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Note: This article is the third in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. The museum will host a meeting at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month through April, featuring a founder, their story and items they have donated. The Founders Day celebration of the CCGS slipped quietly into being shortly after the death of Walter Peck. At the January meeting Mrs. Jessica Hunt read a tribute to Peck, Cady and Hall, the three men credited...
Carter County Museum is seeking information on the photo shown at left. The ball players are believed to be Carter County residents, but nothing else is known at this time. Any information on the year or individuals in the image can be sent to ccmuseum@midrivers.com, or to Carter County Museum, PO Box 445, Ekalaka, MT 59324....
Joe and Marj Schallenberger Joe continues his Shifting Scenes article with the statement: “in 1933 Mother passed away and with Floyd and Mildred married and Clyde working outside, he, his dad, and Etola stayed on the ranch.” Hard, tough years: “1934 caught us out of feed both in the stack and on the ground and we along with the majority were forced to sell our stock to the Government. Good cows brought $20.00 each and the poorer ones $16.00. They had to be delivered to the railroad at Marmarth, North Dakota — about seventy...
On February 28, a retirement party for Robin Markuson, County Executive Director at the USDA Farm Service Agency, was held at Carter County Events Center. Markuson started with the FSA in 1984 as a temporary employee, then became a full time program technician, spent 17 years as a loan officer and has spent the last five and a half years as the executive director. The party featured a sit down dinner served by Carter County High School FCCLA members, cake and refreshments. It...
Editor's note: Following is the fourth and final article in our series about the top ten greatest Carter County athletes of all time, as voted on by our readers. 1) Robert "Bob" Lasater 2) B.J. Padden 3) Ivan Teigen 4) Karen (Markuson) Kreitel 5) TIE - John Ward 5) TIE - Pat Hansen 7) Jesse Barnes 8) Christian "Chris" Bentz 9) Helen (Frye) Blutt: Helen Blutt graduated from Carter County High School in 1939. During her time at CCHS, she was a member of 'C' Club for two years...
Carter County Museum (CCM) was recently awarded a $38,000 grant from the Montana Department of Commerce through the Eastern Montana Tourism Initiative Grant Program. The funding will be used to construct a planetarium dome on museum grounds in hopes of attracting more visitors. In the spring and summer of 2019, the Carter County Museum brought a portable planetarium to eleven communities and over 2,500 students throughout the state of Montana. Part of the StarLab Rural Outreach Program by Carter County Museum and Museum of...
Through generous donations and awards of various grants, Dahl Memorial has been able to secure funding to cover some of the expenses for updated hospital equipment and construction costs for the new healthcare facility being built in Carter County. ONEOK and the USDA have donated considerable amounts to help update equipment at Dahl Memorial. ONEOK contributed $80,000 to purchase twelve new hospital beds while the USDA gave $65,000 to help fund the upgrade of a new electronic health records system. Dahl staff have also...
Note: This article is the second in a series about the founders of the Carter County Geological Society and museum. The museum will host a meeting at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month through April, featuring a founder, their story and items they have donated. In the fall of 1954, photographer Ross Madden traveled to Ekalaka to illustrate the Life Magazine story "The Town That Hunts Bones." All his black and white pictures were striking, but the photo of 73 year old...
Funeral services for Sharon Schwartz, 66, of Baker were held February 29 at the American Lutheran Church, Baker, with Pastor Scott Kiehn officiating. Sharon passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at Fallon Medical, Baker, MT. Sharon Schwartz was born January 18, 1954 in Roundup, MT, to Houston and Nellie (Adams) Lakey. The family eventually settled in Terry, MT where Sharon's parents operated the Texaco Station. Sharon attended school there, graduating from Terry High Schoo...
During the dry Depression years, my parents, Lee and Mildred Coons Lavell, traveled all over Montana, Idaho and Washington looking for work for my dad. The only thing predictable about our lives was another brown-eyed-baby born every two years. Finally, early in 1944, when I was 7, they bought a house at Ekalaka. It was the 34th move in their 11-year marriage. The house had three small rooms and was built into the side of a hill across from the cemetery. The day we moved in, we children burst in to explore, of course, and...
Carter County Chamber of Commerce members will elect officers at their regular monthly meeting on Thursday, March 12. The meeting will take place at the Ekalaka Public Schools board room at 6 p.m. A change in bylaws last year moved the elections to March of each year so that current members had a chance to pay dues before elections took place. Up for election at the meeting are two trustee positions, one for a two-year term and the other for a three-year term. The chamber will also be electing a president, vice president and...
The Carter County High School National Honor Society chapter is hosting a cornhole tournament on Tuesday, March 24 at the school. Check-in time for the fundraiser is 5:15 p.m. The tournament will begin at 5:30 p.m. Sign-up sheets will be posted around town at Stompin’ Grounds, Dawg House Pub, Fruit Service, Branson Grocery, Community 1st Credit Union, Summit National Bank, the post office and the high school. Buy in is $20 per team, payable at check-in. Four games will be played at a time during the tournament and brackets w...
Editor's note: Following is the third in a multi-part series about the top ten greatest Carter County athletes of all time, as voted on by our readers. 1) Robert "Bob" Lasater 2) B.J. Padden 3) Ivan Teigen 4) Karen (Markuson) Kreitel 5) TIE - John Ward 5) TIE - Pat Hansen 7) Jesse Barnes: If living in Ekalaka for four years is enough to make one count as a Carter County Great, than it's almost impossible to keep Barnes off this list. Enough of our readers agreed with the...
Editor's note: Following is the second in a multi-part series about the top ten greatest Carter County athletes of all time, as voted on by our readers. 1) Robert "Bob" Lasater 2) B.J. Padden 3) Ivan Teigen 4) Karen (Markuson) Kreitel: Kreitel graduated from CCHS in 1978. She was a four-year letterwomen on the CCHS girls basketball team and was in rodeo club and track for all four years of high school. During Kreitel's four years at CCHS, the girls basketball team posted a...
Editor's note: For the last month and a half, Eagle readers have been sending in their picks for the top five greatest Carter County athletes of all time. Over the next few weeks, the Eagle will be revealing a top ten list. Following are the top three athletes, based on the opinions of our readers. 1) Robert "Bob" Lasater: Lasater grew up in the Tie Creek area and graduated from CCHS in 1954. He was a standout four sport athlete at CCHS and excelled in football, basketball...
Candidates have until March 26 to file for election to the school board this year. A mail ballot election will take place on Tuesday, May 5. The Unified Board of Trustees for Carter County High School and Ekalaka Elementary has four positions up for election this year. The trustee positions opening include: a three-year term for Elementary District #15/High School District #3; a three-year term for High School District #2; a three-year term for School District #1; and a three year-term for School District #56. Any person who...
The January 3rd issue of the Eagle had an article about the Montana Greats Project which was recently published in the Billings Gazette. This article invited Ekalaka people to give their opinions on the greatest athletes from Carter County. I contend that this would be very difficult to do correctly because of the different sports and the time differences, I was in Carter County High School from 1952 to 1956. If I had to pick the best five athletes of my era, I would pick, Bob Lasater, Tom McCamish, Buddy Morrison, Milton...
A heart attack is serious business, and time is of the essence. If you think you or someone you know is having symptoms of a heart attack, call 9-1-1 and seek help immediately! The most talked-about symptom of a heart attack is chest pain. On TV, chest pain is often portrayed as an excruciating, crushing pain in the center or left-of-center of the chest. However, chest pain may feel like pressure, squeezing, fullness, pain, or may even feel like heartburn or indigestion, and the pain may come and go. But many people who...
Donald Pulse, age 91, of Glendive, Montana, passed away on Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at the Glendive Medical Center in Glendive. A memorial service was held on February 15 at the Silha Funeral Home in Glendive with Brother Guy Pontoriero officiating. Silha Funeral Home of Glendive was entrusted with the arrangements. Don was born on the family ranch to Dorothy and Homer in the pine covered hills south of Ekalaka, MT. The family of eight children had a classism's hardscrabble...
Since I am not as familiar with the great athletes in all of Carter County, I will focus on the great athletes that were born or raised in the Tie Creek area of the county. In the early years, most every community had a baseball team. For several decades a somewhat organized league of baseball was played. Lute Waterland was a pitcher that played mostly for the Capitol team, I believe. The Waterland family lived near Sheep Mountain. My dad talked about Lute as being the top pitcher of those days. He could put a lot of mustard...
Editor's note: We're still tallying votes and researching history on Eagle readers' picks for the greatest Carter County athletes. One subscriber sent a fun list of Carter County sports trivia separate from his picks. A few of the athletes mentioned in this trivia will likely make the final list. In the meantime, we agree with Alvin Cordell that this will be a fun exercise for all who partake. The answers will be published in next week's paper. 1) This man owned an implement...
Air Rifle 9-10 Year Old Division 1. Allie Haus (Rosebud/Treasure) 167 2. Caden Muscha (Custer) 162 3. Weston Strub (Carter) 162 11-12 Year Old Division 1. Danica Gamble (Rosebud/Treasure) 232 2. Kaylie McCaffree (Rosebud/Treasure) 191 3. Reuben Kinzer (Powder River) 173 13-14 Year Old Division 1. Breelyn McCaffree (Rosebud/Treasure) 245 2. Lilly Harris (Rosebud/Treasure) 229 3. Adisyn Gamble (Rosebud/Treasure) 225 15-19 Year Old Division 1. Cadence Blankenship (Custer) 247 2. Talen Miller (Custer) 242 3. Sidny Scherman...
The Carter County 4-H Shooting Stars hosted their seventh Annual Invitational Shoot on February 1st at the Fallon County Indoor Shooting Range and Fallon County Exhibit Hall. There were ninety-four 4-H youth from Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud/Treasure, Stillwater and Wibaux Counties that participated. Numerous individuals and businesses in Carter, Custer, Fallon and Yellowstone County offered their support to the youth involved in the shooting sports program....
Matt McCabe was elected as NPGA Secretary by the Northern Pulse Growers Association board of directors January 28, 2020. McCabe graduated from MSU with a crop science degree and has been farming and involved in the industry since 2013. McCabe is also the Chairman of the Carter County Weed Board. He farms with his family outside of Ekalaka. In addition to the election of secretary, Chris Westergard, Dagmar, MT was elected as president and Sam Arson, Williston, ND was elected as treasurer. Additional members of the NPGA board...
This spring, Carter County Museum will host a series of Earth and space activities for local children. First, a story hour at Ekalaka Public Library featuring age appropriate activities for kids will take place on two different Thursdays between March and May. The museum will also have board game based activities during International Dark Sky Week, April 20-24, during regular hours and a full lineup of pop up experiments during the Junior Scientist Summer Program (dates...
