Dusting Off The Pages
100 Years Ago
No Equal In Montana
S. Alderman and Mrs. R. G. Ferguson returned a few days ago from an extensive western motor trip that included Glacier and Rainier National parks and the principal places of interest on the Washington coast. “We camped the whole time and enjoyed our outing and the beautiful plating visited,” said Mr. Ferguson, “and we improved the opportunity to compare the farming districts we passed through with our part of Montana with special reference to crop conditions and indications of prosperity. We saw the wheat fields of the Big Bend and the famous Palouse country in Washington, also the wheat, and grain fields of southern Idaho but we found after reaching home that they do not compare with the crops of eastern Montana. The indications were that general agricultural conditions are not as good there as here. The small berry growing district known as the Puyallup Valley was the most prosperous place we saw.
County Offices Move
The Great Northern rapidly being made building ready for is the county offices. Surveyor Bartholomew is already located there and the county board held its meetings there this week. Clerk of Court Forbes moved in yesterday. Carpenters of Court moved in yesterday. Carpenters have the courtroom about ready. Within a few days, all of the officials will be in their new quarters accepting the recorder, the treasurer and the assessor who must wait until the vault is ready. The commissioners are advertising for bids in the newspapers of the county this week for the construction of a county jail at Wolf Point.
Primary Battle
Circle Banner: Last Tuesday was primary election day in Montana, and here in McCone a large vote was cast in spite of the busy season. About 750 votes were cast and of that number nearly 600 voted in the republican primary where there was four county contests to be settled. Five hundred sixty- seven people took part in the Republican commissioner fight, which resulted in Rufus Morris of Nelson Creek getting the nomination by receiving 225 votes. J.J. Kendig came second with 197, James Moline third with 114 and Roy LaRoy fourth with 31 votes.
75 Years Ago
New School Subject
Wolf Point High School received statewide recognition this week through the Department of Instruction, Helena, when it was announced that the school was one of four in the state to conduct a pilot course in vocational guidance. The announcement was made Sept. 2.
Opening School Year
Wolf Point public and parochial schools will open Tuesday, Sept. 6, to begin the 194950 school year. For the public schools, registration will be made on that date. The Immaculate Conception school registration began Monday of this week, initial enrollment were not available, pending completion of the registration. Public school students will report at the high school Sept. 6 and short introductory classes will be held that day. Seven new instructors will join the faculty of Wolf Point’s elementary and high school staffs.
From a beautiful land called Erin The land where the Shamrock grows, To this land of the shining mountains Where the Old Missouri flows. He had come and labored for a long time. A labor sweet of love, His motto, “Onward, Upward,” To Eternal Life above. Now sadly we have laid him To sleep in that sweet long rest. Silent, the voice that had counseled, The chalice clasped to his breast. Oh, when time for us too, is over And we sleep beneath the sod, May we meet in the Great Hereafter This faithful Priest of God.
50 Years Ago
Land Use Meeting
A series of October land use conferences, described as the most ambitious and costly ever held in Montana, will include Wolf Point according to an article in the August issue of Montana Agriculture, a publication of the Montana Farm Bureau. The conferences are being planned by the Montana Land Use Conference Committee with a budget of state funds amounting to $22,800: A summary state meeting in Great Falls will be held in late November. The regional conferences will be held in four western Montana cities and then in five eastern cities. They begin Oct. 21 in Kalispell and include Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Havre, Lewistown, Billings, Miles City and Wolf Point. The committee’s executive board includes Gov. Thomas L. Judge’s staff attorney Steve Brown; State Rep. Harrison Fagg, R-Billings; Phil Tawney of the environmental information center; Tom Winsor of the Montana Chamber of Commerce; and Francis J. Kerins of Carroll College, Helena.
Coal is Meet Subject
Presentations on population mobility, coal development in McCone County and the cloud seeding experiment at Miles City will highlight the fall quarterly meeting of the Economic Development Association of Eastern Montana, according to President Robert R. Bell, Culbertson. The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the Red Rock Village in Miles City.
Park Users’ Views
Montana residents will have an opportunity to express their opinions on needs and preferences of local recreational facilities: Some 33,000 questionnaires will be received by a select list of resident families during early September. Ashley Roberts, administrator of state recreation and parks for the department of fish and game, said that the inquiries are part of a department program to provide a reliable estimate on needs and preferences of facilities in Montana towns.
Archers’ Hunt
Special pre-gun archery seasons for hunting of deer, antelope and elk will set Montana’s big game seasons in motion one-half hour before sunrise Saturday, Sept.7. The special seasons for longbowmen will end one-half hour after sunset Saturday, Oct. 12.
An amendment to hunting regulations will allow bowmen to carry firearms during special archery seasons. Archers may carry guns to hunt game birds, but cannot use firearms to aid in taking or killing deer, elk or antelope during the special seasons.
