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Today, Dec. 9, the used book sale kicks off at the library from 12:30-7 p.m. The Harlem Civic Association will be giving away fresh popcorn from 4-7 p.m. during the Country Christmas. The book sale continues through the month of December. Story Hour for children will meet Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. Then all children’s programming will take a break until the first week of January. The Book Challenge for December is to read a play. We have collections of plays to choose from. A big thank you goes out to everyone who made the third annual Holiday Wine a...
Reporter’s note: It seems any time I write a story about local history readers respond. The “Murder in the North Country” series that ran during October, 2015, generated several comments from readers about the series and some readers shared new information. I’ve summarized some of this information, just to give the stories a bit of new background on two of the murders. Murder of Harry Tubbs, 1912 Frank McDaniels was quickly convicted of the murder of Harry Tubbs. The murder occurred in early July, 1912, and McDaniels was convicted the followi...
Jeanne Dalton has been shepherding the plans and presentation of Chinook’s annual Community Thanksgiving dinner for the past five years. In prior years, Jeanne and Ron Dalton relied on family for help in the kitchen. This year was different, Ron passed away in the spring and only one local son-in-law was able to help. Jeanne Dalton soldiered on. In an interview about the event she got emotional as she said, “The volunteers stepped forward and the event went very well.” Dalton said this year’s turnout was about average. Average is still pretty...
December arrives, and with it all the wonders of this special time of year. St. Thomas Catholic Church in Harlem has various events scheduled during the month, starting with the annual Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, December 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at New Horizons. A collection basket for nonperishable food items for the Harlem Ministerial Association’s food pantry will be available at the bazaar. Following 8:30 a.m. Mass the next day, December 6, Christmas coffee hour will be served. At Harlem’s annual Country Christmas, Wednesday, Dec...
When the 2015 'Beeters football team nicknamed themselves the "Hoon Squad," they tapped into a long story that surrounds Hoon Field. Hoon Field, the home field for Chinook High School's football games, was named after a local doctor, Dr. A.S. Hoon, a much beloved physician who lived and worked in Chinook from 1912 to 1955. Hoon retired in 1995, he and his wife moved to Missoula. The football team used a play on words, harking back to the days when goon squads were groups of tough characters,...
Chinook High teacher Doug Hayes is planning a second early summer adult ed trip to Washington, DC. For a number of years Hayes has been taking CHS students on an annual visit to the national capitol. This past summer, after several requests over the years, he organized and hosted a trip in which 26 local adults participated. This year's trip is tentatively set to leave June 6, or thereabouts, with eight days and seven nights in Washington. The first organizing meeting for the 2016 trip was held...
Four local artists hosted the Chinook Area Chamber's recent November Business After Hours at the Blaine County Library meeting room. The four artists exhibited some of their work and greeted visitors. Each artist had a table with examples of their varied artistic styles. Cory Couturier was asked to host the Business After Hours event for November. He said, "I knew of several other artists and decided to invite them to participate as well." Couturier had examples of his paintings, prints and...
The Turner School recently was privileged to have the honor of having Mr. Monte Yellow Bird, aka, Black Pinto Horse visit their school. He is Arikara and Hidatsa from the Three Affiliated Tribes Reservation in North Dakota. He came to the school and spoke to all the students K-12 through the entire week. He shares a message of making good choices and words of wisdom from his elders of how to set boundaries, making a better life and other beautiful things. Yellow Bird began his art education at...
Every year, Montana music districts 6 & 7 come together and decide, by audition, who their best band and choir students are. These students come together in late November and early December to perform. This year nine students from Chinook High School were selected to attend Honor Band and Choir in Choteau on November 30 and December 1. Chinook choir placed six students: Travis Hamilton, Kyler Johnson, Nicole McCracken, Kassidy Popchoke, Kylie Popchoke, and Alexis Warburton. Chinook band placed three students: Blake Downs, Elizabeth Hodgson,...
Harlem Elementary has chosen fourth grader, Beau, and fifth grader, Mylah, as this week's ROARing students. Beau and Mylah have practiced all aspects of the ROAR Rules by showing Respect, Organization, Safety, and Responsibility. These fine students are the perfect role models for citizenship, and deserve extra recognition for their success....
Reporter's note: Betty Billmayer, of Chinook, emailed and asked if I'd like to attend the 95th birthday party for Frank Pherson, Sr. The birthday party was to be held on a Monday night, the regular meeting night of Pherson's poker club, and would be held prior to the weekly game. I was out of town but promised I would follow up on the story when I got home. I did follow up and discovered an interesting history of two poker clubs that both began in the early 1940's. Here's a synopsis of 70+...
Thanksgiving Day will soon be over, then the Christmas holiday preparations can begin in earnest. That's true in our area as several organizations kick off the holiday season with a variety of bazaars and pre-Christmas events. Here's a summary of the events coming up, in chronological order: • Friday, November 27, Chinook. The annual Festival of Trees, Parade of Lights and Christmas Stroll culminates downtown. Vendors will be in Wallner Hall this year. There are several afternoon events, a coupl...
The annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner is scheduled for November 26 with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner being served from noon to 2 p.m. at the Chinook Senior Center. The dinner is free of charge and donations of time, talent and money are very welcome to help cover the cost as well as assistance with the preparation of the food and clean up. Take out dinners are provided for those who are physically unable to get to the senior center. Just call the Chinook Senior Center at 357-2648 or Jeanne at 357-2799 to leave your name, address and...
These six little tykes have fun going to preschool once a week on the Big Flat. They gather at the home of Kirsti and Max Cederberg's for a morning of socializing, games, lessons and learning! They enjoy learning alphabet letters, songs and weather. These little ones are taught by Kirsti and are lined up all smiles for a picture. They are Colt Leitner, son of Steve and Stacy Leitner, Hannah and Isabella Van Voast daughters of Alan and Shannon Van Voast, Hudson Simons, son of Nate and Billie Jo...
Reporter's note: Charles E. Morris was a photographer in the late 1800's-early 1900's. For a time he had a studio on Indiana Street in Chinook. He was a cowboy turned self-taught photographer who set about to capture life on the open range. He recognized he was seeing the end of an era and photographed much of the range area, and its people, in our part of the country. One of his granddaughters,Diana Morris Mann, was recently in Chinook and our publishers bought a copy of a book she was selling...
Reporter's note: This is the last story of the 'murder in north country' series. It was a double homicide and all three people involved lived outside Blaine County, but one had a connection that was important in the eventual capture of the perpetrator. Nancy Mahns, the granddaughter of former Blaine County Sheriff Dan Hay and niece of former Harlem Police Chief Blaine Hay, got me interested in this double murder. Mahns sent a copy of a July, 1953 issue of "Official Detective Stories." The...
If you have written history as long as I have, you would find it very interesting, like I do, that events change on whims from who knows where. Little tiny and seemingly events of no consequence cause major events to happen years later. This is a story of just how that happened in Montana maybe a dozen years ago. But the story would not have happened at all if World War 2 had not happened. Or if Grandpa Lucke’s favorite magazine wasn’t “Field and Stream” or if Bee Lucke hadn’t introduced his wife to sleeping bags in a desperate move to get mo...
The Turner American Legion held its annual Trap Shoot this past Sunday at the Turner Trap Club. The weather was perfect and a great crowd showed up to have some fun, support the Legion and take a chance at winning a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. A pot of stew was available to those who wanted to have a nice warm bowl of soup before or after they took their turn at a round of pigeons. Shown here is Connie Liese as she greets the guests and does the paperwork for the day. Connie has done...
