Time Capsule: From the archives of local weeklies

Flathead Courier, Oct. 16, 1924

Football to play Eureka Saturday

The high school football squad will pay the Lincoln County High School team at Eureka Saturday. The team and Coach Hughes will leave Friday afternoon for Eureka.

The Eureka team was defeated by the Whitefish High School team this season 28 to 0 and are undoubtedly due for another trimming Saturday.

The boys who will make the trip to Eureka game are: Les Antoine, quarter; Vernon Utsond, left half; Bud Neifert, fullback; Everett Barnes, right half; Jack Hepp, right guard; Russell Waring, right tackle; D. Johnson, right guard; Don Ottoman, center; Ray Parsons, left guard; Buerge Oie, left tackle; Pete Belknap, left end; Russell Williams, Conrad Murage, George Smith.

Muley bull found in neighbor’s field

Broke into my field, one outlaw red muley bull, branded on left hip and on right hip. May be found at the Lucien Brothers ranch, five miles east of Polson. Owner may have the animal by proving property and paying for all expenses, including feed, repair of fence and advertisement.

Serve hot lunch to school children

Steps were taken at a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association held Wednesday night to provide hot lunches for school children during the cold weather.

A committee of three, E.K. Duncan, Mrs. F. L. Vance and Mrs. Clawson, was appointed to take up the matter of raising funds and providing for the serving of the lunches.

A committee consisting of F.H. Nash, J.U. Williams, and Miss Gertrude Martin, was named to arrange for evening classes for high school students and others in parliamentary rules, these classes to be a branch of the Parent-Teacher Association.

Stephen Demmon jailed in Nebraska

Stephen Demmon, who promoted an alleged Theodore Roosevelt School here and was later charged with numerous fraudulent “dude ranch” operations, is now held in jail in Omaha where he faces charges of using the mails to defraud.

Demmon interested local parties in a proposition to bring a party of rich men’s boys to the Flathead for the summer, and the proposition looked good until he asked that traveling expenses be advanced.

W.A. Gregg, who has some correspondence with Demmon, took the matter up with the postal department, and Demmon’s arrest followed later at Cascade, Montana.

The following article tells of the affair:

Great Falls, Oct 21: Stephen Demmon, alleged operator of numerous fraudulent “dude ranches” in several western states and who is charged with having worked out a plan for a similar enterprise in Montana last spring, is anxious to have the charges against him aired, according to Deputy United States Marshall J.O. Orrick, who has returned to Great Falls having taken Demmons into custody.