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Yesterday's Phillips County News Memories for August 19, 2020

100 years ago

August 17,1920

The results of the primary election was announced by the Enterprise. W. G. Schnrider was the republican nominee for clerk and recorder; C. M. Porter, clerk of court; F. L. Robinson, assessor; Tom Johnson, sheriff; Ike Niebaur, county commissioner; B. P. Sandlie, county attorney; Norman Hicks, surveyor, and R. V. Tucker, coroner. Democratic nominees were Frei, for senator, Scheel, representative; Fuhrman, sheriff; Olson, treasurer, Smith, clerk of court; Wysel, commissioner; Bergan, assessor; Taylor, superintendent of schools; and Hawver, county attorney. Dr. G. W. Clay had been nominated for re-election as Republican state senator.

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R. G. Monroe reported completing the harvest of a 100-acre Marquis what crop on the north bench.

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Wheat on the Chambers farm at Strater was going 14 ½ bushels per acre.

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Malta School was to open on September 7.

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A.P. Davis, director of reclamation, had inspected the proposed Cham Lakes reservoir site.

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The fifth annual Phillips County Fair was about to open. A number of improvements had been made at the fairgrounds, including nine new cattle stalls, water piped to the fairgrounds, race track repairs, and grandstand enlargements.

75 years ago

August 23, 1945

Record Crowd Attends fair at Dodson

More than 3000 paid admissions to the Phillips County Fairgrounds at Dodson on Sunday afternoon established an all-time high attendance record, according to S. E. Kodalen, Fair secretary and treasurer.

Monday's attendance dropped considerably from the Sunday's record, but taken as a whole, more people saw the fair than have seen one for a number of years. The program was excellent from the exhibits to the night platform shows. Children waited in line for hours on Sunday for rides on the midway Ferris wheel, the chair-a-plane, and other attractions .

Sheriff says fair was most orderly ever held

Sheriff R. A. Campbell this week commended fairgoers and fair officials for the "best behaved" fair in the history of Phillips County.

With the largest number of cars and patrons in the 30 years of Fair going in the County there was not a single arrest for any cause, he said.

He said the orderly state of affairs was the result of cooperation between the city officials of Dodson, the Highway Patrol, sheriff's officers, and the patrons themselves.

50 years ago

August 21, 1941

Area pioneers special guest on Wagon Train

Mary Stout of Harlem, 88, will make the entire Milk River Wagon Train trip from Zortman to Malta and well, no doubt, be the only person in the train who came to Montana in a covered wagon, as well as being the oldest member of the train. There will be other special guests and among them are Joe Hartman, 88, and Pete Long Horse, 88, who was born on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and is the oldest full blood Indian in the County.

25 years ago

August 25, 1995

Street Talk

Question: Miss Montana recently described the bathing suit competition at the Miss America Pageant as a "veiled strip show" and said it should be done away with. What do you think?

Joe Wilson: I don't think they need it to determine a winning candidate.

Don Wilkes: I think it should stay. It's part of the contest.

Stan Barnard: I don't think that it's as bad as her comment, but I agree, it shouldn't be there.

Edna Arnott: I think that that they should do away with it. They look beautiful enough in their clothes.

 

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