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Articles written by Maebel Schiffbauer


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  • Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, October 30, 2024

    Maebel Schiffbauer, P. C. Assistant Museum Curator|Oct 30, 2024

    Some people don’t believe in ghosts, and some people believe that even peaceful hauntings are demonic entities in disguise. Others believe that ghosts haunt this earth until the day they can be free. Well, I’m going to share a local ghost story, a story I believe. This is about the haunting of the old Moore’s Printing Building. There are a few places in Malta people are sure that are haunted, As I share this one with you, open your mind and glimpse of what could be happening. When people think places are haunted, it often has something to do...

  • Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, October 2, 2024

    Maebel Schiffbauer, P. C. Assistant Museum Curator|Oct 2, 2024

    In 1900, the first doctor who came to Malta was George W. Clay. He was quite young, only 22 when he headed to Montana, but before George came along there were no hospitals or Doctors in Malta, everyone had to go to the closest one which was in Glasgow, and no doctor was nearer to the town. Part of that was due to the new settlement on the Great Northern Railway. It had Saloons, log cabins, and a few more conspicuous residents and Malta had no doctors, so there was no place or even a way for a hospital to be here. However, although there were no...

  • Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, September 25, 2024

    Maebel Schiffbauer, P. C. Assistant Museum Curator|Sep 25, 2024

    The First State Bank is one of the oldest businesses in Malta, and we should remember all the awe-inspiring things that this bank has overcome in the first few years it was open. One of the many interesting things about the old First State Bank is that it weathered through all the various panics, droughts, tough winters, and war periods without help from any outside sources and without having to make an assessment on its stockholders. The First State Bank was organized in the year 1903, and R.M. Trafton became Malta’s first businessman; he b...

  • Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, September 18, 2024

    Maebel Schiffbauer, P. C. Assistant Museum Curator|Sep 18, 2024

    Herman George Robinson was one of the finest men in Malta, and his story was more than incredible, so I’ll share it with you. He was born on February 25th, 1865, in New York. He had always envisioned being a cowboy and a cattleman, and in 1884, his dream brought him to Billings at the age of 19. After only a year, he found himself on the alluring prairie we now know as Malta. The changes he brought with him were some of the most marvelous and game-changing modifications we needed. Herman worked on various farms until he was twenty-one when h...

  • Phillips County Museum News for Wednesday, September 4, 2024

    Maebel Schiffbauer, P. C. Assistant Museum Curator|Sep 4, 2024

    Carol Jean Young was 13 years old when a life-changing accident occurred. The date was November 8th of 1950, when Carol was at her farmhouse in Wagner with her stepbrother Wilbur (30 years), her brother Dannie (10 years), and her sister Donna (6 years). Wilbur had been lifting a pail of fuel oil to the top of the stove to put more into it. The pail caught against the hot stove and spilled. Immediately the burning fuel was dripping down onto the floor and the fuel had caught on fire, as the Young family started towards the door. While running...