Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for week of October 8, 2014

October 8, 1914

100 years ago

Local News: Man by the name of Tyler appropriated two horses, a saddle, bridle and other articles in his use, belonging to Warren Sowers, and made his get away with them. Deputy Sheriff Shaw was notified and is on the trail.

Dodson local: Sealed proposals will be received at the Reclamation Office in this city on October 28, until 2 in the afternoon, for the work of reconstructing the Dodson Bridge. The work will require 71,000 cubic yards of excavating, 12,000 yards of puddled fill, 7,200 yards or riprap and 40 yards of concrete and moving of two steel bridges.

October 12, 1939

75 years ago

Headline: Grass Fire Burns over land near Malta

A grass fire that for a time endangered the buildings on the former R.H. Jones farm south-west of Malta Monday night destroyed more than two sections of range. A force of more than 20 men worked for several hours before the flames were pinched out.

The farm is now owned by Senator Fred L. Robinson. The cause of the fire is uncertain but since it started in the vicinity of the bridge near the mouth of the Alkali Creek, it is assumed that a carelessly tossed cigarette stub did the job.

Whitewater School News: Softball seems to be the lead-ing pastime of the students during their time out. It would probably take a softball expert to even recognize the game, but softball is what it is known as.

It is expected that basketball practice will start this week. The team was slightly broken up when Pete and Stub Pehlke and Helmer Bakke left us, be we still have Orville Fjeldheim, Bob Brandt, Kieth Johnson and Milton Pelhke, all veterans of past basketball wars.

Editor’s Note: There are no editions of the Phillips County News for October, 1964 at the Phillips County Museum. If you have any copies of those papers, the museum would love to add them to their archives.

October 11, 1989

25 years ago

Headline: City favors contracting with county

Malta City would like to disband its police force by November 1 and contract with the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office for law enforcement services.

If the agreement is worked out, the cost of the city for the contracted law enforcement would consist of the balance of the police budget for the current fiscal year.

October 13, 2004

10 years ago

Headline: Voter count up in Phillips County

Phillips County Election Administrator Laurel Hines reports an increase of 149 registered voters since the June primary election.

“From the 2002 general election to this year’s general election we’ve gained a total of 335 registered voters,” Hines said.

Malta School District student count from 2003

Malta Elementary: 255

Loring Colony School: 10

Tallow Creek School: 2

Zortman School: 14

Malta Middle School: 104

Malta High School: 195

Total Enrollment: 580 down from 607 in 2003.

Headline: Mark “Noah” Niebur built his ark in just under seven years.

The critics laughed at Noah too, but he got the last laugh.

Malta’s Mark “Noah” Niebur may not have been laughing, but he was smiling on Saturday.

“We floated the boat,” he said.

Niebur has been handcrafting a 27-foot cabin cruiser almost from scratch in his son’s metal farm building just south of town.

Smaller than Noah’s undertaking, Mark’s Ark was still a lengthy project by modern standards –“six years, 10 months, nine days,” Niebur quipped.