This Week In History - September 8
 | Author:
Linda Huth, Broadwater County Musuem Curator
Linda Huth: MT43 News Board Member and Copy Editor |
“What Happened this Week in History”
Submitted by Linda Huth; Sponsored by: The Broadwater County Historical Society and the “Cotter Foundation
September 8
1938
Canton News
William Franklin is visiting old friends and neighbors in this vicinity where he, with his family, resided for several years, moving later to Arkansas and living there until after the marriage of their children and the death of his wife three years ago. Since then, he has worked in Colorado and California and now back to “God Old Montana”.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Daniels and family, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beatty of Beaver Creek, spent Sunday at Lake Sewell with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Haegele of Helena, at their cabin home. The day was spent motor boat riding on the lake, fishing and swimming and other sports. Mr. and Mrs. Haegele and family were spending the holidays there.
Several of the valley folks attended the rodeo at White Sulphur Springs on Monday, including Wayne, Hubert, Laird Plymale, Paul Jones and Buddie Ringer, and Mr. and Mrs. John Mannix and family.
Mr. and Mrs. P.G. Kinney and daughters, Genevieve and Lenore, returned home Monday after a week’s vacation in several of the western coast states and also visited at Camp Lewis.
Lillian Daniels departed on Tuesday morning for Billings where she will attend the Mountain Polytechnic college.
1949
Memorial to Departed Veterans to be Erected
According to plans of a committee from the Spanish American War veterans, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign wars, shortly there will be erected in the park opposite the courthouse a memorial to all of the veterans of all wars from Broadwater County. The plans call for a monument of native marble carrying a suitable bronze plaque, surrounded by wide concrete walks, with a steel flag pole at the rear of the monument and shortly to be flanked by an artillery piece on either side.
The memorial is being erected by the veterans themselves in memory of their departed comrades and doubtless. Down through the years, each Memorial Day, the services will be held at its site.
Almost half a century has passed since the Spanish War ended. It will soon be thirty-one years since War I ended. It is more than four years since War II ended. The veterans feel the time has arrived for some memorial to the departed, and thus, are seeing to it that a long-delayed honor is paid to them.
Delegated on the committees from the veterans’ organizations are: George Penell, Spanish-American War; Fred Geiser, Frank Hooks, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Fred Williams, Les Anders American Legion.
1955
Valley News
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Merritt entertained guests at a chicken dinner August 28th for their son, Wilbur, who left for the army Monday. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cummings of Helena, Mrs. Rose and family of Helena; Miss Elgie Miller of Townsend, Miss Jackie Young, Jerry Merritt and Don Merritt.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Whaley and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Campbell and two girls and Mrs. Fred Schultz were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Merritt and family.
Pete Sullivan returned to Carrol College for his Junior year and Ronald Marks enrolled at Carroll as a freshman Tuesday.
There will be a square dance at the Johnson schoolhouse this Saturday night. Ernie Kind of Fairfield will be the caller.
Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Swanson of Olympia, Wn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harold Marks and other relatives in Townsend and Toston.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sullivan visited in Ronan recently. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan now have an apartment in Helena. Larry is attending Carroll College and Louise is employed at the Capitol.
1966
Who is Where in the Service
Navy Ensign Laurence D. Hagbom, son of Mrs. Lulu Hagbom of Winston has received his naval Flight Officer’s “Wings” following completion of advanced NFO training at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. He has been transferred to the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Meriden, Miss. Hagbom entered the Navy in January 1965.
Radersburg News
Mike Dolan has returned to the Riverside Ranch where he lives with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Harris, after spending a few days here with his niece, Mrs. Charlie Hough and Mr. Hough.
Mrs. A.D. Grandchamp has returned to her home here after spending several days visiting friends and relatives In Missoula. She attended a meeting in Livingston last Monday and is again teaching in the Crow Creek School.
School started as scheduled bright and early Tuesday with all the children boarding the big yellow school bus at 7:30 to be transported to Toston. So again until 4:30 there are no school kids in sight. It was a real thrill for the lower-grade kids.
The summer has been unusual with not more than a week of extremely warm days and even less rain. There were only two or three good rains and about two electric storms, not severe. Several heavy wind storms have mowed off trees and large branches. One dead tree was uprooted and broke a power line. We have a real abundance of grasshoppers. They have eaten several gardens to almost nothing and any other green sprig in sight.
Mr. and Mrs. David Greaves and son, Jay, of Missoula, drove over Tuesday and were overnight guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams and son, Tom.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Miller, Brent and Christie moved to Twin Bridges Thursday where Dennis will be teaching during the coming year. He had been working at Ennis all summer. Saturday his brother, Devon, departed to make his home with them and enroll in the school there. We are very sorry to have them leave.
1977
Descendant of Reuben Rader Buys First
Mrs. Edith Rader Walker of Granbrook, B.C., Canada who has been visiting relatives in Radersburg this week and reviewing remains of her grandfather’s holdings and the connecting history, was excited and pleased to find out that such a history would appear in the “Broadwater Bygones”, now in the process of being published.
Mrs. Walker accordingly put her pre-publication order in for the first book when it was finished. Her grandfather, Reuben Rader, appeared alone in what is now the Radersburg vicinity and found the first gold there. He and his wife raised their family there and spent the remainder of their lives in that vicinity. Two sons, Lee and Clifford, went to Canada after their father’s death.
Returning to reclaim any association with Radersburg was Edith, daughter of Lee Rader. So impressed was she and her husband, that they are considering returning to make their home here.
Read the story of Reubin Rader in “Broadwater Bygones”.
