Memories for Wednesday, June 16, 2021

10 years ago-

Wednesday,

June 15, 2011

Courthouse Building Project Underway

Clausen and Sons Construction has begun a 1,800 square foot building project at the Phillips County Courthouse in Malta.

The project will replace two old buildings, one a lean-to, which had been used for storage and by maintenance workers and groundskeepers, according to County Commission Chairman Troy Blunt.

He said commissioners decided it was time to replace the old structures when maintenance worker Willie Hammar fell through the roof of one of the structures this past winter while removing snow.

The new structure, which abuts the jail area at the courthouse will be a steel building with a brick veneer on the exposed sides, the commissioner said.

Simonson Qualifies for Junior High Wrangler Finals Rodeo

Keira Simonson has qualified for the 2011 National Junior High Wrangler Finals Rodeo for the third year in a row, competing at the State Junior High Wrangler Finals Rodeo June 3-4 in Hamilton.

After two go-rounds of intense competition, bringing back the top ten to the final championship performance, Keira advanced into the final round in all five events she qualified in at state.

Coming back into the short go in barrel-racing, pole-bending, goat tying, breakaway roping, and ribbon-roping, she earned two state championship titles in barrel-racing and ribbon-roping with partner Will Powell from St. Ignatius.

Showing at the Villa

Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides starring Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley

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25 years ago-

Wednesday,

June 12, 1996

Toby Keith to Headline County Fair

Toby Keith will be this year’s headline act for the Friday night grandstand show at the Phillips County Fair on August 2.

It will be the second year in a row that the Fair Board has opted for big-name talent for the Saturday night concert. Last year’s concert featured The Bellamy Brothers and Patricia Conroy.

Keith, 34, was Billboard Magazine’s Top New Country Artist in 1993. His debut album, “Toby Keith” is approaching platinum status.

Local Area Athletes to Play in All-Star Game

Malta football standout, Landon Lamb, will be participating in the Third Annual Montana – North Dakota All-Star Football Game to be played Saturday, June 15 in Miles City, Montana.

All of the players are graduated seniors and are coming off stellar high school careers.

Showing at the Villa Theatre

Spy Hard starring Leslie Nielsen

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50 years ago-

Thursday,

June 24, 1971

Builder Stops In Malta

The westbound Empire Builder pulled to a stop in Malta Tuesday morning, for the first time since Amtrack took over.

It caused quite a bit of speculation. Upon investigating, it was discovered that one agent in the eastern states who did not know that Malta was no longer on the railroad map had sold a gentleman a ticket to Malta, Montana, so the railroad was honor-bound to deliver him here.

We don’t know who the man was who caused the unexpected stop, but he was lucky to make it to Malta without hitch hiking 70 miles from Glasgow.

19-Year-Olds Will Need I.D.

Joseph T. Shea, the administrator of the Montana Liquor Control Board, said recently that all persons attaining the age of 19 should apply to their county clerk and recorder for a Montana Liquor Control Board identification card.

Shea said many licensees have said the only identification they will accept will be the identification card.

Persons who are 19 and older will be able to drink alcoholic beverages legally after July 1 of this year.

The clerk and recorder will require a certified copy of a birth certificate, an 11/4-inch by 11/2-inch photo, and 50 cents.

The completed application will be mailed to the Liquor Control Board which will prepare a green laminated plastic identification card. The card will then be returned by mail directly to the applicant.

Showing at the Valli Drive-In Theatre

It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, and Buddy Hackett

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75 years ago-

Wednesday,

June 13, 1946

Friday Dance Planned For Young Folks

A weekly Friday night dance for young people of school age will be a feature of the city’s summer recreational program, it was announced this week by “Bun” Lodge, who is in charge of the program.

Held at the city hall auditorium, participation in this affair will be limited to young people, Lodge said, and the parties will run from 9 o’clock until 12:30. Young people unable to dance will be offered instruction as an added encouragement to attend.

Lodge said the regular daytime program got underway last Wednesday with 100 children making a trip to the swimming pool at the Legion Plunge. This popular feature will continue each week until further notice.

The high school athletic field is now the scene of daily baseball, with games running from 9:30 in the morning until noon and from 1:30 until 4 p.m.

Starting next Monday morning, parents wishing their smaller children to participate in supervised sports can send them to the grade school playground where a directed games program will be conducted each morning between 9 and 12 o’clock, Lodge announced. This program will be in effect throughout the summer.

Tourist Travel Through Malta Reported Heavy

Tourist camp accommodations in Malta are strained to the limit and travelers find it practically impossible to secure a room in a Malta hotel without reservations, local hotel men and cabin camp proprietors report as the vacation season gets into full swing this month.

Tourists are turned away nightly from cabin camps and the peak of the season is not due until July and August. Travel appears to be a general exodus from east to west and from west to east with Canadians making up a good share of the tourists. In many cases, Canadians who live in the prairie provinces and further east are returning from war work in British Columbia and seeing a little of the United States en route to their homes.

Showing at the Palace Theatre

SNAFU starring Robert Benchley and Vera Vague

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100 years ago-

1921

- Campbell Kilduff, Tom Hould, and Kenneth Murray had returned from St. Thomas college where they had been attending school.

- Residents of the Hog ranch community were planning a big Fourth of July celebration.

- Malta was making preparations for a Fourth of July celebration which would include ballgames, races and sports.

- Chris Maloney of Chapman was suing Clyde Schandlemeir for $250 for the loss of a dog allegedly shot by the latter and for $1,080 as the value of sheep scattered and lost by reason of not having a dog.

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118 years ago-

1903

- Glasgow, the county seat of Valley county, was having a crime wave of major proportions and Sheriff Harry Cosner of Malta was having his share of trouble. Three prisoners had escaped from the county jail, a man by the name of Brown, another by the name of Hardee, and a third named McKinley. Brown was captured in a haystack near Hinsdale and a posse was organized to hunt the remaining two. Shortly after Brown was returned to the city jail, a mob broke into the jail and took Brown and hanged him from a courthouse window. Near Ninth Point on the Missouri River, while the posse was trailing Hardee, C.R. Hill, a member of the party, was shot from ambush. The posse fired into the brush and discovered they had killed Hardee. John Darnell, a rancher, discovered McKinney hiding in his house when he returned home. McKinney fired at him and dashed out of the house and Darnell shot and killed him.

- Eighth-grade graduates from the Malta High School were Annie Tweedie, Grace Tucker, and Ellen Blassingame. Floyd Hardin, Harriet Taylor, and Emma Trafton passed from seventh to the eighth grade and, Divilo Ebaugh, Ellen Tweedie, and Chapman Taylor passed to the sixth grade.