Memories for the Week of February 4, 2015

100 years ago

February 4, 1915

Headline: Phillips County Created

Tuesday, the long waited for day when the vote for or against the creating of the new county, dawned bright and clear, and a more ideal day for the election could not have been wished for. The vote was very heavy in nearly all the precincts and the county division carried in all but one or two. That the people who have been working hard at work for the division are well satisfied is putting it mild. The division of the county carried by close to 85 percent for division, and Malta secured the permanent county seat by a 75 percent majority.

75 years ago

February 1, 1940

Headline: Warning to Dog Owners!

All dog owners must procure licenses on or before February 17, 1940 from the City Clerk of the City of Malta. After that date all dogs running at large and not wearing a license tag will be killed without notice.

D.O. Kaufman

City Marshal

Whitewater:

According to J.F. MacLaren, local weather observer, the lowest thermometer reading of the winter was 34 below Thursday night.

Wagner:

Ron Baily and his father were in Monday for their mail. They have been snowed in since before Christmas.

Our honor roll made the best record of the year showing 60 percent of the school in the list. The pupils are as follows: Alice Tuttle, Leo Klotz, Leroy Tuttle, Peggy Jean Misfeldt, Isabel Klotz, Pearl Goll, Dolly Curley, Florence Klotz, John Klotz and Clara Klotz.

You don't say: He knew

Teacher (in grammar class): "Willie, please tell me what it is when I say, 'I love you, you love me, he loves me.'"

Willie: "That's one of them triangles where somebody gets shot."

Miscellaneous:

TRADE: Automobile for meat or potatoes. Inquire News office. 41-3*

50 years ago

February 4, 1965

Headline: Changeover to Dial System to take place Sunday A.M.

A twin package of the latest dial service and direct distance dialing will be inaugurated in Malta on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. At midnight, Malta's manual type telephone system will disappear as the final phase of the transition to a new dial system (is made.)

The cables now serving the old telephone office will be cut and all the lines to the new building activated. Simultaneously devices blocking off the dial equipment will be removed ... Direct distance dialing, or DDD, will permit Malta residents to dial direct to most of the 75 million telephones throughout the United States and Canada.

25 years ago

February 7, 1990

Headline: What Phillips County means to me

By Sara Hould

Phillips County is a place to grow and a place to live.

It's a place for agriculture.

It's a place with mountains and prairies.

Phillips County is a place for a wade in the river.

It's a place for laughter, and a place for tears.

Phillips County is a place for crops and farming.

In Phillips count you might hear,

Livestock,

Tractors roar.

Or, "I've struck gold."

Phillips County is a place for my family and your family.

IT was a place for our ancestors,

Phillips County is a piece of our heart.

10 years ago

February 2, 2005

Headline: Hearing Thursday on $500,000 request to construct Great Plains Dinosaur Park

State Senator Sam Kitzenberg says he wants to do "something big" for Phillips County during the current session of the state legislature.

That's $500,000 big.

That's the amount the senator is trying to get the legislator to approve so a tourist class Dinosaur Park facility can be constructed in Phillips County to house what the bill describes as the "paleontological treasures that have been found in north-eastern Montana."

Headline: Wedding is planned.

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Shettel of Malta are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Lynnel Sheree, to Ryan LaBrie-Booth.

Ryan is the son of Cheri and the late Bud LaBrie of Malta and Mark and Nancy Boothe of Kalispell.

The couple are planning an outdoor ceremony this summer.