Voices from the Past

December 21, 1923

Claims County Championship as consumer of “Hot Dogs”

“Hot dogs” hit me right where it feels good,” said A.P. Ellian Wednesday evening after partaking of his supper at the Powder River hotel. He broached the subject because frankfurters were the principal substance of the meal and had partially appeased his fondness for them by putting away nine of their lengths. “I have never had enough of them at one time,” he said “and nine only seemed to whet my crave for more, but I knew that other boarders were to come and wouldn’t satisfy my greed by depriving them. I don’t know whether there are any other men in the county who like “hot dogs” better than I but if such exist I would like to enter into a competition with them to see who could eat the most. I might be vanquished but for once at least I could eat my fill of them.

Mother was weeping; Daughter calls Father

While engaged in her culinary pursuit Monday forenoon, Mrs. W.T. Waite happened to peel some strong onions with their odor bringing tears to her eyes. Her little daughter Betty in playing about the house observed the tears and became alarmed under the belief that her mother was weeping. Without stating her mission she quietly left the house but made a direct line to the Bank where her father was laboring in his daily routine. In her childish mien Betty said to come home quick as “mom was sick.” Billy laid aside his work and carrying Betty in his arms, hurried to his home that is only two blocks away. Mrs. Waite was just finishing the peeling process on the last onion and “was surprised” to see her husband and daughter enter the house. “Why what’s the matter?” she inquired, noticing the alarmed look on Billy’s face and at the same moment, she flecked the remaining tear from her cheek.

December 17, 1948

Power Company will Install New Devices

C.O. Schmidt of Billings, line material representative for the General Electric Supply corporation and W.B. Proctor of Salt Lake City, Utah, electrical engineer with the same concern, were here last Saturday conferring with Jay E. Meade, superintendent of the Broadus Power Co. The local concern placed an order for lightning protection equipment to eliminate the troubles encountered last summer when the generating equipment at the local plant was hit seven times by lightning bolts. The equipment ordered includes three station type thyrite lightning arresters, an indoor station type capacitor for use on rotating machines and a 200 amp oil circuit breaker. It is expected that the equipment will be here shortly after the first of the year for installation. The protective equipment represents an investment of nearly $1,500.

December 20, 1973

Students Find Confucius Impossible

The Analects of Confucius had a practical application last week as Mr. Coate’s seventh period philosophy class attempted to use Confucian ethics as their regular behavior pattern for half a school day. Confucian philosophy embraces the practice of complete benevolence and charity to all other people, complete honesty, and unflinching courage in the face of any danger. The students, seventeen of them, found it impossible, even when completely by themselves to follow the ideals of Confucius. Although they agreed that Confucian ideals would be a desirable goal, they also agreed that it would be an unapproachable one.

Other instructors will be guests in the philosophy class for the next week as the class questions them in order to ascertain their philosophy. They will be trying to relate the teacher’s individual philosophy to those that they have studied: which include Rousseau, Descarte, Nietzsche, and Confucius.

Heidel Agency presents Indicator to School

An electric foul indicator has been presented to the Powder River High School gymnasium by Glen Burton of Heidel Insurance Agency. The device is used by the score keeping officials to let the fans know how many fouls a player has accumulated. When a foul is called by a referee the light will indicate the number of fouls on that particular player and also indicate whether or not the bonus situation applies.

The bonus situation goes into effect after the team has a total of five fouls. This allows the player who has been fouled to receive an extra free throw. The letter V on the indicator refers to the visiting team and H refers to the home team. These letters will light up if the bonus situation is in effect.

When an individual player receives his fifth foul the number will blink indicating that he has to be removed from the game.

December 17, 1998

Winter? Wow! I Guess by Frankie George

Winter came in with a vengeance this week. A few days early to be official, since winter doesn’t officially begin until Monday, but, hey! it’s not nice to try to fool Mother Nature. I guess we really can’t complain. This sort of weather could have started in October, and by now we would be wondering if it would ever end. My Mother used to say, “if winter begins the first week of January and you have 6 weeks, you’ve had enough.” She was right! Guess we can look at it this way-Winter officially begins on the 21st and the days start getting longer on that day.

Speaking of longer days - I understand our congressmen are working to get a bill passed in the Montana Legislature stating that Montana will no longer participate in Daylight Saving Time. We would just set our clocks to Mountain Standard Time and leave them year round. Is this what we want? While changing our times twice a year can be a royal pain, it really is nice to have those longer daylight hours on those balmy summer evenings. So do we want to change or not?