Time Capsule: From the archives of local weeklies
BERL TISKUS | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 months AGO
Reporter Berl Tiskus joined the Lake County Leader team in early March 2023, and covers Ronan City Council, schools, ag and business. Berl grew up on a ranch in Wyoming and earned a degree in English education from MSU-Billings and a degree in elementary education from the University of Montana. Since moving to Polson three decades ago, she’s worked as a substitute teacher, a reporter for the Valley Journal and a secretary for Lake County Extension. Contact her at [email protected] or 406-883-4343. | February 26, 2025 11:00 PM
The Flathead Courier, Feb. 23, 1950
FFA Convention
Future Farmers of America will hold the annual Western Montana District meeting here March 25 and 26, with representation from nine chapters in attendance.
Max Stark, vocational agriculture teacher at the high school, said probably130 delegates would be present. He said also that the convention is held here about every nine or ten years, the last time being in 1944.
The program includes livestock judging contests, state agricultural tests, public speaking and parliamentary procedure contests, a basketball tournament and a banquet.
Students take Iowa tests at high school
Wednesday and Thursday of last week, high school sophomores and seniors took the Iowa tests of educational development.
Results of these tests are primarily for the use of students, and at graduation each one receives a data sheet on which a profile of the Iowa tests taken is plotted.
Society News
Mrs. J. Hilbert Hanson was hostess Thursday afternoon to the members of the Chapter AI of PEO at the H.S. Hanson home.
Mrs. W.C. Stimson was in charge of the program and gave a report from the president’s letter on the year’s activities. The meeting adjourned and light refreshments were served by the hostess.
Teel has high price for registered bull
Dr. Harold M. Teel of Polson received the fourth highest price paid for a bull at the registered Hereford sale in Missoula when E.E. Hazel of Missoula paid $460 for the animal. Highest price paid for a bull was $535.
Proctor News
by Charlotte Wilhelm Pierpoint-Guinn
Word has been received here of the marriage of Wm. Guinn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Guinn, now living in Coulee City, Wash., to Miss Lois Pierpoint, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pierpoint, of Coulee City, at an 8 p.m. double-ring ceremony performed by Rev. Course in the Presbyterian church of Coulee City, Sunday evening, Feb. 16.
The parents of the bridal couple acted as attendants.
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Upgrades continue at Ronan Community Center
The Community Center in Ronan was dedicated in 1969, after untold months of work by the local Jaycees and Jayceens. “It’s been a very long time since it had an upgrade, just because there’s no money,” said Sjaan Vincent, Ronan fairgrounds manager.
City of Ronan welcomes Mark Nelson to council
Ronan City Council’s meeting on Jan. 14 began with a welcome for a new council member and new police officer, plus new office worker Gwen Zolder.
Winterfest draws crowd but no snow
It was about 40 degrees with not a tablespoon of snow on the ground at the Miracle of America Museum in Polson on Jan. 10. Despite the balmy temperature, people gathered for the annual Winterfest, and examined the fleet of vintage snowmobiles on the museum’s front lawn.