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2 - FALLON COUNTY TIMES FRIDAY, APRIL 1,2016 100 Years Ago FILES or THE TIMES 10 YEARS AGO Friday, April 7, 2006 -- High temperature March 29 was 70 degrees.. . Jim Quen- zer of Marmarth has opened a shop on South Main Street called The Town Pawn. People can pawn items at The Town Pawn and Quenzer will keep them for 30 days before put- ting them up for sale... Fourth annual Baker Jam youth bas- ketball tournament is sched- uled for April 8-9. Christina Shepherd, rec director, said 26 boys teams and 18 girls teams will participate, ten more than last year. . . State FFA Con- vention held Mar. 29 -Apr. I. Jessica Kirschten received her State FFA Degree, which is the highest degree the state as- sociation can bestow upon a member. Jessica was also se- lected to serve the Montana FFA Association as state par- liamentarian. She is only the second Baker member to ever serve in the chapter's 55 years. Dennis Wagner served as vice president in 1980-81. . .4-H fruit sale was a huge success. Sixty-nine youth sold 598 boxes of fruit, 336 boxes of beef sticks, and 204 boxes of string cheese. Top 4-H fruit seller was Josie Mastel. . . Casey Dietz of Baker was cho- sen KATL Athlete of the Week. Casey is the third ath- lete from Baker to earn the KATL award this year. Others earning the award were Laura Beach and Casey Varner. . . There were 275 participants in the Coors NPRA Champi- onship Rodeo held in Baker Mar. 31-Apr. I. 20 YEARS AGO Friday, April 5, 1996 -- A fire at the Jim Hurley ranch last week proved to be more stubborn than most. The mo- bile home on the property caught fire when the resident attempted to thaw frozen water lines with a propane torch. The firemen remained at the scene until 1:30 a.m. . . Unofficial school election re- sults show Dave Havens and Delbert Schweigert as winners in the trustee election. Douglas Rowe was the winner in the Plevna School trustee election. . . . Girl Scout Troop 117 is pictured with Easter bunnies they made. Girls pictured with their bunnies are Dawnette Christensen, Marnee Overton, Colette Kary, Cassie Klos and Kasi Olson. . . Women's Bowling Association results: Doubles - 1st Connie Alberts and Bev Smith; 2nd Maria Braun and Sharon Ilarrison; 3rd 1.isa Heim and Kim O'- Donnell; singles - 1st Brenda Dietz; 2nd - Kim O'Donnell, 3rd - Roseanne Varner. All Events Scratch - Brenda Dietz; All Events Scratch handicap - Brenda Dietz. 30 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 3, 1986 -- Baker and Plevna School mill levies pass; Knipp and Hoem elected to Baker School Board and Buerkle and Fried elected to Plevna School Board. . . Joel West arrived in Baker last Friday and has assumed the duties as Fallon County Plan- ner and Disaster Emergency Services coordinator. . . Jen- nifer Myhre of Baker will do her student teaching at Lincoln Elementary in Dickinson. . . Ben Huber has been promoted to beverage manager at the new Billings Plaza Holiday Inn... Baker High School has added tennis as a new sport to their extracurricular activities. 40 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 1, 1976 -- Local artist, Mamie Falk Bergstrom, has been invited to Sweden to display some of her paintings and appear on Swedish television. The 80 year old artist is well known for her work depicting the im- migration of her grandparents to America in the 1860s and pictures of pioneer life. . . Mary Hersrud, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hersrud of lsmay, placed fifth in the dis- trict spelling bee in Glendive and will advance to state com- petition in Helena. . . Baker area pilots will now be able to communicate through a ground to air communications system that began operation Tuesday. Sheriff Emil Hoem feels this will be invaluable for spotting fires and for general law enforcement when some- one has to be found quickly. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 7, 1966 -- Baker board of school trustees held their reorganizational meeting Monday night when Robert Anderson, past chair- man, relinquished his chair- manship to Edgar Justesen... Tom Overton was elected to the school board by a write-in vote. . . Lester Billingsley, who was putting out poison bait in Plevna, killed a skunk which he brought into the Stoddard Veterinary Clinic. It was reported rabid. . . Fallon Memorial Hospital and Nurs- ing Home had the distinction of having the first trimline telephones installed in the en- tire Mountain States area. Elmer Newell was pictured as the first patient to use the phone. . . James Hoffman, school superintendent, warned that the special mill levy to supplement the school founda- tion program and permissive levies had to be approved May 9 if the high school was to op- erate during the next school year. 60 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 5, 1956 -- Scout Troops 29 and 57 and their Scoutmasters Coleman Krokker and Gordon Olson will be hosts to the troops of the TeCOM District at a Merit Badge Show Saturday at the Baker High School gym. . . Knowing that the majority of people living in Baker were anxious to improve the general appearance of the city, Mayor W.J. Campbell urgently re- (USPS 164940) akfahrbAtiofta ,,... Ph. 406-778-3344 • Fax: 778-3347 PO Box 679* Baker, Montana 2016 Member 59313-0679 Published every Friday in Baker, Montana Darlene Hornung Publisher/Manager Susan Newell Typesetter Tammy O'Donnell Sales Sherry Vogel Reporter Michael Castleberry. Graphics Advenising must be in by 2 p.m. Tuesday Periodicals postage paid in Baker, MT POSTMASTER Send address changes to: FALLON COUNTY 71111liS • PO Ikri 679 • Baker, MT 59313 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $39 in trade arca (593 & 586 zip corks) $44 in Montana $54 outside Montana ADVERTISING RATES: Local per column inch 17.10 National Advertising per column inch $8.36 Classified 154 per word over 25 words $8.95 minimum, all strictly cash Cards of Thanks 151t per word over 50 words $6.85 minimuin, all strictly cash c -mail: fctimes@midriverstom • www.FallonCountyExtra.com Montana FALLON COUNTY TIMES *Country Media, Inc. quested special pains be taken by each and everyone to elim- inate all unsightly junk, old car bodies, useless old fire hazard sheds, out -buildings, etc. . . Close to a thousand people visited the Baker National Bank Saturday to inspect the interior remodeling and new front to the institution, re- ported Eph Keirle, president. 70 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 28,1946 - Lt. Betty Mae Stieg, Army Di- etitian at Camp Robertson, Arkansas, and Helen Stieg, student nurse at the Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, arrived home and were visiting at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Stieg. . . Wayne Speelmon returned after being discharged from the service after spending two years in Germany and Austria. . . A large crowd attended the Farmers Union meeting in 011ie Tuesday evening. Hugh Stark and Pat Plummer and a special speaker, Mark Neis, gave a report on the conven- tion of FSA and on hospital- ization... Listed this week as receiving honorable dis- charges were M/Sgt. Arnold Werth; Corp. Jack C. Lentz; It. Eldon R. Mengel; Sgt. Wm. E. Sleeth; Corp. Patrick J. Murphy; Corp. Herbert Bertsch; Clyde W. Pruett; Theodore J. Bruha; Elmer S. Lewis; Sgt. Gerald 0. Agler Bunn A. Johnson; PFC Drury Phebus; and PFC Raymond Warriner. 80 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 2, 1936 -- Baker is soon to have a furni- ture store. Mrs. Susie Beck has leased her building on Main Street to James Fradenbuy, Miles City, and he expects to move in stock as soon as the building is ready for occu- pancy...The annual flag con- test sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary was won by Betty Beckman and Lewis Jensen. . . Jimmie Ovens is adding several booths in the Green Dragon and the large broken plate glass window has been re- placed. . . Rocky Mountain Drilling crew began again drilling at the Montana Dakota Utilities deep test well on Lit- tle Beaver. 90 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 1,1926 --In competition with over 125 contestants from nine schools, representatives of the Baker High School at the music fes- tival held in Billings last Fri- day and Saturday won three second prizes and two third prizes. Baker's six contestants were Beulah McFarland, Mil- dred Gullidge, Felicia McLemore, Louie Bisbee and Wilma Damon. Miss Jeanette Price, music instructor, ac- companied the girls. . . Ac- cording to the Ismay Journal, Pat Ryan, famous bronc rider, was engaged by a movie com- pany that was filming some scenes in an Arizona desert... The stock and fixtures of the Trandum and Wilson clothing store were sold to Sam Gill, Minnesota clothing merchant. ... The Wm. Lang house was purchased by Edwin Lake, Baker Theater man... The old water main in Main Street is being dug up and new pipe is being laid. L.M. Corbitt is head of the project Fallon Count's Timely -Tips By Sherry Vogel Spring is a time of new birth! For city dwellers, incubation and gestation periods are often a mystery. Listed are incuba- tion and gestation tables for a variety of birds and animals. Incubation: Chickens - 21 days, ducks - 30 days, geese - 30 days, turkeys - 28 days, pheasants - 25 days, canaries - 14 days, pi- geons - 21 days, parrots - 40 days, swan -42 days, ostriches -41 days. Gestation: Cat -8 weeks, dog -9 weeks, guinea pig - 21 days, horse - 11 months, cow - 9 months, pig - 16 weeks, sheep - 22 weeks, donkey - 12 months, goat -5 months, fox -62 days, deer - 8 months, rabbit - 30 days, mouse - 31 days, opos- sum - 26 days, squirrel - 28 days, bear - 6 months, wolf - 62 days. Gestation for exotic animals: Lion - 108 days, monkey - 7 months, elephant -21 months, camel - 11-12 months, giraffe - 14 months. Bike-a-Thon St. Judes Bike-a-Thon will be held Saturday, May 7, 2016, at 10 a.m. at the Baker Lake Gazebo. For sponsor sheets or information, please call Lisa at 406-891-2436. Weather Vane I Mar 23 38 22 Mar 24 56 16 Mar 25 37 17 .06 Mar 26 45 11 Mar 27 59 24 T Mar 28 62 26 Mar 29 56 40 YTD Moisture - .97 enttivihita l s Critt Daily Specas • Apu 1 - 7 Friday - Balsamic Glazed Tilapia Creamy Chicken & Rice Soup Saturday - All U Can Eat Soup and Salad Bar Tuesday - Meatloat • Beef Barley Soup Wednesday - Egg Salad Sandwich Chicken & Dumpling Soup Thursday - Chicken Waldorf on Croissant Cheesy Broccoli Soup We serve homemade breads and desserts or take a loat of homemade bread home! Laic SfloppinR Center 4 6-77 -22b2 Oyes Tuesday - Saturday 5:30 ant - To Go Orders • See us on Facebook! Please give 24 hours notice for pans of caramel rolls Zu.frbeit, Truck & Tire Service Due to high demand, Rolling Rubber has expanded their Baker location to full service. We are ready to serve your needs: Alignments • Oil Changes Suspension Repair Sales of all types of passenger, light truck, commercial and ag tires TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 0% FOR 6 MONTHS FINANCING 24 Hour Roadside Assistance • (406) 874 -TIRE (8473) www.rollingrubbertf.com Baker (406) 778-6473 • Mlles City Truck Canter (406)674-8473 Milos City (406) 2344938 • Blandly. (406) 3774473 Serving Eastern Montana since 1986 Talon County Times Successor to the lallonite Printed weekly at Baker, Montana, in the interest of the people. Butte H. Tipton, Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at Baker, Montana, as Second Class Matter Two dollars the year, strictly in advance The Fallon County Times will be 100 years old in May 5016. Pollowing are a couple of stories from back then. Sheriff Jones hot on trail Sheriff Jones spent practically all of last month in the southern part of the county on the trail of a gang of horse and cattle rustlers said to be operating in that section. When the sheriff gets through with his work there will be fewer complaints of this character. Several arrests have already been made and others may follow. In fact, Fallon County will be a most undesirable place for anyone engaged in the nefarious business of alter- ing brands or driving off cattle and horses. Lentz baby falls fourteen feet to bottom of cistern Phillip, the three -year -old child of Mr. and Mrs. E. 0. Lentz, fell to the bottom of a fourteen foot cistern Tuesday morning. The cistern had just been completed and had no water in it, else this might be a different story. As it was, the baby es- caped with a lot of bad scratches on his face, resulting when he fell through the poles which had been placed across the top of the opening. Description of lost jewels A description of the diamonds lost last night by the Het- heringtons was given to the Times by Miss Hetherington this morning, as she sat on the screened in porch sadly viewing the ruin that had been wrought. One ring set with five large rubies and 18 diamonds; one karet and a half solitaire diamond ring; one karet diamond ring; one ring with cluster of three diamonds; one oriental dinner ring set with chipped diamonds. Some of the articles of jewelry were heirlooms in the fam- ily and we feel sure that anyone finding them will return them to the owners. Legal Tip of the Week Did you know ... that mortgage debt forgiven (cancelled) in foreclosure since 2013 is probably not tax- able? Forgiven debt is gener- ally treated as income, but the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act (Act) changes that. The Act says that much mort- gage debt forgiven 2013 through the end of 2016 will not be treated as income. Mortgage debt forgiven through mortgage restructur- ing is probably not taxable, ei- ther. For more information, please visit the Taxes section of www.MontanaLawHelp.org. If you can't find the informa- tion you want, click on the LiveHelp button or call the Montana Legal Services Asso- ciation HelpLine at 1-800- 666-6899. Election News 18 Years Old and Voting If you are 17, but will be 18 by election day, June 7,2016. you may register to vote now, and you will be eligible to vote in the June Primary. If you would like more information, contact the Clerk and Recorder's Office 406-778- 7106. Like us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/fallon- countyelections. 4;N FARMERS INSURANCE HUGE discounts on new homes, auto/home and new roof. One simple call could save you a lot of money Recently saved a Baker customer $3,000 per year on their autos alone! Baker office in the Lake City Shopping Center 1-800-559-0333 • (4061679-0262 RaeAnn Svedberg, Agent rsvedbergrelarmersagent.com www.farmersagent.comirsvedberg IJ Find us on Facebook Baker Agronomy Center Full Service Agronomy Plant Fertilizer • Crop Protection • Seed • Recommendations and farm service geared around your operation • Latest in crop management products to maximize this year's crop potential Gemyr owned company helping to aebitty ouereso in the hill) Stop in and visit: Parker iflurnion Call: 406-778-2929 Letters to the editor policy Letters to the editor are welcome and will be published if they adhere to the following rules: They must be signed (unless e -mailed) and include an address and phone number for verification. They must be an issue of public interest and preferably concern only one topic. Letters should be as brief as possible. We reserve the right to edit the letters for length as well as taste and libel. Letters should be typed or legibly written. Letters from outside the immediate area will be considered only if they are of local interest. Letters to the editor, guest columns and guest editorials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of this newspaper. Obituary policy Fallon County Times has three options for submitting obituaries: Basic Obituary - Includes the person's name, age, town of resi- dency and information about funeral services - NO Charge Custom Obituary - You choose the length, wording and if you want a small photo - Cost is $30 for up to 300 words, more than 300 words $45. Premium Obituary - Several photos and a longer announcement - cost varies by length of obituary. All obituaries arc placed on the Fallon County Times website at no cost.
