Voices from the Past

March 17, 1922

Bidwell School House is Burned

The Bidwell log school house near Olive in District No. 78 was destroyed by fire, Wednesday night of last week. While the cause of the fire is unknown some believe is started from a defective flue. Some insurance was carried on the building as the policy was written last summer. This school was taught by Robert Bishop and was to close the 17th of this month after a six months term for lack of funds to continue further.

All the schools in District No. 78 are to close with the six months term completed. The Severovic and Lewis schools close today. The Kingsley school has three months to operate and the Irion school has six more weeks.

March 14, 1947

Seven Broadus High Graduates at Missoula

The state university’s winter quarter student body of 3,150 students includes seven from Broadus, graduates of Broadus High School.

William W. Amsden, Albert C. Clark, Ralph W. Craig, Roland C. Holt and John T. Minow are among more than 2,000 veterans on the campus. Amsden, a freshman in forestry and 1942 graduate of Broadus High, is a Marine veteran; Clark, a junior in business administration and 1938 graduate of Broadus High, saw Army service, as did Craig, a junior in journalism and 1936 graduate of Broadus High, and Minow, a sophomore in forestry and 1942 Broadus High graduate. Holt, senior in business administration, served in the Navy and was graduated from Broadus High in 1939.

Oscar G. Christianson graduated last year and is a freshman majoring in law; Jane Ann Jones is a junior in journalism and Daisy M. Turley, a 1944 graduate of Broadus High, a sophomore in English.

Hornets are Champion Team of Grade School

The Hornets are the champion basketball team of the grade school. They won the grade school championship last Friday night by defeating the Red Devils by a score of 16 to 8. The game was won in the last half as the Red Devils were leading 4 to 3 at the end of the first half. In the consolation game for third and fourth places, the Yellow Jackets defeated the Panthers by a score of 20 to 13. The championship team, the Hornets, is composed of B. Clampet, L. Dent, W. Wetherelt, R. Potter, captain, C. Tipton, G. Gould and R. Smith. George Olson, coach and manager of the grade school teams, is to be complimented for the fine sportsmanship-like teams that he is developing in the school.

Installed Switchboard at Power Co. Plant

Installation of a new switchboard at the Broadus Power Company plant was completed over the past weekend. This switchboard made by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in their Minnesota plant was ordered in June 1945 and was received by the local company in December 1946. The installation was accomplished under the supervision of J.E. Meade, power company superintendent. Mr. Meade has only recently taken over the position of superintendent and came here from Oelwein, Iowa. He was formerly the assistant chief engineer of the Iowa Electric Power Co. plant of Anamosa, Iowa.

March 16, 1972

FHA Girls at State Meet

The Montana Association of Future Homemakers of America will hold their twenty-fifth annual state meeting on the campus of the University of Montana, Missoula, on March 16-18. Bonnie Nesbit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nesbit of Powderville, and a student at Custer County High School in Miles City, will be installed as State Chairman of Projects for the association at the annual banquet March 18.

Bonnie was elected chairman of District IV at their fall meeting in Broadus, and as such, automatically assumes the office of State Chairman of Projects. She has been a member of her local chapter for three years and also serves as home economics assistant. She does volunteer work for the county rest home.

Delegates from the Broadus chapter of FHA will be traveling with the Custer County chapter by bus to Missoula. The local girls will be guests of the Miles City girls on Wednesday evening and will leave from there this morning. Attending from Broadus High School will be Kelly Childers, Mona Holst, Penne Phillippi and Julianne Minow as official delegates; JoAnn Buck, Patti Barbero, Nina Traub, Cheri Portwine, Sandy Moore and Mary Heidel who will receive their Senior Degree awards; Barbara Study, Cindy Carter and Lana Kay Minow who will perform in the talent show portion of the state convention. Mrs. Gary Wiltse, FHA advisor from Broadus and local chapter mothers, Mrs. Francis Traub and Mrs. Charles Carter will act as chaperones for the girls.

To Participate in Convention

The local FFA chapter from Broadus will be traveling to Miles City on March 17 and 18th to participate in the District convention.

Those who will make up the livestock judging team are Mike Denson, Dennis Denson, Arnie Mader and Rick Turnbough.

Boys selected to agronomy were Terry Powell, Jim Bowers, Rick Trucano, and Greg Gardner.

In the mechanics division are Mike Shannon in electronics and carpentry; Monty Phillippi in trouble shooting, and Bill Portwine in welding.

The parliamentary procedure team are the officers of the local chapter, Terry Powell, Arnie Mader, Mike Denson, Quentin Rumph, Tim Fortner, Jim Bowers, Greg Gardner and Rick Trucano.

Arnie Mader will be the Powder River County High School contestant in public speaking contests.

Rusty Irion was picked as the Star Greenhand by the organization and will be competing in this category.

The boys will be spending the night of March 17th in Miles City.

Belle Creek Production for February

The production report from the month of February for the Bell Creek Oil Field is as follows:

Unit A - 247,300; Unit B- 57,100; Unit C- 15,400; Unit D- 33,800; Unit E- 28,000 and Ranch Creek- 61,000.

Total cumulative production for the month of February, 1972 was 442,600, from the 350 producing wells in the field, according to Gary Operating Co.

March 13, 1997

Mixed Doubles Tournament

A mixed doubles bowling tournament took place March 1-2 and 8-9. There were 83 entries. The top six doubles winners were: Tom and Ann Emmons of Broadus with a 1323, Kent and Stacey Gunther of Miles City with a 1306, Brent and Becky Tennant of Gillette with a 1302, Cindy Buckner and Ken Johnstone of Broadus with a 1292, Mark Wadell and Karla Duffy of Miles City with a 1288 and Darold and Sylvia Zimmer of Broadus with a 1277.