by hand. It then took another[...]p in 1866 the two wagon trains met in Fort wagons and shoe the oxen. (This was to be the same Stevenson, Dakota Territory and traveled the rest of the procedure followed by fu[...]evening about 200 Indians were in camp, friendly and wanting to trade. Some trading took place and the band of Indians followed the immigrant train when it left Fort Kipp, adding a great deal of color with their bright colored feathers and dress." Leaders of a wagon train were to discover that the days were so long that it was necessary to stop to give the animals a chance to rest at noon. On Friday August 15 they describe the waters of the Missouri as being warm and muddy and the grass was scarce and poor. On Saturday the 16th they had lunch at the[...]ly crossed with good rock bottom, with good water and the grass good. They camped near Tule Creek on Sa[...]forward to camping near Wolf Point but found food and good water scarce and the mosquitos plentiful. Buffalos roamed in great[...]ilk River, then followed the Milk as far as Havre and turned south picking up the Missouri River[...] |
| [...]s the route taken in 1866. From Fort Union and west it is about the same route that was traveled[...]pedition. Wagon train· 1970 version. A new sport for the decade of |
| [...]resources in the upper Missouri and Mountain area. (1) Far[...]period of fur trading is one of the most romantic and purpose of trading goods with the Indians for furs and important eras in the history of Montana. Not only did the hides. (2) Fur companies which hired and sent their own fur traders and trappers add to the economic value of the trappers and hunters into areas where animals were times, but they were also the first to explore and establish plentiful. These trappers could be[...]nders yearly salaries, with some working on a commission basis. of the West.[...]he free lance trappers who trapped and sold where he pleased. information of the white man but he also exerted a We were to see all three efforts of fur trading along the profound and far-reaching influence on the destiny of the[...]nately true that the fur trade brought corrupting and destructive diseases, it is also true that he bro[...]eir blood with the Amerind, learning his language and CANADIAN FUR TRADE customs, understood his character, and when business relations did not dictate otherwise, treated him as a man When Lewis and Clark were ascending the Missouri they and a brother. The fur trapper understood the Indian mu[...]uis. These fur traders were not new army officers and missionaries have all failed apparently a[...]sufficiently to Ii ve Missouri had been a gathering ground for furs for the permanently wit[...]ian on his Canadian companies at least a quarter of a century prior to part, seemed to understand that the trapper was not an Lewis and Clark. The Hudson Bay Fur Company, enemy; for he bartered with him, fed him and gave him his chartered in London in 1670,[...]ter, since functions, for it operated in a region where no white man's the money was useless to the Indian, and only a few would law except that enforced by its[...]tablished.) needed. The properly prepared skin of a buffalo cow, when carried by an Indian to a distant upriver trading post or to a nearby temporary house, brought in barter, approx[...]g company less than $1.00 Montreal in 1800 and was composed of several Scottish on the upper riv[...]there were no governmental regulations were high and the average robe sold finally for a little more or supervision of trade in the Northwest, these men than its cost to the trading company. As a result, robes had introduced fire arms and whiskey, much to the to be procured and sold in volumes to be profitable items of degradation and injury to the Indian. The sale of alcohol to trad[...]the Indian degenerated into a systematic fraud amounting Whenever the skins were ready for trade- usually to a sheer exchange of nothing for the goods of the In[...]s victim so intoxicated that on their women or on a convenient pack animal, and he was unable to bargain. moved them to a trading post where the agent in charge or his representative welcomed the party with small presents, and a gunpowder salute if an important chief accompanied the caravan. After the robes and furs were unpacked, the traders MISSOURI FUR TRADING COMPANY feasted upon coffee, bread and whatever else was at hand. In many forts , although unlawful, liquor flowed freely When Lewis and Clark were on their return from the both before and after trading. If the Indians were[...]ng the Rocky Mountains. Captain Lewis returned by and in unsettled times, only a few Indians would be way of the Mis[...]Yellowstone larger forts trading was done through a small window in River. Clark and Lewis arranged to meet again where the the trading room, and the garrison above was keeping a Yellowstone flows into the Missouri. I[...]Charboneau) they reached a point close to the place The Indian preferred to trade slowly and would accept a where Montana and North Dakota were to derive much of larger quanti[...]aginary boundary line that was to better quality. A striped blanket or a blanket of striking separate two states. color brought more furs or robes than a dull-colored On this journey up t[...]ouri Fur Trading Company inexperienced trader, or a trader who was in fear of his life with headq[...]any of the stand the opposition very long and a few years later sold tribes men , for they[...] |
| [...]Williston). Behind the fort is a prairie with an agreeable[...]ascent of bluffs, about one and a half miles wide and two In 1808 the American Fur Trading Company was miles long. Above and below at a distance of about 200 organized by John Jacob Ast[...]hich contain great quantities of cottonwood, ash, and secure passage of an act of Congress which forbade aliens elm trees supplying both the fort and the steamships with to participate in the fur tra[...]casionally from other companies, but the superior and relieved Astor from British-Canadian competition[...]by old Fort Union, the Sioux Indians had caused a great gained control of the Canadian operation with what loss of trade because of their hostile and aggressive amounted to a monopoly of the fur trade in the Oregon[...]rs the Indians conspiring with the trading and living there as to make them afraid to trade or H[...]ear of reprisals. American Co., burning the forts and murdering their In the middle 1830's the Fort employed about 500 traders-both white and Indian. The government treaties persons as trappers and traders; and maintained about 23 of 1825 with many of the Indian tribes mostly stopped regular and wintering posts. Most of these wintering posts these depredations and fat years for the American were log huts, quickly built and readily abandoned. Company followed. As trade conditions were improved, a Beaver skins, which once had been the[...]of series of forts were built along the Missouri and trade in the early years, had lost[...]muskrat, deer and finally the buffalo. When the fort began[...]the Missouri", founded Fort year. Elk skins and bull buffalo hides were too thick and Union in the fall of 1829. McKenzie worked for th[...]American Fur Trading Of the bison and its rapid disappearance, Maximilian Company. McKe[...]he numerous Indian tribes subsist almost for only a few years.[...]n these animals, sell their skins after retaining a The construction of the fort and much of its operations sufficient supply for their clothing, tents, etc.; and the were in the hands of Major Alexander Culbertson. A fire agents of the company recklessly sho[...]g out the tongues. Whole herds of the fur company and a supply for the Assiniboine tribes, them ar[...]been assured that 1800 and more dead bodies of these and part of the time for the Sioux.[...]re Fort Union, described as being the principal and most[...]ssouri, was situated on the north side (about six and a half miles) rivers; and from this we may have some idea of the above the[...]fort and as fareastas Mandan. Many in thefortdied, but it[...]tribes. There was no vaccine available, so a would-be[...]oculate with the smallpox serum from well people, and[...]the operations were performed on both Indian and whites.[...]been exposed to the disease and most of the patients died.[...]affairs. He was an autocrat and many of his acts were of surpassing cruelty and horror. Against the law, he ~-rt Uni_on -_one of[...]_the Indians. This practice was to have a devastating and long- S 1?wst0 ne River. From a model in the State Historical lasting effect, both on the fur traders and on the Indian ociety's museum. tribes who traded there; and eventually on the white[...] |
| [...]make the whiskey used in Union sometime in 1832 and it was taken over by Mitchell. trading wit[...]to supress this illicit manufacture of whiskey and close the Culbertson was placed in charge. Mitch[...]nearly wrecked the fur trade of the company. Fort and assumed command until 1839, when Major[...]unpunished. Alexander Culbertson assumed command, a position he Father DeSmet, forem[...]1. was a missionary priest in the western Indian tribes and Fighting among the tribes of Crows, Gros Ventres, was affectionately known to them as "Black Robe". He Crees, Assiniboines and Piegans was a constant menace. traveled unaccompanie[...]other Culbertson would not fight with the Indians and won their unmolested by the Indians, and repeatedly we find Father respect by fair dealing. Culbertson was a notable figure for DeSmet the official mediator between the government and he tied together the era of savagery with civiliz[...]Maximillian, Prince ofWeid, Germany, who was a noted Love affairs at the fur trading posts were legion, and scientist, and Bodner, the Swiss artist, arrived at Fort Fort Un[...], studying marry into prominent families for such a connection and recording with pen and brush the life on a new increased their trade advantage and relations of the frontier. Indian br[...]ssouri in operations. Only occasionally was there a real love match 1853 surveying for a railroad route to the Pacific. and a lasting marriage-such as Major Culbertson and his During the 1860's the Fiske and Holmes wagon trains Blood princess wife.[...]plies, with some Fort which had been purchased by a new commander to be time for rest and relaxation. stationed in Fort Buford. Much of the[...]by Edwin T. Denig northwest. For a score of years the population of this fort in the[...]The plan of the fort is laid out nearly due north and south and tragedy was commonplace. The history of Fort Union fronting 220 feet and running back about 240 feet. This was a continuous series of conspiracies, family feuds, space was enclosed by pickets and palisades of 20 feet sieges, pitched battles, drunken brawls and cold blooded high, made of large cottonwoods and founded upon stone. murders.''[...]square and 30 feet high, with a wall three feet thick[...]gates to the fort, one each in the middle of the and founder of the Audubon Society of America, came up front and the rear. Up on the top of the front one is a the Missouri in 48 days, the fastest trip ever ma[...]ainting of the treaty of peace between the whites and the Louis by steamboat. He spent two months gathe[...]merica". These gates are 12 feet wide and 14 feet high. George Catlin, now famous Indian[...]n the fort housed the his pictures from this area and spent many months at the bourgeois, or t[...]fort. Next to Fort painting the Crows, Blackfeet and Assiniboine this were the office of the fur company and the Indian Indians, pictures of the great Missouri River and the animals who inhabited the area. Jim Bridge[...]of his men, his force fled from the Sioux nation, and at the funeral of a half-breed victim of the attack, heard the speake[...]f t he Bridgers party". Bridger dismissed his men and returned to the mountains alone to hunt. Nathaniel J . Wyeth, who devoted his life in a vain attempt to develop the Columbia River salmon fisheries, committed what the men of the prairie and mountain regarded as a gross act of treachery. Wyeth stayed a few days at the fort on his way back to the states and was entertained by McKenzie and Culbertson, who explained to him the opera[...] |
| [...]fla~, a reprieve from a long and perilous journey, no matter[...]Fort Union was abandoned-much of it tom down and moved to the site of Fort Buford and used for the[...]hibited some hostility toward the Astor interests and[...]he old officers quarters at Fort Buford made into a FORTS ALONG THE MISSOURI museum - burned in 1930's. Left to right- Sam Picard, two and three unknown, Grandma Jane Picard, unknown, A.D. Picard, Wayne Picard, Mrs. Annie Picard, Audre[...]istie Picard, Belgards, Eldon Picard, Glen Picard and Vernie Picard.[...]Trading Company had a base camp for trading and[...]information came from a Historical Society at Regina. reception room. Into this room are brought all trading and A group of archaeological and geological students from war parties, until such[...]erstood. Behind this building was the trade shop, and indicated that the area between the lagoon and Holger leading into it was the window through wh[...]ians Christoffersens had at one time been a fort area-or a did the actual trading and where they were secure from possible trading post. Part of a spear with Hudson Bay weather, accidents, or mis-adventure. There was also a stamped on it, and a kind of round seal with trading window to the ou[...]re too numerous for fort personnel to handle. In a large rectangular area or court extends a line of small buildings used as residences for th[...]to house cattle, chickens, pigs, blacksmith shop and trade shop, dairy rooms, coal storage room and Fort Stewart was established in 1854 d[...]horses. An ice house filled with Frost, Todd and Company. Theyweretooextravagantand ice from the[...]e provided cold not very good managers and finally gave it up. storage for the meat killed[...]ng Larpenteur arrived on June 24, 1858 and found the fort in was plentiful. Behind Mr. Culb[...]By the end of the summer he had the fort kitchen and the mess hall. Three cooks were always back in shape and looked forward to being back doing employed and others were recruited as needed, depending[...]ny at the fort. All men for many years as a clerk at Fort Union.) It was necessary were expected to dress for dinner and none were allowed in to use all of his knowledge and experience to get the the mess hall to eat withou[...]but stable boys were inquiring about and contacting many of his old friends always seated[...]made at Fort Union and from other trips up the river. The[...]250 good cartfuls of hay were good trade and buffalo could be killed within 300 yards of cut and stacked. The winters were long and severe and the fort. animals could not graze out of the fort. Next to the hayfield was a garden, on a small scale but it did provide peas, Larpenteur's firm feared the American Fur Co. and at tu~ips, radishes, beets, onions, com and potatoes for the the end of two years the[...]was seldom Fewer clerks were needed and Larpenteur found himself e~ough rainfall to raise a good garden, but otherwise the out of a job. He returned to St. Louis. climate was favorable. A Mr. Campbell of St. Paul heard of Larpenteur, Bol[...]was the glory of the fort, for on high, seen and Smith's intention to try to raise money enough to . ar and wide, floats the Star Spangled Banner, an return west and start another trading post. Campbell rY- |
| [...]about 25 miles west to a place on the left bank of the Poplar[...]by an uncertain number of miles since Lewis and Clark noted author of first discovered the river and named it Porcupine Creek.[...]Mr. Clark of the American Fur Co. built a trading post[...]and Lemon. During the severe winter of 1861-62 but Lemon, Larpenteur and his faithful Indian guide Larpenteur and Lemon nearly starved to death and most continued on to Fort Stewart. Upon reaching[...]e trade in they found it in smoldering ruins from a surprise attack of buffalo hides was almost at a standstill and Lemon balked the Assiniboines.[...]ey sold out to the LaBarge at Devil's Bend; three and a half miles west of Blair and Company and divided the profits, each receiving $1400.00. four and a half miles east of Calais.[...]FORT KIPP Fort Kipp was built in 1860 by a fur trader named James Kipp. Kipp had been stationed at Fort Union for a time, but after leaving there had established Fort Kipp and a few other trading posts further up-river near the[...]ed Fort Kipp in the words of his wagon master as "a very bad campground-stinks like a slaughter house!" The Missouri River was described as being 70 to 80 feet wide at this point and about five feet deep on Thursday, August 14, 1862. Fort Kipp was burned by a surprise raid of Sioux-Indians in the fall of 186[...]ring the summer of 1862 Owen McKenzie established a small fort a few miles west of Fort Kipp and Stewart. Because of trouble with the Indians this[...]en the Agency was established in Poplar, an fort, and when the steamer "The Nellye Rogers" came[...]smuggled aboard, saving his Tillinghast and Thayer, with Thayer in charge. Jack life along wi[...]bertson was named) were so incensed with Roulette and his unfair dealings in was the man behind th[...]firm was succeeded furs, they set the fort afire and killed the seven remaining by Kendall and Smith who in turn sold to Leighton and men.[...]In 1878 Leighton and Jordon sold out to G.H. Fairchild.[...]P.W. Lewis was in charge of one store. They built a second FORT JACKSON[...]store with W.B. Shaw as general manager. A young man[...]tore as This trading post was established by F.A. Chardon in clerk. In 1889 Shaw and Cosier bought the trading post 1833 at the mouth of the Poplar River, about a half mile and operated this one and the one in Wolf Point as H.M. north of the Missouri. The trading post was named for Cosier and Company. In 1908 Cosier bought out Shaw and President Jackson. Little else is known about thi[...]ding store. H.C. it seems safe to say that it had a short existence. Walker worked[...] |
| [...]on opened MacDonald bought this store in 1894 and operated it until another Indian store with Mr. B[...]he sold out to R.E. Patch in 1898. Cosier and Patch each company was eventually bought by Fairchild. James operated a trading store until 1914 when they combine[...] |
| [...]e 1861 either by the American Fur Company or by a small been operated by Durfee and Peck who also had a trading independent partnership of Bruigier and Booge. It was company store at old Fort Peck. Mr.[...]of the Missouri near the Elk respected that when a name was to be selected for the Prairie c[...]Fort Stewart. reservation, it was named after him and called "Fort Peck (Approximate location is ab[...]y other reference to The T.C. Power Company had a trading post with Mr. V. this fort was that[...]. W.D. Shaw also had an Indian trading A second reference to a Fort Charles was found in the store and he eventually bought out the Power Co. Howard Fort Buford history when it mentioned that a Charles C. Cosier and Shaw formed a partnership and operated under Sargent of Fort Buford came[...]pany. as manager for a trading post built by T.C. Power. This Sherman[...]1891 Cogswell bought the trading post from Cosier and continued to operate it as the Cogswell Store. James Long was employed as a clerk in the trading store and was later a rural mail carrier while Cogswell was postmaster.[...]received its name from a son of the famous fur trader who[...]1809 and received his education there, graduating from the[...]1829, arriving there barefoot. He was given a position by Pierre Chouteau as a clerk since he had a grammar school education. A year later he went up the Missouri River with a string of mackinaw boats to Fort Berthold, now in[...]Dakota. He was so successful with the men and the boats, and trading with the Indians that Mr. Chouteau decide[...]Kenneth McKenzie for a few years, assuming command of[...]s the main commander of the fort. He later became a[...]Major Culbertson took as a wife, Princess Natawista[...]Natawista was a great asset to the Major in dealing with[...]the Indians. They had great faith and trust in her. She[...]forts up and down the Missouri and to the various Indian[...]Fanny and Joe. When the second child drowned in the[...]around the forts and spent some time in the scouting and fur trading business. Joe went on to become a scout under General Miles and then as a scout and guide for the forts[...]along the Missouri, spending time in the Poplar and Wolf Point forts and on to the Browning area. Jack, somewhat[...]tired of the nomadic life, established a ranch about one and Cogswell Trading Post in 1892 - Wolf Point. a half miles west of the present townsite of[...] |
| [...]h fur trading business along the Missouri, but in a few years Nata wista left him and returned to her own people in Canada. Culbertson[...]s, Missouri in 1879. Natawista died in the 1890's and was buried in the Indian cemetery near the Cathol[...]red Trail of Clubfoot George Boyd in Snow in 1864-and made emergency ride to warn whites of Demon that was coming. When during the winter of 1864-65 a band of Gros Ventres Indians discovered the trail[...]George Boyd in the snow in the Milk River country and ascertained that it was headed towards Fort Bento[...]ride to the Fort to warn the white men there that a demon was coming to their place. But they arrived[...]d discovered in the snow, grunted their amazement and went upon their way. The Indians' finding of Boyd's trail and their belief that it was that of an evil spirit attended a long, lonely, dangerous trek Boyd made on foot fr[...]places. The post at Fort Pierre ran out of sugar, a very serious shortage because it was one of the t[...]the tea which the traders had taught them to brew and drink. There was no hope of obtaining a new supply before navigation opened in the spring, and it would be The more they gaz[...]s trail the more impossible to get it then unless a messenger was bewildered and fearful they became. Those tracks, they felt dispatched to Fort Benton with the request that a supply be sure, had been made by an evil sp[...]s hunting, returned to the main camp and consulted the would not arrive until much later, whereas a boat would be medicine man. dispatched dow[...]fluence of the evil spirit, or to be made on foot and was attended by many perils, not failin[...]ls in some lonely night Thus equipped, a party of braves started to follow the camp. There was at the post, however, a man equal to the strange trail to death[...]rge Boyd. Although handicapped by had a good start and had reached Fort Benton. Not many nature with two[...]urs later the party of Gros Ventres hove in sight and and as intrepid as any pioneer of the period. He left a their head man asked for a conference with the chief of the remarkable trail, but his enemies, both red and white, fort. To him the Indians confided they had come to warn found it a good trail not to follow. He volunteered to make[...]their own country. By signs and with gesticulations they With his bed blankets in a back pack, and his rifle, he set endeavored to explain the na[...]George Boyd's trail. " When an Indian brave of a hunting party of Gros Boyd was c[...]nt/or several minutes. River, he gazed at it long and wonderingly. He had roamed They they turned and filed slowly from the room. that country for many[...]ting companions This was taken from a newspaper clipping in the early together, and after inspecting the trail they held counc[...] |
| Confluence of the Missouri and Yellow- stone Rivers. Missouri on the left[...]e old officers headquarters building - now a museum. The building on the left is the ol[...]s one of the barns used for housing horses and also storing of wood for winter. It[...] |
| [...]st doctor; Lt. Weber; Jimmy Green with large hat; and Barlow Green in baby buggy. |
| FORT POPLAR AND CAMP POPLAR RIVER with[...]and then to the area of the Big Horn. Major Hartz was here Fort Poplar, Poplar River Post and Camp Poplar River about a year when he was relieved of his command by Post[...]was promoted to Major various kinds of buildings and businesses established in General and had command of the military post until it nearly[...]ur The following excerpts were taken from a report of the Company in 1860 and called "Fort Poplar" there is every Secretary of War for the year of 1881, which will give a indication that Army personnel and Army scouts (Indian general idea of activities during that time. and white) used the facilities while they were in the area. This was also true of other trading posts up and down the Missouri, including old Fort Peck where General Miles was December 23, 1880 Troop A, Second Cavalry, left Fort stationed and soldiers and cavalry were dispersed as Keogh, Montana and proceeded enroute to Camp Poplar needed to help d[...]River, Montana, as escort, with rations and forage for the During the early 1870's several[...]hed 60 miles. River Post, eastward to Fort Buford and westward as far as January 1, 1881 Troop A, Second Cavalry, escorting Fort Assiniboine (near[...]ons in his Montana, left camp at Ferry Point and arrived at book "Famous Indian Scout" that both he and his father destination January 19, 1881.[...]time he was an Indian Scout under General Miles, and January 2, 1881 Major Guido Ilges, Fifth Infantry, his father while traveling up and down the Missouri with Companies A, B, C, F, and G, Fifth Infantry, Seventh attending to his Fur Trading Forts between Fort Buford Cavalry and detachment Seventh Infantry, marched from and Fort Benton. Camp Poplar River, Montana, against a band of hostile[...]latter post, on the south bank of the Missouri and after an[...]about 200 ponies, 69 guns, and burning 60 of their lodges.[...]Troop F, Seventh Cavalry, and battalion Fifth Infantry,[...]left Camp Poplar River and proceeded towards the camp of[...]reported in that locality. No Indians were seen and the the name changes took place. The Fort Peck In[...]Agency established at old Fort Peck in 1870, with a sub- miles. agency at Wolf Point, was in th[...]after the order came for the Indians to be with a detachment left Camp Poplar River, to scout in an[...]y had not easterly direction, to search for and bring in a party of been officially stationed here at that t[...]and F of under charge of Captain Dewees and his Troop A, Second the 11th United States Infantry, and was in full operation Cavalry, to Fort Buford[...]Camp Poplar was clearly established to keep peace and January 14, 1881 Troops H and L, Second Cavalry, maintain order while the Fort Peck Indian reservation and Companies C, D, E, and K, Eighteenth Infantry, left agency was being established between the years 1877- Fort Assiniboine and proceeded en route to Milk River to 1880. Militar[...]l's band of surrender of Chief Gall, Sitting Bull and other important hostile Indians. On the 21st of January, information Indian chiefs who were making a last ditch stand before having been receiv[...]ity of the mouth of the Milk River on January 11, and had only three commanding officers. Captai[...] |
| [...]leventh Infantry, First Lodge, on the Milk River, and the command started on its Lieutenant Mansf[...]Fort Maginnas to assist in the construction of a telegraph[...]August 22, 1881 First Lieutenant C.A. Booth, Seventh Infantry, with a detachment of 20 men started building the[...]line completed between Camp Poplar River and Fort[...]MILITARY POST Sitting Bull and his family. This man is probably one of the most[...]efs in western history. from a term paper written by Karen Reid[...]under him were: Green and Rodman, Lieutenants were[...]Kronen and Suthburrow. Lt. Dent was a nephew of January 23, 1881 Captain Snyder, Fif[...]or the Camp Poplar River for Wolf Point to assist a band of Camp and a Commissary Sergeant was in charge of food Indians[...]for the Camp. The Top Sergeants were Rogers and Chester refused to go with Sitting Bull to Canada[...]what is now the town of Poplar, and was quite large in size. January 27, 1881, First Lieutenant C.A. Booth, This was the part of town wh[...]ft Camp Poplar River with detachment of Companies A, B, and E, of the Seventh Infantry, which had formed part of Major llges' command at that post and arrived at Fort Buford on January 30. January[...]ls for the monument to be erected to the officers and soldiers who fell in that action. January 31,[...]d this month 220 miles. February 1, 1881 Troop A, Second Cavalry, le{t Camp Poplar River for Fort[...]Arrived February 4. Left Fort Buford February 10 and arrived at Fort Keogh February 19. Distance marc[...]leventh Infan try, with detachment of Companies B and F, Eleventh Infantry, left Camp Poplar as escort[...]Indians surrendered on February 6 with 150 ponies and 40 guns and pistols. Captain Reed and his detachment arrived back at Camp Poplar River[...]ies about the same.) July 25, 1881 Companies D and K, Fifth Infantry, Captain McDonald, commanding,[...]Second Lieutenant Greene, Seventh Infantry, with a small detachment left Fort Buford to stake out a telegraph line between Buford and Camp Poplar. Camp Poplar River B[...] |
| [...]around the camp and it soon became one of their favorite[...]wn, he thought he could stand the heat no longer, and[...]The water used for washing, butchering and watering[...]The soldiers and sergeants of the post each had their[...]own quarters and most were ample enough to house a[...]The soldiers quarters contained a kitchen, dining hall and[...]during the summer, and cut down from along the banks of the Poplar and Missouri Rivers. The canteen and bakery were what you would call extra[...]luxuries. The Cosier and MacDonald stores provided other[...]luxuries for the soldiers. Clothing and meals were provided[...]e east of the parade grounds, we find the library and[...]and the houses, built from regular lumber, of the peo[...]e Agency people, the Cosier-Shaw Trading Company, and winter, was located in this area. Part of the ice was used to the MacDonald Trading store and a few small log cabins. keep perishable food[...]ice-boxes. About two-thirds of the ice house was and soldiers' quarters, and most of the other buildings underground to[...]orm sheds could be found on most of the buildings and all had brick chimneys. The roofs were covered wi[...]e paths or gravel-sidewalks were kept in place by a foundation of small boards. Each of the quarter[...]use". Drinking water was furnished to the Post by a large barrel hauled by a mule team from the Missouri River. From this barr[...]s of each household was filled approximately once a week. 1 and 2 unidentified; Numbers 3-5 are; Mamie Colgan Reid, |
| Sgt, Patrick Colgan and Mrs. Colgan, 1898 with George Colgan on horse. Marksmanship is a very important quality in any Wilson was with this command. I was then a scout under |
| finally came in and gave themselves up. The government treated the Indians good, furnishing them with tents and rations. They remained a few days here at Camp Poplar, then were transferred to Fort Buford. A Yankton Indian by the name of Black Horn who belonged to this agency and made a lot of trouble was in Gall's camp at the time of the fight, and he was also taken to Fort Buford as a prisoner of war. If Gall had not been so bull headed and used better judgment he could have avoided all th[...]with Sitting Bull. After the trouble, Colonel A lgeris ordered me with two pack mules and ten Indian scouts and Jack Culwell to the ruined timber north of the to[...]government on account of the severe cold weather and deep snow. I was out fifteen days without seeing a hostile Indian until my trip back we ran into a hostile camp at the mouth of the Little Porcupine[...]ing from Fort Benton. He had with him another man and two Red River jumpers and four head of horses. I said to Jack Culwell, ''We[...]with me." I asked Bedler what he had for supper, and he said "Snowballs and pepper sauce. " I must say that X. Bedler was the[...]I have ever met in all my life. He feared nothing and knew the country as the best scout did. I had first met Redler at Fort Benton in 1869. He was a friend to the Culbertson family. I was then a little boy. The leading chiefs in this fight were Gall, Spotted Horn, Charging Thunder, Hollow Tooth and Blackhorn. Chief Gaul and Tom Colgan.[...] |
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| [...]esents the snow of wintertime. The black markings on the white circle near the apex[...]nts again the snow of winter- time and the little Teepees represent the suc-[...] |
| HISTORY OF SIOUX AND ASSINIBOINE TRIBES Reprint from Fort Pec[...]Indians has changed with the times, reflecting to a considerable degree the changes in attitude of[...]Home Department of the Interior was established and Indian Affairs were included among its duties.[...]ad always known. But it was not to be, the Idaho and Montana territories and thousands of for the white man's hung[...]tisfied. emigrants rushed by way of the Missouri and by overland The more land they took, the[...]did bargain they had made. In 1862 they rose up and attacked not move. When the deadline came and went with no sign the people who now had taken their land and given so little of compliance with the Army or[...]Lake, Late in June, General George Custer and his 7th Cavalry General Henry Sibley rounded up 1500 Sioux and put them found a large encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne by the in prison. The rest scattered and many found their way to Little Big Horn River and attacked. This battle was the end the Dakotas and to the Fort Peck areas. o[...]souri for the Indian. Although they had won a decisive victory, by building Forts Sully and Rice and by garrisoning the they had used up nearly all the ammunition and were trading posts at Fort Union and Fort Berthold. Then in badly in need of[...]d which were under the Commander of Fort Lyon. As a result north. Sitting Bull wanted peace and said he would quit of this and other events, the Plains Indians were very[...]less than In 1865 President Johnson appointed a commission to unconditional surrender, and so the chase continued. By conciliate the Upper M[...]d made his way to the Fort Peck with these groups and with three Tribes at Fort Berthold Reservation where he camped with friendly Yanktonai and the Assiniboine at Fort Union. By these treaties the Sioux. The Army continued their pursuit and he was forced Indians agreed to permit the establ[...]Trouble continued along the In the fall and summer of 1876 the government Bozeman trail until[...]vantage of the Indian to get new harassment, sent a peace commission to meet with Red conce[...]hunting grounds in Nebraska; relinquish the trail and abandoned the forts ; ceded the entire Powder Black Hills; and the unceded lands east of the Powder River country, including the Black Hills, for which the River in Montana and Wyoming. In return the Indians Indians agreed not[...]ith the Due to the Army, the fur traders and the hunters, the Sioux Nation steadily deteriorat[...]tered the In 1874 they sent General Custer to the Black Hills on a buffalo by the thousands and by the mid-1880's the buffalo pretext of a survey for military purposes. He came out[...]at Fort Peck reported proclaiming the gold in the Black Hills. Inspite of the there were few buffalo in the area and the Indians were treaties, and unable to keep its citizens out, the[...]rnment for their government then tried to buy the Black Hills but they could livelihood. come to no ag[...]ndian wanted During the late 1870's and the early lBB0's the Army more money than the government was willing to pay--and continued its grim task of rounding up th[...]ued. The non-reservation Indian tribes and placing them on reservations. The Fort Peck refused to sell at any price and warned the white man to Reservation area was unsettled and often a violent place[...] |
| [...]time. Bands of Indians who followed Sitting Bull and Gall were often in the area and a constant problem to the authorities who were tryi[...]1880 the Army sent the 11th Infantry to establish a post at Poplar Creek, where the Indian agency was[...]r, about two miles away. Early in 1881, following a brief encounter, Gall surrendered; and later that year Sitting Bull, who had been living in Canada, surrendered to the American authorities and was taken to Fort Buford. Pressure by the gover[...]g at the Indian Sub Agency in Wolf Point (Harlem) and the Blackfeet (at Browning).[...]Although Wolf Point was a community with a trading FORT PECK INPIAN AGENCY store, the agency buildings and personnel for supervising[...]t end of the reservation did not come until 1879. A[...]that built a number of the agency buildings; the lumber The[...]tained from cottonwood logs. That mill also 1871, and for all but eight years has been located at Popla[...]t Peck in 1871 was to serve the Lower Assiniboine and sub-agents who had charge of the Wolf Poin[...]ilt in 1867 for the Agency where he had been a butcher. firm of Durfee and Peck, holders of government contracts Du[...]he winter of 1883-84 the to supply military posts and Indian agencies in the supplies and annuities were late being delivered; winter northwest. Although the fort was never a military post, it was early, the buffalo were nearly extinct, and there had often served as headquarters for military men and been a drouth and total crop failure. It was stated that over gover[...]n the agency was moved to its charge and had seen the terrible loss of life due to the lac[...]was removed by men and women with hand hovels.[...]Lunch was served to the workers at noon and the pay wa[...]This smal1 project proved a great succe sand each year[...]more acreage was added; garden and hay w r rai ed in The first Indian Agency estab[...]or the tribe. was at Fort Peck which was built as a trading post and After the slaughter hou e wa built nea[...]proce sand i ue. Thi often turned out to be a gala time, 1851 Treaty were issued. This agency operated from 1873 but often tense if a shot mis ed and the teer went crashing until 1879 when the agency was moved to Poplar and a sub- through the gate . agency was establis[...]he ~ olf Pomt that cattle were issued to the A siniboine . The typ were area one of their main camping grounds was m an area beef, milk cow and large grown te r for work oxen. Later known as "F[...]a Wakpa) due to the many breeding mares and work-type hor e wer is u d, with the frogs along[...]By the Bureau of Indian Affair advocation of a live tock Point. According to the Assiniboines, two trappers b~lt a and farming program for th A iniboine thi combined cabin on the north bank of[...]ter the site of activity was taught to them, and machin ry and live tock Old Wolf Point, and spread poisoned bait in .a wi~e area were issued along with food and clothing, including good which killed many wolves and coyotes. That situation was for the[...] |
| [...]tana, bounded on the south by the Missouri River and encompasses the Big Muddy on the east boundary and the Porcupine Creek on the west {in Valley County) and extends north through Township 33 then east acro[...]ridan County. The land rises gently to the north and is cut by the valleys of several streams. There are a few isolated badland areas, but these are not ex[...]al Building for the allotment of the reservation and the sale of surplus lands. Each Indian was to have 320 acres of grazing land plus some timber and irrigatable land. Some was withdrawn for agency buildings, school and church use half of the population being Indian. Brockton at this time and the Great Northern Railroad. All lands not allott[...]ey Poplar is headquarters for the Sioux and Assiniboine were not carried out. If they had been, the tribes would Tribes, and the location of the Fort Peck Indian Agency, hav[...]y about The Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Public Health 237,000 acres are owned by the[...]ntain Services. The Dakota Market is a new Indian store which control over another 86,00[...]-called sub- carries groceries, records and handicraft materials. The marginal land; and about 608,000 is owned by individual Re[...]ir white neighbors, except too often in land farm and pasture land; 17,000 acres of irrigated land; much poorer circumstances. They all speak English, and about 12,000 acres of timber land or used for other except for a few elderly people; go to the same public purpose[...]res schools; live in the same kind of houses and wear the same a year through sales to non-Indians. In 1973 the Fort Peck kind of clothes. Although there are a number of very Tribes borrowed $1,500,000 from the Farm-Home successful Indian farmers and ranchers, there are many Administration for land[...]ill enable them or construction work for a living. Many of the Indian to purchase another 15[...]Protestants and Catholics. PEOPLE[...]thern own. Their family ties are strong and they practice the one-third of the reservation. T[...]ommunication- U.S. with relatives and friends. They still prepare foods that Highway No. 2 and the Burlington Northern Railroad. were enjoyed by their ancestors in years past. And there is Wolf Point is the largest town on the reservation with a nothing they like better than an Indian[...]00, with about one-fifth being feasts, and most of all dance. Indian. Poplar has a population of about 2100 with one- M[...]just as strange and incomprehensible.[...]country are citizens of the United States and are free to[...]ove about as they please. Between the late 1880's and[...] |
| [...]reservation. but the largest number are Chippewa and Cree from the 1876- Sioux Campaign wi[...]dum in 1960 can now be River and General Miles stationed at Fort Peck Tribal members. A person born before 1960 must be on the to maintain order. basic roll; a descendant of a person on a basic roll; or 1879 Presbyterians secur[...]to 1960 with the Methodists for a mission on the reservation. approval of the Secr[...]after 1960 must be one-fourth or more Assiniboine and/ or 1880 11th Infantry established at Po[...]Gall surrenders. The Assiniboine people speak a Siouxian dialect and 1883 Rev. George Wood moves from Pop[...]biting Sundances. they joined the Plains Chippewa and Cree in their wars 1886 May 15, Secr[...]s 17,500,000 acres of "hostiles" who put up such a fierce resistance to the white land and the division of the remaining man's invasion of[...]p Poplar River. The word "Sioux" is derived from a French corruption of a 1896 Government aid to Indian Missions dis- Chippewa word meaning "snakes" or "adders". This was a continued. derogatory term use[...]ear Year Name Ventres and Crows for a hunting area-Rocky[...]ier Milk River 1870 A . . Reed between Fort Hall and Fort Peck Fort Peck 1871[...]der on 1869 Assiniboine, Sioux, Gros Ventre and River Fort Peck 1876 1877[...]Crows; located south of the Milk River and Fort Peck- 1877 1879[...]Major athan to serve lower Assiniboine and Sioux.[...]1874 Established north of the Marias River and 18 6 Missour[...]obey the Rockies to the Dakota line et a side as an 1893[...]Maj b boine, Gros Ventre and Sioux. 1905 Maj . hmill r 1875 L.A. Fitch goes to Fort Peck to teach Indians to[...]E .D. man toil the land and some of the rudiments of[...] |
| [...]1933 H.D. McCullough the racing and athletic events will be free for all. The annex[...]eservation. Exhibits will include grain, grasses, and 1939 1942 O.C. Gray[...]vegetables. Grain will include wheat, oats, flax, and corn. 1942 1943 E.R[...]Prizes will be given; blue ribbons for first, and red for ([...]rvation 1943 1948 F.A. Asbury will have a good display of exhibits on hand." Other[...]James D. Crawford work, including moccasins and leggings, bows and 1954 1956 Clinton 0 . Talley arrows, pipes, fruits and vegetables both dried and canned, 1956 1957 Harvey Starling jelly and pickles. School displays will consist of art work[...]penmanship, cooking--such as breads and cakes, and 1957 1959 David P.[...]in The Great Northern Railroad will have a rate of one and 1962 1967 Stanley L[...]ak, 1967 1971 Anson A. Baker inclusive, to Poplar, Montana. Ti[...]September 23 to September 27 inclusive, with a final return 1974 1974[...]large crowds expected can be accommodated and[...]st annual Indian Fair was held in 1909 in Poplar; and the Fair in 1913 was the last one to be held befo[...]tern was established for the purpose of promoting and Montana. Through the efforts of Ma[...]perintendent of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, and[...]during the p~~t summer to erect a grandstand with ~ Indian Fair[...]portunity to see the products of this reservation and of |
| [...]Horse racing and riding[...]most 500. The grandstand is set in concrete piers and is sufficiently strong to proclude the slightest[...]n accident. It is 24 by 104 feet, is well-covered and at the rear are a number of booths for the sale of refreshments.[...]nd comprise the Fair Grounds; this is enclosed by a fence and at the east and west ends are double gates with turnstiles. Within the closure are a half- mile race track, judges' stand, grandstand and two large exhibit halls. This being the only Fa[...]idan (also comprising Daniels) held its own fair; and the large celebrations here were somehow combined[...].M. Parade of Indians around the Fair Grounds and through the streets of Poplar. The Indians will be mounted and dressed in gorgeous costumes.[...] |
| [...]in museum now at Poplar. end for a gain of twenty yards - 1913. SECOND DAY-SEPTEMBER 26 |
| [...]in 1918. Inside the fair grounds fence there was a mile race track. TRIBAL INDUSTRIES That year there were tents and tepees side by side almost around the track. I was riding some race horses for Bob A & S Tribal Industries wholly owned by the Reid's brother, Mack, and we would be at the track early, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes and managed by Brunswick galloping the horses. Each morning a fellow rode around Corporation, has an ele[...]the tents almost at United States Army over a three-year period. The netting once.[...]components manufactured by A & Sare used by the Devils There was a trick rider, Jack Goldberg, from Culbertson L[...]t Totten, there, who also did some trick spinning and shooting with North Dakota, and the Brunswick Corporation in Deland, a six-shooter. One day while Jack was going through his Florida. A & S employs about 170 people, with about gun act, Frank Dumont was a short ways away with a six- $15,500 as a weekly payroll. The factory is located in the shooter and clowning Jack's act. When Jack fired, Frank[...]l Park south of the railroad. Sid Morris of fired and fell on the ground kicking and quivering like a the Brunswick Corporation is general manager[...]of the material department; Pat Jack's act. After a bit, Frank got slowly to his feet and Beauchman is personnel manager; Ms. Willie Saxton is reached to his hip pocket and pulled out about half a flour Production Manager and Ben Grey Hawk is engineering sack and wiped his neck. It came away covered with blood; manager. The factory is a modern metal building Frank was using live ammunition and had creased containing about 40,00[...]equipment and conveniences. Car Race at Indian Fair Grounds[...]Assinboine and Sioux (A&S) Tribal Industries[...] |
| [...]ed in the Poplar Industrial Park. This company is a federally funded Indian work program. No white pe[...]kton area. This company is no longer functioning. A new Housing Authority of the Fort Peck Tribes takes care of the new homes. The Wontanin Wowapi is a very interesting newspaper printed by the Tribes and contains news and pictures pertaining to the Fort Peck Reservation. The Dakota Market carries a full supply of authentic Indian crafts, tapes, records and cards, Navajo jewelry and groceries. William Standing as a boy. Poplar Artist |
| At Indian Celebration - 1976 - Poplar at a time. Families would drive their teams and wagons |
| [...]Chiefs would then walk up and down the line of mounted Indians and pick out three men to cut[...]he ones that cut the pole a horse each. After the Medicine Pole was cut, it was painted red and set in the middle of the camp, and stalls out of brush would be made to hold dancers and singers for the Sun Dance. They would then bring in the braves and lay them down at the foot of the pole and pierce holes through the skin of their breasts, and then a stick about the size of a lead pencil would be placed through these holes, a lariat fastened to them and the Dance musicians Medicine Pole and there they would dance in the hot sun[...] |
| [...]celebration without eating or drinking all day and perhaps all night if |
| [...]Mr. Charles Eder, Joseph Crow Shoe and Mother[...]Indian craft and arts and his leadership as chairman of[...]Joe Crow Shoe and his mother both blessed the pipe and[...]The stone comes from Pipestone, Minnesota, and is[...]the pipestone in reverence and as a symbol of peace. Some pipes tell a story. This pipe was used to end quarrels[...]between Indian tribes, strengthen alliances, and to show[...]allow a violation without punishment and great MISS INDIAN AMERICA[...]legends told by our Indian grandfathers is about a girls named Miss Indian America at the All Americ[...]ills Indian Pageant at Sheridan, Wyoming. This is a great and covered all the people, and their flesh and blood was achievement, for any Indian girl compet[...]possess outstanding qualities of poise, character and drowning, a great bald eagle flew down so that a beautiful Indian characteristics and demonstrate her dedication to Indian maiden c[...]wn people through her educational carried her a way to the top of a cliff above the water. When efforts and choice of life work. the water went down, the girl had twins on this cliff and In 1962 Miss Williamette Belle Youpee, a Sioux from the the father was the war eagle. This was the beginning of a Fort Peck Reservation was chosen Oil Celebration[...]pe introduced by Mr. Crow Shoe Tribes at Sheridan and won, becoming th tenth Miss is represen[...]. in a spiral which was believed to confuse and discourage[...]represent the twins and the three ribs, which represent a flaw, near the mouthpiece represent the twins and the mother. The flaw is a belief of the Indian that only the[...]EACE PIPE eagle claws and eagle feathers represent the war eagle in[...]decorations. unusual ceremony was held in which a Ceremonial Peace At the beginning of th[...]Shoe, Piegan, from filled with tobacco and live embers are before the man who Brockett, Alberta and Joshua Wetsit, Assiniboine, Fort holds the pipe. Four laps of sweet grass are cut off and laid Peck Reservation. The pipe had been restored[...]upon the embers. The pipe is held above the smoke and Eder. Mr. Wetsit gave a brief statement on how Mr. Eder turne[...] |
| [...]years and was then transferred from the War Department[...]to the Interior Department and given duties at Fort Meade,[...]Indianapolis, Indiana, a daughter of Mathew and Barbara[...]County) with her parents in 1882 at the age of 11 and spent[...]Indian school. There she met Charles Lohmiller and they which is believed to purify the pipe. It is[...]in the bowl of the pipe travels through the stem and the message is received by the Great Spirit as a white man sends a message by wireless telegraph. He offers the pipe to the west to the buffalo eagles and the thunderbirds that the thunderbirds will have[...]y the eagle with sharp eyes who flies the highest and there shall be meat from the buffalo for his peop[...]es blown down or torn in two, that the north wind and snows will have mercy upon his people that they live through the white snow and be able to walk the green grass together in peace[...]offered to the east where Grandfather Sun Dwells; and he prays He will give them sunshine and good days while his wife, Grandmother's Traveling[...]eld with the stem pointed straight to the heavens and the bowl of the pipe to the ground; and the Major C.B. Lohmiller house, Superintend[...]he bowl of this pipe be heard by the Great Spirit and be granted under these blue skies and the sinful world we His Superintendency made a notable chapter in the dwell upon". He then lays[...]and partly developed, schools were started, Indian we[...]shown how to farm for a living and the Indian fair were[...]e ervation was open d for white MAJOR CHARLES B. AND MARY LOHMILLER settl[...]d come in the new town of Poplar. He was a director of the Traders tQ the United States from[...]f the Fir t acquired his early education in Iowa, and at the age of 16 National Bank of Brockton and for a n um her of year wa enlisted in the regular army[...]company which con tructed the Gateway hotel and Texas participating in the Geronimo campaign during president of the company. 1885-1886, and assisting with the capture of the old Major Lohmiller served in World War I a fir t warrior. In 1888 he was sent to Fort Buford[...]a ters Corp. He wa di charged Keogh at Miles City and from there to Fort Meade, South at Camp tewart Vi'fginia as major. He re-entered the Dakota in the Black Hills. While at Fort Keogh in 1890 he Indian service, serving in Nebraska and th n returning to had an experience in the Sioux[...]rvation at Lame De r, Montana. Dancer's outbreak, and was also involved in the battle of Lohmil[...]eyenne uprising when the Indians Major and Mrs. Lohmiller are buried in the Custer tr[...] |
| [...]rmore would parted be, And. earth was heaven below•[...]quiekly fled 11iey had a spat - now when they meet[...] |
| [...]t1on and the only[...]and ,vill have a staff[...]that are re]iable and compe-[...]so furnish a limit d number of Major C.B. Lohmiller (head turn[...],ive u a all. INSTRUCTIONS TO PROSPECTIVE SETTLERS[...]eptember 23, 1913. 12,000 applications were drawn and assigned numbers from 1 to 12,000 consecutively.[...]Theo. Rounds J. C. Heiland land, but a representative choice. For example No. 1 has the[...]plar, Montana rest of the land from which to make a choice, except that taken by No. 1. If anyone holding a number does not take advantage of their nu[...] |
| [...]the first year, and one-eighth needed to be under[...]Soldiers and sailors could make a declaratory statement Livery, Feed and Sales Barn in person or through a government agent which gave him[...]the right of selection for $3.00 and the right to file on land.[...]R s .! rvation for forty years On a desert claim, there were no filing fees, but a feasible and know every foot of it . ir[...]to by two I hav e pl ~nty of horses and rigs . witnesses as to its practicability, and at least $1.00 per acre I us e g e[...]nt on irrigation before proving up. and ex pe rie nc ed and carefu l Most of the land on[...]rn boundary of the county near team and driver, there is no dan-[...]the Missouri River. Between 1909 and 1912 the government had made a feasibility study of this area for ger of g e tting lost, and you w ill irrigation, and by the time the land was open for filing,[...]filed along the Poplar River and other streams which flow[...]Rates per Horse: SOc a day in ba rn --!Oc a day in cor ra l G ra i n 25c e xtra[...]n 8,000 claims on the Reservation open for en try and those who went to the expense of S[...]pt through the Jap lines to selection on the hour and minute designated by the scout post positions and returned with information that Government by Apri[...]larly as to weak points or obtain the services of a land locator this was held by the[...]ke the case of Staff Sgt. John Red Door, formerly a choice was to take the land without ha ving seen[...]t Poplar. Once he stole could get the services of a Government land loca tor to through the Jap lines leading a six-man patrol in a thrust appear with you at the time of filing, who would s wear that at a big pill box that had been giving the Americans plenty he had seen the land and that he was g iving an accurate of troubl[...]rept up to the coconut-log stronghold description and valuation of the property. and tossed grenades through the gun slits. As the Jap[...]them. Red Door was hit, but Sgt. Arthur Belgard, and have 10 days to look over the land and pay one-fifth of another Indian from Poplar saw him fall and carried him the appraised value of the land. The[...]to safety after bra ving machine gun fire from a second pill was to be paid annually in fou r equa[...]rue Americans have Indian last names, as were up. A popular method of proof is the commutation for example Pfc. Lloyd Half Red and Sgt. George Red Elk. proof which stated that at t[...]d valuation of the land m ust be paid Dupree, a Montana State College graduate, described as in f[...]ned to do so; but the family could not live there and have the about h im because he brought his headdress and full Sioux claimant living somewhere else during[...]battle regalia overseas with him, and had delighted them months. with his war songs and dances.[...] |
| [...]N HOUSING Type of shade used by Sioux Indians and wood pile for Ormsby smoking peace pipe.[...] |
| [...]A[...] |
| [...]e Wirth house. Headquarters for Indian Police and Interpreters - 1894. |
| [...]Indian Squaw roasting a dog in 1896.[...] |
| [...]Duck are in the front row. Harvey Hamilton, Sr., and Martin Mitchell in the background.[...]affectionately with their deceased relatives and friends, and always left some present.[...] |
| [...]a11d o..9/J[...]Meagher County was created out of Gallatin County and part of Oiouteau County. In 1870 Dawson took half of Big Horn County, boasting a population at that time of 136 white male adults,[...]I a 8'i[...] |
| [...]ridan County, with Plentywood as the county seat; and finallypartofBlaine and part of \ 'alley was taken to forn1 Phillips.[...]NAL CARVING: 'll1c final slice of the Legislative knife came in 1919 when RooscY It county was formed, taking land from both \ 'all y and Sheridan counties; and again in 1920 when Daniels county was formed from the nortJ1cast corner of\'allcY and a small sliver was taken from Sheridan Count[...] |
| [...]s Valley came in 1908 when the people in the east and northeast area decided the county seat at Glasgow[...]ho were at that time promoting division-Bainville and construction and equipping of the present court house. The Plentywood. W.P.A. appropriated $42,590 for the construction. The A second attempt to divide the county came in 1910,[...]illion dollars. · In a December issue of the 1910 Culbertson Searchlight[...]in Eastern Valley County." Plentywood had devised a Richardson, Antelope; heriff, T.A. ourtne , Antelop ; scheme of her own to cut off the northeast end of Valley (This heriff elected and killed at nowden four day after County which woul[...]ch , making the county 55 miles long running east and west, Mondak; Eli P. Hanson, oalridge; Harr D. Louck , and 30 miles deep running north and south with Redstone; Treasurer J.[...]ted the Attorney, Paul Babcock Culbert on; A es or, H.B. Hill , county divided a short distance west of Brockton, but not Mon[...]istrator, iels hri ten en, Dagmar; Jerk of and running straight north, with Culbertson the county Court, L.J. On tad, Coalridge; l rk and Recorder, B n seat.[...]isted by During thi convention t a John Lundquist and others, circulated what was to become Centr[...]ist Petitions". Dan McKay of ballot and the upcomin g a Glasgow who had become known as "the county split[...]ion. Georg a · From newspaper accounts, it seems there wa l[...]est boundary being as it is now separating Valley and committ Roosevelt, but running straight N[...]a should have the county seat. Culbert on wa a very trong Atto[...]to b the fa t t pro~ a g growing; Me[...]·on had the most population; and Froid had a few influential R pu[...]' /~·., men who wanted some consideration and e m d to b in a P" r ·,[...]raw from th<' race. "The been open for settlement and apparently th in uffici nt am a t th town itt th n anted white population in the area of Poplar and Wolf Point did to support the nort m r in th ar a not merit them much consideration for a count eat at thi d in fav r of[...]th · · ft unt. A convention was called at Mondak on February 13,[...]on non- 1913 for the purpose of selecting a nam for the new count bal P ba beat and proposing a slate of officer to be 1 cted. Th 140[...]hat i now Roo evelt ounty.) involv d and bu . nother ount. org-~ni[...] |
| Senator Walker and Representative Richardson never got the[...]on second Tuesday of March, 1919 in had adjourned and there was no special session before the Ple[...]taxes; and to collect same. Any surplus of funds to be[...]between the two counties and how it is to be settled.[...]Section 9. Division of school districts and the[...]empowered to issue a contract for transcribing records[...]lative Assembly - State of Montana and compensation of clerk for transcription.[...]ch pertain to the new county shall be Boundaries and providing for its Organization and transferred to the District Court to which the County of Government, and to Change the Boundary of Sheridan Roosevelt is attached, and subject to the same laws as if County to Conform[...]That all that portion of the State of Montana and appointed to fill the offices as set opposite the[...]State Senator Henry Lowe as and shall be Roosevelt County, in the State of Montan[...]mmissioner R.E. Patch Beginning at a point at the northwest corner of Coun[...]r W.E. Tidland Township 32 and 33 North, a distance about 48 miles to the Sheriff[...]sor E.J. Rice thence South a distance of about 6 miles along the Range C[...]Court T. Forbes line between Range 53 and 54 to the Southeast corner of Clerk and Recorder John C. Dwyer Township 32 N[...]ey Ernest L. Walton Township line a distance of about six miles between Coroner A. W. Gustafson Township 31 and 32, to the Northeast corner of Township Superintendend-Schools Mrs. Nina McFarlane 31 and 32, to the Northeast corner of Township 31 North, Public Administrator Range 54 East; thence south a distance of about six miles County Surveyor[...]East along the Township line between Township 30 and 31 North to the boundary line of the States of Montana and North Dakota; thence South to the All of s[...]wer to perform the Missouri River; thence West on a meandering line of the same duties and entitled to the same privileges as by law Missour[...]ficers in other counties. All officers thence in a Northerly direction along the boundary line of shall give bonds and take the oath of office as required by Valley and Sheridan counties to the point of beginning. law, and approved by the State Auditor. Terms of[...]the said County of Roosevelt shall be attached to and become a part of the election.[...]Section 13. Roosevelt to be a sixth class county until the Seventeenth Judicial[...]County Commissioners Roosevelt shall be selected and designated in the manner empowered at thei[...]ter 135 of the Acts of the municipal townships and road districts. Justices of the 12th Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, Peace and road supervisors provided for. Hold over officers[...]Act. Montana are applicable to Roosevelt County, and to the Section 16. This Act shall be in full force and effect appointed or elected officers, except as otherwise provided from and after its passage and approval. in this Act. Section 4. The Board of[...]proval of this Act to select (Sunday excepted) and the Legislative Assembly being in a chairman and proceed with the business of organizing Session, it has become a law without the Governor's the new County.[...]signature, this eighteenth day of February, A.D. 1919. Section 5. Pertains to the App[...] |
| [...]rom the Culbertson Searchlight; Bid No. 2 from A scant six years before, the people who were to be living the Poplar Standard; and Bid No. 3 from the Yellowstone in Roosevelt County had gone through the agony and News at Mondak. Afewweekslaterthe bid was awarded to suffering of trying to split a county through the route of the Poplar Standard for $5,000.00. petition, referendum, and vote in trying to get Sheridan The[...]ioners were to have jurisdiction County organized and separated from Valley county. To over all county elections and on March 6 they divided the follow this procedure[...]many years. The bitterness, the broken promises, and the ploy of of the precinct boundary lin[...]e organization of Roosevelt County. The landscape and the scenery was somewhat different but many of th[...]Precinct 1 Mondak Town Hall A committee composed of J.W. Schnitzler of Froid,[...]lle, Ward 1 Jail William Powers of Bainville and Ernest Walton of Poplar Precinct 3 Bainville, Ward 2 Fire Hall sponsored and lobbied for a bill to create a new county from Precinct 4 Bainville, out[...]Enterprise School to Roosevelt, honoring and commemorating a former Precinct 9 Froid, Ward[...]Precinct 11 Froid, outlying Earl A. Early Place The bill creating Roosevelt Count[...]officers to be appointed were listed in the bill and so were Precinct 17 Smoke Creek[...]lement Weinrich of Mondak John Anderson of Froid, and R.E. Precinct 24 Wolf Point, War[...]Mike Sullivan's Place Sheridan County and now appointed for Roosevelt; all[...]ner of Wide Awake Community and No. 31 was Wolf Point Sheridan County. Both men h[...]in office from the previous election in 1917 and these were The County Commissioners met in the[...], 1919. The first order of business was to select a site for the county seat of Municipal Town[...]hip 2 William G. Reiter, Froid not been' a contender in previous court house selection and Justice of the Peace K.L. Hansen,[...]Amos Price, Froid the county offices. At 10:00 A.~. o~ March ~, the Municipal To[...]their first meeting m Mondak m the A.M. Lodmell, Brockton bank building. On this day t[...]of the Peace Frank Moon, Culbertson Clerk and Recorder, to purchase the ~e?essary equipment[...]Phil Murphy, Wolf Point Deputy Clerk and Recorder M.B. Milligan .[...] |
| [...]y roads were all against the creation of a new county out of Roosevelt. de ignated and the contracts let. (See under the This is the last chance to have a county seat accessible to tran porta tion secti[...]y. If the Bid for caring for the county poor and the County farmers will unite on Cu[...]lt County. Bids opened were No. 1 from Lockwood and Blakeslee-to classify not less than 300,000 acr[...]¢ per : :0 1 acre, and for deeded lands on the Reservation only 2 1/2¢ |
| was rented for $1.00 a year and county offices were 31 Wolf P[...]9 was located in the Stockman National Bank and the Court 33 unknown[...]12 0 anticipated that a fear{ul roar will be raised and the people who favored Wolf Point as the county s[...]have the county seat in Poplar with 1811 votes and Wolf Point with 2003 votes. the middle of the cou[...]Too bad people didn't recall these 1821 votes and Wolf Point with 2012 votes but the first words of[...]itions were never corrected.) Either way there is a In all the research there was never any explan[...]oard also showed 3865 to it was necessary to have a second vote on where the County have been ca[...]ht offered this Ward 2; No. 28 Volt; and No. 31 Wolf Point Country. The explanation 1922 c[...]be the winner on CAMPAIGN". "Wolf Point is using and will continue to December 2, 1922. use every means within her power to try and secure the On December 5, 1922, an act[...]y Dr. J.L. Atkinson of the permanent county seat, and is making a strenuous Poplar. A temporary restraining order was issued which campaign to capture county seat as a prize for the town of prohibited the moving[...]December 30, 1922 the Commissioners held a special Two factors were evident in the balloting in 1922. (1) The meeting and appointed Scott Hart and John Moran as towns of Froid and Bainville were still thinking in terms of spec[...]uard the election ballots in splitting the county and thereby supported Wolf Point the vault[...]r support when the time came to divide the county and (2)the Indians in the Poplar-Brockton-Wolf Point[...]At Poplar First National Bank Building, Clerk and 7 Dwyer 17[...]40 Ketchner (later Mrs. Seel), and Mabel Kellogg. 10 Froid Ward 2[...]opened the election sacks of precincts 23, 24 and 31. The 15 Brockton 81[...]68 0 precincts 3, 23, 24, 28 and 31. No result of the canvas wa 17 Smoke C[...]1 247 0 After a long legal battle, District Judge George Horken 1[...]2 210 I rendered a decision on February 8, 1924 establishing Wolf 20[...]ion to the Montana upreme Court. .A. 22 Cusker 28[...]23 18 County Attorney and County Treasurer) to Wolf Point. On 27[...] |
| The Supreme Court rendered a decision on July 11, 1924 designating Wolf Point[...]ld railroad division office was leased for $75.00 a month. This building remained as the court house[...]0. (Old railroad division office was located just a shade south and west of the present depot-after Court House it be[...]Buford). George Richwine, juror and C.E. Comer, judge.[...]t Lohn, County Treasurer; Jake Seel, Deputy Clerk and Recorder; Clarence Hanson, Treasurer's office; Jo[...]ura Nyland (Rathert) in Treasurer's Anderson and his deputy sheriff, Charlie Council. Jim office;[...]ounty Superintendent of Boyd is on the steps and the jailer, who is unidentified, is to Schools' o[...]Court; Margaret Ulrich, County Attorney's office and Charles Arrivee, County Surveyor. The first and only legal hanging ever performed in[...]received the invitations were deputized to act a Deputy finished, the "BUSINESS AS USUAL" attitude[...]n adopted by the Commissioners, elected officials and the was inside an enclosure 32x70 feet, 18[...]Rathert Furniture) with atlin and Geer attorney for the State and Marron and Mourn a attorney for the de£ n e. This is a picture of the first criminal trial in District C[...]ersheriff, Todd Shamley. Front row: Judge and Greer; for defense, Marron and Moum. At this time, |
| [...]cted at large but offices of State Representative and County Treasurer[...]en exceptions, in the offices of the County Clerk and[...]term will expire every Recorder, County Assessor and State Representative.[...]ne Legislative District, having one State Senator and Nyquist's term in 1978 and District 2 Commissioner two tate Representatives. Obliged to follow a Federal[...]census report will be in progress and upon which another reapportionment attempt. A four county legislative[...]with the counties of Roosevelt, Sheridan, Daniels and the eastern part of Valley into District 4. From this district we elected two State Senators and four State Representatives. Another revision was[...]presentative repre ents approximately 4000 people and a State Senator[...]-, .. divided into three Representative districts and two[...]··- I enatorial districts. House districts 1 and 2 each elect one[...]I State Representative; and combined they make Senatorial[...]: I Thus one can see with a quick glance at the map, that the |
| Each town in the county was also to appoint or elect a Study Commission to determine the kind of city go[...]the future needs of that city. Forms of county and city governments are to be reviewed every ten yea[...], Mondak; J. W. Schnitzler, 1925-1931, Farmer- F .A. Weinrich County Comm. 6 Yr. Term[...]Poplar. New desks were purchased for future use. A. W. Gustafson County Coroner George[...]J.W. Schnitzler tate enator L.A. Brown County Attorney[...]n Supt. of Schools H.A. Schoenig tate Repre entativ Fay[...]Thomas R. Forbes Clerk of ourt A.W. Gustafson Coroner[...]rtson Twp. L.M. layton A e or H .M. Smith J.P. Culbertson[...]Lucy A. Curran te Re A.E . Witmore Constable Culbertson[...]Poplar Jud. Twp. L.M. Clayton A or[...] |
| [...]Jud. Twp. H.A. Tesker J.P. Culbertson Twp.[...]Jud. Twp. Lucy A. Curran State Representative W.A. 1unaker Constable Froid J[...] |
| [...]Joseph Montgomery Coroner H.A. Gerringer Constable Wolf Point[...]J.P. Culbert on Twp. A.T. Li tug tate Repre entative F[...]ringdale J. . ullivan A es or Jud. Twp.[...]yth Constable Froid Jud. Twp. A .V. Applegren Publi Admini tr[...] |
| [...]ds Constable Springdale A.J. Allen J.P. Springdale Twp.[...]. Twp. Jud. Twp. A.C. Terpe Constable Wolf Point[...]vey State Representative A.C. Terpe Constable Wolf Point J[...]Jud. Twp. Guy A. Miller Clerk of Court Jack Allen[...]don J .P. Wolf Point Twp. Guy A. Miller Clerk of Court William DeWi[...]od Constable Culbertson A.J. Allen J .P . Springdal[...] |
| [...]Supt. of Schools Eleanor A. Schmeltze.c Clerk & Recorder & Surveyor A[...]Alice Fossen Supt. of Schools W.A. (Andy) Frick J.P. Wolf Point Twp.[...]nson Con table Froid Jud. Twp. A.J. Isachsen Public Administrator A. Damm on table ulbert on[...]Judge District Court Eleanor A. chmeltz r lerk & R corder & urveyor[...]Kermit K. Ulrich Trea ur r Guy A. Miller Clerk of Court W. . Han on A es or Norman W. Hauge County Co[...] |
| [...]Larry Persson County Attorney John A. Herting[...]d. Twp. On November 7, 1962 Guy Miller resigned a s Clerk of[...]1968 Eleanor A. Schmeltzer Clerk & Recorder & S urv[...] |
| [...]d Kaschube County Commissioner James A. Mc Cann County Attorney Eleanor A. Schmeltzer Clerk & Recorder & urveyor Vir[...]Assessor James A. Mc Cann County Attorney Harry Axtman[...]Twp. ·- · Ever11 Vote and Effort Lucille C. Timm J.P. Culbert[...]Your Vote and Supt,ort Edward B. Smith State Sen[...]tanley e s erved a Roo v It -DEMOCRATIC TICKET-[...] |
| [...]MIGHTY MISSOURI RIVER and unsettled areas, bringing freight and food supplies to[...]to their with foam" mean more than just words to a song for any landings. Captains and pilots got their navigating one who traveled the[...]close to its experiences mostly by the trial and error method. As river banks. From Fort Benton, M[...]uis, Missouri, travel became more important and more frequent, a distance of some 3,000 miles, the weaving, rambli[...]) river bends by fretful mountain streams, creeks and other rivers (sharp loops), or treacher[...]This river once annually bulldozed from its banks and These crosses were difficult, dangerous and unexpected. beds more than 550 million tons of si[...]yed Muddy. Only scattered clumps of willow brakes and some above ground, served as navigation marks and lent their cotton wood trees remain of the vast M[...]ded more treachery to the river. Records indicate and Assiniboine Indians, ha bi tat for abundant game[...]re as many as 500 boats wrecked between St. Louis and animals, and fuel for forts and fireboxes of the and Fort Benton. steamboats which once traveled the Missouri. In 1832, a new steamboat, "The Yellowstone"; made its Mis[...]Fort nerves of steel, telescopic vision both day and night, and Union, with Pierre Chouteau and the famous Indian artist gamblers luck. Snags, vi[...]. In his letter, Catlin recorded by both ice jams and flood currents were almost daily companions word and sketches his impressions made fromthe deck of of[...]p the Missouri. The natives The Missouri River and the steamboats which navigated along the ri[...]rs shot their horses ever changing river channels and the other eye on the and dogs to appease the Great Spirit whom they believ[...]the appearance of the steamer puffing and paddling, and[...]banks of the The Mighty Missouri River - "Rushing and destructive" river. - From "Early Empire[...]storms and lack of wood. Running out of wood or fuel was[...]articularly dangerous since it left the steamboat a sitting[...]hunt. Buffalo and other animals for food were plentiful,[...]Company and was the first to be constructed and had been[...]e new steamboat, "The The Mighty Missouri - "Wide and Peaceful" in the fall of Yellowstone" made[...]the late 1840's many of the trappers and hunters who[...] |
| [...]long the river. Pierre Chouteau, Culbertson, Kipp and The "June Rise" along the Missouri pre[...]problems with the already turbulent water rushing and other Forts further up the Milk and Missouri Rivers. swirling headlong through the narrow confines of its Traders E.H. Durfee and Colonel Peck owned a fleet of 14 banks. Other swollen streams and rivers emptied into the steamboats which traveled up and down the Missouri Missouri, causing floods and damage in lowland areas. carrying freight to Military Posts and Indian Reservations Every town located along the Mighty Mo vividly under a governmet contract. In the late 1860's Durfee and remembers the year of "ITS" year of the big[...]Peck bought two small trading posts, buying furs and in the early spring were equally dangerous and often buffalo hides to carry back on their return[...]dvertised that the "Steamships Rosebud, Josephine and Dacatah" are the fastest and the most elegantly appointed boats on the river making regular trips between Bismark, Yankton and Fort Benton.[...]jams in the Missouri - taken near Wolf Point. A Missouri River Steamer thought to be the "City of[...]42. lim Nelson's |
| [...]kground. Washout at ferry landing when we had a cloudburst. presented the same dangers to the Captains and operators |
| [...]recreational area s and a re able to see the wild, scenic[...]beauty of areas still left untouched by the h and of man. Dumping rock and gravel to close the Missouri River after |
| [...]es Built for steamboat days , Snowden span has a lift section which could be raised 22 feet in 30 minutes to give oncoming and a wooden barrier have replaced the lift man and the to try and raise the lift section by hand power and laborers |
| [...]o the Union Bridge construction company camp with a warrant for the arrest of Collins on a charge of gambling "City of Mondak"ferryboat, 1913. Name of ferryboat may and causing trouble in the area. After reaching the be seen at left. Saxton's grain elevator and Mondak are construction camp, Deputy W[...]the door and disarmed the new deputy. Leaving Wilson The Snowden Bridge started out as a toll bridge, and it is somewhat dazed, he left the office wit[...]ill in effect until the late 1930's. The toll for a car and instantly. Collins then turned the gun on Bu[...]er was fifty cents per crossing, with all females and hitting him with five consecutive shots.[...]free. Boys over 12 were officers' guns and fled into the brush. A posse of about 200 charged another ten cents and men passengers were Mondak citizens armed themselves and started in pursuit, twenty-five cents. Trucks and driver were seventy-five soon having[...]unded. o hot cents, passengers at the above rate. A horse with rider was were fired and Collins gave himself up to Wilson, knowing fifty[...]fifty cents he could not escape. for the horse and twenty-five cents for the man. During the A few of the cooler heads talked the crowd out of an depression years it seems that many-a-young man was immediate lynching and Collins was placed in the Mondak stowed a way in the trunk of a car to save that precious jail. Burmeis[...]ingenious North Dakota. invention of a kind of "swinging rope ladder affair" on the[...]the mob waited no longer, storming the jail and taking the area to cross the river to work in the[...]nks morning. But one thing seem certain, a body of a color d before the other planks were put in for o[...]most of the summer. And it i known the labor r at th[...]C LBERT O FERRY newspapers each gave a somewhat different version of the episode. The following is a synopsis taken from the four[...]ulb rt on Diamond J ubil Collins, a negro, was about 34 years old and was reported to have been wanted in Kansas on a murder charge. He In 1901 a cabl f rry wa tabli h db .H. oulter to was a known troublemaker at the Snowden construction[...]located du outh of ulb rt on. In 1903 a mor uh tantial Missouri for the Great Northern Ra[...]boat wa built b oult rand John M raw and run bv staying with another colored man who had r[...]· his shack to a man named Patter on. When Patter on In th fall of 1904 Georg Bak ream from Willi ton and came back to camp to claim hi hack, ollin and mad a deal for th f rr whi h wa till run bv c bl . Hi , Patterson had a fight. ollin struck Patterson wif and broth r, Mat Bak r with hi wif and on , ~am in thl' planned to use her as a kind of ho tage to keep Patter on pring of 1905 and op rat d th ferr until 1910. Th y aL·o from clai[...]. Patter on went to Mondak, thr built a log hou n ar th riv r. miles east, and wore out a warrant for ollin ' arre t. Ed and harli L nd took ov r for a hort p riod and in The newly elected heriff, Thoma ourtn y, (four day 1911 the boat wa bought b. ,J .. Da and Loui , , alh rg in office) and his deputy, R.H. Burmeister, both from operat d it for the n xt thre y ar . tafford and Hroob Plentywood in the newly created h ri[...] |
| [...]operator. Ferry boat owned by J.S. Day and operated by Lewis "JIMMY" the ferry so[...]DAINIE FINNICUM FERRY AND FAMILY[...]Dainie Finnicum built a ferryboat in 1912 for the[...]he was al ways in the water and in the spring and late fall it |
| [...]een years of the 26 she has been Wolf Point, a group of Brockton businessmen bought the Deputy T[...]up from Elbow could go to high school. He bought a Gambles store which Wood, North Dakota. The Fawn was the largest ferry boat is now run by a son, Bernie, and his wife, Montana, and to run on the river in our area. It was driven by a Doman their son Paul. The father and mother are both dead now. Marine motor with a T head, a regular boat motor with a[...]cross the Missouri River below Brockton was built and owned by a group of southside farmers and ranchers. It was a cable ferry, built about 1908. There was a one and a half inch cable strung across the river about 15[...]the cable. Archie Curran ran it two or three days a week. They had a lot of trouble with the cable ferry, the river went up and down and the sandbars shifted. When the river was low they couldn't run it at all so in a few years Brockton Ferry "Irene" they attached a paddle wheel and gasoline engine on it. Bill Breeze with the help[...]1927. The boat had been used to haul freight up and down[...] |
| and forth without turning the boat around. Lars cut a[...]on sold the Fawn to Bill Fisher. Bill ran it for a few years but it was growing old and the fear of dumping a truckload of good spring wheat in the Missouri Ri[...]le wheel, rope, an.chor, etc. to the Poplar Ferry and took to forging the river a new way. Bill built his own first autoboat and used it to cross the river until he purchased a factory model in recent years.[...]rt, John Olson, Tom Bawden, operated some kind of a boat when Poplar was a fort. Shipley, and Jack Mail pointing with finger on ground. When the Colgan ranch started southeast of Poplar, they used a flat boat with a cable for their own use and did on occasion cross suppliers, other ranchers and travelers. was getting beyond further repair so Nelson bought They called it the "We're Here" and used this boat until the another boat, "The Fo[...]r to the west crossing. The next boat was also a cable boat operated by Jack Nelson operat[...]rthold until 1945 when he sold Mail. Jack came as a scout and a fur trader, securing a it to Everett Chaney. Chaney traded this[...]ouri River to Fort Benton. About 1901, Mail built a Bartch then brought "The Fort Peck" to Poplar and cable ferry which operated with ropes on a winch from operated it until he sold it[...]d fine as long as the for the remainder of 1946 and in 1947 sold the boat to Bert winds were calm. Wh[...]ng, or the water Forrest of Poplar. Forrest and Bob Cornelia ran it until was rough, the boat was[...]948. The first power ferry was the "Snoopsey", a paddle- wheeler which was built about 1910 by Jack Mail and operated at the east crossing. It was later taken over by Dick Martin and remodeled to take bigger loads. The next boat,[...]rs driven by two Ferro marine engines. It had two A frames hinged on the back of the hull, counter balanced by weights in the cab, to raise and lower the propellers as needed. Martin continued[...]Hilger in turn sold the boat to William Voorhees and they took over the operation for a number of Left to right: Ferryman Jack Mail[...]In 1937, Charles ( lim) elson bought the boat and Robinson sitting on fence holding saddlehorse. Mrs. along with Albert and Ed Marottek continued to operate at Atkinson and Vivian in buggy. Iva Atkinson on fence the county[...]thought to be the first ferry in the Poplar area and was probably crossing the First boat wi[...] |
| [...]operation were: Emmett and Francis Rowe, Earl Blevins, and Art Mohr, Jr. Al Benson and Joe Youpee worked on[...]th Dakota in 1941 as he knew more about the river and[...]erries are rare on the Missouri now but they were a part of the history of this country and a neces ary part of it[...]development. Albert Gluba and Overland car. Frawley on other car on Dick and Nellye Martin on the Snoopsey. In 1949 it was decided that the town of Poplar and the |
| [...]e ADA " Hewitts ferry in 1928 lodge in an ice jam and[...] |
| [...]Cable boat owned by Martin Paul en 1921-1924 a the[...]and Dan Brink in car. The last ferry at Po[...] |
| [...]TO BE BUILT County Commissioner Frank Weinrich and County Surveyor C.E. Coryell were in Poplar Tuesd[...]is Steel Bridge Company was awarded this contract and their northwestern agents, Messrs. Zelch & Walton[...]Mr. Walton taking actual supervision of the work. A force of men were put to work Tuesday and it is expected that the bridge will be completed[...]of the ferry easily accommodated two wagons and teams at Teddy and Ray Kao. Notice the swinging foot bridge[...] |
| [...]"The White City" a former Missouri River snagboat converted to a ferry by George Littlefield. The Invincible h[...]Wolf Point George Littlefield and his partner, Ira Slawson, owners |
| [...]LEWIS AND CLARK BRIDGE Wolf Point[...]Wolf Point The need of a bridge was of great concern to the people Ferry boats and a pontoon bridge had provided the much south of the[...]the Missouri in Wolf Point. The Wolf Point Bridge and Development River. Walking, sledding,[...]iling, vice president; O.C. Johnson, secretary; P.A. transportation was available in the fall of[...]n the spring of the year with began in April 1915 and put into operation in September of large cak[...]s the superintendent of construction. and even some of the ferry boa ts. About 75,000 feet[...]pening of the bridge, it was partly washed out by a jam of driftwood against the bridge. Two months e[...]In November 1916, after the river froze over, a sudden rise in the river started the ice moving, and the huge chunks of ice took out most of the ponto[...]ossing the river by pontoon bridge was abandoned; a rather costly experiment amounting to over $20,00[...]o be provided for crossing the turbulent Missouri and John Pipal's ferry had been discontinued and sold when the pontoon bridge was constructed.[...]Although many people had thought and talked about the need of a bridge across the mighty Missouri, William[...]Young, a county commissioner, was one of the main[...]promoters and was untiring in his efforts to get this project[...]and others, federal approval of the bridge was grante[...]awarded to the Missouri River and Iron Company of[...]The bridge consists of two 275 foot and one 400 foot[...]The Lewis and Clark bridge, east and south of Wolf[...]icated on July 9, 1930 with Miss Vera Smith Lewis and Clark bridge, Wolf Point - built in 1930.[...] |
| [...]problem for mail and other supplies and freight which[...]supplies and freight to the inland towns which could not be[...]Freight was hauled north to Scobey and Flaxville from Poplar, mostly by team and wagon as the need arose. Later[...]became more settled. Mail, passengers, and supplies were[...]lar Bridge across Missouri comp leted 1968 afte r a fifty lines of direct travel. Other freight li[...]Mondak, Snowden, Culbertson, Poplar, and Wolf Point. Stage coaches as a method of travel and a means of delivery services existed for only a relatively short period[...]of time, mainly between 1902 and 1912. When the branch discovered that previously[...]lines of the Great Northern were built, and cars came into suitable because the banks of the river were not of a very existence as a fairly reliable method of transportation solid fo[...]cross the railroad tracks between Culbertson and Plentywood was made in 1902 and running approximately two miles south to the river. between the United States Post Office and George Ator of The bridge was built by the A.A. Nelson Construction Plentywood. The con[...]s 60 Company of Sheridan, Wyoming. Superintendent and m iles one way and the salary was to be $1400 a year. The engineer was Al Reed of White Sulphur Springs, Montan a. contract was for a period of four years. Dick Ator was listed Construction of the bridge was started in 1967 and as driver. John Sandvig had the cont[...]outh shore of the river. The new bridge is called a h eld the con tract there were many drivers-Richard "Plate Girder Bridge' and has all the structural steel Whalen from Plentywood and John , Tony and Frank beneath the bridge rather than part of it i[...]oned . girders. The bridge is 1056 feet long with a 24 foot roadway. The bridge is approximately 41 f[...]ge was built without any appropriated county fund and was the last bridge over the Missouri to be built[...]STAGE COACHES Before 1900 settlers were scarce and the delivery (if mail was not a weighty problem for either the rancher o'!" the U[...]essity to town for needed supplies; both supplies and mail being carried up-river by steamboats.[...] |
| [...]and the patrons could then pick up their mail and use other[...]e, Seips, Blair, Waska, Benrud , Volt , Expanse , and[...]and Wolf Point. Charles Delger's Lumber Wagon fro[...]ed 14 |
| [...]leave the Twin Cities on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, beginning in March and continuing into November.[...]From Chicago, Ill., to Poplar and return .. .. . . ........... $40.84 From St. Paul. Minn., to Poplar and return ...... . .. 26.57 From Minneapolis , Minn., to Poplar and return 26. 19 From Sioux City. Iowa, to Poplar and return . 31.44 From Omaha. :\Jeb .. to Poplar and return 39.20 From Des Moines. Iowa , to Poplar and return ... 35.96 From Peoria, Ill., to Poplar and return 41.87 From Kansas City. Mo., to Poplar and return ......... 44.25 Indian reservation. Special easements and right of way WHAT MAY BE SHIPPED IN A CARLOAD |
| [...]1904, Northern Railroad between eastern terminals and Yakt, the new town had only flag-stop s[...]with the fire in No specific amount of lumber and similar materials, 1928. seed and feed is authorized in this definition of emigrant movables. It is understood that a reasonable amount of these articles will be permi[...]inimum charge for the shipment of household goods and emigrant movables, whether carload There was a depot located at Snowden as early as 1901. or les[...]ot to exceed completed. The building was sold and moved to Trenton, 10ft per pound. North Dakota. On a carload shipment the rate is quoted in cents per hundred weight for a minimum of 20,000 or 24,000 pounds on a 36½ foot car. You must pay for the minimum and if the LAKESIDE mater[...]the same rate per hundred weight. The charge for a larger No depot was built here but a siding was built for boxcar ca r is based on a higher minimum weight. From points stops. If passengers wanted a ride, it was a flag-stop. east and some points south of Chicago, minimum weights on carload shipments differ from the foregoing, and information should be secured covering each indiv[...]acks on the old Wal ton place (now Lundquist) two and a ENTRY INTO MONTANA[...]1887 was a very small house which the agent lived in and Taken from a Great Northern promotion magazine. o[...]of the sharp U-curve of the railroad and was the sight of The railroads are prohibited[...]al train wrecks. In 1907 the Great Northern built a Montana unless the same have been inspected and tests new depot at the present site and the agent lived in one end made by an authorized[...]o Plentywood, Bainville became the division tests and cattle tuberculin tests. point and the space in the depot was needed. Remodeled W[...]t several times since 1907, the building now is a completely health certificates and test charts must be made on official modern st[...]hipment originates, when the work is performed by a federal inspector. The health certificates must be attached to the waybill and accompany the shipment; the test charts must be m[...]Helena, Montana. Settlers destined to Montana and reaching the Great Northern Railway at Minnesota transfer at St. Paul, may have inspection done by a federal officer without cost for his wo rk. But w[...]requires from 24 to 48 hours to make the mallein and tuberculin tests, a delay at St. Paul is unavoidable, when this is do[...]concerned. Have your stock ca refully inspected and tests made by an authorized state or federal offi[...]ight waiting to pull onto the siding at are used, and proper notations are made thereon Bainville. concerning the mallein and tuberculin tests. Attach these to your waybill. A[...]ne located east of Lanark. must be accompanied by a certificate of health issued by a Federal veterinary.[...]903 soon necessitated the robbed, murdered and burned in the depot February 1, building of a depot for freight, passengers, express and 1894. A second boxcar body replaced the one destro[...] |
| [...]The first depot in Brockton was a boxcar, deposited[...]present Main Street and also served as a section house. The[...]into a section house. About 1915 a regular depot was built along the tracks on[...]Robert Vaught, Ben Askelson and Warren Conlin.[...]In 1968 the depot in Brockton was shut down and the Train wreck at Culbertson - 1936[...]building was sold to George Shanks for $200.00 and moved[...]rain wreck near Culbertson, Montana - 1935 fire and J.F. Coleman came as agent the next day and |
| [...]Macon had only a siding for boxcar loading. Used as a[...]An old box car was moved to Wolf Point for a depot[...]a section house. A Mr. Ormsby was in charge as the first[...]station agent and continued until 1900 when he moved to a[...]Everett and it was during his tenure that a new 24x24[...]when a much larger depot was built. In 1917 this buildin[...]was moved to the present location and additional[...]Erickson was there a short period of time. In 1915 C.P.[...]"Scoop" Swedberg became local agent, a position he held A Poplar Scene[...]Swedberg, Glenn Brooks was agent for a short time. Joe[...]In 1917 a rapid railroad expansion and a booming[...]as a Great Northern Division point. Land was purchased[...]yards) and a 20 stall roundhouse was erected to service the[...]13. CHELSEA |
| [...]Point. The old railroad office is being used as a food storage warehouse. In 1963 the new modern depot was built and the old building was sold and moved away. Two tragic train wrecks have occurred near Wolf Point. The first in the fall of 1917 when a steam locomotive explosion near the old depot to[...]of Wolf Point in 1932 when train No. 27 wrecked and the engineer, Bob Jelly, was killed.[...]engineer, Bob Jelly, was killed. Long a local landmark, this depot was built in 1913 and |
| A tragic chapter in railroad history was a locomotive steam explosion near the depot in the[...]When the railroad came through in 1910 a commercial GREAT NORTHERN BRANCH LINE[...]tor from then until the depot was closed in 1963. and Froid area about the first part of July and reached Plentywood July 31, 1910. At first the[...]ain or cattle back to the main line at Bainville, and freight FROID se[...]he branch In the summer of 1911, the passenger and mail train hne of the Great Northern railroad in 1910. The first agent made its first run. A group of businessmen from Williston was Mr. Forncrook who only stayed a few months. Mrs. were on the train making a good will tour. Mowers ran th[...]Al Tennis. train made its last run through Froid and up the branch Gi~bert Rogney started in the depot in 1914 and line. For awhile the Great Northern Bruck, a combination contmued as agent until 1970 when he retired. Con bus and truck carried the mail, express and passengers Watterson is the present depot agent. daily between Williston and Scobey. Great Northern train on initial run a[...]Railroad bridge between Froid and McCabe[...] |
| [...]ere not paid. In 1916 the Federal Congress passed a bill[...]Montana Volume I on a state-federal matching amounts, which did indeed Robert Reymer, M.A. help Montana.[...]imited county funds would allow. The invention and use of the automobile aroused and increased interest in hard-surfaced and smooth roads. The first legislative recognition o[...]not exceed eight miles an hour within city limits and not more than 20 miles per hour in the country.[...]: registration fee was $2; dealers fees were $10; and chauffers fees were $2. All fees and fines from violations were to go to the state hig[...]horsepower; $15 on those less than 31 horsepower; and $20 for any larger. One-half of the fees collected were to go to the county road fund and the other half to the state Hagadone[...]and west. 1. R.E. Nesbit, 2. Duke Hagadone, Sr., 3. G[...]ence Brechbiel, Tory Mickelson, Mr. Fox engineer, and a civil engineer appointed by the Governor, and a Mr. Wolff. who was to be secretary with $3[...] |
| [...]L.A. Bahn on grader and Pete Burgett building road near[...]McCann's Polled Hereford sign. RULES AND REGULATIONS.[...]were the same as for county road ~· |
| [...]Road- 2. E.L. Gates Wolf Point North and Wolf North of C[...]Point - Volt 51. A.O. Provost Bainville-McCabe Road; C.H. De Yaney Wolf Point-Volt and Wolf McCoy-Man[...]ra F. Calder Bain ville-Calder 5. James A. Craigie Culvert In T-30, R-52, between Secs 11 & 12 6. George A. Tidland Bainville-McCabe 7. F.L. Walton[...]sley J. Calder Bain ville-Calder 9. George A. Tidland Calder Road Calder Road 10. Delaney[...]odt Bainville-Dwyer Pete and Johnny Burgett and L.A. Bahn putting in culvert 17. Walter F. Peterson[...]H. Murry-S.S. Moen Culbertson-Dane Valley Rd. 21. A.D. Picard Bainville-Dwyer 22. Charles Jarvis Culbertson North 23. A.O. Provost Bainville-McCabe 24. Leo Co[...]Leo Conlin Bainville-Dwyer 26. Oscar A. Lawson Seips-Cuskerton-Bredette Rd 27. Oscar A. Lawson Poplar-Seips 28. Oscar A. Lawson Poplar-Chelsea Creek-Boyd 29. Oscar A. Lawson Poplar-Box Elder Creek Rd. 30. Oscar A. Lawson Poplar to Flaxville Rd. 31. Phili[...]Logan Sackett Wolf Creek Road 38. George A. Tidland Bain ville-Dwyer 39. Ludvig Rud Brockton North Rd. 40. Lester A. Bahn Duck Lake 41. E.H. Bahn[...]45. Bergstrom & Lee West of McCabe; North and East of McCabe 46. E[...]bert LaLonde Mondak North Road 49. Murry and Moen North & Northeast from[...] |
| [...]am, Winston Baker in middle, R.E. Nesbit on plow, and Chet Baker holding plow at Haycreek Bridge[...] |
| [...]in 1898. His parents homesteaded in the Vida area and sold out in 1917 to move north of Poplar to raise[...]sed land. After dried-out crops for five years in a row, the family moved to Flaxville. Dewey got his[...]ide in Williston, North Dakota in 1919 for $15.00 and he had the flying bug from then on. He built a glider from scrap wood and canvas. After two successful flights from the manure pile and haystack, he jumped from the barn. A gust of wind flipped him over and wrecked his glider. In 1923 he built an airplane[...]pilot. rides, but got lost near Des Moines, Iowa and wrecked his plane on a farm near there. He sat on top of the wreckage and surveyed his $900.00 loss. Harbo, Earl Schmidt and Dick Moothart from Froid, Dewey went to work for Ford Motor Company and Adam Schledewitz, Einer Peterson, John Lab and Pep returned to Froid in 1928 with the Ford Flying Air Tour, MacIntyre from Culbertson, Woodrow Lien and Clarence which many remember as the biggest air show that "Red" Lodmell from Brockton and Herb Dettmer, Ben Roosevelt County has seen. (See story following.) Peterson and Les and Rhoda Grosse from Wolf Point. This Dewey taugh[...]club established the Wolf Point Airport and built the first including John Schnitzler of Froi[...]o Froid. Schnitzler International Airport. was a State Senator and the founder of the Schnitzler It wasn[...]before the old OX-5 engine needed an Corporation, and is reported to be one of the founders of the overhaul and Hardy Anderson was drafted to rebuild it. Montana Flying Farmers. In a flight from Froid to Great This high-finance group didn't have money to pay Hardy Falls Schnitzler and his pilot, Richard Hedberg, were for the engine overhaul so they gave him a membership in flyin~ in a very dense fog and were following railroad the club. Thus s[...]eer. tracks. They took the wrong tracks near Saco and followed After a couple years the club decided they needed the Hogeland-Turner branch line. They flew into a hill another plane. They purchased a 40 hor epower north of Malta and both were killed. Titus Richards was Taylorcraft from a dealer in Grand Forks, North Dakota. also an earl[...]. The radiator would blow out Ed Camrud bought a Travelair plane with an OX-5 the water occa ionally and Dewey went looking for the engine in about 1936.[...]Spirit of Wolf nearest pot-hole to refill it and go on again. Point". Jim Cook was his pilot. Ed's[...]Dewey moved to Pocatello, Idaho in 1940 and in 1966 Camrud Motors, Clarence Lee, had an Aircraft and Engine wa presented with a gold certificate from the Idaho License and he maintained the plane. Harold "Hardy"[...]ic for one million air mile . That i Anderson was a shop mechanic for Camrud's at the time.[...]int in 1934 as ground. County Surveyor, and, of course, was also busy ~aching Hard[...]in the depths of the ~epress1on, t~e thirtie and became probably the champion aerial hunter Roosev[...]d 3,266 guidance. They bought their first plane, a Curtis Rohm coyotes from hi plan . Hi b[...]rdy built Senator Schnitzler's airplane above a Froid wheat field , |
| [...]and Hardy Anderson.[...]Vance and Francis Friesen.[...]in the spring of 1928. In July of that year a group of Schmidt and Richard Moothart. enthusiastic citizens pooled resources to purchase a[...]f Montana. The plane was picked up in Kansas City and[...]A prairie turf and frame hangar served as our first[...]This biplane did lend itself to aerial acrobatics and Jim Plane wing Cook, stunt flyer, was a familiar figure at public hung up on only[...]rop spraying business in 1948 he has sprayed over a million acres. Wilbur White, who farmed northw[...]he engine had the unfortunate habit of swallowing a valve now and then. While propping that cantankerous engine[...]n Anderson, one day, it surprised him by starting and the prop took all long.time Wolf Point resident, and Jim Cook. It seems that the fingers off of one hand. Wilbur did things that many of Ben had a mail contract south of the Missouri and with the us only dream about. He and his wife Vera (a genteel, quiet spring breakup was unable to[...]at did not look like the adventurous type) bought a the "mail must go through" he engaged Jim Cook to fly small boat in Minneapolis and sailed down the Mississippi him and the mailbags to the destination. This, we are to New Orleans. On arrival in New Orleans they rented a certain, records the first "airmail" de[...]went down to their boat the Point. next day and it was sunk at the dock.[...]September 1928. James Cook was flight instructor and the[...]Donald Millard, Leonard Hagen and Boob Moore. Vern Vine and Donald Millard drove the twenty.five[...]miles into Wolf Point each day in a Model T Ford, crossing the river on a ferry operated at that time by Leonard[...]Hagen. Mr. Moore had it a little more convenient as he[...]lived in Wolf Point. Hardy Anderson, pilot, and Vern Vine with coyote pelts on Vern Vine soloed on November 7, 1928 and is the only hanger and plane.[...] |
| Vern Vine, pilot passed on. Vine is still flying and has logged more than G.D. LOWERS WANTED T[...]f Writer Distinguished Pocatellans get around a lot and among |
| [...]from Army service, In 1957 he joined a Northeastern Montana flying pioneer, he had a little nest-egg in savings. Knowing the proper[...]this service certified air priorities, he bought a Piper Cub airplane and a $35.00 ambulance and taxi service. This modern service has Ford car. A[...]Bainville Flying Club Leonard Smestad, a former Navy dive-bomber pilot, with Bill Harmon and Earl Wylie set up a landing strip in Bainville. Leonard now owns the Case dealership in Williston and visits many of his farm customers by helicopter.[...]specialized in hunting coyotes alone in the plane and shooting them with a 22 rifle. Culbertson Flying Club[...]boomed following World In 1952 Lyman Clayton, Jr., once a student of Dewey |
| [...]certainly on the map, and this day was an arrangement in[...], who the program went through without a hitch, and it is safe to owned his own plane and had a landing field on the east say that not a man, woman or child now regrets having edge of Froid, a group of planes touring the country were[...]s the The executive committee gives a most sincere thanks to smallest town at which the[...]was taken from the Froid Tribune Corps and its marching thrilled and held the interest of the of July 27, 1928:[...]crowd. Culbertson came up with its splendid band and[...]program. Medicine Lake with its float and full attendance Sunday will go down in the history of this community was much appreciated. and its little trading center, Froid, as the event{ul[...]the baseball enthusiasts who received all and more than they rising of the sun visitors began t[...]winners then played the fast Cuban Pirates and the thrills were a continuous line of rolling cars and the gates opened in this game equaled the Scobey-Plentywood struggle. The and gave us 20,000 to view this wonderful spectacle i[...]eighth inning-only to be nosed out on account of a its 6,000 mile journey. couple of errors. The games were a treat and the managers The "setting" was complete, and if experts in this line of all three team[...]n carried through with greater punctuality, order and parachute drop by Brooks. This man had signed up to interest and safety than it was. There was no delay-the[...]lanes began to arrive when the hour was announced and having come for such a distance, he offered to make an access was given to view when stated and they departed early drop, so the atte[...]perfect which enabled him to time the drop and measure and with the speed of a bullet roared its way from the the distance so that his landing was but a few hundred feet clouds down over the tops of our chimneys and in a flash from the people. Then came Haddock with hi daring had passed on to the well marked field and was landing trapeze work and followed by V.R. Lucas who took up his before mos[...]ppening. The ship into the clouds and then threw the " tick " away and regular listed planes did not leave Great Falls until eight let her ramble. His stunting wa a thriller and will not oon and the first one to arrive was the fast Lockheed[...]here that they gave u Great Falls being two hours and thirty-three minutes. more than the[...]ple, Billings, Wolf Point, Plentywood, Miles City and other holding them away from danger and arranging thing so points, and added interest to the event. When the planes[...]ter the minimum of inconvenience were all settled and at rest the line extended for a half mile of parking, etc. They were always courteous and kindly in and everyone carried its own individual interest. the commands and demand and we want to expr s to For such a large gathering in such a little town the crowd them our very inc re t[...]everal day b for the that it was the most orderly and best managed gathering event, to arrange for thi policing, i al o to be counted a on the entire trip. The National Guard had no difficulty at among tho e who a i ted mat riall and wa friendly to all to keep the people from danger areas, and the operators the people in our community.[...]in charge also wi he to thank all tho e who a i t d in inconvenienced by the curious. Comment is heard from all any way in the preparation and the work in carrying th sections and there is unity in opinion that Froid is event to a succe sful end. Froid's biggest day, A[...] |
| [...]ock buy_ers were coming into northeastern Montana and buying horses or cattle and trailing them across the country to eastern markets. These fat sleek animals, who had never been in a shed were advertising northeastern Montana better than any other method could and more and more young men were getting the "western ~ever".[...]s began to come much faster. In the years 1884 and 1885 several men came to this country who were to[...]s established on the Muddy by 1885 running horses and cattle. Mr. James Miller operated He left Miles City in the month of March, 1887 with a few a ranch south of Bainville and served Roosevelt well as one horses. Upon reaching the junction of the Missouri and of its competent County Commissioners. Mr. P.J. Nacey Yellowstone Rivers, there was a Government ferry there spent 14 years working on[...]s Sherman T. the construction line and found a ready sale for the horses. Cogswell. He came here[...]this trailing these across country. store and secured a license as an Indian Trader. Mr. Sweetman decided he needed a supply of horses At the time Mr. Cogswell ventured into business for nearer than Miles City and he established a horse camp on himself many of the Indians had a few cattle or horses and the Muddy River. Here he brought a mixed bunch of horses they could always trade the[...]r of 1887 the Great Northern Railroad and the "Turkey Tracks"+ and the "Diamond"◊. At Company built their railroad[...]ad construction companies employed men to country and gave work to many who were living here.[...]drive their teams and also hired men with teams to freight These companies used horse power, and as the eastern supplies for them. Two of[...]d out at night to this opportunity to secure a Ii ttle "cash" were Sweetman graze the loss in horses was heavy. This loss opened a and Mr. William Sibbits. mark~t for horses and Mr. Luke D. Sweetman was one of Mr. Sweetman, being a progressive stockman had little the men who took[...]rse market. use for inferior stock and steadily improved his horses Mr. Sweetman believed that there would be a good until he had about 400 head of[...]the Chicago market over their line. He a_ssi_gned his[...]of Chicago and being well satisfied with their methods of[...]Mr. J.C. Dwyer was a pioneer of the ranchmg busmess,[...]hard winter of 1886 and 87.[...]northeastern Montana. He went to Minnesota and bought some high grade Percheron mares and a registered[...]northeastern Montana and located on Sand Creek about[...]Creek he built up his buildings and horses until he had 100 head of Percherons and 50 head of black polled Angus[...]Saint Paul and Chicago markets. After the land was[...]opened to homesteaders the range became scarce and Mr.[...]d the first horse ranch in George Colgan branding a horse - 1905 wes[...] |
| [...]1910, Miles City, Montana was a horse market.[...]they were loaded and shipped by railroad to the markets.[...]Charlie Evans raised Clydesdale horses, but had a few[...]Percherons on hand at different times in buying and selling, and never raised them himself.[...]sales the mares sold at $500 per head, and a common[...]Machinery began to take the place of horse-power, and the[...]selling for $5.00 to $7.00 a head at the Butte cannery.[...]from the Evans ranch. Only once did they succeed, and the animals were recovered by a Sheriffs posse a few days situated northwest of the present Raymon[...]in Canada. Evans' small losses due to thieves, is and ranch.[...]highly developed second sight by Mr. Tom Evans and his son Winfield S. (Jack) Evans, Jr. whi[...]in the trailed 600 head of Clydesdale horses from a ranch vicinity of the ranch. Alth[...]One man always guarded the ranch at night. to a location one and a half miles northwest of Bamville, Coming to the Evans ranch during a June night in 190 , Montana, in what is now Roosevelt County. a group of five or six rustlers, including Tom Jones and a Mr. Evans traded land near Fort Benton for abou[...]he trailed to Bainville. Canadian border to a creek about five mile outh of In time he[...]the This trade of land for horses was made with a rancher animals for four days. living near Sun River, Montana, at a cost of approximately On missing the ho[...]nded Lazy E on the left was notified and a posse of eight men was formed which thigh, and this brand was registered at Helena. included Tom Bowman, Winfield . Evan , Jr. and Leroy These operations were financed by sellin[...]erent times, as the need be. Most of the supplies and Overtaking the ru tier near a creek outh of E tevan, equipment were bought at C[...]ns were very good in the summer. There and thus induce the men to leave the country. F ling[...]was b coming gr ater, Tom Jon son hor eback with a mower and raked with a bull-rake, a homemade leaped into the tream wit[...]d the yellow raincoat which Jon wa wearing. rake and the other two took care of piling the hay in[...]po sibl n ce ity of wimming him elf, bunches with a pitch fork, as it was gathered on the[...]ctions by tring , took hi raincoat off and threw it into th r k. reining' the horses. A ton of hay could be raked up in a short Reaching th other ide of th tream , Jon[...]hey put up about 300 ton of hay for hors and was not se n again in thi part of th countr . the winter feeding and a large shed was used for feeding and shelter for the horses. There would be 18 or 2[...]ig saddle made by the Miles City Saddlery. It was a single-cinch sadd~e and was equipped with a leather gun holdert~atheld t~eir 30-30 rifles. Th[...]practically ahke, wearing light gray tetson hats, black or white chap , light or dark brown corduroy trousers, high heeled boots and spurs. The horse roundups were usually larger[...]ad of horses. The ummer roundup was for branding, and ifthere were horse to sell, there would be[...] |
| [...]About the year 1887-88 Major R.A. Scobey moved his[...]this band north and ran them for about one year near[...]sheep he employed Mr. John Chase as a herder.[...]t Trailing horses to Sidney in 1943- Stub Nes bit and Dave this time. Buchanan[...]moved to higher ground, and then left to attend to business The horses wer[...]y H. Evans, Tom Jones' yellow to back up and rise rapidly. Being dark it was raincoat with th[...]t thei~possible to move the sheep before morning, and by that courthouse in Wolf Point, Montana in 194[...]Culbertson of ptomaine poisoning in between 800 and 1000 sheep. August 1908 at the age of 50 years. He became ill while on aWhen the water receeded and the land dried enough so horse roundup across the[...]in the year 1885, and very soon engaged in the sheep on his father's pl[...]til 1912, at which time he stopped raising horses and began buying and selling business. them. For several years[...]1887 Mr. James MacDonald resigned his post horses a year to Michigan for farming purposes. By 1940 as Indi~n trader at Poplar and went to herding sheep for he was shipping a car a year to Michigan. Dr. Atkmson. T[...]attle as out of the sheep business about 1910 and into the cattle th~y ~ould be used for work, pleasure and brought a g~od business. pnce m the Eastern market. Horses could be raised with a Another sheep company to begin operations at[...]eep the winter, without the daily care that sheep and cattle Company. required. Range was wide open at this time and there was In 1888 this company built a large 10 room house oflogs no necessity for someo[...]without causing any disruption. Roundup time was a In 1889 Mr. Day of the region south of the Mi[...]about 2000 head of horses. The summer crossed a large band of sheep on the bridge across the roundup was for branding and if there were horses to sell Muddy River operate[...]year 1900 Mr. Jim Helmer was running employed in a roundup crew. arou[...]nnell, J.C. Dwyer, Frank G. Arnette, Dr. Atkinson and Sgt. Colgan. You will read about some of these men in the sheep section and nearly all of them will be covered more Th[...] |
| [...]heep. At this time he was running about and had no capital. The Shaw Sheep Company sold the[...]905. In 1906 Mr. Ed sheep in 1905. Egan, a son of Mr. John Egan, was running sheep. It is About half way between Lanark and Culbertson, Mr. estimated he was running about 7[...]nching on this ranch. Mr. H.B. Shaw was president and Mr. Hugh Conway About the year 1900 or 1901 Mr. Jackson uffered a Walker was vice-president. Some of the stockholders were severe loss by a fire started by the railroad. He not only lo t Howard M. Cosier and Mr. Gregory. feed, but between 500 and 600 sheep. However, he At the time they incorp[...]was only one other continued to run sheep, and when he sold them in about incorporated company i[...]was the 1904, there was between 2500 and 3000 sheep. Great Northern Railroad.[...]ng of many years of On this ranch was a good four or five room house. Also experience in[...]usiness. sheep shed and corrals, and such other buildings as were At the time Mr. N[...]e buildings were all the ranch. On this ranch was a good ten room log house of logs or poles. This fall Mr. Smith had many ton of hay and log shed, 11 corrals and other buildings needed to all stacked and ready for feeding. Winter preparations carry on i[...]sheep until the year 1919 when he flames, and Mr. Smith lost it all. sold his sheep and went into the cattle and horse business. Mr. Smith then closed out his sheep and went north of In 1922 Mr. Nacey went back into the sheep business. Culbertson and into the cattle busine . He clo ed out One los[...]Mr. Seiben had a few sheep in northeastern Montana. In the year[...]Mr. Nacey added to his original land until he had a the sheep a short time. ranch of 1850 acres of which 1500 was[...]The B.D. Phillips beep Company ent in thou and of In 1900 Mr. J.S. Day went into sheep and began running sheep into Roosevelt County to feed. between 8,000 and 10,000 head. Most of these sheep, if not In the fall of 190 they hipped in everal thou and all of them, were run on the south side of the Missouri River sheep. Figure seem to differ a ome claim 15,000 while in what is now Richland and McCone Counties. others put the number a low as 1,500. When the homesteaders began to c[...]They tarted thi band to the northea t, and all wa well and take up land, he was forced to sell because of la[...]ibbits and a Mr. Hancock and a on of Mr. B.D. Phillip On March 3, 1889 the Sh[...]any purcha ed tarted to find the h p a they had a uppl of winter 180.77 acres of land from Mr. John[...]ome laws which They had only b n gon a day or two wh n a big torm affected wool prices. One of the stockho[...]wh n it Cosier, had always been a strong Democrat but he was wasn 't tor[...]n w wa er ping ov r th interested in wool, and when this law went into effect, Mr. ground, and all the track w r oon c v r d. The m n Cosier swi[...]blican party had xp c d to b b k within a f w da , nd a tim and ever after voted the Republican ticket. w nt on and they didn't r turn, p opl b gan to g t The Sha[...]orri d . who let men have sheep to run on shares, and this helped Mr. Phillip cam to Wolf Point and off r d an. on 1000 who would go and find th m n , and bring back[...]A th e he p drift d with th torm th y tra[...]north a t rly dir ction, and th la of F bru r[...]Tul r k, about t n mil a t f Wolf P int. an of th h p w r d af, and tho till Ii ing w r v r poor and w ak.[...]and b gan fe ding th m. th p[...]th w r ntoutin mall bunch a g th ri r[...]bottom. in a wool ack. Mr. John Adam wa working a ah rd r with a Mr. neid who own d a er fine dog.[...]on, a oon n t[...] |
| [...]this sheep dog. Anytime he saw his reflection in a mirror or through a window he would jump through it. The story is also told of his master paying a family fifty cents a day all one winter for Foxie's meals. The winte[...]save his sheep, was Mr. John Egan. Mr. Egan took a disc and disced the snow to cut through the several hard c[...]er thoroughly discing the snow, he plowed it with a snow plow so the sheep could get to the feed belo[...]de by fastening two logs together at right angles and then hitching a horse to them. The horse was hitched with his hea[...]anding at Seip Ranch with Pete Baker on the horse and County in the 1900's were: Mr. Frank G. Arnett and Mr. Dick Seip and Nella Blair standing. Fred Leonard who ran sheep beginning in the year 1909 and running one year. Their first lambing was about a 75 or 0% crop. At the end of the first year Mr. Leonard sold out to Arnette who ran them one year, and then he disposed of them.[...]. By then the dirt had been trampled in places to a Mr. Blacktail was an Indian who went into the sheep width of 200 to 400 yards wide, and had been cut by erosion business and was quite successful at this enterprise.[...]Fort Peck Reservation out knew the risks and knew that on the trail he was for summer range fo[...]for the cows' feet and the horses' back; let the cowhands Roosevelt County taxed 1,840 sheep, valued at$20,899 in and the cook take care of themselves" was the trail b[...]t $41,709. slogan. The average age of a cowboy was only twenty-four.[...]Almost anything could start a stampede if the cattle[...]were jumpy-the rattle of a snake, the sneeze of a horse or a[...]struck in the dead of night. To tire out the herd and[...]e animals used to trailing, the drivers often set a hard CATrLE[...]ling as much as 25 to Trails and Tales 30 miles per da[...]xas to Montana. The they walked, and little if any weight would be lost. Chisholm Trail was named after a Scotch Cherokee trader, The critical m[...]st Montana ranchers Jess Chisholm, who carved out a path as straight and level late in the spring after the grass was green, when they as a wagon road, with easy river fords between rounded up the cows and calves at branding time. Men southcentral Kansas and his trading post on the Canadian rode fo[...]ringing in the cattle they River. It opened up as a cattle trail in 1 67 and in five years could find. Calves who did not remain with their mothers more than a million head of cattle had traveled up this[...]h we now look forward Looking for &rass after a prairie fir e. Date of picture unknown.[...] |
| [...]In 1905 the Evans ranch , McBride and others h eld the[...]and cattle in the same way at the Culbertson stockya[...]for selling livestock came into their own . These a re now[...]ed in Williston, North Dakota, Sidney, Wolf Point and[...]N esbits. Stub N esbit brands with J oe Westfall and Tommy Nesbit holding the calf. to "Community branding bees" as a social time, this was |
| [...]PORTRAIT OF A COWBOY[...]The basic ingredient of the cowboy's function and his[...]dentity was the horse. The range was no place for a man on foot; distances were too great and without horses it[...]usually supplied by the ranch and few of the early day cowboys ever owned a horse.[...]Veteran cowboys, proud of the feeling of height and[...]more as a tool than a great friend; fed when necessary, and Wolf Point Feeders[...]work and his image, was the rope and the lariat. Expertly thrown, a rope could snare a cow's horns, or a horse's neck,[...]or the hooves of either; enabling a 140 pound man to capture and subdue a thousand pound animal. A rope[...]tight, used to hobble a horse, served to drag firewood, pull a mired cow out of the bog, turn a stampede or drag a line for[...]form of a hangman 's noose when someone was caught in[...]more versatility than a rifle. Despite the inaccuracy, the[...]Colt was easily carried and just as deadly when the mark[...]To endure pain, hardship, hunger, and loneliness was[...]furnace like heat in the summer, and the constant wind on[...]the prairie which blew both winter and summer, were[...]and his bedroll. scientific process of balanced diets[...]nt feelings of cowboys were reserved for proteins and salt. The two principal feedlots in Roosevelt[...]nd; the Little Muddy For marriage was a mode of life that most cowboys Livestock Feeders[...]st shunned, since they were always on the move and salaries one in the county to be organized in 1957 with a capacity of were too low to support a family . 1,000 head and is managed by Clarence De Tienn e; and the Liquor was not generally a problem to mos t cowboys, Wolf Point Feeders at W[...]wine, women and song provided the company and the[...]he was ready to hit th e "tr ail" a gai n . Teddy Roosevelt wasn't a cowhand over night. One early roundup he actually shouted, "Hasten forward quickly A YEAR TO REMEMBER-1886 there!" The cowboys broke u[...]gh th e dry s um mer of 1886. west to find solace and good health, spending his time Th en fa[...]s The muskrat's fur was un us ua lly h eavy, a nd the beavers later he wrote, "It was still the[...]ir normal supply of willow br ush . the far west,-a land of va t ilent spaces, of lonely rivers, Ducks and geese flew south a month early. In Novem ber and of plains where the wild game stared at the passing came the first real blizzard, a powdery snow th at blew horseman. It was a land of scattered ranches, of herds of through every crack and n ail h ole in th e h ouse. But the cattle, and of reckless riders who unmoved, looked in the[...]severe eyes of life or death. In that land we led a free and hardy than usual, and January 1887 started with a chinook. life , with horse and rifle. We worked under the scorching Then on the 28th the white catastrophe arrived. A rancher mid-summer sun, when the wide plains shimmered and estimated that storm "killed several tho usand head of wavered with heat; and we knew the freezing misery of cattle-when it was 15 below zero and the wind was 60 riding night guard round the catt[...]one place cattle ate tarpaper from the knew toil and hardship and hunger and thirst; and we saw walls of shacks-and in some places they devoured the men die violent[...]among the horses wool off dead sh eep. and cattle, or fought the evil feuds with one another[...]uld felt the beat of the hardy life in our veins, and ours was the stand around with their backs humped to the wind, and glory of work and the joy of living." they would not eat or drink. Each day the cattle got just a[...] |
| little thinner and weaker. Each morning the herders went to turn the[...]down. These cattle were pulled out of the corral, and the next morning they had the same thing to do ov[...]When spring came the snow went off very rapidly and the bottom lands were flooded. When the water rec[...]dead everywhere. The government lost between 50% and 75% of their herds at Poplar and Wolf Point. Many of the individual ranchers lost about the same percentage-and a few of them lost the entire herd. It was during this winter that a young horse wrangler near Utica, Montana called Kid Russell, took out water- colors and a scrap of cardboard, and painted a picture showing a humped-up cow standing in the snow while the wolv[...]e for half the proceeds, but by the end of April, a Montana dealer wrote, "The bottom is out of the h[...]ayed in the hearts of the Point. John is a member of the Montana tock Growers ranchers. For[...]xterminated the sheep population with the driving and suffocating snow. This disastrous winter forced many ranchers to sell In 1934 there was a Golden Jubilee celebration in Miles out for any p[...]ntion of the investment. Livestock were dumped on a declining market, Montana Stock Growers Association. Taken from the June and livestock men in Montana went through their first[...]It marked the close of one era and the beginning of[...]Miles City on April 3, the achievement and advance made during the fir t half 1885 to organize the MONTANA STOCKGROWERS century, and the future was safeguarded by the ASSOCIATION, an organization still in existence with a determination of the present generation[...]tana in May 1976. Headquarters were at the and forces of the state of Montana and the north we t tand "Outlaw" Inn. Reg Davies, Chinook, president, made this for and encourage. " comment, "Cattlemen are urged to att[...]ention. (Although we tri d num rou ourc and man tim to With the cattle industry being threate[...]important that cattlemen unite tockgrower A ociation-no information wa to protect their livel[...]forthcoming.) Although the time and the setting, as well as the circumstances, are qu[...]E TRA YEO OWBELLE remained constant-a fair market price and equitable transportation costs. Dues to the Assoc[...]tray d or originally paid on a 1¢ per head assessment for cattle, 1962 in Roo velt ou ou horses, mules and asses; and one was automatically a sugg stion of the late J member when t[...]gaard, is now Roosevelt County were: John Archer and Luke tensland, Dolore Hover land, D[...]Mary O' onner, Myrtl Wa , Mitchell and Frank Stiehl. Those listed in membership in Bernette a ey, Lillian Brookman, Ella Taylor, Edna 1903 incl[...]mas Mann , Dawn O' onn r, Betsy ten land and J ann Courchene, Thomas Cushing, Patrick Colgan,[...]E trayed o ' purpos i to a i t th Mo Jackson, James MacDonald, Henry Miller, Fred elson, tockgrower A ion in th promotion w P.A. Olson, Ralph Patch, Frank Arnette, tephen Scott of the cattle industry, and to promot and C.R.A. Scobey. relations betwe n th cattl indu try and g public.[...] |
| Some of their projects are promotion and support of the Home, and first baby born on Father's Day. Money use of bee[...]donations have been to Yellowstone Boys Ranch and to throughout the county, brand napkins, serving for auction Montana Beef Council toward advertisement and sales (farm and cattle). Our annual farm city week tea, promotion of beef. putting out a six county brand book, giving a trophy at the Since a large part of Roosevelt County is dedicated to 4-H Fair, and Beef Cookbooks given to newly weds within[...]to serving various promote understanding and interest in the beef industry community service.[...]through its various projects and activities. At the present Throughout the years[...]S Bar Open A[...]Reverse E Connected A on Shotgun Creek[...]<CI Cattle brand Hedderich Land and Ba[...]71 A McKinney[...]Bainville rn Tom and Charlie Evans |
| [...]1860's as a soldier at Fort Buford. He was discharged in[...]1864-5 and became a freighter following the army with supplies and also herded cattle for the government around[...]the forts and for the Indian Agency. His wife was[...]Assiniboine, and this gave him the right to run livestock[...]mostly of horse and colt trading; but what cattle he could[...]the Big Muddy about 1877. At first he built a small log house later replaced by a two-story log house, the first one[...]in the country, and a landmark for over fifty years. In the[...]early years Bauer had been a woodcutter for the steamboats and continued that for some years after[...]building a toll bridge across the Big Muddy which added[...]come. The bridge collapsed in 1892. He also built a[...]and one for the white man. "Tula Rock and Rye", whiskey Cattle crossing the Missour River i[...]dissolved in, was freely used for herding cattle and the Jack Mail Ferry landing in indulged in by[...]post was also used as a polling place at election time. His[...]cattle range was between the Big Muddy and the Little Muddy and his brand was BF on the right front shoulder.[...]In 1876 James MacDonald arrived. He was a trapper, hunter, and licensed Indian trader at Poplar. After elling[...]ding post store, he worked first for Dr. Atkinson and[...]d his Hereford cattle ranch twelve miles Miles and miles of rolling prairies broken by strips of[...]y years he sold cattle to Fort Peck badlands made a natural feeding ground and shelter for Agency on a contract bid. His cattle range wa the Fort livestock. Grass was belly-high on a horse and water was Peck Reservation. plentiful. The Missouri River was navigable and the small Another early rancher wa Dave Mi[...]g its banks provided the logs to build Indian and his wife was French Indian. Mr. Mitchell wa a shelters for livestock and homes for men. The abundant trapper, hunter and Indian trader all of hi life. Early in wildlife provided food and some clothing. the fall , Mr. Mitchell would load hi led with food and The early inhabitants were the Indians, nomadic by other provisions, take hi dog team and tart for the north nature, who had not marred the prairies by building country, trapping and bartering with the Indian . When permanent locati[...]spring came he would load hi led with fur p l and tart soldiers who operated between Fort Buford, F[...]home. During the e exp dition he u ually acquir d a few Fort Charles and Fort Peck; the fur traders who had hea[...]river to trade with the graze until sleek and fat. Then he would tart on a trading Indians; and the woodcutters along the river who cut and expedition to Canada. In tim he tarted trad[...]he drove horn to the Fort P ck Re rvation. Buford and Fort Benton. Within these people we also found[...]e lush grass of Jame Miller came in 1 4 a a rid r. In 1 94 h bought the prairies.[...]n, acquired land, built uh tantial building and t adil whose father had been Commander at Fort Union and a improved hi herd on hi ranch outh of Lanark. Hi fir t fur trader, established a ranching operation near the cattle were[...]ford mouth of the Big Muddy in what is now known a King ley cro ; which were to b com a fin a h rd a an in th Coulee a few miles west of where Culbertson is located. He[...]th fr ighting Durhams, mostly of inferior grade, and bringing them to bu ine with hi mul team from Fort Buford-ea t and the north side of the river. One noticeable thing was the west- when he first cam to thi count . H and hi wife, tame buffalo that grazed contentedly for many years with an A siniboine woman , built their horn on th bank of those cattle. As the buffalo grew older, he became cross and Wolf r ek about two mile we t of Wolf Point. H r wa a Mr. Culbertson had to have him killed. Jack Culbertson good upply of water, a growth of nativ tr and hrub erected good log buildings, and it soon became a stage for shelter and a wid xpan of prairi cov r d with an station or road house, a place for trappers, hunter or abundance of gra e . A th four girl in th famil wer weary travelers to r[...]ounty. He was pre nt. Trexler wa injur d b a kicking mul nd p nt killed in Williston, N[...] |
| each daughter and his wife received about 200 head of P.Q. McClammy, Jim Swinel and Billy Crowder. The cattle, all over two years ol[...]Pioneer Cattle Company used the brands "DHS" and During the 1880's, David Burshia, trapper, hunter and "CK". In 1902 this company fattened 13,000 head o[...]4, his son The valleys of the Cotton wood and Wolf Creeks in the oel Burshia established a ranch about ten miles north of very northwest par[...]both Poplar. He had at least 300 head of cattle and about the sheep and cattle belonging to the Gibson and Carpenter same amount of horses.[...]any based in Valley County. In 1887 Major C.R.A. Scobey, (later became head of the Joshua S.[...]government contract for beef for Longhorn steers and cows were trailed to Montana from the agency. He[...]886 he moved his ranch the Roosevelt County area and mostly on the Fort Peck northeast along the Missouri about three miles south of reservation. Jody Allen and John Strachan delivered Culbertson. The winter of[...]Major. Scobey later married Strachan's herd. Day and two other local ranchers drove about 11,000 sist[...]f cattle from Texas, starting early in the spring and Indian Agency, ranched in the northern part of t[...]ng Montana in late August or early September. He and eventually settled in the Scobey area.[...]ns with Herefords Stephen Scott came in 1888. A Frenchman, he located on and Galloways. The large two story log ranch house still Scott creek, a tributary to the Muddy. Here he built a good stands at the Day ranch (and is still occupied) as do many log house and other buildings. He enclosed a pasture of 180 of the other barns and corrals. Joshua Day was acres, supposedly the fi[...]in Roosevelt County. instrumental in the building and growth of the town of The Lazy O outfit, oper[...]r west as the In the spring of the year 1881 a steamboat was slowly Big Muddy in 1883. This out[...]ying its way up the Missouri River. Upon reaching a Fort Buford and also the beef annuities to the Indians who point[...]ord. was forced to tie up for a whole day while the herds of Frank J. and Dan Stiehl settled near what was to become buffal[...]foreman until Brewster retired from the business. A and ranching operation to the Little Muddy in about 1896. partnership was formed between Beach-Sieben and Their range was from Culbertson to the Dakota lin[...]1600 acres of deeded land on the Valley, heridan and Roosevelt. north side and had at least ten sections of state land under[...]nd consistently bought the Jack Culbertson ranch, and thus had their start ran between between 6,000 and 8,000 head of cattle and as in Roosevelt County. In 1889 they went to Wyoming and high as 15,000 during the years 1906-7. I[...]but they also used at herds were headed by Mullie Black Angus and White Faced Hereford bulls. In a very short time this company had more than 1000 head of cattle grazing on the Little Muddy, Shotgun and Lake Creeks. For the most part, they used the Sta[...]nch. About 1885 Tom Courchene began to develop a ranch about one mile east of Culbertson. He had previously freighted and worked on the Fort Buford Ferry, herded sheep and cut wood to sell to the steamboats. All the time he was buying stock as the opportunity came. He built a large rambling house of several rooms and a stockade where 75 or 100 people could be kept at one time, and made comfortable. He built barns and corrals which would hold up to 100 head of stock and freighters wagons all of which could be put under[...]lions; about 500 head of good white-faced cattle, and raised a few hogs and sheep. A very large garden supplied the family's winter vegetables-and a share for their neighbors. The Pioneer Cattle[...]River at the Diamond who came here with the " CK" and later located here are Ranch in 1905.[...] |
| [...]after their long trek from South Dakota in a covered wagon[...]In a short time trees had been cut and prepared for a log house, also barns, sheds and corrals. The corrals of this[...]large ranches of the early days. Both horses and cattle[...]Mr. Helmer was in the west and helped bury the dead on[...]Montana he married a daughter of Mr. John Manning.[...]Manning Ranch. He ran horses and cattle under the brand[...]The Manning and Helmer stock could be seen from the[...]north, and as far east and west. A few years later as the[...]settlers came into this country and took up land, these[...]In the city of St. Louis was a cattle company known as the Home Land and Cattle Company, owned by the[...]grazed and grew fat until their owners shipped them to[...], Bill Geyer, Frank Weinrich, unknown, Leo and bought and sold horses. They operated from 1902 until Shimri[...]James windle owned a cattle ranch northwe t of[...]Bainville between 1900 and 1910. least five other brands. Frank A. Weinrich, a pioneer The herman Ranch wa mall, owne[...]his own right in later years; William F. Rhea and located on th Big Muddy, betwe n what i now (Bainville banker and rancher); and Nolen Armstrong, Medicine Lake and Antelop . were foremen on the Diamond Ranch. Alth[...]d from the Lakeside area running hor and cattl . H had work d Diamond back to the Helena h[...]out 1910. first for the J . . Day ranch and had acq uir d 1,600 acre Frank Arnette remained a[...]until about 1916-18. During this time he with a hay mow. was instrumental in helping to build up[...]nch was sold to Florian had tabli bed a chool for the Indian childr n at Wolf McCann in 1940. Point, and Mr. og w 11 cam to teach thi hool. Th The Minnesota and Montana Cattle Company, with chool wa h Id in on nd of an unu d bar, and the Oscar Hage as foreman, operated in the Culbertson area childr n w r given a fr lunch at noon. Mr. og w 11 onl between about 1885 and 1910. Their range was between the taught a few month wh n h w nt to cl rking in th tor Big Muddy and Little Muddy River and north from t~ at Wolf Point. H later b ught thi tor and ur d a Missouri to the Canadian line. Their headquarters were m licen a an Indian trad r. itting Bull did hi tr ding at M[...]FortPeck for him If many of the Indian had a£ w attl or hor Indian Agency, soon acquired a large sheep ranch on th they could al wa t[...]ver in partnership with hi brother-in- ne d d. A man' er dit wa alwa good at th arl -da law, J.H. Bawden. Their range was the R d Water and tore . Without thi er dit it would hav b n almo t and Creek on the south side, and from the Poplar River to impo ible for the arl[...]their sheep, they went into By th year 1 5 a few of th Indian had b a large scale horse ranching, and in about 1914 into th inter t din rai ing cattle and hor e , but both w r cattle business. Dr. Atkinso[...]r The Manning Lake i in ection 13, Town hip 25 and Mr. M dicine loud , known a th " attl King" of th Range 54. At the south end of Manning Lak i the Indian , and u in th brand " M' on the 1 ft id . Mr. Manning Ranch. Here Mr. Manning and his family ettled Black Tail wa running both attle and h p and wa th[...] |
| [...]ea was opened for homesteading by the to Poplar, and was furnishing meat to the government. He U[...]s government, Mr. Lowe filed. He added to opened a butcher shop in Poplar in the summer of 1886.[...]re in tract. On this land Mr. Lowe built up a home, bunk house, Poplar he began to develop a ranch about ten miles east of silos, barns and corrals, besides fencing and other Wolf Point. He sold out to John Chase. necessary improvements to make a well developed ranch. Thomas Bowman trailed in[...]Lowe bought purebred Shorthorn males to head his and some very good Belgian horses. He trailed this st[...]About this time he began to cull his through the Black Hills, spending one winter there. In 1889 herd, and by 1918 was running only purebred Shorthorns. he spent the winter on the YZ Ranch, built a cabin and The Lowe Ranch was known as the Mar Car R[...]purebred stock and its influence upon the stock industry in About this same time Henry A. Miller settled south of northeastern Mont[...]cattle. After one year Comer Armstrong had a ranch south of Culbertson. He he located in Richl[...]pped in about 500 head of eastern cattle in 1906, and lost Mr. David LaRoque and Mary Mitchell, a daughter of most of the herd during the severe winters of 1906-07. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Mitchell, were married and began their George McConnell was a rancher south of Culbertson ranching operations on their land lying about six miles and later in the vicinity of Lanark for nearly 25 yea[...]ey started out had about 350 head of cattle and 75 horses. with a cow and two calves. As the opportunity came, they C.A. Stafford, former postmaster of Culbertson, purchased a cow or a calf. At one time Mrs. LaRoque traded operated a ranch about seven miles east of Culbertson, lost a beaver shawl for a two year old heifer. his entire band of 2,100 sheep in a prairie fire in April 1899. At the time the Un[...]He then bought cattle. to the Indians, Mr. and Mrs. LaRoque received nine head. P.J. N[...]continued raising cattle, only selling one or two a Montana Territory. For four years he worked for other year until their herd built up and they were able to ship a ranchers and in 1889 bought 1,800 head of sheep from the carlo[...]also raised horses. The Shaw Sheep Company and also the Shaw ranch on the United States governme[...]provided plenty of winter feed. He came north as a stallions, thus raising the quality of his herd. In about the cowboy, and during his life was a sheepman, horse year 1905 LaRoque purchased two high grade Clydesdale rancher, cattleman and finally farmer. He had acquired mares, again he i[...]h was nine miles west of stock through the winter and in the spring have them in Culbertson. Na[...](Tom), Winfield Jr. uh-Indian Agent. He married a daughterofDave Mitchell (Jack) and Charles arrived in 1896 from the Fort Benton and started ranching operations with the cattle given[...]en woodcutters for the steamboat by her father as a wedding present. and raised horses for the Army. They settled on Shot Gun William Jackson started a cattle ranch in the Bainville Creek about a mile and a half west of Bainville. The first area about 1900[...]Big year the men put up 400 tons of hay and fed the cattle for Muddy and the Dakota line.[...]did this for several winters and thought it was easier than[...]and sold horses and it was many years later when the[...]horses and went to cattle ranching and farming.[...]William C. Evans came from Fort Benton in 1902 and[...]of the cattle with them, having both range cattle and[...]J.W. (Dad) Williams came in 1897 and settled north of[...]the Evans' on Shot Gun Creek. He ran both horses and cattle and worked with the Evans on their hay project.[...]Williams did not ride and directed his operation from a light spring wagon drawn by a partly broken team of J.A. McCann[...]Robert Miller joined a Texas cattle drive coming north. He joined a railroad crew in Williston, North Dakota in[...]1886 and worked his way to Fort Benton herding mules at In 1909 J.A. McCann purchased the Jackson ranch night. He returned to Bainville in 1903 and raised horses which was located just west of Lana[...]s. As the amount of range decreased, he went east and purchased registered polled Hereford bulls went to farming and raising cattle. and heifers. This was the start of the McCann Polled George Reynolds came in 1904 and took up a ranch on Hereford Ranch, now owned by Flor[...] |
| [...]s oxen to the homesteaders. As the range and he closed out most of his stock early in 1900. He[...]continued on his farmstead farming and raising Angus and also farmed.[...]cattle until about 1914 when he entered politics and public Ralph Patch, Major C.R.A. Scobey, A.C. Davis and life. Perry pooled money and Major Scobey went east and In 1906 Hank Winch trailed in some cattle and started bought 700 head of steers to fatten on th[...]began to blow hard the creeping fire fanned into a William R. Ralston and his father became associated in racing flame. It[...]acres of the cattle business in 1878 and set up ranches in Teton grazing land, killed seve[...]He drove 1,300 head of cattle to this this herd) and killed over a hundred Indians. In time, the location from Texas. In 1904 they came to this area and rest of this herd was sold to the Indian Agency a[...]their ranching operation just south of the river and Wolf Point.[...]Patch. Cattle ranged on the Fort Peck Reservation and the Bob Reid had the "Open Buckle" ranch northwest of same brand was used for both horses and cattle. Little is Chelsea where he engaged in the sheep, horse and cattle known about this concern other than it was a growing ranching business for more than 33 years. operation in 1903 and that Mr. Patch was an early member Mr[...]ng cattle for the VVV outfit. He left the company and Tom McAllister came from Oregon bringing 2,000[...]the N-N in the Prairie Elk area (McCone of cattle and 3,000 head of horses. He located first on[...]mpany, commonly known as the "CK". While rustling and moved his herds up on Tule Creek about ten[...]to the north side of the Missouri, all The Pen and Key Ranch owned by Sergeant Patrick two and three year olds, which they left on the Fort Peck Colgan and sons was purchased from John Manning in[...]oss for the 1893. The ranch is south of the river and their range was CK. After leaving the CK, McClammy ran stock on shares between Red Water and Charley Creek. Both cattle and for Dan Knapp and also started his own ranch. His stock horses were[...]ranged on Cottonwood Creek, Porcupine Creek and as far Fort Poplar before buying the ranch. The r[...]the Lazy Y several thousand acres, both rangeland and farmland, Swinging E. The McClammy Ranch was just north of the and is now operated by a grandson, Barlow Colgan. The town of Oswego, but ranged into Roosevelt County. Pen and Key brand is still in the family. D.J. Nugent started a ranch in 1889 one mile northeast of Coming to[...]on Culbertson. He came to Montana in 1885 and his wife-to-be the south side of the river, selli[...]6. When they were married, Mrs. ugent went Buford and shipping them to eastern markets. He became[...]ch (Hedderichs) until they sold to. County and Nugent continued to work for the Day ranch, the D[...]g to Stafford on the north side of Shot Gun Creek and moved the north side of the Missouri River, he tarted the YP his cattle and horses there in about 1895. His range at that ranch , running both cattle and hor e . At the clo e of his time was from the Big Muddy to the Dakota line. He was a ranching, he had acquired about 150 head of hor and member of the Montana Stockgrowers Association in 1899. between 200 and 300 head of cattle. A half brother of Mitchell's, Aureus McKinney came[...]leaving that ranch he took up squatters rights on a piece of land about ten miles east of Culbertson and established his own ranch. Farming at that time c[...]up large quantities of hay for the "big ranches" and taking care of their nursing stock. By the time f[...]n the Yellowstone River where his father had been a soldier in Col. Reno's cavalry at the time of the[...]brother Thomas at the Star Ranch. He accumulated a few head of cattle and when the Star was sold, he established his own ra[...]had wide experience ranching in both North Dakota and Montana. He ranched first in the Glendive area bu[...]Then he worked around Williston. Deciding to have a ranch of his own he settled on Sand Creek, running both horses and Bla~k Poll Angus cattle. His brand was "7J[...] |
| [...]Many got down and perished in their tracks.[...]Red Boy and squaw, with team and sled, Cowboys at leisure carved their owners bran[...]n Charlie Creek," said J.S. Day, owner 1906 and 1907, the killingest winter I knew, of[...]w, not many made it through; Dad bought 80 cattle and 100 horses from Cowell, all Largest co[...]in the snow; great was the cost. Also 1000 cattle and 10 saddle horses branded NS near Cascade, Unloa[...]then in its prime, Thirteen saloons running night and day, all doing fine. Hitchracks on both sides, th[...]cowboys tie their broncs while they eat. Show me a town that's got it beat, Swam cattle[...]souri to the south side, Ranch near the[...]anch, just out of view; Louise Ralston and her father, Bill Ralston. This is the old |
| [...]in and pay their grazing fees. Some companies did pay[...]shipped 1,300 to 1,500 head of cattle and sold them-[...]A human interest story written by[...]reported to there. After there were cars, trucks and good roads, there Superintendent C.R.A. Scobey at the agency was not the demand for this[...]hat Indians were killing built into Lambert, Enid and Richey half of Culbertson's cattle that b[...]ry boat just north of the butchering places and the strange part of the killings was Spurgeon ranch and below the Whirlpool cattle crossing. that only choice part of a beef were taken each time and the The summer of 1907 Bill lost his boat in the[...]d way of rustling "white beef' was the same cable and took everything.[...]RVATION investigation and soon found that only one Indian wa[...]responsible; an Indian named HI HAIL, a murderer, who from an interview ma[...]years old, uneducated and belonged to the group known a Many reports had been coming in of cattle grazing on the the "Bow and Arrows" meaning old Indian who were Fort Peck In[...]ich there was no skilled with the bow and arrow and alway lived like their revenue being paid. In the year of 1906, the government ancestors, in a primitive fa hion . He wa a widower with a decided to count the cattle running on the reservation. married daughter and an invalid son about 1 y ar old. The Indian De[...]olonel Daniels to the Fort His Hail was a trange man, living alone with hi boy Peck Reservation to do the counting, and upon arrival he and did not visit much with hi n ighbors. Being he wa a went to see Jim Smith who was the boss farmer at the ub- warrior and later a m dicine man , he believed that the agency at Bo[...]cted Mr. mith illness of hi on wa cau d by a charmer. He u p cted to round up all the cattle[...]p r on to be the guilty one, an old m dicin man and then he would come out and count them. named Thief. Mr. Smith looked at Colonel Daniels for a minute, and The boy of Hi Hail di din th latter part of D c mber then told him that such a task would be next to impossible. 1903 and a few day later Thi f wa r ported, " hot Colonel Da[...]hy it would be through the head and killed, by a p rson or p r on impossible and how long it would take to round up the[...]knock d on th ir Colonel Daniels looked at Smith and said, "Why I can't door very early that morning and old Thi f w nt to who stay here 30 days. I haven't been home in several weeks it was. A the old man op n d th door he a hot b t n now and I've got to get home and renew my wife th eye and kill din tantly. acquaintance." For a w k or more v ral white u p c w re brought Aft[...]g, but Hi Hail wa Reservation into three sections and run three roundup not then thought to b the murd r r, a it wa · the cu tom outfits. John Chase wa made f[...]d, among the trib to go into eclu ion a on of th ir act of Walter ClfArk operated in the middle part and Jim mith mourning and h may have gone to omeotherr r tion took the east[...]to forget hi orrow ov r the lo of hi on. And anoth r During the spring there was much rainy weather which thing, it wa a fact that an old Indian n v r kno k don a made the rounding up and the counting much more door to g[...]ficult than it should have been. During one storm a large But oon a report cam that someone had tak n a fr h bunch broke loose and returned to the big herd that had not horse from Charging Dog' f ed lot and I ft one in plac of been counted. In all they rou[...]it wa head owned by companie who were not paying a grazing thought that he might b the g[...]charmer who a t the p 11 of ickne ov r hi boy. B ing[...] |
| [...]l was careful to place his shot in murderer and also cut a wide swath in the thick the right place.[...]body. The position in which Old man Thief was a noted conjurer and when various the body laid, showed that the man had been wounded the organizations got together and performed their many first time, his left arm was broken and he had rested the forms of magic, where the people looked on, his act always gun on a short stump in order to aim and fire at the was the main attraction. He came to[...]If he had not been wounded, he would dressed in a bear skin, with its teeth exposed, covered his have made a hit, because he was known to be a good shot. head completely so that no one saw hi[...]e sub-agency at Wolf Point just behind, carrying a flat rock and a stone mallet. where an inquest was held and the body of His Hail was The act that he perf[...]tempt was made to place laid prone on the ground and his wife laid the flat rock the pine-boa[...]ound but merely left on the under his head, like a pillow; then, with the mallet, she burial ground with the rude coffin atop a small handmade struck his head a heavy blow at which he screamed and one-horse sleigh on which the coffin was taken. growled like an injured bear. After a time he laid down and So ended the life of an Indian murderer and cattle remained there until the performance was[...]hat time, was of the closed kind where the state and county had no jurisdiction,[...]Poulson - February 6, 1941 Superintendent cobey and his Indian Police were in full charge, but seeme[...]r 1906 most of the cattle in Roosevelt murderer. And so His Hail was at large, appearing at[...]ped for "Scab" or "Texas Itch". different places and sometimes the terrified people thought At the Fort Peck Agency, a dipping vat was built north of they had seen him[...]feet long and at the bottom was perhaps four feet wide. The[...]e that he hated so the sides were built at a slant, making the vat wider at the top Assiniboi[...]s eight or nine feet deep. It gathered in groups and took turns watching for the was filled with water from Poplar Creek by installing a fugitive. centrifugal pump. Lime and sulphur were added to the The man kept the Indians in a tate of terror for over a water. As the lime and sulphur did not mix well with water, month until[...]e cattle carried the JB brand (Ralph Immediately a po se wa called which went to a place on Patch owner) to be dipped, although there were many other the Mi ouri River bottom in a thickly wooded point about[...]It was the last of May and the weather was very warm. By the time the de[...]the cattle were nearly crazy with the burning and as they oon his trail wa found which came out of the thick brush and led to a de erted log cabin. He had been taying there nights and in the timber during the day time. They trailed him to a clearing he had made near the river and when they spotted him, he wa ju tin the proce of getting a meal. Hi Hail wa known to be lightly deaf and o did not hear the posse coming until omeone gave a yell which was taken up by the group. He appeared to be confu ed by the udden noise and ran into the brush for a moment, unarmed, but immediately returned and took one of the wimming cattle through two rifles that he had, a 30-30 Winche ter. During that time, the ones who were in the lead of the pos e, kept up a the cattle dip . steady fire the sh[...]ent abreast in the direction the man fled. It was a wise move, because the tracks howed later that His Hail ran for a time and then circled back and laid down for some distance a way from his first trail. There he waited for the men who, he planned , would follow his tracks and, if they did , he could easily have killed severa[...]posse went abreast they saw him behind the stump and about the[...] |
| [...]y grew warmer the burning those who made a business of rustling cattle or horses. of the lye became greater and their thirst increased. The These men usua[...]hideouts cattle started to run, looking for water and within four and would retreat if they felt danger threatened. ho[...]ping session, Mr. John Manning corner and the other where the town of Homestead now lost a prize registered bull. When this bull plunged int[...]e fastened to the sides as he went reach and more difficult to see. under the water. The bull[...]the hill and all that could be seen was the smoke stack. The[...]. After hearing which caused it to look like a little raise in the ground. The the story of Mr.[...]changed, so as the of the stock they wanted and in a few days some rancher cattle came out of the vat[...]hed off country, the rustlers often stopped at a rancher's home for most of the solution, and the cattle arrived home safely. a meal and even stopped overnight. Few ranchers refused I[...]t be molested if he kept the While the Indians and others running cattle on the good will of the rustler and two-he was afraid of being Reservation used the[...]burned out. One rancher who refused to keep a rustler had was built on the Big Muddy for the u[...]wires of his fences cut between nearly every post and The dipping vat on the Big Muddy was about 80[...]his cattle chased many miles from their pasture. and eight or nine feet deep and about four feet wide at the Most of the me[...]to North or South Dakota. They would trade engine and pipes were used to keep the water at the right or sell the horses as they journeyed along and when the temperature.[...]isposed of, they returned to their hideouts to A man named George Stevens was the foreman of the[...]ery The cattle were brought to the end of the vat and the reasonable prices, especially if t[...]thing like "Wintz" was room for only one to stand and those in the rear that was located 16 to 2[...]he leader to jump into the about 1907-190 and i uppo ed to have gone to outh water After the an[...]end of the vat as it was too narrow Tom Ryan and a man named Duffy. Duffy owned ome for him to turn[...]rustler, who at the time worked for Tom submerged and if he did not go under the water, the McAllister, was Tom Reed. He left the country in a hurr cowboys alongside would force him under usin[...]out 1907 never to be heard from again . which had a curved iron on the end. This curved iron fit Ed. chufeldt who killed a ru tier nam d Long H nr over the animal's neck and by pushing on the pole it wa sent to[...]imal under the water. The same pole was A ru tler call d harl y gic kill d Billi All n in a used to pull up the head of an animal if he got under the ulbert on bar. water and didn't come right up. A few over 27,000 head It i known that[...]ened , urrend r to th law-or not. Th r wa a diff r n of and most of them did not want to claim their calv . opinion and l on d id d to giv up- J on d cid d no . Cor[...]ry i told of how th heriff cam from Gia gow, cows and calves until they were dried off and would Rt that time the county eat, t[...]the corrals for to find him . Th h riff and l on m tin th d pot at several hours bef[...]ulbertson, both got on th train and both got off in[...]offic , whil th h riff had oth r bu in and R STLERS[...]tim ther wa a danc at th Ed . h rman ranch nd Kid In the ear[...]the ranch tar d ad put h eriff arriv d and a rr t d Kid Trail r. because of Indians. These peo[...]o furni h mu i for th dan e. kill d their buffalo and they had a right to kill the white Frank Jon jump don hi hor and tart d out tog t th man's cattle. However the white man aw it in a different Kid . He oon ov rtook th d puty and hi ch rg . H light. But as the years passed , and more ranches were unhitched th hor[...]b t hor nd developed , thousands of cattle and horses w re oon the d puty overcoat, put Kid Trail r on th hor and running the range.[...]th y r turn d to th clan . Th 1 ft th d puty and th[...] |
| poorer horse with the sled on the roadside. A good time was had by all-but the deputy. Someti[...]g the night at the Tande ranch. Two deputies came and spent the night in the same room with Jones. In t[...]the Agency at Poplar. Major Scobey had him put in a room at the Agency and several people were called to identify him. When[...]school, they insisted that he be cleaned up-hands and face washed and a clean shirt be put on the body. Neither the polic[...]But the girls kept insisting, saying, "Jones had a mother someplace, who undoubtedly was a good woman, and he should be cleaned up for her sake." The men finally obliged and Jones was buried just outside the Catholic cemete[...]early-day rustlers, Simmon Carlyle, Bill V asco, a man called Trotter and one called Cummings.[...]he prairie started as early as 1890 when the tall and abundant grass was first cut for hay. After the h[...]cattle became apparent. The larger ranchers broke a few acres of ground which was planted to oats and[...]cut for hay-and this was the beginning of a new concept-[...]1905, most of them managed to break a few acre , from five[...]to fifteen, the first year and it was seeded to either flax or oat . A general rule seemed to be-if they had cattle it w[...]that it could not be cut with a binder and was mowed and raked like hay. 1907 - Henry Hoye and his team of oxen.[...] |
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| [...]continuous cropping and block farming were a matter of practice. ummerfallowing and trip farming were Breaking sod, 1908 near Culbertson. unheard of-and while the oil wa virgin and moi ture[...]the very early year are reported a being "pretty good".[...]Hail, first noted in the county by Lewi and Clark, ha[...]taken its share of the crop production and ome old timer rememb r 1917 a b ing compl tely hail d out. ld timer[...]in the Froid ar a r memb r that th hail cam arl in June and ome of the pring wheat cam back to mak[...]pretty good spring wa early and crop wer d d · arl .[...]acr · but the price wa poor and farm r , th n a now,[...]during World War I, and th gov mm nt n d d th grain to upport th arm and feed th peopl at horn . Th fir t Getting started[...]91 at crop igh b year breaking a little more in continuous field . Breaking one primary m and in ·n r ground with oxen or horse and a one-bottom walking plow primary mark ts[...]pri f h plant more than one crop, and wheat (hard pring and coming crop to stimulate production. P[...]duction crop. th am figur a at pr nt will not di turb th pri o[...] |
| [...]ilding at Medicine Lake CCC days - wheat products and bread which have become fairly well 1938.[...]s met the agitation in Congress for higher prices and took steps to stimulate production and prevent holding back the crop while the agitation[...]resident declared, would assure the production of a reasonable profit. On the basis of No. 1 Northern spring wheat and its equivalents, the President fixed the prices a[...]1920's ran from fair, good to excellent. The 1926 and 1927 years are remembered as being "great years"[...]20 to 25 bushels per acre. Rainfall was abundant and no hail was reported. Baker and Nees on header - 1925 Prices were high for those days, and most farmers were now free and clear of debts. New machinery was purchased; tractors replaced horses for farming, and The block system of farming was abou[...]aced the buggy for transportation. The used and now became an open invitation to disaster. The ol[...]keeping it worked to control weeds) was not a common 1920's.[...]was to be no longer a joke. With no rain and the wind[...]was abandoned machinery, unharvested weeds and the a fair harvest, 1930 wa wor e and 1931 was mo tly a total Russian thistles. Surface wells dried up, and water for both failure-and we began the year known a the "great man and animals was at a premium in many areas. Any depre ion" and recalled a "the dirty 30' " smog that we[...]that permeated every crack and crevice of the house. Drilling water wells in[...]of the same rigs |
| Good feed for livestock was non-existent and farmers were glad to harvest the Russian thistles[...]e early years these were mixed with the old straw and salt. When the straw was gone, feed for cattle was even more skimpy. The government shipped in some hay, and the Montana Farmers union provided some hay for t[...]ng from $5 to $15 per head; this didn't help much and farmers were reluctant to sell what few they had[...]their farms through mortgages, debts, bankruptcy and foreclosures. The Holiday Association came into being and saved several farmers from the foreclosure sales. Many farmers left this desolate country and returned to their home communities in the east- o[...]longer carry the overload of credit went bankrupt and closed. The over-extended credit and the stock market crash of 1929 closed many banks, and the people lost what little money they had been a[...]es varied from 15¢ to 38¢ per bushel; rye, oats and barley ranged from 3¢ to 9¢ per bushel; eggs we[...]taken from September 15, 1932 market report). A change in Federal Administration brought in President Franklin Roosevelt and the beginning of the alphabetical programs-CCC for young men and youth building dams (Medicine Lake) and irrigation ditches; Working on WPA at Br[...]co uld be found; and the PWA (Public Works[...]auth orized, and several local school gymna iums were[...]would work at Fort Peck in the winter and come back to 1937 crop of whea t, all there was. Alma and Amanda their farms only to try again the next summer to raise a A ndresen.[...] |
| About 1936-1937 the Extension Service and what is the A C now showed farmers how to strip crop their land and plant hedge rows to keep the soil from blowing. ummerfallowing came into being as a permanent practice, and the new method of stubble mulch tillage left as m[...]ervation came into being in the very early 1940's and showed farmers how to reseed grass and for grassed waterways which provide areas of natu[...]ough field strips. Stock water dams were built on a cost-share basis with Federal assistance, making[...]1938. John Andresen, Roy had managed to hang onto a few head oflivestock survived White and Sanford Quam. the 1930's better than those who did not. Old-timers remember 1937 as a total crop failure-partly through drought but wha[...]ain coming the top, they covered buildings and ate the crops and trees early in the season. pirits were high for a better year. By in their path. Again farmers[...]e of these catastrophes, crops Farmers worked day and night to build sprayers and the averaged about 20 bushels per acre. 1939 was termed "a government helped to furnish the chemicals for spraying. good year". Cut worms and army worms were also in abundance in The last 38 years have been good to and for agriculture. some parts of the county. Army w[...]e. During the World War II years prices were high and[...]1950's and 1960's the government again came to the[...]farmers rescue and surplus grain was stored on the farm,[...]could plant in wheat, oats and barley. These acres were[...]known as "base acres" and only the grain grown from[...]incentive programs. During the 1950's and early 1960's a[...]government again providing a system of land payments. Bud Na ss and g iant g rassh opper k illed near Fort Pec[...] |
| [...]ose who want or need the traw, it is now baled in a[...]going from the mower and trip-rake, to mower and side-[...]and rake in one operation, placing the hay in long ro[...]ready for the baler. Automatic bale stackers and bale wagons, and hay stackers have taken many long hour of[...]Agriculture is indeed BIG BUSI E , and the back[...]farm voted out the support I slip on my pants and sneak out the door. price payments and grain has since been sold on the open Out in[...]ng from under$2 per bushel t? To milk the cows and feed the chickens. over $5 per bushel. During the[...]ost of the Soil Clean out the barn, curry Mance and Jiggs Bank farms were back into production. By 1969 and 1970 Separate the cream and slop all the pigs. the surplus stored grain was p[...]n the market. Work two hours, then eat like a Turk About the same time the acreage controls were abandoned And, by heck, I'm ready for a full days work. and farmers again could plant full acreage. Althou[...]ounty remains mostly Then I grease the wagon and put on the rack true to the strip farming practices, in much of the central Throw a jug of water in an old grain sack. and western parts of the county block farming is agai[...], hustle down the lane seen with fields of 80-160 and even 320 acres in one large Must get the hay i[...]seeded back to grass in Cattle's on the rampage and cows in the corn. the 1930's and the Soil Bank farms, all now productive crop tart aero the medder, run a mile or two acres. Winter wheat is running between 35 and 50 bushels Heaving like I'm wind broke, and wet clean through . per acre with the abundant mo[...]g changed, but the kinds ance got traddle of a barb d wir f nc . of machinery have changed considerably-from the oxen Joint all aching, mu cle in a jerk or team of horses and the one bottom walking plow, to the I'm fit a a fiddl and read for a full day' work. steam engines that could pull 12[...]to ?allower Then I figure up th book and h av a big igh . tillage with one-ways, duckfoots, toolbar or spike-tooth Worked all y ar, didn 't mak a thing harrows from 12 to 40 feet wide. Perhap th[...]hod of harve t , from th ow olk a ai oh bind r to the header to th thre[...]M n ana Hard y Anderso n farm taken from th e a ir - 197/j[...] |
| THIS IS A FARMER Author Unknown Farm[...]from, planting to, fertilizing with, spraying for A farmer is a paradox - he is an "overalled" executive[...]with his home his office, a scientist using fertilizer |
| [...]~ood crop 25 bu.per A. 11[...]1 . A-1.6r:, 27[...]bumper crop 37 bu.per A. " . R3 - -29[...]■ t1 • 66- . A5 42 FOO crop up tp 37 bu . pef. A.[...]* A.63 hicrhest FOO~ no crop Barley 1 . 0[...]ttoo crop . 6.A " ? . 12 6h[...]" .62-.A7 70 A"OO~ crop II .60[...] |
| [...]rust in wh t . oats cro 3A- 39 3 3 1 n • - - - - - - f"O o a crop ?-9- hO[...]Li 6 . 5 1 n • po o a crop 4 _ 111 16 . c:;[...]- - - - - - - - - - P"OO~ crop h7 - 4A 3c; in . - - - - - -uoon crop hai lea out 4A - 49 49-S 0 r::.o- sl[...]oo crop.{'67 t100 cro _ ~ 66- 67 ~7 - 6A[...]967 Bar . 2R .7 _ uoo er 6A- 69[...] |
| [...]to the Big Muddy. They farmed about 35,000 acres and used the rest for range for their large herds of 1919 cattle. Frank Mattelin, a pioneer resident of the county, over. H[...]ion was remembers the little shack she and her mother lived in ; the financed by J.P. Morgan[...]res of flour, sugar, coffee, agreed to invest one and a quarter million dollars in the bacon, lard,[...]ich had to be prepared daily; the triangle States and Russia.[...]ns brought from the commissary, but he wa brou~ht a crew of men, two to each tractor and plow outfit. quite sure that they were pumpkin[...]ead, but Mrs. Prochnow went ahead "4-mile strip", a field four miles long. Fifteen to tw~nty and made the sweet potato pie. All the men loved it.[...]camp market at the time, were used, each pulling a IO-bottom after the Frye Cattle Company to[...]o. In Frank , had worked there for 14 years a a foreman with a one day they broke a record of 560 acres. . crew of[...]eat. Each tractor pulled five drill . camp on a camp tove. The fir t night, when ome of th At h[...]out in the open over the prairie campfire. he and h r flanged ewton wagons each hauling one hundred[...]iving eith r in bushels. They were hitched behind a big Aultman-Taylor their wagon with a tent cov ring oron th ground in a nt. with its road speed of two to three mil~s per[...]fill d gr at crock full of elevators at Brockton and Poplar. cookie and cinnamon roll . Th y took along ix h n a Morgan backed the Montana venture for three year their only mean of having fr h gg and at night th (and it is said to have lost $3,000,000 becau e of dro[...]remainder of the fiv -year headquarter and for th umm r amp, .,mmalin farming lea[...]ntana, whe~e the lots 100 pound of sugar at a tim , 25 pound each of dri d corporation continue[...]n large scale farmmg. appl , p ach , prun and apricot , al o larg qu ntiti s[...]of cann d tomato , p a , orn and homin . Cooking for a corporation crew: B twe n th cooking, baking and di 1 wa hing chor , Lena Prochnow, later Mrs. Ole o n and now dee a d, Emmalin , a light} built woman ighing littl[...] |
| [...]ing wet", did all of the washing "Work for a cow outfit", said a friend, and ironing for the camp. The life of a cowboy has its joys and sorrows. Ironing was done with sadirons heated[...]one day off until the hay- 5,000 tons-was stacked and they moved back to[...]headquarters. There were days when she even drove a team in the hayfield. Yet, in spite of the hard[...]remembers those years with pleasure. "I was young and strong then," she laughs lightheartedly, "and it was all in a day's work." FRED C. FEAR AND[...]w Magna, England on There were such men as Pardon and Lew, Christmas Day 1878, came to the United States at the age Johnny Kincaid, a top bronc buster. of n[...]in, grass wet with dew. earlier and settled in Colorado, having traveled across Here'[...]ere they homesteaded in July Those were the days, and like all are gone; 1888. While breaking broncs, Bill Smith and Bones The family all came down with typhoid and ended up Broke horses for the camps all month long; losing their mother and oldest brother. The family broke Ralston left two or more outlaws, some were roans. up and Fred went in to the cattle business with a cousin, Tom and his partner, Frank McClure. This started him on Other Frye men were Grotehouse and Sy- a long trail of being a cowboy cattleman. The boss of the Wagon Camp at t[...], one named Hy; with Lou Parton, a horse rancher, who had a contract to Big Ed hauled grub to Smoke Creek, and Muddy south. furnish horses to the Eng[...]l spring. Fred Fear, for a dollar a day. The 13 horses given them on Monday The manag[...]he wagon out ahead, had to be broke and ready to sell on Saturday. The Boer And move the cattle to the dipping vat quite near; War ended and along came the Spanish American War Corrals soon[...]horses and raising his cattle. Cox was at the dipping vat to[...]In 1903, Fred married Cora Davis, his schoolmate, and ' Bill, you get Buss to help move the cattle, moved onto a ranch in Yakima, Washington, his home Each to the[...]base. Bulls liked to fight-two just had a battle. A cowboy's life is like nature, different each day.[...]re 11 be hay; Some of the crew of the Fry[...]Ralston, John |
| [...]Abe Dale and Blondy Berg - Frye Cattle Co.[...]travels and business dealings.[...]His life was full and well lived with a zest of the old timers,[...]not to be dependent on anyone. His interest and vigor kept his mind keen till the end, and his advice was "keep a busy mind and keen interest in things going on around you, and you will have a healthy body. Keep busy and keep living".[...]Fred Fear, Charles Frye, the Frye Cattle Company, and Lou Parton, cattle foreman for Frye Cattle Company, at Seattle Packing Plant of Frye and Co. were well known the Big Muddy Wagon Camp.[...]Charles Frye, a man of German decent with capital of Their family consisted of three daughters and a son, six his own, and an access to much more, was always ready for grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. a new investment venture. Fears spent 20 years in Poplar, Montana where he Fred Fear, a cattle buyer for Moran and iegel, went to worked for the Frye Cattle Company[...]Yakima cattle schooling in Washington but started a teaching caree~ m operation of the Frye Cattle Co. All beef de tined for the Poplar. Lois, Iris and Bob graduated from Popla~ High Seattle Packing Plant of Frye and Co. pa d through School. Lois married a native Poplar man, Scott Smith, Jr. Yakima and only cattle ready for market were en ton. The (no[...]with Fred Fear in charge. In 1942 Fears retired and in 1943 moved back to Later, Fear wa sent to Kodiak, Ala ka where Frye and Co. Toppenish, Washington to a home. they bought in 1916. had cattle t[...]is first leisure time, so raised Angus cattle f~r a this operation and recommended h p for that area. 5,000 hobby and helped buyers needing cattle at the auction head of heep and a replacement for F ar w re on th n xt yards. He knew the cattle business in and out and buyers boat. Fear wa ent to Browning, Montana to cl ar up sought his advice and help in their purcha e . problem where Frye and o. had bought cattle from the From then on there was never a month went by that Power Cattl o., who had a p rmit to run cattl on the some members ~f the Fe[...]rom th r he w nt to Lewi ton folks. They also had a teady stream of visitor from all and other plac receiving cattl for th Yakima op ratio[...]from a far outh a alifomia and north into anada.[...]to check on ome cattl that a fri nd of hi had , who wa a[...]on right. !3ru ~ Camp, 1930 - Abe Dale, Peterson and Herb sta ed tn thi tin house one winter.[...] |
| [...]by many farmers in the area, and many were forced out of[...]e cattle business because of the lack of pasture, and it[...]Men that came in with Frye and Co. were Gerald Tracy,[...]cattle foreman and later replaced by Lou Parton in the[...]George Oakland and Mack White came to them from the[...]They sent out a roundup wagon and crew of cowboys to[...]and to bringtheminforbranding. The Bob Reid ranch was[...]one of Frye's many camps and the location where many of Leaving fo r Frye Cat[...]le were brought to be branded the reversed Fea r and Bill Steele - 1930 7 and sent on to the different pastures.[...]Then, there were fences to be built and outlying camps to[...]e the incoming herds. They had summer Reservation and were being taken care of by Dave[...]n ch on the Muddy River. After and Poplar Creeks and down on the Big Muddy River with consulting the head office, Fear ma de a deal for these cattle a Bull camp near the Winslow place. Cowboys or fence- for Frye and Co. and bought them for $35 a head. That was riders at these camps kep[...]ugh it kept them busy riding They ran 10,000 head a nd were known far and wide. fence and trying to keep gates shut. Frye took over the lease used for these cattle and When they were established, it was a regular summer's prepared to winter them. After s[...]of the cattle were wintered by Abe Dale, who had a another to brand the calves. One summe[...]he cattle were where there was bountiful feed for a win ter camp and hay bothered with scab, dipping vats wer[...]the winter. Frye bought cattle and hay on both sides of the Missouri As Fred Fear was getting acquainted in the Poplar area, River and even fed some cattle on the south side a few he made a trip to the Traders State Bank to cash a $1,000 times. check on Frye Cattle Co., signed by himself. He wasn't a They had camps near the sources of th[...]wintered these cattle on the Muddy, Poplar Creek and the everyday clothes, little dusty hat, and he wore a black Missouri River bottom. They had many ha[...]als with haying contracts to put up looked at him and the check and went to the back room to hay for them. c[...]Smith came out, This company came at a time when money and jobs were checked Fred Fear over and remarked, "it will take a fe w not too plentiful so they created prosperity for Poplar and minutes before we can cash your check". They retu[...]the other towns along the line. Wages were $75 a month for cashed the check and welcomed Frye and Company's men, $50 for cooks, all with room and board. Anyone business in the bank. Later Fred Fe[...]en willing to work could most always find a job with the Frye a Miss Hasting answered the phone in Seattle when t[...]bank called out there, he aid, "Yes! You may cash a check As years went on, Frye built a new headquarters across for $1,000 for Fred Fear and any more up to two million, but the road from the Hayne place, and many of the original for any amount over that, ma[...]was bought by F red Fear a nd then wa s sold throughout the The following spring Frye and Co. came to Poplar and years to Virgil Lowe, Fred Roedeske, Earl Lockma n and to made preparations to et up a permanent headquarters. J im Crowley, the present owner. They had had a temporary office in the upper story of the Lundeen Mercantile Co. store. They rented the Paul Hayne place a couple of miles north we t of town and set up an office, commissary, bunk house and cook shack for the hired help, a barn and corrals. Fear lived in the main house as Fred was the manager. Charles Frye came to Montana and liked what he saw. The buffalo grass would be som[...]t all the land possible. The Frye Co. stepped out and leased a few ranches for main camps and then , block leased most of the Fort Peck Indian[...]area from Tule Creek east to the Big Muddy River, and from the Missouri River north about 20 t o 25 mil[...]land. Fred surrounded himself with ex-ranchers and cattlemen that had been through it all and they started Frye Cattle Co. Chuck Wagon on Box Elder. Cook, building the Frye and Co. This company was frowned on Lawati and Claude Clark - 1930[...] |
| [...]Ma~. By_ being among them since a small boy, he knew their traits and natures. He had dealings with the ioux and Bla~kfoot for many years and was never too busy to hear their problems and give his advice. During the years,[...]Poplar and the Rim Ranch at Browning, and the Blackfoot[...]re they had their share of rustlers, rum runners, and[...]called Chief Black Shield after a long set of rituals and festivities. He was given a headdress, war club, moccasins, rattle and miscellaneous items, which his son Bob still[...]and who worked for the Frye Company have been omitted[...]so that none would be forgotten. Bob Corbett and Billy Steele[...]red took an interest in wheat farming. He bought a section of The abundance of coal, accessib[...]t wheat farmer in these parts. When the within a radius of a few miles from their home, must have farmer plow[...]d to build homes as early as 1902. Certainly the and ordered Fred to get the best land available purch[...]sell his development of all of eastern Montana and Roo evelt land as he wished, but this was later c[...]was asked to put up land for sale in big blocks, and much of are long and often very cold, having once at lea t attained th[...]along the Missouri River the extteme cold of a min u 60 degree (below zero) in 1936. bottom and up on the benches which was dry-land farmed.[...]to be cleared of brush before to be depleted a early a 1905 n ar the nd of h it was broke.[...]ra. Prior to that tim , th log for th building A big irrigation plant was set up on the Chel ea slough of home depend d upon the wood d ar a along th which increased production of the bottom land. Thi wa Mi ouri and Poplar Riv r . done with two 24-inch pumps locate[...]It ount wa Ranch. Irrigation ditches were put in and all kinds of grain practically "tr le ". Th tarkn ofth prairi with i were raised besides alfalfa and potatoes. Two other lev I land to the[...]man of th famil hi tori west side of Poplar Creek and up on Tule Creek. For all of these operations, they bought a lot of machinery but still used many hor e and mule which they raised for themselves. They shipp din a load of jack from California for this but soon fo[...]wo boat loads to Hawaii to be u din the pineapple and sugar cane fields. Wicked weather, grasshoppers, and drought came tv the area so farmers got discouraged and began leaving. Cattle herds were cut down as the cattle market went haywir , and Frye became interested in the sheep bu ines , which was taken care of by John Pfaff. They also built a large sheep shed for this operation. It still stands on land belonging to the Poplar Land and Livestock Company. During the depression years, Frye sold a lot of their land back to the government under th[...]get rid of the holdings in Montana. Local farmers and rancliers[...] |
| especially by those families who came from the Minnesota and Wisconsin areas. It was also noted that many of t[...]ers came in the spring, spent the summer building a shack, and returned to their original home for the first winter. Fuel for the very first winter was not a pressing problem. With the railroad coming in[...]r homes could be shipped in to Culbertson, Poplar and Wolf Point and be transported to where it was needed; thus the s[...]tage oflumberfor building. When families arrived, and winter came, the shortage of wood for fuel caused[...]t County. It would not be feasible to even hazard a guess as to then um her of tons of coal mined ind[...]ost of the mines were being commercialJy operated and coal sold for $2.50 to $4.00 a ton in 1925. Hauling was still done by the indivi[...]change in living patterns, oil furnaces, propane and natural gas had almost completely taken the[...]taken its not remembered. place in the home and the coal-wood range is now only a remnant of the past.[...]Watts mine. This was a shaft mine operated by Dill from[...]14 to 1917. Sold to Bill Anderson who operated it a year KNOWN COAL MINES IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY and then sold to Ira Triplett. Sold in 1925 to Hugh M[...]this mine which had to be pumped out with a steam engine. missed. When water became too much of a problem, the mine was[...]Mine was located under the house. This was called a drift mine. SMOKE CREEK MINE - was on the Smoke Creek hill, The mine caved in and a son was killed. The mine was west of Art Ryders and south of Murray's. This was a drift closed.[...]t was first run by Logan Walker, then Kukkenburg, and BILL WAITS MINE - Four miles south and two miles later Murrays leased the land, mined the coal and sold it by west of Froid. Watts operated from 1914-1917. Leased to Ira the ton. Triplett who put in a shaft mine and operated it until 1940. Helmer Hanson operated from 1940 to 1944 and Harry SOUR KRAUT MINE - was located south and west of Norton from 1944 to 45 when the mine closed. Medicine Lake and operated by Charley Clark.[...]as a do-it-yourself drift mine. In 1928 Glenn Miller and Ira Triplett bought the mine and Miller operated it until 1932.[...]Triplett put in a shaft mine and operated it until 1941. This[...]mine was 11 miles south of Froid and three miles east of the[...]ROCKY PO I T MI E - a drift mine west of Froid near[...]DEVILS KITCHE - also a drift mine about ten miles east and south of Froid.[...].J. Folvag mine. 1930's and 1940's. Operators not known.[...] |
| WALDHAUSEN MINE - owned and operated a mine three miles north and a mile east of Culbertson from 1916 to 1942. He furnished coal for Culbertson and other towns along the highline as far west as Gla[...]arvis sold to Joe Bemer. Bemer sold it to Joe Wix and his son Ted who operated it for 16 years. JENNISON MINE -is electrically operated and produces H.O. PARKS- operated a mine five miles east and south LANARK MI E - wa run by a Mr. Hale. GRU TZ MI E - wa south and ea t of ulb rtson. S MITH MI E - run by Charlie mith and loca d n ar BOX ELDER MI E BLOCKER WEST MI[...] |
| Metzger Coal Mine - Freddy and Phyllis Metzga Norman Jensen in coal mine - 1938 Farmers Elevator and Coal Chute in Brockton - early |
| [...]SMITH, GERT PEDERSEN and ANDERSON. These[...]the county. Only a few mines have been mentioned in the[...]COTTONWOOD MINE; and one listed near the Wolf[...]Creek area but without a name. Carl Norgaard and Norman Jensen at coal mining camp one of the first to mine coal and sell it. Later in 1938, John |
| [...]The yippee of the cowpoke and the pounding hoof of the "The Brockton flax mi[...]ill manufacture stock food in addition to the tow and rolling prairies and the grassy coulee of north ea tern fiber products[...]Montana when a far different sound filled the air a nd a[...]is Christiansen sound was the clanking and grinding of oil drilling rig . in the spring of 1916 to build a flax mill. It was built west of The excitement[...]rom where the Red Boys were brokers and royalty buyers scouring the countyside living.[...]contacting the landholders and negotiating for oil righ ts. In the spring of 1917 the mill was completed and "Bill" The discovery of oil by the C.H.[...]Poplar Field in late 1951 was the forerunn er of a The mill was used to process flax straw into tow, a fiber new phase in the story of Roosevelt County. This discovery used to make linen. The tow was baled and shipped to the had a very marked effect on the growth and development linen mills back East. There was plen[...]he romance Unfortunately, the flax was ripened and threshed before and glamour of pioneer fur trading and homesteading a th straw was brought to the mill. The mill manage[...]hat time helped to make the mill unprofitable. A scheme for processing alfalfa into cake for cattl[...]t that venture also failed. In 1919 after only a little over a year running, the flax mill shut down, with only[...]lled for the mill. The building was taken down and re-established on the J.C. Sullivan farm north of Brockton, where it served as a ham. In 1953 the flax mill blew down, the wind ha[...]Poplar put mone in to get it drill d. ¼ mile w t and north Field of flax on Jeld n Farm[...] |
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| [...]taken over by Texstar Petroleum in 1964. A successor[...]located between the Tioga fields in North Dakota and the[...]dry and abandoned holes. Most of the land in the area[...]Ostby-McCabe unitized well located in Section 2, and eastern Roosevelt County- it wa known as the 'fak[...]ange 56; the Rogney well located on the oil well" and turned out to be a dry hole. Powell land southwe[...]ocated on the Seltz land also southwest of Froid, and the[...]e well east of Froid. Wells drilled but found dry and Over the years since 1951, t here have been sca[...]bandoned were located on Strandlunds, Danielsons, and succes ful oil well drillings in the Wolf Point a[...]n the Bainville area are the Leo establishment of a modest-sized oil refinery at Macon Robin[...]Wolf Poin t. Now k nown as the Tesoro R efinery. A Herald News Picture.[...] |
| [...]which is used principally in high quality paints and[...]other industrial products, as well as in foods, and afflower[...]Ferguson was manager from 1962-64, and Curt Hal eide[...]P.J. Anderson purchased the plant in 1968 and Jerry[...]purpose was to process and sell mustard meal a a protein supplement and mustard oil as an edible oil. At that time[...]this was unheard of. Mr. Anderson wa a pioneer in the[...]field of protein meal for ruminate animals and mustard oil[...]building was enlarged by 60 feet for storage and a mu tard[...]products from the local farmer into the plant and make a finished product from the e d. Thi include a protein meal and a totally refined edibl alad oil. Te oro[...]a P.J. And r on-pr c ing afflow r, mu tard, ranb , a pump but at pre ent is not producing and its future i flax, and sunflower . In th futur th will intr du uncertain; Mabel Wilson and son Pat hav two producing new oil- d var[...]n hip 26 Range 59· the John Simard well still ha a light flow and may be abandoned. Wells drilled but were found to b dry or plugged and abandoned were on LePage Fay ru ch , Ella Romos,[...]n , Fran e Halvor ons, Mabel Wilson , Glen Picard and atti Kerr. Cu.lb rtson has thr e pr[...]n, the Kruegg r w ll al o northwest of Culbertson and the Gobb · oor w 11 southeast of ulb rtson. Dry[...]und on land belonging to Molly Damm, Archi Lewis, and William Alexander. The well drilled on th Gerald Knud on land at c ab was considered a dry hole and the well drill don the Harry Sorensen land wa cap[...]y no longer prevails, seismographing, exploration and prosp cting in the county go s on in each area. M[...]th economy of the area where the wells ar located and to the county as a whole.[...] |
| [...]FEEDS 1. Create a strong market for locally produced feed grains.[...]7. Long term investment in future of community and were: John Simard, Bainville, president; S.B. Wallander, industry. Froid, vice president; R.A. Peterson, Culbertson, treasurer; E.F. Garbe, sec[...]The construction of the plant began in May 1966 and it Picard, Buck Ryder, W.R. Casterline, Steve Rudolph, and was completed in March 1967. Sales the fir[...]board of directors are: W.R. Casterline, DeTienne and Edgar Bowers.[...]hn Simard, vice president; Gerald Raaum, Growth and development of the CBF is recorded in the[...]Wheeler, and J.B. Wallander. April 27, 1964: Motion to sell st[...]State University is favorable, that CBF construct a livestock feed manufacturing plant at Culbertson.[...]pment corporation when they decided to build were a s follow :[...] |
| [...]Extension Service, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), Soil Conservation Se[...]rop Insurance Agency, the Social Services office, and an extension of the County Welfare office on a part-time basis. One large room in the basement i[...]work began in this section of the state in 1917, and in Roosevelt County when it was created in 1919.[...]3. Back row: service was the Farm Bureau. In 1919 and 1920 the Farm Nina Hermansen, Froid; Ingrid Nessit, Culbertson; Mrs. Bureau found and engaged the Extension agent, paying Orvi[...]his salary. During the next few years the County and Farm and Elizabeth Wilde, Bainville. Front row: George Lue[...]tana State University at deceased. Bozeman and the county shared the salaries of the Extension Agent and the Home Demonstration Agent. The first officers of the Farl]l Bureau and the Extension Executive Board were -$id. . ·1;3lair, Culbertson, Bureau communication and leadership training, and a President and Executive .- Boa'.rd chairman; Lucy Curran, r[...]elping develop the Froid; Henry Lowe, Culbertson; and Frank Weinrich of KEEP and Mini-KEEP programs. Mondak. The Extension office was a small room in the Arivee building which served as[...]first County Fair held in 1928. Youth 1927 - A.W. Warden, County Extepsion Agent fairs were discontinued after 1935 because of drouth and There were eight 4-H Clubs, with 56 members. World War II, but were resumed in 1954 and have been held There were two clothing club[...]t County Fair was staged with States selected for a pilot program in broadened Exten ion Volt, Benrud and Wide Awake communities and held this services. This program included study g[...]192 - A.W. Warden County Extension Agent; Vesta[...]heridan and Roosevelt Counties.[...]Awake, Bainville, and Mineral Bench.[...]a project leader was appointed in each participatin[...]Mrs. Albert Klodt, Leader Home Demonstration Club a t Henry Hoye's in the early Anderson, 10[...]Rush , Leader Steve Rudolph, Winifred Bertelsen, A nn Cla rk, Elizabeth Mineral Bench, 8 members[...]hanan, Leader Bergh, Trudy Wheeler, I uah Wheeler and Mrs. August Culbertson , 8 membe[...] |
| 1929-A.W. Warden, County Agent, Vesta Hanson, District[...]une 30, 1924 tion work with an enrollment of 365. A Woman's A.W. Warden, July 15, 1926 to July 31, 1937 vacatio[...]st 1, 1937 to October 14, 1940 Roosevelt, Daniels and Sheridan Counties with 150 in Raymond[...]n, October 1, 1964 (while Hunter on tudy 1930 • A.W. Warden, County Agent leave) There were 16 club projects with a membership of 166. John E. Wicks, April 1[...]30, 1972 with 38 enrolled; com with 44 enrolled; and swine with 36 Alan Pearson, October 1, 1972[...]INDIAN AGE TS AND ASSOCIATE AGE T 1931 - A.W. Warden, County Agent, Elisabeth Hart, Randall Johnson, June 1, 1952 to May 1, 1954, Indian and County Home Demonstration Agent[...]onstration Clubs in Wolf Point, Robert A. Roush, August 1, 1954 to April 30 1955, Indian E[...]rt, Divide, Mineral Bench, Lost Creek, and Associate Enterprise, Snake Butte, Happy Valley and Green Valley Hannea A. Hallgrimson, July 1, 1955, Indian and with 185 women enrolled.[...]project club -15 members. Due to Indian and Associate the drought difficulties no canning clubs were organized. Robert A. Weber, July 1, 1958 to June 30, 1959, Indian and No 4-H Club camp was held this year owing to drought Associate conditions, but a joint 4-H Club- Farm Bureau picnic was Gen[...]Fair Grounds on June 25. It was Indian and Associate estimated that 700 persons came to enjo[...], 1963 to eptember 30, 1964, songs, talks, stunts and parade put on by the 4-H Clubs. Associate The 4-H Fair was held on October 2 and 3, with 450 Garth Tooke, April 19, 1965, A ociate Don Petterson, 1970 to 1972, A ociate and Indian people attending. 4-H Clubs and Home Demonstration Clubs have had their ups and downs over the years, but they still continue.[...]Ve ta Hanson, 192 to 1930 Places, faces, and kinds of projects have changed, but in all[...]Lillian Tubb, 1936 to 193 and Wolf Point. Starting in 1976 the Fairs will be mo[...]6 member Th Agricultural A[...] |
| [...]Trees and brush - 10,000 acres[...]Disaster program, and in the event of national emergency[...]and repair-parts on wholesale levels.[...]ASCS county employment was at a high in 1954-55 with meeting at Mineral Benc[...]1975. Jen en, tub esbit, I. W. Buchanan, and Chris Tange. Farming, without a doubt, is Roosevelt County's major[...]industry, according to the ASCS, and our farmers are the[...]te for their permanent 1935 - Had a Corn-Hog Association (similar to wheat) community[...]48 - Named Production Marketing Association (PMA) A.W . Warden; Treasurer, Frank Fairley, Culbertson ; and 1954 - Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC) two allotment board members, H.H. Wheeler of Froid and 1964 - Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Ed Manley of Poplar. Wheat a[...]nt of the wheat acreage reported. A total of 65 farmers were elected to the Agricultu[...]rain were made available Stabilization and Conservation community committees, in October 1933 and although procedure and loan rates in 1976. have changed, man[...]n bushels of alternate Peter G. Heinrichs and second alternate Herbert wheat, oat , and barley in C.C.C. grain bins at five bin[...]ouses. Donald Heidner and second alternate Kenneth Heidner. January 6, 19[...]ce-chairman Production Control pro vi ions of the A.A.A. of 1933 and on Edward J . Lind ay, member Larry D. Hawbaker, first February 29, 1936 the oil Conservation and Domestic Act alternate Chris Brookman and second alternate Michael encouraged production co[...]Zimmerman, fir t alternate 1936 Conservation with a marketing control program and John B. tensland second alternate David Matejovsky. in 1941 farmers were given a chance to vote on the wheat Di trict 5 - Chairman Kenneth Sage, Vice-chairman referendum. A two-thirds "yes" vote provided acreage[...]in chagunn, first alternate quotas for wheat with a penalty for not following the Harry wank, econd alternate John LaRoche. program. A "no" vote would have eliminated the penalty[...]n eligibility. The wheat Harry wank and se ond alternate John LaRoche. referendum passed[...]Grainger. Voluntary programs to control wheat and feed grain District - Chairman Jame Walikonis, Vice-chairman were in use, using certificate and diversion payment from Allen Bummer, memb[...]econd alternate Merland Iverson . 1956 to 1958 a oil Bank program accepted land[...] |
| [...]Soil Conservation Service are the control and prevention chairman Knud Knudsen, member Paul E.[...]of soil erosion, the conservation of both soil and water, the alternate Virgel Petersen, second alte[...]cropland "strip cropped" for erosion control and about[...]690 acres of grass waterways, over 600 re ervoir and THE SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE[...]merous other kind of projects include The Froid and Culbertson-Bainville Soil Conservation wildlife area improvements, land leveling, range and Districts were organized in 1941. Together they c[...]ng , field windbreaks , drainage Roosevelt County and operating jointly, are doing improvements, rock pile burials and improved water business as the Roosevelt County S[...]ry With the drought of the 30's behind us , and a new three years by the farmers.[...]The objectives of the Soil Conservation Districts and the been re-aligned into wide strips or[...] |
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| [...]h ouse to make a bigger and better meeting place. Earlier The early roots[...]u were established when it th e Mineral Bench and Biem Fair in 1926 was held at the was determined that a need existed to disseminate Biem school. information to farmers and ranchers which had been This group organized groups to repair and build roads; gained through research done primarily by land grant th ey planned and made a fenced community cemetery. colleges. They built a rural telephone which was used on the fences[...]ollowed by oyster suppers. Basket socials, dances and The county agent worked with the group attemptin[...]ub when it was organized in 1927. county schools and favorite picnic areas. A variety of These groups managed our work and fun projects with entertainment usually included such events as horseshoe, the same con cern and enthusiasm; then disbanded when wrestling and baseball. Some of the early members recall[...]family. The meetings were usually punctuated by a forceful speaker. FARMERS UNION Among the early-day officers were Ole Olsen and Sidney Blair. After some vigorous years, the organization became by Viola Beck and Earl Good dormant until 1961 when under the leade[...]By the involved in making the farmers' decisions and as a result end of April 1916, there were 37 locals in the state and at was causing economic hardships.[...]state received its The organization's largest and most successful effort charter with the na[...]statewide membership had increased to 3,000 and women and national Farm Bureau organizations, they were able were given the right to vote at local meetings and state to reject a national wheat referendum. This was the start of conventions. a trend toward freedom of decisions for farmers and an era Actually most of the reg ion al coo[...]ve The county organization has remained stable and has Grain Exchange of Minneapolis, organ[...]had strong ties with the Montana tate Farm Bureau and undergo many chan ges before it became[...]In 1921 the Montana Farmers Union set up a statewide Nichols, Glen Munz, Marvin Bartel and Harold Rauch. Farmers Union Cooperative Exchange to provide a central[...]ordering point for carloads of machinery, feed a n d twine. FARM BUREAU[...]ry 20, 1926. R.E. 1922 to help farmers obtain a better price for their Ne bit wa the president of[...]1923 the Farmers Union Mutual Fire Mineral Bench and Biem Fann Bureau. In 1929 Mr. Ne bit Insurance Company was organized; this later became a became the president of the Farmers Union and resigned branch of the National Farmers[...]of the Montana Union Farmer was Bureau di solved and was changed into a card club-and publi hed in 1925; the name later chang[...]The need for people to organize and control their own[...]ide of the triangle is Cooperation, and the right side is[...]Anderson , Froid, McCabe and Bainville.[...]s elected president, John Ramstad vice president, and[...]local dues and $1.00 state dues. Later there was statewide[...]collection of all dues, with the state returning a portion to Farm Bureau meetin{! both county and locals.[...] |
| [...]were started in Froid, Poplar and Wo)f Point. one of the e[...]Federal Credit Unions are located in Froid and Wolf[...]Wolf Point and the only Farmers Union lumber yard i[...]The Farmers Union hipping A ociation wa tarted in[...]to help farmer get better rate by hipping cattle and[...]hauling livestock to sale rings and necessary supplies for[...]was no longer needed and the a sociation dis olved. The Farmers Union Oil Compan[...]artered in January 1932. It started with $95 cash and the rest was notes borrowed from the First State[...]UNIO INS RA CE Harold Bawden, Nels Lund and others unrecalled. The first site was the west end of main street and the first by Louis[...]an to spring up here Company in Wolf Point and old insurance on a part-time and there, Richey in 1928, quickly followed by Glasgo[...]asis until 1941, offering coverage for auto, fire and life. Plentywood, Circle, Wolf Point and Froid in 1929 and 1930. In 1941 , H.V. Johnson took over the in urance and old These businesses were oil stations and elevators. Poplar auto farm liability and fire coverage until 1954 when hi joined the group[...]s re pective agents. work, recreation and handicraft were provided for the In 19[...]he Farmer nion M ting young people from six years and up in each local. County Hall near the local Fa io a half-da camp was started in 1938 with all young p[...]re held at Wolf Point, volu Sidney, Dagmar, and at Bubbling pring Bible camp. In de tr[...]1958 the Bubbling Springs Bible camp wa purcha ed and w~[...]e (25 year ), wa Gladys Qualley, ig Ostby, and Violet Engl ke. In[...]'fi and people also participate in All tate amp, ational a full-ti h[...]974 , Encampment for Citizen hip state conv ntion and[...]ocation in d a participate in the e activitie , plu Wa hington D[...]s fly-in's, legislative se sion tate in titute and 11[...]o u io a Union is explained and chang d to fit pr ent-day[...]ur Legislation is the third side of the triangl and to thi[...], the president of th Montana Farm r nion and the II board member keep a watchful eye on legi lation b for[...]nt . the Montana legislature and the ni d tate ongre . ginning in th Opposing a Montana sales tax supporting low r fr ight[...]of Bill dam rates and support pric s for grain, maintinaing[...]bilit , h alth agricultural lands for agriculture and quitabl per onal and Ii£ · property taxes are only a few of the many legi lative In 1[...]anag programs. To keep the state and local organization more m Ii current and up-to-date on national legi lation a it aft cts[...]o n Great Fall , and th tate board memb r who ar l cted m th Wolf Point by districts in the state serv a our legislativ taff during hi a ociation ith u in[...] |
| [...]money, time, and effort, helped to establish and built the[...]oard of directors of Oswego Collection, Dispatch, and[...]New happenings bring new interests, and new interest[...]Roosevelt County NFOers are becoming more and more[...]local, state and national meetings and conventions to help establish and plan national policies to lead all producers of[...]food and fiber throughout America to NFO's ultimate goal[...]of assuring "The cost of production plus a reasonable[...]Mann is the Grain Committee Chairman and Ed Lindsay[...]oosevelt County dates to 1968, when local farmers and ranchers learned of (excerpt taken from[...]neighboring North Dakota. As local interest grew, a meeting was scheduled "During the drought of the 1930's the farmers in many and all farmers and ranchers were invited to attend. areas f[...]ng worked so hard to build up their farms and buy a little January 1968, Roosevelt County producers heard a theory machinery were being foreclosed on for lack of funds to and a plan unfold whereby; when strongly organized, and make the payments, and everything was being taken away through collectiv[...]over to bid on machinery cost of production plus a reasonable profit, a privilege and equipment, and instead of putting a good bid on denied to farmers, yet is the first rule of business to things, they would bid a dollar or two. That did not bring manufacturers o[...]s bought at the sale for these small more farmers and ranchers began to join and in March, prices were turned back to the[...]nue 1968 Roosevelt County received its charter as a county unit farming. There were a few bidders ready to buy at a much of the ever growing ational Farmer Organizat[...]I went to one demonstration where the Sheriff and his President - John Mann[...]people, but the farmers put a stop to that when they cut the ecretary - Rich[...]ckel had guns and billies but they were so outnumbered they Grain[...]there would have been a laughter, but people had more sense and so there were no more sales, which was a good[...]astern Montana. in 1936 and demonstrates clearly the activities of the FO[...]Holiday As ociation. At the close of the 1930's and early members from surrounding counties, began to hip grain 40's when crops were better and prices higher, there was no in new patterns, disrupting old patterns, and causing an need for this organization and it disbanded. upward push on the grain prices.[...]gh enthusiasm was high, HOLIDAY A S' RESTORES PERSO 'AL misunderstanding and a rapidly increasing grain market PROPERTY[...]o drift away from the continuous need of pursuing a fair market through organized[...]1.95 collective bargaining; while the more quiet and determined members, knowing the full story, and understanding what "Tuesday afternoon at Poplar a large delegation of the future could bring to agr[...]bined with rapid inflation of costs, witnessed and took part in the first "$1.98 foreclosure sale" stuck with the ever-expanding organization, and through to take place in this territ[...] |
| Members of the Holiday association from this and The bidding was of short duration.[...]had been summoned together for the cents and plow for 35 cents. Several work horses were old purpose of saving at least a part of the personal property of at from 7 to 15 cents each and the other property at like Mr. Brechbiel of the Mineral Bench country which had prices, including a disc and drill. Total proceed of the ale been repossessed[...]l amounted to $1.95. Each it~m wa paid for and payment Harvester Co. and taken to Poplar for sale. acc[...]for grounds by neighbors of Mr. Brechbiel and returned to hi the sale, the committee of action[...]ation with farm from which it had been taken a few week ago. the representative in charge, but w[...]restored." take his stand on the tractor, and ask for bids, not being allowed to bid him[...] |
| [...]stable; later John and Jake were partners in a saloon. Jake also owned a log cabin right on the state line. As I recall, ([...]ront door faced north as you entered the building and by Mrs. Luke Sw~ tman for Montana Western History[...]divided exactly in half on the state line by a line drawn the[...]om the Montana side the liquor PERSONAL liberty and PERSONAL restraint met in a was dispensed with no regulations a[...]DAK", the The fall of 1903 was a period of great activity. Buildings name taken fr[...]ldings for wholesale beer well as forces for good and evil. It is difficult to say which and liquor storage. These commodities were shipped by[...], for the area shows no both rail and steamer to Mondak and stored for evidence of fight, only a deserted shack or two, and the distribution throughout eastern Monta[...]the jail; the only might sneak a few bottles back home, plus the amount that disti[...]onsumed on the premises. This trade soon promoted a ground and a few remaining buildings are owned by Otto[...]who was the original owner express, freight and Western union. Originally, express of the townsite. Nothing there now bespeaks of the life and trains made only flag stops, later the new town was placed vitality which once held such promise for a plains city. on regular stops. Considerably later the "Dinkey" made The idea of a town to be built on the state line, mostly in[...]cobey. Up to Montana where liquor could be bought and sold, originated this time all transportat[...]ed, either with George Stevens who was manager of a ranch located drawn or ridden. In the w[...]the scene of much activity. Minnesota. Luke and I were visiting the Stevens on the The housing situation was met by hauling in homes and ranch when the subject of founding a new town came up. buildings for small b[...]the first large buildings was the Stevens- ideas and was long on the promotion and Luke had money Sweetman mercantile erec[...]th Jake Seel as postmaster. icholas Comfort, a wealthy bachelor from White Earth, William Hoffstead started a weekly newspaper ''The North Dakota, and Luke Sweetman put up the money. L.J. Yellowstone News". Palda, a lawyer from Minot took care of the iegal end of the A year after the town started there were seven saloons company and tevens wa named manager of the new ministering to the needs of a thirsty public. Three elevators Mondak town ite.[...]were built--one each by Mr. Hinelans, Mr. Rounce and Jacob Seel owned a piece of land in Montana bordering Ben D[...]at was used for the town hall meetings and other community orthern Railroad, the banks of the Mis ouri River and not activitie . Young and old danced to the music of Sandon far from the si[...]eral years wa group made the town and the shows were much about two mile ea tinto orth Dakota with a lot of vacant appreciated and enjoyed. building . Th ite wa ea ily acce ible and hipping could be made to both tate . Jacob el was[...]l side of life was not forgotten. Protestant land and take tock ·n the new town ite company. Thu in ervice were held in a small house whenever a minister the fall of1903 thing began to take hape[...]to town. unday school was organized in 1906 with and building b gan to ri e. Frank Buckley and Mrs. Harry Hill as Superintendents. One of the[...]hnson, secretary; Mrs. Stiehl, ompany, built on a triangula lot with the building taking trea urer; Lucile Waterman, organist. A flourishing Ladie that shape. Th re were veral fa[...]ney for the town when it tarted . Wilfr d Lemieu, a Frenchman and " Little White Church' . Reverend William Van Orsdel, hi wife had a mall tore which old grocerie and better known a "Brother Van" stopped as often a he wa nece ities. John eel, brother of Jak[...] |
| [...]to entertain Brother Van in In 1919 a final county plit re ulted in the forming of thei[...]Roosevelt County. Mondak was elected a the fir tcounty Dr. McManus established his office in quite a large seat. Frank Weinrich wa one of the fir t county building and later some of the rooms were used for an[...]e nearest hospital was Williston County and Roosevelt County while living in the ame about 22[...]The moving of the county seat to Poplar and th coming never entirely empty--his method being[...]t the bridge influences. When Ole went to file on a claim at Bainville, over the river at Snowden first for train , and later put the Charles Council held the marshalls[...]days for transportation of freight and pa enger . An electric plant was started in Mon[...]lines carrying the wires in the rural areas . Al and Ike Union to commemorate the post of the American Fur Honstain built a Great Northern Hotel, Bar and Cafe. This Trading Company which had occup[...]f the last places in Mondak to close. The a century before. G.M. Hedderick Company and Charles Arrivee had general merchandise stores, which they later moved to Bainville. Ed Jensen had a meat market; Billy Curtis had the barber shop; L.G. Smalley was the town blacksmith; and the shoe shop was owned hf Mr. Melander. _ Among the real pioneers were the Dieter faniily; Frank and Lillie Stiehl; Dan Stiehl; Ftank Weinrich who owned the livery stable; Jack Shields 1and family; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson; Luke Sweetman and : family; Jacob Seel and family; Tom Forbes, manager of the Hedderick stor[...]2 , 1 99. Wheat was rai ed in large quantitie and wa haul d to |
| [...]building behind the jail has been a barn, and a coal and wood shed. The trees up to the right[...] |
| [...]• han 1 ma11·.._ 110< , m, I in tJ1 ' lurn ing and .... 1ill "'"· p · rnkcl in .. I langman'!-> Tr c •·. I · ft to right : ~Ir. and ~Ir,, .. ··1m Honnin ' ·. Ir. uncl ~Ir--. .. '[...]Edgar • 'onluanc. S,-cn Ronning. children not n a nH.·cl. , John . 'ordmrnc in l r ·c .[...] |
| BAINVILLE: A SHORT HISTORY Submitted by Bainville[...]ount of Bainville's history. Records are scarce, and most of the original inhabitants are no longer with us. Enough is known, however, to sketch a reasonably clear outline of the town. Bainville had its hey-day in the era of the homesteader, the horse, and the coal-fired steam loco- motive, but declined[...]most concerned with founding the town were Bains and Lundquists. John Lundquist owned a ranch (nicknamed, for no apparent reason, the[...]") three miles southeast of the present townsite, and very near the Great orthern railroad. John Bain and his brother Charlie owned an adjoining homestead.[...]nd to Lundquist, Bainville boasted not only a d pot, but al o a wa ring and John Bain became the Lundquist foreman. facility and a roundhou e, o that the train a w 11 a Apparently, Charlie continued to live in the old[...]se from the main line, could receive coal, water, and house. By all accounts, Charles Bain was a rather odd maintenance. Crews from the branch train often " ti d up ' man--big, rawboned, and quiet, but driven by an at Bainville, and provided the local hotel , cafe , and other obsession to build things. He has been described as a man businesses with a steady ource of income. who, "if he saw a pile oflumber or a stack of grain doors, Initially, the town ite wa plotted north of th railroad had to erect a building." He was a promoter, a man short of tracks, with the treets named af[...]at the rapidly rising Washington , Lincoln, and Garfield . Bain built hi population of homesteaders needed close access to goods ational Hotel and Cafe on the north id n nam d and services, and aware that the proximity of the railroad Pizant had a general tore there, and o ine allowed such access, he conceived of a town on the site of followed suit. Very oon,[...]ext mpne his home. In 1906, he built a post office there and called it ofthisareaforcedmo tofthere id m "Bainville". John Lundquist built a general store (though tracks. Most of the southern t an it may have been managed by a man named Mark Wilson) either numbered or named after promin n and also an unusual large building which served him a[...]an tr t , Rh barn, livery stable, and living quarters. A few other lark Aven · buildings sprang up, trains began to top, and a mall town "Clinton tr came in to being.[...], built mile northwest to its pre ent location on and near land th Bain Ho 1 owned by William Tubman, Fred Ring, harlie Evan , and Bain. a man named Bruegger. There eem to have been a variety of rea ons for the move. The location m to exc s ively wet for a town. John Lundqui t maintain a working ranch, and ther for o much expan ion on to hi property. The at a long, blind curve in th railroad tra orthem di[...]ave i or over, the railroad plann d to · from a junction point ju t we tof probably de ired the town to mo er wm n from branch and · lodging. Regardl s of the r of 1907 the[...]in to the new lo · nucl u of the e tabli h d hi and again h For then r te, a horn 11 parts of G nnan an though ther north of town on its main a nd d to . A I ain h[...].. 11 , an and fr ight[...] |
| [...]Simard Brothers Coast to Coast Store. There was a large Lindahl, a Mr. Brady, a Mr. Olson and his son-in-law butcher shop and meat market owned by Laurence Jenson. Anderson, George E. Reynolds and his brother Ralph. At Bert Kirch and Frank Provost ran the two earliest barber one tim[...]be evident that establishments. Ole Opstedahl had a pool hall that was little Bainville had a substantial business district. strictly a pool hall; he also doubled ae town policeman for a There was also a small community of professionals: time. A Mr. Wenzel ran a cafe and bakery; another bakery bankers, lawyers, a druggist, a dentist, a newpaperman, was owned by a Mr. Warnke. Roy Beckos and Leo Conlin and even a veterinarian. The town newspaper began as the had the dray business, and for a time employed Cyp Val[...]s name to the Bainville Fournier, who later owned a dairy. w"o' Tribune, and ended its long life as the Bainville Democrat.[...]s t.po. 't'CL\:.g_;,.. ...., was A.S. Hier. Bainville had at least one medical docto[...]bringing telephone service to town) Haper, and Adaskovich. Grant Bakewell and Ernest Walton were[...]early day attorneys; Bakewell also had a small Ford[...]of a veterinarian, Dr. G.W. Adams, and a dentist, Dr.[...]Bainville's first and only pharmacist, Arthur C.[...]Coulston, perhaps deserves a special mention, for he[...]occupied a central position in Bainville affairs for many[...]then opened a drug store which operated until the last[...]doctor left town. He then became postmaster, a position he[...]Mr. Coulston sold The list should also include a variety of general stores insurance and operated a movie theater. and food stores. The Saveway grocery (not to be confu[...]the Bluebird Theater. State and the First National. The Farmer's State, first The Aboud Brothers had a general store which sold[...]esident. Ralph Peck housed in a two story stone building that is the present had a general store aero s the street from the older[...]opened the Lundquist tore; Peck later old out to Art, Rube and Ollie second bank in a frame building very near the Lundquist Gustafson,[...]e was also an independent lending agent, tore wa a tage and dance hall. In the days before[...]rman, who made small loans to local Bainville had a central light plant, Peck had a small power farmers. plant to p[...]h are still fondly Church and school history is treated in another section reme[...]of this book. contained a small creamery three black mith shop What wa[...]e? Almost (owned by William Beaudry, August Damm, and Al unanimously, ol[...]agree that it was much Provo t), two rvery barn , and two lumber yards: the harder but also impler and in ome ways more enjoyable. Imperial and the Monarch . There was a ucces ion of Because there were more people, ther was also more garages and ervice tation . Perhap the fir t garage wa[...]x show combining education and entertainment performed anything but " Broken Heart and the Bre k of Day. ' In almost every umm r. Rodeo and circu e also came to 1919, August Bergh opened his Motor Mart in a brick and town· there ar ever[...] |
| main street. Dances, picnics, and community socials of one country in droves. Th[...]tion, coupled with kind or another were numerous and well attended. Silent the advent of the automobile, created a sharp decline in the movies were shown both at the Bluebird Theater and in the local railroad business; this was furt[...]tive. Trains no longer D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation", perhaps the most needed to stop so often for fuel and water. Fewer and fewer famous of all American silent films, at the Bluebird. And trains stopped in Bainville, eventually, the[...]since 1908, Bainville has never failed to present a and roundhouse were dismantled and moved. Christmas program.[...]dly, many stills in only marginally profitable, and when a building was the area, which at best distilled p[...]ot often rebuilt. Indeed, there is some whiskey, and at worst produced substances that could (had[...]the insurance. Whether this is true or not, it is a legally barred from selling anything but a malt "near fact that Bainville was hard[...]t bottles contained the products 'Twenties and Thirties.' The first brick chool, erected adverti[...]during the era of the around 1916, burned a few years later. The Jenni on Flour Volstead Act[...]ons in Mill burned in 1920; perhaps this was a ble ing in Bainville that could, in their own way, be termed disguise, since a large engine was taken from thi mill, "historic."[...]moved uptown, and used to power a central light plant. In In the years following[...]1921, the Williston Herald recorded a large fire which barnstorming pilots often traveled through the area; for a destroyed "nearly one entire block in the mai[...]ldings destroyed were the Bainville Loren Piercy and John Simard, successfully parachuted Tribune, pool hall, drug store, restaurant, and maller from one of these planes.[...]tate Bank." In 1932, the " entire Shotgun Creek. A great many old pictures show torrents of bus[...]h ide of the water rampaging through the streets, and often through railroad tracks burned down[...]ldings; John Lundquist's livery barn program." And in 1932 or 1933, a rather pectacular seems to have received a "spring cleaning" each year. tornado wrecked a grain elevator, a cafe, and the town Occasionally, Bainville seems to have been visited by armory. some famous and important people. In 1957, high school During the po t war period of the late 'Fortie and early students produced a special issue of the Bulldog devoted to 'Fifties, fair grain price brought a little pro perity, and town history. Their examination of the Home Hotel[...]allowed the busine s community to tabilize for a time. register revealed that "during the late twe[...]McGuires, it registered some world store , a Ium her yard two ta[...]to be alone' lady, Implement dealer , two and · e Greta Garbo. Lord and Lady Loui Mountbatten, on a trip tation , and a har r a from Canada, were forced to stop in Bainville on[...]ol car trouble. Mr. Clyde want, a Bainville re ident then, Bulldog which op[...]the Lit Today, Bainville is a leepy little town of approximately 15 0 residents[...]' abandoned gas pumps, battered ign and w atherb aten u t[...]th " otor Mart ' the " Bainville Trading ompany,' and " ccident a ta i[...]singl fi an wer; instead , veral r a on s come to mind. Perhap[...]n impo ible to s urvive on 1 0 acre h orn stead , and 1 ft th[...]a r tayi ng it Odd Fellows[...].F. n w g n ra tion of Ba inv a[...] |
| [...]ty, including the Community Club, The Homemaker , and a recently formed Jaycees organization. Though it w[...]The author would like to conclude with an apology and everal expre ion of gratitude. Because this history focu ed upon the town, and not the urrounding area, the name of a great many prominent rural families have been omi[...]cused upon very early bu ine e tabli hment , a great many people familiar to all Bainville re id[...]w Mill, built about 1911. fifteen of them without a day ab ence. One can only hope the e people, a well a many others who contributed to the town , receive[...]the Fairview Mill book devoted to family, church and chool hi tory. u ine ~ in H, 6. A lar e number of people helped compile this record[...]ce oulston, Elmer Kirkvold, Pat Within a few year the Winter, Turesdale, Dierik Company Wil on, David Harmon and variou Bainville High chool foreclo ed on the Farmers Elevator Company and owned tudent who pre ented report on local hi to[...]True dale and Dierik Company in 1943. Lester Bahn[...]Wayne Martin became manager and he was followed by BAI VILLE ELEV TOR'[...]Fairview Mill acquired the G.T.A. elevator in 1969 and Bainville Grain Elevator originated following[...]d the line in 197 with Melvin d . Jenni on and Mr. Frank, a partner n built Torger on continuing a manager. The facilitie al o th vi w Mill Elevator in 1 1 . fter ol · contain a feed grinding, dr rolling and team rolling p hip Jenni on xp nded the fl[...]w n a" Emil a n tart d th tate Lin lu[...]r d rt thirti . A lot of p opl p n a ·u1 ntertainm ntin[...]orche tra, band and[...]in th coun d w Winters Truesdale and Diercks Elevator. Built about 1911.[...] |
| Emil always believed in advertising in the papers and Emil's brother Kermit and Walter, who c m back from the radio stations K.G.C.X. and in Canada C.K.C.K. People the service, went to work for Emil and lat r took ov r om in the territory and Canada would know what was going of t[...]When the Club got going a ain in 1 4 w tar doth r It wasn't easy in the[...]vities for people to enjoy. Wr tlin wa on . W had a Had to haul the water, gas lamps and kerosene lanterns for lot of top wre tler . Girl wr ti r in th hall up tair wh n lights, a three burner gas stove with an oven to cook on.[...]ck D mp yr f r d th bout. packed it in sawdust in a building. This was used to keep That was outside. the food and beverages cold. We built a box in the basement We started ba eball.[...]th hill er th road to put large chunks of ice and had ice chests in the kitchen to make a diamond, it wa done by orgaard and Hilling. to keep our meat. Home plate and field wa in two differ nt ta . Th The first co[...]The State Line lub had it own team, with a pitcher and Pot Belly Stoves, using coal.[...]ppard. In the summer of 1935 we managed to get a light plant. The games were u ually played on unday and dr w That was a big improvement which we used for a couple of large crowds. years until we got connected to Montana Dakota Utilities Had a game cheduled with a Big League All tar on Company. Also had wells drilled so we had a lot of good soft October 4th 1947. They came and it started to now. They water. These wells are ab[...]eep. only played two inning and it wa too mi rable. The In the summer of 1937 we put in a steam plant which was spectators enjoyed eeing and vi iting with them. salvaged from a hotel in Bainville. Built large septic tanks. All ball players and their wive were treated to lar We managed to get[...]niences steak dinner . including a new stove to cook on, part electric and part It wa a problem to get good bail player o it wa decid d wood and coal.[...]built in the kitchen with using the grand tand and bleacher . a unit, and we built a nice dining room where we served a We had RC.A. Rodeo' u uaily twic a year. That wa lot of banquets and parties, besides feeding people who always a lively time. came for entertainment.[...]lli ton Oil Ba in in 1951 it coasted along having a party now and then. made a real boom for the ta in and the urrounding January 12, 1944 the place burne[...]any one truck oil on th ir land th y replaced by a small building to hold the license. In 1945 the would have a big party at th Lin . State Line was rebuilt. Emil hauled a lot of the lumber from And o it continu d for v ral a wi h all or of Kalispell him elf. It wa a struggle getting thing going activiti until K rmi and al r wan · d o tr om hing again. With the help of neighbor , friend and relativ , el . The bu in[...] |
| [...]LLEN served for a while as an inspector during construction of[...]eck Dam. He returned to Wolf Point as first Mr. and Mrs. Jack Allen and Harold came to Montana in construction and later resident engineer on the Frazer the early 1[...]aker. They had decided to try living off the land and Retiring in 1954 he and his wife moved to Covelo, so they homesteaded lan[...]California where he served as vice president of a local Pacovsky, the former Cyp Fournier farm land. Jack was a bank. In 1958 they settled in The Dalles, Oregon. lover of horses and had some the most handsome horses in M[...]y-year pin in 1962 When he left the farm he ran a harness shop in Bainville by the courtesy[...]survived by his widow, Florence; a son, Charles Jr. of Jack's son, Harold, met a young miss from the Mondak Rochester, Michigan, and daughter, Mrs. Elden (Joan) area, Myrtle Stiehl, and they were married in 1918 in Wagenbla[...]ery young, she grew up on her father's homestead and then filed on her own homestead near Snowden. After she and Harold were married they lived and farmed where Chuck Owen's now live. Myrtle raised[...]Elizabeth Becker Hurst County Road Department as a heavy equipment operator they moved to Culbertson[...]ieve his first wife's name was was always open to a school child who might need a meal Mary. Of that marriage three children were born: John or a bed for the night. Harold passed away in 1970 and Thomas, Mary Christina and Katherine. Their mother Myrtle died in 1974.[...]passed away soon after the youngest was born, and the baby died a few months later.[...]asske). She was one of several children of Albert and[...]the United States from SELMER (SAM) A DERSON Germany whe[...]rriage to Henry. He was 13 years her senior. Of A native of Goodridge, Minnesota, he came to Montan[...]ugust 1926 after doing carpentry work in Illinois and 1 90, Anna Christina in 1891, Ida Rejina in 1892, Rudolph Florida for a couple year . He farmed in partner hip with[...]enry Joseph northeast of Bainville until 1942. He and his wife, formerly Simon 1900, Cecilia Alexa[...]tgun Creek eight in Todd County, in and around the town of Browerville. mile north of Bai[...]ce, Part of that time we lived in town and part in the country. except from 1947 to 1954 whe[...]our father or brother would be handier for chool and am wa employed a John, I don't know for sure, bu[...], Rodella their oldest live at Hilli le, Arizona, and Larry the youngest i attending chool at Dougla ,[...]pril 15, 1963. He was well known in Wolf Point. A civil engineer by profe ion he came to ondak , where he operated a family grocery and dry-goods tore. Later he obtained control of the tore and eventually moved to Bainville. In 1926 he became general agent for an in uranc company headquartering for a while in Lewistown; then he returned to Bainville[...]In 1930 he was elected Roosevelt County surveyor and Christina , Ida and Etta. Middle Row: Allie, Dorothy, moved his famil[...]34 he worked on Father, Mother, Ruth and Ray. By Father's knee are Ed, government rehabilitation reclamation projects and Loretta, Elizabeth, Leo and Hank .[...] |
| [...]Th folks later built a two story h t ·[...]brush day after day , and w ad a ru[...]in the stoves. Our mother h lped grub and burn ag bru h too. One time he cau ed a prairie fir The boys opened a coal min on D ac for ur u and old coal to rancher and town .[...]1 and ulbertson farth r. Bainville wa our main[...]pping place although we went to town very few tim a[...]years old the first time I went to town and ten y a th[...]e. We younger children were v ry and bashful a we did not ee many trang r . Whe one Mr. and Mrs. Henry Becker on one v, ~,:,~ir trips to came to our place we alway ran and hid. Culbertson.[...]s plenty of wild game in tho e d ch a[...]Missouri River which bordered our ]and. Th a big was established in business at Lanark when the family help to a large family tarting from cratch. I mmer came to Montana in the spring of 1911. He had a restau- and fall there were wild grape in the woods. rri ' rant, store with the post office, a blacksmith shop and a chokecherries, buffalo berrie , wild curr[...]and wild goo e berrie . We younger children u ed to d[...]0 to work for John wild Indian turnip and eat them raw, al o wild onion Markey and look for a location. He first filed on a claim which made our breath bad. Th olde[...]n the Lakeside area. Later to eat them, and were warn d again tit. relinquished it and filed on the one next to the Holstein Dad and the boy als wood and fence po o th place. Mother's father filed on the Holstein place, later ranch r and town peopl her wa toftim lo[...]lement amily m . court seat and interpret for him. They made several trips,[...]Grandpa relinqui hed the place, brother Al filed and ta p g a baby, and could proved up on it.[...]w mil our pla and a Father and the two oldest boy came to Montana in a box l tr w[...]the hou ehold goods, ·om farm qui pm , a milk ldr da nak cow we called Bell ow a he alwa wor ab around k[...]of going on. h r nee he was a good cow and gav lot of h milk. l o m hick[...]Doroth ta d th r unti in th rant for John, and Doroth Lucille wa hed · and cl Dad and th r the fa plac hi h Dad later bought[...]er n four roo a p in two. Don't kn[...]g barn, pole og pump h |
| The county later built a one room school house about a When our parents were living we did not have a radio or block or two from our place which was c[...]ntertained ourselves by chool. They al o built a horse barn. Dad and the neighbors singing songs and telling of different happenings in the donated w[...]mill, Leo played the violin quite well. Hank and Ray played my folk fed the men while working on[...]some, but not as well as Leo. Once in a while Oswald The children in our family attending this school were Peterson and Pete Parks would be there and do their share Ruth, Henry, Ollie, Leo, Dorothy, Loretta, Edward, of singing. Neither one were married, and came to our place Elizabeth and Lucille. John' daughter Roberta, Jess quite often. My sisters Etta and Dorothy had very good mith's daughter Marie, others were Manford and Sylvia singing voices. Although all of them sang[...]Pete, Alex, Rosina, an enjoyable time. Jo ephine and Mary. Mrs. Gergen's four children, Bob,[...]I ever went to was in the Bluebird Grace, Clyde and Leonard. Mrs. Gergen was a widow. Theatre in Bainville when I was[...]the land the school was on. Catholics and there wasn't a Catholic Church at that time. Four older si t[...]amily. Mary wa living in andpoint, Idaho. She was a The last few years my Grandfather lived[...]n the Rosary beads most of the time. He prayed in a low voice, railroad. and sometimes when we had company they would ask Christina married and lived at Noonan, orth Dakota. what he was talking[...]years Ida was married to I.O. Bannister who was a druggist and and five months. living in Columbus, orth Dakota. Ve[...]to Montana was to try Krall lives in Culbertson. and get a new start after financial losses and a run of bad The only children Ii ving of this f[...]were Jess mith, Oswald Peterson, (Loretta) Dawson and Mrs. Tom (Elizabeth) Hook. Ed Higgins, Mr . Gergen, Bob Mathison, and John Markle. One time my parents had gone to town and the older The neare t doctor wa in Bainville, be[...]i ters baked bread that day. Some Indians came in a Dr. pooner. The neare tho pital was in Willi ton, North wagon to the house. Hank was just a teenager and could Dakota.[...]wa done with horses all the fresh bread. Hawkeye and Deafy were two Indians and a walking plow. All the farming wa done with horses that stopped at our place, we usually fed them. We had a until in the mid-twentie when Al bought a tractor. large wall clock on the wall with a pendulum going back I remember two winter when the temperatur dropped and forth. The men would sit and watch the clock all the to 60 below zero. The umm[...]but we alway had plenty of cold water to drink, a my brother cut ice out of the river and tored it in a log ice hou e covered with awdu t. We had a 50 gallon barrel to put the ice in with water fo[...]or nineteen p ople lived at our pl ce. Veronica and her by Roberta Becker Kr[...]had come to t y with u from anada. Pete Park wa a friend of my brother I. He had a horn tead My father John T. Becker, came while a young man in everal mile we tofu , and p rhap old or r linqui h d hi twenty from Bow rville Minne ota to take a it. He tayed with u th t winter, and then wa draft d into home tead claim near hi father H nry Becker, and hi he army.[...]ife Elizabeth who were living on what i now known a y older i ter had to bak 1 loa v of br d ev[...]outhw t of Bainville, Montana. other day. We had a large pan to mi the br ad in hat my Lat rheowneda[...]ontana wher h met my other Ada l rg black metal p n for baking th hr d in. Th fi led[...]d ourp ac in th umm ron th way to the river for a picnic. While my par nt liv d w n v r got to go to any of the picnic . Later on w w n t to a lot of them . Our paren wer very trict with u and we nev r once thought of di ob ying them in ny way o many young people do now. After mother and father p d aw y ·n th win r of 1922, my brother Al took over the ranch and k pt th home together. Mother died in January and fath r in arch . Grandfather wa till with u and liv d about two more years. Ruth and Allie took turn managing the hou the next few years. My old r brother and i ter w nt to dances at the Lanark and Lake ide chool . A we younger childr n grew older we attended too. There wer a few barn danc . One summer when I wa a teenager, my brother Hank built John Becker's r staurant in Lanark, Montana. John is on a bowery down by the river and had everal dance ther . the left and R nry i on tr m right.[...] |
| [...]Culbertson, and Williston, orth D kota had th lo t[...]really bad. The doctor would then b called and cam to the[...]called in a neighbor woman a i ting a a midwif . Friends and relatives helped with the car of the new born[...]and with the hou ework.[...]run the post office and the store. Later h moved to Gr at[...]ly one of the children till re iding in the area, and[...]John and Mary Beckos and family arrived in ea tern[...]farm north of Bainville. Mary Becko wa a i ter to le[...]oul ton, had pa ed away. They old their farm and moved to town in the early 1920' and John B cko did odd Livesay and sisters ally and Audrey from Benton County, job in the area[...]France , the ecko had t ooth rdaugh r Blan h and brothers Arlie and Benton Live ay who had e tabli h d Helen and two on , lifford and Ro r n th dra in their homestead near Lan[...]Bainville arriving just in time to tep off into a howling arch blizzar ing the night in a little rooming hou e until th e[...]aid they£ It th nd f nowh r a the fir t glimp d[...]b Emil office which continu d for a n marriage to r. B k r. They[...]marri d hool whi a a chu 1[...]hr . in aH kind Man a bit r old ch r had t[...] |
| [...]son Edward. We bought this place in twin sister, and a widow, lives with her six children in 1952[...]e Helton taught eleven of them in the three girls and live at Culbertson. Hope is married to seventh and eighth grades. Thomas McCabe; they have five sons and live at Homestead.[...]IRA CALDER EDWARD AND ERNA BRUNNER A real old-time and colorful cowboy that settled in the[...]Erna Brunner early 1900's and ranched just west of the North Dakota[...]state line and north of Highway Two. Neighbors helped |
| opportunities to see and know the freight teams and nature. Troop trains would pa s through Mondak and homesteaders unloading and ferrying across the river on school would be let out and everyone would go down to the their way to Sidney with building supplies and groceries depot. The trains would not top but the oldier would be for a new home. hanging out windows waving to all. In 1911 a new excitement had started as the railroad was headed for Sidney. First a bridge was to be built at Our entertainment was a player piano Dad had bought Snowden. This was constructed by Guthrie and Guthrie of in 1914. It came by rail and with neighbor ' help and a Chicago and was two years in building, 1911 to 1913. In wagon[...]by all the neighbor too on tho e long winter in a work camp on the north side of the river. I can evenings. Sliding down the hill wa also a favorite in the remember going for a Sunday ride with my folks and wintertime, followed by hot cocoa, popcorn and apple . seeing the shack town and the steel work for the bridge, all Sometimes during school the teachers would a k me to go laid out on the north side of the riv[...]s shovel in some more coal. The mother would meet and knit were puffing and men going and coming like ants. As a boy socks, sweaters and caps. In chool we learned how to knit it was just excitement, but the result is still there today and wash cloths. The yarn was all army brown. It would be en t has aided many a traveler as well as shipments of through the Red[...]ol, mostly at least one month old. Mondak was a boom town at the tum of the century. And little did we know at that time it would be so s[...]usinessmen to move on with much capital This took a large toll oflives from our midst. Tho e who and others to stay and live out the ghost town death. were we[...]ins. Dad helped with his capture after the Dakota and he would rarely be able to come other than to shooting of Cortney and Bursmaster. He rode in the back of pronounce deat[...]unce in caring for the sick. he wa the be t nur e and after the shooting, I will never forget. Every man carried a "doctor". ineteen-eighteen was a hard winter. pring gun on his saddle horse. The women and children were did bring new hopes and families did return to omewhat locked in their h[...]nditions. Dad was left rather weak after h" over and we wanted to get out. We did look out the windows[...]helped After the capture, we were allowed within a certain him as his hours with the ferryboat were long and hard. distance of the jail. Collins was hung to a telephone pole Hisworkwascon iderede ential ohedi[...]t not while we youngsters were around, the army. and this is a story by itself. Dad soon expanded his bu ine by building a pontoon Mondak was an aggressive town and saw the need to bridge over the river. However thi did not e install a light plant. In 1914 all the homes were wired and approval of the Interior D[...]t on, then the plant would run a little longer. My dad help d wooden boa wer buil[...]d man those old time machine and I would get into the plant 20 feet long. Th y w r[...]h o the women could get their wa bing and ironing don . I . . wiil[...]a It wa a two- tory hou e itting up on the hill giving u a '[...]n Roo vel t County and places to Ii ve wer at a pr mi um. Th folk opened our home to room r and w w r willing to double up and make thi conv nien for oth r . ofte[...]teacher . I rememb r ott Hart, th county surv yor and v uv Ian who room d at our a ak wa no hou . cott gave m m fir t pair[...]I to a t wanted a new pair.[...]ming, famili and Wa hing and tarching clothe in tho da wa a big k th ir toll. job. y i ter, Jerry, a thr ear old and alwa clo to mother. Th tarch wa b ing made by pou[...]iting but in 1922, a r to di solve it and wh n oth r tum d a bit, h r ached over and tipp d th bowl on h r. I cam in th door[...]n at the time, dropp d th wood I wa carrying and grabb d h r, tearing h r dr off. oth r co er[...]he came through that p ri nc ithou a ar. r turn d from[...]h of Mondak Then w chool that wa built in 1913 a bur ting at th mo irvi[...]192 J walls with four ar of high hool a w II a 1 m ntary . born[...] |
| [...]tinued his work on the railroad while living on A prominent and re pected young pioneer that came to th[...]i ed in Jamestown, North Dakota Dakota, and Culbertson. where he received hi education and came to Bainville as a Crisman started working for the Great N[...]Railroad in 1903 and continued this work until he retired in Art mar[...]948. Most of his life he worked between Bainville and community. France pa sed away in 1925. They had one cobey on the branch line. Bainville was a booming daughter, Patty Ann (Mr . Rex Welton of G[...]o; there were three trains Art wa alway pu hing and promoting for the leaving town each day of the week and returning at night betterment ofhi community and it was much to his credit to tie-up in t[...]Tony Sala was "call boy" that the town got water and a sewer system. He was also for many years[...]duly concerned about entertainment for the people and After retiring in 194 Crismans live[...]addresses are as follows: Bainville came up with a tough and hard-to-beat team. Ralph Crisman Bainville, Montana Whether by coincidence or a bit of maneuvering, the team Grace Coulston Bainville, Montana gained an expert pitcher in a black man that came to town Marguerite Gilson t. Peter burg, Florida to work, he wa known a "Morton". This was also about Carydel Bullock Honolulu, Hawaii the time of the Black ox candal when members on that Pat[...]co team were di barred from professional baseball and some Clarence . Crisman deceased in 1967 of them were showing up on ball teams in the Scobey and Rose Kulper Crisman deceased in 1956 Plentywood area. Bainville had a team that even gave tho e north teams tiff compet[...]ulldog Ba ketball team all the year he lived . He and Ralph Cri man were official core CRUSCH FAMILY STORY and t ·me keeper for them many year and became as emotionally involved a any coach the team had. Art liked (submitted by Alva and Iona) youth and worried about how they could spend their free tim[...]William Arnold Crusch, his wife Margaret and family charging a very nominal fee , until it ju t wa n 't fea ibly came from Indiana and arrived in Mondak on March 10, po ible anymore.[...]. The children were: Onis, Eva, Eric, Earl, Ulric and Becau e of rt' knowledge of drug , remedie and Everett. They were accompanied by a niece, Viola Kates ymptom of illne e he'd gained in hi pharmacy and her mall on. For ten day they tayed at a rooming bu ine , he wa often called upon for advice and help hou e and cafe Viola cooked there with Eva and Mr . when p ople had accident or became ill durin[...]on the land now owned by Eldon Picard, and he located Mr. rt wa al o very ctive in the politic of hi choice, the ru ch Oni Eva and Viola Kate on land where they D mocrat . ny D moc[...]nd Chet the hou e were being built and one more Viola did the Grae made a concerted effort to do a thorough campaign cooking. r. ru ch bro[...]that it wa all Indian land and the mu t mov . Earl It w in 19 0th t rt m rri d Grae ri m n . To thi F rgu on and Ted o who had ttled near the place they union th[...]lp d th m move all the building . There Jim oore) and on Larry. rt pa d way in March of wa al o black man nam d H rman All n who help d 1 57. Grae ha c[...]Octob r born to arion and arguerite ( pa mil on[...]d lar · he became a teenager h moved to y and ulky racer for veral yea a y good roller skater, for which h[...]n , from Fall ty, ebraska in 1912 to file on a ho d[...] |
| [...]and wife; B rt Palmer and wife and hi broth r M arl Palmer; Albert Klodt and wif ; Alfr d Rehbi n and wi , Con Knonanz; Maurice imon on and Ida Mo , who la r[...]e, John Dick , who had Bessie Mattingley, William A. Crush, Everett Crush, Sina come to Montana a few year previously. All them mber LaPuce, Earl F[...]ric Crush, Ernest LaPauce. brothers and one si ter and my elf had brought an[...]as a rip roaring w tern town with twenty-two aloon ,[...]several tore and o er bu ine plac . orth Dakota a them move and later helped them build fence and other that time was "dry" o orth Da[...]iles northeast of orthern train fro a far awa a Minot to bu their Bainville in Township 29, Range[...]n had completely nearest town, the nearest doctor and hospital was in vanished except for the jail, con tructed of concrete and Williston.[...]nding. Mr. Crusch had an ox they broke to ride and also drove About the fifteenth of March w came to Bainvill where him hitched to a stoneboat to haul rocks. my father, Arnold Cru ch, m elf and my i ter, Eva took There were some hard winters when they tied a rope to up home tead . We hired a pring wagon and team from the doorknob of the house to get to and from the barn. The the livery barn at Bainvill and drove no ix en family had a black dog. Mr. Crusch never let him follow[...]d on town in winter the dog did follow and on the way home a thi ite. Dwyer who had the official job of ' in " blizzard came up and made itimpos ible to see the trail, but ho[...]d of 320 acr h on the team followed the dog and they arrived home afely. a map. Al urch ing a and There were prairie fire . One time Eric and Earl fought wagon, · vii · all night and the next morning the men managed to run it[...]n ighb "I wa helping fight a prairie and after figh in all n t to · · afternoon and into the night ver wa hungr . I oka u team and wagon and drov to Ed ith wh r lg ome flour and a frying pan. I t ha k and m · batter then tied the frying pay to a pitchfork. A cou carried the tub and put the batter · an, I along · and wh n a pancak ad I back uld r and in hi wa th m it wa o.[...]rom b cam and ork d for n igh a k on. E . 0 Ind· a R i d[...] |
| [...]and Dennis.[...]AND JAMINA DeTIENNE[...]Charles and J amina Ii ved in Minnesota before coming to[...]Montana in search of more land and cheaper land on[...]1914 and in 1916 Jamina homesteaded 120 acres. This was[...]in Township 29, Section 18, Range 59, and adjoined the[...]hreshing Bee c, , ~vorman Archelus, Joseph, and Elie. They brought cattle, horses, undvold' - 1967. and all their belongings. There were no bridges at th[...]Indian dre sed in full buckskin clothing carrying a rest of the children. There was another son, Young, and rifle. He couldn't peak a word of English. I was really daughters Alvina, Grace, Eva and Agnes. cared as I had no gun with me. I finally shared a sandwich Joel and Ted DeTienne were brothers of Mrs. Charles with him from the meager lunch I had and he left. I never DeTienne and homesteaded in this same area in 1910, a knew where he came from nor where he went. good reason for Charles and Jamina to choose Montana I recall another inci[...]when they came looking for more land. William and John worked on the dray taking the doctor in a small sleigh with DeTienne were also brothers and they Ii ved on a a fa t team ome fifteen mile out in the country to deliver a homestead together. There were many families of baby in a mall two room hack, a veritablepalacein tho e DeTiennes all rel[...]Minnesota by day . The p ople have long ince left and their name have wagon train as did some of[...]ve back into Bainville late at night Martin and Joseph, sons of Charles and Jamina, farmed and it wa o cold the doctor and I thought we were imply later on land of their own in this same area. A on of going to freeze . Little wonder, when we arrived in Bainville Joseph's till farm his fathers place and al o he farms the it wa 50 below z ro. one which Charles and Jamina occupied at one time. Th wor t xperience my wife and I had wa the Panasuk and Tinenenko were their neighbors. Bainville combina[...]ie . It was the neare t town but for doctor and ho pital they went wa o vere and of uch dur tion that we about de paired[...]harles DeTienne wa born Augu t 10, 1 70 and died for they I ft with o littl , ome Imo t nothi[...]March 29, 19 5. Jamina wa born October 22, 1 66 and their many year of hard work . But when it did change, my died June 23 19 3. what a chang . My on, who now own all th horn tead harle wa a preacher, a man of God, and minister d in our family a well th t of my wife brother ha dug many churche . H pa tored the Church of the azar ne in well and built dam nd d v lop d pring -putting Homestead and in Froid. At one time he would go by train water[...]w no w ter in the thirtie . ew to a hua, ontana to pa tor the church there and he varieti of lfalfa and gr m k fine grazing and hay, reclaiming land th tone lit r lly blew awa .[...]thi chang I imply would not b Ii v it. Montana i a wonderful countr and it ha b n v ry good tom and my family . I wa a boiler fireman befor I came to thi tat at the ag of 2 . I made top money for tho e day v n though a young man firing at ome of th bigge tco I mine in[...]on of my Ji£ wa in coming We t. I have never for a moment regr tted it. THE[...]: Eva, Grace, |
| [...]Church, in Charle , William , Jo ph , and John w r to m k th ir Alexandria, North Dakota. H[...], North Dakota, in the Alvin was a young man of 1 wh · . Pentecostal church there, and he organized the Nazarene His father c[...]. Church in Williston. He was quite a musician as were his The re t of the fa[...]n children. Charles played the organ and also the violin. He remained in Bainville[...]held church at various times in the Crusch school and including Mr. LePou , who wa[...]ling lum tfr a Charles and Jamina moved to Williston in 1937 and lived temporary room for th ,[...]Bainville. The horn Bainville, Montana, and Agnes Haugsdal, Colorado. northe[...]the parents had There were a few neighbor who h a d co . . expressed about our wide open spaces compared to the Crusch and family , the clo e t , th en t more wooded and more settled states, Wisconsin and Palmer, Earl Fergue on A[...]y, they replied Klodts, Harry icholson, and E.A. LeP ou . that the folks thought the distance between neighbors and Early settlers made trip to Bainvill[...]Church , Vacation Bible chool, and all public g . JOEL AND OLIVE DETIENNE I[...]School several ye d later erved a ch oo for[...]many year . In 1911 Joel and Olive DeTienne moved to Roosevelt[...]12. Several other DeTienne families home and in 1916 Alvin bou ht th e Mearl a[...]nt in In 1918 Joel sold the homestead and bought and built on Florida ince 1960. Alvin died i[...]aight north of Bainville. Joel Arie and Laura Jean were ou · rl , DeTienne and John Dunn (a neighbor) were in trumental died in[...]r .. i in having a school house (John Dunn chool ) built. Joel married to Donald Thu a served for a time as school board chairman. Joel s live-[...]d d Joel and Olive had two daughter : E i who wa[...]m y ma m married and lived in Van Hook, orth Dakota a t the time A. Fi ld of Tomah on pt of the home teading, and Elizabeth who tau h t country fo r th[...]continu d vi i wi and They also had thre on . The old t cil, f[...]h r O Ti nn "i Id and worked until completion of the da m in 1 0. Th[...]n in Roo velt ount . He li in Br merton a hington .[...]h . :1 a t[...]ft il d li d a ko p[...]around Roundup and t[...]took them around and ho[...]thi a in 194[...] |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dwyer in center. John C. Dwyer[...]Committee over a period of twenty-seven years, giving out |
| [...]d Maltby, Scharffs, Jack hield' Mar~hal Mellott's and Andy Simonson. ' The Dye's sold their farm in 1968 and moved to Billing to retire. Murl passed away in 1[...]came to Culbertson in 1917. Mrs. Helton worked as a nursefor30 years in Culbertson, her home served as a "Mid-Wife House". She was also an assistant at th[...]They cho e land in ction 20 and 21 in town hip The Evans Ranch was owned and operated by the Evans range 5 , locating about one and one half mile from family. This consisted of Winfield S. Evans, r. and wife, pre ent town of Bainville. Mr. and Mrs. Winfield S. Evans, Jr. and family and a They tarted to build their hou rai[...]. was them from ulbe fifte a I dr known as Tom and the son, Winfield, Jr. was known a near, the hou e wa l unfi nd[...]took ·n ir nd Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Evans, Sr. reached Fort Benton in and while r . Torn . an d o[...]were freighted to out lying po ts by wagon . A hort time later dh ui) Mr. Evans engaged in thi bu ine for ome time. on a larg log roo ad h Tom very[...]n thu hi on , Jack, began to learn to ride and handle tock ing built of lurnb r. at a very tender age. Jack grew to manhood in thi ranch home. A daughter of Mr. and Mr . chaap b cam th wi£ of Jack Evan . He[...] |
| [...]s (Winnie). Standing: Wife Jane Evans, sons, Jack and Charlie Evans - 1906. him a mile away. When they reached the gumbo flats near |
| [...]her horse camp. In On June 3, 1915 he had a picnic at his ranch north of this move Mrs. Evans and two small children rode in the Bainville,[...]he rest of the family all rode horseback. Here a place in the grove of trees on the hillsid northe[...]r nearest neighbor was nearly 20 miles house and built tables and benche . People gathered from a away.[...]reat many miles around, coming in wagons, buggies and One stormy night the lightning was flashing and the on horseback. Brother Van and other Methodist ministers thunder rolling, the wind was blowing and it was raining. were there , and many children were baptized that day. The saddle[...]Snake Creek until 1919 when he sold the restless and hard to hold. As the night herder went out to ranch and moved into Bainville, where he lived until his ta[...]vans cautioned him to watch carefully death. and not let the herd get away. The herder stayed out with He had many houses built there, and also bought many the horses about two hours, then came into the tent and others and rented them to what was at that time a busy said that he couldn't hold the herd on a night like this and population. He had a large barn and kept a fine driving neither could any one else. All right, Mr. Evans said, if you team and a beautiful saddle horse there. He cast his first c[...]h to vote for General Grant in 1872. He was a member of the ride for me. He then called his daughter, 15 years of age, to Methodist Church, and died at the age of 1 years ten go and herd. She went out and herded through that storm months and 22 days on January 12, 1930. and when morning came, not a horse had strayed. In the Tom Evans and William were brothers and Bob Miller morning Mr. Evans paid off the rider w[...]up his Mary, married Mr. George Reynolds and they had two team and brush and rub them down until their coats fairly daughters, Mrs. Albert Nelson (Mary) and Mrs . Eric shone. Then their manes and tails were braided and red, Crusch (Alva). white and blue ribbons and small flags were fastened into the braids. The bridles were trimmed with ribbons and tiny flags and rings of various colors appeared where ever they[...]am was hitched to the two seated canopy top buggy and early in the morning (submitted[...]the celebration. The horses were full of life and right up on the bit and William Curtis Evans was my Grandpa Bill. H[...]ng children lived on the ranch the attractions of a Fourth of the pigs. He kicked one and hurt his toe. The next day he July celebration we[...]ost. After the was feeding the chickens, and a big rooster jumped on his celebration was over a tired but happy family drove home. sore toe and this is what he said: "Gee-rusalem Crickets, T[...]out four Lord ol fishooks, most handsome and all wi e, Turkey- years when again the settlers c[...]ooster stepped on time it made feed harder to get and Mr. Evans health was my sore toe." not so[...]Another day Grandpa Bill wa driving hi team and horses and mules in the year 1914 and took them to Miles buggy up the road, and the mailman ("Pop'' Hall) came up City and sold them at the big horse sale there. These horses behind him with a new car. Thi wa hi fir t car and as he averaged $80 a head. Some of the Evans horses were seen passed the team and buggy, Grandpa aid "Wal, I swan, if in France dur[...]7. that feller is in such a hurry, he hould have started They owned homes in Culbertson, and several business yesterday." places ther[...]e Missouri River froze over, he W.C. Evans and Tom (Winfield Evans) are brothers. hauled it with[...]sphine (Mr . Bob Miller) depot. It burned in 1908 and Charles built a hotel where the Daughter: Gladys Harmon (Mrs. Hill) Stagecoach Inn was located. That burned in 1913 and he Mary (Mrs. George Reynolds) put up[...]spring of 1902, William C. Evans, brother of Tom, and his wife Katherine, and their family moved in covered ROBERT M. MILLER wagons bringing a herd of cattle and horses to settle on Snake Creek, south of Snake Butte and north of where the by[...]t their ranch on Lower Highwood Creek on May 12th and arrived in My father Bob Mi11er[...]ating the ranch on Snake Creek, he joined a Texas cattle drive h ading north for Montana. bought a place near Culbertson and operated a dairy. He They arrived at Circle, Montana, and h stayed on working subscribed to the Fort Benton paper for 42 years, and then as a cow-poke for the "Circle Ranch" for several vears. He was surprised and pleased when they gave him a lifetime tended cattle on the south side[...]i as f~r east as subscription. He was interviewed and an account of his life the Ye1lowstone[...] |
| He joined a railroad crew who were building the Great The stork provided many a thrilling experience in early orthern in 1 6 at Williston, and worked with them days. My brother[...]winter of 1905-06 with snow two feet deep and no help to He home teaded near and Coulee, and then worked at be had. Travel was virtually impossible for any distance. lea tone winter as a woodsman in the timber near Helena. However mother and baby came through fine and father He married Jo ephine Evans at Highwood in[...]came for her in the night through a storm with a four horse homestead for eastern Montana. He remembered the team and bobsled. He filled the wagon box with hay, luxur[...]here when he was herding heated a rock sizzling hot in the oven, put that in to kee[...]traveled overland by our feet warm and with many coats and blankets we were wagon train in company with my grandparents and their kept snug and warm. They arrived in time for the delivery. grown children: Roy and wife Belle; Myrtle, Elna and Earl, Homesteading was beginning soon after our arrival at all their live tock and household goods. They were headed the r[...]rses. was already beginning to decrease. A little later Bainville They were raising horses to market in eastern North was started, and we didn't have so far to travel for our Dakota where settlers were beginning to farm, and wanted necessities. Every family laid in groceries, kerosene and to be nearer their market. Bill Evans' brother W[...]ors arrived the year before with his horse herds and had horse between us and Culbertson. We spent several winters very camp l[...]dian pleasantly in this isolated way. A time for reading good line.[...]es. My families caravan was delayed for about a week near We al ways had a good garden, but I do not remember my Big andy for the duration of a severe May blizzard in mother doing[...]rliest years. She which they lost some livestock and saddle horses. Later preserved what she could in the root cellar and by drying. they were directed to go northward to find a good route for Canning in our family may[...]bout 1920. Meat encountering water, but traveled a bit too far north and was butchered in the fall, and frozen first, pork was cured. trayed into Canada. There they camped near a Dried fruit was our main fruit source. I do remember one or sheepherder and his band. That night they enjoyed[...]y 1, 1903. At this time the land was surveyed and open to Our fuel was almost e[...]veryone simply helped present site of Bainville, and ea t to beyond the Dakota themselves.[...]wagons would come past our house before dawn and the Banks creek northea t of the present Bainvil[...]loaded, then all would leave about dusk making a long the river from Culbertson. Father went out t[...]he family temporarily at 'the of miles a way. dairy' which wa my grandfather Bill Evans' p[...]Eventually we had neighbor families living about a mile belonging to.._ terling McKinney, where the[...]a way in most directions. These made the best of times for and ntique how i now located. There I wa born in the[...]socials, community picnics, and country baseball. night to ummon Dr. Tillot on. He came by horse and buggy. Where upon my unmarried Aunt, according t[...]for one winter. After that we moved to town for a few member. when they had come the long journey b[...]nter with father remaining at the ranch. Then for a few to Culbert ·on from their home twenty-five m[...]ear there were enough home teader children o that a wa , our hopping center for grocerie and other chool, the 'Jackson chool' wa established. When the nece itie . Culbert on al o had a doctor and a den ti t. The homestead era wa over and the people gone, we again Reynolds girls al o tay[...]To bring our story up to date, time passed and we Aft r w moved to our ranch, prairie fire w[...]went away to school, until the country wa settled and the gra land broken up. married and now live in Helena. He ha three children, 11 the cattered n ighbor would come for mile and tay Gladys, Bob and Patricia, who live in eattle and Idaho. to fight the fire until they had put it ou[...]Mi soula, ha four children, Leslie, Muriel, u an and children to bed, and went out to the fir line to take food and[...]Raymond, who live in Chicago, Texa , orth Dakota and water to the men. Before she arrived they had put the fire out and left. Having no fire in sight to guide her, he lo[...]is oula. her way in the blackne s of the new burn and couldn't get My parent moved away, father died in 1937. Mother home . Father arrived home, set a lighted lantern on the later married[...]hey lived, he died in 1963. For the remainderofmy and found her way back.[...] |
| [...]came to America at age 18 to find opportunity in a freer less congested country. He settled in Ohio first, was later joined there by his father and family . Later he traveled to several parts of the United States to work while looking for a permanent home. In Kentucky he married Harriet Van Hook, and owned a farm while there. They were neighbors and friends of the McCrackens' and Higgin 's families who later came to Montana. The Harmon's decided to try Montana for a better opportunity, emigrating by train with their three children, William, Lena and Carl , in the winter of 1905-06. Arrived in Culbertson and spent the rest of that winter in a shack near the river. Harriet made bread and butter, sold them to the townspeople. Charlie built a shack on a place he decided upon in Dane George R eynolds and wife, Mary Evans Reynolds. Taken Valley. Not being surveyed yet he could not file a claim. in 1902 in Fort Benton. Before spring he went out and found the cabin missing, so ended that venture. He had seen a place south of Bainville, traveled by horseback t[...]track to They. drove their cattle and hauled all their earthly Bainville and bought the man 's relinquishment, returning[...]was so high , belly deep to the horses. There wa a one room gone, and had another harrowing journey through the log house and my father added two more. break-up in a log stone boat with their three h orses , two Our neighbors were my Grandfather W.E. Evan and milk cows, all their goods and their family of five. Loui se family, south of us; and my Uncle Bob Miller and family was born later in 1912.[...]us. The Harmon family sold their place in 1916 and moved to Betwee n here a nd Culbertson were Mitchell's, Ohio. They returned to their place a few years later, about McKinney's and Charlie Johnson's. 1922, and bought neighboring places. In 1926 Bill , the The severe winter of 1906 and 1907 were di a trou with oldest son, married Gladys Miller of Ba[...]ock. was later divided between the two boys, Bill and Carl , each The house of C.M. Young and family, ix mile north , adding some land as neigh[...]Carl married Karen Harp of Buford. Lena married and stove pipe, dug them out and brought the tarving and moved to California. Louise went away to school and is freezing family home. The E.M . Young[...]ard . When the Young' were strong enough Gladys and Bill 's children are: Edith in Colorado; Virda they took the train to Bellingham, Washington , and n v r in Harlem , Montana ; Rita in Mexico; olan[...]came back. Dakota; David in Bainville; Em m a Jo in Fort Worth , Jack and Lil Dwyer later liv don the Young plac and Texas; Agatha lives in Glasgow, Montana; Janice had a store and post offic . Mail wa haul db. buggy from Knudsen[...]imenson. Carl and Karen 's children are: Velma of eattle; Dean of[...]ch w ep the country for miles. My Mother and old r . i, ter of Bainville, and Ronda in Calgary. wou[...]see what dir ction th fir wa going and to tell our Mother[...]hauling barrel of wat r and food a. fa t a . h could .[...]nolds el on th Dagmar and Grenora ar a .. , om of th , homesteader w re Leom , Mow, and , mith . Those farmers My parents, George M . and Mary Evans Reynolds, and would u e our home as a stopping plac . Driv her th fir t their family ca[...]r to Culbertson, from day, tay all night and go to Bainvill the ne t day , unload, High wood, Montana. They arrived April 4, 1904 and back h re to ta all night, then on north the following day . settled on a ranch north of Bainville in s ction 15.[...]d chool. Her Uncl W. ~. Evan. wa , flowing spring and abundant grass . At that time thi was inst[...]ng the first church built ther . , Valley County, and Pat ac y was County, heriff. there was a majority o!' Pre, byt rian, . that wa , what it The family unloaded at Culbertson and bought th ir fir t turned out to be. This bui[...]w the L. IL~. Church . So order of groceries from a young clerk , Rube Gustafson, in w attended there and brought our .. unda v School material the Tanner and Best store.[...] |
| In 1905 a government surveyor by the name of Pette THE MORNING RIDE surveyed our locality and signaled from the top of Snake[...](Jack Evans) landmarks a re Black Butte north of Bainville, Signal Butte four miles south of town and Lookout Butte northeast of We started on a circle town, and Eagle Butte southeast of Snake Butte.[...]s Mitchell. Other ranchers were He was a Ii ttle grey Jack hields, Lou Gridley, Willia[...]weetman, Dad Williams, Egans, Jim Swindle, Frank and Joe Gravy rode a buckskin mare Dan Steele.[...]s ten summers past later married Albert Peterson and homesteaded east of And a goer it was said Bainville on the farm now owned by Paul Panasuk. Later we had a two room school house. Misses Myrtle We rode out on a big divide and Effie Toll taught the first, second, third and fourth About ten mile a way grades there. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades When we came up to a rimrock were in the Congregational Church (now Me[...]on the rimrock Congregational Church. Earl Adams and Elmer Keplinger Joe carved the Lazy E w[...]While Hungry softly sang Once our Father and Mother took us all to Williston in a The "Yellow Rose of Texas beats heavy wagon to attend a circus there. We took feed for the the Bell of Tennessee." horses and ourselves, and bedding, and it was a happy unforgettable experience.[...]And he thought it looked just right In my family, Maggie, our oldest sister married and We started down the ridge stayed in Great Falls. Annie married A.D. Picard and lived To see what was in sight on the farm n[...]e hospital in Williston. There were We saw a bunch of horses two doctors there at that time, E.J. Hagan and Distad. And played them to be wild Curtis who died at age 49 years. Elva married Eric We approached them up a coulee Crusch and lives on a farm five miles south. I married And I saw that Gravy smiled Albert Nelson who was bor[...]le in February 191 . He enlisted in the artillery and served in As we rode up from the coulee France in World War I. We raised six children, Thelma of And showed ourselves in sight Paducah, Kentucky; Anita of Calgary, Alberta; Greta of We saw them snort and turn Paducah, Kentucky; Norman of Sumner, Wisconsin; And run with all their might Glendon of Stanley, orth Dakota ·and Mavis of Denver, Colorado.[...]As they ran a parrallel[...]The horses, antelope and I (submitted by Alva Crusch (Mrs. Eric)[...]hem on the fly Mr. Reynolds broke his land with a walking-plow and the following verse reminds daughter Alva of her Dad and As I piled both spurs and quirt his walking-plow: To make a faster run[...]ope gained the narrows " One day I walked into a furniture store, and the And passed through one by one salesman, young and good said, "This is hand rubbed, and it has a sheen that has seldom been seen in wood." And out And now the race did lay of the past, and down through the years my memory played Between the horses in that band me a trick. And I saw, not the chest on the salesroom floor, And the little grey of mine but plow handles sturdy and slick . And they were rubbed That was tearing up the sa[...]f toil , held by those sweating han~s, with maybe a drop of grease from a bolt, or oil from the harness bands. As I beat them to it Oh, they had a gleam and they had a glow, a glow that And swung them to the right you'll never meet. And I saw my Dad with his hands on the Joe figured he would stop them plow, and the good black earth at his feet." But[...] |
| It was a down hill run We[...]g Joe wasn't there And there we'll wait till spring But I'm here to tell[...]t with that old buckskin mare, We may do a different thing. Take them on the level[...]em right Arrived there safe and sound And as Joe turned them[...]with ease Till the fever got to high As we told each other On the twentieth day of November[...]ind was very high And I know that it will pan Our ponies lank and hungry I tell you boy[...]e an old hat rack It's a warning I have to heed Then into camp rode Charley George Hunter and Tiny The nights are long and dark Moon face and Zip |
| The boy's stood their guard We ran them in a circle As the night wore away Until their run was out And as the third relief came in Then thru them on the bed ground We heard them break a way And tallied out our count." Joe Curley kept the tail[...]rand was also seen in foreign countries |
| [...]1914. Clara was fourteen and had come to Bainville to tay[...]She liked to run so ended up running a good share of the[...]Creasdale and Margaret Caroline Weisner on April 12,[...]In 1916, Cyp and Clara were married at a double ceremony with Bill and Clara Mitchel] on ovember[...]nineth. Cyp and Clara lived with Mrs. Ro e Fournier,[...]Cyp's mother when they were first married and Cyp[...]first child was born who lived only a few hours.[...]Cyp was twenty-two when drafted into the army and[...]overseas in the First World War and Clara returned to her[...]returned from the service. Cyp took a job in the Ji very stable[...]Cyp had left a mare named Byrd with Jimmy Miller[...]for keeping the mare and gave Cyp the colt she had had[...]Anita Beryl Fournier was born on a farm just north of[...]Bainville on November 27, 1920. She weighed four and a Cyp and Clara Fournier half pounds and could have fit in a shoe box.[...]nk saddle horses which they moved in two herds to a ranch in Fralics , Fred Leonards, Krandl , Bec[...]y on the Redwater east of Jordan about Miller and Jim orgards. twenty miles . One night while on night herd, the horses They had some chicken and it wa not uncommon to were stampeded by a thunder storm. The horse Cyp was find a bull snake in a nest o kids were trained to be alert. riding and several other horses went over a cut bank. Cyp We had several milk cows, and Clara help d with the stayed there till morning w[...]his way out. milking. ometimes she would carry a syrup pail half ful] The horses that had gone ove[...]ar by of cream on the addle horse with her and would hak it through the night-evidently too scar[...]st of the she u ed an upright crock hum with a da, her. horses and brought them back they discovered that[...]ck to the farm ju t north of lightning had struck and killed a mare and colt in the Bainville so that Margaret coul[...]yp center of the herd. Stampeding horses move in a circle and hauled coal from Lanark to Bainvill . It wa n c sar to can be heard a mile away, and further than that if one leave home at 4:00[...]one day. He hauled a load a day on w k day . Cyp returned home in ovember. His nextempioyer was Luke Sweetman, who had both cattle and hor e on a[...]g the Missouri River. At haying time he was given a dump rake and a team of broncs to follow the mowers in the hay field . The rake wa out of adjustment and would bump him on the seat. He finally got the attention of one of the mowers, who came over and held his horses while he adjusted the rake. His horses were so frisky they trotted for a day and a half- until he got to bunching hay and could make bigger bunches then the horses slowed down to a walk. When threshing started Cyp went to work for Jack Allen on a farm three miles south of Bainville. Cyp worked for Bill and Hurley Mitchell during the summer of 1912. After working for several farmers and ranchers in the area he started working on the Dray in Bainville. He hauled freight to and from the Great orthern depot. It was at the depot that he met a pretty girl, Iara reasdal , in[...] |
| [...]le Granleys, Chandlers, RICHARD AND LOUISA GESSNER Jim Norgards, Rene Beauchances and Beaudrys. In 1927 they started the dairy busine[...]milking at 5:00 in the morning, eating breakfast and then bottling milk. Delivery was R[...]born January 15, 1880, in Augusta, between seven and nine A.M. Washing bottles, caring for Wisconsin and on June 29, 1883, Louisa Briske was born at the stock and farm duties filled in the day. Of course, cows[...]a came to had to be milked at 5:00 in the evening and this milking Montana and filed on a homestead, the NE¼ of Section was separated for cream which was stored in a coolinv 3, Township 27, Range 59, east of Bainville. At that tank. It was a steady job and confining, since the sam~ time the town[...]f its routine was carried out each day. Sometimes a new bronc present location just across[...]ndquist place. would be hitched to the milk wagon and would cause a little June 3, 1906, Louisa and Richard were married at Fall excitement. Cyp would keep the horses under control and Creek, Wisconsin. Shortly after the wedding they left by the girls would deliver the milk. A few boys in Bain ville will immigrant train for[...]with the Ennis family when they first came here and summer time for a chance to get out to the farm for a while. Charlie Bain located them. The main reason for their Lyle and Chester Pickthorne, Bill McGary, the Shanks[...]rea to settle in was the fact that homestead boys and many others.[...]s growth over the In 1935 the Fourniers adopted a nephew, Richard Allen prairies and the fertile soil with very few rocks seemed to Jordon whose father died and his mother was Clara's them good potentials for making a living as farmers. Then, sister, Violet. Richard[...]he came. too, the wide open spaces were a very impressive factor. Sunday was guest day and most of the time another Naturally[...]s in Wisconsin where they grew up. Albert Nelsons and Clifford Hob bys were frequent guests.[...]mber from The Fourniers managed to send the girls and Richard to Mondak, Montana, with which[...]ies Aid, Rebeccas American plastered and that same plaster is still in excellent Legion Auxiliary, lead a 4-H Club for several years and condition as is the rest of the origina[...]first Oddfellows, American Legion, Farmers Union and helped banking at Mondak with Bert Ne[...]ould help wherever needed State Bank. and was always ready to lend a helping hand. He served as floor manager for many[...], 1939. They have two children, Loren D. Hosfield and Carol Treglown. Clark and Nita now live in Billings. Richard passed away[...]t in. Cyp sold the dairy farm to Albert Granley and purchased a house in town, west of the school house, and was manager of the Farmers Union Filling Station[...]o kept busy. She made many beautiful hooked rugs, and made many lap robes for the needy and for many years made wreaths to put on the forgott[...]he did much of the painting. Clara always kept a lovely yard and garden. Cyp would help her to care for the yard and she would manage her flowers. Clara and Cyp had almost fifty-eight years of marriage together. Clara passed away in September, 1973 after a long illness. Cyp moved in with the Swigarts un[...]Cyp is in good health at the age of eighty-three and enjoys walking to the Senior Citizens, Moose and other clubs he belongs to. He still loves to garden and had a good sized one last year. He loves to visit Mr. and Mrs . Richard Gessner, (Louisa Briske) on their and still likes to travel.[...] |
| [...]Dakota and Gerald and Mrs. Richard Smith (Gennet) of[...]1941 Ervin and Esther Evanson of Bonetraill, North[...]ashington. They have one son, Larry of Marysville and[...]bert Lalonde, another local homesteader. In Ervin and Lawrence Gessner - 1925. 1916 the Gridley School was built and it centered a wide area and at one time as many as 50 pupils attended. School[...]gathered buffalo chips from over the and fall months. Thus, the three winter months were the prairies and they carried their water in buckets from[...]School was closed for awhile, so both Laurence and Ervin for fence posts. Tom Orrison helped him do[...]. Helton in Bainville. snaked the trees out with a horse and rope. Mr. Gessner At Laurence's eighth grade graduation Mr . McFarland used the posts to build a section line fence and to this day presented the diploma and she had al o been hi former some of those posts a[...]heir home in the Guy Maltby, Albert LaLonde, Seth and Oscar Nelson. west where they liv[...]i d year . Ernest Briske, Ira Calder, Lou Gridley and Delaneys. Gridley and Calder were cattle ranchers while the others were[...]they turned up the soil, then sowed their grains and raised good crops. A.C . Spooner, M.D. of Bainville, was the Gessner's[...]OLE GRA LEY family doctor. With no roads and horse vehicles, or on foot, the means of[...]nsportation, trips to the grocery stores were few and far between. In the fall of the year they'd purch[...]Ole Granley was born in orway in 1 77, and came to hundred pounds of flour and often sent to the M.W. Savage Minnesota w[...]arah Lucken in Fertile, too, they hunted rabbits and other wild game for food. Minnesota, in June 191a. Nearly everyone had a pair of skiis or snowshoes to travel Mr.[...]with an immigrant train and had charg of a carload of The Gessners had two boys. Laurence[...]tl were trailed to 1907, at home on the homestead and on January 23, 1914, what i now Engan '[...]just north Ervin was born when his mother was on a back home trip of Plentywood. to Wisconsin. Laurence has been a life time resident on the Mr. Granley liked the area and the people, and continued home place and his bedroom now is the same room he wa to stay. He worked for Evans horse ranch and other born in. He married Agnes Henriksen[...] |
| [...]For a couple of months, the home was a two room house[...]near the present site of Wylie's tavern. This was a decided[...]contrast to living in an eight room house in a beautiful yard with maple and black walnut trees. Now the view was tall[...]waving prairie grass and the ever rolling tumbleweeds.[...]was about a mile west of town. In the summer time the[...]family resided on the claim and in winter in town.[...]and famil y, Katie and Mary Meinhardt, Mr. and Mrs. Wallie Peterson and son, Charlie Bain (founder of the[...]Gustafsons (Ollie, Arthur, Rueben, Richard), Mr. and Sarah and Ole Granley, wedding p icture. Mrs. George Zimmerman, Mrs. Toll and daughters (Mabel, Myrtle, Effie), William and Edward Powers, Mr. Fournier and famil y. Living within short distance from town, Fred He hauled logs from the Missouri River a nd built a house Ring, Charles Meinhardt, Albert and Carl Peterson, on his homestead, three miles nort[...]now Charlie Smith , Charlie Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. William Bainville. Rhae and son. Sarah Lucken, his future wife, also homest[...]no playground and too many distractions for the students. His first log house was also used for a school house where In November 1908 a new schoolhouse was built, located Charley Evans, Mitchell boys, Hurly and Bill, Benny near the present site of Bjorge Oil and Trucking. The Hanson , and Hunter boys all went to school.[...]om her homestead During the snow winter of 1906 and 1907, Ole and his a bout t hree miles south of town. Students included were the partner went on skiis and pulled a sled, and cut tops off of Ha nson ch ildren, Benjamin, Li[...]Lundquist , Cyp Fournier, William Rhae, and two Culbertson was their social center until Bainville was Haefner s, Maude a nd Marguerite. built in about 1908.[...]church was organized in 1916, Mr. treats and gifts provided by John Lundquist. This has Granley was the first Secretary and Treasurer. become an annual affair since that time with the scholars Mr. and Mrs. Granley had three children namely, Alber t, providing the program and the community contributing Raymond, and Edwin.[...]In the early days sch ool activities were many and varied. Transportation was with saddle horses or[...]rly ever y Sunday, the cowboys would come to town and Albert and Raymond still reside here near Bainville on put on exhibitions of broncho riding and trick roping. the farm. Edwin went to college, and is a highway Winter sports included ice skating, skiing, and sleighing, engineer living in Washington D.C. in which yo ung a nd old pa rticipated. Of course there were[...]man y dances, box and pie socials. There were frequent[...]UIS AN D JU LIA HAEFNER and Ch a utauquas in the summer. Bainville had the first[...]the Congregational Louis Haefner, wife Julia, and children Maude, (Helton) Church, now the Methodist, which was constructed by Marguerite, (Jern) and Charles arrived in Bainville on Elmer Kep[...]me by train from Lois (deceased) and Durward Haefner were born in McGregor, Iowa. It w[...]to stop at Bainville. Marguerite J ern and her husband a nd Durward Mondak to take a local train to Bainville. and his family live in S pokane, Wash ington . Maude and Walter Von Eschen and Louis Haefner established a Charles continue to reside in Bainville[...]as born in Hillsboro, North Dakota in 1896 to Ole a nd located south of town. As it was necessary to skirt around Amelia Belland. My father was a section forema n for th e several herds of range cattle, it was a long and tiresome railroad. From Hillsboro, he was transferred to Perley, trek. Here and there tar papered shacks dotted the Minnesota, and in 1901, he was transferred to Snowden , landscap[...]Montana. My Mother and I followed a little later by train .[...] |
| We lived in the section house at Snowden, and I started The Evans Horse Ranch in those days ran thousands of school in a log building there. Some of the children going to head over a range spreading from near Fort Ben ton north school then were Myrtle and Sarah Steihl, and the Wilson to the Canadian border, east to North Dakota and bounded family. Later this school consolidated wi[...]on the south by the Missouri River. That was a lot of drove by horse and buggy or rode a horse from the ground to cover in a roundup. The Evans family manned homestead, which[...]the ranch. Tom's older son, Jack, was foreman and ramrod . My folks homesteaded on a piece ofland three miles west The younge[...]ad two of Snowden. The house they built there was a one room log sons, Roy and Earl, and everybody joined in for the building. Later they[...]In their roundup camps or at home, the Evan men and home. It left about three feet of water in it unt[...]older brother, Benny, try out. In 1913 they built a new home on higher ground. to stay on a horse. Benny always managed to get back on Some of the early day neighbors were Mary Wilson and after each try, and seemed to enjoy the sport along with the family, Jack Shields, Dan Steihls, Rich and Luke men. Sweetman and Oscar Romo's. Dad's original homestead was 160 acre (a quarter- The nearest towns for trading were Buford, Mondak and section), in sections 19 and 30, township 28, range 58. That Bainville. We attended church at Mondak and Bainville. was three miles west of th[...]e was about to move from it Later we were married and continued to live on the same original[...]We were neighbors for years on the northwest and we t grade school in Fort Union, formerly Mondak. The of places owned by Spencer Mitchell and Aureus younger ones went there for a while until it consolidated McKinney. wi[...]of seven moved in. In later years , a kitchen and other living[...]and a walking plow. He later added more land until the[...]In this part of the Montana Hi-Line, only a few places I was four years old in November, 1[...]eaded them. Ours is one of the e places. It was a wintry, cold day when my mother, two sisters,[...]we arrived in Montana . Lillian was two brothers and 1 stepped off the passenger train we had eight and Evelyn was ix . Harold wa two. Everett, Alfred ri[...]rtson that first night. The following day we rode a two-seated spring-wagon rig east from Culbertson[...]ds or fences. Miles upon mile separated neighbors and only a few trees were visible in the distance near the river. We lived in a spare log house on the Evans ranch that first win[...]first "big snow" winter in Montana. The sodbuster and his family received food supplies, including meat and flour, and even a milk cow, from the rancher and his family. We learned that a Montana milk cow can have a wild streak unlike the gentle Minnesota cows we k[...]requently helped Dad throw the cows to the ground and tie them before they would submit to milking. I remember the Evan ranchhands that winter of 1906- 07 and their efforts to keep up with the demand for wood which was the only fuel for heating and cooking. Th nearest supply was on the banks of th[...]iles south . In order to get their four- hor team and sled through the heavy nowdrif , th ranchhands dr[...]or thirty head of hor e ahead of the rig to break a trail. It made a pretty good Clarence Hanson, farmer, and long time Roo evelt Count snowplow. Asse sor and Treasur r.[...] |
| and Joyce were all born in Montana, in that order, at[...]arm well with with the help of Mrs. Sarah McCoy, a neighbor who knew us boys pitching in after Dad's death. Mother was a true how to midwife.[...]pioneer woman of high ideals, always kind and helpful. There were no close doctors or hospitals at that time, and I moved from the farm to Wolf Point in April of 1928. I it seems that no one had to go to a hospital or even see a had been left with a useless left arm due to a severe cut from doctor very often. I guess if you did, you were in a "bad a barbed-wire fence. I had fallen on the fence from a way."[...]was in Bainville. rack bolted suddenly and ran. Hardware, farm implements, dry goods and groceries all In 1931 I married Berni[...]her businesses She had come to Wolf Point as a high school teacher in the opened in Bainville.[...]pectacular prairie fire I can remember started by a We had four children: Wayne, Barbara, Bill and Gene. spark from a coal-fired railroad engine five or six miles All attended Wolf Point schools. Wayne now is a west of our home. The wind moved it rapidly towa[...]is place with flames more than twenty feet high and smoke pharmacist living in Mission Viejo, California. Barbara, a that darkened the entire sky. I remember mother[...]former teacher, lives in Wayzata, Minnesota, and Bill, also pails of water on the shack without much hope of saving a former teacher, now is a newsman with United Press anything including the[...]uddenly appeared on the scene, however. They shot and I started working in 1928 for the asse[...]Originally, Valley County covered the carcasses and dragged them behind their saddle horses everything from Malta to the North Dakota line. In 1912 in a fire line that held. this area was part of Sheridan County, and in 1919 The school we and neighboring children attended was on Roosevelt County was created. a plot of our land west of our home. It was 1909 or 1910 that I was a switch clerk when I started in the assessor's I started attending. The Evans girls, Viola , Mabel and office. Later, I worked in the county clerk and recorder's Maude and their younger brother, George, (or "Tiny"), office and in the treasurer's office. Then I won election to would drive from their home ranch in a buckboard with two the office of county treasurer, and later to the office of seats pulled by a team of horses in full run. They would county assessor. I served 30 years in elected positions and a come by our place and we could hear them long before and total of 41 years in all as a county employee. after we could see them. That entire family had a good time I retired in January, 1975. Bern[...]3. We at just about everything, including running a ranch. had been married 42 years. She[...]career, also was county librarian for 14 years and active in education; some possibly received a little more than the First Lutheran Churc[...]ten were needed to attend farming organist and a Sunday School teacher. Bernice also was a duties. I remember running the horse-drawn machines - charter member of Kappa Gamma, a teachers honorary including the plow, drill and binder. Some years, if the society, of northeastern Montana. season was late and the crop work undone or more plowing ([...]tarted again in the spring when the ground thawed and school work again was discontinued. I guess I mis[...]n education in those days wasn't impossible, only a little difficult. S[...]rade examination in two rang, heralding a program commending Maude Helton con ecutive years[...]y Superintendent of Schools who had been a classroom teacher for nearly 50 years, 39 of thought I should try again, a third time, so I did. To this those years in[...]y third represented classes back to 1927. A "This is your life, Mrs. try, or if I had simply[...]was presented. if I was about old enough to vote and the superintendent Mrs. Helton came to[...]re-election. At any rate, I passed. and has never really left northeastern Montana. She[...]attended high school in Bainville, Culbertson and Miles socials, dances and church activities. At that time, a City before starting her teaching caree[...]ervices in the school The pay was $65 a month during her first year at a and occasionally stay in our home where he would cond[...]seems difficult to imagine how my Froid and in 1927 she went to Bainville and continued to mother arranged to care for addition[...]5 or 16, Mrs . Helton never missed a day behind her desk for 15 including our family, in our house for visits that lasted years and probably not more than 45 days in 49 years of wee[...]ryone was happy when others teaching. A career to Mrs. Helton was more than doing just came to visit and nothing was impossible. the job; it meant doing the job with heart and soul. Leaving Our parents were charter members[...]. In the evening there was always lesson also was a charter member of the Ladies Aid there.[...]rs. Helton had time for some private age of 91 in a modern home full of labor-saving equipment lessons during the summer so anyone's quest for higher and advantages she wouldn't have dreamed of wh[...] |
| Discipline was never a problem in Mrs. Helton's classes·[...]ils of Mrs. Charlie Johnson filed on a homestead in 1907 on Snake Heltons, approximately[...]tending were now the third & Diamond outfits and in the winters helped his brother- generation of her former pupils. in-la w, P.A. Olson with the cattle. Dora Keller came to[...]Montana in 1910. She and Charlie were married that ame[...]Dora's homestead now belongs to Dick Hansen and FRED S. HARVEY[...]early 50's and moved to Culbertson where Charlie passed[...]Fred S. Harvey came to Montana from Michigan. He and years. She also liked to tell the story o[...]family spent 1906 in North Dakota near Williston and drive for many miles just to fill up his car with gas at a in 1907 came to Bainville and settled on a farm on the Farmers Union oil station. Do[...]ville. He had two sons, the age of 95. Jay and Fred R. Two of his brothers, Bert and OIi ver, and a stepdaughter, Grace, also took up homesteads in the same area. Fred R. and Jay also took homesteads in the immediate area.[...]ELMER KIRKVOLD STORY Bert and Oliver sold their homesteads later on to Fred S. and his sons. Jay moved to New York for a time and later (taken from interview of Elmer and daughter-in-law Kay) moved to Washington, where he died last year at the age of 96. Fred R. Harvey married a school teacher. They were In 1916 Elmer[...]Montana. He had relatives that had moved out here and November 27, 1913. Mrs. Harvey was Gertrude Burton who he was wondering why, so he boarded a train in his home came from Ohio to visit her sister Eva, Mrs. Eddy McCoy of town of Pinewood, Minnesota and came to Bainville for a Bainville. She stayed to teach school and lived in the area visit. The visit lasted unti[...]oozed up over the shoe-tops. He located hi School and as many of the country schools, it has pioneering cousin, Harry Torgerson, then soon found a job disappeared.[...]He Fred R. moved to the Flathead Valley in 1936 and lived worked the next six falls running the steam engines on a there until his death. He had eight children, Torrance, threshing crew. Robert, and Dale of Kalispell, Adelaide of Columbia Falls, By 1919 Elmer had found his "one and only", Tillie Huso. Lucille of Charlo, Nellie of Missoula and Almont of Froid. Elmer and Tillie were married in the Bainville Lutheran[...]1920 and Lloyd in 1923. Orton tarted hi education in the[...]west of Minnesota. Ella and Mable Kirkvold came in the early 1920's and cooked in the Ole Torger on cook car.[...]young man and soon became Mr . Ed Vannatta. Elm r and Tillie Kirkvold' neighbor were Henry[...]Barniers, harlie and , Olaf Knud on and ecil[...]In 1927, Mrs. Kirkvold' r lative in anada a ked[...]a to farm th ir ranch o th family Gertrude Burton and Fred Harvey during courtship. moved to Han worth, a katch wan wh r they ranch d Married November 27, 1913. and farmed until 1946. Lloyd join d th anadian Arm in[...]1942 and erved in German . He wa kill din an ac id nt[...]e in 1945, World War II wa over. Lloyd i buri din a ED HIGGINS[...]Orton found a girl that really met hi fan in A young couple from Kentucky started West in the ea[...]she went to Toronto Ontario to work in 1900's. Ed and Estelle Higgins arrived in Bainville in 1909 a Munitions factory. In June of 1942 Orton mad hi wa and Ed taught school for three years. They then acros Canada to Toronto and he and Kay M K II r w re homesteaded southwest of Bainville and farmed until 1947 married . when they retired and moved to town. They have two sons Mrs.[...]d (Tillie) pa sed away at th Fort living, Manford and Ralph. Ed died in 1970 and Estelle Quapple anitarium in 193 and he wa brought to passed a way in 197 4.[...] |
| [...]Lower morning in 1946, Elmer hobbling about with a cast on his Yellowstone project in the vicinity of Sidney. In those days foot after having a horse fall with him before he left all the work was done with horses and scrapers. Canada. Elmer did mechanic work in Minnesota and In 1915 Albert and his wife embarked on their first road Orton logged. The logging got to be old st ff and the construction project. There was no D[...]arch of 1948, by the state to the counties and they in turn negotiated with Elmer, Orton and Kay and baby daughter Gail, arrived the farmers[...]ome the construction firm known as Albert Lalonde and on the farm. Ort bought land from Charlie Sands and Company. In 1919 the family moved from the homestead there they put down their roots and are still farming and and followed the construction business. To begin with[...]is one of roads built were very primitive and very few of them had Kay ' most eventful days of her life, she became a full- gravel surfacing. fledged American ci[...]rd. Albert supervised nest, married Lyle Krogedal and moved to Lyle's the road building while wife, Irene, cooked for the crew and Grandfather's place east of Froid where they are[...]me time gave some time to the children. The hours and farming and raising a daughter Lisha and a son Todd. were long. At four o'clock in the[...]come to Irene as breakfast had to be ready by a quarter to six. The Montana in 1941 and married Edwin Salvevold. They lived men ha[...]they farmed. Edwin passed curried, fed and harnessed before breakfast. Work began away in 195 and Tillie continued to live there until 1964 on the job at seven A.M. with an hour off for dinner and when she returned to Bemidji, Minnesota. Elmer fa[...]o be for her during those years until 1969. Orton and Kay's done after supper. The wagons had to be greased and the home has been Elmer's home since they returned to horses tended. Almost every night a horse would need to be Montana in 194 . Though Elmer let his hand become reshod or a fresno (scraper) or wagon would have to be entangled with a combine pulley and lost the ends of four repaired. Bedtime came[...]as the frost was out of the ground in the spring and handy-man for Ort and Grandson Lyle and can keep up continued until freeze-up[...]the horse and buggy days they worked as far east as[...]Central North Dakota and as far west as Glacier Park, but[...]e along what is presently Highway ALBERT AND IRENE LALONDE Two fr[...]Albert and Irene built the first semblance of a road west Albert Lalonde was born at Crookston,[...]vation near Culbertson in 1 92, the son of Julian and Mary Biladeau Lalonde. His 1922. The equi[...]apers pulled by father was born in Quebec, Canada and his mother was four horses each, plus a team and plow to loosen the dirt. It born near Austin Minn[...]ttended public was during that summer a terrible hail storm and cyclone schools near Crookston. He came to the Bainville, struck the camp and completely demolished everything, Montana area wi[...]scattering personal belongings and debris over the Ellen Irene Delaney Lalonde was born near Wilson, countryside. Irene and children had to stay with an Indian Wi consin in 1 89. he attended school there and later family for a few hours until a tent could be raised. It was went to River Falls[...]s in those days the Indians could not training as a teacher. Her first assignment was in a speak English. country chool near Bisma[...]rtment was moved to Bainville where she taught in a country school. formed, and they assumed the obligation of constructing Albert and Irene were married December 26, 1912 in[...]auspices of the new highway department. A pioneer east of Bainville on the site that is now[...]cott Hart, was in charge. ranch. There they lived and farmed until they moved to Work through[...]of the trucks used were Model T Fords and carried about a orth Dakota. Julian "Jay" John was born ovember 17, yard and a half of gravel. Prior to this, horses and wagons 1915. He married ynove Bratberg, daughter of Mr. and had been used so very little graveling[...]1917. He married Dorothy Wilson, daughter of Mr. and horses for pulling the machinery, but they[...]ia was born July 1, 1919. on the dump wagons and scrapers. he married O' eil Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. John The next piece of equipmen[...]. In order to make use of all the gravel material and Beverly Perrault, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tanley eliminate the large boul[...]crushed to a maxi um size of about one and one-half inches[...] |
| in diameter. The crushing of the stone helped to make a School for my sister and I was a problem. At first our more dense mix and also to make a better riding surface. By school was four mil[...]f the roads in Eastern Montana hitched to a two wheeled cart to get there. Four neighbor had[...]boys went with us, we took turns riding and walking. The The state then began a program of oil surfacing over all next year t[...]l in use This building was used for church and Sunday chool. I today.[...]mber my father hauling our organ to the school on a In 1934 the family moved their headquarters to[...]ere mother played for services. My parent , being and operated from there. About that time a new type of older, did not participate often in partie and dances. highway construction equipment was developed. It was a Instead, father became involved in politics and mother was tremendous improvement over any previous models of busy helping organize a church in Bainville. scrapers. The first and most successful was called a They milked cows, sold butter and eggs, gradually got LeTourneau after the man who invented it. They had the land broke and into crops. Flax wa the crop mo t planted advantage of being able to pick up the load and carry it at on breaking. We liked to grow potatoes there a weed did high speeds rather than dragging as the[...]My father, George Leeson, served two terms a County industry and eliminated the need for horses. These[...]in 1936-37. He intended to Mr. Lalonde purchased a considerable amount of try for o[...]ervened . unimproved valley acreage around Sidney and during the "off season" leveled this land and made it irrigable. All through the years the family maintained their interest in farming and ranching. In the early 1940's the clouds of wa[...](as told by Charlie LePage) munition dumps and military highways. This was a time of extreme shortages. New equipment was not obtainable, Nancy and James LePage and their family moved from so it was necessary to repair and patch up the old. Of course Wisconsin to Princeton, Minnesota in 1900 to farm. Mr . this put a real strain on the repair parts supply. Many of LePage soon decided to go farther we t to seek out a better the operations during the emergency were conducted on an living so she and five children: Ida, Charlie, Franci , John around the clock schedule, further complicating repair and and Perry hooked their team to a buggy and tarted on maintenance. their long trek. They did a little more farming near Delano, In 1943 most of the defense construction in the area was Minnesota and then moved to a Minne ota lake hore and completed and rather than move to distant sites the family put up a little shack and fished for a living, elling their decided to sell most of the machinery and spend their time fish for five cents a pound. But oon it wa We tward Ho . ranching near Savage for the duration of the war. again and they moved on aero orth Dakota to Ray Albert Lalonde and his wife saw the evolution of where ancy home teaded in 1905. Th ir ho wa a highway construction from the primitive to modern day. house dug into a hillside with a dirt floor. Ida pa away The end of the roa[...]e at Ray. One day Franci hitched young and his wife, Irene, on April 14, 1959. mare to a cart and drove to Montana to look ov r th[...]possiblitie , he return d to Ray and con · · mother and brother that there wer rtu[...]Montana . harlie eemed to a -h f h[...]Bainville area in 190 and o[...]farm tead. harli p n a digging My name is Ruth Leeson Smith. I moved to Montana in rock and br akin · king plow and living May 1908. My parents were George and Bertha Leeson, on bread and tea. "T who came from[...], North Dakota. I was 13 year good a on f old whe[...]n five miles southwest of Bainville. He came a month before he wa y d. 1930 and m oa Mother, my sister and I came. He had an emigrant car in farm[...]r h h which he shipped cows, chickens, a couple pigs , two cat childr M t a f Gilb. th and one dog. Also other necessary equipment.[...]t d K n neth of He built a single boarded "shack" 16 x 24, in which ~e[...]ved the first year. In the summer it was very hot and m tl a Wolf Point[...]r harli had near by where he and other settlers obtained fuel ~re .[...]who people had good times with neighborhood dance and card is a re ident of Gal n. ha d P[...]l games, Fourth of July th ir home togeth r and far nd ra Th rai ed celebrations[...]r. both h ep and cattle.[...] |
| [...]ePage brothers mined coal. Bainville. Ed and Nick homesteaded and purchased land There are four mines on their land[...]trip- from George Smith. They broke sod and farmed to prove up mined by hand--the mud was scraped off the top with a on their land. team and scraper, then used a little coal auger to make a They were known for their moonshine whiskey, and well hole, placed the dynamite in the hole and picked and known for the care and treatment of their horses. shoveled the coal out. They sold a lot of coal to people in the surrounding area.[...]ville, ten miles distant, they either drove team and wagon or walked to town for supplies. Charlie told about the Ole Moe fire that started about a mile and a half east of their place, burned for two days and JOHN LUNDQUIST ended up a[...]. The next day another fire started north of them and it burned until it reached the blackened[...]room for all the neighbors. and?. Clark was seven years old at the time. Charlie and Perry were avid fishermen, "thought they[...]unded. could fish early in the morning, come home and do as much Lundquist settled at the ol[...]east of Bainville. Charlie Bain came here in 1878 and Missouri River, set their lines in just the right places and owned the first appaloosa horse herd. Lundquist and have caught as much as forty pounds in one line-s[...]any of these horses to the army, Charlie was also a good trapper and loved it. He had ranchers, and farmers as far a way as Minnesota. Charlie trapped muskrats, mink, beaver, fox and coyote. Bain was the manager of[...]included Bob Miller's, owned the hotel and post office there. Presently this land is Gus Haugen, Berg's, Chalmer Dawson and his mother, owned by Dean Harmon. Old Bainville closed up in 1906. A Alec Skoricks, Charles Mellot's and Jack Shield's. new Bainville start[...]otel where later the Lawrence Jensen neighborhood and offered his newly built chicken house for Butcher Shop was and the present day fire hall is being a school building and his home to board a teacher-so it constructed. was that the[...]Forbes. owning many acres of land east and north of Bainville The LePage School system was later moved to a different including the Dick O Day plac[...]Panasuk. He also had many large barns and buildings. He Perry passed away in 1975 at age 82. His wife Katherine owned and operated a store and bar on main street next to now resides in Bethel[...]Lundquist had many horses as all field work and Bicentennial year, still lives in their home on t[...]transportation was done by horses. He owned a livery though they have sold the property. His li[...]the present Bjorge Oil cut down to five chickens and the friendly deer and Station. He also ran a stage line from Bainville to pheasants who make t[...]in Bain ville, a Velie. He did lots of flood irrigation from the[...]to Oscar Nelson and south to Dean Harmon's new home.[...]John's son Clark Lundquist and wife, Josephine, moved[...]ked on the Lundquist 1900. They homesteaded eight and one half miles north of Ranch were Andy[...]Ring, Clark and Emery Lundquist. They also owned the[...]where he was reared and educated. He came to North[...]Nick Lippy, Mrs. Nick Lippy, Crookston. and Grandma Lippy, Belva Lippy Eschenbacher, E[...] |
| [...]ntertainment was visiting with the few ~eighbors and listening to the radio, which was purchased m 1926. In the early thirties a phone was installed which was a great help, not only as another form of entertai[...]ilable in those days, so the old coal cook stove and heater were used. The cook stove had a reservoir on it and it was the duty of the children to keep it filled with water, carrying it from a well below the hill from the house. We had an underground coal mine where Dad and the boys mined coal for our own use and sold some to the neighbors. We milked cows, had chickens, turkeys, ducks and would always plant a large garden. Our family was very fortunate , being blessed with good health and enough to eat which compensated for many things. Back row: Dean and Edward Marden. Fron t row: Norma In about 1925 Dad bought his first tractor which was a Holly, Margaret Marden, Blanche, Howard and Darel J·ohn Deere. Dad and a neighbor, Henry Anderson, bought Marden, July 1947. a threshing machine together and would thresh for others as soon as they finished their own. There was a lot of excitement come harvest time, with Mother and the older sisters doing a lot of extra cooking and baking for the MR. AND MRS. IRA MARDEN threshing crew. The boys always h[...]und Prairie School until by Mrs. J a mes Van de berg a nd Darel Marden the fall of 1939 when Mother move[...]rden was born in Wisconsin on J une 30, 1880. He and high school. la ter moved to orth Dakota. He met and married With the loss of Fred and Ernest to the army, Dad was Margaret Va[...]h ad been born in Minnesota in 1892. auction sale and moved into Bainville, where h e worked for Th ey moved to the Bainville a rea in the summer of 1913. the Great Northern Rai[...]g anniver sary, at th e Civic t hey built a shack and Ira worked for Bill Evans while they Center in Bainville. It was a very rewardin g day for the proved up their homestead. In 1919 they moved to the folks and also for us children with many of their n eighbors Herman Torgerson far m and later to the McCracken farm from Round Prairie attending. It was a day they ch erished south of Bainville wh[...]y in 1939. Mrs. Marden continued Dad died from a lingering illness in April 1961. After th at l[...]ising her children. In 1961 he Mother stayed with a daughter , Mrs. Dale Fren ch, (Myrtle) moved to Havre, Montana and in May, 1975, at the age of for approximately two years, until sh e became ill and was 82, she died. hospitalized in a Culbertson h ospital, passing away in[...]He wa married to Verna !wen and they had on child, Their children are: (a son and daugh ter died in infancy) Korene. Norma, Mrs. Harold Holly, of Ray, orth Dakota Alma, born 1908, died a t the a ge of two from the flu; Joel, has seve~ children, en , Keith , David Greg, Tim, Ren e, passed away from a h ea rt attack in January 1964; Lillian, and Blame. Darel married Marie Leom and re ide in Mrs. Ernest Johnson, Williston ; Ernest, Bainville; Syvert, H8:vr~ and ha six children , Roger, Allan, Doug, teven Willi[...]. Albert Stromme, Williston; Fred, Kn tme, and Karla. Edward who i al o decea d. He wa died Dece[...]Vannatta, married to Ruby Knud vig and they have eleven children Bainville; Florence, Mr[...]illiston; Laura, Bremerton, Cleste and had. D an live in Gr at all and anothe~ Washington , (Mrs. Leon ard Hovland); and Pearl, Mrs. daughter Joanne, who die[...]Ira, Margaret, Robert and Joann are all buried in the When pa rents are living, th ere is always a family get- Bainvill m tery. togeth er a t on e time or a noth er during the year.We decided to keep on with the tra dition after Mother and Dad were gone, so every year , if at a ll possible, we get together for a family reunion . We h a ve found it very rewarding - remin iscing a bout th e "olden days" and marveling at how ALBERT A D MAU D E MATTI GLEY little our folks h a d compared to modern times. We remember th e m a n y h a ppy a n d also some unpleasant[...]! y experiences th at we shared as children, with a pair of wonderful parents that God gave us, whose[...], Mi souri on Decemb r 22 1 2. Mattingle the love and the caring of a large family, which our parents were marrie[...]days. They thought a home tead along the Mi ouri would[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mattingley, Bessie, Beulah, Raymond, Bernard and Robert. be a good place to rai e a family. They stayed in Mondak; |
| [...]ley born March 21, 1912 that he received a patent for a full half tion ofland. 1911. She attended the Crusch School and had Esther He and his wife Emma wer marri d in 1 16. Th[...]arried Ulric Crusch on their farm in 1947 and mov d back to P nn ylvania wh r January 5, 1933, and they have a daughter, Betty Lou, and they both had b en rai ed . The ar both till living on a three sons, Dennis, Marvin and Bobby Keith . small farm near[...]he Everybody in the urrounding ar a kn w f th M 11 tt attended the Crusch School and married Erne t strawberries. Mar hall pent many hour a da in hi Beauchene in 1939 and has one daughter, Elsie Mae, and patches and hi labor wa w 11 r w rd d with n three sons, Alfred, Roger and Gary. Their present address abundance of bi[...]Charle Mellott horn ad d ju t north a t f hi Raymond Mattingley was born on the homestead ranch, brother Marshall. He rec iv d a patent on a half c ion f July 9, 1922, with Jamina DeTienne,[...]land in 1917. Chari , hi wif Elizabeth and family Jiv d April 17, 1953.[...]was born at the Jim Teeton home on Jensen and moved back to P nn ylvania. January 10, 1928, wit[...]e Mellott' in tho earl day w r : Florence Swartz, and they have a daughter, Barbara, and Charles Owen , r., P rry LePag ' , Ja k hi Id , Dick four sons, Calvin, Vern, Denny and Brian. Their address is O'Day, 0 car el on'[...]Hackenberry' , Alphon e utherland and Jo ph said, "if the wife would have the first, th[...]and. second, wife the third, there would never by a number Another brother Howard Mellot[...]went on March 18, 1930, with Doc Hagen attending and Mrs. to Froid to operate a reamery and then mo ed to Mc ab Kelly, midwife. He married Deliva Pippenger on December and operated the reamery there. 6, 1950. They have a daughter, Bonnie Jean, and two sons, Marshall and harlie Mellott' and Jacob Thoma ' Robert Blair and Timothy Eugene. They live at Bainville, h[...]0 over the Indian Hill, southeast of their place, and they used barrels of water hauled by horses to pu[...], William Cru ch , Ted DeTiennes, Mearl Palmar , and Bert Palmar .[...]. Albert Mattingley pas ed away Octob r 15,195 in a 1 ra d a k d hi car mishap at DeQueen, Arkansa , at the a[...]attingley lived in Bainville, ontana a rth[...]d of Jack Mattingley came from Mi ouri in 1916, and .[...]t hi 11 I worked around the Bainvill , ontana ar a. H la r tarted farming with Mr. Lepouc af r ntering and returning from World War I, h , again, work d wit[...]married Eva D Ti nne, h bought th B r Palm r farm and lived th re until moving into Bainvill , where they now re ide. His on, Marvin own and op rate hi fath r ' farm. MELLOT[...]lott cam to th Bainville communit in th a .. |
| [...]and Mathilda, December 1, 1915 at Culbertson. They ha[...]Ramona and Dean.[...]school bus to Bainville taking his own and neighbor children using a 1936 Ford for a bus. Seth remained single and continued in farming[...]along with Dean and his family. 0 car Nelson's threshing machine and big crop - 1920.[...]Patrick H enry (Dick) O'Brien filed on a homestead in cottonwood lumber he sawed himself o[...]es northeast of Old Bainville on homestead he put a padlock on the door and when he the Redbank Creek. returned a few days later it was twisted off by a rider that In the spring of 1907 the O'Briens loaded two emigrant needed shelter and he ays, "I have never locked the door cars with .lumber, machinery, furniture, horses, cows and ince."[...]Brien's two had time. In 1907 he had been offered a ¼ interest in a brothers, and families , Lewis Biladeau and Ed Biladeau, thre hing machine and steam engine. The other partners and a sister of the three, Mrs. Alphonse Provost (formerly were Lundqui t, Ole Torgerson, and am Runningen. The Mrs. Julian Lalonde[...]when they came to Montana in 1906. 0 car and eth continued threshing with one or two They dug a full basement and built a rock foundation machine until 1930. In the spring[...]heir with an outside entrance, then built a one and a half story steam engine to break and eed flax on thou ands of acres frame hous[...]ille area. year and filed on an adjoining 160 acres, making 320 acres[...]mon wagon to put the Lew Gridleys, a Mr. Leonard, Marshall Mellott and his building on and there wa no bridge aero hotgun owe sister and family, the Hackenberry's. Others were Salas, h<d[...]ell to the homesteaders married Clint Otis. A sister of Clint Otis, a Mrs. Gottel, was going north . 11 the local horse were bronc and the County uperintendent of chools i[...]handle them owe (Lundqui t Ranch) time and a neighbor also. would hip in old hor e from Minne ota and I made many P.H. (Dick) O'Brien died[...]ulbert on. The trail wa outh of the year, a winter of very heavy snow. tracks th n.'' "My pay wa 25.00 a month and I got The eldest daughter Mary and hu band J.P. avoy another :- .00 for taking the lead in getting up." (Getting (Jack) and family of three came from Beaudette, th er .w up[...]g). Minnesota and lived on the home tead with Jo ephine Wh n a ~k d why h cho e thi particular home tead O'Brien. Jack wa a carpenter and helped build grain O, car ay . " ltwa n'tt kenbec[...]in town all along the Great orthern Railroad. " o a lot of peopl didn't think it wa uitabl for far[...]arried to Ru ell irrigation y tern with thi w ter and O car continu d A. anford, a lumb r man and lived in Fairview. Mrs. huilding an laborate y t m of dam , dike and ditche Elizabeth anford now liv in idney a do her on and which made him one of the county' foremo t pione r of family, th Dr. anford' . oil and water con rvation . It wa whil visiting th avoy in Bend, Or gon two and During the d pr ion year O car upported the farm a half ear after her hu hand' death that Mr . O'Brien and family by upplying and for W.P . . project . Th m t and married a bach lor Jacob Thoma (Jake). They Bain viii Civic[...]cam back to th home tead at Bainville and farmed and , hov 1 full of and in thi building veral time .'' "I took a made improvements. Th y mortgaged the 320 acr s to buy gov mm nt contract for 700 to furnish the and and then 4 0 acre more land and run cattle. foundoutithadtob wa h d olhadtomakeeq[...]Jo ephine (O'Bri n) Thoma wa kill d in tantl in a wash and . creen th and." run away[...]ar. Jake Many of th fir. t ettl r that gave up and moved on left tayed on the farm for om tim , then old and traveled their names a part of Roo evelt County hi torv . A a xten ivel . He went back to hi old h[...]died five y ar after hi wife' death . Hi n ph w and their names .• ome of O car fir t neighbors wer[...]ni ces from Iowa came to Montana, h Id an auction and Ma ck. Henry . choville , ,Jo Boyer and Rill Crandall. di po d of everyt[...] |
| [...]were far and f w b tw n . Th n[...]hor e and buggy. I think a book coul w[...]into town w w i a and a livery I ! t[...]growing tim a t wa a two tory r 1 g l[...]story building and the up d[...]dance hall - and you ca ry[...]ghts, with th ir Mr. and Mrs. Nazary Panasuk, Alex, Paul, Leda, John,[...]would be playing card a all.[...]Grace and Ralph Peck had two daught r , Audr y and NAZARY PANASUK[...]Audrey married Earl Rub) and they liv in Duluth, Minnesota. They have a on and a daughter. ,Jan marri d Nazary Panasuk came from Russia in 1909. Katherine Kenneth Ruble and two on wer born to them. ,Jane and Panasuk came from Keif, Russia in 1910. They live[...]teaded Mr. Peck pa ed away in 1940 and Mr . Peck )iv . in th twelve miles northeast of B[...]t is Calhoun Beach Hotel in Minn apoli and mak , an now Roosevelt County. The homestead was[...]. th old range 58, section 13, township 29. azary and Katherine homestead near Bainvill . P[...]the Tim Tinenenko , Bert Palmer , George Reynolds and Bill Evans. The neare t town for trading wa[...]the ru ch chool I, Trudi ( a h) H in Butte , Montana in which was four and one half mile from the Pana uk[...]par nt mo n. · ton and I homestead. The fir t five children attend d cho[...]chool. The familie lei ur time wa p nt vi iting and r ith gr chool and helping the neighbor .[...]ocated between Rus ian ttl m nt of ontana and ith[...]e were thirt en childr n born to azary and dr , a Katherine Panasuk. Th ar l x, John ,[...]..:, a . a Peter Eva, Philip, am, E ther, G org , Edn , ill and d[...]Four of the Pana · th a. Th[...]t ' n farm and his wi hi , n[...]r horn Bainville. and ne e hi]dr n a. nd "Pop". and live nort t of B lly hi[...]i hav ix chi) and Ii dney. un[...]E D R LPH P CK and , ho v t th af[...]all) uard t and th n to " u1 w ht[...]on at th ag of tw ntv-one . H w, ri Grace and Ralph P ck came to Bainville in 1907 wh r Huna and lat r hi. hody wa. retur~f'd and huri din Cu. t r th y proved up on a claim north ast of town . ·eighhor.[...] |
| [...]orp shortly after Bud was Crops were a failure much of the time, and the prairie fires killed. He aw a great deal of ac tion as n ose g unner in the were such a problem, burning the crops and the piles of Italian Theater of War. Before h e w[...]Dances were often held in private homes and would sel- helped her father, Hans m estad , to k[...]om break up until morning. Culbertson always held a big going and trying to keep the town a live while his three son s Fourth of July celebration and that was a must on every- were erving their country.[...]s datebook. Three daughters wer e born to Kenny and Delores; The Petersons attended the Congregational Church in Marcia, Joni and Darla. Ma rcia ma rried Richard Trang, Bainville and that building still stands. The girls attended and ha two on .[...]l in Bainville. Dr. Spooner was the family doctor and I, Trudie, came to idney in 1945 where I h ave[...]Peterson went to McCabe to run the Occident until a couple years ago. Elevator in 1927. He stayed there one year and then moved After "Pop' "retirement his illn ess[...]y in Decmber, 1966. "Pop" was buried near our son a t homestead and Carl and Josephine are now living in Twin Cu ter Battlefie[...]es in California, Norma in I till live in idney and will probably r emain h ere for th e Nevada, and Helen , the widow of Edward Sorbel, farms in rest[...]lle American Legion P ost is named "Hall, Higgins and Olson" in honor a nd mem ory of the three young men from Bainville[...]Another World War I Veteran and pioneer of the[...]Joe's farm is n ow owned by Glen Picard. CA RL C. A D JOSPEHINE OLSON PETERSON[...]unload the river boats as they brought machinery and supplie for the home teader and others in Durin g th e homestead day[...]Canada and France cam e to the Bain ville a rea. Carl home te ded ea t of Bainville but he was soon to Most of these h ave moved a way but a m ong those who meet Jo ephine 01 on who had home teaded outhwe t of remained to m a ke this their home were the Picards from Bainvill[...]Chapeau, Quebec, Can ada . Out of a fa m ily of 12 children orth Dakota and d cided to go We t where land wa three boys and three girl and their m oth er cam e to the available for horn teading, and fil don a claim outhwe t United tate . Life being[...]ves were of B invill . arl let hi fir t claim go and filed next to filled with man y experience . Life long frie nds h ips, Jo ephine' and when h aid " e ' they put their two orrow, lonelines surpri e, happine s, b ut most of a ll hack together, and h re the fir t rai ed th ir family of det[...]eir abiding worth . thr girl , Hel n. Marguerit , and orma. Th fir t to come wa Lizzie Picard Paradi . Lizzie a n d Carl and Jo phine fir t met at a <lane in Bainvill and Emil Paradi were married in Montreal, Q uebec a nd ca me wer marri d in 1 0 . For neighbor they h[...]orth Dakota sometime Le on . the Crandall . and Mc rachen . arl bought hi before 1907. Lizzie took up a claim northea t of Bain ville. farm hor e from Crandall a he wa quit raiser of Emil was a barb r by trade and op ned a hop in town. He hor e .[...]uch glowing r por and ncouraging r marks that her[...]ov r. H tabli hed a claim then w nt back to anada[...]hi brother A.D. and a i ter Laura, arriving b train. Sam[...]work d in th lumber ard, A.D. work d in a livery barn and Laura r n th Gr n Front Hotel which wa a boarding hou e and caf . In th fall of 190 another broth r[...]another claim 13 mile ea and one mile outh of Froid.[...]m nt how that thi claim of 320 acres cost him Mr. and Mr . Carl C. Peterson, daughter Marguerite[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Christie Picard - 1913. by the number of w[...]Picard. |
| [...]cation in 1923 to the Ted Torgerson Vernie and Glen attended the Huso School. It was two home te[...]iles from home. They commuted by horseback, horse and hou e and barn on the farm presently owned by Glen cart, and in the winter by team and sleigh. Later Vernie Picard and they are still being used today. graduated and Glen rode with the Belgrade children. They Hi mother and sister Mary continued to make their pu[...]at until the sled tipped over-they all did farmed and ranched here until his death September 15,[...]Bainville. He drove in the fall and spring, then boarded in Mary lived on the farm[...]The roads were generally blocked rented her land and moved to town. he worked at the by Th[...]orbert Belgrade family, the six Peterson brothers and Railroad in thi area. They made their home in Bai[...]sisters, William, Inga, Hannah, Oswald, Carrie and Joe. until they moved to Havreinthefallof1953wher[...]to Glen and Mary Picard. Others were Herb Trautmans, The Paradis family increased by three sons and one Brelands, Alischs, Oscar Huso, Alfred Huso, Ole daughter, ilvia, Lavern, Armand, and Teresa while they Torgerson, 0. Crusch, and a Negro lady, Mamie Riles. lived at Bainville. They[...]he farm until the late 1950's when he Emil opened a barbershop there and the boys operated a spent the winters in town and summers on the farm. He meat market. Lavern and Teresa died in accidents. Emil retired in 1962 and lived in Froid at the time of his death pa ed awa[...]the winter of 1908-09 at the Lavern and Elna Tolefrud Picard live in Froid, where livery[...]claimed land some 15 miles north of they own and operate a bar. They have five children. Bainville, next to am's. There he worked and proved up Vernon Kay married Evelyn Nipp[...]Elna Rose, Debra and Elgena. They live at Rapelji, In 1913 he marri[...]Waseca, Minnesota. Montana. Vickie Irish and two children, Tim and Melanie erena had come out to visit the Ole Tor[...]live at Froid. Ronnie married Sandy Riggs and has two bout thi time they moved one mile east, to the present boys, Chad and Clu. They live in Williston, North Dakota. buildi[...]Lee Allen married Charmaine ickoloff and have one Their first son, Lavern . was born ep[...]in California. Bill is at home. Mr . lbert Klodt, a neighbor, was a nurse and according Glen and Mary Nacey Picard have six children. Dan to repor[...]ome to help those in married Marliss Urton and have two children, Carrie Sue need. Dr. Darland, Froid, spent many hours traveling by and Robert. They live at Chinook, Montana. David ofrural hor e and buggy in this country tending the sick and Bainville; Patrick married Penny Lien and have one son delivering babies. Mr . Lidia bowers wa al o a mid- Michael. They reside in Sidney. Christie, Ann, and wife helping those who needed it.[...]re at home. On eptember , 1916 Christie became a citizen of the Laura Picard married Grant Bakewell. Grant ran a United tate at Plentywood, Montana.[...]r yard. He had the first car in Bainville. It was a sight Glendon L. Picard wa born at the farm ho[...]orning. During the twentie , Chri tie operated a coal mine Laura continued to run the hotel until they moved to be ide hi farming and ranching operations. Team and Medicine Lake where he also practiced[...]for the children wa an Easter egg hunt engineered and tart home the next day. o one was turned away[...]e of The Bakewells moved to Plentywood and later to coal at 1.50 a ton. ome of the men on the mine payroll K[...]arnier, Freddy Laura died in January 194 and Grant in January 1975. Whe ler, and el Br land .[...]amuel and Jane Burnet Picard. Hi paternal[...]grandparent wer Francoi Picard and Jo eth Jondoin-[...]Burnet-origin France and ary Hogan-origin Ireland. A.O., a he wa known wa educated th re and came to[...]H continued to work at the livery table and run the[...]ray. It was al o part ofhi job to meet the trains and take[...]look at the land. A.D. planted the first tre in Bainville. It[...]in the nake Butte ar a. On April 26, 1911, A.O. wa united in marriage to Annie New car, 1921 . Glen, Christie and Vernie Picard. May Reynold in[...] |
| at Fort Benton, Montana. Her parents were George and Allison, and live in ulbertson. Ther a i Mary Reynolds. They came up the Missouri River on a in Mental Health, of Omaha, ebra ka. E[...]d Charmain B rt I on, hav on n , Ja on, and the Snake Butte ranch north of Bainville. She at[...]rtson, boarding with people there during A.D. and Annie lived on their ran h north of Bainvill the[...]until the fall of 1946 wh n th y r tir d and mov d to For a time after she finished school, she took sewing Bainville. In 1949 th y built an w horn in town. A.D. di d lessons from Dora (Mrs. Charles J .) Johnson. After their December 5, 1953 and Anni di d May 21, 1 74. marriage they lived with A.D.'s brother, Sam, on his homestead northwest of[...]built their own house. On September 8, 1916, A.D. Picard became a citizen of the United States at Plentywood, Mont[...]GEORGE PIER Y FAMILY TORY As a young man in Canada he was a teamster working in the woods. He had a great love for horses and in later years (a told by Mr . Pi rcy and n Winfr d) owned a Belgian Stallion, raised and sold horses. Some of their neighbors in the early days were: Mr. and The challenge of th op n country of h W t had Mrs. George Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Torgerson, Onis beckoned Mr . Liv a , her two daughter and two on of and Grace Crusch, a Negro man named Jackson and Mr. Arkansa to come to Montana to farm outh of Lanark . and Mrs. Albert Klodt, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rhebein, (One daughter, Mr . Je Hale home tead d at Lanark and DeTiennes-Charles, Joseph , Martin and Young. Also, the another daughter Mr . John Dunbar liv d on what i DeTienne sisters-Violet, Opal and Flossie, John Carlson , presently the John Dethman place. ) It wa thi factor that Arnold and Herman Neilson , and Bert and Merle Palmer. primarily motivated the Ge[...]ft in pioneer communities-baseball games for men and Arkansas. women, basket socials, shadow socials and slipper socials , It wa the fall of 1910 when eorge and ally Pi re of card parties and dances. In later years when the ettlers 0 agemill , Arkan a boarded an immigrant train for built big barns, barn dances became a big thing. Bainville, Montana . Mr . Piercy wa n 't particularly Churches were few and far between so service were held thrilled wi[...]famil again . the home of Mrs. Albert Klodt when a priest would come They found the choice[...]purcha e land from home ad r K llog and Leep r and[...]d Egan who then own d the Jul Gr 1 horn tead . A.D. and Annie had four children: Eldon, May, Audrey[...]The Piere ' pent th ir fir t win r in a du - out log and Wayne. chicken hou . Th n xt ar th built a mall horn and Eldon married Enid Keenan in London , England.[...]in 1924 built the h m wh r r . Piercy and Winfr d n w are retired from farming and now living in Bainvil1e. They live. have five children and five grandchildren. heila marri d G org[...]I 4, Dwight Vannatta, they have two children Tara and Devin and ara Elizab th Liv a rn and they live in Havre Montana , Deni e marri d Rand marri d in ar h of rn 10. ha d Kemit and they live in Tappin , orth Dakota with th ir sons Wade and Ryan. am married Twyla h l1 , and with their on hay, live on Eldon's farm north of Bainvill which wa once known as the Dwyer communit . Jan i a nurse living in Denver, olorado and And i a tud n at M U, Bozeman, Montana. May married Eugene Burdick from Willi ton orth Dakota. He is a District Judge. The hav two childr n and two grandchildren. Bill married Kadine Butt rworth and they have one daughter, Mar Elizab th , and th liv in Minneapoli , Minnesota. Elizab th marri d T o m anterine and with th ir on hris, Ii in "V illi ton , orth Dako[...]live in Bainvill . Th have thr hildr n and fi grandchildren. Dick marri d Pam la B rg. Th .[...]rri d Libb Hackathorne. The hav two childr n , Le and Jennifer and th r id in Oak Harbor, V a hington . haron married harl ill r and th hav t o childr n, art r and arm n and r ide in rand Fork , orth Dakota. Wa n marri d Patricia ac and )iv on th horn plac north of Bainvill . The have i childr n and fi e grandchildren . Paul marri d Jo nn ahl n and th _ liv Lw ay brother and i t r . Mr . J at Hanna, W oming. Th ir two childr n ar Ju tin a nd Becker, Arlie Live ay, Mr".[...] |
| Mr. and Mr . George Piercy with Whizzer, the horse they b[...]Fred and Stella Ring - 50th Anniversary.[...]MR. AND MRS. FRED RING A well remembered couple by Bainville residents is[...]and Mrs. Fred Ring who came to Montana before they we[...]Stella Smith Ring moved to Bainville, as a child, with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. E.O. Smith. Stella later[...]Fred Ring came to Bainville in 1906 and homesteaded[...]Fred and tella were married by her father, Rev. Smith,[...]homestead, they ranched and farmed their homesteads Log chicken hou e the Pie[...]lack the sounds of young people's joy and laughter. All the daughter : Loran (died 1963); Eudora (Mr . 0.A. youngster of Bainville were welcome there and it was a Fulk r on) of Tacoma, Wa hington· Margaret(Mr .[...]e were always cookies to munch J n en) of Billing and Winfred of Bainville. on. Th[...]ndividual near their home but wh n it wa moved to a location per on . He took pride in being able to quote anyone and f rther outh, the Piercy attended chool in Bainvill . everyone birth date and wa very current on where people Lor n rode hor back to chool but la r the childr n had were Ii ving. a one-hor e buggy nd a box d-in led for winter. The They w re members of the Methodi t hurch and Mrs. led wa equipped with ah ter for w rmth on t[...]tella and Fred moved to Hin dale in 1943 where Mr. The P[...]y doctor wa Dr. pooner of Ring managed a grain elevator until 195 wh n h retir d. Bainville. They a tended the ongreg tional hurch in Th[...]i t. Mr. Ring pa ed awa in a of 196 and t Ila di d a few Winfr d nd r . Pi rcy r m mb r well t[...]picnic th neighbor had on the riv r bottom. It wa a big da , h put on th ir own rod o and veryon had a "rollicking good time" wi h an o ca ional[...]W RD B. ROBI 0 'good fight'. hri tma w a favorit holiday, too, becau the Pi rcy' · and the Live a had big family g th ring[...] |
| [...]y branch ; then the nowden -Rich and[...]her's divi ion. That's when m Mother, Leo, Walter and[...]years: Dorothy, Ellen Earl, Joe and Mary. We all at school in Bainville and al1 but Leo and Dora ha .[...]ll his schooling in taught mo t of our childr n and randchildr n. Iowa and started to work on the railroad with hi father. Mr . Helton ha been a real acher-friend for our In 1899 he was inducted into the army, the War with family. Leo and I went to chool in · an Spain, and was discharged in 1902. He came back to Iowa[...]wa mov d fro · . and went to work on the railroad again for hi father.[...]married , my father wa p derwh r h a tran ferred to Doyon, orth Dakota a ection foreman on ride. H u d toha the railroad. Leo and Walter were born in Doyon, and Dora and th "galloping wa born in Rock Rapid . In Febru[...]df rd , Montana to work for the Gr at orthern; in a 1 11 wa tran ferred a Roadma ter on h Bainvill[...] |
| Dora married Mac McBrien and Dora still lives in Bain- ville. They have three girls, Ginger, Patricia and Debbie. After my h u band died I worked as school[...]live in Burbank, California; She has twins, Vicky and Ricky. Earl erved in World War II, is still wor[...]rved four year in Europe; married Lucille Johnson and they have four children: Carol, Kirk, Rita and Wayne. Mary married Robert Bjorge and they live on a farm near Lanark. Bob also runs an oil trucking company in Bain- ville. Their children are Linda, Thomas, and twins, Dean and Dale. OSCAR AND SADIE ROMO Oscar Romo filed on his homestead[...]t |
| from 60 to 90 loads from across the river. They sawed and am came to the United tat from orway th f[...]He went back to orway only tor turn t th bringing a double wagonbox load of ready for the stove[...]1915 with hi n ph w, v nd R nning. In th wood to a lady in town thought it was too much when same ye[...]d fir tin orth I ak ta wh n Sadie experienced a similar encounter. he raised she came from orway[...]ll to help out with the living. She sold the 1917 and home tead din ction 29, town hip 30, rang 5 . smaller chicks for 10¢ apiece and charged 50¢ for dressed, They were eeking land w[...]s. One lady thought 50¢ was too having come from a wood d and m untainou ountr much and offered Sadie 35¢. Sadie told her to keep her they thought ea tern Montana wa v rydiU r ntand v ry money and walked out. bleak. am and Ingeborg wer marri d in 191 . The Romos milked cows and sold cream and adie made The winter were o VfarY c ld and mi rabl in th tar butter which they traded at the[...]r paper shack . Hor es wer the only mod of travel and for years she washed clothes on the board for cowboys at the getting coal and the uppli for xisten . About 1920 nearby ranches and for bachelor homesteaders. She also am got a truck and what a chang . ow th y ould m k baked for many of them as well. two or three trip a day hauling coal in th wint rand grain Oscar r[...]n the summer. U ing hors , on trip t ok two day , a town. There were no roads at first and when it rained the they would tay over in town and mak th r turn trip th heavy gumbo rolled up on the wheels and completely next day. Lamps were u ed to keep th f[...]on plugged them. One neighbor had an empty wagon and four those long winter trips. horses and got stuck tight in that gumbo mud.[...]t ounty the n ighbor machine operator. In 1912 he and his brother, Rudolph, were Han on , Dwyers, imonsen . Ther wa the Dwy r bought a gasoline Rumely, and later Oscar had his own Store and post office 1 1h miles we t of Mr . Ronning ' mac[...]ily. Francis, the horses in the area at the time, and mo tall of u witch d to oldest, teaches high scho[...]g college; Walter, the third son, This was a great community for kiing and am would farms at Saco; Lester farms at Bainville; Alice is the only ski to Bainville and even a far a ulbert on, bringing daughter; Paul farmed near his parents before his death , home mail and supplie back-pack. Prairi fir and Clarence, the youngest is the depot agent in Bainville. terrible threat in the spring and again in th fall. t.tl r The Romos also have several grand and great would start fires to burn off we d and thi tl and th fir grandchildren.[...]mo t wid ly u' d standing) could accommodate such a big family," Le ter form of recreation. unday chool and church w r h Id in said, "but Dad added a kitchen and bedrooms a needed." the ru ch chool hou . Th Ronning childr n at nd d "Both Dad and Mom were always real active in church chool in the ru ch ch ol and al o in th LaMar hool. work. They were charter me[...]Th R nning r tir d from farming in 195. and hv din church, belonged to the Bainville Booster[...]tim . Th Ronning. had fiv childr n: the cemetery and other volunteer work. adi wa a arion thra of Willi ton, orth Dak[...]for many year . of M dicin Lak , Montana ; orman and I mil ofBainvill : In their youth, both ang in the Rugby choir. ' and org who wa kill din action during\ rld War II. "Dad was a good singer and played th violin real well," orman and !mil ar now farming th ir moth r'., Lester added. " He played a lot for ntertainm nt. H a horn ad and al o th land horn .. tad d bv , nd elevator manager at Lake ide (a town no longer in Ronning. Thi claim wa • old to lngvar Ronning and h existence) for several years, and wa al o th fir t p r on in old it to I mil. Mod[...]on." ot to be outdone, adie 1 arned to driv a car after h D DK RO and O car celebrated their 0th w dding anni r ary. h was home alone and decid d to tr driving ov r to h r[...]R · rn in av in 1 , and cam anniversary th have th b t wish o[...]1:. t a11 d, ho[...]. · n 21, by orman and !mil p ,[...]1925. am Ronning was born in or ay in 1 4 and i no but contin g an hought from ~ am retired and lives in Willi ton , orth Dakota. Mr . Ronning R[...]m · thi. land at was born in orway in 1 96 and died in \! illiston. th pr nt tim . The or[...] |
| [...]ilmflf for £xchan,re, Rrfund or ,a Sal :- ny the Mcr<handb[...]Dakota where they lived for seven years and then ventured[...]it was just Mrs. Sands and her four sons, Ole, Martin, Charlie and John who pioneered to the Bainville[...]Ole married Belva Lippe and they lived on the farm now[...]is now the Leo Rudolph farm home. He married and farm-[...]Sala's homestead which is the Kirkvold home place and[...]lives on, he then sold this to John Beckos and moved to a[...]farm located south of Bainville south and east of Dale[...]owns Bain ville wa the neare t hopping center and Williston, the homestead of her Uncl[...]he close t ho pital. Hor es were u ed for farming and al o for riding. vend organized a lodge in the community for activitie and affair and also for JACOB A D BARBARA SEEL dance . It wa composed of people f[...]rea of the (by 'Otto Seel a told to Waldemar Sorensen) Ronning Home tead. That lodge i still in action and the pre ident i Kennet Ronning, son of vend and Katie. Jacob U. eel was bo[...]hool, later Ronning built. At one uch barn dance, a group of men specializing in French, Latin and Greek. He also learned hauled a big rock into the ha ement and pre nted it to the butcher busine and bologna making thoroughly vend G. for a milk tool. It wa o huge vend had to get a while in Germany. tractor to remove it. They built a new home in 1929 and that In May, 1 9 he came to the United tates and in 1892, fall wer completely wip d out by hail. W[...]hi wife-to-be came from Germany and they were hingling they had to quit to fight prarie fire a mo t married in ew York City. dr[...]ife Barbara, v nd Ronning wa kill din 19 5 in a fall from hi barn a son, John, and baby daughter, Amelia, three week old. he wa repa[...]ton, They arrived in Buford wh re a brother lived who was orth Dakota. The family a[...]tioned at the fort. He went to th idney area and hurch, orth Dakota. the childr n attend d Hagbo worked on a farm and built a log home. Jacob Se l wa a chool, orth Dakota, and al o the LaMar chool in stout-built man and could handle a good- iz d log by Montana . The children are Dr.[...]entforJak andhewa givena preng r , California; and Kennet Ronning, Bainville,[...] |
| fuel, meat and fifty dollars a month and worked there from th train tar d a gra fir which burn d down mo t through the summer[...]ondak. The last troops at the fort were colored and left in 1895. In 1969 Otto I and family mov d to Willi i n wh r After the soldiers left, Jake started farming and trading. they now r id . H wa th la t n mov aw fr m While Jake was butchering at the fort, a man came with a what was once the boomin town of Mond k. fine venison, and he bought it for a special treat for the soldiers. The captain was very angry and wanted to know where he got the venison. Jake, kn[...]een him JA K HIELD before and didn't ask what his name was. The captain then sent soldiers up and down the river looking for the man. by Mr . org hi ld Jake homesteaded and later a part of his homestead became the townsite of Mondak, later known a Fort wa ·rr of wha wa Union. Jake and his wife, Barbara, had eight children, six th[...]ou in · living in boys and two girls. Their names were John, Amelia,[...]nd tran f r born in the town of Mondak in 1903) and William, the busine a th re wa o ra ondak and youngest, born in 1905. Six children were born in a log Glendive. house along the Missouri Riv[...]employed at th age of 13 for a freighter who had ag Jake farmed his homestead and helped start the town of pay him 10 a month but wh n · ca f Mondak and was its first postmaster. The train did not pay him. He ub equently worked a n o r stop, so the mail was thrown on. After running over the freight outfit and on variou ranch ho r . mail po[...]ther had home teaded. Riding alon , route so made a point of filling up with water there.[...]ring th 300 · to th Mondak was started in 1903 and was a booming town tar Ranch in ulbert on. The route wa old until 1919 and 1920. Mondak boomed because orth government trail a there were no road . Hi b h r had Dakota was a dry state and there were connections notified him that there would be a job th re if he could between Glendive and Mondak by ferry and stagecoach. come. hield's account of the trip to the tar Ranchi fill d The homesteaders moving in and settling the area south of with warm remembrance of the friend hip and the Missouri River for 30 miles or more and west of the hospitality of the ranchers along the way. Yellowstone came to Mondak to sell wheat and buy Courtship on the frontier ha[...]oons, two big hotels, several ranche were few and far betw en, · n lodging houses a bank, jail, lumber yards, drug store, hor eback. In hi book, "MY ' justice of the peace, a sheriff, four elevators, four beer of early day court hip a warehouses, a church, stores, a doctor, a newspaper, and a dance for the urra[...]hi girlfriend, Mamie was named Jakie Seel's Place and a later one wa named 16 mile from[...]e Palace Bar, which burned in 1916 at the ame tim a Mamie rod th u good par[...]t Jake eel' wife, Barbara, died in 1934 and Jak di din trip horn . In 1940.[...]. Otto M. Seel on of Jacob and Barbara el, wa born in 1900. Mondak Octo[...]ivedmo tofhi lifi around Th there and took over the farming inter t of hi fa h r. H[...]in 1930. Th r were no childr n born to thi union and h died in 193 . n D mb r , r 193 Otto wa united in marriage to Ev lyn lough and they have thr e childr n , Otto, Joann and Barbara. a Otto kept a lot of the original thing hi folk haa, 1 including a private collection ofr lie and pie ~r . H al o found ome relic in the vicinity. Otto J till own and ha pay taxes on the large t portio!1 .of th .[...]including the thr r mammg bmldmg , on f which was a jail, and another a c m nt ault. to poured the fir t wh !barrow of cement in th aul and th la when it wa built in 1920 a fifty cents p r hour. Th third building i the ori[...]h n ondak a . tarted slowing down, ver[...]t k~ other ar a . The town wa ill doing fairly well unttl 0 around 1920. In 192 , th ou a Band wa pa ing through After[...]d t ondak on th train on their wa to idne wh n a park onda J a d puty "h riff and[...] |
| ran a livery table and transfer business. From Mondak they moved back to the ranch and lived there until retirement, moving into Bainville for their remaining years. George and hi wife Melva still own the home ranch. George has retired and rented the land out to two neighbor boys who also winter cattle there. George and Melva were married in 1948. She had worked up until 1966 when he retired and they make their home on the farm. Mamie hields passed away May, 1964. Jack was a re iden t of Bethel Home in Williston for six yea[...]o man who was more polite or had more respect for a woman that the cowboy of the Old West. In the 190[...]s began to come in, there were all classes of Med and Bertha Simard, transportation in 1900. people tha[...]but didn't know how.You have to Ii ve the life of a cowboy to be one. I have lived among and with one all my life. I passenger coach. We came[...]Lakeside and walked to our new home, the Luke Sweetman[...]Lakeside there was a small depot (no agent), an elevator,[...]store, post office, church and school. We were all sick from[...]which was soda water as we called it. Ted Alex and Anna korick were both born in Russia, Alex Herman[...]he was twenty years old give us the "goose-runs" and it did! and Anna came when she was only four. Anna Koozenny's Lena and John started school right away, Carma family firs[...]tman was their teacher. then moved to outh Dakota and later to Berthold, North Some of our clo[...]Dakota where her father homesteaded. In 1909 Anna and Romo's, Mayo Shultz, Fred Swant, Bill Crandall, F[...]join her brother Ole Leonard, John Markle, Fry's and Cody's. Most of these Koozenny who had homesteade[...]Bainville. Anna people have been gone to rest for a long time. Romo's are and Ida soon filed on their own homesteads. In 1911 Anna still living at the same location. and Alex were married , they had met while they lived in We worked hard and long to get our crop seeded and the Berthold. They farmed on Anna home tead until 1946 garden going. We had lots of turkeys and chickens. One of when they moved into Bainville. They started farming the worst hail storms hit in July and just wiped our crop with four hor e Anna's father had given her. The out, killed the turkeys and chickens and drowned some korick' did their trading in Bainville, traveling the ten pigs, too. mile with hor e and wagon. The korick home tead is Ada and I had to go to work so we went to Bainville to now owned by Alex Tininenko and Alex Pana uk. Their work in Fine s cafe, Ada cooked and I waited table and ran daughter, Mr . John Forbes (Margaret), lives[...]area. Al x pa ed away in 1973. Ida Koozenny sodas and I told her "yes" but the truth wa I had only married Peter Horob and they also farmed north of ta ted a few and watched them make odas at Turner's Bainville. The korick' were excellent gardner and Anna Drug in idney. ow, I was only 14 going on 15 but I made till rai e om vegetable and the best dill there is for a go of it. pickle ! At thi time Bainville was quite a town. There were two[...]a bakery, a millinery hop, a regular mens clothing store, drug tor , a theater(The Bluebird), two barber hop , three[...]pool hall two hardware tor a grain and flour mill, two MED IMARD garages, a photographer, a doctor (Dr. pooner) and a dentist. The Great orthern Railroad had a round hou (written by Ethyl Torger on) there and two branch trains ran out of Bainville, the[...]Richey outh Branch and the cobey orth Branch. There My mother Bertha P[...]road familie living at Fort Buford. H r father wa a oldier there when he fought Bainville beside the[...]I later went to work at the Home Hotel a a wai re for and cam to Montana in 1900. the McGuire . In v r l am d o much in my life and will M d and Bertha imard and family moved to Roo evelt never be as mart a I wa at tha ag . Th Hotel had a ounty in pril, 1 19 from idney, Montana . They shipped negro call boy who met th trains when the came in a the their livestock, machinery and hou ehold goods in an Home Hotel wa everal block[...]ntana. was by train th n. Hi chant wa " pring b d and pring The family, who were three girls Ada, Ethyl, and Lena and chicken, bi cuits that mak s your mou h water. Right this one brother John and Mother, rode on the sam train in the way to a trav ling-man' hav n" .[...] |
| [...]Med and B rtha play d · a[...]liked pe d a[...]lar nc a d[...]p rator, th y had Art, Donna a o Med Simard, wheat fie[...]920. were all rai ed around ainvill and gra d from[...]have two daughter ; Jud and Paula who w ai d at Bainvill and ar till living ther rai ing t a · · Paula teache and Judy liv on th farm. D Getting back to my family, my mother made butter and married Minnie Hobby, th y have three childr n , sold cream and eggs to the railroad men as the Branch and two girl , Denni , Bobbi J and Peggy Lee. T train was always stopping on a siding below our house. were rai ed and graduated from Bainvill High . In ovember Ada got married and that December my Glenn marri d Helen mith and they hav two b nd second brother was[...]one girl teven, Roger and h ila. Glenn and family liv in The folks struggled through that winter and then 1920 Minot and the children graduated th r . was a bumper crop for them. They shipped the wheat to[...]tman ranch, John Minneapolis through the elevator and got 2.6 per bu hel Markle' ranch, the Lunke farm and Ed "ody' · plac , al o which was a big price. Our neighbor Jens orgaard held[...]went There are enough acre to tak care of qui a f w famili . lower than $2.00. My Dad needed a new binder for his big ome land ha been ol[...]to see Mr. Peck at the Bainville Trading ranch. and got a new binder on a bare note. Dad aid "if I get Med imard[...]rl" andi $600.00. All went well and with the hone ty of people in mi ed by all.[...]. If Mondak was about nine miles fr~m our place and I went Med and B rtha could ha v Ii woul[...]ild ight there to work in a store for Mike Taylor. Mondak wa the County eat o[...]i tant ounty Attorney, Pat acey wa heriff, and harle onncil wa Jailor and Deputy heriff. Mondak wa quite a town th n, there were two grocery tore a bank and a big ho l wh r THE I[...]rkeda awaitre for ixmonth .Th nI prain d my ankle and had to go horn .[...]nter of mid -t n 1910. h h 1920-21 and lived th r until the fa)) of 1925 wh n h y[...]ght the Bill Power farm by Bain ill . th r th ran a 1 1 . Th rai d two Rolland . Mauri dairy for several ear . Another brother v a born in pa ed away in 19.5 th[...], di d I remember in 1927, May 22nd ther wa uch a no in 1972. torm the milk wa n 't deli v red for two day . th too d ep for a buggy or a sled. Th potato plan froz a w 1l as all the wild fruit tr , but th moi ur lat r mad up for the lo . We farmed th Power's place and rai d ., H RL DR[...]by Ruth I on , mith the "River Plac 'a we called it and built a nic mod m house , continued milking co s and rai ing g tabl , h chicken and turke to IL[...]Th bo all graduated from Bainvill High ._ chool and ri t[...]ll w re ba ke ball play r . Broth r John as kno n a h[...]I That particular team's members w re Franci and Edwin a d t Romo Bill Evans, 8 rt W inrich and John , at l a t he ar a r were the first fiv . B rtha loved bask tba1l and ne r I I g t c nd missed a game, if h could g t there, all through h[...] |
| [...]4 near Grand Forks, two room house. Later a cave was dug in the sandstone orth Dakota. I[...]near "Shotgun" creek where it was cool and provisions George and Bertha Leeson, in the spring of 1908. My father could be stored. bought a homestead about five miles west of Bainville[...]now eight to ten where my home was until Charlie and I were married in feet deep when about 400 head of cattle both froze and April, 1914.[...]blizzard, Dad Smith was in Our first home was a two-room frame house, we soon Culbertson for supplies and the house was nearly covered built another room for a bedroom. We had a small barn and with snow. There was no food except hog brand and no fuel a granary built of lumber, but the chickens had to live in a for the fire, so Mother and I stayed in bed most of the time to log and straw hou e. keep warm. Some of the furniture was broken up for a little We planted what crop we had money for, bought a few heat and a little cooking. Dad got home several days after cattle and hogs, o we made our living. By 1916 we felt the storm. pro perou enough to buy our first car, a Maxwell. It was When spring finally broke, a chinook wind came up neither fa t nor comfortable[...]tle we For recreation people had card parties and dances in had left home. The creek water rose and the ice went out, so their home . Also Ladies Aids were organized and soon my step-father threw me a lariat rope which I tied around churche were being built. Our neighborhood had no myself and he pulled me through the icy cold water. I church[...]one spring near enjoyed. This school building had a history of being McCabe when I became[...]he Alfred Hanson farm, later head (free rein) and he took me home. It was some time moved to near Piercy's, then a mile farther west, where before my sight[...]n in the neighborhood. It was There was a prairie fire five or six miles north and west of finally abandoned in 1924. our homestead with a strong northwes·t wind driving the By that t[...]elp fight the fire. buses were unheard of, we had a problem getting our They would shoot a large steer, slash open the stomach family to Bainville school. In 1927 we moved to town living area and tied a horse to each front leg so they could pull the in a rented house for two years when we purchased our[...]ind to present home. As we had rented the land to a neighbor, help put out what was left, us[...]as no income from the farm so Charlie fox and swifts (called small grey foxes). The pelts I shipped opened a coal mine near the Missouri River. This proved to to St. Louis, Missouri and used this money to buy clothes. be quite a good business and made our living for about ten We also picked a lot of wild berries for jellies and jam. year . One time I remember trying to ride a bronco that weighed From the 40's we continue[...]stand on to Crop were good, one year we had quite a large acreage reach the stirrups to get[...]~ threw me seeded mo t of which looked like a good yield. At midnight seven times in one day. on July 17 a tremendou hail storm destroyed every acre. Three fellers, Mike Taylor and Jim and Bill Crowder, ome way we managed to keep farming and have done so stopped by our ranch one day and they were bragging until five year ago when we re[...]ut all the tough horses they could ride. They saw a horse Charlie and I are parent often children all of whom are in the corral that they recognized as a " killer" horse. They Ii ving. They are Albert, e[...]ucille (Mrs. asked if any one rode this horse and my father said "Yes, Gilbert Allen), Great Fall ;[...]my son does". They didn't believe my father, and father Winford, Great Fall ; Dori (Mr . A.E. Landers), Deer offered to bet the m[...]Keno ha, Wi con in; Robert, pringfield Virginia; and Plentywood. It was dark when I came to[...]chard of Bainville. We al o have 21 grandchildren and hor e round-up camp. The fella recognized me and sure 12 great grandchildren.[...]dded me about being lost. I spent the night there and was Life for u ha been bu y and ometime very hard, but ure the sun wou[...]But the next morning, Jack Evan rode quite a way with any place el e.[...]our home range. About a month and a halflater I wa able[...]to return the favor to Jack Evan . A few mile north of our[...]place on hotgun Creek, Jack and his hor e were tuck in ERL TEVE D HOTG MITH "quick and' and I pulled them out.[...]or George W. " hotgun" mith as Evans and the Reynold . George mith named the told by Earl teven , a tep- on of eorge and Ida mith "DEVIL KIT HE "and" HOTGU "creek. There are who moved from Carringto[...]Dakota to the two grave in D vii Kitchen--a hor e thief and a Bainville and Culbert on area about 1900. They p nt the[...]n About 190 w fenced th er ek bottom lands and Mr. to Dad William' place two mile outh of the original Emory, a heepman, came through the fence. Thi got the home tead where Leonard and B tty Rustad now liv . argument tarted. Mr. Emory hit George mith with a Lumber was hauled from Culbert on with hor es to build a hammer and mith ran him off with a shot gun--thus[...] |
| [...]ea, Gla gow was the county seat of Valley county, and it wa at lea t 120 miles to the nearest doctor. The barn at the Hu tad place was built in 1909 and is still being used. My dad, Mr. Smith was an early day sheriff in thi ar a of Valley County.[...]Lakeside wer man traveling how troup and wh n thi larg Ranch - 1920.[...]The fir t fall Mr. Torger on bought a am (not t broke) and old Watkin produc in th ar a. Th rai d LUKE D. SWEETMAN their family at Bainville and at on time in the early 1 40[...]whose rambling ranch home along band and three grand on on the ha k tball am. the banks of the Missouri River was a familiar landmark in Chri tma and other holida the family gather d at the ea[...]erved in thr e hift - m n , "Gootch, the Story of a Cow Horse" published in 1936, and children and then th women . "Back Trailing on Open Range", pu[...]ce Mr . Torger on pa d away in Ma 1947 and Mr. Sweetman, an authoress in her own right, wrot[...]le over herd trail from Oklahoma to Montana. Luke and Alice operated their own cattle ranch for almo t[...]OLE M. TOR ER 0 organizing and e tablishing the new town of ondak in[...]on cam fr m A inn ta in 1 Luke and Alice were the paren of five childr n:[...]in · · Lawrence, Merrill Donald Helen and ylvia.[...]In 1925 the we tman' old their ranch to imard' and fr "ll m[...]rai Wa hington and th n to alifomia.[...]Michael Torger D cemb r 1 69. parents in 1 77 a wa born in Ferg 1 marri d in Ott r T a mall g n ral[...]ch e n ( a lar e) Ir . · Mab (Mr a Lil[...]1 Vidal, Lan lifford , Millard and Alto 0 Loran Piercy) w[...] |
| [...]was killed by a fall from the roof of his newly constructed[...]Anna's three brothers farmed, and her sisters were teachers and secretaries before they married. Anna lived[...]with her mother and oldest brother in their beautiful farm[...]Forks, North Dakota and clerked in a prominent dry goods[...]store of that day - Benner and Begg. Anna Shields had acquired a homestead located at Dodson. When Bill and Anna were married, Anna's brother Nobel and she, exchanged homesteads, with Anna[...]ing the one located south of Bainville. Here Bill and[...]Bill had land in Bainville and a small house. They lived in this house and built on to it. It is no longer part of their[...]was commonly called a "claim" shack. A number of years later Bill sold the farm. He then[...]worked for the Great Northern Railroad as a machinist.[...]Anna and Bill decided to remain in Bain ville as they[...]owned their home and Bainville had a good school. They[...]daughters to educate. Bill worked at various Mr. and Mrs. Ole Torgerson and Orvin - 1912. jobs-"watched en[...]on farms, and then he worked for many years for the Albert[...]Violet) Fisher of In 1964 Bill became ill and had a leg amputated. In Edmonds, Washington, Virgil of Choteau, Montana, and October, 1972 once again Bill was hosp[...]a. amputation was to be performed) and he died on October[...]and cook, beautiful seamstress, gardener and she took an[...]active part in her church affairs and a deep interest in[...]school affairs. WILLIAM A DANNA TUBMAN Dur[...]by Zita Tubman Rudolph and he also served terms in later years. Bainville had a town band in its very early days-1911-and Bill played In an wer to the call of the west,[...]i con in came to Montana in today, a favorite sport. He played baseball and later 1906. He wa a young man of 22 year - born on Dec-[...]letion of the Snowden bridge, Bill was the year , and he and hi three brother and a sister were on first to drive a team of horses and wagon across it. This their own. William and hi i ter lived with relatives, at the was a draw, toll and railroad bridge across the Missouri home of a Methodi t mini ter whom he dearly loved, and River and is still in u e. When Bill worked for Lalonde la[...]t. Here he Construction he often drove a truck with a number of dump attended school and completed his classroom education. wagons[...]hi wife, who that time when our county was a part of Valley County. call d him Will. Bill and Anna made the trip on the first passenger train In Montana, Bill worked on a teamboaton the Missouri to go from Bainville "up the line' north. Anna also rode the River, and he lived at the original Fort Union, located[...]roid that made its final trip in wh r the Mi ouri and Yellow tone Rivers join d. The 1957. aptain of the steamboat operated a bu ines as far as Bill and Anna have four daughters-Mrs. Bernice Fort Benton[...]wanson of Mis oula who has two children- andra and on which Bill worked. A picture of the enior aptain and arl. Zita, Mrs. teve Rudolph of Froid, w[...]children-Patricia, Patrick, William Lynn and Beth. Lat r Bill began working on farm in the B[...]ns of Great Falls, who has He al o traveled north a far as cobey and west into the five children - Mary Jo Thomas, Jame , Kathleen, and Dod on country.[...]une 27, years ago. Kathleen Tubman of Bainville and Billings. All 1910 he married Anna M. hields of Hammond, Wisconsin four girls are teachers and Marjorie and Kathleen are still and brought his bride back to Bainville.[...] |
| Anna Tubman has her home in Bainville today. She is a the livestock and machinery. My p ov d in h residen[...]mes of Sidney but lives in Bainville of finding a better location with b rm with Kathleen in the summer. Bill and Anna lived all of land. We stayed a few day with Le d a Ii their married lives in Bainville-62 years. from Walter Von Eschen. W rented a bar fo and horses in town. Water wa hard t d[...]with lots of snow, wind and blizzard[...]amoose, North buildings aren't in the a .T Dakota, by immigrant car. We shi[...]were John Peterson, John 1 rd, hogs and a dog named Jack. and John Beco . Bainville w t[...]In the fall of 1916 we mov don Mr . Davi ' farm and After several days, we moved to the Dwyer place[...]p 29, owned by Eldon Picard. We moved with horses and range 57. 191 was a good crop but 1 19 wa a terribl win- wagons. My Father moved the cattle on foot, with no other ter, lots of snow, wind and o cold and not much crop that help than our dog Jack.[...]Farm- Our nearest neighbors were the Rongstads and ing was all done with hor es at the tim which mad a lot of Simonson's. My Father homesteaded near the Snake Butte harnessing and chore to do before tarting in th field . road. He and I used to break sod with a sulky plow and a Jim and I went to the Burgett chool then located on th wa[...]Pete Burgett land , ju t aero the road and up the er k dances in the neighborhood.[...]chased the Henry moved the school to the A pengreen place. John Peter on , Clark place.[...]Cecil DeTienne, George atter, imon Hunter and orge We raised 11 children on this farm. Their names and moved the school with 16 hor e . (In late[...]ns) September 12, 1934 Floyd hired a man (neighbor from the ea t ) to work hi Marlyn L[...]November 18, 1936 summerfallow. The ]and had o many w ed h k pt Wesley M. Vannatta[...]getting the tractor tuck, o he et thew d on fire and it Shirley E. Vannatta (Haberlack) June 21, 1940 burned a strip up through the we onto th Vivian A. Vannatta (Wilkie) February 14, 1942[...]l we had to work wi ctor and Lavonne R. Vannatta (Franken) February 28, 1946 hor es and plow and in th od plow on Gene[...]May 10, 1953 We had a big barn on our pla[...]owa consolidated with Bainville, and the bu e cam into w[...]h r wife and I have retired and live in town. b[...]anc Our son Marlyn, his wife and thr e on live on th i . family farm. Two sons live at ulber on and the r tin[...]n r and th . ha ·[...]ob rt, lb rt , by George and James Vandeb rg[...]Arro Joseph Vandeberg came from B lgium in a ail boa with .[...]om Holland at th d age of 21 and also found h r wa to inn ota. Th Y r[...]r., Florene Lorn . J ld , and from there to Bainvi1le on Januar 1, 1916. n ril and Pat i (P tti di d . children wer bornofthismarriage: ami , "nni , Kati , James, George, Len and Pete. ic mith in 1 at Len and P te had com to Montana earli r; Len work d B r a ontana in 1 W had fi at th Flour Mill in Bainville and Pe v ork d for the Bill chi} GI . and in , D n and D nn Powers ranch . We immigrated up h r in a freight car with Ra died in[...] |
| [...]were no doctors for a great many miles in any direction; all[...]children were delivered at home, with the aid of a The Wilson family has resided in Roosevelt (fo[...]family family begins in Ireland over one hundred and twenty to a homestead near Glendive. The homestead, however,[...]on was born May 20, 1855, was part of a parcel ofland a neigh boring rancher coveted, eighteen miles from Moville, a small town in County and on November 10, 1897, that rancher shot and killed Donegal. It is unclear when he emigrated[...]Thomas Wilson. Mary, then pregnant with a seventh though it was undoubtedly early in his li[...]baby was born. In 1901, Mrs. Wilson filed on a homestead Montana Territory, where he worked as a miner, and then near the present location of the Snowden bridge, on land to outh Dakota, where he became a trapper, a buffalo adjoining the homestead of her brother Jack Shields. In hunter, and a gold miner. His luck in Dakota could not[...]aughters, recalls being told that "while trapping and the oldest boy, was only in his mid-teens, leaving the hunting for gold in South Dakota, a man came and stayed widow with a considerable amount of work and with him - while Dad was on trap line, the man st[...]thinly populated. For the first the gold, money, and furs Dad had and left." When few years, there was no c[...]rest Thomas Wilson had left Ireland, he had taken a tiny piece town. The nearest doctor was in Williston, over thirty miles of the "old sod" with him as a reminder to return; the thief even stole that.[...]her mother stitched them together herself, as a desperate miles west of Miles City. There he met and married Mary last resort. Amazingly, the fi[...]d intact. Even hields-who, by all accounts, was a remarkable woman, years later, medical facilities were woefully inadequate; and the daughter of a remarkable man. Mae Wilso[...]consideration. One could easily There was a school at Snowden, where all the Wilson write a book about Mary hields Wilson's father, John (not[...]n boys were growing up they worked for wa himself a very old timer in eastern Montana). John[...]nd , on April 26, 1841. on nearby homesteads , and then on additional Hi older sister had emigrated to America earlier, and in homesteads. Ted Wilson married Blanche Be[...]Jack" hields' book soon after the marriage and his wife, pregnant with their My Life, 'her husband and all her children, with the first child,[...]" he decided to Two other Wilson brothers, Roe and Bill, served in France tay in America, and had the even year old, John, travel during Wo[...]orothy Ryan (now record of hi activitie read like a miniature history of deceased) and had one daughter, Billie Lou, in 1924. He 19th century America. He worked on canal boats, and was attended business school, and worked for several years in the teer man on a boat coming up the Mis ouri to Fort abstract offices in Plentywood and Seo bey. After five years Union. When the Civil W[...]re throu hout the We tern tate , generally erving a a he died. cout and di patch rid r. Apparently, he wa a good one; In 1935, Bill married Mabel S. Hansen of Buford. They for hi ucce in getting help to a urrounded detachment continued to live on[...]to oner port) nominated two children, Mary and Robert ("Pat"). for a M dal of Honor, though he did not receive one. The The Wilson si ters, Ellen and Ruth, both spent much of mo t famou engag m nt h[...]a pinned down attended college in Dillon and Chicago, and became a with troop command d by Major R no.[...]wden to as i tin the affair of the ranch. married and rai ed a family. Hi daughter, Mary, recalled Ruth Wilson married Dee H. Berry. Mo t of her life has a variety of childhood experience that m unbeliev[...]n urance company until his after the u ter ma acr and eeing the captur d itting death. he ha two on Donald and William and a Bull on hi way to the tanding Rock re ervation ar[...]Throughout the 'Thirties and 'Fortie , the ranch After this retir ment from[...]he Wil on brother s ttl d in Pease Bottom, where, a pr viou ly mentioned, and i ter ; at its p ak, it compri ed approximately 1[...]s on ovember 1 , 1 6, acres of own d and lea ed land. But adly, the death of in the tiny,[...]Tom in 1955 marked the beginning of a rapid ucc sion of The Wil ons lived in P ase Bo[...]death ; Ellen pa sed away in 1961, Roe in 1963 and Bill in they gave birth to six children: Roland ([...]year , was ("Ted"), Mary ("Mae"), Ellen, Thomas, and William. There separated in 1964. The[...] |
| now owned by Donald W. and William 0. Berry, and operated by Wayne Grimsrud. In recent years, the Berry Brothers have brought a considerable portion of this under irrigation. Land north of their's is owned and operated by rT Mabel H. Wilson and RobertP. Wilson , in conjunction with their lesse[...]ently resides in Havre. BAINVILLE AND LANARK ight, Chri t, . or |
| [...]Harvesting at Ole and Herman Torgerson 's. Lunch break Ready for chool, Glen and Vernie Picard - 1926. - 1916. Thre hi[...]e last year we Ben and August E chenbacher and well drilling outfit.[...] |
| [...]IES OF LANARK Rudy and Fred Hinz lived north of Jack Forsythe and next to Henry Lowes. Henry and Dad came about the same by Clai[...]Bowers and Ed Hart Ii ved a bout where Edgar Ii ves now. I I thought of: W[...]p too well. following were around them. There was a fellow by the Charley Johnson was a cowpuncher and homesteaded name of horty Brooks that lived up no[...]Bainville but Dad knew him real well. He married a windles, and he lived near a little pond and creek there. dressmaker, Dora, who was a seamstress with Mrs. Lowe He was sort of a handy man that everyone went to and got in the early days. She just died recently. Mr[...]when needed. I remember how he loved kids. He was a still lives in Poplar with her daughter, Marjorie[...]to visit. Joe Wix homesteaded south and east of Lanark and I Jesse Hale lived in Lanark, which wasn't that then. He believe Mrs. Wix's mother, Mrs. Smith, had a homestead owned a hotel (I think it was on the corner next to the s[...]r place. I remember her when I was so very depot) and there was a grocery store there later. He was a young. homesteader near Mr. Bjorge's place.[...]nny Dunbar that homesteaded on the land Hosfields and Kellogs, and later Mr. Mathias had the Norma and Bill have. A.C. McKinney lived on the place water tower that f[...]l Hunter homesteaded north of him. The skidoo was a train with one baggage car and a coach Lee Blevins homesteaded south of the tracks, which and small steam engine that serviced the immediate ar[...]Jim Miller lived near Kellogs. T. Fenton and his two north of the tracks.[...]d Bill Nay was section foreman of the railroad and Ii ved in near Lanark and he died there. Mr. Biseglia lived near him Lanark. The earliest recollection we have of a store owner and was a homesteader. He shot himself. The Levisy's was Herbert Grant and then John Beckers. lived dow[...]1910-1912. I imagine Hale had it There was a melting pot in the community. Norwegians, built for hi kids and those surrounding us as McKinney Swedes, Danes, I[...]ent. They were older than we were. and Arkansasuers! Dad aid the elevator was built in 1909 and that brought We liked to go up and visit with Old Man Morrow. He was in some people. It was there many years and seems I was a bachelor up north of us and had one son, Dave, who was about 14 or 11;> when[...]Jim windle came on ome cattle drives from Texas and time and we put them in a sack and slung them over the took up a homestead north of Lanark. He married a back of our pony. They began to spit and scratch and we Brueggar girl. had a mighty fast ride home. It was another thing to tame Jim Ros had a home tead north of Lanark, too and just them when we got them home. south of him was[...]tead. In those days we did a lot of May Basketing. How we did Lark Wilson had a place next to Dad on the ea t. Ed love to walk, in the dead of night, with the Bjorges, over to Han on had a place we t of Dad. H.C. Bjorge and D. . Dave Nelsons and May Basket them. One night we crawled Nel on and Chri Peter on had homes near. under the window, after knocking at the door and Mrs. Lee Ford had a place north and west of Ed Hanson as did Nelson saw our backs and was scared to death. In the Han Jen en who wa a bachelor and Mrs. Chris country one never knew what to expect.[...]found and asked in to eat sandwiches, hot cocoa, and Jack For ythe lived at Clover which wa ju ta w[...]oad. Hi brother Arthur lived nearby. place and another year another. I remember one year going[...]fir t came over to Je e Hale at Lanark. They had a son Lloyd, that lived further we t and a bit north. wa older than u but he was a tease and really got my[...]and o I got ome Jim burger chee e and really oiled up his[...]heard u and hot the hotgun up in th air, but we were[...] |
| [...]e did run . One year we heard noise at our place and Dad went out to see what was going on, and we heard a fence zing, and saw Lowell Honey streaking through it. Next morning we found our machinery piled on top of each other and a bundle stack wrecked. In town, they had a livery stable or barn run by the Evans, also a hotel. There was a poolhall there, I think the name of the man that ran it was Courchene. Machgan ran the depot. Peerboom was a blacksmith, Knute Brujord had a shoe store and other things. K.O. Slette was a baker. I remember Hawkie and Deafie were Indians that always came to town and liked the kids. We enjoyed them so much. Hawkie couldn't talk and Deafie couldn't hear but they could sure use the sign language. As time went on the farmers started a corporation with the elevator in Lanark and later moved to Culbertson when theirs burned. They also went together mining coal and had a threshers corporation. They also had a telephone line together. They worked together and did lots of things that helped them to survive and better themselves. There was no bickering. Everyone helped everyone else. What a wonderful heritage to have! I treasure it. I remember when Bjorge's had just a tar papered shack as it was known in those days and then they got their Violet and Alexander Forsyth with Roland in 1916. lovely home. We had a lot of fun when the men played cards, we'd go to the bedroom and Ralph would keep us in stitches with his antics. I remember their old phonograph 1902 he a rrived i n the Culbertson area with hi fath r , with the cylinders. Then we got one with a disc and levers William, leaving his mother, Mary Gr[...]adios had megaphones on them, then Hugh a nd Ma rtha Morrow, who had arrived in 1906 from came the upright with a speaker built in, and now TV and Thomp on, orth Dakota to make their home[...]McCabe a rea. To Alexander and Violet, Roland , an onl I remember when Dad u[...], then child, wa born ptember 26 1915 on a farm t of the binder and mower. Swindle used to hitch up t welve Culbertson. In 1919 they moved to the r a mules and put the headings of grain in a large box that we t of Froid, Montana w land up. In 1944 made into a stack. Later we had a combine and n ow th ey Alexander and Violet h p which have[...]of r th ir Mom hung out a dishtowel from th e com er of th e hou e to dea[...]Roland r. tell the neighbors she h a d made ice cr eam a Dad hauled In1917or 'l ice. There were[...]ene lamp we~ el , . the lights and lanterns to do ch ores by. Dad u d_ a tove m G ' a tank in later years to keep th e water from fr zm[...]day t hey pumped from aw ll. Later they built a comm unity hall and had public dan th ere. Good old barn dance . ard[...]on neighbors place to another. Wh~n they pla d on a a turday nigh tit u uallyla teduntilthe mallhour of[...]d lepton the floor. w n unda sch ool a nd church at th chool hou and pu h d a hand led withth ekid and acartinthe umm rtogotochur h . Later we u ed a buggy and th en the old ord. Th r w r Fourth of J ul celebration down in r oul h r h menu ually had a ball gam which wa i~ng. Pi k:0g fruit like wild plum , grap and buffalo b rn wa a b1g event. I r member hor back riding winter wagon , old ford gla d ~ coup , and th n h more modem on that had bat n and a crank he car with. LE[...], 1 3 at and a twinkl in th ir |
| [...]Episcopalian, L.J. Christler, Farmers' and Merchants' Bank[...]y Walter Mathews, Mayor Tanner and Best Coulter and Miller V.H. Bostwick, Treasurer Wittmeir and West Company, Inc. R.0. Lundke[...]Valley Meat Market, Jacobs and Marckle W.T. Stephens GROCERY STORE[...]et, C.S. Stafford F.G. Arnett Reed's Cash and Carry[...]RESTAURANTS S.S. Moen A.R. Mitton LUMBER YARDS[...]J.H. Sutton Tanner and Best DRUGSTORE Maltby Brothers Wittmeir and West A.W. Huxsol[...]Mrs. F.P. Miller Tanner and Best Miss J[...]ed Palace Saloon, Svoboda & Maxim Parshall and Edmonds Republican, T.J. Hockin[...]hens A.R. Mitton T[...]George ugent Butterfield and Englebright[...]gger Ecli pee Li very Brenna and Schow W. .[...]OE HOP Dr. C. John ton A. ules PHOTO[...] |
| [...]shot, croasknuckles, bowie knife, or razor i prohibited.[...]buggy, wagon, Compiled from Diamond Jubilee book and Old Timers bicycle or automobile or ot[...]No person shall keep a bawdy house or hou e of ill-fame The town of Cu[...]18, within the town of Culbertson or within a thr e mile limit. 1909. The MayorwasJ. Zeno Bruegger. Paul Babcock was The keeping or maintaining a jackass orjackas es, with- the clerk and Verne Bostwick was treasurer. The Council- in[...]t to fines of 20 to 100 or imprisonment. Coulter, and S. P. Mit.chell. Sterling C. West was notary[...]it was incorporated. Although there were a very few[...]Montana was still a territory.[...]mmandant at Fort Union. His son Jack, e tabli hed a ranch about a mile and a half we t of the pre ·ent townsite[...]About the same time Tom Cushing (Courchene), a di -[...]ch of the pre ent Culb rtson town ite. in a man[...]h bu ine fore ight, he immediate} et up a log building about a · half north · ·[...]dinances provided that: The Th fir t D pot wa a railro d bo car 1 ated on th rail- carryin[...] |
| [...]center for that area. When this depot was burned, and a new one built in 1892, we have the first establis[...]the first postmaster, with the depot, post office and living quarters all within the same building. This situation remained for a number of years.[...]Washington, other Post Masters would be appointed and the Post Office would move to a store, hotel or other places of business. In 1911[...]mained until 1953 when it was moved to the Tanner and Best building. A new Post Office was built in 1967. Culbertson served as a distribution point for all eastern Excavatin[...]ENT Frank Nugent and W. F. Wood. A bell was purchased, replacing the six shooter whi[...]which destroyed was used for an alarm. For a long time the company the entire Gussenhoven Block, and other serious fires, operated through d[...]troyed in the 190 fire Courchene, George and Robert Dick, Albert Donaldson, were the Evans Hot[...]Catlin, H. J. Anderson, Edgar Erickson and many others were a A.R. Mitton tore, the barber hop, Gold Dollar Saloo[...]tad' Cash drawn by hand, they did a very good job. In 193 , a Grocery tore, Farmer and Merchants Bank, and the program was started to modernize their equipment. A siren Telephone office. replaced the bell. In March 1947, a drive was begun to buy The only means of fighting thi fire was with buckets a new fire truck, and in 1952, a econd truck was acquired and wet blankets. Three eparate charge of dynami!e from the county for a rural fire truck. were set off in an attempt to a[...]er fire again burned the ew Evans Hotel and are on call 24 hours a day. When an alarm comes in, and the roof and the top story of the Courchene building. t[...]might b . Most of the money u ed to finance and support Department came into exi tence. The fir t[...]ual Thank giving consi ted of three hose companie and one hook and ladder dances. W. F . Wood and John Lab were each Secretary for company. R.O. Lunke was named Fire Chief and many years. In 1962 Sterling[...]as assistant. Captains for these companies and James Baldwin, Secretary. In 1963 Joe Gandrud wer[...]Company 2- L. E. Schow; became Fire Chief and i serving at the present time. A new and Company 3- Jack Littlefield. Captain of the hook and Fire Hall was completed in 1975.[...] |
| [...]1911 for In 1902 Frank S. Reed, editor and proprietor of the $39,000.00 J. E. Peterson was C[...]. The Lisbon, North Dakota SEARCHLIGHT, felt a desire to waterworks plant was built at its present location about a broaden out in the newspaper field. He though[...]220 GPM pump was driven by Culbertson as a town with a bright future, and on April a gasoline engine. Two 160,000 gallon concrete sett[...]ay. 21,900 feet of Culbertson's first newspaper and THE OLDE T steel and wood pipes and 15 fire hydrants were installed. CONTINOUSLY[...]placed private sewer lines of the New Evans Hotel and the private cesspools in 1946. In 1952, the water system was expanded, more water mains were added, and an auxiliary well was drilled near the fairgrounds. The lagoon sewage disposal system, capable of handling a populatiorr of 3000 was added in 1958.[...]north of Heddericks store, north of Tanner & Best and in back of the Bruegger Culbertson Store. Th[...]walks have been built to meet the needs as houses and businesses have increased.[...]With Reed's intense interest in the growth and develop- The first lights on main street were individual gas lights ment of the town and the area, Cul on grew rapidly. on steel posts. They were fueled and lighted independently His editorials on the n[...]own aroused ambitiou new home ke and it wa not long treet light. Places like Tanner and Be t had electric light before ulbertson wa a booming town. In 1906 more than plants for indoor[...]rchlight to Dale way iron standards for Main tr t and 17 overh ad urran and Edgar Erick on. Willi[...]. Donaldson Brothers, who owned and operated the Palm r dreal editor and . • gasoline powered electric plant located in the pre nt J . V. La n a I "th. In 1 McKinney Garage from 1[...]· a[...]ompany, 'th h d- quarters in Williston, installed a local xchange in Culbertson the week of ovem r 23, I 5. A buildin a .i erected on the lot b tw n th old chool building and th Ii Pion r Livery Stable.[...]alled 30 phones. Long distance between Culbertson and Williston was compl d July 10, 1906. The Montan[...]ate ulb rtson' first id nt doctor wa a Dr. turg on Telephone in 1916.[...] |
| that "The country was too damed healthy and the men all from one to six patients at a time and did most of her own shot too straight". His only[...]been Hugo work. Patients came day or night, and she seldom knew Bruegger.[...]il they were at the door. She helped to Dr. C. A. Tillotson arrived during the summer of1902. By[...]s caring for her other May 1903, he had completed a fine three story hospital patients. which still stands and is known as the Helton house. In 1927 there was a clinic held in her home where 11 Dr. F. M. Fin[...], Dr. Jack Craven Dr. C. Johnston came in 1907 and became associated and another Doctor from Williston, the Government wit[...]til the fall of 1908 when Dr. Tillotson Doctor and his nurse from Poplar, and Dr. Munch. It was left. quite a job to keep 11 children quiet all at the same time. Dr. Collinson came in 1907 and practiced until 1918. He When Dr. Munch m[...]Mrs. Spiegelberg also had a maternity hospital about the On November 14, 1[...]tal for when Culbertson teemed with humanity like a 'young maternity patients in 1925 wi[...]umed tinued with her hospital until 1943 and during those 18 the Culbertson area medical practice, and for almost 30 years had 143 patients. years served the community, proving over and over again that people were mighty glad to have a doctor they could Mrs. Brueggers home ha[...]Dr. J. H. Williams arrived in the fall of 1947 and Midwives seemed to be plentiful often taking a mother remained here until 1954. While he was here, he inspired and new baby and performing other household tasks for as the build[...]ng here for only six short years he was killed in a car wreck near Nashua in 1961. Between Dr. Jensen and Dr. orman Reitzel who came in 1971 and is the present doctor; there were Dr's Calderwood, Hobbs, and Calderbank who each stayed a ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL sh[...]After approximately three years of planning and work Culbertson was vacant. by members of the Hospital Board and other interested[...]Joy Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Finnicum. Since[...]ity The Valley Hospital built in 1903 by Dr. C. A. Tillotson with three beds, semi-private wit[...]ame the Helton one bed, three cribs,-equal to a 19 bed total. ursing Home.[...]The original Hospital district was the Culbertson and Mrs. Cora Helton tarted as a nur e with Dr. C.J. Munch McCabe school di[...]to the County taking in patients in her home. As a rule, Mrs. Helton had commissioners to include the Froid and Bainville school[...]Nona Vaamen, Gene McCracken, B. L. Iverson, And Old Valley Hospital[...] |
| [...]ital facility. It will house 40 nursing home beds and 14 hospital beds. Also included will be an operating suite, a delivery room, emergancy room physical therapy department, laboratory and X-ra; facilities and kitchen. The present hospital District board has Jim Baldwin as the chairman, Keith Mrnak of Froid and Bryce Romo of Bainville. Members of the Roosevelt[...]ryling, Keith Mrnak , Svend Bertelsen, Bryce Ro~o and Darrell Geise as board members.[...]1908, Dr. D.R. Brockman established residence as a dentist. His daughter, Dr. Alma Arnette first set[...]1913. Brockman's first started their practice in a passenger car The new Evans Hotel wa the[...]6, R. D. McHugh decided tha Culbertson could ju t and Williston. This was the Dental office of the as well have a bigger share in the trade of tra eler Brockman's; Alma, Fanny, and their brother Dave who salesmen and cattle buyers, than having hem u e th~ later marr[...]were jumping off places of Williston and Gla gow then have to graduates of the Kansas City[...]Tann r, Arn t o n They had dental chairs, a Photo Shop Gallery and living and Brooks and from then on a communi y wide tock quarters all in the railroad car. They also had a goat for subscription began in ptember 1916[...]ly to the effort siding, they would take pictures and fill teeth for a month and agreed to ell the ite and the foundation of th or more and then move on. original hotel. The archligh gave thi a count in th Dr. Alma Arnette remained here with[...]i ue of ovember 17, l 16: 'Th new hotel will ha e a keeping the dentist office open, until her husban[...]frontage of 100 f; et on Broadwa ( ain tr t) and 70 fi t to Helena about 1917.[...]r building the house Westby's live in. he pull d and fill d water, v ral toil tr om , and a c mpl many teeth using a pedal operated drill. o pain killer y tem. wa u · ed and the filling wa ther to ta a lifi time. The fir t u When she pulled a tooth you knew it wa out.. Dr. Min r January , 1 l , was a natural arti t. The pictur in th Public Library i[...]ing made for harl Jacob . When he died in po ane, a hington t th ag of 7, she was the oldest practici[...]v ry other week basis. E A H TEL |
| [...]L The St. Paul Hotel was located near the depot and run by R. D. McHugh. Little else is remembered ab[...]Astrope in 1897 and was later sold to Billy Ford. The[...]building and the old Barber shop.[...]During Culbertsn's early day boom, a total of 13 saloons TOURIST HO[...]were; W.G. Patch's Pioneer Bar - a log saloon built in This hotel was built in 190[...]w the Montana Bar; the Evans Hotel bar the Tanner and Best Store for many years. Thomas i[...]. Stephen's Gold Dollar; Mark Darwin made it into a hotel and when he died he left the Thomas's Eagle; Svabado and Maxam's Palace Bar; property to the Catholic church. The Marcinkowskis Charles McKinney and Joe Manning's Saloon in the old[...]d into the hotel block. bought it from the church and operated the hotel and a bakery for several years. For a few years it was operated as a boarding house and then abondoned in about 1952. Willie Larsen bought the building and it has since been taken down when the new lumber[...]cinity of the Corral Motors building. It al o had a saloon and at one time was also a kind of boarding house for those gue ts who plann[...]chow ' a loon , early 1900 's. Lewis Schow, center, Hannis[...]building; The Park owned by Effie Gass and located about Among the first saloon in Culbertson was in Tom where City Hall is now; and the Illinois, owned by Cushings half.way hou e. S[...]Wilk rson was north of the Park rooming hous and Peterson's log saloon which was located on the south end saloon. of mai n street, on the east side and faced the depot. Thie The present Sto[...] |
| [...]September 1913, by Fred Nelson, Andres Peterson and[...]hall, formerly the Folkestad store, on Tuesday and Friday evenings. Prices were 10¢ and 20¢ for the first motion[...]Wittmeier and We t tore Building, Culbert on . Main Street of[...]situated in a tore one door outh of the H. D. Edmond '[...]clothing and hoe store. It wa remodeled and opened |
| [...]SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOPS W. N. Jacobs established a harness shop in Culbertson[...]rst frame saloon built by The Brenna and Schow Harness Shop was set up in 1908. Elmer As t[...]by Billy Ford. 2 story building, It carried a complete line of harness and saddlery goods. Wittmeier & Brooks (grocery store[...]LIVERY STABLES until 1909 when he sold it to A. W. Huxsol, who had been the pharmacist for Staff[...]chlight building was located. He replaced it 1919 and operated it until 1940. Wilson was a long time with the pioneer barn in 1902. The barn was sold to A. J. resident of Culbertson, coming here from Canada in 1901. Culwell in 1905. In 1940 J. A. Nicholson purchased the drug store from Charles Bain bought the Pioneer Barn and opened a gas Wilson. He had been employed as the pharmacis[...]ars prior to this change of ownership, so was not a Clarence Teeter. This ba rn and station was tom down and stranger to Culbertson.[...]CLOTHING STORES H. D. Edmonds operated a clothing and shoe store in 1913. Heddericks Brothers store carried clothing until it closed and what remained of the stock was moved to Williston. Tanner and Be t carried clothing and shoes, as well as almost everything else. Hall's Retail carried a complete line of clothing. The Farmers Mercanti[...]ch no one at this date has recalled. kogmo's, a branch of Gamble is the only clothing store operating now in Culbertson and is owned by Finnicums. Livery Feed and Sale table, Culbert on. |
| [...]took over this station and it was operated by Eugene In 1907 Balfour and Perry operated a garage located Marchwick. They sold Nash cars and Oliver Machinery. south of where Sorby's Implemen[...]Gordon Peterson established a garage and service William Donohue had the Ford Garage whi[...]ned in 1912. C. Funk built a garage on the north end of main street in The Evans garage was built in 1914 and run by Albert 1933 and in 1948 sold it to W. Cooper who lost the building Donaldson. Later it was operated by A. E. Gandrud, in a fire in 1953. Cooper rebuilt the garage and operated in George Nygaard, C. C. Funk, William Donohue, and the partnership with his son Walter. It was later called the McKinney Brothers, Howard and Sterling. "Corral Motors", selling chevrolet cars, and operated by In 1946 the McKinney brothers opene[...]54. In 1962, Sterling McKinney bought out Howard, and have been held there periodically. The buil[...]quarters. A garage was located south of Harvey Park's home in about 1912 and was run by Wolfgram. In 1928, E. J. Jaumotte had a garage where the Sorbey Implement is now located.[...]with E. A. Waldow as the operator. A few years later the[...]Continental Oil Company built a new building for the[...]station and the bulk plant. From 1950 on, Moore took care[...]of the bulk plant, and there were several managers: Arvin[...]alvevold, Edwin Jensen, Otto Hansen, Everett Harm and[...]Continental Oil, and in 1964 bought the bulk plant from[...]Motors is located and operated by Milbourn Donald on in[...]In 1957 E. E. Bonebright built a new tandard tation on Balfour Garage, Culbertson. Highway umb r 2 and the fir t op rator wa Joe[...]Huge , Bill Lab, Jo Hallgrim on and th pr ent[...]Rus 11 and Floyd Oelker op n d th Carter tation,[...]In 1 5 the T xaco ompany built a tation on Highwa numb r 2 and h fir t op rator w[...]Hu ky ompan bought th ta ion and i i now c lJ d[...]and run by lar n T r until 1 30. arl W tb ran[...]nd old Ra , and cm nts. H. 0. Park had a gas station and garag which a m Ta B[...] |
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| [...]corporation. In 1953 Weinrich left the Company, and in Company building was erected. It continued as[...]sold to Earl Weeks for the John Deere implements, and on December 1, 1947 who had worked for the Company for several years. William Krall, Bert Weinrich and John Lab took over the The Donaldson Brothers, Albert, Otto, and Carl bought out Clapper in 1909 and established an auto and[...]In 1936 the Sorby Implement Company opened and still[...]George Balfour and Willis Inman both had blacksmith[...]Jack Peerboom had a blacksmith shop located where[...]Dan Schledewitz ran a blacksmith shop for many years, building a new shop in 1947, and continuing in the new[...]Weinrich ran it until 1964 and he sold it to LeRoy Timm.[...]Service", including a gas station, until 1968. Timm then[...]with "5 Star Service" and adding the J&R Transportation[...]Lewis Kao opened a blacksmith shop in 1951 in the back[...]Brothers in 1 9 , and Tanner and Be t in 1902. Building second tory Tanner & B[...]h, Tanner Best tore. 19[...] |
| S. S. Moen opened a hardware store where McKinney's Bruegger Mercantile Co. In the fall his family came and garage now stands in 1908. After it burned in the[...]ger discontinued his store in 1910. over 50 years and was located where the Skogmo store is Hedderich Brothers and Company store was built in now.[...]first opened in the early 1930's by Wittmeier and I. L. Brooks. Brooks withdrew in 1910 and Stenhjem and Nygaard. Following this ownership was the firm became the Wittmeier and West Company. This Vernon Johnson, Ed. Tachabald, and his son Max. They location is where the Theater is now. sold out to B. W. Finnicum and now his son Bernie has the Other early stores were Tanner and Best Company Gamble store. Gambles is now located[...]started in 1902. In 1945 this store was sold and became and Best building. Smith's Retail. Later it became S. H. J. Retail and[...]Folkestad's Cash Store and Reed's Cash Grocery. LUMBER YARDS Each of the three general stores also had a lumber yard in the early days. Bruegger's lumber[...]s located south of H.O. Park's house to the comer and west to the alley; and Tanner and Best had a yard south of the Reed house where C. Hankins liv[...]markets were set up Mahon-Robinson established a lumber yard in 1906. It by Richardson Brothers in 1904, A. C. Reed in 1906, A. M. became the Robinson Lumber Company in 1911 and in Jacobs took over the Star in 1909 and in 1910 he and John 1916 it became the Grogan-Robinson Lumber Company. Markley purchased the stock and fixtures of the Valley Redfield was the manager u[...]er Yard was established in 1907 with L. D. Bi hop a operator. After they went out of busine s the pro[...]o John hri ten en. It was later old to Jack Br ; and in 1 46 old to Arden and Alton Olsen who purcha d th property and opened the Builder Center. In 1955 it became the[...]clo ed in 1966. Darwin Wolff now own the building and has r mod led · t for a home. EARLY GRO ERY[...]B SI |
| [...]the First National Bank in 1906. In Clarence Ross and a Matthews. In 1913 Charles Jacobs Nove[...]bank had d po its ofover$50,000. By took it over and operated it until the end of the 1920's. 1[...]Tanner, J.C. Gregory, J.E. Peterson, I. 0. Jette and K. 0. Albert Zeltz bought it about 1932. He sold the business to Slette. Officers were A. Echorn, pr sident; K. 0. tette, vice Bert Floman[...]e FARMERS MERCHANT BANK--Thi bank wa and the Standard Bulk office.[...]in April 1906. It fir t opened up for bu in in a This building now has three offices in it, and is called the small frame building. During the[...]fessional Building, which houses Attorneys Bjella and building was burned and a new one wa imm diately Jestrab; Carpentor-Seitz Insurance Agency; and Pioneer erected. P. J. Eie wa the first cashier and wa succ ded Mutual Life Insurance, Herman Jensen,[...]The bank had a paid up capital of 25,000 in 1910.[...]he spring of 1910 with the following officer : C. A.[...]Schlenker, cashier; Sterling We t, a i tantca hier. It had established. It was operated by W. C. (Bill) Evans and a capital of $25,000. It closed in 1925. located ab[...]CULBERT O TATE BANK--In the pringofl926 A. McKinney. The customers furnished their own[...]y remaining bank wa organized by J. W. containers and the milk was measured out in a dipper. This Schnitzler and J. E. Peterson , with a capital of 25,000. dairy was later owned by Leona[...]e President. The original stockholder included K. and one-half miles north and east of town, about 1909. L. Brujord, F[...]Fred Gehlen, . . Moen , Albert Charlie Boid had a dairy, east of town, about the year Donal[...]From 1920 until 1937, Russell Oelkers, Sr. had a dairy on J.E. Peterson, AW. Huxol, A. T. Listug, Frank McMahon a farm east of Culbertson. In 1937, he sold his business to and . V. Wilson. Marinus Lynggard who had it until 19[...]May 1932 C. L. hnitzler became pre ident and was sold to Ove Madsen who was running a dairy of his chairman of the board, J.E. Peter on and .B. Wallander own. served a vice pre iden . In July 194 J.E. Peter on Tucke[...]k in Culbertson in 1928 became pre ident and chairman of the board. In January and continued until 1945 when he sold his interest to Allen 1965 Robert A. Peter on b came pre ident, J .E. Peter on Larsen. Howard Iverson and Russell Oelkers, Jr. bought vice pr sident, and A .H. P ter on wa nam d ca hi r. the milk business from Allen Larsen in 1946 and delivered In December of 196 J. E. Peter on retir d. A new milk until 1948 when Russell Oelkers, r. agai[...]the tr et north of th old bank the milk business and purchased the dairy. In 1950, Mark and they moved into it ju t before hri tma . Moore bo[...]Executive ice Pre . a hier-- . H.[...]i tant a hi r- lr n Pow 11[...]af ; ation Armor ; and th ,Jubile Parade . |
| THE TV and RADIO SHOP, which also sells appliances The old store has since housed Annetta's beauty and dress is owned and operated by Arnold Thomsen. The business shop, and the Petrolane Gas shop. It is now empty. is locat[...]aloon is located at her home in the Elk Horn Pete and Elsie Hauck in 1957 on the west side of Main[...]ere they operated for 4 years. In 1961 they built a Larsen and is in her home. Laura Schledewitz had a new building on the east side, which housed the d[...]beauty salon in her home. cleaners downstairs and the dentist office upstairs. The business closed in 1974. The dental office is now downstairs and there are living quarters upstairs.[...]He did not want his picture taken and he never knew we had a picture of him. He was sitting on the north side[...]stands. I s/ Billy Donohoe LARSEN CONSTRUCTION AND CABINET SHOP |
| created a need for elevators. Four were in existance by[...]tor Company purchased it from the D. 1910--Hanson and Barzen, under the management of M. J. and B. Dunn, who came to the area in 1908; Saxton Ind[...]area which closed in 1910; Valley Elevator, owned and operated farmers as the "Lanark Elevator Company" at Lanark on by C.H. Sowle, was built in 1908; and the Imperial July 10, 1909. This is be[...]It was its kind in the state of Montana and is still locally owned destroyed by fire in the late twenties and rebuilt. The and controlled by a group of area farmers. Farmer's Elevator Company[...]s Elevator Co. in Culbertson. Built by Bonebright and Darnell.[...]H and Barzen mana and illia chang and in 19 Farmers Elevator Co. in Culbert on. Origina[...]ham ill and the[...]Bu rs throughout t In 1941 the D. and B. purcha d th Imperial El ator. Jam H. B[...]eld auditor for the Imperial Young, Otis el on, and Alvin Company and on of the own re. Manager throughou th[...]El ator in 1 5, years were Otto Waldo , Sr., and Ray hledewitz. In 195 managed by Ga[...] |
| In 1919 the Lanark Elevator burned and was voted not to NOTICE OLD T[...]Edwin Ouch from 1970 to 1971 , Bill Martin 1971, and LeRoy Vannetta from Quite a number of years ago, 1971 to present time.[...]The Dinosaur ate many a branch[...]There was no one to give it a dose of lead.[...]And in due time they passed away.[...]Before stone hatchet and flint arrow head Their numbers decreased and they finally fled. And, like dream phantoms of the night,[...]They faded and westward took their flight.[...]And tried to put wrong theories to rout, And dissipate all error and doubt. And his worthy successors with all their might[...]Are upholding the tandard of truth and right. Fir t N ew Evan Hotel built in 1903, bu[...]Let u all our help and encouragement lend.[...]You must tak it down with a littl It, A th law prohi bi the u of malt. Donald on Brother[...]in for f,fround ,. Moens . Church on the And things ar ju t what they m. cornn no[...] |
| [...]A young man from the East of pleasant mien,[...]Though of humble appearance and small in size,[...]days, Kind friends, indulge a notion of my own, When the herds of fattening[...]eam, He called for help to do a good work Which winds its ways through this valley so green. And none that he asked for aid did shirk. A stockyard was built beside the railway, Of wh[...]to this present day, Herbert Dunbar and his brother Fred While a trail through the brush for the N bar N With plough and scraper a basement made. Was cut by Great Northern section men. And Jack Forsyth whether he likes it or not,[...]ll of the famous raid back north, And S. B. Palmer the brick and stone mason Which extensive cattle thieving ca[...]anged his band But lumber and windows cost money 'ti plain, Of ranchers, cowboys, and gave command So the ladies went out to solicit the sum, To make a quick trip up the Muddy, And the merchants and ranchers with serious looks, And they would be sure to capture somebody.[...]And our missionary pastor having hurled the rock, So[...]they could see for miles around, And Williams and Wilson when that was done, When far below in the meadow they spied Came in and spread the plaster on. Someone making for a dugout in the hillside. Whether Jones or Nelson o[...]st marksmen in the posse then, A great worker in church and unday School, Pouted volley after volley at t[...]l ne'er forget the Rev. Hoole. But their shooting and shouting were all in vain, For the runner the[...]he dugout did gain. We must tune our harp to a sadder strain, Of patient labor and lack of rain, A forlorn hope led by Eder decended, When the next year people come to possess And stormed the dugout, and the battle was ended, This fertile land of the Middle West. And the lone runner turned out to be a small boy, We'll mention the mortgage l[...]nts had wat.ched his escape with joy. And the notes that the banks could not renew. Then home came the posse not a man was missing, But the term "next y[...]nds short of ammunition. And the people do not sit down and mope, But to this day in the evening's shade,[...]ys should outlaws come in hordes, And lowly the debts are being wiped out, We can call out the Boy Scouts and ational Guards. And pro perity will come again, no doubt. But soon o[...]pardon for being out of d te, |
| [...]came west with his uncle, Henry Sieben, a prominent[...]of ranching was acquired on a ranch near Helena and later at Sweetgrass and Shelby, and about 1898 he located at Hans was born in North Dakota and lived with an aunt Culbertson, where he bec[...]e enlisted fo r World War 1 in 1917, where he was a Montana. There in a few years he became financially Radio man on a convoy ship from New York to different interested, and for a long time was the active head of this ports in Eu[...]rth of the Dakota Division of the G. N. Railroad, and later Missouri River, the river cons[...]He worked at many different depots. Culbertson and mile stretch of wire fence. Bain ville is[...]Mrs. Annette was a dentist - practiced before husband[...]Mr. Arnette was a big man in the live stock industry of[...]Montana , and it was only natural that some of his abilities[...]of the bank at Culbertson and in 1909 was representative[...]om Valley County in the State Legislature. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Mystic Shrine.[...]Alma Brockman, a denti t by profession. Doctor Arnette[...]was born in Kansa , and when a c:1ild she accompanied[...]Thence they took a boat to the orthwest, there being no In 1925 he married Voncele Hackett, a saleslady at railroad up th coast. A a young woman Alma Brockman Tanner and Be t Department tore in Culbert on. They returned to Kan as City, Mi ouri, tudied and completed bought and lived in the hou e owned and built for Brook , the cour e of denti try at[...]a time in the tate of Washington, but mo t of her[...]and wa rear din the hri tian hurch, but attended the[...]t hurch in ulb rtson . his life to the upbuilding and the pioneer work of ranching It wa about 1 1[...]ciate the wond rs name is held in sp cial re pect and e teem. that lowly unfolded b fore his vision . One of th stops the Mr. Arnette was a native of Illinois, born in Henry boat mad[...]chief, Sitting Bull, wa held in captivity, and h got off the Illinoi schools , and when he wa fifte n year of ag he boat and went to the Indian camp. He look d into a tepe ,[...] |
| [...]some The last few years he was retired and lived near the Big kind of conference, and when they saw him they made Hom River south of Hardin. He enjoyed fishing and spent such grunts and noises of surprise that the boy was many hours at this past time. startled and lost no time in returning to the boat. Not far fr[...]Montana he was constantly out in the open, danger and JACOB BAUER adventure were part of his daily experience, and once he was a member of the twenty-seven cowboys under[...]ey gave the The Jacob Bauer ranch, one and a half miles from the Indians thirty minutes to dec[...]mouth of the Big Muddy, was est.ablished in 1883 and was The Indians claimed that the "Leather Britche[...]e area. killed their cattle, meaning the buffalo, and to the Indian's Bauer was born in 1851 in[...]way of thinking, killing the buffalo was as much a crime Germany, and was well educated in that country. When he agains[...]fi,- t work d at the Mr. Arnette was not only a stockman but also did some of butchering tr[...]or D of the Seventh U. S. Infantry and came to Fort Buford in agriculture. In the early[...]n 1877 he married an Indian girl, Mary, at Poplar a difficult proposition, and to solve that he decided to sow and in 1883 settled on his 1240 acre ranch along the[...]hat the country Muddy. would not grow such a crop, but he plowed up some land There he built a nine-room, two story log house, utilizing and planted a few acres, and the harvest was such as to part of the first floor as a store and warehouse. fully justify all his expectations. The chief difficulty was in Bauer had $800.00 in a Williston bank and decided to use finding a place to store the grain. it to build a floating toll bridge across the Muddy. People Alma and Frank Arnette had two daughters, Rowene[...]it would never work. He built the bridge of hewn and Wilma. Wilma married Milbourn Donaldson, they cottonwood logs, built in a diamond shape, and filled with have three sons. Rowene married Warren Hill who was a rocks. He charged 50 cents a wagon to homesteaders and Signal Maintainer, they had one son.[...]ette's uncle. cross free. There was a const.ant tring of wagons traveling They had exte[...]son now lives, east of Culbertson. and a large number of horses, did little farming. Frank died in 1924, and Dr. Alma Arnette went to live in Bauer was a prominent man in early Mont.ana hi tory, Spokane for a period of time, then returned to Culbertson[...]Culbertson area where hi influence wa about 1928 and established her Dentist practice in the[...]f town. he died at the age of 7. Arnett.e's built a bungalow mansion on the we t side of town. Whitcombs owned it for many years, and it i pre ently JOH[...]u r ran ab and wa CHARLE ELMER A TROPE perhaps t[...]. H t i rtson and By Myrtl E. Murray we w 11 kno top notch n and cowpok . H[...]was born Dec mb r 15, 1 73 at D lano, Minne ota, and died ctob r 24, 1 51 at H rdin, ontana. He marri[...]work d for th tar Ranch. Later, he had a busin in ul rt.son b for It[...]. o fir t taking up a horn stead 9 mile north w et of town, h l'i[...]nd hi he had a ranch raised cattle and a f, w hor . H al o ran bro -la[...]Illi Wh n th s ttler came in he tarted farming, and fr, gov rnm nt I[...]Judith ap co a 1928. He had a lignite coal min on hi home tead and train. It snowed i mined coal for a numb r of years. country ov r , and Id Elmer was a fin violinist and on of the b st old tim "Don't ttl h re[...]or old tim danc e Th y took hi advi and 1 . r kton, from Williston[...]I ok d th land ov r , and fina up hom ad[...] |
| [...]erry to do their trading, such as buying grocerie and transacting other business. The Bertinos lived[...]n mile northeast of Brockton, about two mile outh and west of Manning Lake. Frank Bertino and Giovanna Ruffatto were natives of Valperga, Italy. They were married June 4, 1893 and came immediately to the United tates and to Coal City, Illinois, and later to t. David, Illinois. Their children were[...]k, Margaret (deceased 1936), Louis, Jennie (Ross) and Albert. Their nearest neighbors, after moving t[...]es on gang plow about were Frank Fairley, Neville and Frieda Bemer to the east, 1919-20. the John and Dave Manning families to the northeast. The Joe J[...]Winters were quite hard. As a rule, there was al ways a lot of snow. Two of the Bertino sons, Pete and Frank, were[...]the deep snow and were completely exhausted from having[...]There was a large strawstack in the field, son Frank[...]recalls, which the horses and cattle ate into around the[...]They found Bill buried under the straw and dug him out.[...]overly well and whenever he was in the barn would untie[...]him elf and get at the sacked oats. At last the men[...]outfoxed him by storing the oats in a strong wood box.[...]20 bushels per acre, it was considered a real good drop. In[...]for o. 2, th r till re no impro ved road and west toward Brockton. There i , however, gr[...]lb rtson . When they came Berti.nos u d a gang plow with ven hor nd ulky plow[...]i y found they could go only a h ort o · ock . Alf ) n t ry: H and hi fathe , ut[...]· tching thei r tent on th v ry pot! And as ounger Frank Bertino ays, they have b n picking rocks ever in (for many years by hand , now with a mec hanical rockpick r )![...] |
| [...]n was taken to Williston where he was treated for a severe and Mr. Percy. Thi land joined th Jay arboug[...]omestead, so they decided to make thi their home, and The Bertinos' first home was a log building in which moved to the Fenton[...]s. Many of the guests came from across the river. A brother-in-law usually furnished the accordion music and they danced until morning. They came early and Mrs. Bertino, the mother, cooked supper, then bre[...]on her small laundry stove! In 1928 they built a large two-story frame house with plenty of room for the family still at home, the five sons and two daughters. With neighbors so scarce, there[...]dren went to the Ruffatto school on the southside and in Brockton; their children were either taken to Culbertson (Frank's son), or their parents (John and wife) moved into town during the school months. C[...]hside where there were more people. John, Peter and Frank, sons of Frank and Giovanna (now deceased), still live in the area and own their original farms. They are all retired and live in Culbertson. John married Lena Hodges (dec[...]outh of the river. Frank married Belvina Bertino, a teacher from Dodson, Montana. Peter did not marry. John's son, Edwin, now rents and operates the Bertino farms .[...]s. Robert Bjorge Maggie and Halften arrived in Lanark March 3, 1911 on[...]the ' kidoo'. Lee Blevin hitched up a team to a led and Halften C. Bjorge was born at Whitehall, Wisco[...]rooms, but was clean and comfortable. H. C. worked among the farmers in the summers, and in The fir t evening all th n i hbor ind[...]Lee Blevin , Lark Wil on , James J and Ralph Woods became partners in farming for severa[...]William and th harlie Haw · th In 1905 Halften came west to try and find a home tead. two each. The n day Mr. an[...]th two Ii ttl pi . Th Ii and Lake, the next year, for the J. . Day Ranch. H h[...]ontana. Finnicum and Conrad Gu tofson. By now H. C. liked Montana and horn stead d near[...]arted farming for hi th · g ofl .I on a v ll l , bu pl d with the[...]mo ed to strip at a time of und a x, nd[...]r 10, 19 3. right rain i r a go d cr op. That fall a paid for th fa ·ded to buy mor[...]ro. ped H . m buying land for a long ti . Bjo[...]ur · Wi .orurin. Maggi a a ool ch rand ta ugh[...] |
| [...]matrimonial bureaus! Edgar and Ruth were married May Sid Blair arrived in Culb[...]t had not been surveyed he used Edgar was a high school instructor and coach in what was called squatter's rights. The f[...]e marriage, working for Henry Miller, John Archer and J. S. Day and during and after raising their six children. She also ranches. He and Bert Bowers hauled all the material for taught piano and still does occasionally. the building of the Stockman's Hotel and the 1903 school Besides helping on the fa[...]s jobs, building. The rocks used for the basement and foundation and was on the school board, District #17, for 3 year[...]n the State High way survey party in the they had a long journey to haul their goods when early 30's when the road to the Missouri River and bridge unloading their immigrant cars. A great many of them site was located. Fro[...]to February 1935 he would unload at Blair's place and go back for another load. was a Field Engineer for the W.P.A. and F.E.R.A. In Later they picked up their goods and finished hauling. February 1935 he receive[...]as Postmaster Their son Dennis is still farming and living on the at Culbertson, and he continued in that position until his homestead[...]old homestead and enjoys every minute of it.[...]During the early years all youngsters on a farm had a hard life. There were always cows, chickens, and pigs to[...]dances, community baseball, and of course the big Fourth The Lee O. Blevins fam[...]big blizzard. After three days The Bowers had a 3 room log house until 1915 when the and nights on the train from Arkansas they felt rathe[...]house was built. disheartened to see so much snow and so few buildings. There were horse thieves, saloon shootouts, and bank Until they could build their own log house they moved in robberies. They all took place and some lost their lives, with Judge Coulters, who lived in a two story log house either by lead poisoning or good hemp rope. about a mile east of town. Blevins worked at whatever he Edgar and Ruth's children are: John, the oldest, is could find until he was able to buy machinery and start Director of Education in Missouri. Ellen is a surgical nurse farming. He built up a nice home and lived here many in Great Falls. Alberta lives on a ranch near Plentywood. years. The land is now par[...]nch. Marjorie is in charge of draperies in a large Billings store.[...]Joyce lives in South Carolina and is a music teacher. Ed Jr.[...]back to the farm at Culbertson. ARCHIE A D CHARLES BOID By Maggie Bjor[...]THE BRUEGGER FAMILY Archie and Charle Boid, two brother , came in the early 1900[...]soon r alized that Montana wa the place for them a it offered Jacob and Augu ta Bruegger came to Culbertson, from more op[...]the first General belonging into an immigrant car and returned to Mercantile tore in Culb[...]or the 1903 brick th ir life. Thi i n ow th C. R. a terline farm . qrhool house, was Postmaster for many years, and was[...]for them , providing pring , mattre and b dding on By E. L. Bower[...]th floor of her home. he doctored th patien a b t he[...]ot wound or Bert wa born in Arkan in 1 74 and Cora in 1 77. from injuri when thrown from a bronc. The h riff Th y homesteaded two mile ea t[...]frequenUy advi d "ble ding' the p ti nt. Thi Mr . and r mained and farm d ther until their death. B rtdi d Bruegger r fu d to do, o the heriff did it him If. Most in l 60 and Cora in 1966.[...]born ovemb r 3, l at Dr. . A. turgeon 1 ft in the pring of 1 02 d daring Bentonville, Arkan a . He arriv din ulb rtson with his that th[...]1900. H attended Culb rtson grade traight. and high school, graduating in 1919. He attended[...]o confirm d in th Luth ran fai h graduating with a B. A. degr e in 1923. It wa while ther . The[...]om zither Zeno the violin, Rob rt the harp and Hugo the c llo.[...] |
| [...]rst they were soaked overnight in uds, Wisconsin, and later a law course in Chicago. In 1912 he Next[...]he tubs. became associated with his brothers Zeno and Robert in a garage in Williston, North Dakota called the 'Aut[...]n! They sold Hupmobiles, Maxwells, Hollier Eights and They rubbed, boiled, rinsed, hung in[...]They made their own bread, jelly and jam, In 1915 he was called into the service of his country in Canned meat, made pork into bacon and ham. World War I. He served as Corporal in the Ai[...]n returned to Culbertson to Everyone was a friend in the olden day , work in the Farmer's St[...]e. In 1928 he was appointed Rural Mail Carrier and served We salute and thank the pioneers of ye teryear, in that capacit[...]iful daughters. Betty·Johnson lives in Red Lodge and With land, sky, water and Mountains we love o well, Beverly lives in Bozem[...]14. Jessie attended school in Williston taking a business J e ie Bruegger course and working for several law firms. She enjoys art and music. She has been active in the past years-Char[...]FREEMANB CK groups, worked on 0.P.A. during the depression, and went out on drives to collect money for worthwhil[...]state of Vermont. He worked for J. . Day for a time. Then carried flash lights with us at night. In our house we had in 1904 he took a homestead in the timbered bottom, outh lamps for 13 years, but we did have a bathroom with hot of the river. There he built his first log hou e in an opening and cold water from a cistern, pumped by hand and heated in the timber. This area was covered[...]He would spend his winter clearing brush and the Hugo and Jessie have furnished land for the Brueggers[...]n into homestead. Clearing hi land of timber and bru h wa all such a wonderful town in which to Ii ve. done with a grub ho and axe. In 1919 he old hi ]and to Guy Mc ha who came[...]from ea t of idney. Thi wa a dandy f ri er bottom with a bigcoule towateritin the prin nni nton on YESTERYEARS I MO A A now own the land.[...]years ago, folks were in their prime, a d' naand They worked day and night, couldn't ave a dime. b go do[...]an fora In winter there were blizzards, snow and ice, ti1 wd[...]·n t oplar m . There wa n 't a blade of it to mow. ven year of drought tick[...]ed long hour , inhaled th du t. There wa law and order, om God fearing m n,[...]BRO HR They broug[...]v r 'back th n, |
| [...]lace. It is the three daughters, Magdaline, Maria and Caroline. Anoth er Anna Moothart farm now[...]this time was Culbertson road house and store, located where the Angelo Zoanni from Chiav[...]In town, there was the Walter S. Patch residence, a log plentiful. After the sagebrush had been dug u[...]id considerable farming. They raised com , whea t and Company. Jim McCov lived on main street[...]n fact, Mr. Floman used the men, some were Albino and Julius Zoanni, John Tviet , Joe house for[...]eled. As for fences voboda , Tom Hackley, Ralph and Amos Baxter, Fred and roads, you could go any direction without seeing a Behlen and Ray Hughes.[...]oads were wherever you wanted to go. Magdaline and Maria had received their education in Locations of buildings; Brit Smith had a saloon building witzerland, but Caroline, who w[...]tson where sh e stayed shop; W. S. Patch had a saloon, log building, located with the Duffys, la[...]f her educa tion between the Tourist Hotel and the old dry cleaning plant. wa taken in the Ursaline Academy in Great Falls, a nd at Later, he had the building which is[...]apolis. She gra dua ted It was erected as a saloon and the old log building removed from high school in[...]school Plentywood. They have six children. Maria and her was located north of the City[...]. Magdaline married Albino Depot was a small building at that time. The depot agent Zoanni, they had five children. She passed a way in 1956. lived in the depot. Caroline'[...]on a hill on the Lewis Gobbs farm . The rough boxes or[...]ground. A pole fence was built around the cemetery. The DR. and MRS. T.W. COLLINSON box[...]rotted a way and the bones could be seen. When some nosy Lily Dale wa one of Culbertson's early· educators and people started probing around in the rem[...]principal, also coach of the first dug a grave and put all the remains in it and covered it with basketball team which wa composed of both boys and dirt. girl . In 1911 he married Dr. T.W. Collinson and in 1918 Our nearest neigh bor was my sister and brother-in-law, they moved to Scobey. He practiced medicine in Scobey Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Astrope, and they lived about one and a until hi death in 1957. Mrs. Collinson has also p[...]went up or down th e river, and I would watch the smoke[...]e steam boats could pass. My parents, ylve ter and Lavina Delaney Cooper ames o[...]Diamond Ranch, cattle ran ch ; F.G. Arnette a nd S.P . living on the land for two year and not being able to get Mitchell cattle ran[...]right there. Ranch Bainville, Snake Butte and Big Dry Coun try. The My i ter, Mattie, and brother-in-law were living in Sheep Ranche were P .J. acey Booth a nd Helmer, and Culbertson, and they told my father that there was lots of Jacob Bauer had hor e and cattle. good land here, where it wa easy to get good water. Jacob Bauer had a Trading Po t and tore located near My folk moved her in June 1 9 . Dad built a hou · e for the mouth of the Big Muddy Cre[...]supply the team boats. tr t. t pre ent, r . and Mr . Blai dell live in the house. I can re[...]of the year, wh n ranchers Dad did carpenter work and fil d on 160 acres of 1 nd east hipped cattle of eing the flat outh of town black with of town. Dad mov d th cow nd hor e and hou hold cattle for day , waiting for cattle car to arriv and they good ov rland from Willi ton. other and five of u would load out everal tr[...]r . trope, met u t th I nev r was a cow puncher. I alway had moreinterestin d pot. It[...]hour tom e the machinery team engine , and cabinet work than in run from Willi ton. orth D k[...]on the t with Ruby u bing Dad built a hou on the farm in 1 , located and P te. We wer in front of the Bruegger ercantile tore threefourth of a mile e t of ulb rtson. and Dutch H nry cam along pushing Grandma hield' Th r wer v ry f, w ttler . Tom u bing lived a t of barr I earl filled with garbag fr[...]n t that tim . Th am ear he built a log pushed the cart up to the fr ntdoor of[...]w Evan Hotel tand . I open d the door and dumped th conten into the stor . would say a little to the north we t . A year or so la r, Tom r. Bruegg r came and said som thing to Dutch Henry, Evans moved a large building from Buford, orth Dakota, and I can r memb r old Dutch saying, "Eat that you and it was our fir t hotel, known as th Evans Hotel. stingy Dutchman." I wa telling about it at home and my[...] |
| [...]d Coulee is located north we t of town. The have a grub stake on credit."[...]ny pastured some of th ir cattl I also met Cy, a horse thief, in 1912 at a ranch northwest along this coulee as there[...]around. Mr. Summers was raising horses and did some farming. I attended the Pre byterian Church when I w a child . He said to me, "We have to get the saddle horses On Christmas they were having a Chri tmas program . and round up the herd as long as Cy is in the country." Each child had a part. That ev ning th up rintend nt About a month later, we heard that many farmers were got up and said , "Only th children that b long d[...]I was married September 10, 1918 to Miss Minnie A. out of my sails so I n ver went t[...]s for about three years. station. It was a frame building of one room. M We moved to a place where we didn't have to carry water a first teacher was Mis Martin. quarter of a mile. After living in the house where Mrs. We have four children; three girl and one boy. Arlene Frank Weinrich, Sr. now lfves, w[...]graduated from Culbertson High chool and from where we now live. Property wasn't as high i[...]Washington, Arizona, and California. Then, she wa After I was discharge[...]childr n . At work for the Farmers Mercantile Co. and set up machinery present, she is teaching in terling ity, alifornia . and sold repairs during the summer and worked inside the California. store du[...]il Mrs. Kate Louise Eschenbacher and entered the Army. He graduated Whitcomb suggested[...]year from the Lincoln Air Force chool a an air plan around, cleaning and repairing the buildings and mechanic. At pre ent, they are living on a farm north of furniture during the summer. Both buildings were two- Culbertson and have three children . story brick ones with full[...]fired furnaces that had to be fired by hand. The a hes were Colleen graduated from Culber[...]. he handled the same way. The coal bins, took up a lot of room. took a teachers cour e at Billings, Montana and taught I worked at the schools until the summer o[...]e married orri was forced to resign on account of a bad heart condition. Astle and lived in Culbertson for a while. The have two[...]boys. Mr. Astle i managing a dairy farm for hi father. In June of 1949, I[...]Coleen has been teaching school in Maryland, and attend town and opened the Cooper Shoe Repair Shop.[...]Yvonne graduated from the eighth grade and ga e up the State Liquor Store. I inquired as to how it was handled chool for a hu band. he married Ro Diaz. The ha e and found that nobody was allowed to open a bottle in the one child, a girl, and live in idney , on na. . . store. I told the Legion boys if they wanted to get the tore A for prairie fire -on fall th r wa a prame fir for me, I would be glad to manage it.[...]tarted ea t of town abou n mile , by a tr in. could the Governor notified me that[...]into anada and back into th tate . It w fin 11[...]d in th ph im b country. blew no rain and hardly any now. hool upply sale;men would stop at the chool and ay, "Oh my, it will w h km n ' Ho Igo take this country a century to e erg t back to normal, a ip d u a full 1 k from the gra roo hav even blowed a ' · " u tgiv[...]om r in 1 h r fir u rain and in 30 day o a h r fir, burn d th barren a now." b , " I[...]1 m~t · . a a In 1 and om[...]. 1 haul a ton a would tip P, woul[...]in di r ch o r 1 and |
| [...]in the school, took care of the first four grades and was taught by Miss Otis. The first room to the ri[...]. I can remember some of the old time ranchers and tockman complaining there would never be enough kids in this town to fill such a large building, and to think the tru tee would spend $6000.00 to build such a large place. The trustees were Tom Cushing, P. J. Nacey, W. S. Patch, and J. Z. Bruegger, Clerk and Treasurer. In sixteen years, the building was so[...]ale was elected County Treasurer of Valley County and moved to Glasgow. ylve ter and Lavina Cooper were the parents of eight children. They are Mattie (Mrs. C.E. Astrope), Ben F., Dell A., Ora (Mr . P.J. Nacey), Pearl (Mrs. A.F. Robbins), Maude (Mrs. Frank Farley), Willie H., and George Cooper, all of whom are deceased.[...]Arthur Murray and Bill Casper - 1922 The correct spelling of the[...]to visit his only child, my father, Guy H. Cosper and family, he had difficulty finding him because no one knew a man named Co per, but there wa a Guy Casper living omewhere up on moke Creek. It was my father, and he had some difficulty explaining to his father a[...]in the pelling of the name. My brother , William and James made the effort to keep their names corr ctly pelled, but ince I didn't bother, I am known as a Ca per.[...]ame time. Both worked for Mr. and Mr . Walter Patch. The Patches operated a saloon and other inter s . It wa[...]here my parents got together. y mother, a widow with[...]urr y and a cou in Dav Bur hi who wer already[...]located in the ar a. The younge t girl, Leona Gillette[...]argar t, and Bernice w r nt to chool at the old Fort[...]family and a time pa d, Pearl b cam Pearl Allen,[...]M rgar t b came argar t urr y, and Bernie b ame B rnic a ter whil Leona b cam Leona c il.[...]1903, i ter Ethel (01 on) in 1907, and I was born in 1910. Pearl, Maggie and Bernice also known[...] |
| [...]16 where I first prairies stretched whole and clean then, untarni h d by attended school. barbed wire and homesteader shacks. He often h ard of My father was a rancher, saloon keeper, and I remember buffalo still roaming the hill ,[...]st of only seeing dead carcasses with hid on, and n v r a hospital in Culbertson. I also remember that my mother live one. baked bread for sale and that my older sisters, Pearl, Three thousand longhorn teers and cow wer trail d Maggie, and Bernice became marvelously good cooks from[...]cle in about 1 4. Taking xa The time and years of these experiences elude me--I just longhorn steer and turning it into ca h wa an w v ur . reme[...]He knew nothing of cattle or ranching but wa a fi dg of men, so he simply went out and hired faithful for n to do the hiring and firing and hos ing of the cowboy .[...]grass and better hay meadows caused Mr. Day to hift hi Thomas Cushing Courchene, an army scout and range, but still the winter ofl 6[...]d out many interpreter for Generals Custer, Terry and Miles, was Montana cattlemen, took 90% of[...]with another trail drive from Texa which he 1888, and the first livery barn. He was one of the first[...]early pring and didn't reach Montana until late Augu t Mr. Courchene had a ranch about one mile east of or early[...]ping point for DT cattle, but Mr. Courchene had a large rambling house of six or after 1889 the animal were driven aero the Mi ouri seven rooms, a good barn and sheds and large corrals. River and shipped out from Culbertson which had been These[...]of logs. founded a few years earlier. When the Great Northern Rail[...]County, the line of survey ran through about a dozen cowhands and a many a twenty. He ran the house and cut some of the other buildings in two. Mr. T[...]objected. These log buildings were Herefords and Galloway . He al o ra p on barley large and it was almost impossible to move them. The[...]about ,0 0 Railroad company very obligingly made a bend in the heep and by 1912 he had old all oft ie , d cl a ring railroad tracks and missed the buildings. The Railroad he wa n[...]and Mr. Day no land. But i m[...]s of Montana. He taught in Culbertson for ven ear and with th a i tanc of hi daughter, Lily Dale, started the Cul[...]a J.. D[...]onth and 14 |
| established the first Ford a gency. He retired from The flu[...]was expecting another child and almost died. Ernest[...]river was floating full of ice, no bridge, and the ferry wasn't[...]to the river. Ernest risked his life to cross in a row boat,and they both risked their lives to cross back over.[...]little hope for my mother, and the baby which was Christian Edwin Ellerka mp[...]I van Lee, now living in Bozeman. brothers and two sisters. While still a young boy his My father's first job in Montana was digging post holes parent moved to a farm nea r a small town of for the first telephone line between Sidney and Culbertson. Huntingburg, Indiana, near th e county seat of Jasper. He and Ernest McGinnis got ten cents a hole. Many of There he helped hand saw the lumber and shingles for the these holes were dug in scorio, and sometimes they make large barn and home. These old b uildings were still in good only twenty cents a day. Next he worked as deck hand on condition in 1932 when I made a trip to my gra ndfather's the old cable boat, and later on the Big Jimmie, now in the farm . They w[...]cross the old Potoka River from Wix mine, and he was a miner there during the depression. my dad's folks. Dad met mother at a pie social where h e He planted his first crop of wheat by hand from a sack bought her pumpkin pie, and informed her he was going to carried on his shoulder. He cut it with a scythe and cradle. marry her. We beat out the grain on a blanket, and poured the grain They were married September 9, 1908, and lived on my from a pail to a tub and the wind blew out the straw and grandfather's farm for two years. Kath ern Alice[...]His second crop was planted with a box like deal that Fredrick was al o born there.[...]ween the two families, so my father left the farm and pushed a lever back and forth , it broadcast the wheat. We moved to Huntingburg and worked as a brick maker . ha rvested the same way. Relative and trouble followed so he moved to By th e next year a neighbor got a drill. My dad borrowed Indianapoli . Another on,[...]it to put in his cr op. Fred Behlen got a Rumley tractor and there. thresher and harvested for the area. I think 20 bushel an My father was a fireman on the Railroad in a[...]p my dad had, as it was the drought Indianapolis. A mea le epidemic took the life of Luther[...]My dad courted my mother barefoot, and he followed his The entire family was near death, and only my mother's old walking plow over t[...]in the shea ves,' until his big foot came down on a The quarantine was very trict. o one could com[...]rd to thorns. my father' i ter to come and help. The Health Officers My fathe r also learned the trade of cobbler. He made and refu ed to let her in . he aid, "There i a dead baby in wore wooden shoes. He on ce aid to me when I yelled at my there, the mother and another child are near death, boy for the noise th ey ma de runni ng a cross the floor, omeone ha to help." he pu hed[...]grandfather farm. My father ho wed them to me a nd aid let u e him, then clo ed the lid , put him on the door tep they were made by Daniel Boone a he cro ed through nd hew taken away. It took u[...], box ocial , d, and ther wa hadow social , prayer meeting , Bible study, and the p · ided t[...]Tryon' birthday party. he wa in a wh 1 chair mo t of ye r b for n[...]near ioux Pa . Ev ryone came from th whol a r a . W My dad lik · he nd my mo[...]5. It g Hon cro k of ic cold 1 monad fr zer and fr zer of w[...]of pril 1 16. d dw o impr ed by th black fi rtil had two mall children.[...]r ar no c me ri s. Thing went from bad to wor . o a year 1 r w pack d Romi thought th r w re a lot of hill to lide down. our things, hipped our furnitur and came to Montana to Ther wer no w d[...]only d r mic . The air live . I wa even y ar old and Romi wa five . wa o clear, th hill o cl n . Th re wa a wid fir guard[...] |
| plowed from the Missouri River to Sidney, and I have been next move was to Port Huron, Mi[...]. Will, being the eldest on, homestead. We plowed a fire guard around where our home came Wes[...]on May Our first night in our new home we were a wakened early 14, 1884, Mrs. Fergus and the seven children followed on by the yellow hamm[...]es north of Geyser. Each of the member then fil d a Coyotes ran in packs. We could see them most any time of claim and so spread out the holding of the Fergu day, but a[...]hospitality and that Charlie Russell was often a vi itor. It We went to the Cherry Creek Churc[...]l, what that Charles M. Russell, then a young arti t, made hi ever minister traveled thro[...]well known as "The Last of the Five Thou and." mile west on highway 16. It joined our neighbors on the Will helped to build the log house and to organiz th west, Ernest McGinnis. Ranch and then sold out his claim to his mother. Hem ta My brother and I went to the John Lee school. I finished sch[...]rio, Canada. They were married on Augu t 21, 1 4. and me ready for high school, my dad decided to move to Two children were born of this union. A daughter, Culbertson. In the spring of '23, I sta[...]"Bill" Fergus (as he was known in thi area) and his 1924.[...]amily moved to Culbertson in 1906. He establi hed a hor e My dad worked in Culbertson as gandy dancer, butcher, ranch on Elkhorn Creek, later known a "Charley Cr ek". meat cutter, stucco man, carpenter. He built several homes There are a number of versions of how "Charley Creek" got and other buildings around the area. He died at my home its name. Bill's version was because of a hor e named on February 16, 1971 at the age of 90[...]" was always found there when he ventured off. on a visit to Seattle at the time and flew back to Culbertson The ranch was located south of the Mi ouri River and wa for the funeral. There are at present three ch[...]e children grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren, and 2 great, great looked forward with great an[...]out his horses and invested in choice white-faced[...]west and south of Culbertson. The land w of ulbe on[...]was the former headuarter of ajor ulbertson and al o MAUDE FAIRLEY[...]own as Kingsley Coulee. At one time he al o owned a[...]ey, 9, longtime Culbertson resident, Mr. and Mr . Fergu are both died in 1975, in Roosevelt Me[...]She was born May 15, 1 6, in Delano, Minne ota, a maj · · daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ylvester Cooper. he grew up and and attended chool in Culbertson. March 11, 1901 ,[...]lb rtson in 192 . H r husband di , a, Arizona. and on March 10 1934, h marri d rank . Fairl yin[...]gr Mr . Fair} y wa a member of Culb rtson Ea tern tar and Thoma M nn Am rican Legion Po t Auxiliary. urv[...]fornia; illiam hi Id of ount Terrac , Wa hington, and Rob rt hi Id of od ountain, a k., and a daugh r, r . B b acPh r on of Wood ountain, as . FERG A ILY By Ad l illiam F rg[...]a |
| Claims Clerk until his retirement in 1970. Adele held a for many years and was Superintendent four years. Mary position in the engineering department of a well-known taught nine years and was also principal part of that time. hip buildi[...]for awhile, then sold to Pete Johnson and his sons. The Coney and their only son passed away in 1972.[...]in a nursing home in Glasgow. Hazel Stanford now owns[...]eral store in Culbertson in 1906. His wife, Anna, and four children, by Earl and Ray Fryhling Lloyd, Gordon, Bernice and Walter, joined him in 1907. On January 5, 190 , a fire, which started in a small Louis Fryhling enlisted in the Unit[...]Regiment Troop D June 7th, 1888. He served about and oon consumed the entire block, including Mr. three years as a Trooper for General Nelson A. Miles, with Folkestad's bu iness. He rebuilt the[...]ort material were Montana products. The building, a two- Custer, Fort Smith and Lame Deer. On several occasions tory tructure, h[...]ous use since. It is now Trooper Fryhling rode as a special guard for General Miles occupied by the C[...]when the General was traveling between forts and to Mr. Folke tad' fir t general store was esta[...]rding General Miles were always of high praise as a Bowbell and in F1axton, North Dakota. In 1913, he closed fine General and Commander with concern for his men the Culbert on and North Dakota store and moved to and the horses they rode. Arthur, a town aero the Mi ouri River about three miles[...]ha Kristensen. building which had been erected by a man named Arthur The Louis Fryhling's had a family of four boys and three David, a retired government employee from the Indian girls[...]In 1915, Mr. Folkestad Mr. Fryhling operated a Merchant Tailoring business moved hi tock from Ar[...]Minnesota. February 7,191 . Hi widow old the tore and left eastern During the early years of 190[...]ryhlings could hold back Charlie Folke tad was a charter member of the Masonic no longer. So, Grandpa Fred Fryhling and his family of Lodge in Culbert on. They were members of the three sons and one daughter headed for Montana. This Pre byteria[...]ool. Augu t, am and daughter Marie, all taking up claims on Mr . Folke tad, Gordon and Bernice are now deceased. home tead about eight m[...]claim were filed and in the pring of 1907 the familie , pet , cow and all the what-not arrived in Culbertson by[...]famou fir t rid by Lumb r wagon drawn by a four-hor e J FR KLI F MILY[...]o the home tead, thi was rchie urr n built up a nice pl ce on Two Mil re k to be th futur home and growing up place. Great n r where i · ·[...]· ranch cold pring wind gr ted them a the hor plo ed onT[...]g . h fi ed until he and two ofhi th f mily looked from th mud cov r d wagon th y children m t with a tragic death cro ing the f rr boat at aw a hard lifi in tor , nd it wa all of hat. Brockton. Loui and arth Fr hling wi h i childr n tarted T n · re a hort time wh n they found a fanning on their horn tead. ood and bad e r came and horn d m nt b tw n Two Mil and w nt, but thi littl farm produc d enough to uppor[...]r their i ter nd h r hu b nd , Mr. family a th gr w up. and W. b. Whitcomb had b n a mini ter In 1 20 ad i ion wa made to quit farming. n auction nd ·r ch r. Ther w r a lot of country ale wa h Id to di po of all machin r and live tock. ch pri o r . Whitcomb, D 11, and Mar The horn tead w turn d ov r o the Id[...]who continu d farming it. Mr. Whitcomb a Fr nklin w nt to fanning and Loui and artha Fr hling with th ir two oung r on , rai ing om c ttl th drought cam nd the Earl and Ro , mov d o Poplar wher Loui op ra d a home teader mov h country chool[...]until 1 26 when h r tir d. Mr . Whitcomb a y Franklin w r h in th[...]. Mr . Whitcomb w ·ncipal Fr hling, Jr., a grand on.[...] |
| Fred married Marie Anderson of Froid and they operated the homestead until retiring to Culbert on and the ranch was then taken over by Fred Jr. who sti[...]bout 1938 when they moved to the Flathead valley, and farmed near Ronan, op rating a Holstein Dairy until they retired and moved to Mis oula . Elvina married Willie Larsen and they farmed near th old homestead, and they are still living on the farm wh r they raise[...]arie married Henning Kamp of Kenmare, orth Dakota and they farmed near Kenmare for man · y ar before moving to the West oast. Earl became a department tore operator and work din that line until he retired in Town end ,[...]worked with the United States Railway Mail ervice and wa a upervi or out f pokane for many years until hi[...]fall on th • un Riv r. Th Goldb rg-,· had a daught r , harlot , and a boy, ,Jack ,Jr. Th had th ir own .-how[...]t am h n th childr n gr up . .J° ck and hi, wiC h v[...]and d di hing work . 'harlott Ii <'. at . ·tan[...]ndr w iold •n c to · ~on in 1HOfl and got work[...]middl fork o Ch · ( a ·ight known n. th,[...]ck r r a from wa. lot.' of . prinJ.! t r. w[...]ing cattl<•. H • . p •nt th • wi h a , . doing · ·ng an P ,. H ,umm r. building and fencin · d.nhPcnuldom•dav mad[...]ot call 1t horn ndr w cam fr av and h 1--. ·nt for hi~ Th odo H brok h[...]h odor who <, ·h1. hitch m tlw and later marri d E rman .[...]m · t1 wa~ no good land on and wa a good rider. Jack and hi wi trod ha t o dor fil don land on and fair . H did hi trick riding on a ry roan Har ('[...]he bought from H nry 1i ller. Th h a dandy oul r ot him a joh f•t:ding aft ,Jack tram d him .[...]tn h•arn to k farm d the. h rman plac for a time and did. how. . p a k En .T d out in and h:n-imng lw could clo to horn . In th "di[...] |
| Golden Brothers - notice anvil and forge.[...]the old Jim Spurgeon Ranch) where he and his wife, Julia, a si ter of Jack hields, lived except for the winte[...]1 year old and landed in Culbert on in 1 97. He[...]home teaded south of the river in 1907, and through good fanning and good management built up a fine home. He[...]wa of terling character and worked hard for the good of[...]ord r Patrol from 1926 until ::3 rat d a . ., Ing f .· a loon in Cuther on for. veral y n[...]rnnch on Hard. crabhle ( for . Fr ' and n tan . 0 car a[...] |
| [...]Mr. and[...]cond Rev. O.J. Hagen and family and gue ts at Ann Hagen and HARLE D L H[...]f lo. I |
| o, I looked around and the people were down in the mouth it eemed. They just had a dread of blizzards and it nearly cleaned the country out. The cattle died by the thousands. Frank Arnette had 11,000 in a pasture from Canada to the Mi souri and Dakota to the Big Muddy and he gathered 5,000 after the blizzard. They drifted down in the Mi ouri break and stood two deep, and froze. The railroad fences were full of hides. Th[...]then stayed. He was all Texan. Yes, a life wasn't worth[...]I started out looking for a claim. I heard of a place 1971 - Norma and Bill, Ella and Charles Hawkins, between Bainville and Culbertson, so found the location. Clarence Potte[...]The Great orthem Railroad ran across it and it was open[...]ome logs down by the river and hauled them onto the[...]claim to hold it down, then went to work and put up a little[...]I bought a team of broncs and went up to Minot, orth Dakota, bought a set of harnes , and put the hames on[...]one hor e, put the roundup on the other one and started out.[...]I topped at Mondak on the road to Minot, met a fellow who[...]wa going the ame way o throwed in with him and rode[...]h y n th · · · oject. Off and on[...]f h on a 0¢ an hour and[...]i 1 kind eat a 50 b low. T a far a th morning[...]w o opl in th t ce. cBride and hi[...]fo o I Froid now, and co t[...]the Q a all in a da ' ork. Th r home[...]ouri r . a ver drank . cou[...]me . The came up riv a . roundup c ng . E ry hin nt fin and I W had ,Jame . windle who c wi h t[...] |
| [...]because our three children each were born in a dif£ r nt for that. She was Ella Flink and I think we had it all made county, in the sa[...]trici yin After we got back they charivaried us and all the 1928 by batteries. I had it[...]built of neighbors came. The weather was fine but a storm came up concrete in 1913, roof and all, 14 feet high. It till · ood so they stayed overnight. We slept on the floor. and it keeps potatoe good in su~rner. The fruit t ar While we were eating, Alex Forsyth pulled out a biscuit two rows 700 fe t long at lea t. T ha b the from somewhere and asked if that was one of my biscuits. I crabapple . There has been a harv m kind both didn't say anything so he hit it against something and it summer and winter. The cherrie · tand th cold. was solid as a rock. Ella didn't know what to do but it was a The tree turn black. Cro d with pl '11 la t four to mea[...]la t ju ta many then they ar bake. A new world started and we got along fine. We put in done. I got one ripe pear in four y en they died. a good garden and had a fairly good crop. We got a milk Grape fruit a few year , then die. Th v alway b n cow. We did our trading at Bainville. We put a grain some cros ed plum every year to[...]t ha been rewarding b cau e you could hop . wheat and some flax and oats. My neighbor dropped by Then rhubarb. I've had all kind of them. In 1 9 and told me to sell my homestead. I told him that I a[...]nine o I got live on it so I followed him to town and waited across the rhubarb root dried and ground up, took half a tea poon dry street until he came out of a store. I met him in the street with water and it did fairly well. I doctored from 1 9 to and told him to heave atit, buthedidn'tgothrough with[...]nary. It aid in When I went to Mandan I bought a ballpoint pen and I black and white that the cau e of Pemiciou Anemia wa had that with me wherever I went and I've got that pen yet. shortage of hydrochloric acid. I got that then, but I couldn't I had a pack with me and a blanket was quite a help, for get much after that. I wouldn 't go to the ho pital and! have instance. I was finishing up threshing in the fall of 1902 been hitting it good so far. It' up and down, but I'm here and I was hitting toward home, which at that time was[...]herb doctor. Paul, Minnesota. It started snowing and it just kept up. One thing that helped my trees, wa I had the la Finally I got tired and coming to a rock in the trail, I sat out dike and ditche ea t and we t of the home tead abou down on it and when I woke up I was frozen stiff. I a mile and a half long with four mall dam in them with managed to fall off the rock, wallow in the snow, and the waterways through the trees. Without t[...]ne took the wor t beating. Then I was standing in a farmer's yard thanking him for There[...]thing about thi place of mine. It' ju t breakfast and I felt all right and went on as though the picture of my f[...]don 't know how far I went that railroad and highway lanted corner aero the land and night but if I hadn't had that pack with me and made that the creek the ame place. place-[...], sacking potatoe . I made one old · r and two y up my mind to get the sack out and they found me in the away I wa ix cellarway steps. They got me out of there and got a doctor hou ek bu it wa v and he puJled me out of it.[...]1,0 0 acres under control doing mo tofm own work and then had a ten cow · · -30 head her[...]g three it k pt our no to the grind ju t as hard a I worked and th n o 4:30 A.M. until dark at nigh in a W · all at Lan[...]I pa a |
| We lived in a log hou e 40 years with a lean-to addition, and a father and daughter were killed. This was known as then built a new stucco hou e, which is very nice and so the Hages killing. dift rent. I pent o[...]of the other In 1917 he was building a house for Gust Johnson mending leak and the wind would whip it all loose and southwest of Froid. That was the summe[...]My hu band wa great for going into everything in a big father, H. Beck, had passed away in 19[...]awberries, so we had In April of 191 Adolph and Mrs. Beck were married at lot of work all the tim[...]t would not be three children, so Adolph had a ready-made family. of intere t to other . The fun we have had here, when all were young and going to socials, dances and places together, the chool in the country, the worries when a torm would come up, the runaways that almost mad[...]y husband was hurt in one when the old t child wa a year old, sneaked off to ride with him on the plow with six horses, two leaders. They got tangled up and tarted running with the outfit. He had to get the[...]hen we had all tho e potatoe to tore until spring and there was no hea th re. We would take a pail oflive coals down. This cau ed th ga and he wa about dead when I found him. The doctor wa in the neighborhood and got here quickly or he c uld not have been revive[...]r. The folk had old their farm the ummer of 1971 and moved to Ridgecrest. Claire has nine childr n; Br[...]d, Allen, Corwin, adene, 1Adolph Helberg and family in Overland car. h ryl, B cky, and Jim. orma married William D. Alexander whose[...]or on th pre nt one three mile ea t of it. Norma and William have four children ; Ro emary, Dwight, Ruth Ann, and Virginia. harlie Hawkin pa ed away in January[...]Adolph Helb rg tanding with hor e . Carsten Beck and outh Dakota. He came with hi par from Al ac H, nry arl on in wagon. Elli and Elta Carl on on horse . Lo ·ne, Germ n . He wa f[...]· in a two room hom tead hack for many y ar[...]tor or om on h d with w a 20- 0 Rumley en·g[...]t der' h I nd , and let[...] |
| and Adam Schledewitz, Ed Copps, and Bert Watts, who on driving then was just a matter of keeping your ar started the coal mine s[...]f human liv Wagner, John Fleishman, Otto Waldow, and Sr. Henry well a cattle. Many hor di d pil uld[...]or interest in wells. get down in the traw and coul . adjoining their land. Henry Sugger also was a neighbor. radio to warn p ople of comin[...]could hear. Later cam th p a careful o we could get W L a Bell and kyland cotty'. They · .[...]Amo and Andy came on W[...]wa to run to the pump and g it. Th ld i outhouse out back wa a hurry up job in win wa alway a ear RoebuckorMontgom Wa[...]There wa a Dr. Darland in roid , and D ·n[...]Adolph had was six mile outh of Froid and t.[...]heridan, and in 1919 Roo evelt n[...]In mentioning doctor -one ti a n[...]n he put five titche in t wit Nat LeClair and daughter Hazel and her two children that looked like a darning n die. seated on drill. Adolph Helberg se[...]called out. He would come a far a our p hor e , get a team from u , and go on. I mi[...]coffee, and we wo · On a aturday night there wa u ually a dance at go, anot m someon[...]e. Ba ket cial were Th t il a must two or three time a ear. The women bro ugh a box Br d ha h lunch and these were auctioned off making a profit. Mo t Hamil ta of the ti[...]ano her of Hom Th guy' girlfriend and make a profit on it Hing it back to Lill ( him. In the early day all work wa don you hitch d up a bronc to a wagon , t of excitem nt. In tho da r ·[...]ow High , w~n by rp a call d h walk d,[...] |
| [...]ward to heridan County, southward to Three Buttes and Blue Hill, and ea tward toward North Dakota. Charlie was a lover of cenic beauty. With his hobby of photography, he collected a large assortment of pictures of the area through[...]of the Bolstad Act for a few years. He was well known for[...]hi tand on temperance and strict law enforcement. A owner of the first movie camera in the area, he f[...]rodeo , parade , and many athletic events. He was known a a great friend of the Indians and was[...]community wa formerly known a Drew. Charlie pa ed away in 193 and Virgie in 1965. The[...]re ide in eattle, Wa hington. Both Paul and Jake reside[...]o work d for p . a H nr Krueg r wa born July 15 1 6[...]on d a a ton m on and farmer and at Virgie J · r m mb r d for rd ning and he ti th wa till in mand a a ma on all flower . · 1 rchlight accoun[...]to ulb ononJanuary way into every room, a oon a th ved, atte t d 11,[...]ry. ulbertson for thr term from 1920 to 1926, a term on th Hi wife ha now ay o h surviv d by on , school board from 1925 to 192 , and as con table for a time. Frank P. Lawr n d Willie and a daughter, He was al o appointed a federal agent in th enforcement Go[...] |
| MR. AND MRS. HARRY LARSEN[...]g t th fo hool. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Larsen were married at Hampton ,[...]. . Nebraska on March 21, 1917, and came to Montana the gon t a[...]ho pita} with a[...]the thirti a th pric[...]e i marri nd liv in ul and h[...]Ruby and her hu band liv in kr o. D nald i a urveyor, hi wife i a teacher th at Kali p Jl,[...]Dean is a highway ngineer at attl , Wa hington .[...]1936. Back row: Harr , Elaine, ena, Dean, Donald and Rub . In et: Allen three ar old.[...]on 7, ·p 2 , Range 57. a o . W wer in[...]er b . w and a hal n t n, and th l Dakota. a |
| Ro buck for two w ll phone , battery operated, and wire. We u ed ix foot 1 x4' nailed on the fence post to support th wire. ft r a year or owe had seventeen customers. L ter they formed the heep Creek Telephone Company and put in a real line.[...]Bobbi, Brian, and Brenda. Leroy Larsen was a member of[...]McGinnis and they have four children, Ron, Dennis, Linda, and DeeAnn. He is a member of the corporation.[...]Della Larsen Wix married Fred Wix and they have two children, Janice and Jim. She is employed at the ASCS[...]office in Culbertson. Arlie Larsen is a partner in the family[...]children, Rhonda, Kathy, Lana, Arlun, Cynthia, and[...]Jeannie, Rex, Laurie and Karla.[...]Fred wa born and raised near Toronto Canada. A a young venturous lad and eeking gr ner pa ture , he Wi[...]various job . One of the e job wa on a new railroad which brought him near thi ar a where he cro ed the border[...]ldr n ive a a cowboy and ranch hand. with h r fam 'ly[...] |
| [...]do south side of the Missouri River and north of ioux Pa s. trading and mark ting, thi t[...]ak or ulb r h y and wintered cattle.[...]ti n Fred worked and rode for well known rancher , uch as be[...]k J.S. Day, Frank Arnette, riding night and day through of candy or fruit. rain, sleet and snow. He had many close friend in this Indian with all th ir ol po i area, and a new way of life. Grandma and Grandpa our plac with team and wagon, eith Shields were the parents of the late Jack hield and Julia Fort Bu r ulb o poi Gould. They were like real parents to Fred , and treated topp d k our f ri mi him as one of their own sons. There wa alway a place at which th uld ha the Sh[...]r him. A chi] w al w lo k d forw h .[...]seven miles south of Bainville (before it became a decorated. T · alw u ur town). Culbertson and Mondak were the nearest village . the su pen arri a While still the foreman and needing a cook for him elf which were t mori and the hired hands is where Ida entered the picture.[...]· Ida May Bowers Ratledge was born and rai d in packing blo ce[...]c hou with Arkansas. She married Walter Ratledge, and with three ice wa taken out when n ded and put into a small children , Marie, Nova and Bunnie, went to barrel , thu alway a cool drin Bremerton, Washington to join her husba[...]homemade ice box wa acquir employed as a carpenter in the shipyards. Ida and the which provided a cool r place e children were there only a week when he fell from a To tore ice in winter for the scaffold and died. This left her alone and among stranger , job and a lot of manpower. Th so again she moved on, this t[...]Montana, in 1904 because her brother Bert Bowers and sawdu t to keep through the ho ou d wife Cora had located on a homestead east of town. in making a p ial reat-ho . A few weeks after her arrival here, Bert found[...]rly da employment for her as cook and housekeeper at the YZ Ever one helped with all the , and all Ranch for Fred Leonard. All the ranch buildings including the children. Farming had to be a family affair. the house were constructed of logs, which were taken from We knew what a ever winter m ant. F had to b nearby[...]hauled to the cattl each day, and the rby timb r A romance blossomed here and Fred and Ida were provided some helter. hen the cattl h a h rat I of married in 1905. He homesteade[...]e the pump they would come out for a w lco drink , and ranch on the north, and later purchased it, rai ing cattle then a check count would be made. and farming in what was known as Lakeside Valley in t[...]p cial . arch d had a b aut Three children blessed their home, Elma Elsie and momin ·[...]rn in the log home . tead th co cabin. A clo e neighbor and friend, Mr . Ruth hul z f; wh acted a midwife. he wa remembered a a wond rful wi h little lady thr[...]of one brin large family room, two bedrooms and one large clo t. w Later two room were add d on, and built of lumb r, a kitchen and dining room. The YZ brand wa later purcha d b th ir daugh r Elsie, and later her son hub P rk pur ha it, and at pr nt till own thi brand. ome of th arly day fri nd , n ighbo and rang rider wer Jimmie iller, Frank inri h uk w tman, Bill G org and Paul artin, Bill ran_dall JackAll n Fr d wantand[...], w. littl call d Lak d om of h children a nding thi mil . Our par n[...]from th h Th first trip I can rem m r a wh n I a old. oth r took us children to Arkan for[...]in . h n arri d d pot by n un I with am and lum r agon. n r forgo th t bump rid o r h tr k r d, nd wi h d r h m for a l igh rid wi h dadd . h n r tum d horn our fath r m t u a th k id d p hich con i d of a o]d ho ar on a railroad iding . thoroughly njo d our rid[...] |
| Ba ·eball ga me a nd foot race also a dd ed to th e list of Horses and buggies or horses and sleds provided entertainment.[...]first vehicle was Year pa sed all too quickly a nd the children grew to purchased. Even after that, for several years, the horse and dulthood. Marie married Frank Falick, they moved to buggy or sled proved the most reliable and most E,ug ne, Oregon, and h e died in 1974. ova was m a rried economical. to :JUS Peter on, they a l o moved to E ugen e, Oregon , and Box socials, country dances and just visiting provided she died in eptember 1975.[...]nment during the early years. In He was killed in a truck accident at Ren o, evad a in 1953. later years, Canasta was a favorite game of the Luft Elma married Henry Becher. El ie ma rried P ete P a rk and family. they live in Culbert on.[...]REINHARDT CHARLES MACHGAN DAVID AND SELMA LUFT[...]n The parent of David Luft, Conrad (1 57-1940) and Chri tin (1 59-192 ) Luft, left Russia in 1 90 to[...]Reinhardt Charles Machgan was born in Germany and home in Canada. After 17 year s the fa mily moved[...]s at the age of Montana to home tead in 1907. Can a dian h om esteading two years. He finishe[...]e The ight olde t children were born in Rus ia a nd the before. Mac liked to be out in the[...]on different jobs throughout North Dakota and eastern year old when the family homesteaded in e[...]tson in 1918. He Town hip 29, Range 55. Initially a " hack" wa built for remained there until he retired in 1950 except for one helter and a evere torm fo rced the helter to be h a red year when he bid in at tanford, Montana. He then bid by the family and the animal . · ba[...]auled from the timbered area of the Mi ouri River a nd plastered with a straw-mud mi ture. elma Tietz wa one of eight[...]at an early age. elma wa born in Ru ia i 7 and migrated to Montana with her family in 1 10. The[...]ulbert n. n D cember avid Luft and Ima Tietz were married du · rvi[...]h fir r c me o day and the[...]·n 1 a tt nd m og B n[...]att nd lb l i and LeRo . n d[...] |
| [...]J oh · rbuilt them and if Mac was through work, he would often[...]John Ma nnin g of There wasn't a hospital in Culbertson at that time. When a[...]le were quite ill with the flu. Mac was fortunate and and un cle in Ka did not contract it, but his wife, E[...]mportant Armistice he r d. In Day and the little town really celebrated. He aid there arm vin were seven saloons in the town and a couple ofrestaurant , learning barb pool ha[...]m , h fil d on 1 0 Mac retired in May, 1950 and we took our first trip to acre of Ia n[...]'s sister, Anne. Manning a nd arg (W[...]Helmer), J ohn Jr. and William. (Willia o xt) .[...]· wh n Willi wa t a .[...]on f th ir childr n JOHN AND IDELL MA NI G to b[...]oom log David Burshia, Jr. was married to a full blooded Indian house on hi Vanderbui[...]rai · d girl named White Buffalo Eagle. She was a chief's cattle, hor e and a f w daughter. To this union one daughter was born[...]uilt wa hrown op n to Burshia. David and White Buffalo Eagle eparated in ettler and a herd law came into eff ct around 1 6. A South Dakota when Idell was about a year and a half old. flood on the river bottom in 1[...]Agency in ou th h ou e into the riv r a took al of Joh ' t milk Dak[...]cow · and inc thing r g too cong[...]ittle girl back to hi nt, decided to lea e and back to Montana . who was also his step[...]he caravan wer Manning, hi wif Id II , and Ponton, to raise. Dave then made his way to Mil[...]hild ren harlie, An iam and David; Montana by way of the Black Hills. He enlisted in the army Jack and Ellen Murr illi and lfr d ; as an Indian coutfor General Mile at Fort Keyo, and wa el and I Bur ·h · · a scout for five year · scouting through the Dakota , John Ha Montana and Canada. Manning He married a econd time and to t · nion children were born: Frank B ·a; El th B Bruguier; Anna Bur hia ;[...]; Burshia Miller Adel' Wal and Bur hia all of whom When Id 11 wa ab · tepmother, Mary an o 1 and Da · immigrated to ta) of g r at p th ir arriv[...]found r th ol Indian in an · · dog and rattl had to, but h outh Dakota e[...]ng Black ) and · n[...] |
| cattle and Ohead of good addle horses, with an unknown[...]Indian school on the east end of Mi ouri, he had a wood contract with the government to Pop[...]nded up all upply wood for the teamboats as well a the Fort Peck the kids and made them attend school so William and Agency. When wood grew more scarce, he secured a hay Johnnie Manning and Ellen Murray went to school there, contract from[...]f Poplar, he had gone exploring for more hay land and found a hay heaven on the Big Muddy. He knew then he woul[...]who moved to the Muddy in 1 92 from the outh ide, and a man called Tulu Philips. Tulu wa a bootlegger and he sold or traded "Tulu" (some kind of Canadian whiskey) to the Indian for furs. John Manning and the Murray family went into the heep bu ine , ea[...]ier, ran the trading tore in Poplar. haw al o had a ranch about eight mile northwe t of Culbertson, about 1 92. Manning and Murray went out of the sheep business in 1 95. Ji[...]appear on the range about 1906. John Mannin wa a hard worker but he lo t much of his money in bad[...]ed again, lived the re t of her life at the ranch and in Poplar and died December 25, 1 26. John' younge t on, Will[...]nna Manning who married Ray Bracken of Homestead; and William Manning. Anna Manning wa married to Jim[...]ain. Eight children were Sarah Manning and William Manning, Sr. Taken by their born but all are decea d except Emily Mor e of Poplar and home in Poplar. Star car behind them. Howard Helmer of Billing . John Jr. died in 1 07 from a lung hemmorhagecau ed by hor falling on him and puncturing a lung. h rl Manning di data very young age.[...]Her In 1 91 William' father took a government hay tory i in the Froid tion).[...]Jon in l 17. Ralph belly de p to a hor eon the Big Muddy bottom. He mov d di din 1 1[...]fro go. Th Ii ved on th ning Ranch a D vid nning di d in 1 2 .[...] |
| Bracken and had two children, Linda and Tommy. arah Thy . di[...]numb by Adele Fergus and Lucille 01 on well[...]assachu ett . Antoni' trade in Poland was that of a baker and he practiced hi profession in the Boston area unt[...]lo range with th e tall grass, the rolling plains and the big sky b Floria n M a nn country". Land claims were being offered to new ettler . Antoni took advantage of the offer and then returned to Ja n fr m Wi c n in a nd Boston for his family. He had acquired a "land claim home[...]s wa nn a a rn 1w r ma rri din wife and family of six children gave up the luxury of a 1905 Mi . comfortable home. Their po essions, plus a good upply of J .A throug h wh · tools and implements necessary to start their new way of[...]ch of hor life, were packed in an "emigrant car", and they headed and co · Lan[...]and to re r Id co[...]farm , whic o a nn Ra ne infancy the other, Dorothy, better known[...]e cook d meal hrough th up and eventually became the wife of Edward " ute" betwe n 1 97 and Anklam of Culbertson. They have three children . After a He bought 320 a few years of almost unbearable hard hip the famil[...]thereafter, An oni Railroad. opened a bakery in Harlem and o o 1 a nd la un d years. However, greater opportu · a n· with newly developing equipm · p t Culbertson a an id[...]B r a fa t tim at O Ranch .[...]a[...] |
| windle place. They took turns having a man out riding tracks till the next mor[...]cks revealed he had over the cattle. To name just a few they were Jake Stokke, shot himself in the leg getting through a barbed wire fence Guy mith, Oscar Olstead, Pete Arnold and Jim windle. on Pete Johnson's place,[...]Between the exposure and loss of blood, he died soon after[...]The Loren Widners had moved to California and Mrs.[...]Harry McCormick had a large family and when some[...]After a long illness, Harry died. Mrs. McCormick was a good manager and a hard worker and put the younger[...]ildren through school. Mrs. McCormick is now dead and of this family there is a grandson and granddaughter[...]homestead days and located on Shack Creek. Mrs. McDonald had a brother, Jay Scarbro, who worked for the Frank Weinrich , James A. .-,'1cCann, F.B. McCann and H. Diamond Ranch and had a homestead east of Culbertson. takke, hired man.[...]He later sold this and moved to Redwater country. The[...]McDonalds lost their daughter, Susie, in a brooder house[...]had lost his family they sent for him and he lived out his plac outh of Bjorge' , the Lee Blevin place and John life there with his folks. ull[...]In 1 1 McCann got into the polled Hereford cattle and F.B. ha been int re ted in polled Hereford and keeping hi book on hi Hereford cattle ever since[...]operating a drug tore in Licking at the time and had ,Jame... . Mc ann pa d away in 19;35_[...]ufordand V . and sin o[...]. o h home a o[...]n th a daughter. M rgar h< v loca d on a ft Ranch took up a poor pl ou hi · ead, a land wa ill .John McCor[...]of ul n.Th horn ad had a nice et of log huildin . On after[...]ng up hunting after fall. H didn't return a .. u ual and hi na i ve h y . ter feed for big[...]find ,John'. during- the winter. along ith a ho pita) bunch of cattl .[...] |
| [...]old by Fr d Ro acreages of oats, some wheat, corn and potatoes. Gradually he acquired his own horses and cattle, finding a Jim Miller wa a r al cowbo t r[...]. I began to settle the country. A gentle team would bring up came with the fir t[...]. to $450.00. McKinney soon built himself a reputation as a made three trip . The la p on t real good[...]ught 15 of wh After his wife, May and two children arrived, they lived Day. The winte[...]where he has since resided Jim worked for a at th except for a short time during World War II when he h[...]ed in the shipyards in California. After retiring and river. until a few years ago, he had a chicken ranch a mile When Jim left the Day ranch, h b[...]from southeast of town where he raised fryers and sold eggs to Austin and Rachel Mann. Thi ranc[...]ton, D.C., Grant who is also head of cattle and hor e ; al o did a lot o and deceased. Ethel Twedt of Langley, Washington; Sterling of fi hing. He made quite a um of mon y w a in Culbertson, Howard who lives in Helena, Arlyne[...]k pt Wheatridge, Colorado, and Betty Lou Seiler of Pleasanton, it at home. He alway l pt with a pi tol u w California. and he knew how to u e it-for he wa aver a[...]Jim was born in Exira, Io a wh r in hi a h[...]daughter of Major Culbertson tayed with a niece until hi d ath, a ho af r hi and the daughter of Jack Culbertson who ranched near arrival. H i buri d i Culbertson. She and her husband , George Menz, live at I wor[...]t of Culbertson. Her brother hard to work for and I ' but I found Jim John Alexande[...]of Joe ulber on live at when I reaU ne d d a .I in Poplar.[...]L b Mal a ill r[...]nh |
| [...]1958 in Great Falls, town, where he had opened a hardware store, one of the Leonard who died in Pol on in 1961, Iva, a nd Steve who first stores in the community[...]nter of the main block of the town. In that block and[...]Mrs. Moen drove in the 12 miles to get him and then took[...]Sunday and the good food Mother provided, there was[...]always a gathering of the neighboring bachelors at the[...]house. Samuel gave the children a big swing, a large tent to play in, and a croquet set, all of which were thoroughly[...]and all could stay in town during the summer.[...] |
| milkman came around in a wagon and would ring his bell; PIONEER DAYS IN MONTANA then you came out and he would fill your container with a big dipper from a can.[...]ous ice jams in the river. One time it was jammed and a painter rowed his boat The Moothart family came to Eastern Montana during across the river and tied it up to the stockyards. The river the spring and summer of 1907. David and Ardelia backed the Muddy up to Plentywood and that was one Moothart had four sons; Frank, Lloyd, Floyd, Harvey and spring that all the creeks around Culbertson ran uphill! one daughter, Ada. Frank and his wife, Kate had their One of the first cars[...]l, Josephine who wa one year old when they street and when the stagecoach broncs saw that, they just came. Lloyd and Floyd were 17 year old twin , Harvey wa jackknifed and tipped the whole "shebang" over right on 15 and Ada was 6 years old. Their trip by rail from Cand[...]e was destroyed by fire, consuming most of and moved his family a far west as Cando, orth Dakota. the stock. Moen resumed business in a new building next to There he worked for thre[...]n Culbertson, the Moens attended the and ranching opportunities for their ons appealed to[...], which had been built in 1902. Good David and Ardelia. They also considered the educational min[...]advantages of the school in Culbert on for Harvey and young people was outstanding. The religious life[...]he home tead were churches were associate members and came to parties and interesting to us. We passed the log home of the Bower entertainment in the church and at the homes of the and Boid families as well as everal other . The write[...]owers home were the fir t we had een in Samuel and Lena lived in Culbertson for the remainder Montana and the last we would ee for many mile . Before of their lives. Mrs. Moen died March 28, 1936 after a long reaching our home we passed what we thou[...]an Indian village at one time. tone were a!'ranged in Culbertson, traveling some to orway and California. On circles on top of a hill overlooking the valley below. February 3, 1941 he died as a result of a hit and run Perhaps the tone had been u ed to ho[...]filled to capacity with hundreds of A tent wa our home with a hack to hold our hou ehold friends and neighbors who came to pay their la t re pect good and furniture until the could be built. We all to S.S. Moen, one of Culbert on' olde t re ident and ate in the tent and ome of pt there. The partly merchant[...]th Dakota. people and leep wa ometime di turb d by the Both Mr. and Mrs. Moen were 1 ader in their ho[...]e partial partition. community, in civic, church, and social affair , giving Frame hou[...]ir t umm mber freely of their time and money. The Trinity Lutheran having b n[...]r e Church in Culbertson is really a memorial to th m, for hitch d to wagon or[...]t po ible. tra · · a and co d for[...]and T KER C. MOORE[...]do, by A . . Moor Tuck r . Moor and Mary r marri d in |
| Taken in 1910 at the wedding of Lloyd and Fanny ( teeple) Moothart. At the David and Ardelia Moothart home three mile ea t of Culbert[...]m were man hor e wagon and a e later. buggie th hat . The odor of du t and hor e can t h[...]hering with bl bead · a quaw carr ing Elder J .E. K p i[...]nner · d a colorful and d with th e h roviding mo t o[...]11 nd big hat and belonging to d nomin tion[...]ing pur add d hur ·a in thi n w country wer[...]It a C[...]The th ch load o 0 lici u l w V t |
| [...]. Aurora Bor h a Culbertson was the only shopping place. thrilled with ong and pl Large herds of cattle and horses owned by a few· rop of , corn, oa ranchers roamed the prairie. Mr. John Archer was a grown. The rn rai d t ranc[...]iles from our place. Our fall of 190 a carload of hei£ presence was not welcomed by the[...]North Dakota by Lloyd homesteads were taken and fields planted, it was wit.h ourf[...]nce the fields to keep out the roaming herd . and put on t n Thus, eventually, the cross-country roads were changed to cut and tacked to help follow section lines. We have fond[...]iding with Hom churn d butter an our father and mother in a buggy behing a team of driving sugar and other gro ery · ponies on those country trails. One day the face of a coyote Thu , with produc from t looked down at us through the thick grass from the top of a good food on our tabl . With th hill as we r[...]manag d lights in the homes of the settlers were a cheering sight. We di tunce from the door". kn[...]The Moothart famil gr w. rank and Kate, who It was fun for a little girl to follow behind a plow as it maiden name wa ·gh , had four boy in addition to turned that thick sod for a field or a garden. And what Josephine. The were Elvin, Ralph, ahlon and gardens that virgin soil produced. Visiting neigh[...]Ev 1 n , between the garden rows ahead of mother and a visitor, I Wayne and Treva. Lloyd marri d Fann h had heard the warning buzz of a rattlesnake. It was coiled in Edythe, Glady , John, Harvey , Jo c and . Flo d the path a few feet in front of me. One ofmy brother , eithe[...]arlotte, Floyd or Lloyd soon appeared with a gun to still its sinister Mildred, Grace, Otto and Anna Mae. Harve · e wa rattle. At tim[...]r pitch forks. On seeing one such snake, and Edwin. Harvine remarried after Harvey' death. Her[...]he second husband wa Henry Barr. The had Bob and Bett . wouldn't try to pet one when she wa out alone. Of course Lloyd and Ada, who never married, are th onl the markings were pretty, but to be admired from a members left of the original David and Ardelia Moothart distance.[...]at The Village, 1 001 .E. Powell Bl d. , Lloyd and Harvey came from orth Dakota a few weeks Portland, Oregon 97236. later than the first group. Lloyd had been working in a store there. Harvey stayed with his uncle John to[...]OR the class of 1910. The fir t fall that Harvey and Ada went to school in Culbertson they drove a hor and bu b Jim pur[...]ther cam in to h Ip th m . Harv a and braided Ada Jong hair. H tri d to do it 1[...]· t~ night, 0 oun app di tu lea and fa · br dri ta h[...] |
| two mall boy , one wa a baby. He had to have a His district of medical care, wh[...]from the hou ekeeper, which wa Anna Jorgenson for a time. Henry head of Redwater Creek to the Dakota line, and about 10 t yed on the home tead and added to it in spite of hard miles beyond Medicine Lake, was covered by team and rig luck and bad year . He lived his life out on Shack Creek. during the first years, and later by car. Both of the boy are dead also. Cal[...]e. ow for the names of the creeks. There was a man that lived on the Poplar bottom that had a horse he called barley. Whenever thi hor e got[...]of the time he got away, the owner caught him on a creek ea t of the Poplar country, o he referred to the creek as Charley Creek. Later, Charley got away again and hi owner couldn't find him on Charley Creek so he goe on and find another creek and met a trapper that had wintered on this new creek. The[...]?" The trapper replied, " Well, my friend, it was a hard crabble." Charley was later found on thi creek, so thi wa referred to a Hard crabble Creek. Dugout Creek got its name because Comer Armstrong had a dugout in a bank for hi heepherder to live in. This dugout ca[...]! Contrary to her opinion, hi medical practice a an a ociate of Dr. T.W. Collin on wa very bu y. The[...]her, who returned to ulbert on to hare hi life and experience a a cowtown doctor. In 1 h' colleague, Dr. ollin[...]ed hi life toward erving the Culbert on community and urrourid- in ar a.[...] |
| [...]A He bought an o ttl ,[...]Patricia Picard, Kathl n qw and r Pi.card[...] |
| [...]o spoke very little English, stayed with h d thou and of head of sheep out on shares, although his[...]ily's mai n intere t wa cattle. As Pat worked for and became help, she became thoroughly fami[...]on the trouble shooter for the language and customs. ma ny heep outfit .[...]e to Th er were ome 13 boy working for the outfit and they farmers and barbed wire fences. Some of the cowboys tried ra n between 25,000 and 30,000 head of stock. The whole their hand at farming and were dismal failures and went river bottom wa open pa ture and when it was time to broke more than once. Pat N acey was one such a man ma rk et the fat beef, the boy drove them to[...]his main interest was always ranching. rai lroad a t Fallon , Montana about 110 miles or so away In the winter of 1906 and 1907, Pat bought 1200 head of where there wa a cattle cro sing across the Yellowstone weathers. There was no hay on the ranch he had recently and where they were loaded on a branch of the Northern purchased from the Shaw Sheep Company and the winter Pacific Ra ilroad .[...]n P t' next move wa to homestead north of town and Hardscrabble Creek south of Culbertson. The weathers wh n hi place wa proved up he bought a spread nine had to be trailed to th[...]hecreek would bea he p . On October 25, 1 99, he and Ora Cooper were good place to camp o[...]otel, which was one of the best wind and deep snow. During the night water started build i[...]from Illinois, her coming up on the ice and the sheep had to be moved. One of mother wa fo rt[...]President the herders got his feet wet and froze them. The sheep Li ncoln when he was 11 year old. Ora was a seamstress crossed the Missouri at Blair and on through the brush pr viou to her marriage to Pat. bottom and on to Hardscrabble. He bought more hay from[...]Charlie Peterson and they fed that hay out. Winter hung[...]on till May 1st and the sheep were ferried across the[...]Missouri the last week in May and on to Scott Creek.[...]shearing. On the way they had to go around a cut coulee and due to some rough sheep dogs, 700 head of the[...]weathers were pushed down into the coulee and died.[...]In 1913 Pat became Sheriff of Valley County and later[...]After 1913 he abandoned sheep and turned to cattle and hor es and a rather diversified program of agriculture.[...]Later he discontinued the horses and concentrated on[...]returned to beep and they were the mainstay of the ranch[...]Ora Cooper acey died in 1936 and Pat in 1955. Their[...]rancher and living in idney Montana, their son, Allen,[...]wife Jeannie and their children, Loren, David Terri and[...]a[...] |
| [...]killed in a coal min at Mc ab i . Andersen Clark Nay[...]Jae d in April 16 with a herd of horses, seven children, his wife and Culbert on. one silver dollar. The older children helped drive the Ander en' health fail d and th horses. My husband Dewey was six months old. T[...]a the day before Thanksgiving. He still away and di d ther at f had the silver dollar. My[...]wa buri d b id hi th i stopped at a ranch house somewhere in Montana to rest wife died ever al year r i and the ranchers wife wanted to keep Dewey. he was eighbor at Lanark : a childless, couldn't have any children of her own and told Hale, McKinn y , and y k Dewey's mother to give her the baby for there were too many hardships for a baby on such long trips. Dewey's sister Myrtle sa[...]eep her hand over his face so he couldn't be seen and later hid him under some DAVE EL 0 clothing and wouldn't tell where he was, when they found him h[...]didn't like Missoula so came back to Lanark about a year later where Andersen took a homestead. On Mr. and Mr . D. . el on arriv din ulb rtson in April, the way back they stopped at a homestead near Hinsdale. 1909 with their two children, Erne t, age t o and M rtl A colored lady lived there. Dewey's father asked he[...]me teaded along the · · River n ar th away-a two days drive by horse and wagon. Dewey's Diamond Ranch. Their fir t ho a big fanc two father said they were almost out of bacon and flour and room log cabin that wa built b . didn[...]The The elson arrived in the ulbert on ar a f colored lady gave them enough food to[...]ark Lakota, orth Dakota, wher Dave worked a and was a very good friend of the family until her death.[...]and how far away t n[...]Wi Wi Pa Ha G ·n C a C Mr. Bleui[...]in And r n at · o in[...] |
| [...]time. They now live in Spokane, horses and plow. Wa hington.[...]homesteading. live in Ottumwa, Iowa, and Florence Berg lives in Culbertson was where we did our trading and that was Wheaton, Illinoi . the nearest doctor and the nearest hospital was Williston.[...]Our nearest neighbors were Harry Boid and his mother.[...]Some of the activities were dances and card parties. A by Jim purgeon Lutheran church was organized and we had services in the[...]basement of the bank. Then a church was built years later. The Fred elson[...]members. Culbert on on Hardscrabble Creek. He had a career of I don't know just when La[...]1. His 1913. He remembers Charlotte and Bertha Oakes (Mrs. father, older brother, and he came to America in 1 67. They Hurley Mitchell) and Gunelda Peterson. found work at Keokuk, Iowa where the government was con tructing a canal around the rapids, which later became the i[...]ebraska. During the ummer of 1 2 he worked as a fireman on a My father was J.G. Nugent, and my mother was Mary Mi ouriRiver teamboat.Heleftth[...]t. They came here from Regina, Canada. My Landing and went to the Poplar Indian Agency, where he[...]re. obtained employment freighting between Poplar and Fort Here he managed the J .S. Day R[...]ulbertson in They landed in Glendive and were married there. Later a coulee that wa later called King ley Coulee, afte[...]squatter's rights. There was no town, only a boxcar for the fter freighting for ome time he wa offered a job as a depot. They finally named it Culbertson aft[...]My father cut logs down by the Missouri River and accepted a it wa a better job than freighting which was a hauled them home with a team of horses, and built a log rough, tough one in all kind of weather.[...]e became acquainted with Jim dining room and living room. McDonald and they went into the sheep bu ine . Their We had lots of company. Most of them had traveled a ranch wa outh of Wolf Point on the outh ide of the long distance and al ways stayed overnight. We had to Mi ouri River[...]horses to get the grocerie , always got McDonald and bought th Patty Doyle ranch from omer a large order. rm trong he river on Ha rabble reek. Her he The hou e didn t have a door only a blanket nailed over r[...]the opening. The coyotes came up to the door and my[...]5. i d a f rming When the land wa urveyed my fa[...]th wrong land o he had a large two- tory frame house[...]bu"lt. H mo d th log hou to make a barn and chick n oop. Th rotted and t 11 down, but the log till lay ther .[...] |
| [...]e) McMullin of Savanna, Illinoi ; Mr . teven and mov H. (Mary Ann) Blazer, Jr., Kansas City, Mis o[...]bur o Culbertson with Reverend Alton Hilles and officiating fro a and burial in Hillside Cemetery at Culbertson.[...]enf to P.A. OLSON AND JOHNSON FAMILIES |
| [...]d in the post office until she was Orville and Wilbur returned to Minnesota shortly married in 1927, to onrad Gu tafson, a rancher south of thereafter. th Mi ouri River. ylvia and Conrad Gustafson had two children. Their son, Conrad W., and hi wife, Myra, and five on made their home on the Gustafson ranch. T[...]WILFORD J OHNSON ylvia died in 1944 and Conrad, or Con, as he was well known, pa ed away in 1959. Wilford and Lottie Johnson homesteaded in the sand Elmer and O car both graduated from Montana State[...]Bozeman. Both have contributed to the a child. Their daughter, Annabell, graduated from t[...]she was employed as the housekeeper and also cook for the 0 car operated the farm and was land appraiser on a well-known Senator Kendell. She worked fo[...]in that community. Her Rural Electric Cooperative and was active on that board husband, Nels, is[...]f directors for the orthea tern Montana Telephone A sociation. In 1956, he became a full time appraiser for the Federal Land Bank and in 1959 he becamethefirstmanagerofthenewly e tabl[...]l Land Bank As ociations PETE AND ELSIE PARKS in idney, Montana. He held that po it[...]e) Parks started out traveling young. He tephen and Mitchell. 0 car and hi wife now live in wa born in a covered wagon in Iowa on his way to orth ulber[...]they till keep their intere t in their Dakota, a son of Jay and Hannah (Pettit) Park. They farm which include the[...]settled in Ru o, orth Dakota. P.A. 01 on pa ed away in 1927 and hi wife Hilma, in In 1913, Pete had enough of orth Dakota and rode west, 1 25.[...]THEODOREJOH 0 In 1 07, T d and Eva John o ·u tea tof P.A. I on' plac t of Mc . T d wa kill d in a runaway a cid nt i h r on ,[...] |
| [...]always maintained that he had never barley and oat wer ground with windm ad lost[...]arry 200 pound ack flour on He took up a homestead southeast of Culbertson. About[...]decided he wanted Pete in the army. It was a good crop, but th n't He was in the service a short time, as he was wounded and after the big machine got through wi spent m[...]pon his return, he proved up on his and used to g t it on o homestead. He later sold this land to Arnettes and bought Culbertson stag . Puttin a[...]se, he could pick up r hi Pete ran a string of coon hounds and did much hunting neighbor who wer not ain for the government. He was also a great bronc buster which he did for added income.[...]horses. In 1924 his fold migrated to Bainville and spent the winter with him. In 1925, a brother, Harvey, bought a place five miles east of Culbertson. Jay was killed by a bull in 1930 and Hannah stayed on the farm until her death in 1949. The two other sisters were Martha Talenga and Maude Walker. About 1925 the love bug bit Pete and he and Elsie Leonard were married in Wolf Point. To this[...]n were born: Ira (Chub) Leonard, Frederick Louis, and Gloria Mae Marchwick. Pete was deputy sheriff for Roosevelt County in 1931 and 1932. Some of the first neighbors and friends were: Joe and Oswald Peterson, Frand Fralick, Al Becker, Fred Leonard, Hank Becker, Eric Crusch, Ed Higgins, George and Jack Shields, and Ted and Bill Wilson. Pete loved to play baseball befor[...]ning he had to content himself with playing cards and riding at the little country and neighborhood rodeos. Chub first went to school at Lakeside, with Mrs. tubb and Ina McCracken as teacher . The school wa[...]Jen en Mr . Chri redistricted to Lanark where he and Fred attended with Paulsen, Chris Paulsen, Dick Paulsen boy - 1924 Roland Beaudry and Mrs. Esther Peters as teacher , and finally to Bainville chool. We're quite ure any of u who lived and urvived the well known dirty 30' would all tell the ame grue ome ark for a vi i · . In 1 12 h story of hungry live tock,[...]ivide on Jun 7. All of infa hi brother and i ter are gon to .[...] |
| [...]never put his horse in a barn when he stopped to visit or[...]eat. He always said he liked the Indians and some day he would get a quaw and move to the reservation to live. He[...]kept hi word a he married an Indian woman. He sold his[...]ranch on Hardscrabble Creek and moved to Wolf Point on[...]thi marriage, but they had a daughter. Charley lived out[...]Peter on and family returned to Culbert on where he and[...]Bank of which Peter on i pre ident, and his son, Robert, ca hier. A daughter, Helen, teaches in the University of[...]HRI A D ALOME RASMUSSE th r di don July 2 , 1[...]n Octob r 1 70. Both funeral hri ), a young, hand ome, adventurou cowboy, came to wer h[...]d be n Montana about 1907. He worked a a cowboy and charter m mb r and h d att nd d for ov r 50 ear . hri heepherd r when ulbert on wa a pical, wide-open w , th la tr mainin[...]A a child I loved to Ii ·ten to him tell a lb rt on.[...]humorou wa a lo ambling hooting and on hanging when lbert on ng and . . PETER E D EL JOR[...]nmar a ir d[...]a[...] |
| Mom and her first born, Richard, came on the train to Later after · Culbertson. Dad met them with a team and buggy. They Kamp' drove home that nig[...]town wa She describes it as belly high to a horse. In her first letter built. Th home she c[...]Momr Dad traded his team and buggy to his clo est neighbor, Froid. It[...]the breaking of 20 acres of od. To break and a lot the sod Ole used a team of one horse and one oxen. Mom Jim Bak recalls that[...]e. Eventually Dad broke the rest of the farm with a and lodgin breaking plow and horses. c[...]ime all homestead raising her family. She planted a garden, but it danc hall. was always a battle whether she or the gophers would get[...]held at the home . Dad p viol potatoes and vegetables would freeze in storage. They kept[...]that was about the only wagon or sleigh and taken to other ho meat they had in their young ma[...]r dance that la d until dawn. Water was scarce and precious. Before a well was dug, Baseball, branding b and card pa · water was obtained from a slough one-half mile east of the of their[...]he groceries home on horseback from And eat they did, for ldom wa th r Culbertson. Someti[...]hools played an important part of th a One Fourth of July when Dad was herding sheep[...]chool program of the river he got the day off. He and another heepherder ha ket · and danc . got up before dawn and walked many, many mile to catch Our c chool wa th · aa wa from bore. the hi ·[...]All Mom tayed home and kept the home fire bumin . To[...] |
| [...]TZ Dad had come to the United States earlier, and worked in ew York City, liked the country, so decided to return to Mr. and Mrs. John Gottlieb Schledewi tz and their family cotland and get a wife. came[...]1901 from Russia. Mr. Schledewitz had Father and Mother left for the United States soon as they come over earlier in the year and found a place for his were married, with the intention of homesteading. Their family near Russell, Kansas, and then sent for his wife and fir t stop was Cando, North Dakota, where they stayed a children. The group making the trip incl[...]Schledewitz, their oldest son Henry and his wife, Andrew, acquainted with Scotty Forbes.[...]as born at Cando. When the (Mrs. Ed Rhoda) and Adam. folks decided to leave Cando and move west to get in on In 1908 Mr. Sc[...]pproximately 12 miles northwest of hould go too, and he did. Dad always said that he Cul[...]in on some of Association. After building a small log house, he sent for the good Montana lan[...]s in an immigrant car. When they got to the known a the Swindle Ranch. While they were still on the[...]hat had blown off and he thought he should have a cap While at the Archer Ranch, Mom and Dad homesteaded before heading into the[...]they lived until moving to store and became acquainted with Mr. Bruegger, his first Cu[...]area. Dan had taken his bicycle from the Fred and Bob arrived on the scene while on the[...]Mr. Conrad Luft on the road and he directed him to his new The earlier year , Dad had a blacksmith hop in home. ulb rt on. He rode back and forth each day. He also did Farming and cattle were their livelihood and a big ome farming until we boy were old enough to work the garden was a must. They even grew their own tobacco. Mr. land[...]n tho e day . Mom rai ed big gardens, Kan a that he could get hold of so they could experiment. getting up at daybreak, weeding and hoeing. he al o took The first year the weather conditions were ideal and there care of chicken , gee e, and duck , and milked cows, which was an abundance of ever[...]f Plenty! The next year, At fir t the folk had a two room hou e, and built on later however, they were to learn what farming in Montana was a they could. Their fir t barn burned, o that meant they all about when they had a crop failure. had to omehow et another one, which[...]ed in the they'd have to break them u e them and could bring them wi ow a car, but hew n t th be t with a car. back the next year which they did. If i[...]After everal year they built a frame hou e and later ri[...]g to a , oth r to Kan a , and later all[...]hi which b cam known a the[...]· g ; Doroth a[...]n a nd[...]Wi gr a -g r at-g r ndc h il[...] |
| MR. AND MRS. LARS (LOUIE) SCHOW[...]by Mrs. Thorvald Hagadone a "Jack" cam from R · where h own d a hotel an Dad and a friend came to Montana in 1905 from[...]erything where h hired ou to in those days and a harness and saddle shop looked like a Redwat r. Hi brid - good business to start with in such a youn , but up and shortly with a comp) coming town. This shop was located just nor[...]hand nd Tanner and Best store. That winter and the next pring he velvet. built the house w[...]he house that Ernest Waldow now live Ranch and 1n. now to in Louie had been a farmer in North Dakota, but when he from ork came to Montana, all he brought with him were a few in her t fa horses. When mo[...]winter ing children: May, Helen, and John. Two girl , Ida and ora, York. Mail wa were born in Culbertson[...]· After the harness shop was a going concern, Dad went finding on ho a into the dray line business. He sold the dray line busine died of tarvation. to Alvy Janes, and then bought the Phoenix aloon. O[...]ohibition in 1919, all the saloons were closed. and wa named after t · andlord. v da Dad had bought a farm northwest of Culbertson in 1915 ilve[...]from Mr. Da . from Mr. Liemaster. It already had a house on it and ome This cup i till in Ma po of the[...]et started farming. We lived on the farm in the and trees, dug at the river, summer and moved back to Culbertson for school in the[...]all the build Dad served as City Marshall for a number of years in standing were then buil[...]e also served as Deputy heriff under Pat and r . Carli acey, the first Sheriff of Roosevelt[...]still at Mondak. When the county seat wa on a piece of l ug d ,h m moved to Poplar we moved to Poplar and lived there for from the riv r al[...]hou e. After th we moved back to Culbertson and to the farm. ugen w r on[...]r famil , but alwa t had time for church and Ladie Aid, and help d get them both organized in Culbertson. Reverend Hagen minister at fir tin ulbertson; and he al o confi of u . When we lived in Poplar, Reverend Hagen would come and tay at our hou e and hol · in Poplar did not have a Luth ran c A ki member hearing ab a the larg m in the riv d worry about them a farm, wa ea i r d John ma[...] |
| purcha ed in 100 pound acks; prunes, dried apples and HENRY SHERMAN b an were[...]their home just to have the company". She walked a mile to school each day and did her washing on Henry Sherman first[...]aturday. Everyone took lunch to school in pails, and it what is now some of the best farm land in[...]nty. He sold this place to the O'Connor Brothers, and Maude's parent went to dances many, many miles[...]he O'Connor Brothers retired they away with hor e and a buggy or sleigh. Hay, hot rocks sold this land to the oules Brothers. and a buffalo robe provided warmth for these trips. Ret[...]e dance, Maude's father looked at the thermometer and it wa 40 degrees below so he said, "Thi i the la[...]all freeze to death." The dancing terminated for a period of time. Maude and her brother were always happy when they could go to the e dance because the cowboys took care of them, and they could tay up late. One cowboy used to whittle doll furniture for her with hi jack knife.. Brother Frank enli ted in World War I. Maude[...]to the train while her mother stayed home to pray and cry a little. The father thought he would never see Fra[...]he would be killed. He spent two years in Germany and France, wa gassed and sent home to die. He pa ed way ome year later.[...]nk was gone. On June 13, 191 he dropped dead from a heart attack and Frank could not come home for the funeral. Mr . ugent hired a man to help with the farm till Frank got home. he worked very hard had a lot of company so wa alway baking bread and churning butter. It was when expecting company one day that he became very ill and wa in bed for three month . Dr. C.J. Munch just arrived in Culbert on to take over Dr. ollin on' practice, and he came to the farm every day for 1.00 a trip. Mary nn ugen t wa hi fir t patient. he di[...]ther' death, Maude help d gne McHugh in the hotel a a waitr . The bu ine wa old and later l a d to Frank and Idel Maxam and Maude worked for th m.[...]h rried and h[...] |
| school in Culbertson, and the oldest girl met and married rodeoin and no · · ying hi · Alfred Oakes. By this time Mr. Sherman had filed on a violin and tak i homestead on Shack Creek, and the son-in-law Oake filed Th pi gl borg ring th on a place on Charley Creek south of the Barney McGuire dry y r and mo u th i[...]his father which was on hack Creek. Henry herman and his son Harry are dead and Harry's wife, Verda Sherman, owns the old Sherman place and ome of the log house still stands to mark the bui[...]John W. · a (obituary)[...]to take furni a m Reverend Father Treacy and she wa laid to rest in Hill id at night af our . Cemetery beside her hu band, a Civil War Veteran, who Having heard of land in Mont passed away several year ago. A large proc ion of th gov rnm nt for c[...]panied the remains to th ir la t file on a claim , and arri u resting place.[...], January th, 1 52. he came Willi and B h . to America with her parents in I 65 and for a tirn ett] d Their claim[...]he was married ec · to John hields, a veteran of the ivil War. To thi union To ni[...]rge W., r . elli Gridle 1r . Julia Gould and Fred M. The la t nam d a a veteran of H. the World War and preceded hi mo her in d ath . t Grandma hield , a he wa loving} known to everyone, came to[...]leave to mourn h r pa ing, n hildr n , a numb r of grandchildr n and a h t of fri nd . h long b r m mb r a b th old tim r a ' on ho alwa r ad wi h h }ping h[...]L HIPP n a kiIJ[...] |
| and farmed on the homestead. Both of the boys have di[...]soldiers to Fort Assiniboine on the Moccasin Anna and Beth moved to Portland.[...]Falls to the Black Hills, going by way of Judith Basin.[...]That winter they supplied Fort Meade with beef and in[...]ber 31, 1 94 at t. employment with Pippin and Co., a cattle outfit, and drove Croix, Wi consin, a daughter of Mr . and Mrs. Robert cattle from Deep Creek to Assin[...]s foreman for the Dakota. Mr. Louck died in 1934, and the two sons that Pioneer Cattle Co. of whic[...]an enormous herd of cattle, George Franklin, Jr. and Jack Robert. between 10,000 and 15,000 head, to Shelby, driving On December 15,[...]d Nina B. Allen in Great Falls in They operated a grocery store there and later the 1896. Four boys were born to the[...]y 1901, Herbert in 1902, Joseph in 1907, and Allen in 1910 Implement.[...]died three years later. Mr. orby died in 1969, and Christie orby passed away In April 1900, p[...]evelt Memorial Hospital. he filed on some land and built up a ranch. For a number of Remaining per on in the family are a grandson, Robert years he was in the horse and cattle business, later turning Loucks and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Kathryn Loucks, both of t[...]n the homesteaders cut off his range. Wolf Point; and a tepson Lyle orby, wife, Ethel, and on, The young boys attended the Palmer Schoo[...]with the Will Palmers during the week and going home on Reverend Tim H utslar officiated[...]ervice the weekend . Later, the purgeons bought a home in with burial in Hill ide Cemetery at Culbertson, Montana. Culbertson and while the ground was frozen the boys[...]by Maude purgeon girls and three boys. The younge t boy, Roger Myers, is[...]married and ha four children and operate the ranch with Jame B. pur eon wa born in Texa , March 3, 1 56. In hi mother. Herbert ha a on by a previou marriage who 1 75 he went north to Mi ouri and Iowa on hor back to live in an Franci co. hi[...]ebra ka , bound for Fort girl who were rai ed and chooled in idne . Joe wa on , Mont , wherehearrived · heco tofhi employed by the county and later b Tractor and age, including me t .50. Equipm nt of idn y wher he retired and moved to He cured work · r at m · Wa hington tate wher he and hi wi£ could be with their and tradi , irl and familie .[...]m marri d aud ac in 1923. Th a[...]h. go mm nt for Ii l or nothin - 1 .0 for a co and In[...]for 12 r .H nd hi wif r r ir d and ar making[...] |
| A son of Captain and Mrs. James B. Stephens, Bill wa born February 19,[...]tt, ebastian ounty, Arkansas. His father had been a guerrilla fighter for Union forces in the South. As a young cowpuncher, Bill left Arkansas and came to northeastern Montana in 1 93. H worked on[...]w, later ranching for himself. After ranching for a whil , he had the first ferry across the Mis ouri[...]he went into the saloon busin in ulb rt on and then Plentywood where he wa al o in th th atr business. From there he went to Glentana and in 1 16 moved to Scobey. Meanwhile Bill's three brother , Jim, Frank and BP.rry had also come to Montana and became well known in thi area. All are now dead in the family ofnin children which included four brothers and •five si ter . In 1914 Bill returned to Arkansa and marri d annie L. Pearce at Bentonville eptember 7[...]union-Bill, Jr., Elizab th, lov r, Amo and Anna Thom n Louise, Mary and Jimmy were born in cobey. For several years he served on the cobey ouncil and the local school board and wa in trumental in promoting many improvements to the chool plant and ground . Th Ii d in ichigan for a ar or m r ; th n , th He entered the theatre[...]moved to ulb rt on in 1 . Collinson as a partner, later taking overfull owner hip. H They bought land from a h was associated at one time with the itizen tate Bank a 500.00 built o d liv i f a director, for a period was a partner of Otto King in the oil it while build p and fuel busine s. In the thirtie he wa a ociated with . w[...]. He a . belonged to the Elks.[...]on , lifford and Arnold in pa . MR . ED A WI OLE |
| Copenhagen, Denmark where he had been a glass blower. OTTO WALD[...]Otto Waldow arrived in 1906 to homestead on a half Rumor of World War I were spreading through[...]came four it eemed best to leave family, customs and traditions and years later. Otto and Annie Honig were married in Havre come to America. They could always return, they said, but in 1912 and were supposed to have been the first couple never did. Although they mis ed their family and married in Hill County. He farmed abo[...]been good to manager of the Imperial D and B grain elevators for 20 them and did not care to go back. year . He also was school clerk for 25 years and stock All the good home tead land had been tak[...]two miles north of Culbert on. oal wa di covered and a coal mine wa op rated ther for 26 year . They had farming intere t a well. The highlight of the year in the early d[...]hich attracted everyone in the area . It included a parade with fancy float followed by a Frank Weinrich came from Geneseo, Illinois in 1891. He picnic hared with friends. In the afternoon a ha eball landed in Cascade, Montana where h[...]tar Ranch and wa wagon boss of the Diamond Ranch.[...]For everal years he had a livery stable at Mondak, Montana and ran the tage between Mondak and Glendive. He had a mail contract and also carried freight and passengers from 1906-1913. This livery stable bur[...]and Roo evelt Countie . He continued to live in the a[...]Frank, remember riding with hi Dad, cott Hart, and an[...]erved a county commisioner of Roosevelt County for[...]many years. xe a , a a |
| she was a young girl they lived near the townsite of moving in to a two r om Snowden. Mrs. Weinrich remembered attend[...]in country dances and social events at the Fort Buford the Army and di . B j d[...]Dan Steihls had five daughters. Gertrude married a M thodi man by the name of Caywood and had two daughters. Ethel W Mamie married John (Jack) hields and had one on, farm a George, who still lives on the family ranch near[...]e married Harold Died of Fright" Allen, and had one daughter. arah married Mayo hulz exp cting th thi and they had two daughters. on the farm and Frank and Pearl had three son . Bert, the oldest, married dark, and thi i Mabel Padgett and they had two children. Harry resid din torm[...]ntil his death in 1972. He never marri d. and wind, th n Frank married Blanche K~tely and they own the Ta te pounded out Freez in[...]three sons were born at Mondak the hou e. I and attended grade school in the Mondak chool. (Thi and bl w brick building was later torn down and one of the Picard bouncing in built a house near Bainville with the brick.) The boy[...]lan attended high school in Bainville. They drove a Model T when a larg Ford back and forth from Mondak to Bainville. never know Frank Weinrich died in May of 1954 and Mr . Weinrich on and wa passed away in November of 1967. After their d[...], family was honored to receive a citation from the Roosevelt never know[...]ioners commemorating the contributions u a vi it, bu . the Weinriche[...]We rememb o nd fri nd ' w had and ti11 County.[...]WILFORD 00 by Ted and Leota Wix Wilford fi[...]r nc Leaving Butler, Mi souri in March 1907 Mr. and Mr . Wood a omm· r fi r th Joe and Ethel Wix and young on Elmer Lee came to until hi r ti tin 1 Culbertson, Montana to look for a home tead. They came by train, along with man other p ople who had heard of the free land tall gra , urely a promi d land. After wading now, water and mud they found a room in on of the everal rooming hou on[...]L p fe I a bi well h wa pr · found not only had the o , but a fir t cla w t v ry happ or t n pa and o d"[...] |
| [...]wagons-98, besides the Indians on horseback and afoot. They had been visiting on a Dakota reserve. That was the[...]one on each side of a horse, with the other ends dragging[...]the ground. They were loaded up with belongings and[...]My mother passed a way on June 4, 1900 and I believe is[...]Creek, the whiskey went along and was stored in the[...]take a drink of hard liquor.[...]But someone did get away with a couple of quarts of the remedy and in later years when my brother and I were batching at the old ranch and winter feeding the cattle, the[...]We had a bad prairie fire in the summer of 1902, but I[...]two and use them for a fire drag, with a saddle horse on[...]tched over the saddle horns. After the fire, half a critter lay at the head of tar coulee and Father joked that we[...]tep on. In the early ' O' Father tarted a ranch north of |
| Father raised a lot of horses which he trailed to North T[...]d ri the Evanses and others made in the early day . A I to f[...]g. The outlaws who got most of the blame were Jon and Dutch Henry although Father aid he knew the Dutch[...]hn Bain foreman or owner. It was later bought out and called the Central ecurity with John Lundquist al[...]t Hook pool roundup wagon would come to the river and G t swim their cattle over t[...]S. Day, Dan Walters, Comer Armstrong, Bill Fergus and tay all night. Elva Jim Spurgeon who I believe was one of the best cowmen I teacher and rod ever saw.[...]never b a[...]addl up and go[...]mai e l ft Ranch in a hi Id |
| [...]under her left arm, buttered it, put the sugar on and then wa common with oldtime cowmen, Father thought cut the slice off with the butcher knife-with the loaf still that if the country wa n't al[...]ch rail line went remember him telling my brother and me that the cattle in, everything was fre[...]Winch was one of the men who be settl d by farmer and the land could keep many more hauled pass[...]ns Hotel, rain or shine. In the wintertime he had a country aero the line. When we would go across to get bobsled with a canvas cover. I have seen him leave for the cattl[...]d cow chips north country with every horse on a high lope. Johnny piled up again t them higher than the shacks themselves. Sandring had a freighting outfit before Winch. bout that time[...]The grade for the branch line was built in 1909 and '10. Bru h Lake and never open a gate. Part of it ran[...]t of Williston down pa t the Jack McDonald place, and on into topped in Bainville to[...]ens who wished to make Culbert on without opening a gate. the trip, and also the Bainville band, which was quite ul bert on w a booming town in those real early days. large. ome of the members were: Fred Ring, Art Cody, and aloon tayed open 24 hour a day and early in the A.B. Hier. morning addle hor e were till at the hit[...]f my mother's grave in the Culbertson There wa a cowboy of the old chool in Culbertson at[...]ed al William . Cal came up with the old N and killed behind a saloon January 8, 1900, although he Bar outfit who had a ranch aero s the Mi souri outh of was ver[...]of looked after his welfare. up the trail and at one time was wagon boss for the OnedayCalwenti[...]rd about William Tell shooting chipped in for a stone and also put a picket fence around an apple off hi kid ' head with a bow and arrow. Dutch his grave. aid he could do it with a ix hooter. Cal put the apple on In 1909 Mr[...]r of the Culbertson school hi head. Du ch leveled and cut loose. Cal went down. o and lived about three miles east of town. He drove a horse one knew how badly he wa hurt. They got Dr. Collinson and buggy back and forth every day. One morning he was and he found al wa only crea ed. He came around okay,[...]n his dog started to although he carried that car a long a I knew him. bark at omething on the ground. He investigated and George Bain wa the water hauler for the town. I don't found it was a dead man. The authorities put a man with a know how m n trip a day he made with that team and lantern and shotgun to watch the body that night, but W3.f!OI1 with five wooden barrel delivering water at 35¢ a about midnight he got cared and ran for town. The county barrel.[...]eat wa at Glasgow then and Dr. Getty wa the coroner. Tber wa hinaman who ran a hand laundry in the He couldn't get to Culbe[...]alley b hind he building where Bert Fl oman 1ived and had day. The man's identity wa never di covered. a tore. Fath r had taken hi collar and cuff down there We had a milk cow in town one winter, probably 1910. We to get them done up and had received a mall square of turned her out day and my job wa to get her in and milk paper with heath n wrif ng on it. When he en[...]r me with ned the front door, looked out and aid it looked like a big ho iron . I l f hi plac bout on jump ahead of[...]ard aero the tre t. If h 'd h ve hit wh r h a aiming Id hav h d to eat w nt o d it wa Billy Ford. He had b n b a ten to nding up for long im . th and frozen tiff. He mu t have put up quite a battle a wwa torn up around th r a if acoupl of r ng bull had a b ttle ro al. Hi kill r wa ne r[...]f u · db ki day around town and wo v bo tim br ad would com[...]g out the br ad , but r and uga o im f did[...] |
| sheep when a severe storm hit him. They found him dead from t[...]addl 1 on one side and was minus one shoe and ock. It wa one Bi l i more unsolv[...]Bi l lot o up with him. Hominy had a bunkroll and invited Fred to ince writing thi arti[...]the ummer of 1976. was limping around camp and when he took off hi boot, it was half full of bl[...]th r rl d f, mili · , and when the branch line came through his land, he mo[...]de rving m ntion ar : his shack up on the track and at there with hi gun aero his knees. He had not been paid and would not l t th train a Y go through. But it was carrying United tate mail and he ox u could[...]ooth The winter of 1909 our father , tepmother and broth r xand r B rt[...]Dunbar Wi n and me to batch in the house in town and to go to ch ol. Frank Fairle M We were both fond of chocolate pudding and tried all L.M. Ford winter to make it[...]We got our dinners with the Methodist mini ter and his Mr . Fred Hinz Da[...]all Fr tz fir t and services and unday school were held there until Mr . ha[...]rian Church was built before that. A.C. Lemon Re F. tron Reverend Houle was pastor and helped to build it. Frank Ole Aplins[...]G.W. Orchild eler Arnette got a bunch of the boys to help with shingling the[...]ey looked like ants up there with pur Ol and chaps on. Seem before the day wa over there wa n[...]rris many left as the boy started to get dry and left for uptown. O' on o . n A bunch of the chool boy were in on a deal to put off a[...]clapper out of the bell. It didn't work, however, a the janitor, Mr. Kramer, rang the bell with a sledge hammer the next day. ltd eem a though they graded card the am a t t now. I alway ot a Pin deportment and n uld ph[...]it tood for Perfect in r. Ranch and farm kid never did go to h in[...]e could go to chool until prin and th n w bad to J av . .. .. . . Do a[...] |
| [...]hat many of the visitors do. equally eager and friendly stranger at their elbow but They start arriving ea rly a nd join the workers at daylight probably from some far distant state, then grab a pitchfork for a hearty breakfast of sourdough pancakes and and resolutely, albeit a bit stiffly, climb aboard the loaded ausages, se[...]crew style in the cook car. hayrack and with supreme happiness mirrored in their After breakfast they ci rcle the grounds and marvel as faces , they carefully pitch[...]the the quiet running steam engines are fired up and the feeder. Anyone who would toss a bundle butt-first into the veteran gasoline tract[...]out with majestic grace. feeder is branded a greenhorn, as such bundles risk[...]The idea of the Threshing Bee was initiated over a cup of[...]grouped around a cafe table, discussed forming an[...]and grandfathers had used in developing the land duri[...]homestead days. They felt it would be a worthwhile[...]The suggestion rapidly caught fire. A meeting was called and the Northeastern Montana Threshers and Antique[...]ecretary-Treasurer, E.A. " Nute" Anklam; directors,[...]; Jim McCann , Wolf Point, Thomas The steamers and earliest kerosene or gasoline tractor M[...]unz, Wolf Point; orman H . Nelson, separators-one a wooden, hand -f d 1904 model-an 1 7[...]ar; Henry 0. Peterson , reaper. rare models ' uch a . . the Power City ga tractor built ulbert on; Raymond Peter on, Culbertson; Lewi Pierce, like a small steam engine. the gigantic ultman-Taylor, a Plentywood: Claren ce Romo, Bainville;[...]ane; Jack prague, Wolf Point; tower cooling ystem and hit-a nd-mi . . s governor, many lvin[...]n; thev had be n di card d :m to ;-o year . . ago and left to ru t Fred Thomp on, Culbert on; Robert Traeger, ulbertson ; and fall into ruin. JI have been fully re, tor d and are in Howard Woods, Wolf Point. incr dih[...]tern practically every community and town in the northeast Montana nd urrounding area[...]section of the state, north we t orth Dakota , and outhern and ettled. . . a katchewan . The devote uncounted thou and of man-[...]of work each year in the r storation of thes rare and[...]ometime pricele antique machines. GLPnn Mun z and Robnt Carns splittmli( lops. Oldtimers[...] |
| [...]and continually r • lect d or sid nt. St rling McKinn Y, Many of these men are father and son teams. They work and ecr tary, E.A ." ute" Anklam . Mu h of th . ucc s' of on the ol[...]aking may be attributed to th ir tir le , fforts, and weekends in summer. They have practically[...]pectacular su e s of th, Thr shing B e and Antiqu many of which were once discarded as junk.[...]how lie in the tr mendous loyalty and oop ration of parts for these long out-dated mach[...]iley Tyre of county, inter- tate and int rnational v ' nt. unforg ttably Sidney, a machinist who has made parts for and re tored thrilling for all who att[...]s the Threshers have restored. Harlow Strandlund, a young farmer from Homestead , makes critical missing parts for gas tractors, such as valve cages and valves from discarded oil well drill stem casings for a 1906 Hart Parr tractor.[...]clude. the Thre.·hing H activitie each da . It i a irring ight to watch a. the regal 1906 teamer l ad th long pro of proud vintage tractor , cars and truck ove n-hath d hill ide trail and back into th arena. The Thre her · wi yin pion ·ork early and late each day to Jen[...]i)O singlf' pi dozen donut~. 110 dozen ice er a . ~mo gallons of soft Mr and ,"\1r . . /Jrook ,. , - Culh,•r(.<.;nn drink[...]all Th er their a hanquet m recogmt1on of their work Hal IRwis of Crav. :a. katch wan ha announced the Thresh mg B e event.[...]ha. heen held. With h1s amazrngl~· ine hau. tahl and accurnt<' knowledg of each unit on displav. the p[...]6 /,,,ft tn n,:h t llowa rd lla,:cn , Fu I for a·11 v h1cl('s during th Thr<'shing B <' is dornit d CH1l A/pm. Hnh .\',cJ,, .. . !Ml l/af!1•11. R11 .. ,o.[...]I cnmpam i-- . '},•a"''· Lou•,•// A/p,n |
| [...]J.A. McCann polled hereford ranch Hor. e Power -[...]M r . William McB ride. Har11P.<1tznp in a hurry (Paul ,/acoh) Cha rite Hawkin[...] |
| [...]gu. nn. ,John Crou-d r. th cook unknou:n. Clark , a . , unknown. Frnnt rou Bunl.· Grim le , Bill Har[...],1. nn. Jn Wix . Charle , mith. next thre unknown and B rt Rou •rr lonk,np through u mdnu. 1• |
| [...]in Froid and operated as a GTA Elevator and a part of the Imperial elevator on left[...] |
| [...]In 1921 el el n r tir d from hi f rm and built house n ar M ab , and ran th er am talion until 1929[...]Max Ander on wa a carp n rand building c ntr t r The first site[...]rectly across the road in the Mc abe ar a from about 191 on. H wa J o th from the Hofman Farmstead. The first bu ine was a cafe mailcarri rformanyy ar takingov rfromM rtin I n owned by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jern, which wa moved[...]H.B. Johnson moved hi General Store from Leeland, a settlement seven miles west of McCabe, to the same site, and a short time later another store owned by W.T. Hall[...]there. When the railroad came through in 1910, a Commercial Scale was installed where grain was we[...]e 1910 when the McCabe Brothers built an elevator and a short time later another elevator was built by Mo[...]of the elevators the Jorgensen sisters Christine and Katie, daughters of Peder Jorgensen in Dane Valle[...]e, the foreman's name was McCabe. The McCabe' had a lovely little girl and everyone in the community fell in love with her,[...]resent McCabe site. At that time McCabe became a thriving village. run by the lnstne s Brothers wa[...]tulle thi time Wm tty) Forb built a poolhall owned until h th in the early 4 In 1911 Lundqui t built a lumber r · son-in-law, George Graham, and la rl ome yea later it wa old[...]th po o t ox car rv d a th fir depot, a out 1915. A livery barn · di[...]nc Abou ad a combination gro ry- a oh and Grab bu[...]ed nd pool hall a. prohibition ft r end •a.· e uilding b i dia ilt a . op n d d al ou[...]Fin;f a,rp/anr 111 McCahr, .fu/ws Han.'rn . |
| [...]elsen using wash machine about 1925. imon Madsen and Chris Paulsen. Middle: Einer Berg tram, Carl Jens[...]ame . . ./p , s , 'tuller, Henry Femri/i{hl, Tony A•tenwn and dau,?htn ThPlma . |
| [...]In r 1917 D a rent<.>d th, farm at[...]mac and v came with th •[...]rant car whi · , Minn sot.a. and[...]touring car. Fir t day got to A sot.a. It a[...]car in a garage and we came to Montana bv train .[...]country wa white with snow and ou could · e for mil which wa new to u a w came from a wooded countrv. The snow melted and thew ather wa nice for awhil . I)~[...]ant car hadn't arriv d bv th 1916 - Hans Anderson and daughters, Lucy, Effie, Adele, time we got[...]thr day b for it did . · Anna, Marie and Freda.[...]a team to take us to the farm. He bought a hea r from Tanner Be t tor and ome groc rie . That night w ,J pt[...]out when the emigrant car arrived. Claud and Dad[...]belonging , brought them out to the farm, and went back in[...]to Montana from Welton, Iowa in Mable and Lucy tarted at t rom choo) the fall of 1907 with a friend Pete Han en with no which wa 1[...]hey arrived i ulb r on by train in March, 190 , and n oth rand Dad lik d it filed a claim, 1/4, 33-20-56, adjoining th P te[...]our n d d and got T r n fi attended chool in a bachelor' hack . our mail. Dr. Darlan at ro[...]In 1922 my i. r Maud and h r hu hand, i lark Davi , Mr. An[...]and fam · v d to 1ontana. Eb nez r[...]2 go and pa i-- d a 27. 19[...].. ug i aud(• r nt cJ th A Fr[...]I k pt hou. for ho ) and E in[...]a nd know , d'[...]don th followin · in that and Lucy. two brother . Claude and l:vd . it a on of a kind int · beli v[...]ath r of land around .Eagl R nd a wood d. not much had he n Frank and Martin f D[...]n da~ 0, aki , linne. ota and told how th v rai d h at in[...]T e c nt r. tr . and milking co s for livmg .[...] |
| [...]Wilhemena also did the duties of a midwife in the area.[...]e Christianson. there and apprenticed for seven years as a carpenter.[...]me the home of Clarence Chri tianson and had hi own blacksmith shop in Cando, North Dakota. family. Mr. Chri tian on, hi wife and two son , moved to He had returned to Edi[...]talked with his boyhood uffered through drought and poor crop in that area so friend, ' cot[...]liam Ro told him of the great land of opportunity and[...]future homesteading. Scotty thought this was a great[...]Am rica , nd it was indeed a lucky break for Scotty. They BE[...]worked for a hort time in that area, harvesting.[...]that ar a, moving ea tward on an immigrant train. Adam and Wilhemena E chenbacher were born in[...]y Germany. They fir t came to the Chicago Loop ar a, then work d at various place . At the D[...]Ranch, al o for Bill Ral ton. Iti known, he being a Montana to home tead in 1 06. They went by wagon to carpenter, thought hi friend hould have a wheelbarrow, the· tead land north of Mc ab[...]lp. til h Durin and wat[...]dry y There wa a cloudbu orth of Bai · · at work . Wh n[...]iv r. He I f t on the · of the k and warn o th ho erv hndg om K[...] |
| [...]teaded one half mile southeast of Pearl and Bell. Wh n fall cam I w nt back to hio , but McCabe, and built a homesteaders shack. Later he built a Pearl and I kept in touch by mail and th pring ofl91 aw barn on the same premises for h[...]time was the nearest town for trading. Pearl and I wer married on Jun 30, 192 . P arl wa The neare[...]hin chool in th Mc ab di trict. That fall D d Kao and the nearest hospital was Williston, orth Dakota.[...]lhall in McCabe. our aving to make a down paym nt on all of Dad Kao ' Specifications were that a two story structure had to be farming equip[...]vel for entertainment. Throughout the year and 1919 came along. That ught and a bad on . many barn dances were held there.[...]n that part McCabe was fast becoming quite a town. oon a hotel , of the country there are alw[...]tumbl garage, hardware store, livery stable, bank and other weed and kid , and that t ch wa places of[...]lished. born on May 2, during a th u ow. That Scotty For[...]da, who assisted her aunt everal year and had thr · to buy a and uncle in the hotel, owned and operated by Annie and place ju t ea t of Billy B kn[...]While on th k d Born to Scotty and Irene Forbes were three children. Inez two boys[...]i 16 Forbes, Jr., deceased in 1972, and John Forbes living two pound . miles east of[...]garet korick of One fall we were to a ale and heard the Froid Bank had Bainville.[...]at they had l ft oin ea t They attended a rural chool in McCabe which at that in a big Buick car. Anyway, about three ter th time had two teachers and two separate rooms. found thi Buick in a straw pile I had on ted land. Inez Forbes, daughter of Irene and cotty Forbes, Of cour e the heriff had[...]t an tion . He married Calvin Collings and lives in Culbertson. asked my wife[...]are the present getting ome harne ready for a five ho do ome Kelly Walter home i[...]Mitchell fall plowing. My extra harne wa in a lean-to on th residence and the Agne Hofman home in McCabe,[...]ral year of illne . fo llar and pad a r Death came[...]an apparent heart attack. Thu end d the a life of one of Montana ' early ttler and home teader . fo a ED RD F. GOBB Edward Gobb came b H H |
| [...]r for Chri tma dinner we were going to and Eva (Mrs. C . Roy McDowell) live in Whitefish. Stuart Floyd Ka o' . I had the end out of a grain wagon and the lives in Westernport, Maryland, Rodger was killed in wagon was full of traw. There was my wife and five Germany during World War II.[...]n 1935. In 1941 I children, Mi ke ' four children and my mother-in-law, married Ruth Horner. We had two daughters. I thought I known to all a Grandma Kao. I pulled up close by the front[...]line around the stake of the wagon , got a wedding of one of Floyd Kao's grandchildren my off and went around back to help the women out with their[...]rea. Ramona (Mrs. Jim p rt of the Chri tma dinner and other Chri tma goodies. Ross) lives on[...]Floyd's boy of about 12, came Culbertson and Carol (Mrs. Larry Davidson) lives in around the corner of the hou e with a milk bucket over hi Williston , orth Dakota. I left Whitefish in 1964 and now head and riding the milk cow. Whenever he would let out a live in Reedley , California-and don 't have to shovel now. bellowing noise the cow would really buck. The team gave one quick jump and wa gone off down aero the field. Everything and everyone lid o ut the back of the wagon , landing in the now and covered with straw. It ure was a me , and the econd up et for some of the tuff. One fa[...]on park tarted roaming. They ended up at my place and decided they liked it there . If anyone wa around[...]ing in the barn . I got o I could rub their heads and cratch their ear . Toward pring a man from the Willi ton park came up to ee me. Whe[...]got all excited. Told me how dangerous they were and that I hould have cha ed them a way. "You cha e them away" I aid. "I tried that and they wouldn't leave o now I ju t pet them and we get along fine." Later that pring they butcher[...]there wa n't addle hor e enough to h rd them into a corral. Our place w 20 mile from either[...]long hard mile when you hauled it with four hor e and a load of grain. I c rtainly admire tho e early[...]ird man unknown, Charles Zick on fourth ten miles a per on could ev r drive.[...]p: look d mighty good. W had 200 acre of wh at in a low. bowl-like fi Id . When the kern l wa ju t in[...]. Couldn't even get enough thr hed wh nt to fill a f>O pound ck . Th t w full ye r' wage Mr. and . Juhu and childr n, Edith three frozen and I h dn't ven known it . . _ o I cl cid d to! v th[...]farm . ln the :pring of ·2 w mov d to ulb rt on and li ed Fe 1. He ha the fall b f eon a in thP Ev n'. hou: ,J ck Ev n·. famil !iv din on[...]d in th oth r Th ... umm r I work d for a o t corner of ction for[...]her with h r of the home te der ndur d and hors H c nd went o work pitching hundl . _ for H[...]1r nd ond chooJhou e Kalispell and his i. why I went to that ar . I arriv don[...]. the farm ad o ,' und v and wen down to th round hou , to[...]nneg~n . He u ed o live in h Ru., i n ,' ttl m nt and pl . was a gr in buyer. ow he wa. a forem n at he round Man _ hou[...]hr nd on th l => th of Oct ob r in ·2 and work d there till ugu t l, "proving 19:-, 1.[...]to \i a in sf•eing the high mountain r ng on three sid[...]d Gia a h n he sePmPd especially h rd on the chil[...]y had VNlr nld on went to then 1ghbor. to borrow a , hov I. The h rme go, and h_ that tim ladv a . k d him what he want cl to do wi hit. 'Tm going to the Hainv1 y\ ·ood ch \ ·a . fini.hd so h . hovel that hill down over th r .[...]liv s in quit farmin n H 21 h and hi . . f mily return d o Plonarl . Ohio. n[...] |
| [...]ansen. His children, Edith, Adolph, Elmer and Earl are MR. A D MRS. PEDER C. HA E Mr. and Mr . Peder . Han n wer born in Fyn, |
| [...]The first summer a shallow well with good water was dug, and it became a community well where the neighbors[...]for miles around came with horses and oxen for water.[...]Hofman was also the 'Village Blacksmith' and[...]eighbors brought their plowshares to be sharpened and also other things to be repaired. Many a night the midnite[...]As there were no fences and cows were allowed to roam at[...]will, many times a couple of hours were spent 'hunting' the John Hof[...]In 1913 a large Aultman-Taylor tractor was purchased[...]which was then used for field work and custom breaking and plowing. A few years later a grain separator was added couple of cow and hor e and pigs. The women and and more custom work was done. children came by pa en[...]The sod barn was used until 1914 when a large frame The fir t barn wa of od which was a good shelter in barn with hay loft was built, and the homestead shack with tho e day of evere winte[...]lean-to served until 1916 when a two-story house was The fir t neighbor were Wh[...]Juliu Han en' , Hans Rasmussen's, William Forbes and When Roosevelt County was created,[...]Through the years Hofman also worked at masonry and di tance where they went for lumber, groceries, other plastering, a profession learned in Denmark in his youth. upplie and for the service of a doctor. A family of seven children were reared and Hofman In the winter they al o went south of C[...]the river, cro ing on the ice for wood. This was a two day years, and moved to Seattle, Washington where he died in venture, leaving home before unup one day and coming 1957. Children are: Bolger Hof[...]ice had Agner, farmer at McCabe and Sofus, deceased. deteriorated and began cracking. The hor e plunged through the ice, and it wa ju t nip and tuck to reach the other ide. Th fir t year f, w acre were broken up with a walking WHITMA WALKER JAMES plow and two hor . The land wa ded to a few acre of fla , o t nd potato , and a mall g rden wa also[...]Young pl nt d . In l 10 more od wa broken up with a ulky (riding plow) nd three hor , and then a few acres of Whitman Walker Jame wa born and rai ed in auk wh at w re dd d to the fla and o t acre eded. Center, Minne ota. oved to th Dakota to work, then In th ummer of 19 a prairie fire, mo t dre ded of all came to[...]ontana nd Mr. Ja fortun t ly the wind witched and the fir v r d to the would walk from hi farm and back home carrying o uth t wh r it k pt go·ng until it r ached the ouri grocerie including a heavy ack of flour. Riv r.[...]belong d to a Hofman threshing crew and cook car - 25 men p r da -[...] |
| [...]Oscar Jen en and two broth r , Alb rt and Elm r rod[...]0 car ay hi fir impre ion of th ar a wa that it was a lone ome land , a all he aw wa two hack and a[...]0 car Jen en bought a r linqui hm nt and fil on[...]of 1910. Hi lo t n ighb r w r rt Zich and E,d ard Gobb. Mr. and Mrs. Whitman James and family: Jes ie Marie, JO years; Whitman Willis, y[...]ving nni comm unit a of p o· n[...]rom tt a am Cul o nu and th Ii Ja[...]na in th win r ought a linqui hm nt fr m th Fr d Fr drik ad and fil on it.[...] |
| [...]Chris and Ida Knudsen[...]le who shared the car with him brought horses Mr. and Mr . Oscar Jen en, McCabe. and a wagon. They left Culbertson, my father walking and[...]been a prairie fire and there wasn't much feed for the cattle, In 1911 H.B. Johnson and J.T. Hull opened a trading so my father decided to come back towards[...]es in section 18, Church ervice were held for a number of year in township 29 range 57. Thi was one and a half miles north different home by Pa tor Dom kow from 1910-1914 out of McCabe. My father started to build a sod house soon as of idney.[...]land. It wa not very large only two To O car and hri tine were born five on and three room . It was quite warm in winter and cool in the summer. daughter . Howard, farm-ranc[...]f Point My Mother, older brother Louis, and my elf came by m rried Opal pencer. Alvin, Engin[...]hington, married to Howard Will on, county gotten a ride for u to Juliu Han en' (the town of McCabe[...]urance Agent at During the ummer my father dug a well. The water wa ulb rt on marri d Elaine Gie n. Grae i dece d. good and there wa plenty for our u e and enough for the hri tin el en, born to H.P. el en and ugusta cattle. Later a ection line wa run through, and our well l en in 1 1 at udubon, Iowa[...]four mile northw t of Thi wa Loui ' job, and I often rode along. We drove an D ne Valley bur hon he p r k. H di din 1927. ox hitched to a toneboat. hri tine nd M tilda took car of E[...]Bewich of the fall. One year he came back driving a t am of black ulb rt on, nd Mr . K mp of Froid b for m rryin[...]Our ne re t town wa ulb rt on and our po t offic Many tim if O c r nd hri tin d[...]Our fir t tor wa buil at Leland, a ite ju w of[...]Bapti t hurch. unday chool and hurch wa held in the[...]chool progr m , and la chool pie .[...]iel n, Mr. and Mr . tt and They came from D nmark to Milroy, inn ota in 1 04. In 1 23 my par n bought and mov d to In l O wh n they heard of free la[...] |
| Anna Schile of Nashua, Montana Knud, on a farm five miles out of McCabe. Virgil, Lockhar[...]nneth died August 1934. My father died in 1949 and mother in 1963. MATHIAS LY[...]mily , consisting of Mathia , son |
| [...]front of store at McCabe - 1920. Charlie Nel en and Frank Carroll hunting at Medicine |
| [...]load. Fred soon became tir d and wanted io it down and[...]somehow to keep him going, and b ng, th y found a[...]cident, in the fir t h i a when elsen and two neighbor in[...]gone. While the men were a way t on[...]cornstarch pudding a th family had a of[...]being ration din town, ad a[...]family, the grandfather and an uncle with[...]Quite a number of people al o who came to loca in th[...]who wa taying with them wa a 'loca r o naturally[...]One of the first year a drunk came in on night and[...]When he wa di covered, he wa given a blank t and wa directed to the barn to 1 ep. Mr. and Mrs. Nels Nelsen[...]rai ed enormous one . A neighbor plan d p old heep corral, and rai ed ome weighing[...]pound each. l n ent everal, one in a moved to Princeton, Minnesota, but the farmland,[...]ow how thing g over timberland, laden with stumps and poor soil wa not There wa tar Mail Route with a po t h profitable, so they deci[...]August Fryling home. Harry Howler, who had a tough In April 1906 elsen, his father-in-law, t[...]fir t mail carri r to both Oan law, August, Louis and am Fryhling. leftPrinceton togo Valley and Enterp to Kenmare, orth Dakota to meet Jen Dixen, who wa to A few year later n built a la · d dairy barn help them find homestea[...]of · ilo in the and tanc around h[...]o ing built on a hill th larg tru tur a Willi ton orth Dakota. When they arrived th r[...], Dix a o of land wa[...]di i wa n't long before all the land in and around[...]rt a n Mc ' ab . four Railroad Immi[...]m · farino , machin ry and furn· fort l , a. in on . E. th r and food[...]a rt ontan ·a. th[...]a walking- low nnd ed o[...]· m hin and dug n r had[...]to , mini o n. aught in a now tonn on th . rh[...]lnH11 horn an e lo. t. In or k p rm and ob tter om wa built[...] |
| [...]The home and other buildings on the farm were very[...]badly run down, so the first year, and especially the winter[...]was very rugged for the whole family. The summer and fall had been terribly hot and dry so their crop was all burned[...]and at night the howling wind made it a very scary and unpleasant experience for her and the children.[...]Then in April, 1911, I was born, and my Mother had no[...]doctor. I was the fifth born without a doctor in attendance,[...]very ill with dysentery, a lady came to our door and handed my mother a bottle of Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhea[...]The lady was Mrs. Pete Jensen, who became a life long friend , and Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhea medicine a life long item in her medicine cabinet, and all the childrens[...]Jorgensen 's and one-half mile farther down the road the[...]The country school was a mile west. And as I recall their[...]They reaped a nice harve tin the fall of 1911, and my[...]mother worked side by side with my father. Lucy and Chri and Lucy Ol en Ro ella cooked and cleaned, and Lucy would take me out to Mama and she fed me in the shade of a hock. In May of 1913 Mark wa born, and again, without a doctor, and, for the next four years with a lot of help from marri d Lucy nder on, daug[...]' pro pered Th ir three childr n, K nneth, Alton, and Mari were born enough to purcha e another[...]be Helen Zick Gobb . They immediately had a two tory home chool, th n th lb rt on hig ool. built, with a full ha ementand ci tern. Max Ander en from Th[...]f Ebenezer Lutheran McCabe wa the carp nter and our mother acted a Church throughout the ye r hri w unday architect. The home is till there and better and pr ttier chool up rint ndent for man . than ever, after a rejuvenation job b George and hi wife Th y lived at t · until 19 7 at which time A trie, who lived there from 19 6 to 1972. they built a horn t · id ,[...]. pt mb r 1923. Dr. Munch had b n called but a he Th h[...]the to a on, fir t outcry of a bah . h had to b born like th r tofu . Ro[...]th n til 1 when he live . and ily m ii d[...]mov d to Pol on in 1946. rk a[...]month in Pol on . Th a h ir r la iv In ,July 1. 10. Philip and ary Rohr nbach with four but their good[...]children, Lucy, nine, Ro Ila, eigh . Georg , ix, and Th childr n II married follow : Alb rt. four, mov d to a 160 acr farm which was Luc --Harry John on Both d c a d purcha ed from a hri Pet r en, and located Ro 11 --Loring ook o[...] |
| [...]by Mrs. Knud Knudsen My parents, Mrs. and Mrs. W.F. Wood (Bill) and their Charley L. Young and hi wife Flora, with five children l, Low ll, Ag |
| Vernon and Marjorie live east of Froid, Montana. Walter married Genevieve James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Whitman James, who had homesteaded 1/2 mile west and 1/ 4 mile south of McCabe. Roy and Shirley live in Williston. Ruby died in Galen, and her twin brother in infancy. Glenn and Leona live near Absarokee. The family church h[...]e. With twelve children something to do was never a problem. Plowing sod and digging rocks was not easy. They came to Montana to have their own home, and life was good to them. Charley died in 1967 and Flora in 1973, each being 89 years old. They had 22 grandchildren and 33 great Charley Young on left, Flora on right, and children. Notice grandchildren.[...] |
| Whitman James and daughter, Genevieve, five years. Hotel i[...] |
| [...]Willie Larsen and Charlie Nelsen. First John Deere sold[...]uller aloon, Lundqui t lumberyard. Mr. and Mr . Whitman Jam and daught r, J; ie arie-- Frank Blow[...] |
| [...]Later it was discovered that "Froid" was a French word meaning "frigid" and everyone agreed that the name had The birth of[...]were set up along the home teading early in 1906 and the early pioneers found sta[...]mber 16. Supplies were the land along Sheep Creek and Lost Creek, with tall grass freighted from Culbertson by teams and wagon, later with and plenty of water, to be what they had been looking[...]several wagons. Mail, passengers, their earch of a place to build new homes and establish a and smaller parcels were carried on the stage coach w[...]ran from Culbertson to Plentywood one day and back the yielded rich returns for those who stayed to work it and next. much of their land is s[...]Lutheran cemetery and was owned by Bruce Bates. Close Easterners, use[...]ed by Bill Reiters, was known as the Early place. and cold.[...] |
| [...]Bill Reiter hands in uspenders at Black mith hop -[...]1909. living quarters in the back; Sutton and Balls Restaurant; Palutzke Lumberyard; Bucholtz's[...]eep Creek Hollow wa Mr . Enger "cook car,, uncle) and Schnitzler's Bank. Further down at the[...]The early records of the platting of Froid as a town ite going north or south. and its sub equent incorporation a a town are ketch , Across the road on the east si[...]ivery but the following i being ubmitted a ub tantially Barn and a blacksmith shop (owner not known). Down in[...]. O l<a.l ph J..c, Ma. h[...] |
| [...]led on in 1906 by J.O. Baker under what wa known a a squatter's entry. However, he never acquired the title to the land. Mr. Baker first had a hardware store and bar in Froid, later he owned a farm near the old Jack Cobban ranch on the Muddy[...]on the land was issued to one Lorenze J. Hurley and the instrument contains this clause, "Granted un[...]ney through which he conveyed the land to Dakota and Great orthern Townsite Co. wa acknowledged by him before a ju tice of the peace in Pike County, Alabama.[...]ed to Medicine Lake Realty Co. Among ·ts officer and agents were D. Ray Gregg and C. . Froid - 1914 Ha kin , both of whom were earl[...]incorporated a a town. J.W. Ander on, cashier of the OnJulyll,1[...]curity Bank (Fir t tate) wa mayor; A.W. Killam a town ite, ubj cttoarightofw yd dtoG. . RailwayCo. local at orney, a clerk-trea urer. r. Killam' wife, Katie and thr acre re rv d to J.O. Ba r. In later ye r title was a ister of Riley, Clar nee, Walter and Amo Tuni on. pas d from J.W. chnitzl rto hn ·tzl[...]hnitzler ongr gational hurch in Froid a ke Corp.[...]th town of Froid wa platted, but th had a futur and could e · and actual Bing of lots wa n't until Jun . It wa ju t by r p and la b d in accid[...]th original town ite wa e · · a and planned outh of her on John Lee claim n r O ar[...]hac I and Gang tad' farm and w to hav b n called "Le land'. ar[...]th Froid wiring ·city a th h th Barber hop, the Kamp office and horn now th Old tor t[...]arly Adams house just w t of Edith Phair . and the Schnitzl r tting Ho[...]if t tory, h could incorporate a a town. It wa found that the popul tion th n wir Rev in d man a was in ufficient to comply with the law. By the x[...]aMar (wh re Arnold undh im liv ) A word of mouth mong fri nd in a and J.O. Baker (both with large familie ), Fro[...] |
| pulled-and many of the local residents were gathered in Around 1916, A.O. Hedberg wa granted a franchi to and around the Louck's home to see if all was successful- construct and operated Froid' fir t tel phone change. "Hurray!"[...]Shortly afterward local farmer and bu in m n From then on, Reverend Place was more[...]th organized the Farmers Telephone ompany and trun a profession rather than what had started out as a hobby. wires all the way from orth Dakota bo[...]r.Hedberg' death, the local exchang wa many homes and other businesses were wired until the purchased by John Brudie, and ara Pric wa the generator power had to be increas[...]t. exchange and the 01 on girl w re the op rator . Th To we you[...]ntain tate T lephone. In about 1 54 some 60 years and realize the hidden joys of pulling a the Farmers Rural Telephone line were purcha ·ed by the switch and having a light, we too, could appreciate the Rural Telephone Cooperative the RTA. hard work and the adventure connected with this project. everal wells had been dug to find a ource of water During 1916 S.J. Dorothy and M.J. Kockendorfer supply for the town. A mall well with rather rusty water obtained a franchise to construct a lighting system under was dug in 1949 but could be used to upply only a mall the name of the Froid Electric Company. Late[...]1950. In 1956 an ample upply of water Froid Auto and Oil Company on the lots owned now by was found in the well dug about one mile we t of Froid and Gilbert Rogney across the street from the theater. After a water and ewer line were laid throughout the town . The few years fire consumed the building and the light plant. individual mall hallow well and the ci tern and the Mr. Dorothy built another small structure on[...]thing of the past within mo t of the city limi . A lagoon by Ed Olson as the caretaker and engineer. It too burned type sewer serve the town. and Froid was without lights for quite some ti[...] |
| TRAGEDY On a hot and sultry night in August 1933, when most of Froid's[...]he air. Because of the warmth of the night, doors and windows had been left open and the townspeople were immediately aroused. A fire was sighted in an old car in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Skilander. Mr. Skilander was the village shoemaker. His body was found in the car and it was later learned that Mrs. Skilander had first thrown a strong solution oflye water on her husband and then dragged him into the car and set it afire. Mr. Skilander passed away a few days later in the Williston hospital. Mrs. Skilander was found guilty of murder and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment at Deer Lodge where she[...]machinery in 1907 for Tanner and Best in Culbertson-later[...]moving to Bainville and then McCabe--built the John[...]eere Implement Company building in Froid in 1936. A[...]bout 1910-1912. Farmers Union and moved his implement business to[...]n 1950. Plans were underway to rent the Froid for a half century.[...]were frozen and fire trucks would not start. The lot has[...]it over and built their court there. When they moved to the[...]new town park, and the new bank wa built the City[...]t. THE VOGUE |
| [...]f where the Coast to Coast is now, in 1910. After a year of operation he sold the General Merchandise[...]s operated the store until 1926 when the building and the merchandise were destroyed by fire. As far as[...]remained vacant until the Coast to Coast erected a small storage building in 1974. After selling the store to Loucks the Buckholtz's moved to western Montana and after the store burned, Mr. Loucks tended to his[...]Going from right to left is Bank purchased the a e of the Valley County Bank, al o the Bucholtz St[...]curity Bank (Fir t tate), incorporated and the name changed to The Fir t tate Hardware Store, unknown and Buffalo aloon. Bank of Froi[...]In 1915 a building wa erected which h ou d th bank[...]from that year until 1970, when a new building wa OLSON BANK-HARDWARE-(now COAST TO[...]irst ational Bank of McCabe, Montana i In 1910 A.J. Olson built a bank and a hardware store on 1923. the present site of[...]Fir t ational Bank Bank existed for only one year and the stock was sold to of Froid old their tock to J .W. r. Th a e and J.W. Schnitzler. The bank part of the building wa[...]e. Cafe in Froid. In 1928 a new building was constructed by Morri and In 19 · · · the Gil Johnson for a grocery and hardware store. The Froid I nd n n building and contents were sold to Jack Wulf about 1930. employ Jack and Esther operated the store until it wa old to[...]tinu · th Thure and Myrtle We tberg, who di pen ed with the[...]0 fi grocery busine and op rated the hardwar[...]nd Danny Thompson who operated it for two year and h n old th tore and the bu ine to David Quamm n . in that time Dave ha operated th bu ine a th oa t to Coast tore. FIR T T TE B K OF FROID |
| [...]until 1917 when it was sold to a group of people who named[...]the store the Farmers Mere and it was managed by Jack[...]PALUTZKE LUMBER YARD Sam Wallander, Tom Ryerson, and Irene Grovom at work This lumber y[...]currency which had come in the |
| [...]purchased by the Culbertson earchlight and finally[...]About 1948 a mimeographed w kly wa tarted by Barney Engler and Lawrence and Virginia cheutz . In[...]and sold the paper to Jewel Portra and haron Bertel n,[...]the present publi her . Th W kly carri th Froid and Medicine Lake new a well a other articl of in r t county and area wide.[...]then moved to an offic in Ray' afe building and i now[...]Lumberyard built in 1910. Lars Krogedal on wagon. A.E. Kamps and son Richard standing beside building.[...]ld stage road, moved to the new townsite in 1910, and operated by the original owner for a full half century. Lumber was hauled by wagon fro[...]amp Lumber Yard bought the busines in about 1959, and operates as Leo's Lumber and Excavating.[...]d quipm nt to A.R. Ii d[...] |
| Willard and Catherine Armantrout and grandson Tom Cookson with one of the newly constr[...]Farmers Elevator - Froid ARMA TROUT SAW FILING AND CABINET FARMER'S ELE[...]t to be constructed Willard Armantrout operated a saw filing and cabinet in Froid (1911), bought out the O[...](located on the 1955. Four new steel bins with a storage capacity of 55,000 comer just north of the lumberyard). Carpentry and hand bushels were erected in the summer of 1959. The elevator carving were hi pecialties and the altars of several now has a storage capacity of 240,000 bushels. George churc[...]The first manager of the Occident Elevator was a Mr.[...]G HOP aw filing · of ci or , a w 11 a watch repair kept y for veral year during th 30' and early ade cane . WE ERG R[...]g in about 1953. Th building Th building and f cili i compl d enough to b |
| [...]owner unknown. The Westland Oil Company tarted a bulk plant here in 1921 and a service station in 1925. Pa t[...]P.A. Evarts, George Ryerson, and Kenneth Ta a took it over in 1939 and operated it until his death. His on Vernon[...]operated it for about three year wh n the tock and[...]times and is at present a very modem station. Early day street scenes, sout[...]MINT BAR A D CAFE analysis; individually blended "Prescription Mix" plant food formulas and bulk spreading. This building has probably had a many owner and a The plant has a storage capacity of 1,000-1,200 tons. !tis many[...]reet of Froid. equipped with rotary type blenders and baggers. The About 1910 D. . Englebright and William Merid h building is also able to store 35[...]mers to Company for the purpo e of buildin a aloon. The purchase only the plant food ingredien[...]completed building wa called "Billy' Place" and wa the soil.[...]nager. Englebrigh and operated the aloon until h old th[...]ational Bank with Ed Peter on and A.E. Kamp a prin-[...]when th bank The Froid Opera House was built by a group of tock and the building wa old to chnitzler. The building st[...]st everyone in the community wa empty for a couple of ear until it wa in 1 31 was a shareholder. The building was used for most of the C. . ulli an who opera d a grocery tore ntil social functions in t[...]Gilbert when he rented the tore to Arthur and B der. Rogney bought out the stockholders and opened the and Irene ran their grocery tore here until 1937 when Liberty Theater. Traveling theatrical shows and dance bought the Perlin tore and moved ac bands continued to entertain the communi[...]the Farmer nion tarted heir movies came in; and in 1934 the "Talking ovie " lea in[...]er the Ian ting floor wa building ju t put in and new eats installed. The theater continu d to b 1941 and 194 a good place of weekend entertainment until replac[...]th b home televi ion se during the 1960' . The th a r ha Hunting n been clo ed for everal[...]op ration th electrical ligh plant. Hi mall ngin and gen rator located in a shack on the location of th pr war hou e. FROIDA[...]of Froi t |
| [...]the building and enlarged the restaurant space by taking[...]until 1974 when they closed the restaurant and remodeled[...]BETWEEN RA Y'S CAFE AND THE ANNEX treet. At this time the Purvis and id Dorothy families There seems to have b[...]ll buildings in that The building known a Ray' E B R |
| [...]and Ray) operated the rooming hou e, bakery and[...]gburn, Mrs. Lindberg bought the building and remodel d · into Anna Enger, and unknown. One of the first businesses to ap[...]na Enger, who had up to this time been cooking in a cook car FARM A D HOME STORE down in Sheep Creek Hollow.[...]side) was built in 1915 by id Hardie who op rated a FROID HOTEL restaurant. The upstairs wa u ed a living quarter .[...]oid Hotel by Mrs. Anna Enger, who initiated a movement to bring the flu victim without had up until this time been cooking in a cook car down in home , uch as many harve t hand and bachelor who Sheep Creek Hollow for a crew of 23 construction men. Mrs. were i olat[...]1944, after34 years care. Doctor had too large a patient load to vi it th m of continuous ownership and operator of the hotel. Mrs. otherwi e. There wa a meeting and an organization Lena Tobiason was employed by Mrs[...]make thi care available. The top floor of the Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Lindberg and Mr. and Mr . Milton Ta a building wa turned into a nur · . Peile owned and operated the hotel for short intervening periods[...]· · . of time before Mr. and Mr . Harry John on, formerly of Co in ta and J Medicine Lake[...]n b the 1960' the town of Froid bought the hotel and d . remodeled the dining room into two apartmen and g tha Duebner and There a Die n ran the hotel until i a an o clo ed in 1973. Only the two ap.a rtmen ar occupi d at roj[...] |
| [...]of Main Street. During the summer, Price put in a[...]government specifications by Leo Triplett and was opened[...]Henry A. Field - December 26, 1911 to ovember 3, 1914 The[...]eorge Donaldson - ovember 3, 1914 to June 3, 1916 and the Town Council room. Built in 1948.[...]The firemen held an annual New Year' Eve dance and Mrs. Aimee Pattison - ovember 11, 1947[...]erving) prevalent throughout the county, and local intere ts Rural mail carrier wh[...]have the "take" leave town, the the patron and the Postal ervice were: C.C. Scott, fir t money could be u ed for con tructive purpo e . For a time, rural mail carrier, 1910, number of yea[...]the r ceipt were divided equally between the town and the Ta a 191 -1942· H.O. Peile, 25 year ; Roy el on, 27 y[...]two fir truck the City Council Room the I·brary and the city jail. Froid Tribune, June 24 1910: The upp r tory ha i u d many tim a month for me ting and variou other activitie .[...]E For everal ye r , Harry John on rv d a Town Marshall, Water In pector and Fir hief. Harvey Chell is Po tma t r Fr[...]ty to do bu ine o have a full-fledg d po t office and r et no and CITY LIBR R[...]d · nd find Froid as quickl a it wa fir t hou ed in th old n w pap r building and wa find way t cago.[...]patron of the o/fic in librarian for everal year and Glady Krohm r, the good ." pr[...]" Fr d Pric , po tma ter a Froid , ha in tall d a oda Fred Price, broth r of Mr . Walter Tuni on, wa fountain and i now di p n ing cold drink at all hour ." appoin[...], 1 10. The poet office wa located in the back of a building on th south ide[...] |
| [...]# # and # I![...]H 0 ME B A K ER Y If #[...]F R 0 ID, M0 T A A # Sullivan, and A.J. Olson who bought the garage in 1932. !f[...]blacksmith and Ray Luebke wa the mechanic. everal Page 8 adverti[...]others have been employed a ei her black mith or #### #UHHJJlf# E~##ll#########H#### N####[...]# became the CheVTolet dealer and al o carrie the Ford· # Good work at[...]ark Rudolph as istant. Walter cott work part time a JI # partsman. The black mith part i clo ed . # •[...]JI # I am in a po sitio n to do y o ur[...]for b J ohn a nd Harry Th[...] |
| [...]AL Bill Strandlund (brother of Elmer Strandlund and Mr. and Mrs. J.O. Dahl came to the Froid area to Esther Wulf) had a blacksmith shop on the corner across homestead in 1908. They built their new home and hospital the street south of where the new post o[...]ficiated at the births of more than 800 brothers) and Bill Reiter Sr. who operated it for many[...]ahl years. Later Bill Reiter, Sr. bought the shop and in tum was a long-time postmaster. The Dahls sold the home- sold it to Olmer Olson. The shop was torn down and the lot hospital to Irene Grovom during the late 1930's. Irene old to Joe Arnsdorff who built a house there. Subsequent worked first at the Post Office and then the bank until she owners of the house have been the Walter Burt's , Jerry retired and moved away. Alvin Erdahls now own the home. Wallanders and the Gottlieb Lufts. It is the present home of Mr[...]In a family story it was noted that there was a Dr. Miner (lady) who had a dentists office in Froid during the 1930's.[...]The Bill Glaze home and barber shop was located on the[...]where Steve parks new cars between the Fire Hall and[...]building was moved across the street west and this became the Glaze home and barber sh op. Mrs. Glaze died in 1953. Froid Impl[...]The building is now owned by P .A. Lindberg. Bill a lso sold[...]e office of the 8'-J;anitzler Farming Corporation a well a elling International Harve ter machinery, and operatmg a machine and repair hop. The implement bu ine and building wa old to Clarence Han on and Marvin and Iver undheim in 1951. In 1953 Han on bought out h[...]d wa rebuilt th ame year. Han on old the building and bu ine to O c r Hipp who continued to 11 inn apoli - oline nd Graham-Hoeme Equipm nt and op rat the r pair hop. In 1 75 Hipp old the bu in[...]1956 making a total torag capacity of 120 000 bush l .[...]Th fir manag r w V m And r: on. Oti el on was[...]until 1975. Bru anford i th n w The Dahl home and hospital built in 1914.[...] |
| MR. AND MRS. W. C. ADAMS[...]North Dakota and wa reared and educated ther . In 1902 Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Adams, Paul, Charles, Howard and the family moved to the Devils Lake area[...]home. In 1911 Mr. Ander on home teaded near Havr and 1911. Bill, as everyone called my dad, bought a lived there until entering the Unite[...]World War I he served over eas in France and Germany for miles northeast of McCabe. They formerly lived at 21 months and later served in the United tate Army of Waukegan, Illinois and Eleva, Wisconsin. Occupation. After hi discharge, he returned to Montana Effie and Bill endured many and varied hardships as and began farming in the Froid vicinity in 1921. He wa pioneers. We walked one and a half miles to school, which married to Angeline Knutson in Poplar, ovember 22, was held only three months a year at first. Mrs. Adams, a 1922. She died the following year in May, 1923. former teacher, managed to supplement our learning and After farming for a time he became engaged in keep us up to our grade level. construction and has continued to make hi home in Froid. She als[...]derson pa ed away in 1967 at the age of 79. Effie and Bill Adams helped anyone who needed them. Neighbors were Harry Fowell, Mr. and Mrs. John MARTI ANDERSO Steeple, Harry Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John Hurley and Adam Eschenbacher.[...]in Anderson was born May 27, 1 97 in Ea t Grand A beautiful grove of jack pines, a memorial to my dad, Forks, Minne ota. In 1902[...]education. Mr. and Mrs. Adams moved to Froid after selling the He came to Montana with his two brothers, Henr and farm in about 1948. Andrew in 1914 and started farming in the we t Froid area. My dad[...]aughter of Mr . E telle Aker Memorial hospital of a heart condition. Hughes wa b[...]Her parents ranched we t of Home in Williston of a stroke. They were preceded in death Homestead and she attended chool in Froid. by my three brothers. Martin and Ruby were married on January 5, 1929. They May[...]continued to live on Ander on home tead, with a farming as they have earned it. and ranching operation for the next forty ear . The[...]and al o o[...]n . in I . and d ue Adam and B ll Kao[...] |
| [...]George's passing, Nettie married Andrew Ander on, and they lived in Froid for a number of years. After he died in 1941, she moved to Culbertson and was a cook at the Roosevelt Memorial hospital for twent[...]ghty-eight becau e of her health. Nettie became a resident of Faith Lutheran Home in Wolf Point, and Beulah and one of her boys came to Montana to be near her. S[...]kota from Borup, Denmark in 1 93 with his parents and brothers and sisters. After attending public chools at Lake Pr[...]ng in the trades of horseshoeing, Chris and Jane Jacobsen - 1917 wagon making, plow work, steam boiler repair work and general blacksmithing. He completed a course in steam came to Culbertson in[...]outh Dakota Agriculture College at and the Searchlight. In 1909 she went back to her home in Brookings. He followed steam engineering and general Goderich, Ontario. Chris had proposed to her and she told repair work in outh Dakota, Minne ota, o[...]wanted to marry her, he had to come to Canada to and Montana. Chri came to Culbert on in 1906 to practice wed her. Chris went to Goderich, Ontario and in February hi tr de as black mith. He al o u ed his squatter' rights 1910 he married Jane Wilson. for a home tead in ortheastern Montana, 25 miles Before Jane Wilson met and married Chris Jacobsen she northea t of Culbert on. had taken up a homestead eight miles east of Froid. When Jane[...]she married Chris she gave up her homestead and moved to aunt from Goderich, Ontario in 1901 . Th[...]what is now known as Anvil Farm. Chris had built a tar For in 1902 where he fini bed chool and then attended paper hou e in 1907 and in thi , their first home, their first the orth D[...]built the hou e that till tand on Anvil Farm and which their son Howard rai ed hi family and still lives there.[...]on an increa ing cale. His daughter Ethel and Hazel[...]In 1916 Chri and Jane built a home in Froid which is[...]Howard wa born. During the year betwe n 1921 and[...]wo year a member and one y ar a pr ident of h[...]a Chairman of th Board of th ongr gational h[...]He al o rved a lerk of chool Di trict 4 and wa D puty County A e ·or and r ached all th farm he had to a e s by hor bac . Both hri and Jan w r alway active in church a ctivitie . Jame b long d to th Pr byterian Church[...]language. Ther wa a policy wh n building an w chur h[...]nd Jan w r active in the building and a tend d this hris Ja cobsen ' parents, Jen[...] |
| [...]I Chris and Jane and family Lef[...]and Hobart Wheeler. |
| ARTHUR AND NEITIE ARBUCKLE by Dorabel Arbuckl[...]North Dakota around 1907 with one baby boy, Dale, and homesteaded south of Froid, near Mother's sister, Mrs. Wallace Hardy, and brother, Irving Lackore. Another sister, Mrs. (Alice) Hubert Warner, and father's brother, Fremont Arbuckle followed. Fremont was quite a ball player. Our very wonderful (near) neighbor[...]leys, O'Greens, Blowers, Hippes, Aslag Midthunes, and George Muesman. There were others who I cannot re[...], was born on the farm , also two brothers, Jesse and Irving. After we moved to town, Loyal was born.[...]e next morning, on benches, not Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bahn overstuffed davenports. When Dale was about 12 he worked for Art and Lyda Mann. No child labor laws at that time! Harvest in 1925 was a time to remember for me! Dad told I shall never forget the flu epidemic of 1918. Dr. Darland Hazel and I to drive a team of horses with wagons loaded worked day and night. That flu immunized me against the[...]team and I followed in another wagon. My first trip! I W[...]ng as my horses just followed having good friends and neighbors. the front[...]me to be sure when Hazel One can never get over a love affair with Montana. It's stopped, I would have to pull the reins on my horses or the my home and always will be.[...]got to Froid about noon and drove past the McNeil barber[...]shop on Main Street. There stood a young fellow named HI TORY OF THE L.A. BAH FAMILY Dallas who smiled at me! We got our grain unloaded and[...]t was going to happen, but was glad the Le ter A. Bahn home teaded in Montana coming from wagons were empty. orth Dakota in 190 on ection 26 and 27, Town hip 30, Dad had a ten year con tract to build the roads in this are[...]covered wagon with hi brother, using a fresno and four horses. Elmer was one of his Ernie Bahn ettling on land located in the Enterprize helpers, and remarked nothing funny ever happened-it community[...]was just work. ei Bahn, but left hi wife and a mall daughter, Edythe, Carl Scott (with his on Brainard a ubstitute) was the who wa born in 1907, in orth D[...]built, Le ter returned to orth cott drove a cover d sled with a pot belly heater in the Dakota to bring them to the farm . winter and topped for hi lunch and change of horses at In 190 another trip wa made to orth Dakota by the farm. Many a time Mr. cott pent the night too, due to covered wagon where a on, Elmer, wa born. weather[...]Early neighbor wer the Jack Hurley and the ar of pu h ·ng th now off the blank b fore g tting up Macillwain . The Enterprize chool and post offic was in the morning. p rm nent four room hou wa built in located on the aclllwain farm and later the chool was 1913a there tofthefamilyarriv d . Hazelin1913, Evelyn mov d a quarter of a mile east of th farm . Dad wa a in 1914, Helen in 1916, and Le ter Jr. (known a Bill) in memb r of the chool board for many y ar . A mile to th 191 . In 1 I the roof w raised and four b droom were west of u wa th Valley hool, and teach r of both added. Then in 1 23 a front and back porch wa added to schools board d and room d at the farm. h original four room hou . A barn wa built and a dam Teachers that mad the b t impr io[...]mily built in th coul b hind th b rn. Th neighbor and w re Mildred ( horty) B rg, teach r[...]swimming · n th ummer. Le ter had for a ven month term in 1 26- ( v n month , horty told[...]me wa becau that wa all th mon y they had) and The neare t town wa Culb rt on , until Froid wa[...]25·1927. Th r w re two young f, llow nam d Ewald and Mrs. Floyd Kao wa the mid-wife wh n I wa born and Chri ti Chri toffi r on who would com c[...]teach r from Froid. Th romanc nd d in marriage a Darland, the attending physician. (Bill was the only child horty b came Mr . Ewald hri ofi r n a nd Jo phin who was born in a ho pital). r . hri ti hri toff r on . The crop , wheat and feed grains, wer put in with a two When Edyth wa r ad for high chool, sh[...]n by six hor es, cut with the binder. John on and Birgit Odden room d togeth r in Froid in th Elmer[...]n tead of being pull d by into town on unday and brought her to th farm on horses).[...] |
| [...]belonging to a neighbor, as had happened previou ly. oit[...]In 1929 Mom and Dad moved into Froid where we tarted[...]Bainvµie in 1943. In 1946 Mom and Dad moved to Kent,[...]Lodge in Froid and had her membership transferred to[...]of Poplar. John died in 1972 and Edythe lives in Billing .[...]and Hazel lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Elmer was marrie[...]Loretta Stein of Opheim who died in 1967 and Elmer remarried and is now living in Ellensburg, Washington.[...]Bill married Alice Romo of Bainville and they live in[...]Livingston. Evelyn married Dallas Mc eil of Froid and[...]Dad died in 1964 and Mom passed away January 21,[...]years old. Mom, with her mother and father and[...], Evelyn Bahn McNeil with daughter Carreen, Elmer and CHALMER BARLEY Let[...]I wa the fourth child in a family · · n born to Many a play, basket social and dance wer held at the Mr. and Mr . Elijah J. Barley of e, Bed[...]e placed on layers of winter living on a fa here ne we moved coats in a room off the cla room until the parents were[...]y to go home. At that point in time ther wa quite a n town wa oodv 1 a scramble to find the right coat-but a we g der we got o · unction of to stay up later and all learn d to dance to th ·c of J ac[...]tabo th Hurley on the violin and Dora Jo on o piano.[...]the early twen , had o radio in our ar a. Mr. Hurl y invi f · and we all took t utting on ph[...]· i · Dad would load the family in a lei · straw-usingfootwarm r andh[...]of watched the pla do a t and north to 't 1 car comin[...] |
| [...]AUGUST AND AMALIA BARR[...]by Mrs. George A. Barr August and Amalia Hegland Barr came to east Froid,[...]August Barr was not a young man at that time. He had[...]Germany when he was 15 years old, with his father and two brothers. His mother and ten year old sister had died of the "black plague", a disease that swept through Germany[...]sails hung slack and the boat rocked on the water. A stiff[...]ming to America, the father Left, Mrs. W.E. Swank and right, Mrs. D.S. Stutzman. and brothers lived in Ohio the rest of their lives, and his[...]I don 't know what year August left Ohio and moved to We lived in a brick tenement row which housed several[...]a. He married Amalia families, each family having a section of the building from Hegland in Nort[...]r rose, mother t ook Minnesota at Donaldson, on a farm. This is where their her six children and went to the third story. I was five and children were born. Five sons and two daughters, Henry, a half years old at the time, three sisters were older and two Phillip, Emma, Enoch, Alpha, George (Billy) and Vernon. were younger, the baby just a few weeks old. My mother Here too, they built a lovely big home which was raised the window and looked out to see the wall of water plastered with plaster of paris. They don't use such lovely and debris coming. Then she kneeled down at the window material today. and was praying when the water struck, and this is the last Amalia had originally co[...]nd recollection of my mother. The plaster cracked and 14. Her moth er , a widow, and several young children came began to fall, then all at once the house crumbled and fell. to America to be with her older ones that were here. My mother, five sisters and Grandma Barley drowned. It took t[...]been invented. Sh e was 16 years younger than her and was under water several times, bruised, but not[...]g to seriously hurt. Final y my sister next older and I climbed America. onto the door of a hou e. I held onto the door knob, but she[...]potatoes. The ground had noth ·ng to hold on to and wa finally pulled off the was infected with a blight which killed the potato plants. door by th[...]o the stone return. So, they sold out and moved near White Earth, bridge, where the water w[...]e end of the bridge nd let the water through with a ru h. planter is till on our farm, and can still be u ed. Itis a J ohn A I came back downstr am I wa shoved out against the Deere. railroad grade and wa caught in th rubbi hand debris. The Barrs later moved to Williston and rented Dr. E.J . Later a man came down off the grade got me loo e and Hagen r. farm and ran a dairy. The oldest, Emma, helped me out.[...]dr s ed in boys' clothe and cap delivered milk around The body of my mother[...]Molly was on call throughout th differ nt ar a they I lived with a Mr. Cu ter for two day , until r. D.S. liv d in whenever anyone wa ick or a midwife wa Stutzman found me and took me home. The next day he needed. She had delivered a lot of babi and alway did found my fath r and told him where I wa . I rv d with the cooking wher ver h wa . relative for the next two ye r and finally went to liv with The Barr boys we[...]Henry Barr, the old t, drove around looking for a job and 24 years old. came in to the Cook on plac . Loring ran a big thr bing We moved fir t to orth Dakota in 1907 and I b gan rig, oh h"r d him a hi engin er and b It man. Henry farming with Mrs. tutzman's broth[...]0 we moved to ea tern Montana, to the Froid area, and Hours never both red him and many nights he and one took up homesteads. I had forty acre next to[...]or two other wer lacing b Its by lantern and Model T Ford Stutzmans. I was married in 1910 and lived on the light half he night.[...]nce then I have lived in Minnesota Henry and my mother started dating, and later married. or Florida.[...]ful for the par ntal (Billy) making my mother and I isters-in-law. care of the e two dear pe[...] |
| [...]Just two daughters-in-law, Dorothy and Katherin live[...]thirty years. August and Amalia Barr, 1929 and granddaughter found them the old Shipley homestead. An early settler had |
| WILLARD AND RUTH BECKER Jorgense[...]Schulz who lives at rural Billings and has four girls; Willard Becker was born in Nort[...]Esther, Mrs. Larry Bengtson, lives at Shepherd and has May 30, 1895. At the age of 20 he arrived in[...]rms. In 1918 he moved Verdes, California and has five children; Doris, Mrs. to the Froid area and started working in the coal mines in Vernon Martinson, lives at Shepherd and has two various areas of the county and as far north as Canada. children; Connie[...]years he rode the rails, working at and has four children. Elinor, Esther and Laura went to the threshing in the summer and coal mines in the winter. He Valley School until 1941, and then all of the girls went to started working for[...]ast of Froid, the Point. They moved east of Froid and farmed the Mcillwain Goodwin Berghs bough[...].C. Scott place one mile place until they retired and moved to Sidney in 1958. east of Froid and moved there in 1941. Six children were born to[...]In 1952 Goodwin's health became quite bad and the Vegas; Robert of New Orleans; Dan in the U.S.[...]rved as Roosevelt County Commissioner California; and Judy Heflin of Hawaii. and for many years was Chairman of the Froid School[...]sch Elizabeth married K.P. Lindegaard and still lives in her officiating. Ruth still lives[...]. home in Froid. Goodwin and Elizabeth Bergh CARL A D GOODWI BERGH |
| [...]Oscar Berglund and Lucille[...]horses. I remember a huge steam engine tractor setting by[...]the trees in the yard, and playing on it, till it was sold for[...]e first tractor I remember my father owning Oscar and Martha Berglund, 15th Wedding Anniversary was a McCormick Deering. He would tell of the threshing[...]machines and going with the threshing crews from[...]neighbor to neighbor and farm to farm. If they were too far[...]word that there was plenty of grass, level land, and or some kind of shelter, u ing straw or bundles for a bed. all farmable drew my grandfather to Montana[...]One place there was no shelter, so they put a tarp on the homestead. In the spring of 1908 he acquired land eight ground and a tarp over their blankets, as the weather had mile[...]m Froid, it tarted my father, Oscar Emil Berglund and Uncle Alfred torming. My fath r[...]e el to Williston, ortb hi hor e Wil on, and th leigh eve often. In the area Dako[...]m miles to the farm , most of the miles barefoot, a their shoe more in ten and he could no longer . H told of finall[...]ime, shoe wer worn only for dropping the rein and · on on had him horn . I chool and in the winter). Once again, back th y went to[...]m I wouldclimbon Minnesota where Grandma Berglund and the young r hi back or pet him whil wa n the barn, a a mo t brother and sister were, before winter tin . In the pring tru ted animal a · of 1910 my father, 0 car r turned to Montana and mad i My oul his home. During thi time, other from the Da l area a nd H · it in t v ning . were ettling in th community too, uch a th yqui m n rn light a o o would the Olsons and the trandlund . f[...]uring the early year , my father broth r, ister , and In fa parents came to Montana[...]other Berglund wa concern d th th r a no ho t[...]ve music. Later, the Hammond chool wa built about a going p a mile north of th farm . After it clo d it wa mo d and no long r manuf w u d a a laughter house until the building wa mov d to[...]n on the Thr hing B ground . It a w a ba remodel d and i no a mu um. Ov r th ears I r . th r in ma a - My fath r, hi brother, and sister would tell of having alwa b w[...]M. to th neighbors in, gather around th organ and nd th haul coal horn b ho[...]0th r times, they would talk of th barn ar a , arriving horn late at night or coming horn n t danc uch a one at c ab , many mil s away. The day; watching th crop di o rought and not would hitch up th hor e to th buggy, go to th[...]a born . Alvira my than five minu ; or if a n b h Ip, uld fath r' wife b am ill with th flu and di d when Dori drop what he wa oing and go. T al o g ar was around a year old. Dori liv s in Minn apoli a do s when the crop pric w re go d[...]baron. and in later y a , wh n hi h alth wa failing ,[...] |
| [...]winter of 1904 and 1905 was so cold and so much snow, he[...]Mother and I moved to Culbertson the next winter and she worked in the old St. Paul Hotel in 1909 and 1910. In 1911 she took up a homestead eleven miles north of[...]Bain ville on Shot Gun Creek and near a place called the[...]North Dakota to live with us. She married J. Lee and lives[...]We were all born in Norway and came here because it looked like we could make a living in a new country. But it was not always easy to make a living here. My mother,[...]Maria, died in the spring of 1915 and I spent most of my[...]rs in the Froid, Culbertson, Bainville areas John and ara Wessner at Homestead, Montana. with relatives and friends. Our early neighbors at Einers[...]homestead were Paul Andersons, A.P. Dien, Claude and Jess Stellar, James Ostbys, M.C. Sorensens, and the say, "I may not accomplish anything, but I ca[...]We had board at the Hammond chool for many years and a family of four boys and nine girls. Only John Bergstrom belonged to farm[...]n the community, serving still lives at Froid and farms about twenty miles west of on the board of[...]Froid. I remember my mother always planting a huge garden, Phoebe and I farmed around Froid for many years, then canning everything that could be canned and giving the moved to Fort Peck dam in 1934. We are now retired and rest away to neighbors and friends. Also the potatoes dug living in Nashua. Our family is living in many states, and stored (which seemed like ton and tons to me), the although most of them are in Montana and we see them chicken and beef canned in the fall for the coming year, quite often. and of burying watermelon in the wheat so we could have a treat later ·n the year. I remember the smell of freshly baked bread and bun , of her ewing and crocheting or doing other fancy work in her pare[...]FAMILY HISTORY alway active in the church and variou organization in the ar a . One Ea ter, he provided and decorated all the by Svend Bertelsen egg o the children in Froid and urrounding community could have an Ea ter Egg Hunt. I do not believe there i a In 1905 Mr. Carl Bertel en married Marie Mo[...]father pa ed away. five; Ame age three; and vend age nine month and During the two year h liv d in idney he remained[...]o the United tate . Theycamelikemanyother active, and alway happy to h v friend and n ighbor who migrated to ontana for the[...]it turned out, they didn't get an · and be The hou e, barn and gr n ry, till tand on th original the locati[...]have been vacant for many year now. Th r a on they cho that ar building hav b n off r d to th Thr bing B hr aurice and John, o they at organization and m yb om d y th will be moved and lea me plac to go w[...]5.00 per acr for n built a barn are in the family and ar ch ri h d po ion . Th farm on it[...]a Fall from idn y in l 71. y old t daught r, Ther a fini hed. John on Truchot, hu band Larry and on, cott liv in That fi · r ·[...]t . t w ath r, an daughter, and h r hu band , ik liv in Larami ,[...]borhood. n loving and God[...]e to Culb rt on, th n in Valley had I t a ti m ow[...]nted 1 d had a gr n[...] |
| [...]Ft. Peck Dam to work for awhil an a bad l g and pent some time in Galen · nt[...]Anderson, Indiana and, while r ov d . From ther h and hi wif'. a r v d to[...]and till do in a J w lry to .[...]Ruby married, had two children and i now Ii ving in Conway, Arkan a .[...]Roger and Jan r and hi famil Ii i a nd[...]original h orn wa old to H.H. Wh ·1 r a few year befo Bert l n pa d a wa Carl and Marie Bertelsen married in Denmark - 1905. thu[...]came beautiful. They grew to love their neighbors and they |
| [...]of Froid in a log house and she was taking in washing for[...]the town bachelors and the area hired hands. Hannah's mother and also a sister were living with her from time to[...]time. The sister had a daughter, Mrs. Sytha, in Girard,[...]Montana. The daughter had twins, Alma and Alta and one[...]the later years before she died. A nephew, Leonard Flick[...]visited Hannah at times. She had a son and a daughter by her first marriage and the daughter would visit her mother[...]was a bugler during the civil war and he was the first war[...]living here he was a hunter and a trapper. He also scoured[...]the countryside for bones and would sell them by the[...]wagon load. He trapped skunks and made skunk oil for[...]medicinal purposes. During the flu epidemic, a neighbor[...]he flu Washing clothes at Sheep Creek about 1920. A.R. Butler, that's going around". Adelaide, Happy and Mary Virginia Butler.[...]her frightened of storms, if as much as a sign of a cloud that if he didn't like the countryside, the[...]ea~ed in the sky, she would take her corncob pipe and a little while, and then return to Minnesota. This little stay mov[...]than stay at home alone. Her corncob pipe was a part of Into this hou ehold came three little[...]iew, Washington, "Happy" it like a chimney in full force. Her sister would state flatly Mercer of Billing , Montana, and Mary Virginia iel en of and with emphasis, "I smoke nothing but Chesterfields[...]on for the birth a[...]k aw no reason not to use the There was a very good well in her yard and good well Dahl ho pital. water was a scarcity. Her charge was fifty cents per month " oho 'a friend once a ked Dad. "We ordered girls, for each user. The first day of every month Hannah tood and that e got" dad proudly replied. outside and cupped her hand, no words were necessary. The ye d quickly, and happily; mother loved the The con umer merely dropped the fifty cents into challenge a member of the chool board for Hannah s hand[...]to b part of the chool Hannah Carter wa a woman of strong convictions. he y tem ·n[...]Church iety, Women' Club, Library and Red ince he did not wi h to end up wit[...]ed all the color out he did not follow uit. lodge and politics, a w 11 a alway at Dad' ide at the Hannah wa born in 1 9 in the Ea t and died in 1939 at Froid Tribun a thriving new paper in the early day .[...]EDW D D DE HEE hobby, and atten th b a d movie , along with choo ·vi[...]rtim m v i e ota and Wi con in.[...]to th d fi h and Ch n y h gain . Poor health co[...]h long Hannah Bigcroft cam from th Ea t to onda and joum[...] |
| He filed a claim on 160 acres described as Section 28, Ewald and Mildr d w r marri d J , in Towns[...]th which was about 16 miles south by hor e and wa on. next eleven year , Duan[...]al His first project was to build a shed for the animals and a Jone , Froid; and Margar t, Mr u one room cabin. The Homestead Act required a cabin be Fall , outh Dakota. Th r y built and lived in for one year. Maude came when the cabin[...]l was built. There were few neighbors and that boy of23 and were con olida ted, in · girl of[...]chool gradua . Dua fulfill their dream and have a home of their own, o they father, who h alth wa grit their teeth and wiped away the tear of disappoint- f[...]Ewald and Mildr d took a id There was a roadhouse, where the freight wagons Community. When the oil a stopped to feed horses and men, located about two miles organiz[...]' from the homestead. Maude told of making butter and Ewald wa on the fir t rd[...]n walking to the roadhouse hoping to sell it, and the that board for many ye[...]o- proprietor remarking that she didn't think a kid knew op was formed, Ewald and an n much about makin[...]was fit to eat, but she this area and igned up enough farm r to bring 1 tricity bought it, and then took all she could bring.[...]e present town of Froid was Ewald wa a member of Rhoda chool Board and established about a half mile from the roadhouse. when the schools were con idated with Froid, he wa Ed and Maude tilled the homestead, bought the two[...]ol . Other in wer adjoining quarters of land and lived in the exact location Farmers nion Oil Board and hipping tion for 59 years. It wasn't until their health was so poor, that where he served a number of year . He retired f n of they couldn[...]quit farming. health in 1952 and moved into Froid. They were staying with their only child, a daughter, Duane managed the farm[...]farm seven mile outh of Froid. Walt and Ard ce Jone away, September 18, 1968. Ed departed[...]now live on the home place. Margaret and L 1 Ander en 1968.[...]reside in ioux Fall , outh Dakota wher Lyle i a ma h[...]Ewald died January 26, 1973, and 'ldred liv in heir[...] |
| [...]Mateo, California; Frieda, Mrs. Andy A. Swierz, Phoenix, Arizona; and Clara, Mrs. Oren H. Lee, Williston, North[...]World War I. Top: Ewald, Bolger, Alfred, Thorwald and Anne. Middle: Gertrude, Frieda. Bottom: Hans P., Caroline and Clara. almost been shipwrecked three times. His wife, Ane, issued |
| [...]ancestry. Corinne married Jim trand and had two on , Eric and Kent. Fay married Dr. Jack Weber and they have two sons, Chris and Mike.[...]different cooking, cleaning and sewing proc dure • boy and girls lay in nearby bedroom unchaperon d. Even[...]prudish mothers allowed their boys and girl to leep[...]gether. Most of the occupants of the b d wer girl and boys between three and nine months old. The only mu ic[...]put on by these miniature tenors and soprano . During the years many silver and golden wedding[...]rty Theatre in 1926. Three front girls over a hundred of the e occa ion . are: Edith Miller, Frieda Christoffersen and Edith During the Thirties peopl[...]nce Olsen, shows which played melodrama and comedie at the Herbert Tasa, Hans Smith and Otto Johnson. Liberty Theatre. Mr. Bray him elf played a red haired comedian with a tooth blacked out. The crowd went into[...]A great event was the military ball put on by Compa[...]the ational Guard. People came dres ed. in formal and developing dams, dikes, com and alfalfa projects. The[...]the hall was lavishly decorated in a patriotic motif. ot a farm is located in 30-30-56.[...]in 1927 from Osceola, artists. Men and women worked diligently for day on Wisconsin. She taught four classes of English and two transforming the hall into a beautiful place. other subjects. There were three[...]ed the first school library. She had Luebke's and McCabe's barn during the late twentie and come to the name Froid in a bank directory when she had thirties. F[...]na. She had Valley chool. Dora John on and E ther Harbo chorded already taught in Bearcreek[...]n the piano, while Roald l:farbo played the banjo and Jack Valier as that was too far down the alphabet[...]nt also wa from when th y aw th door and windo mi ing in th Id Wisconsin and he hired her. he has never peru ed a bank Valley chool. They pr ferred i b i[...]of air conditioning. Holger, or Slim, and Marion were married in 1929 and Hou parti w r common and in 1 27 Kay, their first daughter, was born in 1931. fun could no and Ed Lu bk w r th n of h ca ion[...]fr :t n ubbl fi Id in h ated mail extraction, a the chain wa broken w married. agon dr wn b hor d Lu bk a u uall th Marion maternal gr-andmoth r' nam Hall and mu · ian, pla ·n an au h rp mad utof n Id d[...]ted unmercifully · dra r, and h uitar imuJ n ou 1 . n in uJ d ance tor w[...]r t hi hin up th Hall, who wa a private in[...]an ui r and B b Zi · a hingon[...]is undh 1 a hua, ontana, a ary. Two other da and born in th dirty t · · tende . arland and[...]n ma 1 d a on, \ eld n when ome of th m applied for e a born 19, 1927. insti[...]nd Ewald hi th r, farmed th r for a tuition for being born in orth Dakota. H a a farm four north a t of . hri t ho , but the boy didn't materializ d until d bought thi farm and ald bought a farm th nd a half g n ration wh n th r wa a d lug of ho d mi[...] |
| [...]Ba.ck row l ft tori ht: Robert, Gerald, Donald and Howard. Harri I Ralph and France . Harri Clark family - 1942. Montana at about the ame time and all of them just[...]t hi f nd him n a different ection · and a time went on, |
| [...]r filled with work horses. However, as the drouth and depression of the 30's moved in, cream checks bec[...]cows who produced to the best of their ability on a meager diet of Rus ian thistle , straw and millet hay. 1937 was the last and about the wor t of the drouth years as hardly anything grew that ummer but a fair amount of rain fell that fall and 19 proved to b a wet year, although rust cut the yield on a pro pective bumper crop. From then on crop failures became a thing of the past, but failing health became a wor e obstacle, o in 1941 they retired and moved to Froid where France pas d away in 1947 and Harris in 1956. The five boy are all married and farming and ranching in the vicinity of the William H.[...]riginal homestead which is now the home of Donald and his family. A hort ti rri[...] |
| [...]mother at the piano with Mr. Astrope and Andrew Anderson playi[...]The door was always open for any travelers and visitors through the years to stop for rest, eats and visiting. Jack and Annie were early, if not charter members of the Froid Congregation Church and Ladies Aid. When they[...]They had five children and all attended the Froid school. Marion was born at Culbertson, and the other four were b[...]tewart died in 1972. Berton married Bertha Sherry and lives in Winston, Mon[...]ried Blanch Ra mus en and lives in Clinton, Montana.[...] |
| [...]ath rin ook on and grandchildr n . L ft to ri ht:[...]Moothart, Edwm ,Moothart (leaning a ain t ;.\,Ir .[...]Moothart (ribbon m hair) and Don lark.[...]to the mill a dicin La to th[...]n, howi Montana, the end of the railroad line and hired a man wi h a doubl ted pring agon, or bugg , to ta him and anyone el that may hav gotten off th tr ·[...] |
| [...]years ago since my grandfather came to ontana, and hi hou e fll tand . Th now of winter , the heat[...]Th bumper crop , the thin crops, Dahl home wer[...]. Dahl fo ome |
| with two heifer calves, two horses and some household and the horses hitched up again. But, which way to go[...]prayed for God to show us the way, and the snow seemed to and I waited until I could travel with him.[...]part, just enough to show us the north star and which way The old house was terrible with Indians all around us. was east. Just a quarter of a mile away was our west fence They would set up their tents at our gate, but none ever and we could turn east. Then the horses knew where they bothered us, and they seemed well behaved. were and took us home. The house was warm and how Our trouble began on June 29, 1919. We had[...]Montana has been our home for 57 years and we love it east wind blowing. The Frank Frenches and the George here. Margaret married Billy Reiter and they have their Wessner& and our family were visiting Albert and Anna home in Froid. Edward married Joyce Johnson and they Walters, as we often did on Sunday, when a big black cloud live on the farm. Evelyn Snell[...]southwest. We all decided to go home and teaches at the Froid School. in case it was a bad storm. Our hired man was waiting for[...]several years ago, but I still have my home in us and already had the lantern lit, even though it was still Froid, and my business, the D and D. afternoon. The storm by that time was coming fast, and he said, "I'll get the door to the cellar open and you can go down there." Ed laughed at him, but when the wind died down for a few minutes and everything got real still, and the clouds seemed to be rolling on the ground, we[...]e cellar. Just in time, too, for that wind, hail, and rain, seemed to take everything in sight. Our hou[...]lding , pulled the pipe part way out of the well, and drove straws into fence posts we never could pull out. That storm took 23 hams and houses, including our neighbors', Mr. Martin. Ano[...]. Young, was killed. All the crop were hailed out-a heart breaker for a new start! We built up as much as we could, fo[...]We tried to make thistle hay to keep our two cows and horses alive, but even this was skimpy after the torm. One afternoon a few years later we saw a prairie fire coming from the northwest. A hard wind was blowing and the fire traveling pretty fast, faster than a saddle horse could run, we were to find out. We w[...]farm. We grabbed all the gunny ac we could find and our Model T Jumpers and went to Laughlin to help him bum a fire•guard around his house and ham, using the wet a to put out ray sparks from the fire g[...]we fl ed the guard, the fire wa so clo , and the h inten w could hardly breathe; we Mr. and Mr . Andrew Elu aa got into the hou the f[...]· but mirac it tanding. Acre and acr left blac en a t of Froid had time to plow enou[...]I , road, a real bli ng, but Bud[...]e w r marri d . wrong. Ther wer nofi , and about half . oyd Floyd , Arthur and hor s turned and we we t in tead[...]· d y, Oregon. Allof into a buffalo wallow and then k yoke and c[...]wi good wa 22 degr s below zero and w couldn w neigh la and where we were. The bus up t and we had to t t up[...] |
| [...]south of Dalhart, Texa . Bernard di d in I 5 and[...]health, but really mi e Froid. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Engler and Marlyn, their fir t MR. A D MR . FRED E GLER |
| [...]and they hauled their water from a spring in "Devils[...]The fir t well they had was dug in the winter by a well driller who charged them "board and room" for he and his horses for the winter. August and Ben bought this rig and dug a number of wells in the area after this. Adam and hi on also owned and operated a threshing Erdahl - 1936 rig. Late in ovember one year he wa. a ked to thre h for[...]Ben on, Andrew when cro sing the uddy River and they hitched hor to er o ndri on, a oen. Culbertson the thre bin machin to pull it aero - a "toot' from the th for[...]g until Froid team whi tle ave th hor a burst of energy. The rig built in 1910.[...]by H 1 n killing rg H rv y Ad m and Wilh lmina E h nb |
| [...]E chenbacher. Fro n, a[...]William fanned a[...]pa d a 1[...]. Minnie wa often called on b th n igh bor rv a a |
| [...]A Sunday get-together at the William Base home - 19[...]. Augu t Eschenbacher, Sr., Barbara Young, Bennie and Krach with cane. Mr. Zick on right en[...]known. Robert Young, they farm in the Froid area and had four years as janitor at the Froid chool. All of the children |
| ORA T. AND NORA FLEISCHMAN Ora T. Fleischman was born Mar[...]Lake Preston, outh Dakota. HENRY AND MARY ANN FOLVAG ho[...] |
| [...]Fred Gangstad family. Back: Alton, Lloyd, Hardin and Gerald. Front: Mrs. Fred Gangstad, Jackie and Fred. became the fir t ecretary. The women and girl helped put r a, o |
| [...]orge Leubkes ham, parties, dances, basket socials and Christmas programs at the Valley School. Fred and Hilda celebrated their 25.th wedding at the Valley School in 1941 with all the family and friends attending. There were many disappointme[...]from hail, grasshoppers so thick it made the sky black, and dry, dusty years. We were stranded one night at Goodwin Bergh's because of a sand storm. Everyone's houses W6l"e covered with fine sand-inside and out! Fred retired from Farming in 1959 and moved to Sidney. He passed away in 1960. Hilda st[...]r Jens Gangstad, the second son of Peder Gang tad and Elisa Johnson, was born March 4, 1 79, at Ottertail County, Minnesota. His parents came from Gangstadgoren, a place close to Oslo, orway. They had one child, a boy Arnt and an adopted child, a girl Lizza, when they came to Ottertail County, M[...]oved all their belongings in an emigrant car. Dad and hi brother Arnt rode in the car. His father and mother drove cro -country in a wagon. They made their home about four mile ea t of Fosston. There were three boys and four girls in heir family, all were member of a Country Lutheran Church and Dad was confirmed there. He al o attended hool there. Dad worked in lumber camp in Minne ota and Wi consin. In 1906 Dad came out to ontana and home teaded on ection 9, Town hip 2 , Range • a[...]0 car and Hannah, Lillian, 12 He built a hack on th outh id of Hor h B nd on he p Cr k and liv din that h k until h had th land prove[...] |
| [...]there. Mom as a charter member of their ladies aid. We[...]helped at many lutefisk suppers, fancy work sales and were[...]During the year of 1924 Gladys took sick and Dr.[...]and Clifford were there for over six weeks with her.[...]chief cook and bottle washer. Randina Benson baked bread[...]for us, and other neighbors helped in m~y ways. Dad and[...]We had a Sheep Creek Baseball team. Orval was one of[...]the pitchers. They played a mean ball game and won quite a few games with other teams around the country.[...]We had many social hours, programs, and parties at our[...]Dahley School. Our basket and pie socials started more[...]than one couple up the aisle to a hitching. In 1927 dad bought a half section, two quarters running[...]south, from Bill McBride. In 1928 we had a bumper crop.[...]- back row left to right: Orval, Richard, Lillian and and Hereford cattle. Each fall, Dad would take carloads of Glady . Front: 0 car, Clifford and Hannah. cattle or pigs t[...]trips he brought back a piano for Mom.[...]Then the dirty thirties hit. Sand blew day and night, covering fence posts and fences. They had to be dug up and In 1910 on July 27th my brother Orval arrived[...]Dad put ropes Dad rented Ted Urdahl' quarter, and Ted went back to to open with, so you didn't have[...]The tumble weed grew. Dad cut, stacked and salted qu rter.[...]aero from I remember one ummer we had a terrific hail storm that t e[...]P.M. we were looking w e r a few y r dad had a wooden barn outh with the field gla e . A wall of water over a mile · h he big b rn . Heh d mor hor e and wide, like a ilver ribbon, coming along the low land on the[...]er k. Thi wa one and one half mile from our home. We[...]watch it com , filling each ho) and b nd ne r changing[...]h voe with he fenc bridge , I phon line and ro d in[...]r . om and D d t y d here during the win er, then[...]ord w nt into th ·r Fore t ntonio, T a .[...]th eigh . Orval m Glad y . liffo rd and I gr rom Froid H' . D k[...]d. L unday for Churc h , L' unda ol and u It:: a t Ro ute O . c hool. Then dad and oth r co unci l me mb[...]... L ;-3_ Th Luthera n ' tart d a nd v ntuall y got h l[...] |
| Richa·r d married Elsie Schroeder and they live in Oakridge, Oregon. He is a foreman of a lumber manufacturing plant there. Clifford is mar[...]mmer. In 1958 the Froid Lutheran Ladie Aid had a golden wedding anniversary party for the folk . All of the childr n were home for this. Mother and Dad enjoyed that very much. Froid and the community friend , and neighbor held a warm spot in their hearts. Dad passed away March 2, 1973 in a Billing ho pital. He was 94 years old. Dad loved life and wa granted a long life span. Mom lives at Western Manor in Bil[...]he buy a ticket[...]ca · John Brown, the Land Man aduerti ing in a parad at home Froid on July 4, 19[...]m · land and cam to anada born in Irel ver oung and artha a . p |
| [...]from a Mr. Hilliard and he foreclosed on the mortgage and[...]October 1948, and mother died in Wolf Point hospital in[...]July 1969. Berniece DeTienne was killed in a car wreck in[...]and Magnus Pederson live in Boise, Iaaho; June and Virgil[...]Buchanan live in Yakima, Washington; Paul and Grace[...]MR. AND MRS. ANDREW HARBO[...]ickett Bernice, June, Bessie, Florence, Dad Viola and Beeb. My parents, Andrew and Jensine Harbo moved to from one down near McCabe.[...]Montana from South Dakota in 1907 to file on a homestead. in a coal mine in 1924 trying to get another boy out of the At that time my brother Roald, aged two and one half, and mine haft. Both boys were dead by the time they c[...]My dad and mother were born in Denmark, he in 1873 There was a man by the name of Je ie Reed who old and she in 1 0. They both migrated to South Dakota in the Watkin products and Aladdin lamp . om bought one early 1890's where they met shortly before dad enlisted in and he gave her one they had very fine man tle and gave the Spanish American War. They were[...]regular kero ene lamp . One time Dad was a stone mason by trade, but he had also become Mr .[...]t ready interested in the creamery business and ran his own to et, o she sent Myrtle down to our[...]outh Dakota. My mother, in the had what he called a " our hen,,. Viola eemed to know meantime, had contracted a bronchial asthmatic condition what he wanted o gave her a hen-don't know b ow the and her doctor advised that she move to another clima[...]o down to Duck Lake in the winter to kate. and taking up a home tead which wa quite a trend at that Either Carroll Krohmer would take t[...]ring of 1907 they packed their bag would be quite a group of u by the time we got to the lake. I and baggage, o to peak, and a team of hor e , a few head alway kept the bonfire burning, a In ver could kate. of cattle ome chicken a few farm implements and The chool u ed to have ha ket ocial in the winter time. household good were all loaded in a railroad baggag car. The e w r aJw y alot of fun and the childr n got to go Dad' brother Anton Ander n and bride of a fi w along. The little on went to 1 p on oa pil din the month had j u t arrived in Erwin for a visit nd when com r nd the bigg r one played out[...]d of my par n plan th y d id d to go with to d nc and then the girl could bring b k . Ther four of my c[...]. a .[...]Imo imp ibl to o . Our Zimmerman and B s ie Hammond. WO C d of raps and I f from[...] |
| Harbo family, 1927 - Roald, Ma , Earl, Jen ine, L le and Andrew. buildings and not much of that. Dad dug hi own coal at q t |
| [...]many years. Dad retired due to ill health in 192 and turned his farming interests over to Roald. He then lived on the farm for a few years with his wife E ther. They both became deeply involved in the Farmer Union and left the farm, and eventually made their permanent home in Denver. The farm was then rented by Norman and Molly unvold, and in 1945 it was sold to them, and they are still occupying it. Dad, Mother and the two younger boys moved to the west coa t in 1931 where I was already living. It was quite a change over to come to a place so covered with huge tream , river , tree , Puget ound and the Pacific Ocean truly fantastic cenery, but I a[...]m lands on the Montana plain. Dad died in 1949 and Mother in 1958. My brother Earl pas ed a way in 1959 and Roald in 1972. Roald wa preceded in death by his[...]rom my childhood. Like every el e, we had our ups and downs, but we had a Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Hekkel and Adeline - 1938. good home and our was a happy family. My brother Lyle and I are the only original Harbo' J ft now. He and his wife Inez, live near their two daughter in Gottli b and Anna liv d on their fartn 12 miles Tacoma, Wa hington, and my hu band George and I live outhw t of Froid until the fa[...]when they moved within five mile of our daughter and her family in ·oo into Froid. The land was then farm d by sons Pete and Bay, Oregon. Roald had no children. Earl had one on and Dave with Pete moving to Culbertson and Dave farming he Ii ve in Berkeley, Califom · a with hi wife and two mall th land and finally buying it in 1975. Gottlieb served on chi[...]th board of the German Church outhwest of Froid and A I lo~k back on the pioneer day , I realize th t p opl both he and Anna were active in the affair of that church wer[...]oid Lutheran hurch. pecial. We all hared our joy and orrow and liv d from Ann and Gottlieb Hekkel were born 11 children- day to day[...]l -eight of whoni are till living. wa well earned and equally well pent. We who ar The[...]eciate nd tak h r children and farm near Froid. Pauline i our hat off to the on , daughter and grandchildr n of n a married to Ted Engelman. They re ide in thi[...]t y d b hind t o, California and have four children. ext were twin continue improving and enjoying the little corn r in b Gottlieb and Bennie. Gottlieb pa ed a way in infancy Roo v lt County called "Enterpri e". and Bennie died in 1973. Bennie · e former Ruby M Y the memory of our parent and r 1 tiv nd frl nd Balard, l[...]. hi n and g w[...]by r Hippe nd B nor Hippe Hunt and liv d with In 1913 Gott unt and ncl ch[...]bro and Uncle met them and too try nd worked a a farm labor rand[...]h nd of 1916 when he bought a farm of ou[...] |
| [...]Benora in car and O r.[...]al .. Tideman Hippe and Otto Lien th[...]up of territory in Montana. He decided to get a way from work in the woods and ventured out in to the wide open spaces. He came as far as Culbertson, ontana, by train in 1905 and then hired someone with hor e and wagon to show him some of the land which would b[...]56E. Thi land had · ng through it and wa approximately four mile ha wa to bec[...]e of prairie. In the winte many fierce blizzard , and at · became lo t before they foun el e ca[...] |
| [...]CLENARD AND ALICE HOLLY[...]Clenard and Alice Holly came from Wisconsin in 1906 by[...]Township 30, Range 56, and his father homestead Section[...]and very distant and she had a baby to care for so was left[...]not worry, Mrs. Logan was an Indian and the best friend of[...]Alice! The Lewi Tipp family lived a mile northeast of Hippes Culbertson was the nearest doctor and hospital butthere and own d the fir t radio in the area. The Tipps raised was also an inland town, Medicine Lake. heep and , once when a ewe rejected one of her twins, Mr. There were 11 children, nine are still living. Leonard and Tipp gave the lamb to Benora. he recalls that she with Alice Cloe Geyer died. Clarence and Earl, California; Ona Mother and Dad walked to the Tipp for a visit. Dad Morton Medicine Lake; Clara Vandeberg, Bainville; carried the lamb home in a ack and they crossed the creek Harold, Ray, orth Da[...]heep Creek began to swell in the Triplett and Gwen LaMar, Froid. They all attended school pring of the year. The lamb wa kept in a box by the in Froid. kitchen tove and fed from a bottle and nipple. 'Lady' For recreation there were mainly the area dances. An b c me quite productive and bore five ets of twins and the orchestra composed of Dice Lobdell, Dann[...]e time it wa nece sary to sell them. Purves, and John Per ian played at the country dances.[...]ally during the Clenard Holly wa born in 1 3 and died in 1941. Alice a holiday . Each family would elect a day to Holly was born in 1 and died in 1931. ne over for noon dinner and evening upper. u ually be 30 to Oat[...]die for we k . ometime the weather would turn bad and tho e who had come from quit d' ei[...]n . In 2 · w r rad d for a Hart Parr tractor w h would pull a four bottom plow. ding wa till don with fou[...]wo childr m d in 1955 and nd ar living in Froi . farm durin ing a on. J arol Knud n in ey hav two childr n. ,Juli. and liv in la . |
| [...]r which had one room. hired h r brother to till a mall pi of land hi h a required to prove up a ho tead. In the meantim he m[...]ra Holm ua · · · a |
| [...]and that fall started to build a new house, which was Alma and Henry Hoye - June, 1910 12xl4 quite a mansion in tho e days. This was used for a granary when a new house was built in 1917. That is now locator and he took them to the Froid area. A Mr. Bain had occupied by a granddaughter ( baron and her family). fenced off 320 acre and had it taked off a a de ert claim The early neighbor were[...]igate it from Duck Lake. Henry north in a od hou e; Coats who lived ea t of Luebkes in then took 160 acre in 1~30-56 and Morton took 160 acre in the ame ection; LaMars who lived in the ame section 1 -30-56, north and ea t of the B in land. Before the land with Hoye · and Waters who lived a mile west. Mr . Luebke wa proved up, Mr. Bain lo t the land to the bank and u ed to bake bread for all the bac[...]Arn dorff came to Montana the ame pring a Henry and ha . the northea t corner of Henry 160 and he took a home tead aero the road from Coat . Peter[...]nd Ii ved there F ome tead a half mile ea t of Arn dorff. for[...]d come in 1906 and proved up on hi 160 In their f ther in inne ota wa not in a e ar a. In later ear the farm ad goo e b[...]h Ho e famil . Irwing nd ha make a mor uitabl hou in which to[...] |
| [...]point, in 1907. Irwing married Leota Moothart and they raised their[...]tead family of three children, Richard Moothart, and David aud[...]ight of Williston. They have two children, Elaine and Timothy. They live on the former[...]a andac p R[...]p 0 |
| Jack and Anna Hurley and Julia r . am e m ra g e ar[...]LI LE , a |
| The Bill Adams ', Olaf Odens' and Augu t Eschenbachers' were their nearest neighbor[...]or school doings, he was telling tale , both true and tall, and i still well remembered in Froid. Everett Jacobsen now owns and farm the form r Hurley place.[...]Dad bro in Kali Dad · i and[...]wn and h rh i .[...], 1 75 and i bu i Back row: Hel .[...]ildr n: ROBERT D LI E[...]rri d ( u a rt tw n I; • |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. Jens Jensen - 1959 Town hip 30, Range 57. Th[...]a t quarter of Section 15, Township 30, Range 57, and the outh half of the Jens[...]on 14, Township 30 Range 57, horses and farming. Some were humorous, some were not. becam[...]of his On ovember 20, 1929 Jens and Marie Merrill of farming the grain was hauled int[...]ied in the Froid Lutheran away, by three hor e on a wagon. When the railroad Church. It was a cold stormy day quite a lot of snow, so branch line wa built through Froi[...]Mr. and Mrs. M.P. Dalby had a party for us in In the ummer of1910 hi father Jen Jacob en, came up Homestead. It wa a stormy night, and we were not going, from outh Dakota and pent everal week to look the w[...]d hi farm in Home tead. Everyone had a good time, and had to stay outh Dakota and they moved to the ea t Froid overnight due to bad road and snow. community, ettlingonthe outhea tquarterof ection22, Our fir t year were pent in a small home so when . 57.[...]area from Minne ota in Later we built a larger home where we rai ed ix children:[...]In June Ellen John June hirley Lillian and arol. b[...]blew the dirt o it cut the ff when a crop did come 1i[...]up, gra hopp r would · ud and eat th d and Foy, grain. In 19 0 w h[...]into t a wound i anc i[...]pi I from l 27 until h a d wa[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Jens Jensen, Ellen (by Father ), June, Lilli[...]lati , Alb rt rdahl, Jo The children grew up and left home, except John. He wa " Wilfr d' John on. a good mechanic and always helping someone with their cars. He did th[...]in March 1967. That fall we had to move to town a everyone aid i wasn't good for us to be alone out there. We lived on the farm during the summer and in town for the winter . Jen had a severe heart attack ovember 1972. We did live on[...]Boy · rgh Jacob 1 ar el on and Emil And Jen wa on the Fl Judge of Election for Fanner Elevator and Our · Arizo xic Ii b d.[...] |
| OTTO AND DORA JOHNSON Otto Johnson came to Montana in 1[...]oving with his family to I orth Dakota when quite a young boy. He first worked on the Lewi Burkholder farm northwest of Plentywood. He filed on a homestead north of Plentywood where he broke up O[...]r 7, 1 93 in Kassen, Minne ota, where she grew up and attended school. She had worked at everal differe[...]she was married to Otto John on in 1917. Otto and Dora farmed ·n North Dakota for six years before coming to the Froid area. They rented what was known a the Ronnevig place and then worked for Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert John on Dahlberg on the re ervation.[...]t of Froid in 1943. Here they lived until in 1962 and built a house in Froid where they have retired. Two ch[...]d William Rygg of Wolf Point. They had three boys and a girl. Marjorie pa sed away in 195 . Dora and Otto celebrated their 5 th wedding anniver ary in[...]by Myrtle Barrington Peter John on and Henry Hoye came together from |
| A.E.Kamps Mr . A.E. Kamp - 190.5 r. and .E. |
| [...]fter graduation from the University, he worked as a new man and then joined the Air Force. He was killed in action as a bomber pilot in the European theater of war. I[...]. They have four children: Michael, John, Mary Jo and Jim. Another daughter, Janet Catherine, died in i[...]t. Catherine. he taught high school in Wolf Point and later worked a a ho pita! laboratory technician in Chicago and Willi ton . he married Chet Grace, who is now dec[...]staked out the claim a bit earlier, but the next step was to[...]Culbertson, one wagon full at a time. I found building our fir t home a 14 x 16 room very exciting. Floyd and his[...]but didn't have the roof on yet when along came a heavy[...]et now torm during the night. We certain! got wet and cold, and I only tayed that one night at the farm until the[...]We got 15 acre broke that pring and eeded to flax, but[...]it wa late in May when it wa eeded and dry all ummer[...]had to learn all over again. Wol and co otes were[...]howling after a few nig aw a few buffalo but not[...]n ighbor would go tog th ir earn and w nt d to and uncov r th co I a · hen . Then it could be go[...] |
| miles. Later there was a store and Po t office at Enterpri run by Mclllwains and we could get mail ther wh n v r the stage fro[...]on would t th r , usually about once a week. We joined with the Clark , ook on , Wh l r , Rich wines, wanks and others in organizing th Br thr n church. E .J. Keller was the first pa tor unti] hi d a th in 1915. We had a very active ladie aid , and in th o earl y years made children 's clothing and quilt for tho inn d. In 1918 we had a severe flu epidemic which took th e I.iv of many men and women. chool and church w r closed, in fact a[...]es were clo ed. Funeral wer held out of doors and few people attended them to pr v nt the sprea[...]lings, Eula D. Kao Bensch , Wolf Creek, Orego n , a nd Hazel D. Kao Nelson of Froid. Floyd died in 1951 a nd i buried at Grandview Cemetery at Brethren Church . I went back to Michigan for a famil y reuni on a nd met a n old friend , one I had known before coming[...]surviving charter member of the Brethren Aid a nd th only one of the original Enterpri e h o[...]and L nor , John at d .[...] |
| a marriage was arranged between John and the trand Arthur started school i[...]School, then to the family. On June 4, 1913 John and Gunda were married by Valley School and finished in the Hammond School. O.J. Hagen, pa tor of the Norwegian Lutheran Church Arthur and Martha live on a farm not far from the home which now i the Americ[...]Laures Lewis started in the Hammond School and Witnesse to that marriage were Peter Johnson, and finished in the Valley School. He[...]1964. He married Gladys Hanson. Their hou e only a long a it took to build a home. son Lyle now farms the[...]rogedal Busby started school in the Valley Lenore and Alma. One child lived only a few hours and was School and finished high school in Froid. She now lives in b[...]Bernhardt started and finished school in the Valley Tho e early year[...]. They School. He married Cynthia Martini and they farmed east had to learn the Engli h languag[...]ona. He passed away in 1965. conquered oon a the children tarted school. Joseph wa bapti and confirmed in the Norwegian language. The children attended Froid chool and after graduation MR. AND MRS. AUGUST (GUS) KROHMER left, married and went their eparate way . They still live in Montana. Jo live in Lewi town, Lenore in Baker and by Carroll Krohmer[...]d. John wa God fearing, hard working man, and that's My father , August Gustav Krohmer[...]New how he urvived tho e first rough hard years, and ome Linden, Wisconsin, July 17, 1 74.[...]December 24, 1 4. he came to the United depr ion, and many farmer were threatened with losing[...]. Consequently, no in the spring of 1907 and homesteaded ten and one half mon y. Many f rm were being old for taxe[...]Home tead. John then went to Portland, Oregon, and worked in the Dad married Hilda Hanson[...]Wisconsin, then hipyard for two year , came home and paid off his taxe , moved to orth Dakota where he did carpenter work. He and the farm a all hi again. al o did carpenter work in Homestead for a few years He had about four year of ood crop and decided to during hi pare time. mak a trip to orway to vi it hi family. He had never Dad and John Cha e had been profe sional ball players[...]fterJohnleft before coming to Montana and played on the Homestead horn . H finally h d nough money again to travel. He team Dad a pitcher and ha ea catcher. ecur d hi p port, nd pl nned[...]ere five children in our family. Carroll lived on a butthi w nottob ,or partofGod' planforhim,foron[...]esin pril 2 , 194 , John m t with farm accident and pa ed awa . H alw y ' id h n ver want d to go bac[...]n Froid . . r. and[...] |
| [...]mu n in ulb rt on . The folks lived in a two room hack until Dad built a ix room house. He had to haul the lumb r from ulb[...]n Chase, Bill Place, am yqui ·t , Eric trandlund and Jim Hammond. They sent for a lot of their groc ri in the arly day from a catalog by the name of " avage" . Ther wa a church and school two and one half mile outhea tofu . We either walked or Mother would take u by hor and buggy. Visiting neighbor wa about th[...]ment we had. Mo t of the land wa brok with horses and a walking plow. Many load of cow chip wer picked wh[...]. Iona remember that if you turned the chips over and there wer worm und r them, they weren't ready to be picked . When dri d th y really made a hot fire. We al o gathered old tr which were in the sand hills about two mile north. Mother rai d a lot of turkeys and she herded them like heep. The win r were really bad in those days. I remember Dad tringing a to twine between the house and barn o he could follow i . Th canning, a only fruit we had was chokecherry auce.[...]in Froid, where they had lived for · dand a few years.[...] |
| [...]check it out, and they never did go on to Kalispell. Jack[...]John Brown, the land man from Froid, had a store north[...]of what is now !{_vile cemetery but for doctor and hospital it[...]They built a tar-papered shack and sodded it up to the[...]McCord School and also the King School further north.[...]Sunday school and church was held in the McCord School.[...]La Mar yard for two months at a time while he went around[...]Mrs. LaMar would feed and keep the children and the wife LaCounte farm - 191 7. Christy and Sam Picard much of those two mon[...]yed in the area. The threshing machine. Dad (Joe) and E rnie LaCounte not on Picture Man develop[...]Andrew and Ralph in California; Katie Wilson, Oregon;[...]sen t back to North Dakota Butte, Montana; and Gerret LaMar in Froid. Gerret has to be rai ed by[...]wo children still living at home. They are James and Lori. When we returned to Montana in 190 , we ca me by train Mrs. LaMar was a hardworki ng early housewife. While and tayed in Bainville for a month in the coal shed behind i n Culbertson[...]homestead, she did the Lundqui t tore. It wa bare and lonely. Even the baking for the cafes and for the bars. There were some days prairie had be[...]Our folk managed to take u to church about once a good . year, but they tried to bring u[...]in washing for the area Getting to chool wa alway a problem and we didn't get ba chelors and the hir ed hands and for others also. She there too regularly in the e[...]e water from the creek in buckets or pails, using a En erpri e and the younger one later went to Ro edale. h[...]to carry more each We had dry ea on in he ummer and lot of now in the trip to the creek. winter. My Dad u ed four hor e on a walking plow, After he became a widow sh e erved a s caretaker for the follow d that one beam all da[...]g he would Froid Congregational Church and wa mo t faithful in break up another 15 acre . Th[...]ilee Book al o tell u ; "For thirty year After a few mor p ople ettl d in the area we had he cared for the Congregational Church and devoted time ha eball g me and hor e · hoe tournamen , u u lly on and labor to it up P;>. ' unday. o driving around in car tho e day ! Every one Grandma La ar a h wa c lled by all who kn w her, learned to play card at an early ag , and c rd partie wer died in Jul 1 6 at the ge of[...]by Hulda J rdin until hi de th in 1 72 and Bud liv ju outh mil or o. Out of th ten childr n[...]ark, orway in younge t on , and me, my Portra ar he only on till th[...]ho ad about nine living in the Froid r a . m[...]oh d com to th my di d I th n a month af r thi tory wa U[...]y to b marri d and[...]h farm to home tead Ralph LaMar, 1 76 to 1 42, and lb rthia cott La ar,[...]'ch |
| [...]and th[...]pinacb and flavored a[...]If a[...]John Lee - 191 the building wer moved from north and outh of 0 |
| Fir t tate Bank in Froid in 1915. He also had a threshing rig and thre hed in the area until about 1923. Harry and ora built a two tory frame hou e ju tea t of Ryersons which b[...]till living in Hemet, alifornia. Andrew Le had a home tead outh of Triplett' . He was killed durin[...]LI DBERG R y Lindber was born July 26, 1901 in Black Duck, |
| Ed and Mathilda Luebke wedding picture - 1900, orona, outh Dakota. Ed and athilda Luebk - 193 utting hair.[...] |
| [...]sephine. The first church Mother recalls was in a school north of what · now the town of Froid. Th[...]men who traveled around the country preaching or a local man Marie Krobmacher was bo[...]came to the United States by ship northwe t Froid and used for church and community when she was 12 years[...]she was 18 years old her parents came to wa built and in 1922 moved to its present site. Mother was[...]Montana. She met Gottlieb soon after they arrived a charter member of the Congregational Ladies Aid. in Froid. Marie worked for Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Kamps In the ummertime of the 1920 s and 1930's the hay loft of until she and Gottleib married on March 18, 1917, in the the barn wa cleaned out and barn dances were held. My Freiden Ge[...]ven miles Plentywood, where he lived at the time, and they came to outh and west of Froid. They had three children while play for everal of the dance . Later Leon Mue man and they lived there Victor Willie and Pauline (Folvag). In Robert Zick played. In the w[...]orked for the anta Fe Railroad. back the furnitur and dance. ome of the place were John They lived in Kansa for eight years, and had three more iller , G orge Waters and Luebke' . Dad played a children David Viola Flagen and Lenora Erdahl. harmonica and an auto harp, which he made and he al o In the fall of 192 , they[...]their trip back to Froid, aying he Dad tarted a gun club, I believe it to be the fir tin the and Marie had ix children 60.00 and a Model T car but area and had trap hooting at the f rm almo t every[...]ing the ummer. He al o liked to play hor e- ho , and would try to g t a gam going when company came. Dad w 1 · p iring a car or tractor, doi[...]hi n then by and wagon the rho which w at d[...]tow d nd rt n . Mr. and Mr . Gottli b ( ari ) Luft - 50th[...] |
| [...]le to buy their own farm whi hi . ix miles south and west of Froid where th liv d until hi : retirement in 1963. They th n built a· n w h m in Culhertson where they lived until 19 . t thi tim th y decided to move back to Froid and b ughi th f rm r ,Jo Arn dorff hou e. Mr. and Mrs. Luft were very active in th ir ommunity and their church. He al o erved a a h ool hoa rd m mb r while their children were in[...]hool. Mr. Luft pa ed away December . , 1974, and Mr . Lufti making her home in Froid.[...]D MARIE MAD E Marie orsensen daughter of Mr. a 0 T[...]a . |
| [...]him out eventually. William May, better known a Billy, wa in the theater in the Chica o and pringfield areas a early as 1905. Theater program Ii t him a playing in The Merry Cyclers and Jul Wheat. Followin thi he had been a cigar maker in t. Loui . He wa veryintere ted in photography, mu ic and amateur dramatic . He cameo · · hi b[...]wit ountry of Montana. He yedin aa hrunke ut it[...], but hi fa · w him Gr a[...] |
| [...]· Froid. Had three children; Archie, Gaynelle, and Lorraine. coo . Moved to California in 1920. D[...]omp on in 191 . Had thr children; Donald , Mavis, and Tom. Continued farming th old home tead. Ruth, married larence wen on in 1915. Farm din and around Froid. Had four children: Marjorie, arl, G1 n and Vern Mac. Moved to Great Fal1 in 1923. Jar n di din 194 and Ruth in 1966. tho, marri d argaret Edward and Richard Dinty.) Divi ion, orld V ar I. Franc Garage in 192 . la r had a Froid. d to pla ba ball. in 1 53. Z Ima, mov d to Had thr daugh r : nna Le , u an, and Ii ing in alifornia. In 1945 arl r tir d from farming nd mo to r H p nt hi umm r a h farm n ar Froid wh r hi n Tom and famil Ii di d in 1 7 and arl di d in 1 7 .[...] |
| L. "Mac" and Leona McNeil 1 6. "H.L." came to Culbertson Montana, in 1909 |
| [...]Mrs. Miller was a 4-H Jub 1 ad r cho 1 ho[...]for many year . Al o a m m her of th id Al ta[...]Jone now living at Aitkin Min a. Mr .[...]Miller i living on th horn farm north a t Mrs. Victor (Eunice) Leonard i Ii ing t A[...]when the crop were r al good, and Mr.[...]the Flaxville area with hi rig and h[...]He then came home and bought a new rland Touring[...]The wor t year were probabl 19 a n h fall[...]wa ry ick and couldn't go to ch I t Mr lier and the re t of th fami al wa k for over a month but nev[...]the neighbor becau e they were ick h Mr. and Mrs. John P. Miller wedding picture - 1905 there wa no one el e to do i . In 1919 a c the barn, cookcar and hop, ipp d ov[...]on February 21, 1 2, in In 1945 r. and er mov oid to mak th ir Appleton, Wiscon in. She moved to a farm near Milbank, home. r. Miller[...]at th ag of 73. South Dakota with her parents and grew up and wa Mr . Miller pa ed Jun 1 h ag of 73 al . educated there. John and Anna were married in 1905. The Miller came to Culbert on in 1907 and home- steaded northea t of what i now Froid.[...]ughlins, Robert Zich r., 0.B. cCabe, the ven and many other . Their fir t p t office wa at th Mc abe farm where the mail wa brough from ulb r on on the tage, and everyone orted out th ir own mail. Mr. iller[...]e Farm r u u 1 ir In urance ompany of Dagmar, and a dir rand vie pre ident from 1910 until h died. He helped organize the Farm r El a.tor o. · · 1910, and wa a director and pr id nt until hi wa al o county commi ion r of Roo v It rm from 1932 hrough 1 4 and a for ov r 20 ar . A dr -u at Kamp - 19/S. Bab[...] |
| and suddenly the wind let up. The fire was stopped only a A school was built in Dane Valley. My brothers walked few rods from the Miller buildings. The men were a tired, four miles to school every day. When a school was bla ck group; and the children had been badly frightened b[...]old. Every year saw new improvements, and better ways of[...]transportation. OLE AND OLENA MOGEN My dad bought his first car, a Model T Ford, in 1922, but[...]es with his days. Would buy fireworks and freeze ice cream , and have a pa rents, brothers, a n d sisters; Tom a nd Thurston Mogen , neighborhood gathering. Mrs. Lars Miller , a nd Mrs. Morin. It took them weeks to cross the oc[...]came b y sailboat, bringing all their possessions and li vestock. They settled in Min nesota a nd while there, Ole met Olena, a girl fro m Iowa. After th eir marriage they moved to Carthage, outh Dakota, a nd after a fe w years Ole came west everal times looking for[...]growing family. He m ade his fi rst trip in 1907 and finally in 1909 decided to brin g the whole fa mily out west. Ole filed on a home tead located west of F roid . A daughter, Josie, and a son, N icky, also filed on h omesteads in the sam[...]ns had fi ve ch ildren: Nic ky, who n ow lives in a rest home in Wolf Point, a nd whose son , Lester, farm s the original homest[...]Josephine, (Mrs. Knute Thompson ) also deceased , and Nora (Mrs. Clarence Bensen) who is widowed and lives with her son Carroll on a fa rm west of Froid . Cul bertson was the fi rst stop for a doctor a nd h ospital. When Froid was founded they attended the Norwegian Lutheran Ch urch in Froid. Just visiting and horseback riding were fa vorite pas- time . Also there were da nces held in pri vate homes a nd then later the barn dance . Ole Mogen passed a way in 1951. He was preceded in death by his wife[...]t had opened ea tern Montana for home teading. He and his brother am, arrived in Culbert on in June 1906, and each filed on 160 acre ten mile northe st of Culbert on. Jack and Mary Murray and daughter Ellen - 1 3 in That ummer they built a shack. The fir t we k in outh Dakota. November my mother Martha, and eight of the ten children came on the train . They were driven to the home tead by a rancher who liv d on hot Gun Creek.[...]J K D RY RR Y A few day lat r the family moved to a f rm four mile ea t of ulbert on for the winter,[...]In the pring we went back to he home tead . It wa a John (Jack) Murra · 1[...]of Iri h par nt . H t 17 and worked a big prairie fire thr aten dour place. It w b ing[...]h m rri d long by high wind . Mother and my brother and ister Loui e t. Pi rr in iou it Iowa. he wa born in 1 64 started a ' back fire' around the hack to sav us .[...]o, bra ka, of Fr nch , Iri h nd Indian de cent. A In the next y ar other settler arrived. oon we[...]r n to Iowa. After their neighbor all around u , and Dane Valley wa ttl d . By marriage Jack and Mar mov d to Pollack, outh Dakota , 191 0 ev ryone wa f rming a few acre with hor e or oxen, wher thr ch[...]rn: Ellen , 1 2; William. 1 4; u ing w )king plow and ding by h nd . Alfr d, 1 6. The railroad wa built in 1910, and many of the younger A h If broth r of Mary, Dav Bur hia, wa a buffalo generation p nt day watching th work, eve[...]hunter in thi area . He nt word tc, Jack and Marv that to walk four or five mile .[...] |
| [...]later a blacksmith shop. Mary hakNl bread for townl--[...]people and the stores. In 1907 th , jr :--on M1chac l wa:-.[...]of Homestead and 15 miles north we t of Froid , where they[...]Murray ranch. ,Jack died in 1920 and Mar>· in l !-l.~> 1. Tht>>.[...]"Aunt Mary" by frie~ds and neighh;,r:-- .. 'he• act Pd as[...]Arthur Zick . Sh,· dH•d 111 l!lh!I. Montana in a covered wagon, driving their livestock. Alfred married Margaret Gillette . now dt.•c(•a:-wd . Ill· 1s Others in the same wagon train included the John now 90 and live in Froid. l Tn til I!-nO }w liv(•d nn .·mokf. Manning family Harpers, and Ponteaus. They camped Creek. where he farmed and raised :-.ht.·c•p H<' \\a:-. w1d1•h near Williston to wash clothes and rest the animal . At known as an expert bronc-bu ter and roper. "good as an:v that time Williston consisted of a few log hou e and a and better than mo t". store (Hedderichs.) When they[...]Muddy Ethel married George W b ter and had thre • childr n: River west of Culbertson, they used a toll bridge operated Mildred, George and Wayn . Mildr d liv s in Tacoma. by Jaky Bauers. T[...]on. The George wa kilJed in World War II and Wayne di •din 197:l. livestock swam across.[...]n the family horn on the Michael J 1urray Jack and Mary built their fir t home south of the place. Missouri River between Poplar and what i now Brockton. They Ii ved there for three year . \i hen they n d d supplies or medicine, they u ed a rowboat to cro. th Mis ouri to go to Poplar. Dr. Atkin on , erved the ar a at that time. Poplar wa still a fort. with federal troop, stationed there. Jack erved a caretaker for . veral years at a boarding school for Indian children. After Wilham died of a burst appendix. the family moved 15 to 20 mil north of ulbert on to a location that Mary had di covered while exploring on hor. hack. • he . aid there was a lo ely little er ek that waR clean and the land looked good . Thi was moke C'r k. ·o nam d hy thP Indian becau e of a haze from an underground coal h d which molder d[...]were no fpncn, anywhere. lcLaughlin , M~nning.", and H lmers wer ome of very few neighbor. .[...],John. 1 ~ ,: Arthur <Bo ton). 1 99; Ethel. 1901: and Thoma . 1904. During the. year. many people pa[...]• lurray ranch . Th ~- wrrP alwa~·. fed. given a place to . le p. and th ir horses cared for . • ome of the. e people[...]mong th m were th<• outlaws Dutch Henn· and Frank ,Jon "· who hecam" fn"nd, of the family ancf who "al way. acted hkf' gent! men·· a .· 1 fri- Murrav said. ho~t I. 02 the famil[...]fa mil~· Al{rt'd . .lf,rk . Frank . f:tl,·n and Tom ,\fu rnn Frnnl,·, ranch. In Culbert. on. ,Jack npnatNi a liver~, stahlP and h,rthday 111 J!/nfl |
| [...]Margaret passed away several years ago and Alfred[...]nued his ranching operations , raising both sheep and[...]a re interes ting and varied. He remembers a prairie fire th a t s wept from Glasgow to the Dakotas. Most of the[...]n ot so big , but none of them did th e cattle and sheep[...]anges much good . Trailing large herd s of cattle and bands[...]s h ee p across co untry were not unusual sights, and many The -l ack Mu rray home in Culbert so n . of th em went as far a s Portal , orth Dakota to reach the[...]y married Mill ie Da vis. They had three childrPn and lived in Was hin g ton , wh ere he died in 1936. Frank Murray married Lill ia n Ra bbit. They h a d four children: Mary Walle r, Ma rga re t T ompt, Fra ncis (Buck ), and Cuv. Frank and Lillian a re both deceased . rth ~r ( Boston) m arried[...]child ren are La ve rne Ric kel of Ath ol, Idaho, and David who farms a nd ra n ch es west of Homes tead . Thomas married Zeala n Adams. T h ey h a ve two girls. They farm west of Homestead a nd h ave a win ter h om e in Moses Lake. Washington. Mich[...].. eattle. John of Mis oula. Ma ry J o of Helena and ,Jim who will be going to Engla nd on a Rhoades scholar 'hip in 1976. Frank and Lillian Murra y MR. AND MR . FRANCIS (FRA K) MURRAY[...]b y d a ug hte r Ma ry Wa ller[...]a nd Ma rga ret To mpt[...]nci.:- (Fran k) Murray wa. born to John (,J ack ) a nd |
| [...]house Emerson Brandingham Co. as what was called a "trouble Nel I. Nel on in back. Alton and Delbert; middle Janice, |
| 190H - Richard. Victor. Al&ot. Fritz and Fido.[...]cle ,J.P.) homesteaded land ea t of Froid. He had a number of children of which all but one, a daughter, 1914. Mrs. Baker served in a doctors capacity for 35 years succumbed to con um[...]d most of the babies born John yqui t lived on a farm near Lam on, Minnesota 0[...]there during those years, set broken bones and treated where his family were born and raised with the exception many serious illnesses. Her home served as a hospital for of Peter ( born in 1 1 and died in 1964) and Mary (1 1- those who were seriously ill and could come to her. More 1962) who were born in .[...]married Ed Lundeen often she was called out and these calls frequently of Lamson. Minne ota and his sister Alice became the wife came duri[...]uring spring run-off when the creeks were swollen and in l % . Other children were Hannah who died very[...]re no roads, just trails. She had to Victor. !got and Richard. depend on her team of horses to know where they were With a family of growing boy and no land available going and she had many close calls on these trips but her n[...]. Part of faith in God sustained her and she always completed her Montana were open for home teading, o in 1909 he and calls. Times were very difficult for[...]to Montana. They both ettled on land ea t and payments for Mrs. Baker's services were most often of Froid . Victor· land i till owned and farmed by his farm produce and at times nothing, but she felt well son Kenneth .[...]in just being able to use her ability to provide a home t ad at Gia long with hi brother P[...]ther' farm. Be ides the trandlund, Olson and Berglund families s related by !got. t[...]me to Montana from Minnesota, the yquists had bee a me practically d[...]Hammon , Dave Gunder Peter John on, and John change for ould be mi h. T home tead and farms of the e early settler , h c rd to i m i d d to to a great extent, are till being farmed by younger he[...]2 . l r · a wagon W ·n r e and[...]· · c a m hi . honor.[...]1 th a rt Rhould be no ed th t Mr . Ric qui and Mr . I[...]lgot yquist w r daughter of Mr. and Mr .[...] |
| too short to cut with a binder so the push-binder with an ALGOT NYQUIST FAMILY elevator attachment was used as a last resort. Victor and Richard each had one. It would clip heads of grain Algot (1891) and Lillian Baker (1 9) wer united in along with the tops of thistles and elevate into a hay marriage at Gia gow in 1919. They mo[...]had home tead d. Th y hav binder, two racks were a minimum necessary, with drivers, lived in Culbertson for the pa t several y ar . Th ir and someone in each rack to stack and pack. When loaded, family consists of two on arter and Jim who are the driver and stacker would pitch it off and stack it. veterans of World War II and the Korean War, r p ctiv ly. Later in the fall came the miserable job of stack- Carter and his wife Maxine live in Gard n rove, th[...]hoppers migrated to California where he i a al man . arter' childr n ar the area. They were s[...]shaded the sun Jackie, Bill, Pat, Mike, Tim and D e D . Jim, hi wif at times. Another year army w[...]e Rhea, their three children, Eric, Mona and H idi r id area, eating practically everything in their path and yet in St. Paul, Minnesota where Jim i a tockbrok r. never seeming to stop moving. They traveled in a general Algot died in April 1976. directio[...]regardless of what was in their path they went up and over and kept going. It seems VI TOR NYQUI T FAMILY as though this was a period of time for migrations. Lizards moved, possibly from Medicine Lake, in a like- Victor (1886-1935) marri d Alice[...]se this was Lamson, Minnesota in 1915 and brought hi brid to hi probably the year that the[...]was quite young at Lawrence, Doris, Harriet and Kenneth. Along with hi the time and must now presume reasons for what farming interests Victor and Fred Gang tad operated on happened.) It is well r[...]f the early threshing rigs, threshing for them lv and was like. The Nyquist brothers had a horse pasture south of numerous neighbors in[...]n Medicine Lake. The water was so bad Helen and daughter Vickie now live in cot dal , that it poisoned the horses. A well was dug a short Arizona where he is real estate[...]other daughters, Marion who live in California and Loi This worked fine although one horse fell in and it took in Billings. Doris, Mr . Joe chmitz, live at Medicine a day to get it out. Some horses never fully recovered Lake where Joe is engaged infarming and ranching ea t of from the effects of the lake water. Because of a lack of Lake. Their children are Betty Jo Ca ey, Roger, teven, moisture in the area and little run-off to keep the Richard and Larry. Harriet, Mr . Han el en, re ide in water fresh and the lake full; it was gradually P[...]en we walked from the south side of the lake and Charles. Kenneth and hi wife Kathleen ( ancy) live to that large islan[...]perience of the dry years occured in John and ary Al ce. 1937. In the Froid area feed was scarc[...]ARD YQ I T FAMILY where Peter yqui t lived and Lu tre where J.J. Baker lived there was even 1e s. o a not to have to ell Richard (1 93-1959) marri d Lydia Baker -1974) a their cows they put up their winter feed in the Froid area. Wolf Point in 1920. ived on a farm of Froid J.J. Baker wintered his co[...]thi union thr om, Dick, Bob and Tom. Dick Peter brought hi cattle by train; the[...]in Ro al trucks like today. One rancher brought a coupl hundr d ak , ichiga h ii ul , Rick and head all th way from the Bear Paw Mountain ar a and Rob. Bob and R li r ch wintered t[...]l . To pr or w alt ea t and-hill .[...]o arl da w childr n Jon and limited. Favorite m d to b picnic and game in th summer. Ev r community had a II team. The diamond at Ed Lu a crappy lo of DD[...]r Ga , Carrol Kro and Richard by rgit)[...]o· ti r and Th m on a no ,[...]lived d and . bu If nd for t all retain h m and in[...] |
| [...]Olaf and Margit Odden 's Golden Wedding. Seated left t?[...]pre ent Lutheran church was planned. It was a full days fob to get to church and home in those days, so they[...]did not always get to church, but evening prayers and table prayer were a regular thing.[...]th~ age of six, after a three day illness, which we think wa a fortti of meningitis. Bergit was born two weeks after Mrs. Olof Odden and son-in-law Herb Ryder. th~[...]s for sev~ral years before following it for quite a di tance admiring it. Later they her marriage. And in later years at the Froid school. Mabel found o[...]prior to workittg at the court house, and later for t_he ~ty hou e their oxen and their x foot hack to liv in. They of Wolf Point. She married Cliff Mawhinney, and till lives had brought no furniture, so Olaf had[...]in Wolf Point. Irvin, the youngest, runs a John Deere furniture. One piece which Olaf built[...]lmplemertt Company in Rugby, North Dakota. It wa a two by even by two foot box with a wooden cover. F1or a few years the Enterprise School was only a q~arter This served as a bench in the daytime. At night it Wa[...]heir home. Later, when they built the expanded to a full size bed, and filled with matt~ e rtew school, they had a mile and a hal~. The. child~en made of ticking filled with t[...]had to attended high school at Froid, and stayed m Froid dunng be bounced around quite often tor fl in it~~ Hiency and the school week. They batched in vario[...]various colleges in Montana the Enterpri e tore, and po t office which wa run by Mr . and Washington. .[...]meet here The farm that Herb and Bergit hve on was the onginal quite often and pend v ral hour vi iting, telling Art Ryder home tead. Herb's on Romain and a grandson torie , and gainin know-how in th ir new venture.[...]farm. Thi make the fourth Everyone being young and full of pep, they tri d vari u ncr ti n on the farm. Herb and Bergit also have a antic . Olaf would do hi hare by dancin f lk dart • daughter Margaret who live in Virginia. and kicking the ceiling. One day h kick th c iling o hard he made a hole in it, and crippled him elf by landing too hard on the floor[...]OL O F MILY Han Runnevik lived only a half mile way, n b in a Norwegian who could peak the En 1i h l n u[...]by lifford 01 on quite a help to Olaf and Margit in th ir tr t t in America. He wou[...]n in Goodhu ounty, would get hi accordian out and play hi f or't on p 74, th on of Jacob and orwegian election .[...]. They were very anxiou to g t r ding mat rial and ine Leru[...]1 areliou and Mary orwegian new paper th "Decor h Po ten."Thi[...]ne ota dunng he Gradually they learned to p ak and r ad the Engli h of th[...]l ft her mo ral childr n and an Later they had church in the D hi y cho[...] |
| [...]Both Andrew and Clara wer activ ly affilia d with th[...]both Froid and Hom tead communiti h wa ti in[...]migrating to beep r k, Montan a. In th pring of 1910[...]they loaded their po ion into a fr ight r nd with[...]1910 th y b gan bu in a th Fr id H rdw r and[...]housed in a stor room, la r xpanding into a w 1). known department tor erving a wid rritory in th[...]was rai ed by relatives. Hi wit and thr daughter had[...]pneumonia and died in 1910 at the ag of 32 ar .[...]Olson launched hi ranching and farming inter t in Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Olson[...]Clifford, now own and operate much of thi land. The Clara married An[...]family living in the home now own d by Martin And r on grew to adulthood in the Froid-Homestead com[...]one of whom died at the age of In 1932, A.J. wa elected to th offic of ounty four after a trusted, old horse knocked him into a barn door ommi ioner of heridan ounty, a po t hich h h ld where a nail pierced his head and resulted in fatal brain until hi death on[...]1951. Both ar buri d in h family plot in th from a congenital heart ailment in 1925. One on, Elmer,[...]il morial em ry north of Froid . Both w r 69 a Marine in World War II, was killed in a car accident year of age at th tim of th ir d a h . October 5, 1955 at the age of 44 year , and another daughter, tella, was critically injured and partially crippled in a bu -horse accident in 193 . he di d of a heart attack in 1965. Clarence served in World War I and D became a Colonel in World War II. He wa dir ctor of atio[...]eorge ton, Virginia. Arthur, a aB in t P[...]from Varmla Washington. Hardin, a gradu , retired olon 1 of[...]q Ann , now working in h a y q Mon ington. ut I , b gan a aw mill. brick and il · tr linn ota . H[...]ohn mill co t . ht of hi ri . and inf'. c ion Brown[...] |
| [...]rst years after he home teaded . John Brown owned a good team of buggy hor e and a fine buggy and that erved as tran portation Washington,[...]cularly for long runs, old Homestead, Myrtle and Ray Barrington, Froid, Gladys doctor call , and other emergencie . and Herbert Mangis, Lance Creek, Wyoming, Peter John Pete filed hi Home tead Claim six miles east and one Olson, Jr. and Katie, Missoula, Dorothy and James Phair mile north of the present Froid site. When he brought his Billings, and the youngest, Bernice and Dale Swartz' family which had now grown by two more ons, Victor and Billings. ' 0 car, " Home" wa a one room hack about 12 x 20 that Th[...]ht hi fir t team of hor es. One from home, and then the Hammond School, one mile a way wa more of buggy hor e than a work horse, so he from home, not so far to walk to school. The Hammond bought a buggy. In 1911 he bought hi econd team as[...]mestead was phone Exchange from John Brudie and his daughters located in ection 13, Township 30,[...]that In 1912 he bought the Oacre aero the road and moved time. He sold to the Bell System in 1928 and they moved the home tead hack over there where the building now it eventually to a new building across from the Froid tand. In 191[...]1 on rented out hi farm to Richard Strand in 1927 and breaking for the neighbor . and later he bought a large bought a grocery store and living quarters in thre h . achine to b n[...]s, he do c hing . · · ould u e a dozen bundle old out and moved back to the home tead where they r ck[...]emaining in lived until moving into Froid. A on, 0 car, operated the the all tim[...]and bought a home in Billing Montana, and moved rental Pr[...]· to they died, Pet in 194 and Martha in 1949. Md One If you a k why P.J. moved from Minne ota to Montana move[...]we can only ay he wa a "wheeler and a dealer ' and m ch[...]with fiv oung ter b for he ver left inne ota and killin nd it another on th way he n ded to find pace and employ- got u[...]d y and pent in Fergus Falls wh[...]" it r c o ion. Father and moth r w[...]nited tate in 1 The f mily con i d of Pet and par n t , F. · man on the railroad for a Elm r, Carl. lice, 0 c r and B by rl who h v all da houg k to g t uch a good job. R pa d away. Living re Victor nd[...] |
| [...]crates on the wall for cupboards and an old table for work[...]space. Then the troubl tarted, a th stou w had to cook on had uch a mall fire pot w could not burn · · oal and we didn't have any wood. ~ pick d up[...]along the road and any other crap w could find , and[...]chip . I could not cook anything but t and potatoes, and had learn d how tom y.[...]in that stove and we finally bought a ar Ro bu k r that burned lignit and bak d very w ll. Th latch o[...]as broken when we got it, but Jim fix d that with a[...]Jim picked alot of rock that pring and plow d 40 acre with a walking plow. He e d d it to flax which mad 21[...]bushels per acre. We thoguht we had it mad a w got o[...]Our new life in Montana wa really excitinR a r[...]young, and we helped each other a much a could[...]baby, Mrs. Mayes, a friend of ours came out from Chicago and took care of me for three weeks, and Dr. Mill r from[...]Froid delivered the baby. Edna and James Ostby That winter was pretty cold and our shack eemed ev n[...]olid almo t eve r had two children when they came and one on the way. The night and so did the bread, which we had to thaw out b for[...]r the matt · ould finally bought a shoe store and things seemed better in act as insulation. That helped alot and og t every way.[...]When I was fifteen years old, father filed on a homestead built another room onto the hack and o r at Sheyenne, North Dakota, so my mother and my only the door with shelve along one side. ~ and brother moued there to prove it up. We spent about six papered our house with a grey felt paper th t to years on that homestead, but my sister and I had to go back keep the cold out. We papere[...]l, there was no High chool at year, and the kitchen got om new cupb Sheyenne.[...]Jim Ostby was born at Spring Grove, Minnesota and hi floor wa o roughandfullof Ii r . Weal o folks had moued to Sheyenne and took up a home tead. Hi couch, a writing and a bookca th ne father farmed and he also owned a machine busine . mo two i[...]children in that family. Jim' fatherdi da y a tayed ght me man ni[...]hich I k di cooking and another brother took over the machinery and u . I will al c[...]ot ike it. I m.et my husband in heyenne and got marri d on 1[...]n, October 11 , 1911. Jim d cided togo to Montana and file on E at wint r a homestead, so in th late fall he bought a r linqui hment ·a f a ther wa no land left to home tead. He built a hack 12 n r x 20 and a small barn before he came back. After h came[...]d cha e cow for hipping. The w ath r wa cold and th R road w r icy and th hor e fell on hl. leg and brok it o[...]0 cow t o pig , and two dog Que n and m little rat terrier. ll also had om old hous hold good and ome old[...]. I w nt on th train ral da later and . nd[...]I ts a i p cted a nic littl to m, but ther a just a ign po t mthedir and a mall hac for a d pot. I wa di appoint d a Jim[...]m . r.a Finall Jim cam in and had lunch with hi cousin Mr mo. t of and th n tart d out ith th dog and a big load of thing .[...]oom. We with tu.:o, mall chtldr n and haUL around fix d it up the b t w[...]ld me to tak man~· m moth r had gwen m and f, lt quite proud with orange u·a a od nd a h kn o much and loti d[...] |
| [...]feet deep. The Nelson brothers dug the well and we had lots before coming to Montana . he taught me so many things of water but it was red and hard. I had such a time with my about cooking which I needed to know[...]the sponge enough. Then we boiled and rinsed them. Sometimes the warm so it never rose and was hard as a brick. white things did n[...]e Alfstads. They windmill, he put a wooden barrel in the ground with a lid wanted to talk Norwegian all the time. I had a hard time on it and the windmill pumped into the barrel. It was nice[...]th them. Our son Burton now long - and it was nice to be able to store a little for when own that farm. There were the And[...]low. The Swansons who lived two miles Grand Forks and had five small children. A mile north of east of us dug a well about 16 feet and had lots of good clean us was a widow, Gina Knudson and her daughters Alice water. and Clara. The Knud on sisters married the lnstness[...]he Baptists bought the small school in McCabe for a brothers and lived on nearby farms in later years.[...]held there; it is still being used. We bought a large mahogany paino from the Tom Nayes[...]mily ea t of McCabe. It was in storage in Chicago and we and conducted Lutheran services. Marion was baptized by paid $100 and freight on it. I never had taken any lessons,[...]e. Catholic, Congregational, Lutheran, Nazarene , and pent many hours amu ing myself. It wa so large[...]was the up most of the space in our little house and I later old this Brethren (Dunkard) church. As the years have passed all piano to a man at Richland. Montana for $150. When the churches have been friendly and have worked together summer came Jim bought me a nice little Baldwin piano coope[...]is as it should be. The Nazarene for my birthday and this was another highlight of my life. church is gone now and the two Lutheran churches have Our neighbor were Willie and John tahl. northeast of combined. The people at Dane Valley built a basement for us. Ea ·t of us were the Hugh Warners, and Mr . Warner their church, later[...]he burned during the dry years and they built another one, had three children of her[...]d the Ebenezer Lutheran church. outhea t of u , and Mrs. Hull had come from a wealthy The first World War was declared and Jim and some of family in North Dakota. he was a music teacher and the neighbors drove to Plent[...]would play my piano mo t of the day. Mr. Hull had a little little boys when he left. I had tears in my eyes and my tore and the Post Office in McCabe. One day Jim and 1 oldest son seemed to sense what was going on and was took them to Froid for a celebration and he dug into her frightened. but Jim came back. They had left farmers off as trunk and took out a chamoi bag containing ring with food wa badly needed. It was a happy day for us, but sad big diamond and a pin with pearls and diamond . he put for many. the little bag on a tring around her neck and hung it under Crops were good off and on, and of course we had hail, her blou e. It wa 'hard for her to live in that little hack so gra shopper and army worm that came and ate they sold the land to Charle and Lottie Jackson, and the everything but the Rus ian thistle in their path. The tore to a Johnson family. ground eemed to actually move with those worms and McCabe wa such a mall place when we fir t came, but they did not vary their path; if they came to a building they it grew very fa t. There were three tore . a good hotel, would crawl over it and go on leaving ever thing bare. three ·aloon . with a dance hall over one of th m. cotty In the fall of 191 Jim bought a car that Bill Gladue had Forbe ran that one. Je tuller ran one: and there wa bought the year before. It was a Maxwell touring car like one more that burned whe[...]the one Jack Benny had. It u•a a great da when Jim Graham ran th lumberyard and Mr . Jem ran a nice drove that into the yard. When Jim wa in McCabe getting clean hotel and cafe. ~ he would bak .50 one pound loaL e.[...]ic range. The Lumb ryard were rutt_y and crooked. i hen I drove into the ard. Jim was ·old to a Mr. Han u n and it later burned. There u•a a had ju t come home with the pole and he ure did look at black8mlth ;hop. two elevator. and a mall ·chool. Th u u.!ith "bugg[...]ould ever mall school did not . u[fice for long and a two room chool try that. Car were for ME tho da~ and women were u•a built. I think Mi ' Matheu • was the fir t teacher and not uppo ed to touch them! then a Mi · Fritz. who married Walter Ra mu . en. I[...]at itcCabe becau e my building on a kitchen. tu•o bedroom , a pantr and a front hoys Ieent to the B •rgstrom ·chool until that burned down and back porch . Our old home i till th front room and in ,January /92.'J dunng a blizzard and then they tl' nt to dining room . Wr had wide eave and through u·e had a thr Dahley school three mile. . outh of u . Pan. y prand hou . and in tho e da .v. u· dtd. We al o had a nic Grernu•ood. (, 'oren.- n ) . E ·ther Coat[...]enback clothe. clo. et in each b droom. and a larpe attic, hut ju. ta (Cook ·on ) taupht at th[...]0 ta Mad en . mall dirt cellar. and those ahoue al. o taupht at the Dahley chool.[...],hm w nt rnto partner hip u·ith -le , tu/ler and they The :•wmmcr of /915 wa , hot and dry o th crop were boupht a thre hinp machmc irnm , am Hugo. W had a poor. Th1-• next tu ·o year wnr a littlr better. hut rn I 1 u·e cook, and a . leepinp tent for th men and thre, htnp u·a a had lot. of ram and a real pond crop. We lwPd in a rocky tup et'ent each fall . I don't think much money ,ca made. ar,•a and th rr u·ere altl'ay. rock . to pick at any t,me of thr hut thr outfit u·a. patd for . Fma/l_y.J,m bought out ,Jr. . and vear. There u· re t 'f'fY feu · tree. in the area . and tee had nnt u· nt1talone. Thr/tr tfalltc ranth[...]he u•ind d,d not haL•r to hlou· alone a~ the cook d,d not arrit · . I often wond r hou·[...]be flying Water u:ell. u•ere mana!(ed. a._ cookinp tea . . till not my he. I art. Fmm then {Pu' and far apart whPn we arnl'ed: ll' haulPd water for a nn I dtd th runmnp hack and forth to tnu·n for . upplte. of /onp u·ay thP /[...]er but in the fall we dup aw II Jfifj fond. and pa. and oil hy the barrel. |
| [...]ilt. Jack Johnson helped them herd the cow paper, black poison paper, and later we got a powder to since the Johnsons al o had a few cattle up there. blow around. It would not kill the flies but would stun them Marion and Emery had finished grade school at the enough so that we could sweep them up and get them in the Dahley school and they were to go to Froid High chool. fire before they came to. That was a big help. There were no buses and some of the neighbors would take In the fall of 1921 we had a big cistern and cesspool dug. turns driving the kids to Froid. When it got real cold in the We bought a Delco light plant from Ed Luebke. It was great[...]y during the week, go as I got an electric washer and iron, and a kitchen sink home on Friday nights and back on Monday morning. with faucets. We had plenty of water and washing was so When I was home there was baking, cleaning and much easier. That fall we put in a big coal furnace which washing to get ready[...]xt week. Gunnar Han en made the house much warmer and more comfortable. stayed with us for three years. Marion had graduat d, and In November 1922, Jim was elected as State Representa- their senior year Emery and Gunnar batch din Froid, and tive from Roosevelt County. After Christmas, Jim and I I stayed on the farm as Burton had tarted to the Dahley and the three boys moved to Helena. That was a pleasant school. When Burton started to high chool in 1936, we winter and very educational. There were so many bills[...]e in, in Froid. coming up all the time, some good and some bad. It seems In the fall of 1939[...]left so many of the legislators had to introduce a new bill, so their girl who was about 13 and pulled out. June had no one there were bills and more bills of no account, and it was to take care of her, and was going to tart high chool owe nearly impossibl[...]that I can remember that needed years and she helped me as much a he could. h ha studying and lots of discussion were: (1) a bill which been like a daughter to us ever ince. June i married and allows a group of doctors to determine whether certain[...]aceably. This bill was on the floor for many days and with us for 15 years, passed away during World War II and was finally killed. It has been brought up by nea[...]e south Froid cemetery. Legislative session since and is now called the euthanasia The main form of entertainment in both the Froid and bill, and the discussion sounds about the same as it did 53[...]had McCabe we danced over one of the saloons and when the been paying 10-12 percent interest when[...]there the whole place eemed to way. o one money, and the bill was asking eight percent. It was a bill ever had babysitters, but fixed beds at the halls on chair that meant a lot to the farmers and workers so it took many or on the floor, and it seemed the more noi e the better the days of discussion and there was a lot of opposition to it babies slept. Music was a violin and guitar mo tly, from the bankers. The bill finally passed and it was a sometimes a piano. Our neighbor George Mue men and Godsend for all of us. Go vernor Dixon, a Republican, was Andrew Anderson were usually the musicians in the in office at that time, but a good and fair-minded man. He McCabe dances. could see that the farmer could not pay those prices and The hall was alway crowded but there wa[...]g was the main industry of the good food and the dance neuer broke up until about 3:00 state and to the people and he signed the bill. a.m. The drought was coming on and everyday the wind blew In later year they built the big dance hall in Froid. It and the sand came into the house from all direction . Rain was a gr at place a it had a hardwood floor and tag . clouds would form but just blow over and it remained o This hall had a good place to b d down th childr n and dry. The fence lines piled high with sand and it was hard to th y were not und rfoot. A I can r memb r, Dan Purvi farm. Now I wonder how[...]ho play d the piano, purebred heifers (herefords) and were going into better but they e g[...]f the two olde t boys, took .up another polka a r a dull moment and da homestead in the east sandhill . We e tabli h[...]ame the hall. If a man came in at the "Ranch" so we could keep our c[...]ut gra s at McCabe but the sand hills had om gra and lot o th tl.e di turb t Lin . ll of brush. We had a mild op n winter, and with p ll ts and wa old r . I t[...]it. Jt ran for man. was giving 17 or 1 for cattle and if the w r in poor ar[...]i r shape would kill and bur them, u n with o man d~n'[...]t starving p ople. Our farm at Mc ab wa mortgag d and Rog t a a we could not make our pa ments that ar the took i[...]H o o er, but w had a pr tt good calf crop th n xt ar, and tra li · , a with our luck in b ing abl to k p the cattl , w r[...]h In time we built a traw h d and f w corrals for th Froid u[...]n ground and another room added and th wholR thing wa b[...]d d ou r, k eping it quit arm for th men. The had a en ad a real good hot€/ and a rang in the kitchen and a small heat r in th b droom po[...]n rd and a ha e plent of wat r for th cattl a and r k ran photo[...]rudi . through the ard. Thebo dug a hole along th er k and l eh ne o f;nc put a tight can in th hol . Th could k p the butt rand[...]nd w oth r p ri habl in th can. anon and Emer had to thought w w r r all w ll off. T w a ium h rd the cattl in th umm r until th could g t om at the chool for ba k tball and h . Th[...] |
| crowds were large and the hall was packed. Mr. Gillespie Ranch. Marion was married to Marguerite Rygg and they was superintendent at that time and also the coach. He did have two children, James and Janet. Marg died in 1970 very well with the few boys we had, a five man team and and Marion is now married to Audrey Bjorge. He lives[...]estead near McCabe. Emery married year. That was a really big event. It seems we never missed Sigfrid Helgeland and they live on the Sand Hills ranch. a game. When we lived on the farm we drove in with a team They have five children, Gary, Neal, Barbara, David and and wagon even if it was 40 below zero. Mrs. Henry Pe[...]ton is married to Lorraine Nelson, they have had a dres and hat hop, I usually bought my best things four children, Larry, Glenn, Edward, and Joanne. They from h er and the other clothing we sent to Monkey Wards[...]cCabe farm. Th e years we have pent in Froid and McCabe have pa ed all too quickly. We have a friendly town here and the neighbor are real neighbors. We went through the depres ion year and most of us were deep in debt. Many people took their few belongings and went west to find wo rk. Th ey had harder times[...]yed here on their farm seemed to fare better. Jim and I pleaded with ome of them not to leave as times were hard all over. om e wrote back and said they were sorry they had eve r m oued . Pre ident Roo evelt came in and thing seemed to get s tab ilized . The W.P .A . wa started and some relief and commoditie were given . One of the first things the Pre ident did wa to tabilize the bank and savings and loan companie . o many lost what little they did[...]ought of the 30's the farmers formed the Holida y A ociation . People who had worked so hard to build t heir farm and buy a little better machinery, were n ow in debt, and were being forclo ed on and everything wa taken away from them . The Holiday A sociation Mrs. Peile, Mrs . Art Ryder, Mrs. Luebke and Mrs. Sara organized and farm er came from all over to a farm sale to Loucks. bid on th e machin ery and equipment. Instead of putting a g ood bid on thing , they would bid a dollar or two on a plow or a hor e or whatever. That did not bring very much m[...]th e fellow who wa making the foreclosure . The a rticl paid for at th e e mall prices were turned back HE RY A D ORA PEILE to the fa rmer so he could continue farming . There were a few bidder ready to buy at higher price , but whe[...]. I went to Mi ouri. he came to Froid as a young woman and was one demon tration w h ere the heriff and his men were one of the fir t tea[...]nry Peile came about 1909 to the Froid area . ora and fa rmer ure p ut a top to that by cutting the water ho e o[...]eir home in they had no fore . The officer had un and billie but Froid where r . Peile operated a milliner and gift the w r o out-n um b r d the could do nothin[...]al mail carri r for approxima year . a stauphter but ther w r no k illing b cau th farm[...]p in death ; and th hter , hard for mo, t peop l a egg old fo r th ree cent a do en , G H f i oula; arri t u.!heat for thirt cent a bu h l. ou could ll a hot cot ortla nd, n: and La O.L. for about .15, and i 1 r thing l old from th fa rm wa[...]v houg ht that I a gr h ildr imuld v r ee an l[...]e out a nd m ov d to These hi torian wer not around to ha[...]o H nr nd ora a r thosP yea r . s I look back Ol' r the y ar inc Jim and I cam to Montana l f el ati. fied with m _ life. I lou our littl to n of Fro,d. and all the pood neighbor and fn nd w r have rnadP throuphout th . car.. It ma.[...]would love to lit>e m v life ovn apain. hard tim and all. • om time th ·e hard-kr, ock. ar what mak[...]vi n for oursPlvr. and much kinder to other . 1 lo. t my dear hu. ba[...]01 . , t rand a broth r.[...]wor nd to operate the farmmp and ranch mp bu, ine. a the O tby y f vi[...] |
| David and Myrtle Gunderson He came to the United tates about the ame time a |
| several years. He first came to this area in 1903 or 1904 and Culbertson was the nearest town and by this time had a found open prairie covered with grass two feet tall. The good doctor and a hospital and shopping facilities. reason Bill cited for coming[...]ch stood where the Westland station Bill spent a couple of years working on farms in North[...]es for settling attended church until later a German Lutheran church a homestead. In 1905 he returned to the Froid area and filed was built southwest of Froid and it became their home on land in the ea t sand hil[...]church. Homestead. He wanted to become a cattle rancher Pleasant View[...]for pasturing. Creek to one and one-half miles north of the Plautz farm His fi[...]er, Berniece, attended school. miles further east and bought and rented some more land, Berniece remembers riding to school with her father in a which was better soil, but very rocky and much time was horse-drawn sled through blizzards and through snow that required to pick rock before th[...]the prairie fires which were a constant threat to life and He built another little shack and settled down to property. farming, but he was never in a hurry to get the crop planted Dances in private homes were a great form of in the pring, so con eq uen tly early harvests never worried entertainment. A home with just two rooms would be used him, and he thought it was better that way. by piling all the furniture into one room, and we would all Bill never married, but had a faithful dog and a horse. He dance in the other room until daylight. Manuel Berger and finally bought a mall tractor and a truck, later a Model T, his accordian was the music. Manuel chewed snuff and which was a "wonder" as he called it, because he always[...]A large, older home, the Diehl place, located four miles Bill wa a lone ome man and one day he asked Jim northwest of[...]ir house. celebrations, where children and adults joined together in Thi he did and thereafter visited with the Ostbys and fun games. They would play baseball,[...]every day. races and tug-o-wars, and the usual large quantities of food Other bachelors in the neighborhood would meet at Bill's and drink. One Fourth of July the neighbors all gathered at and play cards nearly every unday. Duke Hagadones and made homemade ice cream, using for When he dec[...]ilstones which had fallen the previous day, 0 thy and then finally sold it to them. He spent some time[...]ing out all the crops. in the Culbertson hospital and some in the Richland Home Bands of Gyp[...]plot in South Cemetery in burn all night and there would be dancing and loud singing Froid.[...]be a knock at his door and a request for food from a delegation of the Gypsies. This was a common plea, "Baby[...]would furnish a chicken or two and any other food easily[...]y baked rolls, bread, cookies or PAUL AND ADELIA PLAUTZ what[...]eisen in Froid. Curtis, a grand on of Paul and Adelia Plautz[...]ed in Paul Plautz wa born in Wi con in in 1 95 and served in 1967 but Mother till live in th[...]me from the army he married delia Krueger in 1921 and they came we ton their honeymoon by train. brother, Henry Krueger lived north of Culbert on and a i ter, Mr . Ella hl dewitz lived in the area, and the honeymoon trip w meant to be ju ta vi it. They did not like the ar a when they fir t aw it, a they were accu tomed to the tr nd the goo[...]by my Portra Bruegger tore in ulb rt on got a ride for the n wly arrived couple up to Henry Krueger in an old jalopy, a born in Alber[...]eith r front Of r ar. Paul b 5, a on r. a Portra, r. rode in the back and delia h r d the front t with the d with h ren a mall driver, an Indian. They n v r forgot that ri[...]to manh J Da ota a they could look down and the ground with the rock comm un ca · ng for and du t go wiftly p t und rneath th jalopy. a whil cin r , hor However, they did not go back to Wi on in and Paul a run t[...]d do w i h nd watch itburn- Wedg , and Rev r nd telzig.[...] |
| [...]orbert and Amy. rorb -Jr. and Larry Portra - 19.'I I As far as the eye can ee -[...]pa tur and taking car of o h r p opl our own and mad it through the or. t y[...]. ometime after World War II. M rvin and •d th shack to live in and when we got married . he built anoth r[...]farm and orb and Id ci o move to Frc room. Those two rooms still remained a part of the old farm[...]to r Amy LaCounte, daughter of Mr. and Mr . Jo eph hou ~eon the farm and h \'e i LaCounte was born October 24, 1901 at Belcourt. orth Ione bought a farm a:t of Hom .. . and Dakota and moved to Montana in 1905. with her par nt . Larry do th farming and ranching at th . orb Portra and Am La ounte were married in Poplar,[...].· he thoug had hrouJ.{ht a le o t of Thing were a bit rough tho e fir t year of married lit'. .[...]i were happy. One day orb came home with a hand to ~·ounf.{ r ." operated wa hing machine (I a to b utomatic part) orh[...]a · d but I reall thought I had a mod rn co nc which wa. on th r on and low•d .·o w 11 for ov y much[...]ay on FPhruary 21. l! 7 folio inJ.! a re iding in Tit · rvin[...]Home ad; \! ulf and th y Ii on the farm int arri d ,J w I\\ ik anda l nd b[...]ri d to do a littl moking for[...]tho. arly y ar.. l>un i h. , ·or h Dako a a on o • 1r. amt , 1r. ·orh rt th r[...]l I. ~t:l. th<•n ht• moV<'rl to ome planning a nd h f mi o[...]d · ti a p . Zeph rian Por ra marn d. la[...]h Ii 1914 at 1 horn . 'orth l>a o ,, di •<l in I' :l!.[...]o ck t ni hav a goal and nglon I>( · • • am•I Kan .a. ('it\'. 0 1 . ri. and, Ir~ . ,, ra ti . 11 J li 'J!o 'aliforni~,. p n nd · rt. · ook a lo out o ·o . on . Alh •r Wr in •ton . 1u·. and Hwhard of a~ it did evervon . T t ·ind wer aim i<•go. ( ·a1tfnrnia : a .. i ·fp •n gnnd ·hildn•n and unb a~d e ry lo and - ·hipp d . J!T<•at -gr[...] |
| [...]Culbertson and Plentywood was served by a stage coach which hauled passengers and mail. I can remember[...]running to the trail past our house and picking up the mail pouch tossed from it and bringing it to my father. Bert[...]Stable and Cafe) where the trail crossed "sheep creek".[...]e major acreage of his homestead. My father being a[...]the Ry Depot's at Minot and Williston) built at least one of[...]north of us was Martin Scott a bachelor (who married in Family of Amo Price, r. just prior to 1900. Back row left middle age later), and just north of him lived his brother to right: E t[...]was my uncle Thomas, Orin, Alma. Front row: Ella and Amos, Jr. Fred (of whom I shall spe[...]lived a man named Earl Early with his wife and family.[...]p his homestead just west of that of my MO TANA A D SOMETIME RESIDENTS OF father's. Included in it was a part of "sheep creek." Fred FROID, MONTANA was a blacksmith by trade. He became known as "the[...]crackerjack horse-shoer." A man once, unable to remember[...]rice his name, made him a check with that payee title and the[...]rned with the family of one AMOS They had a son (Horace, now of Monroe, Oregon), and five PRICE, R. Who was Constable of the Town of F[...]daughter : Thelma, Vivian, Myrtle, Doris, and Marjory. Montana during the 1920' , etc.[...]y also had twin sons prior to the births of Doris and The fir t of the Price clan to come we t from Wisconsin to Marjory (Clifford and Clinton) who both died in infancy. Montana was my[...]Peterson, of mithwick, outh Dakota; Doris mother and three older brother came from the town hip lives at Mountain View California; and Marjory at Hot of pringdale (Rio) Wi con in to take up a home tead on a pring outh Dakota. Fred wa an excell[...]now lies adjacent to Froid' He worked for a number of year in the Froid Mercantile orthwe tern corner. That wa in 1 06 before even the tore a head clerk. At the time of my father' death (1913[...]learn d the " · ign languag ' of the Indian and did much of which (a near I can remember) w the outhwe t wapping and trading with them. I can remember the 1/ of Town[...]mo ca in , buck kin jacket (beaded and fringed), Meridian. Thi wa under the old" quatter[...]t he bought Act' that entitl d any claim own r to a p t n on hi land from the Indian nd old to the ttler a a id -line to hi after living on it for p riod of f[...]Drug bu in . Hi wit Ella op rated a cl aning the required building improvem nt nd h ving put a e t bli hment in that conn tion al o. Later F[...]they ought to tum th m F h r to a o z family. n of th ir daughter la r tamp ding c[...]w r iding t Kinn ar, 0 PRI E, "R. and hi wifi (Alma Palm r) cam Wyoming), and Troy (M.D., now practicing m dicine at[...]orn in Wi con in. y fir t with hi on Fr d nd a i din h farming. Th n i ter, Ruth (Mr . L.R. mith, of mpa, Id ho) w born buil horn in Froid and rv d a h Town bl . at Froid on[...] |
| [...]hen only 13 years old). To suppl ment h r Thomas, and Ella. ·[...]. he erv d ESTHER had married Walter Tunison , a carpenter- as midwife at many a birth in Roosevelt ounty. One day painter, and farmer. They moved to the Froid area soon she and my sister counted as many a O p ople at who e after her father came west. They built a home near the old births she had been present[...]such "deliveries", more often worked a the SARA followed her parents west and served for many assistant to Doctors Darland (of Froid) and Munch (of years as the telephone operator for the town of Froid and Culbertson). Following the death of my father ( nd a hi was known as "Central" to the various telephone users. suggestion when dying) she filed a (in 1914) "widow' The telephone exchange was hous[...]dberg. Following the death of her Kirn Ranch and 17 mile north of the town of Poplar, on the young[...]he paid $6 p r acr , built the u ual married Earl and helped his raise the two children born to farm buildings, and put enough of it und r cultivat" on to his first marriage. They had a son of their own. They later "prove up" on it after three yea , and r ceiv the pa n for returned to Wyocena, Wisconsi[...]Mother rented the farm at Froid to har cropper , and arrival of his father and built a home near his father's. He spent her summer on[...]of her children' schooling he returned a h winter to THOMAS PRICE came with his parents as a young Froid. man. He too did some renting and "share cropping" wheat In the fall of t[...]is area. He married Nora Dines, who he later and a number of the other Price (Tom, Amo and Fr · d) divorced. Later he married Idella Mottaz[...]ch of th brother Amos returned to Wisconsin and engaged in dairy azarene. Rev. L.G. ee[...]ming. Tom later moved to Spokane where he retired and was Stanley ees, who later became the ta[...]Roosevelt County. Mr. Pete 01 on wa al o a member of the Myfather,ERNESTPRICE, was a Baptist in Wisconsin. new church and he and mother spon ored the moving of My mother was a Congregationalist. They affiliated with a school house into Froid to be u ed a a place of wor hip. the Church of Christ here in Montana. My father built a Until such time, the congregation had met[...]hurch building for that congregation which was on a farm in homes of its members. Rev. Roy wim came to be our about half way between Froid and Homestead.. That was pastor in 1924. He[...]the Church of the azarene. I had the at Froid and built the pew for it him elf. privilege of preach[...]. I dition wa Church in Froid, and had served as oloist in the services, publi h[...]Principal then. He taught he cience co and coached under the knife of a partially drunken urgeon who the ba ketball and track team . In the fall of1927 I enro1led operat[...]he bowel", in the in orthwe t azarene College a ampa, Idaho to work Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Montana. Gia gow wa toward an A.B. degree which I fini hed in 1932. During th the[...]carrying his lunch to him in the long eep and wa no mal forenoons when he fol[...]loading pl on the big clyde dale hor e and let me ride a h plow d th Chicago · dain d a mi furrow . Following the death of my father, my mother, LYDI A. PRICE, tried to carry on the farming, with th ai[...]t Froid's to n con tabl - Amo Pric , r. and hi wif, in[...] |
| [...]Spring and Fall back and forth from Froid to the[...]the ranch of Pat McLaughlin on the Smoke Creek, and the[...]Price for having fed her horses and family. They were big[...]was not easy. To make sure of the river-bed and its depth,[...]situation. More than once they (horse and rider) were obliged to swim it, and then hunt for a shallower place for[...]Indians of the Fort Peck were kind to widow Price and Fred and Ella Price her family , and I found that a Red Indian lad made a[...]hills and coulees while keeping an eye on the family herd of aza ren e. My a rea comprises th e two tates of Montana dairy cows . Fences were few . Bands of horses roamed the a nd Wyoming with it forty co ngr egation s. Our si[...]he coyotes spied on us from their hilltops. The i a azarene. he married a Ra ilway witchman (n ow annual spring " Round-up" was a memorable occasion. retired) and live in ampa, Idaho.[...]of th e azare ne in excellent riders and mounts. B in, Wyoming, and erved as its fi rst pa tor. Th is was[...]ore keeper; Mrs. Billings, Montana for about nine and one half yea rs. After Donaldson , the Post Mistress; E.Y. P oore and 0 . Lloyd earning my M.A. and B.D. degree in Pasaden a, Gillespie, our High chool Principals; Olson , and Roda, California, I served three years as pa tor of the College each of them had a Hardware tore; A.E. Kamp ran the Church of the azarene fo r Olivet[...]llege in Lumber Yard; Mr. Tobias on, and Ed. Roda , each had a Kanakee. Illinoi . While the re I worked out my M.Th . Dray Line, a s did Amos Price, Sr. and his son Tom; Mrs. degree at McCormick Theological[...]ge in U . . nd anada. While teac h ing at Pa aden a a owner of the Froid H otel ; O.M. Rogney operated[...]egree in the chool of P hilo ophy at F a rm e r ' El e vator , and Ed Torkelson ran the the niver ity of outhem alifomia. o I am a Troja n. I Interna tion a l Elevator . Alvin We tdal wa ucceeded by wa awar[...]ary Doctor of Divinity degree by A.R. Butler as p rinter of the Froid Tribune; Georg[...]reamer ; J.T. Louc k operated t h e G r oce r y and I . . tart d . . chool at the ge of five. chool wa then held in Mercanti tore; and Hedberg h a d th e telephone th n wly built Congr gational ch[...]rdb the volun te r Fire ta tion with i iren a nd The ye r 1912 Wes the year of the bump r cr[...]til tore. He old th e ttler a nd the an at hr shing time.[...]t nd took c on t he fa]l , a lad I play d t time und rn th the old "h ng- being adeq u te o that th f a h ir g man · -tr e" t ranch four mile from Froid[...]rationing during of the Big Muddy. Mv mother h d a long thr d nd ~ World[...]b d th t had to. Jae w a · b en on th[...]th Bro a d Wh n the town of Froid wa[...]avoc Trad B w wa~ a ga th the with the eel bration . I[...]'Ta ket houting at Moth r , , i t r, and m to g t back from the and c n t b " tr t for the local town . .[...]ight mil north the bull t w re whizzing p , tu a th d , p rado gallop d of ou[...] |
| Ernest Price and family - 1910. Clenard, Ernest, Ross, Lydia, Ruth, Laurence and Troy. Nees, song leader, and F.J. Mills, Evangelist. Services were |
| [...]In 1934 a third child was born, Robert Jr. At that time[...]were unable to get to Culbertson and had to stop at the[...]community picnics and baseball.[...]Wilfred Johnson, and the Edmonds family.[...]in a fall from a header box at the Rasmus Magnuson farm ,[...]d by Edward Johnson). He spent many months August and Clara Priebe's silver anniversary. Front left to in the hospital at Wolf Point, and later at Fort Harrison. right: Lester Bahn, Ed Ol[...]y, Hazel Rogney, Agnes Zick, the farming and the chores. Bolger Christoffersen, Roald Harbo, O[...]is now owned by their oldest son Merton, or Clara and August. Mock wedding part members were[...]s everyone knows him. Lorraine Coe, Bonidea Holly and Art Johnson . Lois is married to Jim O'Toole and lives in Froid. They[...]Bob Jr. marrried Mary Eide Matejovsky and they live at[...]nt to California to seek employment. There he met and married Lorraine Cobban, daughter of Bill[...]a, where he had been working in the have two sons and two grandsons. oil f[...]who resides at Watford City, North Dakota. Mabel and her h\.oband were killed in a car-truck accident in 1952. WILLIAM AND FREIDA REITER Audrey was born in Froid in 1924.[...]mily farm. He Mr. an d Mrs. Robert Zich, Sr., and two brothers, Robert and bought the family homestead and is still fanning at th e Herman Zich. We mig[...]rvidson, from leaving there in 1905, and moved to Russel, North Dakota, Minnesota, in 1943[...]ent the next two years. I attended school in Fall and one grandson, Matthew. Creek, Wisconsin , and Russel, North Dakota. August and Clara Priebe had many good times, and When the Homestead Act opened up my father filed on a enjoyed life to the fulle t. They had barn dances, card quarter of land three and one half miles northeast of Froid. partie , and had many baseball games in the old pasture at This was in the spring of 1907 and Froid was then in Valley the farm . They were ver[...]lives they spent the winter previously bought a team of hor es an d a wagon from Mr. month in Yucaipa, California, with their on Leo and Bielen, who among other thing owned th e first h otel in family , and many relative who had moved from orth Culbertson. We loaded a few of our belon gings on the Dakota to California. They alway looked forward to their wagon and tarted the long journey 1 mile north of tay in alifornia and enjoyed every minute of it· but come Culbertson to our home tead. This was the first part of pring, and time for planting and e ding, they would ovember and the weather was beautiful. happily return to Froid where Augu t would a i t Arvade When we arrived at our new de[...]our hou wa only partly built and did not have a roof on Augu t wa kill d in th ame car accident a hi it. The man my father had contracted to[...]with u and mad a bed upon th floor u ing cks of[...]potatoe for pillow a our bedding nd the r t of our ROB RTIV[...]W got up in th morning nd took a look around at our Robert and Ang lo Purvis, with th ir two childr n new urrounding . It loo d pr tty bleak and b r ; a fi w erton nd Loi , c m to Froid in th f 11 of 1 29. h c h re nd th r and not a tr in ight. They had previou ly Ii v d in F rgo[...]h following pring m father w nt back to orth h wa a painter. Th yd cided to com h r and join Dako to fini h comm· tm n h h[...]had com here in 1 16. build chimn y and pl r hom . Hi profi ion b ing Th y fir t home tead don a farm ·ght mil w t and that of a bricklay rand mortar•man tr d which h had four miles outh of Froid, and then th y later mov d to th tak n up and appr, ntic din rm ny. During hi ab nc[...] |
| Freida Reiter, Ella Zimmerman, and unknown - 1975. William G. Reiter - 1909 it was up to mother and I to find someone to work the land. Bill Stra[...]ny Thompson broke up the first 20 acres with oxen and the downtown area of Froid, which he operated until |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. George Richwine and children. Mrs. Lola[...]McCauley, Mrs. Alice Snellman and Calvin Richwine. until he was twenty years old. He decided to homestead in |
| [...]wns. Froid had the best prospects Later Harry and Gilbert farmed th land now own d by as far as a salary was concerned, as they had a lot of Edith Phair. In later years w bought mor land and express and freight at that time and agents got a farmed some and rent d out the pasture. Ev ntually w commission o[...]h n everything came either by express or freight, and we came her . The Lutheran built a church bout 1915 nd homesteaders were coming into[...]rated th theater for 3 year b for TV cam our home and while that was in the process of being built[...]eting , conv ntion , we roomed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Merideth. They dances and partie . At fir t w had ilent movi and later lived on the corner where Maurice Gonitzke lived-and put in talkies, and till later put in th wid er n and across the street from Don Wallander. Mrs. Marrow[...]school in Froid , to Billing ormal and th n taught hool. Gilbert was Froid's second d[...]He held that job he is married to M.J. Barry and th y hav thr children. for 56 years until his ret[...]in Froid, w nt to chool in Froid , Martin Holms and C. Johnson were the carpenters who marri[...]lost it by fire on Christmas Eve in 1920. Lloyd and Dorothy live in Fairview. All the grandchildr n The two children and I had gone to Drake, North Dakota to are now[...]Gilbert died in 1971. I till live in Froid. a relief operator so had not come down, and was home alone. He had gone to the Christmas prog[...]J.E. ROOT Lutheran Chruch, came home and went to bed. Something awakened him in the night and he opened the bedroom Joe Root was an early arrival in the ar a . He wa a door and looked down; the whole open stairway was on fire.[...]r working for other farmer . When he He broke out a window, tied a sheet to the bed post and let married he looked around for land for home teading and himself down that far and dropped the rest of the way. He found 40 acr[...]nly had his pajamas on, no time for more clothes, and ran farming. This was a part of ction 15, Town hip 30, next door t[...]sons to wake them. The Tunisons Range 56, and is now owned by Henry Hoye. Hoye o n d had time to get nearly everything out, and the men saved land around this 40 acre and did not uppo e anyone that house. We couldn'tsavea thing. A couple of days later, would care for that rock[...]t me from Drake. On our way home Joe put a shack on the home tead o he had a home for we stopped over in Minot and bought the very necessities in his new wife. They had a on named Ralph later, and Joe bedding, dishes and clothing. The Red Cross was selling all old the land to Hoye and moved in to town , at the nor h - their equipment they used during the war, so we bought a ea t end of Froid , about the la t hou . It till tand second hand sewing machine. Lloyd was a year old then toda . and I was going to put him in little suits that summer and T Joe al o owned ome land in heridan ount ome[...]w of that farm tead. dresses for Evelyn and they were gone too. Mr . Belle Dahl loaned Gilber[...]to the Robinson house (owned now by Leo Triplett) and lived In 1 ·[...]rteen years. We built our pr nt hou in 1933 and h mlin[...]Martin Quive . Fr d Engler did all th varni hing and - Ji[...]Hurl painting in ide, and r . Hoffman of Mc ab did th .[...]a Brown Bob Hetri erid o[...]p A.J. 01 on . W h nam[...]· w had two go tor and Ed pra ticall H a[...]Ro |
| [...]Children of Ole and Emma Rued. Dora, Ernest, Margaret and Ella. In 1925 Kit and Jim with their family moved to the Froid area and Ii ved on a farm east of Froid. It is known as the two cows into an immigrant car and traveled west. They McCoy farm. Later they moved[...]r eleven years. The children cows, horses and belongings and traveled to Froid, attended country school - Burgett, Enterprise and Montana. They settled on a quarter of land three miles Valley. In 1944 Jim and Kit bought a farm southeast of northwest of Froid, Mont[...]in 1966 at the age of76 years. Katherine Ole and Emma lived in a one room homestead shack now lives in Culbertson[...]f 7 years. until they were able to build a two room house with the help of a close neighbor, Henry Peile as the carpenter. The[...]lumber was purchased from the A.E. Kamps Lumber Yard[...]. Kamps later remarked that this MR. A D MRS. OLE RUED lumber was the first he had sold for a house on the[...]The closest neighbors to Ole and Emma were: Fred[...]2. He Cobban, Henry Peile Jack Wilsons, and John Knutson. ettled near Butterfield, Minne ota where he revi ed hi Ole and Emma worked hard to get the homestead going. name[...]rfield area Ole plowed the sod with hor es and Emma milked the cows, until 1906, at which time he moved to Michigan, orth and rai ed chicken and turkeys. Dakota. Here he entered into a farming partner hip with , In the fall of 1910, Ole and Emma had their fir t child, Ole Mork, for three year . a daughter, Ella. Three year later Emma gave birth[...]ied Emma Dalla who, like Ole, twin , Dora and Erne t. A neighbor, Horace Jack on, came wa from orway. The[...]ty tough then. loaded their belonging , including a team of hor e and Tw ar la another daughter, arga[...]Thi the la child that Ole and Emma had.[...]nter. The barn 60 wi ha hip roof and[...]id that the co · n Knut on, a[...]and Emma[...]l d hooling and n on to[...] |
| Photo by Eben Strand. Rued farm - 1917. Ole and Emma among cattle and horses, Ella on horse in Foreground. Ernest, Dora and Margaret sitting on water tank. Man leading saddl[...]Brockton, Montana. She then moved to Ruth and Bettie at Ryders. Sidney, Montana where she was married to Walter Anderson and is presently living in Missoula, Montana. In 19[...]sther Sundheim, he followed his father in farming and lives on the original called out loudly, " ta[...]education as Stan disappeared under the seat. and graduated from nurses training in Minot, North[...]in thi Dakota. She later married Winfred Frailey and is presently completely new and trange environment! I didn't think, living in Ora[...]that changing school wa o much fun - tho e Ole and Emma continued on the farm through the[...]still live . Jim and famil rented the Jim Lohn farm a In 1940 Ole and Emma purchased the farm house from quarte[...]oid wher · r truck when w Charlie Raish and moved it into Froid. They lived there were c[...]om 1941 until their death. Ole pa ed away in 1949 and wa carrying a be out from th k " thaw ou E[...]od a ga o-[...]to pu by Adeline Moe and Jo ephine Burt m[...]ed with hi family to Qu her h m t and married Chri tine David. in Toro[...]rt ta when · ed h ame ill and · un wher hi fam.[...]ta tak n m ci d ,-, al and y Thi d parti[...]r. o nt of car of th trai ned a[...] |
| [...]Joe Ryder, married Walter Burt and they are now retired[...]from the grocery business in Froid, Poplar and Nashua and are now living in Glasgow (Valley County) where t[...]th active in the Senior Citizens of Valley County and are looking forward to a visit this Christmas to their[...]other son, Monty, who teaches in New Mexico and is the father of a little two year old son. Walter Burt was a one[...]Adeline graduated from Froid High in 1924 and after[...]Mankato, Minnesota and Western Washington State[...]Custer, Montana for two years where she met and married[...]Sig Moe of Plentywood, Montana. Both she and her husband taught school in Custer and Simms, Montana[...]Belgrade where they continued teaching and moved to[...]moment it escapes me as to just ment stores as a cosmetician. You might still walk into who all th[...]a Eleanor cott. Hart AJbins Department Store and purchase some cos- Well , anyway, the fire took c[...]r way back to Hart's Store. (northea t of Froid ) and one half mile beyond what is Alfred ("A[...]the Herbert Ryder Farm. We lived here until 1924 and Froid and Dillon, Montana, entering the service of his we k[...]s service during the years our tin lunch bucket ! And Rubye(oldestin thefamily) rode of 1941-45. H[...]employed by the Auburn chool District in heard of and unthought of now! ) maintenance work and later at the Green River We moved outhwe t of[...]at Auburn in grounds maintenance farmed thi land and drove chool bus with hor e for a few work , retiring in 1975. "Al" makes his home in Auburn. year and later moved into Froid where he ran the Froid Dra[...]shington in eattle in Gertrude, Jo ephine, Alfred and tanley attended the old 1947. (Graduated f[...]1933.) He white wooden frame chool , taking part and thoroughly obtained his masters degree i[...]hington tate in Pullman, Washington. He ball game and dance (Gertrude wa a rou ing "cheer- worked as office acco[...]le d r ", who of you can forget her hearty laugh and fun wa busine s manager in Warm prings, Mon[...]u Froid later taught at Galata Montana for a year and was " bloomer-girl'' ha ketball team (1 20-1922). Gertrude and uperintendent of chool at College Place in W[...]all took part in Wa hington. Then he erved a busine manager for the t h chool g uh (we all loved · ging and chool of Pa co Wa hington, 0 wego, Oregon and i now d d d line n the · ol bat team. working a bu ine manager of the Auburn chool honor r n tho h prov d a Di trict in Auburn, Wa hington, where he has be[...]! a t acher at the nearby Federal Way hool . The[...]ar Air orp and erv d hi countr during the y ar of[...]ou im w d for and[...]a mall liq tion w[...] |
| [...]olitics, or what have you. During these years Jim and Mrs. Ryder had their home near the Froid Post Off[...]door of their home was never locked, it served as a gathering place for the growing family and their friends and there was always tea, cookies, coffee and many a good meal cooked and served to any and all who happened to drop in. Mrs. Ryder (familiarily known as "Ran") was a fine cook and was most generous and a wel- come member of the Ladies Aid of the Congregational Church. Many were the chickens that she dressed and gave unstintingly to the big church dinners. She[...]the age of 6 years. Jim then sold the home there and made his home with hi family in Poplar and Wolf Point and in Auburn, Washington. He also, passed away in Wolf Point in 1964 at the age of 86 years. Both he and Mrs. Ryder ar resting in Kent, Washington cemeter[...]Mr. and Mr ·. Art R . dl'r - 1916 MR. AND MRS. ARTHUR RYDER[...]submitted by Ruth Nyquist a vi it to w lcome the newcomer and[...]ster, r ulting in on roo t r, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryder were "homesteaders" in the but a fine roa t chicken dinner ' fir t Froid Community. Art and Sus were married in Bottineau, Thank giving in Montana. North Dakota in March of 1907 and by that fall Art had The fir t winter t[...]unsettled area of northea tern "open" winter and Art picked rock all winter tog t th land Montana was "opportunity knocking". He loaded a ready for pring plowing. railroad i[...]anning mill; eleven foot drill; one eight-foot a 40 with Dan had ct hi two quarter . In 1909 h disc; one mile of barbed wire and posts; one bicycle; 500 builtontohi home[...]bushels of oats; seven horses; one cow· 12 hens and a He then built the h . a · part of t H rb rooster; a cookstove; coal heater; pots, pan , di he and Ryd r horn . In 191 d into rb and silverware; table and chair ; a cupboard; rocking chair and Buck would be clo ha h Ryd r a bed. With ixty dollar cash in hi pocket, Art climbed ho ince, and th la Ryd r' family aboard[...]Culbert on on ovember 13th of 1907. He wa alon , a r' far · op rat'[...]d land stranger to everyone but he wa young and ptimi tic. w Froid, ·[...]I Krall, There he found a quarter ection a t of Froid that a[...]f unclaimed (where Herb R der live now). H buil a 14 x 1 yd foot hack for hi n w brid and a 16 x 32 foot barn for hi d Ii e tock and oat from th lumb r h d brough with him.[...]t He then nt for u and h arri d in ulb rt on on o mber 25th, the day[...]and o[...]a ·ton[...]r. I wa. driving a lot R. ·der on mul . Ralph[...] |
| [...]Phair farms and operates the Froid State Liquor Store. All[...]The family celebrated Art and Sus's 66th Anniversary in[...]TOM AND MYRTLE RYERSON[...]1899. I moved with my parents and two sisters to Mohall, North Dakota in 1902 and lived for five years on a homestead and later moved into town. My father had[...]established a lumber business and had built a two-story[...]house where I lived till coming to Montana as a bride of[...]primary grade and graduated there in 1917. Tom had not[...]July 12th, 1924 at Mohall and arrived in Froid the following day in a new Ford coupe which he had recently Herb, Alfred[...]purchased. Bain ville was the first Mon tan a town I saw, but[...]We lived with Tom's mother, sister Edith, and brother[...]father Neighbors were precious in those years and Ryders had passed away in April 1924. Tom's mother, Edith and good ones. Be ide Riley Tunisons, there were Clen[...]George moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1925 and we Holly , Herman tempkes, George Waters, Joe LaM[...]llens, Dan Purvi e , Carl cotts, Charlie Jacksons and grandparents had moved to Tennessee from[...]Tom's father, George L. Ryerson, John Schnitzler and open to any pa erby and the tea pot was always on. The John D. G[...]ished the Security ho pitality gave the neighbors a chance to rest and lunch State Bank at Medicine Lake, Montana about 1911. on their way to and from town with their teams and Previous to this, Mr. Ryerson practiced law in Minot and wagon and a chance for a most welcome visit. When the also Mohall, orth Dakota. Mr. Ryerson , Schnitzler and D. day' work wa done, neighbors often spent their[...]d the First State Bank of Froid. playing seven-up and occa ionally held dance in their Mr. Ryer on worked in the bank and also practiced law. home . His health failed and Tom came from Whitefish, Montana Ryder first h[...]e that was We have one daughter, Patricia and three grandchildren. located near the north cemetery ite, the mail was left there Julie married and is living in Rapid City, South Dakota; in bag provided by each family. Dean and eal are at home. Patricia and Robert French Art and u were active in church and other community were married in the Froi[...]ter member in the Froid 1948, and are living at Medicine Lake. Bob farm ome Congreg[...]with his two sons. Reverend Bent wa the mini ter and Bob olan wa the They al o have catt[...]There were everal married couple our age and we Rebecca and the Workmen lodge . r. Ryder rved a attended barn dance in the territ[...]citi d oft n told hi il , "A 't b governm nt, but it[...]by thy. h g . Art,[...]nd H rb n 1· Froid ; Buck a nd Ir[...]da chool; Bob a nd Ru i |
| [...]re Fred, John, William, Carl, Otto, Martha, Clara and Ann. Fred Julius Schaumkessel, a son, still lives in Froid. SCHNITZLER[...]seventy percent of the activity came between |
| Zepplin to Europe, trans-oceanic air travel being a rarity. they arrived so they stayed at the J[...]eath in an air crash on April 24, 1932. chnitzler and his Culbertson was the nearest town for supplies and railroad, pilot, Albert Hedberg, were flying to Havre when in a but they got their mail from the O.B.[...]w the highway). Their neighbors were crashed into a butte 50 miles northwest of Malta . Hatfields, Horstman, Millers, Zichs, Wilke and Wittys. Mr. The Montana Record-Herald of Helena called chnitzler Schultz died in 1921 after a runaway caused by lightning. the "type of public and domestic citizen whose demise at She live[...]throughout the William Base, lived on a farm near them and son Frank length and breadth of Montana ..... this state ca n ill affo[...]THE HERMAN SCHULZ FAMILY farming on a huge scale and at this time (Depre sion 1932) of readju tment wh[...]bert Schulz, Jr. e sential to agriculture, he was a practical and successful Loraine Coe 'machine farmer' to whom others might look for guidance and teaching."[...]man Schulz immigrated from Germany around 1885 And the editor of the Glasgow Courier who had known and started a blacksmith shop in Thompson, North " Johnnie" chnitzler as a printer's devil in orth Dakota Dakota. Bertha Brose came from Germany in 1887 and year before aid " the new paper fraternity will m[...]ere man who alway remembered hi own experience as a born in Thompson: Nettie 1890, Walter 1891, William 1893 printer and editor and was ympathetic with hi craft." and Robert 1897. Herman Schulz came to Montana in 190[...]located his homestead, built his sod house and returned to as asset 16, 4 7 acres of land in heridan and Roo evelt North Dakota for his family. County and hi bank , facing unprecedented Depre sion The family moved to the Froid area in 1907 and pre ure which never closed it howed footing of ju[...]re were al o inve tment in an tracks and the road that runs east and west from the implement company, and holding in other banking and highway to the unwall corner. Everyt[...]was shipped to Montana in a cattle car; horses, cows, chnitzler' widow, Catherine, guided thi uh tantial chickens and household belongings. Herman and sons operation through the 1930 , and wa ucceeded a general Walter and Bill rode in the freight car. Bertha, with Nettie[...]mid-1940s by hi daughter, Helen and Robert rode in a pas enger car and came a few days chnitzler Hornby. Hi grand on , John C[...]er. today trea urer of the chnitzler Corporation. and vice- The only excitement on the freight train that Wall y and pre ident of the Ea tern Montana Publi hing Co. , which Bill remembered wa that in going through a small town a carrie on the family tradition of new papering by man got on the train. rode a few miles and finally pubh hing the Mile ity tar, the G[...]Herman give him $10.00 or he was going to Review, and the Living ton Enterpri e and Park County take the two boy , Wally and Bill. Herman managed to ew grab a pitch fork and cha e the man from the car.[...]The family tayed in ulbert on for a day until they MR. ND MR . AUGU T L.[...]d get all their belonging unloaded from the train and[...]b ginning to take hap and wa quite a little town. M ugu t L. hultz Minne ota to Herman worked for man winter a a black mith for Bill horn nt n in l O . T[...]Wally. Roh rt. 8 ,1/. chulz. and .. ,.,, •r S rtti,• ( irager I and paren t ..• Ir. and . Ir .. H,•rman. ·chulz. and the,r .·od hou.·c[...] |
| [...]Wm. and Theresa Schwenke - Golden Wedding,[...]December 18, 1960. Ortho McCabe and Robert Schulz Sr. - 1916[...]esota in 1894 and came to Fargo, orth Dakota to work in The firs[...]sch's, Anders one of the hotels. Theresa and William became acquainted Sunwalls, O.B. McCabes, Helmer Jensvens, and August and were married on December 10, 1910. They moved to[...]stop at the McCabes with homestead in Montana and stayed until 1915. Two the mail, and many a barn dance was held at Priebes. children were born there: Henry August in 1913 and Dora Herman died in 1921 and Bertha continued to live on the in 1914. They[...]r sons until her death in 1956. Nettie Schulz and during this time four more children were born: Herbert, married Harvey Wagar in 1914 and they homesteaded Louise, Mamie and Helen. north of Scobey in 1917. They are still farming the land. In June 1926 they moved back out west and lived for a They had three sons, and Nettie is the only one of the year north o[...]oved to Herman Schulz family still living. Walter and Bill never Bain ville and farmed for Chris Grindland, who by the way marrie[...]came to Montana about the ame time as Dad did and al o They had three children-Loraine, married to William Coe worked for the Day and Arnette ranche . The folk then lives in Coupeville, Washington and has no children; moved to the old oothart place outh of McCabe and Robert Jr. married Elinor Schulz and they have four farmed for otty Forbe until 1931 when they moved to the children and live near Billings; James married Irene[...]ulbertson in Richland Padgett, has three children and is Mayor of Drummond. County. In 1932 another daughter, Betty wa born on that Robert Schulz and family, Wally and Bill, lived at the ranch. farm home until 1958 when Wally and Bill built a home in The e were ver trying yea r ea rought Culbertson and moved there, driving back and forth to help had come and no crop and 11 o Robert with the farming. The land was sold to a neighbor their cattle, they ided to m[...]hulz died in 1960, Walter in 1961, Bill in 1971 and hou hold g · · oxcar ·p t and Alvina in 1972. All are buried at Froid.[...]un · WILLIAM A D THERE A HWE KE an[...]Ca selton, orth Dakota. On th mother became sick and died, Hi fath r worked for the railroa Ca lton. illiam w nt work d on farm and in l until coming to ontana wo Day ranch, cutting and log hou which · nd .[...]ry 4, n Ranch and Ral cutti d ma[...] |
| [...]by Elna Scott Wallander Carl C. Scott and his wife Elna E. Scott arrived in what is |
| [...]pigs and the turkeys were tran por d by wa on.[...]Machinery was rea mbled and hou hold go d lo d d. It took several days and many load to mov h cargo to[...]A very large crowd of relative and fri nd gath r d[...]and keep u clean for v ral day on th r in , w[...]grumpy by the time we were ettl d. Carl and Elna Scott wedding pictures[...]of boiled water, formula for baby food , a mall wo d-[...]alcohol burning tove to heat the formula and a grani pan to et it in to prevent fir and catch pill . First there was a family foul-up. Dad made inquiry at We were a side how. A the word pa d , oth r this point about railway fares for one wife and ten children. passenger , train crew member and butcher boy came to Seven of the children were ov[...]her car wher Mother couldn' boys, Samuel, twelve, and Carl Jr., nine, were joining him keep an eye[...]ght up et our dige tive trac . Mother rebelled and was all the more determined when Event[...]who had b en grumpy someone told her it was even a bit illegal. There was an when we boarded capitulated. Before he left at the end of argument and then a stalemate. his run, he paid us a last vi it to compliment Mother on her Dad was a whistler. He couldn't carry a tune, but he family and her control and organization. he felt flattered whistled through[...]Culbertson at la t. And real Indian . Father and r. After sulking behind his paper for a time, he went Holly were on the platfo[...]came early whistling to the barn where he pounded and whistled most were hopping up and down, trying to catch the fir of the afternoon. T[...]hat he had glimpse. We nearly smothered Dad , and other cried o er wrought. Finally we all had a chance to look. the boys, much to their embarra men . He had built a pseudo feed-box shaped like a piano crate, Culbertson wa a booming town in ho da in all roughly. There was a slanted top that raised to show a good town then, a favorite pa time wa watching the depth of nice yellow oats. However, there was a fal pa enger train come in . bottom. The back side of the box showed a little room under While r . Holl and hi on ta ed b hind to load our the oats for two s[...]our l g af r our Ion r in nd came around, it was a place to hide; at night a place to b for we went to Mr. Holl ' horn[...]rd . The next day we were gathered together for a trip to the had k pt our di tan photographer. I think that wa a conce ion to o~her. h tarted to[...]trying to 1k d and At la t the car were on the loading track . parceled out to our temporary hom , with a promi would m t again to w tch the car pull out after g to our father and brother . The loa · COW, C • tanchi comer bak d, gim n tiding and ho[...] |
| [...]Surrey, British Columbia and the daughter. I'm sure a Culbertsonite of my vintage would remember him. He had no buttocks! My brother thought it was a magic trick, whereby he could swing his torso and walk JOHN AND ANNA SCOIT facing in either direction. Once in[...]by Walter Scott botton-hole a man back of the counter. The clerk started to laugh and called my father to him. The clerk interpreted[...]her, John Scott arrived on our homestead in April and soon they were all laughing. Father always had a big, 1906 which was then in Valley County.[...]but can't bringing three horses, two cows, a sulkey plow, disc remember, was indicative of his[...]In translation it harrow, seeder, wagon with a triple box, a bob sled, tent came out something like "Big Bear Ate His Behind". He and some household furniture. Mother and I came about a was curious to know if all the kids belonged to D[...]week later by train. Father met us in Culbertson and we left Mother was his only wife and if she was, why most had for our homestead in a lumber wagon. One exciting yellow, but a few had dark hair.[...]wasn't quite Creek. There was no bridge and we had to cross through the sure ifit was all tea[...]wagon box to the wagon frame so the box moccasins and a buffalo robe for her and the four golden would not float away; the[...]ight accept if she water as they crossed. I got a big kick out of this as we all failed to toe the[...]got pretty wet. We aw the old Indian sometimes and he patted our hair, Our homestead was l[...]our nearest town, but John Brown had a grocery store one- The purebred Holstein cattl[...]rtin Scott foraging too well after being pampered and winter-housed joined us on the south. He was a bachelor at that time: in Wisconsin. They were sl[...]Ernest Price lived south of Martins and LaMars lived east purebred Plymouth Rock hens wou[...]ey were inclined to gorge in We lived in a tent the rest of that spring and summer the oat fields nearby until over fat. Then on a hot day the until father got the house built[...]summer dumb things would run for the laying hou e and drop dead because he was trying to break[...]h no carriagehouse the surrey with the fringe was a turned out to be a good crop. The sod was much harder to nui ance. It lost its style without Maggie and Maude to pull break than it had been in Minnesota, and my father and it. We polished it up and drove to a celebration in Martin found they wer[...]ower. They wanted Culbertson. Some man fancied it and Dad sold it to him. $700 for a team of horses in Culbertson which was way too[...]e of horses they were selling. Uncle Martin By and large, we had brought average equipment in the made a trip back to Minnesota to purchase more horses. H[...]for its got four good horses for 25 apiece and shipped them back purpo e.[...]ey had plenty of horsepower to break Carl cott and his wife Elna lived on the homestead until[...]Froid for ome Our first winter was long and hard. There was a lot of time.[...]ge He wa the fir t rural mail carrier in Froid and was so coach hauled our mail up from Culbertson and I u ed to go employed until r tirement. He served many terms on down to the road and pick up our mail sack as they drove chool boards, elevator board and church board . He and by. The now wa so deep that it took two[...]away. They then returned home and the next day with[...]c ord hool located one and one-half mile north of Froid and not far from u . Then I w nt to hool in the Dav[...]d r . Carl ott to the Froid wa built and I fini bed hool ther . In 1926 I married commun 'ty ·n 190 . H lived in the Froid ar a until 1932. Hattie Krogedal and we are till living in Froid. H married the form[...]Th girl w r born fter w came to on tan a . Agne Froid chools for a number of year . They had a daughter, ott Zich wa born in Culbertson and w nt to hool in who i now Mr . Andy el on of Clov[...]Froid. Hel n ott Young wa born in Froid and went to Columbia.[...]chool ther . Both girl liv at Whitefi h . a11one ott David ott pa d away at the age of 65 in urrey, Cru ch wa born at Froid and graduated from Froid High Briti h Columbia on Jun[...]ucted hool. h marri d Fay ru ch and live on a r nch at in White Rock, Briti h Columbia.[...] |
| [...]Culbertson, Montana and get the doctor to come and deliver Mitchel, the son of Walter and Esther Tuni on.[...]In 1920, March 1, a new addition was added to Martin and Alma's home. They adopted a little girl and nam d her[...]Both Martin and Alma passed a way everal year ago. SYLVESTER A. SHOEMAKER A D[...]and two girls, born to Eli and Elizabeth (Andrew )[...]s the 12th of 13 children. Her parents were Jocob and[...]and Maggie on August 26th. They were married near[...]of moving seems a near impossible task. The hoemaker[...]move did not originate with Sylvester, but wa a |
| [...]but even good health is not enough. To provide a living for a growing family of six children, a father and mother, by[...]day labor, is no small task. Hauling sugar beets and working on the railroad is a hard life even though the[...]Sylvester and Ralph went by emigrant car, and the[...]Mah ugh, a nephew of Maggi es, was largely responsible for[...]the move to Montana, and it was upon his 320 acre farm[...]ley 50th Wedding Anniver ary - 1950, ylue ter and Maggie community where they lived for a second two year period. . _.. hoemaker.[...]From Dane Valley, the family moved to a farm 15½ miles[...]and an equal amount leased from the Reservation. While the road. The hor e are standing the trip well. Black, Bally living on this farm several changes came into the family and eal are a faithful trio. Bought a gallon of buttermilk life. Their son Clyde died in May of 1920, and two more today. Paid 5¢ for a quart of milk and 10¢ for tea. hot a daughters were born. Lenora on September 5, 1919, and bird today, but it flew away when Maggie went to[...]7, 1921. Bought four hell for ¢. Killed two bird and we had them Added to the discouragement of short crops, and for upper. rrived at the home of Russell Andrew , no one continual moving came a disastrous fire at which time not at home, but we tayed around. Had a good time and a good only the home, but virtually all of its contents we~e meal. Maggie baked, washed, and ironed. Rained a little all completely destroyed. Assuring the world that even this d y, road muddy and lick. Picked a little pail of kind of disaster could not stop them, the Shoemakers ra pberrie . A woman gave Maggie a me of new potatoe immediately started the building of a new home, and with nd milk for upper. Bought two boxe of 22 cartridge for the help of friends and neighbors, they were soon 25¢. Camped near a home, nice people they gave u milk,[...]the house that was to be their home until potatoe and a bushel of oats. They a ked me to tay and they made their final move to Wena[...]Sylvester, S O mile on the road. Traded my rifle and watch for a little Maggie, Lloyd, Lenora and Ruth, arrived in Wenatchee, mu! , (J ck). Drove eal and Black in the morning and the city that was to remain thei[...]itched up eal. Muddy roads, but good gra . Killed a By this time the hoemaker cla[...]Wood. They are the parents of En tn · n a total di ta nee 797 m ·le , time 36½ three children; Carol Doris and Dale. Mae (Mrs. Harold day~. ( 21. mile[...](William ), June ( tutzman) and E ther (Barclay). Ruby Clo · rt were writt a but upon ( acey) wa the fir t to die[...]n ur faced the and their father Bud acey. Her daughter are now Patty[...]ad (Picard), Kathi n ( yqui t) and Mar (Picard). Fem in d ·tr[...]r a thr e children Elizabeth Bollinger) Rober[...]05, nd Richard. Robert and Fern had two childr n Edwin[...]nd Genell . Lio d marri d Eil n rane and th ha e om Lowery two on Kent and D nny. Lenora, who i now marri d to[...]r gory h r f mil con i t of two boy , Dwight and J l[...]ylv r nd gi h v njo d and r d[...] |
| [...]AL AND MYRTLE LU AKER[...]Dakota from Illinoi with hi family , and had attend d[...]and file on some home tead land.[...]seemed a long way; but he started out and wa pick d up by a man hauling lumber to that area.[...]Al worked on a farm n ar Hom tead for n,[...]breaking od, seeding and working on a thr hin went back to orth Dakota in 1913 and m rri tl[...]lunaker-h rfir timpr Fryling, Ray Peterson, Helen and Beverly Skillingberg, she thought it was a hell of a place. It ot, th n wa Virginia Dardis and Bud Peterson. full of saloon , and the wind blew all time. ir fir t[...]stands; a mall two room hou e. Wh n they moved the railroad put them in a bridal suite. Adelia could never house to the p[...]y , Do They lived in California for three years and returned to and Loucks. homestead three miles east of Homestead. Clint ' Al continued to work for A.J. 01 on until he wen to work homesteaded at Flax[...]ler. Adelia was the Froid. His father-in-law and Al took turn working da and cook for the Schnitzler corporation, cooking for[...]night shifts. After everal years he went to work a a 52 men until Mrs. Schnitzler came to help her. mechanic in hi own garage and lat.er for the hnitzler I can't remember the year, but a cyclone went through Corporation. the Schnitzler yard, taking everything but the shop and the They traded in Froid; Dr. Flie chman wa the doctor and cook car. Adelia poured water on the fire in the stove and Mrs. Dahl ran a maternity ho pital in her home. Ther went out and laid flat on the ground, in case the cook car[...]rch, orwegian Lutheran church , atholic, Clint and Adelia bought their farm on the reservation in Congregational and zarene. All · n 1927[...]mesteading, this belonged to some Ladi Aid and had · th 160 acres was p[...]r , ice c m · an a Clint's first job in Montana was to haul rock[...]he r o ch id and 1908. His folks came the spring of 1907, lint wa 17 ery well, but th le bar and Halvor was 12; Celia was 15. The paren left the with t - r it; and children to do the farming while they went back t[...]Boob Pauls n' par n For were relative and sort of watched over the children while orb[...]alon Mr . killing berg till ha a pan - · uit, in good condition, which he[...] |
| several broken or cracked windows and a town full of Edward started school in Dane Valley and Elna Scott startled people. They never told anyon[...]being courted by Sam Wallander, and Ed ward felt very Al and Myrtle had four children; all attended the Froid[...]es in North Dakota; Robert was killed in and her boyfriend, on Monday morning. Edward and service during World War II; Bertrand marled Stel[...]were the only attendants at Dane Valley Pederson and lives in Wolf Point; and Kathryn married School who were not Danes, and the two Norwegians had George Waters and Ii ves in Froid. Al Slunaker passed a way to do battle often, as they were "Intruders" on the scene. on April 21 , 1971 and Myrtle still lives in her house at Froid. When[...]there, and before too many more years had passed Nels and NELS AND THORA SORBEL Thora had a town house in Froid for use in the wintertime.[...]Edward attended Froid High School and graduated from Nels E. Sorbel was born July 15[...]rms their place. North Dakota where he was reared and educated. Thora passed away in 1957 and Nels in 1970. October 18, 1906 he married Thor[...]o what was to be his homestead, seven miles north and one Denmark. In his early teens he ventur[...]States where he settled in Aurora, Nebraska and worked Sorbels only child, Edward, was born in[...]lington & Quincy Railroad for 25 1907, as it took a while to get suitable living quarters on the years. homestead. There were many trips back and forth before He was united in marri[...]3. She came to the United States at the age of 16 and and buggy horses, and the rest of their belonging . wa a[...]des (the Knud old. Knudsen place) and Sam Berrys (the Paul Hoffman place). Maren and Mads had four children, Harry David, born Their nearest town was Culbertson and Nels walked there December 15, 1893, H[...]hat Alma Sylvia, born December 21, 1901, and Ellery Alvin, time. els tells that they would get[...]orn in fight fire they were known to have to kill a hor e and drag Aurora, Nebraska. Mads and the two oldest boys left its body to put out the prairie fire. Nebraska and came to Culbertson, Montana in an The entertainment they enjoyed wa home dance and immigrant car. They arrived in Culbertson during a then the card pi:irties in private home al o. blinding snowstorm on May 22, 1908. About a month later Reverend Hagen, the Lutheran pa to[...]rbel home. el would Mad Sorensen and family homesteaded 15 miles drive the team in to[...]7, Town hip 29, Range week's supply of groceries and stay ov might o the 57. Culbertso[...]orning for railroad came through and at that time Froid and McCabe services in the country. Reverend H[...] |
| [...]Grovom and live at Lenore, Idaho; Douglas, who own and lives on his dad' and grandfather' farm near Froid,[...]and Rosemary, (Mrs. Lyle Mansfield) of Joplin, Montan[...]Harry and Pansy have 26 grandchildren and 27 gr at-[...]Harold orensen married Lynda tellflue and th y had[...]Idaho where he worked in a mill . on Arlee and Radford[...]Valley, Washington, and Gloria live in ummer,[...]ashington. Harold later moved to Kent, Wa hington and[...]orked for the state. Later he married adin Parker and[...]ey had one son, Chris. Harold ha 15 grandchildren and[...]Alma married Martin Lee on March 26, 1 24 and th y lived on a farm we t of her parents. Their childr n are:[...]Richard and Clayton who both live in attl , Wa hington, and Virginia (Mrs. Joe Agilar) of an Diego, Californi[...]Alma and Martin old their farm and mov d to Ken ,[...]They have 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The M.C. Sorensen famil[...]Ellery Sorensen married Agnes Young and they had five[...]hildren. Ellery farmed east of Froid for ome time and[...]in Great Falls, Montana. A on, Alvin live in Phoenix, Mads became a citizen of the United States on April 17, Ar[...]. Geraldine, Montana, and Wilma (Mr . Jim kinner) live First, sod had to be broken and used for the sod house and in Great Falls. Leonard lives in Wa hington, D.C. They barn. The sod house was lived in until 1914 when a new have 13 grandchildren. home was buil[...]In 1935 Mads and Maren sold their farm to Harry and Early day neighbors were A.P. Dein and family, a moved to Kent, Washington. Mads pa ed away at the age brother-in-law of Mads, Einar Bergstrom, a bachelor, Mr. of 84 in 1946, and Maren pas ed away at the age of 2 in and Mrs. Curt Ogreen, Mr. and Mrs. .C. Abbott, Chris 1955. Knudsen and family, Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Hull, and Martin The Mads oren en children visit each other and the Lee.[...]n There were long hard winters where fuel was a problem, pas ed away ept.ember 1976. where neighbors got together to dig coal, and al o the long trips to the Missouri River for woo[...]D of transportation for many years were hor es and leigh in winter and wagon in the summer. Skis were great for a told by Ema trandlund getting around and seem as though everyone had a pair. They were also used to slide down the hill on nice day a a lmer trandlund , pastime. There were also parties and ha ket ocial and 4th and w· . of July neighborhood picnics. born in al Mads and Maren oren en had one experi nee which and th b · they alway[...]had wa by ai been to Culbertson hopping and on the way home it Bi 1 n te to storm. It got wor every mile of the wa and abou load of hou half mile from home they could not a thing. Th h didn't want to go any furth r. After wandering aroun came to a hay tack. e[...] |
| [...]Building a new house at Strandlund - 1915[...]Froid. His shop was west of the railroad tracks, and was later moved to a new location west across from the A.J. Elmer Strandlund family. Doyle, Shirley, Harlo[...]on residence (now the Martin Anderson home). Bill and Erna. Strandlund ran a successful business for about five years,[...]a brain tumor in 1912. to keep it going. In 1958 he[...]from Another brother, Leanus, arrived later and worked as a Harlowton, Montana. Since then the farm has been[...]randlunds operating the The plaster in many a home in Froid was done by these two farm. Harlow and Valerie have three sons, Gale, Dana and men before they moved to California. Mara.[...]Erick Strandlund had purchased a farm located nine on Doyle is an electronics engineer in Huntington, miles northeast of Froid, and the trip of 24 miles from Indiana. He is married to Ellen O'Brien and they have two Culbertson was made in a lumber wagon. The country ons and a daughter. looked bleak in comparison with Minnesota, and my Daughter Shirley is married to ed Wagner, who is a mother shed many a tear those first weeks in her little two- teacher[...], missing her many old friends. have one daughter and five sons. At the sa[...]Minnesota friends came I am now living in Froid and enjoying the company of to Montana to get 320 or more acres of cheap land, and thus many lifelong neighbors and friends. remained as nei[...]Nyquist and four boys, Jonas Nyquist and John Berglund. THE TRA DLU DS[...]d by E ther trandlund Wulf Lindskoog) and Hammonds.[...]Erick soon built on three rooms to the shack, and in 1912 In 1910-the 24th of May, Erick and Christine he built a big ham, which was soon demolished by a trandlund arrived ·n Culbert on, Montana by train, from tornado and had to be completely rebuilt. In 1915, he hired L[...]Henry Borre on to build an eight-room tucco hou e and it children with them. The e children were Paul,[...]rlow has made many Esther, Elmer, Adeline, Harold and ancy. Our eldest improvement and modernized it. brother, Bill, met our train-he had already bu.It a At fir t there wa no school hou e nea[...]room in Berglund's four room hou e and two different[...]there until the cCord hool wa moved to one and one-[...]e-half mile ea t and three-quarter of a mile[...]ric , Chri tin , Paul. E th r ( Wulf ). Front: an and l d Lin .[...] |
| In 1922, Erick and Christine, Paul, Adeline and Nancy moved to southern California. Elmer married Erna Haase of Homestead, bought the farm and lived there until he passed away in 1950. I too had married, to Jack Wulf, and was busy raising Wulfs at Froid. Elmer and I were the only Strandlunds remaining in Montana. As of now, 1975, five sisters and one brother remain of the Strandlund family, all[...]elf. My home is now Odebolt, Iowa. MR. AND MRS. ANDREW SUNDVOLD |
| [...]A Carl wanson - 1916[...]Mrs. Carl Swanson holding Evelyn, Edla, Olga, Art and |
| 1910 they had lived in Rugby, Harvey and Anamoose, Carthage, South Dakota in 1906. In April 190 he came to North Dakota and Bainville, Montana. They moved to the Froid area with a group of settler , among them wa Froid in the spr[...]ith three small children, Josephine Mogen and her dad, Ole Mogen. Herbert age four and a half, Kenneth age three and Gladys Knute filed on the northeast half of ection 23, Township one year old. Mr. Tasa built and ran the livery and feed 30, Range 55, and Josephine filed on northea t half ction barn in F[...]ry stable was On January 13, 1910 Knute and Jo ephine wer marri d rented as a garage to Mr. Art Johnson, then to Al Slunaker in Culbertson. Clara and Ed Mogen, ister and brother of and then Thure Westberg. Later it was sold to Claude the bride were bridesmaid and best man. There was ju ta Blowers and moved to his farm southeast of Froid where it[...]Knute had to drop the quarter of land h filed on, a a livery stable and was bulk agent for Continental Oil Co. coup[...]hequarteroflandthatJo ephinefiledon.Thisi wh r of a horse drawn fuel tank. He also transported people[...]from farming other towns in his horsedrawn cutter and carriages. On one and moved to Froid. occasion he was taking several ge[...]d to ulbert on. Th y liv d together Wallander, to a lodge meeting in nearby Culbertson. for 64 years and eight month when Mr . Knute Thomp on Because of deep snowbanks, the covered cutter tiped and passed away on Augu t 25, 1975. Knute i ti[...]l over-so atleast there home in Culbertson. was a hot time in the cutter although it was very cold[...]ildren, all married. T d outside. Mr. Tasa became a rural mail carrier and served in Thompson is living on the home place[...]. Tasa, Dakota. Howard in Seattle, Wa hington, and Evelyn i born July 19, 1905 and united in marriage to Norine deceased.[...]Besides farming, Knute loved to handle hor e and wa Arizona and have two sons, Dale and Terry, who are quite a horseman in his day. He also did carpentering married and also live in Cottonwood. Albert Kenneth Tasa[...]y years. After retiring was born January 27, 1907 and was married to Ida Mae from farming, he[...]1937. They made their home in Froid Froid and Culbertson area. and had two children, Vernon of Froid and Sharon, now Mrs. Merle Krogedal of rural Froid. Kenneth passed a way OLE AND HALVOR THORPE October 26, 1965. Gladys was born December 22, 1908 and was united in marriage to L.A. (Bud) Waller on December 8, by Ellen Thorpe and Glady Tibbi 1932. They had four children, Ronald, Corrine, Michael and Gayle. Corrine passed away in 1938 while they were Ole and Halvor Thorpe came to the Froid area from Twin living at New Deal at the Fort Peck Dam. Gladys and Bud Valley, Minne ota by train in the pring of 1 07, and took a later made their home in Seattle and all of their children home tead seven mile ea[...]y 12, 1968. The main town for bu ine and bopping at that time James Milton Tasa was born April 22, 1911 and wa the wa Culbertson, until 1910, hen th y[...]rn in Froid, Montana. He was united in and bu ine in Froid. marriage to Inez Mortenson on Ju[...], now Mrs. Chandler of Seattle, Carol of Seattle, and Thoma , al o of attle. Milton and Inez make their home in attle al o. Marian was born October 3, 1913 and marri d Harold J . Ritter on April 18, 1942. they make their horn in alifornia and have three children, Thomas and Ro mary, both living in California, and Jame , of Billing , Montana. Rosella wa born March 14, 1916. h i no ~. Douglas Howard and they were married p m r 4 1 •37. They have two children, Judy Elw of Portland on and D nni of Bellvill , Illinoi . Th y ma th ir hom i[...]rn Augu 14, I 25. h orenson on y 2· 1944 and th outh a t of Froid , hich a h homestead. They hav thr hildr n . R[...]H cam to anch r, uth 1, and th n to r. and r . Ole Thorp - 1941[...] |
| Halvor and Ole Thorpe 's first shack built in 1907 - lived here until Ole built other house. Barn and windmill up about 1915.[...]Bessie, Josephine, Selma, Ella. Front: Clara, Dad and[...]ighbor were Mclllwains, Steeples, Kellers, Banes, and Carl, John and Morris Bertelsons. Chesty Tomena Annanson came[...]related the story of 191 from Bemedji, Minnesota, and worked in Froid and trying to dry the wood they bad gathered and cut for use in surrounding area as a housekeeper and cook. On December starting the fires i[...]kitchen range, Lutheran Par onage. They lived in a one room house the the oven door closed and the wood forgotten. A roaring fire first year of their marriage, which later became the kitchen was built in the stove and soon the house was filled with of the new part of[...]Four children were born, Ellen, Gladys, Obert and Inga. the oven, creeping along the floor as the smoke was so They attended a country grade chool, called Valley heavy and thick. Yes, by that time the wood was dry! choo[...]s below the hill one mile east of our farm place, and al o attended Bible school in a country church I[...]Thorpe family attended the Froid Lutheran Church and sometimes the Grandview Church. Ira Triplett and Amy Davis were married in Unionville, The Vall[...]ctions. Missouri in 1900. Amy operated a restaurant and Ira Ole and Halvor Thorpe operated the farm from 1907 to[...]ey decided to come to 1943 when they old the farm and the family moved to Montana in 191[...]30, 1947, andOleThorpe They took up a home tead we t of Froid by Hank died February 7,[...]Winche . Dad built a shack on it and we lived there until[...]middle of 191 and then went to the Froid School.[...]John on and I th"nk Ted Thomp on went there awhile.[...]to work in the coal mine he rented that out to a neighbor[...]Ira wor ed fir t for Bill at · at hi coal mine, and later[...]in and til 1925. th ug · im H[...]liv · · o · d long nough and Ole w on it. Jim H a r i m rri d to try[...]r Ev Jo ar Edwin, J o a. w[...] |
| I went to work in Kamps lumber yard in 1942 and have been there continuously since then. I bought[...]post office for over 20 years. ROCKSEY AND RILEY TUNISON Rocksey May Babcock and Riley C. Tunison were |
| Wagn r . Georg , Maria B., Paulina, Amelia and Henry cheafer. umm r of 1 · 0, and to Colorado in 1902 whee Paulina |
| [...]lik a r[...]tractor and car h[...]The Wa - Margaret Waldron and Hjordice Lee earl pio[...]B not too steady. I'm just a bit nervou , I gue . With the violin back in Menuhin hand , h two b gan inspecting the trad and the ontana man pointed to structural poin in the[...]a valued at 50 000. Both of the daughter of Mr. and r . aldron hav pa ed away. Two ii and Ho ard li in California. TH[...] |
| [...]turned in time to help save the house by plowing a few furrows around the yard. There were three of us in 1/he family, I, Mary Agnes, Alfred and Ethel. Our home was a place for many cousins, nephews and nieces of my mother, to stay for varying lengths[...]king for livestock, early settlers, horse buyers, and others who stopped by for a meal or stayed a while. Our nearest neighbors were the Pat McLaughlins, George Akers, the Mannings, Murrays and Caspers. On the way to Froid were the Jack Cobbans, the Mogans, Knute Thompsons and others. Often we saw the different members of the Winch family and the Wilfred Johnsons. Since my mother, Adeline[...]er, was born in the Territory before Montana was a state, the older folks seemed to have been in Montana always. My mother's parents were David and Susan Burshia, French and Sioux Indian. My mother was born somewhere near what is now the Brockton community in the year 1887 and Sam Wallander Elna Wall[...]attend school. Grandfather Burshia once lived in and around Sioux City and in his many adventures came through the Dakota Territory to Fort Keogh where he was a Scout for General Miles. SELMERR~AM)WALLANDER Somewhere in eastern Montana and the Dakotas he met, courted and married my grandmother. For a few years he Sam moved with his parents to North Dakota in 1896. He raised sheep near Brockton and then moved to the upper attended rural s[...]Creek. There he raised cattle, horses, generally a big high school in White Earth; and commercial college in garden and farmed on a small scale. Grandfather had a Grand Forks. large family so the Walker children had many cousins to He worked as a printer for awhile, then started for play with wh[...]sion of the 1930's perhaps the most there. At a stopover in Williston his money and his suitcase frightening time we went through was[...]of were stolen in the hotel. He tried for a job at the print shop 1918 when we were very youn[...]waslookingforhelp seriously sick at the same time and there was no way to get on the Froid Tribune, in Froid, Montana. He hitched a ride help from friends and neighbors because they were all sick or two and was hired on the Tribune when he arrived in too. We were living in a horse camp on the lower Smoke Froid in 1914. Creek with cattle and horses to care for and no help In 1915 Sam was employed by[...]wo years spent in Helena as staff for five months and my father developed a very bad heart examiner for the Montana Ba[...]tment, he was beca u e he had to stay on his feet and do the best he could with the Froid Bank the r[...]islature as Senator from Roosevelt County. He was a brother and I could go to chool during the winter months.[...]poration, he acquired ownership of the Froid Bank and home becau e there were no nearby country chools in our became its president. A new bank building was erected in neighborhood. We continued to regard Home tead and 196 -69. Sam was in on the planning, but died before it was Froid a home town becau e they were each about the opened. Two on , Donald and Jerome and one grandson ame distance from our home along the foothill of the are employed there; a well as O car Svend en, long an Muddy Flat.[...]as ociate; June Soren en, Betty Anseth, and Marjorie Alfred W Iker married Ida teen of Cro by orth Young. Dakota and they had two children. Hi on teache in a On July 19 1917 am Wallander and Elna . Scott, junior college in San Diego, California and hi daughter daughter of Mr. and Mr . Carl C. Scott of Froid, were live near La V[...]d in Glasgow, Montana. They rai ed four children. and they had four children. he pa ed away ·n 936. Two Donald Lilian and on Greg live in Froid. Jerome (al o a of their children live in Phoeni , Arizona one in Helena, lawyer) Marjorie and two children Karen and Daniel al o and one ·n Libby. Fred and I were married in Pi rre, outh live in Froid. Greg Wallander, wife hirley and Jeff and Dakota. Fredi originally from Wolf Point. We have[...]d LaRoque, Jr., Mr . Jerry Bennett Mark and amara Ii ve ·n Mi oula. (Ann), Dr. Robert LaRoque and Kathy LaRoque enior at Mr . am Wall[...]y from my organization , their chur h and hool with plea ure. point of view. It i perhap ty[...]i to chang am wa ab o ter of Montana, and e p cially the Froid with the time go other place to find work and rai e their ar a. It wa the one place he wanted to live. Given the[...]viol nc ; g nerous, friendly caring peopl To tay a part of ea tern Montana country, I till own a o smog b autiful un . I[...] |
| [...]Mrs. usie Waller and Mr. Oliver Wall r Anna Enger, Sam Wallander,[...]lackie" About the time prohibition was with us and the W.C.T.U. R. D R .O.P. L[...]p of |
| [...]s had six children: Marion, La Vern, Fred, Claire and twins James and Joel. La Vem died in Seattle in 1968 and Joel lost his life in World War I in 1945 while erving with the United States Navy. Marion and Claire live in Hemet, California, James in Washington, and Fred and Esther (Folvag) and family live in Froid. O.P. Waller and Susie are now deceased. GEORG[...]the age of 32. He brought his wife Verna (Holly) and son |
| [...]Wyoming. Arne Weberg was first employed by Lohn and Olson in their hardware store. His task was to assemble binders for reaping grain, and also he clerked in the store. When the hardware s[...]rked for Victor Nyquist on his farm east of Froid and was working for Chris Jacobsen on his farm when h[...]until her death in 1972 at the age of 84. She was a sister of Mrs. Ole (Inga) Nelson, Homestead, Montana, and that is probably the reason for Original[...]na. and chicken house was added in 1926 by Hobart Wheeler[...]Swank and Mary Stutzman were sisters. A hort story of[...]claimed by Robert L. Cookson and hi wife Catherine,[...]children Mary, Frances, Harvine, and Wayne. Roger and by Hobart Wheeler[...]g My father, Elbert Ellsworth Wheeler, formerly a jeweler our early and late teens. We sowed a few wild oat together; and watchmaker in Cando, North Dakota, developed an he became a little more successful at it than I, or less eye[...]at covering it up as the case may be, but we will and find another means of making a living for his family. not go into that. A[...]inal Cooksons have passed Having been reared on a farm in Iowa, he decided to away. come to Montana and take up a homestead. He was Harris Cla[...]s homestead close to the encouraged to do this by a grocery delivery boy by the north line of Section 3, midway between D.S. tutzman and name of Harris W. Clark, who was in turn influenc[...]ald, James, coming to Montana. Harris himself was a land-hungry Donald, Howard and Ralph. James died in infancy, and young man whose long-range plans included a homestead both mother and father died in later years. All of the rest of and marriage to Frances.[...]les of the original From late 1907 through 1908 and 1909 our families Clark homestead. Don lives on the old home place; Gerald settled and built homes in Section 3, Township 30, Range[...]e Cookson place; Robert on the Chalmer Barley 57, and all four of these farmsteads are still occupied and place; Ralph to the east of Gerald on the it[...]uarter was Granbois original buildings; and Howard a little further settled by D.S. Stutzman and his wife Mary, and their two east, who built hi place on the site where the original foster children, Mary Swank and Chalmer Barley. The owner Wallace onofrank had a hack at one time. southwest quarter by W.E. Swank and their nine children: Lastly, my father , E.E. Wheeler, bought up a couple of Margaret, Glenn, Harry, Iva, Mary (who[...]r from Howard the Stutzmans) George, Martha, Ruth and Paul. The Bonde and another one from a man nam d Oxlock on or parents, William and usanna, and two children Iva and O'chl ; fi on hem and built hi farm tead right up Ruth are deceased, bu[...]e ffa · ilt around age of five andand[...], r and[...]and moth[...]unity a built ar[...]ligion and nation toward oth r ; a indicated[...] |
| [...]refreshments, was a Weekly Journal. Everybody, sooner or[...]incumbent (some were pretty bad) and electing a new one.[...]even to ads by unattached men and maids looking for[...]prim and staid for my father, he moved to call it the "San[...]Hill Grit". This was enthusiastically seconded and passed by a large majority. We had a lot of fun at these meetings.[...]venture which lasted for some time and did its part in the[...]ommunity development. Above all it cost no money, a[...]people did not believe in such frivolity and everyone else respected this and none were even proposed. Hobart and Iva Wheeler - newly married in 1921.[...]o the Church of the here. All of the men and some of the women who were Brethren and got the nickname "Dunkards" from their[...]th the church at that time,but boiling up and moving much closer. Everybodywenthome we had known the Cooksons, Clarks and Swanks in as fast as the teams could make it. The wind finally died Cando, North Dakota and were fortunate to be included down in the evening anditgotdarkerandcooler,makingit and welcomed into that fine community.[...]ablished, first intheir homes, later in Barley and the Cooksons had enough good horses to Chalmer Barley's new barn, and finally in the present handle two bottom gang plows and since the wind was church known as Grandview, is[...]een for my parents having known so many of a dozen or 15 of us, including the Ike boys, Wheelers and the people who came here, particularly the Clarks[...]o the Judith Basin in Montana, an sacks and did very well indeed. Knute informed us that the[...]e or the tale might have been with a beef. Well, what was that? He told us then about the different. I married Iva wank (died 1956) and we had old custom to kill a beef, split it in half, and drag the halves three children. Danny lives in California, El ie Bartley, down the fire line with a couple of saddle horses. They met who lives in White Bear Lake, Minne ota; and Jame who us about three quarters of a mile east of the Brethren Ii ves on the old wank[...]the old church. They were dragging a steer which weighed about tutzman place).[...]even to eight hundred pounds. They had a change of Farm life i much different than it[...]actor ther wer , were mo tly u ed for breaking od and for thr hing. On a clear, quiet day you could ee moke ri ing a few mile outh. That would b E chenbacher . A little further to the southw t would be Loui Tipp, and to the north would be mith and Cook, all breaking od with team tractor . B ginn·ng around 1910 a few ga olin and ero ne burning outfit beg n to how up; 01 on nd yqui t with a Hart-Parr Ed Luebk had Big Four· and John Bain a Rumley oil pull. My father purcha d an 'oil-pull in the fall of l 13, the fir t one in he community; a ingle cylinder kero ene burning job hat would han[...]too d ep. Thi tractor w in con t nt u e, farming and thr hing, for ov r 20 year , until finally broken[...]y nd th B thr n chur h put on Thank giving Ea ter and hri tma progr m . All w r well attend d a were church ervice . In addition , our c mmunity and i iam a n a o "ldren back urrounding ettler formed a and Hill Literary oci ty. row, left to ri[...]The program, b ide the u ual r citation , partie and Martha , lua , Georg and . Front aul and Ruth.[...] |
| [...]thwest of Froid. They had two children, Katherine and Morris. Mr. Royan died in November 1926 as a result of a[...]pinning him and Al Purvis under the car. It is believed that[...]Mr. Royan used his gun to pry the car off and in doing so,[...]hospital by Carl McCabe. Surgery was performed by a[...]Henry had a threshing machine and with his crew[...]the area. He trailed his first Mrs. E.E. Wheeler and her father Mr. Rossau taken in the herd of Black Angus into the area in 1906. He and his dog early twenties.[...]on shares. He was always proud of his black cattle and[...]e common in the days when there was mo tJy horses and some cowboys with sacks to put out the sparks.[...]y often spoke of the one that came It worked like a charm and was my first lesson in how the from the west, jumped the coulee, and was to Froid in about ranchers had learned to han[...]ngs were always fun times. All the We lived in a shack that first summer while the house neighbors gathered to help with the branding-and was being built. They had it in condition to live in though branding got to be one kind of a round•robbin circuit of still not complete by w[...]th my grandparents so I for excitement and entertainment. would not miss school. Had already missed the first year Emma Royan and Morris returned to Springfield in 1909-1910. The[...]om then on I have lived here continuously, winter and one year. In 1926 he attended the Baker school which was summer. Living here has been a wonderful lifetime south of the present ranch site. Emma is 89 and still living experience and wouldn't have missed it for anything. My[...]a was the place to be, with his wife Alice and four children, Mary Frances, and I have never changed my mind. I see a bright future for James, ancy and Robert. anyone who sees it that way.[...]and lived there until his death in June 1964. Henry had a vast knowledge of hi tory and geography. Reading wa a[...]in the young people and alway had time to vi i with them and offer a helping hand. He wa a member of the atholic by Mr . M[...]Church of Froid. He was never a man to boa t of[...]plained Henry Winch was born on ovember 29, 1 2 and was of hard luck. H alway aid," othing com ea , ou educated in Springfield, Illinoi . As a boy, he ailed around have to work for it.' the world a a cabin boy on a sailing ship. He al o mined gold in Alaska. Henry arrived in the Culbertson ar a "before the tum of the century" in 1 9 . He cam t[...]ile living in Culbertson he ran the livery stable and drove th tage ·n J.T. coach between ulb rtson and Plentywood carrying both or th mail and pa eng rs. Man traveling al m n ,comi ngto[...]mak hou call in the country. Broth r John, Ton , and r nk op rated the tageline with Hank. About 1 09 hi i ter Kate Emma, and Jo. phin cam from pringfield, Illinoi to hom ad. Jo phin inch marri d John Forsyth and liv din Froid until 1 35 hen she r turn d to Illinoi . Kate and the thre b oth r had[...]rt Portr . oth r in th Fla ville ar a and married Jam Royan , known to[...] |
| J .W. was active and interested in all community affairs. He held the[...]rties. J.W. belonged to the Congregational Church and to the l.0.0.F. until there was only four members left to meet. He was also active in the A.O.U.W. Lodge until he passed away. In 1963 Mr . Wulf married R.O. Lindskoog and moved to Odebolt, Iowa. They lived happily there until 1973 when Mr. Lindskoog passed a way. I plan to move back to Northeast Montana as[...]"40 year old home" in Froid burned down in 1970, and only memories remain, but Montana is still my hom[...]Helen Harvey At the confluence of the Missouri and Muddy Rivers, about five miles west of Culbertson, a dugout provided a base camp for the fishermen of Froid. Established about 1930, the fish camp was a product of the efforts of August Eschenbacher, who owned the land, Bill Adams, Ed Luebke, Jack Hurley, Coats and a few others. The dirt roof of the crude dugout was supported by a ridge pole cut by Edgar Waters and Les Luebke. brush and straw. A door led into the one-room underground area and a round chimney completed the original structure. A series of changes in the Missouri River caused the original dug- lrwing Hoye, Floyd Elvsaas and Melvin Krohmer with out to cave in so the second[...]pipe. the Muddy River. This one has been improved a number of times and still remains intact. Large catches of ling and catfish have delighted the fishermen and in times past the OTHER HOMESTEADERS IN THE FROID AREA camp enjoyed the services of a live-in caretaker.[...]ordman Hardie Knick and Ed Luebke fishing.[...] |
| [...]Walt Norten, Bill Potswald, Jim Long and Bob Hendrick. Mcillwain in farm yard. Enterprise Post Office and S tore t a .Back[...], om, Mr . Ta a, Gr[...]b L ina Hipp Mr . Joh and two bo |
| [...]t row: Carrie Kao, Frances Clark, Katherine Barr, and Iva Wheeler. Back row: Vivian Hoye, Mrs. Barbo, Phyllis Wheeler, and Mrs. Art Ryder. Left, back and forth: Esther, Art, Severine, baby Joan,[...]Luebke, Mathilda, Benny, George. In front, Joyce and[...]Richard, John and Isabel Kamps - 1913 Front row: Mrs. George Ri[...]om. Back row: Mrs. Bill Adams, Mrs. Otto Hanson and accordian[...] |
| [...]orpe children left to right: Ellen, Glady , Ob rt and Lester Bahn and Harvey Mitchell Inga. Hunting - 1922. A.R. Butler, Chris Jacob en Knud- la t John and ina R rman en' |
| [...]Chas. Eh ry house, June 6, 1946 Catherine and John chnitzler in Froid corn field.[...]Wallander, Jewel Portra, Ka qui t and Kenneth |
| [...]1914. Threshing at Harry and John Lee's - 1916.[...] |
| [...]ti Harvesting a bumper crop on Chris Jacobsen farm Jensine and Andrew Harbo - 1907[...]on, Ole and Haluar Thorp haying in 1920' .[...] |
| [...]Fred Gangstad and Hans Runnivik - 1910. Threshing 1920 seated: ma[...]Ibsen, H.K. |
| [...]1c 112. \ A.J. Olson, Froid, Montana - 1921 E.E. Wheeler and the old "oil-pull" on one of its frequent[...] |
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| [...]BROCKTON a repair shop. Dale Curran and hi mother, Lucy published a weekly new paper and Butch Ra mu en In the year 1886 the Great Nor[...]tarted Brockton' first barber hop. The King Grain and its rail way a s far west as the site dubbed Brockton, where Farmer Elevators were e tabli h d and a f rry boat ea ed they built a coal chute, water treating plant, water tank, river cro ing. roun d house and "Y", and section houses. When th[...], thetownmu hroome u i h ad only a few Indian families living on it when the[...]t railroad came through, among them were the Lean and wheat hipping poin ou Red[...]ng in the area hauled rock out of the hill ti and sold them to the Great orthern for a dollar a wagon load. The rock were used to make a rail b d aero the ab Alkaline flats a[...]i v d in Broe on to tabli h bu in table; 01 Li n and his brother H l mercan[...]rockton· Arc ) hall and a man by th nam of h lumb rand tarted a bank. Th Ro r ompany built a lumb r ard and[...] |
| [...],-A... '--•• ~~c•[...],.,,,~.,,_D,.Dal 1.1!1tJ, :.G'<1'A4LAltlJ(rF!q[...]" '>:f 1, J6.1Jvl'd,'O. ...v 4 'J. 16 .,,,.._·:? And rrtd.10,[...],,n tJ Jwttn ,-rc,-,,J "'iJl'"INnd a# !ft ... .,., •M,po/ll,r,[...],rrct,,,,, ,,_ ,:utn,,:t.,,,., l'rr,,,, c,,r :,~- A'.,_ ,yr~. TtlP09,.,,,,,,. Mir 1,_.,,[...]"'11:)¥, 01§'. l ,tted .,,:,, brr;r,,e or,p J :,a:J,,tJ tf' di · "7oJJ,a,,r 111 ,,_ &r.r-ttl La.• Clr>-:a ,;.,;,,,,d |
| [...]All<•n Jacoh .·on' .J. /fo 1C'h Rassmusen's 5. and 6. Silas and Abbie Clea on' 7. Lifford Fos e ' . Han Paul. on'[...]nag d b. tt Lund of Daze , orth Dakota. Aft r a h rt tim th na f th an[...]o omp L d on a th fir tman roft ato n[...]El vator . tahli. h d , with Jack Dunbar a mana . 16 J Ji an b c an f l . H in a ]in hin r ent valor' · a · tt a and in 1920 the Farmer E t at b · , and in i~nl an in group of[...], tat El ator op rat dab a · purchaH d by th Far |
| [...]Shy Lock was a 2400 pound stallion belonging to Charles[...]In the year 190 Ole 0. Lien was working as a carpenter up and down the Great orthem Railroad line. He pent[...]ome time in Culbert on working on the Evans Hotel and[...]ju t beginning to get underway, and Ole was quick to ee[...]county and took every chance to look it over.[...]ome of the land b tween there and Culbertson, o he[...]ttl ment and r cogniz d the po ibilitie ofa tore in that[...]location. He intere ted his brother Han , a machini tin Minneapoli , in the idea and work commenc don the Lien[...]Fanner Elev tor also bought th The Lien tor a 24 x 60 foot building wa fir t located Occident E[...]ju t north of the r ilroad tracks. A year or so later, when The Fanner Elevator i till functioning, in a big w y, the town wa survey d, Ole and Han mov d it up to the in Brockton today.[...] |
| Lien Brothers Store - 1908-1963 and Ludvig Ruhd moved it themselves by hand and by |
| [...]. Left to riRht: Universal, Aultman-Taylor, Avery and Couple, Aultman• Taylor. Jack watch, my thin[...]o move at the time of the robbery as he was alone |
| S.A. Moen remembers T.M. "Army" Armstrong: In the spring of 1921 I worked for Army for a few months. About noon everyday he turned on his[...]ryone had some comment to make. It was I believe, a Canadian radio station. One morning he called me to his desk and told me to put up a five dollar order of groceries for one of the two men he was talking to and charge it to the other fellow, who was going to cure a sore on one of his children's head. I was told Army had a very fancy buggy and a swell black driving horse, with a white harness. Army served on the Brockton school board. He was a X marks new addition to torm tore - 1920. swell person to work for. I heard how he helped a lot of people. In the early 1930's Army was taken ill and retired to his farm south of the river. The store was sold to Leonard Storm, who ran it for about a year before selling it to the In 1919 he was joined by his brother Bill and they built a Jaumotte Brothers. In 1942 the Jaumottes sold the store to new general mercantile store a hort di tance from the Reuben Johnson.[...]Texaco. Millard and Florence Rakstad came to Brockton on June[...]the building up be ide the Brockton 22, 1953, in a 1946 Oldsmobile, pulling a homemade trailor Hotel and added a new ection to the tore. Later they with four kids and a dog. They left one daughter, Frances, added a second story onto the tore which erved a the behind to finish school.[...]worked in the Brockton school for eight years as a janitor and Florence was a clerk in Liens Store six years before they bought[...]61. They changed the name of the store to the F and M and managed it for 12-1/ 2 years until due to illness they sold the inventory to their daughter Frances and her husband Ronald Hippe, who are managing it at[...]Lee's, lived north of Brockton when Florence was a little girl of three years old. She remembers pic[...]7. Storm Broth r Bill and Leonard in[...] |
| The Storm Brothers continued to sell meat in a sanitary BROCKTON HOTEL and orderly fashion in their store but now also handled canned and dry goods. Later they put in a line of I.H.C. In 1910 Andrew Loen, a brother-in-law of Ole Lien came machinery.[...]n hotel. The After Leonard bought the Armstrong and Brooks store hotel was completed in 1911, it had six rooms to let he moved his grocery and clothing goods down to that store upstairs, a cafe and the families living quarters were on the and the Storm Brothers' tore was used exclusively for the ground floor. In later years a bar was added to the hotels sales and repairs of machinery. services and for a while it housed the only telephone in[...]Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Loen, founders of the Brockton Hotel[...]mastered the English language (and not many spoke[...]in a few years they sold the Hotel and returned to their[...]many times. Among it' owners and proprietors were Mr. and Mrs. Muri, A.M. Lodmell, Herman Endicott, Charles and Julia chuJtz, Tom and Alva Prichard, Luke Jeldon and George hanks, and the last owner was Harry "Slim"[...]The Brockton Cafe wa built in 1 13 by Joe and Frank Motsko. Their i ter Emma and Kate were the fir t manager . They ran it for a few year before Mr . Jo ephine Lyon a i ter to the Lunqui t brother , took it Leonar[...]anaged the over. torm Brother ' tor for a coupl of year in 1927 to 1929 r . Lyon ran the ca£ until 1925 wh n harle and when Leonard re um d managem nt for few y r . H[...]Hotel to operate it. later lea ed it to Ander on and hristen en and then old Grace (Turner Dehner worked for Mr . Lyon and later it to C.R. Lodmell about 1934.[...]manag rand proprietor of the con i ting of m a potatoe ,gr vy, vegtabl andd rt, store,[...]e in Brockton, it hut (pie for th noon m al and cake with a pi c of fruit in the down during the depre[...] |
| [...]John Puck, Allen Jacobsen, "Army" Armstrong, and Irene[...]Westland Station and another adjoining building.[...]After the Brockton Bank was closed and moved to Poplar Thomas Bruguier and his wife "Frankie" opened a weet[...]Shop and was followed by Mrs. Thres Elgie chultz who[...]sell to the stockholder of the Fir t Grace Turner and Julia Schultz in the doorway of the ational[...]Banko and a th b .B. Elma Erick on in f[...] |
| [...]Jacobu was the cashier. Bailey Fisher, Ole Lien, and Hollie Fite were on the Board of Directors. bo[...]bsen about 1911 or 1912. The barn had hay, water and oats. When the farmer came into town , they would put their team of hor e into the barn for a few hour , from ten A.M. to two[...]- 1913 P.M., for 35<r. The horse were given hay and water only, unle._. th farmer paid extra for oats. llen ,Jacob en had a few team of hor e that he hired out by the day or[...]ers from Bainville bought the establish- ston•s and other bu ine e .[...]ment. ,focobsen ran the Li very "table for a few years until he Clark and Emory Lundquist came to Brockton from time sold it to Herm an Endicott. Endicott wa a farmer from[...]Sparks, Stanley Prichard who wa running th Hotel and Cafe. Hettman and George hank . fter P richard. Roy.._ park[...]on was opened to Lin•ry Harn until the tractor and tru k ran it out of[...]sirws:. rt was sold to Herma n . . torm who built a garage Hall wa converted into a Beer Parlor and became known on tht• loc. tion .[...]a the Log abin Bar. 'lr. ,Jarnhsen marri d Lo[...]round 1936 Emor Lundqui t brought the long bar and , 'tort:• as H clerk nnd wa ' po:tma, t r fo r[...]fornin . Herliedaf wyear ·ago,hut hei tillliving,a In 1 63 John ordwick of Poplar bought the bar from far a:- I know.[...]t I !l I~ ThP Pool Hall or Hillard Parlor, wa a ocial Th fir t barb r hop in Brockton cha ng d location a pl,H ·1• wlwn• m(•n could get tog th rand[...]torie ' of n a~ it chang d hand . "B utch " Ra mu 11\t•r a gnme of hillards or ca rd '.[...]Broth r tore, facing a t toward wha i nO\ th .vht·n· thP I..Hlif': and c hildren could com and get th ir ic tr et. n•·arn. ~odn:-;, Pt<' . and it at old-fa:hion d round table Hutch had com to to n a a ction labor r but d 1.v1th tht· "icP cream chairs" whirh are now quite a to[...]<·,dlt·c· or·.· item. Lat r on. the tahlf', and chair were 2;-¢, and Trac D hn r r memb r tha h al o cut the n·mu\·t>d and 1t was " moderniled " with booth .[...]Lat r Bu ch mo d hi barb r hop, building and all, lwfcm· •wiling it to ,Joe anrl Fr[...]down h , ide the railroad " Y'' , a ro th tr et from Ike |
| [...]obtain d a printing outfit and t up th ir fir t n w pap r[...]acros th tr t from th tor , and th Br kt n Bull tin[...]ussen, first barber in Brockton with his son Gary and grandson. Murray' Garage. The highway went pas[...]- 191 . Editor of th "Brockton Bull tin ". |
| [...]dmell House - Brockton Post Office for many years and housed the first telephone in town in the early 1[...]and the Post Office was moved again, into Paulsons St[...]A.M. Lodmell was appointed Postmaster when Calvin[...]A.M. Lodmell set up his post office in his home unt[...]built his own store and postal building.[...]a Post Office building on the comer north of Liens Store. A .M. Lodmell, po tma ter with Bobby and Leonett When Han Paul on bought[...]me Brockton' postma ter. |
| [...]Post Office until 1961 when Milo Stangeland built a new Post Office in Brockton. Alvin resigned his[...]n-law, James Elgie, was then appointed Postmaster and held the office until he moved to Wolf Point in 1[...]son filled the postal vacancy left by James Elgie and was followed in office by Loetta Boyd, appointed[...]e only full-blooded Indian postmaster in Montana, and possibly in the United States at the time of her appointment. To-Ka-Na-Ta-Win (Loetta Denny Boyd) a full blood Sioux, was born January 11, "many moon[...]alf Red, as was the usual custom of the day, gave a feast in her honor and gave her the Indian name To-Ka-Na-Ta-Win, meaning[...]women in this area to join the Woman's Army Corps and she was the first Indian to hold the position as[...]m, Oregon where she graduated in 1939. Loetta was a princess during their annual celebration at Chemawa. To be selected as a candidate for queen a girl was required to maintain a scholastic average satisfactory to the judges. Loetta married Lewis A. Boyd. They have seven sons and an adopted daughter. THE WESTLAND[...]Milo tangeland Family. Left to Right: Milo Llo d, |
| [...]salary was $60.00 a month. Because he owned a small farm[...]on the farm. $60.00 a month sounds like a small amount of[...]were five children at home and one in college). He also kept[...]his farm free from tax indebtedness at a time when many[...]and Dad and Ike spent many happy hours.[...]to do chores for a neighbor. While he was gone a man came[...]selling him the cord I looked out the window and saw Ike[...]He came puffing into the office and sat down in Dad's office[...]comes in here again and your dad isn't here, don't attempt[...]to wait on him just pick up a crow bar and clobber him one."[...]look around to see if the crow bar was handy. Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Hubble - Monarch Lumber Co. - 1924 The[...]about two years about 1931 and 1932. She said they ate beef[...]steak, fried potatoes, sour dough pancakes, bacon and by Beulah Waller (daughter)[...]and I all lived there too. I ran the hay rake. We cam[...]Monarch Lumber Company in Homestead with a team and wagon and brought our dog Brockton from 1933 to 1941. He st[...]ong. The dog didn't like it there so he went home a tober and was initiated into the Community by having distance of about 70 miles and stayed with the neighbors hi out house ups[...] |
| OTIS AND MAGGIE ALBERT 1918[...]Raymond, Robert and the twins, Orton John and Orval by Ralph Albert[...]orge, were born, completing the family of ix boys and one girl. Otis and Maggie Albert and sons, Ralph and Harold left Landes, Illinois by train in 1910. They lived in Buford, North Dakota for two years and then went to Wolf Point. They farmed south of Wolf Point for a few years and their daughter, Carol, was born there in 1919. They moved to Froid in 1926 where my mother had a Millinery store and we farmed the Sullivan farm north of Brockton. My father passed away in 1927. Harold and his family moved to Brockton and took over the Sullivan farm. I married Wilma Prichard in 1930. We stayed a few years on the Sullivan place and then got our own piece ofland. We built a little house, barn and root cellar and started to build up a herd of cattle, plus farm. Then the crops began to fail, no rain, and lots of grasshoppers. We had to borrow money from[...]seed for four years. This kept up until the crops and grass were no more. We sold our cattle for $25.00 a head and they bought our calves for $5.00 a head and then shot them because they would eat more than t[...]sell. We had to ship it to Williston on the train and it was so cheap for a period of time we had to pay to get our cans back. So we quit that and fed all of our milk to the pigs. We finally gave up and moved out. We moved to Troy, The Barth twins Orval and Orton and their neighbor Montana in 1936. We had two boys, Tom and Fred. friend, Dana Lund. Brockton[...]George Barth operated a black mith shop until hi death[...]Brockton in 1934. One by one, the family moved and left[...]Montana, mostly to ettle in California. George and Mary Barth went to Galata, Montana from John and George (they later chang d to u in their Deering,[...]eal e ta in the Yuba ity children, Josephine and James. He had a blacksmith shop California, area. Jame and Raymond ettled and di d in there, and first met Frank Mattelin, a life-long friend, till Washington tate. Robert[...]and gl v ral year later they mov d to Poplar, wh r on for a o .. harl Barth join d th famil in 1 16. Th n in 1917 or a pa for th land .[...] |
| [...]at Box Elder and he and Alda made their home there. Their first[...]child, Doris, died in infancy. I was born in a five-room log[...]Maurice met Alda Lady, an Assiniboine and Sioux Indian girl. They were both going to school in Poplar and they worked[...]she returned to Poplar, she and Maurice were married,[...]ake Big Horn and baby, Doris Anne.[...]to go to chool in Brockton. When I was a senior in high school, my dad underwent a seriou operation in[...]until April. A a re ult I graduated from high chool a year b hind[...]. aurice and Alda Bighorn had five children: Jake, Alpheu , Leonard, Erne t, and yb"l. All of their childr n attend d chool at Brockton and graduated from the[...]r maining family i till living in and around the Brockton[...]eman. He had a on on th Brockton ba ketball team and a Alda Big Hom and Jake - 1910 tournament w going on[...] |
| [...]ning to develop their allotted land into ranching and the game on the radio. When Brockton made it to S[...]anching, he towns people jumped in their old cars and headed for Cut rode the rodeo circuit u[...]horseback with the Currans. Bill Curran was quite a cowboy. They had a barn just out of town. GEOR[...]was five years old. He had two sons, An en Boy[...]nningin 1 |
| [...]saddle horses. It was a hard torturous job.[...]My father made five trips to Texas and back with cattle. James Boyd may well be design[...]Several of the men would go back on a steam boat as there pioneers of the state of Mont[...]early days were typical of frontier life. He was a native of take their saddles, bed and clothing pack with them to New York, born on Octo[...], get new outfits Boyd, who followed his trade of a "wheelright" for many such as horses, chuck and bed wagons, hire a crew of men years in Wisconsin and Colorado. to help[...]Jimmy, as he was commonly called, was reared on a Texas, buy up another bunch of cattle, and back over the farm of Joseph Spaulding near Sasso[...]na. having been brought to that state when he was a small The winter of 1886 was the terrible winter for the cattle child. He gave a desultory attendance to the district m[...]application worst winter ever in Montana. and a practical association with the affairs of life, a[...]er's sister wrote to him quite often in the early a good education. 1880's. After his third trip to Texas, he got a letter by In 1864 Jimmy voluntarily enlisted at[...]steamboat from Madie Able, his sister, and she told him of Wisconsin to serve in the Civil War. After serving in the a girl he used to know by the name of Lillian Isbell, and war, he crossed the plains to Montana in 1865. He[...]n killed in an accident. She way to Virginia City and remained in that vicinity for and her son Ross were living with my Aunt Madie. abou[...]ton as an My dad answered the letter, and she wrote again of this employee of the Northwest Fur Company, and from there Lillian Isbell, and he answered how well he had known assisted in building the trading post at Fort Browning and her. The next letter from Madie had quite a letter from others along the Milk River. Upon ret[...]it, sent my expedition, he was employed by Durfee and Peck, traders aunt enough money to pay L[...]. Buford and asked her if she would come. In the fall of 187[...]deputy United States She wrote right back and said she would be there on a Marshall under J.W. Buck, and held that appointme·n t for certain day, so he came into Sidney, and Thompson Hanes, eighteen months. He joined Genera[...]o was carrying mail from Fort Buford to Glendive, a in 1877, acting as scout during the summer and in the fall new town on a new railroad, and Thompson's boy, went to went to Wolf Point where[...]meet her. Thompson's son was only fourteen yards and in other capacities until 1884. From 1884 to 1887 years old, but he stood up for my mother and father along he acted as an interpretor at Fort Buford. From there he with his father as a witness at their marriage at the Fort by went to Poplar on the Fort Peck Reservation and was the Army Chaplain. engaged on a government mail and messenger contract From Fort Bufo[...]was nothing what-so-ever then. It was just a place where On May 10, 1891, James was united in marriage to the mail was delivered, and O'Brian had a little store where Jennie Durand at Poplar. Miss[...]the During the month of June 1895 he located on a ranch ranch would be like. She just knew they had a lot of cattle seven miles west of Culbertson on the Big Muddy Creek. and expected a nice home. Instead there was a dugout in Here he engaged in stockraising, and in 1898 a post office the side of a hill, with a few logs that they had hauled from was establishe[...]m as postmaster, an the river, not many, and no door-just old worn-out canvas office he mainta[...]age of 97. Full Indian tents for doors, and no windows. Their lights were military honor were[...]i till being carried on by the only son of and three of the women were the wives of my father's[...]Indian style-the man gives the Indian's parents a cow or something of that kind and they give him the woman;[...]there i no wedding what-so-ever and no divorce. All the[...]R TRO G - FI HER a bright little girl the weetest girl I ever knew.[...]My mother and my father camped there with all those[...]sat around and sat around, and my dad told them h was My father, T .T . Armstr[...]e don 't feed you," my unt Emm said I always with a crew of men in 1 2. There was a crew of men call dmydad fir twife '[...]ur m dad couldn t under tand. had quite a hard time coming so far . Indian tried to steal[...]o eat, or stampede the cattle several times, al o a lot of wolve to and th n the Indian la ugh d and giggl d and shamed my bother them . The worst part of the trip was cro sing the dad for waiting on a woman . " Woman waited on man ."[...] |
| My parents stayed together, regardless of the Indians, and my dad built a dugout on up the creek from his brother Homer's place, at a place now known as Lone Butte. There my mother and dad lived, and his first wife left her little girl with them, and she went to Fort Buford, where she married one of the soldiers there. Then she came back and got the little girl for a while. I, Lucy (Armstrong) Fisher was born to Lillian and T.T. Armstrong, on July 12, 1892; I was born in a box. My folks had a friend, Major Cogswell, who lived in Wolf Point. His sister lived with him, and she was a friend ofmy mother's. When I was due, my mother w[...]with her friend, but she didn't make it. I got in a big hurry to get to this world and mama got sick on the way. My dad tied up the team to a tree and fixed mama a bed in the back of the wagon seat on the hay he had brought to feed the horses and used the buffalo hide robe for bedding. When I was born a woodcutter by the name of Fred Nelson saw them and came to help. He took me to his cabin Lucy and Bailey Fisher - 1957 and dressed me. Many times in later years when I was in my teens Fred would tease me in front of a crowd about dressing me for the first time. I[...]rn in that part of the country. My dad fixed mama and me as comfortable as possible and drove back eleven miles to the John Bawden ranch where we stayed ten days. I grew to be quite a good sized girl, and my half-sister stayed with me quite a lot because my mother grew to like my Aunt Emm. I[...]ke Murray. My folks separated when I was still a girl. My Aunt Madie, my dad's sister, took care of me because she was also a friend of my mother. My Uncle John's wife was[...]the Great Northern Railroad. They lived there in a small house. The first school started in Culbe[...]log house at first. The next year they moved into a big one room frame building. By 1901 the school had grown from six or seven of us to twenty, a big job for one teacher. We always had good teacher . In 1902 a new chool wa built. My mother had been a typi t in ebra ka. he wa The Bailey Fi her famil in 1930. 1 Edgar 2 Harr , anxious for a newspaper to start in Culbertson. In 1 00 Mr. 3 ~a~l , 4 Aluin, 5 Vane , 6 G org , 7 Bail , Reed cam[...]alea, 11 Lethian he told him that Culbertson wa a good plac to tart a (A rm trong), 12 Luc , 13 Lillian and 14 t lla. paper. That fall he had a hou e built in ulb on. Mother, Ross and I moved to town so he could work for Reed when he tarted the earchlight. I m getting old, and I have taken the archlight since the fir t numb r. THE FI HER TOR |
| He ays, "Listen here, there is a woman who lives up the Archie and John Curran and the girls weht back to road from us. She has done my washing for years, and she Michigan and brought back the two young boys. Archie is going to keep on doing it and yours along with it." and John Baily came out to the Armstrong rattch to wo[...]Sarah Curran matried William McBride who was a change after we married. That was when they were[...]Company. Bill and Sarah McBride were well kttown in old Bailey F[...]Another Curran girl, Mutnie, married a railroad worker, stockholders and directors of the First National Bank of J.P.[...]sher children attended high fini bed (that far) and lived in the Section House at Blair. school in Br[...]e we would have retired but my husband had cancer and had to be near a doctor, who was Dr. Harper in Sidney. My husband[...]many more, but very few re still Ii ving. John and Lucy Curran lived in Poplar for many years. Uncle John was County Assessor for a long time, and Aunt Lucy ran a Gift Shop. My daughter Stella Smith and I have a duplex. We k ep each other company, she works in the Yellowstone Mercantile, and I'm still a Notary Public, which I have been for 62 years, also a Justice of the Peace for 5 year .[...]by Lucy Fisher Back in Michigan a family of Irish descent by the name Dale Cur[...]ated to Montana. They had ixchildr n 1 |
| In 1903 Archie Curran and his wife, Mamie and their Dale Curran who had served as Ar[...]children moved back to Brockton where Archie got a Instructions and Reports, lived in Seattle after the war, trading[...]ears. In June of 1918 Mrs. Bailey (Lucy) Fisher and family had Then he and his wife moved to New York City, where he invited the Archie Currans to their place for a big picnic was the Editor of the New York World. He passed a way in dinner. They were going june berry picking[...]1971. afternoon as the berries were ripe and plentiful that year. Johnny Curran was a salesman. He was married and Bailey Fisher went to Brockton to help bring the[...]had two children. out. Archie had just gotten a new car and didn't know how to drive it very well. The women[...]ar, so Mamie, her little girl Mary, her son Hugo, and two of HENRY AND JENNIE ELGIE FAMILY Mamie's friends rode with Arc[...]who was ahead of Bailey, drove down to the ferry, and as he didn't know much about the car, stepped on Henry (Hank) and Jennie Elgie and four of their five the accelerator instead of the[...]truck with all of the ferry, broke down the gate, and wentintotheriver. One their belongings on Ma[...]nths to twelve years of age. out like an umbrella and she floated. Mamie tried to jump Hank was burned severely in a fire at the Brockton coal out of the car, but she[...]e, which was operated by Harry" lim" Simons, just a stuck up in the top of the car. In some way Mamie[...]o burned in that fire was their child's dress off and the baby went down with the car. son, Rob[...]ocated several miles east of town, so Mrs. Bailey and the other men rushed down to the boat, grabbed Elgie ran to the nearby highway to catch a ride to Brockton the row boat and saved the lady that was floating. They to get help for her husband and son. Doc Munch, the saw Mamie come up, just her h[...]ertson, happened to be in grabbed her by the hair and pulled her out, and after Brockton that day, delivering a baby boy to Marie Lund resuscitation &he revived. Archie Curran, Hugo and baby (son Keith), so he gave them medical aid and took Mr. Elgie Mary, along with the other woman w[...]shock of losing her his mother. husband and two children. She stayed with us for awhile and later she and her daughter moved to California where she passed a way in a few years. Her son, Jim, stayed with us for a long time then he went to some of his father's re[...]1897. John was working on the Great Northern yet, and running the pump at Blair to keep the water tank full for the trains, a in those day all engines were run by steam. They had a son , Dale, born to them in 1898, a daughter, Esther, born in 1899 and a on, Johnnie born in 1903. In 1899 John and Lucy moved aero the river outh of Brockton and ranched with the Arm trong . They built a hou e and other buildings ju t we t of T .T . Arm trong ranch and Ii ved there. In 1903 John built a new hou and I t the chool take over the other hou e. In 1902 John urran built the pool hall in Brockton, he also built a mall hou for a printing Good neighbor - Mr . Ji nnie Elg · and Mr . Mar Barth office. Aunt Lucy and on Dal tarted th " Br kton Bulletin", the first new pap r in Bro kton. They built a nice home in Brockton. During World ar I Dale Curran joined the army. E th r went to coll g and the family moved to Poplar.[...]r : Jam , Rob rt, Lorrain , Uncle John wa l c d A or of Roo v It J a born in Br kton , wi h Dr. 192 . Aunt Lucy wa el cted Republic n Repr a for Roo evelt County.[...]th · ring World ar II and Lucy urran mov d to Billing in 1933, a E th r , h r · n a · Lila Li n and daughter had marri d Dr. Phillip riff n of th riffen il n a nn · m, D i Clinic ther . Lucy urran ran a gift hop in Billing . John[...]t Mo urran ta ed in Wolf Point wh r h pa d a wa in 1[...] |
| have two daughters: Elaine and Diana. His two sisters also Adams, Minnesota,[...]homas' College at St. Paul, Minnesota. Culbertson and they have two children: Lana and Douglas; In 1908 he married Barbara Kohl of Kasson, Minnesota. June also married a Culbertson boy, Albert McGinnis, and To this union eight children were born: Dorothy, Allen, they have three children: Gary, Janice and Terry. Marvin Lawrence, Floyd, Irma, Paul, Helen and Margaret. Helen married Shirley Schultz of Hankinson, North Dakota, and and Margaret Gilligan were born in Brockton. they and three children: Karen, Rocky and Kathy, live in The Gilligans came to Broc[...]t until her retirement in 1952. ERICK AND ANNIE ERICKSON Erick Erickson and his family came to Montana from |
| couldn't have hidden it from anyone. It was mother's thin, and a little tremulous, soprano voice and his beautiful tenor voice that led the singing at[...]ver. She had great love for her Lutheran brethern and respected all faiths. LEWIS J. H[...]by Esther Hagen Lewis J . Hagen was born and lived in Minnesota. He Ernest Hagen, Leonard Smith and Harry Hagen with their |
| When we came to Brockton there was everything a In 1922 Luella returned to Minnesota to be with her person needed, really - A general store, owned and mother when their second daughter, Edna, was born. A operated by Ole Lien and his brother Hans. A grocery store third daughter, Joyce, was born[...]omer of the store, which later Armstrong operated and the The Jeldens were always active in the C[...]Office moved several times later. There was also a affairs of Brockton. The three girls attended school there, bank and a Sweet Shoppe in about 1917 or 1918. Mr. Barth and graduated from the Brockton High School. For many had a black smith shop across from the Brockton Bulletin[...]girls had to ride their shetland ponies to office and he would come over and lift the heavy printing school in the spring and fall. frames for Mrs. Curran once a week after the paper was In 1937 a group of Brockton girls - Pauline Burshia, Lila p[...]Lien, Margaret Gilligan, Helen Dempsey and Bootsie People were kind and friendly. I have both happy and Jelden, eµcouraged by their music teacher[...]time in Brockton. formed a singing group that wound up being called "Boots E.J. Rice had the lumber yard and Otto Lund operated and Her Buddies". They sang for many local affairs, t[...]lace in an amateur contest in Wolf Point in 1938, and My mother was Superintendent of the first Union spent a summer singing weekly on the K.G.C.X. radio Sunda[...]he station then located in Wolf Point. boys and girls and they responded well. The first frame part of the new school was also built the summer I was there and I was ready for high school so went one winter there, then went and worked at whatever I could do. LUKE AND LUELLA JELDEN |
| [...]to Brockton in 1930 as Ac~ording to R.B. Niel, a crow had made her nest in a band director and coach, for both boys and girls. One grdve of trees on the Luke Jelden place north west of former pupil remembers a remark he made while coaching Brockton and Poplar. As Mr. Jelden's hens were too busy[...]em, _he replaced the fo~r c~ow' ~ eggs giggling and more pivoting, you would make more with four smal[...]tured m his chicken baskets." factory. At a later date much confusion around the nest He returned to Brockton in 1931 and took over the announced the arrival of three baby chicks and the leaving position of Superintendent of the school and stayed for crow, and "Dutch" Jelden says, "By Gott, I haven't seen[...]In 1937 he was adopted into the Sioux Tribe and given Geraldine (Bootsie) Jelden married George[...]t the Brockton. They are still living in Brockton and have two adoption ceremonies wa Alvin Warrior. Little antee sons 1 Jim and Jack.[...]eremony. Edna Jelden married William Gunderson, a former In 1939 he accepted the s[...]High School. They will be Point, Montana, and stayed there until 1943, when he retiring to Ches[...]on. He took his four children, Terry, Janice, Bob and Leonard. training at the marine[...]s stationed in Denver, Colorado, then Great Falls and have three children; Linda, Victor, and El Paso, Texas, back to Denver, and then to Butte, Timothy.[...]training and pa sed away there in October. M[...]ALLEN JACOBSON A D LO'ITIE YORK Milo C. Johnson graduated from B[...]by Alvin Lien Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Gustavus Adolphus[...]Minnesota (Rochester area). Allen built and operated the Brockton Livery Barn for a few years. He al o had farming[...]came to McKenzie County, orth Dakota and took up a homestead near Ole Lien and Mary Loen. Ole Lien came to Brockton and tarted a tore in 190 and a year later married Mary Loen at Ray orth Dakota.[...]the Lien tore and help run the Po t Office, that wa then[...]After Lottie had been gon for a few ear Allen w nt to[...]alifornia to vi i h r. They wer married th r and r turn d to Brockton wh r th built a horn . In 1 4 the[...]old their home to hank and mov d back to[...]cam ou and p nt a coupl of umm r with him whil h[...]wa living in Br kton . lifford and I b am fri nd · I vi i d him a coupl of tim during m num r u trip to[...]rom 1931-1939. Adopted into the ioux Trib in 1936 and giu n Mr. and Mr . Alb rt John on mov d to M di in Lak t[...] |
| the Ole Lien place where they farmed and raised cattle for a Henry Smith (Vivian) of Hazen, North Dakota, M[...]Mr. Albert Johnson passed away in Febuary of 1946 and of Brockton a number of years.[...]on Cemetery with four of their children: Edna who and Bessie was an a ctive member of the Woman's died[...]youngest children graduated January 1968 and Theodore in February 1971. from the Brockton High[...]it my aunt, Mrs. Harold Alberts, the Navy, Vernon and Elmo with the Army where Elmo who li[...]1931 I returned and married Theodore Johnson. By then[...]Loyd leased the Sullivan place and Harold Albert took a[...]lease and moved over to Ted's land where he lived until his[...]school and quit when she graduated from high school.[...]with $48.00 a month to pay. Later he bought land from C.J.[...]IDA KENNEDY AND KIPP KEYS[...]miles northeast of Brockton. She was married to a fellow by the name of Kipp Keys. Kipp was a mule skinner from way[...]Poplar, wanted to arrest him, and he pulled a gun on him .[...]walking up to him and knocked him down. Kipp Keys died in 1918, and Ida was not in good health.[...]My Grandfather, Lewis Lambert I, and his wife Lizzie[...]e their home n ear Blair. He ma de h is living tr a pping a nd fur tra ding. Albert Johnson butchering -[...]Dakota , Mr . Lewis Lam bert, S r., Lizzie, a nd son Lewi , Jr. (Se tting up |
| [...]and Carl Larson, Jr. Third row: Richard, Clarence and George Larson and in the front row Andrew Larson. Joe and Lewis Lambert bringing home water from the Missou[...]In 1924 Carl bid for a section at Dodson, Montana and Lewis and Lizzie had five children: Lewis II, John,[...]there. They later lived in Havre. Sophia, Charles and Lillie. T[...], in the 1940's. When my father, Lewis II, was a young man he traded He sold his home t[...]Totten to here, sometimes selling near a sister. them along the way. The trip took a week, to a week and a half depending on how much time he had and how hard he drove the horses. Later he worked for the Frye Cattle Company on the Muddy River and then he was a line rider for the B.I.A. A THE LARS LARSON FAMILY line[...]rson) Jaeger lease. He ended up raising cattle and farming on his own Myfatheremigrat[...]up near In 1915 Lewis Lambert II married Jennie Black Shield the Canadian border, where my mother had an aunt and from Fort Totten where they had met. They are the parents her family. He went to work a a carpenter, building hou e of Amos, Unice, Anna, Joe, and Barney. The Lewis and barn . He also wa in the cement b ine · th a Lambert children all went to school in Brockton where they partner. A year later my brother Carl left e[...]advised father to find a milder cli th ft and[...]Malta much, o he and a partn r , ten on, cam[...]down to Brockton in 1916 and built a flax mill . It a built[...]by arl Larson baled and . d bac th[...]run Bill came to Brockton where Carl was a ection foreman for the Lindenfi Id, but[...]Dakota. In a my fath r and h hri n built a The Larson children, Violet (now Mrs. Homer Cal[...]th roof of Havre), George, larence, Richard, and arl went to of boar hingl[...]the ri r from Bro kton Mrs. Carl Larson was a sister to Otto Schulz who al o wa land[...]rockton . abel chulz, office in Gia go and d on 160 ac along th riv r.[...] |
| [...]was full of ice. On landing, he slipped and fell in the river,[...]getting soaked. He got chilled walking into town and developed double pneumonia and died in a few qays in[...]river bottom and moved there in the early spring of 1919, as[...]and daughters, Hertha and Helmy. In May 1919 we lived there a year and moved back to the river bottom when the[...]flooding was over. We moved every spring for a few years,[...]flooding became less and less so we were able to stay there.[...]clearing the land and digging the stumps. We would help[...]him by pulling the branches and burning them. He sold[...]diamond willow fence posts, and people came from out in[...]dry land to get wood. The first plowing was quite a job with a walking plow. It turned out to be a very productive[...]Father bought a saw and sawed lumber and 2 x 4's from cottonwood trees, for sale and to build a new house in between working on this and as a carpenter in Brockton.[...]farming, and in 1927 my father bought the Brockton ferry.[...]Business was pretty good, and Brockton was the trading[...]In 1930 father built a new two-story house (ten rooms) Carl Larson (son of Lars Larson) and Hilda - 1918 from cottonwoods on hi[...]That house is still standing and being lived in today.[...]and moved to her own home. In 1942 my father sold the Father lived in a tent while he cut logs to build a house. My ferry to Bill Fisher and worked around home. In the spring brother Carl ca[...]een of 1944 his wife Hanna passed away, and he sold his farm working in November of 1917, to join my father. Carl filed to his son Elof and moved into Sidney, where he was a on 160 acres across the road from father's land.[...]e age of spring of 191 Carl went back to Mc Ville and married a girl 72. He bought a couple of houses, remodeled them, and sold by the name of Hilda Sannas. The house was d[...]on In 1946 he moved to Florence, Montana, and bought a the main floor which was used as living room and kitchen, small acreage and planted fruit trees and also planted and with two bedrooms upstairs. Hilda became a good friend to raised strawberries for sale[...]85, he decided to Joe Ruffatto's two girls, Emma and Marie. On June 23rd, sell and come home and live with his son Elof and daughter on a unday afternoon, they decided to go for a swim in the Helmy. In 1968 my brother Elof built a home in Sidney, river, a though no one could wim. They got in too deep sold the farm, and moved to Sidney. In July 1969 my water, and they all drowned. It was a very hard time for my brother Elof died of ca[...]ear old when Elof died. He missed his son so very and it wa raining when he went aero the river, which[...]and hi daughter Hertha ha a home in idney also. He[...]had three grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren at the[...]A DER 0 OLEA A told by adie (Ander on) Pelland[...]My mother's uncle, Fir t Hail Lean had a hou in Lars Larson and Carl Larson on house they built on[...] |
| [...]her was buried north of Brockton. My mother was a Bruguier; the Bruguier family originally came fro[...]her was old John Bruguier. He was an Indian Scout and served in the last Indian battle at Wounded Knee.[...]who fought with Custer.) He lived at Brockton for a time but had a ranch north of Smoke Creek. My Dad's family was Anderson. My Grandfather was a Civil War veteran. He was an immigrant from Irela[...]ect name was Morley but when about sixteen he ran a way from home and changed his name to Anderson and joined the army. His family was in New York at the time. After the war he came out West. He had a little ranch west of Culbertson where he raised potatoes and sheep. I was only six years old when he died. My Grandmother on my dad 's side lived at Chelsea. She was a full-blood Indian. My father, John Anderson and my mother, Nancy Bruguier met at boarding school[...]made their home at Chelsea, where my brother Earl and I were born. My dad was an Indian policeman but most of his life he worked for Frye Cattle Company as a share cropper. He had so many cattle to care for and so much land, and got a share of the crops. About 1917 we moved to Brockton mainly so we children could go to school, and First Hail Lean and his wife were getting on in years and having no family of their own, wanted my mother to be near them. Leans gave us a piece of ground to build a home in Brockton. My sister, Vivian, was born in Brockton and while we were Ii ving there our family took on two more new Ole and Mary Lien - 1909 members. Fred, who ·we adopted, and Vida, who was a foster child. Vida came to us when she was about[...]er on horseback after her mother had died at home and requested that we raise her. I played basketball with the girls basketball team in 1902 and settled in Ray, orth Dakota, h ome teading in Brockton. In 1930 I won all district forward in a girls' MacKenzie County, near Charleston , i[...]rothers tore wa My mother died November of 1931 and m y dad , January completed, Ole Lien retur[...]he and Ma rie Loen were married on April 10, 1909. Ole[...]hree children: Kent, the couple worked to make a ucce of their tore a nd Brett, and Lisa. played a major role in the development of the town. Earl Anderson has t wo children : Earl Jr. a n d Leslie. Wherever Ole a w a need, h e et out to do omething Vivia n Dumont has two children : Nancy and Robert J r . a bout it. Con equently, he wa influential in e tab[...]th e fir t chool in Brock ton in 1915. Both he and Marie Vida has six children a ll living a round Poplar and Fort worked toward the founding of a Luth ran church in Kipp, th ey a re: Cath erine, J o Anne, Bonnie, David, Brockton a nd later in building and improving th n w Deserlly and J oh n. Vida's name wa Vida Walking Eagle. Lutheran church. Ole had a hand in b · · a[...]Dir ctor of the Fir t ation al Bank and . tr r of[...]In 1912 01 got into farming and during World ar I[...]ed hi holdi · h wa · · a "big (Taken from an article written by Belvina W.[...]0 Norway on March 24, 1876. He r c ived a bu ine fe t b hi acto[...]erica in 1902. He cam fir t whirlwind lifted a wh of burning thi d to Mi[...]in Brockton in 190 . In Brockton, with the a hit a rock and h l u help of his brother, Han , Ole Li n[...] |
| [...]n, who Brockton soon outgrew this, and a new two-room pa tch ed him up and offered to take him by car to the building with a full basement was built about 1916 or 1917. hospi[...]me. If I go gathered at the two-room school for a get-together. Also a to th e hospital, I won't come home alive."[...]. This two-room school was soon too small, and a brick Munch . addition was built and dedicated in 1923. It took a year or more to heal his burns, so severe that the I (Alvin) graduated from the eighth grade in 1924 and bon es showed through on his cheeks, but Ole came[...]o high school in Poplar the next year. The it rem a rkably well. Friends often asked Dr. Munch how Ole following year a high school was started in Brockton. I was coming[...]Other teachers were Ludwig Olson and Earl Felbaum. Ole and Marie (she was also called Mary) had seven[...]dren: Alvin, Myrtle, Alma, Oliver, Woodrow, Lila, and[...]Alvin, the eldest and now living in Poplar, managed the[...]Gallaher of Grangeville, Idaho, and they had six children:[...]Donald, Sylvia, Laura, Gloria, Twila and Wanda Jo.[...]Missouri; she died on April 18, 1964, and Bill died one year[...]Oliver married Arlyne Gustafson, and they live in[...]Robert, and John " Jack" Lien. The Ole Lien Family about 1927[...]drow was killed over Ulm, Germany, as co-pilot in a Lien, Alma, Mrs. Ole Lien, My rtle, A lvin, Woodrow and in B-17 plane during World War II, April 8, 1945. Oliver and front, Orphey "Bud" Lien and Lila Lien. Bud Lien al[...]Lila married James Elgie of Brockton and their six[...]Dennis (with armed services in Panama); Nancy and Mary THE OLE LIEN FAMILY[...]rphey " Bud" Lien married Birdell Holte of Poplar and[...]have four daughters: Karen, Linda, Barbara and LeAnn. After Ole Lien got the store started in[...]helped in the store. The Lien made their home in a mall house n orthwest of the store. This would be[...]THE W.H. LINDENFIELD FAMILY remodeled and added on to their house, making it a comfortable even-bedroom hou e one block north of[...]country high school tudent stayed at Lien' hou e and "batched" week day , going home on W.H . Lindenfield a nd family came to Brockton in th e week-end . They had as many a even h igh chool girl spring of 1917 from Valier, Montan a. Mr. Lindenfield came living in the up tairs bedr[...]the Linda} Fiber Com pa ny, known as the member , and thi went on for quite a few vear . Brockton Flaxmill. It was located on a hill west of town Home teader tarted coming in[...]he where the Red Boy family lived, and that home later river. There wa no place for anyo[...]to the ground. Due to lack of fla x straw in the a rea Andrew Loen and hi wife c me up from Ray orth the venture failed. Dakota and built a hotel and erved meal . Andrew and Lindenfields had three children:[...]ll enough, o home in Billing , Montana and ha worked for the they quit and moved back to their home tead at Ray. ot[...]ay of 1976. In 1914 or 1915 there seemed to be a numb r of children of Adeline became a teach r and live in Palmdale, school age in Brockton. Dad took a leading part in securing California where she till teache . Her married name i a chool. Poplar wa reluctant to build a chool at Dimmett, and she lo t her hu band, r c ntly. Brockton, o Ole a ked for a Town hip and their own Flora a teacher, live in Jordan, Montana and does school district. Thi wa done, and a one-room chool was substitute teaching. built. chool tarted in the fall of 1915 with seven boy and The Lindenfield children all attended s[...]Brockton ontana and mov d to Billing around 1927.[...] |
| [...]e mill closed, Mr. Lindenfield did carpenter work and lived in a house he built that was located about where James[...]was built. Luke Jeldon later acquired this house and moved it out to the present Shanks farm. In about 1920 a group were going to go across the river Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Lodmell - 1926 with Archie Curran in his Dort car. They failed to stop on the ferry and drove off the deck into the river. The only ones to survive were Mrs. Lindenfield, and Mrs. Archie Curran. Archie Curran, his son, Hugh, a daughter and a neighbor, I believe Mrs. Shultz was her name, were drowned. Mr. Braaze and Mr. Boyle operated the ferry but were in a row boat a short distanc.e down stream when it all happened.[...]home in Billings. He did carpenter work so built a number of houses and apartments. Mrs. Bernice Linden-field passed a[...]by Leonette (Ona Lodmell) Jaumotte Mr. and Mr . Andrew M. Lodmell and childr n: |
| My father died in 1932 in Brockton, and my mother died FRANK MATTELIN HIS[...]ckton, where Clarence by Frank and Emmaline Mattelin a lso is buried. I remember the first radio in town owned by "Army" FRANK: Armstrong, and how we would go to his store, living I left Iowa with two mules, two horses and a saddle horse. quarter being part of it , and listen to it. I was going to British Columbia. I drove 620 miles in a Winter recreation was snow sledding, dances ab[...]l harvest. I went to work for $10.00 a day .... that was a gold Neighbor meetings. Basketball games after th[...]il threshing time, school was started in 1925 was a later enjoyment. until we were snowed in by a foot-and-a-half of snow. We I had to go to high school in[...]akota, did not finish threshing. my first year and was in the first graduating class of There-was a lot of people from Northern Minnesota, from Brock[...]as appointed postmaster when horses and mules over there, you could get all the work you Coolidge was President and died in office in 1932. His son, wanted in the[...]ere with another Clarence " Red" Lodmell was also a postmaster in guy. There was no snow there, and the hay was $20.00 a Brockton.[...]the 15th of January, then I sold my horses, mules and wagon and went down to Glenwood, Minnesota. I stayed[...]Iowa. They told me a lot of stories of Montana so I thought I[...]Keith Lund would come and look it over. Otto and Gracie Lund came from Da zey, North Dakota, to Brockton in 1912. Paul was three years old and Dale, one yea r old. Otto was manager of the King Elevator, Mon ta na-Dakota, a nd Occident Elevators in Brockt on, until 1931.[...]26. Left to right: Dana, Earl, Gracie, Paul, Otto and Dale. In 1936 Gracie died. Otto moved to Fl[...]Later he moved to easide, Oregon, where he was a golf Frank Mattelin - 1913 |
| dollar; so I shipped to Mondak, where they were putting a and they had the land leased from the Big Muddy clean[...]their cattle from Glentana clean down to idney and that negro shot the sheriff and his deputy. About 100 guys Bainville - all along the line where they could get any hay. from Mondak, a town which was pretty good-sized at the[...]o see. They had an offer at that time for willows and hid. This was about 4:00 P .M. Then the negro $19.00 apiece. Fear wired back to Frye and told him he got called out, "If you don't mob me,[...]eteen dollars. "Should we take it or ship them to and come out." They told him they wouldn't. They had a Seattle?" team and an old spring wagon there. They put him in the[...]ack "Take it; I need the money. " o you can wagon and took him into Mondak and put him in jail. see how tough thi[...]: That night they broke the jail down with an ax, and the When we first started, we would[...]ad our crew; some would bring hor e , the ax back and hit him in the head. Then they hung him some mowers. It was like a little village we had down there. and hauled him to the river and threw him in. I walked off We had thirty head of horses down at the Big Muddy, two the job then and was fired, but I didn't care. I was only mowers, a rake, and we had a great big tent - 16 x 16 - getting $35.00 a month there. screened in on three sides, good screened door, floor , and I went to Poplar and then to Scobey, and I found the everything. That was the b[...]Company would always come down and send their men to After traveling about ten mi[...]haying. I remember one time coming up with hor es and They told me if anyone wanted a job, they could get it, so I Tracy (the bookkeeper for Frye) asked me, "What are you went to Scobey and saw the people I knew and then to doing?" Plentywood. I didn'[...]raw in them days, so I came back down to Poplar, and this supper, but that night he didn't wa[...]would have it ready in a minute. When I first took a look at this country, I said, By goll, in There were no trails or anything in the winter, and there thirty days I'll be out of here." I have be[...]were times when I didn't go to town for months, and Frank It's been a long thirty days! only went once a month. He had a long fur coat and gloves EMMALINE:[...]him warm. I met Frank in Glenwood, Minnesota, and we got We never borrowed mone[...]ere was one time in the "thirties" that I made ou a Ii t for Gateway Hotel in Poplar for a couple days, while waiting just the thi[...]was to live in out to Jim Helmers to be and it was still in his jacket. I didn't · ay anythi[...]bank was clo ed." There we were and were we hun r . Boy, I got a job farming for Jim Helmer. We farmed there at[...]I had kept 12 hens for etting hen for the year, and we anything.[...]id back East. You sell them . I got a dollar apiece for them . Then I went to hooked on a gang plow and probably plowed for two weeks, Vandercamp and bought ugar, flour and coff . and be lucky if you got five acre a day plowed with ix When the bank clo d , one of th guy at th bank a k d horses and a gang plow. Then you hooked on a drag, if you Frank, " Why don't you haul coal?" had one, and drug it, and then hooked on the e der and rank aid, " I don't have my fir[...]knew anything about ummer fallow. We e ded flax and a big wagon . I wo .[...]w for Frye Company for 5.00 an acre. We had a kid working n d d, i h. for us; we gave him 5.00 a day. We made 30. 0 a day. That I knew[...]team." W ·1, and I That was we t of Poplar .. On pring I brok 2[...]I i with a ulky plow. We broke until th tail-end of Jun .[...]d a for Frye until it froz up.[...]n 't . ometime we had man thr e runaways a day.[...]had idn t a n[...] |
| all prepared to go to headquarters and say he didn't want Frank ran the coal mine for about ten years and sold it to it, but he had told me he could go to the bank and borrow (Slim) Harry Simons. Frank went to Gr[...]h, about 1962. you take it?" Frank knew the land, and we had to go some The Metzgers had two children, Phyllis (Romo) of place. Frank finally agreed, and we went to headquarters. Bainville and Fred who is now living in California. Fred Fear w[...]emembers Freddie Metzger coming into Fred Fear and I sat in the car; later Frank told me that the Lien Store and ordering a yard of wieners. (In those that was good. He had[...]Elizabeth (Murray) Vollertson and Lucy Fisher[...]the "Big Hill" north of town. Ike Murray Sr. was a Frank Metzger was born in Germany and came to cousin of the Culwells and of Lillian Armstrong. Michigan as a very small boy. He came to Montana to[...]18 years old. called Ike Sr., 'Uncle Ike' and as young Ike was only 12 He then moved to Brockton where he and Tom and years old when they came in 1891; and I and Edward Clifford Prichard ran the livery stable fo[...]lle Prichard. After they were married, took a lot of care of us kids." Frank opened up the Broc[...]Ike T. Murray with grandsons, Thomas and Rodney[...]Uncle Ike built a store in Brockton where he sold some[...]groceries, clothing, etc. , not much a store really but he[...]Young Ike went to Spokane where my folks had a friend. Frank & Nellie Metzger, Phyllis and Fred He left in 1894 and came back in 1897, when I was five[...] |
| [...]Crosby, North Dakota about 1911. Stanley had run a store[...]and started a little lumber yard behind the bank, aero the[...]near Rochester and two boys, LeRoy and Stanley, who[...]both live in Seattle, Washington. Irene and LeRoy went to[...]Nelson's built a house where Louie Boyd lived which[...]later was the Schlenz home and finally became the part of[...]Nelson's health began to fail and Mrs. Nelson suffered a[...]way No. 2 ran get on, the horse reared up and fell with her, breaking her east-west past Ike Mu[...]at the time and saw it all happen. Mrs. Nelson's leg wa[...]amputated and she wore an artificial leg for the rest of her[...]Due to Mr. Nelson's failing health and her broken leg years old. I was very glad to see him, as was Eddie Culwell. they sold the bank and moved to Fountain, Minnesota, He lived back and forth between the Armstrongs and the where Mr. Nelson died. Culwells. We[...]Mrs. Nelson later remarried Amard Klomstad and they Uncle Ike was the first Master of the Culbertson Masonic moved to a farm near Preston, Minnesota. Lodge, a large picture of him hangs on the wall of the old[...]lso the first Mason in Culbertson to try to start a lodge there. Uncle Ike died in 1930." Young Ike[...]Dumbery, Macedonia. He was the son of a tonecutter. In by Elizabeth Voll[...]1903 he worked in Athens, Greece, for three franc a day, and on February 10, 1909, at the age of 16 he arrived in the In 1913 Issac Murray and Adeline Pheipher were United tat.es, going to Madi on, Illinoi , where friend married and homesteaded about nine miles north of and relatives from Macedonia lived. (Macedonia i now[...]e born: Elizabeth, part of Bulgaria) Thomas, and John. We moved to Brockton in 1921 and started school. Then Dad opened a blacksmith shop. A few years later he built a garage which he operated for year . Robert, William, James and Joseph joined the family. (Joe died at about two and a half years, Thomas in 1955 and John in 1941). Mom died in July, 1931 at the ag[...]70. On one occasion while Dad was in the garage a tourist stopped for some ga (the only gas pumps in town) Dad took the hose from the pumps and the touri t a ked the price per gallon. Dad told him it was 20 cents a gallon. The tourist said he could get it for 18 cents a gallon in Texa . Dad hung up the hose and aid, "That's the place tog tit," and walked into the garage. One phrase I've always[...]ome w et home with it." An item of interest was a pr diction Ike made only a year or o befor he died, and that was: "Some day you'll oil wells all o[...]ry in the Poplar Oil Wedding picture of George and Dina ickoloff - 1930. Field was about a year later, too.[...] |
| [...]explained that at first they had a seven-mile section of track and twelve men to take care of it. The section was[...]sixteen, and finally to nineteen miles. This included four[...]miles of siding or passing tracks and took only two men to[...]and freights at 30. Later passenger trains speeded at[...]miles per hour and freights at 59. When the locomotives[...]were steam powered, 40 cars were considered a full load.[...]tamping machines and bolt tighteners. Before that, the[...]foreman to have a motor-powered speeder. He bought it[...]Northern Railway took it over and paid him what it had George Nickoloff family. George, Dina and sons John and cost him. Windshields were added about 1924, a most Nick.[...]lcome improvement for the men in the strong winds and[...]any cause except once when he broke his leg and when he His first job in America was with the American Glass was given a four-month leave-of-absence in 1929 to return fac[...]acedonia to get married. where he earned 75 cents a day for ten hours of work. George and Dina didn't have the common courtship In February of 1910 he got a job on the Milwaukee previous to their ma[...]road extra gang. From then on he worked mostly as a know her before going back to Macedonia for a wife. He railroad man until he retired after almost 47 years of saw her working in a field and said, "I want her" and so service to the Great Northern Railway, 49 years later. they were married. He came to Brockton as a section foreman in about June In his years as foreman, George never fired a man. He of 1914, a job he held until his retirement in 1959. worked hard and conscientiously himself and expected his[...]men to do the same. The men appreciated him as a boss and[...]years ago when he saved No. 3, a passenger train, from[...]George had left his house by the tracks and was about halfway uptown when he saw a coal car come down out of[...]got through the switches and hot down the main track.[...]and realized that o. 3 was already out of Culbertson.[...]to the toolhouse, put the motor car on the rails and[...]ignal and hadn't gone the length of ten or fifteen[...]telegraph pole when o. 3 plowed to a top.[...]The runaway car had been in the Box Elder curve and[...]time. G orge quick action had averted a po sible major di a ter, and the Gr at orthem afety Divi ion at St.[...]Paul ent him a letter of commendation for his deed.[...]In tho e days ther were no ignal . ow a train can be[...]ock. Throughout George's year as George Nickoloff and John Arbow on ection speeder foreman there wa never a major accident in hi ection, about 1914.[...]Calai in 1957 was cau ed by a broken axle on one of the[...]ars of rvice G orge aw many change on find a lo t train. "W don't know where the train is,' th[...]kton, he dispatcher had aid. "Get on your p der and go find it.'[...] |
| [...]he could hardly see beyond the door, but he went and found the train, stuck in a snow drift at Sprole. In 1929 George and Dina Nickoloff were married in Macedonia. George[...]y had five children: Nickolas, John, James, Eliah and Christina. Three of the children were born in the[...]y moved to Culbertson, when George retired. Eliah and Christina graduated from the Culbertson High Scho[...]n she was unable to speak English, but she needed a pizza pan. She went into Storms Store to get one[...]south of the river from Brock- Lloyd, Sam and Irene Nygard ton around 1911. While still living on his homestead he took up the carpentry trade and is responsible for building most of the barns sti[...]there for a few years before returning to the Brockton area,[...]The ygard children attended the Brockton and later the[...]In later years the ygard built a home on the Flathead[...]In 1946, when son am married Bernice John on and took over the farming , Ed and Rachel retired and moved to[...]Wil orth Dakota, and or and wagon to ou h[...]ma t ai and[...]his r lea e rt a , Di th from the ervice her turn d[...]e um d w . hi trade and b gan farming north of Br ckton.[...]ra th ark t childr n : Llo d, am and Irene. am , who till liv in for ut r and th d Brockton[...]old Jo Jaumotte plac in 1921. on and in[...] |
| [...]ellie Prichard Metzger, Gertrude Prichard Fields, and Dale.[...]5, manager of the Brockton Hotel. Tom Prichard and his wife Alva, opened a h otel in Brockton in the early 1920's. They had[...]help them. Frankie, who now lives in Troy, Montan a; Wilma, who married Ralph Alberts, and lives in Kalispell; and Atha , who married Kenneth Frazier, another local man, and lives in Arizona. They ran this hotel until the d[...]arried "Butch" Rasmussen, who came to Brockton as a section laborer, but decided to open a barber shop and became Brockton's first regular barber. They, too[...]where 'Butch" barbered until his death. Ora is in a nursing home in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where she is near her youngest son. My Mother was Nelle Prichard and she married my dad, Frank Metzger, in 1917; when[...]t of Brockton, where my brother, _ Fred, and I were born. This coal mine was a booming business, and many men still in the surrounding area remember working there. The mine produced about 400 tons of coal a month - 250 tons went to Poplar for a power Elva Prichard in 1925 taken in back of the Brockton Hotel plant. This was a lot of man hours, as men, pick and "'hovel, which they managed. and horses were the equipment of that day. There was a coal loading chute at the railroad, where coal wa[...]in Kalispell. I've been told the mine caught fire and Tom had the old livery ham for a few years which was burned for many years . Who k[...]ay taken down. Herman Storm built a garage. soon we will live to ee another coal era[...]My parents, Alva and Tom Prichard both passed away.[...]My mother in April of 1942 and Dad the same year in[...]Atha married Kenneth Frazier and had two children: TOM A DELVA PRICHARD Wilma Jean who lives in Columbia Falls and Joe, who[...]Frankie married Tom Bruguier and had one daughter, Tom and Elva Prichard and three girls: Atha , Frankie Elvina. Frankie later married Marion Bauer. He passed and Wilma, came to Brockton around 1916. My mother had away and Frankie run their motel in Troy, Montana. a cafe a cross the s treet from the Pool Hall for a few years. Ralph and I had two boys.[...] |
| JOHN A. PUCK the land go to whoever wanted it and moved west of[...]He brother-in-law. We farmed about 1200 and some acres. For came to the United States as a young man of eighteen a time we lived in Poplar but it was too far away f[...]with him to Montana. Sophia was born in employers and was soon discharged for painting the[...]five children: Vesta, Lawrence, Florence, Frieda and[...]incent. Mrs. Quitmeyer died when Vincent was just a[...]In 1933 William Quitmeyer went back to Minnesota and married Anna V alanders, a girl he had known many years[...]childbirth and her sister brought her to the United States.[...]Lawrence Quitmeyer farmed with his father for a[...]school. He is now a doctor, living in Phoenix, Arizona.[...]Florence lives in Laramie, Wyoming. Freida and her[...]Vesta is teaching school in Poplar and plans to retire after[...]Last spring Mr. Quitmeyer fell in Brockton and broke his[...]daughter Vesta after school is out. He John Puck and Jim Shanks says, "I like it there, a small town with lots of nice people.[...]here he BILL RALSTO got a steady job working as grounds keeper on the estat[...]by Bill Ralston Company, at the time, and soon John was hired on the Great Northern as a section hand. I w[...]rn until he retired had come there in 1 7 with a large herd of cattle from in 1965.[...]Prickly Pear Valley north of Helena a th range wa During his many years in Brockton John lived in a getting hort there. He mo ed the catt[...](my with new fangled notions, such as electricity and running grandparents) tayed in Helena a the wer running on water. He did, however, grow fond of televi ion and of the fir t meat marke there and al o th livery tabl . occupied a reserved spot in Shanks home when hi favorite[...]hief hobby in Brockton their p operty and their ranch to Al Rehb rg' dad and t ok until his death in 1974.[...]hi place in the mountain . Log - w re pl -ntiful and a winter would oon b on, they d id d o build a log house o they would have a plac to liv . Th y hir d tra help and oon th hou wa fini hed. Thi wa th fir H[...]e is ninety-four year old. looked at th min and d cid d it would b a good He came to Montana from Minne ota in 1907 and inve tment, o he bought it and imm diatel tar d homesteaded east of M[...]grow developing it. M n were arriving and n d d work and anything there ,, he ays, "The ground wa andy o I let with a numb r of men like thi om got ick or w r[...] |
| [...]look up a ranch for his son. They bought the Jack Cowell[...]and also large sheds for the cattle and also good corrals-[...]. Left to right: Bill Ralston, his father, mother and brother, Jack Cowell had been running sheep[...]they just bought the two sets of ranch buildings, and 100 horses and about 80 cows all branded P. The land as yet[...]rounding up and sorting these cattle, John Tatum was[...]thrown from his horse and killed. Dad then shipped the cattle and also ten head of horses branded NS on the left[...]wintered one year, 1905 and 06 and the fall of 1906 were all Ralston log house o[...]for them which Tommy Cruse appreciated very |
| [...]cattle were moved to the loading pens and soon were on the interested in the ranch after th[...]cars bound for Chicago. roundup had missed a few of the cattle and my dad got I worked for John Manning the spring of 1910 helpino- those. The horses and buildings could be held until a new gather his horses for breeding. I ha[...]ee if I would work the open country of free range and it only lasted until 1912. for them. He said[...]the following year or two my parents established a to move them up to the Big Dry in the Jordan Country. I ranch of their own a short distance from the Cowell ranch. wan[...]ning This was to be their permanent home. Kenneth and I and went to work for the Evans Horse outfit. That Dry attended school in Culbertson the winter of 1907 and '08. country looked so big - not a fence anywhere - no road , We stayed at the New E[...]he sheriff, just trail - we had to find a place for the horse to get took over the management of the Hotel, and Kenneth and I, through the Bad Lands. There were pra[...], ate the first meal served there. over and there were a lot of wolves. I believe in 1910 there I worke[...]the Evans'. Helping Henry Miller, the wagon hos~ and also for Bill Fergus and Charlie and Jack branding colts on the prairie, catching Dan[...]riding. Jimmy them like calves. Charlie and Jack were as good a roper a McGuire rode for Fred Nelson.[...]. Several times we took bunche Comer Armstrong and I were riding for J.S. Day the fall of ho[...]the cattle off time in Miles City for me and I never saw so many hor es in water so that they[...]ds for hor es in take to water better. We cut out a bunch of about 40 head the country, seco[...]t early in the morning. The Spurgeon crossing was a from Washington and all other nearby states. This town of natural place to swim cattle as a rock reef extended about Miles City was really a wild town. 250 feet out into the river. The water[...]horse camp one evening, Jack came out to deep to a horse and then it dropped off into water 20 feet where we were and said he would have to leave very early deep.[...]the next morning for Miles City to get a doctor as Charlie We brought about forty head[...]e poisoning. Mrs. Evans run, onto this rock reef, and just when the cattle got into thought that[...]ho brought in very early the next morning and he caught the was riding for Dan Walters, by not watching the cattle horses that he and Jim would use to make the trip to Miles went off[...]City. They each rode one horse and led another. I caught a couldn't swim and Miller, who was there in a boat went horse of my own that was on[...]ht over to save Comer. He grabbed him by the hair and pulled this would be a good time to gentle him. I intended to quit in hi[...]. Frank could swim, but his horse couldn't a few weeks and I thought if I made the trip back home and started to go down. Frank's spur was caught in hi[...]had to kick to get out but he made it pinto and began to saddle him. He had not been ridden all and swam to the boat. Bill Curts, who was a good swimmer summer and was pretty snuffy. He didn't like being swam toward shore and his horse swam to shore too, but he saddled, and I made dam ure the cinch wa tight becau e was on[...]t there. when you cinch up a young hor e he well up. Then I back A couple of the cowboys holding the cattle saw Frank's tracked him and took up the latigo another couple of horse, so they rode down quick, caught him and drug him to hitches. I could ee by the way he dropped one ear that he shore. They unsaddled him and he lay there for quite was going to give me a ride. When I lid into the addle he awhile. Later on he got up and walked around but wa n't exploded. He wa quite a hor e to bawl when he wa fit to use for some time[...]im up. You'll n d ler, saw all this from the bank and brought the remuda in all that' in him t[...]nother horse, Comer went to the tent to and we took off for ircle. dry out.[...]l try again." owe did it got to tone hack, a topping plac for an on goin the same as before - we got about 40 head ready and through they addl d up the two hor th y w r 1 ading started for the river on a run. They were thirsty and hit the and went the r t of th wa . Jack and th do -tor m water good. Miller and Billy Stevens were there with boat back b[...]k Spurgeon said, "We'll tring the whole work out and bring to pick up the hor th y had 1 ft th r h wa told that them down on high and get them in the water.' They both hor e had di d. Th y wer qui fat and hadn't b n followed the others across. It wa n't[...]ow with calve my hor e in th liv r barn and got om thing to a . r and it really amused me to see the cow no e their cal[...]notic d that m hor e didn't m to b a fr a h hould them. b but I k pt on and pr tt oon I couldn t g t mor than We warn the[...]him . Id id d Id b tter if I ouldn t find a and led them aero behind th boats. Th cook took the ranch oon . Ir d up on a ridg and aw whatlooked lik a me wagon and b d wagon down and cro d them on the ranch off in th di tanc . I rod o r th r and kn wit wa ferry. Before long camp was et u[...] |
| had told me of being there and this fitted his description. soon as I was old enough for the Pot Hound Pool and spent Riders at that time thought nothing of going into a place, many of the following years in the[...]ce, there was no one there, but before long I saw a rider coming up. I went out to meet this stranger and noticed that he was riding a Hot X. I remember well the first thing he said to[...]FFERSON RED EAGLE would he?" He added, J'l've got a whole string of broke saddle horses running out t[...]rlie Bell." I told him who I was, then we went in and got supper. Jefferson Red Eagle was a scout for the army in the early The next morning after breakfast he went out to get the days, and like all scouts of those times, he roamed between[...]ere were big wings leading out from Forts up and down the line. He finally settled in Calais, the[...]addling up, but he finally took off to was a little village then with several Indian homes gro[...]se of frequent gate after them while he unsaddled and turned his horse floodings, the homes were moved up on the hill, closer to loose. He took his rope and told me to get mine and to catch Fort Kipp. any one of the horses, as they were all broke. I looked them all over and remembered that I had about forty miles yet to go. I spotted a buckskin that looked as though it hadn't been rid[...]etting me know that it was broke. I threw my rope and made damn sure this horse was in it. As soon as t[...]he came right up to me. I took him out, fastened a bolin around his neck, and tied him to the corral. This Bell had already caught his horse, and it was pretty snaky. Out of the comer of my eye,[...]rouble, but he got the job done. He slid onto him and the horse shot up in the air like a flash. It was time to try mine to see what I had. He too went up into the clouds but I managed to gather him and knew then for sure that I was riding a broke horse. Bell then offered to show me a shortcut through the breaks. When we reached the spot he stopped his horse who was still very nervous and wouldn't stand. Pretty soon he shot into the air and when he came down, he turned him around. He said[...]in that corral?" I replied, "I just threw my rope and he happened to be in it." When I got through the breaks I saw a horse with a saddle on but no rider over on a hillside. When I got closer, I saw a fellow stretched out on the ground with his hat .Jver his eyes. As I rode up, he got up and I saw it was George Mow, one of the Evans men. He said, "Well Bill, I see you have a new mount." He unhobbled his horse and we started off together. Riding along, he noticed[...]him. I then told him of my experience. We rode on and reached camp that evening. A few days later Howard Pitzlen was sent over to the Hot X to return the horse I had borrowed and to bring my horse back. In 1922 I helped Guy McConaha take a small bunch of Frye Cattle to the Brockton ferry. We had to catch these Elmer and Mary Red Eagle and their children: Sterling, cattle and drag them on to the ferry. Fred Fear, the Reba and Goldie. manager of the Frye Company was on the other side of the river and when we got aero with the cattle he hired me and my two hor es, and I was with the Frye Cattle Company for the next three and one half years. My first Tom Bear's f[...]fferson's brother; Bear's name wagon boss was Cox and then Lou Pardon. Later Eth Ryan having[...]y Red Bear. (In the early days the was wagon boss and also a cattle buyer. Eth Ryan and his Indian people did not name their chi[...]bosses I ever worked for . Jefferson and his wife Elsie had five children: Lloyd, In 19[...]my own. My cattle Harold, Elmer, Charles and Thelma. All of them are living brand is 3 on the right hip and the right thigh on horses. I in the a[...] |
| Lloyd Red Eagle became a Presbyterian minister, and In 1906 I couldn't leave home to go t[...]h of Fort Kipp was named in Mr. Rishell and my father were friends they made his honor.[...]down to the river every morning and Mr. Rishell would send a boy to row the boat across the river to get me. I[...]helped Mr. Rishell with the younger children and corrected MR. RISBELL papers and so on for the higher grades. In return, Mr.[...]Lucy Fisher He filed a claim on a 160 acre homestead across the river[...]teacher at the Riverview Day Friday night and back Monday morning. He just squatted School at Riverside. He was a nice young man with a lovely there for several years until the land wa opened for wife and small son, Donny. They lived in a nice teacherage homesteading. When it was pr[...]They left and went back east to live in Michigan near[...]there and graduated from the Elmwood High School. I[...]attended college in Oclair and River Falls, Wisconsin and[...](first teacher at Riverside school), Mrs. Risbell and her mother about 1906. Margery and "Rode " Rodewald dr ed up for th[...]r c ived a tel phon call n on a · king m to[...]kota . Wh n G. . took to a t hi[...]about 1906 and I along with it until it i[...] |
| [...]first game in Brockton, I made three home runs, and my last; I was fifty-three years old and was asked to pinch hit.[...]There were two strikes on the batter and two outs in the last[...]ning. I batted right hand (I usually batted left) and hit[...]Note: according to Keith Lund that ball landed in a box car and wound up in Chicago, Illinois.[...]lived in Brockton 46 years and has 17 grandchiidren of[...]ANTON AND ANNA RUFFATO[...]back to Italy to get our parents and Dominic. Dominic was[...]I settled in Illinois and worked in the coal mines. In 1911[...]There was a young fellow on the train who could speak[...]English and also my language. I had a gun on the train, in a case. He asked me what was in the case. I told him I had a gun and since I had already told him I was going to Gordon (Rode) Rodewald and Baby Rhoda - 1939 Brockton, he said it was a good thing I didn't have[...]hiskey. He told me I was going to the reservation and they would search me and if I had whiskey they would put[...]ey, in my suitcase, but I I worked for the W.P.A. from 1937 until 1939, then in the didn't tell him. I picked up my suitcase and my accordian Farmers Elevator, then I took over Jaumottes store for and went to the rest room. I opened up my accordian and about two years. That was a bad venture, I went in the hole, put the whisk[...]tle; it wouldn't fit. I then I worked for Johnson and Evenson in their garage put it in a cracker box and threw it out the window when we were a few yards from Brockton; the train was still unti[...]for fifteen years. When Frank retired I and get it." stayed on at the Mattelin ranch for abou[...]was the janitor of the Brockton school for awhile and also school clerk until 1967. I am I said, "No, we have to go back," and I told him about the presently the city clerk of Brockton. whiskey. We went back and it was all right; it hadn't In 1929 I married[...]rockton. broken. I had wrapped it in paper and my "hanky". We had two children, a girl Betty and a boy, Gordon Jr. E ther died when Gordy and Betty were still young. Betty grew up and married Mike Mariani of Havre, Montana. Gordy mar[...]Margery Flieschman was the daughter of Albert and Harriet Hancock, he wa born in Re erve Montana. Her father died in a threshing accident when he was a baby. When he was three year old her mother married Lloyd Flieschman and she grew up as Lloyd Flieschman's daughter. She grew up in the Culbertson area and came to Brockton to work for Mr . Lodmell, I was[...]. Lodmell at the time. We were married in 1936 and have three daughters Rhoda Meyers of Everett, Wa hington Margery Shanks of Brockton and Mavis Loegering of Poplar. I can best remember[...]eball with the Brockton team. My brother, Charle and I had played baseball in Power Lake, he wa a pitcher and I wa a hort stop and catcher, but when I came to Brockton they put me[...]ong in 1937 who wer better. Grace James and Marie. Left to right front row: Mrs. Anna Then I mostly pinched hit and played third. I remember my Ruffato, David and Anton Ruffato.[...] |
| [...]untry; there were no trees. Where I Prino and Steve Pistocco. Th ey took a fa rmer from there came from you just go out of town and there were trees all along with them a s they did not know an ything a bout over, but I stuck it out because my mother w[...]left St. David, Illinois, the last week of August a nd mine was twelve miles. They took me down there time and went to Lewistown, Montana. The n ext[...]e again but couldn't keep me. I proved up my land and Brown Land Company, which was sellin g[...]from. I didn't stay land, had three buggies and drivers ready to take th em out there long; I went to Indiana and worked in the coal mines to Hobson to show them the land. J oe a nd Steve Ruffatto there. picked a half section a t $10.00 a n a cre a nd th e rest were I was doing pretty good in I[...]s working until coming back the next day and look for more la nd; they they shut down the mine[...]aw went back to Lewistown for the night. a red penny come in. I sold my place in Montana and left Indiana without owing nobody nothing. I m[...]l mine here. I worked for Metzger, "Slim" Simons, and Charlie Rowe. Charlie Rowe had a coal mine farther east; there were three coal min[...]oal mine when I was fifteen years old in Illinois and if you don't learn when you are fifteen, you neve[...]told me. Then the war broke out, two years later, and George came to me and says, "Do you want to work?" "I don't grow you[...]have six children: Marie, Pete, Grace, Jim, Rosie and Dave. During their many years in Brockton, the[...]to town in the thirties, Anna (Annie) has worked a s Joe Ruffato family. Left to righ t back row: Quin to, Ida, store clerk and the head cook at the Brockton school for Pete, Flora and Raymond. Middle: Nellie and John. Front: many years. She has provided the tow[...]h Giovanni, Steve, George, Mary and Joe Ruffatt-0. countless ravioli for various occasions and to t his day still makes mounds of the best Christmas candy ever . Rosie Ruffato Thumm passed a way in February, 1976.[...]It was the second of eptember and that night it nowed[...]your corn crop. o they talked it over and they were a little THE RUFFATTO FAMILY[...]fee, o they stopped in uJbert on. Tha · a bar th y The Ruffatto br oth ers and Frank Bertino, their brother - met a man that knew ju t wher th nd on[...]years during the winter months. River wa a lready taken. o uJb th Fort I[...]August 1908 the orthern Pacific Railroad brought a The n t morning for h h ut and car on the railr oad and left it there for how. It had all of the how d[...]isplay to get people They cro d th riv r a o b rr . H to come to M[...]owned the land 20 mile had two buggi and to and on both side of the railroad on every other ction. They Frank B rtino and had o f needed people to sell the land to, so the Ruffatto and land in ontana. H w h Bertinos dec·ded to come out and take a look. The railroad had th m fil on land[...]1 gave them rate on their tickets and when they decided to vent BilJ McDonou[...]water. He figur d that th d and i and Steve Ruffatto, Aldo and Cleto Viara John Fra ca, proved up[...]ino, Costelo Brizzelo, Dominic have a good pa ture for hi h .[...] |
| men down north of Lambert and settled them there as he was run by Wa[...]had the only store, cafe and post office in Brockton. Bill Neil made a mistake; he thought that the Italians Our cows were tied to a post on a long rope so they could would not stay long, as it was cold for them in the winter in eat and were moved every few days. Since we did not have a Montana, but he got fooled. They stayed.[...]ght. They packed then they went back to St. David and worked in the mines so tightly in some[...]winter. In the spring of 1909 the three men, Joe and them. Some died from heavy rains in June. Steve Ruffatto and Frank Bertino came back and lived in a Joe started to build a barn and chicken coop. He dug a tent and cut logs for their three houses. They bought four[...]top, brush on the logs horses from Johnie Curran and used them to haul logs up and hay on top of that and that was our barn. The chicken to the place where[...]was built the same way, only smaller. All of the and John Fresca stayed with them while they were cutting manure had to be hauled out in a wheel barrel, up hill. That logs for the houses.[...]welve-inch boards; the roof was five logs longway and got a job working for Walter Clark in his store, cafe and twelve-inch boards the other way, tar papered and covered post office. with five inches of[...]In the fall of1911 after all the hay was put up and oats cut started to leak and had to be fixed. and hauled in, Joe went to Havre, Montana, and worked in In the spring of 1910, Joe, Steve, Frank, Joe's wife and the coal mines until the first of April. Mother fed the cows Raymond, who was four years old came out and lived in a and mules. Grandma and Dominic stayed on Steve's place. tent while the m[...]uses. Joe's wife Steve went to St. David and worked in the mines there until was doing the coo[...]uld have more time to April. work. Pete and Emma stayed with Grandma Ruffatto that That spring they broke up some land and seeded oats and summer as Grandma was then Ii ving in St. David. 30 acres of flax. In the fall Petrik came and thrashed our The houses were finished in August and Joe's wife went first crop. On September 10, 1912 a baby girl was born. Mrs. back to St. David because she was expecting a baby. Frank Inghosh took care of m[...]ne, three we got our coal. He would make a few dollars blasting coal wells dug and rocked up; the water was poor so the house for the neighbors. and drinking water was hauled from the river (the 1913 was a good year. We had wheat, flax and oats in and Missouri).[...]e all alike, two rooms, two small windows and a pig house. The big trouble was the river; it woul[...]flood the bottom so we had to move when it did, and it did on each end, east and west, one door facing south. We had curtains for[...], so we had to move up to Steve's kitchen, dining and living room all in one. place until it dried out. In the spring of 1911 Joe and Steve Ruffatto and Frank In 1914, after another flood, we bought Steve's place. Bertino came out and did some plowing for crops the last Ste[...]lace brother Anton had part of May. Joe went back and Dominic, his 13 year old filed on abou[...]Frank Enghert took brother, came out with him on a freight railroad car. They care of mother at that birth. There was a fair crop that year. had two cows, two mules, and farm machinery, plus 1915 was another good year; by then we had a few more household furniture and 200 chickens. horses and cattle, more land cleared and more crops in. When they got to Brockton they unloaded the stock and In 1917 we started to build a house on Steve's place. Lars wagon. They hitched the mules to the wagon, loaded the Larson and Chris Christensen helped build our new house furniture on the wagon, tied the cow to the wagon and on the same place Steve's old house was at. The new house Dominic had a stick and walked behind the cows so they was 36[...]ning wouldn't pull back. They cro ed the river on a cable ferry. room. We thought we had a pretty good place. They had to make a few trip to get all of the furniture In the summer of 1919 we built a barn 36 x 38. There were home. It took them two w[...]ynd Joe' family came out in June 1911. Grandma and Polly working for her. On July 27, 191[...]to St. Mitchell took care of mother for a few days. In the year of Paul, Minnesota the trai[...]months later Steve was born. In pepper , vinegar and oil, so he made her elf some salad Dec[...]4 Mary was born. he wa the la t child in dre sing and ate them. he took the p pper , broke them our family. apart, hook the ed out on the floor and dipped her There were ten children, Dad Ma and a hired man to pepper in the salad dre ing. The conductor came and cook for but we had plenty of food. We had all the meat of gave her a sack to put her seeds in but she aid "If he thinks any kind and raised a big garden so we never went hungry. he i getting[...]the In 1925 we bought our fir t car, a Model T Ford that was floor." She could not speak[...]d not know worn out but to us it was a real car. It had a box on it like a what he was aying, he thought he wanted the eeds to truck; the roof was of wood and the cloth wa gone, so when plant. He told mother[...]it rained it rained inside o we cut the roof off and had a seeds on the floor, but Grandma wa mad o she did it "runabout". In the fall of 1926 we bought a new Ford anyhow. Touring car for 371.00 with a top you could letdown, quite When we got to Brockton, teve met u with the wagon a car. The same fall we bought our fir t tractor an I.H.C. and took us all across the river on the cable[...] |
| traded it for a John Deere on rubber, the first rubber tire[...]ood. church and school. In 1929 we had a depression; the banks closed up and got Gordon served in the United tates A[...]. The price of wheat was down to War II and was wi th th e a rm y in the Philippin and 24¢ per bushel. Cattle were $20.00 per head, the[...]per dozen , overseas duty. butter ten cents a pound and in 1930 and 1937 we had a big Mom died in July, 1944 after a long battle with cane r. I drought. One year we had 53 days without a cloud in the think it was about 1946 when Dad gav up th e Farm r sky, May, June and July. We had to sell most of our cattle. E[...]wa janitor at th chool , I We kept the best ones and put them in the brush by the believe for about a yea r a nd he operated th e ozy af for river and bought some cotton cake, oats and old straw to about a year. I helped in th e cafe also. He wa man ger o[...]the Peavey E levator for a sh ort time before he retir d and In 1932 we bought a case engine from Willis Endmen in left[...]home. We got south Dakota. of Culbertson and it broke down. We went back to[...]cia l teach er in Brockto n High chool Culbertson and got parts off another one and fixed it up. It for six years and a long with h lpi ng ad with th family , took four days. We got a pump with it and I.H.C. ma de of church a ctivities was a member of the Brockton Women ' cast iron that wei[...]to get it down club which was very active a bout t hat time. by the water to pump but we got it there and used it. At the time we were growin g up ther Im ure w didn 't We pumped water and irrigated up to the year 1937. In realize how rich our lives were. Along with a ll the other 1938 it rained and rained and after that we didn 't use the Brocktonites[...]sorrows, and tragedi e . Every o often I fi nd my elf Someti[...]938 Dad had some kind of remembering and telling to my child ren about the fun stroke that[...]de. He never got times we had growin g up in a small town - the play put over it and on November 15, 1938 he passed away.[...]ating, tobogganing do wn the 'Big Hill ", Raymond and Quinto bought the home place. Later Mother[...]on as the three youngest children were and the wien er roa sts on to p of t he "Big Hill ".[...]re through there. sh e moved to Billings as Steve and Mary were going to college. When they were through she bought a house in Sidney, where she lived for a few years. Raymond built a new house in 1950 where the old h ouse THE CHARLES SCHLE Z FAMILY was and put an apartment in for mother. She lived th ere[...]so uth of Brockton , on we t barley r ek. H u ed a THE C.J. (CLEMENT) SAMUELSON FAMILY[...]building a hou e. Bill eil help d locat the horn tead and by Lois Samuelson Wrigh t[...]That fall harl brought hi wif and ight childr n by Clement J . amuelson was firs t in t his a rea a bout 1917 or train to ulbert on , Montana . H had an immigrant car 1918 when he and a partner were grain buyer and bought and brought hor and cattl and machin ry. Fr d Fo Canadian bonded grain . He was born in Minne ota but homesteaded in Canada and it eem to me that he had to go through some legal ch a nnels again to becom a citizen of t h e United ta tes. ince Mom wa hi wi[...]nnel . I believe thi took plac at Poplar . The a muelson famil moved to Brockton in the pring of 192 , coming fro m Lone Tree, orth Dakota wh re Dad a lso ra n a grain elevator . Mom , Dad, ordon, Don and I made up our family at that time. Wallac wa born[...]with Dr. .J. Munch in attendance. Victor Harriet, and arol wer born in Willi ton orth Dako[...]ganizing the fir t Farmer Elevator annual meeting and picnic with much help from the Board of Director . I do rememb r that it was quite a full day with a big picnic lunch at noon after them ting, with a ball game, all kind ofraces band playing ata band tand in the cit park , and a dance floor built for ju t that purpo e in the park. Oh , e , and fir work on top of the big hill as it was alway at that time of th year. Both Mom and Dad wer chart r m m b r of th Lutheran church wh nit wa organized and w kid w r chl nz place in Brock[...]our Luth ran hurch in E ther and E ther Oar.[...] |
| [...]bove Liens Store in Brockton. "They dressed me up and made me dance a jig".[...]I remember a basket social in Brockton. I wanted to buy[...]PRINY AND IRENE SCHLENZ[...]Bank. She later went to work for the Armstrong and[...]. Marie Schlenz, Grace, Charley, Lilly, Andy, Eva and Esther. helped haul everything to the homestea[...]e" |
| [...]enz - 1918 Charles and Julia Schultz - 1940 Soon after their marriage Priny and Irene took up their foreman George ick, and tran f rred to the coal chut |
| work on the gymnasium during a layoff from my work on the track. My brother, Harry, worked for Roy Sparks as the City Drayman, and then as janitor at the school until his death in[...]s janitor. We saw the town increase in building and population in the late 30's but was of short duration and lost what it had gained in the 40's. We enjoyed our work and the Brockton people. After our home burned, we mo[...]d away May 17, 1967. Sara lives near Boise, Idaho and Marjorie in Red Wing, Minnesota.[...]w to young manhood farming Edward, Jerry and James (sons). Front row left to right: around Creston. In 1913 he moved to Montana and Geneva, Alice, Gladys and June (daughters). homesteaded on Charley Creek so[...]of Brockton. a home there and Fosco and Frances spent their spare time[...]Fosco and Frances Simons had eight children, who since[...]adulthood have spread out and now are: Mrs. Geneva[...]Richard, deceased; Jerry of Helena; Edward and Jim both[...]Roy and Nellie (Fields) Sparks came out to Montana[...]n Richland County. They came by train to Brockton and[...]Later dad got a job managing the old Bob Reid ranch. He In 193[...]the foreman of the high way filed on a homestead just south of the ranch, and they maintenance crew out of Brockton, a po ition he held for improved the place and later moved on the homestead. over 25 years until[...]ing long before work wa done by hor e . Fo co had a three hor e team daylight and getting back after dark. Their nearest that wa occa ionally mi taken for "plugs" and was neighbor were the Ruffattos, Ben Prichards, Everett challenged to a race. Fo co would simply unhook the road ullen , Floyd Candee and the Paul Patche . I can grader and the race wa on, with Fo co' hor e commonly[...]or In tho e day highway maintenanc was trictly a came by sled or wagon. summer job[...]Peck to All road were graded up by men and hor e . I can work on the Dam. He worked with th[...]ho remember the crew getting caught in a severe hail storm. were imported from back ea t to put in the huge generators. Teams ran away and took to the rims above the badlands. They were a tough bunch, called hard hat , but Fosco fit[...]aten by the hail; luckily, no one right in being a little "tough' himself. wa[...]ver to Poplar or Brockton wa quite road equipment and Fo co became the master of heavy difficult sometime . In the winter even a well hod hor e mechanized road graders and snow plows, highway had trouble keeping its t t, a there would be stretches of maintenance had become a year round job. glared ice. In the early pring and late fall, the ferry always[...] |
| [...]Otto, Leonard, Elvina and Alga torm - 1920 Roy and Nellie Sparks with their oldest grandchild, was pulled from the river. This left just a row boat, and in |
| under hi feet. Bill laid down and rolled the rest of the way aero to keep from breaking through. After a few years in Brockton, Bill sold his share of the tore to Leonard and old his homestead. He moved to 0 wego where he bought another farm and another store. He married Helen Helbert, who was[...]in Oswego at the time. They have two sons, Wayne and Charle . Bill and Helen are living in eattle, Washington at the pre[...]his brother to Brockton in the 1920' . He bought and dismanteled the livery stable and built a garage and filling tation on the site. He built a home clo e to the tation and he and his father maintained cabin behind the garage for[...]0' Herman old his garage to Joe Frerich of Poplar and moved out of Brockton. Eddie torm came to Mont[...]n. While he was still working for Luke he got ick and died when he wa only 21 years old. fter hi wife died , Otto torm joined his ons and daughter in Brockton. He bought ome land a short di tance from the Jelden farm and later moved into Brockton and established a group of cabins to rent behind Herman garage. He[...]One summer Brockton had a big Fourth of July I THE EARLIER DAYS Celebration. They had a free ferry crossing, so all the[...]Grace Turner Dehner river and waited their tum to cross the river. Some waited[...]ss. There were no My parents came from Illinois and homesteaded about cars in those days so[...]they lived there, Jim After the events and the day was over it was too late to did a lot of hi bu ine in Brockton hauling wheat there[...]e long trip back home so we stayed over, sleeping and buying a large upply of groceries. He also had to get on the floor at the Ole Lien's home and went home the next hi wood there for burning in t[...]help out at ummer time he would cro the river in a ferry boat and in the Lien home for awhile, taking care of the children and the winter they would drive aero son ice.[...]In about 1931 I went back to Brockton for a visit with my cousin and then helped Mr . Lyons for awhile in her[...]r taurant from Mr . Lyon , I tayed and worked for them.[...]he fall of 1926 the restaurant again changed hand and[...]of 1927 when I married John Dehner and moved north to hi farm. John and I still did a lot ofbu ine sin Brockton,[...]hauling in our wheat and buying our groceries.[...]stove in the restaurant. It was a quiet little town really a[...]much for entertainment, a dance occa ionally. I worked ven day a week- ther wa no reason for a day off, no[...](Badger law cklac ) wa born Mae , Frankie, and Grace.[...] |
| [...]rty-five Indian encampments there at the time, as a fresh water spring is located at the site. He was[...]started Government chool. George Washington was a life long resident of the Brockton area and he shared the communities pride with two other pr[...]their name when starting school, Grover Cleveland and Thomas Jefferson.[...]p d n HOMER B. A D VIOLET WI LOW ca[...]cow ut Homer B. Winslow and hi daughter, Violet, cam to Montana from Chicago[...]w B r thi area. Homer got a job with the orporation and w tilh g w i1 made foreman of a crew at Box Elder, wher man of th Corporation cat[...]oft g th b for the cattle, and many of them di d of tarvation wh n[...] |
| [...]rner by Liens tore. Here the horse would rear up, and the town people were treated to a spectacular sight. "Billie" never fell off, they[...]hat surprised at the feat. Billie always bought a box of Hershey chocolate candy bar with her groceries and put all in a gunny sack, tying it on the back of her saddle to[...]d come to Brockton via the boxcar mode of travel, a popular way of getting places during the Depression Days. Jim Elgie met him in a box car in Minneapolis and convinced him to get off at Brockton to look for work. He found work at Winslow's in 1934 and ended up marrying the farmer's daughter.[...]Brockton, where he managed the Brockton Hotel for a short time before opening up his own shoe[...] |
| [...]ide of street looking north: Pool Hall, Armstrong and Brooks Store, Barbershop and Beauty Parlor, Post Office, Rice's Confectionary,[...]h: Rice's Confectionary, Post Office, Barber Shop and Beauty Parlor, Armstrong and Brooks Store, Pool Hall. At the end of the street[...]George Barth. econd row: Mr . A.M. Lodmell, Franc[...] |
| [...]"Cooking Stew" Lucy Redeagle and Isabel Hollow. The Schulz family, Otto, Ma bel and son Robert.[...]Cham bers, Esther Curran and Donna Curran - 1911 .[...]MilSSH(QI ARY |
| [...]birth place of Jake Big Horn. "A hunting we will go." Ludwig Loen, Clarence Lodmell Bob sled built by Ike[...]o right: Alma Hauling wheat- 1925. Luke Ji Iden and daught r Boot ie. First family car - 1916. Mr. and Mr . Maurie ombiningon th |
| [...]Bill Storm and Luke Jelden stacking hay, baby is Bootsie[...]ated left to right: Myrtle, Alma, Oliver, Woodrow and mother, Hans Hoff by his home tead hack in 1915[...]mother, Grandma Hoff and nephew, Buster Johnson.[...] |
| ANDERSON AND BIEM COMMUNITIES th[...]Brockton. He worked for Al Rochelleau and in 1925 bought by Rachel el on Berglee a quarter section of his land. He acquired more lan[...]Hereford cattle and farmed. Later years he sold his cattle A far as the eye could see were rolling hills, on and on and spent a great deal of his time at Saco Hot Plunge blendin[...]ion of Roosevelt County, Montana. The and is farmed by Henry V ollertson. area 14 mile nort[...]he JOHN AEREBOE Ander on and Biem Communities. How did the communitie get th[...]John came from North Dakota in 1917 and filed on a home teader come to this area? Why did they come and quarter section north of Frank Korton. He worked on the where did they come from and their former occupations? railroad section in Brockton and also for Varner Nelson. The e and many more que tion we are going to answer[...]ed in about 1925. John Reum farmed his land until and pre erve for the coming generations so they may k[...]MR. AND MRS. OLE ANDERSON Ole and Sophie Anderson came from Minnesota. They[...]investing in land and making a lot of money. They homesteaded and also bought some land. When the[...]Mrs. Anderson bought a house in Poplar and lived there a number of years until her home burned down.[...]aa , Olga Reum, Margaret Berglee Clifford Berglee and Byron el on. Back row: Rachel Nelson, Lucille Yod[...]ft his Hazel Yoder, ylue ter Reum, Phillip Ne/ on and Mathew home in Denmark and arrived in Coulter, Iowa. There he el on. unda[...]r . Charles made hi home with hi aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Nel on who took th picture. The unda chool was first Jacob Chri ten en and family. Hans worked on farms and organized b Edwin Lar on a few year earlier. the railroa[...]to farm him elf. In 1917 he left Iowa and came to Montana where he filed on a half ection of land in Rao evelt[...]an p plow d ad fenc , road chool and a digging and hauling rock in order to plow up hi land to ch[...]rai crop . In the fall aft r thre hing wa done and grain it b . I f wh t, b t , a ow h rn be f, nd mil a w hog prod v b anding. To our horn a pion · g neration ar grateful £ o th i d th ir joy a w conti v mmunitie , And r on an[...]'fan A mu n 1956 by[...] |
| hauled to town in a wagon pulled by four horses, he turned grasshoppers, hailstorms and many year no crop. Thi his work horses loose to f[...]Bredette hope that next year will be better, and so th year w nton Comm unity, north west of his homestead, where he worked and they did get somewhat better. in the Neilsen Coal Mine or worked for ranchers until Martin and Anetha were charter memb r of th Zion spring breakup. A couple of winters he spent in Poplar, Lutheran Church and were active member . Th church working at the Re[...]was the center of activity for the family and it brought As the years passed, he got his land broke up, fences and friends and neighbors together for fellow hip. buildings buil[...]Hans used to trap coyotes, husband and son, Loren . Clifford live on the farm wher badgers and skunks. Hans and his cousin, Chris Martin and Anetha lived. lifford married Rach l el on Christensen, also used to take Hans' hounds out and run of Culbertson and they have four childr n, B atrice, down coyotes.[...]helped bring in extra cash. Clifton, Milton, and Royal. Naomi died when eight month Hans sold h[...]Upon retirement from the farm , Martin and Anetha Eddie and Alice Schwarzrock. He then bought a home in moved to Wolf Point, Montana i[...]ived there until 1955 away August 1961 and Anetha continue to live at the when his health be[...]e in Wolf Point, Montana. to live with his cousin and wife, Chris and Ruth Christensen, until his death, December 24, 1[...]MR. AND MRS. ALBERT BIEM MR. AND MRS. MARTIN BERGLEE Mr. and Mrs. Albert J . Biem, daughter Ida and on Alvin,[...]came to Montana from Leeds, orth Dakota , and ettled |
| his violin, and Mrs . Claude Hawke would play the piano[...]ital for the dances. In the fall of 1926 they had a two-day in Poplar at the age of 75. Aft[...]took over Community Fair at the schoolhouse, with a rodeo, and the the farming interests, supporting his[...]death in May of 1956. exhibit, different breads and pastries for display. Mr. Biem had the post office for a while, then it was moved to the Chris Enghusen pl[...]rses. BIESEKER AND MARTIN The neighbors did a lot of visiting. On Sundays they would hitch up the team of horses to the wagon and go by Bill Mitche[...]in for dinner. It wasn't (a brother-in-law of Martin) unusual for people then to drop in for a meal at any time; they were always welcome. As to the Martin and Bieseker outfit, I worked for them in There wer[...]from Glasgow where I had worked church very often and would just read their Bibles. for th[...]when the threshing was going on and I believe they had[...]about 3,600 acres in wheat and flax. Eleanor Biem Buen, Alvin Biem and Stella Biem |
| [...]carpenter by trade and helped many horn tead r build[...]and tell of his love for Christ. Hi own hack i at th[...]to California and married . For a time h work d at the Hoover Dam. He built a beautiful home of native rock in[...]MR. AND MRS. ADOLPH BOLANDER Bunk houses at Bieseker and Martin[...]their east camp Adolph Bolander, his wife and on Billy. Adolph work d was, but am told that not[...]old site further for Frye Company in the 1920' and later had hi own west one and a half miles. Although someone told me that[...]ere moved over on that He was a hard worker and when a foreman for Frye Government Experiment Farm furth[...]e work was done that fall on Adolph offered a man a steady job he meant ju t that. Th my saddle horse and only had to go around one fenced story went that as a hired hand you worked long hour , homestead before I got to the old John Manning ranch and went to bed via kerosene lamplight in the bunkhou e each then past Dave Manning and down to the Muddy Bridge night, blowing out the light upon retiring, and when and was in Culbertson at 10:30 that night.[...]dark and in lighting the same kerosene lamp for light to[...]where he had a chicken farm. Thing did not go well and Adolph returned in the late thirties for a ea on to try and recoup. He managed to finance planting half a ection of flax and had a beautiful crop in the making, but ala ,[...]nature played a cruel trick and gra hoppers compl tely[...]took a short term job with a construction company in[...]Poplar, Montana, making enough to quare a few local debts and head back to the state of Wa hington la r that Bieseker and Martin Sheep Camp[...]terested in agricultural MR. A D MR . PETER BR TE development of Montana. He was a cashierin the heridan County State Bank of Plentywood. They engaged in Mr. and Mr . Peter Braaten wer o way. farm[...]. He Peck Indian Reservation and they were mtere ted m the wanted to[...]d , o ut production of wheat and flax. They rai ed fairly good did ·[...]dc w l n and eldest and twins Ardith and Arlin . After th fam1l bu· moved to[...]. . wh ought a horn . H did ard ork and t k ar of Maxine now Mr . Earl onver, re 1de m[...]childr n. Arlin Mr . Jame Watkin , r id in Libby and ha five childr n. Ardith Mr . A.J. Haid r of Billings has two childr n. B th, Mr[...]r daugh r . Harr artin r tir d from farming and mov d to H I na Mr. and Mr . P ter Braat n in 1941 wher he wa employed a cu todian for th ta[...]ad d north of th R heleau horn tead. H a a[...] |
| the cemetery for a number of years. After his death she went to Farg[...]oss-stitch pictures, birds, pheasants, wild ducks and many others. MR. AND MRS. WALTER BROWN by Mrs.[...]me from Illinos to |
| [...]lo t, and when dark ll, potted a light nd walk d[...]and in the morni m e · · t[...]direction,got lo t a Ion ,[...]came along in a wagon and ga t '[...]ick Byrne While on his vi it h lo a d d .[...]on this land , now op n, and bought P other machinery. He put up a building and pl his land. Chri lived with Han and th[...]Iowa wher he had a harne hop. Ti d[...]· Wyoming. He did not like it and came back to the then loaded his tractor and machin ry to Plentywood area.[...]he farmed until he retir d. In 1926 he took up a homestead 16 miles north of He marr[...]is farm in the worked for Jess Lar on for a number o summer and helped out various farmers in the winter, or two children - Ronald of Minn ap and ri ty when he could spare time from his farm.[...]Casperson of Champagne, Illinois. Chris and Ruth are till Pat bought some cattle, and as the crops improved, he living in Coulter[...]adding to his herd of cattle. He quit working out and devoted all his time to his farming interests.[...]to sell his cattle. He then farmed in the summer and went MR. A D MR . JIM CRAIGIE south in the winter. In the fall of 1965 he became ill and died in March of by Agn[...]There was a bumper crop in orthea t Montana in 1 16[...]n Jim Craigie arrived from Minneapoli looking for a location to start a store, but eeing the farm auling in[...]NSEN all that wheat, and gra knee high chang d plan and he filed on a home tead 16 mile north of Br ton on th[...]needed for a 12 b hack and hir d a m "th a Chris Christensen was born and rai ed at Coulter Iowa. team of hor e an[...]he a Chris arrived in Poplar he decided to walk out to Han ' tarp and bla[...]J hri and Ruth hri n - n on Ronald and daugh r hri t , 1[...]go in a[...] |
| [...]Jack Freeman, Duff and Mrs. Kuehnle and children, Back row left to right: Mrs. Gunder Vra[...]Rebecca Prior, Miss Hartkopf, Mrs. Craigie and Jim Berglee, Mrs. Oscar Qualley. Front row: Mrs. John Reum, Craigie, Jean Craigie and Charley Prior. Mrs. Julius Johnson and Mrs. James Craigie. trouble, but had a constant battle about what Agnes was to |
| weather forecasts as we had no aches and pains to warn us wagon to some deep pot hole full of water and h held the of a storm.[...]t to be fun for Jim as the horses pawed the water and, most important, the mail! They had a little trouble with their front feet, get[...]ition on the Giesen to break up 50 acres and they got their fir t wheat stovepipe chimney that[...]ad 50 wind. Jim expected to be back at about noon and by four bushels of wheat. Now again they waver d betwe n P.M. there was a full-fledged blizzard and Agnes was sure leaving and staying. Agne left for Minneapoli about th he was in it, so left a light in the window and about eleven middle of May and Jean was born there on July 2nd. Jim P.M., got into bed, worrying, weeping, and praying for Jim. was busy building another h[...]h hill. Ther wer Almost midnight the wind shifted and now it was really many neighbors now and August Dahlb rg liv d ab ut blowing. But the invention on the chimney didn't turn and two miles north of them. by the time she got her shoes and stocking on, the shack Mr. Dahlberg was a building contractor and kindly was so thick with smoke she had to leave t[...]dug the didn't wear jeans in those good old days and when she cellar and it wa a marvel, almost a refrigerator, o cool , climbed up the ladder she[...]ans brought up to the kitchen would sweat. He got a the roof, but it didn't and she managed to turn the thing water well drilling outfit in, but at 100 feet they struck olid around and get down and back in a very cold shack, still rock so could not[...]f she hadn't been so Beauchamp of Froid out and after getting down 325 feet worried about Jim she[...]t there was plenty of water, but silt and gravel cut the him. She finally got the smoke out and the fire built up, but leather in the pump cylinder. They had to pull the whole daylight came and no Jim. th[...]sleigh and barrels were covered with ice and he had to r[...]olid. Also they melted snow constantly. Beauchamp and |
| [...]e they came by immigration car with furniture and two Mr . Hartkopf al o lo t her cattle. horses. Mrs. Dahlberg and son Philip came two months They never did prove[...]s were. The west was later. They had filed on a homestead 17 miles north of a bit wilder then, with coyotes and wild mustang horses, Brockton. They built a shack in Brockton and waited until free on the range. The pioneers were[...]as the roads were in driving condition. mu tang and a few of them are still living, with very few of th[...]d away in eptember 1972. Jean ha one son, Dan. He and hi wife Helen have one daughter, Ann. Hazel and Curly Lockman have six children; Mike, Don, arol, Ru ty, Barbara and Susie. MR. AND MRS. ARVID DAHLBERG Arvid and Lillian Dahlberg Mr. and Mrs. Henning January 21, 193 . Looked a though there would be a Mr. Dahlberg pa ed away in 1924 at the age of 62. Mr. |
| OSCAR AND ELIZABETH DAHLBERG Carl and Josie. Carl died of a heart attack in Arizona[...]in 1952. Josie remarried by Darrel and Josie Dahlberg, to Alvin lien and they now reside in Brockton. Donald and Gay Dahlberg Oscar and Arvid had eparate lands, but owned machinery and were in partnership until 1951. Oscar was born[...]there were card partie , dances 1925, Arvid, Carl and Oscar came out to this area with in the homes and at the chool house, and fi hing at Poplar their Uncle August who had come[...]Creek with big fish frie . They farmed on share and lived with August for two years. In 1926 the three brothers leased some Indian land and started farming on their own. They built a 14 by 14 shack at Dehners in '26 and pulled it to a location five miles southeast of August's. Eli[...]unty--five miles from Oscar's folks . Elizabeth and Oscar were married in Balaton, Minnesota in Janua[...]hen moved to their shack. The winter of '26 Oscar and Elizabeth went back to Minnesota where Oscar picked corn and Doris was born. That spring the three came back to Montana. The weather was bad and they got stuck in their Model T Ford truck which[...]Oscar, Arvid and Merryll Dahlberg building their house,[...]and Darrell in 1938.[...]In the fall of 1946 they purcha ed a house in Poplar and[...]in Poplar in the winter and move to the farm for the[...]In 1951 Oscar and Elizabeth bought the Anna Hartkopf place, and with Vivian, El ie and Darrell, moved there.[...]Donna Dethman, Jim, Lori, and Ricky.[...]El ie married Earl Martin and live at anta Iara,[...]alifornia. The have thr children; Linda, Kath , and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dahlberg and family- ba,ck row: Earl Andrea . Martin, Le[...]El ie Martin, Vivian married Matt tephani and th Doris Bahner, Vivian Stephanie, Mrs. Donald Da[...]They ha v four childr n- arvin Darr 11 nni and a . Math and Marvin Stephanie, Donna Dahlberg. cond Darr 11 marri d Jo i Blu t, who wa a hing Poplar. row: Bonnie Stephanie, Darrell Steph[...]Martin, The hav thr childr n· D anna ar i and Darrell Dahlberg, Mrs. 0 car Dahlberg holding And[...]hlberg. Front row: Gay Stephanie, Deanna Dahlberg and Kath Martin. JOH[...]of Poplar. With Dori o mall and no heat in th truck, WO Elizabeth wa worri d, but with a Ii tl hoveling th go going again. Th fall of 1927 th y built on a kite nd up r . th After th y took th roof off th hack a r torm c up th o th y had to move to Prior for a a . h F fumitur got w t. The up tair had a floor and wal u w no c ilin o the kid had to 1 p with hot wa r bot up th t th r a ot o cold. a t . The t broth r tarte . h d dro a truck i 112 acr flax . Th y[...]h J f or 1 a ing f r th w r, J hn h d fil d hi horn d G[...] |
| came back in the spring and started farming with horses. He changed over to tractor farming and in 1927 he bought another quarter ofland from T.M. Armstrong who had the Arm trong Brooks and Tire at Brockton. This building now houses the FM[...]7, John married GraceTurnerwhowas then working as a waitress in the cafe in Brockton where he had been for a year and a half. Grace was born in Illinois in 1905 and came to Montana, 1 miles south of Brockton, with[...]Wind charger used for 1910. In 1926 a cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schultz, who[...]George is a mechanic at Bozeman, and Marie is a[...]Leon married Irene Schwarzrock in June 1957 and farms[...]Todd and Ward. John Dehner's house ran the hotel in Brockton, asked Grace to come to work for MR. AND MRS. HERMAN DETHMAN |
| [...]Springfield, Minnesota for a few years. They filed on two adjoining pieces in what later became In 1897 he met and married Maybelle McCleat. They known as the Soo c[...]to Grand Rapids, Minne ota. Here hri was by horse and buggy to get together supplies, consisting of[...]s employed at wagon, hayrack, plow, farming tools and seed flax. While the livery barn. breaking their land and building a sod house that first During these years three children were born to Maybelle summer they lived in a tent. and Chris. They were Myrtle, George and Willard. Th They returned to Van Hook that first winter. family moved to a farm outhea t of Grand Rapid , Spring found th[...]ar , ellin out in the hardships of picking rocks and farming with horses. 1916. They moved to Gettysburg, outh Dakota to work on Flaxville, 27 miles, and Reserve, 30 miles, were the two a ranch. towns where they freighted their grain, trailed cattle to On a trip back from pokane, Wa hington in 1917, they market and got their supplies.[...]d for Art was 21 years old when he homesteaded and as was homestead entry. The couple stopped at Wolf Point, essential in those days, he was a proficient horseman. He Montana and hired a locator, with a Model T car. Aft r a could ride or drive anything that resembled a horse. couple days of driving they filed on 320 acre on moke He ran a draft stallion with mustang mares. Horses then[...]north of Brockton, in an area which later ran far and free on the open range. It took long hard rides[...]ddle years when he In 1918 Chris returned and built a hou e and hir d 20 still could spend a long hard day running the range horses acre[...]nd his own. After he was settled on his homestead a few spent the winter. years he made a horseback trip back to Van Hook for a The spring of 1919 the family shippe[...]tana. and household goods. Moving out to the land created ome The ranch grew and prospered. problems, crossing the creeks, high with spring runoff and Ruby was a meticulous housekeeper and excellent cook, leaving one wagon for sev[...]ck in the mud. After making the small humble home a bright and cozy place. Two boys, Victor and Delmar, were born to them. They grew tough on the[...]only could break colts, he also managed to train a pail calf now and then, so he could ride it and fetch the milk cows in. Delmar, meanwhile, could be barely seen on the back of a tall bareback saddle horse glued to the withers and mane, Back r[...]and George. Front row: During the winters they rod[...]Glenn , Mr . Enghu en and They always went wide open the four miles to and from Chr[...]for the day, the soup kettle was well fastened to a led, that wa tied to the horse's tail , and it never slowed the pace of the horse, nor did they ever lose their sled and kettle. The family lived in Medicine Lake for high chool and by then Art decided to sell hi farm and find a place el ewhere to semi-retire and educate the younger boy. pay[...]1 ft o They moved to the Plains - Hot pring ar a . work with. A week later t of the fa mil arri d in a Art wa a resident of Plain for 17 year , Hot pring for[...]e, when he passed away at the age of7 . With him, a hri haul d lu om Ho with many others like him, i gone forever the era of the and an addition ou . Th d home teader[...]ught, blizzards, bad road , mean hor and the running in lar depression of the 30' to eke out a home in a n w land, and wand brok up a£ mor to rai e a family.[...]thr hing wa la , Ruby till lives at Hot pring a does D lm r and hi family . Victor is in cobey wher he and hi wi:£ run a lumb r yard, and bu iness a i ted by th ir four on and a daughter. Their olde t son i marri d and manag th lumber yard in Plentywood. Frank Schwarzrock own and live on th old ran h .[...]o ok m n MR. A D MR . HRI W. E GH E[...]T i m chool hou wa built. I wa u d for a 1 71. He came to the nited ta with hi two i m ting plac and n rtainm n ta w 11 a for[...] |
| [...]Through years of hardships along with Mr. Biem and Mr. ager, and anyone else who And lots of hard work; wanted to join in.[...]ged so the mail came out from Brockton. And faith in their land; The mail carrier came to the[...]me, with Chris as postmaster, So glorious and grand. until the post office was discontinued in[...]small. ome winters were hard, with lots And it's good pioneers. and lots of snow, then others were not so bad. The thirties brought more hardships and rough times, drought, dust storms, hail and poor prices. Feed was hard to get. Thi tle were used for hay. Hay and other feeds had MR. AND MRS. CLEMENT J. FRIEDENBACH to be shipped in. C[...]. Better years came again in the forties. Crops and prices In 1920 Clement J. Friendenbach left Garrison, North were better and cattle were worth more. Chris continued Dakota with his folks and came to the homestead that his farming until 1947[...]an, had acquired in this area. age. They sold out and moved to Sidney, where they spent They traveled by train as far as Homestead, Montana and their remaining years. came the rest of the way by team and wagon. In 1927, Chris and Maybelle's four children were married and Clement Friedenbach filed on a 320-acre homestead 22 have familie .[...]miles north of Brockton. A year later he built a one-room Myrtle married George DeRouchey. They had a family of shack, 10'x12', and started farming. He broke up about 20 four boy and one girl. Myrtle is deceased. acres that first year and seeded that into flax. The farming George married Alpha Wick. They have two boys and two girls. George and Alpha live in Sidney, Montana. Willard married Bertha Gustavson, they have two girls and two boys. Willard and Bertha live on a farm in the oo community. Glenn married Esther Petersen. They have two boys and a girl. Glenn and E ther live in Eureka, Montana. Mrs. Chris Enghusen passed away in 1950, as a result of Clement Freidenbach a car accident. Chris continued to live in Sidney u[...]After building on a romm,[...]was done with four horses, but he did borrow a tractor and a two-bottom plow to help with the breaking. With t[...]of his brothers, Jerome and Albert, he dug a thirty-foot well Mr. and Mrs. Chris by hand. This well was quite a distance from the house, so[...]Garrison, orth Dakota with his sister Agnes, and met Freda oukup. Clement and Freda were married in the spring of 1934 and returned to the farm. That fall they built[...]an addition to the home tead hack, and did more building on a the year went by and the family increased in ize.[...]and Han Zimmerman. Mo t of the hopping wa done in[...]Brockton and Poplar.[...]Clement Friedenbach rai d mo tly wheat and cattle. In PIO EER 1936 there was no crop and the only f, ed for the cattle wa[...]t worked for the Work Progres Adminis- They came and ettled down ; tration, which wa a government agency set up to help God loving peopl[...]people earn money during the depres ion year , a there Thi haven they had found . wa no uch thing a welfare paym nts in tho e years.[...] |
| The winters were very cold and we had lots of snow. Coal took up their home tead . Pat ttl don th E 1/:i of O Mik was used for heating and this was mined nearby in the fall on the 1/:![...]When Anna and Patrick were marri d, her brother[...]moved to operate a tore. With Mike's h lp th y built th Clement and Freda Friedenbach Medicine Lake to be ground in[...]warzrock, R. A D MR . P TRI K FOR[...]in ewYork ity.Ther Patop ra da tr tcar.H |
| came to Montana and homesteaded on 320 acres ofland 25 miles north of Brockton. He built himself a 10' x 12' shack and later bought a small house and moved that on to this farm. Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold Hoffman were their closest neighbo[...]Herman, Violet and Lawrence Giesen and Eddie[...]Reinhold Hoff- man and Edward Kas- chube.[...]Canada. She had two children. Frank and his wife live in Lincoln, Nebraska and have two children. Lawrence,[...]while in the service, married a girl from Florida. He and Cathy have three children - Robert, Fred and Margaret.[...]GUSTAFSON AND THISETH by Albert A. Gustafson writing this lady in Texas, who later became his wife, in I was born in 1901 in Minnesota and came to Montana in 1925.[...]we decided to move to Anderson community death by a hired hand who murdered them. He shot Mr. was to have a better chance of large scale farming, which Geisler behind the barn and his wife was kiJled in the we got by leas[...]t of the hou e. He loaded their bodies in the car and threw them in land then. the Muddy Creek near[...]stood Andrew Thiseth, Peder P. Moe and I formed a trial at Wolf Point, Montana and was found guilty. He was partnership under t[...]anging. Moe being a silent partner due to court litigation[...]Before forming the partnership Mr. Thiseth and I looked R. D MRS. HERMA[...]k, outh Dakota, January 18, Art Erickson and I drove up in the Jitney to look the place 1 92. He home teaded outh of the Ted Goedert place in 1916, and married Emily Kortan in 191 at Plentywood. They came to this area for home tead reasons and moved to Radville, a katchewan Canada in 1921. The oldest girl, Helen[...]ving to Canada . While in Canada he did carpenter and other work. There were ix more children born b fo[...]. They were Eli e Raymond, Alfr d , Violet Frank, and Lawrence. fter the death of Emily Gie en in February 1945, Herman and Lawrence (age 15) came back to the Ander on comm unity and settled on the Kortan home tead. Herman tarted farming the Kortan land in the spring of 19 7 and retired from farming the pring of 195 . He continued to make hi home with Lawrence and hi family . He died in 1962 in Thermopoli , Wyoming where he Gustaf on and Thiseth combines in 1917. had made hi home during the winter for the previou three winter . A of this writing Helen is Mr . Wendell Lewis of Tu[...]ews of over. Had ome kind of trouble with it and had a near car brough Toronto, Canada. he ha i children. tragedy. Art tried to cut ome tin with a jackknife which Raymond was killed in active rvice during World War II. lipped and cut Art' che t real bad.[...] |
| [...]I left Norway, June, 1910 at the age of 21 and arriv d at[...]stine, North Dakota July 6, 1910. Th r I w rk don a[...]farm for Joe Skarvold until 1915. Then I took a hort trip to[...]Montana, came back to Chri tine, North Dakota and in 1916 went to Emmons ounty, orth Dakota and w employed on a farm for thre years.[...]Then I went to Montana again and got a home ad in[...]My neighbors were W.C. Haydon and Mr. and Mr .[...]The nearest town wa Medicine Lake, 2 mile ea t. A long trip with team of hor e and wagon, o I had to bak my[...]th the 30-60 Mogul tractor (see the land and farms it. He lives at Medicin Lake durin the pic[...]g the In 1925 I joined up with Peder Mo and Alb rt foreman and myself doing the mechanical work although[...]ousand acre . We farmed ther until 1939. fencing and field work and putting up buildings. In the The spring[...]nter most of our repair work on tractors was done and we Dakota. made trips east to visit friends and relatives. January 3, 1928 I[...]Her father homesteaded there. Her mother and dad with Brockton then had three general stores,[...]xperiences traveling by train, dealer, one hotel and no bars then during prohibition. wagon, and horses. Agnes lived there until 1927 when he[...]on community came back to the United tate and to Montana. he twenty years except for two years duty in the navy during worked as a cook for Gustafson , Thi eth and Moe on the World War II. After returning from na[...]We have one son, Anders, born 1933 at ulber on, and moved to Christine, North Dakota.[...]t year At one time we had 4,800 acres in crop and the big snow we retired and moved off the farm and rented a hou ea year of 1927 when we had over four foot of[...]way from the farm. We have thr e ground for quite a while. The following year 1928 was the grandchildren, two girls and a boy. big yield when spring wheat made 55 bushels[...]over 70,000 bushels of wheat piled on the ground and had very A AHARTKOPF little weather loss. Tragedies[...]me by train from Wau au, Wi con in neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. Albert, had the misfortune of Mr. to[...]ar later h bought thi land fr m him. drowning in a road ditch. Hi car hit a rut in the road ju t wrong. Our place was right on the old Plentywood to Poplar trail. There was quite a bit of traffic through the place then. About 1926[...]r which wa all th county could afford. They hired a man to run the grad r but th ·farm r along the road furnished the tractor . W u ed our trac r for about two and a half mile of th Brockton north road . We graded about a mile a day. Some of the poor crop year wer th dirty hir i . Bad one were1933and1934andthenin1937wen v r ookth combine out. That wa a wa hout. In the early summer of 1925 th Indian[...]Anna Hartkopf and h r fir t car, th fir t car in th[...]neighborhood - 191 . MR. A DMR. DREW HI ETH Andrew Thi[...]rw I ka, h r h u hand |
| picnics on Poplar Creek. Beatrice remembers a terrible northern Minnesota with his parents settling on a farm cyclone one summer that twisted Aunt Anna's new there. windmill into the ground and carried the granary into the After helping his parents for several years, he fulfilled garden and flattened it out. It also hailed, the largest that his ambition to attain a better education and attended and anyone had seen at that time.[...]school. Dshlberg bought her farm. MR. AND MRS. CLAUDE HAWK by Freda Friedenbach Claude Hawk and his wife, Bess, came to this area from Bill and Lucy chwarzrock lived and farmed with All n He wa born June 7 1 9 at Boon Iowa a on of , , |
| [...]s - the eldest, Kathryn, made her career teaching and married Joyce Cherney, of Nashua, Montana. They had four children. Daughter Hazel, a registered nurse, was united in marriage to Pete[...]five children. The youngest daughter, Velma, was a fine arts graduate and was married to Jim Savoie of California. They had[...]live with us after her mother's death. She became a secretary and married Dayton Larsen of Minnesota. To this union[...]e of by the use of binders, the grain was shocked and then threshed by a neighbor that owned a threshing machine. The neighbors all joined in to help with theshing. In 1928 Allen and his brother Elmer, bought one of the first three[...]ated much of the hard labor. The 1930's brought a depression to our area; besides having a lack of rain and dust storms, one year an He enj oyed playin g the violin for hi hobby and played invasion of army worms destroyed the crops. A few years for many dances at the Ander on chool hou e that the later rains came and we saw a reward for our hard work. entire community enjoyed. Custom combiners from Texas and other southern states He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church in the started[...]ipment needed for Elmer succumbed to a short illness in February of 1971 harvest, bringing along their own crews of men, bunk a t the age of 81 years. houses for the crews sleeping quarters and some kind of trailer house for the cook to prepare the meals in. This shortened the harvest period and made it possible for our grain to get off the land and into the grain bins much MR. AND MRS. REINHOLD HOFFMA sooner than before. Allen and I were members of the Zion Lutheran Church[...]n the Anderson community until we retired in 1952 and moved to Poplar, Montana where we attended the St. Reinhold Hoffman had a lways wanted to ee the world, John's Lutheran Chu[...]ent many hours with his lawn Ton y Geisler, and went to anada. hortly after arriving and flowers which he loved . in Can a da h e decided to enter the ni d tate and went The highlight in our life was a trip to the Holy La nd in to Un derwood, orth[...]in the coal 1964 traveling through many countries and spending mines and did general farm work. In the fall of 191 eight d[...]Edward Ka chube, Paul and Bill Wei , Ton Gei ler and Allen passed away December 17, 1970 at the age[...]available for home tead in northea rn Montana and[...]land id, and a Elmer Hess was born June 7, 1 9 at Boone, Iowa on of chn · ration. Mr. and Mrs. William Hess of German de cent.[...]hen mov d to north rn wid Min n esota fo r a sh ort stay with hi parent and th n to a Mon tan a, ettling in the P lentywood area wh r hi[...]ny. Following t he war h e ettl d on hi home ad and with hi twin brother, wa a wheat farm r . Elm r ho k d and thre hed grain on hi own farm and th neighbor during the 1920 . In 192 he and All n bought on of th fir t thr combin th at came[...]t d pite th hard y ar Elm r n v r b am di couragd and alway enjo d driving the tractor. h Reinhol 1940 brought rain and good crop . . da. In 1952 Elmer r tir d from f rming and p n hi Hoffman and Fri d nba h v r winter in Oregon and the umm r on th farm with hi mar t ut to h ho d and buil at bro h r and family.[...] |
| [...]they were in North Dakota, J erome, Clement and Albert[...]did get to church in Poplar about once a year. Later on the[...]priest from Poplar would come out about once a month during the summer months and have a Mass in the[...]t in those Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold years was visiting the neighbors and occasionally there Hoffman, 1952. would be a program at the schoolhouse, box socials and[...]chubes, Paul Weiss and Tony Geisler. additions made to it in recent[...]ugenie, Cecilia, who died at four |
| [...]tired but lives in the Caryll chwa r z a nd ri[...]s in Stevensville, Montana; bought la nd n a r Mi ul a wh o d farming Al[...]ey, California; Agnes (Mrs. until h pa s d a way in 1951. a and ital Harry Soukup) lives in Tucson, Arizona; Cyri[...]hat tim . Lan Chester Hall), Seattle, Washington; and Rita Hoffman was some from two very old[...]s supply of flour . 1917. He proved his homestead and sold his land to fa rmin g duri ng t arl y Kuehnle. Fred was a hard worker and worked for Bie eker work wi th t' ittl g and Martin. He loved to walk and shoot rabbit . Fred was a Th w y n t thro d[...]thirtie , th y a n d ·a tg opp r \ arm.[...]worm s a nd do b u he[...]learn ed h ow to or and farm th d to mak it[...]MR. A D MR . BE GT JOH ~o Mr. and Mrs. Jaumotte were born in Belgium a nd came to Canada when they were eighteen year ol[...]b J oe . J h n ·o n (a on) and were married there. They decided to come to th e nited States and in 1900 took a homestead . Th ey hom e teaded My parents wer e b oth born and rai din near Dunseith , orth Dakota. Resided there until 1909 They h a d a very impl ion , th ir r a when the move was made to Culbertson, Montana . I[...]Brockton . an ap tice. M fath a bla k mith He went to work for Ed ygard , after a year or o h e a nd h oer. h a d to h ave a I o do thi kind son Victor purcha ed land from Archie urra n a nd H a n moth e r ved a cook in a ho al o a m tre wn wing m[...]woul d ta k it a n and do th famil. 1 for a ar · o on to anoth r fam[...]n ot own Mr. Tom Prichard and Mr . Joe Ja umotte, "Har e ting".[...]duating from aldm r , Jo ph , God{r d and lga . • at d B n t and |
| [...]or homesteaded north of Brockton after he went to a[...]to Oklahoma. He passed away in 1966 and she in March of[...]Mabel was a school teacher in Williston . She married[...]Clarence Moline, who was a house builder. They still live in[...]mile east and north of Olson 's, between them and Julius J ohn on 's. Henry was a bachelor and cousin to Oscar Munson of Poplar. Mr. and Mr . Bengt John on 50th Wedding[...]Henning, Minnesota. Joe Johnson and his wife, Mary, lived on Henry 's farm for a while. They moved their hou ehold good by wagon and trailing |
| [...]nday afternoon alway h }ping on a noth er. walk to the neighbors. He was a good man to meet. We gave Brockton was a n ew town. Th fir t bu in s was tart d him our legal description and we were soon going right to by Ole Lien in 1914. p until th nit had only b n a oal our shack. and water refueling stop and liv ry tabl nd f w small We drove through John Reum's yard and met Mr. and building connected with th railroad. Th d pot g n Mrs. Reum. We were glad to meet them and they have been often pumped water and tend d to th coal hute. By our good friends and neighbors ever since. Another mile to[...]were two general tor , po t office in th ann x go and we were at our destination. of the Arm trong tor . A bank hotel, barb r hop, caf , Our horses were tired out, and no use going back to blacksmith shop, print hop (Brockton Bul1 tin) and pool Brockton that day as we had planned. The hor es had hall. The beginning of a good town althou gh highway plenty of grass, but no supper for us. We had enough and automobiles had not come. There wer al o two grai[...]t still was elevator , ga bulk tation and lumb r yard .• o ou could cold enough to make i[...], gate wer common v ry unloading our railroad car and loading up our wagon . few miles. At one time there w re four ga s to op n and I looked up recipes, but they all called for ingr[...]going to Brockton. not have so I cooked short of a lot of things. You can eat I did not home tead and bought the Leonard Roth anything when your supply is limited and you are hungry. homestead in 1927. He ter and J wer marri din 1927 .• h[...]Homer, arolyn, Keith and ari . We njoy d living on[...]lated wher we lived . W w r in Illinoi , Michigan and[...]but alway had a longing for Montana again and cam[...]We have alway lik d the nd r on ommunity and it · p ople. It i a good place to liv in. I b Ii v I njo d th[...]fir: t few ear the mo t when it wa wid op n and ou could take a hor e and rid to th top of th hill w t ofour[...]plac and it and look ov r th whol countr from Poplar[...]till farm th and p nd our[...]th . pring of I. 17 ,Juliu ,John:on and nn ,[...]and f r him . ,Juliu had h[...]Vining , d a hv ry and dray Jin •. now Our fir t job cl aring r[...]makin to n. and out in th it ur did no loo · a ould coun[...]1on ton a farm nna, th down to f ut half a chil , a hahv ,' v n months. day of[...]cominJ;? 111 with ·hav rack and an acrea t1on .[...]t h r hov. 1 orthfi~ld . 14 and We oon met our neighbor tr.[...]ry for th m a~ th v had , u n Wentz. Am 01 on and hi wi .I leau and wif . h hair. and Bu. t r had :uc-h Gunder raa and famil . I fi m coming fro[...]n w . Brockton with and their h good . Th n ·[...]th r w r lie . Jim Byr r . and 1r raigif',[...]r Anna Hartkopf d 1r . Frank Korton and daught r w1 and and herdinJ.{ th ir Emma. c-a rthC'ir[...]ff o hvi non . id and he .Juliu, John. o ii~·. ugu . t J>ahlh rg r. m 'out a . other. Thi th v hv d from Chicago. I fir. t m n , and Ed\,, m Lar. on doing thr until ,J[...]i. ho II.\ · illiam fir, t hr a king for Car ('um·. horn stt>ad . , ' hf> had hn Rodd n. f ,Ju]iu. and T . n fri nd . . hark her th[...],Juliu h<> lumh r f'lson and thr two Z1<'~lns thl•sr inrludrd tlw fir[...] |
| [...]coulee. H e never realized there were o many hill and coulee out there so there must have been a lot of snow. Th farm wa located 25 miles north of Popla r n ow on the R. Y. road about 20 miles north and four miles east of Buchanan place. There wasn't any school h ou e close by, but a home about two mile west of us was having sc h oo[...]- In 1921 the fir t school wa moved in, a small on e room tructure and w about one mile south of the place. Mrs. Mina Laurid en wa the first teacher. A few years later a larger ·chool wa built on Hans Hoff land, wh ich was a brother to Anna Johnson. This was located only on[...]ocation. It was closed in the ear ly 30's. Julius and Anna always roomed a nd boarded the Julius J ohnson f[...]heir 50th wedding anniversary. teacher for $30.00 a month.[...]Back row: Reuben , Millard , J oe, Bert and Northfield Johnson . Mr . and Mr . Julws John on Then in 191 Reuben wa born and in 192;3 Ruth wa Farming with[...]childr n in all. There were no doctor at thi |
| custodian for the Lutheran Church i n Brockton fo r m a ny Edward Ka chub wa working w st of Hom[...]working Julius passed a way in 1963 at the age of 7. Anna there about a oung widow north of H d J ohn son passed a way October 12, 1971. The children are on her and after v ral · · t . a ll m a rried and living in Montana. She h ad 28 Chri[...]9 ding day. g rand ch ildren a nd 22 great grandc hi ldren. After a f w day packing w Mr. and Mrs. K The old h om estead now belongs to Joe and Millard and fiv children came ountry to th ho[...]also a small barn for a team of hors s d on cow. That[...]fir t winter a Ion om on , a th w r only two ST[...]other real c amili and no churc or schools.[...]he Biem • chool. The fi abv Mr. a nd Mrs. Stephen Kaniewski located on a 160 acre Ka ch ube, Ema wa al[...]The . ummer were re iting, a th Ka ch arm The fa mily consisted[...]rt on trail. Man ople Steve a n d Rita. traveled by, some ju t for a cool drink other Th ese h om esteaders were all friendly people, and we had would top to eat or ev[...]how th y hautauqua. On <la. a Mrs. Ka niewski was a good pianist, her husband a load or everal load of opl , tents, prop and a11 vocalist.[...]the only means of tran portation. a thrill for the young p ople. The family moved t[...]twentie On unda w would al · 'nto a buggy and tak off to[...]didn't ha a church ov r eith r , but.lot oft ach[...]· gat around the MR. AND MRS. E DWARD KA CH B E old pump organ and ad riptur for[...]th nd l a h art. Th by Molly Lau[...]ho -quar r. of a mil 1 7. He came to the nit d tate in 1911. Edward work d a d. got[...]d h th£~ two hor.· . to a chwarzrock, where h teamed up with Bill and Paul 1 f' bottom and a rob mad of Weiss. From there the too[...]childrc•n w,•r(• cozy and no on and buggy, going a far a Oak . ·orth Dakota . Th y m1 . hipp d the hor e and buggy on to nderwood wh r th y or e[...]. odalt--, f-C'honl went to work for H s ler for a whil . play: and rnrd pa ,. n,•ighhoring !--c-honl. would Edward Ka chub came to lontana to file a horn , tead :pon.-or an oy. t r.[...]320 acre of land north of Brockton. Th r had b n a woul<l h • a :ocial da o ftni!--h ttw wning!'-. with[...]rnu:ic . to. Edward p ak. of it now and ay . "I. aw nothing hut rock and hills.' ' 71a gow wa. the countv . at. but thev ta. d in Popla[...]Russia in 1 91 , he came 1th h r paren . broth r and i. t r to \ innip g, Canada, at th ag of ven. The[...]n · moved to Iontana to . ettl . Eliza worked at a ranch and <lair farm a ulber on until sh marri d Jacob Damm . H ~ f[...]in 1. 0 . Mr. and ,\fr . Ed Ka . chuh,,[...]Dorothy. Chn. tine. Hertha and Ema. Front row. fr·s:[...]Kaschuh . l-larnld. Alfrrd and Mr. Ed Kasclwht•. |
| The eco nd daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Kaschube Otto was born bn a dusty day in May in the 1930's. only lived five m[...]ho e February cold spells. When his again and children growing. One year during the winter parents brought him home, they hit a snow bank and we had a bad storm, and some men came to spend the dumped the family out,[...]rold was night. They were coyote hunters and had hounds to help born during a busy harvest season. hunt coyotes. They stayed about a week until the weather Talking about harvest, M[...]The children grew up, began getting married and moved with a binder, then a threshing machine was hired and to their own places. with the neighbor'[...]ry spring. Sometimes some of Culbertson and have three children, Ernest, Patricia, and our horse would be taken along with other rancher[...]time, the horses wandered back. It Brockton and have six children: Elizabeth, Mae, Carol, took a year or a year and one half, but never really lost too Alma, Clyde, and Arlie. many horse . The country was not fenced and there wasn ' t Dorothy married Clarence Sc[...]New Salem, North Dakota and have four children: Laverne, Dale, Karen and Connie.[...]Colorado and have four children: Allen, Gary, Kathy and[...]Montana and have two children, Patricia and Kurt.[...]Wyoming and have one son, Dennis.[...]Alfred married orma Edam. They live on a farm in the Siem Com munity and have two children: Leo and Corrine.[...]Park, California and have two daughters, Carolyn and[...]and have four children: Laura, Barry, Bruce and Letha. Mr. and Mrs. Kaschube retired and moved to Culbertson.[...]n 1973. Biem Community ewing Club - Claude Hawk and hi |
| paid $3.00 per acre. He worked in a coal mine while he when he came here in[...]n ota. H fir t proved up. One day he came home in a snow storm. He went to Glasgow where he worked on th Loui W dham couldn't see a thing so let the horses go as they pleased.[...]then worked ov rat th J .. Day They kept on going and finally stopped. All he could see ranch south of Culbertson. Thi wa one of th b t guy was a wall in front of them. It was his claim shack. that he had ever worked for. He recalls a story of a time when a rum runner came in to In 1917 he had Ray Cox help him locate a home tead Brockton. He knew the federal agents we[...]e lives now. He wanted to rai e went to the ferry and ordered Lars Larson to take him cattle and start in farming. He broke up forty acre with across the Missouri River. A ferry didn't like to run for one hor es. There[...]d others coming he wanted to wait himself a Model K cross mounted tractor which made but the rum runner pulled a gun and told him to get going. things a lot easier. Which he did. By the time the ferry g[...]After fleeing from Germany, Katherine Heimb gner and took them across the man was long gone. went to Russia. In 1912 he and her hu band and ix He sold his land to Martin Berglee and moved to children came to the United tate to a Ru ian ettle- Williston. They have five children:[...]ertson where they knew ome people. Delores, Helen and Judy. Marg[...]Culbertson was a wild town. It was nothing to ee a bunch[...]just to create a little excitement. In the old omer Bar there MR. AND MRS. FRANK KORTA ar[...]cited cowboys. There were two big fire that Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kortan, daughter Emma and Joe destroyed quite a few of the town building . Majerick came to this area from Chicago to homestead in Margaret and Herman Kopitzke wer marri d and 1916. Frank was formerly a tailor and had 75 or more men moved out to the home t[...]n the ame hack working under him. His wife was in a car accident in the with their two on for[...]north of Brockton. This hill wa They added on a living room when th re wa a little bit of afterwards known as the Kortan hill[...]quite a di ta.nee to try to produce nough for th family.[...]along came the be ti . r at big n and de tr y d[...]a and Jim Kortan. farming a[...]d h r out a l n u to h Ip h r butch r a Emma Kortan.[...]John ing a ~ a fin an . H w on of th f w[...]m· · ho go a thir furlough for b inf.{ on of[...]I dr d ol . H wa d man and a[...]Took a fut to mak ' p. Th ir daughter Emil (Emma a she wa kno"'!l) wa . a n rid a unt n . Thi tal nted viol[...]on an of ra il o a f r a~ 1 1 , and their on Lawr nc no farm th Kort.an[...]ood. Jo horn ad d a t of th Kortan plac and lat rw nt rk[...]ub n h bought him If a n ,, Kopi zke.[...]teach in ' rd a ch rd is[...] |
| in Hn•ckenridge. Colorada, and Robert i in Bea ve rton , place on o[...]year and from '28 on I lived on my homestead the year A[...]l thinks he would like around. to go back and live those years all over again just t h e same[...]county together with Pat Byrne and Carl Abramoff,[...]grade was the Brockton-Siem road . Pat and Carl each had four horses on a fresno and I had my cross engine Case to[...]. We made fills on the Anderson road by MH. AND MHS. KONRAU KOPPERMAN[...]rne Olson 's I landed in Iowa on pril, 1!12:3 and while working for a corn er and Pat and Mike Foran's land. farmer got acquainted with Fre[...]ho e land I latpr bought from hi: heirs), who was a home teader and was visiting hi::. sistn, the people I was workin[...]h of Brockton, was telling me all about filing on a homestead. etc .. so [ decided to sa v my money and come out the next summer for harvest. I landed in Brockton on the "'Skidoo" August 1. l 92.1, and when I looked at the high hill north of town I ne[...]re t of my lift., here. The first person I met and spoke to was Lillian Jaumotte ( later Mrs. . Dahlberg). Martin Berg lee hauled me out to his form and put me at once on a binder while he and his wife shocked the bundle of wheat. On ,'unday' I visited with Fred and Henry Ziegler and Fred took me around to look for land still open. We found a quarter(my horn place yet). and after harve ·t with enough money on hand I filed on it. That fall I worked for 8 n John ·on for a month hauling grain with four horses to Brockton[...]194 Orchard winter came I stayed with Mr. and Mrs . Martin Herglee and their daughter Margaret, helping out with th chores and trapping coyotes. badgers and skunks. From February on thP next vear f staved with ,Jim Rvrne and his brother Pat. a~ he p~omi d t~ let me borrow· hor e to put in my[...]girl first ;m acre . While I work d for Jim I dug and hauled off in Germany. But to g t her in[...]I r from up . The Dah Iberg b;oth r . 0 ~ar, arl and Arvid, ju t did Montana and a k d for advice, a immigration in to the that and lat r I ,eeded it to flax. That fall (1 26) I worked nited, tate. wa Ir ad re tricted. I did a, R.K . \ heel r on the thr ~hing rig of Varn r[...]But that ear told me. let h r come to Canada a that countrv wa till I rnuldn't harve t my crop of flax a it wa too rough and op n .• ~he landed about 200 mile n[...]tfit to cut it. So th. t winter I S. skatchewan and aft r eding I went ov r th r and wt•nt to ShPhovgan. Wisf'nnsin to work in a chair fc ctorv. married her in Regina, a katche wan . h e had to tay '.'it•xt sprin1[...]Cilhert Vran who promised to th re for about a month until the pap r came back from[...]\Vashington. D.C. and he could legally enter the nited put in mv crop.[...]own th(' ne . t y ar. .'tatf' .. It wa. quite a change for h r from civilization into Thf' wintn[...]g1C''s plac . my th raw. open prairie. only a 10 · 16 horn t ad, hack. o nt·ighhor to thf' .· outh. for 20 dollar.· a mon h plus ho. rd. I trees. no water. all wa.[...]roads ~.et. ma.vb little grade, her and th re. Th ""-inter.[...]bought a half year suppl _ of coal which was mined on[...]('reek.eight miles from us. In ·:n Charles Prior and f wpnt to a sal someplace and lat r Charley got . ick -[...]smallpo . Every baby had to get vaccinated . A, we[...]brought mp the vaccine on hor, ehack and I had to do it[...]f>r.v year,• cam and th crops were pr tty short., o wa.[...]ha _v. hut we always had a good gard n and lot: of potatoes .[...]Our ov n mtlk. hutter. eggs. meat. and flour. hut very little[...]car. ,{ ·:2 Chevv. with Carl braham and Pat Bvrne t~>[...]Brockton whf'r · the whol er w had to dig a. ew r. for the[...]l. Ther<' wa. no survey or level. so I had to use a straight J()" hoard and a nupenter's levp) to lav th<> tilf's, Hanna and HPnrv Xu•Rlf'r ha1 •1n1< a hf•<•r (home hrf'U 'J Pu·turr• tak,[...] |
| use. Oscar Dahlberg worked that tim e on a noth er WPA gang , weaving snow fences with willo[...], littl e by little, the rains came more on tim e a nd th e h a rvests turned out better from year to year. We ca[...]n th e summer fallow faded away little by littl e and the firs t r a in Ann a n d Lew Ku hnl e, we got was in the middle of Jul[...]May 29, 1940 on t h ir 25th for a crop but not too late for a good pota to and veg etable Anniv r a r . harvest and some hay. Th en cam e th e war year , m ore rain[...]flax 2.50- 3.00. In 1945 Uncle Sam put m e in lA a nd I wa n ' t ver y happy a bout it. It so happe n ed that J ohn P . Mill er , th e co un ty commi ssioner, s topped a t our place on hi s journey from Froid to Wolf Po[...]ight for dinner. I showed him my card with the lA and told him I wasn 't ver y en t husias ti c a bout it. I said I wo uld not mind g oing to th e Pacific but Eu ro pe, th at was a n oth er thing . 19 1 wa s s till very much in m y m em ory. You don 't What do you put in a fr ight car when you ar moving want to go n o pla[...]d . Co me alon g to Wolf P oi n t. I fr om a la rge city to a horn tead on an Indian r ervation. did. He took m e to the dra ft boa rd a nd a id to th em Well, I'd h ad some xp rienc b ing a farm r in Alb rta, "chan ge thi s m a n 's sta tu s to 3A. He was i n on e wa r a n d Ca n ada a n d I k new about building b cau I'd b n tha t's en ough ," and th ey d id it rig ht t h ere a nd t h e n . upportin g m y wife Ann by contracting and building Wh e n I think back over the pa t 45 yea r I ob er ve th e h ou e . Bu t - a freight car holds ju t o much. Min wa row of m y n eig h bor a nd friend s h ave th inn ed out p[...]oom, dining con sid era bl y. T o m en tion j u t a few of the ori gi n al room and bedroom; p building tool , four hor . a pio n eers of thi s communi ty wh o h om e teaded in 1916 a n d wagon and doubl bo nd nough hingl to roof a up (th e yea r t h e re erva ti o n wa ope ned fo r h om e teading) h ou e a nd ha m , and a pl of taple groceri . In tho e Juliu J ohn on , h a rl e Prior , J ohn Reum, ugu t day b[...]. flour Dahlberg Mrs. Kuehnle, J ohn Kopitzke, a rner el on in 100 pound barr I , ugar in 100 pound barr ck r a nd Mr . J ack La urid en , L. . Laurid en , arl b[...]n IO poun if y u Pat and Jim Byrne Ame 01 on , artin Bergl , J ack[...]fir t night m Jo hn o n a nd Mr . Edwi n Lar on and r . J n Lar on, by leaning bun[...]tdidn 't tak long Ira Yoder, J en in Q uall . Gil and O car Quall .. ju t to to build th[...]By ,July my fa a ding nn tha their own. Th v fac d a lot of hard hip , d pri ation . and hould b with ba[...].-ilv rwar and hook ..[...]iving to town ( Brockton wa. alwav "to n '') with a t am and wagon. I v. tly urpri. d t[...]. of Montana and nn aR[...]T n and I h[...]n and al t th In the , pring o[...]din Wolf Point. Helping pro. p ctiv farm r. find a[...]or~ suitabl home tead wa. big hu ine.,. Th fe for a lo a 10n w[...]o. t wa, 7,1.00. Thi. includ d a long buggy rid and a lot of of[...]am I hou.ght with th locator we a dinner with the ,John Hovd family I[...]in h r apron m t Earl D arth and Owen Rutt r that am day .[...]p tm g at kill a ch :m.Range.-2.thene t tep ..-.· a atriponth ", k1doo"tothe for[...]uR payment of ":too p r acre. For .• 1.o:t1 ( O and a month The onh• p opl or[...]o th paper work done - I had a home. tead . horn('[...]or the land office to g t mv paiwr. in and Fred r who , hack r horn bu't ordn I hought a lot in Brockton from llen ,Jacoh. on and didn't liv all o tim ( ork f on huilt a shack. Thi. ,. ould latN ht' u. ed to qtore furnitur . f>ls to a v. o t ould huv ~achin rv or tools . and huilding , uppliC'.[...]killwai . the alkali flat . car" - a fr ight car prov1rlf>d hv th rmlroad at a cht'ap rat During th wint r of 1917-191 nn and I liv din th to Pncouragt' p ople to movf> W(' . t hn~ m('nt of thr hou. and work d on fini hing th |
| upstairs. Our first furnace was bought in Plentywood and the steeple up. It was a real thrill for me to be able to add delivered by[...]de it look like moke Creek. You dug it yourself and hauled it to your a church. wagon in a wheel barrow. We could also get coal at Box Some of the people I remember meeting and doing Elder. If you could afford it you could buy[...]business with from 1917 on are probably long gone and Jacobson had hipped in by train from Pennsylvania[...]estead leased the I remember buying a bull from Frank Arnette who had a land on moke Creek and mined coal, selling it by the ton. cattle spread south of the river from Culbertson and his In 191 my brother, Adolph (Duff) Kuehnle and his wife wife was the first dentist in t[...], dentists were for pulling olberg. Duff wa not a farmer• by 1921 he had declared teeth. But a she-dentist wasn't even popular for that. bankruptcy and returned to Toledo.[...]ye doctor was Dr. Munch in If we took the team and wagon to Froid to get the mail, Culbertson[...]ou got real sick you went to Dr. Atkinson who had a farmed and had an eating house. There was nothing kind of hospital in his home in Poplar. And if you wanted a between u. and moke Creek until 191 when Fred Iden[...]o Dr. Darland in Froid. He could tell home teaded a half mile east of us. you what ailed you, but he preferred to be a farmer.[...]riding horse, the first saddle and the first harness from[...]him for $650.00. He had a monopoly on so many items that[...]them they probably operated the depot and Brockton's[...]If you wanted a haircut you went to Harry Fleming in[...]If you didn't have a cow, you could buy milk, cream and butter from Fred Re nold , who operated a <lair .[...]comm rcial ploughing and thre hing. During thre hing[...]tim am r u d to bring in a cook-car along with hi men Lowell Teagarden, Earl D arth, Ella Dearth, their and machine . Mr . 0 car Law on did the cooking for the grand on. Ann Ku hnle and Lew Kuehnle, taken in 194 . m n. Varn[...]b c u Mr . Law on' reputation for b ing a top cook wa known all over - "good food and pl nt of it".[...]d w in th bank I hould k i out. I did, and a a r ult wa n ar the Boyd' and later own d by l Lein, G org bl to urvive he bank era h and d pr ion. Bobzien, John Dehn r, w 11 A[...]c oking nd it w Dori liv d mor than a f w hour . When Dori tart d good to have vi itor[...]to h chool for living quarter . could be u ed on a coal range ) from her father nd wa[...]y ar that we lived in Montana he and wa . ., pl a d wh n Dori tar d a chool in near t church wa in Poplar. Th only ime anyon Minneapoli for m ntally r tard d and ph ically ought out the " preacher" wa. if he wa[...]marri d handicapp d young dult . It took m a whil o r Jize or if someone died .[...]thest te.bu rath rthatallofu n dtoh lpinanyway as a missionary by th Luth ran Fr Church . H held[...]ft r nn di din 195. th r wa n't much r a on form And rson chool wa built, church servi e. and , unday to . tay in Montana, . o I bought a horn in Minn poli nd school wer held th re until[...]liv d th re ince Ann was Seer tary -Tr a ur r of th Zion Lutheran Church then .[...]ore her death in l %9 . In l ~170 f received a Di ~tingui. h d .' rvi f> w rd for 10 When the church was finall y completed . a s 1t is now , I put yNH8 of helping th[...] |
| [...]simply: In 1917 I came to Montana to help myself and support my family, and now, more than 50 years later, in Minneapolis, I[...]they can support themselves. JENS AND EDWIN LARSON Jens and Edwin Larson came to Montana in 1916, and |
| [...]Hay Creek and Smoke Creek. The horses always came[...]after dark and when we heard them we'd all take[...]something tin to pound on and go out to chase them away.[...]a few youngsters school age. We went to the Buchana[...]congregation at Brockton for a church. The Big Four Lauridsen Brothers - Laurid[...]to have Lu the ran church in the homes. Then the and Henry. lady of the house had Ladies Aid the same day and everybody went and enjoyed a fine day of worship and[...]When haying and harvest work started, Mother and chicken , pig, dog and cat besides most of his machinery Esther helped Dad, and Kenneth and I did the cooking and and our hou ehold good and clothing. He al o had oats carrying out[...]ad arrived October 4, 1921. in the immigrant car and left before we did o he could get a Threshing time was a big event for everyone. Dad helped hack built and haul some thing out from Brockton where ha[...]ed hi grain. Mother spent days preparing Kenneth and I topped on our way to vi it Mother' brother delicious food and baking bread for the threshers. We Ed Erickson at[...]d on by train to our new thre hing machine and watch the men pitch the bundles home. Dad was w i[...]hing wa done Dad had to haul wheat had the wagon and buggy loaded and we tarted for home. to town with wagon and hor e . It wa u ually a two day Mother drove the team and buggy and Dad had the other trip or el ea real long day tarting from home about 4 a .m. t am and wagon . We young ter had great fun taking in the morning and getting home close to midnight. In the turn , rid[...]r we all worked hard getting rock dug of now and a chinook wind would come up and he'd have and some land brok up for flax. The fl x didn't get r[...]me home on. Dad cut it for hay . Besides building a barn, chicken coop For recreation people u ed to get together for unday and fences, Dad worked for a f rming corporation that dinner and play game or card in the afternoon . One . ummer. Mother and we children stayed home and did th und y during the winter a lot of u wer invited to Anna chores . When we ran out of wood w u ed to hitch a team to Hartkopf for dinner. During the afternoon a terrific the buggy and go gatherinp- dry cow dung to burn. We did blizzard came up and w all had to tay at her hou e all this for ' ever[...]ill ides too. enough for a big crowd and al o g t tog ther and dance That foll Dad built onto our shack. H added a 10x12 foot at chool hou . The e gath ring were well attended. room and also built a shed on over the outsid door. Thi Dad pa s d away March 1 , 1927 from a ruptured was our home until 1~)2:l when he bought[...]ndix. The road wer o bad we could not g t him to a a mile south of us and put it onto the hous . doctor.[...]ad died, Mother' brother arl came out to f nc and building built. Hi cattl h rd incr a d h Ip u farm. He tay d with u for al[...]he fir. t ye, r we he d trouble with rang hor. a , our ncle arl left. Han mu n u ed t[...]the only watering place b tw en get hay and traw haul d up o the b m for the tock.[...]E th r marri d Gordon Rod wald June, 1929, and went[...]o live in Brockton wh r th ir two children, B t v and Gordon ,Jr. were born . E. h r pa d a ay in M rch~ Hl36.[...]and w live north of Brockton. We ha e thr children.[...]Pearl. Lyle and Ir n .[...]Kenneth married Mollv Damm ctob r. 1937. and th v live on Dad and Mother\ plac north of Brockton . They[...]v . ix children. R tty ,Jo, Mae. Carol. Ima. lyde and[...]children. Wavne. Marilvn. Fred. a~d Debra .[...]Mothn pa: s d away ·in Octoh r Hl3fi. after a ling ring[...]. rhri!ltme Henry Laurid. n was the young st and the la, t of the Front row: Kenneth and llPin Laurtd!lPn. "[...] |
| [...]her for some time but after three of his brothers and one sister moved out here he and his mother decided they might like it here too. Henry came out th e spring of 1926 and filed on his homestead. He returned to Veblem and had a farm sale. Then he and his mother packed what they could in the Model T and came to Brockton. Grandma stayed with Jake and Mina Laurid en and Henry built his shack and started work on the new land. Jake and he worked together and they were both very busy. He proved up on the homestead in three year , but he and Jake continued to work both places together. In the fall of 1929 a orth Dakota teacher, Myla Atkin of Bowman, orth Dakota, joined the Brockton school staff - higher wages of a persuasive superintendent, Mr. Ferguson , brought me to this decision . In October that year there was a fair in Culbertson and the school was well represented. There was a dance in the evening and as some of the high school girls wanted to stay, I was asked to chaperone them. Henry and his Henry Lauridsen famil[...]ght: raig nephew were there, they knew the girls, and so we met. Byfuglin James Hil[...]Rodewald, Ph yllis B yfuglin and Rusty Hill. Bottom row:[...]Ill and Kevin B yfuglin. Myla and Henry Lauridsen moving toward[...]in d p ration d out, and into t hou |
| [...]MR. ANB MRS. JACOB LAURIDSEN he had ta ken a nd after some searching they found her. he was[...]realize that she wa going in the wrong direction a nd could have been hopelessly lost if they hadn't Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lauridsen, generally known as Jake gotten a glimp e of her. he was already a half mile from and Mina. h ome. h e didn 't go with them willingly b[...]o his leaving for got her to let h im pick her up and they took her home. Mrs. service he, his brother Christ and brother-in-law Oscar 01 on h a d mi ed h er a nd had gone after Amie. They Qualley[...]Montana to arrived home shortly after Henry, Jake and Arnetta file on homesteads. Chris and Oscar located 20 miles north rrived. Th ey were greatly relieved a nd very grateful to of Brockton. They established homes and brought their find her safe.[...]5 miles north of Brockton. He We didn 't ha ve a well a nd we had to haul water for returned to[...]home at Veblen, South Dakota several years. We h a d a cistern in the h ouse which we filled after hi[...]en came to each fall, but for drinki ng, cooking, a ndpartofthetimefor his homestead and built a shack. He took work at the the cattle we ha uled[...]armed extensively at this time. drove in to vi it a fe w days. When he found out we didn't Mina Selstad of Con way, North Dakota had been have a well h e wa po itive h e could remedy that ituati[...]y " witching" North Dakota. She accepted a school at Parshall in 1920. with a willow stick. Although dub io us Henry agreed to let Jake happened to be at Parshall at the time and they met at him try, he went over the fa rm , near the house, and in the a party on October 9, which date became significant to pa ture and finally found a pla ce th a t h e was sure was them later on. Jake st[...]t Parshall on his return to what we wanted. o h e a nd Henry dug a h ole 50 feet deep Montana the next March to continue to work for the and all they fo und was gravel. o h e gave up. Later[...]I was invited to come to Montana after my Lar on and Henry put an outfit togeth er a nd drilled a well school would close to visit the Oscar QuaJleys and the up by the house where we wa nted it.[...]vitation undoubtedly The 30' were di couraging and it didn't seem tha t there looking forward[...]d in the Matan u ka Valley in file on a h ome tead which I had never thought of doing. It Ala k for 200 familie from the drought tricken a rea of h a d h a ppen ed that Mike Forin had left hi home tead and th mid we t. We thought th at might be th e a n wer we were gon e back to Minne ota . Th[...]addre s . It enough like Ala ka for u to adapt to and they preferred t urned out th a t I bought that relinqui hment instead of familie from northern Minne ota and Wi con in . We were m y brother . My o[...]i appoint d but there wa nothing to do but tay on a nd fall a nd with the h elp of oth er b uilt a shack for me. Ole hop for chang which eventually came. invited J a ke to come to th e el tad h om e on hi return to Th girl wer quite mall when w made a trip to Vebl n later in th e f[...]nada wher ver we went, the crop were flouri bing, and look d very promi ing . We kept telling our Iv[...]vel d up nd brown . Wh t di ppointm nt. W have a family of thr irl ; Phylli w b rn in l 32, Evelyn in l. 36, and rdi in l 37. W l"v fiv mil from th nd r on .[...]he hou wh r wear till living. The girl ar marri d and ha v familie of th ir own. Phylli , 0 car B fuglin and family, live on the farm. E vel n, Gordon Rod waJ[...]Pullman. Wa hington . rdi , Jam Hill and family live in Aik n, outh arolina. lthough[...]rom the country id . Mo tl built of rough lumber, and tanding: Grandma unpainted , they erved their purpo and then wer hauled Phy/Li and Ardis. awayord troyed . Thef wthatar lefthavewith toodthe un and rain until th y haved v lop d a ilvery he n that app al to many p ople . ow[...]lu d in building new home . You . ee thew ath r b a ten board u ed s out id iding I ta[...]om of mod rn horn . till was onl in a hack bu a fair iz don . Th broncos had unpainted, treated on ly to pr s rve th ir color, they bring fr r ng and w r often around th building. Plan had hack a touch of pion er day to our modern world . h n mad to er ct a schoolhou and it wa fini h d nd[...] |
| [...]five of her children again. H r on w r a11 tall. Laurid was ix feet and the others w r tall r. Th y had th ir[...]photo taken and are in turn Laurid , Jak , hri , nd[...]Henry had found land only a f w mile furth r w t and Inga Cormack and Mina was making hi horn with u , a h and Jake farm d Laurid[...]Brockton to teach chool. A romance b gan buddin between her and Henry. W would invite h r out[...]They were married and e tabli h d th ir own horn .[...]hey were ble ed with thr e darling girl which w r a ource of joy to Jake and I al o. We w re together constantly as he and Jake continu d farming tog h r. the fall term was[...]ng. It was Tho e were joyou year . located near and south of the Julius Johnson home. There wa much ocial activi throughout th Jake and I were married on December 27, 1922 at the[...]Montana early the following disgui e them elve and go from horn to home, letting spring. During the[...]eople try to gue who th were, r c iving tr a and farther east and a large room added to it which later ending up with a party. It i an old candanavian cu tom, became par[...]called Julebaking, and ever one had a gr at tim . On Our neighbors were the John Reum 's on the south, and year Jake really had everyone puzzl d a he carried a littl Edwin Larson's on the west, the Bengt Johnsons on the girl all wrapped up in a blanket. It wa hi ni ce B rni north, and the Hess brothers on the east. Qualley, but no one gue ed who th tall man with a littl We all had Fords and many trips were made to Chris girl could b . Lauridsens and Oscar Qualleys and they vi ited u . We always spent the holidays together in pite of weather and roads. Driving in bobsleighs with heated rocks, ad iron and even stove lids for warmth and u ing quilt and rob . There were some hard hip as dry weather e[...]es. One year there eemed to be little pro p c for a crop. We intended to hay green thi tie bu th arm worm swarmed through and ate th m. That a our poore t year. Jake had left over prairi hay o e could winter our cattl . Trip to Brockton with hor and sleigh were often hared by neighbor g t mail and upplie . People tayed on and b tter crop cam gr d uaJl and more wa acquir d to continu farming. Li£ wa imi1[...]W cann d mat for umm ru . o w r milk d butter old and gg mark d. Frui r cann d in a on. On pring r . King, · w r d[...]d. T di gath red thi tl and[...]r lunch a lo o Ju t and r from For |
| Jake' many relatives and our friends did all possible that They had one son, Oscar, born July 27, 1908. He met and could be done to console me.[...]McKee of Minot, North Dakota. After living for a time in way . Elmer He offered to come and stay at our home so this area they moved to Minot, North Dakota and then to that I could spend a part of winter with my folks, which he Fontan[...]tude I have felt as I was helped to carry on then and during the following year . It i a debt I can never repay. May the Lord reward each[...]LEIN The twenty wondrou ly happy year that Jake and I had had together were con olation to me though.[...]heartbreaking loss came to He was from a family of 10 children, seven boys and three my i ter and how I felt fo r her. We decided to come to[...]f ever owning the family farm was nil. Grand Fork and made our home together. We came out He and his cousin Ole Larsbak decided to come to America often bringing the vacuum cleaner along and living in my to seek their fortune. They l[...]15, 1931, home. We have made countless visits out and have always were on the boat eight or nine days and landed in New been treated o cordially that it is[...]the first person they met was A.D. Paulson. He could talk[...]l they had to do was to go to the cafe. MH. AND MR . LAURIDS LAURIDSEN[...]again to the cafe and used the only English words they Laurid · C. L[...]n Poplar for three days. Came to Brockton on 1 96 and ettled near Gene eo, North Dakota. the kidoo, tayed with Ole Lien (no relative ) a few days I urid and hi i ter nnie were left in Denmark to follow wh n[...]in the new Mr. and Mr . L.C. Laurid en |
| they boarded a train for Grand Fork , orth Dakota as[...]h(' their cousin Mrs. Lodmell lived there. Louie, a he wa spring Mrs. ygard (Rach 1) would r turn and mak h r always called , worked as a carpenter for one year there. home with Louie in coo king and farming. Mr . ygard's Then he moved to Brinsmade, orth Dakota a he got a job health was poor and their on were taken for th rvi in working for[...]o m o out th r for 40 acres, as his sister Rachel and Mrs. Lodrnell were there. then tho e acres s m d small and :o far to mov •[...]machin ry . Th n am wa. marri d and th y lived in the[...]Samu I on. o he built him If a n w home and l nele Louie mov d in th r a hi · health was failing and h[...]MR. A D MR,. LE A DER L FT[...]Ther w re till o a of land on which a[...]ho ader could mak a I ov d to[...]H gd a littli d r, h marri ,d h r on[...]ighbor on. Pa rick a nd ran, Len[...]k d for r . Lodmell in the hotel cooking and also did all their bread baking . Louie would[...]( hildr n of i 1r. and Mrt,; . com · for gr · rock ton a g ta few loave.'[...]I Luft. 'onrnd, nna of b and a al a bate a. mo.·tly cooked 1an and Mary (hah~·I. pot with and a Ii rring Th n 191[...]t . . o Loui came to town · them. Th y liv kno n a prol n him If . kn own a[...]0 toh r of I ~);f; a daughh•r wa. horn and nam cl , nna man but 1ari .,h wa. a young lad~· of four wh n a :-.on jom ·cl th' hi n ig .[...]•d Conrad, nfwr Al(•.··· ,•ist r Rach I and E dren. Ir n \\ fath r. \ 'h n ;\ nna , lam• and Conrad w<•n• :--< hool clf!P i. married to a . m Topp •m, . th<•v alt n<h•d th(• Bl('m :chool. ( n a wrntl'J elm of I ~•.-11[...]htN. i l ar_\ . .ioirwrl lhl' f.lrrnlv .. \ nn,l "a.' married H rnic ,Joh . h i children and Ji, e m n·ndy for high . chonl which slw att ' JHit d tn Poplnr and Brockton , lontana. Llo_\'d \\,·a.· killed in an nirplan Froid accident in 1914. H was married and had on hoy . .\ It>:\. :\1.1ggiP and famih mo,erl from tlw1r form to l 'ncle J ,oui gave manv nickels to th<>sr ,hildrPn and al. o ( 'ulh •rl:--<111 thl• fall of I q.-1.-l ( ·nnrad and :\l.lr\' c,unpli•tl'd th<• chtldrc>n ·.- ch[...]tlwir grad<' and high school tlwn• In 1! Hl Ed , ·vgarrl t[...]ed at diffrn·nt Jobs 111 ('ullwrt. on until ill and !-iO Louir wa. a parlnC'r thPn. H!-- tlw. \gard's mo,rcl[...]r!'tin•. H(' pn:--s(•d nW,l.\. on ,JunP 11. a wa_\ Prrvious to this Ed . ·, ga rcrs hut It a honw in I !n at 1~l7 l.[...] |
| [...]rtson for Then he went back east to work and in April, 1917 he, his man y yea r , a nd continue to make h er home in wife, and Charlie Nelson came back and built their ulbert on.[...]Mad en , has three children, Will was a farmer. He and Charlie walked back and forth Jeanne, Craig and Brent. to work for Bieseker and Martin as neither one had a car. Conra d is married to Gloria Priebe and has one son, His land was sold to John[...]Mr. and Mrs. Manley moved back to Wisconsin and later Ma ry lives in Billing .[...]RG MR. AND MRS. JOHN McILW AIN by Gladys[...]by Edith Prior Bi•rtha Jensen, a cou in of Bertha Qua lley's, was born in Mr. and Mrs. John Mcllwain came to Montana from or im in a hot 1 in Brockton wh Will was born. rai d and m r · · , Wi n rn. |
| [...]the Ander on ommunit . Her turn din !HJ 7, and with[...]Eggum of Ri h , Mont a l: o[...]Andre l and n.[...]192 l Mo arri d to Lena . rochn ow a t[...]Mr. Mo n wa a m mb r of ur[...]11 , 1962. Mrs. John Mcilwain and her horses about 1919.[...]e Mr tor y und r I na Pro hn o w. and shared it with others. he loved animal and had Mr . a n d Mr .. U L .\.1o n - I. 2:,[...]•. ltvmg on t h• land for thr • >" •ar:-- and hn•,1k111g[...]rtt•r ~ •<· t ton ,, ., had to pa> .:·i,.oo a n ,H'TP[...]rn Roo. v It Coun t \'. H d c tdC'd on a T hP spring of I ~l 1i w h<'n w e c:111[...]too. F rn nk Ko rt o n , Ira n d ,J o hn Yodt•r a nd tlw1r[...] |
| mother, Edwin and Jens Larson and their mother, Miss fo r Boeing in &at[...]tkopf, Duff Kuehnle, Charley Prior, Henry Ziegler and th e neighbor boy, Clifford Berglee, and lives on the Valley Bill McClure.[...]Ranch north of Brockton. Pat married Harold Kyllo and Will Manley and Charlie built our houses, then began li[...]music lessons. There are 20 working for Bieseker and Martin outfit located about fi ve grandchil[...]On November 14, 1970 I married Clifford McGinnis and we a re making our home in Culbertson, Montana.[...]MR. AND MRS. VARNER NELSON Margaret and Varner Nelson came to this part of[...]This was a venture into the unknown. Pioneering in the[...]real sense. They left behind family , friends , and their home[...]t row: Decem ber 20, 1 77. When he was a boy of eighteen he left hirley Prior, Kathryn He[...]His destination was Hazel Craigie, Rachel Nelson and Donna Prior. Back row: heldon, Iowa. A[...]ter Patricia, there. ow he was established and wanted Varner to come Arvid Dahlberg, Byron Nelso[...]. Mrs. Prior, Mr . Craigie, Mr . He , Jim Craigie and Allen He . One day in June a terrible torm came up, wind and rain. |
| They lived in a tent that first summer. Margaret baked Margaret was failing . he did want to bread and prepared h earty meals for th e family as well as While on this trip he uffer d a ma iv trok the men who worked for Va rner . Later a small h ouse was away ovember 19, 1947 in Brainerd , Minn ota . built. This house is now a gr a n a r y on th e Nelson farm. Varner tayed on at the farm after that. It wa a Ion ly Seth Nelson worked with Va rner at th at t[...]for they broke up land for th e early settler s . A huge Aultman whathehad.Afteralongilln[...]w Taylor was used , the plowing was d on e in day a nd night Year's Day 1956 in pokane, Wa hin[...]Margaret and Varner el on i cheri h d. The lov th y[...]1 , 1 91 on a farm betw en Rorvik and am o orway,[...]of 16. On arrival in ew York ity b boat and b ing[...]Han lived on a farm n ar Bi bee . Varner Nelson s' first house. Verna was in grade school - chool wa about to tart. A |
| [...]ore for thi sen itive boy who visit hi · mother and to tak h r back to the . _" tate . While had no mother to look after hi needs and to show him love. tht•rp he wa , married to gn[...]e left for the difficult for a man to bring up a child and do everything United ,'tate ', Hi ' mother made her home with hi brother in ide and outside that mu t be done on a farm. Arne could Hans. rne wa,' about 24 wh n h[...]. be very charming at times, and I was strongly attracted to rne and his wife gnes arrived on hi quarter ection[...]o tart hi lifeona Arne and I were married on June 16, 1930. That Montana homestead . He built a on room ca bin at fir t, follo[...]Hammond chool where I had all eight grades and 30 house for all those vear ·.[...]student . Thi wa more intere ting and enjoyable with rthur was the fi~,·t of t[...]orn to thi union everal children in a grade. That was the last year I taught on ovembe[...]in 1946 as seventh grade born in Oetoher. l!-)22 and Lillian in 192,5. His fi t wife te[...]llowing summer we all gne,' wa~ vn.v unhappy and ill with lonelin s for veral drove to eattle, Wa. hington. Arne, Arnetta and onja ,\' PU r. · . . 'he wantt•d to return to[...]wa tra ferred wer intere ting and thi tarted me on the way for my to i ror~va .v in LH26. Sh took Harold. fo ur yea rs old, and degree. Received my B. . degree in 1955 and continued Lillian. only a year old. with eith r he nor th[...]refrigerator or ice box, water wa carried in and out, toilet Biwabik and Gilbert, Minne, ota. t 21, after teaching one out ide and of cour e , no electricity. We did have good year[...]drinking water, although a little hard but I did have a new 1ontana in earl~· ,' eptemb r of 192 to b gin ool ca tiron coal and wood tove from ear . However life on yPar ut Buch[...]t . I loved to go hor eback homl' which was about a · nd a half from t ool. riding nd wa known to b a fa t rider. Would ride from Mrs . ,Johnson ch .00 a month for rd our place to Varner el on , a di tance of ix mile over and room . I k pt r up pra1n trail and rough land in 20 minute or les . I h _-tnir_- and[...]were wo ind and under tanding. Ev •ry school[...]I le garden and al o had th winter wh[...]dr ght a m an I've b n[...]I. 44 - Arnetta I 2 ear old and Jn thf' Buchanan school there wa.· on<' out. tanding |
| [...]for school when Arnetta acquired and continued my trip to th farm during th entered th[...]e in 1943. She had finished fifth summer. and sixth grades at the Anderson School the previous[...]th farm. Th third trip to years. Sonja did sixth and seventh grade in one year and the farm I made in arl mber d[...]October helping Arn and ttling our bu in . W old Sonja finished high school at 16 in 1955 with a the farm to lifford and Rach 1 Bergl in r, 19 6. scholarship and had many high school credits and 14 o Arne wa farming there for 50[...]a wa kill d summer where I attended. She liked it and it kept her busy. with her husband in a car accident] aving two bo s. H an She had one ye[...]ne month old wh n he pa ed awa on April 17, Debbi and Melanie. They live in anta Ana , California.[...]e terrible dust storms in the 30's, the years '34 and '37 were the worst. We had what they call a black blizzard in May of 1937. It was graduation day in[...]it struck. It came at 6 MR. A D MR . MARIU OL 0 o'clock in the evening. The black clouds were so heavy with dirt that they were practically on the ground. It blew and Marius Olson and hi wife Emma came from Thi fRiver blew at probably Oto 100 miles an hour and kept up until Fall and home teaded in 1914 one half mile to the outh of about 2 a.m. before we were able to start for home. All the Julius John on. Marius did his farming with a team fences on either side of the road were blown[...]law HenryJohn on.Hequitfarminginl926andhi place and covered with dirt to a foot deep in the coulee and lower was bought by orthfield John on. Th n orthfi Id places. There wasn't a spear of green grain to be seen or turned it over to Bert and Amanda John on who liv d any garden left. there for a few year until they mov d to ulb r on. Arne had[...]his own , of which 110 acres Emma pa ed a way and Mari u remarri d in la r were suitable for raisin[...]an land year . They are now both decea ·ed. and broke about 75 or 0 acre . Under the government program (AAA) a farmer could only rai e wheat on a bout a third or less of their tillable acre and they were required to summer fallow each year to cut down on oil blowing EL A D ALMA OL 0 away. One wa required to eed a trip of wheat crop and leave a strip of um mer fallow which would be ded[...]in the thi · pr ion) a no crop, temp rature or 1 weeks and all[...]a. Al[...]ough h pa fif a . C town . |
| hurch and ·chool was th e mai n com muni ty interest. The hay ra ck and a small amount of hay with my other worldly partie were usually a t the sch ool h ouse. Our church was po se sion piled on top, pulled by a team of horses. It was the Plea a n t Prairie Luth era n Church , south of Flaxville. snow break up time and there was neither sledding nor There w re a lot of card parties and th e ladie a lway wh eeling and by the time I got to Plentywood my team was had a quilt to do . Our school wa th oo . _ ch oo l. exh a us ted , so I rented an immigrant freight car there and Our child ren a re all m a rried . Gordon a nd family live in load ed all m y stuff on that and was hauled down the Forsyth. Montana . Neal and Ken neth have h om es in railroad br[...]Brockton . I bought lumber there and hauled it out to my Washington with her family. We ha ve 14 g r a ndchildren lease a couple of miles north of Mcllwain 's lake and built a and 12 great grandchildren. ca bin and mall barn. As soon as my tractor came and the There were quite a few hail storm and dro ug h t. Al o gro und dried en ough, I brought it out and started breaking grnsshoppers to contend with . The times were h a rd b ut sod for fl a x planting . This land was nice and level , was on tho e that tayed did m a ke it. Our community is now , a good soil and I had high hopes of a crop. I sowed 225 acres ver~: nice part of Roosev[...]ily consisted of four son , Clifford, Leo, Gerald and Everett. Then.' were very good n ighbor , alwa willing to lend a helping hand . On e day my folk , the le Ri a' . w re invited for dinner. Lutn the boys got a couple of tub and aand told m , Bunni , to pull the trigger which f did and just missed big old mother hog. Thi r ally[...]umme r of 1917 - Ben ter and hired hands fording Tht~_v left for California in th tw ntie, . travelling in a moke Creek. For<l rurk . It took th ma month[...]Ir c 11 that it wa getting pr tty dr , and about th 16th of Jun we had a rain and hail torm with nough wi n d to[...]ad ju prov d (I e) and I took er from the h il up on a home. t ad . I came th r hr y r b for from[...]w a m r o th didn't do much[...]l g ar I had a pr good crop,[...]d around there and[...]ac Mr. and Mr . B n P nt co[...]fo , bu I got a W oming[...]Ima and v[...]br bou onl hat had a crop in th[...]im raigi south T xa , near D vin , wh r I wa born and rai d. I and rior' . l y , and er. I can went to Bro kton wh re I had I a ed 160 acr s of Indian rem going t e n hood dan s. V h n I land and xpected to get rich raising wheat. I ordered a fir t aw th coun rv in the fall of 1. 16 it was all black . I.H .C . tractor in th fall b fore and had it hipp d to There had heen a hig pra · · · e that extend d ov r much Brockton along wi h othn things like plow, di c. and of th reservation . I r m that I dug coal a ouple or grain drill. In March I took off with a wagon load d with a thr e winters in order to one o[...] |
| money , but we did have dreams and fun , and now we have n Jul y 5, 19[...]ma ll da ug h t r , R b ka h a nd La ura left Ea. t[...]th m and[...], hind Tom MR. AND MRS . CHARLES PRIOR and J i[...]rail. Charles Auston Prior, son of Benjamin and Lena Edi I[...]daughter of heperd Wayne use a g r w· a d and Arie Adna mith , wa born near Ea t Liberty, Ohio[...]The Prior family al o settled near Ea t Liberty and that h ome a nd h a d to wa lk to a nd from work. is where Charles and Edith met. They graduated from Ea t It wa a ver h ot um in,[...]tember 30, little thunder and light d E e[...]Peale, the much becau e Ohio h a d o ma n b cal hi[...]e. s ame farm land h a d b en completely b urn th[...]ried . umm er of 1916 from th e a na di a n line to t ur i Rebekah• Harr cott - lives in Tampa , Florida and ha a River. They h a d to h a ul th eir wa t r fro m t h daughter, Edith Lee. M[...]h Kapinos - live in one mil e a way. uall th y wa lk d to Yo t Roy, Utah and has two sons, Steven and Charles. Gloria - e v nin g to get a cool pail of water for drinki h Erne t ayers - live in Bremerton , Washington and has water wa h a ul d in barr I . Th lit tu three children, Laurel , David and Robert. hirley - James in th e beginnin g a n d thi wa l y. elson - live on the old home tead and ha three Fortuna l th ir fu rni tur a rri ved io nd, daughter , Linda , Diane and Mary. Donna - Paul a nd th at wa a ha ppy da . It c o d, Alzheimer - lives near Dutton , Montana and ha three k ro ne la mp , clock , a rocki n g ch , trai ir . on , Gary, Timothy and Gregory. harle Prior pa ed and two folding chari , al o an ironin g board. Th at[...]But Edi h' barr l of fancy di . h · barley, a he wa kn own to eve r on e, decided to tr his[...]re fo r Ira, th r , John a nd family I ft th horn ad th a cquiring land and ra i ing a fa mil . h a rl y h a d no desire fi r t todoan thingbutfarm , th r fo reo nM a rch ll 1917 inthe Th[...]· compan of th e b roth er , Ira (J a ke) a nd J ohn Yod r left p i[...]'ra Ea t Liberty b t ra in . On th wa th y h a rd a bout la n d n T[...]t L • Gi a gow , Mon ta na, th land office b ing th r , and w r[...]lon . a ,t ta k n out to th land. amin d it and fil don 1t. Chari y Th n u• u· LI dug by |
| [...]sed for voting, h nd, filling the pail with earth and rock and Edith pulling church, and community affairs. Social gatherings were it out by mean of a pulley. The pail broke on the last pail of many in the 20's, 30's and 40's. The settlers lived too far rock a he wa dumping it. Charley was still at the[...]deep. They struck or even other countries and it was good to get together on very good water and the ame well is being used for all special days such as holidays and have big dinners. farm needs in 1971. Henry Ziegler claimed he had the Charley and Edith were among those who gave big power of water witching, and wanted to locate the well for dinners, wher[...]homes. But the shacks were being would find water and Henry went to work. He held the two enlarged and the Prior shack had four rooms and was prongs of a three pronged stick in his hands, walking all finally enlarged to six rooms. around, and wonder of wonder , the third prong persisted[...]heir fir t wheat made came down with a very bad case of something. When she around one and one half bu hel per acre. In 1919 they had recovered Edith came down with the same and lost the a fair crop of flax but the now came early and it wasn't baby she was carrying. Edith sa[...]what ailed her, she most surely would have died. and condition were better. Edith and Rebekah went back There were no paper[...]rn. Charley thirtie Charley came down with a mysterious ailment, had intended to tay in Montana and try to get a job some was very bad and taken to a private hospital in Poplar. pl ce. By the end of the year he too wa lone ome and When he was well enough to return home, the doctor urpri ed hi family by going back and they tayed all pronounced the ailment[...]f smallpox in Ft. Peck. Charley crop , neighbor , and the hobby of photography. Many had many vi itors but only Molly, a daughter, contracted unday were p nt in the ba[...]The Prior lo ta cow from bloating too much grain, and barley, in the early year , wa in partner hi[...]e farming ea ier ome Indian came along and carried the cow away. for both. The fir t tractor wa great a wa the fir t In the early day the[...]narrow ruts, made w hing ma hine for Edith. Prior and Yoder were the fir t by the mall tire of wagon and car . Tire in tho e days of the ttler to try ummer f llowing and it paid off very didn't la t very long. O[...]country, he had everal flat and wa very late at night[...]time by led and there wa n't time for that. le wa a ver good doctor from nece ity and thing nt fin . Mi Hartkopf a neighbor, came[...]nd to care of Edith and the bah . From th a o ere n ighb ,[...]'th r Prior and Yod r, fir t tractor and plant r.[...]t w 11. Eventall mo of fallowing. Go d and go tim R b kah had t n[...]c m ny ol ·g greatest, a teacher wa hir t[...]igh hool b came Anderson .' chool a wi[...]Tampa, after the fir t teacher, a o. 9 Fl harl and Edit ing th r imburs d harl y[...]Prior and Molly b c lori[...] |
| teacher, Donna a laboratory technician and hirley cho e to get married after graduation and live on th old home place. umming it all up,[...]time on the old homestead , but it was rewarding and happy. LENA C. PROCHNOW My mother and I arrived in Brockton, Montana Ma 1, |
| [...]Bainville, Montana and they continued to live in the[...]Gary Qualley now lives on this farm. Mr. and Mrs. Osca r Monson. Gil and Clella Qualley, |
| [...]OSCAR QUALLEY FAMILY and the strangers rode in to wa t r their hor ,[...]herself and the children in th hack until th intrud r[...]nd Bertha Lauridsen and Oscar Qualley were married at Arne Olso[...]oft n took two d , interested in finding a home of their own on a farm. Oscar sometime longer. Th r w r no mail rout of cour , and homesteaded west of Parshall, North Dakota and they when one farmer went to town h br[...]h , but th n ighbor w r hipp d children , Orville and Josephine. There was a lot of talk at together in the horn with th pa[...]91 . homesteaders. Oscar thought it sounded like a good thing The fir t pring and ummer w re v r bu y but in th so he, Pete Houer, and two of Bertha's brothers, Jake and fall they built a 12 by 14 foot addition to th ir horn , which Chr[...]s. They each There were doctor in Froid and Poplar but ver f w built a shack and then returned to orth Dakota for their roads. Mr . Pat Foran lived in the community and b ing a families.[...]immigrant car, including horses, cows, machinery and household goods. Bertha her cousin, Bertha Jensen, and the two children put what they could in the Model T Ford and started west. The country looked very drab and deserted to the women and the 10 by 12 foot shack looked very small to house that family and their belongings. The trip out from Brockton had its difficultie too. Since it was a cool spring night O car had told them to be sure[...]off for the country, the car didn 't eem to work a it hould have. Before long the motor grew very hot and they had to go back and get water. " Women driver , ' aid the men.[...]and Jo i , Bertha Quall , Gu Erick[...]a Lowell, Or ill , Ra mond and Josi . at d: B rtha and t"[...]a[...]. h t am and~ leig-h. although th alr ttJ d and v elco t . bundl d up with al ·1a ntana location[...]r out. T r.._ and finallv () r d n i w ng w[...]t it up t~ th o find B ig y a._ • ho er riding home.[...]QualJ had ncount r d cov boy, fore and didn't noth or hl < ccasion wa. o[...]kno hat t t from th m. \J h n O ar wa. a ay, Hartkop n A storm am up nd nil the f:CU , t. Hlny d |
| ov might - pla ying card and leeping wher they could by Johnn[...]Millard and Joe John son. Fi h fri w r another time whe[...]Peter tog th r. Th y 11 went to the Poplar River and the women died in 1959 and Anna in 1966. They had two daughters, took lunch . Th m n fi hed and th wiv fried the fi h the Clara (Mr . Eli halbetter) and Elsie (Mr . Arth ur men caught. Fr m all account[...]ry good Jenning ). fi herm n and it w h ppy time. Two more children, Low 11 and Raymond , joined the family and th hou e wa nlarg d nd m d mor comfort ble.[...]l which wa MR. AND MRS. JOHN RE U M lo ted bout three mile west of t[...]ired to ulbert on becau e of John and Martha Reum were married in Vonvick, near 0 c r '[...]John' brother, came back to orway to visit. He m a rri d with f mili and all live in Montana . Lowell and talked John and Martha to come to America for a vi it. he Raymond live in idney; Jo ie Lien in Po[...]al o wanted to vi it her parent and family that had been Kozak in Popla r : a nd Orville live north of Brockton and here for four year . They planned to be here a short time o fa rm th e famil y home tea d. Berth[...]helped Tom build a large hou e for hi big family. John[...]drove a chool bu , too. MR. D MR . PET[...]Martha and John Reum -[...]rked |
| [...]plumbing, heating and I ctrical w rk , nd Mil n , ur[...]TERE A A D AL RO HLE[...]Teresa Wambach filed on th outh a t quar r of[...]married Al Rouchleau and they ran around O h ad of[...]Teresa died in the spring of 1 2 and that fall Al Id out t John Dehner and mov d back ea t. John Reum, Edwin Larson, Martha'[...]Before coming to Poplar, Montana I work d a a clerk in Bromhead, a katch wan. Th ni d ta Edwin Larson and Jens Larson went at the same time. Alf government wa elling ome of the land known a th Lien, John's nephew, stayed on the farm.[...]I bought 2 0 acr of thi They farmed until 1953 and had a few cattle, milking land June 4 , 1917. I lived there often in a lit I hou I built. enough for their own use. They always had a flock of While there I cleared a lot of rock off h land but did n chickens. They b[...]have any crop . the severe winters. Alf Lien, a nephew of John's made his home with them. He came from orway in about 1931. Worked for a time at the coast then returned. They celebrate[...]Mr. and r .P r Rudd and cook for Alf during the umm r month at h farm.[...]f n h h ad off and on u 27 Jo ohn on. ho a Dakota and farm r2 .[...]rid r b n living in B n a h[...]ch 7. I. i12. \Jr. and Ir . L onard[...] |
| [...]e 6, 1 72 at Pidgeo n Hill, Quebec, Canada. a young man Charles play d a double ba bull fiddle in an orchestra in the[...]acquired by C harlie'' dad during Civil War day and he gave it to Charlie when Charlie had mastered[...]Harry Aymar as a young man. Mr. and Mr . Charle . . 'ager pre nt rectory in Poplar. Charlie and Harry were the[...]Mr. ager, with hi bull fiddle, wa a familiar figure at[...]many old time fidd conte t and at dance with Harry |
| [...]The next day with Mr . Dalby, h r n in a tw - , at d[...]If ever a truly pioneer pirit of h lpfuln and oop ra-[...]home tead and her final arrival with th childr n and[...]and built for her a 16' by 24' hou e, a barn, dug a well of good water, put up a good tack of hay and{, need all thi in. They all provided a vital nee ity of prairie hom[...]Hoffman place. They brought a couple of load of that for[...]her, too, to pile again t the north ide of th hou and[...]ne all the work for fr e. Remarkable Leo, Gilbert and Frank. Front row: Ida, Albertina, Wilhelm pioneer generosity. and Eddie.[...]ame people hitch d up their wagon and tar d for[...]Homestead to get all h r po es ion and bring th m to her The parents of both Mr. and Mrs . August chwarzrock |
| months, with no over hoe to wear. In spring and fall they continued living on the Schwar[...]hare of farming. their two sons Gilbert and Fritz were born. Right from the start the enrollm[...]Now with Bill Weiss head of the household and the childr n. Th fir t teacher was Mrs. els Peter[...]here wa no " lush work for themselves and marry and set up their own prairie" to cut in a hurry, due to the huge prairie fire which homes. Ida married Oscar Sturm, a homeswader in the h d tarted at hey in 1916 wiping out both prairie and community in 1925. They had four children, Clara Roy, the and oft in thecoulees. cantrainfall some years Elsie Olson, James who died in 1969, and Kathryn hel retard prairie' revival. Ta[...]passed away in 1960. found only along the "crick "and draw . The whole north In 1930 Eddie[...]at fire children, Pearl, Floyd, Lyle, and Irene Dehner. whi h had tarted from park from a railroad train, and In 1933 Bill married Lucy Timeskevich whose parents raged outhea tward before a high wind , hindered little had homest[...]leading firefighter wa Bill Manning , a and Margaret Thiel, then manager of Fairway Farm, a :iuarterbreed Indian who ranched on the present M[...]very early form of north of Brockton. Leo and Florence had three children: prairie fire extingui her, a hot teer or played-out saddle Ann Pryer o[...]ey'd cut the belly open to let the gut drag, tied a south of Flaxville; and Steven in Minot, orth Dakota. la o to the hind leg and another to the front feet. With Florence passed away at the time of teven's birth and Bill one addle hor e and rider on one end and another at the and Lucy then took the infant into their home and raised other end, they'd drag the carca over and along the rim of him as their own son. A few years later Leo married Elda the fire, one ho[...]ntouched prairie fire. Thi wept the fire out a they Montana. gall t full p ed; t[...]er, In 1940 Frank married Grace Risa , a daughter of a an r came racing on. Bill Manning rode ev n home teader in heridan County. Frank and Grace have hor death that day. But h aved hi ranch and four children - Karen Forester, Denni , Gary and Duane. helped other ave their . Among the e wer · Bur hia, a breed, hi white brother-in-law, Fred um an[...]too, naturally, but th MR. A D MR . EDWARD HWARZROCK l[...]oo. ag well, orth Dakota. He wa th on of Mr. and Mr . t[...], Bill and a . H help d hi de lop h[...]until old nough tog ing a a hr ak and · · ·[...]i a · t . In life . In child[...]il 3 h a for the picking - ,J r curr. nts and ra:pb .[...] |
| Pearl, Lyle and Alice, Eddie and Irene Schwarzrock, 1969. Kenneth were going to Poplar for a chool cla pla and to |
| [...]second year were hailed out on most of it, and the third year[...]This is where Leo met Florence and on January 15, 1940[...]they were married. Leo and Florence had three children,[...]Ann, Bob and teve. Florence Lorraine Thiel was the[...]daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Thiel. Max was the[...]manager of Fairway Farms and Mrs. Thiel was[...]father-in-law for a year, then he worked for Frank[...]pitzke. In 1945 Leo bought the Frank Trumble farm and[...]hospital for two weeks then Leo took him to a Minot[...]d Ka chube, Gilbert Weiss, Bill and his wife Lucy took Steve and raised him. Fritz Wei . Gordon R odewald. Francis Hoffman and While Leo was in Minot his two brothers , Frank and Bill, Jerome Friedenbach. econd row: Chri Enghu en, Eddie his half brother Gilbert and Fritz Wei , nephew Jim chwarzrock. Bob Leete Jr.[...]turm put the crops in, and his niece Kathryn Sturm Enghu en, Dale Hamilton,[...]hitney ll the funeral and ho pital expense wa very costly for and Lyle chwarzrock. Front: Bill Wei , Clement[...]er yet. The crop that year Friedenbach. Alex Luft and Paul Wei . was poor, the wheat only did three bushels an acre and[...]alone. Hi sister Ida turm and her daughter Kathryn[...]He hired hou k eper at different time and through[...]Wi c n in. Elda and one of her daughter , Karen , moved[...]place , and milking from 20 to 25 cow and ome range L o w : born ,Januc ry l;), 1910 in ol harbor, orth cattle thi kept Leo and hi on Bob bu y. D kota. He wa · th son of Mr. and Mr . ugu t Wh n L o[...]lwa w nt d to move out clo r to th m. In 1967 on a hompsteacl in Monte. na in HH 7, but h found out that h lea ed the plac to hi on Bob and moved to th lancl h wantPd to fit on would not be op n for ugu a. Montana whi hi nth edg of th mountain . horn te[...]L o i till living in ugu ta. H bought a hou and t pp d in and on ugu t 1. 1917 Augu t chwarzrock[...]E R OLBERG the spring of 1H2() :he hired a ho C'c. rand lo d d ll her po ion . .. h and h r fiv childr n, Eddi , Ida. Leo. Bill. nd Fran[...]R rvation th . ear of 192 . neighbor' had built a 16' x 2 ' hou . barn. and and settl don a farm purcha ~ d from Duff Ku hnl . Th r dugawater[...]dacoupl loadsof we farm d and r nted Indian land until about 1949. Th n coal ha[...]undh im. That pring with lot of determination and h rd work W had family of nine chldren o h r Mr . chwarzrock and th boy brok 30 acr of land . momen . Th y broke a littl mor land v ry ar andand !if wa · communi y . They ar now Ii ing[...]nything th y could find for f d. and Viol t. The fall of l !J:n Leo went to work i[...]ce married Bradley E en:on of H jou. Minn . ota . a month . so he k •pt , 0. and . nt.":20 horn to his mother. H Thev have two children. Honnie and David . was stationed at. 'quaw Cr k Camp. It was[...]ildren, Tommy, Rodn y, Myla ,Jun . Brue· , Judd, and cam£• home in he spring of ';J to help his mother put the Clar . nop in and L<·o nnd his hrother Frank leased LawrencP Lyla married Loui . Krone . Lyla has a h auty shop in Vanclagri n's farm . The first ye,[...]Poplar . They have two daughters, Linda and LuAnn .[...] |
| [...]train in Home tead and trail d th ir t k to th ir[...]A few year later Emily wa tak n by d ath lea ·[...]boy on the farm . A Gu tav and H d aw[...]lived in a two room hou e on far thi[...]ie, December 26, 1930; Ja ar h 26 1932; and[...]The first year they trav town with a team of hor e and wagon for their . Th did ft ·[...]ed t Th Mildred, Alice, Ordean, Lyla, Mable and Irene. Front row. were two grocery store , two I a , thre vat and a livery stable for the h Roy, Mrs. Solberg, Mr. Solberg and Larry.[...]w upperand Ordean married Irma Brodhead and moved to Box dance at the Biem[...]r tur r d Sue Ellen and Jennifer ue. torming and blizzarding here[...]rn the in Cut Bank, and have five children, Roger Mike, Ronald,[...]r th r u d Debra and Cindy Jo.[...]r Mabel married Eugene el on of hoteau, ontana and two room hou e for the w[...]in they have three children, Russell, Kurt and Li a. and help d with the c in[...]to Lusk, Wyoming and have three girl her 1, hel1y, and[...]u h Roy married Betty John on of Poplar and i ngag din[...]h of Gildford, Montana. Th ha two children - tacy and Royal Ann.[...]th Rolette orth Dakota in 1937 and return d m 1939.[...]es being hown at the Ander on hool. Thi wa a[...]big treat at that time. There were dinner partie a the d for h neighbor and dance at the And r on chool.[...]oth r Emil to community to make a claim for ah ·[...]of age ta and H old[...]r and.[...]d a th for h r. Th[...]h farm and operat il hi[...] |
| [...]Frieden bach brought back a nephew, Clarence Schwartz, to run one of[...]the caterpillars. Jo ulli van tr veled and worked many place before Margaret needed a girl to help with the house work, farming in outh Dakota. In 1916 he came to Montana and washing dishes, cooking, washing c[...]rth of Brockton. The first men, and other jobs. She saw an ad in the paper and Max building he built wa a barn. He wa in the medical corp we[...]cil during th fir t World War, from 1917 to 1919, and was Whiley's in Poplar. She came[...]back to his horn ·t d nd tarted br aking up land and built a small hou . .,ome y ar later he went in for ranching and bought Black ngu cattle. the year went by he b uilt oth r building and plant d tree and al o acquired 300 acres of grazing l Pd on which he had a well dug. Jo ullivan wa born on eptember 25, 1 . He had n v r married. H died May 1 , 1963 of a heart attack on hi way home from Medicine Lake. I[...]E T (WEEK ) THIEL b larence and Dorothy ch wartz hie[...]e of teve Week and Max. Flor nee and Margar t Thi l, K nn th Laurid en, Margar t fil d on a horn . t a t ., r |
| Margaret took care of the cabins and helped with cooking That was tr e cou[...]nd on the dude ranch. They sold the ranch in 1947 and moved no towns, o once mor I[...]u ar Dak t ut Weeks, for a few years. Steve later sold the farm and Max there they u ed th lottery b rwa n 'ta and Margaret bought a house in Flasher where Margaret lu[...]is death in 1953. Thea and I were marri d at Florence and Leo remained in Montana living on a farm February 23, 1916. W worked on[...]area for awhile. Montana wa b in Bob Prior and lives at Augusta. Bob live on the home home teads and I wa till looking fo place and teven is now at Jamestown.[...]9 Florence died when teve was born so his uncle and aunt brother -in-law, Gilbert and er Vr I t - Bill and Lucy chwarzrock - raised him and put him Poplar. The snow wa o de wa i ib through chool. Leo remarried and lives at Augusta. land so we bought relinq hmen t ly Max and Margaret celebrated their 50th wedding knowing ju t what kind of a location i 11 d anniversary in 1969. Margaret and Max pa ed away in returned to Mi[...]elmer and I returned in the spring to build ck .[...]had gone into the army. We wor o and[...]finall were fini hed. My hack b ,a had a mall attic. Our only neighbor e o[...]had built hi hack , and Jim B w iv .[...]our hand and tarted our walk to Brockton .[...]uitca e which wa a big help.[...]When we finall reached Brockton w w r tir d and hungr and w · ·[...]s. Charlie a go in Poplar Creek.[...]· art ch |
| [...]surprise suddenly water started coming and we had a good We were bu y working out when possible, and working well there. It was enough for both Rocheleau's and my on our own place when we could. My boss loaned me a team stock and other needs. when he wa n't u ing it, and Thea and I picked rock with One night about eleven o'clock I woke up and thought I Orrie along in an apple box.[...]or anyone who wasn't there at that time to and there was Arthur Olson and his dog. Arthur was about realize just what it' l[...]d with five years old. I looked around and could see lights all over nothing to fall back on, not even a fence post. othing was in the hills, so I k[...]9. We went back than it does now. We had a barn 16feetsquare, where I kept to Minne ota for the winter and fall of 1918 and I got four two cows, calves and some chickens. I heard the wind in horse , two cow , and ome machinery. These and some the night but didn 't worry too[...]. We lost the the wheels of the car flattened out and it was a real tough chickens but the cattle survived. The neighbors came over ride. The hor es were frightened and uneasy. I stood over and we put the barn together the same day. them with a whip all day and all night to keep them from We didn't go to town any more than absolutely hurting them elve and everything else. I was certainly necess[...]eached Brockton. 24 and not again until March 20.[...]One year there was a big Fourth of July dance at John One of our horse was a pretty good riding horse, so I Zuck's. We had an open car then and during the evening it rode to town quite a lot when a trip was necessary. One of started to rain. We started for home and were soon pretty the quickest trip I ever made in[...]Benz wet. We stopped at Nesbit's barn for a while, but the rain Johnson' buggy and my team. We left home at 7 o'clock in con[...]n. The driver, Fred Retigar, got lost the morning and were back home by 3:30 that afternoon. and had us down near the Poplar creek, but we finally[...]nter time was playing traightened out and got home safely. whi t. If you hadn't played whist before you got there, you In 1925 we Luilt a house and lived in it for seventeen ·oon learned.[...]year . In 1942 we bought Gilbert's farm and lived there the hou e got larger, and barn were built, there were even year . In 194 we retired and built a home in Poplar. dan es too. One time there wa a dance at Mi Hartkopf s. We had four children, Orrie, Illa, orma and Telford. The temp rature wa 40 above zero when we left home and The children attended the Anderson School. It was quite uddenly the weather changed and it was 20 below zero a chore hauling theme pecially in the winter. When[...]ther in got old enough to drive I bought a double buggy from Mr. Montana we never were ur w wouldn't come home in a Kortan for 3.00. We built a shelter at the school for the storm. But the e outing were very much enjoyed. horse and Orrie did mo t of the driving. We celebrated our[...]nniver ary in 1966. Our children gave hor hack to a farm north of ulbert on where there wa a u a party, attended by our friends and neighbor at the t am of hor for al . I bou[...]in Th r w r no road , nothing tot 11 where I wa , and it wa Poplar. Orrie farm the family farm.[...]ding that I orm at Enderlin, orth Dakota and Telford at Sidney, ..·hould h., ve r cogniz d. t[...]ontana . I finally I t th hor ego wher he wi hed and it w n't too Gilb rt Vraa and his wife came out to their home tead long befor[...]r the war. They lived there until 1940. They had a In 1920 we had a pr tty good crop o fiv of u got f mil of ix children, five girl and on boy. Both Gilbert tog ther and hir d thr hing m chine. We each[...]fe Alma pa ed aw in Minne ota. elmer wa furni hed a t am and worked togeth r at each f rm. ingle and lived with u much of the tim . He too moved T[...]cheleau, Kort n, Gilb rt away in 1935 and pa ed awa veral ear later. Vraa and I. One of my hor wa a r I troubl maker. He wanted to fight with all the other hor and occ ionall really got thing· tangl d up. He woul[...]in long day , doing chore at home thr hed all day and chore again at night. Th machine k pt breaking by Rob r a W i down and the own r kep telling u the part wer ordered and hould oon he there. The parts n ver did come, and Paul Wei came to the United tate the[...]arly 1900 s. The to part unknown, leaving behind a worn out machine and landed in ew York and migrated to hicago where th y som debts. work d in a m at packing plant. Af r leaving th r h I didn't have a weJJ for a long time. Rocheleau had a well work d in Minne ota and orth Dakota at ariou job . and we hauled from there for som time. Th n he began to While working in Minn sota a three y ar old ppaloo a have trouble with hi well and we all ne d d more water. A tallion caught Paul' eye. With great determination and man came along who aid he could find water. He di[...]d d aling Paul finall onvinc d the use a willow tick lik som did, butjudged by the growth of owner to s ll the hor e for fl00.00. Being a well brok to he the grass. He pick d a pot and w start d digging. W got harne, s hor e Paul hitch d him to a ingle op buggy and down about 16 fe t and I was giving up hop . The oth rs drove h[...]joined who wPre helping me were resting at th top and I was his brother Bill 's land[...] |
| [...]1916 and home tead d north of Br kton.[...]Hoffman, Tony Gei ler, and Bil] ' broth r aul liv d in[...]called to ervice in the army a a tabl man . H r d only ix month a the war end d in v mb r. Bill and hi fellow home tead r built th chwarzrock[...]home for Albertina and h r children in 1919. Thi wa th[...]reacquaintance between Bill and lb rtina. Th w r[...]married at Poplar in 1924 and continu d living on th[...]Gilbert was born to thi union in 1925 and Fr d ri k[...]in 1956. They are living in Augu ta , Paul Weiss and his appaloosa stallion. Montana rai ing their three children, Di nn , ott and[...]Donavon and Lesha. Fritz and Roberta old theirfarm and Paul began his farming operation as most of the[...]blic King, was his favorite. While he was pulling a bundle in truction, 195 -1960. wagon fo[...]d awa in Ma of 1963 at th ag of 73. He was always a high spirited hor e. Paul will alway be remembered for hi handle-bar mu tache, hi piercing e e and heavy eyebrow . Paul never married. He di continued farming and put hi land R. D R.L[...]0 G man d Y rk and migrated to h go w o i at packing plan r le ng th o a u job in Min and orth Dakota.[...]in 1917,a cor[...]black bull c 1f d no Pink and r d H n · ,[...] |
| Shortly after we had the doors and window a nd roof their ft:iend Joe. Joe wanted to marry Emma and worked secured we had a tornado! It hit Poplar and killed a dairy for her day and night (he had filed on a quarter of land worker there. L.E. wa ' driving h[...]Herman Giesen who it coming - unhitched the mares and grabbed hi winter had a wheat threshing machine. He had very black teeth. overcoat (for emergenice ) from the wagon.[...]sh for us right away as he co~ t over th~ head of a~l three of them and they drifted, had t? get his _teeth fixed . I was sure of that but I was ~eally d~ven by wmd and hail and rain for three-quarters of a surpnsed to fmd out that it was the machine's teeth and m1le. They tayed together and weathered itok. The wagon not his own he[...]' lay on it ide, the content smashed and they all three There were the dear[...]o pull it back on it wheel . They really drove Al and Thresa (Tracy) was another dear friend of mine. h[...]it was 104, sultry were scarce. They lived north and a bit east of us. There nd black clouds promi ed relief and rain to me. But when were the two Kuehnle brothers and there was Arne Olson it cam clo e it sounded like many locomotives ready to (north ) whose wife left him and returned with her children cru h me. A terrifying sound! I jumped out of our west to Norway, and the elsons. And there were the two Hess window. becau e the shack[...]The land to the north and west of Section 9 was hurt a°:d the hack only moved a little way off its[...]Berglee's. But then Indian horses ranged there, and they wa o mce that that wa only a close as it came. I walked[...]free grazmg and roaming. I bought a saddle horse named over the hill. ilk. he was fleet and sweet, a mahogany color. I was out We wer overjoyed t[...]for a ride on her one afternoon when I heard flying hoof off of our new little "'out-hou e", laid it out like a idewalk beats and glancing back Isa w a wild stallion in pursuit of and then laid all four wall flat. It took the seat in ide and[...]urned it upside down dumping carpenter upplies in a pile.[...]return hi interest. I gave her her head and stretching out I I wns qui tP a while befor w finally built another! nd[...]her neck I urged her to fly. he flew! The gopher and that one was nev r u d xcept for toring nail . e[...]involved in in seventy-four yea r ! I hope and clo e to home. What a pony to have! I rode no more in f never h m anoth[...]ayed tog ther. land outh and ea t of u from that day on. These wild Here are some n me we r c ll but not full n m , a no hor e hung about in the hill northwe tofu and ourland onP ver call d anyone b a full name th n . wa n '[...]lson wa' th locator who I t d u . He had a horn . . t ad north of u . He l ft for anada bit later and In 1 we cured a 1916 Model T Ford. It wa a inn hig hurry. Th wooden two tor hot l, w tofth n[...]ent the moment when I brick Popi r Hot L wa own d and run by Mr. Bawden, a could driv it to town and el ewhere, a I cho e. I kept it vn.v nice family. I enjoy d ·[...]On day when L.E. had gone to Poplar with th wagon and to the homest d. I tay din Poplar. It wa too lon[...]o big and old to go with her mother but he wa thP ~hack, 2 ! mil out. o i r-P tch had th tor and th[...]t offie We.' in h north front corn r of it. It wa a[...]ion on th n r h b nk of th ea t of Poplar. Hi wif and wo d u h r liv d[...]l . d to run h r to I h'- d a daugh r I named h r udr y nd hen m d her death . I ran for t T. a con id e[...]th m hand om two or home. I wa a f 1 ai Bl th only hand[...]mu t b furio . a nd[...]topp · d re They bought a n w dr and put it on ov r th old on . r tr back up, and in Pretty . oon. th y look d v r thick through. I[...]nug c o which wa quaw and which might b la r of cloth . The (~.V. ,John[...]i h east. Kortan. on th outh and G . . ' fath r had land.ju t h had l[...]~ ·outh of C.V. Hi: family wa hi. wife and ,Jo , Victor. b autiful d le a Mahl e and Olga. ,Jo and Mabl w re twin . Th y wer all Percheron[...]ake grand neighbors. G.V.'. wif wa Dolly. orth a ta f w h r. I wond[...]th r miles lived Anna Hartkopf, with a man to help h r (had bough all of our f[...]ack finally I ft. Freeman .. 'he drove Buick, had a r al hou. . barns, t .. I I ft without giving much thought o wh t I I ft for at and wa8 our w ll-to-do p rsonality th re. la t I found that I wa going to h v a baby nd I want d to The Kortan 's family con ist d of Mrs . Kortan , with b clo e to doctors and hospitaL and my folk . I tlaxf'n hair. hig china hlue (>yes. their <laughter Emm and siss - Larry was born ,Jun IO, 1921.[...] |
| Stanley and Audrey came soon. In five years I had had engines. Hi moth r am from Ohio and k pt h u for our complete family. All three are happily married and we him for a couple of year . have eleven grandchildren. L.E.[...]Br kt n that homesteading until he had proved up and then came back he met Marie Hoar wh ha[...]founded. We leased our attended school a half year in Bro kton in th fr m p rt of land to[...]ch ol wa his family although our half section is a small part of his offered then. hedidalotof[...]with the Otto Lund children and ome with E.J. Ri ' littl We loved Montana. It[...]girl. Mr. Lund operated an elevator then and Mr. Ric had first drove over it. No roads - only[...]lumber yard. he al o worked for Mr . Han Paul on a and ponds and buffalo skeletons.[...]We helped tame it with our fences, flax seed, and later and grocery store, and needed help with her children and wheat fields. Our water we hauled in gasoline bar[...]ork. miles from Poplar. Our wash water we dipped (and The next summer Mr. and Mr . A.M. Lodm 11 took ov r strained) from pools near by. the hotel and Rachel Loen wa the cook and Mari waited Our well was way over 100 feet deep and was oily and tables. There were quite a few teady boarder th n and flavored with kerosene I think. We endured drouths and some passing through , al o ome from the countr would heart aches - and one winter we stayed there (we usually re t their hor e , and have dinner at th ho I. v ral came back to Lincoln for a few months in the winter). With intere ting, and even romantic inciden happ ned during a small pot bellied stove and a range for warmth. What a this time. The mo texcitingwa when Rach[...]friend wrote to her and aid he wa coming. Ev r one wa We retired and are still very busy here on an acre. There's aflutter, and eemed to n e omething real wa about to lots for him to do and our large two story colonial home we happen - and it did . Mr. ygard came and in the not too built 46 years ago has work in it. di tant future he and Rachel were married . MR. A D MRS. IRA YODER |
| The 160 acre wa al o not enough land, o a it was north Df Henry Ziegler. After[...]ead, po ible, over the year , more land wa lea ed and finally Bill McClure went to Washington and came back with a bought until now the farm unit i 1200 acre . Thi i in the bride. He moved to Canada. Fred Ziegler, a nephew of nder on Community fourteen mile north[...]cClure quarter section. The clo e t neighbor were a mile and everyone Bill McClure and Charlie Nelson received notice their appreciated[...]ck , Delmer When they got there, there was a big celebration so they Yod r. inquired about and were informed the Armistice was hildren were[...]as ovember 11, 1918. f milie . Road were not good and many did not have car Fred was killed in 1930 in a car accident on his way to for quit a while. There wa no school for everal years. Brockton. He hit a bridge, went off the edge and was Then a chool and church both were built and established. drowned. The Anderson chool wa[...]until his death in 1938. were many discouragement and di appointment along the way. Pioneering wa not ea y and there i ure to be om dreams that never come true[...]they do have HANS ZIMMERMAN and be thankful. Food wa bought in large quantities a[...]enbach impo ible many week to con ideriteven with a team and led. Mo t of the food wa rai ed on the farm, and canned Han Zimmerman came to this area from Fessenden, or pre erved in ome way. Most of the women and orth Dakota, and took up a 320-acre homestead in 1921. children' clothes wer[...]n he home teaded on an additional 160 acres. home a lot, becau e there wa no easy way to travel, and Han was in the army during the first World War. He they were often lonely and needed friendship, but they kept wa ga ed while in ervice and after that was in poor bu y and people did go vi iting, some even with the horse health. In 1933 he quit farming and lived in Froid for some team and wagon or leigh . Road finally improved and year . From there he moved to Minot, orth Dakota. mo t everyone got a car. The couple in thi tory went out In recent year Jack ee bought the farm. to their home tead with a wa on and a team of horse and made everal uch trip in to town and back. But when th y retired they had a adillac. ft r erving four y ar of duty in World War II the old t on , Don ld, returned home and marri d the former EARLY ETTL[...]on th Yod r farm wher Donald wa Mr. and Mr . Adolph Bertie on ngag d in f rming with hi d d. inc hi dad' Mr. and Mr . Frank ewman r tir m nt in 1 57 Don Id h continued to op rat th Mr. and Mr . Even on f rm in ddition to hi wn holding . The h v one Mr. and Mr . Ted Falk dau hter, u an marri d to Gory Han n. r. and Mr . Ole Granlie[...]Frank and arl Trumble and moth r · born[...] |
| [...]•J--- ~ .a 3 !, ~.i,[...]ail Cb 11th 1a \ti appro~ loca[...] |
| [...]Grandpa Enghusen with a load of[...]B ill and Minnie Hal vor on Jack Fr man Jo i and arl Dahlb rg[...] |
| Nels and Victor Olson shack after they pro ved up. Later A party a t th e H nning Dahlb rg ham in 1920. L ft to they[...]J ohn on and Mr . ,Jam Craigie. Charli<• and Paul .Ve/son CutltnR !(rain with a head rand h ad r bo u•ith hor.[...] |
| [...]Front row: Bernice and Reuben Johnson, Arthur Olson.[...]Moen and Hans Asmussen. Back row: Julius Johnson, Lillian[...]Hans Hoff, Hans Lien, Arnie Olson, Buster Johnson and torm Brother .[...] |
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| [...]by Rex Fergusen Melvin Engles and Lee Baer bought an elevator in |
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| [...]overnment built fort along the i souri River. In a few year .the area contracts either with the Ar[...]Agency. became part of the Fort Peck Re ervation and the army Adjoining the government buildings to the south and west then e tabli hed Camp Poplar River army po t to were the log houses and businesses of the early settlers. maintain ord r and help capture the renegade who Thi was Poplar about 1907. disturbed the peace and would not conform to re ervation After the[...]and Poplar had become a desirable place for the Fort Peck Aft r the A[...]located there Frank Hunter, Theo Rounds Owens and Government nd a 1 p ople were r pon ible to th~ Indian gent in[...]pp r wood ontr ctor tho e having erv din th Army and ho erving with the Indian gene were exemp[...]ing th· period con ~ ted almo t olely of Indi n and tho e who fi d into the above categorie . The numb r of building n ded to hou e the Agency and i government employees, the government chool and dormi ori for th Indian children took mo t of the ea t end of town and i till known a Government Row. However only a f, w of th original buildings remain and are till in use by the Agency. In 1907 Congre pa d a bill introduced by enator Dixon that would open u[...]tion to Government Water Tank. town ite and home teading. In 1910 Major Lohmiller, Indian Agent, was appointed with other on a commi ion to appraise lots for the various townsites on the Holman, and by 1910 the town had alr ady tablished reservation and these were op n d for public ale in th th[...]ring of 1911. Persons who were bonafide r sidents and bank (Traders tate and Farm r & M rchants); two owners of improv men ts[...]en the right r taurants-with bakeri ( hri J n n and r . A.K.[...] |
| [...]restaurant; two lumber yard comer expo ure and an op nin nd d (Poplar Lumber Company and Mahon-Robin on)· two tre . The t[...]) ha implement dealers (Poplar Lumber and Hopke Hardware); gra and ome of in d three livery barns (Cain, McGowan and Bur hia)· c m walk in from[...], Frank Physicians Dr. Atkin on and Dr. Frank nderwood who p ry· Fr d also operated a drug store; Dan Mitchell Pool Room;[...]r Market; two barber hop (Theo Round and W.W. _Miller)· two black mith shop (Bawden and 1 v rr m · on elevator (Montana-Dakota Elevator); th w oplar Hotel and the Poplar Rooming HoUB The ntral Ho I · and three confectionari ( hri Jen n, Lillian H lm r and Frank Underwood); Hopke Hardw · and churche , atholic and Pr byterian. At this time Poplar had no aloon and any within the ne t tw nty-five ear , a th bill o ning the r ervation had b n amended prohibiting th al of intoxicating liquor and b v rag for that p ri d of tim . It i unknown[...]h town h d b n laid out in som fa hion for tre and wa no longer growing in a top y-turvy mann r. The triangl of ankton and an Avenu s had b n laid out to gi bu in m na A.E. Kelse and men filling w r ditch at Poplar about[...] |
| sidewalks and crosswalks. F .M. Hass of Minot got the bid[...]ntana Utilities about 1940. Company of Glasgow, and the George W. Kemper Co. of There is no mention of a fire department or fire fighting Minot. Most of[...]iginal townsite were equipment until 1927, and it is to be assumed that it was a built in 1917. Other sidewalks were poured as sections of voluntary system. Fire hose in 50 and 100 foot lengths had the town were annexed.[...]tus On July 31, 1917 an election was held for a much needed Company in September 1917. On[...]new water supply. There were 23 registered voters and all City Council, in Resolution No. 79, g[...]r the project. In August the contract was let for a members of the volunteer fire department to organize, and new town water well and construction of water mains, the name was to be "Fire Department Relief Association". valves and fire hydrants. C.H. Kelly of Kalispell got the bi[...]he from the horse drawn water barrels and bucket brigades to contract to drill the new west water well at a cost of $28,000. the present new modern fire trucks and fire station located The new well was dug in October 1917 and water mains on Sioux Avenue and A Street. were completed in the spring of 1918. In[...]sits next to the alley behind town entered into a contract with E.D. Mossman, th[...]use until the new jail was built for well owned and controlled by the city of Poplar. Said[...]ed the bids on the the Chief of Police and in 1916 his salary was raised to sewers for the original townsite at a cost of $32,000. In June $75.00 a month. On October 16, 1916 new revolvers and this contract was extended to cover the First A[...]ard was appointed Police due to an early winter and World War I, it was late into the Magistrate also at a salary of $75.00 a month. When the next summer by completion time.[...]toilet was built on the west side of the jail at a cost eparate bids were awarded for streets, water and sewer of $72.80, a night watchman was hired to escort the when the[...]he town was added in 1921 prisoners to and from the out building. Charles Zeige containing 14.19 acres. It is thought that Lindgren and Larson were the owners of the first Poplar Electric Light plant, operating in a small building just over Depot hill south of the hotel. As the population grew, additional power wa needed and a larger generator was in talled in the building now known a the Poplar upply. In ovember 1916 the seventy re[...]The town wa to pay the Poplar Electric ompany 35 a month rent and J.C. Caimcross was to manage the plant. The town paid for the water fuel and oil bill for operating and Caimcro was to receive what wa left over from co[...]urcha d the light plant it wa run by harle Petri and Dick Martin and el ctricity wa uppli d to the busine on Yankton nd ioux Avenue and tho eon Fir t and econd treets. The town enlarged the op ration[...]nted pecial Mar hal at !.,10.00 per day when for a franchis on a econd light plant. omehow thi did needed. Th y tem of law and order ha progre d until not materialize.[...]ice, with In April 1917 the town voted 31 for and 1 again t to give Bob Murray as hief of Police. the Miracle Engine ring ompany a 20 year franchi e to The advent o[...]Coal was the principal method of heating homes and the water for ferry boat cro ing , and road travel. In 1930 businesses and in the very early year was dug and hauled MDU wa a ked to move their high voltag tran mi sion by ea[...]ed in by the lines from th main ar a of Poplar becau it interf red carload. In ovember[...]in es ence gave the town the right to confiscate and In 1936 the City ouncil ecur d the right of way for seize a carload of coal which had been consigned to a Highway o. 2 to be built aero F Str[...]l o bor the ex pen e of posting the took the coal and delivered it to needy businesses and STOP signs required for roads enteri[...]own. After two years the Company had done no work and Anderson as the contractor.[...] |
| [...]ny purchased the ystem in th e late 1920's. Th di a l system was installed in March 1939 a nd " dir t di a lin g" came about 1971 . Little is known about t[...]one for the city on fire hydrant , light pole , m a n holes and sewer drains, streets and cross wa lk . ccording to Resolution o. 107 on March 7 193 a tr et poll tax was levied on each able-bodied ma[...]was in effect fo r t wo years , costing each man a total of 4.00. City taxation rose with the needs and cost of th e cit. ; from the fir t ten mills in 1916 to 50 mill in 1926 a n d by 1933 had risen to 73 mills. During the depre ion a n d war years it leveled off at about 40 mills . After 60 years of th e ity Ma yor- lderm a n for m of government, the local stud y co mmiss[...]e tate Constitution pas ed in 1972, will pre en t a n alternative form of governm ent on th e gen era l election ballot ovember 2 1976. Th e a lterna tive is betw n t he present sy tern and th e city-manager y te rn . (City[...]nn x and w r among Poplar· and th~ Ft. I k[...]THEE GLE (' FE Popl a r ' fi r t h ot l wa b uil t b wd n who wa[...]it to r . J . . 1ha wa:a a · · Humphr y fo rmerly o[...]ghout the y ar owned a nd •i do[...]managed thi h o I; a v Y un g, ra Ure l[...]ar Rowa n nd h r br b and ta. r ·. G o. Gra h am. La[...]· i r as I a. 1f In l!H:3 Th Lamb rton Land \,mpa[...]di<l all kin of jo E . and mplo. compan. ere G.P. Lamb rlon, F.\ .[...]-~ 'POPL.A'P't . r-,o It T. A.E. K el y dra Lin<'. |
| [...]y delivered grocerie daily for the stores. When A.E. Kelsey came here about 1910, he was Farmers and Merchants Bank - Poplar Mercantile Co. operator o[...]vator in Poplar which was then called the Montana and Dakota Elevator Company; then he tarted his own b[...]e only one in Poplar where the business was owned and were H.B. Springer of Northwood, Nor[...]North Dakota, vice ame family. It wa later known a Kelsey & ons. president, and .0. Odegard of Williston, North Dakota, In the elate year a new building has been erected and it cashier. The bank gained prosperity and later moved to a ha combined office for Kel ey Ready Mix and Warren new location. This bank[...]orated with Kel ey Hauling. Gene Theroux conducts a part-time law capital of 10,000. o[...]government, opened up a real estate office in therearofthe[...]Farmers & Merchants' Bank. Frank was a h ustler and THE POPLAR MER A TILE CO. when he couldn't ell you a farm, he would write you a fire, (Korner Bar)[...]life, or accident in urance policy, and if you wouldn't[...]stand for that, he would ell you a bunch of horses, cattle,[...]beep or he would find you a buyer for that class of Thi company wa incorp[...]Theodore Rounds had an office there for a time. He pre ident and L.L. Brink cretary-trea urer. After the would locate you on a home tead either 160 or 320 acres in or anizatio[...]the bu ine . The ize. He helped urvey a large part of the land outh of the company op ned fo , 1910, in a mall Mi ouri River and he knew it like he did the page of an building o[...]ding op n book. He al o dealt in de ded land and would either wa er ct d and u e y ar when[...]line of 1 39, owned and op rat d by Harry kinner. ptemb r 13, ral[...]the tock and ha b n op rating the bu ine under[...]r ompany. Th on of Mr. Brink live on a fa uth of Poplar t thi time. Another p[...]. When th to nd wa owned and op rated by th a Th GI ci r Th . of th ompany till they mov d to a new location. G orge Wi[...]. Thi In 1913 thi building wa known a the Lindgren nu h r lock Lar on tore, and throughout th year ha chang d an n GI a~ hand and been known a th Kelly Pool Hall , Verdon Pool w[...]d in Hall, Corbin Drug under Art orbin and later Patricia and in t i the Rich O weiler, Anderson Drug with Les And r on, and it i da d th town with now pre ently owned and op rat d by John and arie a good vari o a night. ")I Ranf a the Komer Bar.[...]w. upperstory,andthi wa latermad intoapartm nt a ndit building co[...]r . 1913 oh ad a[...] |
| [...]eciali t, could be seen her al o. Later there was a little lunch counter there along with an ice[...]eweler used this office too. In the Re taurant and Baker . late 1930's John urvant from Glasgow purc[...]ho chang d th na and hen Bill and nn retir d , iforn[...]& BILLARD HALL r taurant and b a do nn (Buckhorn[...]va This building wa con tructed by hri Jen en , and it wa not known whether all the p ople that ran b[...]ne in it. It wa well patroniz d, had good table , a complete line of cigar , tobacco , oft drink and confectioner . Other operator in t lar n and · rother; th and ated b T ch Id from partn hip wit her[...]and Poplar M at 1ark 2 ~I at il-f[...]7 y ar . Jim al r bui] and building and ard Hall; 5. Glaci r Th tr nd r n · Lar n . |
| [...]The Poplar Meat Market and Star Meat Market were (B ck Gun Shop) torn down and the new Beck's Electric was constructed on[...]k. Roy Richard then moved In 1913 Theo. Round and John C. Reiland formed the h[...]lding. Jim Bravard became I- t. Peck Land ~ump ny a nd h a d th ei r office in this next the owner in 1975 and changed the name to Jim 's building.Th y werebothhus tl er th a tkn wthe gamefrom Appliance and Recreation . to Z ·o were a tive in up buildin g thi area and were front r, nk Monta n boo t r . ttorne Da na M. Ea t n h a d hi office in thi building with Rounds n nd H il[...]with hi Men ' Clothing ._'tore. L ter, Roy Ric h a rd became a partner. Richards then bo ug h t the building from Round and it became Rich a rd ' Electric. Tony Englehart came to Poplar to work fo r Rich a rd's Electric, and later Nel Andersen joined th e company. He and Englehart became partners till n d r en bought th[...]Richards. In time, Bill Beck bought out Andersen, and it became known B ck'' Electric. The buildin[...]he Argona ut Men ' tore run by Kenny Tonjum and Jack opp for fe w year . At the present time, it is a gun shop nd portin good tore run by Bill Beck and Edith Ric h rd nd i called 'Beck "'[...]and Abe Dale proprietor.[...]THE ECO D POPL R MEAT MARKET and was located where ,Jim· ppli nc ~d R cr~at[...]Henr Kirn, th e ol · tockrai er and ranchman[...]t nort ta r M at Market o had a littl b uildi ng t h a t w or la nd office , dwellings[...]arke ich , a l o, and Hill Md 'lnmn[...]n l a nail. le and[...]an wo · · · and[...]building and th •[...]building down and put upa ne ·hich i[...]l McC'lammy, O.~car H rh and 'ha .. Z ig op r d h first W . tland Oil Andn.<Um. and Ray Corbin. .,ta ion in Popi r a thi, orn r location, which pr viously[...] |
| [...]and r nt d it a a dw lling plac until it burn d down in[...]1975. had a dwelling house on it. Art Harlow had the next bus[...]hip. Ra Lang wa th e n ex t occupa nt. H e tarted a a Fo rd d al r but c h a n ged to tud eb a ker . H ov a rd K I ey bought the tor n e x t a nd it beca m e kn o wn a Ke! ey' on ignm nt tor ,[...]( acant lot uth of Kel a l o bo ug h t the fir t old Pr byt rian 'hurch.[...]In th arl. day . Eri oum had a liU] law offi whi h a nn e x d it to th filling tation and thi ar a i u d for th furni t ure part of t h e tore. tju t north and aero th all y from th Poplar Hnrn .. ·[...]and ho . hop. H wa,· in o h r location .· in Poplar[...]throughout th manv v ar: that h and hi . familv liv Jd in[...]Poplar b for moving "to\! olf Poin and on to T •x·< .· wh r • DEWITT' BL CK MI H HOP h and hi, if pa., d away. ( orth of K I[...]nd Popi r. cam from .-outh of th ri r. ran black. mith , hop aero.·. th all y and n rth from wh r th W • tland Oil Company wa[...]ould have b n u.· d hy many o h r arly da. · black mith bu r coll ction. of who h y \\'<'f i vag[...]· · ool room. which contain •ci aa r ' uppl _·) o[...]. . ft, day. It i er tood and i. . · · of Poplar |
| [...]Bank, Overland Hotel Overland Cafe and Poplar Lumber and Implem ent Company.[...],tore about 1919. J ame W. T ler. Thi a rea con i ted of about one-fourth of an en tire block rt orbin and ..,colt mith. ,Jr. and wa co ered by many different bu ine e that will b[...]li ted and these fir t bu ine se were all de troyed by a[...]tore , B nny Fr dr op. Zimm and it i pr ntly o d by Wall[...]ui a nd h h north 'l[...]ow r a loc tion hy t R v[...]i for th ; a law[...] |
| office and later Dr. Malmend's dentist office. It was later[...]tal Center with offices for Dr. Rockwell, dentist and Dr. Vaclavik, M.D. The basement of the building has been used for a beauty shop operated by Kathy Yasenosky; a dwelling, and for several years housed the Poplar hopper office[...]The Overland Hotel and Re taurant w re buil and[...]nderwood moved hi drug tor to a ite in hi ar a. Thi calling card and po m tell the tor of th Ov rland Cookie Baldwin,[...]Lundeen, George Conlin Walt Hanson, Galen Brown, and Mr. Lundeen.[...]Hard by the river and on the hill ,[...]tand a town called Poplar town[...]l Br ; 7. Jim cAnn i Flemming; and . Bud[...].D. . Id a.[...] |
| [...]to run the store until it was ·old to Bud a . It is till the fort Peck ere-an tilt.' owned[...]with Lundeen in the Fort P eck Merca ntil e, had a dr hop to the north of the main tore. When it closNi. The Poplar ,'tandard u ·ed thi building, a did Montana -Dakota Utilities. Pr sently. Th Popl[...]e. Harry Fl mming built hi la t barber h op on a pot north of the Fort P ck M rcantile building, b[...]Poplar Lum her & Implement Compan ··office and yard l ( IL R LUMRER ND IMPLEME[...]The Poplar Lumh rand Implem nt 'omp~ ny wa built |
| [...]tte 4 Th Boar anniver ary Patch ic and J . Harry In 1 n Pr . Zim Harr and Tr a al ban n 5,0 1 HO -R 0 IP a · on. hon · Lum |
| Ii v d in Poplar form ny year and for ix year previou to thi , wa propriet r of a re taurant a well a the pool room. man known a " igger Dick" cooked in thi re taurant. MI H RE T UR TA D BAKERY Mr . A.K. mith, formerly of ulbertson, rented the old |
| Post Office and Cosier Patch Block, Poplar, Montana Cash Store,[...]Pioneer Auto ompany. F:r t per on unknown, Pion er Auto ompany YB RB R HOP a building p[...] |
| [...]H, Company wa · orat d and op ned for hu, i · ng th umm[...]Hopke c m h elock. or a whe h hnd ht:• n in bu.· 1 r :om year ·. carri a general linp of hardware. furnitur , and rm implt•nwnL· . large .·t, •I cover d and d building wa. · t'rP<'tt>d tog[...]; 11 M. ( 'osin. !-lt'cretary-tr a.·urn: opk , I rnnnagn . T[...]i: sto r l'hangt>d hands and was run hy Fr en, Ra I[...]wa ,' h fir. t ma nag r StorP . Patch·. . 'torP and hwldin!{s, CafP on lower cornn. h .·[...]r on{Pctwnn_, Land Off1c . bookkeep r a Co; i •r·. , 'tor and ,JusticP of th P c . M a. ontr Hwldmp u ,th r;atewa_y Drup Co. b low, Trad[...],John Moran wa .· th .·e ond m< nager. and on could StatP Rank Ruildtnp. Wnlkn Op ra Hou. e and Gateway Pnjoy a cont .' in pool. howling. billiard. or Cc[...] |
| [...]Trader tate Bank and the tart of the Ma oni Building Valker Opera[...]which housed the Gatewa Drug o. and later kinn r[...]with Earl tring r . For two y ar it wa a plumbing hop.[...]The old building wa tom down and a n w m tal building put up for a car wa h , o n d b Earl artin .[...]Burned Januar 197 . an a d t build. north co uld ha[...]1 n h |
| [...]that time. Ray Kao operated a grocery store here during the[...]the early 30's. North ide view. w l ter u d a dr hop run by Mr . Marie Te man u ker; then a a dwelling place and a beauty hop run by H zel Ra mu en Hole and Kathyrn Ya eno ky.[...]h n and it[...]lJ r n a[...] |
| [...]to th ·n a ·[...]old building, and[...]u ed a a dwelling.[...]and Lar en tore in the earl , ar of[...]with Mi s Effie Toll. today. People a it wa t ank[...]many thing during the uch a on office a pool room, land office, ha on[...]HOUSE Plumbing hop and at pr nt it i b i ving[...]t belonged to Henry Kirn one of the early settler and i now owned by Fred Buckle .[...]( e r' Body hop a a hop. It wi b ing ad llin h u ,[...]apartm nt b wold' R taurant, a Thi building wa a hou tha A. n had t of er ation Ha[...]di i n w nu -to-da Poplar. He moved it to town and r it for · h laundromat own t. counter a · parlor. I n b[...]nd Ii n on of a r n own bud i and B[...]1r oc d ju. Lind ,.a itmo d |
| to P ul and Belle Atkin on, and Belle and her family made th ir home there. The hou e wa to[...]LeCornu as local manager, opened a yard in Poplar in the[...]Implement office i now. This place was bu y and the yard (C ntral Hotel)[...]ial. In 1 10 the Poplar Rooming Hou e wa built and furni hed and wa a er dit to a town the ize of Poplar. It had 20 fair- iz d room , a comfortable parlor or lobby and offic . In · c l mmy took over a the new p who owned or r n thi place w a on nd ma nd Hattie o[...]Rog r -Templ ton Lumb r Yard and Office[...]anda hardwa i[...]orn down in the w y ar . Frank K I y now h a trailer home in it'[...]1B R T D WHITE B R Thi barn and corral occupied about four lot and was located wh r Fred lark now ha hi r id[...] |
| [...]rig and ran a Ii very on th id . · t[...]and u ed th lumb r t[...]locators, and Jack McGowan[...]Livery from thi location. Poplar Livery and Feed Barn[...]treet in front of the McGowan Li er Barn and the cGo an driving hi auto li 1 op ar o n |
| George Robin on and H.C. "Colonel" Walker Po at Poplar.[...] |
| [...]facilitie , and it m b t t[...]funds, and labor wa uppli db th WPA. Af r[...]factory, and Multiplex We t now o cupie th main part f July 1958 - Bob Trinder, Jennie Bawden, Rev. A.L. Davis, the building. Mrs. Mitchell and J. Earl Bawden. Dur[...]l rk' Originally mail was carried by railroad and was received office, the Library and Water Departmen wa moved back from and dispatched to both stop trains and by catcher to the Armory. pouch.[...]The lots between the Armor and the lumber ard w r Messengers transferring mail to and from the depot occupied by a livery barn and a black mi h hop-"°wn r were: A.E. Kelsey, Howard Kelsey, Earlwin avior,[...]. Clarence Stormy, Robert Moilanen, Chuck Chappel and E. Phelps. Post office staff at present is Flom[...]E Bob Trinder, chief clerk and James Cathers, clerk. DR.[...]Dr. .A. wanson moved from the econd tory of the[...]where Mr . kinner lived for many year and hich i .now PRESE T POLICE STATIO[...]fice which wa built by the Lundeen or Hunt family a an office building. It had been u ed by Dr. c lav[...]. Department with office in th w ide and h ity Water Department office on th ea t sid[...]Fr d Paul. on ' Tin hop and Hardwar - 1913. |
| [...]NORTH SIDE OF SANTEE A VENUE[...]worked with him until he moved to a shop just north of the[...]orman hotnakoff and Harry Claire.[...]were the home of Dodge Brothers' Motor Cars and Graham Bill JfcClammy, Blocker We t with gun, Joh[...]zy Cafe i now. The building next housed a millinery shop, the management unknown, for a few years until Oscar[...]Lawson, with the help of his two sons Wilfred and Don ,[...]In 19 6 Bud a bought the building and opened the[...]bought the building and they operate a small grocery tore and coffee hop--known a the antee.[...]ar and th n[...]h building and i i V C nt. Block r We t, R d mith and Bill Mc Lamm[...]· · ·nd. r |
| [...]material to reconstruct thi bowing h r a bili t fw rk. history of Popla[...]ged far in adv Between the latter part of 1909 and pring of 1910, Th Poplar Standard, the first news[...]eck India n Reservation was printed in Culbertson and enter d I R EL[...]the Poplar postoffice in accordance with the rule and regulations covering the same. In the spring of 1911, a fir t Wm. Mal ney, form rlyofWilli t n class[...]Poplar but buil an offi the town the advantage of a paper printed on the ground. in uran , land and loan bu in The first editor and publisher was G.H. oulter of complet printing outfit and hi in Culbertson.[...]r for P plar. In 1913, The Poplar tandard was a member of the Sheridan County Press Association.[...]ATTOR EY paper of heridan County, edited and published by Linden 0. Johnson , with a subscription price of 2 per annum, in[...]hursday afternoon by Linden 0. John on publisher, and Mr. wart, though not adm[...]no mall matter in hi of a then a member of the Ben Franklin Club of America , and collector. the Montana tate Pres Association a well a it' r. eo. E. Eric on wa a young man of mu h n rgy previous membership . T[...]n publisher of The Poplar tandard wa and tal nt and during a hort ta in Poplar arn d th Bill Jerome, with Denni Delger as hi a sociate. confidence and r p c of it' itiz n . In 1923, Denni Delger and laude arpenterboughtout The Poplar tandard and publi hed it for man ear .[...]HOP Denni Delger became the ole owner and publi h d it until[...]wa p am. and under Harry M. Down and Mik uk lich .[...]ring the 1 0 Winona park wa ditor and[...]t ump. Rev. .L. Da i with r . Eth l arquard a th i t Editor. From Januar 1 62[...]p Wr nch ath r wa ditor and manag Down. The Poplar tandard b am non[...]black, mith a, ad pt in th <'r ation of lad . '[...] |
| [...]opera ted t wo automobiles on his route and during the year[...]of 1913 h ad an unusually large business. A story told was when Ma rtin Mitchell and Charles Parshall had the head-[...]on collision with their two cars on a trail north of Poplar,[...]demolished . Black mith Shop at Poplar. TR[...]h cit . cted an auto livery and r pa hop and |
| [...]Rodenberg and A.A. Wern r. A.A. Werner bought the el vator and it tood va ntf r[...]several year before it wa tak n down, and a horn built[...]n when the elevator started. The next manager was A.J. Hole. The Occident Company (elevator still has this sign) bought the elevator and under this company had four managers: Ed Dowse, Roy Udy, Mr. Wolff, and Clair Mathiason. The Peavy Company bought the e[...]or Hertz was manager when the elevator wa sold to A.A. Werner. The elevator is now closed.[...]T ri w a tofwh[...]tP t m 191 3 until 1 1 7 a Mr. bj a 1 · · ath in[...]193 A. r m h[...]an m tat Cit· ; Flour and Grain Company' Building ITY FLO R 0 1P The ity Flour and Grain ompany built an levator in |
| the Traders tate Bank to form the new Poplar Ek ;;a tor Company. The e men were al o the first board[...]Elevator Company wa incorporated onJuly 15, 19 9 and wa open for bu ine that year. In 1949 a new and larger part of the elevator was built and five new director were added: Chri Tange, Wilfred Law on, Glenn Zimmerman, Allen Zimmerman, and Peder Moe. ince then many new names have been add[...]ich, Ronnie Guy, Lloyd Holen, Mabel Iverson, Lyle and Willie Lockman, Harry Ma on, kully Moe, Jim Crowley, Jack ees, Milton orgaard, Russell esbit, Bob Zimmerman and Ed. auer. Manager ince 1939 have been: Herman Dethman, Rodenberg, Thomsen, Lee Baer, Munson, Otis Dahl, and for the pa t 20 year Ed. auer ha been manager.[...]space was needed for tanks, storage area and additional[...]It is a service center that offers a large variety of items for ale, and its several service departments are not only[...]onvenient for farmers but service households over a large[...]hou e wa held. ince that time much new and more[...]including a ophi ticated fire alarm y tern.[...]teadily increa ed over the year and by 1973 the million Farmer Union Elevator in Popl[...]ld ual 1 v or and tart d th Oil tation both bu in wer[...]B b ock with irgil Buch nan and Dugald J. H gadone med t a . Zuck, i tan man g r ; Harle Fla n Arthur m to and Ray[...], el v tori t m a comer lot wit di appr[...]nd d the numb r a in oinc w 11 a new p e ep n t ph n and buildi a an i . ov nt o the co[...]old authorized the board to secur bid a ti By the end of 1[...] |
| [...]management of both places were too Bylaws and Article of Incorporation w r drawn up much for one person, and it was decided to have a manager with the help of Arli M. Fo r, Attorn[...]managers have been was arrived at to obtain a uitabl building and b i E.A. Manley, Lowell Babcock, John Covlin, Laverne equipment for a Ho pita!. Finan ial upp rt wa bt in d Becker, Dua[...]al contribution of area individual . h .A. Witschen, Glenn Alm, and the present manager is Harold Lundeen hou e wa purcha ed and b cam "Th Ho pita} Wetz.[...]een: Art Mr . Florence Dale, wner and ur up rvi or f Dal Hasbrouck, Al Bryant, Allen Evenson and Jim Hansen. Ho pital, clo ed her ho pita} to g n ral ar and ac p d nur ing home re ident for a time. Thi wa a lo th Community a he had given ixty y ar of out tandin and devoted ervice to area re ident .[...]The Indian Health ervice al o operat d a Ho pital with COMMUNTIY HOSPITAL[...]The ultimate goal for th community wa obviou ly a by Betty Moilanen combination ho pital for Indian H alth and non-Indian[...]ublic. Thi wa not to be until the fall of 1961. A group of interested persons of Poplar Community m[...]r 1, 1948 to form the Poplar many hour of labor and dollar toward thi goal of Hospital Association. D[...]explained the HO ITAL. Many town p ople ar a p ople ta and necessity of a unified group to direct and improve medical federal people w re invol d in local and Wa hington, standards in this area. George Killen[...]C. meeting . (Bud) Nelson, Joseph (Bud) ass, Mrs. A.L. (Catherine) Person who contributed time and money ar too Cooper, Oscar Dahlberg, Bert Johnson, tanley ees and numerou to count, but pecial mention houl[...]to spearhead this following: Joe Frerich , G.A. Lundeen , . . orbin , B rnic gigantic project.[...]nd for new hospital. Emily Morse, .L. mith, J .M. a , Konrad Kopperman , tru t , Jo Frerich, Hu h Moe[...]kn Purvis, in back on digger was Malcolm Campbell and Lou treet. April 15, 1960.[...] |
| [...]licensure in regards to equipment, staff and construction, a[...]when Dr. C.A. Swanson, Dr. B.J. McLaverty, Attorney[...]and Tribal Delegates Austin Buckles, Chairman, Roy[...]Manny mith, William Youpee, and Norman Hollow and interested community parties met and planned the 42 bed Community Hospital and ursing Home. Funds were[...]and Community funds. The site for the proposed buildi[...]Ground breaking for the Hospital and Nursing Home[...]Milo Stangeland, James MacDonald, Lou Street, and[...]Erne t Haa , and James J. Purvis. Matilda LaRoque being moued into[...]The taxpayers of chool District o. One and No. Nine 0 tlund and Florn Ma rtin. Augu t 20, 1961 . voted in a mill levy to help defray Hospital expenditures.[...]n, Alfr d Ma nning, Mainten a nce, Inez Hauer, Dietary Department and W n Hagen[...]Milo and , LaRoque, Ma r tin a yers, George Verdon and Rayme ay[...]rle Prior, e a n d patien t were referr d to urrounding ho pital on n Martin, Richard a n d Patty con tract car .[...]Th e ' it Ho pital ' wa old and i n ow a private th Bo rd m mb r in t[...]Mr. a n d Mr . rn O tlund Mr . Dale daughter and l[...]oth r a linic fo r med ic 1 nd denta l rvice for eligible[...]p opl during the w k . Aft r fiv P . . and we k nd th 1[...]community p opl ar n a nd tr at d a t th Ho pita l[...]nudso n . I f ursing. a ft r me ting . trip .. a nd pr y r , along with th L oa rd of H a lth ' incr a ing th ir d mand , for[...] |
| [...]Ma deline McGo wa n wa deliver d by Dr. .A. wan on on Community for added health benefits wo[...]t ommunity Public Health Nurses, Clinic, Hospital and Doctors. Social Hospita l. Hospita l rates in[...]ealth ma ternity ca es, $7.00 daily for ward and 9.00 daily for staff, alcoholism abuse programs,[...]ough E.M.T. programs, are available. a nd $65.00 fo r private room ra t today. Financial[...]oriented persons Doctors remembered: Dr. .A. wan on, fir t hi f of with loans and scholarships, and nurses coming to a taff at Community Ho pital, work d d[...]pay off their school loan by working Health and a a private ph y icia n until hi d ath in at this hos[...]itmeyer, Dr. charnw b r , Dr. Memories, events and persons are too numerous to Jame Harns[...]ntion, such as the curtains separating the female and Dr. lyde Longstreth , Dr. E.J . King, Dr.[...]e Board at Marvin Cinna m on , Dr. or man a muel , Dr. M. avic, Dr. Helena was upset as they hadn't heard of coeducational Don a ld Lar on , Dr. h a rle Lar on, Dr. Rob rt Montagu facilities in 1949. Babies delivered on the front porch , a nd Dr. Eugen e Gibb a ll erved in thi communit . births, deaths, accidents, Staff and Board members baby- United tate Public Health ervice Phy ician who sitting Bob and Betty Moilanen's small children, Robbie ha ve been Mon ta n a licen ed with Ho pital taff privileg and Shannon, who resided in the Hospital basement. The a re: Dr. Rich ard Lee, Dr. Wm. Fre man, Dr. K nn t[...], Dr. Jud on Kimmel, Dr. kitchen in the basement, and steps to the second floor. The T h oma Richt m[...]volunteer ambulance crew who were available night and Th oma , Dr. RF. LeBlond, Dr. Raymond ta[...]d in the money maki ng F ra nk Thompson, and Dr. harle aclavik. projects, carnivals,[...]ty Moilanen, R.N. , the parties for Florence Dale and Dr. Ander on Gene Mc racken lyde trahan , and John C.A. Swanson.[...]t Admini trator. Mrs. Carl Frost was the first a dm i ion on Decem- iola lark R. . wa mploy d a taff and urgery ber 30, 194 at th e City Ho pital under th[...]e time. Quitmeyer . teven ch agunn , son of Alvin and Eileen Th manyloyal taffm mb r from1[...]ch tor m mb rand b proud of; deli vered by Dr. C. A. wa n on on ugu t 13, 1961. that i wh th ommunit Ho pital and ur ing Hom J acqu elyn Ma ri e McGowan, daughter of Franci and till h r and giving fir t la ar t th 'ommunit .[...]POPL R-1976 Laundr t - Jim Ault and Pa onnor di[...]u h "'orn |
| Bill' uto and Repair - Bill Voorhee[...] |
| [...]i r tor and fir t Po t Offic .[...] |
| [...]Pet Loegering and Earl Baker with horse and led in a onic Building. front of new fire ta[...] |
| [...]ch 28, 18 1 in Germany. He migrated to Paris when a young man and came to thi country in 1908. He came to Poplar in 1913 and homesteaded. He married Freda Grotz, a young woman from Germany, on July 24, 1923. One d[...]en they went to their home hollering to be let in and beating on dishpans and tubs. It took the couple quite a while to come to the door. Mrs. Aichele almost fa[...]chele died suddenly at the age of 53 in 1934 from a heart attack. HOWARD[...]lar in |
| Barney Andresen homestead-1916. and then began the long journey to Montana-all of a day |
| [...]mier from the Seed Growers Association in Bozeman and followed it as far as Bob Reids. By that time the horses came and I told him about the ize of the hail, he didn 't wouldn't go any further and I was nearly frozen. I quite belie[...]With all the moisture from the hail and rain the wheat help thaw me out and my clothes were so stiff it was awhile sprouted new plants and got about a foot high headed, before I could get out of them. It was two days before I got which I cut with a binder with a flax attachment because home and I think that was the worst blizzard I've seen in[...]und good in the fall of 1918 so I was around and found a man who had an old ichol heppard ready to seed wh[...]ouldn't lease it, but would sell it-I didn't have and my neighbor, Mr. Herting, said he was sure that a[...]t saved haystack in trade. it was the two and one half feet of snow that covered it in My brother John was here on a vacation so he helped me April. I had also rented some land from A.D. Paulson that fix it up. I had an old 1911 model Fairbanks Morse tractor year and planted some flax on it. The real estate people and for belt work which operated on kerosene. It had a single the locators brought out many people that[...]t good crops could be raised in this area. We had a good hp and drove two miles per hour. We used this to run the crop so I paid off my homestead and purchased a half thrashing machine. We thrashed our wheat and got about section joining it on the south. I was[...]ing. In the winter of 1918 we had alot of snow and it gave us There were many farmers that year with the ame plenty of moisture for the wheat. We had a nice stand of problem, a small crop and no one to thra h what was there. wheat, but on th[...]we were completely hailed They heard I had a machine and a ked me to come thra h out. Before the wind came u[...]her had just gone back to basketballs bouncing up and down. I ran out and got one- Illinois and that Uncle John couldn't help me. They aid it weighed nine and one half pounds. Then the wind hit. they would help so I left my uncle home to do the chore and The hail got smaller but more fierce so we held p[...]n, Adolph Humrighau , John McPete, Charlie asleep and heard the storm. He jumped out of bed in his Winship, Stone Carlson, George and Benny Kold, Art bare feet and ran to save the west window, but he was too Forsness, Alfred Anderson, and then CliffDeVaneywhere late and cut his feet in the glass. Then the hail came[...]e of the through the broken window, hit the floor and broke the east white stuff. window as it bounced out of the hou e. A year later I left everything there and went coal mining i till[...]we had a chinook and it took mo t of ving[...]job and moved to Art old[...]a[...]o · e a rgoingand fit[...]a li t or[...]pl oming up a Andresen.[...] |
| [...]on the river bottom and put up hay. I bought some milk cows and sold milk, cream, and butter around Wolf Point to[...]steady customers, which I did for a few years since our[...]crops were very poor in 1920 and 1921. A man told me then[...]In 1922 we broke horses for a rancher which he let me use[...]only oats and grass for there wasn't any hay. It rained alot[...]and our crop was good.[...]From 1923 to 1926 the crops were short, but 1927 and 1928[...]were very good. In the fall of 1927 I bought a section ofland and in 1929 I bought another section of Indian allotm[...]that was on a four year installment. The price of wheat was[...]around a dollar per bushel. The spring of 1929 was nice bu[...]later it turned very dry and the crops were light. Then the[...]around 30¢ and in desperation I shipped one carload of[...]wheat which brought me just 19-1/2¢ a bushel.[...]In 1933 I moved to section 23-28-49 and dug a basement for a house. I lived in the basement until 1947 when we[...]finished the top. We had no crop at all in 1933 and being[...]for a Land Bank loan. They would loan me $1.25 an acre[...]desperation I wrote to Senator B.K. Wheeler, and he helped[...]The first sign of a good crop was in 1938. It had started to[...]tarting to ripen the gras hoppers flew in and in two days[...]by Barney Andre en sent to is ter a wdu t to kill the young hoppers. The crop was good and Emma for collar and muff, kin were washa ble- 1923. the good year continued through the 40's and they' ve been[...]good ever ince. It wa like turning over a new leaf. In 1943[...]d for th now w blowing. We manag d to fini h Ole 'and better. I lo t alot of good girl friends be ides leaving a nice th men haul d hi load of flax t mark t. 01 w[...]n I came we t. In 1947 I went to eattleinJanuary. a hot l at the time (w didn't hav ho pita! then) with I m t Thelma Herting Durkin and we were married that typhoid f ver. Hi wife and two mall children tayed on ummer. he[...]Wolf Point and Mr . Leone Walters of Butt , and a on, t w mov d to car and Alfr d Erick on . Alfred Galen (Dick) who d[...]by the tim we w re through Thelma and I had two children. Alice i marri d to Boone with upper. Th wind had died down and away we w nt. It A. Whitmer and live outh of the river. Butch has now wa only abo[...]pa t midnight to r nted most of the farm and doe cu tom combining. His get to hi plac . any ti[...]he fifth generation of the name. My from th wagon and put th m ah ad of the tractor to help wi[...]ck at the home teading venture-th e first tacked and they w re lucky for th next day it nowed over year take alot of hop and faith to keep ou going. There a foot. Their flax that wa in the field would have[...]l y ar out in the pring. We thra hed the tack in a coup} day . I went prairi communitie . We went to dance at man different home with my t am and wagon-it wa the 1 th of chool and at B nrud Hall. Everybody play d card in the Dece[...]bu h I of winter. The fourth of July wa a bigger celebration than flax.[...]hristmas with picnic , races, hor esh oe and ba eball. I finished Erick ons in April and moved to Robert Reid . The Indian Fair at Po[...]car races in thos He had his stacked in the fall and it was nice to thra h dry day . In 1917 I saw a man racing in a hevrolet car win grain.[...]of five other . Thi wa my fir t thra hing run and one that I will never To me Montana is h[...]nge in everything, too regardle s of the weather, and the way they all helped each many to[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Archdale JAMES ARCHDALE[...]born at Wolf Point, Montana on |
| [...]llie) Atkinson visiting an Indian camp. Audrey and Iva Atkinson-1898 Washington; Beverly Tietjen of Great Falls; and Mary[...]ay, Washington. Iva, their second |
| Lawrence J. Ault and Anne McGowan, daughter of Mr. He built a home made radio, and after setting it up all the and Mrs. Felix McGowan, were married in Poplar on homesteaders came from far and near to put on an ear October 10, 1925.[...]phone set to listen to the news and music. Many cups of He farmed in the Poplar are[...]ears coffee were had while this was going on. and carried on a Construction Business through the late Jo[...]hildren born to this marriage, Sarah Ann, Lillian and Mexico, and passed away on April 19, 1968 at Calima, John, Jr., the baby, who was two and a half when John Mexico. died of a broken heart six weeks after his wife was killed He was preceded in death by a daughter, Rosemary. He is 1 in a car wreck in California where they were living. survived by his widow, Anne; sons, Larry, James and Al; John had graduated from Grand Fork University in |
| [...]Charley then went to Dakota where he opened a barber Edeline, and they purchased the Central Hotel from Steve shop, Deihl and ran the business. This building has changed[...]with his salary as hand from Baracker to Atkinson and on to Bill Voorhees. sh ortstop. In t[...], Baracker was still running the He courted a little teacher and finally won her heart. Livery Barn and kept very busy tending and feeding the Th en they came to Culbertson to try for a homestead start. farmers' horse while they were in town working on WP A Now Flo had taught in Iowa for 75 cents a day. project . Tom McGowan and Mack Reid spent the winter She'd come t[...]ille to Poplar for the Livery Barn. pay. A year went on, Baracker purchased the building tha[...]e played on the Ladies Ball Team, sateen bloomers and u ed to be Tooley's Variety Store, and he sta rted his first all. beer parlor there.[...]Dam was being ball. built, Baracker and George ewbury ran the Lakeview Bar Culber[...]tlers in the fall of 1909. in Fort Peck, Montana, and Howard and Dude Harkness Everyone looking for hom[...]bar in Poplar that had been run in early years by a once plowed snow. Chine e man and then by Mrs. Pilgrim. This still stands He'd even seen the place he wanted and there he decided to and ha been a re taurant and living quarters, since. go. Barack[...]fo ur h orses from Evans. The wheelers were B rn, and he u ed the lumber from it to build the present Dolly and Dan . day Baracker' Bar. The leaders were Major and Rowdy and his wagon train Haracker continued to farm, bu[...]s son. He, On the south side of Missouri a teamsters reach broke al o, had land which is located in the Tule Creek oil field down, area, and there are producing well on it, in the Baracker So everyone unhitch ed th eir horses and the men came name.[...]of his When they finally started , Ch a rley's load was light, busin intere t to Belle and Paul Atkinson and the For someone had swiped some two-by-fours and taken Bar cker' Bar till hold that name.[...]Charley drove across East Redwater and pulled in south of ervice · were held at th Fi[...]the on, Jerry nd f mily re in Whitefi h· Duane and family m Billing , and Loi Beebe and family are in Poplar. THE B RTLETT BALL D by Luci! Bartl tt ~harl y Bartlett cam from Iowa wh n h wa just a kid. |
| [...]een As she kept the oven heated with lignite and cott Jnwood . old Bill's.[...]to say the The rest of the train pulled southward and the big freight least, wagons rolled. Just a peroxide bottle and a bottle of Sloans which was They wanted to try to[...]cold. good for man or beast. Charley found a pile of rocks, the corner of his claim. Dad always worked with horses and his machinery line He built a sort of shelter, a homestead shack by name. was short, He p[...]"paw" the earth and snort. His walls were like a stockade. It was a funny sort of Dad would trudge behind his[...]a thrill The roof was sort of sloping with tarpaper[...]ehind his drill. Then he drove back to Culbertson and his job at the barber Along came little brother who was rosy, round, and shop. chunky. The next spring rather early a freighter brought out my The cowboys named[...]Bunky". She expected a nice new house but what she saw- Then the cowboys brought us kids a cowhorse. He was old Oh Brother! but not a scrub! The raw new lumber had warped with winter winds that How we loved and how we rode him, that sorrel pony we drew it,[...]called, "Chub". And one could stand inside and throw a cat right through How those cowboys thrilled[...]ride, It wasn't even on the claim, Dad had missed a quarter mile, On those roundups on the river and gallop with them side Of being on the section on which they'd made a file. by side. The teamster looked and grunted, he didn't even unload. By the spri[...]rtgaged to the hilt, He just unhitched his horses and took one out and rode. For he'd bought a herd of cattle and a frame house he had He rode the ridge to the old 14 and to the cowboys there built. said, "Mayb[...]Hail, drought and Jim Hill mustard, at which every- You boys would come and help a little school ma'am and body cussed, her baby."[...]Had sort of dimmed Dad's prospects and the bank aid pay The cowboys gathered equipment and took a walking plow, he must. They rode back to his outfit and seemed to know just how, Interest then was te[...]ver the building The Poplar bank played hylock and they took the claim with sod.[...]home looked mighty owe packed our clothe and wander d , though our h art odd.[...]were always here, They dug her a well in a coulee with an ash pole across In this big Mon[...]ay , though long ago it Showed her how to rope up a bucket of water with hardly eems, an[...]With Dad 's bankroll in hi pock t and hi h ad o full of They set up her stove and its chimney, her table and dream . rocking chair, Then they tipped their big hats to the baby and rode off[...]that blew. he didn't have any neighbor not even a tr in vi w. Charley would ride out some weekend .[...]PIE Saturday night. Mother had only one window and in thi he et the light. by Lu il Bartl tt anfi Id He'd bring out a sack ofgrocerie , omethinghecouldpack on his h[...]o d to Indiana Once he brought her a kitten , and always th mail of to an uncJe who d[...]and marri Patric pi c d to he said the kitten was company a it play d kind of cute, build brid forth[...]oad quit buildi whil . He ill pi and Dad finally brought hi hor es , he cro d th Popla[...]becau they w re too broke. His barn was just a dugout and he al o had to fence , At Huron , Bill,[...]ding But soon we had som neighbor , the taleys and the th town h rd of milk cow , working in a liv abl . Pentz.[...]deliver bo for an ic comp and driving f t. H Mother now could visit. he drove a clum y toneboat, then join d the army and a di patch rid r at Fort I wa in a little box all wrapped in hood and coat. Mead until they found ou[...]set by the oven door In 1905 Bill , and old r r J ·th o And there wa to be no splashing to get wat r on th fl[...]b d he made her bread with Yea t Foam and baking day had three teams and wago Bill had a h smelled good , and hi arm addle (whi h h k pt th r tof[...] |
| of the boys built a small sheet iron stove to fit in a wagon. from Michel Pablo. The buckskin had run with a wild He al o built two small trunks like foot loc[...]rs painted green. These were the width of the was a big man, six foot four inches or close to it. Pablo said wagon box and held Bill and Jack's belongings. One of the he wasn't an Indian but was French. His wife was Indian. boy made a small" dark room" under the spring seat of his Bill said the roundup was a wild affair. The first buffalo wagon. He tried to[...]they headed for the corrals went right on through and laid none of them turned out. the corral flat. So they had to rebuild a stronger one. Many They left Huron and drove to Pierre, South Dakota. horses were ruined on the roundup, either foundered, wind There they stopped and took a free excursion boat up river. broken, or gored. T[...]to cotty Phillip's buffalo ranch. On Bill and Jack decided to come to eastern Montana and the way back the boat ran into a sandbar. The captain tried look for homesteads. Jack came to Poplar first and drove to go over it but struck harder. Then he had the crew and teams on the Wolf Creek Dam south of Poplar for the 14 pa sengers go on the stern and he tried to back-no go. ranch run by Senator Boar[...]o Pierre, The Sena tor was going to have a place to wean calves unloaded and came back and pulled them off. This was a from the CK Ranch owned by his father-in-law, Con Kohrs. freight boat and not so nifty. It was cold after dark and the The Senator built up this calf ranch on main[...]around the engine room. The Alfalfa fields, sheds and irrigation ditches soon were a captain would run them off but as soon as he turn[...]Jack wrote back to the Flathead and told Bill to bring They crossed the Missouri R[...]oat with what horses he could as horses in Poplar and Culbertson their teams and loaded supplies at Fort Pierre as it was the were out of sight. Bill shipped down a team of big mares last stop before the Black Hills. That night they turned and the buckskin saddle horse. He also brought a small aside from the trail and went up in the hills to make camp. appaloosa mare[...]It was raining hard so they put up the cook tent and put the mill. This was to use for the house. The[...]hey were lying in houses. water. They'd camped in a swale in the hills and the tent The frame house was part granary the first years. The wa in a hollow. It took a long time to dry out clothes and granary rooms were later plastered and used for bedrooms. bedding. It took 11 day to reach turgis, South Dakota The house kitchen and dining room was finished with and it rained nine days of the eleven. beaded walls and ceiling all shipped from the Flathead. At Cheyenne River two cowboys met them and said The big square oak dining table and chairs (still in use) they'd help them across. Bill was lead wagon and didn 't were also shipped down. The emigrant car[...]there the wagon Mac went back to Huron and in the winter he bought would swing down stream and the team would need help. things at sales that he[...]all need. He shipped in o the cowboys each tied a rope to the end of the wagon an emigrant car. It[...]h when the wagon swept down the on the main line, and then to Poplar. It cost him $100. When current it[...]yone to move West. You At one river they found a wagon loaded with wool stuck moved East." in the[...]the water. They put their horses Jack, Bill and two sisters, Rose and Nell, all on ahead of the wool wagon' fourup and still the wagon homesteaded on the Redwater and its tributary, Lisk wouldn't budge. It wa sunk to[...]. They bought some relinquishments so their boy , and the driver unloaded the sacks and carried them homesteads cornered or were next to[...]iled on all the water they could. Jack worked out and Rose move the wagon o they finally took it apart and taught school and sent cash back to Nell and Bill who held rea embled it on drier ground.[...]nce sat here in the house Hi father ent him money and he returned to Huron. and looking out at the flat north of the house said h[...]out there once that he couldn't count them. After a few days ightseeing they drove north to the Bill liked old Jim. His oldest girl, Lillian or Lily was a Flathead Valley. ear Townsend they were along the beauty. A movie scout picked her out for some Indian railroad track and there they found a potato patch. Bill Queen picture. he went to Hollywood. A few years later didn't pull any vine -heju t "borrowed" a few spuds from when old Jim went broke (he farmed big and a bad year hit each hill. He had half a sack but when Mac, one of the other him) and the bank was going to sell him out, Lily came boy , found it, he took it over to a coulee and dumped it out. home, went to the bank and paid off the mortgage. aid the wagon track would how and they'd be arrested Bill bought a milk cow, a roan Durham, from the biggest for stealing. later they passed a place where some one was liar in Richey. She had a wooden yoke on her neck and getting ready to fence . edar post were all strung along when Bill asked if she was a fence crawler he was assured for a mile. They'd been burning sage brush so Bill swip[...]her to keep her from getting three or four posts and stuck them in Mac 's wagon and Mac started". Bill brought her home, took off the yoke, and never found out h was hauling " stolen goods."[...]her loose. The first thing she did was crawl into a At Kalispell they got work in the lumber camps and at wheat field. o Bill brought her back to the corrals and the . omer mill. Bill cast hi first vote here. It wa "c~nned her". This consisted of poking a wire through the conte. t d becau he looked so young. Bill went on the skrn of her neck near her shoulders and wiring a pound B~ffalo R?undup with Michel Pablo and Charley Allard . coffee can on the wire. As the s[...]ore, cows were Bill was kmd of weet on one of the A1lard girls. aid all the real careful about crawling through a fence a nd hooking Allard girls w re good looking . He bought a buckskin horse this can on a wire. Mr. Goodman, a neighbor came down[...] |
| [...]group. They were guests at a brunch of Tim and Betty[...]Montana, Jr. and his wife on this trip as they were friends[...]Flora died in June, 1970 and that November the same[...]eir claim. The mail came out from Poplar one time and from Wolf Point another time. A mail sack was left at the[...]mail post (usually several miles from the house) and one took the full sack and left another empty one. The sacks had your name and address painted on them or else the one day and asked to .buy a milk cow so they showed him ranch brand. Our address was both Wolf Point and Poplar. the roan. "Well, she's a nice looking cow, but what's the Grain was haul[...]t Arthur can for?" he asked. Jack told him (with a twinkle in those was used, and in winter one used sleds to cross the river ice. big black eyes) "Well, she's a little slow at starting to milk[...]on to prime her." hillside and he was thrown into the branch of a tree on the In 1918 Bill rented the old HS Ranch and started raising downhill side. I, Lucile, went to the first grade in Poplar more cattle and horses. The H S had been the first big and so did my brother, Bronk Bartlett. Miss Mary McLeod ranch north of the Yellowstone. It and the McCone ranch was teaching there then. Mother rented one room of a two were the first to pay taxes in Dawson County, 1881-82. It room log cabin. The owner, an Indian woman and her son had trail drives from Texas. The old Tex[...]ed in the ranch house. He left to die in Glendive and palefaces" and took me to the top of the cutbank so I homesteaders soon swiped the furniture and fixings, could watch "butchering day". Th[...]bank cowponies were still on the ranch. Bill put a few big on the west side of Poplar to that school was a long way for stallions on the range and his K Seven L brand was on a little girl even with the help of my Indian frien[...]teacher would pull off my sox and shoes (along with many In World War I Bill had volunteered. He said his trainingothers) and our feet would all be put in a pan of cold water. was mostly "Port Arms" and Port Wine. He came out of his Then how they would itch! hitch with his health impaired and many times in later years was a patient at veterans hospitals. Bill loved to dance and attended all he could ride to, whether in shacks[...]id his heart had been taken years ago when he met a (as told by Harold Bawden) young homestead wife with her two babies at a Fourteen Ranch picnic. In 1935 they met again when Flo was a John Bawden was born in St. Louis, M[...]ch widow of Charley Bartlett who had homesteaded a few 11, 1864. He was raised and grew to manhood in Jeffersen miles to the northea[...]arriage with Nora E. Cut Bank. They were married and in 1936 Flo's daughter Harlow on March 17, 1889. In 1 90 they got the urge to go Lucile and her husband, George Canfield, came from the west, and arrived in Poplar on the Great orthern Railroad B[...]e spring of 1890. They were preceded to Poplar by a Then Flo and Bill began their many winter travels brother-in-l[...]on . around the country. They visited every state and its omehow the Ba wdens became the owners of a blind capital except Hawaii. They had plane reservations for horse, a mule, a wagon, and some sections of a wooden this one when Pearl Harbor was fired on and they came harrow. They were looking for a place to locate and to plant back to Montana much safer! They had also visited Cuba, a garden. They started to cro s the Milk River about where Mexico and Can~da. It was when they were in their seven- Nas[...]wagon box started to float; Mrs. Bawden became on a cruise ship but returned on the Akan Highway with their grandson Billy Canfield. When Bill was 82 and Flo was 76 they went to New York and back on Montana's Centennial Train. They were the oldest couple aboard and did they enjoy it. They were to dress in western[...]they put on their ranch clothes. Mother borrowed a dotted swiss dress and sunbonnet from her old friend, Lucy Fisher. She w[...]furry buffalo running hat but Mother made him buy a new Stetson. She did let him grow a white goatee like Buffalo Bill's. At the various cities the train stopped and Bill proudly rode in the stagecoach advert[...] |
| [...]The old envelope that the John Bawden and Dr. Atkinson[...]ountry, owned by have any branding chutes, and it took some heavy roping Bawden and Atkinson of Poplar. It was powered by six and played out some good horses. John's brand wasJ-B on teams-12 horses-on a horse power. Here was a tumbling the left shoulder-standing for[...]threshing machine. Taken in 1911. quite a handicap to cross in the early days of summertJme[...]would swim well behind a row boat. John kept a boat tied excited and fell into the river. John, who was a good up below the mouth of Nickwall Creek. He would ride one of swimmer, jumped out to rescue her and, ins~ doing, ran one these horses down to the[...]he of the harrow teeth into his ankle on one side and out the hackamore rope in his teeth, get into the boat. Then he other. He got loose from the harrow and got Mother to the would saddle the horse and ride on to Poplar to get the shore. They came down to Chelsea point, one of the largest groceries and tobacco. If my parents needed a large order of bends in the Missouri River. Here he cut 50 logs, and while staple groceries such as flour, beans, etc., Dad would get an still on crutches, built a one-room house. Indian (few white men were in Poplar at this time) with a It was while John was out in the woods cutting logs that team and wagon to bring the groceries to the river, and some Indians came across the river on ice. He had a then Dad would take them across in the row boat, and carry grinding stone in the yard and the Indians started to them to the house. There was always plenty of beef and sharpen their knives, which they all carried in s[...]getting ready to scalp her. The door didn't have a lock Atkinson began buying small Gee Dot Indian mares and on it, so she put a chairback under the knob. John had a 45 sending them out to the ranch. Mr. Bawden p[...]with the mares, kept breeding them up until 1914; and kept the gun pointed at the door. When John came[...]y sold many green geldings home he tried the door and it wouldn't open. He hollered, to the homest[...]commenced to arrive in the "Nor~!"-she jumped up and opened the door, saying- country abou[...]harm, housekeepers looking after Baby Jim and cooking for the and that it was a habit of the Indians to sharpen their rest of the family and ranch hands. knives whenever they found a grinding stone. The Indians John Bawden was politically a Republican. He took an and the Ba wdens became good friends after that; Mrs. active part in politics and liked everyone, regardless of Bawden learned to count in Indian on the clock, and John political beliefs. He often said, "Har[...]ans were political parties; that's what makes a democracy. full bloods and could not speak any English. Otherwise we would have a dictator, and no good For a time John worked for the Cowan, Atkinson,[...]wants that." Randall Sheep Company. Then he bui}t a ranch home on He passed away in Wolf Point April 18, 1946 and funeral Nickwall Creek, about one and a half miles from where the services were held[...]plar creek runs into the Missouri River. This was a house with cemetery next to Mrs. Bawden. Pal[...]He went into the sheep business with Dr. Atkinson and Henry' Lowe and Myra Cusker. At this writing, the in the winter o[...]. . . winter of 1897 with 5275 head and lost 2000 sheep that There were four bo[...]were many times when father said the and James. Harold lives in Wolf Point. winters of '93 and '97 were the hardest winters he ever saw. Wil[...], Irvin lives in Vancouver, He put four horses on a homemade plow and plowed snow Washington, James lives in Worden, Montana. during the day; took his bedroll and slept with the sheep at There were three othe[...]in 1918, died in 1952. pelts. The winters of 1906 and 1907 were also hard winters, snow was very deep and there were numerous blizzards. Bawden began run[...]HAROLD BAWDEN everything they sold 50/50, and at the end of five years when they split the herd 50/50 they each had a fine bunch I was born at Poplar on June 16, 1892, two years after my of cattle and both made money. They had to take one-half[...]ber, I had nothing to of the cattle to the corral and rebrand them. John didn't say about how I got to Montana and I was too young to[...] |
| [...]taking the box and seat across on a row boat; came back and got the wheels to the buggy and the harness for the[...]river and get them to swim across. One horse followed the[...]buggy back together and getting the horses hitched up, the[...]ferryman, Jack Mail rowed back and got the girls. We made[...]their trade area. This really hurt Poplar and they lost the trade of a lot of good farmers and ranchers. I spent many days when I was a young man helping the ranchers swim[...]their cattle and horses across the river so that they could be[...]the early days. There was Harry Cain who ran a livery stable and feed barn. There was Charley Davis, Jim[...]Charles Seeds, Jim Smith and James Helmer who insisted Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bawden 61 st anniversary.[...]built a railroad up the Yellowstone and it ruined that have any impression about the area[...]baby born at the along with the Mannings and they were big cattlemen Poplar Indian Agency with[...]ysician. They took me home across the Missouri in a row boat when I was about ten days old. I was raised in the four Now for the business men, and I know I will overlook room log house built by my[...]mber Major Scobey who was the first Indian school and later to Poplar. I stayed at home and worked agent that I can recall, and then there was a Major with my father on the sheep ranch, later the cattle and horse ranch until I was 21 years old.[...]Lohmiller whom I knew very well. H.M. Cosier ran a Flossie E. Witt and I were married at the Atkinson ranch genera[...]would buy anything on October 16, 1913. We built a four room prairie house on from horseshoe nails to furniture. The Cosier store wa a our homestead on Section 6, Township 26, Range 49[...]long building partly built of logs. There wa a long 1914. Much of the sod was broken with four horses on a "Hitchin rack" in front of the store built out of posts and sulky plow. Easterners worked four horses abreast; but the cottonwood poles cut down by the river, and it would be westerners used five horses, three behind and two in the lined up with Indian team tie[...]ry day. Many of lead. I had worked with my dad on a livestock operation the Indians that traded there couldn't peak a word of until the land was opened up for homestea[...]r many farmers started coming from all directions and we could years could peak their languag[...]o ier , being plowed under, so we too hitched up a bunch of broncs and they did about all the grocery and hardware bu ines and started farming. Barbed wire fences were being built in Poplar and for mile around on both sides of th e river. and it looked pretty tough to the stockmen who had used Later A . . Hopke tarted a hardware tore . The Poplar the open range for so[...]Hotel wa built b Dr. Atkinson in 1906-07 and I tay d We had to depend on the ferryboat to g[...]0 . I board d with m uncl Bert ferrys at the time and if a high wind wa blowing Bawden who ran a grocery tor on the fir t floor of th upstream , it would blow the boat up under the cable and we hotel. could not cross until the wind we[...]ere had to be Later F lix McGowan ran a large£ d barn wh r all th good landings built on each side of the river below wher farm r and rancher put their horse whil th w re in the cable[...]r fourlumb ryard tart d. I think river would rise and fall , and the ferryman pent a lot of hi International Harve ter and John D r wer th fir t time fixing the landings .[...]impl ment agenci . Later w had an p ra Hou and a we always had a June rise- when the snow melted in the[...]nt over big, p ciall with the Indian . mountains and the river would get real high and wa h A.R. Mitton ran a tor and meat mark t. I rem mb rm landings out. In the win[...]th wasn 't alway safe, because of the air pockets and a few only butcher he ever saw who could cut a pi ce of t ak with people did drown.[...]was president of the Traders tate Bank, a gr at manager festival for the unday school children . As usual some and financier. H had a lot of faith in th town of Poplar. extra supplies were needed , and Flos ie, Iva Atkinson and There were many barn danc . Wh n a n w hou e wa I were to cross the river to Peplar[...]. We got built, it wa generally initiated with a dance . Ev ry across the river alright and got the supplies, but when we community had a baseball team , th re wer games e ery went to go[...]seemed to be broken down. We unday and the comp tition wa k en. W play don both spent th[...]tkinsons, but the ferry sides of the river and ev rybody wa very loyal to their s till di[...] |
| Sunday school and church was held in the homes until the Nickwall s[...]as born on September 26, 1 61, the son of William and Louise Bawden at Rockland Township, Michigan. He[...]1894. H,~ moved his family to Montana in 1900, and in 1901 the family moved to the Nickwall community where they operated a ranch. Four children were born to this family; Tribute paid to Joe Bergie Robert, Lillian, Earl and Mary. William Radcliffe Bawden passed a way at his home on the south side on December 10, 1913, and he left his wife JOSEPH "JOE" BERGIE and four children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and tender and loving father.[...]Genevieve McClammey Robert Bawden , son of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Bawden, was born on May 27, 1 95 at Taylorville, Illinois and came to Joe Bergie was born on the For[...]North Dakota. He went to Carlisle College in 1910 a nd ickwall and Poplar areas. Due to ill health, he entered the played on the football team there in 1911 and 1912. Old Folks Home in Lewistown, Montana in 195[...]e recalled the grand old days of football when he and resided until his death on March 27, 1969. He was[...]rmy, returning to Poplar in 191 to finish school, and he University of Pennsylvania, Vill[...]Pittsburg, Syracuse, Brown and Harvard. Earl Bawden married Jennie Moilanen ,[...]rpe, acclaimed as the Post Office for forty years and retired in 1968. His wife, greatest athlete of the half century, took the kick-off and Jennie, also worked in the Post Office. Earl had some ran it 97 yards for a touchdown. However, the referee ruled farming int[...]passed that the Indians were offside and called the play back. away on July 5, 1973 and wa buried in the ickwall Thorpe grabbed the next kick and returned it 95 yards to Cemetery with Reverend Ge[...]J. Earl Bawden is survived by his wife, Jennie , and both back was pulled out, and Bergie, who played as center and he and Robert are survived by a si ter, Mrs. Ben Harvick of sub-full-back,[...]the next play and carried it over for the first touchdown Lillian died a a teenager. against Army. Carlisle went on to down Army by a[...]Bergie recalled that Army had a young half-back with lots of grit and skill, whose name was Dwight D.[...]Eisenhower, a first stringer then.[...]try for a field goal. Thorpe booted the ball 48 yards, send[...]Canadians had challenged the Americans to a test to prove[...]style, and the Indians took that contest 5-2. Bergie recalle[...]from Carlisle, and coached the Pitcairn Professionals out[...]of Pitt burg, Pe11nsylvania in 1916 and 1917.[...]joined the army for World War I service in 1918, and Mrs. Lauru Bawden[...] |
| In 1967, a tribute was paid to Joe Bergie at a Poplar Lions Club's Athletic Appreciation Banquet, and a standing ovation was paid to Joe after Kenneth Ha[...]r in Minnewauken, Nor-:,h Dakota on June 10, 1920 and of this union they had nine children; June, Barne[...]ieve, Rita, George Martin, Thomas Blaine "Beany", and Franklin. The Bergie family had moved to Poplar in 1929, and Joe lived here until his death March 10, 1970.[...]es. trips, and the brandings of the neighbors was a big social[...]J. M. Bridges country and its fri ndly people. They liv d out the re t of[...]Roo ev lt ounty. Walter Bridges was born to am and Clara Bridges on ovember 30, 1 97 in Mi souri.[...]d to Lynch, ebraska where they engaged in farming and am Bridges , Green Bridges, early home leader in stock raising for a few year . Nickwall area. |
| [...]committee for many reservations. He passed a way very and horse ranches. He lived for a while in the Jordan suddenly in 1953.[...]After my husband died I worked Walter Bridges and ,Jessie Hart were married in Wolf at Belle and Bill Berken's restaurant until I went to Point, Montana in 1926 and celebrated their Fiftieth Brigham City[...]School. In 1964 I returned to Poplar and worked the next They have two children, Candace Fredericks and nine years in the Poplar nursing home. I am now retired Donovan Bridges, and seven grandchildren. and enjoying life in my home community. Bridges' still think Montana is a great country and it's home. MRS.DAVE(HAZEL)BUCKLES[...]Poplar, but it is believed that he came first as a scout when |
| [...]own choices and their own living, which they did not have[...]Elks, Basil Red Door, Andrew Red Thunder and Pete[...]cook. A man once told me "if you have Indian for friend-[...]Poplar was always our home town, and Dr. Atkinson[...]children and the last one was born in Poplar. Our children,[...]Sylvia, Lucretia, George and Mary were raised on the[...]kept a row boat and went around the west end of the lake to[...]and we could get out to deliver the fish. Fishing was[...]with a seine about 600 feet long and 12 feet deep. Laurentia Mr. and Mrs. Matt Budak, 50th wedding anniversary- held one end of the seine and I would row out in the boat September 13, 1975.[...]unharmed, stored in fresh water tanks and ready for The Missouri was cutting a wider channel each year to the delivery.[...]fishing was done through the ice about south side and by the time he could prove up on his land[...]others, he petitioned to Missouri was scarce and there was not many fish. We gave belong to Roosevelt County and this was granted. The all of our time then to the farming. Laurentia always had a island and surrounding area became what is now known[...]vegetables the family needed and sold the rest. Canned Fish was plentiful in the river, and Matt started his also were fruit, beef, chickens and pork. Trip to town in fishing business the next s[...]n his land to those early years were few and far between. get the necessary number of acres broken on his We had learned to sing and dance at an early age in homestead. Catching ling[...]but over here we never had time, too busy trying and other kinds in season; he put the fish in fresh water to make ends meet and raise our family. We never learned tanks and sold the fresh fish in the surrounding areas, to play cards in the old country and we have never learned making door to door deliver[...]e do enjoy watching our colored televi ion. It wa a Mathew needed his United States citizenship pa[...]ntia received her citizen hip paper file on land, and he received his first set of papers when he a[...]rs were received The years have pa sed and we are enjoying retirement, when he went to the Courthouse in Poplar to pay the $75.00 Matt at 81 and Laurentia at 74. W celebrated our gold n fee for[...]ing last winter. George, his wife, Roberta Unger, and witnesses with him that could testify about his c[...]ttom land near Chel ea for his citizenship papers and attest to the fact that he had and have taken over the farming intere ts. ylvia marri d built his shack, tilled the land and in general lived up to the John Taflan, they have ven children and live in Poplar. Homestead Act. Lucretia and John Popa live in olumbia Fall and th y There was a young girl in Rumania that Mathew had[...]m. However, Mathew had never forgotten about her, and after he had proved up on his land, decided that[...]. He wrote to his father, who wrote to her father and found out BEN CLARK that Laurentia had come to America in the fall of 1923 and had lived with a sister in Youngstown , Ohio. Mathew set[...]January 19, 1 in out to look for her and finally found her working in a Emmett, Iowa . In 1901 he moved to Win[...]rried Fannie Fryer, March 20 , 1911. January 1925 and returned to Poplar. In 1913 the couple moved to Montana , and Ben lark Barren, unfriendly and lonely were the words Laurentia was said[...]to understand or homesteading". He chose a home tead 1 mil northwest to be understood , alth[...], Town hip fairly well with the English language and had even 29, Range 49. learned to[...]dian neighbors. But in all , The larks had a family of three boy and four girl ; one it was a good country and the people were free to make their son, Jame , p rished in a fire that burned the family horn[...] |
| [...]Colgan, Mary T. Colgan, George and Tom Colgan.[...]atrick Colgans' first three children, Patrick Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cla rk-March 20, 1911 Francis (Frank), Thomas L., and Mary Margaret (Mamie)[...]Mr . Cla rk steamboat, General Sherman, and proceded upriver to Cow continued hi farming oper[...]then overland to Fort Mr. Clark pas ed away on a Christmas Day, at the age of Assiniboine ne[...]n to Helena where urvivors included ons, Fred and Robert, both of George Colgan was bor[...]is ranching operation here, buying Mas achusetts, and Mrs. Frances Bengle of Poplar; ten cattle and a few horses from local ranchers. He used the grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. P en and Key -:f'-, the insignia on his uniform, as hi[...]Big Sandy a nd d rove th e livestock overland, with the idea[...]n in 1 75, in the Poplar area of starting a ra nch on Poplar River. However, an order sent be[...]hool uperintendent. farming on a n Indian reser va tion. The closest move then He pent all of hi life within the area and married Rose would be outh of the river. John Ma nning and his son-in- Yellow Owl in 1914 at Poplar. he died in 1953. Following law, Jim Helmer, had started a ra n ch southeast of Poplar the formation of the re ervation, Cleveland served as a in 1 8 and he agreed to take their livestock , which were me[...]en decided to sell his He died at the age of93 and wa believed to have been the interests to Colgans, as h e wa nted a place wi th more olde t person on the Fort Peck R[...]gan's earliest neighbors in cluded Bob Renz, T.T. and Edward ha er. Armstrong, Henry Miller a nd Ralston s on th e east. Louie Davis and the Bawdens on th e west, a nd G. B. Hoverm a le[...]and horse ranch grew a nd in the earl y 1900's th eir ra n ge[...]extended to Redwater on the west a nd to East Redwater on[...]Constabulary Whitaker, Earl (Dogface) Mead, and in later years th ere from July 11 , 1 65 to June[...]ette, Ike Murray, Eddie Dam son , Robert Edeline, and erved his first eight years in the southern states. Hank Fomby, Zack Bennett, Emmett Rowe, to n a me a fe w. Mary Thomas Cros was born near Columbia,[...]After the homesteaders came, the operation h a d to be cut arolina , eptember 2, 1 56. It was[...]wn, as the range was being fenced off. Th ey sold a lot of Patrick olgan and they were married in Columbia . Her their horses to the homesteaders and a lso to th e a rm y in father Wm. T. Cross , who had serv[...] |
| [...]At the age of fourteen, O.J. Combs went to Texas and joined a cattle drive to Montana. He had an aunt and uncle[...]to Kansas, and his family then migrated to Oklahoma[...]She and O.J. met at a schoolhouse dance where it was the[...]ailroad yard. As soon as they were old enough, he and[...]Reno and Enid while he advanced to a railroad brakeman. To O.J. and Josie four children were born; Leo, Iva, Ora[...]Mae and Jay. O.J. always had the urge to go back to[...]Iva, nine; Ora Mae, seven; and Jay, four.[...]from memory and may not be exact.[...]and received their formal schooling. Leo homesteaded[...]Stedman who was a race car buff, promoter and car salesman from Chicago. They married and moved to Great[...]Falls. Iva joined them there where she met and married Louis Ernst and lived there and in Helena the re t of her[...]Ora Mae had a colorful life and had many talent . he Quarter-Master Sgt. Patrick Colgan, Mary T. Colgan. and Harry lived in Chicago, Hollywood , Florida, Berm[...]and Texas. Harry' family, I am told, owned the elotex Mamie Colgan married Robert Reid in 1908 and their Company, and he was vice presidentofthecompan atone history is[...]ry is covered Mae then joined Iva in Helena and worked in a bank. he in "Courage Enough ", in that section covering the area preceded the brothers and i ter in death. south of the Missouri River. O.J. , Josie and ons, Leo and Jay, came to Poplar about George Colgan marrie[...]n 1912. Four children were born ; horse , a tractor, bru h plow, hayrake, hou ehold furniture[...]d in 1964; Patrick , who died in 1961; and a Model T Ford truck along. uo, Jay and O.J. work d Cathryn, who died in 1976; and George H ., who still night and day breaking bru h land on the Mi ouri River live[...]t is now the Werner spread. O.J. broke hor e 1954 and Alma passed away in 1961. hauled upplies and did bout any job. Jo i wa , for a time, Tom Colgan married Jennie Westaway from Chicago in pre sed into a job as cook for the men from a camp wagon 1916. They had one child, Josephine, w[...]bi cuits in the world. he aid , Tom died in 1941 and Jennie in 1945. "the[...]h camp that she had to put The Patrick Colgans and Sophia moved to Poplar in the newspaper inside her stockings and clothes to ward off the early 20's to spend the rest of their days. Mr. Colgan died in bites." After a time, Shirley Bridges took over thi job. November 1926, Mrs. Colgan in 1934 and Sophia pa sed When I first met t[...]Josie and Jay w re living west of Poplar in the " ellow[...]Jack Werner. Leo wa working for family are Thomas and Mack Reid , ancy Hagadone , Quincey Poore and Brad el son in th Ford garage where children of Mamie. John Colgan and Agnes Etzel of Wolf the Poplar upply[...]ry 18, they tarted farming for Frye and th m el ve . J a wa 1976.[...]se were with her sister who had taken a job cooking at the ha the Walking Eagles, Youngmans, Longees, Ogles, Jessie camp. Jay and Ethleen were married Jun 192 and Mason, Feather Ear Ring. Rattling Thunder, and many continued farming for Frye and on th ir own lat r . They more.[...]had five children; Bill, Darleen, Dean and Dori (twin )[...] |
| and Marion (better known as Butch). They moved to Peace Keith and Jim; and Butch has two children; Tammy and River, Canada but later came back and settled at Nashua Tena Lyn. until their c[...]ter made their home in Helena after working back and forth between there and Nashua for a few years. O.J. and Josie lived eight miles north of Poplar on the[...]me, but later moved to the river bottom where he and Leo had places that joined. Solo[...]Martin in Glasgow in August 1927. Dakota, and married Helen Long Chicken in 1901 at Fort Leo hauled gravel one fall and into the winter for the Kipp. She died in 1919. graveling of Highway 2. He and his mother bought about Mr. Comeslast[...]the Red Eagle 14, day-old Holstein heifer calves and hand fed them on Church in 1934, and served in that post for many years. He calf start[...]Comeslast died at the age of 97 in Poplar because a person could always sell a good milk cow. They Community Hospital. kept all heifer calves, and during the depression they sold a Survivors at the time of his death included four sons, milk cow for $20 to $40. Leo bought a forty just north of his Albert of Wolf Point, and Lucas, Joseph and Daniel, all of folks on the Y oupee place and started selling milk in town Poplar; a daughter, Mrs. Henry Buck Elk of Poplar; 24 to re[...]llon can. One milk customer grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren. was the Pat Griswold Restaurant. Leo bought a barn on the Whitright forty and moved it to the land about a mile north of his dad's, where Joe Abbott lives.[...]CORBIN FAMILY Bridges place and Jay hauled milk to town one day, coming back the[...]ricia Corbin Osweiler never warmer than 40 below, and horses and a bob sled were pressed into the milk route. That winter he sold milk Henry Clay Corbin born in 1858 and wife, Fannie, born in bottles for six cents a quart to the stores. in 1859, along with a daughter, Bessie, and sons, Frank, Raymond and Arthur, came to Montana and the area In the fall of 1936, Leo moved the ba[...]velt County in about 1915. Though the Jack Werner and the cook "shack" from the Frye family had been born and reared in Illinois, they had been headquarters to[...]g in Albany, Oregon prior to coming to the Poplar and he had bought land. The barn was split down the area. middle, the roof raised, which cost $200 a day. A cement Their reason for coming to Montana was to homestead, floor with gutters was finished and Comb's Dairy started and they located on land northwest of Poplar about th[...]or thirty-five miles on a creek called Box Elder. When they Josie died of a heart attack. O.J. sold his place to Jay left[...]Mr. Henry Corbin passed away in 1943, and Mrs. Corbin married Betty Coffee and moved to her farm in DeLac, had been d[...]Their oldest son, Frank, was born in 1880 and had been a where he was jailor for a few years, then retired and passed "traveling cowboy" with a Tom Mix touring rodeo show away at the Poplar Com[...]before coming here. Both he and Ray worked on the farm Leo and Gladys continued to live on the bottom and Leo with their father. Frank passed away Se[...]teins. He quit at the age of 41. the dairy and farmed, but always kept a few heifer calves Bessie, their only daughter, was born in 1883. After and thought, "one might as well milk three or four co[...]having heart attacks, on ovember 1, 1955. Leo and Gladys had three children; Berta Lee, Idell and Max. They went to Poplar schools. Berta Lee married Malcolm J. MacDonald and they have four children; Mac, Doug, Annet and Wendy. Idell married Barney Foster from Wylie, Texas and had three sons; Paul, Mark and John. Max married and has worked as an automatic transmission mechanic in an Francisco for several years and has five children; Le Ann, Theresa, John, Gladys Idell and Max, Jr. Gladys, Mrs. Leo Combs, old the land on the bottom to Ray O'Brien and moved their home, that Frye cook "shack", to town[...]Helena when he passed away January 27, 1974 from a heart attack, but his wife still makes her home t[...]married Lois Hagadone, who still lives in Poplar and has six children. Darlene Larson lives in Ellensburg, Washington and has three daughters; Coleen, Lindy Lou and Carlyn; Doris is married to Don Cason and has two Henry Corbin, Art Corbin, Mrs. Fanny Corbin, Bess children; Gail and Bruce; Dean has three children, Dian€ .[...] |
| [...]homestead. Ray Corbin, born May 25, 1892, was a butcher by trade |
| name to nd rson Drug, and he old it to Raymond Boulds in eptember of 196 .[...]g I remember about my dad, Art Corbin, were; what a kind and gentle man he wa , who dearly loved his f mily, a well a the people of Poplar whom he came in contact with in hi daily life. I'm ure he never refused a reque t, or turned down anyone' need for medicine, (or often a loan, too!). I remember many nights when he cheerfully went to the tore to fill a prescription, or deliver omething to a ick family. He wa a charter member of the Poplar Lion' Club, as well a being a member of the American Legion and the Ma onic Order. Though orbin Drug ha come and gone, it will long be remembered by many that liv[...]death. In other business he was part owner and director of HOWARD MILTON COSIER the Poplar Lumber and Implement Company, interested in[...]hotel , an opera house, and owned farm lands. He was Howard Milton osier[...]'s po tmaster from 1 9 through 1919. He was known a Poplar reek gency, in January 1 1, a young mayor of the town from 1916 to 1923, and a charter member m n twenty year old. He joined an uncle ofhi and worked of both orthern Light Lodge 75 of Masons and of the local a· a cl rk at the trading po t of G.H. Fairchild and lodge of Modern Woodman of America. ompany. Except for a hort interval at Fort Berthold, he Mr. and Mrs. Cosier had two daughters, Phebe and lived at Poplar ov r fifty y ar . He aw the la t[...]Dorothy. Phebe married Wade Hubbell of Poplar and trading with th Indian . the la t of the buffalo and the end they had two children Gertrude C. and Howard J. They of Indian ho tiliti .[...]made their home in Poplar for a while and then moved to How rd o i r wa born in umberla[...]Jack Jer ey, March 21, 1 61. He wa the only child and pent hi Milburn and spent her life on a ranch. They had two childhood in darville, ew Jer y wher he attended children George R. Jr., and called Jack, and Marilyn. chool. Traduating from a boarding chool at Bridgeton in Dorothy' c[...]e rai ed on the Bar Ranch at 1 0 he work d a y ar in a country tor b fore coming Gra Range,[...]men had no afe way to get th ir cash profit to a bank ford po it. v ral time Howard o ier[...]th exp ri nc of trving to conceal the purpo e of a trip by t am boat to BL mark, orth Dakota and th n b rail to Louise oulter was born in Fort Thomp on, outh a ·Minneapoli bank to depo it ca h money. Fortunately he Dakota and she became school matron at Belknap in wa never h[...]Mrs. oulter died at the age of 3 at a Harlem rest home. w th art, Mi G rtrud obb, Decemb r 27, 1 3. The At the time of death, urvivors included a son, John, of coupl cam to Poplar to live in a log hou e on Poplar Poplar. 'r k. Thi wa quite a change for an East m young lady. A wa true with many log hou e , the roof wa a dirt roof. Mr . o ier often remarked that when it rained she had to place pot· and pans under the drip and a time w nt on FRA K CUSKER more pot and pans b came nece sary. In 1904 the family moved into a modern two- tory house which wa to be their[...]Frank usker was born April 1, 1867 the son of Mr. and Co. ier became an Indian trad r, continuing this[...]r his own name until 1914. In that year he formed a He left Washington in 1 5 and moved to amas Prairie, partner hip with R.E . Patch, called the osier-Patch Idaho and in 1 moved to Osw go, Montana and th N- ompany, which continued until its dis olution in 1923. Bar- ranch wh re he served as a cowboy. Havingl arned With other associat s, M[...]d th from his brother, Hank, who was a wrangler for the -Bar- Traders' State Hank in 1909. He was its president until his that there was a need for hor in the Fort Peck area,[...] |
| [...]and Bob Grainger moved a new afe from the Grea[...]Northern Depot at Poplar to a new bank building in[...]Scobey, Montana , one winter, with a sleigh pulled by an[...]ght horse team. Enroute there, they lost the safe and had to reload it, and it is believed that this afe still remains in[...]there were just a few white men and most of these married[...]to stay at least a week, and perhaps longer. There were[...]never locks on the doors. If the family was a way, the[...]the stock, stayed awhile, and if the family didn't come, they[...]would be on their way leaving a note, dishes clean and Frank Cusker[...]buggy, and no rancher was too far or Doc too bu y to make[...]a house call when the need arose. Rancher didn t call Frank went back, and he and his brother, George, trailed a unless it was serious. One time, Frank broke an ankle, and herd of horses over from Walla Walla in the summer of he walked with a limp all the rest of his life. Paul asked him 188[...]one time. He admitted that perhaps he hould more and this time brother Myra came along. have seen a doctor, but at the time he didn't give it much In 1893 he located on the reservation and began working thought, and the doctor wasn't around. . for the government as a beef herder at Poplar. He married Another[...]after this, Frank farming after World War I and early 1920 . They tri d to started ranching on th[...]eat areas of the prairie for wheat with th Beaver and Whitetail creeks. In 1906 he moved to Give Out Autman Taylor tractors that traveled about a mile and half Morgan Creek, northwest of Poplar, which was a day's an hour. They would pull -10 or 11 bottom plow and plow haul north from Poplar. The freight line ran out of Poplar five miles on a traightline. When they hauled the wh at to to Woo[...]the elevator they would pull t n wagon in a tring yard and Frank hauled the lumber north from Poplar.[...]t itting on th Cusker continued ranching bll 1940 and farming till 1949. open prairie with the plo[...]was opened to home teader , took over, and the land tri d to go back to gra Frank Cusker, Henry Kirn, and Jim mith were ome of Frank u ker p[...]ing most of the draft horses for 2. He left a granddaughter, Alvina and thi tep on, the new settlers. In World War I, there wa till a big Paul. demand for draft horses and some cavalry horse . As the homesteading wheat farmers moved in, the open range shrank and the tractor cut into the horse sales. By 1927 the era was about over. Marie and Juliu Te man were one couple of many that homeste[...]In 191 Mr . usker passed away leaving the widow r and a on, George. Looking ha k 1906-1907 was a hard inter, the range stock was devastated. Frank[...]the hay wa tacked in the meadow, less than half a mile from the barn and wa inacce ible. As one shoveled a path to th hay stack , it would drift full o you[...]l all th wa back. It was impos ible to get around and whole herd of range cattle would drift into a coulee, and the next pring they were found there, in a pil covered ov r with now. Aft r Juliu Tessman[...]eft widow d with three childr n. h did sewing for a living until she married Frank usker. Marie lived[...]Florence Dale at work. Poplar where he opened a dres hop. Later, he op ned one in Wolf Point and finall opened the hop in la gow , which i now dri[...]e usker moved to ABE L. A D FLORE CE B. D LE alifomia and pa sed away in 1973. H r son , Paul , liv sin Los Angele , Hedwig i still living and th daughter, by H[...]ased . During the early year . Frank u ker was a found rand Dad wa born on Jun[...] |
| [...]1939 when she bought the Dr. Atkinson home and started[...]Montana and Helen Ostlund of Poplar.[...]Dad died in November 1959 and Mother died July 1969. He opened a butcher shop in the two-story Kirn b uildin g, wh[...]big unbroke gelding . Charles A. Damson was born June 6, 1893 in Holland Mother and Dad homesteaded 40 mile north of Poplar. Mich igan . He came to Montana in 1916 and homesteaded eighbor were few and far between. At that time mo t of south of[...]uld " ride the grub line", going from one farm to a n other, chHdren. The Damsons moved to Poplar in 1926 and oper- taying teach place a couple of week . They were always ated the P oplar Rooming House until 1932 when he became a welcomed ight to these home teader living alone and self employed. He was locally employed until his retire- not eeing another per on for week at a time. ment in 195 . In the[...]three sons, Montana Farming orporation . Dad had a piece of land Wilb ur, Ha rry and J oe and two daughters, Mrs. Dennis outh of town, north of the mouth ofR d Water and we tof (He_len) P eterson , n ow deceased , and Mrs. Walter (Dorothy) the mouth of Poplar River.[...]Frye ompany. The cattle found helter in the tree and VIGGO DANIELSEN clover w[...]e to Popla r about the year 1915. He leasing land and farming on crop hare . c[...]e s with his brother Ted . When h e first came to and cam to Poplar in 1909 from Fergu Fall , Minne ota[...]in training at th same time was her i ter E ther and brother Harry Round . Mother and her i ter cam to Poplar to vi it their brother The <lore Round on th ir way to an Franci co. The area made a good impr s ion becau e h m ntioned many time that the town population wa all oung people. he filed for a home t ad outh of the riv r and settled there in 1909. There he h Ip d the doctor and women with her nur ing kill . Tom Reid wa the firs t baby he had to d liver without the aid of a doctor. Man y times s he rod up to 20 miles on horseback to deliv r, or help deliver a baby, s tay at the home four or five days after t[...]life to the caring of the ·ick. After Mother and Dad were married on May 29, 1915 they lived a couple of y ars on the home tead north of town .[...]al in town .• , he worked there until Mr. and Mrs. Viggo Danielsen[...] |
| [...]cy Curran's millinery shop. In 1917, Eldora Doyle and Viggo Danielsen were married. The first Daniels[...]leaners. In later years the business was moved to a location just next door to the present Santee Service Center. In those days a good suit of clothes could be purchased with a sack of potatoes or other produce. About 1935 the Danielsen brothers clothing store went out of business, and the two brothers entered into farming east of Pop[...]ildren; Helen Holsapple of Havre, James of Poplar and Peter of Rogue River, Oregon.[...]COTEAU They had a family of six children, Dennis, Burt, Frank,[...]Eddie, Roy and Ruth. Mary LaRoque was born January 22, 1880 to Mr. and In the spring of 1917 Dad came to Poplar, Montana and Mrs. Alfonse LaRoque, in Canada. She moved to Montana leased a large acreage of Indian land. Then he brought his with her parents and settled in Glasgow. In 1920 she family[...]en immigrant car loads of moved to the Wolf Point and Poplar area. machinery, cattle, horses and household belongings. They She was married to W[...]pitched their tents, about eight miles west and one mile Montana on May 25, 1925.[...]ons, Joe Seed of Wolf Point; James Seed made a cook-car where mother cooked for threshing crews. of Phoenix, Arizona and Earl Seed of Great Falls, Dad farmed with the help of the boys. He also did a lot of Montana; two daughters, Mrs. Mark Blankenship of Wolf threshing for miles around. I, a daughter-in-law, can Point and Mrs. H.O. Evenson of San Francisco. remember them threshing for my dad and several others She passed away in the Poplar ho[...]ettle in Montana wa that he wa the fir t man A.B. CHARLES AND MYRTLE DELGER to ship in a carload of cedar po ts and he built the first two-[...]er Dad gave up farming and moved hi family to Poplar[...]where they made their home, and he ran th Pool Hall that Charles Delger and Myrtle Coover were married June 8, was loc[...]' Billiard 1898 in Bismark, North Dakota. She was a native of Salem, Parlor, until hi death in p[...]Mother stayed in Poplar but a few month ; then h They lived in Hurdsfield, No[...]pent several year in Wa hington , Oregon and alifornia. farmed quite a large acreage ofland. He also raised a lot of he moved in with Cecil and Ruth Wil y, and th ir two cattle and horses. He still found time to sell Minneapoli son , harle and Richard. When they mov d to Portland tractors, steam engines and Model T Fords. he lived wit[...]1951. She then mov d to pokane and liv d with Ro and[...]then owned and publi h d th Poplar tandard. H wa[...]marri d to M ryle D lg r and had thr daughter ;[...]Rosemary (now Mr . Bob lark), Rita and oll n. Denni , Meryl and two girl mov d to r gon in Mar h of 1946[...]Burt left Poplar at an arly ag . H trav l d a lot, working in Wa hington and hicago, th n in r gon in[...]Frank marri d Edna hutt. They liv d in Poplar and Wolf Point and in Portland during th hip ard da . H[...]came back to Wolf Point and lived for ev ral y ar rving[...]as under heriff for om y ar , b for retiring and mo ing to Wa hington where he njoy th d ep a fi hing. H[...]had three childr n; Dewane, LeRoy, and Marl n .[...]Darrell, Dee (Mr . Marvin Erick on) and Donna (Mr . arl[...]We mov d to Portland in th fall f 1 42 and b k t[...]int in 1945. Eddie i r tir d from hi duti Charles and Myrtle Delger-1934 cu todian and enjoy working in hi hop.[...] |
| Roy left Poplar in 1936. He worked on a dairy farm in Washington. He married Lois Wright, spent two years in the Army and has lived in pokane ever since. He retired from t[...]children; Ronald, Mary, Clara, Mike, Pat, Kenneth and Vernon. Ruth married Cecil Wiley. They lived in[...]d to Portland, Oregon. They had two sons, Charles and Richard. Cecil Wiley passed a way a few years ago. J.A. DOUGHERTY MR. A D MR . ROBERT EDELINE Robert Edeline, his wife and six children came to |
| [...]In 1921, he married Catherine (Kitty) Dougherty and to with a row boat, breaking through the ice several times[...]s my Dad moved the family to town when 24 and transferred to the Indian Irrigation Service. In 1933 there was work he could do in his profession, he was a he supervised the Relief Project of the Fort Peck carpenter and bricklayer. Later on he went to work for the[...]Frye Cattle Company. He was killed while driving a binder General Road Foreman with Civil Serv[...]on from 1927-29. An Honorary Bachelor of Lawrence and Dottie Henkel are deceased .[...]n Tacoma, Washington. College when he worked and assisted in the Roosevelt After being discharged[...]ension Service. work for Civil Service in Tacoma, and is now retired. Dib As a tribal leader, he served as Chairman of the served three and one half years in Australia and New Executive Board from 1935-41 for t[...]His large collection oflndian artifacts and antiques were Ethel McKinley lives in Florence[...]th Dakota in Renz, Helen Baracker, Belle Atkinson and Audrey Buckles April 1965. live in Poplar[...]Thacker, and a son, Kermit. CHARLES EDER Ch[...]SARAH EDER Dakota. As a boy he lived with Indian relatives and was taught the many Indian customs, legends, religion and Sarah Eder was born March 2, 1895, daughter of Mr. and other phases of Indian life and of the enduring hardships, Mrs. Dan Good Boy. She was raised in Poplar and uncertainties and extreme privation. He participated in grad[...]She married John Eder in 1945. artifacts and lectured on various occasions. Mr. Eder was he passed away on Apirl , 1970 in a fire at her home. one of the very few well versed in Indian culture and was At the time of her death the known urvivor were a well acquainted with the behavioral patterns of the ioux daughter, Mrs. W.J. McIntyre; a step-daughter, Mr . Pearl Indians.[...]White; two sons, Earl and harles, and two tep on , He attended schools beginning in 189 at Culbertson, Lloyd and Phillip. Montana. In 1900 he transferred and studied at Indian schools in Poplar, Fort Shaw, Montana and Chemawa, WILLIAM M. E[...]liam M. Eder r. wa born April 2, 1 97, in Poplar, a the University of Williamette, alem, Oregon in a on of Mr. and Mr . John P. Ed r. H marri d Mildred preparatory[...]erved with the United William H. and Edward, both of Po lar. Marines and the Submarine ervice with the[...]oth r , Mark of Poplar, J hn Business College for a p riod of two year at Great Fall , and Ray, Lo Ang 1 s; and thr Oregon.[...]T xa with a trail h rd along with Ra Mitch 11 of Wolf[...]Point. H wa born in Arkan a . Hi nam wa Rob rt 0 .[...]of Poplar an uite a bit of time around t ob R id[...]and Wolf Point.[...]0 he · · the R id ran h and[...]strung out hi d or and left on a trek toward Mi y d a place on Ton ue[...]th Jordan ar a for a meal and p making hi[...] |
| Burial services and interment were in Miles City, Montana. Pallbear[...]ack Curry, Boyd Isaac, Walter Bridge , Tommy Reid and Glenn Viall. Honorary pallbearers were John McKer[...]tchell, Rufus Choate, Lee Badgett, hirley Bridges and Shorty Thomas. HARRY AND ANGELINE FLEMMING |
| [...]1928, Gene in 1933, Elaine in 19 5 and[...]1935, 1938 and 1939. We c rtainly had h[...]Our first hack wa only two room and our[...]Herman and Fred Gie en, and whoe p to[...]going through. Ted found coal a f w m rt four[...]place. He had to work all day uncovering and p" o t a jag or wagon box full.[...]Giesen were going to a guy nam d H t of[...]rm , o they at z· h Mr. and Mrs. Ted Goedert in 1960.[...]ota beca u e they had no rt a Northern Railway in the car shop wrecking crew, and also fire with. Of cour e, I couldn't t[...]Then about a month later the two went to Brockton to cut He[...]d be away, o one af moon · d again and in Nick was nearly five. He was farming at that t[...]I heard footstep . I · The and Holdingford. He and the boy were on their own and door opened and there wa Ted. o oot. Ted really didn't like that, so he took a home eeke~s All I could ay wa "Why d[...]'H excursion far out west in May of 1916 and decided this had a frozen ear for he had[...]t r get his farm equipment and returned in later July. He fi~st that I made him promi t dn't built a barn which he and Nick lived in, meanwhile tart o[...]v now putting up wild hay and building a two room hou_ e. and no fen Herman Gieser also settled in July of 1[...]an adjoined us directly to the south. There wa a izable had[...]ber that started in the north country Mite and burned half way to Poplar. Ted and the Gie n brothers saved their buildings and hay by placing a double fire-guard around them with a horse-drawn plow. They[...]1 . saved both places. It was a good thing becau many Th[...]rt also. We had met that summer so when he had a hou built on the homestead he came back to t. loud and w w r married on October 30 in 1916. A few day later w cam here by train. Our only ne[...]e Gie en broth r w r Henry Kirns. They were quite a help a w could g t gg or anything that we needed to help u out, from th m. had to go to town with hor and wagon or bugg . Ran h horse used to give u a bad time, owe w r fore d to put up fences around our crops. . We had a lot of rock to clear, lik v r on 1 . , it meantalotofwork.Therewer nofence atfir t, 01twa a job to watch the wild ranch hor e , watch th co and what have you. Ted was lucky to find wat r about[...]w m I d too fa t, o om tim la in ummer it was dry a a bone. Th re wa u uall good wild hay there. . We alway tried to raise a garden. ome things turn d out good, om didn t. In a few year , we had a few cow zr er ary, o and made butter. We had a few hen that produc d a fe righ , B r[...]y dry. Kathr 11 and Dor 1r. and Mr t in front.[...] |
| came to work for Giesens, bringing his wife and little Caryl with him. Later, they got their own place-east of us and west of Varner Nelsons. In 1918, Edwin Larson was married to Carrie Reum and they all lived at Jens' place. Peder Rudd lived directly north of Larson's. Mr . Ida Thomp on and her on lived in the northeast corner of the ection. Martin Erick on and his family lived kitty corner from Mr . Thompson. A bachelor named Ernest Anderson lived east of the[...]ete Braaten lived just south of him. Harry Martin and Bi ieker were south and east of us. To the north were Juliu Johnson, Pat Forans and Arne Olson . ick tarted school at the Bucha[...]f Buchanan's, then moved south of Johnson's. When a new Ruth, Earl, Josephine, Bob Grainger[...]imons yard along Poplar Creek. ick tayed at lims and went to chool there part time. It stayed there four months and in returned to England, bringing his wife and two children January was moved a mile north. Simons, pindler, and back in 1836. He purchased land on a Queens Grant at Goedert student attended. It was[...]io until her marriage. In 1880 the ick, Bernie and Kathryn could attend school for two John[...]The next the youngest, later came to Poplar and married Vina year we rented a hou e in Poplar for school. The following Burshia and had four children, Howard, Iva, Robert, and year we ent Bernie and Kathryn to t. Cloud for chool to Orval.) s[...]dson, Wisconsin, with his Our first tractor wa a three-wheeled Bull Tractor but we aunt and uncle, Bob and Lizzie Hunter, while the rest of the didn't have[...]Case family migrated to Gilby, orth Dakota and on to the tractor.[...]18 5 at age 12 Bob Dr. Atkin on wa our doctor and so was Dr. Harri . A quit school and ran away to Grand Forks where he w~nt to denti t[...]o pital we had work for Mr. Rutherford, a banker. He upported himself here wa the governmen[...]in winter, we where Hank was trading hor es and in 1 93, Bob made his played card , vi ited, and really enjoyed our elves. first pring t[...]in 1929-1930 our children went to Nelson chool and cow and saddle horses and wagons brought back. three miles ea t of our home[...]hool w~ Bob saw many nasty snow torms and one year was on moved to Poplar.[...]and another young fellow. There had been a prairie fire and We lo t our on, Freddy in 1940. He drowned in[...]ebruary, 1967. to get fe d for the sorefooted and half starved tock. Gene died in January of 1973. Ted died in July of 1972. upplies were gone and George was pretty blue. It was his Ka~hryn wa[...]edin1971. heop rate cold, bleak, and desolate ahead. Three riders approached her own b[...], but Bob explained that they were out of Grun t, and a daughter Vicki Ya no ky. ick married everything. The leader, "Dutch Henry" a ked for a pack Bertha ewman and they hav two daughter . Elaine hor e and a man to go with him. Bob left the boys and the married Herman Thacker and ha three childr n. Dorothy herd and traveled some miles through the bru h to a hide i till teaching and ingle . out wh[...]or many week . The I think we all had our good and bad time but we are till men gave Bob coffee, pork , baking powder, flour , and other here, what' left of u . I now have joined the fifty five plu supplie and took him back to hi camp. Bob didn 't ee the club, and if I can't g t there I ju t tay at horn and hobble man again until 1907. The heriff of Valley County, with a around with a walker. I wa in th nursing horn for a pos e of 40 men coured th country looking for Dutch while, staying at horn at the pr ent and trying to make Henry and his gang. They found the hideout but no the be t[...]76. outlaws. The sheriff and all but two men returned to[...]Jones, alias Dutch Henry at a ranch . It was very cold so BOB AND ,JO EPHI E GRAI GER they s pent the night there . o one got much le p and[...]tending t? his horses, George Bird and the other deputy made their plans and hid a 30-30 rifle in the wood box Robert cott Grainge[...]ruce County, Ontario. Hi s grandfather had and turned th pancakes he reached into the wood box c[...]ling in Toronto. H grabbed the rifle and pulled down on Jon s. The second[...] |
| [...]stuck in the creek and had to have two cowboys hook on[...]with ropes and pull him out. He finally got the car to Havre[...]just a box car on the railroad siding, and Old Wolf Point[...]big steers to the Indians for a celebration. He and Harry[...]grabbed him and took him out to dance. She steered him[...]tent. Each had a sharp stick and because Bob had sold the[...]eat to his Iva Trinder, Josephine Grainger, Ollie and Tom Welliver. mouth, he was sure he cou[...]good Indian friends got a big kick out of this and teased[...]him about "Bob eating dog" until he was old and so were <.'eputy did the same, but Jones wouldn't[...]they. Bob sold the butcher shop to Abe Dale and Bill killed him. The storm was still raging so they tied him on a[...]. Harry Caine owned the Livery barn at this horse and brought him to Poplar. Theo Rounds owned a barber shop which was part of the government buil[...]liquor and the men had to go to Culbertson to get Blue The deputies put Jones there for the night and Theo Ribbon Alcohol. Rounds found[...]he opened the shop in the morning. The city built a box for him and buried Jones Bob and some of Hank Cuskers rider found a man in the cemetery just east of town. The death of Jones broke holding down a horse that had bucked and fallen down on up the gang. the cowboy in a trail at Red Rock prings, on McGuire The storm[...]rrup. They March, the weather had been quite warm and cattle had unsaddled the horse and let him up. The leg wa numb and drifted over the range. When the three day blizza[...]hor e down o March 25th the cattle were stranded and many were found he wouldn't drag him to death. Another time, they found a in the spring, standing upright in the coulees, f[...]nor water abandon d three mil death. Bob told of a young greenhorn herder at the head of sout[...]l. Later, they Shade Creek who had been left with a band of heep while found the team and toward evening, the team ter wa the boss was in G[...]wagon. the middle of the night, the fellow got up and followed the eing a very hot day, it was d cid d the man, driven by sheep as they drifted. He and the faithful dog held the thir t, hot him elf. The grave till i unid ntifi d and sheep in a little draw where the snow had built up around[...]found him . Wh n Bob vi i d the edges similar to a corral. By evening , he felt he could go daught[...]ar lat r , h r hu band Ral h kn w th to the wagon and safely leave the sheep long enough to get tory a the grave i a mark of th old hi tor . some cold bacon and bread for himself and the dog. The n time Bob halt r d and cut a v n y ar old ridg wagon was a short half mile away and he knew it would be runner tud. He imm d[...]l working for Hank on the horn sheep being hungry and cold , started to drift and were range, Bob g t a m s age that ra e u ker wa in th going over a fifty foot cutbank. o way could the herder ho pital in Gl ndiv in riou condition and about t and the dog stop the herd. Between 1500 and 2000 h p d liver on , Ja . Tim wa of gr at cone rn 'a nd th r w r piled up and were dead before it wa over. Rumor r ached[...]one or .B. radio around or 4-whe l drive Glendive and as soon as it was pa able the ranch r w nt pickup ·. Bob rod hi ridg runn r toward th Big Dr and out to check. He came on to Fort Peck and got Indian m n found Hank that vening on th hor roundup. Hank told and women to return with him to the site. The built[...]e th ridge-runn rand put Hank' add} on windlasses and after digging the sheep out of the snow, a he wa taking that hor . Bob told him th hor had hauled them to the top. They thawed out the she p and th n ~lready made a 20 mil rid on a fa t lop . Hank b ing a picked the wool. It took several weeks and th Indians Judge of hor fl h , an w r[...]one. All the rancher could hor e th r and mounting th hor didn t top until h salvage was the dead wool which he sold for a very low arriv d at th liv r tabl in G[...]p in Poplar. He Lightning tarted man a prairie fire. Th wer a often located homesteaders on Redwater which is now in seriou threat to th liv tock indu try . ow and hor McCone County. They would bring their belongi[...]outfit rod mile to fight th fire . It wa a ommon emigrant car on the railroad to Poplar and then have practice to drop ( hoot) t[...]aking two River. Then they would return to Poplar and unload their lariats, tied tog th r and ti to a front I g, th n with two belongings from the railroad car and go out with their mor rope , ti to the hind I g . With a addl hor and family to prove up on their homestead.[...]drag th fl h id down Bob tells one story about a couple who were traveling by to moth r th b[...]d Buick car to Havre. The car brok down in Poplar and the jack t follow d, b a ting out an r maining flam . Th r couple went on by train . Bob wa to repair the car and take was no rural lir d partm nt nor[...] |
| [...]Frank became ill and the couple moved back to Poplar but[...]25, 1909. Josephine and Claire returned to Poplar with the[...]River Agency in Wyoming to work as matron and teacher.[...]and teacher. She spent sixteen and one half years in the[...]other house onto the site but the family lived in a log Josephine Grainger, Bob Trinder, Robert Grain[...]Josephine was afraid of cyclones and electric storms so a[...]flu epidemic of 1918, Josephine nursed both Earl and Elk Drainage and strong winds and lots of grass caused it Gladys Major, as Ros[...]shing that fall so Lizzie Jones, Lawrence, Claire and In 1911 and 1912 Bob freighted with Frank Cusker to Earl were there along with Josephine. A rough character cobey, part of the old freight[...]t beef, Howard Grainger ranch. Bob told of taking a 13 ton safe to fresh bread, milk, etc. Lawrence and Claire had gone up the cobey bank on a led with eight horses. The safe was the hill for water and had hid when they saw the man till being u ed a few year ago. In 1914, Bob started sneak[...]ng "Dad farming with his brother, Bill, operating a large steam was coming home' . The man grabbed the rest of the food, Autman Taylor tractor, pulling a 10-12 bottom plow. John stuck it all in a sack and tore out of the house. He later Grainger, another[...]around the house, trying the doors. One had only a Bill and Ida had five children, Lloyd, Roy, George, hide over it and Josephine knew her only weapon was a Lawrence and Mildred. Ida died in March, 1915 and Bill loaded 22 automatic rifle she aimed[...]Several died the following eptember of 1915. Jack and Mary times, she almost shot as he tri[...]he gun boy tayed on with their Uncle Bob. (George and Roy loaded all night as she lay waiting. Finally, she heard the worked on Fort Peck Dam, and Lawrence ran the Farmers crunch of snow and the barking of the dog and squacking Union Elevator in Gla gow. All three have married and of the guinea hens as he went away. In the morning, she live in the Kali pell area and have rai ed fine families.) found tracks all around the house and where he had stood a December 13. 1916, Bob married Jo ephine Janis Sears long time by the door, and where he had slept in the hay at ulbertson, Montana. eorge and Maggie Kirn stood up stack. Mr. Mos man,[...]aped convict from Canada. The man Dakota to harle and Molly Jani . Her Grandfather was la[...]ana where he Jani cam from France with hi brother and Mr. ears in had ki led two familias. th[...]orked with Dr. Atkinson going out in all children and older p ople to the ba ment of the agency kind of weather and all hours to deliver babies or care for building[...]never the depression, Josephine would sew and make over r turned to Pine Ridge to liv . he pent[...]know when the Red Cross boxes had arrived and then with a family and attended public chool but had to return Jose[...]g that they were German Ho pital in Philadelphia; a c rtificate to teach warm. It was not unco[...]Winn, Josephine kindergarten through sixth grade, and dome tic science and Fanny Eder trudging along with a sled of clothing and art-now called home economics. he accepted a taking it to Indian children. one of these ladies belonged position a nurse and teacher at Elbowoods, orth Dakota on Fort[...]ple of their time in 4-H, Home Demonstration Club and Pine Ridge to visit her family on her way to her job and care. never returned to Pine Ridge again. h[...]920 of Spinal Meningitis. Mrs. land affairs there and sold them a few year before her Olive Mitchell had be[...]On May 8, 1907, Josephine married Frank ears , a the school sy tern that the agency school was closed and carpenter at Fort Berthold . He was from Fort Peck Agency the White and Indian children all attended public school. and a grandson of the man who had come with her[...] |
| [...]J . . GREGORY midwife and Dr. Atkinson the phy ician . The family liv d on[...]r the J. . ory, an a children to attend chool. Earl was in the milita[...]Poplar w and H.uth went to Circle to teach. During the summer[...]operated the community canning kitchens at Poplar and H thi hi h Wolf Point. The Government had community garden and pro oth in[...]. Earl married H len A hi ·a Ali all, th liv don a Stauffer of Laurel and one son, Allan , wa born. Ruth ranch n ar rt taught in Wolf Point, and then returned to ircle, marry-[...]a, marned Ro Poplar and built a h Bleazard of Utah and they have one son, Justin. They[...]until ill Ith Hoh< :raingtir farmed and raised cattle. Hea l othresh d, hicago horn . having a largti crt>w that drove bundle team and thr hed He died Mar h[...]ding in the Poplar artia . llti retired in l 947 and although he moved to town, he TH[...]to thP farm tivery day with Tom Welliver, put in a larg(• gardPn and tended his _yard until h e entered th[...]tiin 1%f>. Hob died April 19. 1966attheageof ~l~ and on(• half years. My father, Lu I'a I llwar('rs and honorary pallbearers at hi s funeral wer[...]ter Luth r Bridg<•s. A .T . Allen . W. H . Bawden, Mi ck 'usker, Emmett urti L How< •. Tom l{l'id and ,John Szymanski. It wa the last time Iri h) w man _v of tlwsE • rnPn gathered as a group as they had en wagon man _v a l'hang(• in the C'ountry throughout th ir live~[...]honor fo on tlw n•snvation, was a chart r member of the Indian[...]onstration cluh. worked on the Mid - Wintn fairs. and was a 4-H leader. ,Jo,ephine wa an arclant sports fan .[...]wtiv1 • 111 ('11rnrnunit _v acti iti<'sand made a bahy lay tte . ~Ill' rl 11·cl 1: ,,l,rua r_v . I[...]Canada in IHl 1 to farm with his broth and Bill. H w ,1. · ;1 . 'tE•am Bo[...]trip 1•rmillion. \.\.' h<>rP hi . fath r and d g l('a ing 'orth l>akota . H trapp d , , an[...]turn d to Poplar wh r h farm d and l:it, •r move>d into Poplar. .John pa s s('d awa _v ,Januar. 1946 a nd G rtrud pa ~ d awa_v i[...] |
| [...]by uncle's enthusiastic reports downs, he gave us a slant on life that no one else did. He of a land of opportunity, father and mother left the boys was often included in our pr[...]ng, then Looking back I see my father as a pioneer adventurer went to Poplar, Montana , in 1[...]think about that time my brother beloved Michigan and family there. They were alike in Ben came to Mont[...]surely I was born in Poplar on August 3, 1918, and Helen was wasn't a "1000 acre" man, but could have been a monetary born December 7, 1920. he died in 1944.[...]vors, if he hadn't been such Father worked for a few years in Poplar in a meat market a lovable wanderer. They taught us children self-re[...]arried Dan There were several vacant homes within a few miles where O'Connor. " Curly" married Vadna Kruger. They live in Pete Fa t, another Fast family and a Ratsloff family had Harvey, Illinois and he has his own machine shop. Ben lived before we[...]d now. The folks didn 't died in April rn58. have a car until later when they moved onto the Ratsloff[...]rips were made to town; news, mail, medicine, Ben and Clara Holte family. They Ii ved north of us on might come by way of a neighbor, or one of the fence riders Long Creek. They and the Griswold's were close friends who were freque[...]ly bringing them Other names of neighbors and acquaintances that I groceries. I remember Glenn[...]a,Jim MacDonald , Jim part of his groceries over, and would have a meal with us Helmer, Howard Sage, John Baldwin, B[...]Alger, W.L. Rose and sons , John Stensland, Bob Mattelin , In 1924 my brother "Curly" and I went to board with the John Erickson , Abe Glec[...]Erickson's brother), Harry Round family in Poplar and entered school. By late the Kliens and the George Wallette's. fall I was ick with whooping cough and "Curly' had two finger cut off. Dr. Atkin on sewed one finger on, and sent word to my folk with Eddie Bear, the fence rider on Box MR. AND MRS. DUGALD HAGADONE Elder reek, and the clo e t neighbor. Eddie said later he ju t co[...]ything. few day later Dr. Atkinson bundled u and our belonging into hi Model T coupe and took us home, Dugald Hagadone and Mary alomonson were married pa t McGowan' , then[...]sture, aying, "I'm "Duke" worked in logging camps and in coal mines before taking you kid home where yo[...]came because of my of chool for that year. Mother and Ben gave us schooling health, can't ay that I was[...]ee with me. Duke always did In 1925-26 " urly" and I went to school during the fall ay he wanted to get out in the wide open space where he month . going a far a th Ben lark home, about ix could ee ahead of him. mil a way, then riding on to school with Fr d, Iren , L[...]t time we had four boy , Thorvald, M ron, William and y ar w went to lark ' in a two-wh el buggy pulled by a Lawrence. During 1912 and 1913, Duke worked for a Mr. l zy mar w called P ggy. "Big Bob" Eldridge watch d for Fol tad in the mine and hauled coal to th cu tomers in u ach morning, if[...]to tak u horn for the we k nd. In 1. 2 f th r and mother tart d a cafe in Poplar, r nting one from Hal ted' th fir t year. B n continued to farm for a couple more y ar , befor coming to join u . In 1930 th y bough location a t of th Ba racker Hotel, and establi hed th ir own bu in , known a "Pat' af ." It wa a family project, all of u work d . I remember one um mer, m father told J e Ma on, Joe Taylor and ome other that if they knew omeone r ally hungry with no money, to ju t come in and ask for a bowl of free oup. A big bowl of Mother's oup and crackers wa almost a meal in itself. People did come in and a k , but no one took insinc re advantage of it. We children didn't have a normal bringing up as compared to our schoolmate , but a we grew up working in the cafe, we saw and lived mor than some of them ever will. We had the opportunity of p rsonally knowing and observing a great variety of people, of which on of my Duke and Mary Hagadone wedding picture. Standing is favorites was a lawyer, Raymond Morford. In his up and Bertha and Rudolph eiletz.[...] |
| [...]had gone to town; it got to be evening and he didn't come and didn't come. Finally we started out to look for h[...]thinking he was along the road someplace and didn'thav~ a flashlight. We got almost to ulbert on and had not[...]and started to holler. We knew then the lo t wa found[...]d him. Doctor Munch delivered many Hagadone, Mary and Duke Hagadone, last two unknown. babies and saved many lives. We survived the flu epidemic[...]ea· Alice Vernie Crops had been good in 1912 and straw was in Dugald and Clifford. ' '[...]that straw smouldering all winter, only to start a large prairie fire that was to burn from the Muddy to and by the time we got to Poplar it was night. We tayed in Canada in the spring. There had been a small fire to the the park at the west end of Poplar that night and oh how it west of us the day before but it is hard to explain how one rained. Everything was wet and we didn 't have anything feels when you see a large fire coming towards your home! I f[...]ed not to move until pring. We had to live in the and saw the house was smoking. I dashed back and saw granary that winter and it wa pretty crowded but we two holes burned in the house, about a foot in diameter. We managed. The land wa all broke for farming and ready to had some lumber in the house and I carried out those be eeded. Muc[...]irrigated. With plenty of water, it boards two at a time and put them in the yard. Also carried wa ea y to have a large garden and we old v g table out some bedding that was on fire. The biggest part of the and potatoe to mo tofthep oplein the community. Many fire went around the hou e, and I finally got the rest putout people would buy a much a 500 pound of cabbag at a in the house. The next morning I tried to lift that lumber time to make sourkraut. A lar e head of cabbage often and I couldn't even lift one piece, much less two pieces at a weighed 1 pound . We alway had thr[...]four or five tail feather wa on the roof, crowing a usual. head above our debt. And again we rai k and The horses were harne ed and tied to th wagon. I turk to 11; milk d cow and ol u m. couldn't get the harne s off o I cut th ti rop and let During arl 30' T d and k d them go. I really tho[...]ii t m in them, but in a day or so they came horn , harne es[...]and h tt Hart[...]11 would have stopped." W got ome ground broke and F olff a f planted to wheat and oat in 1914. We had lot f potatoe a no an and a good garden. We alwa had a good, big gard n no d r ten[...]with good a r of' Our early neighbor[...]m di g Jones and Olson . We didn't have 'entertainm nt a w do but ha or on the ground. T[...]mu t hav old that fa partie picnic and dance . Th fourth of July wa alway[...]I eel hr ary a big time and w went to ulb rt on down n ar th riv r.[...]r n. Thorval v and young. One year at a picnic th re wa a tug of war out[...]of b tween the farmer on the north id of th river and the wh[...]n outh ideoftheriver.Then xtthingw kn w,th rewa a ha lia~ Model T Ford with a rope around it for them non th south m[...]. . ugald, We had a dance in the neighborhood th night before[...]f Popi r. eemed like a good idea for everybody to g t tog th r for[...]ldr n and dinner. We did-and th n <lane d all that night. M , I ju t[...]grand h~ldr n , gr at and at, gr at wh n we were young.[...] |
| [...]lebrated my 92nd birthday on December eighth with a The view of a lonely mountain birthday party. Or a butte it might have been A dim trail wound around it[...]Through the cactus and the sage[...]p the sides that were weather-beaten LOLA A. "KETCHNER" HAMILTON[...]They pictured an 'old timer' upon it Mr . Lola A. Hamilton, formerly Lola Ketchner, was Like a fairy-book free-hooter born in Fulton, Kentucky on March 7, 1900. He was the leader of a pack-train he accompanied her father to the Poplar area in 1914 And was riding a big sorrel horse. when he arrived as a homesteader. "'he married Cary Ketchner, raised a family and lived in In dress he was quite out-landish t[...]1956. Like a fair-book free-hooter he was a member of the Royal Neighbors of America Then 'Montana Jim' stepped on the stage and a past matron of the Eastern tar in Lakewood,[...]"Evening Friends and Strangers," he later married Roy C. Hamilton of Long Beach, Said Jim in a deep bass tone, California.[...]nia, Kenneth Ketchner of London, A thousand and one such scenes. England; Wayne Ketchner, Kingman[...]Mrs. T'was somewhere late in the sixties A.J. Kerling, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Mrs. Elmer[...]lifornia; Mrs. Robert Walton, We had a big camp on Milk River Great Fall and Mr . J.R. Evans, Fort Leavenworth, There was myself, Jack Mail and Lou; Kan a , and 24 grandchildren.[...]And the hides were piling up fast[...]wa born D cember 7, 1 9 at Chico, And rode out to the top of the hill alifornia.[...]ving H held railroad engineering job in Oregon and had Before we started to kill. been Roo evelt ounty urveyor. He rved a Di trict Highway Engineer and wa twice the tate Highway The un rose from its bed of purple Engine r a well a Akan Highway Engineer. And took up its trail a of old Hart wa a World War I rmy captain and colonel in The sunbeams glittered on metal objects World War II. H wa a charter memb r of Poplar Legion That hone like button of gold Po t o. 55 and rved a it' Po t ommander. T'wa a detachment of regular soldiers He re ided in a re t home for ome time b for hi death A galloping from old Fort Peck at the age of 76.[...]urvived by hi widow, Ther ia, three And all they saved was the wreck; daughter and ev ral grandchildr n. They burnt up our camp and our wagons And ran off our four mules too; They scalped a dandy little teamster And the old time hunter named Lou.[...]to the river for water "MOT A JI HELMER" And was packing his old buffalo gun And while the reds were a-burning by Harry J. Simons, Poplar, Montana We killed many a son-of-a-gun[...]ity of Poplar And split them up half and half During the big county fair[...]cier Theatre And rode away with a laugh. That Chris Jen en runs out there.[...]ntrance tickets And I rode without recourse And a we took our seats,[...]d, Was my guns and my sorrel horse. " To-night I have on a special treat A real hard-bitten old timer[...]The weather turned stormy and damp He was a great buffalo hunter I was looking around for some shelter A pioneer who stood every test."[...] |
| [...]d own it From buffalo and elk to big blue crane when I rode up and hollered "Hello!" I've run cattle, sheep and hor es There was a move in the brush beside it And I've tried dry farming too. And then out popped the head of Old Joe.[...]essed her be t Joe looked like he'd been sick for a month And I've seen time when he wa blue, Or had had some[...]There are some who are going to fall, There is a big camp of Crees across the river." But they will surely make a winning If they will stay and hit the ball; Jimmy was out snaring some rabbits[...]y are mighty hard to pay Then we blinded the fire and made coffee And when Campbell gets to drilling And they told me the Crees had gone wrong[...]at the Crees didn't fold their tents And that wind and oil won't mix, And fade away in the night.[...]ould want your own twin-six. Before the sun had a chance to rise Now we all know that old Montana We swam the river and had 'em surrounded Is not simply a land of mere wish Before a buck in the camp got wise. I'll tell you what I've summed up With a yell and a flourish of powder In this[...]ike ten thousand men The Crees dropped their guns and surrendered Life is like a flowing stream And we herded them to the Poplar bull-pen.[...]Splash around in shallow waters I stayed a month at Poplar with Shaw Or swim where it i deep and still; And met a German fur trader named Goory. If you have the brain and are good and game He represented a fur firm in Leipsic You are entitled to the cream And he listened well to my story.[...]g up just by half That folks from the east call a pond For if you would win in the[...]d is better than your bond, So pick out your boys and a good outfit ow I've Ii ved my life both foul and fair Draw on me for all the money you need:[...]t. Louis I've fought with Indian and oldier too And I'll see that you get back your seed." I've fought for life and honor, But I'll have to fight a darned ight hard r There was a difference in being a free trader To pa through the ga[...]Ii ten d to m lling But I'd given my hand and word to Goory Friend and tranger both , I thank And as long as I lived it would stand. And you will find m on th hilltop I got my boys and my outfit together Or in th[...]ver of Platte I'm con ider d quite a fri ndly er atur I shipped many a cargo of hides to Goory And you know m to b ight Before they chased me to[...]here in the land of the King And bid you on and all goodnight. Everything was quiet, peaceful and still; I met a great camp-fire warrior and talker A white-skinned Red River breed named Reel. Reel talked long and loud of his people[...]ns praises in full he ung, |
| [...]reservation had been surveyed and allotted, so Jim Helmer[...]twenty-five years before that was successful and he didn't[...]live to see it. The Mannings stayed on the Muddy and the ranch is still owned and operated by Sandy or Alfred Manning, a grandson.[...]and lots were sold at auction. The town was incorpora[...]and Poplar became a thriving town of three banks, four[...]er yards, two drug stores, several eating places, a bakery, two hotels and quite a few other businesses. There[...]were two doctors, a dentist and a chiropractor. It is hard to[...]believe now that we also had a paid baseball team. One of Jim Helme r house-1907 the players, a Herb Pruitt, went on to play with the St.[...]been a Catholic and Presbyterian church , whose pastors The fort w[...]ntries of located near what is now Glasgow. At th a t time all the Germany or Italy. reservati[...]ol of the military. Sometime There was a boarding school for the Indian children-a previously the boundaries of the reserva tion had[...]school. Frank Mitchell was the Superintendent and it was stationed here was a Captain Sprole. The Spr ole railroad he who[...]fter him; the elevator built later also had a public school for just the first eight grades for[...]for sure how P oplar got its' Previously a much smaller building had been used . Minnie name[...]Smith Nelson , until her death in 1970, and myself were the cottonwood trees for Poplar trees-but there a re pr obably last two people living in Popla[...]en it was moved from Fort Peck. James and Annie Helmer had seven children. Lillian, Jim Helmer was born in Iowa and drifted we tat an who had lived in New[...]h of his mother caused the family to 1959 and died here. Emily (Morse) lives in Poplar. Annie, seperate. He became a buffalo hunter, thenjoined the army J r . died in 1903. John was with the Bureau of Indian and wa with General Miles for several years-about the[...]d two children, Later he married Annie Manning and settled on the Red Arlys and Jim. John later married Myrtle Woodham, then Water as it was known, and raised sheep. In 1 91 the h e died in California in 1958. Nellie followed a musical Mannings and the Helmers moved to the Big Muddy[...]ar in 1941 with country where there was more gras and no rattlesnakes. Company B - 163rd Infantry. He married Marjorie Lowe Life and living wa grim-what with long cold winters, a nd had two children , Bob and Luana. He was on blizzard , drouths , prairie fire and outlaws. There are disability retirement a[...]rd Helmer married Marguerite Warren. They cattle and hor e or now and then a murder or burning out h ave three ch ildren , Carol, Warren and Von Kay. He is a ranch . retired a nd lives in Billi ngs. My mother, Annie Helmer One morning my father went to the barn and died in 1966 at th e a ge of 92. James Helmer , Sr. died in found a man asleep who said he was an "outlaw" but he 1931. was invited in to have breakfa t with us-and I had a It took fou r generation s from wood cutting for th e glimpse of a real live outlaw. He looked harmless, tho' steamboats, b uffalo h unting, sh eep and cattle raising, scary.[...]d streets, central h eating system s, $4.00 wheat a nd ranches . A wedding usually called for a wedding dance if good crops. All this final[...]" one set" or " two sets' ', as of James Jr., and grandson of J ames Helmer Sr . or mostly they danced quadrille or quare dances a they are MO TANA JI M, as he was known 'w[...]ry of one of the pioneer families in this region. and a mouth harp. One or two places had a pump organ One of my favorite quotations was written by Thomas which added much to the mu ic and the party. Whole Paine- "In the comm[...]lies came , the children slept where they could , and the apt to forget the ground we traveled over, but frequently adult danced until daylight, after a midnight supper and neglect to gather up experience as we go.[...]often breakfast. One incident that I remember was a wedding for an only daughter and during the course[...]anchers. There was neither time nor the money for a honeymoon , so the A.K. HOLEN bride used this occassion to wear her ne[...]y Amund Holen was born September 28, 1876 a t Kvam anyone in those days ever had more than tw[...]he came to th e United dresses-just for Christmas and the fourth of July. The States and lived in Minnesota un til 1900. He then moved to fourth of July was always celebrated in a big way. Lignite , North Dako[...] |
| Standing · Mrs. A.K. Holen, A.K. Holen and Oscar Ben and Clara Holte Monson. Children are Kenneth and Norman Holen and Arlene Monson.[...]nd, including Mr. Holen came to Montana in 1915 and settled on a fa1 rn Edith Johnson s homestead, and farmed or lea ed the land 16 miles northeast of W[...]"Bud" Lien) live 20 mile northea t of poplar; and Marly Community. Mrs. Holen died in 195 .[...]The Holens had two sons, Kenneth of Wolf Point and Lien have four children-Karen, Linda, Barbara and Lloyd of Poplar. One daughter, Mr . L.E. (Arlene)[...]ter have three childr n- andra Wilmar, Minnesota, and eight grandchildren. Deborah and rol. ' A.K. Holen died in August 1967.[...]lar. Poplar R . he was a lifetime resident and pa d awa at th ag of th r . Picn[...]cro ing P he married Harry Hollow in 1943, and he pr d d h r orth Pop] ri[...], as did her first hu band. ago and th t g th w. he had two on , Earlwin avior and orman Hollow, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildr n. BE A D CLARA HOLTE by Birdell Lien Iara John on and her si ter Edith came to Montana in |
| [...]MABEL S. BALDWIN AND Oscar Holte, brother of Ben, homesteaded near t[...]EARL IVERSON Holte farm in 1928. Ben and Oscar farmed together for several years. Oscar and Arny Lizotte were married in I came her[...]They continued farming until 1965 when they and Francis. sold the farm to Neil Berg and retired. They are now living Francis met me in Poplar with a team of horses, and a at Bigfork, Montana.[...]McAnally and one he owned. I had a dozen turkey eggs I had brought with me, and I had to be so very careful[...]It was very lonesome up on the hill a way from my brothers and sisters at home. Pretty soon, some of the[...]ffered to take me to Poplarin his car. There were a lot of dances then, and I started getting acquainted with[...]Earl and I went to Poplar and were married.[...]He built a homestead shack and then enlisted in the[...]Argonne, France. He was hit by shrapnel and discharged[...]• Oscar and Amy Holte-April JO 1945[...] |
| Earl and Mabel S. Baldwin were married September 1, 1923.[...]0 so the children could go to high school. I am a past Matron of Aurora Chapter 47, and Past Elder of the Presbyterian Church. Earl passed away in 1956. He was a past Master of Northern Light Lodge and past Patron of Order of Eastern Star, Aurora Chap[...]ly 1919 in th e Service. He was wounded in France and was awarded the Purple Heart. A.E. Kelsey, Chris Jensen He came home to Poplar to prove up th e homestead. He never married. He raised a few cattle and farmed . Oscar liked to visit with people. Oscar and Earl bought a thresh er and did some community threshing for the neighbors. They retired in 193 and sold the restaurant to Bill He passed away after ten years of ill health , in 1966. Marcinkowski and John urvant bought the theatre and[...]at Winona , Minnesota. He grew up in Minn esota. and engaged in hotel b usin ess a nd owned a hotel there for several year . April 29, 1905[...]moved to Poplar from White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and in Ma rch 1910 began the erection of a two- David B. Johnson wa born u[...]g for the purpose of engaging in the Jen n and at nd d Indian boarding hool plar nd Restaura nt and Bakery. The outcome of his venture was a Montana tate niv r ity at Boz an. H[...], 19 6 he m d li oran in Poplar. and th e meals were all the best. A fir t clas line of bread Mr. Joh in talled a opl r a nd pastry, fresh every day, and a very fine line of Pre byteri hurch in 1926 a t until confectionery wa[...]pid the familiar old resting bench out in front , and the monkey ity, outh Dakota. ntana that was always on a chain nearby. Tuberculo is A so iation fo d wa[...]in trum ntal in the al n a l for Indian p ople completed and was to be one of the b t equipped and mo t of Montana. comfortable motion pictur[...]and r, Wyoming · thr e daugh r . Lyd a ph otographer in Poplar will long be rememb red a[...]Gwendol n G. Mail of E accompanist for the shows, and all the ound effect that outh Dakota, and Mr . Donna D. · ggin were needed . hris Jen en will alway b r memb red for and an adopt d daughter, Mr . Dot having a free show on Christma Day with cand for all olorado; 19 grandchildr n ; and nin at-gra . the kids.[...] |
| [...]died when three months old, Raymond T. Wisconsin, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Roeser. Kibbe, and Gladys Marie Kibbe. Adolph and Elizabeth Kaul were married on October 4, Sometime between 1915 and 1918, they came by train to 1904 in Sauk City, Wisconsin and came to Montana to Poplar. Rex's aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keller homestead in the Charley Creek[...]ockton, in arrived in Poplar in 1906. He was a government 1916. They moved to Poplar in 1922. blacksmith and auto mechanic until transferred to he passed[...]Rex worked for Cosier and Patch and later for the Great Known survivors at the time of her death were; a son, Northern Railway. A.R. Mitton hired him to work in his Alfred; a daughter, Gertrude; nine grandchildren and general store. Rex and Anna later bought the business and thirteen great-grandchildren .[...]Rex T. Kibbe, Jr. came along a little later in 1924, born in[...]weren't able to pay their accounts. Rex accepted a lot from one family, a house from another, the city of Poplar also[...]owed the store and pulled the house onto our lot with the[...]foundation and remodel the house when put in place on the[...]foundation. Jobs were scarce and Rex finally got on WPA as a foreman. When it became legal to sell beer with r[...]and Lander, Wyoming and back to Poplar again where he[...]retired in 1955. Rex, Jr. moved to Scoby in 1956 and Rex, Sr.[...]Raymond T. Kibbe married Lila Taylar and they moved to Havre and then on to Billings. They have four married Mr. A.E. Kelsey Mrs. A.E. Kelsey children. Ray died in June 1[...]Mrs. Moller still lives in Kalispell. Don and Marie live in A.E. KELSEY Lander, W[...]married and live away from Lander. by Fr[...]Wyoming. They raised three boys and one girl. One son Albert Eugene Kelsey was born in Gary, outh Dakota lives in cobey and the others live away from here. Rex, Jr. June 14, 1 0. He attended school and graduated from high works in a grocery store and Cecelia is a registered nurse chool in Gary in 1 99.[...]2. ix years later he came to Culbert on Montana , and operated a grain elevator there for two year .[...]GEORGE KIRN In 1910 he moved to Poplar and operated the first elevator here. In 1912 he tart[...]rn at Big Timber, Montana on the "Kelsey Transfer and Dray" hauling gravel, and and March 26, 1 83 and came to Poplar with his parents while a coal. In the early years they delivered ice from[...]the son of Henry Kim, one of the first with wagon and team, for the people who had ice boxes.[...]ad was also in the oil business from 1914 to 1936 and Kim was engaged in the farming and ranching business. farmed up to the time of hi death. He also worked in the Law and Order Department with He married Lulu Mc ichol[...]World War II. The children are Cecilia Olson and Mrs. J.M. (Elinor) At the time of his d[...]were the wife, Zentz of Billings; Howard, Warren and Frank of Poplar. Margaret; two sons, Stanley of Seattle, Washington and The two youngest live in California, Charlotte Ki[...]e of Glasgow; two daughters, Mrs. Henrietta Diego and Jocelyn in Chula Vista. Ken worthy of Spokane, Washington and Mrs. Helene[...]DA IEL KNAPP Rex T. Kibbe, Sr. of Urbana, Iowa and Anna McKibban Daniel Knapp, wh[...] |
| [...]. He was born in the city of He employed a man called Rawhide Dan to break hor es. Muelbach[...]for Mr. Knapp on shares. six children of Philip and Philipine (Drumm) Knapp. He They used a large "D" as a company brand and the "DK" was educated in the popular schools of Germany, and on as Mr. Knapp's personal brand and the "Lazy Y swinging April 6, 1869, without frie[...]American citizenship at Fort first destination, and for several months he remained Benton, Montana, and gave his first presidential vote to there, working on farms and in other occupations. Soon Cleveland in 1892. He[...]t in afterward he went out to Sioux City, Iowa, and found work politics, had supported the democratic ticket in national with a cousin in the meat business, gaining a practical elections, but never sought an office for himself. He wa knowledge of the butcher's trade. reared a Lutheran. Leaving Sioux City early in 1871, Mr. Knapp came into Mr. Knapp was twice married, and his wives were Indian the real west, stopping at[...]low Bismark, on the Fort Rice Indian Reservation, and Q.P. McClammy of Oswego and Mrs. W.A. McClammy of was employed as cook and butcher for the agency until Poplar, now phoenix,[...]1872. The next several years he spent at Bismark and Josephine Premore, and they married in Oswego though vicinity as a wage earner, and in 1876, first entered the she was born in Wolf Point in 1864. territory of Montana, and made the trip on horseback from Funeral service for Dan Knapp was held at Oswego and Fort Buford to Poplar. The post traders, Leighton and interment was in the local cemetery. Rev. Cole of the Jordan, had employed him as a buffalo hunter, and he Methodist church and Miss Florence Moore, deaconess of remained at Po[...]vices. hunting expeditions followed him from the Black Hills country, and when he finished his contract with Leighton and Jordan, he returned to Bismark, North Dakota, sending his furs and hides east to market. The fall of 1877 found him[...]al years. During the winter of 1880 he conducted a restaurant, and in the years 1881-82-83 hunted buffalo south of[...]River. Mr. Knapp then returned to Fort Buford and in the employ of the regular contractor helped s[...]he soldiers there. In 1886 he returned to Poplar and again followed the business of supplying the sol[...]years following he ranched ten mile~ east of Ray and Hazel Lang. Wolf Point, and 1896 identified himself with the Oswego September 5, 1962. community as Indian trader and merchant. He opened a little stock of goods in a log building, and for a quarter RAYMO DA DH ZELL[...]Ra and Hazel Lang horn d at D ol Montana When he first came, Oswego was part of a region (north of Plentywood) i[...]the new county was created, it was called Dawson and still i a t Montana, ting with a Ford d al r hip in later Valley County was clipped from Dawson. Prior to hi ood in 1917 and moving to Poplar in 19;31. H location at Oswego, Mr. Knapp had learned the ioux b a tud bak rd al r in 194 . language, and used it a :fluently as the natives of the trib Lang famil in lud Marg . nn As a boy, he of course acquired the German tongue, but[...]of practice in that language. a arry, Rob rta, uzi, David, M r . His store was the first opened in O wego and nd Lan[...]nia. ' in business alone there for twenty years, and be ide hi ng' n , wa store he afforded a depository for funds for hi customer , a d by th ; Danny, and was postmaster of the village from 1900 till 1920. A D Dan a stockholder he helped establi h the Farmer and · din 1966 and Haz 1 in 1976, at ag 2 and Merchants Bank, later changed to the Fir t ational Bank, of which he was a director. 0 DORR LL W 0 Mr. Knapp built up a ranch at Oswego oflog and pol , Mr . rr w on wa born on Mar h 1, 1 5 t the improvement included a large hou e, shed and Atwater, i ta. corrals. The house wa a large log hou e with the ev h marr[...]n Ma , 190 at Thi fRi r extending far out forming a shad and as he plac d Fall , Minnesota. railroad ties out from the building and filled the space Th y came to Poplar in 1917. The had thr hildr n; between the building and the ties with dirt, at most any Tho ilfr d, Ma . Donald A. time of the day men would be found sitting ther[...]ded . . d ath shade talking and r sting. th[...]. Indian reservation in Roo evelt ounty and Mr. Knapp' . La[...]d brands were "DK" on the right boulder and "F "on th L on, who had b[...]gh. These brands were u d on both hor and H "tal nd R t ti[...] |
| [...]school everyday with just a blanket on the horse since they didn't have a saddle.[...]such a hard winter. It was 60 below and there was lots of[...]Clem hauled coal from across the river in to town and Clem and Agnes Lockman CLEM AND AGNES LOCKMAN Standing- Willie, Mr. and Mrs. Clem Lockman, Gerald, |
| [...]one of five children of Daniel and Margaret Baer. My[...]old and returned to Waterloo, Iowa eight years later. I c[...]from Iowa had previously come west and located at[...]Johnson, Mrs. Frank (Edith) McMahon, and Mrs. Oscar[...]Vesta) Butts. I went to Glasgow to be employed as a clerk[...]Hafton Bjorges, Edgar Williams, Luella Wilsons, and[...]is Carrish. We had four children, Marjorie Helmer and[...]hurst, Illinois, and Henry Lowe, Jr. of Berkeley, Cali-[...]fornia. My husband died in 1953 and I now live with my[...]daughter, Marjorie, in Poplar. Earl and Frances Lockman[...]ounty, was born at Stordahl, near Trondjem, state and county constructing the bridge west of Poplar. orway, on June 13, 1877, the son of Peter and Caroline He began farming in the late 1930's. T[...]1950 when they bought the old United States and settled at Canton, outh Dakota where Frye Co. pla[...]his father worked for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and t. Paul and raised cattle until 1972, when they sold the farm[...]California, when Frances became ill. Dakota and anborn Iowa, and wa confirmed in the She died in Poplar February 1[...]an faith by Rev. Wigdahl at anborn. In 1 97 he to and is living in Garden Grove, California. went we t to Sumner, Oregon where he wa a tage driver Frances and Earl had one daughter, Shirley Ann, who[...]g camp in that vicinity. Two y ar la r he grew up and was educated in Poplar. he married J.D. went to hi nook, Montana and then came to ulb rtson in Wright of Texas in 1953, and they have five children. 1903. He filed on a home tead five mil a t of ulbert- Robin, Bridget Turner and Bill, now in Californi~ and on and pent hi pare tim working n th terling P. Valarie and Jim with their parents in Islam bad, Pak1 tan.[...]d up on hi The Wright family left Poplar in 1972, and lived in home tead , and durin th nex fifte n y ar d lop d th California until moving to Pakistan where Wright i a ar ar Ranch wher h rai d pur hr d hor[...]or Parker Oil Co. H a alwa in r ted in communi and ivic affair In 1945 Eunice married Melvin H. Magnu on, on of and wa on of the in orporator of th cond l[...]ana i loca ·on being t Lan rk , Montana. orway and homesteaded about 1 mile north we t of Poplar. The family farmed at Poplar for 17 year and Melvin was a carpenter and truck driver as well . They left Poplar in 1965 and are now living in Great Fall wher h i a contractor. Two son , Michael and Patrick, and two daughters Marilyn and Marianne, ar al o in r at Fall . Della M;e and Lloyd Johnson married in 1945, had two children Rosann ordwick, Poplar, and Woodrow Johnson' Barco orth arolina. D Ila was re[...]aughters all in Poplar, are Jackie Grainger, Judy and onnie. Della wa kill d in a car accident in Great Falls, October 20, 1 65.[...]G FOX Daisy Long Fox was born in Poplar in 1890 and lived all of her life in the area. She married John Long Fox on December 26, 1930. She had one son, Adam and one daughter, Mr . Emma Beauchman; seven grandchildren and ten gr at grand- children. She passed aw[...] |
| He was one of a group of ten farmers who realized the importance of coal to a pioneer community a.nd they formed the Diamond Lignite Coal Co. by pu[...]rganize the Farmers' Mercantile Co. at Culbertson and wa vice president of the First National Bank of B[...]in even" war bond drive of Sheridan County. He wa a Republican and cast his first presidential vote for Major McKinley. He was elected a member of the Montana tate enate from heridan County in ovember, 1918. He succeeded enator Fishbeck and became a member of the ixteenth General Assembly. He authored the bill which created the 20th Judicial District, and his name appeared on the bill creating Roosevelt County, and he served as its fir t state senator. He was a Montana presidential elector in 1952. He served as sheriff ofRooseveltCountyfortwelve years and as a Montana state liquor inspector for a number Helen, Mr. Lundeen, Mary, Mrs. Lundeen,[...]Mr. and Mrs. Lundeen belonged to the First Presbyterian[...]urch of Poplar. He belonged to the Masonic Lodge, and G. A. LUNDEEN she was a past worthy matron of the Order of Eastern Star,[...]Aurora Chapter 47, and they were always interested in all[...]The Lundeens had four daughters. Margaret, Helen and Gustave A. Lundeen was born in 1885. Mary attended and graduated from Poplar High School. Mabel Jeane[...]n August 30, 1877 in Myrtle Elizabeth and Margaret Hunt are now deceased. Winthrop, Minnesota. he graduated from Winthrop High G.A. Lundeen passed away on October 3, 1957, and Mrs. chool and attended business college in Minneapolis. She[...]They were buried in Poplar, and services were officiated Gu tave A. Lundeen and Mabel Jeanette Toll were with Rev. C.W[...]Montana. law. After their marriage, the G .A. Lundeens moved to Poplar Members of the family left at this time are: Mrs. Billy where he worked a bookkeeper for the Lundquist Mercan- (Helen) Lane, and Mrs. Bob (Mary) Mitchell and grand- tile until 1917, when he e tabli hed hi own business, the children: William, Barbara, and John Hunt; James, Fort Peck Mercantile Company, which he operated until Robert, William and Mary Lou Mitchell, and Mary Lee hi death. Thi wa one of the large t tore in Poplar as it Lane. carried grocerie meat, a complete dry good line with Mrs. Lundeen's two sisters, Misses Effie and Myrtle Toll men, womens and children' clothing and shoes, a came to Poplar from Minnesota and Bain ville. complete hardware line and it handled International After Effie[...]chinery for many year . After Mr. Lundeen's a small Ready-to-Wear Shop, which she and Mrs. John death, the tore changed to just a complete dry good Moran ran for some time. he later sold out and worked at tore. The tore wa old to Bryan[...]t. Peck Mercantile Co. as buyer for the Dry Goods and r tain the same name.[...]retired and is presently living at age Towers Billings,[...]Montana. Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Lundeen[...] |
| Myrtle Toll, a teacher, came to Poplar, where she met Clarence W. Orner, a student minister who came in :!.922. He was a student at MacCormick Theological Seminary in Chi[...]JAMES MacDONALD SR. by Mr. and Mrs. George MacDonald On one of those pitch black nights in the spring of 1882 |
| [...]Jim and Nellie MacDonald-1918[...]n, four children were born: Eddie, Bill, John Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald, homestead with four children. and Nellie. My mother died when I was four years old.[...]plar, he sold out his store to Jack Patch in 1891 and good "house-mothers" were not available. My father then entered into the cattle business on a ranch he had prepared married my mother's sister, Nellie Trexeler, and seven on Tule Creek about twelve miles west of Po[...]MacDonald prospered in the cow ranching business and (Akres); Bertie Smith Davis; Buddy Smith, lone Smith wa liked and respected by all the ranchers around. Manning; Vera Smith Johnson; Manney and Wilfred As for his private life, James MacDonald was quite a Smith. Buddy died in November 1975. man among men and a sure fire hit with the women. Six Jim's father, James MacDonald, Sr., had a ranch north feet two, straight as an arrow, weighing around two of Poplar about twenty-five miles, and Jim was a young hundred pounds, and with laughing blue eyes it was man wor[...]nch when I met him. He was natural he should have a well rounded life. a good friend of my brother, Eddie, who also had a ranch in He first married Louise, a daughter of Chief Lone Dog of that area. Eddie[...]im's sister, Annie. the Yankton Tribe, from which a son Frank was born, and While I was still going to school in Wolf Point, Eddie as the marriage custom was a trifle more slack in those came to get me to stay with Annie, while he made a trip to days as compared to ours, if the first da[...]entitled to give the second evening, Jim and my brother, Bill, came over and brought daughter a run for her money. o Jim married ellie, the candy, and we played cards most of the night. Every little second daughter of Chief Lone Dog, and they were blessed while Annie would go and lie down, saying, "she had with even children, two girls and five boy . From this cramps." Finally Bill[...]mint that should help her," but after drinking it a Poplar; Annie was married to Eddie Smith and died in couple of times, it didn't seem to help. Towards morning we 1920; John lived in Glasgow and passed away about 1971. finally figured out that she was going to have a baby. Jim ometime after his wife ellie passed away, Jim married went to Poplar after the doctor and to tell Eddie that he Hanah Rudcrist, a Swedish girl and well known in Poplar better come home - a thirty mile trip. Bill went to the as the houseke[...]M. Co iers. Five children were MacDonald place and then on to Cuskers to get Mrs. born to this marri[...]ay, but Clarence Abbott who was their cook and a good midwife. I walked to "Tige" is married and lives in Poplar, six children; George the Buchholz farm about two and a half miles through the "Bud" married Freida Brook[...]l, married, three everything she was doing and all the new little things her children, lives at Poplar; and Eva Martin died in October daughter could do, it was getting later and later. We finally 1975.[...]lready had the In 1910 the MacDonalds moved bag and baggage,cattle, baby-a daughter, June, born on October 4, 1916. Dr. horses, ranch and all from Tule reek to the Poplar River Atkinson, Eddy and Jim arrived home the next morning, just below the fork and built a well known spread with the too late to be of[...]apunka" George Hargraves who had Jim and I were married in Minneapolis in September attached himself like a woodtick to James MacDonald for 1917 and we lived the first winter with Jim's father. Duri[...]er years, old Jim was apt to say "Any fool like a mansion at that time. The old house still stands,[...]an keep it." Jim died in although our daughter and her husband, the Jim July 1935 at the age of seve[...]e, Annie, died when the second baby JIM AND ELLIE MACDO ALO was born in 1920. I took care of June and baby Buck until by ellie MacDonald[...]Jim and I had two girls; Dorothy, Mrs. James Crowley of ellie's father, William Smith, came from Texas as a Poplar, and Donna, Mrs. Gudgell of Laurel. The Crowleys young[...]ng before have three children: Eddy, Darryl and Connie, and Donna there was any town established . He was a rancher. He has a son, John Dallas.[...] |
| [...]h~o weeks to haul a load; it took about ten tons during the[...]et the Dorothy MacDonald Crowely, Jim Mac Donald, and co~l, the men would clear off th[...]soil and then there would be about three feet of coal. Whe[...]that gave ou_t, they just moved a little way and tarted We had many good times while we lived[...]n they dug coal. Gribble boys playing the violin and cornet for music. One The men went toge_th[...]p ice in the winter. They night we were going to a dance and we had the teacher, w~nt to the Poplar n ver and ome time to the Mi ouri Elizabeth Doran, with us[...]ewithflax trawand awdu tfrom River the ice broke and we fell into the icy water. We the portabl[...]finally got out, but by that time we really were a wet and th~ d_ugouts al way la ted longer than the ice tor d in soggy group of people, but we dried out after a while. ure bwldmgs, and we really need d it during the hot ummer initiat[...]ving, though. month . We always had a rodeo at our place in the summer time, We had many good neig holz wa a and Jim was always the star roper. We had built a floor out society lady from Wa hi c O thi doors to dance on, and after the rodeo, Einer Lund would country. H[...]when play the piano and we danced till morning. Dolly Cusker he came, and I am ure of n w[...]. Mr . ice cream, and people would come for many mile to eat and Buchholz[...]O th One night we had a whist party at u ker and branding[...]r m hood had the measles and the children wer really ick. to h[...]elping those who were sick. Genevieve Fre burg wa a B[...]id and tl We had several coal mine in the[...]ter m too far to haul coal. The men went in a group about ever oth[...]a abouton amonthforgr[...]m · ur or a m1 eof a e h atto[...]amp n a a pickup ma[...] |
| [...]Her family includes, sons: Finley, Thomas, Grant, and Edgar Manley was born February 11, 1885 in East Liver- Harold Smith and a daughter, Elsie Bennett; twenty-five pool, Ohio w[...]ntil 1903. He then moved to grandchildren and thirty-two great grandchildren. Sons, Denver, Colorado where he was in banking business until Gerald and James preceded their mother in death. 1913. In[...]seventeen miles north of Poplar where he operated a farm. Ed Manley married Audrey Atkinson on September 17, 1914, who was the daughter of Dr. and Nellie Atkinson. Audrey and Ed adopted two children, Larry and Beverly, and later had a daughter, Mary, of their own. Manleys moved to Poplar in 1942 and lived there till Audrey died in 1954. Ed moved to Long Beach, Washington where his son, Larry lived and remained there until his death, July 22, 196 at t[...]10. They had four children: Bessie, Joe, Edward and Marion. While Mannings raised their family in Poplar, he was employed at different police duties. He was a city police in Poplar; a deputy sheriff; county constable, and he served as a guard at the state penitentiary in Deer Lodge, Mo[...]ng moved out west to be nearer some of her family and has since passed away. LIZZIE SMITH MANNING |
| [...]crossed the river by a cable rope and pulleys. Mostly[...]their wagons and forded the river, somewhere near a place[...]ferries were lost being left in the river and crushed by[...]ulled out of the river on log rollers in the fall and rolled[...]river. I think Mr. Kelsey ran a dray line to the river twice a day to pick up passengers coming to town, and[...]back to the river. They crossed in a row boat. Many[...]children: Doyle, was swift, cold and clean. It was a fearful experience. Madge, and Gladys.[...]es Petrie, Dick Martin, Jack Mail, Charlie Hewitt and[...]many people sold a relinquishment (to their homesteads on[...]the south side) and took homesteads on the north side.[...]ombs Clyde Brookman and the McGowan's did.[...]emember arrived in Poplar, Montana April 8, 1908, and filed on a finding a skull. Sometimes the roads had sixteen ruts. The[...]south side of the Missouri River. He had schooled and wasn't room for their hoofs. Over a long space of prairie prepared himself to be a teacher in Springfield, Illinois. it was[...]was nearly four miles. Mother armed Doyle with a buggy the slogan in the east at that time, he went into an whip in case he and Madge encountered any. apprenticeship as a shoe repair and harness maker, and a One morning he whipped a black cat with a white tripe plumber for a year before leaving his family in Mount down its back to death, and was immediately ent home Vernon, Illinois, for th[...]lly buried them. Arriving in Poplar he filed on a piece ofland south of the Monty, (named for Montana) and Flom were born in mouth of Nickwall, some three or four miles, and south of Montana on the homestead, and delivered by Florence the ranch of John Bawden. Many people came to this area Dale and Mom Good . in the next two years. That summer he worked as a horse eighbors were far between for a whil . First there were wrangler and general farm hand for a Nelson, who with Colgans, Will and John Bawden , Millard Poore, Ben his three daught[...]was married to Harold Rickard, who and am Bridges came a few years later. Mr. harli Baker was U.S. Commissioner and received filings on the ran a little grocery tore over th hill toward th river[...]here were no homesteads avail• bottom and saved a lot of time getting gro rie . able on the reserva[...]By 1910 there were a great many home teader . In 1911 August 8, 1908 E.W., Hattie and children, Doyle, Madge there wa a great drought, then in 1912 pl nty of gra , and Gladys arrived in Poplar. As our house was not garden and crops. finished to Ii ve in, we Ii ved with his half sister, Ardella and Papa sold pump and h lped in tall th m. Mad her husband, Wm. Remley,[...]them from ar house about 16 x 40 feet, which for a few year had a dirt Roebuck . The big busine s wa rai[...]e avail• roof. I remember small logs were split and slop d down able to home teaders, building up cattle h rd , hr a king up from a ridge pole, then covered with flax straw and then a land to raise wheat to ell, and oa for the animal . generous amount of dirt watered and packed down . My My mother bought a carpet loom from the ea t. Man papa troweled whil[...]father took cen u , riding to every home in 1910 and Eventually a shingle roof and two frame bedrooms were 1920, by hor eback. He wa al o deputy a e or for man added. years and rode old Dandy all over Mc one County. It wa My first memory of crossing the river was in a sort of half not a county then. They often aid they had lived in four box, half basket with two seats facing each other, a little counties and never moved . door in the side to get in after walking up a set of steps. I Between 191 and 1921 there was a family on almo t was carried, as I was onl[...] |
| [...]loan companies. Many found it impossible to make a living where they were so far from the railroad. One time I remember my mother and I went to town with butter and eggs to sell. It took the fourteen dozen eggs to[...]ed her butter in wet paper in wooden boxes to get a certain number of molds and sent this parcel post to market as we lived one mile from the post office. It would arrive in Poplar in a few hours. The Nickwall Post Office was at Ben Harkness·, then Nora Witt's. About 1916 my father bought a two-story hotel, right south of Poplar, across th[...]building. I believe he gave $200 for it. He used a nail puller, and starting on the roof, took off the shingles, bundled them, took out the windows, doors, and frames and the nails were kegged. The entire building was bundled and hauled to the homestead during the fall and winter. I went with him and we lived in the little cellar under the building. I cooked on a little laundry stove with a kerosene lantern for light. It got 50 degrees below so we went and stayed with the Travis family until it warmed up. My dad built a six room house, barn and chicken house with the Davis Hotel. They still st[...]d this alone. After five years of grasshoppers and drought he bought a little place in Poplar where they lived at least more comfortably. E.W. was born in 1866 and died at the age of 7. Hattie was born in 1 77 and died at the age of 72. Doyle, after serving in the navy during World War I, came to Montana for a few years, then went back to Chicago and married Florence Higgins. He died in 1962. Jim, Ida and Betty McAnally Madge married Deverett Baker, they had three children, Vernon , Delores and Vivian. She died at age 36. Gladys married Leo Combs. They had three children, Berta Lee MacDonald, Idell and Max. They had a dairy farm east of town. Gladys worked in the sch[...]steaded 320 acres there. He sold 160 acres to Jim and and the nursing home. he is now retired. Leo died in[...]m also filed on an irrigation claim. Monte ran a machine and welding shop in town. He is Jim and Ida had a family of four boys and one girl. now retired.[...]e, Barker, they have three children, Alan, Cheryl and Robert. Richard, Brian and Betty. James, Richard, and Brian still[...]live in Poplar. Leslie lives in Big Fork, Montana and Betty[...]children and twelve great grandchildren.[...]was broke up by Varner Nelson over one night with a by Mrs. Jim McAnally[...]In those days there was quite a large number of families James Edward McAna1ly was the son of Burroughs and in what was then called the Tunison C[...]y became known as Fairview. ome of the names boys and two girls. He wa born in Drexel, Missouri, of these people were: W.L. Lynch, John and Francis July 24, 1 4. He came to Glendive, Montan[...]Baldwin, Virgil Hayden , Ed Manley, Earl, Oscar, and later homesteaded south of the Missouri in McCone[...]Abe Glueckner, Joe Timmel, Arthur and Victor Huseby, January , 1913 he married Ida Mae[...]rroughs McAnally, Charlie Petrie, Carl of Richard and Elizabeth Westra. The Westras moved to Aikley, H.H. Ryan , John Van Dusen, Amos Tunison and Montana when Ida was fifteen year old from Velva,[...]was the gathering place for the their possessions and her mother and children followed community. It was used for dances at which Helen Price later on a regular train. he was from a family of seven played the piano, Laurence Price the violin , and Helmer children. After they arrived in Poplar Ida 's father and a Berg and Pete medsted the accordion. Pete also played the brother built a ferry boat which he named "The Ida Mae"[...]d people across the Missouri morning hours and children could be found sleeping on from Poplar for several years. Jim sold his homestead and benches and piles of blanket . Jeedless to say they all moved[...]e said it rained more on learned to dance a tan early age and had as much fun as the this side of the ri[...] |
| [...]tions especially the Royal eighbors ociety and old[...]a trailer court and has part of their original farm.[...]three children. Alice, Kathleen (deceased) and Peggy.[...]Leslie married Arleen Schneider. They had two boy and one girl, William, J.J. Lynn, and Beverly. Dick married[...]Ila Mae Pickett. They had three boys, Tom, Bob and Micky.[...]Gwen and Diana. Betty married Robert Kel ey. They ha<l[...]Jeanette and Randy. Brian, Dick, Les, and Jim McAnally ever a preacher was available. Many picnics were held at[...]f the community. |
| [...]l was born August 28, 1874, in Kearney, Missouri, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McConnel. He homesteaded north of Poplar in 1913 and also worked as a carpenter and helped build many of the early businesses and homes in Wolf Point and Poplar. He married Nanie E. Liggett, March 26, 19[...]At the time of his death his family included: a son, Joseph L., Napa, California; a daughter, Mrs. Laurence Price, Poplar; a brother, Harry, Malta; six grandchildren, five great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.[...]Helena and Felix McGowan Felix McGowan was born August 15[...]nana, Minnesota in 1894. He was later employed as a when he hit any big rocks. This homestead was sold in the hoisting engineer by a mining company for ten years. He 1930's, but McGowans had relocated in Poplar and north of and others gained this job from being tutored so they[...]wife. While Huber. in Butte, Felix also ran a livery barn for four years. When Felix McGowans moved to Poplar, he built a two- Helena Wienrank was born September 28, 18[...]one of the largest Illinois, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Wienrank. In in eastern Montana.[...]he Mr. McGowan conducted an auto livery, and at all times, Wienranks ran a boarding house, and Felix McGowan Mac was kept busy with[...]area. They liked Poplar because Felix McGowan and Helena Wienrank were married at of the higher location and the belief that it could never be Butte, Montana[...]flooded. The drinking water was good, and at one time In 1910 the McGowans headed east from Butte and McGowan sold water in Poplar before m[...]of locating but disliked the water in that and ran a losing battle for county surveyor in 1936 and for area.[...]lt County. They trailed their horses to Poplar and homesteaded in The McGowans had a family of twelve children though the Vida communi[...]ke up was done Margaret married Bill Wyman and moved to Spokane, with horses and a three-bottom plow, and he had to put a Washington where she still makes her home s[...]to keep it from tipping over passing. They had a family of four children. Felix McGowan famil[...]nne Ault, Nellie Frerich, Emily (Bellmore) Milam, and Lillian Dahlberg.[...] |
| Anne married Lawrence J. Ault and they always lived in the Poplar area. They had a family of six, and most of them reside around Poplar. Anne still has farming and business interests in Poplar and the area and is now a widow. Nellie married Al Frerich and they farmed in the Poplar area and later made their home in Spokane, Washington though they continued to farm and keep a home in Poplar. They raised a family of five girls. One daughter is deceased and Nellie is also a widow. Emily married Oscar Bellmore and lived in Poplar for many years where he ran a garage till they moved to Spokane, Washington. They had a family of three children. After Oscar's death, Emily remarried and her name is now Mrs. Milam, and they too live in Spokane, Washing ton . Micheal[...]rom south of Poplar, moved to Spokane, Washington and raised a family of two children. He is now deceased. Thomas married Phyllis Tschabold and their home is in Poplar though he has farming int[...]al Bench area. James married Marie Iler, raised a famil y of t wo Mr. and Mrs. J ohn McGowan - 1962 - 50th wedding children, is a rancher and in the rodeo stock business a nniversary and they live at Republic, Washington . Lillian married Meryll Dahlberg and after fa rming in this area they moved to Cutbank and Kalispell before was a big day when he bought a Bull tractor, a th ree making their home in Spokane, Washington . They have wh eeler. Threshing was a neighborhood get together as raised a family of six children. th ey all helped each other and you waited your turn for the Paul married Mary Best, and th ey make th eir h ome at threshing rig.[...]to your place. Later he bought his own rig a nd thi Dana married Norma Morris and they h ave raised a simplified things a great deal. family of six children. Dana worked f[...]Travel in the winter was always with a team and usually Corporation for many years before sta rti n g in business. took a day going and a day coming back, all the grain was He and Norma publish the P oplar Shopper.[...]wrence (Gus ) married Alberta Mora n . They h ave a There was always a big garden that was canned or pre- ranch north of Poplar and h e is a farm er . T h ey h ave two served in some way,[...]as there were not many regular trip to Both Mr. and Mrs . Felix McGowan a re deceased. Felix town. In the winter it wa impo ible many week to passed away on April 27, 1945, and Mrs. McGowan passed consider it even with a team and led. Mo t of the clothe away at the age of 73, in 1955. were made at home and a woman pent a lot of time taking[...]The clo e t neighbor were about a mile away except for Mrs. Hu eby and on Arthur and ictor who liv d aero JOHN AND JANE McGOWAN the road. The other n ighbor who w r a] o horn tead r were Mr. and Mrs. Burrough McAnally par nt of Jame[...]McAnally r., the Iver on broth r Earl, 0 car and )fr d; John imonson and family, hri , Anfin, John Jr., ina J ohn (J ack) McGowan was one of twelve children born of and Gertie. These wer th n igh bor that ta ed and th r J ohn McGowa n and Cath erine Lovitt McGowan on were other but a th ar w nt by th y I ft. Novem ber 19, 188[...]ley, Min nesota. He left home when he was sixteen and worked in n orth ern Minnesota in th e wood count[...]way further west. In Crookston, Minne ota h met J a n e S. Miller and later they were marri din Devil Lake, North Dakot[...]Minnesota, January 1, 1 94 the daughter of Joh n and Hannah Miller. Febr uary of 1913 they came to Poplar by train where J ack had a brother, Felix, who ran a livery stable. After being here a short time he bought one of the first car in Poplar and ran a livery service, locating homesteader north and south of the Missouri River. It wa n't alway easy as there were no roads and even if the car was new it was slow and didn't have a lot of power. He built his first home in Popla[...]e tevens home. Their neighbors were Ted Danielsen and George Kelly. They Ii ved here until th y homeste[...]s the Fairview Community. He started farming here and it was a slow process as everything was done by hor[...] |
| Entertainment wasn't a big item during the home- steading days as everyb[...]r each season of the year. It was mostly visiting and a few card games, but as the years went along and travel was better the school dances were a big time, plus picnics. School was a major problem as the teachers didn't want to stay. It wasn't until 1932 that there was a school (Fairview). The older children had to go to town and live with somebody or the family moved to town du[...]rm. Jack always complained about this as Jane had a green thumb and had a load of house plants to be moved both ways. It wa[...]e (1933) that the farm house burned to the ground and the family lost a lot of treasured articles. The home had to be replaced. As time went along more land was bought and leased and this made a bigger operation, also cattle for a short time. A couple of oil wells were drilled in 1952 which didn't prove to be very profitable. Jack and Jane had eight children, three passed away as[...]ving children are Mabel (Mrs. Mack Reid), she has a son, Robert; Grace (Mrs. James McAnally), they have two children living, Alice, and Peggy and one who is deceased Kathleen. Mary Ellen (Mrs. Jo[...]ame superintendent of the Poplar Cynthia, Timothy and Kimberly. Joseph (Smoky) married schools in 1916. At that time the school plant consisted Betty Zentz and lives in Apache Junction, Arizona. They of t[...]chool assembly, two high school classrooms Sandra and Gary; Francis (Bill) married Madeline Olson laboratory, domestic science and commercial room and and lives in Culbertson, Montana, they have five chil[...]g only houses the 4th, Terry, Debbie, Nyla, Vandy and Jacquelyn. 7th and 8th grades now. Jack and Jane stayed on the farm until 1940 and then Mr. Mitchell believed in the progressive educational built a home in Poplar. They spent several winters in[...]ld for life. To do this required Phoenix, Arizona and about fifteen winters in San an enlarg[...]s health kept him closer to local problems and needs. In his characteristic way he home. He died October 6, 1966 and Jane passed a way went after and got an appropriation of $50 000 to build a March 12, 1969. gymnasium and lower story for a high scho~l. This gym is[...]was built and this building is for the 5th and 6th grades.) This appropriation was obtained, and three years later the FRANK N. MIT[...]He was a pioneer in many educational fields in eastern F[...]rcial, home economics, college preparatory Normal and received his B.A. degree from Oskaloosa divisions were a[...]also his students. North Dakota, Minnesota and Washington Universities. Under his adm[...]His first school superintendencies were at Camey and one of the first in this area to be grant[...]n by the Northwestern Association of Forest River and Crosby, North Dakota. ' Secon[...]He personally organized and directed the bands and[...]rect the music organizations. In 1937 he employed a[...]1891 in Forest River, North Dakota. Olive and Frank wer~[...]years and played for all the social functions in town. Many[...]Church for many years and the grand organist for the Frank N. Mitche[...] |
| Mrs. Mitchell became postmaster in 1938 and held this Hospital with Inez Hauer. She made a specialty of baking position until her retirement[...]died July 7, cakes for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries and was 1969.[...]e The Mitchell's had one son Robert. He married a Poplar weddings. She did other types of cooking and baking for girl, Mary Louise Lundeen. They had three boys and one individuals and parties. girl. Robert is retired from the Civil Aeronautics and Mr. and Mrs. Mohr celebrated their Golden Wedding they ar[...]the daughters, Carol and Carmen.[...]Two children are now deceased, Arthur Jr. and Leona[...]arol) Szymanski lives in Poplar ARTHUR M. AND BLANCHE MOHR and Mrs. Robert (Carmen) Rogne lives in Fargo, orth[...]The Mohrs have six grandchildren and seven great[...]was born June 8, 1896 at Mt. Pulaska, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Mohr have resided at the Friend- Illinois, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Mohr. His mother ship Villa Nursi[...]t so he was raised by his aunt May 15, 1974. and uncle, the Joe Smiths of Ray, North Dakota. Bl[...]12, 1899 at Grant City, Iowa the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harrington, Sr. They moved to Ray, Nor[...]Ray, North Dakota where her OSCAR AND CHRISTINE MONSON parents as well as the Smiths we[...]Oscar Adolph Monson was born May 23, 1 85 on a farm The Harrington family moved to the Wolf Point, near Vining, Minnesota the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnt Montana area, and Art came to Poplar and got a job with Monson . As a young man he worked on the home farm and the railroad. Art went to Sidney by way of Williston and other farms in the area and worked on threshing crews in Blanche met him there to be married on August 11, 1916. Minnesota and orth Dakota. He spent some time looking He worked in the depot in Poplar till January of 1917; then for a homestead in orth Dakota and in 1910 first came to they moved to Wolf Point wh[...]19. Their first son, Arthur was born in not a great distance from the railroad. One of hi Wolf[...]here, Art uncovered. He went up to Plentywood and over to was head of a department for the John Deere factory. Grenora, orth Dakota and started walking to Willi ton He again moved back to North Dakota where he farmed when a farmer with a team and wagon gave him a ride into with his father, and the third child, Carol was born Willisto[...]Oscar farmed the home farm until 1912, when he and hi In 1925 they returned to Poplar, Montana where Art brother, Ludwig who wa a lawyer in Drayton, orth worked for the railroad for a time before becoming Chief Dakota, home tead[...]askatchewan line. car liv d with hi broth r and sold to the Montana-Dakota Power Company. He worked family and spent the winter in Minn ota. as an electrician a[...]ing its The following i quoted from a brief hi tory written by construction and retired from MDU in Poplar. The fourth 0 ca[...]r Vera as she was called, worked several years as a cook in a restaurant in Poplar run by the Vern Stansburys.[...]Oscar and Christin Mon on, weddinR day - June 30, Mr. and Mrs . Arthur Mohr[...] |
| [...]Milton, asleep; Oscar, father; Clifton and Christine,[...]Minnesota Teacher's College and taught school for a[...]in May of 1958. "In April 1916 went to Montana and bought land 12½ A son, Clifton, born August 27, 1923 now lives in L[...]measels lives in Wolf Point, Montana and farms the home farm. (which left him weak for mu[...]d six miles to school at the Divide to Minnesota and in June bought horses and machinery (Magnuson) School. This school operated as a "summer and shipped out to Montana the last of June. Busy tim[...]n in the winter months until about building house and barn and having a well dug. (Only 12 1936 when it change[...]na. Early day services were shock threshing. (Had a snow storm and lived in a small held in homes and rural school houses. The Divide Ladies tent with Oliver Haugen and Oscar Allenson, Christine's Aid met at the variou farm homes and was a community brother and cousin ). Last part of October, after threshing,[...]ding. drove out to Avondale where I helped Oliver and Oscar The nearest neighbor was Bob Reid - just across dig cellars and build shacks and also a barn. They kept my Chelsea Creek. Other n[...]to Minnesota Andresen, John Andresen, A.K. Holen, Fred Herting, John and put up wood for my folks and in the spring I got busy Herting, Nels Christianson, Lorents Hoium, John Hoium, and bought four milk cows and some machinery and Magnus Magnuson, and Lars Stensland. shipped out another emigrant car[...]Angell Agnes (later Mrs. Oliver Haugen) came out and kept house who died in 1968. for me. Went back to Minnesota and got married to Christine Haugen (born June 24 1893 near Henning, Minnesota to Mr. and Mrs. Christian Haugen) on June 30, JOHN W. AND MARIE MORAN 1917. 1917 wa a hot dry year with temperatures up to 117. (Christine and O car had a very harsh introduction to life[...]n on February 7, 1885, the son of 1918 too was a dry year so I didn 't get much of a crop and a railroad man in Fisher, Minnesota. On his 16th birthday, the further years up to 1922 I had a fair crop. We had a Ii ttle his father gave him a ticket to Montana where he spent his girl, Arlene, born to us October 31, 1918 and in 1922 she got entire life fulfilling the dream of many a boy. He rode the sick and died from " summer complaint" which was quite a trail with many known cattle outfits, the XIT and CK from blow to us. We shipped her down to Minnes[...]tson to Malta. He rode the trail from Texas north and then bought a Model T car and drove back." with cattle, bringing large herds of horses along at the An egg and butter route in Poplar kept the family going[...]lmer Marie McIntosh was born July 4, 1 86 at Rich A 10 x 14 building served as a granary in the first years Hill , Missouri, one of three children born to Mr. and and that was never full. Did , however, get their see[...]ays the neighbors utilized barbed wire and family, the Archie Currans. Curran came into the[...]n 't reach her Marie met John Moran and later planned a wedding. by ringing the phone. She went to the phone and said John was on the south s[...] |
| [...]teacher and finally to principal of the Indian chool at[...]For a time, Mr. Mo sman thought he might like to go int[...]the ranching business for himself, o he took out a claim on government land and acquired an 00 acr ranch. But the[...]call of his profession was too strong and he oon found[...]ecame superintendent at Fort Peck, Montana , John and Marie Moran at Poplar, and then was transferred to tanding Rock[...]Dean of the Sioux Country uperintendent and Indian Agents, he drew a "phenomenal" salary of 3, 00 a year. weeks of waiting for the river to go down[...]it wasn 't too profitable ,' aid Mr. get across, and the Morans were married April 23, 1902 at Mossman, "I had to carry a $100,000 bond and pay for it out Culbertson. They lived in Culbert[...]work with the Indians occurred in 190 . A group of te In the early 1920's, Mrs. Moran and Miss Effie Toll ran Ind~ans ran amuck and, fearing a large uprising, the the first dress shop in Popl[...]h had to come from Chas. Trinder office building and is now the Poplar City nearly 100 miles a[...]s life Moran served under four sheriffs, horses and carriages answered the call. Mr. Mo sman wa' Nacy, Lowe, Mitchell and Shuman, as undersheriff, in charge[...]arrived. Nacy. He also ran saloons in Culbertson and in Poplar and Mossman 's severance from the Indian er[...]ne bowling alley in Poplar, in the old from a disagreement with the policie of the commi ioner[...]with the Fort Peck Indian Band as the conductor, and thi " I had been teaching the Indian for man year , and band was well known all over the state, being co[...]e d dared. Meat Market when it was owned by Reid and McClammy. He wa an acitve m mber of th M thodi t hurch and He also was an operator of the Conoco station in[...]5 at th ag of 7. way he dressed in every day life and at any job he was working at. Johnny Moran made many a friend in his lifetime.[...]Moran was forced to retire because of poor health and he tella[...]at t I GEORGE AND EMILY MORSE P[...]ger until r a Point;four 1938 when he was[...]n yd, bo h of back to Poplar and operated a wheat farm until illn s Brockton,[...]grand: He was married to Emily H lmer. The had a son, L nn children. and a daughter, Marion . Lynn worked for the Montana Hi[...]ater moving to Michigan . He married Kay Lerbach, and ha two children, J rry and LE Rick. He died in 1972. Marian , graduated from the University of Montana and married urtis Lees of Butte, Ison hilling r wa born April 15, 1 9 in Long and now live in Billings. They have two daughters , Lynda Prairi , Minn ota, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P ter Adams living in ew York, and Victoria Jean at th famil Di dr[...] |
| [...]aughter, Bertha Louise, who attended grade school and graduated from Poplar High School. While the Nelsons lived in Poplar, Brade Nelson and Walt Blair ran the Buckhorn Bar for several years. Brade Nelson died in 1940. Lena was a member of the Aurora Chapter of the O.E.S. and the Royal Neighbors in Poplar. Lena Nelson was[...]Von Eschen; Mrs. Donald Sass; Mrs. Ray O'Donnell and Mrs. James Van Atta; two sons, Clair and Clyde.[...]' selling all but 10 acres to a land company. Not too much is[...]cDonald, who had come here from Scotland. She was a[...]Paul and raised a family of seven boys, John, Daniel[...]Joseph, Thomas, Edward, Charles, James and Leo.[...]lived in Roosevelt County, and his cousin Tom Kennedy,[...]present Fairview and Sidney. They worked for a year at the[...]hauling supplies and grain to the ditch crew who were[...]Valley. They drove four-horse teams and wagons. GEORGE NEWBURY[...]In 1908 Dan sold his homestead to cousin Kennedy, and[...]came and took up a homestead joining Dan's and they In 1917 he and his brother Ray came to Montana to batched here for a year. In April 1909, Dan married homestead north[...]ent. nearby on a homestead with her mother and brothers, George married Mable Dahl in 1916 at[...]lls, William, George and Fred. The Keiths sold their homestead Minnesota . She preceded him in death in 1919. A son, to the Dore[...]In the fall of 1909, Dan became sick and since there were Montana .[...]no doctors in the area, he and his wife boarded the train for[...]to pick flowers. Rather bewildered at such a request, he Daniel O'Connor came to America fro[...]rtheless went. When he returned with the flowers, and because of a great potato famine there. It took him 6 weeks[...]the birth not complete, she met him at the door and said, to cross the Atlantic Ocean and up the Great Lakes, then[...]later Leo always told journeyed on by stagecoach and riverboat to a river young Dan that he sure could remember when he was born, landing and settlement called " Pig's Eye" , now known as[...]s day. Eye" Parrant, a wild trader, who had led a group of Soo[...]an irate government. Father Lucien Galtier built a chapel by their brother James, who came when Dan became sick. nearby and dedicated it to his patron , aint Paul. When They all lived together with Dan and Margaret until 1914. this settlement was incorpor[...]In the meantime, John and Birdie Elizabeth were born than " Pig's Ey[...] |
| [...]About then in St. Paul, Daniel O'Connor died , and his wife came to Montana to cook for her sons. Dan and Left to right: Chris O'Connor, John O'Connor, Dan Keith Margaret and the three babies moved to Two-Mile and O'Connor in Fairview - 1920, delive[...]r Ma xon. six years. Robert "Chris", James and Margaret "Muggs" were born there. Since there wer[...]1920, buying the old Meador's place, In a few years, with the hom e place and leased land, they where Dan had worked when he first came to Montana. were farming 1,000 a cres with h orses. The boys had many Rosemary, Charles and Richard were born here. Charles exciting runs with th e h orses, but never let a team get died when he was six weeks old. a way. In the summer all the fa mily lived at the f[...]the usual farm life. Two more b abies were born, a girl died along with his irrigated corn and alfalfa. He contracted the at birth and Betty Jane in 1932. cabbage crop to Lou Maxon, a storekeeper in Fairview, Young Dan[...]with horses when Dan sold all his horses to a buyer from basement was full and any other storage available filled , Wisconsin. That year Dan hired his crop put in. By 1936 he and the patch empty. The cabbage had been contracted[...]to the machinery business, selling Case two cents a pound. When Lou could no longer sell cabbage, tractors and machin ery. From then on, young Dan, hri he was giving it away. Next year he bought cabbage from and James fa rmed with tractor s. Dan sold many tract[...]One summer the O'Connors had a prolific crop of By 1925, rheumatism forced Da[...]g , so he sold his property there to his brothers and saddleh orse. After exchanging new of the area, Joe a k d moved his family to Poplar in Roosevelt County. He bough t if he migh t have a melon. Dan aid, "Ye , you can have all a farm nine miles northeast of Poplar. In the sprin[...]s th at yo u can carry on your hors ." Joe wa he and young Dan moved out there, the ~est of th e fa~il[...]The O'Connor place wa a landmark with the big grove of sh elterbelt and fruit tree planted and cared for b Dan and hi family since 1927. Dan erved a a board m mb r of the Triple A in ulbertson for many ear . He had a keen sense of humor, and beneath his gruff manner wa a heart of gold. Ill health began overtaking[...]him. He lived to ee five of hi childr n married, and fiv of[...]Micha 1 is owner of O' onnor Pip and upply in Wolf[...]Clyde Brookman ranch and ina Ro e i marri d to Bill[...]d), Left to right: Dan J . O'Connor, Tom O'Connor and Jim Richard, Lawr nee, Betty J[...] |
| RALPH E. PATCH AND EDNA E. PATCH mid-1930's. The officers were R.E. Patch, C.L. Smith and A.D. In this capacity he was instrumental in helpin[...]ved in New York before the farming and real estate. Revolutionary War. Elijah Patch, gra[...], Ernest Patch, migrated to Wisconsin when it was a North Dakota and Spokane, Washington made his territory.[...]by the traders State Wisconsin, the son of Edward and Harriet Patch. His early Bank. For two years or so during the 30's he and his education was received in Patch Grove. Later he attended partner, Olaf Hagen, also owned and operated what was the Curtis Business College in[...]ars on the Pacific Coast he returned to worked as a carpenter. In 1889 he assisted his brother Poplar with his wife, Rosemary, and began farming in the in finishing a contract on the Laurel-Red Lodge branch of North Country between Seips and Berdette Post Offices. the orthern Pacific, building tanks, depots and stations. During those years he acquired and farmed several of the In ovember of 18 9 Mr. Patch came to Fort Buford and original homesteads in the area, some b[...]n 1898. Brackin and the Maher homesteads, also a part of the old At Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, March 4, 1899, he Frank Cusker and C.S. Ketchner Farms. married Edna E. Hicklin, daughter of James Hicklin and He sold his farm in 1962 to Stoner and McCarthy and Abigail (Beers) Hicklin. Edna's ancestors came fr[...]ed his family to the Ozarks of Arkansas, where he and Ireland before the Revolutionary War. They first[...]hool before her marriage. The trading store was a log building with a dirt roof, the two rooms west were used for their[...]rds of Edna , " It was pretty when freshly mudded and DONALD PENTZ w[...]ld Pentz was born December 25, 1893 at Fairbault, and later consolidated with Howard M. Cosier to form[...]1910 he came to Richland County and homesteaded south Mr. Patch was one of the orig[...]ided since. Traders tate Bank established in 1909 and president of He married Grace Wheeler in 1920 and to this union two the bank at the time of his dea[...]Shaffer at served many years on the school board and city council in Nampa, Idaho. Poplar. He was a World War I veteran, having served in the U.S. Ralph (Jack ) and Edna Patch were active in community Army overseas in France in the A.E.F. He was a charter affair . Mr. Patch was made a Master Mason in North Star member of the Am[...]plar, where he Billings. He served as a Richland County Commissioner erved as worshipful[...]tar. Richland County Commissioners. He passed a way on He belonged to the Livingston Consistory of the Scottish October 17 1967. Rite and Algeria hrine Temple of Helena. His wife, Effie, taught school on the southside and in Edna Patch believed in the potentiality for[...]e purchased the betterment of slow learners and helping organize a the fir t acreage owned by the Patches. She was a charter Retardation Center for northeastern[...]ved as the chapter's retired from teaching and spends much time traveling fourth matron , and was ecretary for 25 years. he around to visit her family and friends. preceded her hu band in death April 19, 1949. Donald and Effie Pentz had two children, Myron and Their son, James E. Patch , pa sed away February 10, Donna, and at the time of this writing they had five 1965. H[...]s in eattle. E. Marion Patch , daughter of Jack and Edna, lives in SINA SIMONSON[...]e John Simonson family moved to Verner, A.D. AND NORMAN PAULSON North[...]Simonson came up to Poplar to look for a place to A.D. Paulson came to Poplar in 1914 via Williston ,[...]picked out the land that his daughter ina Dakota and isseton, South Dakota, where he had been[...]y one old associated with the banks in both towns and, also served enough to do so since he wasn't a U .S. citizen himself. He as county commissioner[...]er of the Traders Farm Loan remarried, and died there. Company, a land and mortgage holding company of the Also moving to Poplar were a sister, Gertie and three Traders tate Bank from 1914 until it was dissolved in the brothers , Anfin , Christ and John. Sina filed on 320 acres,[...] |
| fifteen miles north of Poplar, the southeast and southwest quarters of section 34, township 30, ra[...]rn in 1893 in Marshalltown, Iowa. Mr. Simonson and a cousin came and built a two room shack. The family moved up in the spring of 1916. They came by train, stayed in the hotel in town and came out to the homestead by wagon. When Jack[...]rst neighbors were the Jack McGowans, Lydia Price and her family, the Rolandsons, Van Dusens, Amos Tunisons, Iverson Brothers, and several other bachelor homesteaders. One story I always found interesting was how John Simonson and Lydia Price met. She used to take her cows out in[...]March 7, 1900, the son of Richard Pickett and Mollie looked around and there wasn't a cow in sight, they had all Buckles. He atten[...]pring to drink. She told me Lawrence, Kansas and Poplar, Montana. He enlisted in she always figured he thought her just a crazy old lady. World War I at Lawrence, Kansas on May 13, 1917 and The one thing Sina remembers is that the winte[...]illery U.S. Army. Battle , cold. They used horses and walking plows at first. Later engagements[...]t, their first tractor was bought by the lversons and Vosges, and St. Miniel. Wounds were received in action. He Si[...]hing sailed from the U.S. May 19, 1918 and returned June, 1919. machine in the area.[...]xcellent. For entertainment, they played cards and had dances in He returned to Poplar and attended Poplar High chool. the school. The first[...]It was later moved star athletes. He was a charter member of Post 55 down near the river bottom and later burned down. American Legion , and a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Sometimes church wa[...]n the school. Poplar was Catholic Church, and a member of the V.F.W. the closest town and there was a doctor there, Dr. He married Marg[...]f Ballantine, Montana ; Rita'. Nursing Home. Sina and Carl had four children: Carl , el on of Billings, Montana· Anna Lee Roger of Tul a , Edith, Conrad and Rose. They went to school in the Tuni- Ok[...]31 grandchildren ; 20 great Carl said he once had a pig which followed him to school. grandchi[...]hile quite small. Carl married Lorraine Price. He and Conrad farm the land where ina and her husband Carl lived, Southeast quarter, ection[...]changed to the ew York , the son of Mr. and Mr . Jo eph H. Poore. In 190 Fairview School. As[...]to Montana to horn tead in th i kwall ar a . another was put up by Tony Peterson , built in[...]at school was sold to Walter Bridge in the 40' s, and Point. He retired in 1946, and moved to Bigfork. Hi wife is now part of his home[...]ain children in the Mr. Poore wa a fifty-year member of the Ma onic Lodg community, another school was put on a corner of the Jack and a member of the Order of Ea tern tar and th McGowan land. That school was sold after they[...]ting out west of Poplar now, near or on Red and Millard of Galen; one daughter, Mr . Harr Marotte[...]ral years. He was born at Pompeys Pillar, Monta n a, to GI nburn , North Dakota. evera[...] |
| [...]and got a job working for the dray outfit in Kenmare. After[...]that he sent for my mother and us three boys (myself, Clenard and Troy). We stayed there until spring, and then moved to Culbertson. Then he went out and built a house on the farm and we all moved out.[...]family, the Walters family, the Halley family and the[...]and his family came out in an emigrant car. He (Amos[...]somehow my father managed to acquire a team of horses, a Quincy and Frances Poore milk cow and some chickens.[...]get a rabbit for Christmas dinner. He hunted for two days married a Fairfax, Minnesota native, Frances Young, at but never saw a rabbit. So we had beans, eggs and split Minot, North Dakota.[...]dinner. The couple, accompanied by his father and mother, came One year, Uncle Fred, my Dad and the next neighbor to to Montana that same year. Quincy a n d Frances looked at the east, Ralph LaMar, each took their teams in the fall and and filed on a homestead 30 miles north west of Poplar June w[...]money to provide for the winter. They built a three-room, shingle-siding house and shed The Great Northern Railroad put in the branch line from type barn. He broke up the sod using a Titan tractor and Bainville, north to Scobey in 1910. That's[...]airly good crops. For transportation, th ey drove a it's name, furnished by old Jim Hill. There were only a Model T Ford and also used the horses. Among livestock, couple of small stores before that, about a half a mile west, they had a milk cow and other cattle. but they m[...]cluded Brookmans, Tylers, years were 1912 and 1913. My Dad bought a new seven foot Solhiems and Jim Everett. Their social life con sisted[...]ily of barn dances, fourth of J uly celebration s and many of the neighbor's crops. I and my brother made 25¢ rodeos.[...]eds. Frances moved onto the farm. Ross, Ruth and David were born in churned her own butter and baked bread. They remained Montana. But David died when he was one and one half on the homestead until 1924, when Quincy[...]years old. Shortly afterward my Dad took sick and was City Garage, located in what is now the Popla[...]on which my Mother (Lydia Price) took up a homes tead in 1914 on Beck's warehouse is now located, and continued to operate the Fort Peck Indian Re[...]. illness. With his mechanical background, Quincy and How my moth er kept us kids all eating and aliv• ·. I'll some associates built an early version of a snowmobile, never know, but she had some cattle we milked and she using a Model T Ford with tracks in the back and skis on made butter and sold it to the grocery stores. I and Clenard front. bega n to fa rm with four horses and a sulky plow. We raised After a year of medical treatment at Minot and some wheat, flax and corn, also oats to feed the horses. We Rochester,[...]here he could go out anywhere on the prairie and cut hay, rake it was cared for by his wife until his death September 18, 1929 and haul it in . I learned to s tack hay so that it would at the age of 36. A highly regarded businessman, he was shed water, or put up a round stack of oats or wheat active in civic and community affairs. bundles to shed water. He and Frances had two daughters, Eunice E., born in[...]was my mother's homestead. I Minot, North Dakota, and Della Mae, born in Poplar. was married[...]el, whose father After Quincy's death, Frances and the girls spent six (Frank McConnel) h a d a h omestead for a few years jus t months in California with her mother and sister before north of Crandal Lake, north of Poplar. He also did quite a returning to Poplar, where Eunice began school. Frances' bit of carpentry in Poplar and Wolf Point. income came from a widow's pension, rental property and Helen and I took over m y mother's farm in 1928. We h a d work she did in her home.[...] |
| [...]the Oregon, or some other jobs, during the winter and come nighthawk and he was getting along fine till when we were back to Montana and put in a crop in the spring, but finally camped on Sprin[...]the George Young place. Ned the years got better and I quit that and stayed with the fetched the horses in at da[...]corral and ate his breakfast. Then he told some of the boys,[...]"While you fellows are tearing down and loading I am going to the creek and take a bath before we pull out."[...]The boys loaded the bed wagon and were loading the[...]mess wagon when one of the boys got on his horse and got[...]bucked off. Then Palmer Strand got on his horse and went to catch the loose horse and when he got on the hill beyond[...]the creek, he could see Ned and he called back to the crew,[...]"You had better go down and see what is the matter with[...]ed." When they got to the water hole, Ned had had a heart attack and was dead.[...]Ned was an artist with rawhide quirts, bosals and reins and could tie more fancy knots than anyone I ever saw[...]July 2, 1910, Minnie Kreklow and Ibsen Ramstad were[...]when they moved to Poplar and had a homestead in the[...]They had two children; a son, Francis and a daughter,[...]hat - age 15 years. REVEREND AND MRS. LLOYD RED EAGLE[...]Lloyd Red Eagle", and the church that was named in[...]the ommunity known a Fort Kipp. Thi church wa When Ned Quinn was rounded up and put into the Indian known as the Up ijawkp[...]ined fir t early missionarie came to thi ar a. up and marched by a desk. As they went by, they were My[...]not an wer, so (Wa nica) his Indian name, and Elsi Red Eagl (H r Holy the man behind the desk gave them a name. This was Blanket). Jeffer on' father was named Red Lac and hi Superintendent Doyle. By the time they got to[...]mes of Presidents so they started on 1 5 and died Augu t , 1941. El i wa born in 1 9 and names of old English outlaws or highwaymen, and when di d on October 25, 1930. Ned came[...]h Ned's father was an old river boat man known a complet d the trade a a hoe and harne maker. Hi fir t Flopping Bill Cantrell. After ed wa grown up he was job wa in a hoe hop in idney, Montana, wher h aved called by both names, but I always knew and thought of his earning ·, later to return to Fort Kipp and with hi him as Quinn. As a boy he had lived with Hank u~ker and brothers they farm d for their livelihood. Th y w r the became a fine hand with a horse, and so one spnng ed early farmers at that time. came to the CBC ranch and asked if I would have a job for On December 14, 191 he married Je[...]I Poplar. Jennie was born in 1901 to Mr. and Mr . Frank would need a nighthawk. mith in Poplar. Frank wa born in 1 79 and died in June Ned told me that he wanted to see[...]e 21, 191 . His father wa named Bear Whirwind and hi grave of his mother when we got aroun? the head of th~ Big mother was Good Women. Dry and that she had been with a huntmg party_ofl~d1ans Her mother Harriet onger wa born to Brown of and had died near mokey Butte and was buned m that (Yellow) hirt and Jo eph Cloud Hail. Harriet' mother vicinity.[...]died in 1 86 and her father in July 15, 1942.[...] |
| [...]needed at the Canipa Church in Wolf Point and my father was offered this vacancy, happily and willingly they[...]Presbyterian Church of Wolf Point, and for years leader in[...]urches located in eastern Minnesota, South Dakota and northeastern Montana. He was also awarded a certificate and engraved service pin for faithful service in his[...]In 1961 a new church was built at Fort Kipp and the Back: Mrs. Winifred mith, Oliver Red Eagle and Joyce[...]generous and gracious to remember one who had joined and became an Elder of U psija wakpa and left his church to[...]The new Church was named in memory of him (The and the Wolf Point Mission and Waheton Boarding School Lloyd Red Eagle Me[...]his My mother lived to accept his honor and she continued period , the early missionary to t[...]our children were born, Joyce, Winifred , Oliver and Milton Jefferson who suddenly died at the age of[...]pinal Meningitis. At this tage of their lives , a Rev. Homer Red Lightning was the pastor of the F[...]psijawakpa ANDREW RED THUNDER and with his influence my parents became active in th[...]Red Thunder, 78 , life-long resident of the Fort and accepted to be the janitor of the church, later to be a Peck reservation died Christmas day, 1961 in the Poplar Deacon and finally to be elected Elder of the church.[...]him since their Thompson, South Dakota and came to the Fort Peck marriage, and also put a way his Indian Drum and his reservation shortly after. tick. He adopted and accepted another way of life to In 1949[...]Mr. Red Thunder, along with John Eagleman and In 1931 he had the great courage to say, "Here[...]c church me." Another new world had begun for he and his family. just west of Poplar in 1906. Mr[...]people on the Fort Peck reservation. Reservation and the Little Rocky Mountains, among the His survivors were the widow, sons, Joseph and Seth all A iniboine and the Gros Ventres. of Poplar- step sons, Louis Delavergne and Nelson In my father's time people sacrificed o[...]elavergne of Fort Totten, North Dakota along with a step missionaries, the pay was very little, and when money was daughter, Mrs. Libby Kelly of[...]its barest elements. My father grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. found extra jobs to supplement our needs and being a hunter, he provided our meat from the wild game. It was a difficult time, but my parents were happy in thei[...]uth Dakota to work among the Yankton ioux. It was a ROBERT AND MAMIE REID new field with broader challenges and the year was 1936, and my father was ordained into the full ministry. by Nancy Hagadone In 1940 he and my mother moved to isseton, outh Dakota , and to remain here for twelve years in this larger Robert Reid, a native Scot, came to the United States at field and moderating six churches. In 1953 my parents the age of 18, in 1888. He worked in Pennsylvania and began to think of their home land and their people whom Illinois and came to Montana in 1890. He settled in the they h[...]. They both decided it was time to come Choteau and Sweetgrass areas. While up there, he drove a home. Jn 1954 their wish materialized and a pastor was freight team between Great Falls and Fort Benton and ran[...] |
| [...]Mamie Reid a saloon in Sweetgrass. In 1902, he moved south of Oswego |
| [...]the next year. From Bob Reid died in 1949, and his wife, Mamie, in 1962. then on Mrs. Reid and the children moved to town for the Their three children, Tom, Mack and Nancy still live in duration of each school year, while Reid batched for Poplar and the area. himself and anyone else that was around, baking his own Tom and Lauretta Reid have six children: Marcia Mae bread and keeping his sour-dough jar going. He and the married to Gerald O'Brien who have t[...]bor took turns going to Poplar for supplies, mail and Wallace married to Janet Plummer who have one child; tobacco, the last item was a very important item on the list. James married to Bette Scott who have two children; Rick Bob Reid was a true stockman but did try his hand at married to Judy Zimmerman who have two children; and some farming in 1919. He and Bob Grindland, a retired Cherryl married to James Doughe[...]man, broke 120 acres out James (Mack) and Mabel Reid have one son, Robert. of a half section that belonged to R.E. Patch that joi[...]nd. The first crop, flax, was stacked in the fall and Nancy and Duke Hagadone have three children: Robert thresh[...]Beth Walton who have two children; Thomas, days, and one of the next years, when Reid was binding and Peggy Jeanne who is married to Don Sillivan and has some wheat, he lit a cigarette and flipped a match, which one daughter. started a fire that burned a good share of the crop and caused his partner, Grindland, to become very up[...]y gave up the farming. In the early 20's, Reid and Bill McClammy ran the Star Meat Market in Poplar for a short time. One incident to be remembered was when they shipped in a buffalo, skin and all. It was displayed in the front of the shop and later cut up and sold over the counter. About 1921, Frye Cattle Co. came in here from Seattle, and their new venture changed things on the reservation. They leased all available land and bought all little bunches of cattle farmers had b[...]Frye approached Bob Reid to rent his ranch as a camp for their cowboys. He was hired to stay on the place to manage and maintain it. Summers, Mrs. Reid was paid to Robert L. and Sophia Renz - 1925 cook for the help, and supplies were furnished by Frye. Tom went to work for Frye at the age of fifteen, as a horse wrangler, and Mack went to work as soon as he was old enough to[...]ars, many thousands of ROBERT L. AND SOPHIA RENZ head of cattle were brought to the Reid ranch to be branded and sent on to different pastures that Frye had, as t[...]land from th~ Missouri River north about 20 miles and from Tule Creek east to the Big Muddy. While the[...]zabeth, New Jersey, ranch was leased to Frye, Bob and his sons cut hay, fed July 19, 1860. His father, grandparents and two uncles had cattle, helped break horses, and in the winter he would immigrated from Germany and had founded a shear and make many trips from Poplar to Hinsdale and Malta to scissors factory in that are[...]to Naugatuck, days, no high ways, so he followed a prairie trail in his Connecticut, and shortly thereafter to Bridgeport, Model T touring[...]was age sixteen, Clause with his frosted whiskers and mustache, scotch cap and in the second year of high school, his father died of and buffalo coat on. As soon as he got home, he drain[...]30 or 40 of the children, to quit school and go to work in the below, he would jack up a hind wheel on the car, refill the factory to support his mother and five younger brothers radiator, pour a tea kettle of boiling water over the motor and sisters. He worked there for about two years when he and with a few cranks, he would be off on another trip.[...]continued the damp, New England climate, and suggested that he go business, enlarged it and was joined in it by his two west to the Montana Territory. sons. Mack and his wife, Mabel (McGowan) Reid always At the age of nineteen, Robert packed a few belongings lived and later owned this home place while Tom and his and headed west. He worked at odd jobs along the way[...]ranch on making enough money to travel a little further. He made Box Elder.[...]ay in the family these 1880. There he set up a little scissor sharpening shop. past 60 years as[...]In the spring, he again headed west and went by train as Hagadone and her husband , Duke, who still live on it.[...]on this ranch, Reids have lived in both Sheridan and From there he took a steamboat up the Missouri River to Roosevelt coun[...]ranches in the ranch were Bob Grindland, Shirley and Walter Bridges, summer, and hunting and trapping in the winter, for a Big Bob Eldridge and Fred Goodman. livelihood. He then got a job with the U.S. Government as[...] |
| [...]is~or8, Knin~, Razor~,. Skak, and illl khuf~ of Sumll f:dgcid Tools. S::nv filing[...]~I a "mule skinner", doing construction work on the Fo[...]obert Renz, Jr. · |
| [...]have two children: Mrs. Patricia Beck of Poplar, and Mrs. Gail Alex of Havre. They have three grandchildren. Roy died in 1973. Edith Richards lives in Poplar and works in the sporting goods department store now owned by her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Beck. MATTIE RICHARD[...]Ezra and Mary Ricker |
| HARRY AND BEULAH ROUNDS by Beulah Roun[...]1908. When he first came to Montana he worked on a survey crew and helped survey most of eastern Montana. His brother Theo. was a real tor in Poplar and they settled a good percent of the people in Roosevelt and McCone counties. In the early twenties Harry carried mail from Nickwall to Richey using horse and buggy in the summer and horses and sled in the winter. He also ran a livery stable in Poplar. Our home was located whe[...]11, 1889. In 1910 I came to Montana with my aunt and uncle, Charlie and Nora Witt. We traveled by train. I lost my ticket and purse in Chicago so had to borrow $25.00 from the[...]Dr. J.L. Atkinson was at the train to meet us in a little James MacDonald, unknown, Theo Rounds one horse sled. The next day we crossed the river on the ice and had dinner at the Atkinson ranch on Red Water. I stayed a couple of weeks there.[...]a he operated the I came to Montana to take up a homestead. It looked barber shop, giving haircuts for 25 cents and shaves for 50 awful and I was really homesick for a long time. Finally cents. He went into t[...]stayed for 53 years, until November 1900's and worked in the business for over 30 years in 1963[...]erton, Washington, to be near my Poplar and Wolf Point. daughter.[...]ther lines of business such as selling I took a homestead on 160 acres in the Nickwall big machinery, combines and threshing machines. The community. Had a fourteen by fourteen foot shack built on steam and gas engines came later. In 1929 he went on the it. Elmer Martin, John Bawden and the Witts were my road selling bar[...]way, was the closest town for had a farm south of the river, west of the Red water on the shopping. We crossed the ice in the winter and went by river bottom. ferry in summer[...]entertainment was nothing new then. school house and card parties. The Nickwall Ladies Aid[...]taking a newcomer to the area on a snipe hunt. The fun The day Harry and I got married Charlie Kalbow took us began when the greenhorn arrived and the oldtimers to Poplar. This was March 11, 1914.[...]got the fellow interested enough to ask to go on a walked on the ice to the water and took the boat the rest of hunt. When night came, the men , one oldtimer, and one a the way. We were married in Dr. Atkinson's home.[...]cks, in Poplar. They all went to school in Poplar and at the (actually rabbit tracks). The na[...]man a sack and lantern and tell him to hold the ack open Our children are[...]of Ashford, Washington ; by the tracks and he would work around and drive the Harry, Jr. of Oxnard , California; Kenn[...]d i the oldtimer Dale of Simi Valley, California; and Mrs. Louis (Mildred) would go back to town and wait for the fellow to get tired of DeTienne of B[...]" holding the sack" and come back for hi ribbing. We moved to Park Gro[...]happened when a dam near Helena went out and ther wa[...]nothing east of there to hold th water and it flood d[...]in Poplar. A boat was taken from town down the river and THEO ROUNDS[...]omestead r to take Point area in 1904 , from Iowa and Illinois . Theo wa born aero s the river to a new island . Th pr pared for the o[...] |
| Rounds and Harry Tane who ran the livery stable in Poplar, had the first two cars in town. They were two- cylinder jobs and Rounds bought a new one every year for six years. The cars would wear out in a year from hitting rocks and badger holes as they made their own trails. He[...]y. He came to Poplar in 1916 where he homesteaded and continued farming till his retirement in 1950, wh[...]rs of his life in the Poplar Community Rest Home, and he passed away at the Poplar Community Hospital a[...]Howard and Beulah Sage HOWARD AND BEULAH SAGE by Kenneth Sage[...]the winter, he became employed as a janitor at the Poplar Howard Irving Sage arrived in Roosevelt County, schools, a job he held for thirteen years. Montana in the mo[...]Medford, Howard continued to farm and work at the school until Oregon. He had been predeeded to this area a year earlier the end of World War II when h[...]n. Howard was told by Wellie to get on Larry and Kenny. Howard and Beulah then moved a train going east, get off at Macon, and walk straight westward and built a home in Great Falls. north about ten miles where[...]Beulah died in Great Falls in May of 1965 and Howard After meeting with Weldon, he went into[...]in May 1974. As many of the people around Poplar a homestead and was located on it by Theo Rounds. His well remember, Howard always had a witty glow about homestead was approximately thirty miles north of Macon him, and always had a sharp story or joke to relate that in the Bredett[...]by Fred Krauth, would keep everyone laughing. a neighbor during the homestead days. His first year on the homestead a shack was built and a small amount ofland was broken up for farming purposes. During the winter he went to Scobey and hashed in a FLORESTINE SAYERS restaurant. It was at this time a fellow came in and told Howard that he was going to take the land as[...]15, 1897, in living up to homestead regulations. A short and final talk Belcourt, North Dakota, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. occurred, with Howard still retaining the ow[...]Point in 1919 and to Poplar in 1920 when she married Beulah Avery came to Montana about the same time Joseph A Sayers. He died in 1962. from Kansas and filed on a homestead near Poplar, next to Mrs. Sayer[...]ay while Howard was hauling wheat into Poplar via a They had one son, Fred Sayers, and two daughters, Mrs. horse drawn wagon, one of his wheels broke crossing a Jean Gladeau, and Mrs. Delma Wiseman, all of Poplar. creek next to[...]that he had broken the wheel on Washington, and Roger Desjarlais, of Wolf Point; two purpose. Nev[...]sisters, Mrs. Emma Montriel, of Belcourt, and Mrs. help. They were later married in August 1919[...]dren were born, Marian, currently of Great Falls; and HENRY SCHMIDT Kenny and Larry both of whom still reside in Poplar. The[...]ed" Schmidt was born September 26, 1882 in mother and two sisters came to Poplar. The two girls filed[...]Marian He came to Montana while young and lived most of his Tade. Many people came from Ore[...]ars nearly all had left. Line for several years and can be remembered as one of the Of the Sages, onl[...]ty. teamsters for Kelsey that used to run a regular shift, During the tough years, Howard[...]way before it was oiled. Poplar, where he became a carpenter, working on such He passed[...]the Poplar buildings as the Government Hospital, and the Great Hospital.[...] |
| [...]the grades and high school. He went to pharmacy college She w[...]at Brunswick, Missouri. 1906, came to America and settled in Poplar, Montana He came to Montana in 1914 and worked at a Culbertson around 1911.[...]came to Poplar to manage the The Seifferts ran a Florist shop and greenhouse, and Mr. Gateway Drug Store. ...,eiffert was a photographer in Poplar. During the time of On September 17, 1917 he entered the U.S. Army and silent movies, he played the piano at the Glacier[...]Corps in France. After being accompany the shows and create the sound effects to go discharged he was employed in Plentywood for a short with them.[...]n January with her daughter so moved to Whitefish and later to 1930 and operated it under the name of Skinner Drug. He Co[...]. was a member of the Masonic Lodge, American Legion She had one daughter, Erna, but at the time of this and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. writing, all three[...]Harry Skinner was a resident of Montana for 36 years.[...]He passed away on February 4, 1949 and was buried with full military honors, with a color and military guard of[...]Blevins, Woodrow Hall, George Egbert and James Patch.[...]He came to Poplar in the early years as a homesteader and later ran a blacksmith shop in different locations until[...]He was married and had a family of three children; Lloyd, Alviera and Arthur.[...]Indiana. He came to Montana as a child when his parents[...]Poplar and also worked in the coal mine near Brockton for[...]several years. He later worked as a carpenter and farm[...]tana National Guard from 1927 till Anfin Simonson and Bill McGowan 1930.[...]Bertelsen, Froid and Mrs. Lenore Daw, Helena, and two sons; Jack of Helena and Pat of Frazer, Minnesota. ANFIN[...]born August 18, 1896 at Marshalltown, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. John Simonson. He - OLE AND CLARA SMITH came to Poplar in 1916. He passed a[...]south of the Missouri River just a short distance southeast He had a brother, John of Missoula, Montana and a of Brockton, Montana in 1911. He was a[...]se the sister, Mrs. Sina Person, Poplar, Montana. A brother "squatters rights " from a fellow who had made the Christ lived in this area[...]original homestead claim and decided not to tay. Ole paid[...] |
| $500.00 for the squatter rights and remained there to prove up the homestead. He then made a trip back to Minnesota and returned to his land on Charley Creek with a bride, namely Clara M. Hanson of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. The year was 1918, and the couple remained to farm and raise a family of two boys and one girl, Edith, Howard and Edward. Edith lives on a ranch out of aco, Montana and Howard and Edward both live in Poplar, Montana. Howard Smith now owns and farms the parental farmstead. Ole and Clara's three children have grown children of the[...]ive to see any of his grandchildren as he died of a heart attack in Novemberof1944. Clara was granted a few more years and was able to see and enjoy five of the seven grandchildren. She died i[...]the Nickwall Community proving up on a homestead. remembers Charles Leland Smith, known[...]Through the years the Smith's acquired cattle and a associates as "Charlie" or "C.L." Charlie Smith left the considerable acreage of farming and grazing land. They parental farm in Michigan at the age of seven teen to seek eventually built a frame home above the hill from the employment on[...]epot. The old house, with some changes, additions and employed as telegrapher and depot agent. At the age of 21, renovation, still stands, and is at present lived in by a great when he was working at helby, Montana, he was united granddaughter and her family. in marriage to Mrs. Mary Jane Reed. Around 1905 he and Some time around 1918 Charlie Smith went to work at his wife and her small daughter, Minnie Reed, moved to[...]me in the small depot, with was President, and R.E. Patch was Vice-president at the the traditio[...]. There time. He was employed by the bank for a number of years. were two passenger trains going in each direction daily, Mr. Smith was President and largest stockholder of the be ides freights. Ther[...]in farming at Poplar and married.[...]He had one son who died during World War II, and he had three daughters, Mrs. Dave Smith and Mrs. Howard Grainger of Poplar, Montana, and Mrs. Robert Carson.[...]I came with my parents, Frank and Estell Steele, my Charles mith, depot agent about 1917. 1897 Winchester brother Elston, and two sisters, Lovie and Zell, to Poplar, shot gun.[...] |
| [...]had come out the year before from DeMoines, Iowa and had squatted on a piece of land. He had asthma and thought this climate would be better for him. He[...]first summer until he had money enough to put up a shack on his land. The land was not open for homesteading yet and this was all in Dawson County, with Glendive as t[...]aught by Mother. My father finally sent for us and we arrived by train in Poplar with all our boxes of stuff. This was in the morning and we ate breakfast and loaded our stuff on the wagon and started for the ferry. Dad had bought a supply of We were greeted at the farm by a small one room shack groceries, too, since he probably wouldn't get to town for with a dirt roof, no doors and no windows. There was three or four months. The only furniture mother brought lumber for the door and some glass for windows but Dad was the sewing machine, and the rest was bedding, had not had time to put these on before we got h ere a nd he clothing and some dishes. The ferry was just a cable ferry didn 't have time to do it now a s he a lready had bee n a wa y at that time and the men had to pull us across with some from his sheep a day longer than h e sh ould have been . So kind of ropes on a wheel. After we had most of the things he really just dumped us off at th e shack a nd left for loaded on the ferry , the wind came up and the water was Ba wdens. Mother had mostly Ii ved in town a nd for a while too rough and we couldn't use the ferry. We had to unload she just stood and looked a t th e h ouse a nd am sure sh e all the things from the ferry again , and in the back of my must have been praying. Th[...], mind I can still hear the sound of my Dad using a hammer looking for her beautiful ra g car[...]r th e to open some big boxes to find some quilts and bedding so windows and doors until they could be fixed. There were us ki[...]ep on some kind of wood bunks in on e en d a nd a la undry stove to the river bank all night. The f[...]ck Mail, had an cook on . It must h ave been a terrible experience fo r my Indian wife and she shared her campfire with us and moth er, b ut it wa a lark for us kids. We had never been in showed mother how to cook over a n open fire. I can 't t he country and there was so much to see. Dad didn't come remembe[...]ome breakfast or n ot, but am h ome for a week or so, a nd by th at ti me moth er had things sure we did- but I know we were up a t daylight loading a ll pretty well under control. the things back on the ferryboat so th at we could get a cross Our closest n eigh bor was four miles away and we didn't the river before the wind came up a gain . see him fo r quite a wh ile. There were three familie of[...]Bawden s a nd they lived about ten mile away but they[...]Ba wden came one day that fir t ummer with a box that had a mother hen and her chick -a mo t welcome gift. We a lmost h ad to knit booties for the chick when the[...]t urned so cold before we could get a little hed built for[...]vegetables a nd potatoes with us as we came too late to get a[...]We didn't farm for a couple of years but did manage to[...]get some cattle and a h orse. Th first crop was flax planted[...]on the sod , and being from Iowa my dad had to plant a little[...]n forfeed. We had the first binder in the country and my dad used it to cut the corn and grain for the neighbors .[...]Then we finally got some hogs and everybody wondered[...]rt legs to run on the prairie, but we finally got a pen Ranch house built 1910 Steele farm .[...] |
| [...]was a Flora Nelson who taught school and took up a[...]She taught there about six or seven years and by that[...]Think he stayed at Patch's and worked in Cosier's store[...]We lived right on the creek bank and water was hauled from there for everything-and we put up ice in the winter[...]from there. But it all seemed so clear and pure at that time.[...]We had kerosene lamps at first, and then gas lamps, but we[...]were terrible-so much snow. Dad had a saddle horse named " Old Jack" and one winter the snow was so deep he[...]had to carry a shovel to dig the horse out when he got stuck. Ne[...]As I sit in this nice warm apartment with so many and Sunday school picnic in 1912. See episode in Haro[...]ot our new log house built in 1902-1903, 14 x 28, and by Florence Wilson it seemed b[...]e land had not been surveyed yet but in 1903-1904 a Mr. and Mrs. Page and On January 6, 1915 I was married to[...]y folks living room. Raymond had come from Minot, a modern(?) cook-car. The young men and Mr. Bates would North Dakota, and was working on a threshing rig. On the survey all day (about ten m[...]s. Bates would get day he was 21 he filed on a homestead about 20 miles south them in the surrey in the evening and bring them back. Us of my folks . His brother had filed on land in the next kids carried milk and eggs to them all that summer. When section[...]the section line ran sold his homestead and bought his brother's place, so we right through t[...]ext to my parents until they died, Father in 1930 and was built in 1910, it was moved over the section[...]much the same as my do now. There was work to do, and we had the creek to parents had been, b[...]e we had learned how to swim in during the summer and to skate on in the winter. deal more adequately with the land and the elements. We did play some cards, but mostly[...]to strip mine for house when 14 people were there and the chairs that had coal as wood was gett[...]come for miles around to listen there was always a big picnic and celebration. People to "The Night Hawks", " Myrt and Marj", and the police would go early and stay all day until the food ran out-the call[...]a Perkins"? One night I baked men played baseball and horseshoe. Those baseball three jel[...]lly good! coffee-and then ran out. The men stayed up nearly all The[...]ng we al ways night listening to the programs and the news. got to go to, and looked forward to it all summer-it was[...]s until the Wolf Point usually held in September. And of course we went to the bridge was compl[...]ever did quite get used to There was horse racing and bucking horses, Indian riding that ferry across the Missouri-it always seemed so dances, a big display of farm products and lots of bead shaky, but they were good Captains and we always made work and quilts. The parades were beautiful with the it. colorful Indian costumes, and the horses and wagons all We had a few head of cattle to start with, and both wheat decorated. and flax for crops. This area was too dry for corn. We had Dr. Atkinson from Poplar was our doctor and he would our share of grasshoppers and hail storms. I remember the always come when he was needed, but it took a long time one 1937 especially because we[...]o town after him-no over the depression and it took all our crops. Prairie fires phones then.[...]ike people got sick so much then, were always a threat in the early years, but if we saw any and I guess mothers were better equipped to handle th[...]farming there weren't any more fires. Ba wdens. A young man from Illinois taught school in their[...]who lives south of Nickwall. By that time we had a two wheel cart that my Poplar on the old Charlie Smith place; and Thelma Miller brother could drive-and later we had all learned to ride who lives[...]nto Wolf Point to make my home. It seemed hard to and three months in the fall . We skipped August beca[...]g in town after spending 58 years on the the heat and the mosquitos, and because the boys had to farm.[...] |
| [...]rt Ripley, Minnesota. With his parents, Charles and Elizabeth Stevens he moved in 1904 to Saskatchewan, Canada. Tony had five brothers and one sister. In 1911 the family came to file on a homestead south of Poplar. June 1915 his mother died and in July 1936 his father died, both are buried in Poplar. The spring of1916 Charles Stevens and sons moved four- teen miles east of Poplar. They[...]g nearby. During this time Tony owned an Aultman and Taylor threshing machine and did threshing and breaking in the north country and west of Poplar. Anne G. Arneson and Tony were married December 24,[...]Eileen Brown, Dr. C.A. Swanson, Betty Moilanen, and 1926 in Plentywood. The summer of 1927 we lived[...]living in Great Falls where Jim is an accountant and Doris internship, he enlisted in the army in 1[...]end of World War I. three children - Jim, Steve and Susan. On getting out of the service, he began looking for a We bought a section ofland, in 1929, six miles northwest location. He practiced in the southwest and in southern of Poplar which we farmed until Tony[...]en thru the efforts of the late Harry also farmed a section of lease land.[...]an interview in 1923. Some people think Poplar is a northwest of Poplar. We lived there from 1931-193[...]it was much more so then. o took care of the camp and I did the cooking. At one time apparently h[...]6,000 sheep at this camp. making a decision. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with Mr.[...]into Poplar so Doris Ann could Skinn_er, and on April 19, 1928, he came back to Poplar, and start school. For 14 years Tony was employed by t[...]that time he stayed. Poplar School District as a custodian and later as a school He has said he always knew he would be a doctor and bus driver. always wanted to be a practitioner in a small town. Tony was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Those were the depression and drought years in the area Poplar. He died Decembe[...]so he practiced under the most difficult and adver ~[...]success m spite of inadequate facilities and in ufficient DR. C.A. SWANSON help. In a number of cases where better facilitie were[...]often the means of saving a life.[...]taken from the Poplar Standard. It was north and outh, often in below zero and tormy weather presented by her at an open house on Sunday April 21, to see a patient or bring them to town if need b .[...]doctors had imilar exp ri nc in people of Poplar and the surrounding area. those early day , but they had to b d dicated m n , and To reveiw forty years of anyone's life in ten m[...]n of th m requires much more ability than I have, and especially for here. anyone like Dr. Swanson . So this will be my version of It is aid it take a tout heart to climb a t p hill, and some of the things I knew about as I remember them. How- our doctor ha proved he ha the tout h art and h ha ever time dims one's memory so there may be[...]on encourag d Mr . Dal to conv rt that excitement and speculation. The big question was- would home into a mall ho pital , which h did , and in he stay?[...]m , least of all the doctor, that 40 the doctor a ba e of op ration to operat after I v n years later friends in Poplar would et aside a day to pay long year of make hift faciliti . him the honor, respect and gratitude that he so richly There was much di couragement and fru tration then a deserves for his years of service in thi communit[...]his way thru However, this venture proved a god nd to the area in pit school and medical school graduating from Loyale of adverse condition , and con equently little mone . University in C[...] |
| [...]A number of years ago he adopted a son, Allen, who is married now and lives in Poplar.[...]about, and certainly the Doctor could tell us even more,[...]but he is a man of few words and he just won't talk. All in all he has had a good life among us, although at[...]times there was much cause for frustration and dis-[...]will be dark and dreary." Death has taken its toll of family and friends. In 1964 Dean Thompson died of cancer and he had been a friend for many years, it was a severe loss, but[...]that he was among sympathizing friends who Dr. C.A. wanson, Gene Breese, and Mack Reid.[...]o Those of us who were here during those years and knew thankful that you wanted to be a general practitioner in a of the benefits of that small hospital, must never forget small town and that small town happened to be Poplar. these two people, Mrs. Dale and Dr. Swanson, who gave so Destiny must h[...]your footsteps on that much of their lives, time and care to heal the sick and long ago day of April 19, 1928. alleviat[...]of so many, often times with very Dr. C.A. Swanson died in December 1968. little remunerati[...]al practice, Doctor has been mayor of Poplar, was a member of the school board, served on the ration[...]efore quitting private WILLIAM AND CHARLES TRAVIS practice to go into government ser[...]ce, he was put in William Travis and a friend, Tom King, came to Mon- complete charge of[...]tal was opened, he was building boats, and irrigating canal and pump equipment. appointed chief of staff, an office he still holds, and My mother was Nettie George from St. Louis. She and although retired, he still sees a few patients, and is my father were married and lived in St. Louis, where my always available in emergencies. brother Bill and Essie, my sister, were born. Mother came He ha time now for fishing trips and other outings that out late in 1904, but returned to St. Louis for a visit in 1905 weren't possible until recently, as he never left a patient and I was born there. who was seriously ill.[...]cipients of snow. During the winters of 1906 and 1907, my Dad was of hi generosity. He has always[...]concern for the working for Dr. Atkinson on a place near Daleview. Those elderly. His beautifu[...]d home is filled with lovely were rough winters and hard on the cattlemen, as well as painting , book and work of art. In fact his home and the cattle. yard are one of our how place . William took up a homestead across the river on gumbo In that lo[...]flats. We lived there, but Dad worked mostly as a carpenter home, he bought a small hou e on the east ide of town. and later as a contractor when Bill was old enough to help There were very few hou e there and not a tree or bush to him. In all he built twent[...]ses under be een. But with the help of his friend and companion, uperintendent Mossman, the[...]chool, with Bill enlarged the hou e, planted tree and hrubs, until the Travis, Al Benson, Pete Proctor, and Frank Abbott as place fairly bloomed. All this during the dryest years. Not only was it a beauty pot, but it encouraged others to p1ant tree and lawn which was added much to our otherwise bleak[...]alway championed the cause of the Indian people, and apparently the friendly feeling was mutual, as he wa adopted into the tribe in a ceremony held in Brockton years ago. He wa presented with a beautiful war bonnet that he wore with pride and dignity during the ce.remony, and is one of his mo t prized posse sion . He wa giv n the name of hief Thundering Bull, after a famou chief. All of it meant a great deal to him then and now. The Doctor is not a member of any church as such, but has an inner fa[...]ifficult cases that were successful, he Mr. and Mrs. Charles Travis[...] |
| workers. L.G. Nees had the contract to haul the gravel and the men boarded at the Nees home. My parents, Bill and Essie have passed away. I bought the land from Dad and farmed and ran cattle until 1960 when a heart attack forced my retirement. I sold the farm to Werners and moved into Wolf Point, where I bought Jay's Upholstery Shop. My son Richard and I still operate the shop. While still living on the south side, I operated the Poplar ferry boat for a number of years. The names of the ferri~s were the Fort Peck and the City of Poplar. Sadie McLees, from Minnesota, came as a teacher for the Arthur School, due south and across the river from the old Poplar Gateway Hotel. We met and were married all in about six weeks, on October 2[...]e age of sixteen, Charley Trinder went to work as a cowboy for the "Flying V" outfit near Sturgis, South Dakota. He worked as a range hand for a number of years for the Diamond outfit at Culbertson, Montana, and the Charley Creek Pool and C.K. outfit at Oswego, Montana. He homesteaded south of Poplar, where he farmed and was a dealer in cattle and horses. He also founded the Arthur Community.[...]inder In 1914 he moved to Poplar where he built a home and an office for his real estate and loan business. This was known as the Stockman's National Bank. Eric Mourn and In 1909 he married Josephine Rose Proctor. To this a Mr. Jacobi were some of the associates he had in[...]Claude, Howard and Josephine " Margie." Charles Trinder was a stockholder in the First National Mr. Trinder passed away in ovember of 1923, and Mr . Bank of Poplar and president of the First National Bank of Trinder in April of 1939. Brockton. He was a dealer in Hupmobile, Maxwell and Of the children, Alice Lieum and Howard of Poplar are Chalmers cars. all that survive a of now.[...]daughter Mary Emily, Iara Marie, Mildred Fay, and[...]imately 1915. Though born and reared in Illinoi , they[...]Poplar. Mr. and Mrs . Charles R.[...]who had come from Hamilton , orth Dakota to work a a[...] |
| [...]where in addition to owning a drug store, he had a cattle[...]Mrs. Famy Tyler was a member of the First Presbyterian[...]urch of Poplar. She served as elder of the church and[...]on May 23, 1951 and Mary Emily Tyler Corbin on April 27,[...]y 12, 1924. They lived in Poplar until his death, and she continued to reside there afterward. Several[...]Mary Emily was employed at the Farmers John and Sarah VanDusen-1920 Mercantile Store in Poplar.[...]Corbin. They had one daughter, MR. AND MRS. JOHN VAN DUSEN Patricia Ann. Another daughter, Mildred Fay was a small child when by Mabel Baldwin Iverson living on the homestead, and I recall pictures and stories about her riding horseback to the country schoolhouse. Mr. and Mrs. John Van Dusen homesteaded 15 miles She marr[...]one daughter Lois Marie who is married to Ronald A. Canada. They were my mother's parents.[...]We bought their place from their son John Bre~ses and the Kilburgs both reside in San Diego,[...]. was about 19, at which time he went into Poplar and Mrs. Van Dusen passed away in North Dak[...]orbin. After several years, he started working as a salesman for various drug firms - for many years[...]d in Bismark, North Dakota WILLIAM AND ALMA VOORHEES[...]Dakota in July 1910, and homesteaded fifteen miles due[...]Washington to winter with a sister and her husband. He[...]came back in the spring to the homestead and broke some acreage. In December he made a trip to Poplar by horse Le{t to right: Frank[...]William and Alma Voorhees 50th anniversary - 1961[...] |
| [...]William and Alma joined the Centennial Train and made the trip to New York and Washington , D.C. Walter and Quinta Carey were down to help Bill and[...]ecember 20, 1975. Also Alma's brother Joe Pilgrim and wife Edna. Walter Cary and Bill still own their original[...]The year 1887 was one of progress for the plains. A steel-[...]ibrating giant, called the Great Northern, pulled and[...]brought a motley crowd, as government agents, soldiers[...]and traders settled in the area. Among the passengers[...]How strange and desolate the town must have appeared . Old Bill - 1911 A few scraggy persistent Cottonwoods grew around th[...]were faithfully tended by the West Point officers and cutter to catch the Skidoo(goose) for Glasgow to[...]led water in buckets from the steep incline. This a marriage license.[...]luded the greenery ... there were no other trees. A A few days later with a team, sleigh and neighbors few scattered black cinders provided the town sidewalk Walter and Quinta Carey, and his bride-to-be, Alma while jutting[...]posts made from three logs. Poplar on December 20 and was married in the All thi[...]parents, three brothers and a sister, Laura, three Four children were born, D[...]lker was oblivious to the drama this of Poplar on a farm; Robert living in Poplar who is the[...]south The Walkers took up residence in a chink log house with mail carrier; William Jr., living in Billings. a sod roof that was located where the Assembly of God Bill rented the farm and moved to town in March 1919, Church stands now. Harry remembers home as always went to work for G.A. Lundeen as machine man and ran being warm in the winter, cool in the summer and filled the delivery truck (Lundeen Mercantile sto[...]the W.B. haw Trading tore. The business in Poplar and in the fall bought the Jack Dwyer childre[...]ry became close friends of John Lone Dog, later A near tragedy happened one weekend in the fall of 1924 to become a chief, Tom Buckles and Judge Johnson. The when Bill was mining a load of coal. Luckily the family Indian language wa never foreign to him , and he enjoyed had gone along, kids riding a saddle horse. The bank caved speaking in the Dakota tongue. in and completely covered Bill. The family could hear hi[...]twelve, Harry tended the town herd, yelling. Alma and kids started to dig with their hands and making about $2.50 a week, by watcl1ing the live tock from got his hea[...]hn The boyhood of Harry Walker i a vivid r collection of couldn't dig Bill out alone[...]adventure. One day Harry, hi brother Pr s y and lo e Ed Widman.[...]river like Mo of The men had to pick a huge chunk of coal to pieces and it Egypt. Harry wa to charact rize Aaron , J[...]ing broke the leg or if it was Moses , and Pres y wa given the nam Abednego , of th broken w[...]ar Fiery Furnace. The water seem d wift and cold a th trio where Dr. Atkinson came up to the house t[...]their tiptoe , The doctor found three broken ribs and the lining torn with the current wirling up to their neck . John pok loose, a broken leg with the bone protruding thru the[...]by having walked on a sand bar aero s the old wagon trail Bill bought the Poplar Ferry in 1932 and ran it until 1936. buried beneath the Poplar R[...]wo years at $50 When he wa n't playing a Bible character, Harry a month, going wages. Robert and Norman ran it the rest enjoyed riding his five dollar horse, a gift from his father. of the time with help from Albert Marottek . Many a hot day he wa een kicking up du t as he rode B[...]On another occasion Harry was all dressed up in a frilly palominos. He was eighty and his great grandson was white shirt[...]for a big sotial affair. Hi mother aid it was to be a very[...] |
| [...]Noted for his boundless faith, his pioneer spirit and his[...]a name well known all over the state. He was appoin[...]the late Governor Nutter and reappointed by Governor Babcock to be a member of the Montana Historical Society.[...]Lodge No. 75 in 1919, and has been Patron of Aurora[...]ter No. 47 Order of the Eastern Star, many times. A .[...]s distinguished the organization as past adjutant and[...]Harry has rubbed elbows and made friends with people[...]arry Walker founder and editor of the Reader's Digest.[...]epoch, these phrases are characteristic of Harry, and special day indeed. Bored from waiting for the ev[...]Having lived so close to the Harry met John Kuhn, and they proceeded to the local Sioux, perha[...]rry has lived by for 82 years, is one used by the and laughing the boys rode the coal car - back and forth Dakota people: "daco washte a-chune, ick a edua ya nick - until presently Harry eyed John's[...]day snei ," which means, "Do what's right, and you will not trepidation - by gosh, John looked a little smutty! They have lived for nothing." straggled home, and all you could see were their eyeballs. Blackened[...], Harry's frilled shirt hung from' his frame like a cloth of mourning. And mourn he did - HUGH CONWAY WA[...]ended MacCallister Classical Academy at St. Paul, a prep school for Princeton. In 1906 his father bui[...]rial September 28, 1958, the son of Isaac and Katherine Church. That year Harry entered the Nor[...]el, Patch in his general store, until 1910. After a year of for a merit honor. This title remained with him the res[...]he Cosier-Patch Company. In 1917 he began a large plantation known as Bull Field where he had[...]ere entered in race tracks of the the undertaking and furniture store in 1920. south and England. Among his well known thoroughbreds On October 21 , 1938, Harry Walker and Inez Jacobs were were Fanny Washington, Silver Slipper, and Galecthta. united in marriage by a justice of the peace in a Jewish The jockeys rode and groomed the horses and took great home at Colville, Washington. Later, Harry and his late pride in caring for them. After th[...]jockeys would affectionately remark, "The Poplar and became associated with L.M. Clayton Jr., in[...]plantation and especially enjoyed playing with a little Renowned as an ardent church worker, Har[...]the Great Claus. Hugh wrapped himself in sacks and flung a bundle Fall Presbytery in 1938. He served as ruli[...]However, the chimney was not as wide forty years and has taught Sunday school since the days of as it looked and Hugh became hung up on a hook. His face the Presbyterian " Tin Lizzie. " emerged from a pile of ashes. The colored lad was aghast everal years ago, a sixth grade Sunday school class and exclaimed in dismay, "Santa Claus! - is you kildt?" was conducting a lesson on the early Christian martyrs. Another time Hugh gave his companion a persimmon, The story presented the lives of two b[...]her brother resembled the wrinkled shell of a walnut as he sputtered, denied Christ and was set free. The class was asked if[...] |
| [...]I was the first candidate and that eventful meeting was[...]furniture and personal possessions by steam boat down[...]met so many Indian friends and learned to speak the Dakota dialect. Inez and I, at four years of age,[...]... Capt. Green's, Lt. Dent's, 1st Sgt. Rodgers' and[...]out to be a top notch group of soldiers. First Sgt.[...]command of the post and the captains were Green and[...]Humphrey, and Cronan. Senator Walker's residence, Poplar, Monta[...]cademy he wanted to go West as his cousins Howard and Sutton Winston, who were rail- Carl Walki[...]ool at the government school in Poplar from where a big Irishman, Ryan, gave him a team and a 1899 to 1905 when the school offered[...]. The other workmen In 1909 he and Nettie Long Dog were married by Rev . encouraged Hugh and told him what to do. The boss said, Cole. They es[...]am otta there!" Hugh often said he Poplar in 1910 and continued to reside there. didn't have a bottom left on his shoes with that job, but As a young fellow, he was interested in livestock and he didn't want to be fired. Ryan told him that Sutton later he established a herd of cattle. Carl was a lifetime Winston wanted him to go to Port Arthur to be time keeper resident of the Poplar area and a member of the Fort Peck for a railroad gang. It was quite a coincidence that several Tribal Council for 32 ye[...]cil from 1914 to such as Winston Brothers, Harper and Fisher, Folley 1916. After his duties with the council, he served on the Brothers and Kelley and Stone Ordean Wells. fair board as a stock committeeman when the fair was The Great[...]nty. In 1923 when the fair of 1887. Hugh occupied a position as clerk in the W.B. discontinued , he s[...]oplar Agency. Mr. H.M. Cosier was the Past Master and served as a member of the executive board , becoming ran the[...]served the officers, their wives chairman in 1942 and serving four years in that capacity. and two companies of soldiers. A very fine stock of moose During Carl's chairmansh[...]sier was the last post trader in the United tates a s the board. Later, in 1947, he erved in the capa[...]1 Army took over their own Post canteen and were allowed to official stock inspector for the entire re ervation. His have beer, wines and liquor. Days were enjoyable in the chink log house whe:e the _ temperature was warm inside in the winter and cool m the summer. A pet parrot was continually chattering to Hugh . O[...]aid down on the couch. The parrot cocked his head and chirped , "You pretty well?" "Not by a damn sight!" replied Hugh. About 1893 the Popla[...]ec8:i:ne governor of Hawaii, Col Wheaton became . a bn~a a1er general in the Phillippines, Capt. Green was m command of Camp Green in World War I. Hugh's grandfather and father respectively were members of the Masonic Fraternity and thus Hugh decided to follow in their footsteps .[...]Lodge was at Glendive, 100 miles south of Poplar. A special compensation from the Territory Grand Lodge was iss ued Hugh , and he took all three degrees in one day. However I doubt that this was wise. In 1910 a group of about 25 men from Wo!f Point ~nd -[...]ed Northern Light Lodge, under dispensation . Mr. and Mrt1 . Carl Walking Eagle[...] |
| duty was taking possession of any and all stray live- MARGARET[...]ning on tribal lands or restricted lands owned by a member of the tribe and to dispose of the same, subject Margaret Wi[...]n operators on She came to Montana in 1898 and on to the Poplar area the reservation and 148 units within four counties on the in 1[...]of cattle with an acreage of 182,165 as a housekeeper for the Huseby Brothers in the Fairview acres. This was quite a lot of horseback riding but communit[...]ellow grew up in the saddle. In an A story often told about Mrs. Wickerham was how Art interview, Carl stated , "the stockgrowers and ranchers Huseby used to make her walk up all the hills on the way were a happy bunch of fellows ." His favorite mount was a to Poplar to lighten the load, as his Model T didn't quite black gelding. He rode this horse for some twenty years[...]r up hill. before retiring him. Another horse was a part Appaloosa After leaving Poplar, Mrs. Wickerham lived at with a lot of life. He used to hobble or trip the horse[...]sed away December 21, in the saddle, ride all day and find the horse still full 1938. of spunk.[...]. He inspected land for conservation, improvement and purchase. Mr. Walking Eagle, a great tribal leader was active in all R[...]w by Margaret Mossman Willey and a daughter, who is now Mrs. Mercy Macdonald.[...]"Twas on a hot August night in the year 1900 that I, the[...]child of a white father and an Indian mother, was born on[...]Thinking I was born dead I was placed on a trunk at the[...]LETTE less within a few hours as the old country doctor could not[...]save my mother's life. My father made a death-bed promise Gertrude Fryer was born at Wi[...]at I would never be taken from him. June 11, 1891 and came to Montana in 1912. She home- My parents met in the Indian service at a Wisconsin steaded two miles south of Richey. In 1[...]er's Poplar where she had lived since, except for a few years death he was transferred to sev[...]he was married to George clean me and do the baby chores so it was to them I would Wall[...]run to for comfort and caresses. Mrs. Wallette spent most of her time on her farm north- Dad married a year to the day Mother died. As years west of Poplar where she and her husband ranched and rolled on I began to notice my dark s[...]d, she lived in Poplar. half brother and sister. Also the different treatment Mrs. Wallette was a charter member of the Poplar accorded us. As embly of God Church and was quite active. At an early age I became a sort of scared Cinderella, She passed a way in the Deaconess Hospital in Great[...]ught dish washing, cooking, washing of clothes by a some years ago. board and general housekeeping before I learned to read . They had a daughter, Mrs. Harry (Beatrice) Mason,[...]e right the first time, it was done over. Poplar; and a son, Russell Boller of Nashua, and five Life went on into my early tee[...]parents put bag and baggage into a large hay rack drawn by four horses, a wagon and a surrey which was a four- wheeled buggy with a fringed top drawn by two fancy[...]We traveled for four days to a remote area of north-[...]western South Dakota where Father had filed on a home- stead. During the trip my sister and I loved riding in the JOSEPH A D MARY WESTFALL ha[...]frightened and started running away. I grabbed the reins by Edith Forrest and pulled but my puny strength didn't mean a thing as we raced across the prairie at a wild clip. Finally one of the Joseph and Mary Westfall moved to the Poplar area in[...]They homesteaded south of the Missouri and nearly jerked his head off as we came to a stop at River first. In 1917, they moved to Poplar where Joe the edge of a ravine. Had we gone over, there would have worked for Kelsey's Transfer for many years, and Mary been chickens, two pigs, ducks and household goods worked at the Dale Hospital.[...]I saw my first buffalo herd that roamed on Edith and Jimmie. There are three surviving children at a ranch owned by my father•s cousin. My father and I rode this time; Lorraine of Renton, Washington; Edith Forrest out in the pasture to get a closer look, and they were of Poplar and Jim of Seattle, Washington. majestic, huge and powerful.[...] |
| [...]victim apologized and said, "I didn't mean it bad but[...]which my half-sister and I disliked because of the barren-[...]ness of the area, the lack of sidewalks and the climate.[...]white and Indian students. I was the only Indian to[...]little group learned many things and took part in athletics, entertainment and won many honors. My mother was a graduate of Carlisle Indian School and had learned to play the piano, and all string instruments.[...]My childhood dream was to become a doctor but it was never a realization. I started nursing in the Indian[...]hospital and continued at that for many years in[...]different locations and assumed duties as an X-Ray[...]compassion for people who are sick and in pain. I have been married and separated twice, raised three children and have grandchildren and great-[...]As stated before, my music was a Godsend as it helped[...]supplement needed money. I joined a dance band and we[...]and home canned goods, sometimes. It was fun going 50[...]1971 , Margaret E. as home. I have started a movie career which I thoroughly Willey. enjoy and have had parts in episodes of the "Partridge[...]"Against a Crossed Sky", and many others. We arrived at our destination tired and hungry but neighbors had gathered and prepared a feast for us. The sod house that Father had built was a surprise. It was THERESIA WINHOFER built with blocks of earth and mud covered by chicken wire and stuccoed in some manner. It was one big room[...]s eighteen. separate rooms. It was warm in winter and cool in summer. In 1904 she was married t[...]water in lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Crosby, North huge barrels from a well near a beautiful creek. This Dakota until 1911 when they homesteaded south of Poplar. creek was a play area summer and winter for swimming He died in 1929. and skating. In 1969 she became a resident of Faith Lutheran Home Our heat was supplied by a stove with many eyes, as we in Wolf Point w[...]death. She was 90 years old when she pa sed a way in darkness. Our main source of fuel was lign[...]1973. was dear to us because of the prairie land and few trees. They had four sons, Frank, Paul, William and John ; and Summer was a very busy time as gardening was done on four daughters, Stella Moran, Alice Rowe, Esther a large scale, which provided a well-stocked root cellar; Andersen and Dorothy Merrit. a hole in the ground about 12 by 12 feet, covered with logs, boards and dirt. Butter, milk and foodstuffs were kept in here, too. Residence required of a homesteader was eighteen months. After the first[...]HERMAN K. WINN area to have a country school, which was about two miles from our house. My father was the school principal and I Herman K. Winn, was born the son of ear[...]would now attend Winn in Poplar. He passed a way August 1, 1968, at the age school off of a reservation and wondered how I would be of 73. accepted by[...]e also ranched in Montana before blood. I knocked a fellow classmate flat because he, moving to the Yakima Valley. laughing called me his squaw, a word I have always In 1961 h[...] |
| He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus of Klamath Falls, Oregon. He was an amateur musician and had his own orchestra while living in Montana. He and his wife Nettie had three daughters, Mrs. Martha[...]Wapato, Washington; Mrs. Margaret Lozar, Everett; and a son, Louis, of Tacoma. BILL YO[...]ll Youngman was born August 15, 1892, son of John |
| [...]otes that he supposed the farm equipment, horses, and[...]eldest son was annoyed with such a remark and tried hard[...]n to Mr. Clayton that they had not only purchased a new set of harnesses but it was indeed a very fancy set.[...]horse for the kids. One day while Glenn (Sully) and Buster[...]were playing in the barn, Old Dick kicked at a fly and[...]moment and caught him swearing. He went to the house,[...]sat on a stool, repeated the defamous line over and over,[...]The parade of progress and civilization superseded the Buster was severely injured by a cow poke going through harness, the team of horses and wagon, and even Old Dick his hand while playing in the water[...]ok him to had to go. Martin Trenne for help and in great haste they rode to New developments and rapid advancement of town on horseback to seek th[...]area farmers with new homes (the Marie Trenne, a practical nurse, helped care for the sick then[...]situated in Wolf Point), in the area. In 1930 she and three other people; Gus new wells, cattle, tractors, and threshing machines, and Marquardt, and two registered nurses, Mrs. John Reiland brought relief as compared to the early life of drudgery, and the druggist's wife, Mrs. Bob Carlson, died of the fatal deprivation, and toil. This was still a far cry from the Black Plague. They actually turned black, and this tragic mechanized farms of today. myst[...]mermans had three sons, Allen (Buster) married A minister from Wolf Point used to come out and hold to Ella Reiter from Froid, Glenn (Su[...]s Edith (Dede) to Lou Ann Protel of Kalispell, and a daughter, Marilyn Zimmerman. "One of the early te[...]Zimmerman Tunnell, married to Max Tunnell, a geologist boarded and roomed with us. Marcella Etzel (now Blevins) from Texas and now residing in Littleton, Colorado. There also taught grades seven and eight in our school. Our good were twenty-one grandchildren, and twenty-one great- friends the Ben Clark family li[...]whom are still in the Poplar area. the east of us and the school brought our families closer B[...]uated from high school at Fergus together. Buster and Fred attended this school and it is Falls, Minnesota, and attended the Univer ity of often told what good s[...]early communications. "We had Buster and Glenn attended country chool until 1929 the first radio in our group. We would turn it on and put the when the family moved into Poplar from[...]he telephone. Our neighbors would l~sten to and Marilyn were born in Poplar and all four attended the the various broadcasts by t[...]Poplar schools. Beyond high chool Bu ter and Glenn the various fenceposts along the way." As t[...]attended Montana tate University in Bozeman and Ben and Edith were able to improve their conditions with[...]at t. Mary' Fairbault, furniture, new harnesses, and a saddle horse. Minne ota , and was graduated from Arizona tat allege[...]Phoenix where he wa tricken with a h art attack and[...]married Dr. W. . Andr w of Frederic, Wi con in , and they now live in Wiscon in and rizona. A founder of Poplar Elevator ompany and Mav rick[...]commissioner for ten year and wa a pa t pr ident of th[...]Montana ounty ommis ioner ' A ociation. H was one of the original dir ctor and served a pr id n t of th orthea tern Montana P A for many y ar . 0th r[...]cottish Rite, Algeria hrine at Helena , and the Arizona Buster and Dick[...] |
| Hen and Edith had four children.[...]o Marilyn is married to Max Tunnell and lives in Denver, daughters. One daughter Chi-Chi.[...]olorado. They have three children - Diane, Janice and ick. one son.[...]OX ELDER CREEK AND IN THE NORTH POPLAR AREA Brinkman How[...]Rolandson Ben Keller Beulah A very Henry Corbin family |
| [...]yd Skjeveland, Mabel Earl Iverson, elmer Peterson and John Baldwin vn the McGowan Reid, Mack Reid,[...]Dahlberg and James McGowan. Oscar Holte with horses. Ben H[...]A.E. Kelsey, Harry Walker taken at Leslie Warrior f[...]g wheat to Poplar - 1923 Jack Hanson, Mildred and Mary Hanson, Ida Rowe, |
| [...]Mrs. Georg (Myra) Peelman and daught r Ada[...]Theo Round , Jim McAnally , Clarence Hurtt and Florence Tom Colgan, 1900, U.S. Land Commi[...] |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. George Winn with children Kate, Herman,[...]Bessie on lap and Hank Teacher (unknown), Otto Neumann with Bob Pi[...]houlders, Walter Carey, Quinta Carey with Francis Ervin Bracken and mother, Percy Peelman with pipe. McGowans, Margaret, Anne, Nellie, Emily, Mick and Tom[...] |
| [...], Mr . Vina Smith, Ed Randolph , Frank Cu ker, and Bob Trinder delivered. Mary and C.L. Smith[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Viggo Danielsen and Winnie Danielsen Mr. and Mrs. Eric Moum, Jr. - 1974[...]other hunters and an elephant Richards killed near Lake[...]lbert. Richards got his trophy with one shot from a .375 John Curran with straw hat.[...] |
| [...]one hundred acres. Being cool and wet, it proved to be a (Com piled b y John Gribble)[...]ty miles southeast of of the Poplar river in 1915 and became an annual event. Scobey and some thirty odd miles northwest of Poplar. That y[...]w settlers Indian Reservation in Sheridan County. A prairie trail , came. Among them were Iyar Stensr[...]Paulsen , brother to Elias. Frank " Tell-a-Man" Gabbert From May first to July first of 1914 only those people a nd W.B. Humphrey settled just across Morgan Creek[...]er Humphrey built his stone house, which is still a landmark. that date any qualified person was elig[...]Land Many of the bachelors were away that winter and missed was appraised at $2.50 to $7.00 an acre. T[...]rs. homestead requirements. Veterans of the Civil and In 1916 the Brethren came, settling mostly east of Spanish-American wars could file a preemption or Morgan. George, Nathan, Joe and Aaron Swithart, sons soldier ' choice, which would keep others off for a period of and nephews of Niles and Jesse, were among them. Ray time. Many did this but few completed their entries. O' Brien filed a claim on Mineral Bench hill. Charles Many of the fir t settlers were Danish people. In the Fleming and Knute Frieberg homesteaded here. spring of 1916 a number of members of the Church of the[...]ame out from Indiana to Andrew Skoglund, E. Elmer and Cora Benson and Josie homes tead. For a while it seemed to be a question of which Sten erson , Martin Knudsvig, J.P. Nasby and George group would eventually take over. However, most of the Larsen . The 1916 crop, a good yield, was threshed by Brethren stayed only a few years. Andrew Skoglund and Sons, with their steam outfit. The Only one fa[...]the J en sen Brothers homesteaded on Morgan Creek and also arrival of the homesteaders. Frank Cusker operated a had a steam engine. hor e ranch on Morgan Creek where his wife and son had Acr oss the Poplar River the e[...]Elizabeth Doran, Hughes Brothers, D.D. Sage and sons, On May 16, 1914, the first homesteaders,[...]h , John Anderson, Bill Handran, Mahers, who took a claim on Morgan Creek land. By fall Ibsen Ramstad, Frank Coue, Jim and Mary Maher, Lars quite a number came to establish residence. Some had Hammer, Neils P et er sen and Christ Jensen. Coue and Lee hired their shacks constructed during the summer. Carl had small stores and ran a post office for a while as they Miller and hi brother, Pete, had built a barn that year. were along the railroad survey li[...]ich was Heavy rains that eason raised all coulees and caused n ever built. On the Fourth-of-July, 1916,[...]orts in the tent in which they lived. P.T. staged a celebration which was attended by hundreds of Pet[...]ing, mostly on Brothers, Ezra mith , Elia Paulsen and Pete Spaabeck leased Indian tracts . W.C. Rawson, Petersen and were in the first year group. Stra ndskov, Massek and Krassine all made use of this new Coal for winter use had to be dug at the Cusker mine east power , but a dry, hot year caused a near crop failure. of Morgan. The settler put up hay, did some fencing and On J une 5th th e first registration for the World War I rock picking, and broke prairie into fire guards that first draft w[...]ar. The mail was still being supplied to cobey by a route 60 men, 21 thr ough 31, signed up. Most were deferred from from Poplar, but a soon as the railroad got a contract the military service, but one man who re[...]as e tablished half way to cobey, with Bill Kraft a po tmaster; another at eips , ten miles southeast, The Brethren People established a church in 1918. A with Robert Maxton as postmaster; and the Bredette post blacksmith shop was opened and Cusker school, the first in office with Mr . Grib[...]t teacher. Another church , fi nanced by Baptists and and George Robin on of co bey. They changed horses each built with labor donated by a ll, was put up two miles north trip at the usker[...]1918 the crop yield was better mail day per week and the community was supplied from and grain sold at war prices. Poplar.[...]ious 1916 when Sheridan County built some bridges and did service were held in private homes. A minister of the some grading north from th e post office. The first child Bapti t faith resided for a while at the home of Carl Miller born to homesteaders was Peter Petersen in the spring of and his sister, Mrs. Herness. 1917. David Nasby a nd Martha Knudsvig were born that In April of[...]ssed their first same year. Mrs. Clara Mitch ell, a ver y competent mid-wife, prairie fire , said to[...]ere destroyed The drought of 1919 saw m a n y of the settlers leaving and nobody was injured. Homesteaders saved some grass because of crop failure or because they h a d completed which was knee-high before the fire.[...]sidence requirements of their claims. Mrs. Rush , a s first black until new green growth appeared in a few days ' time. teacher, started a Literary Society a t the school. Many In August 1914, the first hail storm struck in the form of a debates and spelling bees were held during the winter. torrential rain and hailstones the size of hens' eggs. Some dances and card parties took place, very often in[...] |
| small rooms. When a crowd attended they were really of warriors from two Indian tribes met and fought a battle "kitchen sweats."[...]warrior was lain low. Today, this spot is a picnicker's which was occupied by some fifty or m[...]paradise. now is operated by not more than a dozen or so of farmers Years ago bachelors far out-numbered the young ladies and ranchers. Gert Peterson, Elias and Marius Paulsen in the locality, and they took many chances when doing still live on their lands. Pete Hanson, P.T. Peterson and their courting. Carl Miller live in Scobey and their sons operate the farms. One evening in the spring of 1921 Albert Grimm, one of The optimism and determination of the first settlers ena- these bachelors, held in his horse and looked across the bled many to succeed in what often has been termed a bridgeless Poplar river at a rushing torrent of tossing ice in "next year" cou[...]hose days, but the memory isn't too bad. many a man, but he made it across to see the school[...]later won for his wife. MORE HISTORY, HUMOR AND TRIALS Cupid was b[...]day before his marriage with Gerda Pedersen, and found As related before, the Bredette Post Off[...]d. Friends advised him the R.S. Gribble Homestead and named after the late Mr. not to cross, bu[...]t Mistress. Others waved his friends goodbye and plunged into the churning were Post Masters: Ben Seip, James E. Maher, and Ed waters with his plucky western broncho. It was quite a Buchholz. struggle of man and horse against the raging torrent and Mr. Buchholz, as mailcarrier, made some hazardous ice floes, and a relief to see them climb to safety on the other trips during the winter and spring months. He forded the side. This incident is long remembered by many. Poplar river by team and wagon before the bridge one mile Pioneers faced many hardships and lonely times while south of his home was built. Being of a kindly and obliging building this new country. nature he[...]lived along his route. One bachelor lived in a little shack far out in the hills so Settlers[...]es though lost all track of time. When a Deighbor called in January, mostly Danish, with a sprinkling of Germans , the bac[...]ose we will soon have Norwegians, Swedes, English and Irish among them. Christmas." T[...], John Clatt, was so busy doing gave performances and was conducted by Gert Pedersen. carpen[...]him before The hills of Roosevelt County held a wealth oflegendary he got his house plastered. Sand was three miles away, at lore of Indians and early settlers. the river, and all he had was a handsled to convey it to his Square Butte, fou[...]stands out place. He never became discouraged and made many a trip because of the rocks and it's steepness. Supposedly, bands ti[...] |
| PETER AND METTE HANSEN Donna and Judy. Arlis is now farming with his father,[...]the Hansen Matson farming and ranching Carl found time to build a lovely home and many other farm buildings, doing most of the Peter and Mette Hansen were born in Turup, Fyn,[...]18 8. Peter, the youngest of five children, was a carpenter activities such as 4-H Club, Vacation Bible School, plus by trade, working in Denmark and Germany. Many of his serving most of us as our eight year elementary school. cousins and oldest brother, Chris, had immigrated to the Carl and Reba might hold a record of being the only United States at the turn of the century and shortly Bredette School sweethearts to[...]he started to make plans to do likewise. He a few miles to come to school, many modes of left D[...]alking, bikes, buggy, horseback, auto working in a wagon factory, living in a Danish community and in the winters horse-drawn sleighs were used. As[...]the coal heater lost all its stove pipes, due to a likewise. He came to Scobey by train, could speak[...]oon in good hands, meeting Carl Miller with a burned face, and a coat sleeve scorched, believe the Sr., who gave h[...]e somehow managed the following surveyor markers and prairie trails. He soon dust storms, grasshoppers, prairie fires, and in the early became a neighbor of Carl Miller's, as he took up a 40's lost a year's supply of hay and barn in a fire, but homestead just across the border in Roo[...], later building the buildings were saved, and temporary shelters were up his one room house, wh[...]the kitchen area, then for the winter. Mom and Dad spent their retirement in several more additi[...]ng sod was done by Scobey, having a new home built there in 1957. Dad enjoy- horsepower and a walking plow, so homesteading involved ed his garden and yard, starting from scratch he had it all much strenuous labor for both man and beast. After under way in a year or so. The Hansen household was bi- farming for 12 years, he leased the farm for a year, and lingual, both children still speaking English and Danish. returned to his native Denmark to visit h[...]rned the English language as the children started and other relatives. The visit to his old neighborhood school, going through the readers with them, and reading proved to be a very happy and eventful one, soon a certain books, in either language was one o[...]heir Mette Rasmussen was in the picture. She ran a Country Scobey home was sold in 1971 to the Geritt Becker's shortly tore as a family venture with her brother and sister. Peter after they moved to Faith Lutheran Home in Wolf Point, had to invest in a bicycle for transportation from Montana. Mom and Dad both went to their "Heavenly " Blangstrupmind[...]self on foot. They were engaged on Valentines Day and married June 1, 1927, in Assens, and sailed shortly thereafter for America. Coming to the Montana prairies was quite a shock for Mette, JENSEN - PETERSON FAMILY having been used to the hustle and bustle of a store. There were no telephones, electricity, or nearby neighbors, but by Lillian Brookman and Ella Taylor somehow she learned to be a pioneer wife and mother. Besides farming, a grove of trees, garden and orchard Ingemann Jensen came to Ame[...]k his fortune needed much care. On April 12, 1929 a daughter, Margrethe and to make a better living. He was born August 22, 1885in op[...]was married September Hammel, Denmark and came over from Denmark in the 17, 1950 to orris L[...]North Dakota. summer of 1913. Ingemann and his cousin, Jens Lind, orris' maternal grandpa[...]in the Reserve area for about two years. They had a farmed in the Silver tar area in the late 20's early 30's. two room shack and had a couple saddle horses they rode to Norris first came to the Scobey area in 1941, working for work for a larger farmer in the area. Ingemann The Paulsen Brothers, until 1949, except for a short hitch in homesteaded in the Bredette com[...]in the Montana College, graduating from Colorado A& M, with a service and served some time in France. He met Lydia degree i[...]ter in Cheyenne, Wyoming during his service years and Daniels County P M A Office 1948-1950. Norris taught they[...]January, 1918. Ingemann received school in Hardin and Shelby, Montana before moving to his discharge papers in January, 1919 and returned to his Henderson evada in 1956, where th[...]sent for his wife. Lydia their two children Lyle and Kathleen . Norris is now came to Scob[...]s Tong engaged in Hotel Construction in Las Vegas and part time brought Lydia out to their farm[...]ook her home to the homestead shack by horse 1931 a son, Carl Erling , was born at the farm. He farmed and buggy. Lydia was a lovely dark-haired girl dressed in with his dad for several years and worked for Liebrands black taffeta and wearing a large, black leg-horn hat. She Plumbing before taking over the home place in 1957, since was a city girl and really unprepared for the work of farm then he has bought more acreage and farms the Gribble life; but she managed to take it in stride and did really well Brothers farm. On June 1, 1954 Ca[...]over all those years. The homestead house was a one room Knudsvig, daughter of Martin and Dawn Knudsvig, affair just north across a coulee from another couple, the neighbors of the[...]g from Gert Peterson's. There was a good spring in the coulee that orthern Montana[...]ght school in Scobey supplied the house, a milk cow, a team, saddle, chickens, in the early 1950's. They have four children : Arlin, Carla, and pigs. The family moved one mile north from[...] |
| [...]. homestead site to the present farm location, a lovely site |
| [...]923, they moved to the Fort Peck Reservation too, and the Bredette schools. She would drive horse and buggy since there was more farm and grazing land available. six and seven miles. Even though she had use of only one Their new home was little more than a shack with a leaky arm, she enjoyed many years playing the old pump organ roof and a very bad floor. They made a pair of leather chaps at the Bredette church. She[...]n are Garth who now lives in Baker, and thirty-five miles northwest of Poplar. They had p[...]st graduating class from high good crops and then came the "Dirty Thirties". During the school at Flaxville. He then went on to college and was in good years Dad had a threshing machine and in the fall the first graduation class from North[...]e crew, which numbered nine or ten men and also furnished Norgaard of Flaxville. They had three children. Their son, the horses. He never kept a man who abused or mistreated Byran, was killed in a plane crash in 1967. Mable died in the horses in any way. Mom cooked for the crew, and that 1965. Their daughters are Vivien and Myrna. was on a coal range, no running water and no Another daughter, Martha, who was one of th[...]es born here, also attended Flaxville High School and Some of the neighbors in the early days[...].M.C. at Havre, later taught school at the Navajo and Joy Rushs, Newton Friebergs, George Cuskers[...]John Hausauers, George Swiharts, Niles Montgomery and they all live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Swiharts, Jim and Mary Maher, Carey Ketchners, Charles Their children are: James, Dawn, Dianna, Vicki and Edna. Flemmings, Gribbles, Albert Grimms,[...]Hansens, Pete Spaabeks, Chris, Geol.'ge and Elmer daughters, Reba and Greta. They each have four children. Jens[...]s, Ingemann Jensens, Gert Reba i Mrs. Carl Hansen and they live on the Pete Hansen Petersens, J[...]Jens Nasbys, Martin Knudsvigs, Eugene Longs and Jim Hansen's children are: Arlin, Carla, Donna and Judy. Mac Donalds. Stentoft's are: Martin , Anena, Lorene and JoAnn. Many of these families left, it was too hard to make a living on a homestead and some stayed until the[...]through the water. Dad pulled many a traveler out after[...]Thompson, Swihart, Hausauer, Cooey, Seip and Paulsen to name a few. trandvold Knudsen was born in Nakskov, Denmark on Mr. Cooey had a general store west of the Poplar River at February 5, 1 , the son of a fisherman. He went to school one time. there and also helped on the farm and the fishing boats. There was a Pastor Andresen who came from Flaxton, When he wa[...]ates; that orth Dakota, about once a month. The services were held was in 1905. He worked on a farm at Marshall, Minnesota in the homes of the Danish Lutheran Church members. and then came to Culbert on, Montana in January, 1908[...]. Of course, those He worked there at variou jobs and broke hor e for K.O. Sundays were spent eating and visiting after the services. lette, who had a ale barn. Finally in the 1940's a pastor from Scobey American When he reached the age of twenty-one he filed on a Lutheran came to the church building ac[...]ghes School in the Windy Butte area was torn down and 1909. the Bredette School was built. What a day it was when we He got his United State cit[...]moved into the new building. It was heated with a coal Plentywood , Montana which was then the coun[...]been we all moved our desks up around it and burned our faces changed again. It was in 1919 that Roo evelt County was and froze our backs. There was a teacherage attached to created.[...]obey, previous years. In the 1930's a field meet was held each Montana , April 15, 1922[...]spring which included competitive sports, music and Her parents, iels and Kirstine Pedersen, came to the school pr[...]United tates from Denmark in 1914. Her father was a Bredette, Mineral Bench, Grey, Dowd, Biem and Anderson. schoolmaster in Denmark. They lived in[...]were the days of rural schools. Gert Peterson had a before coming to the McCabe area. They then moved to a string orchestra which included all the[...]chool. about forty miles north of Wolf Point. Mr. and Mrs . We went to school by horse and buggy when the weather Pedersen died in 1934 and 1937 and are buried at Wolf was nice. Then in winter Dad took us with a team and Point. bobsled . That was two trips a day - seven miles each time. trandvold and Gerda went back to their home at When we were older and there was finally a barn built at McCabe with a Hambletonian team and buggy. The trip school the boys drove the team and that gave Dad a little[...] |
| [...]work at home. One or two years Eugene Long drove a school bus - it was a covered wagon pulled by a team. It had a small coal heater inside. Of course, when the Pop[...]un. In those days it was very seldom anyone saw a doctor. When babies were born, it was at home or at a relatives home. Art, who lives on the home place, Cliff, of Charlo, Montana and Eleanor of Wolf Point, were all born at McCabe wi[...]Munch in attendance. Betty of Missoula , Montana and Alan of Thompson Falls, Montana were born in Scob[...]was born in Mrs. Dale's Hospital in Poplar, Dr. C.A. Swanson in charge. One time, Mom had quinsy, s[...]o get the doctor. The doctor came out to our home and lanced her Jens Larsen on left in 1924 truck. Got stuck on what is now tonsils and then went on his way. Luckily for her and all of Highway 2 getting into Montana March 1925. us, she recovered. For many years there was a Post Office at Bredette, Montana in the Gribble h[...]the mail out from Poplar on Saturdays. He came in a car when the weather and roads permitted, but sometimes with a team or on horseback. Beginning in the 1940's we had a three times a week delivery and later the post office at Bredette was closed. D[...]years, it was then District No. One. He also got a 4-H Club started in the Bredette community. How w[...]t- the 4-H Fair at Culbertson, Montana every year and 4-H camp. He also was a board member of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The school board meetings and the Triple A meetings were held in early spring and the Poplar River was always out of its banks then so Dad would ride a horse and swim the river, dodging the large ice chunks and nearly getting drowned in the process. Dad had a nice herd of Angus cattle and kept them as long as he could during the '30's. He hauled straw from Whitetail, north of Flaxville, and other places in that area but finally had to let[...]5. had sheep for about five years, then sold them and went back into the cattle business. In 1950 because the Bredette School was closed and Alan and Roy were ready to start school, Mom and Dad left Minnesota and came back here in a Model T truck in March their home in Roosevelt County and moved to the Mission 1925 and started farming. I had a couple of boys along with Valley near St. Ignatiu[...]lngemann Jen en, Gert Peter en, Ed. Ben on and Carl there.[...]I farmed and was a bachelor until 1929 when I went to Denmark and married ophie tutzer, and brought her[...]SEN FAMILY desolate and the shack rather primitive. We have one son,[...]chool. We had a po t office at Bredette where we could go I came to the United tates from Denmark, landing in and get our mail once a we k. The farm home wa located New York the day b[...]two trading, doctor or ho pital i cobe , a distance of about years. About the first of Augus[...]k in the harvest fields . I knew Carl Miller from a school We had a community hall in Br dett where <lane and in DeMoines, Iowa. He had settled in the area and I went card parties were held. Th re wa al o a church in the to work for him. He was using his n[...]community, built by the Bapti ts in 1915. A Lutheran thresher. My job was to unload the grain[...]p Bredette took it over in 1926. Thi wa EL , and lat r shovel.[...]gregation wa dis olv din 1969. Carl Miller had a neighbor, George Smith (or Schmidt) The b[...]orth of Brockton where it it who was past seventy and wanted t~ sell his farm. I bought now u ed by a Free Luth ran congregation. The church it with all the horses and machinery; the hou e and was used as a school for a few years until the Bredette cooking utens[...] |
| [...]by Arthur Lee as told to Mrs. Robert Lee Elmer and Albert Lee of Streator, Illinois, homesteaded |
| [...]he fine crops, ALBERT R. TONG and the many, many blessings. Bredette with its many[...], Albert R. Tong, bought the Albert Grimm farm in a The first few years, Mama thought it was so gre[...]Scobey on my birthday in 1950. to go to Scobey in a horse drawn wagon, once a year after On June 1, 1951, I married Laurita R. Bergman who had harvest, and come back the next day. c[...]souri to teach English in Scobey High There was a fine Community Sunday School where Gert Sc[...]teach until 1954. taught Sunday School many years and played his violin. We worked at farming operations only until the Later he organized a neighborhood children's string band beginning of 1953 when we bought two milk cows and then that continued a number of years. They practiced in the wintered cattle on a share basis to gradually build up a various homes and had much enjoyment. herd o[...]octor was 21 miles away. born and on July 25, 1957, our second son, Conrad Duane, Gert and Ruth raised five children: Marie (Mrs. Philip)[...]spent the school months at Bainville, Wolf Point, and Warren) Lund - McLaughlin, South Dakota - farmers[...]e where the boys have attended school while their and ranchers; Gert Junior - Clarkston, Washington - mother has taught in high school and the elementary construction contractor; Gladys (Mrs. Carl) Hines - grades and their father has remained on the ranch. Guidance[...]outh Rehabilitation Center - Arthur is a graduate of Hinsdale High School and has Lincoln, Nebraska. attended college in Havre and Lamoni , Iowa. Conrad is My Dad and Mom had a great faith in God, and one ofmy now a junior in Hinsdale High. Both boys have been acti[...]in school activities, especially FFA, with sheep and around the supper table and my folks praying for us mechanics as their main projects on the farm. children and our neighbors.[...]united in marriage worked together to build a home by farming and ranching to Helen Conrad in May of 1956. Gert pas[...]educational opportunities for our Scobey in 1973, and Helen in 1975. family. The farm is now owned by John and Gerta Stentoft.[...] |
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| [...]on to the school They're teachers, "Be-Gorry", and purchased baseball suits, a cemetery fence and many Misses Nordwick and Klein. times helped families and individuals in distress. For years it played a big part in keeping the Sunday school going. And here's to our husbands, Last but not least, a community spirit of good will has So sweet, s[...]lub: I was afraid the toast-master'd call on me So I've picked out just a few, Mrs. Jensen's a mighty fine president, |
| Andy, Sheridan (Shorty), Forrest (Frosty) and Ruth. The three oldest boys, except for Lloyd were the first to go to Flaxville. Mother, Forrest and Ruth came by train after a home was built-twenty miles south of Flaxville. Our furniture, three horses and one cow arrived also by train. The land consisted of Section 18 and two quarter sections, one-half and two miles away. Our first home was located on this land. After Andy was married to Clara Malden, a home was built on section Eighteen. He clerked in a general store in Flaxville and played in the city paid baseball club. Wesley was the catcher, a good team it was too. Mike Fox, Depot agent, was the pitcher and as good as they come, outside of paid pro teams i[...]activities within twenty miles of the reservation and tough going in winter by bobsled. One winter was very severe that I remember, and believe it was business ofbuying·a team of horses, harness, wagon, food , the year o[...]terrible flu that was everywhere cookware, a load of lumber, nails, and tools to build a and I, Frosty, had to leave school in New Rockford, North "claim shack" 12x16 feet with a car roof, (two layers of Dakota and go home to help as every family had almost resawn lumber with a layer of roofing between bent over a someone very sick. For a time I had to go out and dig cow center ridge pole.) Drinking wate[...]ther water weather cleared, I drove by bobsled to a farm where they was obtained from ponds[...]of the Leete homestead. It is long since dry and farmed. weight. On a beautiful sunny spring day with a breeze that Every one had a big tractor. Ours was a 40-80 waved the grass like waves on water we arrived at the spot Minneapolis and pulled eight breaking bottoms. When to build the shack. We had not seen a person or a building in seeding, eight plows, two discs and seeder behind. The the last fifteen mi[...]was trail that continued on east and south to Poplar and went nonstop. Andy and I, Frosty, were the night shift. One mile s[...]d, knew where that iron The area soon built up and a small schoolhouse was stake about one[...]ng grass was. That built. These homesteaders were a very intelligent group of was the southeas[...]homestead entry on one year before. He had a map in his played instruments, so we had at that time a very good mind where and how to locate that iron post. orchestra. I am not[...]but remember The horses were hobbled and turned loose to graze. We Einar Lund; a cousin, Al Cornelius, Emil Diethart, and I unloaded the wagon, made camp, and slept under the believe one other. on-stop dances and at midnight a wagon. In a couple of days we had the shack built with two lunch. Henry Malden played the piano and Andy the barn sashes for windows and homemade door, a drums during the lunch hour. The farmer helped pa[...]to every barn dance from Scobey, chairs, a small wood stove. A few shelves for supplies and Redstone, Flaxville, Madoc and you name it, every week dishes and we were ready to farm. and every dance.[...]a pulled into the Baker homestead dentistry there a few years before going to Miles City. Ruth with a 30-60 Rumley Oil Pull Tractor and eight bottom and Frosty are both Poplar High School graduates. Ruth and Fro ty are the only two left. We both think there is no place like Montana. Our work took us elsewhere and at seventy years and over, it is not the time for one to return to wh[...]AS EXPERIENCED BY E GE EE. (GE E) BAKER AND FAMILY by Chester 0. Baker Eugene E. Baker (Gene) was a farmer at heart. He had |
| [...]days of February was a beautiful chinook. March came in like a lion. One of the worst blizzards I have witnessed[...]and were found smothered and frozen. Early in April we[...]My brother, Eugene Wilbur (Pete) and his wife, Lucille,[...]range for horses and before that buffalo. A book could be written of the ups and downs of homestead days at Mineral[...]Bench. The joys of community parties and Sunday School at homes and at the schoolhouse, early used as a community center, offish fries and picnics on Poplar River, baseball games and horse races, people cooperating to[...]r's supply of lignite at the Borgrude Pete, Nora, and Ruth Baker and Neilsen mines, good and poor crops, grasshoppers and ha~.l stones, of sickness and death and neighbor helping[...]e family. I am sure the same spirit breaking plow and broke 150 acres of sod. Gene Baker was sti[...]ldom see any of the old busy getting seed, horses and equipment to seed that neighbors. Ther[...]em or acreage of newly turned sod to flax. It was a hot, dry some incident that happened in[...]The children of Eugene Baker, their present a dresses and free roaming horses out of the fields, Gene went to Flaxville occupations are listed below: with his team and wagon and returned in two days with a Chester 0. Baker, retired farmer and county assessor, and load of split cedar posts and enough barbed wire to fence wife, Carol, Bo[...]to keep out daytimes. They Winston E. Baker and wife, Mildred, retired farmer, 663- liked to raid the fields any time at night or daybreak. In a 5th Avenue North, Lot 15, Havre, Montana 59501 few days we had the holes dug by hand, posts set, and Evelyn-Mrs. Clyde Gile, husband retired[...]al corporations, claim shacks left for the winter and returned in the spring. 615 Central Avenue, Billings, Montana 59101 A few close neighbors were Leo Vandenberg, Charles Eugene W. (Pete) Baker and wife, Lucille, semi-retired Ammondson, Rev. Nees, Rev. Mills, Clarence and George rancher, Richey, Montana 59259 B[...]lph Ruth-Mrs. Myron Tinker-husband a salesman, Nesbit, Veda La Roche, Thore Mickelson,[...]hills Apartments, Number 254, 1320 Lakeway Drive, and the Leete family. A few years later the William Jensen, Bellingham, Washington 98225 the John Q. Zuck and other families arrived. The flax crop made two bushels per acre. After Thanksgiving Dad and I returned to Minnesota where we both worked duri[...]. The homestead was rented out in 1918 to Briden, and there was a fair crop of wheat. We stayed in Minnesota in 1918, and Dad sold his farm there and prepared to make his home in Montana. In April 1919 we returned to the homestead and built a two-room shack, later added another room. My brothers and sisters then came to live at Mineral Bench. One of the highlights of that summer: Leo Vandenberg bored a 90 foot well, and we put up a windmill to pump water. As far as I know, that we[...]with children of school age including my brothers and sisters. All the neigh hors got together and dug a basement for the Mineral Bench school. A crew of men from Poplar brought material and built our first school. Emma Tagge, later Mrs. Gu[...]ly snowstorm. We drove our cattle two miles south and locked them in Briden's big shed. After leaving t[...]e Lemm place six miles north west where there was a better house and a big barn. Dad had rented it for the winter. My brothers and sisters Nees, Baker Threshing Crew 1[...] |
| [...]Mr. Dees took the two horses and a spring wagon, his oldest daughter, Eva, and started the 27 miles to the[...]fall . He lived about six miles north and west of the Dees[...]out and her front legs gave way. She had been weakened by[...]was unhooked and Eva led her. Mr. Dees took the other side[...]of the tongue and helped the remaining horse pull the load[...]where Gaskell loaned them a horse. They spent the night[...]After a few days looking the homestead over, they[...]returned to Poplar wher~ Mr. Dees bought a 1917 Ford car[...]to be removed and the car could be converted to a field[...]belongings to the homestead. A man by the name of[...]farm. Eva and Jennie stayed in town in the tent there to[...]care for the remaining things. Each time a trip was made[...]About the first part of June a cyclone went through Poplar and demolished the tent where Eva and Jennie were living. A road construction worker by the name of Winters[...]who lived nearby, saw the storm coming and ran to get the two girls and took them to his cook car. William and Angenora Dees. Model T Ford in front of[...]things had to be moved to the farm including a piano which had been bought in 1905 and had traveled with the family[...]lumber was obtained in Flaxville to DEES AND BRECHBIEL FAMILIES build a long shed which was to be the garage and machine[...]shed. The family moved into this building and lived there by Velma Brechbiel Miller the winter of 1917 and 18. William and Angenora Dees migrated by train to Portland, Oreg[...]their fi ve ch ildren, Eva, Bessie, Dora, Jennie and Paul. Mr. Dees worked as a railroad employee for a while and also a chicken farmer. In the fall of 1916 he heard of h[...]enings on the Sioux Indian Reservation in North E a stern Montana. He went to Montana and filed on a 320 a cre homestead n orth of Poplar. In April 1917 he[...]ows (both milking) two calves, chickens, rabbits, a dog a nd all their furniture and personal possessions. Mr. Dees rode with the poss[...]grant train was slow moving, taking approximately a week to arrive at Poplar, Montana. Mr. Dees arriv[...]his homestead before the remainder of the family and pitched a tent on a vacant lot in the west end of town. When the fami[...]loaded their possessions off the railroad cars. A day or two later it snowed about four inches and Church of the Brethren Sunday School Class, 1918. Back having come from a place where the spring flowers were row:[...]hart, Wilbur Dilling, Galen Kauffman. Center row: and nearly froze.[...]Brown, Mr. Dees then purchased three lots south and west of the Bessie Dees, Grace Mitchell. Front row: Howard Brechbiel, cemetery and put up two tents with board floors and boards Herbert Brown, Oren Henry, Aaro[...] |
| [...]bobsled, when the roads were bad. There were a number of families at that time in the area wit[...]hbored. Some of the folks were the Ed Mitchells and family, Rev. and Mrs. Aaron Swihart, George Swihart and family, Lola and Horace Humphrey (brother and sister) who lived with their widowed father east of the church in a rock house. Lola later married Carey Ketchner and lived in and around Poplar for many years. Others were the Jim Pierces and family , and Opal and Fannie Rough, Ben and Emma Seip and family, Isaac and Inez Buchanan, and family, Niles and Grace Swihart and family, the Hanks family and John and Clara Hosa uer and daughter, Ed and Florence Buchholz and daughter and the Kaisers and family. William D. Brechbiel, - a widower and his two sons Clarence, 19 and Howard, 18, lived south of the church and about five miles west of the Dees home. They had come from Indiana to Scobey, in 1914, and then moved to Seips in 1917, having filed on a homestead. Dees and Brechbiel made a deal whereby they would exchange labor in building the two homes and a shed for Dees'. The Brechbiel home was built the summer of 1917. The Dees home was started and the frame and roof completed later that fall. This house was well made with a layer of building paper on the frame, then "boxing" put on Jennie Dees and Garland Gaskell (Jennie in front). at an angle for bracing, then a layer of tar paper and lap siding on the outside. The inside was green[...]In the hot summer weather the lumber dried out and left big cracks in the walls. This house had four rooms downstairs and two rooms upstairs.[...]love feasts, church conventions, pot luck dinners and the Dees' had gone to church services. Miss Doren and Mrs picnics. Ladies Aid met in homes where the w[...]ees hadn't gone. During the dark hours they heard a nois~ piece and tie quilts or do fancy work. The women would in the barn and taking a lantern they went to investigate. A drive themselves to and from the meeting places by horse young heifer with long horns had had a calf and would not and buggy or wagon or horseback, and would spend all claim it. Miss Doren worked the calf around and managed day. At Christmas time the women and sometimes the men to get it out of the w[...]es would make treats for everyone at the church. A big sack got home she announced that since[...]scued the calf full of homemade candies, popcorn and nuts would be she would name it. It became Sir Lancelot and remained distributed to all.[...]that until it was sold. On the fourth of July a big community picnic would be In the fal[...]emic hit the area. held by the Poplar River with a pot luck dinner. Sometimes Mrs. Dees helped at the different homes when the people there'd be a fish fry. A program consisting of speaking, were sick. One time she came home to find four of her own singing and recitation would be followed with various[...]with them. She nursed them all back to he~lth and neither horseshoes and baseball.[...]he flu. Mr. Dees was called on to take Jennie and Paul went to school the winter of1917 and '18 a young man to the hospital, but the man died in the car in a one room schoolhouse about one mile south of the[...]e eighth grade in Eva Dees had met a young man, Otha Long in Kansas. Dallas but since[...]to go to Poplar to school, They corresponded and in the fall of 1919 he came to she attended the[...]Reed, the minister of the Brethren Church at th~ and Dick Seip, Garland and Crystal Gaskell, Minnie, Dees home. Clarence (Tigar) and Eva MacDonald, Amy, Myrtle, Fred- High school was in Poplar with no way to get back and rick and Ralph Pierce. All subjects and all grades were forth. This meant that co[...]ught by the one teacher. The school was heated by a coal town during the winter. In 1920, Dora stayed in town with stove. Each father would bring a load of coal mined from an older couple, until Christmas. During the years a one of several coal mines in the area. This was[...]arpaper shack had been built on the lots in town. A well which was a soft, dusty coal and left a lot of ashes. had been dug and the lots had been fenced. The shack was At Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and the last day of fixed ~p and Bessie, Dora and another girl, Gladys Martin, school there were pr[...]also hved there with them. would recite and have plays and sing. The whole _The wi~ter of 1921-22, Bessie, Dora, Jennie, Paul and community would come. At Christmas the teacher wo[...]in the shack. In March Dora quit give each child a little gift. The last day of school there school and went back out to the farm. Bessie graduated would be a pot luck picnic dinner.[...] |
| [...]milk butter and eggs to wherever the crew was working.[...]M;. Dees and Bessie went to the Yakima Valley in[...]Washington to work. Mr. Dees worked in a cider mill and[...]ie in the cannery. They worked through the winter and[...]shipped a 50 gallon keg of boiled down cider to Poplar.[...]seat of a Ford car, getting pretty well shook up in the[...]Being anxious to open it, they didn't let it set and started to open it on the spot. Taking a brace and bit, Mr. Dees proceeded to make a hole in the top of the keg. The[...]up cider began to fizz out. He realized the error and leaving the bit in the hole for a plug he whittled a piece of[...]wouldn't mold to the hole in the keg and couldn't withstand[...]the pressure. The peg was blown out and the cider shot out[...]to the ceiling, coming back down and drenching Mr. Dees[...]with the foam. Every pan, bowl and kettle in the house was[...]full of cider foam. After it settled down a larger hole was made and cider poured back. Aultman Taylor tractor owned by William Dees in 1918. Jennie liked dogs and had a little rat terrior named[...]a "city slicker" and after a few days disappeared. Several[...]miles home and was a very foot-sore and tired little dog. Young people were mischievous in those days, and playing tricks on teachers and other students were P°:rt of Howard Brech[...]ting monotonous. Some of the bigger family and with three eligible young girls it was inevitable[...]Cows had to be milked by hand ring. The teacher, a man, would get mad and one day said and this required some time. During the winter of 1925 a he wished they'd think of some fresh jokes, that[...]er of some of the students liked Limburger and Dora. It was all rather a quiet affair and in early June cheese and one of their friends got a hold of the rind off of that year they drov[...]n an envelope, she put it license. Not having a license on their car, they borrowed under the mat on his chair with a note saying, "This is not one from a neighbor, Oscar Borgrud. They didn't expect stal[...]od news in the neighborhood warmed up the cheese and the warmer it became the more spreads ra[...]as it smelled. He dug out his desk, looked under and all around at that time there was no minister in the area. The road to and behind the drawers before he finally found the trouble. Froid went right by a neighbors house so they knew just He found it du[...]mbly period when all but one of when Howard and Dora went by and alerted everyone else. the students, a poor girl who had some makeup work to do, It was Sunday, June seventh and when Howard, _Dora, were gone. She got the full advantage of what should have Bessie Jennie and Paul arrived at the Froid church 1t was gone to[...]others. She told the rest what had late a~d services were over. Glenn Swank was found and happened.[...]Sunday dinner and gave them directions to get there. Upon Winters were hard and cold with lots of snow and wind. arriving there they were invited to dinner and were People had to be careful not to be caught in a blizzard married that afternoon. without knowing where they were and how to get to safety. Upon arriving home that evening they found that Mrs. Cows teats would freeze and tails would freeze to the Dees had word that there was a letter for her from Mr. Dees, ground when they laid down and pull off when they got to now working in W[...]Howard and Dora went over to get it and on the way Calving was usually planned for th[...]opped at the home of Niles Swihart where they saw a warmed up, but sometimes a winter calf would make its number of t[...]he nothing of it as this was common on a Sunday afternoon house to be dried and warmed. One li[...]r, kept trying to tell them Since eggs, cream and milk were plentiful, ice cream was something but her mother and the other women managed easily made. The ingredients were mixed and then set on a to out talk her so she couldn't "spill the beans". Howard chair outside and as it froze someone would stir it every and Dora continued on to pick up the letter and returned once in a while. Once, shortly after one of the stirrings and home. When they went to put the car in the shed it was full when no one was watching, a couple of old sows saw a feast of people. They were charivaried with a big party. laid out for them and that ice cream was destined for The next morning, Mrs. Dees, Bessie, Jennie, Paul and something other than human consumption. This was[...]ings on an immigrant of the hazards of li ving on a farm. car. Otha and Eva went back to Kansas. The Dees women In the fall of 1924, Mr~and Mrs. Dees, Bessie and Howard took a passenger train to Mabton, Washington. Paul rode went with a threshing crew. Dora stayed on the farm to do[...]taying with her to keep of trying to make a living on the homestead. Howard and her company and help her with the work. Each day they'd[...]alone on the farm. They filed on the place. bake and the next morning would take the baked good[...] |
| [...]I was just four years old and Lloyd was two and a half. We or September he drove a truck of furniture to Minnesota for Oscar Borgrud[...]leave Montana. Dora were scared of the train and didn't want to be away from was supposed to stay[...]out three Daddy so we cried most of the first day and night. Upon getting to Spokane there was a layover so Mama got a room miles away. She still had the chores to do a[...]in the morning, then back to Swihart at night. in a hotel. We kids had never seen a Negro before and when Howard was gone about two weeks. It snowed a[...]more. The elevator was a new experience and the rooms The grain crop had been headed and put into stacks. Thehad carpet, something we had never seen, and a nice stationary threshers soon arrived. The snow was shoveled bouncy bed. This quieted us down and we all got a good off the stacks and threshing began. The threshing crew rest. Mama[...]nths in Washington. consisted of around eight men and threshing would take Money had to be borrowed for her to go and she had to wait around three or four days for the[...], I started to school in the fall of 1932. A room was rented coyotes would kill the sheep, turkeys and chickens. Hard in the Poplar Hotel and Gramma stayed with me and Mary winters took their toll of cattle. Straw and cottonseed cake[...]ed available for cattle. This was a hard winter. One morning, after we girls had I[...]left for school, Gramma walked down the hall and met Mrs. born. Since hospitals were not too common, Mama went to Pfoff and Mrs. Greene, two of the mothers in the hotel. the[...]Isaac Buchanans in Poplar, where They each had a boy in school. The Pfoff boy's name was Mrs. Buch[...]just across the road east of the They expressed a great deal of surprise and took her to look Poplar school. She was a midwife and nurse, and women outside. Our room was on the protected east side of the hotel who were expecting and lived a distance from town could and we had failed to see the blizzard raging outside.[...]e the baby was Gramma rushed to the hotel phone and called the school to born and two weeks after, the bed care for Mama and the watch for us. We were met at the school door and our faces care of Lloyd came to $90.00. and hands were rubbed with camphorated oil to keep th[...]stbitten. We were warmly dressed in long the west and rented a couple other places nearby in hopes underwear, long black or brown cotton stockings, four or that with more land, they could make a living. five buckle overshoes, woolen dresses and heavy coats, My folks built an ice house on our place around 1931 orhats and mittens. This day and several other days school '32. It was about 10x14 feet and was a dug-out with a was dismissed as no amount of coal could mak[...]Poplar River would freeze thick ice every winter and when burning of the Gateway Hotel which was just[...]community would_get the Poplar Hotel. This was a big fire and the residents of together and, with wagons and sleds, would go to the ri~erthe Poplar Hotel were warned to be ready to move if it got and cut the ice in big blocks. They were taken to the ice out of hand. Gramma sent Mary and I with the canary bird houses or caves and packed with sawdust or straw for to the Gle[...]The fire was held to the Gateway Hotel and our hotel was everyday use to store cream, butter, ~ggs and ic~ cream o.k. could be made with the ice. Man[...]otel. The bathroom would get together for picnics and make homemade ice were down the hall from o[...]the hand-cranked freezers. Our ice house was and one for women and were community hared. It was a doomed to a short life as a cyclone in July 1934 blew it luxury to have a flush toilet and bathtub with hot and cold away. The same cyclone blew down a granery and running water, something unheard of on the farm, a we scattered grain all over and took a corner off the house. had never had electricity. We girl were warned not to take There was a lot of hail with this storm a':d everyone ~as too long in the bathroom a there were other waiting. given pillows or quilts and we 'd stand with these agams_t Lloyd started t[...]ws we kids on the bottom, adults on top. The hail and aero s the alley from u and Larry wa my age. The stones would bounce off the "padded" windows. There Paulson s lived to the we t and Edna wa my age. The weren't enough people to go around and after the storm Virgil Lowe were further we t[...]remember right, layton wa the one who wa chopping and the straw hats which had been bought for Easter were wood once and the axe mi ed the wood and cut hi foot floating around in a puddle in the middle of the bed. badly. Roberta Ketchner' parent had moved to town , and Sometimes during the winter the folks would do their Glenn wanks were about a block away. Evelyn , Roberta evening chores early then go to one of the neighbors home and I had been friend on the farm. and play Norwegian Whist all night. We kids would be put Christmas vacation Mama and Daddy would come in to to bed. Early in the morning pancakes and ausage would get us for a short time at home. It wa o nice to be home. be f[...]eakfast, then everyone would go home, do One time a big Russian Thistle was brought into the house chore and sleep the rest of the day. . and decorated. Another time, in later years an evergr[...]30. m tree wa obtained from somewhere and decorated with Sunnyside, Washington. Mama took us by tram to be with little clip on candle holder and candle . The e had to be[...] |
| placed carefully as many trees caught fire and burned. Fruit was not common and so the wild berries were Mama has forgotten this but I'll never forget the sight of gathered and used for juice, jam and jelly. The currants the lighted tree as we walked into the living room. and chokecherries were plentiful in the "breaks" nort[...]und the our place. This seemed like quite a distance to us but as we house. The snow would have a thick hard crust that kids got older, we'd take our wagon and a bucket and go humans and horses could walk on. Everything would be[...]. Mostly, though, some of the neighbors, bright and shiny when the sun shone. sometimes the Swanks, would come and we'd all go with Spring vacations were always exciting as, by then, the horses and wagons to pick. We'd pack a lunch and take snow would be gone and the purple crocuses would be most of the day. The summer that Uncle Paul and Aunt blooming. We'd always have to explore the hills and Gladys were there we went. Poor little Billy sat down on a coulees all around our place. The coulees seemed deep and big cactus plant and had to have the thorns pulled from his while there wasn't much rain, there were a few springs that bottom. How well I remembe[...]the livestock. was when someone would find a bush of the big black These ponds had the nicest pollywogs in them and we'd currants. They were so-o-o good.[...]n town were spent with the washed and picked over out under th epump in the cold, children and young people going around taking gates off[...]ache from the coldness. hinges, soaping windows and anything else they could There was a bush (or small tree) of red bullberries in the[...]n't considered pick them so we'd take a sheet or something and each take proper to have these standing the next morning. This a corner and hold it under the tree, then shake the tree. The Halloween, Daddy and Lloyd were in the outhouse when berries would fall in to the sheet. they heard a commotion outside and the "house" started to On January 26, 1937 the baby was born. Lloyd and I were rock. Daddy let out a hollar and everything became silent. bundled up warmly and taken to Uncle Clarence's to stay. This was one "outhouse" that didn't get a proper tipping Due to complications, the[...]as buried. Coyotes were extremely destructive and would kill large It was during this winter that the home of Thore numbers of sheep, turkeys and chickens. Daddy had Mickelson burned down. Thore and his wife lived in the trained the sheep so that[...]inter to the barn all he had to do was call like a coyote and they'd where Thore would do shoe repair. The n[...]we would be marked Daddy brought Thore and his wife and small child home to with a number with waterproof paint as they lambed and spend the night with us. her lamb or[...]ch Mineral Bench was to the north and east of our house. night when the sheep were bro[...]losed down we'd go up there for were run through a chute and the numbers crossed off a Sunday School. We also attended some of the Christmas list. If any were missing we'd go out and look until we programs held there. One[...]Stanley Nees. bad they couldn't get out, and so trips to town could be kept to a minimum. They would take their wheat to Medicine The Depression was bad in '35 and '36. People didn't Lake to get it ground into fl[...]shels of wheat was have the money to buy meat and other foodstuff. The traded for 100 pounds of flour. The mill kept the bran and farmers couldn't sell their meat animals so there became "shorts". A cereal like Cream of Wheat was also obtained[...]ndred pound sacks of farmers to dispose of a percentage of their animals to cut flour were lai[...]nly things the folks Bread was all home baked and a starter was made from had that were over their quota. They had to kill some of potato water, sugar and a bit of yeast. (sometimes). A little their ewes. The pelts had to be kept as proof of disposal. of this starter was kept back each time and more potato Some of the farmers had to kill cattle and pigs. All this water and sugar added. This had to be kept cool in hot[...]e starving. People in town had no animals weather and not allowed to freeze in cold weather. It was and couldn't butcher their own meat. At least the far[...]ugh, to go to the dark had meat. cellar and get the starter when Gramma made bread. I[...]parated from us might add - this starter acted as a yeast and was used to most of the year, and they had never been able to make a make the bread rise.[...]mewhere else. They had subscribed to the Brethren and Gramma Dees again brought us into town for school[...]rch publication, the Gospel Messenger, for years, and Jennie had come to Montana. This winter the depre[...]ppeared in it stating that the was well under way and times were getting harder and Snake River Valley area in Idaho was[...]rethren harder. Daddy moved into town with Gramma and us kids, families to settle there. and Aunt Jennie lived out on the farm with Mama to take In July of 1937 our family and Gramma Dees and her care of the Ii vestock. Daddy and Uncle Clarence worked on canary bird packed up the Chrysler car and headed west to the WPA. Most of the men in the ho[...]ty look at the prospects of getting a place. We moved to were in town working and this left the women on the many Weiser,[...]ked on This had to buy rough lumber for a one room shack and roads but many other projects were completed under the food for the family and livestock for the winter. And so life WP A program.[...] |
| [...]were in a mess as beds had to be moved to keep from getting[...]Uncle Clarence and Aunt Freda gave up farming and moved into town into a two story house across the highway[...]the grading and oiling of the highway (U.S. Number 2)[...]and graders. The oiler was a big machine that picked up[...]road. This gravel was fed into the machine and when it came out the back it was hot and coated with oil. At that[...]xistence. Clarence's job was attending the flares and Clarence Brechbiel family: Kenneth, Loren and Billy. flags necessary for this kind[...]e doesn't Howard Brechbiel family: Almeda, Velma, and Lloyd. think this was a WPA project but the grading of the high-[...]way west of Poplar was, and he worked on this. This must[...]Uncle Clarence worked on a number of other WPA CLARENCE AND FREDA BRECHBIEL pro[...]of the work on the Clarence Brechbiel had met a young lady, Freda Fite, benches in the c[...]Froid to work The Armory in Poplar was a WP A project and he did and found that Freda was working for the same people.[...]ilding. Another project was the gymnasium father, and Freda went to Opheim to help her sister who in Antelope, about 80 miles north and east of Poplar. had the flu. She cooked for threshers and cared for a small Sometime during this time the city water and sewer was baby boy.[...]arence's family lived in Poplar in the house they and Rev. Aaron Swihart went to Opheim to marry[...]until 1943. Some of the people who lived Clarence and Freda. The Cookson's (Freda's sister) home neighbors to them were Mamie Dupree, Speedy Bawden, was a small one, and a place had to be found for all the Dave Buckles family and the Joe Bergie family. At that extra people to sl[...]yer who had floor wherever they were able to find a spot. After the men played with Jim Thorpe, noted Indian athlete who had had become settled there was a knock at the door. Mr. earned several[...]had room. It was the doctor inquiring the way to a sick taken pay for something and was disqualified. neighbor. The next day Freda cooked breakfast and dinner Kenneth and Loren graduated from high school and for everyone, and then got married in the afternoon. went into a CCC Camp in central Montana. Almeda Clarence and Freda lived in the William Brechbiel home[...]In April 1943 Clarence left for Wei er, Idaho, and found When Clarence got his marriage license he went to work, and in May moved Aunt Freda and Billy there. Plentywood, the county seat, was given his physical for the Clarence, Freda and Kenneth Brechbiel still live in Weiser draft and his classification was Al, but the Armistice was Idaho. Lloyd and his wife live in Idaho. William Brechbiei signed on November 11 and World War I was over. moved to I[...]i er, Idaho to be with his sons, Uncle Clarence and Aunt Freda had gone to Illinois in Clarence and Howard. William passed away in ovember, 1920 but[...]in 1949. the spring of1929. Loren, Almeda and Bill had been born Angenora Dees passe[...]llamy in June, 1947. 0 car pa sed away from Froid a few years before and had a large enough place in 1972. Howard Brechbie[...]main in Idaho. Eva Long has moved to Wei er. Paul and Poplar, and Clarence only got to town about once a month Gladys Dees live in Seattle, Washington. V Ima Brech bi l on the back of a motorcycle owned by Frank Rock who also married Albert Miller and live in Weiser, Idaho. worked for Swank. Another[...]J.T. BRIDEN AND CLAYTON BRIDEN About a year later Clarence moved his family out onto the old Meckler place into a sod house west of Howard's.[...]ily This was only six or seven miles from Swank's and h~ was driving an old jalopy of Swank's so he was able to hve at home. They lived there about one and a half years, then Father and on first came to Scobey and homesteaded on moved to what was known as the Hau[...]ther on the North 1/ 2 of were blown out one year and hailed out the next. The hail the Northeast 1/ 4 of Section 3 and the Northwest 1/4 of storm knocked out windows in their house and made holes Section 9.[...] |
| Clayton had a large Hart Parr tractor and broke some of They brought the three cows and the chickens with them. their own land and did some custom breaking. This became a routine procedure each fall. They only lived he[...]Early in the spring of 1918 the Buchanans made a summers. building available for a schoolhouse and located it across Clayton had three children we remember as Elmer, the road from their home. A teacher was hired to teach Dutch and Sis. He moved to Valier, Montana and has since during the spring, summer, and early fall. There were passed a way. about a dozen children of school age within a radius of six J.T. Briden corresponded with R.E[...]in the summer months. range horses. She also hung a red cloth on the fence as a Georgia taught during the spring and summer of 1919, also signal to Mr. Nesbit when th[...]and Goedert families were represented among the early[...]AMILY In 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Brown attempted to sell their[...]Montana holdings and return to their native state of[...]r they found it necessary to Jesse David Brown and Bertha Anna (Grile) Brown, and repossess the farms and some of the personal property. It family, moved to Roosevelt County, Montana in March , was a struggle to get re-established in farming. Poor c[...]steaders. They had filed on 160 acres ofland and prices added to the struggle. Mr. Brown became a twenty miles north and five miles east of Poplar, bought Rawleigh Products salesman to implement the family 240 acres nearby and a lot in Poplar, in the fall of 1916. A budget. He excelled as a salesman and won many a wards house and barn in Poplar, a partially enclosed frame for a during his several years with the company. farm house, and a chicken house were built that fall ready Mr. and Mrs. Brown spent their last years in Poplar. for[...]he last few years of her life. Mr. Brown suffered a stroke cars and the Maxwell touring car. As soon as the roads[...]e farm. To rallied. He died in February 1957 and Mrs. Brown about their dismay they discovered th[...]By this time their children were all molished by a winter storm. The chicken house, undis-[...]eceased, farmed south of Poplar before moving to a new four room structure.[...]ifornia; Farming operations soon began. It was a slow process Glen at Colorado Springs, Colorado; Esther (Mrs. Erwin with horses. A tractor was added to the farm equipment be- Miller) at Elmo, Montana; Irene (Mrs. William A. Grove) at fore long. A well was drilled during the summer. Until Central Valley, California; and Paul Galen at Wolf Point, then, a spring above Hay Creek furnished the water Montana. Irene owns a home in Poplar, Harry Swank Jr. supply. Farm chores and errands were largely the respons- bought the homestead, and Georgia and Esther hold deeds ibility of the children of the Brown household. A trip into to the rest of the Brown farm. Popl[...]proved to be an exciting experience for Georgia and Herbert. They had been taught as very young chil[...]d of Indians. Imagine their consternation to find a large camp of Indians located along the road abou[...]way to Poplar! Our Indian friends sensed the fear and anxiety of the children and just had a good laugh! The Isaac Buchanans left Epworth, North Dakota (just a The Browns' were regular attendants and participants post office on the Berthold[...]12 1917. They shipped livestock, machinery and household miles north and west of their farm home. Social activities g[...]er than those sponsored by, or fifth, in a severe snow storm. The family stayed at the throu[...]company, or going home with Poplar Hotel and livestock were housed in the McGowan someone for Sunday dinner, was a common practice. This Livery Barn. On April ninth, the family left Poplar for the often led to a ball game or a swimming party in the homestead, with[...]saddle pony, two cows, one calf, chickens, geese and School-it wasn't until the spring of 1918 that[...]equipment loaded on two wagons. An excess of snow and a school nearer than Poplar. Consequently the Brown[...]rm home. They were taken to Poplar on Sunday P.M. and left to keep Landing at the homestead shack shortly after noon on house and manage for themselves until Friday evening. At April tenth we unloaded furniture, machinery, etc. and ran home on the farm, it meant doing laundry and making the stove pipe through the win[...]ny adjustments had to the chickens, geese and calf. Isaac Buchanan had be made as they found themselves among strangers and homesteaded in the fall of 1916, built a shack 12 by 16 and faced with the complexity of attending a large school as went back to North Dakota. During his absence a severe compared to the one room school they had a[...]few weeks but the shack. soon vanished. Mr. and Mrs. Brown moved into town During the first afternoon, Isaac went to the W.A. Michel about Thanksgiving time to remain until early spring. farm two and one half miles northwest and borrowed a[...] |
| [...]Gathering winter kindling-Morris Flagen, Duane, and David, Virgil, Isaac and Ina. I. W. Buchanan. wagon and hayrack. He bought a small load of hay for the The new barn was soon built and after the crop was |
| 1954 and the Buchanan's moved to Poplar. Swanks later bought the farm and still reside there. Isaac passed away November[...]he Poplar home until she moved to Choteau in 1963 and lived there with son David and family until her death on February 15, 1964. Daug[...]Illinois; son Virgil lives in Yakima, Washington; and Harry at Frazer. E.W. BUCHHO[...]e ofinterest to his many friends we |
| [...]holz, 1880, Cameron, Missouri- eyes. A few hours later Dad came. He had to park on the[...]53 road and wait out the storm. One side of the car didn't ha[...]Dad was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Florence Hagen and E.W. Buchholz were married in member[...]Lodge 75 A.F. and A.M. in Poplar. Florence Marie Hagen was a Metropolitan Opera Singer, Daughter, Bl[...]Paulson, Red Lodge, Edgar William Buchholz was a veteran of foreign wars, Montana and four great grandchildren. serving nine years, in the Spanish American War, Philippine Insurrection and Boxer Uprising, heavy artillery.[...]om South Dakota to Culbertson. He 1915 when I was a few months old. I remember her telling ho[...]esteaded me about getting off the train at Poplar and riding in a an additional 320 acres about 1927. They[...]ey moved to Poplar. There were two children, just a prairie trail. The first bread she ever made was on the Edwin, Jr. and Charlotte. Ed later became County top of her unpacked trunk. There was very little wood, so surveyor and moved to Wolf Point where they lived until they m[...]ars for the State ball game, July 4, 1915. (Quite a change from Washington Highway. D.C. and New York to the Montana Prairies.)[...]y taught the The homestead home burned in 1920 and Dad bought the Biem school for two years. She moved to Phoenix and Maxton homestead just south. The Seips Post Offic[...]of Poplar as Star Route Carrier, without missing a trip-eighty mile trips, mostly by team. He was Ro[...]Bridge. Stanley Nees drove for him-Veda La Roche and others worked. They would have to change from wagon to sled and back, on the trips from Poplar. For many years[...]ge for the government. This was done in regard to a dam on Poplar River. Mother and Dad served on the election board for years. Dad was precinct committee man. They raised and shipped prize winning Hereford cattle to John Clay and Company, Chicago, Illinois. I remember one day[...]ad had gone north when the dirt storm hit. Mother and I were wat.ching for Dad when something drove by[...]sbit, digging the dirt out of his Ruby Flagen and Charlotte Carey[...] |
| [...]spring of 1917. My father, Emanuel Cornelius was a carpenter by trade, but his early life was spent on a farm close to Litchfield, Minnesota. He never forgot farm life, so when his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. N.B. Anderson filed and lived on a homestead twenty miles south of Flaxville, they w[...]out on the prairies. My father went out, filed on a Hauling wheat to Scobey in 1923. piece oflandjust west of his sister, came back to Minnesota and made preparations for the big move west. They sold the home, packed the furniture, bought three horses and in the fields and worrying about rain and harvest while loaded all in a box car and headed west. The house wasn't Mother was cooking and keeping house. Although it quite finished when Mother, my two sisters and I left the wasn't easy, Mother managed to take care of her family, relatives we had been visiting and boarded the train. Lots and being a firm believer in education, was also of hardships[...]ce Gray as the first teacher. In 1928 Mother and Dad moved to had to be completely fenced the next[...]as employed by the school system, many good years and times with neighbors not to be for- and where they lived until Dad died in 1945 at the ag[...]he neighbors that would get together for and mother in 1956 at the age of 87. pot luck dinners, card parties and dancing which would Scereata marrie[...]on (Glasgow), Joyce Hosauers, Humphreys, Gobberts and George Cuskers, (Alaska) and Donald (Devil's Lake, North Dakota). where Lawren[...]his Uncle Les Johnny died in 1935 and Screata still lives in Glasgow. Grainger died. La[...]Elizabeth married Lawrence Grainger, Poplar, and they Point, moving to Poplar where both died when he was a have four children; Cora Beth, Donna Jean, Harold and small boy. He stayed with relatives or friends un[...]Howard, all of Kalispell, Montana where Elizabeth and and Mary orris took him to live with them until they[...]Lawrence also live. their farm , north of Poplar and moved back to California. In 1921 I mar[...]rom Cherokee, Iowa. Merl was an avid sports Creek and at Cuskers. and boxing fan and had great fun in the square ring. He The Ander ons moved to Poplar where he had a shoe was at one time known as "Lightning Nelson" in his store for some years and then left for orth Dakota where "sports" car that didn't have any lights, and tore down both died. My folks left the farm in 19[...]the "Give-Out had married. They moved to Glasgow and made their Morgan", Square Butte[...]ied Merl Nelson from Dodge, Iowa in 1921 and lived in Cherokee until August, Whitetail , they[...]to Flaxville where Merl ran the Liv- John akken , and had two sons and two daughters. She ery Barn. We lived for a time at Flaxville and later moved live in Glasgow where one of the girl[...]rmed. We Lawrence Grainger, we have two daughters and two sons. eventually moved to Poplar in 1928 and Merl was involved with hauling wheat and coal, drilling wells for George and MERL NELSON - CORNELIUS Alex Verdon, and back to farming on Mineral Bench. In[...]ld War My dad wa born in Litchfield , Minne ota and mother in II and manage to get together for a family reunion every Fon-du-lac, Wi consin. They were married in Wisconsin now and then. They are, Robert(and Esther Demessmaker) and lived in Dalton, Minne ota for one year before mo[...]the lived until we moved to Ann, and Carl. Jack (and Rita Pickett) live in Billings and Montana in the pring of 1917. Dad worked a a clerk in they have two children, Brends and James Robert. Lyndly one of the grocery tore in Dalton and in Minneapolis, and (and Betty Poling) live in Minot, North Dakota and have also worked for orthern Welding in Minneapolis. two girls, Marjorie and Nan. James (and Shirley Prior) live In the spring of 1917 we all headed west for Montana- "north of Brockton ' and have three girls, Linda, Diane, Mother, Elizabeth , cereata and myself (Effie). Dad had and Mary Lee. gone on ahbad and taked his claim to his 320 acres near Along with my immediate family and ten grandchildren, Flaxville, Montana and we kids had our first night in a I have four great grandchildren, which makes for quite a hotel at Willi ton, orth Dakota enroute to our new home. setting when we all get together for a family reunion at Ft. A railroad car held our possessions-bag, baggage, Peck, Montana. furniture , a team of horses and two little puppies that had ecreata passed away in September, 1976. been given to cereata and Elizabeth as a farewell gift from friends in Minneapolis. Arrivi[...]o greet us , we transferred all our belongings to a EMIL DIETHERT wagon and hitched up the team that had come all the way fro[...]rt Hammer was located 20 miles south of Flaxville and he had prepared for us by building a board shack with heavy blue Emil Diethe[...]kept busy working with his wife , Helen, and small son, Ross from Balfour,[...] |
| [...]Mineral Bench from Flaxville and had the first post office.[...]He was the first mail carrier and hauled the mail twice a week with a team. A year later the post office was moved[...]Nesbits farmed the land and Russell Nesbit now owns[...]200 acres of this land. Jack Nees and the Nord wick[...]MORRIS AND MARGARET FLAGEN[...]by Margaret Flagen Mr. and Mrs. Diethart, Bob and Einer Lund-1923. On June 23, 1916, Morris Flagen and Edwin Anderson[...]were doing the same Diethart, Mrs. Zuck, Boys-Bob and Junior Lund. thing, mostly single men. Homes had to be erected, a homestead law requirement-so they built shacks and[...]straw for fuel. Visiting-eating-dancing and playing[...]the shacks and even looking into the windows. Skiis were[...]Homemade bunks and tables and nail keg chairs[...]comprised the furnishing for some shacks, plus a stove[...]Summers of 16-17 were spent on farms and with thresh-[...]ing crews. World War I was declared and Morris signed up[...]fantry and then in the Medical Corps. He wa ho pitalized[...]ne 1920. With help from Oliver ordwick , he built a[...]Morris and I were married July 8th, 1920 in Cro by,[...]North Dakota. My sisters and their fiancees were our North Dakota. They travel[...]dding dance was given at Alkabo, law, Emma Hammer and family. Filed on a homestead, North Dakota. connecting tha[...]rented the farm where Mrs. Milo Whitetail and by a borrowed horse and buggy to the farm, Fossen and family lives. He found farming a losing battle, stopping in a farmyard to feed the hor e. so he did some carpentering in the community. In 1926 they It was late and we were tired wh n we arrived home. left for Stillwater, Minnesota, and lived on his father's After eating, we were un[...]dairy farm. About 1960 they went to Mesa, Arizona and located in Youngtown where they have both passed away. MILO AND GLENN DOWD Milo and Glenn Dowd came from near Tioga, North |
| [...]en Farm-MineralBenchJuly 17, 1923. Morris Flagen and Margaret Cowley wedding picture |
| [...]Farmers Union, and Mineral BenchimprovementClub,all[...]filling our social and recreational needs. Programs, plays,[...]dances, card parties, picnics and just plain old fashioned[...]birthday parties, farewell parties and whatever else. Also[...]intervals when their time allowed, but except for a while, Breaking sod about 1920-Flagen.[...]anized church. too much damage. Grasshoppers were a different story. Whenever an organization had a meeting, the women The government furnished poiso[...]e made spreader that we used. Mr. Nesbit took a sleigh load of people to Biem School. The It was[...]on but sleigh slipped off the roadsjde, tipped and we all fell out. they have since returned from o[...]. There were some horses between the front and back feet where it had slid.No other insects I s[...]dances, anyone who could overgrown grasshoppers, and I've wondered whether they play music on[...]didn't fly quite like hoppers, perhaps play. A hat was passed and the collection divided among because of being larger and heavier. the players. We planted a large grove of trees using Carraganas, Box A year after Morris' death, I went to Bozeman Deaconess Elders, Ash, American Elms, and Poplars. The shorter Hospital and took a course ;_n Practical Nursing and lived trees died, but runners and seeds have grown, form- nursed mostly in Poplar Hospital where I often helped to ing a dense grove so birds and other wild life shelter there. care for my neighbors from Mineral Bench and Biem areas Wild currants, J uneberries and chokecherries grew wild in as well as friends from the Anderson area and Poplar. the coulees where we used to spend at least a few after- My family is scattered, Ruby[...]mmer enjoying them. Many kinds of wild and they had two children, a girl and a boy. She died flowers grew both on level land and in the coulees through- February 23, 1952. Forest married Viloa Luft. They had out the spring, summer and fall. three sons and one daughter. Forest lives west of Froid,[...]es industrial nursing at the Boeing stock, we had a deep well dug to 250 feet. Fine steely gray C[...]en that the digger two sons. One was killed in a traffic accident in April, pounded ten feet of gr[...]lling 1974. Raymond lives in Laurel, Montana and works in the sand. Using a windmill for power the well was never roa[...]lew down in 1972. had one son and one daughter. Duane is purcha ing man- In one[...]ager for scientific micro ystem at Mountain View and garden produce. That was in 1937, when our son Du[...]oser our children attended there for three years. A horse drawn bus was then[...]ool. Finally after the men in our locality poured a foundation for it and by Norman Fos en paid to have it moved, we got a schoolhouse much closer. This we called the Dowd[...]Minnesota by railroad in 1917. He filed for a horn tead in land for some years and Mr. Dowd was carrier and post the Mineral bench community. master. Later Oliver Nordwick was carrier and Mrs. C.C. Martin Fossen then w nt into[...]urning in 1919 to work hi home tead. discontinued and a rural route is there now. Our mail used While working hi home tead he al o worked for a to come from Flaxville, but now comes from Poplar[...]hem were five children, Dona Fo en, born Crops and prices improved so old loans and taxes were July 13, 1927, who is working in Minneapoli , Minne ota. paid up. We continued farming and were on our feet again Milo Fos en , born[...]home but in the year of 1948, Morris' health took a turn for the place until he pa sed away in 19[...]t him on June 2nd, farmed by hi wife Ellen and on. Norman Fo en born 1949.[...]community. Edward Fossen, born July 5, 1936, now and I commenced to farm again.[...] |
| [...]f Carl Frost arrived in Flaxville, Montana after a long three day train trip from Racine, Wisconsin[...]Carl, his wife, Jensine, daughters Elna, eleven, and Irma, seven, and son Gordon, nine years old. Having shipped al[...]box car, which included not only their furniture and dishes, but a 1-Jupmobile Touring Car. This car was later trade[...]land by Thorvald Jensen. The land wa broken with a John Deere tractor and a three bottom plow. Carl and hi family were met at the station by his wife's b[...]by way of 1924 Buick. As there were no roads only a few Sunday gathering at Carl Frosts-bac[...]irl unknown, were sure it was time to turn around and go back to Erma Frost, Gordon Frost. Wiscon in. All there was in this new land was grass and large amounts of range horses. No trees to speak of, although a few had planted groves. They weren't very big and when they were used to oak trees five feet in dia[...]if come by the hundreds. At the big roundup once a year it given the chance. wa nothing to ee a string of horses fifty feet wide and it Finally in 1950, son Gordon took over the farm from his could be one and a half mile long. father. He married Gladys Barsness in 1952 and they Carl Frost was a plaster, cement, and brick layer by farmed until 1969 when he sold it and moved to Kalispell, trade. There was hardly a chimney on the Bench or a Montana where he lives today. They hav[...]s. Jensine, Karen, Tom, Susan, Adele and Russell. As town wa so far away the children only saw it once a Elna married Eric Lindquist and she lives in Poplar, year and that was at the start of the school year. They[...]passed away some years ago. They had would catch a ride with a grain truck into town. There they three children: Linda, Jean and Jim. bought shoe , pencils, writing tablets and maybe even an Irma married Andrew Morin and now resides in ice cream cone.[...]through their share of teachers. They had almost a new one every year. The longest one to stay was P[...]skell Hemp picnic. There would be races, soda pop and fire crackers. As boys are , there were quite a few that had a fire cracker go Frank and Artie Gaskell owned a general merchandise off in their hands and Gordon was no exception. store in Mabel, Missouri, a whistle stop about nine miles Only once wa there more excitment than the Fourth and from Cameron. Many bachelor farmers lived in this that was on Black May Day. There happened to come a community. This was truly a country store. Every weekday windstorm like no other. It took the chicken coop and night they gathered at our store to swap[...]family life . We tired of this arrangement and my father, The big way of entertainment was the aturday night Frank Gaskell took advantage of a tour to see available dances . The schoolhouse wa[...]homestead land in Montana. horses, sleds and wagons depending on the time of year. Th[...]e dances would have old time fiddlers, Pete Yarde and was proprietor of a meat market across the street from the Che ter chaffer and Mrs. Pete Yarde would chord on the store[...]were established in piano. Later years tub esbit and Gordon Frost took over Montana so father visited them and filed on 160 acres of with Veda LaRoche calling the square dances and singing prairie land about a half mile from their home. the song to the Waltz[...]In January 1916 Dad sold the store and we prepared to go On ce in awhile Freda Cline would put together a home to our new homestead. In March my father secured an talent play starring; Winston Baker, tub and Bud Nesbit, immigrant freight car and took horses, cows, chickens, Mabel esbit Jensen , Verna and Ed Jensen, Gordon Frost machinery and household goods to Montana. Of course and Albert Friedenbach. Sorry if I left anyone out, couldn't Dad went with the freight car and mother, my sister and I remember anyone else. We would play to a full house. If followed by train as soon as Dad had built a temporary rroducer, director Charles Pierc[...] |
| [...]looked like a campfire, but seemed to spread rapidly,#oinu[...]and it started burning in a westerly dir ction. My fathn took his plow and horses and plowed a fireguard alon# I he[...]et sacks, backfiring etc. Moth er took comforters and put my sister and me in the middle of th plow d field. ThP[...]like a lighted city. When the fire had burned about <>t[...]blew the fire back over burned territory and it went out. We had a union Sunday school which met at the chool[...]house in the summer and in a centrally located home in the[...]winter. One Sunday our family went to unday chool and[...]hymn was finished. Our clock was slow and with no mean[...]he fact. etting the We landed in Poplar at2:00 A.M. on April 12th, 1916. The clock by sunrise time[...]North Dakota due to flood waters weakened bridge. A Entertainment consisted of reading books , which were crew worked on it all day and our train was the first to cross exchanged among[...]sometimes previously arranged and sometimes a a Our new homestead was twenty-four miles north of surprise. We played games, had neighborhood sing and in Poplar. We left town about sunrise-driving horses general enjoyed family life. Strange a it may seem we were hitched to two wagons. My father drove one outfit and never bored with life. Ross Poland, a bachelor homesteader from Cameron,[...]the company. I'm sure he was elated(?) for I was a little girl of youngest was then almost ten years old, o Merlin wa a nine years. The Poplar Creek was at spring flood stage and real novelty. He wa born with no doctor a o many new since there was no bridge to cross nea[...]rn were there to help my mother. ranch. This made a distance of about thirty-five miles. We We experienced dry year so crop were poor· drove all day and darkness overtook us. There was a fork in consequently we didn't have money enough to move awa . the trail at Hay Creek and neither my father nor Ross knew The summer of 1923 my father, who suffered with a thma which trail to take so the horses were unhit[...]t the in eastern Montana, went to western Montana and worked wagons, mounted the horses , gave them free rein and they at a lumber camp. He saved the money he earn d that to[...]tired. and leave the home tead. We moved to incinnati, hio The first summer was a busy one, hauling rock from where my brother Dani[...]Daniel was kill d in th B lgian Bulg in 1 44 and i materials for our house and building it. It con i ted of two buried in B lgium. Mother pas ed a way March 22nd on rooms with an additional lean-to shed built acros the her and Dad s 53rd w dding anniv r ary, at approx- entran[...]. miles from town with our only conveyance being a team of ry tal retir d from alvation rmy officer hip la t horse and a wagon in summer and a bob led in winter (it January. he and her hu band had b en offic r for forty took two days to make a trip to town) no mean of com- ear . The[...]nnsylvania. H i th fath r of tw daughters. once a we~k does seem rugged in these days of " oft liv[...]I Garland marri d Albert Eri k on (a Montana boy) in It was interesting to look across the pra1n and ee a new 1926. W lived in Br ckton from 192 to 1934 wi[...]t~e alifornia. At that tim I was employ d a a bookk p r for neighborhood built a one-room school. We had school m th[...]as the winter became more severe, retired in 1971 and mov d to Idaho. W now Ii on the the attendance dropped, so our teacher, Elizabeth Doran, place that l and I bought in 1944. closed our school and took a position nearer town where a In looking back on our horn tead y ar I[...]"for our famil pra d reopened our school and we had chool that s ummer. We togeth r, play d tog ther and work d tog th r. W al o had about two weeks' vaca[...]. . . and poverty taught u to make u of what w had and to Another outstanding remembrance was the pra[...]aluabl in later life. THA K OD I W A fire tarted in the badlands northeast of our place and PIO EER.[...] |
| GARFIELD AND LORENA GASKELL same ty[...]Aunt Lorena passed away in September 1971, and Uncle by a niece Garfield in Ja[...]Church as a tour guide. James is a soil conservationist. Garfield Gaskell had alw[...]m to sell his share in the Mable, Missouri store and start farming with his father-in-law near[...]MMA HAMMER Cameron, Missouri. Uncle Garfield and Aunt Lorena came to Montana early In the late spring of 1916, Emma and her family of two in the year 1917. They had one little girl at that time, Olive, youngest sons, George and Hagen and two daughters, about one and a half years old. They moved in with Ross Clara and Helen, who was married to Emil Diethert each Poland, a bachelor homesteader, also from Cameron. filed on[...]n miles south of Uncle Garfield farmed with Ross and Aunt Lorena was the Flaxville in Roosevelt County, where she built a shack. cook and housekeeper. After World War I was declared, They[...]t, Ross volunteered for service in the Air Corps and became came the next year and did some breaking and seeded to an ace pilot. Uncle Garfield carried o[...]She built a home in Flaxville, where she roomed and In March 1918 their second baby was born, a daughter boarded several teachers and others also, and lived there named Iva June. Again neighboring women acted as most of her life. She had five sons and two daughters. Only mid-wives.[...]ng incident I remember happened one winter Havre, and Gilbert, who is retired from farming and lives night when Uncle was staying overnight with us. Dad and in Flaxville. She passed away in 1940 in the Scob[...]ere going to walk to the Poland place to hospital and buried in Flaxville Cemetery. see how things were. They took the lantern and set out across the snow covered prairie. They soon became confused and were wandering. My mother had an intuition[...]he men saw the light in their circular wanderings and headed for it. When they Dewey Hendri[...]w does it feel to be lost?" to which Garfield Tim and Louis, all of whom came out to the Flaxville and dryly replied, "I don't know, for I've never been[...]nd came out here at the same time. They were from a family of who is lost!"[...]was signed, so he didn't have to leave his family and serve. In 1920, Uncle Garfield left the Poland homestead and by Mrs. E. Jensen mo[...]ir third child. John 8½, son Edwin 7, son Art 4, and baby Lloyd (Lefty) 2 Samuel was born in August of[...]olks in Missouri shortly before the baby was Bill and sister Sina, (Mrs. Carl Frost) had come earlier, born and stayed until he was a few weeks old. making homes and prospering. Their fourth child, David Garfield[...]first year was spent living on the Metzler place and the home of Mrs. Breese. When David was about a month old, Uncle Garfield had a combined auction sale with his brother Frank, and they prepared to leave Montana. Aunt Lorena and her two babies, Mrs. Frank Gaskell, Crystal and Merlin left by train for Missouri. Uncle Garfield, Frank, Olive, June, and myself left in an old Model T that I'm sure wouldn't be trusted for a ten mile trip today. It had no top or fenders; the back seat was built in a box on the back. Uncle Garfield drove this car to[...]fore us. Mr. Michel wanted to see Missouri, so he and all of us except Uncle Garfield set out for Misso[...]el's car. Uncle Garfield remained in South Dakota and worked in the harvesting work until it was finished. He sold the Model T and took the train to Missouri. Garfield and Lorena had three sons after they left Montana. One boy passed away with a foot infection-the Mr. and Mrs. Thorvald Jensen-1933.[...] |
| [...]Mary and William Jensen, Marie and Norman-1924. Thor Jeneen Family-1937.[...]finally had a well. The first shaft served as a refrigerator.[...]Food, especially milk (when available) was put in a covered bucket and suspended into the cool earth with a[...]That first summer was a busy time. Breaking the sod, by[...]later fields were seeded into flax. Bill, who was a carpenter by trade, was building a home for the Jensens. The house[...]was ready by fall, the family moved in, a new baby, Norman, was born in October and it was suddenly winter.[...]Bill hiked for miles, setting a trap line. By spring he had[...]rabbit, weasel, badger and coyote pelts to sell. Mary kept[...]the cook stove hot for both cooking and warmth. It was real family fun when, on a frosty evening after supper, a batch working for brother Bill. They leased the Bill Jensen farm of taffy was put on to boil, and soon to pull, make suckers for the next year while Bill wintered in California and and eat. vacationed in Denmark.[...]s for sharpening, the kids Jerry was born in 1927 and another son Donald was born always went[...]In 1940 they moved to Wolf Point where they had a and turkeys in the spring, planted her garden and tended it trucking business until 1948. Then, alo[...]ir son, all summer-in the fall , vegetables and meats were canned Ed, they owned and operated the Triangle Cafe and Service for future use-most of our clothes[...]ion until their retirement. Marie retired in 1964 and was time for this project in the winter. Ev[...]was a jar of cream to be churned into butter, bread was All their children are married and all butArtlivein Wolf home baked as well as cookies and cakes. Point. Art resides in California. The Jens[...]e river were well attended. The men grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. pulled a seining net up the river while the women visited[...]the shade, and everyone hoped there'd be fi h to fry. The MARY AND WILLIAM JENSEN by Marie Norga[...]me country in 1879. They met in Racine, Wisconsin and were married there in 1908. Hearing all about the[...], Montana. From there, Bill looked over the land, and decided to file a claim on the "reservation", namely Mineral Bench,[...]mily moved into the granary, which was home until a house could be built. Water was carried from a nearby slough until a well was completed. This was not a simple project. Leo Vandenberg was the driller. The first hole was abandoned at 40 feet because he hit a rock. A new site was chosen and the result was the same. Young Dewey Lowers, Leo'[...]n head first to investigate-he dislodged the rock and Jensens William Jensen farmhouse , 1919, Marie and Nann y.[...] |
| [...]s attacking in missed. Transportation was usually a big sleigh or a the area. jumper (a box-like conveyance on short runners) that[...]s Ketchner' s in literally jumped over the drifts and ruts as the horses having wagons available to travel in, so they formed a trotted along. Ifit was a long trip there were heated rocks to "wagon pool" to transport people and their possessions. keep feet warm. After the meeting the fiddler tuned up and There wasn't room for all to ride, so eve[...]women-took turns walking behind the wagons, noisy and at midnight there was lunch, all this in our one[...]is secret to longevity had been "working, Mary and Bill remembered the beauty of their homeland, keeping active and leading a clean life". so they planted things to soften the harsh prairieland-a Ketchner's family included the daughter[...]d the buildings, berry bushes, rhubarb Seip and Mrs. William Bredin of Omaha, and Mrs. Venus and perennials in the garden. Many of the trees have been Seel of Helena and a son, Cariker. He had grandchildren, replaced, but the hedge is still there, a living monument to great-grandchildren and even great-great grandchildren. them.[...]Ketchner was just past the century mark. He was a They were interested in the progress of the county. Bill familiar figure when he lived and farmed in Poplar for served on committees and building projects for its thirty ye[...]rly 80 when he left here in development. Mary was a club member, helping to raise 1945 "to see a little bit of the world". When he arrived in funds for school and community. Kansas City to visit, one of his daughters and son-in-law They retired to California in 1942,[...]heir last years in Faith Mrs. Seip and Ketchner returned to Omaha in 1962. Lutheran Home[...]were the hardest, orman married Mabel Nesbit and they live on the then he, who was 50[...]years before-had it made." Norgaard. They have a farm nearby. There are two John[...]away in November of 1967, children, Dea Hurlbert and Paul. only a short time before he would have been 101 in[...]when he was In 1916 Gust Klein, a young bachelor, left his family in sixteen and played a large part in Omaha's early growth. Peni[...]s son, Cariker, until he upon his arrival and homesteaded near Long Creek moved his family to t[...]k His oldest brother, Rudolph Klein, a widower with five landscape, rugged winters and hardy existence that children, visited Gust in the fall of 1916 and filed claim for northeastern Montana homesteaders[...]an entire Minnesota sisters, Helena and Elizabeth, and youngest brother[...]his children, Alma, Orlando, Raymond, Freda and Mary.[...]to visit relatives and took Orlando and Raymond with him[...]Gust met the new arrivals at the depot amidst a scene of[...]and new tractors were being unloaded from flat cars.[...]noise created by the one and two cylinder tractors was[...]deafening. Hopes were high and spirits were gay. A trip was made to the livery stable to hire a rig for the trip to[...]Long Creek. The trip held awe and wonder as the endless[...]lands needed preparation and a two story addition was John T. Ketchner[...] |
| family needs. Before a hand dug well was completed, the domestic water s[...]the fall of 1917, the new house was completed to a livable stage and women and girls arrived from their temporary quarters in Mi[...]. The abandoned Van Pelt shack on Long Creek, one and one-half miles away, was covered with tar paper and used as a temporary school house. Betty Ingstrom, a 17 year old teacher was hired, and the Klein children, along with the Roscoe Ritchey children attended school for a three months period in the fall of 1917. Durin[...]s used by this community. The Klein children used a horse and buggy to cover the five miles distance. About 1920 a small house was purchased in Poplar. Each fall, H[...]cow was included in the move each year to provide a fresh milk supply. Soon after arriving in Montana, Edward, Elizabeth and Helena Klein filed for homestead land adjoining that of Gust. A series of dry years during the period 1918 to 1924 Veda and Olivine LaRoche resulted in poor crops and finally in a financial depression. In 1924 an auction sale was held and the family moved to Oklahoma. Only Alma Klein, who had obtained a teacher's certificate, remained in Montana. She later married Stanley Nees and moved to the Mineral Bench community. She is the[...]his own site. The first spring he plowed 60 acres and seeded since 1917.[...]it to flax-this work was done with horses and most of the[...]HE HOMESTEAD 40 acre and took up an additional 0, aero the ection[...]line, giving him a total of 280 acres. Later the homesite was[...]continued batching here, keeping a few cow , pig and In the fall of 1909, my grandfather, realizing[...]ana. My mother was Olivine R. Morin of would have a better chance to farm. Although some of his[...]Medicine Lake. At thi time he was 13 year old and lived could homestead so they went to the Madoc c[...]the present Daniels County. That fall they built a house mother moved her family of 12 children to Madoc. and did a little plowing, returning in the spring with the[...]ater, no electricity but the talk d about it with a mile. Being only 18 years old at this time, my[...]orked at various jobs, mainly school house and quilting b were h Id in variou home . carpe[...]el on , mith or Borgrud mine which wer all within a to the reservation the next spring to take up a homestead , four mile radiu of home and mo t of th hauling wa done consisting of 240 acre[...]e . Being lignite, my dad claim d you carried out a homesite. bucket of a he for every buck t of coal burn d . To a i tin When he moved in the spring, he wa help d[...]ng the hou e warm it wa banked with brother, Fred and a man who was later to become his manure. ometim in the 20' Dad bought a gr nar and brother-in-law, Joe (Red) Morin. The previou wint[...]of the room wa built on in about 1936. A new hou wa plann d snow, they could not find the right land , o they left the in 1931 and the ba m nt dug, but that ar a twi t r ran shack-with a note on the door-on some land which later through and ruin d th crop and virtuall wip d v r -[...] |
| Veda and Olivine LaRoche thing out. The roof was torn off the kitchen while my |
| [...]Eva Peterson, Freda Klein, La Verne Nees and Lenore[...]Jones. Some of the teachers stayed at our place and some[...]Grandma's. Her salary was $75 a month and she had to walk to school so she received $5 a month extra, and then[...]when she got to school, she would have to build a fire in[...]My mother and Joe moved to Denver in 1943. They are[...]both well and Mom retired about two years ago.[...]May quit teaching about then and she and Grandma spent the summer months on the farm and winters in Florida and[...]and lived there until she passed away in 1973 at the[...]6 years old. Aunt May lived in Poplar those years and[...]Dad moved to Wolf Point in 1968 and Ii ved there until he[...]entered the nursing home in Scobey in 1972 and passed a way in 1973. The Dowd Post Office was disconti[...]Aunt May makes her home in Elkader, Iowa and Helen The route was changed to come from Poplar. Ray Schumm and I are farming the home place. delivered mail for[...]tion. Bud is still doing his duty as mail carrier and I believe that you can set your a[...]trip. Mrs. Einar A. Lund For the school term of 1922-23 a brother of Olaf Hagen of No[...]nnesota to teach. The spirit of pioneering and the love of adventure gave Mr. Hagen was transfer[...]sion in the fall of 1916 when the First My dad and Ruth Cliff were married in August 1923 and National Bank of Minneapolis sent Einar A. Lund to lived on the Wolf place on Smoke Creek.[...], Montana as assistant cashier. If there had been a household in 1924. They lived a while on the Flagen place, return train that same afternoon, he would have come the Metzler place and Anderson place before moving the right b[...]his first impression of house on the home place. A brother, Danny Charles, was Montana was[...]of 1934, the Dowd School was moved on the and he did not want to leave. northeast corner of Arvid Pohl's land and I went there In June, he went back to Minneapolis for a vacation. I[...]nted to be married then, but Pork (hi good friend and classmate was called " Beans", and o Einar had as his[...]: Christian Tange, Marlene Einar Sr. and Kitty, Einar Jr. and Bob in winter tra vel- Nees, Joe Leete, Ja[...] |
| Arriving at Scobey, there was a crowd of people at the on the homestead. By that time we had moved the shack depot. As a new bride, I was afraid of some possible down half a mile and put a glassed-in porch on two sides. foolishment, but[...]young people down from Scobey, sixty miles noon a lady called and invited us to a party for the bride away. I remember that we had black-eyed susans for and groom. We were glad to go and on our arrival, the old flowers and we made caps of black crepe paper. We sewed a familiar tune "Here Comes the Bride" was played.[...]or named our farm (the wide skies, sunsets and blankets of dancing. I cut the cake and as we left for home, the stars over M[...]ble). Pork was hostesses came up to the men folk and said, "Two dollars, working in the bank at Scobey and was late getting out, please." So the party for the bride cost the groom $4 and an but the party was a success. evening of music! Pork was always gener[...]s specialties, which listeners never homestead and said we'd eat supper in Poplar. So we seemed to tire of hearing were .. Hen Hur and the Chariot started early. Junior and I were going to Minneapolis. We Races" and "Paul Revere's Ride." got to Seip's crossing and again were stuck in the mud and The people in Scobey were grand and it was a happy had to spend the night. Lucky, Pork had brought along a year. Although during that first Christmas, 1917[...]in, so that was Pork went down to the bank to do a little work on our supper. The wardrobe trunk occupied the back seat and Christmas Eve, I was so homesick, I sat down in the big Junior had the front, so Pork and I took the running wicker chair and cried. Finally, our big white dog, Rex, boards. The coyotes sure did howl. came in and walked around my chair nudging me to stop Next morning at daybreak, Pork walked two miles over and notice him. Well, I did, and soon Pork came home with to MacDonald's. They were unable to help, so he went on. a big package from Minn ea polis. All was well then! He met a horseback rider who pulled us out. The man In[...]his duty to serve turned out to be Ed Smith, a noted cowboy of those parts. his country. So he[...]ena, Pork followed to wait another day. him and finally landed in Spokane. He then left for the[...]hways or Scobey was closed. Pork was out of a job. I stayed in bridges. On the way back to Sco[...]us out, so I removed my high- look over a bank job. They were interested in him and laced, grey kid shoes with spike heels and waded the river, wanted him very much, but we had a herd of cattle which walking four miles for help[...]the folks Pete Yarde was keeping for us, and with our many interests down east could see me no[...]d, is the only time we felt we may have made a misjudgment. saying, "Surely you'll come to help[...]When Spring came, the cattle contracted Blackleg and we The Armistice came as a complete surprise, the false one were forced to sell less than the original herd. on November 7 and the true one on November 11. Pork In April, Pork opened up a store on Mineral Bench. We came home just before Christmas, joining me in also had a postoffice. We named it Lundville and it is still Minneapolis. First of the year, Pork left for Scobey and I shown on some maps even now. Oliver Nordwick was the worked in the cities until March and then joined him. mail carrier from county line to Lundville, Dowd and Our little house had been rented out, so we stayed at the Biem Post Offices and we had deli very on Tuesdays and hotel for awhile. Then we moved into a furnished house Saturdays, which made t[...]ent happened there that two sisters Myrtle and Alice filled in when he was farming. I remember s[...]k When they were small, our boys Einar and Bob occasion- reached the house: I opened up the[...]o go along with the sisters on the mail car. This and in so doing, some hot coals dropped on the rug. That they considered a real treat. was terrible because we had to buy the rug and we had no When I came out to Poplar in[...]lace to use it, at the time. That summer we built a 12 x 14 came along as she insisted that I cou[...]the Gateway We laid the rug on the floor. We had a big mirror, a gate- Hotel and helped to put them to bed in two bureau drawers. leg table, a daybed a corner cupboard and a kerosene The next morning we went[...]on In August the ladies of Mineral Bench gave a surprise one side of the road and our shack on the other. All that baby shower for me. I had no idea they knew! It was such a summer I would run across several times to serve shock I had to be taken into town and kept in bed for six customers who came mos[...]moved the shack over and attached it to the store. We lived Einar Jr. wa[...]that there until the fall of 1929. night and the ground was covered from that time until[...]inter when I had been visiting at May. One night, a week after Jr. was born , my sixteen year Mo[...]sister Irene sat in another chair with Junior in a could read tea leaves told me she could[...]rocking it to around our store in Montana and we were having horse keep him quiet. She fell asleep and the basket, baby and races, etc. It turned out that on July 4,[...]onto the floor - nearly scaring Irene to a rodeo. Bowery Cusker came up with his cowboys and death. horses and we had a big crowd. It was every bit as good as We had 1[...]remembers me coming out from the shack with a green and Wangaard (my dear friend from Minneapolis) came out in white striped dress with a big organdy bow, white hat and July of that year and we gave a party and dance for herout shoes - " really citified" - and two babies all in white.[...] |
| [...]around 10:00 p.m. and Naomi Gene arrived at 1:00 a.m. with only Pork as a doctor. I had my bag packed and[...]Ed wards came from Minneapoli for a vi it. h tayed three weeks and after returning to the cities reported to my[...]There came a terrible storm from the ea t. I had to care[...]and knees.[...]for my first visit home since 1920. It was quite a treat. Pork bought a Ford in the spring as a tenth anniver ary present for me. He and Jr. drove back to Montana in it and Lund home-1930. Bob, Gene, and I took the train, meeting them in Poplar.[...]Going home from there together, we got as far a Thorvald Jensen's and they had to take u the re t of the way by The next summer we had a big prairie fire. I sat up on top sleigh as the[...]e all out fighting it They pulled the car home a week or so later. and I did not want it to come too close. It was about[...]to find it snowing and storming, so Pork had to hurry down My mother[...]e pigs from an open pen to the She thought it was a terrible country. I remember she came barn. I could see that he was having trouble so I put in and saw the bowl of crocuses on the table and she said Gene in the crib and ran down to help him. After we had that it was all the growth she had seen for miles and miles them in the barn I had a heart attack. Pork laid me in the and miles. She wondered at me going out in the night[...]alone. Shortly thereafter, I got up and went home. That Pork was assistant clerk of co[...]r leg on Aunt Sigrid (my sister) came out in June and stayed until the 19th of eptember. October.[...]ke in the In the fall of 192 we built a big ten room hou eon the Chautauquah, a tent show with very good lectures and farm. We moved into it December 15, 19[...]very sick that I cried for fall that we had a very bad prairie fire. About 10 p.m. I hot water bottles and started rubbing him down - he was had bee[...]helped me pull him through, but he lines and I aw the glow in the we t of a burning traw pile. was so very, very thin for so[...]e had tarted for Sigrid had met Merlin Zuck and we were seeing him of- home after a vi it. H cam running back houting "Fire.' ten that summer. One Saturday night he took ig and I in Pork hurried to dre , drove up to th choolhou ea half our Ford over to the schoolhouse for a dance. omeone had shut off the gas pumps and we had to walk home. Imagine walking four miles in highheeled shoes after an all night dance and in those days we didn't sit out any dance . When' we finally got home, Pork had to carry me in the house and put me to bed, while Merlin and ig sat on th steps. It was then that Merlin proposed. He went back to Bozeman College and she went east to Minneapoli . But first they went down to Glendive and were marri d cto- ber 3, 1922. We did not know it[...]g from college. The summer of '23 was very dry and o in the fall Pork went to Minneapolis to work. Brother Ray tay d with me and the little boy that winter. In the pring Pork came back. He and Ray put in 150 acre of crop with two u_lk plows and some very old horse . I believe that wa th fir t[...]r e . They, two thoroughly bred city fellow , did a grand job of it. We got a bumper crop of wheat o, of cour e, we ta ed onRay went to Los Angele and r turned in April. The fir t thing he said was "L[...]7 1925. The month before she wa born I had wished and prayed that something would happen o I could stay home to welcome her because Bob and Gene were so small. All day February 6, I was tnasing Pork about it and in the evening Zucks came over to vi it. They left Einar Lund and Pete Yarde-1921 .[...] |
| [...]Garage and shop blown down with small tornado at Left to rig[...]g child-1929. families came and Oliver Nord wick served sandwiches and refreshments from a shed attached to the store which was used as a 1unch counter. Other times we would go to the mil[...]schoolhouse or elsewhere for get-togethers and it was not came right back and I can see him now, standing in the uncommon to load the piano on a truck and take it along. middle of the road, waving his arms and shouting, "My One of the biggest pro[...]took on the farm was God, Kitty! Get the children and jump in the truck!" The the planting of 2500 trees for a shelter belt. And I'll fire was all around him. We put in the alarm[...]rget either how so many stopped by at the time to and got all the neighbors out. A teacher, Miss McGuire was say, "You're wasti[...]y, the house is not visible from the road kitchen and went out to help fight fire. About 3 a.m. it due to the thick growth and strong stand of those same started to move west. McQuire and I served coffee and trees. doughnuts to the men, put the children to bed, and served It is notable too that Pork, Ralph Nesbit and Mr. Schnitz- coffee again. by 6 a.m. the fire was under control. The hills ler traveled to Minneapolis to consult about getting east- and horizon to the south, west and north of us were black. west railroad service through Mineral Bench[...]to be however, and on their way home, they had to keep lan- One w[...]vels in the back of the truck so bitter cold. and two cars following. Departing at 9 a.m. and by 11 a.m., The first telephone to the area was connected at our home we had made all of four miles and stopped in at Carl in 1930. Frosts. I[...]ion too that the Mineral Bench School was cookies and doughnuts and all the coffee that she served us also used as a Sunday school for the neighboring children. and how welcome it was. We got into Poplar at 10 p.m.[...]trip the men had to shovel every Einar Jr. and Bob were able to get their catechism over inch of the way. Pork would come back to the car time and there. time again to see if we were alright[...]oon in Minneapolis on wouldn't change a moment of it all. March 5. She came just as the n[...]r 300 pounds, took care of us. She stayed with us a couple of months and by that time all the In May, 1936, we moved to Wolf Point. The children were springs in the davenport and the over-stuffed chairs were so disappointe[...]creage just north of the present Herb Meyers came and worked for us for four years. He water tower. But we found a lot of happiness there, too. In liked sugar a lot. He always sat on the back two legs of[...]went to Canada fora first vacation by his chair: and he had to have meat and potatoes three times car. We took a trailer along and lived in tents. Junior a day. We loved him as one of our own family.[...]Helena with the National Guard. Pork had started a Mary Lou was born on September 23, 1932. When[...]paign for clerk of court. He won the primaries by a Jr. came home, he said, "Why couldn't she wait un[...]hat June that Hans Ness, our old 13 that next day and from then on, Mary Lou seemed to be bachel[...]tunnels at Fort Peck Dam, contracted pneumonia and died. Bruce Alan came on February 2, 1935. We called him He was a dear man and my best maid. Many was the time "Bozo" for a long time and then changed it to "Buzzy" that he walked the floor with each of my children when and now everyone asks his proper name.[...]hes. Those days were not all work either. Pork and the We started the Lund Feed and Seed Company in neighbor men built an outdoor, platform dance floor. The January, 1940, and on December 7, 1941, moved into our stars were th[...]g with conducting the store Deithart on saxaphone and my brother Ray Christiansen busi[...] |
| clerked and helped in the store and of course carried on MR. AND MRS. F.J. MILLS activities in the home and with the children. Einar Lund, Jr. - senior vic[...]by Harold Nees Savings and Loan, Havre, Montana. Wife: Pat. Children: Ron and Ka thy.[...]at Falls, architect. Wife: Carol (the Dakota and filed on a homestead. 160 acres, the NE ¼ former Carol Brug[...]obert Section 32, Township 32, Range 51. C. and Josh. In the spring of 1919, Mr. and Mrs. Mills and boys, Naomi Gene (Lund) Craig, M.D. - Private medical Wayne, Dwight, Joe, and Sheldon returned to Montana practice and homemaker Fernandina Beach, Florida. and established a residence. Husband: Robert Craig, M.D. Children:[...]ter in the Chrys-Meree (Lund) Thorsen - homemaker and welcome spring it was soon moved ½ mi[...]mestown, North Dakota. Husband: spent a winter here but would come back in the summer. Ha[...]Elaine. Mary Lou (Lund) Van Galder - homemaker and dental hygenist, Lafayette, California. Husband: R .A. VanGalder, D.D.S. Children: Karen, Martha, Amy. Bruce A. Lund, D.D.S., 0.8. - Oral surgeon, Mayo Clinic,[...]: Bruce, Jeffrey, Julie, Kayla, Jonathon. Einar A. Lund, Sr. died at Trinity Hospital, Wolf Point,[...]Guy A . Miller Emma Miller - 1948[...]GUY AND TAGGE MILLER[...]by Marilyn Miller Mack Thor and Isabelle Mickelson, July, 1959, 25th Guy A. Miller was born in Corona, outh Dakota and |
| Guy and Tagge Miller, Merle and Marilyn about 1938. The Mineral Bench Schoolh[...]. There were the occasional |
| [...]ines written by Dad in his last years portray his and[...]Due to ill health, Dad and Mother retired in 1950 making[...]and Mother on September 14, 1962. They are buried in[...]The old homestead is presently owned by Stanley and Alma Nees, and is operated by Jack Nees (third[...]and Margaret Nees, and is operated by Ted Nees (third[...]experiences, happiness, and disappointments, we can be[...]thankful for our families, good friends and wonderful[...]Dad and Mother raised ten of the eleven children born to[...]children are: Mrs. Verna Culver, also a missionary in[...]Africa; Dr. Harold Murphree of San Francisco; and Dr.[...]Rhodesia. Lois now lives in a Methodist Home in Los[...]Grace taught school for a number of years before she[...]Bob, and Calvin all workin~ for St. Regis Lumber[...]Company at Libby, Montana. Dale is the owner of a TV, appliance and furniture stores in Billings and Missoula. Roy died in 1964 and in 1971 Grace married Loren[...]Flagseth. They are retired and live in Los Angeles.[...]the rural schools before her marriage. Stanley and Alma[...]on the original Nees homestead until they retired and Stanley and Alma Nees, wedding picture, June 1925[...]served his county as county commissioner, and state[...]The spring of 1920 finally arrived followed by a dry homestead families of the Mineral benc[...]y have summer. Our farming equipment consisted of a five horse four children: Randa, Glena, Danny and David. Mary team, a sulky (one-bottom 14' plow), an eight foot disc, a Marlene is married to Jack Morris. They have a small farm ten foot grain drill. We also owned a Model T touring in Branch, Arkansas where they live with their four car equipped with a set of steel lug wheels replacing the children Stanley, Annette, Bradley and Jan. original rear wheels. It was hoped this arrangement would Elva taught in several local schools and then married pull the plow, it was soon discovere[...]50 years. They have two children : Janette, a ocial service The five horses were then drafted[...]l coordinator in the Minneapolis school system, and Bill is T pulling the eight foot disc to level th[...]75. We have always been sorry that we do not have a picture of tlarold married Margaret Vincent[...]arly spring we could always look homestead and farm part of the original ees homestead. forward to digging and picking rocks. How we would have They have[...]d, the home- They have three boys, Larry, Jim and Dave. Bud (Stanley) stead shack was not adequate[...]r. On October is married to Charlotte Collins and they have two children 31, 1922, the Nees home was saddened by the sudden Lorea and Alan. Ted is married to Diane Greene and they passing of Warren Glenn, 2½ years old. Interment was in have two girls Kim and Pam. Ted is a farming partner with the Homestead Cemetery. his father and also works for Polumbus Oil Corporation. Dad, h[...]ralea is married to Leonard Marshall of Kalispell and Dakota continued to operate them for several year[...]ered the ministry full time, in 32 in Spokane and Terry is manager of regulatory affairs for[...] |
| [...]Make my life as true and faithful as the sun that shines[...]Use my life in guiding others in the straight and narrow[...]MR. AND MRS. R.E. NESBIT[...]was the land locator in Poplar and Col. Nesbit filed June 8, Harold and Margaret Nees - 1932[...]harvest and sell his property there and came back in September and started building a house which was the first[...]her of Alma again for the winter and early in the spring of 1917 he Nees). Before marr[...]returned with two immigrant cars of machinery and live- Mineral Bench area. Raymond is a building contractor in stock. He brought some milk cows and six of his best Dallas, Texas where they make their home. They have two mares. A colt was born in the boxcar on the trip here. He children, Kathy and Kelly. the[...]gner of Kalispell. They Mrs. Nesbit and four children, Nellie, Russell, John and have four children: Ronnie of Colorado Springs, C[...]at fall Nellie Rev. Tom Nees of Washington, D.C., and Lois and Carol of returned to South Dakota to sch[...]Poplar, returning with a new baby in the spring, Ralph Mildred married D[...]y have six children: Anne, David, Tom, Paul, Jeff and Cathey. Dorothy is married to Charlie Sprue of Dallas, Texas. They have two girls Pam and Nancy. Footnote by Margaret: It has been a privilege to know and Happine s Cake serves all m[...]tion for others |
| [...]have a Model T in the early 20's. He was a licensed auctioneer and traveled many miles crying sales of all[...]available to auction at the basket and pie socials and later always auctioned the quilts and fancy work for the M.B.I.[...]with his father in South Dakota who was a licensed[...]helped organize and was the first president of the Farm[...]Bureau in 1924 and later became president of the Farmer's[...]He was a baseball fan and traveled with the team faith-[...]fully as their umpire and made baseball fans of all his kids.[...]Mrs. Nesbit was a quiet, retiring woman, busy as she had[...]seven children. The two youngest, Tommy and Charlie[...]Mr. and Mrs. Nesbit lived on the farm until 1943. Four[...]of the older boys went to the army. He became ill and died[...]. NES BIT by one and started farming , Mrs. Nesbit kept the home[...]Ralph Jr. married Grace Nees and they farm in the area. Phon~ Fla[...]They have three sons , Larry, Jim and Dave. John and Write or Wire at My Expense for Dates[...]two children, Mary Lynn Granbois and Jamie. Charlie married Betty Thompson and teaches in Billings. Mabel[...]married Norman Jensen and they live on the original[...]l at the Buchanan School, driving themselves with a horse and buggy. They attended school there two summers and in the fall of 1919, the Mineral Bench School was completed and they all attended there through the grades. Th[...]ged across the prairie, rain, shine or snowstorm, and there were plen- ty of the last. Once we almost got lost in the mile and a half trip across the prairie, but we found a plowed furrow and then a fence line. In 1917, when we first came there was not a building on the bench, nor a fence as far as you could see. Walter Nordwick had a sod barn and shack below the hill. But none on the bench. All water came by dipping and hauling from the big sloughs until Leo Vandenberg dug us a well in 1920. This was a big help as water was usually stirred to mud by t[...]ud, hundreds of wild range horses. Beautiful bays and sorrels J ohn , tub. Front: Mabel, Mr. esbit, Mr . e bit and owned by Frank Cusker. They were so unused to hum[...]riosity. Sometimes so curious they broke windows! A neighbor lady went out with THE O.J. NORDWICK FAMILY a dishpan and spoon and the noise usually frigh tened them away. Usually in the summer, they had a big roundup by Myrtle Nordwick &nata driving hundreds to a branding corral on the river, and fa rmers horses along the way were taken along if[...]'t get them out of the path. It gave us kids many a n Community (th ir ty mile n orth of Popla[...]us moment. Horses were our tractors in those days a s Nordwick brothers: Oliver , Walter , Lewis a nd Reub n, who[...] |
| [...]Henry, Oliver, Lewis, Reuben, Alice, Elsie, 0.J. and Arthur. O.J. Nordwick Ranch homesteaded[...]for eight years. |
| Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nordwick[...]July 1931 Bapitsm day of Evelyn, Ellis and Mary Nordwick; sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Morris Flagen; Minister, they farm here. The[...]Pastor Stovall. Raymond Flagen baptised; Oliver and Larry died at the age of 16 in 1947. Stanley married Leona Nordwick Sponsors. Charlene Barth and lives in Missoula, with their three boys. Sharon married James Leckie and they have one son and live in Billings. The older children had eight years of schooling at the Mineral Bench and Dowd schools. The younger ones had two and four years in the country school before they move[...]well educated in the basics at our country school and went on to graduate from Poplar High School and some from college. Ben and Vivian celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary[...]dist Church in Glasgow in 1926 along with Stanley and Alice Kirn. They have made their home in Poplar e[...]ge of eighteen, I sold my homestead there in 1915 and decided to come to Montana. My brother Walter had[...]strict, in 1916. Walter started farming that year and I kept on working at carpenter work until the spr[...]y folks lived in California then. I went home for a visit and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy for the d.iration of World War I. I was discharged on August 20, 1920 and then came back to Montana and my homestead. I still didn't start farming, but k[...]ordwick brother . Left to right: Walt r, Bennie Art, trade. In 1923 we were then building a new school house Oliver, Reub n, Henr , and Louie. in Medicine Lake, Montana. My boss, Henry[...]923. We started farming on my homestead in 1926 and lived Brockton. He married Helen Blevin . Th y hav a large on the farm for quite a number of year . In 1945, we moved family. Jim live in Wyoming with hi wif and four on . to Missoula for university for the children. Evelyn and Ronald i married and liv in Butte. They ha v thr Ellis were both out of high chool and they attended girls and a boy. college there. I worked at the building trade for a couple I wa born on October 14, 1 91 in Tacoma, Wa hington . years and finally wound up in the real estate and in urance Leona wa born on Augu t 26, 905 at[...]d to Montana in 1 07. County again. We farmed for a few years thirty miles north Walter continued to farm in th Mineral B nch ar a until of Wolf Point. We sold out there and have been retir d for he pas ed away in Jun[...]t wif , aomi, pa d the last ten years. We raised a family of five childr n, two away earli r . They are both buried at B Ile Four h outh girls and three boys. Evelyn lives in Butte with her[...]ond wife, Ethel, live in th Poplar ur ing hu band and three grown children. Ellis is in bu iness[...] |
| [...]oulee searching wit)l flashlights - he got scared and[...]fire flies and not flas.ti}ights they saw![...]Reuben was born .A;ug:ust 7, 1897 in Sheldon, North[...]ldest married Jack Nees. They have four children, and live in Poplar. Robert married Eileen Boyce and has two[...]Donald Isaacson and has two children. They live in the[...]and has two children. They live in the Mineral Bench[...]Lester married Rosann Johnson and they have three children and live in the Mineral Bench area. Ruth and Reuben Nordwick REUBEN NORDICK |
| [...]Vicksburg, Michigan, where he lived as a mall boy. His[...]with his father on the railroad and in factorie . From Iowa,[...]Ray went to Canada and worked for farmers there for a[...]Lawrence place and returned to his own land in the spring[...]of 1916 to build his homestead shack and to break forty[...]bey, Montana. For the next thirty-five years, Ray and[...]To this union were born three ons and three daughters: Carl Norgaard home on farm 1971[...]Raymond Roscoe, Jr., Patrick James, and Irene Isabel[...]ouise (Mrs. Don Driemeyer) resides in helby. even a mislaid leather jacket. One year we had army[...]vered by Dr. D.B. Healy of worms come crawling up and over whatever was in their Flaxville. path - and they were hungry, too! Our garden (hand- In October of 1923, Ray bought the Fowl home and watered with buckets) was reduced to bare stalks in a few moved it eight miles to its pre ent l[...]e the old machinery do the job. It was overhauled and year he purchased a few head of cattle to start hi herd; this repaired, often with wire and patience. When we had to original numb[...]r newly green fields were blackened by high winds and cattle. Be ides being a tockman, he al o farmed hi land. dust. The sharp[...]at filled the air cut off the In 1930 he bought a thre hing machine and foreightyear tender growth at ground level. But M[...]cau of th xtreme third dust storm made it final , and there was no crop drought condition wh[...]e con- that year. We had to find some way to earn a living. There tinued into 1937, a Ray him lf aid, "That ummer I was W.P.A. and some applied for "relief' money. We went[...]d - not n .' to California where Carl luckily got a job, helping a The O'Brien childr n attend d grad[...]ng we went back chool , which wa four and on half mil from th ir horn . to the land to try again. We did raise a fair crop but the In 193 Ray and Am bough a horn in Poplar o that prices dropped as low as 28[...]ri n famil parti ipa d in to be ground into flour and cereals. We rai d chicken and card parti danc , and ha ball gam with oth r pigs. A can of vegetable wa carefully divied to provide[...]the fall in 193 -1940, arl, In 1956 Ray and on pur ha d a ranch n ar Mu 1- together with various partners, uncover d and old coal. h 11, Montana . Thi ranch i[...]on, teph n . In 1942, we bought the Lund place and began to build a Ray b cam ill with I uk mia in h fall[...]2, 1 at th ag of 6 af r was cleaning and repairing to do. arl expanded the[...]from all Hi wif , Am , till r id in Poplar and h and h r on ides. He experimented with 200 pine dling which continu th farming and ranching activiti whi h Ra grew 5-12 feet proving[...]in our oil. Marie b gan . ordered apple and plum tr es, berrie and p r nnial flower and is enjoying the bountiful re ults.[...]RVID D THILDA POHL Montana and Paul orgaard of Anchorage, Ala ka . There are sev[...]. by Mr . M. Flag n and bit Famil We urvived the hard time . Good crop and pnce together with modern dev lopments have giv nu all t~e Arvid a rrived h r with th fir thorn teader and fil d conveniences of city living plu the adv an tag of a home m on a claim on Mineral B nch . Along with v ral[...] |
| [...]Emil and Ingeborg Ruud - 1917 EMIL AND INGEBORG RUUD[...]by Laura Hanger, niece |
| [...]and three children - Bill, the oldest son, who wa i7,[...]14 and a four year old daughter, Pauline Emma.[...]horses, a cow, and their future home. Grandfather eip[...]brought with him a portable house which he had con-[...]together. It could be put up in a day, with wall and roof windows and door in place. The first floor, however, wa~[...]rugged trail and uninhabited plains. After several days of[...]loading their belongings and getting supplies together that married Marie Kueh[...]any weeks, the Seips were ready to September 1888 and came over here. There were four head down the old trail which followed th e Poplar River a s daughters born to them in Anamoose, Ruth, Meta,[...]it snaked its way through the fenceless prairies and and Minna (Marie). rolling hills toward the south. A double team of big There was talk of land open[...]rman draft horses led the way. They pulled a lumber wagon and and family came to the Redwater area and homesteaded hayrack piled high. Hooked on behind the hayrack was a first on Section 32, Township 25, Range 52, on January 3, buggy carrying the mother and daughter and tied to the 1914. The nearest town for shopping was Poplar where buggy and following very reluctantly was P et the J er ey t[...]of milk cow. The snow was gone by now and a hot sun had Richey was built.[...]to the discomfort of the long rough Karl, Paul and Alvin were born in Richey. and dusty trail infested with persistently hungry[...]s. Many tears ran down the cheeks of the Nordwick and moved the family to Roosevelt County.[...]sed away on July 3, 1955. Marie thoughts and fears and dreams. o far from town and Kuehn Schagunn died in December of 1949. Young Karl family and friends. How would the children be educated? was killed in a hunting accident in August 1931. What would happen if there was icknes ? Or a ccidents? Ruth married Reuben Nord wick of Poplar in 1935. They How to cope with a whole new environmen t? The rich have five children. Elsie, Robert, Marien, Donald and prairie grass already green a nd a bundant gave some Lester. Meta married George Sather in 1942. George was born and raised in the McCabe area. Meta was employed in Poplar at Corbin's drug and Lundeen 's Mercantile for several years. She and George live in Seattle, Washington . They have two children - Donald and Valerie. Erna is married to Alec Kahl and lives in Missoula. Minna married John Bosch in 1946 and lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They have three children, Mike, Tim, and Terry Lee. Paul married Hazel Tryan in 1949. They live in Williston , North Dakota and have raised three sons: Mick, Doug and Craig. Alvin married Eileen Bourassa in 1950. T[...]avalney, Jack, Becky Zimmerman, Terry, Carrie Lou and Steve. THE SEIP FAMILY[...]Michel and on, Merton, Ra mond Borgrud, child not known.[...]grandson Virgil Buchanan, David and Harry Buchanan, r tal ,a kell |
| [...]n one layer of skin from an inquisitive tongue on a cold[...]The months went by and soon other homesteaders[...]the unexpected and the hardships. The children took it all[...]for granted, unaware that a strong faith in God, concern[...]integrity and responsibility were being molded ~s their[...]ry, where the blazmg sun- The portable house gets a tar paper job. B.F. Seip and wife sets were breathtaking, the dancing Nort[...]fascinating and the stars hovered close.[...]was nourishing and the hay in the coulees and in the river assurance. And there was relief in thought that they would valley abundant. The cattle were fat and the herd growing. be there fourteen months; the time required to claim their The houses strong and dependable. They kept the farm land.[...]bout the new land that appealed to the Seip stead and was known as the "halfway" house. An early[...]freight route had been established between Scobey and up, instead of returning to Missouri, Grandfa~her I:>0ugh~ Poplar and the Tanner House served as a place for the another piece of land, so[...]issoun freighters to stay overnight, change teams and have food and made Montana their permanent home. for both themselves and their horses. It was here that the Soon a school was built by the labor of the enterprising Seips stayed for a few days while their wagons were being newcomers. Fourteen students attended the first day, unloaded and the portable house set up on their new land. among them were Dick and Pauline Seip. The ~acher was The roof of the Tann[...]sod. That first Miss Elizabeth Doran. She and many ofthe pupils traveled night the Montana skies opened up and torrents _of rain to school by horseback.[...]le Grandmother was servmg her By now a bible study and Sun~ay school had _been little girl some nice hot cereal, a huge clod of mud loosened organized. The meetin[...]e from the ceiling, fell on the fresh hair ribbon and plopped school was built and then it became the center for all in to the cerea[...]an already community activities. Occasionally a minister would pass di traught pioneer lady. through and hold services. Rev. Van Orsdel, the famous After the rain , more mosquitoes; they came whining and "Brother Van" of Montana, was among the first. Some of warming in great mas es, to the distres of man and the newcomers were well versed in Bibl[...]offers olutions to its problems, too. Mickel and Mr. Reed often gave inspiring sermons which The p[...]re to molder around the community. Rev. Nees and Rev. Mills soon followed. hack. The mosquito "s[...]y to Grandfather the nearest neighbor was Mr. and Mrs. the in ect tormentors. Bottles of "Citronell[...]Max'ton an older couple from Bloomington, handy, and no one forgot to tuck the mosquito netting Illinois. By now' the need for a postoffice and mail route securely around the bed at night. Even[...]had become evident. An application was made and Missouri born and thin skinned, had her protection. Grand- gra[...]re sent in to mother realizing the great value of a contented milk cow in those far out places promptly made a big coat of burlap, which "suited" Pet just right. There were many frustrations and anxieties in those early days. Digging the well,[...]ole was five feet in diameter. The digging began. A windlas and a bucket were set up. As the hole got deeper, the b[...]one of the boys to be filled with dirt, hauled up and dumped and sent down again. Slow, tedious work . Grandmotherin her sunbonnet, paced and fretted . Would they hit water at all? Would the[...]-hole' had to move quickly to get out. The joy of a cold fresh drink! The river had been the supplr up to now. A chain over a pulley and a large bucket provided access to the water for a number of years and then the luxury of a hand pump, the handle of which claimed mor[...] |
| [...]ice. The P.O. Department selected Seips. Thus, in a sturdy building on the Maxton place, Seips, Montana became a reality in 1918. Robert Maxton was the first postmaster and Ed Buchholz, the first mail carrier. Due to the p[...]ion comfortably, mankind must have food, clothing and shelter. The rugged newcomers managed these well.[...]the Marquis Mill in Scobey to be made into flour and cereal. Beef and pork butchered in the fall, chickens and turkey, along with the wild ducks and fish in the creek and an occasional prairie chicken furnished plenty of[...]t that this was indeed her castle after squeezing a family of five into two rooms. Fuel for w.umth and Glenn Swank family. Eunice, Glenn, Eugene, Bertha and cooking was provided by the lignite hauled by the[...]lcomed in the settlers' homes, whether it was for a meal or overnight or for days or whatever the ne[...]LY was learned later that the Seips accommodated a very ambitious cattle and horse rustler. Few questions were ever[...]tted by Eugene Swank asked - someone needed food and shelter and that was that![...]t the school house as well as basket socials, pie and ice After renting farms in the Cando, orth Dakota area the cream socials, and dances. Fish fries and picnics, baseball family moved to Montana and home teaded twelve miles games along the Poplar C[...]ons - east of Froid in 1908. W. Glenn wank and Harry wank homemade ice cream was the special treat. Training a Sr. were two of a family of nine children. There were four clever hand for roping and taming a wild bronc was homesteads on the same ection of land where the wank challenging and exciting for the young fry. lived and as Glenn and Harry became old enough to farm Thus the years[...]ves they had watched the ettler come to the left. A few got their roots down deep and stayed on. Among area west of Froid on the Fort Peck Indian Re ervation these was the Seip family. And what became of them? that had been ope[...]car on the road available land, both fo and for ale. Two, a heavier to Poplar. William F. joined the army in World War I and oil, le andy and m le for farming than when he r[...]ied another homesteader's their home area and t ral fa w elong d daughter[...]an for the Kansas City treetcar Both Glenn and Ha farm with tra r b Co. until his[...]n the ranch, than with hor . Th a Bull tracto nd and assisted Grandfather with its operation. In June[...]r r p 1928 he married Ethel Jean Mac eil, a teacher in a nearby would ev n ually r p .[...]country school. They had two daughters, Emma Jean and marri d Georgia Bro er[...]rties" without rain, on the re ervation and H ted om i without feed for the stock, mounting expen es and di - fa her-in-law. That fa Ru couragement drove hi family to a new way of life. He took and after harv ting in the civil service exam and became a mechanic for the combining bu ine .[...]he Pre idio in an Franci co. note tabli h d and q d where he remained until his death in 196 . His wife and the crop fo daughters live in that area. My mother, Pauline, became a thre hing chool teacher at age 18, taught the Buchanan and Mineral bu hel). Mo oving Bench schools and then got into the Bainville sy tern for thr hing m a number of year . Eventually whil teaching in co b[...]f it · she met and married a druggist, ecil J. Mar h, who owned argum nt of · and operated the Service Drug for 36 year . I wa born[...]g The old homestead till r main - quiet and empty, but and thre hing op ration . The more the same big blue sky and tar lit nights cover it and the work than th y could do and pur ond combin . same old river curve a friendly arm around its side. It[...] |
| [...]a a land payment. The whole crop at 25 cents per bushel 192 the wank Brother were in the cu tom eeding and did not pay for the harvesting expe[...]over half share of the crop back into the busine a their u ual method of operating a a land payment did not make for a profitable operation. w .. to u e any money they[...]work to rent When the hogs were fat and ready to ship to the St. Paul land for them el[...]the freight. The solution the wanks down payment a ible and one half of the crop going tried wa to home butcher the hogs and ell them locally. for the land payment until the[...]Poplar in the fall of summer of 1H2 w .. wet year and crop rai ed on the 1927 1932, th[...]a whole hog wa 5 or half a hog for 2.50. The drawback Living quarter w re cook car and a truck hou e. The wa that nobody on[...]ve very lthough homem de. d of a forerunner of the profitable for the w[...]lace Bee u e there wa ery little money and no job in the in h nge for th h[...]r wer u d m ch nic 1, and an exp rienced "agricultur Ii t" Harry to uncover[...]olf co hot I. he o a the neighbor[...], he fa ork, and nt to of wi[...]g th hnrn. a ~hop.[...] |
| GEORGE AND ELLA SWIHART with m[...]led. " Pioneers" George wa Swihart and Margaret Ella, Helen, one year and on month I te old, John Gearhart, fourt[...]s. fath My folks set up a tent, and lived in it during the um mer he ro months w[...]pump My father was known as Uncle George, and my mother at was called Aunt Ella[...]st of the Poplar b River. We lived one and a half miles from the Bred tte Po t back Office. We received our mail once a week. We had a few arthri acres used as pasture land,[...]My ground. In the spring the ice woudl go out a we would ay, bank "stack up," create a flood across the valley. I can left. . remember seeing the flats with water a mile wide. We could Frank r hear the breaking and ru hing of the water from our hou e. in 19 pring was very beautiful, the green hill and va1ley . little My parents came by train , my mother, brother and m - f fo self came by coach train. My father rode in the stock car, I 40 and took care of the animals, which he moved. I don't know heal how many, but there were hor e and cattle, tool and fath machinery household goods, bed[...]etc. The had move wa made with hor e and wagon 25 mile to the outh Pi[...]wa I no by hor e and wagon for our new home. tim . My parents sold their home in Indiana, and horn · steaded, I uppo e it wa an adventure th[...]o rcame 0 also. Aron , Joe and athan were the· nw |
| [...]home teads. Carl and Big Jens took homesteads near Out- look, and Little Jens moved on to the Redstone area. When[...]America", the old gentlemen indignantly and perhaps[...]to the land of opportunity with a pot of gold at the foot[...]jaunt. His lovely little Mother sent him off with a fine down and goose feather tick, enough clothes for some time,[...]and enough food for a trip around the world. Most of it[...]born he wa named for a young cousin who had recently[...]drowned. The father and mother of this boy placed in the bank a certain sum of money to Chri 'credit. It was with[...]a Plentywood Hardware merchant, to meet his brother[...]wa dubbed, came and went. Chri got off the train with[...]He could not under tand a word of English and of course no one could under tand a thing that he said. Finally he[...]began walking up and down the limited sidewalks of[...]in Zeidler' hardware tore and a ked Leo if he had een[...]and taken in tow to Zeidler' tore. Carl oon howed up.[...]me tead wa lumber wagon drawn by one hor e and th r ired hired men t ty of one ox. Thi wa a far cry from the leek driving hor e thin[...]lp ~ p ople . Hy the tim Ch hrothns and ~i .' t rommon ••xprPs, i Lui nnrl[...] |
| [...]a[...]b a[...]Buchanans from TI e L.G. family and the ordwicks; the Glenn wanks hailed from Indiana. Gene Baker from Minne ota, Clarence and Georg Baker from Mis ouri, the John Zucks recentl[...]High hool. Guy Miller, Leo andenberg, and Bri n were ome of the bachelor ettler[...]d from Mi ouri I believe. I vah an den g , Em and the Veda LaRoche family were a amon fir t ettler . ome tim later th[...]e Carl Fro t fa from Racine, Wi in and r Tang fro arriv d. ommunit nown a Bench. In t d I. It not I int[...]1 r ant u• . ./ 'a,,n[...] |
| building did not blow a way, though ome of the barns and Montana Childrens Home, The School f[...]isted. In 1937 it forgot to also bought a large un-abridged Dictionary for the Mineral rain[...]enefit to the crops. The Bench School, a set of Encyclopedias, and a number of harve ting machine were left in their s[...]several hundredacres-thatis the made a contribution to help pay for the school piano. We low plac and garnered 35 bushels of dried up, cracked[...]d we do for entertainment? Besides the club there a p rti l lution to our problem . The wheat land ha[...]socials. In the spring we generally sponsored a track meet at th mercy of ea tern Montana's wind[...]ls. There encouraged to trip farm their acreage . A nominal fee was would be some ball games and a noon dinner for all. p id to the operator for let[...]ing program. It was both profitable and fun. We learned to can, bu ine thought that it wa[...]wheat had preserve, dry, or freeze a bout everything we raised that was to receive a cert in amount of tillage to conserve what[...]le. moi ture might come. Ga oline, repair , oil , and hired help During the war years if we had not raised and stored food co t m oney. Many of the Mineral Benc[...]land along the prairie depleted, and very limited. We even were taught how to creek . In 1937 there wa not gra and no feed on the make cheese. Mis[...]e enabled to keep our herd by homes and show us how to re-upholster our couches and mowing the young Rus ian thi tie that prang up al[...]ome of the younger women learned to the road ide and in ome of the low place in the grain refinish their furniture, make the pleated drapes, and make field . A few early fall hower fo tered thi growth. The uch simple piece of furniture a foot stool , little cabinets Govemmen gricultural Department in Culbert on and little end tables. We made and old butter, dressed and in truct d u cut the e thi tle while young and juicy- old chicken . We literally cann[...]all, pile them in rick putting tock pork, and chickens. The Ball and other gla jar indu tries alt between the layer o[...]The cattle re lly went for mu t have made a mint of money on us. thi · . By pring the cow and teer were good and Mo t of the women and ome of the men were fa t. lf cr op wa trong and healthy. That deal really in trumental[...]unday hool. Mr. R.E. e bit, Mr. I.W. Buchanan and · like continu l tale[...]· f e ling orry for unday chool a ucce . We u ed unday chool le on[...]ho t, a it w re. Mr . tanley ee , Ivah Vandenberg[...]communit Glenn w nk girl and Ruth Tange were the teacher . worn[...]Ca rl Tan!(f' and hi tPam th r ,n contributions to The R d[...] |
| encouraged to 4_.._ 1• t. Mineral Bench was a member of a league that includea .f laxville, Redstone, Outlook, a Poplar team and a few others. Each year there wa a tournam nt. Some very good ball was played. Mineral Bench won a goodly share of these tournaments. Mineral Bench was not without its political a pirant . Mr. John Zuck was the first member[...]hree terms. These men did service for their count and state as they saw fit. Chris Tange wa instrumental in securing a certain percentage of the oil taxe for th Roo[...]tion that these early ettler tran form d from a dry, barren prairie is now a flouri hing comm unit of fine groves, fertile farms good road and beautiful modern and spaciou homes. The e home for man ear now hav[...]he control of pure Ronald (Gu ) and Betty Lou Guy Young. Th oung th r . people pentagood hareoftheirlive with th iraun and Leop uncle. Early the learn d to love th farm and to or on it. I ·ah in When Ronald wa nine ear of ag he wa driving grain truck -and unloading them b hand . Th r · Ti[...]da . Th p opl of tin ral B nch ar than fu) and proud to hav had a part in th Gr a m rican d n ur . I ·a ind d a privil g . ~ lute our gr a na ion n hi . i Bi-c ntennial ar, 1 76.[...],.,. . aa id r. |
| [...]Nick and Pearl Norgaard[...]month over there. Glenn and hi wife have two children, Diann and J.D. I married ick orgaard and live in[...]Lewi town, Joan married to Jerr Hagadone, and Verna[...]ountry. by Leo Zuck and Mr . Gerald Zuck[...]W r i d garden, John Q. Zuck and family came to ontana by railroad in[...] |
| [...]. 'h II ~ a Hoz nci af r man yin~ |
| Leo attended tanford University in alifornia and the old floor jumped with every on[...]They s ttl d in dance was held there and I remember the men bouncing Billings wher they operated a photographic studio until Gerald so high on a blanket I was sure he would miss it retir ment.[...]winter with above the cour · in electrical work and later ettled on the farm. average snowfall and more wind than usual. Our roads H and Mon O nni w re married in 1945. They raised[...]weren't elevated above the fields as they are now and so thr on . Bob of t nford , Montana . Allen of cobey and would really get snowed in and when spring came the trails Byron wh m t death accid nt lly in 1967 at the age of washed out and we would get stuck trying to go anywhere. s v nte[...]ssed away during the early part of his six Many a d n wa held in the old Mineral Bench school[...]946. Ruth lived in Poplar for many year after thi and th y l id on or under the b nche placed around th[...]of 1955. or in the t acherage mong the ladie coat and babie . Gerald pa ed away in 1972 and the farm was sold to Mu ic w don ted local talent and the rafter rang and Jame Gilbert on in 1973. Ed Buchholz and ,/ am,•. , fa c /)nr1ald. •,. thr . hi[...] |
| [...]Grandma and May Leete one winter in Florida.[...]. a n, R Zuck,[...] |
| [...]t . Ed "h/1 I fora . r n broth r . 11 - |
| [...]Borgrud . P arl Yard . ari J, mien, Ro s D ,thart and Mab l N bit. Front . • tub . bit. ,John e bit, Lucille BfJrl(rude. I. abel Bakn and Ru h Ba r.[...] |
| [...]ney Andresen I have a kindly neighbor, one who stands harlie D lger, Myrtle with Ruth, Fran and Ro . Girl on harli D ·lg r outfit[...] |
| Fairbanks Morse tractor single cylinder. Henry and 1936 left to right: Meluin Ferdina, Barney A ndr en, Mari Barney, Jr., Barney Andresen Sr.[...]id.and n[...] |
| [...]with Indi. n tril .. & _-it_a_. ____ _ itfaeo ... of th[...]id rilJe •.• a th UIJ\t"· um ONE YEAR fr m lb[...]n lmmlr and to k ip iu[...] |
| [...]sque ·ttlement that wa the original Wolf Point and dated back to the 1 60' . Original building ar[...]the days when imported, hand decorated bead were a highly prized a precious stones. The e po t were operated by lice[...]Bay Co., later owned byT.C. Power, then W.B. haw, and finally Sherman Cogswell bought it in 1 9. A he vy log tockade was built around the store and everal hed . Mr. Cog well' i ter, Alma, came in[...]or him in the log hou e near the store. Before a bank wa e tabli hed in 1913, Mr. Cogswell[...]ming of the Great Northern Railroad in 1887 cted a banker for rancher . Whites and Indians recall opened up a new era for development. The track was about that he grub taked them during difficult times. a mile north of Old Town, so when the reservation w[...]town be built by the railroad. torekeeper and farm upervisor next in authority to the[...]the large dormitories long ince been cut away by a river. from the missi[...]of the buildings were torn down. J.M. Working and Lem Burke of Golden, Illinois, and a Old Town is a place of nostalgic memories for those who m n nam[...]ng of work for the agency in 1 75. Mr. Working wa a sawyer modern conveniences, days of joy and sadness, strong and a ho carpenter, o built a awmill and a number of friendship and the successful building of loyal, capable, cabin at Old Town. orri wa "ho farmer" and patriotic Americans who took their places i[...]n Old Town, "the song is In 1 76, Mr . Wor ing and r . Morri , each with two ended, but the[...]ld Toi n. un or and r a. 1 1 tok p wa[...] |
| Pipal Blacksmith Shop and house in Old Town - 1900[...]bal members. Also, proposed townsite were platted and Mayor: Jo Klinkhamm r the p resent Wolf Point[...]lot were V ard 1 le Erick on sold to Indians and non-Indians by bids and public ale . John on held by f[...]ize that the local busine smen, already organized a Fr d a Commercial Club, felt that step hould be taken to incorporate Wolf Point a a municipality. In order to mor adequately meet and handle the public and civil problem it was deemed nece ary to make V olf Point a political entity. Accordingly, a petition wa filed with Commi ion o n ount olf that time in e nty) a k o determine if If b i The[...]I · boundarie of cou a 34 r r q .[...] |
| [...]ru b en oper ting an electric light and many people we have and our classification as a city. pvw r plant fo ral year . He wa granted a 25 year I.C. Bordahl, the man entrust[...]people in April 1916. About thi the work in a thorough methodical manner. Going from · Point had only a few cattered street light . A.D. house to house and building to building, he took down the t · eer in cha rge with Clif Wilson a name of all residents and the total began to climb. Thi a in operation by Li terud until Opinions r[...]d by Montana-Da kota completed the count and turned the lists into Town Clerk[...]t of the Gordon. There are 17 Ii t of 100 and one list of 46. Mr.[...]Bordahl says it i possible that he missed a few. If Wolf Wolf Point wa connected to a tran mi ion Point i not now the larges[...]Divi ion Point Mr. and Mr . Henry G. can en and their 11 children for[...]them Railway. were pre ented with a mantle clock for being the largest It[...]in the Great and Mr . Edward ichol and two bit worth of bright[...] |
| [...]tore down in ld Toi n ... and part .[...]and The old Post Office building now houses the Farme[...]k Union Insurance, Office of the Claims Adjustor and the annou Wolf Point Federal Credit Union[...]t Company with er n · a po tma ter. The Post Office ov i h Main treet and .M. Han o ap in a r. Later it wa moved to wher ley[...] |
| [...]Allengren. for a r~dio station at this time, that, coupled with th[...]n 1942. S~it~, teacher and handyman at the Indian training and In 1957 a new radio station was started in Wolf Point[...]t the station were Ed Krebsbach. R.E. Pete Coffey and M.M. Wolf Point Agency for many years. Vukelich with Mr. Coffey as manager. In 1959 Coffey and . Alm9: Cogswell, sister of Sherman T. Co[...]Vukelich. KVCK is operating lived with and worked with her brother at his trading post on a power of 1000 watts and is affiliated with Mutual at Old Town. network, Keystone network, North Star network and with Cynthia King who was head of the[...]Charles Mitchell, who was a clerk for Cogswell and was[...]BANK - commg m 18 9, and who had interests in many busine ses WETER[...]in Poplar, including the Cosier-Patch Co. and was also a[...]f Point started on its path of Yard': in 1910, and later built an elevator, a flour mill and financ1a~ ervice to northea t Montana in January of1913[...]nt. when th1rtee~ tock uh crib r m tin Wolf Point and put John H. Coffey, one of the first[...]per hare. am of tho e who op ned a tore for bu ine in 1911 near John pre ent and inve ting capital at that fir t meeting were:[...]Wolf market, automobile bu ine and later built the first movie theater and wa involved in th Wolf Point Hotel Co. Po~nt, Dr.[...]Howard . Cosier who cam to Poplar in 1 1 and wa Po~nt, Cynthia Kmg, Wolf Point, Charle Mitch 1[...]on of th founder of th Trader tat Bank a w 11 a E. Patch, Popi r, John Li terud, Wolf Point John[...]t thi m ing wa r. John B. Rand 11 who wa a notary public. The Ii t of name of the origin[...]nd officer of the Fir t tate Bank r d lik a " Who Who' in ~astern Montana. Many were w II known and promin nt m the settlement and development of thi ar . Probably the be t known name and the leader in establishing the Fir t tate Bank wa[...]ll. Mr. Cogswell came to Wolf Point in 1 5 nd was a teacher, Indian trader, merchant and postma ter for many years in old Wolf Poin[...] |
| [...]man T. Cogswell was elected president and Harry B. Ty on and William Haugen w re president of the newly First[...]g officers. The Citizen ational ank built a John Listerud being elected as vice president. Later, Mr. new building on the corner of Main tr et and Third Charles Roblin of Poplar was appointed as[...]e the Mitchell Livery Barn had b n March of 1913 a contract to build a bank building was located since 1912.[...]reorganized as the Fir t ational Bank and in July th $1,580.00. The bank opened its doors t[...]he south side four banks. of Main Street and was in what was later to be known as[...]when they reorganized a the Fir t ational Bank, and in The Articles of Incorporation which were dat[...]in charge of the new Fir t ational Bank. and the first state examination report dated May 12,[...]Security tate Bank were: .B. Robert , P.L. How and J. One of the first customers of the First Sta[...]bank, Sylvester Dwyer of Wolf Point who received a pay check Mr. Switzer was vice president and managing offic r, and from rancher Bill Reid and deposited this in the new bank. W.H. Beol[...]. Dwyer began work at the Herald L.A. Kragrud and W.L. Young were dir ctor . News printing office, and he set the type for the first call In Aug[...]still resides in with the Fir t tate Bank and enli ted in th tud nt Wolf Point at 412[...]Training Corps at Helena where h attend d a training In the minutes of the July 9, 1913 dir[...]school. However, he did not e active ervic and oon was decided to hire Mr. Dana McKinney as assi[...]$75.00 per month. the bank for a hort ime during Mr. Appelgren' ab ence. There w[...]State Bank in the In 1919, due to drought and difficult time for financial beginning years as t[...]in titution , the Citizen ational Bank and the Fir t than the deposits. Homesteaders and business people alike ational Bank con olidated under the name "The Fir t needed capital, and there was not much money to be had. ational Bank of olf Point," and continued in bu ine In May of 1915 Mr. Fred E.[...]Dakota was employed by the bank. Mr. Rathert was a and the Fir t ational Bank, the capital wa increa ed to native oflowa and had worked in the Perkins County State 50,000.00 and Mr. Alfred W. Hux ol wa el c d pr id nt, Bank in[...]approximately six with H.B. Ty on a vie pr id nt, .L. Kl v , vie years. When Mr. Rathert went to work, Mr. Charles Roblin pre ident and . . Bleck wa ca bier. La r Andr w T. resigned. Al[...]fthi bankandwa withth although he only worked for a short time. Fir t ationa[...]oan demand. Minneapoli , a r . K ith of orth Dakota, . . John on Competition for the First tate Bank wa the Farm and .H. Haugen of olf oint. Th Fir ation 1 ank Bank, a state bank which wa chartered in 1914. Thi b a loca din he old itiz n ational Bank build[...]the Hux ol Bl ck. to the Fad Clothing tore and was o d by Har The lo Montgomery, George Kirk and Harry n. Jl in[...]te Bank · door an Mr. George H. Flint and r. Alfred -ren . In 1[...]. George H. Fli n a farmer and bu i in o[...]. . . . John on, k on, A.J. In k. !Ra and Al Hu o1. lfr ol a th joini[...] |
| department. In 1939 a mile tone was reached by the First building, providing ample room for customers as well as a tate Bank when the bank footings were in exces[...]would be proud to see the In 1942 the officer and employees were listed as: Fr, J E. progress his[...]ert, president, George H. Flint, vice president , A.V. first opened the doors of the First Stat[...]S FIRST NATIONAL BANK In June of 1946 Mr. Lee A. Cowen wa employed as an WOLF POINT, MONTANA a i tant ca hier and Mr. .V. Appelgren was elected to the po ition of vice pre ident. Lee Cowen ws a native of Late in 1953 a group of Wolf Point businessmen, farmers Fort Morgan, Colorado and came to Jordan, Montana and ranchers applied for a charter for a national bank in when he wa 21 year of age. He worked there for a few Wolf Point. On April 12, 1954 the Comptroller of the year and then came to Wolf Point where he was employed[...]e charter. Capital of the new bank was by the P. .A. in 194 , and from there came to work for the $200,000.00. The present building was constructed and the Fir t tate Bank.[...]54. In 1951 Mr. John Witte of cobey was hired a an The first Board of Directors were Robert I. Penner, K.E. a i tant ca hier. In January of 1953 Fred E. Rather[...]erbert Houg, R.E. Coffey, Leslie T. tepped down a pre ident due to ill health, and Mr. A.V. Brown, Don E. Nelson, Robert Beery, Art[...]elected chairman of the board. and Baxter Larson. The ro ter of employee had gro[...]ine increa ed over the year . The officers and L.R. Hovey, Vice President; K.E. Voss, C[...]re: Fred E. Wagnild, Ass't Cashier and Joyce Beaton, Teller. Rathert, chairman, Alfred V[...]ember 1, 1954, were H. Flint, vice pre ident, Lee A. Cowen, vice pre ident, $124 ,000.00. On[...]s of the J me T. Brownlee, ca hier, John . Witte, a i tant bank were in excess of 1,00[...]y hlberg, tenographer, Helen mith, a teady growth since its inception and, at the present time teller, Lucy Lenz, teller, Luella Morey, batch and tran it (February, 1976), total resources a[...]r. engaged and is presently drawing plans for expansion of In eptember of 195 A.R. "Bob" Appelgren wa hired a the present building. The building has been remodeled a vice president of the Fir t tate Bank, and al e wa everal times and a community room was provided in 1963. elected to the Board of Director . Thi wa the year that A drive-in banking facility wa also constructed at this Wolf Point again had two bank , a the itizen Fir t time. The bank ha also acquired adjacent property and ational Bank opened their door for bu ine with Mr. converted thi into a generous ize parking lot for the Rob rt Penner a pre ident and Kenneth E. Vo · a convenience of our patron and the general public. Over ca hier.[...]provide the ultimate e · nt and John promoted t[...]future o to the bank and to the entir community he buildi[...]nder of the In l n a n w b nk building ther found[...]nt Board of Dir tor con · ob rt I. a n "[...]rn 11, Jo c a r Fa t, w[...]o ridg , k Hanel and Dale t . a ttorn a b n coun I for c b a char d. had ..[...], |
| [...]' President; Dale Houg, Vice President and Cashier; Clifford Fromdahl, Ass't Cashier; Peggy Johnson, Ass't Cashier and Ora Shrader, Ass't Cashier. Around 1917 the department acquired a fire truck and The bank's President, Robert I. Penner, served for three had 15 men listed a firemen. Long time firemen were: Ted years on the[...]Stenne , Todd hamley, Le Rowe Virgil Alberts and Association. In 1970 he was appoint.ed a director of The Charlie Howe who wa a eteran' of 43 y ar on the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Helena Branch department and a former fire chief. and served two terms on that Board. He wa appointed b[...]he Currency to the Advisory trucks, a r USC1tator and ·v clot · other Committ.ee of[...]are 1 volun em n: " Oregon for a two-year term.[...]Brui , Joh~ The Board of Directors and officers of the bank are Fowl r, arren E an , a · " · o ard optimistic about the future of agriculture and the economy Marquardt, La m Kroh[...]· the bank also continue to prosper and grow. The bank i mindful of its responsibility to[...]b mo a agriculture and the community. The growth of any bank i new[...]r FIRE DEPART E T |
| [...]to the tockman's Bar. Today the building houses a Health Food and ovelties Center operated by Mrs. Arnold Mueller.[...]as been open since 1970. This building had housed a Red Owl tore and a music store before being used for the bakery.[...]er. "Razzy" Floyd DeWitt started barbering in 191 and retired and old the shop in 1976. Other barber include Pete Peterson, Elmer and Adolph Hauge, aunders and eiman, Fred Turner, Parade in 191[...]obi, Earl Chamberlain, Hank Arndt, Wayne Parsley, and Leland Jones. In 1918 Johnson and Isachson started a men's clothing BEAUTY SHOPS[...]for a number of years, then Mr. Isachson sold his inter[...]area were run by Amber to Mr. Johnson, and his son Don managed the store until Jacobi and Connie chenkenberger. Some of the shops[...]here now are the Fashion Plate, onya's, Beery's, and owner of "The Fad". Bea's.[...]left in Wolf Point. Built in In 1914 John Cook and Perry Campbell came to Wolf 1913, it first housed the First State Bank. After the bank Point and established a men's clothing and shoe store, moved, the Murphy Sisters from Scobey opened a Ladies known a the Globe. They bought John Coffey's first Ready-to-Wear Shop and were there for several years. hardware tore building and had it moved to the place now Connie Schenkenberger operated a Barber and Beauty occupied by the addlery. The Globe was in[...]building and started a Chevrolet garage. Carl Moe rented Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Davey arrived here from Moose Jaw, the building and took over the Chevrolet dealership until a katchewan, Canada and started a clothing, cleaning he moved across the street. Mr. Styer then opened a grocery nd repair hop on July 16, 1915 on outh Main Street. store in the building and the business was managed by Jay Later Dasinger' b[...]to Mrs. Steen who the ea t ide where he operated a clothing tore for men for operated the tore as[...]Boutique" and was till operating the fabric shop when it Da inger Cleaner wa acquired by Ed Puckett and burned. The lot is still vacant. Gra[...]. Ario eutg n acquired the Da inger building and The Golden Rule tore wa e tablished i[...]t ng of l 12 by 0 . . John on and en g ly known a th "John and Ik or[...]July 1915 t n g known a er'[...]old t o. and me[...]·ver Elephant advertising for The Globe, a men's clothing and and built a tore outh rd[...] |
| [...]John on ' onfectionery and R taurant building was torn down, a new one built in the same Chapman' intere t, and after n arl thirty ar in h DRUG STORES[...]R R TOR |
| [...]rented the building and used it for a retail outlet for the[...]and is open everyday to patrons and members.[...]street and houses Swanson's Plumbing. Meals were served[...]family style in the dining room and it ws a popular place to[...]stay. Mont na Bar. The bar operated until 1975 and the building William " Bill" Smith built a rooming house in 1913. His ha been torn down, and the lot i vacant. brother Ed and wife managed it for some time, until it was[...]taken over by Jim Terry and called the Terry Rooming[...]management of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Spradley. The[...]ears, is vacant. Ray Mitchell' wife, Lucy, ran a home re taurant with Mr. and Mrs. John Strachan and family arrived in the h · ter Mary, where the Elk building now stands. spring of 1913 and put up a rooming house and cafe on 50 year ago, Bert orby put in a candy hop on Front Street. John Strachan[...]ved to the north ide of the treet, where he added a cafe in conjunction with hi candy making, calling[...]l year , then sold the bu in Ben Battani and moved to Mi oula. The candy wa ontinued, but the place wa till called uThe weet h and i now managed and operated by Mr. nd Mr . Grant Kurokawa. Mr. and Mr . Tom Kurokawa e tabli hed a cafe in the arly 1 20' on Fou e[...]t to r · . He put up a buildin[...]a lock r p[...] |
| [...]Poplar wa th arc hit ct a . i[...]upper torie wer a elevator and a baggag (bar), dining room a[...]brick wer av d and m n[...]Motel owned and op r 1 w[...]The econd bu in v nt Poin wa a[...]h fall of 1911. The Sherman Hotel - two years and two stories later. verre Lar on a r. o c for man ar .[...]men had come from B rt o Dakota. Mr. and[...]a fire on the north id of[...]and it i now occu[...]f bu m n to b n c build a ho I wo or m[...] |
| [...]Farmer's Lumber Company, a privately owned company,[...]Company. Art Udland was the first manager and Chet[...]The first business location of the "new town" was a[...]Templeton Company in 1914. Besides having a homestead[...]Harry ason and John Herman arrived in 1913 and[...]corner lot and put up a ga and service station, later selling[...]Lumber Yard were old to Lovell and Kurtz, who e tabli hed a Feed and eed tore. Thi wa later old to Einar Lund and he added a grocery line which he operated Jack nd Tom Kell[...]Jake Muu and h rman og well e tabli hed the winter o[...]o 1 tor . and Einer Traeholt purcha ed the bu in[...]rud Bowker bought it fro n and Traeholt. med it p nd[...]y o. 2. The origin w a r.[...]a farm machin ry[...]bu · · 1930 and PL BI G[...]tog in r Emil und wa a plumber who work dforArtPauJ onat him hi Tin and Metal work . In the early 30' th fir t[...]ich ha plumbing shop wa e tabli h d by h rle Howe and Alfi and I ac tor (wh r th n Hickel. harlie had b en working a a contractor ince he built in l udy pitz r and had com home from World War I. Hi on-in-law, G n[...]ic the ompany old or and wanson took over the plumbing bu in[...]on Highwa o. 2. in s i no run and Fitz immons Plumbing ompany.[...] |
| [...]Backing up the product are Hardy And rson, m~chanic. and Larence Lee, part man. October 15, 1948 will be remembered by many a the day of the destructive fire that hit the Rath[...]Dolvin Brother ho arag and m[...]GARAGES and Omar Han on t[...]ow Ed' I d Olson and Bordahl established a garage and service location in 1949. H[...]e Erickson Hotel in 1914. H.C. Ditmarson 1952 and are till t o and his Ford Agency bought the business and operated it until the late 1920's. This is now th[...]chreiber Agency which has been completely rebuilt and enlarged. The location of the business had been m[...]LI RY BL The John Pipal garage and ervice tation wa built in 1916 after he disposed[...]from the Roo evelt ounty Ab tract office building and i which ha I u ed a a warehou e b Hi-Lin on tru tion[...]f inzi and Pipal Garage[...] |
| [...]with Bort Wltf'teler, Robert Woolsey and 1000 others[...]mc>nt or f un anda l 1·01ut of the Boxin .!;'[...]basketball tournament. It was said to have a seating[...]The fir t movie hou e was built by J.H. Coffey and J.D. packed-especially at the Stampede dances or the tone during the ummer of 1914 and was named the Firemen's balls. In[...]Littlefield who tore down Furniture tore. Coffey and tone old the theatre part of it and made the two story Littlefield Apartments bu ine[...]Liberty Theatre in 1917. between Benton and Custer Streets. Richard C. nyder, from Williston,[...]ilt in about 1940 on Third Charley and Ed Ablin buiJt an auto service station in Avenue outh. It now houses Jack' Food Town, and there 1923, across the street south of[...]. Earl Clack Company of Havre the property, moved a building from Fort Peck and who in turn leased to several mana[...]heatre. closed, a local taxi service and cafe occupied this building.[...]Coughlin of Minot, North Dakota and operated by E.B.[...]d Krebsbach. POOL H LL W.A. Ro ool hall wa built in l 12 and was WOLF POINT IRO[...]Hoch- i mil a tof olf Point. Iti till call d the olf[...]um ilt · ut 1 , and w to of g t t had a 1 nob dh and rol kat' w gatheri nd[...] |
| [...]Carl Moe, M.B. Li terud, and Doctors who have practiced in Wolf Point are:[...]ones, Knapp, Mattley, Borge Henry ethre. and Listerud.[...]m ting of April 1 rigin I Dr. Borge and Dr. Listerud are presently in practice. Dr. name of Lutheran Ho pital A o iati ng d Knapp died in October 1975 while on a hunting trip after 40 Trinity Ho pital A ociation . years of service to the Wolf Point area. eptember 1936 a plot of ground on Dr. Lee Mattley moved to Lew[...]purcha ed Mr . Ma a DENTISTS[...]lf Point are: J.R. Bean, J.R. Burgess, Dr. Ogden, and Dr. Feda. Dr. Moses United State gover and Dr. Cosgriff are presently practicing in Wolf Point. Air Force Ba e at a[...]cottage and on t nd[...]remodeled to erve a al[...]of 35 bed wa completed a 16, 194 , and served t.he commu Dr. Klatte served the area as a chiropractor for many In the middle fiftie th b a years. Dr. Grow has also served the entire area f[...]e early days of Wolf Point there was no ho pital. A decid d o pi few private hom[...]n d Costello, Madge and Marie Palier. They moved to olf which[...]Th ho d Sherman Hotel and turned it into a temporar ho pit.al held J later moving it to a rooming hou e on Third and Edgar treet. Kate Randall took over wed b Margaret Bedder Taylor and Harri .[...]r I 193 . Morri with A.V. A t 1[...] |
| Faith Lutheran Retirement Home Thoma H. hip tead, a Daniels County rancher, deeded[...]lot of per onal property to the home, along with a check Farmers delivertnf{ n[...] |
| [...]Patton, a former sub-agent for the Indian Agency at "Old[...]as the manager. Finally the Equity Co-op A sociation[...]1915 as a farmers stockholder co-op. The fir t manager[...]Olfert. Thi Association ha had a good grow h during i operation and ha increa ed i torage capaci 230,000[...]it was sold to the Occident, a sub idiary of the R ell, Miller 0 Milling Compa[...]troy d by fir . 5, 1 an plac d by a n modem completed the ·ng umm rand i[...]w . This levator a built b ·· ·n 1 |
| [...]Macon - East of Wolf Point Dougherty a manager. It wa later reorganized a the |
| [...]following counti : Phillip a[...]l- P. wheeled 1933 truck are Lawrence and Mrs. Blanken hip. ad[...]This vehicle delivered freight between Willi ton and until the Glasgow for the Overland Freight Company. The A[...]e one of these trucks in the um mer of 1936-37 as a vacationing high school student. In 193 , when[...]ommunity were Reid Taylor Gil For nes , Gottfried and John itschke, Reuben and John Will , Ben Ander on, and many more. In the commercial field they led the w[...]e . In 1935, Hart Motor Expre tarted a regular commercial trucking service into the high[...]ans-continental, truck freight er ice th n became a reality. From a rather hum bl b ginning at Fort Peck in the "dam[...]he modern da giant of the indu tr . Hart otor hav a local freightd pot with dail d liv r t olf oin patron . Tony Vi er for o r 1 ear ha r d a lo al manager. B TR[...] |
| [...]dent of the Junior Chamber of Commerce; the Rev. A.H. Cropp. The Wolf Point High School students to[...]aft Wolf Point Stampede - about 1923 are Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cook. Jim was Wolf Point's first pilot.[...]by Frontier Airlines came into Wolf Point in 1955 and has continued to serve the area since that time. First Frontier planes landed on a sod strip near the brick hangar that had been built by WP A labor in the thirties. With considerable cooperation and effort of local citizens together with the City-C[...]e the runway . The City of Wolf Point later voted a bond issue to provide funds necessary to blacktop[...]to put up the small terminal building now erving a Frontier headquarters. The faciliti[...]eler can land, taxi to .he terminal building, wal a few feet into a new golf clubhouse and drive-off number one tee before exhau t fume fTom[...]Celebration before Wolf Point was incorporated as a town in 1915. Little was recorded of the early ye[...]first promoters were William Knorr, Joshua We it and Mr. Weeks. There was a baseball park at thi spot also, and the first grandstand was apparently built[...] |
| [...]orth side , some of the first in that area . Just a few years before , June 21 , 1910, O[...]en at the age of 2, Montie was his Daddy's pflide and joy . The portrait shows Carl , Glen . Dale and Alta surrounding Montie under his father's wing and mother. - 41- |
| Nlont-ie Nlont'ana AS A YOUTH-Clockwise , from above, shows Montie and his Dad flanking a - 42- |
| [...]John Wet it, ecr tary, and Willi m Kn rr, ' h rl Hal[...]and Al vah Kellogg a di[...]1925, and the Wolf Poin[...]pen and chute w ·r, r[...]tal of Entranc 0 a[...] |
| [...]ESTOCK Casey livestock was established by Harry and James Ca ey in 1942 when they moved from Bainvill[...]operty from Great Northern Railways for the yards and started buying cattle, hogs and sheep. In 1950, Harry's son Loren bought his uncl[...]t in the business. In 1957 Casey Livestock became a partnership with both of his sons, Loren and Dennis. WOLF POINT GREENHOUSE AND FLORAL |
| [...]ER OF COMMER E AND AGRICULTURE CHAMBER MEMBERS A D BUSINE[...]ik Wa h Th r a La Coast to Coast Baxter Lar[...]etrich Agency Little Bens Art and raft hop Ed's Tire Center Russ[...]'s Union Elevator ar and Furnitur Farmer Union Lumber Company Farmer' Unio[...]Beauty alon Fergu on tudio Foodtown Gambl Garden and c ann , Attorne at Law Public Drug Rob r[...] |
| [...]und here advanced, since the Day of the AND WHO CONQUERED Sta[...]For soon there were churches, shops, and schools, All honor to those Brave hearted and true; With carpenters galore, wi[...]ne knew Hotels, Machine Shops, and Banks Theirs were glad hopes, and theirs high aims, And they all "stopped" and gave Thanks! To build fair homes, and honored names. They came not for glory not for power or ease, And so they settled on their claims They came not for[...]All Pioneers, so staunch, and true They came determined to do or die Worthy of "Honor" and Reverence, too! Ours is not to reason why! Some c[...]17 Dawson Irishman , Germans, Norwegians, Swedes, and all. Wo[...]ow-wrapped in winter drear But all were Brothers, and settled here.[...]TTE ADAMS They came alone, or they came in groups And over all possible routes .[...]r Trexler, one of the first They came with wives, and they came with none; white settlers to Montana from Pennsylvania, and Hail From every Country under the sun[...]ed in marriage to Frank They came to the Missouri and where it flows. Redstone in the fall of 1896 at Wolf Point. She lived her How they lived and worked, God only knows. entire l[...]receded her in death was the grandson of the last And, if you'd quarrel somewhat with your nearest neig[...]Elmer Adams, Wolf Point, and daughters, Mrs. Elsie Among the improvements in y[...]Warm Springs; Mrs. Amy Hoenck, Wolf Point. All of a udden, "up came a new store." 'Just step around and see the store," Music, papers, books and nails Cake pans, curlers, dish-pans and pails. HANNA ANDERSEN With never a dent, or rust, or tare, You'd find what you neede[...]train, interested in having a homestead on Fort Peck Of all the evils of the la[...]an Reservation. I met Mr. Theodore Rounds who was And if you felt, oh, dreadfully sick,[...]rairie land. It looked very lonesome to think For a failing heart or a broken limb, of living there. They'd fix you all up, new and trim! Back in Poplar on[...]30 miles northwest from Poplar. Section 34 Then, a few years later; a nice, new Drug Store came into Township 31 Range 48. I lived on it two weeks to get a cabin view[...]ue; 24x24 inches one to the east and one to the south. A plain To dudes and dandies, shaving cream, too. door was also to the south. A stove pipe length for a Soothing syrups to anxious Mamas chimney on a car roof. Readers, Spellers, to troubled Papas.[...]I was not prepared to stay through the winter and I went Soaps and perfumes, powder, and Pills to Sidney, Montana to[...]"Show-Case" filled. my brother Hans and I with a team of horses and bob sled[...]in Poplar the first night, Just six miles South, a beardless youth took up a claim, the next morning at seven o'clock it wa[...]vised to stay in town, but we were dressed for it and But, he couldn't batch, so he sent for his Mother; started out. A no traveled road was a very dim trail , with And she came quickly, "some way or other."[...]e arm in arm, stopped about half way by a creek and broke the ice for the And settled close by, on a Farm. horses to drink and have a feed of oats. Then drove to a The greatest break in the tiresome life[...]e folks were settled on their homestead Came when a bachelor found a wife. (Ram ho and Kennedy) they put us up for the night.[...] |
| [...]Having very little fuel. Next morning we drove to a coal mine ten miles away, it was free, mine it[...]o have. When the snow was all gone we walked to a spring one mile away and filled kettles and buckets hung on a broom stick. Suddenly summer was here, real exciting and in- teresting. People started moving in to live[...]joins mine. Everybody was busy, me with pick and shovel, digging a hole 10x12 ft x 6 ft deep. The cabin was moved over it. And then I had a place to keep coal for a year, a place for groceries etc. The dirt from the hole[...]ed to keep it warm inside. The winters were cold and with many rough blizzards, activities were very few. Mrs. Inga Bach and Mrs. Inga Ingen from Fergus Falls, Minnesota~ bu[...]feet apart. We would dance in Mrs. Ingens cabin and have lunch in Mrs. Bach's cabin. Our music was a phonograph. There were no churches, schools or automobiles at the time I lived there. I had a horse and saddle. When I saw smoke it was sure to be a prairie fire. I would race over the hills to hel[...]work at the Poplar Hotel. There I met Oscar Aos and was married January 1, 1918, and made my home there. He died April 4, 1947.[...]V. APPELGREN A. V. Appelgren by Marvin[...]working pa |
| [...]hern never relinquished the terminal site. Stalls and[...]1906. Here they farmed and ranched in the south of Poplar[...]The first school was in a log cabin, on the Nels Tolan[...]place. Maggie's father made the first desks and seats. . V. pplegr n corn field on the Mi ouri Riv r bottom. There were 13 children and Flora Nelson was the teacher . R.H. Hachberg r ho[...]in Poplar, a son of John Bawden who had come here in[...]90. He experienced the bad winter of 1897 when he and nder Mr. Appelgren' direction the Fir t tate Bank Dr. Atkinson lo t over 2000 sheep. Maggie and Willie lived continued it healthy growth for many[...]ch was home to them for many years. They both ize and in the cope of ervice to its customers. In had five children. Vic Bawden and Betty Braaten still live 1 63 the Fir t tate Bank converted to a national in thi area. Maggie and Willie celebrated their 50th and a ociation b coming the We tern ational Bank of Wol[...]ember 3, 1 . H left behind legacy of hard work and determina- tion to ucce d he nd hi f llow ban[...]DER 0 D LARA BILYE wh n thou and of bank clo eel their door . Hi on Robert u[...]name wa David and his Mother maiden name wa[...]ther that Ander on met and married Iara Meier . He GE B R work d a butcher in inot, orth Dakota. Their four[...]L n B,l. ·eu built a r th r I righ n h u·ith hat f Dad): and lar _ . !other H r. K nny th h and Dad not number d . |
| In 1913 the family moved by train to Wolf Point. For a time Mr. Bilyeu worked there in a butcher shop for Delehunt and Joe Klinkhammer. Later he settled on a homestead where he built a two room house for his family. Their closest neighbors at that time were Barney and Essie Yuly and Lyman and Norah Clayton. The homestead was located near W[...]ll, South Dakota, Virgil in Boulder City, Nevada, and Leslie in Seattle, Washington.[...]1873 south of Dodson, Montana. Henry did not have a formal education and spoke very little English, which he learned through business associates. As a boy, Mr. Blacktail was an active participant in all local celebrations as a dancer. he grew up knowing the tribal customs, traditions and culture of the Assiniboine. On January 30, 1902[...]arriage they settled two miles east of Wolf Point and established a ranch . They became members of the Canipa[...]he government. From the two cow he began to build a w a · · · ab herd of cattle. After culling and buying young r to b hp h[...]I R nr and G rtrud Blacktail[...] |
| KARL AND MARIE BYFUGLIN Kar 1 nd M rie Byfu lin were among the early settlers Harry and /,if.v Ca ,. ,ey - J.921[...]he |
| [...]berdeen, outh Dakota a embalming and funeral d" rla[...]established a funeral bu jun tion with a[...]It was there that Mr. la a[...]the daughter of Mr. and Mr r n up there and attend d the of[...]Mr. layton accepted a po ition with the Frank Catlin's flower garden Company and it wa whil traveling for th[...]he fir t came to Montana. In 1915 Mr. and · n[...]moved to the Wolf Point munit and ttled on a temporarily located. In 1924 they moved to Wolf P[...]heir neighbor w the Bil eu , hi co 1957 and Frank on April 13, 1966. Evan , Warmbrod teve armon and Earl Frank played on the Culbertson baseball team and was families . an excellent tennis player and later an ardent golfer. From Two year later th oved in Point and Mr. the earliest days he enjoyed hunting and fishing in this Clayton b gan the f[...]back of h ir fir t Legion Auxiliary, Women's Club and both were active in home on Fairweather t , and tin the RepubHcan party.[...]t 1959 he received a special citation by the Montana Bar As ociation h[...]nze h term of office as county attorney, and wa a pa t pre ident untilju t U[...]· of the orthea tern Montana Bar A ociation . H wa a th i location t charter membe[...]wa Frank wa born in Iowa February 7, 1 4 and Kat in c · "th no[...]r , Fall hurch , irginia, three granddaughter , and two great grand on . a L RE E H BERL I larenc h , long-tim ar a ranch r di d in L 0[...]PEL |
| [...]. The same year he was taken into decided to take a homestead. Phil andsomeoftheneighbor the firm. In 1941 he left for the Armed Forces and from 1942 boys built my shack one Sunday. until 1[...]port Command, In order to prove up a homestead you had to live on it U. . Army Air Corp . He returned to Wolf Point shortly seven months a year for three years, break 40 acres and do before the death of hi father, Lyman M. Clayto[...]December 23, 1945, he took charge of the business and be- open for filing, you had to live on it all th[...]e death of his father. He was one else could come and live on it, and you would lose your married to Marjorie Lockey at Wolf Point, December 21, right. 1940, and ha two children, Beverly Jean born Septem-[...]uld be open for filing, I decided to ber 12, 1941 and LymanM., III born December 7, 1945, both get married to Ed Cody, and so could not take the at Wolf Point.[...]from J. Harry Walker in 1941. Lyman M. South side and came over to the reservation. Took claim in Clayton, Jr. constructed a new chapel in Poplar which he Twn. 28, Range 48, Section 23 and 24. One had to pay the dedicated the Clayton Memo[...]government for land on the reservation. I bought a couple 1955, in the memory of his father, Lyman M[...]f relinquishments who had only filed on 160 acres and and a a tribute to J. Harry's long erv:ice to Poplar as t[...]which wa originally the John Listerud home, built and some acres of bottom land. Then each child of Indian in 1917, and completely remodeled the building. The parentage[...]cated by their son, to that child might live only a short time. This land that Ed the memory of the late L. . Clayton, r. and to his wife, bought was from just such a child who had lived only a few r .L .M. Clayton, r.ofWolfPoint,onMarch 10, 1957. days, and it's father, Martin Mitchell traded this land to Ed Construction of the pr ent ultramodern chapel and for a livery barn and garage that was on the comer where additiona facilitie at 102 Custer Street, was completed on Gillette Drug and Tesoro are now. January 1, 1967, ix months after[...]uly 4, 1966. Lyman the homesteads. There was only a trail for a road and had Clayton, Jr. invited the public to tour the new additional teams of horses and three cars to locate them, sometimes it facilities of the Clayton emorial Chapel on January 6 and took a week as they had to find the section line and the 7 967. This began the cond 50 year in Roo evelt County township, and the num her of the claim. and in olf Point. I lived on the homestead seven months and lived in Wolf In February of 1967, L.M. Clayton Jr., purchased a Point during the winter months. We used to have very bad r idence in Circle, ontana, and after remodeling was blizzards and could not get to town for weeks.We had to go opened for u ea av· itation Chapel a an expansion of with team and sled. the facilitie of the Clayton emorial Chapel on April 1, There were no trees, only a few along Tule Creek and it 1 7.[...]trees along yman . Cla Ill, after a tending Rocky ountain the river which was a comfort after living in Minnesota, Coll ge at Billin ntana and graduating from the an where there are so many trees and lakes. Francisco Coll f o cience, entered the We had both a doctor and dentist in Wolf Point, but no b . . hi[...]hurche , o the people of all faiths went together and built ean Clayton wa arried to Chari artin a community church. As the town grew it became too[...]crowded o the Catholics built their own church, and Lyman . Clayton III wa arried to I[...]Church. We only had Mas once a month as the Pastor,[...]Father Benedict had uch a large territory to cover by horse and buggy.[...]hou . Th whol family ould attend and all enjoyed h[...]th m v dan d played cards and had ball game . .I[...]and LeRoy liv th gir and[...]lived in Wolf Point and wa[...]I aw th · h and 1 76. wondered who · d in them. It w n[...]. The Dough h atted on a d about 0 mile outh of olf Point but[...]h oft wn plow a furrow around 320 acr bu· and liv th r of Point.[...]for filing. w call q uatting on a I throug h ' hom tead or claim and w vi ting Dough rty I[...] |
| [...]e, Massachusetts, March 31, 1879, the son of John and Mary (Powers) Coffey, the former a native of County Waterford and the latter of County Tipperary, Ireland. The fami[...]f Muxdelein College at Chicago; Simon who died as a young man in Iowa and John H. Mr. Coffey received his education in the public schools of Bay State, and from the age of thirteen grew to I?anhood in Iowa. He worked as a farm hand there, clerked 111 a store at Granville and learned the tinners' trade. He worked as a tinsmith at Eldorado, Kansas and Berthold, North Dakota. From North Dakota, Mr. Coffey came to Montana and located at the new town of Wolf Point, September 26, 1911. He bought stock in a hardware with aninvestmentof$600, all of which he had earned and saved from his work as a tinner and clerk. With this stock he established the first store in Wolf Point in a house 24 by 50 feet, located near the site of the[...]rman Motor Inn. His stock was hardware, furniture and machinery. In January 1913 he erected his second business hoUBe and only occupied it a short time when it was destroyed by fire, July 3, 1913. He replaced it with a new building called the Coffey Block. August 1, 1[...]Point Cooperative Association. Mr. Coffey was a partner in the Traders' Store at Wolf Point built the first theatre in Wolf Point, had interest in a local ~eat market, automobile business and was one of the original stockholders of the First State Bank and Sherman Sherman T. Cogswell Hotel Company. He was also interested in a heating ~d plumbing business in Wolf Point, a meat market m Glasgow, and a stockholder in the orthwestem Hardware and for many year he dev · f to h · and Steel Company of Great Falls.[...]ember of the Elks Lodge in Williston, orth Dakota and growth and · the Knights of ColumbUB. At the time of hi death he wa a her member of the school board, and Lion International. He Adri had also served on the city council. He wa a lifelong wh Democrat and enjoyed the friendship of many prominent Ln Democ[...]ridge present bridge aero the i ouri and th T tamp -de, he backed wholeheartedly.[...]at Granville Iowa on February 1 1. H r fath r wa a native of G rmany and an Iowa farm r . The offey horn which r . off[...]r tr . . off y died in o r 1933 and arch 19 . To th· marriag r born: and w the fir t white hild born in h n town i . h married John L. o n and had on child. DiedD mb r 1 5. lbourn , born ay 1 15, married B tri . D vid, had two childr n and died arch 1 70. Rob rt born F bru[...] |
| [...]He therefore began his experience as a merchant in Wolf[...]haw and Mr. Cogswell remained with Mr. Shaw under the[...]name of H.M. Cosier and Co. Sherman was with the[...]87. In the latter year he returned to Wolf Point and in February 1891 bought out the business. The title and[...]and he served continuously in that position until he[...]to know some of the historic chiefs of the Sioux and the[...]who was a very popular leader and who died in the area in[...]trading post in old Wolf Point, Mr. Cogswell was a[...]1913 he established an implement business and he was also[...]T . Cogswell, and Henry hipstead. This company was[...]importance to the citizen of Wolf Point that a hotel be[...]Main treet and wa believed ideal for a hotel. The plans nt ofth little town[...]a billiard room , room for a barber hop, large lobby and a · ay of Poplar after dining room. W. H . Lewi of Poplar wa the architect, and i ve to Poplar by[...]elevator and a b ggage le ator. Th inve tment wa[...]l 1 nd op n d i door in Ma . Mr . og w 11 erved a[...]ro t .an i body n a ~a t[...] |
| [...]for the huge "N-N" ranch, for ver. H wa a man of m ny t 1 nt ; t h r , Indian which was the Home Land and Cattle Co. The" -N" was trader, bank r po tma t r , and bu in man. If it an b the largest cattle company[...]ch had quite wa the found r of Wolf Point. a few buildings, all built of log. The ranch buildings and outbuildings sat on the bluff overlooking the ri[...]cCone County were born in the UP log ranch house. A Mrs. Purdy, affectionate- Ourfamily , the[...]e to cross the Missouri for one reason or another and town, and we had a ort of bachelor xi during therefor[...]John E. the winter . At that time helby had a about Balder, Jr., was one of the[...]The Purdys lived just west of the UP Ranch on a small Chri tma tree. The . +,uol wer[...]fund . We bought water at a dollar a barre], and th had to Mr. Cogswell didn't stay in the catt[...]d wiggler . on his ranch. He branched into horses and sheep. At one In 1907 I came to Poplar[...]ime the ranch had about 200 to 300 head of horses and Hotel. In 1909 I wa marri d to Floyd Davi . approximately 5,000 head of sheep. Bill and Fred Reid ran Our ocial affair then wer n't o fr uent, but nw the sheep for Mr. Cogswell, and Jake Muus ran the horses. did have one, p ople came in wagon and on ho ack The horse brand for the UP[...]od irigation then Daw on ounty, ]at r Richland and finally M c o projects in eastern Montana. To provide water, a dam wa Breaking up the land wa a low hard job, but by 1914, built by horse and fresno and then a large concrete gate had 40 acre of till d[...]nch is now located. The Our fir t child, a girl rn at horn , 2 mil outh of UP Ranch[...]ounty. L t a girl. Among these were Henry rban , Morri Lund,[...]urel t Purdy, Bill and FredReid, JakeMuu and John B. Randall. a C Bob Balder, rural Wolf Point re ident r m[...]n man og well a a very nice man who wa kind to man t people, Indian and white alik . Mr. Bald r £ 1 that herman[...]tant part in th development of the Mc one ount ar a outh of olf Point, by ext nding credit to th man horn ad r who n eded help. Mr. og well wa a good bu in man, but h n ver let an on go hungr . H did hav cu tom r a f r out a ow r k in c ntral on ount . r. Bald r r memb T that wh n thing w r a Ii l qui tin h out would com th ch ck r board and r. o 11 chall ng an on to a gam . Thi wa on of hi lov a bo r . Bald in old olf Point, and h it go. " I gre old r I had a hard ti th habit I got into a bo ; that er l t a 0 wn fro |
| In 192 , we moved to Redwater and were engaged in the Ed) Cody, Wolf Point Mo[...]l (Mrs. heep bu ine . Then came those bad years, and we lost Charles) Ennis resides at Spokane[...]Latterell family resides at Detroit, Michigan; and Leo wor t time were the du t tonn . We could see[...]everal years of fighting the elem en ts of nature and window and door , and cover the piano with a sheet, but because of a growing family and an elevator job in Wolf th du t came in anyway. W[...]1959 we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary, and Company in Wolf Point. Then, the Winter-Truesd[...]ager was acquired by the In 197 we old the farm and moved to town. In 1973, local farmers and began operating as the Farmers Union Floyd pa ed[...]Company. He managed both companies for a time until[...]evidence today of the early day efforts and diligent, careful Mr . Mary M. Delaney wa born[...]interested in the Town hip, Pembina, orth Dakota, a daughter of Mr. and purposes of the cooperative movement, he was also an r . Jame Rowe. he wa raised and educated at Hansel, organizer and treasurer of the first credit union in Wolf ort[...]Point. Because of his influence, a son Norbert became On ovember 10, 191 he marrie[...]laney interested in the Farmers' Union and was active in their t ry t 1, orth Dakota. They[...]died in 1947. Farmer ' Union and held that state position from 1948 to Mr . Delaney wa a cook in everal restaurants and in 1954. 195 he went to work a cook for Wolf Point chools. She r tir d in 1 2 and in Augu t 1973 became a resident of During World War II, Phil Do[...]proud of the fact that from their union four sons and five The Delaney' had two on , Franci of Wolf Point, and daughters were born, and their four sons and one daughter Loui nd one daughter, I abel Hunter of Colfax, Califor- were all volunteers and all served overseas. nia. Loui i dece ed.[...]eriou and was active in the local and county Democratic[...]tate liquor tore and also the Roo evelt County surplus[...]b m o ,1 th fir t of daily and family life a evidenced in Phil being a charter ard th Dougherty at memb r in the local Knight of olumbu and wa past grand knight pa t district deput and pa t tate advocate ov d to Foley, of th knight . H wa a fourth degr memb r of the[...],~il argaret too wa active in her church and i a charter to Wolf P[...]thirt - ix grandchildr n and fift n gr t-grandchildren.[...]owa Pat ar a:[...]. Don a , now r er, n Do[...]d away on Octob r 14 1 75. argar i a McLachlan), Wolf Point, ontana; Juli[...] |
| [...]accidentally and unknowingly dropp 0[...]the copy himself and put it in a k.[...]cards wa a popular pastime in the back room of a[...]tand . A Mr. Brown who wa foreman of th bl ·[...]the cap ule, fill d it with sawdu t and attached a f to it.[...]fu e, threw the ick of aw und r the abl and[...]and back door . One of the gam kicked out a window and threw the tick of awdu tout of the window.[...]derwood of Ayr hire, Io a . even children were born to[...]r them , ix of whom are living. J a · with h ontana-[...]i Thomas Sylvester Dwyer was born of Jamee and wMhln f[...]i t Elizabeth, James, Kathryn and Austin. Edward, Elizabeth dito a. and Jame are now dead.[...]bu hel complete cro · y D er offic i a th na of now. The of[...]H raldwa p Han e<ling a j boug[...] |
| [...]el until Ole's death in for new location to build a re taurant and hotel. Although 1942. Mary had passed[...]ilding on the townsite Ole decided A great deal of Wolf Point history passed through t[...]Hotel. Homesteaders, railroad l pplied for a building p rmit at the Poplar agency. workers and traveling men all were frequent patrons of the fter ye r nd many trip to Poplar, a government man establishment. from W hington D . C . wa in Poplar and gave Ole his One son Harold E[...]re are four grandchildren; that' be n running for a year already." Lan[...]in Wolf Point. Johnson, of Kalispell and Donna Erickson Newell of M ry, with the help of Ole' mother, and their cook Glendive. Also nine g[...]he re taur nt. Grandma Erickson was the ca ·hier and Mary nd arrie cooked and served the food family tyle. Ther didn't eem to b[...]ng of Wolf Point was held in Oscar and Mae Erickson were a young married couple the lobby of the Wolf Point[...]is northeast of Wolf Point. Oscar and his brother Alfred tim . Th rly city fathe[...]ection 1 , Township 28, Range 48 in John Li trud, and other bu ine men of the time dug into the spring of 1917 from Owen Olson. (A few years later th ir own pocket to pay for the fir t idewalk that were Alfred and wife Borghild and three children moved to laid.[...]ory le wa ctive in all civic affair . He was a director in the houses with steep roofs. T[...]ede com- lack of rain, blizzards, a cyclone and prairie fires. In winter mitt , nd took care of the tarnpede grounds and also they used a sleigh and horses and they put heated large pl nt d nd c r d for the ci[...]their feet warm. Oscar ary wa a faithful worker in the Lutheran delivered all the children at home, except a doctor was rv d a trea urer of the Ladie Aid for pres[...]now owns and operates the farm; Marie, 1919, married[...]quicktemperedlittle Melvin Ferdina and lives thirty miles north of Wolf Point· · o tea e her and hear her Erne t, 1920, died in infancy; Chester, 1921, and wife Elva half Engli h. he wa a live one mile east of Wolf Point and al o farm the former on gave her a life time Melvin Erick on farm. The[...]d econd grade but then drove, walked, kiied three and would often leav[...]192 wa a good ar for crop but the dirt thirtie were[...]· otllw, h rd on nerve and pocketbook . A terrible cloud of du t[...]ho would m th lat ft moon and evening of graduation night, bought a M y 23, 19 7. It took many hour to we p or h[...]ome of th n ighbor r. and Mr . Elmer[...]l r on h we m nd Bi the outh and Bill[...]tc town grow from four bui a thriving Ii[...]r Wolf Point. f Point Hot I wa a bu y ·n in H a. place oft n a family of ix w r h dd d down in one[...]hr 01 n, a farm room for the big pric of ar .[...]r. ca and horn t ad d pr-ic of food tori o much[...] |
| [...]GEORGE A OREA " HAGE[...]Hag n am t a in June of 1915 with Myr n a d liked the country and nt for hi[...]trunk of b dding and cloth , an arrived on a very hot da in Aug t[...]Jim and Loui P d a r . nd · · a l. Mr . Hagen' nam a nc g n and their childr n w da and rk d on a dray line, freighting h orn[...]Fred William who ran a liv r barn i y[...]were very bu y when th ar a op n d in operated a land office, locating settlers in the Hi-Line are[...]ta, at Glasgow, Montana. The same grieved and would not and month, he and his wife arrived in Wolf Point. Upon his[...]to Montana ma arrival, he opened a land office and during the sub equent The dog had a long lay o illi ton a nd t homestead days he located many of the origin[...]agent cared for it. Th dog about Th a nk the area north of Wolf Point. He later establi bed an time, 1915. implement and oil business which he continued to operate[...]tatesCommissionerin the a Blai ch and fini · · i 1920 sand as an alderman of the Wolf Point City ouncil. He was a member of Loyalty Lodge o. 121 , Ancient Free[...]d and Accepted Mason , of Wolf Point for 49 year and f erved a ecretary of the Lodge for a number of year . J His wife, Hilda d[...]a[...]a Garden of olf Point, Montana· and Rob r . ard n of a Libb ; thr e daughter Harri t . Fi k , H l n J . D wi t and Delore M. trankman , allof attl , Wa hington , and fifte n grandchildr n. K[...] |
| tamt' a long a nd a id " Wh t' the trouble, George?" When[...]he to ld Fa th r Ben diet , he told G orge to go and ee Frank mith , th mayor , a nd he l t him h a ve the hor e back for[...]hud pur d th em aero the Mi souri River and every and the crops couldn't be harvested. It seemed useles[...]to their h ome range. to raise a family in the Red River Valley. Probably it would Th re 't n y bridg th n but a pontoon bridge. They be better to[...]one the year before. Such was the reasoning froze a and t h y didn't ha ve time. Thirteen of the[...]pontoon oat ddownt ix mile we t of P oplar.This~a land thirty miles sout[...]Water. them ba k to Wolf Poin t. It wa a terrible winter - it got Wh[...]time . Hi homestead, there was a sod shanty on it. This had been children w r worried th a t hi no e co uld fa ll off. The man made by cutting blocks of sod and placing them one on the would w· lk b 'id the l d to k ep up circulation and to other to form the walls.[...]d Act. Neither was he residing Clayton. It We • a big job, that wa the winter h e tarted to[...]tobacco. Th r wer time when h e could have stood a ome time after Dad had homesteaded he received a gooddrinkofwhi keybutit wa a dr y re ervationandhard[...]el e; but Dad didn't scare easily and the owner of the The life w iff[...]iend from "The Valley", as the land along the Red and not flat, t didn't leak, a nd on e yeartherewasa River near Moor[...]In the fall of 1910 Mr. Wambach built a small shack lin and w floo t h y moved th eir p[...]n ho lly D · ver y ick and building wa on the trail to Poplar for th[...]hi far. T for a drink of outh. A it wa a good day' s drive to town, it became the r for.him. John illy D drowning a nd top over for tho e going to or comin[...]wa · drink of or him ."' It wa a very funn y upplie .[...]r en , a went well. But during the fall and winter when it was too vallt.> c a la rg cold to leep outside, it was nece ary t[...]one came through , the fed their hor e and[...]t under a turned o te. om time it wa put on a helf ( .[...]a of[...]of B n ton; a 1[...]. r n an igh gr a n igh[...] |
| [...]be broken with the walking plow so that potatoes and a garden could be planted, also some wheat so that there would be a little money in the fall. Fences must be built[...]ime there was no trouble between the homesteaders and the ranchers. The cowboys still wore guns, but no[...]s both of which were very plentiful. There was a strong spring about one-half mile a way from which water was hauled until a well could be dug. ear the spring was a vein of very good coal which could be had for the taking so fuel was no problem. During the winter months a sheep herder had his winter camp near this spring. The hills formed a natural shelter and even on the coldest days the spring did not freeze. One fall day just at noon a cowboy came into the yard riding a tired horse. Strangers as well as friends were always welcome to share meals . This cowboy was very friendly and Dad always enjoyed news and a good talk ... after dinner while they were sitting on the step enjoying a smoke, Dad made the chance remark that the thresh[...]ved fast. He was on his horse in no time. Cutting a piece of barbed wire from thefencetouseasa whip,h[...]arrived Dad found out that this cowboy had killed a man the night before and so was not anxiou to meet a group of men who might know of his deed.[...]tain an education. With mplifi m Dad' help a new di trict wa organized and a chool in odand established 2½ mile away. A chool term usually con i ted ofeightmonth .Anyonewhohadfini hedtheeighthgrade and could pa an examination wa allowed to teach .[...]916 don ommunity. · a horn ck until 1 2[...]w g ann farm . farmed and bad iola[...]o on a r nted[...]i n a[...]ran hur h in Wolf a P oint.[...] |
| 'arl and nna h d thr e daughter ; Mr . Donald[...]rried Miss Josephine Hanson at Glasgow, nd r on and Mr,. Robert nder on both of Wolf Point,[...]na on May 30, 1916. Miss Hanson was born in Grand and Mr . Harry nder on of Columbia Fall ; nine[...]in Brenna Township, April 25, 1885. grandchildr n and thr e great grandchildren. he attended country schools and also Concordia College nna pa ed away uddenly[...]and her brother, Charles Hanson, was postmaster.[...]clothing store and began farming 23 miles north of Wolf[...]The nearest doctor was Dr. DeWayne in Wolf Point, and Hi t rical Id Timer Book[...]Mr . and Mrs. Isachsen were active members of First[...]Wolf Point. Mrs. Isachsen is one of two acquiring a country ool education and graduated in a charter members still living. She was active in the Ladies comm rcial cour e a harle ity, Iowa. He wa born in Aid, Women's Missionary Federation, Hospital Guild, and Fl yd County, Iowa, vember 11, 1 1.[...]as church In Charle ity ent into a drug tore where he treasurer for 25 years. He died October 30, 1957, in Wolf gained a practical know of pharmacy. He compl[...]in orthwe tern Univer ity Mr. and Mrs. Isachsen had five children, namely Harold, a[...]fore the Iowa Alvin, Ruth, Phyllis, and Clifford Isachsen who all attend- 8 ard for u Ii cl afterward went with a drug ed grade chool and graduated from Wolf Point High firm in Cedar[...]ended the Massachusetts Institute of Monte. na as a pharm ci ith the Valley Drug Company[...]hnology before entering the Air Force, serving in and in 1909 h b came t ole proprietor of ai[...]bu ine Wolf Point on July 12, 1942 and they have six children. ~d op ·n d a n w dru r in Medicine Lake with Mr.[...]ntere tin the Alvin attended and graduated from Concordia College drug :tore to Mr. Poe and in th ame year became partner[...]aduated h sold hi · o Mr. R.E. Patch and having air ad from Concordia and served in the avy for 2½ years. tab[...]e Kunde of Aberdeen, outh cone .ntra a wa a memb r of th Dakota. They now live in Willmar, Minnesota and have Montana[...]Ruth i married to Gerald imen en of Wolf Point and Point. He th itiz · nal they hav five children. He i a contractor. Phylli _i B" nk . Thi,[...]m rried to liff Wagnild who i deputy a e sor m 20,000, with Mr.[...]· ttle and chicken in a[...]two Ru, 11 and[...]hen 17 of and[...]a nding co[...]mb r 3, clothing and f found r of the W · liv d in and around B invill ; farm r, butch ring, . tockhold[...]curing m t, d ir ing nd working hard tr ing tom k a[...] |
| [...]B. KEMP Eleanor, Bernard, Jiggs (Elwin) Darrell and Donald. We moved to Froid where Austin worked[...]tt nd ol t "t. M· rv'.· in Ei n and there for two years and had one son born there, al o one graduat d from the 11 A ad my.in K ns s 'it. , daughter was married there[...]rk for He served aand here two more girls were born. We[...]coming to Montana. bought HiWay Market and have owned and run that place[...]ar r baked 239 pies on order. Stop in and try them.[...]ildren al o erved a ju tic of n Wolf Point. are still living and to date I have 38 grandchildren and 35 He wa active in communit r · and church great grandchildren. I am still going strong and I play the organizations, wa a pa t pr ident of th io and piano with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program[...]th Knight of olumb H a (R. S . V . P .) band. We play at the old people's homes and for Roosevelt ounty chairman for th Ma of and community dances. We played 79 times last year.[...]or man I have played the piano since I was six, and my father Mr.[...]d Mar ittl of Wa hin ton, and my uncle thumped me on the head if I didn t play[...]way on Fehr 22, at th stand up and pump it while I played. Much ofmy adult life I[...]s. I played Kan a ity, Mis ouri; and Dr. R r illi th from the t[...]wi Jam nold offi iatin and[...]\ Poi . a |
| He wa tru tee of chool District 45 from 1943 to 1970 and rv don the Montana tate Board of Health from 19[...]ervice on the chool board including even year a the chairman. Hundred crowded into the Elks Bal[...]lations, dozens of telegrams from former patients and government dignitaries, in- cluding Pre ident Ric[...]app, 71, patriarch of Wolf Point medicine died of a heart attack while hunting on the Peter Lenz and youngest son, Serafin taken at their first Vernon[...]Point. Poin. Hi immediate family are the widow and a on, Robert of His son Norbert came out i[...]Walters Drug Company as clerk and handyman. He later went to North Dakota and worked as telegrapher in PETERLE Z Stanley, Wheelock and Ray. Then to the Great Northern[...]ment with the railroad he retired. He and his wife live in[...]n the pring, Odelia followed her brother out here and born in Belle Plain Minne ota, January 16,[...]ty, Minne ota with his Coffey Grocery and Furniture Store. She moved to nts nd engaged[...], e ota nd entered the hardward implement, and who worked a Pay Clerk for the Peabody Coal Company. bin[...]d to Albuquuque ew Mexico where she nz and Helen Pint were married in Adrian on died[...]ildren: Mr . Lenz with children Cecel · a Rainer and Serafin, iner orbert, ecil' a L nz chilling r, Odelia came out in the summer to join her husband. Lenz Buckman and Lucy. Cecelia fir t worked in the Post Office, and later for the In th t · · Joe ate Bank, for a number of year . When he married Klinkh[...]' L Pow any and Buttr ·tt om-[...] |
| [...]of five, John's parents came to the United States and settled in Renville County, Minnesota. John came[...]eantime, in the fall of 1912 he built an elevator and in 1914 he built an electric plant with a flour mill. Mr. Listerud helped incorporate the town of Wolf Point and was chosen the second mayor. He helped to establi[...]Point, the Presbyterian Church. He, W. H. Smith, and W. B. Evereth provided the money for the construc[...]first schoolhouse in the town. One of the best and modem homes in Wolf Point was built by John Listerud in 1917. Years later it became a hospital and today the structure was renovated into what is no[...]d six children: Hjalmar, Morris, Edna, Helen, Eva and Ruth. In 1910 he married Hilda Rongerud in Minnea[...]lly yielded to the importunities of many citizens and consented to allow the use of h is name as candid[...]n has been rife for several weeks as to how m any and who would come out fo r the office. I t is believ[...]GEORG LITrL IE D flour mill, the light and power plant, and valuable residential property he is thoroughly id[...]the by orm Fl nor city and vitally intere ted in its progre s and welfare. His friends point out that he is a man who e liberal method of busines and attitude toward all enterprise for th good of the community hould make him uniuer all ace ptable a ma or. So far a can be learned no andidate for the t o uac[...] |
| Th Mi ouri important part of our live , and hack and he on the rig. With the money they earned, they m[...]by the river. The bought a team of horses, a cow, some chickens, and some pring · reak alw y exciting and ometimes machinery which they shipped out in a freight car. By that dan h b to b winched from the water and time there was a ferry to cross the river. They built a nice dry• or winter. It wa a thrill when we were aroused three room house, and lived there eight years. fro[...]town th with crow-bar and poles, we with a team and sleigh and cross the river on the ice. If it pr[...]ld get dark before they went home, ig would carry a gr T wa caught by urpri e and lantern and lead the horses so he could watch for air holes w[...]il the heavy rope and cable people had lost their[...]ice. When ou pre ure, and the boat, with they moved[...]He later worked in other elevators and was a grain buyer org ahead, and knew the boat for 35 years before he retired. Sig and Minnie had one son, wou 'nd[...]Richard, who lives in Minneapolis, and one daughter h n to another, and on and on to Lorraine Witt who lives at Havre. They have six luck a the heavy cake often grandchildren and one great-grandchild. ig passed away d b the pre ure. And more at Wolf Point. Mi[...]tment at ht by anedd and pu hed onto Wolf Point.[...]by Erne t ylte and Jim Marmon who n north of Wolf Point. A[...]He left home and went we tat the age of thirteen. When he[...]men for the haying a the Indian had attacked and killed[...]worked around Fort Lincoln for a hort time, then went[...]n the river to Fort Pierre. There he hired out as a e emb r[...]· · er "Bull Whacker" to a V. B. hawn who ran a freighting[...]outfit b twe n Pierre and Deadwood. On thi job h drove[...]h mining m chiner and upplie for the Home take mine[...]ey nd oth r mining camp in th Black Hill . It took about a[...] |
| [...]by a band of vigilantie who thought h had tol n hor[...](I can imagine that thi wa qui a confrontati on ).[...]Eventually the officer arri ed and t ·[...]traightened out. It wa whil there t h p· Mr. and Mrs. Steve Marmon by Indian village tepee as a good location for a ranch which la r[...]ming. He located there hi bro h r Mor bought a ranc . told of going through the Yellowstone Park area past the For a few year t ve and Morg took the contract to plow Hot Springs and Geysers. He sometimes drove as many as fireg[...]nd these teams traveling together. teve, although a young ummit of the[...]nd completed in 1 3, and "Bull Whacking became a thing of plowed their the past.[...]. teve then obtained employment as a owboy fir t t camp[...]ng for the 04-outfit on the Tongue Ri er for abou a year. Later he rode for everal of the big outfit that ran cattle in Ea tern and entral Montana . At one tim h helped trail a herd from the un to the Redwater Ri er. In the pring of 1 7, t came to illiam ount and Fort Buford wher h worked for th H ddrich Broth r . It wa about thi tim that h wa hired to trail a h rd of Gov rnment hor down th ri r , wh r[...]h offi r , about fort mi l t of V illi n , h a jumped[...]a ran[...] |
| After the home teader came in and tarted breaking up They became in[...]is horses, so he young James had made a trip here with an uncle, Anthony be n to look for a different location for his ranch. He Borse, who settled south of Poplar with his wife and two decided to move to the Indian Re ervation nea[...]he prairies to be very strange location, teve ent a milk cow along. When asked why he and lonely. Their first home was a small building, later bothered to end one cow along, teve explained, " I didn't used for a granary. After a few months they purchased an want the boy to run[...]Aladen Precut two bedroom home and added another t v w married a econd time in 1915 to Antonette bedroom to the rear. This home is still in excellent Beranek, a William County chool teacher. They had one[...]ition. There were no trails or fences in the area and on, teve Jr.[...]heir way to Poplar. y ar along with Jim MacDonald and ig Cu ker. An- In 1917, James Jr. joined the army and was sent to Fort ton tt di din 19 . teve Jr. oper[...]lf Point. was discharged and passed away in 1918. tev di din 1952attheageo[...]he was in raising three children and lived there until he died in 1971. hi eightie .[...]John settled on a homestead near the parental home and[...]the parental home, Doug and Eugene of Reno, Nevada and Hugh Marron wa born October 5, 1 93 in Waucoma, a daughter Celeste Long Ii ving with her husband Ernie and Iowa. He grew up in Waucoma and graduated from two sons in W[...]in 1915 to practice law. He six children and live a short distance east of Wolf Point. married Ro e[...]mond Lapke of Scobey. They live Hugh M rron wa a veteran of World War I; a member of in Denver, Colorado where she teaches. th Wolf Point American Legion Post and erved a Dick who married J ulane[...]Mo merican Legion ommander. He al o erved a Dakota. They have five children and live east of Wolf Point a L ation 1 ommitteeman. and farm the original homestead north of Wolf Point.[...]rney everal term . He al o wa Donald and his family live in Brawley, California where Wolf[...]he teache . He married Dorothy Peterson and they have six d · · · g a partner hip with Arlie Foor children. i[...]er hip after Jame J. pa ed away in 1927 and France in 195 . Wo I orn[...]of of and it eem o very long ago. Pa came fir t, don't even[...]i on, H.J . with four children, one boy and three girl . We went fir t to[...]Ro holt, outh Dakota, where we had ome cou in and on , p[...]p, Wa on; and Mr . ontana.[...]. ,Jam cam from hicago, Illinoi to Popi r , tana, and · ttl don a horn t ad in town hip 2 , rang ction 1:t In ,June of that y ar hi wife France and thr on:, Jo ph , Frank, and John and daught r Agn travel d by train to Popl r b[...] |
| [...]In 1959 I moved to Wolf Point and hav work d t various jobs; the weet Shop, on a farm north of Poplar,[...]retired, and am living at 215 Johnson in Wolf Point with[...]Martin Mitchell wa born in an A iniboine Indian[...]was the son ofI abel and David Mitchell, Jr. H att nded[...]school in Poplar and when he wa ixteen he drove a team[...]ndian trader' tore on the bank of th Florence and Sid Miller's corn crop - 1935 Missouri. The late herman T. og well wa a cl rk at that store and later became owner. My mother died when I was very young and for awhile After the Great orthern Railroad wa built through my sister and Dad took care of me. From South Dakota I there, Wolf Point' growth centered near the track , and went with my father to Swan River, Manitoba, Canada. My Cogswell' Indian Trading tore and the Pre b terian fathers name was Lars Erick Nordvall. All I know about mis ion building were known a "Old Town." my mother was her name Christina. I don't know about her As a young man, Martin wa a mail carrier between Wolf people or anything about her family. I can vaguely Point and cobey. There wa a halfway hou where he remember that there was a blind grandmother on Mother's took on a fre h team before completing journe . si[...]his team tarting from Wolf Point, he took a norther dir ction then consisted of one cow and one oxen. Later he worked in and crossed the Poplar River near what no the the saw mills. He hewed the logs and built a house. But by Berdette Community. this time[...]ime, two Frenchmen were hi pa eng r . In th ir of and he gave me away to some strangers to raise. That[...]This family also had children of their vehicle a it neared cobey and liminat th procedur of own. Hurts and some memories dim with time, but I can paying for their ride. still remember the Christmas I got a lump of coal in my Martin, how ver, un[...]team into the middl of th P said I had not been a good girl. and ann ed that it wa I stayed in Canada un[...]d to r luctan · · Minneapolis, and then to Fargo, where I met my bu band,[...]w r Mi h 11 married in 1920. idney and I went fir t to Malta Montana wh other sister was living. We finall got work on a fa of Froid, then rented a farm for wy that had thre fo ter children with u ob ob I my is and a girl who b Ion to band The oon[...]· · d of Froid our Doctor and will r · kindn he[...]t communit dan a nd th[...]r t a .d '[...]h. a |
| the Mitchell plot of the Indian Cemetery about a mile east In closing, I wish to pay tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Martin of town where five generations of hi[...]of seven children. Four of them died in races and who both displayed only the best qualities of the infancy. A son died in 1932. Two daughters, Mrs. Henry Indian and White Man. Headdre sand Mrs. William Weeks, and his wife Nettie, survive him as well as many grandchildren and great grandchildren. He had always been active in looking after the interests of the Indians, and he made two or more trips to Washington D. C. as[...]d D. Mitchell, wasamongthemost trusted employees and trappers of the American Fur[...]y McKenzie to the Fort Piegan Country to attempt a renewal of trade relations[...]h the Blackfeet Nation. His kell boat was wrecked and supplies and articles of trade were lost. McKenzie sent a Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Moe cmne as bride and groom to second boat and Mitchell continued his voyage, only to Montana from Minneapolis in June 1926. He was a find Fort Piegan in ashes. collector for Deere and Webber, and Implement Company He was a brave, determined man and immediately and served many states at that time. built a fort a few miles above the mouth of the Marias River.[...]t time. Farmers using binders to cut their crops, and upon being offered a partnership in the American Fur several threshing machines around. Shocks of grain and Company, he returned to Fort McKenzie in 1836. H[...]In 1930 we started an Implement business, and bought was sent to Fort Union where he directed the Company's the lots and the old building known at the time as the old af[...]Johnson and Isachsen grocery store. We sold machinery He then returned to St. Louis and distinguished himself and anything we could, the "Dirty Thirties" - (as tho[...]'cheer us up' during the drained by the Mis ouri and its tributaries, and he was thirties. Curtis, Arvid and LaDonna. made a colonel. We bought a home at 520 Edgar St. I remember Carl and He married a Cree Indian and was the father of three several friends[...]t to the schools of the Red winters. We had a nice place "way out in the country" we'd River. O[...]Mrs. Lottie Burnison who took in eloquent peaker and it i believed she made a trip to expectant mothers, as no hosp[...]time. Our family decided that would be a lovely home for us In the year 1 51, Colonel Mitchell had charge of signing as our children grew. a government treaty with the Indian . Now, two years ago, I sold our home, and I live in an In the pring of 1 76 the Assinib[...]apartment on Daw on. My two sons are married and live moving in a band, with their fami!ie and household good here. to join General Mil[...]was just Among the Indian wa one, Jime Haye , and hi family, built by Paul Johnson, a builder, and lived here at the time. who e baby girl wa born on thi trek. A near as can be Pastor Amon Johnson was[...]hat ettie active in our Church. Carl was a board member, and I Mitch llwa bornonJune7,1 76. Herearlychildhoodw[...]ster, Hattie wa born. from 1933 to 1936, and again in 1939. We served dinners In l l or l 2, he wa adopt d by the William D Graff once a month and the public was invited to attend. family. h recei[...]tended high chool at Bi mark, orth and burned coal. The dinner co t 25¢. Can you believ[...]Our doctor in those year wa Doctor DeWayne and In di <.:u ing her life, he tate that in the A iniboine nur e Mrs. Barwise. The old hospital was run by Mrs. ation , fir t cou in are known a brother and sister . teele and wa located on Edgar where the Charley Rathert Thi[...]racing true home now is. relationship and to add to thi , Mr . Mitchell i known a And so the years went by. Had terrible dust storms we'll Aunt ettie to a ho t of folk , both Indian and White. remember during the thirties. W almost had to eat dust in he has b en a leading citizen in our community for our home. many year . he is a member of the Fir t Pre byterian W[...]ty well after remodeling half of it during Honor, and other . he has b n pre ident of the above[...]son took over the Implement business organization and al o district president of ome of them . in 1960, the year my hu band pa ed away. o now, a AB a cook and coffe maker , he i un urpa sed. he has m[...]spent many hour in the kitchens of local churches and and sold the lots to 'Coast to Coast tore'. other org[...]have had the Moe Motor ompany located east before a king.[...] |
| [...]Harry Nedrud sold the homestead to Henry Urban and in 1914 moved to Oswego where Nedrud and Tilfor Hagen opened a hardware store and also sold Overland car .[...]Oswego was larger than Wolf Point then and had everal banks, a 1umber yard, cafe, a dry goods tore and a r ady to[...]clothing store, grocery store, etc. They al o had a new[...]four in Oswego. He went to vi it the hool on day and liked it so well he continued to go. The edrud and Hagen[...]and the Nedrud family moved to Wolf Point. The childr[...]down a few years ago when the southside chool wa[...]Livingston who was a strict disciplinarian and wa responsible for creating a fine school sy tern in Wolf Point.[...]ut 1910. Harry and Laura edrud had four children , William and Norman who were born on the home tead and Ruth and[...]1939 and the rest of the children all re ide in Wolf Point[...]sed away January 30, 1966. by Norman and Vincent Nedrud and Ruth Nedrud Harstad[...]Albert Lea, Minnesota, the son of Andreas Nedrud and Petra Chris ielsen was born in Denmark. He came to America Listerud. While he was a small boy the family moved to by boat, ettling in Chicago in 1910. He drove a hor e and Minot, North Dakota where the family was engaged[...]ip of "hootch" with a coupl of other In 1907 Harry edrud came to Mon[...]h awak acquainted with the area around Wolf Point a he made hi a et , and from that day on ha lit, several trips by hor back between Minot and Wolf Point accord · buying and selling horses. Harry decided to hom tead just[...]homestead was only several miles from Wolf Point and and ra 0 i part of the Marvin[...]orn 0ctob r p a o 15, 1 6 in Minnesota. After their marriage[...]t his bride to Montana where they settled in a log hou eon his homestead. ome of their neighbor wer th Henry Urbane Morris Lund , the Listerud and veral mil southeast was the UP Ranch , which wa o[...]had to cro th ount b gano Mis ouri Riv r and did all of th ir hopping in th og well tore at[...]th o pr nt ite of Wolf Point were th d pot and on r id nc . a Harry edrud did ome work locating hom tead r that daugh cam into the country. He would r i e a fi for thi h ervice and many time th n w p ople would p nd th[...]Flori Th r wer no churche in th ar a when th fir t tirn arriv d and th drud oft n held rvic in th ir horn . d The onl pr acher wer the tra eling preach r and th m n wer welcom d b all. The edrud w re[...] |
| [...]ring World War I. After his discharge, he worked a a clerk in the o ier Patch tore in Poplar. During thi arne period, Hazel Clocksin became a telephone operator at Glasgow. During the severe[...]so many operator being ill. The flu took its toll and, as she was the only one able to work, she caughtocca ional winks in a cot et up at the witch board. Even her meals wer[...]chboard to as ure the important service. eut and Hazel tarted their togetherness on July 27, 1920 and shortly thereafter et up hou ekeeping in Wolf Poi[...]t F. Kapinos, the Han on Ca h Market wa purcha ed and became Neut & Kap' . Through a proce of various locations, associates Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nygaard s homestead shack - 1922 and tore names and with his astute know ledge of business and the need of people, a chain of outlets known as orthwe t ervice tore were acquired at a hua, Gla gow, Poplar, Plentywood, Williston (North Dakota) and Wolf Point. Thi corporate structure lasted but a few year a the toll of the depre ion, distances and personal choice prevailed. The Wolf Point tore, c[...]grocery-retail field to orthea tern Montana . A a tribute to hi Christian generosity during the trying time of the depre ion and World War II rationing, nearly every citizen in t[...]home to offer their re pect to hi body, in tate, and to hi family. Other example , a related by daughter Pat, was in the mid 50' , ten year after hi death a man came to the Mr. and Mrs. Paul ygaard and Elaine in wheat field - eutgen hometopayback 2[...]as raising her thre on under financial difficulty a ale man old her grocerie at reduced rate , becau[...]hi family going when thing were rough." eut and Hazel were both active in variou organiz tion for[...]e eutwa achartermemberofthelocal Knight of olumbu and Hazel wa a charter member of the local atholic Daughter of merica. Th ir family con i ted ofthre on and thre daughter (two urviving) and a of thi date 1 grandchildren and nin gre t-grandchildren. on J me m rri d Martha igg, re ide in Wolf Point, and with hi f mily op rat two B n Franklin outlet in Wolf Point nd other in Hardin, Baker and Living ton. on Ario, m rri d to Jody Lamb rt, re ide in Wolf Point and op rate orthw t ud, rlo' B r and Ranch operation .[...]ity, tahwh r h rhu bandi anofficialforP rK witt and on .[...]childr n - Burl orri Elaine (Mr . Donald ethr and hu band oper t hi own ounting pr ctic[...]and h r nted from Mark Yuly. In 1 27 h Haz 1 i a re id nt at Faith Luther n Hom in Wolf[...]hi fanning operation through the y ar and old to hi p[...]Wolf Point and wa alway v ry activ in community[...]on of Lyla who liv at Point in April 1917 to work a a carp nt r . He rved in h ter.[...] |
| [...]NYLAND by Obert Nyland Mr. and Mrs. Radle Nyland came to Montana early in the sp[...]in 1872, coming to the United States when he was a young man. Mrs.Nyland in 1880, coming when she wa[...]years were not good years as the summers were hot and dry and the crops were not the best. About three weeks[...]ontana, Mr. Nyland on his way home from town lost a prized team of horses in the swollen waters of Wolf Creek. Luckily with the help of good neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Redstone, Sr., Mr. Nyland was saved fr[...]rs. Fred Rathert (Laura) who lives in Wolf Point, and Mrs. Harry Palmer (Hulda) who lives in Minnesota. All three of the children attended public and Sunday School in Wolf Point. They became members[...]ool Building. Mr. Nyland died January 30, 1949, and Mrs. Nyland died April 26, 1958.[...]superintendent of the Mission for many years. Mr. and by Agatha Dwyer Mrs. H. T . Smith were matron and disciplinarian in the[...]ed on his wife's allotment. He came Chase and S. T . Cogswell Trading Po ts' the sub-agency fro[...]lvania. He ran away from home at the with a doctor and a blacksmith hop. Minnie's Indian age of 14 and joined General Cook's Cavalry. In 1880 he[...]i-Wi-ya which mean " hiningWoman". came to Poplar and was later transferred to Wolf Point by[...]ity to take nur e' the government. In. 1884, Bill and Kitty One Hom were training but this ambition remained unfullfilled a her married in Maiden Meagher, a mining camp near Helena. mother became ill and died and he had to come home to Their government home was a frame structure, but their take care of her father and younger broth r. own home was a log house. Mr . 01 on wa a charter · d on of th fir t T[...]urch when it wa Harry, William - in an Francisco, and Ed - in Puyallup, fir t chartered in the area in w also a charter Washington. Harry passed away in March, 1976 and memb r of th Indian War Moth[...]well v r d in both Indian and whit way and wa very Minnie was born in 1 95, and in 1923 married artin activ in po ·[...]childr ar · li r . 1916 and hom teaded 32 mile north of Wolf Point. Th ir[...]in · . children still have the land and 1 as it out. Gr ·[...]airie fir , on which virtual- alifomia· and John ' ly swept the whole r ervation. Wat r for washing cloth grandchildren and 1 · was hauled from the Mis ouri River. loth r a bed Wolf Point on t[...]ie r member d that h r dad furni h gr 1 and · p a on M · 1976 in Wolf Point. and for building construction in Wolf Point.[...]Point. Barn dances, ha ball gam and 4th of July Th r 1[...]'. ion r of th la ted all night and into the early morning. In tho day there was no f[...]alway pl nty of FR food. Lizzie and Flor nc has and Mary itch 11 r ome of Minnie' friends. Billy Knorr, Phillip urch n by idn P r on and Albert LaRoqu were popular ha ball play r in tho days. Hor and foot ra er common on 4th of July Fra[...]ions. and worked on a ranch near th r during th pring and[...] |
| [...]D&ALIICRI""' Jl~lJMBER .A .x1, BUH.DING ~IATERIAL Bill of ales um[...]father Walter E. Peterson, of land that of a rooming house. |
| [...]they came to town. River crossing sometimes posed a problem. During the season when the ferry operate[...]was the freeze up to contend with. Ice would form and then the farmers would have to wait until said ice was thick enough to hold up horses, sleds and loads. In the spring the reverse was true, when tr..~ thaws began the water would begin to run and the ice would get weak so crossings could not be made until the river cleared and the ferry began operating again. On necessary occasions, mailmen and others would walk across the weakened ice or woul[...]an important link between the southside residents and the towns businesses. The ferry I remember best w[...]plied its way across the river. It was powered by a big gas engine that turned over so very smoothly. I also remember one of the ferrymen having a eated: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pipal, 'r. 'landing: Henr Pipal, big pi[...]but I liked the White City best as it was bigger and looked more like the pictures of those big river[...]the road to the latter ferry was lined with brush and trees which was not the case along the Macon road[...]near the river from the southside. It looked like a huge landmark to me then, however today it is dwa[...]pany structure. One year Dad sold some oats to a Mr. St. Germaine, and had to deliver them to his home on Wolf Point's n[...]e that it wa only one of many house located there and wa in the vicinit of the Wolf Point Brick Yard wh[...]local con- struction. At another later date, Dad and I drove to town Interior of Pipal' garag - 1920 and while there we heard that a locomotive had blown up. We drove to the track wh[...]h engin . It m the boiler had run dry and when the firem n ran water into L aving[...]of it. We had ju t left town one afternoon and and were passing ' og ' tore when Dad aid h had to ta[...]t now). He came out of the store with a two gallon can of[...]an, 0 and I have never s en another can of Polarin .[...]a JO EPH PIP L R., FIR T BL K[...]im. and in ide Jo Pipal r . d at t ng and p[...]do long enough to tack b n and worn parts on t fa t talking. workb nch , or wait on c , horn t ad r and po gr ndchildr n alwa _ look d[...]ma and 1randpa Pipal a, th r[...] |
| [...]'s they had bologna! made a hurried trip by cutter and team of horses across the During the twenty-fiv[...]ht of the eighteenth, Dr. delivered into Old Town and finally into the thriving city of Wolf my baby brother, and John took him back to Old Town Point. The couple retired in 1922 and moved south of the through water on the[...]l gone! That was too close for daughter, Lillian, and family. Uncle[...]My arrival in Wolf Point, ovember 6, 1910 was a jolt for programs at Cusker School before we enro[...]Joe Pipal was kid born in Old Town (Wolf Point), and econd, I was a Santa Claus! blue-eyed towhead! 11 the other babies had jet black hair My first day at Cusker School was a sad experience. like oft velvet .... and there I was ab olutely bald .... a real There were thirty-two pupils attending and just one teacher curio ity among the good native[...]ready in that one-room country school heated with a jacketed there. stove. As my fears subsided and friendships grew, school My grandpa, Jo eph P[...]s were among the highlights of my pre-teen years; and black mith and their home was our ''hospital". They lived every teacher, a heroine. I wanted to be a teacher when I next door to Dr. L. H . Huber, ne[...]th of Sand Creek! (Where but for the grace of God and Dr. Huber' dedication and Sand Creek empties into the Missouri River). It was an all good common ense, many of the ill, injured and new born day event. There were foot races for the[...]races for adults, and horse races for jockeys. Hank Cusker's Earach[...]s race horses were popular drawing cards. Excite- a pirin, o night after night I lay my head on a sack of hot[...]; the lemonade stand, the popular with turp ntine and ugar by the tea poonful onion and hangout for every kid who gorged on homemade ice cream, ugar yrup, hot lemonade; and moon hine for those bad, soda pop, and candy bars. Henry Pi pal ran this stand. More b d cold . For ore throats, kero ene and ugar did the hor e races and riding broncs followed during the after- trick. h t cold and cough got the mu tard pla ter treat- noon. A rider or two disappeared over the river bank but no ment. Wh n the e failed, Doc Huber di pen ed icky, black, casualities to either rider or bronc ever. na t[...]often. Henry Pipal and several of the younger homesteaders tandard[...]ickne were mainly hauled lumber by wagon and teams for building the c tor oil, p om alt , tincture of iodine, turpentine, bowery; someone would donate a piano for the evening, and n of p pp rmint for tomach ache and oil of clove dancing until the wee hou[...]ing was the grand for toothach long with d pf ith and "tru tin the Lord." finale of Fourth of July. A I recall after a glimp e or two of[...]countl change for the better. From hor e and buggy[...]automatic tran mi ion , and j t ; from horse-drawn plow and grain drill to powerful air conditioned steiger ,[...]all th e I liv d to e and b a part of.[...]the morning glory horn and two ca e of cylinder records.[...]a regular as gathering eggs daily. Even b for we ha[...]for ummertime u e: making ic er am, iced tea and lemonad , and cooling drinking water; not to omit the ice[...]packs for injury, ache and pain.[...]endured untold hardships. The riv r separated Mr. and Mrs. ,Joe Pipal, Elmn and Alma - 1913 u from the[...] |
| and in the 1920's, from High School. The bridge was[...]replaces the roads we traveled fo r many years to and from town. Old Dad Keeling, our southside JP, "tied many a kn ot ", when crossing the icy Missouri River prevented a preach er from officiating. I would be remiss[...]ams, Robert Meisters, Thompsons, Cassava nts, E d and Effie Fuller family, Jens Dahls, Sam Thomases, H[...]ons, Stalheims, Mickelston s, Elbert Mendenhalls, A. T . Allens, Jim Terrys, B . A . Folden family, and all my doting uncles .... Henry, Herman and Bill Pipal who married and settled south of Wolf Point a lon g with their sister, Lillian Cusker. My Da[...]ad was along the riverbottom . In t he l 930's he and Bud, my brother, installed irrigation fo r their farming and haying operations. Today irrigation is in use the[...]ced over the span of years is all right with m e; a Pipal family at Old Town better decade coul[...]urvivors include the widow ; a daughter , Jane Constan-[...]tine of Santo Tomas Village, ahuarita, Arizona; a son by Alma Hall[...]Miles of an Francisco· six grandchildren and two great-[...]grandchildren. John Pipal came out here in 1903 and liked th e bot- A memorial service was held at thehomeofhisdaughter. tomlands and rolling prairie. He returned t o the South Dakota farm , and the next year, he, Joe Pipal Jr., F rank Forman , Joe Novak and Henry U rban trailed th eir ca ttle out to make t[...]n in armington , Main , May In 1912 J ohn built a ferry boat. The inconvenience, ri k 26, 1 67, the on of D illiam and Elizab th ( orri on) and danger s of getting to Old T own and later Wolf Point for Randall. When h w[...]rn the cowboy tra 'th th m Littlefield , and went into th e gara ge busine a. Locating Pool . od rd · t[...]om r a t · on ana . WILLIAM PIP L William Pi pal, former and Cr k home teader and rancher died ovem her 14 1975 at the ag of 9 at t[...]in Brule ounty outh Dakota in 1 to r. and Mr . Jo eph Pipal. They cam to Wolf Point when hi father b came the gov mm nt black mi h in a civil servic po ition on th Fort P ck R ervation . He attend d chool at th Indian i ion in olf Point and al o learned to sp ak the Indian languag . In 191[...]to horn tea d , h married Gertrude u ker in 191 5 and th e ra n ched nin mil uth of th Mi ouri Rive[...]Ain Wolf Point J ohn BPn on Randall at and al o a dir tor for the Fed ral L nd B[...] |
| John Ben on Randall. wife Margaret and Margaret and Una - 1915. John Randall came up from Texas a young man of I and worked for the C-K Cattle Company herding cattle.[...]spring of 1 90, Mr. Randall joined the Home Land and attle Co., Bar outfit. For the next seven years Randall wa with thi company and served as range manager and commis ary manager. For another seven year he wa foreman for .T. Cog well, a well-known Wolf Point area rancher. On leaving the Cog well outfit, Randall entered a home tead outh of the Mis ouri River, about four[...]om log Fred Rathert hou e. He rai ed hor e and cattle and wa a pioneer in the culture of alfalf . John Randal[...]Bruce, pencer Iowa on July 1, 1 9, a daughter of Charles W. Margaret, and n . and Annie charf. Mr. and Mrs. Rathert had two sons, Mr . Randall w very intere ted in eduation and through harle W. and George K. Mary Rathert passed away in hi influenc[...]th fir t in what i now Mc one County. He erved as a In March of 1915 Fred Rathert came to Wolf Point and chool Tru te for 20 year . He wa the fir t U .[...]First State Bank ommi ion r , appointed in 1 4 and holding that po i- of Wolf Point, succ[...]23 he wa appointed po tma ter in b gan a career in Wolf Point that was to last 38 years. T[...]th in 193 . Fir t tate Bank was founded and opened for business in[...]pre ident, Mr. H. T . mith, Vice President, and Mr.[...]HERT young banker and wa well liked in the community. He[...]later became a tockholder in the herman Hotel Co., along[...]with herman T. ogswell and others; he was also a[...]tockhold r in th Herald ew Publi bing Co. and erved Mr . Fr d E. Rathert, Wolf Point pione r and on the chool board of the town a. well a being one of the busine man , wa a respected leader ofthi community for f[...]es,R . L . tephen andothers,wasin trumen- Indiana and came to Iowa a a boy. Hi mother maiden tal in making the Wolf Point Wild Hor e tampede a name wa arah Price, a Wi consin native. succes . Fred Rathert and Jim Terry made several trips Fred Rathert, aft[...]nghorn steers used Cre co , moved to orth Dakota, and was employed at in the tampede. Th se st rs were a big attraction at the Fe nden for three year in a[...]. That company also gave him hi early training as a In July of 1916 Mr. George Flint, b[...]moved to Wolf Point from orth Dakota and was employed Perkin County tate Bank owned by Wilson and o. Mr . at the First State Bank. That y ar Fred and George built Rathert was with the bank at Chance almost six year , and identical home next to each other[...] |
| [...]October 22, 1883, a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.[...]Holland, and they migrated to and settled in West[...]Moreland, Pennsylvania in 1854. James came west and was a scout and plainsman with General Miles at the[...]Mrs. Snell was a niece of Sitting Bull; her maiden name[...]was Tootsie Foote, and her Indian name was "Her Cane."[...]The baby was left to be cared for by a fourteen year old[...]Soon after this event, a couple of French Canadians happened by and having heard about the baby asked, "if[...]they could take and raise her as their own." Consent was given, and the child grew to womanhood in Canada[...]It was a custom of these Canadian people to form parties[...]start a trek south across the prairies with teams and Fred Rathert and wife Mary and son Charles - 1910 wagons picking up[...]for flour and sugar or what staples they could get for the[...]Many a trip had been made back and forth, by the foster[...]stopped somewhere near Fort Benton to make lunch. A sold to Frank Catlin and is now owned by Frank Presser. two seated buggy approached with a man, two girls, and a The Flint home is now owned by Walt Meredith. boy in it. They stopped to chat and have a bite to eat also. In Later, Rathert became inv[...]the ensuing conversation, it was learned this man and the in McCone County. He was a part owner of the Farmer girls were Mary's father and half-sisters. Mary was stunn- Ranch wich was loc[...]real parents. Dam spillway, along with Jim Terry and Al...~ed Appelgren. Mary's father persuaded[...]holdings were sold in 1953. Mr. Rathert was also a where he was enroute with the three children[...]with him. where his son Charles was cashier and managing officer. Mary Snell entered Fort[...]six· In 1932, Sherman T. Cogswell passed away and Mr. teen and had to learn to speak Engli h as French wa all Rathert was elected president. Fred Rathert and the bank she spoke then. While at chool, she[...]some very difficult times during the and they were sweethearts all during the four year he[...]Mary left chool, he went to live with her George and Charles, remember Franklin Roosevelt's father in the Little Rockie.a, near Landusky. "bank holiday". The President declared this three day Mr. nell raised chicken and garden stuff which he holiday to close the banks and some did not open their peddled to the min[...]the mountain of Montana. time, George Rathert was a member of one of Wolf Point' He pa sed away[...]was cancelled. Thi wa the fir t they lived and raised theirfamilyofthr children; William year Co[...]lf Point. (decea d), Roy and Victoria ( an aver) Madi on. Alex On November 6, 1936 Fred Rathert married Laura was a sheep h arer in ummer and lumber camp foreman yland of Wolf Point, Monta[...]ut grown when Roosevelt County treasurer when she and Fred married. San av rs d cid d to move t[...]to Wolf Point to build th ir home on discouraged and told her, "Sometim I wish we could just Poverty Flats, now known a the Airport Addition. The pay off our depositors, take my satchel and walk down the Fronti r chool east of Wolf Poi[...]ional Bank an aver allotm nt. Al farm d and rai d h p and closed its doors. cattle, in betw n time, he b ame quite a political figure. After the depression, the First tate Bank prospered and He became very go d friend with nator Mike Man[...]53 On everal occa ion nator Man fi Id and his wife had when he was elected Chairman of the Board. Later that dinner with ansavers a their home ea t of the airport. same year he reti[...]ealth. He Mary kept busy raising chickens and turkeys, al o a died on March 4, 1963 in Wolf Point. His wife,[...]as well as travel four miles on dirt roads with a team of horse and his two sons, Char} sand George, who ar~ both in busine s buggy to get to town about twice a month. There were no in this community. highways and during rainy sea one the road was pure[...] |
| gumbo and sometimes it was so bad it was all the horses His job and civic responsibilities aren't the only things cou[...]Sassen has taken care of. He's been treasurer and board birthday, and he is still an avid bingo player and quilt member of the Assembly of God Church since 1937. And maker. he its many hours at her tredle sewing mac[...]er George Alex pa sed away in 1962 after having a stroke. Grayson.[...]"He told me I was hired because I could unload a boxcar of EDSASSEN[...]to the Wolf Point News Sassen and his wife have five daughters: Edna, a[...]registered nurse in St. Paul, Minnesota; Louise, a school Born on a farm in Glasgow, January 21, 1912, Sassen teacher in ashua; Betty Ann; Carol; and Cathy. They and hi family moved to Wolf Point in 1923, five miles[...]" SOLOMON AND CLARA EMERSON SCHMIDT "It ha changed for the better." Sassen continued. "We've got a olid community here." Wolf Point has some[...]a Schmidt of the be t farmer in the nation wheat and barley. That's becau e they're learning to fertilize and take care of the When my son, Emery Emerson (14 years) and my ground. daughter, Delores (eight years) and I cwne out to Montana, a en recalled that he did a lot of traveling in the Army we started out in a pretty good Model A car which I paid a Quarterma ter of the 44th Rail Head. While in Eur[...]ring the war, he went to Germany, France, Holland and and my son, Clayton, sent us $25.00. He was working o[...]King south of Poplar. He wrote He came up with a certificate of merit for "Service u a road map to follow. We had to go across the ferry[...]beautiful and I heard somethingthatsoundedlikethunder Except for a brief twoyear hitch in the Army (1944 and and I looked out and down this hill came about60 cows and 1945whenhewa drafted), as enha workedforOcciden- calve a fa t as they could run . taJ and Peavey ince the age of 23.[...]ere I've averaged 16 with u to Wolf Point. We got a motel room at Gidleys and hour a day working," he reflected "except unday. And went looking for work. We went to Culbertson but no work. many year I wa out loading trucks 20 night a month." When we got back to Wolf Point, Louis Leg[...]Emory and me a job out on the Henry Fossen farm. While[...]and milk to drink. We didn't dare pend any money for a real meal. Delores got her shoes wet and didn 't dare tell me o he put her hoes near a register in the evening. In the[...] |
| [...]ship. She called and said she was coming to get them. he[...]one time and Savo Island was pulled out. The Japs got all[...]my mind. He had just been home and told me "I will never[...]and a telegram came from my Tee. Sgt. Clayton. It was[...]I hope you have heard, Mother, I am safe. I am in a[...]inside of Switzerland. No one was hurt and the Germans[...]could not pick them up. To me my son was dead and came to life and came home. Melvin and Irwin were in the army; Mrs. Schmidt[...]all home and alive and no mishaps to any of them. It has[...]been hard many times but I always had my God and that[...]has been my help always. morning we got up and her shoes were about four inches My so[...]Schmidt on ovem her 4, I worked for four dollars a week. Emory, I think, got $20.00 1943. Clara's birthday is October 6, 1898. olomon' birth- a month. He never left the place. He worked until l[...]y is October 23, 1905. night. Then he had to milk a cow, had supper and went to Mrs. Schmidt is actively engaged in interior decorating bed. He was so tired. Then we got a job working for Bill and exterior house painting. She has earned her living Johnsons. I worked in the restaurant and did all their painting for many years. H[...]ind employed at the Faith Lutheran Rest Home as a mainten- the cattle in the evening, milk two cows, feed one calf and ance man. She is an active member of the Fir t Lutheran feed a bunch of pigs. It took a large barrel offeed a day as Church and is engaged as a janitor for the church. they had 800 chickens. I got$10.00 a week there. I stayed in Her children (six)[...]the hospital on the north side. Emory, and Delores. Violette died in 1951 and the other Then Delores got sick. Mrs. Barwise told me to stay home children have moved away. Emory and Irwin live in and take care of Delores or she would get a nurse to come Minne ota; Delore in Oregon and Melvin in Wa hington and take care of her so I quit working and stayed home. and Jayton in Colorado. Now it was Christmas ti.me. No gifts, no money. I got the light bill and it was a little over 2.00. That was all the[...]HW DE money I had. Delores was better and could be up and around. When we went to pay the light bill, I got a by Ted chwinden Christmas card from my brother. We opened it to find a 5.00 bill in the card. I have never seen a .00 that big Michael Jam winde[...]n born in 1 1. Mary Martha Pr ble Cloud came and asked me to come and work for a few ladi came from Amery, Wiscon in and wa born in January of for 35 cents per hour. I wo[...]working in the cafe. I worked for Dr. Knapp Gr c and They crune to tana in 1910 ho ading in Max Fitz immon Dr. loud and Ida Jen n . I had job[...]1 the r nt came around it wa hard. I paid 15.00 a month he fall of that[...]t but we had to have coal. Ther wa an old ove for a ·1 no[...]· ·rd in going to work and I told Emory to go down and look. I a hildr n born in this family. Jam and afraid of that tove. He wa a ting o I went down my lf[...]r Ph.D in I would bak and wa h clothe at night. In r go much A[...], . a in under the hou e. Then olomon chmidt, th Dutchm[...]b came to live with us. H bought an old fumac and put it th n Gov rno der[...]ere in the ervice, so Emory d cided h on and th y Ii e in H I na, h hav r wanted to enlist too. Wh n he had been in the navy for a childr n. while he was made a boa wain mate and th write up Fath r pa sed awa in Jul of 1 1 and Moth r in was that he wa the young t boats[...] |
| [...]"Monty Montana". As chief of police, I was On a summery August morning I walked in and said, truant officer too, so I knew mos[...]t "Good Morning" to Todd hamley. There was still a much skipping school, but I had to keep an eye on a few twinkle in the late eye , and a pleasant but slightly well-known charact[...]right where to puzzled expre ion, as he offered a friendly hand. I find them too - out a[...]hildren in the area that could see him so_ofte~. and he chuckled as he replied, ""ure, I knew George[...]sons Ernest and Harold of Wolf Point and Richard of time." And we were off to a good visit. "Ye th t wa in 1917. The old pontoon bridge was in Broa'dus, Montana and a daughter, Joyce Shamley of Las[...]Vegas, Nevada. then. There had been a cable ferry before that. John Pipal ran it. But[...]ing break-up on the river were pretty wild then, and those big heavy ice cake took the pontoon out like match sticks. AMOS AND BLANCH SHRADER Peopl u ed to come from all around[...]o that wa when the Wolf Point businessmen made a deal Coming from Canton, Illinois where[...]Dad to furnish ferry service. The White City was a Christmas Day, 1891, Amos Shrader found the country to river freighter with bins to carry grain, and the upper deck be extremely muddy in the Glendive area where he first got had the pilot house and living quarter . That first year off the tr[...]of 1912. The branch line they loaded outfit onto a barge that was then pushed by of the rail[...]atwinterGeorgeremodeledhis boat into but a mudhole early in the spring of that year. a ferry that could carry six to eight rigs at a crossing. I After a few years of trying to farm in 'the Bloomfield ar[...]Elk area, twenty-eight the river to pull up nags and clear the channel. One was miles from Oswe[...]" Wiscon in and homesteadeJ northwest of Shrader. They Qu tion: " How did you happen to come to Wolf Point?" met and in 1921 were married at Fairview, Montana. " h, I had been offered a job in Pi pals garage. They kept u They built a tarpaper shack - with the nearest pretty bu y too. I worked there for ome time and ~hen I was chool being ten miles away. Some[...]mber one cold trip when I Orrie Varney, and others. The post office and store was on took Dr. DeWayne up north of O wego and we nearly froze Prairie Elk Creek. to de[...]Washing clothes was done on aw ash board in a wash tub, grain cam in on hor edrawn led . Remembertoo, howthe with water being hauled from a shallow well nearby. Coal big fun for . . aturday w for th kid to take their led wa dug from a mine about a mile and a half away. and "hitch" on to the wagon or rid the runner from the riv r up to town th n coot back and catch another one." Que tion:"Wh twa WolfPointlik then?'"'Whenlfir t cam here it w n 't a much it i now. Old town wa re lly them[...]e riv r. It had two row of building running north and outh. There wa a w t r tower out in th middle at the outh end, and og w 11' tor tth northend.Thatold torew quitea[...]w y m ll d of Indian tobacco Kinnekinnic. Down th a t id wa th Indian polic ' hou.·e, th t wa Henr H[...]I think Jo ph Pi pal c men xt h wa th governm nt black mith nd he t nded to th pump t tion. Then th gove[...]ill familiar to Wolf Point r ·: Bill oung, Flint and Rathei-: John off, , McAll n tor ; lar nc[...]hat wa th b t theat r anywh r around. I kn w quit a f w of the old tim r around the country the Cu ker , • teve Marmon, J . B . Randall and Ray Mitch 11. I rem mh r Ray got him elf a car, then he drov down to cro the ferry. Gue h co[...]b cause he hit the apron o hard it broke the rope and he went right on through into the river. He came[...]at car WeddinR - D cemb r 29, 1921 , Amos and Blanche and hauled it out."[...] |
| [...]s away, were some of the entertainment. This was a long way in a team and wagon. Church services were held at the schoolhouse once in a while. When Amos Shrader filed on his homestea[...]ghts" you could keep where you had your buildings and lines established. Before the land was surveyed, a man from the Circle Country, he was an undersheriff of Dawson County at that time had chosen this site for a homestead. He had plowed Amos Shrader and emi aro~d a strip of land to mark his claim, but later he had[...]e piece on which Amos filed. When you filed on a homestead, you had to establish some kind of boun[...]He watched pretty close so he wouldn't get caught and would know where your claim was. In Shrader's cas[...]t he boundaries were already marked. Claude Elder and Bert encountered was having to stay ov[...]solid. country when Amos moved out. It was quite a contrast to The river froze early tha[...]country which he had just left where the and the county seat election for McCone County had be[...]f it that was worth held October 19. He and Ro ie Goode w re going to I av anything) with man[...]e living in the area than in for the winter and tarted out from their home tead , but the "now" o[...]they found the river full of 1u h ice, and they couldn t Roads weren't quite the same the[...]e of the river. ext mo.ming they decided to ch ck and stayed there overnight, then wenton to Vida. He found again and met two men, Clarence hamb rlain and 1 ve the Vida area all taken the first time he we[...]river the day before. They had walked a on t It was quite an experience to go out on a piece of land in from O wego o rad r fi th y the middle of nowhere, not a stick of timber on it, put up a cro o. d th ouri shack, break up a little land and start putting in a crop. on ·c an r[...]go, at that tim of a town than i · . It observed that if it hadn t[...]oor the 2x4's, you could have thrown a cat through. r,e:hap thr ro[...]winters like we u ed to have 1 le a clothi arried mu a weather than hou ing.[...]a[...]t ng , mo w to com with a bundl and Amo hrad rand bo. , Orin, Wayne and Richard tam .[...] |
| L t r in the ummer Menn o wrote him and told him h e SMITH FAMILY H[...]owever, with all hi other work that summer, he h a dn't Louie and Clara Smith came from DeGraf, Minnesota in built a hay rack yet for his wagon, so by th e tim e he h[...]their farm machinery, four horses, two that ready and got down there, the thresh ing rig wa s just cows, chickens, and a buggy to Poplar. They filed for a tarting out.[...]homestead in Poplar. Theo Rounds took them in a Model T In former year , Mullet h ad run a full crew, including a F ord to locate their farm claim , which was about twenty cook with the cook car, and when he had talked with Amos miles nort[...]t fall . But Outlook. In the spring they built a one room shack and now, cata trophe had struck the wheat c r op. shanty of tarpaper and shingle siding. Clara broke about Oh, the crop looked good enough; drought h a dn t stunted it; four acres with a walking plow. Later Ben Battani broke hail had no[...]t eaten it. thirty acres with an old A very tractor. As there were no Perhap more heartbreaking to the farmer th an a n y of s chools - three years later t[...]e children Bertha Smith Stevens, Bill Smith, that a fine-looking stand of wheat yielded on ly a small Clara Smith Toavs , Mary Smith Ruggles, and Walter fraction of the promi e it appeared to hol[...]Great Northern Railway Round House. When a rural couldn 't afford to hire the machine and full cr ew. Instead sch ool was built they[...]they arranged among them elves to exchange work, and In the winter of 1927 with snowdrifts as high as a horses thu cut the co t of getting their grain threshed. knee and temperature 20 to 25 degrees below Walter became[...]n the cold because he had very sick. Bill and his Dad brought Walter by sled to the no crop the[...]ging." He had n earest n eighbor, the Karge and Battani homestead shack come down to work for wage . As it turned out though, even to get help. Rose and Carl Karge with thehelpofMr. Smith though Menno c[...]to go with the rig, every put Walter on a larger bobsled. Mrs. Karge heated bricks, farmer on the circuit hard hit though theywere,gavehim a wrapped them in gunny sacks placing them near Rose and job o he worked through the entire eason after all. Almost Walter's feet on the sled. Carl and Mr. Smith ran and 55 year have pa ed , but Mr. hrader still spoke a[...]re were no roads so preciatively of the community a he remembered that they cut a cross country south to the Macon Elevator where h[...]they and the bricks were warmed up and the horses rested.[...]ly reached the Ferguson house Eight bundle team and racks followed the threshing rig that fall. Ru t[...]operated on Walter for a ruptured a ppendix, on a a fork into a pile and lift all that would tick to the fork. The[...]and drank water from a flower vase. He recovered without recall , wa a field of " laid over" breaking belonging to[...]ects . Dave ullet. He had been able to plantearly,and it was the Homestead days were n ot all work and n o play. Mr. only piece in the country that rust hadn't hit. o Amos Sm ith and Bill pla yed violin and Walter picked a mean bought ome eed from him to take back to hi Prairie Elk guitar. Hom e parties and barn dances were held often . home tead.[...]eighbor s crune to play cards and dan ce. Big coffee pots That fall of '16 wa hr[...]eason at Bloomfield. were kept fill ed and h ot upon the stove and lunch was th y b gan rai ·ing a family, they have three boy and always erved. P olkas, waltzes, tw o-steps and square one girl , th y wer fac d with chool probl[...]ne dances. neighbor who lived about a mile and a half farther from Bill still farms[...]hack clo eto the chool. On Monday and i ter have married and m oved away - F1orence, morning, he would take hi family to the hack, lead a Lottie, Amanda. His youngest br oth[...]kind of life didn t app al to Amo o when they had a chan c in 1 2 , tog ta plac ju tnorth of Wolf Poi[...]William H . Smi th mov d in from the homestead and tarted milking cow for a living, delivering milk around Wolf Point. In the[...]th y mov d to their pre nt location ea t of town and continued with their dairy bu ine .[...]idn 'tquitwor ing.He f 1 that it i ·mportant for a rson to keep active. Until Our fath r[...]g hi on with cattle four time from Texas and on the fourth time decided freight deliverie arou[...]here in Montana. He had grown to manhood in cold a well a h u ed to o thi winter h ' had to tay in[...]ountyandwasamemberoftheTexas more. But then, when a f llow g t into the octogenarian Rang T in the early venties. I n 1 h wa a stock brack t he hould be entitl d to low down a little. in p ctor for the Montana tock A ociation. There are four children in thi family[...]Wilfred (Pu ) mith now liv . Point; Orin and Darlene live in Clark ton Washington .[...]post own d by Mr. o ier Joyce married John Eakins and has five children and live and a Mr. dringhouse who was a millionair from t. in Clyde, Kan a .[...] |
| niece and Mr. Cogswell bought this trading post from Community. They were all thrilled with th new land and Cosier and N eedringhouse.[...]swell came Northern Pacific Railroad and th U. . ov rnm nta h ere as a teacher. This could have been about 1890.[...]Our grandmother whose name was Hail Woman, was a made, intere t wa r vived again[...]grandfather Wm . our future home to get a hack built and thin in r a din Alexander Trexler, a full blood German, who came here fo[...]in 1874 over to the idea of oing. by a United States Commissioner for the District of We shipped out a carload con i ting ofhou ehold good , Montana who traveled through and married t h ose tha t machinery, such things. Our pet horse, Dolly , a dog, and a wished to be married.[...]ese cat, "Pussy Winktun" were part of our family. A Our grandfather Trexler made his living trapping and few days before Christma in the early hour of morning I trading and carried mail on horseback from Wolf P oin t to[...]e depot to meet me, I felt that I wa in a · trange land. Indians from Poplar. This was fre[...]or Wolf Point, at the time, wa only a small frontier town. mules. Our grandfather used mules. Our grandmother and No trees, and in Wisconsin the tree were alway o g[...]tiful. Where the Fir t tate Bank now tand , there and Mollie. was a large livery stable and feed barn. In the public drug Our family has lived h ere in the Wolf P oint a r ea and on location was a confectionery and lunch room. Few lodging Wolf Creek for a hundred years. Still li ving are Mrs. J ames places, just Terry's Rooming Hou e and Ole Erick on' MacDonald of Poplar, Dolly Akers of Wolf Poin t, Mrs. Hotel, where one could get a really hone t to goodne Birdie Davis, Willow Cree[...]l that were Manning, Culbertson , Mon t ana. Mrs. A . H . (Ver a) J ohn- available. The post office wa located where a pool hall on son , Buddy Smith , Kermit Smith , W[...]the north side of the street now tands. P oint and Mrs. Glen Kinzell of Glasgow, Montana. Four[...]. Buddy died in 1975. the river and had a general tore run b herman T. The cl[...]was in Glasgow, Mon- Cogswell who made a take in Indian trade. A Pre byterian tana. Dr. Huber was on e of th e first d octor s h ere. Indian Church and chool and the uh-agency buildings, The first h otel buil[...]own as the mith Mr. tyer wa a mail-carrier on the tar Rou from olf Rooming House. It has now been moved to be used a a Point and Terrace, a po t office two and on e half mile historical site. north of old ida. A the trip wa made b am and wagon , the carrier went in one day and back th n xt. Th had[...]Vidamail ervice twiceaw k, la rthr tim ,and hen[...]cro ing (a dollar round-trip w r m a d b f rr b Reuben Smith was born August , 1905 in Wolf Point, a ne wa at ld Town and la r ano h rat a eon r in . son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. mith. He graduated from[...]26. While in high chool he th pring and fall wh n h ri r a fill ith floating was one of Wolf Poi[...]ortw Theyhadonedaughter Mr .Amb rMa Arndtof ob · and four grand on .[...]thecityofMenomoni onsin. Ther my husband and I lived after w had ol neighbor, Bill Young, who Ii ed a mil fr " h pped up" to go to Montana. h n h tri in going and taking up a claim of 320 acr flatly refu d to go. It wa ·[...]all aft r ing d criptio by Bill. a m ara o· land of mountain ian cactu ·th co and l tilln at w impr n A of fi ed fo t[...], but oon o ach took up a claim in what i own[...] |
| long before Father Rauh came to Vida and said mass in the VALMA STRACHAN bank or a home twice a month. Shortly after McCone County was formed,[...]to Wolf Point in the spring of 1913 from of Vida and Terrace joined forces as one, to be known as[...]hey were the popular Vida, located one mile north and half a mile east of the modes of transportat[...]county seat. Weldon, Brockway, Sand Creek, Vida, and "Skidoo." For awhile we lived with Mi[...]rowed down to the Then father purchased a big tent from LaRoche to sleep in contest between Circle and Vida. The fight was on! Vida until t[...]e the new Post though, dances, speeches, socials, and such which brought Office is now. There was also a cafe in connection with the folk together and caused much excitement for awhile.[...]da community, I was asked Montgomery had a team run away and as the track to teach the Terrace School. After i[...]weather was subject of conversation for a long time. severe all through January. I reviewed[...]ks We went to school in Wolf Point and my parents always so I could write on teachers' e[...]saw to it that we had art and music lessons. Having pas ed the test, the fi[...]s, then it was raised to $35.) Stevens, and the Red Owl. The enrollment was twenty some, including two big boys, seventeen and eighteen, and all grades. I drove to school with my "old Dolly" on the buggy a distance of one and one half miles. Four of the nearest[...]Obituary trips and the load she pulled. One morning when we were in[...]raid that she would get her head under the thills and was first elected Assessor in 1930 and was a candidate for drown; so I pushed myself up on the back of the seat and that office at the time of his death.[...]s born in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 19, other ide and ran home for Lou who was going to the 1862 and lived there with his parents until be moved to op[...]righted, Dolly was taken Minnesota and later taught several rural schools in that home to dry off, and I proceeded on to school on the back of a[...]He married Harriet Ann Smith in 1888 and they lived in At the end of the school term we had a program and a box Blue Earth for a time where he became a grain buyer for upper in the Vida Hall and took in the big sum of $124. the Peavy[...]ny. He moved with his family to I taught there a couple years, but as Mr. Styer was gone Montana in 1911 and settled on a homestead in the Lanark on the mail route so much[...]et Cruden, Culbert on, Lakeside, and Brockton. After moving to stayed with u in our on[...]rockton he farmed quite extensively. be t of time and the mo t plea ant memories hall alway[...]e is survived by two sons, C.C. Romance budded and he later married Ed Kreb bach, Sullivan of pokane, Wa hington· and F.E. Sullivan of one of the Vida bankers. We stil[...]Han on Harry tebbins, Phil Doughtery, and John B. There was a hortage of teachers so I was prevailed upon Kemp. to teach a school ten mile from home in a Ukrainian settlement. Thirty-one pupils and the only time that they would talk English very b[...]n class. It was ju t like being in th old country a they lived a near a JAM E. TERR[...]1890-1968 u ed freely and many head w r inhabited by little creeper .[...]James E. Terry, a well known pioneer ranch r , livestock One morning I backed out of the garage and as the buyer, businessman and civic leader in the Wolf Point area brakes were frozen I left one door of the car op n and I wa born February 4, 1 90 at Cookevi[...]y to He grew to young manhood there and in 1910 at the age school I ran out of gas and had to walk about two miles. of 19, he decided to leave the south and seek his fate and When I arrived at chool, the first cla I called, I backed up fortune in Mon tan a. against the chalkrail and broke the cry tal in my watch. Lan[...]. In the pring he migrated to the Wolf Point area and five months due to lack of funds.[...]he next winter herding sheep. In 1911 he filed on a And so the book of memory closes.[...] |
| [...]He loved the Indian people and trea ured his many[...]The Wolf Point area and the tate of Montana w r fortunate to have had a pioneer with the pirit and[...]A SON'S TRIBUTE[...]And at the tender age of twenty[...]built in 1911 Fired boilers in a railway hop, And after the break-up in the pring[...]He herded sheep and punched ome cow , And piloted a ferry boat And to his sweetheart in the outh, He wrote and wrote and wrote.[...]And finally his bride did take.[...]They were Bess and Bub and Pate.[...]They owned and managed the Terry Hotel[...]And managed the Wild Hor ho And from 32 to '46 First winter in Montana - Jim Terr[...]And umb cor In 1918 he married Maude L. tone and thr children Who I l hi were bo[...]ovey, Wolf Point, Jam W. Terry, Tue on , Arizona, and Peyton H. Terry of Gla gow, H ad[...]And Ii d h full . In 1924 he purchased the Terry Hotel in Wolf Point and H wa hi happi t operated it for 20 year . Following retirement h continu d Looking a a bull. to operate hi ext.en · e farming and ranching op ration in Roo evelt and M ne counti . all d rl Probably his gr a tcontribution to th · Altho I m[...]tamp de was on the ver ol debt, and its onl a et id Jim[...]t col rful m n itting on Indian land a o hat[...]land purchase fort i , And f migh pr ud grand tand , buil on n w d a That all D.[...]d RP and th P ndl ton Roundu[...]of Wolf Point . . T rp wa born to Emil and H I n mith · hamb rof omm r e, apa[...]p , Wi con in , on Jun 12, 1 4. H h d thr AF AM , and a m mb r of h of ri . and on broth r; L dia , Lula , Glad and H rm |
| Having a desire for adventure and seeing the world, he came to Montana where he wor[...]He went to Harlem about 1910 where he worked on a hor e and cattle ranch. Hearing about the reservation, he w[...]n 1916. Two of hi neighbors were John trachan r. and Hugo Johnson. rt ay good land sold for about $15 an acre and grazing of the river. Art remembers the days of the depression when land about 3 to 4. He operated a sheep ranch for lambs were sold for $2 a head and wool at seven cents a percentage of the lambs and wool with Fred and Bill Reed. pound. These were difficult times f[...]d, Art horse on Harry McCloud's ranch. He became a very good became night sergeant with the government police depart- rider. He and Edgar Headdress split first money in the m[...]Later on Terpe went into the service. While on a boat years. going to Europe the Armistice wa[...]hway back to Phillips, Wisconsin where he married a school came through Wolf Point. This inte[...]ent in Seattle. Three or four days Union; Howard, a bu ine s man in El Pa o, Texas; late[...]with all expenses paid, Gordon in the freighting and trucking bu ines in Conrad, and from there on to Anchorage, Mt. McKinley and Montana; and Kaye, married living in Arlington,[...]end oftheAlcan Highway for four Doug la , who wa a twin to Gordon and a medical doctor in years. He also worked about one and one half years in the Phoenix, Arizona, died a few year ago. Art ha nine Aleutian Isl[...]like to work with heavy dirt-moving equipment. A .C . Terpe moved to Wolf Point about 1925. For ab[...]h equipment wa very difficult to get at that a month, he worked night under Todd hamley as[...]Art managed to build up his business. Today he is a a i tant city police. About thi time he al o went i[...]with Al ppelgren on Al ranch just south A. ". Terpe' wife died in May 1974. Art, 2 years old is till workin active and live in Wolf Point. (Art Terpe[...]u ines relation . At the age of ten he worked for a rancher outh of Oswego for four years a a cowboy. He[...]rustlers, trespas ers, and bootleggers; and served as sub-[...] |
| [...]THE WARMBROD FAMILY AND WARMBROD[...]way by river boat, to his aunt and uncle, the Weingardts, at[...]became partners and life-long friends. For a time they had a dray business in the then booming mining town of[...]Dakota, and settled on a farm near Monarch. Due to the "Panic" and the fact that the mines were not doing so well[...]began gathering together a herd of cattle from the Belt Park and Riceville area, and acquired the Lazy D Hanging[...]Then they came down and bought out a "squatter's right"[...]at Wolf Point. The cattle were trailed down, and it took two[...]ficulties including storms, lack of water, and bad water.[...]children, John aged four and one half, Ernestine two and one half and Karl eleven months, to make their home on the[...]Great Northern and arrived at Macon in mid afternoon.[...]There wasn't a soul in sight to meet them nor any ign of Charles[...]Charles appeared with a team and wagon. He had come across the river in a row boat, and had walked aero th stitute judge for Indian court at one time. The Frye Co. flat a way to the home of Charlie Track an Indian, to e[...]rs. borrow the team and wagon to take hi family down to the In 1920 he raised 150 head of horses and 100 head of river where they cro dover in[...]munity Garden in Wolf Point for the extension for a period oftwelve years. He was diligent in any jo[...]r. Track joined the Canipa Presbyterian Church as a young man and served a an elder for fifty years. He attended convention in Pennsylvania, Montana orth and South Dakota and ebra ka in hi religious activiti . Charles fi[...]en first began. He was on the com.mi that urveyed and tablished the boundary of th r na• tion. The group attended convention on th ubj in Billings and Denver. Mr. Track conferred on behalf of his people with all of the officials. He ttled w tofWolf Point as a farmer where his children gr w up. Mr. Track h[...]T o on Roy with ivil rvice, Parker, Arizona; and Raymond olf Point. Edith oop r in Ph nix Arizo[...]ort P k Agency Jo n lampitt, wi£ in Frazer Haz ! And r on hou wife. H al o had two grandsons, Roy Tra Jr. and Raymond Track Jr. Them morie of tho whom h[...]h for o many. harli p nt pain taking hour du to a non- Engli h background, to accompli h hi mi ion for th Warmbrod and wi{i Grace w dding picture - trib .[...] |
| [...]My father , Ben Torrison, was a street car conductor in[...]Minneapolis when he got the yen to go west and homestead. He came out in 1912 and located on a place about 30 miles south of Wolf Point, and built a two room[...]car with our furniture, and bought a team and spring[...]wagon from Cogswell. My mother, my sister Beulah, and[...]had to change trains in Culbertson. We had quite a while to wait, we went for a walk and got to the school yard where my sister and I played while Mother sat down[...]on the school steps. She fell asleep and missed the train, so[...]house was made of sod and dug into the side hill. Dad John, Erna, and Carl Warmbrod experiment[...]a mixture that didn't crack when it dried, and he plastered[...]plaster and put blue building paper up for a ceiling. We were[...]very comfortable there. We got our mail and a few supplies had to walk a little way across the sage brush flat up to the[...]from Vida. At that time Vida was a sod shack owned by log hou e. Grace said it had been a real dry spring, and she A.C. Nefzgar and it served as post office and general store. would never forget the wide crack[...]My folks ordered groceries en ought to last a year at a time walked along. he said to top it all off, it[...]gue, so we didn't go when they got to the house, and there wasn't any bread, so[...]to Wolf Point more than once or twice a year. he had to make bi cuits. he aid it wa six[...]Point and Vida, so we caught a ride with him on a Monday. barrel on a" tone boat". The water in the river was muddy[...]He hauled with a team and wagon, so it was an all day trip. then as now, b[...]ads' place, any thing wa accidently dropped into a barrel it was lost and the next day he would go back. That was the year[...]flu was so bad, and the doctor was very busy, so we had to[...]n the Holderman Ferry, but during the week so he and the children moved into a log cabin in Old Town near og well' tore. There was a government doctor and cakes of ice had come down the river and caught the ferry an Indian woman, Mr . John Chase, took care of her. Sowhile it was tied up for the night and it sank. When Bob[...]came in on Friday, he had to cross in a row boat. He was E ther wa born in February, and it is thought she was the fir t white child to be[...]morning he wouldn t be able to get Ther wa n't a chool clo e to the ranch, but there was a chool outh of Wolf Point known a the Randall School.So wh n it came time_ for the children to start chool, they built a ~wo room . hack m the chool yard and Grace tayed there with the children. Th school wa a log building equipped with a water pail and dippe homemade benche and de k , a large heating tove a ate b ackboard, and one read rand on arithm tic book for each cla .[...]m to hip cattle, they would go in with the Bawden and drive the cattle down aero from Poplar where they would swim them aero the river. It was alway a chor to swim them aero , and al o the range wa ing tak n up by the horn t[...]chool yard was moved across the river on the ice and added onto the Knab hack and became the new Warmbrod home. It has been remodel[...]es, but it is till my home. In 1927 John Warmbrod and MyrtleTorrison were married and took over the ranch. John died in 195 , and now his sons John W. and Leland are farming the place. So it is in the hands of the Beulah and Myrtle Torrison by od shack. Myrtle t[...] |
| Mr. and Mrs. Ben Torrison, Myrtle and Beulah breaking up first field with walking plow - 1914. back across, so he got the mail and Mother and me. Archie JOHN AND MYRTLE WARMBROD |
| [...]Marie (Wilson) Balder of Wolf Point and Erma (Wilson)[...]great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. MR. AND MRS. MARK B. YULY |
| [...]901 taken at the UP Ranch. The Randalls, Hancocks and Gilberts.[...]ranch house in 1905 Mrs . Randall " an", Una and Margaret - 1918 Mr. and Mrs . Littlefield's homestead shack, many[...] |
| [...]Cogswell, J.B. Randall, Jake Muss, Doc Hancock, and H.J.[...]Harvesting at Jim Terry farm in 1928. It was a poor crop. Out at Wolf Creek - 1938 after a cloud bur t. Mr. and Mrs . Jo hua Wet it - "Chief Fir t to Fl "[...] |
| HOMESTEADING THE LUSTRE AND VOLT COM- MUNITIES Mennonites from Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska Kansas, Oklahoma and Saskatchewan. Canada ,;ere informed of the possi[...]teading land in the Fork Peck Indian Reservation, and in the fall of 1915 interested men located and claimed their land. In Aprii of 1916 many homesteaders had ~ove_d their machinery, cattle and household goods to their claims and began breaking sod for gardens and ~mall tract~ to_ pla~t feed for their horses and cows. Breakmg of the virgm s01l began in earnest in the summer of 1916 and continued for many years. Homestead shacks, barns and a few fences were put up during the spring and summer of 1916. Many of the settlers dug wells ranging in depth from 25 to 100 feet. In a pioneer ettlement, fuel for cooking ~nd heating is a very important item. In summer for cookmg, many used dry cow, buffalo and horse droppings. This would not_work for winter fuel, and it was learned that coal was available in the Cottonwood area if from four to ten or more feet of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Ackerman dirt was removed . The coa[...]the first three years were more or less the horse and buggy age with the exception of a north of Oswego and a good chance to get a job, so they came up here and got jobs in the Lustre Community few Model T Touring cars. The first trails were along the Wolf Creek and with horses, it was a two-day trip to and helping with the harvest. Dad liked this[...]or Oswego. and was able to rent a farm one halfmilewestofthepresent For a number of years, a post office, store and blacksmith Bob Henrichs' place near Volt. So we moved here with the shop were located at Lustre and Vo_lt. These ~wo country help of our relatives. There were a number of men that stores played a very important part m ~hese p10neer ye~rs helped trail the cattle and haul stuff with wagons and in supplying the families of this area with flour, grocenes, horses. Mother and six of u..., children came in an old Ford dry goods and hardware. After abo:ut t~n years, as roads[...]Fred Ballinger. It took us all day to were built and modes of transportat10n improved, farmers[...]by qswego started to pass by these country stores and were going to with a ferry which was quite an excitement to us children. Wolf Point and Frazer to do their buying of food and When we reached our farm about dark[...]cattle and wagons had just got there and were cooking their supplies.[...]ur belongings in the old house Wor hipping God and seekmg di vme g~~dance and strength was a practice of most all t~e families of thes_e which was in very bad shape and needed a lot of heat to pioneer , even while moving ou_t to th~ir home~tead. Until keep us warm. After a couple of days or so Dad along with the first tem[...]gh to accommodate ~he g~therings for and us kids to help take care of the livestock, and while Dad wor hip ervice, unday chool, children s[...]gone the weather turned cold. It started to snow and we got about a foot. Uncle Theo gathered up all the old convention and aengerfe t. In 1923, construction for wood and stuff he could find to keep the fires going so we[...]rs, The first school in the commumty wa m 1916 and was L.E. Blankenship, for a couple pails of coal but they filled a located in the up tairs room of the Lustre Post O[...]gunny sack full and put it on a small sled for him to take years following, one r[...]fill the need of the different parts of the Volt and Lustre home and that sure helped . After a few days the weather Community. Before the consolidation of schools was warmed up and Dad was able to fix up the house and get a begun, there were sixteen rural dist~ict schools.[...]epared for the winter. offer high school subjects and Bible, the Lu~t~e Bible Us kids went to Volt School and my dad and Mr. Academy was built and is u~ported by tuition and Blankenship took turns hauling us[...]The Blankenships had two girls, Opal and Thelma, that[...]In the fall of 1928 Dad and Uncle John chauer had GOTTLIEB ACK[...]rented some land just northwest of the Volt chool and we built a house and other buildings on it and moved over by Hntha Schultz[...]Dad and Uncle John bought a Case tractor and broke up Thf' (;ottlieh Ackerman Family came h[...]rity-five Then came the dirty thirties and we couldn't make it any miles southwest of Brockw[...]Washington State asked the crops where we Ii ved and it was seventy-five miles to Miles folks to move out there where the winters were mild and City where they could do their shopping. Brockway was a fruit and fish were plentyful. You could make money small town and not much to offer. So my Dad and Uncle cutting wood to sell. So in the fall of 1936 we had a sale and .John Schauer had heard that there was a good crop up sold the stuff we co uldn 't take and shipped our cattle and[...] |
| loaded up a 4-wh-ee ..·ail er and hooked it behind a Chandler car. We headed for Quilcene, Washington,[...]t in restaurants. I think we all enjoyed the trip and will always remember it as a great experience. ROSE BLANKENSHIP |
| husband, L. D. Bishop, had taken a homestead near In the spring of1910, Lyle hired out with team and spring Culbertson and Myrtie urged her parents to file on a wagon or buckboard to locate claims f[...]homesteaders. His boss had his buckboard and they would 1907 and filed on a homestead five miles from town and take up to ten men. They covered a lot of the area where over the "divide" as they called the hills. Dagmar and Medicine Lake are now. I read that Harry Lyle r[...]ook for land winter time, leaving before daylight and getting home after and I've wondered if he might have been one of Lyle's[...]o he didn't file. the eeriest sounds in the world and I imagine it was a That spring Guy and Allen decided to file on land and comfort to have his good horse under him. It may[...]t of mother exercised her widow's rights and filed in the same whistling, which in later years[...]ather, Peter H. Peterson, was the youngest son of a Two days after Christmas, 1909, Lyle's father, Isaac landowner and they were considered a little higher socially Clarke, died of a heart attack. Mr. Clarke was born in th[...]he oldest son, England, came to the United States and stayed with his in this case his brothe[...]children brother in Ohio for some time. He joined a group of people received their portions in money. wanting to file for gold on Pike's Peak and he walked all the Father had two sisters and a brother that had emigrated way from Ohio to Color[...]to America. So at seventeen he came over also. He and my War broke out and he enlisted in the Union Army. At one mo[...]ldren born to our time, he laid for three days on a Kansas prairie with a parents were Clarence, Byron, Percy, (died at age two,) broken leg. As a consequence he had to use a cane for the Signe, Blenda, Percy, Clara,[...]Ida Corning in Iowa. They had one daughter Myrtie and after only passing a teachers exam, and was given a permit five sons Henry, Howard, Guy, Allen and Lyle. to teach. After his father's death, Lyle had to quit school and find Byron had taken a homestead near Plentywood, Mon- work. He started[...]rsuaded the folks that there were more Plentywood and Redstone. That area was being settled by opportunities out west and so in the spring of 1912 Papa homesteaders and the railroad branch was not built until sold the farm. He and Percy loaded all their stock and several years later. All kinds of weather found him on the furniture into two box cars and traveled to Plentywood. road. He would sleep under the wagon in good weather and They rode in the cars to take care of the animals. Mother in winter he would go to a halfway house. In summer, the and the younger children left for Montana. Byron had built horses were hobbled and let graze. He was eighteen when a two room house on his place and they lived there. Papa he started to smoke a pipe. One time he lay back on the load filed on a homestead nearby and built a small house on it. and accidently swallowed the nicotine. He passed out and He stayed there the required length of time to prove up and when he came to he was shocked to see the team ha[...]s. The youngsters were brought him over six miles and was just entering Plen- lonely and kept writing Signe and me to come. tywood. He was a sick man, but he stopped smoking. He I decided to go to Plentywood and apply for a spring term said after that he wouldhavetohurryto[...]te different from Minnesota. at the halfway house and leave before the other drivers Homesteads were three hundred and twenty acres and so started smoking or he would be deathly sick.[...]ries stretched The roads were just wagon trails and in the winter they endlessly with no break[...]all contributed would build up deep ruts in snow and ice. If you met another to a feeling of loneliness. We were amused at Irvin who was team, it took skill and patience to get your team to the side five whe[...]first. He said "when you walk to the top of a hill, all you can load would get out of the trail[...]e home from leaders. Homesteaders learned to have a lot of respect for school (where I taught) and saw two people on horseback good ole horse sense.[...]talking to Mother. They were Mrs. Guy Clarke and her horses to get them safely home when blizzards[...]Lyle has told of trips where blizzards for a couple of strays but I've a suspicion Lyle wanted to would come up and he couldn't see the horses ahead of him. meet the Peterson girls. Guy and his mother had filed on The worst trip he ever made was to get a homesteader to homesteads joining Byron's on the east. There were many his claim with a load of lumber. The man would lose his bachelors in that new country and a single girl had many claim unless he met a deadline. The weather turned fiercely opportunities for dates. Lyle came over on various pretexts cold and hit -60 below zero when they started out. Several and around mid-summer he asked me to go to a dance. I freighters refused to go but between Bishop and the didn't want to go without Signe and Clara and he still homesteader, Lyle was persuaded to take the job. They teases about taking three of us a few times. His brother stayed over night at the Palmer ranch, about halfway, Allen was very quiet and rather shy of girls but he went twenty miles. They got to his claim the next day, with us and after a while he began to date Signe. unloaded, and went back to the Palmer ranch that night. That summer at home was a happy time. Signe and I Lyle ate something for supper that made him sick and he taught our school until Thanksgiving that fall of 1914; on had a terrific bout of diarrhea on the way home. I'll leave it Thanksgiving Day Signe and Allen, Lyle and I were to the reader's imagination and sympathy when you married in a double ceremony in Byron's house. Rev. Henry real[...]bout preparations! We five sisters had been shirt and pants and over these coveralls and coat. sleeping in a big tent in the yard and, when the day arrived,[...] |
| [...]went into action, taking the furniture out and finally he could get close enough to put his hands on of the folks' bedroom and putting it into the tent, putting the neck and get a hack-a-more on. He would pat and rub the organ in one comer and hanging white streamers and and talk and soon he would be leading it around in the bells across one end of the room and there we were married. corral. Some would -[...]ho I think our wedding dresses cost around $10 and the blue reared and came at him with teeth and hooves. He broke the dress I wore for the drive was $2.98. Slippers cost $1.98. We rope twice and Lyle went in and got a stronger rope but that wore wide brimmed velvet hats with beautiful Ostrich horse made a wild plunge and reared back and broke his plumes. Even the weather cooperated to[...]several Along in May, Lylah, our baby, and I had measles. We days. The boys had ordered our[...]ch now about measles in early pregnancy, I Dakota and we carried them in our pictures.[...]en terrified, as I was pregnant again. We Lyle and I started our married life near Dooley. That were very sick. Then we received a letter from Clarence and spring, the boys cleared rock, broke sod and planted flax. Mabel, my brother and his wife that they would be in Wolf We had frost[...]h hurt it but it did produce Point soon and hoped that she and their three youngsters some profit. Mother Clarke was with us quite a lot. She could stay with us while he went out and built their house made really excellent butter and I followed her method on his claim whi[...]faithfully the years we were on the farm. I used a dasher claim almost joined our place. They spent a month with us. chum and later a barrel churn. Pork was seven cents a Clarence decided to build the ham first as they planned to pound and I remember Father and Byron helped Lyle build a two story house later. They would live in the barn butcher a huge hog which we sold for that price. that summer. Lylah was born during a terrific blizzard on January 4, The need[...]ere. The third day after Lylah's knew how and I look back with admiration at her courage birth, I developed temperature with caked breasts and that in starting a new life on a Montana claim, especially as she was the most severe pain of all. Lyle and Mother Clarke was also expecting a fourth child in July. Clarence asked pulled me th[...]ime with applications of hot Mother to come and help them for a little while. On the cakes and they were right off the griddle. You'd better fourth of July, Lyle and I and Lylah went to a little believe it was hard to become a woman. celebration at t[...]about six miles away. Lyle decided to file on a claim on the Fort Peck When we got home Mother met us at the door and told us Reservation which was opened up to homest[...]he Mabel had started labor that morning and they had spring of 1916. I stayed with the folks while he built a shack decided she couldn't stand the unbearable heat in the and cleared some land for crop. Our claim was twenty-[...]orried face. We were all happy to welcome two sod and seeded it to flax. During this time I was having little girls, born that afternoon. They were fine and Mabel treatments for my mouth and finally baby and I joined him was able to dig up a smile. They named them Louella and and we all started over again in our new home. Lucille. Lylah became very sick during the fall and we For two years, we got all our supplies in W[...]were terrified. I looked in the doctor book and her symp- finally a store and post office were built at Volt, two and toms pointed to scarlet fever. Her kidneys d[...]as 16'x24'. Lyle built for thirty hours and we sent for the doctor. I cooked cupboards on the kitchen side of the partition and closet pumpkin seed and had her drink the tea so she was relieved with shelves on the bedroom side. I made curtains and and when the doctor came he was very complimentary. We fixed orange crates for extra space. What a sense of were quarantined and had to cancel my plans to go to accomplishment we[...]tart married life with every welcomed a second little one. We named her Mozella convenience are missing a great deal of satisfaction Esther. Modie, as she called herself later on and still does, derived from creating and establishing their homes from was a little more frail than Lylah and we had to watch her scratch, so to speak. However[...]ully. anyone have to scrub wooden floors on hands and knees, The winter after Modie was born, we moved into Wolf carry coal and ashes, or clean and fill kerosene lamps every Point and Lyle went to work on the Great Northern morning.[...]Railroad as a fireman. Those were the days of the steam We had a crop failure that year and Lyle did county road engines. The fireman sh[...]with the horses to tide us over. We had chickens and a every run and the hours were sometimes sixteen on duty. garden.[...]r three bachelors He would come home black from head to foot. I would lay would drop over to play horse shoes or talk and stay for his coveralls on the sidewalk and scrub them with hot dinner. They really appreciated my cooking and I guess I water and lye before I could wash them on the scrub board. was flattered a bit. In 1917 all the young men had to register and take their The next spring Lyle figured his est[...]deferred on account of our crop on the barn door and it came to 5,400. That fall, he farming and having a family. My brother, Percy Peterson, hauled one load of wheat to town and he changed the was called and was in training at a camp in Florida. He got decimal point. It came to[...]ed to the Smith ranch, the Spanish Influenza and almost died so didn't go a couple of miles from Wolf Point, for the winter and Lyle overseas with his regiment. He said at the height of the made a deal with the butcher to feed cattle and break epidemic they would see caskets piled three and four high broncos. I spent so much time at the kt[...]ation waiting to be shipped out. The watching him and those wild horses. It was scary e[...]oing to there were seven funerals in one day, and rarely a day kill this two-legged creature who menaced the[...]ne for several weeks.We had young friend Lyle had a snubbing post in the center of the corral. He who was sick just a few hours and died, leaving five little would rope a horse and sn uh him to the post. He would work ones. The doctors were exhausted and went days without a long time with some to get near them, talk[...] |
| [...]claim coyotes near the turkeys after hearing a noise. I started up and said Clarence and Mabel had lost Louella, one of the to get Pe[...]out on the porch just as Lyle came up the bought a little casket. The neighbors helped dig a little path. We never knew who was the most startled -Lyle or grave near the house and the day of the funeral it was -40 Percy to be met at his own door by a man in his long johns b,~low. This was a bitter experience for Mabel and Clarence, with a gun in his hands. along with being twenty-five miles from a doctor so they In retrospect, one would t[...]l's folks. but we were all in the same boat and learned to make There were no trees in our area. Around Wolf Point which light of our troubles. I had a quick temper and I would flare was along the river there were lot[...]up and Lyle was not the most patient man in the world. I[...]he left me angry, he knew I'd have something a little extra telling the bedtime story of Peter Rabbit and the big oak for dinner. He would come in at no[...]rees, Lylah startled me by asking, "Mommy what is a look around and grin and our tiff would be over. We had to tree?" The nex[...]town we drove to the river depend on each other and there was nothing to look and around town to make sure the girls knew what a tree forward to if we couldn't get along. I guess it was a good looked like. thing I couldn't call Mother and perhaps we set a pattern of On the 12th of May, 1920 we had our third little girl and never going to sleep angry. was named Vivian.[...]In 1922 I read about a wonderful invention that would Our well water[...]over the air. One had to use ear haul water from a spring about half a mile for washing. I phones to listen. I've of[...]fill the boiler from the barrels, heat the water and rub[...]te clothes, put yet! them through two rinses, and wring them by hand. Lyle On Robert's first birthday, a neighbor brought the mail. I bought a second hand washer with a wringer before Robert opened a letter from Allen, my sister's husband. Imagine[...]to read that my beloved sister had died with her and in the winter Lyle would work the washer back and little one and was already buried. This was a shattering forth.[...]There is no way to explain how I felt. I prayed and I had the different was that Daddy tried not to work in the field and most wonderful sense of peace. I have made so ma[...]d up. My neighbors criticized me for mistakes and forgotten to depend on God but whenever this but[...]doubt creeps in I am able to receive again and again that Wednesday and Saturday were bath days. Then the wash peace of mind and recall that wonderful ministry of love. tub was brought in and water heated. After we all bathed I For me, thi[...]with the water. We had a good crop in 1923. Lyle worked on the road. Ou[...]organized to meet the Percy was with me and he told me that I'd better write requirements for school. A schoolhouse was built beside the to Lyle at Libby. That we could start harvesting. That store and post office at Volt. The school board offered me afternoon a hail storm wiped out our entire crop. There was the school. I was pregnant again but a hard year with no not one stalk of wheat left. crops was behind us and we couldn't resist the $75 per After the[...]ell out. I had been month. I brushed up on books and sent for supplies. Lyle so concerned about Signe's three little ones. We had made helped me and I went into Wolf Point and took the teachers' up our minds to go to Portland and try to help Allen with exam again. Lylah, who was six in January, and I drove to the children and find work there. school until it got too cold. Lyle would take us and call for usLyle worked for the Port of Portland u[...]lt up his rights on the Great Northern in Montana and teaching during the summer months. To this day it[...]ose days one just never mentioned Lylah and Norman Odden were married in July of 1936. that you were in the family way. What a change in human They had one son, Clarke Cordell who is married and lives behavior over the last fifty years. In May, I came down with in Ogden, Utah. They had adopted a little girl, Lori Lynn influenza. On May 28, 1922[...]killed instantly in July family. He was premature and very frail and had jaundice. 1967. Lori was uninjured. She li[...]1922 Modie became very sick. We bundled Vivian and her husband, Paul Nalivka for some time after the children up and took her to Wolf Point in the grain this. tr[...]somehow managed to acquire. After Vivian and Paul live in Havre and have nine children of some time the doctor decide[...]years, David, Vee Ann , Modie was operated on in a private home on a common Gay, Renee, Lyle Allen, John Peter, Mary Esther and table. The nurse owned the house and took in patients. Sharon Ruth. Modie was there sixteen days and was very thin and pale Modie married Allen Madison in 1938.[...]sons, Harold, Leonard, and Jim. Modie and Allen were[...]pp The crops of 1922 followed our usual pattern and Lyle for three years. They were kept busy there in a two room was forced to work on road projects with[...]ut in school with Allen teaching the upper grades and Modie the the fall he went firing again on the Great Northern. He was lower. Allen coached basketball and they both had 4-H for on the extra board and if it looked as though he wouldn't be the youngsters after school. Modie planned and supervised called for a day or two, he would start walking home hoping th[...]es for the children. This was about 1940 to catch a ride. One night he walked all the twenty-five through 1943. miles and this was a never-to-be-forgotten homecoming. Rober[...]e Ball. They had two daughters, Percy was with us and slept upstairs. I had just seen some Barbara Lynn and Chery Lee.[...] |
| [...]married Ellen Applegren. They had one son, Gale, and a daughter Carol Stolen. They lived near Wolf Point[...]the oldest member of my family now living. Clara and husband[...]Mrs. George Funk Married in 1889, George Funk and Sarah Bartel both |
| [...]Lewis, Washington. A short period, about four days. We[...]didn't get a very big crop. The next two years we seeded[...]eaking of wheat, the wild horses found our fields and enjoyed eating and tromping them. The fencing hadn't[...]a big sheet of tin and our dog. When the horses came the dog[...]would bark, then I took the sheet of tin and waved it, it made a lot of noise so scared the horses away. We did th[...]until the dog got kicked and was almost scalped. We had a neighbor that was raising chickens. They set[...]feed. When these chickens became large enough I and Slim[...]over at night and took a couple at a time, until one night[...]On another occasion this neighbor came over and asked if his sister could go in our pasture and pick up the bull[...]chips (we used to call them buffalo or cow chips and used[...]My brother built his shack the next year. He had a well witcher come and witch for him. This man used a willow stick. Alfred had the driller drill a well and got water at Ed Hanson back from World War I[...]In early years Alfred and I did quite a bit of plowing and firesite. The wind and rain washed away some of the soil[...]ill ashes. They also found agate arrowheads here. A ten racks very easily when we threshed wheat. bit to the southwest was a buffalo wallow. The dirt in this The last th[...]my Minneapolis gas low spot was quite waterproof and held water most of the tractor. The steam engine[...]o get around with summer. This buffalo wallow was a place where the buffalo in the field and not enough help to make it pay. came to drink and stand in the water as long as there was The[...]into this low place from the snow machine. It was a kind of binder without the tieing but and rain. elevated the grain to a rack that followed along with the I built my farm yard on the south and east of the hill. I cutter . When the rack was full it was unloaded onto a stack also dug the well here which was quite deep[...]back to Minnesota. I got the machinery, two cows, a bull, EDWARD AND ANNA HANSON and one horse, the rest of the horses were bought as[...], I was asked to come help cook for threshers for a car of the Great N orthem as Jim Hill was offering a specia] distant n eighbor. My friend, Mrs. Hutchi[...]into the dining room and what did I see but a handsome In the car were all of my things and machinery for Slim young man with a broken knee. His leg was propped on a J uverude, a team of horses for Slim, etc. chair so he couldn't run. Here was my cha nce, I took it, a n d Juverude was a stowaway until the inspector found him Mr. Edward[...]children and t wo great grandchildren. When we got to Wolf Point, we went to a hotel to sleep but Ed and I were married on November 13, 1927 in the found[...]y the Rev. 0 . Johnson . We moved on to coat down and slept on the floor. I had laid out my pants the E d. Han son homestead and I taught the Volt school along side me. During th[...]had stepped to else was experiencing, good years a nd bad ones. Then get at my pockets.[...]came what some call the ''dirty thirties" and dirty they[...] |
| [...]Chapman from Hawaii. They live in Dillon and have three children. Vern Allen and Julia live in Irvine, California and have four children. Dorence Emery married Shirley[...]Hermansen, they have five children and live in Kalispell.[...]children and live in Columbia Falls, Montana. Harvey[...]an married Judith Thomas. They have four children and[...]Gloria Lineberry and they have one child. They live in[...]by Eva, John and Sarah[...]lf Point, Montana - Roosevelt County in Ed Hanson and Anna Heinrichs were married on 1917 from Henderson, Nebraska. We spent a few days in November 13, 1927 at the Wolf Point L[...]SE½. We lived with my the church to the hotel in a blinding snow storm. fathers brother and family, theJacobHeinrichs. One thing[...]measles and beds were scarce so we had beds on the floor.[...]ry as all prairie, but covered with crops, grass and gardens, and the dirt blew into piles and grass which was about three feet high. It was[...]to keep the fields down, Mr. common to see a coyote, badger, or fox and occasionally a Hanson would go over the fields and plow lister ditches one wolf, and gophers were all over. way and then the next day would go across them. This[...]The Lord saw to our potatoes. All they had was a plow and a horse. The sod had welfare then. Later we had a year of abundance to make up never been broken, so they plowed the furrow open and for the slack.[...]the poor plants One summer in the 30's, we had a field that got just the ever grew I don't know[...]warm towards evening The prairie fires a person never forgets. I remember one when a heavy cloud came up and there was a lot of fury in particular one. The Goosen family and our family saw the it. It upset our original home[...]he pump fire coming so we took grain sacks and soaked them in and moved the ham some feet from its position. Then came water and when the fire got to our land we formed a brigade the hail, and nothing was left of the fields - not even the and just kept slapping at the fire. Fortunately the grass straw. What a great disappointment! No one was hurt and was not very high. We finally got it under[...]One night the Northern Lights were such a spectacular Some years we were plagued by grasshoppers and army sight, they were so bright we could[...]erything green. The worms came from the southeast and parents were not home and we v:ere quite young and went northwest, and nothing was an obstacle. They just scared[...]er we knew what it was looked like it was painted a pale green color. we learned to e[...]many people lost their farms, others needed work and food for their families. Several went to work at[...]gh hors often just took some of their possessions and moved either back to where they came from or out farther west. My father's brothers, Peter, John and Abe, were some of the people who went we t. As[...]rth of Havre in the Little Rockies, Frazer Nashua and Wolf Point. The last years were spent teachi~g Sp[...]ers in 1966. We had moved into Wolf Point in 1960 and were driving back and forth to the farm, but this got to be too much for Mr. Hanson. A.J. Heinrichs family[...] |
| [...]Sarah and Helen Heinrichs. Then the C.H. Hiebert family, Our father was a professional photographer, besides John Heinrichs, Aunt Agatha with two of their children. being a farmer and a shoe repairman. He and Uncle Jake Between Uncle John and Mr. Hiebert are myself Eva, did a lot of veterinarian work. Dad used to tan the hides of Maria, John Heinrichs, Pete and Bob Heinrichs. the animals that were butchered and they were used for blankets on the beds or during[...]my father took were done on the old glass plates and some negatives dated 1918. We all attended grade school at Liberty School then chicken noodle soup and egg custard. If someone died, she located two and one-half miles north of us. It was moved a was there to help prepare the body for burial. I recall when mile and a half west in the late 20's. Sarah, being the baby[...]the swift stream she was trying to of the family and having been born with hips dislocated, cross on h[...]h was full of debris from where her body provided a small two wheeled cart to which we hitched our had been caught in a fence across the creek. That poor ever faithful d[...]r's heart was almost broken. way. Dad got him as a pup and he and ara grew up to- We went to the Volt Bas[...]the first airplane that flew over. It was so car a model T with no top, I remember they nicknamed us[...]pt our eyes glued to it till the little prettiest and most inexpensive hats to be sure, that could be s[...]late on Saturday night washing or away. There was a very fine lady by the name of Mrs. mending our "Sunday" dress which was clean and fresh Baker at Lustre that was a nur e and many times she then for the entire week thereafter. She used to get a barrel would come to our re cue. Mother wa a wonderful person of old clothes sent to her which she would rip apart and to comfort the ick al o. Her "remedy" was a kettle of make into "new" dresses for us four gir[...]to have one parting remark, that was almost like a[...]good"! o long lecture just a prayer and good example to[...]Oregon. Sarah married Wayne Reynolds in 1963 and are[...]t. To be sure we all have personal regrets but as a[...]are too frugal, but one that has lived on a homestead and weathered a depression, can't help but be frugal - it's a John A. Heinrichs - 1926 tractor way of life and we love it![...] |
| [...]I Frank Redekopp and Fred Myer threshing at the J.J. JOHN AND AGATHA HEINRICHS Mr. and Mrs. John Heinrichs moved to Montana in |
| [...]Father and his neighbors Allan Sheperdson, Clarence[...]Sheperdson, Frank Gollusha, Vern Walters and Charles[...]chickens and barely enough things to begin housekeeping.[...]1916, it was raining and snowing. The men had to find[...]Nebraska and was now in the lumber business.[...]..... Locators by the name of Miller and John Harms took the[...]only a small shack so the men spread some robes on the A[...]of stack - 1916 floor and laid down side-by-side. They were so close[...]he would count 1-2-3 hup, and everyone would tum over[...]After all was said and done, my father's homestead was[...]s place. It was about 10x12, In the evening of a winter day in 1915, when the owner of two windows and one door, with a round roof and covered our rented land told my father, Jacob Heinrichs, he had with tar paper. Inside was a small square stove with the made so many improvem[...]ld pay oven fastened into the chimney, and separate from the fire more rent, my parents decided it was time to look for a home pot. The oven was double sheeted so the hea[...]ate the rumors that the inner oven. The table and bed was made of 2x4's nailed Father had heard abo[...]stored under them. Behind the door was a large packing To find out first hand, Father took a trip to Montana. He box to hold the fuel for coo[...]ried cow visited with people in the Judith Basin and Chinook area. chips and in winter it was lignite coal. An interesting thi[...]was built first as many times eggs were the train a woman lost her purse and accused him of being a the main fare of the day. Our neighbor called th[...]hed the milk. The store conductor took father off and searched him and his was only a two day's drive round trip with our "mule- luggag[...]t didn't last He returned home after his visit and told mother he liked too long on these travois t[...]After the chicken barn, the barn was next and then the The Fort Peck Indian Reservation was[...]happened added. This ca used some difficulty, if a man had neighbors it snowed and rained so much that it took the men many all arou[...]days to get some lumber out so they could build. a way to find another 160 acres. The land north of the In those days we had only the mules and wagons to do the Missouri was opened for $3 to $6 per acre, some of the land work and it took two, sometimes three days for a round trip south of the river was open for squatters rights. to town. On these trips there was a water hole, about half All of our neighbors wanted to know about Montana and if Father planned to go they asked that he not go[...]as they had decided to try Montana too. We had a sale very early in the spring, the only things no[...]would be needed on the homestead. After the sale a big farewell was held at the church, and at Grandfather Heinrichs' home near Hender- son,[...]od-hoppers come from). Soon after this, father and his neighbors were on their way. The rest of us including Mother, my brothers Robert and Peter and myself stayed at Mother's sister, Mrs. Pete Brown's place and with other relatives. It was said that Jim Hill built the Great Northern across the country and now needed someone to use it. The Rail Company offered a special rate to any one who wanted to Robert Hein[...]Heinrichs, Frank Redekopp, and Fred Meres. '[...] |
| [...]moving in and many of them stopped at our house, the door[...]was always open it never saw a lock and key.[...]and waved it, then hung it on a corner of the shack. It didn't[...]take very long and some cars with home seekers and[...]ocators drove into the yard. They were all hungry and tired[...]coffee and everyone was fed. The barn and tent served as a[...]and pounding so they soon had the rough boards on to[...]We had some good crops of wheat, flax, oats and enough[...]om to keep some pigs. Most of the flax was seeded and[...]Some plowing and seeding was done with the mules, later a tractor was hired. The crop the second season was[...]short and shelled easily so had to put a special rig on the[...]lt Store community started a Sunday school at the Liberty School.[...]aul way to Wolf Point, where the men could water and feed Lutheran Church. The Ladies Aid wa[...]offee Brothers Circus, Fourth of July parade and soldiers to go with their lunches. The Olson's p[...]man Hotel. Grandfather Heinrichs, Cousins Sara and Henry Brown, The first rodeo was held about where the stampede joined Mother, Robert, Peter and me on our way to board grounds are. The[...]. The white one Mr. the train with our suitcases and well-stocked lunch basket. Mitchell rode buck[...]f from the tracks the crowd. No one was hurt. A horse that was in the race up to the depot, then[...]s very worried that one of us should maybe linger and get lost in the crowds, but everything went well.[...]at we were just passing into Montana. I got quite a shock when instead of seeing a buffalo I saw a very large sign with a big bull standing there flicking his tail in the[...]Freddie Williams home. It was raining! We stayed a few days which seemed to be exceptionally long as[...]ut there in the double seated top buggy with Maud and Gin at the Traces. There were eight of us in it and some luggage. All this distance we didn't see but[...]its, no animals of any kind just sun, sky, grass, and a very wet, soggy trail. When ~e got to our homestead, we were all very tired and I suppose, somewhat disappointed. There was still nothing to see but hills, sky, and sun. We had come from a land of rivers, trees and many neighbors.[...] |
| [...]onal track. He We came there Monday morning and stayed the week until took off toward the brush and river, finally throwing his Friday. This we[...]g rider. The rider had the misfortune of breaking a leg The following year the children from o[...]ree miles away. The little The rodeo was quite a celebration . I remem ber, I was Dier School was moved to a lot near the Volt store and post invited to go along with Sheperdson s and sta y at my girl office. School was held there until 1929 when a larger Volt friend Gracy Williams house. We put on white dresses and school was built just across the road. ha[...]rls were done on wet rags the day We h ad a gala school affair, called the " Field Day". before and taken out of the rags j ust before we wen t to the All of the country schools took part, prizes were given and rodeo.[...]. special school singing, plays, speeches and art work of Believe it or not, they had a hippopotamus in a large tan k- many kinds. The kite flying, base[...]Wolf Point beginning the men were simply drafted and a notice was Band. The band was of much interest to the folks. Some sent to them . Later a questionnaire was sent out to the men good music was played for us. of a certain age. My uncle Abe Heinrichs had filled hi[...]ingstone was quite concerned in getting the farm and my father was just filling his out when Armistice[...]finish up fall work and help with spring work, usually for During the[...]r interesting thing was the young people had the and we used com meal and oatmeal substitutes. Sugar opportunit[...]as Mother explained to us others didn't even have a was Miss Belle Donahue from Minneapolis. T[...]ng actual teaching experience. Sunday schools and church services were soon establish- I rem[...]rst being held in homes. Not too many years later a experience. The year 1927 was quite important to me as I church basement was dug and cemented. A chancel and graduated from high school. In November, 1927 I married benches were made and the church was dedicated. A mile Edward T. Hanson. (See Alfred and Ed T. Hanson stor y north of the church was a store, the Volt Post Office had and Edward and Anna Hanson stories.) been instituted, and about every 320 or 640 acres had a home. Our home was a home for many occasions, even a PETER GEORGE HEINRICHS wedding. The happy couple was Jacob Quiring and Helen Ediger. Many friends came to our home and we had many by Marie Bueckert Heinrichs happy times. A band was organized at our home. It consisted of m[...]nts Herman Ortman on comet, Eva Heinrichs, comet and Mr. were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob J. Heinrichs. Abe Edigar and August Schultes on saxaphone. Mr. Edigar Father came somewhat earlier to build a house, but it was also the director and I played the alto horn . This was didn't work out that way, so we stayed in Wolf Point for a the first band in the community.[...]her came with what was known as an immigra nt A new baby was on the way so my parents moved to Wo[...]some cows, chickens, machinery Point to be near a doctor. Of course this was the first I and household goods with which to start farming. I wa[...]ith town school. just a small boy at the time so don't really remember to[...]much of the trip except we stayed in a hotel in Omah a and In 1917 my father went to the school board and notified our room faced a street car intersection and the flash from them that a school was the business he was interested in.[...]f the time, so my older sister couldn 't give him a school because the funds had not been Anna, myself, a cousin that came with us, and my younger voted for it. Funds or nor funds Fathe[...]Anyway, we they were to consider the producing of a school. An kids enjoyed ourselves for a time but I got car sick after a agreement was reached.[...]h sort of had to look Mr. Frank Dier furnished a piece of land and father after us. One night something we[...]he building he chose was built which stopped and the lights went out. My cousin yelled for m y brother to live in temporarily until he found a place. out, "Hang onto your pocket books," thinking we were This building was about 14' x 16' with a lean-to shed built stopped by train bandits. on the end. It housed a stove and four windows. The shed We arrived in Wo[...]ay we left Wolf Point for the homestead I had put a get water for the school. The books, if I remembe[...]ry J . Fleming. This was the Dier school. and took it. I still resent that! The third winter[...]ard. known as Rosey's shack between Wolf Point and our place. This was the Progressive School[...] |
| [...]churned a big batch of butter. She set the buttermilk out,[...]which the hounds promptly devoured, which wasn't a very[...]good idea, so we started out, we in the buggy and the others[...]in the wagon, etc, sure enough, we saw a fox and the chase[...]they had to stop and unload every so often. Someone had brought a big rifle along, it was handed to Father who[...]When I was about fourteen, I was plowing with a disc plow powered by four horses and four mules. It was a rather[...]end of the field and letting the plow in the ground, next I[...]and found most ofmy team was flat on the ground. Lett[...]out a holler I lit out for home, but I thought, what wi[...]Dad so I went back and by then three of the animals were[...]back on their feet, three of the horses were dead and one[...]remained deaf for life. Lightning is quick and powerful. I[...]thought it was dinner time and they would go home, plow and all whether I wanted them to or not. When tractor[...]farming, then too when Ford and Chevy put four speed transmissions and four wheel brakes on their trucks that Jake Rauch and Pete Heinrichs[...]D and the other tractors had enclosed drive gears farmi[...]really changed. Father bought a Mickols and Shephard I recall three really bad prairie fire[...]or asked me, well if our place. Father had plowed a fire guard around the you don't have a big straw stack what will you feed your buildings[...]ace would burn, so we took blankets, coats, water and some food and went to a field that had been I have two younger brother, Jacob R. of Wolf Point and plowed and stayed there most of the day. The next one came Abe of Ulysess, Kansas. Also a younger sister, Eva from the southeast and went north, staying only about one Peabody[...]ng to school, some caused by our was frightening. A steam tractor started the third one. I felt mul[...]end up walking after they had wrecked barrels on a spring buggy and filled them with water. part of the bu[...]ey could soak My parents Mr. Jacob J . and Mr . Leva Heinrich were their sacks which they were fighting the fire with. I had a charter members of the Volt Mennonite Brethren Church two mule power outfit and they seemed to enjoy the which late[...]the fire - well, her home Marie Bueckert and I were married in Hepburn , was in the direct lin[...]ravel was by wagon , buggy, Gene and wife, June live in California. They have two horseback and stone boat, which was a somewhat strongly daughters and one son. Gene is a medical doctor. They are built sled pulled by two[...]in church work, June, especially with My sister and I often rode mule back, sometimes we were[...]ve two did have one mule that was like sitting on a rocking chair, daughter . They are missionaries and are in charge of the but, alas, she most usually[...]did school in Guatemala City , Guatemala C. A. in South so we went where she wanted, home![...]e cows sometimes strayed Lawrence and wife Beatrice live in Denver. They act as away, then father would have to leave his plowing and foster parents, and have two boys and one girl. hunt for cows.[...]Judi live in Los Angeles. She works in a photo studio, I had a little wagon and so my sister and I would have to and sings with the David Lloyd Singers. haul in the e[...]hat Mother wanted only The Volt Store and post office were important to u the flattest and dirtiest kind. What a frustrating job for a because we could do a lot of our shopping without having to six and one half year old boy who had much more[...]24 miles or more with hor es to get food supplies and interesting things to do. mail, which came out three times a week. Mrs. J .J . Baker[...] |
| did a lot of the doctoring here otherwise we had to go[...]obson, Hoon back, Uncle Abe Heinrichs, Ab~ Wiens, A . C. Ediger and Frank Ediger. Many of them now have passed away o[...]ly - 1922. Avis, Frances, Earl, Russel, 1882 and moved to the United States in December 1905. He Lloyd and Zane. worked from 1905 to 1910 in and about Fairview Oklahoma. In 1910 he homesteaded 140 acres near Fair~ view. In 1917 he sold out and moved to Roosevelt County the shack to se[...]but Russell was born in the one room shack. once a country store operated by August Schroeder and a They had boards nailed to the two-by-fours and we climbed basement Mennonite church and a school at Volt. up these to bunk[...]927 he married Mary Berg of Fresno ~ail a3:1d bought our groceries at the Volt Country Stor[...]' five miles from our home. Ben Thompson a cousin of I believe Henry Jantz carried mail from Wolf Point to Mothers, lives a half mile east of us. The ho'mestead was Volt with horse and sled in those early years, between 1917 south east of Section 14, Township 31, North, Range 46 and on. East. We lived in the area between Volt and Lustre from 191 7 to We had two and a half miles to the Liberty School.[...]In the year 1919 - our parents built a larger two-story 1951. I remember names like ''Wings" place and "Dyers" place house and started moving it north on skids by horses. They one half mile south.1939 to 1942 we moved to a place on the didn't get it moved all the way[...]ast comer of the intersection of Lustre-Volt road and of snow. Lloyd was born in October 1920 and Zane in[...]velt-Valley county line. My father did not have a car in those early years and we help of midwives. This land had more grazing for cattle and traveled to church and school via horse, wagon or sled. was the[...]Funks, Abe Unger, Reuben Berg: June 1924 and passed away in May 1972. Our Dad mined Hustad, Redekopp and others. We traveled to Wolf Point coal and sold it to the neigh hors besides farming and for hospital care and to see Dr. Knapp. We were a part of raising cattle. The older children had to drive the horses on the Mennonite Community and entertainment was the scraper. Nadine was born in May 1926 and Robert at austere.[...]sister Anna Marie The Henry Ferdinas lived a half mile south of us. Jantz was born in Wolf Point Hospital April 11 1934. She We had an old piano and Mother could play most now lives in San Jose.[...]ntz died in 1952 at Reedley Califor- house and for country dances. Dad played the mouth nia. My[...]at Reedley. ' organ. Mother and Dad started the first Ladies Aid and[...]eryone went. We had parochial school every summer and[...]the student minister stayed at the parents' homes and NELS LU D[...]was seventy-six dollars. He received ten dollars a month the first year and fifteen a month the second year - and the four months of winter, he worked for his board and room. Nels married Annette Hillestad October 11 1911 and they farmed in South Dakota. All the provision's - cattle horses were put in one railroad car. That fall a prairie fir~ burned all the grass and haystacks. Our neighbors on the s~uth, Louis Olsons had a horse burn in their ham. That Mr. and Mrs. Nels Lund, Avis, Frances Earl, Ben wm[...] |
| Mother and Dad moved to town in 1946 and he worked in Six other children were born at home all with the help of a the lumber yard part of the time. In 1951 he became Justice midwife and the last two were born in the Wolf Point of the Peace and held the job for about ten years. ·H[...]Mr. Olson married again in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and has lived passed away on December 2, 19[...]married to Alice Gidley, has three daughters and was an Frances Lund Rathert, housekeeper, Wolf Po[...]elen, Mrs. Forrest Jones of St. Marie, Idaho Earl A. Lund, mechanic, Rose Crans, California; N. Russe[...]Lund, carpenter, Port Orchard, Washington; Lloyd A. children; A. Donald, navy veteran, died in J aauary of1946; L[...]Fladland, Macof, living in Glasgow and one son; Jane Olson Hays, housewife, deceased May[...]und Long, husband William died in a car accident in 1972, lives in housewife, Wolf Point, Montana; and Robert L. Lund, Billings with her thr[...]District Three. They attended church and Sunday school at[...]rshing School for many years. MATHIAS AND HILDA OLSON[...]in Lena Hilda and Mathias Olson - 1940 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rauch - 1925[...] |
| Wood, Del Trimble. The Henry Ferdina's lived east of us and so did the Nels Lunds. The Cristesons were out th[...]rls. The Martin Rauch family consisted of Jacob and Herbert Rauch. We attended school at Liberty School. It was built on the present location. Herb and I are still living in the area. It is still a good place to live. ABE[...]ow, |
| In 1919 the F~rm ureau met once a month at the Pioneer paper was on the barbed wire fence- a real thriller for five School House. and eight year olds. On January 20, 1920, Mr. and Mrs. J .S. Schmidt had a Lydia and George J. Funk, married in 1930, have three wedding for their daughter Eva and Emil W. Graber of children. Ruth Schultes married Nelson Heidner and lives Munich, North Dakota. They were married by Rev. P .P. on a farm eleven miles north east of Wolf Point. They[...]raised six children. Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Graber along with Edmond Sch[...]Denver, Colorado now. Graber's sister Mrs. Katie and Adina Bartels from Alsen, Dad Schultes died on May 20, 1959 and Mother Schultes were gue3ts for a wedding dinner. pas[...]nts moved to North Dakota, brothers John, Rudolph and sister Bena stayed on the farm in the Volt area. Crops were poor and people started to move RUDOLPH SCHULTZ away, churches divided and others were built. The Bethel Church in the Volt[...]ltz arrived April 1, 1917 in Wolf Point, farming, and the rest of us started to come back to Wolf[...]th Dakota. He came there in the Point one by one. And we thank God through Him all summer of 1914 along with his father and other friends and things were possible. relatives from Russia to make money and establish a home[...]broke out and they never were able to come. He worked for JACOB AND PAULINA SCHULTES wages in the summer, board and room in the winter.[...]ntana, lots of people going, he decided to go too and stake a claim. He got in with Herman Orman who was Jaco[...]889 in Russia. His wife, shipping machinery and livestock by immigrant car to Paulina Hirsch Schultes also came from Russia, being born Wolf Point and got a ride in that car. there in 1893. They came to the[...]got to Wolf Point he had to wait three weeks one and nine. They came to Anamoose, North Dakota. before he could file on a homestead because he was not old Later moving and homesteading on Section 3, Township enough. He got a job working on the Railroad and when old 30, Range 46 in this area. They had thre[...]ship 30, Range 46, born in 1912, Ruth, born 1915, and Edmond in 1919. between Volt and Lustre. He continued to work on the One of the[...]ing when railroad to get enough money to build a shack, but in July, we came out of Wolf Point in alum her wagon - we moved into a Mr. Selmer Lee's one room house for about three weeks. He was a blacksmith and slept in his shop. Mother cooked for us and he ate with us until we had a small room built and later added two more small ones. I also remember[...]heir way to town or back to the North Cotton wood and on. A two day trip by wagon to haul supplies. Many a night there were a number of men sleeping on the floors. A new family, the Frank Dier's camped in the yard for a number of days until they had a well and a home ·tarted. One night a thunderstorm took down their tent, everyon was soaked and the rest of the night was spent in the hou with u[...]ity picnics, school functions, plays, field meets and on top of the list Sunday school, church and aid meetings and quilting bees, which I still enjoy. The folks had the Volt po t office for quite a number of years, also a country store for awhile. Later we got our mail b[...]n the homestead filing for the land. Dad had been a grocer in North Dakota and he wanted to get out of the business. My sister Ruth and I watch d fascinated as the chills raced up and down our spine . We knew we saw a white mule jumping up and down in the church cemetery which was very close to our home, it was nearly dark and the next morning we were told in no uncertain terms b Mom to go investigate. Lo and b hold , a large piece of white wrapping[...] |
| [...]Ben Thompson and wife, Donald Pattie and Karen[...]Ben came to Wolf Point in an immigrant car leave, and didn't get back until the spring of 1919 from with his Ii vestock and necessary machinery and household France. He then managed to get some lumber out and build goods in spring of 1916. He built a small shack on Section a shack which was close to August Hocks and Herman 13, Township 31, Range 46 and he exchanged work with his Ortman. He then went b[...]the railroad until he close neighbors to get a well dug. The first year he put up got more money[...]ate in the fall of 1916 he went back to his home. A and later working for board and room until spring. Later very bad prairie fire swept across the country and his years he rented the Henry H. Dirks farm which[...]Neighbors plowed fire guards to save land. After a number of good crops he was able to buy the their dwellings. His cousin, Clara Hillestad, had a farm due to Mr. Dirks failing health, he couldn't[...]tead which joined Ben's on the south. Nels Lund's and forth from Avon, South Dakota to farm. We still have lived across the road west. Clara, Mrs. Lund and Ben were this farm. first cousins. Richard Jacobson was a good friend of Ben's. In March 17, 1937 he marr[...]south on Section 26, Township 31, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Ackerman forme; Ran~e[...]ommunity, but now of Quilcene, 46, hved a mile north. Alfred Johnson's land joined Ben's Wa[...]urtiss of Fort Benton Montana· B~n was a member of a baseball team that played Lyla Moore of Great Fal[...]ea. Bill Johnson Great Falls; LeRoy lives at home and does the farming. and Henry Ferdina were also members of this team. T[...]ed for Steve Nason at the lumber yard in Wolf was a mile and a half north ofour place. There were the Abe Po[...]les south UJ?,ger, Her~an Ort1;11an, Anton Hustad and Reuben Berg with only trails for roads. H[...]rs in children gomg to this school. We always had a hard time South Dakota. getting teachers[...]951 we moved to imms, Montana where we had bought a farm. Come pring we decided we did not want to ge[...]rrigation which wa done on this farm so we bought a house in Wolf Point and moved back. ' The children all finished school there. We still farm our place. A big excitement in the neighborhood was in the spr[...]ng for oil on our farm , but all turned out to be a non producer and was closed down . BERNARD THOMP[...]parents at an early age. There were nine children |
| The LutheraP Church sent a pastor from Wolf Point to hold services at the sc[...]In 1928 Cliff Saubak's father helped Ben build a house. This was a great improvement on the homestead shack. His brother, Martin, brought his wife up here on their honeymoon and spent the winter of 31 and 32 with Ben. During the dirty 30's he sold all hi[...]d. It was rough going with drought, grasshoppers, and no money. In 1941 Ben was married to Lulu Akre Pa[...]Both children attended high school in Wolf Point and College at Concordia in Moorehead, Minnesota. Don[...]te in Biology at Missoula. Karen majored in Music and taught four years in Glasgow, two in Hawthorne, Nevada and one in Frazer. Donald married Mary Price of Fargo in 1956 and was called into the service within a few days so they settled at Tacoma, Washington .[...]Schools. Don was at Pacific Lutheran College for a few years. They have been in Canada now for six years. Both are teaching there, Mary in Camrose and Donald a t N . A .I . T . in Edmonton. They have a son and a daughter in high school. Karen was married in 1[...]from 2:00 P.M. a severe stroke. He spent 58 years on h is homestea[...]M. Thompson 50th Wedding Anniversary, Mr. and Mr . A.F. Toavs,[...]December 13, 1953. THE A. F. TOAVS FAMILY The truth of the old proverb, "It takes a Mother's love and |
| [...]the new settlement. Visiting pastors always found a welcome bed in the much too small house, while li[...]Grandma and Grandpa Dyck Naturally sickness could not always be avoided. The necessity for sending a helpful neighbor fifteen miles by team for the ne[...]Ulen, Minnesota; Is it worthwhile to establish a Christian home? Is it Jesse Alson, July 25, 1916, Ulen, Minnesota, he was a baby profitable to train our children in God-fear[...]ey homesteaded fifteen miles north of Wolf Point; and Mom Toa vs say, "It is indeed." Dad was a man who Elsie Anetta, August 19, 1918, fifteen miles north of Wolf lent a great deal of leadership in a variety of civic, public Point; Daniel Anthony, January 24, 1921, fifteen miles and Christian enterprises. Numbered among these were[...]th of Wolf Point; Lilly Amanda, February 17, 1923 and his service on the school board for nine years, e[...]of Wolf Point; and Harry Arthur, November 12, 1930, Dad homesteaded in the SE Quarter Section 11 and the fifteen miles north of Wolf Point.[...]Township 29, Range 46 on March Abraham A. Toavs died December 30, 1964; William 1916 in Ro[...](Bill) Frederick Toavs died in 1969; and Grace Adeline Albert Lee homesteaded December 1[...]Those who live in Roosevelt County are: A . A . Toa vs was 0 . W . Olson homesteaded December[...]December 30, 1964.Mrs.A.A. Toavsislivingin Wolf Point. Charlie Maltby the[...]a Koslowski from the Date of Birth and Place Lustre area, are l[...]Frank Toavs, who married Selma Thomas from A .F . Toavs was born in Mt. Lake, Minnesota Septem[...]n December Rensvold, is living eighteen and a half miles north of Wolf 13, 1903 at Ulen, Minnesota. Point, Montana. A .F . Toavs died May 7, 1961 at Wolf Point, Montan[...]n June 22, 1934 Maria Toavs married Herbert Dyck. and Wolf Point High School.[...]Children born to this union were: Abraham A., August 2, 1912. He came to the United S[...]une 12, 1911, Ulen, 100 head of horses and cattle. It took eleven days. Uncle[...] |
| First car - used a five cell flashlight for lights. John Martens w[...]d ball games. We had an early Farm Bureau |
| [...]School activities, like programs and field meets were[...]as built in 1916-1917. In the beginning there was a pot belly stove to burn wood and coal. Sometimes it was very[...]hard to keep warm in winter and the teacher would move[...]the desks closer to the stove to be a little warmer. You were[...]Larsabee and Mrs. Rose Pearson. Mrs. Pansy Sorenson[...]taught later for a number of years.[...]A. F. Toa vs, Axel and Christ Grimsrud, Albert Lee's, 0. W.[...]Sands and Earl Maltbys. There were others earlier that 1942 - Mr. and Mrs. Nick F. Toa vs and fa mily. Left to moved out before I started sc[...]k row: Wilme r, Frank, Nickolas, Ted, Martin , and Burnisons. I remember Mrs. George Hagan coming to Reuben and Arlie. Front row: Ruth, Susie, Nick (father), programs and picnics on horseback. James , Katie (with Hannah on lap), Marg aret and My dad also served on the Wolf Point[...]take us with the horses and wagon or sleigh. We had heated In the wintert[...]driving the horses close to the fence, and somehow the do handiwork. They all had small ch ildren except theP . A . Fast's . They came over a lot. Ma and Mrs. Fast would makewagon slid in the ditch. The box came off the sled and we[...]We still had to go on to school. things together and she sewed for her . Neighbors did lot s of[...]Everyone helped pick the box up and put it back on the things together, like butchering and h elping each other in runners, and we were on our way again. farming . Today people have lost a lot of this. Everyone is working more for himsel[...]etimes we went out after dark to sleigh ride, put a In May 1917 a meeting was held at the J .J . Quiring home to organize a Sunday school. They met at the J ohn S. lantern at the top of the hill and went sledding for an hour chmidt home. Abraham[...]nten- or more. dent. Henry Woldt was secretary and the teachers wer e: Another incident I remem[...]s of com . Theresthadleftfor home in the pickup, and Mrs. W . E . Nickel. At first meetings wer e held in the Zach Bartel and J . S . Schmidt homes, then in th e Wide my brother Reuben and I were to finish cultivating and Awake and Pioneer Schools. The organ iza tion of the bring the cultivator h ome with the horses and wagon. We church was conducted in the Pioneer School with my dad's had the cultivator hooked to the wagon and ready to leave, I uncle the Rev. .F. Toevs assisting. was in the box and Reuben was getting the reins from in icklai Toa vs, Zach Bartel and Peter A. Goertz wer e front of the horses when they got scared and took off. elected on the first church board. The first baptismal and Reuben jumped out of thew ay, I was too scared to[...]en charter members of th e Bethel Men- jump up and down behind them as they galloped on. They[...]went for a mile and a half when one horse fell down and nonite Church of Volt were Cor Bartels, Zach Bartels, P eter A. Goertzs, Jacob Newfeld , William E. ickels, H er[...]bram F . Toavs, Abr am Maria an d William Toa vs, and icklai F. Toa vs. In 1929 the basem ent church wa built and in 1936 plan were made to build the church on top. ick F . Toavs, Ferdinand Zer be and Frank N. Toavs were on the building committee. This church burned down in 1967 and has ince been rebuilt. My Dad was unday school superintendent for about 28 years. P .A . Geortz was choir director. The fir t past or I re~e~_ber was Clyde Dirks. Church and Sunday school act1vttles were our main outside activities. Sunday school conventions and Zaengerfests held once every year usual- ly in Lustre, were a highlight of every summer. At th~t time they were all day sessions and we took picnic dinner along. I remember many times it being dry and we needed r ain and then it would start raining at theZaengerfest so we had muddy roads to go home in , get stuck and have to pu sh. One time we even slid in the ditch which was full of water but the rains were welcome and so we didn't complain of the Left to right: Nick F. Toaus, his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. mud . Frank Toaus , Annie Regier, Susi and Ted Toa vs.[...] |
| [...]on . Reuben c_:me running from across the field , and together we ca ught the horses, hooked them up again and started the five miles to home. I never did like[...]My folks sold the farm in 1948 to Louis Toavs, and moved to Columbia Falls, Montana. Dad passed a[...]er lived in Columbia Falls. Susie Krahn, Nickolas and Wilmer have also died . Frank lives at St. Ign[...]ssoula, Montana; Betty lives north of Missoula; J a m es lives near Columbia Falls, Montana. Hannah is in Libby, Montana. Coming from a large family, we all learned to work because ther[...]o do. Really is nice when we can all get together and talk over old times.[...]from Flanders to north Holland and from there they moved[...]Arend Walde moved to South Russia about 1 23 with a[...]A. Wall was born in the village of Hamberg eptember[...]Here Grandpa Jacob A. Wall married Elizab th Fa t May[...]My father Aron J. Wall wa born May 19, 1 6 and[...]January 26, 1910 died young. David A., born Jun 11, 1911 and Katharina . born ovember 2 , 1912.[...]Minne ota wa very wet in th e y ar and it wa v r[...]special train fare that my father and oth r l ft for Montana to file on a horn ad, tion 6, Town hip 31,[...]May 1, 1916 they load d rail car for Montana and Fath r Arriving in Wolf Point, Montana in 1916,[...]left for t. Paul to load the 25~50 Av ry Tractor and plow ble was interested in settling on a homestead. He came by which h had purcha[...]y mile north of Wolf Poin , with th tractor, plow and Henry Ferdinas. The homestead wa located on S ction , wagon and al o got tuck in th Wolf r k. Fath r wa Township[...]y mile north going to couple on again, a h wa backing up with th of Wolf Point.[...]uld not Our nearest trading town was Wolf Point and Dr. hold, and Grandpa Wall wa tanding in front of th[...]into low gear which tripp d a coupl te th out of th big We broke the sod that[...]ear. They work d all night to r pair thi . Thi wa a was a poor crop.[...]Wh n they got to the home tead they brok a few a r of and I were married in the fall of 1937. Our on, lair Ro od and ded one acre of barley and om corn. Al o built Trimble, went to the Victory School during the early year . a hed which wa the temporary horn , till th hou He[...]t Montana with th Mod I Mr. Trimble passed away and I now live in Wolf Point. 1913 F[...] |
| Leaving for Montana - 1915 Buick car. Front: Rev. Jacob A. Wall and Anna (Mrs. Fred Mehrer. Back: Marie (Mrs. Peter Wiens ), Frank Wall, Mrs. Jacob Wall, and Jacob Wall. Katherina (Mrs. Jacob Redekopp), Eliz[...]Footstools - useful hobbies upon retirement. Mr. and Mrs. They took care of the farm and crops and made ready to Aron J. Wall. move to Montana. September 5, 1916 my parents and three children left Mt. Lake , with the Model T. Ford for Montana, also Grandpa Jacob A.Wall and my aunt Elizabeth and Katharina with Walter Rei cherts, Martin Rauchs, Joe Redikers, David H. a Buick touring car. We arrived at Wolf Point Septe[...]Unraus, Jacob H. Unrau, Vern Walters, Ray Wood and at 4 p.m. The Ford used fifty-seven and a half gallons of gas Ferd Zerbes. and the Buick sixty-eight, for 900 miles. The price of gas The nearest store and postoffice was seven miles at Volt, was from 23 cents to 35 cents. and Wolf Point was thirty miles. It took two days wit[...]wagon or sleigh with horses to haul grain and other things. tractor and cattle. They cut corn and grass for feed for the In Minnesota they lived close to town and they felt it was cattle and horses. The 11th of October a big prairie fire an advantage to raise a family farther from town. Children came from the west and destroyed four haystacks and 200 that were born to homesteader famil[...]o had their Father also broke some land this fall and hauled coal for own family about twelve miles southwest of us. My sister the winter and built our house, which was ready to move Laura was born April 10, 1918 and Irvin my youngest into ovember 11. They also dug[...]her was born November 5, 1924. He with his family and twenty-five feet deep. son Lyle and family now live on the homestead. Laura Our nei[...]ce Halls, Henry married Abe J. Goertzen and they live in Dalmeny, F. Janzens, Jacob Heinrichs[...]Payne, Jacob Ratzlaff, Sunday school and worship services have always played a big part in our rural community. The first servic[...]conducted in a tent May 14, 1916 on the way out to the[...]homestead, led by Rev. Jacob A. Wall. In June, July and[...]then September and through the winter in the Rev. John F.[...]first church 16 by 28 feet and the first service held in it[...]Grandpa Wall was the leader, and minister. In 1923 a basement 28 by 48 feet was made and used for[...]60 feet and the present church built on it. Just now we are[...]winter of 1923 and in the fall they had a Mission sale with[...]a highlight and this year the choir went out caroling at[...]and the Sunday school conventions and the songfests were[...]g enerations of Walls - 19.53. Great GrandfatherJ.A. functions of the community. In later years the Beacon Bible Wall - 86, Grandfather A.,J. Wall - 66 , Father O.J. Wall - 44, Camp has also played a part in the training of our young and Linda Mary Wall - 18.[...] |
| [...]ived in South Dakota. He was born in 1892. He was a school here. The first years Liberty was just northwest of renter and wanted to own his own land. Mrs. Martin Rauch Les Brown's place. 1928 the German Bible School of Lustre and Mrs. Ferdinand Zerbe were sisters, which was the was started, and after about twenty years, it was changed reason for coming to this area. to Lustre Bible Academy and it is a fully accredited high We came by train and loaded the necessary items on a school plus Bible subjects, now.[...]ruck. We stayed at the Martin Rauch's place until a house Those early years horses ran away, and my Aunt Kath could be built. fell between the horses and was run over by the wagon. Some of the n[...]nd, While digging for coal one man was covered by a cave in. Ferdinas, Sid Scourey, Ray Woods, Aron Wall, and Del Once we were playing in a dam and stepped into a hole and Trimble. just about drowned.[...]931. They the Wolf Point area. have one girl and five boys. We moved part of the house from Unruh's with twelve David A. Wall married Aganetha Unrau April 8, 1936. horses. Broke the sod with a two bottom plow. It was pulled They have two boys and two girls. by a Waterloo hay tractor. Katharine S. Wall married[...]ictory school which was Wiens. They have six boys and two girls. built in 1928. My brother Donald and sister Lillian and I Laura E. Wall married Abe J. Goertzen, Novemb[...]event of the year was held in the spring. Irvin A. Wall married June 22, 1948 to Amanda Toews. The Volt church and the Emmanuel Brethren church They have three boys. Irvin and Lyle and family live on the were both very active. homes[...]I am the only one living in the area, and married to Vera Our parents moved to Wolf Point in 1948, Mother is still E. McGillivary and am living on the home place. living there. Father[...]PEOPLE IN THE AREA OF NORTH WOLF POINT AND LUSTRE-VO[...]Schultes, Jacob Ediger, A .C . Juverude, Slim[...]Lund, Nels Toavs, A .F . Fevig, Lund[...]Mueller, George Wall, A .C . Glausha, Frank[...]Walters, V em Grimsrud, Anel and Christ Nelson, August[...] |
| [...]Rudolph Schultz and pelts[...]ry Janzen place. Six volt charger for electricity and 194.5. Back row: O.J. Wall, Aron Wall, Irvin Wa[...]windmill. Both homemade. Wall. Herman Wien , and Abe Goertz n. Middle: Mr . O.J. Wall. Mr . Aro[...]nt: Mardell Goertzen, Allen Wall, Donald Wiens and Wilmar Wall. Celebration of bachelors, ,John Schmidt, Bill Nichol and |
| [...]Toavs Nels Lund, Franz Borjeson, Ben Thomp on and Richard Family l a •ing Montana to go to anada. Ti d and .F. Toav trading tractors on th north Wolf[...] |
| [...]Pete Teichroew, Ted Wedel, Jacob Wall, O.J. Wall, and Peter Weins.[...]st combine sold in Wolf Point- 1929. Photo by A.J. Heinrichs Cutting grain with a header and stacking for threshing.[...]Harry on tractor, Art Westby standing and Henry Carlson |
| HOMESTEADING THE TULE CREEK AND DRY Christianson, H[...]ES Cody - A partial roster of pioneers, now third generation,[...]still struggling against the same odds of weather and (Taken from the Golden Jubilee Book)[...]o decades of the 20th century saw the opening of a few isolated areas to settlement - the Indian reser- vations in the Dakotas and Montana. They filled quickly with immigrants, or[...]They came in Model T's in the summer of 1915, a locator with every carload. From Poplar they headed west across a On February 12, 1918 the Wide Awake Farmers met at prairie unmarred by fences. A huge reservation map color the Wide Awake School House and organized a Wide keyed to purchase price, identified the ava[...]is organization is to keep posted on land. "Find a place, with water - keep away from rocky current prices on farm implement, lumber, wire, etc. and land -" were the guidelines established from ear[...]y then proceeded to elect the following officers: A.F. The Missouri River draws on hundreds of tr[...]Point Tole treasurer. Christ Sand, Mr. Isaac and Sam McDonald were Creek winds southeasterly to the "Big Muddy", and it has elected to draw up the constitution and bylaws. one branch, the seasonally flowing fork from the north and J.B. Schmidt, John Bartel and Ray Maltby were elected west, the Dry Fork.[...]committee. Tule Creek had water that summer, and few rocks were This club is to meet about twice a month, the next apparent in the thick prairie gr[...]the Wide land, priced from $2.50 to $6.00, made a down payment with Awake School. Mr. Lee, the secretary of the club, was their filing and then most of them returned to their homes instructed to petition the county commissioners for a road in other areas for family and belongings. Some returned in overseer in that part of the county and inquire for prices on the fall to find the area black all the way to Poplar; fire had different farmers' needs, also to get stationery with the taken the grass and exposed a summer secret, rocks and club's heading, etc. boulders in abun[...]Eli Maltby, Alfred Hanson and Ray Maltby were ap- What kind of people were these? Typically young and pointed to investigate and view the road south and east of candinavian, sons and daughters of earlier immigrants U.S . Lidgard's and report at the next meeting. in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Missouri? Perhaps a fourth of the north Wolf Point settlers in 1915-1[...]INGA BACH land. There were doctors and dentists who filed homestead claims and moved to Wolf Point to practice. - Carpenters by Mrs. Tom Christianson and laborers. Welzenback was a cigar maker and he plied his trade throughout the area. T.O. Breving, one of a whole Inga Marie Ostberg left Norway in t[...]from Oslo to Winnepeg for the price of only 55 ed and then worked in Wolf Point where he built the Coffey, Krowns (about $8 or $9) which included board and berth on O .C . John on and John Li terud homes. the boat and hotel in England. Through the 1920' the commun[...]t to work for him at Sisseton, South Dakota at $3 a job in town . A few quit early and moved from the area. The month to pay back[...]ollapse of farm offered better wages from and went to work for Mrs. Halvor prices and a persistent drought worked together to rapidly Bakken where she met and married the eldest son, Edward reduce the populat[...]from farmers in the early thirties many responded and the in a country church out of Sisseton and lived on a farm continuing trend to larger units began in ea[...]union was born Huldah, Edwin Morris, Sverre, and after homestead pattern of quartersection ownersh[...]ther's death - Edward. exceptions. Earl Champlin, a Wolf Point implement dealer, In June of[...]1920. Even more gran- youngest son, Eddie and a widowed friend, Mrs. Engen, left diose was the operation of the Frye Corporation, a Seattle Fergus Falls, Minnesota and came to Poplar to file on a meat packing firm that purchased most of the bott[...](Township 30, Range 48). from Chelsea to Poplar, and built up irrigation systems. They were taken out and shown their boundaries in a car Coupled with the bottom operation was a ranching unit driven by a Mr. Rickard; (Mr. Rickard's daughter married that[...]the famous dancer Ray Bolger). H uldah, Morris and Sverre 13. Fence riders regularly rode the miles offence around the stayed in Fergus Falls with a relative while their mother spread and the line camps were scattered along the creek.[...]esent residents of the rural area Inga Bach and her family returned to her homestead in north of[...]in Minot, North Dakota. She brought the industry and the faith of their predecessors. Rensvold, with her a big Norwegian sea chest filled with canned Ericks[...]Hoium, Holen, Welzenbach , Thomas, goods and "stacks" of dried lutefisk. The latter was[...] |
| [...]and Inga drove in a buggy to Plentywood to be married.[...]Sethre was the teacher with the Wood and Bach children[...]and Agnes Sjokvist attended. The third session of sch[...]attending as well as two Ulricks and three Fachners. The[...]and the Wood School came into being in 1922 with Alic[...]The trustees were A . L. Wood, A . K . Holen and Morford. Fred Buettner was the clerk and Nina McFarlan was the June 1912, Grandma Bach (Anderson), Hilda, Morris and county superintendant of schools. Sverr[...]Georgia Littlefield and Edward married Marjorie Zimmer-[...]-Anderson union was born five children. included a cookstove, dresser, sewing maching and a Harry married Doris Hill; Donald married Ronnie Hill; writing desk, which is still owned and used by her Robert married Dorrayne H[...]ldah Karge. In later years the cover of the sea and Irene, who is married to Adrine Erick on. chest was used by the Bach boys as a boat for sailing the creek. The family was moved[...]finished inside by by A . T . Breuing its builder, Helmer Carlsrud and was located on the north side of Boxelder Creek, between the Boxelder and a smaller It wa during the la t day of ovemb[...]ck was one large roon just "aero morning and £ It ju t fin . M pl wa about on nd a the line" from the Bach's, so after dancing at the Engen's half mil from hi northw t. they would have a pot luck lunch at the Bach's. Many a The man , I rode with , had a tailor hop lat r on in Wolf newly married husband[...]o few young ladies. wa J .L. Davey, now d c a d.) Mu t b g tting old, I It was at these dances that Inga met a young homesteader gu named Hans Anderson,[...]I had filed on th land in the umm r and th r wa sister, Hanna, had taken up claims a couple of miles ea t. air ad a home tead r clo tom John Kj 1 trup, who al o T[...]o town Alberta, Canada, where Inga's brother John and arl and again to g t om thing o at, gro eri , and lumb r for a their mother had homesteaded after leaving the ni[...]o work . States. The Bacha spent the summer there and the thr It wa o nic and mild and I had th hou almo tr ad . oldest children went to[...]Had roofing pap r tacked on, tc. But w got a now torm. I mosquitoes being almost unbearable. T[...]ar slacks, but for protection from the a quart r of a mil we t of K llingmark' land. mosquitoe , they w[...]their Th torm didn't la t v ry long and I ta ed atM ndu leg then pulled their long home k[...]rth Dakota. Thi move mad it D c mb r and we got th tuff out from town and got possible for Huldah , Morri , and v rr to go to chool. ettled down[...] |
| John had gotten a well down in Dry Forktwo and one half further west, Bill Crawford, Thurman Tate and John feet deep. There was no water on the top; bu[...]water. We were up on the Carl Carlson and Stone Carlson. To the west was W. Edgar, top of t[...]er the best way we could that Cliff Devaney and Bob Devaney. John Wagaman and winter, hauled in barrels. Next summer we started to drill. brother, Gates, Loren ts Ahsheing, and many more. From the first part of December to[...]50 years, about time to celebrate?Well, Adams and Tebesky. That is people from around in the my nei[...]Art Rensvold from South United States and foreign countries besides. In 1917, many Dakota. We had already gotten up a nice little house and ofus had to break up and sow a certain part of the land. We his family wasn't as big that time only his wife, and did so with high hopes of getting a good crop so we could daughter Avis.[...]made a deal with a young fellow, Gil Forsness, that had Who was there? Yes, that is a question and I am not sure gotten a tractor, and I was going to do building work in if I can name[...]thern railroad To begin with, Mendus Bridstone and family, John at that time was moving its division point to Wolf Point and Kjelstrup and family, Ole Kyllingmark and his family, and built a roundhouse and coal chute. Besides that, they built a Carl Carlson. hotel and 20 houses for their own people. May be that was in I remember trying to lift Art Rensvold as a dead man up 1918. But there was quite a hustle in town at that time. But on my shoulder.[...]didn 't get rain. We scanned the skies for clouds and one found out, that when you had him on the shoul[...]straight up. No rain. In fact, we He squirmed and wiggled so we couldn't keep him there. did[...]when we crawled upstairs didn 't mature and had to be used for feed. The high hopes and slept on the floor.[...]got You know we had lignite coal in those days and it was storms, thunderstorms. Some houses were blown to bits on nice and warm. I better mention that my own family was the northside and one woman was killed. The lightning there, or else, and Art Rensvold's family. Now half the struck the school house down on the flat. I was standing a country out there is farmed by a Rensvold of one kind or couple blocks away at Old Tkaret's place and I tell you, it another. made quite a crack. I said that we crawled upstairs to sleep and what else 1918 was a dry year, too. No rain, no crops. Maybe a little could we do? It was a snowstorm outside and if you know a better for some and others left for good. I had gotten little about t[...]ou are. In the acquainted that time with a man in Wolf Point, John morning, Christmas Day, we got up; but I don't think too Solberg. He was a plasterer and a good one and we built a early. Had something to eat and prepared to go home. But few houses together like Listeruds, John Coffey's and O . C . Carl Carlson thought that he had a very good time. He Johnson's. asked in[...]tion to the school, too, at does the night cost?) And he was told there was no cost. Ja that time. The contractors wereThorvaldson and Johnson. vell, men hau tzkte det varit riktig rol[...]any years (0 ye but he thought it was o much fun, and thank you so and so I came to work on the school house in the fall. very much.) We got home again Christmas Day and it was Well so it was, everybody had to grab what he could for still torming and cold. I think most of them found things the crop failed. But it is quite a difference now 50 years in order. But not so with[...]rup. One of his horses later. Better farming and better crops, and better weather had been thir ty, hunted for water and found the family it seems. well down bel[...]t the hard blow. the well was not deep, about two and one-half feet, with some boards around on top. But the horse was very thirsty for water and tretched until he went down on hi head and drowned. Here it was, th only well for three families CLYDE BROOKMAN and had a big hor e in it. If we had had omething to work w[...]by Mrs. George MacDonald Kjel trup, Kyllingmark and I worked all Christmas Day with ome baling wire and a pair of wagon wheels and Clyde R. Brookman was born in February 1889 and came finally got him out. Then it was hauled over in the hills and to Poplar, Montana in the spring of 1909 from[...]He started Oh, I tell you, the homesteader got a lot of experience. But working on a ranch herding horses for Dr. Atkinson and that is only one side of it. I have never seen so[...]He worked there until the fall of 1912 when will, and people willing to help in anything. If they know[...]ad come by train to Montana from right there-work and spend their time and nothing for it! Lynch, Nebraska in 1911. Clyde and Wavie were married Which came in handy enough, fo[...]ple really came in. If you of Poplar for a year, then moved to the Dr. Atkinson ranch happen[...]he right spot, you could see wagon after for a year. The next year they ran the ferry boat back and wagon going north. It was like a big stream. forth across the[...]ndus Bridstone, where Earl homesteading and they took land for homesteading about Rensvold is now, John Kjelstrup and Ole Kyllingmark , twenty miles north o[...]ross the Fork. Louis Balbinot, Finstad a prairie fire came through and burned the barn, all the[...] |
| [...]northwest of Wolf Point and is in the farming-ranching-[...]rodeo business, married and has two daughters; Clarada[...]Mann lives in Wolf Point and has five children; Bruce lives[...]thirty miles northeast of Wolf Point, married and has three children; and Freida MacDonald lives twenty-seven miles[...]northeast of Wolf Point and has five children.[...]fifteen years old. He joined a nephew in Minnesota. He[...]wanted to farm and came to Poplar, Montana hoping to get a homestead. which he did. He homesteaded about 32[...]Dale, Ben Machanelli and George Conlin. He had great strength, was a hard worker and was[...]help his neighbors. In the winter months he Clyde and Mrs. Brookman first married - 1912 worked for Frye Cattle Company. He mined coal and dug wells by hand and always kept busy. His closest neighbor[...]early days they worked together hay, all the seed and one horse. The next year they were building fences, digging and picking rocks and cutting and hailed out but they stuck it out for another three years. shocking grain and sharing machinery until each was able They move[...]ontana, taking up In 1935 Car Ison took a trip to Chicago to the Worlds Fair. another homestead thirty-six miles west and north of In 1949 he semi-retired, renting out his homestead. A few Poplar. There he started both farming and ranching. In the years later he rented out the[...]pril of 1967 he flew to Sweden to visit hi sister and driving back and forth to help with the fanning and other relatives whom he hadn't seen since 190 when he ranching. He continued his fanning and ranching in- left. His trip from Sweden[...]his way to visit a neighbor. He is buried at Greenwood[...]B ruce B rookman, Freida MacDonald, Mrs. Brookman and larada Mann. Clyde Brookman's Golden Weddi[...] |
| [...]Oline Jackson and two children came to Poplar in I was born in S[...]5, 1891. When I was October of 1911, and staked out a claim on the strip, which eleven years old my family, (parents, two brothers and I) later became part of Daniels County. The children were moved to a little farm north of Car bury, North Dakota. In Roy, five years old and Helen, two years old. We were June 1915, when my[...]arried in July of 1927. Knudt was born in Denmark and legal age, he and I filed on a homestead 20 miles northwest Oline in[...]Knudt hauled lumber from Scobey with a borrowed team two other men and myself left Bottineau, North Dakota by and wagon. With the help of a bachelor neighbor he built a train to Poplar where we had engaged an Indian by[...]forkofthePoplarRiver. The name of Dupree, to haul a load oflumber and supplies out to first twenty acres wer[...]o cold to ride in the wagon so We had a good crop of flax in 1915. Fifteen bushels to the we walked those 20 miles and I can remember that very well acre. T[...]roke by as I was wearing high-heeled button shoes and a hat, this is Varness Brothers with a Mogul tractor, pulled one plow all I had, and was very tired and sore by the time we and paid him $3.50 per acre. reached our destination.[...]started coming in to look for land. They earlier and built a homestead shack, a 10 x 12 windowless brought their families in the spring of 1917 and built tar building, and this is where the four of us stayed while we paper shacks. Some brought farm equipment, horses and a put up three other quite similar sized buildings.[...]ed in said he had put in no There was a lot of work to be done. Most of our supplies wind[...]1913. We were twenty miles from Scobey and forty-five with this and put windows in ours. I remember it was my from Wolf Point. job to cook for the men and at times it was so dark inside in All[...]keep the lamp lit all the time. The nites and easily found. The first school in our district wa[...]hree men suggested we all sleep a deserted shack. Miss Jean Thomas had a homestead and together to conserve heat and get better utilization out of was the t[...]built the blankets, but this I absolutely refused and my brother and often moved around to where the most children were at. concurred that this was not a good idea. By Thanksgiving Our en[...]ms, home talent Day we had the three shacks built and we were ready to go plays, box socials, dances, and lots of card parties. We back to North Dakota for[...]nter. The dinner parties out of food at this time and all we had left for supper that were all[...]grasshoppers, army worms, gophers, rust or hail, and as a next morning we all walked to Macon, about seven miles, rule no insurance. built a fire out of old railroad ties and waited until evening We made a big thing out of berry picking. The whole for the[...]ould get up early, go in the lumber wagons bought a good meal and got a good night's sleep at the and meet in the hills. There would be June berries, l[...]train the would be choke cherries and in the late fall buffalo berries. next day for Bo[...]The first years we had a few raspberries. It was a big job to The following spring we all came ba[...]lenty hot to homesteads, started plowing our land and planting. I felt work in. Still we fe[...]f us had gardens. very fortunate to get this land and throught it was beautiful We always got s[...]It got to where we with the green rolling prairie and Tule Creek running canned a lot of meat and vegetables. The first years we used through it .[...]In 1917, Knudt went into the army and returned in the In 191 8, I married Nels Chris[...]k had been demolished by range stock. I worked as a clerk in Wolf Point and after we were married, sold some of the things I had accumulated, but no one had he sold his land and moved to Tule Creek also where we any money to pay for the stuff. built a two room home and raised two children, Julius and So we started over again. We built a 20x14 house. I got Jean . Julius works for the Bu[...]three of the horses back that I had sold. We got a few head of Superior, Wisconsin and Jean is married to Ted Schwinden cattle and some chickens and built a dug-out for a chicken and lives in Helena, Montana. My husband passed away coop on the river bank. A badger got in and got away with ovember 1970 and although he grew up in a large city, several chickens before I knew what was going on. became very fond of this land and its people and even after We spent a lot of time working for neigh hors. At one time h[...]e into town. I carried the mail once a week from Kahle to Benrud. Some There are so many[...], especially for me people moved out and others stayed on. They had having come as a young girl and living my life here. There everything[...]hink I There was always rocks to pick and fences to build. Cedar have had mine from the sta[...]posts were up to 20 cents a piece. We used some willow[...]We had some good crops. Tractors came in, and some KNUDT A D OLI E CHRISTE SE people got cars. Many farmers milked a few cows. They made their own butter and traded some for groceries. by Knudt and Olive Christensen Things were getting pretty good. We got a county agent and Kn udt first came to Roosevelt County in the summer of a home demonstration lady. 1913 and filed on the homestead May 1, 1914. Section 4, The gophers were real bad and finally some gopher Township 32, Range 48.[...] |
| Houses were being built. Knudt got a well with a windmill and a real barn. We then got a Ford pickup. We started to acquire more land. Ren[...]rties were rough years. We sold eggs at six cents a dozen and butter at ten cents a pound. In the thirties Highway 13 was built. R[...]icity, barbed wire telephones, propane gas stoves and furnaces. Later real telephones and electricity. What a day that was! Now most homesteads are taken ov[...]ion. Very few milk cows or have chickens. Cattle and/ or grain is their crop. They use big machinery and little hand work. In 1940 we had a tornado that took almost everything. Buildings and wind break, a lot of trees uprooted, but no A .C. Ediger Homestead - South One Half of Section[...]y fath er drove to town with The community had a 2½ gallon ice cream freezer. We wagon and mules and had to stay overnight because the would picnic and have lots of ice cream. tri[...]and barred windows and doors to keep out intruders. The[...]was attached to the house (very good in sulation) and ABRAHAM AND SARAH EDIGER housed the milk cow and other mules. At n ight the a nimals would move a nd make noises which got the family up,[...]diger armed wit h posts and pitch forks ready to defend[...]m y fath er was coming home Abraham C. Ediger and his wife, Sarah, and their two with groceries, he was caught in a sn owstorm h alf way children, Abe and Alma, moved to Montana in 1917 from home, and stayed three days at a bach elor 's shack. When Henderson, Nebraska. The[...]rth of the storm subsided, th e pot atoes, a pples, etc. were frozen Wolf Point on the Roosevelt County line. They bought a line solid. This was a loss which could not be replaced and the of machinery and four big mules to make their fortune. The family h a d to get by with out. first few years were very dry and crops were failures. Two One sum m er a hail st orm and tornado flattened the barn children were born - a daughter, Mathilda, in 1917 and and raised th e r oof off the house. My father and brother son, John , in 1918 who relates these events. wer e hauling coal and n ot home, but my mother held Wolf Point, Monta[...]country churches which were built a soon as time and money allowed.Wedding and church gathering provided social life and people eem d ati tied. We attend d the[...]320 acres to the original land and tarted building a lar e hou e in 192 . Thi wa nev r fini h d a the d pr ion and dust bowl of the dirty thirtie app ar d and almo tall[...]government and b gged them to tak hi 6 0 acre and cancel the debt, but no one want d land and oh fought[...]rai ed again. We mu t admire th courag and faith our[...]live. My wife, larabelle and I rai ed v n children her :[...]Bonnie, and Barbara. We work d hard but don't feel we[...]Ediger, Abe . age 7, Alma -age 5, Mathilda -age 3 and John My folks , the Nelson Heidner s[...] |
| Wedding picture of Nelson Heidner and Dorothy Thomas - 1924 Tom, Dale, Don, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Heidner - first[...]at The nearest neigh hors to the east were the A. J. Thomas, mother's father, Jacob L. Thomas had bought in 1916from Jim Schwinden, and Ed Cody families. To the north was Ted Rounds, re[...]Loren ts Holum, Nels Christianson, Oscar Erickson and and Dad went out to Montana and located the section of brothers Sam and Bill Steele. Mark Blankenship and A. J. land that Mr. Thomas owned. They were impressed with all Fredrickson lived to the west and south of us. Shortly after the tall standing gras[...]heast of us. they crossed the ferry at Wolf Point and went to Rock School was about three miles[...]the now Mrs. Milton Siljenberg, followed Montana and moved a house out from near where Camrud by Evelyn Mahlum, and then Bernard Geisen who was the Motors now set in Wolf Point, to the farm, and also built a teacher when Don and I started school. barn on the place, the location[...]many of the children were just born at home and so it was Hi brother-in-law, Albert J. Thomas,[...]This was the beginning of the dry thirties and the section. Going back to outh Dakota for the wi[...]get ready for moving. The old being built, Mother and Dad milked quite a few cows and Ford on tractor was traded off for a new model D John took turns with the Phil Geisen'[...]can remember when Dad was getting machinery ready and the day of the sale. In those days the person having the sale furnished buns, baloney and coffee. On March 7, 1931 Dad left Parkston, So[...]s, it took five days by train to arrive at Macon, a few miles east of Wolf Point. Along with the hou ehold goods were two brood sows, some dairy cows, baled hay and straw, the farm machinery including the John Deere tractor and plow and a 1926 Model T Ford car. Dad' farm was about four miles north of the Macon elevator. The livestock and belongings were moved to the farm. In the early part of May, Dad and Albert Thomas went back to South Dakota. Mother and the two boys, Tom and Don were staying at Mother's folks, the Jacob L.[...]el T touring car with the rear seat replaced with a box to make it a small pickup) Mother, Don and I left together with Albert Thomas the next day and arrived in the Kenneth, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Heidner, Marilyn, Loren, evening of May 13 at the new home in Montana. To me that Don, Tom, and Dale. Nelson Heidner 's 2nd marriage.[...] |
| During the depression days the W . P.A. provided work My first impression of our new home was lots of coyotes and a little extra income to provide for the necessities oflife. and black, longtail fox that seemed to disappear shortly Roads were rebuilt and many snow fences were built, a few after people started to settle in the area.[...]our The country school provided the community a chance to drinking water from Tule Creek, which w[...]get together for Christmas programs, field meets and miles. always a picnic on the last day of school. Baseball was[...]ather, on the land here in Montana, took his team and Drought, duststorms, grasshoppers and gophers all started out for Lustre, Montana. Seve[...]with an old Motel T Ford truck. friends at Lustre and found out that Emil never arrived Thistles were e[...]ables. Not too bad if you there. We did hear that a team had been found in the hills, ate them while they were young and tender. near Oswego, by some Indians, so Dad, Scott Hart, and In 1938 crops began to improve and it looked like it was Fred Rathert went to Oswego, and found the team and sled. worthwhile sticking it out through the har[...]shion they found Emil. He had been missing Thomas and Phil Geisen owned an old 15 foot Holt combine two months. Dad shipped his body back to his family in and harvesting at all three places was done with this Iowa. combine plus doing a little custom combining. Th[...]ading was the Poplar Landing, On April 3, 1943 a daughter Karen, was born, but she died about[...]rs later brother Loren was born in neighbors were A.K. Holen, Fred Buettner, Sig Hove, and January, and sorrow was to hit again, Mother died of Lawrence[...]. Dad married Ruth Schultes in In 1917 a tornado hit and moved three buildings clear off Decem her 1946.[...]ons; one on our place, one on Lawrence Kenneth and wife Jane have one son. They live on the Hol urns place and one on the Magnus Magn u on place. We farm and do most of the farming for Dad.[...]ilding 3/ 4 mile to get it back to its Marilyn and her husband Arlen Hilkemann, have one foundation. son and live near the Frontier School in Wolf Point.[...]rop into wheat in 1917. Thatsameyearlwas Loren and wife Janis have two boys, they Ii vein Wal ton,[...]. Otto Ramstead was president of the Kansas. Dale and his wife Irma have four children, they Trader's State Bank in Poplar and head of the draft board. live in Belgrade, Montana. Don and his wife Velma have Dad had to go to tell him tha[...]r. Mr. Ramstead aid, "Well, Mr. Herting Margaret, and six children, also live northeast of Wolf we need[...]put in third class and never had to go into the Army. In 1918 a real bad hail storm drove a large flock of heep through our crops and we got a 100 percent los on our JOHN[...]rried Alma letvold. Alma let- Minnesota in 1893, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herting. vold, her i ter Eletta letvold, Ben p ncer and I all went My father and his friend Emil Anderson filed on land in to Gla gow anda celebration . The p ople of Wolf Point had a dummy of In 1910 we moved to Freeman, South Dakota and in 1916 Kaiser Bill hanging in the treet and they wer hooting it we moved to Montana, by rail,[...]ed all of our household Alma and I went on to F rgu Fall , Minne ota for our belongings and everything we owned in two boxcars. In honeymoon. he had contracted t berculo i and had to Williston we were told that the river was extremely high have extensive urgery and it ure hortened our honey- and hazardous. From Williston to Poplar we watched men moon. We had two children. Arnold, born in 1921. H i a roping deer from the high water and dragging them to former county commi sioner and pre ntly th clerk at the shore. We had a layover at Mondak so my brother Floyde, Wolf Point High chool. Louella born in 192 (Mr . myself and a friend, Ike Chapman, decided to have a beer at Louella Morey.) he re ide in Wolf Point and ha b n a the local saloon. We soon changed our minds, as a[...]ational Bank for 27 year . hats, six guns and cowboy boots really scared u . For entertainment we had chool danc and parti and Scoop Swedberg was living at Mondak and in 1916 he I u d to wr tle at all the Farm Bureau picnic . Lot offun moved to Wolf Point as the depot agent and we became until the boys got to drinking a little. M wif put a top to good friends and remained so for many years until his that. death[...]I bought my fir t car , a Model T , in 1921 from George When we moved to[...]he Poplar Landing. I was One tim I had a run-away with my Model Ttruck. It wa driving the buggy on our return trip to pick up Mother. a even-sp ed truck and I was hauling about fifty bu h 1 When we got to t[...]was clear up to of wheat, along with my brother, and I mis ed a g ar my waist getting in the buggy. The current w[...]s downstream with both horses swimming. They road and a woman and her kid were itting on th curve finally got some solid footing and we had to drive back with a flat tire. We almo t ran over th m and it took me upstream to the Poplar Landing to pick[...]it stopped. water was so high we stayed overnight and started back Mrs. Herting pa[...] |
| [...]They found their homestead rather a lonesome place; and[...]leave. However, through the kindness and assistance of friends, they stayed on and were glad they did. (Alfred died[...]Alfred and Oline raised four children on the homestead.[...]lives in Minneapolis and has a family of four sons and two[...]live in Minneapolis and have three daughters and two[...]sons. Pauline married Rev. Earl Berndtson, and they have a son and a daughter. They live in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.[...]They farmed and ranched the original homestead for[...]many local and county projects. In later years they traveled[...]ert died in February 1973) THE FAMILY OF ALFRED AND OLINE HOUG Herbert and Dina had five sons. Larry and Loren, twins,[...]Loren In the spring of 1916, Mrs. Alfred Houg and their son married Joan Hanel, and they have four children - Marc, Herbert and Mrs. Henry Sethre and their two children Becky, Bruce, and Tonya. This is the third and fourth arrived in Poplar, Mon tana, from F ergus[...]6). To their surprise, their h usbands had rented a surrey from Bruce married Marlene Simenson; t[...]em to their h omesteads. In spite of Douglas and Tori. Bruce died while serving on the sub- this "luxury" it seemed like an en dless ride - up and down marine "Shark" in 1962. Dale married Kay Evans in hills; across country with no r oa ds to follow - a distance of Tacoma, Washington; they have a son - Jon Douglas. thirty miles or more to their[...]fteen miles north They are living in Wolf Point and Dale has a position with of Wolf Point. But upon their arriv[...]farm , find two nice two-story homes all painted and ready to and he and Loren manage Houg Farms, Inc. move into. One o[...]r years old; HOVERSLAND FAMILY and Mrs. Houg had difficulty finding him at times, so she made him a red cap which could be seen bobbing through[...]g of 1917. It was my Here they dug their own coal and loaded their wagon s. At brother John Hoversland,[...]h dark when they had not yet returned, we watched a nd her two children, Inga and Edward, my sister Mina Kolden listened for the sound of horses and wagons. We could see a with her husband Knut and four children, Aagot, Harold, big prairie fire was raging in the direction of the mine. We Leif and Einar, also Andreas Hoversland and wife Marie watched and waited for many hours, until finally our men with two children Lydia and Wilhelm. came home. They had seen the fire approach ing , burned off We h a d filed on three homesteads in the spring of 1916 a space before the fire reached them, and drove onto it and and built three shacks by the fall of 1916. waited fo[...]We br ought along some horses, cows, machinery and a them safely home around midnight. We were later told that 1917 Rumely 30-60 tractor with a IO-bottom plow. We broke this fire had traveled eighty miles. and seeded to flax 450 acres but it was dry and hot so we just[...]uben, Luuern, Carl, John, Andreas, R uth , Marie, A rthur The farm house in 1974 and Ralph.[...] |
| [...]Melvin Jacobson and Ed Mahlum hauling grain to cobey Our homestea[...]Cotton wood in Sections 3- in 1921-22. 4 and 10, Township 32, Range 46, 36 miles north of Wolf Point and 30 miles southwest of Scobey. The farming was[...]gh the twenties. Had some good years 1922, 1924 and 1928. Then we came to the six to seven years of[...]ey were over, all of our neighbors had pulled out and left. There were only two families left, Melvin Jacobson and ~ingal and attended school there. As a young man he was us.Jacobson had some cattle and we started with sheep. We m the butchering business with his Dad and two brothers. had eight boys in our family and most of them graduated as He also butcher[...]and dog ~nd gomg out to the pastures to kill, skin and We had many neighbors that had filed on land here butcher his. beef, then load it and bring it to town. around Cottonwood. We had Arno[...]d Waska He married Mabel Fossen, a neighbor girl, at Fingal post office) Krohn, Barnes, John and Floyd McBratney, December 28, 1916.[...]son, Kolden, Dyrdal, Nelson, Parson,' and the butcher shop. While there, the first child was born; Fred, Gust and Bell Janzak, Turk, Browin, Trudo, Newell[...]o families left. This was ba~k ~nd se~tling on a homestead 35 miles north of Wolf the time we sta[...]There was lots of water standing in the coulees and we French chool community. Most of the bu ine wa dug a hole at the edge and covered it with boards in order to carried on ~tScobey,Mont~a, 30 miles north. Ed Mahlum, have good drinking water. One day we looked down at the a brother-m-law and Melvm hauled their grain by four bottom of the water hole and three white gophers were horse teams[...]early day . After that we had to haul water from a spring two to three ~unng the flu ep1dem1c[...]did not get a bad ca e of flu o he went from farm to farm After seeding we started digging a well by hand. We dug doing the neighbor chor . He alway told the tory that a hole about four feet square that went down 100 feet when he ate a lot of hard licoric which kept him well. we hit water, and it was good water. We put a curbing in In 1924, the Jacob on' bought and moved to the John and a pump and a windmill. John and I spent many days McBrat~ey farm on e[...]hip 32, Range 46, work digging that well. We bad a 100 foot rope and we thr_ee .mile we t of the home_tead[...]to the end of the rope. This 1 ~he .was~a community. Four more children were We had a lot of snow the first winter out on the homestead born ~hile rn_th1 . community. Three died in infancy and 1917 to 1918. We had the Waska post office at Arn[...]lf Ja~ob on would go mto town by leigh and hor (the Point. So we did not get a[...]children were all born in F bruary but one) and he and the myself a pair of skiis and walked in to Wolf Point with the baby would[...]on my back. I started early in th morning and hors . He had a cover d leigh with a tov in it. at 10 a.m. with the first class mail. I came to Wa ka at The po toffi wa W a ka ju t three mil w t and the 10 p.m. in the evening and wa home at 11 p.m. Krohn .cho[...]mmer, farm at Philipsburg, Montana. Wilhelm, John and Ralph chool m ummer and lat r winter on w ekda . Dance farming my old farm . Rueben farming at Ronan . Reinert and other partie w re also given in th chool. living[...]move to university at Fresno, California. Ruth is a nurse and living Wolf Point where Melvin went back to[...]. as a bu~he~. He worked at E&A Store, Lock r plant, Farmers Union Store and Jack and Jill. Melvin pa ed away February 1969 and his wife in January 1973. THE MELVIN JACOBSO FAMILY Byrl and Dolore both live two miles from the home they[...]Mrs. Gordon Lund grade and went to high chool in Wolf Point. Do lore went[...]to Wa~ka the fir ~ two grades and then finished her grade Melvin Jacobson was born at Fingal, North Dakota on and high chool m Wolf Point. Byrl ha one son and one March 6, 1895. He spent his boyhood on a farm close to grandson and Dolores has three ons.[...] |
| [...]......... ---- Ben Battani and Carl Karge Lee and Andy KARGE AND BATTANI HOMESTEAD DAYS cows broke into a homestead shack and survived. There[...]r with fires |
| [...]er boy for the crew with his white team of horses and Frank went to Michigan to stay, married and lived on a water barrels.[...]farm in Henderson. Fred went to visit Frank and their In July I was sent to Poplar creek with a field party where father several times. In 1929[...]Ella Oehmig. we worked until October. My brother and I with three other John S. Anderson had worked with Fred and was taking men came to Wolf Point to do some sur[...]e several bad years. Fred found boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Patton, who was work as a carpenter in Owosso. We came back to Wolf Point[...]Dances were held in school houses and neigh hors would To save setting up our tent,[...]d stay in get together on different Sundays and have pot luck dinner. the mess house which was still there. We had a cone-shaped In 1932 crops wereruined by bad hailstorms and wind. The camp stove. We put about eight inches of dirt on the floor, wheat and garden was ruined. Parts of homes were blown then set the stove on top of the dirt. We had a good night's off. The new Highway 13 was started in 1932 and came as sleep. To our surprise when we picked up[...]We had several yearly picnics at the Krauth farm, and more damage, we moved west to the Big Porcupine Creek. people came from near and far. About 100 or more people One place where[...]we were came to enjoy the picnic lunch and visiting. The day wa served hot cakes for breakfast. One of my cakes had a black spent in playing baseball and horseshoes. hair about a foot long in it. I just pulled it out and kept on We have three children. All of them[...]eating. That will be 65 years ago this November, and I still School and Wolf Point High School. like my hot cakes.[...]Robert married Enid Killenbeck, and live on th We got back to camp at Poplar Creek[...]Hardin , Montana. there to take care of the stock and I stayed with him. I Mrs. Max (Karyl) Ba[...]er. The winter of 1911 I went to Manning Lake for a load of baled hay. The wind finally let up and I made it back to camp. ALB[...]after that I went to work for Frank Cusker for 40 a month.[...]The Gribble home On April 6, 1916 Mr. and Mr . Alb rt Lee tog ther with became known as the Berdette post office. Mr. and Mr . 0. W . Olson came in a boxcar of th Great I filed on my homestead in[...]orthern train, with their furniture clothing and a dog Montana. South Half Section 31, Township, Ran[...]along with their team of hor e (with ome hay and We went to Poplar for trading. The nearest doctor and wagon ) and with very little money. They cam to hospital was[...]es homestead. I built my shack in 1915. It rained a lot that came from Ulen, Minne ota. summer and the cattle tramped the grass down around the[...]rned over shack. Everything was very dry by fall. A prairie fire came and u d a a place to I ep looking at the Heaven and from the north, burned all around the shack, but[...]untry. Lyman Clayton Sr. was assistant assessor and put my The econd day wa pent looking and arching for a shack on the assessor's list. I farmed with horses, bought water hole for them elves and th horse as well. my first angus cow in 1917. Hauled wheat to Poplar with While Albert Lee and O. W . 01 on drove back and forth six horses and two wagons. I would go one day and come to Wolf Point by team and wagon for lumb rand other back the next day.[...]t that time were Bernard Langer, William and Mabel Lee stayed by their sole po sessions and Handran , Lars Hammer, Howard Sage and Friend Rush. watched th gophers and rabbits get cha ed by their dog .[...] |
| [...]Mabel, Ma, Aldon, and Mrs. Hanson. Albert Lee and his pride[...]tead that the Albert Lee's had their first child, a son, pictures. Harry A. Lee, now living in Seattle, Washington.[...]in the middle twenties that the Albert Lee's had a elmer Lee, a bachelor brother of Albert Lee, came to new home as well as a family of three boys and one girl. home tead shortly thereafter from Minnesota. He Harry and Byron now of Seattle, Washington, Cyrus now home[...]twenty miles of Billings, Montana and Mrs. John Bale (Mable) of northwe t of Wolf Point, Montana. He built a blacksmith Decorah, Iowa. In the late twe[...]n hop on the quarter of land he was to break as a was born and in 1930 another son was born to the Albert home teader. Time was short for Uncle Selmer as a Lee family, Roger, this made a family of five boys and one homesteader however, because of the military[...]and of this year, 1976, the two sons, Aldon and Roger, fa~ ix chools were built to the north[...]have bought or leased. Albert horn~ tead site of A . F. Toav . Thi being the close t Lee fa[...]y, April 10, 195~. Mrs. Mabel~ 1s went there with a few exceptions. Miss Weber wa the first now eighty-four year old and resides at the Faith teacher. alarie were about 65.00 per month, with a third Lutheran Rest Home in Wolf Point. of the alary for room and board and the teacher did their In about the early thirties there were few rains and own janitorial work. It i aid that when the Wide[...]e who had no children of worse. Albert Lee and Mabel decided to stick it out and I chool age at that time hauled the building mat[...]ecision. chool without charge. Alb rt Lee had a good crop of oat in the fall of 1916 and along with the neighbor went together and threshed as a crew from farm to farm. A the year came and went there were chool and neighborhood picnic , neighbor with neighbor had the yearly rry picking day throughout the ummer and fall month , and the yearly ta k of the mother and children rai ing a garden and along with keeping the garden free of weed and in ct , a the dads would be bu y in the fields all day and then doing the chore that went with the end- le t[...]the area were very common along with the ledding and skiing which many enjoyed. 'Then there were the y[...]o thick that the neighbors would all get together and hand in hand with club in their hands beat the rabbits to death, some years later a disease took the toll of the rabbit population. With the advent of the Model T Ford and the Six-Speed Special IH , and other model trucks the elevators got more grain and the town of Wolf Point expanded with many[...] |
| Dad loved to be around fowls and the animals, and in the the former Eunice Poore of Poplar. They now live in Great spring of 1933 the chicken coop and the barn that stand on Falls, Montana. Anna still has a brother and two sisters in the homestead site today was built[...]Norway. Mother loved to bake bread and several times she would Magnus passed a[...]1945Annamovedtothe supply the neighbor bachelors and widowers with bread Seattle, Washington area to live and be near her daughters. and vegetables from her priceless garden.[...]me. One man that helped the Lee family to learn and understand, as he did with other people in the area I am sure, was a neighbor bachelor. His name was Louis Larsen, a man who served his country in World War 1, and said so THE ED MAHLUM FAMILY many times there is always two sides to a problem. The people that knew Louis, knew him as a walking by Mrs. Jim Larson encyclopedia. Albert Lee (Dad) was a buttermaker by trade as a young Ed and Emma Mahlun were married at Fingal North man in Minnesota and came to Montana and became a Dakota and spent their first years on rented fa~s near successful farmer because he believed in being honest and there. Like all young people, they dreamed of having their being a hard worker.[...]rain to Poplar, Montana, Mabel Lee (Mother) was a school teacher by trade and contacted a real estate man and began looking over the came to Montana as a wife of two years and wanting to be a land in this area. He and his brother-in-law, Henry Fossen good mother (which she was and still is). Hand in hand walked miles o[...]available for homesteading. After much searching a people, this they believed. "Do unto others as yo[...]" Point and twenty-five miles from Scobey though located[...]in Roosevelt County and on the reservation. They chose[...]this area with a hope of a railroad running between Wolf THE ARNOLD LUND FAMILY Point and Scobey and near their homesteads. In the spring[...]y, came to America when he was eighteen years old and a wife, four children, livestock and all his belongings to the worked in St. Paul and in North Dakota. homestead. He a~mpanied his livestock, machinery and He married Gina Espeseth in Minot, North Dakota in household goods m a box car on the train. His wife and 1909, then moved to Craigmyle, Alta, Canada and children were also on the train[...]ving in Havre, Montana loaded on the wagon and the family made it' way to and Gordon. Gordon is now living near the Montana[...]built farms in orth Dakota, things looked barren and In September 1916 they came to Montana and hopele . By this time, many ot[...]. Our neighbor were Henry Fo en Joe of Wolf Point and lived there till 1937 when they moved to Gier dorf , Loui Lellithre n were all within a radiu of North Dakota.[...]h her grandmother to attend chool. Waska, in 1918 and about forty people got their mail there. Within a couple of year , chool ho~ wa built about The mail was delivered to the post office twice a week from thr mil away and called the French chool after the Wolf Point. It was hauled by team and wagon or led and family who live n are t to th chool. Ho[...]1923. It was taken method of transportation to and from school. Kid of all over by a neighbor, Mrs. T. B. Barnes. he lived about a ag attend d h ol from i to igh[...]land liv on the place now. In board d and ro m d with on of th famili n ar the later years,[...]run by Mr . Ru el Barne ho I. (Vida), a daughter-in-law. The po tofficewa di continued ard parti and dancing in the horn in 1935.[...]y in Havre, Montana in 1966 for danc and chool program . Th w r r big and his wife in 1967. Gordon Lund married ByrlJacob on v ntfor 11 hildr n,p r n and v r on n r nough to in 1941 and have a son Dale and a grand on Ja on all com . Man w k of p[...]to mak urtain for a tag . Tho arly d teach r w r[...]th fir , carri d coal and a h and did all kind of MAG A D A G 0 janito: work b id_ t[...]Amazmgly the kid all pa d their venth and ighth Coming to the United tat in 1906, and ttling in grad ta xam . Williston, orth Dakota, Anna met and married agnu All the farming wa don with hor a the area under Magnuson in 1916. They were marri[...]machine wa moved from plac to place and all the A on, Melvin, and four daughter w r born to them. neig[...]al for the Alameda, California; Mr . Don Buckley and Bernie harvest crews, ah a[...] |
| [...]all started when three Mann brothers came to team and wagon with four or six horses pulling one or two[...]e, Ohio. The first brother, Frank, wagons. It was a two day trip and the light in our north homesteaded in Dool[...]Roosevelt, Jr. Frank was later wounded in the leg and died find a place for Mother to stay during her confinement. In of the flu in a Veteran's hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. He the fall of 1919, we moved to Wolf Point for the winter and a never had a chance to return to Montana after the war. new da[...]in 1916, Charles, along with his brother John and family, All the clothing was made by my mother and "made- traveled by wagon from Plentywood to homestead in overs" was the usual, and hand me downs. Grandma Roosevelt C[...]ow the Benrud Community. Fossen would arrive once a year and spend weeks mending Charles later died in a Wolf Point Hospital in April of 1964 and darning and putting patch on patch and talking at the age of ninety. He was a bachelor all his life. Norwegian to my parents wh[...]what The area was completely burned black from a prairie fire the conversation was about. Little did she know, we soon set by a steam engine and snow banks were still in the "caught on".[...]1915-1916 when John Times became better, we had a car and a tractor. The Lawrence and Nancy Ellen Mann and family arrived in children ready for high school stayed in Wolf Point and June 1916. John thought he could get rich in Montana and worked for their room and board with more affluent then planned to go back to Ohio as a rich man. But he never families. It was a wonderful thing for these families to do, retu[...]arrived here, Nancy said as they also supervised and kept us on the straight and that if she had had the money, she would[...]so used to the wide open spaces of hours digging and selling coal for $2. 75 to $3.00 a ton. It Montana that the heavy wooded areas of Ohio no longer was all the income we had and we were thankful for it. He appealed to her. also worked with his horses helping build a road. Those The reason John chose their[...]s had located in Section 25, Township 32, and Range 47, in plenty of food.[...]ad was supposed Crops improved. It rained again and prices went up and to run about four miles north along the West Fork of the the "stickers" came out ahead and spent their last years in Poplar River. Also the area was ideal for grazing cattle. abundance, a hard earned security. There were a few neighbors. Nancy herself never saw[...]en; Nelson came in the spring of 1916 and lived one mile away Frances Harrington, Owasso, M[...]children; Douglas Mahlum, deceased, six children; and The Mann family traded at Scobey, twe[...]between Wolf Point and Scobey, they moved their trade to[...]LLIE H. ALTBY doctor and hospital was located in Scobey.[...]st, the seven members of the Mann family lived in a Mrs. Nellie H. Maltby was born January 6, 1890[...]a, where he grew up. She came to summer a two story wooden house was built. It had two Wolf[...]ried Earl rooms downstairs connected by a ladder to the two Maltby at Poplar. They made the[...]d in 1974. winter of 1917 came from a cook stove. 'fhe temperature She was a member and officer of the First Presbyterian got down to 60 degrees below zero. That same year the Church and had been activeinchurch work.Shewasalsoa[...]ith smallpox. The only member of the Eastern Star and the Degree of Honor. medicines used were home remedies and a big family doctor The Maltby's had two daughter ; Mr . Lawrence Agnew book was u ed as a reference. No doctor was available, and of Everett, Washington and Mrs. John Cook, Whitefish, everyone survived. Montana, and several grandchildren.[...]Henry Peterson was hired to break up more od with a Hart[...]The grasshoppers invaded the area in 1921 and 1922 and[...]he only year John ever had any money in This id a family history of the John Lawrence Mann the bank. The dry years started in 1929 and lasted through family and his descendants who homesteaded in the 1937. In that last year there was a complete drought. Benrud Community in Roos[...] |
| [...]this part of the country was school they noticed a huge foot print in their tracks they 1936. The te[...]ing on the they arrived home, it turned out to be a n India n from ridges. Original mileage from the[...]olf Point Poplar who had used gunny sacks wrapped a round his fee t in good weather was 40 miles. The[...]Indian was on his way to work at t he was in 1949 and 1950, although the winter before John Castle Rock[...]FRED W. MARQUARDT to paw down to get any grass and only their backs could be seen above the snow. A late spring blizzard on the 7th, 8th, Fred W. Marquardt wa born eptember 3, 1903 in and 9th of May 1927 killed many cattle. Charles Mann Rothsa y, Minn esota, th e son of Mr. and Mr . Augu t alone lost 30 head of cows and numerous calves. Marquardt. He grew up th ere and moved to Wolf Point in On the social side of life, barn dances, baseball games, 1925. and picnics were the forms of entertainment in those[...]ried Mollie Kj on o on October 1 , 1932atRoth ay. A community dance hall was built beside the country[...]armed in Wolf P oin t un til 1969 when he retired and and post office in the Benrud Community. The name th[...]the storekeeper's name which was He was a m ember of Loyalty Lodge AF and AM o. 121 Ben Strand. He also ran the post office. In the winter, the and BPOE o. 1764, an d the Fir st Lutheran hurch in hills surrounding the homestead were ideal for skiing and Wolf P oint. sledding parties which were held eve[...]in Benrud. Fred Dravland , Mrs. Duan e Tyler, a n d Mr . John Roddy These included horse racing and rodeos. At one of these all of Den ver , and Mrs. Robert Larson of Lamar, Colorado; events, Ben Peterson had the first radio in the community. and three grandchildren. Everyone listened to the Gib[...]In 1927 the Benrud road was built between Scobey and Wolf Point. The first school house was Pershing S[...]round 1918. It was named after John J . Pershing, a general in World War I. Since the[...]cold, classes were not held in December, January, and February. To make up for this lost J ohn C[...]in time, summer school was held in June, July and Aug us t. Wa llha lla, orth Dakota. He gradua d from Wallhalla A sidelight to the ranching side of the Mann fa mil y is High and attended College at Grand Fork , orth Dakota. tha[...]edon ohed cidedtogoto Montanaand foundation herd. A couple of years later he cros ed this start a new lif for him lf an d hi i ter. herd with Heref[...]cam e to Montana in the fall of 1915. H contact d a raised by John J . Mann, gra n dson of Joh n L.,[...]d locator in Gla gow, who th n came to Wolf P int and ancestry back to the original Red Poll herd rai e[...]horn tead. In April 1916 John and i t r Rita 1 ft John L . and Nancy Mann h ad five children: Mrs. Emma Wallhall[...]½ 1 , 31, 47. Mrs. Doris Brookman who till live and farm in the John tarted br aking o[...]family. John to engage in rai ing cattl . J ohn w a th fir t on in thi L. Ma nn died of can cer in Ma[...]e liv to k, after man ears of tough wint r and f ed Wilb ur Ma n n was one year old when hi p[...]wa rai ed in th W ldon have two living children. A daughter, Patricia Mann communit . Julia graduat[...]ngus lives in Higgin , Texa , with h r hu band Jo and V ldon. After h r par nt di d Julia mov d to Wolf Point their three children Timothy, had, and Julie. A on, John wh re h lived with h r broth r Phil. Julia then w nt to J. Mann, lives in the Benrud Communit and farm the Bismark, orth Dakota, wh r h nroll din th chool of original homestead. He and hi wife Fran have thr ur ing a t. Elexis Ho pital. h gradua d a a children Kim Jimm and .. ha n who att nd Fron i r Regi tered ur e. Juli[...]h 1 School o~tside of Wolf Point. A third child of Wilbur and practic d h r nur ing and married John on ptemb r 20, |
| and won. He held this position until February 1946 wh[...]back in the farming game. They hired Al Holderman and his family to run their farm. In 1948 he formed a partnership with his son Daniel, which is still g[...]lmmaculateConcep- tion Catholic Church. Julia was a member of the Catholic Daughters and Alter Society, also a member of ~he B .P .W .0 .. John is a charter member of the Wolf Pomt Knights of Columb[...]ed on several of their board of directors. John and Julia had four boys. Daniel married Alice Van Berkom Jones. They are living and farming the original homestead. Leo (Bud) married[...]t automotive vehicle, Emil Nelson driving. Family and[...]wa in 1891. He moved with his chickens and gardens were the means of livelihood. parents to a farm in Grant County, Minnesota where he Winters were cold and long with only a trip to town about grew up helping on the family farm. He met and married Thanksgiving time in the fall and Easter in the spring, for Amanda Peterson and in 1915 their first son, Don, was the t[...]Prairie fires were a constant summer threat being In 1915 he heard[...]fall of the year. home teading. o in 1916, Emil and a friend, Han Most of the neighbo[...]ors, but families did iljenberg, came to Montana and each filed on a get together for picnics, dancing, baseball and just homestead site in what later became the Benrud visiting. A country chool, Pershing School, was built and Community. They had home tead shack built and then this became a center for activities and where their six returned to Minne ota to make arr[...]d an emigrant The six children all attended and graduated from Wolf railroad car with four horse , four cows, and ome Point High chool, some going on[...]some form of agriculture. Don i farming and ranching in The family follow d a little later by train which now the Benrud Community. Roland became a banker, but lost con i ted of a econd on, Roland. They traveled by hor e his life serving as a navigator on a B29 fire bombing over drawn wagon the 2 miles fro[...]Japan. Violet is married to Lloyd Pederson and is on a sit , on ection 36, Town hip 32, Range 7.[...]farm near Choteau Montana. Allen finished college and is Hor e and buggy were the only mean of travel until[...]n the extension service. 1921 when Emil purcha ed a Model T Ford truck with olid Denni i farmi[...]estead site where his son rubb r tire on the back and o tripped down that Emil Brian will carry on after he retire . Glady Jensen is on the and I drove home itting on the bare ga tank. The truc[...]Our one memorable trip wa a return to Minnesota in a[...]day as roads were not the best and there was no danger of[...]threshing machine method was a neighborhood project,[...]Church and Sunday chool wa held in the local school[...]gra hopp rs, hail, and wind, but all in all Montana ha Emil's fir[...] |
| [...]hey spent the night. They were told that there wa a 25[...]is bridge so they then knew why the by Rensvolds and portions of a letter from Mrs. Rensvold to man had tried[...]rade in Wolf Point had no sidewalks and the houses used Pioneer School.[...]21stofMarch, That fall Art built a 16 by 24 hou e with an attic. In 1916, on Secti[...]n himself. Winter came the third of December and by called Sheridan County. Later, it was change[...]elt February they had run out of coal so he and his neighbors County.[...]shoveled their way to the mine and hauled enough coal He was born and raised in Brookings County, South ho[...]y were snowbound Dakota, married Josie Felberg, a neighbor girl. Since land until the 20th of[...]ecided to buy land elsewhere. ground and planted oats for feed and potatoes. The ground He attended a meeting in Sinai, South Dakota, where a was so hard the potatoes were flat like saucers and had to man told them of land in Montana being opened for be dug with a pick-axe. The oats was o hort and the homesteading. On his 24th birthday, March 14th, he and gophers started eating it so he turned[...]degrees. Water Minneapolis, Minnesota to catch a train for Montana. Of was hauled from Tule Creek for the house, and to water six these seven Art, Nels Lund, Ben Thompson, Louis Olson cows and four horses until they dug a well. They hand dug and Oliver Felbert homesteaded out here. When they go[...]et deep. In the proce of Wolf Point, Blacktail, a livery stable man took Art and digging their well they hit three feet o[...]liver out to see the land they were interested in and the down so with four sticks of dynamite th[...]and. As they left Wolf Point that break through and get down another 10 feet to wat.er. morning in a horse and wagon they could see ice jams on Several[...]Koal dug another well for him the Missouri River and by the time they got back that night closer[...]use. two feet of water the eveners broke so Art and Oliver The first neighbors were Sam and John Wagaman, John jumped into the water to mend[...]wrance back to the stables. Since they were wet and cold they had Compton, Axel Holien, and A.T. Breving. ince Art had to go to the store and get dry clothes. Blacktail let them the bi[...]loft. On the way back Christmas and other community events. The fir t Chri t- to Sou[...]ton. mas the neighbors all got snowbound and had to pend the Instead of waiting several hours[...]night. They slept on the floor, in the attic, and ome never them to Sinai they walked the 12 miles[...]t to bed. In September of the same year Art and his family On the fourth of July[...]e by all chipping loaded up their possessions in a Model T and headed for together and buying firecracker and firework . their new home. It took five days to make the trip taking A prairie fire hit everal mile north and burned up hay one day to visit relatives in Lemon , South Dakota. belonging to Ben Thomp on and Louie Olson lo t hi barn They started out on the Yellow Stone Trail which at that and hor . The fir went to th Poplar Ri r b for time was only a trail. The only sign wa a rock painted topping. yellow about[...]Art hir er of ground bro winding hills and down again. With the orthwest wind and in 1919 h bought his o Ford on. p[...]odel T to climb the steep winding trail. They got a far hurch · y m until in as Mobridge, South Dakota that day, and tay d over 1921 a ch (n ~ oved into th night. ext morning they cro sed the Mis ouri River on a n ighborho wo · ·d and ferry boat and headed the odel T toward Montana. The a had an au[...]At Fallon they had to leav the Yellow tone trail and[...].. g. and filling station they tarted asking about the trai[...]t Wolf Point, and th y were told that the only way to get to Wolf P[...]th addl hor . They didn.t have saddle hor and Avi wa only a baby o they decid d to drive the odel T. Art tarted looking for a trail, he found one and started out on it. But ft.er they had yga[...]farm t stack, o they had to go back and look for anoth r trail. hom pla[...]raised on a farm · unty. Th ·ght As they were cro ing the river on a pontoon bridg a childr n. man came out of a hous waving hi arm . They didn't Avi , Rub and Ir · nearb on f .[...] |
| and John Toavs, sons of another homesteader in the area. Henry and Mina Sethre retired from the farm in 1944 Bob and Avis have five children and John and Irene have and moved into Wolf Point. In 1945 they moved to four. Verna also married a son of a homesteader, Alvin Kalispell, Montana wh[...]olf Point in 1962. have five children. Alvin died a few years ago. Mary Four children were born to Henry and Mina, one married a Havre boy who works for the railroad, in daughter and three sons. Elsie passed away in 1962. Vancouver, Washington, George Dodaro, and they have Donald is now farming the homestead and Kenneth and two children.[...]business in Wolf Point. Art is now 83 years old and is living in Wolf Point. He Henry passed away in July 1964 and Mrs. Sethre is still bought one of the houses the railroad built in the early living and making her home in Wolf Point. days. Art also hel[...]JOHN SETHRE MR. AND MRS. HENRY SETHRE[...]John Sethre arrived from Fergus Falls, Minnesota and Mina Rayen was born September 26, 1889 Minnesota to homestead on a half section of land which at Dalton, Minnesota.[...]on 2, Township 30, Range 4 7). Henry grew up on a farm near Carlisle, Minnesota and In the fall of 1923 I came to Wolf Point and taught school he worked as a grain buyer for an elevator at Carlisle until at the Toavs School. John and I were married in the fall of he came to Montana[...]1924. At first we lived in a two-room house to which we Mina worked as a telephone operator for three years at soon[...]to her marriage. into a larger and more comfortable home. The high point Henry came to Montana in 1914 and filed on his for us was when we installed a Jacobs Electric plant with a homestead of 320 acres in Section 24, Township 30[...]. He went basement-lights with the flick of a switch! The wonder for back to Minnesota and returned in the fall of1915 and built me was the end to kerosene lamps with their smokey a home on the homestead. In the spring of 1916 he m[...]aw, Alfred Houg who also homesteaded Olson and Hans Anderson families. Not too far a way were nearby. Mrs. Sethre and Mrs. Houg, a sister of Henry, came the Sletvold, Herting, Henry Sethre and Alfred Houg about a month later. They also came by train to Poplar as[...]snows met at the train by Henry who had borrowed a buggy for and cold weather. Blizzards would sometimes pile the[...]at Poplar that snow as high as our little house and steps had to be cut into they did their trading t[...]year I remember we couldn't get to town letvold and his sister Alma, Alfred Houg, Ben Spencer,[...]hs. Food was no problem as we had plenty of Louie and Martin Linner and the Christen en families . supplies of canned fruit, vegetables and fresh meat. In the Their community became known as the Expanse fall we stocked up with a thousand pounds of flour as well Community with the Expanse Post Office being located at as sugar and other essentials. That year I did run out of the[...]she met in Anderson made the mail route once a week with horses and Montana was J .L . Davey who had a homestead close by. I obtained ome that[...]got their first school buildings in 1920 or 1921 and after Although the tove was "banked up" upon[...]take away some now and we could travel the roads again.[...]This, too, could become a problem when there had been[...]We had three children-Bill who has a business in[...]esno, California; John "Bud' who lives at Seattle and[...]away, during the spring, summer and fall months. They had a two week vacation in summer and during this time[...]winter months were a close family time. We were thrilled[...] |
| divided between the children, men and ladies. Cards were Some breaking was hired done by a neighbor who e name played and many problems of the day discussed. There was Roske. He had a Mogul 8-16 two plow tractor. This co t was always[...]orn was planted. It grew very well. There wa also a very nights in school houses or some country hall[...]arest school was the Pershing chool which was for a big lunch at midnight. After Bill arrived in 1927[...]Point, with the exception of a few years, until their death . Mr. Sethre pass[...]at fall I Hans died January 20, 1950 and Exie died January 23, moved to town and Martin Sethre farmed the land for 1947. several years. I worked for a few years at the Federated and Six children were born to the couple, and are all till Penny stores. Elaine and I moved to Portland, Oregon in living. 1948. We sold a half section of the land to Norman Hauge Lewis Milton Siljenberg, born June 13, 1903in Nebraska and he rented the other 640 acres, which we still own; now and lives at Wolf Point, Montana. He married Emma bei[...]Fenske, July 25, 1928. They have one son. service and Bill was back at college after a hitch in the Florence Louise born May 9,[...]After coming to Portland I worked at the Meier and They have a son and a daughter. Frank store for a couple of years and later when Elaine Hilda Lennea, born O[...]e was married to Forrest Cole, October 31, degree and taught school for thirteen years before retiring.[...]e came to Montana from Joplin, Missouri I live in a desirable adult community and am thoroughly in 1917 and worked for the Great orthern Railroad in enjoying[...]Juliet Eleanor born April 16, 1909 and living at uperior,[...]have one on and two daughter . Hans Siljenberg was born March[...]f Point High Sweden, the son of Anders Siljenberg and Karen School in 1932, attended tate Teacher College a Dillon, (Andersdotter) Siljenberg. He came with his parents to the Montana, and taught chool for a few year . ith the United States in 1880 and the family settled near exception of a few year he ha lived in olf Point. h Vermillion, South Dakota, on a farm. He was married to has two on , Richard and Ru ell. Richard i n ag d in Exie (Axelina Bernhar[...]farming near Riverton , Wyoming i marri d and ha a 1900 at Vermillion, South Dakota. She was born daughter and a on. Ru ell graduated from th niv r ity Sep[...]a at Mi soula, Montana in 1 3. daughter of Daniel and Stina Louise (Ander on) Milto[...]d into olf Point farmed with his father until he and his wife moved to ew and hi on continu d to op r te th farm until 197[...]d. Th ir on Larr i Dakota. In 1913 they moved to a farm near Evan ville, marri d and ha on Minnesota where they lived until 1917 when[...]Montana. Han came to Montana in 1916, homesteaded and built a home for the family, about 33[...]iles north of Wolf Point. He returned to Minn ota and brought the family with him in the spring of 1917[...]by pal J n n The mother and four girls arriv d in ob y by pass[...]1 in B on house, the machinery, cattl and the horse w re all load d[...]king fora into two box car . The fath r and son cam in th p[...]a One car was loaded with the hou hold good ,[...]in machinery and hay. B d wer mad on the bal d ha . It was quite c[...]d the cattl , hor chickens. The car were unloaded a cob y. All the goods were haul d out to th home[...]of the Poplar River which was flooding . an long and[...]on and hi were at the homestead .[...], 1 , and Emil some land . Four hor e pull d a walking br aking plow. hri ti[...] |
| [...]Ben Spencer and his homestead home in the summer of[...]stones. Later in the day Aletta's cousins, Lewis and Oline Linner dropped in to visit and sympathize with each other[...]areas and they gathered it and used it to freeze ice cream.[...]Their only child, a daughter, Opal, was born November Ben pencer and Lee Boyd and their immigrant car, 11, 1919. In 1922 they raised and harvested a good crop and March, 1917[...]Minne ota and Iowa.[...]center, but Wolf Point In the pring of 1917 he and Lee Boyd loaded an grew rapidly and was closer. Grain was hauled by horses immigrant freight car and came out to Poplar from where and wagon to the Macon elevator. It took a long day to they came aero country to their home[...]oint would their home alike but B n could not get a water well at hi mean taying overnight. fir t[...]sleigh. When a trip wa planned, people would be bu y Ben brought t am of hor e and two regi tered bred writing letters to be mailed and when the men returned horthorn cow . All th catt[...]d commercial Ben brought with him a single buggy when he came from Hereford herd . On[...]ummer or when there hortly after giving birth to a colt. He rai ed the colt on wa n 't now. The wo[...], looking like hi Percheon ance tor, but Prince, a he wa called , wa too much of a pet to ver be a real good work hor e. On October , 191 h nd Jetta le void were married in a double wedding c remony with Alett ' i ter Alma and John H. Herting at Gla gow, Montana . Aletta wa b[...]me o Montana to ke p his si ter Alma company. Ima and Edward, their brother had both home t aded about[...]th country. Luckily neighbor wer able to look out and care for e ch oth r, and that together with medicine and bed r st a pre cribed by th doctor got everyone in the community afely through a very bad time. The first year were difficult one . The land wa rocky and Iowa farming method didn t work o well h re. Th weather was dry and hot and what was a fair crop in 1919 was lost becau e of hail. Durin[...]Prince put hi head through the window of the hous a~1d stood there Harvest days - 1922. Aletta p ncer and Opal with throughout the storm. Afterward[...] |
| trip to Wolf Point by themselves, and on one such occasion on passing through a band of sheep along the way, a lamb began to run along side the white horse that was pulling the buggy, nearly causing a runaway with its bleating, which caused the horse to run faster and faster until he left the lamb far behind. One[...]to accommodate the host of youngsters growing up and each school became the center of social life and activity for that particular group served by it.[...]during the summer months because of lack of roads and distance of the children from the school and the school was not warmly constructed and winters were so severe. Church services were held[...]first years the whole family came to aid meetings and it was a real get-together for the[...]Junette and Alice. Dori and Lil in wagon. Bo meetings demanding rooms were he[...]and Erne t and two Zimm rman bo With the exception of Carl M.[...]ds had left by 1925. Lee Boyd rented out his land and returned to Iowa. He came back to do threshing in the later '20s and to visit and check on his farming interests in later years. In 1925 the pencers bought a four-room house from a homesteader who had moved away. The house had to be moved 11 mile . John Herting and cott Hart used their tractor and other neighbors helped with teams of horses. It wa ucce sfully moved and became their home until 1953 when a new house was built. Their daughter, Opal, marr[...]e fall of 1947 he pencers moved into Wolf Point and Howard and Opal moved to the farm. They pent much time helpi[...]retirement. Ben pencer pas ed away in Augu t 196 and Aletta in March 1975. Howard and Opal Ii v on th home tead. They have three childr n nam 1 ; K ith, Kathleen and Enid. B t and h r addl hor BET EY DJOH TE LA D John and Bets ten d m · |
| [...]activities consisted of card parties in the as a child, later moved to Canada. They had two children, homes - barn dances in the old Kinney barn and later Marion (Mrs. William Ahrens) they[...]e Boyd School. and George who is married to the former Joann Johnston. Boyd School was built in 1922 which was about three and George farms the original Lars Stensland homestead and one half miles from us and when the kids got old enough is at present time county commissioner of Roosevelt they drove the horse and buggy. We had summer school County. from[...]attended the Magnuson School, which was the homes and later in the Wood School. We had our ladies b[...]me known as the aid meetings on Sunday afternoons and the whole family Divide School. Though lif[...]willing to lend a helping hand when needed. Some of the In 1932 Highway 13 was built and then we started to first neighbors in the[...]1950 we moved Zimmermans, Magnus Magnusons and John Stenslands, into Wolf Point and operated our livestock ranch from to name a few. During the early years almost all of their there, wintering the cattle at the river camp, and trailing trading was done in Poplar. There were[...]ohn area but services were held in the homes and at the school married Delores Lowe in 1948 and they have lived on the houses and ladies aid played an important part in the home p[...]religious and social life of the community. We had six daught[...]bauer; Ellen died at age 13 from rheumatic fever; and one son THE CHARLES TAYLOR FAMILY John. We have 22 grandchildren and 13 great grand- children. John Sr. passed away in January 1969 shortly by Pierre and John Taylor after we celebrated our 56th wedding[...]December 3, 1893. Their background was farming and they by George tensland[...]ts of ten children. The youngest, Charles J., was a Lars J. Stensland was born in Telemarken, Norwa[...]in Poplar in December 1 9. He came to America as a child and grew up in 1918. Edmore, orth Dakota. January 6, 1915, he married Dina Mr. Taylor and the four oldest boys landed in Culbertson Anderson and they came out to homestead in 1916 on[...]day. There was about two returned to orth Dakota and came back by car in 1917. feet of snow and we had to go to McCabe where a farm had Four living children were born to this u[...]white who i married to the former Anne Nykolayou, and they ones yet) and loaded with machinery. Well, we made it. also far[...]After the crop was in that spring, we made a covered Dor ett) now living in Terre Haute, Indiana and Doris wagon and trailed a large bunch of cattle and horses to (Mrs. 0 car Brown) residing in eattle.[...]north of Wolf Point and put down roots.[...]Doris, Pierre, John, Jean, Julene, Dorothy and Charles. Quite a gang isn't it.[...]By 192 this was a thing of the past. Good horses were[...]and graduated from Wolf Point High School. Five of th[...]senator from Roosevelt County for one term and also[...]served as Wolf Point Postmaster. Neil developed a large ranch in Daniels County and served as representative[...]Boyd, John , and Charles, farmed and ranched in the Wolf Lars and Margit Stensland[...] |
| [...]brought out his cigar factory equipment and set out making Welzy's Havanas and El Montana cigars which he peddled[...]to the Oswego Indian trader and storekeeper, Dan Knapp,[...]Brownlee's restaurant and for Ole Erickson in his hotel.[...]Meals were served family style, 25 cents a meal. His son,[...]Karl farmed the home place, raised a large family, is now retired and still lives there while Karl, Jr. has taken over[...]MR. AND MRS. E. EDWARD ZIMMERMAN[...]generations of Taylors. From left to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Zimmerman came to Roosevelt County right are Douglas, Lane, Mrs. C.D. (Grandma) and Reid. in 1916 from Rothsay, Minnesota, to homestead about 20 Reid Taylor and his brother Neil, both pioneer truckers are miles northwest of Poplar. He and his brother Jack came credited with having hauled the first load of livestock from first, filing and building each a homestead shack. Later this area directly to a St. Paul market in 1934. Reid, long that fall their wives and families and their widowed prominent in community and business affairs, served mother came. Roosevelt County as a State Senator and later was Wolf The shack was rough 2[...]the day, and dripped all over. She rolled up all the bedding[...]during the day and covered it with a tarp to keep it dry. Jean and Dorothy each taught in the Wolf Point schools A laundry stove bought in Poplar was used for heating before moving on. The girls all married and located in and cooking the first winter and summer. It was flat- diverse areas.[...]topped with four lids. The oven was shaped like a large Of the original ten children, six are now living. The four stove pipe and was crossway in the stove pipe. It baked girls and John and Pierre. At the time of her death, two[...]eft 33 grandchildren. From there the A year later they went back to Minne ota, and he growth has not been slow.[...]was originally basically English, it cattle, a 'top buggy', and furniture on the immigrant train now represents a[...]onalities found in the to Poplar. She and the family followed later. Western United States.[...]John ten land to the America. It also represents a multitude of vocations which southeast, and Ely Boyd, two mile we t. Poplar wa the is also th[...]d th ir bu ine . The family is extremely large and widely scattered Their children wer[...]rub line" visiting members Virginia, Rus ell and Richard ..They attended chool at the of this fami[...]yd chool in Di trict o. 3. San Diego, California, and from Hawaii, to South Carolina District o. 3 wa eparated from Di rict o. 45 in and Florida, and most states in between. Then al o it D[...]fir t tru tee of Di trict o. 3 were would include a few Canadian Province and ome A.L. Wood, A.K. Holen, and R.M. Morford. Fred Buettner overseas bases as far[...]was the first clerk. Ed Zimmerman wa a tru tee from 1924 So this is the story of one[...]tennial to our Bi-C ntennial. R. Pierre Taylor and Cathryn Frenk were married in Wolf Point May 29,[...]ing in this Bi-Centennial year. John , Bill, Buck and Douglas Taylor, Mrs. Ralph Ferdina, and Denni Visser are still in the county. Mr . Boyd Taylor (Alice) and Mr . THE POE OR E[...]Listen my dear on , and oon you'll b 'in; How thing were a go'in, in nineteen ixteen.[...]Ju t wait, till I tell you, and hear what we ay; JULIUS B. WELZE BA[...]We had no fine b dding, uch a you have today, For we lepton straw b ds, and sawdu t and hay. by Karl Welzen bach , Sr.[...]th dryer, no radio, nor T.V. in 1914, bought land and built a home six miles northeast of Our chair and our table were made out of plank, Wolf Point. He[...]uch things, as the famous "Ruh-bank". Julius, Jr. and Julia out on April 1, 1915 and shipped out Our butter wa not mad with kilowatt pow r , an immigrant car with chickens and household goods. He We did not o[...] |
| We used the old wash board, and plunger and mold, For such were the customs, in those days of old. We never spent money, for a permanent wave, For times were quite hard, and we had to save. Sometimes to keep the wolf from the doors, Many hours were spent, milking cows and doing the chores. When came the winter, with its snow and its sleet, When in the[...]pray, |
| [...]Carl Karge plowing. Carl, Ruth, Ma and Pa Hoversland, Hank and Reuben Picnic in hills - John and Lars Stensland and children. Clyde Brookman kneeling, Marvin Bro[...]Mrs. B. Johnson and 0. W. Ol on on car. Hoversland Rumley[...] |
| [...]Combine owned by Nelson Heidner, Albert Thomas and Phil Geisen's house being moved to a better location. Mrs. Phil Geisen. Tractor owned[...]d dinner while house was moving. This house straw and chaff saver on the back of the combine. A trip was later moved north of Poplar and her daughter Mrs. rope released a pile of straw on the ground.[...] |
| [...]fo ou. Thi Hall of F o good A long a tlm all be· And k God Hall of Fam I f◄ To h[...]t, Th ad u n ti fall, And a s ow long it 1 , But God r do f◄ And in lofFam B in Ilis So[...]mall Riv a s ,. :yond th , tars In that[...]rth Or glory that . , I d rath r b a n unkno\J rn h r And hav m y nam up th r .[...] |
| [...]Ole M. Torgerson, Victor Aspengren and Chris[...]committee. The Catholic church was purchased and Rev. FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH Distad and Mrs. Torger purchased the first two dozen[...]Johnson was the choir director, and Mrs. Fred I wen was by Mrs. Albert Nelson and Mrs. Gladys Harmon Miller janitor. Whe[...]hop in Bainville, she days. kept Explanations and Bible History books on the shelves Rev. H.T. Haagenson was the first regular pastor to and sold them for 35¢ a copy, and gave many a way for serve the church. The first marr[...]ifts. She also ordered the baptismal certificates and saw Tillie and Elmer Kirkvold in 1917. to it that Lutheran child[...]ice cream socials and bazaars. All in the community Because there was[...]participated in these events as the Catholics and the Congregational church in which to hold services and Congregationalists were also trying to[...]took him out to the Much carpentry work and remodeling was done over the homestead in her lumber wagon and provided his meals years but the benches and the first long tables (the work of and a cot to sleep on as long as he was in Bain ville. Other Victor Aspengren and Fred Swant) are still being used in ministers who[...]e two small steeples on the sides of the Tungwell and Rev. Cornielson. A Rev. Falkner, who church were remove[...]spengren on March 13, 1916. Officers were elected and committees set up to work on a constitution for the Ladies and plans were made to hold suppers and other events to raise money for the new church. M[...]elected president, Mrs. Ole Hanson was treasurer, and Lillian Hanson was secretary. Two bushels of dish[...]nners were held in the members homes. Since horse and buggy wa the method of travel, there were usually many men and several children accompanying the ladies to their[...]arlie Schwenke , Mrs. Ella Torger, Ole Torgerson, and the Herman Torgersons.[...]Parish in Bainville. He was the one and only resident[...]From 1948 to 1954, Rainville was a mission of Medicine[...]pastor of Culbertson in August, 1954, it has been a[...]The original church was sold in 1918, and the present[...] |
| [...]and Reverend Aamoth of Froid met with a number of[...]Joe Tollefson for two years, and Mr. Andrew Lodmell for[...]e year. Mr. C.J. Samuelson was elected Secretary, and[...]Culbertson was purchased, and moved to Brockton. The[...]December 1937 the church was destroyed by fire and again[...]without a church until 1939 when the Buchanan School[...]House was purchased and moved to the same location. United Methodist Chur[...]classes, and baptized many children. Reverend Hagen's[...]rst confirmation class was in 1926 when six girls and one BAINVILLE, MONTANA[...]of the congregation date Early day settlers met and organized the First Union back to May 27, 1930. These records show a membership of Congregational Church on July 1, 19[...]til the Church was built in the follows: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson; Mr. and Mrs. A.M. summer of 1910. An addition was built in 1919 to serve as a Lodmell; Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Samuelson; Mr. and Mr . Ole kitchen and youth meeting room. Lien; Mr. and Mrs. Ole Moen; Mr. Joe Tollefson; Mr. Ted On Ja[...]Johnson; Mr. Lloyd Johnson ; Mrs. Clinton Johnson and First Methodist Church with Rev. George Lee as fi[...]m Minn ota, erv d as Lakeside Church, 1917 - Rev. and Mr . Armstrong the fir t reg[...] |
| [...]our basement has now been midweek prayer meeting and Bible studies at th e newly decorated, complete with a new oil furnace. Brockton High chool. He also org[...]permitting us these blessings, and ask His blessing upon Reverend .R. Halvorson came to Brockton in Augu st our church and upon our congregation. Our present 1932 and served Our aviour's Lutheran Church until[...]uring thi time Reverend Halvorson was and 39 voting members. mo t helpful in the purchase o[...]hurch of Culbertson. Reverend J.L. Ranum accepted a call to the pari h in 1935. unday chool and young peoples' work was organized during his fi r[...]August 1937 to July 1939. During hi service here a Luth era n Men 's In 1915 Father Be[...]es were Falls to have the presence of a Cardinal of the Church with the Luther League and together with Mrs. Oakland , present for a religious function . This was during the with the[...]pted the call to serve the parish in ovember 1939 and continued faithfully until December 1945. Our aviour's Lutheran Church was without a pastor fo r eleven months. During this vacancy, S[...]November 16, 1946. He re igned in order to accept a call to serve the First Lutheran Church of Mile C[...]in the Bainville Pari ·h wa on Chri tma Day. At a recent meeting of the congregation, together with[...]t. John's Lutheran Church, to form a new parish. For this new pari h , we a k God's continued blessing and guidance for the further extension of His Kingdom[...]Catholic Indian Congres which is a four day gathering of[...]Indian people from Montana and orth Dakota. The[...]building which u ed to be a t Riverside (between Brockton and Poplar) was moved to Brockton a nd attached to th e Our Sauiour's Lutheran[...]has now be n remod led to th point where we can, |
| [...]he church was closed Oliver Sidney came and labored here from eptember 1939 with the idea tha[...], painting, decorating the congregation and parish of which it is a part became and plumbing put in by the parishoners. Since 1972 Si[...]ve resided in Brockton. August of 1948 and continued to serve till 1951, during[...]church. The by Edwin C. Larson and evening service was condu[...]nd Bernhard Bretheim Hansen and Luther Larson had scripture and prayer. The[...]to me, let us go up into the Quartet singing a special number. Kathryn He gave house of the Lord." Thus saith the Psalmist of old. Today devotions and prayer. The parish choir sang and Phyllis the Zion Lutheran congregation of the Anderson Johnson gave a reading. The Bethel Trio entertained with Community truly has reason to be glad and sing songs of a special musical number. Kermit Bol tad with an pr[...]dreams, who realize the need for the Word of God and by Reverend H. John Steen of Zahl, or[...]ll as for their music was by Reverend and Mrs. teen and Reverend and children who come after them.[...]congregation was organized at the home of Mr. and Mr .[...]Larson, ecretary; Jacob Laurid en, Trea urer- and three[...]trustees, 0 car Qualley, Varner elson and Juliu Johnson; and three deacone ses, Anna Hartkopf, Mr .[...]John Reum and Mr . Jacob Laurid en. A the year went by, it became apparent that a place of[...]were drafted for the con truction of a church ha ment b[...]the ize of 30 b cavation and pouring of[...]rg o uartet gave aand 191 , t oun th co[...]W un · t th a al ting struck out to find for them elves a horn ad of at fall th a r anning they could build for them elves a home and mak · · o[...]I • ffi birth of a church, the fir t wor hip rvic g[...]o r B.I. Lund who wa a Lutheran Fre bur . of[...], Henni rg, Mr . June 1920. As a part of a Hom Mi ion all th group of Lewi K[...]n on i e ba and the gather, being serv d from June in 1920 _u nti[...]v_ r nd w furni h d a p opl of th munit Sand[...]ing at with Rev r nd a h ad carpenter and the door. He also painted pie t[...]tion advi or. Th Ladi his pari h . Rever nd and c d Aid also contribu mount tow rd paym nt of A.L. Stowell from Octob r 1 ·1 May 1934. H a the p w nd cha . s ucce[...]he The fir t wor a h Id up tair in thi pari h from July 1934[...] |
| the church stands today, completed and fully equipped with new furniture and is fully paid for. For all of which we[...]CULBERTSON CHURCHES thank and praise, first of all our God who has blessed us[...]SEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH unto this good work for Him, and secondly, each and every Culbertson one who has contributed so abundantly of his means and time making this church a possibility. May the blessing of[...]s Son, Jesus Christ, unto the In 1940 A.A. Howell, the faithful pioneer builder of salvatio[...]ey could. The Nels Lindbo, Pastor Donald Melchert and Pastor John Orwig Nelson family was interested and often held meetings in who is presently serving Z[...]heir log house. Later the Bratvolds of Homestead, and the Charley Nelson family and the Bill Kaiser family of It was in the early 6[...]h the The lot the Tastee Freeze and the Wild West Diner now American Lutheran Church, the churches were realigned occupy was purchased and the tarpaper building was so as to be better served by the Pastors without having so moved there and covered with imitation brick siding and far to drive to get to their parishes. Zion Luthe[...]m Medicine Lake Lutheran, Rock pastor and stayed two and a half years. Spring Lutheran, and Bethal Lutheran of Homestead. In 1945 A.A. Howell came and set the church in order After the realignment, Zion became part of the triangle and the church joined the Montana District Council of the with St. John's of Poplar and Our Saviour's of Brockton. Assembly of God[...]end Gary the church stands was purchased and the church building Lindbo. It was also at the time of the merger that about was moved onto it and made into a parsonage. half of the members of Zion Lutheran w[...]m years gone by was able to he Rolland Murphy and M.K. Eldridge. with us, Pastor Haugestuen from Ma[...]that six of the seven undertakers to he used as a funeral home-as it is today. rving Charter Member[...]um, Annette Berglee, Mina Lauridsen, Bert Johnson and Gundar Vraa. The other living charter member is orthfield Johnson. As we look into the past, Henry and Myla Lauridsen were the first couple married by R[...]0. The first baptism was Bernice (Qualley) Kozak, and the first confirmation class included: Joe and Millard Johnson, Esther and Alice Schwarzrock. The land upon which the church[...]ficer in the church were Oscar Qualley, John Reum and J .M. Johnson. The Deaconesse were Mrs. Reum, Mrs. Jacob Lauridsen and Mrs. James Craigie. The Zion Lutheran Ladies Ai[...]Culbertson Mrs. James Craigie, Mrs. Bengt Johnson and Mrs. Charles elson. The Zion Ladies Aid, or A[...]ice President; Mrs. Eddie Schwarzrock, Secretary; and by Pastor Verle Dean Mr[...]January 25, 1968. May the first fifty years he a stepping stone into the In 1965 P[...] |
| year. Sunday services and Bible studies began in the 0. Reverend Robertson served in the early 1930's. The Qualley and H. Dahlberg homes. Sunday School was excavation of the church basement was completed and started in September. As attendance at services increased, dedicated on October 22, 1933. A deaconess, Miss Nellie one apartment in the parsonage was converted into a Phillips next served the church, then Reverend Agte and Chapel. During this time the work in Culbertson w[...]repaired, new shingles, bathroom for the need for a church and congregation of their own. A parsonage, concrete walks and some landscaping, and building fund was started and a building committee new paint for the parsonage and the church. elected. In October 1967 ground-break[...]irst service in the new church was without a pastor and pulpit was filled by ministers from held June 30, 1968. The next summer a home located across other churches as they[...]rend the street from the church was purchased for a parsonage. Simpson from the Baptist church. Emily Hinz and Mrs. Pastor Gene Sundby served Bethel and Faith Churches H.W. Anderson kept the S[...]n were held in 1908, first in the school, then in a small 16x20 foot shack. Reverend Jasper Weber ser[...]uring this time that the present spot was secured and the building now used as the parsonage was built. The lower story was used for church purposes and the upper floor for the parsonage. In 1910 Reverend Weber was replaced by Reverend Cookingham and in 1912 Reverend C.E. Wharton arrived. Through his efforts and inspite of many difficulties, the present church building was completed and dedicated by Presbyterian Ladies Aid - 1[...]ccock on April 20, 1918. By 1914 our church had a membership of 37 people. The church activities provided for the spiritual and ocial Charle 11[...]In the la r year of Bainville and F.A. Armstrong, Reverend Hollis, Reverend Herbert[...]m r . In th la t few Frame, Reverend R.V. Crater, and Reverend George Lee. year th Bainville and ul ertson M thodi t churche and the Froid and M dicine ongr gational[...]churche have hared a mini ter.[...]Finnicum, r. on May , 1949, to organize a church chool.[...]organization. hurch chool and other r gular rvice[...]Elder W rt Redfield and family moved from Great Falls[...]to ulbertson in July 1950, and imm diat ly began[...]group b came officially organiz d into a Mi ion. Tho Methodist Church[...] |
| [...]staying in the Culbertson area for some weeks and then proceeding to Plentywood and back to Glasgow--making[...]obtained a house from Carl and Bertha Lewerenz, and[...]parishes of Medicine Lake, Froid. Culbertson and[...]nville. In August 1954, Culbertson again received a[...]the churches of Culbertson, Bainville and Charley Creek[...]A "Red Letter" day took place in Culbertson on Augu[...]ground for the building of the new and attractive St. The Reorganized Church of Jesus C[...]ie Finnicum home. The basement had been |
| [...], Fathers Benedict In 1949, Brockton and Poplar formed a new parish, Seethaler and Nicholas Rauh, built St. Thomas' Church in leaving Culbertson and Bainville as one parish. Brockton, and took charge of Charley Creek, both as missions of[...]the Wisconsin mother, began soliciting funds for a church at Charley Creek. In 1921, ground was broken for St. Bernard's Church. The basement and foundation were done by the Charley Creek homesteaders. The church was completed in 1925, with a donation of lumber from the Schaeffer Brothers, cousins of Mrs. Schmitz of Montezano, Washington and $1,000 from the Catholic Church Extension Society[...]Schmitzes arrived with the Stations of the Cross and a picture of St. Bernard preaching a crusade. The altar was given by some Pennsylvania coal miners in memory of miners killed in a mining disaster. The bell was given by Mrs. Anna Marie Kaul, and other appurtenances were given by Catholics in Wisconsin and Iowa. On August 24, 1944, the Reverend Bartley Schmitz, S.V.D. a missionary in China, celebrated his Fhst Solemn M[...]he spring of 1955. At present, Charley Creek is a mission of Culbertson. TRINITY LUTHE[...], 1955 we had our 25th Anniver ar |
| [...]pastor. First meetings were held in the new ham, and as soon as a house was built services were held there for one[...]until July 1910 the congregation was served once a month by Pastor N. Damskov of Sidney. Pastor H.P.K. Hansen came in August 1910. A parsonage was built and a basement started in November 1910. Both were dedi[...]ous. The first church was built in 1916. During a violent thunderstorm July 8, 1930, the church was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Only the two chancel chairs, font and the Altar Set were saved. A new church was started that same fall and the basement was in use Thanksgiving Day, but due[...]30s, the church was not finished, but made usable and dedicated in June 1933, though not Eb[...]an Church completely finished until 1943. In 1948 a new modem six room parsonage was erected.[...]and more quiet.[...]congregation, Patricia Bentsen, serving as a Missionary[...]the ALCW ladies roll many yards of bandages and have made many gowns and uniforms for nurses and doctors at[...]At the present time we have 103 confirmed members and[...]have two circles in our ALCW and the ladies work hard[...]and gathering used clothing for Lutheran World Relief[...]some of their projects. We don't have a men's group at this[...]and Bainville. Our present pastor is F. Douglas Kinba[...]who just graduated from the Seminary and came here the[...]In 1907 the church was the hub of the community and[...]lee with Pastors who have served Ebenezer and the years they Reverend Theo M. Hansen pastor at that time. A large served are as follows: number of former pastors, members, and friends gathered to renew acquaintances. Brorson and St. Peter's churches were added to the B[...]09 parish in 1957. Then in 1959 Sioux Pass became a part of Nels Damskov 1909[...]sen 1915-1918 Evanglical Church and the United Evangelical Lutheran E.R. Andersen 1918-1921 Church finally became a reality in April 1960 and is now L.H. Kjoller 1922-[...]1924-1928 interesting to watch the church and its Auxiliaries unfold Alfred V. Andersen 1928-1938 like a bud emerging into blossom.[...]Jerrold Elling 1942-1945 Ebenezer and Bainville Lutheran churches becoming a P.J. Vammen 1945-19[...]2 Ebenezer joined Froid Lutheran Church to become a Herb Knutsen 1962-1966 parish and Bainville joined the Culbertson parish. At this[...]967 time Ebenezer is still with Froid which forms a parish. Noel Petersen[...] |
| [...]Reverend and Mrs. Howard Simpson came in 1937 and[...]BAPTIST CHURCH became a permanent organization and Bubbling Springs From the Danish General Conference in 1911 came M.A. camp site was purchased. The first camp[...]while 1939. Reverend Benhardus was a spiritual man who knew Wesgaard went on his missionary journey in eastern his Lord and his Bible well. He became ill and God called Montana. At that time many people live[...]e shortly after leaving McCabe. In July 1959 from a railroad. Reverend Thomas McCormick and family came. He was It was hard going for Wesga[...]ained in the church on November 24, 1959. Tom was a good roads. He either walked or caught a ride in a wagon. great Boy. Scout leader in the Culbertson Community He often went without food or a place to sleep, but always where he hved and served our church until 1963. felt the presence o[...]ssionary was H.F. Lyddum. He left in 1913 and is still there. ' because of the deep snow and impassable roads. J.P. Our greatest[...]in the past five years is the Nasby came in 1914 and stayed until 1918. crossing[...]rethren, with joint worship services Bible school and under the auspices of the Danish Central Conference of special services on Easter, Christ~as and Ha~est Missionaries to Montana. The organizationa[...]er member left in the church today. Rt:verend M.A. Wesgaard described the baptismal[...]HES se~c~s held at Dooley in his book: "There was a great cun'!sity among the people of that part of[...]THONY'S MISSION the immersion baptismal services. A very large crowd was present, among them were saloon keepers and cowboys." St. Anthony's Mission m Fort[...]and the church built in 1915. The Church building is no At first church was held in school houses and homes. longer standing, but the people of[...]McCabe was the first together for prayer and Mass almost every week in permanent building. Thi[...]there 1s growmg support for a small church building Other ministers and their work have been: Reverend among the people of Fort Kipp. Charles Nielsen who came in 1918 and served until 1921. He was ordained in this church. Reverend and Mrs. H.H. Sorensen were there from 1921-1926 and started the young people's camp at Medicine Lake.[...]FORT KIPP-MAKAICU Marius Rhode and family arrived. He was a skillful worker PRESBYTERIA CHURCH and under his direction, the church was repaired, remodeled, and redecorated. On August 7, 1927 the church[...]d Lloyd Red Eagle wa levated to the was dedicated and 20 young people were baptized at Reed's High[...]r of the Indian Pre byterian Church of Wolf Point and closed their work in 1936. While here they starte[...]Maurice Big Horn and Rev. Homer Red Lighting[...] |
| [...]and 1910 from eastern North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and spoke the Danish or Norwegian language.[...]Gangstad, Sam Hugos, John Lee, E.K. Dahley, and Nels Sorbel. Sorbel, Dahley and Hugos were elected as trustees.[...]This committee called a Pastor Hagen, a mission minister who lived in Culbertson and had recently come Old Presbyterian Church (now Guild Hall) from Minnesota and spoke the Norwegian language.[...]roid. The first service with the new minister was and for years leader in Dakota Indian Presbytery, was[...]ian Synod of Norwegian church were hard ones and services were held South Dakota, that of Moderator of the 125 churches only once a month at the Dahley school in the winter time wit[...]four of which are bordered by the state line, and these families were received into membership: And[...]led the Dakota Presbytery, includes all Indian and Andrew Alfstad, Henry Hoye, Peter Johnson, Halvor churches located in eastern Minnesota, South Dakota and ~orpe, James Ostby,Ole Bjornsgaard, Engebrett Scott, northeastern Montana. He was also awarded a certificate Erner Bergstrom, Julius Lee, Ole Lee, Lars Krogedal, Ole and engraved ervice pin for faithful service in his 2[...]yterian Church National Mission Odden, A.J. Olson and Pete Enger. Field by National Mission Board.[...]d was organized on May 24, 1912, at the In 1961 a new church was built at Fort Kipp and the horn~ of Mrs. J.O. Dahl. The first o[...]els Sorbel, vice president; Mrs. Randian generous and graciou to remember one who had joined Benson, secretary; and Mrs. John Pederson, treasurer. and became an ElderofUpsijawakpa and left his church to Meetings were held in t[...]life in the service of God in the year 1931 to and they were family affairs in the early years. mis[...]ple wherever they were. ' As a mission church, the office in Minneapolis supplie[...]sudden heart attack while about $60.00 a month, with members of the congregation to prepar[...]ic ervice to be held at Canipa, furnish board and room for the ministers during the the church he was serving. My mother lived to accept his honor and she continued with dedication to this church.[...]Lee children, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Olson, Inga Erdahl, Gina[...]Pederson, Fort Kipp, Makaicu Presbyterian Church and Guild Hall Mrs. Holm, Mrs . John[...] |
| [...]ys Annonson, Mrs. Oscar Gangstad, Lillian, Gladys and Richard in front. Mom's holding someone's baby, M[...]on with LeRoy in front. Mrs. Alex Midthun holding a girl. Hazel and Robert Midthun infront and Mrs. Anna Enger on end.[...]Froid Lutheran Church monthly visits. It was a long trip on horseback, team and |
| [...]ry to unite with other churches for Bible school, and it has worked well for Good Friday services. Chur[...]: The Congregational, Catholic, Brethren, Baptist and Lutheran. Froid Lutheran celebrated its 50th an[...]have been: Olaf Hagen, Helmer Haagenson, E. Berg, A.B. Cornielson, 1.0. Thvedt, Walter Aamoth, Eberg[...]hl, Noel Peterson, Paul Thompton, Greg Karlsgodt, and Pastor Douglas Kimball came in the summer of 1975[...]Hammond, Charlie Miscke and Gus Krohmer. Second row:[...]identified. Taken about 1911. Cando, North Dakota and J.E. Keller of Tipton, Iowa, strangers to each other, arrived in Culbertson just a few days apart. Moothart had been in Culbertson i[...]ict. In 1908 in Kenmare, North Dakota they spring and located a homestead about eight miles north were accepted. On the same date the Evergreen Sunday and east of Culbertson. Keller looked over some land[...]of until the spring of 1907. He brought his wife and two Chalmer Barley was a great occasion. At the meeting L.M. daughters. David Moothart brought his wife, four sons and McCune was elected to the ministry and William Swank one daughter out in May of the same[...]he church were: The two families became friends and soon discovered Elder Keller and wife, Deacon Moothart, his wife and two they both belonged to the Church of the Brethren. sons, Deacon Mow, his wife and son, R.L. Cookson, his In March 1907, J.K. Mow, a deacon of the church, located wife and three daughters, William Swank, his wife, two in the same area with his wife and four children. Robert L. sons and a daughter, and Mary Stutzman. Ralph Williams Cookson, William E. Swank, and Daniel Stutzman, all of joined a little later. Cando, North Dakota followed. They[...]This congregation held its meetings in homes and in the in the sight of Medicine Lake. Land selections were made Beverly School until a church house was built about 1913. in the fall of 1907 and by April 190 these men had returned It was no[...]milies. Williams filed on a claim, which was evidently the spot In the summ[...]ch services were begun. They they wanted for a church. Williams offered them five acres were held in the Moothart and Keller homes alternating for $15.00 and they agreed this was the best site. After the eve[...]as done, the members proceeded to build were held a month.[...]ucting the meeting. of the Brethren. (It is a grand view from its location. The new church orga[...]m the town meeting of North Dakota for acceptance and admission to of Medicine Lake, Homestead, Froid, and from the farms and ranches for miles around in every direction.)[...]A barn, 24x48 feet was built in 1916, which was the[...]meeting of North Dakota and Montana ever held at this[...]In the early 1950's a basement was dug and the church[...]was dedicated in 1953 with A.D. Miller of Minot giving the[...]no ministers in the congregation. If there was a minister,[...]D.E. Landis, J.S. Geiser, O.A. Myers, D.M. Shorb, W.[...]eltner, Harry K. Swank, G.I. Michael, Ray Harris, and[...] |
| [...]parish to have entered a religious order.[...]uring the 1950's the membership totaled 49 adults and[...]63 children, but it has now dropped to 20 adults and 8[...]which helps with the general church expenses and the[...]During 1975 the church was repainted and new stained[...]has Masses at Medicine Lake, Westby and Froid, and due[...]e: J.M. McCune, Guy Kao, Harry Swank, J.D. Reish, A.M. Swihart, A.J. Kaufman, and Mark Emswiler who served from 1941-1959. Deacon[...]Moothart, W.M. Shimer, J.C. Cripe, Len Mahugh, S.A. Shoemaker, George Richwine, F.F. Allen, Floyd Kao, and Sam Hahn. In 1945 it was decided that pastors w[...]e been: Mark Emswiler, Tom Geiman, Mike Hodson, F.A. Oliver, and Ed Slater. In January 1970, Ray Nefzger began serving the church as a cooperative ministry with First Baptist of McCabe, and continues as pastor to date.[...]Luth ran Brethren in July 1940. The building and I instrumental inproviding a church were: A.E. Kamp , w re purcha ed from th rman Lutheran . A ba m nt Jack Hurley and Pat McLaughlin. The lots were donated wa put under th church in 1941 and th interior wa by J.W. Schnitzler. The church wa a mi ion of remod 1 d during th year[...]ap I include unda chool, parochial chool , and Medicine Lake Parish. The basement wa remodeled i[...]ring th w k. Mi ionar Phil W rdal 1956 to provide a hall for the congregation. rv din 1949 before going to Japan , and Mi ionar K n[...]Ern t, Le ter and Roy Erick on, Philip and il unwall and wive have s rv d while horn on furlough from[...]and built in 1910, the fir t church in the p~ d ar a which[...]h v tibule and belfry w re added.[...] |
| [...]the same month and year the town of Froid celebrated its[...]Edwards, Reverend F.A. Manderson, Reverend A.J.[...]summer service student, Reverend Steve Rohloff, and[...]In 1969 the Bainville Methodist and the Culbertson[...]Methodist churches joined with Froid and Medicine Lake making it a four point parish to be served by one pastor. Uni[...]Northeast Montana" . A short time later the Bainville[...]church dropped out, leaving it a three point parish.[...]everend Donald Chorley, Reverend Charles Nielsen, and establishment, a combination home and store located one- Reverend Craig Nathews. A new pastor, Reverend Tim half mile north of the t[...]s. Carl C. Scott, Mrs. Chas. Raish, Katie Tunison and Nina Scott. In the minute of that fir tmeeting[...]POPLAR CHURCHES Congregational Covenant was read and approved; that Mrs. Carl C. Scott wa elected Cler[...]reasurer; ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH and Carl C. Scott, William Brown, R.B. Bates, John Scott and Arthur Ryder were elected to act as the Board of[...]Assembly of God Church had its beginning Trustees and as the building committee. in 1936. The lots a nd some materials were acquired by At about the same time a Congregational Church was Reverend Francis Baldwin. (Reverend Baldwin is a son-in- organized at Medicine Lake and the Froid-Medicine Lake law to the late Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hines .) churche were yoked to be serv[...]e summer of 1936 Reverend Albert Howell came to A unday School had been started in 1908 by Mrs. Gra[...]the story of how the first Assembly of God Phe ps and Robert olan. Mrs. Phelp was a teacher at Church was constructed:[...]s teeth'. In the la te summer of 1936 I came to A women's group called the "Willing Workers" had be[...]ith some cottonwood lumber that had been sawed by a Congregational Church is a continuation of thatearlyday man named Magnan. The ties were stood on end and m ud ociety.[...]money to buy cement. It was lined In 1910, Eli and Maggie Watts donated two acres ofland on[...]tacked on . to the church trustees to be used as a cemetery. A few years The shingles were salvaged from a barn that had blown later this land was deeded by[...]. Window sashes were secured from formed Cemetery A sociation and i now known as the Montgomery Ward which made a part donation for a Froid outh Cemetery.[...]h, cottonwood boards. as did all churches and businesse in the area, struggled Cold[...]even though we did not get the of the Ladies' Aid and the dedication of Reverend A.J. outside tuccoed until the next year[...]by 34 with the south 16 by 24 used fo r services and the in the minutes of a February 1934 meeting " that the nor[...]as sleeping quarters minister would be guaranteed a salary of 25.00 per for our four children. Plumbing consisted of a path and month. "[...]the church celebrated its 25th but a couple years later the church part was enlarged anniversary. Reverend A.J. Goodson was pastor and another 18 by 24 feet. During our over seven year stay, a guest speakers were Reverend Burdick, Billings, and kitchen was built onto the living q[...]Now the people enjoy a new church building, a residence The 50th anniversary was jointly observed by the Froid as a parsonage and later an educational building. Now the and Medicine Lake churches onJune 11th and 12th, 1960, old start is only a historical memory."[...] |
| [...]ecial services here in 1937. Reverend Funk is now a missionary in Hawaii. Reverend Morris McGinnis from crate for a table ... ] had no stove, so during the cold weat[...]l remember one of the days. I was hungry and sick. A strong building. These buildings were replaced in[...]dows. I was cold. I went present church building, and in 1965 a steel building was to bed and cried. The devil said, 'Take a bus and skip the constructed for Sunday School classes. country'. But God heard my cries , and soon my heart was Reverend Howell stayed here until 1943. Reverend P.C. given courage and I pressed on toward the work God had Peterson, al[...]until 1945. called me to do." Reverend Peterson and Marie were raised in the Burdette After a few months the district began sending Mis communi[...]n Idaho. Elliott 10.00 a month with which she was able to buy a Reverend Elbert Brown came and was here until 1952 cookstove and a table, and kero ene for the lamps mo t of when he resigned t[...]ionary work in Indonesia. the time. Fuel was a real problem. One winter day when the Reverend Brown is still there along with his wife, and son, mercury dropped to 30 degrees below zero,[...]he burned Reverend William Sanders came in 1952 and was here for fuel. All that day she had[...]without the wood, but it would only smold r. A woman had built.[...]r the night Reverend Eugene Barger came in 1958 and wa here before, and by nightfall h d id d ·h could hold out no until[...]"l...put ome of my precious wood in the tove and at by Reverend Joseph Syverson pastored from 1963-1966. In the warm fire enjoying the Word of God and Hi precious the summer of 1967 Reverend James Wil[...]wa weetly r ting in the hand of God. If it Pa~tor and i still serving in this capacity.[...]Wallettes, Howells, Hine , Eagl B ar , Archdale , and the Yoder , plus there have been many that consid[...]d challenging. In 1941 Mis Mildr d Elliott op n d a mission in Poplar (under the Poplar Riv r bridge[...]ack row: Annie Pickett, Myrna B ll mission. I had a refrigerator crate converted into a clothe Archdale, Fern Pickett Susan Archdale. Front row: Nora press, apple boxes for chairs, a pallet for a b d, another Mae Wa hington, other unk[...] |
| [...]and their families in the summer of1953. A special meeting[...]r moved to ne~ purpose of organizing a Baptist church. The First Baptist location.[...]ers. The church called as its first Pastor the at a terrific gale. About 10 o'clock I heard a scraping noise-- Reverend George W. Riser of Greybull, Wyoming.' The soon a knock at my back door. I hurried to open it. Ther[...]od two Indian women wrapped in blankets. They had a Convention as a part of the Arizona Baptist Convention. feeling, they explained, that I needed wood, so they filled a As Baptist work progressed and strengthened, a Colorado tub with wood, loaded it on a sled and through the bitter Baptist Convention was organized in 1955 and then the cold had pulled it from the West Village[...]churches in Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota In 1942 Miss Elliott was married t[...]y on The Poplar Church of the Nazarene began as a Mission, Highway 2 was purchased from a[...]of the Brethren building was purchased and in 1968 an addition to the parsonage was made. and was used as a place of worship until we moved into our[...]958. financially and several pastors served short pastorates. In The[...]September of 1954 Reverend T.J. Newbill came and served 4, 1948 with nine Charter members. until August of 1955. For almost a year the church was The following have pastored the church since its pastorless and then Reverend Milton Simmons came and beginning: served a very short time, after which Reverend A.L. Davis Miss Mildred (Elliott) Bateman[...]verend Charles Jaques came in the spring of 1972, and completed a beautiful three bedroom home for the parsonage. T[...]operty has been landscaped with sidewalks, trees, and new lawn. God has blessed the entire congregat[...]'s faithful servants being determined to mind God and trust Him when the way seemed so hard. As we look[...]Poplar area had its beginning with the coming of a number of oil field workers[...] |
| [...]st Convention assumed responsibility for the work and appointed A.L. Davis as the first missionary to the Indians o[...]ation. The work of the church expanded to include a Mission at Brockton and a Mission at Wolf Point among the Indians. After al[...]avis resigned the church in June of 1966 to begin a new work among the Indians in Rapid City, South D[...]to serve the church in 1967 but only served about a year and then went to New Mexico in May of 1968 to serve among the Apache Indians. In September of 1968 Reverend and Mrs. Oliver Marson were appointed as missionaries[...]entire Reservation. Work was reopened at Brockton and Wolf Point and Vacation Bible Schools have been held at Frazer t[...]rth Dakota. Reverend Williamson built a log house which served as a Youth camps have been begun at Glendive and at Custer, church for the Poplar people u[...]the people of the Fort Peck Reservation. buy a tin building which was remodeled into a church. Miss Dickson and Miss McCreight had been sent to start a mission school here. Reverend George Wood[...]lower Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, as a missionary reservations to occupy "outstat[...]ly the Soldier's people ~ere taught to read and write their own language Fort, the Post Store, the Agency, and the Indian School. an~ ga~ed some knowledge[...]n 1881, due to the efforts of Reverend Williamson and main obJect however, was to instruct the people in Biblical two women missionaries, Misses Dickson and McCreight, knowledge and the saving power of Christ. the Poplar Creek Miss[...]ce to place. Yet, considerable progre s was made, and if Thus began the ministry to the Dakota people, and the we take our Lord's standard that one i[...]successful--for some believed and were saved. Most of the Indian people lived far out in the country, so A greater time of ~iscouragement came when many, Re[...]th whom the mi ionarie worked o Wherever he found a group or family of Indians he would hard,[...]elsewhere. One after another the visit with them and tell them about Christ. In this way he worker[...]t to other field oflabor until was able to set up a church right in the community. He in. 18_ 9-1 90 the ~eld wa vacant. The Board of Foreign began a church at Fort Kipp, another at Riverside, and M1 ion wa enou ly considering the abandon[...]The first rvice for wor hip were held in a log[...]here now a church building.... a Sunday School hristian Endeavor Society, and regular church se/vices well[...]e tabli hed.' The total number of members and their children, including a mall number from Wolf Point, was[...]"Th0t~gh organized in connection with a Mis ion among[...]of '!1-'em?ers of both races, and the meetings have b en[...] |
| [...]and Poplar congregations, together with the seven Dak[...]congregations joined in a large parish plan. This was[...]In 1946 a former missionary to China Reverend E.C.[...]forced him to resign and he was succeeded by Reverend[...]build a new manse. The present manse was completed[...]chancel enlarged to its present size, and the family room[...]Hendrickson was called to serve a parish in Westhope,[...]Board of National Missions continued to carry on a the present ecclesiastical relation as long as we are special ministry to the Dakota people, while a local self- granted the utmost freedom to give th[...]ed their work with the Indian Mission work. It is a matter of gratitude to us the local church, t[...]r from the very first been looked congregations and six mission churches--the latter serving upon as[...]exclusively, but as the First primarily Indians and belonging to Dakota's Presbytery, Presbyterian Ch[...]na. At the same time Me th o d ist s and Presbyterians , as well as Reverend D.E. Evans accepted a call to serve as permanent Con g regationali[...]e stated com munities , t here will be a Methodist or a supply pastor. Dr. J.L. Atkinson and David Watson were Congr egational Church serving the community in elected ruling elders and Mrs. Anna J. Walker was elected cooperation with the Department of Planning and clerk of the congregation. It was also this year[...]n 1911 consideration was given to the building of a man e. The following year this house was built ne[...]present it of the Reverend E.J. Lindsey, who a rrived in the fall of i part of Kel ey's Con ignment tore. 1 90. His wife ancy wa a grandda ughter of Dr. Thomas J. Harry Walker wa elected a tru tee of the church at the William on who had[...]on was made to build the manse. Minnesota and Dakotas, and had with others, tran lated The tran fer of th[...]the Bible into the Dakota language and h a d been on e of the Pre bytery to that of Great Fa[...]illiam E. The church was organized by a committe of th e Da kota Kelley arrived to pa tor the church and tayed until 1920. Pre bytery, Reverend E.J. Lindsey and Reverend Samuel He was followed by Reverend amuel[...]served Hopkin on the 3rd of J uly 1 92 and compo d of until 1922. member of both race Indian and White. The me tings During the summer of 1922, Clarence W. Orner, a wer held in the log chool hou e and ervice wer mainly theological student came to erv[...]next to serve Poplar until 1935 when he accepted a call to the twenty years. First Presbyterian[...]ntana. The The Pre byterian , Indian and White wor hip ped pre ent church building was bui[...]6-1939. During his pastorate Mrs. Ethel Marquardt and in the congregation occurred. The Presbyteria n Mrs. Ben Zimmerman were elected as ruling elder and congr gation at the River ide hurch, l[...]rend VanBockern's way b tween Poplar and Brockton, till maintain its resignation, Reverend Kenneth D. Killin served for one identity, and conducts regulars rvice a it has sine 1914 year.[...] |
| [...]ot within 50 yards of the pre entchurch. Loui ear and[...]church was organized in 1947 foundation and Bob Renz put up the log . The building wa and meetings were held for several years in the old Walker covered with tin in ide and out. Herman Kollenbaum built house, until funds could be raised to build a new church. the steeple. The priests caring for the pari h lept in a With some assistance from the Board of Missions, a new space behind the altar. In the spring of 1 9 Poplar church building was started in 1959 and completed in 1961. received the status of a pari h. The doors to the new church were opened o[...]ng Je uits attended Poplar: first church services and the dedication was held on June Father ansom[...]du 2, 1961. The Reverend Sidney Bird was ordained and Sialm (a very strict man ), Father P. Pa · on (a v ry installed as Pastor.[...]rit who ay walk d The people from Box Elder and Chelsea joined the and therefore wa called "Long Foot" b th Indian Linds[...]r House was used for unday hool room for a The B nedictine Fath r while and finally tom down.[...]1960-63; Rever nd at hola Rauh and Hunter Cain 1963-67; Reverend Harry Weston 1967 ;[...]and[...]t Indian people hro a fi h[...]opl Until churc a built In 193 · a[...]th "whirlwind" dian anning and in variou other horn .[...]t, Burch, Milk Ri r, prol , id and R for this purpo by th ommis ion of Ind[...] |
| [...]ch - Sioux Indian Congress, July 1920 Father A.G. McHale was pastor from 1936 -1938 during[...]The name chosen was St. John's Lutheran Church and |
| [...]in the new church was held May 13, 1951. Members and friends had contributed generously of their time and money to make that day possible. The dedication s[...]Nels Carlson presiding at the rite of dedication, and Pastor Clarence Solberg of the Home Mission Depar[...]pril 22, 1951. By that time there were 133 adults and children, with 73 confirmed members. By 1964 this had risen to 330 baptized and 183 confirmed members. A total of 533 persons have been members through th[...]1951, when Janice Hagen was baptized. Louis Krone and Lyla Solberg were the first couple to be united i[...]ere Carol Peterson, Helen Erickson, ReNell Walter and Fem Anderson. Major additions through memorials and special gifts have been the electric organ, the c[...]n Poplar, pew were font, altar, communion kneeler and pulpit. added to the church. A hospitality room wa redecorated, In September 1963 the decision was made to purchase a carpeted and draped. The outstanding activity wa the new parsonage, and the present house at 349 D West was final[...]Of this amount about $8,000.00 was raised locally and the circles of ALCW, who were active througho[...]od. raising funds at bazaars, dinners and other activitie . Pastors who have served the c[...]950-1952; Allen alive through the efforts of a number of dedicated memb r C. Erickson, 1953-1957; A.B. Cornelson (interim) 1957- who have given of their talen and re ource during good 1958; Donald Hippe; 1958-1965; Gary Lindbo 1965-1971; times and bad. We hope and pray that our church will Obert Landsvert (interim) 1971-1972; Donald Melchert, continue to erve us and our community. 1972-1975. Pastor John W. Orwig is currently erving the Poplar, North Poplar and Brockton communitie . During the years of Pasto[...]the young people, under his upervision, completed a mural on the west wall of the church. The mural ,[...]WOLF POI T CH CHE bottles and other discarded colored gla , depic the tory of t[...]ts which were used for youth outing on the Poplar and Mi ouri River . During thi period th r was[...] |
| [...]Horn Eagle, Mr. Crum, Sidney Byrd, Enoch LaPointe and[...]The Charles Track, Harvey Hamilton and Henry[...]Town and new town Canipa Churches. AssPmbly of God Church Pastors who have served the church are: Revprend A. I )oty 1~)26-1 ~):~2 |
| [...]Ch u rch a t least by 19 12. An oth er trav li n g pastor wa[...]. Henry In gebretsen . a m i.· io n ary. and a H v nd T.L.[...]Ros h olt fr om G ia go w. In ,J a nu ary 1914. Rev r lfr d[...]He ndri ckso n , a l o from Gia gow. gav his firs rmon to[...]Ray Self, cam e in October th e loca l p ople and until ,J un 1917 con ti nu to hold of 1975 fro m Bak er , Louisiana . The church h as begun a servi ces on ce a m onth . fe ll ows hi p in Ci rcle , Mon tana since his arrival. A co mmun ity • un day school had b n organiz d i[...]19 13, wi th Mr . ,J oh n Li t r ud a perint nd nt. 1rL·, Ha rry a on , Mrs . Kinney and ral others from th Pre by teri a n church a teach r . la. . m tin th old[...]ERA CHU RCH co mpl eted a n d th ey moved into that building-.[...]T h e ladie of th e I . iz d a Ladi : id[...]h r 19, people of many nationalitie and beli ef ca m e we t to 191:3. Of[...]nt: i . make their homes . Bu ine e a nd s m a ll town developed . La . a . but the one service that had n ot de velope[...]• Renowned Brothe r Van had bee n in th e a r a, but d ue to ,Joh n Eric k slow transportation , calls we re few a nd far betw en . Th v ar 1914 s rection of thP l nion C · A mong the earliest who erved an y part of thi a r a was a foreru~n r of th p r .· hvt ria[...]join d \J ith that o ton Church and dropp acti viti e a a Lut 1t. Luth ran to[...]of thi · building on ng a mon h f 1cpi-;[...]i r t L utheran Church built on corner of Daw. on and .1rd Chn . t,ansnn . .\!rs. Ed , '/et1 •nld .•lf r ... . .John . ' tens/and Ai•enue. d dicated May 1927 with Rr1 ·. A.O. .John. nn , Front : /I.fr,., Han ,.[...], ~prnc r. and ,\ fr ,., _ r:d Z,mmrrman . |
| [...]basement were made. The intentions were for a building 32 feet by 54 feet with a full basement with the frame part of[...]ollowing May, the basement completed in the fall, and[...]chairs and a stove.[...]at Our Saviours Church (south and west of Wolf Point),[...]tside congregations became part of First Lutheran and[...]orth Dakota and was succeeded by Reverend Amon[...]made for a church structure. Two years later the building[...]t an attem pt sh ould be made was completed and on May 1, 1927 the new church was to form their own congregation and a m eeti ng was called dedicated . The buildi[...]wing Listerud, John Garden, John Appelgren , A.J. Isachson, per on were in attendance and were th u the ch a rter Paul Johnson, Ed Camrud , C.F. Beaver, and Sig Lund and member : John Li terud, Fred Motterud, John H .[...]for the ppelgren, mandu John on, O.C. Joh n on a nd A.J . building and was in charge of construction. Cost of the new I ach on. Li terud, Appelgren and I achson were elected edifice was 7 000.[...]people have been an wa formed nd both the church and th e un day chool essential pa rt of[...]n th chool each unday. Th e un day a nd in 1921 a young people group, later known a the chool of th Lutheran hurch i the only unit o[...]h year in ce the church's wa fo rmed and h a conti nued to work in its own s teady inception i[...]way. Th local congr gation r cei ved a By 1950 member hip[...]that eati ng roo m wa a n incr · problem . Thi wa Li utenant h[...]p rio nd three the pari h without a pa tor. R v r nd oll conducted the u[...]th that wa de ided to purch a r the tion of a follow d, condition finally reached a point wh r it wa buildin g to reli v th[...]1 , R ver nd Jo tat a co t of 6,750. H ndrick on r turned and it w d cid d to go forward.[...]im h i ,a n h 1c i wa h Id in th orw gi[...]r om r al r and adjoi n it to the a t on th am . An church ite wa made March 23, l l . Th a hir d a n d the groun d-breaki ng c nie wer th[...]r n hur h building in a 1 75, con tructio n ta rtl tood for o many ear on he corn r of Daw on r t and Third v nu . The fir t building commi[...]gation hav b n . V. Appelgren , L. . Krog ried, and H.G. c n on. Th on, m on John on 1 22-1929; O.R.A. par onage that rved until l 62 wa purch[...]ri an . Ru 1 3 -1 45- Rolf Ladi Aid with the a i tance of th hurch Exten ion[...]nd. n pril 20, 191 , the, tate of Montana grant d a ·car 1 0-1 61; .[...]r t Luth ran. , and David Lar on 1 2 75. V rnon W. To o On ,Januar[...]tion made th ir arrived in ugust 1975 and wa n talled a the ne w application for member hip to the orw gi[...]th Church of m rica . Al o at thi time plans for a church Administrator of Faith Lut[...] |
| [...]New Presbyterian Church and educational building Church and Mission Buildings - Old Town[...]Church records have been kept since 190 and it wa noted[...]that Jo eph Pipal (grandfather of Alma Hall) wa a |
| [...]THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH Bilyeu , and we have Edna Bilyeu here with us today.[...]T, MONTANA Mr . Johnson clo es her history with a tribute to the brave and gallant minister who added piritual and material progre s--to loyal members and friend , including by[...]y the Poplar church for it unfailing cooperation; and the mi sion worker of long ago to the untiring efforts of the There is a tradition preserved by the native Indians and pre ent .... .. it has taken them all to keep God[...]was derived from a natural land mark in the early Girls, if you ar[...]navigation days of the Missouri River. There was a point and be part of our hi ·tory.[...]wood for fuel and to trade goods with the Indians and[...]During a very severe winter in the early days of Missouri[...]hulz navigation, trappers and hunters had accumulated so many carcasses and hides that they stacked them on the The Goo[...]right for this area because there was a 'Wolf on every Point.[...], the were alert in furthering and improving the general welfare congregation under the leader hip of Pastor Paul teubs, of the city and surrounding territory. Many of the present dedica[...]el to the glory of the Triune facilities and city planning can be attributed to the God.[...]foresight, the hard work and untiring zeal of the early ,Januarv of 197:[...]gregation during the vacancy was and White, were attended to by the Jesuits--Fathers[...]Eberschweiler, Mo kopp, ansone, Sialm, Passino and pastor living in Glendive. On June 10, 197:3 Pa t[...]others--who were stationed at Havre, Harlem, and ,"'chulz, the pre ent pa tor. wa in talled to serve the Good Chinook. aturally their visits were few and irregular, and . . . hepherd congregation and the alem congregation in people were a[...]arrival of the missionaries and the date of the next Mass In DE>rember of[...]in the area. Tran portation wa very poor and very little undertook the broadca ting of a five minute devotion over could be accomp[...]ral radio 'tatio n. May 197f> brought the welcome and railroad and trail . Oldster ay the e men were truly joyous ti[...]m n, wa called Long Foot by the Indian a he would[...]cabin in humble intere t for th temporal and spiritual[...]of life. withdrew from th L nit d M nnonit Church and form d Truly thes men mu t have[...]eting, werP held w re ndowed with aintly and hri t-like love for all men , t the . 'h rman Hot[...]ail. Th 'ir new building at ,~econd v nue orth and Hill For many y ar previous to th[...]pastor .. 'ucreeding pastors have been Eaton 8 rg and the Gr at White Father wa in tilled into th hearts and mind prn;f'nt minist r, Ra .v Wiehf>. who has been her for som of the Indian by uch m n a th above mentioned time.[...]ionari ·. The Indian r ver ntly r ferr d to th m a the fri ndl Black Robe .[...]who wa not a atholic, that th r wa an d for a church at Poplar and that he would ha e hi p r onal help. , ith[...]obtained from relative and friend of Father[...]Eber chweiler back ast and loyal atholics among th Indians and White . Log wer a sembled; th foundation laid, and the fir t atholic church on th Fort Peck ([...] |
| [...]pari h of Wolf Point. Th wall:, doors and windows are[...]is writing, the fall of 1964, it is being us d as a[...]The Immaculate 'on· ption r •main cl a mission of[...]learned of his humble kindness and dilig nt I ader ·hi1>[...]were made at the Pa tor's resid n eat Wolf Point. and the[...]mi sion churche at Vida, Weldon , Oswego, and Frazer[...]Hi· untiring efforts and willingness to sacrific were an[...]inspiration to all m n, women and children. regardle:s of[...]faith, color. or state of life. During th hor:e and buggy[...]v th :, It was dedicated in honor of St. Ursula and was the hub extremes of the weather or bridgele. s streams and ri";_, rs. of missionary activity for the entire reservation. The He was truly a fearless man of God. names of Sears, LaRoque, Culbertson, Renz, and Early in 19;~1. after ome 2[...]recalled as donating labor in the erection and pastor of the Immaculate 'onception in Wolf Point[...]eld in make- parish in Billing . He died there and at hi. request hi shift quarters by the Jesuits on various days and date remains were interred at Wolf Poin[...]tion of Father 'hevlin. the remain.' wer moved to a through.[...]in the cemeterv. With the Though it was humble and rustic , a church was provided as. i ·tance of the parishoners. a very suitahi"(> chap I wai-; by John Chase, an ea[...]e seats were planks Decoration Day and All. 'ainfs Da .. mas · is offer din this suppor[...]ather p rmittinJ!) for the repo. e of the soul of and the altar was a crude table adorned by tanned deer Father Benedict and all of his d part d fri nd . and skins which were richly beaded by the Indians. Home parishoners whom he sod •vot •dlv lowd and served. Iav[...]·. ·ucce ded hv Fa th r rth ur This wa indeed a memory that will la t forever in th Richard as Pa.·tor and D an of the \! olr'Point 1) anerv. minds and hearts of tho e who w re lucky to have had the Ithough of poor health, h wa.· a vc>rv ZPalous and .·inc•~" opportunity to live then and aid in pre erving the faith work r and had well d mon:trnt ·d hi.· ahilitv as a espoused by tho e gallant apo tolic Jesuits, who[...]. e. IIP faith so deeply implanted in their heart and soul . continued his prie. tly effor[...]afkr After thought: th above mention d cabin wa a on several :eig •. of illn . s. he pasi•wd to an <'arlv rP\\ ard and room house that was not provid d with a confe ional, o died at Gr at Fa IL. Hi.· remain: ar • int •m·d in the c-l<>rgy the priest and penitent walked around the cahin ~ hile th[...]about the numb r of time they remain. as a very piou:,. inc-Pre. willing and samtly man.[...]e r zealous of the elfar of hi: parish and fri nd .. had circumnavigated the cabin and the ·evere train upon th poor tired mi ionary. I[...]niod of time h tw en Father Hi ·hard':-- wa only a quart r, emi-annual. or annual o currence. demi. e and the appointment of an " pastor. th<' Church[...]n ugu t 13, 1913. the Benedictin . estahlished a coopnation and a.·s1:-;tance of all th parii-;honer~ who \\.'('re[...]ddPn d hy th Jos. of Fe ther Richard . River ide, and oth r . Father Renedict wa~ appoint d fir. t[...]H too had charg of (•arly day parish .· and mi.'sinn in thaler. a very hard work r, was. ur I_ a busy man hut the diocese. He was a ZPalous workc•r and a civic-mrnded through hi untiring ffort the Wolf P[...]speciallv hy th• voung in cared for much better and more regularly than in the past. thP pari~h[...]d orker. incere in hi. effort.. pious at and ach-ic '. all times, and an excellent leader and director. Ea riv m his pastoral . with the a:-.sistancP of tlw mc•n of Earl in 1914 he olicited and gained theconfid nee and the parish. hl' Pxca"at<•d and ronfr•d a large• hasnn<•nt aid of the dozen or le whit atholic famili . and manv which wa:-; to later lw then w ( 'hurch[...]tl' of the Catholic Indians. Together they rected a church 1~ Cone ption. Wolf Point. Through hi ~ own untiring work and the aid of l\1anv happenings could lw n callc•d. For instanc-e the two Lav Brother and a f w local men. the work soon took diggin[...]or arch it ct wa. us d but with th skill .crapn and dump \vagon. th<• dilig<'nt asspmhhng of and abilit of Father B nedict and the Lav Hrothers the' avmlahlP scrap iro[...]t strong Pnough tn m n, th old church till stands a. a svmhol of the earlv support a su1wrstructun• at a futurl' datl'; tlw hauling of Catholicity fo, tered by these untiring ~en of God . · grav,•I and building forms and completing tlw structurP.[...] |
| [...]under the strict supervision cooperation and whole-hearted support of the entire of the chief architect and chef, Father hevlin. It is parish. believed that the footing and foundation of this basement This is ev[...]of clas rooms new comers to the city and also the numerous conversions above the present s[...]s so zealously brought to the faith. pari h hall, a fine center for all parish activity as well as a Through his untiring efforts and leadership, he has dining room for erving banquets, and lunches for the made many necessary[...]orch of the come. rectory wa converted into a chapel where mass was said In 1956 he acquired a priest's residence adjacent to the daily during the winter months. church and disposed of the old residence which had been Father hevlin will long be remembered as a kindly, used as a home for the sisters. This old residence was considerate man, a popular leader who could be stern at mo[...]t school children. In 1958 he acquired a spacious home for in hi heart. He had rare qualities as chef and delighted in the sisters. This is a well-constructed building and was preparing and serving delicious banquets to the school[...]gs which will suffice team each year. He also was a very good housekeeper and for years to come. The property is on t[...]liam J. remaining lots between the church and the convent: this Condon to Columbus, where he ha[...]nal He had an untimely death when he suffered a heart three and a half lots, with houses, or an additional two lots[...]ities is needed. are interred at Laurel, Montana, a former parish of early The Immaculate Conception Parish has had a steady day .[...]300 families with some 1350 members. It is friend and admirers throughout the state and attests the surely a record to be well proud of when compared with the esteem and love of his many friends and parishoners. 11 families with somewh[...]n must undying efforts of the pioneers and present parishoners have had a premonition or knowledge of what the have been well rewarded and the many sacrifices they Immaculate Conception Church needed and could have so gallantly faced and endured for the honor and accompli h with the leadership and foresight of a parish glory of their God they so loving[...]id of During those 50 years of sacrifice and progress, the a willing and cooperative pari h, Father Power proved parishoners too, must have been lavishly blessed and hi ability a a progre ive, hard-working, kindly parish[...]at the tim of hi appointment, Father Power opened a fully in their efforts for the cause they so earnestly lived and accredited i ter' chool. Work wa al o well underwa fought for. for the con truction of a beautiful pari h church. Today Also,[...]been that church i credit to the community and to ea tern ble ed in abundance by the five hard working, zealous Montana, and i a living monument to the credit of the and holy men who were as igned to work among us during untiring and unr lenting effort of Father Power who o thi half a century. Father Benedict eethaler, Father diligen[...]e completion of the beautiful pari h Richard and Father hevlin have gone to their eternal facili t[...]reward and hav our prayerful remembrance of them. r dit i due, too, to the contractor, John terhan and Father Pow r and ourpre entgenial inc re,dedicated ompany of Glendive, a he wa ver coop rativ with th exponen[...]iderabl r p ctive pari hes of idney and Wolf Point. on th co t of the con truction . O[...]t to take To man of u it ha been a privilege and an honor to Father Pow r to a new fi Id of endeavor, though we of have had th opportunity to live with and accompan all Wolf Point thought he hould have had a littl time to th e intly men i[...]l dutie . It i well to enjoy the fruit of hi work a pa tor h r . Tru to hi remm1 c back over tho e many e r of orrow and prie tly vow of ob di n e, he wa tr n ferr d to t. mi fortun . jo and happine birth and death which Patrick' at Billing , Montana .[...]cle . With him w nt the everla ting well wi he and the Th not have b n r cord[...]founding of atholicit on the Fort Peck Re rvation and Father Power i at pr ent th pa tor of ab autif[...]honer lait , m n additional monument to hi credit a a builder and I ad r and worn n who o faithfull carri d on in the Faith in[...]n immediately appointed Fath r thanks and appreciation: may th , whether living or Patrick O'Reilly to take up and continue the duti and dead , have all that i Godl and good . The community work of the previous steward[...]ir everlasting well -wishe for th ir welfare with a wise selection on the part of the Bishop,[...] |
| [...]s was appointed to t. Patrick's Church, Billings, and was succeeded by Father O'Reilly, who was transferred to Sacred Heart Church in Miles City in 1968 and is still pastor of that parish. Father Michael Gu[...]maculate Conception Church in Wolf Point in 1968, and served there until July 1, 1974, when he was tran[...]er Jim Reynolds, who serves the Wolf Point parish and attached mission of St. Joseph Church, Frazer. Al[...]The new Kingdom Hall built in 1964 Gerhart and Maggie Stopka. All of the Pastoral or parish duties and responsibilities are shared by the Team. A continuous congregation training program i[...]provided for young and old alike. ne of the out tanding[...]over ight of O.L. Baumann, provide a prog · cour e[...]additional meeting location in th a group Bihl The Wolf Point congregation[...]the earth-wide expansion. function ; a educational center , r vie Around the world, ministers of Jehovah's Witne e have and location for i · doubled in the pas[...]olf P oint Point group was organized a a new congregation by the congregation ha[...]· · om Watchtower Bible and Tract ociety of Brooklyn, ew[...]la , York in February 195 , and thu a a congregation , began to i t to preach in the territory a igned to it. eventeen hared bl[...], olf "Jehovah Witne , i a non- n nam tak n million p from the[...]T ful m n of old , w Yor many of whom a amed in th nth hap r of[...]t ho who d ire to I am mor a g an Bih[...] |
| Church of the latter Day aint teaching and thereafter set Mormon Missionary Elder to |
| Avenue South where it was used by a group called The[...]In 1947 a group of i o had mad April[...]B. Lutheran Church. Reverend Woidke accepted a call to prayer meeting.[...]i , o rgen, served his church and community well while here in our[...]th lack of an und ti nal presence. A greater emphasis was made to involve the[...]nd ,J .,J . young adults in church work and other wholesome Esau, a blind vang Ii · 1947. R v r n turn, fellowship. Under his guidance a community church contacted[...]. tob r 2, involved in more Bible study and mission work. One big 1947 thi[...]he Duerkson, J.J. Regier , and Rever nd B.J. m t to filmstrip and slide production of "The Greatest Gift". This di cuss plans for tarting a church in Wolf Point. It wa was the entire Christmas story done in picture and decided that Rev rend Ben i[...]Wolf Point most of the characters. This was done and enlarged on for would erve weekly on Thur day night for Bibi y and two years. At Christmas the entire community was[...]oup, about 30 in numb r, m tin until and many turned out to see the production which took[...]27, 194 , the par onage wa d dicat d and th ovember 1966 Pastor Rahn accepted the cal[...]m el Montana District Mission Department to begin a church in Point Community hurch.[...]On Augu t 6, 194 , a m eting wa held to organiz th March 5, 1967 Re[...]ted mb r I, 194 , parsonage was sold and a new parsonage wa purcha ed w[...]6x40 foot build· k lat r, on and family moved into the new parsonage in May 1969.[...]b gro orpora d a th pril 11, 1974, after what eemed like endl[...]olf Point. Famili ~ waiting for a pastor, Reverend Roger Krause ·[...]r r a Trinity's pa tor. nder hi ca[...]< n and cleanup and rving ervi is another of th m[...]o mod ling proj t a week} in the vari[...]... and a 20 :io foot m equentl at the church for pot-I a er dd ng.[...]ip number of impro m nt m t a age. ot A b ad · e up[...]I ga; age, but during th a d bau r ''worn n' lib' al[...]d on Januar 2, 1972 n accept d a voting me a r church, with the tipulation m be[...]er ic for r. Eugene Taliferro were hc>ld in 1962 and for Mr . artha Taliferro in Octohl'r 1~f7;') , It\ a: in their home that our first chur h , erv[...] |
| people worked at remodeling the church with a sum total of 552 man-work-day of donated labor. Conveniences added were a modern kitchen, modern restrooms, a pastor' study and nursery; and a fully carpeted pulpit platform. The heating y tern was in talled by Frank Toa vs and ten new church pew were built by Clarence Olfert.[...]000, of which $9,000 was donated during building. A loan wa made at a local bank for the remaining 2,000 which was paid back the following year. The rebuilt church and new ba ement were dedicated May 9, 1954. In Ja[...]the Mennonite Brethren Group decided to withdraw and tart their own work. Pa tor who have erved the[...]e: Reverend Lawrence Goerz, 194 -1949; Reverend P.A. Kliewer, 1949- 1950; Reverend Frank Ewert, 1950-1957; and Reverend Frank Huebert, pre ent pa tor since 1957[...]day school classes which meet from 10:00 to 11:00 A.M. with a worship service beginning at 11:00 A.M. and a unday evening ervice at The first baptis[...]ust 18, 7:30. The mid-week service of Bible study and prayer 1917 with Reverend Thiessen officiating and Mathilda convene on Wednesday evenings. Outreachi[...]The construction of the church the church include a weekly jail service and a bi-monthly 32x50 feet was started March 16, 19[...]i held conducted July 27 1924 with Reverend H.A. eufeld as the fir t unday evening of each month.[...]third unday evening of unday school facilities and build a modern auditorium the month and the Ladie Mi sionary group meet the fir t 40x 1 feet with a basement dining hall and kitchen. The Friday afternoon of the month .[...]HUH HE OF L TRE-VOLT On the 16th and 23rd of April, 1916, five families |
| [...]and Peter F. T ich T[...]unday chool and th[...]After a · of m[...]Th unday chool and w r hip w r[...]feet and the dedication rvic wa condu un 3 1 4 . D[...]into two classes. Gerh. F. Funk taught the adults and Jacob J. Heinrichs the juniors. They organized th[...]nuary 2, 1919 meeting Henry H. Flaming wa elected a leader and the Albert Heidebrecht joined the membership. The[...]Lustre M.B. Church served at the worship services and after 1943 there are no records of meetings.[...]Bibl chool with Mr . Ed Han on and Mar l t achin[...]E BETHEL E 0 ITE H R H and J en ns. Reverend Jacob e[...]d evangeli e odd La ar d unda chool and church |
| [...]nity at heart, so he solicited for funds to build a[...]American . . Missionary organized a S.S. with Peter F. Teichroew as Superintendent and Marie D. Stoesz taught[...]trailer were a common sight here on Sunday. This Sunday[...]Toau . Adeline Franz, Evelyn May 5, 1917 a meeting was held at the J.J . Quiring home Bartel[...]7. in the Pioneer and Wide Awake area. This evening it was[...]decided to organize a unday School and the meeting was[...]The fir t bapti mal and com munion service was conducted[...]The St. Paul' Lutheran Church of Volt and Wa ka[...]Reverend A.O . John on of Wolf Point, assisting. Ther[...] |
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| [...]women were getting $80 to $85 per month and men about How difficult it i now to think of w[...]tuation in the Teachers usually boarded and roomed at near by homes-- early 1900's in mo t of the homestead communities, and usually with families whose children att[...]hauled for the school by someone in the community and in whether or not they had children ready for sch[...]s before the rest of the carry in the coal and wood and stoke the fire for the night. county wa opened fo[...]ng. At the time the In most places a well was dug for the water supply and County wa formed there were 17 organized school the water was carried into the school in a pail--a large districts and seven divided district . There were forty three aluminum dipper used for drinking. In a few areas water rural school ; Wolf Point, Poplar and Culbertson had four was hauled to the school once a week in a large barrel to be year high chool . Froid and Bainville had three year rationed out carefully during the week. accredited high chool , and Brockton, McCabe and Restroom facilities were the "p[...]REA came, had electric lights. Kerosene lamps and a chool became a school di trict (again note the number in la[...]zed territory of Transportation to and from school was by walking (not Roo evelt ounty wa placed into school districts and crowded), horseback or horse and buggy. For the most chool board appointed. Once[...]o. 3 (combined with district o. were teams and sleds in the winter, teams and wagons in 2, no record of thi di trict), o. 9 (Poplar high school), o. the spring and fall, as late as 1926. Farm trucks with 45 (Wolf Point high chool), and o. 55 (Brockton high canvas covered to[...]ed in chool.) ome di trict were already combined and had winter) with benches built on each side of the box, were the new di trict number by time a map wa drawn in 1922. ·rst form of[...]e winter, were goopy in the summer. The large had a much a e ed valuation in the new district as in[...]thi petition of move wa denied. provide a hot drink (coffee, tea or cocoa) or soup when the[...]g, weather was cold. forming more di trict a the population increa ed and Commercial playground equipment was non-existent, hifted area . About 1924 we beg n to ee a con oHdation but wing were u ually built b[...]f the 1930's community. Old wagon wheel proved a type of merry-go- wh n many of th rural chool clo[...]extra-curricular activitie a w think of them today were chool hou e w r m[...]moved o The fir t annual teacher and chool board meeting was oft n th y wer n v r put[...]25, 1919. The fir t Montana kid ft r moving. A chool clo d, th building w Education A o iation unit wer organized in 1936. The often bo[...]fiv tim . b tw en Wolf Point and Gia gow. R.L. Irle wa first Th v rag numb r of[...]er tion of each hool bo rd. Poplar a the fir t Pr id nt. The fir t Par nt-Teacher um[...]raged b ut l O d b gining in m ting PT A) wa organiz d in Wolf Point on pril 9, Marc h nd[...]rough ov mb r. Mo t 1 20 to di cu a tub rculo i and health program. All often th month of u u t wa t k n off--it wa too hot and rur 1 chool w r vi ited and pre nt d with th ame older childr n w r n ded for[...]program. PTA have b n organized, flouri hed and di d tud nt rang din age from to 15, and att ndanc wa at l a t twic in each town chool in the county . li t din two categorie --tho from to 13, and tho who Th fir t count wid chool board l ction wa h Id in were l -l fi and ov r . In th rly ar childr n w r n t pril 1920. r quired to attend chool af er the ag of 1 and only a f w ounty wid did attend -- unle h[...]arting in the 1 20 ' . Att ndanc wa notcompul ory and graduation . Th fir t amination w r h Id on a 9-10 few childr n attended the chool year full time. Parent and Jun -9, 1920, with 52diploma b inggrantedatWolf a[...]Wh n Poplar h Id the examina ion in Ma 1922, all and illnes s were determining factors .[...]that community. Eighth grad r mu t school to hav a " year around chool" with 252 day[...] |
| during the 1930's , and the six high schools in the county school[...]s for the rural students in rural school a nd t h orig[...]hough eighth grade operation in 1976 a nd d i ra examination[...]graders, held with graduating Children a r bu d fro nto seniors has remained a regular practice. choo[...]to become tea chers ince 1919 w h a v h ad fiv oun · nd nt : were required to take some special lessons from a " teacher- ine MacFa rla nd 191 to 1924[...]nty were held on June 5-6, 1920 at Froid , Mondak and 1943 to 196 a nd Ha rry Axtmann fro Wolf Point. Those passing w[...]1921 the State took over the examinations as well a s the und r th e hig h ch ool[...]n very young teachers with this process--and in some was through th at office[...]than some of the students they wer e and advice . The County uperin tend teaching. By 1926[...]hool were required chool at lea t once a year. cting along wit for certifications--by 1929[...]· some teacher training at a state normal school--us uall y a t levies fo r each chool di trict. om[...]ificates were awarded to those teachers. a ppropriated in J a n uary 1920 not t d 1( Now Bachelor (college) degrees are required and many of followin g di trict: 1-5-6-9-1[...]Masters degrees. Dahl was a ppointed th unty h alth The first all-county school exhibit was h eld in J a nua ry 1920 with a al p r month and limited Culbertson on May 15, 1920. The best work was sen t to th e a mou n t of trav ling xp , too , wa:[...]placed into six visi t each ch ool one a year. categories ; general exhibits, p enman s hip (P a lmer Meeti n g a t h e Budget Board , the ' ounty method), geography, sewing, language a nd a rt, and Co mmission er and the ounty up rintend nt of miscellaneous which included h ealth , a gri culture, etc. ch ool , approved the following chool budg and et th Such county wide exhibits a s such were discon tinued in th e mill levie fo r th e 1920 chool year. early 1920's and became a part of oth er co un ty wide ch ool activities .[...]. 0 3 Mill FO U R TRA K A D F IELD D Y wa h eld at the ame[...]MilJ tim e with Froid ulbertso n , Poplar and Wolf Point Di trict 10[...]23 ill partici pa ti ng. It would eem th at H a rry Mitchell of Poplar Di trict 11[...]23 Mill Duri ng th e a rl 1930 all ·[...]al ch ool in each · · a nd c , .[...] |
| [...]hool for passing work. They wanted their diplomas and[...]arding the train at Wolf Point yesterday morning, and Point, Wednesday, the 19th, proved to be a big success as they stepped off at Culbertson a few hours later. If the especially as far as the[...]n. " Vim , vigor, force The city of Wolf Point, and the Wolf Point school deserves a Vim , vigor, force great deal of prai e for t[...]the We have vigor vi iting graduate , teachers and parents. We have force[...]Yes , of course! " were welcomed by the citizens, and the Wolf Point School Every member of[...]ion, determina tion to go thru High School, and here's wishing then directed the visitors to the[...]Froid Eigh th graduates: Wolf Point chool , and short talks by Dr. McFarland of Adeline Ryder; Mary Rhoda; Alene Hedberg; Howard Williston, and others interested in the progress of the[...]ecil Waldon. The Wolf Point school building is a big credit to the county and the organization, cooperation and fine school spirit manifested there reflects a great deal of credit to EARLY SCHOOL DISTRICTS & BOARDS uperintendent Livingston and faculty. Sherida[...]Quartett. A.C. Hopke clerk W.J. Harde, 4. Addre[...]E. Bahn clerk 1913-1916 was very forceful and to the point. Walte[...]912) Charles M. Hanson the boy and girl many words of praise and Lakeside, No. 12 John[...]ar, cond, Froid , third, etc. A. McKinney 1915 (1912) Froid, o. 60[...]they pa ed to the Bainville, No. 14 rear and the other moved forward amid great applau e[...]Henry Hoye clerk 191 graduat had a ch nee to et acquainted.[...]k 1916-(1917) In the evening a dance was in order at th High chool 191[...]J. M. Larson Thur day morning and drove home from ulb rt on. They Culb[...]Fred Kel o cler k tran ported them to and from ulb rt on . 1 13-1916 (1912) The class of 1920, is a cla that the school and the Cha[...]24 Walter Peterson penman hip and econd on arithmetic problem at the[...] |
| [...]. Eiler clerk O.T. Stennes chairman A. McKinney W.E. Swank[...]chen clerk W.A. Vosbeck clerk W.T. Donegan C.C. Sco[...]George Morse Rev. H.B. Witzke A.J. Olson E.H. Bahn clerk[...]Wesley Calder Froid, o. 25 J.A. Boid[...]W.A. Crusch oren Lar on chairman[...]Wolf Point, o. 45 J.M. Larson A.J. Olson Theodore Herman[...]John F. ook J.B. Dollard clerk L.A. Brown clerk Cha . Hawkin -[...]. 10 Bainville, o. 16 A. McKinney F.M. Shahan Leo Conlin[...].P . 1 rk F.W. haumkes el G org A. Jan B .. Albert Hendrick on J .A. Boid Walter F. Peter on Frank Moon cle[...]. o. 15 John arckle Mr . G.A. Li ermor aud Butl r Frank Fr[...]W.E. wank oo I rk A . cKinn y J . . Hammond[...]cl rk H. . hwante J.A. Boid Bainville, o. 14 o.[...]inar Berg trom J.H. Clark G.A. Shoemak r Martin Knutson clerk W.[...] |
| [...]town about five miles. The ne-xt school was in a one room building across the street north of the present home of the Superintendent of schools. A Miss Gardner taught here. During the years 1911 through 1915, the first four grades had school in a two room frame building later known as the[...]ic Burgett School -1938, Families Zimmerman house and now known as the present John in p[...]Petersons, Ben Eschenbachers, Elvin Myrtle Toll, and Mrs. Maude Miller Peterson. The first Copeland and Charlie Sands. basketball games were held in this building. Grades 5-6-7 and 8 were held in the Congregational church (now the Methodist church). Teachers were Miss Charlotte Hanson and Mr. Cooper.[...]in the fall When the schools were consolidated, and high school of 1916. This school burned in March 1922. A new school districts formed, it became D[...]tely but the school term finished in the Lutheran and Congregational churches. The first graduation exe[...]da Bergseth Notes on MONDAK AND SNOWDEN Schools Delaney, Hazel Gardner, Alice Gessner and Gladys Distri[...]YZ flat 19 5. This building has proved more table and has and Lakeside, also went to school at the log schoolho[...]chool stood was taken the treet doesn't eem to be a problem anymore. by the Missouri river and a second frame school built at The 1923 graduatio[...]n Rolland Beaudry Ralph Cri man , Audrey Schwenke and students at the Snowden chool were Myrtle and Sarah Gladys Miller. The largest graduating clas was in 1933 Steihl and the Wilson family. Shortly after the hanging at w[...]VILLE BULLDOGS HIGH attending and the school was consolidated with Mondak. SCHOOL"[...]ld Vannatta, E velyn Copeland, Betty Eschenbacher and Peterson. On the horse: Robert Copeland, Ray Vandeberg, Glen Vandeberg and George Vandeberg - The new[...] |
| [...]ation ws found about this chool except that it wa a frame school building identical to the one at Sno[...]19 when the county was formed. Mondak later built a two-story brick school and it then had Teachers from 1927 until the sch[...]1928-1930 William Darrah As a very young girl, Frances traveled to school on[...]argaret McIntyre horseback, or with her own horse and buggy, picking up 1931-1933 Francis Marro[...]1936 E.E. Allen bringing the children from Mondak and Showden into the 1936-1937 Gertrude Marti[...]rvey Corma Sweetman had also taught at Lakeside and 1938-1939 Shirley Westerlund Snoden[...]28,range59. The school seems to have been opened and closed several times before it was closed for goo[...]rly The Crusch school was built in 1912 and was located on 1920's but no other record of teac[...]Except for the early years, it had been a nine month 1929-1934 Closed[...]as is known it wa never 1925-1926 Mi Miller and Mary el n moved after being placed on the W[...]The building wa and mo · The LePage chool wa fir t h ld in P rry LePag ' farm and u d a a d newly built chick n hous . It a later moved a fi w mil wa I ted now b[...]a though to The John on chool w loc ted in the El[...]and[...] |
| Hanson, and undoubtedly many others. It was also mentioned th[...]ht here prior to 1927: Miss Grimsrud, Mr. Collins and Belle Kao. 1927-1928 Ithe Winchell 1928-1930 M.D.[...]n School closed in May 1946 for lack of students, and from then on the children were bussed into Bainvi[...]Culbertson, and was about centrally located between the 1928-193[...]s. Bessie Mow and Marie and ova Ratledge. 1937-1938 Harriet McDonnell[...]southeast of the Crandell ranch and where the pre ent 1944-1945 Frances cGourty[...]nnan accomodate a greater number of children to the east. At 1946-1[...]nis Wik um and Jim Gardner childr n, the Swant's, Sweeney's, 194[...]Ratledge's France Balland, orma weetman and Bill 1950-1951 Mr . Agne Peter on Harmon. School closed and children were bus ed into Bainville. It[...]to the we t ide of Muddy Cre k and there it b came known a the Lake ide chool, loc ted not far from the Lake[...]AKE IDE HOOL church and tor . From thi tim on they had nine month[...]above familie and ome of the other w re Jimmy Lunke, This school was first called the pringdale chool and La wr nee and Merrill we tman, all the O car Romo was located about two miles west of the building of the children, Hazel and Mickey Gardner, th Henry Fr richs, present Carter Harmon ranch. There was a flowing spring the Frank Fralick , the Fr d Leona[...]hildren, the Jens orgaard girl , LeRoy ands, Ruth and at that time between Mondak (Fort Union) and Mary Council and many other . The highe tenrollmentin[...] |
| any one year was 43, and this occured during the homestead years of 1910 to 1912. At this time the school house was remodeled and enlarged; and a claim shack of[...]~ two rooms was bought and moved in for a teacherage. Also a barn was built for the teacher's car, pupil's horses and for coal. Some of the teachers at Lakeside were[...]a Grele, Miss Rutter, Bergney Ritter, Alice Romo, and Durward Haefner. Mrs. Schultz later taught in Bai[...]r the children attending were the Thorpe children and the seven oldest Carl Harmon children. When the s[...]thwest of Bainville. It was started in about 1913 and was attended mainly by the large Becker family wh[...]ended at any one time. They had nine months terms and the school existed for five years. US TO H A T ENJOVME T WH ICH Besides the Bec[...]IS. AT O CE. 8 CST QU> •-ITY A 0 some Indian children, Manford Higgins and later by his I ft I TC: I N Q UA NT• :v- ,.,.._,.,. brother Marvin, and the Gergen children. There were only two teachers during the life of the school. Ed . Higgins and Mrs. Gergens . The district was annexed to Lakeside and later annexed with Lakeside into the Bain ville d[...]h r 1919 when we formed Roosevelt County wa given a the Mr . ina. McFarland,[...]ip 27, Range 57. o teacher were listed after 1919 and itis to b[...]f r The Lanark hool op n d in 1913 and loca d in h SW¼ of E¼ of ction 2 , Twn. 28 and rang 57. ( Lanark Memories for oth r building in town). It a lo ated about half way b tween ulbertson and Bainvill . ome of the famili who child n a tend d w r : van c ann, Becker and For yth. ome of the arly ch r were: Charlotte[...]. B i Honey 1927 to 1934, Poland Beaudr 1934-1936 and E th r P ters 1936-1938. The chool clo d in 19 . Th Lanark hool al o r d as a church , and a Lots of old time family nam Li ted h r n arl all community hall for ocial affairs, danc and box o ial . home teader who came and ettl d in the Lanark ar a.[...] |
| [...]land, up the creek and across from Ben Eschenbachers. In[...]brothers in 1973. The school was moued with a team of The old Huso School. Man teacher unknown.[...]Belgarde, Hazel Torgerson. Front row: Vivian Huso and William Torgerson.[...]This school was built about 1919 and was located on Lot[...]one, Section 19, Township 29 and Range 58. It was named[...]ence Griffs Torger on, Arlin Huso, Bill Torgerson and Violet 1941-1942 Josephine (Christie[...]1942-1943 Mrs. Enoch Barr and others[...]hool did not open in 1936 for lack offunds. After a Mi Cau tte, Burgett school acher and Betty Rustad, few month children wer busse[...] |
| [...]hool closed from 1935 to 1939 by George Vandeberg and used on his farm. It was sold to 1939-194[...]let bids for a new school to be built on Lot 7, tion 3,[...]followed by Lena Harmon and Lillian Aspengreen. o Burgett School - 1944 (last[...]d funds to operate. It opened again in 1939 and ran until about one and one half mile north 1947.[...] |
| [...]custodians are Paul and Lucy Christensen and the cooks are Esther Waller and Hazel Nelson. Bus drivers are[...]Harvey Chell, Lorrie Reuter, Manny Rued and Fred Froid's first school building and students in the Waller. School board[...]as the teacher in chairman; Roger Bertelsen, and Harlow Strandlund; Ted 1912.[...]1937-44 7 years adding a new section to the west end of the school; it[...]1944-45 1 year consists of a science laboratory, science classroom, high A[...]1945-4 7 2 years school and grade libraries.[...]vig 1958-59 1 year and 45 in the senior high school. Faculty members are[...]some of the principals or superintendents Dutcher and Juanita Wardell. The office secretary is Mrs. were: G.R. Donaldson, Emil Peterson, J.C. Churchill and ig Ostby and Kim Davidson is a teacher's aide. The E.G. Poore.[...]A.J. Olson[...]1917--A.J. Olson[...]L.A. Brown, clerk[...]A. Hedberg clerk[...]The ational chool opened in 1 27 and was clos din[...]1940. It was located betwe n August Eschenbacher and Chri Jen en . Before it wa a chool it was a bank building in McCab . At pre nt ther i a dam ite on the Pirst school built in Froid[...] |
| [...]ie Blowers east and½ mile south of Froid. In 1919 they moved into a 1928-1929 Hazel Davis[...]fir t school wa h Id in Dora K 11 r' hack. After a f,w y ar th di trict wa divid d and two n w hool built: Vall y and En rpri .[...] |
| [...]la Bertelsen, Edythe Bahn, Agnes Smith, May Harbo and Julia Hurley. Third row: first boy unknown, Birgi[...]CH SCHOOL Samuel Sunwall and Billie Scott. District[...]oved across the highway opened about 1916 and known bythenameoftheMILLER (across the creek north of Walter Scotts) and remained school. It is remembered that[...] |
| [...]District 41 and The beginning of this school was in Jack and Mary[...]of District 41 was abandoned and it was annexed with[...]District 8 in November 1924. A new chool hou e wa built[...]4 to Alvy Cosper (Casper) and was called the Flat Center Bessie Leach 1914 - 19[...]elson, Anderson, Wes ner, and many other over the Eleanor Milkoski 1918 - 1919[...]lag n ) CLOSED The old Dahley chool is in Froid and i being u d a a teacher's re idence.[...]s n. eated left to right: Tipp Mr . ordman and how r .[...] |
| [...]the county line, and was then called the Baker School. Due[...]lidations the building was sold to Bill Coats for a residence and moved a mile south to what is now the Mark[...]Rudolph place. When the Rudolphs built a new home the[...]used as a residence.[...]Purvis place. The school was opened in 1916 and closed after part of a term was completed in 1918. Esther Coats[...]taught in 1916 and 1917. She was followed by Esther Flat Center Scho[...]elson, Geyser who taught three months in 1918 and the school Morris Anderson, Helen Skillingberg, V[...]Gus Erickson bought the building and tore it down. Webster, Mildred Webster, Margaret[...]Swinharts, Johnsons, Urdahls, Tripletts, Nelsons, and Schlabs, and George Webster.[...]7 school year. It opened again in the late 1950's and ran until the early BEVE[...]0's, when the di trict was annexed to District 15 and the District 24 children[...]Settlers with children coming into a new region are immediately confronted with a major problem, that of[...]with bachelors, some maiden ladies, and young couples SMOKE CREEK SCHOOL just starting a new marriage but still without children. All[...]of them excited with the prospect of a free land upon which The moke Creek chool was opened in 1942 and closed to build homes of their own. Lon[...]teachers who taught at this school were: and consolidation, schools had to be where the childr[...]-1944 were, and were usually one room, one teacher Hazel Angvick[...]nformation eemed to be available on this and when District o. 24 was created out of District No. 4, a chool.[...]township 30 range 57, on the homestead of a man named Cornelius Beverly and wa thereafter referred to as the[...]L neighborhood as a matter of course. After two years the[...]15 building was moved a half-mile south and two mile west (al o B KER CHOOL)[...]191 . Then it wa moved again one mile ea t and one mile The McCord chool wa built in 1 07 or 1[...]hip 31 range 57. The wa donated by Warren Mc ord and wa located two mile econd location wa on the land of E.E. Wheeler and the north of Froid on the we t id of o. 16. Thi l[...]upils attended the Mc ord chool from uch di tance a barn was built to house the hor driven or ridden. Before Froid developed, the chool wa a community center and wa al o u ed for church rvic . This wa a va tly overcrowded school when the town of Froid[...]was built. The school Oscar Berglund home and first school in community - was later move[...] |
| [...]Teachers at the school were (in ord r a n ar a po ibl )[...]Varner, a scholarly gentleman who nam I annot[...](Barr), Helen Miller (Jen en), Jenni And r on, Mr .[...]Clark, Joseph Rei h Ezra mith, Avi H kman and Ruth[...]Nothing remains but a windbreak to th northw t and a The old Beverely School built on its third locati[...]well. Practically everybody in the neighborhood and heir[...]children received their primary education th r and no doubt feel a touch of nostalgia now and th n a th pa[...]The Valley school di trict was a part of he En rpri e[...]SW¼ of section 21, town hip 30, range 57 and wa opened[...]ohn Berglund home - 1911. Lelia 1925-1926 a Miss Huff and Mildred Berg Sanders, teacher. Students: Vic and Oscar Olson, Algot 1926-1927 Lucy Rohrenback (Mrs. Harry John on) and Florence Berglund, Carl Olson, Elmer, Esther, 1927-1928 Lucy Rohrenbach and Edla wan on (Mr . Ed Adeline and Harold Strandlund, Benny Luebke, Esther Mogen) Coa ts, Lois Bain, Dora and Don Trower, Art Coats, and 1928-1929 Edla wanson Lepley boy.[...]ler. Bo : Paul wank, Mitch ll Granboi Rob rt lark and Robert Granboi . final move on tha of An buildin · a ·[...]d and old pla 917 it w s[...]d and pla o w qui chool a de and con u[...] |
| [...]re: Dora Stratton, Frances McCoy, Rose Wallander, and father) and he had been injured when the chimney of the Bergit Odden who was the last teacher and taught in 1927- chool fell on him as he was prep[...]rbels, Rasmussens, Knicks, school ws moved and became the Beverly school. Warners, Liens, Fredri[...]McBrides, Showers, I abelles, uger , Vermachers, and the Korshmiers. ome of the teachers were: Dat[...]1946 Robert Rueter The chool wa closed in 1946 and in 1947 Walter Rasmussen moved the building to Culbertson and it is still RHODA SCHOOL in use today as a residence.[...]Ii ted a having been in operation in 1919 and located in[...]-£-~•-u-O D HOOL Pow ll. Lma e - Teach r and Butt chool.[...]HOOL The H mmond hool tarted a an w chool in 1917.[...]Myrtle Olson Viola The Luebke chool history is a hort lived one. It i Grace K[...]Hammond Gladys b lieved the school op ned in 1909 and om ofth teach r[...] |
| [...]ammond, Evelyn Gunderson, June A new frame school was built in 1 on Main[...], Lenny Gunderson, Iona students and taught two ter hew cceeded in 19 1-[...]until ovember 1902. The chool wa clo d a hort time[...]then until Prof. J.H. Wil on of Independence, Kan a[...]overcrowded with 35 and more pupil attendin . Thi Marguerite Rygg 1929-19[...]were also decided upon by a vote of 53 to ool Hedwig Waldhau[...]t CLO ED The Hammond chool wa mov d and b am a slaughter hou e. A £ w year ago it wa mov d to ulb rtson and i us d a a mu um on th Thr hing B ground outh a of ulb rtson. HIGH[...]0. 17 ubmitted b and E h r h ldon r[...]ding |
| The fir thigh school was used for 45 years and in 1965 Richard J. Isle; 1918-1919 Miss Edith[...]n to house the high chool, adjoining the 1924 A.A. Wood; 1924-1926 Mrs. Kate Whitcomb· 1926- grade school, wa completed and dedicated that fall. It is 1930 Clifford D. Kna[...]1938 M.A. Bodah!; 1938-1945 George Hays; 1945-1947 upe[...]; 1955-1959 Orren Ke ler; 1959-1963 Glen Clark D. a on; 191 -1917 Allan C. Lemon· 1917-191[...]Culbertson in 1943 as a cla room teacher and coach; erved 20 years a principal and 9 years as Guidance Counsellor. He taught a wide variety of cla ses over the 33[...] |
| [...]The school closed. Dan Tietz bought this building and moved in onto his farmstead.[...]church of McCabe and in 191 a new larger chool wa 1946-47 Betty Nordman (Mrs. E[...]on the E ¼ of ection 24, The school was closed and Mr. Alexander Damm bought township 29, range 56-just east of town. this building and moved in onto his farmstead. Teachers and the years they taught were: in th old[...]1912-1913 Hazel Duncan and Irene Gergen[...]District o. 18. 1917-191 Pearl Kao and har]otte Jack on No record of teachers prior to[...]191 -1919 Ma ll and Jd b 1930-31 Edith May[...]1921-1922 R.E. g and a on and Th ra 1932-34 o records[...]1922-1923 ina and 1935-37 Fern Cody[...]thi 1925-1 26 ina and building and moved it onto his farm. 1926-1 27 E th and 1927-1928 Alphi a[...]HOOL 1929-1931 a n an Di trict 1 1931-1 and[...] |
| [...]ollatz The Dane Valley school was built in 1909 and was in 1917-18 Mary Culwell continuous ope[...]1938-39 Inez Feltis Teachers and the years they taught were: 193[...]1915-1917 Hazel LeClair 1917-1918 Elna Wallander and Esther McArdle 1918-1919 Ida Peterson 1919-1920 Marie Thompson 1920-1921 Sue Latterell and Wilhelmina Rasmussen 1921-1922 Clara Hansen and Fern Udy 1922-1923 Constance Petersen 1923-1928 Rosella Rohrenbach (Cookson) 192 -1929 Carrie Hofman and Irene McFadden 1929-1931 Esther Van Allen 1931-19[...]44-1945 Eleanor Hutchinson 1945-1942 Irene Powell and Margaret SaJvevold THOM E SCHOOL[...]District 25 |
| [...]Seated left to right back and forth: Warren Lindenfield, First B[...]ndenfield, Jake Bighorn, Kathleen Brazel, well as a classroom. It opened its doors to eight students[...]until 1919 when Roosevelt County came into being and Brockton School District No. 55 was created. Scho[...]ard were Ole Brockton School. Lien, Otto Lund and Ray Sparks. Ole Lien continued to In[...]l his retirement in 1948. School sy tern. A grade school wa built con i ting of eight The[...]n of Brockton quickly outgrew the classroom and on April 27, 195 thi new "Barbara first small school house, and in 1919 a new wood frame Gilligan" school was dedicated. building with full basement was built. In 1922 a brick Barbara Gilligan taught chool at[...]r ear , addition was attached to the school and in 1930 the from 1924 until he retire[...]The following i a copy of the peech gi en b h rat the In 1936 the Brockton School was expanded, this time a dedication of the new rade chool in 195 new gymnasium and more classroom were added to the building.[...]o h ool The first graduating cla wa in 1929 and consi ted of building loca[...]1 1 i Sparks and Javita Falk dof.[...]46 Brockton purcha edits fir t chool bu . In 1950 aa. In thi sam year an agr em nt b au hi[...]wa igned with the ulb rtson chool Di trict o. 17 and down my ba . Brockton cho[...] |
| [...]ting office, railroad coal chute, round house "Y" and barbershop. On a low hill just west of town stood the abandoned fl[...]ding was much too small for the growing community and a handsome brick building "Wind Mills of H[...]ockton girls school operetta was erected south of and connected to the older structure, put on in 1938 under the direction of music teacher, and Brockton had a new high school in one of the spacious Adaline[...]e basement gym to raise money for needed meetings and Christmas celebrations. Once the entire cast equipment. Luke Jeldon, John Gilligan, George Nick and of a home talent production loaded costumes, properties Otto Schultz, among others, loved to dance. It was a and players on a Great Northern speeder and took the familiar sight to see them teaching the younger girls of 10 show on the road to Poplar for a performance. to 14 to square dance, polka and waltz.[...]Lunches at these affairs were memorable, a big sandwich of seasoned ground pork and beef, pickles, a huge slice of cake and coffee served in a tin cup cost 25¢.[...]Teachers were cooks, countermen, cashiers and when occasion required, a bouncer.[...]teacher and parents and the culprits were promptly[...]held a few miles west of town. The great semi-circle of[...]decorated white teepee and colorful tribal dances drew[...]Jim mith's hor e and buggy; Frank Metzger's horse[...]drawn dray· Ole Lien running both up and down the hill[...]between the big white house on top and hi store; Indian women selling buffalo berries and chokecherries in willow[...]Brockton went wild with delight and excitement one[...]many cholastic competitions, a well. Many adult can[...]recall their ucce es in spelling and declamatory contests,[...]music fe tivals, art exhibit and comp titions in various[...] |
| been a great satisfaction and pleasure to me that I had a The lonesome coyotes howling share in the development of the boys and girls of Brockton In the wake of the coming dark during my many years as a teacher in the Brockton Public The little[...]For a fast and gentle lark. If my recollections of my busy years in Brockton seem to dwell much upon the community and the happenings When the moon is br[...]ple here. The people of You hitch the team for a merry chase whom I write looked upon the school a[...]Across the distant hill showers, farewell parties and political meetings took The grizzly bear is rambling place here. The school yard served as a playground park Toward his last and freshest kill. for children after school. Within the walls (of this building were fostered the ambitions and dreams of our children. You hear the snow[...]h students who have The chickadees and the owls, become ministers of the gospel, priests, business men and Who prey at night in the waning light women[...]armers' barnyard fowls. lawyers, doctors, nurses, and many others of whom we can be justly proud. For we feel in some measure we have The forests are a mixture helped them all. Of pines and cotton woods by Barbara Theresa Gilligan And when you go, of course you know[...]taken from the HoTA KA school paper high schools and was put in Brockton district. No record of teac[...]FRESHMA 1931-34 Mrs. Sophie Anderson 1934-35 M.A. Bodahl by ue Ral ton 1935-39 Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGuire 1939-42 Mr. and Mrs. Allen Madison ow, Ii ten all you young fre hman, 1942-43 Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Matross[...]Get right down to bu in 1944-45 Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Wilson Don't laugh and ing and play. 1945-46 Mrs. Guy Miller and Mrs. Greta Gorton 1946-47 Paul and Emily Hinz Make th be t of what you ar u ing The school closed and children bus ed to Brockton. a[...]ow plea take my a[...]b 11 nd 0 TA A r don't ou hi[...]r wooded hill- ide A toa t to the Brockton High chool Her factorie and her mill T[...]For our sch ol ha tood th te t. The now it i a glistening[...]e Ma w prove a lo al band. |
| [...]have any administrators For her prize sought and won before their hi[...]only offered elementary education, only a few teachers We of thirty--in thirtyeigh t.[...]Schools. Mr. Mitchell was a pioneer in many educational[...]and college preparatory divisions were all stressed t[...]developing the music and dramatic ability of all his[...]1935 First in State class B, defeated the Class A champs. Elmdale School about 1915. Earl, Mae and Mary Turner; 1950 Dictrict 2 C champs. Julia and Fanchin Goodwin; Della, Alma, and Da ve 1951 First in District 2 C, fi[...]1974 First Class A for State this was the first year Poplar[...]0. 9 competed in Class A 1975 Third in Class A for State by Helen Dale O tlund[...]received a State Class C. Band A title. In 1 73 the Fort Peck Indian Agency was moved to Track began in 1921 and Poplar won its first cup that Poplar from south o[...]oplar won its first Big Four Track title in 1936, and in the outhea t part of Poplar burned to the ground and in 1964 the track boys were first in their[...]aw con isted of drama, junior-senior plays, and music recitals. boarding chool in the winter of 1[...]The high school is still very active in drama. A Speech The Indian chool government ho pital, e[...]in 1927. located in the northern part of the city and were one of the A high school orchestra was organized by Frank attr[...]ized were well kept, the building were up-to-date and the high chool band. He also organized a 12 piece All Girls comfortable, and the corp of teacher wa very efficient. Ban[...]In 1919, of the forty school in Montana with a Wm. Whitnight, di ciplinarian; Homer R. Robitaill[...]r; Elizabeth headed by Mi Gro nickle. A full cour e in Home tratton, kindergarten· lie[...]L. Economic began in 1920 headed by Minnie A. Rio. Only Pereau, earn tre ; gne D. Picotte laundre ; Lula ewing wa offer d before thi . Black, cook; Harriet A. paffard, girl' matron; Anna trau , boy' matron[...]The r d brick building r t din 19 3, one u ed a the direction of Mi Kathrine D. Wilcox. I[...]upervi ion of ignal '. Emogene Lectra. A ociated with her was Mrs . G[...]Five girl were active: McLeod, Mis Mayme chwartz and Mi Ral ton. Ur ula Mitchell[...]Marion This chool offered only elementary work and the Tool y and Cora Thack ry. student who wi hed to advance furt[...]ation b gan in 1927. The girl in this class east. A more and more peopl came to ettle in Poplar, a organized th Pep lub in 192 . need aro e for a new and larger chool building. Mr. Mitchell died uddenly in hi home on the evening of In 1915 a new public chool wa built. This building eptember 9, 1937. Mis Marion (Pete) Patch, a former consisted of both grade and high chool cla room . Some graduat[...] |
| [...]and Addie Hayne .[...]with hirt and t ·[...]line Mitch ll, 7 Addi Jim Walker, Audr y Atkin on and ora Tande. Ha Loui K[...] |
| [...]1955 A.L. Cooper; 1955-1958 G.L. Erickson; 1958-1965[...]1955. J.A. Green 1955 to 1956.John A. Hegvik 1956to 1965.[...]Walker, Mr. Cosier, Mr. James Macdonald Sr., and Mr.[...]Richard, Jack O'Brien, George Budak and Vern Ostlund,[...]became the superintendent of buildings and ground , his a i tant i cotty Azure. Mrs. Alma Even on is t[...]in the school year 1974-75 a senior needs seventeen credits[...]creation of a High chool District wa completed on[...]Augu t 12, 194 when di trict o. 9 and o. 1 were[...]In 1931-32 a gymna ium wa added to the west of the original building and a new high school was added to the[...] |
| through 8. In 1951 a new grade school was erected with a capacity of four hundred students. This building[...]for bonding of district No. 9 for $320,000.00 for a new elementary school building. This amount was supplemented by a Federal grant of $130,000.00. The building includ[...]administration offices, health room , clerks room and kitchen for preparing hot lunches. In 1963 the[...]Academic building and quart[...] |
| [...]It is thought this school was opened about 1918 and was[...]Hughes school in 1920 and was located on the NW¼ of the[...]teachers, Mrs. Helen Price, Mrs. Gearhart, and Miss Lucy Wittine. The building was torn down and used to build the[...]This school opened in 1925 and closed in 1930. Teachers[...]were Miss Lippe, Miss Margaret Corrigan and Miss The community of Bredette first built a church- Gertrude Wittine. No location[...]side of the road which was school. used for a school for about ten years. When the Hughes school was closed, the building was torn down and moved and re-constructed as the Bredette school in about 1930. The school was built across the road west and located in the SE¼ of section 11, township 32, range 49 and was never moved from that location. Mrs. Rush was the first teacher and since people in the TRENNES[...]District 1 started a Literary Society. The people of the community This school was moved several times and with each held debates, spelling bee contests, and did some study on move opened under another name. It was at first known as government during the winter, and used the school for the Stensland school, then the Zimmerman school and on dances, box socials and other social gatherings during the its third m[...]ection 17, township 29, range 49. Peter Hansens, and Adolph Tongs. There[...]ve Dietrich 27 and Marcella Etzel (Blevins) taught the last two year[...]After the school clo ed it wa moved and became the 1930-1931 Alm·na Lien[...]Thi school was originally lo ated one mile north and 1946-1947 School was closed one mile ea t of the B n Zimmerman place and called the 1948-1951 Alpha Hanson[...]became the Ch 1 ea chool it wa 1951-1956 Unknown and the chool was clo ed part of lo ated[...]later white children The school still stands, and is u ed as a community hall. attended. During the 1930's ome[...]under the au pices of th WP A would come and cook hot[...]The chool opened about 1934 and the teacher who[...]was in existence in 1920 1942-1943 Zula Carey and closed in 1929. Only two teacher were remembered,[...]8 Mary Wambach Miss Rowe who taught in 1927-1928, and Miss Florence 1948-1950 Marjorie[...] |
| [...]teacher was Elizabeth Doran. The pupils were Paul and and the location unknown. In the early 20' it wa loca d Jennie Dees, Myrtle, Amy, Frederick and Ralph Pierce, on section 31, township 32,[...], Garland Only records of the teachers and the year they taught Gaskell, Dick and Pauline Seip. are as[...]imm) were 1928-29 Edna Kling Bertha Ramstad and Mrs. Garfield Gaskell. 1929-31 Evelyn Baker It was later moved farthered south and Alma Klien Nees 1931-32 Myra Potter taught th[...]The building was later hauled to Mineral Bench and was township 31, range 51 and opened as the: added to the Mineral Bench school house. Near the school stood one tree and the school was often referred to as the Lone Tree[...]This school was first called the Tunison chool and wa[...]Poplar and u ed as a home in the ea t nd of town near[...] |
| Tony Peterson built a second school there in the early[...]to District 9 1936, and Alberta Heaton from 1936 to 1940. This time it[...]of Poplar, on Poplar Creek sold to Walter Bridges and is a part of his home. and a little north of Jim O'Connors. The school was the[...]chool was built on the Jack McGown moved on a hill above the Mick Smith place, used as a land, south of the original site. This school was known as dwelling and later burned down-with lightning a the Fairview chool. Teachers were Mrs. Helen Price 1948 probable cause. to 1950, and Ida Ulsaker from 1950-1951. Families whose chil[...]l airs, Manleys , McAnallys , Gabrielsens, Reedes and mokey McGowans. (It was difficult to get any ex[...]school--so will say--correct except for omissions and errors.) Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carver (Harriet)[...]According to Melvin Risa, a local resident, he remembers[...]who used it as a house for awhile after the school was[...]Ri a children, Papendick Kelihan and Elmer Falk. Melvin |
| [...]came out to ring the 1942-43 Marcy Baty bell and hit that--well, she went back after the stove pok[...]erna Werner to work her way out of those thistles and then she 1944-45 Beverly Angell commenced to round up kids with poker in hand and a wild 1945-46 Mabel Larson gleam in her e[...]1952-53 Marie Vandergrift how to apply a good ruler to the "seat of learning"if need 1953-54 Lester Pelvick be. She was a wonderful person and a great teacher. 1954-55 no record[...]walked or 1956-58 Ora Rusk Alcorn rode a horse. Before it had been six miles to school. I did use 1958-59 Sophie Haugen a isted by her i ter a bike in nice weather. In the winter my dad or Leo[...]Families attending the oo chool in the la 30' and Bummer would take turns taking us to the school i[...]'s were: Art DeTienne, els Olson, Leonard Bummer, a wagon in the spring or a heated shack on a sleigh in Fred Kanning, Charles Kli is[...]ue en Adolph winter. This was by team, of course, and the trips were Kanning, Lester everson, Frank chwarzrock, Lee Friday evening and Sunday afternoon. Sch warzrock, and Kenneth 01 on. Another family, the Willard Enghusen's, often brought the youngsters on a sled tied on a rope to a saddle horn of a GRAY SCHOOL horse. The two DeTienne boys rode bareback together and Di trict 9 I rode my horse until I fell off and broke my leg. After that my dad no longer let me[...]The Gray school opened in 1919 with Mi Iva Gray , a[...]the Gray school. he later marri d Leo Vandeberg and I remember the big pot bellied stove that domi[...]room that we sat around in cold of winter. It had a big[...]45. Mis Wickwire, another home teader metal cover and in fall, during a hide and seek game, the[...]crashed school was moved two mile outh and loca d in ction to the floor with the little fell[...]t, 13, township 32, range 51. ashes, stove and debris.[...]s. Schwarzrock fished him out, got him cleaned up and he was none the worse for the incident. and Irene O'Brien; Ernie and John LaRoch ; ma , Ed, A few days later this same little boy tried to hitch a ride Lloyd, Jerry Art and Donald Jen en. Later the Fo en on one of the big[...]All this was till in the moving Teacher and th y ar th y tau ht w r : 191 -1 2 Iva[...]e him. He tumbled under the huge tie, rolled over and over. Once again he wa retrieved dusty, blood and one of hi ear almo t torn off and had to be ewn on by a doctor. He wa a hard luck kid . That same fall we kid w re having a hor race, he fell off and broke his arm. The chool day for our childr n[...]nge of th fl c cloud . In wint r w built now fort and had a now ball war or p n all our r c e on Fox and oo . There were the fights b hind th coal h d with on p rson d l gated to atch for the teach r until a grudg wa ettl d or a coupl of ho hang d rul ov r ho a tough t. The oo chool wa moderniz d with indoor plumbing and oil heat eventuall . In 1959 it wa clo d for ood . Th building wa purcha d by L 1 ch arzr k and tom down . nly th ard and th foundation r main. Location of th chool was ction 6, town hip 31, and range 2. Teach rs and th y ars the taught ar : 192 -29 Agne Kell[...] |
| [...]Darland, the school was closed from 1939 to 1941, and Ilene cott taught the 1941-1942 year and the school closed that spring. Gray School - 1928. Back row: Pearl and Malvin Mergle. |
| There was never a usable well at the school in all those years. We packed water for the school children as well a s for the other activities. We finally bought a light plant which we used until the REA lines came in , and moved our social activities to the new community hall in 1953 and 1954. The first pupils at Mineral Bench in 1919 were Nellie, Bud, John and Mabel Nesbit. Harold, Cora Lea a nd LaVern Nees, Francis, Anna and Tom Hennessy a nd Winston, Nora, Pete and Ruth Baker, and Bob Leete.[...]Tagge a s the first teacher. She married Guy Miller and[...]a Stat.e Representative. They then sold their farm[...]Jensen a nd moved to Poplar, then Wolf Point.[...]The other teachers and years they taught are:[...]n) Lucille Bargrude, Mildred Poole, Cora Lee Nees and Pete 1935-36 Mrs. Esther Peters Baker.[...]1938-39 Miss McBroom and Gertrude Davi[...]1939-40 Pa ul Hinz. Thi year they clo d owd and Gra[...]1940-41 Mineral Bench chool wa clo d. ray and owd[...]194 -49 A.W. Connally and I ab 1Poling Mr. . P der 1949-50 Jenni Lik n and H nry D 1950-51 Mari lifford and r . Fanni[...]1959-60 After v ral ach r cam and rapidl[...]five . Th chool wa c and t pfor Mineral Bench School picn[...]le. The folk of th munity bought it to u a a Marilyn Miller, Charlie Nesbit, Louise Flagen, unknown, mmunity hall, and it i u d for 4H m ting , chureh Evelyn Johnson, R[...]Sturm, Laurid en , Enghu n , Edam and Le te.[...] |
| Biem School - 1921. Back row: Jerome, Albert and Clement Friedenbach, Eddie and Ida Schwarzrock. Middle row: Molly Damm, Agnes Friedenbach, Dorothy Damm, Frank Schwarzrock and David Damm. Front row: Christine and Bertha Damm and Cyrilla Friedenbach.[...]hair pieces and wigs, and all the costumes. Some of the lace[...]These are the teachers and the years they taught:[...]1938-40 Esther Johnson, Stella Loe and Blanch Lowery[...]1948-49 Theresa Adams and Norma Edam (married Alfred[...]School in a play given by the pupils and directed by their[...]Flagen as Martha and the rest of the pupils as supporting[...]were part of the play and included the Virginia Reel and Miss Lucy Timoskevich - teacher Biem School - 1932- the Minuet. Costumes and hair pieces were made by the 1933[...] |
| [...]District 9 Weiss, Louise Flagen. A repeat performance by' request Those that[...]Thank to Lucy for either newly married or had a very young family when use of pictures.[...]they came here. It was necessary to have a chool a the[...]N SCHOOL Corporation and moved it to where the ne d wa the[...]on School township 30, range 52. A teacher was hired by District o'.[...]9 whose name was Mrs. Ole Anderson, and the chool and The first school in the neighborhood of 1918 wa[...]he homestead shack which had been moved about one and a one room school, and the Nelson school was moved to the half miles eas[...]t on Julius for grades one through four, and one for grades five Johnson's land, one half mile[...]he number of students had decreased again in 1946 and built on the Hans Hoff land, the old school was m[...]e teacher could handle all eight grades. Teachers and the Slim Simons land fifteen miles north of Popla[...]ion Tooley The first year the school opened was a summer session 1927-1928 Hazel Carpenter tau[...]Byrne Transportation was by saddle horse or horse and buggy. 1930-1931 Lucy McKee All the teachers boarded and roomed at Julius Johnson's. 1931-1932 Mary O'[...]1934 Theresa Daub Qualley, Buchanan, Olson, Brown and Goedert. 1934-1936 Alvina Johnson[...]1936-1937 Betsy Froirack depression came and the school closed. The building was 1937-1938 Alice Tinker sold to the Brockton people for a Lutheran church when the 1938-1940 Alice Wood s[...]1940-1941 Alice Dahl and Carol Altner Teachers and the years they taught were: 1941-1942 Margaret Thorsen and Carol Altner 1918-1920 Emma Tagge 1942-1943 Edith Smith and Llvina Thompson 1920-1921 Mina Sielstad (married a Lauridsen) 1943-1944 Elsie Markham and Evelyn Ram tad 1921-1922 Ina Lodmell 1944-1946 Esther and Ruth Luch inger 1922-1923 Mr. Jones[...]Sr.) 1947-1948 Betty Lou Kingery (Vraa) and Irene Hanson-- 1924-1925 Lucy McKee (married Osca[...]1951-1953 Maty and Arnold Jorgen on 1930-1932 Lucy McKee[...]The Anderson chool wa noted for i rh thm band and[...]the communit and for man ar wa[...]community c nter form ting , hurch and At Johnson or Buchanan about 1924. Tall girl[...]an, Orville Qualley, David |
| [...]school No. 1, and was essentially a boarding school. It was[...]just south and east of where the church stands. There was Anders[...]hythm Band, 1940. Their mothers also a small teacherage and teachers fixed hot noon made their costumes. Back[...]students. Dahlberg, Doris Dahlberg, Alice Solberg and Clifford There was a community hall building which was built Berglee.[...]Ordean Solberg, Jimmy during the depression and later bought and moved by Byrne, Donna Prior, Rose Dehner, Herman[...]The school burned down in the late 1950's Solberg and Rose Byrne, Front row: Irene Solberg, Sally[...]dsen, Donald Dahlberg, Ida Kopperman, Leon Dehner and Edmund Kopitzke. Some of the teachers and years they taught were:[...]Laura DeWitt located one mile south of Kopitzkes and one mile north of 1928-1933 Mrs. Charles Coope[...]school. There were twelve pupils the first year and six of After this year the students were bussed[...]e Anderson school, where they used both buildings and had two teachers. Several years later it was sold to the city of Poplar and now stands at the airport. Families whose chil[...]e elson, Berglee, Goedert, Larson, Schwarzrock and Angell. Teachers and the years they taught were: 1929-1930 Miss Kelly[...]ow: Kathryn Goedert, Orval Larson, Phillip Nelson and Mathew Nelson. Mirldle row: Clara Larson, Rachel Nelson, Byron Nelson and Ingeborg Larson. Front row: Mabel Larson, Clifford Dale Risbell and son Donie, first teacher at Riverside in Berglee and Richard Goedert.[...] |
| [...]ng with full basement at the co t of $16, 071.00. A WOLF POINT SCHOOL[...]6 x Rev. George Wood came to Wolf Point in 1880 and built a 123 :£ et and was on the same lots a the outh id chool i small log cabin on the north bank of the Missouri and now. started a "day school" and a preaching mission. In 1918 Frank[...]The Presbyterians had obtained leave to establish a Superintendent of the school with a staff of eight teach r mission at Fort Peck and had appropriated $2,100.00 to and a three year high school cour e, with 31 tud nt in[...]low cla had arranged for the Indian children and emphasis was placed been held in the Presbyterian and Methodi t chur h . on industrial work. In 1884 the government took over a The final addition to the original brick[...]rst school for non-Indian children in Wolf room and science rooms were occupied on eptemb r 1, Point,[...]1937. "But the school is still too small and effort ar bein In 1885 Sherman Cogswell came fr[...]w charge of the public school. School was held in a gym", according to the Wolf Point Her[...]ur barracks were purchased from the Fort P ct was a log cabin established in 1907. In 1910 the Dam area and moved here to be added to the chool government again opened the school with a Miss Bacon in charge. When Mr. A.O. Vaala took the school in 1911 , the attendance[...]e Glasgow school board would not supply funds for a larger and better building until in the October 6, 1911 minutes it is noted: "moved and seconded that a building be rented and a public school be opened in Wolf Point".[...]a I O th w ag an Wol[...]. . . In 1912 John Listerud, W.B. Ev r tt and W.H . mith c 1952- ata o t constructed a building at th ir exp n e. It wa of fram C h u . wood construction and had two room which wa er cted d[...]ur In 1914 the econd building wa built whi h wa a two r cl story frame building and had four room . Later th cla Masonic Lodge bought thi building and till own it. stu kite i[...]e chool was built on c ng a what is now the south ide. It was a two tory brick guida fice[...] |
| lounge. The gym seats 3,000 and the auditorium 453. Total amount of $16[...]High by addition of four classrooms, a library, kitchen and addition wa com pleted and moved into during January multi-pu[...]; Once the new (1952) high chool was completed and IFrank Kenny, 1913 to 1919; Frank[...]1943; E. Ford Slaght 1943 to 1956; school, known a the southside grade school and the junior Clifford Harmala 1956 to 196[...]to 1966; high. Contin ued improvement were made and the circular Paul Stengel 1966 to 1976; Charles Dillon is the present addition wa completed and ready for occupancy on March Superin[...]high tudent were moved to that building in 1970 and the old brick high chool with the top floor removed , and many remodeling and improvements, i now the outh side ! grade chool.[...]h ide school was built of concrete blocks. It wa a one- tory, two-room building half underground and heated by tove . A econd orth ide chool wa erected in 193 . It was 40 x 70 with a full basement. This wa a PWA project, aero s the street we t of the fir t[...]Rathert and Arnold Herting, Clerk.[...]1969-70 wa 1,260 tudent , and for the 1975-76 year about[...]home with a troph and title of third place in the national[...]competition. harle imon, a depot agent helper was[...]band director. Mr. Living ton, the uperintendent, and Mr. and Mr . Bud Barwi e accompanied the band on thi[...]In 1914 the fir t football team and a girl ba ketball[...], ha k tball title and more la "B' divi ional football[...]1957 195 , 1959, 1960 and 1962. In 1965 the Wolve[...]astounded the Ea tern "A" League by taking econd place with a 7-1 record , losing onl to champion Lewi town. room frame building ha be n nlarged and improved and tate " B Ba ketball champion hips[...]or el m ntary 19 , 1952, 1953, 1961 and 1962. A new Lowr Athl tic fi Id band practice room and a a torage warehou for di trict dedicated Octob r 3, 195 . prop rty. In 1956 a new grade chool (third on e) wa built on the[...]MAYME K RTZ northside , on the ame it a the northside o. 1 chool had occupied. Thi building is of brick and til e, has eight G rtrude Appl gr n and I graduat d at Dillon, Montana classrooms , multipurpose room and admini trative in 1920. We were pal in college and decided that we offices. It was built with[...] |
| [...]Great Falls, have made with both th Indian and th whi p op) ar sent me a contract to teach there. I debated day after day[...]ng. what to do about it. Gertrude hadn't received a contract This has been cond n d from pap r writt, n by from Great Falls, naturally, it was a hard decision to make. Mayme Kurtz entitled "T[...]out why I turned down Great Falls for Wolf Point and at times I have wondered myself.[...]our opening culminated y ar of labor and baggage and put it overhead and we jogged down main people of the pari h, and a building proj street to the Sherman Hotel.[...]of harity of Like the youth of today, Gertrude and I laughed and Leavenworth, who the first year, c[...]ed in that stagecoach. We surely thought this was a each of the three room . backward town tha[...]grades of the .I mber 1951, a fourth ride in the same coach. teacher and a fourth om were adde in th Our first day of school was quite a shock to us because we spring of 1952 ix b[...]Enrollment had increased to 125 in ept mb r 1952, and 15 voices, are beautiful penmen and are outstanding in art. were graduated the following May. These children were more shy and seemed harder to win The highest enr[...]children. than a 50 percent increa e ince the chool b gan. In Elementary and high school classes were in the same add[...]building. Below my room was the music department and trained for serving Ma nd there wa a chool choir, above me was the high school assembly. I could tell just civic club, and a boy' etball team. how well the studen[...]n the complete band would practice, we would have a from 1950 to 1953. The pre t princi ter w n study period and the children and I would exchange Marie, is in her se[...]principal. smiles during the squeaking, blaring and pounding of the The coming of th[...]ginning In February, everything wa a hustle and a bustle for we of the i . ter' th[...]1 y ar were getting ready for a District basketball tournament previou tw[...]in Wolf Point. During this period band from a con ew in th t[...]i hool. students were practicing new cheers and the chool song. Wh n the i i[...]the · ubject matter maybe suffered a little but thi lo wa chool, a convent on Daw on. tr t wa fully compensated thro[...]original group of th children knew the cheers and ong at the tournament. provid d[...]ho tentative plans to victoriou ly parade a recently killed wolf lack of taff[...]Two~.i y ar composer and also the story of the r cord. From tim to and th n ram time, elimination test were given and th two be t laitv and an . tudents represe[...]it of ""hri tian Do .) and in 1941 toured many anadian citi For ears, I ha[...]ay program. The harde t part would be to pick out a c ntral theme. We u ed: The Tomb of the nknown oldier. th Blue and the Gray, Washington Monum nt, Th Living Flag and Flander Fi ld. These programs wer alwa held in the Liberty theatr and were very effe tive . The most impres ive progr[...]w ofwhitecro s son the stage. By each grave knelt a life ize poppy. Littl five year old girls were the poppies. Their face~ w re th cent r of the poppy and the large red petals comp) tel surrounded[...] |
| [...]nty. Back row: Cecil Rovinson, Willie Holum, and Buddy Cody. Bawden, Ed Hubbard, Glenn Robinson and Charles Hubbard. Front row: Florence Steele (Wils[...]were: Aiding Sister for the year of 1974-1975 was a lay volunteer, 1927-1928 Emma Fenske Mary Linda[...]ters Maggie Stopka 1930-1931 Bernard Geisen and Peggy Gerhart, who, together with Sister Theodora 1931-1932 Evelyn Mahlum and Father Jim comprise the Pastoral Team[...]36 Bernard Geisen Conception parish in Wolf Point and St. Joseph's Church, 1936-1937 Althea Houg[...]Section 10, Township 27, Range 48. The school was a two-room house which MAGNUS[...]Magnuson School was open in 1918 with Vadna 1935 and Loretta Giesen (Mrs. Tom Reid) taught 1935 to[...]The school was closed a fe w years a nd then moved to the[...]Township 29, Range 48 and operated as the Divide School.[...]iller Quarter of Section 22, Town hip 2 , Range 4 and was 1928-1929 Irene McDonald opened in[...]29-1930 Cora Garden large boxe were u ed for de k and maller boxes used for 1930-1931 Bonnie O'Brien seats. Desks arrived and were installed during Christmas 1931-1933 D[...]Matejov ky, Magnuson and Vesales.[...]his school was listed as having b en open in 1919 and Lyle Holum, Jean Christianson, LeRoy Cody, Ted[...]re no records teacher, Buddy Cody, Margaret Holum and Tom tleidner. of teachers until 1[...] |
| [...]remember this school Edna, Jurene and Cora Stensland in cart on way to school. |
| Sethre, Joseph House, Myrtle Forness and Josephine LONGAGER[...]s opened until 1927-teachers unknown. It opened A school was moved to the Northwest Quarter of Sect[...]gain about 1929 with Florence Eggers, Mrs. Krause and 23, Township 31, Range 47 and was opened as the Hazel Peterson ([...]ail, 1929-1930. The school was closed 1930 to 1932and therewerenorecordsfor1932-1934. The school was reopened in 1934-1935 with Lucille Langager as teacher and from 1935 to 1937 Karla[...]r in the name of the The Thompson School was a small building located on school; the description[...]Range 49. The desks and books were moved from the[...]Longager School to this building and school was held here[...]being open in 1919 to the Longager School. and located on the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast[...]Opheim family, Nick Langagers, and George Thompsons 1927-1928 Irene Johnson and a Swihart girl. 1928-1929 Ellen Applegren The school was closed for several years and reopened about: 1934-1935 Myrtle Paulson 1935-193[...]) 1940-1941 Bernice Zimmerman 1941-1942 Ada Gleed and others 1942-1943 Emma Miller 1943-1945 Berniece Z[...]ed as being open in 1919 but 27, range 46, and was opened as the Day school about 1927. there ar[...]range 46, this school was opened about 1918 and closed Families whose children attended this sc[...]ickland. The Longagers, Hammer, Handran, Brookman and Krauth. school burned about[...] |
| [...]ms, Marshal Winfields, Paul Nygaards, Jim Rada's, and John Adams. Some of the teachers were: (years t[...]s. Bud Bilyeu), Myrtle Larabee, Lucille Zimmerman and Elsie Fuller. The school closed in 1937.[...]en attended school here were the Marmons, Sugdens and Schumways. Bessie Anderson taught from 1929 to 1934 and Rosella Wide Awake School - 1917, Miss We[...]were: 1943-1944 Ila Slattum 1944-1945 Ila Slattum and Elsie Fuller 1945-1946 Dorothy Detienne 1946-1947[...]e The school was then closed for lack of students and others were bussed into Wolf Point.[...]oom was the first teacher. This school was closed and moved to another location in the very early 1920'[...]ial Day in Wolf section 35, township 29, range 47 and was opened as the Point. Children are Mabel, Roger and Aldon Lee. Lilly, Marquardt school in 1950. The building is still there now Lila, John and Haruey Toa us, Orlando, Grace, Muruin and owned by Virgil Toavs.[...]l here were: Stanley Margaret, Frank, Reuben, and Wilmer Toau , Catherine Rensvolds, Earl Rensvolds, Thomas Heidners, Harold Norma, and Hazel McDonald. Ruhds and Chester Ericksons. Teachers are unknown.[...]ict 45 The Wide Awake school was opened in 1917 and was fir t known as the Toavs school. It is locate[...]E¼ of section 11, town hip 29, range 46, on the A.F. Toavs homestead. The fir t teacher was Martha[...]av , Geneuiev Maltby, Larry 1941-1942 Laura Ferch and Elsie Fuller Grims[...] |
| [...]Kelstrup, Axel Holien, Joe Watters, and John McPeak. It[...]The school closed and is still standing. Left to right: Bill Sand, Cy[...]p |
| [...]ut where the Paul Schulte's Valley County and others went to the Volt school or to Wolf house is now) and school was held here from 1920 to 1922. Point to high school. A new school was built across the road in section 3 in 1922 and was occupied that fall. Teachers for the years[...]7 Mrs. Grace Marshall 1947-1948 F1ora Lindenfield and Rev. B.J. Niche} 1948-1949 Betty Lou Gilbertson[...]year built, about 1925. Mi Thelma And r on atherine 1950-1951 Carol Reuter and Mrs. Zerbe Wall, Maria He[...]Hanson, John Heinrich , unknown, Melvin Ferdina, and probably others whose names were not thoug[...] |
| [...]Rough Riders 4-H Club and the Victory Community Liberty School - 1926-1927[...]Association recently completed painting and improving[...]was community meetings, horse shoe games and a polling not very well insulated, so if the wind blew and it got below place. Pictured is the Victory S[...]od flat on the floor. One of us kids went outside and came running back in. 'Teacher[...]ome of the bigger kids put on their leather mitts and The Golden Valley school was located[...]ch was section 4, township 31, range 47 and was listed as being very dull, and we chopped a hole in the floor so we could put open in 191[...]ashes in the Sarah Salpaka, Martha Opheim, and Julia Poole. bottom of the stove that the floor s[...]Virginia LaFrance, Marie Lyslo, Mildred Dahlin, and Mrs. VICTORY SCHOOL[...]d school The Victory chool, opened in 1920, was a summer school there included Hoverslands[...]Stai, corner of section 2, township 31, range 46, and no one Olsons, Faheys and Krohns. remembers that it has moved from that location. The Waska school started as a summer school, switched There are no records of[...]the French school also started as a summer school, 1942-1944 Adeline Scheuneman[...]Simonsons, Sets, Giersdorfs, Rodales and Petersons. 1948-1949 Chrys Meree Lund[...]Pat Kubik, Myrtle Nieman, Mildren Dahlin and Elizabeth It is thought this school was re-opened and closed again McAuley. Most of them[...] |
| [...]IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY The history of production and distribution of man's greatest servant, electricity, in Roosevelt County, has been a very colorful one. There are still those among us[...]electric service was provided only several hours a day and only on certain days of the week from small indep[...]at the fact that this area is presently served by a trans- mission and distribution system that is capable of accommodat[...]k or refrigerator that you know operates 24 hours a day, it ' ,.., .,,.......,. will help you to appr[...]5, the Eastern Montana Utilities Company began as a definite pioneer in this field. The beginning[...]ctricity centered around Fairview, Montana, where a coal mine offered a cheap source of fuel with an ample supply of wate[...]n the expansion of the Eastern Montana properties and organized Eastern Montana Utilities Company, whic[...]r the company purchased the local electric plants and distribution systems in Bainville, Culbertson, Poplar, and Wolf Point. Before the year was out, the transmis[...]Montana-Dakota Utilities' first line truck, a 1925 two ton generating plants and distribution systems, the local rates were very high. Smaller towns generally had a rate[...]ounty can best be summed up by stating that it is a story of change from RURA[...]nerating units scattered throughout the county to a system of central high voltage[...]is often said that all achievement lives first as a dream During the summer of 1940 an eight inch[...]Savage. This pipeline shape, it was thought to be a very ambitious one even by and compressor facilities at Saco and Fort Peck made it dreamers-an impossibility by th[...]ble to deliver natural gas to Frazer, Wolf Point, and The idea of rural electrification in the a[...]were circulated and organizational work was begun. On[...]founded at a meeting in the Dagmar store. The first[...]committee was composed of Henry Crohn, Dagmar; A.T.[...]Mikkel Paulsen, Dagmar; F.E . Herman, Antelope; M.A.[...] |
| [...]rative had been divided into nine districts, with a[...]Archer; Irvin Jacobsen, Flaxville; and W. Glen Swank,[...]constructed until 1961 for a cost of $170,000.[...]Westby and Froid; 1950 Redstone, Flaxville and Scobey;[...]op Building. McCabe and Bainville in 1960 but part of this station was[...]Medicine Lake in 1961; and Culbertson in 1967.[...]gned August 26, 1941. Board manager and George Donaldson started as bookkeeper. members were President A.T. Oleson; Vice President Donaldson became manager in the late 50's and remains Arthur Jonasen, Secretary-Treasurer Mrs.[...]f the two women in the United States to ever hold a At first the office was maintained in the home[...]the board in 1956, subsequently became available, and the first contract for construction of becoming president of the Board and is serving his 17th the transmission lines were s[...]Today Sheridan Electric Co-op is a six million dollar coordinator and Irvin Overgaard as bookkeeper. The old bu[...]ing 2600 rural Westby light plant was acquired as a base. consumers with central[...]rstcustomer. eastern half of Daniels County, and six northwestern The first outage occurred on May[...]ide County North Dakota. unknown person who threw a piece of stranded steel wire In the arch[...]pioneers-- over phase wire with the end dangling and touching the original board of trustees--will forever flow the neutral wire in a high wind. The Froid substation was fulfilment of a dream: "No one else can ever know the thrill ener[...]that we know when we look out the window at night and By the time of the annual meeting on Oct[...] |
| [...]hone came to headquarters in Williston, installed a local exchange in this part of the country[...]ed with Culbertson the week of November 23, 1905. A building was willow posts being bolted on[...]rected on the lot between the old school building and the Hans Ness place on the north to the Arvi[...]rom the ceiling Jim Byrnes) to the south, and west to pick up Veda and when pulled down, a bell would ring. This was for LaRoche and Ray O'Briens. There were about 17 to 20 temporary[...]completed. phones on this line and all on one party line!!! Shares in The first lo[...]into existence. distance between Culbertson and Williston was completed In 1927 it was[...]rg country. The line ran as far north as Redstone and later and several other men for the sum of 50¢ to $1.00 pe[...]These holes were dug three feet deep. This was a total of connect with Wolf Point on the Moore sys[...]ines were the Sheep Creek Telephone Company north and east of Culbertson and the outh Side Cooperative Telephone Company to Si[...]f August established in 1913 by R.J. Moore and was known as the 1961, there were 429 stations.[...]Moore Telephone Company. This was located in a building The original magneto (hand-crank) syst[...]ntain States The local central office served as a "hub" for Telephone and Telegraph Company in April 1917. The communities[...]building was completed in the winter of Brockton and Poplar. 1965 and the latest new dial telephone service was[...]916. The promoters of the company were P.J. Olson and NEMONT TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE, INC. Jim Ostby. A.O. Hedberg of Froid was the builder of the line .[...]iversary of the inception of The telephone had a crank to turn for a ring. To get the Nemont Telephone Cooperative[...]October 2 , 1949 President Truman signed into law a Ed Luebke's ring was one long and two short rings. P.J. bill authorizing RE[...]loans. Thus, REA could 01 on 's ring was one long and two short rings. The farmers provide the same kind of financial and technical took care of their own lines for breakage, insulators and a si ta nee to rural telephone system which had pro[...]stands for the Rural Electrification Administra- a proportionate share.[...]t Telephone available to rural electric and telephone cooperatives. The Company. At this time[...]relation hip is that of lender-borrower and all loans are members were: President Hobart Whee[...]in full with interest. secretary; Kinley Bol tad and Richard Nyqui t. Enthusiastic[...]the widest practical numhr .s of people in rural and that i the method by which the ' new ' was broadc[...]five There were not very many radios in the homes and of percent of the farm enjoyed the be[...]ompany s rvice, which was very limited , and the community came into existence. But it served a very useful purpose in a telephone syst ms were deteri orating wi[...] |
| [...]An engineering firm was retained and location and[...]boundaries being set up and negotiations started for[...]The year 1951 and 1952 were occupied with membership drives and meetings held in the various communities to[...]explain the scope and purpose of the project.[...]Roosevelt County and Dana Schrupp of Valley County[...]assisted in setting up and advertising membership sign-up[...]Authorization was made to purchase a minute book, New Nemont Telephone Building. official letterheads and official seals at the July meeting.[...]The first loan was approved June 27, 1952 and was for[...]ephone companies serving 487 subscribers, upgrade and at Four Buttes in Daniels County on an individual their service from manual to dial telephones, and bring basis, but it was finally decided that one[...]On January 21, 1953, the board accepted a donation of smaller groups, so a combined meeting was held in two[...]Lions Club on which to build a headquarters office. A Out of this meeting grew the idea that the area to be fireproof file and typewriter, the first two items of office include[...]all set for calling for bids for in Medicine Lake and the Northern Electric Cooperative in construction, the board could see they needed a full-time Opheim. Word of the results of this mee[...]d employee to take care of the business and Howard Schaefer back to Daniels County by represe[...]s hired as manager. An offie was set up at cobey, and on August 4, 1950, a meeting was held at Peerless, at Montana[...]at State Sam Mitchell, to become incorporated as a Froid; the Westby Telephone Com[...]Antelope Farmer ' Telephone Association location and principal place of business in Company at Antelope; and the Flaxville Farmer ' Tele- Medicine Lake, Monta[...]s made for license to Chris Olsen, Willie Larsen, and Later purchases were made of the Lu[...]ssioners, to open books for Company and the orth tar Telephone Company, both of subscript[...]Al o, purcha e wa made of the Ambro e Exchange A share of stock would be $50.00, five dollars to b[...]mpany of orth when signing membership application and the balance at Dakota. a later date to be determined. This money was to be[...]955, outh Flaxville, Fortuna, feasibility studies and for staking the telephone line. Glentana, Lar Ian, Outlook, Pe rle , We t cobey and The original subscribers were: George Johnson , M.A. Westby exchanges wer cut into ervice.[...]arold B. Munson , Willie Lar en, 0 car Knut on, F.A. Al o in 1956 the Lu tr and Ea Froid xchang w re Snellman, Kinley E. Bolstad,[...]Decemb r 31 1956 to 1593. We al o nt red into a contract J.N. Collins, Richard Veis, Ted Skomogos[...]ap Filler Radar ite Z-26D. Th fir t part Skerritt and C.W. Rossing. of 1957 the orth Poplar e change wa cut into rvice and The first meeting of subscriber wa held at the[...]e annual meeting . Johnson, president, M.A. LaMotte, vice pr ident, and It wa decided in 1960 to have our[...]ne Wyman Feltis, Daniels County; Herbert H. Brown and dir ctory rather than to have emon[...]secretary treasurer, Sheridan ounty; Franci Tarum and In April of 1967, emont ponsor d an e say conte t for Robert Rorvig, Valley County; and William Herman, high school junio[...]lectric Cooperative with George How and Why It Wa Organized". In May, the judge Letillier[...]storing records cho e Amy tromberg of Dagmar a the winner, who was and a place to hold directors meetings. a warded an all-ex pen e paid trip to Wa hin[...] |
| [...]winner in 1968. In PAST AND PRESENT DIRECTORS 1969, Steve Camey of Scobey and Debra Solberg of Rich- land were winners. In 1970[...]nson, Reserve, 10-21-50 to 5-16-61 wank, Poplar and Dick Marlenee, Scobey; 1971 were Bet M.A. LaMotte, Scobey, 10-21-50 to 10-9-65 Rudolph, Froid and Jim Murray, Homestead; and in 1972 Mrs. Margaret Hass, Outlook, 10-21-50 to 10-25-58 Nancy Royan, Froid and Mark Swank, Poplar were Fra[...]rbert H. Brown, Poplar, 10-21-50 to 10-20-62 with a report and slide presentation of their experience.[...]erman, Westby, 10-21-50 to 1-14-58 Also in 1968 a loan was applied for, which was the start[...]tby, Froid, 4-21-53 to 10-31-53 was very evident, and this loan was to finance providing Os[...]James Wheeler, Froid, 4-19-55 to 10-28-61 and others as financing was arranged.[...]hansen, Dagmar, 10-28-61 to 10-3-70 much planning and development, which would pertain to[...]-62 to Present On July 1, 1969 Nemont initiated a service whereby any Hubert Gundermann[...]sen, Dagmar, 10-3-70 to Present Nemont is looking and planning ahead. They have been a James Mosser, Fortuna, North Dakota, 10-5-73 to Present pioneer in rural telephony in Montana and have been "first" in many aspects. Nemont will continue to grow and prosper and provide the quality telephone service that you, t[...]and Margaret Hass. Not shown - Willie Larsen and Robert[...]"" . D A ~ :io Fou,a[...]F ~~--a.~::._---i;r.....J[...] |
| [...]and Coach Lee Thompson told the team if they did not[...]Standing left to thirties, Brockton had played a game of ball control. right; Mrs . Elmer Kirkvold, Mrs . Henry Clark, Mrs. At midnight the Coach and Superintendent set out for howers, Antonea La C[...]ikkola , Mrs . Christie on gravel all the way, and it was cold. The Brockton cars Picard, Mrs. Cecil De Tienne. followed them home and tried to pick them up, but they[...] |
| [...]seball was started in June 1905, although in 1902 a[...]Culbertson won 7 to 2. For a time after 1910 baseball faded[...]1938 a Northeastern Montana league was formed which[...]Culbertson, Brockton, Poplar and Poplar CCC. George A.[...]and catcher that year; Henry Sherman, pitcher; Numa[...]ckton Basketball team - 1934. Left to right, back and field. The American Legion Post has sponsor[...]d Eagle, Coach Orley C. Short. were good sports and refused the offers. When they got to |
| [...]le Hinz was not even Fort Kipp, Poplar and Brockton. Highlight of the baseball winded. When[...]he season in 1933 was beating Poplar by a score of 2 to 1. decision as a draw, bedlam let loose. It was a riot. Referee During the same game a fly ball hit Art Zich on the head, Cox did a magic disappearing act until he could take the[...]l early years. Sports, then as now provided a major source of In 1934, the Culbertson Independe[...]first organized events. Soon after Froid became a town, composed of F. Maxam, W. Manning, Hagen, Hitchcock, and was capable of supporting a team, professionals from who was picked for the f[...]r, the East were "imported", given token jobs and a generous McHugh, Gill, A. Manning, Hanson and Jacobs. wage to assure their s[...]on had played on teams of neighboring towns, and baseball was of progressed until it was on a par with college or professional the highest calibre. Rivalry was keen and interest high. play.[...]Members of the then scandalous Chicago Black Sox found their way into the area and played for several years on a[...]e an impressive season's record each year despite a[...]Triplett and Gus Fjeseth have all spent a number of years[...]Froids first baseball team. Left to right: Carl and Ortho Runningen, at his left is Fred Fryhling and Fred McCabe, Bob Hettrick, Frank (last name unknown}, Runningen. Back; Nels and Martin Olsen, Tom and Frank Anderson brothers, others unknown. Nelson, Jake Thomsen and Russell Oelkers. FLAT CE TER BALL TEAM |
| [...]is a game most of the family could and did play. Friendly[...]rivalry between neighbors and friends could be seen[...]almost any late Sunday afternoon. And almost every farm[...]Henry Hoye, Ed Luebke, Gus Eschenbacher and Bill Coats[...]established. The Horseshoe club then established a new[...]1929. Mostly turfed, field lights have been added and finally the dug- games were played on Sund[...]all ages, time. They played other rural teams and small towns, such and for both boys and girls. as Flaxville, Froid, Brockton, and Medicine Lake. Country[...]teams were Line Coulee, Elmdale, and Anderson. Some of the players were Ben and Art Nordwick, Wilbur, Herbert, and Glenn Brown, Ray O'Brien, Guy Miller, Bob Morin,[...]Baker, Carl Vandenberg, Gerald Zuck, and Chester[...]s in the area was established at people moved and others grew older. Colonel Nesbit the Luebke farm[...]ry Sunday usually traveled with this team and acted as umpire. morning until the middle 1930's[...]In 1950 the second generation revived baseball and we Another trapshoot opened during the early 1950's on the joined a league with Raymond, Outlook, Flaxville, Oscar Hi[...]d good competition Whitetail, Redstone, and two Canadian teams, Big Beaver for a few years and then seemed to dwindle. and Buffalo Gap. In 1952 we were league Champions.[...]one day and a team played three games in one day.[...]Circle, Wolf Point, and Glasgow Air Base. This time[...]players from Poplar and Flaxville combined with u . Some Froid Girls[...]er Brown, Ben Nordwick, Harold Nees, Bob |
| [...]real hot, we had three cars and had a heck of a time keeping[...]them cool, so we stopped at every water hole and creek. At[...]piled out, suits on, got our gear together and were ready to[...]That was a spectable in those days. No warm up, just play[...]give this crowd a ballgame". A fellow that had had a few drinks came over to our bench and wanted to bet. He ran[...]his odds up to 50-5. Chris Jensen as a rule took a bet of that[...]decided it still wasn't a good wager. We played errorless 1950 team. Back;[...]Poplar 6-Whitetail 0. Second game chagunn, Ted and Bud Nees, Jamie Baker, Don Tryan, - Po[...]oplar area that Hauer, Vince Hoffman, Ray, Steve, and Pat O'Brien, Don played on this team. Linthicum, Milton Norgaard, Ronnie Guy, and Jack Nees. Another game that was played was on a Fourth of July Managers were Harold Nees, Don Lin[...]playing for Wolf Point against Sandcreek Jensen, and Charlie Nesbit. Charlie gave them a new and the game was at Oswego. The catcher was Billy Kno[...]n the National Dick Crowe was pitching, a Murphy at 2nd base, porting News.[...]Mark Eder at 3rd base, Ed Cody in We had many a picnic, often behind the backstop and outfield, Bill Cody in outfield, Joe Knorr at 1st base, and a even, on one occasion , a birthday cake. guy by the[...]n at 1st base, Murphy at 2nd winning team getting a case of beer from Al Hood of base, Carl Hanson, 3rd base and Lindsey and Jack Jessie's Supper Club.[...]BASEBALL by Mark Eder and George Conlin[...]d wa very little of the weekend entertainment and coming into the town. This was on the 17th of Jul[...]it today. Consequently, Sunday late in the season and most teams had disbanded . baseball[...]small communities in the years just before and following which con isted of Plentywood, cobey, Flaxville, Froid World War I. and Whitetail. League play wa over but Whitetail want[...]on. The manager 1917. Tod Shamley wa a member of that team and almost contacted Chri Jen en and George Kelly. They agreed to every "town team" from then up through the mid-30's. In get a team together for the two days. Purses were 300 f[...]rst game, 200 for the second game. The reason for a but in 1918 Shamley with others helped build a diamond purse of that size was they felt they just couldn't lose to a and a grandstand on the west edge of town at the same l[...]1919 the town had its first partly salaried team, and Hugh Marron-pitching, Steve Marmon-catchin[...] |
| [...]McNeil, Mildred Potvin, Ruth and Eva Listerud, Erma Champion Baseball Team 1919. F[...]Small, Mabel Gardner, Pearl Watson, Birdie mith, and Schenkenberger, Bob Berens, Todd Shamley, Pete[...]ge Flint. Absent player was Chet Grace who was on a railroad run at the time the picture was great and this era ended abruptly . Team support came taken[...]were far too small to support a paid team. ince then[...]baseball has continued more or less regularly on a strictly August 22-24, 1919, the team defeated Cut Bank in a 3- amateur independent team basis. game ser[...]lowing weekend they lost three games to hold and soon thereafter Babe Ruth play wa started. two in a five game series with Minot, North Dakota for the In 1964 a new baseball diamond , located north of Championship of Montana and North Dakota. Johnson Street and west of Trinity hospital was developed In 1920 and 1921 Wolf Point, like many other small and dedicated. In 1965 the Wolf Point Baseball commun[...]ecords of these teams are unknown, but the a fund drive to provide lighting for night h[...] |
| [...]"BAINVILLE'S ROLL OF HONOR AND SERVICE STORY[...]e following are Bainville's contribution to Uncle and Auxiliary have been responsive to the local needs[...]orces who are assisting in making this since 1945 and at times these two organizations were the world a fit place in which to live. Many are already "Ove[...]munity. There", others are on their way, and some are still in The Post, organized in 1945,[...]ining camp. January, 1946. It was named in memory and honour of Earl Hall, Marvin Higgins, and Selmer Olson. Record of Edward Amsler[...]ert Kinney the charter members has been destroyed and the following Tom Aboud Olaf Knutson list is compiled from memory of Charter and early Otto Berger[...]Schaumberg The Auxiliary also organized in 1945 and received its Earl Haney[...]n, Chaplain, Olga Hobby, Historian, Dagmar Simard and Sergeant-at-arms, Sadie Romo.[...]nn Post 81 was Tribune" published in Bainville by A.S. Hier: organized in Culbertson May 6, 1920. Chester A. Rude was[...] |
| the first Post Commander, I.L. Jensen, adjutant, and Ivor CULBERTSON NATIONAL GUARD Brujo[...]ng World War I Company E 163rd Infantry was first and most elaborate undertakings was a Fourth of July organized at Culbertson, Monta[...]tationed expected. Two boweries, one at the river and one in town at Wolf Point where it remained until the unit was called to were built. A rodeo was planned at the Fairgrounds, the[...]ptember 16, 1940. Ray, North Dakota band engaged, and a huge fireworks The Culbertson unit to[...]l Guard was called to active duty on rain all day and night. The river pavilion piano stood in Sep[...]y with 1st Lieutenant Warren W. not be displayed, and Thomas Mann Post 81 went deeply Hill and 2nd Lieutenant Winfield G. Evans also assigned in[...]fic Theatre of the war during World War II, Lions and Masonic Lodge, the Boy Scouts, Junior Legion[...]Guinea, Southern baseball, Memorial Day program, and have furnished Philippines and Luzon campaigns, many local men were hospital beds and wheelchairs for loan locally, have memb[...]ed out of at the veterans hospitals in Miles City and Helena. One Federal Service and was reorganized on July 17, 1947, as year the Culbertson unit sent a large number of dressed Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, and frozen pheasants to the Helena hospital. Their gi[...]t Team, with Captain Lyle V. was much appreciated and highly relished by the patients Sorby as unit commander. Major Howard A. McKinney, a and staff.[...]Executive Officer at this time. A short time after[...]the Battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.[...]On March 1, 1953 the unit was again reorganized and designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company,[...]On May 1, 1959, the unit was again reorganized and OF THOMAS MANN POST 81 designated Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st[...]Recon Squadron, 163rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. A Culbertson, Montana[...]II, commanding the 1st by Jessie Bruegger and Winifred Rumsey Recon Squadron af[...]o 81 of Culbertson, Montana was organized in 1921 and full colonel and received federal recognition in this grade receiv[...]61. Charter members were Mrs. Alla Smith; Miss A.L. Wenzel, Miss Maude Nugent, Miss Cecile Moen, M[...].J . Erickson , Mrs. Joe Madden, Mrs. L.E. Moore and Mrs. A.B. Gandrud. Members still living are Mrs. H.H. Bruegger and Mrs. V.F.W. FRITZ YQUI T PO T 2[...]OF FROID The first meeting was held at A.L. Wentzel's Millinery Store. Meetings are held in members' homes and when the The Post wa chartered the fifth of F bruary 1934. weather was bad, as sometimes it was and still is 30 to 40 harter memb r were: below,[...]en Erne t . Waldow its projects and they also sponsor a Girls State delegate, Rueben A. Ryer on hancy L. Gould poppy posters and essay contests, plus many other worthy Joha[...]Johanne Andrea on Lucille Olson and sergeant-at-arms Maude Schuetze. Forr[...]Thure A. Westberg Patrick Lizotte Cult[...]Albert Erdahl Cyp A. Fournier[...] |
| [...]On a blizzardy February 24th, twenty-five[...]struggling towards Froid with a load of courageous,[...]have done a lot of worthwhile projects.[...]They have invested time and money into such helpful[...]Girl Scouts, 4-H Groups, New Bank, School and Catholic Church. The members like to make a jaunt down to Miles[...]City every year to play bingo with the patients and serve[...]find it a chore, but a pleasure.[...]Christine Tipp and Kathryn Waters.[...]e; Guard, Jean Gangstad; Trustees Helen Killed in A rgonne Forest, France, October 1918. V.F. W. Davidson, Margaret Nelson and Nettie Anderson. Post named after Fritz Nyquist.[...]the books we found many projects and services that were James Forsyth Christian Larson done and long forgotten. Clifford L. Hobby[...]en? Bernard Eschenbacher Elias A. Gladue Painting decorations for the town[...]Day and Memorial Day.[...]Food baskets to needy families. Cyp Fournier and Clifford Hobby are the only charter Sending Christmas boxes to service men and women. members left living in the area.[...]n . were such a success that Easter cards were sent too. Some[...]to Miles City, Culbertson, years were: Sponsored a Memorial Day program and Williston, Sidney and Lame Deer Hospitals. service every year. Had a firing squad at Military Served Memo[...]ars. Donations Spon sored an Amateur Hour and Dance. ma de to Boy Scouts. Participated in Athle[...]ns to School Band. Donations to needy Made a float and booth for the Froid J ubilee and color fa milies. Helped sponsor Rod and Gun Club. Annual help bearers marched i[...]s. Hang up flags Made Memoria l Day wreaths and sold them. on city Main Street on all national ho[...]y Beautiful°. Started the Halloween parties and s till help with them. Sponsored " Voice of Democ[...]tals to be used for "Boys State". Sponsored "Lite a Bike" program . Christma[...] |
| [...]arbie doll clothes, AMERICAN LEGION AND AUXILIARY corsages and dresser scarves. POST AND UNIT NO. 55 Contributed money for cupboards at[...]inancial troubles would have been started by a group of Americans in France. over for many years[...]things we do every year In February of 1921 , a group of wives, mothers, without thinking how much they mean to our community. daughters and sisters of the Legion members met in the Severa[...]iary by going on to be officers in the Department and an Auxiliary to the Legion. Post Commander S[...]ing. Mrs. Frank Knight was elected After taking a good look at our Auxiliary of the past 25 te[...]should be proud. A temporary charter was issued on March 14, 1921 wi[...]ho 16 members signing. By-laws were drawn up and the first do the work. I found this poem:[...]president, Lucy A. Curran ; vice-president Mrs. D.B. Noble;[...]Following is a list of the charter members of the[...]rk to do; F. Catlin, *Mrs. A.C. Corbin, Mrs. C. Cunningham, *Mrs. It very likely will be done A. Curran, Esther Curran, *Lucy Curran, Mrs. Charle[...]While many folks will help to sing And some of them will talk, When it comes down to doing things A lot of them will balk. We can't do this,[...]Of course, they're very busy, too And always hard at work. But well he knows th[...]. Bless them, the Faithful Few And may their tribe increa e - - For w[...] |
| [...]*Mrs. Dr. Harris, *Mrs. Scott P. air conditioning and remodeling of the Nursing Home. Hart, *Mrs. A. Hawley, Mrs. Henry Reiger, Mrs. John[...]e veterans in the Reiland, Mrs. V. Hilstrom, Mrs. A.C. Hopke, Mrs. Fred Veterans Administration Hospi[...]Ina Lodmell, *Mrs. C.B. Columbia Falls and Miles City, all in Montana and the Lohmiller, Ursulla Mitchell, Mrs. J. Moran, Mrs. H.A. Veterans Administration Hospital at Sheridan. Wyoming. Morley, *Maude Mossmann, Mrs. A. Nelson, Mrs. D.B. The Unit supports the Christmas Gift Shop which involves Noble, Mrs. A. Ralston, *Mattie A. Richardson, C.L. gifts for the veterans' family[...]charge. Trinder, Mrs. 0. Vial, *Mrs. H.C. Walker and *Della Zeigie. Children have been helped at Boulder School, Shodair In 1930-31, Mrs. A.C. Corbin (Emily) was an honor to Hospital, Miles[...]ittenham Home, etc. Then in 1933-34 she served as a National vice-president. Disabled veterans make and are paid for the Memorial She was the State of Mo[...]Half of the net proceeds are kept at Poplar and half sent to Alan Saboe of the Poplar Post was the Department Department and are used at both levels for Veterans commander of[...]961-62. Rehabilitation and Child Welfare work. Several members over the ye[...]m is stressed through essays, Know Your president and commander and other district officers. The Government tests, and the placing of flag code pamphlets late J. Harry[...]able to be active each year to veterans' children and information for these in the late 1960's, he was[...]recognized at graduation with department officers and committee members, the latest the American Legion Citizenship award. being Mrs. Alan (Carol) Saboe and Mrs. Dana (Norma) Patsy Ault was Pop[...]cGowan in 1961-62. They were department historian and 1948. The Unit has sponsored at least one girl si[...]ent publicity chairmen, respectively. At the same and several times have helped to sponsor girls from t[...]department Foreign Relations Brockton and Plentywood. The Post and several other chairman for the Legion.[...]send boys to these During the years of the Post and Auxiliary, the sessions. organizations have helped many local veterans and their In 1941 the old City Library building was obtained by families with money when needed and many times with the Legion to be used as a Legion Hall. In the late 1940's or food baskets,[...]1950's the lounge area was added to the building and attention and other medical needs. Presently wheel chairs,[...]atus obtained. Larry Loegering was first crutches and a hospital bed are available to veterans and manager of the Club and Mark Voorhees is present their families needing t[...]At one time there were three hospitals locally and the 1967, a weekend supper club was opened and is prospering. women made various donations to th[...]built to accommodate banquets and special parties, Books were bought for the Poplar City Library. The additional storage and expansion of the kitchen. volunteer fire departme[...]helped at different In 1957-58 the Post and Unit was re-chartered and was times.[...]named for Thomas Holt Wynia. Thomas was killed on a Plumbing for water at the cemetery was put in a[...]oject was were shipped back to the States in 1949 and the casket headed by the Legion and Auxiliary in 1935. There was a interred at Custer Memorial Cemetery on Ar[...]r the Legion held an annual clean-up parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred (Edna) Wynia had been day at the cemete[...], members of the Poplar Legion and Auxiliary for many Many events have been held to support community years. Mrs. Wynia is still a member of the Auxiliary even projects. The Post and Unit both donated to the building though she live[...]lls. fund for the new hospital in the late 1950's and early Poplar Homeguard - May 30, 1918.[...] |
| [...]oney with different projects to help buy uniforms and other equipment for the Firing Squad. Each March the Auxiliary holds a birthday party for the Legion Post. Usually at the dinner a check is presented to the Firing Squad to help re[...]istrict conventions, the first being held in 1927 and the latest in the fall of 1973. Over the years[...]ball teams. Sometimes these have been local teams and other times jointly with Wolf Point and other towns. Many other activities are supported by the Legion and Auxiliary and have been over the 57 and 55 years of the Post and Unit. To name them all would be impossible. Pr[...]chaplain Rick Reid; service officer Dana McGowan; and sergeant-at-arms Mick Voorhees. Unit officers[...]n Helen Johnson; sergeant-at-arms Nancy Hagadone; and chaplain Mabel Iverson. Members at large[...]chrivan, of the executive board are Luella Werner and Betty Hans L. Trveten. Commander in[...]ne Marottek, Lottie Mc abb, Viola Both the post and auxiliary are not now in existence. Montg[...]and ecilia Young. ational Pre ident wa Amelia 0.[...]pring of 1969. HISTORY OF LOUIS CRAMER POST 1755, AND THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE Your member hip in the V.F.W. a i t our legi lativ UNITED STATES[...]budgets for V.A. ho pital , and medical program , The name Louis Cramer was cho[...]including ubsi tenc for Vets in chool or training and World War Veteran to die here from Wolf Point. He pa ed continue to safeguard the right and b n fit of v teran . away in 1941. Before his death he had started organizing America ha tood a th ymbol of fr dom for n arly the Post but did no[...]anding The Post was organized February 21, 1942 and the patriotic program nkindl and di pla lo of our Ladies Auxiliary Februa[...]ries were organized at this time, as i tanc and cooperation, communitie throughout th Glasgow, Wolf Point and Poplar. countryb[...]ce thatV.F.W.Po ts The men who started the Post and got the charter are a perform. follows: Oscar E. Anderson, Henry A. Diedrich, Pren ti a A. Over one and on -half million dollar ar rai ed Foster, Henry S[...]eeds of which are u ed exclu ively for the welfar and Fredrick C. Kuehne, Leo L. McNabb, Charles[...] |
| [...]ship. Organized sports such as baseball, bowling, and hockey join with scouting, sons of the V.F.W., and other activities to provide wholesome entertainme[...]dents an opportunity to win valuable scholarships and awards in the Voice of Democracy Scriptwriting Pr[...]tects the Ii ves of others by sponsoring the lite-a-bike program and by offering education classes on safer driving habits. These and other programs sponsored by the Veterans of Forei[...]maintain the lead among national organizations as a prime motivating influence to keep America strong and free.[...]-financing also. Helen K. Steel as Unit Secretary and Olga J. Jensen as Unit (Montgomery) Burt was Wolf Point's first GS delegate and Treasurer. 1975 delegate was LuEllen Cory, also a member of Unit 22. Marching along the past hal[...]a ladies together with their Legionnaires planned and Department President. Mrs. Marron i[...]charter member of ALA Unit 22 to date, and lives in set out flags uptown, and at their homes on every patriotic Billings. Nellie Montgomery was a 55-year member at the day. The Unit members bought the metal gate and arch for time of her death. the Greenwoo[...]1935. Community Veterans affairs and rehab, Children and Youth, and Service, at all levels, continued thereafter annu[...]uxiliary. The same year the ALA ladies planted a hedge at the The highlight of the year, however, is the American Legion municipal swimming pool, and saw to it that every patient Birthday Par[...]7 or thereabouts, when ladies at General Hospital and County Hospital got a Christmas host a dinner and entertainment for their Legionnaires. gift. In 1938 they sponsored the warming room at the skating rink; and purchased a flag for Wolf Point High School, and a flag in each classroom. The next year the ladies raised a sizeable monetary contribution for the Bridge Park east of town, and furnished books for their WORLD WAR I VETERANS AND AUXILIARY Library Shelf Project. During World War I and World War II, Auxiliary members were sewing and knitting for the The most recent vet[...]osevelt Red Cross, enrolled in First Aid courses; and on the home- County was the World War I Veterans chartered in front Legionnaires and ladies worked shoulder to shoulder Februa[...]time of organization. Roy F. Hansen was Stampedes and baseball games. In 1941, support was the First Commander. Their stated purpose is to foster and given the Teen Community Center from Unit 22. promote programs and legislation beneficial to the[...]saw to it that a World War I Veterans Auxiliary was[...] |
| [...]Ed Nygard, bottom right and W.W. 1 buddie . -1069- |
| [...]BUTCHERING and seasoned. In the meantime the intestines would be[...]a Brechbiel Miller emptied and washed. Then they were soaked, I believe in[...]salt water, then scraped and scraped with a flat dull knife.[...]from the big intestines made big Butchering was a community affair with families sausage rolls and the small intestine "casings" made meeting at different homes and helping each other smaller rolls.[...]st sausage anyone could butcher. This was done on a cold crisp winter day so the want. I can still taste it in my mind and wish I could make meat could cool without danger of spoiling. Several hogs some. and a couple beef were butchered at once. For hog Some of the beef would be cut in pieces and canned. The butchering, a big fire was built and water was heated in a portion that wasn't canned was left to hang and would big iron kettle then poured into a big barrel. The hog was freeze in the cold[...]modern freezers. When meat was wanted for use, a piece the hog was laid on a table and scraped until the hair was was sawed off and brought in to be cooked. This was also all removed. Hams, shoulders and bacon was salt cured done with chickens in the winter. and smoked in a smokehouse with chokecherry wood. In later years a smoke salt was used. Sausage was ground in a big grinder and fried and packed in lard to be kept in the cold cellar, wel[...]er the sausage was packed into glass jars, lidded and boiled in a water bath for four hours to seal them. Still COOK CAR later, Bertha Swank bought a pressure cooker and she'd come over and help Mama can her meat. Swanks also by Margaret Flagen invested in a lidder for tin cans and my folks and Swanks would get together and do a lot of canning this way, using Threshing[...]e cooker to cook it in. My folks then invested in a composed of steam engine, threshing machine (separator), lard press and sausage stuffer. The sausage was ground hayracks, wagons with grain boxes and crew, and also included a cook car with a cook and assistant cook.[...]he cook car was moved by horses from farm to farm and[...]furnished the potatoes and other vegetables. They usually[...]furnished the milk too. Making meals and lunches on[...]moving days was very hectic. Dishes and other breakables[...]had to be packed. It was particularly a problem when[...]paved roads. The inside furnishings were a large coal range, a long table, two long benches, one of which was[...]built into the side wall of the cook car in such a way as to[...]shoved to the wall and the second bench stowed under-[...]eath to provide space for the cook's folding bed. A box was[...]built on the outside of the cook car to provide a cooler place[...]cook car. Before meals the men had to use a wash basin[...]And I had to clean my hands up good[...]Then I turned to the corner and To a job I'd like to spurn-[...]For I knew a harder job than that[...]But I wanted to go out and play, Pork for winter use - meat cut. spread to freeze , pack in And my hand began to bum, 11 barrels or boxes and stowed in shaded area. All but the So I knew I'd worn a blister there tail and the squeal."[...] |
| The lid of it fit rather loose. And every time I jerked, The cream oozed through the[...]Brighten Your Through which the dasher worked ; And then I watched most carefully[...]This Stylish I scooped a finger full of cream From the top of that old chu[...]..,.....,.,,,,...........-.-----:-:-----n'!r"'.., and Attractive[...]Steet Range And then, at last, the butter ca m e, And I could go and play, But I knew I'd have that same old job[...]A Dominant Value To do some other day. But I was gl[...]even like the looks Of that old stone jar churn. And when I'm thinking of those da ys, |
| fired up. The tea kettle might dance a jig and the smell of It was a queenly garment, and Mother was a queen. coffee was welcome to all. And memory brings it back, it was a noble thing, I mean Home Comfort stoves were made to last. They were so strong and made so well that the oven door was supposed And when I join the heavenly throng with their robes so to support a person standing on it. A story was told of a white and fair, salesman who was demonstrating the fine poi[...]ove. He told of the strong oven door,jumped on it and was sent crashing to the floor. A salesman had trouble with his sales pitch in the[...]he usual sight was to see DEES AND BRECHBEIL someone sitting with his feet propped u[...]l stories everyone has forgotten when The size and shape of the stove of the future makes an t[...]occupants were gone. In the winter to stop and get warm But I agree with many that the wood stove had some from the cold, or in summer to get a drink or even some good points. I miss the cheerf[...]ked frosty mornings. There was room for more pots and pans. pies or cakes and left them on the table or cupboard then The warming oven was a boon when the men were late for have to[...]the or partly empty pan. I've heard Mama and Daddy mention stove to simmer gently.[...]es of HOME remember, one fellow was a bit on the round side, and I COMFORT, 1904.[...]One cold spring morning a new calf was found nearly frozen, and my folks were in a hurry to go to a farm sale. My mother's old checkered apron was a garment full and They didn't think the calf could possibl[...]it into the house and poured about half a cup of whiskey It served a humble purpose, and a million more beside. down it, left it by[...]door to the kitchen, there was no calf and it was found Just a plain and simple garment, fashioned by a busy under the kitchen table, hale and hearty. hand.[...]ve was always banked at night so the coals It had a little cross stitch across the bottom row, would stay "alive" and help keep the kitchen from getting And two long strings that tied behind in a sort of half-hitch overly cold. The oven door w[...]escape. The folks had a couple of house cats, when the oven[...]ty applique morning Daddy got up and shook up the stove, closed the But its simple humble usefulness was an epic of its day. oven door and added coal then left to do chores. Mama[...]came to get breakfast and heard strange noises coming It was used to shoo t[...]o the flies, from the oven. She jerked it open and out jumped two very It was used to wipe the grimy[...]One fall while we kids were quite small, a man came by with a wagon and team and all his possessions. He was It was us~d to fill the kindling box with cobs and chips and from Wisconsin and his horses were tired. He asked if he twigs,[...]could stay the night and rest. Later he asked if he could And tote the pesky parsley in from the garden to the pigs. stay the winter and help around the place. Daddy had to be[...]gone quite a bit and thought it would be a good thing to It was used to bring home eggs conc[...]when Daddy was gone one day. Daddy always kept a And to bring in half-drowned chickens caught out in A[...]and he'd have to have it fast many times. The man see[...]to get moody and took the gun down from its hooks and It was used to snatch hot kettles when no pot rag[...]nt to persuade him to put it back. There had been a And to tighten on fruit jar lids when winter stores w[...]that and this was the first thing Mama thought of. He had[...]gotten the gun open and couldn't get it closed again. Mama It was used to gather garden stuff and peaches by the hill, talked to him, telling him it was all right if it wasn't closed, And many a goodly mess of greens did Mother's apron fill. and finally got him to put it back. When Daddy got ho[...]and saw the opened gun on the hooks and Mama Her hand were shielded from the gales beneat[...]afterward in talking to some of the neighbor that And tiny feet were nestled there on mornings bleak and he was a drug addict and had run out of drugs. He was cold.[...] |
| [...]. The cracks in the walls were later covered with a building paper downstairs, and upstairs the walls were covered with pages from m[...]e pasted on. It was interesting to lay on the bed and "read the wall". I never tired ofit, but back to my story; the bugs harbored in these cracks. When Grandpa and Grandma Dees left Montana, they left a mattress that was to become my bed. The bed bugs congregated in this mattress and increased. Bed bugs aren't too happy in the dayli[...]oxious. The third of July 1926, I was about three and one-half months old, was restless and couldn't sleep. Mama lit the lamp and I was covered with Building the "Privy Ou[...]e the mattress out into the yard, put gasoline in a big circle around it, poured gasoline over it and set it on think the kids in my generation used the "privy". With the fire. A lot of bugs were cremated that day, but we never[...]us. Of course there was still the danger of fire and a I remember the folks fumigating with sulphur.[...]n down about the sulphur candles were put in pans and set on fire then we'd time everyone was qui[...]class room after all have to leave the house for a period of time. The house the noon hour. wou[...]down, but there were just too many places to hide and had learned how to "get out" as somebo[...]er of Sears catalog that clothes wherever we went and embarrassed us to death. wasn't usable[...]be folded up. As we They ate on my little brother and sister. Someone told got older we found the boys had been smart enough to have Mama to use a combination of formaldehyde and a piece of wire up on the ledge. But how foolish we felt when turpentine and squirt this from a squirt can into every it became absolutely necessary to holler for help. crack and corner. She did and not only got rid of the bed There are s[...]usually just a bit too high without tanding on the eat, and then there was always the danger of falling in. T[...]be in the way if you were in a big hurry. om had flower When I was a little girl, everybody had a building out planted on each ide. ome had a regular chimney, other behind. We called it the privy, or the out-house, or the back- just a piece of tin for a vent. ome had tone plac d for a house, depending on who was around to hear us. kind of walk, but mo t had a plain dirt path, well worn , and Whatever people called it, most of the e little[...]lway fond memories. They were places of seclusion and quiet. ea ier to go through than it wa a[...]a h day , wh n r privy, sit on the "hole" and enjoy last year's edition of there wa. a larg tubful ofwater, it wa cl aning d a the Sears Roebuck catalog or finish reading a story in your littl hou e. The kid alway[...]n been missed until it with an old br om and throwing water on th wall to turned up in the out[...], or fli caugh in w b r oh r Best of all it was a place to hide when one didn't want to mall[...]ere the di he . But in winter headquarter - and th hiding , h r ading, nor th your secret heart y[...]your tum to do di he crubbing wa no a mu h fun a i had b n all umm r. would come the next meal. There wa al way a mad da h In th win r we aw a littl of th building a po ibl · for this refuge when it came time to ga[...]ven for those chore that had to be done it and th cri p pag of th magazin wer damp, ogg or wa al[...]ld days", public or community building Ours was a two-holer, and it wa alway nice to have alway had two outsid " backhou ' --on for th m n and company after dark. In the early day it em d the dog one for he worn n . A c neat any communit gath ring used this for his s[...]arters, esp ially in the wa much lik thi --a lin of women on on id talking winter. Some[...] |
| [...]or even three story outhouses--but to behind" was a good place to make new acquaintances or my[...]stood on Last Chance Gulch in Halloween, always a good time for pranks, saw many Helena, bu[...]holers" with cement floors and lids that close, that all looked just alike and too small for any foolishness.[...] |
| [...]date in early days. Honeymoon - 1925. Stanley and Alma Nees traveled2500 |
| [...].. 547 -A-[...]Anderson-Biem .. 549 Anderson and Lean .................... Brockton.......[...]rockton ........ 503 Anderson, Ruby and Martin ........... Froid . . . . . . . .[...]Brechbiel and Dees .................... Mineral Bench ...[...]Froid. . . .. . . . . . . . 364 Breuing, A.T. . ........................ Benrud-Dry Fork[...]Butler, A.R. & Maude .................[...] |
| [...]Folvag, John and Mary ............... Froid ............ 389 Dale,[...]............ Anderson-Biem .. 569 Damson, Charles A .................... Poplar ...........[...]Fournier, C.A. ......................... Bainville ........ 206[...].................. Culbertson ....... 276 Delger, A.B. Charles & Myrtle ......... Poplar .......[...]Culbertson ....... 297 Dougherty, Jack (J.A.) ................ Poplar ...........[...] |
| [...]. . . . . . . . . . 659 Holen, A.K. . .......................... Poplar[...]Isachsen, A.J ..........................[...]lbertson . .. .. . . 282 Johnson, Otto and Dora .. ....... .. .... Froid ............[...]Froid .......... . . 396 Kao, Floyd and Carrie ... ... . . . . ... . . . . Froid[...] |
| [...]..... Froid ............ 414 Kelsey, A.E. ........................... Popla[...]f Point ....... 865 Lundeen, G.A. ......................... Poplar .... .......[...]............... Culbertson ....... 290 Lang, Ray and Hazel .................. Poplar ........... 693[...]. 751 Marquardt, A.R. & Ethel .............. Poplar ........... 700[...]12 McCann, James A. .................... Culbertson ....... 2[...] |
| [...].... Poplar ........... 707 Olson, A.J. & Clara ...................[...]Olson, P.A. & Johnson family .........[...]Paulson, A.D. & Norman .............. Poplar ........... 712[...]... Froid ............ 425 Petersen, A.C. and Nels Jorgenson .... Culbertson ....... 306 Nelson[...]roid ............ 427 Prior, Charles A ....................... Anderson-Biem .. 5[...] |
| [...]........... Bainville . ..... .. 230 Puck, John A. ......................... Brockton ..... . .. 52[...]Schwarzrock, Leo A. .................. Anderson-Biem .. 600 Red Ea[...]Froid . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 · Reid, Robert and Mamie ............... Poplar ........... 716[...]203 Sethre, Mr. and Mrs. Henry ........... Benrud-Dry Fork 948 Rich[...].......... Culbertson ....... 311 Ross, William and Maggie ............. Culbertson ....... 30[...] |
| [...]roid ............ 471 Swanson, Dr. C.A. .. ..... . ............ Poplar ...........[...]Weinrich, Frank A .................... C[...]Poplar ........... 734 Terpe, A.C... . . .... . . .. . .. . . . ... .. ..... Wolf[...]Brockton .. . ..... 539 Toavs, A.F . . ..... . .... . ..... . ......... Lus[...] |
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| A history of Roosevelt County and its towns, industries, churches, schools, tribes, sports clubs, and organizations, with photographs and index | |
| Montana Historical Society Library and Archives |
Hoye, Leota (ed.), Roosevelt County's Treasured Years (1976). Montana History Portal, accessed 18/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5606
