Time Capsule: From the weekly archives
Flathead Courier, Aug. 3, 1933
Crop conditions bad in the state
Harvesting operations were speeded up and much wheat was cut by reason of early ripening forced by extreme heat and dryness during the past weeks.
Highest temperatures in a period of many years were recorded in many parts of the state and other than a few light showers of practically no value the week was devoid of precipitation. The ripening of grain and feed crops was materially hastened and yields were reduced.
Kalispell people killed in plane crash
Fred Buck, of Kalispell, pilot, Victor Reily, Kalispell creamery man, and his bride of two months, were fatally injured Monday night as Buck’s plane struck a power line and crashed as he attempted to land at the municipal airport southwest of Great Falls.
The Ronan Pioneer, Aug. 8, 1963
County Junior Fair has 1,750 exhibits, winners named
With more than 1,750 exhibits the 1963 Lake County Junior Fair exceeded the size of all previous fairs since cumulative records have been kept, reports Fair Managers Ed Bratton and Wayne Gibson.
Foods, with 520 exhibits, led the divisions, and horticulture followed with 512. Clothing had 339. There were 56 dairy animals exhibited and 54 beef animals, both figures representing more than a third gain over the previous year.
Explorers from Milwaukee invade Montana’s Missions
Explorers from “an udder world” invaded the mighty Mission Range last Saturday morning, and today are trekking somewhere in the mountain vastness under guidance of Bud Cheff. These explorers are 18 members of Post 4, advisers from the Martin Luther Lutheran Church of Milwaukee.
Mission Valley News, Aug. 3, 1983
No snagging allowed in Flathead this year
Flathead Lake, Flathead River, and all streams and forks in the Flathead drainage north of Flathead Lake are closed for salmon snagging this fall. Also closed to snagging is the Swan River below Bigfork Dam, Brenneman’s Slough and Whitefish Lake.
The object of this closure is to take harvest pressure off the kokanee to help reestablish the salmon spawning tradition in the mainstream of the Flathead River.
Three young Japanese women visiting here
Three young ladies, Takako Fujimoto, 21, Hitomi Yoshioka, 19, Hiroe Noda, 18 and their English teacher, Shigeru Miki “Mr Miki”, 36, all from Osaka, Japan, came to Ronan last week to spend 10 days seeing, enjoying and learning – scenery, home life and western people and their culture.