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The Montana Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies around the state will be out in force over the long holiday weekend to aggressively target drivers under the influence of alcohol and drugs. “Independence Day should be a family holiday,” said MHP District 1 Commander, Captain Jim Kitchin, “but this weekend has a history of DUI offenses.” Reports from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show the Fourth of July holiday period is particularly deadly on the nation’s roads. According to the latest data, nationall...
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks has chosen Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and "Romeo and Juliet" for its upcoming 2014 tour throughout Montana, northern Wyoming, eastern Idaho, western North Dakota and eastern Washington this summer. In its 42nd season, the troupe expects to perform 75 shows in 61 communities in the region. The company features 10 professional actors selected by national auditions who tour without technical assistance to bring quality live theatre to rural areas. The company...
Lambert will host it’s Centennial, as well as it’s annual 4th of July celebration this weekend....
In the fall of 1909 an influx of people came to the Fox Lake area to homestead on government land. This required living on the land for a period of three years. Many of these were bachelors while others had come with their families. Some of these early settlers had come by covered wagon, with later arrivals coming by rail to Glendive, Montana on the Northern Pacific line, or Mondak, farther north on the Great Northern. They staked out claims and fenced them, slowly pushing back the cattlemen. Whenever these newcomers squatted upon land already...
Everyone attending the celebration in Lambert this weekend will have the opportunity to purchase a raffle ticket on a beautiful, unique queen size quilt created by WIFE (Women Involved in Farm Economics). WIFE organizations in seven states created blocks for the ag related quilt using various techniques including appliqué, hand embroidery and machine embroidery. The piece was then professionally quilted. WIFE members will be selling tickets by The Country Store this weekend. Tickets are only...
July 4th 5:00am Wake-up Call 9:00am Prayer & Praise Service at the Fox Lake Senior Center 9:00am - 4:00pm Museum & Country Store Open 10:00am - 7:00pm Mini-Carnival “The Kid Zone!” All ages. Bungee run, obstacle course, bungee jumper, inflatable slide, bounce house, mini ferris wheel, space ball gyro, dolphin swing & the whizzer 10:00 - 11:00am United States Post Office Honoring Lambert with Commemorative Stamp Cancellation at Senior Center 10:00am Parade Registration at NorTana 10:30am Kids Bike Decorating Contest Lineup at NorTana 11:00am Par...
In June, 1915, the village of Watford was incorporated. Dr. V.G. Morris is given credit for the name Watford, remembering his old home in Watford, Ontario, but a year later the word city was added because of confusion in mail, express and freight with the town of Wolford. So we have Watford City....
John Larsen started more than a business in pharmacy in 1952. He started a family tradition that has stood the test of time for 62 years and spans three generations. Larsen Service Drug has served as a main-stay business on Main Street in Watford City providing patrons with just what the doctor ordered. "I think at the time my grandpa saw a need for a hometown pharmacy and it was something he was passionate about. From his passion this amazing tradition grew," said Jenna (Larsen) Wahlstrom, a...
The hometown department store in Watford City has been a mainstay in the community for many years, surviving the fashion styles of decades and touting the most fabulous trends of the time. From the full skirts and petticoats of the 1950s, the bell bottoms of the 1960s and 1970s, to the power suits with shoulder pads of the 1980s and today's skinny jeans and urban western wear, the shop has catered to the fickle fashion wants of the community for decades. Today, Meyers Department Store is a...
For 43 years the Liebel family called the local Jack and Jill's food store their family business. The store's history dates back to February of 1970 when Robert Hallesy and Earl Liebel purchased the hometown Piggly Wiggly grocery store from Mervin Johnson. At the time, Earl managed the store with his wife, Verena. In 1980, Earl's sons Bill and Lonnie decided to buy their father's store, recognizing a solid business opportunity. Up until 2013 they ran the store as partners alongside their wives,...
6/26 Thursday Main Street Free Feed & Historical Walking Tours Film Festival Kick Off Centennial Park Dedication 6/27 Friday Centennial Parade & Festival featuring Kids Zone Heritage Days All School Reunion Trish Gravos Golf Scramble Evening of Music, Food & Fun 6/28 Saturday Centennial Festival Featuring Kids Zone All School Reunion Heritage Days Free Feed & Auction Evening of Music, Food & Fun 6/29 Sunday Gospel Music Non-Denominational Worship Service Thursday, June 26th 10 AM – 1 PM M...
In a technologically driven world of gadgets consisting of IPods, IPads, Nooks, Kindles and computers, some might believe the community library has become an archaic place where hard-bound books go to expire while resting upon shelves where aged pages collect dust, yellow and wither. But, on the contrary, in frontier parts of the world where life thrives without a big name business looming around every street corner, the local community library is an all-inclusive establishment; a friendly...
In 1996 Alvin Gravos took a chance when a good business opportunity presented itself. And he wasn't the only one. At the time, Gravos was managing what was then Great Plains Supply, in Watford City, when he and his employee Cheryl Maynard found out the store would be closing its doors. "I guess at the time we just decided to buy it rather than to have to go out and look for different jobs," Gravos recalled. Maynard was his star employee back then and she too didn't want to seek out new...
23 was an inventive year in the automotive industry. It was the year post-war era vehicles were introduced. Their designs were sleeker, swoopier, wider and lower. Back then showroom floors touted the all new Ford F-1 pickup truck and the woody station wagon. It was the age of coupes, tudors, newly designed two-door sedans, and customers could drive brand new cars off the lot for no more than $2,200. 1949 was the first year since 1941 that any civilian vehicles were manufactured. In between...
This year, the city of Watford City will turn 100 years old and everyone near and far is invited to come and celebrate. In 1914 the city of Watford City was founded and on the weekend of June 26-29, 2014, it will host a variety of events for the occasion, including entertainment from Tigiriliy and 32 Below to Merrill Piepkorn's Radio Stars, along with magicians, an art show, children's activities and a film festival that will feature the premier showing of Cody Shimek's film Cowboys and Crude....
Lifelong Richland County resident Leslie Messer is justifiably proud of her heritage, which includes pioneers Lossie and Lavenia Dawe and John and Myrl Willian Westerdale. Lossie Dawe was born on August 14, 1868 to William T. and Rebecca Dill Dawe at Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. William was born in Cornwall England, and moved to Canada at the age of 12. After William's father died, the family moved to Pennsylvania. William spent three years in active service in the Civil War and...
The journey was long, but well worth it for Eivind Nilssonn Rudi and Knut Rogne of Vesleroe, Norway. Their trip began in 1905. After leaving Norway their first stop was Liverpool, England, and then on to Hull, Canada where they boarded a train to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and finally crossed into the United States. From there, they boarded another train to Mondak, Montana, crossed the Missouri by ferry, went to a town called Java and then on to Fairview, MT. Both men filed on homesteads seven...
Joe Klasna came to Montana in1911, and took up a homestead ten miles north of Lane (Sec. 10-24-53) in 1913. In 1919 he married Helen Goss, and one year and one day later, Joseph was born. When Joe died in 1971, his son, Joseph inherited the homestead. Joseph and his wife, Leanora Petrik, farmed until their retirement in 2004, when the farm was passed to his son, Timothy and wife, Kim, who now raise wheat and cattle with their son, Dylan and wife, Whitney. When Joe Klasna first settled his...
Niels Norgaard and Lydia Christensen were the first couple to wed in the newly created Richland County. Their marriage license dated June 17, 1914 was issued only a month after Richland County was carved out of Dawson County on May 16, 1914. The county had not even had time to print its own licenses, thus the Fallon County crossed out and replaced by Richland. Niels was born in 1882 in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of seven. He was a gymnastics teacher in Kenmare before coming to...
Originally emigrating from Denmark in 1910, Peter and Madisine Hendricksen along with their two daughters, homesteaded 160 acres NW of Sidney, MT in the community of Brorson. Emma, one of Peter and Madisines daughters, married Chris W. Rasmussen in 1920. Chris had emigrated from Denmark in 1908 and had homesteaded 320 acres in the Three Buttes Community. Their first child Curtis was born in 1922. In 1925, Chris and Emma moved to the Hendrickson farm in Brorson to help take care of Emma's...
After arriving from Ste. Clair, Quebec, Canada In September of 1909, Charles T. "aka Leo" and Emelda Prevost purchased their homestead in Lambert, Montana. Together with their six children: Marguerite, Charles, Joseph "Joe", Marie Anne, Bernadette and Laurant they began their life in Montana. In the beginning, Leo spent many grueling hours behind two teams of horses breaking up the sod and planting flax. He hauled lumber from Culbertson, Montana to build one of the first stick framed houses in...
Niels Norgaard homesteaded in the Brorson area in 1908, then moved and filed on the current farm, section 20, in January 1914. Niels married a neighbor, Lydia Christensen and together they had three children; Margaret, Ervin and Orvald. Niels retired from farming at age 74. Ervin and his wife Luella took over the farm which their son Daryl now farms. Ervin and Luella met in Tyler, MN when he went to visit relatives. They had an apartment in Sidney for a couple of years while Ervin worked at...
County Attorney 1914 - 1916: Herbert H Hoar 1917 - 1918: Carl L. Brattin 1919 - 1920: C.E. Collett 1921 - 1922: L.V. Ketter 1923 - 1924: Charles E. Collett 1925 - 1926: R.G. Wagner 1927 - 1930: Carl L. Brattin 1931 - 1934: John M. Lexcen 1935 - 1938: Lee B. Farr 1939 - 1942: John M Lexcen 1943 - 1950: Milton Anderson 1951 - 1954: J.C. Cottingham 1955 - 1990: Victor G. Koch 1991 - : J. Michael Weber District Judge 1914 - 1920: C.C. Hurley 1921 - 1944: Frank P. Leiper 1945 - 1946: Carl Brattin 1947 - 1960: FSP Foss 1961 - 1984: Leslie...
Herman Frederick Lange purchased the western half of his farm from the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1909 and the eastern half in 1910. In total, he purchased 640 acres. He used this land to grow wheat, barley and corn for his cows. He raised four boys and one girl on the farm. Herman actively farmed the land until the mid to late 1930s when his sons Leo and Herman took over. In 1939, Leo married Gertrude Mae Kennedy of Glendive and they had six children: four boys and two girls. In 1967, Leo's...
