Voices from the Past

September 14, 1923

Telephone Toll to Miles Higher Than to Sheridan

For a three-minute conversation the telephone toll from Broadus to Miles City is $1.40 over an 80-mile circuit. Talking from Broadus to Sheridan via Miles City and Billings, the telephone toll for a three-minute conversation is 85 cents. Talking from Broadus to Belle Fourche over the toll line via Miles City, Billings, the Big Horn Basin, Wyo., Casper and Crawford, Neb., the toll is 35 cents. At a savings of 55 cents it now behooves anyone to transact their business by telephone with far more distant points than Miles City.

September 10, 1948

Draft Registration Reaches Eighty-Six

Eighty-six Powder River County men have registered to date for the first time peace draft under the National draft law at Broadus according to Mrs. Fred Edwards, clerk of Local Board No. One. Of the eighty-six registered, seventeen are registrants who wish to have their cards transferred to other boards. The majority of the local registrants have been married men or have already served in the armed forces during World War II. Permanent local board offices have been set up in the building owned by Mrs. J.A. Williams next to the Texaco Service Station in Broadus.

Music Rates High at BHS

Sixty-five students out of a counted eighty-seven in Broadus High School have enrolled in Choral work, Carolyn Nygren, School Music supervisor announced.

Work in this section of the music department of BHS will include male choral group, chorus for girls, glee club and a mixed voice chorus, Miss Nygren said.

Band enthusiasts number twenty-five.

Tulsa Concern Camp Started

“It’s the largest one in of its type in the world,” said party chief E.H. Weltsch of the Seismograph Service Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a company that has recently established base headquarters in Broadus and sub camp one and one-half miles north of Sayle.

The staff, pared down to 14 men from the original 25 that arrived in Broadus a few weeks ago, has completed construction on eight pre-fabricated army type houses on the Sayle location. Each building is on a 16 square foot foundation, and will house crew members of the Shot Point Inc. Drilling Co. from Dallas, Texas, who are under contract to the Seismograph Corporation. Two drills and seven men make up the Shot Point Company that is on the location.

A company dining hall has been erected on the site and a two way radio service between main offices in Broadus and the Sayle camp is being established. A camp power plant is also in operation.

Farmington, New Mexico was the last place of exploratory work by the Seismograph crew before coming to Broadus.

September 13, 1973

Rainbow Installation

Rainbow installation was held Sunday, Sept. 9 at the Masonic Hall. Installing officers were Mona Holst, Worthy Advisor, Mrs. Faye Denson, Marshall, Mrs. Alex Denson, Chaplain and Mrs. Lex Denson, Secretary.

New officers installed at this time were Susan Denson, Worthy Advisor; Helen Wilson, Worthy Associate Advisor; Mary Smith, Charity; Judy Denson, Hope; Beverly Moore, Faith; Terri Yonkee, Drill Leader; Maryanna Gay, Love; Stacy Hensley, Fidelity; Sue Ann Heidel, Immortality; Becky Burton, Religion; Leora Schneidt, Service.

Chaplain is Sandy Flanigan and outer observer is Norman Turnbough. Girls in the choir are Robin Heidel, Patty Heidel, Barbie Burton, Leslie Mace, Anne Andrews, Rhonda Moore, and Cheri Smith.

Refreshments were served after the installation ceremony.

September 10, 1998

Men’s Golf League

The Collins Ranch team won the Men’s Golf League championship for the summer, 1998 season during elimination playoffs against the Cashway Café men, who finished in second place. The two teams finished the season tied, and then tied again after the first playoff, Wednesday evening, two weeks ago. The championship was then finally decided this past week. Members of the championship team were John Warner, Tom Collins, Terry Powell and Bill Parks. The second place team members were Mark Wenzel, Tori Franklin, Wayne Wetherelt and Dick Craft.