Voices From The Past

April 21, 1922

Eggs at 15 Cents per Dozen, Now’s Time for Storing

With fresh eggs selling at 15 cents a dozen many housewives are taking advantage of the opportunity to store them away for use when their price is several times as much (ed: $0.15 is equivalent to $2.57 in today’s dollars). The hens of the country have not yet acquired the strike habit and their egg product is far in excess of the demand so that a surplus is accumulating. And people generally have grown somewhat prejudiced at the sight of egg meals for many of them have had no other subsistence the past several months.

Some housewives are packing their surplus eggs away wrapped only in paper, others are using salt as the packing preparation but for the best satisfaction that insures a longer freshness of eggs a water glass solution is the most popular and S.A. Holt, the local druggist, reports an accelerated sale of this preservative. One quart of the water glass ingredient when mixed with water makes a solution of ten quarts at an additional cost, it is said, of about two cents per dozen eggs. Eggs in water glass have been known to retain their freshness for nearly a year. Still another fairly good preservative is common Vaseline used to coat the eggs and thereby prevent air contact.

April 18, 1947

Start Building New Gas Station

Construction of the new Standard Highway Service station was started on Monday of this week. John Traub, local distributor for the Standard Oil company products, is building this fine addition to the town at the southeast corner of Park Avenue and Haston Street.

The station is being built on two lots with a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 140 feet. The building will be 40 by 48 and will contain an office, grease rack, bulk oil storage and men’s and women’s restrooms.

The station will be set back 22 feet from the property line and the pumps will be set on the property line. The building will be set back 4 feet from the northern property line. Construction will be of cement brick. Plans were drawn by the architect for the Yellowstone Lumber company. Mr. Traub plans to have his station in operation during the early summer months.

April 20, 1972

Early Broadus Building Demolished

The old Parker Bar is now being demolished by Wade Ruland of Broadus, assisted by Jerry Richards. The building is owned by Chris Grenz of Miles City.

The building was one of the first buildings to be built in Broadus. It was built by H.R. Cook in about 1919 and was used as a barber shop with a lawyer’s office in the back. Several years later an addition was built by Bob Nalley. After the expansion, the building housed additional businesses, including a café, pool hall and a confectionery (soda fountain). He sold the building in 1942 to Shirl Tanner where he and his wife operated a café. In later years it was owned by Chris Grenz and was operated in conjunction with the old Powder River Club.

Many rumors have been circulating through the years concerning the building during its history as a house of entertainment. Gambling devices are rumored to have been operated freely in the establishment at one time. Ruland has traced down some of the rumors, and has found a sizeable collection of old silver coins under the floor, in the vicinity where the old slot machines supposedly stood.

Ruland started the demolition project last week and tore out the inside of the building before dismantling the outer structure. The building was condemned by the Town of Broadus and Ruland said that about only part of the building that is salvageable is the hardwood flooring. The rest of the building will be hauled to the dump, he said, with the exception of any large timbers that may be used by those using wood burners for heat or cooking.

Following the removal of the hardwood flooring, Ruland raked the debris between the floors and found coins dating from a 1910 quarter and 1934 silver dollar to coins with dates up to 1960. A number of 50 cent pieces were also found that are considered valuable.

Following the demolishing of the building, an old basement will be filled and the vacant lot leveled.

April 17, 1997

Lady Hawks Presented with Post-Season Awards

Broadus Lady Hawk Volleyball team members were honored for their many achievements during an awards ceremony held at the school last week. The girls, with veteran head coach Gordon Archer and assistant coach Kevin Pike, enjoyed their best season in the history of the local program.

Awards were either voted on, or given from statistics.

Nerm Stevens was named to the Montana Class B All State Team. Lindsey Archer was named to the First All Conference Team, and Erin Sanburn and Leslie Bird were named Honorable Mentions.

Stevens was also honored as the Lady Hawks MVP for the season.

Erika Barnhart received the Most Improved Award, and Jennifer Isaacs received the Hustle Award. Cody Portwine was named as the Lady Hawks’ Most Inspirational Player.

Erin Sanburn received the Ace Award. Erin broke both career and season records for most aces.

The Kill Award went to Lindsey Archer, who set new match and season records for the Lady Hawks.

Leslie Bird received the Assists Award. She, too, broke the records, for both match and season numbers for assists.