Voices From The Past

February 9, 1923

Raising Money to Buy a Radio Set

A series of dances is now being held at the Powder River Hotel, the entire proceeds of which are being applied to a fund to purchase a radio receiving set for the benefit of Broadus and adjacent country. The proceeds from the first of these dances Saturday night are being used for the construction of an aerial approximately 400 feet long, extending from Shorty’s Hall to the hotel. The masts were erected the first of the week, made of 16-foot timbers. The wire will consist of a seven-strand phosphor bronze, the best obtainable for this purpose, and will be strung as soon as received. The wire will be about 50 feet from the ground. With this aerial the radio will be capable of receiving from any station in the United States and will be installed in the lobby of the hotel where all will be welcome to come and enjoy the concerts, sermons, etc., received by wireless.

G.E. Franklin who has taken the initiative in procuring a radio for this place, is familiar with such work and states for an additional $300 it will be possible to install a broadcasting station in Broadus that could serve outlying communities where the receiving sets would not exceed $25 or $30. The rapidity with which the radio fund is raised depends upon the patronage accorded the Saturday night dances at the hotel. Even though several were absent at the first dance due to sickness or other causes they contributed their dollar for the good of the cause.

Inasmuch as a benefit dance is being held at Shorty’s Hall February 10 to raise funds for school ground apparatus there will be no dance on that date at the hotel but the next dance there will be held on Saturday, February 17, when all the dances and supper proceeds are to be applied to the radio fund.

February 6, 1948

Broadus School was Accredited

Mr. A.O. Gullidge, Montana State High School Supervisor, in a letter to W.E. Derr, Broadus Public School Superintendent, has announced that Broadus High School has received full approval of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools Commission, an accrediting association of Northwestern Schools.

This group met in Spokane, Wash., December 10-13. At this meeting the reports of membership schools were examined and discussed. Progress in getting qualified teachers was high on the list of the examining board. Broadus met this qualification.

Bus Lines Will Seek New Route

A.J. Bone, owner of the Powder River Bus Line, this week took delivery of two buses that will be used on the bus line route between Miles City and Belle Fourche, S.D. At the present time the bus leaves Miles City each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning for Belle Fourche and makes the return trip on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Daily service between the two points will be established as soon as permission is granted by the railroad commission. Mr. Bone is planning to make application to extend the route to Rapid City which will give a fine connection between Miles City and Rapid City.

The new buses are “Flexible Cruisers” of 25 passenger capacity each. They are rear engine mounted and completely modern in every respect. First trip made by the bus was to carry the Broadus High School basketball team and band to Cohagen on Monday night.

February 8, 1973

Speech Team Does Well

Saturday, February 3rd, the Speech Team from the Powder River County High School went to Hardin for a Speech Meet. Following are the students from Broadus which placed: Dixie Steadman and Paul Balo, 3rd, Debate; Pam Keats, 3rd, Oral Interp.; Bob Janssen, 5th, Pantomime.

Students who did not place but made it to the finals from Broadus were: Delbert Riter, Memorized Public Address; Donna Denson, Solo Serious; Cheri Smith and Debbie Portwine, Duo Serious.

As a final outcome Broadus placed second in Speech and fourth in Drama for the B-C classes.

February 5, 1998

Lady Hawks Beat Forsyth, Set New School Records

The Lady Hawk volleyball team played well in action last week, dumping rival Forsyth in five hard-fought matches Friday evening.

“We played our grudge match against Forsyth Friday night and it was a pretty hard-fought contest but the girls buckled down when it counted and did the job. A couple of things kind of showed the quality of volleyball we played,” said Head Coach Gordon Archer. “Lindsey Archer got a new school record for kills with 20. Our old record, I believe, was 17. Erika Barnhart set a new school record with 16 blocks and I believe the old school record was 10. Once again even though those two played exceptional, it was a real team effort. Everybody stepped up and did their job.” Broadus 10-15-15-12-15. For-syth 15-11-12-15-7.