The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-09-25
Twelve Years Ago

From The Herald Of Sept rs, 1919
DR.. Maria L. Sanford Of Mime
apolis, for many years on the fac
ulty of the U. Of Minnesota, was
scheduled to address the high
school winthin a few days.
The Wolf Point high school was
planning to put out its first an
nual. Jess Carr was editor in chief,
LaVerna Maltby, society editor;
Genevieve Montgomery. art editor;
Olga McQuigg, local editor; Mar
Ign Young, athletic editor; How
ard Hall. advertising editor.
Mildred Erwin, Claude Carpen-
ter and Glen Thorn were new stu
dents enrolled in the high school.
Roosevelt county editors met at
Poplar and formed a county press
association.
From Pershing correspondence:
Edwin Camrud, our ex-school
ma'am and proprietor of Gravel
Knoll form, departed Tuesday for
Minneapolis where he will attend
the state university during the
coming winter. Ed will specialize
in electrical engineering while at
the "U".
In the Pershing community
wheat yielded from one to six
bushels to the acre, flax three to
seven and oats five to fifteen BUSH
els. But wheat was 2.33 a bushel,
flax 4.06 and oats So cents a BUSH
ell.
Private Hans Tveten of Sand
Creek had just received the croix
de guerre awarded him by General
Petain of France. He had also re-
ceived the coveted DISC. given
him by General Pershing. The
French citation said: His COM
pany being under fire of two Ger
man machine guns, he crawled a.
head and put these guns out of
battle, capturing two and taking
four German prisoners"
Stars at the Glacier during the
week included Ethel Clayton, Har-
old Lloyd, William Farnam, Bes-
sic Love, Bill Hart and Emily
Whalen.
Mrs. E. B. Styer and children of
Snad Creek had left for Wiscon-
sin to visit several months.
Mrs. Clyde Patton, president of
the local Red Cross, was at Butte
to attend a state Red Cross meet
ing.
Richard Schaale had returned
from his homestead and resumed
his position at the Hanson bak-
cry.
j.. c. Wall was visiting friends
at Henderson, Nebr. and wrote
saying that he wished Montana
was getting some of the rain that
was falling in Nebraska.
Word had been received from
the state that Wolf Point was now
accredited high school.
Enrolment in the local schools
421 of which 80 were in the
high school, SO in the 7th grade
and 26 in the Sth. Then high
school enrolment was less than
20 per cent of the total,-now it
is almost 1920 of the total.
Homesteaders who were about
to make final proof included Man |
dius E. Bridston, Arthur Grondahl.
Arthur A. Schwan, Cornelius B.
Schmidt, John Thomas, Reid M.
Fred Small, Emma C. Blice.
Curl K. Skogen, Harry L. Deal,
Frank c. Ediger, Carl J. Skogen,
Waneta Clawson, Inga Engen, Min
lie J. Kohl, Louis Kohl, Frank st.
Anthony J.. Finstad and
Lester Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Hauge were
given on informal serenade and re-
'eption by the band boys on their
'etunn from their honeymoon.
A. K. Gulhaug took several air
views of Wolf Point, going
Up with aviators Cecil Innis and
ack Mabee of Havre. So novel
vas the experience of going up in
plane that the names of those
5ho went were printed as news.
IRIS. G. H. Flint was the first lady
0 venture up in the air and Mrs.
}. t. Stennes the second.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Moore
to Glasgow to attend the
'edding of his brother e. C. Moore
nd Miss Ruby Griffith.