Time Capsule: From the weekly archives

The Pow-Wow, Ronan High School, Oct. 7, 1960

Forty-five femmes make girls track possible in spring

Girls track? What started out as a joke is now somewhat of a reality. Somehow, the idea for a girl’s track team started, and a petition to this effect was signed by 45 girls.

In order to make it valid, they needed to get the support of several teachers, so they

Drafted Boyles and Zellhuber. Acting upon the petition by the girls, and the signed support of the two teachers, the office had no choice but to O.K. the deal. However, they did specify there was to be no inter-school competition whatsoever.

Junior candidate crowned homecoming queen

Nancy Harbin was crowned Homecoming Queen for 1960, Saturday night after the Ronan-Mission game.

The candidates for queen were: Barbara Shrider, senior candidate; Nancy Harbin, junior candidate; Cathy , sophomore candidate; and Sharon Snyder, freshman candidate.

St. Ignatius Post, Oct. 19, 1961

Water, sewer engineering contract let

Word was received Wednesday that officials of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in Washington, D.C., have awarded a contract for engineering services of community water supply and sewage facilities for the Flathead Indian Reservation in St. Ignatius.

The contract is for $5,400 and was awarded to Clark and Gross of Missoula, according to a telegram received from the offices of Sens. Mike Mansfield and Lee Metcalf.

Mission Valley News, Oct. 19, 1983

Sheriff’s Log: Horse is Long Gone

A television report last week of a prize Belgian horse disappearing from a ranch in Ronan wasn’t quite accurate, Sheriff Glenn Frame said yesterday.

“We don’t have any prize horse missing,” he growled.

“The horse they were talking about disappeared several years ago on a logging job. I don’t know how they got it that messed up.”

So don’t bother calling the State Crimestoppers number about the horse. He’s long gone.

Flathead Courier, Oct. 18, 1923

Bitter Root Ships 40 Carloads Apples

Last week 40 carloads of apples were shipped out of the Bitter Root valley over the Northern Pacific, according to local officials of that road. Of the number, 15 carloads were of fancy fruit which went to the New York market and 25 carloads went to points in Montana.

Several of the cars were loaded in bulk for shipment to Montana cities, it being hail-packed fruit which is not put up in commercial boxes.

There is a general movement of fruit through the Yakima valley which is going through Missoula daily for the eastern markets. It is said 80 to 100 carloads are passing through here over the Northern Pacific line every 24 hours to the east.